A/N: Hi everyone^^! Thank you so very much for your reviews!^^ *totally
happy* *hug* I'm glad that you liked the second chapter^^. I know, I wrote,
that this part would probably be on sooner and now it was even later... I'm
very sorry!!!
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Xzanayu: I'm sorry that I was so slow^^° Well, you'll soon see if Ryo is okay^^
Shuichi-san: I'm glad that you liked it so much^^ I hope you'll like this part, too^^ You
hear Rammstein? I don't really know them, so I don't know this song as well^^°
What is it about? Thanks for the help with Dee's name^^ In the German version
of the manga, however, it's really spelled Layton. ^^
Jexia: Thank you^^ I'm happy, that you liked the second chapter and I hope that you will like
the third chapter as well^^
Shkira: Thank you very much!!!^^ Well, you'll soon find out, I think^^
Christine: Du hast seltsame Nicknames, ich muss schon sagen…*ggg* Marcus… . Na ja,
freut mich jedenfalls, dass es dir gefällt^^
Tilisus: Thank you.^^ Well, as you can see I described the vampire world.^^
Megamie: Thank you!^^ You'll soon find out, what Ryo does, I think^^
Thank you so very much to B-Elanna(Mieke) for beta-ing!!!!! *hug*
I hope you'll like this part, too, please read and review!^^
Disclaimer: Fake belongs to Sanami Matoh and I'm earning no money with this story, of course.^^
Warnings: Shonen-Ai(of course it is, it's FAKE^^), Fantasy and perhaps a little bit Horror
Part 3
Everything was spinning around. Tiresomely Ryo sat up and leaned against a wall. Where was he? He slowly tried to open his eyes, though his vision was blurry so he still couldn't make out his surroundings… . After a few minutes he was able to finally see something and promptly he opened his eyes wide.
Until now he still hadn't been able to believe, that he really had entered another world, but his surroundings convinced him completely now. He had been transported to a huge, to him completely unfamiliar, town! The buildings seemed old and were unbelievably large, with strange ornaments, as they were known perhaps from ancient times.
The streets were broad and paved. There were no cars, but everywhere you looked there were people. One moment...people? Yes...but no humans. They had to be vampires, all dressed in the most different fashions from different times or countries. As if people from all times suddenly were joined in one time. Only one thing linked them, their extraordinary pale faces and their eyes beaming darkly.
A few creatures were flying through the air…were they vampires as well? He first thought that they were birds, but when he looked closer he found out they weren't birds at all: tall creatures having huge dark wings, with claws on the end. When one would look at a picture from the scene played before him, they would probably think that it seemed like lively and happy environment. But the town only radiated a threatening, gloomy and in no way a lively atmosphere.
Shuddering Ryo looked round. How in heaven's name could he find Dee in this huge town, without being recognized as a human himself?
A tall vampire passed him and grazed him by accident. He lowered his eyes and discovered Ryo. Derogatorily he examined him. "What have you done? Bitten a drunkard, haven't you? Some people will never learn …your face is really red, you know." Ryo nodded and lowered his head. At last the other one lost his interest and went. Ryo drew a deep breath and stood up.
With his head bowed down he went through the streets. Hopefully no one would notice, that he was an human being…apart from his teeth and his face, his clothes were very striking, because almost none of the vampires was dressed in the present fashion. So he wandered carefully through the town and watched for Dee or the two vampires he had got to know in this night. Perhaps Kyuketsuki, in the best case without Obscur, would be able to help him.
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After some hours he was completely sure that he had lost orientation. He had tried to remember the way roughly, but although it was dark, still above everything seemed to hang a strange dim light, which made it very hard to concentrate. It just seemed impossible to find anybody here.
At least he sat down on the edge of a wall. He half-shut his eyes and leaned back against the railing What was he supposed to do now? This town was just too big. He wondered if Dee was finding his way around. And he really hoped, that Bikky wasn't worried about him. He had no idea how long he already had been here… He was feeling dizzy. He would have loved just to be at home again, away from this nightmare-like world… .
He had almost fallen asleep again, when he suddenly noticed, that a young vampire girl was examining him curiously. He looked at her, which she seemed to take as an invitation to approach him. She was dressed rather modern, even if in the human world this style had been worn about 30 years ago. She was rather small, had big dark-green eyes and long brown curly hair, which was held out of her face by a circlet.
