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A/N- It's been a while. Sorry :P After posting the last chapter 11, I really didn't like what I had written (and it didn't really do very well so I guess neither did you guys lol), I don't know if you guys remember what I had written, but anyways I took it down and completely re-did it. I made this chapter from scratch. The beginning might be a little confusing, because I've jumped a little backwards, back to when Kyou fell into a coma. That's where I'm starting from…I think.
NOTICE: Okay I went back and made a few information changes. It makes more sense for Siren and co. to be working for Sara Shirabuki. Sara needs Kyousuke's blood for reviving Rido Kuran. Before when I was being consistent with updating, I had had a plan for Rido being alive (Sara had revived him) but now that I've had to re-read my chapters to get my thoughts back on track, it makes more sense to me now if Siren and co. worked for Sara. Sorry. Uh I'll change the chapters that talk about Rido tomorrow cause I'm falling asleep right now…sorry for any typos or grammar errors, I'll check over it tomorrow…ENJOY ^^
Chapter 11
Things Have Changed
Third Omniscient:
"I'm dead?" Kyousuke shouted, grabbing the collar of the boy who stood in front of him, and lifted him a few inches off the ground, "What do you mean I'm dead? Kiryuu, you bastard!"
Kiryuu scowled, calmly removing himself from the human's tight grip, "I didn't say you were dead, you idiot. If you'd bothered to actually listen to what I was saying, you'd know that you were dying. There's a big difference between being dead and dying." he said, smoothing out his wrinkled Day Uniform.
Kyousuke felt a vein throb on his head, "And that's supposed to make me feel better!" he yelled.
"Yes it is." Kiryuu replied, "You see whereas there's nearly no hope for me, seeing as I am actually dead, there's a small chance for you, as you are still alive. See?"
"NO!" Kyou yelled in exasperation. No he didn't 'see'! He was so confused, and angry and annoyed. He didn't even know where he was. Although it looked as if they were standing in the hallway of the main classes building, it was completely deserted; not a soul in sight…well except for Kiryuu- which Kyou still couldn't understand why he was here. And what did Kiryuu mean when he said he was dying! He had so many questions and Zero wasn't being very helpful- not that he ever was.
"No need to yell, " Kiryuu said, clamping his hands over his ears, "Did you not just hear me when I said, there was hope for you?"
"Sorry," Kyou drawled sarcastically, "I was a little preoccupied with the fact that umm…I don't know…I'M DYING!"
Kiryuu sighed and shook his head, this boy had serious problems listening. He thought of a better way to communicate to Kyousuke that he was going to live. "You." he said slowly, pointing to the orange haired Day student, "No die." Kiryuu shook his head, "Live!" He gave Kyou a thumbs up. He felt stupid for acting so foolish and had a strong urge to hit Kyou, but held back only because he needed the boy in order to fulfill his own agenda. Hopefully his words were able to get through his stupid thick skull.
"Zero you bastard, start explaining right now." Kyou snapped, slamming his hand down on the wall in anger.
Kiryuu shook his head. He had just spent the last two hours explaining it to him, "First of all boy, as I told you earlier, my name is Ichiru. Zero is my brother." the younger Kiryuu explained in annoyance, "Second of all, what was going through your head when I was explaining to you!" Oh god, to think that their lives were in the hand of an idiot- they were never going to come back to the living at this rate.
Kyou began breathing heavily, counting down from ten, as he used to do when Willow broke his toys, "Okay. I'm sorry," he said, "Explain it to me just one more time."
Ichiru scowled, "I'm only going to explain everything this last time, so you had better remember everything I say."
"Of course."
"Shut up!" Ichiru snapped, "Cross Academy has a very deep dark secret…"
"Do you have any questions?"
By the time Ichiru had finished re-explaining everything, Kyousuke's mouth had taken the form of an 'o'.
"So in other words you're saying that the Night Class are actually vampires, Kuran is some sort of King and he's dating Kurosu, who's actually like his sister and a princess and the rest of the Night Class are his followers-" the orange haired boy paused to catch his breath before continuing, "-and the Academy is in the middle of a war between vampire hunters and vampires because some crazy vampire named Shirabuki wants to be queen, but in order to queen Kurosu needs to be dead and she wants me and my sister? What the fuck? That is seriously messed up." Kyou said, frowning.
