A/N In this chapter, there is a discussion on the types of Wendigos. I picked random animals to go with different countries, so no. There are3 no crocodiles in England. At least not to my knowledge.
Brandon pocketed the money and continued walking. Alec followed tiredly without saying anything. Soon the two reached the hotel and climbed to Eruka's room to find the three girls talking. When the males walked in they hushed before giggling a bit.
"OK, what's so funny?" Alec asked.
"We had a bet on what'd happen when you two got to Romania." Alice giggled. "Bree bet $20 on Lucian night-rapin' you, Eruka bet $20 he'd do it to Brandon and I bet $20 bucks that one o' you would kick his ass before that happens."
"Why the hell is Eruka hell bent on me having gay sex?!" Brandon demanded, truly pissed off and disgusted.
"Dunno," Alice said. "But I've got the feeling that when you get back, I'm gonna' be getting $40!" she laughed.
"If he makes a single move on me, I'm putting a round between his eyes." Brandon threatened.
"OK, but that won't kill him." Alice and Alec said in unison.
"It'll fuck him up enough so that I could rip out his throat." Brandon replied.
"...How violent." Eruka said. "I'm surrounded by violent people! Ribbit!"
"You're trying to get me to have gay sex!" Brandon shot back with. The whole room was enveloped in an awkward silence. "I'm fucking straight, alright?" he said softer.
"Just think about how poor Alec feels! He's the one that was forced to cross-dress!" Alice replied making Alec glare at both of them.
"I am never forgiving you two for that. Ever." The male Kishin growled. Brandon immediately started laughing at the memory. Alec then muttered something under his breath, making Brandon's shadow shoot up from underneath him, catapulting the meister straight into the wall. Brandon pulled himself from the wall, some sediments falling off of him as he landed on his feet. He then looked up, staring Alec directly in the eyes. The eyes that stared at the kishin were full of anger and hate. He was instantly in 'insane mode', and a cloud of insanity material was surrounding his right arm. It then closed around his arm, an appendage appearing with a three pronged grabbing claw at the hand. Brandon then whipped the arm at the boy, the material extending until it connected with the boys neck. The claws then closed like pincers, and the arm was retracted, bringing Alec with it. For a split second, Alec thought Brandon was gonna' cut his neck open and failed horribly at trying to hide his fear.
Brandon quickly regained control of himself, and let go of Alec. The boy, who was being lifted above the ground, fell onto a sitting position. Alec glared up at Brandon, still somewhat fearful. Brandon just turned around and walked out of the door, walking quickly to hide the anger and hatred he felt for himself. Alice and Alec simply stared at the door in confusion before Alice sighed and followed. She caught up with the meister and grabbed his shoulder in a death grip.
"Don't touch me." he ordered, his voice full of authority and senseless rage.
"Hah! You're my property! I can touch you if I want to!" Alice joked.
"Why do you even bother keeping me around?" he asked, turning to face her. The emotion in his face was of sadness and depression.
"'Cause we need eachother to get home. Duh." Alice said playfully. "If it weren't for that, we wouldn't have even made it THIS far!"
"If I weren't here, you'd probably be better off. All I go is screw things up!" the meister said loudly, his voice now adopting a tone of anger. He punched the wall next to him, and his fist went straight through, the rest of the wall being covered in thousands of small cracks.
Alice pouted. "No you don't."
"Yes I do!" he shot back. "For example I nearly killed both you and Alec already!" he said, punching the wall once more.
"So what? Everyone dies eventually! And besides, if it weren't for you we wouldn't have joined the academy, have a place to stay, met Alec and Brianna and we would most likely be zombie food." Alice said, shivering at the memory of the small Zombie Apocalypse they had experienced.
"You would have been fine." Brandon said solemnly, looking down.
"If it weren't for you, that Kishin in Russia would have crushed me!" Alice replied. "And we wouldn't have been able to find Samantha and Abbey either!"
"Still, I've probably caused more damage than good." he replied.
