A-D: Ok…It's been a while, you could all maybe be mad but I've been oddly sick and tormented Via school and other such things c: I may include and E-Mail address for you all to send messages to and communicate with. Just send "YES! I HAVE" and place AIM, YIM, or whatever you use after it. C: Not asking for Screennames or anything I'll give mine for that stuff, but hey, UPDATES WOO

DISCLAIMER! I do not in any way own the Kingdom Hearts games or Manga, or Final Fantasy. This is a fan fiction and is therefore in another 'world' entirely. Also, if I owned Kingdom Hearts or Final Fantasy there would be more situations that make a whole lot of NO SENSE AT ALL! I also do not own Nintendo. If I did, I'd not be an armature fanfic writer. I also don't own anything Nintendo does that I mention in this XD SORRY ALL I'M NOT A GOD.

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"Roxy, I'm hooooome~!" Axel popped his head over the fence that divided the two yards. He expected to see the blonde and his brunette twin brother, but neither were to be found. It was strange, he swore that he'd heard them out and about earlier. About the time that he was pushing Kadaj off him while the more hyper of the two newly rescued brothers of Riku tried to put his hair into a braid...and cut it. The red head moved then, going to the front of the house to knock and see if they were just eating or something. He stopped though, as there was a note left for anyone wanting to come over or see someone... but it was in silly string.

"What the..." He trailed off as the words got a bit clearer to him as he skimmed the door repeatedly. Really now, was this Sora's idea? And why did Cloud let such a thing happen under his watch? Not that Axel cared, but it just seemed strange. It took a while but he got it soon enough. 'Out for Family Day, back by 9.'

That jus didn't seem fair. Yes the vampires had been away from their neighbors for a few days. But that had a reason. Vincent and Sephiroth had both been a bit...protective(not the right word but close enough) of the tired rescue team, that had included the tall silver haired vampire. All were to rest until they felt like they had before the rescue. It helped a bit, but Yazoo and Kadaj were still so weak. Yazoo had even just barely woken up, giving Axel the go to hang out outside instead of confined to the house with games and such...that were boring after two playthroughs. He needed to get more games...but that was not the point here.

The family of Cloud, Sora, and Roxas were out. He had to report this to his friends. So, after taking a picture of the door with his camera phone for later laughs, he headed home. It was a nice day though, so lingering a little outside was ok by him. He didn't do it long though. After attempting to set a bird on fire he walked into the house and nearly into Leon.

"Sorry Squall!" He said, continuing on his way. The brunette glared at him as he walked out the door, needing to be early for work to make up for the few days he'd lost while stuck in the house under Sephiroth's rule. "Oh! Cloud's not gunna be there with you! Out with Roxas and Sora." Axel's voice drifted to his ears from what was apparently the kitchen. Leon felt a little disappointment, but didn't let it show. He was the tough one...or he used to be...then Seph and Vincent came.

After running into the brunette, Axel went to find his favorite prettyboy. "Riku!" He poked his head into the room of his friend. Nope, no Riku. A Yazoo taking a nap, but no Riku. He slipped out quietly and looked around some more. Where was Riku? "Sephiroth, you seen Riku?" He asked, knocking on the door to the far older vampire. There was a shuffle in the room as he moved to the door.

"Probably downstairs. Is Kadaj gone too?" All he needed to say really. Axel was off at 'downstairs' and nearly fell down the stairs as he hurried along.

Riku was downstairs, Kadaj not far away and asking all kinds of questions as he looked around for something sweet. While he was sleeping, the conscious vampires had worked at getting all the candy and sugar filled items away from anywhere Kadaj could reach, would look, or be able to find the treats. This provided some headache relief, but not all that much. "Finally!" Axel said, smiling a bit in his cocky fashion. The two looked over and blinked in confusion at the red head.

"Yes Axel?" Riku asked, turning back to Kadaj so he could steer him away when the younger one got close to sugar at all. Axel straightened himself up then took out his phone.

"There was a note on the door when i went over. I think that it was Sora's idea...but I can't be sure unless you confirm it." The picture was on display and set before the male so that he could see. The silly string message brought a smile to the vampire's face.

"Yep. That's Sora's idea alright."

"Thought that'd cheer you up. Even with the mission a success you're Mr. Prettyboy Gloom and Doom." The red head ruffled Riku's hair, and earned a punch in the arm in return. It was worth it, getting hit to make Riku look like he just woke up.

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"Oi! Sora, Roas get over here and eat!" Cloud had taken the two out to a movie, then the park so they could get much more of their terrorizing rampage done and over with, leaving less damage to befall their new house. "Come on!" The twins ran up at that, knowing that if they made Cloud call again, there would be far more to worry about than going a bit hungry.

"Cloud you're such a girl. Making a picnic basket and stuff." Sora giggled and sat down, getting a paper plate and shoving on a sandwich and some chips. Roxas did the same, but took a second sandwich and instead of chips he had some apple slices.

