Title: Horrifying Tales from the Underworld
Genre: romance, horror, humor
Rating: T for violence, language, and some themes
Pairings: BakuraXRyou; YamiXYugi; MarikXMalik; KaibaXJonouchi
Summary: Bakura is the heir to the kingdom of the Underworld, but before he became the heir, terrible things in the form of tests happened to him. With having your younger step brother killed right before you, being kidnapped by demons left and right, having your mind controlled by a demon, and meeting a demon who was once an innocent human but is now the absolute manefestation of all the earth's sins, what's he to do?!
Me: Okay! This is the rewrite of my story that I did with the same title a while ago!
Lucy: This is dedicated to YaoifanRisaMM for all of her supprt, lovenyami for liking my works, and to yugixyamiyaoilover, for supporting me in my stories!
Me: Thank you all and please enjoy this!
Lucy: Puzzleshipping and other parings will arive very very soon, so just be patient!
Words Like This- Bakura narrating
Words like this- Thoughts
/Words Like This/- Demonic voices speaking
Both: Story begin!
Prologue: How It Began
A small blue portal suddenly appeared inside a realm that looked like a dark cave with rings of deep purple flowers.
A male of about 17 years old stuck his head from the portal and glanced around a bit to make sure it was safe. The male had pale skin and chest length spikey white hair and brown eyes.
His left eye was a lighter shade of brown than his right one, but it wasnt noticable.
"Okay. Coast is clear, Ryou," the boy stated.
He stepped carefully out of the portal to reveal the black hoodie that he was wearing, and he was wearing a black pair of jeans with a silver chain on the belt. He wore a pair of fingerless gloves and and black combat boots.
The boy then turned and gently took someone's hand.
With a gentle tug, the silverette pulled another boy from the portal, gingerly holding him in his arms to support the boy from falling a wounding himself.
The boy looked to be only 2 years younger than the first boy was, and he sported the same hair color, but his was more neat. It also sported some wild decorations strewn in his hair and some natural tentacle-like ends.
The second boy had brown eyes, but his left eye was a deep brown color, almost like chocolate, while the right one was almost white because of how light of a brown it was. His skin was pale like the first boy's, but his skin sported a grayish tint to it, unlike the first boy.
On his feet were a pair of black slipper-like shoes that were simple in color. The second boy was wearing a black longsleeve one piece outfit with a pale purple short chest-length cape and a red clasp that cut off at his thighs, revealing his long legs.
Around his entire leg on the area where his shins were was a long stream of stitches per leg. The stitches wrapped all the way around his leg in those one areas, the ring around his left leg being lower than the one on his right.
The second boy took the first one's hand and slowly lowered himself down.
"My beloved Bakura, art thou certain that this is not some plot to get rid of me in some senile and unnoticed fashion so that Mother and Father know not what became of me?" the second boy asked curiously.
The first boy, Bakura, scoffed and gently took the second boy's hand in his own.
"Nah. Ryou, you're imagination is gonna be the death of you one of these days," Bakura stated before he started dragging Ryou from the portal, which had vanished by this point.
Ryou sighed as he slowly followed Bakura into the depths of the cave.
"I fear we have trespassed inside the realms of some creature who art without morals. I believe I hear the cries os souls long tortured by these ridiculous monsters who wish to hurt us dearly if they catch us," the silverette stated.
Bakura rolled his brown eyes.
"Nah, you're just hearing things. Stop reading gothic poetry. You're started to scare me, and I am supposed to be the gothic one," he stated before placing Ryou in front of a patch of purple flowers with a pearl in the center.
Ryou's eyes lit up and a smile spread across his gray-white face.
He then smiled over at Bakura and embraced him tightly, whispering a thanks before going back to the flowers and staring down at the with absolute amazement in his brown eyes.
"These flowers art the most gorgeous of their kind! Mere words cannot express my gratitude to thee, my darling 'Kura! The very sight of these flowers will bring joy to my soul for many years to come. I thank thee, my beloved," Ryou smiled before he went for the flowers.
Bakura rolled his eyes and smiled.
[Bakura's POV]
My name is Bakura, and I'm the heir to the Kingdom of the Underworld. I'm what you'd call a Reaper, even if I look nothing like it. The other boy here with me is my younger step brother, Ryou.
I brought him to this realm for a very special reason.
Necrofalans: a sacred plant not found in the Underworld.
Ryou has been reading books about them and I took it upon myself to bring him down here and get him some. It's the least I can do for him, after... the incident.
