Yamato the Vampire Slayer
Blue and Yellow Sparkles
By the Empress of the Eclipse
Disclaimer - It's not mine. Not any of it.
"Matt, stop that!" Akemi said "You look like a hamster on steroids!"
Matt gave him a mock offended look.
"I'm sorry!" he said "I just...it's my first gig for ages!"
"It's everyone's first gig for ages!" Akemi said.
"I'm going to pull tonight," Gendo said "I am going to pull for sure. I can feel it."
Istu sighed.
"So who's coming anyway?"
"Angel," Matt said "Spike."
"Oh he's cute, I wonder if he's up for grabs," Gendo wondered.
"Ken," Matt continued "Davis. TK. Tai."
The band all made loud derisive noises. Matt glared at them all.
"Shut up."
He knew why they all disliked Tai so much. It was just...well, he wished that they wouldn't, that was all.
"Ms Fuyutsuki's threatened to come too," he said.
Akemi hid behind his hands.
"No! Not her!"
"Speaking of your dear old Watcher, how's she taking the direct flaunting of her orders?" Toshiki asked.
"She's very, very pissed off," Matt said "She threatened to drag me up in front of the Watcher's Council and have me charged with...with...with some very long complicated word which I think she made up on the spot to intimidate me."
Akemi laughed.
"Sounds like her."
Matt shrugged.
"So I told her to stick it where the sun don't shine."
"NO!"
"Really?" Toshiki said, looking sceptical.
"Really!" Matt said "Only...well, not in those actual words..."
The band all groaned.
"Matt?"
Matt jumped.
"TK!" he said "Hey little bro, what are you doing back here?"
"I came to see you," TK said "Matt, can we talk?"
"Not now TK, I'm about to do a gig," Matt said gently "Later maybe?"
TK's shoulders drooped.
"You always say that!" he yelled suddenly "You keep fobbing me off Matt! You've been pushing me away and I want to know why!"
"TK, please!" Matt said "I will talk to you, I promise. Just...not now."
"Afterwards?"
"Sure," Matt said.
TK turned and stomped off, Matt staring miserably after him.
"Brotherly issues?" Toshiki said.
"I've been pushing him away," Matt admitted "I just...I don't want him getting hurt. And he'd never believe me anyway."
"You'll have to tell him something Matt," Toshiki pointed out "You'll have to tell him something."
"I know," Matt said "I'm just not quite sure what yet."
* * * *
The gig went incredibly well. Everyone seemed glad to see the return of the Teenage Wolves. Matt had to admit, it was good to be back up there. At one point he spotted Angel and Spike, Spike happily getting himself drunk and Angel glaring at him. Matt only just managed not to start laughing.
"WO-HO!" Akemi cheered at the break "This is going great! They love us!"
"They love me," Matt corrected wickedly "They all screamed loudest when I came on."
"Big headed little queer!"
"You're one to talk!"
Gendo rolled his eyes.
"Shut up you two," he said "Let's have no 'friendly' banter tonight please."
"Angel's out there," Matt said.
The band all wolf-whistled.
"So come on," Istu said "What's the sitch with you and Angel."
"'Cause if you aren't moving for him, I'm having a go," Akemi said "Vampire or no, he's one of the best looking people I've ever seen!"
"You can't," Matt said "Look, Angel...he can't have sex."
"WHAT?"
"Nooooo!" Akemi wailed "Such a cute guy...impotent?"
"No!" Matt said "It's not like that. It's just...okay, I told you about the curse?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, it's broken if he has a moment of true happiness," Matt explained "And guess how he gets that..."
"Oh Matt, why can't you fall in love with someone decent and sensible?" Istu said "Someone who will return your affections without spurning and hurting you."
"Someone like....?" Matt said.
"Well, me!" Istu said "Wanna go out sometime?"
"Hm, let me think about that," Matt said "Um, no."
Istu sighed.
"It was worth a shot."
Matt rolled his eyes.
"We need to be back on stage soon guys," he said.
"We know," Akemi said "Honestly Matt, we've done just as many gigs as you you know."
"I know but I'm used to looking after you lot," Matt said cheerfully.
"You look after us!" Gendo spluttered "I'M the one who looks after all of you!"
Matt just grinned innocently at him.
* * * *
After the gig, Matt found TK waiting for him in the back rooms again.
