CHAPTER-26: COMPLETELY, UTTERLY AND ENTIRELY ALONE
Shinobu and Kain circled each other wearily, both blades drawn and ready to strike. Seizing the moment, Kain lunged forward and lashed out at Shinobu. But the pale blond Vampire caught the blade with his own and knocked Kain back, away from him.
Landing, Kain stumbled slightly, while Shinobu attacked seeing the other faultier.
Kain winced sharply as Shinobu's Katana cut deeply into his upper right arm. Dodging another blow, the strawberry-blonde countered but Shinobu jumped out the way seconds before the blade collided with his abdomen.
"That all you got? I was hoping for more of a challenge." Shinobu mocked with a sigh as he watched Kain cradling his injured arm.
"I will kill you, Shinobu. Make no mistake about that." Kain replied, his grip tightening on his Katana.
"Oh! I'm quaking in my boots." Shinobu laughed before swinging his blade threw the air and leaping up towards the other vampire for another attack. Kain rolled to the side and avoided Shinobu's blade, which followed threw and struck the stone floor with a metallic crash, where Kain had been stood moments before.
Shinobu groaned angrily at his miss, before straightening up and spinning around, managing to block Kain's blade, before using his own to counterattack and catch Kain's left cheek, cutting it open.
"Nice try. But it's gonna take a lot more than that." Shinobu informed smugly, while Kain lunged forward aiming for another attack.
The sound of dripping water was the first thing to catch Zero's senses as he came too. He was in so much pain, his whole body had a dull ache and he was so cold he was close to passing out again right again.
"Hey. Wakey-wakey you little scum bag. You have a visitor." Victor said as he roughly slapped Zero across the face, causing the boy to quickly come too. As Zero opened his eyes he was met with Victor's sneering face and hungry eyes glaring at him. Looking around the cell, Zero discovered he had been moved, he was now hanging with his wrists tied tightly by some rope on an old hook above his head and his feet where dangling in some icy water held in a rusty old bath.
"I have some things to take care of, so I'll leave you and your guest in piece." Victor stated before walking out of the cell and politely bowing to someone out of view.
Alone Zero started to panic. "Who could it be? Rido? Oh, dear god, I hope not. It already hurts. Everything hurts. I cant take it anymore. I just want it to end. Kaname, why haven't you come for me? You promised me that you wouldn't let anything happen to me. You promised that you wouldn't let anyone hurt me. You lied, Kaname. Your nothing but I liar. Your as bad as Rido. I hate you just as much as I hate them. I hate you Kaname Kuran, and I will never forgive you." Zero thought to himself as he shook away the tears welling in his eyes. The sound of high heeled shoes echoing on the stone floor pulled Zero from his thoughts.
"Well hello again my little Zero. I've missed you so much." A soft velvety, female voice said calmly. Looking up Zero's amethyst eyes met with the woman's own amethyst ones. She was beautiful, with her long, flowing black hair and pale completion which seamed to glow in the moonlight, and the pure white, silk grown she wore continued to add to her angelic appearance. Zero didn't know who she was, but for some unknown reason he felt he knew her.
"Why, my little Zero. Don't you remember me?" The woman questioned seeing the boy's uncertain expression. And Zero shook his head in reply. "Oh, My baby boy. It's me! Its your mother." Saeko stated.
"Mother?" Zero wheezed out weakly. "No. This cant be. She's dead. Rido killed her." Zero mentally reasoned with himself, but he was so tired and his mind so hazy with pain that he couldn't think straight.
"Oh, Zero. I'm so glad to have you back. Don't worry your safe now." Saeko exclaimed as she ran forward and rapped her arms around the suspended boy's neck. "And I will never let anybody hurt you again." She continued.
"Mother." Zero whispered again as fresh tears of joy brimmed at his eyes. He's never known what a mothers affection was like, but in that moment he felt warm and loved. The sound of her voice was comforting and reassuring. The smell of her hair reminded him of flowers in bloom, a drastic change from the permanent smell of decay that filled Rido's dungeon. In that one moment Zero felt truly content, until a cackling laugh began to echo around the cell.
