Welcome to my first story. This was my NaNoWriMo piece but i haven't finished it as of yet. Still working on it.
Oh and here's Riku to read the Disclaimer.
Riku: Do I have to?
Me: Yes.
Riku: Val doesn't own Kingdom Hearts or the rhythm of the Hellsing like plot. Although she does own Kuja, my servant in this, and Amelia, the maid. Others will show as they come up in the story.
"Good luck my son," were his last words before going peacefully. The head of the Shadows' household had died, leaving his son behind with his power hungry brother.
"Are you sure you've checked every where?" asked a brown haired male with a greedy gleam in his ocean blue eyes. "Riku has to be around here somewhere."
"Everywhere but the basement boss," replied a subordinate.
The male rolled his eyes before glaring at the subordinate.
"Then that's the next place to check. Alert my coalition that we will have control of the Shadows Corps in minutes," the man called to another subordinate.
"Yes Sir. Terra Sir," the subordinate replied before heading to the phone.
/Uncle Terra, / thought a young teen aged boy from inside an air duct, /have you really dropped this low? Less than a week after my father's death and you are already willing to kill me? /
This was the boy that the subordinates were hunting for, Riku Elliot Michael Shadows. For a thirteen year old boy he was crafty and ready to fight but he couldn't bring himself to do anything of that accord to an uncle. Riku crawled through the air ducts as he headed for the basement.
"If you ever find yourself in over your head in trouble, there is a protector in the basement awaiting you, my son," were the words echoing in his head. They were his father's words.
The silver haired teen jumped from the ducts and into one of the locked rooms. The only other thing in there was a corpse or a female, or at least that's what it seemed.
"Is this some sort of joke, Father? A corpse, a corpse is my protector?" Riku asked to the wind as he sat down a few meters away from the bound up corpse.
"You don't mind me here do you?" Riku asked the corpse before going quiet.
The corpse made no reply as his uncle's men broke down the door. Riku gulped as he stood up to face his uncle.
"This is why Father didn't want you to have Shadows Corp. You're too power hungry," Riku shouted.
"And a child will do any better?"asked his uncle, Terra, as he held up a gun.
A shot was fired. The shot nicked Riku's shoulder and splattered blood near the corpse's wrinkled body. Riku looked behind him to see the corpse licking up the blood off the floor.
"What is that?" asked Terra as the corpse woman stood up.
A smirk was across her youthful maw as she snapped the binds holding her arms. Terra gave the command to shoot at the being only to have his men ripped to shreds by the woman. The room was splattered with a crimson liquid as the woman drank from a disconnected head.
/A vampire. The Shadows Institute has a vampire! / Riku screamed mentally as his uncle shot at him again.
The woman's arm took the bullet. "Are you okay Mister Shadows?" she asked before dusting the bullet off like a piece of dirt.
"Who are you?" Riku whispered as she passed him his uncle's gun.
"Kuja, at least that's what your ancestors' have called me since I started serving them," the woman replied before Riku shot the gun and his uncle fell dead to the floor. "And you are?"
"You're newest master I'm guessing. Riku Elliot Michael Shadows," Riku replied before standing up. "Please change into something else before coming up stairs though."
Kuja bowed before slipping into the shadows. Riku headed up to the main floor and waited for Amelia who had been kind of like a mother figure to him and his father's greatest advisor. She had been away on a minor mission before Riku's father's death.
"Riku are you okay?" asked a female the next morning.
Riku looked up to see an older female with a gentle smile on her face. He smiled back.
"Just waiting on you Amelia," he replied as he stood up.