Chapter 7 The New Lair and the Tour Guide:

The Ronin's finally found themselves and their people a new home after searching for two nights.

The place was a two-story, old abandoned building; almost the same distance away from the humans as their old lair.

It was the Vampire's first day of sleeping in their new place when a sound came from the front entrance.

The Ronin's, sighing in relief after only smelling one human, went to check why the human came into their new space.

The five quickly, but quietly, went downstairs to see how they would rid of this human.

Sakura Sayo loved old buildings ever since she was a kid, and that's why she dedicated herself into becoming a Tour Guide.

This building was a two-story, 1860's, old style of ancient looking Japanese structure.

As she walked closer she noticed there were black sheets on both windows and openings of the old building. She thought that was odd, but decided that it didn't matter she could just remove them before showing tourists round the place.

When she walked inside she noticed that the black sheets were much more darker in there than she thought when she first saw them outside. There was hardly any light for her to see.

To give some light into the place, she kept the door opened behind her.

As she walked in further, almost to the middle of the bottom half of the building, she strained to see her paperwork though only the one light from the door. So she turned sideways for the light to hit her paper.

But as she did so, the door slammed shut.

She jumped, her hand over her pounding heart.

'That was only the wind', Sakura thought to herself; her eyes closed to calm her breathing.

As she calmed, she opened her eyes only to see not only darkness, but ten pairs of glowing red eyes.

She screamed and turned to run toward the now closed door. But as she was about to reach for the handle, one of the red-eyed beings caught her and threw her on the floor.

The being was on top of her, holding her down. Sakura struggled within its tight grasp trying to get free.

"Mmm! Smell that fear! That pounding heart pumping even more blood into the veins!" A voice said from behind the two on the ground, a smile in his voice.

"Enough struggling," the voice holding Sakura down yelled!

"Let me go! Please don't hurt me!" She cried, still trying to push the hands off her.

"Not until you tell us what you're doing here."

Sakura swallowed, then answered. "I-I'm a tour guide. Th-this building was going to be p-part of, of the tour."

"When," a somewhat soft voice asked?

"I-in two days. Around the, the afternoon."

"That gave me an idea," a third voice spoke up. "Why don't we use her as our bait?"

"Let her go, Cye? You want her to being the hunters to our new place?"

Standing up now, with Sakura still in his grasp, the being said, "I think we can try it, Kento. Besides, if she did try anything stupid, we know her scent. We'll just find her and kill her." He put his hand around her throat and growled to put more of the threat into her so that she would have to comply without complications.

Coming closer to her ear, he told her, "why don't you run along and worry about getting your "tour" ready for us." He smiled into his words.

He pulled her toward the door, opened it, pushed her out, then quickly re-shut it before the sunlight could cause pain.

'She better do as she's told if she wants to live,' Ryo thought to himself while looking toward the door.

Saturday arrived and the Vampires awoke an hour before the Tour Guide was to come with their early breakfast.

Since the woman was ordered to do their bidding for them two days ago, Rowen kept an eye on her for those two nights and concluded that she hadn't gone behind their backs-at least what he could tell since he could only watch her at night.-He noticed that she had fear sketched into her features suggesting that she hadn't told anyone about beings living in the old abandoned building. Of course the smart ones would keep quiet since they preferred to stay alive rather than die like the idiots they dealt with recently.

Sakura fought to keep her fear emotions in check from her tourists as they got closer and closer to the Vampire ambush.

She hoped that the one who threw her to the ground those few days ago would see that she obeyed his command and spare her life.

But what was she kidding? They're Vampires! And she's just one; why would they not kill her when she's among the other humans she brought along with her? They do hunger for any human blood, they wouldn't care that she did as she was ordered.

Then why was she still doing this? She could have the tourists not go inside the building, the Vampires couldn't come into the daylight anyway. She could save them!

Was it the extreme fear that kept her from stopping?

It has to be the only explanation!

Sakura opened the door and had them all walk in first.

"There's no lights on in here," one of the male tourists pointed out.

"Aren't there windows," a woman then asked?

Sakura was about to reply a made up answer when screams were heard from all the tourists being grabbed from either the front or back and or being thrown to the floor.

It happened so fast.

Would Sakura be able to get out alive?

Kento-his blue blood rushing through his veins in, yet again, more excitement-was about to bite into his victim with a few others when he caught a scent of a human that had not yet been dripping with blood.

He got up and sped toward the human.

When he got to about five feet of her, he was stopped by an arm going in front of him and knocking him down, with a voice at the same time saying, "No, Kento!"

"What? Why not," Kento asked confused?

"Because she did as she was told. She's free to go," Ryo told him.

"Fine," he answered in a sigh.

Kento left Ryo alone with the Tour Guide and went back to the humans that were allowed to be drained.

"You need to leave before any of the others decide to also come after you.

"But I warn you. Remember we can find you if you tell anyone anything about this."

"I, I won't."

Allowing that to be as good an answer as it is, Ryo opened the door and quickly pushed her out.

Sage looked over at Ryo, and using his mind-link said, "I can sense your emotions, Ryo."

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