Selkie : Hiya! Ok, guys, just to tell ya, this is the first chapter written by my friend Calvin!

*crowd cheers*

Cally : Thank you, thank you!

Selkie : Ok, so give me the comments and ill give them to cally! Enjoy!

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Spoilers: Nothing much, just why Calvin left the castle. Also this is a longer chapter than the last two.

Disclaimer: Bizzare Saga is copyright of Jordan and Calvin. All art, characters and scenario are joint projects by Jordan-Chan and Calvin-Sama ~ (Project Alternate Reality)

Authors` Note: Bonjour! My name is Calvin and I will be writing chapters in turn with Selkie, I hope this will give the story we are both trying to get across a fresher feeling and some depth into the world of Bizzare Saga. Also I am working on making the official website for our Fic and hopefully it will be up soon. So I think we should get going on this chapter then ....... :)

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Chapter Three - Blood Sugar and Magic

` No, we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars ` ~ Oscar Wilde [lady Windermere`s fan]

"What are you looking at Karyuu?" Leah called from the plains, running into Kiru`s top floor for a better look, "Why have you stopped flying all of a sudden?"

She was right, he had stopped flying. He hovered motionless, floating in mid air, staring helplessly into the terrifying gaze of the figure on the rooftop of Kiru, the talking house.

"Come on Karyuu, what`s wrong? Tell us!" the turnip exclaimed poking it`s small body out of the house window.

Karyuu felt his upper lip tremble uncontrollably, he pryed his crystal clear blue eyes of the fiend that was watching him with the most evil intesions.

"Erm......" he stuttered, playing with his t-shirt, lifting it up ever so slightly to reveal the trickle of blood coming from his navel, due to David Gilmour`s attack "There`s a ....a boy on the roof!"he called.

"Could it be a vampire?"Leah whispered to herself, brandishing her star tipped wand from her tiny hands, ready to strike if necessary. Suddenly there came a massive sound. Kiru bellowed a loud, worried shriek, obviously in alarm to Karyuu`s warning and started stomping her feet and shaking her gigantic structure in attempt to discard whatever was on top of her roof.

Karyuu fluttered his wings and turned to face the unknown shadow on the roof, it`s deep crimson eyes watching him menacingly.

"Watch out Karyuu! If that is a vampire, it would have smelled the blood from your cut on your stomach!" Leah shouted at her winged companion, but it was too late. The vampire had already lunged itself at Karyuu and had knocked him out of the air, into the vast field below.

"Kiru!" Leah siad in a concerned voice "Please lift me down! I have to help Karyuu!"

"Of course" the house boomed while it raised it`s huge hand to the window.

"Thanks, Kiru" Leah spoke as she patted the wall two times and hopped onto the massive palm that Kiru held out for her.

Meanwhile, back at the plains, Karyuu and the vampire where wrestling to the floor.

"Get away from me!" Karyuu shouted whilst evading another lunge from the vampire`s claws. As they landed, Karyuu jumped agin and out stretched his beautiful wings, but something was wrong. His left wing was torn, some feathers missing and it was struggling to keep him aloft. He looked down to see the vampire staring up at him with those hypnotising, deep crimson eyes.

He could not hold on much longer, he knew that he was going to fall to his death.

"How could I?" he thought "A simple ordinary boy match up against a vampire? What did I ever do to deserve this?" But before he had time to answer his own question, he was falling....

Karyuu opened his blue eyes to find the vampire leaning over him, pinning him down to the floor. He had pale skin, dark red eyes and musty balck hair, which was clumpy and slightly longer than Karyuu`s own sandy hair. He looked a little older than him as well.15 maybe? The vampire boy gave Karyuu a faint smiled and slid his hand up the winged boy`s t-shirt, reaching for the cut on Karyuu`s navel. Karyuu gazed into the other boy`s eyes and they both stopped in their tracks. Even though Karyuu was near death, the gaze was almost.... comforting. But that soon changed as the vampire stuck his finger into the younger boy`s wound.

Karyuu screamed a short high scream and then winced as the boy drove his finger deeper into his skin. He watched as the other boy finally removed his now blood soaked finger and slid in into his mouth, revealing two sharp fangs. He licked off the remains of blood and Karyuu knew the was his chance and kicked out his legs, his feet slamming into the vampire`s stomach, sending him flying across the grass. Karyuu stood, clutching his stomach and suddenly there was a loud crash behing the other boy.

"Kiru!" he shouted jumping up and down once, waving in the direction that the house was coming in.

