Voices could be heard coming from an unknown abyss, yet she stayed ignorant, an unknown sensation of something changing inside her. This was her dying wasn't it? This was how it was going to end for her now. She knew that yet she still remained ignorant to the voices asking her to "Wake up" all the time. After all, it wasn't as if she was actually asleep, this was more of a permanent rest. Images floated by her minds eye, some of them showing a boy possibly no older than thirteen years of age fighting against a far more brutish lad. Violet irises stained with tears quickly replaced the furious look upon the boy's face, looking at her directly as if he knew that she was watching him. In fact, who knows, maybe he did know that she was watching the scenery; it's grainy landscape reminding her of the ferocious thunderstorms that she always witnessed with her twin sister, Risa from the bed that they each occupied for the time being. Riku would always be asleep at one end of the bed, dreaming of days that had been forgotten when a thunderclap would wake her and Risa.
Floating now, dropping even further into the visions of this boy that she noticed was slowly becoming a man; someone that she recognised yet could not place a name to the images. Someone was crying, crying for this boy yet she could not see whom it was until a girl came into view, someone who looked startlingly like her. Fresh tears were dripping from puffy eyes as the boy embraced her in a hug, trying to calm her down. Then someone was screaming, screaming in pain from an open wound in the side of his neck. A dark, looming figure stood over the boy that she recognised from the images, clasping a weakening hand to his neck. He was being fed something, something that looked like blood. Then a sound came, yet it wasn't from the visions that were so freely given to her. It came from the bowels of her vocal cords.
"DARK!!!" Yes, that was his name wasn't it? Dark! Someone who she had been deeply in love with when she was alive, yet that blonde vampire took everything away from her, sent her into an unwanted abyss of thoughts, dreams and nightmares. That was blood that she was given and these were his memories that had obviously been passed on through the visions. That was when site was given to her and she nearly screamed as a truly horrifying pain had escaped from her stomach.
"Riku, do not fear. It is only your body that dies!" That voice, it was hard to place yet she could recognise each clear syllable, the sentences resonating with a high sense of formality. A cool hand was placed on her chest, something to prevent her from thrashing out wildly as the pain grew steadily more unbearable. This was it! This was the event that was going to change her life, something that she had witnessed once in a nightmare. She was going to die and become reborn into something that she didn't want to be. A vampire!
Thoughts of revenge coursed through her mind. She wanted that vampire dead, wanted to feel cool crimson tainting her lips, yet she felt the unbearable guilt of drinking blood all at the same time. It was enough to make her feel like she was going to explode at any minute along with the pain she was feeling inside of her. Thrashing wildly against the grip, she felt cool arms grab her, someone strong, someone who has dealt with this once before. The pain grew thin, fresh tears coursing from dark eyes flecked with crimson. Gasping for air could be heard, followed by realisation that she would never breathe it in ever again. Wiping the tears away, she turned to Daisuke, smelling hot blood for the first time yet resisting to take him down. The blood had also passed on all its teachings. Her kills were to be evildoers that had deserved to die for a very long time. And the mystery of Ritsuko's death was solved yet she felt nothing for the girl; she only mourned her sister who she thought she saw within the dark abyss of death.
"Look around…" The cool, sultry of voice of Dark could be heard, obviously pushing back emotion. Taking a look around, she gasped as she realised that everything was in far more detail, objects moved when she knew that they should not and the beauty of the moon stuck out amongst all the stars in the sky, its radiance becoming ever more beautiful at each glance.
A grin formed at the girl's excitement. At first, he thought that he had given too much, his pale skin tone becoming ever more paler by the second, yet he also knew that this was the only way he could save her now from a premature death. The boy had grabbed him when he remained silent on the floor, watching as she screamed from being suddenly chased by Krad, but it was the only thing that he could do now – watch! He wanted to surprise his teacher and saw in no way that this was indeed selfishness that had been growing inside of him ever since he left Krad to rot within his grave. There was a reason for this, something that Dark had kept from everyone who knew Krad or about him, something that he knew he should have said before all this happened yet he did not. Each day, the vampire was becoming ever more the monster that had been growing inside of him since Dark watched the blood stained angel take out all of the hunters that were threatening to stake his heart with a vile sharp piece of wood and take off his head because of what he was.
The only one who knew about this now was Riku. He kept all barriers at bay, wanting to show her things that he could not say when she was only human. Now she was a vampire, it was guaranteed that she would understand why Krad had become crazy in the first place and that it was something that Dark was willing to make up for. Suddenly the girl screamed. He held onto her yet wild thrashings were causing his grip to become strained. Wings were forming out of her back, which wasn't good. If she dropped feathers, Krad would be able to easily track them. He watched Daisuke's state of shock from the corner of his eye and as he noticed the boy try to advance on Riku, obviously to help Dark keep her from thrashing out wildly, words formed at his mouth which informed the boy that he should stay back just in case something bad happened. After all, it was impossible to tell how much strength the girl actually had inside her now.
"Oh god…it hurts!" She exclaimed suddenly as a portion of skin opened on her now revealed back. Daisuke had turned away, obviously not wanting to see what was happening to his best friend. Dark couldn't blame him. It was terribly unpleasant for a human to watch something like this, especially since the looming thought of the human being changed as well hung so freely over the air, yet he could not be changed. This was how it was meant to be. He was meant to be a hunter and they were meant to be vampires. He had already committed one crime by turning an unsuspecting hunter into a vampire and now listening to her screams were his atonement, his own filthy punishment that he knew that he deserved, yet he also knew that he couldn't let her die, not after what they had each established to each other. The screaming was then silenced, only to be replaced by gasps as her skin healed around a pair of white, tawny owl-like wings that were just as beautiful as their host.
Daisuke, I am sorry…The boy didn't answer for a while. He was obviously trying to get over what he had seen. This only meant one thing to Dark though and he knew that it was going to be dangerous. One day, the boy was going to want to be turned as well, just so that he wouldn't have to grow old and die, but if his blood caught up with him, it was also clear to Dark that Daisuke knew that he would have to accept his birth trait.
Authors notes: I apologize for the sudden shortness in some chapters. Beginning to have problems with the length of each I admit but I am aiming to finish this now. Still, how long do you think it should be? I'll try fifteen chapters for now but I may go over. The story is going to change now that Riku has become a vampire. Who knows, maybe even Daisuke might become changed too...YAY TRIO OF VAMPS!!!!
Anyway, please review this and no flaming thank you!