"Hey guys! I found something!" Omi's sharp voice echoed through the house. The sound of footsteps confirmed that the rest heard him, and were now on the way down to the mission room.
"So, what have you gotten this time, chibi?" Yoji came in, a cup of coffee in one hand. Omi frowned at the name he was addressed at but decided to ignore it first.
"Here." He pointed to the computer screen in front of him. It showed a map of an area near the shop. "Three cases happened around here, so we can try nabbing this one. I managed to get a video of the attacker, since it happened near a shop."
His finger jammed down onto the enter key, and a black and white video from the shop view started playing. It showed a corner of the shop first, and it was a dress shop. Yoji whistled and received a jab at his side. They continued watching the screen carefully, when a shadow from outside the shop came into the camera's view. Another figure came from the opposite side, all wobbly looking.
"That's the victim, so I presume this is the vampire."
"Have you seen it before?"
"Nope, decided to see it with you guys."
Judging by the figures, the victim had a hand out as if warning the other to back off. A split second later, the vampire was not human anymore. It crouched, and attacked the person.
Omi hit the pause button.
"What the… Manx didn't mention they could change shapes."
"Hold it. I'll zoom in to get a better look." The blonde started hitting some buttons quickly on the board, too fast for the rest to catch.
The screen went towards the two figures, analyzed it before it showed full color of a middle aged man, and a wolf attacking him.
"What the hell… That doesn't look like a vampire from any point of view!" Yoji barked.
"Don't state the obvious. Omi, can you keep it at this view, but starting from when the guy tried stopping the creature?"
Omi gave a slight nod and readjusted the screen to where the victim entered the scene. All of them stared at the screen in complete silence as the video played. The victim had his hand out, but the screen was smaller, they could not catch the vampire's figure anywhere. It continued, and the man mouthed what they rest think was a scream. Another second, and something black blocked out the whole computer screen.
"Okay… How about from the vampire's view?"
Again, the screen showed a blank-grey screen. A black figure came. It was wearing a black coat. The collar practically covered half his face.
"Hey, we can't see his…" Ken trailed off when the person turned his face towards the camera.
Blood red eyes shot directly at them, and Omi nearly screamed at the sudden contact. The red eyes continued staring, and the figure lifted is face from the deep collar. He opened his mouth slowly baring ivory colored teeth. They extended slowly, all of them. It was them they heard the victim scream.
The whole screen blacked out all of a sudden, and the rest stood there, paralyzed. Ken was the first to respond.
"Oh my God, what the hell was that?" Ken blurted. The other three recovered from their own shock.
"It's like he knew that we were looking at him. Freaky."
"Well, at least we know he's here. Let's see what we can do for tonight."
Black Luck
Night broke, and there was no moon for the darkness. The four assassins were being stationed at different corners of the area, all communication done by an ear-piece. It was close to midnight, and the four had been waiting since ten.
"Any sign yet?" Ran asked.
All the replies he received were negative. Sighing, he switched the earpiece off, only able to hear what others say. He crouched low; being on the roof, anyone could see him easily. He continued searching around, scanning the place for anything suspicious. So far, a few drunkards wanted to ask him to join them, and that was the perfect reason why he took to the roof.
He blew into the air around him, and he could see white puffs. The surrounding temperature was probably cold, but due to his thick leather assassin gear he was nice and warm. Omi was probably freezing his legs off. He gave a small chuckle at the thought if he found the youngest all frozen in ice.
He stiffened when he heard a rustle behind him. There was no possible way anyone could sneak up on him like that, not unless…
"Balinese, aren't you supposed to be at your station?"
"Just who is Balinese?" An unfamiliar voice spoke. Ran gritted his teeth together and jumped aside from the edge of the roof. He turned and faced a man with long, orange flowing hair. It resembled the Schwarz telepath one, but this one was twice longer.
"Are you going to be my meal tonight?"
Ran reached for his katana and got himself in position to charge.
"It won't be of a single use, pretty. We don't get killed by a measly blade."
Ran swallowed hard as he watched the vampire opened his mouth, and his canine teeth extended two inches. Those are hell long teeth for humans. Ran shook of the thought of getting caught. He had to win this or lose his life.
Just then, he heard a shout from his earpiece.
Ken.
"Siberian! Report status!" He shouted, not caring about the vampire in front of him.
"Damn….wolf…me…find…er…" Ran received bits and pieces from behind the static. His attention was back to the vampire when he spoke.
"Oh yes, did I tell you? I have a partner around here too. He can change to a wolf, but be thankful he's only a vampire. Not a werewolf."
"Damn you!" Ran screeched as he charged forward, katana fixated onto the vampire's chest. He caught sight of a smirk before the vampire vanished to thin air, and appearing behind him. He choked when a hand hit him against his neck using full force. He tumbled against the ground, before he felt himself getting picked up.
The vampire grabbed him painfully by one wrist, lifting him up totally from the ground. He flinched when he felt a nail sliding down his neck, pushing away the collar.
