wow! thank you guys SO much for the great reviews! i'm glad people like Sora (instead of Riku!) as the vampire. i got inspired while in Halloween Town. aren't Sora's eyes beautiful in Halloween Town? they stand out really well and its just so pretty...

and i tried using the reply review thingy but i havea feeling i did it wrong, SO! i will just reply to the reviews now. lot simpler. but if i ever do figure out how to work the reply review thingy that is how i'll reply to all ur guys's WONDERFUL reviews. guys, this chapter is longer just for you since you were BEAUTIFUL people and reviewed after the FIRST chapter! seriously, you guys make me so, so happy...

Anon: i'm glad you like the Disney character(s?) in the story! i was gettin tired of all the bad guys with silver hair (don't get me wrong, they're good villains, but you need something new after a while...) and you liked how the two fainted? that is good. very good. because they will end up doing that more than once (that isn't too much of a spoiler is it?) you'll find out why soon enough.

Sad Faced Neko: heh heh... glad you like Leon's humor. all brothers have to be evil to the other at some point, right?

TomiSama04: -squeals- they're my 3 fav pairings too! and you're right, Riku seems vampire-ish to me too. which is exactly why Sora is it in this story! (i have such good reasons XD)

midori tsuki: really? you like the title? that's good cuz i really couldn't think of anything else at all... so yeah, thanks so much!

angel yuripa: yes! Sora with hunger-PMS! -giggles- isn't he just an adorable little uke? gettin all pissed at everyone... Riku should calm him down... XD (gah! bad mind! bad!)

chocolate lover: i'm going to assume you read the date wrong cuz i just put this on here on Sunday OO that's not all that long ago... but here's your vampire Sora plushie! heehee... isn't he adorable?

BlueFlamesRedTears91: glad you like it! thanks so much for reviewin! here's the update you wanted )

meamz: thank you so much! i'm happy now...

lovercentralwok: here's the next chappie thanks for you support!

kimmy: yay! people love it! -throws confetti- thank you!

Vampire Riku: you didn't get your plushie? here's one! adorable little vampire Sora... and i like vampire fics too. vampires are awesomeness...

whew! got all those done. now, on with the chapter!

"I'm home!" Riku announced, taking off his shoes at the doorway.

"Welcome back, honey! There's some macaroni in the cupboard if you're hungry!" his mom called from somewhere in the house.

"Thanks, Mom," he replied nonchalantly.

Riku, however, not being hungry went down to his room in the basement. It was a nice basement though. One with carpet and good lighting and not as many bugs as one would think.

Dumping his stuff on the floor, Riku sat down on his bed and thought. While thinking, his eyes moved across the room, examining how neat and orderly all his things were–especially for a teenager.

He had several Christian rock band posters on his wall–Casting Crowns, Newsboys, and Audio Adrenaline to name a few. His family was very involved in the church, and they made sure Riku was, too. Not that Riku minded. If he had nothing better to do, he really couldn't care if they sent him off to some summer church camp or not.

Riku was an active participant in his church's youth group and often helped the pastor with confirmation classes. Not because he particularly cared; just because he had nothing else useful to do. And Riku liked being useful. It made him feel as if he was actually doing something instead of moping around like a living lump of flesh waiting to die and see what happened next.

But as Riku looked around his room, he didn't really see any of it. His mind was too focused on other things.

Who was that guy who saved me? And what'd he mean by "you're mine"? And why'd I just pass out like that? And what really happened to Roxas? I really doubt he told me everything . . . but who was that redhead? And the guy who was attacking us in the first place–who was he? Who were any of them? And why . . . why'd they do . . . what they did? It just doesn't make any sense . . .

After a while, the silver-headed boy realized that thinking about it was just confusing him even more. Luckily, it was then that his mom called down to ask if he'd eaten supper. When he said no, she forced him to go upstairs and eat–or else.

What the 'or else' was, no one knew, but neither did anyone want to.

