Happy Holidays

Chapter 2: The Bathroom Is Down The Hall To The Left

Disclaimer: I don't own them, but I write about them, so sue me! Wait, don't! . . . Damnit!

(A/N: Hey guys! Oh my god, it's a bird, no it's a hanglider, no, it's SORA!)

Whistling, Sora skipped down the street, stopped, then started humming, what he thought was "Halloween Bells" to the tune of Jingle Bells. I know he's sad.

"Hallo bells, hallo bells. Jump! Spook! Booo! Tra la la la la la la la la la la la laaaaaaaaaaaa!" Yes, he wrote the words, but, fortunately, that's all, he's written, and lets hope it stays that way.

Going back to humming, Sora entered the café, looked around and didn't see Cid, he needed to discuss the minor damage of his ship. Shrugging, he left, heading for Cid's shop.

Upon entering it, he stopped. Somebody had turned the light off. He turned around, and then flipped the switch. Nothing happened. Starting to panic, Sora slowly looked around the dark room. He stood there, frozen to the spot; he was too scared to move. Then, he heard a movement to the left of him. Too chicken to look over there, she clenched his eyes closed, whispering, "Please, please, please go away, please leave me alone," over, and over, and over again.

In a flash of invisible lightning, something lunged at Sora, causing Sora to shriek like a teenage girl. The dark figure knocked Sora over, now on top of him, they rolled, then moonlight shone in to show sharp fangs, dripping with blood, but he couldn't see the face.

Narrator: Hi, sorry to just break in here like this, but I just wanted to clarify a few things. Now, Sora thinks it's a vampire, after his blood, and he's still screaming like a girl. Got it? Good, just making sure you're still with me. Okay, proceed, with caution.

The "vampire" jumped off of Sora, now breathing heavily, and stood over him, Now, Sora, who's about to pee his pants, has curled himself into a ball, waiting to die. Narrator scoffs When suddenly, another dark figure appeared apparently out of nowhere. This one was smaller, and slimmer. Now, even more scared Sora pushed himself against the wall, trying to disappear, through it. It wasn't working.

Meanwhile, Yuffie and Leon were behind the counter, trying not to laugh. When Sora had first screamed (like a girl), Leon had had to cover Yuffie's mouth when she had started to snort, like a pig, might I add. Starting another giggling fit, Yuffie stuffed her fist in her mouth.

She felt a finger poking her head, and she looked up, Leon motioned to her that it was time; he silently threw the white blanket over her head as she fought herself to remain quiet. Leon got down on all fours, head low, as Yuffie, silently, and carefully, got on Leon's shoulders, and adjusted the blanket around him. Waiting for the signal, Leon stayed still. Then, he felt Yuffie tap his shoulder, it's a go. Very carefully, so Yuffie wouldn't go tumbling off, Leon slowly rose, and Yuffie made a moaning/booing sound. As they appeared, with Yuffie's arms raised, Sora's eyes widened and he screamed again, trying his best to push himself through the wall. When the lights flickered on, and somebody appeared at the bottom of the ladder, a very angry looking Aerith.

With that, the light had shown the "vampire" as Riku, and Kairi, fortunately, Sora had fainted before he had seen them. Groaning, Leon took the blanket off, and picked Yuffie off of his shoulders, and let her slide to the ground, but kept his arms around her. Yuffie had her arms crossed, and was pouting.

"Aerith!" she whined," What, in god's name, possessed you to do that?" she demanded.

"You guys are cruel," Aerith said heatedly, pointing at Sora, "Just look at him, you terrified him to death!" Riku walked over to Sora, and then looked back at Aerith.

"Hefs stilf breafing!" Riku said, talking through his false teeth.

Aerith put her hands on her hips, staring sternly at him. Rolling his eyes, Riku slowly took his "vampire" teeth out.

"Now, what did you say?" she said sternly.

"Uh oh," Yuffie whispered to Leon, "Aerith's going maternal on us." She and Leon broke up into silent laughter at this, but when Aerith looked over at them, they hid it quite well. She looked back at Riku, waiting.

Sighing, Riku said, "He is still breathing," saying every word carefully.

