This is the second actual chapter of the Blood Death Gang. It took me a while to write this chapter for it took me a while to think of how to peace together the plot line i wanted. This chapter is manly to do that, though i think it is still good. So please enjoy and review.
There was tension as the Council Meeting lingered on with no sign of ending. They had been arguing for sometime about the jobs to eliminate Vampire Hunters that have been killing innocent Vampires, and if the Vampires were really innocent or if they deserved it.
"Everyone knows that Unite drank blood of Humans then killed them every so often." Darkness raised his eyebrows at what Celsius had just said. If they had known about Unite killing, then they should have killed him not a Vampire Hunter; this was a disgrace.
"I had heard no such thing." Freeze interrupted whatever Sun was going to say, which was probably a good thing from the anger he could see in her face, behind the cold emotionless expression of reading her book.
"This has gone on long enough." Darkness hit the wall that his chair was a part of, creating a huge hole to form where his fist had hit. Everyone looked at him with eyes of fear, he usually had good patience but the Elders destroyed that. "Celsius, you knew Unite was killing Humans, yet you didn't put a stop to it."
"Y...Yes." He stuttered trying to back away from Darkness's piercing glare, but only a few inches were possible in the seats. "I couldn't do anything with him being with the Circle."
"Tch." The Circle was run by Earth if he remembered correctly, that was strange. Earth wasn't the one to let his members kill Humans, he usually took care of those that did. "Fine." Darkness waved his hand at Celsius, there was no use getting mad, what he did was the smartest thing possible for him to do. "But next time if any Vampire's are killing Humans that aren't from the Council, tell me. I'll try talking to the Elemental in-charge."
"Yes Sir." They all yelled with glee in their voice. They were a rather funny bunch sometimes, but Darkness enjoyed it.
"Does that mean we are finished?." Hurricane asked. His eyes were starting to droop, just like all but Darkness. It must be getting close to sunrise.
"Yes." Darkness clasped his hands, as tradition "This meeting is officially closed."
"This meeting is officially closed." They all clasped their hands and disappeared, magnificently if he might add. Sun disappeared with orbs of light surrounding her, Freeze disappeared with blue flames surrounding his body, Land with his body turning into leaves, Celsius with whips of cold, darkness taking pieces of his body at a time, Hurricane disappeared with his little bits of his body flying into his air, and Wave's body became water and dropped to the floor.
"Keeper." Darkness called sitting high above the ground as Keeper appeared in his bar-tending outfit. Keeper looked up at him with anger of having been called near sunrise, it made sense even Vampires need sleep.
"What?" Keeper yelled at him from the floor. Darkness loved that Keeper was honest with him, it was so rare to find Vampires that stood up to the Elementals now a days. Darkness truly wish there were more people like him, even if they were Vampire Hunters it would make him happy.
"I need you to check something, during the day." Keeper's ears perked. It had been sometime since Darkness had sent Keeper out during the day.
"And Slice can't?" Keeper was always exhausted after going out during the day. He had to take so many precautions to not die from the deadly UV rays. Darkness could go out, but he had to get ready for the stupid Vampire school; he could guess it would be starting a few days.
"No, your infiltration skills are needed." Keeper's power were the best for this. "I need you to go check out the Hunter school."
Keeper smirked at the challenge. "Of course." Keeper disappeared in a whirlwind of paper wrapping around him. Now just to wait and see what happens.
****Bloody Death Gang House*****
Darkness was getting worried, Keeper hadn't come home or contacted him. That wasn't like him at all, he would notify him if he was going to be late and for Slice to take care of the store but that hadn't happened for two days. "Darkness, the Elders sent mail." Dream came running in holding a piece of parchment paper in her pale, tender hands.
"Thank you Dream." Darkness patted the child Vampire on her head. She had been worrying about Keeper since yesterday. He had to act like nothing was wrong to not worry her, Dream crying was something he just couldn't take. Dream skipped off happy that Darkness had recognized, he really wished his childhood had been as carefree as hers.
"Dear, what's that?" Dimension had appeared behind him, she had reached in-side his shirt; giving him a hug. The warmth coming from her dead body filled Darkness. The touch of her bare skin against his was glorious. Dimension was a little shorter than him and she had a small frame. Her hair was dark brown, reaching to her shoulders, and her eyes glowed deep red. She was dressed in the black cloak he had given her, though she had cut the sleeves off of it, the symbol of the Gang could be clearly seen on the right ear of her black cat ear hat she always wore.
