MoonMama89: yeah sometimes that's what I aim for. Lol I had big plans for Diamond's death. Something impactful…kind of like someone else that will be having their end soon…I'm glad that the detail is just enough to pain the picture just right. And you could be right on the reviews thing, for me whenever I review someone's work I wait till its several chapters into it only because if I review on the first one, every story I've done that with never gets completed…no joke, never once does it. At one point I thought I was bad luck. But thank you so much, I so love the reviews I do get and am so happy to have so many followers and people that love my work. It truly puts a smile on my face. 😊

jessielee14: I decided to make the ending here the whole final battle sequence that way it's a nice little bow and I'm also glad that its coming along so well especially since I threw in Yamamoro. He was an added character that I thought up of on the spot as I was writing. He wasn't in the original planning but his character filled in gaps I didn't realize I had.

OrientalDanceGirl: some will make it others will not…

3 reviews, nice, now as we are coming to the ending of this lovely tale of love, drama and vampires in an endless war against the Lycan's I hope you all have been enjoying it all. The next story I'm going to start up will probably be posted sometime in early June as that'll give me a month to write a few chapters and flesh out the plot lines. I'm debating on the title choice but the one I have so far in my head is 'stalker'. Simple and probably over used but you tell me what you think in this small description and it is in current times. 'usagi moves into new building, falls for neighbor but he becomes overly obsessed and to possessive even for her tastes. She breaks it off, takes a little bit of time before meeting another new neighbor, mamoru, they get together but this makes her ex stalk them both.' There's more to it than that but I haven't ironed out all the details yet. Let me know and please review as we are just about at the end.

A vampires forbidden love ch.24

Damon POV

I felt utterly exhausted. I could taste the blood in my mouth from the hits I took in. I could feel my muscles and even bones protesting the beating I was taking. It would take me weeks to heal from this. Sometimes I wished I didn't gloat about my abilities…or else I might have had more back up that Minako. At this point I was beyond the need for blood. Yamamoro was a definite contender and one that was safe to say hard to kill.

I felt my own bones shifting and trying to mend from at least some of the numerous times they had been pulled out of place and or fractured. I was breathing hard as Yamamoro was barely looking winded. As old as fuck as the Lycan was he was definitely stronger than I had previously thought he was. Now I wanted to know where the hell Usagi was with Mamoru and Diamond. I looked back recalling how she was dealing with Diamond's loose cannon ass.

That fucker did what I KNEW he would do. He fucked up and flipped out and onto our own people. People I had known for decades…they were good vampires. FUCK! I KNEW this would happen…I knew it. So when I managed to look over when Minako was trying more hand to hand moves that Yamamoro kept knocking away like it was nothing, I saw Diamond's body, now cut in half and Usagi in Mamoru's arms.

The chopping of Diamond was necessary considering. I watched as he tore through a few vampires. His blood lust had spiraled out of control just as I predicted…but he was also Usagi's problem and her conflict to deal with. I knew it'd be something that would hurt Usagi going forward but perhaps this is what she needed to have happen to wise up and realize she didn't have what it took to be in my shoes.

Looking at it through his perspective…after two hundred years of being locked up he got out to kill a few dozen Lycan's and ends up having his reason for being here slice him in two…with good reason but still. I could only imagine what was going through his head. The first floor was practically coated with blood, guts and gore from the numerous bodies laying around. In fact I was pretty sure if we ate Lycan's that we had enough here to feed the whole coven that's how many we had all, but mostly Diamond, had cut through.

So when I saw Mamoru hold onto Usagi I felt my blood boil. The way she held onto him for comfort it was as if the last two hundred years being my whore and bitch didn't matter. Two hundred years of blowing me, sucking me, letting me fuck her any which way I wanted…yet a little bit of time with him and she fell so deeply in love that my own father even took her side on the matter.

As vulnerable as she looked she also looked strong and full of determination. How did she do that I wondered, but as I looked at them I knew how things between them would play out. She would give him the world if he asked for it but so would he to her as well and that slow trickling piece of knowledge was enough to give me more rage. I got up off the floor, difficult as that was considering the pain I was in, and continued to watch her break down in his arms before trying to get ahold of herself.

