I am so sorry for such a long wait especially since it was a kinda cliffy...for all those who have joined i hope that you are enjoying this...and for those who have been following since the beginning I am sorry that it has taken me this long. Enjoy this and the end, which is soon to come...sorta...and dont forget to check out the war and the rebellion which will be updated sooon soon soon!
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Van placed his hand on the cold glass, his eyes watching the swirling black smoke clouds from the Ambrose house. He turned around and looked at the dark haired Princess shift in her sleep. Lenobia had told him that she would move and make some noise but she wouldn't wake up. He turned back to the glass and stared at the orange flames that he could see in the distance.
A loud thud brought his attention to the street in front of the house, he looked down and saw Alana climb into the front seat of her green mazda. He squinted his eyes and saw a brown haired figure laying across the backseat. He resisted a smile and instead closed his eyes as the car pulled out of the driveway. He concentrated on Hermione and made sure that the message was sent.
Behind him the doors banged opened and against the wall, "Where are they Van?"
"Uncle…." Van didn't open his eyes, he didn't move at all as Louis came nearer to him.
"Van where are they?" Louis asked.
"They have gone," he said finally opening his eyes.
"Louis?" Lenobia had joined them, her servant behind her.
"They've gone Lenobia, Alana took Hermione and went to join the others."
"You must stop them," she said. She turned back to the door, Louis and her servant behind her, but right as they reached the doors they slammed shut and locked. Lenobia looked at the doors confused, "What is this?"
"Fuck their rules," Van muttered repeating Alana's words.
Lenobia and Louis glanced at each other and then at Van, "What was that Van?" asked Lenobia.
Van didn't turn around, "I didn't call for you while Alana helped Hermione, I didn't, I kept silent and allowed you to think that everything was fine."
"Why?" asked Lenobia.
"You didn't see that coming did you Aunt," he said with a slight smile. "Alana said, 'We are given these powers to help people, if we weren't meant to change things then we wouldn't be able to see anything.'" Van turned around and looked at Lenobia and Louis, "she's right."
Lenobia stared down at the boy, "My son you are too young and you do not understand the balance, the actions that we take are so that we remain neutral, so that we can stay alive and tell future generations what's to come."
"We are not supposed to remain neutral! You are content to sit on the sidelines, to protect yourselves because of your visions, to allow fate to run its course. But if fate was supposed to run its course then we wouldn't have the power to see what we see. I have a gift, a gift that was given to me for a reason not so that I can sit and warn and use it to play a game but so that I can save and protect the people that I love. I don't care about some stupid cosmic balance if the cosmic had wanted balance then they shouldn't have given me this ability."
"Do you suggest that we go against the rules that Seer's have abided by for millennia!" Lenobia asked.
"Yes rules are made by people who don't understand, they are made for the limited. I am not limited and won't allow myself to be, I will save those people who are important to me."
"Louis speak with your sired child!"
Louis stared down at the boy he inhaled a hesitant breath, "I agree with you Van, which is why you must let me go. Alana is in danger and I need to protect her."
"Louis!"
"The boy is right Lenobia too many loves have I watched die in the name of balance and fate. If this is fates intention then I too will stand against them."
Van nodded and the doors to the room opened, Lenobia blinked and Louis was gone. "This will bring ruin to everything Van!" Lenobia said.
"If you are so determined to contain balance then go and stop him," he said staring at her with cold eyes.
Lenobia touched her neck and inhaled a deep breath, her eyes full of uncertainty. "You are weak Aunt, everyone believes that you are strong and powerful that you know all things but you are weak. You believe in an ideal that you won't even fight for you just sit and do as you're told. At least they are willing to die for what they believe in."
Serena could hear her heartbeat in her ears, the chills that ran through her, and the cold sweat that had broken out across her forehead.
Despite the fighting that was going on outside the entire house had fallen silent since the scream had torn through them all. Serena stared wide eyed at the metal container the echo of the terrifying scream still had her paralyzed, Darien stood in front of her. "Serena stay behind me," he whispered.
"Darien?" her voice shook with fear as she waited. Suddenly there was another petrifying scream, this one woke everyone from their stupor. Elena turned around, "Gaius get them out here!" Serena looked up to see Gaius staring at Elena momentarily torn, then he turned and began pushing Elena's daughter and son back into the house.
"Mom!" Sam's voiced echoed though the foyer, Serena looked back right as blue skinned creature with long white hair jumped from the container and onto Elena's back. "MOM!" Sam's voice echoed in Serena's ears as she watched the creature attempt to bite her mother.
