Sorry I took so long with this chapter. But it's well worth the wait. Oh yeah, and I don't own digimon. Enjoy.
Previously: Jyou. Yamato. Both Vampires. Eatch on diffrent sides. Need I say more?
This chapter: Lot's of stuff happen, like a new vampire comes to town, and also hints of Sorato (not for long, though. This fic will end Taiora.)
SomeguyY2k, Terry and Leo(at last!) present:
Written in Blood
Chapter Five
To be evil, or not to be evil....
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My name is Yamato Ishida.
I am a vampire.
A vampire who has already claimed three lives in two days. A demon vampire, with no shread of humanity left. My soul was poisoned.
My soul was replaced with an unholy creature. I was made a vampire by the great Perrikus himself. And yet...
And yet I had to see him again.
My little brother, Taikaru.
I hang outside his window, to get a look at his face. Hes curled in his covers, clinging on to them. His eyes are red and
swallon. He must have cried himself to sleep. I know what it's like to lose a brother, but he always came back when I gave up.
The sad thing is, I don't think he'll ever give up. His crest is the crest of hope. He might never give up looking for me. What
is he gonna think, when he realises I'm not coming back? Poor kid...
Damn! I can't think that! I was chosen to be part of the Piramide! One of the masters! Other vampires look up to me. In my own way,
I'm just as distructive as Perrikus himself.
But what happens when I have to kill him? When me and him meet face to face? In the end I'll have to kill him, but when he dies, when
I shatter his little frame, will he still believe I'm gonna save him? Or will he have finaly realised that I'm not the same person he
used to know? I was intrusted wth killing the digides...er, chosen ones. I want to kill them, yet I don't want to. I have to wonder, in
the end, who do my loyalties go to?
With my master, of course! Perrikus is the king of the demons! He gave me life! He's so powerful, not even the slayer could defeat him!
I entrusted myself to his will, and so I will carry it out. So says Perrikus, so acts Yama...
I feel it's breath. Sour and decayed. I feel it's hair brush agenst me. I feel it's fangs gentaly pinche my neck. I know who it is. Once
agian, she invades my privacy.
"Maya," I say without even looking at her. "...Why, uh..." I feel her cold, soft lips begin kissing my neck. "...why, uh, in the hell,
won't you leave me alone?"
She dosn't answer.
This is insain. She HATES men. She only hunts men, for petes sake. Perrikus drove her into insanity when he killed her family. Not to mention shes
two hundred years old. Sure, she only looks like she's around seventeen...
I flip around to face her. Their she is, in a way I've never seen her before. She has lust in her eyes. She looks at me in a way she's never look at
me before. She's trying to seduce me. Like she does with every man she meets. As tempting as she is, God, and she is tempting. So tempting I want to
forget all about Mimi and take her to the nearest bed and fuck her like crazy. But I can't. And I won't. At least not on my brothers window. I have
to get outta here before we wake him up. I grab Maya by the hips and run up the wall like a mad man. Yeah, I RUN up the wall. Finally, I bring us to
the top of the building. I try to push Maya away, but now she's got a desent grip on me. I can't even move her now. She's got a smile on her face,
and she knows I'm powerless to stop her. She could do whatever her perverted mind was planing to do me. And God help me, I was ready for her.
SLAP!
She slaped me. That stupid bitch slaped me. Here I think she's gonna rip my cloths off, and she SLAPS me. I feel a rush of anger that follows the pain,
and I totally intend to act apon it.
"What the HELL IS YOUR PROBLEM!?!?" I scream.
"You still have feelings for these mortals!?!?" She screams back.
"Ha, that's funny," I say. "...that's only my LITTLE BROTHER down their!!!"
She smiles one of those crule smiles that makes me wanna take her head off. "Hes a cute kid..."
"No." I say, shaking my head. "Don't go their, Maya..."
"Can I eat him?"
God. GOD GOD GOD!!! I absolutly want to rip that bitches head off and eat it. Hell, I don't even eat heads. But I really, REALLY wanna! I really do.