Ichiru let out a sigh, "She doesn't need you or your sister." he snapped, "She needs your blood and your sister's blood."
"Why?"
This boy was impossible, Ichiru thought, as the urge to hit him in the head repeatedly nagged at him, "Your blood can bring back a vampire from the dead. Shirabuki needs your blood in order to bring back the pureblood, Rido Kuran. She needs your sister's blood in order to kill Yuki Kurosu."
Still Kyou continued to frown as he tried to make sense this new (and somewhat absurd) info, "How?" he finally asked
"How what?" Ichiru replied.
"How is our…blood…different from anyone else's?" talking about blood just flat out gave Kyou the heebie jeebies.
A scowl appeared on the paler boy's face. Ichiru forced himself to stay calm, "I think it's time you talked to someone more knowledgeable than I." he concede in defeat, after all that person did have all the answers to the boy's questions.
Before Kyou could answer, the Cross Acdemy dreamscape shattered, revealing the two males to be floating in some sort of dark space. Kyou felt a bit nauseated as he began to turn upside-down. He glanced at the Zero replica to find him with an amused grin; he seemed to be able to stay upright.
"It takes a while to get used to it." Ichiru said, "I've had a lot of time to practice."
"How long?" Kyou asked, flapping his arms, attempting to balance himself but only succeeding in failing.
"A few months." Ichiru grinned.
Kyou dropped the subject and went back to trying to upright himself. He could hear the sadness in the boy's voice. Suddenly he felt himself being pulled down to a flat surface compose of pink, tiny, luminous flowers? They stretched straight through the dark abyss, where he could barely see a bright light. He followed silently behind the silver haired boy, wondering what lay ahead for them.
"Cherry blossoms?" Kyousuke muttered, catching a falling petal. He glanced up at an indigo night sky where endless petals rained down, carried by an invisible wind. Everything seemed to have a shimmer, Kyou noted, as he gazed down at sparkly grass. He was about to ask Zero err no Ichiru, what this place was, but the boy had already walked ahead.
Kyou continued to gaze in awe at the serene, mystical landscape; dream or no dream, this place was amazing.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Shizuka-sama," Ichiru's light voice caught his attention.
A giant cherry tree glistening in moonlight, entered his line of vision. Kyou saw a woman perched comfortably on the lowest branch of the tree; her back leaning against the thick trunk while her gaze was directed to the horizon. She had long silver hair that reached down to her hands. To match her hair, the woman was clad in a traditional snow white kimono with a violet sash. But who was she?
Kyou looked at Kiryuu as he asked, "Vampire?"
Instead the unknown woman replied. She chuckled softly, her orbs tracing his handsome facial features, "Scared already?" she asked, a hint of playfulness lingering in her soft voice.
He shook his head, "No."
Shizuka glanced at him, her pink orbs illuminated slightly, contrasting with her pale complexion, "Well that's good. It would be a shame if you were scared so easily."
"What do you mean?" Kyou questioned sharply, catching the underlying tone of her statement.
She waved her hand, "It doesn't matter. So tell me, Kyousuke, how much do you know?" an ominous grin spread across her face. Shizuka had shifted to a perpendicular position, using her hand to hold herself in place.
Kyou scrunched up his face as he tried to remember what Kiryuu had told him, "There's a…a pureblood vampire who wants to be queen. She needs Will and me- no she needs Will's and my blood," he corrected himself automatically, "-in order to get what she wants. The headmaster of the academy is actually a three hundred year old vampire hunter?," Kyou couldn't remember if that's exactly what Ichiru had said, "-and he wants vampires and humans to co-exist peacefully which is why the Academy was built in the first place-"
"-Anything else?" Shizuka interjected in a cool manner, her eyes had hardened and her lips were pursed.
"…" Kyousuke hesitated, racking his brain, "There's some sort of three way war going on. The vampire who wants to be against the vampire hunters and the vampires at the Academy." the human finished lamely.
