Death: Hello, this is chapter two. Obviously.
Yuki: Hello!
Death: Damn, knew you would come sooner or later.
Yuki: WOW! NIGHTWALKER STORY!!!!
Death: Yes, a Nightwalker story, how very astute of you.
Yuki: A-stute? What's that mean?
Death: Never mind, any way, no I don't own Nightwalker, I wish I did but I don't. Also, I-
Yuki: Need reviews?
Death: Yes, but that's not what I was-
Yuki: Going to say?
Death: Stop-
Yuki: That!
Death: GRRRR! Ja-
Yuki: Ne! Wait! Hey why did you! You tricked-
**Chapter 2**
**First Night**
Riho's head hurt, and badly at that. Something was terribly wrong but she couldn't seem to think of what. She didn't remember when she had fallen asleep, as a matter of fact, she couldn't remember why she had gone to sleep, nor of where.
She thought for a moment, she remembered going out to look for Miro, then the sun had set. . . Suddenly her mind clicked where it was supposed too. Vampire, she had been bitten by a gorgeous vampire then had blacked out.
Her eyes shot open to find herself starring at some kind of black roof, or lid. Where was this? Movement to her right alerted her to the fact that she was not alone.
She snapped her head forcefully to the right and found herself starring into amused golden-yellow eyes. She just stared at him for a second, about ready to scream when he moved. Gently, probably too gently he moved his hand to her face and pushed some of her long hair behind her ear.
"Good evening." He said cool and smoothly.
Riho didn't say anything. Just kept looking at him confused. That's when she noticed she was only wearing her undergarments, and her hair was down. Sure her underclothes covered most of her up, including her stomach, but it was still inappropriate!
Opening her mouth to scream, Riho took a deep breath but was cut short.
"Don't bother too scream." The man said sternly. When Riho shut her mouth he continued, "I am Shido, current lord of this castle in the absence of Cain. Who are you, prey tell?"
"R-Riho," She answered shakily, "why am I here? And how come I'm wearing my underclothes?"
"You are here because had I left you where you were the sun surely would have burned your skin off. You are wearing your underclothes because it would be uncomfortable to sleep in your dress." He answered coolly. "You are a vampire now. Do you understand that?"
"Why?"
"It was your choice not mine." He answered laying back, "You easily could have just died, you chose to live and this is the result."
Riho tried to sit up but bumped her already throbbing head on the lid. "Ouch. . . " she moaned.
Shido smiled fighting a laugh. His prediction was already being proven this Riho girl was much more interesting than the rest of the dead beats here. "You should be careful you know." As he said that he reached up and pushed the lid on his coffin open.
Riho shivered as she sat up completely. She had slept in a coffin? She looked at Shido who had also gotten up and her eyes bugged. "Y-you-"
"I what?"
"D-don't don't"
"Don't what?" Shido asked sounding strangely impatient.
"Don't have any clothes on!" Riho burst out blushing and closing her eyes.
Shido blinked and then looked himself over, "Well that's a true statement. Why would I wear clothes to sleep in? They're uncomfortable."
"Since when did a vampire worry about comfort while they slept?" Riho didn't open her eyes but did search around for some way to push up and get out.
Shido shrugged, "I don't know why, we just do." With that he jumped out of the coffin. "You can open your eyes now." He said plainly.
At first she was hesitant but she did in fact open her eyes. "Wow, you move fast." And he did, his clothes were all on in only a matter of seconds.
"It is something I've gotten used to over time." His face took on a serious expression. "Come, tonight will be your first night hunting."
"H-hunting? No way!" There was no way Riho was prepared too take another's life. She couldn't, it seemed so wrong too kill someone for the satisfaction of hunger. . .
Shido sighed, "I was afraid you would say that. If you will not hunt tonight then come with me, I've something too show you."
"Like what?" Riho said sounding demanding.
"Just come with me for now, I'll explain when we get there." He started walking towards the door to the room. "You'll find some clothes in a dresser over to your left."
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Riho followed him wordlessly. She didn't know where they were going, but she had a feeling that she didn't want to know, either that or it would make her world come down upon her. She couldn't believe fully that she was a vampire, part of her mind was in complete denial.
He was leading silently, only adding to her suspicions. Her hair swung on her back carelessly as she glided down the nearly completely dark hallway. Her blue eyes now shining with curiosity and immortality darted from side to side looking for anything interesting.
