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to chapter 4.
Chapter 4
Malik looked at the door to the flat. The door was completely plain, nothing about it hinting at the people of amazing power that lived inside.
The girl had left. He had waited for her to leave because she would have never let him talk to the Hunter. But now she was gone and he could get down to the business that he had come to do.
Silently, with a small expenditure of blood he turned his hands into claws (Discipline Feral Claws.) and proceed to pick the lock. The magical wards and the ones specifically designed to keep out Vampires proved a bit more of a challenge but he would get past them none the less...
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"Hello Kaiba..." He said quietly as the man walked into the living room. Kaiba stopped and stared at the Vampire on the couch in what had to be shock.
"How-" Malik held up all the physical wards that had been near all of the entrances and smiled.
"Just got a wereleopard to take them off. Ah! Stop that Kaiba." He said as Kaiba reached for a stake. "I wouldn't do that, especially since I'm going to give you a chance to kill the Prince of the city." Kaiba stopped and gave the Vampire a disbelieving stare.
"Why?"
"Because the Prince has lied to me, blackmailed me and has tried to hide people that I have been searching for from me." Kaiba stared at him for a moment more.
"What do I have to do?" Malik smiled and leaned back in the sofa.
"Just mislead the two Hunters that have come here and kill, or if you can, capture Bakura and Bwin. If you do that I will not only tell you were the Prince is but I will also help you kill him." Kaiba was quite for a few minutes, wondering if making a deal with the very creature that he had hunted was worth killing the head Vampire in the city.
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Everyone in the room looked around, wondering were the voice was coming from. Jouno sniffed the air a bit as he looked around. Yami growled as he remembered were he had heard the voice from before.
"BAKURA!!!" He yelled. "Were are you?!?!" Bakura and Bwin suddenly appeared next to the door. Yami and Bakura glared at each other venomously but didn't attack. Bakura then looked over at Jouno and Kira.
"I will ask once more. May we stay?" The two looked at him and then at Bwin before Jouno nodded.
"Alright. After all we can't say no... BUT NO FIGHTING!" He said sternly. Bakura smiled and then walked into the room sitting down on the couch and started to watch the TV. Yami hugged Yuugi to him.
"We would never be that rude." He said nodding his head towards Bakura. "We thank you." He then ran over sitting next to Bakura and then started to poke him. Yuugi, Bwin, Jouno, Kira and the pups stared at the two. Yuugi sighed and bowed his head in thanks to Jouno and Kira.
"Thank you." He smiled. Yuugi ran over to Yami and almost immediately started to cuddle with him. Bwin stood in the same spot she had been and simply looked around the room and watched the others. Kira and Jouno stared at her, as the pups had long seince gone back to watching the TV.
"Are you... going to sit down?" Jouno ventured. Bwin smiled at him, hiding her fangs even as she did so.
"You'd be surprised how dieing a second time can affect you. I mean when you have all eternity to do things, why not take the time to enjoy the beauty of all the things around you?" The two stared.
"Ummmmmmmm right..." Jouno said as he looked at the TV. "Sure..." There was a brief moment of silences and then Jouno scampered off to the TV. Kira sighed and put one hand to her face.
"You would never think that he was a first class werewolf and an alpha...." She trailed off as she also retreated to the sofa. Bwin stared at the group. All of them were more or less getting along, though Bakura and Yami were attempting to annoy one another but that was the only thing... The girl was once more reminded of the family that she had had when she was still a Kine (human) and she once more pushed the thoughts from her head. These were the people that she had now... She slowly walked to the couch and realized that she would be quite content if everything stayed the way that it was...
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Marik sighed disgusted as another Sewer Rat scampered away... Most likely going to its Haven, to sleep away the day. Apparently none of the Vampires they could get to had any idea who killed who the night that Yami died and they all knew that Malik was staying with The Prince, though no one knew were the Princes Haven was... the way that things were going he would never find Malik the Consul would have to take Kaibas word and then leave him alone. He knew this, Lina knew this and most certainly Kaiba knew this...
They had to catch him.
"Marik!" Lina yelled as she drew near. He turned to her. The two of them had taken opposite sides of the city in an attempt to increase their chances at finding information.
"Lina."
"How'd you do?" She asked as she stopped right in front of him. He shook his head.