"It'll be a waste to kill you, but not many vampires know the secret of transforming humans into one…"
With the last words, Ran cried out as two fangs thrust into his neck.
Black Luck
"Bombay! Have you found any of them yet?" Yoji practically yelled through the earpiece. Omi had an urge to tell him to stop shouting, but there was something else more important than complaining at the moment.
"No. I lost contact with both of them. We'll just have to split us and find them."
"I think we only need to find Siberian now. I just found Abyssinian, bad shape."
Omi stopped in shock, holding the earpiece closer to his ears.
"Fuck, he's got two marks at his neck! I'm bringing him back first! You find Siberian!" Yoji said again. "Jeez Ran, just what got into you…"
Yoji's voice tailed off in the earpiece, and Omi decided to continue looking for Ken. He searched for fifteen minutes which seemed eternity, before finding his friend.
Ken was against a wall in an alley, apparently using a bar to support himself. Scars and scratches, not to mention bite marks were all over his body.
"Oh my God, Ken-kun, what in the world happened?" Omi asked, as he slowly supported the brunette up. Ken hissed in pain as Omi brushed his wounds by accident, sending stinging feelings to his brain.
"Don't know. Dumb large dog attacked my out of no where and took me as a chew toy. Managed to get it away by giving it a good one on the face."
Omi nodded at that statement, and told Ken to concentrate his strength on walking back instead of talking.
Black Luck
Ran stirred about in his sleep, and that was what worried Omi most. He was totally pale, and he seemed exhausted. It looked as if he was having a nightmare and one he could not escape from. Yoji was in the other room tending Ken's bruises. He heard Ken yell once or twice, which is good and it shows that Ken's still awake and alive.
His attention shot back to the sleeping redhead when Ran groaned in his sleep. His head twisted from side to side, and Omi noticed something was very wrong. The bite marks on his neck were reddening, swelling into large patches. Omi held back a scream, rushed out of the room to get the older blonde.
"Yoji-kun! Ran-san's neck isn't looking good!" Omi yelled.
He burst into Ken's room where Yoji was in, and stared in shock.
"I know! Ken here isn't acting very normal either!" Yoji growled.
The brunette was down on the ground with Yoji's wire coiled around him. He was panting very hard, and struggled against the restraints every while.
"Bring Ran in here now!" He shouted. Omi gulped in fear as he rushed back into Ran's bed, only to find him up as well.
"Oh God… YOJI-KUN!"
Yoji hissed at the name. He grabbed Ken and tied him to the corners of the bed, preventing him from moving in any possible way before sprinting into Ran's room on the other side.
He himself gaped at what he saw. Ran was on the ground, wrists being hold by Omi, neck bleeding and scratches over the marks.
"Yoji-kun! Ran was clawing at his neck!"
Without hesitation, he went up and delivered a hard slap across Ran's face, hoping it would wake him from whatever he was planning to do. The impact seemed to have worked, and Ran fell to the ground, unconscious all over again.
"Now to deal with Ken…" Yoji muttered, helping Omi toss Ran onto his bed.
"What happened to Ken-kun?" Omi asked worriedly. Yoji stared into the large blue eyes and shook his head.
"Don't know chibi. I was just cleaning him up when he decided to growl at me. I thought it was because the wound hurt, but then he snapped at me with his teeth. You know, like a dog, and I think I know where this is going to go."
"What? What do you think?"
Yoji turned to the younger boy, and gave him an unhappy pat on the head.
"Ran's been bitten by a vampire and Ken got attacked by a werewolf."
Omi stared at the blonde in a matter worst than shock. That was to mean, if Weiß was sent to kill the vampires and werewolves, what are they going to do about Ran and Ken? Unknowingly, Omi broke into a soft sob. The older blonde sighed and held Omi in a warm embrace, hoping it would calm him down.
"Don't worry, chibi, we'll find a way out of this…" He whispered.
Black Luck
Ken stared up at the bright blue sky. The one he loved so much. He admired the skies, a never ending series of blue. Kase would always sit beside him, laughing and joking with him. He missed them so much. The grass he laid on tickled his bare skin, and he enjoyed the way the flowers swayed in the winds. Everything seemed too peaceful to be true.
The brunette heard a clatter of glass as his vision cracked before him, glass shattering into bits. Now, standing before him was Kase's bloodied dying body.
"Ken…"
"Ka…Kase..."
"I'll see you… in Hell…"
"This is already Hell…" He said unconsciously. Kase's head fell to the ground, evidently dead. Ken clenched his fist, claws unsheathing themselves. The thought of killing himself crossed his mind. He brought his claws close to his chest, plunging it deep into himself.
Black Luck
"Aya… Aya! Wait up! We have to get home soon or else Otousan and Okasan would get really angry!" Ran called out to his sister, who was running faster than her brother. He watched his younger run past several shops, before catching her at a place where she stopped.
"Hai, hai! Whaa… ne, onii-chan! These are pretty! Can I have one pair?" Aya asked excitedly, pointing to various sets of earrings. Ran frowned at his younger sister who pouted back.
