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Chapter Nine
In the Depths of the Dark Forest
It was coming. The scary monster was going to eat her. She raced through the trees, red eyes seeming to watch her from every direction. Her feet pounded against the packed earth as she tried to outrun her hunter.
She needed to find him. Only he would be able to chase away the monsters, their hungry eyes always there watching her. Only he had ever been able to.
She stumbled and a branch tore through her nightgown cutting into her flesh. It smelled her blood and she could feel its desire to kill grow. Twenty feet became ten as she struggled to keep the distance between them, to keep herself from its snapping jaws.
Glancing back she shuddered as she saw its gruesome smile. Its unmatched eyes bored into hers filled with hunger and sadistic happiness. It was enjoying the chase.
Seiya sat up in bed, sweat clinging to his body. Terror filled him, though not his own. Images of blood soaked walls floated before his eyes, and Sakura's sweet voice echoed through his head. She was crying for someone.
"ONIISAMA!" the scream drove him from his bed and out the door. He missed the frightened look of his roommate staring after him and at the battered door that now hung half off its hinges.
He raced down the hall, past the common room and into the girls' dormitory. Her door was near the far end of the hall and the seconds it took to get there seemed to take far too long. Shoving the door open he was met with an empty room.
He had failed to protect her as he had promised.
The bed sheets had been flung across the room and feathers from a torn pillow lay everywhere. But none of those held his attention for very long. It was the open window that put him into overdrive as he leapt out of it. Following the scent that was uniquely hers.
He would kill whatever had thought to touch her.
The night class looked towards the window as a faint scream could be heard from the direction of the sun dorms. They looked towards their president for action. He was standing and looking towards the window. The seat next to him had already been vacated.
Seiren raced out of the building heading towards the vaguely familiar presence she felt. There were two of them. One she didn't recognize and another she did following the first.
Something was wrong. She had been feeling a prickling sensation for over an hour and then the scream had driven her from her seat. Her lord hadn't needed to command her; she had already been heading out the door.
Then it happened, the scent of blood hit the air. It was a small amount, but with it came the presence. A presence she had longed to feel again.
The one she needed to protect was in danger.
Kaname stared out the window, holding the curtains aside with one hand. Then it hit him, the scent of the one he longed for. Her blood called to him, and his eyes burned crimson as he realized the urgency in her call. She was calling to him. She needed him to save her.
He closed his eyes, his grip on the curtain tightening. It felt as it had long ago. The hour before news of her death had been brought. That feeling of uneasiness, longing, and the need to find her, he should have listened to it. She was dead now though, and no matter how many times he relived that feeling he could no longer leave to find her in hopes of coming to her aid. This scent of blood merely called to him because it had been a long time since he had smelled fresh blood of someone innocent to the world as this human clearly was.
His love was dead, he could not save her.
Seien's eyes widened as he smelled her blood. His eyes flashed red for a brief moment before he picked up his speed. He could sense nothing following her and it irked him. Whatever it was he would get rid of it. Nothing was allowed to touch his girl and live.
She was near; Seiren knew it without a doubt. She continued to run pushing her speed to its limits.
She would not fail again. She could not fail again. This was their most precious person, her lady. Anything that dared to cause her harm would be killed.
Then she caught the first glimpse of white through the trees. Her lady had curved away from her path and was heading slightly away from her, towards the entrance to the grounds.
Sakura was running out of strength. It was so close. She was going to be devoured. "Save me Onii-sama, please," she gasped tears streaming down her face.
Suddenly her ankle twisted, caught in a tree root, and then she was falling to the ground. It had caught up with her. She scrambled away from it, her back colliding with the tree. Blood dripped from its fangs unto her, and she could feel its hot, putrid breath on her skin. From its mouth appeared a tongue and it hungrily licked its lips.
Shutting her eyes she pressed herself against the tree as if hoping that it would give way and she would miraculously be further away from the creature. "Please, save me…"
Seiren burst out of the pushes to find the space devoid of an attacker. Her lady sat huddled against a tree, shrinking away from what was no longer there.
"Hime…" she murmured swiftly moving to her proper place, beside her mistress. Wine colored eyes opened slowly gazing back at her filled with fear induced tears. She could see the tracks of previous tears on her lady's cheeks. "It's okay now, Hime. Everything's okay. There's no need to be frightened," she said calmly hoping it would calm her princess. Slowly, she reached up hand to brush a strand of hair out of her mistress's face.
Then she was being thrown back by a strong force, crashing into a tree several yards away. She leapt to her feet, prepared to face the one who dared to come between her and her lady.
The sight that greeted her shocked her to the core.
Seiya stood there barefoot and dressed in white. His lilac eyes bore into hers, telling her that she had failed at her job. He would not allow her to protect the princess. She was not worthy.
One of his arms was wrapped around their lady's waist, holding her to him. They were unearthly in their white clothing as if the kamis had sent them to earth for a brief moment so that mortals could experience their beauty. She blinked and the picture vanished.
Falling to her knees she gazed at the place they had been. That was right, her lady had died long ago and so had he. They were gone. Standing, she slowly walked out of the forest.
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