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A vampires forbidden love ch.23
Mamoru POV
I had been trying to keep in line with Usagi's order to make sure the elder stays safe so when she said she had Diamond which I trusted her to deal with I took off to go get the vampire elder to safety as I knew Usagi to be correct. We needed him alive and well. Not that I didn't think him capable, but in this case with Damon being out in the field trying to kill Yamamoro himself we needed the elder to be safe and secure.
I saw that he was about to step out after having witnessed Usagi literally in the clutches of Yamamoro but the elder knew like me that she'd get out of it. It was like this weird sense, I knew when her trouble was to deep even for her and somehow so did he but he didn't react and instead trusted her to find a way out which she did…for the most part so now I shoveled him in with Makoto in a matter of her needed his expert help for the Lycan bite to her neck.
Vampires had been bitten before by Lycan's and many had died from the deep extensive wounds that they couldn't heal from yet some survived if the wound wasn't that deep. Yet there had, to my knowledge, never been an attack from one vampire to another to this degree where the neck was opened. At least from what Usagi and even Rei had told me. Some wounds were recoverable from while others weren't.
My doctor mode came out as I directed the vampire healer to stitch the wound up but that pressure needed to be applied as well to ensure that she didn't lose any more blood than what she could afford to lose without going unconscious or without her healing abilities at their fullest to allow her to heal at the correct speed needed to not be in bed overnight. The healer looked at me briefly before smiling, "No worries your friend will be fine." I nodded.
Then I looked to the elder. He knew what I was doing and glared at me but only long enough till Makoto pleaded that she needed someone with her as she had never been bitten by another vampire before and Diamond's other victims were ALL dead. "Has there ever been a case of a vampire biting another?" I asked him. "No…not like this." The elder muttered as he looked at Makoto as she gripped onto his hand.
She barely paid me heed but what little she did explained her actions. Not that she couldn't handle herself but she knew to that the elder was better to stay out of the line of fire and stay safe unless it was necessary to be known. He didn't want to stay there though. You could tell he had other plans on his mind and none of them pertained to staying safe in here while the battle raged on out there.
"Mamoru I - " I stated in my lowest tones voice possible before the elder could finish his sentence, "With all due respect, your too valuable to us to lose…I know it would devastate Usagi if she were to lose you to." I expressed. Knowing she had lost one father already, to lose her father figure in this time would pull the rug out from under her, it wouldn't be right. Usagi had lost far to much already.
To lose him when she had just accepted his place in her life after all these years would be devastating. Makoto, not having heard that I hoped, implored for the elder to come to her as she got him to stay by her side as I left back out to go help Damon and the others as requested by my love. I got back out and in time to see Minako being left completely vulnerable and for a moment I rolled my eyes at Damon's lack of empathy to anyone but himself.
Her ankle looked twisted as another Lycan grabbed the offended ankle and began to swing it therefore her around like a rag doll only he smashed her into the wall even as Damon was empting bullets into the beast having apparently losing sight of Yamamoro as he was missing from the fight. The Lycan was swinging her up about ready to bite into her. I heard Damon curse that he was out of ammo so I blurred myself and knocked the moment in time out as she and I both fell to the ground.
She on her back with a blade now in her hand as I landed with my back to her. Both of us were a bit dazed as we saw the Lycan was going to claw at me. Remembering my own weapon I pulled a long bowing knife out just in time for it to swipe causing it to cry out in pain as it essentially cut its own hand off. It grabbed at the offended appendage or lack of as I plunged the knife the rest of the way into its chest rendering it dead.
It finally fell to the ground as Damon was finally finished reloading his gun. "You asshole!" Minako yelled at as he hit the clip in. I had a feeling the gun jammed up on him mid reload and that's why he was lagging behind with the killing, "Where the hell were you to have my back?" she yelled at him, "Gun was acting like a bitch and besides…your 'knight in shining armor' was there to save you." He sniveled in a disgusted manner.
I narrowed my eyes. "While I will help out and have the backs of those that have mine you could have abandon the gun and gone to physically help out…" I heard more commotion behind me, "And while she has a point we had more of those things to kill." I noted as she stifled her attitude to take on more Lycan's that had come in defense of Yamamoro cause these weren't the same ones I left them with. "What happened to the head dick in charge?" I asked looking for the elusive Lycan leader.
