Authoress Notes: Well now! Didn't expect such a fast update, huh? Well, I have a reputation for that! Thank you for all who reviewed, and to some who dragged me out from the desk I was under. ;; Now, I think this chapter will be kind of long, considering it'll explain some things of the past, like some of the important ones. Anyway, enough of my babble, enjoy the chapter now, folks!
Disclaimer: Don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Never have, never will. If I did, Atem would act darker like this one, and wouldn't leave!
Pairings: AtemxAnzu, SetoxShizuka, JounouchixMai, and others.
Warnings: OOC-ness, mature themes, sexual themes… you get my drift?
Genre: Action/adventure, romance, angst and… I dunno.
Plot:
((AU Dark fic)) In a world where vampires are gods, humans are low, and slaves are treated as dirt, Anzu is a pleasure slave, serving years in bed. Atem is a high-ranked vampire, in need of… entertainment. Could love between a lowly pleasure slave that lost the ability to love and an arrogant, cold vampire exist in such a world where status is everything, and your image determines how you're treated? Now with the mention of Bakura, necromancers, sorcerers, and the three God Orbs, could things become more complicated?
Dark Desires
By: xKuroSeraphimx
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Chapter 20: Scars of the Past
Her body jerked slightly as she woke. Her eyes were tightly shut, like they were glued together, preventing her from seeing anything around her. She felt like she was lying on a wet floor. And the whole room smelled strongly of blood for some reason.
Blood?
The brunette snapped her eyes open and sat up, her head whirling around to find that she sat on an endless sea of blood with red roses drifting on the surface in long rows as far as the eye can see. The sky around her was dark, and there was this sound of some liquid hitting a puddle.
She gasped as she stood up, realizing the situation she was in. Her clothes were doused with blood, like her hair, and her hands were nearly coated with it. The woman stared wildly at her hands, before looking around again.
"Where am I?" she asked softly to herself, her voice reverberating through the endless darkness.
"Who said YOU could trespass onto MY borders, Whore?" asked a familiar voice behind her.
Anzu whirled around to see Teana, a hand on her hip as she leaned on one leg, her brows knitted in a tight frown at the sight of her. They stood a few feet apart, the roses on the surface of the ocean of blood shifted slightly in their rows.
The sapphire-eyed brunette arched an eyebrow up at what her counterpart said. "YOUR borders? What do you mean?"
Teana took a couple of steps forward, her stride sort of taking a feline grace to it, her hand still on her hip until she was only two feet away. She sighed before saying, "Do I have to explain everything to you? Fine. You know how the mind is split into two parts, the conscious and subconscious, right?" Anzu nodded. "Well, since you somehow have a mind of your own, in our head, it's actually four parts, your conscious and subconscious, while the other two are mine. You just somehow got onto my turf, Whore. Do you understand now?"
"I guess…" Anzu replied slowly while Teana had just rolled her eyes. "But what do you mean that I somehow have a mind of my own?"
There was a pause of silence except for the sound of liquid hitting a puddle echoing around the area. Then, Teana picked up a rose and stared sort of fondly at it, twirling it in her hand.
"So, it's been a while since you pleasured another man, eh? So you do love him?" she asked slowly, her eyes never leaving the rose.
Anzu frowned a bit. "You're changing the subject, Bitch." She said, using the new nickname she had for her counterpart.
"Answer the question, Whore," Teana replied sharply with a hiss.
The sapphire-eyed brunette let out an exasperated sigh, knowing Teana won't answer her question; her stubbornness was that of a brick wall, not easy to break through. And the disdain in her voice whenever she spoke to her was blatant, not bothering to hide the distaste like a person not pleased with something another person had showed her.
Giving up on trying to persuade the red-eyed brunette to tell her what she meant, Anzu let out another sigh and said, "Yes… I do love Atem… Is there something wrong that?"
Teana let out a small giggle, twirling the rose between her hands more frequently like she was twirling a pen. "Well in a way… Society, hah! I don't give a shit about them of what they think of your relationship with Atem, but in my case, yeah, I do have a problem."
"And what's that?"
Teana grunted noisily before she tossed the rose in the air, and caught it, crushing the rose, blood oozing out of the lines of her hands. Teana looked up with a murderous smile, the inch-long teeth bare in a wild grin.
"You, of course…" she replied after a while.
Anzu was slightly taken aback by her answer, but she composed herself in a matter of seconds before she asked, "Why?" she paused, thinking out her words carefully, knowing Teana was cunning enough to avoid any major information that might spill, unless she told her if she wanted to. "What's your problem with me, anyway? Ever since I've known you, you've been a real bitch to me. I don't recall anything I could've done to you, since you've been stuck in my body for some reason."
Teana threw the crumpled rose to Anzu's face, which Anzu closed her eyes, feeling some of the petals stick to her face before falling off, leaving red smears on her cheeks. Anzu opened her eyes again to see Teana scowling at her.
