It was late as a young traveler was coming through a small town. The villagers housed the weary traveler by giving him food and water for his trip. He had stayed there for a few days, a few more than he had wanted to.

"Where are you headed off to, young man?" an elderly woman asked as she handed the man his water.

"I'm going the town across from here," the traveler said.

The large group of villagers gasped.

"You can't be serious," a man said.

"But that forest is on the way," a woman expressed.

"A forest?" the traveler asked.

"Yes," the women said, "it's said to be cursed. People who go in there never come out again."

"You can't go," a little girl said grabbing onto the traveler's coat. "You can't go, Cloud," she sobbed.

Cloud bent down and placed his hand on the girl's head. She looked up with tears streaking down her face. Cloud had only been there for a couple of days but the little girl took quite a liking to him in a short period of time.

The blonde ruffled the girl's hair and smiled. "I'll be fine so don't cry, okay?"

She wiped away her tears and smiled slightly, "O-okay."

Cloud smiled again and straightened himself up. He looked at all the villagers, and after them trying to convince him to stay and find a way around the forest, Cloud waved goodbye to all of them and left.

Cloud traveled for a long ways until he finally reached the tall dark forest that the villagers were all afraid of. It was nearly nightfall at that time and the blonde entered inside. Everything seemed normal so Cloud progressed forward. Soon he came upon a small stream where he could fill his canteen with more water. He looked up and saw the moon glimmering down on him.

Suddenly the plants around him turned a crystal white and began to sparkle around him. Cloud stood up and heard footsteps coming from around the corner. He put his hand on his gun that was placed in his holster on his right thigh.

A tall man with silver hair that came to his shoulder came out from behind the tree. Once he saw Cloud he smiled.

"Well, hello there," he said, "I thought I heard someone out here."

"Who are you?" Cloud asked with his hand still on his gun.

"Oh how rude of me, my name is Kadaj, and who might you be?"

"Cloud, Cloud Strife."

"Nice to meet you, Cloud Strife, so what brings you here to our home?" Kadaj asked.

Our home, Cloud thought, this guy lives here with other people? "I'm just passing by is all," Cloud said.

"But didn't you know that these forests are dangerous?"

"Yeah but I think I can handle it, and I haven't seen anything so far."

"Oh really," Kadaj said.

"Brother," someone called from a distance.

"I'm over here, Loz," Kadaj called back.

A large man with silver hair appeared beside Kadaj. "Brother," Loz said, "Mother told us not to go off alone often. Especially when we have newcomers here," Loz said, eyeing Cloud.

"Is Yazoo coming too?" Kadaj asked.

"He's not far behind," Loz said cocking his chin in the direction he had just come from.

Soon another tall man with long silver hair came out of the bushes. "You take things too fast, Loz," Yazoo said.

"Or maybe you're just too slow, Yazoo," Loz said.

Yazoo looked over and spotted Cloud. "Who's this guy?" he asked Kadaj.

"This is Cloud Strife," Kadaj said walking over and putting an arm around Cloud. "How would you like to join us for dinner, Cloud? You look rather hungry."

Cloud moved away from Kadaj, "Thanks, but I'll have to pass."

"But it'll be delicious, I can already smell it," Kadaj said sniffing the air next to Cloud.

"I'm sorry," Cloud said, "but I have to get going."

He began to walk past the other men, but Loz grabbed his arm. Cloud looked up at him, "Why do you have to leave so soon?" Loz asked. "Mother would probably really like to meet you."

"Yes," Yazoo said, "please come with us to visit Mother."

"I'm sorry," Cloud said again, "but I need to leave, so please let go of me," he said trying to tug his arm away.

Loz tightened his grip, which made Cloud wince in pain. "You'll come with us to see Mother," he said.

"I don't want to meet her," Cloud said louder.

Loz looked down at the blonde and threw him across the forest floor. "Don't you DARE talk about Mother in that tone," Loz said as he began to sob softly.

Cloud tried getting up but gasped in pain and grabbed his side. Did I break a rib with that fall? Cloud thought. No, there's no way that something like that could break a rib.

