Brood: Yay! Another chapter! It seems like this first chapter was well
handled...liked by reviewers and such...
Zutsokaki: Pfffftttt........suureee.....
Brood: *rolls eyes*
Zutsokaki: Why don't you end it now and save all of the readers some physical pain?
Brood: How about I GIVE you some physical pain?
Zutsokaki: PLEASE! Reading this is enough!
Brood: *ignores Zutsokaki and hums "Macavity" from CATS*
Zutsokaki: *sighs* Here we go again......she saw CATS Sunday night in a theatre and she won't get over it......at least I'm not hearing "Memory" for the thousandth time. All I have to do though is wait for the OTHER baka onna who loves CATS to get here and my headache is all set.....*twitch*
Brood: *absently presses "Post", glomping a Rum Tum Tugger plushie*
~*~
Jou fell into dreams as soon as he hit the couch. The images presented to his inner eye were cold and disturbing images that plagued his mind and his sleep.
They seemed to be amorphus blobs swimming about his darkened conscious, and as they changed from one unintellegible shape to another, Jou felt more and more clammy and fevered.
//Come to me......listen to the call......Jounochi.....awaken the darkness inside of you.............//
His consciousness nearly jolted back into awakeness at that voice, but it's eerie calm seemed to keep him asleep. Beads of sweat poured down his face, and his features contorted in pain as the voice beckoned to him. The writhing blobs in his dark dreams seemed to press deeper and deeper into his subconscious mind, pushing, seeming to be looking for something there.
Finally, after seemingly endless moments of mental agony and soothing odd voices, the probing blobs found two deep crimson marks, side by side. The bulging and slithering blobs separated in a split second, and the halves went into each of the deep marks.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Shooting upwards, Jou sat stock still on the couch, holding his neck with wide, livid eyes. Panting heavily, he looked around. He realized suddenly that he felt much better. His tiredness and woozyness seemed to have passed.
"H-heh...knew all that I needed was some rest..." Jou said in between shallow pants. When he finally caught his breath, he realized that he was hungry. Standing firmly, he strode towards the kitchen and got himself a bowl of cereal.
As he ate it, he couldn't help but look around again. That's when he noticed something odd. None of the lights in the house were on. He hadn't turned them on when he got home, he just fell asleep. Yet it was around eleven at night, and he could see perfectly.
"Well that's weird...." he muttered quietly as he munched.
After eating, he still felt really restless, so he worked for a bit on the school project he and Yugi needed to do. When he realized that he couldn't concentrate on it for more than a few moments, he stood up and began pacing. He tried playing video games, but to the same effect. Seemed like blowing up zombies didn't hold that same rush as it usually did. He almost picked up the phone and called Yugi, but it was too late for anyone to be coming to the phone. Finally, after minutes of pacing and indecision, he stood by the window and looked outside.
The light of the moon caught his eye almost immediately. His eyes widened and the gaze lengthened. Minutes passed, and he felt the undeniable urge to step outside. Forgetting his coat, seemingly in a daze, he began to head for the door.
~*~
"Perfect......." a dark voice murmured.
".......Adaeus. What are you doing?"
The owner of the voice, Adaeus, jumped a mile. "Madame Myaki! I didn't know you were there!"
"That's your problem Adaeus. You're still second rate. You can't even sense when someone with greater power than yours is approaching."
"So sorry Madame Myaki....I'll try harder to learn from you..."
"You know Adaeus, when I made you, I thought you could keep up. I thought you'd do better. Tell me what you're doing right now before I UNmake you...."
"Y-yes Madam....you see....I....uhh........" He faltered before the unyeilding gaze of his master, lowering his eyes.
"Well SPIT IT OUT already Adaeus!"
"I MADE ONE!!!!"
With a cool, calculated anger, Madame Myaki murmured, "You.....MADE.....one Adaeus?"
Adaeus nodded, hoping not to be exterminated by one of the Elders.