"As a matter of fact, Whore," Teana spat the last word out with contempt. "You did do something to me. You've STOLEN something from me. But since I'm in the situation of being stuck in this body, I can't get it back. And I'll kill you for it."
Anzu took a step forward. "But what did I steal! I don't recall stealing anything from anyone!" she cried out, trying to reason with Teana, but it looked to have not been working.
Teana narrowed her eyes dangerously at Anzu. She scoffed, "… You stole my life away from me. But that was thanks to my-or rather, OUR father. He was the one that sealed me away. That's what I meant about the scar on your back."
"Our father? Why did he seal you away? And the scar was the result of you being sealed?" Anzu asked, taking a few steps forward, but a glare from Teana stopped her dead in her tracks.
"I leave that for you to figure out. But in the beginning…" she sucked in a large amount of breath, rather content with the smell of blood around her and said,
"In the beginning, YOU weren't supposed to even exist…"
((scene change))
He lay on his back, staring at the dark ceiling with a rather content stare. His eyes trailed to the sleeping form next to him who stirred in her sleep, her head on his hard chest, her arm draped over his waist in a loose embrace. Then she turned the other way, dragging more of the blanket around her, making his legs feel slightly chilled. He chuckled softly before turning over to her, his lips near her ear.
Atem tried tugging the blanket back over to him, but in response, Anzu drew more of the blanket to herself, curling into a tight, small ball, trying to get warm. He didn't want to rudely wake her up by pulling the blanket so hard; she would roll off the edge of the bed. Seeing no other way out of this, he whispered into her ear,
"Anzu, don't hog the blanket so much or my assets will freeze, okay?" he asked almost teasingly into her ear, his breath slightly ruffling the chocolate-colored strands near her ear.
She mumbled something, ignoring him in her sleep. He rolled his eyes and finally scooped her in his arms, and she immediately clung to him again, like a baby, clinging to a stuffed bear for comfort. He shrugged, thinking that this way would be okay… as long as he got some of the blanket over himself.
In a moment in his life, he was content, happy to have Anzu in his arms like this. He was right, as he said before in the beginning, she was different from all the other slaves that tried to catch his attention. And she was more worth than she thought she was. Now that she was with him, he would be more than willing to give her the world if she wanted it. He wouldn't lose her. Never. He wouldn't lose her, like he lost…
Atem frowned slightly. Again, his mind wandered to the name: Teana. He looked down at the sleeping brunette in his arms and scanned her face. She looked much like a duplicate of Teana. But that was three thousand years ago. Anzu wouldn't be that old. And Teana died back then. He was helpless to save her, when she sacrificed herself to save him from the darkness of oblivion.
He let out a sigh. Surely the Teana inside of Anzu's mind wasn't the Teana of three thousand years back. Atem couldn't fathom why his mind was going over this now. He did have a plausible answer, but it was close to the fact. Then he began musing on Anzu's past. What happened to her? How did she end up in a world full of slaves? How did she become one? And more importantly…
Where, and who, were her parents?
Before he could ponder any more of this for the next few hours, there was a small rapping on his door. Atem sat up slightly, still having Anzu's arm around his waist and told the person who knocked to come in. Softly, quietly, Hikaru walked into the room, his hair back in its neat high ponytail, wearing nothing but a black leather midriff and baggy pants, clearly showing off his hard abs and muscles through the shirt, and the bandages around his body.
Hikaru's eyes widened slightly at the sight of seeing a nude Atem and Anzu in the same bed. His indigo black eyes peeking out of his long, milk-white bangs, he looked rather curiously at Atem who responded by plastering a smug smirk upon his face. After a few moments, Hikaru looked away, then right back, clearing his throat.
Why should he feel jealous?
"Sorry if I disturbed…. Any intimate moments between you two," Hikaru replied softly, his deep voice a bit rough, seeming to lower its tone down a bit. Probably due to one of Bakura's daggers being embedded in his throat when he protected Anzu, which was still wrapped with bandages as well. "But I think the moments have passed, I hope?"
The smirk on Atem's face twitched slightly. "Yeah… Unfortunately… What are you here for?" he asked calmly.
"I suggest you put on some of your clothing," Hikaru replied slowly, noticing the scattered clothes around the room. "Wouldn't want you walking around-even though it is your home-in nothing but your skin. I don't think your scarce choice of clothing will fit the occasion."
Atem let out a small laugh. "And what's this occasion?" he asked in a soft croon.
Hikaru's eyes trailed over to Anzu and then to Atem. "And I also suggest not waking her up. Let the little one sleep. Right now, she needs it." He said, ignoring the tri-haired vampire's question.
"You haven't answered my question, Hikaru."
The white-haired vampire let out a sigh and turned to face the door.