Maya's face turns seriouse. REALLY seriouse. As in Vamp-out seriouse. "You still care for him. I can see it."
I still care for him? Do I? Is that really what this emotion is? Love? I don't believe it. Mimi was the only one I felt for. Yet I feel for my little brother as well. They both feel
like two totally difrent emotions. Yet their both the same. It feels so new. I didn't realise I loved Mimi until I fought Jyou. And now, after I see my little brother in such pain,
I realised I love him to. But why does the word feel so strange? Every time I think of the word love, It feels like I never said it before. Why? I've only bine a vampire for two days.
Have I really bine affected this much? Has the demon inside me begun to distroy love? I think of love now, and the evil I felt as a vampire at first begines to break away. I feel as if
I've bine buried alive, and just found my way out. I'm even begining to question my loyalty to Perrikus. At first I was content with myself, like I was missing nothing. Everything was
perfect. Now, I've never felt...so alone...
"You can't do this, Yamato." Maya says. "You can't act this way. Your soul is begining to resist the poison. Your emotions are breaking through. You have to resist them."
But I don't want to resist my emotions. For the first time in what seems like forever, I don't want to be a vampire. I don't want anything to do with Perrikus. I don't care about
hunting down the chosen beast riders. I just wan't to be me again.
It comes out of nowhere. First a burning sensation.
Then pain.
Pain like I've never felt before. Like a molten blade at a tempature that could melt steel being shoved into my head. Burning my insides. Incinerating my flesh. Getting worse with
every seconde. The vains in my face are poping out. Bulging, burning, trying to force their way out. My eyes are passing from red to blue, the light from both colors blinding me,
like someone shoving daggers in my eyes.
I'm gonna die. I know it. It's ripping me inside out. I'm screaming so loud I can't even tell if it's my own voice. Red tears are flowing down my face. I know I'm dieing. Theirs
nothing I can do about it, except pray that it will all end soon...
"IT'S YOUR SOUL!" Maya is shouting. I don't know how long she must have bine shouting. I don't care. I'm doing the best I can to keep my sanity.
"Your soul is trying to fight off the poison!" She screams again. "Your soul hasn't completly changed yet! It's trying to break free your emotions! Look what's it's doing to you!
You have to fight it! It's the only way to stop the pain!"
I don't want to. I just want to be normal!
"FIGHT IT!"
I don't want to! I don't want to!
"FIGHT IT, DAMN YOU! FIGHT IT IF YOU WANT TO LIVE!"
I...I...
"Please, Yamato..." Maya says in a soft, sympathetic voice.
I have no choice. I have to fight.
It stops.
All of a sudden, the pain stops. The molten blade in my head is gone. The daggers in my eyes no longer bother me. The feeling of Love is gone. Love has left me. My body is empty. I am
an empty soul. And I didn't even care. In fact, it even felt better. Then suddenly, shame. I bow my head in shame. I was in what feels like my weakest moment ever. My head is bowed. Shame
fills my body, as well as rage. I let my emotions get the better of me. But I won't happen again. From now on, I serve Perrikus and only Perrikus. I just hope I will be able to. My head
is still bowed, but I speak to Maya.
"It's over." I say weakly.
Maya smiles. "I will inform the master of your desision." My head is still bowed, but she places her index finger on my chin and lifts it up.
"Do it for the dark, Yamato." Shes no longer vamped out anymore, and she's looking at me with a sympathetic smile.
I return the smile and, being very gental, take her hand off my chin and place it in my own. "Ok Maya." I say, kissing the hand. "For the dark."
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"That," Taichi said. "...was just a LITTLE unexpected."
"You can say that again." Sora said softly.
Tony was looking at the badly beaten Koushiro with eyes so big you could see yourself in. His body was smoking. As in litteraly SMOKING. Hes face was covered in blisters and
burns, but he didn't seem to notice them. He was to busy muttering something that no one could understand.
