Chapter 13: A Shocking Realization

Flicka798: Hey people! This is where we learn about vampire folk lore from Kira! How cool is that?! I ask you this; how often do you get to hear folk lore about vampires from a hybrid?

"So, now you have a personal reason to fight them instead of just following orders." Kira said. Zero nodded his head. They were all back at the castle in Tetsuna, and Zero just finished telling Kira about Shizuka's involvement with the massacre of his family. Yuki and Kaname already told her about the vampire they encountered before, the one that they killed and how Kaname inhaled the dusted remains and how that started the transformation.

"So, you want to know more about the vampire ancestor, huh?" she asked. Yuki nodded.

"Yes, although it's just a stupid legend, we want to know more." Yuki said, Kira nodded.

"Well, some legends are true...okay. I might as well start at the beginning...It all started many millenia ago, with the beginning of time. When normal humans were created, people didn't know this, but this general fact was passed down through vampire offspring and spawn, and hunters as well...It started one evening when a young, handsome man went walking through the woods after hunting for his family. He was coming home with his kill, then he was attacked by something. No one knows what, but it bit him on the neck and drained him of all of his blood, and, some say, that the creature was wounded, and some of its blood got into the young man's mouth, and onto his wounds. He woke up two days later with a liberty he never had before...

"Yet, when he woke, he couldn't remember his name, he didn't remember anything of what or who he was, all he knew was that he wanted blood. More than anything. So, he began to stalk some animals and drain them of their blood. When he was satisfied, he felt a kind of power in him arise. He liked the feeling, so he killed animals by the dozens. Then, he caught the scent of a human on the air, it was a tastier scent than just regular animal blood. This scent sent him running for it, he caught the human and he drained him of his blood.

"This was when he realized that he could be twice as strong if he fed on human blood. Then, he got bored I suppose, and began to mark his victims with a certain sign, so they will know to fear him, that's another thing that he began to take pleasure in for a while, pain. Then, after a while, he gave himself a name, Gabriel. He called himself this because he learned that humans began to think that he was a creature of the devil, Satan, and they all turned to holy teachings and God for help in those times, so he named himself after the angel on God's left hand side. Then, he learned how to turn his own kind, and he turned them all loose on humanity for about five hundred years...until this all came to an end."

"What do you mean, 'came to an end?'" Zero asked. Kira looked at him.

"Just let me tell you this little bedtime story, Jimmy, without interruptions and maybe we will learn what happened to Gabriel." she said in a teasing tone. Zero growled at her mocking him, and calling him 'Jimmy'. Kira laughed before she continued.

"Anyway, Gabriel's turmoil-leading days came to an end, when he was trapped by some humans in Romania when he traveled the world. They chained him down, and they did a ritual that he did not understand. All he knew was that he wanted to kill the humans who dared to capture him. Then, the next thing he saw, was an elderly woman standing over him with some kinds of charms around her neck, and everything went black. Then, he woke in the clearing where he was captured, then, an onslaught of his own turmoil-filled memories came back to him. He thought that they would give him pleasure as they usually did, but this time...he felt the most biggest guilt ever. He wandered through the woods, trying to find his way out of the dark forest, but he was really trying to escape the feeling that he felt as the memories hit him. He couldn't understand the agony, he couldn't take it. He wandered away from humans and the ones he sired. He couldn't face anyone. He began to travel on his own for a few decades, hunting and feeding on animals. He also learned that gypsies trapped him and restored his human soul.

"What?" Yuki and Kaname and Zero said in unison. Kira shrugged.

"Yep, now I am almost to my favorite part of the story kids, so let mommy finish..." she said, Yuki and Kaname silenced themselves while Zero growled again at the teasing remark.

"Alright, it has been one hundred years since Gabriel recieved his human soul, and he began to help humans. In hopes to atone for what he did in his day. Then, one night, he runs into a young girl, who begins to attack him. She was in her late teens, probably nineteen, and she had the fighting skill of a normal man. Yet, Gabriel barely fought back, he wouldn't hit her. At all. Okay...I don't want to go into the boring details of them running into each other often after this encounter and soon becoming allies, seeing as they were on the same side. Gabriel also begins to teach her his own style of fighting, which improves her own fighting style. Then, after a while of fighting side-by-side, Gabriel begins to truly care for her. He couldn't place what the feeling was called. Then, he realizes that the feeling is called 'love.' It catches him off guard, but he doesn't care much. All he cared about, was that she was alright and that he was going to be around to protect her. No matter what. Then, the girl confesses her love to him one evening after they just had a big fight with some vampires. Then, they...y'know...do their thing...and it was more than perfect happiness for Gabriel. The happiest he's ever been. He never wanted that night or his time with her to end..." Kira let her voice drift off for a minute as she thought about Gabriel and the girl he loved.

