Broken chairs and tables filled the wooden floor of the Dragon castle tavern showing the scars of the brawl that had just taken place here, instead of continuing this fight the bar patrons stared at the back entrance of the bar where the black armored figure of Pesmerga stood, King Crimson drawn and a chair that was sliced cleanly in two at his feet.
Fear gripped the hearts of most the fighters, as Pesmerga continued his onslaught of death glares, blaming everyone who stood in front of him for the chair that was about to crash into him, the mob slowly began to panic throwing blames at each other and some apologizing, begging him to believe that it was not their fault and they had never even dreamed of doing something like this.
The many voices that rang in the background did not interest the dark knight, the only thing that was on his mind now was to punish the person who flung that chair at him, and since not one of them could bring forth the one guilty of this, the dark knight let no words escape his lips as he simply stepped forward, his constant glare thrusting a hole through the souls of the bar patrons.
The look of fear began to glue it self to the bar patrons faces, as they saw the dark knight take a step towards them, their minds trying to work out a solution to this unexpected problem, the normal bar patrons that weren't part of the stars of destiny were frightened and kept on begging him to accept their apology, Futch and Koyu were hiding under a table that was miraculously spared and was untouched by the other brawlers, cursing at them selves for starting the end of them, Lo wen and Anita were both asleep on the floor, the alcohol had finally got to them, Gijimu was one of the few who felt no fear under the cold gaze of the knight of darkness, was this pure bravery or the effects of alcohol on his brain we would never know, Rikimaru was in a similar state he just looked around, probably looking for a drink, Shilo did not show any signs of fear on his face but he felt it deep down inside of him, Amada stood still, the battle aura of the dark knight frightened him and excited him to no end.
"Its Shilo's fault!!!" one of the bar patrons shouted.
"What the hell did you say??!! Dumbass!!!" Shilo's hand gripped the man's tunic so hard; it seemed that if he put anymore force in to his grip the tunic would be torn apart.
The man muttered in a fearful voice that his words came out as meaningless murmurs, but then another voice came saying the exact same thing, slowly more voices followed blaming the spiky haired gambler, like an endless flood, their voices continued to drown Shilo with blame.
The blonde man shouts and threats went unheeded and ignored, as if he was only there to be punished, feeling great anger, Shilo was about to retaliate with his fists but then he took a glance at Pesmerga, he did not have to see the dark knight's eyes to know that they shifted from the bar patrons to him.
Suddenly all of the anger Shilo felt was frozen by the great fear that overcame him, his desire to deny what the others were saying was strong but his throat felt as dry as the desert, not a word escaped his mouth, he wanted to run but his feet felt like they were shackled to the ground by heavy steel chains, the gambler was only left with two choices, should he close his eyes and not see his punishment, or just gaze on like an idiot, both options seemed not too different.
"Wait a sec, horn boy!" the gruff voice of the drunken Rikimaru came roaring through the room,all eyes in the bar were on him, including Pesmerga's glaring orbs. The bar patrons whispered among their selves.Idiot, poor guy and stupid were amongst the many words traded between them, feeling sorry for the drunken fool who will soon regret saying those words.
"I was the one who threw that chair at ya! And I'd do it again, if I can find another!" all eyes were opened wide in surprise, the one thought that ran through the bar patrons minds at this time was 'what the hell is that idiot saying!!!' the whispers got louder and louder and it was only pared with the worry they felt for their stupid friend.
"So come on put'em up, horn boy!" Rikimaru put up his fists that were barely holding their stance, thanks to his overdose of alcohol, not just his hands, his whole body felt heavy and at the same time unstable, his eye vision was even worse, if he didn't know better he'd swear he saw three Pesmergas not one, but still his brave heart or idiotic drunken self couldn't let go of a challenge.
Pesmerga simply turned to face the red haired warrior and sheathed his King crimson, but instead of going into stance, he left his hands hanging by his sides.
"Afraid aren't ya horn boy?" said Rikimaru in a drunken laugh as he continued "but that won't save ya!! Here I come horn boy" as he said that, he was launched into a stride toward the dark knight, retreating his right fist, attempting to shove it into the vengeful warrior's face.
As he closed on the dark knight, Rikimaru roared as he released his fist, the attack came soaring through the air eager to slam into the vengeful knight's jaw, seeing the attack Pesmerga simply side stepped from Rikimaru's attack, letting his punch continue its trip through the air, that and the dizziness that Rikimaru felt caused him to stagger, but before falling the red haired warrior felt the taste of Pesmerga's back hand as it slammed into his right cheek, spinning him around and finally letting him tumble towards the mob.
Seeing the huge warrior crumble to the ground the bar patrons quickly made room for him to fall, not one bothering to catch him, obviously they didn't wish for the dark knight to think that they were on Rikimaru's side.
