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CHAPTER 20
I thought deeply to myself as we walked through the on stretching feild of tall grass. We figured it would be best to leave this behind for now, and hope that everything would soon calm down a little. It would really not be the best idea to go back to the town, or the dark angel village right now. Besides, we had to find where my sence was leading me to.
I looked ahead of me at the stretching land. There were no town lights, only the serene lights that nature gave off. The moon hovered brightly above us in the silky blue sky, along with billions of stars. That had to of been the prettiet night I had seen a long time. But besides the night sky, the land ahead of us looked just as beautiful and exotic. Millions and millions of fire fly's hovered above the tall grass, looking like a blanket of delicate blinking lights. The grass was a blue-green color, like a tropical ocean, swaying back and fourth in gentle, and calm wind. Deep, alomst blood-red flowers also perked up from the tops of the grass. They looked so delicate, and silky.
We stood at the top of that hill for a moment, taking in the relaxing and soothing sight. I closed my eyes as anoter gentle wind drifted by.
I glanced over at Yoru, who was lost in thought as I had just been. "So what now." I mumbled under my breath, my light words being lost within the wind. I stepped forward silently, leaveing behind Yoru. Footsteps slowly edged on behind me as I walked in the feild in silence and amazement. For once the world seemed peaceful, nice.
I couldnt help but smile. I felt lost in a while. I felt like everything, all my worries and fears had been frozen. I felt relaxed and soothed. It felt magical, reliveing in a way that there was still actually beauty left in this world.
The feild stretched on for miles, but its beauty never surceased. It seemed neverending.
We waked till it was morning, haveing no cover from the bright peirceing sunlight above us. Ofcoarse. This beautiful surrounding would have to have a way to harm us somehow.
I sighed, and put my hand on my forehead which seemed to be burning up. "Im even feeling sick now, how you doing Yoru?"
There was no answer.
"Yoru?" I glanced back.
He was walking behind me with his head down and eyes closed.
"Hey, you alright?"
"Not...really."
I grimaced. "Im sure we will run into some shade soon. We have been walking for so long...all night, and now its what? Probably around one pm?"
"...Yea.."
"Im starting to feel sick too, but Im sure we will make it." I tryed my best to encourage him, but I was feeling fear myself now. We could take sunlight for quite a while for not being half breeds, but we had already taken around eight hours of direct harsh sunlight. Luckly it was early fall, so the sunlight did not seem overly warm, probably about fifty degree's, but still. There were no clouds out to guard us from the blinding rays.
"Hey....mm..Rin..We need to take a break or somethin'...like really soon.."
"Ok..but where exactly? " I looked around me. "Theres no shade-"
"Yoru?!"
I stopped in my tracks, frozen as he began to fall backwards. I finally managed to budge my feet and caught his upper half just before he hit the ground.
"Yoru? Yoru?! C'mon! Wake up Yoru!" I yelled frantically.
His eyes still remained closed, his skin paler than usual.
"Damn it!!" I screamed into the air, then put my head on his chest. "Thank god!" I yelled then scowled up at the flawless sky.
There was no possible cover around, the most cover was the tall grass that was up to my knees. I lay his head down gently on the ground and layed down beside him, thinking to myself. I would not be able to carry him, and if I could not for long. That idea was out of the question. So, what else could I possibly do now? Wait. Another delay on our journey.
I sighed and looked back down at Yoru's pale motionless face, watching the shadows from the leaves dance magically and gracefully across his flawless skin, which looked even paler in the beaming sunlight. I knew that he would be ok, as long as we stayed here till night anyways. We both needed some rest anyways. So maybe this would be a good thing for the both of us. I rolled over on my stomach, staring down at the ground and letting my eyes gradually close till I fell into a deep slumber
When I had finally awoken, all I could see was a small glowing, serine gold light hovering above my eyes. I smiled, still in a daze, and stuck my hand out to it. It dissapeared above me in a flash.
I sat up, slowly and drowsy still. Above us floated thousands of fireflys, along with blossomed deep red flowers that sprung up with in the tall blue-green grass. I yawned and stretched my arms up. The moon hovered gracefully above us, shining down on to our pale skin, and making it glissen from the dew that collected on us.
I looked over at Yoru. His eyes were somewhat open, but he said nothing.
"I’m awake." His low words startled me, and made me jump.
"O-Ok. Are you feeling any better?"
"Rin, get some blood outa’ the backpacks from me, will you?"
"Yea." I unzipped the backpack I had lay next to me, and took out a package of the blood, then handed it to Yoru. He sat up, taking the blood, and ripped open the bag with his teeth.
I grabbed another bag from the pack for myself, and also ripped it open with my teeth, drinking the warm rust tasting liquid slowly, savoring it, and letting it run slowly down my throat. It had felt like a while since I had some, and it did make me feel much stronger. Blood was like an energy drink to a vampire, except we didn’t crash afterwards, the strength just would gradually disappear.
I sat the empty bag beside me and glanced over at Yoru. “Are you better now too?”
“Yea, for now atleast.” He looked up at the midnight sky, and looked back at me, giving me a disoriented, and distant look. “Hey, thank you.”
“Yea! No problem. That’s what friends do.”
“Yea..”
“Do you think that you may be well enough to continue on our journey?”
“Yea, I guess..” He slowly stood up, yawning.”
“Damn. How long was I out for anyhow?” He said, stretching his arms back behind him, and letting out a relieved sigh.
“Uh, Probably around ten or so hours. You should be caught up on sleep for a while now.” I laughed.
He didn’t reply, and began walking ahead. I stared after him for a moment.