"Just the school forms and stop calling me Dear" Darkness responded turning on her. Dimension moved towards the couch by him without him even noticing; she used her power way to much. "Slice." Darkness yelled so his voice filled the house. From what the papers said they would be leaving tomorrow night, there was no more time for Keeper. It was time to find out if he was dead, injured, or just running. Dream poked her head in curious why Darkness had called Slice, but turned around when Darkness gave her a look that said "Go back to your studies." She understood, cowering back into the other room.
"Yes, Master." Slice walked through the doorway, giving a quick bow to Darkness. Slice was a Human in his twenties, he had once been a Vampire Hunter till Darkness had spoke his Name, he had tried committing suicide at first but willingly follows Darkness now. He was ready to fight without Darkness having to tell him, wearing a black cloak just like Darkness's except the sleeves were the right length and the Gangs symbol was over his heart.
"Take care of this Dimension." Darkness through the sheets that need to be sent back to the Elders soon. "Let's go." He walked out with Slice, making sure to avoid Dream, into the coolness of the night. The place where he truly belonged and thrived in. He took a deep breath as the frost gathered around his body.
"You know what this calls for." Darkness walked down from their house, Humans called it a mansion, at the top of the hill in the country. It was one of the few Victorian style houses still left in the world, Darkness truly loved the type of beauty that the house gave to the world.
"Of course. I will be going against Vampire Hunters." Slice grimaced thinking of what it would be like. Slice was thought to be dead to them, it was a little like a reunion for him.
"Don't worry, we aren't going to go in their killing left and right." Darkness gave him a pat on the back, hoping to cheer Slice up. It didn't really work, but there was nothing else he could do. Slice knew this day would have to come, but that didn't make it easier for him. They stepped into the shadows.
****Vampire Hunter School Grounds*****
Darkness emerged from the shadows outside the Hunter School standing on a tree branch, unfazed by the travel; the shadows had spit Slice out on the ground under the tree. Slice wasn't used to that type of travel, he usually traveled with Keeper or Dimension on long voyages that need magic to make. "Are you alive?" Darkness looked down at Slice, his loyal companion.
"Yes" Slice stood up, shaking off the confusion he had from the strange sights that he had seen in the shadows and wiping off the dirt that had gotten on his clothes.
"Then let us journey onwards." Darkness jumped down from the tree, gliding to the ground effortlessly. Then walking into the School, as if he wasn't a Vampire.
"Master, what are you doing?" Slice didn't follow him, it was suicide for them to just waltz into the School, but he did none-the-less.
"Getting Keeper. Now hurry up." Wisps of shadows came off of Darkness and voyaged out in many directions, looking for their lost comrade. Slice hurried up to Darkness, unable to disobey his master knowing full well this was a suicide mission if they were going through the front door. Darkness just didn't make any sense most of the time.
They wondered around the school grounds aimlessly. There was no one out, there wasn't even someone paroling the grounds, it was to strange. Darkness lifted his face towards the moon and sniff the air, trying to find the scent of Keeper. After some time of this Darkness finally spoke. "He used his powers quiet a lot." Slice tried to sense the mana residue that Keeper would have left behind, but he couldn't there was just to much magic in this place, and he wasn't a magic type Hunter.
A single wisp floated down towards shadow, he reached one bone-chilling white hand out to catch it. Darkness heard the whisper of the shadow, telling him of a large group of Vampire Hunters gathering around something and where it was. "I've found him" Darkness grinned as the wisps of shadow gathered around him becoming a shield. "Let us go"
"Yes Master." Slice followed Darkness towards the area, both running like the wind. Darkness didn't have to go slow for Slice, he was just as strong and fast as any Vampire.
Darkness raised his hand, Slice stopped immediately but falling and rolling into a tree from the sudden deceleration. He didn't pay attention to Slice as he rose, he only watched at the barbaric ceremony that was going on in-front of him. The Vampire Hunters, garbed in white robes, had gathered around two crucifixes with Keeper and...Darkness rubbed his eyes making sure he really saw that, it was a beautiful girl Vampire on the second crucifix. At a first look she had looked like a goddess, but upon second look that was false, she was a goddess. Her long, white hair shinned brighter than Dream's in the moonlight, her pale body looked sexy even in the featureless garb she was wearing, and her eyes attracted Darkness's attention the most an unheard of glowing forest green.
"Slice, are you ready for a fight." Slice slipped black gloves with the Gang's symbol on it, he didn't seem down at the thought of having to fight his own kind, he was disgusted from the sight just as Darkness was. If this was an actual Vampire Hunter ritual, Darkness needs to reconsider letting some live.