Koushiro was in no better shape then Tony. He was coughing and gasping, trying to breath. He lay crumbled on the floor, like a doll who was discarded by his owner. His every breath
was struggeld and painful, not to mention it had the un-reasuring sound of a broken whistle following it.
Taichi stood there, not really sure what to do. Sora lay on the floor, ready to get up, but her muscles not as ready as she was. Both of their eyes were on Tony, trying to find out
what he was trying to say. Finally, the noise of Koushiro's coughing broke them out of their thoughts.
"Oh, jeez, Koushiro!" Sora shouted, as her muscles finally desided to listen to her and crawld toward Koushiro. Taichi, however, was still trying to figure out what Tony was saying.
Taichi was begining to lip read it, and was slowly putting the letters and sylables together. Sora was sitting Koushiro's head up, trying to help him breath, but it looked as if Tony
might have crushed his wind pipe.
"Beast rider...?" Taichi said, raising his eye brow in confusion.
"What did you say?" Sora asked, still holding a coughing and gasping Koushiro in her arms.
"I'm trying to lip read Tony." Taichi said. "I think he said something like 'Beast-rider' or something."
"Damn, I think Koushiro is gonna need an ambulance!" Sora said, examining Koushiro's neck. It was red and swallon.
"I'll...*cough cough*...be ok guys..." Koushiro said, as if it was taking all of his remaning strengh just to speak. But Sora was already on her way to the phone.
Taichi was bent down in front of Tony, still trying to figure out what he was saying. Finally, Taichi spoke to him.
"Sora..." Koushiro said, struggling to get to his feet. "Really...I'm ok, I can talk ok now."
"What are you trying to say, Tony?" Taichi asked.
"I still think you should have your neck looked at." Sora said. "Look how red it is, for God's sake!"
Tony slowly raised his hand and pointed his index finger out. Taichi began moving his eyes to the position of were the finger was pointing at.
"Really Sora," Koushiro insisted. "...if it was that bad, I wouldn't be talking to you right now."
"The digivice?" Taichi said, slightly confused.
Sora had the phone in her hand, ready to dail the numbers. "Koushiro, I may not be your mother, but..."
"It's one of the..." Tony said before he coughed. "...one of the weapons of light."
"Weapons of light?" Taichi said.
"Sora, please..." Koushiro Insisted. "I promise to get it checked out later, but there are more importent things..."
"Don't try and patronise me, Koushiro." Sora said with her hands on her hips, with that kind of I'm-ticked-off look on her face. She was definetly seriouse.
"You mean this?" Taichi said as he pulled his digivice out of his pocket. Tony's head whirled around. His eyes grew even bigger then before.
"Your one of them..." He said.
"I'm not patronising you, Sora!" Koushiro yelled. He wasn't in the mood for games anymore. "What's going is more importent then calling the hospital!"
"I'll tell you what's-"
"Who died and made you-" An argument had broken between the two friends. But it quickly ended at the sound of Taichi's voice.
"SHUT UP!!!" He yelled.
Silents.
Taichi froze for a second, making sure the two were paying attention. Then he turned back to Tony.
"Who am I? Who are 'Them' you keep talking about."
Tony swallowed hard. "It's a long story..."
"Probably not as long as the last one." Taichi smiled.
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"Damn rodents." The janitor said with an exterminator pack, chasing a giant cockroache. "They just don't die."
His name was Kaoru Tahito. He was the janitor at a school.
For thirty years hes worked at this high school. What is the biggest problem in it? The damn roaches!
These things have bine bugging ("Bugging". Heh. I made a funny.) him since he started working at this place. God, they were the biggest annoyence in his life, If not the biggest problem.
He could kill a hundred of the little basterds and they'ed still keep coming. It was driving him crazy hunting them down. Even when he was sure he had them all, one would have managed
to escape. He was chasing one right now down the hallway of the closed school. This one was a big one. At least two inches, high and size! Though not the biggest one hes ever seen. Hell,
back in 79'...
