Sacrifice {Vampire Knight ~ A Kaname Kuran FanFiction}

Part Two

Part Two

My head hit the ground. Was I dead? No, I could feel everything. I groaned, holding my head as I sat up. What happened? My armour was gone and something was clutched in my hand. A stem... the rose!

Crouching then hesitantly standing up, I looked around only to be met with dark stone, barely illuminated by something, but there were no candles or torches on the walls or hanging from the ceiling. In fact, the light wasn't even coming from the stone at all.

The light was for sure below me, so I looked down only to see that the rose, still clutched in my metal right hand, was glowing. The source of light was the rose.

I grasped the stem of the rose tighter, the sharp thorns scratching against my metal palm. I still didn't know exactly what happened and how I got down here, but I couldn't lose my only source of light. Reaching out to gently graze the stone wall with my left fingers, the coldness of it seeping through my body, I began to slowly pad along, using the wall and the glow from the rose as my guides.

It seemed to go on forever. My boots, crafted out of titanium for my feet alone by yours truly, echoed off the also stone floor. Would this stone hall ever end? Finally, it did. I raised my right hand, the metal one, to have the rose's glow illuminate what awaited me. I found three tunnels, all carved with the same dark stone as the hall. The floor was still stone and the tunnels were identical. Maybe my artificial eye's functions would work down here... Never mind. No such luck. Alright, guess my only other option was to just pick a tunnel since I couldn't use technology to differentiate the differences between them.

Lifting my other hand, I closed my eyes and pointed at one of the tunnels. Opening my eyes, I saw that the tunnel I was pointing at was the one on the right. Okay, that was the tunnel I was going down.

At the start, I marched down the tunnel, now confident I was going somewhere; however, I then heard something that made me stop abruptly. Ghastly moans filled the air, and with them floated lost souls. They were coming straight toward me!

I froze, not knowing what to do as I grasped the rose desperately. Suddenly, one of them leapt at me. How could these... things even do that? It came up so close to me, but I couldn't move. I was frozen, tensed-up in that one place.

"S-s-s-siss-ster," the soul hissed. Sister? Only Ichiru called me that... Oh, my God.

"No, no, no! This is not happening. You... you are not Ichiru!" I panicked, now moving, backing away from this creature.

I jumped, however, when I felt a clammy coldness down my neck. Another one of those things. This time, it hissed my name by my ear. If the first one that spoke was supposed to be Ichiru, was this one trying to be Zero?

"Stop pretending to be my family!" I exploded. "Ichiru... Zero... They are not dead! You are just imitations of them, and I... I will not stand for it."

As I did my best to stay firm and demanding, the souls imitating my brothers stared into my eyes with their bottomless empty sockets. They then moaned once more and withdrew, a mysterious fog drifting in as they did. The fog disguised the rest of the souls, only their silhouettes visible. Then, and then, I fainted.

When I woke up, the rose was gone and so was the tunnel. I looked at my right hand, now covered by the glove. It was night-time, the full moon magnificently luminous through the window. I was on the floor... in the Moon dorm. How did I get there?

What happened with the lost souls was unbelievably lucky, but I wasn't sure that lucky would happen again.

Deciding to investigate what in the world happened, I pushed myself off the floor and strode away. Kaname would know what was going on for sure.