I looked back over to see Minako get thrown into a wall and grumble but not get back up as two more vampires came to her aid. I rolled my eyes at it as I had other things to focus on. Namely how after everything I tried to do they were still tight as anything. Nothing could break these two up, not even a stupid blast from the past could and it was pissing me the fuck off. I tried to ignore it but then I caught a glint in my eyes. Looking over I saw the sword still clutched in her hand and wondered if my own father had that little faith that I could kill Yamamoro.

I knew he was safe in the infirmary with Makoto, having seen Mamoru usher him there when Makoto got bite. I knew I should have gone back there with them but knew my place was out here saving our kind. The head doctor we had here said through the com's that Mamoru got them down here in time to save her and that my father was also safe but not liking the idea of being benched…so to speak.

I hated to admit that he was better off in there because at the end of the day I wanted him to see me flourish out here killing our enemy. I wanted him to see that I was the vampire most fit to rule in his absence. I should be the ruler of this coven and it seemed a lot of vampires were starting to favor her. I looked around and found that despite the odds and the murder spree that happened afterwards, Usagi's plan had technically worked.

Diamond took out enough of the Lycan's for us to have a fighting chance even with the vampires he took down before Usagi put him down herself. But seeing them so close and sharing each other's pain, I hated that they looked so at peace in each other's arms despite all the shit going on. I hated that while she did the right thing in killing Diamond that she not only had the guts to do it but the balls to go through with it.

I was ready to walk away from them and leave them to their own devices when I heard Usagi say, "Mamoru…I…" she seemed at a lose for words till he said, "I feel the same way…" it was like he gave her inspiration for her next words, "To be perfectly honest right now, I'd be lost without you in my life…I love you so much…I couldn't fathom loving anyone else the way I love you…"

I watched as she opened up to him, let him see her emotions in a way that not only I could never see but in a way that I hadn't cared enough to see. This side of her had never been shown to me and I was jealous that he got to see it. He had what was real with her. I had the shell of what she was out of life and he, this newbie piece of shit, got the real thing with her? I pulled out my last blade and gripped it hard enough to cut into my own palm. I used the pain as a diversion to prevent myself from killing them both on the spot.

At least him…her I could put her right back in her place but him…he needed to die a bloody death. This battle was honestly perfect for it. I just had to separate them long enough to kill him without any witnesses that could make a plea for a dead man. I looked at them and saw a tenderness shared between. It wasn't a lot but considering what was going on it was barely there and it made my blood boil as I saw them standing strong together.

I hated so badly that they looked right for each other. It made me want to pout like a child and slam their heads together but that was beneath me. They just looked strong and confident in what happened next. That's when a flash of seeing my mother and father came to mind. I closed my eyes briefly to rid myself of the image not seeing the point of it now of all times but the images refused to leave.

My subconscious putting them in line with the love my father held for my mother and I hated that it wasn't ME in the image I saw. I hated that even if I tried I couldn't see it. I couldn't see it cause at the end of the day I knew I didn't deserve it one bit. I didn't deserve her and I wanted to take it out on her for getting me to fall in love with her without even trying and with her hatred of me as well.

I was seeing how strong and resilient they were, just as my parents had looked together before my mother was stolen from us and here, now I was seeing these two together. It was supposed to be me and I fucked it up so beyond belief…I should have been by her side, holding her close, comforting her in a time of need, but obviously to little to fucking late to that party. I sneered at them on response though they didn't seemed to notice me. They were even giving off that resilient appearance before more Lycan's came out to attack them.

I watched as they, with confidence that was born of knowing each other that well (plus the sex they had probably helped) I sneered at that, tore through the Lycan's that attacked them with equal amounts of aiding one another and successfully watching their own backs to not let the Lycan's gain the upper hand. They fought with integrity and passion. Something I lacked in over the years.

