It all happened so suddenly. He didn't even have time to react, let alone have even a single thought rush through his mind, to think a single thing. One moment he was concentrating on silencing his breath, the next he was pinned up against a tree with a hand gripping his neck. When this happened the scarf he'd been wearing comes undone, slipping off his shoulders and piling in a messy heap on the ground at his feet. This goes unnoticed, as every thought processing function within Seishin's brain had seemed to come to a screeching halt the moment his back felt bark, and a body pressing his own.<br/><br/>Normally this would not have happened, but this was no ordinary circumstance. His eyes widen, as the man whom had him pinned leans towards him, and within the blink of an eye, bites his neck. Drinking his blood. Seishin's mouth opens in a silent scream, his throat was currently incapable of making any sort of noise, not even the tiniest of squeaks could escape from between his lips. He was frozen, and he knew that struggling was futile. Seishin squeezes his eyes shut, knowing that now, he was going to die.<br/><br/>However, it was over before he knew it. The teeth were pulled away from his neck, and he was freed from the grip that was holding him against his will. Immediately he opens his eyes and places a hand to the bleeding wound upon his flesh, eyes focused intently on the man....no....<span style="font-style: italic">monster</span>before him. His mind was now racing, thought having come back to him in a millisecond. Questions, thoughts, and plans forming all at once, jumbling around inside his head.<br/><br/>Why was the vampire just standing there? Why was this vampire just staring at him like he didn't know what to do? Should Seishin fight, or should he just run? Was there a reason behind this? And what was going on? Why were there mountains of corpses all around, of both were-beast and vampire kind? Was a dispute rising? Was there some sort of war in the shadows that he was just now finding out about?<br/><br/>Gritting his teeth, he decides on what to do. All this had taken a few seconds, all those thoughts were nothing but a passing thought. All in all, it had taken just a few blinks of the eyelid for all of this to take place, and he'd figured out his plan. Quick thinking was a specialty of Seishin's, and he sure was proud of it. Things like this normally didn't happen every day for him, but things similar but less dangerous however...he often dealt with that. By himself most of the time.<br/><br/>Quickly he raises his hands above his head, one covered in his crimson blood. Palms facing toward each other, Seishin concentrates, and hundreds of the same flame spirits that he used earlier conjure out of thin air, and more came after. With each that lit up, more light was lain on both figures. After a mere moment, a fraction of time, not enough for the vampire to react, Seishin brings his hands towards each other. When he does this, the flames combine, forming together an even brighter being.<br/><br/>"Taiyō no seishin." He mutters, and once those words leave his mouth, he lets go of the ball of light, as it burns even brighter, like a very small version of the sun. But even though it was not the actual sun, it had the same qualities, lighting up the forest around them in a half mile radius. The brightness was as if it were day in the middle of the night, and no doubt that this would effect the vampire in front of him.<br/><br/>Ducking down, and grabbing his scarf, he pushes past the vampire. But before he actually leaves the scene behind him, and as he was passing the stunned being, forms a symbol with his hand, and reaching out to touch the vampire's brow. As his fingers came in contact with the other's skin, he mutters something. "Suimin." With this word, a<a class="postlink" href="http://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-kanji-character-for-sleep-kanji-one-of-three-scripts-used-in-the-japanese-language-are-chinese-1927996.jpg">symbol</a>appears on the skin of the creature's forehead. Almost as if it had been painted on. '睡眠' And when that symbol appeared, a wave of unnatural exhaustion would take over the other's body. Maybe he wouldn't not fall asleep, but it would definitely make him groggy and unable to move due to fatigue.<br/><br/>This done, Seishin darts away. Only when he was out of range would the ball of light be extinguished, the night becoming dark once more, the moon shining in the sky. He didn't want to be caught again, and so ran as fast as he could back to the compound. Not stopping once to take a breath, not even when his lungs began to burn, or his calves ached. No, he had to get back. Tree branches and thorns cut his skin and tugged at his clothes, twigs flicking his cheeks and causing cuts to appear. But he ignores it. He was strong, and there was no way he was going to give in.<br/><br/>And, the glorious sight appears before him. The path that led back up to his bedroom window. Climbing it, he pulls himself over the frame, his sandals falling to the ground below, and after getting up and over, he comes toppling on to the floor on the other side. His chest heaves up and down, sweat dotted his skin and dripped down from his forehead. The breath that escaped from between his lips was hot. He was exhausted. That was not an easy technique he pulled off, it took a lot of energy to. In regular circumstances, he could perform it at least six times before getting in the condition he was in, but this time since he had blood taken, and had to run far and fast, it was almost as if he had.<br/><br/>The last thought that ran through his mind before passing out wear he lay was of the vampire. Why it had suddenly stopped. Just what was going on around here? And then his eyes close, and his consciousness slips away, as sleep took over his body, the moon shining through the window illuminated his face. White, with dark red from the cuts on his skin, and the bite upon his neck. What he did not know was that this...was just the beginning.<br/><br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Translations and meanings: "Taiyō no seishin." Kanji: <span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">太陽の精神</span> it means 'spirit of the sun'<br/>"Suimin." Kanji (symbol): <span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">睡眠</span> it means 'sleep'</span>