Sat. back again! Wow, I got hits from Hong Kong and way over places like that when I'm in America! It makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Anyway, I hope the first chapter caught y'all's interest, or you wouldn't be reading this chapter. New questions are raised! Who are these five girls? What is the problem between Kaname and Ana? And what the hell are these girls? Warning stronger language here… I know I didn't warn in my last story but I think I will for this chapter. The lang. will not be as clean from now on. On wards my little readers! I own nothing familiar; if I did Zero would get my lovin'!
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Chapter 2: Mondays
"I can't friggin' believe this," Ana growls as the girls walk to their dorms, "Of course it'd be that whoreson!"
"And now he knows that we're here," Sarah mutters to herself more than the group.
"What do we do now?" Rena asks with uncertainty.
"Try to make the same plan work," Kaitlin says flatly, "So long as Ana can keep her temper with this guy running around here."
Said girl snorts. Ana knows that she can keep her temper when she wanted to. With Kuran, she just didn't want to. The past that the two of them shared, despite how brief it was, left her in a constant ruffled and angry state. Ana can't say the same thing for the pureblood, but she definitely knew how to get under his skin when they were younger. That was always a hard thing for other people to do to Kuran. Ana was just gifted with it and now she wants to see if she still has that gift for Kuran.
"Well, we need to avoid him at all costs," Angelica says to keep the tone of the conversation professional, "he could tell Cross that we're not exactly as we seem, and could try to get us thrown out. If that happens, we need to intervene as soon as possible and… edit our plan a little. "
"I'll do my best to keep his location pinned," Ana says; still upset that it's Kuran keeping all the vamps here, "But I wouldn't put it past him that he's already decided to go to Cross."
The group stops at the third floor and bid each other goodnight, splitting off into their separate directions. By the time each of them is settled in their own rooms, the sun is well set. While Sarah is taking a shower in the shared bathroom, Ana sits on her dark crimson comforter covering bed in her baggy sleep shirt and baggy pants, thinking. Her homework sits abandoned next to her. She's tried for an hour or so to do it, but it isn't working out right now.
Pushing out her radar, she feels the classrooms filled with small groups of vampires. She can't find the one in particular she's looking for, so she spreads her radar a bit further and away from the classrooms. Ana picks up two readings: a low, hidden Level A, pureblood (Yuuki) and another Level A, pureblood. The location is in…Cross' office.
'Oh no,' she slowly thinks.
"Sarah, we've got a problem!" Ana yells through the door.
"What?" Sarah asks sticking her head around the door, her long brown hair and blue streaks dripping from a shower.
"Kuran is in Cross' office and I think Cross is there."
"…Oh shit."
"Get dressed, get Angelica and head for his office. I'll get the others."
With that, Ana bounds out of the room, slamming the door along the way. She winces at the noise. Running full speed down the hall, she skips up the steps by two and takes a left at the top of the staircase. Around the corner, she nearly runs into someone; Zero. Muttering a quick apology in English from habit, she twists around him and bolts down the hallway, leaving a very confused Zero in her wake. She bangs on the door and is immediately let in.
"Ana, what's wrong?" Kaitlin asks, shutting the door with wide eyes.
"It's Kuran," Ana slightly huffs out, "He's in Cross' office."
"…Oh shit!" the two other girls yell.
All three of them bolt down the stairs and head straight for the Headmaster's office. Soon, they catch up with Sarah and Angelica and stop at the hallway of the office. All of them know that Kuran will sense them immediately if they stop in front of the office door and then Cross will too eventually. The choice is simple: either let Kuran tell Cross about them, get thrown out and have attention drawn to those they're running from or risk it and tell Cross what they are and why they're here.
"I hate Mondays," Ana growls.
"Do we barge in or let Kuran open his trap?" Sarah asks more to herself.
"It'd be better if Cross hears our side," Angelica mutters.
Each girl looks at each other for a moment. Then, the four look to Ana. She hates being the leader and making decisions that are for their wellbeing. She has always thought herself to be a crappy leader. Grimacing, she walks down the hall and stops at his office door. She pushes her ear on the door.
"Headmaster Cross, I have one last item of business to discuss tonight. The five new Day Class students… they are not all that they appear." That's Kuran. His voice is matured but still has that cold smoothness that Ana remembers.
