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    tab 'This is driving me insane!!' I screamed in my head. For the past while, I've been too tense to go anywhere near the vampire family. Which we now know their names are: the father(tallest man), Atrus, the mother(the woman), Azure, the oldest son(the middle male), Prasinus, and the youngest son, Rubrus.
    tab Descriptions of the family, hmm. The whole family has black raven hair with matching hair streaks(Except Atrus) with their eyes. I couldn't tell the guy's body figure. They're wearing black trench coats and black combat boots. Atrus' eyes were pitch black, but, somehow, I still could see his pupils. His hair was straight and a bit long. All of the guys have the same light skin colored(Which I'm confused at). Prasinus' eyes were a dark but beautiful shade of emerald. His hair was like his dad's, slightly long and straight. Rubrus' eyes were a somehow a dark but also bright color of crimson. His hair is short and messy, like he never brushed it. Either that, or he naturally has bad hair days. Now Azure… Erm… She has some pretty… skin revealing fashion? She wore a white off shoulder top that had two folds one on top of each other silk lines. In the middle of her chest where those shoulder lines meet, there's a yellow star. Her short shorts were a light denim blue color. She had a star belt with rhinestones in the middle of the leather part and white knee high steel toed boots. Her hair... Dang woman! She has hair that reaches to the middle of her thighs! And, some of her hair are up in pig tails, except they're cut so that part of the hair is pretty short. I thought it looked nice. Hehe, if she sold her hair to a wig shop, she could probably make a lot of money.
    tab I kept reminding myself that they drank blood and the thought of their mouths latching onto any part of my skin was making me shiver and get chicken skin!! I don't know why, but, the thought of it is just creepy! So, it's like we were walking as a pack in a horizontal line. From right to left, Me, Illumining, FireStorm, Atrus, Alure, Prasinus, and Rubrus. The way we're all walking together like a pack looked pretty weird. Like a bunch of Sorority friends/sisters walking together… Except in a big bunch of them, linking arms and all those other things. Just for us… we're all walking stiffly, like one or the other will jump out of nowhere and rip out the other's throat. We're DEFINITELY not linking arms, obviously. And too much awkward silence. We tried to avoiding talking for the past hour we have been walking. It's mainly because information on anything might slip out of our mouths by accident and we don't want the other to hear and use it for their advantage. But, also the main reason why I'm going is insane… Dun dun dun! MY FEET ARE HURTING LIKE HELL!! I've been walking for too long and I haven't had proper rest since the first night I slept in this world. 'I KNOW I'm going to be getting blisters… That is unless I already got them. *Sighs* Well, this sucks.'
    tab I think Illumining felt my pain. It's because not a moment sooner, I felt something go through my legs and made me slide down whatever it was. I only noticed that it was Illumining when I seen white. But, since it took me so much by surprise, I lost my balance and reflex senses and fell off of her and hit the ground with a thud. Everybody turned to look at me. My face was facing the ground and I flinched in pain. "Oww…" I said with some pain in my voice.
    tab Prasinus and Rubrus started to snicker while Atrus just tried to hold back a laugh by biting his top lip. Azure gave me a worried look. Illumining lowered her body towards my now pain-filled body, "Are you okay Hikari?! I'm sooo sorry! I could tell that you were in pain and I-" I waved my hand, signaling her to stop talking. I lifted my head and turned my face towards the male vampires and glared at them. "Freakin' bats." I muttered. FireStorm was just had a unexplainable expression. Like it was a mixture of blank, 'ookkaayy?', and a neutral look all at once.
    tab "I swear if we didn't have other company… I would start laughing right now." FireStorm said. I just narrowed my eyes and weakly tried to get up. Only to feel a jolt of pain from my feet, falling backwards and tripping over Illumining's body. I heard and felt Illumining get up and turned to look at me, nudging me with her nose. "Are you okay?!" She asked again. I can tell that she's feeling more guilty now.
    tab By now Prasinus was just laughing his a** off and I can feel a smirk from Rubrus. I groaned in agony, "Not to whine about it, but my whole body is aching now." I said. I couldn't feel the energy to lift myself up anymore. I just wanted to lie there until the pain went away. But instead, Illumining and FireStorm helped me up onto Illumining's back. When I was completely balanced and relaxed on her back, we continued on walking. Not wanting to fight off the sleepiness, leaning my upper body on Illumining's neck. I muttered an apology before closing my eyes and falling asleep.