"So, how was today?" Cloud asked, laying back. He'd eaten a bit while his brothers were messing around with a tree and a squirrel. Clouds drifted about overhead, calmly saying that the day was nearly done and even they felt ready to bed. That was when he remembered they were supposed to be home by or before nine.

In their new town, before was probably better.

"Today was fun Cloud! We should do this again, but during the summer so we can visit Destiny Islands again!" Roxas scooted away as Sora spewed crumbs about with his talking. Manners were often forgotten in excitement, and Sora was excited. "Or or, maybe we could bring Riku and Axel and Leon with us there so they could see our home!" Now the brunette was bouncing on his knees, food forgotten.

"Maybe...we'd need to see if they want to come first." Cloud chuckled. Roxas blinked and looked into the distance.

"Hey...Cloud were they there before?" He pointed to the figure, thrown out as a silhouette by the setting sun. The park had been, for the most part, empty when the trio had arrived, and people who had come and gone since then were watched a bit, only to be sure there would be no surprise vampire or werewolf attacks...or anything worse.

Cloud looked over, shielding his eyes. "I dunno...they're kinda far away..." He shrugged. "Maybe they're new to town too, and just looking around." He didn't keep his money on that though.

Once the figure seemed to take note that it'd been seen, it moved. Two more appeared beside them then, making the total three, and the danger level fairly high.

"I think we should go now." Sora and Roxas didn't disagree. They didn't pick up though, save what they knew they'd need, like the blankets and their wallets. The figures were fast, and had then broken into a light, and seemingly held back, run.

Roxas and Sora took off in front of Cloud. Time to head home, and as fast as possible.

"You think that they're...you know?" Sora asked, looking back. Roxas was about to say something when a gust of wind ripped by and nearly stopped their progress.

"SHUT UP AND RUN!" Cloud shouted, not looking back. The boys obeyed, knowing how scared their brother must feel compared to them. They were the only family each other had left, and none were willing to lose the other.

The street soon came into sight, but the wind seemed to not want them to continue...or go back. It made a wall of light and sharp metal behind them, and led out Seifer's pack of wolves to cut them off.

"Well well well. Lookie here. New kids on the block." He chuckled and moved forward a couple steps.

"Capture." Fuu spoke, letting the word hang in the air to sink in for the humans.

"Over my dead body." Cloud defended, moving to become a barrier between the three wolves and his twin brothers. It didn't seem to work well for Seifer's plans.

It took only a moment, with Werewolf speed and strength Cloud had barely a chance to move before feeling the blow of a fist against his side. It would be a bruise, a bad one.

"CLOUD!" Roxas and Sora chorused, eyes wide in mirrored fear. They didn't want to lose their brother. He had to stay...he'd promised.

The man stood and seemed to want to go in for another round, but a roundhouse kick to the head put him back on the floor. And on like this it went. Each time Cloud stood, Seifer would just beat him back down. The wall of wind and sharp objects kept the twins from running away with their big brother, forcing them to watch him get beat over and over.

All until he didn't get up. Nose bleeding, maybe broken, covered in bruises, lip split. Cloud lay there, trying to catch his breath from a hit that had winded him.

"Rai, get the runts. We're done." With that command, he turned with Fuu and started walking away. The big lackey grinned.

"Come on now boys. We're letting him live, unless you don't want to come...?" His foot settled on Cloud's arm, pressing down until a snap was heard. The man gasped and let out a groan.

"Sora...come on..." Roxas said, too scared of losing Cloud to resist. Sora followed, not wanting to be alone, but also too scared to do otherwise.

"What about Riku...and Axel and Leon?" Sora squeaked, trying to stop himself from crying. Roxas pulled his brother close and hugged him. Rai caught this though.

"Oh you'll see them soon." He said, laughing a bit as he pushed the two in front of him.

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"Ok...I hate this game." Axel complained. Playing UNO for god only knows how long was only fun when bets and such were involved. But with this big of a circle, and no stakes...this was just plain old boring!

"Come on Axel, you're even winning for once!" Riku replied, setting down a yellow seven on the reverse that Kadaj had played.

"But I'm not losing chores or gaining money!" the red head fell back, continuing his complaints. Kadaj stared at him then to the door. Was someone there? He thought he could smell blood...

"Hey Riku...what's that smell?" He asked, still a bit unused to being so free so suddenly. Riku looked over and closed his eyes to focus.

It was blood.

that got the boy worried. Leon was the only one out, as he had to work that night. Vincent was on the couch, apparently reading a book or something. Sephiroth was asleep...kinda. And the others were here, playing UNO in the living room. Who was bleeding? Not a vampire that was for sure.

