Hello Guys Thankz for clicking Next. I said that I was going to upload faster than last time and I can surely say that I tried. I really did. And I know this Chap is a little short but that's because I wanted to stop before it got too long. (I hate super long chapters) I'm not completely sure of it but I think this is the second to the last chapter. I'm currently working on it now and depending on the length it might be the Finale T.T

But if it is the final chapter it might take a while so please be patient with me. I will try to type as quickly and creatively as I possible can. I don't want you to regret reading this far. The end has to be the best part, right? It's every writers goal to have a off-the-wall conclusion.

OK, I've done enough talking. Please enjoy!

Chapter

10

When I came to, all I could see was darkness. I had no idea where I was, or how I got here nor did I have even the slightest idea of what was happening. The last thing I remember was entering Headmaster's room…and the rest was a fuzzy blur.

I see an orange ball of light distract me from my thoughts. It's a torch of fire. Soon after, a shadow is casted on the ground of a woman. She has long hair and a slight hour-glass figure. It doesn't take me long to conclude that it the infamous Shizuka Hio.

Another torch is summoned from somewhere and is moved next to me so we can see each others' faces. Her cold eyes and sadistic smirk is just how I imagined it; unbelievably cruel.

"Well it took you long enough to wake up," she says, stepping close to see if my eyes were open. As her bizarrely soft voice hit my ears I involuntarily jolted forward, but there was an invisible force keeping me still.

"Where am I? What am I doing here? What happened to Headmaster?" I shouted questions, but they didn't faze her.

"Calm down girl," she orders. "Do you even know who I am?"

"You're the witch who killed Zero's family and then turned him into a vampire."

"Wow you really know your facts." At first, it sounded like a compliment but her voice was a little distorted as if she was mocking me.

"What do you want with me?" I yelled. My words echoing through the air.

"Isn't it obvious? You're a hostage. I'm using you to get what I want."

What she wants? I am a mere school girl who is barely passing my 2nd year and has no vampire strength or superb combative skills whatsoever. What could she possibly want with me?

"What are you using me for? What do I have to do with anything?"

Hio moves closer to me until we are face to face, staring each other in the eye. She starts to say something but instead lets out a deafening laugh. Her eye lids closed, her teeth are showing, and a pale hand is rested on the midriff of her kimono.

"You don't know?" she asked, finally, still amused by what I said a few minutes ago.

"Know what?"

"So I guess your beloved Kaname didn't tell you, did he."

"Tell me what? What don't I know?"

"That I am in this position all because of you and only you."

I blink my eyes to make sure I wasn't dreaming. I was alive as much Shizuka was a crazed monster. This was no dream. She said exactly what I heard.

"You think you have absolutely nothing to do with me," she continued, "yet you have everything to do with me. How ironic is that?"

"There's nothing ironic about you trying to kill up the whole country."

"You're still a naïve little child. You don't know anything about the world let alone the vampire world."

"And what am I too naïve to understand," I challenged, an angry chill running up my spine.

"Kaname killed my fiancé Rido 10 years ago and to avenge his death I decided that I should kill someone he loved. But at the time he had no one he truly cared about until you came along. I waited enough time for you two to develop strong feelings for each other then paid him a visit a few months ago. I told him that if he stays out of my future plans I will spare your life." Even though I didn't want to hear her speak anymore she keeps talking. "But he didn't listen and started killing up my Level Es. He knows he broke the rules so he comes after me and tries to kill me before I kill you. That's the real reason why Kaname left. Whatever you heard is a lie."

"You put the pieces to together since you're so smart," she adds on but my head is pounding too hard to listen to her.

Have I been the only one being lied to? Did everyone around me know the truth or has Kaname been lying to everyone? You would think I would be mad at him for lying but I can't be. He lift not to save the whole but to save me. How can I resent someone who does such a selfless act?

I feel my heart twist in a knot.

This whole time I thought he left for every other reason beside for my sake. I accepted that and moved on from it. I promised myself that I would forget Kaname and focus on my relationship with Zero. But knowing this...it changes things.

And aside from that there is a high chance that I could die right here. I don't want to die full of utter fear, still hanging on to these newly formed regrets and self doubts.