    *~* Atrus' Point of View *~*


    tab I started to worry. How do I explain to my family that the other reason why I'm bringing these unicorns and the human to Dark's territory is because he ordered me to. They aren't suppose to find out yet. But, I know they want to know. Why we haven't killed the unicorns, why we haven't drank Hikari's blood yet. I remember couple days ago what Dark told me…

    *~* Flashback *~*


    tab "You called me, Dark?" I bowed in front of the pure raven black unicorn. Two trees created pitch black shadows, hiding the body of the ruler of the Dark lands. The trunk of the trees were slightly curved towards each other to create the shadows. The reason why it was pitch black though was because the magic that Dark held, created the shadows to increase in darkness.
    tab A pair of glowing white eyes appeared in the shadows, and out stepped the majestic black unicorn. He looked at me with his usual piercing gaze. His gaze could frighten all if he wanted to. He doesn't even have to try to scare someone.
    tab "Yes." His rough voice said. I was confused why he would call me. He usually wouldn't be like this unless it was urgent. Everything was silent for a moment.
    tab "Dark… If you don't mind me asking… Why did you summon me?" I asked, looking at him straight in the eyes. He looked down to connect eyes.
    tab "I have been told by Shimmering that now the time has come." My eyes widen. My breath caught a bit in my throat, but I quickly swallowed it.
    tab "Now? It has finally come now?" Dark gave a small nod. I felt my body go numb, I could feel my nerves tingling in nervousness. I didn't exactly want this day to come… So much disaster will befall this world. I didn't exactly want it to happen… I wanted it to happen so that a long time of forever peace will come. But not in the way that it will happen.
    tab "You must enter the created world that Shimmering created, Earth. You must find this girl," a small black cloud and wind blew gently and formed an accurate figure of a vampire. "and bring her here. She's not a vampire. She's what Shimmering called, 'a human'."
    tab I blinked in surprise and looked up from the figure to him, "She's not a vampire?" He shook his head a bit.
    tab "No. She isn't. So that means you have to be extra careful of what you do to her. These so called 'humans' are extremely weak compared to our strength." I didn't reply, I just lowered my head to memorize the girl's appearance. She was very pretty to me.
    tab 'Hmm… I wonder…' I started to go into deep thought, still staring at the black cloud figure. After a while, I snapped myself out of the trance and looked up at Dark again. "Pardon me, Dark. But, what did Shimmering tell you?"
    tab Dark looked at me with a blank stare then gave a small but quiet horse sigh and closed his eyes.

    *~* Farther Flashback(In Dark's Point of View) *~*


    tab "I was resting in the pitch black shadows (behind that small grouping of trees like a cave). I then woke up to the a glowing light in front of me. I opened my eyes and looked at it. I then seen Shimmering looking down at me. Her wings were opened a bit.
    tab "Dark. The time has come." She told me. Her voice was as gentle like a small breeze and somehow, her voice seemed like a tiny twinkling star.
    tab At this point, I became fully awake. I sort of jumped up a bit and looked at her, my eyes widen a bit, "You mean…?"
    tab She nodded gently, "Yes… It's time…"
    tab I then started to go deep into thought, except I don't know what I was trying to think. I don't think I was trying to think about anything. In fact, I don't even think I knew what I was doing. I guess I was just trying to take in all the facts. I can tell Shimmering sensed my uneasiness.
    tab "Do not fear Dark. There may be loses, but there will also be gains as well. Remember, a long line of peace will come after all that has happened." I looked up at her. She had a gentle smile on her face at me. I nodded at her. I felt courage grow in me. I gave her a smile that was filled with courage. She returned the smile with a nod. Then she spoke again, "Oh. I don't think Atrus wants his youngest kids to be on this mission. They don't have to go."
    tab I tilted my head a bit in confusion, 'Youngest kids? Does she mean Prasinus and Rubrus? I know I told her about sending Atrus, but…' Shimmering heard my thoughts and giggled a bit.
    tab "You'll see what I mean. When you see him tomorrow." She then closed her eyes lowered her head a tiny bit, and spread her wings a bit. Rays of light shone and stars twinkled brightly and she disappeared."

