Disclaimer: I do neither own Weiß Kreuz nor anything about the Myth-series.

Notes: Based on a dream I once had and my favourite books. Loosely following the plot-line of the Myth-series with the cast of Weiß Kreuz. Please think of Aya as if he´d be still Ran (before that whole sister/Takatori incident happened).Great thanks to Shiva, Pandora.81, Kyri, Akeru and the anonymus reviewer who hadn´t wrote his name ´`.´`*

Warnings: Alter universe, OOC-ness, maybe some spoilers

Please notice!!: This chapter is following the one before and is also taking place before the first one. It tell´s how Ran met Schu. Translations on the bottom.

Chapter 2 – Chuu!

Gee, didn't I tell you that Kingall was screwing up all of his magik performances? This time he'd surpassed himself. Instead of conjuring a demon in a pentagram up and keep it there, he had called the demon AND a bolt out of the nothing. The bolt was now sticking in him, Kingall, not the demon, and I was alone a.k.a. without anybody/thing that could help me stuck with a very deadly demon.

I considered my possible courses of action and decided to react the same as by every other meeting with a very dangerous living form. Once I've been faced with a angry Spidercat, another time a ran into a feeding Kujak-bear, on a third occasion I managed to piss mum really off. I reacted the same way as what rescued me in the before mentioned situations.

I froze and hoped that the would loose interest in me. The demon grinned and started heading in my direction. I decided to change my course of action immediately. I backed as far away as I could.

The demon stopped. And blinked. Then he started laughing like crazy. I felt how anger rose up in me. Out of some inexplicable reason I seemed to be the reason for his outburst of cheerfulness. I didn't like to be the fool for somebody, demon or not. Totally ignoring my scowl the demon continued laughing until he was doubled over.

"Y-You really believed him…!" He pressed out between two fits of laughter. "Huh?" I know, not very clever but that was the best I could think that moment. The demon dropped to the floor, howling with laughter that it echoed in whole area. His hands were clutching his midsection when he finally managed to press out. "Hahaha –Y-your face!!…" He dissolved into another fit of howling laughter's, this time pointing at my face.

Okay, no demon who was so easily amused could be THAT dangerous. I made some steps in his direction and took a closer look on him. From what I could see he as looking totally human. Definitely male, wearing ragged thigh-fitting street clothes, no obvious weapons, claws, and so on…

The supposed demon was now standing again and studied me with sparkling jade-green eyes. "You were really believing him, weren't you? That I was a bloodthirsty, dangerous, deadly killer-demon?" he grinned. I nodded surprised. –how did he know that? The demon smirked. "It's always the same old thing, ya know? Some old teacher's wanting to impress his disciple and opens a gate. The most demons are joining in the fun, playing the wild dangerous creature while the teach´s making the great hero." I stare wide-eyed at him. Was that meaning that every demon was actually some strange guy who was playing the wild man? Somehow this sounded even stranger to me.

"Hey. Don't look so, it's really very funny. Your face right before, for example. A real scream." His grin widened even more, displaying an impressive pair of long pointed fangs.

Every though of wiping his smirk from his face vanished. The guy was a god-freakin´ vampire! Automatically I backed away again. That much to not that dangerous. The demon seemed to be having the time of his life.

"You-you are a vampire!!!" Broad grinning he shook his head. "Of course I am! I´m a demon, already forgotten?"

I blinked. Did this mean that every demon was a vampire? The redhead laughed again. Obviously I had spoken that thought out loud. The demon winked at me. "No, how do you get at that idea?" I blinked again. "But you yourself said that you are a vampire!"

He shook his head slightly, a crooked grin spreading over his face. "´Cause it's true. But that doesn't mean that every other demon has t´be one too." I wasn't getting anything. The demon sighted. "Look, as amusing as this is, I'd be very grateful if you just bring me to your master so that we can talk. With a little luck I'll be right on the next hop away again."

I stared at him, totally baffled. Great. From all the available demons I got the crazy one. Pointing at the lifeless form lying on the floor I answered. "That'd be Kingall. He's there. But I don't think that you'll get anything from him."

The demon gave me an annoyed look. "And why not? Do you think that-"

"Oh" He trailed off. Standing there he kept silent for some time, just glancing from the body on the ground to me and back. Right when I was beginning to relax again he started to curse in a strange sounding language, jolting me another time.

