The Vampire Within
WARNING: Spoilers for Chapter 30 onwards (I think)
Chapter 3: Just another day
Setting: Its just another day of school for Yuuki, but suddenly everything goes wrong, there is an earthquake, and then Yuuki can't be woken up. What is going on at Cross Academy, and what is wrong with Yuuki now?
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Yori and Yuuki managed to make it to class with time to spare. They took their places next to each other near the back row and began to chat.
"So, Yori, I had an idea" Yuuki stated, "I was wondering if after classes you would like to come with me on my prefect duties for a bit, so that we can talk some more?"
"That sounds good Yuuki, I have been so worried about you since I found out about the night class being vampires and all." Yori answered.
Yuuki smiled at this, "Yori-chan you really needn't be worried about me, I am stronger than you think, but its nice to know your concerned about me too, you're a true friend Yori."
When Yuuki looked up from getting her stationary out she saw that Yori had a small smile on her face and was obviously pleased that she adored her so much.
Then, due to the topic of the prefect duties, Yuuki looked around expecting to see Zero, but he was nowhere to be seen. "Hmm, I wonder where Zero is, I really need to speak to him" she inquired.
"Oh" Yori exclaimed, "but what about Kiryu-kun, he wont like me going with you". The smile on Yori's face suddenly disappeared, to be left with a worried expression.
Yuuki saw this an immediately reassured her friend using her telepathy.
Don't worry Yori, Zero doesn't need to know, with some of my illusion powers I can make it seem like you aren't there to him.
Yori's smile returned and unlike her she said; Cool and then giggled. Yuuki's smile became wider at this.
A few minutes later and Zero still wasn't there. "He's going to be late again" Yuuki sighed and slumped onto her desk.
Just then the teacher arrived and told her to sit up, Yuuki had been caught unaware which was rare, she hadn't sensed him arriving. She realised that her powers were acting up again, they had been for the past few weeks, yet she had no idea why, she kept the vampire within her content, but lately it had been more aggressive.
The nightmares were getting to her now, and from lack of sleep she had become one extremely tired and pissed of vampire, someone you wouldn't want to get on the bad side of.
Yuuki stopped thinking and listened to the sensei again, first lesson on monday morning was always boring and tiresome, and therefore no one was up to doing English literature. Instead everyone gossiped and took a few notes down, Yuuki wasn't bothered, as she had an excellent photographic memory and could just copy down the notes later. Next to her, Yori had taken out her pen and English notebook and had scribbled down a few notes. Yuuki didn't bother to stop her, as she knew Yori was a very stubborn person and would just tell her that she wanted her own notes to review from.
At last the bell for the first period ending rang, yet there was still no sign of Zero. Yuuki was becoming increasingly worried as her and Yori moved onto their next class and sat down in their places.
It was halfway through her second lesson; Biology, when Yuuki decided that she should try to sense where Zero was, just to make sure he was alright. But just before she could attempt it, Zero stalked into the classroom with a mumbled apology to the teacher about having business with the chairman that he had to attend to. The biology teacher accepted his apology and she left him to catch up on the work missed whilst she resumed her extremely boring lecture on the anatomy of a frog. He strode over to his place and sat down in his seat in the back row next to some of the other boys; right behind Yuuki.
Finally Biology ended and it was time for the small twenty-minute break they had before they resumed their lessons again. By now it was close to 10am, Yori suggested that they sit inside for their break today, since it was heavily raining outside, as it was winter, this wasn't unusual at cross academy, and most of their breaks during the school day were spent inside. Unfortunately, it became quite cramped because all the other students had the same idea too, so after a few minutes Yori, Yuuki and Zero proceeded to their next class instead, they dawdled so that they wouldn't be too early, Yori and Yuuki linked arms and began talking quietly to each other as they walked in front, with Zero towering above both of them whilst walking behind them. Wrapped up in his own thoughts, Zero didn't notice the girls had stopped, then he noticed that Yuuki was clutching her head with her hands, and wondered what she could have possibly have done now.
"Yuuki what have you managed to do now" Zero sighed and asked impatiently.
"Oh, its nothing Zero, no need to worry, I just have a headache that's all." Yuuki replied quickly, although it sure didn't feel like a headache to her. To her it felt more like her body was shutting down on her, but she decided not to dwell on it otherwise she would worry her friends which she didn't like to do.