Sighing, the teen headed up to the kitchen to find his parents indulging in macaroni. Unenthusiastically, he joined them. He wasn't really hungry, but neither of his parents seemed to notice.

Eventually, Riku just said, "I'm gonna go take a walk, be back later," as he got up from the table and went to find his shoes.

"Be careful, dear!" his mom said before he shut the door behind him–a brisk wind blowing in his face as he set off. Where he was walking he didn't really know, but he didn't think it really mattered.

-

Sora waited eagerly for his name to be called. As soon as it was, he'd be allowed to leave. And then he could eat! He'd been suffering massive hunger pains all day and everyone couldn't wait for them to be satisfied.

He'd flipped people off a total of 347 times. Cussed at people 5,938 times. Stuck his tongue out 120 times. And successfully managed to make everyone just as miserable as he was.

A hungry Sora is never a good thing.

"The following people may now leave: Leon, Axel, Sor–" the announcer was cut off abruptly by an impossibly loud "YES!" from Sora as the brunet left the building–his redheaded friend close behind him.

-

Leaping across the familiar rooftops skillfully, Axel had reached his quota with considerable ease. Apparently there was a party that a ton of people had gone to, and many of them were stupid enough to leave alone.

Now I'm bored . . . hmm . . . wonder if Sora's reached his quota yet? God, he better have . . . I refuse to go near him if he's still hungry when we–is that Leon? Axel's thoughts were interrupted as he spotted a brown-haired figure hurrying down the street.

It couldn't have been Sora. This man's hair was shoulder-length and nowhere near as spiky as his friend's. Plus, Axel didn't know anyone else that could wear tight leather pants like that. Not that he looked! It being Leon, it was kinda hard not to. The guy just stood out screaming "Look at my ass!" without actually saying anything.

. . . Or maybe it was just the fact that Axel was completely gay unlike most of his friends who were just bi.

Either way, Axel was bored and decided to follow him. And he swore it had nothing to do with the way that fine ass was sauntering away.

Leon made several sharp turns that really made Axel work at not being spotted. Like Sora, Leon had a temper. Ah, the family resemblance. Of course, both of them would kill Axel if he ever told them that.

Finally, the brunet stepped into a small apartment building. Crap, how am I supposed to follow him in there? The fiery redhead wondered before realizing that the building was so small that he could simply guess by peering through the windows and seeing where he ended up.

Well this is surprising . . . Axel thought as he saw just where Leon had gone.

-

"Roxas! I'm goin' now! See ya in a few hours!" his brother called from the doorway.

"Got it, Cloud! Have fun with your boyfriend!" Roxas replied from the living room.

Cloud smirked. "Duh, I'm leaving the door open, 'kay?"

"Sure, see ya."

"Bye," Cloud said before shutting the door behind him.

Roxas waited a few seconds before sighing, "Finally, took him long enough to get his ass out the door."

"No kidding." Roxas jumped.

"Who said that?" the blonde demanded.

"I did," the voice drawled out. "You know, the guy who's outside your window? Ringing any bells?"

Roxas turned to the window. Sure enough, there was someone leaning on the window sill from outside.

He looks familiar somehow . . . Roxas thought, his face scrunching up in confusion. The guy had fiery red hair and emerald eyes. Those eyes . . . The blonde's eyes widened as he suddenly remembered this man. Everything about that night came rushing back all over again.

"What do you want?" he asked, his voice a little shaky.

"To talk," the man stated.

"Really? That didn't seem to be what you wanted last time," Roxas said, suspicion practically dripping off him.

"We can do that, too, if you want."

"No! What are you doing here anyway? Are you some sort of stalker?"

"No, I just saw my friend come in here while I was wandering around and got curious."

"You know Leon?"

"Yeah, he's my best friend's older brother. Got it memorized?" he teased. He couldn't help it. The blonde just looked so cute right now with his little face all scrunched up in some weird expression.