"He disappeared behind these guys." Minako indicated upfront. There were still four Lycan's standing in front of something, presumably him. "In all honesty we need Usagi…" she said it super low to avoid Damon from hearing it. I didn't question it as she probably had good reason for not wanting Damon to hear her. "Damon may have trained her but I'd say now that she's more combat proficient than he is."
I looked at her briefly and wondered how she knew that about Usagi. The way things sounded when they first met was that they didn't know of each other so how would she know about Usagi's training from Damon? The man in question just looked to be fussing with his gun again as I asked, "How do you know?" her face hardened as she looked at Damon then back at the growling beasts.
"Rumors have been spreading throughout the covens over the last decade that under Damon's rule things were growing weak and decadent. That maybe he wasn't the leader the elders thought him to be and that's why Usagi's presence at the meetings was increased and his was lowered." It seemed Damon wasn't the supreme ruler he thought he was, "Usagi and I didn't actually meet until this war really got its jump start however…" the Lycan's began to move towards us in a unified fashion.
"I've known about her for years now. After all I'm a successor in line for a seat as well. I like to get to know the other potential elders to make sure their fit to rule as one." Minako was a calculating woman that much was for sure. "And you don't think Damon is?" I agreed but I wanted to hear it for confirmation to. "Damon will always be a scared little boy unable to truly grow up till he's faced his own demons and he won't ever confront that…it would take a hit to his pride and he'd never want to own it." She was right.
It was hard not to agree with the truth…for Damon even if it was staring at him in the face he'd still do his best to deny it. I looked over and found the three of us looking battered but not yet beaten. The Lycan's roared and came after us as we did to them. Damon jumped up and nailed two in the chest with his booted feet as Minako went head on and used more combat moves on them where as I jumped up like Damon, only I used the wall near me to gain leverage as I grappled onto the Lycan and knocked us both to the ground.
I got it into a headlock that it couldn't maneuver back to get me on due to lack of flexibility on its part, benefit of its larger stature and lack of movement so I wrangled my arms around its neck and using some of my learned combat moves along with where to apply the great pressure at which I was thankful to my former life as I was able to choke it out and subdue the big, slightly hairy creature.
It fell down as I struggled to hold onto it before finally giving in and dying out. Knowing it couldn't dislodge me and knowing I knew what I was doing. I stood up as Minako was flipping over Damon to kick another Lycan right before it went down. She then grabbed a blade off of Damon, despite his protest, and stabbed it in the head before tossing the blade back to him in a 'who cares' manner.
"Go to sleep." She remarked before kicking it and walking away from the body. She looked over as did a few other vampires in the area and said, "Not bad." To my own kill, the others tried to go after Yamamoro as he batted one away like he was nothing. The older Lycan looked at me with a pensive stare. As if trying to figure me out. That's when I saw Usagi in the corner of my eyes. I looked over to see her being pinned down and Diamond over her.
I knew she needed me now. Everything that was alive in me screamed to get to her…to save her from this dickhole. I had to help her or else I feared for her life. I blurred faster than I though was possible. The speed I used for Minako was nothing compared to what I used to get to Usagi. I felt my heart pounding in my rib cage as I knew it was protesting how fast I was going. My legs damn near tripped over themselves I was going that fast.
That's when I saw the blood pool forming and saw Diamond pull a red stained blade out before he was about to put it back in. My heart beat faster than I could breathe as I blurred with everything I had in me. I couldn't lose her. Not when I just got her. I felt like I was literally flying in the air as I ran to her. I knocked over Diamond like he was a feather in my palm compared to someone that tried to kill her. "What the fuck?" I snapped at him. Feeling my own bloodlust rearing up.
I wanted him dead now. For daring to hurt her. I knew I stood in her blood and it sickened me that there was any bit much less a small pool of it. For thinking he could get away with the killing of our kind as he had already done. Usagi tried to reason with him but clearly he was beyond that point. He was beyond saving. I looked back down at my girlfriend, my mate and saw her getting up from the wound and wipe a small amount of blood from her mouth before spitting out the rest, "What the hell happened?" I asked.
