"Well isn't that nice," came a smug voice from the door. "The vampire family is being reunited."
Seto pulled Mokuba behind him as he turned towards the door to find the kidnapper standing there. He realized too late that Yugi was actually closer to the door than he was to him. He cursed himself. He should have realized that there was a possibility that they would be caught. Yugi had said that he couldn't be seen no matter what. He said that he knew the 'vampire hunter'. Yugi had said these things, which should have alerted Seto to keep a better eye on him, but the prospect of having his brother back had distracted him to the point that he wasn't even aware of where Yugi was.
The kidnapper smiled as he held a glass of red wine before him. His long silver hair fell in front of his left eye and onto his red suit. "I don't know how you got into my church," he said with an overly dramatic flourish, "but now that you're here I can't let you leave."
"Pegasus," Yugi stood. Seto cursed at him because there had still been a chance that Yugi would go unnoticed until he spoke. "They aren't what you think they are."
Pegasus's eyes widened as he noticed the other man in the room. "My angel!" Pegasus gasped. "Where have you been? I've looked all over for you. Have these demons kidnapped you. That must be how they are able to withstand being in this church with all of these crosses."
"They aren't demons Pegasus," Yugi tried to say.
"Oh no!" Pegasus cried out. "The demons have brainwashed you again. Don't worry my angel, I shall cleanse you once more."
Seto saw Yugi wince at the mention of cleansing him and he wondered what exactly Pegasus would do to him.
"I'm not staying Pegasus," Yugi said shakily. "I'm going to leave and take these two with me. You are mistaken about them. They aren't evil."
Pegasus strode forward before any more words could be spoken, and forcefully grabbed hold of Yugi's arm. "You aren't leaving. Once I've killed these demons, I'm going to cleanse you of their influence."
"Get your hands off of him," Seto growled as he too stood. There was no way in hell he was going to let anyone, much less a vampire hunter, touch anything that belonged to him. Not his brother and not his Yugi.
Pegasus pulled Yugi closer to him, but he didn't let go of his painfully tight grip on his hand. Instead, he brandished a jagged looking wooden stake.
"You think that's going to stop me," Seto laughed humorlessly.
"Of course," Pegasus smirked. "It has worked on countless other demons. I am certain that it will not fail me now. I will protect my angel."
"Your angel," Seto scoffed. "I think you'll find that he belongs to me."
"How dare you," Pegasus growled. "He belongs in this church with all of God's followers looking up to him."
"I don't think so," Seto said.
"Please let me go," Yugi whined, as the grip on his hand got even tighter.
"No my angel," Pegasus pleaded. "These demons have poisoned your brain. They're going to hurt you once they're done with you."
"You're hurting me," Yugi answered.
"I'm doing no such thing," Pegasus continued to ignore Yugi's complaints and allowed his hand to tighten further.
Yugi yelped and Seto waited no longer. He lunged forward and attempted to knock Pegasus away from Yugi, but the man was good. He simply moved to the side and tried to use Seto's own thrust to force the wood into his chest. Seto would not allow this, however. He had taken several fighting classes when he was younger, and, although he had allowed his carnal instincts to take over during the first attack, he would not allow himself to mess up again. He had to focus or there was a chance that none of them would be able to make it out of there.
Mokuba sat confused where Seto had forced him only moments before. After being asleep for so long, it took his brain several minutes just to catch up to the fact that Seto was there, let alone anything else that was going on. It didn't help that a boy who looked a lot like an old friend of his, except younger and more innocent, was there to. He kept waiting for his old friend to lash out like he used to, but the boy seemed unwilling to even attempt to pry Pegasus's hand off of his arm. Not to mention the fact that Pegasus kept referring to the boy as his angel, and Mokuba knew for a fact that his old friend didn't claim to be and was never mistaken as an angel.