I wonder whats wrong with him? I asked in my head, and began to follow behind him.
“You sure that your ok?” I asked innocently when I finally caught up with him.
“Yea, I think. Just kinda..dizzy still I guess. I’ll survive though.” He gave me an encourageing smile, and looked back ahead of him, looking again, distantly into the sky.
I finally got myself to ignore is unusual attitude, and let my mind drift off into a different way.
I couldn’t help but feel excited in a way, along with being nervous. The humans actually know about us now! But, will anyone believe them is the question. If they do, this is much more trouble lurking ahead of us. Besides, our magical kind already is having enough stress with its own fighting, we don’t need humans to interact quite yet. Were already all raged, If humans joined our battle..well, I don’t know how long they will nesessarly last for. We are all very much stronger than them.
I closed my eyes as I continued to walk. The autumn wind was cold, but yet relaxing at the same time. It seemed serine, and calming, seeming to take me away with it for a split second. It was another beautiful night here, the firflys dancing around us, along with the pale, gold sunlight. It was like we were on another planet, atleast until we reached the top of the hill. Reality sat in once again.
The next town was right ahead of us. Everything seemed dark, and shut down, but we could still see dark figures walking the streets. But something didn’t seem quite right, something was wrong. The wind carried a sent towards us that sent shivers up my spine. I stared down at the town with deep intensity, almost glareing at it. Vampire sent and human blood wafered through the fridged air.
The serenity had came to an abrupt stop.

CHAPTER 21
I glanced over at Yoru, finding out that he was already stareing at me. “I have a feeling that we have some unpleasant vampires ahead of us.”
I nodded, and for a second, I could not get myself to swallow. It felt like everything had stopped again. I was really beggining to hate reality, and for a moment, I was ready to turn back into the field of fireflys, and moonlight.
Like I had said before, most magical beings are good, but not all. Vampires for example. Some of us will kill weaker kind, mainly humans only for the fun of it, or if they become overly addicted to blood, and need it almost continuously to survive. Some even develop dangerous deseases from their problems. They will kill as much as they possibly need to, then cover up all evidence that they were there, making it look like the subject was murdered or perhaps commited suicide. The humans would never realize this, nor would they even consider it. Magical kinds may consider vampires though. We are the worst kind that does this, although there are only so many of them. They would usually try to team up, making them stronger, and also making it much easier to dominate an area, and heavily slaughter people. It was sad, and is a huge reason on why it will make our kind look horrible and evil if the humans do actually figure out that we are the reason for the mass slaughtering.
I could smell bad vamp blood right away. I frowned at Yoru. “I wonder, if there are any humans left to save..”
“The way that they are walking through the town makes me think not. By the looks of it, they are just checking everything over, to make sure that there are no actual survivers.”
“Yea..” I sighed. “I’m guessing we have to go down there, don’t we?” I muttered. Something just didnt seem right, it made me really want to turn back. Something was going to happen, as it always did.
Yoru nodded, and walked ahead of me, stumbleing down the hill and to the next town.
“Hey!” A booming voice rang through the air from a darkened figure ahead of us. I could see glowing pale skin, and ruby eyes from there. There was no mistake that this town had been taken over by vampires.
The figure walked towards into the hovering moonlight, and into view. He was a little older than us, most likely late twenties in the eyes of a human. He smiled, flashing fangs at us. He had raven black hair that dropped down to his shoulders, which made his skin look even paler than it was. His red eyes studied us thoroughly, as if memorizeing our features. We both smiled back, being somewhat polite with our fellow vamp’s. Maybe they didn’t kill anyone, but it sure the hell didn’t look that way. Shivers ran up me again as I looked at the dead town. No lights lit the desolate town, and it only smelled of human blood.
“What are you guys doing here? There are no vamp villages for miles, ya know’?”

“Yea..were just passing through..” Yoru said in a flat and emotionless voice.
The figure frowned at us. “K’ then. I guess.” Others walked out from behind buildings of the town, glareing at us. I shot an uneasy glance towards Yoru. I had a bad feeling about them. They didn’t seem to fond of their own kind. They may be some that rejected the change, and only thirst for blood, so they automatically hate and are raged at their own kind. If they are like that, then they would not be afraid to take their gathered rage out on us.
I looked around the guy that was talking to us and seen seven more vampires peak out from the buildings.
“Your kind of uhhm..passing through here at a bad time..”
“Were sorry..we just really need to get through here to the next town, k?” Yoru protested, and moved on ahead. The guy seeming to guard the town, walked in front of him. Yoru glared at him. “We need to pass through here-now.” He fourced.
“No!”
“What the hell is the problem? We already see what you did to this town. We are only passing by. I promise you that we would not dare waste our time to tattle on you. That would be stupid and pointless. We already have enough on our plate, and we do not need your bole-s**t right now too-got it?!” Yoru’s eyes flashed a crimson red color.
A growl arised from the unknown vamp’s throat, and he lunged at Yoru. The others began to walk forward towards us.
“Damn it, I mumbled under my breath.
Yoru dodged the vampires attack with ease. Vampires that were out of control were very agressive, and also had a lot of strength, but they had no strategy, and were still weak compared to older, and controled vampires. This would be a peice of cake, except the fact that more of them kept appearing out of the darkness. Before we knew it, we were surrounded by about twenty. They had their own clan going. I frowned as I looked around me at the sparkling and glowing red eyes. "Y-yoru.." I muttered under my breath.
There was something else wrong. These vampires were deseised. I could smell them very strongly now, the stench of their blood almost made me gag. It was horrible, their various problems must have taken them over too much, leaveing them with deseises that would eventually lead to their own doom; but that lead to a problem. They could infect us also.
