Into
The Darkness 10- The Holy Water Incident
Disclaimer: Unfortunately for me (fortunately for the characters) I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh in any way, shape or form. After all, if I did, there would be so much shonen-ai moments that it would not be at all funny. I do however own the AU of this particular fic, and some of the powers/legends attributed with the vampires in this fic, including the idea of Lords of Darkness.
Warning: Yaoi/Shonen-Ai! If you don't like, please don't read! Rated for later content, swearing, limes and blood. This is, after all a VAMPIRE fiction. Darkshipping- i.e. Yami and Bakura
Flames shall be extinguished with great force because it is bush-fire season and I hate bush-fires. Many Australians do.
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Thank you all for waiting as long as you have for this update, and I do realise what a terrible point I left you all at. Upon re-reading this story, I've come to the conclusion that a re-write may possibly be in order for some chapters... That won't happen for a while though, if I get around to it. When I do, I'll PM all the people who either added this to their alerts/faves or reviewed. As I said though, I probably won't do that for awhile as the things I need to re-write aren't terribly large/important- I'm just a perfectionist when it comes right down to it...
I also did the same as before, writing in Ryou's point-of-view. I seem to really enjoy writing from his mindset.
Oh, and another shameless plug- I've got another story that is really my baby- When Angels Cry, and it's also Darkshipping, with Angel!Bakura, and I think I made it Angst/Mystery. The Romance goes without saying of course, and it's M rated (since when do I write lower:D)
Anyway, thanks for reading, and here's hoping you enjoy my meagre offering!
Smile:D
Ireina
"Oh Ra! What have I done?" I gasp, scrambling backwards.
"Nothing I didn't enjoy, Akefia." he purrs, advancing on me.
"You mean I… we…" I trail off. I didn't fuck him… did I? That could make things awkward later. Besides which, if I do fuck him, (and I'm not saying I want to) I would want to remember it.
"Not yet." he murmurs suggestively, ruby eyes glinting. He sighs. "But before anything else, we should be responsible and go hunting." he says in a tone of great suffering.
"Why the sudden about-face Atemu? Before, you refused me. I could've been saved a night of agony if you'd just done what you wanted as well." I point out reproachfully, a small smirk playing at my lips.
He shakes his head briefly and his face smooths into that infuriating mask that gives nothing of his emotions away. Why is it that he only seems to be able to pull that with me?
"You only wanted me because of the Aura." he says aloud, as though to remind himself. "That's not enough for me, and I should've remembered that. My actions… were not acceptable." he says stiffly. ", you were not in your right mind…" he trails off.
I roll my eyes. One of the few good things, (well actually the jury's still out on this one...) to have come out of this episode with the Aura's effects controlling me is that I have been forced to confront certain issues.
For one, the Aura is supposed to only latch onto one person when that person is already desired at the least by the individual who used the Aura- consciously or not.
I'm not afraid to admit it, there is a romanticized version that says it's only when it's love, but that sounds like foolish nonsense to my mind.
I lean in and kiss him softly on the lips. "I can't blame it all on the Aura's effects." I tell him flippantly with a saucy wink. He again chooses to display his wondrous skills at fish-imitation and I can't help but laugh, nudging his thoughts with my own. /We need to hunt. I believe bears are in season, are they not?/
//They're hibernating// he answers in a tone still slightly shocked. I am pleased that he chose to answer in the more intimate way of communication allowed between Sire and Sired.
/Makes it all the more fun- and I can get rid of the last remnants of the Aura./ I smirk, exposing my sharp teeth, already beginning to elongate in anticipation of imminent feeding.
//Definitely nothing more fun than an angry bear…// he replies dryly, apparently choosing to ignore the end of my statement. That's fine. I won't press my suit for now.
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I wake up, blinking my brown eyes sleepily in the light. I automatically look to the alarm clock sitting on my bedside table. The green-yellow numbers read 10:20. Odd, usually I don't wake till two- two thirty-ish because of regular late-night 'interruptions' that come with the whole Slayer deal. I wonder what woke me; I don't sense any vampires...
I look up to where my ceiling is usually located, but rather than the plain white of my ceiling I see a pair of somewhat mischievous eyes of a breathtaking amethyst. They seem oddly familiar to me though. He's definitely not a vampire, I note with relief, as my senses inform me of his Slayer's power, so similar to my own, but that doesn't tell me a great deal. Who is he, I wonder.
"Ryou-kun! I thought it might have been you! I haven't seen you in ages!" he grins, sitting back to allow me to sit up. That voice is familiar too… Ah! I must be still half in Dreamland not to have recognised him sooner! My eyes travel up his elfin face to his hair and memory returns, pink rising to my cheeks.
