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Sakura: As always I am sorry for the delay in this chapter. I was trying to figure out a good back story of Atemu's past.

Yumi: Are you happy with it?

Sakura: I think it's a good back story so without further delay let's read about Atemu's past!

Previously on Twilight

Yuugi looked at the family around him. He could tell something was different about them then normal families and he was pretty sure if Atemu was a vampire, so was the rest of his family. "May I ask something before you start?"

Atemu nodded, so Yuugi took a deep breath.

"Are you a vampire?"

Chapter 7- Atemu's Past

Atemu looked into Yuugi's eyes and answered with an honest answer. "Yes."

Yuugi looked at Atemu to see if he could tell if Atemu was lying, but found nothing. He smiled. "I figured as much after all that happened last night."

Atemu rubbed the back of his head. "I think I was pretty obvious with my attack on Mike."

"That and you also asked me what I would think if you were a vampire." Yuugi stated, before taking Atemu's hand in his hands. "I still want to be with you."

"You're not afraid?"

Yuugi shook his head. "I have no reason to be. If you were going to hurt me you would have done it by now."

Atemu let out a sigh of relief. "You don't know how happy I am to hear that. I've been working so hard to fit in as a human. After what happened last night I feared I had blown our cover and my chance with you."

Yuugi looked at Atemu's hand and besides the coldness it looked like a normal hand. "So the gloves were to hide how cold you were?"

Atemu nodded. "I've been a vampire longer than I was human. I had to be taught by Carlisle how to interact with humans and be around them without killing them."

"How old are you?" Yuugi asked. He knew that Atemu had to be at least over a hundred years old.

"I just turned five thousand and seventeen."

Yuugi swore his eyes widened in size.

"Yea, I'm that old." Atemu chuckled. "I became a vampire when I was seventeen and for five thousand years I've been traveling the world."

Yuugi looked at all the other Cullens. "Are you all that old?"

"No Yuugi, Atemu happens to be the first vampire to ever walk this earth, so that makes him the oldest. "Carlisle explained. "The rest of us are a little over a hundred years old, while I am a little over three hundred years old."

Atemu turned Yuugi's face to look at him. "I want to share my past with you."

Before Yuugi could even blink, he found himself in a study of some sort. It was a high-ceilinged room with tall, west-facing windows. The walls were paneled again, in a darker wood – where they were visible. Most of the wall space was taken up by towering bookshelves that reached above their heads and held more books than Yuugi had ever seen outside a library.

There was a huge mahogany desk and leather chair in the middle of the room. Atemu placed a hand on Yuugi's shoulder and spin him around to look back toward the door they just came through.

The wall they faced now was different from the others. Instead of bookshelves, the wall was crowded with framed pictures of all sizes, some in vibrant colors, and others dull monochromes. Atemu lead him to a painting to the far left. The frame was made of solid gold making it stand out in the room. When Yuugi looked at it, he was surprised to find himself looking at Atemu in what looked like an ancient pharaoh get up.

"Is this really you?"

Atemu nodded. "Five thousand years ago I was once a pharaoh. Well I was for a week, before I was turned."

"How were you changed? Carlisle said something about you being the first vampire."

Atemu took a seat on the floor and waited for Yuugi to join him before speaking. "It all started when my father died from a plague that had fallen over Egypt. The plague was still killing countless lives and my father's council, which became my council after he died, worried for my safety. They didn't want to see me die so early without an heir to the throne. It would be difficult to find a new pharaoh and many would die to take over the kingdom. They decided to perform an immortality spell me. Mine you I didn't know of their plans until later."

"It sounds like they wanted to protect the kingdom more than you."

Atemu chuckled. "In a way yes, but I was like my father. I cared for the people and there weren't many pharaohs like that. The council needed me to rule. The day after I became pharaoh, my council started talking to me into letting them and three hundred soldiers go to the village of Kul Elna. They said the village was a threat to the kingdom for it was a town full of thieves. You have to know I was new to being a pharaoh and I was scared. My priests thought the council was crazy, but I sent them anyway. I selfish fully wanted to protection myself from everything. I didn't even stop to think that the village might not be full of thieves, although all the evidence the council pointed out to me lead to believe it was."

Yuugi reached out and gripped Atemu's hand. "What happen at Kul Elna?"

"I was not there when it happened, but I found out ten years later what truly happened. My council and three hundred soldiers killed everyone in Kul Elna and captured their souls."

Yuugi bit back a gasp. All those people killed just to harshness their souls. "That's horrible."

Atemu couldn't help but laugh a little at that, even if it wasn't a laughing matter. "You think that was horrible you haven't heard what they did with the souls."

Yuugi had an idea of where this was going, but he wanted to hear it from Atemu.

Atemu sighed. "A week passed and I found it hard being pharaoh. My cousin and high priest Seth was there to help me, but I started getting sick. The palace healer checked me over and I had somehow contracted the plague. It wouldn't be but a few days before it killed me. The news broke me and I locked myself in my chambers. I had only just become pharaoh and I was so young, I didn't want to die. I didn't allow anyone to see me until the pain became too much after two days. It wouldn't be but one more before it killed me. My council came to me with their proposal of an immortality spell. I was stupid to go along with it but I wanted to live and be a good pharaoh to my people. My priests pressed me not to go along with it for they feared the council was only trying to kill me off faster.

I was already on my death bed so I didn't see any harm. I was carefully transported to Anubis's temple where the ritual was to be done. Let me tell you this, it was the most painful thing I have ever felt. I would have let the plague kill me ten times over then go through it if I had knew it was that horrible. My hands and feet were bond so I wouldn't hurt myself or try and escape. They told me if I tried to escape it would only hurt me more. I was already weak from the illness and even if I tried I wouldn't have been able to escape.

