August 4, 2015
A disclosed location located near Fiore Hunter College
3:13 a.m.

"Ryos." Gajeel says and the dark-haired male's eyes narrowed.

"How did you know that name? Nobody knows that name, not even my mistress." he hisses at Gajeel, who stood strong and without fear.

Levy's eyes widened. She definitely recognized the name of Ryos. Gajeel only called one person by that name.

His little brother, Rogue Cheney.

Gajeel and Rogue were brothers, raised together as orphans. A bond formed not of blood but, of love and concern for each other. Levy remembered that to Gajeel, other than her, Rogue was the most important person in the world.

She could finally see his face clearly. Short, slightly choppy black hair and long bangs that covered his right eye. His left eye could be seen with the trait red all vampires had was narrowed. He was gritting his teeth together, allowing Levy to see his fangs. On top of all that, she could see a scar slit over his nose and into the area being covered by his hair.

"Ryos, it's okay. I ain't gonna hurt you." Gajeel cautiously walked towards them but, Rogue growled, tightening his grip on Levy's wrists.

"I don't know who you are or how you knew that name but, my mistress has ordered me to kill you." Rogue smirked maliciously, "And kill you I shall."

"Shit... No wonder you've got no fucking clue about me. You aren't Ryos." Gajeel seemed to have figured it out as dark marks begin to appear all over Rogue's body.

"You're Kuro."

Gajeel was ten years old when he first met Kuro. It was the day Rogue finally stood up to the bully that picked on him for liking both boys and girls.

"Rogue! Stop punching! He's unconscious! You won!" A young Gajeel tries to force his younger brother to stop hitting the boy, bloodied by his fists.

Rogue was only nine at the time. When he paused of his punches, his head slowly bobbed up to Gajeel's eye level. The ten year old was terrified when the young boy smiled, dark red eyes looking sinister.

"Rogue? I'm not Rogue. He's the white rabbit. My name is Kuro, the executioner."

The second time they met was when Gajeel was fifteen. It was the day that they transferred into a new school.

"FAGGOT!" Another stupid kid would pick on his now almost fifteen year old brother for who he liked.

"FUCK OFF!" Gajeel would always be there to defend his brother.

One day, Rogue had kissed a boy at their school, a blonde one, who Rogue claimed to be really oblivious and cute. Gajeel didn't mind who his brother liked, as long as he or she made him happy. He was a good brother like that. Of course, Gajeel couldn't expect anything on like what would happen that day. While he was stuck in detention for fighting with a pink-haired idiot, Rogue and the blonde were surrounded by the kids who picked on Rogue.

"GO KISS A TRASH CAN, FAGGOT! You're nothing but trash anyway!" one of the bullies punched Rogue in the face.

"Cut it out! Leave him alone!" the blonde would also defend him.

"I'll show you faggots to cut it out." one of them had a swiss army knife in their pocket and slashed the blonde in the face.

The cut itself wasn't anything major. Just a nick on his eyebrow but, it was enough to set Rogue off. The next thing Gajeel knew when he was walking around the courtyard to go get him, all he saw was red. His younger brother was punching one of the bullies to the ground, blood covering his fists, spilling onto the sleeves of his jacket.

"RYOS!" Gajeel shouts, running towards the fight, trying to pry his brother off of the bleeding bully.

"You're getting in my way again..." Rogue's voice was slightly deeper than usual as dark red eyes turn towards Gajeel, "Are you ready for the decapitation?"

"How amusing..." Rogue chuckles.

Gajeel grits his teeth together, remembering that his real brother is gone.

"RYOS! Where the fuck are you?!" Gajeel shouts as he continues to see blood fly.

"Gajeel!" He finally heard the shout of his younger brother.

"Levy, stay here!" Gajeel says to the blunette as she hides under a set of seats.

"Ryos! I'm coming!" Gajeel shouts as he tries running to the set of screams belonging to his brother.

What he found instead weren't even alive anymore.

It was his brother's mutilated corpse, his eyes still open with blood surrounding his slit-opened neck.

"RYOS!!!"

"You're an interesting guy, traitor. You know that name of mine too." Rogue's grip on Levy loosened slightly.

Using this opportunity, Levy got out of his hold and kicked him in the stomach, making him fall to the ground in pain.

