"Ooohhhhh… My head…! Where am I…?" Yugi murmured and opened his eyes
It was morning.
"What on Earth?!" he exclaimed jolting up
He was next to the man-made river that was getting through Domino's suburbs.
"But how did I end up here? The last thing I remember was that…"
He tensed and gasped as he remembered what happened. He raised his hand to his neck and touched the marks the Fallen One's teeth had left him
"He…he bit me! But how…"
And then he remembered:
"Is that possible HE to be the Child of the Moon?" Valon mocked
"He survived by the weapon" Rafael said
"That vampire saved him, that's why!" Alister said
"It doesn't matter!" Nikolai interrupted them both
He took a syringe out of his pocket
"I say to inject him with the serum just in case"
The others nodded. Nikolai slowly sank the syringe's needle into shocked and terrified Yugi's forearm.
"There" he said, "With this serum I injected a poison in your blood especially for vampires. For just one bite it will protect you and the vampire will die"
He was so upset back then that he almost hadn't heard a word from what they had said. Now everything was clear. When the Fallen one bit him and drank his blood, he got poisoned. While Yugi was unconscious, they mistook him for dead and threw him into that man-made river… While his mind kept getting all the more clear he remembered something else as well.
"Yami! He's still prisoner! I must take him from there!"
But how? And then he had an idea
"The Hunters! Those will help me!" he thought
A bit difficultly he got up to his feet and also difficultly started to walk.
"I must find them! They are my only hope!"
Late in the evening, Yugi had reached the front entrance of the building. Everyone was there. When they saw him coming they all jolted up from their chairs and looked at him surprised.
"You escaped" Nikolai said
"And not thanks to you!" Yugi snapped at them
"Look, kid, we…"
"I came here to ask for help!" Yugi interrupted him
His voice was strangely steady. He surprised even himself, yet alone the Hunters. They simply looked at each other.
"We're glad you managed to survive" Nikolai said while they were walking in a hallway
The walls around them in reality were glass showcases that had inside them the last state-of-art weapons and battle uniforms for Vampire Hunters
"Where are you taking me?" Yugi asked
"You'll see"
He opened a door. They got into a huge hall that was the area for practicing with their guns. The walls were covered in metal and there were targets everywhere.
"Welcome to the practice room!" Alister said
"Wow!" Yugi whispered impressed
"So this is our boy?" another voice was heard behind them that had a heavy American accent
Yugi turned around to see a tall man in red suit. His hair was straight and gray and long till his shoulders. It was falling like a curtain on his face, hiding his left eye.
"Yugi, let me introduce you to Maximillion Pegasus also known as Peg. He is the owner of our brotherhood and also the in charge of the company."
"Pleasure" Yugi said extending his hand for a handshake
"Pleasure is all mine, Yugi-boy"
He raised his gaze from Yugi to Nikolai.
"We may start, Nikolai-boy"
"Yes, sire!"
Nikolai opened a small box and took out a silver pistol, he armed it and threw it to Yugi. Yugi caught it completely surprised.
"What's this?"
"A Vampire Pistol. Come on, show us what you can do"
"Saying what?!"
"Show us your skills"
"But…I've never shot with a gun before!"
The Hunters seemed to be surprised at that.
"But, what 'Boy Who Survived' are you anyway?" Valon mocked him
"I'm a what?"
Nikolai sighed as if he was talking to an idiot. He took the gun from Yugi's hand, took the bullets out of it and then armed it once more. He then gave it back to Yugi.
"Now do it too!" he told him
Yugi repeated the movements and re-armed the gun.
"Awesome!" he whispered enthusiastically when he did
Everyone rolled his eyes annoyed that the teen got enthusiastic just because he had armed a gun… Nikolai showed him a far away target.
"Now shoot!"
"But, why are you making me do all these things?!" Yugi complained
"Just shoot!"
Yugi raised the gun and shot hastily.
