ETTVB 22: BATTLE SCARS

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FHAE's POV

"What's the matter Fhae? Don't know how to swing a sword?" Sansone laughs hysterically blocking and dodging my attacks. Now that I'm in this situation, I should have taken my kendo practice seriously when I was a kid.

"SHUT UP!" I retorted. But I seriously need to remain calm! I swung the sword like hitting a ball of the baseball. I feel like I am being reckless but I've got no option out!

He throws a wooden table from the sides and I was able to cut it half with my sword but he kicks some of the broken glass coffin into my direction and they scratched and injured me. He was about to grab my foot again but I was able to leap backwards.

I need to be stronger!

I need to end it now!

I need to kill him!

"Calm down Fhae!" Kazuto's voice echoed despite being paralyzed with Sansone's previous attacks. He was still down to the floor.

"You need to focus Fhae! Focus!" Kazuya calls out as he assists me in the attacks.

"Hyaaah!!!!" I shouted as I swung the sword towards him but he jumps behind me and my nose sensed him and I swiftly turned around doing a sliding kick to the floor. And when I thought I could get the upper hand, he grabs my feet and threw me to the wall like a pillow being played around and blood spurted off my mouth and I felt my back bone crack with the heavy impact. I was about to force myself to stand up but I was dragged from my foot again and shaken to the concrete side of the floor creating a big crack and the floor becomes destroyed and the heavy pile of rocks fell on top of me and a steel even pierced out of my legs. "Aaah!!" I cried in the horrid pain.

"That's marvelous Fhae! Those eyes! Those eyes that are so precious, so beautiful!" I heard Sansone exclaimed. This is so painful! "You've finally awaken fully and it's even in your last moments! Bwahahaha!" I felt my skin trying to regenerate as fast as it could but he pierced my stomach with his long sharp fingers which were steel-hard now. More blood oozed off my system and it didn't show anh sign of stopping.

I'm scared. So scared.

I'm sorry mother. I'm sorry father. I'm sorry Kyouta. I'm a failure.

I hate this.

My blood is the only one who could kill him but has to be me to inflict it to him otherwise, if he gets a hold of my pure blood and drinks it, he wins and we die.

Why can't he die now as some bits of my blood slide down his arm which was holding me up.

"FHAE!!"  I don't know who called me anymore but my body feels so numb. I felt being lifted from the ground and the sword drops to the ground making a loud clanking sound.

"Fhae! Fhae!" A number of voices continued calling me but I'm too tired already. I just want this to end. I just want to sleep.

I closed my eyes.

It was a very sunny day and I wish I was outside and playing with my friends but I'm stuck here in the dojo.

I swung my wooden sword to the air. It's practice for kendo. My  father has made me take up extra-curricular clubs and activities as heiress of the human land. I wipe my sweat and started swinging the wooden sword again.

"That's it for today princess." I turned to where the voice came from and it was my kendo instructor Gregario. He's a guy around the age of 47 I think. Whenever I ask him he dodges it so I have no clue at all.

"Eh? But I've only been practing my posture and all! How am I going to attack if I don't study any techniques?"

He makes a small chuckle. "Don't forget  that the strongest attack does not come from the skills, technique and talent alone child. There's one thing so great it can vanquish even the slightest darkness away." He explained.

"What is it?"

"The question should be: where do you find it Fhae." Gregario sits beside me and points on my chest.  "It's right there child. Your heart is the strongest weapon and within it is your resolve to protect the right people."

"Heart? Protect?"

"Yes child. Don't ever forget that. Always remember that."

"Is it to protect everyone from the vampires?" But he didn't reply to that question. I guess I should have relaised that he was no human himself. How naive of me. It was the last memory I have of my teacher... And now that I think about it... He knew that I was a vampire as he himself was one. But not once did he mentioned it to me as this was the protection in disguise they could offer me.

Ahh... He was the one who kept watch of me in the human land and he was the one who searched for me in my father's stead. He was a special vampire himself. I should really thank him for helping me in secrecy from the enemies when I get back.

Get back? Should I go back? Should I still return?

No... this is enough...

