Vampireloids: Bloody Tunes

The sequel to Vampireloids: Songs and Fangs. It's the week before school starts up again, and Len, as a Prefect, has to go back a week early. But school this year won't be the same, especially when Len's friends transfer to Cross Academy. How will Len protect his secret? And how will he deal with the ongoing war between Zero and Kaito?


Chapter 1: Fresh Air

On an early morning in the middle of summer, 2 weeks before school, I wake up, gasping for breath.

My eyes open and I stare at the ceiling. Is it just me, or is it wiggling around a little bit? Why am I so warm? Why did I wake up?

I glance at my alarm clock, and jump out of bed. 11:30? I'm usually up around 8:00! What made me sleep in so late?

Panicked, I first run to the window and push it open. I am aware of the fact that I am wearing nothing but my boxers, but it doesn't bother me. As I drag open the curtains and heave the window up, allowing the cool breeze to flow into my room. Seeing movement below me, I lean out slightly into the warm morning air and see a bunch of people in Luka Megurine, one of my best friends and neighbor's, yard. I can distinguish Luka herself, along with my other friends, Miku Hatsune, Megumi (Gumi) Poid, Miki Aomori, and Iroha Nekomura, as well my boyfriend Kaito Shion and my little sister Rin Kagamine. I found out earlier this summer that they all started a band while I was away at Cross Academy. I also learned from other friends around town that they were actually quite good. They call themselves "Vocaloid".

I also found out that my mom is actually okay with me being gay. She apparently got over the "humiliation" and told me earlier that if I want to keep attending Tokyo Boys' School, it would be okay with her. But I knew then, and I still know now, that I have to return to Cross Academy while I'm training through my becoming-a-vampire-ness-y-thingamabob. So my mom agreed with that, and also decided to put Rin in Cross Academy next year, and Lenka as soon as she's ready for high school.

Great. Just one more person I have to keep a secret from. It doesn't help that ALL FIVE OF MY BEST FRIENDS ARE TRANSFERRING to Cross Academy, too. And Kaito might be. So, really, having to keep a secret from 5 people this year, and having my boyfriend, who sucks at keeping secrets, by the way, know that secret is a little nerve racking. But I'm excited to see Yuki and Yori again, and, I'll admit it, possibly Zero.

The sound of Kaito's voice breaks me out of my thoughts.

"Hey, Lenny!" he calls. "Looking good!" he winks. I blush.

"Are you going to join us or not?" Luka adds. Rin covers her face, and I hear "scarred for life" travel in my direction.

I quickly duck inside and close the blinds so that I can change my clothes without having to worry about somebody (*coughoughKAITOcoughcough) spying on me. I quickly throw on a yellow and blue striped T-shirt and a pair of shorts. Then I grab the water bottle I keep in my room for certain reasons and the blood tablets from beneath my mattress and mix them together before downing it all. Then I fly down the stairs into the kitchen.

When my mom found out I was taking the blood tablets, she was convinced they were drugs and made me throw them away. So I had taken another packet into my room and hid them there so that she wouldn't know I was still taking them. My mom would never believe the real reason I was taking them. I mean, vampires are difficult to believe in, even for somebody who believes in the supernatural. Which my mom doesn't.

"Len, don't run in the house," my brother Rinto says as I zip past him to the door.

"Sure!" I call back, instantly forgetting what he told me not to do. I don't bother putting shoes on; it's summer, and it isn't even that far to Luka's house. I jump over her fence, and land… in Kaito's arms.

"K-Kaito!" I exclaim, embarrassed, as he hugs me closer to him. "I could've landed myself!"

"Yes, but then I wouldn't have gotten the pleasure of holding you," Kaito replies, and then he plants a kiss on my lips before putting me on my feet. When my friends giggle, I blush and look awkwardly at my feet.

"Oh, Len, you're so cute!" Kaito tells me. He leans down and pecks my cheek before grabbing my hand and dragging me over to join everybody else.

"So, anybody written any new songs lately?" Luka asks cheerfully. I cautiously raise my hand.

"I haven't actually started writing it yet, but I have an idea for one."

"Cool. Want to explain it?" Iroha asks, leaning against Luka's giant trampoline.

"No particularly," I reply. "It's a pretty personal topic, if you know what I mean." I glance at Kaito as I say the last part. He frowns for a moment, before realization pops into his eyes.

"Ohhh. Thaat."

"Yeah."

"Hmm?" Miku raises an eyebrow. Her long teal hair, which is usually tied into ponytails, is today in a high bun on top of her head. She leans forward, a smirk on her face and mischief glinting in her teal eyes as she asks, "What does Kaito know that we don't, Lenny?"

I glare at her and reply smartly, "It's personal. Geez, Miku, you don't need to know every single detail about my life, do you?"

