Yo! I am very sorry for the late update…I know, it's probably been over a year since I last updated, what can I say…a lot of things have happened, anywayz now I am back and what do you know? I am back with a new chapter, I hope you'll enjoy it, and I'll try my best not be late in updating…well not this late anyway, before I begin the fic I just like to say that, reviews, comments, complains, advice, notes…heck even flames are welcome, if you people see me doing something wrong tell me about it k?
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(FB): flash back
(EFB) end of flash back
Bright rays of the sun shone over Dragon castle, awakening the many shadows of living and non-living creatures alike, going through the windows awakening some of the residents in this glorious stronghold. Most of them got up and got ready for another day of their lives, but one of the few who did not welcome the wake up call of the light, lay still half asleep in her bed.
Concealing her pale face under the cover, Sierra craved to return to sleep still, not being used to wake up when the sun comes up, but to no avail, the light of the sun kept her awake annoying her to no end. Seeing the futility of what she is trying to do, the vampire queen slowly arose from her bed, she stretched her arms back, then she began walking towards her window and not being a morning person, she quickly pulled on the rope of her curtain causing it to fall over the window, slowly casting away the light of the sun, calling on the darkness to fill the gap left by the light.
'That's better' thought Sierra as she proceeded to her closet, grabbing her usual short white dress and blue cape, her night gown slowly hitting the floor as she began wearing the dress.
Swiftly her hand swung the sapphire blue cape around her neck. Sitting down on her bed as she stared into nothingness, certain events that occurred last night returned to her mind filling her with a feeling close to happiness. A smile crossed her face as the memories of the past night rushed into her head.
(FB)
The full moon shimmered in the night sky. Not a cloud was in sight to cloak its amazing appearance. Its soft comforting rays gave light to this land and to all who wandered through it at this time, and there stood Sierra awaiting an answer from the enigmatic dark knight that stood with her in this cold night.
Pesmerga gave the Coven mistress an icy glare, no answer was returned to the offer he heard from Sierra, half of his mind screamed at him not to trust the blood sucking rune bearer but the other half told him to at least consider and think about this.
"I am not interested, vampire…I can kill Yuber without your help." saying that in his usual cold voice, he turned around and started walking away.
"Yes…I guess your right…you'll kill him…" said Sierra her head hung low.
"After six to eight hundred years!" sarcasm coated the child of the night's voice as she raised her head, to see him continue walking, not caring about what has just escaped her lips. Angering her slightly, she glared at his back knowing that it won't be easy to persuade this black knight.
Sierra's body began to slowly fade in mid air, and in an instant she stood in front of the vengeful dark knight. An evil smile drawn on her pale face "I know what you are thinking Pesmerga; you think you can do it alone, you think you don't need anyone's help. Well, sorry to prove you wrong human" she stared at his eyes that are hidden under the front part of his helmet "how many times has he pulled that disappearing act on you? And the silly part about it is that it always works. Do you know why? Because you have no one to help you, he just leaves you with one of his demonic followers and escapes." she continued speaking, but still he showed no emotion towards what she was saying.
"He has many servants and pets from different worlds to help him against yourself and his other enemies." she crossed her arms as her eyes kept focus on him.
"Out of my way vampire!" was the only reply he gave her, his face wearing the emotionless mask it had on for all these centuries.
The Coven mistress glared at him at first, clearly annoyed by his answer and his stubbornness, but then she simply smiled "I know you don't trust me human…and I am not asking you to and I don't expect to earn your trust either" then she turned her back to him, her wet blue cloak swirled around her as she did "And I am not asking for friendship…I am only asking for partnership…" she said that word as she phased into thin air.
Pesmerga did not show any sign of surprise on his face, not intimidated by her vampiric magic "we both want vengeance dark knight…" hearing the voice come from behind him, he did not bother to turn around as he simply turned his head to the left starring at the pale girl who was in front of him a moment ago "if we help each other you'll get Yuber sooner than you expected" she said as she looked back at his glaring eye.
Hearing what seemed to be the end of her speech about partner ship he turned around facing the vampire "how do I know that you aren't a slave to the demon I am trying to kill?" he spoke as he placed his hand on the hilt of his King crimson, not amused or interested in what she said right now, especially when this idea ran through his mind.
At first Sierra did nothing. She just stared back at the dark knight as if she was not effected by his words that were drenched with the feel of distrust, but soon changes in her mood started appearing. A storm of anger quickly loomed over her soul, her eyes glared at him with rage; dark energy was ignited around her body covering her in an aura of darkness "let's get one thing straight human!! I don't serve pathetic demons like the one you are chasing!!" The tone of her voice was harsh and threatening.
The man clad in black armor could sense the fury and power emitted from Sierra, but he wasn't the least bit frightened, he simply gazed at her display of power, as he did he began to think of her offer once more. Surely she is a creature of the night but wasn't he as well; he was no vampire but the sunlight bothered him. The shadows were where he spent most of his days, darkness was his dwelling.
