"Tai, I don't think we're going to find her over here." Jeffery looked down
at the crystal water. "I think Kari is somewhere over there," he pointed in
the opposite direction than where Taichi was looking.
"Shush!" Taichi sniffed the air like a puppy dog. He got closer to the water and kept on sniffing. "Something happened."
"A Barbeque!" Sora chirped, "That's what it smells like."
Taichi looked over to her, "Yeah, something's burning," he checked his back, "and it ain't me!" He squinted his eyes at a floating body in the water. It looked like THE BODY been the main course at the barbeque. Taichi jumped into the middle of the water and dragged THE BODY back onto the shore.
Jeffery came running to Taichi's side, "Is it Hikari?!"
"Don't look like her-looks like a guy."
"Is it that Daisuke guy?" his impatient little brother asked.
Taichi tried to see if he had a pulse. But he didn't. "Sir? -He looks younger then me!" Taichi examined him a bit more, "Hey, kid, you okay?"
"Tai, he's got no pulse." Jeffery checked the body's wrists, "He's dead."
"I wonder how it happened?"
In his mind he heard every word Jeffery and Taichi were saying above him. His eyes wanted to see, but wouldn't open. His fingers wanted to grab someone's neck, but they didn't twitch. 'I can't die! I know I can't. But why can't I move! I have to move. Can that low class-diseased boy really do this to ME! What about her? The one I want!' A word slipped out of his mouth, "Hikari."
"Tai, I thought he was dead?!"
"So did I!" 'Wait, Hikari? How does he know Hikari? Is this who I think it may be? Did Davis really get him? Did he kill himself as well?' "Onkó?"
His eyelids felt like bricks but he opened them anyway. Slowly his eyelids began to move than began to flutter. He looked up at a boy his "age" and one "older" then him. 'They must have some connection to Kari. I smell her all over them. More on the younger one then the older-he's a vampire.'
"How do you know our sister?"
'Sister? Yes I remember seeing them in her file. Jeffery and Taichi Kamiya. But I thought Taichi was dead? So he's a vampire. And on Daisuke's side.'
Taichi stared at the emerald green eyes, the window to Onko's blackened soul. 'His eyes. They seem so-so, what? They don't seem like an evil king would wear them.'
'Apparently he doesn't know who I am.' "Yo-ou s-s-sav-ed m-e." he tried being as innocent as he could. "Th-th-th-an-nk yo-ou."
Jeffery prompted him up to sit up. He had coughed up what seemed like gallons of water. Taichi thought, 'He can't be Onkó, he's way too polite.' He felt bemused, 'but still how did he know Kari? And why did he say 'Hikari'? I still can't put my finger on it!' Taichi decided to be brave, "Why did you say Hikari?"
Quickly Onkó came up with a lie, "Hikari is my wife. Or WAS my wife. There was this thunderous lightning coming out of the sky. Then we saw a boy about my age with wild hair and black eyes. Full of evil I'd say! But me and Hikari weren't married for more then a month and-she's dead because of THAT boy!" He clenched his fist. Not all of it was a lie, Hikari WAS going to be HIS queen and THAT boy did mess everything up.
Like being hit with a ton of bricks, Taichi was brought back to reality. THAT boy was Daisuke. But how? He grew angry with Daisuke. He was supposed to trust him with his sister?
"If I could just get my hands on THAT boy, I'd-I'd.." He was too stressed out to finish his sentence. "Did THAT boy hurt someone close to you, too?"
"Yeah." Taichi sighed.
Jeffery looked up at his brother in confusion. 'Who's THAT boy? Is it that bastard Onkó? But Tai had called this one Onkó before. What was going on?'
"Please let me travel with you guys," he begged, "I won't cause any harm. I just want to see the one who killed my beautiful wife." He got on his knees and started begging Taichi and Jeffery.
"All right." Taichi walked up and picked up his sword and signaled Sora to move on, "Let's go."
