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Chapter 6
Joachim waited for the punch to hit his face, but nothing happened. Daring to open one hue, he saw the hunter on the ground, sitting on his knees. His hands in his face. How was the vampire supposed to deal with this? Sighing lowly, the being bent down to the other's level. Placing a hand on the other's shoulder he tried to console him. "Leon."
The hunter didn't look up. He was too devastated by the other's words. 'I should have known. All the symptoms it makes sense.' Removing his face from his hands, Leon looked up into the other's face. He barely registered the comforting weight on his shoulder. "When did this happen?" He started to back away from the other. "Did you have anything to do with this with?" Leon's voice rose, as he started to weep silently. This was not supposed to happen to him.
Joachim winced. He had suspected such an accusation, but it didn't stop him from feeling some hurt. 'Hurt? I haven't felt this since I was human…' Setting aside his confusing thoughts he focused on the breaking man before him. "It happened last night, when you saw a small girl." Joachim tried to figure out the way to word his next sentence right. Leon didn't know he was being watched after all. One wrong move and the being could upset the half-breed even more.
Leon blinked tears out of his crystal hues, looking up in horror. "Rebecca?" He whispered softly, his voice cracking. A torrent of memories flew through his head. Squeezing his pools shut, he brought his hands to his pale temples, in a weak attempt to stop them. Gritting his teeth, he saw the dead body of the little girl, and the naked man. Then blackness.
Joachim watched in silence. He knew he couldn't help the man at that moment. Sadness settled itself in his posture. Peering down, he looked around the area. Someone was watching them. 'Leon you really need to get yourself back together…' The vampire only hoped he could.
"Joachim?" Leon scanned the area. He felt something, watching them. "Do you feel something watching us?"
Joachim nodded, slightly. He was surprised that the other could feel the peering eyes. Most half-breeds couldn't. 'Whoever this Simon Key is, he is very strong.' The being had once read in an old book that making a half breed was hard. Magic was required, among the strength to turn another. "It's not Simon, it must be a servant of his." He looked down at the man.
Leon tensed at the name of a servant. The memory of the naked man, over Rebecca's body running through his head. Blinking away the thought he tried to focus on something else. "If I'm a half-breed as you say. Does this mean I have to drink human blood?"
Joachim looked away once more, averting his hues on purpose. "Yes, but unlike Walter or even me you wont' have to kill anyone." He winced at the thought of the countless people he had killed. Happiness spread over him like a wildfire, at the thought of sparing the hunter of the same suffering he went through.
The hunter picked up on the emotions. "You don't like to kill do you?" He lifted himself off the ground, running a hand down the side of the other's face. Taking in the feeling of the soft pale material.
Joachim held back a moan. "No." He looked down, feeling emotions he never thought he could again. 'I can't let this hunter affect me this way.' He reprimanded himself.
"It's a sad existence isn't it." Leon felt himself sympathizing with the rebel vampire. Feeling that somehow the cold exterior the being carried wasn't what he really was. Not wanting to sit on it for too long, he pushed himself up. "I think we should go get this Simon Key." The words felt foreign on his tongue, the urge to call the man master crept into his thoughts. The hunter refused to address the monster by that term though, no one had ownership over him.
"Yes we should." Getting up himself, Joachim glided down the path, knowing full well that Leon was following.
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Ian smirked through the foliage of the trees. "Foolish creatures." Turning his back on their movements, he made his way back to the castle. Ready to tell his master his victims plans. "Stay there and follow them should they move." Clicking to the bats, he let them fly off his arms to fly off to carry out the instructions.
Simon turned around as soon as he felt the presence of one of the many creatures of his castle. "Ah what information do you have for me Brutus?"
The large decaying wolf hybrid, smiled a little, showing off a row of sharp teeth. "Master, Ian says your fledging is coming." The creature bowed, before exiting the room, ready to stand guard once again.
"All is working out as I planned." Simon turned around, walking over to his window intent on looking out for the duo walking down the dirt road.
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"We should rest for the night, with the sun coming up I do not want to get caught underneath it." Joachim stated, as he walked off into the brush. Leon followed slowly behind him. Sunrise was about to come, and with it the fear of burning alive. At least for Joachim. Joachim didn't know if the hunter would be affected or not.
"Let's settle down. I'll keep first watch." Leon sat down on a grassy patch of land, leaning himself against a tree. Facing the road he watched silently, and unmoving.
Joachim nestled against another tree, closing his hues ready to sleep.
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