The walls were lined with fine red and black silk curtains. Between the curtains were portraits of people, all of which were vampires from what she could gather of them. Then again it was so dark in the hallway she could easily have mistaken their appearance.
Shido glanced over his shoulder. She was a curious one, a good thing in his book. She seemed intrigued by the portraits. They were of the vampires in his castle, the ones that were covered in black had left, and that same material covered Cain's picture.
The ones covered in red, however, were the ones who had been slain. If they had a symbol sewn on them, they had been avenged, if not then they were being avenged. Luckily, most of them had been avenged already, but there was one portrait, covered in pink instead of red, that one had not been avenged, and she would never be, because of him.
Shido mentally shook himself. He didn't need to dwell on the past right now, he had the rest of eternity to do that, besides, he couldn't really remember who the girl was, but she WAS someone from his past, a past that he would probably never remember.
No, he had more important things to take care of now. He started up a set of steps, he hadn't shown anyone this place, not even Cain. This place was special to him for what reason, he didn't know, but unlike the rest of the vampires in this place, he felt that this Riho might actually appreciate his little hide away.
He began down another hall, passing over an open door as though it were nothing.
Riho didn't pass this door however. She looked in curios as to what was in there.
What she saw didn't make her feel any better, however. Inside were five male vampires, and one human girl. She was dead, five puncture wounds were they had drained her, probably dry. The five of them were sitting around her dead form laughing at some joke with small trickles of blood running down each of their cheeks.
Shido noticed that she had stopped and went back to see what was the matter, she was looking into one of the rooms. A look of disgust on her face.
He went back and looked into the room, to be honest, that was happening in many rooms around the castle. What surprised him though, was not what was in the room itself, but the look on Riho's face, most women wouldn't be disgusted, they would be horrified, she didn't seem to be horrified in the least way.
"Come," Shido whispered into her ear, "forget this for now." She looked at him, her eyes still blue as humans, with slight anger burning in them.
He turned wordlessly and began walking ahead again, leading her to where it was he still planned on going to. He felt her presence behind him as she too began walking.
What neither of them caught, however, was the oldest vampire from the group of five had looked over and had seen Riho. His eyes had narrowed for a moment before he became emerged in the conversation again.
Riho didn't like this way of life that was the first time she had actually SEEN vampires feeding, well, aside from last night when she was part of the action. The wrong part though.
Could she actually do this? Live this way, feeding on blood? She shivered, that didn't seem all that pleasant, for now she would avoid feeding if at all possible. Hell, she was a vampire, she wasn't going to die that easily now.
The hallway they were in started to become steep, like a hill, at the end were spiral stairs that went strait up. After going up once she thought they would go up them, but Shido went down.
"No one knows of this place," he told her, "and if they find it they don't know that it's special." He told her casually.
He started down another hall, but didn't go down all the way, another set of spiral stairs was hidden behind a curtain, he went up them and motioned for her too follow.
She did, though she couldn't understand why he would hide anything so well. Why not let the others see this place? Why let her see this place if he wouldn't let anyone else? Was it that strange, or was he trying to convince her she should accept her new vampire blood and need to feed on humans?
The stairs went up for a long while, then stopped at another hall, this one seemed not to have been cleaned in a very long time. At the very back part of the hallway there was a pink curtain, just there, Riho found herself feeling really curios and wondered what was behind that particular curtain, was that where they were going?
But Shido walked into a door, a room full of weapons, a fighting arena of sorts. The floor was without carpet and completely gray, like the rest of the walls in this place.
Shido pushed a wall and revealed yet another set of steps. This place must really be special to him, Riho decided, or else he wouldn't have taken so much trouble to keep it secret.
Finally at the top there were four stone walls surrounding them. Riho looked uncertain, there wasn't room here hardly for both of them to stand, had he taken a wrong turn or something? But he had seemed so sure about where they were going, it didn't make much sense.
Shido removed the doubt from her mind when he pushed on one of the walls revealing the fact that it was actually a door of sorts.
The midnight air hit her like a tun of bricks. This place led to the outside?
Shido stepped forward and turned to motion for her to follow him again. "This place is very special to me, I come here quit often."
