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Chapter Twenty Nine

He stood looking at the Senate building, the wind sweeping his around his face and shoulders. The bottom of the long trench he wore teemed around his legs like a tumultuous sea. The cold didn't touch him for he was colder inside. Each second that ticked by without Zero froze him even more. The beast inside him was no longer roaring but sat waiting, anticipating. In this, as when they'd claimed Zero, they were in perfect accord.
He walked forward. He didn't hurry; anticipation was ninety-five percent of the hunt after all.
He entered the building without any deterrents.
He smiled and it too was like ice on the arctic. They obviously hadn't taken his promises to heart. He probed the broken link and his smiled turned into something out of nightmare. If they had seen it he suspected all of them would be fleeing the building right now.
The halls of the old building were empty and silent save for his quiet, purposeful footsteps. He was looking for a fight. His blood boiled with the need. His fangs ached with the necessity of it. His claws called out with the requirement of it.
He entered the room without any fanfare. They sat at a table made of strong oakwood, polished to shine in the low light of the kerosene lamps decorating the corners of the room. Every member except Ichio was there, which was what he suspected anyway, and their eyes were on the doorway when he stepped through it. He paused, he and the agitated beast inside him seizing up their enemies.
"Kaname Kuran."
The greeter was a statuesque blonde, who he'd had plenty of dealings with in the past. She sat at the head of the table, the space usually reserved for Ichio.
"To what do we owe this summons." Her mouth turned up in repugnance. "And by bat no less."
He let the door close behind him but moved no further into the room. "I'm sure you all ready know why I've called you here." His voice was empty pleasantness.
"Are you ready to negotiate then, heir of the Kuran line?" She asked haughtily and her eyes were all too knowing.
He almost snapped then but resisted the urge, barely, and moved closer. The chessboard was open in his inner mind and he relished the game. Like he relished her reaction to him when he stepped fully into the light and she caught her first sight of his face. Her own face blanched white while the others at the table twittered nervously. He knew what she saw. The alien eyes of the beast they all tried to keep suppressed within themselves.
"Fine. Tell me where he is and I will kill you quickly though I couldn't vouch for it being completely painless."
The look engaged with the ominous click of the door being locked seemed to reverberate throughout the room. All the council looked towards the woman in horror and then back to him.
"B-but that is ridiculous. You would go so far for a level D?" Her words stuttered over themselves as he was all ready at her side.
He lifted her from her seat by her throat totally disregarding the other vampires in the room. Her fingers scrambled desperately at his hand as the true realization hit, trying to dislodge the iron grip, the truth of her perilous position showing in her eyes. As one, the panicked council tried to rise and found they couldn't
"Damn it Kuran! This is not the way to go about things." The woman gasped around his hand "We are the ruling council. You can't-"
"Shut up!" He shook her like a disobedient dog, his hand tightening, his black eyes touching upon every member in the room. They sat in quiet, terrified disbelief. "You ceased to rule for the good of the Vampire nation long ago and now your only concern is the good of you. You go to far for the sake of conceit." His smile became genuine then. "So I'll take care of you here, like I pledged to so do so many years ago. Where is he?"
"I don't know." She began frantically, seeing her death in his eyes. "Ichio said he would only hide him for a couple of days to force you to cooperate! But he never told-"
His fingers snapped shut, the blades of his claws tearing through soft tissue as he tore her throat out. He turned to the table, licking the blood from one long claw as her strangling body thumped on the ground. "Do I really have to go through you one by one? Where is he?"
"We don't know!" An auburn haired woman squealed, her eyes wide with fear.
"And if we did, we wouldn't tell you." This from a golden hued male sitting at the middle of the long table. "To do this over the lowest of the low. He was right. You are not fit to lead the Kuran line into the new era."
"And by him you, do you mean Ichio or Rido?" Kaname inquired with fake politeness. At their stunned faces, he laughed. It held the slight edge of madness. "I see. He made you his scapegoats. Apparently he didn't want you in the new era either." He shrugged casually. "It behooves me but I will grant his wish right now as it runs parallel to mine."
The woman emitted a small 'eep' of alarm as her hands rose against her will. It was the last sound she made as she gripped her own hair, Kaname's power quelling all of their screams.
