A/N ((wipes away a tear)) THIS IS THE SECOND LAST CHAPTER!!
Chapter 19
Darien pushed Bunny behind him and she didn't fight him, Bunny was frozen with shock and fear.
"HOW DARE YOU MARCH ONTO MY PROPERTY!" Darien roared.
"I've done more to your property than march on it Darien" Diamond sniped, and Darien growled low in his throat.
Guards! Apprehend that man and push back his forces! I will not allow for this to happen on my land!
Vampire guards streamed into the courtyard, the swords at their sides clanging loudly with the rebel soldiers.
The yells of open warfare in the courtyard made Bunny snap out of her stupor, she turned her tail and streaked out of the room.
"Oh no you don't!" Darien's eyes glowed red, he picked Bunny up and threw her over his shoulder. She kicked and 'beseeched' Darien loudly accompanying the pleas with jabs to his shoulders and chest.
"Darien! You put me down this moment!"
Darien simply growled in response and threw Bunny into his room, slamming and locking the door.
Bunny launched into Darien's mind screaming her indignation, worry and fear.
LET ME OUT! YOU'RE GOING TO RUN OFF AND GET YOURSELF KILLED!
Silence, absolutely nothing from Darien, and as Bunny took a look around Darien's psyche she saw absolute pleasure at the prospect of war.
Bunny saw flashes of past times, in each of them Darien stood over a slain body and the sense of satisfaction oozed from the images right into her mind.
Bunny shivered, yet she wasn't repulsed by what she saw, she was worried about Darien, surely with these sorts of images and memories he'll get himself into trouble in no time.
Bunny searched the room frantically; she tossed aside shoes and bracelets, earrings and shirts.
Looking for..
For..
Found!
Bunny pulled out a small silver letter opener, well it wasn't great but it was the best she could come up with.
Bunny hurtled from the writing desk back towards the locked and bolted door, she banged her fists against it uselessly, her hands making deep indents in the wood, but the more she beat into it the more she came to realise that not only was she getting very tired she was also damaging her hands, already several of the smaller bones in her hand had broken.
Must think!
THE BALCONY!
Darien growled under his breath every moment he wasn't fighting, even as his war council assembled before him, the low grumble continued.
Malachite swept into the room with a large chest held aloft. Darien's eyes lit up at the sight of it.
His armour.
The council chatted around him about strategies and troop movements, but Darien understood very little of it, his brain was lost in bloodlust and the urge to hurt and maim held him steadfastly within its grip.
His arm guards and leg guards were in place when a maid rushed into the room, bleeding and beaten.
"S-Sir! M-men! IN THE HOUSE! MEN IN THE HOUSE!" The little maid collapsed and a dark red blood pool spread itself around her head.
Darien growled louder and exited the room faster than anyone could track, his face lit up like a Christmas tree.
Bunny threw herself off the balcony. She landed lightly on her feet the sharp silver letter opener clutched tightly in her hand.
All around her pandemonium reined, vampires, indistinguishable now that both sides were covered in blood and dirt, were fighting all around her, hissing and spitting, clawing at each other and hacking away with their swords.
Bunny screamed when a large brutish vampire spun her around, his sword raised high above his head and a malicious grin on his face.
Bunny pulled the girlyist move on the planet and screamed louder, throwing her arms up about her head. Bunny heard the swish of the blade and the war cry of the soldier above her, but unexpectedly the war cry broke off mid yell and the thump of a sword being dropped beside her resonated like a bell.
Bunny cracked one eye open slowly, she recognised the long flowing hair of Nephrite, well if he was there then what happened to…?
Bunny looked down, a torso and head sat at her feet, but as she followed it down to the waist, she noticed that his legs and feet were about two metres away, severed cleanly.
EW!
Bunny fought the urge to retch, and saw the sword lying next to her on the ground.
Screw this!
Bunny grabbed the sword, ditched the letter opener and ran for it.
Darien hacked at the vampire in front of him with glee, his sword shined a bloody red and he moved through the rebel soldiers like a fish through water. So easy was his passage through the crowd was so easy that if one were looking from the sky they would see a red streak through a sea of black.
All rationality escaped Darien as he moved through the horde of soldiers; he was looking for one individual, just one man and with this one man's death, peace could resume.
And sanity would return to Darien's blood-lusted brain.
Eventually.
Diamond grinned spitefully and watched Darien disappear with Bunny. His 'soldiers' swarming around him to fight back Darien's forces, Diamond slipped easily off his horse and sauntered into the front entrance hall of Darien's house, easy as can be. No one stopped him and the halls were deserted.
Diamond hummed a tune and strutted down the hall, every now and then Diamond peeked into a room, slowly making his way upstairs to where the bedrooms were.
Surely Darien had hidden his wife.
He's trapped her for me.
Bunny was stuck; she was standing behind a crowd of vampires, hiding behind a rose bush, with no way of getting through them.
"Crap crap crap!"
Bunny looked around and saw a side entrance into the house itself, sure it was a balcony on the second floor, but she could jump it right?
Bunny grinned and launched herself up onto the railing, she jumped down and fled from the room.
She needed to see where Darien was, where is there a good viewpoint of the courtyard?
DARIEN'S ROOM!
Bunny rolled her eyes, God the irony! She kicked open the door and ran inside, the curtains were closed over the balcony again and Bunny raced through them looking out over the battle to spot Darien.
Darien's hazed mind sensed a flicker from Bunny, a faint awareness of danger and adrenalin. Darien took a quick detour into her mind.
His bedroom came to his mind, but she wasn't in the room itself she was….was…
Looking at him.
Don't look dearest, the nightmares alone…
Darien? DARIEN!
Bunny screamed and was moments away from launching herself off the balcony to Darien's aid. But as she was hoisting herself up onto the banister big arms wrapped around her waist and pulled her off the railing.
"GET OFF ME!" Bunny wriggled.
The man who was holding her grunted but dragged her from the room regardless.
Down below Darien dashed into the house gnashing his teeth and swinging his sword.
Diamond held a sharp silver dagger to Darien's neck, Darien himself was tied up to his throne in one of the house's parlors. Diamond grinned when the sound of a struggle and Bunny's familiar brand of swearing reached his ears.
Seiya dumped Bunny on the floor at Diamond's feet, Bunny instantly jumped back up to launch herself at Diamond himself, but he merely took a short step back and held the dagger to Darien's throat once again.
Darien strained against the rope around his wrists and ankles.
Bunny stopped dead but kept her eyes on the knife hovering above Darien's jugular.
"Ahh, how easily you're made quiet now, Princess" Diamond laughed and stepped behind Darien, he gripped his hair and pulled back his head.
"What do you want?" Bunny's voice was calmer than she was.
"Oh nothing much, just your hand in marriage."
Bunny sneered. "Fat chance!—"
Diamond smiled. "You didn't let me finish, your hand in marriage in exchange for Darien's life. Your hubby here gets to live, and all you have to do is agree to marry me."
Darien pulled against Diamond's hold and started trying to shout around the gag stuffed in his mouth.
"Kneel to me Bunny, take the right path, Darien will live. You love him don't you? Kneel," Diamond ordered, he pierced Bunny with his dead gray eyes.
Darien gave up on shouting through his gag and delved straight into Bunny's mind.
Don't you dare!
Dari—
DON'T YOU DARE!