Crimson

Chapter 1:Silent Nights

Malik pulled Bakura closer. "Don't forget me ... Bakura ... although time may pass ... empires fall ... I will always be with you ... I will come back for you ... don't forget me ... Bakura ... benhibik ..."

And Malik died in Bakura's arms.

Marik Ishtar slept peacefully in his bed, with nothing to disturb him. He looked like an angel, who wouldn't hurt a fly. How wrong we are.

Ring! Ring!

The dark-skinned boy sat up and grabbed his alarm clock. He threw it to the wall where it remained silent. Then he pulled the covers over his head and continued to sleep ... until he heard his sister's voice.

"MARIK!!!!! WAKE UP!!!! You're gonna be late!!! AGAIN!!!"

Marik grumbled but nonetheless got up.

'I hate Mondays!'
At Domino School

The light-haired boy sighed as he heard his math teacher ramble on and on about ... something .... Then the moment thay'd all been waiting for ... the bell rang! Marik stood up and made his way to the lunch room as soon as possible. Unlike many people Marik Ishtar didn't sit with anyone at lunch. Unlike many people, Marik was a loner. Unlike many people Marik didn't have any friends or anyone who'd willingly talk to him for that matter. Unlike many people, Marik wasn't normal.

Yugi approached Marik for the first time since Marik had come to the school. "You wanna sit with us?" he asked Marik innocently.

Marik thought for a moment.

'How I long to say yes ... to have friends ... but no ... they don't like me ... they never have ...'

Marik shook his head. "No Yugi ... I have no desire to 'hang' with your loser friends."

With that Marik threw away his lunch and headed outside.

Once outside a girl approached Marik. "Hi Marik, whatcha doin'?"

Marik looked around, "Uh ... do I know you ...?"

"Uh yes! Hello! English class! I sit in back of you ... well, anyway. My name is Karen."

Marik nodded. "Ok ..."

"Are you going to the Halloween Dance?" she asked.

Marik knew where this was going. "No. I have better things to do than take an idiot dancing."

Then he left the girl staring after him.

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Marik was BORED half to death in his English class. Then one girl, who's name Marik did not know or cared to find out, spoke up.

"Hey, Ms.Kay, how 'bout we do something for Halloween, instead of being bored here."

The stern teached looked at her blankly. "You have the Halloween dance."

"Yeah ... but I meant something in the class ... you know ... oh please!"

The whole class (except Marik ofcourse) pleaded inceasantly. The teacher thought for a moment then nodded.

"Okay. We will do something. I want a report on a creature from a horror movie, any movie. But, you are going to write this as if the creature DID exsist. It's sort of a research project. In any case, this assignment is due on Friday AND it must be 7-10 pages long."

The girl's mouth hung open. "But Friday's HALLOWEEN!"

The teacher smiled. "Exactly. Isn't it fitting?"

"But TEACHER! It's NOT-"

"What I said is final." Ms.Kay cut her off.

For once in his life Marik was actually intrested in his homework. He stayed after class to clear some things up.

"Can it be ANY creature in ANY horror film?"

Ms.Kay nodded. "As long as that creature is well known. Why? What were you thinking to do the report on?"

Marik grinned, "Vampires."

Marik Ishtar had long been obssessed with vampires. He knew little of them except they drank blood. That was enough to get him hooked.

But now he knew more. They hated garlic, crosses, holy water, and light. To kill one you had to expose them to sunlight, or stick a cross through their heart. They had fangs, claws, wings, and were immortal.

He sat up and stretched. He had just finished typing up his report. It was Thursday and he had nothing planned for Halloween.

'Oh well ... it's just some stupid kid's holiday anyway ...'

Marik reread a few paragraphs of his report. Then he printed it out.

'I hope I get a good grade on this ... I worked real hard.'

Then Marik heard scratching at the window. He walked cautiously to the window.

"Vampires lure their pray into their grasp ..."

Marik mentally kicked himself then said out loud. "Stupid! Vampires don't exist ..."

He reached the window and threw it open. "See ... nothing but wind ..."

He left the window open, turned off his bedside lamp, the only source of light in his room, and went to shut his computer off, when he heard the scratching again. He turned to see what was going on. He gasped when he saw a person crouching at the window.

He looked pale, had white hair and chocolate-chip brown eyes. When he spoke Marik saw he had fangs.

"If vampires are not real ... then how come I am ..."

A/N:Ok ... that was ... intresting ... this is my second shot at a vampire fic ... my other one kinda ... SUCKED LIKE HELL!!!! ahem anyway ... what'd you think of it. R&R pweeze!!!! .