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Warning! This chapter will skip P. just a little. Sorry it took me so long to upload.

Night Class P.O.V, night of the battle

The moon hung low in the sky, like a big white orb suspended in the air by an invisible string. Aido was sitting in his dorm, staring out the big bay window, wondering what it would be like to fly off into the cool night air, like Yuki did. He sighed, unless he grew wings, he was forever ground bound. Aido took a deep breath, and leaned back in his chair. The room was a bit stuffy, walking up to the window; he rested his head against the cool glass for a moment, before opening it.

The night was still and calm, thankfully, no Day Class girls were out, so he was able to poke his head out the window. The echo of footsteps behind him made him jump and nearly fall out the window. Grabbing the window frame for support, Aido managed to drag himself up, and turn around to look at the person behind him. He almost fell out of the window again. Kaname. The president of the Moon Dorm, a pureblood, and overall lord of the vampires. Kaname smiled at Aido.

"Hello Aido. How has your night been going so far?"

Aido took a cautious step away from the window. He still wasn't too sure if the pureblood approved of him or not.

"G-Good, Kaname-sama. Why do you ask?"

"Oh no reason. I just hoped you knew where Yuki might be. I didn't see her this evening."

Kaname's piercing gaze made Aido's mind freeze, but thankfully, only for a little bit.

"Yuki? Um….no, haven't seen her lately, but I'll let you know if I do."

The president nodded, seeming satisfied with that answer. He turned to leave, but instead stopped himself. Looking back over his shoulder, at the young aristocrat he asked;

"Did something happen to Yuki?"

Crap.

Aido thought.

What the hell am I supposed to say? Why yes President Kuran something happened. Our little Yuki here suddenly transformed into an angel, and is now being carried off into the sky by a mysterious young man, who so happens to be an angel as well.

Instead he simply shook his head, at that moment, a soft gentle breeze made it's way into the room. Kaname jerked upright, as did Aido. Aido looked out the window, and said the famous vampire cliché;

"I smell blood."

Current Standpoint

I awoke lying in a freshly made bed. My head and entire left side was hurting like absolute hell. Simply rolling over was enough to send white-hot waves of pain rocketing through my body. I noticed my arm had been tightly bandaged.

Who did this? Why is this there? Did I get into a fight or something?

I wondered. Try as I might, I just couldn't remember what happened last night. Then I heard his voice.

"Well, good to see your up. I thought you'd sleep the whole day away."

I turned my head, and saw Lucas walk into the room. His eyes were shining a calming purple light, and his smile radiated warmth. He sat down in a chair beside the bed. It took me a while to realize where I was. I was in some vacant dorm room. Getting up, ignoring the extreme head rush, I looked around.

"Where are we?"

"In a dorm room."

"I know that! I mean what dorm? Is it vacant? Occupied?"

Lucas looked thoughtful for a moment, head cocked to one side, eyes far away, remembering the battle with the hunters. Finally, he looked at me.

"This used to be a dorm at one point in time. So that answers your question."

I gave him a quizzical look, before cautiously getting up off the bed. My legs felt like jelly. Gripping the bedrail for support, I turned to Lucas

"What happened after I passed out?"

Lucas sighed.

Lucas's P.O.V from Last Night

"Yuki? Yuki!"

I shouted desperately, she had been wounded badly, and the blood that poured from her arm, was now all over my hand. She mumbled something unintelligible, but did not awaken.

Great. I'm going to have to carry her. But the question is, can I really do it?"

I wondered. My own body was beginning to weaken. Iron. An angel's greatest weakness. My mind was like a swarm of buzzing, angry bees whose hive had been disturbed, and were refusing to quiet down despite orders from the queen. Shakily, I rose to my feet, laying Yuki gently on the ground. The sound of a twig snapping caught my attention, I whipped around, and there, coming out of the woods were two vampires. One of them, a spiky haired blond I recognized from just a few minutes ago. Aido, at least that's what Yuki had called him, the other, a tall dark, brunette, I could not make out as familiar. Aido looked me, a bit surprised.

"You? What are you doing here?"

I rolled my eyes.

"What does it look like I'm doing? I'm wounded, she's unconscious, and we're both losing blood faster Toni Iommi can play a guitar."

Aido frowned. He obviously had no idea who Black Sabbath was. The tall brunette stepped forward. He looked down at me. I immediately didn't like him; his dark mahogany eyes seemed to be searching through every fiber of my soul. He looked past me at Yuki, his face became a mask of concern, but when he flicked his gaze back to me, it became hard and cold.

