Chapter 1: The Deal

SETO KAIBA


"Are you willing to make a contract with me?" A ominous voice asked from the voidless darkness.

I wasn't surprised by the voice, in fact I had grown accustomed to the unknown voices that surrounded me in the darkness for the last six months.

I take one wrong turn when walking down a street in London while I'm on business, and some lunatics take me captive...

What's even more deranged was they were cultist...

Not like the Ishtars who woshiped a long dead mummy of a king...

The demon summoning, virgin killing, and blood drinking kind of cultist...

For the last six months they brutally tortured me;

Sticking knives into my body at multiple points and leaving them there...

Heating up metal rods and searing them into my skin...

Barely feeding me but once a week so I became almost skeletal...

Kicking, punching and beating in my body, until I was unable to move and my bones were breaking or steady on the course to breaking...

But the worse part was my leg... It had broken when they knocked me out six months ago and they never set it, in fact they made it worse.

Now it healed into a painful position to where I couldn't stand even if I wanted to...

Once they saw my leg in this position, they knew I couldn't escape...

They trapped me and now...

I was shell of the man I once was...

I was broken beyond repair and now...

Now they're going to kill me for some ritual to summon...

"Again I ask, do you wish to form a contract with me Mr. Kaiba?" The voice asked again.

The darkness vanished to reveal me lying on a table practically naked except for the blood red blanket covering my lower half. A mix of black and white feathers floated down into a sea of feathers all around me and a large raven was perched above me on a branch of a tree.

My body had none of the disfigurments that littered me from my days within the cultist cage... I didn't feel the horrible pains of the cuts or broken bones...

In fact... I felt nothing...

Clearly this was some sort of delusion...

I might as well play along...

I looked up and asked sarcasticly, "What kind of contract?"

The voice replied in a soft methodical tone, "If you accept, I shall become your loyal servant and grand you all that you desire, your every wish, but in return..."

I knew there was going to be a fee...

Even in my delusions, people are trying to get money or something from me.

I wonder how much money he wants from...

"In return when the contract is up, I devour your soul..."

I looked up and said, "What?!"

Okay this is getting really weird...

I yelled, "Enough with this delusion! What the hell is going on?!"

The voice laughed and said, "Funny, you're the one who summoned me, I'd just assume you'd know what I am? "

Summoned?

Sure, I called out for help, but summoned?

How the hell did I manage that?!

The voice replied in a purr, "Well Mr. Kaiba, you aren't dreaming... This is all happening because you soul cried for help... and I came to aid you since you have already rejected the faith..."

Rejected the faith...

Sounds like Mokuba when he tries to get me to go to church...

I don't even believe in God and the question me about faith...

Enough with the damn games.

I looked around and asked, "Who are you?! Where are you?! Show yourself!"

The voice laughed and said, "I'll answer them in reverse for you Mr. Kaiba... I am right above you Mr. Kaiba, perched in the tree."

I looked up at the bird and said, "No way... No way in Hell your are the damn bird!"

The raven's eyes glowed an unearthly red and it said, "Funny that you should metion Hell. As for who I am is simple... I am a demon which you have summoned to save your life... The very one your soul beconed for..."

A demon...?

It can't be...

Dammit, I didn't even believe this magic crap and I'm talking to a demon...

A demon who wants my soul...

That's what they were trying to summon by...

By killing me...

Was this real?!

I looked at the bird and asked, "Where the hell are we?"

The bird replied, "We are in the plane between life and death, a kind of waiting place for the afterlife, considerering you by all means should be dead... I can bring you back to the land of the living, but only if you form a contract with me."

I looked up and thought about it...

On one hand, I'd lose my soul and I'm royally fucked for all eternity...

Literally damned to hell...

On the other hand... If I die now...

Mokuba who be sent back to an orphanage...

My company would fall to ruins, or worse back to making weapons...

My parent's murders would go unsolved...

I can't let that happen...

No, I won't let that happen!

I looked at the demon bird that hovered above my head and said, "Yes... I will make a deal with you... demon..."

The bird looked at me and said, "Once you do this there is no turning back. You shall not go to Heaven nor Hell, but only become a meal for me, there will be no nirvana awaiting you in death...Do you understand this Mr. Kaiba?"

I nodded and said, "Yes I understand, and frankly I don't give a damn... Just make the deal..."

The bird laughed and said, "Very well... Tell me, what is it that you desire most in the world?"

I replied, "To protect my family and friends... To punish those who've done wrong to me and them... To find the my parent's murderer..."

I took a breath in and said, "And in return... You may have my soul..."

The demon laughed and said, "Very well...Master... It's a deal!"

The bird flew down and turned into a tall man with long black hair, blood red eyes, and wearing a butler's uniform, stirring all the black feathers to the top.

He looked at me and said, "To complete the contract you must give a name and I must place my seal on you. So Young Master, what shall my name be?"

I replied, "I don't care... You choose..."

He nodded and said, "Then my name shall be Sebastian Michaelis. Now for the mark... I'm sorry Young Master, but this will hurt..."

He placed his palm over my right eye and I screamed in agony, before blacking out.


I woke up in the room with the cultist just staring at me with wide eyes and myself in more pain than before.

What the hell happened...?

"Master, are you alright?"

I looked up and saw Sebastian looking down at me...

The demon... He was real...

The demon smirked and said, "Give the order my Lord..."

One yelled, "The boy got the contract?! He didn't even do anything!"

Another hissed, "If we kill him then the demon is ours!"

Sebastian looked at me and asked, "What shall I do with them Young Lord?"

I hissed, "Kill them... Kill them all!"

He smiled showing off his sharp canines and said with a purr, "With please my Lord."

With in moment the cultist we all dead with knives and forks stabbed into their bodies.

Sebastian looked at me and said with his smooth British accent, "My goodness... We'll need to get you to a doctor post haste. It appears you can't even walk Master."

I nodded and said, "Yeah... That a good idea... My leg broke a while ago... They never set it and it healed in the wrong spot..."

He sighed and said, "The doctors will more than likely re-break it do it can be set properly... Along with the amount of atrophy and malnurishment you have, the recovery is going to be long and hard... But with my assistance you shall heal much faster."

He took out some cloth and tied it around my right eye tightly so it wasn't visible.

He smiled and said, "You mark is in your right eye, so it's best to keep it covered, don't want just anyone knowing about our deal... Once we get to the doctors we can fetch you an eye patch."

I sighed and said, "Really? This is going to get annoying... I can just image Wheeler with a bunch of pirate jokes."

Sebastian smirked and said, "Well my former master pulled his eye patch off quite nicely. In fact his old manor is not far from here, once you're more properly healed we can stay there."

I nodded and said, "Fine, just make sure my brother is coming and soon..."

I felt my head drop as my body felt even more weak than before.

He scooped me up in his arms bridal style and said, "Alright, let's get moving Young Master. Feel free to sleep... I noticed you are a bit depraved of it..."

I nodded and leaned back in his arms...

I haven't slept well in a long time...

But now that I'm free, I'll be resting easier...

But once I see Mokuba again...

I'll have no trouble sleeping, once I know he's safe...

I closed my eyes drifting into slumber when I heard Sebastian whisper, "Sleep well Young Lord. You shall need your strenght for your recovery... And to start our contract in earnest."


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