"Not very well. You?"
"Well... I did find a little bit." She shrugged. "But it's not that much... Apparently The Prince knows what happened when Yami was killed and Malik is staying with him as long as he's in town."
"How is he supposed to do know that?" Marik asked as he tilted his head to one side.
"One of his Ghouls was somehow connected to either Kaiba or Yami."
"That would be nice if we knew were the Princes Haven was... We could kill two birds with one stone... Get the info, and then kill them both." Marik said as he looked towards were the sun would soon be coming up. Lina stared at him quietly.
"I guess that it would be..."
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Kiyone sighed as she set some groceries on the counter. Kaiba was an astounding Hunter but he sometimes forgot about his own need for nourishment. She had just started to put the things away when Kaiba came in, a large smirk on his face.
"Kiyone. Get ready. I'm going to kill the Prince of the city tonight, and you're going to help me." He held out a stake. "Here...." She didn't move. The man stared at her and then set the piece of wood down on the counter then walked away.
Kiyone dropped the food and dashed out of the flat.
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Malik smiled. He had managed to convince the Hunter to help him. The fool. He had no idea what the repercussions of his actions would be.
Malik sorely wished to be there to see how he acted when he found out. He would make every effort to.
A sudden sleepiness over took him and he realized that the sun would be up within 15 minuets. Unlike some other Vampires Malik had to rest before the sun even fully rose.
He let out a low growl. One more of annoyance than anything else. He had to rest...
Placing his hand one the ground the man focused on the earth beneath him. Almost instantly he sunk into the ground, as if it were quicksand... (Discipline Protean power Earth Meld.)
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Jean-Claude was just about ready to resign himself to his daytime slumber when his favored ghoul ran in just barley missing the ghoul that was getting his coffin like bed ready. She tripped and fell, but Jean-Claude caught her.
"Jean... Claude.." She managed to gasp out.
"Ná, meldanya?" he replied using her native Elven tong. (It means 'yes, beloved servant) She gripped his arm and looked up at him, tears forming at the corners of her eyes.
"Jean-Claude... You.. You have to go to the Ulfrics and Lupas apartment." The Prince of the city smiled down at her.
"You moron, why woul-"
"Ecatirena, be quite." Jean-Claude said with a wave of his hand. "You should know better than to talk to my only irreplaceable ghoul like that." The ghoul made a face at the "irreplaceable"ghoul, who decided to ignore it in favor of saving the Prince.
"You have to leave. The Hunters know were your haven is. They're going to come to kill you tonight. You have to go!" She yelled as she grabbed onto his arms tighter and he looked directly into her face. There was a moment of silences and then he nodded.
"Alright..." He turned to the other ghoul. "Ecatirena... get me something that I can wear outside and if any of the Primogen ask I'm at the Ulfric and Lupa of the cities apartment."
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Marik and Lina were in a bar when the call came. The two of them hadn't been able to find out anything else and were just relaxing for a bit when Mariks cell phone rang. Sighing and putting down his beer he answered it.
"Hello?"
"Marik. It's Kaiba. I've found out were the Princes haven is. If you want to come and help me kill him then you have to be at my place before night fall to night. I expect to see you." With that said the Hunter hung up. Malik stared at the phone for a moment and then put it back in his pocket. He smiled over at Lina.
"It seems that Kaiba solved our problem for us." He put some money down on the counter. "Kaiba found the Princes haven and has invited us to come and help kill him." Lina grimaced at the news.
"Marik... we...... we can't kill the Prince." Marik raied an eyebrow in a puzzled way.
"Why not?" Lina was silent for a moment before she responded.
"Marik do you know what a Lifeblood bond is?"
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Jouno hung up the phone and shook his head. Kira sighed.
"So Jouno, we're going to have to go to their city, hu?" She asked, resting her head in one hand. Jouno nodded.
It seemed that one of the third class werewolves from their pack and went wild in another city and the alpha of that citys pack was calling for Jouno to come and fix the mess that had resulted. Of coures an alpha cannot visit another city without his Lupa. So that meant that both Kira and Jouno had to leave. Yuugi, who had been sitting with them at the time tilted his head to one side.
"So you guys are both leaving?" Kira and Jouno nodded.
