Chapter 3
Zero's amethyst eyes flashed open in a sudden start, wild and confused. He forced in a breath, only to have crimson blood spill out instead of air. The wounded hunter coughed, wracking his lungs to clear from the fluid while he fought to control his senses.
Pain exploded through his chest, a deep throbbing pain that seemed to have no end. His hand grasped his chest, desperately trying to find the source before his fingers slipped into a large hole in his chest. The edges were round… a bullet wound.
…But… Shouldn't he be dead?
Another rush of blood flowed from his lips, splattering onto the soaked forest floor underneath him, and soon started to spread with the rain that continued to pour from the heavens. Zero panted to try to force air into his lungs before he finally lifted his head to see just where he was…
Still in the clearing, right where he had fallen and where he had hoped to die. A pool of blood stretched out underneath him, starting to drain into the dirt while the rest was flowing down like streams through the soaked grass. He struggled to pull himself up, but each of his limbs ached more than hell… It felt like each of his limbs had been sawed off, chewed up, then sewed back on with a dirty needle.
Zero's teeth grinded together as he forced himself up into a sitting position, trying to shake away the disorientation. His hand searched farther through his chest before his fingers soon slipped into the slash in his chest, his fingertips disappearing into the deep warm and felt the strings of muscle just underneath the skin.
His hand snapped away as he watched the glistening blood slide down his fingers. The rain droplets splashed against the blood in an attempt to wash away the crimson liquid. Zero shouldn't have survived with losing this much blood… Even if vampire blood did run through his veins.
Someone must have pulled him away from death's door… But who? The vampires would much rather claw their own eyes out than to help him, and they had been all too happy to leave for dead… After murdering a pureblood, the possibility of someone saving him from his wounds was slim to none. So why would someone have saved him, and who?
Zero knew that he wouldn't gain any answers here, lying on the forest floor. If anything, the chilling rain that poured from the skies only made things worse for the wounded hunter. He pulled himself up to his feet… before the pain nearly blasted him back down. His legs nearly buckled underneath him as he forced himself to grasp onto a tree for support.
The blood-covered claws scratched into the tree, leaving long scars into the bark, while his other hand grasped at the ripped clothing on his chest. The pain was flooding from his chest… and one place in particular.
That bullet was still in his body… He could feel it, wedges dangerously in between his ribs and his heart. Every beat nudged against the bullet, and Zero realized that the bullet could tear through the delicate tissues and probably kill him at any moment.
The claws ripped through the torn shirt before he bashed his fist straight into the tree, feeling the tree vibrate just slightly under his hand from the force. There was a ticking time bomb in his chest that could go off at any moment. But he had more worries than just the bullet…
The shards of ice that had been thrust through his stomach and arm remained, still dripping with the hunter's blood. If he removed them, then there would be nothing to stop the torrent of blood, ending his life. It would kill him in moments… Meaning there was nothing he could do with the sharpened ice spikes.
The wounded man eventually lifted his gaze to see if there was a living creature anywhere in the desolate forest. All he saw was his gun, still lying in the pool of his blood while the rain beat against the steel barrel. He stooped down to pick up the weapon, gazing down at his bloody reflection in the steel.
Amethyst eyes stared back at him, devoid of life.
…Amethyst eyes…
The realization shot through him like another bullet and at first he tried to shove the thought away, but…
It had to be.
Ichiru.
-With the way that these chapters are split up, this one is unfortunately short Dx next one is coming up in a few minutes though! I was super lazy in getting these put up once they were done ;-;-
