Chapter 9

Namine has been always thankful when the club is closed and that everybody would leave, she could use magic to clean the place up before she leaves. Being an elf does have its vices, of course.

"Excuse me," a voice called out from behind. Namine stopped her spell and dishes on the second floor can be heard shattering on the floor. She turned around to see a man wearing that damn black coat...again. She swore in Elvin language the next black coat person, she'll fry them on the spot.

"The club's closed right now," Namine said, irritated. She did not like the aura from this guy, and it's not a familiar aura too. "Come back tonight at six when it's open."

"It'll just take a few moments, my lady," Namine's lips twitched. She hated formalities like that. "I was wondering if you are the one that goes by the name 'Namine?'"

"Who wants to know?" Namine responded. She felt a graze on her right cheek and a drop of blood falling down. "What the hell was that for?!" Namine demanded. A flower materialized in the figure's hand and he pulled his hood down with the other. Namine could have just died laughing there seeing the man has PINK hair. No decent man with that amount of self-respect would walk around with pink hair. Her amusement was short lived when her clothes were in shreds. All that's left is her undergarments.

That does it.

This perverted asshole is pissing her off.

"My name is Marluxia," Marluxia introduced. "A Leszi and assassin-"

"Of the damn cult who's trying to get Roxas to join," Namine finished impatiently; a simple red dress replaced over her shredded one. "Yeah, I know who you guys are. Roxas' response is 'no' and if you're here to kill me, you're way in over your head pal." Marluxia grinned in amusement.

"Since you already know what I'm here for, let's get down to business now, shall we?" He charged at her recklessly only to be blown back by a shield. He landed across the room.

"The dumbest thing for anybody to do is to attack elf straight forward," Namine rolled her eyes. "Seeing your damn cult forgot to mention that, allow me to show how really powerful elves can be, especially when you're going up against the longest line of Elvin spellcasters in history." The chairs and tables were moved across the room and blocked out the doorways and glass-stained windows. Bolts of lighting appeared in her hands and a grin slowly appeared across her face. She is defiantly going to enjoy this, even if there's a high chance she'll destroy the place.

But what the heck, the Blue Moon is bound to go under a huge renovation someday.

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Roxas smiled as he folds the final crane. One thousand cranes for one wish. He felt a tinge of happiness and it's just before the first ray of the sun shining across the sky. Not that the time mattered, he could finally make a wish with the birds. He heard a groan from the bed…Sora's waking up. Happy and in a good mood today, Roxas did one thing he doesn't usually to do, even to his prey, he pounced the poor brunet.

"Ack! Roxas!" Sora yelled at the vampire. Thanks to Roxas, he's wide-awake now.

"I was wondering when will you wake up," Roxas said, grinning. "You're a lazy bum."

"I'm not a lazy bum," Sora argued, looking at the clock hanging on the wall. "It's only six in the morning."

"You sleep too much," Roxas still pointed out. "We went to bed around eight. Sleeping kills cells, so the science books says." Sora frowned.

"Well, will it kill you to not jump on me so early in the morning?" Sora asked.

"I'm already dead," Roxas grinning. "So it won't." Roxas snuggled into Sora's chest causing the brunet to blush.

"What are you doing!?" Sora cried.

"You feel like a fluffy pillow," Roxas responded, grinning. "You're so nice and warm, I could sleep on you forever." Sora didn't protest, it felt nice with Roxas snuggling his chest. He would have fallen back asleep if his body hadn't signaled him urgent.

"Roxas…I need to pee," Sora whined. He heard a small growl and later an 'Hmph' before Roxas moved aside allowing Sora to go.

"You should take a shower," Roxas called. "You smell dirty." Sora playfully stuck up his tongue before closing the door behind him. Needless to say, the vampire was left alone in the room for a while.

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"Give me the cloths," Sora demanded the fifteenth time. Roxas smirked smugly, holding a shirt and a pair of shorts in his hand. The door was the only thing between him and Sora. Though he could just barge in and then kiss the boy senseless. Then leave huge hickeys the size of softballs…but he'll have a blushing Sora who'll be in a furious denial later on. He wouldn't want to have that, now would he?

