The two of them packed up their things and set out after dark. It's not like they didn't like the day but it was always easier and more fun to hunt at night. They were both rested and healed and ready to go. With their newly formed bond they felt ready to face the world.
The night was boring and nothing was happening. There was a peaceful silence between the two of them. It was around two AM when the winds started to pick up and Miyu felt the always familiar unwanted presence.
"Come out Reiha, I know your there." Miyu looked into the woods to her left as the form of a child-like girl and her doll came out of the woods.
"You as perceptive as ever Miyu. This is not a social visit I have come to request your aid in a matter." Reiha spoke as cold and as un-life like as the doll she held in her arms.
"This must be big because you have never asked me for help in the decades that we have known each other."
Reiha seemed to finally notice the darkly cloaked man standing in the shadows. She stepped back feeling the power from him radiate off his body.
"Reiha, don't worry about him he is of no concern to you or your request. What do you want from me?" Miyu was getting tired of this game and she didn't want Reiha asking questions about Lava.
"Your job is to defend humans Miyu, not to fraternize and fall for demons. He should be dead by now. If you can't do your job correctly then maybe Reiha and I should take over." The voice that spoke was like that of a child but no one was around.
"The doll." Miyu whispered quietly for only Lava to hear.
He was surprised but remained silent and vigil at her side. Whatever was between these two had apparently been going on for sometime time and he knew he had no right to over step.
"I know my job and I do it well. If you don't have anything worth listening too then we'll be on our way. I have more important things to do then argue with you tonight." Miyu spoke and tried to walk past Reiha but was shoved back to where she originally was.
"Your village with your mother is under attack. I know you haven't been there in over a hundred years but I do know the loyalty you have to your mother and to the people who take care of her." Reiha spoke nastily.
"More like the people she feeds off of to live." The doll snarled.
"I will go to my mothers village to make sure that everything is ok but so help me if she has been harmed and you left her there to suffer and die, I will kill both of you." Miyu stalked past Reiha and this time when she tried to stop her Miyu kept going.
Lava followed behind Miyu feeling Reiha's eyes on their backs as they disappeared into the forest. He wanted to know what had happened to make the two clearly hate each other so much. They had obviously known each other for a long time.
"She killed my father almost two hundred years ago. She wanted to be the guardian and would have been next in line if it weren't for me. In retaliation I killed her whole family. After the blood shed we decided to just keep whatever battles we had between each other." She spoke as if that was all that needed to be said.
He sensed her mood and just left her to her thoughts. He knew she was thinking about what she might find at the village.
"It will be a week before we get to my mother's village. I am about as far away as I have ever traveled. I was chasing you, which took me the extra few days away. We will have to travel day and night now."
" I understand. I will not hold you up. Will you still be performing your duties as we travel?" He didn't know what to say she seemed on edge and he didn't want to make things worse.
"I'll do my duties as I am destined to do. My mother if she is gone will understand why I couldn't be there. I can only get there when I get there."
He could hear the sadness in her voice. She did care deeply for her mother but all her life she was probably told destiny above all else. So she put destiny above even her own mother. What a sad existence.
As they began walking in the direction of her village she slowed down to match his pace. He thought maybe she had something to say to him but she just reached out and took his hand in hers.
She smiled up at him and continued walking like it was the most natural thing in the world. He couldn't have been more shocked if she had bitten him again. He gave her hand a gentle squeeze and smiled down at her.
"There is a village up ahead and we will need some supplies." Her eyes seemed to stare off into the distance.
"I will keep watch. I know you haven't eaten anything since I… I… well you need to eat. I will make sure you are not disturbed."
She was glad he understood and she was starving. She could feel that she was a little weak. She should eat at least once a day. That part made her job dangerous. She didn't want to go around killing people and make a name for herself as a killer. Like all predators she went for the weak or old. She never had the heart to go after children or parents.