A/N In this chap, we meet Brandon's counterpart~! And to clarify something: All of my OCs in this fic you can use. However, you must ask Dronedude if you can use Brandon, Brianna, Alex or Stephane. Oh, and Alec's side story will be posted soon!
The two Wendigos stood up, waiting for Brandon. Brandon also stood, grabbing his suitcase. He then turned to Alec one last time. "Keep your eyes and head low, and don't do anything to draw attention to yourself." he ordered, a tone of leadership mingling with the words as they were spoken.
"Alright, alright." Alec whispered back. The three then walked quietly into the terminal, attempting to act like normal people would. They made it through security with minimal alert, and then boarded the flight with 5 minutes to spare.
"Well, that wasn't too bad." Brandon said as he sat down on the window seat. "Nope, not at all." Alec sighed.
"Having to listen to you two was by far the worst part of this little 'trip'." Alice said, earning a half-hearted scowl from Alec.
"Really? I thought our little opera would keep you entertained." Brandon joked, smiling a little.
Alice sighed before turning to Alec. "By the way, Alec, why are you a wanted criminal? I know Kishins are supposed to be hunted down, but I've never heard of a Kishin being a wanted criminal."
Alec paused. "Uh, stealing dead bodies from the mortuary."
"...Why would you steal bodies from the mortuary?" his counterpart asked.
"Oh my god, you're a necrophiliac!" Brandon exclaimed among the group while fighting to control his laughter.
"No I'm not!" Alec retorted. "It's just... Uh, blood makes me sick, so I have to eat already dead bodies..."
"Wait, doesn't the embalming material make you sick?" Brandon asked, remembering Alice's story from when he was embalming the pigs.
"I steal them before they're embalmed." Alec said. "It's very hard to do."
"What? You rob the ambulances as they're driving to the morgue?" Brandon asked, a bit of disgust creeping into the sentence.
"If I did that, I'd have to knock out the driver." Alec said. "That would cause a commotion, making it even harder to steal the bodies. When they get to the morgue, I knock out the people that embalm the bodies and take them."
"You don't even let the person's loved ones see them for the last time..." Brandon trailed off, clenching his fists in anger. "Whatever microscopic respect I had for you at this point is completely gone. You are a demented, fucked-up, worthless piece of shit, you know that?!" he growled, his anger flowing with large volume within the statement.
"I'm a Kishin, you expect anything else?" Alec replied. "Besides, it's better than killing innocent people." Brandon was going to respond, but decided to just breathe deeply, trying to regain control of his anger. "It's not like I particularly enjoy stealing bodies and eating them. I need to do that to live." Alec mumbled. "Sorry."
"What about steak?" Brandon proposed, knowing he has tempered his rage enough to not have an outburst.
"A Wendigo has to eat human flesh to live." The male Kishin replied. "We're supposed to be born just like a human-just with advanced senses and strength-but we lack the nutrients a regular person has and have to eat people to obtain them."
Brandon began thinking profoundly, hoping to find some way to stop the Wendigo's horrendous crime against deceased people and humanity in general.
He was also hoping he wouldn't forget it, because that was a very likely possibility.
Alec, who was confused by his sudden silence, started poking him in an attempt to get a reaction. "Stop." he ordered, losing sight momentarily of his thought process before resuming where he left off.
"...Fine." Alec murmured, lowering his hand. Brandon entered once again into his solitary thoughts, testing theoretical hypothesis after hypothesis, struggling to find an answer to the problem at hand. Alec fidgeted, a bit uncomfortable with the silence, while Alice fell asleep. Brandon finally came up with a possible conclusion, and began creating a mental list of what supplies are needed to complete the experiment.
Alec looked at Brandon with a bored expression. "You're very boring."
"I'm not boring, I'm just scientific, which occasionally includes times that could be considered boring." Brandon replied, double-checking his mental shopping list.
"Which means you're boring."
"No, it means I'm occasionally boring." Brandon replied, getting a little bit defensive of his lifestyle.
Alec sighed, before looking at Alice. "Asleep already? The plane hasn't even left the airport yet."
"It's the best way to pass the time." Brandon said, glancing over at the sleeping female Kishin. "I recommend you fall asleep too, before you get on my nerves." Alec reluctantly closed his eyes, falling asleep almost automatically. Brandon stayed up for about half of the flight, designing a plan for his experiment, before drifting off into sleep as well.
. . .
When the flight landed, Alec woke first. He shook Alice awake, then woke Brandon. "Ciao, Italia." Brandon said groggily, stretching his arms above his head. Alice simply yawned. A feeling quickly washed over Brandon, a feeling similar to that of returning home after a long trip, and being in Italy would probably be the closest thing to him like feeling at home. Alec, however, felt as far away from home as possible, as he'd never left his home country before. "Ah, Io amo Italia." Brandon said to himself, standing up from his seat.
Alice stood up, too. Alec followed, albeit shaking from nervousness. "What? You're in Italy, not Iraq." Brandon said, noticing Alec's shivering.