"Seriously, just pitying yourself like that ain't gonna' get you no-where in life. Forget it and move on. It's pretty easy to do." Alice said in a chastising tone. If trying to convince he wasn't useless didn't work, she figured that criticism might.
"You don't know what I've been through. It's just not that easy for me." he responded, his lonely childhood memories returning to him.
"OK, then. Explain. What exactly have you been through?"
"My entire childhood I've been alone. No one ever wanted to play with me because I was different. So the only person I talked to was the insanity inside of me, and that's why I'm so violent and enjoy torture so much." he explained, remembering the countless hours he spent on the swing set talking to the voice inside his head.
"Well, I guess that'd be sad for a human." Alice replied.
"It is, but I guess that's normal for a kishin." he said, crossing his arms.
"Pretty much." Alice replied. "A lot of us Kishin are a lot worse off than that. Heck, you humans have it easy."
"When you normally have it easy and that's all taken away, and you're forced to grow up watching those who have it easy, it's pretty traumatizing." he replied.
"Eh, I wouldn't know the feeling so I can't really relate to that."
"Trust me, it sucks." Brandon said, and then turned around.
"I bet." Alice replied before trying to change the subject. "So, why exactly did you come home so early? I thought you would've at least done some research on Incubi before coming back."
"That's what I got this for." he replied, taking out his phone and wiggling it in his palm.
"Oh yeah," Alice said. "But still, you're back early."
"Alec was worried if you needed your medicine soon." Brandon said, thinking about their conversation.
"Oh." Alice replied, chuckling. "I shouldn't need it any time soon unless I somehow lose a lot of blood. Then if I don't have it, things will get bad..."
"Do you need anything special in it?" Brandon asked, making a mental list.
"Just insulin and some antibiotics." Alice replied. "I'm not sure why it needs the Insulin, though. That's just what Stein told me." Alice replied. "He also said I'd go into 'Soul Shock' or something like that if I don't get it."
"Well, If it ever comes to it, I could donate blood." Brandon offered.
"We'll probably be in my dimension by the time I need it, so you won't need to." Alice said.
"Well, just in case. When was your last dose?"
"A month ago, right before we came to this dimension."
"How often do you need doses?" Brandon asked, starting to worry.
"Every two months. It's only been a little over one month."
"Ok. I'll be keeping track though." Brandon said.
"OK." Alice smiled.
"Well, we should be heading back." Brandon said, facing towards their room.
"I'll be surprised if nobody heard that conversation." Alice replied.
"I don't give a crap." Brandon said as they walked towards the door.
"It'd be really cliché if no-one did, considering how thin these walls are." Alice said. "Along with the fact the door was open."
"True." Brandon said. And with that, the two walked into the room to be confronted by Brianna, who had in fact heard the entire conversation. "Oh shit, here we go." Brandon mumbled.
"Oh, hey, Bree." Alice said, ready to be bombarded with questions.
"What the hell was that all about?!" Brianna demanded.
"What was what about? Please explain what you mean by that." Alice countered.
"What were you guys talking about?!" Brianna demanded once again, looking back and forth between the two.
"A lot of different things."
"I know that, but why?" Brianna asked, still curious.
Alice turned to Brandon. "Will you explain? I'm getting tired of trying to confuse her."
"Why are you trying to confuse her?" he asked, turning to face Alice. "She already knows all the answers." At this Brianna began smiling, proving Brandon right.
"To get her to shut up." Alice said. "I know I was just in a good mood, but my bipolarism is making me quite irritated for no reason."
"Welcome to my world." Brandon responded with a chuckle.
"So, will you explain or not?" Alice asked. "Because I'm not exactly sure why we had that conversation, either."
"She was just trying to make us nervous, because she was just kidding around." Brandon explained.
"I was talking about answering Bree's question..."
"Good luck with that, because that conversation made no sense." Brianna joked.
"I wonder if I could do that again..." Brandon thought aloud, thinking back to the earlier event with Alec.
"Do what?"
"What I did earlier to Alec." he said.
