10: Home or Bust
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POV of Akahanna Ceil
We run into the woods as hard as we can. We see there's a cave so we take cover in it. We flop down and my chest rises and falls as I get my heart beat under control. I glance over at him, we both smirk and laugh.
"We made it." I pant and he nods looking up at the ceiling
"Yeah but we have to find a way back to the main land. I guess you can't transport us back like Kaname was able to right?" he asks, I shake my head
"No. But if we know how far away we are from the main land; then I'll probably be able to make a ice bridge. We're on a island so there's plenty of water to freeze. It all depends on the distance though."
"And that's not even to consider that Eiji's next move. Knowing them, they'll do anything they can to keep us on the island. Damn it." he groans, I stand up;
"There's only one thing to do. For now, we lay low and gather Intel; if we act without knowing things aren't going to be in our favor." I pull him up, he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a map. He extends it out, lays it down and we hover over it.
"Here's the island, I managed to draw this up over the weeks; we're probably here now; and I'm guessing from the direction most of the air shafts that come here are from the main land. It's probably east where we're at. The only thing is that's keeping us here, we don't know the distance in between." He grabs his chin thinking, I study the map;
"If we know which direction the water currents are coming in from then there's a chance we'll figure out the distance. Or we can try our luck, break into the fortress again and savage a boat." He looks at me
"We just broke out of there, now you're saying we should go back in?" I nod
"It's our only chance, or we can take the long time consuming way." He doesn't reply immediately.
"I guess you're right. But Frost and Russell are our main enemies. The others I don't think they'll put up much of a fight but we both know Frost's annoying habit of transporting you and me onto another plane out of the real world. And Russell hasn't showed us his full abilities either. They have the element of secrete against us."
"We can attack at sundown. It'll be suicide but there's a chance we'll be able to get their boats. And I think I can take Frost down before he gets his hands on us and transports. When he tried to kill me, I noticed that he can't use long distance attacks before he transports. We can use this to our favor. With your disintegrating powers combined with my ice and flames; he'll be very limited."
"What about Russell? I heard he had steel defense." I frown at this thought.
"Well, I haven't consider that. If he's not a Vampire; you'll be able to over power him; if he is and a PureBlood; we'll be dealing with 2 and your abilities are at a disadvantage. Takuma, if things are clearly against us; I'll have to transform into the Pulse Le Ceil;"
"Are you crazy?! It'll only buy us like a minute at best. And you still haven't mastered it yet, you'll be dead weight after you finish up the time. I-" I shut him up by kissing him.
"I know," I stroke his cheek with my thumb. he doesn't say anything but I know he's pleading me not to consider it. "We head there at sunset. We should get some sleep." I lay down on my side and instantly sleep like a rock.
"Be careful; Home or Bust." He tells me as we're on the side of the fortress. I nod so I carefully turn to see if there's anyone. There is, I extend my hand to him, he places a knife in my hand. I aim for the area in between the guard's eyes and throw. It lodges itself into his forehead and he drops to the ground. We quietly advance careful not to step into the spot lights lighting up the fortress. We stay in the shadows, he takes the lead and since he can memorize things to the dot; he leads us down to the fortress' edge to the ocean.
"Their boats should be down here. And so far we haven't smell Frost or Russell since we broke back in. Something's not right." he states as we're in the hallway that branches off to the dock with their ships.
"Maybe they melted their scents so that way we wouldn't have smelled them. Takuma, wait." I hold his shoulder and I force my eyes to scan the area to see if there is people lying in wait for us. There is so I clench my teeth. "They're waiting for us." I blink and my eyes goes back to normal.
"What do you say? Run in there and go out or go into Shadow mode?" He asks with a grin tugging at the corner of his mouth.
"Shadow mode. That way we won't run so much of a risk of us getting injured." I nod so I grab his hand and manipulate our bodies to turn into thick shadows. We slither through under the door and attack. I slice their heads off and we plow through them. After they're all turned into headless bodies; we return back to normal. We hijack a boat, he starts the motor and we take out to open sea. I spot an island on the horizon so we camp there for the night. I come back to our camp site with some logs as he starts up a fire.
"I wonder what happened during the time we've been kidnapped. I hope that my parents actually noticed I was gone." He frowns. I scoot over next to him.
"I'm sure that they have. It's not everyday that your kid's kidnapped." I tease but he doesn't say anything.
"Akahanna they don't even know we're engaged. They're too busy with their own lives to even pay attention to me." He draws his legs up to his chest and rests his head against his knees. His eyes are a swirl of red and green as the flames burn.
"Takuma; what were they like? And I want to know more about you, how was Kaname as an older brother?" I ask to keep him cheerful like his usual self. He smiles a bit
"Kaname was the best brother I could have asked for. I have a little sister too, but she's barely like 10 so there's a 10 year age difference between us. I don't know her all to well; her name's Hinata. And my dad's Izumi, my mom's Karin. I miss them and all but still;" I nod so I lean against him.
"I love you."
"Love you too. You should get some rest. I'll take the first watch." I nod so I curl into a ball, place my head on his lap and sleep while I can.