Onkó smirked evilly. 'This will be fun. Prepare to die, all of you. Once I get my queen and turn her to Darkness, you won't live long. And if I play my cards just right, Tai will do my dirty work for me and kill Daisuke' he cackled in his mind. Jeffery turned his head and asked if he was coming. "Oh, yeah, sorry. I'm still in shock. You guys are so nice to let me come along on your adventure."
~*~*~*~
"Doctor?" the nurse questioned as she looked at the boy with concern.
"He's not going to live. I give him only a few minutes more before his time is up. Both the boys parents and all his relatives are dead so hopefully he'll be with them in a better place." He turned back to the boy, "We couldn't save this one despite our best efforts."
The nurse bowed her head a bit and the doctor left. She turned to the boy, "Sweet dreams" and pulled the covers over his head.
(The boy talking is going to be in "" and the mother will be {} the father [] and Grandfather ())
"Where am I?"
{You're in the place between heaven and hell}
"That voice! I know that voice! Who are you?"
{Calm down, Cody.}
"Cody? That's me, Iori Hida. Right? Am I forgetting? The voice, that's- that's you mother."
{Yes. Cody, listen to me. You're in a bad position.}
"Position? What do you mean by that?"
{You have played with explosives and have killed some people. True, they were bad people-but THEY don't know where to send you, Heaven or Hell.}
"Mother! Please, I just want to be with you again."
{You cannot be with me until you have proven your worth and THEY decide whether you belong to Hell or Heaven.}
[Cody, listen to your mother.]
"That voice!? Father!"
(Cody, little man, you listen to your parents and go back to prove that you are worthy enough to come join us. AND REMEMBER YOUR PRUNE JUICE!)
"Yuk. Grandpa you still drink that stuff?"
(Darn tooting I do! Builds good bones and structure. Makes you strong and healthy.)
[{FATHER!}]
(Sorry.)
"So what do I have to do?"
[In order to join us all you have to prove yourself. Go now, Cody, we'll wait for you right here.]
{Hurry now, son. And remember we'll always be with you.}
~*~*~*~
"AHHHH!"
Koushiro ran to the distressed scream. He jumped over tree limbs and fallen branches until he reached the source of the problem. He stared blankly at Mimi, who was swatting her hand back and forth at a brambly branch.
"GET IF OFF, GET IT OFF ME!!"
"What's on you?"
She stopped suddenly and turned her head in the opposite direction than where Koushiro was standing. "Izzy, Is that you?"
"This way."
She turned her head the other way, "Well, you see, um, it was a spider. I think."
"No, it was a tree branch."
"Same thing."
"Not even related."
"Well it's all thanks to you! If you didn't leave me alone to find the others I would have never thought a tree branch was a spider. So there!" she stuck her tongue out.
A vein popped out on Koushiro's head, 'First I had to deal with doctors and now her. I never knew she was so freaking girly!' He shouted the first thing that came to his mind, "Well, it's not my fault you're blind!"
She stepped back a bit. Her eyes seemed to be filled with lament, "Yeah, I guess you didn't make me go blind, did you?" She turned the other way, away from Koushiro, away from the pain he had produced in her once again. The branches she thought were spiders brushed across her cheek, leaving trails of blood on her face. Tears forced their way down her cheek. Not due to the little pain from the cut of the branches but the pain of the memories of the cruelty of Onkó. How much she loathed him.
Koushiro mentally kicked himself, "Mimi, that's not what I meant. I mean- I'm sorry for saying that. I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you. But-" he looked at the ground, at least he had her attention, "But that's now in the past. And you have to put it behind you. We have to work together to save Davis's soul." He walked up to her and grabbed her arm, "So are you going to put it in the past?"
"You're right. It's all in the past now." She breathed in deeply and turned to face him.
He wiped the blood off of her face and stared into the brown pool of her eyes with fluttering eyelashes. "Come on," he lifted her up on his back and took off, once more for the west.
