Title: Monster Academy
Genre: romance, humor
Rating: T for violence, language, and themes
Pairings: YamiXYugi; MarikXMalik; BakuraXRyou; and SetoXJonouchi
Summary: Yugi Mouto is a new student at Monster Academy, but he isn't the only dangerous creature at the Academy! With evil monsters and spirits threatening destruction on him and everyone around him, will Yugi and his new friends be able to survive?
Me: Next chapter!
Lucy: Here, we'll learn a little of the pasts of Yugi and Ryou.
Me: There's some sad parts to these.
Lucy: Anyway, please read and enjoy it!
Both: Please read and enjoy the fluff!
Chapter Seven: The Banshee's Cry
Later at Night...
"Wow! This is one of the springs that is outside the school? It's beautiful!" Yugi said as he, Malik, Ryou, and Jonouchi stepped on the rocks that lines a small spring that looked like a bath. Steam rose from it, and Yugi stared in awe.
The other four boys; Yami, Bakura, Marik, and Kaiba; were off somewhere else, talking and chatting away while the other four were at the spring, since they had insisted upon it.
"Okay! We'd better leap in!" Yugi said with a cheer as he started to remove the jacket that he was wearing. Ryou grasped Yugi's shoulder and spun him around to stare at him.
"Wait, Yugi! Doesn't water kill you?" he asked in a mildly confused voice. Yugi thought for a moment before gasping and nodding. He pulled out a small vile of green liquid from his pocket and poured it into the spring.
"There! That herb nullifies the killing ability in water, so now I can go in. But it only works in small areas, so that's why it wouldn't work in a pool, you see," the vampire explained. The rest of the gang nodded before they started to remove their clothing.
"Yami had better not spy on me..." Yugi said with a small pout as he slid his shirt off and folded it onto the ground by the spring. Ryou slowly removed his shirt before looking over at Yugi with a small laugh.
"Sounds like you wish he would," he said before throwing off the remainder of his clothing and slipping into the water, which had turned a pale green from the herb Yugi put in. Yugi blushed as he threw off his clothes and went in.
"No! I would never wish that!" he said while blushing harder. Ryou nodded and rolled his eyes with a laugh. Malik threw off his clothes and leaped in next to his friends, laughing and enjoying being around them.
"Cannonball!!!" Jonouchi hollered before leaping into the spring, sending water spraying all around. The four friends laughed and then leaned back, all of them getting their laughs out before going silent.
"So... What's your story? Why are you here in the Academy with us, Yugi-chan?" Malik asked as he looked over at Yugi with a mildly confused look. Yugi leaned his head back and exhaled, making the steam swirl.
"My grandpa and I used to live in a human city, and we were vampires, so no one really cared for us. We harm humans, so we were never wanted around there," the vampire said sadly. The gang was silent and listened.
"We were always hated... and never cared for... And then they came and... killed my parents right before my very eyes. I was only 12 when it happened," Yugi whispered in a calm voice as a memory came flooding into his mind.
---Flashback---
Yugi was kneeling on the ground sobbing loudly, closing his eyes and sobbing loudly over the torn up bodies of his parents. His mother was torn in half, and his father was reaching for him in frozen death, his eyes bugged out and blood pouring from his mouth.
"Why, Grandpa? Why!? Who am I supposed to hate for this?" the little 12 year old vampire asked as he shuddered with a small sob. His grandfather, Solomon Mouto, kneeled down and slowly hugged his grandson tightly in his embrace.
"Don't hate humans, Yugi, Humans are not to blame for this. They might have caused this, but it's to be expected," the older man said softly before looking Yugi in the eyes.
"Humans fear what they can't explain..."
---End Flashback---
"That's horrible, Yugi!" Jonouchi said in a serious tone, gritting his teeth in rage that his friend had been treated so horribly in the past. No one deserved something like that. Yugi looked over at Ryou and gave a nod.
