Thank you all soooo much for the kind reviews (I didn't think anyone would actually read this)
A month without uploading eh? I know, I suck /.
If anyone has any types of questions for me, leave a review or PM me and I'll answer :)
On with the story!
Stranger Calls
Chapter 2
(This is rated M for different reasons. Advance at your own consent.)
Confused
...
"Hurry, hurry up!" Hibiya says in a hushed voice.
Delic scrambles to pick up the jack pieces off of the floor.
Another knock and a questioning voice resonates.
"Just leave them be, hurry in the closet!"
Hibiya pushes Delic into his walk in closet. He quickly moves Delic to the corner behind the door frame, out of view, and shuts the closet door, right as his own bedroom door opens.
"Young Hibiya-sama, what is of the matter?" A young blonde manservant, not at all much older than Hibiya himself, asks.
Hibiya fixes his posture and stands straight to meet eye.
"Nothing at all. I was playing a small game of jacks when I heard a box fall from inside my wardrobe. I simply went to fix it."
"Would you like me to call some maintenance to help with the mess?"
'Shut up Delic.' Hibiya thinks quietly as he hears a small shuffle come from inside his closet.
"That would not be necessary. I have resolved the problem myself. But what is it that you have reached out to me for?"
"The Chamberlain has told me to send out that he requests a meeting with you quarter to four for information on the upcoming ball." Hibiya takes a small glance at his bedroom clock for the time.
"Tell him all is accepted."
The butler nods and exits the room. Hibiya sighs as he turns and walks back to his closet, which is already cracked open a bit from a curious Delic.
"Really Delic, that was far too close than needed. What were you thin-" He pauses as he notices the smile of Delic's face as he steps into the closet with him.
Then he starts laughing.
Hard.
Hibiya tries to cover Delic's mouth to avoid any suspicious people crossing his room from the outside deciding to come in, but fails. Delic holds his sides as he prepares for more laughs to come.
Hibiya has no idea what made him laugh so much, but eventually, he starts laughing with him.
He knows it's silly, and he really should've stopped himself before a maid could've waltz in, but he still continues to sit there in his closet with Delic, and laugh his head off.
It was forbidden, and Hibiya knew, but he couldn't have been any happier.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
"Izaya! I haven't seen you in a while."
Izaya steps into Shinra's house, taking off his shoes at the entrance.
"Hello Shinra-sensei~! Sorry, I've just been busy lately." Izaya glances around the room, searching, then looks at Shinra with a serious face.
"Did you get the information?"
He nods.
"Yep. I see you're still looking for that secret, eh?'
"Right you are."
Shinra guides Izaya to his back room, where they see a locked door. Shinra types in a quick password and opens it, leading them into a dark abyss of stairs. They start to walk down.
"See, I'm not familiar with the whole war thing and what happened. I studied it when Celty had first let me move in with her, but that wasn't too long after it so a lot of important information was kept private. I eventually gave up with it and put myself to other uses. But after you asked me the other day, I tried again, and got a bunch more facts about everything with the war that I think you ought to know about if you want to find the secret your friend left."
They make it to the bottom. Izaya cringed as he smells a light scent of remaining bacteria, garlic. He shakes it off the best he can, though he feels annoyance rising into him.
Damn these human like features.
They step into a small room, torches lit on the walls. A rug covers the floor and off to the far right corner, there is a desk stacked with papers, almost like a mini work office.
"I see. Tell me everything."
Shinra gestures to a seat as he himself sits down behind the wooden desk, in front of an old-fashioned box computer. He presses the power button and it comes to life, air swishing from inside the monitor.
"A vampires age is quested. If I believe so, vampires are created by mating. There is no hormonal balance, simply because vampires are not living, only with a dead heart. Vampires generally feel no need to have intercourse, they only do so to keep their own species alive. But when they do, the female is impregnated for five months, and then gives a sacrifice to have the child born. The young vampire crawls out from inside her, giving her almost no chance of surviving it. This is so because the necessary organs for a 'proper' pregnancy do not exist within a vampire."
Shinra opens a drawer, pulls out another small stack of papers and starts reading it.
