Hello people of Fanfiction! This is the first chapter. This chapter, I must say, has been sprinkled with some lemon zest. So, it's not a true lemon, but merely zesty. But then again I thought I did a good job with this. So, you guys were warned. ;)

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Vampire Queen

Chapter 1

It was still winter, January, and the snow was still pilled on the ground. A fairy tale reclusive lake with a sparkling waterfall was overlooked by a large mountain-like hill. On the hill was a large window that led into the large, but very nice home of Anzu Mazaki, former undercover cop who'd been pronounced dead due to her new fiancé's connections. Supposedly she'd been killed by Bakura as she killed him, trapping him and herself in the cabin that burnt down and thanks to her new Will that she'd signed hours after her death, it would go to Atem Mutou.

Her future husband . . . and King.

To her that didn't really matter that he was King because she was totally against getting on her knees. Not happening. What baffled her was this newfound temper. Anzu had never had a temper before, in fact, it was nearly non-existence. Sleep was totally making her head spin. Night was day and day was night and there were times where she would just fall down and sleep. Other times it was this dizzy spell and she was gone, off to dream land.

Talk about bazaar. She was known for deep sleep but not this deep. It actually pissed her off slightly that she went down before Atem did but he assured her that she would be able to stay up longer with age, but right now she was the equivalent of a vampire infant.

Not that the fact didn't get under her skin or anything . . . but she'd get there eventually. Right now she was awake, down in bed with Atem, the High Vampire Supreme King. (In a nutshell.) If he was a horse, he'd be the crème de la crème of purebreds. Then again, by human standards he was a purebred, in a way.

Pure Egyptian from a long line of Pharaohs, not one ounce of a commoner in his bloodline, and he was drop dead beautiful, or handsome, or both.

Black spiky hair tipped with violet, blond bangs framing his naturally tanned face. (And that natural tan was, of course, extended to the rest of his body.) Crimson eyes that always glowed softly. He was a perfect specimen of meat. Very good meat.

A sleepy groan alerted Anzu that her King was waking up. Spinning over on her other side, she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Morning handsome." She whispered into his ear, nibbling on it all the while. That was how she got her over-grown kitty to purr.

Wrapping his arms of steel around her tiny waist, he did indeed, purr. "Morning, my dear. How did you sleep?" he asked softly. Anzu's arms moved to his shoulders to rub his arms.

"Warm and safely." She said, snuggling into his chest. "What did I ever do to deserve you?" she asked, which made him smile.

"Hmm, let's see . . . you arrested me, and trust me honey, that doesn't happen, you ignored my charm spell enough to keep an edge and annoy the hell out of me when you didn't give me what I wanted right away . . . I think it all speaks for itself."

She laughed. "Is that so? Well, shall I give you more hell?" she asked in a low, husky seductive voice, and this time biting his ear a bit harder. "I could think of a few things to do." She actually managed to roll him over until she was in a dominate position, right on top. "But the question is, can you think of some things to do?"

His crimson eyes flashed and his fangs slid out. "Naughty, naughty kitten." He whispered, getting up so that they were face-to-face, lips dangerously close. "I can think of several things to do, they all involve rope, chains, and handcuffs."

Anzu fluttered her eyelashes suggestively. "Then I guess I have to play the weak little human while the big bad vampire eats me up." She kissed his neck, lingering. Atem snarled, grabbing a handful of her short brown hair, forcing her to bare her neck to him-

"My King, Anzu! We need to leave while the night is young." Joey said. Anzu's eyes flashed red as did Atem's as they turned toward the door, both flinging their auras at him. It got painfully silent. "I'll a . . . I'll leave you two alone." Both vampires heard the quick steps of retreat.

It was then that Seto interrupted them. "Atena is getting inpatient, My King." Anzu snarled, loud enough for Seto to hear that he was interrupting something he shouldn't have. Instead they heard a snort. "If noises could kill." He said. "You two continue on later, but not right now."

Anzu leaned into her King's ear. "I want to kill him." She growled, clawing at Atem's back, leaving possessive marks from his shoulders down, and nipped at his neck, drawing only a drop of blood.

Atem hissed. "I know. I'll let you have his arm if you want it."

"I'd rather have something else." She said. Atem cursed his First Turned child. Talk about bad timing.

