Chapter 4
So far, their journey had been very much easy; nothing attacked except for the bad weather.
As it grew dark and the sky cleared into a beautiful star-filled night, Rina skidded her motor vehicle into clearing at the side of the road, switched off the motor and stretched her tired limbs.
"What are you doing?" D asks, halting his horse.
"Well, I need to rest. We mere mortals cannot journey all night and day like you intend D." She says as she swings her leg over and stands up from her bike.
"I'll start a fire, you get food ready!" the woman says, beginning her search for dried timber.
"Heh, don't worry D." His amused left hand tells him.
"Inevitably, all men will be ordered around by a woman."
Soon, the warm and comforting smell of hot drink and a roasting lump of meat rise from their little camp.
D, sitting in silence as usual and Rina...talking to D's left hand.
"It really must be tough on you Lefty!" Rina giggles, sipping the hot liquid from her cup.
"Yes indeed! D hardly says a word, even if I talk and talk and plead and beg for at least one syllable!"
D frowns and closes his left hand, rendering the parasite gagged making Rina groan.
"Oh, come on D!"
D says nothing.
Rina huffs and takes the meat from the spit, placing it on some dried leaves she had acquired.
"Why are you so anti-social?" Rina grumbles, slicing the lump of roasted flesh in two and handing half to her fellow hunter.
"Don't tell me..." She says flatly.
"It's none of my business, is it Dumpeel.."
"Other people do not usually want to talk to 'Dhampirs'" He says correcting her.
..." He replies out of the blue. He then unclenches his left hand and Lefty gasps for air.
"HUGH! I hate it when you do that!" the parasite breathes.
"Uh? What are we talking about?"
"Well Dhampir, you don't bother me. Can't you tell by now?"
D remains silent.
"D...?"
D stands up suddenly and dips his hat to shield his eyes.
"Thank you." He says before making a quick scout round their camp.
Many hours had passed, mostly in silence as Rina had fallen asleep and D as busy 'keeping watch' over the camp.
"Rina's nice..." Lefty sighs "Reminds me of that woman that helped us when we were after Meier Link..."
"Leila." D says.
"Such a long time ago..." His left-hand muses.
D makes his way back onto the road, trying to figure out their next move, kneeling down and setting his left hand onto the ground.
"Ok...let's see." Lefty mumbles to himself, trying to figure out the direction.
A long pause endures before the parasite talks again.
"...They went in the direction of the mountains...but D?"
D lifts his hand off the ground.
"D? there are people coming in our dir-"
Before he could finish D had already sheathed his blade, his eyes locked on unseen foes.
Soon hisses and glowing eyes erupt the night and finally a voice.
"Dhampir! You will regret ever pursuing our 'Mistress'!" It was a female voice.
"We will punish you!" A male voice, sounding as if it had come from a giant's throat.
"Turn heel and flee or DIE!" the final voice was also male, but delicate.
D remains silent and with one elegant leap, attacks the voices his features cool and calm.
Three voices screech at once and three vampires leap at D in reply to his attack. They dodge his blade and land on the ground.
"You will never reach our 'Mistress', our other!"
"We will protect her with our lives!"
"And you will feel our wrath!"
Ignoring their cries, D launches at them again, swinging his blade, catching the female vampire's neck.
As her head rolls to the floor and the other two scream their rage, both tackling D at the same time.
They grab his arms, and send him crashing to the ground before everything turns black....
The rays of sunlight wake her and she gives a long yawn.
Stretching and rubbing her eyes, she gets up and kicks the smoking campfire and tidies up.
"D!" I'm packing up!"
Silence.
Rina shrugs and carries on the quick clean and packs her things before placing them on her motorbikes side bags.
She looks up at the sun, seeing that it was nearly at its zenith and gasps.
"OH crap. I've overslept...I bet that jerk has gone without me."
That though disappears when she sees his horse still at the side of the road.
Now that was strange...D not insight and his horse untouched.
She quickly climbs onto her bike and roars the motor into life, with a quick rev she speeds her bike onto the road, whistling for his horse to follow.
Soon she had found him...
"D!"
D lay screaming in pain, wrists and feet staked to the floor, his hat thrown aside.
"T-too much SUN!" he gasps, struggling once again to brake free. With one final pull, he manages to rip his left arm free of the stake and blood flicks out in all directions, his body goes limp and the only noise is the weak murmur from his left-hand.
"Three vampires attacked...one dead...the others..." Lefty coughs and splutters before continuing.
" - the others managed to tac-tackled D down...staked us to the floor...the sun, THE SUN!"
