The Hunt and The Rescue of Bakura!
Disclaimer: don't own none of the Yugioh, FMA, BTVS, Angel, or puppetmaster characters! just Brian
Bakura woke up with a major headache. His vision came into focus and he found himself staring at a woman, with long shaggy black hair. "Morning Tomb Robber, sleep well?" she asked in a sickly sweet voice. Bakura tried to speak but realized he was gagged with a filthy rag between his teeth. "Hang on now, I can't understand a word," she said smiling, taking out the rag. He looked around to find himself hanging from his hands by a rope from a tree in the cold snow covered wildnerness. His shirt had been removed and apparently, his abductor had some fun and made some marks of her own in his flesh.
"Now, what were yousaying deary?" she asked. "F-f-fuck y-you," Bakura said, shivering in the cold. The woman clenched her teeth and grabbed his chin, "You should hold that tongue of yours if you want to live," she hissed. Bakura spat in her eye and she scratched his face deeply, drawing blood. He winced as the pain came, "H-how d-d-do you know ab-about me?" he asked his kidnapper. "My master has been watching you and your vampire Slayer friends for quite some time now...he has grown tired of all of you killing nest after nest of his children. So, he's sent me to make sure you don't come back from this little 'retreat' you're having," she explained.
"Now, I've had a look at your group that day in the diner. How you're wiping the Master's children out, is beyond me...you don't look that strong. Although I must say, I do like the look of that blonde boy you have in your group...rather cute I must say," she said walking around Bakura's hanging body. "Now, you have a choice, Thief King," she said slowly. "You can either freeze to death out here and wait for your friends to find your frozen corpse, you can betray them and let them fall into my hands, ORI could kill you right here and now," she said, stopping in front of Bakura. He cursed her out in Egyptian, and she struck his face again. "Fine, your choice is to freeze then," she spat at him, sticking the rag in between his teeth again.
-Cabin-
Yugi rummaged through everyone's bags looking for any other weapons besides the shotgun Brian carried with him. "If I know Bakura and Marik, they're bound to have brought some knives or something," he told himself. He opened one bag and pulled out a robe of blood red material and underneath that, was a black mask. He held them out in front of him and remembered this is exactly what the person that saved Serenity, wore. He heard the door open behind him and he turned to the person that came into the room. "Uh, hey, just doing what I was supposed to be doing, but I found these in your bag," he held up the robe and mask for the newcomer to see.
"Why won't you tell them? If you don't I will," Yugi declared, carrying the robe and mask towards the door, only to be stopped by the newcomer, who bent down to Yugi's height and whispered in his ear a message. Yugi's eyes grew wide with fear and nodded. He went back and put them in the same bag, zipped it up and placed it under the bed. Yugi noticed the person was leaving and as he was, he saw dozens of scars and wounds on their body for the first time. "You knew about this sort of thing happening in town didn't you?" he asked. The person stopped and turned to him, "Long time, and I have my reasons for not telling you, now I'm sorry I threatened you, but you have to keep yourself from telling the others," the scarredone apologized, before leaving the room.
Downstairs, except Marik was gathered in the living room with all available weapons on the table in front of them. Brian's shotgun,a large hunting knife, the sword Serenity carried around at all times, and four jeweled double-edged daggers that belonged to Bakura. "Ok, here's what we're dealing with," Brian started "What dragged Bakura off into the woods last night, was a werewolf, a creature that has great strength and a thirst for blood, human or animal. The person infected with the were-wolf's disease will transform into the beast form during the entire full moon phase every month, which is three days. Now yesterday was the first day of the phase, and tomorrow is the last phase, but tonight is the most dangerous phase. Tonight is the peak of the full moon cycle, which means our werewolf will be at it's full strength when it's gone through it's transformation. WeHAVE to bring it down before the moon rises today...any questions?" he asked looking at his friends.
Ryou kept silent, with anger written on his face; Yami and Tea looked at each other then at the weapons cache; Joey and Serenity stared out into the wilderness outside. "I have a question," Yugi said softly, raising his hand. "What is it, Yugi?" Malik asked him. Yugi looked at him for a bit, then looked at the others, "Nevermind," he said. Marik came inside, and took off his coat. "I got good news and bad news," he said walking over to them. "Good news first please," Tea told him. "The good news is, that thing ain't getting out of here. The bad news is, neither are we," he said. "Why is that?" Faith asked the Yami. "Snow and boulders are blocking the only road out of here, we're trapped here with that thing out there," Marik sighed sitting down.
