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~*The Beginning*~

That night was still and cool, a few breezes here and there; just strong enough to blow my chocolate brown hair back a bit and move my black cape back ever so slightly. I had just packed up my bounty sword which I have had since I began my work almost six hundred and thirty years ago. I slid it behind my back into its sheath and I mounted my cyborg horse, with a small kick of my heels I was off through the bright night and a thousand stars. I rode quickly through the countryside, occasionally seeing travelers stop to rest. As I rode a bit further I reached the Sava River, named after the vampire who lurked around it and fed off of all travelers around a thousand years ago. As I approached the bridge I heard the sound of horses heading towards my direction, I'm sure anyone else would've made their horse getaway as fast as possible. I simply sat there on my horse and waited for the riders to reach me. I do not run from anyone and if I do its only because I am to weak to fight or too injured to fight. I sat there with my black hood over my face and my head down, I didn't bother looking to see who the riders were for I cared not really. I waited for one of them to speak and sure enough when I knew the riders were in front of me one spoke.

"Well, what do we have here?"

It was a male voice, very sensual and provocative almost. I could tell he found this amusing, I didn't know why, I found nothing about that incident funny in the least. He spoke again.

"Care to show yourself?"

I remained still, not moving. I then smirked when I realized they were vampires. It was easy to tell since I could smell the scent of blood on them…they had just fed. I could've killed them, but I don't like killing unnecessarily, besides I am half vampire and to me its just something I don't do…kill my own kind without real reason or purpose. Vampires feed out of necessity; I cannot punish them for that. To continue on my mission I spoke to them to try and bid them leave.

"Why should I show myself, it will not matter." I say still not looking up at them. One of them began to chuckle.

"On the contrary, I think it does matter. I cannot resist a mysterious lady." Said the same vampire from before.

I smirked, "Why not try for your own kind."

There was silence for a moment, "You must be a vampire…why else would you not leave when you heard us coming. Why do you still not leave?"

It was then I looked at them, but I kept my hood on, which provided a large shadow over my face. I think all I let them see were my lips.

"I find it rude to leave without excusing myself first."

The vampire who spoke to me before, I recognized him…it was Kaval, he had never committed any real crimes to humans, nor his friends, for I never fought them before…in fact I never saw any of the men he was with. They were all pale, almost blue in the moonlight, their sharp eyes gazing at me with curiosity, all except Kaval; his eyes were fixed on me as if he knew who I was. His eyes then were set on my sword strapped to my back and he smirked and flashed his white fangs at me.

"A bounty huntress…no wonder." Kaval said with a sigh, he then looked back at me with his black orbs.

"May I be on my way Kaval?" I said in a polite and formal manor. Kaval looked at me a little shocked that I knew his name. Perhaps I wasn't the girl he thought I was.

"How do you know me?"

"We've met, I guess you don't recognize me, but that is no sin. You will be seeing me again perhaps…its not like we are going anywhere." I said with a smirk, and a flash of a fang. I did that to let him now I was a vampire if not completely then partly. He looked at me in wonder and acknowledgement.

"My Lady, we will meet again. I would very much like to know who you are."

I grinned, "Only fate knows that for sure."

I then kicked my heels on my horse and I crossed the bridge leaving the dumbfounded vampire and his group behind on the other side of the bridge. I was a little irritated however because I lost a good matter of minutes over there and when D is your competition every second counts. Meeting Kaval again however was rather amusing, he is the brother of an aristocratic vampire named Meier Link…who is rumored to be in love with a human woman. I can't say I approve of such things, for the products of any love like that are Dunpeals…and in my opinion the life of a Dunpeal is no life at all.

I had decided to continue journeying in the daytime even though it is not recommended even for us Dunpeals. Although I rarely get heat syndrome, the sun will weaken me a little, but I must make up for lost time. I rode through the Brin desert all night and through the early day, I had received word that the vampire kidnappers were headed in the direction I was going. I had also heard that last night another kidnapping occurred…the culprit was unknown. I didn't worry about it for my mission was a greater case then whatever last night was.

