Chapter 11

"Time to wake up sleepy head."

SLAP!

The sharp stinging pain brought Marinel back into reality; her vision adjusted and looked up, seeing those same two people in front of her.

"Wha… You!" Marinel was about to strike her fist against them, only her hand didn't even move and was instead greeted to the sound of chains clinking, "The hell?" She looked down, and what she saw made her blood run cold, she was wrapped in chains, bound and restrained.

She heard the woman laugh, "Don't bother trying to break them," She walked up to her, "We had these chains made just for you, they won't break no matter how hard you try."

The man circled around her, "And that block you're leanin against, made from the same metal. You have no idea how long it actually took to set all this up."

Tamao watched on helplessly, she too was tied by chains to a tree close to Marinel, "Why are you doing this!?" she screamed.

"Why?" She replied, "Because she's an abomination! Half-blood shits like her should be wiped out! And you know what, they were! And tonight we'll be killing the last one!"

"Wannabe Vampires are a disgrace to all vampires," The man followed up.

"Please let her go!" Tamao shouted, her heart pounding due to the fear she felt over Marinel being hurt. The man however walked towards Tamao.

"Don't you dare touch her!" Marinel shouted at the pair.

"We're not gonna touch her as much as we want to feed on her, but we want her to watch as you die slowly. And then, we'll leave her here, to starve, to die alone." He said.

"You shouldn't have gotten involved with humans you disgrace of a Vampire! You feed on them not love them!" She said as she slapped Marinel once more.

Marinel in her anger tried to break free from the chains but they were right, she couldn't bust them no matter how hard she tried.

"See, can't break them." she walked towards her, "Do you want to know how you're gonna die?"

Marinel said nothing, but instead gave her a gaze full of hatred.

"Oh my look at you!" she shouted excitedly, "Any other day I think that'll make me shake, wow! Sometimes you half-bloods… wow, so we were actually thinking, maybe we take out your eyes and keep them as souvenirs," She began, "Then we thought, why not take her fangs or maybe both but then my brother here had the best idea. Hell, you'll heal whatever we'll do to you but it'll still be great."

"So instead we want you to die in the most painful way imaginable for you, It'll make your mother roll in her grave," He followed up, "In just two more hours, that sun will be rising and burn you alive just like her. Unlike real vampires, you won't burst into flames and die but I'm sure you know that."

His sister walked up to her, "It's a real shame we won't be here to see you die, to hear as you scream in pain, to hear your skin sizzle," She got closer to her and hissed, imitating the noise she wants to hear, "To watch as you shrivel up and then, burst into flames."

"Such a real shame, and I'm sure all your little friends are gonna miss you but then again who gives a damn about half-bloods anyway."

Marinel threw her head back and head butted him as he was close enough, busting his nose.

"Bitch!" He reeled back, he looked at her as his nose healed just as fast and began to rush her.

"Leave it," Her sister stopped him, "Let's go before the sun rises, they won't be going anywhere." Without anymore words, the two vanished into the night leaving Marinel and Tamao alone.

Marinel and Tamao looked at each other, tears falling from the bluenettes eyes and then looked at the horizon hoping the sun would never shine.

-"God damn,"- She giggled, -"Do you ever rest?"- Momomi laid back down on the bed with her arms over her head, a layer of sweat covering both their bodies after their eventul night.

Shizuma laid down next to her, -"Not really, I can keep going."-

-"Oh I know you can,"- she smirked, -"I needed this so bad."-

-"Same."-

Momomi smirked then laughed, -"You know, I thought you hated me? Couldn't stand to be around me?"-

Shizuma who had been stroking Momomi's arm gently stopped, looked at her, -"Shut up."-

She climbed on top of the silver haired woman, -"Oh this is too good to be true!"- she grinned wider, -"Why don't you just say that you like me more then you'd care to admit. And maybe I may admit that I like you too."-

Shizuma looked away, -"Don't be stupid! I don't even like you."-

Momomi only laughed, -"Oh I so love this! The great Etolie feeling ashamed that she likes someone she hates!"-

-"It's not like that!"-

-"Oh it isn't?"- Momomi's grin never left, -"If that were true, you'd have told me to piss off out of your room."-

Silence.

Momomi giggled, -"Just admit it, you like me."-

Shizuma looked at her, -"… F-fine… I… shit… I like you more then I want to admit."-

-"Ha! I knew it!"- Momomi leaned closer to her, -"This kills you doesn't it,"- She laughed once more, -" But you know what I may like you too, even if you do get on my nerves."- Then pressed her lips on Shizuma's, -"So wanna go again?"-

-"Damn right."-

Momomi giggled as Shizuma began to have her way with her once more.

Nagisa stirred in her sleep, she slowly opened her eyes and looked at her clock.

-"Four-thirty?"- she whispered, she sighed knowing that she woke up too early, -"Tamao-chan?"- Nagisa looked across from her finding an empty bed.

Was she with Marinel again?

