Chapter 21- Battle part 2
"You are truly a failure as an Emperor since you do not care about what your people think of what is right for them." Horhay said angrily.
Yugi's eyes narrowed as his eyes darkened with anger. "You are angry because you don't have things the way that you want them. The majority of the population like having humans around. After all, many of the them have humans as mates." Yugi said.
"It's not right! Humans are worthless! They have no place in our world!" Horhay spat.
"Then why is it that so many vampires have taken humans on as their mates? No vampire is forced into doing that, but the ones that do have human mates have them willingly." Yugi said.
"If you had made a law against it, then we wouldn't have this problem or this war!" Horhay growled.
"The war was your fault. Perhaps you did not like the way I ruled, but why is it that there were few vampires that actually protest about all this?" Yugi asked.
"Because they don't know what I know in the fact that humans are weak, pathetic, and worthless." Horhay said.
Yugi smirked. "It's because they don't think the way that you do, and you know it. You know that even if you manage to defeat me, the people will know that you were the one that killed me, so they're going to go against you." Yugi said.
"Then we'll just have to see about that." Horhay said.
Horhay charged at Yugi and jumped up, flipping over Yugi at the last second. Yugi turned just in time to block Horhay's sword. Yugi forced Horhay back and tried to kick Horhay, but Horhay blocked Yugi's foot with his hand. Horhay grabbed Yugi's foot and tried to throw him, but Yugi turned and got out of Horhay's grip. Yugi then brought his sword down at Horhay, but Horhay managed to block the sword. Horhay forced Yugi back and tried to strike Yugi with his claws, but Yugi grabbed Horhay by the wrist and rammed his knee into Horhay's stomach. Horhay doubled over, but rammed his shoulder into Yugi's chest, throwing Yugi back into the wall. Horhay charged at Yugi and tried to strike Yugi with his sword, but Yugi ducked out of the way, and Horhay's blade rammed right into the wall of the palace. Yugi then kicked Horhay in the side and sent Horhay slamming right into a stone statue, causing the statue to crumble.
Yugi walked forward. "Is that the best that you can do?" Yugi asked.
Horhay stood up from the rubble, a look of pure anger on his face. "You'll never win this battle! I'll make sure of that!" Horhay shouted.
Horhay forced a ball of magic in his hand that he threw at Yugi. Yugi held up his sword and the blade of the sword stopped the magic and also sent it back at Horhay. Horhay ducked, and the ball of magic hit another part of the wall causing the wall to crumble.
"Horhay, of all people, you should know that using magic against me is pointless." Yugi said.
"No, it's not! Even you can't win in a battle ageist me! I am not going to lose to a low-class vampire like you again!" Horhay shouted in blind rage.
"I believe you said the exact same thing five hundred years ago, and we both know how that turned out." Yugi said.
Horhay formed another sword out of magic and charged at Yugi. He brought his sword down at Yugi, but Yugi blocked Horhay's sword with his own. Yugi forced Horhay back and jumped up, turning around and kicking Horhay in the face, throwing Horhay back into the wall, causing a dent.
Horhay looked up at Yugi and realized what had happened. 'Damn it! I let my anger get the best of me! I have to be more careful, or I am going to lose, and I can't afford to lose now! There is too much riding on my defeating this idiot!' Horhay thought as he got back onto his feet.
Horhay charged at Yugi again and brought his sword down. Yugi moved backwards out of the way and then went forward again and rammed his shoulder into Horhay's chest, throwing Horhay backwards. Horhay managed to stop himself, and he went forward and punched Yugi in the face. Yugi crashed into a statue, and the statue crumbled. Yugi burst out from the rubble and went at Horhay. Horhay went back at Yugi, and their swords clashed again. Yugi jumped back and formed a ball of magic in his hand and threw it at Horhay. Horhay formed a ball of magic in his own hand and threw it at Yugi. The two attacks missed each other, and Yugi was hit by Horhay's attack, and Horhay was hit bay Yugi's attack. Both were thrown down into the ground.