The expression of sorrow on her face was easy to see. She knew she was going to have to kill him and didn't want to. So with determination in her face she set forth to kill him only to have him throw the knife at her. I caught it before it could hit her and took it for myself, "You think you're going to hurt her anymore?" I asked taunting him, "Mamoru…" she gained my attention. "This is MY fight. My responsibility." The burden.
I faced her even as Diamond looked beyond pissed, "Its ours…we freed him now it's our - " I got tackled by him before I could finish my sentence. My own fault for NOT keeping my eyes on him and now I paid that price. I landed near the wall as he hissed at me, his fangs out on display and said, "If I can't have her neither can you." He was turning his blood lust onto me. I ducked out of the way just in time before having grabbed an empty gun and swung it to smash him in the face a few times.
He got knocked down but only temporary before taking a swipe at my feet. The one thing that differed between the fighting style of a Lycan and a vampire, our thinking was less primitive which meant while the Lycan's were stronger when in their transformed they were less able to think clearly. But he had also gone through more of those beasts than I cared to count right now and he didn't look like he'd be slowing down anytime soon.
"What's so special about you huh?" he took a swipe at me that I narrowly avoided before blurring behind me in a twisting move that I can only assume he learned from ducking and dodging around the Lycan's and hit me hard enough to slam me against the wall. I dropped the empty gun and fell down as he went to hit me again. I dodged the next few punches aimed at me and threw a few myself making him back up a little.
He went to punch me and I caught his fist making him growl at me in distain, "Your nothing but monsters to me." Then he broke the hold and kicked me with his anger and very painfully I caught his foot and shoved it as hard upwards as I could making him fall onto his back with a painful and embarrassing thud. "Did it ever hit you that you are to?" I should have kicked while he was down but that just wasn't my style.
You don't kick a man when he's down. Just not right and I wasn't sinking to his level. He grabbed a nearby sword that had gotten stuck in a Lycan body and swung it out at me making me jump and dance all around him as he tried to kill me. When he swung at my legs I jumped up and flipped to situate myself against the wall temporarily before jumping back behind him when he looked up giving me the advantage to get behind him.
I went to put him in a headlock when he swung the sword back around and nailed me in the side cutting in as I stumbled back a bit. That's when he started to punch me. They were slow but powerful hits and my side was on fire from the injury. Truthfully if I were still human I'd be on the ground dying from the blood loose. I knew that much so my being a vampire now was granting me the life needed to keep protecting the woman I loved who was also suffering from a stab wound.
"You think you could protect her?" he kicked me in the wounded side as I narrowly avoided it when he slammed the sword down against the marble floor again and again trying to slice me again. I finally got some room in to flip myself back up before slamming back down with my fist as he wasn't able to get the sword up in time to deflect or defend. "I'd rather die than let anything more happen to her…you should be the same way." I told him as I knocked the sword from his hand.
I was just glad that my wound wasn't too great. Usagi had the worse would by far and needed the time to let her healing take effect. "I was to…until I saw that look on her face and yours…" he looked back and forth between us the anger stirring that much more deeply within him than any wound that a Lycan could produce, "The love that's there…" I knew he'd have a problem with it…but there was nothing more that could be done.
She and I weren't splitting to make this dickhole happy and oblivious to his past actions not to mention that's no true reason for killing our own kind. How someone held such a blinding hatred for a species that you were a part of and suddenly able to kill as if it meant nothing to you was beyond me. Yet he did it with a passion that I couldn't match. I didn't hold that much hatred in me to do so.
"Yeah well I may be new to this but last I checked you didn't start to kill your own kind those that your helping and are helping you in a war." I snapped at him. He growled, "You aren't my kind! Humanity is and when this war is done with I will make sure the human world knows of this and that your exterminated just as all monsters should be." I looked at him astounded by his hateful words.
"But your one of us…" I tried to reason with logic, "Usagi is…" I had hoped that By bringing her into this it would help. Even if he didn't like what she was now he still cared for her…right? "Minako -chan is, Makoto – chan is…the elder…they are all good people doing the right thing in life. There are plenty of actual killers that deserve death yet your letting your hatred overrule your common sense." I looked at him horrified at his words.
