Embracing Shadows
Chapter Two
It was early Christmas morning and Mokuba ran to his brothers room excited about the day, it was the one of the few days a year where his brother spent all day with him and didn't do any company business.
"Big brother wake up" he shouted with glee as he threw his brothers bedroom door open, to find that his brother was nowhere in sight, the bed was made and didn't look like it had been slept in. Pyjamas where still neatly folded at the end of the bed. On his brothers dresser was his briefcase that contained his spare duel monsters cards and duel disc. His brother's laptop was sitting on a small desk with his brother's homework and company related business. "Kaiba?" he called out and listened his brother didn't answer. He began running through the British villa calling out to his brother as he opened the door to each room.
"Mokuba" Roland came out in a frenzy still in his pyjamas.
Mokuba stopped and his voice and turned to his brother's advisor and body guard. Tears where streaming down the young boys face. "Do you know where my brother is?"
"I know he took that car out last night" Roland replied in concern for his young charge. He had wanted to go with him, but his place was at the mansion to make sure Mokuba was protected. Running to the garage they found that one of the cars was gone, the one Seto liked to drive while in Europe when he didn't want to be noticed as a rich CEO.
He called his CEO's mobile phone and car phone, both ringing out. He wanted to tell Mokuba that everything was going to be fine, but that would just be giving the boy false hope. He began his search for his young charge by activating the cars location device.
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He was cold and wet and wherever he was it was dark. A dripping sound could be heard in the background, other than that is was completely silent. His whole body was twitching all over, he couldn't control the spasms he was having. He made an attempt to sit but found he was still very weak.
"Oh you're awake" he heard a young female voice. But it took a few moments for the words to register in his head and for him to then translate what she'd said. "My names Luna Lovegood" she began telling him. "I was on my way home for Christmas holidays when they caught me. I'm being used for leverage so my daddy stops publishing bad stories about them."
He had finally managed to get himself into a sitting position. The young girl looked like she hadn't been touched by anyone yet and was wearing a bizarre outfit. He wondered briefly if she was a duellist and if that was her signature outfit while duelling. He'd certainly seen stranger outfits when it came to professional duellists. He pulled out his deck, there was just enough light that he could tell it had been untouched. Whoever had taken him didn't do a very good job of checking him, he still had his second gun, a pocket knife and another knife strapped to his leg and most importantly he still had his locket with the photo of Mokuba. Unfortunately he didn't have his mobile phone, it had either been dropped or taken by the people who'd kidnapped him.
"You've been asleep for a few days now, I'm not sure how long has passed but I know that it's more than a two since they bought us both here."
He listened as the girl talked while not saying a word himself, but constantly observing the cell he was in and the rest of the dungeon looking for potential weaknesses so he could escape.
He looked over to the old man sleeping in the corner, he looked weak and had obviously been here a lot longer than the girl whom introduced herself as Lovegood. Lovegood chattered on about fantasy creatures he'd never heard of before.
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"Well well well, the muggles awake" the crazy woman with the shrill voice sneered as she came into the dungeon. They had obviously been monitoring him, waiting for him to wake. "I'm going to make you pay for what you did to my lord."
"Look lady" Seto replied in his ever cocky voice which probably wasn't the best given the situation, his accent more noticeable than normal. "I don't even know what a muggle is and there isn't much that I don't know."
She pointed her stick at him and once again he felt the surge of electricity running through his body she had great delight as she told him what the word muggle meant.
"Of course I don't have magic" Seto told her between getting zapped. "There's no such thing as magic, no one has magic."
She came right up to his face, thinking he was completely helpless. "How do you explain what I'm doing to you?" she had a crazy grin on her face.
"You're electrocuting me" Seto replied and spat it her face. The crazy woman didn't even wipe the spit off.
She then demonstrated different magic, levitating rocks and flinging them at the old man and then turned the girl Luna into a duck and then back again. "And how do you explain that?"
"Either you're using holograms or I'm hallucinating from the torture you've put me through" he could feel the tingling in the air and all around him from the so called magic.
She laughed at him again. "Such an amusing piece of trash you are, no wonder the Dark Lord ordered to keep you alive ... for now"
Steps where heard coming down to steps but that didn't cause the woman to relent from performing magical torture.
"Aunt Bella" Seto looked up as a blond haired teenager opened the cell door. "Your presence is required upstairs."
"How are you today Draco?" Luna asked him in a dreamy tone, not at all phased but the crazy woman or the torture happening around them, oblivious to the fact that she was a prisoner.
"Draco is latin for dragon" Seto smiled at the thought of his white dragon. A little distraction from the pain he was currently in.
"How can you still be smiling you stupid muggle" the sadistic woman shouted at him in outrage. "I've just spent over half an hour torturing you.
"Torture? Is that what that was, and here I was thinking it was just a relaxing massage" Seto sneered at her. "And I'm the furthest thing from stupid you're ever going to find. I was a child prodigy growing up and anyone who pays attention to the media knows it. I'd be missed, there's several people searching for me already even if it's not being published yet that I'm missing."
"If I didn't have orders to keep you alive, I would kill you very slowly and painfully for that remark." She stormed out of the room.
The boy Draco pulled out a bag and from that bag a bowl of water and food which he placed on the floor. "I'd be careful of my Aunt Bella, she's got orders to keep you alive and she'll do anything that the Dark Lord requests of her, but I wouldn't put it past her to torture you to insanity." He warned before leaving and locking the door.
