Chapter 29:
Seras awoke to the sound of crows. Even at night, she could hear them slightly off on this desolate looking place on the verge of the forest. Seras could not remember her surroundings, like a far off dream, they seemed to bend and twist around her. The little hills in the distance looked like mountains to her, and the tree she was placed against rubbed cold up her back and gave her the shivers.
Seras was groggy, but she could still make out her unusual surroundings. The crow she had heard was perched above her in a low branch of the tree, the crescent moon was off in the west, meaning that night had just dawned a new. She looked from side to side for a hint of where D or his horse was, but neither was in sight.
"Oh just great…he did leave me here after all." Seras said longingly, wondering why, but she knew the answer. She was a burden, and the wounds on her legs throbbed to remind her of that.
Seras tried to get up, but the unsteadiness of her legs soon sent her back to the ground. She brushed up against the tree as she tried to stand, but only made it wobble a bit. After a moment or two, Seras felt something fall on her and attacked at it wildly. No matter how hard she struggled, it fell on her head and everything she saw when dark, darker than the night had been.
Hmm…this would happen to me. Have I gone bind already? She asked wondering, and felt her stomach roar in hunger. Well, at least I am not def, hehe. She joked, knowing that this was still bad. Then she touched her head and felt that the material move, whatever it was. She got a hold of a clump of it and rubbed it against her fingers.
Seras knew on instant what it was and took it off. The black material slid down to her hands and she could see again. "Hehehe…D's cape. Here I was thinking I was blind, hehe." She looked solemn for a moment before she continued. "Hmm…I wonder where he went off to."
As if beckoning to her question, round the tree from her far left came D's horse, whose name she never did know. The horse's eyes she saw first as they glow red in the moon's shadows, creating an ominous appearance, but his hoof beats were very recognizable. The horse moved closer to Seras so that she could see him completely. The horse stood like a giant in front of her now, and was very intimidating.
The horse moved closer to Seras and lowered his head enough for her to rub his head and feel his tough mane. The horses breath came in long strands, not too deep, but loud enough for her to hear them without concentrating.
Seras looked to him and still held rubbing his mane. "Where's your master?" She asked as the horse, starting her in the eyes.
The horse backed up from her, enough so that she could see his full portrait, and stomped the ground three times. He continued by jolting his head backwards from where he had appeared and made a loud horse like knee sound.
Seras could understand what the horse meant, even if she did not know the exact words of him. The depth of the horse eyes were reassuring to her, and made it seem like he was human in a sense. Seras collected D's cape and bundled it so that she could hold onto it with one hand easily.
"So he is that way, right?" Seras asked, just to make sure she understood the horse.
The horse shook his mane in a downward thrust, similar to a nod of the head in the affirmatives position. The horse blew through his snout making a sneeze like sound as he shook his mane again.
"Bless you." Seras said and giggled a little. "All right. Will you be willing to take me to him?" She asked, and then wondered how she would hoist herself up enough to get onto the horses back.
The horse shook his head again in the positive position and walked a little further so that Seras could reach his mane and harness.
"Hmm…how am I ever going to get up here?" Seras pondered out loud as she felt her weak grip on the reins, but the horse seemed to have worked this out in his mind before Seras even thought of this.
The horse once again jolted his head quickly backwards, the reins, along with Seras, went flying over his head and onto his back. Seras gasped to find that she was in an upright sitting pose on the horse's back, perfectly comfortable, though the landing was a bit rough. She let go of the reins with her left hand and inspected it, thinking that it would have came out of her socket with the quick jolt, but it was still in the condition it had been a moment before.
"Wow…thanks a lot." Seras said in bewilderment at the horse's strength to do something so quick and efficiently. "Hey, you have probably done that a lot for your master. Right? That is how you can drag me up her so quickly." Seras realized as she remembered that D had done the exact same thing during the fight with the wolves.
Again, the horse bobbed his head up and down, gesturing that she was correct. The horse then turned around and trotted at a slow pace back the way he had come. The shadows of the trees loomed above the both of them, and Seras shivered a bit through the cold chill to the wind and the dark appearance of the woods. The horse, though, seemed undaunted by it, but was going at a slow pace as not to hurt Seras any more than she was.
Within ten minuets, the horse took a small meandering path into the woods, but not too far up ahead was a hat, long shaped and wide brimmed. It did not appear to be on a head, but on a whitish mound that seemed to pop up from the ground. Seras did not know what to make of this, or what it was to begin with. The horse continued until the thing was no more than a foot away.
The horse went down on two legs quickly, which jolted Seras forward off of his back and onto the ground with a thud. "Hey, a little warning would be nice." Seras complained and winced as her bottom now ached a bit. She rubbed it the best she could without moving too much, and then realized that she was being stared at by a pair of red eyes that seemed to emanate from under the hat.
Seras moved closer, inching a long until she was only a few inches from the white with a black hat. She realized that it was D's head, but she gasped when she saw no more of him.
"What…wh-how? Where's the rest of you?" Seras asked; her eyes bugging out of her skull as she could now see that the red was D's eyes. The horse moved behind Seras quickly and nudged her on the shoulder warmly.
D, still stone emotionless, stared at her for a moment, and then smiled a little; amused at Seras expression. "I am buried under the dirt." He said, trying to hold down the little smirk as best as he could, "You fell asleep before noon, and the sun exhausted me."
"In other words, he over heated himself because he would not listen to me." D's left hand said as it seemed to glare out from under a mound of dirt. "Didn't I warn you of this D? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"
D ignored his hand's sarcasm; this was not the first time, nor the last, that his hand had to rub it in. Seras looked at the both of them in wonderment and the pain in her bottom seemed non-existent.