    *~* End of Further Flashback *~*


    *~* Back to Atrus' Point of View *~*


    tab "Care to explain what she meant by, 'your youngest kids'? Is she referring to Prasinus and Rubrus?" He asked me, opening his eyes and looking at me.
    tab I gave a slight chuckle, "Hehe, no sir. I have two new young twins. Canus and Rosa are 300 hundred years old."
    tab He gave me a blank expression, "May I say this? Your family multiplies like inferior white fluff balls called rabbits."
    tab I just laughed a bit more, "He he. Sorry sir." I just shook my head, smiling a bit at that.
    tab "That's nothing to apologize at. My comment should be the one that I should apologize for. It was pretty rude of me to say so."
    tab I just raised his hand and shook his head, "I take no offense in that sir. It's seems true. After all, I have a family of seven."
    tab He just gave me a nod, "Thank you. But getting back to the main subject. I know you don't want those youngest ones to be on this mission. You're allowed to let them stay at home."
    tab I got up and bowed, "Thank you sir. I should head on my way now."
    tab He nodded at me, giving me a serious look, "Be safe now. Two unicorns will be protecting this human." I nodded and turned, leaving his, what you could say, "throne room".

    *~* End of Flashback *~*


    tab I sighed. I don't want them to know. I don't want to frighten them, especially the little ones. I don't know if they're prepared to face the upcoming worst. I sighed deeply again. What kind of father am I? I don't even know my own children. I felt a hand touch my shoulder. I flinched and whipped my head around to see Azure looking at me. Concern touched her silky, beautiful face. I looked down slightly in sadness. I felt her pull a bit on my shoulder, so we fell back from the tensed up horizontal group.
    tab "Now, tell me what's wrong." She looked up at me. Her forehead creased with worry as she tilted her head to the side a bit. I just sighed and turned my head away diagonally down ways from her.
    tab "It's nothing…" I replied quietly. She just frowned and touched my cheek. I looked back into her endless blue eyes.
    tab "I know it's not nothing. I know you better than that Atrus. You're my husband. And I'm worried. Please… Tell me what is bothering you."
    tab I swallowed hard and squeezed my eyes shut as flashbacks of this world to came to mind. Horrible as it was, I didn't know how to tell my family it was now time. I just hope… In time, they'll forgive me. I could feel myself shaking in anger, fear, and sorrow. I then felt Azure's other hand touch my other cheek softly. I opened my eyes slowly and looked at her. She leaned up a bit and pressed her forehead to mine. A soft glowing smile touched her face as she looked at me.
    tab "Always know that we're all here for you. Your family loves you just as much as I do." I chuckled.
    tab "So much that they want to marry me like you did?" We both laughed at that. I pulled back a little and gave her a kiss on the forehead. "Don't worry. I'll be fine. I'm just too stressed lately." We both pulled away and looked at each other with our regular smiles.
    tab She nodded at me, "Of course. Especially with the Prasinus and Rubrus fighting all the time." We both started to laugh at that.
    tab "Hey! Lover bats! We don't have all day! Quit flirting and move your tiny furry bat butts!!" FireStorm yelled at us.
    tab We turned to look at them. They were about a good 10 feet away from us. They looked at us like were plotting something. All of them. Except the unicorns and Hikari didn't have a curious look like my sons. Oh no, they gave us looks like we could die in the next minute if we did anything funny. Azure and I jogged a bit towards them to hurry up and we continued our horizontal walk. I had a slight smile on my face. Azure is right… I shouldn't worry. Maybe when we get to Dark's throne room, I'll tell them. But not the unicorns and Hikari. They're not suppose to know yet.
    tab "What are you smiling at?" I heard FireStorm ask. Eh, I don't even think you could call it asking. Sounds more like a demand. I turned to her with an assured look on my face.
    tab "Not to worry. I'm just relieved at the fact that my family is there for me no matter what." Everyone turned to me. I turned to my family with the same smile on my face. They returned the smile.
    tab "Of course dad! We're always there for you! We're family after all!" Prasinus exclaimed with a grin on his face. Rubrus face expression softened from his usual semi-blank expression, to a soft smile.
    tab "This is one thing I'd have to agree on with him. We are family dad. We'll always be there for you. No matter what." He said. His voice matched his softened expression.
    tab "See Atrus? Your family loves you." I turned to Azure. She smiled a soft and loving smile at me.
    tab I swear… If I heard anything more touching, tears would freely spill. Whether unicorns are around or not, I wouldn't care. This is my family and they love me. I'm sure they would cry as well if they heard it from their family.
    tab I opened my arms for them. They hugged me and I hugged them all back. I felt so happy… loved… fortunate… that I've been blessed to have a caring family such as this one.