Everything had been handed to me and here she had been fighting for what she wanted tooth and nail and what had I given her…my dick to worship every night…even though I knew she preferred not to. Everything I thought I knew and had was not as it seemed. I had blinded myself to what was going on and around me and now the greatest war we fought was coming down upon us and the one I had planned to keep by my side as a second in command, officially and as my whore on the side truly fell for another.

A Lycan came to try and kill me but I used my anger in stride to grab its head before it could bite at me and slammed it hard enough into the staircase that it cracked and sank to the ground on impact. It was dead within seconds but I couldn't have cared less. I was furious now as I watched the two fighting. So fucking perfectly in tune with one another…I hated it. She and I were never that well-coordinated.

We were good don't get me wrong, we fought well together as we trained together, well as I trained her but we hadn't ever been that good. The best we fought was about 75 years ago during the second world war here in Japan. Though that was mainly because Usagi and I went undercover to try to eradicate the enemy out of certain areas that were to close to our home. So while it wasn't all out like this was, our job to keep the secret of us safe had to be solid. Usagi worked well as I did but also come to think of it that was a split mission.

We worked together in the area but didn't actually fight back to back. Nothing on a scale like this though. I hadn't once taken my eyes from them as they fought against the Lycan's that attacked them. Grabbing a knife off a dead vampire I shoved it onto my person knowing it would come in handy later on. I walked forward watching them. It was like they shared one mind and it worked perfectly for them.

She had I had never once worked so well it was like one mind. We had worked very well in battle before but never to the level that neither of us didn't get hurt as we did. I was feeling all the months of jealousy, the amount that I didn't distribute to her, rise up within me. The few outbursts beforehand were in all honesty nothing compared to what I really wanted to do and say to the both of them.

I looked to the calculating anger on Mamoru as he fought for her and with her. He was, had, taken her from me. He was taking something that took me hundreds of years to mold as what I wanted out of a woman. He not only allowed her to bond, prosper and grow, but he made love to her and LOVED her with no holding back, no barriers like I had in place…and it took her further from me.

She left me and was even taking a stand against me on it. She was defying my wants of her and rejecting my demands of her in the bedroom. He convinced her to stop I know he did and he would pay the price for doing this. Hell she was taking my commanding position here even if she didn't know it yet and he was taking away the one thing that mattered more to me, even more than my seat here.

I hadn't wanted to ever admit it…not to anyone…definitely not to my father, least of all to myself but to anyone else either…I did love her. Do still love her. I tightened my hands into fists clenching them so tightly I just knew my hands were turning white from the lack of blood flow but I didn't care…my head fell to the floor. Preferring the appearance of blood over the sight of them together.

But I did…I loved her beyond words and I spent so much time trying to avoid letting her see how I felt, not wanting her to think that by loving her she had power over me. Not wanting to see her as an equal as he did my mother because that would mean if I lost her I'd know that painful feeling. If I lost her today yeah it'd hurt but I wouldn't be so bad that I couldn't go on and I would…as this covens ruler.

I just hated that I spent so much time and effort avoiding my father or anyone else from realizing it that I destroyed any chances to gain her love. I hated that doing things my way resulted in my losing everything I really wanted. Then I thought of my treatment of her, what I did to her…I didn't deserve her love back, not by a long shot, but that didn't mean I was willing to watch another man have what I couldn't.

I couldn't deal with seeing them together…these past few months proved to be testing my sanity to much. So instead, after this war was done with, I would take what I wanted by force and if she declined, then it looks like both would be dying in this war of Lycan fatalities. The mess was believable enough so it wouldn't be to much of a stretch to believe. Then things could go back to normal again.

No more Mamoru to get in my way but hopefully Usagi would still be alive…and then I would make her mine again. This time her willingness wasn't a huge factor anymore. I was done playing nice guy. Turns out what was really needed was for Usagi to see what she really didn't know about me…I'm a lot worse than given credit for. I'm more than the bad guy here…I'm the one that knew her body better than she did. I knew her strengths and weaknesses…I knew where to hurt her the most…him.

