[Kei Ochima]

“Hey… are you okay? You look really shaken up.” Caroline jumped when Kiseki spoke to her, looking at him for only a brief moment before reaching into her pocket and pulling out some money, leaving it on the table as she stood up.

“I’m fine. I’m really sorry but I have to start going.” Caroline said as she grabbed her phone and put it back into her pocket before grabbing the laptop case and swung the strap around her shoulder. The curly blonde left in a hurry, walking down the sidewalk as fast as she could while looking in every direction around her for Joey; little did Caroline know was that Joey was following her silently from the rooftops. Caroline was still around two blocks from the house but when she began to pass a darkened alleyway, arms immediately wrapped around the blonde’s waist and pulled her into the shadows, slamming her against the brick wall as she cried out in pain.

“Told you I would be everywhere you went.” Joey said with a smirk as Caroline dropped the laptop case on the ground and quickly turned around, scratching Joey across the face with her claws; that only made him angry. Joey pinned Caroline securely to the wall as he tried to take her clothes off to satisfy his own needs, but the blonde was putting up so much of a fight that he was only able to undo her short’s zipper.

“Stop it!” Caroline cried as Joey threw her to the ground, quickly getting on top of her and put both of his hands around her neck.

“If I can’t have you then no one can!” Joey hissed as he put all of his body weight to his arms, choking the blonde with so much force that it was impossible for her to even move. A few moments after trying to gasp for air the blonde stopped struggling as her body became completely limp, becoming unconscious from the lack of oxygen. Joey continued to choke the blonde however to be sure that she would really die; he knew that she would come back to live due to Mai having nine lives, so he knew that he would have to keep on killing her until she finally stayed dead forever.


“Mind if I lend a hand?” Ashley jumped slightly when hearing Ichiru’s voice as he was kneeling down next to her, the brunette too shocked to respond back to him. When Ichiru hovered his hands over the injured baby Dolphin Ashley quickly pulled her hands away, watching as the wounds slowly disappeared completely. Ashley knew that Vampires were able to heal themselves and others, so this made Ichiru seem like a Vampire to Ashley even more.

“What’s his plan anyway?” Ashley thought to herself as she looked at Ichiru, who stood up from the sand.

“You should have called someone to help you. Wouldn’t have wanted the little guy to bleed to death.” Ichiru said, bringing Ashley to stand up with her fists tightened.

“I was about to run home and call my mom.” Ashley hissed, feeling like Ichiru was actually mocking her as she saw someone jogging on the sand. “Excuse me!” Ashley yelled to the jogger as she ran up to the person. After asking to borrow a cellphone Ashley called her mother, who would be at the beach in a few short minutes with help. Ashley thanked the jogger and returned the cellphone, walking back over to the Dolphin and Ichiru and fell to her knees to gently pet the calf. The whole time Ashley didn’t say a word, only glancing up a few times to make sure no one was watching as she levitated more water from the ocean and spread it on the baby Dolphin is it wouldn’t overheat.

“Ashley!” The brunette looked up, seeing her mom along with a few other people walking towards her and Ichiru who worked at the water park, all being Marine Biologists.

“The baby Dolphin’s okay.” Ashley said as the group reached the scene, bringing Ashley to stand up from the sand.

“I was so surprised when you called me. You’re not supposed to be home until later tonight.” Ashley’s mom said as she tightly hugged the brunette while the others took care of the Dolphin; Ashley and her mother looked so much alike.

“I couldn’t stay away from Abby any longer.” Ashley said with a smile as they released each other, looking down at the Dolphin. Since the Dolphin was just born and small it was easy for one of the guys to pick it up with no problem, carrying it back to the street where the van waited.

“When the two Dolphins are nursed back to health then you can see them. The mother is going to be so happy to her baby.” Ashley’s mother said as Ashley nodded.

“Yeah. A mother would do anything to protect their young.” Ashley said as she glanced at Ichiru, then back to her own mother. Ashley’s mother was so preoccupied in seeing Ashley and the baby Dolphin that she completely missed Ichiru’s presence, giving her daughter a hug before leaving the beach. When Ashley saw that the van pulled away she looked back at Ichiru, down to his weapons that he had and then back up to him again.

“Honestly, you have to be the one who’s causing all the people around here to disappear. You and your brother must be using them for blood and then disposing the bodies somewhere, or even keeping a few alive for blood banks.” Ashley growled as she quickly looked at the ocean’s water, bringing out her hand towards it as a soccer sized water ball came levitating out of the ocean. After quickly freezing it the brunette directed the iced ball at Ichiru’s head, hoping that would distract him as she lunged herself towards the dark haired teen, knocking him hard to the ground as she brought back her entire arm, attempting to punch him in the face as hard as she could as she began to quickly bring down her arm towards him with her hand in a fist.