"You want to know about Anzu's past? Follow me to my room then…"
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It was minutes after Atem washed and changed into some decent clothing, leaving Anzu tucked in his bed, and following Hikaru to his room in silence that they arrived at their destination. When Hikaru opened the door and entered, Atem saw that Jounouchi, Mai, Shizuka, Seto, Malik, and Isis were in the room as well, except Isis, all sitting in seats in a semi-circle near Hikaru's bed which the vampire in question sat comfortably on next to Isis who waited for him to seat on an empty next to Malik.
He did, and once he did, Jounouchi spoke, "Alright, Hikaru, Isis, spill. What the hell happened in yours, Anzu's, and Akito's past?"
Shizuka nodded. "And what was up with that site that you told me to look into, Hikaru? I personally didn't like the contents it held." She added with her older brother. Everyone else nodded, even though some of them hadn't even seen the site the auburn-haired Jounouchi was talking about.
Hikaru let out an exasperated sigh, raking a hand through his white locks. "I'm getting there… I'm getting there. But first… Let me start at the beginning…"
He paused, looking up at the ceiling, recollecting memories of his past before he looked back down his audience with a serious expression on his face.
Finally, he spoke, "Okay… I'll start when Akito was born. My father was a friend of his, so I had to join in on the occasion of him being born. His father was quite happy being born, but…"
"Hey, wait a second," Atem cut in. "I was wondering this before, who is Anzu's and Akito's parents?"
Hikaru bowed his head. "You wouldn't believe me, even if I told you…" he whispered to himself, but the vampires and healer around him heard him clear enough.
"Come on, tell us." Seto said, leaning a little forward on his chair, staring at Hikaru intently with his cold, cobalt blue eyes.
"Their father was… the High Vampire, the first Vampire in the history this world has ever known, Lucifer." Isis answered for Hikaru who looked up to see their expressions.
As expected, everyone gasped, their eyes widening with shock, their mouths hanging wide in disbelief. Then Jounouchi shot up from his seat with a confused, but angry look on his face.
"Wait just one minute here! You're telling us, that Anzu's and Akito's father, is Lucifer!" he asked incredulously. "You've gotta be kidding me! Lucifer died, way long away from Anzu and Akito's time! How could he be their father!"
"I told you, you wouldn't believe us if we told you, but it's true." Hikaru replied calmly. "And the matter of Lucifer dying a long time before this time, he faked his death, Jounouchi. Did you really think that Lucifer himself would die in some petty war between the vampires and the necromancers and sorcerers? I saw him with my own two eyes, Jou, and I'm telling you, I never felt such a strong, immense power from any other vampire than the one I felt from him."
There was a pause of silence following afterwards before Jounouchi sat back down, his eyes still wide with shock.
Hikaru cleared his throat and said, "Now that you know that Lucifer is Anzu's and Akito's father, I shall begin." He announced, his indigo black eyes trailing over their faces to see their expressions. They were all eager for answers, and a sense to understand things a bit better; he thought when his gaze finally lingered on Atem's.
"Now then," Hikaru began, straightening himself on the bed. "When Akito was born, it was a rather joyous occasion. Of course, hearing that Lucifer sired a son was good news, but there was some complications from the woman he was born from."
"Complications?" Mai asked curiously, arching a thin eyebrow. "What were those complications?"
"I found it quite revolting as well in the beginning, knowing that Lucifer had mated with a human woman…" Hikaru said, his eyes narrowed at the memory of looking down on a small Akito, holding a ball, wanting to play with somebody, but no one would even dare come near him.
"He what…!" Seto said, feeling his body want to just jump out of his seat in surprise. "Why would someone as high as the Lord Vampire himself, sully with a-"
"If you've noticed that Anzu's scent-as well as Akito's-is that of a human, but when you feel the presence of Teana, her scent immediately changes to a vampire. Which plainly states that Anzu and Akito are half-breeds." Isis explained rather calmly, cutting the CEO off. "That's just proof enough that they were born under a human and a vampire."
"As I was saying," Hikaru interjected slowly. "Yes, Anzu and Akito are half-breeds, and because of that, they would be known as half-breed bastards. But since no one would even dare make a comment such as that to Lucifer, they kept it quiet, as well as Lucifer being alive since he specifically made anyone who knew to keep it a strong secret. So, in the beginning, Akito was looked down upon, he didn't have any friends, I only just talked to him a couple of times, he was always quiet, always seeming to be off in a world of his own, and he would always look for comfort from his mother.
"That all changed when Anzu was born, four years later. Ah, how I remember that day…" Hikaru said, the memories flooding back into his mind like water breaking through the dam that tried to hold it in.
Lucifer laughed as he held the newborn baby high up in the air, his eyes glinting with happiness and joy. Several people in the room smiled, a younger Hikaru looking up at the baby girl giggle and raise her small, pudgy arms as if to join the celebration in her own way.
Then Hikaru's eyes trailed over to the sliding door and found Akito standing silently behind it, watching the scene with a glazed look in his eyes, and a blank expression on his face. He noticed that Akito's hands were clenched tightly into small fists, his teeth chewing on his lower lip.