"A vampire lives in five stages, typically know as Aria. Creation, Convocation, Revelation, Autonomy, Ultimatum. The first, Creation, is when a-"
"Shinra, really, just get to the war. I already know about the Arias."
Shinra raised a brow, as if wanting to say something, but dismissed it.
"I thought you'd learn something, but if you insist." Shinra drops the stack on the top of his desk, and switches to his now booted computer. Izaya just rolls his eyes.
"I think I know enough about my own age."
"Apparently you do. But anyway, this war." A ding sound comes up, most likely a notification for something, and Shinra clicks on it, frowning. After he reads the message, he shakes his head and immediately turns off the device.
"What was that?"
"Just spam."
Izaya could tell he was lying, but he pushed the topic no further. After all, Shinra was doing him a favor right now.
"When the war happened, it was for a weird reason. Angels were getting angry at Spirits and Shapeshifters because they were getting too risky with humans. I'm sure you know, a rule for all supernatural creatures is that they must not expose themselves to the human race. If they do, their species will be executed and extinct by the next morning. I for one only know about supernatural creatures because I have a dishonest relationship with my beautiful Celty~."
It was a ruthless rule, indeed. All it took was one to spill something and all of their own kind was killed. But it was a rule that was needed. They knew how the human life responded to the thought of mythical creatures, they only had to think of Pegasus', Poltergeists, and Reapers.
"The Devil, being a natural enemy on the Angels, got angry at them. It started a natural chain reaction. But that was when these beings found out that Vampires had released information about themselves to the humans. Then the focused was set on them. All the other creatures set out to destroy the Vampires."
"But us Vampires were the dominant species. There were too many of us for them to handle." Izaya cut in.
"Yes. Then, after a few weeks of the Vampires hiding, Animal Morphers were exposed. They were killed off, even though as group, it did more harm than good for the species that were against Vampires. They simply lost numbers and had an even worse chance of defeating Vampires."
"Other races were offed with while the Vampires hid out in this exact forest. The large trees died out the chance of prolonged sunlight and gave a good protection to attack but not be attacked. But while they weren't aware, Werewolves came in and fought them for this forest. They weren't part of the war until then. They had their own reasons why, all in which I'm sure you can assume. While the other species weren't able to scratch Vampires, Werewolves were in a large number also and ran most of the Vampires out of this forest. Where they land now is unknown." Shinra looked at Izaya through his glasses.
"I'm not exactly sure why you were spared."
"I'm sure I was just too amazing for them to kill me!" It was Shinra's turn to roll his eyes.
"Other species have backed down since then. Werewolves also fled away. That's why in all technicality, you are the so called 'ruler' of this forest."
Izaya smirked, then it fell.
"What happened to the Werewolves? Didn't they only fight because they wanted the forest?"
"That's the thing. I've been wanting to ask myself, but I don't think its in my line to do so. So, I must ask of you."
"What are you getting so butthurt over?" Shinra put his elbows on the table and got close to Izaya.
"I know Shizuo knows what happened."
Izaya stared at him with wide eyes.
That dimbo knows about this?
"When I first met him, he was just coming out of the war. He wanted to live as much as a normal life he could by going to school, but he had to vent to me about it before he could completely dismissed it. He didn't tell me the whole story, but now as an adult, I now understand that he knows more about this stor-"
He stopped when Izaya stood up from his chair.
"Izaya?"
"I'm going." He said as he started off from the desk and up the stairs. Shinra ushered after him.
"Wait! I can tell you more about the information!"
"I'd much rather hear from this man himself." He marched up more stairs.
Really. How could he, Orihara Izaya, be out done by him?
He was a Vampire himself, yet he knew less about what happened, and what is still happening, than a man who doesn't even know how to control his powers?
It made him furious to not know.
Izaya burst through the door.
"But Izaya, don't you remember what Shizuo said l-"
Shinra stopped again when he heard keys jingling at his front door.
"Celty!"
He immediately switched to Celty mode as jumped all over her, not giving her a chance to see Izaya.
Izaya looked back over his shoulder and gagged at the sight.