"Leon never said he had a brother . . ." Roxas muttered, more to himself than the strange man outside his window.

"Hey, you said you were friends with Leon?" Roxas asked.

The redhead nodded.

"Ok . . . um . . . did you want to come in?" Roxas wondered uncomfortably. Any friend of Leon was a friend of his. Roxas trusted Leon to have good friends. Leon was simply too proud to hang around with losers, so this guy couldn't be that bad. Right?

"Sure," the redhead said, startled by the sudden invitation, but accepting it nonetheless.

Soon the two were sitting on the couch comfortably. Well, it was actually kinda awkward for both of them, but the cushions were comfortable.

"So what's your name, anyway?" Roxas asked.

"Axel, you?"

"Roxas."

"So Roxas, where're your parents?" Axel asked. For some reason it was the first question to pop into his head.

"Oh, they both work late during summer so that they can get hours off for the rest of the year in case some emergency pops up," he answered.

"Can I ask you something?" Roxas asked suddenly.

Axel raised his eyebrows, but simply said, "Shoot."

"Why'd you do . . . what you did . . . to me. You know, the other night?"

Axel was silent for a moment before saying, "I couldn't help myself."

Roxas looked at him funny, but Axel just shrugged his shoulders. It was the truth.

"Ok . . . um . . . another question: what were you and those two other guys doing?"

"Well, we were eating. 'Course, Sora didn't get enough so he was starving all day today, and he wouldn't let us forget it either."

"Sora . . . ?"

"Yeah, the kid who did the flying kick."

"So he was the one who saved Riku."

"Hmm?"

"My friend, the silver-haired guy. Sora saved him."

Axel nearly snorted. Maybe it had looked like Sora had saved this Riku kid, but he knew Sora hadn't given a crap about the kid. He was just hungry. Plus, he hated Pete.

"What's so funny?" Roxas asked, slightly offended.

"It's just . . . nevermind . . . Hey, mind if I ask how you know Leon?"

"Leon? He's my brother's boyfriend."

"You're kidding! Leon? That's rich!" Axel cried, almost doubling over in laughter.

"Why's that so funny? You got something against gays?" Roxas asked. This time, he was offended. His brother was gay, and he would stick by him no matter what. Besides, with what Axel did to him, wasn't he gay, too?

"No, that's not what I meant. Just . . . nevermind, you wouldn't understand."

"Why not? I'm not a little kid, you know!"

"I never said you were!"

"Well you're sure actin' like it! I let you in my house and you're still not tellin' me anything!"

"Hey! I told you my name and how I know Leon! That's something, kid!"

"I told you I'm not a kid!" Roxas said, pouting.

Axel smirked and said, "I know. That's why I can do this." Before Roxas could protest, Axel placed a chaste kiss on the young boy's lips.

"Wha—?" Roxas was cut off as the redhead put his finger on the boy's mouth. Axel jumped in shock as said finger was bitten. The blonde grinned mischievously as Axel stared at him.

"That hurt."

"Good, now get out."

The redhead looked at Roxas, that was unexpected . . .

"Fine, but you have to promise me something," Axel negotiated.

Roxas eyed the redhead suspiciously. "What?"

"That I'm the only vampire that'll ever get to touch you," Axel said.

"What?"

"I'm a vampire, and so are Leon and Sora along with a bunch of others. But . . . I'm the only one that gets to touch you."

"What? How could Leon be a vampire? How can you be a vampire? Vampires don't exist!"

Axel gave a crestfallen smile before replying, "Then I guess this is all a dream . . ."

"Wha . . . ?" but Axel had already left.

Roxas stood still for a moment.

"What the hell . . . ?" he muttered to himself.

-

Riku shivered as goose bumps trailed up his arms. He should've grabbed a jacket. The weatherman said they were getting a cold front.

Not that the weatherman was usually right.

