Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Love By Moonlight ❯ Got Ya... ( Chapter 8 )

Chapter Eight.

In the cafeteria. Zell is at the table practically hugging the book to his stomach for dear life, while pretending to eat his chili and cheese hot dog lunch. Selphie sat down next to him tugging at the sides of her shorts to make them go down a bit lower. "This is new." Zell was saying when he turned his eyes in her direction.

"What? The seat is cold." She answered, popping herself up tugging at her shorts again. "I should start bringing a little pillow or something." She was mumbling to herself.

"I think the 'something' should be the option of wearing longer clothes." Zell stated shifting in his own seat. Selphie scrunched her face up at him, but waved it off and started into her hamburger.

"Hey Selph', you goin' out with us tonight?" Irvine asked when he got over to their table and sat down.

"Where are you going?" She asked. Zell took the opportunity to sneak the book open and glance down at the pages.

The book seemed to cover everything about different types of vampires even how to kill them! 'There's luck, all right!' He mentally cheered.

"What're you looking at there?" Selphie asked peeking over the boys shoulder.

"Um, nothing." Zell lied closing the book on Selphie's peeping eyes. "Just doing some homework, you know how I hate a crowd on the table." She seemed to by it and went back to her food. Irvine looked him over but shrugged it off as well.

'Gods can't a guy get any privacy anymore?' Zell wondered. A brunette sat down at their table but they paid no attention to him. Lunch dragged on endlessly to the point where Zell wanted to blow some bodies brain out, why did he get so much food?!

"It's not a race ya know?" Selphie was saying. "You should slow down, wouldn't wanna choke?"

"Yeah, yeah." The blonde remarked. 'Selphie the safety monitor.' Zell rolled his eyes.

"Hey, did you guys hear about all that stuff that's happening in Deling?" The brunette was saying.

"What kind of stuff?" Selphie asked and Zell pretended not to care but he kept an ear to the conversation.

"Well, this whole car full of people were killed in the middle of the night, on the out skirts of town. My dad gets the Deling paper, so he knows." The boy explained going on. "It said they all had there throats slit in two places, weird huh? They're never gonna track these guys down."

"I think it's hot," This girl walked by saying. "I mean, someone can kill a car full of people just like that, I can't be the only one who thinks so?" He looked to Selphie who just raised her hands to the matter as if saying, 'no comment.'

Zell bit his bottom lip hearing what the boy had said, but he relaxed after he added that their throats were slit. 'Vampires have teeth for that not knives,'

Zell absently took a drink of his soda. 'maybe I really am jumping to conclusions, the guys teeth could have just come down on me too hard, I was kiiinda squirming around a lot.' Zell broke into a wide grin not meaning to then he jumped up saying. "Thanks kid, you did me a world of good." He smacked the brunette on the back, and the kid looked confused.

"My name is Henry." He answered the un-asked question.

The small group at the table watched as Zell pranced out of the cafeteria. "He's been acting so strange lately." Selphie commented.

"I think maybe he's a little traumatized by the whole spring break thing." The cowboy said.

"I wonder if he wants his Cheeto's." Selphie asked herself, picking up the bag digging in.

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Later that night after school. Zell sat in his bedroom thumbing through the book he'd checked out at the library. "I know I'm wrong but, it doesn't hurt to prepare yourself." The martial artist was saying. "Let's start with A," He said placing a finger in the book to follow along the words.

"Asanbosam-They are African vampires. They are normal vampires except that they have hooks instead of feet. Yikes." He commented. "They tend to bite their victims on the thumb." Zell's insides jumped reading that. "Well he wasn't black or trying to bite my thumb, so that definitely isn't him."

He flipped a little further into the book. "Ch'Iang Shih-In China. There are vampire like creatures called Ch'Iang Shih, they are created by having a cat jumping over the corpse of a dead person." Zell turned his nose up then read on. "They appear livid and may kill with poisonous breath in addition to draining blood. If a Ch'Iang Shih encounters a pile of rice or grains, it must count the grains before it can pass on. Their immaterial form is a sphere of light, much like Will-O-the-Wisps."

Zell flipped through the book and was suddenly amazed at how thick it is! He had no idea how many types of vampires there were in the world. The most he knew from was Dracula. Looking down at the page he stopped on he saw the 'S'. "The Strigoi, vampire's with bird forms....weird. They normally attack in flocks and drink the victims blood after busting their blood vessels with a high pitched shriek."

Reading on. "Vlokoslak, they are both day and night vampires and can transform into horses and sheep....day and night?" Zell's mind went back to the man that got off the elevator. He was rubbing his neck when he got off and right as he and Irvine were leaving, he walked by them and there were two bite marks on his neck.

"Mph!" Zell placed a hand up to his mouth to avoid throwing up and he dropped the book to the floor. 'I didn't need that bit of information right now.'

"Zell sweety, Irvine's here!" His Ma called upstairs. Still feeling a bit nauseated, he walked to the door and opened it. 'What the hells am I gonna do if this is true, what if there really are vampires in the world?' Zell started pacing and when Irvine walked in the room he jumped out of his skin. "Ah!"

