Chapter 12(I DO NOT OWN YUGIOH)
It had been two days since Ryou had been brought to the demons underground city, and he just couldn't get them out of his head. The hopeful looks on some of their faces and then the saddened ones when he refused to help, ever since then he had heard many talks about how the demons had no humanity, and would kill each other for sport. And it all made him laugh, he had seen them living in a peaceful society, with children and elders all being cared for by one another, all helping each other. The more he heard some of the opinions of the hunters the more he felt that maybe his decision to not help them was the wrong one.
"Is somethin' the matter, Ryou?" The heavily accented blonde's voice asked, when he noticed he had stopped mending his arm.
"Wha- Sorry Joey, just wandered off a bit." Ryou said and forced himself back into caring for the blonds injured arm. Joey was skeptical that the white haired boy was telling the truth but left it be, he would wait till the silence brought whatever was bothering the boy out, and he didn't haft to wait long.
"Joey, what do you think about what the older hunters say about the demons?"
The blonde thought on the unexpected question, "Well… I don't think everything there saying is right. I saw a little one before and when he spotted me he looked more scared than I was. But I can't say for sure that maybe there all good, but I've never had a chance to try and find out."
"And what would you do if you could?"
"I would try and talk to them, assuming that they speak English. But I would bring a weapon just in case, though if they ambushed me I probably wouldn't stand a chance." The blonde said, Ryou thought on it as he finished bandaging the wound, and though on it long after the blonde had left. All the way until he smelt the overwhelming stench of blood come to his nose. Curious as to what was going on he left his little curtained off section to see what had happened.
It was Ash and a group of his loyal followers, they were all surrounded by a body, half covered in fur. They most likely brought it back with them so it could be studied to improve there weapons, but what horrified Ryou the most when he finally got a good look at the body, was that he had seen it before. It was one of the demons he had seen in the big tent with Yugi. Ash kicked it as he talked up a storm about it, and Ryou caught sight of it twitch slightly, and a lavender orb opened a bit before closing again. It was still alive!
"I'll help with this one." Ryou said immediately, which got him several stairs from the others around him. He never helped when one of the creatures was brought in for them to study.
"So you're finally taking an interest in researching these beast are you Ryou, very well take him to your section and start to prepare it." The head doctor said with a smile, "I'll be over shortly to help."
Ryou nodded and went over to the body, he saw the muscles tighten as to prepare to run and fight back. 'shhh, stay still. I'll help you but you need to trust me.' Ryou whispered, and watched as that lavender eye opened a slit then closed as its body relaxed. Ryou moved him as quickly as possible, and when he closed the curtain around them he let out a sigh, and smiled shyly when two lavender orbs looked at him.
"You're really beat up, let me put some things on that and get you some water. We'll haft to make this quick, how fast do you think you can recover?" Ryou asked in a hushed tone.
"Fast enough." The male said as he slowly sat up testing different parts of his body. Ryou got a good look at him this time, he was sure this guy was a wolf-demon, his body was only partly morphed, but the dark black grey fur along his arm and back, along with the paw looking feet and hands, made it pretty obvious.
Ryou placed some medicine on the opened skin and marveled as it was absorbed and the skin began to knit back together slowly. "Amazing…"Ryou said as he watched some of the other smaller cuts do the same. He passed a glass of water to the wolf demon and began to hurriedly explain his plan.
The head medic just finished talking to the hunters and saw them out the door, when there was a shrill scream and a terrifying roar of anger and pain. He looked to were the sound was coming from and saw the shadows play on the white curtain, the demon rose off of its slate and roared at the young boy, he screamed again as the demon swiped out a paw splattering the white curtain with spots of red. There was a loud crash as the young boy was forcefully flung to the side, tearing the curtain from the rod and landing in a heap on one of the instrument carts, where he laid motionless.
The wolf-demon growled, as it emerged completely morphed looking like a large grey/black wolf, he growled threating before bolting out the door and down the hall. An alarm went up as the demon was loose in the headquarters, several times they almost had it cornered but it was able to escape threw a hidden underground tunnel.
Ryou opened his eyes, his body hurt and he was seeing three blonde heads instead of just one, as they called out his name.
"Ryou, Ryou! Come on man wake up." Joey said as he picked up the white haired boy from the pile of implements that he had landed in.
"Joey, why are there three of you?" he asked as he was laid on a soft bed, he could hear the sounds of people yelling at each other to get things under control.
"Oh man, his brains been scrambled. I'll get that demon for this." The blonde said angrily and started for the door.
"Wait, Joey." The blond stopped, and looked back concerned for Ryou, "Close the curtain, I haft to tell you something." The blond did as he was asked and came over to Ryou. "I-Is there anyone else here besides you?"
"No, they all went after the demon, they didn't even stop to look at you, which pissed me off."
"Did they get him?"
"No, he got away in one of the pipes. Which is lucky for him, that exit is hard to find unless you were told about it."
Ryou felt a bit of heat flood his cheeks, "That's good he got away."
Joey looked confused, "Ah… Ya lost me. Did that fall really cause some damage?"
Ryou almost laughed but stopped when his head began to pound painfully, "Listen, I let him go. I didn't ask you those things earlier by chance, I- I met some of the demons. There nothing like what the hunters try and teach us, there just like us only attacking because we are hunting them. They just want to live in peace." Ryou said he was getting sleepy, most likely because the wound in his arm was still bleeding.
"Wait, are you telling me, that him attacking you was all staged?" Ryou nodded, "And you're the one who told him how to get out." Another nod, "And that you've actually met some of these demons, What were they like?"
Ryou smiled, "Like us, they had family's and elders, and they were caring and kind, though one was rather scary looking." A image of Seto flashed through his mind. "Everything, we've been told by the hunter's is wrong, they aren't monsters there just different."
The blond sat there slowly processing everything he had been told, "How did you meet them?"
"Yugi, he's part demon. He came to ask for my help, he wants to put an end to the war between our races, and he wanted me to try and convince the younger hunters like you cause you don't completely believe in what their teaching us." He grimaced as the pain in his arm began to register in his mind. Joey sat there quiet again, before moving to find some bandages. He wasn't very good at that type of thing but he tried his best to bind Ryou's arm, carefully thinking things over as he did.
"Could you show me?" Joey finally asked, he needed to find out what the truth was and what wasn't.
"Yes, I can. But I'll need help walking I'm still a bit out of it." Ryou said and tried to sit up to fast. Joey laughed and pulled Ryou's uninjured arm over his shoulder and helped him to his feet.
"Point the way partner."
On their way out they were stopped by several people, asking where they were going. Joey to Ryou's surprise was able to come up with an excuse on the spot, clamming that Ryou had taken a hard knock to the head and was being taken home. It wasn't hard to convince people as Ryou looked like had gone three rounds with a bull and lost, and they were let go without a fuss. Once they were out Ryou gave directions to the underground city and held on tight as Joey sped through the streets on his motor bike.
"This it?" Joey asked as he parked the bike above the abandoned cement tunnel.
"This is it. Now help me down." Ryou said a bit grumpily, the loud noise of the motor bike had done nothing to help his headache.
