Vejicula: The New Blood

An: Chapter 2 Sorry it took so long... life somtimes I wish I didn't have to deal with things beyound my writting but that clearly is not possible....

Um as for the Japanese names and terminology, Just ignore them illogicalness of transylvaian people using them okay. ^^;

Also the Title of the chapter has changed. I know I said it would be: "A New, Familiar Place" but that didn't fit good with what I wrote.

Also: This story is also arcived on ((http: // nikikeya-chan. deviantart. com)) (remove spaces)

The Truly Crappy Summery: While vacationing abroad with some friends, young College freshman Son Goku takes a wrong turn down a deserted transylvanian road, and stumbles on a centuries old secret that will ultimately cause everything he ever thought he knew about himself to change...Forever.

Disclaimer: Don't own anything but the plot... and even then just barely.

WARNINGS: THIS IS YAOI MALEXMALE So all you poor delicate children who can't deal (Or all you poor boys I'm traumatizing, gomen. ^^;) Please go elsewhere. The rest enjoy! Thank you!

PAIRINGS: Multiple MalesXGoku VejitaGokuVejita

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VEJICULA: THE NEW BLOOD

By Nikikeya


Ch.2: Tales Of The Windtrice


When Goku woke up several torches were lite on the wall, as was a lamp on the bedside table, crawling across the enormous bed, the boy jumped down a little less than graciously from the bed to the floor, landing with a thud on his side. (he'd forgotten about the steps.)

Sitting up Goku looked around, the man was back standing in the shadows, he was chuckling softly at the boy, Goku blushed angrily and got to his feet, just as the man stepped forward.

Goku was surprised to see the "man" only looked about his age, and had straight shiny ebony hair that was cut just above the shoulders, ivory skin that seemed overly pale and ice blue eyes which never seemed to catch the light, but were oddly luminous on their own.

"Good evening Go-ku. I trust you slept well." said the other teen, smirking. he was dresses in black pants with a white long sleeved shirt with a v-cut lace up collar, and a black vest.

Goku nodded, still blushing.

"Well that's good, the storm is back and very bad, its gotten worse over the day, the wind is especially strong. Its a good thing you were so close to the castle, not in the center of the Windtrice, when you broke down."

"Windtrice?"

"The Windtrice Cemetery, largest one around.... And the most haunted." said the boy smiling eerily.

"I believe it." shuddered Goku.

The blue eyed teen smirked, "My but where are my manners? I've brought your clothes for the day. Here."

He passed Goku another bundle of clothes, inspecting them Goku frowned.

"These aren't my clothes." he said looking down at the puffy white shirt with the frilled neck, a red waist coat with gold embroidery and buttons and a pair of brown pants and a blazer.

"Yes sorry, no ones been out to retrieve your things yet, I'm afraid. Are these things suitable? I can have something else prepared if you'd prefer?" said the blue eyed teen.

"No," said Goku dressing quickly in all but the blazer, painfully awear he was being watched again, "These are fine, thanks, but I think I'll just wear this stuff, the over coat's a little bit too much."

"I'll keep that in mind." smirked the boy.

Goku raised an eyebrow and then said, "What's your name?"

"Just call me Seventeen." said the boy off handedly.

"Seventeen??" asked Goku nonplussed.

"Unless you'd prefer Junanagou." said the teen.

"But why were you named for a number??"

"I was the 17th son in the family. The folks ran out of names." smirked the teen.

Goku sweat dropped, "Ju-kun?? ...How's about that?"

"That's a new one...Ju-kun... I like it." nodded 17 smiling his eyes traveling over Goku, the boy felt oddly naked under the gaze of the intense blue eyes, it was as though he was being x-rayed. He trembled slightly.

Goku's stomach growled, he blushed again. 17 laughed and moved forward grabbing his hand this time, instead of his wrist.

"This way... Ku-chan." smirked the boy evilly, Goku literally felt the red come into his face.

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The Castle, unlike that morning, was well lite now, torches blazing in their brackets along the wall, illuminating worn tapestries, and paintings that looked centuries old, scenes of great battles, and mystical creatures, portraits and-

Goku stopped dead, eyes lock on a figure in one of the paintings, 17 stopped and looked as well, a smiled.

"Lord Kakarot Von Windtrice. a German nobleman who's family immigrated to this land centuries ago, after losing favor in their country." he said smiling at Goku sideways with those strange glowing blue eyes.

Goku gulped, there staring out from the tarnished frame, was a young man that looked so incredibly similar...

"He looks just like me... or I look like him..." Goku shivered and coughed as a shock of cold air blew by him, 17 moved forward quickly.

"Sorry about that, this place is old and drafty. It seems you're still not well from staying outside last night... Come, there's a sitting room just ahead that should be in use now. You can warm up in there." said the smaller teen leading the way.

Goku's mind however was still on the portrait of Von Windtrice... Windtrice... "Hey, Ju-kun?"