"Darien!" Serena yelled. Instantaneously Darien was gripping the clothes the creature had on and threw it across the room. There was a terrible shriek and a feral growl from Darien, who had bared his fangs. Serena watched at Elena reached up and grabbed her neck as she collapsed onto the steps, "Mom! Did it bite you?" Serena heard Sam ask. Serena just stared at her mother's form gripping the doorway. After a few seconds she opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by another shriek. Looking back at the container she saw two more creatures with white hair jump out of the container right at Darien.
Serena blinked and another of the creatures was thrown against the wall. Serena looked up to see Malachite and Zoicite standing in front of Darien. "We heard their cries." Malachite's hair was loose around his shoulders but Serena could see the marks from where his wounds were still healing.
"Get the human to safety!" Darien said no looking at them. Serena blinked and Malachite was next to Sam in an instant.
"Get away from me!" Sam yelled, "Help my mother!"
Another shriek from inside the dark container caught the groups attention, everyone looked up as a long haired female creature emerged from the darkness. Her long hair which had once been luxurious and full, touched her fingertips, her large oval eyes that had once been a bright blue were not bloodshot red with black irises. Her skin was a pale sickly blue, and all of her teeth had elongated into sharp fangs.
Serena stared at the familiar face, then she heard Darien mutter, "Mina."
Darien and Zoicite were frozen in their spots their mouths slack and their eyes wide. Malachite turned around and looked up at Mina, his face contorted in pain, "Oh Mina." She looked at Malachite for a moment as if in recognition, then she let out a howl and lunged at him. Darien took a step to help but was suddenly tackled to the ground.
"BROTHER!" screamed the man on top of Darien.
Serena noted the familiar face, though now he was gaunt, his eyes were a blazing green, and his nails were black. "Kusanagi," she whispered. Hearing his name his face turned into her direction, he locked eyes with her and gave her a malicious smile. He let go of Darien and licked his lips at her.
Without a seconds hesitation she turned around and ran back down the hallway, she heard Darien yell after his brother but it was lost on her as she ran around a corner and deeper into the house. She jumped over bodies and debris as fast as her legs would allow her. She could hear Kusanagi behind her crashing through things and slamming into walls as came after her. Suddenly there was a loud crash and then everything behind her stopped, she swung around and looked behind her. There was a large hole in the wall about three feet behind her from within she could hear scuffling and grunting. "Serena go!" Darien yelled to her from inside.
Darien was distracting Kusanagi giving her time to escape. Serena didn't hesitate, she turned another corner and ran down a hallway, she ran to the end of the hallway which had been destroyed by a grenade and emerged into the back garden. Gunfire blazed around her, and the pots in front of her exploded, she ducked and covered her head. Running towards the other side of the garden she heard the bullets whizz behind her. Seeing a large rose bush she dove for it and landed on her stomach. Bullets shot over her and into the wall behind her, she heard a noise in front of her and looked up. Hiding behind several large bushes and benches where several Vampire children and two Vampire mothers. One of the women had a hand gun in her hand but she wasn't using she was crouching in fear her arms wrapped around her children.
Staring at the group as they hid in fear Serena remembered her mother protecting her once, on a dark night when someone had broken into their house. Her mother had stood in front of Sam and her as the intruder had faced off against her. Blinking once, Serena pushed herself up and crouched on the balls of her feet. "Hey!" she yelled at the woman with the gun. "Give that to me!" The Vampire woman looked at her in fear, unsure if she should trust her or not.
"I won't let them hurt you….I promise." Serena held out her hand as she stared into the eyes of the Vampire mother, "I won't let them get to you!" The woman stared at her for a moment then nodded and slid the gun over to her. Serena caught it in her hand and without a seconds hesitation she stood up and began firing at the men on the other side of the garden, hitting each of her targets with precision she eliminated them within seconds. The garden became silent and the firing ceased, Serena scanned the garden then turned around to the group behind her. "It's clear!" The woman stood and her group came out from behind their makeshift shelter, "Get out of this house immediately, go to one of the safe houses."
"And you my lady?" asked the woman who had given her the gun.
"I'm going to stay here and get the others out," she said turning around.
"Thank you Princess," the woman said. Serena turned around and looked at the woman, she nodded once and then turned back around and reentered the house.
"Let's head to the battle then," said the large blonde man at the wheel of the car, he glanced over at the young white haired man next to him, "Sir?"
Fei stared in the direction of Sophia's mansion, he didn't blink for several moments then he spoke, "Take me back to base."
"But Sir our orders are to proceed directly to the Ambrose mansion to assist with the raid," said the man.
