Chapter 3 : Bleeding and Fighting
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Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Knight or Tokyo Mew Mew
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Ichigo was still running, it had been five minutes now and she didn't know how much longer she could keep this up.
She was already very tired and weak from her blood loss and all this running from the vampire wasn't helping at all.
But Ichigo keeps running, she's near the outskirts of the town, near the forest below the academy now.
She doesn't want anyone else to get hurt by this vampire so she knows she has to lure him somewhere and try to kill it, even if it might cost her own life to do so.
So she keeps running onwards, further away from the vampire, as fast as she can.
Even when she is running as fast as she can possibly go, the vampire is still only a few hundred metres behind her.
Ichigo has given up hope that anyone in this town can help her, her friends aren't here and she may never see them again, but she quickly snaps out of her thoughts as she notices the deserted path that leads up to the academy.
This is her chance; she can lead the rogue vampire somewhere secluded, away from the town.
'Surely there wont be many people at the academy, and they wont be out at this time of the morning anyway.' She thought to herself.
So Ichigo decided that that is where she will face this frightening beast that is right on her tail.
She only has one chance at this plan, so she runs raster still, putting a little more distance between them and gaining a little more advantage to her with every step she takes.
Her powers are weakened due to her state, so she isn't as fast as usual, but she spurs herself onwards with promises of everyone being safe if she manages to defeat this monster.
After all, that was what she lived for, to protect people, and so she couldn't let it hurt anyone else.
Ichigo has gained an advantage on the vampire now, she had picked up the pace a bit and now is quite far in front of it on the long path up to the school.
She can see the outline of the academy at last, its tall and cold looking stone walls, poking its way through the gradually thinning trees.
A few metres ahead of her are the gates in to the academy.
They are locked with a padlock, so Ichigo gets ready to jump over the high metal gates.
She builds up momentum and runs extremely fast, she is almost like a blur now. When she is a couple of metres away from the gates she jumps up very high using her cat reflexes and does a perfect somersault over them and lands agilely on the other side, on the gravelled grounds of the academy.
Ichigo takes a quick glance behind her and notices that the vampire is almost here.
She quickly sprints onwards, towards the deserted academy, taking in her surroundings as she goes.
She notices the big school building and then she sees a small-secluded area off to her left, near some type of smaller building, 'Maybe it's the living area' she thought.
She still couldn't see anyone around, so Ichigo thinks that it will be safe enough to fight him here.
Ichigo pushed herself on again, just a little while longer she keeps telling herself.
Just a few more metres and then the vampire is in the trap.
His only way out will be to fight me.
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Ichigo had just managed to stumble to a halt in her chosen battle area when she turned around and saw the rogue vampire was almost upon her.
He stopped about fifty metes away from her and glared at her in annoyance of having to run this far and so fast just to catch her.
But she was worth all of it, in his eyes, his love for her, and his lust for her blood in particular, clouded his other senses and now he took in his surroundings and realised where he was.
For him, this wasn't good.
He was in Cross Academy, the one place rogue vampires should steer clear of, if they had common sense that is.
This place was renowned among vampires, it was where many noble vampires attended night classes with Kaname Kuran, the most fearsome and powerful pureblood he had ever known of.
Hayato shivered slightly in fear of what would happen to him if he was caught here.
Then he focused his thoughts back on Ichigo, he knew that he just needed to knock her unconscious, then he could take her away without any fuss and make her his forever.
But being in this place, and sensing powerful vampires nearby, made him uneasy and not too confident that he would survive if they ever found out what he was doing.
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Ichigo was watching him curiously, but still with caution, in case he tried to do anything; he seemed to be in turmoil about something, she could see it in his dark, bloodthirsty eyes.
She realised that this place wasn't a usual academy; she could sense more vampires here.
Ichigo quickly caught on to what Hayato was scared about.
He was scared of being found here by the other vampires.
These vampires practically reeked of power, unlike Hayato.
She knew they must be a lot stronger than him, which could mean a lot more trouble for her if they found her in her present state.
Ichigo resolved to end this quickly, then she could ring her friends at last, then do the thing she wanted to do the most right now, sleep, maybe forever, that sounded good to her.
She was so tired now; she could barely stand up, let alone fight off a crazy, deranged vampire that had intentions of practically making her his slave and controlling her forever. This was just too weird for her.
But she had kind of been in this type of situation before, when fighting the aliens she often became tired, not as much as she was now, but she knew the only way to finally get some rest was to get it over with.
She took a deep breath and bravely shouted to the vampire. "Hayato, this is the place we will battle. I will fight you here and I will kill you. I won't let you hurt anyone else. So let's get this over with already".
He laughs at what she said to him, He doesn't believe that she can defeat him.
"Ichigo, my dear, if it's a fight you want, then I will give you one. But hear this, you will be mine, no matter what. While I was sucking the blood from your frail little body, I injected you with some pureblood blood from my master, so eventually, when the vampire urges begin to take over, then you will seek my help, and inevitably,you will be by my side forever." Hayato boasts to her.
