CHAPTER-12: DANCING WITH DANGER
The wind blew fiercely as the cold snow settled on the hard grown outside the ballroom window, but was soon disturbed by the harsh, heavy footprints of a shadowy figure, which was walking slowly towards the building. Inside the party continued oblivious to the great evil standing just meters away.
In the centre of the ballroom Kaname continued to dance with Zero, now at a faster pace, and a small smile had grown on Zero's face as they danced gracefully together. Kaname was in complete heaven with Zero at that moment, until a dark presence caught his attention and he suddenly stopped. Zero gave him a confused look as the brunette pushed him behind his back protectively and only seconds later there was a loud crash as the main window to the ballroom smashed open.
Shards of glass rained down on everyone in the room and as they settled on the floor they noticed the tall tattooed man standing in the room in front of the broken window.
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I will be the night's entertainment". He snarled sarcastically.
"Who the bloody hell are you, coming in here and disturbing our ball". Aidou remarked angrily. But didn't receive an answer as he was grabbed by the throat and thrown across the room and into the far wall before he passed out.
At this moment the guards and hunters at the party all ran up and surrounded the tattooed man with there weapons pointing at him.
"Surrender". One of the guards shouted.
"I don't think so". The tattooed man replied and he began to laugh as the guards and hunters attacked him.
"My turn". The tattooed man said once the guards had stopped attacking him. At that moment the clouds in the sky partly cleared and a ray of moonlight eliminated the tattooed man as his body and limbs began to change.
His arms and legs grew longer and stronger as claws grew from his fingers and toes. His jaw grew and longer, sharper teeth and fangs emerged from his gums. His hair grew long and more animalistic and by the time his transformation was over he stood at over nine feet and looked more like a wild animal than anything else.
The hybrid vampire let out a gut wrenching howl before he lunged forward at the nearest guard and bit his head clean off. Scream echoed around the room as the blood sprayed upwards into the air and the guard's body fell to the floor.
"What the bloody hell is your business her, freak?". Another noble vampire shouted towards the hybrid.
"Simple, I want to teach Kaname Kuran and his pesky friends a lesson about what happens when you piss off Lord Rido and steal his toys." The hybrid growled before searching the crowd for Kaname. But didn't have to search for long as Kaname stepped forward towards the hybrid after he had handed Zero over to Yuki and his mother, although the boy was reluctant to let go of him.
"Well, you can just go and tell my uncle that if he wants to confront me, then to do it himself and to not send his flee ridden mutt to do it for him like a cowared" Kaname spat.
The hybrid growled in anger and lunged at Kaname claws beard, but the pureblood easily dodged the attack and swung around behind the large hybrid, grabbed one of his concealed daggers from his belt and stabbed the creature in the lower back, before sliding to the side to dodge another blow from the hybrid.
As he turned around to look back at the hybrid Kaname noticed that the blade wound was already beginning to heel up so he decided to try a different tactic.
This time when the hybrid lunged for him, Kaname jumped upwards and grabbed the creatures arm, bending it backwards and twisting it until he heard a loud snap, before diving under the hybrids other claw.
"Ha". The creature chuckled. "It's going to take more than that, Kuran!" he continued as his broken bone snapped back into place. "A lot more".
"Oh well, I was hoping to kill you without having to get my hands dirty" Kaname sighed. "But I guess it can't be helped". The brunette retorted as he slipped off his tux jacket and removed the other dagger from his belt. "Ok, big guy, let's dance. Lady's first". Kaname continued before sarcastically bowing at the hybrid.
Siren and Kain continued to run forward as the 'desert moon' ball came into view, only to have them both curse under their breath as they saw the broken window and they continued to run towards the ball.
The creature growled angrily as it lunged forward once again at Kaname only to have the pureblood jump out of the way and stab him in the shoulder. Their fight continued like this for several minutes with the hybrid charging and Kaname dodging.
Suddenly from the crowd a loud coughing noise was heard and Kaname glanced to see this mother and Yuki trying to sooth Zero out of his coughing fit. The brunette cursed to himself for making Zero leave the house when he was still ill, but was forced out of his thoughts when one of the hybrids sharp claws made contact with his upper arm and ripped through his shirt and flesh leaving a large gash.
"No, Lord Kaname!". Siren exclaimed as she entered the ballroom through the broken window follower by another vampire and ran to her master's side.
"Oh, come on now Pureblood prince, surely you don't need your little bodyguards help to fight me?" The hybrid mocked.
"Siren, please step aside this is my fight, and my fight alone". Kaname told her without taking his eyes off of the creature in front of him as she bowed reluctantly and backed away, leaving her master to continuing his battle with the hybrid.
As the fight continued Kaname for the first time began to wonder whether he could win or not as the gash on his arm still hadn't healed. The creature had also noticed this as he tried to land more wounds on the pureblood. But his plan failed as Kaname continued to dodge the blows so he decided to change tactics. And the next him he lunged he only half heartedly tried to claw the brunette so that when he dogged he could use his other claw to bring the earth out from under his feet as he gashed at his legs tripping him up.
The plan worked perfectly and Kaname fell to the ground with a loud thump as the hybrid stood towering over him.
"Game over, Princy". The hybrid vampire grinned triumphantly at the pureblood and raised his clawed hand into the air ready to strike the final blow down on Kaname.
TBC...
Ok, so I guess this was a rather violent chapter, but let me know what you think and please, please, please review if you want me to continue, the more reviews I get the fasted I will post the next chapter...Bye XD.