Shizuka turned her attention to the younger Kiryuu, "Is that all you told him?"
Ichiru bowed, "My apologies, Shizuka-sama. I only told him what I thought he needed to know."
Before the snow haired maiden could say anything, Kyousuke interrupted, "Excuse me, I have a few questions for you, if you wouldn't mind answering them." He missed the angry glare Ichiru sent him- only focusing on the woman above him. Kyou's eyes did waver as he looked the vampire directly in her eyes.
"You may ask, boy." she replied curtly.
"What's your name?" Kyou said.
The pureblood gave Kyou an amused look, "Hio Shizuka."
"Are you dead?"
"Yes." Shizuka said.
"I thought vampires couldn't die?" he said suspiciously.
Shizuka laughed at the ignorant boy in front of her, "We vampires don't die as easily as you humans, but we are, by no means, immortal. We have much longer life spans than you and we heal faster than you when injured, but even we can die from fatal wounds."
Kyou nodded his head, "How is my sister's and my blood different from other people's blood?"
The silver haired woman looked out towards the horizon as she spoke, "Do you know what happens when a hunter's weapon is destroyed?"
"Err…it gets smashed to bits and pieces and it can't be used anymore?" Kyou made an intelligent guess.
Shizuka chuckled at his response, "With less powerful weapons, that is true. But for higher ranking weapons such as the Artemis Rod and the Bloody Rose, if those anti-vampire weapons were to be destroyed, the weapon is lost but the power is not. The raw power of the weapon finds a new host, it does not truly disappear. Only a few vampires know that." she explained, "Every few centuries the powers of two noble anti-vampire weapons that were destroyed thousands of years ago, are reincarnated. In your case, the weapon's power resides within your blood. It is extremely rare for both powers to appear at the same time, though."
Kyou frowned, still confused, "Why?"
"Because the Diamond Flower and the Abyss are opposites of each other. One heals while the other destroys." Shizuka said. She waved her hand and the falling flower petals all clustered together creating two images, "The weapon itself is called the Diamond flower, but this is the insignia of the diamond flower," she said, her cherry petals combining together to form a large flower with petals in the shapes of diamonds, "This is the true weakness of a vampire. The Diamond Flower was originally created to kill only purebloods, but the hunters found a way to use its power to kill all vampires."
Kyou stared in awe at the Diamond Flower, but when he saw the Abyss he was a little disappointed; it was just a really long chain, not a cool sword like the Diamond Flower. That wasn't fair.
"You'd be wise not to underestimate this weapon." Shizuka said coldly, "It is just as deadly as its sister. Healing was the primary function of this weapon which is why your blood can only heal, but in it's original form, it was also used for offensive purposes. Sara Shirabuki plans to use your blood to reach into the abyss in order to retrieve my fiance, Rido Kuran." the pureblood's expression darkened.
Fiance! What the hell? "Is he here?" Kyou asked.
"He is somewhere within this abyss." calmly replied the vampire, "But you are not a threat to him at the moment."
Kyousuke didn't like the sound of that.
"So what do I do now?" he wondered aloud.
Ichiru cracked a grin, "You'll be stuck here until your sister brings you back." he said.
Kyou felt his jaw drop- his fate was in Willow's hands? Oh god he was so screwed. She was such a klutz that she'd find a way to eternally screw him. "Great, how long is that going to take?" he muttered.
"Things would go a lot faster if she could find the book already." Ichiru said under his breath.
"What book?" Kyousuke asked, his vulcan hearing catching the boy's words.
Shizuka waved her hand and her flowers once again bonded together to create a picture, this time of a thin gold book with the diamond flower insignia etched along its spine, "This book contains secrets that most vampires have forgotten about. It's very useful."
"And where is this magical book?" Kyou rolled his eyes, knowing that it probably wasn't a place that was easy to get to.
"It's locked away at the heart of the vampire world." she said.
See? Exactly as he had guessed, "Is there any way she might have a chance to get it?" he asked, his hopes weren't high.
"It takes a vampire to find the heart of our world."