Gumi and Miki exchange a glance and burst into giggles.

"What?" I ask, bewildered.

Rin covers her ears and begins rolling around in the grass, screaming, "Scarred! SCARRED!" at the top of her lungs.

Miki and Gumi grin creepily, and Miku and Iroha also burst into giggles. When I look around, even Luka has an eerie grin on her face.

"What?" I ask.

"Len…" Luka attempts to smirk, but her face is so full of delight that it doesn't work.

"You just admitted to… you know… doing it." She bursts into giggles.

"Wh-wha-wha… what?" I exclaim, blushing fiercely. "Ta-puh-dubu! That's not what I meant! Geez! Stop jumping to conclusions, you perverts!"

"It did sound like that, Len," Kaito tells me from behind me. He wraps his arms around my waist and brings his mouth close to my ear. "Though, I wouldn't mind if we made it true…"

"K-Kaito!" I exclaim, embarrassed. I pull out of his arms and move away. "Geez! Let's just get to practicing already!"

The girl's pull out of their giggle fest and nod.

"Yes let's!" Miki mocks. Luka just shakes her head and leads the way to her garage, where our instruments and song folder is kept. I immediately head towards The keyboards, one each for Rin and I. Kaito goes to the drums at the back. Gumi grabs the bass, Luka and Miku both grab guitars, and Miki and Iroha grab their tambourines; they're the dancers.

"Let's run through 'Just be Friends', 'Satellite' and 'World is Mine'." Luka says.

Rin raises her hand. "Can we run through 'Story of Evil' so far, too?"

"I haven't finished writing 'Re_Birthday' yet," I tell her.

"Well, you don't have much left," Rin answers. "So make it up on the spot. I want to start working on 'Twiright Prank'!"

"Fine."

Rin wrote a song that she called "Daughter of Evil", which was a very sad song about a lonely 14-year-old queen who fell in love with a man, but the man was in love with somebody else. The queen grew mad and ordered her army to kill the girl and every person who looked like her. The song also spoke of how the girl had a servant, who was actually her twin, who served her personally. In the end, the queen was executed for genocide, but the song revealed at the end that the servant had actually died in her place.

When I first heard the song, I was so moved that I had to write an answer song, which I named "Servant of Evil". It is about the servant of the queen, and why he chose to die in her place. After that, Rin wrote a song about afterwards, where the queen had run from her kingdom and was by the ocean, where she was writing a wish in a bottle and sending it out to sea where it would hopefully come true. She named it "Regret Message".

Right now, I am writing an answer song called "Re_Birthday", in which the queens' wish comes true and the servant is reborn. It has turned into a full out series, and Rin named it the "Story of Evil".

"Okay, let's go," Luka instructs. Kaito begins the drum, and Luka begins to sing.

"Just be friends, all we gotta do, just be friends. It's time to say goodbye, just be friends. All we gotta do, just be friends, just be friends, just be friends."


"Well, rehearsal went well," I remark.

"That's nice, dear," my mother, Lily Kagamine remarks, obviously uninterested.

"It is," Rin replies. Over the time I was away at Cross Academy, Rin had grown more mature. She doesn't act like she is 5 anymore; just like she 14, as she is. My other sister, Lenka, on the other hand, is the opposite story. Despite the fact that she is now 9, Lenka is acting even younger than she had before I left. It seems that without an older brother to cling to (Rinto doesn't count because he's cold as ice), she had grown more needy. She now spends every second she can with me, which can get annoying, but because she's my sister, I deal with it.

"Mother is to busy to care whether something is 'nice' or not," Rinto tells the group. Rin glares at him.

"If she's so busy, why can she not tell us this herself?" my sister demands, her bow bouncing up and down agitatedly.

"Because she's too busy!" Rinto retorts.

"Hmph!" Rin said. She pushed her plate of spaghetti away and scraped her chair backwards as loudly as possible before storming up to her bedroom.

And through this whole conversation, my mother just sits there, eating her food almost mechanically, without trying to add any emotion into her face.

I turn to Rinto. "Is Lenka already in bed?"

"No, she's staying over at her friend Yukari's tonight."

"I see," I reply. "Well, I'm going to go to bed now. I'm feeling pretty tired. Good night."

"Good night," Rinto answers absentmindedly. I'm pretty sure he didn't even hear what I said.

As I climb the stairs and enter my bedroom, I can help but breath more deeply, glad to be away from the stuffy, tense air that always seems to be present around my mother and brother.

I am returning to Cross Academy tomorrow, and I have to admit, it'll be nice to breath in the fresh air that is away from my stuck-up brother and absent mother. Yes, some fresh air will be nice.


Well, that's all! Review! I'll update soon!

~Katize Luka