Weee, I typed something despite how down I've been the last few days...and I've been getting my Anime site back up at www.kitsufox.com/anime/ .

Thankyou time..
Madiha - good to hear that you're still enjoying it!
Luine - I've been laughing HISTERICALY over the 'Yuki you hypocrite' in your review... I don't know why I thought that was so funny...

Now, on to the story...

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"Gravitation & the White Cross"
Chapter 6 (Technically 8) : The Wolf, The Lion, and the Vampire
A Gravitation/Weiss Kruez Crossover story

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Yuki glared at the seven people seated around his living room. They were waiting on the final member of one of the two teams. They had, however, already started telling their story again.

Realm-hopping had been banned by the Council of the Supernatural before Yuki had been born. The group of lawbreakers wouldn't be turned in by him, he planned to find the staff and ship them strait back to wherever the hell they came from.

Even that strange mortal the Vampire through was his sire. The mortal who's soul glowed with an Aura like a dragon.

"He's coming." The brown-eyed vampire declared, eyeing the door before the knock sounded. Yuki opened it with the hairs on his neck raising in response. He hadn't noticed it before, but the one on the other side of the door was different from the rest.

Exceptional.

When the door opened, Yuki's eyes locked on the figure that entered. A red-head wearing a scowl and carrying a katana stepped through the door way with nothing more than a nod.

The vampire hardly looked at the group that had called themselves his teammates and instead kept his brown eyes fixated on the telepath (Who'd come clean about what he was) and the one who served as his sire.

"You..." The shapeshifter just stared, trying to catch Aya's eye to learn how much he knew. "You and I have to have a long talk."

"I'll explain later."...

...Aya followed the blond man, Yuki Eiri, into his study. "I don't see why you to talk to just me."

"You don't know what you really are, do you?" Yuki absently flicked his cigarette at his ashtray. "Maybe shapeshifting is repressed by the nature of your realm."

"What are you talking about?" Aya demanded, fists clenching in irritation.

"Odd, considering both Telepathy and Telekinesis exist there."

"What's odd?"

"You being a shapeshifter." Yuki gave Aya a look that screamed 'duh' and continued. "You've never shifted, then?"

"What on earth are you talking about?" Fujimiya's glare could have wilted flowers. "Shifted into what?"

"I'm not quiet sure what you are, yet." Yuki eyed the redhead for a few moments. "Has to be a predator species."

"Start making sense." Aya demanded.

"You are a shapeshifter." The writer drawled, drawing the words out. "You have the innate ability to become some sort of animal."

"You're crazy."

"I'm one, too, remember?" The writer glared at Aya, whom he decided was enough to make a man crazy. "I'll show you, if you'd like."

"You're crazy." Yuki ignored Aya's repeated comment and focused himself on drawing the beast from his soul. It only took him a few moments to begin to change, his body drawing out into the same lion that Schuldig, Brad, and Ken had faced in the park. Then he slipped back into his human body, re-embracing that bit of himself that kept him human most of the time.

"Do you believe me now?"

"You think that I can do that?" Aya stared at the Gold-eyed man for awhile, trying to equate the lion and the man he'd beloved to be human.

"I can feel the potential you've got." Yuki hadn't seen anyone with potential in years and hadn't had the opportunity to Train someone in longer. "All you've got to do is learn."

"I take it you intend to teach me." Violet eyes looked resigned.

"You'll have to. With the potential you've got, it's likely that you could lose control and be consumed by the beast. Chances are it won't be suppressed when you return to the realm you came from, now that the ability has been awakened by this realm."

"I don't have a choice, then, do I?"

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Shuichi lounged on the couch in an exhausted way, curling onto Yuki's lap when he and the red-hear returned from Yuki's office. The blond eyed ken, who ignored him to nip at Brad's neck with pointed fangs.

"I take it you weren't a vampire until after you ended up here." Yuki was ignored for a few minuets, through Weiss looked as through they were considering answering for the vampire. "Ken, when did you get turned into a vampire?" Yuki made the question more specific. The fledgling vampire continued to ignore him. Just before Yuki repeated himself again, Crawford finally spoke up.

"He was turned after we ended up here, not before." The oracle calmly caught Ken's jaw to stop the nipping, smirking slightly as the smaller man curled up on his lap to sulk. "I ran the vampire off before he could bond with her."

"Where did you learn about vampires?" Yuki's eyes narrowed and he seemed unfazed by the sleepy pink-haired bundle that tucked itself under his chin. "You flat out said you don't have them in the realm you came from."

"I've started having visions of one of my past lives since we got here."

"Past life visions? I thought you saw the future." Yuki shifted Shuichi on his lap, but didn't make the boy move. "What triggered them?"

"The Staff, I think."

"What do you know about the Staff of Draconic?"

"Everything." Brad had to smirk at the expression that pasted itself to Yuki's features.

"You're as fucking arrogant as a master vampire." The shapeshifter snorted. "How could your past life memories teach you everything about the Staff."

"I have memories of MAKING it." There was that expression again, Brad was having far too much fun with this.

"You were a Dragon in a past life?" Yuki just stared for awhile. "This is the realm the Staff was made in, and the last dragon here was Charawa. He was killed ages ago, after he made the Staff."

"You never said you were a dragon!" Schuldig glared at Bradley. "Why didn't you tell us?"

"You already thought I was loosing it. You didn't need any more evidence."

"You could have told us." Even Nagi looked hurt.

"That explains why you're an oracle." Yuki accepted Brad's claim to being a reincarnated dragon without faltering. "Dragons have always had prophetic abilities."

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I swear... as fast as I explain stuff, I add new stuff, don't' I?
So, soon everything should be out in the open... and the story will end... not actually too much more to go... 11 Chapters total, according to my outline.. Though I've smashed two chapters into one on two separate occasions during editing... I've got one chapter left to type, and two to write up.