Chapter Twelve

Yusei took in his surroundings as he went, the place was dark and gloomy with torches dotted here and there, making the place seem spookier than it actually was. Once Roman had introduced himself he had opted to show Yusei around this base they were in, Yusei had seen no one since the woman named Misty had brought him to Roman.

Roman sensing Yusei nervousness decided that he should be reassured in some way and the best idea that he could come up with was to introduce him to the members of his society. There wasn't just vampires in this society, there were other creatures including demons and also humans.

"Do not fear Yusei, you will be taken care of here."

"No offence but I don't exactly trust people who kidnap my friends and use them as bait so that they can get to me." retorted Yusei

"It was not my idea, Yusei. Someone else wanted you to come here and even ignored everything that I said."

"Who was it?"

"I'm afraid I can't tell you that...at least not yet." Yusei remained quiet, he was on edge now that he knew that it wasn't Roman that summoned him.

They came to a set of double doors, with carvings of different creatures, to Yusei they looked the drawings from the Nazca Lines. When the doors opened Yusei could see people waiting on the other side of them, looking like they were waiting for them.

"Now Yusei, I would like to introduce you to the rest of my family. Each and every one of us has a different story of how we came to be here but that doesn't matter, what matters is that we are one family and that we strive to bring peace to this world of Night Creatures and humans."

"That's nice and all but you're forgetting one thing, you kidnapped me and tortured my friend just to bring me here, so I don't see how you want peace when all you've shown is malice and ill intent."

"That was regrettable but it had to be done and here you are. Now let me introduce you." Roman placed his hand on Yusei's shoulder causing Yusei to tense as he was steered towards a tall coloured man with longish black hair. "Grieger, I would like to introduce you to Yusei."

"Please to meet you." He held his hand out for Yusei to shake, slowly Yusei brought his hand to Grieger's. They shook hands, as soon as they made contact Yusei was immediately able to tell that Grieger was a demon, most likely a water demon judging by his size and shape, if Yusei had to guess he would likely guess that Grieger was a whale demon.

A hand appeared on Grieger's shoulder and revealed a tall woman with long black hair, she smiled at Yusei knowingly and Yusei instantly knew that this was Misty the woman that had guided him to Roman.

"Yusei, we meet again."

"Misty. Thank you for showing me where I needed to go."

"It was my pleasure Yusei."

Yusei smiled but quickly turned to a frown when Roman took a hold of his shoulders and guided him to the other people in the room.

"This young lady is named Carly, she is a young vampire that was turned recently." Said Roman pointing to a young woman about Yusei's age with black hair, Yusei shook her hand as she nervously giggled at his actions. Roman turned to another person in the room, one that had been glaring at Yusei the entire time he had entered the room, but Yusei knew nothing of this. His golden eyes narrowed as Yusei smiled at Carly.

"I wouldn't stay near that traitor if I were you Carly, you never knew when he'll turn on you!" growled the figure, Yusei turned when he heard the voice.

"Kalin...Kalin Kessler? Is that you?" exclaimed Yusei, instantly recognising the icy blue hair of his old friend.

"Yes Yusei, it's me." Yusei ran to his friend, wrapping his arms around him, the tears in his eyes were coming down but Yusei didn't care at the moment because he had found his friend that he thought had been dead. Slowly he pulled away from Kalin sensing something was wrong with his friend both in his personality and himself in general. "Surprised to see me after you sold me out!"

"Kalin, I never sold out! Why would you think that?"

"Oh I don't know, maybe because the last time we saw each other, we were facing certain death with the vampires we were supposed to be hunting."

"Kalin, I tried to get them to follow me so that you could get away but not all of them followed, but I thought you could take the rest of them out."

"Well you thought wrong Yusei...because of you I was turned into a god forsaken vampire and look at you, you're still human. You betrayed me!" shouted Kalin

"Kalin I never betrayed you, I tried to find you but you were gone and I never heard anything from you after that, I thought you were dead."

"After I'm done with you Yusei, you're going to wish you were dead." Kalin brought his arms forward, wrapping his hands around Yusei's neck, causing Yusei vision to start turning black.

