Supernova

A/N: This is the most fanfiction I've ever written in one week. Well, I still don't own Nightwalker (big surprise) and notes from previous chapters apply. I'll shut up and write now.

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When the small riot going on outside the vampires' door started, they had been standing in the middle of the room, shocked and holding each other's hands. Now, they were gathering their most prized possessions and preparing to hide, on Shido's advice.

"Your mortals are really as stupid as they seem," Cain sneered in the direction of the door.

"They're not MY mortals," Shido retorted. "Are you almost finished? The door isn't going to hold forever."

"Almost. Where are we going to hide?"

"I was going to say we should stay here, but the door's cracking."

"We'll go back to Transylvania then."

"Cain, everyone knows about you there. You'll get yourself killed."

"No-one knows about the secret passage."

"Fine."

The two vampires finished packing their suitcases, and flew out of the window and into the sky. Shido and Cain agreed to only talk telepathically on the off chance that any planes would find them by hearing them.

They'd been flying for an hour, and Shido was the first to "speak": Cain, it'll be dawn in less than an hour.

I know. We're almost there., Cain replied.

When they were at the castle, the first thing the two vampires did was to run up the stairs to the room that they'd shared, close all the windows, and sleep for a while.

Shido was the first to wake up, or so he thought. It took him a few minute to realize that Cain wasn't there beside him, so he set about looking for the other vampire. He looked everywhere: the other bedrooms, the grand hall, the parlor, but he could not find Cain. Finally, terrified that Cain had gone outside and been killed, he went back to their room.

But then- a lock of golden hair! Shido kicked himself mentally. He hadn't checked the terrace outside their room. Steeling himself, he stepped through the doorway...

...And screamed. Cain was outside, but so was Riho, and Cain had lost the fight. He had not died in torment, but his heart had been ripped out, and Riho drank greedily from it. Blood dripped down her face, her dress, and onto the stone floor, and she laughed triumphantly.

"CAIN!," Shido screamed, kneeling by Cain's body and cradling it in his arms. "Come on, wake up, wake up! Don't leave me alone, please. I'm all alone now, don't leave me! Please..."

Shido curled up next to the vampire that had made him, sobbing and still holding the body.

And suddenly, he was hearing Cain's voice. It was better to just die right here, right now. Just don't breathe, that's all.

"Shido. Shido. SHIDO!"

Shido looked around him, still not breathing, and finally looked up. The sky and everything around him was shaking, and then, his eyes opened wide, staring into Cain's frightened and very much alive face.

"Wha' happened?," Shido mumbled.

"It was a nightmare, Shido. You started screaming out my name and sobbing a few minutes ago, woke me up, and scared me half to death. You weren't waking up, and you stopped breathing after a while," Cain explained.

Shido buried his face in Cain's shoulder and just hugged the older vampire for a long time.

"I don't want you to die. I'd be all alone then, without you, or Yayoi," Shido whispered.

"Then I won't die. Now come on, we have to go downstairs to where we're hiding," Cain replied, and stroked Shido's long purple hair that had come out of its tie during the night, and now hung loosely around his shoulders.

They walked down two flights of stairs until they got to a room that looked suspiciously like a closet.

"This is our shelter?," Shido asked, nearly laughing in disbelief.

Cain gave the younger vampire a withering look. "Patience, my Shido."

Then, Cain went to the very back, bent down, and pulled away a section of the floor to reveal a square space in the floor. After doing so, he jumped down, and told Shido to do so as well, but close the door on the way down. Shido did.

"Who are you?," came a girlish voice from the other end of the dark room they'd jumped in to.

A flashlight came on, and the little circle of light jumped around the room until the girl saw the two vampires. Cain had pushed Shido behind him, in case the girl was dangerous.

Suddenly, the girl broke into something that might have been a smile. "It's you, that young vampire!"

Shido stepped forward. "Let me see you."

The girl turned the flashlight on herself, and Shido gasped in amazement. It was the young girl vampire that he'd spent those days in the well with.

"Hello," Shido said. "Cain, she's fine. I know her."

Cain walked over, bowed, and said, "I am Cain. This is my house and this," here, he put one arm around Shido's waist, "is MY Shido."

"I do not remember my name," the girl said, "but the last family I was with called me Emily."

"But Emily, why are you here?," Cain asked.

"I fled Japan the minute the attack on vampires started, and came here, thinking that it had been deserted," "Emily" replied.

"Well, you can stay, then," Shido smiled.

"I'm not sure how long any of us can stay," Emily sighed.

"Why?"

"The war on vampires has become a worldwide affair."

Emily produced a small radio from a bag of possessions that she had by her feet, and turned it on. The three vampires huddled together in the room as they heard what was happening in the rest of the world. Apparently, a pair of young vampires, one female and one male, had been found and killed somewhere in America, and an ancient female vampire somewhere quite near where Cain, Shido, and Emily now hid had been murdered as well. After a while, Cain turned off the radio and sighed.

