Yeah, this took longer than I thought. The only times I can update is probably on the weekends because I'm so busy. 5 people + 1 computer, you do the math. Stay tuned I'm not giving up! Enjoy!
Chapter 4: Demons
It's been a good month since my first day. Zoro has been hanging out with me a lot, much to my liking. I loved to have him around. Though he still seems distant to the others, but I'm practically forcing him to be friends with them. He cant say no to me anyway.
One day he was walking me home from a day at the mall. I had no money what so ever but I thought going to the mall was a good idea anyway. Right now it was pretty dark because we stayed longer than we should have. Zoro insisted on buying me anything I wanted, but I turned him down. I didn't want to be that friend that takes advantage on another friend because he's wealthy.
"I could have gotten you those clothes you wanted." Zoro said
"No, it's fine. I told you, those clothes were to expensive anyway." I told him.
"You didn't seem to hold back when you wanted food." He huffed.
"Hey, that's totally different!" I protested.
"Shh, hold on." Zoro stopped and put a hand in front of me. It sounded like Zoro was sniffing. "I know that scent…" he growled in a low voice. He scanned the area. It was pretty dark. The only thing lighting the street up were few lights, but not many of them.
"What's wrong?" I whispered.
"Luffy, stand behind me." He told me. I was starting to get a bit scared but I remained a calm face. Suddenly two strange people appeared out of nowhere. They look crazed and pale and they looked like they were out for blood.
"Dammit! I thought we were rid of you damn parasites!" Zoro hissed at them.
"You'll never be rid of us! There are a lot more of us than you think!" it sneered. It bared it's sharp canine-like teeth.
"Let's make this easy. Hand over the kid. Hand over the kid and we'll be on our way." The other said.
"Like hell I will!" Zoro snapped.
"Oh so unwise." The guys charged. They both went for Zoro, but he was ready for them. He dodged the first ones attack and punched the other one in its jaw making him stumble backwards. The other one took the advantage and went towards me.
"Stay away!" I uppercut it, then punched it in the stomach. I was no damsel in distress waiting to be saved. I knew how to fight. I'd get into a bunch of fights at my old school.
I've never punched so hard in my life, but it didn't affect the thing like it would on regular people. This thing was fast and hard to keep up with. Usually I was the fast one. I was fast enough to dodge most of his attacks.
I ducked backwards as it threw a punch. While I was near the ground I got on my hands and kicked his face in with one foot then axe kicked him with other foot as he went down smashing him to the ground.
I hopped up, regaining my balance. When I was pretty sure this guy was down I looked over to Zoro, but I wish I hadn't. I witnessed Zoro ripping off the guy limb from limb. Blood splatter Zoro's clothes. I thought I was going to throw up. Zoro stepped away as its body busts into flames and disappear into ashes.
"Zoro what-"
"Stand back." Zoro stepped on the back of the guy I fought. He grabbed his hair and pulled it up.
"Don't think that that fleshy of yours is safe PureBlood!" He spat.
"Zoro stop!" I screamed but it was to late. Zoro snapped his neck and twisted it off. It then busted into flames like the other one did.
"Oh my god!" I started to dry heave. Zoro grabbed my hand and pulled me in the opposite direction of my house.
"Zoro let go of me! Where are we going?" I protested. My mind swirled with questions.
"We cant stay here." He didn't stop pulling me.
"No! NO!" I pulled my hand away from him. "What the hell is going on! Who were those guys! Why did you kill them!" I demanded. Zoro surprised me by grabbing my face and pulled me in for a passionate kiss. The world around me spun in circles. Zoro pulled away slightly to look at my face. I'm pretty sure my face was cherry red.
"I'll explain later ok, but right now we have to get out of here." He whispered. I nodded vigorously, unable to form actual words. Zoro grabbed my hand again and this time I didn't protest.
We arrived at a house that I'm assuming is where Zoro lives. Calling this place a house is a huge understatement though. It was more like a mansion or something.
"Whao…this is where you live?" I breathed.
"Yeah, come on. There's someone I'd like you to meet." Zoro said as we entered the house. I looked around in amazement. This is a really nice house. I wish I had a house like this. I thought.
"Stay here." Zoro told me as he disappeared into a room. I wanted to explore, but Zoro told me to stay. People were right when they said that Zoro and Sanji were wealthy.
I looked up at the chandelier that hung on the ceiling in the middle of the foyer. My footsteps echoed against the walls. To sets of stairs led to the second floor in an oval shape.
"Luffy?" Zoro walked out of the room that he was in before. I jumped in surprise because I wasn't really paying attention. "Come on." He gestured towards the room.
"Oh right." I followed him into the room. It led into a living room type space. There was a couch in the shape of an 'L' and a chair with an ottoman attached to it. There was a large flat screen TV on the wall over a small unlit fireplace.
A man sat on the couch. He was a man of at least forty years with a clean cut goatee. He wore a white dress shirt with a few bottoms undone. A chain hung loosely around his neck with a big cross attached to it.
"You must be Luffy. I've heard a lot about you." He said to me. I blushed a little bit at the thought of Zoro talking about me. "I'm Dracula Mihawk, Zoro's foster father." He shook my hand. He then turned to Zoro with a serious face. "Form what I understand, he was targeted by the Kiseichu." He said.
"Yes, they did. But I'm not sure if it's just him they want." Zoro explained.
"Well, they have to be here for a reason." Said Mihawk.
"Wait, what? The kise-who?" I was so lost. I didn't understand a single thing they were saying.
"Go ahead and explain Zoro, I think he has the right to know now." Mihawk told him. Zoro looked at him with uncertainty but began explaining anyway.