"I know our orders!" Fei snapped, "But something's wrong, I've got a bad feeling about this."
"Sir no offense but you're feelings aren't running this operation."
Fei glanced over at the man, "Your right." He quickly pulled out his gun and shot the man next to him three times in the side of the head. Leaning over he opened the door and pushed the body out of the driver's seat and onto the ground. "I'm running this operation." He turned around onto a street going in the opposite direction of the Ambrose mansion and headed back to base.
Yoshiki stood at the end of the darkened hallway, his sword ready in one hand. His eyes searched the hallway for one of his wife's traps. He took several steps down the hallway cautiously then stopped. He waited for anything to move, when nothing did he took several more steps down the hallway, stopping again after several steps and waiting.
"Really Yoshiki are you going to take the entire night?" Sophia's voice echoed around him.
"I am proceeding with caution my dearest," he said.
"We stop, I have no desire to kill you in the hallway," she said.
Not moving he took on tentative step towards the end of the hallway, "Really this is tedious," she said. Suddenly Yoshiki was pulled forward by the front of his robes down the hallway and into the large sparing room. He was pulled partially into the room, behind him the doors snapped shut and locked. He looked up and saw Sophia staring at him from the other end of the room, dressed in a black sleeveless dress that went to her knees. Off to the right the doors were open and he could clearly see the large garden illuminated in the early moonlight, the cherry blossoms were blooming.
"How was your trip my love?" she asked with a dark smile her eyes never wavering from him.
"Informative," he said his eyes not leaving her. "I supposed that was your doing," he said motioning towards the cherry trees.
She looked over at them, "Yes I thought it would be fitting for us." Her hair was loose around her and he noticed that the Roderick family crest that she always wore was gone.
"You didn't have to kill all of those people just to get to Kiyaka."
"Oh but if I hadn't then she wouldn't of had the fear she had in her eyes when I did kill her," Sophia smiled. "She recognized me, when she saw me she dropped to her knees and begged for her god to protect her….guess he failed cause she's dead."
"You have gone too far Sophia," he said.
"Oh believe me my love I can go further."
Yoshiki glared at her, the silence weighed down on them, Yoshiki finally realized that they were completely alone. "Sophia where is Momiji?"
Sophia smiled widely, "I sent her on a mission."
"A mission to do what?"
"To ensure the elimination of the Ambrose family and the traitors that they are housing," she said.
"You sent our daughter into battle with them!"
"Yes, I sent her and the rest of our protégées…"
"They are not ready for this!"
"No Yoshiki, Saya may not be ready, but Fei, Nia, Sai, and Rin have been preparing for this for their entire lives. They are ready and they will succeed."
"Sai? Sai's alive?"
"Yes, Sai has been alive and active for the past ten years," Sophia said.
Yoshiki searched her face for a hint of falsehood, but she was like a mask, there was nothing behind her eyes. "Sophia what have you done?" he said as he held his sword up and in her direction.
Sophia smiled again, "Everything."
Nia was perched on top of the large military vehicle, her sniper gun pulled tight into her shoulder as she fired off into the crowed below her. Vampires were fighting against the hunters and mercenaries that Sophia had hired, and though they weren't all trained to fight against supernatural's most were holding their own against the Vampires. Nia used the scope on her sniper rifle and tried to see inside of the house, she hadn't seen Sam since he had went inside to get his mother and sister. A loud crash and a jolt against the truck she was perched on caught Nia's attention. She looked down and saw that a large male Vampire with long brown hair had thrown one of Sophia's men into the side of the truck. She looked at the crumpled body of the dead soldier and then into the eyes of the Vampire. His dark and glowing eyes bore into her and the hair on her arm stood on end. Acting on instinct she rolled off of the trucks roof and slid down onto the hood right as he jumped up after her.
She slid down the hood and landed on her feet she spun around and pointed the gun right at him. "You're a child," he said looking down at her. "You shouldn't be here."
"You Vampires killed my parents, this is where I'm supposed to be," she said, she blinked once and then shot him three times in the chest.
He fell to his knees briefly and then looked up at her with a smile, "Bullets to the chest won't kill me."
Nia smiled back, "No but that's why they're not ordinary bullets." She swung the gun around so that it was on her back and smiled at him. His face changed suddenly as the three bullets exploded his chest. Blood splattered outwards and she felt some land on her face, "They're exploding rounds." She watched him fall face down onto the top of the truck and lay motionless. A hand suddenly grabbed her shoulder and she was thrown several feet into another car. Nia's head smashed against the metal of the truck and she felt blood drip down from her head down her neck. "Fu..ck…" she muttered, her vision was becoming blurred and her head was throbbing.
