Title: Scarlet Tears
Genre: romance, horror, mild angst
Rating: M for language, lemon, and violence
Pairing: JohanXJudai
Summary: Johan, a vampire prince who is at Duel Academy, is forced to go back to his home after drinking the blood of Judai Yuki, his best friend. But he takes Judai with him, asking Judai to become his precious mate. But there's one vampire who wants Judai just as much as Johan does. Can Johan protect his angel from any harm?
Me: The next chapter is up!
Lucy: Judai meets the other vampire nobles, as well as the king and queen, and someone else...
Me: But whom!?
Lucy: Read on to find out!
Chapter Four: Amber Orange
A while after the ship landed at the docks to the vampire's main lands, the five important people (the nobles and Judai) on the boat gathered their things.
Johan had already packed his stuff up when he awoke, and Judai was grabbing things from left and right, shoving them into his bag that he had packed to bring with him.
He turned to Johan and smiled.
"So, where do we go now?" he asked the brunette.
"Well, I have to talk to Lord Karbelnikoff about what we're doing, so why don't you just go down to the shore where Jim and O'Brien are, and I'll meet you there when I am done?" Johan asked.
"Okay," Judai grinned.
Johan placed a quick kiss on his lips before turning and heading off to find Augustine. Judai turned to get packed again, humming a little tune to himself happily.
Suddenly, a hand came from behind him and clapped around his mouth.
Judai gasped and struggled as the hand moved hard over his lips, trying to keep him from speaking. He shouted out words that were muffled and not heard, and another arm wrapped around his body, bringing him backwards.
"Shh! Shut up, Slacker!"
"Hm?!" Judai glanced over with wide eyes, spotting an all too familiar face with bright black eyes, spiked black hair that stuck in all directions, and he was dressed in black.
"M-Manjoume?!" Judai managed to shriek through the hand covering his mouth.
"Shh!" Manjoume shushed him. "Now, I don't know why you are here Slacker, but what ever you do, do not tell Andersen or any of the other nobles that you saw me, 'kay?"
"Why?" Judai asked again softly.
"Just don't! It doesn't involve you... Not yet anyway," Manjoume said.
He snapped his hand away from Judai's mouth quickly, and then turned and leaped from the window of the bedroom, out into the open ocean. Judai heard a splash behind the boat, but when he looked out, he couldn't see Manjoume.
Judai quickly put his suspicions behind, and chose to obey Manjoume's wishes and not tell anyone what he had seen.
Going on about his business, he grabbed his stuff and headed for the docks.
He went down the docks and to the shores, where Jim and O'Brien were waiting for him. Judai couldn't see Augustine or Johan, so he imagined that they were still talking about what they were going to do.
"Hey, Judai! Where were you?" Jim called.
"Oh, I lost something in the room!" Judai called back, feeling bad that he was lying to his friends.
Jim nodded and went back to talking to O'Brien. Both of them didn't seem to excited about being back in their home territory, or if they were, they were really good at hiding it.
Jim nodded and turned as Johan and Augustine came from the boat, both looking rather upset and on edge.
Johan's eyes were darting in all directions, as if trying to locate someone or something.
"You all right, Johan?" Judai asked.
Johan flashed him a big grin. "Yeah, nothing's bothering me, Judai. No need to worry about anything," he told his santa vampiria. Judai, though still not believing Johan, nodded once.
The vampires and Judai stood on the beaches for a long time, and Judai was about to ask what they were waiting for when a loud shrill squeal shattered his ears.
"Johan! You're home!!"
Judai glanced over and spotted a young woman who looked very similar to Johan, only with longer hair, dashing towards him. She looked in everything like a queen would.
She was dressed in royal clothing, which she held in her hands to keep from tripping over it while she dashed towards Johan. Her eyes, the same color as Johan's, were a blaze with happiness.
Johan raised a hand and laughed nervously.
"Hello, Mom," he said.
"I told you, Johan, don't call me Mom! I'm either Mommy or Mother, okay?" the queen, Johan's mother, said, latching onto her son with a wide grin, squeezing him close. "Oh, I missed you so much!!" she squealed.
"T-that's great, Mom," Johan said.
"It's Mommy, dear!" the queen grinned.
"Okay, Mother," Johan said with a smile. The queen whined at that, but let it go, and then turned towards Judai after she stopped squeezing the life out of poor Johan.
Her eyes lit up again.
"Ooh, and who is this handsome young man, eh?" she asked.
Augustine Karbelnikoff piped in for the first time in the whole conversation by emitting a loud cough into his closed fist, which got the queen's attention right quick.
