Sin: Greed
AVARITIA
The sin of greed is defined by the selfish pursuit of money, power, food (blood), or other possessions. This is especially true when this pursuit denies the same goods to others. A man could sell his family, his honor, and his soul just to have it all and not once would he look back in regret or remorse. Greed is often closely associated with envy, lust, and gluttony.
The night was young, and they were hunting. Though this prey was not of the human kind that vampires such as themselves sought out. No, this prey was jewelry. Very shiny jewelry. Very shiny expensive jewelry.
Oh, and kill the old man who owns said pretty jewelry so he doesn't come after them guns blazing and such. Rima grimaced behind her high powered rifle, the scope fixed on the top floor of the building next to them, which was the office of Mr. Vincent Adams. It was so annoying when they tried to take back what they rightfully stole. Humans were so greedy.
Though, vampires were too.
Her partner and mate Shiki Senri settled down beside her with a pair of high powered binoculars. He glanced through them quickly, and then leaned over and whispered in her ear.
"What do we have?" He said professionally, yet unable to keep the warmth that always came when he spoke with her from disappearing completely. Rima slanted him a look, and grinned showing both of her completely elongated fangs.
She chuckled huskily. "Remember the Mizuniko job about three months back?" She felt Shiki's nod more than she saw it and continued. "I'm guessing Adams heard about the security, because he has something almost exactly the same. Ten guards on the roof, changed every fifteen minutes, and I've seen them all twice so far in the two hours we've been here, so forty in all. Also, they've got infrared cameras, motion monitors, and dogs. German shepherds with a cross of doberman I believe."
"Hm…I like dogs."
"Which is why you'll be taking care of them while I knock out all the guards and such. There are twenty handlers, with a dog each. Ten up top on the roof that are there at all times, ten with Adams. Adams also has ten personal bodyguards on him at all times. Those windows really help." She was talking about the one pane of glass that made up two out of the four walls of Adams office. "Anyway, from they way they move, I guessed they had gone rouge."
"Rouge from what?" Shiki picked up his binoculars and quickly spotting what Rima was saying. "Their not from us. I don't recognize them."
"Patience. I was actually wrong, their still part of a company. Check out the inside of their right wrist." Shiki adjusted the focus and waited a few seconds before one of the wrists were exposed. His eyes narrowed.
"Huh. A snake." He dropped the binoculars. "What in the hell is the Coil doing here?"
Rima shrugged and went back to watching Adams pace around his office. "Call Kaname-sama. Ask him what he wants done about the Coil. I'm sure the Madly Blooming Princess would hate for us to cut down her prized assassins against orders. Also, check his target body count, and if he wants blood or not." He touched her shoulder, which was his silent yes. She shivered slightly, and not from the wind currently buffering the forty story skyscraper. Shiki's teeth were a flash of white as he smirked. He stealthily moved over to the utility shed that had doubled as their communication center for the night.
As Shiki dialed in over a secured land line Rima went back to observing Adams. Kaname-sama had give them this mission three days ago, telling them that all the mattered was getting the jewelry and killing Adams. They could do it however they wanted. Rima grinned as she saw Adams talk to the only female bodyguard, the obvious leader. He gave this mission to them as a reward, and Rima intended to use it to its fullest. Now, all she needed was Kaname-sama's permission.
As she heard the connection pick up, she picked up her black clad form and crouched down by Shiki, the sent of his blood wafting over to Rima and making her shift uncomfortably.
Shiki glanced over, his eyes telling her that this was her punishment for not taking her blood tablet this morning. She glared back, silently telling him that she was busy with other things dammit and he should know because he was there. He smirked and turned back to the screen which now showed not only Kaname's face but that of his mate and sister Yuuki. Kaname barely got in a hello (a nod) before Yuuki burst in.
"Rima! Shiki!" Yuuki cried, bringing her grinning face closer to the screen and waving heartily. "How's the hit going?" Yuuki's childlike behavior and her kindness often made people think that she was something other than what she was. She was in actuality, one of the top agents of the Argent, and since she was a pureblood vampire, that only increased her abilities. Basically she was far from innocent, yet she was innocent at the same time.
Rima said hello, then, totally ignoring Yuuki so as not to be dragged into a conversation about their newest shoot for the cover of VVouge (Vampire Vouge), pulled out both of Shiki and her's weapons, going over each of them carefully and precisely to make sure they were in working order.
