~*~Before story special words~*~

IMPORTANT: I am SO sorry for being gone so long! Forgive me if I worried any of you at all! I was a bit sick, becuase i went a bit..well..insane, since i pretty much drove myself there in the first place by having so much hatred towards people..i almost died in a coma while i was gone, so i had to stay away from people for a while after i woke up, but i'm gonna be back for a long time, so just to say sorry if i got on your nerves or made you worry ^____^ And great news DTG and Espa and all my other friends, my sickness is gone for good and there's no chance at all of me EVER getting a sickness that might take my life again, so i'll be here forever, and no more worrying ^___^

~*~Tank ewe fer listening ^_^ ~*~

Yu*gi*oh does not belong to me, only Makira and the silver ring do.





~*~Two~*~

Makira awoke in the hospital, her eyes trying to make out shapes in the room through the dark. She sat up in her bed and felt the soft bandages wrapped around her neck and shoulder. The silver millenium ring glittered menacingly in the corner of the room while outside the thunder screamed in the black clouds above Battle City, and lightning danced across the clouds in jagged streaks. Rain splashed heavily against the windows, projecting the image on rain running down the glass on the far wall. She blinked softly and attempted to get up, but something stuck fast into her arm. She let out a short gasp as she looked at a needle injected into her arms main vein, injecting blood into her system. This had already happend before, so she merely sighed and ripped it out, walking weakly. The doors to her room flung open, foreign light from the outside hallway flooding it, stinging her eyes immensely. She fell onto the floor. "Makira? Are you alright..?" She recognized Bakura's worried voice. "Yeah...i'll live" she chuckled. Bakura smiled and shut the door, attempting the lightswitch, but nothing happened. "Argh. The powers been out for hours now..." he grumbled. Makira blinked to him slightly and got up shakily. Bakura took her arm and helped her into bed with a worried face. "You shouldn't move just yet Makira..." he whispered to her. The doors flung open suddeny once again, and all the lights came on, Makiras eyes taking on a blood red color, her face going pale as she hid it in her bedsheets, Joey's annoyingly happy voice rang into the room followed by a low groan from Tristan who stumbled in after him. "Hey, the powers baaack!" he sang over and over again. "He's a hyper-ness sucker i tell you...the more hyper he gets the more tired i am.." Tristan mumbled grumpily. Bakura raised an eyebrow and looked at Makira with a frown, then at Joey and Tristan.

"You guys need to knock before you come in next time...." Bakura said with a sigh and a slight glare that one could barely notice at first glance. "Eh....well, you guys go outside, you come on too Bakura, i'll take care of ya sis for ya's!" he smiled happily. Bakura blinked again at Makira then back to Joey. "if you are sure Joey..." he sighed with a tone of regret and followed Tristan out, the doors shutting behind them. Joey blinked confusedly and dimmed the lights wth the small dial on the wall to where it was soft, but not too soft of light. Makira looked up with her pale face, her eyes regaining their brown color before Joey could notice the red flooding away from her eyes. He held up a water bottle filled with a thick, dark-red in it. "Er...Bakura said to give ya's this, he didn't tell me what it was though." his eye twitched at the heavy bottle before he lugged it over to Makira. "he said you have'ta drink it if ya wanna feel better" he added before sitting in a chair by the window, staring out at the rain soaked city. Makira opened the top and sniffed it. It was a horrible musty scent, but when the smell came to her mouth, she found that if her mouth had been open she would have been drooling quite a bit.She gently sipped at it while Joey played with the silver ring.

Makira saw this from the corner of her eye and hit it out of his hands just as two sleek shimmering spikes deployed on wires and flew about for a second. "no touchie Joey" she chuckled. Joey looked scaredly at the silver ring "i sort of noticed that..." he sweatdropped for a second then blinked as the lights blew out. "Darnit...i hate this night...stupid storm.." he cursed under his breath and began cleaning up the mess from Makira's needle. He bent under her bed to get a fresh towel to clean up the rest, but when he got up his neck caught an edge and he stumbled backwards with a sharp mumbling sound. "Yow..thats a sharp and deadly bed to be in a hospital! " he glared at the bed's corner, holding his hand to his neck to stop the bleeding. "I feel like a moron.."he said glaring at what was most likely the ceiling in the dark. Makira slunk behind him and tapped his head. Joey turned his head upwards to stare into her dark brown eyes. "need help..?" she blinked down at him. "Yeah, thanks Makira, i can't see all that well..." he chuckled at his own stupidity with a small sweatdrop. Makira bent down behind him after her hair and eyes had changed and moved his jacket so she could tell where the wound was.

Joey was just about to say something when he felt an even more burning in his neck, it felt as if he had been stabbed with scizzors right into his major neck vein. Makira smirked through a mouthful of blood, her eyes glowing a dark red, on and off, like a beacon's flashing red light. Red dripped off her chin and onto the floor while Joey stared wide-eyed and absently at the wall, his hands dropping to his sides. She removed her fangs from his neck finally, and wiped her chin with the back of her hand, smiling grimly. Joey fell forewards and Makira hopped onto her bed and grabbed the silver ring, tossing it around her neck, smirking as she felt the presence of the normal, good Makira inside. Her white hair fell gracefully down her back and her eyes swirled a greyish-silver, resuming their brown color afterwards.She sighed, letting out the real Makira again, she put on her saddest look, tears forming at her eyes, letting her hair cast a shadow over her eyes and after looking at Joey, ran out into the front room where her brother was, flinging the doors open.

Yugi, Bakura and Tea all looked at the panting albino standing in the doorway, and instantly, like a magnet, Bakura was at her side asking her what was wrong. "It's J-Joey! Somethings wrong with him!" Makira cried. Bakura rushed past her and into the large room, with Yugi following. Tea stopped behind Makira and smiled comfortingly down at her. "Joey will be ok, i'm sure of it" she reassured her. Yugi propped Joey against the wall and waved a hand in front of his face. After everything they tried didn't work, Yugi bonked him on the head with his millenium puzzle, getting some reaction. Joey's eyes fluttered open and looked at them both wearily. "Oi....my head is in HUGE pain.." he moaned tiredly. (A/N: Good thing for him that Makira's vampire type doesn't turn most of it's victims into other vampires ^^; )Yugi and Bakura blinked, then smiled with a sigh of releif that he was okay. "At least you're alive.." Yugi breathed with a faint smile. "Yes, we thought you had left us for a moment there" Bakura added in. Makira poked her head in to blink at them, an evil cackle filling her head then disappearing when Tea blinked down at her. She didn't like people staring at her, it reminded her of the time she had to face the spirit of her brother's millenium ring when hse was just a little girl, and she did not like that all, not one bit. When Tea realized her gaze made Makira uncomfortable she blinked with a frown and walked into the room with Makira trailing carefully behind her.

The silver ring glowed and chimed as a crash was heard from someplace inside the buildings, and all the doors locked, the lights blowing out again from the storm, this time in the entire facility. Makira growled as a slight pain hit her head, giving her a minor headache, making her look about through the darkness. A cold wind rushed through the entire building and escaped into the vents. Bakura looked around cautiously in the other directions. Makira seemed a bit scared, hugging the silver ring close to her for comfort. Through the darkness she felt a hand grab her shoulder and pull her backwards into the shadows away from the others....

~~~~~~To be continued in chapter 3~~~~~~

Fwee, end of this chapter n.~

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