Silven

Silven turned and eyed the person who was standing at the end of the alleyway.

"St..stop! Back away from the body, t...this is my territory and if you thi...if you think i'll keep letting you steal from me you're mistaken!" the voice was of a younger male adult, Silven placed him in his thirties. Although his threat had ended strong, the shakiness of his voice gave away its true nature.

Silven turned around slowly dropping the limb he was about to amputate. He looked his new opponent up and down, it was actually hard to glean anything from him considering he had done a passable job disguising himself.

He wore an old fashioned black leather plague doctor mask.

For apparel the man wore a modified dark lab coat.

Silven smelled him, it was odd. He was not human, Silven was certain he could have smelled that from miles away, currently the only human on the streets was more than four blocks to his right.

Now that the man, no the ghoul, is right in front of me I can smell it much better. Yes he was definitely ghoul yet only a few key elements of the smell where present, it was like reading a book with all the vowels missing but you can still read it from memory.

He realised the coat smelled odd, like it was diluting no, absorbing smell from the ghoul. One scent that was unaltered however was the fear he could smell, plain as day. It wasn't overpowering but it was still present.

Through the glass goggles the man's eyes where the defining black and red of ghoul leaving no doubt that this man was a ghoul. They were wide open whether in fear or anger he wasn't sure.

"Didn't you Hear me...Leave NOW!" At the word now his kagune burst through his sleeve. Silven tensed realising he had been staring at the man for almost twenty seconds analising him.

Personally He didn't want to cause a scene and fight this ghoul. this wasn't even accounting for the fact that he could be in legitimate danger. However Silven could sense that the show being put on for him was mostly false bravado. Activating his kagune in particular had been a pointless attempt to intimidate him,

Silven put on his most non threatening voice in an attempt to defuse the situation before responding

"And what makes you think i've been stealing from you? I'm new to the area and theirs was no indication that this was your territory." He raised his hands slightly in a non threatening position. "Ill just take my kill and go, ok?"

The man's posture became more confident after what he had interpreted as a victory "No leave it!, he was on my territory therefore it's mine, you're just a kid so ill let you live" More bravado.

Silven had had enough, he cocked his head at the man. Had Lana been here she would have jumped him as soon as he spoke, im starting to think that may have been the right choice. His voice hardened, "no it's not, back down NOW!" His eyes blazed black and red in anger.

To late SIlven noticed the desperation in the man's eyes as he raised his Koukaku blade and charged with a howl. Time slowed as silvens battle reflexes kicked in. The blade was something Silven had never seen before, it was nothing like the ones the grunts in aogiri.

It was black flecked with red like Lana's, It was a large blade starting at his shoulder encasing the lower part of his arm and ending in a flat point. Despite being so long it was thinner and skinnier than the ones the grunts of agiri possessed. To tell the truth it looks like an oversized Katana.

Silven was momentarily caught off guard and would have died right there and then if he had been fighting an equal. The strike however looked slow and clumsy to him, though a human wouldn't be able to see the movement much less dodge it.

Silven was about to bring out his Kagune and end fight for real but something stopped him. The man was breathing heavily already, and he was trembling slightly where he stood. On top of this his Kagune pulsed sickly. He was willing to bet that if they exchanged Kagune blow for blow the other ghouls would shatter soon enough. All of this was a sure sign of starvation.

Silven sighed and refrained from impaling the man upon his tail. Instead he raised his fists confident this would suffice against the starving inexperienced and desperate ghoul.

Silven predicted the man's next move as he rushed him with his blade held high once more No grace, no finesse, just brute force. Silven ducked under his swing and jabbed him hard in stomach, he felt bones give. The young man's momentum carried him forward.

He stumbled and put a hand to his stomach and retched. With his back turned to Silven he saw his opportunity and kicked him hard thirty feet into a dumpster at the end of the alleyway. The dumpster crumpled several feet from the impact. He slumped to the ground, his kagune dissolved no longer possessing the strength to keep it up. Blood started to drip from under his mask.

Silven went back to the corps knowing the ghoul wasn't going anywhere soon. He ripped of a leg and started walking towards his defeated opponent.

