A/n: Okay so we're one chapter away from the end. This chapter will have four paragraphs.

Blood and Candlelight: The Game Begins.

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At dawn Seto entered the house.

The wreak of chard flesh still hung sickeningly in the air from the day before and it turned his stomach to think about the hundreds of bodies that lay inside the main ball room.

He had only a small taste of the searing pain that the sun brought, but he couldn't imagine what it was like to burn to death like that.

He stopped as he heard the elders voice from behind him.

"How is your lady?"

Seto turned, giving no indication that he thought anything was wrong.

"She's recovering quickly. They expect her to leave in a few days. Can we talk about something?"

The elder nodded.

"What about?"

Seto smiled softly.

"I almost lost her...I want to make her one of us."

The look on the elders face was a cross between concern and amusement.

Before he could speak however, Seto's cell phone rang.

When he saw that it was the hospital, he grew pale.

"Hello."

Tears sprang to his eyes as the nurse spoke his worst fear.

"Dead? Are you sure? Yes...thank you."

He fell to his knees as he just let the phone drop from his hand.

His body shuddered as he cried silent tears.

He couldn't even breathe it hurt so badly.

Suddenly he felt warm arms come around him and he looked up into Katrina's eyes.

She gave a glance back at the elder who still stood uncaring behind her.

"I'm spending the day with him."

He nodded and she helped Seto up to his room.

She had drawn down the heavy curtains on his windows.

He fell onto his bed with a heavy breath.

"I...I just can't believe she's gone. They were moving her out of ICU this morning."

He closed his eyes as she kissed his forehead.

"And the worst part...I can't even claim the body for another fifteen and a half hours."

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As soon as he was able to he left the house and headed to the hospital.

Shortly he was approached by the attending nurse at the time of death.

"Mr. Kaiba. I'm very sorry for your loss. Since she has no living relatives, we must turn over any of her belongings she entered the hospital with. It's all in this box."

She handed him a cardboard box and he took it slowly.

He sat down in one of the chairs against the wall and opened it.

Her purse, clothes, and shoes.

He looked up at he woman.

"What about her ring?"

She looked confused.

"What kind of ring sir?"

He set the box down and stood.

"I gave her a ring last night before I left...I...I should have said it the way I wanted to. I should have just done it the right way. We were going to get married!"

He fell into another fit of tears.

He turned from her for a moment, trying to calm himself.

"It will still be on her hand sir...we don't remove jewelry."

He nodded and looked back at her, taking a deep shuddering breath.

"I...need to see her."

The woman nodded.

"This way sir."

He shivered as they entered the morgue.

"She's not really dead. Don't you remember?"

The woman stared into his eyes and shook her head.

"Remember what?"

A low growl rose up in his throat and he pounced.

He covered her mouth to muffle her scream as he bit.

"You checked her out your self and she went home. You will not remember me when you wake...now sleep."

And she was gone.

He set her in the chair to make it look like she'd fallen asleep.

The wounds would heal before anyone saw them.

He found Anzu and lifted her into his arms.

Her ring glinted in the light as her arm fell limply to her side.

He took the back door out.

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Seto took her to the old mansion and gently placed her on his bed.

"For the moment you'll be okay here."

He slipped the ring off her finger and picked up a medical needle that lay on the nightstand.

A small amount of bluish liquid lay in it.

He injected it into the wrist of the hand that the ring had been on and took a bottle of rubbing alcohol from under bed, along with a jewelry cleaning cloth.

He first cleaned her finger and then the ring it's self and slid the ring back on.

"Sleep as long as you like my love. And dream of anything that you desire."

Reluctantly he left her and went down to the basement.

There, Andrew awaited him with a long sword.

"It's two hundred fold and light weight. You shouldn't have a problem."

Seto nodded with a small smile as he lifted it from the table that it lay on.

"Tomorrow night...it all ends for him."

Andrew stopped him before he left.

"Do you have another plan incase this doesn't work?"

Seto smirked.

"I always have a back up plan Andrew, no worries. That's why I'm going to see Katrina after I sign over my entire life."

''

The next evening Seto lay on his bed.

He'd spent the whole day outside.

It felt increasable.

Katrina lay sleeping beside him.

He'd nearly drained her the night before.

Slowly he rose from his bed and took the sword.

He could hear the tormented screams of the nineteen left.

They had nothing.

Like him they had only been vampires a short time and their loved ones had still been alive.

Not anymore however.

It was going to be over soon though.

He'd signed over his company, his bank accounts his house...everything to the elder in sheer sorrow for loosing the last thing he was able to love in the world.

He'd even cried himself sick in the elders arms, lamenting about how much he missed her and how his life meant nothing now.

He begged the elder to take not only his fortune but also his life.

But he'd been refused and now he couldn't even find tears for his existence.

He pitied the others...almost.

He couldn't have feelings for those he would soon kill.

It was better to be a cold hearted murderer than a guilt ridden one.

They all went out in procession to meet with the elder...all except for Seto.

He wanted to be fashionably late.

Even Katrina dressed in her finest and left, though her loved ones had died hundreds of years ago and she had come from humble beginnings as a farmer's daughter.

She was never of any interest to the elder except for her gift.

A gift she would likely give him that night.

Finally at midnight he made his entrance.

He pulled the sword from his back and held it out, pointing it at the elder.

"Checkmate."

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XD so will Seto defete the elder and is Anzu really dead? Find out in the next and final chapter!