"This young man, My Lady, is your son's santa vampiria," he said with a growl.
The queen glanced down to Judai with a shocked look. Judai flinched, afraid that the queen was going to be as rude as Augustine was with him. But she did quite the opposite.
"So cute!" she squealed, latching onto Judai and squeezing him hard.
"Eh?! B-but, My Lady!!" Augustine shouted.
"Oh, he's so cute, Johan! How did you ever find such a cute person amongst those humans, huh? Oh, and he's a boy, too! Oh, boyXboy couples are just soooo cute, don't you think?" the queen squealed, squeezing Judai closer with each word.
Johan dashed up and grabbed Judai by the shoulders and yanked him backwards, out of his mother's embrace.
"Mom, remember, he is only human! Don't go squeezing him like that. You'll kill him," the bluenette told his mother sternly. The queen pouted and folded her arms across her chest.
"Fine. And it's Mommy, dear," she said with a grin.
"This is unacceptable!!" Augustine roared angrily, throwing his fists into the air. Jim, who had been silent for most of the time, snapped a glare in the noble's direction.
"Oh, pop a cork in it, Lord Karbelnikoff," he told him.
Augustine glared at Jim. "Listen here, young master Cook, I respect you because you are a soon-to-be noble, just like Master O'Brien and Master Andersen, but I will not be disrespected by you. What would your parents say if they knew you treated a true noble like this?" he asked.
"I'd say they wouldn't mind too much," Jim answered.
"And why not?!" Augustine snapped.
Instead of answering, Jim pointed towards the direction of the village. Augustine glanced over and gasped when he saw a few vampires dressed in royal clothing coming towards them.
The one leading the group looked almost exactly like Johan, only his face was more mature, and his eyes were narrowed, giving off a stern and warning look. His hair was the same style, but a darker teal and had gray streaks in some areas. He was taller and slightly more muscular than Johan was, and he was dressed from head to toe in black Renaissance tyle clothing.
Behind him came two nobles who looked exactly like Jim, only one was a female, and neither of them had bandages over their teal eyes. They were both dressed in very wealthy noble clothing.
Finally, two other people with dark skin followed after them, both looking as stern and as mysterious as their son. They were both dressed in fairly casual clothing, not as flashy or as wealthy looking as the first three people, but they did hold very high respect and power, just chose not to dress as such.
The queen squealed and ran towards the man leading them.
"Joshua, darling!! Come and meet Johan's santa vampiria!!" she shouted to him, latching onto his arm. Joshua glanced down at his wife and sighed running his hand through her hair.
"Andrea, dear, haven't I told you not to go parading around like a three year old? It does a queen no good if her subjects see her behaving in such a manor," the taler bluenette told her.
Andrea, the queen, pouted at him.
"But my innocence is what makes me cute, darling! Now come on!!" she said, tugging the king towards where Judai and Johan were waiting. She pushed Joshua forward until he came near Judai.
Judai gulped a little at the man's intimidating green eyes.
It was as if they were staring right through his soul, searching through every thought, memory, and anything else that seeped into his little soul, trying to learn his secrets.
"Johan," Joshua snapped suddenly.
Judai visibly saw Johan tense up, back straightening, head staying perfectly still, not even blinking, and all of the other nobles fell into an ill silence, waiting for the yelling to begin.
"Y-yes, Father?" Johan asked.
"May I speak to you for a moment?" Joshua said, none to calmly, either.
Johan carefully made his way towards his father, taking his time with it. He took several minuted to get right towards his father, and he shuddered while staring up at him.
Joshua reached down towards Johan, raising his hand up into the air.
Judai's eyes widened when he saw Joshua raise his hand. 'Is he going to hurt Johan!?' he thought in horror.
Instead of hurting Johan instantly, Joshua placed his hand on Johan's head, intertwining it in his hair. His other arm went around Johan's collar area, and he drew Johan into a backwards embrace.
Suddenly, Joshua flashed a bright grin and started messing his son's hair up.
"So, Johan, you went and found yourself a mate while you were away? Good show, my boy! And way to pick him out! He's so cute and adorable, it should be illegal!!" the vampire king shouted with laughter.
The nobles and Andrea released a loud sigh of relief, all savor Augustine, who merely gaped.
"Dad! You're hurting me!" Johan called, though he was laughing.
Judai sighed as Joshua stopped his "torture" of the young bluenette vampire and placed him down on the ground, still messing up his hair a few more seconds before he stopped.
Joshua turned to Judai and bowed slightly.