"You didn't even concentrate!" Nikolai resented
"Boss…" Alister mumbled, who had gone closer to see, "…he hit bull's-eye!"
"What did you say?!" and ran there to see for he couldn't believe what he had heard
When he did, he saw that Alister was right. Yugi had hit exactly bull's-eye. He turned around to look at Yugi in total shock and then back at the target.
"Boss…"
"Next level!" Nikolai barked
A sound was heard as if some machine had activated itself. Six more targets appeared and started moving from side to side fast, increasing the level of difficulty. Yugi focused on the moving targets, he then raised the pistol again and started shooting. In front of everyone's surprised eyes not only hit all the targets but he had bull's-eye almost to all of them and if not, he had hit the circle before bull's-eye. Yugi looked at the pistol to his hand surprised.
"Awesome! It is like the video game I played!" he said
The sound of the machine was heard again… The targets got spread around the room and started emerging again and again without specific way or sequence…
"The vampire won't wait for you to strike" Nikolai started to say as if he was talking to a recruit soldier, "…you must be fast, versatile and concentrated!"
Yugi, driven by his enthusiasm started to shoot at the targets that emerged… The targets now started to move in a circle around him
"You must be swift…"
Yugi armed the weapon in a blink of eye with new bullets and kept on shooting… All lights of the room went off suddenly
"The vampires use the night and darkness. They attack at night. Wait till you see the red of their eyes and then you shoot"
Yugi, as if by instinct, close his eyes and concentrated to the movement around him. He suddenly snapped them open and shot. One, two, three times. The machine stopped. The lights lit again. The Hunters were at loss of words when they saw how well he had done. He had once again bull's-eyes or barely-missed bull's-eyes. Yugi, panting still, looked at the gun in his hand joyfully not being able to believe what he had just done. He heard Pegasus clapping his hands and turned around
"Bravo! Excellent, Yugi-boy. You proved you live up to your title Boy Who Survived!"
" 'Boy who Survived'. You mentioned that before. What exactly does it mean?"
Nikolai took a step closer.
"There is an ancient legend among us that says that someday there will be a boy who will face the weapons of the Vampire Hunters and will survive"
"The Boy Who Survived?"
"He has many names: 'The Boy Who Survived', 'The One Who Lived', 'The Child Who Survived', however we prefer to call him 'The Boy Of The Moon'…"
"And what's so special about him, anyway?"
"The one who would survive from our weapons, it is written to become the Legendary Vampire Hunter"
Yugi was frozen startled…
Bakura was standing by the window gazing outside the city at night with a satisfied smirk to his face.
"He's not weak!" Tea said dryly standing at the other corner of the room with her back at Bakura
"What?" he asked sarcastically turning around towards her
"To appreciate someone's life is not a weakness!" Tea said coldly again glancing over her shoulder at him
"Oh, don't tell me now you've become emotional my dear" Bakura mocked while approaching her, "When you betrayed him to me you weren't talking like that. He shouldn't have revealed his weaknesses"
"You know, this is not a game anymore!"
"Oh, don't be mad 'my love'. Didn't he call you that?" he mocked her hugging her from behind, "Wasn't he holding you like this…?" he whispered in her ear
Tea, completely furious, snapped around and yelled:
"He's ten times better than you, you sadistic mon-…"
Her phrase was cut in the middle by the hard slap, Bakura hit her across the face. Tea cupped her cheek with her hand and looked at Bakura directly in the eyes.
"You have very big mouth, dolly. I think you have forgotten who you are dealing with!"
He pushed her against the wall slowly and bent even closer to her so their faces were almost touching each other.
"Learn obedience now you can, or else I have many ways to shut your mouth"
He pressed her even further against the wall with his body.
"…and I am not Yami. If you ever raise your voice to me again I will kill you with no second thought!"
