Chapter Twenty: Game Over

Authors Note: I AM SO SORRY FOR UPDATING THIS IN OVER A MONTH! I was creating Hinata and Rei's fnfiction wiki profiles. (Go to the vampire knight fanfiction fandom and type in Hinata Kuran. I'm still working on Rei's. If you don't know what I'm talking about, those are characters I created for The Pureblood Lovers). Please review.

-Four Years Ago-

Maria P.O.V.

Standing in the doorway, I watched as Zero slumped to the ground, pain and agony clearly showing on her face while Shion stood over her, wiping the blood from his mouth. He knelt downbeside my twin as Zero glared at him.

"You look like a child, yet you make such an expression...you are the second person who has faced me with such strong emotion."

I turned to the door and looked over my shoulder. "Lord Shion. If we don't go soon, we might be caught by the Association. You're not regretting this, are you?" I asked. "After finally carrying out your revenge."

"Ma...ria..." Zero ground out through the pain, her fingers leaving blood streaks on the floor.

Shion carressed her cheek. "I am fulfilled, Maria..." He said, smiling. "Because I got my revenge on the Kiryu's...and also because I've gained an interesting thing..."

-Present Day-

Zero pulled the sword out of her arm, her blood dripping from the blade onto the floor. "Until that day, Zero...you had always acted as if you hadn't realized. That our parents were...gradually...becoming meaningless beings to me...and that Zero, whom I loved very much...I actually...always hated you." I looked up and met her gaze. "By the way...I want you to thank me. It was me who asked lord Shion to keep you alive."

Zero didn't seem surprised. "Because after making me suffer, you wanted to kill me with your own hands..."

I could see Kaname watching us over Zero's shoulder, his expression that of shock. "That's right..." I smiled and stepped up beside my sister. "Have you suffered enough after having your life twisted by lord Shion? Have you suffered as much as I have?" I lowered my voice. "Lord Shion also changed my life...don't you think pureblood vampires are god-like with their powers?"

Yuki P.O.V.

The light from the moon shone through the window, our shadows stretching across the floor as his blood spattered on the floor. I kept my arm across his chest, holding him upright as my other hand potruded from his chest. "You do not seem to be surprised..."

Shion finally spoke. "No...I have been thinking of taking your life as well...by other means..." He looked at me from the corner of his eye. "I was planning to make Kaname Cross your assassin."

"I see..." My mind drifted to the last time I saw him before he ran off, his strange behavior at the ball now making sense. "He would have been the perfect choice..." I slid my hand back and felt his body stiffen. "Do you feel it...? I am holding your heart. If...I take it out right now...can you imagine what will happen?" I dug my fingers into his heart. "Right now, you do not have your healing power due to your gunshot wounds. Even though you are a pureblood, you may cease to exist..."

Shion sneered. "What a dirty trick...you presumed this would happen and were waiting for the oppurtunity, weren't you?" He asked, his blood dripping on the floor.

"Yes. It is foolish to try to outwit an unhurt pureblood...because if purebloods are equal, then, a battle would just inflict harm and end up with a stalemate...but I still wanted your pureblood blod. You needed my pureblood blood as well...that is why you tried to make use of Kaname, am I right?"

He smiled. "That boy's only value is to make him a 'piece'." He looked over his shoulder. "For now..." I kept my face blank. "I cannot resist any longer. Only death awaits the looser of this game...if you let me live, that boy will die in my place one day."

I grabbed Shion's jaw and tilted his head to the side, exposing his neck. "Shion, I will take your life. I will use all of my power to protect Kaname."

Zero P.O.V.

"You think...that man is godlike?" I asked my sister.

Maria looked bored. "You just don't know a thing about lord Shion...he kept his promise and...made me healthy. I want to kill you, Zero...but if you come with me, I'll forgive you. But...only as lord Shion's servant."

Kaname spoke up. "You've...become that man's servant as well!"

Maria just adjusted the scarf she had wrapped around her neck.

"If...mother and father knew you were healthy...I know they would be happy for you..." I saw her twitch from the corner of my eye and I tightened the grip on the sword hilt. "Maria..."

A long, bladed dagger shot out of her sleeve and our blades CLANGED. "I said they became meaningless, Zero!"

"Are you serious...?" I demanded.

"Yes, I am."

Kaname slipped between us and shoved us away from each other. 'STOP, BOTH OF YOU!"

I stared at him in horror. "Get back, Kaname!"

He turned to Maria. "It's better you stop this. Such nonsense...no matter how you look at it, you two are still sisters!"

Maria raised her dagger and pressed the tip of it to his throat. "If you get in the way, even without lord Shion's approval, I'll kill you..."

I pressed Bloody Rose to Maria's forehead. "Stop."

Maria glared. "I thought that gun only worked on vampires?" I stared at her, my eyes wide as she smiled. "Even after becoming a vampire, you still try to be a hunter, huh, Zero...?" She chuckled. "You're a fool, Zero. You should've let lord Shion have this boy and drank lord Shion's blood." Maria pushed my gun away from her head.