"You'll have to come and work for it?" Roxas responded. He heard a growl from Sora- the boy sounds so cute like that.

"Come on, Roxas," Sora called from the other side.

"Come out then," Roxas said smugly. "Or you can stay in there with those dirty clothes all day and stink up the room." He heard a sigh of defeat and the door unlocking and swinging open revealing Sora with a long white towel wrapped around his waist. If Roxas was disappointed, he didn't show it on his face.

"I'm out," Sora said, annoyed. "Now give me the clothes."

"No," Roxas smirked defiantly. "I also said you have to work for the clothes. After all, you left me hanging on the bed," Sora's face turned a small shade of red.

"Come on, I'm out here already, what more do you possibly want?" Sora asked. Roxas continued to smirked, though, he could smell the annoyance and embarrassment from Sora clearly.

"Anything I find that is equivalent to the price of the clothes," Roxas responded, lifting the clothes up for the brunet to see. "If you don't have anything to offer, I'll just go and take a shower now and let you pick out a tight leather clothing from the closet. I doubt they'll fit you anyways."

"I don't want to wear leather clothing!" Sora cried. "They're too tight."

"But they'll make you look kinky," Roxas laughed. The blush got deeper and Roxas couldn't help but think Sora's molestable under the circumstances.

"Why do you like to torture me so much?" Sora growled.

"You're fun like this," Roxas responded with the voice sounding like he has done nothing wrong. "And I'm a very bored vampire."

"Oh so you're here to make my life miserable?" Sora asked.

"Most likely," Roxas responded simply, Sora clenched his teeth.

"You big meanie," Sora accused. "Grr…who locked us inside this room in the first place?"

"Namine did," Roxas responded simply.

"Why would she do something like that?" Sora scowled.

"You got hurt and I took you to Namine's house and healed you," Roxas continued. "She got pissed at me and locked the both of us here so we could talk."

"Talk? About what?" Sora asked. Sora's stomach grumbled. "She could have at least give us some food before she left."

"Oh, and I found out that you could just say the food you want and it'll pop up on the desk," Roxas informed.

"Really?" Sora's eyes immediately lit up. "Pancakes!" Just like Roxas said, a plate with a stack of pancakes appeared and Sora jumped for joy. "Foooood!" he cried happily in delight rushing towards the desk to munch the edible object. Roxas laughed happily at Sora's antics before heading to the closet.

"Whatcha doing?" Sora asked, munching on his first tart.

"I'm going to take a shower," Roxas responded, pulling out a rather faded black shirt and jeans. "I still want to smell decent, you know. Wear some clothes before I come out or I might just molest you." The vampire winked impishly before closing the bathroom door behind him. It took Sora a whole minute before he realized Roxas took the clothes he wanted to wear.

"Roxas!" Sora whined. "You could at least give me the clothes before you went inside!"

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"Hey Kairi, where's Sora?" Riku asked. It's been two days and brunet was called in sick courtesy of Seiya though Riku believed that's not the case.

"Oh, Sora," Kairi repeated. "He's still home sick with a nasty fever."

Oh really now….

"Can I come and visit after school?" Riku asked.

"No!" Kairi responded hastily, Riku raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "I mean, you could get sick too! Mom has to wear one protective mask just in case she catches what Sora has." It sounded like a reasonable lie.

"Come on Kairi," Riku began. "You know I have a strong immunity system against sickness."

Shit. She forgot about that.

"But Sora broke out into hives last night," Kairi said. "Hives are very infectious, you know-"

"No there not," Riku interrupted. "And I know Sora's not allergic to anything. You and I both know that you get hives from an allergic reaction." Kairi blushed, she made a total fool of herself. What was she thinking?

Wait, she wasn't thinking at all.

"What's really going on, Kairi?" Riku asked, serious. Uh-oh…that tone of voice meant Riku's not into any funny business or lies.

Nada. Zilch. Nothing.