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He knew at once it was dream. The landscape was barren though he could see the hazy shadow of a town in the far, hazy distance. And he noticed that though it was desolate high and low rock formations dotted the scenery. Wind blew dust into his face, though he could feel neither. Nor could he feel the heat of the sun though it was at its' highest point in the sky. Despite all that, he knew he had to reach the city before nightfall. He prepared to take the first step that would lead there.
"Would you rather not ride? It is a long way."
He stumbled around to face the sudden presence and felt comical surprise rearrange his face. A woman, her face shadowed by the cowl of her long cloak, looked down on him from atop a tall pale horse. The mane of the horse seemed too bright compared to the dull terrain and she seemed extraordinarily bright against the drab backdrop. Her face was made of fine lines and angles that made her beautiful. Her long hair lay in a braid over her shoulder but he couldn't tell the color of it or her eyes only that they were as pale as the horse.
He recognized her immediately from Kaname's memories and then realized he recognized her on a deeper level. The same genetic make up made him a hunter.
The parent.
She smiled at him as though she were reading his thoughts. He just stared.
"Well, do you want to go to the city? It's not safe here when dark falls. Though," Her eyes became shrewd. "I don't think it will be a problem for you."
He shook himself, reminding himself that it was only a delirious dream and he would wake anytime to the real world of pain. He took her outstretched hand and heaved himself onto the horse behind her, surprised that he could feel her. He dropped his hands at once, hesitant to touch her any further. She chuckled in amusement and sent the horse into a slow, steady tread. He wondered, idly, if they would reach the city in time.
"Why are you here? This is an age that has passed on."
Her question caught him unawares and he answered lamely. "I don't know. Maybe I've passed on too."
He sensed more than felt her tense. "I doubt that. Are you not mated to Kaname Kuran?"
He nodded gingerly, realized she couldn't see it and spoke. "Yes, but that bond was broken."
She laughed outright this time. "Then maybe you do belong here. That bond can only be severed by death. But I still sense it deep within you."
"But I felt-"
She laughed again and somehow it held the heat the sun should have. "How foolish is my child? Mere sorcery. And nothing mere can sever the bond of mating."
He almost fell off the horse. "But how do you know that?"
"For I am within you." She answered simply. "You hold more of me than any of the hunter lines. The Kiryuu's were the only ones who could stand after they drank my blood. Mating with Kaname will only make you stronger."
"But I'm only a level D."
Her sigh seemed to touch him, though he was sitting behind her. "Hasn't your thirst become more manageable? Have you not become stronger? Faster?"
He started to deny it and then realized it was true. But he'd attributed all that to drinking Kaname's blood regularly.
She was amused again. "Do you not know why a mating between Hunter and Pureblood are forbidden? I suppose not. They have hidden it from you. It is because together they are-"
The sharp slap stung him awake. From the pain in his cheek, it wasn't the first slap administered. He came to fully aware. His pain blurred eyes immediately began to search the shadows in the deep dungeon, ignoring Kaito crouching before him.
"We're alone."
The too calm words made him look at the ex hunter. He tried not to focus on the pain coursing through his body, happy to be in his right mind, though he suspected that weird dream had something to do with that. He focused instead on Kaito. Glared at him wishing his look could cause instant death "Traitor."
Kaito shrugged, his dark eyes gleaming at the word. "Blah, blah, blah. Can we skip over the boring parts? And besides weren't you the one who turned traitor first? Mating a pureblood?"
"I thought we were going to skip over the boring parts." Zero quipped back, grinding his teeth, struggling to wrestle his beleaguered mind under control. It was hard. He hurt. The pain dug deep into his bones and beyond. His soul hurt. And not just from the severed bond. With Kaito before him, the luminous vampire aspect upon him, he felt like the entire hunter race was doomed. If they could be prodded into temptation just from their petty desires then they would fail as a race. "Where did your cronies go?" Even in the midst of torment he couldn't help but be his old blunt self.
Kaito stood. "Rido is on his way to the school to rid of Kuran for good."
That forced a bark of slightly mad laughter from him. "Rido can't kill Kaname. He's too strong for that." But neither could Kaname kill Rido. He kept that to himself.
