Dracania walked into the room D had slept in to find him shirtless,

Dracania:"D what are you doing?".

It was odd to see D without his shirt, but he still had his coat on blocking his body.

D:"Nothing"

Dracania:"Your hiding something arn't you?"

D:"Yes"

Dracania:"What do you have to hide from me?".

D:"Allot"

Dracania:"Like what?"

D turned away,

D:"Let me show you"

He undid his coat to reveal his back. It was scarred in many places it looked like D had been threw allot.

Dracania:"How did this all happen?"

D:"Sneck attacks, unexpected resoults, among other things".

Dracania:"Why did they scar like this?"

D:"I don't know but they always do"

Dracania:"This is aweful!".

D said nothing as Dracania examined his scarred back,

Dracania:"Was some of this from, you know?".

D:"Most of it"

D kept his back to her,

Dracania:"Thats aweful, it trully is"

D still said nothing.

Dracania:"Come on talk to me D"

She touched his right shoulder, she then noticed it was scarred to. And his left as well,

Dracania:"Where all are you scarred?"

D:"Just my back, shoulders and chest".

D sounded sad, then he turned to Dracania, his chest was horribly scarred.

Dracania couldn't breath for a moment it was so shocking, all the scars.

D:"Like I said, most of it was the expiriments"

Dracania:"What about this one?"

Dracania pointed to a specific one.

It was round and pretty big, the size of a wooden stake, and right over his heart.

Dracania:"You where staked before?"

D:"Only once, while I was trying to save a victim".

Dracania:"And it's been with you ever since?"

D:"Pretty much, her name was Doris, Doris Lang".

Dracania:"Doesn't sound formiliar"

D:"It shouldn't, she died long ago"

D took ahold of Dracania's hand.

D:"Don't touch it"

Dracania:"Sorry"

Dracania pulled her hand away,

Left Hand:"This just goes to show you how much pretty boy has been threw".

D put his coat back on over himself as if to sheild himself from the scars.

Dracania:"What where you doing before I came in?"

D:"Remembering"

Dracania:"Oh, sorry I asked".

D:"It's alright, why don't you go prepare the horses?"

Dracania:"Sure thing"

Dracania ran out. She'd check the horses then come back to tell D, and ask some questions maybe.

Left Hand:"I don't see why you would let her see those scars"

D:"She needed to understand that this job isn't easy".

Left Hand:"Well thats not how I would do it but hey, we all think differently!".

D said nothing more as he made his way outside to find Dracania waiting.

Left Hand:"Waiting on us, eh?"

Dracania:"I always wait on you"

D:"Get enough rest?"

Dracania:"Sure did, how about you D?"

D:"No".

Dracania already knew why, because he'd had another nightmare most likely.

They raced across the area they'd covered to reach this place where they had rested and headed for Zilda's castle. They wouldn't leave till Zilda had been killed, thats what they where hired to do.

They approached Zilda's castle with caution they had no idea what she had planed for them.

Dracania:"You sure your ready for this?"

D:"As long as we stick together, we should be fine".

Dracania"She'll just use someone we will both listen to and sperate us or something, she has her ways".

D:"Then you want to spilt up?"

Dracania:"Yes, that way we can cover more ground, it that ok?".

D dismounted without saying anything and headed in,

Dracania:"Well I take that as a yes".

Dracania didn't follow D she wanted to go off on her own and prove herself worthy to D.

Dracania came apon some double doors, they seemed out of place but she entered anyways. Once she did she, she stopped dead in her tracks, there before her stood Catlin.

D came apon a set of double doors as well,

Left Hand:"This is a trap, I wouldn't open those doors"

D opened them.

Left Hand:"You know your walking into a trap right?"

D said nothing as he entered the room. A figure apeared infront of him, her long black hair reached the floor from her crouching position. D knew who this was, and knew what Zilda planed to do as well.

Dracania knew better than to fall for this trick again,

Catlin:"Dracania"

Catlin called, she sounded so happy.

Dracania:"I'm not falling for this one again! She's dead! I saw her die even before she died!".

Caltin:"Dracania... please"

Dracania:"Your not my mother! Your just an illusion! Catlin died fifteen years ago!".

Caltin:"Drac-"

Dracania:"And it's all my fault!"

Suddenly the illusion of Catlin dissapeared.

Dracania:"Give up Zilda!"

Zilda's laugh seemed to come from everywhere,

Zilda:"I have more instore".

Just then a hazzy figure in black started to appear, Dracania at first thought it was 'him'. But then it started to solify and a handsom face apeared, and it was an illusion of 'him'.

