The Night of the End
Warning: If you have not read chapter 47 of the manga, then SPOILERS alert is active.
Note: I DO NOT OWN ANY THING RELATED TO VAMPIRE KNIGHT, MANGA OR ANIME WISE.
"The night is so calm, I feel like I can sleep forever," said a very tired brunette. She was laying down on a bed, looking up at a roof. She had an air of peace around her.
"My night is only peaceful with you around, my sweet princess," said a very delicate looking man. He was holding her head in his lap, staring at her eyes. He had an air of mystery about him.
Recap: Kaname has been visiting the five towers independent of the other five vampires. Ichijo, Kain, Adiou, Ruka, and Seiren were checking out the five strange outer towers. they discovered many many things. Yuuki has yet to wander the castle. Who was the strange man? How are the day class students going to find the night class? Still no sign of the other noble vampires. Who will live?
Ch. 3 "My Life is a Lie"
"How long have we been here?" asked Kain.
The gang are in the south east tower. This tower, like the other 4 outer towers, had a jewel in it. The jewel was on a stand of Jade colored frozen wind. The frozen wind made a dive from one the edge of the wall and then 'blew' upwards beneath the jewel. The jewel itself had, like all the others, a sphere in it. The sphere was a deep jade green, with an eclipse of pure white on the edges.
"About 7 days now, why do you ask?" returned Ruka.
"Well, we've searched all five outer towers." stated Kain, "And while we were searching we did not stop once to get a... Are any of you thirsty?"
The other two towers not yet mentioned are similar in design, but different at the same time.
The south west tower had a mini-mountain in it, it was made of gold. Of course Aidou tried to touch it, greedy isn't he? It created an earthquake under the vampires at the time. amazingly nothing broke. on the peak of the mini-mountain was a jewel, and, of course, it had a sphere in it with a white eclipse. The sphere glowing a deep amber.
The Eastern most tower had a frozen blood red flame in it. The flame went high into the tower. In cased inside of the pillar of fire was the red jewel. Again it had similar properties as the first ones, sphere in middle, glowed a deep blood red, and eclipsed a white light on the edges.
"No, I'm not. Not even the slightest." stated Aidou. "Why do you ask?"
Kain gets up and walks over to Ruka. He places his left hand on his right wrist. His finger makes a small gash in his palm. He holds his hand up to her nose and asks, "Does this smell make you thirsty, or even have blood lust?"
Ruka takes a small whiff of the air. "No, what are you getting at Kain?"
"What about you guys?" said Kain, he eyes all of them. None of their eyes turned red with lust.
"I figured something was strange," stated Kain, "It is almost as if we have no more blood lust inside these walls...."
"I want to bring up something else while we're at it." said Seiren. "The 4 elements are in the west, east, and southern towers: Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth."
"So whats your point?" Aidou asked, getting a curious look on his face.
"I thought the towers meant the elements, but their are two other towers too. The northern one being black. and the middle tower, with a bright diamond on its top. Black and White. Is it possible that these are elements as well? And what do they represent?"
"Good question Seiren, I have been wondering that as well." Said Ichijo. He had, up to this point, been silent.
"I have an idea but I would need help on it." said Ruka. the others now had her attention. "When you entered the towers what did you feel? Lets start with the tower of water."
"I have to say, I felt calm and relaxed inside that tower." said Seiren.
Ruka nodded and then asked, "What about the tower of fire?" looking at Kain.
"I felt anger and obsession."
"The tower of earth." Ruka looking at Ichijo.
"I felf wise and knowing."
"And in here, the tower of wind, I feel my senses are sharpened, and my body feels light." said Ruka.
"What about the black tower? personally i felt cold and empty." said Aidou.
"Same here. Maybe...." Ruka went into deep thought.
"Maybe.... what?" asked Kain.
Ruka continued to stare into space. 'It couldn't be.....'
'I'm lost' thought Sayori. 'But I can't be lost, I just can't.' She had hurt her fot a while back on a tree root. She had been without food for 2 days now, her supplies gone three days ago. Her eyes drooped, her body was deprived of nutirnets it needed. She was on a verge of collapse.
'I have to go on, I have to find Yuuki. I have to go......'
Zero, after having a well rested nap, had gone out to find the trail of the pure blood vampires. He was on their track.. was... but suddenly the trail stopped, the scent gone. He couldn't beleive it, one second their scent was there, the next.. gone....
He had stopped dead in his tracks when the scent disappeared, he tenetively reached a hand forward.
He was thrown back into a tree.
'What was that?' he thought, his strength had disappeared no too, and he collapsed to the ground, a girl falling on him.
The blonde man had gone to the spot where he first thought he would find Zero. He was right, Zero had collapsed after being blown away by an invisible force. Seconds later, a blonde girl had tripped over him.
"Well, well, what have we here?" he asked out loud, talking to noone in particular.
He walked over and picked up both of them, one in each arm. "Its not safe to sleep here you two."
He walked of back in the direction he came from.
The girl, half-awake, looked up at the man.
