Disclaimer: Don't own Yugioh. If I did, Malik would have got to trap Anzu permanently in the shadow realm.
Yami Bakura = Bakura
Bakura = Ryou
Yami Marik = Malik
Marik = Marik
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Ryou walked down the concrete steps, only dimly seeing Mariks form in front of him, and feeling Bakuras presence behind him. There still seemed to be nothing strange about the place, until he heard Maliks foot connect with something soft and kick it out the way.
"Messy eaters."
Ryou shivered and followed Marik down the stairs until they reached a door painted black with a star inside a circle in white on it.
"Bakura?" Ryou whispered.
"Yes?"
"Why is there no locks or anything?" Ryou heard Malik laugh.
"You think we need to have security?! Believe me, any human that walks in here is quite welcome! Briefly, anyway."
"Stop terrorizing him," Said Bakura, and Ryou turned to look at him in surprise. "That's my job." Figures, thought Ryou.
"Can we go in already?" Whined Marik. "I'm getting bored."
"Sure thing." Malik pushed open the door, and a wave of heat washed out, filled with the scent of blood, drinks and a curious spicy smell that made Ryou feel tingly inside. Also music poured out, a rock song that was being sung by someone inside. Definitely not a CD.
Then he stepped inside, pulled by Bakura, and Malik closed the door. The heat was intense, but not stifling.
"Why is it so hot?!" Ryou yelled over the noise of the music, shouts and the occasional scream.
"It's hot?!" Said Bakura back and shrugged. He pulled Ryou through the crowd. It seemed that the whole top floor was one big room decorated like a very good night club, at one end a vampire woman was singing the music that he could hear (A/N: Inspired by the cover of the Evanescence album), and various drapes had been put up through which Ryou saw vampires feeding on humans, and in some many vampires seemed to be eating the same human. Ryou turned his head away, trying to focus only on Bakuras back.
All around him, vampires were dancing, feeding and when Ryou caught the strong spicy smell coming from behind a half-closed curtain, mating. Ryou shivered again, but not from fear.
The smell went down into his spine and hips, without even contacting the brain. Ryou tried to ignore it and followed Bakura. Eventually, they reached a large curtained area, but there was many layers of semi see-through drapes around this area. Inside, on a pile of black and red cushions, was a vampire with black hair and piercing green eyes. Ryou felt his own eyes widen in surprise. This man was the one who created dungeon dice monsters! He had wondered why he only ever saw him at night on TV.
Otogi, that was his name, was surrounded by female humans chained around the neck to the wall just behind Otogi. Some were struggling, one in particular. He grinned and yanked on the chain so she fell on her lap. She glared, and he held he there.
"Do you want here, or shall I?" The girl screamed and tried to pull away, but as Ryou had noted, Vampires were much stronger than humans. Bakura shook his head.
"No thanks, I fed on the way here. So did Malik." Malik nodded in agreement. Ryou noticed that he wasn't the only one feeling the effect of the vampire mating scent, as Marik had his arms draped very low around Maliks waste. Or maybe that was just him. Ryou couldn't tell, but the smell certainly wasn't helping.
"Fine." Otogi said and sank his fangs into the girls neck. She screamed and struggled, but after a while she just collapsed. Otogi held the dead girl in his arms. "You know, she had a fair bit of spirit." He commented, and pulled out a small gold knife, and nicked his wrist with it. A small drop of blood formed, and he let it drop into her mouth. He then turned back towards them.
"I've never known you to keep a slave Bakura, you never managed to keep them for very long even with the power of your ring." Bakura shrugged.
"I've never seen the need for them, however, this one is unique."
"He's not very unique if he looks like you, is he?" Otogi looked very serious, but Ryou could tell he was taunting Bakura.
"As you say."
"Well, what did you come here for?" Ryou saw Bakuras fists clench.
"You summoned me, remember?"
"Oh yes," Otogi waved a hand in the air, "But running the whole vampire society seem to have run it out of my head."
Bakura just stood there.
"Sorry about that. Anyway, just wanted to tell you that the bounty on your head has recently been raised to thirty-five thousand."
"Wow, a fifteen thousand dollar increase. Someone really wants me deader."