Riho stepped forward, she didn't see why it was really all that special right now, it appeared to simply be the roof. She could see a tower of two on each side of the caste, but other than that she could only see the back, and sides.
It looked like an open top box all around it was surrounded by wall, except for directly above, and in front of them.
"Look over the side." Shido directed. "You need to know this."
Riho looked over the edge, she could see the village, everyone was inside from what she could tell, no light was coming form inside, and all candles were out.
"This is the kingdom of the night creatures, a place you are now a part of." He stepped right next to her, looking out rather than looking at her. "The people of that village are no different than any other village."
Riho turned her head to look at him. His voice was different than it had been earlier, he seemed slightly sad.
"Humans, are like to us as this castle is to their village." He looked at Riho, she didn't seem to get the comparison, "This castle rest above their heads, eternal in it's surroundings, part of the ever changing times but still separate from everything, unchanging. The human village will grow, change, build and one day is destroyed. Vampires aren't so different from this castle, humans, their village."
Riho broke their eye contact and looked out over the slumbering village below. What Shido was saying made perfect sense. So much so that she was completely confused. "How can you, can WE accept such a fate?"
Shido looked strait forward, " I don't really know, I suppose we never really do. As humans we want to be eternal, most humans can't live with the very knowledge that they will one-day die. But when we become vampires we only wish for the peaceful and blissfully short lives of humans. Even if you don't know it yet, you will soon."
"How old are you, really?" Riho asked turning her head to look at him again.
"I-I don't know really. But I've been a vampire well over a hundred years." He answered with an even deeper sadness.
'He doesn't know? How can he not know?' she wondered. 'Will I too, forget how old I am?'
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Death: And so ends chapter two. By the way, there will be another reason that Shido likes that spot, but that won't be for a few more chapters.
Yuki: But I wanna know NOW!!!!
Death: Stop your whining.
Yuki: Your so mean to me!
Death: You're my cousin, I'm allowed.
Yuki: BAD DOG!
Death: Grrr. Shut up neko!
Yuki: By the way, Death is really a dog half demon!
Death: Say half demon again and I'll KILL YOU!!!
Yuki: Half demon, half demon, Death is a half demon, la la la!
Death: That's it, you die now! Ja Ne everyone, and don't forget to review.
Yuki: Hello!
Death: Damn, knew you would come sooner or later.
Yuki: WOW! NIGHTWALKER STORY!!!!
Death: Yes, a Nightwalker story, how very astute of you.
Yuki: A-stute? What's that mean?
Death: Never mind, any way, no I don't own Nightwalker, I wish I did but I don't. Also, I-
Yuki: Need reviews?
Death: Yes, but that's not what I was-
Yuki: Going to say?
Death: Stop-
Yuki: That!
Death: GRRRR! Ja-
Yuki: Ne! Wait! Hey why did you! You tricked-
**Chapter 2**
**First Night**
Riho's head hurt, and badly at that. Something was terribly wrong but she couldn't seem to think of what. She didn't remember when she had fallen asleep, as a matter of fact, she couldn't remember why she had gone to sleep, nor of where.
She thought for a moment, she remembered going out to look for Miro, then the sun had set. . . Suddenly her mind clicked where it was supposed too. Vampire, she had been bitten by a gorgeous vampire then had blacked out.
Her eyes shot open to find herself starring at some kind of black roof, or lid. Where was this? Movement to her right alerted her to the fact that she was not alone.
She snapped her head forcefully to the right and found herself starring into amused golden-yellow eyes. She just stared at him for a second, about ready to scream when he moved. Gently, probably too gently he moved his hand to her face and pushed some of her long hair behind her ear.
"Good evening." He said cool and smoothly.
Riho didn't say anything. Just kept looking at him confused. That's when she noticed she was only wearing her undergarments, and her hair was down. Sure her underclothes covered most of her up, including her stomach, but it was still inappropriate!
Opening her mouth to scream, Riho took a deep breath but was cut short.
"Don't bother too scream." The man said sternly. When Riho shut her mouth he continued, "I am Shido, current lord of this castle in the absence of Cain. Who are you, prey tell?"
"R-Riho," She answered shakily, "why am I here? And how come I'm wearing my underclothes?"
"You are here because had I left you where you were the sun surely would have burned your skin off. You are wearing your underclothes because it would be uncomfortable to sleep in your dress." He answered coolly. "You are a vampire now. Do you understand that?"