Rikimaru caused a shaking sensation as his body crashed into the wooden floor of the castle's tavern; everybody stared at the drunken man, body motionless except for his loud breathing.
Pesmerga stared blankly at the fallen warrior, he then smirked and was about to turn around only to see the drunken warrior get up, surprisingly Rikimaru charged at the knight of darkness with amazing speed, wanting nothing more at the moment then to smash the dark knight's face with his fist.
The vampire Queen Sierra Mikain gave her entire attention to this fight, there was nothing around her now, but Pesmerga and the 'idiotic' Rikimaru who tried helplessly to assault the vengeful warrior, the bar patrons whispers that she could have heard easily with her enhanced vampiric hearing were nothing more then silent murmurs in the background, it was as if she was the only one around to witness this fight.
The vampiress witnessed as the dark knight swiftly ducked under the gruff man's unleashed punch, avoiding his fist completely, then from his position he did a hundred and eighty degree spin, finally unleashing his fist at the red haired warrior's gut.
Not stopping at that, Pesmerga launched his left fist at Rikimaru's cheek, sending the huge man staggering backwards, then two fast jabs first from the right then another from the left, finally the dark knight returned his right hand by his side and swiftly sent it upwards, assaulting the red haired warrior with an uppercut.
With that Rikimaru's body went numb, his vision went black, and then he fell to the ground unconscious, every one stared at the dark knight with fear in their eyes, they hoped that he did not plan to kill their friend, but they knew very well that in a fight Pesmerga was not one to have mercy on the enemy.
The dark knight was about to step forward and at the same time, unsheathe his sword but he stopped 'Do you think killing this fool is a wise choice, dark knight?' a soft voice spoke into his head.
'Vampire...' he thought as he stood still 'now, now didn't we agree that you wouldn't call me that?' she sent him another mental message, while she sat in her seat showing no sign of doing that.
Ignoring what she spoke into his head, the dark knight was about to step forward once more but her voice came again 'I don't think you should do that Pesmerga' this time in a bit harsher tone.
'Do not interfere' he thought giving her a glare from the back of his eyes, one that was unnoticed by the terrified bar patrons.
'But what would you gain from killing this idiot, other than a huge delay for your quest of vengeance' she knew, by saying that she caught his attention.
When no thoughts of his were noticed by the vampire queen, she decided to continue 'remember he is one of the stars of destiny...just like us, so his death will not go unnoticed, and even if you can cut through the many soldiers and mages of this castle, it will still give Yuber more time to...' before she could continue, she felt that she was yanked out of her sitting place, causing her to gasp, although she found her self still sitting on her stool, she still felt the force of the power that pulled at her, she ignored it for the moment even though it lingered around her, she tried to mentally contact the dark knight once more, but to her surprise she could not, as if a force field that she could not breach surrounded the knight of darkness.
She turned her head to see the black knight turn around to return her gaze, and before she could say or do anything, he walked in a slow pace towards her, and then he looked her in the eye, she returned his enigmatic gaze with one of her own, for a long while they glared at each other, the tension between those two was felt by all the bar patrons, they did not know what was between those two but all they knew is that they better keep out of it if they want to stay alive.
Outside of the bar, staring through glass window was the same figure who spied on the knight of darkness and the vampiress on the fateful night they made their pact "hehehe now it look likes that they are going to kill each other...heh, I guess they are my ticket out of this boring place" said the stranger as he kept his head low and tried his best to hide his presence from the odd couple in the bar.
After thirty seconds of constant eye contact that felt like thirty years for the frightened bar patrons who prayed that the two creatures of darkness wouldn't start fighting in the bar, Pesmerga finally stopped the staring contest between him and the vampire queen by stepping away from her gaze and walking towards the door, Sierra was confused by his current behavior and even more confused at the fact that she couldn't make a mental connection with the vengeful knight, but she knew that if she wanted to go through the wall of confusion that has blocked her path she must follow the knight of darkness.
Not wanting to make the situation anymore suspicious than it was, the True rune bearer decided to wait for a few minutes before following the dark knight's trail, even though her unusual excitement urged her to move, she didn't budge from her place and acted like nothing happened, for this was nothing to the strong urge for blood she had in the past before she could grasp control of the Blue Moon rune.
'It's not like it would look anymore suspicious if I follow him' thought Sierra as she watched the bar patrons awaken from their living nightmare, they started to fix up the bar under the orders and threats of Leona, who was enraged by their clueless actions.
The vampiress got out the bar swiftly, so fast that no one noticed her disappearance for quite a while, walking in the hall now the vampire queen did not see any of the castle residents around, just a few suits of armor stacked on both sides of the wall, she could have sworn that the suit of black armor next to one of the normal iron armor frames was just another empty armor if it wasn't for the half shown face under the helmet and the dreadful presence the owner of the armor carried with him, Pesmerga stood as still as a statue, back against the wall, right hand next to his King crimson, he watched the child of the night as she drew nearer, his attitude of trust no one was up and running as usual.
