Ello Again
Kairi ran her hands through Riku's silvery locks as the vampire's head rested on her knees. He was grieving for the loss of his best friend to that disgusting werewolf but what could Riku do. If he didn't give Sora up, Xemnas would have killed the brunette and it was bad enough that Sora had went with that monster but if he had died, the vampire didn't think he would cope. The silver haired male sat up and looked at Kairi before lowering his lips to the witch's. He didn't know what possessed him to do such a thing. Riku had long since fell out of love with Kairi but maybe it was the grief that Sora had been taking from him. Riku knew that Sora had went on his own free will but the vampire had to damn his best friend for not being a little more selfish. Riku released Kairi's lip and looked down at the floor as he heard Kairi sighing.
"I don't want to remember this, Kairi. Make me forget this. Just for tonight" Kairi sat up on her knees and started at Riku.
"Okay" The witch kissed Riku back. She knew that Riku wasn't in love with her, she knew exactly who he was in love with and she couldn't blame him for wanting to forget this. It was the only thing she could do to make him feel better momentarily.
Everyone else was still trying to come to terms with what had happened. Roxas was sitting in a small under ground chamber beside Vaan and Namine waiting to hear news of Hayner and everyone else. He was so wrapped up in everything that he didn't even notice Olette running over to him.
"Oh your alright, Roxas" The blond angel could tell that she had been crying but he couldn't blame her. Behind Olette appeared Aerith. Aerith was a healer as well and since her parents were friends of Ansem before they died, Aerith and Olette were quite close to their family. Roxas wrapped his arms around the brunette and sighed.
"Yeah I'm fine. How's Hayner?" Olette just started to cry again. Olette and Hayner had grew up together and if you saw one of them , the other would be hiding around close by. It was like Tidus with Vaan and Sora with Riku. Whenever Hayner was injured, Olette would burst into tears even if it was nothing serious at all
Rikku sat with her back to the cave wall. She looked to her left to see her little brother lying sleeping peacefully. On her right, Seifer was lying with a look of agony on his face as he left. She would have to thank Aerith for tending to them so well, the blond siren was just happy that their lives weren't in danger anymore.
"Rikku" The blond looked up to see her father standing in the entry way to the chamber. She sighed and looked back to Hayner's sleeping body before she heard her name getting called again but it wasn't her father's voice. She looked up to see Zell standing beside her father with Selphine and Irvine standing behind him.
"Pnudran*" Rikku jumped up and ran over to her older brother and pulled him into a hug. "We missed you" From behind Rikku, Selphine and Irvine smiled happily but Rikku knew that Selphine wouldn't be smiling for long. Zell's eyes caught sight of his little brother.
"What happened to him?" Rikku didn't get a chance to speak before Zell's eyes caught sight of Seifer. If people thought that Hayner and Seifer were bad, Zell and Seifer were a hell of a lot worse. Even as a child, Seifer hated Zell because he was a completed idiot and Zell didn't like Seifer because he walked around like he owned the place. "It was him wasn't it. He's the reason Hayner's in this condition. I'll kill him." Zell growled and tried to reach for Seifer unconscious body but Rikku stopped him.
"Hayner is in the condition he is in because Seifer saved him, if he hadn't have been there. Our little brother would be dead. Seifer took that hit for Hayner because he is Hayner's watcher and Seifer's been there for him when he needed him which is more than you ever done" Zell looked down at the ground in shame for what he had done.
"I know I let you, Hayner, mum and dad down but I always felt guilty for what I had down to you's and I'll never forgive myself for what I done but I had to come back make amends for what I had done." Zell looked his little sister in the eyes before he pulled her into a hug. "I'll never let anything like this happen to you or Hayner ever again." Rikku nodded her head and embraced her brother. Rikku looked over at Selphine and sighed as she pushed Zell away.