"You said you'd talk to me," he said, as though he thought that Matt would try to escape.
Which to be honest, Matt might have attempted to do.
"And I meant it," Matt said "Just let me put this stuff away and say goodbye to - oh, they've gone already."
The band had vanished, all their stuff already gone.
"How do they do that?" Matt asked himself, putting his guitar and music away "I can't do that!"
TK just stood, waiting. He obviously wasn't very interested with the band's trick of vanishing whenever they felt like it.
"Well?" Matt said eventually "What is it?"
"You know what," TK said "Matt, what's going on?"
Matt sighed.
"TK," he said "It's...it's complicated..."
"So what?" TK said "I want to know Matt! You keep on fobbing me off and I'm sick of it! I'm not a kid, I can understand you know!"
"I know!" Matt said "It's just...this is sort of weird and I really don't think that I can..."
"Matt, you're pushing me away!" TK cried "You spend more time with your band than me! You spend more time with Ken and Davis than me!"
"I know," Matt said "Ken and Davis...they weren't..."
"Matt, stop trying to put me off! Explain!" TK yelled.
"TK, calm down, please!" Matt said. He was feeling upset and beginning to get confused. He didn't have a cover story, at least not one that TK would buy "TK...I can't tell you everything."
"You never tell me anything!" TK yelled "Matt, the only Digidestined you talk to now are Ken and Davis and now they're going all secretive too! You've even stopped talking to Tai!"
"Because Tai's an untrustworthy little..." Matt cut himself off "Listen TK. It's nothing to do with you - with any of you. But I've got things in my life right now, big, weird things. I just...I can't handle trying to explain it all to you."
"But I'm your brother!" TK said "I'd understand Matt!"
"No," Matt said "You wouldn't."
TK looked at him.
"How can you say that when you haven't even tried?" he asked, his eyes glittering with tears "Matt, why are you pushing me away? Why are you pushing me out of your life?"
"Because it's my life," Matt said "TK, you have a life of your own. You can't expect to be part of everything in mine."
"But I've always been in your life," TK said "I'm your brother! You can't just expect me to go without a fight."
"Well maybe it's time you accept the inevitable," Matt said.
He knew it was a mistake as soon as he'd said it. He didn't even know why he'd said it. He didn't want TK out of his life.
But it was too late. He'd said it now. TK's face went pale with rage.
"How can you say that?!" he screamed "Matt, why can't you understand! I thought you understood things!"
"I do!" Matt cried "I do understand things TK! I know what you mean but..."
TK cut him off.
"I don't want to be part of everything in your life but I want to be part of your life and you won't let me because you're pushing me away!" he cried, tears running down his face "You'd rather have Ken and Davis than me! You're pushing me away!"
"That's not true!" Matt yelled, even though it was. "TK, listen to me...."
"Why?" TK demanded "Why should I? You aren't explaining anything Matt, you won't! You don't even care about me any more do you? Just because you're going to be a rock star, you don't even care about those who're your friends!"
"TK..."
"No!" TK yelled "I don't care Matt. Don't bother to justify yourself to me any more because I don't even want to know about it, okay? Just...do whatever you want to do. I don't care."
He turned and ran off, vanishing into the shadows.
"TK!" Matt yelled after him "TK come back! Please come back!"
But his brother didn't turn round. Matt sat down with a bump and put his head in his hands. What was he going to do now?
* * * *
TK kept running until he couldn't run any more. He slowed down, sniffing and trying to wipe his tears away. Why was Matt doing this? They'd always told each other everything. Why was Matt pushing him away? Had he done something wrong?
"Matt, why don't you want me any more?" he asked out-loud as more tears flowed down his face.
"Is something the matter?"
TK jumped a mile. Whirling round, he saw a woman smiling at him. She was very pretty with pale skin and dark brown hair and big blue eyes. She gave the impression of being quite delicate. She was wearing a very long, old fashioned looking dress and when she took a step towards him, it was almost as though she were gliding.
"Why would such a little thing like you be crying in the night?" she asked, her voice sounding musical.
TK swallowed. There was something creepy about this woman, something...unreal.
"I'm okay," he said, backing away a bit.
"Have you lost somebody?" the woman asked.
"No," TK said "I just...I was running away from my brother."
"Why?"