"Bye." He mumbled, knowing he wouldn't be heard, as he stepped out of their house, slamming the door and stomping his way to an unfamiliar path he knew lead to his favorite monster's house.
Shizuo
"Damnit."
Another torch blown out. And I don't have anymore lighters.
Yes, that's partially because of my bad smoking habit, but hey, don't blame me. Life gets hard.
It's always unsettling to go back to the Dealer's Shop. That weird van gang is always there and they are always trying to get weird information out of me.
Especially that girl.
I have to say, out of them all, I think I dislike her the most.
She's always screaming about some 'y' word, hogging around manga, and yelling about how she thinks Izaya and I are flings.
It's annoying.
I don't know what a fling is, but she's not right in the head if she thinks of me and the flea of anything other than enemies.
A heavy breath escapes my mouth.
That's another twenty out of my pocket.
Not to mention I have to actually find my wallet in the dark.
I can't see a lot when I'm in my natural form. At least, not nearly as much as when I'm in my other form.
Yes. I'm twenty three, and I have no idea how to control when I switch and when I don't. Sure, when I see a full moon, its guaranteed that I'll change, but I can't control it when I randomly switch, day or night.
It's been more than once when I've accidentally switched when I was still in school and had to skip my remaining classes.
That's why I try not to go out a whole lot.
Ikebukuro is a wonderful place.
I just can't control my own strength.
I barley go to my job, sometimes going weeks without leave the forest and going into the city.
You'd see why I don't get very much cash.
Poor Tom, my boss.
I'm really surprised he hasn't fired me yet, added with the fact that he doesn't know I'm a Werewolf.
He's just understanding like that.
"Where in the hell is that thing?"
My hands scramble around, looking for my small wallet everywhere.
"Where did I last put it? I was over there..."
*ding dong*
.
.
What?
Who is that?
Shinra and Celty just knock, and no one else lives here...
I walk towards my door. When at arrival, I peak through my peakhole, but the only thing visible is my doormat.
Ding Dong Ditch?
But what kid...?
I decide to open the door anyway.
I crack it open, and peak both ways.
Empty.
I'm confused now.
"What the-"
"Hello Shizu-chan~!"
My head snaps up.
"What the fuck are you doing here?!"
"Now now Shizu-chan, before you get-"
I don't let him finish before I launch a tree at him.
He swiftly moves in the air to avoid it. I hear it land and crash into something far away.
"My my, no explanations?"
"Didn't I fucking warn you last time? Why don't you get a fucking clue?!"
"Well if you must, I had to ask you something." He float to the ground.
"Something my ass! You just came here to fucking annoy me!"
He glanced to the side and back, an uncharacteristic action.
Then he sprints off into a run.
"GET BACK HERE!"
My blood's pumping.
Hey, I warned him. This time when I catch him, I'm for sure snapping his neck.
I barrel through trees keeping a sharp eye on where he is, knowing that if I look away for just one second, he'll slip through the my fingers once again.
But as I run, I start feeling a tingling sensation in my back.
As if something is ripping through.
"... gggghhhh..."
I slow down a bit.
My back huchges as something starts happening to my body. My nails, usually short from me biting them, are now getting longer as I look at them.
'Shit.'
I come to a halt as I realise what's happening. I look up and sure enough, the pale moon is staring back at me clear as day.
Through my eyes, which are getting narrower, I see Izaya turn around.
'Wait... is that even Izaya?'
My brain see Izaya, but is thinking a bit more of another person.
My eyes drag down to the ground, spotting how my legs look fatter in my khaki pants.
..Fur?
"Shizu-chan? Did your brain stop on you? Has your idiotic logic finally made your brain melt?"
He clouds around me saying things that I don't bother to listen to.
Really, what is wrong with me.
Part of me feels like I should shake those thoughts out of my head and get back to murdering the flea. Especially now that my true self is out.
But...
On the other hand, I feel like I have to think more about the logic of my situation.
"Delic, what is the matter?"
I glance up.
A little boy stands tall above me. At the most, he had to be eight. He had bright goldn eyes like the sun and black shiny hair about shoulder length.
"How do you know my name?"
He smiles. "A little birdy told me." His eyes shined as the sun came out from behind the dark clouds.
