Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! If I did, it would be the end of the world as we know it.

Ok, summary: In this world of Domino City, vampires (Joey, Yami, and Laura, a mysterious OC), soulslaves (Mai), half breeds (Seto), and much more roam the streets when night descends. But something happens. A friend of the Shadow Walker (a more powerful version of a Necromancer) is being hunted by the Soul Stalker because of the Hope Remedy - Laura's, the friend's, soul before she became a Vampire - that belongs to the Soul Stalker, who is a Lady of the Nite with the ability to give and take life and grant hope to all, yet take it all away in an instant. Vampires aren't supposed to get back their soul - it mixes with the Darkness in the blood and makes them crazed and extremely dangerous if the vampire isn't strong enough, which they rarely are. But Laura has drunken the stilled energy running through another of her kind's veins, and just might have enough power to, with the help of the Hope Remedy, become one of the Ladies of the Nite. This is exactly what the Soul Stalker fears, as she does not want to have an equal in her power (the Shadow Walker isn't so powerful).

To make matters worse, there are many mysterious deaths taking place in Domino, and the Dark creatures are being affected, too. People are dying and coming back together to kill more, absorbing the powers of ancient times and modern times (even the Millenium Items) until they are powerful enough to..do something which no one can predict.

Goodness is working in all of this, though. The Soul Stalker has a split personality, one of her kind and loving mother, the other of her own deceitful and sadistic, power hungry self. She is able to bring Light of Loves to their Darkness and bring Hope to life through their love, which converts the Dark to a Peace Maker. Of course, if not all works out, the would - be couple become some of the most dangerous creatures imagined...

WHOA! THAT WAS LONG!

I wrote this in tune to my heartbeat, to my soul. It doesn't really matter if no one likes it. I just wrote a sort of dark fiction in tune to my 'bodyrythm' as I call it. You may call it an aura, or a..I don't know, but I basically believe that the energy in our systems in tune with are heartbeat creates a soulrythm and a bodyrythm. Like a song is in tune to the music, this story is almost in tune to my soul. Almost. I have yet to devise a story that reaches to the darkest corners of my being.

You didn't have to understand that! And Harpie Lady or Firesong, no teasing me about that! It's too important to me.

ANYWAY! On with this mega-cool (or what ever you want to call it) story!

Chapter One: Darkness by my Blood

I thrive in the dark. My heart beats in the rhythm of the night. While my aibou sleeps, I roam the streets, searching for prey. I feel my victim's heartbeat as if it was my own, and then I snatch it in my arms and sink my teeth into its neck.

I drink its life.

Aibou sleeps now. His tri-colored hair is in disarray, and the covers are tangled around him. I emerge from my soulroom and walk to the window-silent as a cat. My bodyrythm reaches out to the farthest corners of the city, searching for my prey.

One's whose heart beats with my own.

I latch onto a girl's soulstring, following her rhythm. Showing my fangs, I jump from the balcony with a hiss and land smoothly on the street.

Emily skipped through the streets. She had been accepted in one of the best colleges in Tokyo! Her friends would be so happy for her! Especially Kendra. Kendra and Emily had been friends since around kindergarten. By seventh grade they were positively inseparable! And now they would both be able to go to the same schools! Emily slowed to a stop when she felt some one watching her. It wasn't that feeling you get when passerby check out your weird clothing or something.it was more like an evil glare.

She whirled around but saw nothing. Must've been my imagination, she thought with a shiver. Emily started slowly walking away, but the feeling stayed with her. A few times she peeked over her shoulder, but her eyes only saw the empty street.

The creepy feeling started to grow until the ice-cold fingers of panic gripped her heart. Emily sped up, for now it seemed that that something was right behind her. Almost as if she could turn around and come face to face with her stalker. If it had a face.

Emily felt breath on the back of her neck, tingling her short-cropped hair. She whirled around, but again saw nothing out of the ordinary. She started backing up slowly, only to feel the presence again at her back.

