Vampyres
Sutoomu
This fanfiction is one of my most detailed and complicated ones yet. The title should give you a clue about what it's about, but I'll tell you beforehand that this isn't a sadistic or gory horror fic. It's more like a story of the normal, everyday life of Vampyres and their Blood Mates (read story for explanation). While it isn't a horror, it is pretty steamy at times, though not overly descriptive, in the love scenes and all. So there's your warning.
This story only has a beginning and middle, so far. In the end, I intend to make some sort of conflict with an antagonist, but it is uncreated as of yet. I don't even know if I will ever finish this fic. But it's got a lot already done, so I have chapters ready to post, so it's still worth a read, I think.
Sp, here is the first chapter of Vampyres. Read and enjoy, please!
"You three!"
Three heads turned to look at the door, where a stubborn set Hilde Schbeiker stood, her hands on her hips, her toe tapping, and her jaw set.
"What is it now, Hilde?" Duo whined. "Can't you see we're busy being bored?"
"That's exactly what I want to talk to you about," Hilde said, and Duo groaned, knowing a lecture or something similarily dreadful was coming. "I'm damn well sick and tired of you three moping about. Wufei's been scowling all day and Duo's like a dying dog, and Quatre...well, you may not look bored, but I know you are. You have your own special way of moping, Quatre."
"Can you blame us?" Duo snapped. "Look, Hilde, I really don't want a lecture..."
"You're not getting a lecture," Hilde smiled slyly. "You're getting a solution." And Hilde walked up to the couch where the three of them sat and set something in each of their hands. The three looked down in confusion at the money pressed into each palm. "You, Duo," Hilde ordered. "Get out of here and be back in twenty minutes with a few movies. Quatre, go and grab some pizza. And Wufei, we need pop and chips. Now, go!"
"Yes!" Duo shouted and pumped a fist in the air. "Movie night!" He jumped off the couch and ran to the door, slipping his shoes and coat on. Finishing it off with his hat, he gave them all a rogue wink. "I'll be right back," he flicked his cap visor and vanished out the door.
Wufei gaped at Hilde. "You're letting him choose the movie?"
"Yes, Wufei, right now, I'm agreeing with you," Hilde replied quickly. "Insane idea. But your moping around the house is driving me crazy. I'm not thinking straight. Now, you two, get out there and do that which has been assigned to you." Quatre stood up amiably enough and got his coat and shoes on, Wufei following, grumbling all the way. The two left and Hilde sighed in relief. Her eyes scanned the room and she sighed again, this time in exasperation. When Duo moped, he got messy. And he always left it for others to clean up. Grumbling and cursing about stupid roommates and friends, she began to clean up for the spur-of-the-moment movie night.
"Movie night, movie night...," Duo hummed under his breath as he scanned the movies in the action adventure area. "What shall we watch for movie night?" He ran his thumb along the bottom of the shelf and clicked his tongue, crouching down. "Seen it, seen it, seen it, not seen it but it looks gay, seen it, seen it...fuck."
"Having any luck?"
Duo looked up at who had spoken. It was a young man with very messy chocolate brown hair and deep, icy blue eyes. Duo smiled crookedly with a look of defeat on his face. "I watch too many movies. I've seen most everything here. You?"
"I don't come here very often, no," the young man said. "Very rarely in fact."
"So you probably can't help me then," Duo sighed. "I...I need a good action movie. Something dark, something scary, something good. A real first class, kind of horror, action movie."
"Have you seen Underworld?" the man asked.
Duo perked and looked at the man again. "Underworld? No. Is it good? What's it about?"
"A dark action movie about vampires and lycans," the man said. "Very good, I assure you."
"Lycans?"
"That's werewolves."
"Oh," Duo considered this, then stood up. "Where is it?" The man turned and led him through a few more aisles. They stopped and he picked a case up, handing it to Duo. "Thanks," Duo said, quickly reading the back. He whistled. "Sounds pretty cool," he looked up at the man. "Thanks, uh..."
"Heero," the man replied. "My name is Heero. I have to be going now. See you soon, Duo Maxwell." And Heero turned and walked out of the store.
Duo wandered through the aisles, choosing out a few movies in Hilde, Wufei, and Quatre's taste, then went to the check out counter. It wasn't until he was walking back to the apartment that he noticed that he had never told Heero his name.
"A half pepperoni and hawaiian pizza, and a half deluxe and meatlovers pizza, then," the pizza girl asked Quatre for verification, and he nodded. "It'll be ready in fifteen minutes." And she turned away. Quatre turned and looked at the rather full pizza parlor. He chose the only empty table left and sat down, sighing in boredom as he waited. He tapped his fingers on the table and began to think about the latest pile of paperwork they had given him to do for WEI. "For Allah's sake, I'm only sixteen," he muttered to himself.
"Is anyone sitting here?"
Quatre looked up at the odd man standing and gesturing to the chair on the other side of the table. Quatre shook his head and followed him sit down with his eyes, curiously glued to his hair. It was styled so his bangs all hung over and completely covered one of his green eyes. A style Quatre had never seen before.