He looked up and saw Kadaj looming over him. Kadaj grabbed the blonde's chin and pulled it up so they could meet eyes. "There's no need to be rude, Cloud. After all, you can't leave until our other brother sees you."

"What do you want with me?" Cloud asked.

Kadaj smiled and slashed his nails across Cloud's cheek. Cloud collapsed as Kadaj brought his blood soaked fingers up to his mouth and licked them. He laughed at Cloud's shocked expression. "Do you know what we want from you now?" Kadaj asked. He laughed softly and bent down next to Cloud's ear and whispered, "It's your blood, Cloud; we all want your blood."

"But then that would make you," Cloud began.

"That's right," Kadaj said, "that makes us all vampires."

At that moment, Cloud reached down and grabbed his gun. Trembling, he held the gun directly in front of Kadaj's face. "That's not possible," Cloud said, "vampires don't exist in this world."

Kadaj smiled and bent down and placed his hand on Cloud's gun. "Oh, but we do, my dear Cloud," he said.

A shiver ran down Cloud's back as he stared into Kadaj's glowing blue eyes that had turned crimson red. The blonde tried to back away but Loz was behind him in a second and grabbed his arm. "What are you going to do?" Cloud asked terrified.

"Like we said earlier," Kadaj said, "we're taking you to see our brother and our Mother." Kadaj looked down at Cloud's hands. He smiled, "I think it would be in your best interest to put that nasty gun away too."

Cloud looked down at his hand and slowly slipped the gun into his coat pocket. He looked up into Kadaj's eyes and let Loz pick him up from the ground.

"I'm glad you see things our way," Kadaj said as the three brothers led Cloud to see Mother.

After a short distance, all four of them came up to a tall gate. The gate was covered in the same branches and vines, which were white from the moonlight, covering the gate. Cloud looked up to see the moon shining down right at the entrance of the large gate. Kadaj opened it and lead Cloud and the others through the dark woods.

There was a sharp noise off in the distance as they kept walking. The noise came again and this time someone stopped in front of Kadaj. It was a man with long silver hair that came down farther than his waist.

"Nice of you to show your face, Brother Sephiroth," Kadaj said.

"I felt someone other than you three coming to see Mother," Sephiroth said. "And I can clearly see that it's this human you brought along."

"This here is Cloud Strife," Kadaj said.

"Brother wanted him to meet Mother," Loz said.

Sephiroth looked Cloud over closely, "Why did you bring him here, Kadaj?"

"I thought Mother would be quiet interested with him. I can see that you're pretty interested in him yourself, Sephy."

Sephiroth glared at the sound of the nickname the three of them had given him. He sighed, "I suppose she might be interested in him. He could make good entertainment for her if all else."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Cloud asked still being held back by Loz's strong arms.

"Just keep your mouth shut," Sephiroth said leaning into Cloud's face.

The blonde blushed and looked away.

Sephiroth chuckled, "Come on," he said, "Mother's getting impatient."

Another short period of walking and they came up to a large tree directly below the moon. Cloud stared up as Loz shoved him forward.

"What is this place?" Cloud asked.

"Just shut up and keep moving," Yazoo said.

Cloud stopped, "Not until you tell me what's going on and what you guys plan to do with me."

Yazoo glared at the blonde and grabbed him by the hair. He shook Cloud a little, "You're annoying, you know that, Blondie?" he said.

Cloud winced in pain as Yazoo continued to pull his hair.

"I thought it would have been better to just kill you back at the entrance," Yazoo said coldly.

"Yazoo," Sephiroth said as Yazoo let go of Cloud's hair after hearing his brother's voice. "Don't harm him until Mother looks at him," he said.

Yazoo huffed as he walked over to Kadaj. Sephiroth walked over to the tall tree and held up his hands. "Mother," he said, "we've come baring a gift for you. A human who has caught our interest was brought here by us to you. Please feel free to look at him and do as you wish."

Loz dragged Cloud over as the tree's branches began to pull apart from each other. When the branches became less thick, Cloud saw what was lying behind it. Behind the branches was what people might call a monster. These vampires' Mother was a monster. She had long silver hair and one of her eyes was open with a bright red glow to it. She was connected to the tree and she wore a helmet that read "Jenova" on it as well.