"Why?"
"It was your choice not mine." He answered laying back, "You easily could have just died, you chose to live and this is the result."
Riho tried to sit up but bumped her already throbbing head on the lid. "Ouch. . . " she moaned.
Shido smiled fighting a laugh. His prediction was already being proven this Riho girl was much more interesting than the rest of the dead beats here. "You should be careful you know." As he said that he reached up and pushed the lid on his coffin open.
Riho shivered as she sat up completely. She had slept in a coffin? She looked at Shido who had also gotten up and her eyes bugged. "Y-you-"
"I what?"
"D-don't don't"
"Don't what?" Shido asked sounding strangely impatient.
"Don't have any clothes on!" Riho burst out blushing and closing her eyes.
Shido blinked and then looked himself over, "Well that's a true statement. Why would I wear clothes to sleep in? They're uncomfortable."
"Since when did a vampire worry about comfort while they slept?" Riho didn't open her eyes but did search around for some way to push up and get out.
Shido shrugged, "I don't know why, we just do." With that he jumped out of the coffin. "You can open your eyes now." He said plainly.
At first she was hesitant but she did in fact open her eyes. "Wow, you move fast." And he did, his clothes were all on in only a matter of seconds.
"It is something I've gotten used to over time." His face took on a serious expression. "Come, tonight will be your first night hunting."
"H-hunting? No way!" There was no way Riho was prepared too take another's life. She couldn't, it seemed so wrong too kill someone for the satisfaction of hunger. . .
Shido sighed, "I was afraid you would say that. If you will not hunt tonight then come with me, I've something too show you."
"Like what?" Riho said sounding demanding.
"Just come with me for now, I'll explain when we get there." He started walking towards the door to the room. "You'll find some clothes in a dresser over to your left."
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Riho followed him wordlessly. She didn't know where they were going, but she had a feeling that she didn't want to know, either that or it would make her world come down upon her. She couldn't believe fully that she was a vampire, part of her mind was in complete denial.
He was leading silently, only adding to her suspicions. Her hair swung on her back carelessly as she glided down the nearly completely dark hallway. Her blue eyes now shining with curiosity and immortality darted from side to side looking for anything interesting.
The walls were lined with fine red and black silk curtains. Between the curtains were portraits of people, all of which were vampires from what she could gather of them. Then again it was so dark in the hallway she could easily have mistaken their appearance.
Shido glanced over his shoulder. She was a curious one, a good thing in his book. She seemed intrigued by the portraits. They were of the vampires in his castle, the ones that were covered in black had left, and that same material covered Cain's picture.
The ones covered in red, however, were the ones who had been slain. If they had a symbol sewn on them, they had been avenged, if not then they were being avenged. Luckily, most of them had been avenged already, but there was one portrait, covered in pink instead of red, that one had not been avenged, and she would never be, because of him.
Shido mentally shook himself. He didn't need to dwell on the past right now, he had the rest of eternity to do that, besides, he couldn't really remember who the girl was, but she WAS someone from his past, a past that he would probably never remember.
No, he had more important things to take care of now. He started up a set of steps, he hadn't shown anyone this place, not even Cain. This place was special to him for what reason, he didn't know, but unlike the rest of the vampires in this place, he felt that this Riho might actually appreciate his little hide away.
He began down another hall, passing over an open door as though it were nothing.
Riho didn't pass this door however. She looked in curios as to what was in there.
What she saw didn't make her feel any better, however. Inside were five male vampires, and one human girl. She was dead, five puncture wounds were they had drained her, probably dry. The five of them were sitting around her dead form laughing at some joke with small trickles of blood running down each of their cheeks.
Shido noticed that she had stopped and went back to see what was the matter, she was looking into one of the rooms. A look of disgust on her face.
He went back and looked into the room, to be honest, that was happening in many rooms around the castle. What surprised him though, was not what was in the room itself, but the look on Riho's face, most women wouldn't be disgusted, they would be horrified, she didn't seem to be horrified in the least way.
"Come," Shido whispered into her ear, "forget this for now." She looked at him, her eyes still blue as humans, with slight anger burning in them.
He turned wordlessly and began walking ahead again, leading her to where it was he still planned on going to. He felt her presence behind him as she too began walking.