Many things he did not know about the girl that gave him a death glare at this moment, but till now he knew that she did not lie in a word she said. He could sense it in her words as strange and mysterious as they seemed, but was that enough to let her join him on his mission of vengeance.
Finally the vampire queen began to regain her composure and cool headedness. The words of the dark knight were beginning to release their grip on her, she stared him in the eyes once more "what do you say Pesmerga? Do you want us to be partners? Or should we…"
"Alright…we'll be partners until we kill off our enemies" the black knight cut her off before she could proceed with her remaining words.
Sierra looked at him, dumbfounded by his unexpected answer; she truly never expected that he would agree to her offer. not this soon anyway, filled with joy she smiled widely and walked past him "I knew that you'd agree" before she could continue walking, she felt a hefty weight on her right shoulder, looking to her side she saw the dark knight's hand on her shoulder stopping her from advancing.
The vengeful knight removed his hand from her shoulder. Noticing that he had her attention "but I have two conditions" he said in a voice smothered with coldness.
Still smiling the pale girl crossed her arms around her chest "funny,I have two conditions too" she said as she backed up from him.
"I will kill Yuber…you will only help me nothing more…" he spoke as he glared at her.
"Fair enough…and it's the same when it comes to the vampire I am hunting." she said as a look of interest gleamed in her eyes, awaiting the second rule of this pact she just made.
"if your fangs come close to my neck, I'll kill you vampire!" a serious tone was mixed with his usual cold voice, resulting in a very deep and harsh tone of speech, even though he allowed her to be his partner he still did not trust her. Not one bit, that's just the way it was with him.
At first Sierra giggled at what he said amused by his 'second rule' but when she noticed his hand shifting to the hilt of his broad sword, she stopped her light laugh understanding that he wasn't joking around "fine…but I can't help it if you ask me to..." saying that she quickly phased a few feet away from him. Just incase he would take this in an offensive way, which she knew he would.
"As for my second rule Pesmerga, I don't want you to call me vampire or blood sucker. I have a name and it's Sierra Mikain" with that a sudden appearance of white smog covered her body, concealing her from the eyes of the dark knight, when the wind cleared the curtain of smoke. All that the dark knight could see was a white bat flying towards Dragon castle, no trace was left of Sierra but her but her echoing voice in the distance saying "see you at the castle's bar dark knight."
(EFB)
Sierra released a light laugh as she got up from her bed, placing her feet into her shoes she made her way out of the room, closing the door behind her out of habit although she knew no one would steal let alone enter the vampire's room, the residents of the castle were still frightened of her, and she knew that when she decided to leave with the dark knight she wouldn't be missed.
As she passed the hall way of the second floor she noticed the many eyes of the people who lived in this castle gaze at her with weird looks, their eyes full of doubt and fear, but she didn't care not one bit 'humans…such strange creatures' she thought as she came into the elevator and descended to the first floor and made her way to the bar ignoring the gaze the people of the castle offered her, as she stepped into the bar she earned more strange gazes from the people sitting down, recognizing some of their faces as companions in the war, seeing Rikimaru and Amada drinking together as usual Rikimaru's laughter echoing thorough the whole tavern, while on the table next to them on the left side sat Gijimu and Lo wen drinking what seemed to be a countries load of alcohol, not a word was spoken to her but a lot was being said about her, except from the ones she battled next to, they had no trouble with her arrival "hey Sierra care to join me for a drink?" the voice came to Sierra as a surprise, she didn't expect to hear those words.
She turned her head to the bar top to see a very drunk Anita staring at her with lazy eyes, many empty glasses lay next to the drunken swordswoman accompanied by two empty bottles of vodka.
"No thanks human" answered the vampire queen.
"Oh okay…" Anita's head lowered as she started gazing at her empty glasses.
Sierra turned to Leona, who was busy passing drinks to customers, the tavern owner noticed the vampire queen as she handed out a drink to what seemed to be the last customer for now "oh Sierra what brings you here?" asked Leona as she gave the pale girl her full attention.
"I am waiting for someone…" she answered sighing.
Leona gave the vampire girl a look of interest "really? Who's the lucky guy?" she spoke, pouring herself a glass of vodka.
"It's not what you think human" Sierra answered, as she looked around, ignoring Leona.
"Oh come on Sierra, no need to be shy about it" said Leona as she stared at the vampire girl hoping to get an answer out of her.
The bearer of the Blue moon rune looked around hoping to see a certain knight in black armor, but to no avail "have you seen Pesmerga?" she asked the tavern owner, turning around to face her once more.
"I never knew you were into men like Pesmerga…" said Leona as a look of surprise hung on her face 'what am I saying? I barely know anything about her' thought Leona.
"its nothing like that, its only business" said Sierra, as she sat down on one of the stools, her eyes still shifting from left to right hoping to catch a glimpse of the dark knight.