Once the blond haired dragon boy and his crazy aunt were long gone Luna spoke to him. "She's wrong, you're not a muggle. You're special and have an ancient power that many could never understand. I could sense your old spirit as soon as they bought you down here. It's probably why he who shouldn't be named ordered to keep you alive." She told him in an airy voice. "A muggle is a term we use for someone who doesn't have magic." A lot more polite explanation then the crazy woman gave him.
She walked over to the food that was placed before her and stated eating it, Kaiba believing that it was a very stupid thing to do, his tormentors might be keeping him alive for now, but he wouldn't put it past them to poison his food and make him suffer the most horrific pain that wouldn't actually kill him.
"Most people use the word mortal to describe someone without magic." He tried to talk more and object to magic being real but he was too tired and soon fell unconscious once again.
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It wasn't long till some people returned to the cell and Seto was dragged upstairs, he didn't see much of the rest of the house, the sudden movement had made him feel nauseous, it was only when he was thrown to the floor that he was able to focus his eyes and take in his surroundings. He found he was in a very nice gothic styled formal lounge room, noting that there was no signs anywhere of the house having electricity, no power points, no electric lights, no phone, no electronic devices that would use electricity. On the wall was a moving portrait of the blond haired dragon boy, an older version of the boy whom Seto assumed was his father and a woman he assumed to the boy's mother. Nearly everyone was wearing the same costume with the same mask except for the crazy woman Bella, the teenager Draco and the woman from the family portrait and she didn't look very happy, sending glares at anyone in the group when they bumped into things or touched anything.
At the head of the table was the man that he'd shot, looking to be in perfect health, no signs of being shot at all. The snake was in the corner of the room, obviously someone's pet most likely the man at the head of the table.
"Ah your awake mudblood" the head of the group had a charming voice as he spoke. "I'm the Dark Lord" he informed Seto, who was still sore from his last encounter with the Death Eaters. "Do you have any idea who I am?"
"I know that you're not the first person I've met who's called themselves the Dark Lord or something similar, and in my experience they've all been nut cases." Seto replied in his ever cocky tone.
"Isn't he such an interesting muggle" the Dark Lord purred as he ran his fingers down the side of Seto's face, he flinched ever so slightly at the unfamiliar mans touch his heart skipping a beat, he hated the man's touch, he couldn't stand people touching him.
"I'm going to make you pay dearly when I'm free" Kaiba threatened them. "Any torment you put me through I'll do the same to you tenfold."
"A muggle actually torturing someone" the Dark Lord laughed which the rest of the group followed in laughter. "The first time you see someone tortured you're going to cry and go mentally insane knowing that we'll do the same to you."
"Try me" Seto dared them. "I'm not like all the other weak minded trash. I know a thing or two about how to torture someone."
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The Death Eaters took him up on the challenge and bought in a young woman, she must have been held somewhere else since only himself, Luna and the old man where in the dungeon. She was unconscious when they dragged her in.
"This is Polly Jenner she's a witch born of muggle parents, a mudblood." The Dark Lord taunted him. "Wake her and make her suffer a long as possible before killing her."
"Rennrvate" one of the cloaked men shouted while pointing his stick. The woman woke instantly and at once started crying and begging for them to spare her, that she hadn't stole her magic from anyone.
The Death Eaters circled the poor woman taking turns casting spells. Crucio which had been used on Seto seemed to be a favourite, causing the woman to scream each time it hit her and her body to twitch uncontrollably like she was having some kind of seizure.
When they saw that the spell was having no effect on the muggle boy they then started changing up the spells a bit more. He could feel the fresh tingly in the air every time a new spell was cast.
"Defodio" one of them yelled pointing it her leg, once again she screamed, a section of her leg was missing, like it had been scooped out with an ice-cream scoop. They cast another spell "Expulso" on her shoes making them explode, injuring her feet in the process. Another spell that caused her to become blind which was only obvious because she shouted out she couldn't see over and over. They set her on fire, the covered her in ice, they healed her whenever she fell unconscious and woke her up again. Plus several other spells that caused her great pain and discomfort. Finally they finished with a curse which made the woman's stomach open up spilling her organs over the room, she was in so much pain that she welcomed death. The Dark Lord as he liked to be called was enraged at Kaiba when he didn't have any reaction. The dragon boy's mother looked disgusted at the mess which had been made, in what he assumed was her house. She was the one who ended up cleaning up the mess.
"Oh please, is a little blood, gore and death meant to scare me? I'm not scared of pain or dying, I can't see any point for you to keep me alive so you may as well end my life now." He told them in a bored tone. He really wasn't scared to die, he didn't want to leave Mokuba behind in the world but the thought of death didn't scare him. He hadn't seen anyone die or be tortured for a long time, but what Gozaburo Kaiba had forced him to watch had desensitised him to such things. "Besides, magic isn't real; you've somehow used clever illusions and well placed explosives on the woman to torment her before you killed her."
"Death is too good for someone who doesn't fear it" the Dark Lord told them. The pain and torture they put him through was a lot more horrific then the woman who'd they'd killed only moments before hand. The only difference being the healed him a lot more then they'd done to the woman. He could feel his deck heating as he was hit, a sense of his monsters in his deck, a calming sense coming from his monsters, like they were bearing some of his pain, blocking the full pain. Crucio was still a favourite of the whole group especially psychopathic Bella. He wasn't sure how long they played around with him for but when he woke up he was very surprised to find that he was still alive the lingering feeling of the shadows in his cell. His clothing covered in blood even though he couldn't find evidence that he was bleeding anywhere.