Sighing, Riku began rubbing his arms for warmth and checked out his surroundings. He'd been walking absentmindedly, not noticing where he was going.

In other words, he had no idea where his feet had taken him.

Suddenly, he remembered. He remembered where he was. He remembered that bench and that sign and that wall and even the cobbled street began to look familiar.

He had come to the spot where he'd met that guy before when he was walking around with Roxas. The exact spot where that guy saved him from that other guy.

Wow, don't I have creative names for them . . . 'that guy' and 'that other guy' . . . Riku thought sarcastically.

Bored, the silver-haired teen sat down on a nearby bench. His mind wandered–switching topics as many times as women changed their minds.

Soon, he was engulfed in his thoughts. He didn't see anything as his mind was clouding his eyes.

Which made it all the more startling when he heard a close voice whisper "Boo!"

"Gah!" Riku cried, nearly jumping off the bench. "Who . . . wha . . . ?"

Riku just stared at the person who'd scared him in shock. It was 'that guy'!

-

Sora couldn't help it anymore. He began laughing hysterically.

Here he'd been walking along, full and happy. In fact, he'd even been humming to himself when he saw the silver-haired kid from last night.

Unable to control himself, he came up and scared the crap out of the kid. The kid's face was priceless!

The kid had been just sitting there, lost in thought. And then bang! His face was flushed, his hair slightly mussed, and he was breathing unevenly. Actually, it kind of looked like he'd just been doing . . . that . . . Which just made the whole scene even funnier to the young vampire.

"Who are you?" Riku asked, finding his voice in front of the beautiful stranger-yet-not.

Wait a second . . . he's shorter than me by a few inches! Riku thought, noticing the person's height for the first time.

"Your worst nightmare," Sora said, a mischievous glint in his eyes as he grinned. At the kid's alarmed expression, he chuckled, saying, "Calm down! I'm kidding! My name's Sora, you?"

"Riku, um . . . why'd you scare me like that?"

Sora shrugged. "Felt like it," he answered honestly.

"Why?"

"I'm in a good mood," Sora replied.

"Ok, can I ask you a question or two?"

"Sure, doesn't mean I'll answer, but go ahead. Ask me." Geez, this Riku kid had a lot of questions.

Suddenly, Riku wasn't sure which question to pick, he had so many. Blurting out the first thing that came to his mind, he asked, "Why'd you save me the other night? And who was that guy with you that carried Roxas away? And who was the guy you saved me from?"

Ok, so that was a few more questions than he'd intended to come out. But he was going to end up asking them sometime anyway.

"Well . . . I saved you cause I was hungry, and who's Roxas?"

"Roxas–my friend, he's blonde, has blue eyes . . ."

"Oh yeah, him–Axel took him. And I saved you from Pete because he's a dumbass that's gotten in my way one time too many."

"Getting in your way of what?"

"Just stuff–he's in a rival group of my group."

"What're the groups called? And what are they for?"

"I'm in Organization XIII and he's in Heartless."

"Why thirteen?"

"Lucky number, and you ask a lot of questions for a human, you know that?" Sora wondered. This human–Riku–was so curious.

"What do you mean 'for a human'?" Riku asked, bewildered.

"Well, what do you think I mean?"

"You mean . . . you're not human . . .?" Sora nodded. "Then . . . what are you . . . ?"

"Vampire, what else? Axel and Pete are one, too, and so's my brother," Sora said simply.

He didn't know why he'd told Riku all that. For some reason he . . . trusted this human . . . Weird, the brunet thought. But it can't hurt, right? He's just one young human, and adults don't listen to their children all that much.

"Any other questions that require my attention? Or do you have . . . other needs?" Sora asked, walking his finger up Riku's shoulder. He smirked at Riku's shocked expression.

"You sound like a whore when you say that," Riku said, a mix between disgusted and disturbed.

"Do not," Sora argued, pouting.