A tall brunette stood before her, her fangs bared at Nia and her eyes full of rage, she moved in front of her, "You damn humans!" She lifted her hand above Nia's head, they both knew that with the force she would probably kill Nia. A loud click from behind the female Vampire stopped her.
Nia's eyes were blurry but she was able to make out a familiar face holding a gun to the woman's head. "Take your mate and get out of here," Sia told her.
The woman glared down at Nia again but didn't advance. She was gone as soon as Nia blinked, Sia kneeled before her twin and laid her gun down next to her. She gently turned her sister's head so that she could assess the wound, "I think you have a concussion but you should be okay." She stood and pulled Nia to her feet, they were standing between two of the trucks they were shielded from the battle for a few moments. Nia stumbled slightly but then regained her footing. A silence lapsed between them, even if there hadn't been the sounds of gunfire and fighting around their reunion would have still been awkward.
Nia gently touched the back of her head, she looked at her finger tips and saw "Sia…"
"Get out of here Nia, I don't care where you go but just get the hell out of here, this isn't going to end well for anyone here," Sia picked up her gun and looked at her sister.
"Aunt Sophia gave me orders…."
"Aunt Sophia is going to die, she's fighting Yoshiki as we speak, those two are going to rip each other to shreds and if you continue to follow her orders then you're going to die too."
Nia looked her sister up and down, Sia's hair was a mess, there were bags underneath her eyes, her face was gaunt and despite the fact that they were in the middle of a battlefield Sia looked like she was about to burst into tears. "Sia?"
"Don't worry about me Nia, I'll be fine, but you need to get out of here."
"What about Fei and Rin?" Nia asked.
"They'll be fine just get out of here," Sia said. There was a stream of gunfire fired next to them, Sia and Nia both flattened themselves against the side of the truck. Nia covered her ears while Sia pointed her gun in the direction of the gunfire waiting to fire if anyone came around the end of the truck.
"I'm not leaving without Sam," Nia said.
Sia turned around and stared at her, "What?"
"I'm not leaving without Sam….he doesn't deserve this, and if I'm going I'm taking him with me."
"This isn't the time for you to be falling for some half vampire hybrid child…"
"He's not like that Sai, he's different, he's never fed off a human and most of his vampire characteristics have been suppressed. He's never known about our lives," Nia said.
"So is that the appeal? He's normal so you want him!"
Nia looked up, "This could be my chance at having a normal life Sia, I know that all of you have lost that shit but in all honesty I've never given up the idea. If Sam's that chance then I'm not about to let that slip through my fingers."
Sia looked away from her sister, there was a brief silence then "Do you love him?"
Nia's eyes fixed on the back of her sisters head, "I don't for sure yet…but I think I might."
"You've only known him for a few days."
"Sometimes you just know…."
"Yes I understand that," Sia said. Nia could hear the sadness in her voice, she knew that Sia was holding back, and had they been closer she would have asked. But they weren't they had been separated for ten years and it had changed them both. Sia turned around, "I'll help you find him but as soon you do you and him beat it."
"Yeah I got you," Nia said.
Serena had made it to one of the armories in the basement of the house. When she had opened the door she had come face to face with almost fifteen armed Vampires, being led by Jadeite. "Serena…"
"There's no time you have to get topside, they're brought infected Vampires," she said grabbed several weapons and a bulletproof vest. Looking around she saw that the room was rather large and there was medical supplies everywhere. Ami was standing over and injured man, as she looked closer Serena recognized him as Kreon. Valencia was sitting next to the bed her husband was laying on holding his hand, her hair was out of place, there was blood and dirt on her face and her eyes were full of worry.
"Do you know how many they have brought with them?" Serena looked at the man who had spoken to her, he was tall and blonde with dark eyes. He was dressed from head to toe in SWAT gear and had a semiautomatic weapon in his arms.
Serena buckled a holster belt around her waist, "No but I encountered three for sure and….." she paused and everyone looked at her, she glanced around the room, "And Prince Kusanagi."
Serena saw Valencia look up at her when she mentioned Kusanagi, they locked eyes and for a moment Serena saw how fragile the Queen was. Ami turned away from Kreon and pushed her way through the group, "Was the Prince infected?"
Serena broke eye contact with the Queen and shook her head, "I don't think so he wasn't acting like the rest of them, he was….different not sickly and crazy like them more predatory and violent." Serena saw Ami and Jadeite exchange glances, "What is it?"