"...oss-sens..." she tried to speak, but no other words came out.
The man smiled down at her, and continued to walk.
"O-K" said a very happy day class president.
The students had been searching for data on any of their vampire friends they could find. A few of them had to learn how to fight vampires, because they kept getting ambushed by ex-humans.
The students had found out where the vampires went by pure chance. A mysteries figure wearing a sword had given it to them.
"We need to prepare, this is at least 5 days walk," said the vice-president, a girl of course.... only girls think ahead....
"Of course, of course, I have a list of people who can get right on it." said another girl nearby.
"We are going to find our friends at last, and my beautiful darling as well!" said the president.
When Zero came to, there was a fire sitting in front of him, and a girl next to him. They were both draped in a blanket. He stayed calm, and got up, careful not to disturb the girl.
He looked around the little camp. Nothing much except trees and trees. The fire looked young though.
He looked back at the girl. He was a little surprised to see that it was Yori.
"Well well, you're up," said a voice.
Zero whipped around his pistol pointing at the voice.
"Whats with you Zero-kun? You're acting like something is out to get ya." said a man who appeared, seemlingly, out of nowhere right next to Zero, sitting down.
The man was blonde, he had relaxed shoulders. He had sharp eyes, ones that looked like it could see your soul. He had a blade at his side, long with vampire-hunter symbols on it, some bandage cloth was wrapped around it.
"Cr-"
The man got up and covered Zero's mouth, "Shh, I have enemies nearby, don't say my name out loud."
Zero nodded, but he thought, 'Sensei. what are you doing here?'
The 5 noble vampires had gone back to the middle tower, pondering what Ruka had said.
"So how do we feel now?" asked Ruka.
"Focused and.... you may laugh at me for this but... light hearted."
Noone laughed for they felt the same, they could breathe easily in this room, the air was light.
Yuuki came down the stairs. "Hello." She said
The others got up and greeted her. "Hello, Yuuki-sama."
Yuuki quivered a little, "I still can't get used to having 'sama' after my name."
Seiren smiled, "You will get used to it eventually."
"Thanks, but what are you doing?"
"We have been looking at the 5 strange outer towers."
"I know that, but what are you doing at the elemental towers?"
Kain caught it, "How did you know they were elemental? Did Kaname tell them to you?"
"No. I can't explain it, but I just plain know what they are."
Ruka walked up to Yuuki, "Can you tell me which towers are which?"
"South West: The Tower of the Wise Earth. South East: The Tower of the Sharp Wind. East: The Tower of the Raging Fire. West: The Tower of the Calm Water. North: The Tower of the Cold Abyss. Center: The Tower of the Pure Innocence." said Yuuki. She recited it from memory, though what memory told her, she did not know.
Outside, the towers began to glow the moment she said that tower's name. All the vampires went into a daze, then collapsed. All but Yuuki and Kaname who was standing inside the room, towards the end. He was smiling at her. Then he picked her up and started to go upstairs. She felt weak, like her energy was just drained from her body.
"The night is so calm, I feel like I can sleep forever," said a very tired Yuuki, cuddling into his chest.
"My night is only peaceful with you around, my sweet princess," Kaname said, watching Yuuki fall out of the waking world.
(To be continued...
A/N: Sorry for not getting this chapter out sooner, my Internet went down on Thursday. I hope you guys haven't had a heart attack. Plz R&R, i need to know if this plot is ok thus far. Its getting crazy huh?
I know I know this is getting a little confusing huh?
As I promised the symbols on the towers descriptions:
This will be a little hard.
Tower of Fire: This symbol has 3 major lines in it, the ends of the lines touching the sphere in the middle and spanning out, like a fan. On the other end of each line has different shapes, one is a hammer head, the next a scythe edge, the last an axe head. The axe was pointing toward the ground, the scythe pointing towers the stares, the hammer head pointing toward the tower of abyss.
Tower of Earth: This symbol has a single major line going vertically, a sphere standing on top of the line. two 45 degree above horizontal lines are in the middle on each side of the major one. on each of these lines is a single big dot.
Tower of Water: This symbol has 4 major lines in a square, the sphere on the inside. one point of the square points towards the sky, one point down, and the other two pointing at the tower of abyss, and the tower of earth. From the two lines pointing sideways, came a curved line going straight out, then down. The bottom corner has a two more lines each curing outwards from straight down, creating a nice upside down V.
Tower of Wind: This Symbol has 2 major lines horizontally going out from a sphere in the middle. On the end of each line was a straight sword shape, one sword pointing down, the other pointing up. The blades, though drawn, look sharp.
Tower of Abyss: This Symbol has 5 major lines, making a pentagon around a sphere. On each point was the same shape, a deep dark large dot. If the veiwer were to look at one of these 'dots', they would get the feeling they ere being sucked into the abyss.
Tower of Innocence: Just so you know, this tower has no mark, but on the top is a bright sepherical diamond. inside the diamond is a sphere and a pentagon surrounding the sphere. Each point of the sphere is pointing at a tower. The point coinciding with the towers element. Example: the northern point being black.