Previously:

He couldn't breathe properly at all anymore and took short shallow gasping breaths. A thought dawned on him that made him shiver more. I'm going to die in here. In this cold room alone, she's not going to get to me in time. I'm not going to be saved this time. I'm going to die.

Shadow desperately looked around before jumping into the main house through an open window, keeping an eye out for people who were around, careful not to be seen.
That was one of the times where her name suited her best; Shadow. Hidden deep within dark shadows she slunk around the wall and to the door. Grabbing the key off of the wall beside it she quietly jammed it into the lock on the door. Pulling it back her eyes widened.

He felt a gust of light wind as the door was opened, looking up he saw a figure stood in the doorway and for a second thought it was Ryu coming back to finish him off. Once his eyes focused on the girl he saw it was one of his cousins that he only saw when they went to the New Year's banquet.
He was unable to move even the tiniest little bit but kept a hand over the wounds on his chest. His shirt was covered with blood as was the rest of him; a red circle surrounded him from where his blood had poured out of him onto the floor.
"Thank you...for finding me." He could barely breathe now and felt like his body weighed a ton.

Shadows eyes saddened deeply. It was like what happened to her friend a long time ago. She dashed to her cousin's side.
"I have to get you out of here..." she said, her voice was soft, but she was frantic.
"I'm going to have to move you, so please try not to make any noise" Shadow said lightly, gingerly putting her hand under his back, and another under his knees. Gently lifting herself to her feet se turned and started to walk out of the door, closing and locking it behind her. Still careful that no one was coming she bolted out the door and they were soon concealed in the plants.

He was bigger than her but so thin he wasn't surprised she could carry him. He held onto her feeling how warm she was, he was freezing now and shaking uncontrollably.
The fresh air felt amazingly good but didn't help his breathing, it took longer to take in air now and he could feel his heart beat slowing. Blood was still flowing out of the holes in his chest but his hand stopped it a little buying him more time.
"I need...to lie down. Can't breathe...have to go to...a hospital." He leaned into her trying to get warm and didn't even notice that she was now covered in blood also.

Shadow nodded and hugged onto him, trying to warm him up to get his blood flowing again. She laid him down on the ground near the passage.
"We can't wait for long, we're going to have to leave soon, or they'll find us." She said, her eyes shot both sides, but amazingly, no one seemed to notice the two.
Shadow looked to her cousin a while later,
"That's it, we can't stay any longer, we'll have to go, now" She said, putting her hand under him once again, and making it through the hole in the wall.

She started running at her full capacity, heading down the street towards the forest.

He warmed up a little bit but it only made the pain return. He could feel the blood still seeping out the holes in his chest and he held his hand over them tighter. It was his first time out of the estate ever but he wasn't even able to focus on the things that passed them.

The pain in his chest was getting worse and he held onto his cousin tighter. She was younger than he was yet seemed to know what to do. Her clothes were now soaked in his blood and he wondered how much he had left in his body still.

"How much farther is it?" He felt his body getting weaker and weaker but knew he would be dead before he transformed.

"A couple more feet" Shadow said lightly, loosening her grip. She bolted down the street and burst into the hospital.
"You have...to help him" she said, slightly out of breath, though that didn't matter, her cousin did. Nurses with a stretcher came out immediately. Shadow laid her cousin down and waited while they took him away. That was when she first realized that she was covered in blood.

Everything in the hospital was white and the total opposite of the dark room he'd just been in. The nurses helped him lay on his side as they took his shirt off and gasped at the scars that covered his body.

Note:

Ah the second chapter is done already. I've been working on it while my pc was being fixed so I have quite a few ready to post. I'll leave you hanging with this one for a little while until I can finish editing the next chapter.

Thanks once again to my friends on Gaia who made this possible and to my best friend Holly who encouraged me to post this.