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Zarick lunged at Arith at high speed and missed, his sword stuck deep into the ground. As Zarick tried to get out, Arith took advantage of the opportunity and raised his sword to cut off Zarick's head, but at the last second, Zarick whirled around and stabbed a dagger into Arith's stomach as he dodged the blow that would have been his death. Arith fell to the ground, clutching the hilt protruding from his abdomen and jerked it out, blood poured out like a hose, the blade dripping with red liquid. Zarick stood over Arith and laughed menacingly. "You actually thought you could kill me? You thought you could be a hero and run away with a beautiful woman? Well tough break, little brother, you lose." Arith grew weaker, and Zarick turned to walk away, but just before the rest of Arith's strength left his arms, he threw Zarick's dagger as hard as he could right into the evil man's back. Zarick screamed with madness and disappeared, leaving behind a pile of ashes, the snake that was holding Hazuki fell on the floor and writhed as if it were in excruciating pain, then vanished back into the shadows. Arith lay motionless on the ground, darkness enveloped his vision as he lost conciousness.

Arith slowly opened his eyes and spoke in an exhausted tone. "Hazuki? Is he gone?"

Arith laughed. "Getting a little obsessive, aren't we?" He rubbed Hazuki's shoulder.

Hazuki shrugged before getting up and walking into the closet to change. Minutes later she came out in her uniform and walked towards the door.
‘I’m going to go check on the others it was too quiet during your little fight so I think some things wrong.” She said before opening the door and walking out.
‘”you stay here and rest. I’ll be back in a minute.” And with that she closed the door and began to walk down the hall to find Asuka and Ryuk standing there waiting for her.
‘Hey Asuka seen anything weird?” she asked
‘Yeah the whole castle is frozen.”

Kyle was getting ready to walk away from the ord when it light up again, he turned around to see that the ord, it had two faces on it.
He saw Arith flying and Hazuki talking with Asuka and Ryuk.
"Were is he going?" Kle asked himself toaching the side of the orb with Arith on it.
"Looks like he's going to go see an old freind" Sabro said grinning.
"Hmm, maybe, but what are they talking about?" Kyle said looking over at Hazuki and the others.
"Don't know, maybe they know about out little trap" Sabro said smiling.
"Looks like we're going to have to wait to find out" Kyle said as the orb went black again.

Arith landed in the middle of a clearing and lit up Chereb, holding the sword in front of him like a torch as he walked deeper into the darker parts of the woods. He didn't know what for sure, but there was something he knew he just had to investigate deep in that wood. The forest grew quieter and darker as he progressed, making him warey and causing him to walk a great deal quieter than usual, almost completely silent. Finally he was in a place where the trees grew very close together, and each one of them was dead and rotting. Not a sound of anything living could be heard, just the beat of his frightened heart. SNAP. He froze in his tracks as he heard a twig break, and a cold sensation made him tremble and shiver just a little. He felt a soft hand touch his back, and he jerked around to see what appeared to be a familiar face. "Hazuki!" He smiled. "What are you doing way out here?" But the woman didn't answer. She looked deep into his eyes, then grinned, revealing four sharp fangs! Arith tried to pull away in horror, but the demonic woman's gaze seemed to paralyze him. She gripped his shoulders and pulled him close as if to kiss him, licked and kissed his neck a little, then bit down. Next thing Arith knew, his neck pained as if four needles had been stabbed in as far as they would go, and then the pain slowed when the demon licked off some of the blood. Her spit was cool, like ice on a wound, and then he felt her sucking on the spot where she bit his neck, a terrible weakening feeling came over him, and suddenly he just blacked out.

Arith opened his eyes, though it was still dark. What he thought was his and Hazuki's suite was lit by a single candle, so dim he could just barely make out the shape of a woman sitting at his side which he assumed to be Hazuki. He spoke in a drowzy tone, "Oh, it was just a dream."
"What was a dream?" Said a voice that sounded like Hazuki.
"I was in the woods, and some demon attacked me and started drinking all my blood."
"Oh, well you've got nothing to be afraid of, my dear. You're safe with your wife now..." The woman crawled over him and licked his neck where he had been bitten in the so-called "dream." Arith found that odd, since Hazuki had never done that before, in fact Hazuki had sat on his lap in a seductive way before, but her kisses never involved licking first. The girl pressed her lips against his neck, then she started to open her mouth and Arith felt four sharp surfaces scrape against his skin. This frightened him a lot, so he scrambled out of bed and grabbed the candle at the opposite side of the room. He held it infront of the woman's face and said in a relieved tone, "Oh, it really is you!"
"Of course it's me, who else would it be?" The girl smiled, but that right there proved she was not Hazuki. She had vampiric fangs! Arith mocked a smile, then grabbed the girl's throat and forced her against the bed's headboard. "Who are you and why did you sneak up on me?"
The girl made an angry look. "Because otherwise I wouldn't get the chance to infect you with the curse!"
"What curse?" Arith squeezed her throat a little.
"The vampire's curse! I've been watching you ever since you appeared in this world, and when Hazuki married you, I was disgusted. I just had to claim you for my own so that one day we could rule over vampires together, while our emperor Necrovus rules over all others. Together, we'd for the aliance of darkness."
"Too bad I'm not interested." Arith threw the girl on the floor, she gasped as Arith tried to run away into the hall, a tear fell from her eye. As Arith neared the exit, he was ambushed by werewolves. He drew his sword and slaughtered every single one of them. He started to pull the door open, but another werewolf snuck up behind him and bashed him on the head with a club, knocking him out cold. The beast dragged Arith's limp body into the dungeon and locked the door as he exited.