A year without rain

Chapter 10

Lettuce's POV

A/N: THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT! For this chapter to work you have to pretend that every time in the Anime/Manga that Kish, Pai or Tart were bleeding that well, they didn't bleed. You have to pretend that they only got bruises and scars! ARIGATO! NYA~

I woke on the floor of the boys' room. Tart and Pudding were snuggled up together, Kish was asleep snoring quietly and Pai was on the bed I was leaning against. I absent mindedly smiled at his sleeping face. I knelt up, my legs were stinging with pins and needles from sleeping in a strange position, I reached out to brush a stray hair from his closed eyes. I quickly got up and cautiously creped into the girls' room, I went to my things and took my green hairbrush and my book 'Wishing for tomorrow' it was the sequel to 'A little Princess'. I took out my braids and went back to Pai. I found a chair and quietly moved it next to him; I sat down and started to do my hair in one long French plait, instead of my usual braids. I opened the book and started to read;

"Once upon a time there was a city.

In that city there was a square.

In that square there was a house.

It belonged to two sisters, Miss Maria Minchin and Miss Amelia Minchin.

From the street the house looked very much like all the other houses in the square. Tall and narrow and respectable, with servants in the basement, faces in the windows, and sparrows on the roof. If anything made it a little different from its neighbours, it was the faces in the windows. There were so many of them, they looked out so often, and they were all girls.

The house was a school, a boarding school for girls.

There were little ones, bouncing up to wave to anybody passing in the road below. There were the big ones, telling secrets and using the windowpane reflections to admire their hair."

I had read this book before and loved it, the way it was written was enchanting. I could get lost in its pages for hours and hours on end, forgetting about everything and everyone. Letting it take me and convert me into one of its characters. After about an hour of reading Kish started to stir, he stretched and yawned then looked at me.

"May I help you?" I asked after about five minuets of staring.

"Sorry," he mumbled, "I was just curious as to why your still here."

"Is that a statement or a question?" I requested.

"Both." He smirked, I rolled my eyes.

"I thought I'd look after him that's all." I said curtly, turning back to my book. He shrugged and got up. It was now about 10 am and Pai still hadn't woken, or so I thought. Tart and Pudding were up and about, well what I mean by up and about is sitting on the bed playing chess, which really surprised me. Everyone suddenly came crashing into the room.

"Lettuce! Pudding! You need to get as far away from Pai as you can! He's waking up!" Ruka exclaimed; no sooner had the words left her lips Pai's eyes opened. Instead of his normal black pupils, they were deep crimson; flecks of red hinted his indigo irises. His movement was so quick that I barley realized when he flipped off the bed and landed next to the window, I whirled around to see him crouched against the wall, his teeth bared and his fangs showing.

"KISH! When was the last time he ate?" Ruka asked frantically.

"I don't know! Lettuce, don't make any sudden movements!" I stared in terror as Pai's indigo eyes were completely engulfed by a deep crimson. A low growl erupted from his throat as he gazed intently at me, I started to slowly get up, I put my hand on the wooden desk next to his bed and gasped as I felt something slit my skin, I looked down to see droplets of scarlet liquid slide down my fingers where a small dagger had pierced me. What happened next seemed to pass in slow motion. Pai launched at me, Kish, Tart and Ruka flew at him, crushing into him, preventing him from attacking me. I felt someone grab me around the waist and pull me towards the door. Pai tried to shove Ruka away with all his strength, his eyes wide open, focusing on my bloodstained hand. He was shaking violently. Suddenly Ruka, Kish and Tart threw him against the wall. He slowly got up and his eyes widened with shock. He looked up at me with pure horror, and then faster than lightning he was gone out the window.

Minuets passed and nobody moved, still all ridden with disbelief. I swallowed and pushed myself away from Toshiro, who happened to be the one who dragged me away.

"W-what happened?" I asked shakily. The aliens all exchanged glances.

"We're not what you think we are." Kish said, "We are what you humans call Vampires."

Pai's POV

As soon as I was out the window I teleported to the ship we'd used to get here. I ran as fast as I could to the ship's supply of blood substitute. After I was no longer feeling the thirst I teleported out. I landed in a field and stared at my hands.

"What have I done?!" I asked myself in dismay. I was disgusted with myself. I picked up a rock and threw it with all my strength. I waited for five minutes before I heard an ear splitting crack and the crash of a tree falling. It was about five miles away. I took deep breaths and tried to calm down. "I have really messed up! Lettuce is probably petrified of me now! What was I thinking?!"

"You weren't thinking you idiot! It wasn't your fault! Don't be so hard on yourself!" the voice was back.

"HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?! I COULD'VE KILLED HER! I could've turned her! She would have spent a week in pure agony! All because of me!" I screamed at the voice.

"But it wasn't your fault! Technically it was her fault for not getting outta there fast enough!" the voice argued.

"How can you blame this on her? She doesn't even know that our race is a bunch of parasites! Our race is cursed with a thirst for blood! It was our fault for disobeying the wishes of the dark master!" the voice left the verbal battle.

But what I didn't know was that a pair of crimson-pink eyes were watching me with amusement.

Kyandii's POV

I watched as the purple haired Cyclone clenched and unclenched his fists in anger. He scooped up a pebble and flung it into the forest near me, barley missing my face. I was waiting for the moment that he would fall asleep. I smiled at the thought of ruling two planets, I would become princess of all. Cyclones would bow at my feet and beg me to stop as I tortured their loved ones. I grinned as the sound of screaming voices filled my senses, glory and power shone in my eyes. Pai Ikisatashi would pay for all the things he had done! All I needed was for him to fall asleep. Finally the moment came when his eyes drifted shut. I stalked towards him quietly. My ears strained for any sign of him waking. I hissed in pain as I stepped into the sunlight. I had been in the depths of the forest so long that the rays of light made my eyes water. I blinked rapidly, waiting for my eyesight to adjust. I slunk forwards, making sure not to make any sound that could wake the sixteen-year-old. I crouched down next to him and lifted up his right arm, rolling up his sleeve. I concentrated hard and a red iron band appeared in my hand. I slipped it on his arm.

"Tetsu no ketsugō bando!" (Bond band of Iron in Japanese) I whispered, a pink glow engulfed his body, it flashed and then disappeared.

"Sweet dreams sweetheart!" I muttered maliciously before vanishing into the depths of the forest.

A/N: Sorry uber short chappie here! I just wanted to leave it on a cliffy and well I can't think of anything else to put!

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