Yugi got back onto his feet. 'I have to be more careful. Horhay is a powerful fighter as well as a powerful magician.' Yugi thought.
Horhay also got back onto his feet. 'Damn him! I am not going to let him win this battle!' Horhay thought angrily.
Yugi and Horhay resumed their fighting.
Heba blocked a sword before he kicked the vampire in the stomach and then turned, punched the vampire in the face and throwing the vampire back into the wall. Heba turned and decapitated a vampire with only one swipe of his sword. Heba flipped back out of the way of a sword and his feet hit a statue. Heba then pushed off of the statue and went right at the vampire that had tried to kill him and rammed the blade of the sword into the vampire's chest.
Joey ducked before he kicked a vampire in the face. He ducked and rammed his feet into the vampire, throwing the vampire backwards into the wall. Joey turned around and rammed the blade of his sword into the stomach of a vampire. Joey then jumped up to avoid a sword and then slammed his feet into the vampire, throwing the vampire back into the wall. Joey turned and blocked a sword before he forced the vampire back and decapitated it.
Malik ran forward and struck out at several vampires, decapitating all of them that he hit. Malik jumped up and kicked a vampire in the chest. He turned around and rammed the blade of his sword into the throat of a vampire. Malik turned and kicked another vampire in the stomach. Malik ducked to avoid a sword before he turned around and grabbed the vampire by the throat, turning around and throwing the vampire into the wall behind them.
Ryou blocked a sword and then kicked the vampire in the stomach. He then turned and kicked the vampire in the face, throwing the vampire back into a wall. Ryou twisted out of the way of the sword and went forward, ramming the blade of his sword into the vampire's chest. Ryou jumped up and flipped over a vampire, landing behind the vampire. He then rammed the blade of hiss word through the vampire's back and through his chest before he pulled the sword out.
Otogi blocked a sword and kicked the vampire back. He turned and blocked another sword. Otogi forced the sword up before he brought his sword across and decapitated the vampire. Otogi ducked as a vampire tried to hit him from behind and kicked the vampire before he turned around and rammed the blade of his sword into the vampire's chest. Otogi jumped up and came down to kick the vampire in the face, throwing the vampire back into a wall.
The five got together.
"This is ridiculous. How in the world can so many of these vampires be this strong?" Ryou asked.
"I don't know, but we need to put a stop to this now." Heba said.
"How?" Joey asked.
"We need to do something, and fast." Malik said.
Suddenly, all five of them tensed.
"No. They wouldn't have." Otogi said.
"They couldn't have." Joey said.
"They did." Heba growled out.
Before the five could do anything, the vampires attacked them again, and the group was forced to go back to fighting.
Heba knew that they had to something and fast. He quickly defeated all of the vampires that were near Otogi and Joey.
"Heba, what are you doing?" Joey asked.
"Yeah. We can take care of ourselves." Otogi said.
"I know that. Listen. We know that our idiot mates aren't in the safe now. Find them and protect them." Heba said.
"Right. We'll kill them for all this." Otogi said.
"No. Just protect them right now. We can chew them out for this stupidity later." Heba said.
The two nodded and headed into the palace.
"Where are they going?" Malik asked as he decapitated a vampire.
"To find our wayward mates and protect them." Heba answered.
"They are so dead." Ryou growled.
"We'll deal with them when this is all over." Heba said.
Yami, Atemu, Marik, Bakura, Seto, and Honda were all wandering around the palace.
"I don't see why they were concerned. There's no one here." Bakura said.
"Maybe because they are trying to prevent anyone from getting in here. I think that we should head back to the safe room and stay there until this is over." Atemu said.
"I agree. We could be attacked out here." Seto agreed.
"By who? There is no one here." Honda said.
"Well, what do we have here?" a snide voice said.
All of them turned to find themselves facing six vampires, who obviously were enemy vampires.
The six humans backed up as they realized that they were in a lot of trouble.
"I guess the Emperor and the other lords really don't care about you if they were willing to let you roam around while there's a war going on." a vampire said.