Kaito didn't appear to worried. "That's even better. Then I'll kill him myself."
Boy the world was full of crazy people.
"Is that why you let yourself be turned into a level D? A level D could never kill Kaname."
Kaito smiled sinisterly. "Finally, we get to the good parts."
He knelt again, this time so close his warm breath struck Zero's face. "Do I feel like a level D to you?"
He paused and probed with his senses His violet eyes widened at his perception, for Kaito didn't feel like any vampire he'd come across before; Neither level end or Pureblood. But something that was infinitely more and less. It felt disgusting to his hunter nature and yet delectable to his vampire mentality.
"Just what the hell are you?"
This time Kaito's smile was falsely sympathetic. "The end of a weak age where vampires and humans fight to co-exist. A new era where neither of them will exist."
"Still boring." Zero didn't try to keep the revulsion out of his voice. "You sound like brain with the whole 'let's take over the world today'. Let's try something new."
Kaito's eyes filled with a desire so obscene he shrank back against the damp wall behind him, body preparing to attack. "Oh you'll see something new Zero. In fact you'll be the only one. After the hunters and vampires destroy themselves in this useless war Rido is about to start, I'll kill off the stragglers and make you my pet. You'll be so grateful to be alive you'll lick my hand every night like the proper dog you will be."
Damn this was just the night for laughter. For a moment he was totally distracted from getting answers as he once again voiced his mirth. "And how do you propose to keep me alive after Kaname 'dies'?"
Kaito leaned closer, stopping when his lips almost brushed his. "Worried? Don't be. You won't even know he's gone."
Zero didn't think twice. He brought his head forward in what would have been a bone crushing headbutt but encountered empty air. The blow was so swift he didn't even see a blur of movement. He was just suddenly slumped against the wall, his head screaming in agony. It felt like the bone of his cheek was shattered. He gagged around the blond in his mouth, tears running down his face. He panted in pain as Kaito wrenched his head back, eyes filled with fury and blood red.
"If you do that again, I'll snap your neck and find a new pet."
"And that's supposed to what make me cower and beg?" He managed through the pain filled nausea. He met the mad gaze of his once friend with no fear. "A world with you in it isn't a world that I would be happy in." He spat directly into the face he now despised.
Kaito was suddenly on the other side of the room, his chest heaving with rage. "Do you want to die?"
He pretended to ponder the decision. "Let's see. Die or be your pet. What do you think?"
"Before you know what's going to kill your entire pathetic race?"
Oh how he hated him right now. "I'll bite. What. In. The. Hell. Are. You." He asked again.
Like every villain he'd ever read about, Kaito was eager to boast of his surefire 'Conquer the World' plan. He began to speak and with each word Zero became more and more horrified.
"Ages ago, a pureblood and a hunter bonded. It was completely unheard of then by either of the races. They were angered by it. The couple evolved by bonding on a molecular level and became stronger. Stronger than anything the vampires or hunter had ever seen. They became so strong that only beheading and fire could kill them. Not even anti-vampire weapons worked against them. Their child was even stronger. It took the whole of both races to capture them and finally put them to death. And even that almost failed. Those mating were then strictly forbidden by both races and the accounts buried. In time it began a legend and then simply faded away all together.
That was the case, until a certain President of the Association found it in one of the secret archives. He began to experiment. Tried to find the right balance without a true mating. It never worked until now. With Rido's blood. It's just something about that pure Kuran blood I guess."
"But that's-" He'd started to say 'impossible', but what She'd said clicked in his head.
Stronger.
That was the word she'd started to use before Kaito had slapped him awake. In fact that would have been the third time she'd used the word. He pondered that, not taking his eyes off the deranged vampire/hunter staring at him. Why hadn't it worked with them?
Kaito read his thoughts in his unguarded eyes. "Maybe you weren't mated long enough. Or maybe you just didn't trust Kuran enough Zero." He began to laugh and it had a hollow, maniacal sound to it. "Wouldn't that just be ironic? What with you trusting him to come save you and all."
"Fuck you!" Zero snapped, suddenly enraged himself. Had he not trusted Kaname to the fullest? With his body, heart and soul?
He didn't see the second blow either, didn't feel the pain of it.
And once again he knew only darkness.
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Until Next Time.............
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