Death: Hello. I hope the few who are reading this are enjoying it. I am
only writing for my own and my cousin's amusement. I personally couldn't
care much for reviews it's just they make me feel. I don't know, proud of
my work, and I know most people prefer yaoi when it comes to NightWalker
stories but I don't and there being I write on the original pairings. Ja
Ne.
***Chapter 3***
***Hunt***
"No way!" Riho yelled loud enough to shake the grounds of the very palace.
"You've no choice!" Shido yelled back at her, not nearly as loud but rather stern.
"Uh-Uh! You can't make me!" Riho stormed out of the room that had become 'theirs', and off down the hall though she didn't know where too exactly.
"Riho!" he said sternly, grabbing her upper arm and turning her to face him. "You can't go on like this. You need to feed at some point in time."
"I don't want to kill someone!" her eyes were laced with tears when she said this. "I'm not going to kill someone to feed myself." Her voice had become eerily soft.
Shido sighed he wasn't going to have an easy time about this. "Riho, for now you needn't kill. But three nights without a fix and you've become unhealthy, and I have yet to feed myself."
"I won't, have to kill?" she asked, her voice filled with quiet hope.
"No, but you must feed tonight." He sighed, "Unfortunately, for the both of us, if the person we feed from isn't killed we must be clever about it. They must not see us, or know of our actions." He closed his eyes, "Meaning I'll probably have to knock them out." He sounded as though her was frustrated at the thought, and Riho picked this up. But in truth, he was pleased that he wasn't killing anyone, Cain had told him, time and time again that humans were food, to be prayed upon, but he didn't like it, no matter what they did, it seemed. WRONG to him, and that was the real cause of his frustration.
"I'm sorry, I'm just not able to take a human life." Riho said apologetically.
"It is fine for this night, but sooner or later you'll have to face it." He said softly to her, as though addressing a small child.
So they left, like that nothing said after the last thing.
Shido led the way the entire time sure that Riho didn't know much about any of this at all. Most would find taking in a vampire that had yet to drink from their first victim a burden, but Shido found that he quit enjoyed it. His theory on the girl had proven right.
"Stay here a moment, and do not run off." Shido instructed her firmly after pausing for a brief moment. When she stopped and did not say anything Shido took it as a sign of acceptance and left.
He jumped onto the roof of one of the nearby homes and then began leaping and searching for any one suitable, the first person he saw was a young man, putting some firewood up next to his home. The people in the house aside from him must have been sleeping for there were no candles lit in the interior.
He jumped down and hit the boy on the back of his head. The boy, a young adult probably about 16 did not expect nor anticipate any form of attack and when blacking out had no idea what had done that to him.
Shido looked down at the unconscious boy and suddenly felt a twinge of guilt, the boy would not be able to perform his regular duties tomorrow and his parents would probably accuse him of alcoholic overdosing or something like that. But all in all, the boy would recover and be fine.
So he picked the boy up and tossed him over his right shoulder like a sack of potatoes. He returned to the roofs and went back to Riho whom was standing in the same place he had left her looking frightful and nervous.
He landed gracefully in front of her and dropped the boy in front of her. She shrieked and took a couple of steps back with her eyes closed.
"Riho, you must know that this boy will be fine, so long as you don't indulge too much." Shido said sternly. "If you drink too much this boy will either die or become one of us, and considering his unconscious state he'll most likely die. For he won't have much mind to make a decision."
Riho looked from the boy to Shido and then back again. Her body was craving this boy but her heart was crying for him. 'I don't have to kill him.' she thought in an effort to reassure herself.
She bent down and placed the boy's head on her lap. 'God, am I really going to do this?' but she had a feeling that god was laughing at her this very moment and couldn't quit ask him anything really.
'Can I do this?' she wondered to herself. There were so many times in her life when decisions hadn't come easy for her yet this one was really hard. Take blood from another? It didn't sound so bad but the action itself was hard. Not to mention it would be admitting her fate as one of the undead.