Ami hesitated for a moment, "when Kusanagi was addicted to the spice that was how he acted. Was there anything different about him physically?"
Serena tried to think, "Yeah….his eyes they were green bright glowing green, like when you guys get into Vampire mode, but like I said green." She looked over Ami's shoulder and back to Valencia, she had not moved, she was now staring at her husband holding his hand, Serena could tell that she was fighting to keep herself together.
Ami and Jadeite looked at each other again, "Those are the same symptoms…."
"We had assumed from the beginning that this was what they were doing to him," Jadeite said.
"Doing what?" Serena asked.
"We think that they've been pumping spice into him, purposely making him insane," said Ami.
"Why wouldn't they have just infected him?"
"That's what we don't know, but from the amount of Spice that Momiji and her people were buying from the market that's the only thing that is plausible."
Jadeite holstered a gun on his left side, he had taken off his suite jacket and wore only his white shirt. Serena noticed that he looked like a human detective; his natural skin tone was darker than all the other Vampires in the house so he could easily pass for a human. "Where is Darien?"
"The last I saw him he was saving my ass from Kusanagi, they were fighting up on the West Wing of the house," Serena told him. "I don't know where they are now."
"I'll go and find him, Ami you stay down here, I'm sure that people will be coming down here soon to get medical help," he said. Jadeite turned around and started giving out orders to the men around him. Serena realized why Jadeite had been chosen as one of Darien's generals, he was strong and good at giving orders, he knew how to take action and how to handle a situation. Serena had been told that Malachite had been Darien's first general, after his breakdown and Mina Anica's infection Jadeite, who had always been Darien's second, took over.
"Serena I need you to stay with Ami here, it'll be the safest place for you," he said turning around to face her his bright blue eyes rooting her to the spot.
"Like hell I will there are people out there dying, I'm not about to let them stand alone, I'm going back up there!"
"Serena you're part of the Royal Family now, protecting you is our top priority," Jadeite told her.
"I don't give a damn about your priorities, there are people out there who are vulnerable to the weapons that Momiji has brought with her, weapons that I've seen in use before. I can help you Jadeite I know how to fight," Serena said she pushed a hand gun into the holster at her side.
"I cannot allow that Serena, you are to stay here with the Queen and King and remain out of harm's way," he said, he turned away from her as if to close the matter but was stopped when she spoke.
"Jadeite…I am not about to sit down here and cower while my people are up there dying," Serena said.
"Your people?" He turned around and looked at her, she stared up at him with defiance and fire in her eyes. She hadn't noticed, but he did, everyone around them had gone silent and was watching the confrontation.
"Yes my people…my friends, and members of my family, people that I have come to care about, and people who are defenseless against this onslaught," Serena said. "Now I am trained to fight, how to protect, and how to engage a witch in battle. I have abilities that none of you do and I can help. I am not about to let innocent people die up there." Without another word she pushed past him and into the long hallway and made her way to the elevator that was at the very end.
"Well Jadeite it seems our new Princess is ready," Ami said, as she watched the men around them leave and follow Serena.
Jadeite turned to her and pulled her into a hug, "Stay safe and don't take any unnecessary risks."
"Make sure our Princess doesn't get herself killed will you, Darien wouldn't be too happy," she said as she pulled away from him. "And if you can keep my husband out of trouble."
"I'll make sure he's safe, just stay down here and reinforce the doors," he said. "I don't want to have to burry another sister."
"Don't say things like that Jadeite, you'll give me bad luck." Jadeite nodded at her then ran to catch up with Serena and the others. Ami sighed as she watched her older brother's form, though they were only half siblings they were extremely close, and Ami knew that if anything happened to either of them it would kill the other.
Rin flipped herself over a small divider wall right as a shower of bullets rained down upon her. "Fuck…fuck…fuck!" she yelled she was pinned down by the opposing force and all she had on her was a handgun.
"I think it's time for you to start using those special powers mother taught you." Rin turned to see Momiji leaning against the wall next to her a gun hanging loosely in her hand.
"I would have thought that you would have already started," Rin said. "You're the strong one."
"It's borrowed power, it wasn't mine from the start."
"Borrowed or not you gained it, you made it yours you should use is, and use that other special technique that you have." Momiji glanced over at her, "I know that you have a special ability, Lady Sophia told me about it, she also said that you don't like to use it that often…" there was another spray of gunfire, Rin ducked her head, "However I think this would be the best opportunity."
"It's dangerous using powers that aren't mine."