I looked over at Yoru as they moved in closer in a circle around us. Yoru was in an intense battle with the one who challenged him. He probably didnt even realize their desease, being to busy with the intense fighting.
"Yoru!" I screamed at him, being only a few feet away, but the noise around me seemed horribly loud. I looked around me again. None of them were talking; no ones lips moved, or even twitched.
"Wha?!" Yoru asked, somewhat breathless as he dodged another attack, and went to strike.
"NO!" I yelled, my voice echoing through the distracting noise that was only in my head.
I froze.
Yoru stood in a flash behind the furious, and wild vampire, and sunk his teeth hard and deeply into the side of the challengers neck. The vampire automatically dropped from the deathly venom from Yoru's bite. Yoru stood their gagging for a moment, realizeing what he just done.
"s**t!" He yelled, spiting blood out on the ground. He seemed frozen for a moment along with me.
The voices in my head increased even more, although I didnt think it was possible. I couldnt hear my own thoughts now, and it drove me into a peirceing scream as I dropped down to my knees, holding my head tightly. I broke out in a sweat, and my head was unbareably pounding. Along with this, I felt like crying, or having a nervous breakdown. Yoru had just bitten the infected vampire. If we didnt find a cure, Yoru might die with in a year, depending on how bad and quickly the desease worked. Once again, too much was happening at once-enough to drive me insane.
I could feel the vampires presence even closer. Suddenly, I felt stong, determined, and very angry.
I stood up without thinking, and seen a blur of, now about thirty, infected vampires surrounding us through my tears. A smile came to my mouth; then everything went into a flash of black and white furry.
I wasnt there anymore.
I was far from being there; my form had took over, throwing me into a frenzy of killing.
I felt unconscious, but I felt as though I was still some there. I felt awake, just not in my own body anymore. Like I said, I was gone.
But just as my doubt took over, I seen a flash of Yoru's face in front of me. His expression was, nothing like I was used to seeing him. He looked scared, shocked, sad, just completly distrought and confused. It almost didnt look like him anymore. Then, it was like someone through a black, thick blanket over my eyes. I was then gone.
I woke up, about five hours later.
Yoru looked down at me as I opened my eyes and let out a weak moan. "What the hell happened?" I muttered, feeling dizzy and sick.
Yoru just stared at me for a moment, in silence.
"Yoru?!" I yelled, surprise coming to my face of how loud my voice had sounded.
"Rinceo?"
"Yea.." I closed my eyes again, wishing that the room would stop spinning. I felt sick as it was, feeling like I was on a ship at a treterous sea was not helping at all; and the feeling was increasenly getting worse.
"You were out for a while there...you scared me. Im glad though, when you finally passed out. You could've killed yourself!"
"Huh?" I felt disoriented and lost again. What was the last thing that happened? Where was I at now anyways? Why did I feel like this?"
"When those vampires went to attack, you changed to your special form. But..you werent nessesarly there anymore. He gave me a worried glance as I opened my eyes again.
"You killed everyone of them Rin! You dont remember anything, do you?"
I moaned and closed my eyes again. I felt like going back asleep.
"I'll take that as a no. Well, you just went into a furry of fighting. You killed everyone, almost me, almost yourself. Your powers had taken over again, and you didnt have much energy to handle that much power surgeing through you at once. It almost killed you; again. I got you calmed down before you killed me too." He sighed. "After that you just collapsed in my arms. I walked us into the town and found a vacant home. Well, all were vacant, but this one didnt have any dead bodies in it..." He inhaled, then exhaled which was followed by a slight moment of silence. "We are gonna' stay here for a little bit, until we both get rested some." He smiled down at me.
I tryed smileing back, but couldnt seem to even get the energy for that.
"Y-yoru..." My voice was very light and soft. I could barely hear myself.
"Hm?" He smiled again."
"I...I don't feel so good...yoru....yoru?" His face began to dissapear on me, first swaying back and forth. I felt scared for a moment. I felt weak, and not near normal. I felt as if I was dieing. All I could feel at that moment was pain and sadness..and fear.
I could feel cold, fridged tears run down my cheeks slowly, until I was sobbing.
"Shhh...Its ok Rineco. Im here, Im here."
Yoru's voice seemed to sound like Tsukai's in my mind, which seemed comforting, but made me more depressed at the same time.
I felt Yoru's arms wrap around me, holding me close and trying to comfort me. I managed to get my hands to move, and pressed them against his warm chest, also burrying my face into it, and continued to sob.
"Im scared.." I mumbled under my breath. I could barely speak now. My voice was rough and raspy. I wondered if he even heard me for a moment. It didnt sound like my own voice, which startled me in a way. Being comforted like this and acting like a coward was not what I wanted; but it seemed to be all that I was capable of at that moment.
Yoru's hands stroked my back as he held me closer. "Tsukai.." I could hear myself mutter under my breath, just as I drifted off into deep unconsciousness.

Chapter 21
"Rineco, Rineco! Wake up!"
My eyes opened slowly. "Wha..." I mumbled, seeing another blurred image of Yoru's startled expression, then a blur of the ceiling. What was going on this time?
"Damn it!" Yoru yelled under his breath. I still felt so weak, and could barely open my eyes. My vision was refuseing to clear anyways. "Yoru...wha...wha's goin' on?"
"Shh.." I could tell now that Yoru had stopped running. His breathing was still even, but slightly harder than as if he had only been walking.
I opened my eyes again to his obscured face. Something was wrong again, something was always wrong.