So what was the point in trying to raise his hopes? Kyou thought cynically, tempted to roll his eyes, "So, seriously, what do I do?" he asked the knowledgeable pureblood.
"Nothing is going to change until she becomes aware of the secret of Cross Academy, " Shizuka stated.
What was she trying to tell him? As Kyou tried to decipher her words, he suddenly noticed that everything around him was starting to fade, "Wait!" he called out, reaching his hand towards the two, but they escaped his grasp. The orange haired boy began to panic as the familiar dark void started to replace them. Soon he found himself floating in the darkness, this time he was all alone. What was he supposed to do now?
"Hello!" he yelled, only to her his voice echo loudly throughout the empty and limitless space.
No one replied.
To make things even worse, he had fallen upside-down, again.
"Just great." he muttered, folding his arms and crossing his legs together.
His fate rested in the hands of his sister, Willow- yeah, he was going to be stuck here for a very long time.
Authoress' Corner
And that is where I shall leave it. Next chapter we'll be back to Willow. Just had to explain stuff and so yeah I used Kyousuke. Umm I know his reaction to vampires wasn't like OMG WTF! I'll explain . Kyou, well he's in a coma, so in his mind he's trapped in like this abyss thing. Ichiru, who is actually dead, he and Shizuka (who still has powers even though she's dead too) visit Kyou in his mind- but Kyou thinks he's been taken somewhere else as the scenes shift from Cross Academy to Shizuka's tree. Kyou doesn't have like a freak out because one, he's a guy, two he already freaked out with Mira (in chapter 9) and has some what accepted vampires exist.
I wanted to talk about Kyou and having him freak out over having people after Willow, but I'll leave that for another Kyou chapter…after a certain thing happens. Ichiru and Shizuka have been keeping tabs on both Will and Kyou for a while, they just have their moment now. Don't worry, they have plans for Kyou as soon as he returns back to the living. Just wait and see.
Like I said in the beginning, I'm changing a couple of things. Sara is trying to revive Rido with Kyou's blood. Sire ad co. work for Sara. It makes more sense this way than the other way. Although that's partial because I can't remember why I had Rido alive in the first place. I'm really tired right now, but tomorrow, I'll go and grab all the chapters that have Rido and change that.
I'm not back for long, sorry guys. The next chapter, I have no clue when that's going to be out. I've disappeared for a while lol. It took forever to write this chapter. The first one I wrote I wasn't happy with. I'm going to have Willow discover the secret a different way xp Uhh if you're ever curious about what I'm up to, I update my profile with a post every month just let you guys know that I'm still alive.
There's a picture of the Diamond Flower on my profile, so if you want to see what that looks like go ahead. The Abyss is an infinite chain- I wasn't really creative with that. Hopefully my characters don't sound dumb, having a power within them. I can tell you now, Kyou's not going to do anything and Will won't be using her weapon/power thing until much much later, but I swear it won't be mary-sue. God no, I'd kill myself if it was.
Sorry if Shizuka and Ichiru were ooc. I wasn't really sure how to portray her. And we already have one cold stoic Kiryuu, don't need another xp
Lol this is like my longest A/N ever.
If you haven't reread chapter 10, I redid the ending slightly because it was so sloppily written. Umm I don't know when the next chapter will come out, but hopefully it'll come out within the next month. As you can see I haven't gone that much into the disappearance of Mira and Kazu, but just wait a little bit longer, I'll come back to them I think in the next chapter. 11th grade is seriously killing me. So much work that I just don't have time to do anything fun T^T Anyways as always I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Tell me what you thought about it ^^ Can anyone guess what happens next?
Thanks guys for all the awesome reviews:
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alexanimelvr- gosh I'm so sorry about the names. Here I'll make a list. Rika, Sakura, and Keira are Willow's friends and they're considered supporting characters. Kira, Artemis, Cherry and Hiro are vampire hunters. Siren is a night class vampire and she's cousin to Ruca. Mira and Kazu are bad vampires- I can't say much without giving away the story lol. And about Ichijo…I'm not saying nuthin about him ^^. Anyways I'm glad you're liking the story and thanks for reviewing.
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