"Hiya!" it said in a deep, yet girly voice.

"Hurry!" he replied. He glanced round to see the vampire starting to stand up.

Kiru, now closer, outstretched her arm and placed Leah next to Karyuu. The tiny turnip hugged the giant finger as she landed. Kiru smiled. Leah then ran up to Karyuu and hugged him too.

"Leah.Kiru.We need to get out of here!" Karyuu said, panicking.

"No way! We`re gonna fight! Come on!"Leah exclaimed

"But.... I mean..... I can`t fight!" Karyuu said.

"Well you can now!" said Leah waving her wand. Suddenly, Jordan`s clothes changed. He was wearing a black long-sleeved t-shirt and balck tight trousers. Over them was a white toga, fastened by a belt and he had orange sweatband-like cuffs round his wrists and ankles. He wore white and orange boots with lots of buckles on his feet. He also, to his surprise, had a sword in a sheath strapped round his body from his waist to his shoulder.

"Wow! Just like Final Fantasy! What did you do to me?" he asked Leah with an astounded look on his face.

"I upgraded your fighting skills to knight level!" the turnip replied as Karyuu unsheathed his sword and examined it. He put it back.

"How can you fight though?" he asked.

He was replied with one word. "Simple"

Leah waved her wand and in a puff of smoke, Leah emerged as a human. She was cute, with her hair pink and smooth flicking out at the back. She had large, wide, cute eyes and a cheeky grin. She wore a pink strap top and hot pants with pink slip-on trainers on her feet. And wierdest of all, there was a pink flower bud at the end of her hair. She was about Karyuu`s height.

"Ta-da!" she said posing.

Karyuu stopped and looked into her eyes. He definately recognised her now. He always looked at people`s eyes to look into the person, so he recognise the pair in front of him. It could be? Could it be her? The same cute expressions and voice and now he also had a thought about Kiru too. Could it be them? His thoughts were broken by a hissing behind him. He turned round to see the vampire getting up.

"Quick! How do we defeat him?" Karyuu said.

"Sugar!" boomed Kiru.

"Oh yeah!" said Leah "We need to feed him sugar!"

By now the sky was getting darker than it was but dark in this world, meant red.

In a wave of her wand, Leah conjured up a bag of sugar and a spoon and handed them to Karyuu.

"You have to be joking.... "smirked Karyuu.

"Yep, sugar!" said Kiru. "Off you go then!"

Karyuu looked at his companions then to his bag of sugar then to the boy. He was now fully recovered, except for a cut on his cheek. It then lunged at them.

"No!" yelled Leah, swiping her wand. A shower of stars flew out the tip and slammed into the vampire with a surprising force. Then, as it jumped again, Karyuu unsheathed his sword and struck a blow into the creature`s chest. It deflected the blow back at Karyuu and slashed his face. Karyuu stumbled backwards as Leah jumped over him and smacked the vampire across the face with the wand.

"Cheek!" Leah exclaimed, annoyed at the rudeness of the vampire. Karyuu grabbed the spoon and scooped out some sugar and ran forward. He stood in front of the creature and tackled it to the floor. He sat, stradled over it, so it couldn`t move and shoved the spoon into it`s mouth. It`s eyes bulged and it shuddered and lay still on the fresh grass. Karyuu jumped back with fright as the boy awoke from his spell.

"Could someone tell me where I am?" it said sitting up. It had a posh, clear voice and then, it slumped back to the floor again, unconscious.

"Oh great, he`s dead" said Leah walking over to him. She poked him with her wand.

No one except Karyuu noticed, but the boy slowly flickered his eyes, and Karyuu immediately recognised them again. They were Fuji`s. Come to think of it, he looked remarkably like Fuji. This was getting wierd. It was like this was an alternate reality in this world.

Slowly, Karyuu and Leah dragged the boy into Kiru.

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The next day......

"Look! He`s waking up!"Leah said bouncing on her seat. Kiru did her freaky laugh again. The boy opened his glazed eyes and studiedthe room and it`s inhabitants. His eyes were chocolate brown and he had more tanned skin than when the gang first met him. He had red lips and was quite tall. He lay on the bed stirring.

In the corner, Karyuu was trying to cut a hole in his clothes for his wings to stick through. He turned round as Leah made the statement.

A broad smile spread over his face as he sat up.

"Did you fellows help me escape the castle?" he asked in his clear posh voice.Although it was posh, it wasn`t snobbish.Wierd.