"Not as much as Malik. Yours is fifty-five thousand." Malik just nodded, he was distracted by trying to stop Mariks hands sliding any lower. Otogi sighed. "Can you two keep your hand off each other until I've finished speaking with you? Thank you. Malik, this means you've got the highest price on your head than any other vampire currently. Someone wants you dusted even more than they want me. What have you done?"
"Nothing! Marik here wasn't exactly the most important person- Ow!" Malik scowled at his slave, who innocently grinned back. Ryou almost laughed.
"Then why does everyone want you as a fine pile of dust motes?"
"I have no idea. Why do they want Bakura?" Bakura noticed the conversation was heading back to him and cleared his throat.
"I think it's because of our doubles. Or maybe it has something to do with the sudden doubling in the vampire population, and we just happen to be the three top members?" Ryou noticed that next to Otogi there was an open box with lots of gold pieces that looked like they fitted together somehow, and on the top piece there was the same eye that was on Bakuras and Maliks golden items. His musings were broken by a sharp laugh from Otogi.
"So you noticed, finally, Bakura? Took you long enough. I've decided that we shouldn't just be content with grabbing occasional victims from the street. Oh, no. Too much trouble there. So, I figure, why not just have them when we need them? Every new vampire that is made is allowed to continue as long as it brings back two human slaves within the first week of its new life. Then, once we have enough new vampires, we will storm the hunters headquarters. Then there will only be the rouge hunters left, and they're no problem. Eventually we will have all of the humans in Japan as slaves, and then we will expand even further! Why not? After all, we have all eternity to do it in."
Bakura went white, and then red with rage. "You can't do that!" He said. "There will be no excitement, and although humans may be inferior, they are still capable of thinking. Note Marik here. He's as close to a vampire as you can get without being one!"
"Your point?"
"We can't do this! And anyway, too many vampires will be lost."
"So what? There'll be plenty more where they came from." Bakura just turned around and grabbed Ryou by the wrist, and pulled him out of the hangings again. He pulled Ryou to a table and made him sit down. He sat down next to him.
"Everyone thinks that just because we have no soul, we have no morals! Even I don't go as far as to virtually exterminate a whole species. Stupid Otogi, I can't wait until he gets staked..." Bakura mumbled to himself until a vampiress walked up to them.
"What do you want?"
"Rum and coke. This one will have the same. Also two cherry brandies." Bakura added as he saw Malik and Marik approaching him. Malik looked just as pissed off as Bakura. This was very evident as when he sat down and put his hands on the table top, it cracked.
"That stupid leech! Can't he see what he's doing?!" Maliks wings kept appearing and folding, then disappearing. Ryou figured this meant he was a little annoyed.
"Obviously not." Said Marik, sitting down next to Malik. "What's he doing?"
"Just breaking the most important one of those unsaid rules! Two of them, actually!"
"Really?" Said Bakura in a deceptively calm voice, "I know one, what's the other?"
"He said he'd make the ring mine if I staked you! You don't tell one vampire to stake another!"
"I'll stake him, just say the word." Growled Bakura.
"Bakura! Malik! Will you two just calm down? You're going to get yourself in trouble if you keep talking like that! And what's the other rule?"
"I'll tell you about it later. You don't talk about it in public. Let's just say that a very stupid vampire tried to do the same thing Otogi's doing, and it definitely didn't work." Malik grinned. "He died quite spectacularly, actually."
"Really? You will have to tell me."
"Two rum and cokes, and two cherry brandies." Bakura handed over the money and the vampire waitress set the drinks down in front of them. They sat there for a while, everyone drinking except Ryou. Eventually Marik spoke.
"Hey Ryou, this bar gives a whole new meaning to the drink "bloody Mary", doesn't it?" Ryou managed to grin weakly. The screams were beginning to get on his nerves.
"Another good point in vampire bars is that the singers don't have to breath. Makes for good singing." Ryou just nodded. Other vampires kept looking his way and grinning. One of them licked its teeth.
"Why aren't you drinking?"
"I'm not thirsty." In the distance Ryou saw another vampire bite into a human and cringed.
"Why are you scared?" Asked Marik. "You're marked, and with Bakura. No-one will be stupid enough to attack you."
"Sorry, I just, I-"
"He's just not used to us. Look, it's getting early, and I want to talk to him before day. I'll take him home now."
"Your choice. I think we might stay here for a day."
"I'll see you two later." Bakura got up and led Ryou out of the bar, and once onto of the roof Bakura grabbed Ryou and jumped into the air. "You know, it would all be so much easier if you could fly." He commented.