Nagisa sat back down, she just had this strange feeling that something was off but she couldn't quite tell what it was. She decided to go check up on them, so she stood up and left her room and made her way to Marinel's room.

Luckily for her the Sisters that patrol the halls were probably back in their rooms asleep so sneaking around was too easy now.

She made it to her room and knocked softly, -"Tamao-chan? Mari-chan?"- she knocked again and waited for an answer.

However Nagisa never got one… and Marinel doesn't sleep so she would've answered the door by now. Nagisa gripped the door knob and slowly entered the room.

Once inside, she looked around and it was empty… there was no sign that they have been in the room at all and it began to disturb her.

-"Where could they be?"-

She retreated back and this feeling of unease never went away so she went to Yaya's room. She opened the door to her room and entered without knocking, spotting Yaya deeply asleep but Hikari wasn't in the room.

She gently began to shake Yaya, -"Yaya-chan,"-

She moaned softly, Nagisa shook her once more seeing her open her eyes and look into Nagisa's.

-"Nagisa?"-

-"Yaya-chan, I'm worried about Tamao-chan?"-

-"Worried? Did something happen?"-

-"I don't know, I can't get this feeling out of my head."-

Yaya sighed, -"It's probably nothing."-

-"She wasn't in my room or in Mari-chan's room."-

Yaya laid back down, -"She's probably with Mari-chan, in town or something… get some sleep Nagisa."-

-"Gomenasai."- She then left Yaya's room and retreated back to her own, but that feeling of dread only got stronger and stronger as she sat in her bed, worrying over her friends and hoped they were okay.

"Raaaaaah!" Marinel screamed then she relaxed her body after trying to use as much strength as she could to try and break the chains but to no avail.

Tamao was also trying to get out of her restraints or to at least be able to get her arms free but she was bound tight.

-"I can't get out…"- Tamao sniffed as tears rolled down, -"Mari-chan…"- she looked at her, knowing that in a few hours that sun would come out and hurt her.

Marinel tried once more to break her chains but they never gave out to her strength, they were right, those chains could not be broken, -"It's no use…"- she panted.

-"Mari-chan, please don't say that, we'll find a way to get out."- Tamao cried.

Marinel looked on ahead, "Never thought that this is how I would go out…"

-"Don't say that, I don't want to watch you die…"-

She chuckled, "Neither do I… going out like this, it's too much."

There was nothing but silence, only the wind and Tamao's sobs were present. Tamao looked around, she had to get her phone and call for help.

"You know love, when you put aside all this stuff, this place actually looks nice."

Tamao looked up, -"Stop Mari-chan."-

"Just call me Evelyn."

Tamao stared at her, -"what?"-

"It's my name after all, think it's about time to use my first name."

Tamao shook her head, her tears still streaming down her face she began to struggle against her bonds.

"Tamao? What are you doing love?"

Her face was determined, -"I'm not going to let you die!"- She wiggled and struggled with her arms to try and slip one of them free.

"Tamao stop, you'll just hurt yourself." Though Marinel seemed calm about it, she was indeed terrified to die like this.

-"I don't care!"-

Marinel sighed, "You wanna know something funny… kinda."

Tamao said nothing but continued to struggle.

"I'm not craving blood anymore, it feels strange."

-"Evy-chan, shut up."-

Marinel chuckled, "Alright."

However as she silently waited, Marinel looked up and she felt her heart drop, "Um sugar…"

-"What?"-

"You might want to hurry."

-"Huh?"- She looked up to her, then to what she was looking at and her stomach turned, there was an orange glow on the horizon, the sun wasn't coming yet but it wouldn't be long till they saw that orb slowly peek out.

Tamao began to struggle harder and harder, she kept glancing at the horizon to make sure she still had enough time left. The sun began to peek out on the horizon and Tamao began to pull with all her might till finally one of her arms got free… at the cost of ripping pieces of her skin and bruising her wrist and forearm but she didn't care.

After trying to get the chains off, she knew that she was still bound and there was no way of getting free on her own.

"Tamao…"

Tamao saw the sunlight slowly began to cover the ground, slowly making its way to Marinel who was defenseless against the sun.

She reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone and began to dial some numbers.

When Tamao looked up again, she was horrified, the sunlight was now covering Marinel completely and while she was resistant to the sun, Tamao knew that it wouldn't last long.

Marinel looked at Tamao, starting to feel the dull sting of the sun she finally said, -"Tamao, I love you."-

-"I love you too Evy-chan."-

The sound of her phone startled her from her sleep, Nagisa let out a yelp as she fell from her bed and landed on her butt.

Nagisa quickly scrambled to her phone, and looked at the caller I.D, -"Tamao-chan!"- she quickly hit the receive button.

-"Tamao-chan, where are you!"-

-"Nagisa-chan! No time to explain, but we need your help, everyone's help!"-

-"Nani? What's wrong? What happened?"-

-"Forget about that Nagisa-chan! Just come find us! Mari-chan won't last long!"-

-"What do you mean?"-

Tamao's voice rose, -"Nagisa, just get everybody please!"-

-"Okay okay I will! Where are you?"-

-"I… I don't know,"- However she heard Marinel shout out that they looked to be in some place that was surrounded by sand and the ocean in front of them.

