So, this is my second chapter. I would have updated sooner, but somehow I couldn't log myself in. Anyway, I hope you'll like this chapter.
By the way, I'm very happy to see that some people like my story. Thanks to all of you. I'm really glad about getting reviews.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! If I would, Yami Bakura and Malik would be the main characters.
Chapter 2
Ryou whined quietly. He didn't want his life to end. Not like this, at least. And not now. There were so much things he wanted to do. But now, he stood on the graveyard and was closer to death than ever before. And he had been in many dangerous situations. Once, as he had been a little child, he fell from a tree and broke three rips and his right arm. Or once he came near being run over.
The creature turned him roughly around to face him, and brought Ryou out of his thoughts. It grinned evilly at him. Then it released its grip on him.
Ryou's first thought was, that the creature maybe would let him go and wouldn't kill him, but this thought was proven completely wrong, as the creature pushed him to the ground with an incredible strength. It really wanted to kill him. The question was, when?
Ryou panted for breath. This... had to be a nightmare. Nothing like this could be real, could it? Yeah, it could be real and Ryou had a first-hand experience of it.
The creature only smirked mischievously at Ryou, with a piercing look of its red eyes.
Ryou breathed fitfully. He was exhausted. As he had stopped after running so much, he had given up, but seeing the satisfied look on the creature's face, he thought, that it had been a wrong decision. He also thought of his mother and sister. They would not want him to give up, he was sure. But then, he would be reunited with them. He would not be alone anymore. But his father... Ryou was the only one left for him. If Ryou would be dead, this would claim his fathers life, Ryou was sure. That would be murder, wouldn't it? Doing something and killing somebody as a result.
But should he... Could he run away? Away from this whatever-it-was? Was he able to do it? Probably not, but he was a fighter, has always been one, and he wouldn't not try to do anything to stay alive. Even if his hunter was an inhumane creature. Yes, he would try it. For his father. It was worth a try. And if the creature would kill him nonetheless, he had tried everything he could at least.
So, as soon as the creature let go of him, he jumped up and ran. Again. Although he was worn out, he ran. As he ran away he thought he heard the creature laugh. Was he just doing, what the creature wanted him to do?
Ryou continued to run and then suddenly, he saw the hill with the tree on top. Now he knew, where the gate was and where he had to go. As fast as his feet could manage, he ran. Ran and ran and ran. Of course, he was afraid, that the creature would jump out of a bush or catch up again, but he had no time to think about it. He had to get away from here.
The gate came in sight. Ryou's heart leaped for joy. He could only hope, that the creature would not leave the graveyard, but he couldn't be sure of that. He stopped for a very brief moment to push the gate open, and as soon as he was on the sidewalk, he ran again, toward his apartment building. Hopefully, he would be safe there.
The creature smirked as it watched Ryou running away. It stood atop of the wall of the graveyard. It had already been there before Ryou was out of the graveyard and it had watched him running to the gate the whole time, while Ryou had thought it had still been behind him. Ryou hadn't seen the creature standing up there.
The creature chuckled.
"Let the game begin...", it said and bounced down the wall. Then it dashed after him with unbelievable speed.
Meanwhile, Ryou had reached his apartment building. Nervously, he searched for the right key to open the front door. But that was quite difficult since there was only weak light coming from the old lamp over the door.
"This one?", he muttered, "No... This...? Argh." His hands trembled and he hardly could hold his bunch of keys.
"Come on...", then he heard a click. "Oh, thanks." Finally, Ryou had found the right key and stepped into the building. Then he ran up the stairs and as he arrived in the fifth story, he opened his apartment door and went into his apartment. Now he was more than exhausted. He locked his door and slid down at it. His head hurt and his heart pounded heavily against his chest. He pulled his knees to his chest, put his head on them and started to think. What had just happened? Now, that he wasn't on the graveyard anymore, it seemed so unreal to him, like a very, very bad dream. But, it hadn't been a dream. No, it had been real.
He sat there for a few minutes, until he heard a noise. Where did that come from? Slowly, he stood up, holding his breath. He had a slight feeling, that something was NOT right here. But what should he do? He put all his courage together and went to where he thought the noise had come from. His bedroom. He stood close to the wall and turned only his head to look through the half open door into his bedroom. The room was a mess, not like it had been before he had gone to the graveyard. That meant he had been or was not alone. There was only one way to find out. But stop! He just escaped an evil creature and now he wanted to do something like this? What, if it WAS the creature and if it was waiting for him in his bedroom? He hesitated. But then he put again all his courage together, pushed open the door, stepped into the room and looked around. The moonlight shined through the window into his room making it possible to see the mess. But it was too weak to let him see his whole room. He swallowed and then he pressed the light switch.
Now that the entire room was not dark anymore, he could see a figure standing in the corner. But not any figure. ITS figure. The... the creature... but...
"H-How... how... did you", began Ryou, his body trembling.
"How did I come in?", the figure said and chuckled. "Well, that was not difficult, Ryou."
The creature started to walk towards Ryou and he automatically backed out. Now he noticed for the first time, that the thing knew his name. This... was not good, no, definitely not. But how... when... why... There were so many questions running through his head.
How did the creature know his name?