"That's just fan-freaking-tastic!" Brian yelled, punching the table. "Calm down, Guardian," Yami told him. "So what do we do know?" Joey asked. "We're going to split into two groups. Hunting Group and Base Group, the base group is going to stay here and hold down the fort, while the Hunting group is going to try and track the werewolf down and kill it," he explained his plan. "Now, Ryou, Tea, Yugi, Joey, and Malik, your Base group. Faith, Marik, Serenity, Yami and I are going to be Hunting group," Brian said handing out the weapons. "I'm going with you," Ryou said bitterly. Faith shook her head, "Forget it kid, you're staying here," she told him. "But-," he started. "NO BUTS, RYOU. I know you wanna help Bakura, but if you go out there and get yourself killed, Bakura's gonna have our asses," Brian scolded, pushing him to the couch.
They headed to the door jackets on and weapons strapped, "Keep your eyes open for anything," Serenity told her brother. "Tea, watch Ryou, he might try and leave," Brian whispered to his girlfriend. "Got it. Good luck," she whispered back, kissing him goodbye. They left the cabin in a V-shaped formation, with Brian on point with the shotgun. They went to the toolshed and studied the tracks made by the were-wolf. "Can either of you tell us how big it is?" Yami asked Faith and Brian. They shook their heads, "Sorry, can't tell ya, but I can say it's at LEAST as tall as you, Yami," Brian said scratching his chin. "Or big enough to take down a bull elk," Marik commented. "What do you mean, Marik?" Faith asked him, not looking up from the tracks.
"Over there," he said pointing off into the treeline. Everyone followed his line of sight and walked ahead to the corpse of a full-grown male elk. Its stomach was torn apart and its throat was ripped out, blood and entrails lay everywhere. "Jesus Christ," Brian muttered, covering his nose. Marik dipped his hand into the pool of blood in the corpse, "It's still fresh," he told them. "So, it's close," Serenity said nervously, looking around. "Where'd it go, I don't see any tracks except the ones leading to the elk,"Yami asked. Brian looked around, also noticing that the tracks were the only ones there. "What the hell?" he wondered.
-With Bakura...-
Bakura hung there from the tree, cold as death itself. The sun setting and it was getting colder by the second. The woman came up to him, with blood on her hands and lips, "Well, I'm surprised to see you still alive. Normally anyone else would've died by now," she said, licking her fingers. "I've been keeping watch on your friends today, seems like they did the best thing, for me anyway. They've seperated and now the weaker ones are all alone in the cabin, which means, easy targets. I think I'll start with your double, Ryou, I believe his name was?" she wondered, running her fingers across his chest.
Bakura spat out the rag, "You leave him the hell alone, you hear me! You leave him alone," he cursed. The woman ignored him and watched the sun go down and the stars come out. "Well, time of dinner," she said stretching. She turned and kissed Bakura on the lips, "Bye love," she said softly, before knocking him unconcious with a hard blow to the head. She cackled as she walked off into the distance, her wolf fur coming out as the Full Moon showered her with it's light.
Bakura hung there, exposed to the bitter cold for a long time. The moon's positioned had changed when he came to. He opened his eyes, barely able to keep them from closing. He heard the nightly noises of the animals around him. He knew this would be how he would die, hung from a tree like an animal and frozen to death. He soon heard loud footsteps crunching in the snow to the side, but he didn't have any strength to turn around. The owner of the footsteps came into his view and took out a large blade. "Go ahead and gut me, I don't care," he whispered glaring at the figure.
The blade's owner pulled him down enough to reach the rope, then cut through it, letting Bakura fall to the snow covered ground. "Jesus Christ, kid...what the hell happened?" the person asked him. Bakura ignored him, but the person shook him, "Listen kid, you have to tell me what happened," his savior said roughly. "Monster...help my friends, in the cabin," he said before passing out. "Shit, not again," the blade owner cursed, taking off his coat and wrapping it around Bakura's body. "Hang on, kid. I'll get you warmed up," he said walking to his truck, with Bakura, nearing death in his arms...
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Kilnorc: UPDATED! there you go my loyal loyal fans! Bakura's been saved but by who? Will the Cabin Gang survive the oncoming danger? Yugi knows the identity of the Mysterious Red One, but who is it? If you think you know who it is, say so in review!
Red One: I shall reveal myself -begins to take off mask-
Kilnorc: NOT YET NUMBSKULL! -stops-