He looked at me with nothing but hate. Though now it was hatred over our species rather than personalized hate. "I will kill as many of you as I can before I let the humans take me out. I would rather die than to live in a world of monsters without my betrothed by MY side." He snarled. I was stunned by his words. He wouldn't ever let go of his hatred nor of his blinding anger. He was using it to fuel his blood lust and he had about two hundred year's worth to expel, the Lycan body pile might have just been the start.
Diamond was prepared to kill us till his own demise. His mind was lost to hatred and the need to kill. I knew Usagi would take this to heart for the rest of her life but I would be damned if I had her do it alone…I'd be there for her which is why I would take him out. Spare her the pain of killing someone she once cared for greatly. "We were never going to be anything else to you but monsters were we?" I asked prepared to kill him…which was needed now. Diamond wouldn't stop till he was stopped.
"You AREN'T anything else to me…" he looked beyond me to Usagi but I didn't take my eyes from him. Not again, "And she picked you so there's really no point in trying to hide my hatred of your kind any longer." His trying to blame others for his actions was done. I threw him an upper cut that sent him flying into the wall nearest to where the door had previously stood and near where Yamamoro was.
It was almost funny in a way to see the two glare at one another as Diamond got up and dusted himself off. The stare down last five seconds as they eyed one another before Diamond was hit hard enough by Yamamoro in one swing to send him right back skidding at my feet. "Eh whatever works." I muttered as I put my foot on his back to keep him down only to have him grab said foot and knock me down.
He climbed over on me as we wrestled around trying to gain the upper hand over one another before he finally got the upper hand, through my own fault as I heard Usagi say something. Her voice beyond what I could hear as he tried to choke me out…or rather to death. That's when two Lycan's came out of nowhere, jumping over us and went after Usagi. Both Diamond and I looked over to see them snarling at her.
They were leaving us alone to kill each other. "Diamond!" I just barely got his hands out from around my neck as I twisted around hoping to get better purchase on the situation. Hoping that if I could at least get a leg out I could choke him out with a jujitsu move. I looked over seeing her and said, "Even if you want me dead you can't want her dead." We both looked up to see Usagi fighting them.
The first one she swung around on and kicked in the back of the knee cap making it drop low enough for her to reach over and snap its neck on, its body falling by the side as the other hit her hard enough in the face to send her into the nearest wall but not enough to take her out as she used the now dented in wall to bounce off and loop herself around the Lycan, swinging until the Lycan got pulled down by the combined momentum.
Once it was down she grabbed a gun from a fallen comrade and smashed in its head till she was grunting with the effort. Pushing it from her we realized we hadn't struck each other during her own fight. Diamond went to increase his strength around my neck when I was able to get a one up on him and shoved him into a leg lock. With his one hand still around my neck I used my own arms to dislocate his shoulder.
The shock of it was to much for him. He cried out in pain as I pushed the now useless arm out of my way and pulled his other arm further in and locked my legs around his neck, effectively trapping him there. With this move I had the power to kill if I wanted to or knock unconscious. I glanced over and found Usagi to be beginning to heal up already. A stab wound in the gut was easier to heal from than a bite taken out of ones neck. However when I looked back at Diamond it was like I was looking at a wild animal.
You'd think I just stole everything from him and that right there caused me to pause. He truly believed everything had been stolen from him and he needed someone besides himself to place blame on. he needed a catalyst to place where he found the person the most responsible but him being him he would never own up to it. It seemed to me that both Diamond and Damon had more in common than they both knew.
Or would admit to…but that didn't excuse what both had done to those that loved them in the past nor Diamond's killing of those that had his back during the fight. "I'm sorry you've lost everything." I stated gruffly as he struggled in my hold, I gripped on tighter trying to gain ground. "I am…I know what it feels like to lose what's most important to you and be tossed into a whole new world…" he seemed to lose some of his fight at my words. He must have seen the truth of it in my eyes.
"To have no control over what has happened to you. To be told this is what's going to happen and you are given no other option but to accept it as much as you despise what just happened." I was drawing on my own experience from having had my family stolen from me by these things so to a degree I understood but at the same time it didn't give excuse or immunity from the wrongs that he had done to us.