She blinked as a tentacle reached out to Cloud. Cloud instantly fell backwards trying to stay away from Jenova as much as possible.

A few moments passed and Sephiroth nodded to Jenova. He walked over and grabbed Cloud by the arm and pulled him to his feet.

"Mother wishes to get a closer look at you," Sephiroth said.

"Wha-" but before Cloud could finish, Sephiroth pricked the blonde's neck and covered his finger with blood. He let go of Cloud and walked up to Jenova.

Sephiroth held up his hand, "For you, Mother."

She made no sign of movement but then she leaned down in an odd motion and licked the blood from Sephiroth's hand. Jenova looked into Cloud's eyes, which made Cloud shiver.

I need to get out of here, Cloud thought. I need to get out of here before something really bad happens. Cloud began to take a few steps back before he finally took off in a sprint for the exit.

"Aww," Loz said, "he's getting away."

"He won't get very far," Kadaj said.

"What does Mother want us to do, Brother Sephiroth?" Yazoo asked.

Sephiroth was silent for a few seconds. "She wants us to go after him," he said, "but don't damage him too much." He paused again, "Mother also says we can have a little taste before we bring him back."

"Yay," Loz said, "thank you, Mother!"

"Then let's be off then," Kadaj said as all four of them took off quickly after their prey.

X-X-X-X

"Hey, Vincent, where exactly are we going again?" a man with jet black hair asked.

"I told you already, Zack," Vincent sighed. "We're going to hunt for our food for the week."

"Oh yeah," Zack said scratching his head, "I almost completely forgot about that. It's too bad Aerith couldn't come with us today."

"She's keeping watch over the pack ground. Honestly, do you forget everything after it's told to you?"

"Not always," Zack laughed. "By the way," he said.

"What is it?" Vincent asked.

"Do you smell something funny around here?"

Vincent sniffed the air. "It smells like human blood."

"But why would there be enough human blood for us to really smell it?" Zack asked.

"I don't know," Vincent said, "but I don't think it's a good idea to just leave this human. You know it's against the law to hunt humans for fun, and I believe that's what's happening right now as we speak."

"So we going on a little rescue mission?"

Vincent nodded, "I have a feeling that I know who's responsible for this as well."

"Really, who?"

"The Jenova Pack," Vincent said as he took off to the pack's ground with Zack right behind him.

X-X-X-X

"Come on, come on," Kadaj laughed knocking Cloud to the ground, "you can do better than that!"

Cloud lifted himself up as he rolled out of the way of Loz landing on him. All four of the Jenova Pack members caught up to him so quickly that Cloud had no time to react when Kadaj first hit him.

"Too slow," Yazoo said as he pushed Cloud into one of the trees.

Cloud gasped as his back hit the trunk of the tree hard.

Sephiroth came over to him and pulled his face close to his own. Cloud looked up at him wide eyed. Sephiroth kept a stern face, "I can see that your eyes are trying to say 'Please let me go, I'll do anything.' But you should have known that once you entered here you were never going to escape."

Cloud's eyes began to fill up with tears as he tried to pull himself away from Sephiroth. "Please," he sobbed, "I don't want to die here."

But Sephiroth took his hand and slashed down at Cloud's chest with his nails. Three long trails of blood ran down the blonde's skin. Cloud fell to the ground gasping as Sephiroth licked his bloody fingers. His eyes began to glow red as he bent down closer to Cloud.

"I can see why Mother wants you now," Sephiroth said as he leaned in and locked lips with Cloud. Cloud tried to push him away but Sephiroth pinned his arms against the tree as he continued to kiss the blonde.

Cloud let out a soft moan for air but Sephiroth didn't respond to this. Kadaj and the others laughed lightly as they saw their brother torture the hell out of this human before them.

Sephiroth separated from Cloud and licked his chin, which was still covered in blood from earlier. Cloud shivered as Sephiroth spoke, "The thing is that not only does Mother want you to herself, but I do as well. A kind of selfish request but I'll do anything to take you with me."

Cloud gasped as he saw Sephiroth bend down again to kiss him, but Cloud threw up his hands and tried to knock the vampire away. This only caused Sephiroth to slip and cut into Cloud's arms.