~*~*~*~
His eyes opened. Where was he? He remembered the explosion, then his mother and father, even his granddad. Iori looked up at the stars. "I'm outside" he stated the obvious. He rubbed his head, "How hard was I hit?" Rustling. Iori turned his head in the direction of the noises. Panting, they were panting, like they had run a marathon. "Hello?" The noise stopped. The breathing slowed down. "Ken? Yolei? T.K.?" He reached down for his belt of explosives. 'What about Daisuke? He may not know my voice well. But he would recognize the names of my friends.' He tried anyway, "Daisuke?"
A girl walked out of the bushes. She looked dirty and scratched up. Her hair was a mess, full of twigs and knots. But her eyes sparkled, making her look neat as a button. "Do you know my big brother, Taichi?"
"Are you Hikari?" She gave a small nod. 'So this is her. I can see the resemblance between her and Tai. I can also see why Onkó would want her. And Davis.' "My name is Iori Hida, call me Cody." He stretched his hand towards her.
She hesitated at first but then reached out for his hand. "It's my fault, you know."
Iori looked over at her, "What is?"
"Why Davis is like this" she looked down, "It's all my fault, why he's so evil."
"No it's not," he tried comforting her, "its Onkó's fault. Don't blame yourself for others' actions."
She looked back up at him, "We have to go back. To save him."
"Right!" he exclaimed. He grabbed the girl's hand and started into the woods.
~*~*~*~
"But Doctor, it's physically impossible. Koushiro can't be alive, can he?" Mr. Izumi looked over at his wife, who sat at the table with a cup of coffee in her hands. He turned back to the conversation on the phone, "When do you want us there? As soon as possible, huh? Alright we're on our way." He hung up the phone and turned back to his wife. "Grab the keys."
Mrs. Izumi got up in a hurry leaving her freshly made coffee behind. She ran over to the key hanger and picked out a pair of keys for the car that would take them to the hospital. She hurried over towards the door, picking up her jacket on the way out the door.
~*~
"I can't believe it's true!" the police officer shook his head. "Koushiro Izumi? Wow, he was such a good kid. Why did he turn to crime? We ran tests on the blood at the accident and it was his, so how is he still alive?"
"Well, you said the body was never found." The doctor waited for the parents to come through the entrance doors.
"Think he's . ," the officer swallowed his spit in the back of his suddenly dry throat, "He's a vampire?"
"No, I don't believe vampires bleed. Besides, they don't live around here."
"Then how do you explain all the disappearances of all those kids? Especially during the last month?"
"Freak accidents, some sick killer or insane rapist is stealing these kids and doing something with them."
Mr. And Mrs. Izumi busted through the door, "So?" Mr. Izumi asked impatiently.
"Mr. And Mrs. Izumi, please tell us everything about your son's death."
"Well, his corvette smashed into a tree and trails of blood were left at the scene."
The officer nodded his head. "A kid named Taichi Kamiya has a similar death story. As well as a kid named Yamato Ishida, although his story was a little different than the other two." He tapped a door, "Iori Hida died earlier tonight and we suspect your son because he brought both of them here and then left in a hurry so not many people would see him. He looked down the hall at another door, "Jyou Kido was also injured. He is recovering though, unlike his friend."
Mrs. Izumi cried on her husband's shoulder, "Are you telling me my son is a killer, officer?" asked Mr. Izumi.
"We're not sure yet but your son is the number one suspect."
"Why not examine the child Iori to see if you're correct."
"We tried," the doctor got his say in the conversation, "But he gave us no clues, the best thing now is to wait for Jyou to get better, so he can talk."
"A search party is on the look out for your son. They're the best in the world, they'll find him. For now, why don't we all go to the station?" He led the two worried parents out of the hospital.
~*~*~*~
"So, Matt, what do we do?" Takeru asked.