"Selphine, I'm guessing you haven't been told yet?" The bouncy brunette tilted her head and shook her head at Rikku. The blond sighed and walked up to her brother's watcher and placed her hand on her shoulder. "You know that Xemnas has now got his hands on his mate" Selphine just nodded her head. "His mate is Sora. Your little brother" The color was drained from Selphine's face as her eyes grew wide. Irvine wrapped his arms around the girl as she burst into tears. Zell walked up to her and wrapped his arms around her also. Everyone was so busy comforting Selphine that no one heard Hayner waking up.
"SHUT THE HELL UP" Rikku and Zell turned around to see their little brother still lying on his back but his eyes were open and what worried Rikku was the fact that they were red. When dragons were extremely angry or annoyed their eyes would turn red.
"Come on, lets go somewhere else. Dad I'll take them away for now so can you stay here in case any of them wake up?" Ansem nodded at his daughter who smiled and took Zell's sobbing watcher away. Ansem looked down at Hayner and Seifer and sighed, both of them were two of the most reckless people he had ever met. Although Ansem had to admit that all of his children were reckless to a certain degree but main Hayner and Zell.
"Hayner, I know your not asleep. Do you think I'm stupid?" The smaller blond sat up and looked but at his father before shaking his head. "Your sister is nearby if you need her, I must go and pay a visit to Sephiroth." Hayner nodded again as his father walked off. He looked over to see Seifer lying across from him which caused him to groan loudly and try to get back to sleep.
For a sixteen year old, Kairi was easily amused and she had the attention span of a 5 year old. She lay beside Riku plaiting his hair as the vampire lay deep in thought about Sora. The thought of the brunette wasn't far from Kairi's mind either but it was 11.30 pm at night and she'd leave it until morning but every time she thought about it she could just see Sora screaming in agony and it hurt her to see that.
"I'm sorry" Kairi sat up on her side and looked over to try and see Riku's face but she could only see his nose. Riku had his face buried in a pillow as if he didn't want Kairi looking at him. "I'm sorry I asked that of you. I feel as if I've just used you and I'm sorry" Kairi just smiled and ran a hand through Riku's hair. For being such a viscous creature that drinks blood and will kill someone without hesitation, Riku was so caring towards everyone close to him and would die before he saw them get hurt if he could.
"It's fine. I mean you need to vent and with you being a vampire you have a crazy urge to have sex at the worst times. Not only that, you feel guilty for what happened to Sora and you feel its your fault and you wanted to forget it. Beside if you feel if your leading me on, your not. I know your not in love with me and I'm not in love with you anymore either. Ever since you turned fifteen, you've been falling harder and harder for Sora." Riku turned around to see Kairi smirking at him. Riku couldn't believe that Kairi knew, no one was supposed to know about that. Since Riku turned 15 he had been noticing Sora things about Sora that best friend's should notice about each other. Riku would have asked Kairi how but her phone started to ring before he could speak.
"Hello. Oh yeah sorry, I'm at Riku's......yeah fine I'll wait outside the door. Bye" Kairi turned to look at Riku and shrugged her shoulder. "I gotta go, Marluxia said he was worried sick." Riku managed a small smile towards the girl who was lying in bed beside him.
"At least he cares about you. Marluxia isn't an asshole like my brothers" As if it had been timed to perfection, Cloud fell through the door to Riku's room after being pushed by Leon. The blond looked horrified as he saw his little brother in bed with Kairi.
"You fucking dumbass, Squall" Cloud took his attention off of Riku and Kairi and turned to Leon who was staring at Riku and Kairi as if they were just dead bodies. He didn't even notice that Cloud had called him by his real name. Before Cloud could shove him out of the room, Riku hit Leon between the eyes with a tennis ball.
"Why do you have tennis balls at the side of your bed." Kairi looked at Riku and raised her eyebrows. She didn't seem concerned in the slightest that she was lying in bed with Riku and his brothers were sitting staring at the two. Leon was clutching his head in agony and Cloud was laughing his ass off before Riku threw one at his head as well.
