Authoress Notes: Hello everyone! Wow! Words cannot express the deep gratitude I feel for the reviews that I have gotten for my first ever vampire story! Thank you ALL SOO much for taking the time to read and review Dark Desires! As such, here is the twenty-first installment to this fic! Please enjoy!
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 21: Awakening
Mutou Atem and the others ran through the desolate, empty streets at blinding speed, carrying the slightly conscious, but badly hurt Mazaki Anzu in his arms. Their group was heading to the nearest hospital to have Anzu healed since Malik and Isis Ishtar's healing powers failed to come forth and heal her. Atem cursed their luck. Just when they had most of their answers to what was going on around them, Akito had to ruin it.
Damn bastard.
In an instant, Atem's keen crimson-colored eyes detected the sudden movement and stopped in his tracks just in time to avoid a burly, furry arm that tried to swipe its claws at his face. Atem side stepped another frontal assault and sent a roundhouse kick to the demon's head, twisting it off.
Jounouchi and the rest also stopped once Atem sent back his retaliation to see hoards of demons in their way, growling and baring their fangs and claws at the vampires and two healers, trying to intimidate him.
"Damn! Must be Akito's doing!" Seto said taking out his blade while the others did the same.
"Correct," replied a voice from above.
They all looked up at the sky to find Akito floating in mid-air, his arm crossed with a smug look on his face. Immediately upon sight, everyone let his or her guard up, not knowing what this half-breed man could do next.
Akito smirked amusingly at their reaction. "And you all know what you must do. If you want to proceed on further, you'll have to pass this little detour." He said, waving a hand to the demonic army that he created.
"Akito…" Atem hissed out, saying his name as if it were bitter in his mouth. And a second later, the black markings were back on his face, his strength increasing.
The dark-haired man arched an amused brow up. "Oh ho! I see that you've made a good use of that power that I gave you, dearest Atem. Let's see how useful you'll use it here."
Atem's brows knitted into a tight frown before his gaze settled upon the woman in his arms. She stared up at him with a blank stare, barely trying to stay conscious. Anzu needed help, and she needed help fast. It didn't matter if she was Lucifer's daughter; she still had the vulnerabilities of a human. Cursing softly under his breath, Atem knew that he couldn't fight the demons before him without risking harm on Anzu's part. Finding no other alternation, he jumped back behind the others and carefully set Anzu on the ground.
He would make sure that she was not harmed at all during this fight. The tri-haired vampire shot a fierce glare at Akito that spoke of a death so slow and painful, if he ever wished to make a movement on her. Finally taking out his sword, and with a war cry, charged forward with the others.
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Blood.
So much of it.
Roses that were once black were dyed in the liquid…
Yet…
Why was she here again?
A familiar female snort was heard as a reply. "Because, Whore, you nearly got us killed you stupid wench!"
Ah, Teana… Always the spiteful one…
This time, Teana hissed. "I'm not 'SPITEFUL', Whore! Now get up or do I have to force you to open your damn eyes?"
Not wanting to experience whatever her counterpart had in mind for her if she didn't obey, Anzu slowly opened her sapphire-colored eyes, staring into the blank, dark void above her. Then she noticed that droplets of blood were dripping down from the ashen sky onto the middle of her forehead, never stopping like a faucet that was nearly closed until the red liquid flowed from the two sides of her nose.
Anzu frowned slightly before she began to move her body. Instead, pain shot through her body like electricity running up a hot wire, causing her to hiss and groan afterward.
"Geez, calm down, Whore! I'll let you off after a few seconds. Just be patient, dammit!" Teana hissed at her.
Twitching her head to her right, Anzu saw Teana lay on the floor a few feet away from her, her arms holding her head up from behind while her legs were crossed at the knees, her eyes closed yet her brows were pinned in a tight frown.
"T-Teana…"Anzu said through gritted teeth. "Bitch."
Her counterpart let out a scoff. "Nice to see you too, Whore." She replied dryly, each word dripping with sarcasm. "After all, this was your fault that we got beaten up like this. You wouldn't let me out and beat the crap out of that foolish 'BIG BROTHER' of mine…"
Anzu stared back up at the dark sky that rained small droplets of blood on her face from time to time. She spoke, "… I have my reasons."
This time, Teana snapped her eyes open and stared distastefully at her. "'You have your REASONS! What the hell are you talking about? He—your evil, psychotic, insane—BIG BROTHER tried to KILL you! Does that not register something in that small ass mind of yours?" Teana hissed at her, nearly shouting at Anzu obviously pissed off and thoroughly aggravated with her lighter half.
Anzu frowned at Teana's words, but didn't give in to the growing annoyance within her. "I think that should be answer enough for you, TEANA." She hissed back with equal malevolence her darker half had in her voice.
Teana's left eye twitched in surprise by Anzu calling her by her name. Afterwards, she threw her hands up in the air in a defeated manner, letting out an exasperated sigh before saying, "Bah! This still is your damn fault."
Anzu shrugged, finding that this single action signified that she was free from whatever Teana had put on her, but continued to lay on the wet ground beneath her.
