'I should've known. The moemnt I saw that gem I should've known, she would use her powers sooner or later. Why didn't I think of that? It isn't like me to underestimate an opponent! Especially someone so dangerous.'
But that didn't matter now. It wasn't doing him any good to think about what he couldn't change anymore. He would just have to act very fast and give her that damn injection. Maybe he could use this situation to his advantage?! Surely, she would underestimate him now- seeing as she was definitely superior to him at the moment?! But Anzu seemed to know, where his thoughts were leading. She distanced her self from him by retreating higher into the air until she was floating directly under the ceiling. A grin spread across her face as she saw Seto's jaw clench in frustration. Anzu decided she wouldn't take any chances like he did, which let him to lose control over the situation instead of gaining more. A bright glow enveloped her hands and immediately the syringe burst into a thousand pieces.
"Now about that plan of yours!" she said as the light around her hands became piercing.
'Shit!' Seto cursed. If she was going to use her powers, he would be unable to stop her- let alone make her do as he wished! The situation was serious. Anzu was in control of what happened, which angered the hunter only more. He hated it when he hadn't absolutely everything in his hands. It made him feel helpless, worse even: It made him feel weak- and he hated to be weak!
Meanwhile Anzu was getting a little nervous. She didn't like the silence, because it meant that Seto was plotting how to bring her down- litterally. Scratching her chin in thought for a moment, she decided to speak out and turn his attention back to her. Hopefully, that would get her the time she needed to find out, what to do with him… or the time Yami needed to get here…
Maybe he was close already?
'Please.' She thought desperately. 'You gods above, please take my love here quickly.'
"What you were about to do would have thrown the world off balance. Which in turn would have led to apocalypse. And all that just because you don't like vampires?!?"
"I didn't know it would cause such a thing…" he grumbeled slightly.
Maybe he could distract her until he found a way out of this mess, he found himself in?
Not likely.
"YOU DIDN'T KNOW?!?!" Anzu screeched. Seto had to cover his ears or he would've gone deaf. "You risked the lifes of everybody, put them in danger… not knowing the consequences of your actions? You're crazy!"
"So I've been told."
"Oh, don't you dare get cocky with me, you bastard!" the sorceress screamed at him, floating down from under the ceiling so fast she seemed to be falling. She stopped only inches above the ground, glaring at Kaiba as if he had robbed a little boy of his candy. Somehow it made Seto feel guilty. She had always had that ability, but it had only increased after they had broken up, because he had slept with his secretary. How she had found out about that, he never knew. Fact was, that that had indeed been entirely his fault! Therefor (spelling?) he had actually felt very guilty and even sorry as she had pierced him with this particular glare.
Another reason why he was happy they broke up: He didn't like feeling guilty!
'Oh man, that was a close one!' Anzu thought in the meantime. 'Maybe he didn't notice the slip… Ah, don't fool yourself, of course he has noticed. He's Seto Kaiba after all. Damn! That could get me into serious trouble, if he were to connect the pieces. Hopefully, he just shrugges it off as an accident, because I was startled… and angry…and out right furious with him… Yeah, right.'
As she began to space out on him, her glare loosened it's touch, so that Seto was able to stop feeling like a filthy jerk. That was when his brain, that had been screaming at him something about her was being fishy for the past few minutes, took over again. It began to analyze what just happened. He knew he didn't have much time and that, if he moved abruptly, she would probably sent him through the wall with her magical powers. However, he couldn't help but noticed that her face had been holding an expression of shock as she fell from the air. Of course this could just mean, that she had been shocked to hear him comment in such a way- especially in his situation…
Kaiba smirked.
He doubted it!
As she seemed to be still absorbed in her own little world, he tried to move a bit to the left, where his briefcase lay on a table. If he could just get a hand inside, he might be able to snatch the second injection he had brought with him. In case the first wasn't enough to control her. You never knew with these magical creatures! He didn't trust them as far as he could throw them…
Silently rummaging in his briefcase, he found what he had been looking for.
Anzu was still thinking.
Pulling it out he made his way over to where the young woman was standing.
Anzu was scrathing her cheek thoughtfully as she was attacked…
(Scene Change)
(a few minutes earlier)
"So, you want to help me defeat your brother?" Yami asked again.