We took off into a run again. I could feel the wind hitting my face, along with small wet droplets. They were cold, yet soft and delicate feeling until melting into water on my face. It was snowing.
I couldnt help but smile weakly. I always had loved the snow. It made me feel happy, and free in a way. Just full of spirit. It made me feel stronger, although I cant explain it. I guess it just soothed me, and made me let go of all my worries and fears. It always looked so delicate, pretty. But yet, was cold, blustery, bleak.
In a sudden outburst, I could hear thousands of different voices in my head again, screaming, deafening voices that would not let up. I let out a weak cry. I wanted it to stop. Whatever was happening just to stop.
And after a moment, it did. Everything went black, and I figured I had gone into unconsciousness.
The voices filled my head no longer, no more unbearable booming voices.
I opened my eyes, just stareing ahead of me.
Bodies lay lifelessly on the ground. Sprowled out, just laying there, motionless. All human bodies. Was I dreaming? What was happening? I still didnt feel in control yet. I couldnt snap out of this dream, no; nightmare. I was trapped. What was happening? I repeated again in my head.
Hands wrapped tightly around my small waist. I swung my fist back in full speed and power. Although I still had no control. I spun around, my emotions in furry, yet I myself didnt quite understand why, nor what was happening. My vision focused onto a figure, sitting on the ground in pure shock. "Rineco, Rineco!" The figure kept yelling. It took a moment for me to realize who it was. Yoru.
I kept walking forward. Yoru called my name several more times, standing up to his feet. He was suddenly gone in a flash, and everything else seemed to dissapear along with him.
"Yoru! Yoru!" I yelled, then suddenly being comforted by his voice. "Its ok Rineco, Im here, Im here." I opened my eyes to see another blurred image, which suddenly cleared up. His expression was once again distrought, tired, scared.
"Yoru? Wha...whats happening to me?" I answered in a light tone. I could feel tears running down my cheeks again.
He frowned down at me. "Another killing episode..its ok. I got you out of there. Were in another forest now. Your safe..other's are safe to.." He paused. "Theres nothing more to worry about, just get some rest."
But I didnt want to close my eyes, afraid I would wake up to another scene of mangled, murdered bodies, that I had killed. I felt nothing but fear, agony, sorrow. It was like trapped being in my own horror story, but this time, I was the monster. I destroyed so many people; my own kind, innocent humans. Were they innocent? The question drifted into my head, torturing my mind more, throwing it into a phase of treterous guilt and agony. Had I killed innocent people, for no reason? Was I that out of control? Could it happen at any time now? I wanted to scream, to just let all my pain and disturbing thoughts out of my mind. But I couldnt escape it; and besides, I didnt really deserve it. I should be left with this burning pain with in me. I was a murderer, completly out of control. I mean hell, I almost killed Yoru. My only freind I have right now. My nickname fit me well at that moment. I was a monster.
"Rineco? You alright?"
"Mmm.." A sound eskaped from my mouth as I escaped from the chains of my mind.
I looked deeply into Yoru's eyes, my eyes filling with tears even more. "Yoru..." I mumbled under my breath.
"Huh?"
"Will you..." I couldnt get the words out of my mouth, I didnt have the energy to speak anymore. All I knew was that I didnt want to cause anymore pain and suffering, I didnt want to hurt anymore innocent people, or anyone at all for that matter. I was ready to be done. Done with everything. This special power that had gotten me tangled up into the morbid mess. I was done with trying to help people. It was no use, I only caused pain, I wasnt helping anyone. I wanted to be done with myself. I didnt want to be here any longer. I was finnished. I had enough of this life, and I was ready to be free again, to be with Tsukai, and eskape this nightmare. Ready to be happy. Even though I did not disurb to be.
The words finally erupted from my throat. "Kill me." They seemed to echo in my own ears. My voice, again, sounded nothing like me. It seemed in pure agony and distress, it sounded weak, raspy, defeated completly.
Yoru's eyes widened, and his lips dropped into a deeper frown. "I cant do that Rineco.."
More tears streamed from my eyes. "Yes. You can Yoru. Please.." I begged. I felt ashamed of myself, somewhere deep inside me for giveing up on things. But I felt done. i felt finally defeated.
"I wont." His words were final and stern.
"Do it!" I screamed at him, my voice cracking, and more tears running down my face.
Yoru scooped me up in his arms. "No."
I burried my face in my hands first, trying to catch my tears that wouldnt seem to stop. Then I looked down at my hands. Blood. My hands, my arms, looked as if they were dyed red. I looked down, tramatized, and scared of myself. I was completly covered in the red liquid.
My body started trembleing. I felt dizzy, sick, worse than I ever had been. I was silent for a moment, frozen in greif. Then a sob erupted out of my throat, and another. I burried my head into Yoru's, also blood stained chest that I was guessing was from carrying me. He wrapped his arms as tightly around me as he could, almost to where it hurt me. But I was sobbing too much to even feel anything anymore.
"Go to sleep Rineco. Please just go to sleep.." I closed my eyes, and burried my head into the only thing comforting I had left with me, and drifted off to sleep again.
I woke up five days later.
Yoru's soft smile greeted me. "How you feeling?" He asked.
I couldnt remember what happened anymore for a moment. I smiled. "Better.." I sighed and set up. And I did feel better, phsically anyways. Mentally and emotionally, I was still a mess, still wanted to die. I felt no pain though. I felt normal.
"Im glad. Your special form finally dissapeared too. I think that may have been your problem. Somehow, we have to work on a way to control that-if there is a way.
I stood up, and looked around me, ignoreing Yoru's statement. I didnt want to think about being in that form right now. We were in a large cave. It was very warm, dark, and we were sheltered from the fridged weather outside.
