Chapter 11: How to do something
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave behind a trail.
-Unknown
Time was running out. Emi could feel her own impending doom worsen with each and every day. It hurt her so, but she continued to barrel through the days as if nothing was going on, like her sister wasn't missing and her horrendous father wasn't living two floors above her. Emi began to think about what would happen when they finally found Axel and Namine. She had no idea how to kill a vampire. Emi was guaranteed to win when she fought, but would she win if they were out to kill? Plus, what can kill a vampire? Will he have special immunities since he is rouge? Emi just didn't know and it was beginning to eat her up inside.
So Emi went to the place that always had her answers ready, the library. She didn't stay in the main part though; instead Emi went back to the hidden hallway and door that only she knew about. Emi needed that special book that sat alone and told her, at the very beginning, what was happening to her. Maybe this time it would be able to help her as well.
Emi went the same way that she had a hundred times before. She went down the hallway that never had any light, and she went and opened the door to the dusty room that only held the journals and that one book. The special door that led to the paintings was still there, except unlike when Emi first found it, she had let the door stay wide open, a constant invitation to revisit memories. Emi sat down at her desk, taking a deep breath before she uttered the words that would let her see everything.
"I want to know how to kill a rouge vampire," Emi whispered, but the book still flew open to the information that she wanted.
Rouge vampires are very different from regular vampires though many different areas. Rouge vampires are governed by the sun goddess, who at this time the name is still unknown. Also while vampires retain a part of themselves and keep their sanity, the longer a vampire stays rouge the more insane that they get. There are only three known cures for turning a rouge vampire back to a normal vampire.
Have them unwillingly drink the blood of the innocent.
Find them their mate, but don't let them kill their mate.
Have the sun goddess reverse the process of them becoming rouge, as to give them more time to search for their mate.
The three methods above are the only ones that have worked, and while there might be more methods, they are unknown to the rest of society. Each has their own repercussions. Rouge vampires are normally very unwilling to change back, and to sacrifice an innocent one is deemed socially unacceptable. Almost every time, when a rouge vampire finds their mate they end up killing them before they realize what they have done. There is only one recorded case of a rouge vampire finding their mate and not killing them. The final method was only done once as well, and it was when the sun goddess' favorite child became a vampire, and after a couple of centuries still could not find him mate. The goddess reversed the process, and ten years later he found his mate.
To kill a rouge vampire can be just as hard as turning them back. Some think that it is better to attempt to return them back to normal just because it is so difficult to kill them. Once a vampire goes rouge, they receive multiple new abilities that can range from anything. Almost all the time they get super strength, become faster, and their need for blood goes through the roof tenfold.
One of a few things will happen once the vampire becomes rouge as well. They will do one of the following:
The rouge vampire will find an obsession
Go on a killing spree
Have their body shut down on them
There are only three known ways to kill a rouge vampire:
Beheading
Fire
Carving the heart out
All ways are bloody and violent, and most people wait until they have no choice but to kill the rouge vampire.
As Emi finished the last sentence, the book snapped shut and would not open again. It was done giving out information for a while, and Emi had read all that she needed to know and then some. It was obvious that Emi was Axel's obsession, and that made Zexion extremely angry.
Inside her small room, Emi began to plot the moment when they would encounter Axel. I'm the one Axel wants, not Namine. If it's me he wants, then it'll be me he gets, Emi thought to herself.
In another part of the castle, Zexion began to get a feeling that something was going to happen that he wouldn't like. Ignoring it, he turned back to his duties and began to think of other things.