Without eating the healing factors wouldn't work and this ghoul would die soon. Even after all of this the ghoul still tried to raise from the ground and groaned weakly. His arms collapsed and he fell back against the dumpster, he did however manage to raise his head and look at Silven.

Silven crouched down to the ghoul and gently pried off the bird-like mask, He had been correct in guessing the man was in his thirties, He was obviously American and had brown auburn hair. Their was a scraggly beard on his chin, his face was tensed in pain. He had a pair of wire glasses which had been cracked in the scuffle. He was pale and shaky, both from the loss of blood and the starvation.

The fear was gone from his face, A look of acceptance replaced it. "Just kill me, I knew this was coming I was weak. Please, the one thing I ask is that you make it quick." He coughed some blood.

So he's not a coward, most would beg for their lives in this situation. Silvens respect for the man immediately rose.

"I don't want to kill you" He gave the man a few moments to let it to sink in. The beginnings of hope flashed across his face for the first time. "Look, I think that we could help each other, do you have a place to stay?, Here you look starving" he offered the leg to the man.

The man shakily reached for the Leg hesitantly as if it was some cruel trick SIlven was playing on he had the limb he took a tentative taste, all modesty forgotten he began to ravenously tear into the thing. Fresh blood streamed down his chin.

Silven didn't blame him in the slightest. After his parents had died, before he meet Lana, his sister and him had had many many hungry nights. He had been afraid of humans and this fear had almost made them both starve to death, There was Nothing worse then starving, it truly was a fate worse than death. Simple existence became torture.

In only a minute the man had already eaten most of the limb. As if coming out of a daze he seemed to realise Silven was still their. Th-thank you." He suddenly looked close to tears, "I couldn't take much more of that it hurt...so much"

Silven was almost surprised by the man's sudden change of character as he was by the changes in his physical appearance. He was already looking better, color was returning to his face and the tremble he had had ceased. He tried to rise but fell again, he grabbed his chest and inhaled sharply, several ribs that seemed to be broken

"Keep eating you'll heal soon enough." Silven pulled off his bandanna in gesture of trust, "ok I've helped you, now it's your turn to help me, First off what's your name?"

The ghoul took a few more bites before sitting up albeit painfully. "Alright i'll help you kid, I think I owe you that much, you just spared my life twice. Names Reggie."

Silven nodded matter of factly "Alright Reggie, the first thing that would help me would be information, we've heard rumours of blood drinking ghouls, I'm assuming that's not you." Silven eyed the mangled leg. "Do you know what im talking about?"

Regie's eyes widened again in fear. "Yea ive seen them, they're what put me in this condition. I used to have a group of ghouls, we looked out for each other, they were like my second family, we were the only ghouls in the whole city."

"Well, there have been a few strays who had been too violent to let stay, but we could always drive them off. There were eight of us."

Eight! In the whole city. Their presence here is almost non existent, no wonder the Americans are oblivious. A portion of city this size in Tokyo could have five hundred!

"Well what happened to them?, could you take us to them?"

"No that's the thing, three of them used to hunt for everyone, my girlfriend was one of them. The rest of us would provide them with money and help them blend in."

"The always hunted together to watch out for humans. about a month ago they ran into the blood drinkers...there was a pack of them. They were feasting on several humans right out in the middle of the street. Anyone could have seen them. They didn't even wear masks."

"My girlfriend tried to approach them she thought they were migrating ghouls. She wanted to invite them into our organisation. She was also planning on warning them to be less conspicuous."

"She was trusting like that, she liked helping people. Her name was Anna" He smiled painfully at the memory. "The blood drinkers were feral and violent, they were like animals, they just kept screaming about blood like we were going to steal it or something. They immediately attacked and the group was outnumbered three to ten"

Silven nodded intently listening to his story.

"The only option was to run of course. In the chase that followed one of our hunters named Frank fell behind. He was ripped apart."

"I remember like it was yesterday. The remaining two called a meeting that night, their eyes wouldn't go normal, they were so shaken up. They both had bite wounds. They told us the whole story and how Frank had died."

