A/N: Well, here's the next chapter! Let's conclude this little rescue arc, shall we? XD Also, I feel like I went the opposite direction as far as the vampires and werewolves go in this story than what I've done in the past with my early Cirque Du Freak fanfics. :/
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's. That goes to the respective owner. I only own my OC(s).
Chapter Three- Truly An Ally?:
(Ren's POV)
"Why don't ya make me, you old bloodsucker?" I taunted. The moment that left my mouth, everyone knew that I've turned my back on the clan. The term bloodsucker has been used only by those outside the clan and usually in a not-so-pleasant tone. It's on the same lines as calling a werewolf a "mutt." There was no going back for me, not that I care. This wasn't my clan anymore. If I have to live the rest of my days clanless like those exiled, then so be it.
If it was possible to become redder with rage, I'm sure my dad had surpassed that with that little line. "Kill them! I want to see both of them dead!" he ordered.
The warriors listened to the order, snapping out of their stupor and charging. The first one to get close got the hand holding a weapon chopped right off by me. As he gripped the stump, I sent the blade through the top of his head. "Inferno, catch!" I activated the countdown on the scroll, throwing the corpse to my bat. He grabbed it in his teeth, taking off.
Another guard tried blindsiding me while I had my attention elsewhere, but I caught his action. I dodged his attack, pulling a knife from my belt and sending it right into his eye. That scroll should be going off any minute now. I just hope they remember how to operate the "surprise" I showed them.
(Yusei's POV)
The vampire prince was pretty much untouchable during the fight. The guards couldn't get a single blow on him and getting either killed or horrible injuries in retaliation. More kept pouring in from the now opened gates, now no longer carrying the weapons used against werewolves.
I gritted my teeth. What am I doing, just standing here and not fighting as well? Especially now that they don't have those silver touched weapons anymore! I used the stone wall behind me to help myself up. I transformed into my wolf form, charging into the fray. My fangs easily sunk into a close guard (the new ones weren't wearing the same armor to protect them from a werewolf's fangs).
"Hey! You shouldn't be moving or changing with that gash on your side!" the vampire prince yelled.
"I can still fight! Others have had worse!" I retorted. Though, considering my current state, he wouldn't be able to understand what I said.
A light flashed up high above. What in the hell? Soon enough, his bat came back down, crushing two guards on the descent. "Welp, hope they saw the signal."
"Who saw what now?"
"Inferno, barrier!"
The bat let out a screech, the markings glowing on its back. Then a large force field surrounded the three of us, cutting the guards off from attacking us. Of course, it didn't prevent the prince from throwing more of his knives at the guards from the inside. However, it looked like he had ran out pretty quick as he reached behind him only to grab nothing. "Fuck, that's great. Should have packed more." He turned to me. "Okay, get on Inferno's back. We're flying out of here."
You have got to be kidding me. I closed my jaws, shaking my head no. Shouting would have done no good to someone who can't understand the language. I am not getting on that bat's back! Werewolves were not meant to fly.
His eye twitched. He crossed his arms and tried to contain his anger. "Look, you've got two options here. Either you get on there willingly and we fly out of here easy peasy like, or I'll have Inferno carry you like a bird of prey with their food in their talons. And we don't have a whole lot of damned time right now!" He got in my face at the end of it.
I snorted. Well, worse comes to worse, I can just howl for a nearby pack if he proves to be dangerous. I shifted back into human form, my arm going back to clutch the gash on my side. "Fine," I said, climbing onto the bat's back.
The vampire prince got behind me, reaching in front to tap the bat on the head. "Okay, boy. Time to leave these assholes in the dust."
The bat nodded. I braced myself, ready for the takeoff. Before that, though, the bat let out a screech. The force field blasted the guards away, the closest ones getting burnt horribly. Spreading its wings, the bat took off with us clinging to its back. Gods, any more surprises left? My answer were some explosions happening under us as we flew away. "What the..?"
"Oh, good! They did remember what I showed!" the vampire prince said.
"Who did?"
"The werewolf pack nearby, duh. I gave them some explosives I managed to smuggle out from the armory. They're not meant for battle, but they help create a good distraction."
What is with this vampire? Hell, should I even call him a vampire? He attacked his own, killing a good chunk of them, and helped me to escape. And what was he talking about with the vampire king? Something doesn't seem- My thoughts were cut off as the exhaustion and blood loss started catching up. I slumped forward.
"Shit! Inferno! Start heading..." Everything turned dark.
(Ren's POV)
"Shit! Inferno! Start heading down and toward the pack's site! We've got to get him to their healer's!" I yelled over the wind.
Thankfully he heard me and angled downward. Once in range of a good jumping distance, I wrapped my arms around the werewolf prince's waist and threw both of us off Inferno's back. He caught us just inches from falling and set us down gently. "Thanks, pal," I said as soon as I stood upright, trying my best to keep the werewolf prince upright. Blood was soaking into my shirt as I carried him along.
Okay, this isn't going as well as I thought. I better make a makeshift bandage. Hmm... I stopped, using my free hand to tug at the cloak. Well, not like I'm gonna use this thing all the time. "Inferno, hold him for a minute while I get this thing off."
He came up, taking the prince from me. I shed the cloak off quickly. I went to the bottom of it and ripped all the way to the other side of it, making a large cloth. "This is going to have to work to slowing the blood until we get there." I took him back from Inferno. "Let's go, pal!" Inferno let out a short screech in agreement.
(Time Skip- Yusei's POV)
I blinked awake, eyes adjusting to the low lighting. A forest greeted me on one side and the other had a small fire going. I hissed slightly at the burn from my wounds as I sat up. How long was I out? And where am I? The last I remember was being on the back of a giant bat, I thought. And that a vampire had helped me get out of the arena.