"Ah yes! Yes! This child, my glorious child is my true heir! Ah, such power, my young daughter!" Lucifer said triumphantly, his deep voice filled with joy. "Yes… The world will embrace this child better, she will lead my power forward…"
Hikaru frowned slightly, and then turned back to see the spot where Akito was supposed to stand behind the door.
He wasn't there…
"That must've been harsh on Akito… Really harsh…" Malik said with a hint of sympathy in his voice, his brow knitted to a slight frown.
"Well, it grew even worse when their mother had complications with giving birth to Anzu. Lucifer wanted every best healer he could find to help her, but she declined the offer, saying that he would give away his presence to the world. Of course, he protested, but she had the upper hand in a way I can't imagine now, but he gave up eventually." Hikaru said seriously.
"And the mother's name was…?" Shizuka asked.
"Teana. Her name was Teana. Now, that doesn't mean that the Teana inside of Anzu's mind is actually Anzu's mother. Teana just named herself after that, just like Isis and Malik said about their encounter with her." The white-haired vampire replied. "Now then, during her last few days, Teana spent most of her time with Anzu, coddling, pampering her, before she unfortunately passed away, just after Anzu and Akito went through a ceremony conducted by their father."
"A ceremony? What did this ceremony do?" Atem inquired, his interests perked up a bit.
"Well, knowing that his wife was soon to die, Lucifer felt that his children's powers were too big for their small body. So, he sealed away most of Anzu's and Akito's powers till they came of age, or, if the need arises, some of their power would leak through to help them." Hikaru explained. But that in turn, sealed away the true Anzu. I don't think there were any hitches on Akito's part."
"What do you mean by, 'true Anzu?'" Jounouchi questioned. "Isn't the Anzu that we're with now, is really An-"
"There's a reason why Teana in Anzu's mind hates Anzu with every fiber of her being. You see, Teana is Anzu's true personality, the real Anzu. The Anzu that you've talked with, met with, she's only just a farce, a mask to hide the real side that held most of her powers. Of course, I think this is what Lucifer had originally intended to do. When she grows up, Anzu's powers would grow as well, and that would make her a target for any dangerous vampire or any vampire that wanted power, to use or kill. Like Akito's would, but he grew at a faster pace." Hikaru sighed, raking a hand through his hair. "That's why Teana hates Anzu. Because she blames Anzu for stealing her life away from her, and that she was the cause of being stuck in her own body, making her look like the substitute."
"Now do you see why Teana hates Anzu? That's the reason…" Isis said slowly, bowing her head slightly.
"A mark-or rather a scar on Anzu's back should show evidence of the ceremony." Hikaru added, stroking his chin softly.
Atem's crimson eyes widen as he recalled the memory of seeing the cross burnt scar on Anzu's back. Hikaru noticed this action and realized he had seen it, but wouldn't touch upon it, so he turned away.
"So then what happened?" Mai asked, thoroughly intrigued by the story that they were hearing.
"Lucifer cut off all ties with the people he knew and wiped off the memories of himself and anything that had to do with him or his children except for some people he trusted very well, myself included and went into a remote place so that he could raise his children on his own. But… That was when things began to move into motion…"
Seto arched an eyebrow up. "What things?"
"Akito, the moment I first met him, I knew he was destined for great things and great possibilities… But in the back of my mind, I always knew he had some dark plan forming in his head behind that quiet mask of his ever since the ceremony commenced. But when I found out what he did…" Hikaru closed his eyes for a few moments before he reopened them, and there was this mysterious glint in his eyes then. "I was shocked, appalled, as was the other people I came with when my father, Isis, myself, and my father's friends decided to check up on them."
"What did Akito do?" Malik asked, feeling his insides twist into tight knots with apprehension of wondering what the answer could be.
Both Isis and Hikaru looked down on the ground, going silent for a few minutes before Hikaru raised his head.
"Akito killed his own father…"
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Anzu, after taking a bath and changing into comfortable clothes that Atem had previously bought for her, she stood in front of the mirror in the bathroom, staring at her reflection.
No changes, no eyes going to a ruby red color. The brunette raised a hand and traced the lines of her eyes. They weren't narrowed or sharpened like Teana's. They were just normal. Nothing wrong with herself today, it seemed. Shaking her head, she walked out of the bathroom, closing the door behind her and looked at the slightly disheveled sheets. A small blush stained her cheeks as she recalled the past night's events. Shaking her head more vigorously, she set to make the bed. She didn't know why, she just felt like it. Force of habit maybe.
After she finished, she noticed the collar on the bedpost. She stared at it blankly, one of her hands unconsciously reached up to touch the base of her neck, not feeling the heavy weight of the collar around her again.
