Chapter 13: Sickness!
Snivelling slightly, Daisuke lay upon the bed, looking up at the ceiling. A virus had invaded his mind, like that of the visions he always saw when he was asleep or when he touched objects. However this wasn't like any of the common colds that passed around, it was more of a flu-like virus that had also invaded his mind, his ability to concentrate on dodging traps and moves used by his opponents becoming that of nothing now. The vampires that he now lived with had been taking it in turns to hunt out the spots where Krad was last seen each night now. It was easier for them to do so since the blood inside them heightened all of their senses. This virus had made him continuously feel like there was a jackhammer inside his skull. The doors had to be closed gently to prevent another headache coming on all the time. It was nighttime yet he couldn't sleep. Weird dreams had been coming to his mind lately, he couldn't tell if it was from the illness or from what was going to happen.
Grass as green as jade swept past bruised ankles as he walked along the lanes of death as they were always called. People had died here, people he once knew, all by the hands of vampires. This was where Rika Harada lay still to this day. Dark said to him once that he knew her and her killer, yet he wouldn't say anymore. This often gave Daisuke a few ideas as to who the killer really was but his suspicions were never brought up once again. A girl of old fashion walked past him, a darkness over her once pretty features. She was holding an umbrella covered in frosted raindrops and it seemed as if she was waiting for someone. Although handsome in bone structure, this girl had long seen the days of where budding beauty grew upon her face. Then a darker figure emerged by the side of the girl and Daisuke couldn't help but notice that she had exactly the same eyes as Riku.
"Dearest Rika, I have come for you…" The tone was of Dark, the violet mane easily seen within the passing moon. So this must have been the reason why Dark seemed quiet yet quite attached to Riku. She must have reminded him a lot of Rika Harada, her aunty as it was, yet this girl was dressed in olden style, like that of the Victorian ages. Was Rika Harada really her aunty? Or was she something else all together?
"My love, I fear all is no longer as it seems…" It seemed that the girl knew something about vampires but what it was wasn't revealed as everything faded to black before being followed by her screams and feathers of dark amethyst and white.
"Rika?" He said as he awoke once more to be greeted by a blinding sun and hurried shuffling in the house. Stepping out of bed cautiously, he grabbed a dagger that he always left beside his bed when he was asleep. Sometimes he would immediately pick it up if someone or something waked him, often looking like something from a movie. Stepping out into the hallway, someone rushed by his room, followed by shouts that told him they were being broken into.
Dark had heard the shouts too. Turning over once to look at the woman sleeping beside him, he got out of bed and dressed quickly into a pair of dark jeans and a black tank top like he always did when he was woken up like this. Fangs bared, he was going to frighten them off like he always did when this happened. That was when things got slightly worse. Opening the door, he noticed that Daisuke was also up and waiting for him as he slashed at each of them with the dagger he always used.
"Shit…this guy is crazy…" One of them said as he took a cleverly placed slash at his arm, followed by an attack from behind as Dark pushed him straight into the wall, followed by a round house kick to another just as they all attempted to dive on the new comer. Flipping up over each of them expertly, he gasped as he noticed the marks on each of their arms, a dragon breathing fire. Signalling to Daisuke that it was safe to kill them, he tore through the chest of the one whilst leaping onto another and sinking his fangs into his victims neck.
Daisuke, these are the kanatani's! They work for Krad!
Really? So that mean
we can kill them, right Dark?
Yes!
They didn't actually work for Krad, they were just sort of like vampire hunters, just like the ones who attacked him now that he thought about it. They were rogue hunters. People who worked for the vampires yet killed them at the same time. Why the vampires trusted them with there lives was still a mystery, even to Dark.