"Well if it makes you feel better I haven't seen him here" said Leona, deciding to drop the conversation, not wanting to annoy the child of the night, she drank down the glass of vodka in one shot and went about her business caring for customers and taking their orders.
Time passed and Pesmerga did not come to the promised spot, the vampire queen was beginning to feel a mixture of boredom, annoyance and anger, wondering why the dark knight hasn't shown himself yet, the creaking sound of the back door filled the already loud tavern, Sierra turned her eyesight towards the door hoping to see the knight of darkness.
She truly did see a knight but it wasn't Pesmerga, a fourteen year old kid walked in through the opened door, wearing a blue tunic, black pants, leather gloves and boots that had a matching brown color and on his head was a bronze circlet that had small dragon wings that grew out of its sides, in his gloved hands he carried a small lizard like creature with beautiful white scales, that covered its entire body while two small wings rested on its back..
The female vampire recognized the kid to be Futch the young dragon knight, and the creature in his hands was Bright his new dragon. The young dragon knight walked into the bar replying to the hellos and hi's of the tavern patrons, not noticing the spilt beer he is about to step on, as he did he felt the balance he once possessed as he walked in leave him, his foot slid on the liquid, leaving the rest for gravity, the dragon knight fell to the ground with no delay, not knowing that his little mishap will cause more than physical pain.
The customers laughed at the dragon knight, Rikimaru's laughter being the loudest among them, as the dragon knight was about to get up, Koyu the youngest of the mountain bandits came running back from the bar in both his right and left hand a mug filled with beer for his older brother and sister, in his stride he didn't notice the fallen dragon knight who was still on the ground, causing the young thief to trip over the fourteen year old spear wielder, letting go of the beer as he came crashing down like a tree that was just cut, the two mugs flew into the air and slammed into a blond spiky haired young man, who had the marks of anger all over his face along with the beer, Shilo walked to the two boys his hair and face wet with beer, his fists clenched and ready to be used, Koyu backed up nervously from where he had fallen while looking at the angered gambler.
"It wasn't my fault. I tripped on…" he looked to see what he tripped on and saw Futch and pointed at him swiftly.
"ITS HIS FAULT!!!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, Futch noticed Shilo's angry gaze shift from the young bandit to him.
Swiftly the young dragon knight got back on his feet and looked at Koyu with anger flaring in his eyes "liar!!! If you watched where you were going none of this would have happened!!" shouted the young dragon knight.
The young bandit grabbed the dragon knight by his tunic "are you calling me a liar??!! You wimp!!! If you haven't been lying around and sat down on a chair like a normal person, none of this would have happened!!" Koyu shouted back, as he tightened his grip around the other boy's tunic.
Bright noticed the kind of treatment his master was getting, and even though he was still a young dragon, he cared for his master greatly, and felt great loyalty and friendship towards him, so just like any other dragon would do he planned to protect his master from any kind of hostility by any means possible, and this little dragon would do just that.
The tiny dragon swiftly jumped from his master's hands and clung to Koyu's face digging his newly developed rock hard claws into the thief's facade, to this the youngest of the mountain bandits screamed in pain and fear "get it off!! Get it off!" his screams reached the far ends of the court yard alerting every one there, the thief grabbed the dragon with his hands and pulled hoping to get the winged lizard of his face, but to no avail the young dragon refused to let go, even though he felt pain as the hands of the young bandit tried to take him away from his new scratching post.
The young dragon knight took the chance and launched his clenched fist at Koyu's midsection, feeling tremendous pain in the stricken part of his body the young thief fell to his knees, holding his punched stomach.
"Big brother, Koyu got into a fight again" said Lo wen as she took a swig of her almost empty beer mug.
Gijimu the oldest member of the mountain bandits laughed as he took another swig of his mug "good, good, that'll toughen the kid up" he said in a voice that indicated that he was very drunk.
"Whatever you say big brother…" replied Lo wen as she placed her head on the table, obviously she had more drinks than she can handle, slowly she started to drift into a deep sleep on the bar table.
"That's what you get for messing with a dragon knight!!" snorted Futch as he stood upon the fallen thief, satisfied of his somewhat meaningless victory.
Shame gripped the young thief as he heard the arrogant words of the dragon knight; ignoring the pain that rampaged through his gut, his hand gripped the white dragon fiercely and yanked it of his face with strength he did not know he had, and threw it with all his power, the tiny dragon flew through the air in a way that he did not enjoy, but his trip soon came to an end, as the western wall of the bar welcomed him with a stone hard welcome, slowly he began to slide of the wall feeling pain all over his scaled body.
"Heh take that ya damn…" Koyu could not continue his words because Futch's fist slammed hard into his jaw, knocking the bandit to the ground, not leaving it at that the knight jumped the thief and started punching the lights out of him.
Fists were flying from both sides, and the only thing Shilo did was watch, but his anger did not subside, it did not matter who won this fight, because it won't get this beer or shame of his face, and the only thing he wanted was to beat up the one responsible for awakening his anger, and since they both had a part in this, why not beat the crap out of both of them? Of course he did not have to think twice to answer that question.