D approached the firgure,

Woman:"D?"

D didn't stop and wait he cleaved threw her,

Left Hand"Nice try".

Zilda:"Hmm, someone try that one on you before?"

D:"Thats none of your buisness"

Zilda:"Oh so someone did".

D said nothing as he coughed a little blood,

ZIlda:"Time for the next one".

A figure came into view at first glance it was hard to tell who it was but it soon became clear, Catlin.

Dracania:"You picked the wrong person Zilda! 'He' means nothing to me! 'He's'-"

Dracania suddenly coughed blood. And Zilda laughed,

Dracania wipped the blood off her lips and prepared herself. The figure seemed to smile and dashed forward and Dracania's blade danced out. The figure was still smilling as it split down the middle and faded away.

Dracania held her abdomen as she coughed up more blood and Zilda laughed again.

D approached Catlin,

Left Hand:"I think I figured this out!"

Catlin turned and slashed D's left hand off. D hadn't been expecting such an abroupt attack so he had barely dodged it letting his hand get cut off.

Zilda:"That was a dumb move Hunter! You seem to relly on that hand".

D peirced the illusion of Catlin threw the heart without any emotion and coughed more blood.

His left hand had dissapeared,

Zilda:"I have sent that filthy hand elsewhere you wont find it here".

Dracania once again wipped the blood from her lips, she wouldn't drink it, and the next figure started to apear. The figure that started to apear was gorgeous, to gorgeous, the figure was D. 'Was this Zilda's ace in the hole? D? ' Dracania got the feeling it was D but knew it wasn't.

She noticed some things about the illusion of D, he was slightly slouched. And his eyes seemed to have a brown color, his hair seemed red, and he seemed more human.

Dracania smurked,

Drcaania:"Even you can't copy D perfectly, I see the flaws in your illusion".

Dracania raced forward, although it wasn't a perfect copy it moved like D.

Suddenly Dracania stumbled back, she had her hands to her eyes covering them. Blood trickled from between her fingers, the illusion of D had took her sight.

Zilda:"Now it seems you can't see the flaws so they don't matter!"

Zilda laughed. 'What would happen now? Dracania couldn't see the flaws so that meant she couldn't say the illusion was just so, an illusion.'

A figure appeared infront of D this was obviously Zilda's last pawn at her disposal, Dracania.

Zilda:"Lets see how you fair agenst your own flesh and blood, Hunter of the Nobility, Vampire Hunter D!".

D dashed forward he swung his blade but it didn't make contact, Dracania had caught it.

No matter how skilled D was the illusion of Dracania would be stronger than adverage.

She effortlessly tossed D back, and he landed ungracefully, he couldn't open his coat freely. It was simple to open a coat with two hands but the Hunter only had one, his right. Zilda had already seen to it that his left hand be cut off and sent away. Dracania laughed,

Zilda:"It seems your worthless without your left hand".

D stood there possed for battle like a black ice sculpture radating a ghastly aura that was batted down. D's aura was nothing compared to Dracania's, D dashed, this was a big mistake. It happened so fast you'd have to slow time down to catch what happened.

Basicly, Dracania had drew her blade and slashed threw D's right side only to get slashed in the right shoulder. Dracania just glanced at her shoulder breafly, D didn't even bother to the wound to his side.

Zilda:"It seems your evenly matched"

Suddenly Dracania charged swinging her blade. It was stopped by not D's sword but it's sheath, D had turned his back to her, he stabbed behind him. Having cut open Dracania's right thigh, she limped back, then D did something odd. He undid his coat and tossed it to the side reaveling his chest, 'why had D done this?'

Zilda:"What is this? A strip show?".

The illusion of Dracania stopped dead in her tracks as if mesmorized by the countless scars. D just stood there,

Suddenly the illusion of Dracania seemed lost in a daze.

Zilda:"What are you doing? Kill him!"

D:"She won't do it, because I remember a much kinder Dracania".

Suddenly the illusion of Dracania dissapeared and D was in a hallway.

Zilda:"How did you do that?"

Zilda asked,

D:"I just thought about her a different way".

Zilda:"Thats impossible!"

D:"She's not a cold blooded killer void of emotion, she cares, and hides it".

Zilda:"So she isn't a murderer after all..."

D:"Thats where your wrong, she'll kill you, you can count on it".

Dracania sensed movement and prepared for an attack, suprisingly enough she paried the blade. It was if she could see the attacks,

Zilda:"How is this possible?!"

Dracania:"You don't have to see an enemy to attack".