That part really had me confused. Sure, I always wondered if maybe some of the vampires that stuck to their morals just laid low while the king ordered the clan to war. Not a whole lot of the pack believed me (hell, even my friends were skeptical), but now seeing it for myself made me wonder. Obviously, a vampire helping me wasn't part of the problem. The main problem that the one who managed to save my life by risking his happened to also be the prince. There's got to be more to it. Why would the prince of vampires go out of his way to save me, throwing away his heritage and being labeled as a traitor, unless it was all a ruse?
A noise caught my attention and made me tense up. "Ugh...why do werewolves make this hunting thing sound easy?" a voice groaned. The bushes parted to reveal the vampire prince with his bat (now smaller). He was holding two dead rabbits in one hand. He noticed that I was sitting up. "Oh! You're awake!"
"Yeah," I replied. What's with him? He's acting a bit too relaxed for someone who just became clanless.
"Phew, that's good. I was afraid I'd have to resort to trying to fly to the compound just in case something happened." He walked to the fire, sitting a little ways off from where I was. He set the rabbits down, taking a knife out and grabbing one. "The vampire king's increased patrols, especially flight ones, but the blood magic can only go for so long, and the bats can take so much distance before-"
"Why did you do that?"
He paused in his task of cleaning the rabbit, not even piercing it with the knife. He looked to me. "Pardon?"
"Save me. Turn your back on your clan. Throw away your entire heritage. Need I go on?"
"Ah, that. I guess it would seem a bit confusing as to why a prince would throw away a chance at the crown, huh?" He turned away, going back to his job. "Actually, I could barely give a damn about becoming the next ruler to the vampire clan. I had been content with being the 'extra' child of the king, not really having any real chance to gain the throne. No pressure, no eyes watching your every move, no real need to be on time for lessons. Everything was okay."
He paused. There was a distant look in his eyes. "Then he revealed his true colors one day. In an instant, he showed he had no qualms with killing other vampires, even those of his own family which goes against just about every moral code in the book. He had his heir, my sister, executed for what he labeled as treason."
"What treason?" There was a long list of things that were normally labeled as treason, but the feeling I had meant it wasn't one of the norm.
"Pretty much for associating with a werewolf and also planning to make peace with them. While there are some who do agree with his views—and they better hope to never catch me in a bad mood for it—many do not and simply follow his orders to keep themselves and their loved ones alive. She would have put an end to this war, maybe even saving countless lives on both sides for it. But what did he do to respond? Make her into a traitor and come up with the conspiracy that she would have killed him to get to the throne earlier."
"How do you know it wouldn't have ended up like that?"
"Because I know my own sister, damn it! No matter how corrupt he would have gotten, she wouldn't have ever tried to kill him. The most she would have done was have him in the dungeons for the rest of his life. She always believed that there was good in people, even in the ones that never did a kind thing in their lives. She thought that maybe he could change or at the very least step down when the majority of the clan stood with her."
"So, you weren't lying when you accused him of killing his own kind."
"No, I wasn't. Of course, not like a lot of the clan would have believed me. A lot of the ones who weren't executed publicly died in 'accidents.' Tch, yeah right. More of ways to slowly weaken any resistance through assassinating each person when possible. The only reason why my friends and I never suffered a similar fate was because we were more sneaky about it."
"You call jumping into an arena, killing the guards, and saving the werewolf prince 'sneaky'?"
"Oh, please. That was baby steps in the bigger scheme of things. Besides, not like I was going to die by a guard's hand, anyway."
"You sound a little too confident in that."
"Yeah, well, I spent a little too long pretending to be a good prince for the vampire king. I'm surprised my sanity even lasted."
"One thing. How do I know I can even trust you? There's not a whole lot going for you other than your words, Ren."
He glared at me. "What, did my actions not speak loud enough?"
"For all I know, it could be an act. Plus, the vampires that want peace and haven't been killed off could have planned at any time to overthrow their king, and yet we're still at war."
The prince kept up the glare for a few seconds before turning away. "Okay, fine, don't believe me right this minute. I guess I'll have to prove it by killing the vampire king myself." He went back to preparing the rabbits.
A/N: Gah! Sorry this took so long to put up. I was thinking: hey, maybe we should make it a bit longer as apologies for the last chapter, right? Nope, lost my focus. ;-;
I am going to say that the inspiration for Yusei and Ren's little talk at the end does come from Voltron: Legendary Defender. I could kind of see Yusei sharing the same views as Princess Allura as far as his experiences so far with the vampire clan and some doubt about the so-called large number of defectors. I mean, to be fair, Yusei didn't exactly get a good first impression, huh?
Anyway! In other news, I'm going to try to put up two more Pokémon/Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's related crossovers on here (okay, realistically, there'll be four in total to go with the two I currently have up...*cough*there's something wrong with me guys*cough*). Both are mainly going to be a bit in the style of Surprising Each Other with one being oneshots of various storylines (aka, I have a lot more than just Elements of the Original Dragon that star Ren as a primary OC; like I said, there's something wrong with me). It'll be where I put up oneshots for Elements of the Original Dragon, two future stories (one of which I have been drawing quite a bit of drawings of), and stories that are going to be dA only. The other is pretty much random oneshots of only one storyline and probably will not be in the style of a full-length story. For those not interested in Pokémon at all, I do have other crossovers that I'll try to be working on soon, so please be patient with me.
EDIT 3/27/18: Took out Lorenzo like the last chapter. It's just Ren now.