"We have to." Yuugi nodded as he looked at the two of them.
"I see... Will everyone have to leave?" He asked. Jouno laughed a bit and Kira shook her head.
"No Yuugi everyone can stay here, we're used to having people staying with us.... There are generally some pups with us so we got used to it." Kira said as she stood up.
"We have to go and pac-" Jouno stared to say something but stopped as someone knocked on the door. The three of them looked into the living room, were the door connected to the apartment and fond that Bwin was already standing at the door.
"Should I open it?" Jouno shrugged and Kira nodded. So the Vampire opened the door. Standing there was a young blond haired girl and a man wearing a black out fit that covered almost all of his skin. (If you've ever read Hellsing the Manga it's basically what Alucard wears in the first volume.)
"Kira, Jouno, Jean-Claude needs to stay with you." Kira and Jouno, who had both by now walked over to the door stared at them for a moment, but then nodded.
"Jean-Claude can stay with us..." Jouno said as he looked the Vampire up and down, "Not that we'll like it..." Kira looked over at the ghoul, who appeared to have fallen asleep on her feet. By this time all of the people in the apartment were near the door.
"Ghoul!" Yami said in a commanding voice, and waking the girl. "Why does the Prince of the city wish to stay here?"
"Because the Hunter Kaiba has found out were his Haven is and Jean-Claude would surly fall at the massacre that will be there tonight." She glanced over at the clock on the wall and Yami noticed that it was a natural movement for her, like she had been here quite a few times before. He also noticed how much he felt like he should know her.... He recognized her vaguely but couldn't place from were.
"I have to go and try to get the rest of the Vampires out." She said as she turned to leave. Kira held up a hand to stop her.
"You can't go. You're falling asleep on your feet as it is." Yami shoved her out of the way.
"Kaiba is going to attack the Haven?" She nodded. "Then take me there. I have to talk to Kaiba one last time..."
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Aisha: well that's the 4th chapter. Whatda ya think? Oh, it's probably painfully obvious who the ghoul is; anyone care to take a guess? But anywoot please review my story and if you liked this one, go and read my other stories. Read E.V because then this one will make more seince.
Chapter 4
Malik looked at the door to the flat. The door was completely plain, nothing about it hinting at the people of amazing power that lived inside.
The girl had left. He had waited for her to leave because she would have never let him talk to the Hunter. But now she was gone and he could get down to the business that he had come to do.
Silently, with a small expenditure of blood he turned his hands into claws (Discipline Feral Claws.) and proceed to pick the lock. The magical wards and the ones specifically designed to keep out Vampires proved a bit more of a challenge but he would get past them none the less...
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"Hello Kaiba..." He said quietly as the man walked into the living room. Kaiba stopped and stared at the Vampire on the couch in what had to be shock.
"How-" Malik held up all the physical wards that had been near all of the entrances and smiled.
"Just got a wereleopard to take them off. Ah! Stop that Kaiba." He said as Kaiba reached for a stake. "I wouldn't do that, especially since I'm going to give you a chance to kill the Prince of the city." Kaiba stopped and gave the Vampire a disbelieving stare.
"Why?"
"Because the Prince has lied to me, blackmailed me and has tried to hide people that I have been searching for from me." Kaiba stared at him for a moment more.
"What do I have to do?" Malik smiled and leaned back in the sofa.
"Just mislead the two Hunters that have come here and kill, or if you can, capture Bakura and Bwin. If you do that I will not only tell you were the Prince is but I will also help you kill him." Kaiba was quite for a few minutes, wondering if making a deal with the very creature that he had hunted was worth killing the head Vampire in the city.
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Everyone in the room looked around, wondering were the voice was coming from. Jouno sniffed the air a bit as he looked around. Yami growled as he remembered were he had heard the voice from before.
"BAKURA!!!" He yelled. "Were are you?!?!" Bakura and Bwin suddenly appeared next to the door. Yami and Bakura glared at each other venomously but didn't attack. Bakura then looked over at Jouno and Kira.
"I will ask once more. May we stay?" The two looked at him and then at Bwin before Jouno nodded.
"Alright. After all we can't say no... BUT NO FIGHTING!" He said sternly. Bakura smiled and then walked into the room sitting down on the couch and started to watch the TV. Yami hugged Yuugi to him.