Just then Dracania swipped out with her blade it limed and arc. The illusion of the gorgeous Hunter had been split down the middle by the blinded Dracania.

Dracania was now standing in a hallway, she sensed a presence approaching. She turned to face it,

Dracania:"It that truelly you D? Or another trick of Zilda's?".

D came over to Dracania, Dracania had her head turned down to sheild her eyes,

D:"Yes"

Dracania reached out. She stumbled and D caught her,

D:"Whats wrong?"

Dracania:"Zilda used an illusion of you".

D:"What happened?"

Dracania:"She blinded me so I wouldn't see the flaws"

Dracania stumbled again. D gripped her arm tightly so she wouldn't fall, Dracania took notice he only used one hand. D lifted Dracania up and set her strait then placed her hand on his shoulder.

Dracania:"I'm sorry I let you down D"

D:"You didn't let me down, besides you survived".

Dracania didn't argue but she felt guilty that D had to lead her around.

They arrived at a hospital of sorts,

Dracania:"Where are we?"

D:"You need to stay somewhere safe".

Dracania:"Your going back there?"

D:"I have to, it's my job and plus she has my left hand"

Dracania nodded.

D lead her into the hospital,

Nurse:"Whats the emergency?"

The lady behind the counter asked.

D:"She's been blinded and is badly wounded, see to it she's carred for".

Nurse:"Sure thing, come this way"

D didn't argue he just lead Dracania, and followed the nurse.

Nurse:"Anything special about her I should know?"

D:"She's a dhampir".

Nurse:"I figured she was, it's a good thing you came here then, right in here"

She led them into a room, it was a exam room.

Nurse:"Have a set... er..."

Dracania:"Dracania"

Nurse:"Dracania, i've heard about you, so this must be D"

D nodded.

Nurse:"If you don't mind could you wait outside?"

D nodded once again and left to room.

Nurse:"I'm Nurse Deity by the way"

Dracania:"Pleasure to meet you"

Deity:"Pleasures all mine, now stay calm".

Dracania:"What are you going to do?"

Deity:"Examine your condition if you don't mind".

Dracania:"Not at all"

Deity:"First your eyes"

Dracania shyed away at first,

Deity:"It's alright I get it".

Then Dracania calmed down and let Deity get to work,

Deity:"This is much worse than I thought".

Dracania:"Can my sight be restored?"

Deity:"Is it not healing?"

Dracania:"It's healing, I just don't know how fast or slow".

Deity:"It'll take a weak for it to come back"

Dracania nodded, she didn't want to argue.

Deity:"Now, if you don't mind i'd like to examine the rest of you"

Dracania:"Sure".

Dracania undid her coat, took off her sword and sat them down, then she took off her shirt. Deity, examined Dracania's right arm first,

Deity:"What are these scars from?".

Dracania:"Like you don't know, from hunting, you know... the Nobility"

Deity:"Right cause thats all you can do".

Dracania slightly nodded,

Deity:"Well this arm checks out"

She moved onto Dracania's left.

Deity:"This is strange"

Dracania:"What?"

Deity:"Oh it's nothing, I just tought you where D".

Dracania:"Oh, right"

Deity nodded and moved onto her shoulder,

Deity:"It seems nothing is wrong".

Dracania:"Well I am a dhampir"

Deity:"Normal dhampirs usally suffor some damage".

Dracania:"Well I am D's daughter"

Deity"True"

She moved onto Dracania's back,

Deity:"Not allot to see here, eh?".

Dracania:"No, you should see D's"

Deity:"Why?"

Dracania:"Oh, did I say that outloud?".

Deity:"Why are you imbarased of saying that?"

Dracania:"Well it's just not a pretty sight".

Deity"I get it, he's got allot of scars, eh? I've seen them"

Dracania:"Yeah, I don't want to talk about it anymore. And you did?".

Deity:"Sure thing, and I examined him when he go here, well your like iron arn't you?"

Dracania:"Same as my dad"

Deity smilled faintly at that. She moved around to Dracania's front,

Deity:"Well everything checks out except your eye sight witch i've already said".

Dracania:"Then I can go?"

Deity:"Well no and yes, well need you to stay here so we can monitor your healing".

Dracania:"Sure thing, just make sure you tell D where I am he might come looking".

Deity:"I'll let you tell him"

Deity:"You can come in"

D came in,

D:"How is she?"

Dracania:"D, i'm fine".

Deity:"We should probably talk about this outside"

Dracania:"Why can't I hear it?"

Deity:"It's about something else".

Dracania:"Alright"

Deity:"Well i'll atleast show you to your room and get you settled you must be tired".