Grabbing each boy by his collar pulling them apart they did not notice him as they tried punching each other by mistake both their punches connected the spiky haired gamblers jaw, in doing so they finally noticed that they had done a terrible mistake.
Before they could even speak Shilo's death glare paralyzed their tongues "you damn brats!! That's it your both dead!!!" shouted the angry gambler, his voice coated with rage and fury.
Futch was raised in the air and before he knew it the hand that was causing him to ascend flung him ferociously into the ground he was laying on before, the dragon knight winced in pain as he felt his body slam hard into the brown wood of the tavern, before the pain could disappear he felt a foot on his back that took away the option of getting up and running away.
'I guess Koyu's going to get the beating first, heh and he deserves it' thought Futch as he waited to hear the results of the punishment.
Pulling back his fist, Shilo glared at the young thief "any last words?" he spited, as he got ready to give this kid the beating of a life time.
"Can't we talk this over?" spoke Koyu nervously although he knew it wouldn't help in anyway.
Just when he was about to launch his punch, Shilo felt light tap on his shoulder "what the hell do you want? I am busy…" he said not turning around.
The tap came again "get outta here, I am busy!!!" shouted Shilo obviously annoyed of the constant tapping, still refusing to turn his attention away from the bandit, as if he feared that if he took his eyes of the young thief he'd disappear with out a trace.
But still the tap continued to annoy him "I SAID…" turning around this time, before he could continue what he was saying, a punch to the face knocked the gambler to the other side of the tavern, slamming him into a table on his way, the force of his body being thrown by the punch easily overwhelmed the table's legs breaking them causing it to topple to the ground, but the spiky haired gambler did not stop until his back connected to the wall.
Gijimu stood in front of the fallen gambler, cracking his knuckles and smiling like a drunk "hey spike butt, pick on somebody your on size" he said in a strong and masculine voice.
Getting up from the ground, Shilo dashed towards the mountain bandit, pulling back his hand in the process, ready to carve the thief's face with his fist, reaching Gijimu he swung at the mountain bandit's face "BASTARD!!!" shouting loudly as his punch tore through the air itching to break the middle aged thief's jaw.
Reacting almost with pure instinct, Gijimu parried Shilo's fist with the back of his right hand, altering the path of the anger filled punch, causing it only to connect with thin air, half a second later Gijimu countered with his left hand unleashing an uppercut, seeing through the bandit's counter, Shilo took a step back avoiding the uppercut by a few inches and swiftly returned with a kick to the gut, stunning Gijimu, giving the Gambler enough time to strike the thief with a left hook to the jaw, causing the bandit to crumble to the ground.
"Hey! Shilo, stop acting like a damn idiot or get the hell out!!!" screamed an annoyed Leona, not caring who won the fight, wishing that peace will return to her bar just like it returned to this war cursed land, and she was willing to do anything to achieve this wish, even if it meant that she had to kick every one out herself.
Ignoring what's happening about her, Sierra stared into nothingness letting her train of thoughts take her away from the noise, loud laughter and annoying disputes, hoping that Pesmerga would show up soon, so she could leave this God forsaken place that reeked of humans and liquor 'why did I choose this place for a meeting with him?' she questioned her self for the umpteenth time.
'Wouldn't it been better if I asked him to accompany me in a nice little stroll through the graveyard?' she wondered as she sighed and waited for her knight in black armor to come and take her away from all this.
The small bar brawl that started with a simple accident now evolved into an all out war, as Shilo grabbed the young dragon knight and tossed him at the table of Rikimaru and Amada giving them an indirect invitation to participate in this fight.
With that all of the bar patrons were thrown into a frenzy, even Anita got into this, knocking out guys who were twice her size, the only one who ignored this whole thing was Sierra, she was peacefully sitting on her stool, not caring about the 'silly' disputes of humans.
Amongst the many noises that filled the bar the creaking sound of its door was only noticed by Sierra, instead of looking at the door, this time she let her vampiric powers sense the presence of the one behind the door, then she simply smiled and waited for the figure to enter as if she was testing her powers, to see if they still worked as they were supposed to, before anybody could pass through the opened door a chair was thrown at it, endangering the person who was about to enter the bar, if that person was normal, it would have been a crisis, but he wasn't, a swift blow of a sword sliced the chair cleanly in two.
When the sound of metal cleaving wood caught the fighters attention, they all stopped what they were doing and looked towards the direction the sound erupted from, to see Pesmerga with his sword drawn out of its scabbard, they did not have to see a frown on his face or to hear his voice ringed with rage, to know that he was angry, and that they'd all pay a hefty price for igniting his anger.
Author's notes: well anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter…I know not much action and not much angst, this is more of a small break kind of chap, next time the plot thickens or so I hope…
Solid: it better thicken…
M2D: what are you still doing here?