Emily whirled around and screamed. A man with wavy hair shrouded in mystery loomed up before her.

The man clamped the girl's hands together in his own, trapped her legs with both of his, and tilted her head back by pulling on Emily's hair, before sinking his teeth into her neck. Emily felt as if she was drowning. Her lungs seemed to collapse on themselves; sending sharp shards of pain everywhere.

She gasped for air, but nothing happened. Just more pain.

I LOVED THIS! My victim was squirming within my arms; gasping and gluging like a fish. I could feel her heart beat change, then slowly recede until it ceased.

The succulent blood on my lips revived me. It pumped me up and almost made me feel.alive. Almost.

I dropped the corpse of Emily. I now know all her secrets, all her dreams and memories. I know why she was out here in the dark. And I know who my next victim will be. Kendra.

XXX

Yugi awoke the next morning with a start. He was drenched in sweat, and the covers were tangled around him.

Yugi breathed in short, terrified gasps. He'd had a dream stained with darkness and blood. Yugi could remember only bits and pieces of it, but he knew what the outcome had been.

Emily was dead.

Yugi knew what his Yami was. He had known ever since his duel with Pegasus. The clues had started coming with the dreams. Then he had recognized the victims of the dreams as the ones from real life. But the one clue that had summed up all his suspicions was when he'd woken up to find blood on his lips. Someone else's blood.

And today it was Emily's. And tomorrow it would be Kendra's.

Yugi shivered in fear. His Yami didn't know that he'd found out the little secret, for Yugi was afraid that he himself would be drained so that Yami's secret wouldn't be found out.

Thus he always knew who was going next but was always too afraid to help.

Yugi's happy heart would crumple in fear in despair whenever he thought about being too cowardly to save the innocent people. He would shrink inside himself whenever some one died at Yami's hands-for Yugi knew that he was the only one who could change Yami's heart, but that knowledge never helped.

I listened to my abiou's thoughts. So he does know. I'd always had suspicions, but this confirmed them. Poor Yugi. He doesn't understand that he can do nothing to help. The only thing he could do is kill me by destroying the puzzle, for I will never stop. Blood is how I live. Without it, I would not exist in this world. And besides, I would never hurt him. He's my abiou.

XXX

The next night I dropped Kendra's corpse as I had done so many times to other female's bodies. I have never bitten a male, for their bodyrythm is less mystical and more blunt than mine is. There are no hidden secrets that go deep within the soul.

And I thrive on the blood of those secrets.

Blood.

I need it. Now.

Kendra had been caught before me. By whom, I don't know. All I know is that Kendra's killer has the same bodyrythm as mine. Which means she is of my House.

She's a SoulSucker.

There are thousands of vampire Houses. They were founded by the first three vampires: Sandre, Nomino, and R?. I am R?.

We are worshiped like gods among the three neighbors - otherwise known as the Houses. I sniffed the air. My smelling sense is ten times as strong as that of human's. As I tried to catch her scent, my mind wandered.

I only hoped that the girl would be weaker than me, for then I could drink her energy. Vampires have purple electricity running through our veins rather than blood. If one vampire has double-dosage of that energy, we can get extremely powerful. In the past, some were even able to rule the world of the living, the dead, and the in-betweens with one finger. All of them, in the end, however, bowed before me and my awesome powers. If the girl is stronger than I am, then by walking into her territory I would be setting myself in a trap. It would be like pulling the trigger at myself.

But that could never happen. As far as I know, I'm the most powerful vampire on earth and off it.

I crouch down on my heels when I catch her scent. With a hiss, I spring onto the nearest rooftop and jump from building to building, her soulstring now guiding me. I pass many perfect victims on my quest, but I already have one in mind so they'll be spared. For now.

A/N: It is 10:02, and I have to go to bed, as my eyelids are slowly drooping, making it hard to see. I wanted to write more, but oh, well. I already have the next chapter written down, and I will upload it A.S.A.P! Thank you so much for reading this!!!! Plz R&R!