"Hello, are you new here?" She looked at him questioningly. "Yes…kinda…" Ryo answered elusively. What should he do now? Vanish as fast as he could? That would perhaps be the best thing to do…although…maybe she would be able to help him. He turned his head away, so that she couldn't see that he had no vampire teeth.
„What's your name?" She smiled at him friendly. "Oh…my name is Ry…Randy. And yours?" "Elizabeth, but please call me Eliza, okay? How old are you? I'm 53…oh, I know, that's rather young for a vampire.", she added, when she saw Ryo's surprised countenance. "Oh, really? Well…I'm 29."
Surprised she opened her eyes wide. Obviously she hadn't thought that he was that young. "Then you really can't have been here long…are you finding your way about? In the beginning I found it rather difficult, but one gets used to it very fast." She pondered shortly, then she headed directly for the reason why she had actually addressed him.
"May I invite you to a party tonight? Well, you can also call it a ball…but that doesn't matter really. The main point is, that you have fun. As far as I know almost all of us vampires are coming. Would you feel like coming? It takes place in that huge building over there, you really can't miss it." All of the vampires were coming? Indeed that could be interesting…that was his chance to find Dee!
At last Ryo nodded. "Yes, I'd love to!" She beamed. „We'll meet here shortly after nightfall, okay?" Ryo pondered. "Yes, of course", he answered, "but I still have one question. Do you know someone named Obscur or Kyuketsuki? She looked at him almost scandalized. "When did you come into this world? Five minutes ago? I mean, I know, that you are new, but absolutely everybody knows Obscur, he is one of the eldest! And Kyuketsuki is so to speak his right hand. Of course they will be present tonight as well, so you will be able to see them there. Why do you ask, have you been bitten by Obscur?"
Ryo indicated a nod. She laughed. "Then by all means don't try to take revenge on him, his strength surpasses yours by far…oh, I have to go now, it's already late in the morning. We'll see us this evening, okay? Sleep well until then!" Ryo nodded and smiled to her. "Sleep well."
He watched how she vanished in the crowd of vampires. Slowly they grew less and less, most of them probably slept already. It had grown a bit brighter as well, though there still hung this strange dim-light everywhere…
What a strange girl…he wondered if all vampires were so direct. But he had been really lucky to meet her. He hoped, that he would be able to find Dee at this party or whatever it was called… With these thoughts he fell asleep.
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"Randy! Hey, Randy, wake up!" Ryo slowly opened his eyes. Eliza stood in front of him and was shaking him slightly. "You are awake at last, fine, then we can go now. Come on!" He nodded and stood up troublesomely. Sleeping on a wall wasn't actually the most pleasant thing he could imagine.
They walked side by side towards the great building. Surprised Ryo looked around, when he noticed, that there were standing not only normal vampires but also some of the winged ones, who he had seen on the sky. Some other creatures, who didn't look like vampires at all, were standing there as well.
"What kind of creatures are those? I thought there were living only vampires here?", he asked Eliza quietly. "The winged vampires are angels who were bitten by vampires. We call them Kyutenshi. How they call themselves I don't know. The other ones are demons. Sometimes they come here from their own towns, when a great feast takes place." "But…." This information was a bit too much for Ryo after all. "But...they also live here, in this world?" He looked at her completely confused. But she seemed not to have heard him, she just pulled him further.
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After they had waited for almost an hour in front of the entrance hall, they were finally allowed to enter. This hour had been rather hard for Ryo, for Eliza had introduced him to all of her friends and it really hadn't been easy to hide that he wasn't a vampire. In the meantime he could imagine very well, how Dee had probably felt.
In the great hall it was despite the many creatures, who were rushing in, not crowded. On the contrary, to Ryo's astonishment, the hall offered room to everyone without any problems. And because of exactly this reason it also was totally impossible to find somebody here. Eliza looked smiling at his confusion. Surprised he recognized, that she moved totally sure of her self and seemed to know perfectly where the persons she was looking for were to be found.