Solid: Konami wanted me to make sure that you won't try to steal their copy wrights again…
M2D: I see…anyway comments complains and flames and that you want to say about this fic is welcome…
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Disclaimer: I own Suikoden okay? It's all mine okay? *sound of gun being loaded, solid snake appears behind me*
Solid: who owns Suikoden?
M2D: Konami owns Suikoden of course *gives a nervous smile*
Solid: good…
M2D: anyway enjoy…
(FB): flash back
(EFB) end of flash back
Bright rays of the sun shone over Dragon castle, awakening the many shadows of living and non-living creatures alike, going through the windows awakening some of the residents in this glorious stronghold. Most of them got up and got ready for another day of their lives, but one of the few who did not welcome the wake up call of the light, lay still half asleep in her bed.
Concealing her pale face under the cover, Sierra craved to return to sleep still, not being used to wake up when the sun comes up, but to no avail, the light of the sun kept her awake annoying her to no end. Seeing the futility of what she is trying to do, the vampire queen slowly arose from her bed, she stretched her arms back, then she began walking towards her window and not being a morning person, she quickly pulled on the rope of her curtain causing it to fall over the window, slowly casting away the light of the sun, calling on the darkness to fill the gap left by the light.
'That's better' thought Sierra as she proceeded to her closet, grabbing her usual short white dress and blue cape, her night gown slowly hitting the floor as she began wearing the dress.
Swiftly her hand swung the sapphire blue cape around her neck. Sitting down on her bed as she stared into nothingness, certain events that occurred last night returned to her mind filling her with a feeling close to happiness. A smile crossed her face as the memories of the past night rushed into her head.
(FB)
The full moon shimmered in the night sky. Not a cloud was in sight to cloak its amazing appearance. Its soft comforting rays gave light to this land and to all who wandered through it at this time, and there stood Sierra awaiting an answer from the enigmatic dark knight that stood with her in this cold night.
Pesmerga gave the Coven mistress an icy glare, no answer was returned to the offer he heard from Sierra, half of his mind screamed at him not to trust the blood sucking rune bearer but the other half told him to at least consider and think about this.
"I am not interested, vampire…I can kill Yuber without your help." saying that in his usual cold voice, he turned around and started walking away.
"Yes…I guess your right…you'll kill him…" said Sierra her head hung low.
"After six to eight hundred years!" sarcasm coated the child of the night's voice as she raised her head, to see him continue walking, not caring about what has just escaped her lips. Angering her slightly, she glared at his back knowing that it won't be easy to persuade this black knight.
Sierra's body began to slowly fade in mid air, and in an instant she stood in front of the vengeful dark knight. An evil smile drawn on her pale face "I know what you are thinking Pesmerga; you think you can do it alone, you think you don't need anyone's help. Well, sorry to prove you wrong human" she stared at his eyes that are hidden under the front part of his helmet "how many times has he pulled that disappearing act on you? And the silly part about it is that it always works. Do you know why? Because you have no one to help you, he just leaves you with one of his demonic followers and escapes." she continued speaking, but still he showed no emotion towards what she was saying.
"He has many servants and pets from different worlds to help him against yourself and his other enemies." she crossed her arms as her eyes kept focus on him.
"Out of my way vampire!" was the only reply he gave her, his face wearing the emotionless mask it had on for all these centuries.
The Coven mistress glared at him at first, clearly annoyed by his answer and his stubbornness, but then she simply smiled "I know you don't trust me human…and I am not asking you to and I don't expect to earn your trust either" then she turned her back to him, her wet blue cloak swirled around her as she did "And I am not asking for friendship…I am only asking for partnership…" she said that word as she phased into thin air.
Pesmerga did not show any sign of surprise on his face, not intimidated by her vampiric magic "we both want vengeance dark knight…" hearing the voice come from behind him, he did not bother to turn around as he simply turned his head to the left starring at the pale girl who was in front of him a moment ago "if we help each other you'll get Yuber sooner than you expected" she said as she looked back at his glaring eye.
Hearing what seemed to be the end of her speech about partner ship he turned around facing the vampire "how do I know that you aren't a slave to the demon I am trying to kill?" he spoke as he placed his hand on the hilt of his King crimson, not amused or interested in what she said right now, especially when this idea ran through his mind.
At first Sierra did nothing. She just stared back at the dark knight as if she was not effected by his words that were drenched with the feel of distrust, but soon changes in her mood started appearing. A storm of anger quickly loomed over her soul, her eyes glared at him with rage; dark energy was ignited around her body covering her in an aura of darkness "let's get one thing straight human!! I don't serve pathetic demons like the one you are chasing!!" The tone of her voice was harsh and threatening.
The man clad in black armor could sense the fury and power emitted from Sierra, but he wasn't the least bit frightened, he simply gazed at her display of power, as he did he began to think of her offer once more. Surely she is a creature of the night but wasn't he as well; he was no vampire but the sunlight bothered him. The shadows were where he spent most of his days, darkness was his dwelling.