"Um, no "Karyuu said, not mentioning the attack "We found you hurt in the plains." Leah shot him a warning look.

"Oh. Terribly sorry" said the vampire boy, who looked just like a normal person right now "I better introduce myself."

He stood up, off the bed "Prince Calvin till Alexandross 12th Kikumaru. It is a pleasure to meet you" He bowed low.

"Thanks" Kiru boomed "Pleasure to meet you" Calvin jumped and giggled.

"I like your house " he said happily.

"I`m Karyuu Mizuumi, that is Leah and the house is Kiru. Nice to meet you" said Karyuu smiling, hiding his puzzlement over the similarities that were worrying him.

"Um, are you Prince Calvin of Kingdom X?" Leah asked waling up to him. She was still in human form.

"Yes, miss"replied Calvin. Kiru gasped, making one of the abstract pitures fal off the wall. Leah also squirmed.

"What`s wrong? Where`s that?"asked Karyuu dreading the worst.

"Oh, I know what you are thinking. Yes, I am a vampire. But I cannot control my actions unless I trust someone very much when I`m a vampire" said Calvin.

"So, what are you doing out here?" asked Kiru. Everyone jumped.

Calvin scratched his head. "I ran away" he said plainly. His brown eyes glistened.

"How come? " Leah asked walking over to another squishy chair and sitting down.

"I was unhappy . I hated being cooped up in that gloomy castle, and all the attention I got! I wasn`t left alone for less than a second" he ran his hand through his dark hair and looked out the window towards Kingdom X, which was looming in the distance of the red sky. "Well, I suppose I just wanted to see the outside world" He gave a faint smile and looked at the floor, ashamed.

Leah and Karyuu looked at each other.

"No doubt the castle will have put a bounty on my head and will probably send the knights out to get me" Calvin said sighing.

Before Leah could speak, Karyuu shot the prince a question.

"Hey I`ve got an idea! You can come with us on our journey! How about it? " Karyuu grinned.

"Oh yes! Certainly, I`ll come! Where are we off to?" the prince asked smiling ear to ear.

"We are off to the 7 places of Mystery in this world, so that Karyuu can get his wish and get home to his world."Leah said matter-of-factly.

"Oh, yes. The Seven places of Mystery. I know about them" Calvin replied "My old school teacher, Proffesor Totten knew about them. He told me a legend about them. Ah, how does it go again? Oh yes, who ever gathers the 7 Mysterious Shards, can get one wish granted"

"Yes, but where are they?" asked Karyuu. He was examining his sword again and polishing it.

"Well I think we should travel to the town of Ameilian where Professor Totten currently recides" Calvin answered.

"That`s not too far from here" Leah said "Kiru! New destination! Take us to Ameilian"

Kiru gave a comforting sigh which made Calvin laugh again. Karyuu walked over to the boy.

"Well, if we`re all gonna be friends, we can`t go about calling you Prince Calvin!" he said to the vampire as the house shook a little and set off at a surprisingly fast pace for something so big "I`ll call you............Cally!"

Cally smiled "Yes! I like that name!" He outstretched his hand to meet Karyuu`s. They shook hands.

"Good to have you on board Cally!" Karyuu said, beaming at his new friend.

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Music for this Chapter : Jump-Start, Seven Nations

Selkie: Give Calvin a great big cheer for a great chapter!!!!!

*crowd cheer again*

Calvin: Thank you! Hiya! Now time for my first chat with you guys! well, basic plot, exposition out of the way, Yay! :) Also the first major battle sequence! I rewrote it three times, with help from Selkie!

Selkie: Heehee! :)

Calvin: I got so frustrated with it! The original music for this chapter was a peice from the opera Merlin but again, it was changed last minute when I found the song to be too heavy-handed for what was meant to be a light-hearted bit. Instead I chose a more Celtic ivertone with a jig sort of sound, that reminds me of `Higatus Figatus` from Sword in the Stone.

Selkie: I`m sorry if the scene with Karyuu and Cally on the floor was too graphical, we didn`t mean it to be, but what`s a fic without a little bit of slash! lol This was a longer chapter and I`m going to try and keep it that way! Bye!

Calvin: Bye!

~ ~ ~ OK, so next Chapter the gang arrive at Ameilian to find that Professor Totten is a bit different from what Cally remembers and will they be able to escape the swarms of troops searching for the young prince? Find out in Chapter 4 of Bizzare!!!!!

Comments and Criticism welcome