Vampire Hunter D, Vol. 5: The Stuff of Dreams by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Author:Hideyuki Kikuchi [Kikuchi, Hideyuki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Comics & Graphic Novels, Horror, Fiction, Fantasy, General
ISBN: 9781595820945
Publisher: Dark Horse
Published: 2006-09-26T05:00:00+00:00

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D walked through familiar woods in darkness devoid of sound. It was such a quiet night that it almost seemed possible to hear the thin fog whisper as it drifted about. Even in this dream world, D wasn’t sure if the fact that his footsteps failed to make any sound as he stepped on the grass was his own intention or not. In any case, he supposed Sybille would be waiting for him at the mansion.

The iron gate stood in the moonlight as it always had.

D halted. This particular evening, he might be an unwelcome guest.

The man stood at the gate. Garbed in raiment like the very darkness, with his face covered from the nose down by a black scarf, he wasn’t entirely unlike D. Two eyes set in skin redolent of bronze held D’s reflected image. If the powerful emotion they were loaded with wasn’t something special directed at D, then surely all he gazed upon must’ve been touched with fear.

“Don’t intend to let me in?” D inquired softly. “There’s no point fighting here. Any duel decided in a dream can’t be called a duel at all.”

His opponent stood there, looming like a wall of iron that had no answers for him.

“Like the mansion itself, you’re just another one of the girl’s creations. You led me here. You saved me. Now get out of my way.”

“Go back,” the man in black said, his scarf trembling slightly as he mouthed the words.

The two of them gazed at each other. Both of the man’s black-gloved hands went into motion. Bringing together a bow and a single arrow before his chest, the man drew the steel bowstring back with tremendous power and determination. It was clear that no matter how fast D might move, they were too close for him to evade a shot.

“Go back,” the man in black ordered him once again.

“Is there already another guest at the mansion? Or is another one on the way? If you use that bow, there’ll be no taking it back.”

The tension swelled. The moonlight froze, and even the fog stopped dead. In a world choked with a thirst for killing, the youthful Hunter was the only thing of beauty.

The steel flew.

D stopped it with his empty left hand, and as he caught it, that same hand blurred with activity. An instant later, D felt another presence off to his right.

Both D and the man in black kicked off the ground simultaneously and ran toward the presence. It came as no surprise that both of them sprinted forward in an attempt to discover the

identity of whoever had invaded this dream. In the next instant, black lightning shot from the treetops at the two men as they sprinted toward it, side by side. The two figures quickly split to the left and the right of the lightning bold. Still holding the arrow that he caught with his bare hand when the man fired it at him, he hurled it again in the direction of the presence he detected.

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