Many things he did not know about the girl that gave him a death glare at this moment, but till now he knew that she did not lie in a word she said. He could sense it in her words as strange and mysterious as they seemed, but was that enough to let her join him on his mission of vengeance.
Finally the vampire queen began to regain her composure and cool headedness. The words of the dark knight were beginning to release their grip on her, she stared him in the eyes once more "what do you say Pesmerga? Do you want us to be partners? Or should we…"
"Alright…we'll be partners until we kill off our enemies" the black knight cut her off before she could proceed with her remaining words.
Sierra looked at him, dumbfounded by his unexpected answer; she truly never expected that he would agree to her offer. not this soon anyway, filled with joy she smiled widely and walked past him "I knew that you'd agree" before she could continue walking, she felt a hefty weight on her right shoulder, looking to her side she saw the dark knight's hand on her shoulder stopping her from advancing.
The vengeful knight removed his hand from her shoulder. Noticing that he had her attention "but I have two conditions" he said in a voice smothered with coldness.
Still smiling the pale girl crossed her arms around her chest "funny,I have two conditions too" she said as she backed up from him.
"I will kill Yuber…you will only help me nothing more…" he spoke as he glared at her.
"Fair enough…and it's the same when it comes to the vampire I am hunting." she said as a look of interest gleamed in her eyes, awaiting the second rule of this pact she just made.
"if your fangs come close to my neck, I'll kill you vampire!" a serious tone was mixed with his usual cold voice, resulting in a very deep and harsh tone of speech, even though he allowed her to be his partner he still did not trust her. Not one bit, that's just the way it was with him.
At first Sierra giggled at what he said amused by his 'second rule' but when she noticed his hand shifting to the hilt of his broad sword, she stopped her light laugh understanding that he wasn't joking around "fine…but I can't help it if you ask me to..." saying that she quickly phased a few feet away from him. Just incase he would take this in an offensive way, which she knew he would.
"As for my second rule Pesmerga, I don't want you to call me vampire or blood sucker. I have a name and it's Sierra Mikain" with that a sudden appearance of white smog covered her body, concealing her from the eyes of the dark knight, when the wind cleared the curtain of smoke. All that the dark knight could see was a white bat flying towards Dragon castle, no trace was left of Sierra but her but her echoing voice in the distance saying "see you at the castle's bar dark knight."
(EFB)
Sierra released a light laugh as she got up from her bed, placing her feet into her shoes she made her way out of the room, closing the door behind her out of habit although she knew no one would steal let alone enter the vampire's room, the residents of the castle were still frightened of her, and she knew that when she decided to leave with the dark knight she wouldn't be missed.
As she passed the hall way of the second floor she noticed the many eyes of the people who lived in this castle gaze at her with weird looks, their eyes full of doubt and fear, but she didn't care not one bit 'humans…such strange creatures' she thought as she came into the elevator and descended to the first floor and made her way to the bar ignoring the gaze the people of the castle offered her, as she stepped into the bar she earned more strange gazes from the people sitting down, recognizing some of their faces as companions in the war, seeing Rikimaru and Amada drinking together as usual Rikimaru's laughter echoing thorough the whole tavern, while on the table next to them on the left side sat Gijimu and Lo wen drinking what seemed to be a countries load of alcohol, not a word was spoken to her but a lot was being said about her, except from the ones she battled next to, they had no trouble with her arrival "hey Sierra care to join me for a drink?" the voice came to Sierra as a surprise, she didn't expect to hear those words.
She turned her head to the bar top to see a very drunk Anita staring at her with lazy eyes, many empty glasses lay next to the drunken swordswoman accompanied by two empty bottles of vodka.
"No thanks human" answered the vampire queen.
"Oh okay…" Anita's head lowered as she started gazing at her empty glasses.
Sierra turned to Leona, who was busy passing drinks to customers, the tavern owner noticed the vampire queen as she handed out a drink to what seemed to be the last customer for now "oh Sierra what brings you here?" asked Leona as she gave the pale girl her full attention.
"I am waiting for someone…" she answered sighing.
Leona gave the vampire girl a look of interest "really? Who's the lucky guy?" she spoke, pouring herself a glass of vodka.
"It's not what you think human" Sierra answered, as she looked around, ignoring Leona.
"Oh come on Sierra, no need to be shy about it" said Leona as she stared at the vampire girl hoping to get an answer out of her.
The bearer of the Blue moon rune looked around hoping to see a certain knight in black armor, but to no avail "have you seen Pesmerga?" she asked the tavern owner, turning around to face her once more.
"I never knew you were into men like Pesmerga…" said Leona as a look of surprise hung on her face 'what am I saying? I barely know anything about her' thought Leona.
"its nothing like that, its only business" said Sierra, as she sat down on one of the stools, her eyes still shifting from left to right hoping to catch a glimpse of the dark knight.
"Well if it makes you feel better I haven't seen him here" said Leona, deciding to drop the conversation, not wanting to annoy the child of the night, she drank down the glass of vodka in one shot and went about her business caring for customers and taking their orders.
