(A/N: Great. Now I'm inspired with this story! I couldn't make the flashbacks shorter, and I apologize for that... oh, well, I just hope you guys enjoy it! n.n Yu-Gi-Oh!'s not mine, though I wish it was, I only own the plotline and some minor characters presented in this chapter, but they'll be gone before long... enjoy!)
Codename, Wolf 4831
Chapter 7
Yami's POV
"The day I entered that base, I was so scared that I thought we were in some kind of prison where we'd be tortured and whatnot," I spoke. "Of course, something greater than that would be done to us, but I still didn't know that." The memory flashed vividly on my mind.
Two doors made of something much stronger than wood opened right in front of us, sliding through the walls as if they were vanishing into them. My wrists were tied in front of me, as so were bro's. Silver and Kanika were following us side by side as two of those "lap freaks" held them by their necks.
"Don't stay away from me," murmured Asato so low that I could barely hear him. "We don't know what these guys might be up to, but I'm sure it's nothing good." I nodded my head and kept walking.
We were suddenly taken to a very big room. It was so big that any of us would easily believe it was a house. There were what I thought were weapons, but the truth was that I'd never seen anything of what I had in front of me now.
"Our masssssster would like to ssssssee you," said the freak holding Kanika. "You've caused a lot of trouble to his plansssss, and that does not make our masssssster happy."
"No, of course it doesn't," said the one holding Silver. He growled at the man but stood still when bro made a sign to him with his head; a sign that obviously said 'don't try them.'
"It actually makessssss him very, very angry," hissed the one next to my wolf. His voice sent shivers down my spine, and I'm pretty sure Kanika felt them, because she then lunged at the man and scratched his face.
"Black!" I yelled, trying to take her off from him, but the man was faster, and before I knew it he'd already pushed Kanika away. She fell to the floor and lay unconscious. "No!" I ran to her side, fighting back the tears that were threatening to escape from my eyes, and knelt beside her. Silver also tried to go to his daughter's aid, but the man pulling at the rope on his neck was stronger than the one that had been holding her.
I wasn't willing to lose her… not like I'd lost mom… please, not Kanika, not my Black…
"May I know what this scandal is all about?" Bro and I turned to the front of the room and what I saw immediately made me flinch back.
There, in front of us, stood a man like one I'd never seen before. His mere presence made my heart beat wildly with fear and longing to run away. Was he the one that was ordering his men to kidnap and kill people?
"Ah, so this is the leader of the great Wolf Brigade." His voice wasn't good, either. No, it was full of evil and hatred even if nothing about him gave him away. Asato was usually good at deciphering faces; he'd deciphered mine a thousand times already; but I felt that not even he could find a way through this evil man's heart. "You are Asato, I suppose."
"Who wants to know?" asked bro in his usual self-confidence tone of voice. I was surprised at how well he could hide his fear… if he had any at all.
The man in front of us smirked.
"I like your style," he said, almost hissing like the other man had done before.
"Masssssster! He is indeed the leader of the gang of kids that hassssss been interfering with your plansssss, sssssir!"
Oh, how I really hated that hissing! It was like a serpent talking right next to your ear.
I tried worrying only about the unconscious Kanika. Since my wrists were tied together, the only thing I was able to do was to place her head on my lap. I heard Silver whining sadly. Such a pain the poor wolf must be through at seeing his daughter in this state…
"Get onto your feet, young lad!" My breath caught on my throat as the man in front of bro spoke to me, ordering me as if I were one of his servants. Doing as instinct told me, I stood up, but not facing at him.
"If you dare to scratch one single hair from his head…" began Asato, anger in his voice. "No, scratch that. If you even dare to touch a single hair from his head, you'll all be dead men." He turned back on the two men now guarding his wolf. "You heard me, you pieces of shit?" They took a step back and I felt relief wash over me.
"I beg that you stop with your threats." Until that powerful yet terrifying voice pierced through my ears again. "They are such delicate creatures. One should not imply such threats on them or they might die from fear."
"I do hope they do," said bro, turning again to that horribly evil man. "But I suppose that they don't like such threats because you've already done that job for me, have you not?"
"Like I mentioned previously, I like your style, and very much, I must say so. My name is Karan, and all of this is part of the work I've hardly done through the years." I looked around, staring at the things I still didn't know the names of. He pointed at the hissing man. "That is Nyoka," he went to his other servant, "and he is Donovan."
"Well, Karan," Asato spoke the name as if it left a bad taste in your mouth, "I don't like to be taken as a prisoner."
"Of course you do not, who would?" And then he looked at me.
His eyes met mine and I felt I could die in that same instant. His cold eyes, showing no emotion at all, made me want to scream, to try to escape from this prison we'd all been taken into… but I could do nothing. With my best effort, I turned my sight to Kanika, who was slowly regaining consciousness.