"What do you mean by that Mr. Kuran? They're obviously not vampires."
"No, they are not. However, they are not entirely human either. Though, I do not know the reason why they enrolled here. Perhaps you could enlighten us, Ms. Rose."
Taking a large breath to calm her anger, Ana opens the door and slowly walks in, wary of the vampire sitting calmly in his seat with a wineglass of red substance. The others file in and make a defensive circle around the room, surrounding the pureblood. Cross doesn't seem to be very unsettled by the tact, but is still very curious. Next to him are Yuuki and Zero. Ana doesn't remove her glare from Kuran.
He's much taller now, at least a head and a half more than Ana. Even if he is sitting down, she can tell his height by his long legs. He's just as slim as she remembers him, though she know that under that pristine white uniform is a well toned body made for a vampire. His hair is looser and longer, but his expression is still the same: calm, cold, and blank.
"It has been a while, Ms. Rose. I wish I could say it is pleasant to see you again," he says and takes a sip of the liquid.
"Ditto, Kuran," she says with her glare unchanged, "God, I really hate Mondays."
"You have acquired more friends I see. Before, I only knew Ms. Wave," he comments, not removing his stare from her.
"I could say the same for you, what with you keeping all the vampires here in the Night Class. Makes me wonder what your angle is," she says crossing her arms and switching to a less defensive position.
Yuuki gasps at what the short blonde says and Zero stiffens with wide eyes. Cross just raises his eyebrows in surprise, completely serious. Each girl relaxes in some way, but is still on alert. They know that Kuran won't attack while on school grounds. That would be partially breaking the treaty.
Kaitlin realizes that they don't look that intimidating in their pajamas. She has on a white tank top and blue shorts. Angelica has on a plain black shirt and black pants. She matches the most out of the five. Rena has on a shirt with Tigger on it and pink shorts. Ana has on a baggy gray shirt and worn blue sweats that she's had forever. Sarah has on a large button up silk shirt and shorts hidden underneath them that peak out some. Yeah, they were pretty intimidating. It feels more like a slumber party.
"How'd you know that?" Zero demands. His hand lingers near his jacket, as if to pull something out. The girl in question ignores him completely.
"My angle, as you so crudely put it, is pacifism."
"Bullshit," she snips back.
"Why do you not tell them how you came across such prudent information, Ms. Rose? Unless you would prefer me to retell Headmaster Cross what I remember," Kuran suggests with a slight shrug.
Ana bears her teeth at him in quick anger and then looks at each of the girls for approval. Angelica walks over to her and grasps her hand for a second. 'Are you sure?' 'Make them swear to secrecy?' Ana nods her head once and Angelica walks back to her space.
"Headmaster Cross, Yuuki, Kiryuu, we will ask for your trust in the matter. We will not force any of you to swear to secrecy. What we are going to relay to you is almost as important as keep your secret away from the Day Class, if not more," Ana starts and runs her hand through her hair, "What Kuran said is partially true. We aren't completely human." She leans against the wall, completely relaxed and a bit uncaring. "The Hunter's Council found each of us separately when we were little and helped us train and control our abilities.
"When we touch someone for a certain number of seconds, we can draw energy from them. We temporarily fuse their characteristics with our own and can use them. This is not only limited to supernatural beings, but to animals and humans as well. The Hunters called us life-force transits, or as we are called by those who know of us, E-Shifters. Each of us has two very unique abilities.
"We ran from the Hunter's council when I was around ten and Sarah had just turned nine. Once we realized that they wanted us to wipe out not only vampires but all inhuman species, we hightailed it out. That's why we've enrolled here. Right now, it's the safest place to hide."
"What can each of you do?" Cross asks fingers laced on his desk.
"I'm a radar for everything but humans and animals and I can give stats for them," Ana answers, looking out the window.
"I'm an empathic and can control the atmospheric mood to an extent," Sarah says.
"Like you are now?" Kuran asks/states. She nods.
"I can analyze special abilities and slight abnormalities and I have more physical strength when I shift energy, despite what it is I shift," Kaitlin says with a glare a Kuran. She never met him before, but he did hurt Ana when they were kids.
"I'm the most adapted to shifting and have slight telepathic abilities," Angelica says in a stoic voice. She always uses that voice when she means business.
