Never Alone Again

Alexes Ashton

Chapter: 5 (Revised Version. To read the first version, go to the following website: h t t p / a l e x e s - a s h t o n . l i v e j o u r n a l . c o m / 4 5 1 9 . h t m l )

The blonde breathed heavily, looking back as if being chased by some crazed creature. He turned to the door, his destination, and salvation from whatever nightmare was chasing him. He looked back one last time, and saw it closing in on him. Quickly, he swung open the door and got inside, slamming the door shut with his foot as he lay on the floor, facing the door, making sure the nightmare didn't enter. He sighed, realizing that only a little bit of sunlight shone through beneath the door. He slowly stood, turning and looking over his new surroundings. He noticed that all the curtains were shut, and he was quite thankful. He slowly walked around, noticing that no one else was in the small suite with him. He sat on the couch to think for a moment.

He tried to remember what had exactly happened that night that he had been turned into the creature that coursed through his dead veins. Slowly, what all had happened quickly took hold of him...

/"See you all tommorrow for class! And Strife, if you would, stay after a minute?" The blonde nodded slowly to affirm that he'd stay. As he waited for the class to slowly empty, he starred out of the window at the sunset. "Strife!" the instructor yelled, getting the blonde's attention finally. "YES SIR!" the blonde shouted, standing up, saluting. "Strife, that's where we have problems with you. You're always starring out to la-la-land, and don't pay attention to your studies. Not only that, you're weak and pathetic looking. Do you not eat?" he asked, looking a little concerned. "Y-Yes Sir, I do eat, Sir." came a soft response. The instructor sighed. "You'll never make it SOLDIER with that kind of attitude. You don't even get loud when someone is bitching you out. All you do is stammer. Damn! No wonder all the other cadets tease you so often. You're a fucking loser, Strife, and now I know why all your fellow cadets beat the shit out of you. If you don't improve within the next week, even a little, your ass is out of my class, and out of the military. I'll see to it myself. Shit. Do something badass to impress me, and I'll even give you a promotion. Understood?" "YES SIR!" the blonde bellowed. "Good, now get the hell out of my damn sight!" The boy quickly obeyed, and ran out of the room, leaving a paper behind on his desk. A picture he drew of Sephiroth, with him standing next to him, in a SOLDIER uniform. The instructor laughed, mumbling, "Yeah, like that'll ever happen..."

Cloud was distraught now, crying on his way back to the barracks, taking empty alleyways, trying not to be seen, though, getting the feeling that he was being watched, even followed. He stopped crying, and hurried his pace, trying to seem that he didn't notice anything different. As he was walking around a corner, he bumped into someone, or something, and quickly said sorry, and moved to the side, so that he may pass. That is, until his arm was grabbed by the person. He looked up, about to protest, but silenced when he saw what had grabbed at him. He tried to pull away, but couldn't even budge.

The creature was huge. At least ten feet tall, wearing all ripped black leather. There were two great black wings protruding from the creature's back, and two giant horns from it's forehead. It's eyes were green cat-slit eyes, with a great glow. It's hair was long and flowing. Silver in color. It's hands were huge, and it's claws retracted like those of a cat's. He tried again to pull away, though still couldn't budge the hand from his arm. "Do you want to be strong forever?" came a great deep voice from the creature. "Do you want to live forever?" it asked again. The blonde in his own fear, nodded yes, hopping that it would satisfy the creature and it would leave him be. Though, that was quite to the contrary.

The creature quickly latched a hold onto the boy's neck with it's giant fangs. Before Cloud even had a chance to scream, he could already feel the blood from his body pour from his veins into the creature's mouth. First, it was his knees that gave out, making the blonde drop, the creature falling with him, not spilling a drop of the blonde's blood. Next it was his hands, too weak to try to pry the creature from his body. And then, slowly, his head dropped, as if completely asleep. At this very moment, the creature stopped drinking and looked at the limp blonde in his arms. "I'll make you live forever at my side." came the deep voice, which now boomed into the blonde's ears. The creature bit it's own wrist, blood seemed to pour out and onto the blonde's lips. "Drink." commanded the booming voice. The blonde did as he was told, drinking the blood that flowed from the creature, thinking that it was all a dream, and that he'd wake up soon enough. "It is done. You'll be immortal. Only the sun is your enemy." the creature warned. The blonde's eyes began to narrow upon the creature, before his eyelids began to shut, and his body, full of exhaustion, gave out. Before the blonde passed out completely, he whispered only half a word, "Sephi---"/

Cloud shook his head, overcome with the memory. "I can't believe I actually idolized the prick..." he thought to himself. He shook his head again. "Why the hell was I so stupid. I can't believe it. He did bite me. What the hell?" He looked around the appartment once more, and yawned. "Where the hell am I supposed to sleep anyways?" he asked himself aloud. He stood up from the couch to have a look around his new 'master's' appartment. To the left of the couch was a door that looked prospective to the youth. He walked over to it quietly, and knocked on it, just to make sure the General actually wasn't in the apartment. When he heard no reply, the small blonde went into the room.

Cloud gasped as his vampire eyes saw into the dark room and noticed two coffins, side by side, in the room. "What the hell?" he asked aloud. He walked towards them slowly, a little taken aback by their presense in Sephiroth's suite. One was bigger than the other, and was black of color. The other, which was smaller, was white. Slowly he still pressed further, to look at them more closely. His eyes narrowed on the black one which had a metal name plate on it. Cloud moved closer in order to read it. "Sephiroth. Our Dark God and Savior of all Sicknesses." he read it out loud to himself. "What the hell? A 'God'? I seriously doubt that. He has the same weaknesses as myself. I mean, it's not like he can walk in the sun---" his thoughts trailed off there. He recalled all the times that he had actually seen the General, before his transformation, and he was sure that he had seen him in the sun before. Actually, many a time has he seen him in the sun. Shit, he had a class with him on the coast past Midgar, during the summer, during the day. And around noon none-the-less.

