To Rain Blood

Author Ambercat999

Hey the next chapter is finally up! I was in Hawaii for 12 days so I didn't really get a chance to work on the story until now… oh well anyways hope you enjoy it! Just a quick heads up there will be derogatory language in this chapter.

Takara didn't know what to do. She had found a letter from Pyrrhus sitting on her bed after class. He had snuck into her room while she was away. She looked over at the letter sitting innocently on top of her messy desk. She hadn't opened it for she dreaded its contents; finally after a half-an-hour she had built up enough courage to sit down and read it. As she scanned over the neatly written document her hands started to shake. The letter informed her that Pyrrhus wanted her to meet him outside the school in the woods Saturday at 7pm. If she didn't show up to the meeting or if she tried to run away again her new friends, chiefly the blonde and silver haired boys, would pay the consequences. The letter was short but it got the point a crossed. She looked at the clock; it was already 3am. She only had 19 hours to prepare. She needed to figure out a way to leave cross academy without raising suspicion. Not to mention she had no idea what she was going to do once she met with Pyrrhus. Takara let out a sigh, she already knew that she wasn't get any sleep; she was much too stressed for that, so she might as well start working. For the rest of the morning she spent her time preparing for the inevitable. Then finally with only 3 hours left before her departure she leaves her dorm room walking down the stairs and out the doors of the moon dorm in almost a dreamlike state heading towards the stables. She stopped in front of her favorite horses stable. It was towards the back and away from the other horses because he tended to nip at the other horses. She gave him a watery smile as she approached him; she understood him and had often sought comfort from him. She slowly entered his stall and picked up his favorite brush. After she made sure that his coat was free of every last particle of dust she fed him a carrot and a few sugar cubes before kissing him on the nose and exiting the stall again. Next she stopped by White Lilly's stall; she stroked the mare's neck affectionately and fed her the rest of the sugar cubes before leaving the stables. Next she headed down to the pond. She intended to spend the rest of her time there avoiding everyone in order to keep from giving herself away. She knew that she would be able to fake normality around most people but she didn't run the risk of running into Zero, Aidou, or Kaname because she knew that they could see through her mask no matter how much she tried to hide her true intentions and feelings. In some ways she hated that fact because it was the reason she was in stuck in between a rock and a hard palace and yet looking back on it, she was glad they had broken down her walls and gotten to know her, she hadn't been lonely or depressed like she originally thought she would be. Looking at her watch he realized that she had been so deep in thought that the final hours of her freedom had flown by and she only had a half an hour before she was supposed to meet Pyrrhus in the woods. Standing, she silently made her final goodbyes to Zero and Aidou before turning and running off into the woods afraid to look back and loose whatever courage she had managed to gather.

While Takara navigated away from the school Zero and Aidou each discovered the notes that Pyrrhus had left them. It took each both of them a few seconds to register the fact that the exact person who they had been working so hard to protect Takara from was now using them to get to her. However, after the shock passed anger replaced it. How dare that son of a bitch use them as leverage against her! They met each other outside the moon dorms and started searching for Takara without ever speaking a word to each other. It didn't matter that they were working together even though they disliked each other; all that mattered was finding Takara before Pyrrhus got to her. Aidou had already checked her room before he left the dorms and had found the letter Pyrrhus had sent to her. The problem was that by the time they had met up and Zero had read the letter it was already 7. They took off towards the forest as fast as they could, making it there in 15 minutes. They found her soon after sitting next to a small lake; however, before they could approach her Pyrrhus walked out from behind a cluster of trees close to the Takara. "You made the right choice dear one," both of the boys and Takara flinched at the pet name she was given, "since you did just as I asked none of your little friends will be hurt." He took a step towards Takara reaching out to grab her arm, however before his hand got anywhere near her Aidou and Zero both burst out of their hiding place unable to stand watching any more. Zero whipped out his gun and fired multiple rounds at Pyrrhus while runs towards Takara intent on getting her farther away from the bastard in front of them. Unfortunately for the boys the bullets from the bloody rose don't do much more than tick Pyrrhus off. Seeing that the bullets weren't having the desired effect Aidou try's freezing his legs, never stopping or slowing down in his run. He called out to Takara to help him but she was so overwhelmed by the entire situation that she was lost to the world, simply sitting on the forest floor with wide eyes and tears streaming down her face. Because Aidou didn't have help he was unable to create a thick enough layer of ice and only had time to grab Takara and carry her back to where Zero was standing before Pyrrhus broke free from his bonds. A struggle started between the two sides. Zero and Aidou desperately tried to keep Pyrrhus from getting near them. However it only took him a matter of minutes before he was able to break through their defenses and punch Zero into one of the surrounding trees. He turned on Aidou intending to do the same when suddenly ice wrapped around his fist. It seemed that seeing Zero hurt by Pyrrhus was what it took to wake Takara up from her fear induced stupor. Working together Aidou and Takara slowly encased Pyrrhus in a thick sheet of ice before collapsing out of sheer exhaustion. Kaname who had felt the spike of power from Aidou and Takara's powers joining together walked into the woods to find all three of them out cold. He looked over at the man incased in ice and then at his fellow students. A fight had been had right under his nose, and while that slightly unsettled Kaname however he wrote it off as none of his business. He walked over to the tree that Zero was slumped against and shook the hunter awake before calmly walking over to and picking up Aidou leaving Zero to pick up Takara carrying both to the infirmary for a checkup and some much needed rest.