"Anna was angry. She wanted us to all go out and hunt those bastards for what they did."

'We decided against it, we still thought maybe we could reason with them" Silven snorted, he had been in several turf wars and their was almost never a peaceful resolution. Reggie looked defensive. "Listen I know it sounds stupid but this had never happened before"

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"In the following weeks every time they went out hunting a pack of the blood drinkers caught their scent, we all began to slowly starve"

"Eventually all the grownups including me went out with them one night, we ambushed a group of them."

He pulled up a sleeve on his lab coat and Silven saw bite marks.

"Now i'm not a fighter...as you just witnessed. We relied on our hunters for protection from the wandering ghouls. Although the weaker members of our group gave it our best, all we could do was fend them off from our two remaining fighters. That was enough, the blood drinkers were Strong but clumsy and uncoordinated they were easy kills to our fighters"

"You should have seen Anna fight, she fought like a whirlwind. Anna alone killed three. The weird thing was that none of them used kagunes, also their eyes were red but didn't turn fully black. Fuck they didn't even bleed!...I know it sounds crazy but i'm telling the truth."

He glanced at Silven, but he, motioned for him to go on

"We were winning the fight at first, the blood drinkers didn't know how to react to the Kagune. I could almost taste the flesh we had been denied, they was moments away from running. That's when it all fell apart, more of them came, many more. None of us had eaten in five weeks, we were all slow and week."

"My kagune broke first, the rest broke shortly after. The fighters were the only ones who could keep it active. The fight turned into a frantic retreat. I heard one fall, he was a teacher, I tried to help but they ripped his head off.'

He lowered his head and started shaking. "They ripped his damn head off right in front of me!, Next the mob went for me, Anna lept to my aid...she killed two but five more pinned her down" He just shook his head shaking unable to go on.

" I tried to save her, I did. There were just so many." at the end there were only three of us who made it out, plus a kid who had stayed behind. They knew they couldn't stay, they took the kid and left the city going their separate ways, wishing me the best."

"I went into grief, I stayed in my apartment for weeks drinking myself into a coma until the hunger forced me out. Then I saw you and I thought you were a blood drinker, I've never seen one alone and I thought I could scare you with my Kagune, and that brings us to the present."

He looked around nervously "Listen we really shouldn't stay out on the streets, I'm pretty sure they're mostly around the docks but I don't like being out in the open for so long."

Silven still reeling from the information, reached out his hand to Reggie. "Right, let's go. can you help me bag up this corpse?" He hesitated considering whether to tell him his name, he didn't see to much harm in it. "My names Silven."

"Silven, that's an...uncommon name" Silven cut the torso in half and put it in two bags. "Its foreign"

It didn't take long to get everything baged had sheered the flesh off and disposed of everything inedible including the bone. After they were done, the left to go. Regie still had a bad limp and his ribs were taking a long time to heal. Silven groaned he was going to slow them down.

Reggie looked thoughtful "Didn't you saw "we" a couple of times? How many are with you" Once again i've slipped up, what the hell is wrong with me?

"It's just me and another" he said rather sharply. Regie flinched and Silven felt bad, its not his fault, hes given me everything i've wanted. Calmer now he added, "You'll meet her tomorrow"

"Just Take me to where you live, where gonna visit you tomorrow and ask some more questions when it's safe."

They walked towards the middle of the city, it was close to the Tourist area where they were staying.

Reggie was limping bad by the end and Silven had to give him support under one shoulder.

"This is it" he was panting "i'll be fine, I think I just need some sleep"

In Front of them was an old apartment building, Silven helped him to the door. He reached into his backpack and wordlessly removed a bag. He had already planned on giving him it, He would be more useful at full strength"

Reggie gave him an incredibly grateful look and they parted ways.

Lana

She was relaxing playing a board game with Reya, They had been relaxing at the hotel for several hours. She had unpacked her stuff and put int in the several drawers and cabinets.

Silven opened the door, she could tell that he had food with him right away. Upon further inspection there was something off. He smelled odd and looked on edge. Lana sat up fully alert

"Did something happen?"