"Theres a spring in this cave to your right. The cave had like three different pathways. i explored them. One had the spring, the other two just lead to a dead end.
"k'" I mumbled, and picked up my bag, heading to the tunnel that would lead me to get cleaned up. I didnt even want to look at myself. I knew I was a bloody mess still. I could feel, and smell the dried blood that was caked on to my ivory skin.
I didnt hesitate at all. I set my bag down in front of the hotspring, and walked into the warm water. A red, deluteing cloud of red water seemed to make a cloud around me as I walked in deeper. It made me feel sick.
I dived underwater, and just stayed there for a moment, holding my breath until I couldnt stand it anymore, then went back to the surface. I continued that process till I felt warm, relaxed, and calmer. The blood had already completly dissapeared into the water before I had opened my eyes again. The dryed blood no longer caked my skin, nor my clothing. I floated on the surface for a moment, closing my eyes and going into a phase of slight relaxation. It felt nice.
I walked to the shore of the warm pool, walking out, drenched and dripping water from my clothing. After wipeing off with a towel, I got dressed into clean clothing. This time was just another dress from Miasaki's room. The top of the dress was slightly corsett like, ribbon laceing it up some down the front, and tightened in the waist. It was a smoothing green color, about the same as my eye color at that moment, a dark, rich green. The dress flared out some from the waist, and flowed down to slightly past my knee's. I had shorts on also under my dress as I usually did, which made it a little more comfortable. I brushed out my long white hair which was almost touching the ground now and frowned. It was tempting me to cut it, I had brought sizors. I held them losely in my hand. My hair was touching the ground now, It made it hard to deal with, and besides was becomeing matted. I put my hair in a pony tail, and began cutting the pony tail to where my hair would be around the middle of my back. With two snips of the sizors, the rest of my hair fell gently to the ground. I frowned at the pile of long white hair with blue highlights. I never liked cutting my hair, but I guess it would grow back out anyways.
I ran the towel back through my, now shorter hair, taking care of any excess hair that was still trapped in my new hair-cut.
I walked over to the pool of clear water and looked in at my new reflection. This made me look even more different, but yet, the same. I was back to my normal vampire form now. Purple colored the bottom of my eyes. My skin was ivory as normal, and my eyes, brighter than when I had last looked. I shrugged at the new reflection and walked away back through the tunnel with my bag to Yoru.
It was time to get back on our journey again and leave this behind me. I had to move on, no more thinking about my past accidents. I had to do my best, to keep beleiveing in myself. I had an important job; I couldnt let Miasaki down. I couldnt let Tsukai down either. No. I couldnt let myself down.
Yoru's head popped up, then back down, and up again, taking a double take at me. "Got a new hair cut, eh'? Looks good." He grinned.
I smiled back, and sat my bag down. "Thanks." I replied. "When you wanna' leave?"
"You in a hurry to get outa' here?" He laughed.
"Yea, kinda." I said in a monotone voice, then suddenly laughed at myself for no apparent reason. Yoru gave me a slightly confused glance. I laughed more in between my next words. "Haha, sorry" I giggled. "I really..haha" I looked down at the floor with a smile. "I dont know why I was laughing." I looked back up with a big grin. "Guess I just needed to laugh. I'v been so angry and despiseing myself. I guess, I had no control over what I did. I couldnt help it at all, I tried. So, I guess...I dont know. I guess It would be best if I put that behind me, and just focused on taking control of that next time." I stated with a smile.
Yoru nodded. "Your right." He smiled, then stood up, then flipped his back-pack over his shoulder. I stood up, doing the same thing, and we headed out the door, continueing with our adventure.

Chapter 22
"Yoru, were..." I paused for a moment, and looked down at the ground in guilt. "Were those humans I killed...innocent?"
Yoru looked over at me and smiled. "No, they were not. They were trying to capture us Rin. Those humans, they're not even close to being done with looking for some magical beings. We have to be careful. 'Least your back to your vamp form now..that shall make hideing a little easier. But no. No one you killed was just for a useless reason. You were just protecting both of us." He grinned.
"I thought...I almost killed you..twice." I could feel tears begin spilling over the corners of my eyes.
"Well, yes. But you, yourself, had been somewhat unconscious. Either way, you had no control over it. So do not blame yourself. You have nothing to feel guilty for."
"Yoru! I killed people though!" I was crying now. Yoru glared at me for a moment, staring me in the eyes. Then his expression relaxed. "I know that your scared, mad at yourself, but it wasnt your fault Rineco. You have to realize that. Stop focusing on feeling guilty and sad, and focus yourself on trying to control that power so it doesnt happen again. You have to be strong, and deal with the consequences of this power till you learn how to use it."
"Yea.." I mumbled under my breath between a sob.
Yoru glowered. "Stop your crying. It wont help you. I am here to help you Rineco. I wont let anything happen if I can help it. I will do my ultimate best to help you..till I die. I am..your friend now." He smiled brightly.
I couldnt help but smiled back, then nodded, wipeing the tears from my cheeks. "I will try my best too Yoru. And, thank you." I laughed.
He smiled. "No problem."
"Hey...Yoru? Did you get bit...back when we were faceing those vampires? Or...had that just been my imagination?"
Yoru frowned, and glanced down at the ground. There was a moment of silence. Suddenly, he smiled. It was a sad, weak smile, not the ones that I had been used to seeing him give me now. "I am afraid..that it wasnt your imagination Rineco.."
