Kairi: ...Wow. I honestly didn't expect to get that good of a reception with this story... Okay. Here's the first chapter. The chapters in this story are shorter than my normal chapters that I write... But it's a nice change from trying to type up about 50k words in a total of... maybe fourteen hours... Hehe...
Lillith: Kairi...
Kairi: Alright, alright. Oh, and big thanks to anonymous reviewers Marlene101 and Midnight Rose!
Reviewer Responses: (Marlene101) Thanks, and yeah, that's basically the prologue. it gets even more interesting later. (Midnight Rose) Great! And anyway, there will be a little YuseiXAkiza at first, but later it'll change. And there won't be much of either pairing really... I tend to avoid pairings in my stories.
Destiny: Kairi doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's.
Kairi: What the heck are you doing here? -turns to readers- Enjoy the story while I interrogate her...
Vampires 2 - Neo Domino, Chapter 1
Jack was pissed. Crow was anxious. And Kalin was… hiding every emotion he was feeling. Again. Which was why Jack was pissed.
"Why the hell aren't you worried about Yusei? You just sit there, reading whatever the hell you happen to have on hand, and our friend is out there somewhere! We don't even know if he's still alive!" Jack shouted at him. Kalin sighed.
"Jack, he's fine," the bluenette insisted. "In fact, I'm fairly sure that he just walked in the door," Kalin added as he heard the door shut. Crow jumped to the kitchen door and breathed a sigh of relief, then growled.
"Where the hell have you been?" he yelled. Jack ran over to join Crow in the scolding of Yusei. "We've been worried sick about you!"
"Sorry guys. I got attacked on my way home the night before last," Yusei told them. Kalin finally got up and walked through the kitchen door.
"At least you're safe now," he said. Yusei looked shocked at Kalin's sudden appearance.
"Kalin! When did you get here?" he asked. The bluenette smiled.
"Seven-thirty, the night you disappeared on us. Do me a favor? Try not to disappear again," he told Yusei. The raven-haired man smiled and nodded.
"Got it."
"So why did it take you over thirty-six hours to get back home?" Crow asked. Yusei sighed.
"Can we all sit down? My neck's starting to hurt from looking up at you guys," he told them. The four men made it back to the kitchen table. "I already told you guys that I got attacked. Anyways, they knocked me out real quick, and last thing I remembered seeing was a white blotch running into the fray. When I woke up almost twenty-four hours later, I found myself in what I guessed at the time to be someone's guest bedroom. It was actually a girl's bedroom, and she insisted that I stay the night. She gave me food and left me to go back to sleep."
"Wait, what about the 'white blotch running into the fray?'" Jack asked.
"I asked her about that, and she claimed that she didn't know, that she had just found me unconscious on the ground. I know that it doesn't add up, and it confuses me too," he told them. "Anyways, I'm way behind on that new engine, so can I get to work on it now or do you guys have a million other questions?"
"I'll help you with the engine," Kalin volunteered. The two went back downstairs. Crow looked at Jack.
"Something's up," Jack said, reading the carrot-head's thoughts. Crow nodded.
"Yusei never would've gotten knocked unconscious, and he wouldn't have accepted that girl's hospitality. He's not telling us the truth, or at least not the whole truth."
That night, Yusei opened his bedroom window. Crow was still on high alert, and going out a door would set him off immediately. So Yusei was going to jump out of the window. It wasn't a difficult feat; in fact, it was quite easy for the newly-turned vampire. He landed perfectly in the streets and started running. It didn't take him long to reach the cliff where he had fallen, and from there, he turned left, running along the cliff's edge into the forest. He angled right not long after entering the forest, and came to a stop in front of a huge tree. He glanced around him, sniffing the air to make sure that he hadn't been followed. Then he jumped up, climbing the tree and disappearing into the hollow trunk through an opening halfway up.
Yusei emerged in an unlighted hallway, cut from rock. It didn't matter that he didn't have light; like the night before, he could see every detail perfectly. He grimaced as he remembered arguing with the girl that morning. She had warned him that it would be hard for him to control himself, and she had been right. In fact, it had taken him two hours to adjust to the scent of human blood, enough so that he had been fairly certain that he wouldn't hurt his friends.
But even now, the blood-scents of Crow and Kalin stuck in his nostrils. Jack's blood had smelled like mint, something Yusei wasn't too fond of. But Kalin's had been white chocolate, and Crow's had smelled very berry-like. So he had come back to the girl's cave, hoping that she wouldn't be too angry. He hadn't wanted to, but it was impossible to deny that he wasn't going to be able to do this alone.
He emerged into the only part of the cavern that was lighted to find her reading a book by an enchanted fireplace. Yusei knew it wasn't normal because the flames were blue, and while they were giving off light, they didn't give off heat or smoke. The girl turned around in her chair and smiled.
"I knew you'd come back. And judging from the weak scent on you, you didn't bite anyone," she said. Then she sniffed for another moment. "Is that… white chocolate?"
"Why should I tell you? I don't want my friends to join your little blood bank," Yusei growled back. The girl sighed.
"It's so rude of me, I know," she said. Yusei was about to agree when she stood up, six inches shorter than the man. "I haven't told you my name yet. I'm Lillith."
"Yusei, but you already knew that," Yusei mumbled. Lillith smiled and waved for him to follow her.
