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Duke whirled around and punched a hole in the wall of the kitchen, just behind the sink. "This way, hurry!" we began to climb out into the hall outside the apartment. "Come on! That door won't last long! We gotta run!" I clutched Yugi's hand and sprinted after them.
*Crash*
I spared a glance back to see a large, wolf-like beast standing in the hallway. Its fur was the same color as Joey's hair, but its eyes were dark. He truly looked like a predator, not a single trace of our constantly grinning friend.
We reached the bottom of the stairwell ad bolted out the front door. "Tristan, take Tea! I'll try to lead him away! We only have to hold out until sunrise!" Duke yelled.
Tristan grabbed Tea's hand and ran down an ally to the right of the door. Yugi and I ran across the street. Just as we were halfway, though, we heard Joey burst through the doors and pounce on Duke.
"Yami, Run! Don't look back!" Yugi was frantic, almost in hysterics at this point. He kept a firm grip on my hand, pulling me across to the other sidewalk. "Duke is a lot stronger than he looks! Just run!" we bolted down the street, the sounds of fighting long behind us. About six blocks later, we slowed to a walk. "Yami? Wh-why are we stopping?" Yugi panted.
"We can't just keep running, Yugi. Besides, we don't even know where Joey is."
He took a deep breath. "Your right. We need to conserve our energy and thin- Ahhh!" he broke off and clutched his neck.
"Yugi? What's wrong? Are you alrigh-" I was cut off as a n ear piercing howl shattered the previous silence.
"Run! C'mon Yami! He's catching up!" Yugi snatched my hand and took off down the street. I chanced a look behind me and could just make out Joey far behind us.
"Yugi, faster! He's catching up! Yugi? Yugi!" He had begun to fall behind, then, without warning, tripped and fell to the sidewalk. I caught him before he landed, but there was something wrong; he was having trouble staying conscious and his eyes were glassy and unseeing. "Yugi? Speak to me. What's wrong?"
"Get up! Run!" Duke scooped Yugi up and hauled me to my feet. "Just stay with me, we'll lose him in the alleys!" I had to push my legs to their limits just to keep up with them, but a few alleys later, we stopped, no longer hearing Joey. "What happened?" Duke asked, leaning against the dirty brick wall.
I looked at him, still trying to catch my breath. "I don't know. He just collapsed. Is he alright?" I was getting worried. Yugi was unconscious and Duke was silently examining him.
"What's this?" he murmured, pulling something from Yugi's hand. It was a small dart of some sort. "This is bad." He said, rolling it between his fingers. "Its not just Joey we have to look out for." He paused, chucking the dart away. "We're being hunted."
"Hunted?" I asked, taking Yugi's limp from in my arms. "By who?"
"If the scent from that dart was anything to go on, Boss."
"You mean the one you and Yugi were imprisoned by?"
"Yeah. And, knowing him, this has all been planned out. Probably from when they bit Joey. They wanted us out in the open, focusing on our survival rather than if we were being followed by someone other than Joey." He suddenly stiffened. "Yami, give me Yugi."
I complied and kept my voice low. "What is it?"
"We need to run. They're here. I can smell them." He stood up silently, adjusting Yugi as he went. "Yami, when I say, run as fast as you can. We've hemmed ourselves in in the alley. If we get to the street, we might have a chance." I nodded, then froze as the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. "Move!"
I was ahead of them, Duke keeping up with Yugi, when what felt like a brick wall slammed into me. I hit the side of the building and lay stunned. Around me, the world spun. A blurry, dark shape had cornered who I thought was Duke, though it was hard to tell for sure, and began exchanging blows with the vampire. "Yami! Get up! Get out of here!" I could see he was trying to protect my unconscious neko, but against a large werewolf, there wasn't much he could do.
I staggered to my feet and clenched a hand to head, swallowing bile as it came away bloody. "Yami! Look out!" I heard right before the world went dark.
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". . .ami . . .Yami . . .can . . .hear me . . ." Someone was calling me. That much I could tell. But sounded like they were far away. "Yami, please wake up."
"T-Tea?" I whispered.
"Yami! Oh, thank God. We were so worried about you." I slowly tried to open my eyes, focusing in on the worried faces of Tea and Tristan.
"Wh-what happened?" I asked as Tristan helped me carefully sit up.
"You tell us, man. We only just found you."
I winced, trying to remember. "Joey. He was chasing us. And Yugi . . . Yugi! Where is he?" I bolted to my feet, but wavered and would have fallen had Tristan not caught me.
"Hey, take it easy, Yami. You were hit pretty herd."
"Wh-where's Yugi? Where is he?" I asked.
"We don't know. I'm so sorry."
I sank back to the ground, disbelieving. 'I let them take him,' I thought. 'I promised I'd protect him. And now they have him.'
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Yugi slowly opened his eyes. His vision was blurry and he was still a bit sleepy. He blinked his eyes and yawned, then stretched. Feeling his tail behind him, he was able to tell that he was in neko form. 'I don't remember falling asleep.' He thought. 'Come to think of it, I don't remember Tristan's bed being this hard, either.' At that thought, Yugi's eyes shot open, this time frantically taking in his surroundings. 'No, this can't be happening. This is impossible.' He began panicking, his tail tucked firmly under him.
"Yug'?" A voice asked timidly. Yugi spun around to face whoever had spoken. Across the aisle separating the rows of cages, was a familiar blonde. "Yug?" he asked again, "Are you alright? I . . . I-I'm so sorry. I don't know why I at-attac-" he broke off, unable to continue. He lowered his head, full of guilt and shame. "I don't know why I went after you guys. It was like, I don't know, I couldn't control myself."
As soon as Yugi had spotted Joey, he had pressed himself as hard as he could against the back wall of his cage. He pulled his knees to his chest while his hand was at his neck, nursing the remembered pain from where Atem had taken his third life.
After not hearing any response, Joey raised his head to look at Yugi. "I'm so sorry, Yugi."
Shakily, Yugi swallowed, but before he could speak, however, the door swung open, revealing the reason they were there. Yugi whimpered and got into a defensive stance, tail between his legs and ears flat. "Boss." He whispered. Joey had no idea who this creep was, other than Yugi was terrified of him.
The man turned to someone behind him. "Put the vampire in the cage by the new werewolf, and then bring me the neko."
"Yes, sir, Mr. Pegasus."
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