7. Silent Slash (1/2)

title: of the darkness||chapter: silent slashcharacters: ryou, shou, camulachapters: 7-25||words: 1,097||total: 8,047genre: family, supernatural||rated: pg-13challenge: diversity writing challenge, ygo gx, j6, multi-chapter with 15-25 chaptersnotes: it's an au. it involves vampires.summary: shou invites his

other in after ryou returns from a long trip away. that is his first mistake. it only gets worse from there.

she didn't like what floated in the air tonight. she wouldn't go so far as to say that she could smell evil or corruption or even darkness – and even if she could've smelled that last, the darkness was hardly totally evil – but she still knew that there something lurked out there tonight that could

ing death. that would

ing death. every hunter's instinct she owned whispered of that.

for that reason, she remained near the door, fingering her whip, and wondering when her lover would arrive. she usually spent dark nights like this hunting those creatures that threatened civilized beings – the uncivilized ones could usually protect themselves – but she'd chosen to remain in tonight to spend time with him.

now she wondered if she'd made the wrong choice.

carefully, the one known as chaos hunter to more people than who knew her by other names cracked the shutters on her window and drew in a soft

eath of air. the scent on the wind would tell her if there really was danger out there. she might not know what it was, but she'd know if there was something.

she also wouldn't know if it was something she could deal with herself, but one step at a time.

what caught at her nostrils was the scent of blood. not just any blood, though she would not call herself an expert in the varied scents of it. but she'd smelled his blood before, due to the many small accidents that he picked up over the course of his tailor's apprenticeship and times he'd watched her training and gotten in the way of a whip strike or dagger slash.

this wasn't the light prickle of blood from those times, easily tended to and forgotten in a matter of hours or days. the scent was too strong for that.

taking time only to make certain her weapons were in place, chaos hunter slipped out of her home and whipped her way through the trees, taking to the high limbs to make certain that whatever it was didn't see her coming. she didn't know what the creature was or how it dared to attack so close to civilization, but she wanted to find out. only then could she know how to properly attack it.

what she refused to think was what the sight of her love being attacked and shredded might do to her mind.

at first she thought the one figure bent over a prone one was someone there to help. she opened her mouth to call for their attention, but stopped when she heard sounds she seldom had before.

sucking. sounds of drinking.

that, and the blood so strong in the air, told her all that she needed to know.

vampire.