"How are you just doing this…?" he finally asked discouraged. "What, that I always find my friends? With telepathy, of course." "Yes, of course…TELEPATHY?!?" Ryo looked at her shocked. "Telepathy, you mean like magic? Okay…that really makes sense…" "Oh, right, you probably still aren't able to use your powers. But, don't worry you'll certainly learn it soon enough." She smiled. He nodded, still slightly perplexed. Powers? Was Dee able to do something like that now as well?!?
They arrived at the place where obviously all of Eliza's friends were assembled. Ryo sighed. Now he certainly would be introduced to everyone again… . He looked around quickly and indeed discovered on an elevation Obscur, who was talking to some vampires and other creatures. Next him was standing Kyuketsuki. "Oh, I just discovered someone whom I know", he said quietly to Eliza. "I'll be back in a minute, okay?"
Giving her no time to answer he tried to walk as fast as possible to the elevation, what really wasn't as easy as it seemed. In front of the elevation all of the creatures, who were present, seemed to crowd.
At last he made it. He was standing at the edge of the elevation, near Kyuketsuki, who was just talking to a female demon whose feet seemed to consist of eagle claws. Her arms and legs were feathered. When Kyuketsuki bowed before her shortly and turned to leave his eyes fell upon Ryo. He opened his eyes wide, tried, however, to hide his astonishment as good as possible.
Casually he went to the edge. Then Ryo heard Kyuketsuki's voice. But…his mouth wasn't moving, his voice was directly in his head! "What are you doing here? Do you know how easily you can be discovered?!? Please go to the middle of the hall, I'll come to you later. At the moment I can't speak to you. Obscur is holding a speech in a few minutes." Ryo was only able to nod silently, how else should he have answered?
Slowly he went back to Eliza. She smiled, when she saw that he returned and pulled him with the words "May I have the next dance?" on the dancing floor. Ryo knew he had to dance with her, no matter whether her wanted to or not, he was her dancing partner after all. After some time a loud voice sounded. Obscur's speech began. The music stopped and everybody stayed where they were at the moment.
"I'm very pleased, that all of you were able to come to this feast. I'm especially glad to be able to welcome some of the demons here as well. They are bringing a great darkness to us." This obviously was a praise, because the demon in whose direction Obscur bowed drew his mouth to a kind of a smile. The demon seemed to Ryo extraordinary ugly, but perhaps here were different beauty standards valid. Next to him there stood the eagle-like demon, who had spoken with Kyuketsuki before.
"Some of the Kyutenshi have come to us as well. That's a great honour for us. Thank you very much for travelling the long way to us from your city." He bowed anew, this time in the direction of a tall vampire with huge wings.
"Now, enough of the praises, I will proceed to the issue, in which you all certainly are interested urgently. The attack on our enemies in the human world failed once more." A disappointed whispering went through the hall. Ryo pricked up his ears. Which attack? The blackmail of this company perhaps? But this couldn't possibly…
"You know, that Tenebrae hypnotised a group of humans, who were lead then by Ian against those barbarians. He was shot, however, and had to use all his power to divert the bullets. Then he vanished, for he would have had no chance against all those humans."
"If just all of us vampires had gone and had bitten all of them!", shouted someone of the audience. Obscur sighed. "But I have explained to you, that it isn't possible. We aren't able to survive in the human world for a long time, just as humans aren't able to endure living in our world for long. It just isn't possible. Ian is an half-vampire, but their number is little."
"And moreover," Kyuketsuki took up the word surprisingly, "We can't possibly just kill humans, who haven't done anything at all! We have to fight our enemies, that's all very fine, because if we don't, they will kill us and about every year or decade we also need some blood, but not that much!"
With his words he didn't particularly provide enthusiasm. Thousands of angry looks met him and words were to be heard like: "Much too kind for our world", but also "bright sunlight" or even "stake". Obscur pushed him aside giving him a warningly look and hissed something silently. Kyuketsuki cast his eyes down.
"Well, whatever…" Obscur tried to take up the thread again. "We won't give up. Of course we can't bite all the humans, that would disturb the balance of power and we would annihilate ourselves, but we will never allow, that some weak humans try to eliminate us." The vampires obviously weren't totally pleased, presumably they felt disturbed by Kyuketsuki, however, they still applauded for Obscur.