"You let Yuki fall into this kind of danger?"

I narrowed my eyes, and spat back;

"Look dude, if I would've known there would've been hunters skulking around, I wouldn't have landed here. Do you think I have eyes in the back of my head or something? That I'm phsycic? Well think again pal!"

Behind him, I noticed Aido's eyes grow to the size of dinner plates. He stepped forward, the fear evident in his eyes.

"K-Kaname-sama? You're not going to kill him here are you? With Yuki in such critical-"

"No. You're right Aido, we need to get Yuki back to the infirmary."

So, his name's Kaname? Don't expect me to use that honorific."

I thought angrily. Kaname walked past me, and lifted Yuki gingerly up off the ground. He turned back to me, his voice was calm but his eyes shot daggers in my direction.

"Since you're wounded as well, you had better come along with us."

I shrugged.

"Alright then. Just point the way, man."

Aido gulped as Kaname stiffened, but I ignored it, all I wanted to do was get back and sleep. Kaname, shook of my remark, and began walking in the direction of the school. Aido glanced at me, then making sure Kaname was out of earshot whispered to me

"You better be respectful towards Kaname-sama. He's a pureblood, and can rip you to shreds in an instant of you're not careful."

I gave him a disbelieving look.

"I'd like to see him try."

Aido stared at me again, before we continued walking on in silence Overhead, the night sky stretched endlessly on, stars staring down on us indifferently, not caring whether we lived or died. Just shining down on everything like they had done for the past hundreds of years.

Current Standpoint

Sitting back down on the bed I yawned.

"So that's what happened?"

Lucas shrugged.

"Well, after we got out of the woods, we took you to the infirmary, got ourselves stitched up, then I took you here, and slept on the floor."

I almost started laughing. I don't know what it was about the image of Lucas sleeping on the floor that made me want to laugh, but hey, my arm, and whole left side was a living, breathing mass of pain, I had a headache from hell so I was pretty much entitled to laugh like an idiot and at everything.

"What time is it?"

I asked. Lucas looked down at his watch. Huh. I thought. I didn't know he had a Timex. He looked up at me, a bit surprised.

"11:30."

I was a stunned myself. 11:30. That meant, well, since the Night Class usually exited their dorm by 8:00 at night, and we had probably spent half an hour outside. So…I had been asleep for…

"Sixteen hours?!"

I yelled.

"I've been asleep foe Sixteen frickin' hours! Why the hell didn't you wake me up?!"

I shrieked grabbing Lucas by the collar. He gave me a calm look and replied coolly;

"Well, you were sleeping so peacefully, and you had lost a good deal of blood."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"So now what?"

I asked, letting go of Lucas's shirt. He shrugged.

"Maybe you should get something to eat."

I nodded. Lucas pulled me gently out of the room.

"C'mon, I know a great sushi bar in town, my treat."

Smiling, I followed Lucas out of the dorm room, but halfway down the hall I stopped. Lucas looked at me curiously.

"What's wrong?"

"I need to change out of these clothes."

I told him, the clothes that I was wearing right now were stained with dried blood. Lucas laughed. I liked that sound. It reminded me of the ringing of great silver bells. We walked back to my room. In less than a minute, I walked out of my closet in a fresh pair of jeans and a t-shirt with a skull on it. There were words printed on the bottom of it. I don't know exactly how to pronounce it, but I know it translates into "Not all of me shall die." It's in Latin.

"Cool shirt."

Lucas commented.

"Thanks."

I told him.

"Normally the Headmaster would have fit if he saw me wearing clothes like this. He doesn't like it when I wear things like this."

Lucas smiled and pulled me into a kiss. The second his lips touched mine, everything around me melted. There was no Cross Academy, no dorm room, no world. Just this moment right here, right now, with Lucas holding me close to him, and kissing me passionately. Finally he pulled away from me and took a breath. My face was a raging inferno. I must have been glowing a bright candy red.

"Maybe he doesn't but I do."

Lucas smiled once more, and pulled me out into the bright October sun.

Tani and Taki's P.O.V

The air outside was crisp and chilly, but inside the living room of the estate, it was warm. A fire glowed in the heart, but instead of comforting her, it filled her with terror. She wanted to get out of here. Tani peered over at her sister, who sat in a big plush red armchair. Taki looked bored. She was obviously oblivious to the strange shadows the fire sent spinning about the room. A leering face full of sharp teeth, an eye peering deep into the very depths of Tani's soul, a clawed hand, trying to escape it's prison of a wall so it could swallow her up. Tani looked over at her sister again.