Yori looked at her friend worriedly and directed her towards the classroom where they had their next lesson, they were quite close to it, and as they took their seats Yuuki assured Yori that she would be fine in a moment. Sure enough Yuuki stopped holding her head and sat up straight a minute later, although the pain hadn't subsided Yuuki had to act normal to convince her friends.
"You see, all better Yori-chan must have just been because I am a little tired that's all." Yuuki smiled reassuringly to her friend.
Yori accepted Yuuki's excuse and turned around to talk to Zero about the biology homework they had just been set, an essay on the biology of the frog.
Then the bell rang and signalled the start of third period - mathematics. Zero disliked maths, as he was too good at it to be bothered and it was too easy for him anyway, so he put his head down on his desk and went to sleep. Yuuki still felt a little dizzy from the pain earlier, so she decided to do the same and let her head rest in her folded arms against the desk surface. Just then the teacher walked in, he didn't seem to notice the sleeping prefects, and he began his lesson. Yori glanced over at her friend again, worriedly; she knew Yuuki hadn't been sleeping well because of her nightmares, but hadn't pressed her for any information, as it was obviously a sore topic for Yuuki. Then Yori took out her book and began to do the task assigned' solving the advanced quadratic equations on the board.
Near the end of the lesson, whilst everyone was finishing scribbling down the last of their work in their mathematics books, Yuuki's powers went on the 'fritz' again.
At first it was just the pencils and stationary on peoples desk started to vibrate, but then their desks and chairs began to move and tremble. Suddenly it increased and the ground began shaking wildly, everyone thought it was an earthquake and the alarm went off for everyone to evacuate the building.
Yuuki was still sleeping, and didn't realise anything was happening, as she was in the blissful darkness of her unconscious state.
But Yori realised what was happening straight away, Yuuki's telekinesis powers were getting out of control; they had never once had a reported incident of an earthquake at cross academy. Yori knew this as she knew everything about the history of the Academy. So the only other possibility of the 'earthquake' was Yuuki's powers.
She immediately tried to wake Yuuki up, but it was to no avail. Zero had already woken and was looking around wildly, he could sense a vampire at work, the power of it was in the air and it had to be one with a very strong power to cause this, but he didn't know where it was coming from as it was unusually cloaked.
He then saw that Yuuki was still asleep, and Yori couldn't wake her, so as practically everyone else had evacuated the building by this time, Zero knew it was up to him to get them out. He Pulled Yuuki up into his arms and attempted to shield her from anything that might fall on them, by cradling her tightly to his chest. He didn't understand why she wouldn't wake up, but now wasn't the time for questions, so with Yuuki in his arms, Zero led Yori and tried to find most sensible and easiest way out of the building, since they were in the one area of the building that was so old it didn't have emergency stairs.
He calculated that as they were on the second floor of the building the safest and best way out would be through the main doors, easily accessible from the main lobby of the building; which was on the opposite side of the building, but it was the easiest way out for them. They made their way down the nearest set of stairs and quickly as was possible and climbed down them carefully to the first floor corridor that faced the area where the other students were lining up. They had to go along this wide corridor to get to the set of stairs that leads to the ground floor main doors, where they can get out.
Outside of the building the day class was being rounded up by the teachers, the chairman and the class presidents; to form neat class lines so that they could be registered to make sure that no-one else was inside the school at this time. Some of the girls started to realise that Yuuki, Zero and Yori weren't' there. A cry of alarm went up as the ground began to violently shake again, although the tremors didn't last as long anymore and weren't as frequent; then their yells were only increased when they spotted Sayori Wakaba walking as fast as she could do under the earthquake conditions. They could clearly see her shakily walking past the tall windows on the first floor corridor that lead to the main staircase. Then they gasped as they saw Zero Kiryu walking behind her steadily trying to keep his balance, with none other than Yuuki Cross in his arms, obviously unconscious. Then they disappeared out of sight and the day class started to chatter amongst themselves about why Yuuki might be unconscious.
Over in the night dorms, the night class had suddenly woken up, the ground was shaking, as if there was a big earthquake, and they could all sense a great power at work too, this worried them greatly as they were caught unaware, and knew nothing about what was going on. They quickly got dressed with an unnatural speed and gathered in the hall downstairs. Kaname Kuran, their pureblood leader then appeared in front of the doors and asked them all to stay where they were, whilst him, Kain, Aidou and Takuma would go find out what was causing the disturbance.
