Iori sat on top of a boulder, watching his partner Jyou. "Are you done yet?"

"Almost."

"I estimate about two to three minutes. You think you'll be done by then?"

"I'm done!"

"About time! I was done ten minutes ago."

"Well it's not my fault you are better at explosives then me."

"Anyway, if we just wait in the middle here by this rock, then when the vampires come -- BAM! That's when we take our lead and kill the rest."

Jyou stared at the sixteen-year-old boy, it was four years ago when he had found him. Iori's father died in the police unit protecting victims from vampires. He had only been six-years-old. After that happened his mother and grandfather took him as far away from vampires as possible. But the vampires found a new home and killed his mother and grandfather. They had gone after Iori but he found explosives handy and killed all the vampires. Jyou chuckled a bit; Iori was following in his father's footsteps.

"What's so funny?" Iori looked at Jyou.

"Nothing, just thinking. That's all."

"Here they come." Iori ducked down a bit. "Three, two, one."

Only half of the field blew up and only half was blown away, "Joe! Why didn't your side explode?!"

"Explode? Holy shit! I forgot to detonate it!"

"What?! You damn idiot how do you forget to detonate the bombs!?"

"You rushed me!"

Iori pushed passed him and ran to the mess Jyou had started. Just under a hundred vampires came out and started attacking. Iori grabbed bombs from his belt, "Take this you blood sucking bastards!" he hurled the bombs their way. "Joe! Joe? What are you doing?" Jyou's head popped up from behind a rock, "I thought it would be safer over here." Veins popped out on Iori's head, "Get you over here, you lazy bastard, and stop being a coward!"

Jyou ran and grabbed his equipment. He started running to Iori but decided against it and ran back behind the rock setting the equipment up to shoot long distance. While Jyou was keeping them busy, Iori ran to the mess of wires and plugged in wires to the detonator. 'Damn, I can't do this from a distance, now I have to blow it up from here.' Iori thought, 'but somehow I have to get the vampires over here.'

He threw off his belt and grabbed some bombs; he threw all the bombs he could. After he was out, he made a look of desperation, "Joe, I ran out of bombs, give me something to hold them off!" All the vampires attacking Jyou turned their attention to Iori, "Hurry up Jyou, before they all come to get me!"

"Cody? Cody! What the fuck do you think you're doing?! Never scream out in battle if you're low on ammo." He then realized that he didn't have any vampires' attention, they had all leapt towards Iori. "CODY!" Jyou had just begun to run when he heard Iori say, "Die suckers!"

The explosion killed the rest of the vampires; Jyou was blown back and his head smashed on the rock. Iori lay in the middle of the dust and fire. Was it already their end?

~*~*~*~

"Well that takes care of them." Miyako wiped her hands off.. "I hear an explosion."

"Really? I don't. It must be Cody, you know him with explosives-"

"No. I smell blood and see it."

"Are you sure it's not just the battle we just went through?"

"Are there any big rocks here?"

"Not really."

"Then it must be someone else. And since Cody does the explosives. I think it's leading to them. For some reason I keep seeing a rock with a lot of blood. Why?" Mimi clenched her head; "It hurts so much! My head! It hurts!"

"Mimi!" Miyako ran to her friend's side, "you're just seeing those frightening images again. Try not to give into them. Let's head to the west now, that's where they said we have to go."

Mimi got up with the help of the lavender girl. 'Maybe Yolei's right, it's all in my head. But it seems so real.' The image of Jyou lying on the ground next to a rock came to her mind. She winced, 'All in my head, all in my head' she chanted.

~*~*~*~

Koushiro swung the ax; he stopped just at the neck of the female vampire, "Tell me where your king is?"

She spit in his face, "Like I'd tell you. You're the one who killed my sister."

