Chapter 19 – The failed plan
The darkness wrapped around Yuuki, making her heart beat rapidly with every shaky warm breath. Yuuki couldn't hear or see anything, she constantly looked around trying to adjust her eyes to the darkness, but the process was slow. She constantly heard strange noises around her which made her jump and making her stop in her tracks.
All she wanted was Zero to be safe and closeby.
Zero
Zero was still being dragged into the darkness by Rido before they came out into a moonlight opening with tree's surrounding them which rustled in the wind. Rido pushed Zero out of his grip and onto the floor.
"There you go Shizuka, be glad he's weak. He didn't get any blood what so ever. Now if you don't mind me I really should get a bite to eat." Rido said to Shizuka who had her back facing him.
Soon as Rido started leaving Shizuka turned around to face Zero. "Rido, make sure its that girl, we need to cause as much pain to this boy as possible."
"Don't worry Shizuka, was planning that already." He smirked winking before he left, turning back and walking to the academy.
Yuuki was close by and she heard the voices but not clearly, and it was then she saw the opening through the trees. Yuuki ran to the closest tree by the opening hiding behind it and watching what was happening.
"No... not her please." Zero struggled weakly trying to get up. "She didn't do anything to deserve this!" Zero shouted looking up at Shizuka.
Shizuka had no reply to him, instead she stood there with a cruel smile upon her pale, beautiful face that was covered by most of her white long flowing hair, that shone brilliantly in the moonlight. She knelt down beside Zero.
"Zero my darling boy, in this life, no one deserves sympathy, not even yourself, you know why, because you're a beast, physically and in your heart" Shizuka grabbed zero's chest roughly scratching it deeply. "Causing pain to her won't make any difference! You caused her pain all the way throughout her childhood!"
At this point Yuuki wanted to make herself seen, but just about she was a hand covered her mouth and she panicked thinking it was Rido and she dropped her scythe to struggle.
"Yuuki shh, calm down, its Ichiru." Ichiru slowly let go of Yuuki as he whispered. "I knew you was going to do something very stupid so i had to stop you. Just stay here, actually just go back to the academy." Ichiru walked into the opening, and Yuuki wanted to reply but it was too late or she would be caught. She sighed and picked up her scythe again keeping hidden.
All eyes were on Ichiru now as he approached Shizuka, and Ichiru kept his eyes on his thirsty brother Zero, who struggled to control himself.
"You even caused your own twin pain Zero..." Shizuka lied, wanting Zero to feel worse about himself. "So, did you want your revenge Ichiru?"
"Yes, thank you." Ichiru replied deeply walking towards Zero.
Yuuki watched from behind the tree in hiding, shocked at what was happening, confused at Ichiru's mood swings. Ichiru kicked Zero over, and Zero didn't resist and did not fight back. Yuuki felt there was something wrong, she felt as though Ichiru wanted to help but couldn't by himself.
Yuuki moved around the opening in the darkness creeping up slowly and quietly behind Shizuka with her scythe at the ready, but Shizuka was not easily tricked or easy to sneak up upon. Soon as Yuuki was close enough, Shizuka had suddenly disappeared, and reappeared next to zero lifting him up to his feet by his neck tightly.
Ichiru looked to Yuuki annoyed now that things may go wrong.
"Awww... how sweet... was you going to help him by killing me?" Shizuka smiled, speaking sweetly, but Yuuki knew it was sarcasm and pure evil in that voice.
Yuuki couldn't answer, and her hands gripped tighter on her scythe trying to hide her shakes of nervousness.
"Just please... don't hurt him anymore... I beg of you." Yuuki pleaded.
Shizuka shook her head. "Where is that fool...RIDO!" she screamed sighing that Rido didn't catch Yuuki on her way to where they were, but it was then when she realised that Yuuki was no longer human. "Ahh... so Kaname had the guts to change you in the end then...looks as though you will be spending your eternal life with him then, so why don't you just let Zero here to just die?"
"Because I am not as cold hearted as you!" Yuuki screamed outraged, her eyes turning crimson at what Shizuka had said, and in a flash, Yuuki started charging towards Shizuka but before Yuuki to strike her with her scythe, Ichiru grabbed Yuuki stopping her.
"Ichiru! Let go!" Yuuki struggled outrageously, and accidently cut Ichiru's arm with her scythe. Ichiru smiled and whispered. "Thank you..."