*****Yamis POV *****
Kaiba has now kicked me out of his home. Permanently. Literally. Ow. Apparently, I can fly. This is why he kicked me out the window.
Being able to fly is something I always dreamed about as a kid. That and being the big hero, saving innocent lives. And now, I've done both. Unfortunately, I've also ended many innocent lives, which I never meant to do. I think this will be my last job, things are getting to complicated. Now Kaiba knows me, he can have me killed at any point, so I have to do any job he sets for me. I sigh, kinda of pointlessly now I don't need to breath. Mind you, I still do. Breathing for eighteen years makes it a habit.
When I've finished this job, I'll fly away somewhere he'll never find me. I've thought of running away before finishing the job, but a deal is a deal, which is a promise, and I never break promises.
I see two shapes fly just above me, it's that vampire and his slave again. The ones I'm supposed to kill. I reach for my crossbow, and then remember it was broken in the fight. I look at my hand, and clench it. Another good point to being a vampire, you heal quickly.
I decide to follow them, and stay about twenty meters above them. I can still see every detail as though it was day, even better maybe. They seem to be talking, but I can't hear their words, as the rushing wind blows them away. After a while, the human falls asleep in the vampires arms. To trusting, for one that could, and probably nearly has, kill him. The vampire looks down at the boy with a face that could almost be described as caring, but this is a vampire here. Get real people. Still, it disconcerts me.
Is it possible for vampires to love? I know I have never felt for anyone, and being a vampire probably won't change that. I need to think. As I peel off and head towards my home, something inside me is telling me to hurry. I feel an urgency inside me to get home, and when I look at my watch, I realize why. I only have a couple of hours before sunrise. Tomorrow night, I will follow the other pair. I can always find them, they're not exactly discrete. They would be dead a thousand times over if they hadn't managed to kill every hunter that came near them. That's why their price is so high.
Yami flew away, thinking that he was going to watch the others tomorrow night. But it turned out he would be the one being watched.
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Finished the chappie! Sorry it took so long, I got really sick. I continued as soon as they took the needles out of my skin. Review, everyone! I'm so happy with the number of reviews I'm getting!
Yami Bakura = Bakura
Bakura = Ryou
Yami Marik = Malik
Marik = Marik
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Ryou walked down the concrete steps, only dimly seeing Mariks form in front of him, and feeling Bakuras presence behind him. There still seemed to be nothing strange about the place, until he heard Maliks foot connect with something soft and kick it out the way.
"Messy eaters."
Ryou shivered and followed Marik down the stairs until they reached a door painted black with a star inside a circle in white on it.
"Bakura?" Ryou whispered.
"Yes?"
"Why is there no locks or anything?" Ryou heard Malik laugh.
"You think we need to have security?! Believe me, any human that walks in here is quite welcome! Briefly, anyway."
"Stop terrorizing him," Said Bakura, and Ryou turned to look at him in surprise. "That's my job." Figures, thought Ryou.
"Can we go in already?" Whined Marik. "I'm getting bored."
"Sure thing." Malik pushed open the door, and a wave of heat washed out, filled with the scent of blood, drinks and a curious spicy smell that made Ryou feel tingly inside. Also music poured out, a rock song that was being sung by someone inside. Definitely not a CD.
Then he stepped inside, pulled by Bakura, and Malik closed the door. The heat was intense, but not stifling.
"Why is it so hot?!" Ryou yelled over the noise of the music, shouts and the occasional scream.
"It's hot?!" Said Bakura back and shrugged. He pulled Ryou through the crowd. It seemed that the whole top floor was one big room decorated like a very good night club, at one end a vampire woman was singing the music that he could hear (A/N: Inspired by the cover of the Evanescence album), and various drapes had been put up through which Ryou saw vampires feeding on humans, and in some many vampires seemed to be eating the same human. Ryou turned his head away, trying to focus only on Bakuras back.
All around him, vampires were dancing, feeding and when Ryou caught the strong spicy smell coming from behind a half-closed curtain, mating. Ryou shivered again, but not from fear.