Shiki started in quickly before Yuuki, who was one of Rima's best friends, could start talking about something completely meaningless not concerning the mission. "The hit is going fine Yuuki-sama, we just wanted to ask Kaname-sama what his target body count is, and if he wanted blood or not." He purposely left the part about the vampire bodyguards out.
Kaname's eyes narrowed slightly, no doubt knowing that he was leaving something out.
"Target body count is none, and no we don't need any blood. Takuma and Seiren are bringing in more than enough to make a years worth of tablets. Now, about that other thing…" He trailed off, looking meaningfully between the two, and watching in amusement as they both froze.
"Well Kaname-sama, the target hired personal bodyguards. Their from the Coil." Both of the Kurans stilled slightly in surprise, and Yuuki turned to her brother with a silent question, wide eyes, and a hidden conniving grin. Kaname didn't even seem to think.
He looked back at Shiki and grinned. "Well then. The body count now consists of the guards, the target, and everyone else that he has hired. We can only assume since Shizuka is handling one part of the guard assignment, that she is handling the other parts. Correct?"
They both nodded, and Rima beamed. "Bye Yuuki-sama!" She waved, and then cut the connection.
He turned towards her, his silver eyes sharp in the moonlight, and stated blandly. "You recognized one of them."
She grinned. "Guess who…and where she is, he's only a few steps behind. I really wanted to end this game a few months ago, but then they got away."
As the cloud cover shifted, covering the moon, Rima expression and body shifted. She took his hand and dragged him deeper into the shadows to where a corner was set up with blankets and a pillow. This is where they slept in the daytime when they didn't need to do surveillance. Adams was a vampire as well, so he slept in the day. "We still have an hour until we really start the mission." She grinned wickedly, blue eyes glinting with a lust that had nothing to do with blood, but usually incorporated it in some way.
Shiki smirked once more (did she ever get tired of that smirk?) as he prowled forward and pushed Rima down onto the blankets, covering her hungry mouth with his.
Nakamura Leiko was not having a good day. Actually, a good week would be a better estimate.
First, she was woken up at the crack of dawn (dusk) to be ordered by Hiou Shizuka herself to lead a job. Even better, her mate, Shouji Zanebono, was to accompany her along with an entire security detail. An entire detail. That was eighty men, plus twenty dogs, and the client must really been rolling in dough, because he also ordered the best of everything for the equipment. But then, she had found out that while she was ordered to lead it, she wouldn't be the top dog. She was to take orders from another anonymous source that was one of Shizuka-sama's favourites. Even though this was logical, considering she shouldn't even be leading a detail after all she was only two hundred in human years which was about a twenty year old vampire, she was still angered. After all she had the most missions ever finished on time, nay, before the time was up! Her name was up top of the kill list as well.
Second, that same client that she was to be protecting (the good thing was that she only had to guard him, some American named Vincent Adams, for a week. Which in itself was odd, since he paid for a few month's worth of protection.) was stuffy, uptight, and all together boring. Though he was smart, that much was obvious just by looking in his piggy little eyes of his. Plus, he kept coming on to her (though it was pretty obvious why), which was annoying and causing Zanebono to growl every time that he was around her. She eventually had to separate her mate and the client, which meant that Zanebono was away from her as well, since she was guarding Adams nearly sixteen hours a day, the other hours spent sleeping.
Thirdly, Shiki and Touya happened. It had started about twenty years ago, which would have made Leiko about eighteen in human years, and it had escalated ever since then. It had started on a simple smash and grab job, her first with the Coil, and she had Zanebono with her as the senior agent. The Argent agents, Shiki and Touya, had beat them there, but they hadn't been expecting another agency there, especially the Coil. The delicate balance between the two warring fractions had tipped towards war, until Shizuka and Kaname settled things down into an uneasy peace.
But, while the tension between the Arget and the Coil was smoothed over, the rivalry between the two pair of agents had ignited, and so far, refused to be extinguished. She had gotten the target the first time, but they got her sword and gun. It had been a game of cat and mouse ever since then, and now it was turning deadly. All four knew that soon, this game would end in death.
"Sir," she grimaced mentally. Why in the hell was this weakling almost top dog? Was he so scared that he had to hind behind a veil of isolation to protect himself? "Why again are we risking this many men, good men, for this piece of scrap metal? I feel no Enchantments, nor any Power or history from it." She was referring to the necklace, not the client. Maybe.
