CHAPTER-28: STILL STANDING
Kaname charged forwards and punched his uncle hard in the jaw, which was followed by an echoing crack. Rido fell back onto the hard floor, he had been so shocked by his nephew's sudden attack that he had been unable to prepare himself. With the dark lord momentarily down, Kaname darted for the wooden table to his left, upon which his prized silver daggers lay.
"I will make you pay for that, Kaname." Rido gritted out, just about able to keep his temper at bay, while he watched the younger pureblood take hold of his weapons and prepare for another strike.
"You will pay for the crimes you have committed against my family." Kaname informed his elder calmly, before lunging towards his uncle again, intent on using the elder man's blood to paint the walls.
Kain turned round another corner and stabbed the guard standing with his back to him, before the other man even knew he was there. Kain had been walking around the dungeons know for quite some time and the closer he got to this particular block of cells, the more guards there had been. Hearing something move in one of the cells further along, the strawberry blond vampire cautiously walked towards the noise.
"Zero?" Kain mentally questioned as he peered into the almost black cell, looking for the young boy. However it was not Zero's amethyst eyes that met his, but a pair of crystal blue ones.
"Seiren? What happened?" Kain asked as he looked at the girl through the gloom. When he had left them they where winning the fight against the hybrids.
"Never mind what happened to me. What happened to you? Why did you run off and leave us?" Seiren inquired, her tone holding most of her anger.
"I'm sorry, but I had to find Zero. I knew a secret way into the castle that is often used by the guards and I needed you all as a distraction for me to slip away." The strawberry blond explained, sounding guilty.
"So did you find him?" The female vampire asked, to which Kain simply shook his head. " Then would you mind getting me out of here, I sense lord Kaname may need our assistance must also find the others." Seiren ordered and Kain complied.
Kaname's battle with Rido was well underway, and much to Kaname's joy, he was winning. The elder vampire was panting heavily as he bled onto the floor of his thrown room, he had taken several deep hits from his nephew and one had even come close to piercing his heart, leaving him weak and almost defenceless. Rido knew he only had one chance of survival, to flee.
Zero hid round a corner as he tried to calm himself and stay out of the attention of the hallways two other occupants, Rido's guards. Upholstering the gun on his hip, the boy held it with both hands and checked to see if the safety was off. In all truth, zero had no idea how he knew how to do that or how he knew he needed to head down this hallway, he felt like an invisible force had been leading him ever since he found the weapons, he just hopped it knew where it was going.
Taking a deep breath to ready himself, Zero stepped round the corner and opened fire on the two guards. They both turned around at the sound, but didn't get any further as their bodies where penetrated by multiple silver bullets, and they dropped to the ground dead.
Zero kept his face stern as he marched down the hall, stepping over the two fallen guards who previously blocked his way, in hopes of finally finding a way out of the hell hole he was trapped in.
Kaname's eyes where hard and cold as he made his way courteously down the spiral staircase that his uncle had fled down. The younger pureblood wasn't sure where this passage led, but the bottles of multicoloured liquids and all the small animals and organs in jars told him that it must be part of some barbaric laboratory.
Ahead of his younger advisory, Rido was stumbling around Misaki's main lab, looking for anything that could assist him in his battle with the other pureblood. Rido realized that Kaname had grown much stronger since the last time they fought, and the elder had severely underestimated him. There was something different about Kaname now, a new found determination what would prove more powerful than any amount of practice and skill. And that determination truly horrified Rido.
After searching through a huge stack of shelves, Rido finally found what he had been looking for, hidden near the back was a thin, tall bottle with the words 'Hybrid Formula' written on its label. Without thinking, the elder brunette pulled the cork from the bottle and lifted it to his lips, before poring all the green liquid down his throat and throwing the now empty bottle away with a smash.
Kaname rounded the corner into the main lab, just in time to see Rido consume the liquid from the bottle and then dispose of it. For a moment nothing happened and Kaname was intrigued as to what his uncle was planning on achieving, but then it happened, Rido let out a deafening shriek as his body began to mutate. First his body began to grow, staring with his arms and legs. Then his mussels expanded to an abominable size, followed by his teeth growing sharper and longer, transforming into fangs, while his nails expanded and curved into claws. As the welder pureblood mutated his cloths where torn and ripped away as he grew, and where reliance almost completely by the thick fur that consumed his body, leaving only his badly ripped trousers still wrapped around his waist.