Tea was looking at him, slightly scared while breathing shallowly. Bakura smirked satisfied hearing her heart beating like crazy (in fear). He withdrew from Tea and walked out of the room. Tea remained there, trying to re-gain her breath. Panting still, she opened her hand and looked at the keys she had managed to grab from Bakura's belt. Her face took a determined expression. She clenched the keys in her palm…
"Legendary Vampire Hunter…?" Yugi whispered and Nikolai nodded.
Pegasus, then, said
"Every Hunter has been through a tragic event in his life and that's why they chose to become Hunters. For example Alister has been through difficult childhood"
Yugi looked at Alister.
"I was an orphan since I was ten. My little brother and I were struggling to survive in our destroyed town at time of war. Tanks were coming from everywhere all the time so we decided to leave from the town and go to a camp where we could be safer. A week passed and everything went well but then…"
His voice broke and swallowed hard so he wouldn't cry. Yugi could almost see tears in his gray eyes…
"…then a big team of Fallen ones attacked to the camp. In front of our bare eyes they slaughtered so many! They killed our friends. I was frozen in fear but my brother got panicked completely and started to run. I ran after him, yelling at him not to go. He got into a ruined building. I was ready to follow him, take him out of there but it was too late. A rocket flew in the air, hit the building and…" he bent his head down and a small tear fell to the floor, "…there was nothing left…and my brother was blown to pieces! This is all that's left of him that I found in the ruins…" and he got out of his pocket a small toy-robot that barely was as big as his palm
It was broken and burnt. Yugi felt an iron hand clenching his heart. Pegasus turned to Raphael.
"…Or Raphael. He had to stay in a deserted island alone for three years"
Raphael nodded.
"I was the eldest son of a businessman. I lived in riches. I had a mother, a father, a sister and a brother. However one day, in my birthday, we were in a ship in the ocean to celebrate it and from the engine we heard noise and out of nowhere Fallen ones emerged and started killing on the spot whoever they saw. One bit my mother while five others hurdled upon my father. I took my brother and sister and we ran to the deck. However since the Fallen ones had attacked the captain, the ship was without someone to control it. The last thing I remember was a huge wave coming upon us, and the scared faces of my brother and sister's.
In the morning, when I re-gained consciousness I saw that I was still alive. The sea had left me at the beach of some deserted island. Everything was lost. The only thing I had, anymore, was the clothes I was wearing. I knew that I had two choices; To remain there and cry for my misery or walk forward and if it was to survive the decision was easy. I lived for three whole years in the island till one day they found me"
"And of course we must not forget poor Valon" Pegasus continued, "who, technically, spent half of his life in a juvenile reform school because he…saved a human!"
"It is true" Valon said, "I was only nine years old when I heard a human scream. I ran and saw a man fallen to the ground and a Fallen one over him was drinking his blood. I had to do something. The man was dead but still I couldn't let the beast to live. Then I saw a Hunters' crossbow on the ground. Obviously it had fallen from the unlucky man. I aimed and 'shot'. The arrow got through the Fallen one's back killed him.
However someone must have seen me shooting and called the police and because the Fallen one was turned to dust the police officers found only the body of the man with the arrow in his heart because the arrow had got through the Fallen one and it got stabbed into the dead man's chest. They arrested me for murder and locked me to the juvenile reform school."
"And you?" Yugi turned to Nikolai
He then all of the sudden seemed too busy with polishing one of his knives.
"Well?"
In the end Pegasus decided to answer.
"Nikolai was the son of a Russian General but he never met his mother because…she was a vampire. His father, soon after his birth, saw a vampire leaving out of the window. He rushed into the room and saw that the vampire had bitten his wife and, even worse, it had Turned her. He locked her in a room and kept her existence secret from Nikolai. As a soldier, a marine, he was a tough person and he wanted his son to be the same.
However one day she went berserk and attacked to his father. Nikolai understood she had killed him and so…he shot her dead. Later on they told him she was his mother."
Yugi swallowed hard. His throat seemed dry all of the sudden.
