How'd you like that last chapter? :P. Fear not. Here is the next chapter! :)
Yusei stared in horror as Akiza jumped. It wouldn't happen. Not again. He wasn't losing someone he loved again. Yusei rushed up the stairs and yanked Akiza back up easily. He snapped the rope with ease and stretched her out on the floor. Yusei felt tears rush to his eyes. His own dead heart was racing in his ears too loudly for him to pick up her heartbeat. She wasn't staring into his eyes. He was too late.
Leo waited until Luna was asleep before acting on his plan. They had both went back to their house for the night since Devack wasn't invited in there. Leo grabbed Luna's spell book and went downstairs. He began scanning every page until he found what he was looking for. He needed a spell to transfer Luna's powers to his own so he'd have a fighting chance against Devack. Most of the book was blank to him because of the protective spell on it. The only spells he could see were blood spells. He smiled in victory once he found it.
"Blood to blood. Being to being. Let yours be mine. Let yours be mine." Leo mumbled the words. Leo looked up just in time to see a flash of light hit him with a blunt force that knocked him over. The spell had worked. Leo was glad he had remembered what Luna had told him about the power of blood spells. Blood spells could be performed by any relative of the witch because it was used by connecting the two. Luna had made him memorize some blood protection spells in case he ever found himself in trouble. Leo smiled in satisfaction as he left the house.
Yusei was about to cry out when Akiza's eyes opened wide. She wasn't dead! He had saved her in time. Akiza was alive. Yusei gasped as he pulled her towards him and squeezed her tightly. "What the hell were you thinking?! Do you really think that I can live without you?" Yusei exclaimed. He pulled away from her. Akiza was about to explain how she would've came back but he noticed for it for himself. "Who bit you, Akiza?"
"Yusei, let me explain!" Akiza was about to tell him everything when he interrupted her.
"I asked you a question! Who bit you?" Yusei was fuming mad. A million thoughts and scenarios ran through his mind, but he thought he already knew. He'd never forgive his father. He didn't need her answer, but he wanted to hear her response.
"I thought about what your dad said and he was right! This is the only way to stop her and maybe save her. I could bring her back this way! I went to your parents and asked them to turn me. Mr. Fudo bit me but refused to kill me and said I could do that for myself because you'd never forgive him. I'm sorry, Yusei. I didn't want to hurt you." Akiza started to tear up. Why did this have to happen? She had jumped and intended to die. She was ready to die. She was almost mentally prepared to take on her new life.
"You don't have to die to save Carly! She isn't yours to save. We'll all save her. I won't let you become a vampire. You won't make this sacrifice for us." Yusei shook his head. His voice had softened but Akiza was still afraid. She sat up on her own and shook her head. Akiza thought she owed them so much, especially Carly who had given her life for her. Akiza needed to do this for everyone.
"It's my decision. If I want to be a vampire then I'll be a vampire!"
"If that's what you want then I'll let you." He sighed. "But you don't want to be a vampire! You're doing this to save us, but you don't have to die. We'll save everyone without having you turn." Akiza bit her lip and looked down. "Tell me that you want to be a vampire and I'll let you do it."
Akiza stared into his deep blue eyes. She finally broke down. "Yusei, I don't want to be a vampire! I thought this was best, but I don't wanna die. I thought I was ready to live forever, but I'm not." Akiza whimpered. Yusei sighed as he pulled her into his arms. He easily unknotted the rope around her neck, although she had done a good job tying it, and scooped her up. She needed to rest. Akiza clutched Yusei tightly and let him carry her to bed. Yusei wiped her eyes and tucked her in. He made sure she was comfortable before he left her alone in her room.
Yusei wouldn't leave her alone at home in fear of her still wanting to kill herself or Kalin finding out she has venom in her system and having him take matters in his own hands. Just before Yusei was about to go downstairs he noticed a notebook that was near the banister. Yusei removed the remaining rope that was tied on the banister and picked it up.
Yusei read the letter and blinked back tears. Akiza loved him. Akiza thought she was choosing him by killing herself. Yusei realized that this battle wasn't just about Carly. It was about saving Akiza too. I'm going to save you, Akiza. I promise.
Leo had finally reached the spot where Devack had wanted to meet Luna. Leo was about to call out to him when he saw the large man step out from the shadows. "You're not the little girl. But you look like her. Are you her twin?" he laughed.
"I'm her brother." Leo put on a tough bravado.
"Well I wanted the girl, but you'll have to do for now." He smirked in satisfaction. Leo suddenly felt fear rush through his bones into his very being. This is why Luna had trouble falling to sleep. This man's solemn promise had been haunting his sister only because somewhere inside she knew this man would keep his word. He had forever to keep it.
Leo didn't know the first thing when it came to using Luna's powers. He tried to concentrate and focus, but he received no results. The next thing he knew he was being thrust against the brick building hard. He sucked in a sharp breath of air through his teeth and fought off a scream. The man wanted to see his will break. He wanted to watch him squirm before he died. "You don't know how big of a bullet you've taken for your sister. Too bad she's next." He laughed menacingly lifting Leo up again and shoving him to the ground.
"There's no way and hell you'll ever hurt my sister!" Leo shouted. The man's grip on him tightened. His hands found their way to Leo's neck and began to squeeze the breath out of him. Leo felt himself losing his grip of the world fast. Things were starting to darken. Just before his whole world went dark the weight of his attacker slackened. The man slumped to the ground and landed with a thud.
Leo blinked to see his sister standing above him with worry written all over her face. He heard his voice in his head cracking a joke about how she'd have worry lines before she turns twenty. He heard them echo loudly in his head, but he couldn't find the strength to say them. He couldn't even mutter his sister's name. Leo closed his eyes, shutting his mind off from the rest of the world.
Crow just got off the phone with Yusei. He couldn't believe what he just heard. How could Akiza do that? How could she just almost throw her human life away for a miserable one that never ended? How could Yusei's parents do that to him? Crow remembered happier times before the Fudo's had become that way. They weren't always heartless. They used to have humanity.
Crow liked it better before their happiness went to dust. It was just Crow, Jack, Yusei, and Sherry living their eternal life with pleasure. They weren't monsters, but they knew how to have fun before it became "too much fun" and someone died on their hands. They all used to be happy. Going to America changed that. Coming here had changed everything. Crow had decided a long time ago not to dwell on it and that they all needed to grow up sometime, but the sad reminder that they'd never really grow up still hit him like a ton of bricks.
Sherry would forever be a nineteen year old girl who lost her parents too young and is stuck taking care of three immortal children. Jack would forever be a brooding twenty one year old guy that has an eternal craving for coffee and fits of bloodlust he has to constantly battle off. Yusei would forever be the twenty year old guy who had to put on the brave face for his friends and be the selfless one. Crow would forever be the seventeen year old guy who was robbed of ever reaching adulthood and forced into a continuous life of immaturity. Something would always be missing. They would never complete their lives like they were supposed to. They'd never grow old and die like they were intended to. Something would always remain empty.
Poor Crow. It's sad that they'll never grow up. Pity party for the vamps. :(
