Within The Ash

Chapter 31

Violets POV

It was strange outside, the wind picked up and there was a tall man who towered over Zero.

The tall man laughed but I didn't see any sign of laughter on Zeros face as they spoke.

Zero stood tall with his head held high. He crossed his arms over his chest as they briefly stared at each other. This was something Zero only did when threatened.

The realization kicked me in the face.

Oh my god, he's talking to a vampire. I said to myself as Zero frantically ran over to all of us.

"We have to run, follow my lead" he said as he quickly grabbed a gun that I never even knew he had until now. "I'll be in the trees, I'll take care of everything just run and hide where ever you can"

We all ran but I noticed that Zero had stayed behind.

He's gonna get himself killed. What the fuck is he doing?

I thought to myself as I watched him disappear into the tops of the trees.

I watched as everybody found their hiding spots and one by one the vampires still ended up finding us.

The hunt lasted for hours and it was only 30 minutes before the first vampire randomly fell dead out of nowhere.

It was shot right between the eyes.

I looked up into the trees to faintly see Zero who laid on his stomach across several close together branches. He had his gun pointed and one of his eyes shut.

His hair was actually away from his face for the very first time.

His eyes were so amazingly blue that it felt as if light radiated from them. They were vast oceans of thunder. Bright blue portals to different worlds.

Lucifer's POV

It was strange how fast and how accurately he shot them.

He didn't even miss one. He definitely had experience with guns and his precise shots were as if he were using a different kind of gun.

He shot one between the eyes, one in the back of the head, one in the chest, one in the temple and there was one more he needed to kill.

I watched as the last vampire came from behind the trees.

He focused his attention on Mara and I as we hid inside of a tree that was completely hollowed out on the inside. I thought that this would protect us good but I was wrong. I whispered in Mara's ear that everything would be find but all she could do was shake and hold me close. He was just about to grab her right out of my arms and I was all ready to put up the fight of my life as I shielded her small body with my own. Zero leaps down from the three and sliced his throat open.

The vampire dropped to his knees and than finally fell lifeless on the ground at Zero's feet.

He didn't mock, taunt, or spit at the monster he had just killed.

He didn't even take the time to step over the beasts corpse and that alone bothered the fuck out of me.

If I had just killed that much evil I would be doing a god damn rain dace on top of their bloody corpse.

Violet's POV

I'm so fascinated by him but at the same time I can't fucking stand him.

I'm curious at why he's so god damn nice and peaceful, yet powerful and smart when angry. It was as if he had split personalities.

He kissed me back when we were living in Sia's ally. Does that mean he's my boyfriend?

I liked the thought of him being my boyfriend. But he's too nice. And the short time when he isn't nice, he's whining about himself with his pathetic moans of pain.

But I liked it when he would snap back at me. It kind of turned me on.

I swear I wanted to kiss him and punch him at the same time.

I wanted to get his reaction to both. I wanted to test him to see if he's really violent or not. I didn't know if he had killed his parents or not but from what I've seen in him, he's gentle and could never do that.

But I wanted to be sure.

And I didn't want to have a boyfriend who is a killer.

He bent down to Mara and checked to see if she was injured or not.

One by one all of us came out from our hiding spots and walked over to him.

He was tired and we all saw that as he just stood aside, watching as Lucifer stood to his feet after shielding her body with his own. Lucifer was all ready to be killed for her. And I thought that was absolutely ridiculous.

They than drew their attention to Zero who stood as if he were day dreaming from the side.

I walked over to him and stood on my toes to kiss his lips.

Looking down at me he frowned and didn't kiss me back.

"Where's my kiss?" I asked as his eyes stared straight into my soul.

"I'm all sweaty" he said in a deep voice still looking down at me with his arms tiredly hanging at his sides.

"I don't care that you're sweaty" I said completely contradicting what I've said in the past.

His eyes grew wide but a grin grew upon his tired face. "Oh really?, you seemed to mind before when I offered you my jacket"

"Kisses aren't the same as sweaty jackets, sweaty jackets are gross as fuck" I said with a smile as he leaned down and placed his lips against mine.

He smiled and held me close as he removed his lips from mine.

"I'm so tired" he said to me with a yawn as he placed his gun in his back pocket.

"Let's go to sleep than, it's late"