CHAPTER-29: RETALIATION AND REPERCUSSIONS
Kaname panted heavily as he swayed slightly on his feet. The pureblood prince was exhausted, his body felt like it couldn't hold him up for much longer. He was covered in wounds, both from his hybrid uncle's claws and from where the creature occasionally threw him against the walls or to the floor. Kaname was beginning to feel light headed from the blood he'd lost, and worst of all Rido barley had a scratch on him.
"What's wrong, Kaname, tired already?" The huge pureblood hybrid chuckled as he watched his nephew rock back and forth on the spot, and pulled his massive claws up ready for another strike.
"Well this is it." Kaname thought to himself as he was whacked, hard in the chest and sent crashing through the far wall and out into the cold night air. Lying on his back in the crisp, white snow a single tear rolled down Kaname's face "I'm so sorry, I couldn't save you Zero." Was the last thought to cross the brunette's mindas he closed his eyes and waited patiently for his uncle to deliver him the final blow.
From across the way, Rido's huge mutated body squeezed its way through the hole in the wall that Kaname's body had made. The older pureblood's now clawed paw made the cold snow crunch as he stepped out into night. Walking across to near the tree line, where Kaname was lying, Rido towered above the younger pureblood and raised his sharp talons into the sky and prepared himself for the fatal blow he was about to lash down on his nephew, and he revelled in thought of a live without the younger brunette. Without Kaname and his followers there would be nobody to stand in his way of gaining total control of the vampire world and once and for all extinguishing it of all human life.
"Goodbye, Kaname." Was all the elder pureblood felt he needed to say as he began to swiftly pull his clawed hand down, Kaname's chest being his only target.
"Don't. You. Dare. Touch. Him!" Each word echoed into the night and held such a strong sense of demand that Rido paused mid strike. Turning his head to the left the hybrid pureblood looked behind him to see Zero standing before the gap in the wall and holding a gun up to him, a gun that Rido knew all too well: the Bloody Rose.
Scowling Rido straightened up and backed away from the younger pureblood, still lying on the snow covered ground, and steadily made his way over towards the silver haired boy.
"Ha! Do you really thing that you can save him, boy? You have no chance of stopping me. I will kill him, if it's the last thing I do and I will take great pleasure in forcing you to watch." Rido informed darkly, his voice hiding an animalistic growl.
"Then I will just have to kill you first." Zero said quitly as his grip tightened around the hilt of his gun.
"You don't have it in you." The hybrid mocked and his eyes narrowed.
"Try me." Zero spat at the vampire who towered before him, no fear or hesitance in his tone at all, just an overwhelming hate and determination.
Kaname continued to lay on the forest floor. For a moment he thought he head heard Zero's voice, but he was too weak to do anything about it, his battered body needed time to regenerate and so he continued to lay their, for it was the only thing he could do as he drifted in and out of consciousness.
Zero's last statement had enraged Rido and he lunged forward, claws eager to rip chunks out of the boy's flesh. The silverette dived to the side and dodged Rido's attack, the hybrid was fast, but much to large to be graceful and Zero was very small in comparison. Landing behind the creature attacking him, the boy let of a couple of shots with the Bloody Rose, which managed to embed them selves deep in Rido's thigh. The hybrid pureblood let out an almighty screech as the silver metal burnt its way inside his body.
"You will pay for that." Rido bellowed before swinging his huge arm around and knocking Zero off his feet and sending him skidding on his back along the snow covered floor, dropping Bloody Rose in the possess.
A gasp of pain escaped Zero as he came to a stop. Looking up he saw Rido marching towards him and dread hit him in the gut when he was unable to locate his lost gun. With no other choice, Zero grabbed hold of the small rod that he also had holstered at his waist and pulled it from its pouch. The boy wasn't entirely sure what it was or how to use it, but once he had staggered to his feet and held it out in front of him, he felt the same guiding force from before instructing him on what to do. Before his eyes the short pole extended into a long metal staff, the engravings on it patterned into the shape of a human spine and the word Artemis delicately engraved into the middle.
Rido looked on in annoyance as the silverette produced the new weapon, now knowing that the boy wouldn't go down as easily as he had first anticipated. Digging his heals deep into the snow, the pureblood hybrid readied himself for his next attack, before jumping up and raising his talons in an attempt to strike the boy from above. But the strike never came close, as Zero held up Artemis to block the blow, an electric force seamed to be emitted once Rido made contact with the staff and before either party could react, the creature's clawed hands began to blister and burn where he held onto the staff.
Shock held Zero in place as he watched his adversary let out a growl of frustrated pain and released Artemis to end his torture. Rido stood still, looking down at his own palms in disbelieve as the skin refused to heal and blood began to seep down his wrists. With the hybrid temporarily distracted, Zero saw his opportunity to act and charged forwards with Artemis held tightly in his hands, stopping briefly to pick up one of Kaname's discarded daggers, and hoping to strike the hybrid vampire while he was preoccupied.
Unluckily for Zero, Rido was fully aware of the boy's intentions and used his larger right arm to swooped across and try to hit the boy in the head. But Zero had over intentions, he jumped up to avoid the oncoming arm and used the extended limb to grab a hold of Rido's shoulder and holster himself up onto the creature's back. Using the bone's sticking out to keep hold, the boy held the staff around Rido's neck and its static energy immediately began to burn through his fur and flesh.
Rido bellowed with pain and he shook one way and another, trying to get Zero from his back and end the pain seering through his throat, but the boy was having none of it and held on for dear life. When Rido momentarily stopped swinging around, Zero grabbed a hold of Kaname's dagger and began to repeatedly stab it into Rido's fur covered back. Bucking up on his legs and crashing his back against a tree, Zero finally lost his hold and tumbled onto the hard grown, a fresh trail of blood leaking down his forehead from where it had make contact with the bark.
Rido snarled as he glared at the boy planted by the base of the tree. Artemis had been torn from his hands in the fall and now lay somewhere to his left. The hybrid vampire leaned over Zero's dazed body, the smell of the boy's blood enticing him, his huge fangs desperate to sample the crimson liquid. But before he could lower his snout to the crook of Zero's neck, the hybrid let out an all mighty screech that echoed through the vast horizon of trees and off into the night.
Zero's amethyst eyes hardened as he watch his advisory stumble away from him, desperately clutching at the dagger now sticking out of the hole where his right eye used to be. Zero looked across the clearing to see Kaname lying deathly still on the forest floor and felt the dread rising in the pit of his stomach. Rising to his feet and racing across the clearing, the boy dropped down beside the unmoving vampire.
"Kaname! Can you hear me?" Zero asked while placing his hands timidly on the brunette's shoulders and shaking him in an attempt to rouse him. "Please, Kaname! Please be ok!" The boy thought when he wasn't able to wake the pureblood prince. Fearing the worst, Zero lowered his head to the brunette's chest and closed his eyes as he prayed to hear a heartbeat. But the sound never met his ears.
WOW! Cliff-hanger or what!
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-Princess Loveless