Warning, strong language was used at least once.

I do not own Ookiku Furikabutte, no matter how many times I cry myself to sleep because it will never happen…

Chapter Three: In which turning a corner thrice is possible

That night Abe, Mihashi, Sakaeguchi, Hanai, Tajima, Mr. Shiga, and Momokan made their way to where Abe's memory of the previous night dropped off. They were in at a corner in a residential area.

"Well?" Hanai prompted. Abe seemed to be glowing slightly in the dark and had much more energy than he had during the day. That was a good thing because four other times he almost jumped his various classmates because he got "thirsty". Luckily Mizutani stopped him before he did (he did get bitten, but Abe didn't drink and said that Mizutani smelled too bad to eat).

"I think I…" Abe started to say before he was interrupted by some bewitching music. It was dark, bluesy, and the group felt entranced. "I followed that music!"

"What music?" Mr. Shiga and Momokan asked simultaneously. The boys noticed nothing and turned to corner to follow the wondrous melody. After a few moments they realized that they had somehow ended back at the corner they had originally turned from.

"Weird…" Tajima murmured calmly. "Weren't we just here?"

"Y-yeah…" Mihashi agreed.

"Why are you guys talking weird?" Abe growled. Normally his growls would have made Mihashi have a minor freak out.

"Don't be so uptight Takaya-kun!" Mihashi giggled. Abe stared at his friend wondering what kind of drugs he had ingested. He was a fucking vampire, why would Tajima dare to annoy him by using his given name.

"Yeah, he's right no need to start a fight." Sakaeguchi chanted in a dazed voice. Abe wanted to start slapping his teammates who were acting crazy when he saw a note written in what he knew to be blood, B negative to be specific. He crouched down and read it quickly.

Turn the corner by the number of twice.

All together it shall be thrice.

What you seek shall be there,

But ponder what you shall lose, if you care…

"Okay guys, we have to turn this corner two more times." Abe explained to… no one. He scanned the area around him to see that everyone that he had brought acting like they had no good sense.

Tajima and Hanai were peeing their names on a bench. Sakaeguchi was till talking in rhymes as he danced in circles around Mihashi who was pretending to be a tree. Izumi was cackling wildly as he cart wheeled through the street. Momokan and Mr. Shiga seemed to be missing. 'What do I do about them?' Abe sighed inwardly burying his head in his hands. He looked up at the note to see it had changed.

Bring the ones vulnerable to our spell,

And their symptoms we shall quell.

Hand to hand make your turns

Quickly, before their minds do burn.

Abe was more surprised that the note was telling him to hold hands with his teammates than that it had changed. He figured that since he was a vampire it was possible for a paper to change its message.

So he went to Hanai and Tajima (who now were zipped up and arguing about who was bigger [though we all know that it was Tajima]) and forced their hands together. Their expressions softened and they seemed to be calm. Abe did the same for Izumi and Sakaeguchi and took Mihashi's hand for himself.

Abe led the five past the corner again until they came to it for the final turn. This time the note was written in a long flowing script of black ink.

Good for you one more to go,

But there is something else you must know.

Until recognized all mortals must avert their eyes.

First to last one not to obey my warning dies.

Mortals? That had to mean Tajima, Hanai, Sakaeguchi, Izumi, and Mihashi. He pushed their comatose faces downwards so they would be looking at the ground when they came out of this state.

"One more," Abe whispered. He clutched Mihashi's hand tighter and walked confidently down the alley for the last time.

"Hoshiro-dono!" Mikail shouted calling for her boss. Mikail was a small cat-girl who had been working for Tetsuya Hoshiro since he had found and rescued her form a village of bloodthirsty mortals. She had thought that they were going to burn her alive for sure when he arrived and stopped them. All he had to do was bear his fangs and they all went running.

"Are you alright little one?" he asked her that fateful day. She told his she was fine and vowed her eternal servitude to him, the rest was history.

For the first time since that night she had felt that fear. She sensed four mortals, conscious mortals at that, breaking through the Veil. There was another thing she sensed, but she couldn't figure its status. Mortals could not break through the Veil, the various spells created by the greatest sorcerers in all the lands were supposed to protect them from the vilest creatures that had driven them to create the Veil in the first place- mortals.

"Hoshiro-dono!" she screamed as she nearly broke down her master's doors to tell him of the breach. He was at his desk covered in blood. That was normal for what he was, but it seemed that they were coming from him, not going in.

"Mikail, he's here…" Hoshiro gasped. Mikail ran over to him and wiped away the blood-tears from his face.

"Who's here?" she demanded softly. Hoshiro looked at her with fear or sadness.

"The one I failed to completely change," Hoshiro finally breathed.

How's that for a cliffhanger? I like it, but what really matters is you guys. Review please.