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Lost Bird

Chapter Four: Twilight Greetings

Headmaster told Dravon to stay in his room for a while the next day, and so he obeyed. He played dragons for a whole day, swearing some people knocked now and again. After two days in the average-sized room, he was finally getting lonely. It was sunset, but he snuck out the window despite. Achilies was hugged to his chest as he walked through the trees. Eventually the cheering roars of girls shook the trees.

"SENRI!"

"Come out~"

Dravon poked his head out of the darkness of the woods to the gates of a certain area. A crescent moon was carved into stone above the towering wood. Girls mobbed a path barely visible and Yuki was on the stone, blowing a little while continuously. Dravon took three more steps and looked around. He tugged on a student's skirt and she looked back to his big, deep-red eyes.

"Excuse me," he stuffed his mouth into the back of Achilies's head, "but do you know where Zero Kiryuu is?"

There was a momentary silence from the girl. Her blue eues widened and her smile grew. "SO CUTE!" she squealed.

No wonder Yuki blows that whistle, he thought. Girls all over the path turned to him and appeared to agree, since the gate was now barren and a circle of silent girls watched him with starry eyes. He fell on his butt and stared back at them. "Where Zero Kiryuu, please?" he asked.

The girls giggled and the gates opened, Yuki falling off and falling hard on the ground. The girls paid no heed to anything else but Dravon with his little shallow face now hidden behind Achilies. "Hello la-" a blonde with bright, blue eyes started, but froze once he saw everyone in a circle.

Yuki tried to penatrate the crowd. "H-HEY!" she grunted. "You're scaring him!"

"You probably are!" a girl snapped. "You're screaming!"

So are you, Dravon thought a bit. Dravon covered his ringing ears at the noise the girls were now making with their protests. He whimpered and hugged Achilies, his ears uncovered. A voice brought his smile back. "Step away from the squirt!"

Dravon jumped up and ran through the girls and tackled the voice's waist. "Zero!" he cheered. "There you are! Want to play dragons with me?"

He shoved Achilies up towards Zero's face, hopping on his feet. Zero did not seem surprised, he just stared at the smiling face with a bored expression. "He has duty, Mr. Lestro," Kaname walked up from the group of Night Class students. "He won't be able to."

"OH!" Dravon jumped, now clinging to Zero's upper jacket. "I want to help! Please, please, PRETTY PLEASE?"

The girls (including Yuki) were prepared to kick the snot out of Zero if he dared snap at the cute, little angel, but were stunned at the following. Zero picked Dravon up like a mere baby and walked off. "We're going on patrol, Yuki." he called back placidly.

"Yay~" Dravon bounced slightly. "Patrol, patrol, patrol~"

"Don't you dare start singing," Zero growled.

Dravon produced a high laugh and Zero rolled his iliac eyes. Little did either know that Dravon left a considerbly bad impression of a particular blonde vampire. For a while, Zero just walked around, watching Dravon run circles around him with Achilies. That changed when the moon was as high as it could be: at midnight. Dravon was now on Zero's back, fussing with Achilies's wings while the 'leg stubs' sat on the hunter's head.

"Achilies is wondering when you get sleep," Dravon suddenly piped up.

"During lunch, class, whenever but now," he shrugged.

Dravon's lips pushed themselves out in a pout. He shove Achilies in front of his face and mumbled to himself for a bit. Soon, the light bulb in his barren skull flickered to life. "I'll take over your duties for tonight!" he cheered.

Zero laughed, but it was cold and heartless, so Dravon sulked. "You're funny kid," Zero shook his head.

Dravon's face grew beet-red, so he hit the tip of the hunter's head with Achilies's rump. "I serious!" Dravon snapped childishly. "I can do it! I ain't hopeless!"

The (daft) hunter stopped in his tracks to think. Dravon is a Level B vampire. Davon senses stuff easily. What could be the harm? Nothing happens anyways! Zero set Dravon onto his own feet. "Fine, just don't hurt yourself."

The last Zero saw was Dravon's beaming face. In so, Dravon ran around the campus until at least three o'clock in the morning. He ran inside the building and saw Yuki through the window. Before running off, he waved hyperly and smiled so his perfect teeth gleamed in the moon light. He found a large door down the hall, towering over him with the firm, dark frame. Luckily, he resisted all temptations to open it, sensing dark power from within.

He couldn't make the next turn when the door behind him opened. Shaking, he turned to the blonde with the blue eyes accompanied by a tall aristocrat with carrot strands and dull, brown circles for irises. Dravon gulped and took a step back before it turned to running.

"Hey!" the blonde called, chasing after.

Small against large, distance against speed, and fear against sense. Even with fast legs, once he bounded out the door, the blonde had him by the collar of the long-sleeved, Victorian-style cotton shirt. Dravon kicked his feet with loafers, his black pants held up with suspender straps riding up. One of the strap's buttons popped off, striking a tree.

"LET ME GO!" Dravon shrieked. "PUT ME DOWN, NOW!"

Achilies was on the ground, staring up at the struggling vampire with's it's marble eyes. "Who are you?" the blonde demanded.

"YUKI!"

"Shut up!" the blonde clamped a hand over Dravon's mouth.

"Dravon?" Yuki's voice echoed. "Where are you?"

Dravon sank his fangs deep into the blonde's hand, the blonde screaming with all his might. Kaname Kuran ran out of the building and his face was furious. "Lestro, release Aido's hand!"

Dravon did as told and fell onto his knees when Aido took his hands back. He stood up and jabbed a finger at the offender. "He went after me!" he snapped. "And now Achilies got dirty! He can't walk you know!"

Kaname gripped Dravon's collar and yanked him up slightly. "I really hate that act of yours..."

Dravon scowled. "Achilies doesn't have legs. He can't walk without legs."

Kaname released the collard and glared. "It's a toy. You are over ninety years old...so act like it."

"You're not my pa!" Dravon screamed. "If anything, you're a-"

A wolf had howled in the distance. Dravon froze and blinked to find everything drenched in blood. His eyes widened, his left foot sliding back. Kaname and Aido could easily detect the sudden mood change. "Hey, calm-" Aido started.

"AH!" Dravon screamed, clutching his head. "GO AWAY! LEAVE ME ALONE!"

"Dravon?" Yuki ran into the area. "Dravon! What happened?"

"They won't leave!" Dravon shut his eyes. "They won't-"

"Dravon, look at me."

The new voice was too familiar to Dravon. The youth opened his eyes to blink at Old Barley. All fear fled as his boyish laughter rang. "Old Barley!" he cheered, the pearl-white dragon being dropped into his open arms. "I thought the howls had me! Red metal's hard to clean you know!"

"Red...metal?" Yuki gasped.

The voice plucked Achilies off the ground and set the dragon on Dravon's lap. That voice was Zero Kiryuu. Zero knelt in front of Dravon, now perfectly happy, and patted the boys head. Dravon yawned with closed eyes and faced Yuki with slightly blood shot eyes. "Achilies needs a clean-up," he stated. "Do you have salt-water?"

She shook her head. "Sorry, but no. Now Hanabusa, Kaname, what happened?"

Zero pulled out Bloody Rose and aimed it at Kaname. "Yes, it would be most interesting to hear."

Kaname directed to Hanabusa, who started talking. "I got out of the class room and saw the kid there. He looked terrified and ran."

"And you chased me!" Dravon scowled. "AND you grabbed my neck frill-"

"Collar," Zero huffed.

"Collar," Dravon muttered. "AND covered my mouth, SO I bit your hand. NO blood was taken!" He nodded and walked off like that.

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A little thinking: If you were that girl Dravon questioned on Zero's whereabouts, how would YOU react?