This is Yugi Mutou- one of my few high-school friends- and he also happened to be the person who'd made me discover that I was attracted to males. I had been much too shy to act on my attraction though, and he'd always been too innocent to notice anyone's attention in that respect anyway.
"…Yugi-kun? What are you doing in my room, sitting on my bed no less?" With great effort I pull my eyes up to meet his, cursing my pale skin as more pink races along my cheeks at the images those last few words had inspired my surprisingly perverted inner-mind theatre with. Hm. It seems that my reactions to him haven't changed in all this time at least.
"Well, I woke up and I figured that Yami had left me with you, so I went exploring and guess who I found?! Did you know that when you sleep you cuddle into your pillow? It's kinda cute. In a… strange kinda way." he teases, poking my nose gently and I am unable to prevent my blush from darkening even more. I must be red as a cherry, though thanks to my long practice I am able to keep my outwardly calm demeanour. (Hey, when facing down nearly invincible creatures of the night, showing emotion is a big no-no!)
"Well, if you've nothing more important to talk to me about, then I think I'll just go back to sleep. I did get woken up at three-thirty after all, and I'd had a last minute job that I only managed to finish at midnight." I point out, lying back down and pulling my blanket back up around my shoulders, happily snuggling back into my pillow. Hopefully he'll just wander back off into the house… Maybe watch TV or something.
I can definitively say that I didn't expect him to do that.
"What are you doing?!" I squeak as he pulls back the blanket, sliding in next to me.
"Sleeping. I'm tired too y'know and you got more sleep than I did becauseI had to deal with two hormonal, angsty vampires on top of it all. Besides which, that couch wasn't all that comfortable either. Do you know how that wooden stake managed to get stuck under the cushions?"
"But…" I protest weakly; cursing the innocence that renders him completely unaware that sharing a bed with another young man, even for something seemingly innocent as sleeping is definitely not okay.
"Just go back to sleep." he orders, pulling the blankets around his shoulders and rolling away from me. I sigh and try to return to Dreamland.
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I was awoken much later, not by the doorbell ringing, but instead by my screaming sense of vampires, strong ones too. Probably about ten or so, judging from the power radiating from the front door.
"Yugi-kun." I whisper, quietly as I can, shaking the smaller male's shoulder. The other Slayer stirs slightly, frowning in his sleep. "Wake up." I shake him again, rougher this time. Slayer though I might be, even I can't take that many at once, and there's no running from the blasted things, they run too bloody fast!
He blinks sleepy violet eyes. "Ryou-kun? Wassamatter?"
"You need to get up, we've company."
"Company?"
"There can't be any less than ten strong bloodsuckers out the front of the house; don't you feel the power in the back of your mind?"
"Oh that? It's probably just Yami and Bakura-san." Yugi replies, flipping his hand at me and hiding his face under my pillows. I raise my eyebrow. And he lived this long untrained… how? Even if one of the two is the Touzokuou, not even he could wield as much strength as I'm registering- even accounting for Yami's power added into it. I've never sensed so much power in one place, even in the groups I've seen. Which is really bad, because that means these must be from what has to be their version of a 'ruling class' or something to be triggering such a strong reaction from my Slayer's sixth sense.
"Yugi. Get up." Rising from my own position on the bed I go across to the large armoire in the corner of the room, unlocking it with the silver key on the dresser.
Throwing the lid open I lift aside the two trays that fold out to either side bearing vial upon vial of not only holy water, but several vials of blessed sea-water from the personal hand of the Pope. Under those trays is a veritable armoury, several stakes, hammers and even a crossbow. There is only one gun, for what would be a mortal wound from one of those can only delay the evil leeches, but aside from slowing them, it doesn't kill the (literally) damned things.
I toss Yugi the crossbow, which is already loaded with a silver tipped yew bolt and a quiver of other bolts, the bow landing on his lap, waking him at the unexpectedly sudden weight.
"You get a clear shot; shoot 'em in the chest." I say tersely, cocking the gun and grabbing a vial of the holy seawater. Blind 'em then let Yugi stake 'em, that's how this is going to work. The yew bolts will work just fine as a substitute for stakes.
I think it over for a minute, and as a precaution I also grab the scabbarded katana lying at the very bottom of the chest. Once they're down, I can slice their heads off just to be sure. I'd better throw them in the incinerator when I've done that; it'll be easier than burying the things. (Being a powerful, high-ranking Slayer means that I have strings to pull, one of which got me the permit for the incinerator to be on private property.)
"Wait, run that by me again?"
I sigh. Normally I wouldn't ask such a thing of him, he's too innocent to kill anything resembling a human, but this is a desperate situation.