"Well that's not good." Kaname thought as he saw, the thing that was once his uncle now stood towering over him, at almost fifteen feet fall. the hybrid pureblood's write arm was much larger than his left and the bones of his ribs and shoulder popped out trough his skin on the left hand side of his humongous body, plus that multiple lacerations were that hybrids flesh had simply torn open from the strain of the growth . That's when Kaname realized that his uncles transformation must have somehow gone wrong, all the hybrids he's faced so far had been much smaller that Rido and without any of the ghastly side affects. Making the younger pureblood think that maybe his uncle had taken too much of the formula and had overdosed himself with it.
The younger vampire was so deep in his own thoughts about what was happening to his uncle, that he had no time to prepare himself for when Rido's huge clawed hand swiped into him, and sent him crashing through several of the castles walls and ending up lying back on the floor of the thrown room, with a massive hole in the ground before him. "Yeah! Defiantly not good." Kaname thought wryly from where he lay as he watched his hybrid uncle jump through the hole he's made in the floor and storm towards him, his massive wait causing the room to vibrate with each step.
Zero froze when he saw a slightly agar door, with a dim light shinning through. Curiously the boy peered inside, only to see a tall, silver haired woman admiring herself in a room filled with mirrors. "Shizuka!" Zero mentally gasped. The woman hadn't seen him, and Zero had the perfect chance to just carry on past her, but something in his gut just wouldn't let him. The boy felt such a deep hatred for this woman, that he just couldn't let it pass.
"Well, Hello there Zero. I've been so looking forward to seeing you again." Shizuka said sweetly as she saw the boy's reflection in one of the mirrors, but Zero knew well enough of the darkness hidden beneath her tone. "Welcome to my domain." She greeted.
Zero slowly stepped into the room, his left hand fingering the hilt of Bloody Rose. Normal the boy would have felt weak and defenceless around this woman, but the weapons he now possessed gave him an overwhelming sense of power and determination that nobody could take away from him, least of all this evil bitch.
"Do you really think you have it in you to kill me? I don't think you do." Shizuka teased the boy as he lifted up his gun and aimed it for the black heart in her chest. "Come on Zero, shoot me. If you've got the guts." The vampiress mocked and much to her surprise a loud band echoed around the room.
Seeing the bullet heading her way, Shizuka quickly dived out of its path and the silver bullet smashed into the mirror behind where she was standing seconds before, causing the glass so shatter and rain down onto the floor. Zero groaned in annoyance once he realized that he had missed his target and decided to try again. Realizing the boys intention, Shizuka grabbed one of the sharper looking shards of glass littered around her, and threw it at Zero angrily before he could take another shot at her.
Zero gasped in pain, as the shard it his felt hand and he unintentionally dropped Bloody Rose. Enraged that the boy had actually attempted to kill her, Shizuka lunged forwards, knocking Zero to the ground and pinning his hands down at his sides while he squirmed and fought for freedom fro her grasp.
"Shh! Relax. It'll all be over soon. Say hello to dear old Saeko for me." Shizuka whispered in the boy's ear, as her fangs pressed dangerously at her bottom lip. "And to Kaname Kuran." She added. Zero's eyes widened at the last comment. Kaname wasn't dead, was he? No, he couldn't be. He was at home right now, probably sat round the dinning table with his family. So what did Shizuka mean? Zero contemplated and Shizuka's glare changed to once of satisfaction at the boy's look of confusion.
"Oh my! You didn't know?" The vampiress almost laughed at Zero's loom of ignorance. "Rido tearing your dear Kaname to pieces as we speak. To think that that idiotic man actually thought that he could save you. Ha! He cant even save himself." Shizuka mocked coldly, and Zero could feel that anger within him growing with each word out of the hell whore's mouth. "Kaname didn't leave me! He came to save me and now he's in trouble. I need to help him, and there's no way I'm going to let this bitch finish me off." Zero mentally decided. And filled with determination, he ran his fingers across the ground, searching for something and when his digits met with something cold and sharp he grasped a hold and thrust it up as he broke the vampiress's grasp.
"Arr!" Shizuka gasped, as the long shard of glass impaled it's self into her chest. Blood started to fill her mouth and spill out passed her parted lips, while her grip loosened from the boy lying beneath her and she fell, seaming lifelessly, to the ground with a growing puddle of red blood swarming around her.
Zero glared at the body lying on the floor before him. The felt relived that he had final taken care of the evil woman who plagued his life, but he also felt that she hadn't suffered enough for her sins. Sighing, the boy reclaimed his gun and headed out of the room, determined to find Kaname before it was too late.
Well another chapter finished, and we are getting closer and closer to the climax.
PS: a lot of people have been asking me whether this fic is going to be a mpreg or not, and the answer is no. However I an planning on writing a sequel (if I get enough interest!) and that may possibly contain some, although I'm still not sure.
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