"Seto," he growled. "I will interrupt you and Kisara at one point, and don't think I'm screwing around. I know Kisara wants a baby. Are you impotent?" he asked a little too innocently. There was a faint snarl on the other side of the door but he remained firm.

"I know you two want to continue, but your sister said she wanted you home, or she'd take over."

Atem snorted. "Like hell she can do that. You would be in her way." He said quite clearly despite the fact that Anzu's kisses were traveling down from his neck. Seto sniffed.

He might have put up the whole cold-and-emotionless façade but when in fact, he really wanted to run. His cousin had become like a parent of sorts, and everyone could agree on one thing.

Parents going at it was disgusting.

"Two hours, that's all I can give you." Seto said to the door and promptly left but not before hearing something, or someone, being slammed into the wall . . . parent sex . . . ugh.

When he walked into the living room Joey looked up from the book he was reading and gave a shaky smile. "I was sure you were going to die, by both their hands."

Seto slumped down into the comfortable couches. He was going to have to ask Anzu where she got these. "I thought she was going to come right out of the room and rip my arm off since Atem did technically give her permission to do so."

"You were the one to give them a time limit. You know Atem is going to do something to you."

"Yeah, probably, but there's a difference between Atena and Atem, our King needs us, and Atena doesn't give a damn about us. Which do you think I would take?"

Joey snorted, a scowl forming on his face. "She's a power climbing bitch, everyone knows it too. You know that group of loyal vampires that's always following her around?"

Seto's eyes narrowed. "What about them?" he asked, getting up to poke around in the fridge.

"She talks while I'm in the room because I can't do anything right." Joey said, reading Seto's mental question. "You on the other hand . . ." he shrugged. "So, anyway, Atena thinks they're strong enough to start her own kingdom."

The wine that Seto had gotten out of the fridge nearly fell to the ground before he caught it, spinning around to face the vampire. "She wants to start her own kingdom?" he sputtered. "Did you tell Atem about this?"

Joey shook his head. "Nope, I figured I'd tell him later and not ruin the mood in there." He said, pointing with his thumb to the back room. Seto put the small wine glass away and got one that was a little bit bigger out, pouring the bright red wine in and then adding some blood so it was drinkable.

"Atem is not going to be happy about this." Seto muttered as he sat down, wine in hand. "He may be five thousand years old but I've seen it for myself, he still has the temper of a First Turned vampire, it's just . . . well hidden."

Joey sighed. "That's true and if he gets a hold of Atena while in a fury, after hearing what I have to say, it's safe to say that some serious shit will go down."

"What's the serious shit?" Anzu asked, walking in, making both vampires jump. They hadn't seen or heard her open the door or walk down the hallway. Atem was leaning against the wall, his eyes were crimson, and they were glowing.

"So my sister wishes to start a new Kingdom, hmm?"

Joey held up his hands in defense. "Hey, that's all I know from listening in on her conversations."

"Did you say anything to her?"

"And risk not getting any more information from her talks?" Joey's brows rose. "Not a chance. I let her keep talking. She was talking about taking that destroyed palace that was in the Upper Egypt. Said that no one was there and with your vast amount of wealth and power, you kept people away from there since it was one of our summer haunts at one point."

Anzu sat down on a couch and patted the other cushion, inviting Atem to sit, which he did. "You lived there too?"

Atem shrugged his shoulders as he wrapped one arm around her. "When I was a child, but I haven't been there for a long time. Usually I just stop by real quick so no one has taken residence in the place."

"So that means I can go visit then?" she asked. Atem kissed her on the forehead.

"If you want to go to China I'll take you." Seto rolled his eyes.

"You're going to spoil her." He said.

Atem didn't miss a beat. "Right and you don't spoil Kisara?" Seto remained tactfully silent. Anzu got up then.

"So why don't we go? Besides, I know what I can do in several minutes of running. I want to know how quick I can get over to another state." She said and turned off all the lights, closing windows and locking everything up. Atem got up and went outside, Joey and Seto following. Once up and out of the garden shed, they came face-to-face with another vampire.

The vampire was pale with green eyes and long black hair tied up in a ponytail. He was only an inch shorter than Atem. He went to one knee. "My King, it is an honor to see you."

"Samuel." Atem said in greeting. "Up, my friend, I called in a favor from you."