The air besides her left ear crackled with the feel of Power. Another thing, his Power held absolutely no sense of well...power. It felt weak, almost sickly. A dry voice, fueled by the Enchantment, seemed to speak dead in her ear. "Because, Agent Nakamura, this necklace used to belong to one of the Kuran's favourite agents family. They will obviously try to take it back, but, if we have men stationed here, and they are attacked, without permission from Shizuka-sama. Well, that would be a just cause for war, no?" Leiko's already slow moving blood froze in shock. He chuckled, his computer generated voice crackling harshly in her ear, not helping Leiko's suddenly nauseous stomach. "Don't worry. We will pull both you and Agent Shouji out before the plan is launched. After all, your the only ones worth saving."
She may be an assasin, but she firmly believed that innocent lives were to be spared. This greedy arguments between Shizuka and the Kurans were insane, being fueled mostly by the Madly Blooming Princess herself. Leiko suddenly decided that if she made it out of the night alive, she would go rouge from the Coil and take her mate with her.
The night had only begun, but Leiko wished for the life giving rays of the sun, and atonement for the hideous crime she would might commit in less than hours.
They had started at the top, and worked their way down.
The top guys were always the easiest, and Shiki had the dogs taken care of almost as soon as his custom made black leather shoes hit the tiled roof. He had sent out a sleep Enchantment, causing all animals to drop down, dead to the rest of the world for the next hour. Kaname never said anything about the animals. The guards were dispatched of just as easily, as they were all low-ranking vampires. Rima just sent out a blinding Spell, and then drew her swords over their throats easily. They felt almost no pain, and there was almost no sound. Moving quickly, and silently, they left the bodies to be found at a later date, only taking their time to mark them each with the signet of the Argent. A flying falcon, claws outstretched.
Rima moved over to ventilation shaft, and motioned for Shiki to slide along side her. She opened the sleek black bag that was strapped to her back, removing a headset and a laptop.
She quickly booted up the laptop, and fitted the headpiece expertly into her left ear. When she looked up, she saw Shiki ready to go, the covering off of the shaft, and a rock climbing harness strapped to his body, and secured to a spare holding.
"We got ten minutes love, then we gotta move or kill more guards." Rima said lightly, her fingers flying over the keys in the correct sequence to hack into the mainframe of building. Within six seconds, she had the video feed replaced so that Shiki could walk the halls with the security guards only seeing a blank hallway. She looked up as Shiki got ready to scale down the shaft. She whistled to get his attention, and held up three fingers to show that the motion detection devices were going off line in three seconds.
Just as her last finger dropped, and before Shiki plummeted twenty feet down, he looked towards her, his silver eyes glinting dangerously in the bright light of the full moon. Through their linked bond, which was always kept close on missions for fear of other strong telepaths hearing them, was almost pushed open and Rima felt a flood of heat and wanting, blood, lust, Shiki-
Rima slammed down on their link, basically removing herself from Shiki's mind, which was something that hadn't happened ever since they had been mated thirty years ago.
Panting like she had just sprinted miles, adrenaline pumping through out her system, she noticed that he had gone down already. Cursing fluently in French, she threw the switch that connected her headset to a matching one fitted in Shiki's ear.
His warm chuckle float down the line and into Rima's ear causing her blood to once again heat. "Really Rima. Breaking out the French? Am I that desirable?"
"Shiki Senri! You knew excatly what it would do to me!" Her voice suddenly dropped an octave, turning into a husky alto, much different from her usual high soprano. "Just I know excatly what this is doing to you now..." Shiki's sudden silence comfirmed her suspisions. "Now, as much fun as this, we really need to get that necklace. By the way, there's a thirty second limit on the motion sensors, and after that their back online. You've used up about half of that." She knew that with his vampire speed and strength that he only really needed about three seconds, but it was so fun to surprise him. Escecially since he knew her so well that he could usually spoil any suprises that she might have.
"Dammit Rima!" She chuckled, and then heard Shiki bring just a little of his speed up so he could pass through the hallway undectected.
"I'm in." His voice was back to the professionalism.
Her voice copied his as she answered with directions. "Ten meters ahead, the second right will lead you to the waiting room of his office. It would appear that the target has moved from his office, to his apartment." His answer was silence, but that didn't matter because she knew he was going to get the job done. After all, they had something to finish, and from the way Shiki was pushing on their bond, he wanted to finish it soon.
The way was easy, the security in the waiting room and office juvenile at best. It wasn't until Shiki got to Adams living quarters, situated directly above his office and taking up the entire floor, that Shiki ran into trouble. He was out of ammo, and there were still six of the bastards standing.
"Rima...how in the hell did you not know that there were an extra ten men stationed around this floor." He ducked and kicked the legs out from under the man in front of him, breaking his neck as soon as he was down.
