Chapter 3 "Shadows of Glory"

My stage brings out a new sensation to the public who listens to me. We area new era of music. We keep it rock and yet, give it a hard core edge. Some call us emo, but I consider us different. I call it…shadow's music.

For people who see me out on stage, I'm known as the king of the shadow realm. No, not Yu-Gi-Oh for those fans of the show. I bring about a dreary kind of music, yet still giving it the rock core edge that many fans enjoy in my music. Some call me the next Marlin Mansion, but I don't compare to the likes of him. We call our brand of music "Shadow" because it brings a new uniqueness that only we can understand. Lately, our crowds seem to be falling in numbers. We aren't losing as many as we thought, but we still are losing a good deal of them. It's because of this new band called "Bleeding Roses". We heard that they play well and that they recently acquired a new member, who one is skilled on the keyboard. If that's true, then they will acquire a different taste and that could loose a good chunk of our audience. I will not let this band steal my crowds. For I will rock harder then them.

I should formally introduce my self. My name is Kaito Masume and my band is called "Ever Lasting Darkness". I am a vocalist and a guitarist for our band. I play on the electric guitar, a very fancy and styled guitar. Along with me are two twins who call them selves Leon and Lin. One by an electric guitar and the other plays bass. We often change places when we perform, depending on our songs. Leon and Lin are two interesting pairs of twins and they often refer to them selves as the devils sin, one specially created to destroy out all others. I could care less about that. We also have our lovely drummer Yuri Kasumi. This lovely lady is known for her hard beats that get the crowd pumped up before any one else even plays. She loves the darkness just as I do and follows it, living her days in ever lasting darkness. Finally, we have our new comer. He is a special keyboard player; he makes the mood unique and gives us our new and creative edge. He goes by the name of Yura, just Yura. He doesn't speak much and so, he let him be in his own little shadow world. This is what makes up the band "Ever Lasting Darkness"

"Yo Kaito!," Lin and Leon said as they chilled on the couch next to each other. "When are we going to perform! I hate waiting here in this little piss of shit!"

"Chill you two," Yumi said as she began applying on make up. "We will start soon enough. After all, some of us still need time to get ready,"

"Yeah yeah. Your just an ugly old hag!"

"Shut up you two! For your information, I'm the exact same age as you, but I happen to look a little older than I should. It's called having that natural genetic you know,"

"Still, it doesn't matter. We will play when instructed to play you two,"

"Hey Kaito –kun," Leon said as he came up closer to me, looking down at my little black book. "What's you doing in that book again?"

"I've you told you many of times over and over, I have stuff that I do for school. I manage a school club and handle everything that needs to be handled. Now do you mine?"

"Pfft, whatever! School clubs are for losers!"

"Yeah like lame and retarded losers!" Lin said as he high five his older and more idiotic brother.

"Yo "ELD"! You're on!" The stage manner clearly pointed out.

"Finally! Now we can leave this piece of shit!" The two twins said happily.

At last we came to the stage where smog covered us in all direction. Purple and white lights danced around us and fire works slowly rose around the stage. Yuri began to hit the drums, starting up our shock waves while Leon and Lin followed up, matching their beats to each other. Yura slowly started the depressing mood of the song with his keyboard and then I sang. My words, so true and unique. These words flew across the stage and made the people out there dance like mad. Insanity rose and continued to rise, spreading along the Tokyo area. When the music stopped, the fans cheered. It was music to my ears. At last I gave the introductory speech and let the fans scream in happiness.

"Hmm, perfect isn't? This is something that idiot back home can't do. He can't create a crowd such as this. They scream for me, love me and envoy me. This is something the "other" me wouldn't be able to do since know one seems to love…the other me,"

"Well my pleasing fans, shall we begin with another song?"

The fans continued to scream in pleasure and I slowly turned towards Yuri, giving her the que to begin our "hypnotic" song. This is the song that maintains our fans, its gives us the power to dine on there blood…after the concert is over. Once the song was over, the audience stopped cheering and it came us the time to dive into the crowd and take what we could take before the effects wore off.

"Hey! This is my girl to drink!" Lin complained as he pulled a brunette girl away from Leon.

"Pfft, no! This gal is mine! Her blood smells so sweet! I must have her!"