"If we die, Shido, I want to die side by side with you," Cain murmured to the younger vampire who had curled up on the floor with his head and chest in Cain's lap. "Shido... Shido? Shido?!"

Shido had fainted, and Cain had a feeling that he knew why.

"Emily, do you have a knife?," Cain asked.

"Yes, why?," the girl replied.

"Give it here. Now."

Cain sliced open a vein in his own arm, and allowed the blood to flow into Shido's mouth. After a minute, Shido's eyes fluttered open, and Cain healed himself and returned the knife to Emily.

"Shido?," Cain asked gently.

"Cain?," Shido replied. "Cain, I'm scared. Where are we?"

The room seemed to become deadly quiet.

"What?," Cain asked, fear making his voice icy.

"Where are we?!," Shido repeated frantically.

What's wrong?, Emily asked Cain.

The stress has caused him to go mad., Cain replied.

To Shido, Cain said, "We're hiding out. The war has declared war on vampires."

"Why?," Shido demanded.

"Yayoi is dead. Riho murdered her and many other mortals. Riho left you, Shido, you're with me now," Cain said; he spoke slowly and softly so that Shido wouldn't be scared.

"No, Cain, that was a dream. I had a dream that I left you and went to a city and fought Nightbreeds, and I hated you and loved this stupid little girl named Riho," Shido giggled madly, a confused look on his pretty face. "Isn't that weird? I would never hate you!"

"Not now, Shido, but you used to. That was reality."

"No it wasn't, Cain. Honestly, you and your games!"

"Shido, what is the last thing you remember before this...ah...dream?"

"Going to bed with you."

"Sleeping?"

"No, but Cain, there's a child in the room!"

"Shido, she's older than you are. She's another vampire."

"Oh. What's your name, Miss?"

"I don't remember, but the last family that took care of me called me Emily," Emily said.

"You look familiar," Shido muttered.

Cain perked up. Perhaps now Shido would return to reality.

"I know!," Shido exclaimed. "You were in my dream!"

Suddenly, Guni popped out of Cain's hair, where she'd taken refuge during the flight.

"SHIDO!," she bellowed, as loud as her tiny fairy vocal cords could allow, "IT WAS NOT A DREAM!"

"Oh my, so it wasn't," Shido muttered faintly.

He appeared to have some sort of grasp on reality, and for the first time, Guni received a smile from Cain.

"So Yayoi's really gone...," Shido murmured into Cain's chest.

"Yes, my love, I'm sorry," Cain sighed.

Shido began to sob for his friend. The realization had just hit home, and he wanted to die himself.

"It's not fair!," Shido wailed, "Everyone I love is going to die one by one because of me, and I'll have gone too mad to even realize it!"

Emily walked over, crouched down next to Shido, and whispered something in his ear which startled him.

What did you tell him?!, Cain demanded angrily of the girl.

Merely what you already knew., she replied.

Which is...?

The humans are tramping around above us.

What?

Suddenly, Shido's mind-voice joined in the conversation: What are you guys going on about?

Emily's reply: I told you, young vampire.

Oh.

And then, a new voice, faint, directed only to Shido, but growing louder every second, like it was coming closer: I know the cause of your madness, Shido.

Shido started, but no one else seemed to "hear" it. Who are you?

The Voice was familiar, but before Shido could place it, it came again: I am the cause of your madness.

Emily and Cain stared at Shido now.

Shido was upset. Show yourself!

This time, the Voice mocked him. Ah, ah, ah! Can't do that, darling.

Are you a mortal?

No, but you're dense!

Shido decided to ignore the Voice. Most likely, it was some nearby vampire who was taunting him for kicks, but still... Why had the Voice sounded so familiar?

Suddenly, Shido heard footsteps coming from the tunnel that branched off from the dingy stone room. Cain had said that it led to the outside and that only vampires could move the stone that blocked it aside.

Shido grabbed the flashlight, turned it on, and trained the beam on the tunnel. No one was close enough to see yet, and the light flickered.

Shido cursed at the flashlight softly. Of all the times for a battery to run out.

And then, the Voice spoke from the tunnel, but out loud this time:

"Hey there darlings. Did you miss me?"

Riho stepped out of the tunnel and into the flickering light, covered in innocent blood that wasn't her own.

And at the same time, the trap door opened, and a mortal looked in, shouting, "I found some more!" to her fellow vampire hunters.

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I hope this chapter was good... I don't know if it is or not, because I wrote it, but hopefully, Shido going mad for a bit wasn't too confusing.

There's probably only going to be one more chapter in this story, because I just feel like it's drawing to a close.

Thanks for reading and reviewing!

-Meowiegirl