Disclaimer: I don't own neither Kingdom Hearts, nor Final Fantasy – for Nomura's and his amazing team's luck. The OC twins Anniexo and Aeonin (Nobody and Somebody) belong to my dear Mousy, ViscusTerrae.
Summary: It all started with a Halloween daring game... A group of human kids get lost and trapped at the nearby Haunted Mansion which was claimed to be unoccupied for years.
Warnings: Language for this chapter.
Pairings: many-many: XemSai, XemAku, AkuNo, SaiAku, Zemyx,VexMar, Xal x OC, Lex x OC and many more.
Author's Note: My first vamp-themed fic which is based of on our ongoing role-play with ViscusTerrae. Enjoy!
Chapter01: Blame it on Halloween
Axel's POV
I couldn't wait for that night to come. If you couldn't have guessed so far: Halloween had always been my favorite holiday, got it memorized? Since we were a bit old for costumes and the Trick or Treat-stuff we decided on doing something special that year. Well, more like my brother and I decided without asking the others' opinion about it, because my best friend wouldn't even come with us.
My brother and I waited at the Central Station for our buddies to arrive, leaning against the wall. Reno looked stunning like usual in his form-fitting dark jeans, white zipped-up shirt and leather jacket. The last rays of the setting sun painted his generally vibrant hair blood-red. My twin's beautiful aqua orbs kept on scanning the nearby area for our friends. As he sighed I had to fight the urge to march up to him and cuddle him.
"Daaaaamn~ Where the Hell are they already, yo?" He groaned in frustration.
I shrugged:
"Maybe they're late because of Aeon. You know how slow she is."
Reno burst into chuckling:
"Or Annie is tryin' to fish Dem off of a lamp post, because he got scared." That made me laugh, too. Imagining the scene was hilarious. And the funny thing is that it could actually happen.
"There you are!" A familiar voice called.
Demyx was waving at us:
"Hiya, sorry for being late!" He ran up to us panting.
"Where have you been?"
"At home. You know how my bro, Luxord is."
"Yeah, bossy 'n' bitchy, yo. Don't stay out laaaateee~ Yer missin' da teeeeaaaa~"Reno mimicked it in a high-pitched female voice. We both burst into laughing at that.
Demyx seemed to be annoyed though:
"Luxord doesn't even talk that way."
"Aye, aye, no need to bite my ass off, yo." My twin waved dismissively.
"Sorry we're late!" Two female voices called in unison.
"Annie, Aeon!" Dem waved back at them.
Even if it's funny, we were good friends with the other twins of our class: Anniexo and Aeonin. Both of them with short, flip-out bright royal blue hair and sea-green eyes. Despite their looks they were polar opposites. Aeon, the a real lady: petite, polite and pretty, flashing her sweet smile all the time. Poorly she was very sickly since their birth and a lot slower than the most of us. Annie on the other hand, a real tomboy, cocky, loudmouth and full of energy, just like me. She got into trouble a lot because of fighting. She beat the living crap out of guys double my size, too. Sometimes it left us wondering how in the friggin' Hell could two such opposites be related.
They walked up to us hand-in-hand, Annie dragging her sister up the road.
"Why the holy fuck did we have to meet at such a high place?! You fucking know how slow Aeo' is!" Annie yelled, looking utterly pissed.
"Well, it's still the closest place to your home." Reno explained and pushed himself away from the wall gracefully. I did the same.
"So what's the plan?" Aeon asked still out of breath.
"We thought about an ol' fashioned daring game" I flashed my smile at them and heard Demyx swallowing hard. Nyahaha.
"What kind of game is that supposed to be?" The mentioned mullet-head asked trying his best to keep his voice and limbs calm.
"The Haunted Mansion" My brother started smirking. "is our next destination."
Hearing the area's name my best friend paled.
Demyx' POV
Not much later we arrived to the worst hellhole of our hometown, known as the Haunted Mansion. At first glance it looked like a beautiful old villa which could serve as a museum and tourist attraction, but... frankly to say no one dared to walk in from our town yet. At least I heard so.
As I stared up at the huge forged iron gates a chill ran down my spine. Thank goodness they were locked, so there was no way we were getting in, I thought so for a few seconds when I saw the redheaded demons climbing up on them. Oh, noes~!
"Come on, chickens, let's get there already!" Reno called after us as they landed with a small thud. Damn, they could climb fast like panthers. I sighed, preparing for the worst and did the same as well. Annie lifted Aeon on her back and joined me on the other part of the gate.