"No reason," TK muttered.
The woman took another step towards him. Even though she was creepy, there was something fascinating about her, something that made TK stay where he was, watching her. She smiled.
"You shouldn't get upset," she said scoldingly "You darken all the pretty sparkles around your head."
"Pretty sparkles?" TK said.
"Yeah....all glowing. Bright yellow. Like sunshine," the woman said. She frowned "I don't like sunshine. It burns my pretty white skin." She smiled at TK "Your brother has pretty white skin. He's almost as pale as my Spikey."
"You know Matt?" TK said slowly.
"We all know Matt," the woman said. She smiled again, a dark, mysterious smile "He's blue."
"Blue?" TK repeated.
"Blue sparkles," the woman said helpfully "They don't shine so bright as yours."
Blue...yellow....
TK stared at her. She knew about the colours of their crests! For a first time since the beginning, he felt a flicker or fear going through him.
"You....you see that?"
The woman nodded.
"Who...who are you?"
"My name's Drusilla," the woman said "And you...you're the Slayer's brother."
"The what?"
Suddenly, Drusilla moved. She moved with blinding, inhuman speed, seizing TK's upper arms.
"What are you doing?" TK shouted "Let go!"
"Shhhhh baby," Drusilla said "It'll all be over soon."
Then her face changed. Instead of the beautiful face she'd had before, it twisted, strange ridges appearing. Her eyes became yellow and the teeth lengthened. She'd lost all impression of being delicate. In fact, she gave off an aura of power that TK could feel. Her hands were like steel claws round his arms.
"What the..." TK whispered. Then he screamed "HELP! HELP! MATT! MAAAAATT!"
"Sh dearie," Drusilla said "Mummy's here."
Then, as TK cried out again, she bent her head and sank her teeth into his throat.
* * * *
Darla was experimenting with make-up when Drusilla twirled into the room.
"Have you done it?" Darla asked, looking round.
Drusilla smiled and nodded.
"He was so sweet," she said "He's made me feel all....warm inside."
"Well, I doubt the Slayer will be feeling that!" Darla said with a laugh.
"No," Drusilla said with a smile.
"I don't think he will."
End of Part 8.
Blue and Yellow Sparkles
By the Empress of the Eclipse
Disclaimer - It's not mine. Not any of it.
"Matt, stop that!" Akemi said "You look like a hamster on steroids!"
Matt gave him a mock offended look.
"I'm sorry!" he said "I just...it's my first gig for ages!"
"It's everyone's first gig for ages!" Akemi said.
"I'm going to pull tonight," Gendo said "I am going to pull for sure. I can feel it."
Istu sighed.
"So who's coming anyway?"
"Angel," Matt said "Spike."
"Oh he's cute, I wonder if he's up for grabs," Gendo wondered.
"Ken," Matt continued "Davis. TK. Tai."
The band all made loud derisive noises. Matt glared at them all.
"Shut up."
He knew why they all disliked Tai so much. It was just...well, he wished that they wouldn't, that was all.
"Ms Fuyutsuki's threatened to come too," he said.
Akemi hid behind his hands.
"No! Not her!"
"Speaking of your dear old Watcher, how's she taking the direct flaunting of her orders?" Toshiki asked.
"She's very, very pissed off," Matt said "She threatened to drag me up in front of the Watcher's Council and have me charged with...with...with some very long complicated word which I think she made up on the spot to intimidate me."
Akemi laughed.
"Sounds like her."
Matt shrugged.
"So I told her to stick it where the sun don't shine."
"NO!"
"Really?" Toshiki said, looking sceptical.
"Really!" Matt said "Only...well, not in those actual words..."
The band all groaned.
"Matt?"
Matt jumped.
"TK!" he said "Hey little bro, what are you doing back here?"
"I came to see you," TK said "Matt, can we talk?"
"Not now TK, I'm about to do a gig," Matt said gently "Later maybe?"
TK's shoulders drooped.
"You always say that!" he yelled suddenly "You keep fobbing me off Matt! You've been pushing me away and I want to know why!"
"TK, please!" Matt said "I will talk to you, I promise. Just...not now."
"Afterwards?"
"Sure," Matt said.
TK turned and stomped off, Matt staring miserably after him.
"Brotherly issues?" Toshiki said.