"We would never be that rude." He said nodding his head towards Bakura. "We thank you." He then ran over sitting next to Bakura and then started to poke him. Yuugi, Bwin, Jouno, Kira and the pups stared at the two. Yuugi sighed and bowed his head in thanks to Jouno and Kira.
"Thank you." He smiled. Yuugi ran over to Yami and almost immediately started to cuddle with him. Bwin stood in the same spot she had been and simply looked around the room and watched the others. Kira and Jouno stared at her, as the pups had long seince gone back to watching the TV.
"Are you... going to sit down?" Jouno ventured. Bwin smiled at him, hiding her fangs even as she did so.
"You'd be surprised how dieing a second time can affect you. I mean when you have all eternity to do things, why not take the time to enjoy the beauty of all the things around you?" The two stared.
"Ummmmmmmm right..." Jouno said as he looked at the TV. "Sure..." There was a brief moment of silences and then Jouno scampered off to the TV. Kira sighed and put one hand to her face.
"You would never think that he was a first class werewolf and an alpha...." She trailed off as she also retreated to the sofa. Bwin stared at the group. All of them were more or less getting along, though Bakura and Yami were attempting to annoy one another but that was the only thing... The girl was once more reminded of the family that she had had when she was still a Kine (human) and she once more pushed the thoughts from her head. These were the people that she had now... She slowly walked to the couch and realized that she would be quite content if everything stayed the way that it was...
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Marik sighed disgusted as another Sewer Rat scampered away... Most likely going to its Haven, to sleep away the day. Apparently none of the Vampires they could get to had any idea who killed who the night that Yami died and they all knew that Malik was staying with The Prince, though no one knew were the Princes Haven was... the way that things were going he would never find Malik the Consul would have to take Kaibas word and then leave him alone. He knew this, Lina knew this and most certainly Kaiba knew this...
They had to catch him.
"Marik!" Lina yelled as she drew near. He turned to her. The two of them had taken opposite sides of the city in an attempt to increase their chances at finding information.
"Lina."
"How'd you do?" She asked as she stopped right in front of him. He shook his head.
"Not very well. You?"
"Well... I did find a little bit." She shrugged. "But it's not that much... Apparently The Prince knows what happened when Yami was killed and Malik is staying with him as long as he's in town."
"How is he supposed to do know that?" Marik asked as he tilted his head to one side.
"One of his Ghouls was somehow connected to either Kaiba or Yami."
"That would be nice if we knew were the Princes Haven was... We could kill two birds with one stone... Get the info, and then kill them both." Marik said as he looked towards were the sun would soon be coming up. Lina stared at him quietly.
"I guess that it would be..."
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Kiyone sighed as she set some groceries on the counter. Kaiba was an astounding Hunter but he sometimes forgot about his own need for nourishment. She had just started to put the things away when Kaiba came in, a large smirk on his face.
"Kiyone. Get ready. I'm going to kill the Prince of the city tonight, and you're going to help me." He held out a stake. "Here...." She didn't move. The man stared at her and then set the piece of wood down on the counter then walked away.
Kiyone dropped the food and dashed out of the flat.
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Malik smiled. He had managed to convince the Hunter to help him. The fool. He had no idea what the repercussions of his actions would be.
Malik sorely wished to be there to see how he acted when he found out. He would make every effort to.
A sudden sleepiness over took him and he realized that the sun would be up within 15 minuets. Unlike some other Vampires Malik had to rest before the sun even fully rose.
He let out a low growl. One more of annoyance than anything else. He had to rest...
Placing his hand one the ground the man focused on the earth beneath him. Almost instantly he sunk into the ground, as if it were quicksand... (Discipline Protean power Earth Meld.)
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Jean-Claude was just about ready to resign himself to his daytime slumber when his favored ghoul ran in just barley missing the ghoul that was getting his coffin like bed ready. She tripped and fell, but Jean-Claude caught her.
"Jean... Claude.." She managed to gasp out.
"Ná, meldanya?" he replied using her native Elven tong. (It means 'yes, beloved servant) She gripped his arm and looked up at him, tears forming at the corners of her eyes.
"Jean-Claude... You.. You have to go to the Ulfrics and Lupas apartment." The Prince of the city smiled down at her.