"What about you, Ryou? We know that you're here so you won't cause trouble. But what exactly happened to make you so dangerous?" the little vampire asked in a serious tone, closing his eyes for a moment. Ryou sighed deeply and leaned back.
"My father was a human, and my mother was Stheno, elder sister to Medusa. My father, Sir Irenguard, fell in love with my mother and they had me. My father went into hiding, and raised me to be a warrior just like him," the silverette said calmly.
"He later went off to fight the people coming to kill my Mom, and he told me to protect her. He died, and Mom froze his body in stone to keep him with us forever," Ryou said before lowering his head as the memory began.
"More people came to kill us. It was 5 years after that day I turned all those children at my school to stone..."
---Flashback---
"Kill the gorgons!! Kill the monsters!!"
Ryou grit his teeth as he heard the gang of guards heading towards his temple as they did every month. His mother, Stheno, was sitting in the corner, clutching Ryou's little sister in her arms, shuddering in fear. Ryou nodded and put on his father's armor.
"Ryou, no! It's too dangerous!" Stheno hollered to her son, afraid that he was gonna die just like his father had. Ryou looked over at his mother with a sad look before putting on the helmet to the armor, putting the visor over his eyes, hiding everything but his mouth.
"I have to. To save you all. I must..." he said before running outside and then facing the hord of guards that were going to kill him and his family.
"Who are you!?" a guard hollered. Ryou smirked from under the helmet.
"I am the son of Sir Irenguard. I am Ryou Bakura, and I am here to destroy you!!" the silverette gorgon smirked before snapping open his eyes. With loud screams, the guards immediatly turned to stone, frozen in looks of pure terror. Ryou turned and headed back for the temple.
As he walked in, his mother raced up and hugged Ryou tightly in her arms, shuddering and sobbing as she rocked him back and forth. Ryou hugged his mother back and looked at her with a calm look, smiling gently to try and cheer her up.
It was the first time he had ever seen his mother cry.
---End Flashback---
"I'm so sorry for bringing up such painful memories," Yugi said in a sad voice, feeling a stab of guilt in his heart, and the other two gave Ryou looks of pure sympathy. Ryou smiled happily and waved his hand at them.
"Don't worry about it. Everyone has a story to tell, don't they? In fact some of us..." the silverette gorgon glared over his shoulder and picked up a large rock before hurling it at the forest, a glare set deep in his brown-green eyes.
"ARE DEAD!!!"
The rock smashed into the forest before knowing out a small monkey monster, who fell onto the ground with swirls in his eyes. Yugi stepped over the monkey's body, his lower half covered by the water in the spring.
"It's a monkey. Ry-chan, why'd you hit the monkey!?" the vampire scolded in a slightly angry voice. Ryou looked over at Yugi with a laugh.
"Sorry. I thought it was the others peeping on us while we were bathing," the gorgon said in a defensive voice. Yugi nodded, and then suddenly, the four others came running up to the edge of the spring and then looked at the four others who were bathing.
"What's wrong, Aibou!?" Yami shouted, suddenly going red as he saw Yugi naked in the spring. Yugi stared at the mummy before growling angrilly. The other three in the springs glared as well, and they rose up, all pounding their fists together.
--Later---
"Ow ow ow! Why'd Aibou have to hit so hard!?" Yami groaned as he rubbed his sore body, helping Kaiba get bandaged up from the injuries that Jonouchi had given him. Bakura tugged bandages on Marik, who was laughing happily.
"Well, at least we got to see them naked, right?" he said with a small laugh before a fairly large rock came sailing from the woods and nailed him in the back of the head, making a loud echo come from the crack it made.
"Ouch!!"
"Idiot!!" Malik shouted from the spring area.
BRONZESHIPPING 4 EVER
Later that Night...
Yugi leaned back and stared up at the stars, sighing deeply. The rest of the gang was watching the dark sky as well, the fire that they had built crackling and lighting up the small area where they sat. Yami looked over at Yugi and smiled.