"I've been pushing him away," Matt admitted "I just...I don't want him getting hurt. And he'd never believe me anyway."
"You'll have to tell him something Matt," Toshiki pointed out "You'll have to tell him something."
"I know," Matt said "I'm just not quite sure what yet."
* * * *
The gig went incredibly well. Everyone seemed glad to see the return of the Teenage Wolves. Matt had to admit, it was good to be back up there. At one point he spotted Angel and Spike, Spike happily getting himself drunk and Angel glaring at him. Matt only just managed not to start laughing.
"WO-HO!" Akemi cheered at the break "This is going great! They love us!"
"They love me," Matt corrected wickedly "They all screamed loudest when I came on."
"Big headed little queer!"
"You're one to talk!"
Gendo rolled his eyes.
"Shut up you two," he said "Let's have no 'friendly' banter tonight please."
"Angel's out there," Matt said.
The band all wolf-whistled.
"So come on," Istu said "What's the sitch with you and Angel."
"'Cause if you aren't moving for him, I'm having a go," Akemi said "Vampire or no, he's one of the best looking people I've ever seen!"
"You can't," Matt said "Look, Angel...he can't have sex."
"WHAT?"
"Nooooo!" Akemi wailed "Such a cute guy...impotent?"
"No!" Matt said "It's not like that. It's just...okay, I told you about the curse?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, it's broken if he has a moment of true happiness," Matt explained "And guess how he gets that..."
"Oh Matt, why can't you fall in love with someone decent and sensible?" Istu said "Someone who will return your affections without spurning and hurting you."
"Someone like....?" Matt said.
"Well, me!" Istu said "Wanna go out sometime?"
"Hm, let me think about that," Matt said "Um, no."
Istu sighed.
"It was worth a shot."
Matt rolled his eyes.
"We need to be back on stage soon guys," he said.
"We know," Akemi said "Honestly Matt, we've done just as many gigs as you you know."
"I know but I'm used to looking after you lot," Matt said cheerfully.
"You look after us!" Gendo spluttered "I'M the one who looks after all of you!"
Matt just grinned innocently at him.
* * * *
After the gig, Matt found TK waiting for him in the back rooms again.
"You said you'd talk to me," he said, as though he thought that Matt would try to escape.
Which to be honest, Matt might have attempted to do.
"And I meant it," Matt said "Just let me put this stuff away and say goodbye to - oh, they've gone already."
The band had vanished, all their stuff already gone.
"How do they do that?" Matt asked himself, putting his guitar and music away "I can't do that!"
TK just stood, waiting. He obviously wasn't very interested with the band's trick of vanishing whenever they felt like it.
"Well?" Matt said eventually "What is it?"
"You know what," TK said "Matt, what's going on?"
Matt sighed.
"TK," he said "It's...it's complicated..."
"So what?" TK said "I want to know Matt! You keep on fobbing me off and I'm sick of it! I'm not a kid, I can understand you know!"
"I know!" Matt said "It's just...this is sort of weird and I really don't think that I can..."
"Matt, you're pushing me away!" TK cried "You spend more time with your band than me! You spend more time with Ken and Davis than me!"
"I know," Matt said "Ken and Davis...they weren't..."
"Matt, stop trying to put me off! Explain!" TK yelled.
"TK, calm down, please!" Matt said. He was feeling upset and beginning to get confused. He didn't have a cover story, at least not one that TK would buy "TK...I can't tell you everything."
"You never tell me anything!" TK yelled "Matt, the only Digidestined you talk to now are Ken and Davis and now they're going all secretive too! You've even stopped talking to Tai!"
"Because Tai's an untrustworthy little..." Matt cut himself off "Listen TK. It's nothing to do with you - with any of you. But I've got things in my life right now, big, weird things. I just...I can't handle trying to explain it all to you."
"But I'm your brother!" TK said "I'd understand Matt!"
"No," Matt said "You wouldn't."
TK looked at him.
"How can you say that when you haven't even tried?" he asked, his eyes glittering with tears "Matt, why are you pushing me away? Why are you pushing me out of your life?"
"Because it's my life," Matt said "TK, you have a life of your own. You can't expect to be part of everything in mine."
"But I've always been in your life," TK said "I'm your brother! You can't just expect me to go without a fight."
"Well maybe it's time you accept the inevitable," Matt said.