"Well though I hate to sound like a smart ass…there isn't much more danger we could be in," Rin raised her head slightly over the edge of the wall to see where her opponents were. She took aim and fired off two shots, she heard a grunt and a thud, she had eliminated one of her targets. Another spray of gunfire came almost as soon as she had ducked her head.
Rin looked over at Momiji, who still had yet to move. "I hate to be pushy about this but I really don't think that remaining here is the best idea."
"You're right," Momiji looked at her and let the gun fall from her hand.
"My…."
She stood up and faced the direction of the shooters, there were several loud bangs, and the whiz of bullets. But before any of them could touch her Momiji held out her hand, the bullets stopped mid air about a foot in front of her. She glanced around at the men in front of them, without a word she flicked her wrist and the bullets shot right back at the men who had fired them with twice the force that they had been fired with.
"I should start using my powers."
The wall cracked when her back collided with it. "Tell me Sophia did you underestimate me that much?" Yoshiki stared at her. She had a large gash on her forehead and a long cut from his sword that ran across her upper arm.
She smiled up at him, "Oh no my darling I just wanted to ensure that you were going to fight me with the intent that I desired."
"What intent is that?"
"Murderous intent, I want you to fight me with everything that you have," she said with her dark smile painted on her face.
"Sophia, I could never face you with murderous intent," he said.
"Yes well that's why you're weak," she said. She extended her hands and the glass windows behind her exploded, large shards of glass was thrown towards him. Yoshiki faced them with no hesitation he stared into his wife's eyes unafraid. His gaze made her uncomfortable and she flicked her wrist changing the direction of the shards. Several small pieces cut his face and arms but none of the large ones touched him.
"Fight me!" she screamed. Electricity crackled on her hands burning the wooden floor around her.
"Sophia you have never been my opponent, why have you done all of this?"
"Why! Why! You have to ask! For my child," she said. "Everything I have done I have done to protect my child," she said her voice emotionless. "I've killed thousands, I've shattered her world, splintered her mind, broken her body, strengthened her soul," Sophia said. "For her I have created the very thing that will kill her father, her lover, her sisters, everyone and I did it all for her!"
Yoshiki stopped, the blood in his heart ran cold he turned and stared at his wife realizations dawning on him, "The virus…you….you created it?"
Sophia stared at him her eyes wide and cold, "What better way to protect your child then to destroy everything that puts her in danger….I did it, I infected thousands of Vampires, sentenced them all to death to ensure that they would never have the chance to hurt her."
"Sophia…..you….you….created this? You killed Abby! You killed all those covens! Infected innocent people, murdered Kiyaka, and betrayed even me!"
"Why not? You took my child from me, you altered her memory you made her think that I had abandoned her that I had given her up. You put her in the direct path of danger…you her own father….." Sophia said. "You and that bitch took my most precious thing from me, so I took your most precious things from you, your lives."
"Sophia you've gone mad!"
"I've been mad!" she screamed. "Since the day you ripper her from my arms, since the day you gave her to that fucking whore…..no since before than…since the day you kill my father and my brother!"
Yoshiki stilled, "You…you knew?"
He saw tears in her eyes, "No initially, but it was then that I began to lose my mind…it was your sweet little whore who told me…sent me a letter right after you took my child from me, she told me what you had done." Sophia smiled darkly, "She thought she had one upped me…you know she had never stopped wanting you, that was why she took Momiji, it was her last burn against me. She didn't love you but she couldn't stand that you had married me…" she began to laugh. "But in the end it was I who has the last laugh….because even years before she had made a move against I had anticipated her."
"Sia…" he muttered.
"You see Sia came to me after you had killed her father, though I wasn't affiliated with the Roderick's anymore she knew that it would be me to avenge my brother," Sophia said. "So she came to me… I knew that one day Abby would strike against me. So I placed Sia near enough to Abby's heart to deal the killing blow when I needed her too."
"Even before Abby's demand you were poised to kill her," he said.
"I am a daughter of the Roderick family, I have been planning since my birth, do you think I move any piece before analyzing the next ten steps!"
"We were always a formidable chess player," he said a silence lapsed between them then he spoke realized what she had done. "You gave the virus to Sia, and she infected Abby…"
"Yes then I gave all my data all my files from the past five years, she planted them and made it look as if Abby had created it…" Sophia's smiled had widened and she threw her arms out and began to spin in circles. "So not only has she been infected but she has also been blamed for the deaths of everyone, the vampires, the wares, the hunters they hate her!"
"And what of Momiji, she has my blood inside of her she's just as sustainable to the virus as I," he said.
