What are you?

Chapter 10: the fight

Leo listened for the footsteps in the hall.

"Get behind me!" Leo screeched, heating his hands up. He waited for them the flood the room, angrily at the ready to kill.

He kicked the door open, looking to see what was at the door. Guards armed with guns were aiming at Leo. He torched them angrily as the door slammed behind him.

The others looked at the body in the floor.

"He really fucked that guy up huh?" Ace asked.

"D, let me heal your face.. I have that ointment from the nezukia dimension." Adam said putting it on a small towel.

"But it smells really bad.." d began.

"Your nose is just extra sensitive. Now come here before it gets infected." Adam griped.

"Ok.." d sigh, she let Adam rub the ointment in her face, moping as he did so. Leo opened the door, covered in blood and sweat.

"So.. I think that's all of them. Let's go get what we came for.." Leo said smiling.

Daniel looked Leo up and down.

"Let's find you a change of clothes first. We can't broadcast you covered in blood.." he chuckled.

"I don't have any clothes..." Leo said nervously.

"Hmm, let's go see if they have some shirts laying around.." Ace said as they exited the captivity room. Everyone looked around and found that the place was abandoned for the most part. Which as odd as it sounded was true. The rest of the rooms and cells were empty. The group looked around, finding a black tank cut off. It was a little dusty but was easily dusted off.

"I don't think I'm eloquently spoken enough to make a speech. Maybe one of you should do it.." Leo sigh.

"We can inspire everyone with our story if we try.." D began.

"Let's hit them with facts.. I mean it's not like we have anything to prove.." Ace reasoned.

"Well, let's just see how it goes." Adam began.

"I foresee that Adam will give a speech. And peace will be a bit distant but closer for us." Daniel explained.

Everyone filed into the office and sat in the chairs. Leo hacked into the information and wiped their records clean. He stored the rest of the data in his AI. He smirked and hacked all broadcasts. He then moved so that Adam could sit down to give his speech.

—after the long drawn out speech—

Everyone went to different parts of the building, finding supplies they could use for their next journey. Adam and Ace went off to the west wing and Daniel went to the north wing. Leo and D raises the kitchen for non perishable food items. D sigh, holding her face as it flushed with a cherry hue.

"You're awfully quiet over there.. Everything ok D?" Leo asked.

"When you fought that guard. You called me your baby.. it just came from the left field is all.." she said with a small chuckle.

"I was just kinda in the moment.. I don't really remember what I said." Leo said honestly.

D smiled and laughed.

"I just.. you were so quick to save me. If you wouldn't have been there.. I don't know what would have happened.." she said with a nervous shake.

"I told you I'm gonna protect you. I meant it." Leo said taking some canned foods.

"Leo.." D sighed softly.

A shiver travelled up Leo's spine. His body shook.

"D?" He asked, turning around.

D hugged Leo, tightly squeezing him. She crawled up onto him and smiled as their eyes met.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"I just.. I owe you everything.." she began.

"I did it as an act of chivalry. What are you getting at?" Leo asked.

D kissed Leo's forehead tenderly. His eye was swollen and blackened from the amount of punches he sustained.

"Can you see out of your left eye?" She asked.

"Not really.. but it'll be ok. I'm just glad I was able to save you. I'm sorry I wasn't fast enough.." he said, brushing the hair away from her face. D's eyes glimmered in the faint light as Leo revealed her discolored orbs. One eye, a faint blue. The other a fierce red. Beautiful and mysterious, just like the host that kept them. The cuts were now scars, faded into her delicate skin.

" don't be. You did all you could. And what matters in the end is that we're both alive. Stop worrying about it, we're ok.." d said smiling. She reared closer to Leo, leaning in for a kiss. She pecked Leo on the lips, smiling at him before kissing him again. She pulled Leo closer to her body, hugging him as they shared a sweet kiss.

D pulled away and hugged Leo as if she'd never see him again. D nuzzled him and went back to looking for food. She used her nose to help find food that they could hold onto for awhile.

"Oh.. canned cherries.. I love cherries.." D said softly.

"Too bad it's perishable.." she sigh.

Leo snuck the cherries into the huge backpack that was in one of he empty rooms, and continued looking for more food. The others hadn't been heard from in awhile. There was a patch of sunlight that seeped through the curtains, making D jump as it touched her.

"Dammit.. I hate that I can't see the world during the day.. the sun sounds so cool but I can't go out in the sun, cause y'know.. I'm a vampire." D sigh.

"You aren't missing much. The sun makes it really hot, and it burns everyone else too, just at a slower rate.." Leo explained.

"Oooh, jackpot! I found some Cheez-it's!" D exclaimed.

"I think a few more items and we should be set until we find a new location.." Leo said with a smirk of satisfaction.

D sniffed around, opening a cabinet. She found three more boxes of Cheezits and some granola bars. The two packed all the food up neatly and began to look for the others.