Sephiroth chuckled, "I wanted to do something fun with you, but you're just to breakable. Maybe if you become one of us it would make this a whole lot easier to do."

"No!" Cloud screamed as he kicked Sephiroth in the chest. This did nothing and the vampire pulled Cloud closer by the waist. It's all over, Cloud thought, I'm going to die here. They're-they're going to make me one of them. I don't want this!

Suddenly, just when Sephiroth was inches away from Cloud's neck, he was pulled off the blonde and thrown across the field.

"Hey, you okay?" someone asked Cloud touching his shoulder.

Cloud looked up to see a tall strongly built guy with short spiky black hair. "Who are you?" Cloud said softly that it was only a whisper.

"Zack," someone else called, "get that human and get out of here."

A human, Cloud thought, if they're calling me a human then that means that they're-

"Come on," Zack said holding out his hand, "we'll get you out of here."

"Get away from me!" Cloud yelled backing away. "Just get the hell away from me!"

Zack sighed, "It can't be helped I suppose. Look, I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to help you right now. Please, come with me; I'll protect you no mater what."

"Hurry up, Zack," someone called again.

"Zack," Cloud murmured as he held up his hand for the vampire.

Zack smiled taking Cloud's hand and pulling him into his arms. Cloud made no attempt to fight him as he began carrying away from the scene. "You're going to be okay," Zack said.

Cloud's eyes began to close as he nuzzled his face into Zack's neck. "You smell nice," Cloud said.

Zack laughed softly, "I think you're becoming delusional due to all that blood lost."

Suddenly Zack looked up and saw someone jumping down from the trees with their baring fangs and their claws outstretched.

"You're not getting out of here alive," Kadaj said as Zack jumped out of his way with Cloud in his arms.

"What the hell are you doing out there, Vincent?" Zack asked to himself as he dodged out of the way of another attack.

"Mother wants this boy, so you must give him to me!" Kadaj yelled.

"Oh," Zack said, "so Jenova is interested in him? Then taking him away from you guys makes this even more fun than what it is. I don't know if you knew this or not, but I've never really been fond of your Mother."

"You bastard," Kadaj said as he went again for an attack on Zack but was stopped by another hand. Kadaj looked behind him to find Vincent holding him back from his attack.

"Leave now and I won't have to punish you," Vincent said.

Kadaj laughed, "Yeah right, like I'm going to leave without shedding a little blood first. Besides, my brothers will be here soon to help."

"Your family isn't coming to your aid anytime soon. They've retreated back to Jenova," Vincent said.

"Damn," Kadaj muttered. "Fine, but just remember that we aren't giving him up quickly. We'll come after him again, that is if he survives the night."

"What are you talking about?" Zack asked.

"Can't you already tell," Kadaj said, "he's pretty much on the borderline of death. Just give him a good hour and he'll be dead." Kadaj laughed, "I'm excited to see what you'll do with him." And with that Kadaj left the other two vampires alone with a dying human.

"Vincent," Zack said, "what do you think we should do?"

"Let's get him to our ground first," Vincent said. "Is he still conscious?"

"Only slightly, I think."

"Then let's go," Vincent said as he took off.

Zack nodded and looked down at Cloud. "Don't worry," Zack said, "I'm not going to let you die." Then he lightly kissed the blonde's forehead and followed Vincent back to their pack's ground.

Getting back to the pack's ground was the easiest part of their travel. Vincent and Zack came up to the gate which opened when Vincent placed his hand on it.

"It's a good thing this gate doesn't lock us out," Zack laughed. "But uh, will it let in this guy too?" Zack asked slightly lifting Cloud, which made him groan in pain. "Ah, I'm, I'm sorry!"

"He should be fine," Vincent said, "as long as his intentions are good then The Gate of Judgment will let him pass."

"The Gate of Judgment comes in handy sometimes, huh?"

"Just hurry up and get him to my office."

"Sure, sure," Zack said as he passed by the gate with Cloud with ease. "Well what do ya know," Zack said. "I guess the gate likes you."

"Zack," Vincent said.

"Uh, coming," Zack said as he followed Vincent.

