Shadows of the Night

Okay, I've been on a vampire binge, and I wanted to write a vampire fic. So, some details. Unlike in some of my fics, Sora's not related to Myde, he's related to Cloud. And Cloud and Leon are vampire hunters. *Nods*. Myde, Reno, Seph, Yaz, Riku, Kadaj (is killed) and Loz (is also killed) are vampires in one of the known covens. There will be mentions of a Vampire Court, and a Council of Hunters. Plus, I'll have Vampires and Hunters from all over the fandoms. Van Helsing, Hellsing, Vampire Knight (maybe), Dracula, and all kinds of Vampire lore.

…I hate plot bunnies… they wouldn't leave this alone. Gods dammit.

Disclaimer: I have no witty way to tell you people that these people don't belong to me… (Goes back a sentence and reads) (Sighs) …I guess I did.

Rating: T. Language. Vampires. And their hunters. Need I say more? Possible upgrading due to the fact that it's vampires.

Not in any way related to the song called Shadows of the Night.

Chapter 1, Intro of everybody

Prologue, yet part of chap 1

"Brother, this isn't good," one of the Vampires whispered. The wind blew his short silver hair into his green cat eyes.

The other merely nodded, his spiky silver hair ruffling a little. Hunters – at least twenty, probably more – surrounded them.

"You know, Yaz is going to be so pissed," the first one joked. He was trying to lighten the situation and not show how scared he was.

"Seph too," the other agreed.

"Yep. And Ri'll be scared. We're his brothers, we're not supposed to die. Damn Hunters." The two silver haired, green cat eyed Vampires went down with a fight. They took several of the Hunters down with them.

"Those damn Vampires. Taking down most of our newest crop of Hunters!" One man yelled. The other men in the room were equally uncomfortable with the situation.

One of them, a young male with gravity defying blond spikes and glowing blue eyes said nothing. The brown haired man next to him did the same. Other than sighing and excusing themselves, anyway. They headed to the local college campus, both of them still students, in addition to their duties as two of the remaining class of Hunters that fought the two silver haired men.

"Cloud, Leon!" they were bombarded by about five people slightly younger than them. One of them, Ienzo was majoring in Vampiric biology. He was the one to tell them what was up with the two vampires having silver hair and slitted eyes. It turned out they were of the Jenova Bloodline.

"And it's all true. I've been studying the different bloodlines of Purebloods. The Jenovas, the Valentines, there's only one of the Hikari line left, I could have sworn there was one called the Sinclairs, but they supposedly died out years ago. Then there's the Shinra line." Ienzo shuddered lightly. "The Shinra line has the most… influence. They're not as terrifying as the Jenovas or the Valentines, but they… they're scarier. It's the insanity." Ienzo shook.

Another, Sora, Cloud's younger brother, made sure his brother was okay. Vampires had killed their parents when the Strife kids were young. That's what had caused Cloud to take an apprenticeship with a Vampire Hunter.

Cloud and Leon were the Hunters of their little group; Ienzo, the folklorist; Sora, their technician; Zell, their backup; Irvine, the supplier ((where do you think they get the silver bullets?)); and Integra Hellsing was their Embassy incase of emergencies. She would appeal to the Vampire Court for protection.

There was no way of knowing when one of them could be killed – or worse, turned. Integra had seen good men turned into monsters… so had most of them in fact. A good guy she knew was bitten by a vampire while protecting her and became one of them.

Leon's brother and best friend/rival…he was nearly turned…

Zell's whole family…

Ditto with Irvine's…

No one quite knew Ienzo's deal was, but maybe that's cause he was the son of a thrice-damned psychopathic scientist. ((Hojo… yeah… he's a nut. (I read that Hojo was Zex's dad in another fic w/vampires… Zexy was turned into one.(I forget the name…sorry))))

Sora and Cloud's story has already been told.

This was their little group. Students in the Hellsing Academy were divvied up into groups of seven, two hunters, a supplier, usually two backups (sometimes one), folklorist, and a technician, and occasionally, a member of the Embassy, if one of the groups was exceptional.

What none of them knew, or could tell, was that they were being watched.

"So, the blond and the brunette with the scar, right? They were among the group that got Loz and Kadaj?" one of the watchers asked the other, who nodded in reply. They were sitting in a tree, in a place where they would get hit by the least amount of sunlight. Vampires. "Should we go after them?"

"No, not yet. Clearly that's their… what's the human term… family, so to speak." The vampire who spoke shifted a hair, just enough to cover up his face in the high collar of his long coat. While he usually settled for a crimson coat, today's was a deep green. His silvery gray eyes flashed lightly beneath his dark sunglasses.

"Myde… you're sensing something. Is it good for us?" the first Vampire asked. He was the younger of the two, and wasn't as likely to sense what could potentially be their downfall yet. His blue-silver hair and green slitted eyes marked him like the other two that had been killed before.

"Not likely Riku, considering it's one of the Judas Priests." Myde hugged Riku close to him and melted the two into the shadows, reappearing close to where their coven stayed. He walked in the door, sighing with relief as he took the wide brimmed hat and the sunglasses off. His jet colored hair and tall lithe figure declared him of the Valentine Family, but his quicksilver eyes said he was a Hikari. "Yazoo, Reno, Seph, we're back," he yelled slightly.