"If people annoy me and I can't be bothered to move, I just throw tennis balls at them to make them shut up" Kairi laughed as Riku's door slammed shut. She hopped out of the bed and started to get dressed as she knew her brother would be coming for her soon. Riku lay down on his bed and sighed heavily as Sora flooded back to his mind.
"I'll phone Rinoa and see if she can tell me if there is a tracking spell or something that can lead us to Sora. Xemnas has got to be somewhere close. I'll see you tomorrow" Kairi smiled as she walked out of Riku's room. The redhead had always been there in Riku's time of need but their wasn't much she could do at the moment in time. Getting Sora back would help Riku feel better but that wasn't going to happen was it. Riku decided to get dressed and go down to speak with his father.
Riku walked down the stairs to see his father speaking to one of the men he saw earlier and he recognized him as Hayner and Rikku's father. Riku quickened his pace so that he see what going on. Zack was sitting beside Sephiroth while Cloud and Leon stood at the door. Zack was the first one to notice Riku's presence out of everyone as he turned around while Sephiroth was speaking to Ansem.
"Riku!" Zack jumped out of the seat and walked over to the teen vampire. Riku didn't look at Zack because his eyes were train on his father. Zack stepped out of Riku's way as he walked over to Sephiroth.
"When are we going to get him?" Sephiroth could here the urgency in his son's voice and he could see the panic in his eyes. "Dad, we've got to go and get him. I'm not leaving him in a den of monsters" Cloud sighed as he looked at his little brother, Cloud had always felt like he was second best to Riku and Squall-Cloud refused to call him Leon- because he came with Zack and he always felt that if something happened to Zack, Cloud would be on the streets.
"One week" Ansem answered before Sephiroth had the chance to. Riku's eyes widened and he reached out and pulled Ansem up by the scruff of his neck.
"A whole week. That's far too long for me to sit around and wait. Who knows what that freak could do to him in that space of time. WE GOTTA GO NOW OR--"
"RIKU" Sephiroth barked which caused everyone to turn and look at the eldest vampire. "This isn't just about what you think. We all know Sora is in very grave danger and we have to try and get him out of there as soon as possible. However a week is both the maximum and minimum amount of time we can take to get Sora." Riku let go of Ansem and let his head hang low.
"I will assist in help get this child out of these werewolves clutches as I also have personal revenge to take on them. They will be expecting us to ambush them within a day or two but if we wait a week to go and get him, they will think we have just forgotten about Sora. Within a week most of my injured people will be healed and we can help you. Xemnas resides in a cave in the forest which is something a lot of people don't know. The cave will most likely have the same lay out as the one's me and my people live in so I shall have people who will be able to navigate you towards Sora." Riku sat down beside his father and sighed loudly. He felt someone wrapping their arms around his neck and looked up to see Zack.
"We're sorry that we couldn't stop Xemnas from taking Sora." Riku rested his head against Zack's shoulder. To someone else other than the people in the room, this may have seemed to be a gesture which showed love but to Zack it showed that he was upset or sorry for something that had happened and he done this to everyone in his family. It was just Zack's way of doing things.
"I'll get my daughter to scout out the area around the cave for any traps and we will meet outside of the cave at 1800 hours a week today in order to retrieve the young wolf. I should tell you to prepare yourself for this shall not be an easy task." Ansem stood up and began to walk away. "You have my many thanks, Sephiroth. I shall speak with you later" With that, Ansem left the manor and traveled back to his own place. Riku felt Zack's arms detach from his neck but them the teen saw that he decided to attach them to Sephiroth's neck.
"You should try and get some sleep, Riku. It has been a hard day for you" Sephiroth stood up and intertwined his fingers with Zack's as the two walked off. Riku was left in the room Cloud and Leon who stood in silence.