Yuuki was confused at this, however she was shocked to see Zero's reaction. Zero smelt the blood straight away and ripped himself away from Shizuka throwing her to one side, before he swiftly got to Ichiru biting into his arm.
Yuuki gasped at the suddenness of it all, and she turned around facing Shizuka, so that Ichiru could carry on with his plan.
"Ichiru! You traitor!" Shizuka yelled, and suddenly the winds around them turned cold and more fast and frightful.
"Whats going on now Shiz-" and annoyed Rido came back running into the scene, but stopped seeing Yuuki and sensing that she was a vampire now.
"How did I miss you..." Rido asked himself walking towards her. Yuuki saw and backing away, starting to run, knowing that Zero would be strong enough to get away as she knew she would be useless against two purebloods. Yuuki ran towards the academy as fast as she could not looking back to afraid to, and tried not to trip up on anything on the forest floor.
Rido sighed watching Yuuki disappear. "Great, another chase.."
"Just find her and kill her for god sake! She caused this!" Shizuka scream infuriated.
Zero was still gulping down Ichiru's blood, and it wasn't at least a few minutes after he realised what he was doing. Zero immediately pulled away and held Ichiru in his arms supporting him.
"You're stupid Ichiru, why did you do that!" Zero muttered under his breath looking down at Ichiru.
"Because I knew it would help you escape easily, now go!" Ichiru replied looking over to Shizuka.
"Not without you I'm not." Zero picked up Ichiru and also ran into the wood but in a different direction than Yuuki to confuse the two purebloods, even though he knew that they were smart enough to track them both at the same time.
"Shizuka, I have had enough of this chase game!" Rido turned to Shizuka annoyed with her that she couldn't handle the twins.
Shizuka didn't answer but instead walked away. "Just do what you want."
Rido also walked away. "I'm not ruining the plans now Shizuka, just get your act together! Just kill him for gods sake."
Yuuki
Yuuki panted as she stopped running, but was frightened at the sudden sight of the crowd of level e's trying to get into the day class dormitory. She saw Akatsuki and Yagari struggle trying to keep them backed away from the door.
Yuuki sprinted, seeing the two fighters exhausted knowing they needed help. And with that, Yuuki used her scythe to kill each level e one by one.
She swung the sharp, silver scythe from side to side with each hit piercing deeply into each level e that was a victim to it. Yuuki's eyes turned bright crimson red once again, liking this powerfulness and getting too carried away with killing.
"Is that... Yuuki.." Akatsuki questioned confused trying to kill level e's whilst trying to figure out who was helping them. Yagari was also fixed in this confused state.
Zero entered the scene, but a bit further up from the fight, and turned seeing the horror of the amount of level e's and he knew what he had to do, but before he left, he saw a glimpse of Yuuki, and suddenly panicked but stopped himself, remembering that she was powerful enough to take care of herself, but he still hesitated to leave.
"She's just another vile vampire... if she dies, she does." Zero took a tighter grip on Ichiru and started to walk away.
"That's not fair zero... she risked her life back there to help you. She might be a vampire yes, but her personality and herself has not changed." Ichiru replied to zero's cold hearted reply.
Zero didn't reply, and did not look at Ichiru. "You love her Zero... don't doubt yourself."
There was no expression on Zero's face, it was though the words Ichiru said weren't true and that he didn't care, but he knew Ichiru was right.
Rido
Having a calm walk back to the academy grounds he leant against a tree close by to watch the three people struggle against the level e's, but he was shocked to see that Yuuki was one of them helping, surprised that she never ran away from helping. Rido was attracted to her powerfulness and strength and he watched all of them for a few minutes sharply, before he interrupted.
Whilst Rido walked slowly over the crowd, he slowly clapped in applause.
"Well done, done to 30 level e's, aren't you all good fighters?" Rido said, and as he got closer, the level e's stopped fighting back standing in their tracks.
After nonstop fighting, Yagari, Akatsuki and Yuuki turned to face the cruel pureblood that doomed them with this fight.
"But expect more of them, don't rest yet, the night is still young."
"Oh you bastard!" Yagari sighed reloading his shotgun aiming it at Rido, but Akatsuki pushed it away quickly.
"You doing that will only make you suffer great consequences." Akatsuki claimed.
"Heh, well anyway boys, I'm only here for one thing." Rido stated walking past level e's towards Yuuki.