-"The beach?"-

-"I think so, I can't see too much because they're so many trees in my way but Mari-chan is in front of the sun, please hurry!"-

-"I'll get everyone! Hang on Tamao!"-

Nagisa hung up, changed as quickly as she could and rushed out her room, terrified over what's happened to her friends.

Nagisa ran through the halls and towards Yaya's room and pounded on her door, and it actually didn't take long for Yaya to open the door.

-"Nagisa-chan?"-

-"Yaya-chan! Tamao and Mari-chan are in trouble!"-

-"Nani!?"-

-"I need everyone's help to go find them!"- Nagisa didn't have time to explain but knew Yaya would help by her expression alone.

Yaya nodded, -"I'll get changed and meet you in the front."- Nagisa nodded and ran off to get the rest of her friends.

She managed to get Chikaru and Shion with her and urged her to not get the little ones involved as they did not need to know what happened after that the two rushed to the front to wait, while Nagisa ran to Shizuma's room.

She was about to knock on her door when it opened up, Nagisa saw Momomi in front of her, -"Eh? Momomi?"-

-"Hey."- She looked at her, then behind her seeing Shizuma.

-"Nagisa?"-

Nagisa thought the worst but pushed it aside for the moment, -"Shizuma-sama! You have to come with us! Mari-chan and Tamao-chan are in trouble!"-

-"Nani?!"- They both shouted.

-"Where are they?!"- Momomi asked.

-"They don't know where exactly, but they said they might be near or on the beach! Please we have to hurry!"-

The two nodded and rushed to the entrance, from there they ran all the way to the limo that Shizuma had called earlier as they made their way down.

They told their driver to step on it to the nearest beach to check first.

It only took them an hour to get there, and after shouting Tamao's name and Marinel, they found no sign of them and knew that this wasn't the right one.

They retreated back into the limo and drove to another one.

An hour had gone by as Tamao watched helplessly as Marinel began to burn, parts of her skin was red and smoke was coming off her, she grunted and groaned in pain as she tried her best to resist.

-"Just hang on Evy-chan, help is coming!"- she cried, then reached into her phone to call again, -"Nagisa-chan! Where are you?!"-

-"We're at the beach! Can you hear us?"- Tamao put the phone down to listen, she could not hear a thing besides Marinel's pain.

-"No, I can't hear you."-

-"We're at a wrong place again!"-

-"Please you have to hurry! Mari-chan is burning!"-

-"We'll try to get there as fast as we can!"- She hung up, -"Stay strong Evy-chan!"-

-"I'm trying!"- there was just so much pain a person could take, and Tamao knew she was going to reach her breaking point soon and would not be able to bear the pain any longer.

-"What do you mean burning?!"- Momomi shouted, -"You said they were in trouble but I didn't know like this!"-

Nagisa wiped her eyes, -"I'm sorry I didn't say anything but we have to hurry."-

-"Don't worry Nagisa, we'll find them."-

-"It better be soon cause if Mari is burning under the sun then we don't have long."- Shizuma followed up.

-"Do you have to say it like that."- Yaya glared at her.

-"What the hell happened?!"- Momomi demanded as she turned her sight to Nagisa.

Nagisa only shook her head, -"I don't know but we have to get there as quickly as we can.

-"We have to hurry."- Chikaru couldn't deny the sense of fear and dread just knowing what was happening to those two at this moment, and she was sure everyone else could feel it.

Shizuma turned her head and saw the beach approaching, she prayed that Marinel and Tamao were there.

-"Shizuma-sama."-

Shizuma glanced back to Nagisa, -"Yeah?"-

-"What was Momomi doing in your room?"- Nagisa asked.

-"You're really asking me that right now?"-

Nagisa looked away, -"I was just wondering."-

Shizuma too looked away, -"Don't worry about it."- While not the response Nagisa wanted to hear, and truthfully she wasn't so sure she wanted to hear it, she would wonder about it later because right now Marinel's and Tamao's safety was priority.

They pulled up to the beach and quickly stepped out, -"Tamao-chan!"- Nagisa shouted and they all jogged around the place to cover more ground.

Chikaru had no luck, Shion found nothing, Momomi covered one of the hills and Yaya also found nothing as did Shizuma.

-"Where could they be?!"- Nagisa began to panic for her friends and was getting desperate, she pulled out her phone and began to punch in the numbers or she was till she heard something that made her blood run cold.

-"Girls over here! Do you hear that?"- They all approached her and they too began to hear it… sending chills down their spines.

They all heard Marinel's bloodcurdling cries of pain. They followed her cries and found a path that went up to a hill which was surrounded by trees besides the opening and after they got up, they all saw her and what they saw left them devastated.

-"oh my god…"-