Her body made the decision for her though. Needing fuel from this boy to sustain her. She bent her head down and found that her fangs, having been long since she had become a vampire, had managed to grow and sharpen just a bit.
She sunk her fangs into the junction between the boy's neck and shoulder and started to feed.
Her mind became nearly empty as she started and the blood in her system wasn't blood at all. It was food and energy, it was life and it was death. Blood wasn't as she had expected at all, no wonder humans could never understand why it was a vampire drank, and no wonder when her blood had been drawn she had felt as though her life's energy was going from her. Her life wasn't the only thing coming with her blood, her heart her soul, her death, everything was coming from her when that had happened.
A gentle voice spoke to her and she couldn't quit make out the words, but she pulled back to look at Shido. He seemed to have a soft expression on his face, as though he was trying to be sympathetic.
Her mind cleared a moment and she realized she had nearly gone to far. The boy was now hanging between life and death but she was sure he would be fine.
Shido noticed the change in her when she had drunk the blood of her first victim he had always known what she knew now. She was going to hate him for this and he knew, but for now she was confused and nothing more.
After they got back from hunting Riho held her stomach, she felt satisfied as far as hunger wise, but she didn't like what she had to do.
Shido placed his hand delicately on her shoulder, "Are you alright?" he asked earnestly.
Riho nodded, things were unfair in this world, and she could now see this through new eyes, eyes that had started to change from innocent blue to another color. A color she had seen the moment before her human life had ended. She felt so strange, knowing that as her eyes changed so would her soul, if she even still had one.
Her soul, did being a vampire mean she would loose it eventually? She had to know, "Shido," she asked shyly. "I have a question."
"Yes?"
"Does being a vampire mean that I will loose my soul?"
Shido was taken aback. He had not anticipated that at all. He was kind of ashamed to admit that he himself had thought on the very subject for a very long time. He still felt as though he had his soul, but how could he define having a soul? Did feelings make up a soul? Or was it something on a completely different plain of life? If life defined it, then no, neither of them had souls. But if consciousness and emotion did then, yes, but what if emotion were merely signals sent from the mind? He couldn't tell, he didn't know, he would only know if he was killed and that wasn't going to happen any time soon.
"I'm not sure." He said truthfully, "You'll have to find that out on your own," he looked into her eyes, "and you have the rest of eternity to do so."
Riho smiled at him warmly even though her face was pale and icy, the warmth in it still shown.
"Shido!" Called a happy sounding voice from down the hall, it was an elderly looking person, he seemed to be drunk or something, his body seemed barely able to stand on it's own. "Back from the hunt I presume?"
Shido turned to look at the man, "Corin. Have you been mixing blood with alcohol again?"
Corin reached them, smiling from ear to ear, "Why no! What would give you that impression?" he bent over and looked up through half closed eyes at Shido, "I mean, why would I drink alco-hic-hol?"
Shido sweat-dropped and raised one eyebrow, "It's just that, well."
"OH! And who is THIS young lady?" He said interrupting Shido and looking at Riho before grabbing both of her hands in his. "Why what a beautiful -hic- young woman!"
"Eh-heh, thanks," Riho said taking her hands out of the man's.
He grabbed her hands again, "No-no! The truth should deserve no -hic- thank you! Perhaps." suddenly his eyes seemed to become serious as he looked into her eyes strait, "We will meet later." his smile returned after that and he started to skip dizzily down the hallway away from Riho and Shido.
"Um. That was Corin, he's a bit eccentric but you'll get used to him, he's really not so bad when he isn't drinking." Shido sighed and put a hand to his head, "Even if he is one of the most perverted vampires of all."
"You're one to talk Shido!" A high pitched voice said from seemingly no where.
"Guni. What do you want?" it was Guni, the annoying little demon that hung around once in a while, sometimes she would be gone for a long time and sometimes he couldn't get her away with a stick. Lately she'd been sticking closer and parting less often.