After a quiet and extremely tense moment, Madame Myaki said, "Alright. Good. This is a test for you then. Train this one to be superior to yourself Adaeus. Teach them, guide them. Remember our no killing policy. We only take what we need...........I take it you won't be needing my guidance in this?"
"N-n-no, your magnificence!" He was so utterly relieved he could have kissed her then. But that would have gotten him killed more quickly than his current situation could have.
"Good. Do well........or ELSE, Adaeus.......funny...this place is familiar." And with that, the Madame Myaki disappeared into the shadows and the night. Adaeus breathed a sigh of relief and resumed watching his new protogè.
//Come out............come to me............feel the call..............//
~*~
Opening the door quietly, Jou stepped outside. The door shut itself behind him, and he stood alone and silent on his front stoop. Looking around, he wondered what to do next. He felt better that he was outdoors, really. His gaze wandered back to the moon, and suddenly felt that he was hungry. In fact, it seemed like his bowl of cereal hadn't helped him at all, almost like it never even hit his stomach.
Something felt different in his bones though. His eyes were keener, he knew that from the inside of his home. He reached back and pushed the hair out of his eyes, and realized that it hung lower over his face than usual. He could actually tuck it behind his ears! Confusedly doing so, he felt something tug at his insides. There was something....somebody near.
Spinning around, his hair coming out from behind his ears and swishing, he saw a dark figure, stooped and gleaming, standing before him.
There was silence for a moment, not exactly confused, but more tense than anything else. Jou felt as if he could at least listen to what this person had to say.
But he said nothing. Instead, a pale hand was extended. Come...come....something on him seemed to say. Jou could not resist. He came up to the figure.
"Good...good. You have the senses...Now come. I have much to show you tonight."
Jou finally found his voice at the sound of this deep and penetrating one. "Senses? Show me? What are you talking about?"
The man turned his face up to Jou, and he realized with a small thrill that his eyes were glowing dimly. On any normal day, this would have scared the living crap out of him, but for some reason, here, it felt natural.
"You will learn what you've become boy. My eyes are like yours, I sense your small surprise....look." And with that, he drew a mirror from his long and sweeping coat and put it in front of Jou.
What he saw surprised him more than seeing a pair of lit eyes could have. There was no reflection at all...except for the two nickel- sized dots of light side-by-side on the mirror, exactly where his eyes would have been."
"My.....reflection....my eyes!"
"Yes...yes boy! You have no reflection. The only indication of a person in front of that mirror is the two reflections of the small light our eyes give out. We must avoid them in the night when around others not like us....but in the daytime, our eyes appear normal."
"Like us...." Jou faltered. No reflection..... last night in the alley.... "You attacked that woman, didn't you?"
The man chuckled. "Yes yes...and when you decided to play hero, I thought I'd just give myself an extra little snack....only out of a whim, I did something a bit different with you. I MADE you......"
"Made...me....into a vampire!?!?!" Jou nearly lost himself and his odd inunderstandable composure right there, and almost did, if his maker did not clamp a cold hand over his mouth.
"Yes boy....you understand! That's good! And I am your master, Adaeus!" And with that, Adaeus fell into a sweeping bow, flourishing his hand. "And I never did catch your name......."
Jou, for some reason, calmed again. Oddly, he gained back his calm when his fevered question was answered. It was like...being what he was gave him a sort of calm. "I'm....Jounouchi Katsuya."
"Katsuya, is it? Sorry, Japanese names confuse me a bit...Katsuya IS your first name is it? And Jounouchi is your family name?"
Jou nodded, ignoring the lack of respect made obvious in the use of his first name, and only when he'd just met his.......master. Something inside of him clicked. Why couldn't he call him Katsuya? He was his master now and all.....
"Good good....Katsuya, come with me then. I'll show you yourself tonight!!" He strode out onto the walk as if on mist, and Jou followed, seeming to be in a daze once again. After ten minutes of striding, they came to the city park.
"Here...here Katsuya, you will learn the skill used by all of our kind!"