I then reached the town of Brin…I wanted to rest my horse and myself, I needed to get out of the sun for a little while. I headed into an inn and there I stayed, but it wasn't too long till I walked out of the place two hours later and I went to retrieve my horse from the shed and I saw D there picking a horse out. I didn't make a sound when I walked through the door yet…he knew I was there somehow. He didn't look back at me…he just petted his new horse as he spoke to me.

"Seems like we have been assigned the same job."

I sighed and I walked over to my horse, which was right next to his, as I looked over at him, I saw everything I expected to see. I saw his handsome face, dark eyes, long light brown hair and the same outfit and matching hat. I never expected him to look like anything else, I changed my look a few times, but not D, not once.

"Once again we're competitors." I replied stroking my horse's mane.

He looked over at me with his eyes not moving his head, "Seems it's all we ever are."

I looked over at him and we made eye contact and once again I felt that strange connection with him again and I could tell he felt it too. Suddenly a flash came before my eyes and I saw something I didn't recognize; I saw a few vampire women tending to a woman in a bed…I couldn't see her face but she was giving birth. Another flash came to my eyes and this time I saw two babies…a boy and a girl. Another flash came and I saw a tall and incredibly handsome man walk in and hold one of the babies, he looked like he was a vampire.

It was over, I saw D in front of me again, and he looked a little uneasy from his eyes. I know he saw what I saw.

"Did…did you see that too?" I asked, looking away from him.

"Yes." He replied blankly as always.

"What was that? Who did we see? What were we seeing?" I asked, trying to have some sense made out of everything.

"You're asking the wrong person." He replied as he took his horse out of the stable, I followed behind him, with my eyes lowered.

"I guess everyone would be the wrong person then."

D then mounted his horse and so did I, "D…who…who were your parents?"

He looked at me blankly, yet I could tell he thought I was joking, but when I looked seriously at him, he knew otherwise, "My mother was a human and my father was a vampire…a very influential vampire."

I sighed, "That doesn't help much…what do you mean by influential?"

"Why do you want to know? Considering you are a Dunpeal I thought you would know. Since you don't know and you are as old as I am, then I guess you're just not meant to know." D said as he then turned his horse around and rode off. I sat there watching him ride over the sandy hill and all I could do then was think and watch and try to ignore that entire moment where I saw things that I could not explain. What I did want to do however was find out who D's father was, and I knew all I had to do was ask any vampire I knew and I'd get my straight answer.

I decided to make a little detour from my mission and stop over at the vampire home of Meier Link. He is older then I buy a many years and I know he will know who D's parents are or were. I made my way to the isolated mansion and I dismounted my horse and left it outside, I then walked up the steps and knocked on the door. Just like a typical vampire house, the doors opened themselves, I only walked in a few steps and stood in the entrance room for a minute and then Meier appeared.

"What a surprise." He said to me as he slowly approached. I held my ground and removed my hood.

"Hello Meier." I replied.

"Why are you here? I have not committed any crime against the humans…as of yet." He said with a smirk.

I shook my head; Meier was always like that…making jokes that weren't funny but more sarcastic then anything else.

"Well when that time comes Meier I won't give you a chance to know I'm behind you."

He nodded, he knew how I was and he liked it, I could tell he wouldn't have me be any other way, "So why are you here then?"

"I need to ask you some things."

"What things?"

I stopped myself before answering, I felt a bit uneasy asking Meier this, he could sense my uneasiness, "Why don't you sit with me in the sitting room and we can talk there, hm?"

I nodded, and we walked to the sitting room, as we did so I asked him a question that was related to Meier himself instead of D, "Meier?"

"Yes?"

"Is it…is it true you are in love with a human?"