"We'll get Sora back and then we'll kill Xemnas" Leon looked over at Riku who managed a small smile before walking back up to his room. Leon watched with sad eyes as Riku trailed up to his bed room. Cloud noticed this and wrapped his arms around the smaller vampire's waist. "Its not fair on him to be like this. The sad thing is I know what it feels like to lose the one you love the most. My father, my mother and my sister. I lost them like Riku lost Sora, only their---their" The brunette couldn't continue as the tears started to flow down his cheeks. Contry to popular belief, vampire's could cry and Leon done it a lot.
Cloud pressed his lips against Leon's in an attempt to calm him down. Leon gentle pushed Cloud away and looked him dead in the eyes.
"Make love to me, Cloud" Cloud's eyes widened at the request but he wasn't entirely objecting to the idea.
"What but everyone else is in the house, Squall. Someone will find out and then what will we do" The smaller vampire just looked up at his lover is distress and tried to nuzzle Cloud's ear while whining like a kitten which was what actually gave him the nickname 'kitten'.
"I don't care anymore. We've been doing this for over 10 years and we've been hiding it for everyone but maybe I don't want to hide it anymore and I want people to know that I love you and that you love me" Cloud just shrugged his shoulders because who was he to deny his kitten what he wanted. The blond lifted Leon up bridal style and carried him to his room.
Kairi sat silently in her brother's car as they drove home. Marluxia looked down at his little sister to see the depressed look on her face which was odd because Kairi usually had something to smile about.
"What's wrong, Kairi?" Maluxia got an even bigger fright when Kairi burst into tears. He hadn't seen Kairi in tears since 5 years ago when he had to take her away from their parents. It was funny that they wound out about Kairi being a witch before they found about about Marluxia's ability to kill people by touching them and Marluxia wore gloves all the time. Marluxia stopped the car and turned to look at his little sister.
"S-Sora was taken" Kairi leaned her head against Marluxia's shoulder as she started to sob heavily. Marluxia's eyes widened as he wrapped his arms around his little sister's body. "H-he was bitten by a werewolf named Xemnas last night night and now Sora's with them" Marluxia could hear the distress in his little sister's voice as she spoke.
"S-Sora's a werewolf?" Kairi nodded her head against Marluxia's shoulder as she felt him running a hand through her hair. It was no wonder that Kairi was so upset because Sora was so important to her and Marluxia knew she would have to have stayed strong at Riku's because he also knew the connection between them as well.
"Come on. We'll get home first and then you can inform me of this misfortune." Marluxia spoke in a very posh manner despite not being raised to speak that way. Kairi nodded her head and let Marluxia start the car again so they could get home.
Roxas, Namine and Vaan walked out of the cave with solemn looks on their face.
"I don't want to leave him there" Roxas and Namine turned around to look at Vaan who was staring at the ground. Tidus had to stay at the cave in order to get heal and Rikku had asked for Vaan to come back round tomorrow to see if he was okay. Vaan dismissed his own concerns quickly because Rikku, Yuna and Paine were all very close friends of Tidus but still, Vaan didn't want to leave without him.
"Vaan we have to in order for Tidus to heal up properly. We'd be best using our wings for once because I don't want to walk through the forest" Vaan watched from behind as his sister's wings came into view. Vaan hated what he was, he didn't understand why it had to be him but he tolerated it for the sake of Roxas and Namine. Roxas sighed and unfolded his own wings only to hear Namine gasping.
"What is it?" Namine looked as if she was going to faint and Vaan just couldn't move. Roxas noticed that his sister was staring at his wing and he folded it over towards him to see what was wrong with it and when he saw it he couldn't blame his siblings for looking horrified.
Black.
His wings were turning black. It was only the tips of his wings but it would spread all over them. Roxas had read about this, when an Angel's wings turn black it mean that they are degrading which meant that he was basically a fallen angel now and when his wings are fully black. He'll die.