Suddenly they heard the screams and yells of the day class students coming from the main school building. That was when despite what Kaname had just said, the whole of the night class followed him out of the dorms doors and towards the source of the disturbance.
The night class walked over to the main school building, following Kaname. When they got close to it, they could se that the day class was gathered outside, making quite a fuss about something. Kaname ordered most of the night class except for Aidou, Takuma, Kain, Ruka, Rima and Shiki; his most loyal associates, to attend to the day class and calm them down. He told them strictly to be on their best behaviour around the humans, otherwise they would be punished. At this, the atmosphere became tense and when they finally arrived at the school building, everyone did as they were told. Most of the night class went over to the screaming day class students to calm them down, although by being there, the night class was making them louder as the day class, screamed to them about how much they love them.
Kaname and his group of night class students walked up to Headmaster Cross, who had a very white face at the moment, he also seemed to be staring at the schools main doors; which were currently wide open, as if he was worried that something was going to appear from them.
Kaname began to ask what was going on, but the reply he got was the headmaster holding up his hand to state that he was currently busy. Aidou was outraged that a mere human would refuse to speak to his pureblood leader; he was just about to step forward to object, when his cousin, Akatsuki stopped him and whispered in his ear: "Hanabusa, i wouldnt do that if i were you, i heard that Kaien Cross knows vampire hunters". At this Aidou was silenced and instead became content to glaring at the headmaster.
Kaname then realised that it was useless, they would just have to wait until the headmaster was ready to speak to them. He looked towards the entrance, where the headmaster was still staring, and saw a girl running down the main stairs towards the doors and the headmaster. She was a petite girl, with honey coloured hair, and as he looked at her more closely he noticed a slight fear in the girl's eyes, but didn't really realise why, as by now, the tremors had almost completely ceased so there wasn't currently much to worry about. Then he realised that it was Yuuki's friend, Yori, and he looked around to find Yuuki or Zero, but Kaname couldn't see either of them anywhere.
By this time Yori had already made it out of the building and was now in front of the night class, bent over gasping for breath, as she had just run throughout the massive school building, she had had to run the equivalent of about a mile in ten minutes, from literally one end of the school to the other. Takuma went over to her to see if she was all right, but the rest of the group didn't seem interested in the human girl and just looked at Kaname as he stared at the building.
It was then Kaname realised that Yuuki and Zero must still be in the building, and just as he was about to go in and find his precious Yuuki, he saw them at the top of the main stairs that Yori had just stumbled down. He became instantly worried, and the night class gasped as they saw that Zero was carrying an unconscious Yuuki in his arms and down the stairs. Zero was practically running with Yuuki in his arms towards them, the expression on his face was one of deep concern, obviously for Yuuki.
The headmaster stepped forward as Zero reached them and took his daughter from Zero's arms. Zero was slightly out of breath and managed to gasp out that Yuuki wouldn't wake up. Everyone looked at Yuuki and then to Yori, as they began to bombard her with questions of what had happened, in this position Yori was becoming increasingly uncomfortable, and it was Takuma who broke the silence that had emerged.
Despite everything Takuma was still his cheerful self, even if slightly worried about Yuuki. "I suggest that Yori and I take Yuuki to the infirmary, whilst everyone else sorts out the day class and the rest of the night class".
Kaname thought that this was a reasonable idea, so did the chairman, Zero didn't comment. So as Yori and Ichijou set of toward the school nurses office with Yuuki safely cradled in Takuma's arms, the others all managed to round up the day class and the rest of the night class and give them instructions.
Kaien cross and Kaname started telling them what was going to happen.
"Alright then, I need your attention everyone" Headmaster Cross shouted to the day class.
"Due to the earthquake, classes will be cancelled for three days and will resume on the friday, as we will also have to have inspectors come in to make sure the structure is safe, so until friday, instead of classes you are free to do what you want, as long as you get my permission to leave school grounds you may, but you are not to go near the night dorms or disturb them. Is everything clear"
"Yes Sir" The day class chanted excitedly.
"Then you are all dismissed, please go back to your dorm rooms quietly for the rest of the day". Headmaster Cross then makes sure that with Zeros help, the day class return to their dorms.
The day class chattered amongst themselves about what they are going to do, and a few were aware that Yuuki was still nowhere to be seen, but didn't dwell on that subject as they had three days of fun to plan.
Once the day class had gone, Kaname addressed the Night Class.
