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Author notes: Yes the great Diesty-chan is back! And all ready so soon! Well I know how much you people like my ficcy I thought id try and update much faster than I am! I'll catch up with you Meg, just mark my words *shakes fist at Meg* oh and when this ficcy has finished I might just do a special for all the reviewers but I ain't telling you what yet! But that's not till the end of the ficcy. So you have to wait! Call me evil if you want!! Right I'll get onto writing this up! Be ready for some angst in this chapter, just warning ya.
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Chapter 6
I had to be careful that no-one saw me tonight, especially if any of them friends of Rai's are on patrol. I couldn't afford Rai learning about me when I've just gained his trust. I walked along the busy hussling streets of this Chinese town. It was a Saturday night so the streets were full of clubbers and others. Fresh, young victims. Rai was my prey about six months ago, now he's a friend I guess.
I the saw a young red-head woman, and round glasses over her blue eyes. She looked like she was in her late teens and foreign. Definitely not Chinese, she looked American like that blonde haired guy back at the house. She looked so lost. I decided I would go help her, well help to my fangs.
"Can I help?" I asked the girl.
"Huh?" She turned round to me. "Yeah I'm trying to find Ryce Street? But I'm not very fluent in Chinese and don't understand this map?" She shoved the map at me. Ryce Street was where Rai's house was located. But I shrugged it off as a coincidence.
"I know where that is." I told her, well it was the truth.
She looked a little hesitant
"Come on, do you wanna find it cause I have better things to do." I said sternly.
"Um, okay." She agreed. I walked ahead of her with a smirk curled on my lips. Ryce Street was in the other direction.
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"Rai you coming with us?" Max asked me.
I was watching TV. I looked up at the blonde. "Where are you going?"
"My girlfriend arrives today, remember?" He told me with a big smile on his face.
"Emily, isn't it?" I remembered, from the last time she was here.
"Yeah are you coming?" He asked, wanting to start heading off.
"Why not." I smiled, getting up turning the TV off and slipping my trainers on.
"Cool!" Max dashed out the room to the hall, where I presume Tyson and Kenny where waiting.
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"Are you sure this is way?" The red-head asked me.
"No it's not." I spun round to her, my eyes wanting blood and I revealed my fangs.
"Ah!" She gasped, putting her hand over her mouth, she stepped back a bit but it was clearly seen that fear had taken over her body.
"It's just your bad luck to trust a vampire to show you around." I sneered at the girl. I could smell her fear, which smelt so good. I loved the smell of fear on humans. She turned to run but I grabbed her arm and pulled her back and I then bit into her neck. I covered her mouth with my other hand. She put her hands on my arm trying to pry me loose. I could feel her going weak as I dragged her into the shadows of the alley, so no-one would see or hear us. The red substance from her body washed around my mouth as I drank her blood. I was very hungry and this girl was what I needed to suffice my need. I felt her going weak and her blood slowed down, and soon there was hardly any. The girl exhaled her last breathe, whispering. "Max…" And then she was dead. I let her fall to the floor.
Max? Isn't he that blonde that lives with Rai and that pathetic loud mouth and computer whiz? I licked my fangs clean of her blood and they retracted to their normal size. I crouched down and saw a letter crumpled up in her hand. I ripped it out of her hand. I was right; it was Max, the blonde I shared the house with. The letter was from him, the address of the house was scribbled on the top. I also learnt from this letter that she was his girlfriend and came over to see him from America. I had killed Max's girlfriend just like Rai's. I had a knack for killing these guys girlfriends. Well I had to get Mariah out the way.
"Kai?" I heard a familiar voice say behind me.
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"Where is she?" I looked around for my American girlfriend.
"Well she's not in the train station, Maxie." Tyson and Kenny came rushing out from the station.
This was frustrating I told her to wait here when she arrived if I wasn't here and now she wasn't here. I continued to search for her face in the night life's crowd. I was worried since vampires could be any where and she wouldn't know. She didn't know about vampires and had no idea I was in a gang of slayers.
"Maybe she's further ahead?" Rai suggested.
"Maybe…" I said not too sure, still surveying the passing faces.
"Come on Max. It's worth checking out." Kenny agreed.
I looked at Tyson, he also agreed. "Yeah she might be back there."
"Okay then." I agreed with them and we started walking up the street.
"Hey is that Kai?" Rai said looking at some shadows ahead, suddenly stopping.
