sAnGuine

Death cannot stop true love; it can only delay it for a little while"

FINAL CHAPTER: HOLY SANGUINE

Days had passed since their initial meeting. Athrun would always appear from time to time to just talk to her. He had developed his feelings for her as she for him.

"You're not afraid of me?" Cagalli would always askhim.

"Why would I?" Athrun would always answer.

"Seriously?"

"I wouldn't be here if I'm afraid. Why are you asking me that same question for the past days?" Athrun asked, he just ignore it the first she had asked her but he became restless when everyday, she would start their conversation with those words. He has to know her reasons.

"A lunar eclipse will take place in the 19th of May? Do you know what it means?"

"I would if you would tell me," Athrun said as if to teased her.

"Then listen, the 19th day is my transformation as a full grown vampire. That night, I will lose control of myself; it is a ceremony of my kind. If my lips will never taste blood, I'll die." Cagalli explained.

"What do you want me to do then?" Athrun asked. I couldn't free you.

"I want you to just leave me alone until I die."

"What?" Athrun couldn't believe what he is hearing right now.

"You have no other choice. It's either I kill or be killed."

The day had come but since Yzak had invited him for a drink at about 10 pm, he could do nothing but say yes leaving Cagalli alone.

The lunar eclipse has started and Cagalli knew that time had come. She felt sad because Athrun was out of sight even though she had told him about the ceremony and happy because he will never witness her transformation. There were also no people to guard her I could always trust him my secrets.Why were we born a world apart? Why did I become a vampire and you a hunter?

No one is guarding her at the moment as Athrun said that the group will go for a drink tonight and he can't just say no. Cagalli felt sad as she remembered his words before he went out, "I am sorry leave you tonight but you see, will be celebrating the birthday of our Boss. They would not believe any of my reason for not coming there."

She couldn't think ahead as her fangs started to grow and her eyes had become a clod red taking control of her golden eyes and her personhood. It's been a month since she had her rations but tonight no one would give her a glass of blood and she is thirsting for it. By now, she is a mere vampire, Cagalli as a person was lost; her alter ego is taking the control.

She tried to tear down the bars but it was too strong. She then tried the walls but failed to escape. She is becoming hysterical, she had to drink blood, and it's a necessity in order to survive yet

She tried to do everything but to no avail. Her hunger had worsened with each hour passing by.

Athrun look at his wristwatch, it reads 3 am. I wonder what is happening to Cagalli? She told me that tonight her transformation would be out of her control. Damn! How could I leave her?

"Hey Athrun, are you all right? You seem out of yourself tonight, you have to stop whatever it is that you're thinking. Just enjoy" Yzak said

"I have to leave now, a very important thing have showed up," with this he decided to leave.

"It's too early, don't leave yet. Life is good," Yzak called out but to no avail. He only watches his shadowy disappear. "Some important thing huh? What is more important than having fun? You're really a loser Athrun Zala"

After two hours, Athrun went back to where Cagalli is only to find out that it was a different person, someone other than her. What have I done? It's my fault she ended this way.

Upon realizing the presence of a person, Cagalli stood up and reached her hand outside the bars and gave a piercing look towards Athrun. As she couldn't reach him, she started again to become hysterical as this time she saw a prospect victim. She tried to reach him again, but to no avail.

Athrun just stood there, watching her to reach for him. "Cagalli, try to fight it. I know you could do it," he shouted as if suddenly he had located his voice. Yet the effect was useless. Cagalli, couldn't you here me? He tried for some more but the results were the same. He couldn't bear the sight anymore; he couldn't see her in such pain with him doing nothing but to say words.

He the decided to enter her bar, he was careful not to let her out. He then stared at her, " Cagalli, try to fight it. You told me that you did not like to become a vampire, didn't you? I believe you when you said it, please believe in yourself that you could do it." He said in a plea but these words didn't registered to Cagalli for she was a vampire now, a monster thirsting for blood.

Unable to withstand what his seeing right now, he went to her and embraced her immediately, he wanted to let her feel that she is not alone, that he will be by her side. Upon doing such, he had realized his feelings for her. Deep inside he knew, he had loved her deeply and will continue to love her whatever happens yet he also knew that his life is in danger because the possibility of her returning back is ambiguous.

"I'm sorry, I could not locate their hideouts," Kira said apologetically.

"You're just short if time," Dullindal said. "But time is the key to everything. The lunar eclipse had occurred but Cagalli is nowhere to be found. Now tell me Mwu that the prophecy is right," Murrue answered. Their efforts of locating her were put to waste.

You're right, how can the prophecy be true if Cagalli is not with us. "I'm sorry to have failed you, the prophecy and all as well as my search group. We have found clues but it is really hard to decipher them. One thing we knew is that she was indeed in the hands of the enemy," Mwu answered feeling helpless.