I began to walk up to the two as they fought together. I had planned to kill him during this anyways. I looked around and spotted a dead Lycan with his gun strap still around his neck. I pulled it from his dead form and took another glance around to make sure I couldn't be seen but unfortunately I had to many eyes that could see me. I dropped it and went for plan B of my directive…use a knife instead. Mamoru wouldn't know what hit him.

However it turned out to be me that didn't know what hit him cause when I looked over at them, he was kissing her. It was brief looking and not at all deep but the tenderness that was displayed struck a cord in me deeper than ever. His hands were on her hips as he held her close while her hands were holding him close by his arms. I know it was merely a moment they were taking out for each other considering the Lycan's that they took out which I had to admit was pretty good but also served to only make me want to kill him more. Mamoru made me see red.

Usagi POV

Mamoru had truly become my rock in this world. Here I was feeling like I was going to be in the midst of a breakdown at having to kill Diamond, the last thing I had that was a part of my old world, and Mamoru was there for me. No judgement was passed, he was just there for me. So when he kissed me, just a simple loving kiss with a loving hand on my cheek, I felt renewed like I could take on the world if needed.

Any anxiety I felt after Diamond's demise disappeared and my own stab wounds, courtesy of Diamond, felt like they were even healing faster which I didn't see how that was possible considering there was nothing being given to them but time, but it honestly felt like they were healing. Either that or Mamoru was just that good at distracting me from the pains…which is probably what it was.

So when out of nowhere he got ripped, literally, from my own arms and tackled to the ground several feet away by Damon of all people I was horrified and went to Mamoru's aid. Damon must have seen my move coming as he slammed his fist in an upper cut against my face hard enough to send me flying back a good 10-15 feet when I managed to approach them. I got back up and blurred to charge at Damon to get him off Mamoru when I got blocked mid-way by a force that was far stronger than I had anticipated.

I looked up in time to see the older Lycan Yamamoro standing before me. There was an expression of great joy there as I vaulted myself back up to my feet, careful to keep my eyes on him as he acted cool, calmed and relaxed of all things. Battle raging on around us and he was cool and aloof. "Yamamoro." I greeted with caution, eyeing him wearily as his smile increased showing off a row of very sharp looking teeth.

"Tell me was it you that killed my daughter or your dark-haired friend up there?" I knew he was referring to Rei but I couldn't let her get hurt by this jackass, she was after all one of my few closest friends. If I told him the truth he'd go after her instead of dealing with me and she had her hands full just as the rest of the vampires did. It was a risk I was unwilling to take, especially after all we had been through together.

I squared my shoulders and said, "I tossed her the head to show off to you." I lied, "After all you killed our elders daughter so why not tit for tat?" I summed up as if it meant nothing to me. Which perhaps it didn't. He looked beyond pissed off, "Besides at least I had the decency to kill her as an adult…if you had even a shred of that you wouldn't have done what you did to the elders daughter."

I was angered at just looking at him. He was going to have the nerve to be upset with me over this when he did far worse than even I believe Damon had ever done…and that's saying a lot! I had honestly wanted to confront him about this since I learned the truth of it so when he said, "Your elder needed to learn a lesson…that I'm not a Lycan to be taken lightly." His expression was a mixture of anger and amusement.

"I gathered." I snipped sarcastically as I found us both practically alone. All the Lycan's that had guarded him were now dead thanks to us. "If I were you I'd stand down…your extra Lycan's are dead." I motioned to where Diamond's body pile up was at, "Hai, I see that you had a little back up plan yourself." He sneered, yet there was this air about him like he was proud… "I must admit that vampire had an incredible blood lust that we could have used today…" I tried not to smile wondering where he was going with it.

Then he looked to where the body was and I swallowed the lump that formed in my throat. "But then I saw what you did to him…for him…" he meant Mamoru I knew that much as he turned to me with approving eyes, "You would have made me a fine lieutenant. Knowing what to do and having the stones to do it…" I watched him with curious and angered eyes as he watched me with calculating but relaxed eyes, "I did what was necessary…" I remarked as he turned himself towards the fighting vampires.