She was free, that was one thing Atem whispered to her when he took it off. She was happy when it finally came off, but her thoughts were cut short when Atem pulled a fast one on her, which cut off any other thoughts besides the sensations he was giving her. Anzu sighed, raking a hand through her hair, she shouldn't be thinking those now anyway, she thought, turning to face the door.
"Well now, you certainly seem different without that repulsive collar around your neck, no?" Akito said as he leaned against the wall, arms crossed over his chest as he stared pleasantly at his younger sibling.
Anzu stopped in her tracks, feeling her heart just skip a beat at the sight of Akito. He had on this smug smirk upon his lips, his sapphire-colored eyes dancing with sheer amusement at her expression, like he was expecting it. Her mouth hung open, her eyes widen with surprise, and finally she regained her composure and glared hard at Akito who cocked an eyebrow at her expression.
"My, my, such angry eyes, Anzu. What have I ever done to receive such a look?" He asked mockingly, feigning hurt and shame on his face and in his voice before he smirked.
"Why are you here!" Anzu half-whispered, half-shouted, as if she spoke normally, Atem or the others would hear her as if she shouted it. "What do you want from me now, Akito? Stop playing these games with me!"
He chuckled softly to himself. "Why Anzu? I haven't had a game like this that entertained me in a long time. I also thought you enjoy it as well…" he replied, shrugging one shoulder.
Anzu hissed. "Why would I enjoy this game of life and death? You're toying with my life and my friend's lives! And you're supposed to be my brother? I sincerely doubt that!" she spat the last part with distaste.
The smirk on his face twitched slightly. "Yes… Unfortunately, we were to be related to each other by the common bonds of brotherhood and sisterhood. Well now, I come here to ask if you would like to have a… hmm, how should I say it… pleasant chat with me?"
The brunette snorted, not believing what he said. "Pleasant chat my ass," she replied, sounding oddly like Teana for a moment there. "Do you think I'm that stupid? I know it's a trap. What would this pleasant chat benefit me, anyway? Certainly you torturing me, I presume?"
He perked a neatly trimmed eyebrow up. "Huh, as much as that sounded tempting, no. But if you don't want to learn about your past, I suggest you come with me. Alone. I'll be meeting you somewhere in a building that's being planned to be demolished in a few days, somewhere in downtown. I'm sure you'll find it."
He saw her sapphire eyes widen with the prospect of finding out her past. Inside, he smiled maliciously, knowing that Anzu wouldn't pass up a chance to find out what really went with her past, to find out who she really was. But she stared at him with a suspicious look in her eyes that made it obvious that she doubted his words.
"All I'm saying, Anzu, if you want to learn your past, you come to me. Alone. And you cannot tell anyone else where you're going. If you want to go, just step right through those doors without saying a word. I'm sure the others are too busy to even notice anyway with a story being told to them. Don't worry, in time, when I'm done with you, they'll find you. I'll wait Anzu…" With that, he disappeared from his spot, leaving a very confused Anzu alone.
Anzu's hands clamped themselves into fists, her teeth raking her lower lip in thought. She wanted to find out about her past, but the fact that Akito would be the one telling her, and she would be alone if she went didn't quite go well with her. Her emotions were all jumbled up inside her; she didn't know what to do. Personally, she wanted to find out, but she didn't want to be alone, yet she didn't want the others to get hurt as well.
Raising a hand, she twisted the knob on the door, closed it behind her, and walked.
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All eyes nearly popped out of their sockets after Hikaru had said that. There was a stunned silence that pervaded the room before Jounouchi, for the third or fourth time, stood up from his chair, one of his hands curled in a tight fist.
"S-Say what! How could a half-breed kill the High Vampire! And his own father! What the hell's wrong with him!" he shouted loudly, but was immediately pulled down by his sister.
"I think the rejection he felt and the realization that he was insignificant than his younger sibling, and less powerful caught up to him, and he went mad. Also, with the death of his mother, that would be added as well, since his mother was the source of comfort for himself, but since Anzu was born, he felt she ignored him and that hit him hard. But when we arrived, the living room was painted with blood, and we found a pile of dust in the middle of it, before we heard Anzu crying and went in, finding Akito with a dagger in his hand, preparing to kill her." Hikaru said.
Seto's eyes narrowed at the thought, feeling anger and disgust churning inside of him. "So, he tried to kill the baby in her cradle, huh?" he said slowly, calmly, noticing the looks of revulsion over the vampires and healer's faces.
Isis nodded. "But Anzu was lucky we got there in time, or she wouldn't be standing here in this house. In the end, we ended up tranquilizing Akito and took he and Anzu with us…" at this point, she bowed her head, hiding her eyes from the rest of the vampires and healer in the room.
"Is something wrong?" Atem asked, concern in his voice. Isis merely shook her head and went to a tray with tea on it and asked if any one wanted some. All the vampires declined except for Malik who wanted some and they drank their tea.
