CHAPTER-27: DIE ANOTHER DAY

Kaname groaned as he was dragged through the halls of Rido's castle, his knees scrapping on the stone floor as the two guards pulled him by his arms. Soldiers and servants blurred into a swirl of colours as they scurried past him. Kaname didn't know where they where taking him, but he could only hope that Zero would be nearby.

The battle outside had been going well, but Kaname and his forces where severely outnumbered. All the vampire hunters, except for Cross, had been turn apart by the smaller hybrid creatures, but his father, Seiren and the others had managed to dispatch many of the beasts . Kaname's own battle with the Hybrid had been rather successful, he'd managed to gravely injure the creature and it fled into the night. But thing went downhill from there. They where over run with smaller hybrids and they where soon take down.

Kaname wasn't sure where the others had been taken, but at least he knew they where alive, the pureblood sighed. "I wonder what the hell happened to Kain?" The brunette pondered noticing that the strawberry-blond vampire had disappeared whilst he was fighting the Hybrid.

"Well hello again, dear nephew." The familiar voice drew Kaname from his thoughts as the guards released him and tied his hands behind his back, leaving him kneeling on the cold, hard floor.

"Rido." Kaname glared angrily.

"It has been too long, Kaname. You really should come and visit me more often." The dark lord stated, the falseness in his voice dripping through.

"What have you done with Zero?" The younger pureblood demanded, as he jumped straight to the point while giving the elder pureblood a look that could kill a thousand times over.

"Do not fret, Kaname. He is being well looked after. Now down to business." Rido stated, standing back and taking a seat on his thrown. "I want you to submit to me. Give up your fight against me and surrender. Then I will release the boy. The chose is easy, you submit and Zero lives." Rido explained smugly as his menacing grin grew wider.

Walking down another hallway as fast as his injuries would let him, Zero followed his instinct, not sure where he was going he trudged on. An odd feeling at the back of his mind leading him, almost like a whisper of a memory from a past life showing him the way. After what seemed like an eternity of turning left and right in Rido's labyrinth of a dungeon, Zero came to a large, old, oak door. Knowing it wasn't an exit, the boy was tempted to move on, but something he couldn't quite describe forced him to open the door and walk in.

Taking a quick look around, Zero easily deduced it was an armoury of some sort, by the selection of shields littering the walls and the deferent kinds of swords and daggers on the shelves and wooden tables. Cautiously, the boy walked around the room, looking for a suitable weapon to protect himself in his bid to escape. Being drawn over to the back shelf, Zero found a dark wooden box with an elegant amethyst lily engraved into it. Reaching out a shaky hand, the silverette carefully lifted the lid to reveal a short metal rod with an almost skeletal pattern along its body and a silver gun with a vine engraved into it as will as the words 'Bloody Rose', both lying in the box.

Zero was enchanted by the weapons, they where the most beautiful objects he'd ever seen in his life. Deciding to take them with him, the silverette found a double holster lying behind the box that fit perfectly around his hips. Slipping both weapons into there respective positions in the holster, Zero prepared to leave, stopping only once to glance back at the wooden box that continued to captivate him, before leaving with a sigh.

Kaname glared at Rido, his eyes burning with anger and pure hatred as the older pureblood continued to tell him about all the thing he had done to Zero over the years he'd kept the boy in captivity. Kaname couldn't take it. He wanted to rip off Rido's head and drink his wine from the brute's skull, but the pureblood prince knew that wasn't going to happen. Not now when he had willingly agreed to submit to Rido, but not before he'd negotiated the release of his father and the others, as well as forcing Rido into letting him see Zero one last time.

So now here Kaname was, waiting for Rido's followers to retrieve Zero from the cells and listening to Rido babble on about all the torture he'd put his own son through. The pureblood prince felt sick, listening to how Zero was beaten and battered on a daily basis just for the amusement of his uncle and his guards or how Zero was used as a blood tap for the guards and slaves who pleased Rido and deserved a reward.

"Your despicable!" Kaname spat at the older brunette, feeling that he could no longer bite his tongue.

"You sound surprised." Rido mused with amusement.

"I always knew that you where a monster. But how could you do that to your own son? It disgusted me that we are even related. How could somebody as kind and innocent as him, have come from something as evil as you?" Kaname questioned, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Ha!" Rido exclaimed. "Do you honestly believe that I see that piece of filth, Bastard child is my son. Don't delude yourself, Kaname. The boy is nothing more than a disgusting half-breed accident that should never have happened. His mother was a whore who wasn't even close to being worthy of carrying my heir." The elder pureblood spat back at his rage filled nephew. Kaname's eyes flashed red with hatred as he glared at Rido, hoping against the odds that his uncle would suddenly burst into flames before him. But Kaname's heated stare was soon broken as the main door to the thrown room burst open to reveal to of Rido's guards, the same two guards who had been sent to retrieve Zero.

"What?" Rido bellowed, his voice echoing around the thrown room, moments after one of the guards began to whisper something in the dark lords ear. "Well where else could that little brat be?" The elder pureblood continued, as he back handed the guard and sent him tumbling to the hard floor in front of Kaname. While the other guard fled from the room.

"Problem, Rido?" Kaname asked with a small smirk edging at the corners of his lips.

"It seems that your precious little half-breed has found a way to elude my guards and escape my cells." Rido replied, his tone barely concealing his anger at the grin on Kaname's face. "But don't worry. We'll soon have him back and restrained, and when I do he will be severely punished." He continued darkly.

"Don't count on it." Kaname countered his own voice just as menacing.

"What's that supposed to mean? Do you honestly believe that you are in position of control? You cant save him now. Ha! You can't even save yourself." Rido responded amusedly.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that." The younger pureblood replied sternly. And before Rido even had time to ask him what he meant, Kaname had broke through the cuffs restraining his hands and on his feet ready for the battle of his life.

"Oooooooooh! Cliff hanger. (Please don't hate me.)

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