Abruptly, Riku's view of the vampire changed. Before he thought Sora was beautiful, and now that he was pouting Riku thought he looked . . . really cute . . . How could someone change their appearance so easily?

"So whatcha doin' out at this time of night, Riku? It's dangerous–especially for beautiful boys like you," Sora . . . purred?

Riku, however, was surprised. Had he just been called beautiful? And by Sora, who, in Riku's opinion, was way more attractive than he could ever be?

"Sora, this is Twilight Town. Since when has anything dangerous ever happened here?" Riku asked, deciding to brush away the compliment.

"Since people like me came here," replied the brunet. Suddenly, Sora was very close to Riku. Very close. Riku shuddered as the vampire leaned in and grazed the boy's collarbone with his fangs.

Sora smirked. He liked having this power over the human. The power to make him shudder and, Sora hoped, other . . . reactions . . . Yes, in fact, Sora thought he might just lay off on biting the human for a while. Just a little while, for he was having far too much fun teasing the human boy. Besides, he'd already reached his quota tonight.

"W-will you s-stop that?" Riku stuttered.

He doesn't mean it, thought Sora, but he obliged anyway.

Riku let out a small breath of relief. It wasn't that he didn't like Sora being that close, it was just . . . things . . . Like, Sora was a vampire, so was Riku mingling with a messenger of the Devil? Would he go to hell? If possible, now even more questions appeared in Riku's head.

"Shit, curfew," Sora muttered under his breath.

"What? You have a curfew?" Riku asked, surprised and amused at the same time. Who knew that vampires would have to worry about things like curfews?

"Yeah, unfortunately."

Riku's expression saddened. He had been wanting to talk more to Sora, but if he had to leave they might not meet again like this. And then he'd never know anything. Riku wouldn't allow that because he was curious, and he needed to know.

But then an idea flitted across his mind. Riku blinked. Yes, that could work. He could introduce Sora to his friends and get to learn more at the same time.

"Wait, before you go . . ." Riku began. Er . . . how to word this . . . "Um . . . I was wondering if you wanted to come to my church's youth group retreat? It's just a few miles away at a camp."

A church camp? Hello-o! I'm a vampire here! Sora thought before switching to Then again, it might not be that bad. It's not like they can force me to do any of their religious crap. And I'll get to be with Riku . . . He didn't know why, but the thought of being with Riku pleased him to no end.

"Sure, when're you leaving for it?"

"Tomorrow at seven."

"In the morning?"

Riku shook his head. "No, in the evening. We're meeting at the First United Methodist Church parking lot, ok?"

"Got it, I'll be there," Sora said, grinning. Riku smiled, relieved that the brunet would be with him.

"But um . . . I really do gotta go, so I'll meetcha there!" Sora said before running back up the street. A few seconds later, Riku lost sight of him as the shadows swallowed him up.

How does he do that? Just . . . disappear like that? Riku wondered before shaking his head once again and heading back home.

-

"This is suicide . . ." he muttered.

"That's why I'm here with you, Leon!" his companion said cheerfully behind him.

Leon glared back at the human with him. They had been crawling through the vents in Hollow Bastion for a while now, and Leon couldn't help but think that Cloud's idea had been inspired from a James Bond movie. And Leon hated James Bond. It was too cheesy.

"Dammit, Cloud, I meant you being here with me is suicide!" the vampire explained, irritated.

"Yeah, whatever, I've been using a sword for how many years and you still don't–"

"Shh! I hear voices," Leon shushed. Cloud nodded as the two wordlessly hauled themselves to where they could hear the voices coherently.

"–ools! You've been looking for how long and you still haven't found them all? You idiots!" a woman's voice raged.

"Pardon, Queen Maleficent, but we have been trying very hard! We've been checking all the cribs and cradles to be found and–"

"Cradles? Cradles! AHA HA Ha Ha ha ha ha!" Maleficent cackled.