"Hurry up or else Outousan and Okasan would get angry!" Aya reminded happily. Ran gave a chuckle and picked a nice set of earrings for his sister's birthday.
"Oh no! It's raining! Better hurry!"
"What are we going to eat for dinner?"
"It's your birthday, you get to choose!"
The siblings laughed as they ran into their house, Aya quickly slipping out of her clogs leaving Ran to untying his shoelaces. A sharp scream from his younger sister sent Ran rushing into the room. He gasped in absolute shock when he saw both his parents on the ground, not moving at all.
"Otousan! Okasan!" Ran called out, shaking his parents. He stiffened when he heard clicking noises. He turned up to see what was worst than he imagined.
"Aya! Get out of here!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. Aya could only stare in shock as the bomb beeped and exploded.
The rubble fell all over the place, dust and smoke blinding Ran's vision. The redhead coughed as dust was starting to give him a hard time breathing. His head shot up from the debris when he remembered about his sister. With the remaining of his strength, he shouted as loud as he could fro his sister. The brown smoke cleared, and he caught sight of her trying to get up. A car screech behind him caught his attention.
"AYA!"
Black Luck
Ran immediately shot up from his bed all drenched in sweat. The only sounds he could hear were the fast thumping of his heart and his short panting. He raked a hand through his wet hair and took a deep breath. He needed a shower badly. He removed his legs from under the covers and was about to place his feet on the floor when something furry under his feet made him jump. He bent over his legs to see the large bat limping about on the ground.
"It's you."
The bat made a soft noise like a reply and Ran picked it up gently with both hands. He made his bed with one hand and placed the bat on it, hoping it would feel comfortable.
"Don't fall down again. I'll be back in a while with food."
Ran walked to his closet and dug out a white sleeveless top along with a pair of long pants. He grabbed the blue towel that was placed on his chair before heading towards the washroom. On the way to the other end of the hall where the washroom was, he heard a bump from inside Ken's room. He knocked on the door before opening it, and stared at Ken.
"Stop staring and help me out! I don't even know how I ended up in this", the brunette hissed, trying to untangle himself from what it seemed to be like Yojji's wire. Sighing, Ran managed to find a pair of scissors on a bed-side cupboard and begun snipping the wires. The brunette thanked him before removing his shirt. Ran watched in silence as his eyes ran down the well-built body with a whole lot of patches and plasters.
"Oh, those. Got it from yesterday's attack."
"You got attacked by a vampire?"
"Not sure. Looked more like a wolf to me…"
That vampire said he had a friend who was a wolf…
Without hesitation, Ran went up, clasped Ken's chin in his hand and twisted it to the side.
There were more than two marks.
"Did it bite you at the neck?"
"Hm… Think so. Didn't have time to think about it. Why?"
Vampires should only have two teeth, not over six…
"Nothing."
Ken flinched when he felt his neck split.
"Oh man, that cut keeps bleeding…"
Ran stared at the blood as if he had never seen it before. Ken started looking around for anything he could use to clean his neck. For some reason, the blood seemed so… hypnotic. Ran watched carefully as the blood trickled down slowly. He had an urge to lick it up. Ken yelped when Ran grabbed him by his shoulders and leaned against him.
"Uh… Ran?" Ken stammered.
The redhead gave no interest in responding, only leaning over to lap up the thin trail of blood. Ken flinched when he felt the cold tongue run up the cut, the same stinging feeling he received yesterday. Hissing at the pain, he pushed Ran away from himself.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Ken barked at the man on the floor. Ran shook his head, trying to regain focus on his surroundings. His head was spinning wildly, and he could hardly open his eyes. He could hear Ken, but could not make out what the brunette was saying. Everything was blur.
His squinted when a loud bark was heard. He managed to take a peep through his eyelids to see Ken crouched on the ground as well, hands grasping his head.
"Ken…?"
The brunette gave a hiss which came out as a growl, and both hands shifted from his head to the ground.
"Ken? What's wrong?" Ran asked again.
The redhead stared wide-eyed as fur sprouted from all over, arms, legs, even face. Ken gave a sharp cry and ripped his skin which ended up bleeding, but the fur continued growing into thick bushes. A long howl came past his throat as Ken fell to the ground on his side, blood all over.
"Oh gods, Ken…" Where were the other two when you needed them? Ken looked like an enormous grey wolf, only think is that he was twice the size of a real one. Ran went over, brushing the wolf's face with his towel. He jumped when its eyes open. A pair of familiar brown eyes stared deeply into his violet ones. Ran shifted backwards when the large wolf got up onto its belly, still watching Ran.
"K…Ken?"
The wolf jerked at that name, before giving a low whimper.
"Jesus, you're a werewolf… and I'm probably a vampire… Wait. It's noon right? I thought you're only supposed to turn during night time?"
A soft grunt was returned.
"Ran-san, Ken-kun, are you two up… Yaaah! Yoji-kun!" Omi's voice rang through the house. Loud pounding noises and Ran could tell Yoji was storming up the steps. Both of them busted into Ken's room and the first thing they did was faint.