Time passed and Pesmerga did not come to the promised spot, the vampire queen was beginning to feel a mixture of boredom, annoyance and anger, wondering why the dark knight hasn't shown himself yet, the creaking sound of the back door filled the already loud tavern, Sierra turned her eyesight towards the door hoping to see the knight of darkness.
She truly did see a knight but it wasn't Pesmerga, a fourteen year old kid walked in through the opened door, wearing a blue tunic, black pants, leather gloves and boots that had a matching brown color and on his head was a bronze circlet that had small dragon wings that grew out of its sides, in his gloved hands he carried a small lizard like creature with beautiful white scales, that covered its entire body while two small wings rested on its back..
The female vampire recognized the kid to be Futch the young dragon knight, and the creature in his hands was Bright his new dragon. The young dragon knight walked into the bar replying to the hellos and hi's of the tavern patrons, not noticing the spilt beer he is about to step on, as he did he felt the balance he once possessed as he walked in leave him, his foot slid on the liquid, leaving the rest for gravity, the dragon knight fell to the ground with no delay, not knowing that his little mishap will cause more than physical pain.
The customers laughed at the dragon knight, Rikimaru's laughter being the loudest among them, as the dragon knight was about to get up, Koyu the youngest of the mountain bandits came running back from the bar in both his right and left hand a mug filled with beer for his older brother and sister, in his stride he didn't notice the fallen dragon knight who was still on the ground, causing the young thief to trip over the fourteen year old spear wielder, letting go of the beer as he came crashing down like a tree that was just cut, the two mugs flew into the air and slammed into a blond spiky haired young man, who had the marks of anger all over his face along with the beer, Shilo walked to the two boys his hair and face wet with beer, his fists clenched and ready to be used, Koyu backed up nervously from where he had fallen while looking at the angered gambler.
"It wasn't my fault. I tripped on…" he looked to see what he tripped on and saw Futch and pointed at him swiftly.
"ITS HIS FAULT!!!" he screamed at the top of his lungs, Futch noticed Shilo's angry gaze shift from the young bandit to him.
Swiftly the young dragon knight got back on his feet and looked at Koyu with anger flaring in his eyes "liar!!! If you watched where you were going none of this would have happened!!" shouted the young dragon knight.
The young bandit grabbed the dragon knight by his tunic "are you calling me a liar??!! You wimp!!! If you haven't been lying around and sat down on a chair like a normal person, none of this would have happened!!" Koyu shouted back, as he tightened his grip around the other boy's tunic.
Bright noticed the kind of treatment his master was getting, and even though he was still a young dragon, he cared for his master greatly, and felt great loyalty and friendship towards him, so just like any other dragon would do he planned to protect his master from any kind of hostility by any means possible, and this little dragon would do just that.
The tiny dragon swiftly jumped from his master's hands and clung to Koyu's face digging his newly developed rock hard claws into the thief's facade, to this the youngest of the mountain bandits screamed in pain and fear "get it off!! Get it off!" his screams reached the far ends of the court yard alerting every one there, the thief grabbed the dragon with his hands and pulled hoping to get the winged lizard of his face, but to no avail the young dragon refused to let go, even though he felt pain as the hands of the young bandit tried to take him away from his new scratching post.
The young dragon knight took the chance and launched his clenched fist at Koyu's midsection, feeling tremendous pain in the stricken part of his body the young thief fell to his knees, holding his punched stomach.
"Big brother, Koyu got into a fight again" said Lo wen as she took a swig of her almost empty beer mug.
Gijimu the oldest member of the mountain bandits laughed as he took another swig of his mug "good, good, that'll toughen the kid up" he said in a voice that indicated that he was very drunk.
"Whatever you say big brother…" replied Lo wen as she placed her head on the table, obviously she had more drinks than she can handle, slowly she started to drift into a deep sleep on the bar table.
"That's what you get for messing with a dragon knight!!" snorted Futch as he stood upon the fallen thief, satisfied of his somewhat meaningless victory.
Shame gripped the young thief as he heard the arrogant words of the dragon knight; ignoring the pain that rampaged through his gut, his hand gripped the white dragon fiercely and yanked it of his face with strength he did not know he had, and threw it with all his power, the tiny dragon flew through the air in a way that he did not enjoy, but his trip soon came to an end, as the western wall of the bar welcomed him with a stone hard welcome, slowly he began to slide of the wall feeling pain all over his scaled body.
"Heh take that ya damn…" Koyu could not continue his words because Futch's fist slammed hard into his jaw, knocking the bandit to the ground, not leaving it at that the knight jumped the thief and started punching the lights out of him.
Fists were flying from both sides, and the only thing Shilo did was watch, but his anger did not subside, it did not matter who won this fight, because it won't get this beer or shame of his face, and the only thing he wanted was to beat up the one responsible for awakening his anger, and since they both had a part in this, why not beat the crap out of both of them? Of course he did not have to think twice to answer that question.