"Yes, to save Anzu. But on one condition…"
"That I leave your brother unharmed?!" the vampire leader guessed. The boy nodded. Yami hadn't expected anything else. He, too, would ask for his brother's wellbeing if the tables were turned. "Well, I can't promise anything." Mokuba's face fell. "He might not come out unharmed, …but I will allow him to live."
The black-haired boy cheered up again, if only a little. He loved his brother, but could understand the pharaoh too. The vampire loved Anzu and was rightously angry at Seto, because he wanted to harm his love. However, Yami just promised not to kill his brother- including to bite him, right?
"Um… Does that mean you won't…you know… suck his blood out of him?"
"I wouldn't do that even if you gave me permission to." 'Seto's blood must be pure acid with all that evil intent…' he added silently to himself and shuddered. The king of egypt decided, he really didn't need any poison in his veins!
"Good. Then follow me. I know where Seto is and how to get there without being seen!" Mokuba said as he snatched Yami's wrist. They began to ran in the direction of where Yami had come from. They rounded a few corners, passing up door after door, before turning into another hallway.
"It looks exactly like the other one."
"Every hallway looks like this. You get lost a few times at first, but after a while you get the knack of it. At the end of this hallway, turning left there is an elevator, that will bring us directly where Seto is. But there are some guards and we have to act quickly if we don't want them to alert the others and calling reinforcements."
"Let that be my problem. I haven't eaten in a few days anyway…" Mokuba looked horrified. "What?! We agreed I wouldn't bite your brother. I never said anything about the other hunters, did I?"
"But… but…"
"Do you want to save Anzu?"
"…Yes."
Yami walked right through the wall instead of rounding the corner. Bursting out of the thick stone, he sent the first guard flying into the wall on the other side. He crashed against it with a loud cracking noise, the cold wall crumbling a little. There were three more, charging at him with electricity powered sticks (sorry, didn't find a word for those in the dictionary). Yami grabbed the weapon, crying out in pain for a moment, but pulling the man to him anyways to punch him hard in the gut. While the third man charged, the fourth pulled out his communicator to ask for help. The vampire leader dissolved into thin air, only to appear behind said man, smash the radio and bite down into the man's throat harshly. Like a leech he sucked at his veins, blood streamind down over his chin, his gaze fixed upon the last member of the little troup. The man was terrified for obvious reasons. The show, he was getting, was like something out of a horror movie, a nightmare come true. Yet, no matter how much it made his blood boil with disgust and fear, no matter how much he wanted to gag right now or just run away from everything, he couldn't. He couldn't stop looking at the scene: His comrade, coughing up blood, groaning in pain and slowly thinking to the ground as the vampire behind him still held his mouth attached to his skin. His teeth in the man's flesh blinking white. It was too gruesome to watch, yet to intriguing not to. With a silent 'pop' Yami let go of the now limp body. His gaze still not leaving the other hunter's. The poor man crawled away in panic, but it was too late. The vampire leader had already reached him, biting into his skin too.
Mokuba hadn't dared to even take a look around the corner as first the crack, than a thud and afterwards muffled groans came from the fight. He knew what was taking place, even without looking. Yami was killing them… and he, Mokuba, had helped him do it. He had betrayed his brother and the hunters.
But most of all: He had betrayed himself!
"You can come now!" Yami's emotionless voice reached him in his self-loathing. "It's over. We have to go and find Anzu quickly, before Seto does anything bad to her." Mokuba came and took one moment to look at the mess. Two of the men were obviously fed upon. The skin of their neck was of a blackish blue colour, the veins in their eyes were widened. Some had seemingly opened, since the two men cried red tears. Their faces were pale like the rest of them, though you couldn't see that, because of the uniforms they were wearing. A groan was heard from the side. One of the men was still alive, but only half conscious. Mokuba looked at Yami. The vampire sighed:
"Go call a doctor for that one. I'll go save Anzu."
With that he went into the elevator and pushed the botton for the top level as the younger Kaiba instructed him to do. The doors closed silently and he was left alone with his thoughts… 'I hope she's alright. I couldn't bear it, if something bad happened to her. What if I come to late? What if I'm not able to save her? What if… No, stop! Get a hold of yourself, Yami! No human being has ever managed to stop you from anything, it won't start now. You will arrive in time and you will save Thylea!… She won't die again. I won't loose her ever again!'