He sighed, "I met another ghoul in the city, We fought but he became much more friendly after i helped him. He told me more about the blood drinking ghouls, only they don't sound like ghouls to me."

Silven told Lana everything Reggie had told him. "I was going to go visit him tomorrow, did you want to come?"

She rolled her eyes, "of course im coming, did you think I was just going to sit this one out again?"

Reyna jumped up excitedly, "Oh can I come!?"

"NO!" they both said at the same time. She was insistent. "Pleaseeeee?"

Lana ruffled the girl's hair, "Maybe after we trust this guy more, or after we give you some fighting lessons."

She brightened up considerably at the idea of the lessons they had been hinting at.

They talked for awhile and then went to bed.

The next morning

Lana woke up early feeling more rested than she had in a long time, the feeling of an actual bed and a heated room just can't be replaced.

She got ready for the morning and put on one of the new shirts she bought along with a comfortable pair of ripped jeans.

Silven was being slow, which is ironic considering he's always rushing me.

She called into the bathroom, teasing "You almost done in their, or are you still putting on your lipstick?"She laughingly dodged the hotel towel he threw at her.

By ten they were leaving the hotel. After instructing Reyna to not open up for strangers.

They took a short bus ride the the ghouls apartment. Their was a newspaper left on one of the seats, Lana picked it up. "Hey look at this." Silven looked at the paper interested. The headline said, "Terror In the Streets Gang violence Strikes Again"

There were pictures of an overturned car with smashed storefronts lining the Reading further into the article they had found 7 dead bodies on the scene. On top of this their was a growing number of disappearance cases, It was at fifty and rising.

This is Aogiri stuff right there , no subtlety at all. No wonder the doves are getting involved.

Sure enough another article was saying how their would be"private investigators" working on it and it encouraged cooperation.

The bus pulled up to the corner and Lana got a look at the old fashioned apartment.

They went through the old oak door and up the stairs perfectly calm acting as though they lived their. They went to the room number the ghoul had given Silven.

Of course that was unnecessary, they could have found it from scent alone. "This scent smells...familiar" she racked her brain but for the life of her she couldn't remember what it was.

Silven knocked and they waited their patently. After a few minutes the door opened and Lana's jaw dropped at who she saw. Silven looked at her curiously, a questioning look on his face. Lana didn't care though she was unable to speak.

The man looked like he saw a ghost. "Lana?" he said hesitantly.

This broke her out out of her trance. "Uncle Reggie!" she ran at him and hugged him like she was a kid again. And in a way she was again. So many memories were coming back of the man standing in front of her.

She remembered the visits during the holidays. He would always bring extraordinary presents from America. Reggie and her parents used to get happily drunk while singing loudly and badly together at some pub.

They used to visit museums and Historical sites in London with him.

After everything had fallen apart and their house had been seized by the government she had run away to Japan, She had given up hope of ever seeing him again. There were hundreds of millions of people in America and she didn't even know where he had lived.

Silven looked wide eyed from Lana to her uncle. Reggie sputtered "Y-you're Alive!?, here come inside"

He lead them to the living room as if in a gaze. He began talking, it seemed more like he was talking to himself that the two people in front of him.

It looked as if he had tried to tidy the house up recently. He didn't do a very good job, their where science books shoved into a corner and a chemistry station in the unused kitchen.

"When I heard my sister had died along with her husband I flew to the U.K right away, I payed for their funeral"

He looked at Lana "I looked for you for weeks. I asked everyone who knew you, it was like you had dropped of the face of the earth, After a while I had assumed the same people who had killed your parents had gotten to you as well...Where did you go. How did you survive?"

Lana replied, she didn't know all the details about her parents murders, but she could still tell him how she had survived.

"I was able to buy a plane ticket to Japan with money left over. I had thought about trying to contact you but i didn't know how, also the ghoul gang that was after me was extraordinarily well connected. If you tried to help me they would have killed you to."

"Once I was in Japan things changed drastically, I started living in the infested wards fighting for my life everyday that's how I met Silven, I tried to mug him if I remember correctly"

She glanced at Silven and he let out a quick laugh. "She was a vicious one, we've been traveling together ever since."

