Here's another attempt at writing a multi-chapter story! I figured a lot of my problems came from trying to keep everything matching and continuous, so that each chapter would be obvious in where it fit within the story, sooooo...I'm trying something a little less consistent.
As I get the inspiration, these three will hop between worlds and work on completing their very important mission: to have fun. Thus, not every world will be similar, their 'goal' is simplistic enough to be and will be reinterpreted by all three of them for every different world, with the core of the story being that they have chosen to spend the rest of their unlife on playing, like the overgrown children they all are.
To explain quick relationships hinted at to avoid the confusion of my readers, Subaru and Kamui are vampire 'princes' for lack of a better term, but they would not rule a whole world, merely a slice of it. Hokuto is their older sister who left to explore the multiverse a ways before them, and Seishirou is the fledgeling of both Hokuto and Subaru, leaving him more powerful than the average changed vampire, but also more bound, since he has the blood of two members of a pure-blood family.
I should stop babbling before my notes get longer than the story, ne?
The pulsing strobe lights were disconcerting enough on their own, but adding in the music that throbbed in time with flashes of green, red and blue were enough to make Seishirou question Hokuto's wisdom in choosing a nightclub for their dinner.
But Hokuto was already well into the swing of it, and the energy that permeated the outdoor air, her hips swaying in tune with the noise as she attempted to coax Subaru over the threshold. "Come on!" She whined as she pulled on his arm, "It's easy to eat here. Most of them are so out of it that they won't even notice three vampires getting a meal."
Subaru's eyes flashed blue-stained amber, the lights of the garish sign almost enough to mix the shades of his hungry gaze back to the lovely ethereal green he sported most all of the time, but he still wavered. "Are you sure it's safe, Hokuto-chan?"
Hokuto gave another impatient tug at his wrists. "It's fine Subaru! I haven't eaten in a week, Sei-chan hasn't eaten in a week, and I'd be struck dead of shock if you've eaten since the last time we did."
Seishirou caught the guilty flash in Subaru's eyes as he looked at him, then he nodded, allowing himself to be gleefully tugged by his sister into and over the doorway.
Seishirou overtook them and went down the uneven stairs first, his one eye slowly adjusting to the uncertain, oddly colored blinking lights as the stench of sweaty flesh and less innocent things assailed his strengthened sense of smell. The heavy irregularity of dozens of heartbeats had his fangs throbbing within his mouth as he moved closer to the large gathering of food. Behind him, he heard Subaru's soft hiss and Hokuto's low groan as the same, and probably even more intense hunger and hunter's instinct pounced.
Reaching the bottom of the stairs, he let his eye sweep over the room, letting Hokuto ghost past him to melt effortlessly into the crown, vanishing as she blended into the odd mixture with her interesting dress, a style she addressed as 'Elegant Gothic Lolita' and could have actually passed for it were it not for the 'artfully' ripped and mauled fabric of the low cut neckline and tattered hem.
Subaru clung to his arm as he caught sight of how many people there were in the room, each with their own different stink and relative off-ness, and Seishirou gave him a brief smile of true affection, brushing a finger against faintly parted lips. "Go eat, Subaru-kun. I would hate for you to collapse from hunger for fear of discovery."
Subaru smiled one of those brilliant sunrise smiles, only for him, and let go with a reluctance, to melt away as easily as his sister, even though he still dressed like a vampyric prince, some of the crowd tried to catch him through a haze of sweat and drugs and the mindlessness of the pack.
Seishirou stomped firmly on the possessive jealousy at seeing those lustful stares targeted at his vampire prince, reminding himself that Subaru could no more lose his innocent beauty than the sun could stop rising, and that Subaru had chosen him out of all others in the whole multiverse.
And also, that it would be slow, but definite murder to deny Subaru food because he wanted to keep that beauty for himself. That was one area where pragmatism would always win over jealousy, since he couldn't feed Subaru himself anymore.
The thoughts that enticed him away from eating were interrupted by a stumbling girl who had managed to detach herself from the crowd, her ankles swollen from shoes that were supposed to be 'sexy', but instead just made her look like a lost fledgling bird trying on her parent's fallen feathers. "You're a hot one," she slurred in a mockery of eroticism, "You looking for a good time?"
Seishirou was tempted to throw her, her insane shoes and her failed attempts at sexuality to the ground, but the hunger for blood surged up overwhelmingly, and he instead thickened the charm in his voice, his hands going to her shoulders. "As a matter of fact, I was looking for something...tasty." He let the faked implications of those words roll out of his mouth, watched her leap to the obvious conclusion.
"I'm pretty tasty, if you know where to put your mouth." She purred in an attempt to be sultry, one hand going to tug at the strip of fabric that barely passed for a top.
Seishirou fought the urge to grimace in disgust, and, pulling on her shoulders to keep her from collapsing on him, he bit down on her thin neck, sharp fangs puncturing the skin effortlessly, and sliding into the artery that pulsed life's liquid into his mouth.
She moaned loudly as the rush of the bite overwhelmed her, and Seishirou honestly couldn't find the energy to blame her, the first time that Subaru had bit him, he'd almost lost control of his ability to stay quiet because it just felt that good.
He pulled away, the hunger still present under the surface of his blank smile, as he sensed the point where her heart stuttered and gasped, leaving her collapsed on the floor in a euphoric heap, and began the search for his next meal, hearing at least three other chaotic, weakened heartbeats from Hokuto and Subaru's own endeavors.
He'd left three others flying on the power of his bite before he ran into either of his companions again. Hokuto had the bright flush of the freshly fed filling her cheeks, her hat had vanished and her pixie cut that she and Subaru shared, was mussed, and she was holding a piece of her top that used to cover her left breast to her chest. "I take it some of your dinner got a little bit enthusiastic there, Hokuto-chan?" He asked with a deep tinge of amusement, his voice pitched quiet enough that the ravers around them wouldn't notice, but she would hear easily.