I stopped in my tracks. Another wall of reality seemed to smack me hard in the face. My only friend was dieing. I felt tears imediately errupt from my eyes, I had no control over it. "Yoru...h-how are you feeling?"
He frowned. "Not too well Rineco. Im afraid that the one who bit me..well, he might have had one of those more strong deseises. My heart, and my immune system cant fight it off. I already noticed, that I am feeling weaker by the minute. Rineco..I wont be here much longer, k?"
I was trembleing now. Everything seemed to had frozen again. All I could hear was my heart pounding, pounding so quickly I could barely keep track of it. But it felt as though it should've stopped. I felt sick, like I was going to be the one that was going to die first.
"Rineco?" Yoru mumbled, then walked up to me. "Hey," He grinned. "Its gonna' be alright. I have faith in you. You can do whatever you put your heart and mind to. It will be alright, k?"
"No! No! It wont be ok Yoru!" I yelled at him, the anger and volume in my voice almost making me jump. "It will not be ok..I dont want to be alone...I dont want to be on this adventure anymore. Im so tired of it! Im tired of the constant confusion, killing, problems. This whole thing, my whole life, has been nothing but a huge drug out tradgedy! I dont want you to leave me too..you cant leave me Yoru! You just cant!" I yelled between sobs. My voice seemed to be gone now.
"Rin..I have no control over this now. I die when I die. Thats it. You will go on ahead of me, and continue doing the best that you can.."
I closed my eyes tightly, wishing this was only another one of my nightmares. I wanted to heal Yoru..but would I be able to gather enough power to do that? How would I do that anyways?
Focus, beleive...
Those words echoed in my head. I opened my eyes, looking where Yoru had just stood, then to the ground. Yoru lay there, his eyes closed tightly looking up at me. I felt more tears arise, and my heart seemed to stop once again. Why hadnt I died yet?
I kneeled to him by the ground. This was like dejavu all over again, except with a different person. But, this one I might be able to help. A desiese like this could be cured, and I knew that. But It might kill me trying. Pretty much to save a life by useing magic, you had to sacrifice one to. Your own life. Although, there were some exceptions to that, depending on how much energy and power you had running through your system.
Yoru had helped me so much..I couldnt let him die too, like I had with Tsukai-except that death I had no way of cureing.
I put my head and hands over his heart and just focused. That was all I could do afterall. Just focus..concentrate..beleive in myself....
I could do this!
I felt different for a moment, I felt so strong, but yet horribly weak and ill. I felt happy, but I felt depressed. Nothing made sence. I tried opening my eyes, but I couldnt. Was I unconscious? Or..was I dead?
No wait. I could see something, someone. But it was not Miasaki. I could see someone, as if I did have my eyes open.
"Rineco...Rineco..." The figure answered in a ghostly, yet musical tone as it walked towards me. All I could see was a blacked out figure, like a shadow walking towards me slowly. Wings fluttered out from its back. "Rineco....Rineco..." It called to me, beckoning me to it. The figure was somewhat enchanting..magical. It consumed my mind for a moment. I couldnt think anymore. I didnt want to think.
I closed my eyes in my dream world as the figure neared me, calling my name in its musical tone.
I jumped as I gradually got a veiw of a white forest. A rush of cold air and water hit my face. I shivered, and rubbed my eyes.
I was back to our planet again. I yawned, and looked on what I was laying. A blanket. I felt a rush of hope and happiness through me again. I smiled. "Yoru?" I yelled out.
"Rin." I turned around, seeing Yoru walk out from between two large snow coted pines.
I got up, forgetting that I had used about all my magic to save Yoru. Sure enough, I fell face first into a fresh blanket of snow. "Ugh.."
Yoru walked over and smiled at me. "'Was looking for some firewood. I didn't know how long you would be out for.Im glad you'r awake finally. You scared me when I first had awoken a couple days ago. Thank you." He grinned, and helped me up out of the snow, then supporting me so I wouldnt collapse.
I was so happy I could barely talk or think straight. I had finally helped someone. I couldnt stop grinning as he lead me back to the blanket that sat on a part of cleared ground that he laid me on."You need to get some more rest. You really dont look so well. I thought you were going to die when I had woken up...you were trembleing..your face got so pale...." He paused for a moment. "You really didnt have to do that-no. You shouldnt have done that; you could've killed yourself- Just to save me! But still..thank you." He sat me down on the blanket. "Now, get some sleep. Im going to go find some firewood, and were going to stay out here till you get rested up a little." He said firmly, then walked back off into the winter wonderland.
"Ugh.." I groaned, then layed back on the blanket. I felt happy, I still had my friend with me. Speaking of that..we really became friends quite quickly. Heh. Figures I would end up becoming friends with someone that tried to kill me. I laughed, then closed my eyes slowly, closeing out the pine tree's that stretched up to the sky, decorated and shimmering with the thick white blanket of snow resting on its limbs.
I felt completly exhausted-worse than ever. But, atleast this time I would fall asleep happy. I smiled, and just began to drift off.
"Rineco!! Rineco, come here! Quickly!" Yoru's voice was loud, echoing throughout the forest, sounding of pure horror.
My eyes opened, and I jumped up without hesitation ot thought of how week I still was. I fell to the ground in a rush that seemed to startle me. For a moment I felt lost, very disoriented. Awakening to a tone of voice like that was quite startling. It didnt help that I had no clue on where he was at. I closed my eyes for a moment, and pushed myself back up from the snowy ground. "Yoru?" I yelled frantically. I felt paniced. What was happening this time?!
"Rineco, over here!" He bellowed into the air.
I followed his voice to a clearing only a few minutes from our resting spot. I seen Yoru right ahead of me, stareing out into the clearing. "Yoru?"'