„Kyuketsuki is such an idiot! Such a lunatic! It's impossible to believe, that Obscur associates with someone like him!", Ryo suddenly heard Eliza's voice next to him. During Obscur's speech he hadn't noticed at all, that she was standing next to him. He only was able to throw her a surprised look, when he already saw Kyuketsuki rushing towards him, closely followed by the obviously furious Obscur.
"What does he want here?" Suddenly low-spirited Eliza was clinging to him. Then she noticed Obscur. When both of them stopped in front of them her legs didn't carry her anymore. "Oh…Lord Obscur…"
The creatures who were standing around retreated as well. Ryo looked at him surprised. Eliza was still clinging to Ryo's arm and was standing up again slowly. Sighing quietly he put an arm around her, for if not she would have fainted again immediately. Then, however, his eyes grew wide. Behind the rather tall Kyuketsuki appeared a well-known person…a tall person with dark hair…Dee!!!
"Hey, Kyuketsuki, what happened, why are you dragging me here at all…I…Ryo?!?" He stared at him. "But how…you've followed me!" His face seemed whiter and more sunk in than those of many older vampires. But now it brightened up. He beamed at Ryo and was about to to say something.
But then suddenly his gaze fell onto Eliza and it darkened again. He dropped his look. "I should have known it…why should you look for someone like me. The vampire ladies here are beautiful, aren't they…?" Saying those words he turned around and vanished in the crowd again.
"What…?" Eliza looked up to Ryo questionably. He, however, didn't notice her at all, but tried to run after Dee. Kyuketsuki hold him back. "You'll never find him here without special powers." Obscur in the meantime was giving Eliza his most charming smile. "Would you please leave us alone for a moment, young lady?" Eliza blushed and quickly vanished also in the crowd.
"Ryo…who was that?" Kyuketsuki watched her frowning. "Well, I totally lost my way. She found me on the street and invited me to this place. That really was very kind of her. What should I have done, alone I would never have found you…" "Perhaps that would have been better…" Obscur grinned, letting his long vampire teeth flash up. Kyuketsuki threw him an angry look.
"Ryo, I won't last long until you are recognized as an human. And you did hear Obscur before, you aren't able to survive here for long." "But…but I have to fetch him back! And he is an half-vampire, you did say this before by yourselves! He is able to exist in my world!"
Obscur looked at him with his head inclined. "Well, you rather messed it up then, my dear one…" He received an indignated look from Kyuketsuki. Ryo only shook his head desperately. "But I have to fetch him back! I have to!!!" The last words Ryo had shouted and now some eyes did lie on him.
Quickly he shut his mouth, but a female demon next to him already shouted: "That one isn't one of us! That one isn't a creature of the night!" Everybody looked at him. Suddenly somebody called: "Oh, there is Lord Obscur standing next to him! He'll certainly bite him, won't you Mylord?"
At once everyone's attention went to Obscur, who looked at Kyuketsuki concerned. He personally wouldn't be really bothered by biting Ryo, Kyuketsuki, however, wouldn't forgive him for decades. Exactly Ryo, who was reminding considerably of Kyuketsuki himself… .
Suddenly a clear voice was to be heard. "I request from you, Obscur, leave him to me, please!" Dee stepped forward and laid his hands on Ryo's neck smiling coldly. Ryo winced. Obscur smiled relieved. "Okay, he shall be yours." Dee stepped still nearer to Ryo. Everyone watched them fascinated.
Ryo trembled slightly. Dee wouldn't do this, would he? He felt Dee's cold sharp teeth on his neck. He couldn't do this, could he? Dee pulled him to him still nearer. Okay, obviously, he did it. Ryo shut his eyes.
There he suddenly heard a quiet voice. "Ryo, shut your eyes and scream. Then pretend to be unconscious. Now!" Ryo did how he was instructed. Dee was helping him! Despite his relief he still trembled that terribly, that he didn't even have to exert to become unconscious. Then, however, he suddenly felt something flowing down his neck.
With a last short look he recognized something red. But why? Was this perhaps…blood?
