NYMPHETAMINE

Chopstick with Wings: Nah, I don't mind it being called oddball. When I was finished writing the story, one of my first thoughts was, "Man...this is kind of werid." At the end, Axel and Demyx play a brief major part, and the whole ending of the story was influenced by what I made them do. If I wrote out their major scene in a different way, the whole ending probably would've chanaged. Oh, and Zexion gets a major part later in the story. I love Zexion too much to give him a minor role for long.

dark sorceress of egypt: I was wondering when someone would pick up that Nymphetamine is also the name of a Cradle of Filth song. I love that band to death, and at one point, this was just a bunch of song fics based on the songs on their Nymphetamine CD. And I agree, Sephiroth is a total asshole in this. He loves destroying Riku and Sora's relationship like a fat kid loves cake.

Vixyfox: Here you go!

Disclaimer: The phrase, "You know our sacred dream won't fail the sanctuary tender and so frail. The sacrament of love, the sacrament of warmth, is true. The sacrament is you," is from the song "The Sacrament" from the band H.I.M. I do not own the song or the band. The German sentences, ""Seid bereit für den Coup des Jahrhunderts. Seid bereit für den teuflichsten Pakt. Ich plan' es seit Jahren Jetzt gibt's Fraß Trotz allen Gefahren So ein Spaß Gerissen verbissen So viel Fraß Ganz ohne Gewissen So ein Spaß Als König gebohren zum Herrscher erkoren Erglänz' ich in all meiner Pracht," are from the German version of "The Lion King." I do not own "The Lion King" in any language. I do not own Riku, Sora, Roxas, Axel, Demyx or Zexion from Kingdom Hearts. I do not own Sephiroth, Cloud, Aerith, Kadaj, Yazoo, or Loz from Final Fantasy VII. I do not own Squall Leonhart from Final Fantasy VIII. I do not own Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy VIII.

Warnings (Entire Story): Blood drinking, yaoi, implied sex, implied yaoi, implied incest (Kadaj/Yazoo), implied nudity (humor purposes), death, blood

Pairings (Entire Story): RikuxSora, CloudxSquall(Leon), AxelxDemyx, implied KadajxYazoo

Summary: Sora is your normal everyday kid. Riku is the only true goth at school. Force them into a debate about what is right and is wrong, and loves blossoms. But there's always someone that wants to destroy love...

Chapter 3: Defeated by a Lie

The sun was shining on a bright sunny morning where fog added to the beauty of the city. Riku rolled over, trying to ignore the blinding light.

"Brother, time to get up!" Kadaj yelled, crossing his arms. Riku groaned in response.

"Kadaj...let me alone...I need to sleep."

To Riku's dismay, his cell phone began ringing. Kadaj chuckled before walking out of the room.

"Hello?"

"Riku?"

Riku's heart skipped a beat. "Sora?"

"Yeah. I'm...sorry about the other night."

"Why are you sorry? I'm the one that kissed you."

"I know...but...I shouldn't have acted the way I did."

Riku blinked his eyes, but didn't make an argument. "It's okay, Sora...want to hang out with Unstable later?"

"Yeah, I'll come over in a little bit."

Dial tone.

In a few hours, Sora had sucessfully managed to find Riku's house in the dark city. From there, Riku had practically dragged him to Unstable's hangout.

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"I know it's small, brother, but surely you don't mind?" Kadaj asked.

"Nope, not at all!" Sora said brightly.

The rest of the members of Unstable were sitting at the table, glasses of blood in front of them. Riku pulled out a seat for Sora, then himself, and proceeded to sit down.

Sephiroth cleared his throat, causing the whispered discussion between Axel, Demyx, and Roxas to stop.

"So, I understand from Kadaj and Riku that you want to become part of Unstable?" Sephiroth asked.

Sora nodded his head.

"Then let us have a toast!" Kadaj cheered.

Glasses clinked, save Sora, who had none. When Sephiroth had finished his bloody drink, "A great idea, Kadaj."

Kadaj smiled.

"Did Kadaj or Riku teach you of the inititation 'ceremony'?" Sephiroth asked, eyes icy, yet with a feel of warmth. The conflicting feelings Sora got while looking at them made him sick.