"We vampires are honored to meet the santa vampiria of our future king. Welcome to our humble lands," he told the brunette. Judai smiled softly and bowed to the king. "Please do not bow, my dear boy! You're family now!"
Judai laughed nervously, and nodded. "All right, Your Highness," he said.
"Oh, please!" Joshua said. "Call me Joshua, all right?"
"O-okay," Judai said. Joshua turned towards the Cooks, who were hugging and chatting with Jim. Joshua pointed to the two nobles, simply nodding towards them.
"Those are Sarafina and Jackson Cook," he said.
Joshua then pointed over to O'Brien and his parents, who were just talking to him, neither of them holding hands or even touching one another at all, as if they didn't want physical contact.
"And those are Andine and Axel O'Brien," he told Judai.
While Joshua chatted on about the nobles, Judai glanced up and spotted a towering building with bright stainglass windows. It towered high above him, and Judai could see somthing shocking in the window.
It was a young woman with long brown hair that fell to her wait, and her face was nice and mature, a lovely young woman. Her eyes were a beautiful brown, and she was dressed in royal red garments. She locked eyes with Judai and with a big grin, suddenly vanished in a blink of an eye, gone into the large building.
"Judai?"
Judai glanced over and locked eyes with Johan. "Yes, Johan?"
"Are you all right?"
"Y-yeah, of course I am. Why wouldn't I be?" he asked with a small laugh, rubbing the back of his head nervously.
Forgetting all about his suspicions about the stange woman who had appeared in the church, as Judai learned it was, he followed Johan and the rest of the nobles to a giant castle in the distance.
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"THAT'S YOUR HOUSE!?"
Johan sighed and shook his head as he walked into the castle, leaving his shocked boyfriend to stare up at the castle as if it were an alien space ship that had just landed.
"Judai, try not to freak out about every big building you see. As the santa vampira, you'll be seeing a lot more big buildings," Jim chuckled, ushering Judai in behind Johan.
Johan turned and took Judai's wrist in his hand.
"Look, Judai, don't go wandering off on your own. Not everyone knows that you are my santa vampiria and might try to make a meal out of you, so stay close, okay?" Johan asked.
"Oh, come on, Johan!" Judai grinned. "There is no way I'd be eaten by vampires!"
"Judai!" Johan snapped. Judai stared up and saw that Johan was serious. "These vampires are not like me and the nobles. They will not see you as a guest or as the santa vampiria. They will see you as food."
Judai gulped. Johan grinned and took his hand in his own.
"Lemme show you to my room," he said, dragging the brunette up towards the top of the huge castle.
They dashed up and down long medieval corridors, managing to get to a giant door that was the same height as a classroom. Judai stared the door and pointed to it, mouth agape.
"Yup, that's my bedroom," Johan said with a chuckle. He opened his door slowly and then carefully showed Judai into the giant master bedroom that Johan owned.
Judai glanced around and saw that Johan's bedroom was huge, with black curtains on the giant windows, a library that circled around the ceiling, and a huge bed with a canopy cover in the back, the ground covered in red carpet.
"Whoa..." Judai breathed.
"Well, hey, I am a vampire prince. I get to live in style," Johan said, smirking at Judai in a cute way. Judai laughed a little and shook his head, hugging the bluenette vampire tightly.
Johan drew back carefully.
"Oh, we'd better get changed. Dinner's gonna be starting soon," he said, pointing to the giant wardrobe in the back of his room.
"Dinner?" Judai asked.
"Yeah, the welcoming dinner," Johan said. "The vampire nobles want to get to know who my santa vampiria is, and Mother and Father thought it would be a good way to get to welcome Jim, O'Brien, and I back."
"Ah," Judai guloed and glanced down at the ground. "So, what's for dinner? Blood? Should I cover my neck or leave it exposed for all of the world to see, huh?" he asked, trying to joke, though he was partially serious.
Johan stared at Judai. "Judai... I would never let you get hurt," Johan breathed, kissing Judai's neck softly. Judai moaned a little and looked at Johan with lusty eyes.
"Johan... we have to get to dinner," he whispered.
"Right," Johan breathed, backing up and nodding to Judai.
They then took each other's hands, locked eyes with one another for what seemed like an eternity, and went through their outfits that they might wear to the dinner is a few moments.
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Me: Okay! So, we know that Manjoume is in the vampire main lands, but the only question is why, and why doesn't he want Johan to know that he is there?
Lucy: Well, the next chapter might bring some of those answers!
Me: All right, we shall update as soon as we are able to, everyone, so please get ready for it!
Lucy: Please review, everyone!