They both came up to a tall building with Aerith sitting at the steps. She smiled as she saw the two and waved. "Hey, welcome back-" but she gasped when she saw the dying Cloud in the arms of Zack. "What happened, Vincent?" she asked.

"I don't have time to explain," Vincent said. "Aerith, get some wet towels and bring them to my office quickly."

Aerith nodded and ran off. Zack looked up and continued to follow Vincent. He felt Cloud move in his arms and he looked down.

Cloud had blood running down from his forehead and he began to close his eyes again. "I don't-" he began weakly.

"Save your strength," Zack said, "I think you're going to need it."

Zack entered the room and saw Vincent clearing off his desk. "Place him on the table," Vincent said.

Zack obeyed him and gently placed Cloud on the brown wooden table. Cloud grunted as he was set down. Vincent came over and placed his hand over Cloud. He examined him for a sort time and then looked up at Zack.

"What is it?" Zack asked.

"I'm afraid that he's going to die," Vincent said.

"But," Zack grabbed onto Vincent's coat, "there has to be one way to save him."

"There is one."

"What is it, tell me, Vincent."

"He has to become one of us," Vincent said.

Zack let go of his coat and stared down at Cloud. "But that's-can we really do that? What will the Organization do if they found out?"

"We had no choice in the matter. If you don't turn him then he'll die."

"Me? Why do I have to do it?"

"He trusts you the most out of the two of us."

"But we've only known each other for about thirty minutes," Zack said. "This is just too crazy."

"Well," Vincent said, "you should decide fast or else this kid is going to die, it's as simple as that. I'll leave the rest up to you, Zack." Vincent then turned around and left the other vampire alone with a blood covered human.

"That guy-" Zack mumbled to himself.

"Z-Zack?" Cloud called out to the vampire.

Zack looked down and saw Cloud staring into his eyes. Zack smiled, "Glad to see you're awake-uh,"

"Cloud," Cloud said weakly.

"Cloud, remember what I said to you before we left that place I found you in?"

Cloud was silent. He only stared at the vampire before him.

"I said that I wasn't going to let you die," Zack said, "and I plan to keep that promise."

Cloud's eyes widened, "What do you plan to do?"

"Just close your eyes and relax," Zack said leaning over Cloud's body. "I'll make it quick."

Cloud was hesitant at first but then he nodded slightly and closed his eyes.

Zack took a deep breath and leaned down to the blonde's neck. He licked a small area, which made Cloud shiver, and then he sunk his teeth into the delicate pale skin. Cloud gasped when he figured out what was happening and he tried to push Zack away, but he was too weak and Zack pinned him down with ease.

Zack continued to suck out Cloud's blood slowly. I won't let you go, Zack thought. What ever happens here there's just one thing I want. Zack let go of Cloud and stared at him for the longest time. Then he took his hand and bit into it. A long trail of blood came down from his wrist as Zack took in his own blood in his mouth.

He let go of his hand and looked down at Cloud again. He parted the blonde's lips and leaned down and placed his lips on his. Zack soon opened his mouth and released the blood that he contained into Cloud's body. The one thing I want you to do for me, Zack thought as he lifted himself from their kiss. "I want you to live," Zack said as he stroked Cloud's blonde hair gently.

Vincent walked in then and came over to Zack. "How is he?" Vincent asked.

"He's unconscious, but I think he'll be fine," Zack said.

"You know what this means, your decision that is."

"I know, we're bonded by an unbreakable bond now."

Vincent nodded, "Yes, and soon when he wakes up he will be one of us."

"Yeah, he'll be a vampire."

To Be Continued...

A/N: So it's here finally and it's not very long *sigh* Anyways I'm still happy I got it out and I'm also glad I made Sephy extra purvey ;D And I actually had to look at a picture to describe Jenova/Mother, and that pack ground is the scene where Cloud fought the three brothers to get back the kids in "Advent Children" So yeah this won't be very long, probably about three chapters at most. And I'm in school so I'm sorry if this is too slow *dies* Oh yeah and I had about ten people favortied "Lusting Love" *dies again* I was so happy you guys who do that really make my day and you make me feel like I can write well lol. Thank you to all my hot Kingdom Hearts vampire fans. YOU ALL ARE COOL BEANS!