If Dad knew that we were here, I'd be sooooo dead...
Well...
Deader at least.
[Normal POV]
As Ryou knealed on the ground, Bakura felt a sharp pain in his chest and in the back of his mind. He glanced over his shoulder with wide multi-colored eyes, making his weapon appear in his hand.
A long scythe with a crystal blade.
The Blade of the Reaper.
Ryou glanced over at his step brother's distress. "Bakura dearest, what hath thou seen? What makes thine heart beat so fast? Doth a monster approach us?" the silverette asked.
Bakura narrowed his eyes at the depths of the cave and then protectivly stood before Ryou.
"Yeah, and it's not a friendly one," he stated in a cold voice.
Ryou slowly stood up and clutched the back of his step brother's hoodie with a shocked look on his face. From the depths of the cave emerged an ugly creature that bore leatherly gray skin and bright red eyes.
Spikes ran down its back, and it appeared to be horrifying. "Ha ha! Lookit here: Two little toys for me to play with..." the monster growled out.
Bakura stepped forward and narrowed his eyes at the monster, his lower lips trembling slightly in terror from such a large creature, but he tried not to show it before Ryou.
"Stay back, vile creature!!" Bakura growled angrily.
The monster smirked and flicked Bakura with his claws, making the reaper stumble back and lose connection with his body, which was his one flaw of being a Reaper. His head disconnected from his body, and thudded against the ground once before landing right by Ryou's feet.
Bakura cursed loudly.
"Ha ha! Let's play a game. I'll seek... and you guys run like Hell!!" the monster cackled.
Ryou raced over, sunk to his bare stitched knees, and pulled then Bakura's cut off head onto his lap, and then stared up at the monster in shock and horror in his eyes.
Bakura bit his lower lip.
"Ryou, run away! Save yourself!! Forget about me!!" the silverette hollered to his younger beloved step brother in hopes that he would leave and save himself.
Ryou merely narrowed his eyes as the monster slipped a bony gray claw underneath the silverette's chin and lifted Ryou's head up to make eye-contact with him.
"Art thou high upon thy own ego, you disgusting creature?" Ryou asked, blinking softly.
The monster blinked.
"No doubt thou looks art not pleasing or lovely, but lo, within all thy horribleness and wickedness lies the stupidity of a thousand fools," Ryou stated in a simple voice to the monster, showing no fear. (OH! THAT MONSTER WAS DISSED!! SHAKESPEAR STYLE!!!)
The monster's eyebrow twitched angrily.
"You've got guts inside you, boy. That's quite a mouth you got on you! But let's see you try this on for size!!" the monster roared before lifting his claws into the air to kill Ryou.
Bakura gasped as he prepared to see his beloved step brother torn apart.
But before that happened, the monster's hand was cut off.
"GRAAAAAGH!!! WHAT THE HELL!?" the monster roared in rage.
The two silverette's gasped as they were lifted into the air by a golden hand and then pulled behind a large gold dragon with bright red eyes who was growling at the other monster.
"Back off, monster! These children are under my protection now!! So leave them alone!! Take your idiotic games somewhere else before I get angry!" the golden dragon roared.
The monster growled and then they both went for each other, attacking and fighting over the two silverettes.
Ryou kneeled down near Bakura's head while still holding his disembodied head and watched the fight. Bakura was watching the fight with absolute amazement in his eyes.
"This is amazing! Huh, Ryou? Two of Hell's greatest monsters duking it out over us!! This is amazing!" Bakura cheered.
Ryou turned him around and stared sadly into his step brother's eyes with his own, his gray-white face covered with concern.
"Yes, my brother. It is very much intriguing. But I fear that we must get back home before our father doth notice our disappearance," the younger silverette stated.
Bakura sighed deeply and then looked up at his brother with slight annoyance in his eyes.
"You had to remind me..." he breathed before going back to watching the fight.
[Bakura's POV]
My little brother is always worrying about me.
Whenever we're in danger, he's always clinging to me and holding me close so that nothing bad happens to me, but in truth, I'd die to protect Ryou...
He didn't always look the way he does now, you know.
He was once a very simple boy, and we weren't always this close. But after the incident three days ago... I... I feel like I owe it to him to not get so angry with him all the time because after all...
It was all my fault...
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Me: Okay! The story thickens! And Ryou dissed that monster shakespear style!
Lucy: Bur fear not, the pairings will happen very soon!
Me: So please look forward to them! Thank you all for your support in my stories!
Lucy: Please review kindly and I shall update as soon as possible!