"Taki."

She hissed. Taki looked over at the mention of her name.

"Yeah, what is it?"

"I don't like it here."

"So? We have to wait until he comes."

"Can't we just leave already? This place gives me the creeps."

"Everything gives you the creeps! You better do something about that imagination of yours, or you'll be no good as a hunter."

Tani sighed and sank back into the couch she was sitting on. Taki rolled her eyes, and pulled out a nail file. Just then the door burst open with a mighty bang. Both girls looked up to see a dark haired man, who looked to be about in his thirties stride into the room. He smiled at the two sisters.

"Well hello there girls. I didn't expect you to be early."

Taki smiled.

"We didn't expect you to be late."

"I apologize my dear, I was out taking care of some business if you will."

Yeah right. Tani thought. I know what your so-called business is. What have you killed this time? The words were on the tip of her tongue, but she didn't dare voice them. The man turned to her.

"Good day to you Miss Tani. I must say, you're awfully quiet."

Tani nodded. She had nothing to say, and she planned to keep it that way. The man sat down on another couch across from them. He folded his hands in his lap.

"So, have you successfully made a capture on that angel yet?"

Taki shook her head.

"No Master, she was stronger than we thought. There was another one with her as well, a male, but he wasn't a pureblooded specimen."

The man Taki had referred to as Master was silent for a time, his eyes far away and glazed over. That was the thing that scared Tani the most. You never knew if the man was going to praise you, or come unglued at you. And Tani definitely wasn't sure this time. They had given him good information, but let their target slip away. How would he react? Luckily, he simply leaned back and smiled.

"So. She got away? That's to be expected. Pureblood species are very strong and you're only human. It would've been unfair even if had been two on one."

Taki nodded satisfied with this, but her sister could see right through everything. She knew what he had meant, and it was very different from what he just said. I expected better from you, both of you. Don't screw up, or you won't live to see the sun come up

Was what he had meant. Tani wasn't sure how much more of this she could bare. If only her sister knew what she knew! Than they wouldn't have to do this! Taki was a hunter too, so why didn't she feel it? The wrongness of this place, and more importantly, the evil of the thing that sat in front of them claiming to be a man! Their Master stood up, and Tani almost bolted for the door right there. He clasped his hands behind his back.

"I understand that you could not capture our girl right away, but she should be weakened now."

"Should we act now Master?"

Asked Taki. That was the thing Tani hated about her sister. How she was always ready to follow him. Even if it meant to their death! He shook his head.

"Not now Taki. Soon though. Very soon. On the night of the crescent moon, that is when you will capture her."

"What?! That's nearly a whole month!"

Taki shouted, outraged.

"I have given you this time, so that you will acquire more training. Now, off you go, I'm a very busy man, and I can't have two young girls poking around my office."

He said cheerily, as he pushed Tani and Taki out the door.

"Bye bye now."

Bang! The sound of the door slamming resonated through the woods like a thunderclap. The sisters began walking. About halfway out of the woods, Taki grabbed her younger sister's arm and twisted it painfully.

"Hey! That hurts!"

Tani yelped. Taki let go of her arm. Tani began rubbing it solemnly. She glared at her sister.

"It damn well better hurt you brat. Because of you, the hunt just got put back. I you wouldn't have allowed yourself to be choked by that angel girl, we could've handed both of them over to Master by now. You better make it up to me big time sis!."

"B-but Taki! She's a pureblood, and she's way stronger than-"

"I don't want to hear it! I'm tired of you lame excuses! Now if you want to be a weakling your whole life, then just run home to mom and dad, if you don't then follow me. We've got some serious training to do. Well? Which is it?"

"Taki! You don't understand! Master's evil, don't you see-"

"You want to be weak is that what your saying?"

Tani sighed. There was just no arguing with an angry Taki, even if you knew you were right. With downcast eyes, and a face of stone she muttered

"No."

Taki huffed.

"Good. Then follow me."

Taki growled as she led her sister into a clearing. Tani couldn't help but wonder when her sister would ever wake up and realize that fact that they were carrying out the commands of a monster.

Once again, I apologize for the long uploading time, I got writer's block for a little bit. R&R plz!