Apparently, her brain died from over thinking.

"Sora…well…" Kairi didn't finish when they heard a bloody scream from the swimming pools outside.

Screams attracted the students like magnets and everybody ran to see what happened. Thanking every god-like deities, Kairi race off to the pools with Riku behind her.

"We'll talk about this later…" Riku informed. Kairi nodded, that will give her time to think about her next lie…or just simply blab out the truth.

There was a major scene around the pools as teachers told the students to get to class.

"All students, head back to your designated class room," one of the teachers ordered.

"Did you see them?" the crowd whisper, Kairi strained to hear what was going on.

"There's even a not on the floor written in blood!"

"Three of them, dead!" the student said. "Their bodies looked like they were attacked by wild animals!" Kairi and Riku froze in fear.

"Who was murdered?" Kairi asked the gossiping students. They turned to her, their eyes wide in fright.

"We don't know," one of them responded. "Their bodies were chewed and…and…." Kairi quickly asked them a different question.

"What did the message say?" she wanted to know what the heck was going on. It took a moment for the student to finally speak, their mouth finally moved after a whole minute.

"'Bow down to us, humans or die like the insects you are.' There was also, 'You can't protect them forever.'" The student quoted and left in a hurry.

Somehow, Kairi didn't think a sane or insane human would write that message out. She felt a hand grabbing her arm, pulling her away.

"Come on," Riku said. "We have to get out of here." He tugged her through the crowd and out of the school.

"Where are you taking us, Riku?" Kairi asked, following her best friend through the alleys.

"We're going to your mom's work place and get her out of there," Riku responded, not even giving her a glance not even once. "We're going to get her out of here."

"You're losing it, Riku," Kairi said.

"I know that Roxas is a vampire," Riku said abruptly. Kairi's jaws dropped. "And it doesn't take an idiot to know that message was written directly for him."

"How did you know?" Kairi asked. Riku looked dead serious, and it's not the usual seriousness he'll show in competitions, no. It was a different type of seriousness that would sent even the scariest creatures shivering and quaking in fear.

"...I'm a hunter, Kairi," Riku finally responded after a moment of silence. "It seems like Roxas is at war with a cult, and your family is smacked right in the middle of it."

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"You're gonna get fat from that…" Roxas mutter, seeing he came back from his shower and wore the clothes he promised Sora just to spite him only a little. Instead of getting the wanted reaction, Sora just munched his food happily while wearing a loose shirt he found in the closet and a loose pair of leather pants-might Roxas dare say Sora looks incredibly kinky like that? He was also surprise to several empty rice bowls on the desk. He counted seven.

Exactly how can a scrawny boy like Sora fit all that food in?

"You lose calories every time you smile and laugh," Sora responded, grinning. "That's what my mom said." That or he has great metabolism.

"Smart mother," Roxas commented. "Though…I wonder how would she react when she finds out her son is with a vampire." Sora shrugged.

"She'll probably throw a fit that I never told her…then hug you to oblivion," Sora responded. Roxas blinked.

"Hug? No cross, holy water, or the bible?" Roxas asked. Sora shrugged. "Not even a piece of garlic? Not even a 'Be gone demon!'"

"Hey, Kairi and I don't mind, what makes you think my mom would? She'll think it's cute or something…" Sora responded. Roxas shrugged.

"Not many humans help us since we drink blood," Roxas sighed. "I met some decent people who managed to help me escape the killings. I've protected other humans before only a few times before I leave them to their normal lives again…"

"But you never had anybody else to help you besides Namine?" Sora asked.

"I do have other friends besides Namine, we just meet whenever one of us are in trouble," Roxas responded. "There's a demon warlock who takes a form of a duck…don't ask, a dog demon, an incubus and his lover who's a storm demon, a werecat, there's a sorceress, and a warrior demon who's an ex-bodyguard of the seven sins themselves." He smiled proudly when he finished while Sora stared at Roxas as if he had three heads.

"Where are they now?" Sora asked. Roxas shrugged.