Sophia stopped her spinning, "Do you think I am a complete idiot? Like I said ten steps ahead…Momiji is immune," Sophia said. "It was easy enough for Sia to get me samples of Momiji's blood, with every test I ensured that she would be immune….and when they have all died and the world is rid of them she will stand alone, safe, protected, and alive."
"In the span of a year you will have killed thousands," Yoshiki said.
"Yes! Yes single handedly I have done what the Hunters Syndicate was too afraid to do," Sophia said shaking with rage. "For all their promises and vows, they're afraid, afraid to make the most severe blow, afraid of the blood on their hands. But I'm not, for my child to live in a world where there are no Vampires, were wares are an endangered species, where she is the most powerful witch…. Oh for that Yoshiki I will coat my soul in blood. To ensure her power, her life, I will do whatever is necessary."
Sophia stood in front of Yoshiki resolute her eyes swimming with hatred. She took several deep breaths and he said nothing, finally he spoke softly "I did this to you."
"Yes…" she looked directly into his eyes, "you did."
"I never meant to hurt you, you were the only person I ever loved. You hating me makes me want to die," he said.
"Then lie down and prepare for your funeral because I've hated you for a very long time," she said eyes blazing.
Yoshiki looked at his wife's face, she wasn't the woman she had been, she had been driven insane. All the pain, all the betrayal, all the loneliness, the anger, it had poisoned her heart and her mind. "Sophia I have to stop you…." He held his sword up and strengthened his stance.
"Why to save you're precious little whore, she's too far gone, the Virus will have destroyed her by now…."
"No…not to save her, to save you. To save you from yourself."
"I don't need you to save me," she said. Like lightning she raised her hand and shot a bolt of electricity right at him. He dropped to the floor and rolled out of the way dodging it, getting to his feet he pulled his sword. Sophia's entire body crackled with electricity, on the tips of her fingers and the ends of her long hair blue sparks danced. "I should have killed you a long time ago." She threw her hands out towards him. He lifted his sword and ran at her.
She raised her hand and he was lifted off of the ground and thrown backwards. His sword thrown to the side, she spread his arms out into a T, he felt her pulling his arms in separate directions. "Sophia you are not this woman, you are neither hateful nor spiteful. You are kind and loving and your heart is full of only compassion."
"I was the once, a very long time ago, and then you ruined me." She clenched her fist and Yoshiki felt his heart being crushed. She took several slow steps towards him. Angry tears were rolling down her face her cold eyes were full nothing but anger and pain. "I wanted a normal life, a normal life with you and our child. But you couldn't accept that, you couldn't leave your precious partner, or your precious duty. You couldn't leave them, but you could leave your family."
"Sophia…" he whispered.
"I will miss you my love…but then I've spent my life missing you so it won't be any different." She leaned forward and kissed his lips. "I'll see you again my love….in the afterlife…maybe I'll join one day."
"Sophia…"
She opened her mouth to speak when his sword suddenly pierced through his body and into hers. She looked down at the metal blade sticking between their chests then looked up at her husband eyes full of shock. "Even in such pain….that spell…you've mastered….the summoning spell I created," she said with a sad smile.
"You taught me well," he said blood running from the corners of his mouth, the hilt of his sword was buried into his back.
Her eyes widened and for the first time he saw the pain and anger that had clouded them disappear. She stumbled backwards and fell to the floor, Yoshiki too but before he hit the ground he used the his power to rip the sword from his back, it flew backwards and stuck into a wooden post, their mixed blood dripping from it in the moonlight.
He had pierced his lung, he could feel the blood seeping down his front, he was injured but he had time still. He looked down at Sophia, he had pierced her heart, there was blood pooling under her body, her face losing its color, she stared up at the ceiling her eyes glazed over. Her breath was ragged and quick, blood was seeping from her mouth making her breaths wet and gurgled.
"Yoshiki…do you remember the cherry blossoms?" she whispered. He kneeled down on the floor next to her, he inhaled a painful breath as he stared at his wife.
"I do they follow us everywhere….we met under them….we made love under them….we were married under them," he said. He reached over and brushed her hair away from her face his fingers lingering against her cool skin. "And we'll be buried under them. Sophia….forgive me…don't hate me."
She smiled a bloody smile and looked over at him, "My darling…even though….even though I wanted to…I couldn't really hate…" tears rolled down her face and mixed with her blood, she looked back up at the ceiling. "Finish it…Mo…mo.." she inhaled a weak and shaky breath and exhaled for the last time.
Yoshiki kissed her forehead and began to quietly sob. In the hallway he heard footsteps pounding towards the room. The door was thrown open and Fei stood in the doorway eyes wide with horror and shock. "Aunt Sophia….." he said breathlessly.
