Disclaimer – I Don't Own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the House of Night Series

OK, This is my first story and it's a tender-shipping cross-over with the Marked, so I'm sorry if it sucks. ." Hints of other –shippings but that's the main one.

Anyway R&R if you want and blame MissTreason if you don't like it. It was her idea for me to write a fanfiction…

The OC – Michiko (Female) – is a "Friend" of Ryou's. She's evil btw.

For those of you who don't know, Akefia is thief-king Bakura.

Also, this story will probably be done completely in Ryou's POV

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OK. Normal day, simple as. It was the end of school and I was walking with Michiko to my locker. Michiko was babbling on about something useless she saw at the party last night. Then I noticed this guy who wasn't from our school standing by my locker. He murmured something about the Goddess Nyx that I couldn't quite hear and then it was black. I opened my eyes and looked around. It was as if nothing had happened. Only Michiko and I were in the corridor and Michiko was just gaping at me.

"What?" I asked. She pulled a compact out of her bag, opened it and held it up so that I could see the sapphire-blue crescent-moon outline that was now printed on my forehead. I gasped and stumbled backwards. My face had looked pale. Even paler than normal. It was almost as white as my hair. My brown eyes looked huge and the new crescent had stood out like a sore thumb.I panicked.

OK,OK, it's OK; it's still me, isn't it? I tried to calm down.

"OK," I started then Michiko's phone started ringing.

"I – I – I'm sorry…I gotta take this… ummm…see ya, 'K?" and with that she answered the phone and ran off.

OK. When a person gets "marked" they become a Vampyre Fledgling. They then have to move to the House of Night, a boarding school for fledglings. No-one knows why some people get marked and others don't, but those who are marked get treated like weirdos.

Vampyres aren't like Vampires. They don't have fangs, they don't turn into bats, and they don't fly. They do drink blood, but they don't sneak in to bedrooms through windows and bite your neck. Their hair grows really long, even the boys' hair. You never really see them hanging around on the streets or in the shops because the sun makes them feel uncomfortable or sick. I know this because I had a friend who got marked and she told me. She also said that fledglings don't always survive the "change" from fledgling to vampyre. She didn't make it. She died…

I didn't bother going after Michiko. I started to walk out of school with my head down so that my hair would cover my mark and walked straight into my boyfriend Akefia. He had been putting some thing in his locker, probably a stolen MP3 or something. I had been planning on dumping him soon. He had been stealing a lot lately. It really bugged me.

"Hey, how's it going?" His deep voice washed over me and made me look up. The scar over his eye was ever present, his white hair was messy and shorter than mine, his tanned skin so warm looking. He always gave off this royal glow. For a moment I forgot about what I had just been through and what he had stolen. "Woah. When did that happen?"

Then I remembered.

"Just now, actually." I told him with mock-casualness in my voice. He moved one hand towards my face and traced the outline of the moon that had tattooed itself in the middle of my forehead. I turned my head away from him and tensed up. "Akefia, do you know what this means? It means I have to leave and that this is over between us, OK?" I now had a reason to break up with him and I wouldn't hurt his feelings as much doing so.

"What d'ya mean? This"- He gestured towards my mark – "doesn't change anything. We can still be together!"

"No we can't! Remember my friend who got marked? Remember how she could never meet up with us because she was only really awake at night and that was when she had classes? She got sick the one time she came out in the day!" It was actually the sun, not the time of day that made her sick but yeah…

"But-"He started but I cut him off.

"Urgh! I don't have time for this! Are you giving me a lift home or not?!" A sly smile played across his mouth and he got a small glint in his eye. He was going to try something. Dammit.

"I'll give you a lift… If you give me a kiss…" He pulled me into him and pressed his lips to mine.

"No!.." I struggled away from him but he wouldn't release me. I really didn't have time for this! "I said: NO!!" I broke free of him and walked backwards straight into the corner of the locker. The back of my head really hurt for a moment, then every thing went black.

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I looked down and saw Akefia carrying my body to his car. He took my body home and used my key to get into my house and put my body on my bed. He then left the house and drove off. It felt weird watching all this. I tried to call out to him but he obviously couldn't hear me. That was when I noticed that my words came out in colours. It looked kind of like really fine glitter. I was completely taken in by this so I didn't hear her the first time she called my name. I heard her the second time and turned round to face the woman whose voice was soft and kind. She was beautiful, so beautiful that I couldn't remember exactly how she looked.

"Ryou…"Her voice was so smooth. "Ryou, I am Nyx. I have chosen you to overcome the evil that is taking over the fledglings in the school of this town."

"But, But I just got marked… ummm… isn't there someone older and more responsible than me or something?"

"You are wise beyond your years Ryou…" and with that, Nyx faded away and everything was black again.

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Cheesecakeprincess: Thanks, hope you enjoyed! R&R if you want.