"You don't have to be this careful around me, I am your partner after all" Sierra smiled, as she stopped in front of the dark knight.
"I trust no one vampire" said Pesmerga in his usual cold tone of speech.
"Now didn't we agree you wouldn't call me that?" giggled Sierra as she swiftly placed her arm next to his neck and felt the blood pulsing through his veins.
By the time she did that, half of King crimson was unsheathed, and Pesmerga's eyes observed her every movement like an eagle observed his prey "you have to keep your part of the deal if you want me to keep mine" said the pale girl as she pulled her hand away from the vengeful knight's neck.
She knew that even though she couldn't see the dark knight's eyes that they were glaring at her with anger 'to be caught off guard like this, I must not let this happen again' the knight of darkness mentally scolded himself as he walked past the vampire queen.
He then continued walking in the hall way before but soon he stopped as the vampiress appeared in front of him "now is this anyway to treat a lady? Especially when that lady is your partner and you were late, and left her alone in a bar filled with drunken men" said Sierra in a way that seemed sarcastic but at the same time felt so honest.
"You never specified a time, and I don't think any man would want to have anything to do with you" said the knight of darkness in an emotionless tone of speech.
"Oh and now you're saying that I am not beautiful enough to attract men? You really know how to treat a partner don't you?" said Sierra her voiced smothered in sarcasm.
"I never asked you to be my partner" said Pesmerga while his hand wandered around his broad sword's hilt.
Putting her hand on her forehead as if having a headache the pale girl sighed loudly, feeling pretty annoyed at the dark knight's rude yet expected attitude "listen, I know you don't like me or trust me, but you have to admit your going no where with your quest of vengeance with out me, and I am going no where with my hunt without help, and no one will help me but you, I would have asked Kahn but he's not around" said the vampire queen as she crossed her hands in front of her chest.
A cloud of silence engulfed Pesmerga and Sierra, Sierra stood still this time her back was against the wall and waiting for a reply from the knight of darkness, for a while no words were exchanged between the two.
Feeling discouraged at what he heard from the Blue moon rune bearer, Pesmerga remained silent, he could not bring himself to trust her let alone take his hand away from the hilt of his sword, even though he knew her words held nothing but the truth, it annoyed him that he really needed her help to get Vengeance against 'Yuber...' as then name crossed his thoughts he felt hate and malice swirl inside of him like a whirlpool of doom.
With out warning Pesmerga lunged at Sierra, his fist pulled back getting enough momentum to launch his punch, the vampire queen stared blankly into space, as if she knew that somehow nothing was going to happen to her, the vengeful swordsman's fist crashed into the armor frame next to Sierra, digging a hole through the chest plate of that armor.
A smile was drawn on the pale girl's face "did you get him?" said Sierra as she turned around to see the result of the dark knight's attack.
Pesmerga shook his head and turned to the hallway leading to the many rooms of the castle "leave it to me, he can't be far..." said the vampiress as she disappeared in a cloud of white smoke, hearing that the dark knight walked towards the sound of giant wings flapping.
'whew that was close...shouldn't have underestimated those two...hehehe too late now, I guess I'll have to face their wrath...or not hehehehe' thought Sid as his wings carried him through the hall way of the castle, the spooky winger, flew as fast as he could not wanting to be caught by the ones he spied on all this time, he turned quickly and flew up the stairs, feeling that he could stop for a moment to catch his breath, he halted his rushed flight just in time to avoid a horizontal slash from Sierra's hand, the slash barely missed as it took some of the winger's bangs.
"Hello hehehehe" laughed Sid as he avoided a rising slash from the vampire queen by back flipping down the stairs, almost losing his balance when landing on one of the steps he hovered down by flapping his wings lightly and then broke into a dash, looking back he didn't see the vampiress following him.
"Hehehehe lost her, now to lay lo..." before he continued what he was saying, the winger was knocked to the ground by a vicious back hand from the knight of darkness that stood over him, offering the pole arm user a death glare.
Still feeling a stinging pain from the vengeful knight's blow the winger put his hand over his cheek, but he still kept that sadistic smile of his, as if the dark knight's appearance did not threaten him, actually he looked more amazed than afraid, as to how the dark knight and the vampire switched so easily between bickering with each other, to working together to catch him or was this all planned, he never knew.
In a few moments Sierra appeared next to the dark knight surrounded by white smoke, a smile on her face, and her hands crossed in front of her chest, feeling slight happiness at catching the black winged creature, she didn't move a muscle as she saw the dark knight unsheathe his sword place its edge next to the fallen winger's neck.
