Honda's eyes were pulled out of their sockets. Blood was everywhere. His tongue was torn out. Smell of blood was everywhere. His arms were broken on multiple places, lying at unnatural angle. Taste of blood was everywhere. It was such a horrible sight, normal person would run out of Honda's residence and throw up.
But Morana wasn't normal person.
She didn't need to go into the kitchen; she already smelled blood of his parents. Honda family was dead. Erased out of existence. Her gray eyes stared unemotionally at his empty bloody sockets. There was a feeling of disgust rising in her, but nothing more.
Scott had mocking smile plastered on his face. With hands in his pockets he stared rather too cheerfuly in massacared boy before him.
»Come out,« suddenly spoke Morana. Scott looked up from the body.
Rin walked forward from the shadows in the corner of the room, where she has been waiting. Her green corset was replaced with dark red corset, slight smile on her lips. Her mad eyes locket gaze with Scott's. He let out a manic giggle, bowed himself before the vampire lady, then walked out of Honda's room, closing the door behind him.
Rin started circling Honda's body, staring at Morana, who kept her eyes on brown haired boys' bloody face, circling around him also.
»You didn't do this,« finally stated Morana. Rin raised an eyebrow, her smile still on. No, this wasn't Rin's doing. Rin was a calculated killer; she would never made such a mess. When Rin killed, it was swiftly and clean.
»If I say I did it, no one would dare to state otherwise,« whispered vampiress with soft, sugary voice.
»Will there be more?«
»Like you care.«
»It's my job.«
»To be a murderer?«
Morana swallowed. The question lingered unspoken in the air. It needed no answer; both women knew the answer.
»You have some interesting clan. With stupid names.«
»Now, now Mora, play nice,« whispered Rin. Her voice sounded dipped in sugar. She always called her Mora – it meant nightmare in Slavic language. Rin's way of having fun, probably. Morana has always called her Rin. No use for any of them to have their old names. Those persons were dead now. New »life«, new name. Simple.
»Did you know, darling …« Rin slowly caressed dark red corset she was wearing, whispering in that sick, sugary voice, »that vampire's nature shows from inside out? If, let's say, you're as happy and perky as Perky Blue, your light personality will show on your skin. Hair. Eyes.«
»I've heard of it.«
The women kept circling around Honda's body, now staring in each other's eyes.
»But I never believed it until I saw your clan. Yet your hair and eyes stayed the same … at least colour.«
Rin suddenly let out such a loud and mad laugh, Morana twitched a little, but remained emotionless.
»Even the best Beast Hunter is wrong sometimes … aren't you?« whispered vampiress. She raised her hand slowly. Morana hands clenched in fists, as for a moment, she thought Rin will pull her eyes out of their sockets. Instead, she did something she couldn't see. Vampiress closed her eyes, putting her hand back down, holding something. She opened her eyes.
Rin's once emerald green eyes were very dark red. Darker than blood. Now her eyes looked even more mad and monster-like. Or at least one of them did, since her right eye was always covered with long black hair. The colour matched her dark red corset. Morana stopped circling. So did Rin.
»Darling Mora … don't be so surprised. Did you think I came back in Domino just to eliminate Boss?«
»…no. I thought you must have something else in mind. But I didn't voice my concerns.«
Rin nodded. » I came here …« she clenched her hands in fists, crushing contact lenses into thousands sharp pieces, »to cut any string of my past … left.«
Morana's face remained like stone, but inside her mind was running wild. Rin is here to murder and destroy everything and everyone that reminds her and knows of her past. Fuck. This means she'll have to stay in Domino longer than she wanted. And she'll have to protect those bastards.
Rin suddenly looked up. »Cold … we are … so cold …« With last whispered words, she laughed madly and disappeared.
*M & R*
Anzu was in her room, reading Cosmopolitan. Atem promised to take her to a movie tonight. Only ten minutes to go …
Knock knock.
Anzu jumped out of her seat. Finally! Does she look okay? Why is she so nervous? It's best to greet him with a wide smile …
Carefully placed smile froze on her lips, pink from lip gloss, when she opened door of her room. Before her stood black and dark red vampire.
»I was five and he was six,
we rode on horses made of sticks…«
Rin began to sing quietly and took a step forward. Anzu took a step back, terrified.
»He wore black and I wore white,
he would always win the fight…«
Anzu screamed and tried to run, reaching for window of her room. But Rin was faster. Rin was always faster. Jumping, she landed on Anzu, pinning her to the floor.
»Bang bang, he shot me down,
bang bang, I hit the ground,
bang bang … that awful sound …
bang bang my baby shot me down…«
»What's going- NO!« screamed Atem from the door. Rin laughed and in a second, tied Atem on the door with a chain. She kept his eyes open and left him there to scream, as she slowly walked back to Anzu, who was crying on the floor, quietly singing the song with her sugary voice.
»Seasons came and changed the time,
when I grew up I called him mine…
he would always laugh and say: remember
when we used to play…«
Rin grabbed Anzu by her hair and forced her head up. she was crying, sobbing, screaming, waving her arms. Atem was screaming, a lone tear down his cheek. Mazaki's parents were already dead. Strangled bodies lay in the kitchen. Atem must have walked by it without looking in it.
»Bang bang, I shot you down,
bang bang, you hit the ground,
bang bang… that awful sound…
bang bang, I used to shot you down…«
With free hand, Rin grabbed both of Anzu's arms in one swift movement. For a moment, everything was calm. Then she gripped tightly and pulled. Anzu and Atem were screaming their lungs out as two terrible cracks were heard. Rin let go and Anzu's arms fell by her sides, unmoving. Broken. Rin still held her head up by her hair.
»Music played and people sang,
just for me… the church bells rang…«
Atem begged and pleaded. Anzu chocked on her tears and screams.
»Now he's gone, I don't know why,
and 'till this day sometimes I cry…
he didn't even say goodbye,
he didn't take the time to lie…«
Rin looked in Atem's eyes. They were wide, crazy, full of tears. Gazing in his eyes with her cold ones, she slowly grabbed Anzu's neck. She began to sob harder and Atem began resisting the chains wildly.
»Bang bang, he shot me down,
bang bang, I hit the ground…«
Rin's nails pierced Anzu's soft white skin like a steel knife. In one movement, she locked her fingers around Anzu's throat … and ripped it out of her body.
»Bang bang… that awful sound…
bang bang… my baby shot me down.«
Anzu's body slipped to the floor, eyes open. The body was still twitching. Rin kept her eyes on Atem. Moment of silence. Then silence was ripped apart by Atem's long, suffering, mad scream. Rin didn't even move. She simply turned and disappeared out the window, humming the melody of the song she was singing.
Atem kept screaming, screaming and screaming. Chained to the door, he struggled so hard to get free he began hurting himself.
Suddenly, Scott came running in. Without glancing at Pharaoh in agony, he stopped at Anzu's body.
»Looks like I'm too late,« he commented. No grief, no guilt, no compassion in his voice. Only arrogance. Putting his hands in pockets, he observed the corpse. Morana entered the room. She looked at Anzu for a second, then turned her emotionless face to the Pharaoh. Taking a sheet from Anzu's bed, she wrapped him in it and stuffed large amount of it in his mouth to stop his screaming. Then she put her arm around his neck, whispering coldly in his ear:
»Piece of advice for you, and you can tell it to others too … if you want to get out alive … run for your life.«