He wiped the mucus off his face, "I don't give a double rats' ass about your sister!" Koushiro never liked to become the devil serpent, he found that he was too strong for his own good and sometimes he couldn't control himself. While he wasn't paying attention, she kicked him in the face and knocked him down. At first she thought she had won but then he jumped up and opened his eyes. They weren't the same eyes. She thought she had the same pair of eyes in her too but his were dark, darker then she had ever seen. She backed up in fear, "Tell me now, bitch, where your king is and I'll give you five seconds to run away."

She had already started running, "He's to the west!"

"You started before I said so," he smirked. She was already a distance further than the eye could see. Koushiro held his ax over his head and chucked it the direction the girl had run; it sliced through trees and bushes.

"That was interesting, though kind of boring. You didn't even hit her." Ken walked over to him.

"How do you know I didn't hit her?"

"In order to hit her you'd have to slice hundreds of trees and that would stop your ax." He looked in Koushiro's eyes and backed up a bit; he could see why the girl had been scared of him - the eyes. Koushiro started walking towards the woods where the girl had run off.

Ken followed close behind, looking at all the trees that were sliced down, 'At least one tree would have stopped it, right?' He started to smell a rotting odor.

All the trees surrounding that area had been dressed in blood. Ken wanted to barf at the sight; her head was detached from her body, yet she still moved. The ax had slit her back and when she fell, her neck had ripped open from a sharp branch sticking out of the ground.

Koushiro took the ax out of her back, her fingers twitched and her toes wiggled. "How could she still move?" thought Ken. Koushiro cut off her legs and then her arms. He walked over to the head and raised his ax, "Burn in hell forever!"

Ken found the back of a tree to throw-up all of his innards. Koushiro went over to him and patted him on the back, "I'm so sorry Ken I didn't think I would lose control."

Ken looked him in the eyes, again the pure, innocent eyes. "Yeah, well, I guess I haven't seen human blood since my parents died."

"Did all your guys' parents die?" Koushiro started walking out of the woods with Ken.

"All but T.K.'s, his parents were divorced and when Matt became a vampire, T.K. packed his things and left to search for him. That's when he met up with us."

"So none of you guys have families?"

"No, all of us have family. Except Cody, he lost all." He looked over at Koushiro who was drenched in blood. "I have an older brother named Sam."

"Where's he?"

"He's paralyzed. A car hit him when he was fourteen. Almost died, but instead he stayed in a coma and came out five years later. After my parents were dead, I was fifteen and already Vampire slaying."

"So where does he live?"

"The hospital has a place for him, I come and visit everyday to take care of him."

"You think he'll ever get out of the hospital?"

"I don't think he'll ever get out of his wheelchair."

Koushiro didn't want to ask any more questions. He thought, 'It must be hard being Ken. Leader of the slayers and brother to a cripple who can't move, and he doesn't have any parents. I guess I didn't know how lucky I was to have two great parents. Well adopted parents.'

"My parents died in a car crash when I was a baby, I was adopted by their best friends who witnessed the crash. I always wondered about them. I know it's nothing like your situation-"

"Even that is important and affects one's life. It may be the most dramatic thing in your life." Ken neared a car and jumped in the driver seat, "Want a ride?"

Koushiro shook his head, "No, I'll run."

The west part of town was coming up; Koushiro jumped and spotted someone nearby. He jumped on the top of the car to get a look at who was coming. Mimi jumped on top of the car with Miyako on her back. Ken slowed down and came to a stop.

"Not only do I have people partying up on the roof of my car, we are at the west part." He caught Miyako as she slid down the car, hair all-wild. "What happened?"

Mimi smiled, "I got a little lost."

"A little lost? Not only did she get lost but she didn't see the trees!"

Ken picked some twigs out of Miyako's hair. "Apparently not."

Mimi turned to Koushiro, "Who do you know is here?"

Koushiro shut his eyes and concentrated, "I know Marth is here and I smell Matt's cigarette. I can hear Tai yelling. I can't pick up Davis. But I can pick up a little perfume. The same kind you put on him."

"What about Cody and Joe?"

"No I can't pick them up. But I do smell explosives. Why?"

Mimi's eyes shrunk, "I was right. It wasn't in my head. Joe and Cody are in danger! We have to help!"