"We should have followed Marth but he left almost as soon as he came. Wonder if he's on Davis's trail?"
"Well, great, we're stranded in the middle of nowhere and we don't know where the hell people are anymore! And I'm getting fucking hungry!" Takeru yelled.
"Is that you yelling, T.K.?" Ken said as he walked into the circle of trees Yamato and Takeru were stranded in.
Miyako walked up next to him, "Oh course it's T.K., he just ate that stew and he's still hungry."
"Well a la de da" Takeru huffed. He turned back to them, "Where's your partners and Cody and Joe?"
"Well, both Izzy and Mimi heard some kind of explosion so they went to check it out and haven't returned yet," said Ken.
"I told Cody to stop playing with all them bombs. I said it would land him in the hospital one day. I told him. But did he listen? No! Even after he's had several trips to the hospital, he's still playing with them!" Miyako glared as she crossed her arms.
"Well, let's not start over-reacting. I'm sure Cody and Joe are just fine." Yamato went into his thinking mode, "Let's see, if Tai went that way, then we should go this way." He pointed in the opposite direction than Taichi had gone.
"Why do you say that?" Ken looked the way Taichi went. "If Tai went that way, shouldn't we go that way?"
"No, because everybody knows Tai's got no sense of direction, he just pretends to. That's what I saw anyway." Yamato started off in the direction he was pointing. "You all coming?" Ken and the others followed.
~*~*~*~
It seemed as if he had been wandering around for hours. He was hunting! Hunting his prey, Onkó. He sensed someone around. It wasn't Onkó but he knew the scent very well. He looked up at a tree where the wind whistled through the leaves. It seemed as if nothing was there but Daisuke knew well, he had been following him the whole time. "Marth, come down now!"
His hair was the darkest of blue like the vast ocean at night, his eyes shone like the emeralds they were. Marth jumped down from the tree he was perched in. He was dressed in royal blue with a golden crest. He had on a cape that was the same color as his hair. He was dressed in an older fashion, like a rich royal, possibly a prince. "Davis, you must stop this madness right now. I don't want to see you die. I care too much about you. I lose everybody I truly care about."
"You're the one who said I should take down Onkó!"
"Not like this, not in this form, as you are." He stared Daisuke straight in the eye, "If you defeat Onkó the way you are now, you will be no better than him. You would be evil and slaughter all just like he does now."
"Don't tell me what to do!" Daisuke snapped.
"Davis," Marth sighed, "I never told you to do anything in your life. I never forced you to want to become king. I don't want to be your father, I want to be your friend. I don't want to force you, I want to let you make your own choices. I want you to make the right choices, true, but I will follow you to death. Evil or good."
"That's a real touching speech and all, and if I had the time and the heart, maybe I would listen or care for that matter." He stormed towards him, "Now out of my way!" pushing him to the side, he continued on his search for Onkó.
Closely behind, Marth followed his king, his friend. He truly would follow him to death.
~*~*~*~
End of chapter, thank god!! I was on a writer's block for a bit! But chapter finished!!
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Anyway, next time on The Vampire King:
Daisuke: Wait! F-Tai: wha. Daisuke: I like interrupting your work! ^_^ F-Tai: -_-' I don't. So, anyway, the next time on The Vampire King- Koushiro: Can I? Can I? Can I? F-Tai: ^_^ Can you what Koushy-kun? Koushiro: Can I tell them? *Puppy Dog eyes* F-Tai: Sure! Koushiro: Okay, so on the next chapter of The Vampire King, the police are out hunting ME!! (Oh no!! Will they get me?) And Davis lands in even more trouble then he is in already, with Tai. But Onkó is traveling with Tai and the gang unexpectedly so if Tai does meet up with Davis, what's Davis going to do to Onkó? (How do you not know who Onkó is!? Wait, I don't even know what he looks like. Huh?) Hmm well that's it for now see you next time (If I'm not in jail!) Bye! *Chibi Izzy sits next to Koushiro and waves * Daisuke: Talk to him all-nice. *huffed *
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~Foxy_Tai~
"Shush!" Taichi sniffed the air like a puppy dog. He got closer to the water and kept on sniffing. "Something happened."