He knew it was a mistake as soon as he'd said it. He didn't even know why he'd said it. He didn't want TK out of his life.
But it was too late. He'd said it now. TK's face went pale with rage.
"How can you say that?!" he screamed "Matt, why can't you understand! I thought you understood things!"
"I do!" Matt cried "I do understand things TK! I know what you mean but..."
TK cut him off.
"I don't want to be part of everything in your life but I want to be part of your life and you won't let me because you're pushing me away!" he cried, tears running down his face "You'd rather have Ken and Davis than me! You're pushing me away!"
"That's not true!" Matt yelled, even though it was. "TK, listen to me...."
"Why?" TK demanded "Why should I? You aren't explaining anything Matt, you won't! You don't even care about me any more do you? Just because you're going to be a rock star, you don't even care about those who're your friends!"
"TK..."
"No!" TK yelled "I don't care Matt. Don't bother to justify yourself to me any more because I don't even want to know about it, okay? Just...do whatever you want to do. I don't care."
He turned and ran off, vanishing into the shadows.
"TK!" Matt yelled after him "TK come back! Please come back!"
But his brother didn't turn round. Matt sat down with a bump and put his head in his hands. What was he going to do now?
* * * *
TK kept running until he couldn't run any more. He slowed down, sniffing and trying to wipe his tears away. Why was Matt doing this? They'd always told each other everything. Why was Matt pushing him away? Had he done something wrong?
"Matt, why don't you want me any more?" he asked out-loud as more tears flowed down his face.
"Is something the matter?"
TK jumped a mile. Whirling round, he saw a woman smiling at him. She was very pretty with pale skin and dark brown hair and big blue eyes. She gave the impression of being quite delicate. She was wearing a very long, old fashioned looking dress and when she took a step towards him, it was almost as though she were gliding.
"Why would such a little thing like you be crying in the night?" she asked, her voice sounding musical.
TK swallowed. There was something creepy about this woman, something...unreal.
"I'm okay," he said, backing away a bit.
"Have you lost somebody?" the woman asked.
"No," TK said "I just...I was running away from my brother."
"Why?"
"No reason," TK muttered.
The woman took another step towards him. Even though she was creepy, there was something fascinating about her, something that made TK stay where he was, watching her. She smiled.
"You shouldn't get upset," she said scoldingly "You darken all the pretty sparkles around your head."
"Pretty sparkles?" TK said.
"Yeah....all glowing. Bright yellow. Like sunshine," the woman said. She frowned "I don't like sunshine. It burns my pretty white skin." She smiled at TK "Your brother has pretty white skin. He's almost as pale as my Spikey."
"You know Matt?" TK said slowly.
"We all know Matt," the woman said. She smiled again, a dark, mysterious smile "He's blue."
"Blue?" TK repeated.
"Blue sparkles," the woman said helpfully "They don't shine so bright as yours."
Blue...yellow....
TK stared at her. She knew about the colours of their crests! For a first time since the beginning, he felt a flicker or fear going through him.
"You....you see that?"
The woman nodded.
"Who...who are you?"
"My name's Drusilla," the woman said "And you...you're the Slayer's brother."
"The what?"
Suddenly, Drusilla moved. She moved with blinding, inhuman speed, seizing TK's upper arms.
"What are you doing?" TK shouted "Let go!"
"Shhhhh baby," Drusilla said "It'll all be over soon."
Then her face changed. Instead of the beautiful face she'd had before, it twisted, strange ridges appearing. Her eyes became yellow and the teeth lengthened. She'd lost all impression of being delicate. In fact, she gave off an aura of power that TK could feel. Her hands were like steel claws round his arms.
"What the..." TK whispered. Then he screamed "HELP! HELP! MATT! MAAAAATT!"
"Sh dearie," Drusilla said "Mummy's here."
Then, as TK cried out again, she bent her head and sank her teeth into his throat.
* * * *
Darla was experimenting with make-up when Drusilla twirled into the room.
"Have you done it?" Darla asked, looking round.
Drusilla smiled and nodded.
"He was so sweet," she said "He's made me feel all....warm inside."
"Well, I doubt the Slayer will be feeling that!" Darla said with a laugh.
"No," Drusilla said with a smile.
"I don't think he will."
End of Part 8.