Hi, I'm back! I tried to bang this out as fast as I could. It's a little short, but here goes, hee hee, please review as always! But only if you feel like it. It's okay!

WISHES OF THE NIGHT
By Shikushikun
Part 2

It was an evening later when Hakuren, Teito, and the small dragon formerly known as Mikage had ended up outside of the church's grounds. Kor had struck the area hard and in great numbers so those Bishops in training had been sent out to look for people who might be afflicted. They had stern orders to return to the Bishops once they received proper information and were not to engage the Kor.

"Is this the right way?" Hakuren asked, a little irritant. He flicked a lock of his pale golden hair out of his eyes, but in the night it could have been white or even gray. It was hard to distinguish color in the dark, and his normally lilac-colored orbs were likewise desaturated.

"I don't know." Teito replied. They've been wandering for hours.

"I think we have enough names, we can get back to Frau." He held up a list with those suspected of having Kor.

"There's something not right about this." Teito said. "Don't you think so?" Mikage responded with a little buu.

"It doesn't seem like the usual methods by a Kor, no." Hakuren considered with a shiver. "The reports of puncture wounds on their necks is a little odd, and a few victims seemed anemic."

"Could it be a new kind? I heard rumors..."

"It's possible," he answered, reluctant.

CRASH! There was a ruckus down an alleyway! A darting shadow and then like an inky blotch of ink against the night, a figure with wings could be seen escaping away as fast as humanly or inhumanly possible. There was a scream.

"Help me!" came a woman's voice. Teito and Hakuren rushed to her side, next to the crates which had fallen.

"What's wrong?!" Teito asked. The woman cupped the side of her neck, but blood was seeping slowly from a wound there. It glistened in the dim light of the nearby lamps, and the boys looked repulsed.

"He... he bit... stop him..." Then the woman fainted right away!

Teito and Hakuren looked at each other and nodded. Hakuren focused and sent an ball of Zaiphon high into the air where it would burst yellow, red, before fading into purple. It would be a beacon for any of the Bishops and he hoped they saw it.

"Mikage, stay with her" Teito ordered. The dragon protested, but he stood and turned to Hakuren. They knew couldn't let this Kor escape. "Let's go!"

Together, they ran down the direction that the Kor left at. The homes here were shadowed and many were abandoned. Hakuren wondered how they could of gotten so far from the church. Looking around, they saw a figure leaping from roof to roof like a cat. He glared, trying to make out anything beyond the wings and figure of a person they were connected to. It didn't fly, strangely enough. Was it too weak? Or perhaps the Kor hadn't completely taken over yet.

"You keep going and try to trap him, I'll go this way!" Teito declared.

"Wait--!" It wasn't a good idea to split up. But when he turned, his friend had disappeared somewhere and he still chased the shadow from the ground. He gripped his baculus in worry, trying not to have an inner fit at his emerald-eyed partner. As the days grew closer and closer to the exam, he found himself thinking more and more about Teito Klein than he would have liked. They were friends, certainly, but there was a strange warm feeling in his chest when the boy-who-was-not-a-boy smiled. Not just smile at him, either, but at anything. Whatever made the ex-slave happy, Hakuren was okay with.

Then a few moments later, he could see the flash of Zaiphon and then Teito joining in the chase again, but this time on the roof.

The outskirts of the city was like a dilapidated maze full of rot and weeds. The homes were boxy, and nestled close together, leaving only a small room in between. The roads weren't much better and crackled and stuck up in places like mounds of discarded things that once was cared for, and if Hakuren thought about it to hard it seemed like a very lonely place. But instead he ran, ran as fast as he could with all the strength he could muster. Since the place was so empty, they could use their Zaiphon wouldn't worrying about destroying someone's home or damaging property.

As if Teito had read his mind, something struck near the Kor and shattered bricks to rain debris down towards him.

"CAREFUL!" Hakuren shouted.

"Sorry!" was the response. The Kor then jumped across the road with a mighty leap. For a single moment, Hakuren felt the intense burn of eyes scrutinizing his form as the figure sailed over to the next rooftop. Teito had been right - there was something different about this kind of Kor.

Teito: "Don't just stand there!"

Hakuren broke out of his thoughts and made a quick turn down an alley way. He readied his baculus. They had a job to do.

But with the unfamiliarity of the terrain and layout of the place, it was mere minutes later when Hakuren found himself lost amid the buildings. His heart was beating loudly to his own ears, and his panting filled the night so as he couldn't hear the rapid steps of his partner, and the darkness was all but enveloping. Only the moon lit his way now, his own single, stable beacon.

A scraping sound behind him.

"Teito?" He said, uncertain. He held out his baculus - but nothing......

And then an arm snaked around his stomach from behind and drew him close and as tight as a bear trap. Hakuren lashed out and struggled, but the man, this Kor, had gripped the hand holding the baculus and pulled back and he couldn't swing it around. His hair tied back, but strands of it had come loose from the chase. Then with a frightful shudder he felt the Kor pressing a mouth against his exposed and slightly sweaty neck which was warm from the running too. He'd never been held so intimately! It was embarrassing, but he couldn't think about that for long.

What do you wish for? It whispered. Bone-wings wrapped around them, hugging them together. These wings were slightly different than the normal Kor - instead of white, these gave off no impression of light and were pure black.

'Oh no!' he thought. He tried to scream but the Kor slapped a hand against his mouth and twisted his head to the side. 'What are you?!' he wanted to shout.

We are Vor

All things you desire you will have

But now sleep...

Hakuren eyes closed as if they weighed a ton and he fell into darkness. There was a distant, sharp pain on his neck but that, too, faded away like a candle being snuffed out by the wind.

End of Part 2
Aaaah!! Will Hakuren be okay?? Even I do not know...... (actually don't worry you'll find out )