Supernova
A/N: I'm pretty sure this will be the last chapter, and maybe there will be a short epilogue after this. It's been great, and I
hope to write another Nightwalker fanfiction sometime.
I still don't own Nightwalker. If I did, Shido would go back to Cain at the end, and Riho would barely be in it at all.
Anyway... Notes from previous chapters apply. Enjoy!
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The human woman jumped down into the secret room, just as the four vampires disappeared into the shadows at the far end
of the room.
"Come out!," she shouted. "We know you're here!"
Her shouts turned to screams of torment when, seconds later, Riho used her dark magic on the woman. The woman lay
dead after three minutes.
"How could you do that?," Shido whispered angrily to his ex-girlfriend.
"The time has come for vampires to rule the world," Riho hissed, "and not mortal scum like that woman."
"Riho... What have I done?"
"You did nothing, you pitiful vampire who would rather be a human. You have not done your part, and you must die for that."
"Leave him alone!," Cain growled.
"None of you have done your part," Riho whispered.
"Freeze, vampires!," came a shout from the other side of the room.
While the vampires had argued, more mortals had come down into the passage. Three now stood blocking the escape route,
and about twenty more surrounded the vampires.
"Oh, man. We're screwed," Guni sighed pessimistically from Cain's hair.
Shido, Cain spoke to his lover with his mind-voice.
What?, Shido replied.
I love you. I'm sorry I never made that clear during our time on this earth, but you are the most important thing to me.
You did fine, Cain. I love you too.
Emily was crouching in the corner and rocking back and forth.
"Momma, Poppa?," she whispered, her eyes turned up towards where the sky was. "I'm sorry for running away, okay?
Forgive me, please. I'm sorry I hurt you. Momma, I'm sorry I made you kill yourself. Poppa, I'm sorry I drove you mad by
running away. I'll see you soon."
Shido moved into Cain's arms and put his head on the older vampire's shoulder.
"Cain?," he whispered.
"Mmm?," Cain replied, more focused on the mortals that were closing in around them than Shido.
"I'm honored to die by your side."
"We won't die, Shido. They're mortals, after all. We're vampires."
"Mortals can be surprisingly strong when they want."
The mortals had now made a semi-circle around the four vampires, and each had some type of weapon. Most had knives or
old swords, but two had guns and one had something that looked like a mace.
Suddenly, one of them, the one with the mace, began to scream and writhe in pain. Riho was killing him. When he was
dead, she began to kill more of them, but every time, the dead mortal would be replaced by at least one other.
"Stop it, Riho," Shido pleaded. "No more killing."
"What?," Riho snapped.
"Stop it! They think we're evil. It's not their fault, they don't know. Maybe this really is our final destiny, and if it is, I won't
stop it."
"Well, it's not mine."
"Please, don't kill anymore. So many have died, and it's my fault... All my fault."
Shido sank to his knees, sobbing and clutching Cain's legs.
Riho's eyes began to glow and her hair blew around her head in the windless room.
Shido! Put up your mental shields!, Cain warned.
But Shido didn't.
"I've wanted to do this for a long time, Shido," Riho laughed triumphantly.
Riho began to torture Shido, but it did not last long. Someone was shielding her.
Emily, when I give the signal, attack Riho with your mind., Cain ordered Emily.
Right., the girl replied.
She looked around, furious. Shido was not shielding himself; he was now being held in Cain's arms. Finally, she realized that
Cain was the one who was shielding the purple-haired vampire from her attacks, and she began to pummel the shield
furiously with her mind. She was open to an attack now; she was distracted.
Cain gave the signal. NOW!
Emily smiled darkly and began to attack the other girl with her mind.
//I've wanted to do this for so long...//, Emily thought.
Riho turned, shocked.
"Who dares to challenge me?," she growled.
"I do," Emily said simply.
Riho put up her shields against Emily's attack, while trying to attack Emily. That was her great undoing. Shido had never
taught her how to multitask with her psychic abilities, and Emily knew. After all, she was much older and wiser. Emily's
shields and attack remained strong, but as Riho's attack grew in strength, her shields became that much weaker. Finally,
Emily was able to attack with all her power, and soon, Riho lay dead on the ground.
"NO!," Shido screamed, and ran over to Riho, checking her for any sign of life.
"Shido, it had to be done," Cain murmured, putting his hand on Shido's shoulder.
"Get off me! She could have been rehabilitated, I know it!"
"No she couldn't have. Look at her. She tried to kill you!"
"Maybe I deserved it."
Cain glared at Shido, hard. "Never. Let. Me. Hear. You. Say. That. Again."