"Reno, you're crazy, you know that right?" I called after the smaller redhead by jumping off of the top. Thank goodness we all were – except for Aeonin of course – good at P.E.
Axel flashed his cocky smirk at me:
"What's wrong, Demdem? 'fraid?" He walked up to me and lazily swung an arm around my shoulders:
"You know what they say: when the moon shines bright, ghosts and every evil spirits of this haunted mansion come out, feeding on the living who daaaaare to disturb the peace of this place~" And he started laughing the way he could put the Great Devil in shame. Okay, no need to deny: I nearly creamed my pants at that point:
"Then why the Hell are we going?!" Damn, I hated Halloween! Damn redheads always made sure to creep me totally out.
Reno nudged me:
"Chill, Dem, he's only joking."
The other redhead smirked at me:
"Naaawwww, are you chickened out already? Good, that's the Halloween spirit we need!" He turned to our ladies:
"Hey, girls, you coming?"
Annie had just managed to climb off of the gates and put her sister down:
"How many times do I have to say, slow down for Aeo?!" She yelled clearly pissed.
Her sister only smiled kindly and hold her hand squeezing it reassuringly:
"It's okay, Annie."
Somehow I couldn't fight that damn feeling off that we were being watched. It didn't make things easier, either. Why me?! I looked up at a window and shoot me: I saw something - or someone – moving there. Please, tell me I'm only imagining things, I mentally pleaded.
My best friend stared up at the mansion with a happy childish awe:
"The perfect place for this year's holiday."
Damn, I saw the curtain move again. We couldn't go in there! I had to drag the others somehow away, even if they wouldn't believe me:
"M-maybe we should go." Damn, I stuttered.
Those mean redheaded devils immediately grabbed me from both sides.
"Aww, come on, Demmy~ Come on in~" Reno hugged me from the right, making catcalls.
"Yup, where's the fun in leaving so soon?" The other flamehead called from my left chuckling lightly.
"I have a bad feeling about this place, guys."
"You always do when it's about creepy places, because you're such a little baby girl~" Axel chuckled by ruffling my hair and placed a huge smooching kiss on my cheek.
Annie walked up to me smiled at me kindly:
"Don't worry, as long as we stay together we'll be fine."
"Dun' worry, I'll go in first." Axel announced by cracking the huge time-worn wooden door of the building open. All eyes were locked on him. He suddenly... stiffened and started shaking badly, then turned back to us with a terrified expression.
"I-i-i-i-i-it's..." He started, but no more words slipped through his trembling lips.
"W-w-w-w-what is it!?" Oh, shit! My mind started swirling. What the hell could be in there which scared him so? Skeletons and stabbed rotting bodies covering the floor, blood on the walls? Rats? Just what the hell!?
Suddenly his horrified face turned into a creepy grin:
"Completely empty!" And burst into laughing again. Guess because of my face. That dork. I nearly shit my pants!
Annie sighed in annoyance and kicked the redhead in the ass making him pass the door and followed inside:
"Asshole."
Her sister followed her closely, while Reno was busy with wrapping his arm securely around mine and dragging me inside. I felt like crying. Fuuuuuck, this isn't my day!
Zexion's POV
Resting felt just fine. For once in the past damn month I had a pleasant sleep. I stretched by climbing out of my coffin, sighing contently by listening to the delicious popping sounds my shoulders and backside produced. Weirdly enough I couldn't sense anyone being awake. Not like it bothered me. On the contrary, actually. I enjoyed the silence.
I closed my coffin securely, then left the room. My footsteps echoed in the empty hallway. As I reached the hall unknown voices hit my ears:
"Aww, come on, Demmy~ Come on in~"
I peeked out carefully from behind the curtains seeing five young people approaching our home: two redheaded boys, an other boy with blond and two young girls with blue hair. Humans... What are they doing here? The redheaded brothers seemed to enjoy scaring the tall lanky one. Damn, they were so noisy. I was afraid they would wake the others up, which would mean their end. Go away, please, I was begging mentally to them. To my biggest surprise – or horror – the blond guy spotted me. Damn. I slightly moved away, but he still kept on staring at me in shock. A moment later I heard the door cracking open and their footsteps a bit later. The redhead with the huge spikes waltzed around taking his surroundings in eagerly, laughing lightly.
As silently and carefully I could flew to the top of the stairs and tried to blend into the shadows, keeping an eye on them. Stay quiet and leave. The blond boy looked up and to my biggest surprise saw me again immediately. He looked at me with pure shock written over his soft features, his sea-green eyes widening:
"Guys, we can't stay."