"It's usually Namine who keeps in touch with them," Roxas responded simply. "They're scattered all over the world so I wouldn't really know. Last time we got together was before World War II, they wanted to ski down Mt. Everest." A scowl formed on Roxas' face, remembering a certain incident and muttered something that sounded like "…Stupid Donald chasing me down with an avalanche…"

"It didn't go so well?" Sora asked, grinning sheepishly.

"Let's just say I'm never going to that mountain ever again," Roxas responded with a growl.

"Not even if I ask you to come with me?" Sora asked sweetly.

"Not even if you ask me," Roxas responded. Inwardly he grimaced when Sora pulled out his puppy eyes…again. "For an innocent guy, you're really not so innocent." Sora walked over to the bed and sat next to Roxas.

"So…will you?" Sora asked and soon yelped when Roxas tugged the boy close to him for a kiss. Roxas broke the kiss a minute later and Sora grinned sheepishly. "So, is that a yes?" he asked.

"I'll think about out it," Roxas responded while holding Sora close from behind, allowing Sora to lean on him.

"Jerk," Sora grumbles.

"Haha, you don't mean that," Roxas responded. He suddenly felt Sora's body stiffen. "Sora, what's wrong?" Sora turns to Roxas with sad eyes.

"I can't feel your heart," Sora responded, placing a hand over Roxas' chest. Roxas frowned.

"I'm dead, Sora," Roxas responded. "Don't you remember?"

"But, you're-"

"Among the living?" Roxas asked. "Vampires are the living dead. I don't have a pulse, heartbeat and my soul which is why I want to ask you something." Sora looked up to Roxas with curiousity and spellbound to the vampire. Roxas could hear Sora's heart beating faster each passing seconds. It looked like those sappy scenes from the movies but this is way better than the movies in Roxas' taste.

"What is it, Roxas?" Sora asked.

"Will you-" he didn't get a chance to finish when Namine popped into the room and waved at them.

"Hiya!" she announced cheerfully, scaring the wits out of the two spellbound boys. Roxas growled, mentally swearing he'll get back at Namine someday but his anger quickly faded when he saw Namine looking a bit burnt and tired. He never saw Namine tired unless she used a huge chunk of magic.

"What the hell happened to you!?" he cried, worried. Namine grinned.

"A fight," she said. "Of course, I blew up the club in the process-"

"WHAT!?"

"-But I did get some information about the cult from one of the member who tried to assassinate me," Namine finished after she silenced Roxas' mouth again before he could react. Namine turned to Sora, ignoring Roxas while the vampire threw a silent tantrum, cursing Namine. "So, feeling better Sora?" she asked. Sora nodded dumbly.

"What did you do to Roxas?" he asked, pointing at the fuming vampire. If looks can kill, Namine would have died a hundred times over.

"Oh, easy," she said. "It's a silence skill elves learned at a young age." Sora watch Roxas search through the desk drawers for pencil and paper and the vampire scribble a question down in huge words:

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE CLUB IS DESTROYED!?" With a wave of her hand, Namine cancelled out the spell.

"Gee…I just came back from a fight and all you care about is the club? Glad you care about me that much…and about that…I threw a thunder bolt at the kitchen and I remember seeing flames before I got out." Namine nodded. "The assassin that tried to kill me was very vain; he blabbed everything out for me."

"…Spill," Roxas responded, sitting next Sora. Both of them were ready to listen for what the elf is ready to say.

"Well, the group was founded by a demon god- AKA their superior- to plunge the world in darkness approximately three or four thousand years ago with selected followers. There were originally thirteen members including him, and the twelve were ruthless and the best killing machines any evil leaders would want. Then…"

"Then…?" Sora and Roxas repeated, Namine noted they sound so adorable doing that.

"Then…that pervert, said before the darkness took over the world, somehow a 'Child of Light carrying a sword of both powers' came and kicked the god's ass and sealed him away from the darkness."

"Both powers?" Sora repeated.

"As in Light and Darkness?" Roxas asked. "That's completely impossible. I never heard of a sword with that kind of property."