The two vampires stopped talking and stared. Emily had flung Riho's body out from the shadows, and was calling to the
mortals. She was still hiding.
"This is the one who started it all!," she shouted. "She was responsible for every single attack! Can't you just take her, and leave?"
Some of the mortals left, carrying Riho's body and muttering amongst themselves about how they would ever get enough
postage to send it to Japan. But a good half of them stayed. They were not so easily convinced.
"I'm going out to them," Shido whispered determinedly.
"No, you are not," Cain replied, "and that's final."
"They'll leave if they have something else to show for their work, I know it. It's logical for me to go out there, Cain. I
started this whole thing by teaching Riho how to kill, and I'll end it with my own death."
"No."
"I have to."
Cain wanted to yell, but Shido was already going towards the mortals.
"VAMPIRE!," a man shouted, and they all began to move forward.
"Wait," Shido instructed, barely audible.
The group of people halted.
"Please, don't kill any more vampires. My blood should be the last blood spilled, vampire or human, in this war. We want a
truce," Shido explained.
"You have no feelings," the leader growled. "That vampire girl that died killed my wife! I say we kill him."
Goodbye, Cain and Emily., Shido "said".
Tears flowed down Shido's face, but he smiled as a sword was thrust through his heart. His head tilted back, and his hair
blew around him.
//Even in death, he is beautiful.//, Cain thought sadly, and tears began to run down his cheeks.
Shido lay on the floor of the room. What appeared to be every drop of blood in his body had pooled around him, and most
of the group was murmuring about how eerily lovely the scene was. Shido's unseeing eyes looked over at Cain, and the
leader of the group walked over and gently closed them.
Cain walked out of the shadows and knelt by Shido's side while the group watched, transfixed.
"Please, Shido, wake up! Don't leave me! I love you, Shido, and I'm sorry, so sorry for everything! Please, come back to
me...," Cain sobbed.
The blonde vampire put his head on Shido's chest and held the body of his lover. It was growing cold.
Something seemed to dawn on the man who'd killed Shido. //I'm as bad as that girl, now. She took my wife away from me,
and I've taken his lover away from him. This war is senseless.//
Suddenly, Cain thought he could hear something coming from Shido... Could it be? A raspy, weak ghost of a breath... The
breathing of something that's near death, but a breath nonetheless.
Cain listened again, and indeed, it was a breath.
"Shido! You're coming back to me!," Cain whispered happily, "But you badly need blood."
Cain called to Emily to give him the knife, and she did. Cain slit open his wrist, and began to pour the blood into Shido's mouth.
"Emily! Come here, I can't do it by myself!," Cain called (it was the first time in all of his existence as a vampire that he'd
asked for help).
Emily obliged.
"Come on, Shido," Cain whispered, holding Shido with one arm. "Don't give up now."
To the mortals, Cain shouted, "Go on now, leave!"
They left, climbing back up through the trap door with the aid of a rope.
After another minute, Shido tried to sit up, and everyone knew that he would be alright. Cain and Emily closed and healed
the wounds on their wrists.
"Cain?," Shido asked.
"What is it, darling?," Cain asked back.
"Did I die for a noble cause?"
"For the brief moment that you were dead, yes. I have a feeling that you stopped the entire war."
"Okay. That's all I wanted to know."
With that, Shido fell asleep in Cain's arms, and they made their way back to Cain's room. Shido was put in the bed, and
Emily was put up in one of the guest rooms.
On the way up the stairs to the second floor where everyone would be sleeping, however, Emily asked a slightly disturbing question.
"How do you know that they won't come back?," she asked, and for a moment, she seemed to be a little girl again.
"I know," Cain answered, and in his heart, he was certain.
After Cain made sure that Emily had found the place where she would be sleeping, he went back to the room that he shared
with Shido and laid down next to the other vampire. The next evening, Cain woke up as the sun set, and walked out on to
the terrace. Shido woke up a few minutes later, and joined him.
"Thank you, Cain," Shido said. "I could not spend an eternity 'sleeping' without you."
"Shido, I love you. I would have died by your side, if you couldn't be brought back," Cain replied, and put his arms around
Shido, a gesture that Shido quickly reciprocated.
They looked out at the sunset together, and then Cain spoke.
"Will you stay with me forever?," he asked.
Shido thought it over, and then answered, "Yes, I think I will."
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Yay! Fluffy ending! ^-^
There is definitely going to be an epilogue, although I'm not sure how long it will be...
Thanks for reading and reviewing!
-Meowiegirl