Instead of cowering in fear and begging for his life the winger's smile grew as he stared at the creatures of darkness with intent eyes, and not soon after the winger broke into a frightening laugh "I can see that death doesn't frighten you winger" said the vampire as she shortened the distance between her and Sid by taking a few steps towards him, she then kneeled down to face the long haired pole arm user, and he simply gave her one of his sadistic looks.
"Why were u spying on us?" asked Pesmerga, his deep voice seeming to rumble through out the hallway.
"Hehehehehe...do you really want to know?" the winger answered with a question of his own, his annoying laughing never stopping for a minute.
Pesmerga's answer was only by closing the distance between the black winged creature's neck and the edge of his broad sword "hehehe I guess you really want to know" said Sid while smiling at his capturer.
"I was bored" said the winger as he laughed loudly, his laugh seemed to echo throughout the whole castle.
As if falling into rhythm with the winger, Sierra began laughing, but as for the knight of darkness he only seemed more annoyed at what was going on "not bad Winger, you don't feel death and you made me laugh, now if tell me how much you know about all this I might let you live and..." Sierra stopped for a minute to see if the winger was interested in what she said or wasn't.
Sid's eyes gleamed with excitement, feeling interest and curiosity beyond his imagination; the vampire queen's voice seemed to feed his excitement even more, as if she was manipulating him "and?" asked said almost shaking while saying that word.
"I could save you from this boredom" said the pale girl as she watched Pesmerga's glare from the back of her eye, she understood it was to warn her not to decide things on her own, even though they worked together to catch this spy, it seemed that he still didn't trust her.
Before anything else could be said the weird winger began explaining how he saw Sierra and followed her, and about everything he saw and heard, to such detail that it made the two creatures of darkness feel astonished at the great spying abilities of the spooky winger, but of course they never showed their amazement on their faces, but some how the winger knew they impressed.
"...and that's all I heard and saw" said the winger as he released another one of his strange laughs.
The vampire queen seemed to be deep in thought, considering what the winger had said, as for Pesmerga he looked like he lost interest half way through the tale, as for the winger he sat cross legged, a sadistic smile on his face, awaiting an answer from the Blue moon rune bearer.
Time marched for a few seconds, and that's all took for Sierra to stop her train of thought and gaze at the winger "I guess your words hold the truth winger" said Sierra as she looked at the dark knight from the back of her eye to see him nod slightly.
"Ok you're coming with us" said the vampire queen before Sid, or Pesmerga could say anything about it.
Just when the knight of darkness was about to deny what she has just decided, he felt her trying to send him a telepathic message, and this time he allowed it 'you know he would be a great help in your hunt for Yuber' Pesmerga at first didn't say anything, then he looked directly at the vampire queen 'I don't care if he tags along or not' the dark knight replied mentally.
'Then what's the problem?' asked the pale girl in a mental voice, as she turned around to face the dark knight.
'Don't decide things about this hunt without me having a say in it, or you'll be missing a head vampire' the telepathic reply of the dark knight was as cold and sharp as his speech, then the dark knight turned around and was heading outside, the vampire smiled, she seemed to enjoy annoying the knight of darkness.
"Hehehehe...I'll get my stuff and join you two outside" said Sid as he took off towards the castle cemetery.
Sierra quickly followed the knight of darkness outside, only to be greeted by a sacrilegious glare from the back of his eye, it seemed to only make her smile grow larger, they both walked to the castle gate, Sierra tried to contact the knight of darkness many times with her telepathic powers, only to find that the wall that blocked any mental connection with the dark knight was up once more.
"If you have anything to say, use your mouth" said the dark knight in a harsh tone of speech that could make the strongest tremble.
"As expected from the one who hunts Yuber" replied the vampire in a voice molded with amazement and sarcasm, talking about his ability to repel her mental words.
"What do you want?" asked the knight of vengeance in a chilling voice that could freeze any listener's heart, not wishing to waste his precious time in unnecessary conversations.
"I want to ask someone else to join us" said the vampire bluntly, it seemed like she has read his thoughts of not wanting to waste any time.
"As long as he doesn't get in my way...I don't give a damn" spoke the dark knight his words coated with an emotionless feel.
"You won't be disappointed" giggled sierra as she spoke to Pesmerga and with that her form diminished from the dark knight's sight in a cloud of mist.
The knight of vengeance turned around and stared at the wilderness beyond the castle gates, many centuries passed by him while he was pursuing his enemy, his most hated person, the one who took everything from him; he vowed that he would not stop until he killed that demon he once called a companion, his feelings of hatred and malice never stopped lingering through his mind, nothing else in the world mattered to him, but to kill that unspeakable creature, this was Pesmerga's mission, and through any means he planned to finish it, and beyond these gates he must walk to begin yet another step in his quest of vengeance.