"Gottverdammte Harpyenscheisse! Das darf doch nicht wahr sein!! [1]" The demon/ vampire/ whatsoever cursed. He kept cursing for some time forgetting all about my presence. And then I did the most stupid thing possible. Instead of making that I got away I just kept standing there, waiting for the demon to make his next move.

The demon was mumbling unintelligible things in the meantime. "Was-mach-ich-jetzt-bloss? Was-mach-ich-jetzt-bloss? Unmöglich dass ich in dieser Hinterwäldlerdimension bleibe! [2]" I suspected that he was using his mother tong. Somehow he seemed troubled. What could trouble a running free demon could have, I had no clue. He brushed a hand trough his flaming mane. "Es muss noch eine andere Möglichkeit geben… [3]" Still, having him ranting like that was pretty irritating to me. I cleaned my throat.

He whirled around. "Was?! [4]" Automatically I backed away. Normally I wasn't one to be easily intimidated but for this demon I made a exception. "Eh…I, I-" I stammered out. That wasn't very clever again but being confronted with an angry demon… O ,well I was just fucking scared of him!

In the meantime the demon was watching me like a child would watch a new, glittery toy. I didn't like that look. No, not at all. "Heeyy…" the demon purred suddenly, "That'd be a way."

"What?" I blinked again. Somehow I was never ready for his sudden turns of mood. One moment he was acting like he was going to rip my heart out, the next second he was all purring and smiling. Well, I hoped that he was smiling at me.

One second to demon was advancing to me with long strides, the next sec he'd vanished. Frantically I started to look for him. Having a demon somewhere in your back wasn't a good thing to relax, you know? Then I felt a touch on my shoulders. Glancing back I could make the redhead out. He was standing right behind me, leaning against my back.

A couple of hands crept over my shoulders until they crossed over my chest. He was fully embracing me now, his head resting on my shoulder. I gulped. Having a vampire/demon that close to me and my neck was really unnerving. "You could be the one I searched for…"

He purred right into my ear, making the hair on my neck stand. "What?!" I could literally feel the other smirk in my hair. "Is that so heavy to understand? Ich meine dass du der Einzige bist der mich aus diesem Rattenloch rausholen könnte. Du bist mein Rückfahrticket. [5]" His voice had changed into a purr again.

I sweatdropped. "Huh?" "Mensch… [6]" The purring turned into a growl. Suddenly my shoulders were grapped painfully and I got turned around. The demon's green eyes were burning with anger now. He growled, showing his fangs "Du…wirst…mich…jetzt…wieder…heimschicken…!...Jetzt...sofort...und...gleich!!! [7]" Every word was accompanied with a painful shaking.

"S-Stop shaking me!" I managed to stammer out, although my teeth were clattering together by every shake. Gripping my collar he dragged me to the pentagram where he´d materialized. Was he going to take me with him? I couldn't figure out what he was up to as long as he kept speaking in this strange language of his and hauling me around like a piece of furniture. Whatever he was, he wasn't only fast as hell he, was also pretty strong!

Pointing at the signs on the ground he snapped "Hier! Schick´mich zurück! Kapiert?! [8]" Obviously he wanted something from me. I shook my head weakly (his grip on my collar was quite hindering). "No. I don't understand a word from what you're saying." He stared at me. "What's there not to understand? I just want you t-" he trailed off as I let myself drop to the ground.

That was just too much for me. The events were slowly sinking in and it was quite obvious that I wouldn't see anyone of my family ever again. ´God. He's going to kill me.´

Just like it had killed Kingall. I was caught in this situation, not able to flee, delivered to this demon to come what may. And all that just because I've been curious! I cursed myself. I cursed the demon, Kingall and out of all I cured my goddamn curiosity. A silent sob escaped my lips. That was just too much for me. I was going to die and I didn't even know why!

I felt hot tears running down my cheeks. Goddamnit, couldn't I die at least with some dignity?! I tried to bit them down but that made only the worse. Suddenly a pair of warm hands touched my shoulder softly. "Hey. You. Don't cry. Nicht weinen. [9]" A soft voice chided. Opening my eyes again I saw the demon crouching before me, concern flickering in his eyes. "I didn't intend to do that."

We sat there a while, in middle of all the rubble, the redhead softly consoling me until my eyes finally stopped to water and I was able to think clearly again. "Why? Why did you do this all?" I finally managed to ask.

