Notes: Okay, so I haven't posted anything in a long time (I'm working on BC still), and these drabbles have been lying around my computer for several months now. This "story" will be different from my others because each chapter will come in drabble form. There are a few long, actual chapters, but most of them will be 1-2 pages long. That said, be prepared for plot holes, terrible cliffhangers, and a twisted storyline. Enjoy!
Pairing: Eventual puzzleshipping. (Warning: there are sexual implications at the end of this chapter! And swearing! Don't forget the swearing...)
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Got'cha
Part 01
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"Damn it!" Yuugi swore as he scurried through the underbrush. The sky bled frightful colors of red and orange while the sun forced contrasting shadows to carve trenches in the ground. Birds scattered noisily in the air, screeching and wailing as the life giving sun began to turn it's back on their torn and bleeding world. Animals had long since retreated into their nooks and crevices; they at least were smart enough to hide while they still could.
"Ouch!" Yuugi swore again as his bare foot landed on an exposed rock. "Stupid, stupid, stupid!" He should have known better than to fall asleep outside the safety of the city. What on earth had possessed him to even leave the city's sturdy walls?
Oh yea, his grandpa was sick.
"Stupid…" Stupid disease, stupid inability to pay for a small dosage of the limited quantity of medicine, stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid doctor for saying that he would trade some of the medicine for a specific herb that grew several miles outside of the city. Stupid everything!
Yuugi quickened his pace into a trot, the fastest he could go until he escaped the tangled deathtrap that made up this forest's underbrush. It would only take one fall in the wrong place and he would have his face bashed in by a stone. He should be able to make it to the city before dark, but the waning sunlight didn't always keep the demons away.
He had been told once buy his grandpa that the earth hadn't always been infested with demons, but people had gotten greedy in the need for material possession and destroyed the natural barrier that kept the demons out. Yuugi assumed it was some sort of stone, very rare, but with the ability to seal away the dark creatures. Of course, this could just be the raving of the sick elder, and Yuugi had grown up fearing the murderous demons that plagued the earth. Cities had a smaller natural barrier that kept the demons out, but anyone caught outside of the city gates near dusk was as good as dead.
Yuugi jumped over a fallen log and sped up a little. He knew he shouldn't waist all his energy so quickly, it would be horrible if he got exhausted before he could even reach the gates, but nervousness and fear gnawed at his nerves. He wanted to be home now.
Like an answer to his prayers, Yuugi stumbled over the crest of a hill and the extra height gave a wonderful view of the wilderness they lived in. And in the center of it all, sat the gleaming, stonewalls of the city. He sighed in relief at the sight, jogging carefully down the hill. He was so close now! He should be safe soon!
Abruptly, the forest gave way to a barren plain. Dead trees and tree stumps littered the area, providing no cover for any traveler. A simple dirt road sketched a nearly invisible path to the city, grass crowding in until it was just as similar to the rest of the area. People did not frequent this path often, and the dangers of the demons kept large caravans from traveling. It was hard enough to grow crops in the limited space of the city, and the crops outside the walls were few and far between. Merchants limited themselves to one, occasionally two, cities, and always traveled lightly and sparsely.
A shadow suddenly fell nearby, causing Yuugi to jump and his heart rate to increase. It wasn't too early for the stronger demons to be out already; even the weaker ones could travel into the evening hours on certain phases of the moon. He scanned the skies, desperately praying that it was only a bird.
Nothing was there.
Panicking, Yuugi sped up. He lengthened his stride as much as he could, and tried to keep half an eye on where he was going and the other on the darkening skies. He tightened his grip on the bag he carried with him, it's contents the entire reason for wandering out in this cursed place. If he could only get this herb to that doctor, then everything would be all right.
Sounds of wing beats filled the air and Yuugi sped up to an all out run. The bird of prey he knew of flew silently, so anything that caused noise was definitely too big to be any bird. More than one shadow scattered along his path, striking fear into his heart and causing it to beat painfully fast. He had to get out of here!
Swoosh! Yuugi ducked and rolled as a sudden blast of air pushed him over. He jumped back up, using the momentum from his fall, and abandoned all concern for watching where he was going, turning his eyes skyward. Several dark forms circled overhead, each one sporting some satanic feature. Bright plumes of red and green decorated one of the beats, while two others appeared to be exactly alike. He swerved to the side as one of the smaller demons dived at him, narrowly missing being cleaved in half by those sharp talons. The demons' screeching and squawking drowned his scream out.
