Hi everyone! Thank you for all your comments. It would seem that my last chapter confused some people, so I hope this update clears up any questions or concerns you may have. I also made a few subtle changes to the previous chapter. Enjoy!

Warning: Yuu may be OOC in this chapter.


Yuu didn't resist being dragged down the hall by the vampires. He was still in shock about what he had learned from the vampire noble. Germany? How the heck did he end up in Germany? And why was he here? In a palace and not with other human children? Nothing about this situation made sense to him.

He heard a door opening and looked up just as the vampires shoved him through the opening. He turned, only to have the door slammed in his face. The sound of a lock click and footsteps becoming softer as they distanced themselves from the door. After a moment, Yuu grabbed the handle and started to jimmy it, but when that proved useless he rammed his body into the door. Nothing.

When he finally gave up he looked around the room only to realize it the same one that he had woken up in early. Rubbing his sore shoulder, he slowing made his way to the bed an sat down.

I have to get out of here, he concluded. Germany or Japan, it didn't matter, he couldn't - wouldn't - be a vampire's pet. Especially not after everything that had happened...

Yuu curled his hand into a fist. He would escape again, and then he would find a way to kill the vampires. All the vampires, so that he could avenge his family and Mika.

He was lost both in his own thoughts and in the silence of the room, so he jumped when he heard a soft knock on the door. Unconsciously, he leaned away from the door as the sound of keys jingling faintly rang in his ears, than the sound of the lock turning. Thinking the vampires had come back for him, he got up and got into a defensive position. He was not going anywhere against his will, and if he could push past the vampires, than maybe he could escape. The opened a little and Yuu readied himself.

"Yuuichiro?" Yuu was taken aback by the sound of his name. Vampires didn't know the names of livestock, except maybe that noble Mika knew and that third progenitor he had just met, but this voice wasn't either of those two. It was cautious, sweet, and a girl's voice.

The door opened wider and the girl revealed herself. She looked like a college student, older than anyone he knew back in the vampire city, and she was very pretty. Rich dark hair and flawless skin. But what shocked Yuu where her eyes. Big and bright, they were the color of melted gold and seemed to shimmer in the low light. Gold was a color he had never seen before, but there was something else.

Gold eyes, not red. And round pupils, not slit ones. Human.

This girl was human, just like he was. Instantly, he relaxed himself, he wouldn't harm another human.

They stared at each other in silence, eyeing each other curiously. Finally, the girl stepped through the threshold and into the room. Yuu unconsciously backed away from her the further he got into room, only to land against the back wall. Still the girl continued to move forward, and only stopped when she was a few feet in front of him. She then lowered herself to her knees, so they could look at each other directly in the eyes.

"Geht es dir gut?" she spoke. Her words surprised Yuu, mainly because he didn't know what the heck she was saying. She eyed him curiously, then her eyes widened in realization. Slowly, she raised her hand towards him and pointed her index finger at his forehead.

Without warning, the tip of her finger began to glow. Yuu hurled his head backwards in surprise as she continued to move closer to him. He tried to get away, but there is no where to go, and he suddenly felt a spot in the middle of his forehead warm.

As the girl's glowing fingertip touched his skin, Yuu felt that he had been struck by lighting. His body convulsed and he flung his head backwards, only to hit the on the wall. Quickly, the girl pulled him away from the wall.

"Are you all right?" she asked him. This time, he understood her clearly.

"You speak Japanese?" He questioned, only to clasp his hand over his throat. His mouth was moving in a way that he was not familiar with, and the word he spoke were not Japanese, yet he understood them perfectly.

"No," the girl answered. "Well, I do speak Japanese and a numerous other languages. However, you and I are currently speaking German. Your young and can barely speak your own language, so I cast a spell on you to help you. " With that, the girl stood up and walked over to a table on the other side of the room. She picked up a picker of water and poured some it into a glass before walking back and held the glass out to Yuu. "I figured that since we are in Germany, it will be easier for you to interact with everyone if you understand what is being said."

Yuu continued to stare at the girl. After everything that had happened to him today, meeting someone who claimed to have cast a spell on him made him more confused than ever.

The girl sighed after a minute or so and sat the glass down on the floor. "Let's start again. My name is Diana, I'm here to help you." Her words brought Yuu out of his confusion immediately. Of course, she must be a human who was enslaved by the vampires. Now she was trying to make sure he didn't end up like her.

Diana saw the sparkle of hope in Yuuichiro's eyes when she said she wanted to help him, and it made her heart ache. She hated the idea of destroying a young man's hope when he had so little. However, she had to make sure he understood the situation.

"No, Yuuichiro," she said sadly, "I am afraid I cannot help you escape from the vampires. It was the Third Progenitor asked me to look after you." As quickly as it came, the sparkle in Yuu's eyes died and was replaced with a look of hatred. In one swift movement he kicked his foot out and knocked the water glass over.

"Get the hell away from me then!" He screamed at her. Diana got up and backed away from him a little and watched him throw his tantrum.

Yuu was furious. This girl was here to train him to be a vampire's pet. Oh no! That was not happening. In a fit of rage he jumped up and grabbed the pillows from the bed and started to hurl them at her. One by one he threw them, only to watch as she dodged them with grace. When he ran out of pillows, he pick up the glass and threw that Diana. But this time she made no attempt to dodge. Rather, she merely narrowed her eyes at the glass frozen in midair, hovering just inches from her face. Yuu jumped back again.