Hikaru's eyes narrowed into slits before he said, "This is where things mostly come into play now. As you can see, my father was a friend of Lucifer's, but ever since Lucifer mated with the human woman Teana, my father revolted Lucifer, thinking that he betrayed the laws of the vampires of not sleeping with a human, and also, since Lucifer was way stronger than he was, he envied Lucifer, but that envy turned to hate, rage, and revenge, that he plotted to use Anzu and Akito against him by experimenting on them."
That was when Shizuka looked up. "That site…" she trailed off when Hikaru nodded.
"You see my father was a scientist, specializing in gene splicing, genetic replication and distortion. His friends were also scientists, helping him out, so you could say my father was the boss of it all. So, they abducted Akito and Anzu and used them for their experiments." He said seriously.
Isis set her teacup on the drawer near her, slightly feeling a little weird after drinking the beverage, but she shook it off. "And I was one of those assistants." She said rather shamefully, feeling all eyes on her.
"Really! But why, Isis? I mean, you were toying with little children here! Surely you—" Mai began but was cut off by the female Egyptian healer.
"I did refuse against this, but Hikaru's father said he needed help. And… And he threatened to kill my family if I didn't comply, so, I did." Isis said sadly.
There was another long pause of silence, Malik wanted to come up and hug his sister, but felt rooted to his seat. It was no wonder his big sister was gone for most of the days and months. Now that he finally knew the truth, he was actually quite relieved to know that she did it for a good reason, but…
"And so went on with the experiments," Hikaru said, cutting in. "I didn't play any part of it, but I watched. I was stupid back then, I know, but later on, I began to question my father's true motives besides vengeance and hate, and found that he was going to use Anzu and Akito's powers to rule the world."
'With two children? How?" Jounouchi asked, not believing what he was hearing.
"Even if they were half-breeds, Anzu's and Akito's powers dwarf anything else. I found this in a secret file my father kept and found that in the beginning of time, when Lucifer was cast away from Heaven, he created two powerful entities capable with the power of destroying God together before the God Orbs were created. But, he considered hiding this power until later on, he passed it on to his two children during the ceremony. It is said that one alone can destroy the God Orbs with a single breath." Hikaru replied rather fast, but at a speed where they heard every single word perfectly.
"What is this power that you speak of, Hikaru?" Atem questioned, his crimson eyes widened with the revelation that there was something even more powerful than the God Orbs put together!
"That power…. That power is called Eden, the Eternal Dragon, and Apocalypse the Dark Ragnorok." Hikaru replied.
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Anzu arrived at the dilapidated building, finding that the building might have been at least a few years old, the windows cracked and shards everywhere, glinting from some light that came from nowhere. It looked to have been a mall at the time of when it must've been built as she cautiously walked up a few flight of stairs to a dome, a huge cracked hole at the dome's circle, metal pipes and pieces of the building scattered about.
"Akito! Where the hell are you? I'm here, show yourself!" she shouted into the nothingness around her, her words echoing throughout the building.
Suddenly, the air around her turned into some giant fist and punched her body to piece of large rubble, feeling her back nearly break from the force that she was thrown at, her body ached when she felt that several pieces of glass had dug into her flesh.
Anzu tried to look up and found Akito walking out of the shadows and he vanished before her eyes. The brunette tried to stand up, but the glasses being in her flesh shot prickles of pain through her body.
She then felt her left arm being raised before she felt a sword plunge through it, embedding itself in her hand and to the piece of rubble, trapping her hand. Anzu screamed, squinting her eyes to see Akito's malicious smile on his face before he grabbed a metal pipe and swiftly dug it through her right thigh. She screamed again, this time more loudly due to the fact that two things were through her hand and leg, white-hot pain shooting through her body like she was being electrocuted.
"Ah, does it hurt, little sister?" Akito crooned softly to her, placing a hand under her chin and forcing her to stare up at him. "Does it? Well if it does, it's not compared to the pain that I felt when I was a child…" he hissed, moving his free hand to the sword and move the blade around in her hand.
Anzu hissed, her teeth grinding hard against each other to prevent another scream of agony to escape her lips.
"Akito… I knew it… You liar…" she gasped, the pain doubling when he moved the sword in her hand.
"I'm a liar, Anzu? When did I say I was not going to hurt you? I'm not a liar, Anzu. I said you and I would have a chat about the past, and I'm going to have that chat now…" he replied slowly, something glinting in his sapphire-colored eyes.
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Atem jerked his head up, cutting off the conversation between them all. Hikaru raised an eyebrow at him, wondering what caught the tri-haired vampire's attention away from what they were currently discussing about.
"Something wrong, Atem?" he inquired curiously, snapping Atem out of his thoughts.
"Hmm? Oh… Nothing… It's just… Ah, forget it, continue on, just forget about it." Atem said, shaking his head. He didn't know why, it felt as if someone was calling him, crying out to him…
But he didn't know who or where.
