Hello! I know its been awhile but my computer screwed up again and it took me forever to fix it! I hope you like this chapter, because I thought it was really good! I'm sorry if theres some grammer issues but I don't think theres that much. I know the previous chapter kinda. . .um. . .sucked, but that was really rushed and not the way I usualy write.

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Key:

". . . ." Talking

'. . . .' Thoughts

(A.N. . . .) Author's Note

(Dream)

Serenity screamed from the top of her lungs as the fire licked at her bare stomach and all below it but amazingly the scorching flames never marred her flawless skin, only caused her constant, unending pain.

She caught her breath and bit her lip against the pain as the figure of a man matirialized from the hell-fire to stand in front of her. He was much taller than she and seemed to have no distinquishable features except for a mouth and two eyes that seeped brackish, rancid smelling blood that congealed on his cheeks and chin. He leaned toward her and ran a burning finger from her stomach to her collarbone. His breath made the bile in her stomach rise to the back of her throut, he smelled strongly of death.

" Why are you here" She asked in as calm a voice as she could muster under the circumstances. He leaned even closer and rubbed his blood streaked cheek against hers. If she had had the ability to move at that moment she would have bent and wretched until her guts came out, but since she didn't she swallowed the bile and closed her eyes against the sight of him. " I'm always with you, you just don't know it. " He whispered into her ear. " No seal, no matter how strong, can ever separate your soul from mine, Serenity, light cannot live without dark." He pulled away and smiled as she shuddered. "And you know that as well as I, don't you? You know that i'm a part of you, Serenity, and you of me." There was a long pause and he stared at Serenity's downcast eyes. "Your right Chaos", She raised her eyes to his and a bright light burst from her forhead" I could never be a part of you, but you are a part of me and I sealed you away and in doing so, sealed that part of myself away. I will not let you bind me! LEAVE ME BE, CHAOS" With these words Chaos disappeared in a flurry of flames, the place in which she stood was blown away as though by a great wind and left her standing in what seemed to be empty space. But she knew where she was. It was the very middle of everything, the very center of creation. It was the heart of all space and time.

"Serenity."

She spun around and was faced with the ones who had ruined any chance of a happy life she had ever had. There stood two women of identical hight and build but at the same time complety opposite of eachother. The woman on the left had jet black hair and warm, motherly, lavender eyes. While the other had hair that was a severe shade of white and chillingly cold slate colored eyes. Each one held one hand raised between them and floating above them was a ball that was seeming made up of a chunk of space complete with stars and galaxies.

"Destiny. Fate. So what part of my soul are we going to kill today" Serenity bit out with apparent venom.

"We have never. . .",

"Wished any harm to you. . .",

"Serenity."

Serenity laughed sardonicly " What is it you want"

"We only wish. . .",

"To warn you. . .",

"Serenity."

"Warn me of what"

" We can not tell you all. . .",

"By order of the Gods.

"Fine then! Just tell me so I can leave"

Fate and Destiny' s eyes became blank and cloudy as the ball that hovered between them became bright.

" Upon a moonless night you shall unwillingly release the one who is bound by silver ties and in return he will bring upon you the Red Tide. . .and the fate unto which you are bound. . .",

" A fate that will be delivered unto you by the blue moon. . .Be ready for the five that carry it with them.",

" One will protect you until the end of time."

"One will love you and suffer for it."

"One will fall to ashes."

"One will ascend."

"And one will follow you into the mouth of Hell."

With the last line said Fate and Destiny's eyes refocused and the ball dulled to its normal luster. Destiny looked at her with pity. " Serenity, This may not be the order in which these things happen it is only as we see them." As she said this they and the world of stars that surrounded them started to fade away. " Be ready for the five"

(End Dream)

With a gasp Serenity shot up in her huge, four poster bed. "What the Hell? That was no ordinary nightmare" She slid out from beneath the covers and padded barefoot across the wood flooring of her room to the huge mirror that hung just opposite of the bed. When she reached it she stared at her reflection gravely. On her right cheek was streaks of what seemed to be dried blood. She shuddered at what she already knew was there but had to look anyways. She pulled the neck of her black nightgown down and revealed a red line that streched down from her collarbone. It was a fresh burn.

She turned away from the mirror and walked out onto her balconey that overlooked the wide expanse of the ocean. She ran her hand agitatedly through over her face and through her silvery hair. "What does it all mean?. . ." She whispered to the uncareing ear of the wind.

(In the other end of the city. . .(

Three men sat around a flimsy table in a decrepit old house that seemed like it was on its last leg.

" Damn it! I fold. . ." Cried one with chestnut colored hair in a long braid as he threw his cards across the room.