"I know exactly what that's like…you're not the only one who lost a family here…Usagi did…I did…" his began to snarl again, "We do understand…however, you're taking your anger out on those that cared about you…those that had your back…" he was part of the second wave that Usagi commanded. "That's not who you are in the end…you were a good man that dared to rescue Usagi from impossible odds back then…but this…" I indicated with my eyes around for him to see.
He needed to know that by murdering the other vampires he was single handedly throwing himself back in the hole we pulled him from. "This is what I was meant to do…" he replied back. His voice chilly as ice as he looked at me. his eyes were nearly black from the amount of hate in them. "Hai, I tried to protect her but look what it cost me…" I went to protest but he kept going, "So I see what I'm supposed to do now…" he tightened his hold.
"I'm meant to kill the monsters in this time and that's what I'll do…if Usagi is among them it'll be a mercy killing for her." that hit me…he was willing enough to kill her just for being what she was now. She had done everything in her power to protect him and in the end his hate won out. I had to protect her. So I diverted back to the original topic. "Diamond those vampires, those people that you killed you were supposed to protect them as they did you and you choose to kill them." I tightened my hold as he seemed to want to fight and resist more.
I tried a different approach, "The world can't know about the existence of us…" I told him right before he sunk his teeth, his fangs into my leg. That was a blinding pain I didn't know could or would hurt so much. My legs wanted to release him or kick him hard, but I needed him in the position he was in. he was less of a threat this way and I needed to ensure he stayed there. It was a lot easier to make him docile. However he wasn't having it.
I grunted with the pain of it and tried to keep the hold strong, but I felt the muscles in my leg grow weaker from the pain enabling him to get out of the hold. "Doesn't matter…just as long as your dead…" he looked over to see Usagi finishing off another Lycan before she turned her attention back to us, "Diamond…" his eyes turned a brilliant shade of red that I hadn't ever seen before. He was beyond her words now…something I didn't think could happen.
"You should have picked me." He growled. his ego utterly bruised by knowing she and I were together and would continue to be together in this new world that he could not only not recognize but was to much of a difference for him. He wanted to eradicate us now and the only solution left if we couldn't contain him was to kill him. Something I knew she would hate to have to do.
However, it was clear as day now that he wanted to kill her. He abandoned his attempt to kill me and left me fearful for her life. "You know you'd rather kill me than her!" I shouted halting his movements. He stopped mid blur between the both of us as Usagi had tensed waiting for his impact. He appeared conflicted in what to do next. On one hand he wanted me dead moreso than her but he now wanted her dead to.
She would never want him the same way as we were together and he couldn't handle being in the new world alone. It was to much to handle for him mentally. She was mine and he hated that with a passion and it seemed that now that he was fully immersed into his blood lust he couldn't see past it. I had been afraid of this happening but at least he had killed enough Lycan's for us to have had a good chance at winning.
I just wished the vampires he killed hadn't been subject to becoming his victims as well…he could have been saved if he hadn't. He looked to be starting to go into her direction again so I said, "Besides I'm the one that's been boning her at night…tasting her…" I saw her eyes widen from a mile away though she wasn't to far away. "Mamoru!" she snapped shocked as I continued, "You know the best part is that she tastes like fresh vanilla and strawberries…so decadent and calming…" before I could taunt him further he raged against me.
Which is what I wanted as I didn't want any more harm to come to her from this mess. Diamond had decided to kill me instead of her. "Whatever works…" I muttered as his body collided with my own. We both flew back against the nearest wall and fell to the floor from the impact. I got the air temporarily knocked out from me as I moved away so I had him fully within my sights before seeing a gun nearby.
I went to grab it but it was just to far out of my reach as he pulled me back closer to him. That's when I heard his battle voice rage out as he began to pummel me with his fists, to upset to care or notice that his aim was becoming more blinded now and less effective. However the power behind them may have been lightened but they were still producing pain. I managed to lock one hand down but the other slammed hard enough into my nose to break it as Diamond was pulled and flipped off of me.