"You stake them with the crossbow, and then I'll finish the kill and cover you." I say patiently, uncorking the vial and stealthily opening the door without even a creak.
I knew keeping all my hinges well-oiled would be useful someday.
"What?!" yelps Yugi. I merely move behind him and clamp my hand over his mouth. It's probably a good thing that I'm in Slayer mode or I'm sure my body would be reacting more violently to being so close to Yugi's body.
"Quiet, they can hear us, you know. Just trust me and do as I say and we'll survive." I move away, beckoning him to follow. He does and we get to the door. I hold up three fingers in the universal signifier of a countdown.
Slowly I put one down, then a second and as I put down the third, I wrench the door open, automatically throwing the blessed sea-water at the first thing in the doorway.
I gasp as I realise what I've just done. I have possibly just committed suicide… I just threw that holy water across the chest of Yugi's vampiric friend from last night.
He screams a banshee-like scream of pain, falling to his knees. Another man, who looks uncannily like me hisses at us, nails elongating as he settles into a fighting stance. Uh-oh… There're no other creatures within sight which means that all that power….
Was theirs. And the white-haired vampire seems rather angry at the moment…
Before the livid vampire can leap, Yugi runs forward, grabbing his shirt, abandoning the crossbow in the process and he yells; "Enough! Bakura, Ryou didn't mean it, he thought there was an ambush waiting out here, and he didn't know it was just you two!"
"Child-Slayer…" the man I can only assume to be the famed Touzokuou growls warningly.
"He's probably right, Akefia." gasps the downed vampire, automatically reaching out and grabbing the angry male's pants-leg. The ghost-white face of the Touzokuou softens almost immediately and he drops to his haunches, laying a pale hand on the other's strangely dark cheek before carefully picking him up, cradling the injured one to his chest as though he were delicate and fragile.
"I can deal with this, luckily for you." he hisses dangerously, slitted pupils glaring at me menacingly. "You will let me in. Now." he orders and I quickly step aside to prevent him knocking me over as he shoulders through the door.
Yes, I believe I definitely screwed up there…
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Gently Akefia lays me on the same couch I had put Yugi on not so long ago, carefully, almost… dare I say lovingly pulling aside the tattered shirt I had been wearing (The tatters of course, having been his handiwork)
"It was sea-water or it wouldn't have done a thing to you." he muses, before snapping at Ryou and Yugi; "Get me some water one of you. And a wash-cloth."
The only two mortals in the room nod, Yugi pulling Ryou behind him.
"I knew it was a bad idea to just stroll up to the house of a Slayer." he mutters, running his fingertips gingerly around the sizzling acid-like burn across my chest. "I should've known he'd sense my power and panic." he continues sourly.
/It's not your fault/ I tell him silently, and he rewards my usage of the more intimate form of communication with a tiny, almost imperceptible smile.
The two younger ones return and they each respectively give Akefia a bowl of water and several washcloths before Yugi tactfully removes the still wary Ryou from the room, allowing Akefia to settle slightly, albeit unconsciously.
He puts the cloth into the water, before effortlessly squeezing the excess out with one hand, placing the other on my injured chest, heedless of the saltwater still on my skin, scrutinising the slightly bubbled skin.
Gently, as though afraid the slightest roughness will break me he begins to wipe away the cause of my pain, removing the saltwater and replacing it with cool, fresh water. Finishing this task, he replaces the cloth in the bowl, frowning before he leans forward, not looking up and with he begins to softly lap at the skin, gliding over the edges of the raw and blistering wound as he slowly works his way further towards the centre of said wound. What on Earth is he doing? And why doesn't it hurt? For Ra's sake, even the brush of the washcloth was painful, so why isn't this hurting? It even… well, feels good.
"What are you doing?!" I gasp as the gentle laps continue against my injured skin, still feeling much nicer than it has any right to, especially as painful as it should be…
He finishes with one long lick across my nipple and up my neck to nibble my ear, before whispering; "I believe thanks are in order, my dear Atemu."
I look down to the previously badly injured flesh on my chest, only to find fresh, slightly pink skin in replacement for the wound!
He just licked my injury away!
Hope you all liked the 'healing' of the injury. And just to clarify, remember in the prologue, how I told you all that holy water doesn't do much against a non-evil vampire? Well, because the stuff was holy seawater, (which, if you'll remember I said is like acid to Lords and vampires alike) it injured Atemu, it had nothing to do with it being holy.
There is now a side-pairing!! You guys can vote if you want Ryou to get a little romance in his life... Or not. :p You needn't worry that if I have a side-pairing I'll abandon the Darkshippy goodness, cause there is no way in hell I'd do that.
Anyways, please REVIEW!
Smile:D
Ireina