"Its quite simple actually." Her seemingly calm facade was broken as he heard the light sound of quick fingers dancing across the keys of her laptop. "Adams is apparently a private man, and he didn't put cameras in his personal quarters. Where the extra men were standing there weren't any windows to to see them from." Her fingers stilled and her already short breathing stopped completely. Despite modern understanding, vampires did in fact need to breath, and since Shiki knew Rima well enough to understand her slightest reactions, he reacted correctly.
He ducked, and covered.
Just in time for the giant pane of glass making up the south wall to shatter into a million pieces, and he watched in absolute disbelief as Rima flew (jumped) into the room from the roof of the building from across the street with both of her customized handguns a blazin'.
The rest of the men fell down, blood running gently out of the sinlge bullet hole that caused their deaths. Rima was not only the top computer geek, she prefered expert, she was also the top sharpshooter. She calmly made her way over to Shiki who was quickly and efficiently clearning the rest of the apartment. He stopped before the door to the master bedroom and nodded to Rima who was backed up against the wall, poised to shoot anyone as soon as Shiki busted down the door.
He suddenly brought his leg up and with far more power than necessary, broke down the door, only to find the entire suite empty.
"They must have circled back to the office, thats were the vault is." Shiki said looking back at Rima who nodded and walked out the door, heading towards the elevator. Shiki followed, not knowing the way having taken the stairs the first time to save his stealthy approch, and they both boarded calmly waiting for the cabin to lower ten feet, waiting patiently in front of the doors, elevator music chiming in all the while. Rima cleared her throat, and adjusted the gun on her right hip, keeping her other one in her free hand.
Shiki could sense she was uncomforable, and used this time to relieve his greedy senses begging to touch her again. She was his and his alone, no one could touch her. He cared for her, and her only, and he would rather willing die than let another male touch her. His hand gently touched her hers, nearly groaning at the total relief that just touching her brought. Muscles he didn't know were clenched, realxed and smoothed over as he felt her soft skin under his own rougher palms.
Her sharp intake of breath was the answer he was looking for, and grinning mentally, he tugged on their bond, wishing to be let into her head, which belonged to him and her. No one else.
As her hand drifted from under his own, he felt her tight grip on her emotions and thoughts being to loosen. His hand gripped the gun at her hip, and pulled it loose, showing it to Rima. "You think I'm going in unarmed?"
Her hold on her emotions let go completely, and the complete essence of Rima wrapped itself around him. She smiled at him gently, him being the only one see that smile, and the only one who would. For some reason, his possesive insticts were really kicking in.
The door opened and they both stepped out, to find Leiko and Zanebono both standing there with their guns at their feet and their hands in the air. Both of their wrists were exposed, and the tatoo that symbolized their affinaty to the Coil was gone.
The tatoo was a special ink pigmant that was tied into an Enchantment that, when an agent chose to go rouge, the tatoo simply disappered. Each agency used a different Enchantment, so their was no chance of sneaking in as a double agent. The tatoos started about two hundred years ago, so that anyone could tell if the person that they were working with was rouge or not.
Zanebono spoke suddenly, his deep bass voice matching perfectly with his tall six nine height, broad shoulders, and huge biceps. He was half Italian, so he recieved the dark swarthy looks from his mother, curly black hair close to his scalp, and dark eyes. "We want out of the Coil. We wish for a free pass out of the building, then the game starts again. If not we will fight." Leiko subetly shifted her weight, crouching down, going for her gun, hazel eyes on Shiki and Rima's hands the entire time. Her brown hair was pulled back in a bun, but it would usually hand down to her shoulders. She also stood a full foot shorter than her mate, but she had just as much muscle power as him. Rima knew from experience.
"Why?" Rima asked warily, her gun trained on Leiko, Shiki's on Zanebono. "We'll give you the free pass, but I wish to know why."
Leiko was the one who ansered this time, her voice deeped than Rima's naturally high voice. "Because the Coil is wishing to start a war over this." There was no physical change in either of the two Arget agents. "You know who the necklace used to belong to?" Shiki grunted, moving closer to Zanebono's gun. "They stationed men here, knowing that the Argent would send agents. And, not knowing that they belonged to the Coil..."
Leiko didn't need to finish. They both knew very well what would happen. Full out war, with no mercy on either side. Rima lowered her gun, and motioned towards the elavator. Leiko and Zanebono walked over, leaving their guns. Shiki kept his back to them, keeping watch on the office door, just across the waiting room. "Well we've already started it. Kaname-sama gave us orders to kill everyone from the Coil, but since you've gone rouge and your tatoo is gone as well..." She trailed off and shrugged. "Besides, I want to kill you on my terms."