The first to show up was Sephiroth, a tall silver haired vampire, much like Riku and the unnamed two that were killed. That's because they were of the same bloodline, with Jenova, a powerful Vampiress, as their head.

Another vampire came down, his looks the same ethereal beauty as the first's. His name was Yazoo, and he was mostly quiet, with occasional bouts of over protectiveness regarding his brothers and Reno. Things between him and Myde were… sketchy at best, violent at worst. Their only common ground was Reno. Myde was the Vampire that turned him, and they met Yazoo and the sons of Jenova through a contact of Reno's and Reno had taken to the silver haired beauty immediately.

Now, Reno was an entirely different story. He came to the front through the floor, using the shadows of the darkened house.

The grin Riku had, along with the dark look on Myde's face, told the other vampires there was some good and bad news. "Well?" Sephiroth asked. He stood straight in front of the two vampires and gave a light glare. Myde glared right back, but said nothing.

"Good news or bad news first?" Riku wanted to know.

"Good," Reno answered. A former human, Myde had Turned Reno when they were young, and he still had some human characteristics. Namely, his crimson hair, bright blue eyes and two scars right along his cheeks, right beside his eyes. That's what's left of what had attacked Reno, causing Myde to Turn him when he was found. ((Myde's got this code where he will only turn people if they're close to death and will allow him to. Reno had already told him he could.))

"Well, we found the two most powerful of the group that got Brothers," Riku replied.

"…And the bad…?" Sephiroth voiced.

"Other than the fact that they're a Strife and a Leonhart? They've got a Hellsing, a Dincht, a second Strife, a Hojo, and a Kinneas in their group," Myde stated. Pissily he pulled his coat off and hung it up, almost knocking the coat stand over. He gripped the coat stand tightly. "Dammit. It's getting worse."

Unfortunately for him, Yazoo's mothering instincts (he's a guy… Right?) kicked in, causing him to say, "Your turn to feed, apparently, and take Riku with you."

"You do realize that feeding consists of us going to the County Morgue and getting blood bags from Mick?" Myde asked. Mick St. John was a vampire who worked at the County Morgue and was one of their contacts. Also, he donated blood for the covens in the city.

"I meant from the source," Yazoo said icily. Sephiroth, Reno and Riku watched with amusement.

"No way in hell. I haven't done that in years."

"That would explain why you've been having attacks. Feed. Now." Yazoo was unhappy and would likely be the next to feed, if the tension from making sure his coven was alright was going to continue to get worse. Two of their members had been, well… decimated would be a good word for it. But the truth was, they would have beaten the Hunters had the sun not come up and severely weakened them.

"Going." Myde irritatedly put his coat back on and left, not even stopping to grab his hat and glasses.

"And take Riku with you!" Yazoo bodily grabbed his youngest brother and threw him out the door after Myde. Yazoo sat down on the couch and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"You should probably feed as well, considering," Sephiroth said, showing concern for one of his two remaining brothers.

Reno just sat down next to him and pulled Yazoo close, drinking in the scent of the more powerful Pureblood.

"It's nothing. Well, actually, they worry me. Rather, Valentine does." (Normally, Purebloods from different families aren't in a coven together.) "There's something… odd about him that I don't like," Yazoo explained. He relaxed against Reno, whose unusual human smell of gunpowder and nicotine was calming.

"Yeah, My's different. He was raised by two different Covens before he found out they were Vampires. Course, I was his good friend at the time when he found out and told him that if I were to get attacked by something and somehow live, but still be dying, to Turn me," Reno explained to the other Vampires. "Seph, you go feed too. Me 'n Yaz'll hold down the fort."

Sephiroth stared at them for a moment before turning and gathering his black long cape and disappearing, probably to go bug Mick for some blood bags. (They were out.)

"Yaz, you really should feed. It's not good for you to be this stressed out. I'll admit, Loz and Kadaj's deaths were unexpected a really, really bad, but that just means we don't go anywhere alone," Reno said. He looked at the silver haired Vampire in his arms. He stopped talking when he realized Yazoo wasn't paying any attention to him. Sighing, he made an incision on his wrist and placed it right under the other's nose. Then, he waited.

Yazoo, not expecting the blood covered wrist to go right under his nose, took a deep breath to sigh. What he got was a refreshing smell. Reno's blood was unlike any other he had smelled or tasted. "Gods, Reno, you smell good," he said, wiping one long finger across the cut to taste the smell. It was as close to heaven as a vampire could get, he thought. There was nothing quite like it.

"I know," was all that Reno answered. They were interrupted by a knock at the door. "Dang it… uh, could you get that, I'm kinda covered in blood?" Reno's blue eyes glared hard at the door, willing whomever (or whatever) it was to go away so he could have some fun.

The knocking just got louder and more insistent.

"And I'm not? Alright, I'm coming." Yazoo got off of the other and answered the door. What he saw there was very unexpected.

End of chapter 1

What's gonna happen to Yaz and Reno? Yazoo has a mothering side, sorry. I always thought that he would be the coldest one, yet be the most protective (scary, he'd be the cold calculating one), considering Loz has Seph's strength and Kadaj apparently has his insanity.

Oh, could someone draw them for me? You can do the Coven or the Hunters (Cloud & Leon's group). Remember, Myde looks like Turk Vincent from Dirge of Cerberus. I'll try to find a good screenshot for everybody… heee. Turk Vinnie. He's so cute.