"Not really...only that there's a cross on your arms."

"Then I suppose we can begin. Personally, I believe that it is the most important part of the ceremony."

"Because then you're our brother," Kadaj chimed in.

Sephiroth nodded. "Not by blood, of course. But by the brand."

Sora gulped. "Brand?"

"No, we don't use fire," Axel explained. "Sephiroth uses a clean knife and carves it into you."

Sora's eyes went wide.

"Don't worry; it doesn't hurt," Roxas reassured.

"And if it does," Demyx whispered in Sora's ear, "We'll give you our pictures of Sephiroth in briefs."

Sora's face went beat-red. "...I hope it won't hurt, then," Sora whispered back. Demyx laughed.

"We typically don't start with the brand," Sephiroth reassured him. "There are a few other things you must complete first. Nothing of great difficulty, I assure you."

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While Demyx and Sephiroth were talking to Sora, Axel left and grabbed a bottle of crimson paint, half of an empty clam's shell, along with a thin yet durable paintbrush. He opened the bottle and squeezed some of the blood-red paint into the shell. While Axel was doing that, Yazoo scribbled the ceremonial message onto a piece of paper and handed it to Sora. Sora read it aloud, "'You know our sacred dream won't fail the sanctuary tender and so frail. The sacrament of love, the sacrament of warmth, is true. The sacrament is you.' What does it mean?"

Yazoo smiled. "Our dream is to make goths accepted world-wide."

Axel handed the shell of paint to Sora, along with the paintbrush.

"See that wall?" Sephiroth pointed to a wall that had the message that Riku wrote when he joined Unstable on it. "Write the message onto the wall, using the paint."

"It seems a bit weird, brother," Kadaj said, "But it helps you remember it better!"

As Sora was painting the sacred message onto the wall, Riku watched, mind and heart racing. 'He's going to be one of us...I can't believe it...'

"Done," Sora announced, stepping back and smiling. Truthfully, he thought that was his best handwriting ever. The other members of Unstable grinned, save Zexion. His gaze was grim as he handed Sephiroth a clean knife.

"Sora, you are aware this will hurt?" Sephiroth asked.

Sora nodded. "Well, it's a knife cutting into my flesh. I think it'll hurt." Riku laughed at the younger boy's comment.

"Basically, I am going to brand your left bicep with an upside-down cross. From there, we will let the blood drip into a bowl," Sephiroth motioned to the bowl that Zexion just placed on the table. "Each of us will pass the knife around, slicing open our wrists and letting the blood fill the bowl along with yours. Once the wounds finish bleeding, starting with I, we will each take a sip from the cup containing our blood."

"Blood brothers," Yazoo chuckled. Zexion shook his head. He didn't like where this was going, one bit. But it was too late now.

"Ready?" Sephiroth raised a silver eyebrow.

Sora nodded and shut his eyes.

The silver knife was stained crimson as the brand was carefully cut into the teenager's bicep, trying not to cause any more pain than what is necessary. Trails of the crimson liquid rolled down the young teenager's arm before finding itself captured in a bowl. The brand was complete; Sora hissed in pain as Zexion placed a black cloth onto Sora's arm. "You did rather well," Zexion remarked, making Sora smile slightly. He opened his blues eyes and watched as one by one, the members of Unstable slicing open their wrists, Zexion being the last.

Sephiroth held the bowl, taking a sip, careful not to take too much. The bowl was passed to Yazoo, whom passed it to Kadaj. Axel, Demyx, and Roxas were next, carefully passing the bowl to Zexion, who passed it to Riku. Riku had a look of happiness in his eyes as Sora drunk the remaining blood.

After the wounds were bandaged and the welcoming party was over, Sora found himself laying on his bed. He wasn't aware that Sephiroth was watching him from the shadows...

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Zexion remained at Unstable's hideout, along with Roxas. The topic of Sora gave them much to talk about.

"He is some mastermind," Roxas agreed.

Zexion sighed. "We should have known that this was coming. No matter the reason, Sephiroth should have chosen someone with a little more intuition."