Another vampire looked at them in a lustful way. "What do you say we give them a good fuck before we kill them?" another vampire asked.
"Not a bad idea." the first one said.
"I think that we really screwed up this time." Marik said.
Yami clutched the dagger that Yugi had given him tightly. 'At least we can stop one of them.' Yami thought, knowing that the others would still be able to kill them.
One of the vampires became impatient and went to attack them.
Yami took out the dagger and rammed it into the vampire's chest.
The vampire screamed.
"What did you do, you worthless human?!" one of the vampires screeched.
The one Yami had stabbed feel to the floor, completely paralyzed.
"You'll pay!" a different vampire shouted as the remaining five started to attack.
The six humans braced themselves for death.
There were sounds of metal clashing with metal.
The humans opened their eyes and looked to see that Joey and Otogi had stopped the vampires.
"Not a good idea." Otogi hissed.
"Like we care! That damned fool you call a king will be dead when Horhay gets done with him!" a vampire growled.
Yami grew angry at hearing them speak about Yugi in such a way.
"You won't live to see if that comes true." Joey said.
Otogi and Joey attacked the vampires.
Joey blocked a sword before he kicked the vampire back into the wall. He then ducked to avoid another one, and the blade struck another vampire in the chest. Joey rammed himself into the stabbed vampire and threw the vampire back into another vampire's sword, killing the vampire. Joey ducked and decapitated another vampire.
Otogi jumped up and kicked a vampire in the face before he turned and kicked another one in the chest. Otogi moved out of the way and killed one of the vampires. He then turned around and decapitated another one.
The last vampire went at Otogi from behind, but Joey stabbed the vampire in the back before he could do anything, causing the vampire to cry out in pain. Otogi turned and decapitated the last vampire.
Joey looked at the one that Yami had stabbed and said, "What's with him?"
"Yugi gave me this dagger. He said that it paralyzes a vampire and kills it within an hour." Yami explained.
"That's good. We don't have to worry about that vampire anyway." Otogi said.
"Now, there is one thing that I have to say." Joey said.
"What's that?" Seto asked.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING?!" Joey shouted.
All six humans jumped back at the volume Joey's voice had taken.
"Do you have any idea what you were doing?! If we hadn't sensed that you were out of the safe room, you would have been killed?!" Joey shouted.
All six winced at this.
Otogi put a hand on Joey's shoulder and said, "Joey, calm down. We can scold them later. We have to focus on what is going on now."
"Right. We are getting all of you back to the safe room, and if you cause any more trouble, you are so going to get it." Joey said.
All six nodded, not willing to say anything to the contrary.
Before they could do anything, the entire palace shook.
All of them were thrown off their feet.
"What's going on?!" Marik exclaimed.
"Something's not right!" Otogi shouted.
All the vampires who had been fighting were forced to stop as the shaking knocked them down.
"What happened?" Ryou asked.
"I don't know. Something caused the ground to shake like that." Heba said.
"What could cause that?" Ryou asked.
"Man. Only I thought that only a collision of powerful magic could do that." Malik said.
"Yugi! He's righting Horhay." Heba said.
"Of course. A collision of their magic could cause this." Malik said.
"We need to get to him." Heba said.
Before the three could try and find Yugi, the vampires started to fight them again.
'Damn it! I hope that you're all right, Yugi!' Heba thought as he went back to fighting.
Horhay and Yugi both stood facing each other.
The length and amount of magic and physical strength they were putting out were starting to take their toll on the two of them.
Both were badly injured and were breathing heavily from exhaustion.
"This is far from over! I am not going to let you win this!" Horhay growled.
"I am not letting you win! You only care abut vampires, but humans are living beings too, and I am not going to let one group become more important than the other." Yugi retorted.
"Then you'll have to learn the hard way that humans mean nothing to any of us!" Horhay spat.
"The prove it if you can." Yugi said.
Horhay charged at Yugi again.
The two continued their long and exhausting fight.
Hope you liked it.
Next: The conclusion of the battle.
R&R.