"Yes?" asked the boy looking back.

"Windtrice... wasn't that the name of the cemetery?" asked Goku shivering harder as another phantom breeze blew.

"Yes, named for the Windtrice family whose buried there, hundreds upon hundreds of generations of Windtrice family members, and those servants who served under them, they came to this land ill prepared for the harsh living conditions, many died in just the first year, including both Kakarot's parents, afterward Kakarot's elder siblings fought eachother for control of the family fortune, and Kakarot became ill during that time, he was always quite sickly." said 17 fish-eying Goku in that strange way again. "Ah here we are."

"You speak as if you knew him personally... so are the Windtrices the ones who built this castle?" asked the boy as he was lead over to a large soft chair infront of a roaring fire, the warmth of which felt delicious sinking into his chilled skin, warming him to the marrow.

"No, the castle was here long before the Windtrices came, much longer. They built Windtrice manor, it lays out beyond the moore to the west, beyond the cemetery, the road doesn't lead to it anymore." said 17.

Goku felt a chill creep up his spine at the word cemetery, he was just about to ask more about it when the door to the sitting room opened again and a girl about 17's height, in fact, whoa! She looked just like him, save the blond hair. She was wearing a long black gown that pooled at her feet.

"Ah Ku-chan, let me introduce my sister: this is Eighteen. Juhachigou if you will." smirked 17. "Eighteen this is Son Goku."

"Charmed." said the girl flatly, Goku got the impression she was mad about something.

However he just had to ask, "Eighteen? So don't tell me. You were the 18th girl in your family?"

18 looked at 17, "What's this drivel 17?"

"Had to make up some reason sister dear." smiled the boy, "You must admit our names are odd."

the girl sniffed.

Goku blushed, "Oh so you were lying earlier?"

17 stuck out his tongue cutely, "Yup, sorry. Truth is I can't really tell you why we're named after numbers."

Goku dropped the subject of names after that as 18 was looking rather peeved.

"Junana I need to speak with you. In privet."

17 nodded and looked at Goku, "I'll be back momentarily then I'll take you to eat."

Goku nodded and looked back at the fire, behind him, he heard the door shut behind the siblings, the room was warm, and quite, and the overstuffed chair was so soft, and comfortable. Goku felt his eyelids getting heavy, his eyes were closing before he knew it, and he fell fast asleep.

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17 walked behind his sister in silence, finally though, she spoke.

"You're getting attached."

"Should I not? He's staying here from now on after all." said 17 flatly, not seeing where she was going with this.

"Ku-chan?" she asked incredulously.

"It was a joke, he calls me Ju-kun and I call him Ku-chan, he doesn't mind. and he is a cutie."

"He's Kakarot-sama! You don't show such disrespect, if Vejita-sama heard-"

"But he didn't. Fine, fine I'll stop. Happy??" pouted the boy.

"Ecstatic." said the girl coldly, "We feed tonight, you are to remain here and watch the child... I'll bring you back something."

"Hunh, I can't call him Ku-chan, but you can call him a child."

"Because he is one, especially compared to me."

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Goku woke up with 17 standing over his looking amused.

"Sleep well, sweet prince?" sniggered the blue eyed teen.

Goku shook himself out of his warm stupor, "Sorry."

"Its fine, comon." said 17 helping Goku up, he then turned to another chair behind him and picked up a heavy dark green hooded cloak, which he then handed to Goku. "This should keep you warm."

"Thank you." said Goku, blushing again, much to his own annoyance, it seemed he was blushing way more than usual lately.

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17 lead the way down to the kitchens, which lay on the ground floor, naming the people in the portraits, and the themes of the different tapestries, as the past them, it was actually pretty cool, as several of the portraits so far had been realitives of Kakarot Von Windtrice.

"Why are the portraits here tho, if they lived somewheres different?" asked Goku eying Kargenoff Von Windtrice, Kakarot's uncle who had been murder in his sleep, Goku shivered and pulled the cloak around himself tighter.

"Kakarot married into the family who owns this castle, he brought the portraits along seeing as he couldn't go home." said 17 briskly.

"Why couldn't he go home?" asked Goku.

17 paused and turned to look him up and down, finally locking eyes, "His health wouldn't permit it. Its quite a long ways to the manor from the castle, especially now that the road no longer exists."

"So are there still Windtrices living there? Or did they all die out?" asked Goku, he couldn't imagine how lonely Kakarot must have felt, to be alone so far from one's family in this big dark castle, while being ill no less...

Goku himself had never had any family, he'd grown up with Kuririn in an orphanage, never knowing anything about his real family or where he'd come from.

"Yes, there are, there's a whole village there now, surrounding the manor." 17 said. "This is Dahoven Von Windtrice, he was Kakarot's third eldest brother, he came here once to see him, but a fight broke out between him and Kakarot's fiancee. He wanted to take Kakarot back with him, the lord wouldn't allow it and so there was a fierce battle, Dahoven was eventually killed."