Just then, Jou's mind came back to him, as if his master has loosened the grasp upon it. "Wait....I have to DRINK SOMEONE'S BLOOD!!!???" His first real outburst of the night, it seemed to surpass the surprise that he was even a vampire in the first place. But at the sudden thought of blood, his stomach turned. To Jou, it seemed to be coming from a horrible mix of disgust and revoltion, and from his new inner being's excitement at feeding. Jou screwed his face up and gave his master a look of pure defiance.
"Listen to me boy! If you are to survive, you are to feed! Now follow! We will find someone, there always IS someone!!" With that, the clamp over Jou's mind tightened again, the clamp that all vampire masters have, and dragged Jou away. He tried fighting for a moment, but realized that he just didn't have the power.
Soon enough, they came upon a man sleeping on a bench, a newspaper draped over him.
"Ahhh, a usual spot with me....there's always someone different here every night, but always, someone here..." Adaeus said with a smirk. "I will show you, and then we will catch something for you...." He knelt down, and Jou was forced to watch as his new master sunk his fangs into the sleeping homeless man's neck. He tried to look away but he couldn't, more than likely due to his master's mental lock.
/Maybe it's because you like it, Jou....maybe you want to try it.../ a treacherous voice said inside of his mind said. Jou shook it away, and found some other way to rebel.
"Is it just me, or do you like biting guys?"
Adaeus raised himself from his meal. "BOY! You will learn NOT to talk back to your master like that! This time, I'll let you slide, it's only your first night! But next time, you won't be so lucky!" The man moaned lazily and slumped, obviously passing from only sleeping to all out unconscious.
"He's dead?" Jou asked.
"No, only sleeping deeply. We don't kill. It attracts unwanted attention towards us. Those two puncture wounds really give something away, even if the mortals don't want to admit it for awhile. In fact, that's why our hair grows when we are changed," Adaeus said with a dark smile, guesturing at Jou's hair. "To help us hide our marks...."
Jou involuntarily smoothed some hair down the side of his neck and followed as Adaeus continued walking, giving one last glance to the homeless man on the bench. After a moment, Adaeus lifted his head into the air and sniffed.
"Katsuya, you're lucky tonight! There's young blood out in this park, walking alone! Probably lost or something, or just very late getting home from a boyfriend's house!" He grinned and took off, Jou jogging after him speedily.
"You mean that you can tell age and if they're a boy or a girl just by smelling!?"
"It's a skill learned with a bit of time, boy! You'll learn it sooner or later!"
Adaeus suddenly crouched behind a shrub, and when Jou came up, he yanked him down beside him. "There...coming quickly...a young girl!" Jou watched quietly, his lightly glowing eyes catching almost every movement around him. Soon enough, his ears caught the sound of sneakers walking briskly, and a red-headed girl walked into sight a moment later.
"There she is boy....we'll worry about doing your own catching later, right now, I just want you to learn to feed. At the same time, we'll jump. Are you ready? Of course you are! Now come...........one.....two......."
~*~
Brood: OOOOH!! Jou's first hunt! Kudos to Wingleader Sora Jade for guessing correctly that Jou was turned into a vampy!!! Yay! AND she's also the prizewinner who's in this story!
Zutsokaki: She told her.
Brood: DID NOT!!! Now do me a favor and lose your vocal cords in some violent accident!
Ooh, and my birthday is on Monday, December 15th, everyone! I'm turning 17!!! And my friend Jes's birthday was on Friday, and he's 17 too! Yay for birthdays!
Zutsokaki: She's telling you so she can get presents.
Brood: WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THOSE VOCAL CORDS!? NO I'm not telling them all just so they'll give me presents! I'm telling them because it's my birthday and I'll tell if I want to!
Zutsokaki: *humming* It's my birthday and I'll tell if I want to, tell if I want to, tell if I want to....you would tell too if it happened to yoooouuuuuuuuu........