Tears burned at the corners of his eyes as he tried to evade all the demons advances. It was clear that they were playing with him, taunting him with the closeness of the city and the inevitability of him getting killed and eaten. He was so close! If he had jut been a little bit quicker! More demons joined the skies as he ran desperately, each one attacking another for the chance of eating him.
Suddenly, an ear-piercing screech blasted into Yuugi's hearing. He chanced a glance behind him, nearly sobbing outright as one more demon joined the chase. This one was more human in shape, but metallic wings and a wicked tail screamed the word 'demon.' Despair ate at his chest, while mere seconds ago he might have had a chance to make it to the city while the demons were fighting over who would get to kill him, now this obviously higher class demon would have no trouble claiming a human as its meal.
Please! Yuugi screamed as another demon tried to snatch him up. Please let me live! He turned his head right as the higher-class demon dived at the other demons, effectively scattering them with its sharp-edged wings. He locked eyes with the city gate. He had to make it! If not for his own survival, then for his grandpa's!
No! There was a split second breath where time froze. A very human-like hand brushed against his shoulder blades, and an image of his dead and mutilated body decorating the barren landscape passed through his mind, then time resumed. A solid body collided with him, knocking him over in the same manner that a child would with building blocks. His leg twisted weirdly underneath him as he went down, and the air was sucked out of his lungs. Dirt and rocks dug painfully into his palms, ripping little tears into his skin. A rush of wind pushed him further as the demon that hit him swung around for a final pass, a metallic swish confirming his fear as to which one it was.
He scrambled up as fast as he could, digging his heels into the ground to sprint off towards the gate. Please! The sun glittered tauntingly of off the oh-so-close gate. Please! Sound of fighting and pain filled the air above him, and he knew that he didn't have much time. He had to hurry!
It seemed he didn't have as much time as he had hoped.
With a painful thud, something large landed on top of him. Pinned squarely beneath the creature, Yuugi screamed and lashed out in a blind panic. Due to his position, all he could see was the gritty dirt road and loathsome shadows as the demons flew overhead. Clawed hands captured each of his wrists, trapping them against the stones and dirt. The weight of his captor shifted as it shifted to bat the weaker demons away with its wings, landing horrible blows by the sounds of it.
He was pressed into the ground with a bone-crushing strength, and he fantasized that he heard the cracking of his skeleton. He screamed in fear as the creature leaned over him, weaker demons finally giving up for the chance of scraps. Hot breath fluttered over his neck, sending painful shivers up and down his body. Wait…was this thing sniffing him?
"N-no!" Yuugi flung his head back, a solid smack as his cranium connected with the demon's skull. Adrenaline must have been strengthening his movement, because the creature gave off a surprised and mildly pain filled squawk. Under normal circumstances, such a thing couldn't even be considered a pat on the head to a demon. It growled terrifyingly, and grown Yuugi deeper into the dirt. Gasping in pain, Yuugi tried desperately to pretend he was somewhere else, anywhere else but here. He tried to imagine his little hut back in the city that he shared with his grandpa; he tried to think of the neighborhood brats that teased him about his height.
These attempts were banished when the demon's hands began to wander over his body. Before he could even try to lash out, the demon used one hand to press directly in between his shoulder blades, lethal claws brushing through his shirt threatening what would happen if he moved. Movement killed, Yuugi could do nothing as the demon ran its free hand along his exposed skin. All Yuugi could do was try to shy away and he rewarded with a strike to his head. Tears mingled with the dirt as the creature leaned forward again, smelling him, before leaning back suddenly.
"A-aaaah!" The ground suddenly fell away, leaving him with his feet dangling ground ward and the wind stinging his face. The demon had been so fast in switching his grip that Yuugi hadn't had time to notice until they were already airborne. Terrified at the sight of the ground shrinking with each passing second, Yuugi clutched desperately at the demon's arms. They were higher than any roof in the city, and possibly even higher than the Tower than protected everyone from the demons.
There were several moments where a strong gust of wind made them drop several feet and Yuugi thought that his stomach was never going to be the same ever again. His heart had long since broken the record for most beats per millisecond, and his voice was taking a serious beating.
Suddenly, Yuugi was dropped. He screamed, already imagining what his body would look like once it hit the ground. An entire second later, Yuugi's feet hit something solid and momentum sent him tumbling. Stupidly, Yuugi stared at the rock underneath him; a bubble of hysterical giggles circling beneath the surface. The demon had taken up to some cliff, high above the ground with no way down except for falling or flying. He was going to die.
