Yuuki the Vampire Hunter
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Chapter 1 : Lost Memories
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Summary: While Yuuki is on the mountain and trying to regain her memories a monster appears before her. Luckily a pair of vampire hunters come to the rescue. They have been tracking the level E vampire that has led them to this remote mountain region where they discover a small girl – Yuuki –. But will they get there in time to save her from the damned blood-soaked creature?
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I uploaded this chapter quite quickly because I had some free time. I hope everyone will like it.
Yuuki will be growing up throughout this story but she is very smart and instinctively skilled with dealing with vampires seeing as she previously was one. – Which she won't know for a very long time yet since she won't be told till later on. - So if she sometimes seems unusually smart and knowledgeable and acts differently to her age that is the reason why.
To be honest I don't remember how young children act or what they think so it's easier to write like she is really smart and advanced for her age instead. However, she will have her childish and appropriate cute moments throughout the story. ^__^
About the last name of some hunters I created for this story, it is Nagameyu, I know the first part of the surname 'Naga' means eternal but I made up the last part. I know it's not a proper Japanese surname but just pretend it is, okay. It's difficult to find one so it is easier to pretend that this name means eternally strong. :"]
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I want to thank those who have already put an alert / favourite on this fan-fiction, and especially to the people who reviewed to my story;
Portent – Thanks for being the first reviewer to my new story. I hope you will like this chapter too. :"]
Cristalelle – Thank yah for the review, I am glad you like it so much. Zero and Yuuki are the main characters at the start of the story and Kaname will become an important person within the story too, but it will be later on. I actually haven't decided which pairing it will be yet (although I do favour Kaname/Yuuki) because it is mostly about Yuuki's trials since she has lost her memory and her different life. But I will let you know now in advance that she will know Zero as a friend very soon in to the story and later on she will get to meet Kaname. I don't yet know who she will fall for but I am sure some of the characters are going to fight over her, lol. I am afraid to say that the suspense of needing to know who she will choose will continue for many more chapters, sorry. I hope you will also enjoy this chapter. ^__^
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Disclaimer : I do now own Vampire Knight
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As Yuuki groggily woke up she lay in the cold, hard snow, unmoving, while thoughts, memories and emotions flew through her mind until it was completely devoid of anything except the basic knowledge that a five year old has and that her name is Yuuki. Nothing else filled her mind as it had before; she no longer had any knowledge of her past, her family or what vampires were beyond the basic fairytale story, let alone that they existed.
Her eyes flitted open and she stared at the snow falling down from the sky. 'It's cold. White snow, it's something that is not red.' This was all her mind could think for moments before she snapped out of her daze.
She felt horribly cold and empty, – distant from herself - her mind numb and quite blank and she felt strange, and in a way, less intelligent, for some unknown reason. Something was missing but she couldn't remember what. So she continued to lie in the cold, crunchy and slightly wet thing she somehow knew was called snow and cried seemingly endless tears with no emotion. The only thoughts she could focus on were the clear ones that dominated her mind at that moment; 'who am I?'
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Ryuu and Miho Nagameyu were two of the best vampire hunters that had ever existed, alongside the infamous Kiryuu family. The year before they had all worked together to capture and dispose of a pureblood vampire's 'pet' ex-human vampire who had been on the hunters list to be killed. They had all worked well together and ever since then the two families had been very close.
The Kiryuu hunter couple had twin boys –which was a taboo in the hunter world and it was the first case of both hunter twins surviving- and they all seemed so happy. However, the Nagameyu hunter couple didn't have any children yet and had been wishing for their own since they had met their dear friends, the Kiryuus. As they set out on yet another mission for the vampire hunter council to catch and kill yet another level E vampire, little did they know that today, just hours from then, their wish would come true.
When they had set out on the mission early that morning it had been quite cool and looked as if a storm was on its way but they paid no attention to it, knowing that they had to stop this rogue vampire before it killed any more innocent people. They found the bloodthirsty beast quite easily considering the council's vague description of the area it had been spotted in. It was already mid-day and soon the chase was on. The crazed vampire seemed unaware that I was being followed but just as the hunters were going in for the kill it became very alert and surprised while its eyes sparkled blood red as it seemed to smell blood. This was bad, the hunters hadn't anticipated this but they were trained for these kinds of situations; so as the vampire sped away at an incredibly fast speed the hunters managed to almost match its pace and were not very far behind at all, considering their disadvantage.