"Luffy, as impossible as it seems…I'm not human. None of us are. We're demons." He admitted.
"Demons? Aren't demons more…you know…"
"Evil. Monstrous." Zoro guessed. "Obviously not. I cant believe I'm going to say this but, we're basically vampires. But vampires don't exist. They're myths." Zoro claimed.
"But demons do exist?" I asked skeptically.
"Yeah that's right." Zoro clearly didn't see anything wrong with that statement. "The creatures you saw earlier." He continued. "Are called kiseichu, it means 'parasites'. They are demons who have lost the side of humanity, but now realize on just instinct."
"Are they only after me?" Why me? I'm not the only person the town.
"We don't really know." Mihawk said. "Though when you first stepped through the door, I smelled the scent of your blood, and it's very…potent." He explained. "Human blood scents aren't hard to pick up, but when I smell you," he took in a deep breath. "It's as if you have a bleeding wound on you somewhere."
I checked if I was bleeding anywhere, but I just had some scratches that weren't deep enough for me to bleed. "Wait, I have one more question. How did those things spontaneously bust into flames, after you killed them?"
"Only kiseichu do that. I mean if they didn't, then it would be harder to conceal our existence." Zoro said.
"Luckily you have Zoro to look after you." Said Mihawk.
"Eh?"
"You're the one who imprinted on him. He's your responsibility." He teased. Zoro scowled at the hawk-eyed man, his face turned many different shades of red.
"Huh? Whats that mean?" I didn't like to be left out of things.
"We'll talk about it later. Time for bed." Zoro pushed me towards the door.
"Wait I'm staying here?" I asked.
"Yes, just for tonight. It's not safe to be out right now." Mihawk waved as we left the room.
I told Zoro that I needed to call Ace. When I did, Ace said that he was going to be home late anyway.
"Have fun!" Is what he said. Over the phone he sounded really happy for some reason.
"Where am I going to sleep?" I asked out of curiosity. We made our way up stairs.
"We have some guest rooms. We'll just have to go-"
"But I want to stay in your room." I already said it. I actually didn't mean to say that out loud.
"My room?" it was his turn to be curious. I nodded giving up on changing my mind. "Ok fine." We took a different direction. It actually didn't take us long at all.
"The one place I go to that I have no problem getting to without getting lost." Zoro muttered. We stopped at a door that had capital green 'Z' on it. His room wasn't really the typical teenager's room like mine was. There was a lack of posters and video games and electronics sprawled onto the floors. Instead, his room was normal sized, well it was bigger than mine. A queen sized bed sat in the middle of the room with a nightstand on either side of it. The sheets had dark green and black stripes on it. A small flat screen sat on the wall adjacent to the bed with an aquarium under it. I wish I had an aquarium in my room.
"Nice!" was all I could say.
"Eh, it's nothing to look twice at." Zoro laid on the bed casually. I looked around the room some more when I saw three swords place on a rack.
"Sugoi! You have swords!" I went over to them. "Are they real?"
"Of course. Mihawk himself taught me kendo. Well, he's still teaching me. But I made up my own style in using three swords." He told me.
"You mean all three at the same time! Your so amazing…" I looked at him as if he was god. Zoro blushed from all the praises. He stared up at the ceiling in thought.
"I haven't used those in a long time. I never really had to. One of those swords belonged to a close friend of mine that died a long time ago." He had a sad look on his face as if thinking about the past.
I laid down next to him and put my hand on his shoulder to consol him. He looked at me with bright green eyes. We stared at each other for a long time. I unconsciously moved closer. I remembered earlier when he first kissed me. I wanted to feel that again.
I connected my lips with his finally. Zoro was a bit hesitant this time but he didn't move away. I deepened the kiss moving my body almost fully on top of him. Zoro put his hand on the side of my face. Zoro licked my lips asking for entry and I accepted it. I felt his tongue explore the inside of my mouth hungrily. As I felt things getting heated my heart began to race. I couldn't believe this was happening. I made noises of happiness through the kiss.
I yelped in surprise when Zoro flipped us over so now he was on top of me. He started kissing and sucking on my neck. I moaned as I've never felt anything like this before. I felt my neck being licked. I thought it was kind of strange and kinky. But then I suddenly remembered. Is he trying to…?
"Zoro?" I started to panic, but I couldn't move my body. It was like I was under a spell. Before I could say anything else, I felt his teeth sink into my flesh. I gasped at the sharp pain at first. But then the bite became somewhat…pleasurable. It felt good. Really good! I got goose bumps from this blissful experience. I combed my fingers through his hair as I listened to the sound of him drinking.
When Zoro finally disconnected from my neck, he licked up the remainder of blood that spilled down my neck. When he was done he rolled back onto his back.
"Dammit! How could I lose control like that?" He scolded himself.
"It's fine Zoro, I didn't mind." I tried to sit up, but I became light headed and fell back onto the bed.
"You see! I practically drained you! Don't ever let me do that again!"
I squeezed my cheeks trying to get the blood flowing again. "So your saying I'm not going to turn into one of you?" I asked.
"Of course not. It's hereditary, unless bitten by a kiseichu. It's real complicated." He explained. I felt sleepy. I was slowly slipping into sleep.
"Aww, cause that would be pretty…cool…" I sighed. Then I was out like a light.
Yeay I did it! Now you know pretty much the jest of all this madness. And yes I got the concept of a vampire bite from the book "Vampire Academy" If you read it. So what? You wanna fight about it?(Just kidding) Stay tuned for the next chapter! It's just taking longer than I thought it would.