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TBC!^^ Kyutenshi is put together of kyuketsuki and tenshi, which means angel in Japanese^^ Please tell me what you think about this part!!!
love, Lichtelfe^^
Helluin: Okay, then I'll write in English, if you want me to *grin*. fanfiction.net deleted
your review *unhappy*, but I got it per e-mail^^
Xzanayu: I'm sorry that I was so slow^^° Well, you'll soon see if Ryo is okay^^
Shuichi-san: I'm glad that you liked it so much^^ I hope you'll like this part, too^^ You
hear Rammstein? I don't really know them, so I don't know this song as well^^°
What is it about? Thanks for the help with Dee's name^^ In the German version
of the manga, however, it's really spelled Layton. ^^
Jexia: Thank you^^ I'm happy, that you liked the second chapter and I hope that you will like
the third chapter as well^^
Shkira: Thank you very much!!!^^ Well, you'll soon find out, I think^^
Christine: Du hast seltsame Nicknames, ich muss schon sagen…*ggg* Marcus… . Na ja,
freut mich jedenfalls, dass es dir gefällt^^
Tilisus: Thank you.^^ Well, as you can see I described the vampire world.^^
Megamie: Thank you!^^ You'll soon find out, what Ryo does, I think^^
Thank you so very much to B-Elanna(Mieke) for beta-ing!!!!! *hug*
I hope you'll like this part, too, please read and review!^^
Disclaimer: Fake belongs to Sanami Matoh and I'm earning no money with this story, of course.^^
Warnings: Shonen-Ai(of course it is, it's FAKE^^), Fantasy and perhaps a little bit Horror
Part 3
Everything was spinning around. Tiresomely Ryo sat up and leaned against a wall. Where was he? He slowly tried to open his eyes, though his vision was blurry so he still couldn't make out his surroundings… . After a few minutes he was able to finally see something and promptly he opened his eyes wide.
Until now he still hadn't been able to believe, that he really had entered another world, but his surroundings convinced him completely now. He had been transported to a huge, to him completely unfamiliar, town! The buildings seemed old and were unbelievably large, with strange ornaments, as they were known perhaps from ancient times.
The streets were broad and paved. There were no cars, but everywhere you looked there were people. One moment...people? Yes...but no humans. They had to be vampires, all dressed in the most different fashions from different times or countries. As if people from all times suddenly were joined in one time. Only one thing linked them, their extraordinary pale faces and their eyes beaming darkly.
A few creatures were flying through the air…were they vampires as well? He first thought that they were birds, but when he looked closer he found out they weren't birds at all: tall creatures having huge dark wings, with claws on the end. When one would look at a picture from the scene played before him, they would probably think that it seemed like lively and happy environment. But the town only radiated a threatening, gloomy and in no way a lively atmosphere.
Shuddering Ryo looked round. How in heaven's name could he find Dee in this huge town, without being recognized as a human himself?
A tall vampire passed him and grazed him by accident. He lowered his eyes and discovered Ryo. Derogatorily he examined him. "What have you done? Bitten a drunkard, haven't you? Some people will never learn …your face is really red, you know." Ryo nodded and lowered his head. At last the other one lost his interest and went. Ryo drew a deep breath and stood up.
With his head bowed down he went through the streets. Hopefully no one would notice, that he was an human being…apart from his teeth and his face, his clothes were very striking, because almost none of the vampires was dressed in the present fashion. So he wandered carefully through the town and watched for Dee or the two vampires he had got to know in this night. Perhaps Kyuketsuki, in the best case without Obscur, would be able to help him.
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After some hours he was completely sure that he had lost orientation. He had tried to remember the way roughly, but although it was dark, still above everything seemed to hang a strange dim light, which made it very hard to concentrate. It just seemed impossible to find anybody here.
At least he sat down on the edge of a wall. He half-shut his eyes and leaned back against the railing What was he supposed to do now? This town was just too big. He wondered if Dee was finding his way around. And he really hoped, that Bikky wasn't worried about him. He had no idea how long he already had been here… He was feeling dizzy. He would have loved just to be at home again, away from this nightmare-like world… .
He had almost fallen asleep again, when he suddenly noticed, that a young vampire girl was examining him curiously. He looked at her, which she seemed to take as an invitation to approach him. She was dressed rather modern, even if in the human world this style had been worn about 30 years ago. She was rather small, had big dark-green eyes and long brown curly hair, which was held out of her face by a circlet.
