A/N: Okay, I'm pretty sure a whole lot of readers are more than a little pissed off at me, and I don't blame them since the last time I updated this was last summer. I don't really work on any of my serious (meaning, I take them seriously and work hard on them instead of mediocre efforts) fics during the school year, and I kind of lost motivation for writing for a LONG while. I'll try not to do the same thing for the upcoming school year.
Okay, ff.net is acting all weird in uploading. . .it won't let me use certain characters to seperate the parts of the chapter i want to seperate! They even put a horizontal rule in their editing stages, but even THAT doesn't show up. So I'm gonna use ooooo instead; just to let you know ahead of time.
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Chapter 6
Yami jumped up. "What was that?" He demanded to no one in particular.
The two rushed out to see what the problem was.
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"Get away! Get away! GET AWAY!" Anzu shrieked at the vampire now standing in front of her, unaffected by the random objects she was chucking at him.
'Damn! I don't have any garlic with me!' Anzu thought frantically as Honda and Jou screamed like little girls behind her, Seto scratching his head and yawning, still half asleep. Bakura, fortunately, was being of help and assisting Anzu in fending off the intruder. UNfortunately, the gentle albino wasn't the best at close combat.
Seeing Bakura painfully crash into a wall, Anzu glanced at her useless teammates. "You idiots! Quit being cowards and help me!!" She screamed frustratingly, managing to glare at the vampire as well as her teammates at the same time. The others quickly scrambled to obey, rushing to get to their equipment in the next room. Or at least they tried to. . .Seto had groggily stumbled forward, managing to knock the other two down.
'Where is Yami when you need him!' Anzu thought furiously, swiftly dodging an incoming punch.
"He is here." The man's voice interrupted the girl's thoughts, slightly husky from his efforts in hitting the quick girl in front of him.
"Who?" Anzu faked ignorance, inwardly grinning as she managed to slap the vampire's clammy face. The vampire growled, shaking off the hit as if it were nothing. "Do not mock me, girl! Yugi is here! Give him to me, and you and your friends will go unharmed!"
"Fat chance, you bastard!" She yelled. "Kyaah!!" Anzu screamed as a clawed hand managed to scratch her arm. The vampire smirked, purposefully showing his gleaming fangs.
"Very well, little girl. You and your worthless companions will die!" He reached out for Anzu's throat. . .
. . .and promptly dropped to the ground, knocked out.
"Uh. . .?"
"Need any help, guys?" Yami asked cheerfully as if he were asking if they needed help washing the dishes. His fist was turning red, due to the hard blow dealt to the intruder.
"Nice hit, Yami!" Jou crowed from his position on the ground. Anzu quickly rushed to the knocked out albino.
"Ow, watch where you wave your arms!" Honda complained, attempting to untangle himself from the body heap. Seto, on the other hand, had fallen back asleep, not really helping any matters. "Lazy bastard. . ." Honda muttered.
Yugi peeked from behind Yami's leg to glimpse the intruder's face. He gasped, instinctively backing away. "Sa. . .Sak. . ." He stuttered.
"Who is he, Yugi?" Yami turned to the smaller boy. "He doesn't look like the vampire from before. . .Yugi?"
Yugi was now trembling in fear, shaking his head, eyes shut tight. His wings, despite the sprain, protectively curled around the vampire's tiny frame, muffling his soft mumblings.
"Yugi!" Yami brushed aside a wing and grabbed the vampire's shoulders, shaking him gently.
"Well, whoever he is, seems like he's also after shorty here." Honda remarked the obvious.
"Yugi, calm down." Yami said sternly. Surprisingly, Yugi obeyed, his muttering beginning to taper off.
"Now, Yugi, we need to know who-"
"Yami! Watch out!"
The vampire hunter whirled around at Jou's screech, in time to see a fist in front of his face.
Yugi seemed to scream in a different language as Yami crumpled to a heap.
"Yugi." The now revived vampire grinned. "Time to make our leave! You won't get anywhere with that sprained wing of yours!" Large wings unfurled from his back.
