Chapter 4
Danny's heart stopped and he looked at Kyoko and quickly turned his head to Miyuki and then back to Kyoko, there was a long silence. Cain got up and quietly left the room to get something to drink obviously because Miyuki was shaking her head as he left the room.
"I told you that you weren't going to like it." Miyuki said.
"Does Hero know what his brother did to me!?" Danny more demanded then he did ask.
"He knows full well what Jiro did to you, who do you think ordered him to do so? At first Hero thought you were a girl which doesn't surprise me in the least bit seeing as every guy alive thinks you're a girl. However what you and Vlad didn't know was that Hero was Jiro's brother, Hero was one of Vlad's clients." Kyoko said.
"So Hero already knew what you looked like, he just didn't know you were a dude." Miyuki said and nodded towards Kyoko.
"He wanted the kid to be he's and the only way for that to be true was if some how the kid belonged to Jiro, Hero never liked getting his hands dirty. Obviously that didn't happen and so the kid belongs rightfully to you and Vlad since it was Vlad who started this in the first damn place." Kyoko told her.
"You've probably seen Hero; He has long black hair and ice cold blue eyes. He's always wearing clothes that only the rich and famous wear because the clothes are so damn expensive." Miyuki said.
"I have! He came over one time, but Vlad didn't tell me anything about him!" Danny yelled.
"I'm not surprised Vlad doesn't trust him that much and he probably didn't want you around him or the other way around because Time plays harshly and slyly." Kyoko said.
"If it was him that raped you then Vlad would have been powerless to stop it and we were quite young at the time." Miyuki said.
"We were also far away; after all we've only been around for a little less then you and way less then Vlad." Kyoko said.
"When all this happened we weren't even born yet and so Time or Hero had no threat when it came to his power over things. Jiro would never have known you if Vlad was never a client of Hero's." Miyuki said.
"Things would not be the way they are either, but we would still know you and we would still be friends. I just wish that incident never happened." Kyoko said.
"Why didn't you say anything about it?" Danny asked.
"Because we only found out a couple months ago and he knew that, so he cast a spell on the village and the covenant, we were not allowed to leave until you showed up at the village only hours ago." Miyuki said.
"He kept you there?" Danny asked.
"To ensure that he would get what he wanted and that was for Vlad to leave you and not be able to find you." Kyoko said.
"It was his plan all along to get you to leave he just didn't suspect that the first place you'd go was here and so he put a temporary spell on it thinking that you wouldn't show up for a long while or that you wouldn't come here until he killed you one way or the other it was a planned scheme no more no less." Miyuki said as it all dawned onto Danny that the decision to come to the village was a right one.
"You had a feeling did you not? About coming here." Kyoko said not wanting to further sadden Danny.
"Huh? Oh yeah like some little voice inside me was telling me that I'd be safer here instead of by myself in the woods where all the other creatures could get me." Danny said blushing in embarrassment at how childish he sounded saying what he just did.
"Well I'm not in the least bit surprised Life has a tendency to want to protect everything she loves I can already tell." Kyoko said smiling.
"Can an unborn baby even do that?" Danny asked in shock.
"If a baby is like us then yes it can even without a full living body, for the moment anyway." Miyuki said sitting down.
"What do you mean by 'for right now'?" Danny asked.
"For now the kid isn't under any major pressure, luckily for you, however should you find yourself in a particularly high stress level situation the kid could use up all the power that she has." Kyoko started.
"And if she uses up all that power then she could die pregnancies like this have a tendency to be more strenuous then one would think especially since its no human pregnancy." Miyuki finished for Kyoko who smiled.
"So say I was fighting Hero then this baby that I have yet to have could possibly die?" Danny asked them.
"It's a little more complicated then that, but basically if you fight Hero then there is no doubt in my mind that the child will die." Kyoko replied grimly.
"Fighting Hero isn't as easy as we make it sound, as the old saying goes its easier said then done, because of how much power Hero has over time it makes it harder to fight him. In that case not only would you use up all the power that you have but so will the unborn kid." Miyuki said frowning.
"Why would she use up all her power?" Danny asked.
"Because the child would want to protect you by making you have certain feelings of danger or giving you magic power, some of the power that she possesses would be your to control and because she is still so young and fragile her power is limited unlike mine, Miyuki's and Hero's but we've had years to perfect are skills and power. One so young has no hope in protecting you for very long if you were fighting Hero and should something happen to you, for example, if you were to die then so would the child which would happen in a normal human pregnancy in the first place but in a human pregnancy there's still a small window of time one has before the baby actually dies. Unfortunately in a vampire pregnancy if you die, again, then the child dies immediately with you there is no window of opportunity, nothing. Right now at this moment you have everything to gain though." Kyoko told him.
"However you also have a lot to lose as well, if the baby dies and you're still alive you will die no matter what that's a given. Put it this way right now that kid is keeping both you and her alive, if she dies she's still part of you its almost like stabbing someone in the heart, its and immediate death. That's why its so important that you stay with us since we can fight against Hero, we have the power to do that now that the stupid spell has been broken anyway." Miyuki said grimly but truthfully.
"But can't he cast that spell again?" Danny asked getting scared for his life and his unborn daughter's life.
