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Ch.8

The following night, Roxas, Axel, and Mira woke up and headed towards the clock tower. When they got there, they looked around, no one was around. "Are you sure Xion is here?" Axel asked Roxas.

Roxas nodded, "Yeah, she must be up on the top of the clock tower. Let's head up." Roxas said as he headed towards the staircase leading up to the top of the tower. Mira and Axel followed behind as they walked up the stairs.

When Roxas opened the door at the top of the stairs, he heard Xion's voice, "Roxas, you came." All three entered out of the door to see Xion sitting down, holding a small white bag. Xion stood up as Roxas walked over to her and gave her a hug. "I have the ice cream." Xion held up the white bag.

"Thank you Xion." Roxas smiled. He then turned and looked at Mira and Axel, "Xion, you remember Axel of course, but this is our new friend Mira."

Mira smiled politely and waved, "Nice to meet you."

Xion smiled, "Same here. And good to see you again Axel." Axel just nodded as Xion handed Roxas, Axel, and Mira an ice cream bar. All four down sat down, Roxas and Xion sat next to each other.

"What kind of ice cream is this?" Mira asked looking at it.

"It's sea salt ice cream, got it memorized?" Axel said as he pointed to his forehead.

Mira laughed before taking a bite of her ice cream, he eyes widen with amazement, "This taste so wonderful. It tastes salty but it also tastes sweet. It has such a strong flavor."

The other three chuckled, "Roxas, Xion, and I have come up here a lot to enjoy this ice cream. It kind of became a regular thing we would do every weekend." Axel said as he took a bite of his ice cream. He sighed happily. "Ah, it still tastes the same."

Roxas and Xion ate their ice cream in silence, but they kept looking into each other's eyes. Mira continued eat her ice cream and looked at the nighttime sky. "It's so beautiful from up here. Such a wonderful view."

"You can join us for the next time Mira." Axel said. "All four of us can enjoy eating ice cream together."

"Thank you Axel." Mira said as she finished up her ice cream. After she finished eating, she scooted a little closer to Axel and lean against his chest.

Axel turned his head the other way, his cheeks slightly red, "Mira...uh what are you doing?"

Mira smiled, "Just resting my head, you aren't going to act shy, are you?"

"Um…No." Axel responded. He could hear Roxas and Xion chuckling quietly. Axel slowly moved his arm around Mira. He saw that Mira's cheeks were slightly red, but she was smiling.

After everyone finished their ice cream Roxas looked at Axel and Mira, "Hey, do you think you guys could go and wait for us downstairs? Xion and I have something to talk about."

Mira and Axel nodded as they stood up and headed towards the staircase. After they closed the door Xion threw her arms around Roxas, "So you have made up your mind?"

"Yes I have." Roxas said, "Xion, I love you so much. I wouldn't want to love anyone else. I want to live with you forever."

Xion's eyes watered as she hugged him and smiled, "Thank you Roxas."

"You're welcome." Roxas said as he smiled back. "Ok, so this might hurt a little." Roxas said as he took a few deep breaths before biting into Xion's neck. Xion gasped but still held onto Roxas. Soon her grip became looser and looser, until she completely passed out. Roxas held her in his arms, waiting for her to wake up. After several minutes had passed Xion began to move, and then her eyes shot open. Blood red as all the others.

Xion looked up at Roxas, "Did it work? Am I a vampire now?" She asked quietly. Roxas didn't say anything but he slowly nodded. Xion sat up and kissed Roxas.

The two then stood up and headed downstairs to meet up with Axel and Mira. When they exited the clock tower, they saw Axel and Mira waiting for them. "I see that you've chosen to turn Xion into a vampire. We should bring her to the forest to get some blood for tonight." Mira said as she turned and headed to the forest.

All the others followed behind Mira. During the walk everyone stayed silent, no one spoke a word. When they got to the forest Mira spoke up again, "Ok, Roxas do you think you can manage showing Xion how to get blood?" Mira looked at Roxas who nodded in response. "Axel and I will wait here for you guys."

Roxas took Xion's hand and walked off into the forest, leaving Axel and Mira behind. "So," Axel said as he scratched the back of his head, "What do we do while we wait for them?"

Mira stood a little closer to Axel, "I was thinking we could sit down and look at the sky some more." As she spoke her cheeks turned slightly red again.

"Now who's the one acting shy?" Axel smirked as he crossed his arms.

