Title: Legacy of Kain: Reincarnation

Rating: PG - 13

Authors: Varyssa and Razielim Vampiress

Chapter: 4 out of hopefully no more than 10

Warnings: Language

Spoilers: None

Disclaimer: The LoK series belongs to Crystal Dynamics and Eidos. We own nothing but the plot and any original characters we insert into this story.

Summary: Kain and the lieutenants get stuck with their present day reincarnations after four of them find the chronoplast chamber. Zephon accidently gets the six past versions of themselves transported to the year 2005. What weird and strange things will happen before the vampires manage to get back to the past Nosgoth? Find out.

Chapter Four: The Mall

Raziel and Azrael sat in the living room flicking through endless images on the television. Raziel was sprawled across the sofa, with Azrael lying across the floor.

"Isn't there anything decent on?" Azrael groaned. Raziel shrugged and continued flicking, "Maybe we should pop next door, you know see the other Azrael and Raziel," Azrael suggested.

Raziel shrugged again and said lazily, "Can't be arsed moving,"

Azrael didn't reply and they sank back into their stupor, watching the pointless succession of music videos, supermodels and wannabe celebrities.

"Fascinating," Zephon muttered from the stairs, "Haven't you two got anything better to do?" Raziel and Azrael shrugged in unison. Zephon shook his head in disbelief, "Weren't there two of you this morning, Azrael?"

Azrael nodded, "Yeah, he's next door," speaking as if it were totally natural to be confronted by your vampiric counterpart only to find that your best friend and his brothers had moved their vampiric twins into the house next door.

Zephon shifted Raziel's legs off the couch so he could join him. The three of them stared at the TV. "Incredible," The fifth born murmured, "I can actually feel my intelligence slipping away from me."

"Not much change there then," Azrael sniggered, earning a harsh kick from Zephon. It was just what Zephon needed to rise and he dragged Raziel up with him, "Come on! We are going shopping."

Raziel and Azrael groaned loudly at the forced movement. "Why are we going shopping?" Raziel protested. Sure he may have been eager to do it earlier, but seeing that yet another vampire had come into his world had kind of put a damper on his mood. Zephon continued to pull his brother toward the door, "Because we need to get dad a birthday present for a start and we need to get you two away from the tv." Azrael and Raziel said nothing and inevitably found themselves sitting on the bus heading towards the mall.

"So what are we going to get dad?" Zephon asked as they wandered past each shop, looking into the windows trying to find something Kain could have for his birthday.

"A DVD player!" Azrael suggested, looking at the window of an electronic store, "Kain could always use a DVD player."

"What would dad do with a DVD player?" Zephon wondered, "He's not a film person. Besides he's at work all day so he won't get to use it much."

"Yeah so?" Azrael asked, failing to see the problem.

Raziel laughed, "No, Az, we have to stop buying for ourselves. He figured that out the time I bought him a backstage pass to Ozzfest."

"Ahhhh," Azrael sighed, "Bugger."

Raziel and Zephon agreed and hung their heads, "Why is he so difficult to buy for? Why can't he enjoy sports like normal dads or watch tv or something?"

"So get him something he can use in work, that way at least he'll be grateful."

Zephon and Raziel stopped and looked at their friend. Azrael stopped and returned the look, confused and slightly scared, "What?"

"You are a genius," Raziel smiled, resisting the urge to hug his friend. "We get dad something he wants for work and then he can't complain!"

"Great!" Zephon agreed, "What does dad need for work?" He exchanged glances with his brother who looked just as lost as he did.

"You could phone him?" Azrael suggested.

After digging some change out of their pockets, Azrael and Zephon sat on a bench beside a fountain waiting for Raziel to return from the pay phone. He was gone for what seemed like ages, and when he finally returned he dropped down on the bench beside Azrael with a deep sigh. "Well?" Zephon prompted, after Raziel had sat in silence for a while.

"I think he was a bit on the busy side… he ended up shouting and cursing down the phone thinking I was some guy called Mel!"

Azrael started giggling, "Hehe, Mel."

"I hate fathers," Raziel muttered. Zephon nodded in agreement, while Azrael continued to giggle at the man's name.

"Daddy!" came an oddly loud screech from the other side of the fountain. Even considering the amount of background noise that surrounded them, the shout sounded oddly out of place in the mall. Despite this, the three didn't turn around to see what the problem was, they were too busy trying to think of a present for their father… or in Azrael's case still giggling at a guy called Mel. In fact, none of them paid any attention to the screaming child until she had come around to the other side of the fountain and thrown herself at Raziel.

"What the fuck!" The goth shouted, earning him a slap across the back of his head from the woman who had accompanied the child. "OW!" he yelled, "What the hell is going on!"

"Daddy," the child repeated looking up at the human with her sparkling eyes. "There was all this light and we got separated but I found Meg so she looked after me and now we've found you!"

"I'm not your daddy, kid," Raziel assured her, earning himself a number of disapproving glances from old age pensioners who went off, muttering about modern day kids' lack of responsibility and teenage pregnancies. The little girl looked up, her eyes wide and her lips trembling, "You don't want to be my daddy anymore?" she asked, on the verge of crying. The woman with her reached out and picked up the child, "It's ok, Mioko," she said, glaring at the teenager, "I'm sure Raziel's just playing." She paused, studying the teenager with her eyes, while the child buried her face in her shoulder, "Uh…that said, you do kinda look different, Raziel. Are you alright? Did something happen to you? You've kind of bulked down..." Zephon burst out laughing, only to be met with a harsh glare from the child, "Don't laugh at daddy, meanie!"