He didnt turn around, only stood there for a moment. I walked up behind him.
I stood there in complete discust and was horrified. This was only another outcome from our rageing war with eachother. I had not came in contact with proof of the war before. Our village had been out of the war zone, but still, anything could happen. Eventually it would've ended up reaching us. We knew that. But now I finally got to see the proof of the war. That it was happening. And the humans would be joining us too? How was this going to end?
I frowned, and closed my eyes for a moment, trying to block out the horrifying image infront of me. I could feel myself trembleing, my whole body feeling week and brittle. I felt so fragile at that moment-seeing how many ended lives were laying in front of me, made me feel sick. I felt like I should be one of those that lay on the ground in front of us. I wanted to step away, all I needed to do was turn around, but I frozen. It was like my feet were cemented to the ground, and I was paralized from head to toe, not to mension the nauesa that came over me. I felt like I shouldnt be there, just stareing at them and their mangled, decaying bodies.
Finally. I collapsed to the ground on my knee's, throwing up. I closed my eyes tightly, and stood up swaying weakly. I opened my eyes slightly, seeing the disturbing image dance back and fourth as I swayed.
There were hundreds. Just laying there motionless; dead. There was no helping anyone.
'Rineco.." Yoru paused. "'Im going down there. I have to to see who they are..er..were..and who attacked them, how long ago..." His words drifted off, lost in the blustering wind and snow as he walked towards the demoloished village.
I finally got myself to turn around, and headed with sorrow back to the resting area. So much for my happy state. Sigh.
I collapsed onto the cold blanket, and just closed my eyes, dozeing off into another heavy sleep.
Yoru had awoken me only hours later.
"mmm.." I groaned, stareing up into his sad eyes, then rolled back onto my side. I didnt want to get up. I didnt want to move, or breathe or anything right then. I just wanted to be unconscious so I wouldnt have to think. Atleast only for a couple more hours.
"C'mon Rin." He paused. "We have to leave..this area isnt safe just to rest at.We have to keep going."
"Leave me." I mumbled, then curled up into a tighter ball.
"Rin." He said firmly. "Get up."
"No."
"Ugh.." It was quiet for a moment. Suddenly i felt as If I was being rised into the air.
I opened my eyes slowly, seeing Yoru's face as he carried me in his arms. He looked over at me and smiled. "Fine, sleep if you want. But either way Your comeing with me. We are getting the hell out of here-got it?"
"Fine."I gave up, and closed my eyes.
"That village, was a village of witches, warlocks and such...they seemed to be completly wiped out from just a mixture of magical beings, werewolfs, fox, dog, or cat demons, vampires, just a hugs variety of random breeds. That seemed kindof out of place to me. They wouldnt just travel in that much of variety together. But another thing is, I Figured the warlocks and witches would be strong enough to take those type of breeds, sence they have magic and all. But then I found out something. Turns out the war isnt the only foul thing going on. We have another componet of this attack. A new desease possibly. It just makes them lose all their sanity, their minds. These creatures though, they were participateing in the war first though before this desease. They were all soilders of their kind, all had the badge for it. But this desease..I think it makes them lose every ounce of sanity they possess, just..makes them lose it. So they go off randomly killing." He frowned.
I looked back at him. "mm..Im tired of all these problems...too much is happening right now." I closed my eyes again.
"I know Rineco." He ran his fingers through my hair, making be shutter, feeling slightly startled.
"So these creatures are still on the lose, eh?"
"Yea.."
I closed my eyes. "Ok.." Soon enough, I drifted back into sleep.
"Damn it!" Yoru's voice rang, and I felt my body hit the ground.
I could hear voices, but couldnt get myself to open my eyes. Why would I want to see what horrible thing was happening or about to happen this time? I really didnt. But I opened my eyes anyways.
I lay on the snow covered ground for a moment, stareing blankly into the night sky, a silver moon hovering above me, sending delicate light down to the earth, seeming to lightly bleach it out. The snow that was heavily caked on the tree's stretching above me shimmered gracefully. Then I sat up.
Sigh.
I jumped up, feeling better this time, and ran up to Yoru, who was talking to a few people. At first glance, looking just at Yoru, nothing seemed to be going wrong, or horrible. Then my glance caught the discolored snow.
Red.
The snow here seemed to be dyed red. That definetly wasnt normal.
Sigh.
"Rineco! Good. Your awake now."
"Yea..whats going on?" I sunk my glance on Yoru, and back to the five people that he had been holding a conversation with. They seemed comepletly distraught, like the liveing dead.
"They were attacked too..but this time by undeseased soilders. They said that the sick ones had already passed through; well..they didnt nessesarly pass. They managed to defeat them, lost half of their people. Then the real soilders came through. These people..they are the only survivors from it."
I grimaced, feeling sick again. I was getting so tired of this. It had to stop. All of these creatures, maybe they needed a leader. Just..not me.
Then I thought for a moment. Who were the main people hosting these attacks? If it was only a certain species, then maybe this could be prevented. I knew we all had small fights, there was a normal small war, or battleing between our species, but there could be a more..major cause.Maybe we could all have peace. Not all of us wanted to fight, although we were all stirred up from this. We were mad, yes. But, a huge, demolishing war? To most of us that would be going to far.
"Who attacked you?" I asked bluntly. It was quiet for a moment, and everyone seemed to back up, and just stare at me.
A girl walked out from inbetween two people on front of her. She had bright silver eyes, auburn hair, a fairly tan skin complection, along with perky fox ears, and tail.