He gave me an inquiring look. "Me? I wasn't it. And I didn't plan anything from this all. It's just that a lot of things fucked up at the same time and you are the one who has to carry the can." I mifled a sob. "Why? that's not fair." He sighed. "Life's never fair. Look, I´m sorry that that bolt was coming trough the gate and that the guy got hit. I was only wanting to get away from that types back there." He paused.

"You're not going to kill me?"

"Kill you?" He chuckled at my question. "Who had ever said something about killing you? All I wanted was you to send me back from where I came from. Or in this direction, you don't really have to drop me on the same spot." He grinned. "Alright?"

"No."

He frowned at me. "Listen, I already said that I was sorry. If you're trying to-" "No, that isn't it!" I quickly interrupted. Shaking my head, I explained. "I don't know how to do that." The demon gave me an incredulous look. "I really don't know! I just came here ´cause Kingall was so noisy and then he grapped me, mumbled strange stuff and did this thing to call you and then you suddenly fell on me and…and Kingall´s dead…and…and… Now I don't know what to do at all!!" God, even to me this sounded crazy.

Readying myself for a new outburst I peeked at the redhead. But the expected storm never came. Green eyes met my own amethyst ones in an calm manner, while all strain seemed to vanish from his body. Actually, he was using me now more or less to steady himself.

"You really don't, do you?"

`He directly look's human like this.´ I allowed my eyes to wander over his lithe form. ´As normal as one with flaming orange-red hair, sparkling jade eyes and a set of vampire fangs could be.´

Shortly I wondered why his eyes were green. Weren't vampires supposed to have red eyes? Then it got to my mind that he was still watching me. A slight blush crept over my face. What was wrong with me? It's not like me to stare at people like that. I decided to blame it to the fact that a demon had fallen on my head.

He sighed. "Calm down and think. Do you really don't know anything about dimension-hopping at all? Not even a little thing? It's really important to me."

"Demon-sun's hopping?"

He rolled his eyes at my puzzled look. "Alright. Forget that question. How ´bout magik? You know if there's anybody else practising it?" Drawing back I shook my head. "Nope. Kingall was the only one. What are demon-sums?"

"Dimensions, kid. Not demon-sums. They don't buzz around and collect honey like bees." He laughed at a joke I missed to get. He was inspecting the lines on the ground again, mumbling something in his language.

Standing up I hn-ed in annoyance. Who did he think he was to laugh at me? Alright, so he was a demon vampire with inhuman speed and strength. And?

"I´m no kid." I stated in annoyance, "I´m already nineteen. So don't threat me like one." The redhead laughed. "Nineteen? Then I've done wrong to you. My sincere apologies. You're no child you're an infant." He laughed at my glare. "Hey, come on. Loosen up a bit!"

He smirked. "By the way, do you know if this Kingcall or whatever had some friends in the area?" I continued to glare at him. "Kingall. And why should I tell you of all people? You came in here, got him killed, hauled me over the half area and squished me nearly to death."

A playful spark appeared in those green orbs. "Because I´m the older. I´M already threehundredfiftytwo aeons old. So I´m older and that get to decide what we're going to do." His smirk widened. "And you forgot that I scared the shit out of you. Besides, that projectile wasn't from me. It was from Takatori."

"Toketari?" "Takatori." "Aa" I blinked. Then something else hit my mind. "352 Aeons?!" He glanced at me. Noticing my somewhat dumbfounded look he asked me to tell him the time-units of this world.

"Seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years, yearhundr-" "That's it!" he interrupted. "I´m threehundretfftytwo years old." He smirked at me. "So? Do you know someone or not?"

I nodded weakly. He didn't seem to me like he was that old. Actually he was looking like he was more than two-maybe four if you gave his words credit- years older than me. (Later I should find out that I wasn't that wrong with my suspicions. Converted to human standards he was twenty-two at this time.) That wasn't changing the fact that I was knowing one special old acquaintance of Kingall quite good.

Well, I had to, after all he was my father. But I doubted that telling the demon that was a good idea. Who knew what sort of disastrous respond it would trigger this time? I didn't and wasn't willing to try and find out. So I just said "There's one. But it's rather a business partner than a friend." The fact about happening to be his son I kept wisely to myself.

The other redhead shrugged. "Doesn't matter. Actually it's even increasing our chances." At that point I noticed finally that he was speaking in the plural form. A fact that didn't help me calming down. "We?"

The demon grinned at me. "Of course. I'll need a guide to find him." Scrutinizing me he added "What are you still standing there?! Lead me to him!" I sweatdropped again. I had to find a good excuse and that right now! The last thing I wanted to do was to get my family drawn into this mess.

