BLOOD BOUND [NOVELETTE-COMPLETED]

CHAPTER 7

"What is happening?!" It was the first question Red could utter.

Travis is curled like a fetus on the cold floor, fidgeting and hissing his pain. His nails digging into his own flesh and his breathing heavy and quick.

"Why isn't anyone calling Linda? God!" Red kneeled down next to Travis, trying to collect her composure. She's sort of failing in any sense. Her hands are shaking while trying to hold Travis to her arms. The kid that she had taken care of like her own is now suffering in front of her and she can't do a thing. "I said somebody call Linda!" She choked in her own voice. What the hell is happening?

One member of the union they are in tried to dial Linda's number for the 30th time to no avail.

"She's not answering—"

"Do something! Anything!" Red's eyes became misty to her tears as her gaze never left Travis' shaking body.

"Mom." Morraine said. "Mom, let him go." She pleaded Red. It was the only time Reddeline realized that the child she was holding isn't moving anymore.

To when Travis' body stopped from shaking or to how his life ended is not in any way clear in Red's head. She can't absorb what's happening right now.

She stared at the unmoving body of the child and ignored the pleading voice of her daughter. Morraine tried to hold Travis but Red was quick to hold her wrist. It was her motion that tells her daughter to give her more time. Red could have felt the exact same thing to either of her daughters' death. She could have grieved silently like this as well.

Morraine took her hand back ever so gently and let her mother silently pour her tears while looking at the lifeless body of her dear Travis.

Her sobs are as quiet as the night; she even swallows her own cries. She didn't make a single noise; she just stared at him and let her pouring tears be her own version of screams.

Morraine turned around and silently shed her own, grieving in the same intensity of emotion lingering in their hearts.

"Whe-where is he?" Morraine turned back around to find her mom's face, still wet in tears, eyes wide open. "Where is Travis?!"

| Tokyo, Japan |

"Dr. Sandoval?! Frances! Luna! What the hell?!"Linda cursed so many times in her head, she can't even count how many. She went near the unconscious Luna and tried to determine her breathing. There was none. No air going through the cycle of inhaling and exhaling felt.

She proceeded feeling her pulse but it was not present, as well.

More curses showered in her head. What is really happening? She tried CPR but Luna's body didn't react.

Linda's tears started to form. What's happening? She felt her palms sweat and cold. Her eyes unsteady. "Think, Linda." She told herself.

She knew that Luna is a different case; she was far superior to vampires and ghouls. The serums that she can use to those kind creatures may not be so useful for her.

She hesitantly grabbed a strange looking serum from her medicine kit. A note was on it. Linda read the components and for some reason something kicked in. It was Travis' blood but something else is in it, a small additive.

She immediately grabbed her phone. "Eiji's files. Blood type. Blood components." The phone responded to her voice.

"Linda, Eiji's blood is RH null. The universal blood for anyone with rare blood types within the rh system."Linda's face was blank.

She read the note on bottle, once more. It is hand written. She knows the handwriting, she's sure it is Dr. Shotiro's, Eiji's personal doctor. Was it left there in purpose? Does the doctor expect this to happen?

She tried to refocus her mind.

Rh negative has a small amount of rh null, a blood renowned as the blood gold.

Could this be the cure?

Without any more mental debate in her head, she finally decided to inject the serum inside the syringe to Luna's veins.