"Wha-?"

"Are you done?" she spoke calmly. "I understand that you're upset and why you are upset, but believe me when I say that you are safer here than anywhere else." She grabbed the glass out the air and placed it back on the table. "And try all you want, you both know that you can't escape the vampires. Especially a Third Progenitor like Lest Karr."

Her words hit him hard. Yet, there was a voice in the back of his mind that was whispering the what she was saying was true. That it was the unspoken reality that all humans knew. Yuu could fight and hate the vampires all he wanted, he could try and run away, but in the end, he knew he could never escape the powerful vampires. And when he tried to escape... his family paid the price.

Yuu didn't respond to Diana's words, he only lowered his head in shame. Tears formed in his eyes as the memories and images of that vampire slaughtering his family filled his mind once again. Their bodies scattered across the ground, and Mika telling him to run away.

He felt his knees give way as he fell to the ground as he wrapped his arms around himself. He clinched the fabric of his shirt, and it was only then that he saw that it was stained red with blood. Mika's blood.

"Mika..."

Diana watched silently as the young man in front of her fell apart. Was this child really in possession of the Seraph of the End? She didn't know. From what she saw the boy was a fragile, human child who had just had everything he cared about taken from him in the worst way possible and left him alone. Twice. There were tears streaming down his face as he hugged himself tightly, desperately seeking some form of comfort. Her heart ached at the sight.

It was heartbreaking, cruel, and the very thing Lest Karr wanted.

Finally, the scene had become too much for her. She walked back over to Yuuichiro, got on her knees again, and pulled him into an embrace.

"I'm sorry," she whispered as she stroked his hair. His whole body was as cold as ice in her arms. "I know that's not what you wanted to hear, but I promise that I'm not going to let anything bad happen to you." She meant what she said, every word. Despite everything she knew, everything she had seen, and everything Lest had told her; the moment she laid eyes on the fiery Yuichiro Hyakuya in the throne room she only thought of one thing: I must project this child. Why? That was one the things she was still working out.

Yuu couldn't remember the last time someone had hugged him like this, nor could he remember feeling the warmth that radiated off of this person, Diana. It like the way a mother would hold her child to comfort them, something he had never really experienced until now. Slowly, his body relaxed and his tears halted.

At a minute, Diana let go of Yuu and got up, extending a hand to him.

"Come on," she said with a small smile on her face, "lets find you some clean clothes and something to eat." Yuu looked up at her. He wasn't sure that he could trust her, yet here she was extending her hand towards him, with eyes filled with warmth, insight, and compassion. For now, he guessed, that was enough.

He grabbed he hand and she pulled him up. The two of them then exited the room quietly and walked down the hall. Yuu was still holding Diana's hand.

"Can I..." Yuu suddenly broken the silence, "can I ask you something, Diana?"

"That would depend on the question." She didn't look back at him as they continued forward, as though determined to find him some food.

"What you did with the water glass back there...that was magic, right?" His voice was filled with uncertainty, but Diana still didn't turn around.

"It was." She admitted. Yuuichiro's eyes widened.

"Seriously? It's just that I've never met someone who could do magic. I always heard that when the vampires took over they killed all the humans who could use magic."

That made Diana stop and look at him. She turned her head and just smiled, but the look in her eyes did not match the smile on her face.

"That is also true, in it's own way." She stated offhandedly. "I suppose there is no harm in telling you this, given that we will be working together for the time being." Her expression turned serious and she let go of Yuu's hand.

"I am an Enchantress, Yuuichiro. I was born with magic coursing through my veins, and with it I can do almost anything. And it is because I was born with these powers that the vampires sought me out as an ally of sorts."

She paused, as if waiting for Yuu to say something, Which he did.

"But if that true, then why did you agree to side with them? Didn't the murder your family too?"

"My family died a very long time ago and that had nothing to do with the vampires. As for your first question, those who killed by the vampires where spellcrafters, not magicians or enchanters. There were humans who only mastered seals and spells through forbidden means-means that are considered taboo to real magicians, and they were killed because they were meddling in something they could not begin to understand. Was I saddened when they were killed? A little, but not enough to jeopardize my position with the Progenitor Council, most of whom I have know for centuries. Does that make sense?"

Yuu shook his head. No.

Diana groaned. This is what she gets for trying to explain herself to a child.

"Let me put it this way: I can use magic, but I am different from other spellcrafters, stronger. I have lived a very long time, and I know a lot of vampires and how to survive in a world full of vampires. So, stick with me, and I will show you everything you need to know. Okay?"

Yuu nodded, but he still didn't completely understand, Diana could see it in his eyes. But, after everything he had gone through, she couldn't expect him too. She would probably have to wait until he was older to explain everything properly to him.

"Come on, let's go." She beckoned with a wave of her fingers, and the two continued done the hall towards the kitchen.

Diana eyed Yuu again, only to quickly look away. After every she had just said she felt like a hypocrite, meddling with the same power that got all those spellcrafters killed. The Seraph of the End. The ultimate taboo that supposedly dwell inside this boy, and for what purpose? What was Lest think? What was Krul thinking? What was she thinking?

Diana signed. What had she gotten herself into?


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