Leiko raised her hand, and Zanebono inclined his head respectfully. "Then we wish you best Argent-Touya, Argent-Shiki."
"To you as well Rouge-Nakamura, Rouge-Shouji."
The elavator doors closed. Rima turned to Shiki, who had picked up the extra guns and ammo, just in case. They started to clear the floor, even though they both knew Adams was in the office.
They arrived to that last, with no hassles, and they both walked in causually, like they owned the place. The only thing out of place were the guns tucked into the wastebands of their pants.
They found him infront of the fireplace, with the necklace that was their prize dangling from his finger tips. It was twirling slightly, throwing off prisms of light from the stone in the center. It was a plain necklace, with a clear diamond in the center of a golden lily, but it was big. The entire necklace was as big as Rima's hand, with the stone taking up half of the mass. They both froze, however, as the looked at Adams clearly for the first time, not through a green tinted snipers scope. He was an average build, average height, and he was all together plain with brown eyes and greying brown hair. He should appear around fifty five from what the mission scroll said. This however was an all together different man.
The scroll also said that Adams had absolutly no magical blood in his heritage, so he had no chance to use Enchantments.
The man in front of them looked to be about ninty five. His skin, papered and weathered, was hanging off of his bones in folds. He was sick, the wrongness of it permenting the air, and he had Power and Enchantments wrapped so tight around his body, that Shiki was half hoping they would break him in half so they didn't have to kill him.
"Well. So Shizuka-sama was correct. The Argent would move against the Coil." His was also sickly, high and reedy. Annoying.
"Your just a puppet old man. Shizuka-sama will kill you eventually." Shiki spoke coldly.
"You think I don't know that?" He responded sharply, doubling over coughing. Sputtering he stood up slowly again, still holding the necklace over the fire. "I don't care. This necklace will cure me of my sickness, and I will be forever immortal."
"So Enchantment sickens, and Enchantment heals." Rima stated dryly, moving ever so closer to Adams.
He noticed and compenstated, stepping back two paces. Yet he was still in reach of the fire. It was one of those that stood in the middle of the room, and it was a circle. "Very good. You have some talent then." He looked at Rima apprasingly, and Shiki growled threatingly. Adams grinned, and swung the necklace closer to the flames, muttering a few choice words that nither Shiki or Rima could hear. The fire blazed suddenly, and turned a bright, bright blue. "I used so much of my Power, that I eventually started to tap into my Life Force." Rima widened eyes and gasp was all that he needed to continue. "So you see, Shizuka offered to kindly help me. I just had to give her half of the Power that I recieved back once I regained my Life Force."
"Two things wrong with your plan." Shiki said quietly, his gun still trained on Adams. As Adams turned his back to look at him, he saw Rima slowly, quietly, start to make her way up behind him. He just needed to buy her some time. "One, you cannot regian your Life Force once lost. Enchanters have been trying for centuries, and its never been done. Two. Adams, your a world class criminal, renounded for not sharing Power. I have a very good feeling, no idea, that you would never share Power, just because someone is helping you with an impossible task."
Adams grinned, and chuckled quietly. The grin did nothing to help his face, it just pulled the skin taunt and showed just how gaunt he was. Since he had tapped into his Life Force, he was literally wasting away in front of their eyes. Once the sickness started, it would actually speed up, taking years off of a person in less than a week. It was how Rima's parents, and Shiki's mother died, so they knew just how powerful it was. They also knew just how hopeless it was.
"Thats were your wrong. See, this necklace is special. Though its magical, you cannot sense any Enchantment or Power from it."
"How can you tell its magical then?" Shiki shot back. Rima was almost there, Enchantments on her boots keeping her from stepping too loudly.
Adams laughed loudly. "Watch." He started to weave an Enchantment of Breaking, the sickly blue threads of his personal magic slowing and starting to center around the necklace still hanging from his hands. He finished the spell with his closing word, "Makuino!", and nothing happened. Shiki stared at the amulet, as did Rima, in amazement. While Adams was still sick, he was a world class Enchanter and spell weaver. That Enchantment should have shattered the piece of gold into a thousand pieces.
"How-"
"The amulet absorbs Power." Adams answered calmly, looking at the amulet transfixed.
"How the hell does this help you with your Life Force?" Shiki said angrily.