Brood: I don't even wanna know how he learned that song.......*sweatdrop* Reviews, everyone!
Zutsokaki: Pfffftttt........suureee.....
Brood: *rolls eyes*
Zutsokaki: Why don't you end it now and save all of the readers some physical pain?
Brood: How about I GIVE you some physical pain?
Zutsokaki: PLEASE! Reading this is enough!
Brood: *ignores Zutsokaki and hums "Macavity" from CATS*
Zutsokaki: *sighs* Here we go again......she saw CATS Sunday night in a theatre and she won't get over it......at least I'm not hearing "Memory" for the thousandth time. All I have to do though is wait for the OTHER baka onna who loves CATS to get here and my headache is all set.....*twitch*
Brood: *absently presses "Post", glomping a Rum Tum Tugger plushie*
~*~
Jou fell into dreams as soon as he hit the couch. The images presented to his inner eye were cold and disturbing images that plagued his mind and his sleep.
They seemed to be amorphus blobs swimming about his darkened conscious, and as they changed from one unintellegible shape to another, Jou felt more and more clammy and fevered.
//Come to me......listen to the call......Jounochi.....awaken the darkness inside of you.............//
His consciousness nearly jolted back into awakeness at that voice, but it's eerie calm seemed to keep him asleep. Beads of sweat poured down his face, and his features contorted in pain as the voice beckoned to him. The writhing blobs in his dark dreams seemed to press deeper and deeper into his subconscious mind, pushing, seeming to be looking for something there.
Finally, after seemingly endless moments of mental agony and soothing odd voices, the probing blobs found two deep crimson marks, side by side. The bulging and slithering blobs separated in a split second, and the halves went into each of the deep marks.
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Shooting upwards, Jou sat stock still on the couch, holding his neck with wide, livid eyes. Panting heavily, he looked around. He realized suddenly that he felt much better. His tiredness and woozyness seemed to have passed.
"H-heh...knew all that I needed was some rest..." Jou said in between shallow pants. When he finally caught his breath, he realized that he was hungry. Standing firmly, he strode towards the kitchen and got himself a bowl of cereal.
As he ate it, he couldn't help but look around again. That's when he noticed something odd. None of the lights in the house were on. He hadn't turned them on when he got home, he just fell asleep. Yet it was around eleven at night, and he could see perfectly.
"Well that's weird...." he muttered quietly as he munched.
After eating, he still felt really restless, so he worked for a bit on the school project he and Yugi needed to do. When he realized that he couldn't concentrate on it for more than a few moments, he stood up and began pacing. He tried playing video games, but to the same effect. Seemed like blowing up zombies didn't hold that same rush as it usually did. He almost picked up the phone and called Yugi, but it was too late for anyone to be coming to the phone. Finally, after minutes of pacing and indecision, he stood by the window and looked outside.
The light of the moon caught his eye almost immediately. His eyes widened and the gaze lengthened. Minutes passed, and he felt the undeniable urge to step outside. Forgetting his coat, seemingly in a daze, he began to head for the door.
~*~
"Perfect......." a dark voice murmured.
".......Adaeus. What are you doing?"
The owner of the voice, Adaeus, jumped a mile. "Madame Myaki! I didn't know you were there!"
"That's your problem Adaeus. You're still second rate. You can't even sense when someone with greater power than yours is approaching."
"So sorry Madame Myaki....I'll try harder to learn from you..."
"You know Adaeus, when I made you, I thought you could keep up. I thought you'd do better. Tell me what you're doing right now before I UNmake you...."
"Y-yes Madam....you see....I....uhh........" He faltered before the unyeilding gaze of his master, lowering his eyes.
"Well SPIT IT OUT already Adaeus!"
"I MADE ONE!!!!"
With a cool, calculated anger, Madame Myaki murmured, "You.....MADE.....one Adaeus?"
Adaeus nodded, hoping not to be exterminated by one of the Elders.