"So, is this place any good?" the man asked, shaking Quatre out of his staring session.
"Yes," Quatre nodded, hoping he hadn't noticed. "As someone I know once said, 'it's the best pizza parlor in the whole earth'."
"Really?" the man, who Quatre noticed had an incredibly calm and blank face, raised an eyebrow now.
"Well, maybe it's not that good," Quatre admitted. "But it's the best pizza parlor in this part of the city." He smiled and reached his hand over the table. "I'm Quatre Winner. Pleased to meet you."
"Trowa Barton," the banged man replied, shaking his hand. "And thank you for the opinion. I've never been in this part of town before, so I didn't know what was good here. And I have two people's respect riding on what I get."
"Same here," Quatre answered. "If it's not exactly what they wanted, they tend to flip out a bit. I have eccentric friends. One's insane, in fact."
Trowa smiled, a sight which Quatre couldn't help but be fascinated with. "You aren't the only one. My friends are a bit...shall I say dark? Yes, dark."
"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?" Quatre asked, then looked up at the counter as his order number was called. "Sorry, but I have to go now. It was nice talking to you."
"A pleasure on my part as well," Trowa replied, and Quatre turned to go to the counter. "I shall see you soon, little one."
Quatre turned back to the table in surprise at these words, and he frowned in confusion as he noticed Trowa was gone. The chair he had been in not a second ago was empty. Quatre's looked around and saw no sign of him and his brows furrowed in thought, then he shrugged and collected the pizzas, heading home for a bound-to-be interesting movie night.
"Damn baka onna," Wufei grumbled, glaring at the trainee check out girl. She was moving incredibly slow, having no experience with the till and customers and bagging before. Her eyes scanned the register for what Wufei would swear was a full minute before she pressed each number. "Damnit, onna, move!" Wufei hissed under his breath, his arms laden with chips and pop and candy.
"I couldn't agree more. You'd think they'd get a more experienced cashier to work on a friday night."
"Damn right," Wufei growled, then blinked and turned around to see who had spoken to him. His eyes fell upon a tall man with shoulder length platinum blonde hair and light blue eyes. "Oh."
The man smiled and chuckled at Wufei's slight embarassment, which made Wufei scowl. "Relax," he defended, holding up his hands. "I was only agreeing with you. I didn't mean to startle you."
"You did not startle me," Wufei snapped, then turned away and started grumbling under his breath about old men sneaking up on unsuspecting teenagers.
My name is Zechs Merquise," the man said to Wufei's back. "And I'm not an old man. I'm only twenty."
Wufei glared at him for a moment, then purposely looked away and ignored him. He watched the check out line move slowly and growled under his breath. "Move it, onna, move it!"
"Having a bad day, I suspect?" Zechs asked pleasantly. "I've had the worst. I've been searching for something. But, luckily, I just found it here."
"Congratulations, you win a thousand dollars and a goat," Wufei muttered unenthusiastically, then blinked at himself. He scowled at Zechs. "Now look what you've done."
"What?" Zechs asked innocently, an amused smile playing on his lips.
"You're making me talk nonsense," Wufei snapped back. "Ugh, I hate it when people play with my mind."
"People play with you often?" Zechs asked, and Wufei gave him an odd look. They moved towards the front of the line slowly. "What are the snacks for?" Zechs asked, gesturing to the chips and pop and candy piled in Wufei's arms.
"Never you mind," Wufei snapped.
Zechs laughed. "You've got spirit, Dragon. See you soon."
Wufei grumbled, ignoring him again, until his words clicked in his mind. He turned around. "What do you mean...?" He trailed off as he saw a little old lady blinking up at him.
"Excuse me, young man?" she asked.
"Oh," Wufei blushed. "Pardon me, ma'am. Sorry." And he turned away, his eyes scanning for Zechs as he set the snacks on the check out counter. And Wufei grumbled about strangers all the way home.
/ / / / /
"Whoo-hoo, I'm back!" Duo shouted. "With movies!" He waved the cases in the air.
"Duo?" Wufei came out of the kitchen. "Have you seen Hilde? Did she go meet you?"
"No, 'Fei," Duo shook his head absently as he shrugged out of his coat. "Why?"
"Because she's not here," Wufei frowned. "I can't find her. I thought she might have gone to make sure you chose a good movie, but..."
"Chill out, 'Fei," Duo grinned. "She's probably with Quat. You know how picky she is with her pizza."
"Right," Wufei said, but he didn't look convinced.
"Hi, guys," Quatre came in the door at that moment, his arms full with two boxes of pizza. "What movie did you get, Duo?"
"Underworld!" Duo shouted in triumph. "It's an action horror movie, I think, with vampires and lycans. That's werewolves, by the way. Some big war between them and then a hybrid vampire slash lycan is born!"
Wufei and Quatre both blinked at him. "You've been staying up late, again, Duo," Wufei muttered. "Haven't you?"
"I agree," Quatre said. "And before Hilde pounces on me, can someone assure her I got her a full half of the pizza with hawaiian, so she doesn't batter me. She's too obsessive about her pizza, I swear."