Without needing anymore explaining, Rina rushes to D's silent side and pulls out the remaining stakes and drags his body into a shaded natural cave near by. Using firstly her hands then a rock, she begins digging and digging and digging. She digs quiet a while before placing him inside the hole and replacing the cold dirt over his body...and then all she could do was wait...
"Weak..." Left-hand splutters finally wakening, D still remaining still in his makeshift grave.
"Dammit." Rina whispers urgently.
"Fine..." she then unzips her collar, baring her neck and shakes D to waken him.
" D! You need blood...wake UP!"
D's eyes flicker open, not understanding what was just said.
"D, drink my blood!" Rina says lifting him up slightly.
His eyes widen and he shakes her off, hearing her this time.
"NOOO!" he roars.
"D burying you isn't enough, you'll DIE!"
"I WILL NOT!" and tries to scramble free, his strength failing him.
"D, listen to her..."His left-hand pleads him.
"I will not drink blood...I'm not one of THEM!"
"YOU ARE!" Rina screams at him, shaking him to his senses.
"Dammit D, you have Vampire blood in your veins...and you need my blood to heal. NOW DO IT!"
Grabbing the back of his head by his hair, Rina forces him to her neck. Enraged, D bares his teeth trying to scare her away, only for them to be plunged into soft skin...
The crimson rush that follows is nothing of what he expected...so warm...ecstasy
Raising his arms from out of the dirt, he grips Rina tightly, his right hand moving to her head as he begins to feed hungrily.
Time meant nothing now, only the warm blood, Rina's essence, her life...
"D..." She whispers, her voice growing weak.
"D, you're drinking ...to much..."
In response, his arms only cling on tighter.
"D! STOP IT, LET HER GO!" Left hand screams at the Dhampir.
D was in a world of his own...images of his past flicker through his mind, images of his family, greeting him with open arms as if to say; 'Well done! Drink and be one with us!' This makes him thin clearly.
'One of you, I am not apart of your demented family...never, NEVER!'
And with strained effort, he lets Rina go, her limp body dropping in front of him.
"D, what have you done? She only meant a little...I think she's dead!"
Blood stained face turns into a look of horror, never in his life had he done such a thing...not like this.
He was now at full strength...but at what cost...
"Rina...I HAD SAID NO!" He cries.
So far, their journey had been very much easy; nothing attacked except for the bad weather.
As it grew dark and the sky cleared into a beautiful star-filled night, Rina skidded her motor vehicle into clearing at the side of the road, switched off the motor and stretched her tired limbs.
"What are you doing?" D asks, halting his horse.
"Well, I need to rest. We mere mortals cannot journey all night and day like you intend D." She says as she swings her leg over and stands up from her bike.
"I'll start a fire, you get food ready!" the woman says, beginning her search for dried timber.
"Heh, don't worry D." His amused left hand tells him.
"Inevitably, all men will be ordered around by a woman."
Soon, the warm and comforting smell of hot drink and a roasting lump of meat rise from their little camp.
D, sitting in silence as usual and Rina...talking to D's left hand.
"It really must be tough on you Lefty!" Rina giggles, sipping the hot liquid from her cup.
"Yes indeed! D hardly says a word, even if I talk and talk and plead and beg for at least one syllable!"
D frowns and closes his left hand, rendering the parasite gagged making Rina groan.
"Oh, come on D!"
D says nothing.
Rina huffs and takes the meat from the spit, placing it on some dried leaves she had acquired.
"Why are you so anti-social?" Rina grumbles, slicing the lump of roasted flesh in two and handing half to her fellow hunter.
"Don't tell me..." She says flatly.
"It's none of my business, is it Dumpeel.."
"Other people do not usually want to talk to 'Dhampirs'" He says correcting her.
..." He replies out of the blue. He then unclenches his left hand and Lefty gasps for air.
"HUGH! I hate it when you do that!" the parasite breathes.
"Uh? What are we talking about?"
"Well Dhampir, you don't bother me. Can't you tell by now?"
D remains silent.
"D...?"
D stands up suddenly and dips his hat to shield his eyes.
"Thank you." He says before making a quick scout round their camp.
Many hours had passed, mostly in silence as Rina had fallen asleep and D as busy 'keeping watch' over the camp.
"Rina's nice..." Lefty sighs "Reminds me of that woman that helped us when we were after Meier Link..."
"Leila." D says.
"Such a long time ago..." His left-hand muses.
D makes his way back onto the road, trying to figure out their next move, kneeling down and setting his left hand onto the ground.