After a quiet and extremely tense moment, Madame Myaki said, "Alright. Good. This is a test for you then. Train this one to be superior to yourself Adaeus. Teach them, guide them. Remember our no killing policy. We only take what we need...........I take it you won't be needing my guidance in this?"
"N-n-no, your magnificence!" He was so utterly relieved he could have kissed her then. But that would have gotten him killed more quickly than his current situation could have.
"Good. Do well........or ELSE, Adaeus.......funny...this place is familiar." And with that, the Madame Myaki disappeared into the shadows and the night. Adaeus breathed a sigh of relief and resumed watching his new protogè.
//Come out............come to me............feel the call..............//
~*~
Opening the door quietly, Jou stepped outside. The door shut itself behind him, and he stood alone and silent on his front stoop. Looking around, he wondered what to do next. He felt better that he was outdoors, really. His gaze wandered back to the moon, and suddenly felt that he was hungry. In fact, it seemed like his bowl of cereal hadn't helped him at all, almost like it never even hit his stomach.
Something felt different in his bones though. His eyes were keener, he knew that from the inside of his home. He reached back and pushed the hair out of his eyes, and realized that it hung lower over his face than usual. He could actually tuck it behind his ears! Confusedly doing so, he felt something tug at his insides. There was something....somebody near.
Spinning around, his hair coming out from behind his ears and swishing, he saw a dark figure, stooped and gleaming, standing before him.
There was silence for a moment, not exactly confused, but more tense than anything else. Jou felt as if he could at least listen to what this person had to say.
But he said nothing. Instead, a pale hand was extended. Come...come....something on him seemed to say. Jou could not resist. He came up to the figure.
"Good...good. You have the senses...Now come. I have much to show you tonight."
Jou finally found his voice at the sound of this deep and penetrating one. "Senses? Show me? What are you talking about?"
The man turned his face up to Jou, and he realized with a small thrill that his eyes were glowing dimly. On any normal day, this would have scared the living crap out of him, but for some reason, here, it felt natural.
"You will learn what you've become boy. My eyes are like yours, I sense your small surprise....look." And with that, he drew a mirror from his long and sweeping coat and put it in front of Jou.
What he saw surprised him more than seeing a pair of lit eyes could have. There was no reflection at all...except for the two nickel- sized dots of light side-by-side on the mirror, exactly where his eyes would have been."
"My.....reflection....my eyes!"
"Yes...yes boy! You have no reflection. The only indication of a person in front of that mirror is the two reflections of the small light our eyes give out. We must avoid them in the night when around others not like us....but in the daytime, our eyes appear normal."
"Like us...." Jou faltered. No reflection..... last night in the alley.... "You attacked that woman, didn't you?"
The man chuckled. "Yes yes...and when you decided to play hero, I thought I'd just give myself an extra little snack....only out of a whim, I did something a bit different with you. I MADE you......"
"Made...me....into a vampire!?!?!" Jou nearly lost himself and his odd inunderstandable composure right there, and almost did, if his maker did not clamp a cold hand over his mouth.
"Yes boy....you understand! That's good! And I am your master, Adaeus!" And with that, Adaeus fell into a sweeping bow, flourishing his hand. "And I never did catch your name......."
Jou, for some reason, calmed again. Oddly, he gained back his calm when his fevered question was answered. It was like...being what he was gave him a sort of calm. "I'm....Jounouchi Katsuya."
"Katsuya, is it? Sorry, Japanese names confuse me a bit...Katsuya IS your first name is it? And Jounouchi is your family name?"
Jou nodded, ignoring the lack of respect made obvious in the use of his first name, and only when he'd just met his.......master. Something inside of him clicked. Why couldn't he call him Katsuya? He was his master now and all.....
"Good good....Katsuya, come with me then. I'll show you yourself tonight!!" He strode out onto the walk as if on mist, and Jou followed, seeming to be in a daze once again. After ten minutes of striding, they came to the city park.
"Here...here Katsuya, you will learn the skill used by all of our kind!"