"You mean the claw thing?" Alice asked. "How does that have anything to do with our current conversation?"
"Because I got bored and my mind began to wander." he explained. "I think I'll call it whipfist..." he wondered again, not realizing he was speaking his thoughts.
Alice face-palmed before turning to Brianna. "Speaking of earlier, where the fuck is Alec?"
"He ran off after Brandon left." she replied.
"Which way?"
"Um, that way, I think." Brianna said, pointing to the door in the opposite direction Brandon went.
Alice went into the room and came back out holding a sleeping wolf pup, A.K.A, Alec. "Anyone else think we should buy him a flea collar?"
"I suggest an electric one." Brandon said, raising his hand.
"We're not going to electrocute him." Alice dead-panned, picking a flea out of Alec's fur and squishing it. The puppy's ear twitched, but he didn't wake up.
"Damn." Brandon muttered to himself.
"...We should at least get him some flea medicine." Alice said, squishing yet another flea. "He's covered with the damn things!"
"He was probably in some bushes." Brandon suggested.
"He was living alone. In Germany. In a forest. For over two-hundred years. I think it's clear where the fleas came from." Alice replied.
"Fine, fine. I'll get the rascal some flea meds." he said before walking out the door
"Thank you!" Alice called after him, already a bit sick of picking fleas out of her counterpart's fur. Brandon jogged quickly to the pet shop, bought some flea medication, and returned home. Alice put Alec on the couch, took the medication and put it on the male Kishin- er, wolf? She turned to the two humans behind her. "Don't touch him for a few days... Brianna."
"Sorry." she said sheepishly.
At that moment, Alec woke up and started scratching his ear with his hind leg, apparently too lazy transform back into a human/kishin. "Lazy ass." Brandon muttered to himself. Alec was too pre-occupied to respond, but did feel a little indignant at the comment. "If you're looking for someone to scratch you, you're looking in the wrong place." Brandon said, sitting down on the couch.
Alec just growled at the meister, still scratching before he felt something weird. "...What's that wet stuff on my back?"
"Flea medicine." Alice said.
"Don't lick it off." Brandon warned.
Alec growled at the meister. "Like I would be dumb enough to lick flea medicine off my back!" he snapped. "Lucian would be dumb enough to, though." he muttered, a low whining noise escaping his throat. He laid his head down and put one paw on his muzzle. "How'd my family get so messed up?" he asked himself. "Oh yeah, I raised them. Damn."
"What'd you say?" Brandon asked, straining to hear Alec's muttering.
"I said Lucian would be dumb enough to eat flea medicine," Alec replied. "My poor, weak, idiotic little brother..."
"Wait, WHAT?!" both Brandon and Brianna said in unison.
"I'm the oldest of twenty brothers and sisters-Lucian being the youngest." Alec replied. "And I had to raise ALL of them by myself."
"Jesus Christ, your dad had a very active social life." Brandon remarked, earning a slap in the back of the head from Brianna.
"How d'ya think I ended up with twenty siblings?"
"I was making a joke." Brandon said, rubbing the spot where Brianna hit him.
"But, you're a Wolf Wendigo, Lucian's a Dragon Wendigo." Alice pointed out.
"His father probably fucked a Dragon wendigo." Brandon suggested, getting hit in the head again by Brianna.
"Actually, what type of animal a Wendigo represents is determined by what country they were born in. Wolf Wendigos live in Germany, Dragons in Romania, Bats in Hungary, Crocodiles in England, Cats in the U.S, etc." Alec replied.
"Cats for the U.S?" Brandon asked.
"Yeah." Alec said. "I'm really hoping you don't know my sister..."
"Who is...?"
"Purple hair, big boobs, kind of a whore?" Alice asked.
"So you do know Blair." Alec replied.
"Oh yeah. She nearly killed us." Brandon said, remembering their RV trip.
"She tried to seduce Brandon while he was driving." Alice said sourly.
Alec placed a paw over his muzzle with a sigh. "How many times have I told her not to seduce people while they're driving?" Alec muttered to himself.
