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The burning flames drew closer to the once occupied roads. D dismounted his horse and waved it away to a safer area. The loyal horse was reluctant to leave its master, but its deep fear of the fire was stronger, and it fled for the entrance of the town.
"Dammit D! Even if Kurai Ichi is here! How the hell are we supposed to find the bastard!" Left hand yelled
"You are not helping the situation--" D was cut off guard with a swift blade flying in front of his face. With the quick draw of his sword D could hear the sound of metal skid off it. D remained still aside of burning town surrounding him.
"Damn! You are not that bitch Leila!" A deep husky voice echoed behind D, "But I still know who you are! I knew that you would be the first one she would call on to slay me!"
D paused for a moment, and slowly turned around, "I also know who you are," D looked at black smokey sky, "I know that you are not a full vampire, the sky may be black, but that dose not hide the fact that the sun is still in the sky"
"Heh...you're no fool!" Kurai Ichi leapt forward with his second sword. D caught the blade in his own and examined Kurai Ichi's face. His skin was the same color as his. His eyes were red and hair white. He looked like a pure bred vampire, but his human half no doubt allowed him to walk in daylight. "Where is she!" Kurai Ichi spat behind his sword.
"You are a dunpeal, why do you attack humans?" D asked
"You are a dunpeal, why do you attack vampires?" Kurai Ichi countered, "We are the same! But yet we are so different, now tell me where that bitch is and I'll let you go!"
D broke the sword bond and jumped away as a piece of a burning house's roof fell from above and landed between him and Kurai Ichi. D remained calm and raised his hat a little to look at Kurai Ichi. He still looked somewhat young, not even in his twenties. "Why do you want Leila so badly?"
"Plain and simple! She killed my father! He was a proud vampire that was slayed by the likes of that bitch nine months ago!" Kurai Ichi leapt over the burning ashes and came sword to sword with D again, "She and another man hunted him down with no mercy!"
"Nine months ago? That wasn't long after the destruction of Carmilla!" D concluded, "The vampires nothing more than evil monsters! You should know that!"
"It is the humans that are evil!" Kurai Ichi madly swung his sword forward and missed D entirely. Kurai Ichi fell flat into the ground "They kill vampires with no remorse, and care nothing for us dunpeals"
D sucked the air in with his teeth in anger. Kurai Ichi is young, he has no idea what he was talking about. D lifted his long scimitar and hoped to finish this before the entire town collapsed on them.
Leila quickly packed a small shoulder bag with any small essentials and made her way down stairs. She walked outside and locked the door behind her. Leila reached in her dress pocket and pulled out the train ticket that she had just booked. The clerk told her that the train was only heading for Sington to send medics and transfer the injured to towns with qualified hospitals in them. Leila lied and said that she was one of those medics and picked up her special ticket from the post office.
The train was ready to leave, and Leila walked aboard and found a seat. She sat down and tried her best to relax. "C'mon Leila get a grip. He has to be ok! He has to!"
"I will not tell you where she is!" D made his point clear and went in for another assault with his scimitar
"So you DO know where she is!" Kurai Ichi counterattacked and struck D's shoulder, he could see the blood seeping through his garments, "Why protect her! What has she done for you!?"
D held his shoulder in pain and kept silent.
"Fuck you!! Answer me!" Kurai Ichi yelled
"Don't you know about her condition?" D slowly released his shoulder, "You did more then attack Leila eight months ago"
"What the hell are you talking about?" Kurai Ichi demanded
"She's pregnant...with your child" D leapt forward for another assault
"That's bullshit!" Kurai Ichi defended himself and took a brief second and noticed the rapid increase of the fire, "This is no good, if I stay here I am done for, but D seems to know Leila....he could be more useful to me alive" Kurai Ichi leapt to the top of a nearly collapsed house and put his sword away. The heat blinded D. "We will continue this elsewhere, until then D" Kurai Ichi disappeared into the blinding heat of the flames.
"D... I think we should be following his example and get the hell outta here!" Left hand pleaded,
D did not say anything and turned around and took the quickest way out of town and made his way back to his horse who was waiting for him with the townspeople still waiting for help to arrive for the injuries.
D's horse slowly walked toward his master and offered him to mount. D accepted and mounted the animal. "Well D the sun is up alright and it wont be long until it reached high noon, still not too late to find shelter from it" Left hand said in and almost laughing matter knowing that D would just say no.
"Hn...you don't give up do you?" D sighed and gently kicked his horse into a walk, but suddenly pulled the reins into a stop when he the noise of a group of people walk towards the waiting townspeople. D looked in the sound's direction and in the corner of his eye he swore that he saw Leila, "What the hell is she doing here?!" D said barely above a whisper.
Leila walked ahead of the others and began to search the crowd frantically.
"Is she looking for me?" D wondered and continued watching
Leila finally found who she was looking for and called out his name, "Jandel!"
The young man with long brown hair tied into a ponytail heard his name being called and recognized the voice, "Leila?" Jandel turned to face Leila and ran to embrace her, "What are you doing here! You are in no condition to be chasing vampires now!"
"I know that!" Leila tried to explain, "How did all of this happen!" Leila stepped out of Jandel's arms and looked over his shoulder to see D on his horse, "D! I had a feeling that you would be here!"
"Huh? You know him?" Jandel asked, "Why he's that dunpeal hunter right?"
"Yeah, I think the three of us should get together and talk about the situation" Leila suggested, "D?"
D did not speak, nor dismount his horse.
Author's note: Ooooo...what is this? Is there a man in Leila's life they D didn't know about? Will Jandel and D get jealous? Will a whole new competition start? Find out next chapter! Thanks for all the kind reviews!
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