"What they killed him! How could they? knowing who he was and all??" Goku asked shocked.

17 shrugged indifferently.

"Kakarot was devastated, he refused to eat for the longest time afterward, it wasn't till they brought Radditz here that he recovered." said 17 walking on.

"Radditz?" asked Goku.

"Another of Kakarot's elder brothers, he's-" 17 paused as if he realized he'd said something wrong.

"-T-there is a Radditz here now too! So please don't be alarmed if you should meet him. He's a decedent of the man I just mentioned... and the resemblance he bares to his ancestor is quite amazing..." said 17 hurriedly. Goku only nodded and they walked on.

Goku stopped suddenly as something about the previous conversation finally clicked, "He was fiancees with the lord of the castle... In otherwords...... A MAN??"

17 laughed, "Yup."

Goku was silent for the rest of the trip, trying to wrap his mind around all this new information...

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The dinning room was a lot less inviting then Goku would have liked, it was cold and dark and something under the floor boards creaked loudly and thumped.

Goku heard it and backed out of the room trembling, "Um, so Ju-kun is Juhachi-san around?"

17 who had been a few feet behind him shook his head, "Everyones gone out for the night, they'll be back before sun rise."

"Everyone? how many people live here??" asked Goku wide-eyed.

"Quite a few, it is a castle after all... I'll introduce you to some later." smiled 17.

"Um...Are you sure they all left?" asked Goku as the noise of movement sounded from below the floor again.

"Yeah." smirked 17, his smile faded tho when he noticed how uneasy the boy looked, "...Why?"

Goku's eyes locked on his then turned to stare at the dining room floor, "There's something down there, listen."

creeping over 17 stood sliently, the thudding sounded agian, acompanied this time by a scraping, that sounded like finger nails clawing at woods.

"Probably a damn ghoul, your safe though, it can't get upstairs, their stupid you know? Can't open doors. It probably dug its way in." said 17 calmly.

"Are-are you serious a ghoul??!" Goku asked.

"Well sure. It probably came up from Windtrice, must have followed your scent to the castle." said 17 moving in through the dining room to the kitchens.

"M-my scent?? Why?" asked Goku hurrying after him.

"They love fresh blood, they probably smelt you lying out there and thought it was a feast, its really lucky you were so close to the castle, the further out you are the more plentiful they are." said seventeen, grabbing up a few loaves of bread and some fruit, "Sorry we don't have much here... we usually eat out."

The thing continued to clatter around down stairs, no making wet rasping noises, Goku's appitite had completely disappeared, which, anyone who knew Goku would know, was just plain rediculous. and physically impossible.

17 didn't seem to notice however, and sat down at the table quitely.

"What will you do about it? That thing downstairs? You can't just leave it down there can you?" asked Goku trying to keep his mind off the food at the moment as the very thought of eatting at the moment was enough to make him feel sick to his stoumach.

"Oh of course not, no it will either realize it can't get to you and leave, or if its still not gone by the time the others get back, someone will go down and dispose of it." replied 17 uninterestedly.

Goku trembled as the scrapping grew loader, it was right underneath him,

"Ju-kun..." he gulped, "You're sure it can't get up here??"

17 chuckled "I promise, You just realax and eat."

Goku looked down at his food weirily, however he didn't want to appear rude, so hesitantly he took a small bite of bread, chewing it carefully and swallowed, he then glanced around in confusion.

17 blinked following the boy's wandering gaze,

"Oh! Drink! of course! How foolish of me! You waite here, I'll go get something from the cellar- No not that one!" laughed 17 as Goku's eyes widened and drop to stare suspiciously at the floor where the scratching continued.

As the older teen stood Goku went to follow suite.

"Oh! No no! You just waite here, it should only take a moment." said the blue eyed boy raising a hand in a stilling motion.

Goku fidgetted visably uncomfertable at the thought of being left alone, 17 however either didn't notice the other boy's discomfert, or he just didn't care. He left without another word or backwards glance.

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So it was that Goku found himself waiting alone fifften minutes later... Goku was beyound anxious being almost in hystarical.

The frantic scratching and now pounding where near deafening, and seemed to be coming from right under his feet, as if the thing was clawing at the bottem of the floorboards.

Goku was shaking like a leaf, if this was some joke to freek him out, that Ju-kun and Juuhachi-san had come up with, then they had done their job well, all he wanted to do at the moment was bolt, why was he still sitting there??

'He said he'd be right back, what's taking so long? Is he okay? Did he fall? Should I go look?'

Goku was just standing up to act on this impulse, when suddenly the floor beneth his feet exploded upwards and he fell.

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Heehee evil cliffy! don't worry I'm working on the next chapter now!


Thanks again to all who reveiw!

-Cloud