"No he can't, a spell like that can only be cast once every so many years and luckily for us the one that he used can only be cast once every one hundred or so years because it takes immense power, patients, planning and timing in order to cast it. The timing part he has down but he still can't speed up time he can reverse it and fast forward it to the present but he can not fast forward one hundred years into the future. By that time the kid will have been born, matured and gotten even more powerful, in other words he cornered himself but you were help to that Danny because of that one day a long while back." Kyoko said smiling and winking at Danny playfully.
Danny turned bright red, so many questions were buzzing around his mind faster then he could think of which one to say. The fact was that Jiro's older brother Hero wanted him dead and obviously his yet to be born daughter dead as well so Hero himself could have no competition or share power. It was clear that all Hero wanted was to throw off the balance that he himself didn't quite understand, but why did he want so much power in the first place? And what would he want it for? Danny shook his head clearing his mind of everything but those two questions because he knew those questions were more important then anything else.
"Why? Why would he of all people want so much power? What would he want so much power for in the first place?" Danny asked looking at both girls who had been smiling.
He watched as they both stared at him and their smiles faded away just as quickly as they had come and he knew that what ever answer they had wasn't a good one.
"He wants to completely eliminate the human race; if he killed you and your daughter he could gain enough power to do that." Miyuki said in a deadly and scary voice.
"He grew up amongst Sirens; you do know what Sirens are do you not?" Kyoko asked.
Danny nodded remembering the countless books he had read in Vlad's library over the years, and in a way he was grateful that he had gotten bored so many times that he decided to read.
"Good, Stay away from them all they are is trouble." Miyuki added.
"Yes the sirens' singing is powerful indeed, a trap for men who are not careful and given to their enchanting singing, it's all an easy way for them to kill, so legend says. I my self have seen a siren but from a safe distance, luckily as legend says their singing is mainly for men, legend never said anything about women. That is, at least, from what I have read so far about their kind but back to our topic of conversation. The fact is that even though Jiro is Hero's Brother, Hero wasn't a hybrid like his younger sibling. He was a full blooded vampire who became a mage; because all he knew growing up was what the sirens themselves thought others around them." Kyoko stated.
"Because of that he thought he had all rights to judge others the way he wanted and for the human race that trait became a dangerous fascination and goal. He wanted to take all his anger, all his rage and resentment out on them even though it should only be the individuals that tormented him in the first place that should serve some sort of consequence. Unlike us he didn't see it that way, he took it another and decided that he himself should decide the fate of the human race; in short terms he wants the power controlled only by Kyoko. He knows that Kyoko won't help him accomplish such an outrageous goal such as that, but now he has a way to gain enough power to accomplish it and bring his dream into reality and that would be your death. Now do you see why we're telling you to let us protect you me, Cain, and Kyoko combined have more power then Hero has and can end this." Miyuki said.
"Then why don't you take him out?" Danny asked curiously.
"Because he's gone into hiding himself from the world and in so many places that me and Miyuki simply can't find or track him down. When someone with so much power has away to cover their tracks it becomes an easy task to hide from the world, unfortunately that makes it close to impossible to track him down and find him at least for us since it would be me and Miyuki tracking him. Because Cain isn't the best tracker in the world, in fact he can't track to save his own life." Kyoko said laughing at the last part which made Miyuki and Danny smile.
"Miyuki, Danny, and Kyoko someone's here to see you." Cain said peeking through the door.
"Who is it?" Miyuki asked him.
"Kira." Cain said.
"Let him in its fine, but how he got here is something I want to know." Kyoko said curiously.
Cain nodded and opened the door and motioned the young blond into the room. Immediately Kira's bright blue eyes lit up at seeing Danny, Kyoko and Miyuki sitting quietly watching him.
"Danny you're ok!" Kira said delightedly.
"How did you know it was me?" Danny asked.
"I followed your aura scent." Kira said looking at Danny up and down excited.
"So we see." Kyoko said laughing angelically once more.
"That's a perfect spell that one of must have cast, I've been trying to perfect it for years now!" Kira said turning his gaze to the two girls.
"We didn't cast the spell Kira, Danny did." Miyuki said thoughtfully and looked over at Kyoko who playfully hit her in the arm.
"You did!" Kira said stunned at the stated fact.
"Yeah I'm sorry I perfected it before you could." Danny said.
"The unborn child's lent power." Miyuki said teasingly.
Danny frowned and glared at her only to look away when he caught Miyuki's deadly glare, if looks could kill Danny knew he would have already screwed up by pissing Miyuki off.
"Is Danny in danger? Are you guys in danger?" Kira asked concerned.
Kyoko looked at Miyuki and decided to tell Kira the entire story in which they spent another hour or so explaining since Kira had twice as many questions as Danny did.
"Kira where is Vlad?" Miyuki asked thinking that Vlad would be with him.
"He went out." Kira replied.
"Where?" Kyoko asked as a thought ran across her mind.
"He went to some guy's house, his name was Hero." Kira replied.
The room went silent as reality hit them; this is how Hero was going to find out if his plan worked.
Vlad was now in danger.
And Danny was now in far more danger then he was moments ago.