She laughed as she attempted to fix her hair back to a semblance of order. "The girl was so enamored that she grabbed hold and rrrrrip!" she mimicked the action with her free hand, still holding the piece of detached cloth up, he suspected more for Subaru's benefit than from any modesty of her own.
As if beckoned by his thoughts, Subaru appeared, the amber and slits still in his eyes, and slowly fading. Seishirou saw twin trails of blood that ran down from the corners of his mouth, and that he looked pleased, and sated of his hunger. Then he caught sight of Hokuto and her ruined dress, blushed red that was colored blue by the awful lights, and immediately shrugged off the floor length coat and tossed it to her. Hokuto let the piece of fabric fall to the floor, and pinched the front of the coat together to hide her bared chest as she winked at Subaru.
Seishirou caught the young vampire by his waist, playfully capturing him to his charming blush and stammered not-protests. "Ne, Subaru-kun, you left your dinner all over your face."
Any and all coherence his male companion possessed was wrecked by Seishirou helpfully doing his part to keep Subaru pretty, cleaning up the spilled drying streaks of blood with his tongue.
Hokuto cheered from where she stood, having gotten Subaru's coat arranged to her temporary satisfaction. "Go Sei-chan! No more messy faces for Subaru!"
Subaru"s face was bright red, not helped by the strobe lights, and he valiantly tried to hide it in Seishirou's chest, sending an affectionate purr through his heart. And, since Subaru being both embarrassed and happy was such a beautiful thing to see, he lifted the chin of the blushing vampire up. "Subaru-kun?"
"W-w-what?" Was the cutely stuttered answer. From where Subaru couldn't see, Hokuto covered a wholy amused grin with his coat, even the smile itself was barely concealed by the thick fabric.
"Do you find me sexy?" Subaru's fantastically flustered stammering and vibrant blood rush was almost drowned out by Hokuto's peals of laughter.
"Hokuto-chan," he whined, burying his face in his hands where nobody could see how red he could get, "please stop laughing." Seishirou let him free of his arms with minor reluctance, letting his fingers trail down his slender arm lightly, the edges of his charming blush still apparent in the tips of his ears.
"Yeah, Sei-chan!" She cheered instead. "Never miss an opportunity to ask the important questions!"
Subaru choked in mortification. Seishirou affected a solemn look on his face as he looked at the chortaling female vampire. "How can I help it? Subaru-kun is so beautiful and innocent and kind, how could I not want to ravish him senseless?"
Hokuto giggled again as Subaru's green eyes shot up in a mixture of horror and...was that interest? "You're such a lech Sei-chan!"
He let a devious smirk cover his face. "I'm not sure I'm the one who's being lecherous here, since Subaru-kun is fifty-four years my elder."
Hokuto's riotous laughter followed them through the crowd and up the stairs, Subaru trying very hard to not trip and hurt himself from embarrassment. "You're absolutely right Sei-chan! Subaru's the lecherous one here, seducing innocent young treasure hunters to the ways of blood-sucking and may-december romances!"
Subaru practically bolted out of the nightclub, to Hokuto's continued amusement. She ran after him, his coat open and fluttering gaily in her wake as the three of them went towards the park they had arrived in, a week ago in the span of this world's time.
Subaru's flight was stopped by Hokuto's soaring leap-and-tackle move, the two of them crashing on the grass and struggling before coming up with Hokuto as the inevitable, obvious winner. "Come on Subaru," she cooed at her little brother, Seishirou coming to a stop next to them. "You know I fully approve of you and Sei-chan."
Subaru lifted his head up, squirming until he got his arms and elbows arranged enough under him that he was able to lift up his body to the point where Hokuto straddled him and prevented further escape. "I know, Hokuto-chan," his face flushed again under the street lights. "You take every chance to remind me."
Hokuto stood up, obviously considering her job done. "Well then, now we've eaten, it's time for another world. Hopefully one with a better nightlife."
Seishirou reached down, took Subaru's slender hands in his, helping him to his feet. "I think a stop in a world where you can replace your dress, Hokuto-chan, might be a good idea, don't you agree Subaru-kun?" Hokuto snorted as she noticed that the front of the coat had come undone from her chasing.
The young vampire nodded, carefully not looking at his sister as she fixed the coat again. Seishirou leaned down to whisper in his ear. "I don't regret the day when I found you after you fell out of the sky at all."
Hokuto bounded forwards as Subaru stared at him, the stare he was beginning to recognize as Subaru realizing something really important. But whatever it may have been was interrupted by her seizing one of Subaru's hands and one of Seishirou's. "Let's go, off to Piffle World!"
"We can hope for that, Hokuto-chan, but we can't pick which world we end up in." Subaru reminded her quietly.
Hokuto stuck her tongue out at him playfully, then stared intently at the space between his and Seishirou's hands.
Blushing again, he was going to run out all of his food at this rate, Subaru reached out his hand to Seishirou, and he took it gently, enfolding Subaru's fingers within his own. Then, they all shut their eyes.
The low, familiar chant that the vampire siblings used to open the doors between dimensions resounded through the park, their fingers tightening around his own. Hokuto's mind-images of pools of water, and stars replaced blackness and the faint pink of streetlights through skin. Subaru's hall of mirrors spun in, circling them as every piece of glass reflected a different world.
As the world twisted away beneath his feet, Seishirou saw his own storm of cherry blossoms floating lazily through the air, filling the mindpath with their sweet scent. Then the gateway opened and all three parts of them fell away.
To the unknowing viewer, he would have only seen three young people on the cusp of adulthood, shivering and dissolving into sakura...