Chapter 11 – Zero's Usual Nightmare Of The Night That Changed His Life Forever And Maybe Eternity.
"That's right Zero! Keep you cant always repeat that move though, you have to use the other techniques i told you about but it seemed you have mastered mostly all of them" said a younger looking Yagari to a silver haired little boy about the age of eleven who carried out a fighting technique. "Your turn Ichiru." Yagari turned to face the identical twin of Zero which there was no difference between.
Ichiru stood there still and nervous not wanting to embarrass himself like he did usually when he was being trained by his master for vampire hunting. But it didn't help that he always felt ill with colds and sometimes fevers due to his weakness and weak immune system.
Yagari moaned like usual when Ichiru behaved like this.
"Master Yagari. Maybe Ichiru doesn't feel up to it? Maybe he feels ill?" Zero said running to Ichiru and putting his arms round him comforting him and then feeling his forehead. "You feel a little warm... how are you feeling Ichiru?" Zero smiled at Ichiru who was half smiling back. "I feel a little unwell. I just have a cough and saw throat, my head hurts a little to."
"Mmm, sounds like tonsillitis." Yagari mentioned.
"Oh hi hope not." Zero replied disappointed. "Not again! Means you have to miss a feel more lessons, its not good, especially having it the second time round in two weeks. Come on we should get you in." Zero said holding his brother, who didn't reply, close walking to their big welcoming home which was surrounded by grass land and blossom trees.
"Zero, I am going back to the association, keep Ichiru well and stay by him." Yagari called out after him reaching to the floor to pick up his coat and hat walking the opposite way down the narrow gravel path and down into the town.
Zero was too late to answer back but simply nodded in agreement to his master's orders. Zero walked Ichiru to the front door and knocked on it. After a few seconds, their mother answered the door immediately taking Ichiru from Zero.
"Is Ichiru feeling unwell again Zero?" She panicked like any other mother would do for their child's health.
"Yes mum, Master thinks he may have tonsillitis again." Zero replied watching his mum and Ichiru.
"Hmm Ichiru you poor thing" she felt her forehead and shook her head. "Fells like it did last time, go on, off you go and get dressed in your pyjamas." She smiled down at Ichiru who smiled back and then walked away.
"Zero, please may you look after him again tonight?" Zero's mum asked kindly stroking the top of Zero's silky silver hair. Zero nodded in reply and also walked away up stairs to his brothers room to find that Ichiru was sitting at the edge of his bed with his pyjamas on, but seeming a little down as he was looking to his feet.
"Wow that was quick Ichiru." Zero said as he entered but Ichiru did not look up at zero.
"Ichiru.. is there something wrong?"
"Zero.. no matter how hard Master Yagari tries.. And parents... I'm never going to become a tough hunter.. or maybe never a hunter at all. Even if I was strong, I can't master all the moves as you can, I'm not that smart either. It seems that Master favours you also."Ichiru sulked still looking down to his feet still.
"That's not true Ichiru! No matter what you will evidently get the swing of it. And Yagari doesn't favour me! You know that. That isn't fair to be honest Ichiru." Zero said slightly annoyed like he had heard this all the time.
Ichiru didn't reply but instead moaned and got up to his feet.
"I'm going to the bathroom." Ichiru stormed out seeming annoyed but upset not allowing to speak.
Zero sighed and looked to his own feet and walked to the nearest wall and leaned on it waiting patiently but also thinking deeply and tried to, like most of the time, imagine himself in Ichiru's shoes.
Fifteen minutes past, and Zero realised that Ichiru wouldn't be that long in the bathroom, even if he was upset.
He stopped leaning against the wall and walked back to the door to check up on Ichiru before stopped right by the door looking terrified. His pupils diluted in fear.
"I..." Zero said under his breath shaking slightly. 'I sense ... a pureblood vampire... on our premises' Zero whispered smelling it easily.
He rushed, running out of the door and down the stairs jumping a few stairs at the bottom and ran to his parents.
"Mum, Dad! There's a vampire here! A pureblood vampire!" He shouted, panicked when he entered the lounge. And what made him more panicked was that Ichiru wasn't with his parents.
Zero ran out again to the bathroom to see that it was open."Ichiru..." Zero started in a whisper before screaming out his identical twins name all over the house before running to the front door leading to his front yard and opening it causing it to crash into the wall putting a dent in it.
And that's when he saw his upset brother standing behind Shizuka Hiou.
Her hair flew gently in the icy air, and her light red eyes looked evilly up to the house and then at Zero which then a smirk spread across her face.