"However" Pegasus continued, "There is a legend which says that one day a boy would survive from the Hunters' weapons and would become the most Legendary Vampire Hunter of all time. And here you are, Yugi-boy"
Yugi was feeling like dizzy. He couldn't believe it. He was ready to return the pistol to Nikolai but he shook his head negatively saying:
"Keep it, kid. It is tradition for the Hunters to keep their first weapons. Like I kept my gun, like Alister his whip, like Valon his crossbow and like Raphael his knife."
Yugi held the silver pistol in his hand. He clenched it and looked at it. The others smiled.
"Now you are one of us"
"Welcome rookie!" Alister said
"Now we will be all like family. If one of us is threatened, everyone is. We'll be like one fist." Valon said
"Good" Yugi said, "Then let's go to free Yami" and he was ready to leave
However the others looked at each other without understanding.
"My brother. He's Bakura's prisoner and we must take him out of there"
He looked at them but they didn't move an inch.
"Our job is to protect people from vampires' attacks, not causing them!" Nikolai said
"What?! But he's prisoner of that sadistic vampire, Bakura, who is torturing him every day!"
"Look, kid, sometimes it is better to leave vampires deal with those things themselves"
Yugi looked at them in disbelief.
"No!" he said, "You are asking me to abandon him in his hands after all the things he's done for me?! No! He saved my life and never abandoned me! He always put my life first before his! He didn't even expect to survive when he got between the knife and me! The only thing he was thinking was to protect me!"
He bent down his head. His shoulders were trembling. His previous courageous self seemed to be gone.
"He's not only my brother!" he said in a shaking voice, "He's everything to me! He's tender like mother, wise like father, protective like brother, loyal as a friend. He's my courage…my strength" a tear ran down his cheek, "Never in my life I was brave. I always hid behind him. He is brave, fearless. From the very first time I saw him I felt his bravery and I felt safe. He was there for me but now he needs me and I do not plan on abandoning him"
He raised his head and looked at them. He was serious and unexpectedly determined.
"…I came to you for help but if you don't want to help me, it's okay. I'll save him myself!"
And he turned around, ready to leave.
"Hold on a second! You won't last even five minutes against the vampires!" Valon called to him
"Do you think I will leave him there? I'm sorry but I won't and if that's what your brotherhood does, I don't want to be part of it!"
He clenched the pistol to his hand and said:
"Thank you for your gift. It will be useful to me where I am going and if I never come back to return it…I'm sorry"
He put the pistol in his jacket before starting walking away again.
"Wait!" Alister yelled
"But is he crazy?" Valon exclaimed
"It appears so…" Raphael mumbled
"Wait a minute, maybe Yugi-boy is right. All vampires are not evil. We must admit that he saved his life" Pegasus said
Everyone looked at him thoughtful...
Yugi had almost reached the exit when…
"Wait, kid!"
He turned around and saw the four Hunters.
"We will help you save your vampire brother" Alister said
A smile crept on Yugi's lips
The Hunters hopped on their motorcycles.
"Awesome!" Yugi whispered when he saw those state-of-art motors
"Hop on, kid and hold on tight!"
He sat behind Nikolai
"Let's go then!" Yugi said and everyone went off…
Finally I updated the chapter here. Sorry for being late, the university started again so...
Now for the facts, yes Yugi is alive and...he is a Legendary Vampire Hunter! Surprise? Of course you noticed that I was kinda inspired from Harry Potter for the titles for Yugi but I couldn't help myself
Also Tea got close to Bakura so she could take the keys from him. I'll let you imagine what the keys are for
Also I used the original stories of each one of the Hunters from the anime however I changed them a little and added details to make it fit to my story I hope you liked them!
Yugi is determined to go and save Yami! Will he make it? Wait and see!
THEME
Yugi the Boy of Moon: [Yu-Gi-Oh Ost Duel of Friendhip] (I guess it is from the moment Yugi is looking at his gun (after the first shot) and till the lights come back again in the shooting room)
Please comment me! Enjoy!