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Luna shook her head, her vision had been clouded for a while but now she could see perfectly and she instantly knew what had happened. Yusei had traded himself for her and now she was at the the meeting place where they had taken him and left her.

"What should I do? I don't know where anyone is." Luna felt despair at her situation but that was short lived as she heard footsteps heading towards her at a fast pace. She quickly dove behind some bushes hoping that it wasn't anyone bad, she felt relief hit her when she saw that it was Crow and Leo that were the ones who had made the noise.

Luna ran to her brother and hugged him tight, normally Leo would have pushed her off him but he knew she needed this and he wasn't going to upset his sister anymore than she already had.

"Leo! I'm so glad you're here. I was so scared." she cried into her brother's shoulder. "Please tell me Yusei didn't give himself up so that I could be free!" she looked to their faces and instantly knew she had guessed right. "How could you let him do that? Who knows what awful things are happening to him."

"Relax Luna, it's all part of the plan." explained Leo

"What plan?"

"We can't tell you, but just know that Yusei is safe." Crow hated that he couldn't tell her but it was like Yusei had told them, you never knew where the eyes and ears of the enemy were and right now they were in enemy territory with no clue if they could even trust Luna. "C'mon we're heading back, Luna I know this is cruel to ask but will you put on a blindfold for a while, just until we get to the base?"

"Yeah, Ok?" After they had blindfolded Luna and placed her on Crow's back, they set off for the hideout.

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It had not been easy to get Kalin away from Yusei but eventually they had managed, Grieger had used his demon strength and pulled him from Yusei. Yusei fell to the floor in a fit of coughs trying to get air back into his lungs.

"Yusei, are you alright?" asked Misty

"I'm fine, what happened to Kalin to make him like that?"

"we do not know, all we know is that he has had that rage boiling within him for years. He promised revenge on the one that had made him the way he was."

"I don't get it, is it because he got turned into a vampire? Because I didn't know, I thought he was dead."

"How do you know you are not to blame? You said that you thought he was dead, did you really look for him when you escaped?" asked Roman, he had ordered Kalin away from the room so that he couldn't cause anymore trouble.

"I searched for weeks to find him and the only thing I found was his bandanna."

"I see, I would introduce you to our last member but he is away in the spirit's world on a mission but that is not important. If you will follow me Yusei I would like you to meet someone else."

"But you just said that the last member was gone."

"This person is not one of us but he is important to us."

"Who is it?"

"You will find out soon enough."

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Yusei was escorted deeper into the underground, when they came to a pair of double doors Roman turned to Yusei.

"You are the only one permitted in this room today, so this is as far as I take you." with that Roman walked away leaving Yusei alone.

"Yusei I don't like this. He's the leader and yet he wants you to meet someone else."

"Maybe he's not in charge. Maybe this person is actually the leader and has ordered Roman to pretend to be the leader."

"That's probably true, but as far as I'm concerned this person is just a coward."

"Jack, please be quiet, it's hard to concentrate on keeping your spirit signature hidden as well as my own powers with you ranting in my ear."

"Sorry, so are we going in or are we just going to stand here looking pretty."

Yusei walked towards the doors for them to open automatically when Yusei got close, taking calming breaths Yusei walked into the room. The room lit up as soon as Yusei entered the room, while the double doors closed behind him.

"It is good to see you again Yusei."

Yusei looked around the room looking for the source of the voice but couldn't find anything to tell him where the voice had come from. The voice had sounded so familiar but he couldn't place where from, it may have been the room slightly distorting the voice but Yusei knew that the voice would eventually show him who they were, afterall they had been the one to request him there but who were they?

"Do you not recognise my voice Yusei?"

"Should I?" growled Yusei

"I'm disappointed Yusei."

"Who are you?" shouted Yusei, he didn't want to play games all he wanted was to find out who wanted him and then get out of this creepy place.

"Surely you recognise your own father." Yusei turned around, there standing by the double doors was none other than Hakase Fudo.

"That's impossible."

To Be Continued...

Hey guys wanted to give you something for the start of the New Year so here it is. What did you think? I have been thinking hard about how I was going to do this chapter and I am happy to say that I like how it turned out and I hope you guys liked it.