"Alright, I'll go with you and you two go off and meet up with the others." Koushiro leapt off into the moonlight. Mimi also took off but lost her balance when she didn't what she landed on.

"Would you like me to take you to the southwest part?"

"Please." Koushiro picked her up and leapt off once again.

The smell was getting worse, a smell of blood, of burning flesh, of bombs, explosives and god knows what else. As Koushiro landed on a rock in the middle, he heard Mimi gasp. He looked down at what he was standing on, the rock had blood on it. Jyou lay on the ground. Mimi jumped off of Koushiro and cradled Jyou in her arms, "Joe? Joe Please wake up."

Koushiro jumped off and walked around to find Iori. Iori lay in the middle of burning dust, the kid's face was charcoal black, with a mixture of blood. "Kid? Yyou still alive?" Koushiro shook him. He picked him up and ran to Mimi, "We got to get these guys to a hospital right away!"

Tears welled in her eyes, "You think they're going to make it?"

"Hope so." He grabbed Jyou and tossed him over his shoulder, leaping off into the night, "You turn back to the others"

Mimi stood there alone, "If I can."

"Hello. How may I hel-p-" The nurse looked at Koushiro. "Doctor! Doctor we got two wounded BADLY!" She ran off to find a doctor. When they came to Koushiro's side, they took Jyou and Iori away.

One doctor came to Koushiro's side, "Are you hurt, how did this happen?"

"No I'm alright. I don't know how it happened, explosives I guess." Koushiro backed away and slit his arm on the door on the way out making it bleed.

"Call the police. I think he might have done this."

"Yes sir."

~*~*~*~

Onkó cornered Hikari against a tree, "Little Davis isn't here to protect you and now you're mine." He lowered himself to her neck.

"Wrong, Onkó! I'm right here!" A horrid sound came from the trees above. It was Daisuke.

Onkó turned around to face Daisuke, "Ha! Do you think you can beat me? Like that? You're so angry and mad, you're evil. You can still join my side Daisuke, you don't have to always rule against me."

"That's enough!" Daisuke raised his fist to strike Onkó with a wooden stake.

Onkó fell to his knees in laughter, "What're you going to do, punch me from there?"

Daisuke looked down at his wrists, no T-H-R Armers. He had no weapon to beat Onkó! "No but I will kill you!" He jumped down from the tree and tackled Onkó to the ground. Onkó kicked him off and made him slam into a tree.

"You don't want the same thing to happen to Kari like it happened to Jun, do you?"

"Shut up!" he placed his hands together, "BLACK FIRE!"

Onkó countered his attack, "BLACK WATER!" Black water was the same as black fire only with the element of water.

Hikari sat on the ground watching the battle in fear. 'He's not the same.' Tears streamed down her face. 'Where's the man I knew before . when he was Daisy?' She watched the battle continue, 'I wish he were here. So I wouldn't feel so alone.'

Daisuke slashed at Onkó ripping through skin with his nails. "Try better then that, little Davis." Onkó regenerated his skin.

"How can you do that and the rest of us have to wait to let our wounds heal?" cried Davis, maddened by the evil king's ability.

"Aw, why little Davis? You jealous that I have the real devil within me instead of the orb that the rest of you have?"

'There has to be a way to get rid of this bastard. What about Black Thunder? It may destroy this entire area and me. But no one else matters but me and him.' Blinded by his own hate, Daisuke didn't even register Hikari by the tree.

Hikari started hearing rumbles in the sky as the clouds darkened and started gathering. A horrible loud noise came forth. Electricity came out of the sky and sparked downwards towards Daisuke's hands. Hikari was terrified.

"BLACK THUNDER!"

"Black Thunder? That didn't work last time, you think it's going to work now?!" Onkó's eyes fell upon Hikari, "You fool! Not when Kari is here, are you insane!?"

Daisuke paid no attention to Onkó or what he screamed.