"And that would be . . . ?"

"Watch this place. It belongs to Anzu."

Samuel's eyes flashed in surprise. "Anzu? You mean Anzu Mazaki?"

Seto blinked. "You know her?"

"Yes, you could say she was a vampire hunter, but she was rather unaware of that fact. I would call in and tell her about what one of my runaways that wouldn't listen to rules and orders, so I called her in, told her I needed her help and she would come down to discuss business with me. I had one of my men slip silver bullets in so she could kill them right off with having to deal with . . . problems."

Atem nodded as the garden shed opened to the subject they were talking about. She looked up and gasped in surprise. "Samuel, you're a . . ." she paused for a moment and shook her head. "I should have thought of you when Atem first told me about vamps. You slipped silver into my gun?"

"Would have been hard to explain." He said, giving her a fake, but friendly punch in the arm. "And now here you are, going to be my Queen. I should have known you'd be dangerous in the future."

They both laughed, leaving the three others slightly forgotten. Atem felt something in his chest. Jealousy? No, that couldn't be it because they acted like friends . . . and then he understood. He'd never really had a friend from the outside. Sure, his priests and Children, but never a human that he got close to. 'I feel like I shouldn't be watching this. It's like watching two best friends hanging out together. Strangers shouldn't be here is what I'm feeling.'

Joey.

Seto sighed. "I understand you guys are friends, but we have to get going, Anzu."

She turned to glare at him but sighed. "Here. Take care of the place, won't you?" she asked Samuel.

Samuel smiled, a true smile, which was something most vampires forgot. "You have my word, Anzu. Perhaps I get some money while using it."

"What do you plan?"

"Weddings. It's hard for a vampire to get hitched when most places are run by humans and are still ignorant of us." Anzu smiled and gave him a fast hug, which he returned, much to Atem's surprise. Samuel was the oldest vampire in this area, which meant he wasn't too keen on hugs, but with Anzu it seemed . . . natural to give a hug.

"Hugs, Samuel?" Joey grinned. The vampire gave him the finger with a grin.

"After the third or second meeting I had with Anzu she decided that hugs were in order."

"That was because you were crying like a baby!" she defended herself.

"You would too if someone took your kid!"

"One difference."

"Oh?"

"I'd have my husband to chase the bastard who thought it'd be smart to snatch the King of Vampire's kid." Samuel blinked.

"I really hope that doesn't happen." Atem laughed because he could easily understand why that'd be the answer. Even Seto had to grin at that one. Samuel gave her one last friendly squeeze and took the key. "Can I use the place?" he asked once more.

Anzu nodded. "Of course. Just make sure that it's still in one piece, okay?"

"You have my word." She waved goodbye and took one good jump and she was gone. Samuel smiled. "She'll be a good queen." He said softly.

~o~

Anzu smiled as she landed. It felt so good to run fast, but then it was probably like that for everyone. "Anzu." Atem said, landing next to her. She turned and smiled.

"Did I jump a head of you?"

"You jumped?" he blinked. "Well, it does explain how you got here before we did."

She laughed. "Did I freak you out by standing here, as though I transported?" she gave him a quick, but fleeting kiss, one that teased, and jumped down from the billboard she was standing on. Atem quickly joined her.

"Just curious." He said, eyes watching her hungrily. Anzu spared a look over her shoulder and smiled at him.

"If only, if only." She said in a sing-song voice. Atem growled, knowing what she meant. Joey and Seto joined them once they were done talking.

"Are we ready this time?" Joey muttered. "I want to go home." Atem smiled and patted his friend's head.

"Yes, yes, we're leaving now." He said, taking a leap with Anzu following. Seto watched her with a calculating stare. Joey noticed.

"What's up?"

"It took Kisara and Mai some time to correctly use our powers that we gave them. So how is it that Anzu can do it so naturally? Like she's just taking a breath of air."

Joey shrugged his shoulders. "You know how some people are made to become vampires; we've had a few like that. Maybe she's just one of the rare few."

"Then what's with the nagging feeling it's something more?"

"You're paranoid?" Joey suggested before following the pair. Seto sighed. Maybe he was, but still . . . his instinct was never wrong.

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Next time on Vampire Queen, we meet . . . (drumroll) . . . ATENA!

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