Reggie looked amazed "you look so much different, I barely recognise you, your much taller." He remarked.

They spent the next hour catching up, Silven listening intently, interested in Lana's past that she never shared. They told him about Aogiri which was quite a shock to him. He didnt seem to know very much about ghouls in other countries, just that they existed. They also found out he was a biochemist working at a very large hospital in the city."

They finally got to what they had come here for. Silven started "Listen we came here because we need help. I wasn't sure if we could trust you i know you won't betray us."

He continued "We're trying to get to a town nearby, it's called Forks. Could you take us their?"

Reggie sat up straighter. "Of course I can. I just need to take a few days off work."

Lana stated the idea that had been forming in her mind ever since they got their. "Uncle i was thinking, maybe you wanted to stay with us?"

He looked down embarrassed "Listen Lana...Im sorry, truly I am, but I have a Job...a life here. I don't want to leave you two alone but..."

She started to get angry "no! Not BUT. You have nothing left here, there is a murderous gang roaming the doves are flying in from japan to search this city from door to door.

"Doves, what are doves?"

Silven chimed in "Professional Ghoul hunters, they killed my parents and a few friends of mine. But Lana are you sure this is a good idea"

Oh come on, this isn't a good time to be fucking paranoid Silven. She rounded on him, "Listen we need an adult. who's going to pay taxes or take legal responsibility of us, don't you see how he can help us?"

"Alright fine, fine, it's up to him though."

Regie still looked hesitant. To further drive the point in she added "You stay here and keep trying to edge by. It's only a matter of time before the blood drinkers find you, and if they don't the doves will. Or you could come with us. We can provide you with protection and possible a better life, I can assure you of that."

To punctuate her point she slapped the coffee table, she had only meant to startle him with the noise. The table however splintered in half.

It had its intended point however.

He sighed and took of his glasses rubbing his temples. He suddenly looked much older. "Your right...I cant stay here, im going to need some time though.

"The Hospital has a branch in forks run by Carlisle Cullen, he offered me a job last time we met, ill request a transfer tomorrow."

Lana pumped her fist in the air in celebration. "Thank you uncle! Trust me you won't regret this!"

He gave a tired smile. "I suppose ill have to spend the rest of my savings on a house for this many people...probably take out a lone...I dont spose you have any money?"

"Yes! We actually have five hundred thousand in an anonymous account."

He looked shocked for the second time today "five hudr-...how the hell did you make that much money!" She laughed at his expression. "Well we kinda robbed a bank on our way out."

He just shook his head not even questioning it. "I have a feeling you two will never cease to amaze me."

A week later.

The hospital in forks had immediately accepted his transfer request, Apparently reggie had developed a reputation as a rather brilliant scientist.

Silven had introduced Him to Reyna. It had been a bit of a shock for him to find that they had been hiding her from him but he quickly got over it. He was good with kids and Reyna warmed to him immediately.

They had looked for houses online and contacted a realtor. A brand new house had been built in forks but right before the owner could move in he had been found dead in Seattle, drained of blood. It was selling for very cheap for such a nice house and they bought it before anyone else could.

After Reggie had gotten everything together he pulled up in an extremely full SUV. They looded into the Van and started the three hour drive to Forks.

They passed farmland and heavily wooded area, Silven and Reyna stared at them equally amazed. They had lived around cities their entire lives...it would take some getting used to.

They hadn't been kidding about the constant cloud cover gazing up their where clouds as far as they eye could see. Reyna pointed out a sign "look!"

It read Now Entering Forks WA population two thousand one hundred and twenty.

So this was a bigger chapter for me, im kinda having trouble of what happens next any ideas are appreciated. I have things that i want to happen but ideas for more stuff in between is helpful.

MaxBacon- yea thanks I realised errors after I posted it.

Pacman-thats a good point. in the tokyo ghoul universe the public didn't know much about ghouls, some thought they where wolf like animals. most didnt know they looked human. like Kaneki was surprised Rize looked like a human. For this instance lets just pretend the Cullen's dont keep up with Japanese news. Others (such as the Volturi) do though.

Merry Christmas!