"Ok...let's see." Lefty mumbles to himself, trying to figure out the direction.
A long pause endures before the parasite talks again.
"...They went in the direction of the mountains...but D?"
D lifts his hand off the ground.
"D? there are people coming in our dir-"
Before he could finish D had already sheathed his blade, his eyes locked on unseen foes.
Soon hisses and glowing eyes erupt the night and finally a voice.
"Dhampir! You will regret ever pursuing our 'Mistress'!" It was a female voice.
"We will punish you!" A male voice, sounding as if it had come from a giant's throat.
"Turn heel and flee or DIE!" the final voice was also male, but delicate.
D remains silent and with one elegant leap, attacks the voices his features cool and calm.
Three voices screech at once and three vampires leap at D in reply to his attack. They dodge his blade and land on the ground.
"You will never reach our 'Mistress', our other!"
"We will protect her with our lives!"
"And you will feel our wrath!"
Ignoring their cries, D launches at them again, swinging his blade, catching the female vampire's neck.
As her head rolls to the floor and the other two scream their rage, both tackling D at the same time.
They grab his arms, and send him crashing to the ground before everything turns black....
The rays of sunlight wake her and she gives a long yawn.
Stretching and rubbing her eyes, she gets up and kicks the smoking campfire and tidies up.
"D!" I'm packing up!"
Silence.
Rina shrugs and carries on the quick clean and packs her things before placing them on her motorbikes side bags.
She looks up at the sun, seeing that it was nearly at its zenith and gasps.
"OH crap. I've overslept...I bet that jerk has gone without me."
That though disappears when she sees his horse still at the side of the road.
Now that was strange...D not insight and his horse untouched.
She quickly climbs onto her bike and roars the motor into life, with a quick rev she speeds her bike onto the road, whistling for his horse to follow.
Soon she had found him...
"D!"
D lay screaming in pain, wrists and feet staked to the floor, his hat thrown aside.
"T-too much SUN!" he gasps, struggling once again to brake free. With one final pull, he manages to rip his left arm free of the stake and blood flicks out in all directions, his body goes limp and the only noise is the weak murmur from his left-hand.
"Three vampires attacked...one dead...the others..." Lefty coughs and splutters before continuing.
" - the others managed to tac-tackled D down...staked us to the floor...the sun, THE SUN!"
Without needing anymore explaining, Rina rushes to D's silent side and pulls out the remaining stakes and drags his body into a shaded natural cave near by. Using firstly her hands then a rock, she begins digging and digging and digging. She digs quiet a while before placing him inside the hole and replacing the cold dirt over his body...and then all she could do was wait...
"Weak..." Left-hand splutters finally wakening, D still remaining still in his makeshift grave.
"Dammit." Rina whispers urgently.
"Fine..." she then unzips her collar, baring her neck and shakes D to waken him.
" D! You need blood...wake UP!"
D's eyes flicker open, not understanding what was just said.
"D, drink my blood!" Rina says lifting him up slightly.
His eyes widen and he shakes her off, hearing her this time.
"NOOO!" he roars.
"D burying you isn't enough, you'll DIE!"
"I WILL NOT!" and tries to scramble free, his strength failing him.
"D, listen to her..."His left-hand pleads him.
"I will not drink blood...I'm not one of THEM!"
"YOU ARE!" Rina screams at him, shaking him to his senses.
"Dammit D, you have Vampire blood in your veins...and you need my blood to heal. NOW DO IT!"
Grabbing the back of his head by his hair, Rina forces him to her neck. Enraged, D bares his teeth trying to scare her away, only for them to be plunged into soft skin...
The crimson rush that follows is nothing of what he expected...so warm...ecstasy
Raising his arms from out of the dirt, he grips Rina tightly, his right hand moving to her head as he begins to feed hungrily.
Time meant nothing now, only the warm blood, Rina's essence, her life...
"D..." She whispers, her voice growing weak.
"D, you're drinking ...to much..."
In response, his arms only cling on tighter.
"D! STOP IT, LET HER GO!" Left hand screams at the Dhampir.
D was in a world of his own...images of his past flicker through his mind, images of his family, greeting him with open arms as if to say; 'Well done! Drink and be one with us!' This makes him thin clearly.
'One of you, I am not apart of your demented family...never, NEVER!'
And with strained effort, he lets Rina go, her limp body dropping in front of him.
"D, what have you done? She only meant a little...I think she's dead!"
Blood stained face turns into a look of horror, never in his life had he done such a thing...not like this.
He was now at full strength...but at what cost...
"Rina...I HAD SAID NO!" He cries.