'He looks so innocent like this. But inside him... there's another mind. Another Yugi who is far more dangerous than the other,' Yami thought with a small shudder as he remembered the cold look in Vampir Yugi's eyes after the incident in the pool.
"AAIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
"What was that!?" Jonouchi hollered as he lept to his feet, glancing around in a confused fashion as a loud scream echoed through the forest. The gang leaped up and immediatly raced towards the area where they had heard the scream come from.
After a little while, the gang gasped as they saw a large monster that looked like a giant pink blob with spikes running down its back and fangs jutting from its pink lips. Yugi gasped and then looked around in terror as he spotted someone sitting before the monster.
It was a young girl who looked like she was in Yugi's class. She was! Her name was Mana, and she was shuddering in terror, her blue eyes wide with fear, her brown hair messed up from struggling that she had been doing fighting the monster. Mana closed her eyes and screamed again.
"AAAAIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!! HELP ME SOMEONE PLEASE!!!!!" she hollered in an echoed voice. Yugi and the gang covered their ears as the scream echoed in the backs of their minds, feeling like a thousand needles scrapping in their skulls.
"T-this girl... She's a banshee!" Marik whispered in pain as he covered his ears to force out the ear-piercing scream. Mana screamed harder as the monster leaped for her. Yugi dove forward and grabbed the monster's claw, bending it back slightly. He lifted his head and revealed lavender eyes.
Vampir's eyes.
"Okay, you overgrown piece of detatched flesh! Let's party!!" Yugi shouted with a small cackle before flipping the monster over his shoulder and slamming him on the rock-solid ground, cackling insanely as he did so.
PUZZLESHIPPING 4 EVER
The monster roared in anger before running at Yugi and swinging his arms at him, trying to hack the vampire in two. Yugi kicked the ground and leaped into the air before looking over at Ryou, his eyes flashing with power.
"Gorgon, turn that thing to stone!" he shouted, pointing at the monster. Ryou nodded and looked at the creature, his hair whipping around until it became long silver snakes that hissed and whipped around toward the monster.
"Go, Gorgon! Turn that bastard to stone and end it!" Yugi shouted as the monster swung its claws at him, hooking Yugi in the stomach and tearing it open slightly. Yugi coughed up a stream of blood before collapsing to the ground, hacking up blood.
"Yugi!" Yami hollered in horror as he aibou collapsed to the ground, bleeding horribly. Ryou gasped and then glared at the monster before his eyes started glowing so he could turn the giant pink monster to stone. The monster roared at Ryou and swung its claws at him, hooking him in the throat.
"ACK!" Ryou gagged as blood came from his lips and he collapsed to the ground, gripping his wounded throat and spitting blood all over the cold stones that he was laying on. Bakura's eyes went wide with horror as the silverette gorgon coughed up blood and gripped his torn throat.
"Ryou!!" Bakura hollered in terror. Malik growled and leaped at the monster, only to have his wing nearly hacked off and get slashed in the stomach. Malik coughed up blood and groaned as he was slammed to the ground as Marik gasped in terror.
"This is for my friends, ya rat bastard!!" Jonouchi hollered, transforming his arms into paws before leaping at the monster to attack it to get revenge for his friends. The monster roared and kicked Jonouchi hard, slashing his shoulder open.
"Aggh!!" Jonouchi screamed before collapsing to the ground. Mana screamed in terror, her scream echoing as she did so. Yami's eyes widened as he saw Yugi laying on the ground, his skin a pale blue and his chest barely rising. Ryou shuddered as his life started fading, Malik choked out blood, and Jonouchi groaned in his state of unconsciousness.
"That's it, you bloody monster. You just fucked with the wrong monsters," Yami growled as his eyes glew red, and he was dressed in the bandages that he wore as a Pharaoh, not to mention that he was decked out in gold and red. Bakura transformed into his demon self, Marik's wings appeared, as did Kaiba's.