"You've never sworn in your life, Quatre," Duo laughed.
"Well, I might start up soon," Quatre replied. "What with having you three for friends."
"Quatre, isn't Hilde with you?" Wufei asked.
"No," Quatre looked up as he set the pizza boxes on the table. "Why?"
"She's not here."
Quatre's head snapped up. "What do you mean?"
"She's not here," Wufei repeated. "And she wasn't with Duo or me or you. She's gone."
"Don't worry, guys," Duo laughed. "She probably just went out to buy something at the variety store."
"I just came back from there, Duo," Wufei argued. "I would have seen her or met her."
Duo looked at Wufei for a moment, then frowned uncomfortably. "Stop thinking, 'Fei," he huffed. "You're making me nervous."
There was a sudden 'shink' sound and three heads turned simultaneously to look at the mail slot, where something had just been pushed through and now sat in the basket.
"It's not mail time, is it?" Quatre asked.
"No, it's not," Wufei replied, going and taking the paper in his hands. It was crisp white, with gold trimming and folded over, sealed with wax with an imprint on it.
"This is, um, wierd," Duo bit his lip, looking at it.
"Open it," Quatre urged. Wufei broke the seal and opened the note. It was written in crisp and clean, flowing handwriting. Wufei read it.
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To Duo Maxwell, Quatre Raberba Winner, and Wufei Chang,
We have taken Hilde Schbeiker. We will not harm her if you do as we ask.
Come to the old Carolinia Church on Greenbow Street and she will be returned
safe and sound. If we see anymore than you three entering, we will kill her without
a second thought. Trust me, killing is natural for us. If you decide to ignore this
note...well, then you are not worthy enough to have Hilde Schbeiker as a friend.
See you soon.
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"Allah help us," Quatre whispered in shock.
"What the fuck is this?" Duo snapped the letter out of Wufei's hand, reading it for himself. "Oh my god...who the fuck would do this?"
"I don't know," Wufei growled, his fists clenched. "But there's no way in hell I'm going to ignore that note."
"Fuck yeah," Duo agreed wholeheartedly. He stood up and moved to a cabinet, opening a few drawers. The others watched as he slipped knives in holsters out of the drawers and began setting them in place under his clothes. Duo looked up and noticed them staring at him. "Well? You gonna stand there all day or are you gonna join me and kick some ass?"
"For once, I agree with you," Wufei gave a feral grin, vanishing into his room to collect his sword.
"C'mon, Q," Duo motioned for Quatre to join him. "Grab a few. I've got enough to share. You don't think I'm gonna let your talent with knives go to waste?"
Quatre, whose light blue eyes had hardened as Duo had read the letter for himself, nodded and joined Duo, borrowing a few knives. A few minutes later, they were in a cab, being driven to the Church, Duo swearing under his breath and Wufei glowering at anything that moved. The cab stopped, let them out, and then drove off without collecting his pay. The three teenagers didn't notice this, as they were busy staring up at the Carolinia Church.
"You think they could make it any more dark?" Duo asked. The Carolinia Church had been built in the gothic style, complete with a twisted grey spire and gargoyles hunched on the roof, keeping watch.
"I doubt it," Quatre said. After a moment, he spoke again. "Kind of gives you the creeps, doesn't it? Like an incredible sense that something major is going to happen."
"The only thing major I want to happen is getting Hilde back," Duo looked away and set forward, the other joining him quickly. They entered the church, noticing it was lit by a few candles at the front. They caught sight of the three figures at the front, who obviously caught sight of them, since one stood up from his seat and joined the other two in standing in wait.
"What the fuck is your problem?" Duo shouted at them while walking up the aisle. "You can't just go around kidnapping people, you bastards!" Duo stopped as the figures came into view, and he gasped. "You're that guy, Heero!" he shouted, just as Quatre said, "Trowa?" and Wufei groaned, "Not you, again!" The three friends looked at each other in confusion.
"Welcome," Heero smirked.
"You...you took Hilde?" Quatre asked in shock. "But..."
"Where is she?" Wufei shouted.
"She is safe," Zechs smiled at Wufei. "As sworn by our word, she is being returned, safe and sound. She is at home, now, sleeping peacefully."
"Thank Allah," Quatre whispered, and Duo looked skeptically at him.
"You believe him?" he asked. Quatre blinked and looked uneasy for a moment.
"What do you want?" Wufei asked sharply. "Is it money?"
Zechs laughed in amusement for a moment. "I assure you, we have all the money we need. No, what we want," he smiled seductively and licked his lips. "Is you."
There was a moment of silence as three unbelieving teenagers gaped. "Uh...is anyone else here besides me a little freaked out?" Duo asked as Heero eyed him and smirked.
"That's a bit of an understatement," Quatre whispered back. "Duo..."
Okay, so the first chapter is like a preview! The next chapter gets more kinky and lovey, and then the whole thing starts off in Vampyre land! Ahem...lyou'll see what I mean in the next chapters. Please review and tell me what you think of this chap so we can get the next chap up.
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