"I wonder how Atem and the others are doing…" Anzu wondered out loud after a long period of silence, save for the constant sound of the droplets of blood hitting Anzu's forehead.
Teana rolled her eyes. "You can't get him out of your mind, can you Whore? Ah well, I guess having a great night of sex can get ya that way, eh?" she said with a wicked grin and winking her eye.
A heated blush emerged on Anzu's cheeks at Teana's sudden statement. She shook her head, trying not to let her darker half get the better of her.
"No… But… I'm worried about what's happening with their fight with the demons… And if Akito would make a move…" Anzu said.
"From the looks of things, it seems to be okay. But even for vampires, fighting demons for hours and hours can take their toll on them. And…" Teana trailed off at that, the frown on her face deepening in intensity as a thought crossed her mind.
Anzu took this sudden end of trail to interest. "You seem to be worried about someone too, Teana. Atem, perhaps?"
Teana glared at her. "I'm not worried about him, okay? I'll leave that to you. Besides," Surprisingly, Teana's blood-colored eyes softened slightly.
"… I, on the other hand, am already in love with someone else…"
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Atem tore an arm from an unfortunate demon before sending his blade under the demon's chin. Kicking the dead corpse from him, the tri-haired vampire effortlessly dodged an attack that was directed at his ribs and then plunging his sword down on the arm that tried to inflict pain on him. Atem then pointed his hand at a group of demons that charged for him and immediately closed his hand, sending a blast of his power to the demons that it ripped and squished them apart.
Jounouchi, after slicing and dicing numerous demons to get to where he wanted, backed up into Atem who was busy defending himself from another frontal assault and retaliating. "Yo, man, there's too many of them! This'll continue on for days if we don't do something!" After that, Jounouchi cleanly cut a demon in half, and another that came right behind the first.
"Don't you think I already know that?" Atem snapped at him after emitting another blast of his power at an unfortunate group of demons. "We all know Akito's the cause of all these monsters appearing left from right! But even if we tried to go for him, we'd leave Anzu in a vulnerable spot while he would just run away from us!"
"Damn!" Jounouchi cursed while successfully blocking a demon's claws before it hit his face.
Finally after getting her body out of feeling like lead, Anzu slowly sat up from her position, letting out a groan of pain as her body protested the movement. Then her sapphire-colored eyes set themselves on the carnage before them, at the many demons that continued to fight against few vampires and healer.
"Anzu! You shouldn't move!" Isis said, trying to ease Anzu back. Atem appointed the female Egyptian healer with the task of watching over the brunette while the others fought the demons.
But Anzu refused to listen to her as she tried within every ounce of strength within her to try and at least stand up. "No… No… Demons… So few vampires and healer… Akito will… Akito…" she mumbled incoherently, feeling her vision blur and swing like a pendulum.
Isis shook her head. "No, Anzu! You're already injured enough! You can't go on into the fight—"
"And why the hell NOT?" Anzu suddenly shouted, startling the Egyptian healer. Anzu was breathing heavily, not by the strain she was putting on her body, but by something else.
… Something else was trying to awaken with her.
(… RELEASE ME…)
At the sudden voice, Anzu let out a yelp of pain, clutching her head. This voice wasn't Teana. No, it was far from Teana's voice. It rumbled with untamed and destructive power, and it shook her head like a drum being continuingly pounded on for music.
"Anzu? Anzu, what's wrong?" Isis asked, but her voice was soon drowned out by the new voice.
(… RELEASE ME. NOW. FOR HE IS TRYING TO USE MY TWIN'S POWER… )
Anzu hissed as she felt the voice trying to split her head open from the pain that it was sending to her. Other than that, her body was also starting to feel overwhelmingly hot, especially the cross scar on her back.
Through the pain that was coming from her head, Anzu squinted her gaze to the sky at Akito and found her brother glowing with a dark, malevolent aura that was beginning to match its presence like the one inside her head, and Isis could see that Anzu herself was beginning to glow with an ethereal light.
(WILL YOU NOT RELEASE ME? IF NOT, YOUR FRIENDS SHALL PERISH…)
ANZU! Listen to what he says, now!It was Teana's voice! Yet it sounded urgent, almost anxious. But what did she mean by 'he…?'
That doesn't matter now! Akito is ready to unleash Apocalypse's power right NOW! Hurry and use Eden!
Eden? Wait… Isn't it that power that my father--?
Stop stalling and UNLEASH EDEN'S POWER!(RELEASE ME!)
Struggling with the two voices that threatened to destroy her sanity, Anzu stood up, clutching her head and cried out, "Ah! Atem! Everyone! PLEASE GET DOWN!"
They all heard her plea, and Atem was about to go over to her before Hikaru felt the wave of that familiar, untamed power coming forth from Anzu. He shouted, "Atem! Jounouchi, Seto, Mai, Malik, Shizuka, Isis! GET DOWN, NOW!"