Slice jumped in after slipping his gloves on, Darkness followed disappointed he was the first to jump to the rescue of the girl. They both jumped in the middle, Slice had jumped in-front of Keeper's crucifix while Darkness realizing that one of those gathered around was about to stab the girl landed in-front of the sword; piercing his hand as he blocked it. Black blood oozed out of the wound as his skin burned and boiled from light emitted from the enchanted sword, the blood wrapped around the sword blotting out the light in a few moments, the pain subsiding with the sword turned black and on the ground.
She had been saved by Darkness, unknowing who this mysterious figure was. She had almost spoke the Name her father had told her to say only in emergencies. She hadn't wanted to use the Name, but as the sword was coming to her, it had started to come up her throat but it never left her mouth for Darkness had prevented that. She stared at Darkness, amazement filling her eyes as she stared at the charming man.
"Are you ok?" Darkness had jumped onto the crucifix without anyone seeing him move. He spoke to both Keeper and the girl, but was looking down at the girl.
"Yes" Keeper had been badly injured from whatever they had been doing. He coughed the purple blood that most Vampires had. "I got what you wanted as well." Keeper gave a weak smile at learning the secrets of the school as Darkness had wanted.
"Yes." The girl's voice was angelic. It truly matched her beauty, something he didn't think would be possible. "Thank You" There was something strange of her even being at this school, but Darkness didn't care that much.
"Slice you take care of them. I'll get them down." Slice pulled on his gloves as he stared out at his prey, ready to slice them to bits. Darkness waved his hands, sending waves of magic through the nails shooting them out. He caught Keeper with a hand made of pure darkness while he caught the girl in his own bare hands. She was light, even for a Vampire; almost like air.
Slice had started killing the Vampire Hunters. Specially made wires flew in all directions cutting the Vampire Hunters to pieces. Darkness could see the sadness that even he has when he kills, but Slice keep killing knowing it was the best thing to do. Darkness could tell he had gotten better at his weapon, even if it was his second best. When he was fighting Slice, it was one of the few times he almost died. Slice stopped the attack with nearly half the Vampire Hunters chopped in some way with blood drenching the ground and guts or other internal organs spilling out of the bodies.
Darkness looked over at them, they hadn't moved at all. They stood there looking at them, then the pounding of staffs could be heard reverberating around them. The noise wasn't loud, but it was rhythmic and the intensity grew with every pound. "Hello Darkness." The crowed separated as one of the Vampire Hunters walked forward greeting him. This one wore a different robe than the others, the symbol of a fourth class Joker, a joker juggling one ball.
"Joker" Darkness nodded towards the Joker acknowledging his existence, at the same time Slice placed his wires around him just in case the Joker did something stupid. "What has Vampire Hunters come to? It seems you are going down in evolution?" The Joker didn't move, he just looked at him an unknown gaze beneath his hood.
"I am terribly sorry that you think that" The Joker talked in a cool, calm voice. It seemed that the Joker acted just like him. "But if you want to live give us Universe." So Universe was her name. Darkness never heard of the Elders using this name, but he had never seen Vampire Hunters do what they are doing. Universe had tears forming in her eyes, thinking of past and the future that she must have endured.
"No." Darkness knew the terrible thing that Vampire Hunters can do. He has experienced the worst first-handed and didn't want any others to come to that.
"That isn't wise." The Joker didn't show any change of emotion. It was just like he was when he face Vampire Hunters, this was his opposite even if he was only a fourth class Joker.
"I don't care." An arrow was shot from somewhere and before Darkness could react it pierced his left arm, digging deep into his skin. Just like with the sword black blood spilled from him, but it didn't wrap around the arrow, even at the command of Darkness. He looked down, it was an enchanted arrow but not any enchanted arrow, it was the God Arrow. He had heard stories of it being used, read of it, and even seen pictures but never thought he would be hit it. It should have been lost seven hundred years ago, yet here it was glowing with primordial forces as ancient as himself. Keeper had follow on the ground, the shadow hand disappeared
"Your power of darkness is sealed. Now give up." The Joker reached a hand out for him to hand over Universe.
"Pull the arrow out." Darkness coughed at Universe as the seal was spreading though his body. She responded by yanking the glowing white arrow out of him with great force. The spot where it had been healed instantly, but strange white vines covered his left arm. He could feel his power of darkness dwindle to that of a child. He looked at the man, angered. "You bastard." He jumped to the ground next to Slice and Keeper with Universe in his hands. "Dimension take us home." Dimension knew it wasn't time to pretend she hadn't skipped out on her duty to follow them. She appeared behind them, then they all disappeared from sight.
"Damn it." The Joker punched the air where they had once been, sending a blast of air destroying all that lay before him. The higher ups are going to be displeased with him letting Universe escape.
Well next chapter they will finally be going to school. Darkness's power of darkness are sealed, but he holds many more secrets and Universe has a secret just as great as his.