I rose up to find Usagi standing in front of me. My nose was killing me as I rose my hands up and placed them on my nose to properly shove it back in place which again hurt but at staunch the blood and allowed for me to not be so distracted as I stood up. The crack of its fixing didn't go by unnoticed as she eyed me up to make sure I was okay. Her own wound still there but not as bad as it once was.
"Diamond." She only said his name, a warning as it were to NOT go up against us again…but he didn't heed. He went to blur for her. I barely reacted in time to blur myself and knock him down and out before he could hit her. I hadn't counted on him slamming his fist into my injured side, something I should have considered earlier, thus weakening me further as he used his other arm to put me into a choke hold. Both of us crashing in the middle on the floor.
"You have no idea how long I've been waiting for this." Diamond muttered before he moved his head having heard something. I barely heard anything other than the blood rushing through me but I did hear something. I gasped as I was released. My vision that I hadn't realized I was losing was now back fully as I choked back a cough having just barely restrained myself from full on hacking from it.
I watched Usagi turn back around tentatively as she held the sword in her hand. I saw the blood on it before anything else happened and looked to Diamond. We both watched him wearily as he stumbled to get up. That's when I noticed the large slash he had up along his backside. He was bleeding profusely from all the exposed arteries. She must have slashed him from behind as he placed his focus solely on me.
Clever. He fell to the ground but didn't fall all the way as I pulled my own self away from him, ready to fight by her side. He wasn't going to stop. "You dare to kill me after everything I did for you?" he demanded of her, trying to stand back up even though he knew he wouldn't be able to. In all he wasn't strong enough to do so and I had a feeling he was finally feeling the fact that he used up a lot of his energy to kill and was becoming weaker for it. "Stand down." I ordered as I stood up.
I was still a good ten to fifteen feet from Usagi and now, once I removed myself from the hold, between them near equally. Though I was still closer to him than to her. He roared in his anger. It was loud and angry as he jumped up and over me in mere seconds. I tried to grab onto something of his to stop him but he had jumped to fast and high all at once preventing me from stopping him. I didn't however count on Usagi making a move as well.
By the time I saw her she was in the air. Before I knew it both of them had switched places on me. Usagi landed smoothly in front of me where Diamond had once been as he landed where she had been moments before. Only this time when he spun around on her she turned around and both looked at one another with shock and contempt for each other now. He looked more pissed than before and she looked…she held remorse in her eyes and sorrow in them as if she were fighting to hold back tears.
He at this point only saw his anger and hatred. I looked for a blade or something nearby to kill him with as Damon really looked like he was getting his ass beaten now by the dick Lycan leader. I looked back at Diamond as he pulled out two very bloodied looking knives and appeared to be ready to kill her. However it was Usagi that didn't put up a defense. Something that both still pissed him off but also made him nearly frown in confusion to.
I wondered if it was because she in the end couldn't really kill him after all. She had stated it multiple times that she didn't want to have to but also left it open that if he left her no choice she would do just that. So when she merely gripped the sword tighter I was confused…that is until she said, "I'm sorry Diamond…for everything…" a tear escaped her eye as she raised her own sword up.
Well the sword the elder lent her to kill Yamamoro with. It was coated in fresh blood as it leaked and dripped down the sword with an easy flow. I looked at the blade carefully to see that it had two blood stains on it. Not just the one from the earlier blow she took against him but another as well. It made me look over at Diamond as he to looked at the sword strangely. It was as if he were going through a slow realization about what just happened.
I was still confused by it. I could only tell that another blow had been made but Diamond was still standing with merely a confused look on his face before he then dropped his own blades…though I had a feeling it had more to do with motor control function dying out as he looked at her with pleading pity in his eyes along with shock as a red dripping line became very visible across his whole chest.
I watched slowly as he came to the realization that she hadn't even come close to missing. She had nailed him perfectly. And as if the action just happened he blinked a few times and slid into two pieces. The upper half of his body falling to the left as the lower half fell forward as the knees crumpled having also come to the reality that its upper half was no longer attached to the bottom half.
The cut diagonal as his body was cleaned severed into two pieces. His innards had slowly begun to leak out form the disconnect as a small trail of blood could be seen coming from his mouth on the upper half. I looked at her as she closed her eyes and gripped the sword tightly. The tear fell as she tried to hold her composure together. "I just…" she couldn't get it out and let the sword drop back down to her side but didn't let go.