"Run! Get out of here, you're too weak. It's going to backfire on the little idiot and kill you in the process!" Hikari didn't know why Onkó was being "nice" to her, trying to let her escape. 'Then again all he wants is me in his bed.' Despite the warnings, she remained still, not by choice but by fear.

'Damn it. Why won't she move? Maybe if I somehow scare her into running away.' Not concerned with Daisuke, Onkó closed his eyes and put out his hand towards Hikari.

Hikari's back started getting warm; she turned to see the tree she was near was afire. She moved in the opposite direction. The fire left the tree- like it never was on it. She looked up at Onkó-he was controlling the fire. The flames followed her; she took the chance and started running away from Onkó and Daisuke.

Onkó let the flames go when Hikari left. He turned his attention back to Daisuke.

His body was a serge of electric signals. His muscles bulged. Sweat slid down his face. He finally pushed all the electricity out of his body and towards Onkó. He screamed in pain, 'No not again! Don't backfire again!' With the final push, the electricity slammed into Onkó's chest. It was so fast not even the vampire eye could see it. Onkó was thrown back, hitting trees, breaking trees in half. He landed in a lake. With all the electricity flowing through his body, Onkó sparked up again and was electrocuted much worst then the first.

Daisuke collapsed, "It didn't backfire." He was out of breath; his breathing was hard. His broken heartbeat stung with the worst pain. It was the pain of hatred and it wouldn't stop. His ribcage felt like it was splitting in two. Daisuke cringed, 'What's happening to me?'

Hikari slowed down, then came to a complete stop and looked up at the sky, 'I wonder what happened?' The clouds were back to normal like no storm had brewed. 'I wonder if I should head back?' She had heard both Daisuke's and Onkó's piercing screams. 'Where am I?' She looked around and saw she was lost.

~*~*~*~

Yamato and Takeru walked quietly around a tree and crawled to the bushes to figure out who was screaming.

Taichi turned to the bushes. Yamato and Takeru crawled out. "Jeez, Tai, you think you could be a little quieter."

"Oh sorry, Matt."

"More vampires, huh? Well you may want to save Kari like us but others like you will not be saving my daughter!" Mr. Kamiya raised a crossbow to Yamato and Takeru. "Jeffery!" he barked.

Jeffrey jumped and took out another crossbow and aimed it towards Sora.

"Why do you have to do this?" Taichi yelled.

"Does he know I'm not a vampire?" Takeru whispered to Yamato who shrugged his shoulders. Takeru examined Mr. Kamiya and Jeffery's crossbows. "Matt?"

"What?" Yamato whispered back.

"Both of their crossbows are advanced. Much more advanced than mine."

"What's that mean?"

"It means you may never see the stake in till it hits."

Yamato stared at the crossbow in Mr. Kamiya's hands. He gulped "Want to move back to the bushes?"

"You ain't going no where."

The sound of a trigger pulled. A gust of wind. It was fast. Taichi knew where the gust of wind was heading and he knew what was in the gust of wind - a stake, ready to pierce Yamato's skin. "Matt! Out of the way!" Taichi jumped in front of Yamato and Takeru and then jumped to a new area. Taichi limped and fell to the ground. Blood dripped onto the grass.

"Tai!" Sora ran to his side and tried to yank out the stake from his spine.

Mr. Kamiya lowered the crossbow in shock. Jeffery dropped his bow, "Father look what you did!" He ran to his brothers side.

"Jeffery why get attached to him?"

"You don't get it do you?! Tai is my family and my brother. He's your son and you still don't care do you?! I never had a brother and Tai was always there for me I looked up to him and just because he changed a eating habit doesn't mean he's not the same Tai we used to love. He's still your son, don't you care?"

"No. He is the reason your mother is dead! Not just the vampire inside of him, not the heritage he has taken up. But if he never asked your mother to get him a new soccer ball because his old one popped, your mother would still be here!" Tears threatened to fall on Mr. Kamiya's face but he pushed them aside. He threw the crossbow in through the open window of his car and got in the other door. He drove off leaving his two sons behind.

