"Ugh." Groaning, I sat up slowly and looked around. I was still in the same room as the night before, but Kurumu was nowhere to be found. Gently, I rolled out of the bed and stretched my arms above my head.
The pulling felt great on my exhausted muscles. Then, suddenly a flash of pain streamed througg my body. It was so intense I fell on one knee, but I stood back up after shaking it off.
I walked over and slid open the heavy metal door and glanced around. The voices I was hearing were coming from a few doors to my left, so I started walking.
When I entered the room I was met with concerned looks and a feeling of fear. Before Moka could get close, Jason put his arm out in front of her. Moka stopped and they both made eye contact for a brief moment before she nodded.
"Jeremy, how are you feeling?" Jason asked with a serious tone.
"Huh?" I yawned loudly before giving an answer. "I feel fine, what's up?"
Mizore stepped out from behind Jason and held something out in her hand. I took it before realizing it was a mirror.
"Oh!" I exclaimed at the sight of myself.
My hair was white and my eyes were red, but my skin was so pale I could almost see through it. When I ran my fingers through my hair, it pulled out a nice bit of it.
"Oh, wait a minute." I started. I suddenly began to feel dizzy. "I don't feel so good."
I immediately collapsed.
The feeling in my body had turned into a numb, prickly feeling. My mouth started to feel dry and I suddenly felt incredibly weak. As the others rushed over to me I felt something run down my lip.
It was blood.
Then I coughed up blood as my throat started to burn.
"What's going on?" Jason yelled frantically. His hands hovered over me as if he was going to do something, but he didn't know what to do.
"He's starving." Moka said calmly. Her silver hair almost touched the floor as she crouched next to me. "He needs to eat someone's flesh, that's what ghouls eat."
"What? No way! There has to be another option!" Kurumu rejected.
"Well perhaps..." Moka reached for me and Jason handed me over.
She pushed two fingers into the back of my neck and something happened. It felt like two long sticjs had just been jammed into my mouth.
"He has fangs. That means he might only need blood, but we still need a volunteer." Moka and the others looked at each other. "It can't be me, he might die if I give him more of my blood."
"I'll do it." Mizore looked at me with a strange expression. "It's the least I could do, he did bring me back from the dead after all." The others nodded in agreement.
Moka explained that it had to be from her neck, because it was the richest. I wouldn't need as much of it that way.
Mizore stepped over and sat down in front of me. As she started to lower her shirt, I felt a primal urge to feed. With new strengt, I reached up and grabbed her shoulders. Pulling her in close, I bit down on her neck and drank.
It was disgusting but also great at the same time. I pulled off after only a few seconds and an extreme pleasure flooded me.
Mizore didn't have the slightest change of expression as she slid her shirt back up and walked back over to Jason.
Within moments I had my strength back, but my hair and eyes remained.
"Well, let's hope that doesn't happen again soon." I said loudly with a grin.
"So, what were you guys talking about anyway?" My voice felt a lot stronger instead of weak and shaky like a moment ago.
"Oh, we were discussing our first move. You're actually a big part of it." Mizore looked at me with warm eyes, but the air was still pretty cold.
"What do you mean? What am I doing?" Jason motioned for me to come over and I followed. The table he pointed at had a map with a single area circled.
"We're going there after midnight." Jason pointed to the circled area on the map. It was a mall parking lot.
"Uh... Okay." My confusion must have carried through my voice.
"We have to figure out what'vs going on, especially if that was the real Gale or not. Either way, we're going to have to take him out again." Jason paused and took a deep breath.
"That means we have to find them." I gave a nervous look.
"How is this going to help?" Jason smiled, but a worried look came through the rest of him.
"Oh, we don't. We have to let them come to us." My eyes blinked without my consent.
"That's crazy! They might just kill us instead." Jason pointed at me.
"Not quite." He started to walk around the room. "We have a nice little trick."
"Hello." The voice I heard was one I never heard before, and it was right beside me. Naturally, I jumped and let out a yell.
"Who the-?" I examined him a little more closely. He was pale, with short purple hair and blue eyes. His most notable feature was his lollipop.
I looked at Mizore and back to the other person.
"I'm her brother. My name is Kazuki Shirayuki, nice to meet you." Kazuki stuck his hand out and I shook it.
"I'm Jeremy Fault, it's nice to-" I paused.
"COLD!" Ripping my hand out of his quickly, I rubbed my other hand against it to try and warm it up.
"Gah! Frostbite!" I spun around in circles, waving my hand around like a maniac.
The group laughed at my stupid display.