Mira laughed and place a hand on Axel's shoulder, "At least I am not denying it." She said as Axel turned his head the other way. Axel couldn't help it though, he knew he was falling in love with Mira, but he couldn't help acting shy.

Then a cry was heard coming from the forest, Roxas and Xion came running out, panting heavily. "What happened?!" Axel asked.

Before either could answer, an arrow shot past them and hit one of the trees behind them. Mira's eyes widened, "It's the Vampire Hunters! Run!" She pushed Axel to get him to start running, and Roxas and Xion ran ahead of Axel and Mira.

As they were running Mira cried out and stumbled to the ground, Axel turned around to see a arrow had struck Mira in her lower left leg. "Mira!" Axel shouted as he tried to run over to her but she held up her hand.

"Just go! If you try and help me they will capture both of us. Don't try and help, just run!" Mira shouted at Axel.

Axel took a few steps back, he didn't want to leave Mira alone but he didn't want to argue with her. He nodded and took off running, not looking back. Axel made it back to the entrance, where Roxas and Xion were waiting.

"Axel, where's Mira? What happened back there?" Roxas asked.

Axel just shook his head and avoided the question, "Let's just head inside."

As they walked Roxas said that he would stay with Xion in the jailcell area until she finally adjusts to being a vampire. Axel went on and walked through Otieno's throne room. Axel stopped and looked at throne. He sighed with relief that Otieno wasn't in the room at the moment, he didn't want to have to deal with explaining what had happened to Mira. Though he knew he would have to say something at some point. He thought it over for a moment and then he came up with an idea, he would try and go save Mira. He knew it was a stupid idea, but he didn't know what the Vampire Hunters would do to Mira. He knew he had to save her.

Mira turned her head and moaned. The last thing she remembered was telling Axel to run, and then everything slowly faded to black after that. Opening her eyes she tried to get a good look at where she was. She saw pieces of building around her, and everything looked very dusty. Mira quickly realized where she was, she was in the old mansion.

She tried to get up but her hands and feet were tied up, she couldn't move. Mira looked up to see that she was facing the staircase inside the mansion. Standing at the top of the stairs were the five Vampire Hunters. They all were wearing their black cloaks, and they all had their hoods down, so Mira could see their faces. They all looked down at her, watching her carefully.

"It's about time that you woke up." The guy with metallic blue hair said in a cold voice. He took one step forward, so he was standing in front of the others.

"How did...what did…" Mira said trying to figure out what words to say.

"That arrow that struck your leg, the tip of the arrow had a sleeping poison on it. You passed out and we brought you here." He responded.

"What do you want with me?" Mira asked, keeping her voice steady.

"What do you think?" He scoffed as he crossed his arms. "You're a vampire, and we want to kill you, but we need to find out where all your friends are hiding."

"I'm not going to tell!" Mira shouted.

"Then we will make you suffer until you are forced to tell." The one with 'x' scar said. He spoke in a bland monotone voice.

"I will not tell you guys anything. How about this, tells me your names." Mira said as she stared at the group.

"You will tell us soon enough, but we will be nice enough to tell you. I'm Saix." The guy with the 'x' scar said, he then gestured to the brown haired man to the right of him, "This is Leon." He then pointed to his left, where the man with the eye patch stood, "This is Xigbar. And this…" He pointed to the blond standing behind him, "Is Demyx."

"And I am Zexion. I am the leader of the Vampire Hunters group." Said the blue haired guy, now known as Zexion. "Now, tell us where your friends are!" He shouted. "I am going to get impatient."

"I am not going to ever tell you!" Mira shouted back.

Zexion glared at her, "Your kind should be destroyed, your all monsters!"

"That's not true!" Mira shouted.

Then at that moment the front doors to the mansion burst open. Axel was standing in the middle of the doorway, with his hands on his knees. He bent over slightly as he caught his breath. He stood up but looked at the ground, he didn't want to look up, he didn't want Zexion or Saix to see his eyes and find out that he was a vampire.

There was a moment of silence before anyone spoke. The one that spoke was Zexion, "Axel? Is that you?"

"Yeah." Axel said calmly.

"What are you doing here? How did you know we were here?" Saix asked.

"I'm here to save Mira from you guys." Axel responded.

"Why would you want to save her? Do you even know what she is? She's a vampire, she's a monster." Zexion said as he made a fist with his hand.

Axel shook his head, "I know she is a vampire, but she is not monster." Axel looked over at Mira who smiled at him. Axel then raised his head and looked at the Vampire Hunters. "Don't you ever say that about her."