Grabbing each boy by his collar pulling them apart they did not notice him as they tried punching each other by mistake both their punches connected the spiky haired gamblers jaw, in doing so they finally noticed that they had done a terrible mistake.
Before they could even speak Shilo's death glare paralyzed their tongues "you damn brats!! That's it your both dead!!!" shouted the angry gambler, his voice coated with rage and fury.
Futch was raised in the air and before he knew it the hand that was causing him to ascend flung him ferociously into the ground he was laying on before, the dragon knight winced in pain as he felt his body slam hard into the brown wood of the tavern, before the pain could disappear he felt a foot on his back that took away the option of getting up and running away.
'I guess Koyu's going to get the beating first, heh and he deserves it' thought Futch as he waited to hear the results of the punishment.
Pulling back his fist, Shilo glared at the young thief "any last words?" he spited, as he got ready to give this kid the beating of a life time.
"Can't we talk this over?" spoke Koyu nervously although he knew it wouldn't help in anyway.
Just when he was about to launch his punch, Shilo felt light tap on his shoulder "what the hell do you want? I am busy…" he said not turning around.
The tap came again "get outta here, I am busy!!!" shouted Shilo obviously annoyed of the constant tapping, still refusing to turn his attention away from the bandit, as if he feared that if he took his eyes of the young thief he'd disappear with out a trace.
But still the tap continued to annoy him "I SAID…" turning around this time, before he could continue what he was saying, a punch to the face knocked the gambler to the other side of the tavern, slamming him into a table on his way, the force of his body being thrown by the punch easily overwhelmed the table's legs breaking them causing it to topple to the ground, but the spiky haired gambler did not stop until his back connected to the wall.
Gijimu stood in front of the fallen gambler, cracking his knuckles and smiling like a drunk "hey spike butt, pick on somebody your on size" he said in a strong and masculine voice.
Getting up from the ground, Shilo dashed towards the mountain bandit, pulling back his hand in the process, ready to carve the thief's face with his fist, reaching Gijimu he swung at the mountain bandit's face "BASTARD!!!" shouting loudly as his punch tore through the air itching to break the middle aged thief's jaw.
Reacting almost with pure instinct, Gijimu parried Shilo's fist with the back of his right hand, altering the path of the anger filled punch, causing it only to connect with thin air, half a second later Gijimu countered with his left hand unleashing an uppercut, seeing through the bandit's counter, Shilo took a step back avoiding the uppercut by a few inches and swiftly returned with a kick to the gut, stunning Gijimu, giving the Gambler enough time to strike the thief with a left hook to the jaw, causing the bandit to crumble to the ground.
"Hey! Shilo, stop acting like a damn idiot or get the hell out!!!" screamed an annoyed Leona, not caring who won the fight, wishing that peace will return to her bar just like it returned to this war cursed land, and she was willing to do anything to achieve this wish, even if it meant that she had to kick every one out herself.
Ignoring what's happening about her, Sierra stared into nothingness letting her train of thoughts take her away from the noise, loud laughter and annoying disputes, hoping that Pesmerga would show up soon, so she could leave this God forsaken place that reeked of humans and liquor 'why did I choose this place for a meeting with him?' she questioned her self for the umpteenth time.
'Wouldn't it been better if I asked him to accompany me in a nice little stroll through the graveyard?' she wondered as she sighed and waited for her knight in black armor to come and take her away from all this.
The small bar brawl that started with a simple accident now evolved into an all out war, as Shilo grabbed the young dragon knight and tossed him at the table of Rikimaru and Amada giving them an indirect invitation to participate in this fight.
With that all of the bar patrons were thrown into a frenzy, even Anita got into this, knocking out guys who were twice her size, the only one who ignored this whole thing was Sierra, she was peacefully sitting on her stool, not caring about the 'silly' disputes of humans.
Amongst the many noises that filled the bar the creaking sound of its door was only noticed by Sierra, instead of looking at the door, this time she let her vampiric powers sense the presence of the one behind the door, then she simply smiled and waited for the figure to enter as if she was testing her powers, to see if they still worked as they were supposed to, before anybody could pass through the opened door a chair was thrown at it, endangering the person who was about to enter the bar, if that person was normal, it would have been a crisis, but he wasn't, a swift blow of a sword sliced the chair cleanly in two.
When the sound of metal cleaving wood caught the fighters attention, they all stopped what they were doing and looked towards the direction the sound erupted from, to see Pesmerga with his sword drawn out of its scabbard, they did not have to see a frown on his face or to hear his voice ringed with rage, to know that he was angry, and that they'd all pay a hefty price for igniting his anger.
Author's notes: well anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter…I know not much action and not much angst, this is more of a small break kind of chap, next time the plot thickens or so I hope…
Solid: it better thicken…
M2D: what are you still doing here?
Solid: Konami wanted me to make sure that you won't try to steal their copy wrights again…
M2D: I see…anyway comments complains and flames and that you want to say about this fic is welcome…