"Hello, are you new here?" She looked at him questioningly. "Yes…kinda…" Ryo answered elusively. What should he do now? Vanish as fast as he could? That would perhaps be the best thing to do…although…maybe she would be able to help him. He turned his head away, so that she couldn't see that he had no vampire teeth.
„What's your name?" She smiled at him friendly. "Oh…my name is Ry…Randy. And yours?" "Elizabeth, but please call me Eliza, okay? How old are you? I'm 53…oh, I know, that's rather young for a vampire.", she added, when she saw Ryo's surprised countenance. "Oh, really? Well…I'm 29."
Surprised she opened her eyes wide. Obviously she hadn't thought that he was that young. "Then you really can't have been here long…are you finding your way about? In the beginning I found it rather difficult, but one gets used to it very fast." She pondered shortly, then she headed directly for the reason why she had actually addressed him.
"May I invite you to a party tonight? Well, you can also call it a ball…but that doesn't matter really. The main point is, that you have fun. As far as I know almost all of us vampires are coming. Would you feel like coming? It takes place in that huge building over there, you really can't miss it." All of the vampires were coming? Indeed that could be interesting…that was his chance to find Dee!
At last Ryo nodded. "Yes, I'd love to!" She beamed. „We'll meet here shortly after nightfall, okay?" Ryo pondered. "Yes, of course", he answered, "but I still have one question. Do you know someone named Obscur or Kyuketsuki? She looked at him almost scandalized. "When did you come into this world? Five minutes ago? I mean, I know, that you are new, but absolutely everybody knows Obscur, he is one of the eldest! And Kyuketsuki is so to speak his right hand. Of course they will be present tonight as well, so you will be able to see them there. Why do you ask, have you been bitten by Obscur?"
Ryo indicated a nod. She laughed. "Then by all means don't try to take revenge on him, his strength surpasses yours by far…oh, I have to go now, it's already late in the morning. We'll see us this evening, okay? Sleep well until then!" Ryo nodded and smiled to her. "Sleep well."
He watched how she vanished in the crowd of vampires. Slowly they grew less and less, most of them probably slept already. It had grown a bit brighter as well, though there still hung this strange dim-light everywhere…
What a strange girl…he wondered if all vampires were so direct. But he had been really lucky to meet her. He hoped, that he would be able to find Dee at this party or whatever it was called… With these thoughts he fell asleep.
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"Randy! Hey, Randy, wake up!" Ryo slowly opened his eyes. Eliza stood in front of him and was shaking him slightly. "You are awake at last, fine, then we can go now. Come on!" He nodded and stood up troublesomely. Sleeping on a wall wasn't actually the most pleasant thing he could imagine.
They walked side by side towards the great building. Surprised Ryo looked around, when he noticed, that there were standing not only normal vampires but also some of the winged ones, who he had seen on the sky. Some other creatures, who didn't look like vampires at all, were standing there as well.
"What kind of creatures are those? I thought there were living only vampires here?", he asked Eliza quietly. "The winged vampires are angels who were bitten by vampires. We call them Kyutenshi. How they call themselves I don't know. The other ones are demons. Sometimes they come here from their own towns, when a great feast takes place." "But…." This information was a bit too much for Ryo after all. "But...they also live here, in this world?" He looked at her completely confused. But she seemed not to have heard him, she just pulled him further.
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After they had waited for almost an hour in front of the entrance hall, they were finally allowed to enter. This hour had been rather hard for Ryo, for Eliza had introduced him to all of her friends and it really hadn't been easy to hide that he wasn't a vampire. In the meantime he could imagine very well, how Dee had probably felt.
In the great hall it was despite the many creatures, who were rushing in, not crowded. On the contrary, to Ryo's astonishment, the hall offered room to everyone without any problems. And because of exactly this reason it also was totally impossible to find somebody here. Eliza looked smiling at his confusion. Surprised he recognized, that she moved totally sure of her self and seemed to know perfectly where the persons she was looking for were to be found.