"That's not possible..." he thought aloud. He sighed, and decided to put those thoughts in the back of his mind for now, because he had just noticed that the white coffin had a similar name plate on it. He walked over to it slowly, wondering if he wanted to see what was written on it or not. His heart told him to not read it, but he was compelled with curiousity, and therefore read it aloud. "Cloud. The Dark Lord's Eternal Slave." Cloud gasped and put a hand over his mouth as he walked backwards, and bumped into Sephiroth's coffin, knocking it and the person inside of it onto the floor.

The blonde looked over his shoulder only to see a now awake, and very angry and annoyed General staring knives into the young vampire. Cloud ran out of the room , as fast as he could, wanting nothing more to just not exist. "How could he?" he thought to himself. "How long has he been planning on making me this way!" he yelled, not really mening to have thought out loud.

"Since you've came to Midgar." came his response from his creator. Quickly, the young blonde turned around, and looked at Sephiroth with wide saucers for eyes. His mouth was agape from his shock from all he had seen, and the matter-of-fact statement from Sephiroth. "Wh-What? Why?" was all he could conjure. The 'Dark Lord' smirked. "To never be alone again..." he said, before walking back into the previous room with the coffins. Cloud quickly chased after him. "Don't fuck with me! Why the hell did you do this to me!" Sephiroth stopped for a moment and then turned around. "You hit the nail right on the head Cloud..." he said, walking closer as he spoke. His eyes, radiating a bright green glow, sending the blonde to start walking backwards. "W-What do you mean, Sephiroth?" Sephiroth smiled. "Think about it. I want you to be my pet right?" Still they both moved slowly back into the living room, Cloud saying nothing. "I want to fuck you." Cloud's eyes narrowed in disbelief, but as he opened his mouth to protest the statement, Sephiroth pushed him down onto the couch, straddling the young blonde under him. Cloud looked like he about to protest yet again as the General pushed his lips feriously on the blondes, kissing him hard and deep.

Little moans could be heard coming from the blonde, at this point, as he started to kiss the General back. Slowly, Sephiroth pulled away, grabbing Cloud's chin, forcing him to look up. "And, it doesn't seem that you're not fond with the idea either..." he said, smirking. Cloud, tried to look away in his embarassment, but couldn't, for the grip on his chin was a strong one. "Now, I suggest you get some sleep before night fall. Otherwise, you'll be too tired for our dinner trip, and perhaps even some dirty work on my part." the General hissed, letting the blonde's chin go. A little moan was heard as a protest of Sephiroth removing his body from atop the blonde, though nothing was said.

The blonde looked down at his fingers, that were twirling in and out of his shirt, wrinkling it up as he went. Sephiroth began to head towards a different door, before he stopped. "Anything on your mind, my pet?" he asked, smirking. Cloud looked up, staring at Sephiroth's back for a moment. "Well... It's just that..." he stammered a minute before continuing. "I was wondering if there was a cure?" Cloud's eyes widened as Sephiroth turned around smirking, dumbfounded that Sephiroth had just said the exact same thing he did, and at the exact same time. "What the hell?" he asked. Sephiroth laughed darkly. Cloud looked back down to his never resting hands. "I can read your thoughts, my pet." the General said, before turning back around to head to the other door. "Get to bed..." he ordered, leaving no room for any argument as he opened the door that led to the bathroom, and turned the shower on.

The blonde continued to stare at his hands before finally getting off of the couch, and yawned. He stretched for a minuted before he lied down on the couch. If he was going to fall asleep, he sure as hell wasn't going to do it in a coffin. He lied there for some time, trying to soak everything in. His eyes though, won the battle over his thoughts and slowly closed as he drifted off into a deep and much needed sleep. His last thought before he went to sleep though was, "I think... I think I will learn what I can... so that I can find his weaknesses... and..."

A/N: Alright. This chapter was supposed to be Chapter 6. But, when I reread my other chapters, I kinda forgot to reread chp. 5, and so, this is now taking it's place. I had a lot of fun writing this chapter and think that it's a lot better than the original ch. 5, which, btw, if you want to read, go to the top of this page, and you'll be able to see the link for it in my livejournal. :) I figured you could read both. And sorry for no updates for like.. what... two years? Wow... that's like... craziness. I guess I lost my spark there for a while. That and my inspiration to write. nod nod But, who knows. I've been on a lot more lately, reading other fics, and getting the desire to write again. :D So, yeah. Like, right now, I just finished reading 16 chapters of a story called "Unrequited Desires" that was REALLY great, and I recommend all to read it. I'm definately waiting on an update on that one. Cause it's getting really good. But, anyways, I digress. I'm sorry about not updating and I will definaltely try to get this story finished. I'm sorry to all of those who have been waiting for an update. I will begin writing the next chapter right after I get something to eat. nod nod And I hope you didn't think it was corny how I kinda used the title of my story in the story itself. I do that sometimes. Anyways. I'm sure you're tired of my rambling. So, I will stop. I hope you all review, whether it be good or bad reviews. I don't care. I appreciate them all and hope to hear from everyone who reads this story. thanks for your patience everyone.

Alexes