I watched both Mamoru and Damon fighting for dominance in a fight that was meant to be to the death. I had to stop Damon as I knew him to be faster and stronger than Mamoru but only due to his age and training. "I can see it in you…" I looked at Yamamoro and searched for a way to get the drop on him. He was faster and stronger than me. How Damon evaded him to come after Mamoru was beyond me.

"See what? That I have sanity and you lack in that department?" I spat sarcastically. He seemed almost amused by my attitude, "Oh you young ones…no, what I see in you is that you were gifted with the ability to survive." I narrowed my eyes, "I was trained well over the years." I kept it simple, something about the way he was talking to me…it felt different. Like he saw me differently than he saw Damon or any other vampire here...I don't know why I felt that I just did and as much as I was intrigued Mamoru needed me.

"And yet I see that your still standing and better than your elders son is." He mocked, "He didn't fair well in the fight." He shrugged it off like fighting with Damon and Minako had been a flight of fancy. Minako! I looked around for a quick second and found her to be with Rei, fighting off more Lycan's. They were dimming in numbers greatly but till they either forfeited or were all dead this battle would continue to rage on. "He and I have different fights styles." I ignored the remark about Damon not wanting to get into it.

"You're better than he is…" why was he complimenting me? That by giving me this praise that I would – I had to end this. His praise could be a trick. A ploy. "Yamamoro…" but he cut me off, "Your only problem is you have a soul…and that simply will not work in this war." This time, for the first time ever, he came after me. I hadn't seen him go after ANYONE till now. What the hell made me so special?!

Mamoru POV

The moment I was ripped from her I felt every ounce of me go into fight and protective mode thinking that a Lycan got the drop on us, but when I saw Damon was the one that attacked me, appearing visibly beyond pissed off. I was utterly bewildered that he was attacking me in full view of everyone. Though thinking on it everyone else was so busy fighting themselves I realized he was taking an opportunity to kill me.

Realizing his plan gave him the advantage to slam me into the marble floor, knocking my head against it with enough impact to daze me a bit before I saw him take a few seconds out to give Usagi, whom I could only assume was coming to my aid, a hard enough upper cut to send her flying out of my eye sight. It made me see red for that bogus move even more so over my own attack from him.

I used the moment to get my foot up and slammed it hard enough into him to send him back a good five to ten feet before skidding a few more feet. Not as much as what he gave to Usagi but I was still a bit dazed. I refocused myself to shake the dizziness away as I found Usagi getting up herself. Then I looked over and saw him. He got up and wiped the blood from his mouth. He himself looked like hell ran him over a few times, but he didn't have any visible stab wounds on him like Usagi or I did.

Though I don't know what kind of wounds he had internally, he did go up against Yamamoro after all…whom was now confronting Usagi. Realizing this I went to her aid only to have Damon block me. "What you think you're getting out of this that fast?" he sneered as he shoved me back a few feet. I spat out some blood and flipped back up to my feet. Usagi needed me and I wouldn't let her down.

Not after everything she'd ever done for me. I owed her my life and she was…I loved her…deeply. I wasn't about to let anything happen to her if I could stop it. If I had to kill Damon to do it considering it looked like he was using the battle to kill me he was fair game. "Usagi's in trouble." He had to want to kill Yamamoro more than me so I tried to get his focus there so we could together take out the Lycan leader and save her.

He barely looked back at the two as I lost sight of her after Yamamoro blocked my visual. He acted like it was nothing, "She'll be fine…you on the other hand…won't be." he remarked. I had no way out of this without fighting. I ignored the pain in my side and used the conversation, if you could call it that to give me my breath back and fight better. My battle with Diamond took it out of me a bit. "You really think she'd forgive you if you end up killing me…it won't win you her back you know…" I tried.

That's when he grabbed a gun off the ground and went to shot me with it when it came up empty. The clicking of the empty clip gave me a tinge of relief making my heart feel a little lighter than before…but only a little. He decided to use it as a blunt weapon and came after me. I jumped up and tackled him down before jumping to the wall, and kicking out back behind me to nail him in the backside.