Ichigo is very angry when she hears what he has done to her, she knows that if you are bitten by a special vampire then you turn in to a vampire yourself, her cousins made her very aware of that particular fact by acting it out for her.
She can't believe that he is mad enough to inject her with some of a special vampire's blood.
She is seething with rage now, her mind filled with thoughts about what her life will be like now, how her friends will react, how she might attack people in her own thirst for blood. She couldn't stand it if she became a rogue vampire like him.
'How dare he do that to me' She thinks.
Her rage has built up to its boiling point now.
She can't stand the smug look on his face for any longer.
Ichigo summons her weapon; her strawberry bell, and she gets in to her fighting stance, ready to fight to the death against this horrible monster.
The vampire realises that she really is going to fight him, so he decides to indulge her and gets ready to fight and capture her.
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Ichigo attacks him first with her strawberry bell.
Hayato doesn't really expect her attack so he gets hit in the chest by it.
It doesn't do very much to him though, because Ichigo is too weak to produce very strong attacks.
By the look of her, she seems ready to drop dead on the floor at any moment.
When she sees how little damage she caused to him, she summoned her secondary weapon instead. (A/N: I made this weapon up to make it more interesting)
Her bell disappeared and a pair of long and very sharp daggers, a bit like Kishu's, replace her main weapon.
They were pink and silver and they glow pink whenever Ichigo uses them because they use some of her energy to make her attacks, when using them, even stronger.
She only ever uses her secondary weapon if her powers are too weak and she needs to use a weapon that doesn't use as much of her energy up.
Her weapons were glowing slightly pink now with her power as she pours a little of her strength in to them.
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Ichigo then goes for a second attack.
Hayato seems more impressed by her second attack. She manages to cut his shoulder slightly with her weapons before he moves out of the way.
She comes to a halt when she notices him get out of the way, and she has to steady herself because she feels so dizzy now and fighting doesn't help her condition.
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He takes this as his opportunity to attack her.
He lunges at her and knocks her to the ground.
He then pulls her up and throws her on the ground a hundred metres away.
She doesn't move for a second. But then she sits up suddenly, her back against a tree and powers up one of her daggers and expertly throws it at him.
It manages to get him and it sticks deep in to his left leg, he cries out in pain and anger and looks down at the wound with the dagger sticking out of it.
As Ichigo lifts herself up from the floor she is just in time to see Hayato pull the dagger from his leg and throw it back at her. She manages to move, seconds before it reaches her, and it only cuts her arm slightly and lodges itself in the tree behind her.
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By now they are both very angry.
Ichigo takes her weapon out of the tree, not taking her eyes of her opponent for a second.
She watches him as he gradually breaks in to a run towards her.
Ichigo has already thought of a new tactic for now, since she is too weak to use her weapons too much, she is going to have to dodge his attacks until he gets tired, then when he is weak, it will be her time to strike him.
So when he finally reaches her, she just keeps jumping away from him, and running and dodging all of his attacks.
This just makes him even angrier.
It's getting lighter out now, 'it must be about seven in the morning' he thinks.
He can't keep this up for much longer or else the sun will be up.
After several minutes of him attempting to capture her, but her getting out of his way just in time, he sees an opening.
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He is a second too fast for her and manages to grab and cut her leg while she is in mid somersault, trying to escape him.
They both fall to the ground, her beneath him and struggling to get away.
He hasn't got as much strength right now, so she knees him in the stomach and manages to escape him for now.
She jumps up in to a nearby tree to get out of the way when he quickly retaliates by rushing at her.
But her leg is too hurt and she topples out of the tree backwards, on to a gravel area outside the gates of the smaller building by the school.
Ichigo knows that she cant keep this up for much longer and it will be light soon enough so people will be outside and in danger.
She hurriedly half runs, half limps toward the building, further away from the rogue vampire.
Hayato is finding it hard to concentrate now, he isn't bleeding much, but Ichigo is, and the scent of her blood is making him very thirsty again.
Her blood is irresistible to vampires and he needs more.
He looks at her, and in his eyes she can see the depth of his longing for her blood, its so deep, he seems to need it, crave it more than anything.
He sees her open wounds trickling with blood, and he grows even more restless for the taste of her sweet blood.
He can already imagine himself feeding from her again, her luscious blood sliding down his throat and quenching his thirst.
He runs at her, so fast that she barely sees him. She jumps back, but not exactly in time and she ends up with claw marks all across her stomach.
Now she has a new wound, and it is bleeding a lot and is very painful.
Ichigo is almost ready to give up from exhaustion by now, but she pushed herself on again and keeps running and jumping from his now violent and frenzied attacks, letting her cat side take over almost completely again.
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Meanwhile, Yuki and Zero are on patrol and about to escort the night class back to their dorms when they hear a commotion.
They look around to find out what's going on and the vampires can smell blood now, everyone turns in the direction of the blood, to see a girl in a bright pink outfit attempting to fight of what looks like a level E vampire that obviously wants the girl's blood.
They can smell her blood in the air again, and this time they find it so irresistible that they struggle not to attack her themselves.