Zexion and Saix's eye's widen, the other Vampire Hunters seemed surprised but not as much as Axel's old college friends. Zexion quickly regained from the surprise, "Axel, since when have you been a vampire?"

"Only for a few days." Axel said.

Zexion looked at Axel, "I don't know if we can believe that. You're a vampire, and that means you are our enemy."

Axel sighed and didn't answer, instead he walked over to Mira and untied her and helped her up. He held her in his arms and leaned towards her and whispered, "Let's get out of here. We will run as fast as we can, they won't be able catch up to us."

"Don't act so cowardly." Zexion said as he crossed his arms, "You're both vampires, you are savage monsters that kill humans. That's why we need to destroy you."

Mira turned around as Axel let go of her. She took a few steps towards the staircase. "We are not savage, you are wrong." She said as she spoke in a calm voice.

"Then why do we hear these stories about vampires killing humans? Why have there been reports of dead humans with all their blood drained? Can you answer that?!" Zexion shouted angrily.

"Yes I can. There are two kinds of vampires, ones who are in control of their senses and those who are not. The ones who have lost their senses are the ones you hear about, Axel and I are not those vampires. We don't go around drinking blood from humans...but if we did, we wouldn't take all of human's blood, we would spare them." Mira explained as she looked down at the ground.

"Is that so?" Zexion said as he formed a smirk across his face, "Then prove it. If you can supposedly not take all of a human's blood then show me. Take my blood, but spare me. Show me you are not a savage monster."

Mira didn't look up but Axel could see a small smile on her face. "Mira…" He said, trying to think of something to say, but he couldn't think of anything.

Zexion slowly walked down the stairs, until he stood in front of Mira, "If you end up sparing me, I will let you and Axel go for now. But if you kill me, the other Vampire Hunters will kill both of you."

Mira looked up and nodded, "Fine then, but you will make your men wait for ten minutes after I drain some of your blood. You will pass out for a short bit of course."

Zexion lowered his eyebrows, "I see…" He turned around to face his men, "You heard her, you will wait ten minutes. If she ends up killing me, do whatever you can to destroy her."

The Vampire Hunters nodded as Zexion turned back to face Mira. Without saying another word, Mira place her hands on his shoulders. She leaned in and quickly bite into his neck before he could have any possible thoughts about changing his mind. Zexion gasped but soon he closed his eyes and his body went limp.

Mira placed him on the ground and stared at the Vampire Hunters, "Now we wait ten minutes. If he doesn't wake up in ten minutes...then… You can kill me."

"Mira, what are you saying?" Axel said as he walked over to Mira. He looked at her and he saw the smile was still on her face.

Everyone waited in silence, and after about eight minutes Zexion started to move. All the Vampire Hunters stared in surprise. That was when Mira started to chuckle. "What is so funny?" Saix asked.

Mira still chuckled as she looked at Saix, "I guess you guys don't know then."

"Know what?" Saix asked.

"When a vampire doesn't drain all of a human's blood...that's what turns a human into a vampire." Mira said with a smile.

The Vampire Hunters gasped in shock as Zexion quickly sat up. He was breathing quickly and his eyes were blood red. Before Zexion could say or do anything, Mira wrapped one arm around Zexion. "Well, I think we better be going now." Mira hit Zexion on his head, knocking him out. Mira picked up Zexion and looked at Axel, "Run!" Mira said before running towards the door. She used her vampire speed to run out before Axel could say anything.

Before Axel ran he looked at Saix, who was still standing at the top of the stairs with the other hunters. Saix looked at him angrily, he was no longer Axel's friend. Axel sighed and then took off running out of the old mansion. He ran all the way back to the entrance to the Vampire Underground. Axel headed down the staircase, and he saw Mira laying Zexion down in the first cell to his right.

"Mira?" Axel asked.

Mira turned around, her smile was gone. She looked down at the ground, "Axel… I'm sorry. It's just… that one moment… It felt like a opportunity… and I…" She trailed off.

Axel walked up to Mira and put his arms around her, "Hey, it's ok. Don't be upset with yourself. You didn't kill him."

"But… I brought a Vampire Hunter to the Vampire Underground…And not just any Vampire Hunter, he's the leader of the group." Mira said. Her eyes then filled with worry, "Oh what am I going to tell Otieno? I don't think he will like to hear this…"

"It will be ok Mira." Axel said, trying to cheer her up.