Just then, Jou's mind came back to him, as if his master has loosened the grasp upon it. "Wait....I have to DRINK SOMEONE'S BLOOD!!!???" His first real outburst of the night, it seemed to surpass the surprise that he was even a vampire in the first place. But at the sudden thought of blood, his stomach turned. To Jou, it seemed to be coming from a horrible mix of disgust and revoltion, and from his new inner being's excitement at feeding. Jou screwed his face up and gave his master a look of pure defiance.
"Listen to me boy! If you are to survive, you are to feed! Now follow! We will find someone, there always IS someone!!" With that, the clamp over Jou's mind tightened again, the clamp that all vampire masters have, and dragged Jou away. He tried fighting for a moment, but realized that he just didn't have the power.
Soon enough, they came upon a man sleeping on a bench, a newspaper draped over him.
"Ahhh, a usual spot with me....there's always someone different here every night, but always, someone here..." Adaeus said with a smirk. "I will show you, and then we will catch something for you...." He knelt down, and Jou was forced to watch as his new master sunk his fangs into the sleeping homeless man's neck. He tried to look away but he couldn't, more than likely due to his master's mental lock.
/Maybe it's because you like it, Jou....maybe you want to try it.../ a treacherous voice said inside of his mind said. Jou shook it away, and found some other way to rebel.
"Is it just me, or do you like biting guys?"
Adaeus raised himself from his meal. "BOY! You will learn NOT to talk back to your master like that! This time, I'll let you slide, it's only your first night! But next time, you won't be so lucky!" The man moaned lazily and slumped, obviously passing from only sleeping to all out unconscious.
"He's dead?" Jou asked.
"No, only sleeping deeply. We don't kill. It attracts unwanted attention towards us. Those two puncture wounds really give something away, even if the mortals don't want to admit it for awhile. In fact, that's why our hair grows when we are changed," Adaeus said with a dark smile, guesturing at Jou's hair. "To help us hide our marks...."
Jou involuntarily smoothed some hair down the side of his neck and followed as Adaeus continued walking, giving one last glance to the homeless man on the bench. After a moment, Adaeus lifted his head into the air and sniffed.
"Katsuya, you're lucky tonight! There's young blood out in this park, walking alone! Probably lost or something, or just very late getting home from a boyfriend's house!" He grinned and took off, Jou jogging after him speedily.
"You mean that you can tell age and if they're a boy or a girl just by smelling!?"
"It's a skill learned with a bit of time, boy! You'll learn it sooner or later!"
Adaeus suddenly crouched behind a shrub, and when Jou came up, he yanked him down beside him. "There...coming quickly...a young girl!" Jou watched quietly, his lightly glowing eyes catching almost every movement around him. Soon enough, his ears caught the sound of sneakers walking briskly, and a red-headed girl walked into sight a moment later.
"There she is boy....we'll worry about doing your own catching later, right now, I just want you to learn to feed. At the same time, we'll jump. Are you ready? Of course you are! Now come...........one.....two......."
~*~
Brood: OOOOH!! Jou's first hunt! Kudos to Wingleader Sora Jade for guessing correctly that Jou was turned into a vampy!!! Yay! AND she's also the prizewinner who's in this story!
Zutsokaki: She told her.
Brood: DID NOT!!! Now do me a favor and lose your vocal cords in some violent accident!
Ooh, and my birthday is on Monday, December 15th, everyone! I'm turning 17!!! And my friend Jes's birthday was on Friday, and he's 17 too! Yay for birthdays!
Zutsokaki: She's telling you so she can get presents.
Brood: WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT THOSE VOCAL CORDS!? NO I'm not telling them all just so they'll give me presents! I'm telling them because it's my birthday and I'll tell if I want to!
Zutsokaki: *humming* It's my birthday and I'll tell if I want to, tell if I want to, tell if I want to....you would tell too if it happened to yoooouuuuuuuuu........
Brood: I don't even wanna know how he learned that song.......*sweatdrop* Reviews, everyone!