"I heard there was a new vampire girl and came to investigate!" she said now flying before his face with her hands on her hips.
"Why would you need to investigate that? There are new vampires every day." Shido said sweat dropping.
"Like I said YOU'RE one to talk about being a pervert! Who is this new girl?" she asked impatiently.
"See for yourself she is right behind me." He said pointing his thumb behind his back at Riho.
Guni flew in front of Riho's face. "Why is she so young?" she looked her up and then down then back again. "You made her a vampire when she was so young?"
"I didn't think she would choose that for one Guni." Shido said, "And she's not so young really."
"Hello! I'm standing right here!" Riho yelled at Guni who was blown away, literally.
Guni flew right back up again, determined to win an argument. "What a spoiled rotten brat! You're so young you don't know which way is up I bet!"
"You're so small I'm surprised you find enough air to yell! You should have been squished by now! ."
(You get the general idea, they argued. And then they argued, it went on and on and ON like that for a while!)
Shido didn't even attempt to break up the feud it would have been a useless waist of breath. He knew Guni and he knew Riho from the intake of her blood. They were both stubborn and neither would listen to him so he turned and walked down the hallway. He had something to speak to someone on.
Shido entered a hall, and looked around, there was one person in this entire house that he could look to for advice. Even if that one person did have a tendency to talk on and on forever, and even if his favorite topic was the mutilation of human bodies, he was very wise.
He opened a door, and walked into a room with many more doors in a circle. The doors all opened and different types of winds blew from them. Some cold, some warm, some soft and others strong. But one wind caught his attention, it wasn't warm or cold, strong or weak, also it had a fragrance to it. Kind of like flowers in a field after a great human battle where much blood was spilt.
He walked through that door which happened to be the one on his upper right. Last time he had come here the door had been on the left, so thus proving his theory that this room spun in a circle at some points in time.
When Shido went through the door he hoped that he wasn't wrong about this door, because if her were then he would be doomed to wander endless mazes for the rest of eternity. That's what had happened to more than one person in the past when they came seeking this man's or vampire's aged intelligence.
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Death: If you still like it review, if not then don't. I don't care either way I'm going to continue writing and posting. Ja Ne.
***Chapter 3***
***Hunt***
"No way!" Riho yelled loud enough to shake the grounds of the very palace.
"You've no choice!" Shido yelled back at her, not nearly as loud but rather stern.
"Uh-Uh! You can't make me!" Riho stormed out of the room that had become 'theirs', and off down the hall though she didn't know where too exactly.
"Riho!" he said sternly, grabbing her upper arm and turning her to face him. "You can't go on like this. You need to feed at some point in time."
"I don't want to kill someone!" her eyes were laced with tears when she said this. "I'm not going to kill someone to feed myself." Her voice had become eerily soft.
Shido sighed he wasn't going to have an easy time about this. "Riho, for now you needn't kill. But three nights without a fix and you've become unhealthy, and I have yet to feed myself."
"I won't, have to kill?" she asked, her voice filled with quiet hope.
"No, but you must feed tonight." He sighed, "Unfortunately, for the both of us, if the person we feed from isn't killed we must be clever about it. They must not see us, or know of our actions." He closed his eyes, "Meaning I'll probably have to knock them out." He sounded as though her was frustrated at the thought, and Riho picked this up. But in truth, he was pleased that he wasn't killing anyone, Cain had told him, time and time again that humans were food, to be prayed upon, but he didn't like it, no matter what they did, it seemed. WRONG to him, and that was the real cause of his frustration.
"I'm sorry, I'm just not able to take a human life." Riho said apologetically.
"It is fine for this night, but sooner or later you'll have to face it." He said softly to her, as though addressing a small child.
So they left, like that nothing said after the last thing.
Shido led the way the entire time sure that Riho didn't know much about any of this at all. Most would find taking in a vampire that had yet to drink from their first victim a burden, but Shido found that he quit enjoyed it. His theory on the girl had proven right.
