Chapter 4
The gang came home to find Vincent still asleep on the table; Avian dropped her coat and ran to Vincent, sensing something wasn't right she tried to wake him. Vincent didn't wake up, Avian panicked she shook him once again, his hair slid off his neck revealing the twin wounds on it. Gabrielle walked in, she saw Vincent, she dropped the popcorn and pop she was carrying and ran to find Ketaruema.
When Gabrielle came across Ketaruema sleeping on her bed, she shook her violently and demanded of her, "What the HELL did you do to Vincent!" Ketaruema got up groggily, apparently unconcerned.
"Huh? Do what?" Ketaruema rubbed her eyes and yawned then pulled the covers up over her head. This annoyed Gabrielle to no end.
"You know what!" Gabrielle was pissed, and Ketaruema knew it, she didn't need to be psychic to know not to anger her more.
"No, I really don't know, what'd I do know?" Ketaruema asked innocently. Receiving no reply, she flopped back onto the bed and waved her pale hand to shoo Gabrielle away.
"You vampirized Vincent!" Gabrielle yelled at the top of her lungs. In the other room Avian, Sephiroth, and Irvine heard Gabrielle shouting and came running to see what was the matter. When they saw Gabrielle yelling at Ketaruema, they backed off slowly; they didn't want to get into the fight. Irvine bumped into something, and turned around. Irvine yelled and took off running, colliding with Avian and Sephiroth in the process.
"Woah, Irvine, what's up. You look like you saw a ghost! You didn't, right?" asked Avian nudging him in the ribs. Sephiroth on the other hand did not find Irvine's current state amusing in any way.
"It, he, what? No! Mughf, neine aargh" Irvine attempted to say something of utmost importance, but his tongue refused to comply.
"Irvine, what's wrong?" Avian felt a pang of pity for Irvine as he shook uncontrollably and mumbled incoherent phrases and words. "Sephiroth, we'd better go get Gabrielle, there's something wrong with Irvine." Sephiroth glared back at Avian as if to say, well duh!
"All right, I'll go get Gabrielle, if it'll put you at ease." With that Sephiroth stalked of to Gabrielle's room. As he reached for the door handle he realized something wasn't right, there wasn't any movement inside, no argument being played out, not even the gentile sound of slow breathing. He opened the door and stepped in, his eyes were immediately drawn to the floor, one pale streak of moonlight shone through the black velvet curtains. He followed the streak towards a black shrouded shape. Stooping down he moved the black sheet. Sephiroth gasped and dropped the sheet. In the moon light he saw a face that he could never forget. On the floor wrapped in a sheet was Gabrielle, in a panic Sephiroth searched for a pulse, he found one, it was faint but strong, worst of all, Gabrielle was cold and she wasn't breathing. He picked her up and cradled her against his chest, his eyes shut tight…wait a minute…he felt scabs on her neck against his cheek, and they weren't there before…he would know, he had been kissing her there earlier. He opened his eyes and pulled back a strand of his love's hair, to find the scabs, the same size and shape as the ones on Vincent's neck. The two had a connection, he was sure of it…Ketaruema! She was no where in sight, and she was the only one who could have done this. She was, after all, a vampire…