"Enough you two! There are plenty to choose from. Just hurry up and get your fill before the effects wore off. After all, in the morning we will return to our true selves, the selves that keep fighting to take over at this time of night. You don't to go back to your homo sexual selves…now do you…Hikaru…Kaoru?"

"No way! We hate those two!" Lin and Leon said at once.

"Good. Now be good puppets and go get what you can. Yuri…or should I say Hunny-Senpai, how is your blood collecting going?"

"Hmm, seems to be fine. I love dicing into these sour and spicy men. Sweets, they do nothing but give these horrible body cavities! Day after day, this kid dines on nothing but cake! Well, it seems this kid can't stand the flavors of spicy blood! That blood that feeds my senses. Hehe, it's perfect for me!"

"Excellent and how is our newest blood sucker doing? I do believe his other name is Mori…is it not?"

"Hmm, quite as usual, but then again he was always quite before we transformed. He seems to eat fast and quickly, so he seems full already, but what I can tell. There aren't as many humans to feed on tonight now is there?"

"No, it seems our fan support has dropped some. The newest band, it was a garage band that got its luck on stage. Now because of its popularity, it seems to drag in new audiences, stealing the ones we have. Our charms can only hold onto them for so long and it seems their music is the cure to ours. We can only do so much to keep our fans. I'll convince my other self to try and attract the fans that he has in the club. That's all I can do. Maybe my other self will use the idiot to his full needs,"

"Hmm, that idiot. Clueless isn't he?"

"Indeed,"

After our nightly feeding, we went back on stage and our fans woke up, cheering happily again. We performed for the rest of the night, playing more and more songs and then around one in the morning, ended our concert with yet another charm to keep them locked in our spell. We got off on stage and went to our lovely resting area and chilled on some fine blood aka the fans that come to see us after the concert and like usual, gave them the fin kiss they've been waiting for.

"Well then, this was a fine night now wasn't it?"

"Heck yes!" Lin and Leon exclaimed in delight.

"Although Kaito-kun, do you plan on bringing in more blood suckers to our group? Wouldn't Haruhi be a fine member?"

"Yes, she would, but she can't sing with a darn. Though her appearance may draw in some, if she lacks talent, then she is of no use to us. As for more, we will try and use the manager maybe next. I always wondered what she would be like if she wasn't an otaku,"

"Yes, that would be interesting in deed. Do you think Master Nekozawa would make for a lovely addition…Kyouya?"

"Please don't call me by that awful name! It lacks failure!"

"Sorry Kaito,"

"It's fine and as for him, we might use him later. Now is too early. If I'm right, we can use his magic to increase our gifts and the night of an eclipse would be better, that's when we will be at full power and on that night, we gather a large number of followers. For now, return to your normal selves and go home. We shall see each other in the morning,"

The next day: The Third Music Room

"God, that guy. I hate it when he takes over. If that day never happened, I wouldn't have become that monster,"

~Flash Back~

"Kyouya!" the twins said, complaining yet again. "Why are we here!"

"Isn't it obvious? We came here to look for a gift for Tamaki. His birthday will be coming up shortly. It's apart of the club policy, to get gifts for any member when its there birthday. Just wait a little longer; the music store should be around the corner,"

"Why couldn't Haru-Chan come?" Hunny said as he made a big yawn.

"Apparently Haruhi had errands to do and as you know Hunny, Mori had a scheduled fight, so he couldn't show up, which is fine and Tamaki, well, we know why he can't come,"

"Haruhi is just using an excuse so she can't come shopping with us. We know she doesn't like us,"

"Beside the point, we must respect each member. Any ways-"

I remember looking at the shop window only to see a guitar, a special one at that. Pure black with blood red wings on the guitar. The wings were spikey, made for a rocker look. It wasn't round like the other guitars there either, but pointed and sleek. I remember it having a strange glow and the rest became all fuzzy.

~That night~

Some how that night I had the guitar I saw in the window. The other members of the host club, other than Haruhi and Mori were at my place, setting up for Suoh's party the next day. We had bough new sheet music for him and a keyboard, a special kind in case he wanted to try a new edge on life. As Hunny finished up rapping it, the guitar beside me glowed and it kept glowing. The others turned to see it and around ten pm, he took over and became me. All I heard were the voices, no one else spoke that knew spoke. They talked about having taken on new forms. Liking our appearance, enjoying them. Then they mentioned leaving that night and starting off for a reunion or something close to that and the next morning, I remember waking up with blood on my lip and it tasted fowl.

