Rei has lost his best friend Lee and Satanist Max comes and offers him a solution to his misery. But what if it goes too far? What if Rei starts hurting those he holds dear? What if his new alias 'Fang' takes over and makes him less and less like he used to be?

NOTE:

Very little of what I have written and will write reflects true Goth nature. This is my fanfiction so I will do what I want in it. Not all Goths are Satanists either.

In-Satanity

Loud rock music, screaming and smoke filled the entire room. When he'd pictured Roxie's, he'd never have thought of this place. Rei had imagined a dingy sort of café with depressed people saying poetry, though the sort of clothes he'd been given should have told him otherwise. A crash to his left made him start as one of Max's friends, Joey…Yo-Yo, crashed into the table, collapsing on the floor pulling it down with him, sending the drinks flying. Instantly the neko-jin was on his feet to make sure the guy was ok. He was stopped as a hand flew out.

"Leave him Rei. He's ok." Mel smiled at the confused expression presented to her. "He's fuckin' pissed…the alcohol fucks him up. You try to help him; he's more likely to knock you out. See." She indicated to another man who stumbled over to yank the teen to his feet. As Yo-Yo gained his sense of direction he lashed out and sent the man flying into the wall.

Max sauntered up to them and threw himself into the seat that Rei had previously occupied. "Relax Fang. This is only the beginning." He sneered as an obviously drunk girl strutted up and sat on his lap. He leant in towards the girl but Rei couldn't make out what was going on. He was about to question Max when the girl got up with a wad of cash in her hand. "S'nothing." Max shrugged as Rei opened his mouth curiously. Whereas the girl held money, he now held a fairly large box. Mel blew a kiss as some boys passed by before handing Max a few paper sheets.

Rei watched as his 'innocent' friend opened the box and stuffed something, which really reminded Rei greatly of seaweed, in the centre of the sheet before rolling up and making it into a joint. "That's what they put in cigarettes?" Rei asked curiously, clean and pure as he was, he had never seen these sorts of things before.

Max smirked. "You could say that." He lit it and took a drag. "Yeah that's the stuff." He rested his head back and slowly exhaled the pungent smoke. "Here Fang, try some of this stuff…let yourself go man." He held the burning stick out to Rei who took it with hesitation. As he stared at it he tried to work out what it was he was holding.

Seemed like a normal cigarette with a different smell to it. After a few minutes of pondering whether he dare risk taking an unknown cigarette he shrugged. Max had given it to him after all and though this Max wasn't the one he had always known, he doubted that his friend would try to kill him, and hadn't he seen Max take a drag of it anyway? Mentally crossing his fingers he closed his eyes and inhaled the substance.

A few seconds passed and nothing happened but then something tickled the back of his throat and he began choking. Mel disappeared and reappeared with a glass of water while Max just laughed at Rei's predicament. Rei quickly gulped the liquid offered to him. Spluttering, as he took too much liquid in, he glared at Max. "What the hell?" He growled.

Max just continued laughing while Shelley, who had bounced over in all the confusion, explained to Rei that what he had taken was Marijuana. "Isn't that illegal?!" Rei yelped, dropping the joint in his panic. Max leaned over and picked it up before it could burn anything and took a long drag. "Duh of course!" He chuckled. "But don't shout it out too loud. You never know when the cops send an undercover guy in."

Shelley smiled and pushed Rei back into a seat. "Come on Fang honey…it's our health…our lives…why can't we do what we want with them? Besides…pot can send you to heaven and back. As I always say, you're always a lot better off when you're having fun!" With that she licked Rei's lip before sliding off him and rejoining Yo-Yo, who had finally gotten back his bearings, before returning to the dance floor.

Moving over to his friend, Max held it out. "You'll get used to it and then you'll love it!" Giving Rei the joint he and Mel joined the others on the floor. Staring at the burning stick in his hand Rei shrugged. What could it hurt? He knew he'd regret it later but he also knew Max wouldn't knowingly give him something that could hurt him.

As he finished the joint off he understood what Shelley had meant when she said it would take him to heaven and back, all of the troubles he'd had on his mind had lifted like a weight. Stubbing it out he went and joined them on the dance floor, unawares of what else would happen that night.

..::END CHAPTER::..

Thanks for reading guys and gals! Hope you enjoyed this chapter and I aim to get the next one up a bit sooner. I know it was short but I'm suffering a HUGE migraine and it's absolute agony staring at this screen.

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sn0zb0z

Thanks for the review!

Iluvbeyblade

Thanks for the review! YES SEME MAX SEME MAX! And you did think of the name Fang /applauds/

clover381325

Thanks for the review! Even though I know you probably won't read this as we fell out earlier on today. I just don't get why you can't let it go…ok so I can't ask people for things…not my fault! FIFTEEN years of learning not to do that will make it tough for me to break the habit/hums Breakin' The Habit by Linkin Park/ Anyway…you're not reading this so why am I going on?

AnimeQueen48

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Lady-Nikki

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