The smell went down into his spine and hips, without even contacting the brain. Ryou tried to ignore it and followed Bakura. Eventually, they reached a large curtained area, but there was many layers of semi see-through drapes around this area. Inside, on a pile of black and red cushions, was a vampire with black hair and piercing green eyes. Ryou felt his own eyes widen in surprise. This man was the one who created dungeon dice monsters! He had wondered why he only ever saw him at night on TV.
Otogi, that was his name, was surrounded by female humans chained around the neck to the wall just behind Otogi. Some were struggling, one in particular. He grinned and yanked on the chain so she fell on her lap. She glared, and he held he there.
"Do you want here, or shall I?" The girl screamed and tried to pull away, but as Ryou had noted, Vampires were much stronger than humans. Bakura shook his head.
"No thanks, I fed on the way here. So did Malik." Malik nodded in agreement. Ryou noticed that he wasn't the only one feeling the effect of the vampire mating scent, as Marik had his arms draped very low around Maliks waste. Or maybe that was just him. Ryou couldn't tell, but the smell certainly wasn't helping.
"Fine." Otogi said and sank his fangs into the girls neck. She screamed and struggled, but after a while she just collapsed. Otogi held the dead girl in his arms. "You know, she had a fair bit of spirit." He commented, and pulled out a small gold knife, and nicked his wrist with it. A small drop of blood formed, and he let it drop into her mouth. He then turned back towards them.
"I've never known you to keep a slave Bakura, you never managed to keep them for very long even with the power of your ring." Bakura shrugged.
"I've never seen the need for them, however, this one is unique."
"He's not very unique if he looks like you, is he?" Otogi looked very serious, but Ryou could tell he was taunting Bakura.
"As you say."
"Well, what did you come here for?" Ryou saw Bakuras fists clench.
"You summoned me, remember?"
"Oh yes," Otogi waved a hand in the air, "But running the whole vampire society seem to have run it out of my head."
Bakura just stood there.
"Sorry about that. Anyway, just wanted to tell you that the bounty on your head has recently been raised to thirty-five thousand."
"Wow, a fifteen thousand dollar increase. Someone really wants me deader."
"Not as much as Malik. Yours is fifty-five thousand." Malik just nodded, he was distracted by trying to stop Mariks hands sliding any lower. Otogi sighed. "Can you two keep your hand off each other until I've finished speaking with you? Thank you. Malik, this means you've got the highest price on your head than any other vampire currently. Someone wants you dusted even more than they want me. What have you done?"
"Nothing! Marik here wasn't exactly the most important person- Ow!" Malik scowled at his slave, who innocently grinned back. Ryou almost laughed.
"Then why does everyone want you as a fine pile of dust motes?"
"I have no idea. Why do they want Bakura?" Bakura noticed the conversation was heading back to him and cleared his throat.
"I think it's because of our doubles. Or maybe it has something to do with the sudden doubling in the vampire population, and we just happen to be the three top members?" Ryou noticed that next to Otogi there was an open box with lots of gold pieces that looked like they fitted together somehow, and on the top piece there was the same eye that was on Bakuras and Maliks golden items. His musings were broken by a sharp laugh from Otogi.
"So you noticed, finally, Bakura? Took you long enough. I've decided that we shouldn't just be content with grabbing occasional victims from the street. Oh, no. Too much trouble there. So, I figure, why not just have them when we need them? Every new vampire that is made is allowed to continue as long as it brings back two human slaves within the first week of its new life. Then, once we have enough new vampires, we will storm the hunters headquarters. Then there will only be the rouge hunters left, and they're no problem. Eventually we will have all of the humans in Japan as slaves, and then we will expand even further! Why not? After all, we have all eternity to do it in."
Bakura went white, and then red with rage. "You can't do that!" He said. "There will be no excitement, and although humans may be inferior, they are still capable of thinking. Note Marik here. He's as close to a vampire as you can get without being one!"
"Your point?"
"We can't do this! And anyway, too many vampires will be lost."
"So what? There'll be plenty more where they came from." Bakura just turned around and grabbed Ryou by the wrist, and pulled him out of the hangings again. He pulled Ryou to a table and made him sit down. He sat down next to him.
"Everyone thinks that just because we have no soul, we have no morals! Even I don't go as far as to virtually exterminate a whole species. Stupid Otogi, I can't wait until he gets staked..." Bakura mumbled to himself until a vampiress walked up to them.
"What do you want?"