"Stay here a moment, and do not run off." Shido instructed her firmly after pausing for a brief moment. When she stopped and did not say anything Shido took it as a sign of acceptance and left.
He jumped onto the roof of one of the nearby homes and then began leaping and searching for any one suitable, the first person he saw was a young man, putting some firewood up next to his home. The people in the house aside from him must have been sleeping for there were no candles lit in the interior.
He jumped down and hit the boy on the back of his head. The boy, a young adult probably about 16 did not expect nor anticipate any form of attack and when blacking out had no idea what had done that to him.
Shido looked down at the unconscious boy and suddenly felt a twinge of guilt, the boy would not be able to perform his regular duties tomorrow and his parents would probably accuse him of alcoholic overdosing or something like that. But all in all, the boy would recover and be fine.
So he picked the boy up and tossed him over his right shoulder like a sack of potatoes. He returned to the roofs and went back to Riho whom was standing in the same place he had left her looking frightful and nervous.
He landed gracefully in front of her and dropped the boy in front of her. She shrieked and took a couple of steps back with her eyes closed.
"Riho, you must know that this boy will be fine, so long as you don't indulge too much." Shido said sternly. "If you drink too much this boy will either die or become one of us, and considering his unconscious state he'll most likely die. For he won't have much mind to make a decision."
Riho looked from the boy to Shido and then back again. Her body was craving this boy but her heart was crying for him. 'I don't have to kill him.' she thought in an effort to reassure herself.
She bent down and placed the boy's head on her lap. 'God, am I really going to do this?' but she had a feeling that god was laughing at her this very moment and couldn't quit ask him anything really.
'Can I do this?' she wondered to herself. There were so many times in her life when decisions hadn't come easy for her yet this one was really hard. Take blood from another? It didn't sound so bad but the action itself was hard. Not to mention it would be admitting her fate as one of the undead.
Her body made the decision for her though. Needing fuel from this boy to sustain her. She bent her head down and found that her fangs, having been long since she had become a vampire, had managed to grow and sharpen just a bit.
She sunk her fangs into the junction between the boy's neck and shoulder and started to feed.
Her mind became nearly empty as she started and the blood in her system wasn't blood at all. It was food and energy, it was life and it was death. Blood wasn't as she had expected at all, no wonder humans could never understand why it was a vampire drank, and no wonder when her blood had been drawn she had felt as though her life's energy was going from her. Her life wasn't the only thing coming with her blood, her heart her soul, her death, everything was coming from her when that had happened.
A gentle voice spoke to her and she couldn't quit make out the words, but she pulled back to look at Shido. He seemed to have a soft expression on his face, as though he was trying to be sympathetic.
Her mind cleared a moment and she realized she had nearly gone to far. The boy was now hanging between life and death but she was sure he would be fine.
Shido noticed the change in her when she had drunk the blood of her first victim he had always known what she knew now. She was going to hate him for this and he knew, but for now she was confused and nothing more.
After they got back from hunting Riho held her stomach, she felt satisfied as far as hunger wise, but she didn't like what she had to do.
Shido placed his hand delicately on her shoulder, "Are you alright?" he asked earnestly.
Riho nodded, things were unfair in this world, and she could now see this through new eyes, eyes that had started to change from innocent blue to another color. A color she had seen the moment before her human life had ended. She felt so strange, knowing that as her eyes changed so would her soul, if she even still had one.
Her soul, did being a vampire mean she would loose it eventually? She had to know, "Shido," she asked shyly. "I have a question."
"Yes?"
"Does being a vampire mean that I will loose my soul?"
Shido was taken aback. He had not anticipated that at all. He was kind of ashamed to admit that he himself had thought on the very subject for a very long time. He still felt as though he had his soul, but how could he define having a soul? Did feelings make up a soul? Or was it something on a completely different plain of life? If life defined it, then no, neither of them had souls. But if consciousness and emotion did then, yes, but what if emotion were merely signals sent from the mind? He couldn't tell, he didn't know, he would only know if he was killed and that wasn't going to happen any time soon.