"They were creatures that we have never seen before. Maybe rare breeds of some sort..." She looked me over. "They looked...somewhat..." She backed up a little again, and put her head down.
"Like you."
"Wha.." I couldnt finnish my sentence. I could see Yoru's expression from beside me. He was gawking blankly at her for a moment, the turned towards me. "Her?"
"Yes.." The fox demon replied.
"Uhhh...mmm........" I stood in silence. "Miasaki?" I mumbled under my breath, the stomped off into the forest again. I heard Yoru following me.
"Rineco..?"
"No Yoru. Dont follow me.."
"Where the hell are you going?"
"Away from here. I will figure this out somehow."
""You think Miasaki is behind this, dont you?"
"Makes some sence. She was outcasted by the world when she was very young. That was at the beggining of time too, she didnt understand. So she felt the world was against her. She killed everyone. Been trying to have people start this war for years. To kill eachother because of their differences. Like, I bet they did to her. But, the magical beings wouldnt do this. So..she is doing it herself. She just needed me as a puppet. To keep the humans out of this, while she could destroy all the magical people." I scowled, still stomping as I walked.
Yoru was speechless for a moment.
"She completly lied to you..I always thought magical beings were good..just others didnt have an understanding of them. But all along..it was the magical beings that started this war."
"Yep. Pretty much." I paused. "But there has to be more than her to kill that many." I paused again and stopped walking. "Yoru..do you think it may be possible for her to..well, make her own army? Maybe possessing people from our world, and maybe mixing them with some people from the spirit world?" I looked Yoru in the eyes.
"It..might be." He frowned, and looked down at the ground. "I suppose that it would make some sense. I bet, that she did get destroyed by her powers along with everyone else. Being a special being, I have heard they have a job of looking over the spirital world after dieing. So she would be like the..queen of that. She has complete control. It surprises me though, that she lied to you like that. But why would've she wanted to have you try to save everyone, to get order back to the world if she is trying to destroy it?"
"I dunno, maybe just to get me out of the way, sounds like she didnt have a choice-she has to pick someone to play my roll. So, she just had to keep me busy while she destroyed everything behind my back. God, Im so sick of this!" I put my hands over my eyes. I felt like I was going to pass out, or just scream till my voice stopped working. Everything that I had been trying to accomplish was nothing.
"Yoru? Is there a way to enter the spirit world?"
"Yea, you just have to get the spell. But theres a problem with it. If you do that, a normal magical being would just die. That spell takes up too much power. I dont know what would happen if you tried it. You might survive, you might not." He frowned again.
"I might have to take that chance." I mumbled under my breath. That was the only thing I could think of at the moment, then maybe If I got some order in the spirit world, it would become peaceful here again. But I had more problems too. The humans still knew about us now, who knows what they were planning. People were still continually dieing here, too fast for me to keep up with. I had to do something now. If I didnt, it may be too late.
"Yoru, you wouldnt be able to come to the spirit world with me, would you?"
"Im afraid not Rin. Im not strong enough to do that. You..should be though." He gave me a nervous crooked smile.
I sighed. "Where can we find a spell book?"
"I may have one with me that might have that spell. Im unsure though, one second." Yoru threw the bag that had been swung over his shoulder to the ground, and started rumageing through it, pulling out a worn out looking spell book. He looked at me and stood up. "This has many spells in it that aquire a lot of power and magic. They're rare spells. I figured I should bring it for you.
"Thank you." I smiled as he gave me the book. I read quickly through the spells, finally finding what I was looking for.
I took a deep breath of air and closed my eyes for a moment. My mind seemed to be going through thousands of different things. I felt sick again, I knew I would throw up if I even moved. Stareing down at the fancy written words, I felt my eyes start to glaze over in tears. I was scared. I admited that to myself. If I was too weak to go to the spirit world, this one would be in danger. But If I didnt go to the spirit world, both were in danger, so what choice did I have.
"I looked at Yoru and smiled. "Thank you, for getting me this far Yoru. And, I did notice that you stopped the drinking my blood, every three day's thing." I laughed, and smiled again.
He smiled back. "Yea, figured you were weak too. It wouldnt help out any." Yoru's small smile turned to a frown, and he looked guilty about something. "I will see you soon Rineco."
"Yea, maybe." I looked down at the spell book, and felt my mouth open slightly. I could see my breath floating into the winter air in a white cloud. "Good bye Yoru." I said, then started to read off the spell.
The words of the foreign language seemed to stretch on, slowly, building up adreniline inside me. I could feel, hear my heart pounding rapidly with in my chest. My breathing seemed to get slightly heavier. My head pounded, and I felt as if I was going to be sick.
I finnished the spell.
My heart pounded harder, it almost hurt.
No, it did hurt.
My whole body went into a series of sharp, almost unbearable pains, which followed by burning, hot as fire that riveted slowly through my veins. I felt like I was dieing, slowly, painfully. I was aware though that the spell was in progress. My hands glowed, a clear bright pure light. A small vortex of this light seemed to rise around me. It was working, yes. But, would it kill me before it was completed?
"I will see you soon Rineco. And, I am sorry." I could see Yoru's glareing smirk through my tear filled eyes. What? I tried to think. Sorry? for what? And, how did he seem so soon that he was going to see me. I closed my eyes and screamed in pain. Opening my eyes where Yoru just stood, I realized he was gone, he had dissapeared. But, where? I closed my eyes again, and felt myself drop. I didnt feel the cold, snow covered ground support my fall though. I felt nothing, seen nothing but black. I could feel my mind drifting off along with this darkness. Was I going unconscious, or was I dieing? I would soon be finding out.

The end of book 1



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