"Rum and coke. This one will have the same. Also two cherry brandies." Bakura added as he saw Malik and Marik approaching him. Malik looked just as pissed off as Bakura. This was very evident as when he sat down and put his hands on the table top, it cracked.
"That stupid leech! Can't he see what he's doing?!" Maliks wings kept appearing and folding, then disappearing. Ryou figured this meant he was a little annoyed.
"Obviously not." Said Marik, sitting down next to Malik. "What's he doing?"
"Just breaking the most important one of those unsaid rules! Two of them, actually!"
"Really?" Said Bakura in a deceptively calm voice, "I know one, what's the other?"
"He said he'd make the ring mine if I staked you! You don't tell one vampire to stake another!"
"I'll stake him, just say the word." Growled Bakura.
"Bakura! Malik! Will you two just calm down? You're going to get yourself in trouble if you keep talking like that! And what's the other rule?"
"I'll tell you about it later. You don't talk about it in public. Let's just say that a very stupid vampire tried to do the same thing Otogi's doing, and it definitely didn't work." Malik grinned. "He died quite spectacularly, actually."
"Really? You will have to tell me."
"Two rum and cokes, and two cherry brandies." Bakura handed over the money and the vampire waitress set the drinks down in front of them. They sat there for a while, everyone drinking except Ryou. Eventually Marik spoke.
"Hey Ryou, this bar gives a whole new meaning to the drink "bloody Mary", doesn't it?" Ryou managed to grin weakly. The screams were beginning to get on his nerves.
"Another good point in vampire bars is that the singers don't have to breath. Makes for good singing." Ryou just nodded. Other vampires kept looking his way and grinning. One of them licked its teeth.
"Why aren't you drinking?"
"I'm not thirsty." In the distance Ryou saw another vampire bite into a human and cringed.
"Why are you scared?" Asked Marik. "You're marked, and with Bakura. No-one will be stupid enough to attack you."
"Sorry, I just, I-"
"He's just not used to us. Look, it's getting early, and I want to talk to him before day. I'll take him home now."
"Your choice. I think we might stay here for a day."
"I'll see you two later." Bakura got up and led Ryou out of the bar, and once onto of the roof Bakura grabbed Ryou and jumped into the air. "You know, it would all be so much easier if you could fly." He commented.
*****Yamis POV *****
Kaiba has now kicked me out of his home. Permanently. Literally. Ow. Apparently, I can fly. This is why he kicked me out the window.
Being able to fly is something I always dreamed about as a kid. That and being the big hero, saving innocent lives. And now, I've done both. Unfortunately, I've also ended many innocent lives, which I never meant to do. I think this will be my last job, things are getting to complicated. Now Kaiba knows me, he can have me killed at any point, so I have to do any job he sets for me. I sigh, kinda of pointlessly now I don't need to breath. Mind you, I still do. Breathing for eighteen years makes it a habit.
When I've finished this job, I'll fly away somewhere he'll never find me. I've thought of running away before finishing the job, but a deal is a deal, which is a promise, and I never break promises.
I see two shapes fly just above me, it's that vampire and his slave again. The ones I'm supposed to kill. I reach for my crossbow, and then remember it was broken in the fight. I look at my hand, and clench it. Another good point to being a vampire, you heal quickly.
I decide to follow them, and stay about twenty meters above them. I can still see every detail as though it was day, even better maybe. They seem to be talking, but I can't hear their words, as the rushing wind blows them away. After a while, the human falls asleep in the vampires arms. To trusting, for one that could, and probably nearly has, kill him. The vampire looks down at the boy with a face that could almost be described as caring, but this is a vampire here. Get real people. Still, it disconcerts me.
Is it possible for vampires to love? I know I have never felt for anyone, and being a vampire probably won't change that. I need to think. As I peel off and head towards my home, something inside me is telling me to hurry. I feel an urgency inside me to get home, and when I look at my watch, I realize why. I only have a couple of hours before sunrise. Tomorrow night, I will follow the other pair. I can always find them, they're not exactly discrete. They would be dead a thousand times over if they hadn't managed to kill every hunter that came near them. That's why their price is so high.
Yami flew away, thinking that he was going to watch the others tomorrow night. But it turned out he would be the one being watched.
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Finished the chappie! Sorry it took so long, I got really sick. I continued as soon as they took the needles out of my skin. Review, everyone! I'm so happy with the number of reviews I'm getting!