"As if..."
"Come on, why are you so sad in this alleyway? Anyone can come by and swoop you up you know? Surely your parents have told you about those types of people, right?"
Right, he actually cared.
Not like this guy.
My eyes start to sting
'Then why am I still thinking these thoughts?"
"I don't know where or who my parents are."
His eyes widened.
"That's... I'm sorry for mentioning it."
"No, that's all right." I don't know what this kid is doing here. Why can't he just leave me?
I look down the alley to the street. People rushing by, going here and there.. why? Why can't I find them? A least a hint as to who they are would be enough.
"I..." I look back at him. It seems as if he hinted at my sadness, because he had a sad look on his face.
"I can help."
"Help with what?"
"Is this your newest way of ignoring me and keeping you anger in check? If so.."
I felt him start to poke me. Really? This flea.
More of my features start to come out. I'm surprised Izaya hasn't realised what's happening yet.
"I'll help you find your family."
What a sweet raven.
"You can't help me if I don't even know your name yet."
Another smile.
"Excuse my poor manners." He gets on one knee with an arm to his chest.
"My name is Subarashii Hibiya."
"GODDAMMIT IZAYA!"
He jumps back as soon as he hears me 'come back to life.'
"Back from the dead already Shizu-chan? Too bad, I enjoyed poking you. I was even going to try some of your blood!"
I uproot a tree. "As if I'd let you do that!"
Toss.
"Ah, your right, for once. I'm sure I'd most definitely get some type of deadly disease if I went through with it." Dodge.
Fuck.
"I don't have time for your shit today."
"If that's the case, will you listen to what I have to say finally?"
I glare at him, daring him to continue.
"Shizu-chan, I have yet another beautiful proposal~!"
"Last time you have a fucking idea you went back on it."
"But now, I have a good reason to be able to keep this one. I have some sort of 'punishment' if I don't go through with it this time."
You had a punishment last time, what makes this so different?
Oh wait, I, a coward, didn't follow through when he failed.
His eyes widened as he started to walk backwards. I could feel the end of forest approaching, even though my sight was locked on the flea.
He looked up as if just now figuring it out.
"Oh. What a pain~! You turned into even more of a monster."
I grip my fist. "If anyone's a fucking monster it's you."
"What ever do you mean?" He keeps walking as I growl a bit.
Out of the forest.
"You play sick mind games with everyone from the city that's so called, 'yours', and you laugh at everyone that has problems. I'm my opinion, that makes you a piece of shit!"
He laughs.
"Good thing I didn't ask."
My eyes snap and the transition comes to and end.
I'm in full stage.
Angrier than I've ever been, I let out my first real growl that I've had in a while.
"rrrRRRRRAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHHH!"
I dash towards him.
It was time to end it.
End it all.
All the times he ever messed with me or toyed with me flashed in my eyes and I tackled him full frontal.
He gasped and fell as I started clawing at his body repediatly, anxious to get that cocky smirk off his face.
Too much noise.
It overran every other sound.
Including the sound of incoming groups.
The sound of them was covered by my voice and by the time I heard them, it was too late.
I felt the arrows pierce into my body.
It all happened so fast, but I didn't miss Izaya getting shot also and about four different faces. No way this was a human group.
I tried to stay awake and fight them off, but I wasn't able to get one punch in on any of them before I fell to my knees and blacked out.
A/N
Hope you enjoyed this! I'm really sorry about my almost month long writer's block but I had so much Algebra to do and since that's done I promise you updates sooner!
Izaya: What do you mean "since it's done"?
Shizuo:Yeah, you still have a C- and 6 missing assignments to do.
Dez:...
Hibiya: And didn't you have to do some house cleaning?
Shinra: And update your Wattpad stories?
Dez: Shinra GET OUT! Fine, I'll do it all! Just tell them to review!
Delic: Wait, what's a review?
Dez: Seriously?
Hibiya: We aren't allowed to break the fourth wall.
Dez: GODDAMNIT I'M DONE!
Izaya: Oops, she ran away.
Shizuo: Anyway, don't forget to do that thing she said! :)
.
.
{×}