What neither of them caught, however, was the oldest vampire from the group of five had looked over and had seen Riho. His eyes had narrowed for a moment before he became emerged in the conversation again.
Riho didn't like this way of life that was the first time she had actually SEEN vampires feeding, well, aside from last night when she was part of the action. The wrong part though.
Could she actually do this? Live this way, feeding on blood? She shivered, that didn't seem all that pleasant, for now she would avoid feeding if at all possible. Hell, she was a vampire, she wasn't going to die that easily now.
The hallway they were in started to become steep, like a hill, at the end were spiral stairs that went strait up. After going up once she thought they would go up them, but Shido went down.
"No one knows of this place," he told her, "and if they find it they don't know that it's special." He told her casually.
He started down another hall, but didn't go down all the way, another set of spiral stairs was hidden behind a curtain, he went up them and motioned for her too follow.
She did, though she couldn't understand why he would hide anything so well. Why not let the others see this place? Why let her see this place if he wouldn't let anyone else? Was it that strange, or was he trying to convince her she should accept her new vampire blood and need to feed on humans?
The stairs went up for a long while, then stopped at another hall, this one seemed not to have been cleaned in a very long time. At the very back part of the hallway there was a pink curtain, just there, Riho found herself feeling really curios and wondered what was behind that particular curtain, was that where they were going?
But Shido walked into a door, a room full of weapons, a fighting arena of sorts. The floor was without carpet and completely gray, like the rest of the walls in this place.
Shido pushed a wall and revealed yet another set of steps. This place must really be special to him, Riho decided, or else he wouldn't have taken so much trouble to keep it secret.
Finally at the top there were four stone walls surrounding them. Riho looked uncertain, there wasn't room here hardly for both of them to stand, had he taken a wrong turn or something? But he had seemed so sure about where they were going, it didn't make much sense.
Shido removed the doubt from her mind when he pushed on one of the walls revealing the fact that it was actually a door of sorts.
The midnight air hit her like a tun of bricks. This place led to the outside?
Shido stepped forward and turned to motion for her to follow him again. "This place is very special to me, I come here quit often."
Riho stepped forward, she didn't see why it was really all that special right now, it appeared to simply be the roof. She could see a tower of two on each side of the caste, but other than that she could only see the back, and sides.
It looked like an open top box all around it was surrounded by wall, except for directly above, and in front of them.
"Look over the side." Shido directed. "You need to know this."
Riho looked over the edge, she could see the village, everyone was inside from what she could tell, no light was coming form inside, and all candles were out.
"This is the kingdom of the night creatures, a place you are now a part of." He stepped right next to her, looking out rather than looking at her. "The people of that village are no different than any other village."
Riho turned her head to look at him. His voice was different than it had been earlier, he seemed slightly sad.
"Humans, are like to us as this castle is to their village." He looked at Riho, she didn't seem to get the comparison, "This castle rest above their heads, eternal in it's surroundings, part of the ever changing times but still separate from everything, unchanging. The human village will grow, change, build and one day is destroyed. Vampires aren't so different from this castle, humans, their village."
Riho broke their eye contact and looked out over the slumbering village below. What Shido was saying made perfect sense. So much so that she was completely confused. "How can you, can WE accept such a fate?"
Shido looked strait forward, " I don't really know, I suppose we never really do. As humans we want to be eternal, most humans can't live with the very knowledge that they will one-day die. But when we become vampires we only wish for the peaceful and blissfully short lives of humans. Even if you don't know it yet, you will soon."
"How old are you, really?" Riho asked turning her head to look at him again.
"I-I don't know really. But I've been a vampire well over a hundred years." He answered with an even deeper sadness.
'He doesn't know? How can he not know?' she wondered. 'Will I too, forget how old I am?'
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Death: And so ends chapter two. By the way, there will be another reason that Shido likes that spot, but that won't be for a few more chapters.
Yuki: But I wanna know NOW!!!!
Death: Stop your whining.
Yuki: Your so mean to me!
Death: You're my cousin, I'm allowed.
Yuki: BAD DOG!
Death: Grrr. Shut up neko!
Yuki: By the way, Death is really a dog half demon!
Death: Say half demon again and I'll KILL YOU!!!
Yuki: Half demon, half demon, Death is a half demon, la la la!
Death: That's it, you die now! Ja Ne everyone, and don't forget to review.