"Hey, I'm older than you and I would have expected to know about that too," Namine grumbled. "All records of that war seemed to have vanished from existence. So I can't do any research about it but all I know for sure is that they're attempting to resurrect the god. They have a Gaki, Wind Demon, Yeren –they're called 'Wild Men' in translation but I guess it's the cult's mad scientist or something-, an ogre, Kitsune, werewolf, water nix, a crossroad demon- they're a bitch to handle, and a siren." Sora winced at the last word. "It's odd," Namine continued. "The group is consisted with thirteen people and this group has eleven only-"

"The eleventh member is a vampire," Roxas responded bitterly. "That makes twelve and they want me to be their thirteenth member."

"Why the hell would they want two vampires when they already got one?" Namine demanded. She did not need to read Roxas' aura to see his hatred and anger.

"Because that vampire was the one who turned me," Roxas responded darkly.

Silence reigned in the room.

"How did you know?" Namine finally asked, talking about the monster that sired Roxas has always been a touchy topic to talk about.

"I…had a vision," Roxas responded. "He came talking to me, mocking me just like he use to do when he had me under his care. Is it even possible for him to get into my dreams?"

"Well…he's the one gave you this undead life," Namine began. "He gave you his blood to do so…so I guess it's a possibility for him to do so."

"Roxas…" Sora called, gripping onto one of Roxas' hand, he was afraid. Roxas gripped back.

"Don't worry, Sora," Roxas said, as if reading the brunet's mind. "I'm still here, aren't I? There's no way they're taking me away and I'm not going to let them touch you," Namine sat next to Sora and elbow the brunet gently. "Never again…" he finished mentally.

"Did you ask him yet?" she asked. Sora blushed lightly before shaking his head. Roxas looked at them, obviously lost.

"Ask me about what?" he questioned. Namine nudged Sora.

"Not now," Sora said. Namine rolled her eyes before snapping her fingers. Almost instantly, Sora's entire body turned to Roxas.

"I really, really like you since the day I met you," Sora blabbed all of a sudden. "I like the your personality, your smiles, your laughter and who you are. And your kisses too, they're passionate and lovely." Namine was struggling to keep her laughter in.

"You can stop now," Roxas said, feeling bubbly in the inside yet disturbed at the same time. It was a bit surreal to see Sora all of a sudden blab out something like that.

"I'm trying," Sora gritted between his teeth before he started to blab again. "But Namine has been giving me advices and told me about demon mating-" Roxas shot Namine a glare and the elf just look back innocently. "-And lately I don't think I just like you, Roxas. I really, really love you and I want to be your mate and make love with you- NAMINE!" Sora roared, turning a deep shade of red while the elf burst into laughter at Sora's last words. She was practically rolling on the ground, her side aching like there's no tomorrow. Roxas was basically speechless with a shock look on his face.

"'Make love'….Haha! Priceless!" Namine laughed. "Who would have thought my Truth Spell is that effective!!!"

"You made me say that," Sora accused. "I'm not ready yet for se-oph!" His breathe left his lungs when Roxas tackled him, pulling Sora to a breathless kiss. Roxas finally pulled away, grinning and laughing, throwing the teen off. "What?" It took Roxas a few moments to calm down and talk.

"I was about to confess until someone-" Roxas gave the laughing elf another glare before turning back to Sora. "-Popped in here unannounced." Sora felt his heart skipped a beat and a slowly a smile appeared on his face.

"So…is that a yes?" Roxas laughed before giving Sora a light kiss.

"What do you think?" Roxas responded, grinning like there's no tomorrow. "You'll make me the happiest vampire on Earth and I love you too, Sora." Roxas whisper huskily, kissing Sora passionately now. For the first time in centuries, Roxas felt so alive in his undead life.

"Do the ritual now or later?" Sora asked between kisses. Roxas was so lucky he didn't need to breathe. Roxas broke away looking back Sora with worry eyes.

