A Shiki Story

Twentieth Mourning

Violet

With the castle breached they had to hide in the dungeon/basement. Let's just hope the townsfolk did not closely watch this place when it was built. It was beyond bearable knowing the humans trampled around, destroying the castle.

   They just had fun trashing the place.

I can't wait for that damn Doctor to see the little present that had left for him back at his clinic, She smiled flashing her teeth. How fun it was, they dragged and tortured that old hag who was always on her high horse.

 But then again, that man was as cold as ice. Even with his mother, She bet. 

This woman will never come back to life, they wrote on the wall with the old crone's blood.

  But then again, maybe they should. He would have had to kill his own mother with his own two hands. Well she had ordered that coward who failed Chizuru to do her dirty work. But it had been pleasing to hear her beg and plead for mercy.

As night took over the villagers still had not found the dungeon. "Possibly more than 30 % of our people have been killed," She heard Tatsumi report. "What about Seishirou ?" Looking down she saw Sunako's favorite slumped over.

   She was sure he would rise up and join them in the Jinrou ranks. "He isin't back yet." She frowned, She hoped Seishirou was safe. But then again she was sure he knew what he was doing, after all his father, before they killed him had a hobby of hunting humans.

  "This is it. We should run away," She voiced her thoughts. Things were getting pretty bad and they needed to get Sunako out of here. "But we can't leave, not now. Hunters are hanging around the house," Tatsumi pointed out. 

  "By taking advantage of the darkness, I was somehow able to sneak in, but..." "We need to find Seishirou. He can no longer make a levelheaded decision due to Chizuru's death." 

 "He's fine," Tatsumi replied. 

"But..." Sunako began.  "Pull yourself together. I'll go find a way to escape somehow. Don't go anywhere until I come to get you. You have Mr. Muroi  with you, right ? " She felt herself relax. Have I become this tense that I did not notice ?

 "Stay here. Ok ?"

As the two went upstairs she walked to Sunako and enveloped her into a hug. "I worry for Seishirou too. But he will be alright." Please let him be safe and sound. Seishirou was the only human who accepted them for what they were, As Shiki.

Monday. November 7

She looked away as Tatsumi reported about the Shiki in the pipelines being found. "Mr. Muroi. Do you think that stakes can go through the chest in one stroke ?" Sunako asked as she clutched her chest.

  "My body is a child's body. My bones and chest are thin. If they hammer it with all their might, I think it will go all the way through me in one stroke," Hearing the fear in her voice she looked away. The humans in this village are brutal, she worried if any of them were found they would be tortured.

  "I'm scared," She followed Tatsumi up the stairs but stopped to listen, "Isn't it funny ? I've killed so many people. No matter how brutal the killer, I don't think he killed as many as I did. My being killed is punishment for it. And yet, I'm scared."

The old Grandfather clock chimed, warning them of the time. "Soon day will break. There hunters outside the house. Even through they may make a raid at any time, I will fall asleep. Why ? If it were the main character in the story, someone wound surely come rescue them," She could hear the tears drop as they trickled off Sunako's face.

  Her heart wrenched in pain. They would never get a rescue, not like the main character in books. "Even a miracle may happen. But I have no one to rescue me. Not a single God would cause a miracle for me....

Because I'm a murder. But I have done nothing wrong. I just fed myself, that's all. If I don't have meals, I'll starve to death, so...Should I have done so ? Am I a bad person because I didn't starve to death ? Answer me, Mr. Muroi !" Sunako pleaded tearfully.

  No Sunako, your not, She thought. To resist eating...it was impossible. Like humans, Shiki had the instinct and urge to survive. That and starving was painful, She had once tried. People ate pigs and other animals, animals ate humans. So why was it so wrong for them, Shiki to feed themselves ?

   "It's not like I became a creature like this because I wanted to. But I have a life, I don't want to loose it. Is it my sin ? Mr. Muroi.... this is what we mean by being 'Forsaken by God.'" She left the room after that.

3rd pov

As the sun began to rise gun shots could be heard. Screams and shouts echoed as bodies dropped. It was one of Tatsumi's pawns. "Matsu !" The violent liquor store owner bellowed as he punched the controlled man.

   As the Doctor kneeled down to examine the dead woman someone yelled, "He has a pulse !" However the violent giant ordered, "Hold him down !" 

 "Mr. Ookawa !" He yelled. Turning he saw the side profile, eyes bulging with rage and hatred. "He's the same as the Kirishiki guy ! He's working for them !With that he raised the giant wooden hammer and murdered the human pawn that tried to kill him.