"I know how long it'll take to kill you by your life points and I can shift life-force straight to save others," Rena says particularly to Kuran as a threat and a warning.
"When did you leave the Hunters?" Cross asks.
"Not long after I met Kuran. I was around ten and the other girls were with me a year before that," Ana says, not moving from her position. She doesn't want to reveal too much information.
"How did you meet Kaname?" Yuuki timidly pipes up. Ana's face contorts into a sneer.
"We met in a fight, Yuuki," Kuran answers for Ana; "No doubt she would like to finish that little brawl."
"If that should happen, Kuran," Ana says with deadly stillness, "It will be much more than a brawl. That I guarantee you." They both stare at each other, Kuran a bit more curious, Ana completely confident.
"Headmaster, we promise you that no fight will break out between the vampires and ourselves on school grounds, if you decide to let us stay. We want as little hostility as you do," Sarah says, taking a step foreword with spread arms and opened palms. She's ever the peacemaker in diplomatic interactions like these.
"As long as peace is held here, you may stay. Break that rule once, and you all must leave immediately," Cross says with a stone serious voice.
"Headmaster Cross," Ana says, breaking her eye contact to look at Cross, "may I ask a slightly prying question?"
"Of course, though I may not answer it to the fullest."
She nods towards Zero and asks, "Why do you have a Level E in the Day Class?"
Suddenly the room becomes tense and Sarah loses control over the emotional atmosphere. She mutters a curse in English, but Ana keeps eye contact with the Headmaster, who seems to be frozen. Zero looks horrified that someone knows that he's a Level E and he's only met her once or twice.
"Too prying to answer, I see. Sorry. G'night," she says bowing a little and walking towards the door.
"Kuran," Ana says with her back still turned to him, "Watch your step. If you break the neutral ground, you'll have to answer to me faster than the Hunters or Headmaster Cross."
"Worried about the humans, Ms. Rose?" he asks in a semi-sincere voice mixed with sarcasm that only she could pick up.
"I'm worried about our hiding spot," Ana answers and twists her head to look at him, "And I just want an excuse to beat the fuck outta you."
The girls leave, shutting the door behind them with a quiet click. The four left in the room are still silent for a while. Soon, Kuran rises and bids the trio goodnight.
"Can we trust them?" Yuuki whispers. She thought the girls were nice and not threatening.
"I don't like any of them," Zero growls while taking a seat on the couch next to the window.
"I've never heard of E-Shifters before. I wonder how many there are in the world," Cross mutters, starting at his desk, "I want you two to keep a close eye on them. Now, off to your patrolling."
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"C'mon you two! We're gonna be late!" Kaitlin yells while banging on Ana's and Sarah's door.
"This is cruel and unusual punishment!" Sarah yells on the other side.
"Tell me why I can't hurt Cross again for this?!" Ana yells angrily with Sarah.
"Get your asses out here now!" Angelica yells, "Or I'll break the door down! I'm not suffering alone!"
"Fine!" Ana yells back and opens the door, revealing two flushed girls in the short (and stupid) skirted uniforms.
"I feel so wrong!" Sarah yells, tugging the skirt down as best she can. Even with the socks, there is still a gap of skin showing through.
"This thing's gonna get burnt very soon," Ana mutters darkly.
"Count mine in too," Angelica says with a heated glare.
"Come on you three, it's not that bad," Rena says. She receives with hard glares and she nervously laughs.
The five head off to their own classes. Sarah and Ana don't see Zero in the classroom, but they do see a lot of staring guys. This makes Sarah hide behind Ana somewhat and Ana twitch in frustration. She simply glares at the staring male teenagers and they immediately drop their stares. The two take their seats and Sarah says that Yuuki is a bit nervous around them. Ana just shrugs. It's not like they came here to make friends or anything.
"I need to talk to you two," someone says in front of them.
Ana wondered briefly before he spoke why he was going their direction. They both look up to a pissed of Zero. Ana gets up and puts her hand on Sarah's shoulder, telling her to stay. She didn't want the younger girl to get in trouble for skipping or being late.
"What do you want, Kiryuu?" Ana asks with crossed arms. 'This blazer thing is uncomfortable,' she adds in her head.
"It's something important," he says with his hands jabbed in his pockets.