Adams looked at him like it should be obvious. "This is the first of its kind. A piece of magic that absorbs Power, instead of giving it off. What do you think I'm going to do?" His eyes briefly, just barely noticable, slid towards the still blue fire. For the first time Shiki really looked at the fire. The flames were dancing with Power, a very strong Enchantment. The Enchantment of Absorbtion. Realization dawned in his eyes, as Rima finally got around behind the target, and tackled him down to the ground, the amulet sliding across the floor to come to a stop at Shiki's feet. Adams gave a low scream, before landing in a heap on the floor.
Rima took his pulse quickly, and found it still beating, if not as strong as it should be for a vampire. "He's still alive. How should we kill him?" Shiki looked down at him, a crippled old man, who should be a man well in the prime of his life.
"We won't." Rima looked at him quizzically. "I think Kaname-sama will be interested to know what Shizuka is currently doing, don't you think?"
"Right." Rima answered with all the confidence that one who knew what someone else was talking about. Rima was a good liar.
It surprised many people when it turned out that Shiki had one of the highest shear magical potentials seen in years, and that he was actually able to use that potential. The about of magic that could be outputted from a single person was a match to the magical potential locked away in a person's soul. The test that was developed to read potentials was actually just invented about a hundred years ago, which in the history of the vampires, wasn't very long ago. He scored a 9.5, which was unheard of at anything other than a pureblood. More specifically, a 9.542651, but they just rounded down, which Shiki was very grumpy about, which in turned amused Rima greatly.
So, while Rima had the great sharpshooter skills and the techiness, with passable magic (a 7.3 on the test), Shiki was the main magic user and theorist of the duo. "He was going to use an Enchantment of Absorption to gain back his Life Force." Rima looked at him like he was crazy, while Shiki sighed as he grabbed the necklace and tossed it to Rima. He then drug the old man/vampire up on his shoulder, after throwing on invisible magical bonds to hold him tight should he wake up, and started towards the elevator with Rima, examining the necklace, following. "Thats what the flames were spun with, and he was just heating up the necklace with the Enchantment."
"Well that's useless." Rima announced as they stepped into the elevator and the horrible music started playing. Shiki slanted a glance at her and she sighed. Ducking down, she opened the electronic panel and started messing with some wires. One floor out of sixty done gone, and the music stopped. Standing up again, Rima cleared her throat. "You never answered my question."
"It's wasn't a question, and how was it useless?" Rima scowled at him, then realizing that he wasn't going to say more, decided to answer his own question.
"Everyone who has every worked with magic at all knows that its impossible to regain Life."
"Were you listening to us at all while you snuck up on him?" Her silence was his answer. "The amulet absorbs magic instead of giving it off, and he was going to Absorb a Life Force, I'm guessing our Life Forces, and then transfer it to him somehow." Rima paled visably, and even Shiki felt shaken. What he was talking about was forbidden magic, using human sacrifices for a person's own purposes. The only way a human sacrifice was allowed was for execution, and as a mercy killing, it was only allowed to be quick and painless.
A muffled groaning turned their attention downwards to where Shiki had deposited Adams. He was wiggling around on the ground, Shiki's magical bonds holding him bound tight, causing his shirt to ride up revealing a snake tattooed down his ribcage. That tattoo was synonymous with the Coil, and since it was hidden so, and in such a place where it wasn't seen, that could only mean that they had found Shizuka's lover.
"So now were turning him over to Kaname. Hm...I wonder if the Council will approve a non-mercy killing sacrifice for his offense." Adams eyes grew wide, his muffled sounds growing more panicked.
Shiki grinned coldly, knowing that they would.
"Your greed for Life caused this, Adams. Reap what you sow."
Safe-breaking and vault-breaking are at least as old as the pyramids and burial chambers of Egypt. Poking holes in vaults and safes for profit appears to be as durable as greed. -James Chiles
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. - James Arthur Baldwin
A/N: Sorry! I know, I'm really late. But school started, so did the State Fair (I got a cool wooden sword though!), the Olympics, and swimming. Urgh! So since I'm late, I gave you and extra two thousand words or so. Forgiven? New Universe again, I'm having way too much fun creating different places for these guys hehe. I'm not even sure if half of this makes sense -sweatdrop- So as always, reviews, criticism, and editing is much loved! And I put two quotes this time, because I loved the last one hehe.
Disclaimer: I own nothing named Vampire Knight. Dammit, I almost put Vampire Knights, I really need to stop that!
NEXT: Um...haven't decided yet. Yeah...either gonna be Pride or Wrath, leaning towards Pride.