" Maxwell! This house is bad enough without you throwing shit everywhere!. . .I'll raise. " A chinese man with jet black hair kept back in a painful looking ponytail threw a couple red chips into the already large pile.

The last one, A tall man with auburn hair that covered up one eye, put down his cards and watched with apparent amusemet as the chinese man threw his cards at the wall. A royal flush.

All three of them had gleaming golden eyes with catlike pupils that glowed slightly in the dimly lit room.

' Maxwell ' cleared his voice makeing his companions look at him. "Wu-man! This house is bad enough without you throwing shit everywhere" With a growl 'Wu-Man ' shot up from the table, makeing it topple over, and chased the braided one around the room.

A man with platinum blonde hair and, like the others, golden eyes, walked into the room and tried to get the others attention but was failing horribly. He finaly managed by yelling at the top of his lungs, something he rarely did. "DUO, WUFEI, TROWA"

The three stopped in their tracks and stared inquisitivly at the blonde. " I think you all should see this." All of them followed him into a dark bedroom whos only furnishings was a dresser and a bed. In the middle of the bed was a man with messy chocolate colored hair. He writhed as though in intense pain, he suddenly opened his mouth, revealing long, sharp fangs, and let out a blood curtling scream after which he started yelling in an unknown language.

The blonde looked with sad eyes over to the others. "Its just getting worse one night after anouther. "

Duo watched with wide eyes as his best freind started to sob while still screaming the words none of them could desipher. " Isn. . .isn't there anything you can do for him, Quatre"

Quatre shook his head and gestured for them to follow him out of the room. He closed the door and went into the livingroom and sat down on a couch the others gathering around him in concern for their mutual freind.

" Do you even know whats wrong with him, Winner" Wufei asked as he leaned against the wall.

Quatre rubbed his eyes wearily. " No. His symtoms are synominous with the possesed, but Heero's a vampire and our spirits are to strong to be possesed by anouther. . .plus he only does this when he sleeps."

"Is it possible that this is only a nightmare" Duo asked hopefuly.

Quatre shook his head decisivly. " No. It seems more like memorys. . .maybe something he's repressed. "

There was a silence that followed his statement , filled only with Heero's horrified voice. Then it stopped.

" He's awake. Whatever you do don't let Heero know that you know about this! Its bound to be a touchy subject. . ." Quatre hissed at them then got up and left the room.

Heero rose from his tangled bed and stumbled across the hallway and into the bathroom where he slammed the door shut and knelt by the toilet and vomited up all the blood and bile that had previously occupied his stomach.

When he was done he wiped his mouth and stared into the broken mirror. His face was pale and streaks of dried blood ran down his cheeks and spattered his chest. This was what he did everytime he woke,It was due to the nightmares that had plagued him every night even before he had become a vampire, a time he could hardly remember. Last night had been the worse than anyother time, the nightmare more vivid and realistic as though it were actualy happening. He shook his head to clear his mind, he didn't have time to think. He needed to eat.

He went back to his dull, lifeless room and changed into a pair of jeans and a black T-shirt and went into the liveing room where his freinds carefuly avoided his gaze. 'So they heard me again. . .' He thought disgustedly .

He wasn't stupid, he knew that they heard him. But he didn't want to talk to them about it, so he let them beleive that he didn't know.

Quatre stepped out of the hallway and greeted him with a sunny smile. . .well as sunny as a vampire's smile can get anyways. "Hey Heero! Are you going out" He asked as Heero walked toward the door.

"Need to feed." He grunted as he walked out into the cold winter air.

Heero started off toward his feeding grounds. It was a place where whores, beggers and theives came to do buisness, in other words , easy prey. Actualy the easiest prey were children but he had never been able to harm a child.Innocence was hard to keep in these times and he would not be the one to rip it away from them.

He reached a strech road that was occupied by a peppering of men and women talking and huddleing over barrels filled with fire. Heero picked his victim, a young woman standing alone in the shadow of a crumbling building, watching the men (and sometimes the women) with hungry eyes.

With a thought he gave his eyes the illusion of being blue instead of gold and made his way silently toward his prey. He made his steps heavier so that she knew he was coming and stood before her with a seductive curve to his lips. "Are you open for buisness" He asked her with an added huskiness in his voice. She stared up at his eyes, obviously looking for the glint of gold. When she was satisfied with her search she smiled up at him revealing several missing teeth "How much do you have" she asked him while her eyes roved over his body. " As much as you want." He stated it as though it were a fact and the woman's face lit up with delight. She turned and led him into a darkened allyway where the only light came from the full moon above them. Without any hesitation his 'companion' started to remove her clothing.