"So...what, Kira?" Yuki asks. Kira turns to face her.

"Well...a short while after that...the girl began to get very sick...Gabriel tried to do what he could to help her, but...he knew what the problem was. Her belly was bulging, and she was in labor...she was also very ill. The pressure of the labor was harming her even further physically...then, after the baby was out...Gabriel gave the baby to the girl's sister, who always wanted a child, and he turned to tend to the girl he loved...she was dead. He was distraught with a crushing sadness. The one thing that brought him happiness was gone. He stayed by the girls' body for a while before he had an idea...he cut his wrist and let his blood go into her mouth...a couple days passed by and the girl awoke...but she was different...the difference in her scared Gabriel. She kept on persisting that he teach her how to hunt humans, and how she imagined their pain as she inflicted it...when he refused, she went off on her own, and she attacked the village people. Gabriel knew what he must do, he went out and he caught up with her, and he ran her through with an iron post. She turned to face him with her dying breath...then, before she disappeared, she whispered these words: 'Thank you, Gabriel. Know that I don't blame you for anything...not this...not anything...know that we are bound by one thread that will keep us together forever...nothing can change that...' and she disappeared in the blink of an eye...only the iron post fell the the ground at Gabriels' feet. He stood like a statue at the spot for a while...before he ran the post through his own body so he could be with her..."

Silence followed for a while after the long story, or love tragedy. Zero didn't speak, neither did Yuki or Kaname. Kira remained silent. Zero thought about the story again in his head, when he came to the part about the woman giving birth to Gabriels' child...then he gave it to the woman's sister...

"Wait...what about the infant?" Zero asked. Kira looked up at him.

"Well, it was given to the girl's sister--"

"Oh my God!!" Zero exclaimed. His exclamation made Yuki jump and Kaname to turn to look back at him. Zero began to pace.

"Earlier, you said the woman had the fighting skill of a normal man?!" he asked urgently to Kira, who nodded. Zero nodded in an urgent way, Yuki turned to face him.

"What do you mean, Zero? You sound like you know something about this." she said. Zero didn't answer this, he thought back to when he was young, Yagari had told him a story that was pretty similar to the one Kira just told.

"Yagari once told me an old prophecy of the hunters' fate...a fate that no one wants..." he said as he remembered more, "He used to tell me that a monster will rise in a hero...that was what the prophecy intelled...he also said that it was because a hunter family has the blood of the master in the line, no one knows which one, but a hunter family has it--"

"Zero, what are you talking about?!" Yuki asked, confused. Kaname remained silent as he listened to what Zero was saying. Kira listened too. Zero paced and paced.

"It all began with someone in the beginning of the line...well, beginning the tradition of becoming a hunter, that a vampire spawn entered the line...a woman in the family gave birth to the child of a vampire...and the vampire spawn's blood remains in the hunter family line today...Yagari said that the woman's sister, who took care of the child until the mother died, wouldn't say who the vampire was, or anything else, only that the child was forever hers..." he said in a whisper. Then, he haulted. "No one knew which hunter family it was..." he turned to face Kira. "Did the legend ever say what the girls' name was?" he asked. Kira got to her feet.

"Yes, it was almost lost...only a handful of people still know it...the girls' name was Sarah." Kira said with certainty. Zero inhaled a deep breath and he let it out as he lifted his head up so he was looking at the high ceiling.

"So...there were clues...but people were too stupid to look at them a bit more closely, along with the hunter family lines..." Zero said quietly. Yuki's confusion disappeared.

"You know who Rido needs to reincarnate Gabriel?!" she exclaimed. Zero took a deep breath before he answered.

"...Yes..." he whispered, then he looked down and he ran his hand through his silver hair. He turned to look at Yuki.

"Think about it for a second...the girl said to Gabriel that they were bound by one thread...think about it..." he said to her.

"I don't see how that is a clue--!" then, a memory came into her mind, of when Zero told her about his family's murder...his younger twin brother, Ichiru...his name meant 'one thread'. Yuki gasped.

"No...it can't be..." she whispered. Zero nodded.

"Yes...it's been there all along...thinking about it now, it's so obvious...Rido needs my brother Ichiru to reincarnate Gabriel!" he said with a growl to his tone. Kaname and Yuki were wide-eyed, while Kira had a look of seriousness in her eyes, because of the extremity of the situation that they were now facing.

Flicka798: Wow! I can't believe I actually wrote this! But, I did! I can't explain how, I just did! Let me know what you think about the turn that the story has taken!