Three

The city of Huran embraced the moonless night. Twinkling stars hid behind the dark clouds.

The cold wind danced through the city.

Saya sneaked into the city, avoiding the night guards. Clad in dark red she mixed into darkness.

"Another prey."

Her blood was boiling. She wanted blood. She wanted to see the blood of a human. The ones who killed her kin. The ones who used her. She wanted them dead. She wanted to torture them, till they became afraid to even walk at night, till they became afraid to even utter her name.

Her eyes smiled. But there were no feelings in her eyes. Her blood-red pools filled with dancing golden specks.

They were excited.

Excited from vengeance.

Excited from tearing pain that pierce her heart.

She felt that she was dying every night when she entered this city.

The city that her ancestors made.

The city where her kin died.

But now, she was here alone.

Alone.

She was alone...

She was the last one of her kin.

The footsteps rang from Saya's night as her eyes gleamed she turned her head to the side. Her

red pools glistened with coldness and bloodlust.

"Come on..."

"Come on..."

"I want your blood."

The light of a lamp slowly crawled towards Saya. The footsteps came closer to her.

From the darkness, a man in the uniform of night guards appeared. His eyes widened from shock seeing the dazzling figure in front of him. He wanted to scream for his life. But chill crept from the root of his spine, spreading through his body. His hands trembled.

"It's nice to meet you."

The soft voice of the woman in front of him echoed in his heart. He stepped back, trying to run but tripping on his own feet at the end.

But he never fell.

A sword pierced his heart, spilling crimson liquid from his body. His eyes, filled with pain and shock stared at the blood-red pools of Saya. She stared at him with eyes filled with a smile, but not a smile. Her pitch-black hair swayed around her. Behind her was the dark blue cloudless sky.

"Ethereal," his mind murmured.

His eyes darkened, as the sword left his body creating a waterfall of blood. His body felt heavy and tired.

As he fell upon the cold earth, a pool of blood under him, a figure cladded in white emerged from the darkness.

Saya's eyes dilated. She stared at the familiar and unfamiliar man. Saya stood in front of the man she once loved defenselessly.

Hatred...

Pain...

Love...

Loneliness...

Ten years of buried emotions were now where to find.

She felt nothing at that moment.

She was numb

His eyes still were blue, bluer than the sky.

They were still soft, softer than the silkiest gown she wore.

They still caressed her heart.

This man was the one who killed her heart for his kin

This man...

This man was the one who occupied her future dreams but was no longer there.

She watched him, the same as the day he let her kin be swallowed by poisonous fire. She watched as he walked towards her, the same as the day he dragged her out from the poisonous fire. She watched his eyes tremble, the same as the day he showed her the road to run away from his kin.

She watched silently.

As tears gushed from her eyes, she turned around and ran towards the darkness, away from him, the same as the day she left this mesmerizing city without him as he watched her leave.

That was a moonless day too.

"Saya..."

"Your Ran Ran is back....?"

"...to kill you."

She did not hear it, the same as the day he said 'I am sorry to the darkness after she left.

Even if she heard, would she forgive him?

He closed her eyes, as a drop of tear softly ran down his pale cheeks.

"I'm here to kill you."

The night was still young.

Sky was moonless.