Bloody Petals

Chapter 2

The agonizing memories together with the physical pain that the silver-haired hunter was feeling made him unfocused on his surrounding for a while, and it was already too late when he realized that there was someone beside him. He didn't even have the time to point his gun to his enemy when his hand was stepped on repeatedly until his numbed hand lost its grip on the Bloody Rose. It was left there as he was dragged away by someone he couldn't even see clearly. His vision, he realized too late, was also affected by the pain and the exhaustion. It was blurry and he couldn't even see if his attacker was male or female. All he knew was that the vampire, a pureblood, was weak.

Even now that his body was too weak to move and could feel nothing except pain, he could still clearly tell that the vampire was very weak because its presence was barely registering in his senses. He could also smell large amount of blood coming from the pureblood. It was most likely the vampire's own blood and Zero knew that the enemy was also somehow injured. The vampire dragged him by the collar deeper and deeper into the forest until the vampire himself or herself was tired. Zero felt like his mind would break with every harsh movement coming from the vampire because his limbs reacted sorely to even the slightest change in his position. He gritted his teeth so hard just so he wouldn't cry in agony.

After a while, the pureblood briskly put his unmoving body down the wet ground. He was laid on his back just as his vision totally blacked out. He could feel the cold droplets of rain on his skin but it didn't lessen the sickening pain at all.

"I'll devour you here." The vampire said for the first time, and Zero knew from the voice that she was female. He felt his hunter senses turning red in alertness as the vampire leaned over him. He felt her long silky hair brush his face and chest as she bent over. Her awfully attractive scent was too powerful now that she was so close.

"Get off me!!" He tried to shout at the vampire whom he couldn't even see anymore as his visions totally blacked out. He felt his skin crawl when he heard the pureblood laugh.

"Getting excited won't do you any good, boy." She continued her advances until her mouth was just some inch from Zero's neck. "Just be quiet and savor my fangs in your neck deeply. You won't forget it for the rest of your life. Or rather, death."

Zero tried to struggle but his awfully painful limbs wouldn't let him even move an inch from his position. His left hand clutched the grasses that his fingers could grip, especially when the vampire jerked his head to the right to bite his left side of the neck. She jerked his tuxedo off his shoulder so his delicious-looking neck was exposed thoroughly.

"Hmmm... Hunter blood really smells so sweet and delicious..." Zero was gritting his teeth hard that it was already bleeding but he still screamed in extreme pain when the fangs suddenly sunk in his flesh and sucked the rich hunter blood flowing inside him. His keen hearing could clearly hear her gulping large amounts of blood almost every other second. The vampire continued to drink his blood until he was almost losing his consciousness. Zero tried his best to struggle at first but found it futile so he tried to forget about the pain of the fangs in his neck and concentrate on recovering his strength. Just as the vampire stopped for a while, Zero used that opportunity to at least move his hand and knock the vampire off of him. The pureblood was still quite weak but she was relatively far stronger than earlier. She didn't even budge from her position as she continued to drink from him.

"Damn you... I'll kill you..." Zero voiced as he felt his consciousness wavering because of blood loss. With this statement, she stopped and looked at her prey.

"What a nice expression you got there, boy. Not to mention your blood tastes a lot different than ordinary hunters... no, than ordinary human." She chuckled, obviously sated and deeply satisfied by thick hunter blood. "Alright. I won't kill you."