Freak

By: Raven

Yusuke crashed through the undergrowth, following the scream. After several painful moments of the screaming, Yusuke finally reached a glade with a small pond. A bloodied corpse lay on the ground, surrounded by tree teeth-baring entities. Blood dripped from the mouth of one, and it hissed in pleasure. Yusuke quickly hid behind a bush, and watched the three—two girls and a boy. One girl got up, cleaned up her mouth by washing it with water from the pond. It didn't burn her. Yusuke frowned. Normally, water burned vampires. He was sure they were vampires. His heart started pounding. Faster, and faster, until he thought it would rip out of his chest.

The girl who washed her face stood up, and frowned. She whispered to the other two, but Yusuke couldn't tell what she said. It was all in hisses and clicks. The other girl and boy nodded. They cocked their head almost flat, the straight up. It was almost comical if Yusuke wasn't so scared that they would find him. The two hissed to each other, nodded. Then, they dragged the body into the pond, and threw it in. The water sizzled and bubbled, and a skull rose to the surface.

Yusuke craned his head, and rose up a little to see the skull. Streaks of shadow with flicked with red hung from the stained chalk, and eyes were half dissolved, white jelly and red blood still creeping out. The teeth were curved in a gruesome grin, maggots flooding from the cave, the tongue half sticking out. Maggots slowly chewed away the soft flesh of the tongue. A strong smell came over Yusuke, and he had to stifle a cough. Cloths of muscle and sinew still covered the skull, and the soft morass of the brain hung out of a hole in its side, some of it forcing its way past the eye balls. A leechlike creature came out of the bottom of the skull, then burned, and dropped into the water. The girl with a black shirt and silver chains, reached back into the water, and pulled out the skull with the rest of its body.

Yusuke screamed.

The girl holding the body grinned in triumph. Yusuke ran, and hid behind a tree. The girl came towards him...

"Come out; come out, wherever you are..." She whispered, two inch long teeth glimmering in the dappled light. The rotting carcass of the body was still dragging behind her. "Oh, no? So, let's play hide and seek. Also, my name's Sora...Sora F. Sanchez..." The girl, Sora hissed. Then, she started clapping her hands. "I can hear, feel your heartbeat. The more scared you are, the faster it pounds. Right now, I can practically dance to it..." She leaped up into the same tree Yusuke was in.

"I know you...You're Yusuke."

"YUSUKE!"

Yusuke snapped his head towards the noise. It sounded like Keiko with Kurama and Kuwabara. "No!" Yusuke screamed. "DON'T COME HERE! DON'T! STAY AWAY!" He screamed again.

"It's no use," Sora said. "They won't listen."

Suddenly, the skull she was holding flew up, and reattached itself to the body. It rose unsteadily. Black, matted hair stuck to the skull, and an eyeball popped out, rolling onto the ground. A maggot crawled out. Sora picked it up, and popped it into her mouth. She chewed, and Yusuke's mouth widened in horror as more white jelly dribbled down her chin.

He screamed. Suddenly, a voice in his head appeared.

Will you hide me? It sounded vaguely familiar.

Who are you?

Hide me, the voice repeated.

"Who are you!" Yusuke shouted and clutched his head.

You're the one who offered to be my friend.

Laura?

You wouldn't, couldn't have been my friend. I'm too different. You would've hated me. See what has become of me now!

Yusuke turned toward the body, and the skull lifted up, a puppet controlled by the marionette vampire Sora. Yusuke looked into the empty eye sockets, white mass crawling out. "Laura..." He breathed.

"Yusuke!"

It was Kurama. "Yusuke, get away!"

"I told you to get away from here! Leave, before she does the same to you as Laura!" Yusuke shoved Kurama away. Kurama grinned.

"No, she can't." He smiled, and Kuwabara, Keiko, and Hiei appeared behind him. Suddenly, Kurama morphed into the male vampire Yusuke saw with Sora.

"Now," 'Kurama' hissed, "You know what it's like to go crazy..." He lifted a claw to tilt Yusuke's chin up. "Oh...Sora," he sung, "I'll leave you to him." He smirked, and Kuwabara, Hiei, and Keiko followed him like mindless zombies.

"No..." Yusuke breathed.

Will you be my friend now?

(End)

Well, that was graphic. Not for the weak of heart. ;;;