"How are you just doing this…?" he finally asked discouraged. "What, that I always find my friends? With telepathy, of course." "Yes, of course…TELEPATHY?!?" Ryo looked at her shocked. "Telepathy, you mean like magic? Okay…that really makes sense…" "Oh, right, you probably still aren't able to use your powers. But, don't worry you'll certainly learn it soon enough." She smiled. He nodded, still slightly perplexed. Powers? Was Dee able to do something like that now as well?!?
They arrived at the place where obviously all of Eliza's friends were assembled. Ryo sighed. Now he certainly would be introduced to everyone again… . He looked around quickly and indeed discovered on an elevation Obscur, who was talking to some vampires and other creatures. Next him was standing Kyuketsuki. "Oh, I just discovered someone whom I know", he said quietly to Eliza. "I'll be back in a minute, okay?"
Giving her no time to answer he tried to walk as fast as possible to the elevation, what really wasn't as easy as it seemed. In front of the elevation all of the creatures, who were present, seemed to crowd.
At last he made it. He was standing at the edge of the elevation, near Kyuketsuki, who was just talking to a female demon whose feet seemed to consist of eagle claws. Her arms and legs were feathered. When Kyuketsuki bowed before her shortly and turned to leave his eyes fell upon Ryo. He opened his eyes wide, tried, however, to hide his astonishment as good as possible.
Casually he went to the edge. Then Ryo heard Kyuketsuki's voice. But…his mouth wasn't moving, his voice was directly in his head! "What are you doing here? Do you know how easily you can be discovered?!? Please go to the middle of the hall, I'll come to you later. At the moment I can't speak to you. Obscur is holding a speech in a few minutes." Ryo was only able to nod silently, how else should he have answered?
Slowly he went back to Eliza. She smiled, when she saw that he returned and pulled him with the words "May I have the next dance?" on the dancing floor. Ryo knew he had to dance with her, no matter whether her wanted to or not, he was her dancing partner after all. After some time a loud voice sounded. Obscur's speech began. The music stopped and everybody stayed where they were at the moment.
"I'm very pleased, that all of you were able to come to this feast. I'm especially glad to be able to welcome some of the demons here as well. They are bringing a great darkness to us." This obviously was a praise, because the demon in whose direction Obscur bowed drew his mouth to a kind of a smile. The demon seemed to Ryo extraordinary ugly, but perhaps here were different beauty standards valid. Next to him there stood the eagle-like demon, who had spoken with Kyuketsuki before.
"Some of the Kyutenshi have come to us as well. That's a great honour for us. Thank you very much for travelling the long way to us from your city." He bowed anew, this time in the direction of a tall vampire with huge wings.
"Now, enough of the praises, I will proceed to the issue, in which you all certainly are interested urgently. The attack on our enemies in the human world failed once more." A disappointed whispering went through the hall. Ryo pricked up his ears. Which attack? The blackmail of this company perhaps? But this couldn't possibly…
"You know, that Tenebrae hypnotised a group of humans, who were lead then by Ian against those barbarians. He was shot, however, and had to use all his power to divert the bullets. Then he vanished, for he would have had no chance against all those humans."
"If just all of us vampires had gone and had bitten all of them!", shouted someone of the audience. Obscur sighed. "But I have explained to you, that it isn't possible. We aren't able to survive in the human world for a long time, just as humans aren't able to endure living in our world for long. It just isn't possible. Ian is an half-vampire, but their number is little."
"And moreover," Kyuketsuki took up the word surprisingly, "We can't possibly just kill humans, who haven't done anything at all! We have to fight our enemies, that's all very fine, because if we don't, they will kill us and about every year or decade we also need some blood, but not that much!"
With his words he didn't particularly provide enthusiasm. Thousands of angry looks met him and words were to be heard like: "Much too kind for our world", but also "bright sunlight" or even "stake". Obscur pushed him aside giving him a warningly look and hissed something silently. Kyuketsuki cast his eyes down.
"Well, whatever…" Obscur tried to take up the thread again. "We won't give up. Of course we can't bite all the humans, that would disturb the balance of power and we would annihilate ourselves, but we will never allow, that some weak humans try to eliminate us." The vampires obviously weren't totally pleased, presumably they felt disturbed by Kyuketsuki, however, they still applauded for Obscur.