Feeling the wave of power from Anzu, they didn't need telling twice. Suddenly, Anzu's head jerked back and her eyes glowed a glorious white before she was floating a few feet in the air, right in the middle of some ancient text that glowed on the ground. Anzu's whole frame began to glow a neo green before she screamed out, her arms spreading out as if in praise, causing a bright flash to ensue, and afterwards, two large and glorious black wings sprouted forth from Anzu's back, the crimson cross scar glowed as well through her clothes, and the sign of Alpha appeared on her forehead, sending a beam of light to the skies.
"EDEN!" Both Teana and Anzu's voices merged together at their call as Anzu opened her eyes, showing that they were now two colors: her right eye it's normal sapphire while the left was a blood red color with the pupil a long slit in the middle.
Before Akito could even react, the skies began to filter bright light through the clouds and slowly began to part. Another flash whispered throughout them, the light coming from the heavens lightened the whole world, and when Atem and the others tried to look at the sky after the flash, their eyes widened in shock and surprise at the sight that they saw.
"That… That can't be…" Seto said in awe, despite the light.
"It… It is…" Shizuka said, bringing a hand to her head.
Hikaru's brows knitted together in a frown. "Yes. Witness Eden the Eternal Dragon in all its glory…" he said quietly.
Eden roared throughout the world, announcing its magnificent presence. Actually, Eden had seven heads, all looking different than the other, the size of two football coliseums, its skin shined with glorious ivory scales that could have been the size of half a fifteen story building, the dragon's arms were long in length of two Nile rivers and just as wide with the Amazonian river, while the rest of it's enormous body was hidden in the heavens. Now that Atem and the others got a good look at the dragon, they found that the middle head had two spiral horns on its head, and three mouths that sparkled with sharp teeth, and lastly, Eden's fourteen pairs of eyes were a deep gold color.
Akito grimaced at the sight of Eden before him, but a shiver of excitement ran through him. To face a God-killer! Oh how excited he was!
Then the dragonhead with the horns reared its great head and opened its lower, third jaw, preparing to fire. Suddenly, Akito was being restrained by these glowing bindings, and seals were whizzing around him like angry bees. Then, Eden brought its head back and spewed forth a bluish white flame at Akito.
'Shit!' Akito thought and concentrated on his power while the blast hit him dead on. Then the seals caught fire and were now hurling themselves to the demons, ripping through them, shredding them in relentless speeds, making it rain blood on Atem, Jounouchi, Seto, Hikaru, Shizuka, Mai, and Malik.
When it was over, Atem and the others looked up to find that the demons were nothing more than their own blood. Just liquid red around them. Slowly, Atem stood along with the others and he saw that Anzu was still suspended in the air.
"Anzu!" He called to her, running to her, but when he tried to get to her, a force field knocked him back away from her.
Growling, Atem was about to pound on this invisible shield before Hikaru's hand placed itself on his shoulder and he turned to see Hikaru shake his head, then inclined to Eden. Atem looked up and suppressed a shudder. Twelve pairs of gold eyes were staring down at him, pinning him down on the spot, as if daring him to continue. Then Eden let out a tremendous roar before the great dragon began disappearing in a blur of white feathers.
When Eden was fully gone, the markings on the around disappeared, and everything else went back to normal. Anzu was about to fall hadn't Atem been near to catch her. She was knocked out cold and didn't seem to respond to Atem's calls.
Malik looked around. "Hey. What about Akito?"
It was then that they heard a dark chuckle behind all of them and they turned to find Akito standing unscathed, seemingly unharmed by Eden's attack.
Hikaru's indigo black eyes widened into saucers at the sight of the dark-haired half-breed. "What! How could you still be standing after what Eden did to you?"
Akito laughed. "Yes… How indeed. But it was exhilarating. You see, being in front of Eden's power and—"
Suddenly, he stopped short, his body going rigid. Everyone's brows arched before Akito bent down on his knees and began coughing up huge amounts of blood, and deep gashes on his body began appearing themselves all over.
"What the…? What's wrong with him? So did Eden's attack really hit him?" Jounouchi asked suspiciously.
Akito coughed and spit out another large amount of blood from his mouth before gritting his teeth and growling in anger. His body was shaking horribly, and he knew he must look like a total weakling in front of the foolish vampires and healers. 'Dammit! I used some of Apocalypse's power, but it wasn't enough! Ugh… I was careless…'
With that, he slowly staggered to stand up, but Akito felt that his legs were beginning to lose their balance under his weight. He glared at Anzu, who was being held by Anzu.
'So, father… This is the power you wanted to bring out of…? Well, too bad. I'll kill her. I'll destroy her and her power… Just you wait…' Akito promised quietly to himself before he disappeared.
'… I won't make the same mistake twice…'
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Whoa! That was a pretty difficult chapter! I'm sorry if I was a bit hurried in this chapter! So! I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter, and if you want the next, click on that button down there and review! Thankies, and see ya in the next chapter!
Also, I'm thinking of setting up this little contest! I found that since everyone seems to have taken a liking to Hikaru, I've decided to do a HikaruAnzu fanfic contest. Now, don't worry, one of the rules will have it to be a platonic/friendship relationship between them. That is, if I really do it! So, contact me on e-mail if you want to join or whatever. It'll be on my author's profile!