The other redhead looked at him annoyed:
"Aww, come on, Demmy."
His twin brother smirked at him:
"What's wrong? Got scared of your shadow again?" At that point the guy, newly known as 'Demmy', pouted:
"I keep thinking I see someone watching us."
"Don't be silly. No one has lived here for years." The redhead with the ponytail spoke up shaking his head in disbelief.
"You're imagining things again."
The redheads' remarks only pissed 'Demmy' off, and looked away examining some of the paintings on the wall he was facing:
"I know what I saw."
The others only waved at him and walked off. Oh, no. Go away, pretty please.
By realizing his friends' leave the blond froze in shock and started to scan the area rapidly with wide eyes:
"G-guys!?"
That was the right time to make my move and ask him to tell his friends to leave. And the right opportunity to examine him a bit more. He really was damn tall and skinny as well. And that nice scent he carried... Damn, so cute, too. I wanted to see him smile. ...wait, I wasn't supposed to think about it, was I? Still... those sea-green orbs... I could get lost in those ones' depth. Wait, Zexion, focus, your main purpose at the moment is warning him and making him – along with his noisy company – leave! He would probably never come back anyway.
Anniexo's POV
Damn, those redheads just couldn't stop, could they? It wasn't enough that they dragged Aeon, who clearly wasn't feeling too well, up the Central fucking Station of all, then all the way down to this damn mansion, made us climb a frigging huge gate, now exploring this effin' place so lightly, too. And let's not forget about poor Demyx, either. Due their antics I bet he creamed his undies already. Speaking of whom...
"Hey, where's Dem?" Reno asked suddenly by turning back.
Sis checked behind her as well, putting her index finger to her lips wondering:
"I thought he was following me."
Shit, great, just great. I hoped he didn't get lost though. We could look for him all night otherwise.
"Dem! Where are you!?" Axel called after him, but got no reply, obviously. Boys...
"Come on, let's head back." I suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement and started marching back to the hall.
"If I find him covering in a corner..." Axel commented with clenched fists.
By each and every minute we spent in the mansion with walking, it felt eerily quiet and weird. Despite this place had been unoccupied for many-many years it still looked like someone was cleaning here. No spiderwebs, no dust, no torn-apart furniture... Nothing. Like it really was some sort of a museum. And all those dangerously beautiful paintings on the wall... This place was starting to give me of all people the creeps. Seriously. Just what the fuck...
Demyx' POV
Daaaamn, they left me alone, I mentally whined and cursed at them. And especially because they left me in such a place! With huge creepy paintings, statues an' crap! ...and possibly with that weird stalker I'd seen before, too. That last thought made me shake with fear.
"U-uhm..." Suddenly a soft voice called behind me. It freaked me out so bad I spun around, lost my balance and fell miserably on my butt. Owie.
A short silver-haired boy who seemed to be my age stood there facing me wearing casual black dress pants and white shirt. He watched me carefully and curiously with his bright sky-blue eyes. Or eye... Due his long bangs on the right side of his face I couldn't see his right eye. Looking at him I blushed a bit. He was somehow eerily beautiful, or so to say. I couldn't quite grab the word to describe him.
He raised his hands in a defensive motion:
"S-sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." His voice was really so soft and comforting.
"Y-you..." Damn, I was stuttering. I took a deep breath to find my voice:
"I knew I saw someone."
The boy looked down... hm, how to say... looking embarrassed? He twirled some of his long bangs which covered the right part of his face behind his ear gently:
"You must have sharp eyes if you could notice me just like that." Was that supposed to be a compliment? But wait for a damn minute: if the boy lived here, that meant we had committed trespassing by climbing the gates and bouncing in:
"I told them we shouldn't had come here."
The boy just nodded in response, making his bangs immediately fall back into his pretty face:
"Just what I wanted to tell you. You have to leave this place as soon as possible." He warned, suddenly dead serious. I nodded in agreement with him:
"I need to find my friends first."
Speak of the devil, I heard their footsteps echoing.
"Dem! Here you are!" Axel ran up to me, with his twin following in tow. He shot his gaze at the mansion's mysterious occupant and shrieked:
"Aww, no fair! We found this place sooner!" So he seriously thought the boy was a Halloween-crazed teen who tried to claim our new haunt.
The silver-haired one only sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose:
"I could argue about that, but nevermind. You have to get out of here immediately."