"Wha-what did you do?" There was many reasons for an angel's fall from grace but usually it meant that they had been tricked by the devil. Was Axel the devil?. No he couldn't be, it looked like he took order from the two females he was with but Roxas was certain this had something to do with the redhead.
"Does it matter?" Roxas glared at Namine who just looked frightened. Roxas could see that he had upset his younger sister and sighed. "I slept with Axel" Namine's eyes went wide again. Roxas looked back at Vaan to see that he looked just as horrified as Namine.
"Maybe that is why. You had sex with someone who is them same sex as you" Namine wasn't against it personally but it was just the code of an Angel.
"If that's true, why isn't Vaan's wings turning black." Vaan rushed around so he was face Roxas.
"What did you say?" Vaan looked as if he was going to hit Roxas and Namine guessed by the way Vaan's fists were balled up.
"I saw you and Tidus earlier in the living room so don't even try to lie your way out of this because I saw it with my own eyes. While you've claimed to be oh-so pure and everyone you've been getting it on with Tidus behind our backs. Your the same as a common whore" Vaan ended up losing it and punched Roxas in the face causing the smaller angel to fly backwards.
"You have the cheek to call me a common whore when you slept with a guy you barely knew. At least I had known Tidus for a while before I slept with him. You couldn't wait to get him into bed, no wonder your wings are turning black." Roxas was about to strike back at Vaan but Namine stood between the two.
"STOP IT" Both boy's looked down at Namine in shcok. Namine had her hands on both her brother's chest to stop them from hitting each other. She had tears running down her face from the frustration of her two brothers fighting. "We've got more things to worry about than your pathetic fighting" Namine pushed both of them away and started to run through the forest.
"I hope your happy" Vaan gritted out at Roxas before running after Namine. Roxas sat on the ground clutching his cheek watching as Vaan ran after Namine. Roxas had to admit that he provoked Vaan so this really was his own fault.
One week later
Riku sat tapping his fingers aimlessly off the table in history class. He sat going through the plan for tonight in his head over and over again. His thoughts were interrupted when Mr Highwind entered the room. Since Sora left with Xemnas, the class had always held an eerie silence because most of the people in the class knew what Sora had become and what had happened to him.
"Right everyone, I would like your reports in" One by the one, someone form each group got up and handed in their report. Riku and Kairi sat in silence and didn't move. Mr Highwind looked around to see that Sora was absent from class again. "Where's the hyperactive ball of stupidity?" Before Mr Highwind knew what was going on, he was pushed up against a wall and it was Riku who was holding him up against the wall. He looked in horror to see the teen baring a set of large fangs at him and not only that. His eyes had changed, they were now in cat slits. Vincent and Rikku, whom were also in the class watched in horror but it was Vincent who was more horrified by his grandson's actions. In the end it was Kairi who managed to pull Riku off the teacher and the two stormed out of the class room.
"What the hell were you thinking Riku?" Kairi glared at Riku who looked at her through silted eyes. "You almost killed a teacher. Your dad is going to have a fit when he heard about this" Riku still looked as if he didn't care and he really didn't. Suddenly the classroom door opened and Vincent and Rikku came rushing out.
"What the hell do you think your playing at?" Vincent held Riku up against the wall in the same way that he had held up Mr Highwind. Riku just snarled at Vincent.
"What the fuck is it to you?" Riku gritted out. Vincent dropped the smaller vampire to the floor causing Kairi to go and check if he was okay. Vincent walked back into the classroom. Rikku stood staring down at the two which an expression of sadness on her face.
"Your worried about tonight aren't you" Rikku looked around the corridor before her eyes set on the two in front of her again. "You'll save him, Riku so don't panic. By the end of tonight, Sora will be safe again" Rikku was never someone you would usually hear something so deep from but apparently she was capable of saying meaningful things. The blond sighed and walked back into the classroom.