Everything in my sight went black. This is the end, isn't it? Just let me drown into my own dark world. I'll just let the darkness engulf me until I...

"Callidora..."

Did someone call me? As if. I'm all alone and it will never change. It will forever remain the same.

"Callidora..."

In the midst of the darkness, this nostalgic voice calls out to me and a little dot of light from an unreacheable place exists. Tears fell down my cheeks as his face appears on my mind.

I have to go back.

I need to bring him back.

This was my resolve already right? Though I am weak, I already promised myself moments ago that I will win and not let his sacrifice go to a waste. But my resolve isn't strong enough isn't it? I'm weak.

I'm pathethic.

I'm worthless.

But...

I won't give up.

If I give up now, who knows what will happen to mankind. If I give up now, I will never forgive myself for making his sacrifice go to waste.

I open my eyes and I was still afloat with Sansone gripping on my neck. I held on his neckline abruptly and with all my might to make our positions turn around. "HYAAAAAAAA!!!"Though I could feel my ribs breaking, and my arms extremely exhausted and almost ripping off, my mind was completely blank and the only thing circulating now is to kill him.

"Fhae!" I looked back and my eyes widened with amazement. It was Kazuya... In his real killer form.

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KAZUYA's POV

"Let go of her!" I tried approaching Fhae who just fell off the concrete flooring but Sansone kept hold of her. My play to be a distraction wasn't very effective as he would throw me to the side like a piece of rubbish. But this is a matter of life and death.

Kazuto has been paralyzed when he fought this demon I will never call as my ancestor nor family. Never. He killed a lot of the vampires in my lineage especially my mother and he was the source why my family had to be broken at a young age.

The sound of her body breaking was unbearable. My little sister and fiancé. My first love. I can't contain myself hearing her pain. She's a princess worth more than the priceless diamonds in this earth. She should not be hurt nor tainted as she is the fragile, fragile enough to make others want and possess her. And as her brother, I will not allow it to happen. She will be happy. Even if her happiness will not be me, I will fight for her.

There's no turning back now.

I'd rather get myself killed that have Fhae experience hell again... Even if it means I die. I clenched my fists and bit my righy arm then swiftly pulling the tie in my long hair and letting the blood dance in the bow. "In my hands, you will die."

"Kazuya no!" I heard Kazuto calling me but I know why he's calling me out. The harsh consequence that may occur once I turned into my true form.

The bow strengthened and transformed into a scythe, sharp and long, and I could feel my hair gotten longer too with my fangs appearing fully. My eyes reflected to the windows and it was a bright red colour. Brighter than the blooming roses I have seen in my lifetime. I chucked the specs off my face as my eyes boiled with madness towards the enemy at hand. My back made all the craking and wrecking sound as I felt my demon wings appear after a lifetime of being hidden in the world. My true pureblood vampire form... For the first and probably the last time is out.

"I said let her go you bastard!" My voice resonated in the area and he finally looked at me. I made a high jump and swing my scythe and it was less than a centimeter to hit him but his reflexes were quick to match mine.

"I don't have enough time to play with you." I heard him whisper as he drags Fhae's body up squeezing her little neck.

"I said... LET. HER. GO!" I was about to swing my scythe again when I felt a different aura being omitted from Fhae. Her wounds immediately healed and as she opened her eyes, she grabs the collar of Sansone's tattered clothes and throws him away.

"HYAAAAAA!!!" She shouts and I could hear her frail body creaking with every ounce of force she gives herself.

"Fhae!" I called out and she faces me. Her startled expression says she did not expect to see me as I am and I can't blame her for that. She gives me a faint smile and slowly her entity was enveloped into a sparkling light. Her wounds started disappearing and the once broken ribs and arms were back to normal. Her skin went fairer and her closed eyes darker. Her lips that were pale and bloody have fixed up into the luscious lips one would bot resist to feel. Her hair color turned into a caramel shade contemplating her complexion up to the ends of her finger tips. Is this her true vampire form?

No.

This isn't a vampire form. It's a goddess form brought by her thirds-of-blood. She has exceeded her self anxiety and her mind is in one path only.