"So, the sun bothers you too? I thought you were only a half?" Seras wondered, trying to figure out why it would bother him still.
"I am only a half, and it is because I am a half that the sun does not kill me as it would a normal vampire. I still can get overheated by the sun, and the earth is the only way to revive me, similarly to a plant's roots. The water helps to keep me moist and give me a better protection from the sun's heat." D said, like he would explain to a child.
Seras sat there looking at how strange it was to see a head pop up out of the ground. "How long do you have to stay in there?" She wondered.
"Until my blood has enough water to stand the heat…" D turned his head upwards to the sky and closed his eyes half way, like if he were tired and ready for bed.
Seras felt the ground underneath her and lay down as well, deciding that they were probably not going to go any where for awhile. Seras used D's cape as a blanket and then rolled over, making sure to not damage her arms in the process. Only when she moved did she realize how close she was laying next to the bump of dirt that she assumed to be his body. D seemed not to notice as he gazed at the stars. For a moment, Seras thought that it was her master, as it was the same forlorn expression, the same look of age and wisdom.
Seras grinned to herself at the thought. She sighed slightly, but then felt something strange in the back of her head. As if someone or something was tugging at her and would not stop. Seras winced a little and bared her teeth as if in some new pain.
D noticed her distress and looked sideways at her. He could almost feel her pain, and knew why it was. "Seras, what do you see?" He asked in his cold, but soothing monotone voice.
Seras seemed to calm down a bit upon hearing his voice. She opened her eyes, but did not see the forest any more. Instead she saw a darkened sea, and wood beneath her. She saw a girl, fair looking, but extremely pale and dressed in a dark color, almost hard to discriminate from the darkened back ground. She looked down at her hands, and saw big hands.
Seras gasped, and realized that her connection with her master allowed her to see what he saw at certain times. She wondered if she spoke, would it be through her master's voice, and had to try it out.
"I see…" She paused for a moment and was glade to hear her own voice before continuing, "I see an ocean. We are on an ocean. There is another person with me, a lady whom I have never seen before, but I know that she is a vampire. A real vampire, not made by any freak chip…she seems so familiar." Seras closed her eyes once more and opened again to see D's red eyes staring into hers.
D noticed the questioning glance in them and did not need for her to ask. "I do not know who you saw, but I do know that the body of water you mentioned is nor more than a week away. He is close, your master, though I thought he would have come by other means than a raft."
Seras felt groggy again, like her head was going to explode through a pressure, and a hunger that threatened her humanity. Seras teeth jabbed out of her mouth as her instinct started to take over, the pressure from the connection of her master and the hunger and weakness she had been feeling finally took over. The color of Seras eyes deepened in a craze, the pain seemed to only make her stronger as her teeth bore out completely; stretching her jaw into a new length.
Seras was barely in control of herself. She stared at D, as if searching the arteries on his half dirt covered neck for a place to bite. She inched closer, D being under the dirt, could not move much, but was fully aware of what was happening, and what she was going to try to do. D knew he had to snap her out of it, because if she drank his blood, then she would become something worse than a vampire.
"Seras! Wake up!" He said forcefully, but not fretful, "Horse, back off, I do not want you to get hurt." The horse did as he said; Seras was advancing quickly, and was now right next to him.
There was no recognition in her eyes, no response at all to the mention of her name. Seras was now almost at his neck, but something happened that she did not expect. It took him a lot of strength, but D managed to sit up. All the dirt fell off his black armor like it was reflected, some stuck in the crevasses, but not enough to hinder his movement.
Seras lunged; face first, for his neck, but D moved in close. He stopped her by pushing himself into her, somewhat of an embrace, but she missed her target. D wrapped his arms around her, to restrain her movement so that she could not try again. Seras struggled, but to no avail. Even though D held her, he tried not to hurt the wounds she already had from before, even in this vampire state.
"Seras, listen, this is not who you are. If you taste of my blood, you will never be yourself. I may be half, but a vampire's blood is still dead. You will change forever." D said with his calm soothing voice, still holding her.
Seras moved her head over D's shoulder, and she glared at his neck. Her teeth were bare, but she could not bite, not after hearing D's calm voice. Her vampire self wanted to bite him, but Seras would not allow it. She struggled some more, torn for what to do. D just stayed there, believing that she would make the right decision, thought; surprised his left hand was silent.
Eventually, Seras just gave up and rested her head on his shoulder as it was there and she was tired again. The strain of her slight transformation was great.
Weakly, she managed to ask, "How did you know I wouldn't bite?"
D half grinned and replied smoothly, "I know what it is like to always be hungry, and how to have self restraints." He said, and then pulled back a little so that he could see her eyes, tell what she is thinking. "I also know that you look up to me as if I was your master, and you would not bite your master."
Seras nodded and then realized that his grip tightened a little around her, not that it hurt, but she could feel the pressure. She looked up at him, and did something that she wasn't even thinking of. She pulled herself closer and pushed her face up against his, kissing him deeply. D gasped at this sudden movement and after a moment of this, backed off, though he was still holding her. Seras again rested her head on his chest and sighed, she expected that to happen, but had to try.
D didn't exactly know what to think, but was glade that she made the right decision; even if this action was out of desperation, he had to admit, he did not mind. His body had still not fully regenerated, so D lay back down. This time, however, Seras would not let go and they lay together just starring at the sky until both felt ready to leave once more.
All right. This was just a last minuet idea, for a special fan I have, but I was actually going to do something similar any how, so it worked out well. SO this one is definitely for all you D fans reading this fan fic, and a certain TigerRain04 who has been jumping my chops to get this fan fic done…yea, your still my bud big sis. Thanks^^ and a Happy B-day to you! See ya all next chapter…MWH HA HA…