TO STOP A KILLER

ML: Ok, my third YGO story is on tap!

Yugi: So, what's it about?

ML: Well, it's an AU, and the plot is that you, Tristan, Joey, and Bakura are cops…


Joey: So, we're cops.  What else?

ML: Someone's been committing a series of murders, and you guys have to crack the

       case!  Also, this involves a blood oath…


Bakura: Meaning we're blood brothers in this story?

ML: Exactly.  "I Don't own YGO, since Kazuki Takahashi owns it.  I do own all original

characters like Mandy.  One more word of warning: the couplings are: Yugi and

        Téa, Joey and Mai, Bakura and Mandy, and a Tristan/Serenity/Duke triangle…"

Joey: WHAT?  I'll get you for that!

ML: Oh man, (Sees Duke entering) Duke!  Do me a favour and finish the disclaimer!

Duke: Sure!  Anyway, "If you don't like, don't read!"  ROLL FILM!!

Prologue – 4 YEARS BEFORE

            The YGO gang had graduated from college at this time, and were relaxing at different places.  The girls (Téa, Mai, Mandy, and Serenity) were at the beach while the guys were over at Joey's cabin up in the mountains of Hokkaido.    They were enjoying the scenery and talking about their future.  All four had aspirations to become police officers, and during breaks between semesters, went up at the police academy to study police work, and before they left, all four got diplomas, certifying they were the newest members of Domino's police force. 

            Tristan looked up at the mountains.  "Can you believe what happened the last couple of years?  We went from high school kids, to college students, and now, we'll be police officers!" 

            Joey shrugged, "Yeah.  My dad never thought that I would join the DPD!  He thought that I would go be a musician or something like that!"

            Yugi said, "Yeah.  My Grandpa would have a heart attack if he found out that I was going to join the force with you guys!"  As for Bakura, he produced a needle, and a vial. 

            He suggested, "Since we all graduated, I've got something for us.  Give me your fingertips, guys."  The other three, sceptical, offered their fingertips.  Bakura then pricked the three fingertips, extracted the blood, and pricked his, and extracted his blood.  Once the blood was in the vial, he mixed it, and said, "Now that that's done, hold up your right hands near your hearts."  The four guys did this as well.  Then Bakura requested, "Repeat after me:  We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."

            The guys repeated the simple phrase: "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers, for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother."

            After that, Joey said, "So, that means, we have to watch each other, like brothers." 

            Bakura said, "Yeah.  I promise that I'll watch over you."

            The other three said, "We'll watch over you, and each other."  They placed the back of their hands on top of one another, solidifying the blood bond. 

FOUR YEARS AFTER – PRESENT TIME

            It was a foggy night in Domino City.  Most of the town's residents were asleep.  That made it a lot easier for the young man to do his dirty job.  He walked right through the park, following his prey: a young woman in her early 20s.  In his hand was an extremely sharp knife that could pierce through anything once it hit its target. 

            The young woman looked around.  She swore she saw a man following her.  She dismissed it as part of her imagination.  However, before she took another step, the young man stepped out, revealing himself.  He wore his platinum blond hair long, and had piercing purple eyes.  He wore a pair of cargo pants, a hooded sweatshirt, and gloves that covered his bronze skin.  The girl asked, "What do you want?"

            The man said, "Nothing, except your life!"  That was when the girl got really scared.  She tried to run, but the boy was faster, and he hit the girl with a bat.  When the girl woke up, her hands were tied behind her, to a tree, and the man said, "This won't hurt much." 

            "Let me go!"  Yelled the girl.  But the boy just covered her eyes, glued her mouth shut, and said, "you're dead."  He solidified that fact by slitting the girl's throat.  He then cut the ropes, and walked away, leaving the bloodied corpse of the young woman. 

END

Sorry to make the ending so gory, but I needed a cliffhanger!  R&R!