"I-I'm just nervous, is all." Alec said. "I've never left Germany before."
"Don't worry, it's not that different. You know, only the little stuff changed. A new language, a new culture, a nw social life, a new dinner palate..." Brandon continued, trying to make Alec as uncomfortable as possible.
"Screw you."
"E scommetto che non so abbastanza italino ad avere una normale conversazione." Brandon added, his accent flourishing in its intended language of use. Alec ignored him, walking off of the plane with Alice close behind. Brandon quickly followed, and the three found their bags and left the airport.
"Eh, Brandon, since neither me or Alec know much italian, can you just translate everything for us?" Alice asked, also nervous about being in the foreign country.
"Sure, no problem." Brandon said, happy that he gets to test his extensive Italian knowledge.
Alec sighed, a bit depressed about having to rely on a human. "Let's just look for Eruka."
"Sure. Lemming ask around." Brandon said, and walked into the crowd in front if the airport. He came back within five minutes with the news.
"I've figured out she's in some sleazy motel out in Venice." Brandon said, grabbing his suitcase.
"A sleazy motel?" Alice asked. "This is like New York all over again!"
"No, it's not. In Italy, a sleazy motel means its run down, but it's not a brothel." he clarified, realizing the kishins' lack of Italian social knowledge.
Alec burst out laughing at that. "Wait a sec, you went to a brothel and you're STILL a virgin?" he cackled.
"We were in there for all of ten minutes, in which I fucked up a witch." Brandon replied angrily.
Alec continued to laugh. "'We'? I feel bad for poor Alice."
"You don't wanna' know what I had to do to get in there." Alice remarked. Brandon got a small nosebleed at the memory, wiping his nose to clean up the blood.
"You dressed up as a slut, didn't you?" Alec asked.
"Yeah." Alice replied, ashamed of herself. "How did you know that?"
"I could smell the blood coming from Brandon's nose." Alec smirked.
"Fuck you." Brandon replied coldly, wiping his nose once more.
Alec chuckled, ignoring the meister. "Did you get revenge?"
Alice grinned evilly. "I guess you could say that."
The flow of blood increased from Brandon's nose, and he struggled to keep it all in his hand. "She did something really perverted, didn't she?" Alec asked the nose-bleeding meister.
"Y-yea." Brandon replied, wiping his nose.
"What'd she do?"
"I-I'd rather not say." Brandon stuttered, his nosebleed subsiding.
"Tell me!" Alec replied, poking the other male's cheek.
"Jesus, you're like an insolent child." the meister remarked, slapping away the kishin's finger.
"You sounded just like Medusa when you said that." Alec replied, drawing back his hand. "Now tell me~!" he begged.
"No. And I'm nothing like that bitch." the meister replied, getting aggravated by the kishin's remark.
Alec chuckled. "You know that's not true." he smirked.
"Look, we're in Venice. I have home field advantage. I know every twist and turn of this city, while you know jack shit. So don't bite the hand that feeds you." Brandon growled, becoming more agitated.
"Alright, alright," Alec replied, raising his hands in mock surrender. "Whatever you say~!"
"That's better." Brandon replied, a bit of sternness leaving his voice.
Alec muttered something under his breath about Italians, while Alice yawned again. "Stupid insomnia." she grumbled. "Hey Alec, is insomnia common among Wendigos?"
"Hm? You're a Wendigo, shouldn't you already know this?" Alec countered.
"I'm the last in my universe, so I don't know if it's just me or if most Wendigos have it." The female Kishin replied.
"Um, well it's common among Wolf Wendigos. It's pretty rare when one doesn't have insomnia." Alec explained.
"Probably since a wolf is a nocturnal animal, you have more energy during the night." Brandon suggested.
"Most likely." Alec agreed.
Alice pouted. "It's not fair..."
"Guys, let's focus. We need to find Erica." Brandon said, returning his attention to there current task.
"Ok." Alec replied. "I'm fine with that." he paused. "I wonder if another version of you works at the hotel she's in."
"What the hell do you mean by that?!" Brandon exclaimed angrily, confused by his implications.
"Wow, I wasn't even trying to piss you off this time." Alec chuckled. "I was just thinking about how cliché it would be if he or she WAS working wherever Eruka is."
"You know, that would be pretty cliché." Brandon said, chuckling a little after thinking about it.
"YES!" Alice cheered. "YOU TWO FINALLY AGREE ON SOMETHING!"
"Holy shit, that's quite the accomplishment." Brandon joked, smiling a small grin.
"You two might actually be friends if you keep this up!" Alice exclaimed happily.
"Woah, woah! That's a bit crazy, don't ya' think?" Alec joked, chuckling a bit.
"Yea. There isn't any way in hell that we'd be friends." Brandon added
Alice grinned evilly, a very devilish idea coming to mind. "Yaoi." she said.
Alec gaped at her, extremely creeped out. "Did you REALLY just say that?!" he exclaimed loudly, inching away from his counterpart.
Let it be known that Eruka told him what 'Yaoi' was.
"What the hell is yaoi?" Brandon asked, slightly creeped out by Alec's reaction.