He was silent after that and I asked him nothing else about the topic, as we reached the sitting room he sat in his red throne like chair and I sat in a soft cushioned royal blue chair.

"What do you want to know?"

I looked down at the floor and gained all the nerve I could to ask him what I wanted to know, "Its about D."

Meier's face grew intrigued, "What would you possibly want to know about him? Don't you know everything about him? After all the two of you have been competitors for centuries."

I looked back up at Meier, "That doesn't necessarily mean I know everything about him…its funny though…he told me the same thing."

"What thing?"

"He told me I should know."

"About him?"

"Yes…and about his parents."

Meier sighed and sat back in his chair, "Are you trying to say you do not know who his parents are?"

I felt almost stupid at that moment, "Well I know he's a Dunpeal and all but…who were his parents."

"I see…D's mother was human…she died when he was a young boy."

"Who was his father?"

Meier smirked, "Do you really mean to say you do not know who his father is?"

"If I knew I wouldn't be asking you Meier."

"I see. Well, you know of the King of the vampires?"

A huge lump began forming in my throat, "Y-Yes."

"That's D's father…didn't think you never knew that."

"Can't believe I never knew either."

Meier then looked at me curiously, "Speaking of parents…who are yours?"

My mind got cleared suddenly of all thought, what a question that was. My parents. What about them? I don't remember them at all…I don't even know who my father was.

"I know nothing of my parents…except that my mother was human and my father was a vampire."

"Isn't that the case for most Dunpeals…the mother the human…the father the vampire."

"I suppose…"

"Surely you should've figured that D's father was Lord Dracula, D's power is a dead giveaway."

I then got confused, for then how do you explain me?

"Well then Meier how would you explain me? I am D's equal practically…I am just as powerful as him."

"That is so."

"Do you know who my father is?"

Meier said nothing; he just sat there. I had the feeling he knew…and that worried me, if he did why didn't he ever say anything to me? Cause I'm a Vampire Hunter? Or because I'm a Dunpeal? No, that can't be why, for Meier and I are friends, sort of…that shouldn't matter for it never did.

"You know don't you?"

Meier looked at me with a strange glance that I could not explain, it seemed almost like regret, "Perhaps I know."

"You do know."

"I might."

"You do!" I shouted.

Meier was silent once again, we were both silent. The tension was heavy and everything was unclear.

"Please…tell me who he is." I said softly.

"I-I can't…but believe me Scarlet if I could tell you I would."

Meier was the only one who called me by my birth name, in fact not too many others know it, and the ones who do are all humans. Most of the time I go known as Scarlet the Huntress and to the ignorant humans I am known as the Scarlet Vamp, can't believe no one put two and two together and got my name…Scarlet. Amongst vampires I am known as Sky. But for some reason Meier always knew my real name.

"Why not? Should it matter if I know or not?" I asked.

"It is not the wish of your father for you to know."

"Not the—what?…why? Who is he?"

"He is a vampire that is all you need to know."

"Is he ashamed of me? Does he even know who I am Meier?"

"Yes, he knows who you are Scarlet, he may not be pleased with your profession but he knows who you are."

It was odd right then, I had come to Meier for answers about D's parents and not only did I get that but I began to want answers about my own parents. For centuries I grew to not care who they were, especially my father.

"So where is he?" I asked.

Meier sighed, "I don't know…he travels, he is never in one place."

I had had enough, Meier wasn't going to tell me the important thing which was the identity of my father. I figured that after my mission is complete I could start my own mission…which was finding out who my father is and tracking him down.

I then got up form my seat, "Thank you for your time Meier."

"Till we meet again Scarlet."

I nodded and left…I got on my horse and rode off, leaving the dark mansion behind and thinking of only me and my past. I knew I had to find out who I really am and where I really came from. Maybe D knows something? Maybe he doesn't. I have to focus on my job, but it's hard.

As I was thinking I saw up ahead a rider, as I got a better look I saw that it was D. What's going on now?