"Bitch!" Rogue growls, the black markings on his skin finally setting in place.

"Levy, duck!" Gajeel shouts, pulling the blunette behind her as something stabbed into his body.

She opened her eyes, seeing blades pitch black in color pierce through his left shoulder.

"A black sword?" Levy was frozen.

"No..." Gajeel grits his teeth, grabbed the blade and forcing it out.

"Think I forgot what your fucking powers were after the arena?!" Gajeel shouts and Levy looks to Rogue, her eyes widening.

His hair was slightly elevated now, allowing her to see both of his eyes. While one was a glowing vampiric red, the other was a pale red, the right side of his face covered in scars. Behind him, his shadow danced vigorously against the wall, as if they were imitating flames. She then realized that the blade that stabbed Gajeel was in fact a manipulation of his shadow.

"Is this... The power of a frenzy?" Levy asks.

"No. Ryos isn't a frenzy. At least, not yet. I'll explain later. We've got to move!" Gajeel picks her up, throwing her over his shoulder as he began running down the hall with Rogue chasing after them.

"Contact the others! Ryos ain't no pushover, ya know!" Gajeel shouts as Levy tries to reach for her cellphone.

"My phone's in my pocket!" Levy shouts.

"Fine!" Gajeel reaches over for her phone and she squeaks in embarrassment.

"THIS IS NO TIME TO BE TOUCHING MY ASS!" she shrieks.

"YOU SAID IT WAS IN YOUR POCKET!" he shouts back.

"AS IN THE POCKET ON MY SIDE BUT, YOUR FREAKING NECK IS BLOCKING IT!!!" she screams when she sees black tentacles rushing at them.

"Use your guns or something!" Gajeel shouts as she digs one of the silver pistols from her belt, doing her best to aim correctly with the conditions going on.

"I can't aim straight!" Levy shouts when Rogue sent another attack flying straight for them, causing her to shriek.

"WATER SLICER!" a blazing line of boiling water came flying at the dark matter, burning it enough to back off.

When they reached an area with a grand staircase, they stopped and turned. It was then they realized that they were no longer alone. Gajeel smirked, seeing the person who created the counterattack to be none other than-

"Juvia!" he chuckles, seeing the all acclaimed 'Rain Woman' jump down from a hole on the second floor to defend them.

"I heard screams so, Gray-sama and I decided to investigate." she says as Gajeel puts Levy down.

"If you're here, then where's Gray?" Levy asks when Rogue suddenly shouts in pain.

"Got 'em!" Gray smirked proudly, holding his katana with blood dripping off the handle.

"No, Gray! He's not the frenzy!" Levy screams when Rogue's body hits the floor, his blood pooling onto the floor.

"The fuck? What do you mean he's not a-" Gray gets hit in the face, sending him crashing onto the staircase.

"She's right, ya know..." Rogue was slowly beginning to stand up, twitching here and there.

"Wait a second. Isn't that-" Juvia asks.

"A frenzy can't do this!" Rogue's body began to phase through the wall, into his own shadow and vanishes, only to appear right behind Levy to grab her again.

"Let me go!" Levy screams as Rogue licks the skin on her neck.

"She tastes yummy. I wonder how her blood is." the next thing she knew, his fangs pierced into her neck and that woozy feeling from the time last was coming back.

"LEVY!" Gajeel's eyes turned a vampiric red as he jumped, his fist turning into metal.

Rogue summoned a black shield to defend the attack as Levy winces in pain. But, suddenly, the dizziness turned into pain and that pain started to turn into something else.

"Let go of me." Levy bites her lip, holding back a growl in the back of her throat.

"What did you say, livestock?" Rogue says when he feels a strong energy coming from the small blunette.

"I said-" she turned her head to him, her eyes glowing green, "Let go of me!"

It was then when she headbutts the vampire and elbowing him in the stomach, jumping away.

"Damn." Gajeel was in awe.

"Rogue Cheney. I will make you come to your senses, even if I have to hurt you." Levy grabs her gun, now glowing green, aiming at Rogue's chest and firing.

"WAIT!" Gajeel was about to stop her when the bullet hit Rogue's chest but, it didn't kill him.