"Eh, I'm not sure but," Alec began. "Eruka told me that yaoi is a male coupled with another male." Alice grinned evilly, confirming the statement.
"OH CHRIST! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!" Brandon exclaimed, recoiling in fear. Alice burst out laughing, while Alec continued to inch from the female. "Oh god...me? With him? What the fuck?" he asked, shivering in fear and disgust.
Alice's grin widened. "I was just trying to creep you two out."
"Still, have some limits...that's just fucking disgusting..." Brandon said, releasing a sigh.
"I-I'm scarred for life..." Alec replied.
"Same."'Brandon replied, shuttering once more.
Alice chuckled. "That's why you two should get along better, or I'll tell Eruka and Free, uh... things..." she grinned.
"Jesus, you don't need to blackmail us." Brandon said defensively.
"Yes, I do!" Alice said to them, talking as if the two males were the dumbest creatures on earth. "If I don't blackmail you two, you'll never get along!"
"Gott Verdammt, I'm straight!" Alec growled.
"Says the guy whose crossdressing." Alice replied. Brandon began laughing uncontrollably, trying to contain himself. Alec sent an indignant glare towards Brandon.
"Oh, you might wanna readjust your panties." Brandon joked, laughing a little harder.
"Fuck off."
Brandon would reply, but he was laughing too hard. Alice also burst into laughter. "Brandon, your laughter is contagious!"
"It's not that my laughter is contagious, it's just that it's so freaking funny." he replied, wiping a tear from his eye.
"I hate you so much..." Alec snarled, seething with rage.
"I know you do." Brandon said, calming down a little.
Alec then pointed to Alice. "And she's Pandora reincarnated."
"Hey!" Alice said indignantly.
"I take that's an insult to you?" Brandon asked, now slightly confused.
"As you should already know," Alice began. "Pandora was a very evil woman."
"Yea, you're definitely her." Brandon said with a chuckle. Alice hissed angrily at the meister. "What? You're sadistic, a seductress, a pervert, and have an extremely volatile temper." Brandon listed.
"But I'm not evil!" Alice hissed.
"Seductress?" Alec asked, confused.
"You don't wanna know." Brandon said quickly.
"Revenge." Alice said.
Alec burst out laughing. "Wait, so you seduced him and left him like that as revenge?" Alice nodded. Alec turned to Brandon. "All those chances to get laid, and you're still a virgin. I'm so disappointed in you~!"
"She would've killed me if I made a move." Brandon growled, trying to contain his growing rage.
"As I was saying..." Alice snarled through clenched teeth. "I am not fucking evil and I'm nothing like that bitch Pandora!"
"Sorry, sorry." Brandon said, raising his hands in mock surrender. Alice just growled at him like an angry, rabid dog. "Ok, we're all pissed. Let's just find Eruka and get the fuck outta here." Brandon said, attempting to defuse the situation.
"Why would you be mad?" Alec asked.
"Because you give me shit for being a virgin." Brandon said, his anger flaring a tiny bit.
"Oh yeah..." Alec chuckled. "Eh, lets just go before Alice threatens us with yaoi again."
"Yea." Brandon agreed, and began walking to the described motel.
As they arrived to their destination, Alec decided to talk. "Wow, this place really does look old."
"Yea." Brandon said, taking in the spectacle.
"Lets just go in and find Eruka." Alice said agravatedly, still a bit mad.
Before the trio, stood an old stone building, covered with moss and the sign was ripped. "Sure looks like a shithole." Brandon commented, walking towards the door. Alice and Alec followed him inside the old hotel. Brandon had a small conversation with the receptionist,then she told him a number. He then walked back to the two other teenagers.
"Room 127." He said, and began down the sparsely decorated hallway. The two Wendigos followed him and the trio quickly found the room. Brandon knocked on the door, pushing Alec in front of him to greet the witch.
The white-haired witch gingerly opened the door. "R-Ribbit!" Eruka exclaimed upon seeing Alec. "Alec! I haven't seen you in months!" she said, squeezing Alec in a tight bear hug.
"Can't. Breathe." Alec choked out.
"Sorry." Eruka said, releasing him from her hug. "I see you brought some friends."
"Well, Medusa got caught, so she sent us here." Alec replied, suddenly grabbing Alice's arm and yanking her towards him. "This is Alice." he said.
Alice waved nervously. "Um... hi...?"
Alec then gestured to Brandon. "And this is Brandon."
"Hey." the meister said, nodding his head.
"Nice to meet you!" Eruka said, stepping out of the doorway and into her room. "Come in, come in!" she said enthusiastically. Alec was the first to walk in, followed by Alice.
Brandn quickly followed. They all fanned into the room and Brandon was flabbergasted by the person tending to the experiments. Before the three was a 15 year old girl with long, chocolate hair and somewhat large sea blue eyes. She was wearing jeans and black sneakers. But the most notable thing about her was her open button down, red and black in a checkered patern, outer shirt with a black undershirt.
'Oh shit...' Brandon thought to himself, lost for words.