By now the weather had drastically changed and as they had chased the vampire a blizzard began to rage around them, temporarily blinding them and permanently – for now, as the snow fell hard and fast - obscuring their sight and covering the vampires tracks. The highly skilled hunters, Ryuu and Miho, had tracked the rogue vampire successfully until just now when they had lost the trail as they headed up a snowy mountain in the pursuit. This simple job had suddenly become a lot more troublesome.
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On the mountain where Yuuki is still lying it is snowing heavily and she is slowly becoming buried by the constant cold. She feels numb and like she isn't attached to her body at the moment. She is still in shock from having no memories and can't help but go over that one question in her mind, again and again; 'Who am I?' No matter how hard she tries she can't remember anything about herself or where she is, except her name. By now she has stopped crying, finding it doesn't help and is useless at doing anything for her but giving her a headache. She doesn't know how much time has passes by since she woke up here but it is getting dark again and just lying in the snow continuously reminding herself that her name is Yuuki, just so that she doesn't forget, isn't getting her anywhere. In all this time that has passed the only other 'useless' detail she has managed to recall is that she turned 5 years old today.
Suddenly Yuuki sat bolt upright as somehow through the howling wind she managed to hear crunching footsteps approaching her. She was scared and even a little territorial to think that someone was out there in the blustering snow fall, slowly creeping up on her through the blinding white setting before her. Time seems to slow down for a moment as she turns to face the direction of the noises and sights a wild looking man standing metres away from her. Suddenly it speeds up again as her eyes go wide and the man approaches her with a wicked smile and a red glint to his eyes. She knows she should rationally be screaming out for help right now but she feels paralysed as the man gets closer and closer every second.
When the rough looking man is in front of her, still all she can do is stare. It is almost as if she has forgotten how to speak as she still cannot cry out for someone to save her. She is sure this man is not here to help her, just one look at him can clearly tell even little 5-year-old Yuuki that. She is terrified by now as the man becomes increasingly sinister and seems to change before her eyes. He lets out a small guttural laugh, almost like an animals growl while his eyes sparkle blood red and he grins at her, showing what look like pointed teeth; he has fangs, just like a wild beast.
This man before her is a monster and there is nothing Yuuki can do to save herself. Strangely Yuuki feels like she should have some power over this creature but she clearly doesn't as he leans down and whispers to her; 'Are you lost little girl?' Then without waiting for an answer and no warning he reaches down and opens his mouth to reveal his sharp glinting fangs and asks another rhetorical question; 'May I drink your blood?'. Yuuki's eyes widen even further when she hears this and realises that this is a mythical creature, she is up against a beast from fairytale stories she remembers; this thing isn't a man, it is a vampire. He grabs a hold of her head and leans down to her exposed neck where he is about to bite and take her blood when suddenly the sound of a gun going off echoes through the snowy clearing and the rogue vampire falls to the ground where it instantly turns to dust. With the creature no longer supporting her small frame Yuuki falls to the snow covered ground and stares blankly in to space, shocked by what had just happened. She looks at the pile of the dust next to her that was previously an evil creature that had wanted to kill her and then scrambles away from it. A saying clearly comes in to Yuuki's mind as she recovers from her ordeal; 'Vampires, they are beasts in human form who drink the blood from living humans. Vampires do exist. You just don't realise they're there.' This stray thought scares Yuuki and she shivers as she inches backwards, away from the vampire's remains.
Suddenly she bumps in to something and she lets out a little squeak as she proceeds to scream, instantly getting her voice back. Yuuki whips her head around to see two surprised yet okay looking people looming above her, looking down at her. One has a gun in his hand, which is still pointing in the direction of where the vampire had just previously been, and the other is reaching out her hand to Yuuki. But Yuuki dashes away from them, out of their reach.
For some reason she isn't surprised that someone showed up and saved her, but this feels wrong, these people being here isn't right. To Yuuki it feels like something is missing. Someone is supposed to be coming for her, they were supposed to save her from the mad man, not these other people. 'Who is this person I am waiting for' Yuuki wonders silently to herself.