"I want you to make sure if you're really positive about this Sora," Roxas asked. "I'm pretty sure Namine told you if you have any doubt in your heart…"

"I know," Sora said. "But I love you so much Roxas." It's so cliché but it didn't sound so clichéd when Sora says it. Roxas turned to Namine, her composure reading she already knows what he wants.

"I'll set the ritual up," she said. "Let me just get the book and knife- and you guys better keep it clean. I don't want to teleport back in and see you guys naked. I'll be blind for the rest of my immortal life."

"Then go get the ritual ready," Roxas ordered, Namine gave him a mock salute before vanishing again out of sight. Sora fidget unconsciously shifted his weight when he's nervous. "What's the matter, Sora?" Roxas asked. "Are you having doubts about this?" Sora shook his head.

"I just wonder how the ritual would be like," Sora responded. Roxas grimaced a little.

"Namine is going to help us to do the ritual," Roxas responded. "Well, the chanting part since she knows the words…"

"Namine said something about me not turning into a vampire," Sora began. "What will happen to me?" Roxas had a thoughtful look on his face.

"I have no idea what happens to you Sora," Roxas responded. "The ritual is also magic related- let magic be like science, you have a completely different factor and you get something completely different, right?" Sora nodded. "Who knows what will the outcome will be, Sora." Roxas said, giving Sora a reassuring hug. "But I know you'll be beautiful after all of this." Sora blushed. Namine reappeared with two knives and a heavy textbook that look ages old.

"Sorry I took so long, that book was buried at the back with my other books," she said. "Anyway, get your butts off of the bed and stand in front of me." She ordered. The two did as told and Namine handed them each a knife. "Roxas, control yourself here but I need you two cut a small wound and drink a small amount of blood of each other. I'll say the chant and we're done."

"It sounds so easy," Sora said.

"It's a human nature to do complex things," Namine explained. "Our just love to keep things simple."

"Oh."

Roxas hissed in pain as he slit a shallow cut across his flesh allowing his blood to well up. Sora looked at his knife before bracing himself to do the same thing his wrist. As human blood surfaced, Roxas held his breathe as he caught a whiff of Sora's blood. It smells so sweet; he could just drain Sora dry...he quickly banished those thoughts back as he leaned over and licked the red liquid slowly and delicately, savoring the taste knowing this is the only time he'll ever drink from Sora. It tasted so sweet, it tasted light and fluffy making him a bit giddy, and he regretted not drinking the bottle of blood last night. To keep whatever that's left of his sanity, he pulled away and retracts his growing fangs so Sora didn't notice. He was pretty sure Namine did, she always know how he feels. Sora swallowed his fear before leaning forward and did the same. Roxas' blood tasted bitter and thick- something he half expected.

"I call forth all the magic that exist in this universe," Namine chanted as green magic swirled around the two boys. "Now that they have tasted each other's essence, allow them to be one and let it be as they will across all boundaries and time itself." The magic sprang to life, swirled around Sora and he gasped at the incredible rush of emotion and a feeling boundless knowledge enters him. Then he felt dizzy and light, the darkness claimed his mind before his body fell to the floor.

"Sora!" Roxas cried, before he could take a step, his body shut down on him and he too lie on floor with the most uncomfortable position anybody could be in, his right arm looked dislocated. Namine looked down at those two bodies, blinking, before her face turn to a scowl.

"Next time, I'm never doing another demon ritual," she grumbled to herself, placing the book on the desk and carry the two boys to the bed. "Now that you're mates, there's no way anybody can break you two apart." She gave the two lovers a small smile and watch Sora unconsciously hug Roxas, murmuring something under his breath. She turned around and stretched her limbs. "Now that I have some newly weds in my house, it's time to round up everybody for a happy reunion!" she vanished out of sight, leaving the mates alone in their sleep.

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Date Began: June 24, 2007

Date End: July 2, 2007

Author's Rambling: Hello again, sorry I'm a bit behind schedule on updating but I got side-tracked with my band rehearsal and Anime Expo on Saturday. So it was a pretty busy week for me and my mind died sometime during the week so I didn't finish this chapter until today.

Sora and Roxas finally mated. Yay!