Almost like a frog leap only enhanced to do damage though not a lot. It dislodge the gun from his hands though as he fell, more like skidded, to the ground. A hump of a grunt could be heard from him. "You think I care about her forgiveness after this?" he asked me. His eyes lighting up as he looked back at me. He spat out some blood, "You think I'm going to care about her willingness after I kill you?"

I narrowed my eyes at him, "You'd actually…" I hadn't wanted to voice out the rest of the words. The fact that he kept her to him for all that time and now wanting to do it again only this time make her do things by force…it was disgusting, "Your nothing but trash." I told him, my voice low as he got back up to his booted feet. It seemed he was also beaten pretty badly and was near me when it came to energy levels but I was also aware that he had personal issues with me which in turn gave him more motivational energy.

He hated me for taking her away from him. For the two of us falling in love and frankly I think his father liked me over him…I think. "For a man of any kind to use blackmail as a way to keep a girl tied to your side then to use a forced consent before just using force in the end is just pathetic on your end." He looked back at me fiercely and used his strength to rise back up again, his vampirism coming out.

"I'm going to enjoy ripping the flesh from your bones." He growled out as he came at me again, so I jumped up as he aimed mid-section. We both dodged each other perfectly as I said, "I see you aren't denying it though." I snarked and heard his hiss as he roared out at me before lunging too fast for me to counter and nailed me right in the gut. He hauled me up off the ground and threw me into a nearby wall.

I fell to the ground and barely had a chance to get back up as he said, "I'm not denying it because there's nothing to deny." He kicked me in the gut, hitting that sword wound from Diamond badly enough to have me groan out in pain. I had to ignore it. Usagi was facing Yamamoro and she needed my help. "Bullshit!" I snapped, getting pissed at him as I kicked my legs out to knock him down.

I huffed as I to spit out some blood. I had never been more thankful that Usagi turned me, or else right now, within internal injuries alone I should be in a hospital bed and unable to stand let alone fight. I could feel it in me as we fought. Each punch, each kick…it was all there and painfully so…but I was alive…and that was all that mattered to help her kill the leading Lycan prick. "You wanted her, all of her…but you never really had her." I began, seeing the anger rising within him.

"That's what pisses you off the most." His eyes flashed, his anger rising as I realized it. "Its not that we're in love…at least not just that…" it dawned on me, all that time together he had and there was never any love. "What pisses you off the most is that you avoided falling in love with her yourself and treated her like shit but now that she's happy with ME you wished you had been different…you fucked up your ONLY shot with her if you can even call it that and now you want her back…to fucking late cause I'm not giving her up." I told him venomously.

I was beyond pissed off. I went to strike him but he blurred too fast for me to counter properly and we both went flying into another wall. We both struck it and fell to the ground together. I rolled over and found him to be now looking as if he were struggling. He was using his anger to feed off of for his energy but even he could only handle so much. Or rather his body could. Even as a vampire you had your limitations.

He was ignoring his own just to kill me and I was hoping it would be his down fall. We both got up but we could both see the other was pretty beaten. Not only by each other but by the previous fights. We were the only vampires left on the first floor now. The rest of the fight was dispersed through the estate from what I could tell now. Something I had a feeling would happen as there were a great deal of us all in here.

I took a swing at him slamming my fist hard into his face, dislocating his jaw temporarily as he shoved it back in place before seconds later his hit landed me slamming into the wall. He was definitely using his anger to fuel him as his punch was harder than before. However, it was also fouled as he didn't hit me in the jaw but on the cheek. It was painful but it didn't dislocate anything which I was minorly happy about.

I scrambled to get back up and as he went after me again I grabbed onto his arm and used the wall he was trying to back me into, to vault myself up and over his back and pulled him bodily over my own form, throwing him several feet from me. I walked over before he could get up and slammed my foot as hard as I could into his side vaulting him up and over a few feet. My own anger rising.