    *~* Hikari's Point of View *~*


    tab We all watched as Atrus and his family hugged in front of us. I could tell FireStorm and Illumining just had to smile at their family love. I just watched their little family hugs. I don't know why, I wanted to cry at that moment. I felt like I almost forgot about that feeling. The love of a family. That is an extremely precious feeling. A feeling that should always be treasured. But my cold-hearted life has shown me a way to lose a priceless treasure in life. I looked down, my long bangs covering my eyes, a single tear shed and fell from my eye. It sparkled and turned into a diamond. I heard some movement from Atrus' family and I quickly wiped my eye so no one would notice. None did. I looked up to see that they let go from the hug and smiled at one another.
    tab "…Lets go…" Illumining said gently, a smile still on her face. We all nodded in agreement. I turned away and started to walk with the rest of them. A small smile had plastered onto my face. Hmm, maybe this trip isn't going to be so bad after all… But, I wonder, why DO unicorns and vampires hate each other? I don't exactly see why besides the drinking their blood part. From what I see, they don't seem all that bad. They actually seem… pleasant? Pleasant to be around? I don't know. Maybe it's just my dark self that's in effect. Heh, then again, since when wasn't my dark self in effect most of the time? Maybe I can ask FireStorm…em…never mind. Not FireStorm. If I can guess right, she's going to go into a rant that they resemble the irritating worm in the water that loves to drink blood, the leeches. But then again, leeches are used on Earth for many stuff. Like in the medical field. So maybe not leeches in FireStorm's point of view if she heard that. But anyways, off topic moment. Besides FireStorm is going to give me some kind of bold detail. No narrow details of why specifically the two breeds hate each other. So maybe it'll be easier if I ask Illumining. But somehow, I really can't shake the feeling that I forgotten something… And for some odd reason. I feel like eyes are drilling into the back of my head. I didn't dare to turn around for some odd reason. I knew the vampire family was not too far behind us. But I just shrugged it off and let my mind daze off into a blank thought.

    *~* Rubrus' Point of View *~*


    tab As I turned with the rest of my family to continue walking. A moment later, something in the grass caught my eye. No one else seemed to have noticed it. I bent down and picked up the object that glittered in the rising sun. It was a diamond. I raised my eyebrow. This diamond had some kind of grey colored electricity in it. I decided to examine it later, so I stuffed it and my hands in my coat pocket and continued to walk. But I decided to keep an eye on Hikari. There's something strange about her… After all, the diamond was right where she was standing.