Looking satisfied for the moment, Aerith walked over to Sora, and knelt down next to him.

At this moment, Leon and Yuffie chose to make an exit. Leaving the shop, they let out the laughter that they had been holding in. After the laughter subsided, they continued to chuckle as they, holding hands, continued towards the hotel.

Slowly opening his eyes, Sora saw swimming shapes above him, the he felt someone put something damp, and cold on his forehead. He blinked a few times, and then put his hand to his head.

"Wheresthevampire?" Sora asked, slurring his speech, Aerith rolled her eyes, and then turned around to stare at Riku and Kairi, who were sitting on the couch in Cid's Shop that wasn't occupied by Sora.

Grinning, Riku stood up then walked over to Sora.

"It's gone, you fought him of-"Aerith swatted him.

"No you didn't Sora, don't listen to him, as a matter of fact," Aerith said turning her head slightly to look at Riku, "Riku was the va-"Kairi cut her off, "Yeah! Riku was the vampire!" Sora's eyes widened, and he slowly turned his head to look at Riku, unbelievingly. Eyes still wide, and mouth open, Sora suddenly lunged at Riku, knocking him over on to the floor.

"It was just a joke!" Riku pleaded, as Sora attempted to strangle him, "I was just messing around! I swear! Come on!" Slightly panting and pink in the face, Sora got off of Riku, eyes widened, then, hand flying to his mouth, turned around, and sprinted towards the bathroom. Sighing, Kairi put her hand down, and helped Riku up. He brushed himself off, looked after Sora, and then looked at the door.

"I'm going to go find, um," He cleared his throat nervously, blushing, "Well, yeah, seeya." At this, he turned around, and made a hasty exit.

In unison, Aerith and Kairi crossed their arms in front of their chests. Hearing vomiting in the distance, they both sighed, and Aerith followed behind Kairi to the bathroom.

Yuffie cautiously opened the door to their hotel room, and then upon not seeing anybody, she looked back at Leon.

"Squall, shouldn't we sleep in Cid's shop tonight?"

"It's Leon, and there's nothing to be afraid of."

"But, what if-"He cut her off.

"But nothing, the tapping stopped, it won't return, okay?" Not really believing him, she proceeded into the room.

About an hour later, Yuffie lay in a sleeping Leon's arms. Although she wasn't sleeping at all, her eyes were wide with paranoia. She was too scared to go to sleep. Another hour went by, and her eye lids began to close, slowly then finally she settled back into Leon, and fell asleep.

Exactly two hours and fifteen minutes later, Yuffie's eyes popped open. There was a tapping sound on the balcony doors. Sitting up, she carefully took Leon's arms off from around her. She got up and walked over to the doors, and opened them quietly. Sticking her head through the doors, she peeked out, not seeing anybody, she stepped out and looked around once more, shrugging, she turned to head back in when she saw something out of the corner of her eyes, and she saw movement. Fully turning her head, she saw a figure jump down into the alley below.

She ran to the railing and watched as the figure ran out of the alley to disappear into the night. Grinning, Yuffie jumped off of the balcony and landed on a pile of crates not far from the ground, then continued to the ground, and started running to the other side of the alley.

Turning left, like the person, she squinted to see the figure turn into another alley. Upon entering the alley, she stopped, breathing hard, and heart beating fast. Looking around, Yuffie didn't see anything, but thought she also heard slight panting.

Unknown to Yuffie, the person was behind a pile of crates about 5 feet from the entrance, and about 3 feet from Yuffie. The person began to rise, and carefully climbed onto the top of the crates, as Yuffie inspected the other side of the alley. Rising to jump off into the street, the crate creaked, and Yuffie whipped around to see the figure jump to a pile of crates in front of her. Moonlight showed the person flip her head and send a mane of long black hair everywhere. The person seemed to be wearing big cloths. About to ask who he/she was, a big figure came out of nowhere, (Narrator: the street, but nowhere sounds cooler) tackling the person, they went tumbling into the pile of crates. Gasping, Yuffie ran over, tearing through crates, she stopped and her mouth dropped open and her eyes grew wide. It was Leon, and he had tackled. . .

"ZEPHYR!"