"You don't have a choice." He snapped out getting back to his feet. Before he could make a move I rushed him. I tackled him mid side as he tried to use his elbow to slam into my backside so I threw him as hard as I could into the stairwell breaking the thick wooden pokes up along the way. He spat out more blood as I heaved. My own energy reserves running low thanks to that last move.

"Actually, it's you that doesn't have a choice…you just didn't know it." I told him as I climbed up a few steps to where he was. He tried to kick out. I caught his booted foot and pulled as hard as I could and pulled as he flew and slammed down onto the marble floor. The impact caused more blood to come out of his mouth as he got back up slowly. He really didn't want to let go and be done with it.

"Damon you may as well face it. She's mine. She doesn't want you, trust me if she did I would never stand in your guys way." That's when he looked at me as he began to get back up slowly, "But I guess that's the difference between you and me…I know when to stand down…" I stumbled down the few steps back to him. He came at me. I barely caught the move as he tried to swing at me…but I did. I blocked it before using my right elbow and slamming it up into his face hitting his jaw again before head butting him breaking his nose on contact.

Blood poured from it but I didn't give him a chance to even blink any more. I jumped up and wrapped my legs sideways around his waist to throw us both down and roll over. Before I could finish the move and wrap my leg around his neck to make an attempt at knocking him unconscious he bite into my leg forcing me to let him go as he scrambled away. Had this moment not been so death defying I would have laughed at the retreat.

The rest of the vampires still fighting off the remaining Lycan's as numbers on both sides were dwindling further down. Usagi and Yamamoro were nowhere to be seen which made me worried for her safety. The leading Lycan was a sociopathic asshole that didn't care about anyone but himself and would kill her if she didn't kill him first. "You clearly don't…not to mention our focus should be on fighting alongside Usako and NOT fighting each other!" the dumbass should have known that.

Then it was like something went off in his head. His eyes turned darker than before. Darker than I had ever seen on a vampire before. "Usako?" he asked before lashing out. A blade came out form his form. Hidden I had to guess on him. He slashed at me several times, trying to find a way to kill me now that I had pissed him off. Apparently pet names weren't a good thing with him at all. He blurred all around me, utterly disorienting me as he jabbed at me several times, each cut worse than the last as he slowly took me down.

It really felt like I was being cut at with little knives all over the damned place and because he was moving so damned fast, benefits of being a much older vampire, I couldn't keep up with it. I fell to my knees as he kept blurring all over the place. He became nothing more than a blur as he slashed at me. I tried to keep up with my own vampirism but couldn't against his strength, energy and speed.

I tried to break out of this odd cocoon thing he had me in as he kept moving all around until he finally stopped. Right behind me where he now had me in a choke hold from behind. I could hear his extensive gasps of breath. Clearly having worn himself out with the marathon he'd run around me. I gripped onto him with everything I had in me cause at this point I was to injured from all the fucking cuts to break it.

Tears were beginning to form at the loss of breath I had as we both fell to the floor having been on shaky legs now. His grip beginning to loosen but not enough to allow me to break it as his own strength wavered. That's when I saw the reflection of the blade before he tried to stab me with it. One of my hands instinctively went to his hand to block the blade he had grabbed, which would explain why his hold loosened, and it was just in time to as the tip of it was barely a centimeter from my right eye.

It was so close that the sweat from my face fell on to the blade. I had to gulp at how close this was. If I failed for even a fraction of a second to keep this going I'd be dead. The blade was long enough to kill me. Images of Usako came to mind. I was trying to keep her in my thoughts as the last thing I'd see if I couldn't keep up the hold. Hoping she knew just how much loved her so damned badly.

"To bad you didn't have the balls to do this yourself…or this storyline would end so differently a long time ago." He sneered, trying to make the blade go it. I blinked and felt the blade slice a tiny fraction of my eye lid. The eye lashes brushing against it intimately making me fearful that I would die here and now at his hands and that he would go after Usagi and kill her if he couldn't tame her. I couldn't let that happen.