"I'll answer your questions, then. Sarah doesn't need to come. It'll look suspicious," she says walking around Sarah.
Zero looks at Ana's new appearance for a moment, then turns to walk out of the classroom. Sarah wants to go with her, but she knows that Ana's right. She gives an annoyed huff in her seat. The two exit the room and Ana follows him to a more excluded part of the grounds: the stable. They walk in and she notices a black mare staring at her and scraping the ground a bit.
"Hey, girl. Sucks to be stuck in here, huh?" she asks, rubbing the animal's head.
"Don't touch h—!"
"Please Kiryuu, I've been training to control my abilities since I was four. Have a little faith if you think I'm dangerous," she says, scratching behind the mare's ears a bit, "What do you want?"
"Your radar thing; how does it work?"
Throwing a glance at him she answers, "The same way you can hear someone else in a close room. As for the stats, the information just flows. It's my sixth sense."
"You mean you could pinpoint any creature around you?" he asks coming closer to her.
"It's limited. I can spread it to a half mile radius. I used to only be able to spread it to a few hundred feet. As for pinpointing, that takes some concentration, but it's possible to an extent."
"What's your problem with Kuran?"
"I could ask you the same thing. We have a bad past. I met him when I was eight and he was nine. We got into a fight over something important and it came to a draw. I left the Council two years after that and never saw him again until last night." She turns to him. "Why so curious?"
"I like to know what I'm protecting the Day Class from."
He is startled by her loud and abrupt laughter. She holds her sides a little, whether for show or not, and straightens up.
"You should protect Kuran, not the other humans. I have no qualm with the Day Class."
"Then, you hate vampires?"
"No, just Kuran. I wouldn't care if he was an old dog; I'd still hate him. It's what he did and what he has that I hate him. Do you hate vampires?"
"Yes."
Ana sighs and shakes her head a bit. She walks past him and to a bag of feed. Grasping a handful, she walks back to the black mare and holds her hand out some for the horse. Self-loathing. She knew that at one point too.
"Did you become a vampire willingly?"
"No," he nearly spits out at her.
"I had to ask. I wasn't going to make assumptions," she says wiping her hand on her skirt and looking at him, "Last I checked, hating yourself is bad for your health. Later, Kiryuu."
She walks out leaving him stunned. By the time she gets to the classroom, class is over. She drops her head in frustration for letting Zero take up her class time when she needs to blend in. Sarah comes out and hands Ana her backpack.
"I turned in your homework and told Mr. Kaze that you weren't feeling well this morning," Sarah says with a frown, "What did he want?"
"Answers," she replies, "Thanks for everything."
"No prob. But you might want to go to the room for the rest of the day since you're 'sick'," Sarah suggests, "You know, consistency." The elder girl nods and walks back to her room after handing Sarah her homework that is due for a couple other classes.
Kaitlin walks into the library, looking at all the books lined on the shelves. She's not the only one out of the five girls with a book obsession. All of them did, in fact. Only she and Ana have an obsession with video games. Walking over the fantasy section, she starts to look around for a good leisure book. Finding nothing decent, she walks over to the history section to look a bit more into the school's history. Yuuki did a good job giving information about the school, but she wants an in-depth look. This place seems to be familiar to her from the Council's lectures when she was little. Though, she could be reaching a bit for that memory. She tries to block most of those out.
After checking two promising books out, she heads to a spot in one of the wooded clusters on the grounds. Finding one, she settles on the ground, back on a tree, and props open a book to the first chapter. After a few chapters and making the pages with bits of notebook paper, she hears something. Immediately, the short brunette looks around and decides to slowly pack her books into her backpack. Deciding to play stupid human girl for a while, she ignores the rustling that keeps getting closer.
'I don't like the sound of those things moving,' she thinks, alert and tense, 'I don't even have an animal here to shift from. Squirrels do not count. Last time I did that, I felt like I was on a huge caffeine high.'
"Well, a little Day student has wandered from her classes I see," a smooth male voice says close to her ear.
"I'm not skippin' jerk. Back up before I make you," she responds without looking at the guy.
"You wound me, little Day student! How could you be so cruel?" he says with mock pain.
Turning around, she comes face to face with a vampire with bright blonde hair and bright blue eyes. His skin and white clothes barely have a contrast. His pale, cream lips are turned in a smile that, she thinks, is supposed to make girls fall to his feet.