"True. But if I may…" she stopped and sniffed at Yusei again. "Hmm, spearmint." Yusei sighed, finally giving up on attempting keeping her attention off of his friends. "And anyways, you know I don't drain them dry when I add to my blood bank. Only a little," she added. Yusei rolled his eyes.
"Look, if I didn't think I was going to kill someone by biting them, I wouldn't be here. I don't want to become a murderer just because I can't control myself," he told her. She nodded and turned a corner, into a much colder part of the cavern. Yusei didn't feel the cold though, just as he hadn't felt the warmth of the sunlight earlier that day. He hadn't burned in the sunlight, and he had stood outside in it for many minutes, but he couldn't feel its warmth. He sighed as she pulled out a couple of goblets and proceeded further in. Yusei could smell the blood, kept cool and fresh here in the coldest part of the cavern. Different scents mingled, but among them, mint was the most powerful.
"You don't like mint, do you?" Lillith asked. Yusei shook his head. "No, I didn't think so. How about more berry then?" She stood next to a basin in the wall, filled with blood. She filled the goblet in her right hand with the blood from the basin, which just refilled itself, and handed it to Yusei before filling the second one with minty-smelling blood.
"Enjoy," she said, raising her glass in a mock toast. Yusei sighed before drinking the blood given to him. He finished it quickly, much to Lillith's amusement. "Drink as much as you want, Yusei. I know how hard it is to control the urges. I also know that you don't want to take any chances," she told him. "I'm not going to pressure you into anything. I wouldn't have turned you if I thought there was another way. Do as you like, I'll not stand in your way."
"Lillith," Yusei whispered. He refilled his goblet reluctantly. "Thank you."
(Three months later)
Kalin laughed at the sight before him. Carly, Akiza, and Misty had decided that the group needed to go to a Halloween Dance or whatever it was. Akiza was, ironically, dressed up as a witch, though she was a good witch and Misty was dressed up as the evil witch. Luna was a fairy, and Leo was supposed to be a knight to protect the fairy. Kalin was going as a cowboy (easy for him, he pretty much was one), and Carly was going as a sorceress. Jack was supposed to be a sorcerer, to match Carly. And then there was the situation with Crow and Yusei. Yusei hadn't wanted to go, and neither had Crow, but Luna had convinced them. However, they were both going as vampires.
Yusei was trying to fix Crow's costume, and they were arguing over it, getting a few laughs from the onlookers.
"You poke me in the side again and I'll bite your head off," Crow grumbled. Yusei smiled.
"Keep threatening me and I'll bite you first," the raven-haired man replied. Crow growled at Yusei, but kept quiet. "There," Yusei said, smoothing out the black material. "Now get out my face before I prove that you're actually a human."
"Are boys done arguing over who gets first blood tonight?" Akiza teased. Yusei chuckled a little and revealed the shiny white fangs that were a part of his costume.
"We quit arguing over who gets first blood, but we haven't decided who is first blood yet," he joked back. Akiza held her hands to her throat in mock horror as Yusei laughed and embraced her. Yusei and Crow were really just wearing darker versions of their own clothes, but it still had the desired effect.
"Shall we be going then? It starts at eight," Carly announced. Jack nodded and followed her out the door. Yusei, Crow, Jack, Carly, and Kalin were taking their duel runners, while Luna and Leo and Akiza rode with Misty. Kalin grabbed his hat and handed it to Crow before getting on his duel runner. Crow also took Carly's and Jack's cloaks so that they could ride without them getting in the way. They made their way to the Duel Academy gymnasium where the dance was being held.
There was a long, showy little charade that was made of getting in there, but they made it in without too many problems. Akiza and Yusei made their way out onto the dance floor rather quickly, as did Kalin and Misty and Jack and Carly. Crow and the twins were watching from the sidelines when the other two teams showed up.
"Hey. How're the little buddies?" Broder asked, surprising Crow. Crow sighed and laughed, shaking his head at the other trickster's antics.
"They're doing fine. What're you doing here anyways?" Crow asked. Broder shrugged.
"We came to visit, met up with Team Unicorn at the airport, they told us about this party, and we all decided to come. Let's try to find Halldor in this mess. He should be easy enough to locate; he's a vampire," Broder joked. Then he took a second look at Crow. "And so are you."
"And so is Yusei," Crow added, laughing. Broder laughed as well, and the two walked away to find the two other 'vampires.' However, back in the shadows, a teenage boy laughed to himself.
"Crow doesn't know just how right he is," he muttered to himself. He walked out of the gymnasium, heading straight for the forest. About a mile in, there was a clearing. Once the boy reached the edge of the woods, he started running, heading for the clearing, at an unnatural speed. As he emerged in the clearing and his black hair fell back into place, four shapes emerged from the shadows.
They were wolves, larger than the normal kind. The largest walked up to the boy and looked him in the eye.*Who did she turn this time?* the alpha asked him. The boy smiled.
"Yusei Fudo."
Kairi: I'm working on it!
Destiny: No, you're not.
Kairi: I've got like, eight other stories to write too, you know. Plus beta'ing all of Tony's stuff, plus school and homework, plus the shit going on at my house with my dad having cancer, plus my mom refusing to let me on a computer to type while she's in the computer room, plus-
Lillith: -turning away from the arguing girls- Ahem... I apologize for their behavior. Destiny's pissed off because Kairi isn't working on Destiny Call. Anyway, please review! Kairi would like to get at least two reviews before she puts the next chapter up. And we'll see you then! -poofs, dragging Kairi and Destiny with her-