Mira smiled before Axel let go of her and both of them walked out of the cell, she closed the cell door and locked it. "I guess you should wait here then. You can talk to him when he wakes up. I'm going to talk to Otieno." She then walked off down the hallway and entered the door that lead to Otieno's throne room.

After a few seconds Zexion started to wake up, he sat up and put his hands on his head. He moaned slightly before turning to see Axel. As soon as he saw him he stood up and ran up to the bars. "Axel!" He shouted. "What happened?! What did she do?!"

"That…um…Well, she turned you into…a vampire." Axel said.

Zexion's eyes grew wide and then filled with anger. He grabbed the bars on the cell and gripped them tightly. "She did what?! Axel let me out of here! I'm going to kill her!"

Axel shook his head, "I can't, I don't have the key. Even if I did, I wouldn't let you out."

Zexion scoffed, "I thought you were my friend. I guess you've changed since college."

"You were the one who said I was your enemy. You're the one who has changed. After college I never really saw you or Saix. You guys never told me that you created a Vampire Hunters group."

"We didn't think you'd be interested…" Zexion said before looking around. "Wait a minute, this is your hideout isn't it? This is where all the vampires come to hide." He started to laugh.

"Zexion, you're not going to tell anyone where this is. You're a vampire now, whether you like it or not." Axel said as he crossed his arms.

Zexion gritted his teeth and sat down on the ground. He wrapped his arms around his stomach. "I've never felt so hungry before."

"That's what happens when you first become a vampire. If you cooperate, you can get some blood so you won't starve."

Zexion glared at Axel, "I will never cooperate."

Axel sighed, "If you are going to be like that, then fine. I'll be back later." He started to walk off towards the door to Otieno's throne room. He passed by the jail cell that Xion was in, she was asleep and Roxas was asleep next to her.

As Axel approached the door, he saw it was open slightly. He could hear Mira and Otieno talking. He stopped in front of the door and listened. He peeked through the door and could see Mira standing on the top of the staircase, and Otieno was sitting in his throne.

"Mira, you did what?!" Otieno shouted, his voice getting angry.

"Otieno I said I am sorry. I don't know what came over me. I thought this could be-" Mira tried to say but she was cut off.

"This is not a good thing! You brought a Vampire Hunter here. They are our enemy, even if you turned him into a vampire, he still will want to kills us. I am not happy Mira."

"But Otieno-" Mira tried to speak but was cut off again.

"But nothing! I have been dealing with enough problems! I do not want to deal with another! This is not something that can go unpunished." Otieno said as he stood up from his throne.

He quickly pulled out a small knife from his pocket and stabbed it into Mira's gut. Mira cried out in pain as she stumbled backwards and ended up falling down the staircase. As soon as she hit the ground, Axel ran into the room and ran towards Mira. He picked her up in his arms, she was unconscious but she was still breathing. The lower half of her shirt was stained with blood.

"Axel. You were listening to our conversation?" Otieno asked as he wiped off his knife with a cloth.

"I didn't mean too, I'm sorry." Axel looked at Mira then at Otieno. "Did you have to do that to her?! You could have killed her!" Axel shouted with frustration and anger.

"It's her punishment, but she will heal. Vampires can't be killed so easily. But I have been dealing with a lot recently and I am not in a good mood. Take her to her room and let her heal. And I will leave you to deal the with Vampire Hunter. Make sure he doesn't run away or anything."

Axel slowly nodded as he stood up and walked to the other door, he opened it up and walked down the hallway. He walked until he saw a door that had a sticker on it that said "Mira". Axel opened the door and placed Mira on the bed.

She moaned slightly before opening her eyes. "Axel?"

Axel held her hands, "Yeah, I'm here for you. Are you alright?"

Mira was breathing in and out slowly, "Yes, I'm fine. My body will heal soon enough. Don't worry about me." Mira smiled as Axel let go of her hands, she placed one of them on his cheek. "I just need some rest."

"Alright, I guess I will go deal with Zexion now." Axel said.

"Don't let him get away, we can't have him tell the other Vampire Hunters where this place is."

Axel nodded his head, "I know." He leaned in and kissed Mira on the lips, "I'll be back later."

Mira smiled before closing her eyes to rest. Axel quietly walked out of the room and headed back to the jail cell hallway. He walked through the throne room and Otieno wasn't there. Axel wondered where Otieno went but quickly forgot about it and thought about Zexion. How was he going to deal with him? He knew it was going to be hard to get Zexion to cooperate and listen, but he had to try.


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