"Also due to the recent circumstances, night class will be held outside tonight, but will finish early and then will be temporarily put on hold until friday evening, I don't need to remind you that for the next three days, if you decide to stay in the confines of Cross Academy I still expect you to follow all the rules and not wander out to see the day class. If you choose to go elsewhere, then please inform either Vice president Ichijo or myself before leaving."
Excluding his group of most trusted night class students Kaname again addressed the night class. " Now return to the dorm building whilst I attend to some business, and Goodnight".
At this everyone but his group of fellow night class students and himself, made their way toward the night class dormitory building, and Kaname left for the Infirmary with the small group following him.
By the time Headmaster Cross and Zero had reached the infirmary, Kaname and the others were already there, standing around in the waiting room, whilst Takuma, Yori and the school nurse took care of Yuuki.
Suddenly the door to the infirmary swung open, and the school nurse and Takuma came out to inform them about Yuuki. Takuma went over to stand with the rest of the night class group.
The nurse addressed Zero, Kaname and the headmaster, who were looking at her with worried expressions on their faces. "There is no need to worry, Yuuki doesn't appear to have much wrong with her other than that her body has shut down temporarily due to the lack of sleep she has had the past week. Her body is just making up for all the sleep she has missed due to her prefect duties, and her friend tells me she hasn't been seeping well either. I have prescribed her some sleep medicine to help her, and hopefully this wont happen again. And before you ask, the reason why you couldn't even wake Yuuki up, was because her body was so tired it went into a type of coma induced state, but she should wake up within a day, and there will be nothing wrong with her. She will be refreshed and fine to continue her prefect duties and classes when they are resumed."
At this good news, Kaname, Zero and the chairman looked very relieved and they all sighed, glad to know that Yuuki would be fine.
"Nurse Kurosu, may we speak to Miss Sayori now?", they inquired.
"Yes, I will just go fetch her for you, but before you visit Yuuki, remember, no more than two people can go into the infirmary at a time to see her, I don't want it to become overcrowded". Nurse Shiyomi Kurosu replied.
Everyone nodded at this, and she went back through the doors to fetch Yori.
The night class enquired to the headmaster and Kaname why the nurse knew about the prefect duties, and Kaname and the headmaster explained that she is one of the few humans who knows about the night class at Cross Academy being vampires, and how she is very trustworthy, so there is nothing to worry about. Then they explained to the night class group, how if any of them were ever seriously injured, they would need her to take care of them, she had had special training by the school to deal with Vampire wounds.
As the night class took in this new information they understood why this was a good idea, to have the nurse know about them, especially since she had access to their records, so she would figure it out anyway.
While they all waited for Yori to be pried away from Yuuki's side, Takuma suggested that they all take a seat for when they question Yori. As soon as they had all sat down Yori entered the room, and she looked wary of them and a bit worried too. The headmaster and Zero assured Yori that everything was fine, but they just needed to talk to her about Yuuki.
Yori took a seat and answered all their questions. She was glad that they didn't ask anything complicated because she and Yuuki shared Yuuki's vampire secret, and she couldn't let anyone know. They only asked her how Yuuki had been recently, and Yori answered that she hadn't been sleeping well because of her nightmares, which she didn't know anything about. Then they asked her about what had happened to Yuuki, and she explained that during third lesson Yuuki had fallen asleep and when the 'earthquake' happened she still wouldn't wake up, so her and Zero had to get her out of the building.
After they had finished questioning Yori, they told her that she could go, and she stood up and went back through the doors to sit back by Yuuki's side, waiting patiently for her friend to awake. Kaname then ordered the night class back to the dorm to sleep and he would inform them of what was going on later, as he waited with Takuma to see Yuuki. The headmaster and Zero also wanted to see Yuuki before they went to sort out the problems the earthquake had caused. So they took it in turns to check up on her, and Takuma stayed with Yori so that he could go tell the others when Yuuki awoke. The others then left to attend to business, and Yori and Takuma sat with Yuuki.
Takuma started talking with Yori again; He had taken an instant liking to Yori, and decided that being in her company was, for him, the best place he could be.
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I think that this is a pretty boring chapter to be honest, and toward the end it drags on.
Anyway please tell me what you think, and any of your ideas of how to improve it.
Also am i spelling the headmasters name right, it is Kaien Cross isn't it?
Please review; if you do then I will star you in my next chapter! ::D
