Queen of Darkness

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AN. I am sorry that I haven't updated this in a while but I hope that you still like what I have written. Remember to R&R.

Chapter 6

The sound of Cathy's voice acted like a pale of cold water, bringing Hilde and Duo back to reality. Both of them pulled back. Duo looked like a boy who had gotten his hand caught in the cookie jar, while Hilde looked paler than usual. The girls noticed Hilde's colour and became slightly concerned.

"Hilde, are you alright?" Sally asked.

Hilde nodded her head. How could she let the others know who these guys were without exposing themselves. Hilde was also slightly outraged with herself, firstly for trying to set Cathy up with a hunter and secondly for making out with a hunter.

"What bet are you talking about?" Duo wondered.

"Oh nothing much." Cathy answered calmly while her eyes danced with mischief.

While Duo tried to get a better answer out of Cathy, Relena was studying the group of guys intently. They gave off a vibe that she knew she had felt before, but she couldn't put her finger on what it was.

"Come on, why won't you tell me?" Duo whined.

"Maxwell, you baka. You sound like a child. It's disgraceful." Wufei said.

"That's enough," Heero spoke up just as Duo was going to say something. "The night is slipping away and we do have work to do."

It may have been the emphasis that the dark haired, blue eyed boy put on the word 'work' that made everything come into focus for Relena. This was a group of vampire hunters. The reality hit Relena like a ton of bricks. Hilde had been making out with one that was sworn to kill them. Relena came to the conclusion that Hilde must have known about the boy, it would certainly explain why she had gone so pale when everyone found them.

"Come on Hilde, we're leaving." Relena said abruptly.

Everyone looked at Relena. The four girls were shocked at the tone of her voice. The guys were shocked, as well, by the tone as they expected it more from a jealous boyfriend. Hilde looked as though she was going to protest but was silenced by a look from Relena. A look that told Hilde that Relena knew what Duo was. Hilde, looking really meek, rose to her feet only to be grabbed by Duo.

"You don't have to listen to her. Why don't you stay and hangout with us?" Duo asked.

"Thanks, but I really have to go." Hilde told him with a smile.

"I'll see you around then." Duo said letting go of her hand.

Hilde waved over her shoulder as she followed the others out of the club and knew that she was going to get it.

Relena didn't look at anyone as she marched out of the club with the four other girls trailing behind her. As they climbed the stairs someone near by let out a loud whistle. Not taking any notice of it the five vampires continued to stalk up the stairs and out the door.

Once they got out of the club they moved with supernatural speed away from the club as they sensed people coming after them. It wasn't like the girls were scared of them but they were hungry and didn't want any trouble from Milardo. When they were a few blocks away they stopped.

"Why did you get us out of there so fast Relena?" Cathy wondered.

"I think that I'll pas the question off to Hilde," Relena answered bitterly.

"Relena, there's a perfectly good explanation..." Hilde began.

"It had better be damn good." Relena interrupted. "Cause that may be the only thing that will save your sorry ass."

Dorothy, Cathy, and Sally looked at Relena. None of them had ever heard that tone come out of her mouth. That wasn't the only reason that they stared at her. Relena had also let her fangs come down and they were showing.

"If you wouldn't have interrupted me I would have told you." Hilde snapped back her fangs showing as well.

"Well tell me now what possible reason you could have for making out with our enemy!" Relena shouted.

"We have enemies?" Cathy said not caring that she was interrupting two fairly strong vampires.

"Yes," answered Relena. "They're called vampire hunters. We had thought that they had died out three hundred years ago. But I guess that we were wrong." Relena informed the girls, her eyes never leaving Hilde.

"That might explain all the deaths that have been occurring lately." Sally commented thoughtfully.

"You were making out with someone who is supposed to kill us?" Cathy asked Hilde not believing her.

Hilde didn't say anything only nodded her head ever so slightly. Everyone could scarcely believe their eyes.

"Hilde, what's wrong with you!" Dorothy exclaimed. "You could have been killed!"

"As long as Duo didn't think I was a vampire, I was in no danger. And he was so good at making me forget what I am, and what he is, for the first time in a long time. I just felt like a woman." Hilde explained.

"Vampire hunters have that ability, Hilde." Relena said, her tone much softer, as she shook her head and retracted her fangs. "You are not a fledgling any more. You have heard of these creatures since your fledgling days. You know of their deceit. I thought that I had taught you better then that."

"I know Relena, but he was so sweet and he was willing to not talk about it. You said that hunters love to boast about how many they have killed and that they have no dreams. That they don't think of a life outside of the killing. Duo has a dream and he shared it with me. He was the total opposite of what you told me to expect from a hunter." Hilde told Relena trying to will her to understand.

"It's been three hundred years since we heard anything from this foe. The old teachings will not mean much anymore. But that doesn't make that much of a difference when you know the foe that you are facing and what such a foe can do." Relena countered.

"I have a question," Sally spoke up, "how come only Hilde seems to have any knowledge about these people.

"Because when I made you, Sally, it had been nearly a hundred years since anyone had hears anything about the hunters. I didn't see the need to teach you something that you were never going to need." Relena explained her past actions. "As it is now we are going to have to relearn everything about the hunters again."

The girls were quiet as they digested this bit of information. They could see Relena's line of thinking had been good. And now it would be easier for Cathy, Dorothy, and Sally to learn the ways of the new hunters than it would be for Relena and Hilde.

"For now we will feed," Relena spoke up after a few minutes. "Hilde, don't think that you are escaping punishment. I am simply postponing it till I can come up with a fitting one for you."

"I didn't think that I would get off without some form of punishment." Hilde said as she hung her head.

"Good," was Relena's reply as she was setting off into the darkened streets with the other girls following her.

"That was weird." Duo said as he watched Hilde and her friends leave the club.

"What's weird?" Quatre asked.

"A couple things. Like how that girl with the golden brown hair snapped when Heero said we had to go to work. And how meek Hilde was when that girl said that they had to go." Duo answered.

"And how would you know that these things are weird Maxwell?" Wufei sneered.

"While we were talking Hilde was anything but meek." Duo explained. "As to the other girl, why would she all of a sudden just snap like that?"

"I doubt that we will ever know the answer to that." Quatre said. "I doubt that we will ever see them again."

"At any rate," Heero spoke up before Duo could answer, "we do have to get to work."

Trowa, Wufei, Duo, and Quatre nidded and the five made their way to the door. As with the five girls that had just left somebody in the crowd whistled. Duo was the only one who looked around as they walked out of the door and into the night to hunt the creatures that lived there.

To Be Continued . . . . . . . .