"A Barbeque!" Sora chirped, "That's what it smells like."
Taichi looked over to her, "Yeah, something's burning," he checked his back, "and it ain't me!" He squinted his eyes at a floating body in the water. It looked like THE BODY been the main course at the barbeque. Taichi jumped into the middle of the water and dragged THE BODY back onto the shore.
Jeffery came running to Taichi's side, "Is it Hikari?!"
"Don't look like her-looks like a guy."
"Is it that Daisuke guy?" his impatient little brother asked.
Taichi tried to see if he had a pulse. But he didn't. "Sir? -He looks younger then me!" Taichi examined him a bit more, "Hey, kid, you okay?"
"Tai, he's got no pulse." Jeffery checked the body's wrists, "He's dead."
"I wonder how it happened?"
In his mind he heard every word Jeffery and Taichi were saying above him. His eyes wanted to see, but wouldn't open. His fingers wanted to grab someone's neck, but they didn't twitch. 'I can't die! I know I can't. But why can't I move! I have to move. Can that low class-diseased boy really do this to ME! What about her? The one I want!' A word slipped out of his mouth, "Hikari."
"Tai, I thought he was dead?!"
"So did I!" 'Wait, Hikari? How does he know Hikari? Is this who I think it may be? Did Davis really get him? Did he kill himself as well?' "Onkó?"
His eyelids felt like bricks but he opened them anyway. Slowly his eyelids began to move than began to flutter. He looked up at a boy his "age" and one "older" then him. 'They must have some connection to Kari. I smell her all over them. More on the younger one then the older-he's a vampire.'
"How do you know our sister?"
'Sister? Yes I remember seeing them in her file. Jeffery and Taichi Kamiya. But I thought Taichi was dead? So he's a vampire. And on Daisuke's side.'
Taichi stared at the emerald green eyes, the window to Onko's blackened soul. 'His eyes. They seem so-so, what? They don't seem like an evil king would wear them.'
'Apparently he doesn't know who I am.' "Yo-ou s-s-sav-ed m-e." he tried being as innocent as he could. "Th-th-th-an-nk yo-ou."
Jeffery prompted him up to sit up. He had coughed up what seemed like gallons of water. Taichi thought, 'He can't be Onkó, he's way too polite.' He felt bemused, 'but still how did he know Kari? And why did he say 'Hikari'? I still can't put my finger on it!' Taichi decided to be brave, "Why did you say Hikari?"
Quickly Onkó came up with a lie, "Hikari is my wife. Or WAS my wife. There was this thunderous lightning coming out of the sky. Then we saw a boy about my age with wild hair and black eyes. Full of evil I'd say! But me and Hikari weren't married for more then a month and-she's dead because of THAT boy!" He clenched his fist. Not all of it was a lie, Hikari WAS going to be HIS queen and THAT boy did mess everything up.
Like being hit with a ton of bricks, Taichi was brought back to reality. THAT boy was Daisuke. But how? He grew angry with Daisuke. He was supposed to trust him with his sister?
"If I could just get my hands on THAT boy, I'd-I'd.." He was too stressed out to finish his sentence. "Did THAT boy hurt someone close to you, too?"
"Yeah." Taichi sighed.
Jeffery looked up at his brother in confusion. 'Who's THAT boy? Is it that bastard Onkó? But Tai had called this one Onkó before. What was going on?'
"Please let me travel with you guys," he begged, "I won't cause any harm. I just want to see the one who killed my beautiful wife." He got on his knees and started begging Taichi and Jeffery.
"All right." Taichi walked up and picked up his sword and signaled Sora to move on, "Let's go."