"When I kill you, Kaname will be so devastated that he wouldn't be able to think straight. That will make him easier to kill. And Zero will be too distraught that will make him easier to control. Kaien will remain unconscious for a while so there'll be no one else left to stop me from my mission."

After she said all that I stayed silent. Not because I couldn't handle the truth, but because I felt like there was no need to respond. She already has her plans in place and I was either going to live or die. Nothing I say will change the outcome.

"Why so quiet girl," she teased. "What happened to you thinking you were so high and mighty?"

I still stayed silent. No matter what she says to me or how much she teases me I wouldn't say a word back.

She catches my reluctance to speak and moves her face close to mine again. I tilt my head back little putting some space between us. I don't know if she only does this to her quarry or if she's trying to smell me, but her face is always in my face and I don't want someone I hate that close to me.

Right then I saw her pupils turn deep red and her fangs protrude from her lips. She moves her nose just above my head and sniffs me. I find this both scary and creepy at the same time.

"Ah," she sighs. "I'm going to enjoy sucking every drop of blood out of you."

I felt cool vampire breathe on my neck and my heart sunk to my stomach.

I tilt my head back some more and cocked my neck to the side. I even tried to lung forward despite the invisible shield. Nothing worked. I closed my eyes tight and tried to wish it all away, kicking and screaming in protest. Of course that didn't work either but I was too mortified to care.

This must be the end for me...

I'm giving Headmaster CPR one minute and in the next Yuuki was being carried away by one of Hio's little minions. That bitch was smart though to send a Level E and not come and do it herself. Cowardly but smart. She probably knew that if she came to kidnap her I would sense her and stop her before she could even lay a finger on Yuuki.

I check his pulse one last time to make sure he's alive before sticking my head out the window to see if the Level E left a scent I could trace. I smell something really faint but tangible enough to track.

In one quick movement I am out the window and gliding through the air until my feet hit the ground. The smell is coming from the school so I run that way.

Usually when it comes to Yuuki my senses are alert but because I haven't had "anything to drink" in weeks everything has been a little…off balance. The smell grows stronger as I enter in one of the doors. I walk down the hallway, preparing myself for anything that might happen. For a while I don't see, smell, or hear anything and I start to relax. But only slightly.

I turn the corner and smell Level E the Level E smell again. I pull out my gun and yell out Yuuki's name. "Yuuki! Yuuki!" There is a bizarre silence and all I can hear is my footsteps against the floor. Then the stench hits me right in the face, stronger this time. Ten Level Es are right in front of me. Teeth and claws bared and eyes redder than blood.

"Tell me where Yuuki is," I commanded loading my gun.

"I don't take orders from you," one of them said.

I take one step closer and aim it at the one who spoke. I was angry, annoyed, and impatient and I really didn't feel like playing games with these low class bastards.

"Tell me where Yuuki is right NOW."

The one who spoke before stepped away from the rest and I shot him the chest before he could even open his mouth. The rest tried to run away but I shot them down before they could get too far.

There was one left, the extra loyal and obedient one. The one that makes me feel sick to my stomach, standing there all big and bad like they're working for someone important.

I pounced forward and pinned the Level E to the wall. "I'm going to ask you ONE. LAST. TIME. Where the HELL is Yuuki Cross? If you value your useless life even a little you should speak now."

My gun was pressed tightly to his throat and my hand gripped his shoulder so he couldn't move. I was a spill-it-or-die situation. The only way to survive was to tell the truth and nothing but. I clicked the gun right in front of his ear and I could smell his terror build. I put my finger on the trigger and slowly pressed down…

"Okay, Okay, I'll tell you where the girl is."

I put the gun down and raised an eye brow.

"Master Hio is holding her hostage in the basement?"

"In the basement?"

He nodded his head once. "Take the back elevator down to the bottom floor."

Satisfied with my answer I backed away and threw him to the floor.

I put my gun back in my pocket and continued walking down the hall. I took the stairs down as low as I could go. Then I came to an elevator. An elevator I didn't even know existed.

I stepped in without hesitation and pressed the button with a B on it. The elevator was loud and shaky and moved slowly but eventually it came to a jolting stop. The doors reluctantly opened to a large dimly lit room filled with desks, chair, and dozens of boxes. I walked down the cleared pathway. After a few yards I heard voices, familiar voices. I kept walking and came to a door. One of those round, metal doors that usually led to some kind of dungeon.