Taichi smiled faintly, "I told you I was the cause of her death."

"Tai," Jeffery looked at his brother, "shut up." Taichi smirked at the younger sibling.

"I am proud of you though. I thought you would take me being like this the hardest."

"I still find it a shock but you're still alive. That's all that matters." Jeffery brought up something he hadn't in over a month - a smile. "So you're a sex changing bastard now, eh?"

"See T.K. what did I tell you? Tai is as homosexual as you are." Yamato got two punches in his face.

Sora laughed a bit then poked her finger in Taichi's wound. He howled like a wolf and started growling at her, "What's the big idea here?!"

The clouds went dark and shots of black lightning struck the sky.

"FUCK!" Marth stormed out of the bushes. "Do you know what that was?!"

Taichi stared at him blankly, "What was what?"

"The lightning, the thunder, the BOOM!" he motioned with his hands in confusion.

"Eh. A storm?" Jeffery said.

"NO! NOT A STORM!!" Marth shook Jeffery's shoulders. "It was Black Thunder!"

"BLACK THUNDER?!" Taichi, Yamato, and Takeru yelled. Yamato looked up, "You mean the same attack that almost killed him the last time?"

"One and the same."

"Hikari!" Taichi screamed running through the trees to search for his sister, Jeffery went after him and in tow was Sora.

~*~*~*~

"So red hair, dark blue eyes?"

"That's right sir. He came in and dropped the two victims off."

"How are they?"

"One's coming out of it but I don't know about the other one. He was hit badly. We don't think he's going to make it through the night. We couldn't find traces of parents either."

"Tall?"

"Yes about 5' 10'' to 6'"

"You get a name?"

"No."

"Nothing else?"

"Well-he did look somewhat familiar. I think I saw him in the newspaper one time. But that was Koushiro Izumi but I guess it couldn't be him."

"Koushiro Izumi?" the police officer tapped his pen on the clipboard; "Koushiro is dead."

"What?"

"Yeah, killed a little over a month ago. Never found his body though, just a lot of blood and a wrecked car."

"Blood?" the doctor looked down at the door; a little trace of blood was still left. "He cut himself here!" he pointed to the blood, "We'll get some tests done and we'll see who he is." The doctor grabbed a slide off of the nurses' station and slid a tiny sample of Koushiro's blood onto the glass slide.

~*~*~*~

"Damn, this is why I've always hated doctors, they never fix you up!" Koushiro looked down at his arm which was still bleeding.

He jumped down to where he had last left Ken and the others. As he started into the woods to see if he could find someone, he heard a panicked voice. ~*~*~*~

Haha Koushy's in trouble! I'm so sorry for the lateness. Can you guess ever forgive me? I know Christmas is just around the corner (scary thought) but I'll TRY to get another chapter or so up before then, because I got LOTS of work to do till now and Christmas. If you guys want me to e-mail you when the next chapter comes out I'll be glad too. Just give me you e-mail address and tell me you want to know when the next chapter will be out and I'll e-mail when I posted it up.

Thanks so much for the reviews they mean lots to me.

Next time: The doctors' find out who the man was that dropped Cody and Joe off. So they call his parents (Uh-oh). But whose not going to make it out? Cody? Joe? But now Koushiro hears some panicked voices. Who could it be?

Thank you much-!! Daisuke: Do you know what I just realized? F-Tai: What are you doing here? Daisuke: Never mind that! You never put out any disclaimer!! F-Tai: *Flips through pages* Your right! Law ppl: Hey you! F-Tai: Oops. Davis! Daisuke: Foxy_Tai (why don't you just use your real name?! *F-Tai glares at Davis* that's right because she has an over obsession with Tai and writes about me!) owns nothing and no one but the evil bastard Onkó *whispers* She has a dictionary named Bus and put him in the story. Does that mean she owns him too? F-Tai:* Hits Davis over the head with a mallet* Bus told me his name! Just flip to the first page of the I 's! Daisuke: Whatever. Well see you next time. If I'm not dead that is!