"Oh crap, Alec." Brandon said, turning his attention to the cub. "When's our flight?"
"5 PM tomorrow." Alec said.
"Ok, I just had a small heart attack thinking that we missed it." Brandon said, sighing in relief.
"What time is it, anyway?" Alice asked.
Alec jumped up on the back of the couch to look out the window and at the moon. After a few moments of staring at the white orb intently, he answered. "It's exactly 10:54." he said, climbing back down.
"I'm guessing you told that from the altitude of the moon in the sky?" Brandon suggested.
"Yep."
"Thank you astronomy." Brandon said, proud of his knowledge.
"..." Alice face-palmed.
"What?" Brandon asked, looking at Alice.
"Nothing." She replied with a sigh. "Nothing at all."
"Well, it's pretty late, so we should probably get to bed." Brianna suggested.
"OK." Alice yawned, picking up Alec-who was already asleep-and went to her room and fell asleep, holding the puppy like he was a stuffed animal. Brandon and Brianna both went to their room and fell asleep.
At around 2:00, Brandon was awoken to the sound of knocking, and went to the door to answer it. "What?" he groaned sleepily, still rubbing his eye. When he stopped, he saw how the late night callers were. Before him stood five kishin, all dressed in odd black coats and had large muscles. They all seemed to be exact clones of each other, looking about 26ish and all were brandishing claw gloves. "Aw shit..." Brandon mumbles to himself, knowing chaos would undoubtedly follow suite.
Alec, who also heard the knocking, got out of bed and transformed back into a human/kishin. He walked over to the door, where Brandon was standing, and froze. "Oh, Gott..."
The closest kishin threw a random slash, which Brandon blocked by making the insanity material coat his left arm and blocked with. The kishin kept applying his weight to the slash, and the second closest kishin did the exact same thing, making Brandon tremble a little under the intense weight. "A little help, Alec." Brandon said, holding out his free hand while keeping his focus on the attackers.
Alec unsheathed his claws and cut off the heads of the Kishins attacking Brandon before turning into a scythe for Brandon to use. "Cut their heads off." he said. "Only way to kill these bastards."
"Thanks." Brandon said, spicing ones head off at the base. One then charged at him from behind, but Brandon countered with a stab from the butt end of the scythe, then wheeled around and slicing the kishin in half vertically. He then turned to the last one, staring menancingly at the man with one glowing red eye. The kishin seemed to be scared, but quickly regained it's composure. It charged at him, and Brandon sidestepped, the kishin running into the table where it knocked the air out of itself on one if the chairs. It lie helplessly on the table, and Brandon put one foot on its upper back, raised the scythe above his head, said "Riposta in Pace", and brought the scythe down executioner style.
"The Kishin you cut in half is still alive," Alec said. "Well, now it's two Kishins. Great. I told you to cut their heads off, not to cut them in half!" he lectured, while the opposing Kishin reformed into two replicas and attacked. Brandon blatantly ignored Alec, going into a state where only murder would please him and was his only goal. He was completely silent. Two sets of claws appeared on both his hands, and he quickly decapitated both of the kishins with an inward scissor. Alec transformed back into a human/Kishin and sighed. "Dumbass Kishin police." He muttered. "They were probably here for Alice." Brandon's hand instantly snapped to his forehead as an intense pain began pulsing through his head. Alec looked at him in confusion. The red in his eyes then faded away, and he was back to normal.
"No more insanity mode after midnight," he said, rubbing his temples.
Alec raised an eyebrow. "Whatever..."
"We should get back to sleep." Brandon said with a yawn.
"You do that." Alec said. "I'll keep watch and make sure they didn't send any reinforcements." Alec said. "Stupid fucking police..."
"I'll stay up too." Brandon said, grabbing a chair and sitting down. "Who the hell were they, anyways?" Brandon asked, rubbing his eyes.
'I already said this twice!' Alec thought before sighing. "They were police." he said.