Choosing the first thing that came into my mind I stammered. "Erm…He's not in the town right now. But he should be back soon! If you're willing to wait-" His scowl told me that I was right. Our demon wasn't a patient one.

He continued glaring at me for some time and sighed then. "Alright. Guess I have no other choice." Winking at me he added "Come on! Lead the way."

"Huh?" My sweat drop multiplied. The redhead rolled his eyes on me. "We're going to your home." "What? Why?" "Mensch, benutz´deinen Kopf! [10]´Cause I don't want to wait here until somebody else's find's us here and starts questioning, you?" Snatching a glance at Kingall´s corpse I quickly shook my head. He grinned, -or bared his fangs, depending how you wanted to see it- "See! So we're going to you and wait for this business partner."

I gulped, but started to lead him nevertheless.

Easily holding pace with me the demon started to study his surroundings a bit more. His surroundings plus me. "Hey, what's ya name anyway?"

"Hn? Fujimiya Ran. Ran´s enough." He nodded, satisfied with the answer. "I´m Schuldig. [11]" Again he grinned at some joke I missed to get.

"Scurich?" He winced at my try to pronounce his name. "No. Schuldig. With Sch." I tried again. "Schrulldich." "Schuldig. And watch what you're saying. I´m no old Schrulle. [12]"

"Schärdich." He whirled around. "Will you stop it! It´s Schuldig! Schul-dig! Schuldig like guilty, not Scu-, Schär- or even Schurldich! If you're messing it up again I`M going to trim YOU! Understood!?"

I winced at his outburst. "Sorry but I just can't pronounce it. Don't you have a easier nick?" "A nickname?" He cocked his head like a cat would. "Try it with Schu." I tried. "Chu?"

"No. Schu."

"Chu!"

"Schu. Sch not tsch. And you're drawing the ´u´ too much."

"Tchu!"

"Bless you."

"Huh?"

"Forget it. Try on."

"Chu!"

"No."

"Chuuuu!"

"Still not."

"Chu?"

I stopped when he started to shake with silent laughter. "Chu?" The vampire burst out laughing at that. I gave him an annoyed look. Somehow I couldn't get rid of the feeling that it was again me who was the source of his outburst of serenity. "Whahahaha! You're sounding like some rodent I´ve seen once in an other dimension!" he gasped. A rodent? Hn!

"Ch." And with that I continued my way. Behind me I left an baka vampire sitting on the road and laughing like a maniac. I didn't came far before he caught up with me again, though. He was really quick. Wiping some tears (from the laughter's) off his eyes, he grinned at me. "Come on! Don´t sulk! Try it again!" Growing suspicious that he just wanted to laugh at me more, I quickened up my pace while shooting him my best glare of death.

He smirked at me. "Ohh. I´m scared. But you can call me that. I don't really mind." I didn't deign to answer. For some time we went in silence, then Chu spoke again. "And? Do you have anybody with you?" I rose an eyebrow at him. "A girl, I mean. Do you have one waiting for you?" I sighed. What was he trying to get at?

"Aya-chan. My imouto." Chu glanced questionably at me "Imouto?" "My little sister. Her name's Aya." The redhead grinned. "Ah ja. Aya. [13]"

For a moment silence returned to us. But not for long. Chu made sure of that.

"Say, Ayaaa!" he whined in his best childish manner. "Do we have to go on for long? I´m bored!" I sighed. "Don't call me Aya. My name's Ran."

"Alright, Aya."

"…"

Chu grinned broadly at me. "Hey, it's just fair! You're calling me Chu, I call you Aya."

I shook my head with a resigned sigh and continued walking. "You're acting childish. We don't have to go very far, it's right before us."

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[1] – Goddamned harpyshit! That can't be true!!

[2] – What should I do now? (two times) Impossible that I´m going to stay in this backwoods-dimension!

[3] – There have to be other possibilities …

[4] – What?!

[5] – I mean that you're the only one who could get me out of this rat hole. You're my return ticket.

[6] – For heaven's sake…/ Geeze…

[7] – You…are…going…to…send…me…back…home!…Immediately…and…right…now!!!

[8] – Here! Send me back! Got it?!

[9] – Don't cry.

[10] – For heaven's sake, use your head!

[11] – I´m guilty.

[12] – Schrulle/Crazy old woman

[13] – Ah ja./ Ah yes. (Is pronounced like Aya.)