Hikaru stared at Atem for a few moments before he began with his story again, "Like I was saying, Eden and Apocalypse is what Lucifer made to one day it seems, to defy God, but he gave it to his children for safe keeping. But that's what my father wanted. To rule, and so he forced Anzu's and Akito's latent powers out, and in turn, changing and distorting their genes. Like mine."
"They experimented on you?" Jounouchi asked.
Hikaru nodded. "Yes, because my dad found out that I was wanting to stop him from doing this experiments. That's why I have Summoner's blood in me. Anzu and Akito were injected with the same blood and amount given to each other." He sighed, clearing his throat. "They were injected with Necromancer's and Sorcerer's blood. So, in the end, they are Hybrids."
"So, then the one who resurrected Bakura from the dead was Akito?" Shizuka concluded curiously.
"Yes. So for five years, my father and his friends experimented on Anzu and Akito. But they were held in different labs for the getting the right procedures at the same time. Akito was progressing as they wanted, but Anzu didn't look like anything was happening within her body. So they beat her and abused her to force more out of her, but all they got were pleas and screams. But when they finally found some changes from Anzu… Akito went mad, and destroyed the lab he was being held in, killing all who stood in his way."
Everyone's eyes widened even more, if possible at the news that was given to him.
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Anzu stared at Akito wildly when he said that he killed all those people, just to escape.
"Oh, how those people screamed, Anzu. Ahahaha… You should've been there to hear the worms struggle and cry for help. I reveled in their screams of death when I tore their limbs, ripped and crushed their hearts out, break their bones, bathe in their blood…" Akito said, remembering the events as clear as if they happened just yesterday, all the while, Anzu tried to block his voice out.
"No… Stop it! Stop! Stop saying these things to me, Akito!" Anzu cried, shaking her head. She didn't like the images that were being shown in her head, didn't like to imagine the flames licking at bloodstained walls. And most of all, trying to push Teana down for she was trying to get out of her mental cage.
"Why, Anzu? What's wrong? Scared of the past? I don't think you should be, because you killed the people that were around you…" He laughed a high, cold and brutal laugh. "Or rather, Teana was the one that killed them in cold blood…"
"She what…!" Anzu asked, staring at Akito wildly.
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"I was in the same facility when Anzu went mad. She tore everything in her path, killing all who was around her." Hikaru said, shuddering slightly at the memory of that night, of when he stared into ruby red eyes.
"I somehow, am a survivor of that incident. Anzu-or rather, Teana-was the one that injured me, but never killed me for some reason. I blacked out and found myself in a hospital. The healers in there said I was laying in front of the hospital, all beaten and bloody, and that I was in a coma for two weeks straight." Isis added slowly.
Hikaru narrowed his eyes before he spoke, "We never knew that their powers would increase that much through force. In fact, Akito grew rapidly, that he gave me this body when he found me, injured by the blasts of the lab being destroyed."
"Wait a second… So… That's not your real body?" Jounouchi asked, pointing at Hikaru's chest. "What? How could that happen?"
Seto narrowed his eyes as he realized what Hikaru meant. "Necromancers, since they had the power over the dead, also had the ability to shift a person's spirit into another body. And since Akito was injected with Necromancer blood, he had access to that particular power." He inclined his head at Hikaru and asked, "Then what happened to your real body then?"
Hikaru bowed his head for a few moments. "Burned. Or Akito just threw it somewhere. The thing is, this isn't my real body, but he transferred my blood to this one so that this new body wouldn't reject my spirit." He replied, tapping his chest with his index finger. "I don't know what happened after that, but I woke up in an alleyway, in this new body, and so, I began tracking Anzu and Akito down.
"They weren't hard to find, because after a few days, I was led by their churning presences to find them on a hill, ready to fight. Though, Anzu had reverted to Teana, and so I had to join in. In the end, there was no winner, and I had to take Teana away from Akito and have her be nursed to a couple that I knew, that I befriended when I was looking for them.
"But Akito wasn't easy to get away from. When I returned after some info gathering, I found that the house was being burnt into the ground. I ran in and only found the two dead bodies of the new parents of Anzu. I did some more info gathering and found that Anzu was sold into slavery." Hikaru said, recalling all the memories he knew.
"And you joined her?" Mai asked, having worked with him in some courts when they were both pleasure slaves.
"I wanted to keep an eye on her, so yeah, I went into the life of slavery. And the rest," he looked around at the stunned faces that looked at him of the story that he and Isis told them. "I'm sure you all know by now."
"Wow…" Was all Jounouchi said, running a hand through his dirty blonde hair "Man… I never… I never thought Anzu would have a past like that…"
Mai frowned slightly, looking as though she didn't believe it before she stood up from her seat and walked out of the room. Everyone stared after her, then turned their heads back to face Hikaru and Isis that made them both shrug.
"Hey," Atem called softly to Hikaru. "If all this happened… Why can't Anzu remember?"