What was the creature anyway?
How did it come into his apartment?
Why did it pursue him?
Why did it look so much like him?
What should he do?
Would that creature kill him?
So many questions...
The creature was still walking towards him, slowly, very slowly. And Ryou backed out. He was out of his room, standing in the hallway. He kept eye contact with the creature, chocolate brown eyes staring into crimson ones. He tried to think about what he could do.
//Quickly Ryou, think quickly//, he told himself. Desperately he looked around for something that could help him. There, on the shelf, was his pocket knife. He glimpsed at it. In the twinkling of an eye, he grabbed it, opened it and threw it at the creature that was coming towards him. Hard to believe, but the knife hit the creature in the chest, right where its heart should be.
Ryou was a bit shocked about what he had done but also relieved as he saw blood soaking the shirt of the creature, because he thought, that this would spell the end of the creature. But he was wrong with his thought.
The creature only laughed as it looked down at the knife in its chest, where more and more blood was flowing out.
The laughter made Ryou's blood run cold. //Had I been wrong as I had thought that this would kill the creature? Very likely//, he added to his thought as the creature continued to laugh.
"Did you really think... I mean, were you naive enough to think, that something could stop me so easily? You don't know me, silly, but I know you", it said.
"H-How so?", asked Ryou and took a step backwards. He tried to distract the creature through talking, so that he could get to the door, go out and run for his life. He knew that it would probably not work, because the creature had proven at the graveyard, that it was very fast, but he had to try everything. For his father... and for himself.
"Do you really want to know?", the creature asked, maliciously. Ryou nodded. "Well, I've been watching you for the past few days. So I know quite a lot of you."
"Such as?", Ryou asked. He had reached the handle of the door and put his hand on it to open the door.
"You are often alone and you never seem to be happy. When you are with your friends, you have this forced smile on your face-" It stopped. Ryou had pushed the doorhandle, but the door didn't open anyway. The creature smirked at Ryou's desperate attempt to escape.
//No, no, no, no, no//, Ryou thought, //Open, you damned door!// But the door didn't open. Somehow, it was locked from outside. And Ryou was locked in his own apartment with a horrifying monster that wanted to off him.
"What? You want to leave me again?", it said mockingly. "Oh, too bad that I've locked the door from outside. It seems that you have to remain with me a little longer." Only now it pulled the knife out of his chest. Ryou pressed himself against the door as the creature walked, again, towards him, toying with the pocket knife.
"W-What are you?", Ryou dared to ask. The creature only grinned at him, revealing its sharp canines.
He held his breath. Then suddenly, the creature stood left beside him, grabbed Ryou's left arm and turned it violently behind his back. Ryou screamed and struggled, but the thing didn't let go of him. It lifted the knife and rammed it into Ryou's arm. The boy screamed with pain. Blood began to flow out and Ryou pulled the knife out of his arm. He let it drop and it fell on the floor with a clank.
Ryou clutched his arm and slumped to the ground. Red, everything was red because of the blood. His hands, his clothes, the floor... The creature stood beside him and merely laughed.
"I am a demon, Ryou. A demon", it said to answer his question, laughing. Then the demon crouched down, wiped with its index finger through Ryou's blood on the floor and licked it off.
Ryou's stomach turned. Nausea came over him and he felt dizzy. The blood didn't stop flowing out of his arm. His hands clutched the gash tightly, but it didn't help. His vision blurred. He released his grip around the gash and laid his head on the floor. Ryou could feel the blood flowing, but what should he do? He couldn't even keep his eyes open any longer.
//He is so weak... Perfect//, it thought.
As he lay there semiconscious with his eyes half open the demon crouching in front of him.
"Do you know, what I'll do?", it asked. Of course, Ryou didn't know. How should he know?
"...Uh-uh...", he managed to say. He felt very dizzy and his vision blurred and faded more and more. And then there was this freaking pain coming from the gash on his arm.
"Maybe I should tell you", the demon said.
"...Hmm...", Ryou mumbled. Everything he heard sounded like he heard it from underwater.
"Maybe not", it told him.
"..."
"Okay, listen up", it finally said. Ryou didn't know, if he really wanted to know whatever the demon would say, because he was sure it would say something like `Hey, I'm gonna kill you´ or `And now Ryou, I'll take you out´. Hundreds of possible scenarios ran through his head. Then he thought of his father. Oh, his father...
The demon leaned forward and whispered into Ryou's ear.
"I. Will. Possess. You."
Okay, Ryou really had NOT thought, that the demon would say something like this.
It smirked as Ryou's eyes widened before everything went black before his eyes and he lost consciousness.
"That was not overly difficult", the demon said, satisfied.
I know, the end is kinda... not good, but I didn't know how "the demon" should tell it Ryou in another way.
Hope you enjoyed it nevertheless.
And if you wonder how "the demon" could come into Ryou's apartment: The demon had watched Ryou almost all the time since it had seen him on the graveyard as he had been there for the first time. One night it had come into his apartment through an open window while Ryou had been asleep and it had stolen a replacement key.
And because the demon was so fast it had been at the apartment building before Ryou came back from the graveyard and it could open the doors with the replacement key.
Simple.
R&R
~Crystal of Moonlight~