"Take this!!!" Kaiba hollered before blasting a beam of blue fire at the monster, causing it to scream out in pain. Bakura raised his hands up and blasted a large amount of purple energy at the creature while Marik slashed its arm off. Yami closed his eyes and opened his mouth wide.
"In the name of the sun dragon Ra, I command you! Lend me your power and kill this beast who dares defy you!!!" Yami shouted before he glowed a bright red and then blasted a flaming beam of swirling energies that slammed into the monster.
With a roar of total pain, the creature vanished into a pile of ashes, as if he never existed.
Mana smiled as the monster died, but she looked over as the four monsters walked over to the four other monsters and dropped to their knees next to them. Yami drew Yugi into his arms, staring down at him in horror. Yugi was already at death's door, his face portayed it.
Bakura stared down at Ryou, who had reverted back to his human form from blood loss, and he was paler than usual, surrounded by a puddle of crimson, warm blood. His throat was torn open, dripping blood around his body.
Marik stared in horror as he picked up Malik, counting all the injuries that he had on his body, noticing how much paler he was than he should have been. Kaiba gently held Jonouchi up, staring at him as horror racked his body.
Yami bit his lip as he felt tears forming in his eyes. He squeezed them shut and clutched his aibou close to his body before throwing his head back and opening his mouth up, his body glowing bright red with energy.
"I command all yee spirits who are at Set's door, come back to us!! I pray yee, holy Isis, save the lives of these souls!! I beg of you!!!" Yami sobbed as he was surrounded by a pure red light. Immediatly, the four wounded monsters glew bright red, their wounds healing.
"Unn.... Y-Yami..." Yugi whispered as his eyes slowly opened, and he smiled at the mummy. Yami gasped and drew Yugi closer.
"Thank goodness, Aibou..." he whispered. Ryou slowly opened his eyes and looked over at Bakura, who hugged Ryou tightly, thanking Ra that he was all right. Malik hugged Marik as he was awoken, and Jonouchi was pulled into an embrace by Kaiba, who was thanking Ra that the werewolf was alive.
Meanwhile, Mana smiled sweetly at the cute scenes before her.
TENDERSHIPPING 4 EVER
Next Day at the Academy...
"I wanna thank you guys for saving me from that monster," Mana said with a wide smile. The gang nodded with smiles, each of them blushing because of the near confessions that they had almost said the previous night. Mana turned with a smile on her lips.
"If you need anything, just ask me. Bye bye," she said before skipping off to the girl's bathroom. She raced in and smiled at Mai and Miho, who were sitting on the edge of the bathroom sink with wide smiles on their lips.
"Did it work?" Mai asked. Mana nodded and shook her hand.
"Sorta. They almost confessed," she said. Mai snapped and grit her teetg before leaning her head back and smiling.
"Oh well. Phase two to get them to confess their feelings is complete. Now we move to phase three," the blonde harpie smiled before looking over at Miho, who smiled and nodded at her friend before she rose to her feet and looked out the bathroom window.
This was a fun assignment.
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Me: Yay! They were so close to admitting their feelings!
Lucy: They will in the next few chapters!
Me: That's good!
Lucy: Indeed it is!
Me: Here's the preview for the next chapter to come!
Yugi: I'm glad that we saved Mana-chan from being food for that monster.
Yami: Yeah, we were lucky to have hurt her.
Bakura: But we might have almost revealed our feelings.
Ryou: What was that 'Kura?
Bakura: N-nothing!
Yugi: Hey! Who the fuck are you and why are you attacking us! Oh my Ra! Giant bugs! Eww!!
Next Time: Insect Infestation
Yugi: This is so gross! I-I-I'M TOTALLY SCARED OF BUGS!!!! YAMI, SAVE ME!!!!!!
Lucy: Please tell us what you liked about this chapter and we'll continue very very soon!
Both: Please review nicely!