"Oh, Zero. Your so easily deceived. How pathetic." Saeko's voice turned hard and cold and her amethyst eyes transformed into blood-red ones. Zero's eyes widened in horror as Saeko's raven hair turned to silver and two sharp fangs pricked at the side of his neck as Shizuka's disguise faded. The poor boy's blood ran cold as the vampiress drank his blood.
"Nobody's coming to save me. Nobody cares. Not the Kurans. Not my mother. Not Kaname. Nobody. I'm on my own and I always will be. I can't count on anybody but my self. I¡m completely, utterly and entirely alone. But I refuse to die down here. I wont let them win. I'm going to get out of here or die trying" Zero thought as his eyes hardened in hate, while Shizuka pulled away from his neck after taking her fill.
"Marcus! I must go and see to Lord Rido. Why don't you have some fun." Shizuka called to the other vampire before leaving the cell.
Kain and Shinobu's battle continued leaving both with multiple cuts and lashes littered all over their bodies. Kain was panting heavily with the effort of the fight and he was clearly the more injured of the two, but still he refused to give in.
"Why are you even doing this, Kain? Is it really all just to save the boy and keep your promise to that Bitch?" Shinobu questioned as he dodged another one of Kain's blows.
"Don't you dare call her that. Her name was Saeko, you Bastard." Kain snapped back.
"Wow! Are you hot for her or something? Or wait! It's the boy isn't it? You want him, that's why your doing this. You wanna shag the brains out of the kid and taste that sweet blood of his flowing down your throat while your berried to the hilt in his tight ass." Shinobu exclaimed sadistically sneering as he saw the anger growing within Kain. "Can't say I blame you. In fact after I kill you that's exactly what I intend to do" Shinobu laughed.
Kain cried out angrily as he lunged towards the elder Vampire, he knew he had to kill Shinobu in order to keep Zero safe. With all his strength he lashed his silver blade into Shinobu's and the force caused the older to lose his grip, and the sword flew up into the air. Shocked at the sudden outburst, Shinobu hesitated giving Kain the chance to catch the other sword as it plummeted back towards the ground.
"This ends now!" Kain announced sternly, while pulling both blades back and slicing them into Shinobu's unprotected body, and carrying them through until they emerged on the other side. Shinobu stood still for a few second, bemused at that had just occurred, until his white shirt began to turn red at the neck and waist line. Then the sneer fell form his face and his head slipped back, completely separated from his body while his legs and torso did the same. Kain stood over the fallen Vampire with a grave look of satisfaction before turning and heading down the hallway looking for where Rido might be holding Zero.
Zero bit through his lip to stifule another scream as pain jolted frought his frail body. Marcus laughed as he watched Zero squirm and struggle every time he applied pressure to the metal button in front of him that sent an electrical current through the jump leads attached to the side of the bath Zero was trapped in. Marcus had been torturing the boy for nearly an hour and was honestly impressed that the kid had not passed out yet. Suddenly a familiar smell of blood hit the vampire's nose and distracted him from his duty, and stopping the shocks momentarily.
Zero raised his head as mush as he could once that jolts had stopped, to find Marcus standing with his back to him and sniffing the air. Seeing his moment of opportunity, Zero used all the strength he could muster and holstered his week body up just enough for he bound hands to slip off of the hook and he swung himself forwards and climbed out of the bath. Hearing the commotion behind him, Marcus turned round, only he be smacked in the face by both of Zero's tied hands which knocked him over, face first into the bath. Racing across the room, Zero flipped the switch and turned the power on full as electricity once again ran threw the jump leads and into the bath. Marcus let out an array of pained screams and cries as the volts ran through him. The heat of the electricity began to burn his flesh away and letting large chunks hang and fall from his face and torso, while the dirty water in the bath began to turn red from blood. Marcus continued to screech as he was burnt alive until he finally went limp and still.
Zero's hard eyes looked on in satisfaction as he watch the vampire die, before grabbing the guards keys and fleeing the cell as quickly as his battered body would let him.
Well there you have it. Kain won and Zero go so fed up with waiting that he rescued himself.
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-Princess Loveless