"Are you saying that Sora is stupid?"

"No. Unless Sora gains something, anything, that will help him realize Sephiroth's plans..."

"He's doomed," Roxas finished.

Zexion nodded his head. "What are the other's feelings on the subject?"

"Well," Roxas began. "Kadaj and Yazoo don't care about Riku's feelings at all. They only care about what Sephiroth cares about - using Sora as a sacrifice."

"I was afraid of that," Zexion remarked.

"They could've saved Sora...Axel and Demyx don't believe what Sephiroth is doing is right, but they still follow him. I believe it's more out of fear than anything."

"...Riku?"

"He's just as blind as Sora," Roxas admitted, shaking his head sadly.

"So he doesn't know about the sacrifice plans?"

"He must have forgotten. There's only 8 Unstable members at one time. Any extras are sacrifices."

"I hope that Sephiroth doesn't round up any more people..."

"He will," Roxas said. "It's just like him. As the New Year draws closer, he will begin spying on others, trying to pick out the ones that will make the best sacrifices."

"Only of the utmost quality?" Zexion asked.

"Probably. He'll probably go for someone that has brains and brawn. If he thinks that they're stronger than him, he'll bring Yazoo and Kadaj along to capture the person. Sora will be the last one gathered."

Zexion sighed, knowing all-too-well that the cages in the back will be used for that purpose soon. "How long do we have until he begins scouting?"

"I don't know. This summer, probably. Then by the full moon in December, he'll execute them."

"This is one hell of a mess."

School ended for 3 months of summer vacation. Sora and Riku began to trust each other more, and eventually began going out. The passerby that weren't disgusted with the couple assumed that the two teenagers were inseperable.

Everyone in Unstable, save Zexion and Roxas, adored the couple. Aerith was disgusted that Sora wouldn't go out with a female either. Cloud didn't mind in the least. As far as he was concerned, people always overeacted to whom other people loved. In others words, guys loving guys and girls loving girls weren't acceptable to most people. But to him - and Squall - it didn't matter at all.

Cloud noticed that Sora kept disappearing more and more. Soon, the only time he saw his younger brother was for dinner, and occasionally bed time. Sora pushed his curfew to the limits, hanging out with Riku.

Cloud was sitting on Squall's bed, leaning his head back against the said man's chest. "...I'm scared, Squall," he admitted.

Squall raised an eyebrow, the silent motion meaning 'why'?

"Sora's...been hanging out with those goth kids. I don't have anything against goths, but-"

"You're afraid they're converting him into something worse?" Squall finished. Squall was an only child; his parents were abusive at times. The most visible proof he had of this was the scar that rested between his eyes.

"Yeah," Cloud nodded. "I don't want anything to happen to him. He's my brother, and I don't know what to do."

Squall swallowed nervously. He never had a brother or a sister, so he said the first thing that came to mind. "So, did you talk to him?"

"He said that everything was fine, that he wasn't involved in drugs or anything illegal."

Squall closed his eyes, trying to sort through everything. Cloud wasn't giving him much information...If he was so worried about Sora, then why didn't he ask the kids that he went to school with?

Cloud fell forward out of fear when Squall said, "I got an idea."

"Shoot."

"Ask his classmates. They usually know more than what parents and siblings do."

Cloud nodded. "Might as well..."

Squall agreed by kissing Cloud on the lips.

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Cloud had 'borrowed' Sora's cell phone. In Cloud's eyes, it was perfectly okay to borrow it for a little bit. Besides, it was just laying on the stand by Sora's bed. Looking at the numbers, he tried not to pick ones that Sora talked about when he started hanging out with Unstable.

"Kairi?" He questioned. He hadn't heard Sora mention that name in a while, so he dialed the number.

A feminine voice answered the phone with a pleasant, "Hello?"

"Um...excuse me," Cloud stuttered nervously. "Is this Kairi?"

On the other end, Cloud thought that Kairi was raising an eyebrow. "Yes, who is this?" she retaliated.

"Cloud, Sora's older brother."

"Oh, Cloud!" she said, suddenly recognizing the voice. It was a few years since she last saw the blonde. "How have you been?"