"No, wait. "

She looked up into his eyes in suprise at his comment and he calmly let his illusion fall. She didn't scream or run, just stood there and stared. He leaned in and let his fangs sink into her skin and drank until her body became lax and cold against him then he simply threw her aside and went in search of another.

There had to be answers! Serenity growled in frustrasion as she threw yet anouther dust-covered volumn into the pile that was steadily becomeing taller than the table they lay on. The prophesy had sounded fairly straight-forward but she knew very well that anything associated Destiny and Fate was anything but that. There were hidden meanings and half -truths in their words and she had to find out what they meant!

She sat down at the said table and covered her face with her hands. There had to be something she was missing. She reached over and pulled a peice of paper to her. She had been careful to write the prophesy down almost immiediatly after she had woke.She read and re-read the words over and over again but the peices didn't fit.

Bloodtide. . .that word stood out the most to her. She knew that if she could just find out what that one word meant than this whole knot would come undone.

With a sigh she lifted herself from the tbe table and walked out into the hallway that led into the huge entryway of her manor. She donned her blinding cloak,pulling the hood up to hide her face, and exited through the huge oak doors and into the moonlight.

Heero wiped the blood of his last 'victim' from his mouth, stepped over the young man's body and started back toward tbe house in which he and his freinds lived. He found that this nights hunting had taken him farther away from his normal haunts than he was comfortable with. In fact it had taken him all the way across town, a place that most vampires now avoided. He stepped out from an allyway and found with acute dismay that he was only within a few minutes walk of White Manor.

White Manor was a huge mansion that was in shambles and doomed to collapse until about a decade ago when it mysteriously seemed to rebuild itself into its former glory. It was said that a woman who dressed only in white lived there.It was also said that she hunted vampires which could very well be true considering every vampire within a miles radius of it had disappeared without a trace since she appeared in the city. This was why his kind avoided this place. This was why he needed to leave.Now.

But just as he turned back into the allyway he saw movement from the corner of his eye. He slipped into the shadows and watched with his extremely sharp vision as the huge double oak doors to White Manor opened and revealed a woman dressed in a blindingly white cloak and carrying a white staff. She stepped out from the door started in his direction. Heero cast around for an excape route but found none that wouldn' t put him directly in her path. He muttered some choice words to himself while his mind kept cranking out the same answers. His only options were to,A: Stay in the shadows and pray that she didn't see him. Or B: Run like hell. Neither sounded very enticing.

Suddenly he caught her scent on the wind, which ment. . .He looked up and realized that option B was blown to hell. She was only a couple of yards away and closing in on him with every second.

Serenity searched the area around her carefully. ' Don't know why I still look', She thought, ' I mean what vampire would be stupid enough to came around here now? ' Suddenly she heard a softly uttered curse and jumped despite herself. She whispered a few words in lunarien to make the crystal atop her staff light up and pointed the beam in the direction the sound had come from.

The male vampire that stood there merely stared at her with his golden eyes shineing in the light.

"What are you doing here vampire" She asked as though she wasn't going to kill him in a few seconds time.

" I came here by accident." His voice was a soft baritone and would have been enjoyable to listen to, if not for the montone of it.

"Accident"

" I was hunting and I ended up here."

" You do realize that I speacialize in killing vampires"

"Yes."

" Then why don't you run"

He didn't answer, just stared at her with those disconcerting eyes. The silence streched on until a gust of wind suddenly blew her hood back and revealed her face. For some reason this seemed to impact him in some way. He doubled over and fell to ground where he, much to her digust, spat up a veritable fountain of crimson blood. He moaned, placeing both of his hands on his head as though to protect it from something.She watched as he slowly slipped from concousness and fell, face first, onto the cold cement.She pushed away the stab of pity that ran through her at the site of his prone form and positioned her staff above him. . .and hesitated. 'He's a vampire, Serenity, he would suck you dry givin the chance!' She told herself viciously. But there was still that annoying little voice in her head that told her that there was something different about this one, something unique that should not be destroyed. "Argh, fine, FINE! I won't kill him! I can not BELEIVE i'm doing this!. . .And now i'm talking to myself! JUST WONDERFUL" She rolled her eyes at herself and stared at the vampire. "What am I going to do with you" She whispered to the night air and waited for the answer to come to her.Then it did. "No!Oh no,no,no! I can't, Iwon't"

" I cannot beleive I did that. . ." Serenity stood next to the bed that her new 'houseguest' currently occupied. She smacked herself in the head started toward the door where she glanced back at him. "Selene, let my instincts be right."

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