"Easy, it's just my nature," she says, crossing her arms.
"Yes, Master Kaname did warn us of you and your other little friends," he says, putting a hand on his chin in mock thought.
"Then I suggest you take his warning and go away."
"Oh, but I want to see these non-existence species myself," he says looking her up and down with no shame, "I don't think you seem threatening, besides that glare you're giving me."
"Looks can be deceiving," she says with a viscous grin, "Ice Boy."
"What?" he asks, taken back by her sarcastic nickname.
"I know that your special ability is never-melting ice," she clarifies and her grin widens, "Don't underestimate me, vamp."
Swinging her backpack, she exits the clump of woods, leaving a very confused vampire behind her. Kaitlin quickly walks from the woods, hoping to leave before a fight breaks out. That guy gets under skin a little, a fight will break out and it'll be a long drive to where every the girls will have to run to.
At the end of the day, Kaitlin goes back to the same tree as Monday. The other girls are there, but Ana is in regular clothes. Dropping her stuff in the small pile of the others, she watches the screaming mob of fans in front of the Moon Dorms with Ana.
"We might have an issue," Kaitlin says, "I'm not sure if it is one or not, but it's important. Kuran told his little coven about us. I'm not sure how much, but defiantly that we're dangerous."
"Go figure," Ana mutters, not removing her sight from the crowd.
"Why are we here again?" Sarah whines, tugging her skirt. She wants to get into jeans! It's unfair that Ana gets regular clothes.
"Assessment," Angelica says, pulling out a jacket from her backpack. She tugs off the blazer and pulls on her familiar black jacket she always has.
"Do we really need to be involved? As long as we don't break the peace, there's not much to worry about," Rena says with a shrug.
"It doesn't make sense," Ana mutters, "Kuran may want peace and that may be a legitimate reason as to why he's here, but there has to be something else. Kuran always had a busy agenda when I first met him and I don't think that trait has changed. There has to be more than one reason for being here."
"Different motivations?" Rena suggests.
"At least more than one," she replies as the doors of the dorm gates open, "Let's go."
Each girl grabs their bags and follows Ana down the hill. The group travels near the class entrances; close to the grass that separates the Sun dorms but also father from it. The girls are walking their flank, heading towards the cement pathway adjacent to the building.
"Ms. Rose," Kuran says, stopping in front of the classroom stairs. A few others stop with him; two blonde girls, a shorted purple haired girl, three blonde guys and a really tall red head.
"What?" she asks, keeping her distance. The group of vampires glares at her, except for Kuran, and she pointedly ignores them.
"If you and your friends are not too tied up tonight, I would like to talk to you at the Moon Dorm at eight o'clock," he says, unfazed by his little group trying to literally glare daggers into Ana.
"Why?"
"To work out some… problematic possibilities between us."
"Don't you have class?"
"I have been excused."
Which means that Cross agreed to this meeting before Kuran actually went to talk to his teachers. After skimming her iced vision over the vampires, she nods to Kuran and turns to leave. The others begin to follow, but Kaitlin takes a second longer to glare at Ice Boy, who just smiles back. Once the five are away from the vampires and safely in Angelica's dorm room, Ana haphazardly smacks the wall with the back of her fist. Kaitlin kicks the other unmade bed, then takes a seat.
"I take it you met one of them, Kaitlin?" Angelica asks, eyeing the abused bed.
"The one with blonde hair and bright blue eyes," she replies with crossed arms, "He's an ice user and a real pain in the ass. I met him before I met up with y'all."
"Wow, he's brought a bit of Alabamian out in her," Rena says with a chuckle.
"All of them are Level B, but one is bordering on A," Ana randomly throws in; she seems to be thinking out loud.
"Are we really gonna go to their dorms?" Sarah asks with slightly wide eyes. She is ready for some sort of excitement, but is still worried about having to leave the school.
"That's for everyone to decide. Majority rules, remember?" the eldest girl replies, "All in favor for this little 'peace' meeting say aye." Four "ayes" reached her ears and she smiled grimly at the window she's been looking out at.
"Meet down in the entrance of our dorms at seven-thirty, and be ready for anything," she says with a new grin forming. Oh yes, she really wanted Kuran to step out of place. Once will be more than enough to shred him to pieces.