"I know that, but the Italian police definitely does not use claw gloves, so which police are they?" Brandon asked, getting a little annoyed.
"Kishin police." Alec replied. "Hopefully they were here for me and not Alice."
"What the hell is the kishin police?" Brandon asked.
"They have three main duties: Making sure that Kishins don't allie with humans, witches or both, making sure Kishins don't kill off other Kishins and executing 'stray' half-bloods." Alec replied.
"Shit. Alice is most likely public enemy number one on their list." Brandon realized.
"Pretty much." Alec said.
"Christ, they'll probably have the entire Gestapo on our ass." Brandon said.
"Well, there is the option of smuggling her to Romania with us." Alec said. "We'll have to do some serious work for Lucian, though." he said, hoping that his little brother wouldn't make him babysit.
"Lemme guess, she has to cross dress too?" Brandon asked, expecting Alec to want revenge.
"No." Alec said. "She looks just like me, so she can use my ticket and I'll just go as her pet dog."
"Wow, I was expecting you to want revenge." Brandon said, impressed by Alec's virtue.
"Being stuck with all 10 of my Neices is enough torture." Alec said. "Believe me."
"Jesus, you have a true Italian family there."
Alec gave him a confused look. "Well, one of them is Italian-a dog Wendigo. One of them is German, another one is Japanese and the rest are Romanian." Alec replied.
"Oh great. More dragons." Brandon replied sarcastically.
"They're pretty hard to hard to handle," Alec said. "And don't even mention trying to take care of the actual Dragons..."
"To be perfectly honest, I'd probably be char-grille on the first day." Brandon joked.
"Eh, Sakura would probably stop them from doing that." Alec said. "As a Humming-bird Wendigo, her job is being the 'peace-maker' out of all of them."
"Hm, she'll probably hate me then." Brandon chuckled.
"She gets along with everyone." Alec replied.
"Doubtful she'll enjoy spending time with the manifestation of insanity that's me." Brandon replied.
"If she can put up with me and her dad, she'll DEFINITELY be able to put up with you."
"True, true." Brandon admitted, holding up his hands in defeat. "I just hope I don't have an outbreak..." he mumbled to himself.
Alec looked at him in confusion. "An outbreak?"
"I hope nothing happens that causes me to go into insane mode." Brandon explained.
"Oh." Alec replied. "I don't think anything will."
"Well, you might think not, but you know how volatile I am." Brandon said.
"Oh well," Alec replied. "Nothing bad should happen. ...Unless Lucian makes me babysit again..."
"Why? Is that like capital punishment for you?" Brandon asked.
"Yep."
"I bet. How many kids is it?" Brandon asked, now curious.
"I just told you, ten!" Alec said. "Sakura and Rozetta are the only sane ones..."
"Who's Rozetta?"
"Rozetta's the Italian one." Alec said. "Then there's Christine-the Wolf Wendigo-who's got this creepy-as-hell obsession with me..." Alec muttered, shivering.
"The what?" Brandon asked.
"Christine Klein; A wolf wendigo that's fucking obsessed with me and is creepy as hell."
"Oh, sorry. It's late so I'm having difficulty hearing you." Brandon said.
"Eh, it's OK." Alec replied.
"Sounds like a nice girl. I like the fact that she tortures you." Brandon said with a grin.
"Not torture, more like stalking and just plain obsession..." Alec replied.
"Well, the fact that it makes you uncomfortable is all that matters." Brandon replied, yawning.
"I've got the feeling that you'll like Luminita, though." Alec said nonchalantly.
"How come?" Brandon asked, getting a little excited.
"I guess you could say she's kinda' like Alice, just not as psychotic and blood-thirsty. And she plays the guitar." Alec replied. "She looks more like her dad than Alice, though."
"Sounds...interesting." Brandon said, pausing to look for the right word
"And for some strange reason," Alec continued. "She is obsessed with humans."
'Aw crap.' Brandon thought to himself. "Well, I'm going to bed." he said, walking towards his room.
"OK." Alec replied, turning into a wolf and padding off to his own room.