"I can't see anything Tyson." Tyson squinted to see. I too couldn't see anything either, but then Rai did have superb eyesight and hearing. We carried on walking and as Rai predicted we saw a figure crouched down in the shadows. As we got nearer I could see another figure lying on the ground. My eyes became wide as I realised it was a girl. I started running over to Kai, the others following me.
"Kai?" I asked, more interested in the female form lying on the ground, though I couldn't see her properly.
"Huh?" He turned around and I then saw red hair like Emily's. I then saw round glasses lay on the ground next to the body. It was Emily!
"Oh my God, Emily!" I shoved Kai out of the way and crashed down next to Emily's small frame and scooped her up in my arms. The tears fell when I couldn't feel a pulse or hear a heart beat. She was dead. I hugged her close to me and through tears I looked at Kai. "What happened?"
He stood up, brushing himself off. His eyes and voice emotionless like always. "I just got here too."
"You didn't see what happened?" I said in shrilly voice.
"No, I'm sorry." He didn't sound like he meant it and he turned his gaze to Rai.
My tears took over all my body as I wept on her body. I'm so sorry Emily that I wasn't here to protect you.
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I watched Max weep on his girlfriend. It brought back memories of when I found Mariah and it was reducing me to tears. I turned away so the others wouldn't notice. This was all too much and I knew the pain Max was going through right now. It was torture, to see the one you loved murdered by vampires. I tried to stifle back the tears so no-one would notice.
"Quick Kenny call an ambulance!" I heard Tyson telling Kenny.
"It's too late." I heard Kai tell the brown haired teen, in his usual emotionless voice.
"Don't listen to him, ring them Chief." Tyson ignored what Kai said. A few minutes later I heard Kenny ask for ambulance to hurry up. I knew it was pointless, Kai was right. Vampires never left there prey alive. I heard the other two then fuss over Max about Emily. I was fussed by some-one I didn't expect.
"Rai are you okay?" Kai asked me, standing behind me.
"I'll be fine." I told him, not turning around, but I guessed he could hear the upset in my voice and the soft shake of my shoulders, cause he carried on.
"You don't sound it." Was Kai showing care? This wasn't normal for him.
I turned round, he saw my tears. "You know what Kai, you're right! I'm not and I can't stay here either. Sorry!" I snapped at the Russian accidentally. His slate eyebrows frowned at me, for snapping at him. But right then I didn't care I had to get away from here. I then bolted from the scene, abandoning my friends, especially when Max needed me the most, but I had to get away. I was running straight into the ambulance that was for Emily, but I quickly jumped on the roof and ran along the roof of it jumping down again. I didn't even think about it, I just did it. I ran home fleeing from the scene of pain.
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"Where's Rai gone?" Tyson asked me as he and Kenny tried to calm down Max. We all watched Rai run away, jumping onto the ambulance. That was what shocked me. I didn't know Rai could do that.
"I dunno, I'll go find him." I told the Japanese boy. I then ran after Rai.
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I watched that Kai guy run after Rai. Why did Rai run away? Max needed him too! I just don't understand it? Unless this brought back memories of when he found Mariah? Well we find out later. The ambulance then came to halt and two paramedics jumped out. They ran over to Max who was cradling his dead girlfriend. But then again they would only tell us what Kai said and what we already knew. Vampires had got Emily and there was no chance of survival.
"Lad, we need to see her?" A male paramedic told Max.
"No!" Max hugged her tighter to him, resisting to letting the paramedics in.
"Please, son?" The other asked. I'd never seen him like this before. I didn't know him when his parents were killed by vampires. He was worse than Rai, when Rai lost Mariah.
"She's already dead!" He shouted.
"Well let us just check to make sure at least?" Max let them check her pulse but they only confirmed what we already knew.
The paramedic looked sad. "There's no pulse, she's already gone." He told his colleague. This set Max off into more tears as he hugged Emily's limp frame.
"What's his name?" One of them asked me.
"It's Max, and she's Emily." I told him.
"Max, we need to take Emily away now, we need to see what she died from?" The paramedic said to my blonde crying friend.
"NO! NO! I know what killed her! Vampires!" Max blurted out.
Both paramedics looked a little shocked. Obviously they didn't think vampires were real. I'm sure they would have seen loads of cases like this, but not taken into consideration what could do that sort of damage. The paramedic looked at me for some help. Max needed to let go of Emily and let them examine her.
