Hope in the Shadows

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AN: Hi me again! Running out of babbling ideas so I'll make sure to keep this short.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh Zexal. Unless I named one of my cats Yugioh Zexal. Hmmm . . . .

In the last chapter Shark ends up Being convinced by Yuma and the twins to return to the Elite Head Quarters where his sister and team are at. Now on with the story!

It has know been about twenty four days since I left Yuma and the twins to come back to the Elite Head Quarters. I know it's better this way since technically I am still a vampire hunter from the Elite. Even if I have spent the last six months living in the same cave as my best friend who has became an amazingly strong vampire called an Eternal and Two Fledglings and never once ever attempted to kill them. I may not have killed them but they are different from other vampires since they don't hurt people .There are still plenty of other vampires in this world that are nothing but monsters that I can and will kill to protect the world we live in. " -asch. . . . . Nasch. . . . .NASCH! It's time to get up! "

" Huh!? What!? What happened!? " I practically soar out of the bed thanks to someone screaming my name. After sitting up and trying to calm down for a few minutes I start looking around with eyes still blurred and groggy from being woke up. After a little while I found a person standing at the far edge of my bed. With my blurry eyes i can just make out a tall slender person with long blue hair, " What do you want Marin? " I ask with a voice still groggy from sleep.

" You know we have a meeting this evening now get up! " She then got me out of bed by grabbing the sheet that was underneath me and giving it a hard yank. This sent me toppling out of the bed and on to the floor. If that didn't wake me up nothing would, fortunately it did. I shudder at the thought of what Marin might do if it hadn't worked. " Why are you like this? "

I looked up at Marin with a confused and questioning look. " Why are you having so much trouble trying to get to sleep? You're always taking naps all day and night, when you first came back after being missing for so long you looked like you had gotten the best sleep in years. Like you did before. . . . . . . " She didn't have to finished the sentence for me to know that she meant since Yuma died. As much as it hurt for me to have to keep it all a secret from Marin and my other team mates I felt it was the right thing to do. I knew that if I had told them about Yuma and the twins then they would just hunt them down to their cave and kill them. Since Yuma probably wouldn't want to hurt them he wouldn't fight back or have Astral or Mist fight back either an they would be caught and experimented on or may be even. . . . . . . killed. And I just couldn't let that happen, I couldn't let Yuma die because of me again, I couldn't let it be all my fault again.

I looked up to see Marin giving me a worried look and realized that I had probably been lost in thought for a long time now. " Well wouldn't you be tired too? I get to have almost a half a year of vacation to have my injuries heal in some peace and quiet and now I have to come back to this? Hell, Vector alone can completely wipe me out in less then an hour! "

I think I was able to at least some what convince her since she gave me a relieved sighed and then a little smile before saying, " Yeah, Vector has that kind of effect on people. Now hurry up and get dressed so you won't be late. " She then turned around and left the room. I'm glad I was able to comfort her but that wasn't the real reason I couldn't sleep. The real reason I couldn't sleep is because Yuma wasn't here, I missed sleeping next to him and feel the warmth that came off his body. Without him I felt so cold and alone.

The meeting had felt like it was taking forever even though it only lasted about an hour, but why wouldn't it? All they did was go over the same problems that they went over in the last meeting, and the meeting before that, and the meeting before that and so on. The problem like always was to tr and figure out new ways of finding and destroying vampires. There were some new ideas and possible inventions but nothing for sure, just like always. Why was I even coming to these things anymore? I couldn't wait until it was over and I could just sit back and relax since there weren't any active missions yet.

Unfortunately that break never came because just as the meeting was about to end someone came running into the conference hall shouting " Vampires have infiltrated the Head Quarters! " All at once we started preparing our equipment and getting ready for battle. When we got out there you could see dozens of Necrophiles and Neophytes swarming in the doors and windows and soldiers trying to fight them off. We soon started in the fight, being swarmed by vampires left and right. I see Marin fighting off a whole group in front of her as one attacks from behind. I scream out, " Marin behind you! " and she turns around as I hear the sound of the vampires claws ripping something apart as a dark red liquid is sprayed every where.

AN: That's all for this chapter. Don't forget to comment! ^ ^