Axel frowned at his serious expression:
"What the hell, midget? No way in hell are we letting you-" But my friend was interrupted:
"Please, I have no time to explain!" The boy was practically begging.
I had to help him with that, before we all would get in trouble:
"Guess this is that person I said I saw." I shook my head. "We have to go. Where are the girls?"
"They'll catch up. You know how slow Aeo is." At least Reno seemed to understand the situation. Good. But his twin insisted folding his arms in front of his chest staring at the short boy annoyed:
"Great. And why if I may ask?"
"Just get the girls and le-" He suddenly stopped mid-sentence and started sniffing. A silent curse escaped his pale lips and darted his vision to the front door.
A tall guy with broad shoulders stood in the way. How had he got there so silently and suddenly, I had not the slightest clue. He had long, black dreadlocks and sideburns. His piercing purple eyes gleamed weird as he smirked:
"What the hell. Who ordered dinner for us?" That made my stomach drop and started to shake with fear:
"Dinner?"
Suddenly Annie run in with her sister on her back, stopping next to the petite boy:
"Who's the shorty an' fuzzy?" She asked quirking an eyebrow at the strangers. Funnily enough she was the same height with the guy whom she just called 'shorty'. That seemed to tick the boy off, too, who sighed and rubbed the bridge of his nose again.
He looked up at Annie and whispered to her:
"Just get out of here. Quickly. I'll try to hold them back."
A soft giggle turned our attention to the top of the stairs: a girl about our age was sitting on the balustrade smirking at us and wobbled her long legs so innocently like a child. Her shoulder-length blond hair had two symmetric strands standing up like antennas of some sort of an ant. I didn't like her. At all. I disliked that hungry predator glint in her emerald eyes especially. She licked her perfect lips staring at us:
"I thought I smelled fresh blood." Okay, I was officially crept out.
Axel quirked a tiny eyebrow at her:
"Goth girl is here, too? No fair, they ruined our Halloween Party Palace!" I mentally face-palmed as my best friend kept on complaining. Was I the only one among us who actually realized what kind of situation we were in?
Anniexo put her sister down and marched up to the tall guy in the doorway. That crept me out. I didn't want to see her getting hurt.
"Annie, don't!" I yelled after her, but she just stood there crossing her arms in front of her chest, dead-glaring the black haired man:
"Move it, fuzz-ball."
Reno burst into laughing showing thumb-up for her:
"Shows she has more balls than anyone else here, yo!"
The huge guy just kept on towering her and smirking at her revealing sharp fangs:
"Daring, aren't you." To my biggest horror my she-buddy didn't even budge or flinch, instead of that she tried to get on her tiptoes and poke his fangs.
I heard clothes fluttering next to me. I turned to my right and saw no one else than the blond girl grinning at me and caressing my face with her sharp nails scrapping the skin. I yelped in surprise and jumped away. S-she was at the top of the stairs a moment ago... I kept my eyes on that creature with the shape of a pretty girl, who turned his attention to my best friend. She walked behind him and wrapped her thin arms around Axel's thin waist, who clearly seemed to be upset because of the insolence.
She purred:
"Mmmm, Xaldy, I think I'll keep this one."
Mr. Dreadlocks – or 'Xaldy' as the girl called him – just smirked at them and nodded:
"Have fun with him, Larx."
The short boy snarled at them:
"Leave them alone!"
'Larx' – or whatever was her name – flashed a teasing smirk at him:
"Oooooor eeeeeelse~?" She snorted. "You're older than me, and still weaker."
Annie still kept on getting on her tiptoes to reach 'Xaldy''s teeth:
"Hey, lemme see them better! You're too tall!"
The giant bent down and scraped her neck with his fangs:
"Better?"
Thank goodness my friend stepped away, but only to be able to examine – and poke – those fangs in eye-level happily. We're all dead...
The blond girl, eager to tease the silver haired boy, slipped her hands below the redhead's shirt feeling him up and purring in the process. Axel flinched and pushed her roughly away yelping:
"Fuck, your hands are cold!"
'Larx' seemed to be offended by the act, but shrugged it off immediately, smirking seductively at my redheaded pal:
"Right. For 200 years." Her grin grew wider and her eyes started to glow in a dangerous green tone. V-vampires.. How in the hell could such creatures really exist- ...wait, they could. Even if it was already too late, my friend seemed to register how serious the situation was and moved closer to us. He whispered in his brother's ear:
"Get Aeon and run. As fast as you can."