As the doors opened again, the vampire leader had to watch in horror as Seto stealthily walked over to a very pensive Anzu, that didn't seem to have noticed neither him nor his predatory smirk. In his right hand was a syringe, a yellowish liquid in it just waiting to be injected into his lover. A moment later Kaiba made a quick step in Anzu's direction. She finally noticed him as well as the syringe in his hand, but it was too late. He was too near and had surpised her with his attack. In her surprise and shock, she was frozen for a moment, which was everything Seto needed to practically 'stab' her with the syringe. But before the hunter could inject her every drop of that dangerous liquid, his hand had been snapped away and the syring was pulled out of her body. Half of the liquid was still within it.
"What did you give her, Kaiba?" Yami barked angrily, standing infront of Anzu. The woman gasped. Her prayers had been answered. He was here. To save her. Now she was save… save in his arms…and the world turned black. "Thylea!" The pharaoh caught her as she fell, his full attention on the woman in his arms. He missed Seto's triumphant smirk. "What did you give her, Kaiba! Answer me! Now." It was a growl that resounded from the walls. His mouth was still open, showing his canine teeth, but that didn't worry Seto anymore.
"You will see soon enough, vampire."
Yami growled again, but then decided to ignore him. He turned to Anzu. She was becoming paler and paler with every second that ticked by. Whatever Seto had given her, it seemed to be working even though he had stopped the injection before it had been completed. Suddenly an idea struck him: Once he had been bitten by a snake. It had been another afternoon, where Thylea and him had just layed in the garden- in the shadow of a big palm tree- gazing at the clouds. He had streched out like a napping cat and then yelped in pain as he felt the bite in his hand. Both of them had shot up from their lying positions and Thylea had seen the snake gliding away. She immediately grasped his hand, putting her mouth over the wound and sucked some of the blood out of him. With it the poison came out too. Sure, it wouldn't have made a difference as he was already dead, technically, but it was a nice gesture anyway. Now however, Anzu's life might depend on that and he was just grateful he remembered it in time. The wound wasn't on Anzu's hand but on her cleavage. Lowering his head he began to carefully suck at it, making sure not to bite her. If the situation were a little less deadly, he would actually find the time to enjoy her soft skin under his lips and the sweet taste of her blood, even in this enviroment. But alas, I shan't be, at least not until they were save and out of here.
Seto looked at the scene dumbfounded. What the hell was going on here? Why was the vampire leader KISSING a sorceress?! 'Wait, wait. He isn't kissing her. He is sucking out the drug.' Still, Seto had to wonder, why the man even cared. This was his most powerful enemy and he HELPED her? 'Maybe it's all about that balace bullshit?… Wait, I can't let him suck the drug out, if I want her to follow my orders…'
Pulling out his gun to shoot the pharaoh,he was very surprised when it disintegrated into dust before his eyes. He knew it couldn't have been either Anzu nor the pharaoh, seeing as the first was unconscious and the other concentrating on his task. He looked up, expecting to find Ishizu or Duke to stand there, when it were actually three men in dark blue cloaks. Two of the men seemed to be twins, both with spikey white hair and chocolate brown eyes, though one's skin was definitely tanner than the other's( I know Bakura or Ryou- I'm never sure which one of them is the ghost of the millenium ring- however, I know he is evil in the original series, but I wanted to make him good for this fic). The third man however was wuite different. He had no hair at all and wore instead a turban, his blue eyes piercing against his tanned skin. The man's hands were glowing in a sandy colour; he had obviously just used magic.
"But… that can't be…" Seto murmured. "You're…"
"You shall not harm our queen." The man with the turban said quietly, but firmly.
End of chapter 13!
A/N: This was a little longer, than my usual chapters. Though the last one was logest so far with the interlude at the end… Anyway, I hoped you liked it. I'm not sure, when I will have to start preparing for moving, but it will probably not be to far from now. However, I'll try and write another chapter until then. Hopefully I get it uploaded before my computer get's moved.