She looked up at me, "He's right…this is all my fault…if he hadn't…if I hadn't…" she was almost breaking down as I pulled her into my embrace, making sure to be careful of her stab wound and my own sword wound. "NONE of this is your fault. He made his choices in life the same as you did." I could tell she was trying to hold it in considering there was still a battle raging on.
"Its not your fault he was so twisted in his hatred that he let it consume him till there was nothing left in him but that." She nodded but I could tell that she still felt guilty. "Its my fault for not saving you from this wound." She touched it tentatively and yeah it hurt to be touched right there but knowing she still could and would gave me a smile. "I'm sure its nothing compared to yours." I lifted up her shirt to see that it was almost healed up. I glanced up into her eyes as she said, "I fed off of one of the Lycan's."
I nodded knowing she didn't like to have to do something like that but did it for the blood. It would definitely help her in recuperation. "You need some to." she went to offer me her blood when I said, "Not that I don't want to but with us going up against Yamamoro…" she looked over to where he was previously at and was once again pulling a disappearing act. I pulled her attention back to me by pulling her face towards me.
"And I think you know that you'll need all the strength you need." It wasn't a matter of me indicating she couldn't do it but that since she had JUST had a major injury she wouldn't be at fully strength to take on a Lycan that was not only a leader but that was also hundreds of years older than her. He wouldn't go down as easily as Diamond did. Usagi was one of the most capable that I knew of but if even Damon who was older than her was having problems with Yamamoro then I knew she would.
Usagi POV
I knew him to be right its why I fed off the Lycan to begin with. Makoto was just worse off than me as her neck needed to be tended to. she had been unprepared to have to fight off someone that was supposed to be on our side and therefore left herself vulnerable. That was my fault now to. I did what I had to do and it made me sick that I had to kill someone that had been pulled into this fight as well.
However, if I hadn't we'd all potentially be dead and I couldn't take that risk. Diamond fought well especially being that I was trying to avoid killing him and he took advantage of that fact but in the end, when he went after Mamoru I couldn't let him die to. I had suffered for so long and I wasn't about to lose him to anyone, let alone a blast form the past…literally. I know Mamoru knew I hated to do it but in the end Diamond wasn't going to stop and it hit me hard that I couldn't save him on this one.
I begged for Damon to save him all those years ago and everything has its price to be paid and in this war we paid it in blood. I resisted the urge to drop the sword completely, but I couldn't let it get into anyone else's hands that could use it against us. Plus the elder gave it to me to use and I wasn't about to lose it in this fight. It had yet to meet Yamamoro in a bloody end. I looked over to see Diamond bloodied on the floor.
He looked like his Lycan victims now that the bodies had reverted back to their human form. Just another body to be burned when this was all over. Ashes to ashes…dust to dust. It was nothing more than blood and gore in that big ass pile that other vampires had added to but still the primary source was now dead a few feet from me as I held my composure together to avoid falling apart now.
Mamoru held me tightly just not to closely. He wanted to be prepared for any attack but also be within range of me. I knew what was next though and it would be good to get Diamond off my mind as I joined Damon in on the attack on Yamamoro. Holding back my own anger at what I had to do I set forth to join him when I stepped closer to Diamond's dead form and couldn't help the one tear that left my eye.
He shouldn't have had to die and yet I'm the one that killed him. I hated to kill the innocent but it became a blur when the innocent turned into the murderer and the guilt stopped festering and became more like a mercy kill. Diamond had been an innocent of this war but his own hatred of our kind put him at odds with us in the end. I looked down at the blood pool of guts and gore near my booted feet and suddenly wished for him to be at peace wherever he was. He deserved better than this…he was an innocent.
Mamoru encompassed me in his arms and gave me these few and fleeting moments to let go of my pain and let it be given a few moments to register but not to lose focus of where we were or what was going on. we still had to much work to do. he just wanted to give me a little bit of time to register what happened and what I had to do next as I had to leave Diamond's body parts and deal with it later. I had a strange feel though that things were about to get worse before they got better and I didn't like that.