"I'm going to enjoy sucking every drop of blood out of you."

I knew that voice; I knew it instantaneously. Shizuka Hio: the woman who drastically changed my life for the worst. I could never forget the voice that turned me into a vampire, the voice who killed my family, the voice who is trying to do harm to the one I love.

My foot was kicking down the door faster than my mind could process what I was doing. It only took one glance around the room to realize the situation. Yuuki forced up against the wall; Shizuka trapping her; her cursed lips just inches away from Yuuki's neck.

I lost my resolve. Any self restraint I walked in with dissolved in the cold, dry air.

"Get your filthy body off of Yuuki," My tattoo on my neck was probably glowing bright red and my eyes were probably even redder. I pulled my gun out, loaded it and aimed it right at Shizuka's heart. That witch deserved to die right here and now.

She looked up at me, slowly; her eyes blood red and her fangs as sharp as I remember. She saw the furiousness in my face and returned back to her none-vampire but still monster-like self.

"Long time no see," she said. "You have gotten even more handsome since the last time I saw you."

"Don't talk to me as if I'm your friend," I spat, glaring daggers at her.

"You're right," she agreed stepping away from Yuuki who was frozen in either shock or horror. "I am not your friend. I'm your master."

Master? Did she just say master? Who the hell do she think she is calling herself my master? I don't work for her. I don't serve her.

"You're my master? If you were my master I wouldn't be holding a gun at you right now."

"Anyone can point a gun at someone, but we both know you can't pull the trigger."

"Don't tell what I can and can't do. I've killed countless of vampires. You're just one more to me."

"See, that's where you're wrong. I'm not like those worthless Level Es. I changed you into a vampire. I'm you're owner. I own you."

"And I'm not like those worthless Level Es either. I don't work for you and nor am I your servant. And I don't give a rat's ass if you changed me; I'm never calling you master."

I expected her to come back at me with a retort but she just stands there. I stopped thinking about everything in case she is trying to read my mind. I don't think about my plans or how I feel. I just stand there too, gun ready, glancing between her and Yuuki.

I must have focused on Yuuki one millisecond too long because when I looked back over at Shizuka she was gone. I searched though the darkness of the room and she was nowhere to be found. The door remained shut. No words were said. She just disappeared without a single trace. I couldn't even smell her.

I run over to Yuuki, gun still in hand, and shake her out of her trance. It takes sometime but she finally comes back to life. She blinks her eyes a few times then looks up at me.

"Yuuki," I call to her as I help her to her feet.

"Zero," she called back, wraps her arms around my back and burying her face in my chest. Her voice was weak as if all the wind got knocked out of her. "She tried to…" She trailed off, her grip on my back tightening.

I pat her head. "Everything is alright_"

I was abruptly cut off by suffocating grip around my neck. Suddenly, I am being thrown across the room. "What the…"

"Zero!"

Yuuki knows before me that I am being straddled by thin, pale arms.

Shizuka was behind me.

I struggle to get from her grip but her strength is impeccable. "My gun," I think to myself, but I see it before me only a few yards away. I cursed myself out. I must have dropped it in all the commotion.

"Get your filthy hands off of me," Anger was slowly creeping up on me. I try struggling and fidgeting again but it is no match to her superhuman vigor.

"No!" Yuuki screams, tears running down her face.

It's all over. I don't have any clue to what its going on behind me but I know for sure it's all over.

Her arms tightened around me and I can barely breathe anymore. I feel sharp teeth pierce my neck and my blood being drawn out of my body.

So this is the agony Yuuki feels every time I drink from her. It's been so long since Shizuka first bit me, I forgot how utterly painful it feels to be a victim of getting bitten by a vampire…

POP~

My eyes turn up to the sound. I saw Yuuki, Bloody Rose in hand, body shaking, face wet with tears.

Yuuki shot Shizuka Hio.

WOW!

Shizuka got shot? Well it's about damn time.

And you probably never thought it could happen, Yuuki firing a gun. But in my story it did. She's always the damsel in distress not the Heroin. I guess Yuuki's finally growing some lady balls...Or is she?

Well, stay tuned to find out.

Until then...

Hasta Luego! (See You Later)