They wrote these weird symbols around me in a circle and sat a jar at my feet with this odd purple smoke in it. My council sat around me and started to chant some spell I couldn't understand. The jar began to shake as the spell was repeated over and over, and before too long it exploded and the purple smoke began wrapping around me. The room grew cold and screams ran through the temple from the smoke. I couldn't breathe and the smoke seemed to slowly enter my chest causing this terrible pain to go through me. My heart felt like it was on fire and someone was stomping on it."

"Stop!" Yuugi yelled with tears falling down his face.

Atemu looked at Yuugi confused. "Is something wrong?"

Yuugi wrapped his arms around his love. "How could they do that to you? How could they not tell you how horrible it would be?"

Atemu hugged Yuugi back. "I hate that it happened to me, but after meeting you I realized it was a good thing it did happen."

Yuugi snuggled up against him. "What happen after the ritual?"

"When I woke up I found myself in my room with my cousin sitting beside me. He looked tired and weak. I also noticed he smelled like a wet dog. He then told me everything that had happened. The council lied to me and my priests had been right, they killed me. I don't think they meant to, but they did because I no longer had a heart beat and my skin was as cold as ice. Seth didn't want to believe I was dead, so he spent a full day after the ritual trying to find a way to save me. As he studied the spell he found something the council missed. He figured out I wasn't dead, but I had become a monster.

The council and priests were shocked at Seth's discovery, so they decided to wait a few days to see if I would awaken, and if I didn't then they would prepare my funeral. Seth knew what I had become so he performed a spell of his own on himself so he could protect everyone from me. He merged his spirit with his pet wolf and became a werewolf. That was why he smelled like wet dog to me and to him I smelled like a decaying body."

Yuugi had to giggle at the last part, but he still had a question. "Like a man with wolf features?"

"No he turned into a wolf. Well he turned into a wolf about the size of a bear."

"So werewolf exists too?"

"Yes and we are getting off topic. Seth knew I would be dangerous around other people and he confined me to my room. Oh the thirst for blood was the worst. He had to bring criminals on death row from the dungeon to feed me. I felt like I was never satisfied even after feeding off three humans each day. I had even attacked Seth a few times to try and escape my prison, but we were pretty much even in a fight."

"Did you ever learn to control yourself?"

Atemu shook his head. "I learned after a few years to be around humans, but sometimes I would slip and kill an innocent servant. Seth had to watch me twenty four seven to keep me from feeding off the innocent. The council had kept my change quiet from the people so they wouldn't panic and revolt against me. Ten years after the change, two people lead an army to my kingdom to try and kill me. I didn't want my people to be hurt, so I had Seth lead me into the desert to meet them.

The two leaders wouldn't talk to me, but kept accusing me of destroying their village. I didn't know what they were talking about, so Seth reminded me I had sent my council to the village they spoke of that was destroyed. A fight broke out and I ended up killing everyone except the two leaders. Seth took them to the palace to be sentenced the proper way and then locked me in my room so I could calm down after being around so much blood. After two days I forced Seth to take me to the dungeon to talk to the two leaders. I needed to know more about what happen in Kul Elna.

I found out exactly what had happen and why they hated me so much. The council didn't just destroy the village; they used the souls of the people to make me what I was. It sicken me so I confronted me council wondering why they would kill that village just to do this to me. They didn't deny anything and flat out told me that they wouldn't have even thought of attacking that village if it wasn't to get the souls they needed. Before anyone could stop me, I killed every last member of my council."

Yuugi looked up at Atemu. "Did you kill the two leaders?"

"I gave them immortal life as repayment for what my council did. I told them to go make something of themselves. I thought for sure they would try and kill me after becoming one of me, but they left without another word."

"How did you know you could change people?"

"I found out I could after I feed from a servant girl and she lived. Seth unfortunately had to kill her, because we didn't need more of my kind. That had been two years after I was changed. I told the leaders I gave them immortal life as repayment, but in truth I wanted more people like me. I didn't want to feel alone. Seth was a great and all, but I needed people who were also blood drinkers. One week after I changed them and they left, I got things in my kingdom in order and left myself. I knew I couldn't run my kingdom and control what I had become."

Yuugi sat there for a few minutes taking everything in before he spoke again. "So you traveled the world before joining the Cullens?"

Atemu cupped Yuugi's chin in his hand and looked into Yuugi's eyes. "I had actually met Carlisle a hundred years after he was changed. I lived with him for a few years because he really seemed to understand what I was going through. I didn't want to hurt people, but human blood was just too good to stay away from. I tried living his way by feeding only on animals, but I got frustrated that it never satisfied me, so I left and didn't rejoin him until after he had Edward and Esme in his family. I sort of missed being a part of his family so I went back."

Yuugi looked confused. "Who is Edward?"

Atemu smiled. "Another brother I have that you haven't met yet. His older than me, but younger than Emmett and Jasper. He, his wife, and my niece are out and will be back later on. Don't' you remember I told you I had six siblings?"

Yuugi blushed as he remembered that. "I guess I thought I had met all your family downstairs."

Atemu gently placed a kiss on Yuugi's lips. "So any more questions?"

Yuugi giggled. "Not that I can think of. I think I will learn more things as we continue to go out with each other."

Atemu stood up with Yuugi in his arms. "Good because I would like to give you a small tour of the house."

Yuugi wrapped his arms around Atemu's neck. "Lead the way."

End of Chapter 7

Sakura: So what did you all think? I tried to make Atemu's past interesting and give you enough information so you wouldn't have too many questions.

Yumi: Please drop a review!