"Fine, thanks. I know school is out and all, but have you seen or talked to Sora?"

"Hm...I talked to him a few months after he started hanging out with Riku."

"Did Sora say anything that just wasn't himself?"

Kairi thought. "Nope, I can't think of anything. Sorry."

"It's ok," Cloud said.

"You must be concerned about him...If I see him, I'll be sure to talk to him, okay? Bye!"

"See ya," Cloud said, closing the cell phone. That had gone smoother than planned.

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Squall had been sitting at home alone. Luckily for him, his parents were away on a business trip. He and Cloud had decided that it would be best if Cloud dug up information on Sora on his own. Eating a bowl of cereal, he had his eyes glued to the television.

"This is one remarkable case," the reporter said, staring into the camera. She was standing a recent crime scene. "The resident living here disappeared without a trace like others have been since the start of summer. Authorities believe the cases are all connected, seeing as that there was no trace of any of the reported persons. Whoever or whatever is doing this is out of this world!"

Squall snorted. "Maybe they're just smart..." he said, aware that the reporter wouldn't hear him. But quite frankly, he didn't care. The cases about people disappearing from their homes mysteriously had been all over the media since the beginning of summer. Squall didn't place the blame on a stereotype or any person. In his eyes, perhaps the person was just smart? His opinion was that the media was made up of stupid people, and they got dumbfounded whenever something requiring an IQ that's above above a negative number occured.

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Unstable had been watching the report on their old, small, black-and-white color television. Everyone seemed to be disturbed about the disappearnces, save Sora, Sephiroth and Riku.

"They'll catch him," was Riku's comment. Sora nodded in agreement. Roxas sighed.

"Just because they know someone is doing it doesn't mean that they'll find him," Roxas said. Earlier in the summer, he had stolen something important and managed to place the blame on a trouble making kid named Seifer. Needless to say, Seifer wasn't that thrilled about the whole thing.

"They'll come after us soon enough," Sephiroth said, looking all of the other members in the eyes. "Do not forget that around here, people believe it's always the goths that cause all crimes."

Kadaj nodded sadly. He remembered a time where he had gotten explusion becuase someone damaged the principal's car brutally. It was done by a group of teenagers his same age at the time, but those teenagers were the teacher's pets. No one ever believed that those teenagers would do anything, but when called down for questioning, they blamed it on Kadaj. Kadaj recieved expulsion and hadn't gone to school since.

"Watch your backs," Sephiroth warned. "Be careful of what you say. Remember, seid bereit."

Sora gave him a weird look at the last two words. Sephiroth answered his question almost immediately. "Be prepared."

"What language is that?" Sora asked.

"German," was the simple reply.

"...Can you speak more of it?" It was the first time that Sora had an interest in a foriegn language.

Sephiroth cleared his throat. "I suppose. Yazoo, will you translate for Sora once I'm through?"

Yazoo nodded.

"Seid bereit für den Coup des Jahrhunderts. Seid bereit für den teuflichsten Pakt. Ich plan' es seit Jahren Jetzt gibt's Fraß Trotz allen Gefahren So ein Spaß Gerissen verbissen So viel Fraß Ganz ohne Gewissen So ein Spaß Als König gebohren zum Herrscher erkoren Erglänz' ich in all meiner Pracht."

Yazoo started after Sephiroth stopped. "Be prepared for the coup of the century. Be prepared for the murkiest scam. Meticulous planning, tenacity spanning, decades of denial is simply why I'll be king undisputed, respected, saluted, and seen for the wonder I am."

"...What brought this on?" Sora asked, recieving laughs from the small group. "Seriously."

"You surely noticed that we have somewhat of a hierachy?" Sephiroth asked, to which Sora nodded. "Well, I'm somewhat like a König, or king. Sometimes, we will change kings. One day, Roxas might be our König. Or maybe even Axel."

Demyx shuddered. "He'd burn this place down first!" he shouted as protest. Axel frowned as Roxas and Demyx laughed.