"The other twin... oh how i know how to twist your fate." She said calmly but evilly.
"Ichiru! Get away from her! She's dangerous!" Zero screamed out to His twin brother.
But he didn't budge or make a movement. He simply smiled and shook his head.
Terror spread across Zero's body and he froze in place.
"Ichi...ru.." He said confused, and that's when he noticed Shizuka had vanished.
Zero looked frantically from left to right from where was standing, till suddenly a cold hand covered his mouth tightly stopping him from speaking or screaming in this case.
Zero struggled tugging on her hand as he was dragged away from the door in which he could see shadows of his parents rushing to one room to another sorting something out through the windows.
"So that's one Kiryu twin you have that Shizuka... but what about this one?" a man said in a deep voice.
A new person entered the terrifying scene. He was a male with long-ish curly dark brown hair, tall, wearing black trousers and top with a dark brown jacket and his dark red eyes were glaring at Ichiru.
"Leave that one alone Rido... he's mine and is with me." Shizuka said warningly before Rido could do anything.
"If that's so, may i have that one." Rido smirked.
Shizuka smirked and shook her. "This one is mine also, you can deal with them" she pointed out at the house. "Or you can deal with the coming help."
Rido moaned. "This is moreover your plan... i will deal with the help." Rido smirked and walked away and Shizuka smiled evilly as Zero was fearful of what was going to happen and was still struggling.
"Now Boy.. or shall i say... Zero." Shizuka whispered in Zero's ear whilst her hand was still tightly around his mouth. "I will change your life... forever, and we shall have a bound that no one can break unless i break it or one of us die..." she smirked "Prepare for your new fate... Zero" she breathed down his neck and zero struggled more knowing what was happening now and he looked towards his brother for help, but Ichiru stood there... not seeming scared at all... but instead calm.
Shizuka opened her mouth and revealed her protruding fangs which quickly and suddenly unexpected to Zero, bite in to his neck, deep and hard, making Zero lose most of his senses and strength.
Zero struggled for air and speech and all he saw was his brother, Ichiru, smiling at him. Zero screamed in pain as her fangs dag more into his small, young neck and he started to feel weak and started to slowly stop struggling.
After a few minutes of some of his blood was being drained from him, he was then laid out onto to the ground where he was finally able to get some air, but he couldn't move as he was weak and paralysed.
"I'm sorry my dear boy... but this had to be." Shizuka whispered gently but menacly stroking the top of Zero's head whilst he was laying on the ground. "I know you will be the only one that will be able to life in the next few years, i know you will be able to hold back your new instincts till a certain time, and at the certain time, we will be rejoined once again and hopefully you will see sense and be an obedient slave."
Hearing, and sight to Zero seemed blurred and all he could feel and see clearly was the piercing, sharp pain of Shizuka's fangs digging into him and the picture of Ichiru smiling at him during the attack on his own brother.
Zero didn't reply to her but instead was isolated in complete shock and scare not being able to move, paralysed by what just happened.
Shizuka stood up and left Zero's side and walked away, in what seems his parents house. Zero heard faint shouts of anger and rage knowing they were his parents, and a fight broke loose, but it didn't long last enough to be a proper fight, and the shouts and noises of fighting soon ended. Horror shivered up his spine when he attempted to try and look up at the house to see his two parents laying on the ground sprawled across it close to each other but lifeless.
Tears immediately erupted from Zero's watery scared eyes, not being able to look away from them.
"No..." He whispered to himself. "This is just... a bad dream... a nightmare even... but i can't seem to awake from it."
"Come on Ichiru... its time to go." Shizuka's careless and merciless voice echoed through Zero's ears.
"Yes, my lady." Ichiru replied kindly back and walked towards her.
"Ichiru! Get away from her! W...what are you doing!" Zero struggled, shouting out to his twin.
Ichiru simply smiled back.
"If what Shizuka says is true... you will soon understand when we will meet again... brother." Ichiru carried on walking to the women he seemed to look up upon.
"I swear... If you hurt him... i will not hesitate to kill you... even though that's a stupid thing to say, because i will kill you anyway! That would be my reason to carry on living! Till I kill you!" Zero's eyesight started to fade after he struggled screaming at Shizuka Hiou whom just looked down at Zero with no mercy or no feeling as Ichiru walked obediently beside her, and they both walked off away from the house leaving Zero's parents murdered in their own pool of blood and Zero laying on the floor who had a blackout and wasn't aware or remembering any help coming but knew there was when he woke up to the chairman and his master, Yagari, again who, for the first time, he saw crying slowly.