The demon landed lightly on the edge of the cliff, the perfect image of calm triumph. Shiny, metallic wings shifted to settle along the demon's back, catching the rays of the sun with each little movement. For a moment, Yuugi wondered how this demon could have lived to this age with such noticeable wings, and with the noticeable…lack of armor.
Face flushing under the swirling vortex of emotions that mingled beneath his skin, Yuugi tried desperately not to stare at what was going to ruthlessly kill him. The demon was in the form of a male human, olive rich skin stretching over athletic muscles. Metal side-armguards grew into a pointed spike that protruded from each elbow, and matching shin guards protected those parts of his body. Aside from that, the only other thing the demon 'wore' was a metal plate that covered his inner thighs and…another area. Snapping his eyes up, Yuugi tried to keep his 'inspection' to the chest and up. Just because he was going to die didn't mean he couldn't see what his killer looked like, right?
'What…the…fuck?'
The demon's face was angular; definitely a pretty thing to look at if it were for those demonic red eyes and fatal fangs, but that wasn't what had killed Yuugi's thoughts. It was his hair, a near duplicate of Yuugi's. Yuugi had always been told that the gene for his hair was solely for the Mouto family, so why did a demon have it? Inter-species breeding was not completely impossible (rare, but not impossible), but he would know if there was a demonic relative hogging up a space in the family tree. People genetically related to demons were often either run out of the city or burned at the stake.
'H-how could this be possible?' Even his thoughts stuttered. He scrambled back as the demon advanced, something foreign highlighting the red irises. A metallic tail swayed behind him, sharp edges glinting dangerously in the evening sunlight. In no time at all, the demon was leaning over him, pinning him to the stone ledge. Yuugi resumed his struggles, kicking and flailing as the creature converged upon him. This was the part where his heart was torn out, where his bloody screams would be the only thing to hear aside from the ripping of flesh.
"No!" He screeched. He didn't want to die, there was so much more he wanted to do with his life! He wanted to learn an interesting craft, marry a gorgeous bride and live long enough to see little grandkids running around. He didn't want to die!
Clawed hands pressed him into the stone, controlling his struggles much in the same way as earlier. The demon leaned close to his face, sending chills down his spine. It stayed like that for a long time, an eternity to Yuugi but only a few minutes in reality. Finally, Yuugi's struggles died down, and all he could do was tremble in the demon's grasp.
Tears reappeared on his face, rolling down his cheeks to pool on the stone below. He couldn't even find it in him to try and think of good things anymore. He was god-knows how high of off the ground with a demon pinning him down, and there was no way he was going to survive this.
"P-please…" he whispered, desperately trying to keep his composure. "Please, make it…quick." Kill me quick, don't make me feel that pain.
The demon did nothing for a while, merely watching at tears rolled down Yuugi's face with curiosity. Its tail was arched high in the air, a position of dominance that Yuugi recognized from the wild dogs that infested the more desolate parts of town. Yuugi watched it in defeat, trying desperately not to think of his impending doom and failing miserably.
Eventually, the demon did move, but not in the quick and instantly lethal way Yuugi had hoped. Instead, it moved slowly, confident in its motion, and stuck its face near the juncture of Yuugi's neck and shoulder. This is it. Yuugi thought as he closed his eyes. The final blow.
The feel of something wet yet sandpaper-like dragged along his neck, starting from his neck and dragging up to his ear. He flinched away from the demon's tongue, mortified. What the hell? He was roughly smashed against the stone in retaliation, and Yuugi coughed as the air left his lungs. He growled in frustration, what was the demon doing? Why was the demon licking him?
"S-stop that!" he yelled, wishing for not the first time in his life that he was stronger. He felt so helpless!
The demon must have been confident that he had Yuugi securely held, because he began a curious exploration of Yuugi's body (much to his displeasure). He twitched as the demon ran coarse fingers over a sensitive nerve, and squeaked when he hit a ticklish one. Eventually, Yuugi gave up his struggles altogether. No matter how long it took, this demon would eat him eventually. He had no way to escape, nor a place to run to if he did. He was stuck.
The demon paused when he went still, but the pause wasn't long and he continued his explorations. He was probably finding the best place to start feeding, Yuugi mused morbidly. Then, there was an extremely awkward and terrifying moment when Yugi realized feeding wasn't what the demon had in mind.