Zecklei laughed. "I'm glad you remember me! I thought that you would be dead by the time you would wake up, glad to see you made it alive my friend."

Duo scoffed. "Friend? I don't think so. And nothing personal Zecklei, but I gotta kill you. Being a vampire is great and all but I miss being human." He said as he drew his sword and stepped in front of Hilde. "And if you even put a hand on Hilde I will kill you.."

Zecklei smirked. "Ha, well if you really think your going to defeat me that easily your wrong. In case you haven't heard, I'm the most powerful vampire in the country. You will die long before you even injure me. Oh," Zecklei looked at Hilde. "Don't worry about her, she will die right after you, she looks very tasty..." Zecklei drew his sword as well, but hidden behind the sword was a dagger. Unfortunately though, Duo didn't see it.

"You will DIE ZECKLEI!!!" Duo yelled as he ran at Zecklei and began to swing his sword. However, he took a few steps back and fell to the ground once he got near him. He could feel a dagger in his side and winced. It hurt, badly. It shouldn't hurt that bad...he looked down at it and grew wide eyed.

Silver.

He could...he would die if he didn't kill Zecklei and get to a hospital soon. Zecklei looked down at him and laughed. "Foolish boy. It seems your mind is still mortal..." Zecklei began to walk over to Hilde, who was sitting on the ground, terrified. Duo looked down at the dagger again, and realized something.

Silver kills even the most powerful of vampires....

He ripped the dagger out of his side and ran at Zecklei, who was crouching next to Hilde with his hands on her shoulders and his back turned to Duo. She was struggling to get away, but she couldn't. His mouth was getting closer and closer to her neck.....Luckily though, Zecklei thought Duo was dead....

SURPRISE!!!! Duo Screamed as he plunged the dagger deeply into Zecklei's back. Zecklei let out a horribly scream, then fell to the ground, not moving. Duo looked down at him and smiled.

"Won't kill him easily huh?" He laughed as he held his hand out for Hilde. She took it and he looked down at his wound, blood still pouring from it. His vision blurred. "Lets get to a hospital Hilde, I think there's silver in this wound and I'm dead if it stays in." Hilde looked at him and frowned.

"But, if you killed Zecklei, shouldn't you not be a vampire anymore?"

Duo stopped in his tracks. "Your right..."

It was followed by a maniacal laugh. "You thought you could defeat me that easily!?" He sreamed, and lunged blindly at Hilde, who looked terrified.



"NO ZECKLEI!!! I WON'T ALLOW YOU TO KILL HER!!!" He yelled as he jumped in front of the blade before it hit Hilde pulling out his sword and slashing Zecklei, each of their swords going through the other.

They stepped back and looked at one another as Zecklei fell to the ground, dead. Duo's vision blurred badly as Hilde ran over to him. Duo looked up at her and smiled as his world was going into darkness....

"H..Hild...e...I l...lo...ve...you..." He whispered to her before he passed out.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" Hilde screamed as Duo went limp in her arms. She picked him up and dragged him to the nearest hospital, his blood leaving a trail the whole way.

'Please...let him be alright...' she thought.



She ran into the hospital and dragged Duo with her. "Please...help....him..." She said, looking up at the Demon, no human, at the counter. He looked down at her sympatheticly.

"Don't worry, we'll take good care of him....

~a few hours later~

Hilde sat in the waiting room, nervously waiting for the news. Hilde looked up as a nurse walked in.

"Mr. Maxwell will be just fine, don't worry."

Hilde smiled and sighed, relieved. "Thank god."

~End chapter nine~

WOO HOO!!! *happy dance* I finished it I finished it!!!!!! *extremely happy* I swore to you all I would finish it and I did!!! YAY!!! This Chapter is dedicated to everyone who reviewed ever. I wouldn't have been able to finish it without all of you guy's support. Thanks a whole lot. I would like to give a special thanks to Jason for the "don't you dare end this story you have fans that love you" support and also a thanks to KaT aka Mistress Shinigami for all the reviews. Also to Scanner-Cat-Scat for reviewing almost all the chapters ^.^ Hell, I want to personally thank everyone but I cant because my computer isnt working very well. Ok, well thanks so much for reading! Please review and (if by any chance) you want to say something to me my AIM is Hildechan007 and Im almost always on so drop by! ok well bai bai!!!