"YOU CANNOT WIN AGAINST ME!" Sansone screams as he calls out his ghoul companions and the whole place was surrounded by their imbecile beings. I saw Sansone riping up the remaining human skin left on his shoulder and pulling his tattered cover-up leaving him with nothing but his muscular yet horrific build. He was about to plunge to Fhae from behind and I took a leap to stop him. "FHAEEE!" I called out a meter away from him but a gust of wind pushed, not only me, but also Sansone and his minions towards the wall. She opens her eyes and I was in awe with her eyes. Golden yet red. And it was not just the colors that captivated me but her obvious determination to fight and win.

"Kazuya!" I turn to my left and saw Kazuto back on his feet running towards me. He takes a glance on the fighting scene taking place, now outside the manor. They've been using the whole house like an arena and it's alnost demolished. I felt Kazuto's back behind me as we get surrounded by the ghouls. "What happened? Is she--?"

"No. That's not her real form yet. She's in her royalty state. Our bride has fully awaken." I smiled at him as we watch Fhae extends her arm in the sword direction and the sword makes a clanking sound and it flew lightning speed to her hands and she swings it better than before. Sansone gets up and tackles her.

"No time! No time! No time!" Sansone keeps repeating. What does he mean 'no time'?

"Let's go Kazuya!" Kazuto calls out and I nodded and we dashed towards her aid. We made our way by slicing the ghouls. Me with my scythe and Kazuto with whatever steel or blocks he could use.

"DON'T INTERFERE!" We froze to the spot with Fhae shouting at us.

"But Fhae?!" Kazuto was going to argue as we were surprised to see what happens next. Sansone was gripping tight of her from her back and his pointed fangs nearly piercing her neck. "FHAE!" We called out but she didn't move an inch as his grip tightened on her frail entity but she didn't budge but she let him bite her! Has she gone nuts! I dashed towards them but I was a meter away from her but I saw her eyes filled with sadness.

"It's alright... You don't need to suffer any longer... It ends tonight..." I heard Fhae whispers as she flips the sword and holds it with both hands facing her and my eyes widened with disbelief with what she did next.

She struck herself in the abdomen and pierced the sword to Sansone's closed-range body as well and she pushes herself towards the nearby oak tree as Sansone screams a cry of pain.

"What the fvck?!" Kazuto shrieks beside me as we see Fhae's face embodied with immense pain.

"GET AWAY FROM M-!!" Sansone screams injuring Fhae's back and blood continued spilling off from her delicate skin but the whole building was soon coiled with the sound of cracking glasses. She deepens the sword coated with her blood one last time and she makes a small cry as the wound she inflicted on him hardens and slowly becomes glass and it continually cracks from the attack. "NO! NO!" He cried as he squeeze Fhae and she only closes her eyes. 

"Shhhh.. Don't worry.. It's okay." Fhae whispers kneeling down as the hind legs of the ghoul also started creaking and it falls on the floor. The ghouls face starts to harden aswell and his bright red eyes fades color like his skin tone and the dark aura dies off. The ghouls surrounding us also disappeared in an instant with a black smoke.

"Fhae!" Kazuto dashes to Fhae and she was silently gripping on the sword still intact to her body. She was shaking and crying. Why is she crying? Shouldn't she be happy already??

"Is something wrong Fhae?" I kneeled to her but she is still weeping badly. She looks up to me and her golden and red eyes slowly dispersing and I could hear a small thumping tone in her system. Both Kazuto and my eyes widened as we smell her pure blood spilling of her fragile body. Sansone who has turned into full glass creaks and gets destroyed as he breaks into millions of particles.

"This is so unfair..." She whispers heart-breakingly.

The plan was to eliminate the ghouls but why is she crying? Why is she suffering? I don't understand at all!

What the hell is going on?

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A/n: I know nobody care but i'll still put this. if you're wondering why it takes me a long time these days to make an update:

- i am only using my phone to type ALL my stories (i have 3 ongoing and 2 that i want to pu

- i try to update one (or two) story(ies) every week

- i got school and work to balance

- i lack sleep for two weeks now (been pulling all-nighters)

so please don't be mad and just support the story if you love (or like) it. I hope someone out there is! :3

♥ PrincessThirteen00

5 September 2014