"Maxie? Come on they need to take Emily with them, you know that?" I said softly to the teen, placing my hands on his shoulders.
"No, Tyson! I don't wanna let her go!" Max cried.
"Max, you have to, she's dead! There's nothing we can do for her. And nothing you can do either!" I placed my arms around his waist and I started to pull him up. He came up with Emily still draped his arms.
"NO!" He repeated as the paramedics started to take Emily from his arms. He got even worse.
"Come on Maxie?"
"No! Emily!" Max hugged the red-head one more time before the paramedics were able to take her away. Max cried out even more, I felt for him.
"No Emily!" He wanted to run and get her but I grabbed him, holding him back.
"Let me go Tyson!" He spat at me, struggling to break free.
"No Max, you have to let her go!" I continued to hold him back.
Max then stopped struggling to get loose and crashed to the ground, bringing me with him. I landed on my knees with Max crying on my chest. I wasn't sure what to do, so I let him cry on me, letting it all out. The ambulance drove away and all me and Kenny could do was watch and try and comfort our friend the best we could in this situation.
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"Rai can I come in?" I knocked on the Chinese guy's door back at the house. Man, Rai could run, but then I was good at catching up. Rai had gone straight to his room. I waited outside for his answer. I wasn't invited into his room yet, so I couldn't just walk in. I heard movement inside and then the door opened, he left it opened. I still couldn't go in. I just waited at the door.
He looked up. "You can come in?" He said, wondering why I didn't come in straight away.
"Thanks." I walked in. He was looking at the pictures on the wall, of his family and friends.
He turned his head and looked at me. "This is my family." He said, looking back at the photo. I walked over to the photo and looked at it, as if I hadn't before.
"This is my family." He said. "I had a little sister. Her name was Maaya. She was four years younger than me, and she always looked up to me." A small smile played on his lips. My guess was he remembering a memory, it soon faded though. "But then one day my parents and Maaya never returned home after picking her from ballet. A few hours later the police came round and told there had been accident. My parents and Maaya had died in a car crash. They didn't even have a chance I was told. I was eleven then and my sister was eight. EIGHT! She was too young to die!" His voice was full of anger and sorrow, he then continued after pausing. "After that Lee's family took me in and it was then I met Mariah. She had been friends with Lee since they were kids, a family friend relationship, I think. But the one night our village was attacked by vampires. Mariah, myself, Lee, Kevin and Gary escaped with our lives but not many did. By that time me and Mariah were a couple and I was fourteen then. Two years later Mariah learned that she had been chosen to be the Vampire Slayer. So we all decided to help her. Then a year later and Diesty turned up and……you know the rest." He walked over to his bed and sat down. Looking at his hands. "I've lost everything in the past ten years. My family. My friends. Then when Max lost Emily tonight it just reminded me of everything. I know how Max feels, I felt it and still do feel it." He looked into my red eyes. "Max is like me now."
"No! No! You haven't lost everything Rai. You have your friends and that counts." He made me feel awful. I had caused most the pain in his life at Diesty's side. But vampires never felt regret, but I did. And now I had caused pain in Max's life too.
"And how long is it till I lose them?" He said sadly.
"You are not going to lose them!" I leant against the wall, folding my arms. "Now stop feeling sorry for yourself. She was dead when I found her. There was nothing we could do to save her!" I was being cold again, but I had to be the voice of reason around here. Rai had to stop feeling sorry for himself.
"I'll be downstairs, if you need me." I then moved away from the wall and left the kitten to himself. There's no point feeling sorry for yourself, it doesn't change anything. I looked at his closed door; you need to move on Rai. I then carried on downstairs. And so does Max.
And there I will leave it with Kai. Again I apolize for another short chapter, but this will roughly be how long they will be from now on unless you want them longer? Tell me if you do! I hope Kai wasn't too outta character in this chappie! Man sometimes it's hard trying to keep them in character, just like Vegeta! Except he's worse. I hope you liked the slaughter of Emily. Originally it was going to be Max's mother, but then I realised I had already killed her off! There will also be other characters making an appearance, such as Tala! He will be in for a short while. But that's not until a few chappies. If there's any others you would like me to throw in with mix, please don't hesitate to tell me. I will see what I can do! Well that's it for now folks. I need to go and write the rest up oh and if any of you would like to see a picky of Rai's family, I'll try my best. Till chapter 7! Nearly catching up Meg! Nearly!! :P
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