"Aw screw this I'm going home" Riku stood up and started to walk towards the exit of the school. "I'll see you tonight, Kairi" The witch watched as Riku walked down the hallways like an oncoming storm. She couldn't blame him, Mr Highwind had insulted Sora and with his disappearance, Riku had been more and more irritated when people bad mouth him until he almost killed a teacher for saying something he would usually laugh at.
When Riku arrived home, Sephiroth was standing at the door waiting on him. Riku had guessed that his dad had been informed about the incident with Mr Highwind by Vincent because his father looked far from amused.
"Just because your angry doesn't mean you almost tell everyone what we are, Riku" The youngest of the vampires shrugged his shoulders and just started at the ground. Sephiroth sighed and ran a hand through his hair before he place his hand on Riku's shoulder. "At any rate their is something I must show you" Sephiroth walked towards a door in the side of the house which lead to the almost always off limits basement. He may have lived here but Riku had never been down here. The basement was full of boxes and it was all cluttered. Also Riku seemed to noticed someone hiding in the corner and it didn't take a genius to work out that it was Zack.
"Puppy, what are you doing down here" Riku couldn't help but laughed at Zack's reaction to getting called puppy. His face went bright red and he decided to stand and glare at Sephiroth. Zack sighed and sat down on one of the crates.
"I want to see Riku's face when he gets it" Zack grinned like the idiot he was. Riku was now extremely interested to know why he was down here.
"I meant the real reason your down here"
"I was hungry" Riku suddenly realized that this must have been where the packets of blood were kept. Cloud and Leon were known for breaking into the hospital's blood bank and stealing some of their supplies. They still went out kill people because fresh blood was a lot nicer that blood that had been left for a period of days.
"You can wait like the rest of us" Zack pouted and fluttered his eyelashes like a girl. Sephiroth just sighed and turned around to look at Riku who just looked unamused by everything going on around him. "I wasn't supposed to give you this until you were much older but since the situation call for it, you will receive it now" Sephiroth looked completely unamused by what he was telling Riku and Zack was sitting watching everything from a crate he was sitting on.
"I'll get what?" Riku didn't like the whole of idea of being down in the basement at all. Sephiroth walked over to one of the walls and pulled out a single brick before pulling about a dozen more. Within the wall was a case, it looked a bit like a briefcase only bigger. Sephiroth handed it over to Riku who just sat and started at it.
"Open it then" Zack looked at Riku with excited eyes as the youngest vampire placed the case on one of the crates and proceeded to open it. What he saw almost made Riku laugh in pure delight. However as a Valentine it was easy for him to keep his composure in situations like these.
"It's a sword. Why are you giving me this?" Riku looked up at his father in confusion.
"Everyone of us has a weapon to defend ourselves against the werewolves because sometimes our strength and our speed is just not enough alone. My father gave me my sword 150 years ago. Zack, Cloud, and Leon all had a sword with them when they were each turned for whatever reason." Riku took the sword out of its case. He made sure to handle it very carefully as he expertly started to cut the air with it.
"Why do you think I was so excited about teaching you how to wield a sword, Riku" Zack jumped down from the crate and walked over to Riku. "You'll need this in order to rescue Sora" Riku sighed and let his hand fall to his side. Suddenly he heard a ringing sound and looked to see Zack answering his phone.
"Zack speaking. Yeah we're ready. Okay we'll be there. Thanks cya" Sephiroth turned to look at Zack. "Everyone is starting to gather so we better get going. I'll go and get Cloud and Leon." Sephiroth nodded his head and turned back to Riku.
"That sword has a speical name just like mine is called Masumune" Riku looked up at his father in confusion. "That sword is called 'The road to dawn'. Now come I hope your reday for this Riku" Riku just nodded his head and followed his father out the door.
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Right I Won't Be Updating This For Possibly Another 4 Weeks Because I Go On Holiday Today.......Sunny Turkey XD And I'm Gonna Post Chappie 3 Of The Lion King Before I Update This Again Bye Bye