"Boy your jumpy?" Irvine smiled. "Irvine, I'm glad you're here, I have something to ask you about?" The cowboy cocked an eyebrow at him. "Okay, do you believe in the living dead?" Zell asked as clearly as possible.

"You mean like zombies and junk." Irvine walked into Zells closet and started looking through his clothes.

"Sort of, I'm thinking more along the lines of uh...vampires?"

Irvine thought the answer over then shook his head. "Ain't no such thing." He replied.

"Just my luck I got a skeptic friend." Zell muttered.

"What was that?" Irvine asked, clearly not hearing.

"Nothing, what are you doing?" The little blonde finally noticed that his friend was rummaging through his closet.

"Lookin' for something for you to wear tonight." Irvine answered innocently.

"Oh no you don't, I told you…" The martial artist walked over to the closet yanking his friend out.

"Hey!" Irvine protested the assault.

"I'm not going clubing or anything else tonight or any other night," Zell complained. "I think I'll stick to sunlight, thank you."

Irvine gave him a bored expression. "Zeelll come on, I don't wanna get stuck with Selphie all night. And don't tell me you're afraid of vampires because as dull as Balamb is nobody would bother, not before or after life so come ooonn." Zell crossed his arms planting his feet down firmer than they already were.

"Fine then, I'm out of here garlic boy. See ya at school tomorrow." Irvine waved over his shoulder and walked out.

"Sorry Irvine," Zell exclaimed. "I'd just rather be safe then sorry- God, now I sound like Selphie." Picking up his book, plopping back down on his bed he re-opened it and started reading again. "Langsuir, a female vampire that....."

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After an extensive evening of reading, Zell fell asleep. He didn't even know he was tired, he just kind of blinked and was gone.

'I'm in Deling again!' Zell thought looking around him, he was walking through the streets as though nothing had changed since he and Irvine were there. A man walked too closely to him bumping into his side. "Excuse me." The man said and continued on his way by, but Zell turned around and followed the man to an ally way.

"I think this is yours." A voice that clearly wasn't Zell's said, holding out a wallet.

The man dug into his pockets to check and smiled reaching for it. "Thank you, I don't know what's gotten into me tonight." He was saying. "I'm usually so careful with these things."

"Not a problem," The person said yanking the man into his arms covering his mouth in the process. "Hrrrmmmm!!!" The man tried to shout but the person held on fast then bit him in his thick hot neck. 'Oh no!' Zell cried. 'Somebody help him!' But nobody heard him, he wasn't even sure if he'd really said anything.

The little blondes breathing was growing heavy now, he could feel the blood staining his face and running down his throat. It was making him feel really sick to his stomach. 'Zeelll.' A voice in the back of his head said, startling him.

'Whose there?' Zell asked, still watching the gruesome scene go on as the man was backed onto the side of a building.

'Tell me where you are, Zell....' The voice was coming in a little clearer now, it sounded like the man at the park!

'How did you get into my dreams?' The martial artist asked.

'You're not dreaming,' Seifer replied. 'You're watching.'

Seifer dug his fangs deeper into the mans neck and Zell could feel the guys body squirming against him. 'This doesn't make any sense,' Zell was saying. 'Of course I'm dreaming.' Seifer backed away from the man punching him in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Pulling out a pocket knife he knelt down and slit the mans throat where his teeth marks were to make it appear as though he died from the cuts in the throat. 'Zell......?' Seifer insisted again.

'No! I'm not listening to you, this is just a stupid dream!' Argued Zell.

'I suppose I don't really need you to tell me, I'll simply come and kill you by surprise.'

Zell's brain felt fuzzy when he opened his eyes gasping for air. "What's with all these dreams I'm having, are they for real?" Zell scratched his neck feeling a pulse from the bites he'd received. "Ow, I hope this isn't infected or something."

Snuggling into his bed, Zell closed his eyes and tried going back to sleep but something felt off about it this time. So he opened his eyes and lay there silently. 'What's one night of lost sleep?' He thought. 'Besides that, it's the weekend, I can sleep all I want in the morning.' With that as reassurance he turned over in his bed and gazed out the window at the moon.

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Squall appeared at the brick wall where Seifer had just made his kill. He crossed his arms and ankles watching as his lover finished up. The blonde seemed to be taking a particularly long time standing up, but why? "Who're you talking to?" Squall asked out of nowhere. Standing, Seifer turned around wiping his mouth with his shirt sleeve.

"What do you mean?" Seifer asked pulling Squall by the hips into him for a kiss.

Squall sneered at his innocent act but ignored it. "Never mind, so where are we going?" He decided to bring up instead. Seifer had been right about his hunch, the city was beginning to panic a little bit and stay indoors during the night, leaving food only for the day walking Vlokoslaks.

"We we're gonna split up, remember?" Seifer kissed the brunette on the nose then the lips.

"You make it sound like you want to be away from me." Squall remarked.

"Never." Seifer answered. "We'll cover more ground that way, there's a boat leaving in an hour." The Slav cupped Squall's chin and looked him in the eyes. "You trust me don't you?" He asked.

"Perfectly." The brunette purred out.

"Good. We'd better hurry or we'll miss the first boat." Seifer explained, and Squall took his hand walking out to the sidewalk. A crowd of people walked by and when they cleared the two vampires were gone.