Then there was the fact that Seto had claimed to be the same as him. Did Seto even know what that meant? Obviously he did, if he knew how to save Mokuba, but how did he know. Mokuba didn't even know that he could survive having a wooden stake thrust through his heart until he had woken up in the coffin in this very same church. At the time he had been so weak that he had been captured again, but at least he had some hope that maybe he would be able to escape again. The fact that he awoke in a church without feeling any pain also disproved his thought that he couldn't be inside churches with crosses. He remembered his old friend mentioning something about it a while ago, but he hadn't known the man for very long. In fact, he wasn't even sure if he could call the man his old friend. Really, the only thing that the man had done for him was save him from having to explain why he was not growing any older, than he had left immediately claiming that he had a family that he had to return to. They kept in contact, but it was so minimal that it really only happened when one of them needed advice or some help.
Mokuba snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Seto growl. Now really wasn't the best time to try to work through all of his confusion, he could ask the other two what they thought about it later, now was the time to help his brother save the boy that Pegasus was holding captive. "Seto!" he called out. He was actually surprised to find that Seto only to a moment to glance over and make sure that he was still okay before reconcentrating on Pegasus. Before, Seto would have done anything to get to Mokuba's side when the man called for him. This boy must be really important to him.
Mokuba waited only a moment before he saw an opening for him to join the fight. Seto had just knocked the stake out of Pegasus's hand so Mokuba assumed that he really didn't need the help, but he decided to give it anyway because he seemed to be being overly cautious about the boy in Pegasus's grip. Mokuba didn't need to do that. He had no emotional connection to the boy. The only thing he wanted to do was to make sure that Pegasus was defeated so that his brother would be safe.
"What are you doing?" Seto growled as Mokuba practically crawled up Pegasus's back so that he could put the man in a chokehold.
"I'm helping," Mokuba muttered. Pegasus finally let go of Yugi's hand so that he could use the hand not holding onto the wooden stake to try to pry Mokuba off, but no human would be able to beat the strength of a vampire. Yugi frowned and moved away from the man as he rubbed his arm, but he kept a watchful eye on the man's face.
"You're going to get yourself hurt," Seto tried to say, but he wouldn't dare make Mokuba let Pegasus go because he knew that would put them all in danger.
There was a moment of silence because Mokuba didn't feel any reason to answer his nephew when it was obvious that he was just fine. He had let Seto protect him for all of those years in the orphanage and now it was his turn to do the same.
Surprisingly, it was actually Yugi who broke the silence. "Let him go," he said.
"What?" Mokuba asked, but he did not release his grip.
"You're going to kill him," Yugi pointed out. "He's already going unconscious so just let him go."
"This guy deserves to die," Mokuba growled. There was no way that Yugi could understand what this man had put him through.
"If you kill him than you will be no better than he is," Yugi said.
"How dare you?" Mokuba growled. "You don't know anything about what he's done."
"He put a stake through your heart," Yugi said. "I've seen worse."
"No," Mokuba continued. "You don't understand what it feels like."
"He practically drowned me," Yugi admitted.
"What?" Mokuba's grip slackened slightly as Seto growled this word out.
"A little while ago," Yugi continued. "I was living near here and I heard about a vampire hunter. I went to check it out just to make sure that he wasn't a threat, but I accidently let it slip that I was older than I look. He thought that it meant that I was an angel and decided that he wanted me to stay at the church, but I refused and said that I was no angel. He thought that the reason I was refusing was because I didn't feel that I was worthy of the church anymore because some demons had tainted me so he forced me in the pool that they baptize people in and closed the top so that I couldn't get out. He put me in there on a Monday and he didn't release me until the Saturday following." By the time that he was done with his story, Mokuba had actually released his grip on Pegasus, but Seto was stalking forward to finish the job so Yugi got in his way. "I think that we should go before anybody else comes by. He does have other vampire hunters that he is training."
Seto growled and tried to continue towards killing Pegasus, but Yugi pulled him out of the room with Mokuba following thoughtfully.