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A/N: As long as I get reviews, I'll keep updating.

Ocecat: (laughs) I did slap him for it.

Resurrected

Chapter 8

The Prince released his fangs from his meal and gulped down the last mouthful of blood. Majid pulled the dead prey from Kamal's bed and dragged it out of the room. The royal Persian Vampire noticed the skinny man was afraid of him. He could even smell Majid's fear. But, it was right for the prey to be wary of the predator.

He heard a groan from Arsalan and looked in his direction. His friend was just now starting to become conscious. The healers had told him to watch him before they had left.

"P…Prince?" Arsalan barely managed. Kamal got up from his bed and went to his friend's side, sitting on the edge of his Arsalan's bed.

"You shouldn't be speaking, Arsalan. You're too weak." Kamal said softly. Arsalan smiled a little.

"I know. Just….wanted to…..make sure….." He stopped, catching his breath.

"Make sure what? Make sure you weren't alone?" The Prince asked. Arsalan nodded weakly. Kamal sighed.

"Arsalan, what made you think I'd leave you alone in here? You were with me when I was starving in the turning chambers. Besides, Empress Fereshteh told me to stay in here with you, as did the healers."

"So y-…you're saying that…..you would….be….somewhere else….if you c-could?"

"Of course not. Even if Empress Fereshteh told me to be somewhere else, I most likely would have disobeyed her." Kamal said.

"And then…you'd…be executed." Arsalan replied.

"Sure, but at least I'd die knowing I returned your favor."

"You're…such…a dumbass…"

"Wow, thanks. Before I make you go back to sleep, can you at least try to remember who it was that hurt you?"

"I…I think it was a girl…yeah, a girl…with black hair…"

"A girl with black hair? Do you think it was Shahdee?"

"N-no….she didn't smell like a Vampire, but….she had ruby eyes….and her hair…was bound up in….a ponytail."

"And you said she wasn't a Vampire?"

"Y-yeah…"

"Thanks, Arsalan. That's good enough. I'm going to get someone else to stay with you while I try to find who hurt you, is that okay?"

"Yeah…kick their…ass…"

Kamal chuckled as he exited the room and found a few guards to stay with his friend. He asked them to stay with Arsalan and set off to find the one who almost killed him.

The Prince tried just about every room in the Palace before he heard screams coming from Arsalan's chambers. He rushed there and threw open the doors, eyes widening.

All four of the guards were dead, body parts splayed out across the floor. A lone female with a black ponytail and flowing, white robes had a sharp, wooden stake raised over Arsalan's heart, and was about to plunge it in…..

"STOP!" Kamal screamed. The woman briskly turned around and, to the Prince's relief, she fit the description of the person who almost killed Arsalan. He drew his swords from their sheathes and held them a battle-ready position.

"Who are you!" The lady with the stake asked.

"I don't have to explain myself for you, because if Arsalan gave the description right then you must be the female who hurt him!" Kamal growled, fangs bared and eyes glowing.

"I'm not going to tell you who I am if you don't tell me who you are!" She said with defiance. The Prince sighed and lowered his weapons.

"I am the Prince of Persia, fifth son of King Sharamon. My name is Kamal." He said, trying to remain calm. His Vampiric nature told him to stay angry and fight it out.

The woman looked awe-struck as the stake fell out of her limp hands.

"You are the Prince of Persia? The one that knew my sister…are you the Prince that knew her?" She asked, circling around him to examine him. Kamal didn't like her doing this.

"Who is your sister?" He asked, remaining calm.

"You mean was! My sister was the daughter of the Maharajah in India, she was kidnapped and killed by Executioners!" She cried. This stunned the Prince into shock.

"Might I…ask you what her name was?"

"Farah!"

He had never had a stronger feeling of being hit with a sack of bricks than he did now.

Eyes wide and still glowing, Kamal replied after a moment of uncomfortable silence.

"Yes. I knew her."

"THEN YOU WERE THE ONE THAT LET HER DIE!" She lunged at him with venomous ice in her eyes, stabbing him in the shoulder with the stake before he could react.

The Prince cried out with agony as the wood was drove into him, finding that it was weakening him. He doubled over, falling to the floor and clutching the stake embedded in him. Dark, unnatural blood began to ooze from the deep wound, but he held onto consciousness for he and his friend's sake.

"Y-yes…I knew her…but we received a note from the… Executioners… explaining that she was already dead… before we could go searching… for her!" He panted, teeth bared in pain as his vision became blurry and senses dimmed.

"You could have gone searching for her anyway, you know how they lie! They never tell the truth and you could have found her and brought her home safely if she hadn't died already!" The woman shrieked.

Kamal forced himself to grip the stake and he slowly began to pull it out, eyes clenched in agony and fangs tearing into his bottom lip. He then managed to rip it out of him, and he felt himself release the most unholy shriek of pain he had ever heard; sounding much like a Vampire in distress, which was what it was anyway. He pressed his palm tightly to his wound as the female in front of him took the stake lying a short distance away from him and raised it above his heart, eyes narrowed with deadly intention.

As the stake descended, five black feather-tipped arrows zipped through the air and imbedded themselves in the woman's back. Her eyes widened, and she slowly fell next to Kamal, dead. He looked into her lifeless eyes and found, with his Vampiric nature, anguish and sorrow.

He only caught glimpse of a woman slowly walking up to him who was wearing a long, red skirt that had short brown hair and carried a bow and arrows before his vision faded to black and he passed into the realm of unconsciousness.

A/N: Oooooh, two new characters!

Prince: Yay for new characters!

Ancient-v: New characters are good. PLEASE R&R!