BANG!
Kaoru stoped running. What the hell was that noise?
CRASH!
"Sounds like it's coming from the science lab..." He said.
SMASH!
Kaoru turned around and began walking towards the sound as the little cockroach began crawling away from the giant that was chasing him.
The school lights were on, but the lights around the science lab broke down. Kaoru wasn't a handyman, so he couldn't fix it. The actual school handyman worked the day shift. So Kaoru left
a note on the door saying that the fuse was broken or something. Kaoru never really had that much of an education...
Kaoru pulled out his flashlight and causiously began to walk into the room. The place was a total mess. Broken glass and seeping flueds were everywhere. The stench coming from them was
almost enough to make him pass out! But Kaoru just put on his handy-dandy nose plug that he keeped for just such an occasion. What the hell went on in here?
"Perrikussssss..." a faint voice said.
"W-who's their?" Kaoru said, holding the flashlight like a weapon, waving it around the room, trying to find the source of the noise. That's when the attack came.
Kaoru bearly saw it coming. A hand, no, not a hand, a CLAW came out of nowhere and smashed his flashlight. Kaoru screamed. He couldn't see it. He couldn't see! He could here it's heavy
breath. He could smell the experiments that got on his body. But God, he couldn't see it! Kaoru began spraying the pesticide he wore on his back everywhere it all directions. He didn't
know where it was! He couldn't see it!
Crack.
A blow was delivered. Right between the eyes. One shot to the head. The blood began flowing down his head as the hand exited his head. He hit the floor, never to know who his
killer was. He was to die without even knowing who did it. Everything was going black. His breathing was coming to a halt. Finaly, he was dead.
"Perrikusssssss..." The faceless killer said. "I'm coming for you...Perrikussssss..."
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"Once, long ago, when Perrikus was in his prime, during the war between the soul vampires and the demon vampires, the humans felt that the fact that their kind was dieing in our conflict was
unfair. The number of causualties on all three sides were overwealming, but the humans were reciving the most. A powerful king had felt he lost enough men fighting the demons and us, so he
gathered the most powerful priests in the world to creat a holy weapon to light the darkness. So they did. Using their holy power, they breathed life into the lifeless. They created a living
fighting machine. They had created life, out of pure energie. A girl, really. She was stronger and faster and could resist the telepathic powers all vampires posses. She lead a army of great
warriors into battle agenst us and the demons. With her at their side, they won a battle. They continued to win, battle after battle, until it came the time for her and me to meet. I was a
warrior back in those days. Me and her did battle. I put up the best fight I could, but in the end, I was defeated. She was soon to be called what we know call the slayer. The ultimate human
weapon agenst our kind. Eventually, It was time for her to face Perrikus. It was a battle I wish I could have seen. Most likely a great one, to. But in the end, the slayer was defeated. Perrikus
feed on her corpse, and he nearly died doing it. The slayer was made of holy magic. Drinking her blood was one of the worst mistakes he ever made. But when the pain left him, his power had
incresed tenfold. In a way, it was kind of a mixed blessing. He almost killed himself for more power. And it worked to. But the slayer was dead. At least that was what I though. No more slayer,
no more interfierence by the humans."
"I was wrong."
"A new slayer arrived. It was part of the inchantment. Should a slayer die, a new one will take it's place. She was death on two legs for vampires. And she always had. But the slayer was never
able to kill Perrikus. And everytime he killed one his power was incresing. My kind had finaly givin up. Perrikus had won the war. At least so we thought."
"They came out of nowhere. They came riding on beasts. 11 warriors of light, carrying the weapons of light, like the one Taichi is holding right now. They were to be known as the chosen beast
riders. With their power, they were able to end Perrikus's threat, but not kill him. He was presumed dead, but he wasn't really dead. He went into hiding. Reganing his strengh in preperation to
come back and try to take over the world again."
"This guy, Perrikus," Koushiro said. "...he is the leader of the demon vampires, correct?"
