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Inspiration for this chapter: NightWish: Wishamaster CD
Rikku sat watching the sun set on the night of the harvest moon. As she sat the sun slowly started to disappear behind the horizon. She thought about the story the old storyteller had told today. Yes, it was her favorite one and she knew she got obsessed with it, but it was just so interesting. A creature of the night that would come and take you away it would be so cool if were to happen to her. What would the vampire look like? She thought to herself. She thought about it for another moment or two before it all came to her. He probably would be really strong and handsome with a bloodthirsty look in his dark evil eyes. It gave her chills just thinking about it. As she sat she started to feel her eyes close…
A few moments later they opened again with a sigh. The sun had completely set and Rikku figured she needed to get home before she got in trouble. As she walked she started to hear something behind her. Every few moments she would hear a sound like somebody running then stopping trying to be quiet, but not doing to good at it. She quickly turned around with her fists-raised ready to attack whoever it was. “I know it’s you Brother so just come out already,” she yelled into the shadows trying to convince herself it was Brother. A form came out from behind a tree. “Who is this Brother you speak of my dear,” it said in a cold voice as it walked closer to her.
“Who are you,” she asked in a shaky voice as she backed away from it?
“You know who I am. You’ve thought about me ever since you heard the first tale by that Story teller.”
Her bottom lip started to quiver as she realize who this was. “Your… The Vampire aren’t you,” she said as she tried to get herself to stop shaking as her back hit a tree.
“Good girl you figured it out,” the figure said as it trapped her against the tree. It bent its head down next to her neck taking in her scent. “You smell good you know that my darling.” With those words Rikku started screaming for her life. “No one can save you,” it whispered in her ear. Rikku started shaking even worse then before like somebody had grabbed her shoulders and was shaking her with all their might. “Rikku,” the figure started to repeat over and over again. Her eyes shut tight as she screamed louder. “Rikku,” she heard, but it wasn’t the voice that she heard before. It was Yuna’s. “Yunie? Where are you,” she asked as she kept her eyes shut tight.
“Right here now open your eyes we need to head home,” Yuna’s voice said. Rikku opened her eyes and saw Yuna in the fading sunlight with her hands on her shoulder from where she was shaking her trying to wake her up. Tears ran down Rikku’s face as she threw herself into Yuna’s arms.
“Oh Yunie, I thought he had me,” she said as she held onto her cousin.
“You thought who had you Rikku,” Yuna asked as she patted her cousin on the back and with a puzzled look on her face.
“The vampire, he was scary,” Rikku said as she continued to cry. Yuna picked up her cousin and turned towards their house. “Come on Rikku let’s go home,” she said as she walked to the house where Rikku’s mother was waiting with a scared look on her face. Yuna explained what happened so Rikku didn’t get in trouble and took her up to her room and laid her in her bed. “Get some sleep Rikku and remember it was just a dream. If you need me I’ll be in my room right across the hall ok,” Yuna reassured Rikku as she walked towards the door. Rikku nodded in reply before she turned over and went to sleep.
A few hours later and after a much better dream Rikku woke up. It was about two in the morning and she couldn’t go back to sleep. She sat up and looked out at the full Harvest moon. “He can’t be that mean,” she said as she wiped the dried tears and sleep out of her eyes. She got off her bed and put on her thief dress sphere. “I will find him tonight to prove he isn’t a big meanie,” she said as she creped out of the house.
She walked the streets of Besaid looking for any sign of him, but found none. The one place she could think he might be is in the caves high above the village. She started to walk up the cliffs to the search the caves. With each cave she search the more discouraged she became. “Maybe it is just a story,” she said as she stood outside the last few caves. The sun would be up in about an hour and she was tired so she decided to take a break before searching the last few caves. She walked the last few yards to the top of the cliff that over looked the village. She looked down at it the she looked over at the eastern horizon already glowing from the sun she liked the sunrise it always brought new hope to her. She stood watching the glow for a few minutes as a wind started to pick up. A gust of wind hit her hard, she tipped forward forgetting where she was and began to fall headfirst. She let out a scream as she shut her eyes.
As she fell she felt a warmth surround her. Like somebody had taken her into a warm embrace or put some sort of shield around her to protect her. When the ground came she heard about ten cracks and what sounded like somebody let out a sound of pain. She then felt herself being set on the ground up against a tree. She didn’t want to open her eyes being worried about what she would see. The person she thought stepped back a step she then felt a cold metal touch her neck and then the sound of whoever it was walking away. This was the last sound she heard before everything was gone to her.