"Either the fight with her, me and Akito was the cause, or the shocks she felt time after time again before the death of her new parents." Hikaru replied. "But that's all I know. She doesn't remember the years before she turned six years old."
"So… If Akito has one of them Eden or Apocalypses… Why does he need the God Orbs if already has something more powerful than them combined?" Jounouchi asked after a few moments of silence passed.
Before Hikaru had a chance to answer, Mai suddenly burst into the room, her face a mix of fear, shock, and worry.
"Mai? Mai, what's wrong—"
"Anzu! Anzu! I can't find her anywhere!" She cried out to them.
Immediately, Atem shot up from his seat, his crimson eyes wide before they narrowed dangerously into slits.
"WHAT?" he roared.
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"And that's what happened, little sister…" Akito said, stroking Anzu's cheek.
"But… But how could that happened? I don't remember anything about that!" She cried, trying to wrench free, but her hand and leg throbbed painfully, causing her to stop.
"Hmph. That's because your young mind couldn't handle the strain and confusion it was going through with those six years." Akito replied rather calmly, like it was nothing to him out of the ordinary. "And I sold you into slavery. To have those bastards twist you, mutilate you into this state, have you endure scars that time could never heal. All part of my plan to have you come unto my side."
"Y-You… You…" She stuttered but couldn't find the words. She bowed her head, her teeth bared as she grinded them against each other, feeling her canine teeth widen slightly. Anzu felt Akito push her gaze back to him just as he saw a flicker of red flare up from her sapphire depths.
"So, Anzu… Will you join me or not? Together, we could rule all creation. We could defy all laws together and create our own. What do you say, Anzu? Or Teana? Your choice." He said pleasantly, smiling down at Anzu.
She snarled at him, baring her teeth. "What… makes you think… I would want to join you?" she growled at him, the pain she was feeling made her felt numb, her vision slightly blurry, if she stayed this way any longer, she would pass out.
"Is that your answer, Anzu?" he shook his head. Then he looked at her with an expression filled with contempt and rage.
"Then you leave me no choice, Anzu. I'll just have to get the item I want from you, and be done with my business with you. I gave you a choice, Anzu. It's too bad you chose the wrong answer…"
He took a couple of steps back before placing a hand over her left eye. She blinked before a white light came forth from his hand and she felt something being pulled from somewhere in her eye. She screamed again as the pain intensified by whatever Akito was doing to her left eye. When Anzu felt that whatever it was he was taking nearly leave her eye, she was about to black out when the dome above them crashed and Atem and the others came dropping down.
Without even bothering to take out his sword, Atem, in an angry red haze, he used his long, claw-like nails to swipe at Akito's back, nearly tearing his cloak apart before Shizuka came down near his side and sent a roundhouse kick into Akito's ribs, sending him a couple of feet away.
Everyone else went into a fighting stance after Hikaru and Seto helped Isis and Malik off of them when they carried them here, just as Akito began cackling softly to himself, slowly standing up, his back facing them, showing off a similar scar that Anzu had on her back before he faced him with a mad look on his face.
"What's so funny, ya damned crazed psycho!" Jounouchi shouted to him, his hand bringing out the broadsword from his waist. "You nearly killed your little sister, and you think that's funny?"
"Oh, I find it highly amusing, Jounouchi. If I was really Akito." He murmured to them, all the while, chuckling to himself like a mad man.
"What! Aren't you Akito? Who are you anyway!" Shizuka asked, getting ready for anything that Akito might dish out at them, watching Atem carefully place Anzu protectively in his arms.
"In a way… I am… But then again… I'm not… But I must be leaving now, seeing as though the odds are stacked against me. Please stay all dead until then…" With that, he laughed his head off before vanishing from his spot, his cold and high laughter echoing through the building.
A few minutes after he left, they relaxed and went over to Anzu who was unconscious. Isis carefully placed a hand on her chest and concentrated her healing powers.
After a few moments, nothing happened. Isis opened her eyes and tried again to concentrate her powers, but they wouldn't work! Atem looked up at her angrily, and asked, "Isis! What the hell are you doing? Heal her already!"
Isis glared at him. "I'm trying, Atem! But somehow, my powers won't work!" she replied angrily at him.
"Let me do this, sister!" Malik announced. Isis made room for him as he did the same thing, concentrating hard. Another few moments of silenced past and nothing else happened, just like Isis. Malik stared at his hands with wide, violet eyes. "I don't understand! Why isn't my power working!"
Isis searched her mind for any possible reason, then she gasped. "The tea! It must've been the tea that you and I drank! Akito must've slipped something in our drinks to temporarily stop our powers."
When all of them heard this, Atem began a string of foul obscenities before Malik spoke,
"We have to get her to the nearest hospital and have other healers do the job! If we don't get there in time, Anzu won't make it!"
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Soo? How was the chapter? I hoped it answered most of your question and suspicions. If not, say it in the review! I told you it would be long! 19 pages! 19! Well, see you in the next chapter!