"Be right back." He said, standing up and heading to the door. After a quick check for werewolves in the area, the door was opened and shut fairly quickly as the vampire stepped out. It was a pleasant night, kinda warm kinda not. But the blood...it was carried to him. With a frown, Riku started walking. It didn't even take him long to find the source either. "Oh shit Cloud?" He sprinted over, putting himself in check so that he would not accidentally bite the poor beaten man. He picked him up and checked over the wounds. Nothing that would threaten him. "What the hell happened?"

He hadn't even noticed that Cloud was crying. It was only a bit, but it was enough to make Riku set him back down when he noticed. Cloud could move and walk on his own, arm broken though. "They took my brothers." He growled, eyes opening and full of anger and frustration. That also caused the vampire to freeze.

"They? Wh- no... here come with me. Can you walk?" the others had to hear whatever Cloud had to say as well. They could mean anyone, but there was a certain group of immortals that Riku was betting it meant. He watched as Cloud stood and held the broken limb. "Good. We'll go to your house first, so you can get cleaned up a bit, then we'll go to my house so that you can tell everyone your story." he was hiding how mad he was, but the shadows from the nearly set sun were just a bit too dark to be natural.

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"Sora..."

"I know..."

They were taken to that mansion in the hole in the wall. Before, when they'd found it, it was just something new, and sort of forbidden for them to be around, like Cloud's baseball bat when they wanted to play an actual game instead of beat the crap out of each other. Now it was something that rang all the alarms within their minds. They no longer felt the need to explore the grounds behind the locked gate, but to get back to where it was safe, with their vampire friends and brother. Cloud...

"You think that Cloud's ok?" Sora whispered, not wanting to be any louder in case Rai was one of those short-tempered people. Roxas shrugged and looked around a little. It was likely their brother had lived...but also not. They both looked around then, seeing now that they were REALLY not alone. "Roxas…you think…" His brother gave him a look of fear that turned the rest of the sentence into a whimper. The eyes that were watching from the forest seemed amused, members of Seifer's pack maybe? They hoped it was just curious monkeys or something."Well well well, what have the wolves brought now?" The cold voice shocked the boys into looking forward, shaking and holding each other for comfort. The orange eyed vampire smirked and looked at the 'guard' of the boys. "Thank you for helping my underlings in this task. It has made the strength of the werewolves so much clearer to my ancient and fogged vision."Rai just made some muttered comment before leaving, the eyes following him along the path and blinking out of existence one by one. This left the twins to stand before their captor, alone. His eyes seemed to just glow with the dark shadows of what seemed to be his plan.

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"Alright… now tell us again. Please." Riku had managed to get Cloud back to the house, laying the injured man on their couch and calling for everyone to come down. They'd cared for his wounds, patrolled around outside the house and taken care of erasing evidence of the attack and the picnic took a deep breath and tried to remember it all. It was hard to do though, as the painkillers were not strong enough to deal with the pain of his broken arm. He spoke slowly, with his teeth clenching and pausing at the parts that seemed to just rush by him. "…then I remember being hit and kicked… It all came so fast I couldn't even react." It was hard for him to spill this….but it was spilt. It left a tense feeling in the room too."How did we not see this?" Axel asked, falling back with his hands over his face. A muted groan of 'Roxy' was heard a moment later."We weren't entirely careful…we should have figured that there were werewolves watching us and them by now…." Riku shook his head. "We have to do something…""Not while you're so weak." Vincent's ice cold voice cut in. "They're acting, and while you're all barely recovered. They were waiting for a slip up, and it's been given.""So what do we do?" Kadaj asked, looking a bit scared. He knew the horrors of being beaten and nearly killed, and being turned. "Are we gunna wait?" He did want to help, seeing his brother speak so happily about someone….it had encouraged him to be brave at this moment. He did wish he knew this 'Sora' human though."We rest a couple more days, plan, and then attack." Sephiroth seemed so…final on the whole thing. It was good to have a leader in a hard situation. Of course…some people didn't like no action."HELL NO!" Axel jumped to his feet, singing the floor a bit as he lost control for a moment. "We're healed enough, we've been hanging out for, what four days? I've only been outside once and that was to take out the freaking trash, we are going to make a plan, and beat down some werewolf hide! We need a new rug and to kill that pup of Seifer's." He was getting so worked up that the room was heating."Axel, some problems with that. Problem one, where do we go looking? Problem two, there was a vampire with the wolves if what I gather from Cloud's story is correct, and Problem three, who will watch Cloud?"That made the red head cool down and sit. "Damnit Yazoo, you're quiet but super smart aren't you? I forgot all about that." "Then it's settled. We'll rest up, make a plan, and then get moving on a second rescue mission." Sephiroth said.

A-D: Thank you to ccsakura21 for the idea that this chapter's based off of c: Thank you to Becdan for the compliment on my writing c: That made me feel so much more motivated to keep going on this. And a BIG thanks to BronzeButterfly18 who gave me my, so far, longest Review and idea for things to happen in more chapters to come!Bigger thanks to everyone who favorites and watches this story. It makes me feel like I'm not the failure my school told me I am ;D