Yuuki saw this and gasped turning back trying to run away but was only stopped by level e's. She felt Rido's hand grab her shoulder tightly, and at that moment, she hit him in the side with her scythe.
"YUUKI! NO!" Akatsuki shouted angrily.
Yuuki looked from her scythe which was embedded in Rido's side, seeing it spark, to Rido's pained and angry eyes. Rido groaned in pain. "Well, that's no way to treat a pureblood is it..."Rido grabbed her scythe from his side, and ignored the pain from the anti-vampire weapon, and threw it away before lifting Yuuki up and over his shoulder. Yuuki struggled kicking with all her strength.
"You can carry on now you vile things.." Rido said to the level e's before leaving with Yuuki hanging over his shoulder.
The level e's continued to fight, and Akatsuki and Yagari were both trying to fight as fast as possible to try and help as Yuuki helped them.
Rido made his way to the night class dormitory knowing no one would be there. "You need to learn how to respect someone such as me.."
"I don't need to learn anything from you!" Yuuki screamed crimson eyed still after her blood thirsty killings, punching Rido's back, which seemed to have no effect on the strong pureblood.
Rido just chuckled at her whilst entering the night class dormitory walking up the stairs and into a bedroom. Yuuki struggled twice as much screaming hoping for Kaname to be there, but he wasn't, no one was. Once rido shut and locked the door, he pulled down Yuuki and threw her across the room.
Yuuki went flying across the room, in force of the throw, feeling how strong Rido really is. Yuuki hit painfully into a glass cabinet, feeling all the shards of glass rip in to her flesh so easily as she fell to the floor. She shook in pain and shock looking slowly up at Rido who was approaching her again.
"Sorry, was I too rough?" Rido crouched down to her level and grabbed her neck tightly, lifting her up by it throwing her onto a sofa. Yuuki screamed into pain feeling the glass pierce more deeply as she landed on the old sofa.
Yuuki felt her arms and legs sting, looking down at them both seeing them covered in blood a from the cut wounds.
"Think your powerful enough to kill me? Huh?" Rido questioned her sitting beside her on the couch smelling her sweet, fresh leaking blood.
Yuuki did not answer or look at Rido, but she was forced to when he grabbed her face and turned it towards him. Rido bent down close to her face.
"You should have acknowledged that I was far too strong for you, and that disrespecting a pureblood was a sin. You should be obeying me, and willing to do anything for me. Not turn against me. In reality, I should kill you, but you seem too much fun to kill, instead I may just keep you." Rido kissed her lightly before biting into her neck roughly as all he wanted was her blood.
Yuuki looked to the door hoping for a miracle to happen, not knowing what to do herself.
"You can try, but I doubt you will be able to... my master wouldn't be very happy would he..."Yuuki made up trying to restore some strength.
Rido pulled away licking his lips a number of times. "Hmm he wouldn't be happy, he has no choice, for I am his master... hm, I can see why he likes you." He stroked her cheek. Yuuki flinched and pushed it away, but Yuuki got a hard slap in return for her actions. Yuuki placed a hand on her burning, red cheek, before she tried to attack Rido back wanting to just get out and in the result, she clawed into his cheek leaving two deep cut wounds which bleed slowly.
"Heh, maybe it's my blood you want.."
Yuuki shook her head straight away knowing she didn't, and she struggled a lot more knowing some sort of blood bond would form.
"Aw, there's no need to struggle my dear, just a few gulps of my blood and you won't be so greedy, wont you now?" Rido chuckled biting into wrist deeply, making it bleed enough, before waving it in front of Yuuki's face as though it would tease her to want his blood, but he wasn't surprised as Yuuki turned her nose up at the sight of it.
"Why can't you just be grateful? I'm offering you the most strongest and power-fullest blood there is, and yet, you reject it?"
"Your blood is not either strong or powerful, but just proof of the disgusting filth that runs through your veins. The only powerful blood i know of is Kaname's!" Yuuki spat at Rido's bleeding wrist and face.
It took no longer than a second to see rage build up within Rido, and Yuuki received another hard slap around her already red, burning cheek. Yuuki tried to show no pain at his action, but she was forced to face him, when her jaw was grabbed roughly by him. He then forced his wrists towards her face more, and Yuuki tried her best to stop it, by grabbing his arm with both of hers, but there was no doubt that her little strength was nothing compared to his huge amount of strength. Would she be able to fight him off, or not and instead, indulge into the offering of his blood?