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The people turn to her now and approach her cautiously, they seem to be expecting for her to start crying or at least begin howling for her mummy and daddy. But she doesn't even react. She is an unusual five year old. Yuuki knows she should be doing something childish like that right now, but for some reason it doesn't seem right. It is if she is older than 5 already and there is no need to cry for what she can't remember anymore. So she just tilts her head and her wide eyes stare at them as she asks surprisingly well and clearly for a child.
"Who are you? Did you kill that vampire? Do I know you? Where am I?" Then without waiting for an answer she proceeds to get up from the ground and walk towards them, unafraid of these strangers because right now even she is a stranger to herself.
They stare at her for a moment longer before getting back to reality and answer her well-put yet puzzling questions. This girl seems to know about vampires but doesn't remember anything else.
The woman answers the girl's initial questions. "We are vampire hunters, we were tracking that vampire because it had been killing people. Luckily because we are hunters we managed to save you by shooting him. Our weapons are special; they kill vampires. And I'm sorry but we do not know you and you are in a remote mountain region in Japan."
"How do you know about vampires?" The man demands an answer from her.
"I just do. I don't remember." Yuuki tells them simply as she keeps a wary eye on the strangers.
The fact that she doesn't know why she knows about vampires unsettles the couple but they are even more surprised by the way she speaks and seems to understand things. She is incredibly advanced for her age.
"Are you lost, child? Why are you here?"
" I don't know. I woke up here with no memory. But I know my name is Yuuki and I am 5 years old today." Yuuki replies before she begins to burst in to tears again at the thought of having lost her memories.
The pair of vampire hunters watch her for a moment but quickly believe her and become worried for her. A vampire has just almost killed the poor little girl and she can't remember anything, not even her family.
"Are you alright?" The woman asks her as she picks Yuuki up and cradles her in her arms to warm the small child up. This is certainly an unusual circumstance they are in.
Yuuki nods her head and continues to cry in front of the strangers as she buries herself in the warmth and snuggles closer to the woman. She trusts them a little; after all, they did just save her life. They answered her questions and seem nice enough people, although her experience around other people has been limited to a crazy mythical creature and the people who killed it so she couldn't exactly be a good judge of character yet. But at that moment she really didn't care, she was tired and worn out form her difficult day of losing her memories and all she wanted was to be in a warm place and be comforted as a child should be.
The couple of vampire hunters assess the situation and evaluate the condition of the little girl quickly before coming up with the conclusion that they have to take her in with them since it definitely wasn't safe for her to be by herself out here. They easily find that she is the cause of the vampire's sudden attack of bloodlust. The vampire was attracted to the scent of her blood – from a tiny cut on her finger, which was created during the ritual which turned her human - from so far away, it is amazing. Luckily this is a remote mountain region where barely anyone lives, let alone crazed vampires seeking her unusually delicious and intoxicating scented blood. It is unlikely that they will come across anyone but they don't want to risk anything so they hasten their pace as they set off for the vampire hunter's headquarters to report what happened and the mysterious finding of this girl.
For some reason they are both overcome with strong emotions as they realise that this is what they have been wishing for. A child to care for. They will keep her safe, even if it kills them.
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So, that was the first chapter of my new Vampire Knight story, 'Yuuki the Vampire Hunter'.
I updated a lot sooner than I expected to because I realised I had basically written the whole of the first chapter already so might as well complete it. ^_^
The ending seems a little confusing in places to me but I think it makes sense. Basically Yuuki was rescued from an evil rogue level E vampire by vampire hunters. Now the couple have heard Yuuki out they realise that they have to take care of this child because no one else will and they must immediately report to the vampire hunter's council. Yuuki has found her new family.
Well, I hope y'all liked it and if you think this story idea is okay then please let me know. It seems popular enough with people at the moment but it's new so I might need encouragement to stay with it. :"]
Also, I have already written the next couple of chapters, which I will be posting up soon. After them there won't be any chapters up for a while so I apologise in advance for making you wait.
Thank you for reading and please review
…Anie