"Sakyaro!! Hanase! Gayro taci ne!" Yugi shrieked out as he was grabbed by the arm and lifted off the ground.
Jou and Honda rushed to help, but the vampire just batted them away. He threw some sort of netting, effectively trapping Honda, Jou, Anzu, and the still unconscious Yami. "Humans. Not worth my time." Sakyaro smirked. "However. . ." He glanced at the sleeping figure of Seto. "A half vampire will be quite entertaining . . ." Shifting his gaze, the man's smirk widened as his eyes fell upon an unconscious Bakura. "Well, that's interesting." He murmured.
As the group watched helplessly, the vampire swooped over and snatched up Seto to unceremoniously drape him across his broad shoulder. He then grabbed Bakura with his free hand and flew out the shattered window with Yugi still screaming in some odd language.
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"Kuso!" Jou punched the wall, ignoring the pain. The vampire's net had evaporated a while after he had flown off with his two captives.
"Jou, calm down-"
"Calm down? CALM DOWN?! How can I calm down when two of our friends, plus the one we were planning to protect, are gone?"
Anzu sighed, clearly exasperated. Her worry for the kidnapped three wasn't helping either. "Jou, if I recall, you didn't even do anything to help! So if you want to help now, be quiet so we can think this through!!" She barked.
"GUYS!" The two stopped glaring at each other to look at their leader. "Stop arguing. Jou, Anzu's right, we have to think this through. Anzu, yelling and screaming at each other won't get us anywhere."
Both shot each other one last glare before muttering apologies.
Yami winced as he fingered his head where the vampire had managed to hit him. Man, that was gonna leave a bump. "Okay, listen up. Our first priority is to get Seto, Bakura, and Yugi back. THEN we'll go after the vampires, okay? I want no hotheaded pursuits for revenge or anything like that. The safety of our friends come first."
Honda interjected. "Yami, I think Seto and Bakura should come before Yugi. We barely know the guy, and I know we're trying to help him, but like you said, our friends come first. Seto and Bakura we've known longer."
Yami gritted his teeth but nodded, knowing the brunette spoke the truth. But for some reason, it felt like he was betraying an important person by agreeing.
"Okay, now that we've settled that, we need a way of tracking them down." Anzu spoke up.
Jou's previously angry eyes lit up. "Bakura! He's always carrying his cell phone! And remember last month, he installed a tracking device because he became paranoid ever since that weird occurrence when a group of vampires suddenly attacked him." Jou frowned. "I wonder why though. . .that was a bit odd, now that I think about it. "
Yami interrupted impatiently. "That doesn't matter right now. What does matter is we have something to work with. Anzu, didn't Bakura explain to you how we could track him?"
The brunette nodded, pulling forth her own cell phone. "He installed the tracker in my phone because he was afraid these two-" Anzu shot a scornful glance at Jou and Honda, "-would either lose their phones or forget how to work the trackers."
"Aww. . .that's harsh, Bakura!" The two boys yelled simultaneously. Nevertheless, the two joined Yami in leaning over Anzu's shoulder to watch her fingers rapidly fly over her phone, punching in passwords and codes.
"There!" She cried in triumph. Immediately, the tiny screen flickered to reveal a grid, each little box representing one square kilometer. One blue dot indicated Anzu's position while a rapidly moving red dot indicated their friend's.
"We have to hurry, guys. They're moving at a fast pace, and I don't know the range Bakura made for this."
"Okay." Yami straightened, blood red eyes flashing in determination. "Let's go!"
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A/N: As I mentioned before in my A/N in the beginning, I haven't updated this in a while. And I wrote this chapter without reading over what I've already written. Now, I still have the main plot down and everything, but the details of what I've done so far have been wiped from my memory--so if anyone spots a little something here that doesn't match or make sense, like maybe I wrote somewhere else that Yami's eyes were bright green instead of red, be sure to mention it so I can fix it!
Review please.