"Get back...Kaname." I said and pushed him behind me.

"Zero..."

"Zero...it's only you that has been turned into a vampire. I wasn't bitten by lord Shion." She waited until I didn't say anything. "Lord Shion let me drink his blood. Purebloods hold a special power within their flesh and blood..."

Yuki P.O.V.

I pierced Shion's neck with my fangs when he didn't try to resist. "It is so strange...I had never imagined that this would happen between you and me..." He said, sounding calm. "When I met you for the first time when you were still young...you were not like a vampire at all...however...now..." He started to trail off when his heart began to slow down.

I gripped it in my hand and ripped it out from his back, crushing it as it turned to dust. His body swayed and fell back, my arm the only thing keeping him upright as I wiped his blood from my mouth with the back of my other hand. "I will not allow your life to have been in vain..." I looked down at him. "The thing you hate most...I will surely destroy it...the one...who twisted the fate of the purebloods..."

Shion remained quiet for what seemed like a long time. "You drank the blood of another pureblood..." He started as I laid him down on the floor. "You will gain new powers...but at the same time, you have summoned a sinister future." He looked up at me. "Wherever you will go...there will be nothing but darkness, Yuki..."

"Yes, I know..." I smiled.

Hana P.O.V.

I followed the scent of Shion's blood and stood outside the room, my back against the wall as I watched and listened to everything that was being said. Lady Yuki...killed Shion Hio...

Kaname P.O.V.

Zero's whole body became tense as she looked owards the door where Shion walked through. "The smell of blood...got stronger."

Maria's eyes widened. "Lord Shion..." She turned on her heel and dahsed out of the room.

"MARIA!" Zero turned around to follow her but I grabbed her from behind. "I have to kill Shion! Let go, Kaname...!"

"After you kill that man, what are you going to do? I still haven't heard your answer!" I yelled at her ans she looked over her shoulder. "When this is all over, do you still want to destroy yourself along with that man...?!"

She didn't respond right away until she looked at me. "Yeah..." Zero pushed me off her. "You knew it, didn't you...that...I've always been thinking that way..."

It's true. I did know but I just never wanted to be right. "Yeah..."

"Then...there's no need for you to do so much for me like this..." She looked away. "Kaname, going so far as to become a vampire...I can't take it..."

i could hear her voice trembling. "I just...didn't want you to die, Zero."

Zero covered her eyes with the back of her hand and surprised me when she pulled me into a hug. "If that's true, Kaname...why..." Her voice sounded like it was going to break. "Why do you care about someone like me...even though you don't need to think that strongly about me..." Her arms tightened and squeezed me. "I'm glad you're safe, Kaname..." She let me go and pushed herself away.

I stayed rooted in my spot, watching her. "Zero."

She turned around. "Stay here. I'll come back."

I watched her as she walked through the door that Maria disappeared through.

"Disciplinary committee? What are you doing here?" Someone asked.

I turned around, startled and saw Takatsuki Kain standing there. "Kain...!

Maria P.O.V.

I stared in horror when I found his body lying in the middle of the floor, blood surrounding him. "Lord...Shion...?"

Shion remained still until he opened his eyes. "It seems purebloods don't die so easily."

My body moved of it's own accord until I was sitting on my knees beside him and hugged him. "Lord Shion...!" I pulled back to look at him. "I'll give you my blood...just please don't die."

He chuckled. "I can't...You're the only one I won't turn into a vampire." A crack formed on his face. "Moreover...it's too late..." I stared in shock and hugged him tighter, tears running down my face. "What's the matter...? You're crying like a child..." He lifted his hand and wiped the tears away. "You really did love me...if you're afraid of being alone...shall I remain with you...?"

You are the first human that I've persoanlly become emotionally attached to...have you also lost your reason for living...?

Zero P.O.V.

I stepped into the room in time to see blood splattering on the floor. "Maria...?!" What are you...devouring...?"

Maria looked over her shoulder just as Shion's body cracked and burst into dust. "You killed him...Zero...you and...this academy..." She pushed open the window and jumped out.

"Kain, wait a moment, please." I could hear Kaname approaching with one of the Night class students. "Zero..."

From the corner of my eye, I could see Kain look at me then turn her attention to the pile of dust that was in the middle of the floor with my Bloody Rose still drawn. She turned back to me. "Kiryu...did you...?"

I didn't answer or look at her. "Zero..." Kaname said.

-Shortly After, Moon Dorm-

Yuki P.O.V.

After taking a shower, I was using a towel to dry my hair and saw the chess piece with the dagger. "It seems our game is finally over..." I gently touched the cracked King chess piece "Shion..."

"How pitiful...little girl..."

I looked over and saw a young man walking around inside a cage. "You are the cherry blossom prince...?"

He smiled despite having blood on his face. "Born as the next ruler of the Kuran family...I pity you..."

I removed the dagger and the King broke in half. "And I you..."