It wasn't till he shifted that I felt something poking into me…sharply. Suddenly an idea came to mind. Sending a silent prayer to whomever was listening that I would get through this and protect my love, I took in the few precious breaths I had left and took the chance. I abandoned the arm around my neck as he tightened it further and compressed more making my vision begin to blur and the lights begin to dim in my mind. I scrambled for the where the poking was and remembered the hidden knife I had on my person.

That was what was poking me. I didn't have time to berate myself for not grabbing it sooner and used the rest of my strength to pull it out and stab him viciously in the leg with it. He released his hold on me, granting me breath and my vision back as he clutched at his leg. I rolled away and grasped at my throat with my other hand. "Mother fucker!" he cursed. The dripping wet blade full of blood was still in my hand, clenched tightly as I felt the energy begin to leave me still at being so close to the brink of death.

I had to face it…Damon had almost won in killing me. Before he could get back up I let my own anger temporarily fuel me to blur towards him. He tried to get up and do the same but I beat him to the punch and was able to slam the blade into his throat. His mouth opened up wide in shock at the move. I didn't twist it, I didn't do anything extra already knowing his time now was limited as I pulled it back out. He tried to talk as he fell to the floor and began to choke on his own blood.

I wobbled over to where I saw the swords were on the wall and pulled one down. It took me a few as I was dwindling with my own energy. I honestly felt like I was running on fumes now as I walked back to him. I made sure to keep on my feet and out of range for a close range attack form him as I didn't doubt that another attack would kill me for sure, but he remained where he was, trying to staunch the bleeding. His neck and chest now coated with his blood.

He got as far as standing up on his wobbling legs and rasped out, "I'm going…to fucking…kill you…." I breathed out, ready to pass out in all honesty, "I think somehow we both knew it would come to this…" I felt the swords weight heavy upon me as I raised it to kill him. He would kill me I knew that much and had tried and almost succeeded. That's when we heard a big loud crash and both turned to see Usako walking away looking battered and bruised herself…but still alive and well and that was something I was thankful for.

In a last minute turn of events Damon lunged for her. I didn't think, I didn't even blink. I swung the sword down at him. Cut into his back like Usako had earlier with Diamond only much deeper than that one was. I severed his spinal cord so even he couldn't recover from it. He tried to crawl over to her but his lower half wouldn't communicate that to the upper half. His legs wouldn't obey him and were starting to shake from loosing motor function. He pushed himself up onto his elbows to look at her.

I wasn't sure what she was aiming to do. She just looked at him with contempt. Bloodied up herself and Yamamoro, I presumed was in the pile of broken debris. Before I had a chance to ask if she'd killed him the debris began to move. Yamamoro wasn't dead. Then I looked back to her and saw this look of anger, disgust and pity for Damon. I stumbled around him as I knew he'd be unable to stand up or cause anymore trouble.

Damon wasn't going to be able to hurt anyone anymore. When I saw the expression on his face it was that of regret and sorrow. He knew he'd done wrong but in his final moments wasn't able to verbally express it. I robbed him of that. Being that he almost killed me moments ago I felt it was justified…perhaps I was wrong but I didn't think I was. "I'll protect your father…and your coven." She said. Not in a 'ha, ha' I have it now manner but in a motion of sorrow herself as she hadn't wanted things to come to this.

A tear formed in her eye before I offered her the sword. She turned away from it. "I'm sworn to protect the leader of this coven and his descendants." I nodded accepting the reasoning…or perhaps the excuse but either way I accepted it and slammed the sword through his skull right into the marble floor. Damon's body fell like a sad lump against it as I pulled the sword free from his form.

"However…" I looked at her hoping I hadn't made a mistake, "While I'm sworn to protect the leader of this coven, if the leader is found to be unfit to protect it, the safety of the coven comes above it." She stated wiping the tear away. "Come on we still have work to do." she kept going right before I felt my world go dark. My legs gave out and the energy I had from before faded from me. All to soon I felt the marble floor beneath me connect painfully as Usako's voice was the last thing I heard.