"Kyouya, you doing alright?" The twins asked me, giving me a worried expression.

"I'm fine you two. I have things on my mind as you are aware of. Did you two do alright?"

"The same as usual," Hikaru said, stretching.

"We tried to fight them off," Kaoru stated.

"But in the end they took over and called us Homo Sexual Asses! Stating how we only love each other and not the sanity that they bring us. There mean!"

"Yes, I can understand. Kaito isn't the most pleasurable thing in the world. Oh, there's Hunny,"

Hunny walked over tired with bags under his eyes…or maybe that would be the make up that Yuri talked about having on. Either way, he looked out of it as we did.

"Morning Kyo-Chan. I didn't do well. Yuri-Chan took over and called me a pathetic little weakling with not life what so ever. I hate being her! She can't say anything nice and has me wearing disgusting outfits too adult contented to even talk about,"

"I know Hunny, but you need to keep fighting it. It's all we can do. Did Mori say anything to you at all?"

"Yeah. He told me Yura-Chan took over, even though he tired to fight him off. Apparently Yura-Chan used Takeshi's inner fears to take over. That's what he's been doing,"

"Poor Mori," Hikaru said as he looked over at Mori who just sat against the window sill.

"Look, as long as we are us by day, we should be able to discuss this without "them" intruding our minds. As for now, we need to remain our selves and do what's best for this club. Tamaki expects us to live our days well, so let's do the best for him and Haruhi's sake,"

"Kyouya! I have news to tell you!" Tamaki said as he raced towards me, happily jumping into my arms.

"Well hello Master Tamaki," I said as I dropped him to the cold hard floor.

"Oow! Why are you so mean?"

"Because I feel like it. Now, what is this important news you have to tell me?"

"Well, I went to see Akira Yukimaru in person at his home. I forgot how completely he changed. At first I didn't recognize him, but then we went to talking, we remembered each other from school back when I lived in France! His family had moved there for a small amount of time due to his father's job. Any way, he got talking and now I'm the newest member of "Bleeding Roses"! Isn't that exciting!"

"Newest…member?"

"Well well Kyouya, it seems you did well. That idiot is clearly the newest member of our new enemy. What luck. It seems we need to bring him to our side…don't you think?"

"Leave my friend alone Kaito! I won't have you hurt any one else!"

"Come now Kyouya. You will be doing us a favor. His talents should do us well if he's on our side. In fact, Yuri-Chan will rid him of his idiocy. Wouldn't that be nice?"

"I said leave him alone! Get out of my head!"

"Hmm, I'll be back soon enough. For now, convince the others to see our band, would you please? Thank you…Kyouya,"

"Kyouya, are you alright?"

"I'm fine Tamaki and I'm glad you're doing something outside the school. I take it that you'll need to be excused for any trips you and this band might go on, so I'll have those days, weeks or months closed off as far as the club,"

"Oh! Thank you Kyouya! You won't regret this!"

"Calm down Tamaki. I just have something to tell you, whatever you do, be careful. There will be people coming for you and when they do, just fight for you life,"

"Kyouya- Thank you,"

"By the way, where is Haruhi?"

"She…is sick and is at home currently resting. She got the flu last night,"

"Hmm…I see,"

Point of View~ Haruhi

Thank you senpai for covering for me. After all, the band has some photo shooting needing to be done today. It looks as if the life of Akira is not an easy one and I didn't plan on it. Well, this life…is one I pleasure the most and I'm glad…you're sharing it with me.

"Akira," a young said as she walked into the changing room.

"Hmm, oh, what is it?"

"We need you to change out of those clothes quickly. They want to do some half naked shots of you,"

"Ok-wait! Naked!"

Now I think my life went to hell and back…..

To be continued…..

Well, actually I didn't know what the third chapter would be about. I didn't want to break into the plot just yet, but I'm glad I did this the way it came out. Although I wasn't going for the whole fantasy, sci-fi stuff, but it turns out I did any way. So now we have evil vampire rockers taking over the lives of Hikaru, Kaoru, Hunny, Mori and Kyouya. Tell me what you think and review like always.