The shadows began to almost burn off Rogue's skin, like ashes into the air with every bullet she fired at his body. The vampires, along with the exorcists were amazed by the amount of power she had right now. It was almost... Inhuman. When she stopped firing, her vibrant green eyes reverted back to the normal brown and she slumped to her knees in exhaustion. Gajeel rushed over to help her up and they notice that Rogue's shadow size started to decrease, his red eyes were the normal red. There was fear hidden behind those eyes.

"H-How did I-" he noticed the exorcists and he only tensed up more, "It happened again... I told mistress, I begged! I didn't want to be him again! Not again..." he grips at his head, grasping at his black hair as tightly as he could.

"Ryos." Gajeel says and Rogue recognized his voice, slowly mustering the courage to look up and meet the eyes of his brother.

"G-Gajeel?" Rogue was extremely caught of guard by this discovery.

They hadn't seen each other since the arena three years previously.

"You grew your hair out. It looks good." Gajeel goes up to Rogue, smirking as he ruffled Rogue's dark hair, now out of the ponytail and back to covering his face.

"I-It's really you!" Rogue hugs him, which Gajeel didn't mind to give back to him.

His younger brother really needed a hug right now. After all the hell he'd probably been through, being forced into turning into him, he deserved more than a hug.

"Levy!" Gajeel shouts as Levy is helped up by Lucy.

"Tame Rogue." Gajeel says and Gray begins to shout.

"You can't be serious! I get that he used to be your brother but, he just tried to kill us! He just tried to kill you!" Gray protested the idea and Gajeel growled at him

"Zip it, ice prick! I'm not asking you!" Gajeel shouts, turning to Levy, "Please."

The blunette had to think for a second for she sighs, letting go of Levy's hand to walk over to Gajeel.

"Because you asked so nicely." she smiles and turns to Rogue, kneeling down to him so they could meet eye to eye, "Rogue-san."

"It's been awhile, Levy-san." Rogue gave a weak smile, recognizing her too.

"Rogue-san, Gajeel thinks that you should come back with us." Levy begins to explain and Rogue's pupils contracted.

"I can't." Rogue's voice cracks, his eyes filled with terror, "I can't leave this place."

"What do you mean?" Levy was concerned for him when he began to tremble.

"She's coming! You have to get out of here!" Rogue shouts as he begins to grip at his hair again.

"Ryos, the hell's wrong with you-" Gajeel tries to grab his shoulder but, his brother slapped his hand away.

"Get away from me! I don't wanna hurt you!" Rogue begins to scream and something bursts out of the ground, sending everyone back on impact.

Gajeel opened his eyes first and he recognized the woman. Long black hair, pink eyes, golden horns entangled in her hair and a glare towards Rogue that was as sinister as her cold voice. He knew who this thing was.

"Rogue... Didn't I tell you to kill them?" a stern female voice is heard, her tone laced with ice.

"M-Mistress S-Seilah... You have to understand! These exorcists- I can't just-!" she hit him, the sound of the slap echoed in the room as Rogue's body hit the ground.

"Did I say you could speak, mutt?" her pink eyes glowed as she lifts up her foot and presses her heel into his back, into the wound Gray made earlier.

Rogue screamed in pain, trying his best to hold back his tears. If he showed any more signs of weakness, she'd kill them. Rogue can't possibly have any more blood hands than he already did. He wouldn't be able to bear it if he watched as they took away another person he loved.

"Stupid dog. I'm going to punish you now." Seilah smirks at the idea as she grabs a fistful of Rogue's hair, forcing him up, "I think we should have Kuro kill your new friends. What do you think?"

Rogue began to tremble, "P-Please... Anything but that..."

"Get your fucking hands off him, lady." Gajeel growls, getting Seilah's attention.

"Gajeel, what you doing?!" Rogue shouts when his mistress dropped him and she faced the tamed vampire.

"Gajeel Redfox... I remember you. Jose's ace, Kurogane. According to the stories I've heard, you were an obedient soldier, killing every living thing with a heart. Look how the mighty have fallen." Seilah smirks and Gajeel cringes.

"I'm not that guy anymore. Kurogane is dead, ya here. I'm only Gajeel Redfox." the vampire bares his teeth as his eyes turn vampiric, "And you made the fucking mistake of hurting the one family I've got left!"