"I'm not sure." He said truthfully, "You'll have to find that out on your own," he looked into her eyes, "and you have the rest of eternity to do so."
Riho smiled at him warmly even though her face was pale and icy, the warmth in it still shown.
"Shido!" Called a happy sounding voice from down the hall, it was an elderly looking person, he seemed to be drunk or something, his body seemed barely able to stand on it's own. "Back from the hunt I presume?"
Shido turned to look at the man, "Corin. Have you been mixing blood with alcohol again?"
Corin reached them, smiling from ear to ear, "Why no! What would give you that impression?" he bent over and looked up through half closed eyes at Shido, "I mean, why would I drink alco-hic-hol?"
Shido sweat-dropped and raised one eyebrow, "It's just that, well."
"OH! And who is THIS young lady?" He said interrupting Shido and looking at Riho before grabbing both of her hands in his. "Why what a beautiful -hic- young woman!"
"Eh-heh, thanks," Riho said taking her hands out of the man's.
He grabbed her hands again, "No-no! The truth should deserve no -hic- thank you! Perhaps." suddenly his eyes seemed to become serious as he looked into her eyes strait, "We will meet later." his smile returned after that and he started to skip dizzily down the hallway away from Riho and Shido.
"Um. That was Corin, he's a bit eccentric but you'll get used to him, he's really not so bad when he isn't drinking." Shido sighed and put a hand to his head, "Even if he is one of the most perverted vampires of all."
"You're one to talk Shido!" A high pitched voice said from seemingly no where.
"Guni. What do you want?" it was Guni, the annoying little demon that hung around once in a while, sometimes she would be gone for a long time and sometimes he couldn't get her away with a stick. Lately she'd been sticking closer and parting less often.
"I heard there was a new vampire girl and came to investigate!" she said now flying before his face with her hands on her hips.
"Why would you need to investigate that? There are new vampires every day." Shido said sweat dropping.
"Like I said YOU'RE one to talk about being a pervert! Who is this new girl?" she asked impatiently.
"See for yourself she is right behind me." He said pointing his thumb behind his back at Riho.
Guni flew in front of Riho's face. "Why is she so young?" she looked her up and then down then back again. "You made her a vampire when she was so young?"
"I didn't think she would choose that for one Guni." Shido said, "And she's not so young really."
"Hello! I'm standing right here!" Riho yelled at Guni who was blown away, literally.
Guni flew right back up again, determined to win an argument. "What a spoiled rotten brat! You're so young you don't know which way is up I bet!"
"You're so small I'm surprised you find enough air to yell! You should have been squished by now! ."
(You get the general idea, they argued. And then they argued, it went on and on and ON like that for a while!)
Shido didn't even attempt to break up the feud it would have been a useless waist of breath. He knew Guni and he knew Riho from the intake of her blood. They were both stubborn and neither would listen to him so he turned and walked down the hallway. He had something to speak to someone on.
Shido entered a hall, and looked around, there was one person in this entire house that he could look to for advice. Even if that one person did have a tendency to talk on and on forever, and even if his favorite topic was the mutilation of human bodies, he was very wise.
He opened a door, and walked into a room with many more doors in a circle. The doors all opened and different types of winds blew from them. Some cold, some warm, some soft and others strong. But one wind caught his attention, it wasn't warm or cold, strong or weak, also it had a fragrance to it. Kind of like flowers in a field after a great human battle where much blood was spilt.
He walked through that door which happened to be the one on his upper right. Last time he had come here the door had been on the left, so thus proving his theory that this room spun in a circle at some points in time.
When Shido went through the door he hoped that he wasn't wrong about this door, because if her were then he would be doomed to wander endless mazes for the rest of eternity. That's what had happened to more than one person in the past when they came seeking this man's or vampire's aged intelligence.
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Death: If you still like it review, if not then don't. I don't care either way I'm going to continue writing and posting. Ja Ne.