"Aww, she's so sweet!" Azrael chuckled, tickling Mioko's chin.

"OK!" Meg shouted, "Raziel denying fatherhood and Azrael playing with Mioko? Has the world gone crazy!"

The people around them had started to become quite interested in the teenage father rejecting his 'daughter' and the scene before them, "Uh…I think we should leave," Zephon said, quietly.

"What about dad's present?" Raziel protested.

Zephon slipped Azrael the money they were planning to use, "Az, go get something dad needs for work, like an electronic diary or something." Zephon and the others were gone before Azrael could protest, leaving him at the fountain with the slowly dispersing crowd. "Well this sucks," he muttered, rising to find a shop while Zephon, Meg, Raziel and Mioko went outside and sat on a bench away from the spectators.

"I take it you come from Nosgoth?" Zephon asked, trying to think of the best way to explain to the vampire and the child that they were not who they appeared to be.

Meg nodded, "How do you know that?"

"The others are here too," he replied.

Meg looked surprised,"What others?"

"Raziel, Turel, Dumah, Rahab, Zephon and Melchiah," Raziel reeled off, almost instinctively. This brought great joy to the little one, "Daddy's here! Yay!" she launched herself into Raziel's arms, "So are you my human daddy?" she asked. Raziel rolled his eyes, "I am not your daddy," he said, slightly irritated.

"Of course you are!" she shouted, "You can be my daddy number 2…I can have 2 daddies can't I, Meggy?"

Meg shrugged, "If you want."

"Hello daddy number 2!" Mioko smiled lovingly up at her second father and rested her head against his chest. When he didn't return the embrace she jumped off him, "You're not a very good daddy you know, I want my real daddy!"

"Fine!" Raziel snapped, getting up, "Let's take you to him."

The four got on the next bus back home after spending very little time in the mall after all. Unfortunately in their bid to return the child to her father they kind of forgot about the fifth of their number and about an hour after they left, Azrael emerged from the mall carrying what he thought would be the perfect birthday present for Kain… but he had no one to give it to.

The bus ride seemed to take forever as Mioko jumped up and down on Raziel's lap, trying to teach him to be a father. Raziel, however was far more interested in the dark, female vampire next to him.

"So how do you know the vampire guys?" he asked in a pitiful attempt to make conversation. Meg looked at him with a raised eyebrow and flashed her own vampiric fangs, "I'm a vampire too, yeah? They're my brothers."

"That's interesting," Zephon said, having been forced into the seat behind them by the insistent child, "The six and Azrael that came through from Nosgoth all have human counterparts in this world, but I don't know if you or her have one."

"Maybe their world isn't as alike to our's as we thought," Raziel suggested but moving away from the philosophy of the situation he tried to speak again to Meg, "Will you be staying next door?" the goth asked hopefully as he tried to conceal his attraction to the vampire.

Meg shrugged but then nodded, "Probably…is this it?" she asked as Raziel and Zephon rose, Zephon having a much easier time as he didn't have to pick a child up with him. Raziel and Zephon escorted Meg and Mioko from the bus-stop to the house where the vampires were staying. They knocked on the door for it to be answered by the new arrival; the vampire Azrael.

"Oh no, not you!" Azrael exclaimed when he saw the child in Raziel's arms.

"That's better," Meg sighed, happily, "That's the Azrael I know and love…d!" She put extra emphasis on the 'd' and Azrael blushed as he let them in. Mioko springing instantly out of the human Raziel's arms and into the vampire Raziel's waiting embrace.

"Daddy!"

They went through to the living room where Zephon was lying on a couch with smoke floating all around him.

"What is that thing?" Meg cried, shielding her nose from the hazardous gas.

Zephon dazedly looked up at her, "It's called a bong," he whispered hoarsely.

Meg shook her head and turned to the other vampires and the two humans. "How big is this house?" she asked, noticing the small living room.

"Well, at the moment, Rahab and I are sharing a room, with Azrael now, Dumah and Turel are in another room with Melchiah and Zephon in another…but Zephon is usually too stoned to move so he pretty much just stays there," the vampire Raziel told her and the human Raziel noticed the way he spoke as if talking to an army commander or someone similar.

"I'll sleep in your room won't I, daddy?" Mioko asked. Raziel nodded without hesitation, "Of course you will sweetheart…only we don't really have enough room for…you Meg," The vampire mumbled, trying not to look at her.

"Oh I don't want to stay here either, don't worry. It's bad enough living with all of you once a month back home with space, I don't know how I'd cope with all this close contact, I'd probably end up killing some of you," her eyes flickered over to Azrael and the humans shifted uncomfortably.

"You can stay with us," Raziel suggested, "You can come down to my room, hide you in the basement. We just have to make sure that dad doesn't find out. Plenty of places to hide down there on the odd occasion that dad might actually come down and check on me."

Meg nodded approvingly, "Settled, I'm sleeping next door."

TBC