Onkó smirked evilly. 'This will be fun. Prepare to die, all of you. Once I get my queen and turn her to Darkness, you won't live long. And if I play my cards just right, Tai will do my dirty work for me and kill Daisuke' he cackled in his mind. Jeffery turned his head and asked if he was coming. "Oh, yeah, sorry. I'm still in shock. You guys are so nice to let me come along on your adventure."
~*~*~*~
"Doctor?" the nurse questioned as she looked at the boy with concern.
"He's not going to live. I give him only a few minutes more before his time is up. Both the boys parents and all his relatives are dead so hopefully he'll be with them in a better place." He turned back to the boy, "We couldn't save this one despite our best efforts."
The nurse bowed her head a bit and the doctor left. She turned to the boy, "Sweet dreams" and pulled the covers over his head.
(The boy talking is going to be in "" and the mother will be {} the father [] and Grandfather ())
"Where am I?"
{You're in the place between heaven and hell}
"That voice! I know that voice! Who are you?"
{Calm down, Cody.}
"Cody? That's me, Iori Hida. Right? Am I forgetting? The voice, that's- that's you mother."
{Yes. Cody, listen to me. You're in a bad position.}
"Position? What do you mean by that?"
{You have played with explosives and have killed some people. True, they were bad people-but THEY don't know where to send you, Heaven or Hell.}
"Mother! Please, I just want to be with you again."
{You cannot be with me until you have proven your worth and THEY decide whether you belong to Hell or Heaven.}
[Cody, listen to your mother.]
"That voice!? Father!"
(Cody, little man, you listen to your parents and go back to prove that you are worthy enough to come join us. AND REMEMBER YOUR PRUNE JUICE!)
"Yuk. Grandpa you still drink that stuff?"
(Darn tooting I do! Builds good bones and structure. Makes you strong and healthy.)
[{FATHER!}]
(Sorry.)
"So what do I have to do?"
[In order to join us all you have to prove yourself. Go now, Cody, we'll wait for you right here.]
{Hurry now, son. And remember we'll always be with you.}
~*~*~*~
"AHHHH!"
Koushiro ran to the distressed scream. He jumped over tree limbs and fallen branches until he reached the source of the problem. He stared blankly at Mimi, who was swatting her hand back and forth at a brambly branch.
"GET IF OFF, GET IT OFF ME!!"
"What's on you?"
She stopped suddenly and turned her head in the opposite direction than where Koushiro was standing. "Izzy, Is that you?"
"This way."
She turned her head the other way, "Well, you see, um, it was a spider. I think."
"No, it was a tree branch."
"Same thing."
"Not even related."
"Well it's all thanks to you! If you didn't leave me alone to find the others I would have never thought a tree branch was a spider. So there!" she stuck her tongue out.
A vein popped out on Koushiro's head, 'First I had to deal with doctors and now her. I never knew she was so freaking girly!' He shouted the first thing that came to his mind, "Well, it's not my fault you're blind!"
She stepped back a bit. Her eyes seemed to be filled with lament, "Yeah, I guess you didn't make me go blind, did you?" She turned the other way, away from Koushiro, away from the pain he had produced in her once again. The branches she thought were spiders brushed across her cheek, leaving trails of blood on her face. Tears forced their way down her cheek. Not due to the little pain from the cut of the branches but the pain of the memories of the cruelty of Onkó. How much she loathed him.
Koushiro mentally kicked himself, "Mimi, that's not what I meant. I mean- I'm sorry for saying that. I can't imagine how hard it must have been for you. But-" he looked at the ground, at least he had her attention, "But that's now in the past. And you have to put it behind you. We have to work together to save Davis's soul." He walked up to her and grabbed her arm, "So are you going to put it in the past?"
"You're right. It's all in the past now." She breathed in deeply and turned to face him.
He wiped the blood off of her face and stared into the brown pool of her eyes with fluttering eyelashes. "Come on," he lifted her up on his back and took off, once more for the west.