Reno nodded and lifted the tiny girl on his back and sped off for the door. 'Larx' giggled like a maniac and stopped in front of them with inhuman speed:
"Aww, leaving already~?"
The redhead jumped from shock, nearly dropping Aeon. Her sister immediately ran up to them ready to kick the blondie to pieces, but she moved out of the hits with ease giggling. 'Larx' dodged the last kick and sped to the blunette's side, scraping her neck with her fangs hard enough to draw blood. Oh, no...
Anniexo's POV
Damn bitch, so their damn fangs were real! The realization made me jump away from her and hold my neck in disgust.
"Mmm, you taste nice, lass." She commented licking her lips.
Axel ran up to us with Dem and stood in front of us protectively:
"Reno, Annie, Dem, run."
The blond shook his head in fear:
"We can't. We're trapped."
Damn it. Somehow we had to distract them with Ax, so sis and the others could escape. I had to think about a plan.
"Let's play a game." The fuzzy spoke up suddenly. Somehow I didn't think either of us would enjoy that 'game' and their impossible rules which came with it.
"If you manage to get away from us, you're free." Talk about impossible...
Axel raised a brow at him shaking slightly:
"And if we don't?"
Fuzzy licked his lips in response:
"I have starved for so long." Fucking shiiit... Since there was no point in refusing the game, we could as well participate. Sis couldn't get away from all of them. I had no damn clue about just how strong and fast the tall guy was, but... I had to try something. I marched up to him to hold his arm which earned me a thick raised brow from him. I looked at Aeon, signaling her to move with our friends. She got the message and nodded.
Reno's POV
Damn it all, I didn't like where this was going at all, yo! How the fuck could we escape vampires, if that petite girl just sped me off, me of all people, the fastest runner of the school with damn ease, yo!?
Aeon leaned closer to my ear whispering:
"We have to run now. Someone has to distract the girl." That could work, since the small silverette didn't look like he was gonna eat us up. Hmm, we needed a bait for Lady Dash-a-Lot. We both looked at my brother in unison. I'm so sorry, Axey...
As my twin noticed the eyes being cast at him, he paled:
"Oh, shit." He nodded within a second though. I didn't want to be separated from him, but it was for the best for now. Aeon couldn't run, so with a vamp witch in our heels we wouldn't last long.
I held Aeonin securely on my back and sped off. Demyx followed me immediately. Brother, please, be okay.
Anniexo's POV
Thank goodness. Sis was safe with Reno and Dem. I really hoped no other fangbrains would live at this fucked-up place. That left us alone with the fuzzy, the shorty and the bitch. What a trio. The midget didn't seem to have the mood to play along, so I assumed he was safe. Axel was breathing rapidly, obviously scared as fuck, being left for that blond weirdo of a she-beast.
Fuzzy cracked his neck:
"Well, then... Let's start. Three..."
A creepy smirk crept it's way on the girl's face:
"Two..."
Axel sped off as fast as he could screaming:
"Fuck!"
Fuzzy was grinning, too:
"One..."
The girl, giggling like a maniac, sped off after Axel:
"Go!"
I looked around. The shorty was nowhere to be seen. I really hoped he hadn't gone after my sister to drain them, or else he was as good as dead. The fuzzy started dashing, too, dragging me along, since I was still clinging into his arm. This wasn't good. At all.
Xaldin's POV
Just what the hell? The little one couldn't or didn't want to run like a scared deer? Or more frankly to say: her dear friends. As I kept on lazily following the scent of the humans, the grip on my arm tightened. Her nails had been dug into my skin. It started to annoy me like no tomorrow. I just wanted to have fun. Playing with the others at our home was boring for centuries already. Having petite and cute humans at the mansion – even if for one night – seemed to be a good exercise and nice way of passing time.
I sighed and slammed her lightly against the wall:
"Not even trying to get away? That's against the rules."
The grip on my arm tightened even more. Those green orbs started to throw lightnings at me. Feisty.
"Only way to get them out is slowing you down!"
"If we catch any of you, you lose. Still not wanna run?"
She seemed to ponder about that for a moment:
"Well, you didn't say that, did you?" Amusing.
"I thought you were wise enough to run for it."
Her glare got more intense. Suddenly she looked behind my back, seeing something I couldn't. I put her down and looked behind myself, letting her run off. Did she seriously think I would buy such a stupid and ancient trick?
A sadistic grin crept it's way on my face. The real game is starting now.
End of the first chapter! Man, this is the first one for years I wrote within a few hours straight and got it done! I hope you liked it.