"Fei!" Yoshiki said. He looked at him, "Where is Momiji?"
His eyes moved back to Sophia's body, blood was still pooling around their bodies. "She's at the Ambrose house…." he looked back to Yoshiki, "You killed her?"
Yoshiki looked down at Sophia's face, her eyes staring up at the ceiling, "It was her plan from the beginning."
"Good," Fei said. Yoshiki looked up at him, "Maybe with her this madness will end." Yoshiki said nothing then Fei spoke again, "They'll kill you, the Roderick family will hunt you down and….."
"It won't matter by the time they find me I'll be dead," he said. He stood taking his wife into his arms and walked past his subordinate.
"Where will you take her?"
"Where we belong, to be buried together," he said. He leaned his cheek against hers and closed his eyes, "I'm taking you home my love. One last journey and then it will all be over for us." He walked towards the door and stopped next to Fei. "Momiji is immune to the virus, her blood with create the cure."
"What is it you want me to do with this information?"
"Trade it, for your sister's safety and for your own."
"They will never allow us to live," he said.
"Disappear take Rin, Nia, and Sia and disappear," he said then he took another shaky step towards the hallway.
"Master…." Fei turned and pointed his gun at Yoshiki's head. "You killed my father…and my grandfather…and my aunt."
"Yes and I will pay for my sins…." He said not turning around. "Saya is in China…I left her at the temple…she will need you."
"Master…." Fei said never dropping his gun.
"Live your life Fei, leave this all behind…let it die with us," Yoshiki said. "Let it die…." Yoshiki began to walk again and his form slowly disappeared into the darkness of the hallway.
Fei lowered his gun and sighed, a bright light flashed from the end of the hallway and Fei saw Yoshiki and Sophia's form disappear. "Let it die.." he repeated Yoshiki's words.
Blood sprayed onto Momiji's face as she stared at the pile of Vampire limbs that had once been people. She looked at her fist that was extended out in front of her and opened her hand, "Oh look blood." Her eyes searched the hallway looking for anyone else who would stand in her way, she looked back at her hand and wiped it on her black pants then began walking.
Rin stared at Momiji she was scared of the woman in front of her, ever since she had suggested that Momiji use the powers that Sophia had given her she had been massacring any Vampire they came upon. She would wave her hand or blink her eyes and they would explode or their molecules would scatter. Rin held her gun in her hand, she hadn't used it since Momiji had began her tirade. As she watched Momiji she could see Sophia, and when Momiji turned and smile she saw the insanity that had been eating away at her Aunt for years.
"My lady?" Rin said walking forward. An animalistic scream from behind her stopped Rin dead. She spun around after a moment of fear and saw a male infected creature staring at them. It hadn't been infected long, it looked almost completely normal save the distorted look in its black eyes. "They're turning faster now," she muttered, "he was a Vampire only a half hour ago." It paused for a moment as if it had heard and understood Momiji's words. He let out another scream then started running down the hallway towards Rin and Momiji.
Rin stumbled backwards and fell while firing her gun at it. It's focus was on her, he jumped at her but before he was able to reach her he was thrown backwards. Momiji held him to the wall with her power, she stepped around Rin and stared at the creature, she kneeled down and picked up the leg of a broken table. She held it in front of her and it levitated then shot towards the creature and pierced him through the face pinning it to the wall. Rin looked up at Momiji, whose face was cold and unemotional, as she watched the infected black blood drip down the wall.
"That was a little vicious," said a voice from behind them. Rin glanced over her shoulder to see a young woman with long brown hair standing at the other end of the hallway. Her long brown hair was pulled into a side braid, she wore a pair of black pants and a blue elbow length shirt.
"What's necessary it's always humane," Momiji said.
"You didn't always think like that," she said.
"And you weren't always a traitor," Momiji said. A silence lapsed between them, "Rin….leave." Rin didn't hesitate, she pushed herself up onto her feet and ran down the hallway. "You've become extremely powerful," she said.
"So have you."
"My mother helped me," Momiji said facing her fully.
"It was her that attacked us that night."
Momiji didn't answer at first, "You're different."
"It's been a long time," Hermione said.
"No, your aura, your body….." Momiji's eyes searched her and then she noticed that Hermione's eyes were no longer their regular brown, now within her irises was a swirling silver. "You've given your body to Delphi."
"I needed to see…" began Hermione.
"It doesn't matter you've become one of their seers…"
"Momiji…."
"They always said you were supposed to be the strongest one Hermione...Lets test that theory."