„Kyuketsuki is such an idiot! Such a lunatic! It's impossible to believe, that Obscur associates with someone like him!", Ryo suddenly heard Eliza's voice next to him. During Obscur's speech he hadn't noticed at all, that she was standing next to him. He only was able to throw her a surprised look, when he already saw Kyuketsuki rushing towards him, closely followed by the obviously furious Obscur.
"What does he want here?" Suddenly low-spirited Eliza was clinging to him. Then she noticed Obscur. When both of them stopped in front of them her legs didn't carry her anymore. "Oh…Lord Obscur…"
The creatures who were standing around retreated as well. Ryo looked at him surprised. Eliza was still clinging to Ryo's arm and was standing up again slowly. Sighing quietly he put an arm around her, for if not she would have fainted again immediately. Then, however, his eyes grew wide. Behind the rather tall Kyuketsuki appeared a well-known person…a tall person with dark hair…Dee!!!
"Hey, Kyuketsuki, what happened, why are you dragging me here at all…I…Ryo?!?" He stared at him. "But how…you've followed me!" His face seemed whiter and more sunk in than those of many older vampires. But now it brightened up. He beamed at Ryo and was about to to say something.
But then suddenly his gaze fell onto Eliza and it darkened again. He dropped his look. "I should have known it…why should you look for someone like me. The vampire ladies here are beautiful, aren't they…?" Saying those words he turned around and vanished in the crowd again.
"What…?" Eliza looked up to Ryo questionably. He, however, didn't notice her at all, but tried to run after Dee. Kyuketsuki hold him back. "You'll never find him here without special powers." Obscur in the meantime was giving Eliza his most charming smile. "Would you please leave us alone for a moment, young lady?" Eliza blushed and quickly vanished also in the crowd.
"Ryo…who was that?" Kyuketsuki watched her frowning. "Well, I totally lost my way. She found me on the street and invited me to this place. That really was very kind of her. What should I have done, alone I would never have found you…" "Perhaps that would have been better…" Obscur grinned, letting his long vampire teeth flash up. Kyuketsuki threw him an angry look.
"Ryo, I won't last long until you are recognized as an human. And you did hear Obscur before, you aren't able to survive here for long." "But…but I have to fetch him back! And he is an half-vampire, you did say this before by yourselves! He is able to exist in my world!"
Obscur looked at him with his head inclined. "Well, you rather messed it up then, my dear one…" He received an indignated look from Kyuketsuki. Ryo only shook his head desperately. "But I have to fetch him back! I have to!!!" The last words Ryo had shouted and now some eyes did lie on him.
Quickly he shut his mouth, but a female demon next to him already shouted: "That one isn't one of us! That one isn't a creature of the night!" Everybody looked at him. Suddenly somebody called: "Oh, there is Lord Obscur standing next to him! He'll certainly bite him, won't you Mylord?"
At once everyone's attention went to Obscur, who looked at Kyuketsuki concerned. He personally wouldn't be really bothered by biting Ryo, Kyuketsuki, however, wouldn't forgive him for decades. Exactly Ryo, who was reminding considerably of Kyuketsuki himself… .
Suddenly a clear voice was to be heard. "I request from you, Obscur, leave him to me, please!" Dee stepped forward and laid his hands on Ryo's neck smiling coldly. Ryo winced. Obscur smiled relieved. "Okay, he shall be yours." Dee stepped still nearer to Ryo. Everyone watched them fascinated.
Ryo trembled slightly. Dee wouldn't do this, would he? He felt Dee's cold sharp teeth on his neck. He couldn't do this, could he? Dee pulled him to him still nearer. Okay, obviously, he did it. Ryo shut his eyes.
There he suddenly heard a quiet voice. "Ryo, shut your eyes and scream. Then pretend to be unconscious. Now!" Ryo did how he was instructed. Dee was helping him! Despite his relief he still trembled that terribly, that he didn't even have to exert to become unconscious. Then, however, he suddenly felt something flowing down his neck.
With a last short look he recognized something red. But why? Was this perhaps…blood?
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TBC!^^ Kyutenshi is put together of kyuketsuki and tenshi, which means angel in Japanese^^ Please tell me what you think about this part!!!
love, Lichtelfe^^