Stupidly, her followers began laughing with her even though they didn't know what was so funny. But if Maleficent was laughing, surely they should laugh, too.

"Cradles? You IDIOTS!" she shrieked. "Get out of my sight! Now!"

After a lot of scuffling feet and scrambled protests, all the Queen's lackeys had emptied the room save for two–her crow and Pete.

"My Queen . . . what was it they were supposed to be lookin' for? You said a long time ago to check every cradle in the land for a baby with golden hair and rose-red lips," Pete asked.

"My Pet," she cooed to her crow. "And Pete, you two are the only ones I can trust. Find the teenage girl with hair as golden as the sun and lips as red as the reddest rose."

"You can count on me, Queen Maleficent," Pete saluted.

"My Queen?" a voice asked hesitantly as a door creaked open.

"What?" she snapped.

"There are three girls here to see you, my Queen."

"Bring them in," Maleficent ordered.

"Yes, my Queen," the servant said, bowing before leaving the room to get the guests.

-

Now, Cloud had been in the same position for a long time. And Cloud was one of those people who just had to move. So when he was stuck in a vent with Leon with no room to move, he'd started off just twiddling his thumbs (literally). Then an hour went by. Then two.

Eventually, Cloud just couldn't take it anymore and snapped. Before he realized what he was doing, he'd reached down to his toes to stretch. Just to stretch. But with his body movement, a creak followed.

He mouthed, "Shit" before Leon twisted around and glowered at him.

"What was that?" a sharp voice questioned.

Shit, that was Maleficent's voice, Cloud thought, his eyes widening in panic.

Leon, realizing the urgency to get out now, gestured at Cloud frantically to move.

Cloud obeyed quickly–maybe a little too quickly as the vent let out another noise.

Some speculations were made on the other side, but neither non-Heartless was bothered by them anymore. They had to get out. And they had to get out now.

The guards had already noticed something was out of the ordinary; it wouldn't be long until they found out why if the two blue-eyed wonders didn't get moving! Some shouting only encouraged the two to hurry.

Eventually, they reached a venthole where they could exit to the outside and did so as fast as they could.

"Hey!" a voice yelled.

"Run," Leon said firmly. Cloud nodded as both of them fled the scene like fugitives running from the law.

Finally, they considered themselves at a safe distance in a cave on the outskirts of town. No one appeared to be trailing them. Panting for breath, they leaned against the cavern walls and each other for support.

"Cloud . . ."

"Yeah?"

"I'm never taking you on a mission with me again," Leon dead panned.

Cloud gaped at him. "What? But–"

"No 'but's, we nearly got caught back there, and I don't want to risk them catching you again. You have no idea how lucky we are that no one's followed us. Maleficent must be too occupied with her guests."

"Speaking of which, who do you think those girls were?" Cloud piped up. He'd have to argue about going on missions with Leon later. The brunet wasn't about to shift his opinion for a while.

"They were human, I could tell that much, but why they were there I haven't the faintest idea."

After a few minutes of silence, Cloud had to move.

"C'mon, we should get going," the blonde suggested. Leon nodded and stood up.

Putting his hand up near an area where shadows seemed to congregate, a black hole was spun into being. Tendrils of darkness twirled around the room in an eerie fashion.

Leon grasped Cloud's wrist and pulled him after him into the swirling darkness. A cold feeling washed over Cloud that even Leon's warmth couldn't keep away before he succumbed to the darkness.

so, in case anyone is wondering, Riku is Methodist because i'm a Methodist and i believe that its best to go by personal experiences if you can. besides, us Methodists are very tolerant of a lot of things so... -shrugs- and Casting Crowns really is an awesome band if you're into Christian rock (or if you're not Christian then just ignore me)

and can anyone guess who Maleficent is looking for? it shouldn't be too hard to figure out...

and this time i will hand out... hmm... oh! a plushie of Roxas bandaging Axel's finger (from when he bit him)