"You moron, why woul-"
"Ecatirena, be quite." Jean-Claude said with a wave of his hand. "You should know better than to talk to my only irreplaceable ghoul like that." The ghoul made a face at the "irreplaceable"ghoul, who decided to ignore it in favor of saving the Prince.
"You have to leave. The Hunters know were your haven is. They're going to come to kill you tonight. You have to go!" She yelled as she grabbed onto his arms tighter and he looked directly into her face. There was a moment of silences and then he nodded.
"Alright..." He turned to the other ghoul. "Ecatirena... get me something that I can wear outside and if any of the Primogen ask I'm at the Ulfric and Lupa of the cities apartment."
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Marik and Lina were in a bar when the call came. The two of them hadn't been able to find out anything else and were just relaxing for a bit when Mariks cell phone rang. Sighing and putting down his beer he answered it.
"Hello?"
"Marik. It's Kaiba. I've found out were the Princes haven is. If you want to come and help me kill him then you have to be at my place before night fall to night. I expect to see you." With that said the Hunter hung up. Malik stared at the phone for a moment and then put it back in his pocket. He smiled over at Lina.
"It seems that Kaiba solved our problem for us." He put some money down on the counter. "Kaiba found the Princes haven and has invited us to come and help kill him." Lina grimaced at the news.
"Marik... we...... we can't kill the Prince." Marik raied an eyebrow in a puzzled way.
"Why not?" Lina was silent for a moment before she responded.
"Marik do you know what a Lifeblood bond is?"
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Jouno hung up the phone and shook his head. Kira sighed.
"So Jouno, we're going to have to go to their city, hu?" She asked, resting her head in one hand. Jouno nodded.
It seemed that one of the third class werewolves from their pack and went wild in another city and the alpha of that citys pack was calling for Jouno to come and fix the mess that had resulted. Of coures an alpha cannot visit another city without his Lupa. So that meant that both Kira and Jouno had to leave. Yuugi, who had been sitting with them at the time tilted his head to one side.
"So you guys are both leaving?" Kira and Jouno nodded.
"We have to." Yuugi nodded as he looked at the two of them.
"I see... Will everyone have to leave?" He asked. Jouno laughed a bit and Kira shook her head.
"No Yuugi everyone can stay here, we're used to having people staying with us.... There are generally some pups with us so we got used to it." Kira said as she stood up.
"We have to go and pac-" Jouno stared to say something but stopped as someone knocked on the door. The three of them looked into the living room, were the door connected to the apartment and fond that Bwin was already standing at the door.
"Should I open it?" Jouno shrugged and Kira nodded. So the Vampire opened the door. Standing there was a young blond haired girl and a man wearing a black out fit that covered almost all of his skin. (If you've ever read Hellsing the Manga it's basically what Alucard wears in the first volume.)
"Kira, Jouno, Jean-Claude needs to stay with you." Kira and Jouno, who had both by now walked over to the door stared at them for a moment, but then nodded.
"Jean-Claude can stay with us..." Jouno said as he looked the Vampire up and down, "Not that we'll like it..." Kira looked over at the ghoul, who appeared to have fallen asleep on her feet. By this time all of the people in the apartment were near the door.
"Ghoul!" Yami said in a commanding voice, and waking the girl. "Why does the Prince of the city wish to stay here?"
"Because the Hunter Kaiba has found out were his Haven is and Jean-Claude would surly fall at the massacre that will be there tonight." She glanced over at the clock on the wall and Yami noticed that it was a natural movement for her, like she had been here quite a few times before. He also noticed how much he felt like he should know her.... He recognized her vaguely but couldn't place from were.
"I have to go and try to get the rest of the Vampires out." She said as she turned to leave. Kira held up a hand to stop her.
"You can't go. You're falling asleep on your feet as it is." Yami shoved her out of the way.
"Kaiba is going to attack the Haven?" She nodded. "Then take me there. I have to talk to Kaiba one last time..."
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Aisha: well that's the 4th chapter. Whatda ya think? Oh, it's probably painfully obvious who the ghoul is; anyone care to take a guess? But anywoot please review my story and if you liked this one, go and read my other stories. Read E.V because then this one will make more seince.