~*~*~*~
His eyes opened. Where was he? He remembered the explosion, then his mother and father, even his granddad. Iori looked up at the stars. "I'm outside" he stated the obvious. He rubbed his head, "How hard was I hit?" Rustling. Iori turned his head in the direction of the noises. Panting, they were panting, like they had run a marathon. "Hello?" The noise stopped. The breathing slowed down. "Ken? Yolei? T.K.?" He reached down for his belt of explosives. 'What about Daisuke? He may not know my voice well. But he would recognize the names of my friends.' He tried anyway, "Daisuke?"
A girl walked out of the bushes. She looked dirty and scratched up. Her hair was a mess, full of twigs and knots. But her eyes sparkled, making her look neat as a button. "Do you know my big brother, Taichi?"
"Are you Hikari?" She gave a small nod. 'So this is her. I can see the resemblance between her and Tai. I can also see why Onkó would want her. And Davis.' "My name is Iori Hida, call me Cody." He stretched his hand towards her.
She hesitated at first but then reached out for his hand. "It's my fault, you know."
Iori looked over at her, "What is?"
"Why Davis is like this" she looked down, "It's all my fault, why he's so evil."
"No it's not," he tried comforting her, "its Onkó's fault. Don't blame yourself for others' actions."
She looked back up at him, "We have to go back. To save him."
"Right!" he exclaimed. He grabbed the girl's hand and started into the woods.
~*~*~*~
"But Doctor, it's physically impossible. Koushiro can't be alive, can he?" Mr. Izumi looked over at his wife, who sat at the table with a cup of coffee in her hands. He turned back to the conversation on the phone, "When do you want us there? As soon as possible, huh? Alright we're on our way." He hung up the phone and turned back to his wife. "Grab the keys."
Mrs. Izumi got up in a hurry leaving her freshly made coffee behind. She ran over to the key hanger and picked out a pair of keys for the car that would take them to the hospital. She hurried over towards the door, picking up her jacket on the way out the door.
~*~
"I can't believe it's true!" the police officer shook his head. "Koushiro Izumi? Wow, he was such a good kid. Why did he turn to crime? We ran tests on the blood at the accident and it was his, so how is he still alive?"
"Well, you said the body was never found." The doctor waited for the parents to come through the entrance doors.
"Think he's . ," the officer swallowed his spit in the back of his suddenly dry throat, "He's a vampire?"
"No, I don't believe vampires bleed. Besides, they don't live around here."
"Then how do you explain all the disappearances of all those kids? Especially during the last month?"
"Freak accidents, some sick killer or insane rapist is stealing these kids and doing something with them."
Mr. And Mrs. Izumi busted through the door, "So?" Mr. Izumi asked impatiently.
"Mr. And Mrs. Izumi, please tell us everything about your son's death."
"Well, his corvette smashed into a tree and trails of blood were left at the scene."
The officer nodded his head. "A kid named Taichi Kamiya has a similar death story. As well as a kid named Yamato Ishida, although his story was a little different than the other two." He tapped a door, "Iori Hida died earlier tonight and we suspect your son because he brought both of them here and then left in a hurry so not many people would see him. He looked down the hall at another door, "Jyou Kido was also injured. He is recovering though, unlike his friend."
Mrs. Izumi cried on her husband's shoulder, "Are you telling me my son is a killer, officer?" asked Mr. Izumi.
"We're not sure yet but your son is the number one suspect."
"Why not examine the child Iori to see if you're correct."
"We tried," the doctor got his say in the conversation, "But he gave us no clues, the best thing now is to wait for Jyou to get better, so he can talk."
"A search party is on the look out for your son. They're the best in the world, they'll find him. For now, why don't we all go to the station?" He led the two worried parents out of the hospital.
~*~*~*~
"So, Matt, what do we do?" Takeru asked.
"We should have followed Marth but he left almost as soon as he came. Wonder if he's on Davis's trail?"