As the pair was focused on trying to restrain their laughter, Axel pulled out a match from his trenchcoat's pocket. He stalked over to Demyx, igniting the match. "Hey...Demy-kun?" he asked innocently.

Demyx turned around just as innocently, only to be burned as Axel suddenly dropped the match on the young musician.

"Ow! Ow! Hot! Hot!" Demyx yelled, suddenly dropping to the floor and rolling around like a cat in heat.

The other members of Unstable rolled their eyes, save Sephiroth. He was busy pondering why the three were still in the gang.

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School began, and December rolled around, striking hard and fast. Gray snow piles several feet deep lined the sidewalks. Sora pulled his black hoodie closer to his body in a desperate attempt to get warmer. He was currently heading to Riku's house, like every other day. He hadn't told Riku he had been coming over in an attempt to surprise the silver-haired teen.

"Sora," a deep voice said.

Sora turned around, seeing Sephiroth. "Hey, Sephiroth."

Sephiroth nodded in response. "Where are you headed? It's quite cold outside today."

"I'm going to Riku's...I didn't tell him that I was coming today, as a surprise."

Sephiroth feigned a look of sadness. "Riku isn't home today...didn't he tell you?"

Sora's eyes held shock. They told everything to each other. Riku never forgot to tell anything to Sora. "No...he didn't..."

"You'll freeze. Why don't you come to my house?"

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Sora sat on the black leather couch, sipping hot chocolate. "Where is Riku?" Sora asked.

"He told me that he didn't want you to know," Sephiroth replied.

Sora's eyes narrowed slightly. "What is he hiding?"

"I shouldn't say."

Sora's mind was racing with questions. 'What's going on?' 'This isn't like him.' 'Why is he acting so strange?'

"Please, Sephiroth. Just because I'm his boyfriend doesn't mean you should hide things about him that I should know."

"It's for the better, Sora, I insist."

"No, tell me!"

Sephiroth sighed in mock defeat. "Alright..."

"Yeah!" Sora yelled, getting excited.

"As you are aware, there's a city that's almost dedicated to clubs and partying?" Sephiroth asked.

"Yeah...but what does that have to do with anything?"

Sephiroth shook his head. "He told me that you just...weren't interesting him anymore. He told me that he didn't love you as much as he first did...Sora, he's there to find a new boyfriend."

Sora stared in shock, all excitement gone. Tears almost began running down his face, but he didn't want Sephiroth to see him crying. Sephiroth sensed this and gave Sora a hug.

"Sora...I'm sorry."

Sora burst into tears, crying into Sephiroth's shoulder. Sephiroth's grim smile was hidden from Sora's view.

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In the Unstable hideout, Zexion sighed again. Axel, Demyx, and Roxas were there to discuss Sora. Riku, Yazoo, and Kadaj were out of town because Loz wanted to go Christmas shopping.

"A rebellion?" Axel questioned. "It'll never work. Sephiroth would find out before we had a chance!"

"Listen," Roxas said. "We just don't speak about it when he, Kadaj, Yazoo, Riku or Sora are around. If one of them finds out, we're doomed as well as they are."

"Sephiroth would kill us on the spot," Zexion added.

Demyx shuddered. "But...shouldn't we at least tell Sora?"

Zexion shook his head. "No. If we tell him, he'll flee. If he's around us, Sephiroth won't make a move."

"Are you sure?" Demyx asked.

Zexion and Roxas nodded. "Sephiroth wants Sora to be alone," Roxas explained. "So there won't be a lot of witnesses."

The group of four sighed. Sora was making quite a big problem for them indeed.

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Sora sat on the edge of his bed, sighing. Everything seemed so depressing lately. "Riku...doesn't want me..." he muttered to himself again. 'Why...'

"Sora?" A questioning voice yelled.

Sora sighed before yelling, "Come in!"

To his surprise, Squall and Cloud walked in. Sora shifted a little out of nervousness.

"...Is something wrong?" asked Squall.

Sora didn't want to tell them, but the look in Cloud's eyes made him give in right away.

"Riku doesn't like me anymore."

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If you haven't figured it out, it's Sephiroth that was going around kidnapping people. Not really anything else to say, but...

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