They watch as the mysterious girl runs away from the vampire and jumps in the air, twisting her body agilely, to land gracefully, far away from the vampire and then she starts running again, dodging all of its attacks.
A moment later she finally notices them, but before they can do anything to help her the rogue vampire catches her off guard and throws himself on her.
He then pulls her very tightly to him.
While she is struggling to get loose the vampire manages to cut her just below her neck, it is a small cut, but deep and soon the smell of the girl's sweet blood invades the vampires' senses.
Suddenly she elbows the vampire in the gut and manages to jump out of the way of him, just like a cat.
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This happens within seconds and they barely have time to react before the vampire tries to attack the girl again.
This time Zero and Yuki act, they don't know what's going on, or who the girl is, but they have to help her because she is all-alone against a rogue vampire, on academy grounds.
'Who knows what could happen,' was all they could think at that moment in time.
So they abandon the night class and rush forwards to help her.
But she becomes distracted by them instead and urges them to stay back from the dangerous vampire.
Little does she know that they already know about vampires and are experts at dealing with them.
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When the rogue vampire notices the night class vampires and the guardians he is quite scared at first.
But then he notices that the vampires, including Zero are trying to stay away from his Ichigo, but still help her.
Obviously her blood smells delicious to even them and they are trying to control their vampire urges.
Yuki is the only one left that can help the girl without endangering her even more.
She notices her vampire friends and realizes what must be going on and that she is the only one that can do anything now.
The girl yells at her to stay away, but Yuki wont, she feels a need to help the very weak and scared looking girl.
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Yuki grabs Zero's bloody rose gun before he can stop her and she rushes off to help the girl fight the vampire.
She isn't very good at shooting, and has a terrible aim, but she has to try anyway.
The girl in pink moves out of the way of another of the vampires attacks, but this time she stumbles and falls, too weak to go on for much longer.
Yuki rushes over to her, running as fast as she can.
She grabs the girl's arm and hauls her up.
But just as the girls have stood up, before they even have time to notice anything, the rogue vampire is upon them and sends them both flying back against a tree a few metres away.
They lie there moaning on the ground, struggling to get up.
The others watch in horror and Kaname is in despair that he cant help his dear Yuki right now because he would inevitably smell the girls blood and probably bite them both, which would be very bad.
The girls manage to help each other up, but before they can retaliate, the vampire comes flying at them again, out of nowhere, knocking Yuki in to the tree a few meters away, while he pins the girl in pink to a tree, by her neck.
She is gasping for air, as he cuts off her circulation and starts to lick the blood that has gathered on her chest, from her wounds on her neck.
She is disgusted by the feel of his tongue lapping up her blood, but she can't do anything.
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Thankfully, before he can get to sucking more blood from her neck, Yuki comes to her rescue and shoots the vampire with Zero's anti-vampire gun. The vampire had seen this coming however and had dropped Ichigo and rushed towards Yuki instead, so the bullet only grazed his side and zoomed past him, where it hit a tree above Aidou's head, startling him.
She didn't have time to aim and shoot the vampire again, not before he threw her to one side again, where she landed about fifty metres away from the night class, in a small, unmoving heap on the ground.
Ichigo couldn't stand to see the girl hurt, especially after she tried to save her.
So she used up most of her remaining strength to run to the girl on the ground and stop the vampire from killing her.
However, she had no idea how to get him to stay away from the girl.
But she came to the conclusion that if she had to sacrifice her own life, then so be it.
She then turns her attention from the bloodthirsty vampire back to the girl on the ground, trying to see if she was alright.
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Hayato stalks up to Ichigo, quite confidently and seeing that she so obviously wants to protect the pathetic human girl on the ground.
He thinks about it for a second before he decides to oblige her, and show Ichigo that he would do this for her.
But this was the extent of his kindness.
So instead of biting the girl, he pulls Ichigo's back against his chest, tilts her head to one side and sinks his fangs in to the opposite side of her neck than last time.
Ichigo lets out a bloodcurdling scream as he bites down harder and drinks more and more blood from her already frail and weak body.
Her body begins to shake and she shivers at the feeling of him drinking her blood again.
She doesn't know how much more blood she has left, but she doesn't think she has much, not anymore, not from the way he was gulping it down anyway.
She cant move in his tight grasp, and desperately wills someone to help her as she hears the blood being sucked from her neck by this terrible vampire.
After a few seconds Ichigo is in too much pain to even feel anything anymore, and she just gives up and lets her body slump back in his arms.
Hayato is very happy at this and rejoices that he has her at last.
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The vampires are all frozen and reluctantly hold back from helping the girls.
They watch in horror at what is happening.
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But at last they come to their senses and realise that they have to help them, or they will be dead anyway.
Their goal was to try to control their bloodlust long enough for them to rescue the girls and get them away from any vampires, even themselves, and while they did all this, they had to try not to suck the girls dry of their blood.
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Well, that's the third chapter done :]
I hope y'all liked it.
The next chapter will be the rest of the fight and about what the night class are going to do with Ichigo now that she knows their secret.
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Thanks for reading, and please review :")
… Anie