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Lost Bird

Chapter Ten: Hunter and Prey

"Once the rain came, it blew your nest away. Now you refuse to rest, even to this day~" Dravon sang as he walked between Zero and Yuki. "Close your eyes~like a little butterfly~Come on little Lost Bird~close your eyes; don't cry~"

"Talk about depressing," Zero muttered.

"I think it's beautiful!" Yuki defended.

"It's a lyllabye mt mom wrote for me in 1932!" Dravon cheered. "It was the last thing she said to me..."

Zero patted Dravon's head. Yuki patted his back. "Don't worry," Yuki smiled. "You'll see them again!"

Now that I think about it, Zero sighed inside, we're making this worse for the poor guy. "So, are you exited about going to town?" Zero smiled as they walked past the gates.

Dravon nodded wildly. "I want to see the mini-ice glomps!"

Yuki giggled. "You mean Parfait?" Dravon nodded, gripping Zero's sleeve in excitement. "Okay! Do you like chocolate?"

His 'hunger dragon' growled at the memory of yesterday's Valentine's chocolate. "Yep!" Dravon jumped. "I also like vanilla, cookies, mint, strawberry, pistachio-" His face twisted. "Scratch pistachio. Huh, I guess I onlu like five..."

Zero ruffled Dravon's hair and kept going. The chest? In his room as the hibernating days had begun. They soon arrived in the town and surprisingly...nothing interested Dravon except Zero, Yuki, and ice-cream. Both teens were sulking in the Parfait Shop booth once they had stopped. Music, clothes, toys, NADA! "Something wrong?" Dravon kicked his feet under the table.

Zero chuckled. "You don't like anything, that's what."

"You sound like you're trying to blame him for not liking stuff!" Yuki slammed her Parfait glass down, spoon in mouth.

"You eat a lot."

"Shut up!"

Dravon laughed. "Be nice, you two!" he managed. "It's not bad for Leprachaun's to eat a lot, that's what my papa told me!"

Yuki sighed and ate faster. Pa, Papa, huh, she thought. "When's your birthday?" she asked.

"July 8!" Dravon cheered. "I's so excited! I'm finally turning one-hundred in human years!"

Yuki slightly choked on her Parfait. Zero didn't mind, already knowing he was ninty-nine. "Congrats," Zero smiled softly.

"It's ten in Lestro-vampire years," Dravon thought. "Let's see...Pa stopped at twenty-nine due to hibernation, Mum at twenty-five just turned and stopped...I stop at fourteen!"

"How do you figure?" Yuki wondered.

Zero was just estatic, so he didn't complain. "Easy," Dravon giggled (still a boy...), "extent of power divided by 10,327!" He laughed at their expressions. "I'm joking! Papa just told me it's determinded by a birth ritural. They made me bite a knife on it's side and fourteen rings just appeared over my head!"

Zero and Yuki nodded, knowinng he found it as a good thing. A girl came up. "Excuse me," she turned to Dravon, "but do you want more Parfait on-the-house?"

Dravon's brow rose. "Why would people want to put Parfait on a house?"

The girl giggled. "Oh silly! I mean more Parfait without cost."

"Oh! Yes please! Wanna share Nii-san?" Dravon tuigged on Zero's jacket.

"Sure," Zero chuckled, knowing there wasn't any way out.

The Parfait came and Dravon did his best to stuff as much as possible down Zero's throat. It went as bad as Dravon tackling Zero onto the floor (yes, both rolling off the booth bench and under the table) and forcing his mouth open with ione hand and spooning it in with the other. Zero, for one, was laughing. It isn't hard to see how much Dravon has changed the hunter.

Yuki dragged both out, both in laughing fits, and both red in the face. "Holy-"-a biker crashed into a pole-"-you two!"

Zero wiped tears from his eyes. "Wh-what?" he chuckled.

"It's good to see you happy, yes, but you need to actually breathe."

Dravon hugged his aching ribs and glanced around. He saw a tiny block building with Dawn Flax in golden letters. In a cracked window was a tiny white book with cards chasing a young girl. Above it in big black letters was Alice in Wonderland and below it in smaller letters was Lewis Carol. He wriggled out of Yuki's grasp to run to the window. "Dravon!" Zero called, chasing after. "What is it?"

The youth stopped at the window and stared at the book. Alice in Wonderland was hard-cover and rather odd looking, but in the town of beige and brown, it seemed like light in darkness, happiness in a sea of sorrow. "Nii-san," he twisted to face Zero as he stopped next to him. "What's that?"

Zero looked through the glass and smiled. "It's a book called Alice in Wonderland."

Dravon stared at the girl on the cover. "She pretty."

Zero chuckled. "Want it?"

Dravon beamed. "Really?"

"My treat," Zero patted the youth's heads. "Stay here. Yuki! Watch Dravon!"

Zero entered once Yuki had gotten over. The bell chimmed and then the street fell silent. Only a man sat on a bench. "Yuki-chan," Dravon tugged her sleeve. "That man creeps me out."

"Dravon," Yuki laughed nervously, "that's not-"

"Oh, he has every right to be scared," the man appeared before them. "After all...I AM a VAMPIRE."

Yuki gasped and Dravon's eyes went globe-wide. The man swung his arm at Yuki, Dravon shoving her away to his face clawed across. He felt cold and scared. "NII-"

"You will do nicely!" the vampire grabbed Dravon and jumped onto the roof the building.

"Let me go!" Dravon squealed.

The bell chimmed. A shot rang. Stone deflected a thud. The vampire cackled inhumanly and Dravon felt something dig into his neck: sharp fangs. The sound of his blood being drained waas mauseating. "DRAVON!" Zero raced for a way up.

Yuki thought in panic. Dravon was frozen stiff until he remembered who he was. "GET! OFF!" he yanked his neck away, shoving the wild vampire onto it's butt. His feet skidded to a stop at the very edge. He turned to Zero and held out a hand. "PROTECT YOUR MASTER!"

The book Zero held shook, making Zero stare at it. A light shot from the cover and next to Dravon. In a blink, the cards from the cover appeared. The cards on the cover itself were gone. The spears in hand flew at the wild beast in human form, and he dissolved into white ask. Dravon panted and fell back, neck bleeding out. The cards vanished and the ones on the cover reappeared. Zero caught Dravon, the youth sleeping. Yuki ran over and checked Dravon for wounds. The only ones were the fang marks, the claw marks, and the bruises where the vampire had grabbed him. Footsteps echoed.

"Who killed my prey?"

Zero and Yuki twisted to face a man with shaggy, raven hair, a patch over his left blue eye. A cigarette was in his mouth, sizzling at the tip. "Master..." Zero blinked.

Toga Yagari, number one hunter. He pointed to Dravon with his shotgun, ignoring all rules of gun safety. "Who's that?"

"The Headmaster took him in," Yuki answered. "His name is Dravon S.L."

"Ah," Yagari nodded. "He's a vampire, huh?"

"An aristocrat," Zero snapped. "He shows no reasons to be killed."

Yagari groaned. "This squirt is bad for you, stupid pupil."

Dravon gripped Zero's shirt and opened his eyes. "Let...the...hunter...kill his...p-prey," he struggled. "Just don't get in his..." He noticed Yagari. "Hello. I'm Dravon," the fang marks began to close slowly, "who are you?"

Zero patted his head. "Just get some sleep, Dravon."

The youth smiled and shut his eyes. "Alright...Nii-san."

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