"Well, great, we're stranded in the middle of nowhere and we don't know where the hell people are anymore! And I'm getting fucking hungry!" Takeru yelled.
"Is that you yelling, T.K.?" Ken said as he walked into the circle of trees Yamato and Takeru were stranded in.
Miyako walked up next to him, "Oh course it's T.K., he just ate that stew and he's still hungry."
"Well a la de da" Takeru huffed. He turned back to them, "Where's your partners and Cody and Joe?"
"Well, both Izzy and Mimi heard some kind of explosion so they went to check it out and haven't returned yet," said Ken.
"I told Cody to stop playing with all them bombs. I said it would land him in the hospital one day. I told him. But did he listen? No! Even after he's had several trips to the hospital, he's still playing with them!" Miyako glared as she crossed her arms.
"Well, let's not start over-reacting. I'm sure Cody and Joe are just fine." Yamato went into his thinking mode, "Let's see, if Tai went that way, then we should go this way." He pointed in the opposite direction than Taichi had gone.
"Why do you say that?" Ken looked the way Taichi went. "If Tai went that way, shouldn't we go that way?"
"No, because everybody knows Tai's got no sense of direction, he just pretends to. That's what I saw anyway." Yamato started off in the direction he was pointing. "You all coming?" Ken and the others followed.
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It seemed as if he had been wandering around for hours. He was hunting! Hunting his prey, Onkó. He sensed someone around. It wasn't Onkó but he knew the scent very well. He looked up at a tree where the wind whistled through the leaves. It seemed as if nothing was there but Daisuke knew well, he had been following him the whole time. "Marth, come down now!"
His hair was the darkest of blue like the vast ocean at night, his eyes shone like the emeralds they were. Marth jumped down from the tree he was perched in. He was dressed in royal blue with a golden crest. He had on a cape that was the same color as his hair. He was dressed in an older fashion, like a rich royal, possibly a prince. "Davis, you must stop this madness right now. I don't want to see you die. I care too much about you. I lose everybody I truly care about."
"You're the one who said I should take down Onkó!"
"Not like this, not in this form, as you are." He stared Daisuke straight in the eye, "If you defeat Onkó the way you are now, you will be no better than him. You would be evil and slaughter all just like he does now."
"Don't tell me what to do!" Daisuke snapped.
"Davis," Marth sighed, "I never told you to do anything in your life. I never forced you to want to become king. I don't want to be your father, I want to be your friend. I don't want to force you, I want to let you make your own choices. I want you to make the right choices, true, but I will follow you to death. Evil or good."
"That's a real touching speech and all, and if I had the time and the heart, maybe I would listen or care for that matter." He stormed towards him, "Now out of my way!" pushing him to the side, he continued on his search for Onkó.
Closely behind, Marth followed his king, his friend. He truly would follow him to death.
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End of chapter, thank god!! I was on a writer's block for a bit! But chapter finished!!
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Anyway, next time on The Vampire King:
Daisuke: Wait! F-Tai: wha. Daisuke: I like interrupting your work! ^_^ F-Tai: -_-' I don't. So, anyway, the next time on The Vampire King- Koushiro: Can I? Can I? Can I? F-Tai: ^_^ Can you what Koushy-kun? Koushiro: Can I tell them? *Puppy Dog eyes* F-Tai: Sure! Koushiro: Okay, so on the next chapter of The Vampire King, the police are out hunting ME!! (Oh no!! Will they get me?) And Davis lands in even more trouble then he is in already, with Tai. But Onkó is traveling with Tai and the gang unexpectedly so if Tai does meet up with Davis, what's Davis going to do to Onkó? (How do you not know who Onkó is!? Wait, I don't even know what he looks like. Huh?) Hmm well that's it for now see you next time (If I'm not in jail!) Bye! *Chibi Izzy sits next to Koushiro and waves * Daisuke: Talk to him all-nice. *huffed *
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