"I feel that she is in great pain right now. You see, one month had passed since we gave her a glass of blood, she could die tomorrow or the day after because of lack of blood, of energy." Murrue answered. Her words correspond to the real situation Cagalli is dealing right now.

And his greatest fear was confirmed when she seized him. She stared at those emerald eyes the moment she seized him. Unable to understand what's happening as only one thought runs in her mind. The eclipse had just passed. Her people she knew are out there somewhere, doing what is necessary for survival. The thirst for blood is becoming unbearable, she just have to do it in order to survive.

With one last look, her cold red eyes, the eyes of someone ready to kill. She gave a glimpse to his neck, it sounds inviting and with this, she put her fangs in his neck and sip the fluid of his life.

He stared at her, in that moment he realized, his life was taken. He felt his energy draining slowly. He should be sad in this condition but he chose it himself, he chose his destiny in her fangs. Gathering his almost exhausted energy, he inched unto her, gave her an embrace amidst the coldness he felt in her, the warmth embraced of his goodbye. He had lost her.

"Cagalli."

She felt a lightning hit her the moment she tasted his blood. The taste is very different from the glass of blood the elders give her in order to thirst her hunger. It felt warmth as if the blood had mixed with her own blood giving her a new life, bringing her back to her senses.

"Elders, a miracle had taken place," a woman said with a pink hair.

'What is it Lacus?" Murrue asked. She was in no mood for anything but she didn't want to hurt the feelings of another vampire.

"I was sleeping when I realized that a ray of sunshine had entered my room into my left arm. I did forget to pull back the curtains completely last night. But look, it never ached. I thought that I was dreaming so I tried to expose my other arm to the ray but there was no effect. I then decided to pull out the curtain and let my body be exposed to the sunlight, but here I am, my skin hadn't burn." Lacus happily informed them.

"This is unbelievable," Dullindal expressed his thoughts.

"Unless the prophecy had been fulfilled and Cagalli had tasted the holy sanguine," Mwu explained

Upon hearing that the prophecy had been fulfilled, vampires of all sort had went out to test if it was true. They were afraid to step out when Lacus initiated to move to tell them that it was safe. And so, all of them were bath in the rays of the dawn. As if they were born again.

"Cagalli," she heard a man spoke her name. A man she knew from her heart yet her heart is too weak that it gave in to her alter ego. She started crying, her golden eyes replacing the red ones upon realizing that he had bitten the man she secretly fell in love with.

"Athrun, Athrun why? Hadn't I told you that you have the right to kill me if my transformation is absolute? Hadn't I? Why did you let me hurt you? Why?" Cagalli asked her eyes is wet from tears as it pours slowly.

"I couldn't bear to see you in pain, I'd rather give you my life than to see you suffer," Athrun answered, his voice is weak but audible.

"Even if it cost your life?"

"My life is you, Cagalli. I had found my happiness on you in a short span of time." Athrun answered his vision had started to darken.

"I am not worthy of your life," Cagalli answered as she held his face and is now staring at those emerald eyes.

Athrun smiled to see the pair of golden eyes staring at him; she was the only person he wanted to see before time takes his life, " I love you Cagalli. I want you to know it. If life would permit, I would be happy to be with you in my entire lifetime."

Cagalli wanted to die at the moment. She couldn't believe it, she thought that it was only a one-way love but it proves to be the opposite. "I love you too, it is the reason while I'm trusting my life on you, why I wanted you to kill me" Cagalli said touching Athrun's face.

"I love you, not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you," Athrun finished as Cagalli sealed his lips with her and together they shared one passionate kiss.

Athrun felt warmth but this didn't lasted as he felt his life lost, permanently. Cagalli sensing that Athrun was gone began crying but still she continued to kiss him as if reliving the moment.

"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous"

"Mwu, the prophecy.. how?" Murrue could only asked.

"I have no idea how," Mwu answered.

"Maybe this could explain. I was flopping several pages of the black book when the last page had glowed and when I turn to see it, I realized that the last page was complete. Here, read it"Dullindal offered.

Mwu flip the pages and find the missing page that was completed. "The moment the prophecy was fulfilled, the curse class would be liberated. This in turn would take a life, that is the greatest sacrfice that the bearer had to live. The bearer in a form of a woman with the eyes of a setting sun would fulfill the prophecy and she would taste the sanguine of the person whom she loved and who in turn had loved her for who she is.The holy sanguine of love thay have formed and developed together. It is holy since this person will give it to her out of his love for her."

this is the final phase, from the beginning i have decided to make this fic a very short one but i couldn't do it in a one shot. thanks to all the readers and reviewers out there, hope you enoyed this three-chapter fic. ciao!

-shadOwCLite