"She shall be all right," I heard him say. "No real harm was done to her by my loyal servant."
"Ssssshe attacked me, masssssster!" There was the hissing again.
"Not to worry, my child. Your wound will be taken care of after you have taken our guests to their new home." I didn't like how the word 'child' sounded when he spoke it. It was like a sign of danger approaching… a sign of terrible danger…
"What happened after that?" I almost forgot that Yugi was still sitting beside me, hearing with a mixture of utter concern and excitement my story.
"We were taken to what they called 'the cells.' I didn't know what it was back then; I'd never seen anything like that before. In any case, on the cells next to ours, there were people that had been kidnapped in previous attacks. Bro asked them what they knew about the 'lab freaks', and one of the women said that they played with your mind, tore at every corner of your heart to drive you insane until you could no longer recognize yourself." He swallowed.
"That must've been horrible."
"Oh, and it's only the beginning."
"W- What do you mean?" Now his voice was really shaking with fear.
"Then they began to experiment with Asato, using Silver's and his own DNA. I witnessed how they used them on their experiments and stuck syringes on both their necks. Nothing ever happened to bro, and it made Karan angry. Two years later, when I was 8, it got much, much worse."
"Get your fucking hands off me, you pieces of shitty lab crap!" Asato's cursing woke me up from a nap I'd really needed. Kanika still lay asleep beside me, but her father was not at her side as he usually was. I turned to the bars of the small cell where we were kept all day long, my eyes widening when I saw bro being taken away by Nyoka while Donovan held Silver with a rope at his neck, the four of them outside the cell.
"W- Where are you taking him?!" I stuttered nervously. Kanika woke up then and whined painfully. I turned back to her and held her close, caressing her back. "Shh, it's okay, Black, it's okay," I tried to soothe her, trying to ignore bro's cries.
"I am sure you do know what we do to useless lads, do you not, young boy?" My heart skipped a beat. Master's voice tore at my insides as if Donovan had shot one of his arrows at me. I'd learned to respect him in the past two years. It was definitely not good to make Master angry…
And Asato made him very angry.
"M- Master!" I called, still holding Kanika. "Please don't do it! Please don't, my lord!" Tears had begun to form at the edge of my eyes.
"Oh, poor of you," he said as he made his way to the bars that separated us. "Worry not, my child, your brother will not be harmed yet." His hand reached out to touch my face, but Kanika growled and bit him before he could. He pulled his hand back with a painful moan. Relief filled my heart. How happy I was to still have Kanika protecting me.
I didn't like the voice in which he told the word "child", most of all if he told it to me. It still made me shiver.
"Masssssster, allow me to take care of thisssss little troublemaker," hissed Nyoka, grunting while holding bro still. I heard Silver growl at him.
"No, no, Nyoka, we have much bigger problems to take care of right now," and he looked at me again. I looked away, shutting my eyes as if that could erase the mere sight of him. "Take him out." I didn't have time to react before Donovan took my arms and got me out of my cell. I tried to scream, but I was too shocked.
"Don't you fucking dare to touch him, Karan!" yelled bro. "If any of your men hurts him I promise you you'll drop dead before you realize it! GET YOUR HANDS OFF HIM!" I saw Asato as he kicked Donovan, letting go of me. Nyoka took a grip on him again and pulled him away from me.
In that moment I went completely unconscious; not that I fainted, but I couldn't see anything, as if my sight had abandoned me. It only returned when I was put in one of their 'experimental prisons.' Metal heavy chains held me to the floor while some more chained my wrists, also to the floor. There was a machine above me that shot a sort of light beam.
No, no, no, no… This was where Master experimented with bro's and Silver's blood… d- did this mean that he'd experiment with mine and Kanika's? The thought started to become true as I saw her chained next to me.
"NO! He's only a child, you shitty bastard!" cried Asato trying to get rid of Nyoka. I stared, both shocked and frightened, at him as Donovan held one of their syringes close to my neck. It was already half-filled with Kanika's blood—and then it pierced my skin, and I felt as the light beam covered me before feeling my teeth growing into fangs… before first phasing… before I first turned into a wolf.
(A/N: Ding ding ding, the flashback's NOT over yet! Okay, I might start like I began this episode, with Yami kind of explaining before going to the flashback, you guys decide :P
BTW, I based Karan in two characters I both love and hate, Capricorn from Inkheart and Mauro Carias from City of the Beasts, both very good books and both definitely great evil characters. From Capricorn because even when he's so formal, his face never gives him away, it's always emotionless; and from Mauro by the way his gentleness towards Yami -ahem, such as trying to touch him- scares the poor child. Leaving that aside, REVIEW!! XD please!! :D)