Tony nodded. "Yeah. I dunno what his backround is. I think he was human at first. He turned himself into a vampire because he though it would make him stronger."
"Did it?" Taichi asked, his eyes now totally fixed on Tony.
Tony shrugged. "I dunno. I just know he was a powerful wizard. Hes older then me, for petes sake."
"Fasinating." Koushiro said, now totaly intrested. "Tell me, what were you talking about when you said vampires had Telepathic powers?"
Tony sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. "Well, vampires use telepathy to read our preys mind. We know what we want about them, like if they have a blood problem. We don't want to eat
a person with aids or anything. It also helps us when a human tries to attack us. We know exacly what move their going to use, and when they use it. Taichi, remeber when you attacked me? The
only reason I was able to dodge all those attacks was because I could tell when you were gonna use them. Without it, I would have to block them, or you might have hit me. Also, we can
use it just for kicks if we wanna read someones mind. We can also fool around with their senses to throw them off balence, if there are alot of humans to fight at once."
"I thought with telepathy you could move things with your mind?" Sora said, sitting crunched up with her arms around her legs.
Koushiro shook his head. "No. What your thinking of is Telekenises, the ability to move abjects with your mind. Telepathy is the ability to go into another persons mind. Both are equaly
dangerouse, though. But I can see how you would get confused."
"Oh, I get it." Sora said.
Taichi stared blankly at Koushiro. "Huh?" Was all he could say.
"I'll explain it to you some other time, Taichi." Koushiro said, sweatdroping. "But right now, this whole thing about soul vampires...it changes everything..."
The three looked at him questioningly.
"Vampires were said to be demon human hybrids...like a werewolf is a canine human hybrid...but now theirs this soul vampire race...it goes up agenst everything I believed in..."
Tony laughed. "Your not the first one to get confused with that, you see..."
"Uh, just a note before you guys go into egghead mode," Taichi said. "...but I just though of something."
Sora smiled. "This should be a first." She said sarcasticaly. "What?"
"Well, It's just about Yamato," He said. "...with all these vampire attacks on innocent people. Do you think...?"
"Shut up..." A slighty weak, out of tone voice said. Everyone turned to the noise.
It was Sora. Her eyes were swallon and red with tears beginning to flow. She was out of her little human ball and her eyes on Taichi with a frightening expression of rage.
"Shut up!" She said even louder. Shaking her head. "Don't ever talk about him again like that, you hear me?" She said. "EVER!!!"
Taichi moved toward her a little, attempting to cool her off. "Sora...I was just saying MAYBE..."
"I SAID SHUT UP!!!" She screamed. A loud smack followed it.
Everything went silent. The world froze. Sora had her eyes closed, still red with rage. Her arm was outstreched as if she was reaching to the side or slaping someone.
Taichi on the other hand had his face thrown to the side, his eyes closed as well. Only with a expression of pain, rather then rage. There was a large, red mark on his face.
She had slaped him.
Taichi, her best friend.
Sora slowly opened one eye. She no longer looked angry, instead, she has a look of guilt. A look like she just killed someone. She put one hand to her chest the other to her mouth.
"Oh God...Taichi..." She said.
Taichi put his and on his cheak. It stung when he touched it, but not as much as it did emotionaly. On his face was a look of hurt. God, It looked like he was gonna cry.
Closed his eyes. He flet the emotional pain hit him like steamroller. She loved him. She love Yamato. She loved him and she would never love him. Ever! Yamato got the one he loved.
Why? Taichi couldn't think. He needed to be alone. His eyes still closed, he clenched his teeth and stormed off to the door.
"Taichi, WAIT A SECOND!" Sora called after him. But it was too late. Taichi was already at the door, and with a loud SLAM, he was gone.
Hmmmmmmm...Taichi seems a bit on the pissed side, wouldn't you say? Well, sorry It took so long. Expect the next chapter soon! You can count on it! Can anyone say "Taichi versus Yamato?"
See ya in a few!