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Love on a Lunar Night
Chapter 2
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On the way to Phoenox, the Southern village, Jou turned to look at Ryou who hadn't spoken a word. "What's up Ryou? You're normally not this quiet." Jou said. Diamond looked over to them. "Well, a few days ago, Ryou and I came home from a hidden lake that we happen to stumble upon in the Moonlight Sakura Field…" Diamond started to explain.
"What?! You guys actually went into 'The' Moonlight Sakura Field and made it back out alive?!" Kaiser exclaimed. "But that's point, the Field was a straight path from the lake and back out. We kept hearing a voice that kept saying 'Please my children, do not fight each other.' Or 'Find the one that can traverse the Moonlight Sakura Field with ease.' We believe that it was referring to us since we made it back out.
"Anyway, when we got out, we hoped to make it back to Daisure without the Western demons seeing us but that didn't go as planned…" Diamond continued.
-Flashback-
"Come on, Ryou, we need to hurry." Diamond quipped. Ryou nodded but he heard a howl and looked around. 'What was that?' he thought before running back behind Diamond. He heard the howl again and turned to look behind him to see the Lupine demon Bakura watching him, a smirk on his face. "Oh no…Diamond! Run!" Ryou cried as he started to run, Diamond looked behind her and gasped before running as well.
They felt a gust of wind and the demon was in front of them now. "Now, where do you two think you're going?" Bakura asked as he walked around Ryou. "Especially you…little kitten." He hummed, looking down to Ryou. He whimpered and closed his eyes as Diamond growled.
"Get away from him, you beast!" Diamond yelled and he stopped in front of Ryou and tsked. "Beast is such a hateful word. Besides, if the village was holding something like this angel from me, maybe I should destroy it completely." Ryou looked up to him in shock. "No! Please, don't do that!" Ryou cried and he looked down to him. "You got a lot of spunk for a cute boy like you. I'll think I'll reconsider if..."
"If what?"
"If you two will come with us. You may not be offerings but you will do and maybe the symbol's eyes will glow white and your village will be safe for all eternity." Bakura said. "But what does this have to do with me, you said you wanted Ryou?" Diamond asked. "My other friend, Crimson happens to be like you, only he was a man turned demon." He explained as he picked up Ryou and then walked over to Diamond.
"Whoa, wait a minute. We'll come with you for the sake of our village but why do you spare us? We heard a rumor the last time, you killed a man but his children got away because of another demon. Isn't it true?" Diamond asked and he nodded. "Then why spare us from the same fate?"
"Because our mother wanted us to find the perfect person…"
"What do you mean?"
Bakura sighed. "Each of us demons from each village used to be human and a prince from each direction. I, myself was one of them. Prince Yami and Aqua of the Eastern Shiroku palace. Prince Seto and Ruby of the Northern Shtran palace. Prince Marik and Toben of the Southern Dezerae palace and I, Prince Bakura and my sibling Prince Crimson of the Western Serven palace. We were all born with a special but deadly gift. We were able to become demons. We were happy about these abilities and yet we despise them.
"We were nice back then but the people fear, thinking that when we ruled, we will use our powers to force them to follow every command. Our fathers told us that the Goddess of the Moon was like our mother since she brought us to them and she wanted us to be happy. Once we were of age, we were to look for the person that best suits us but with no luck, we couldn't find anyone and went back home…" he trailed off.
"And what happened then?" Ryou asked. "Our mother wanted us to be happy and gave us immortality and she became the Lunar's light which made us stay as a demon during the night since we were brought to the kingdoms at night. Then we were to live our lives as vampiric demons, feeding off offered people and hide by day. We did our part and took their offering, hoping to find the right person but still no luck so we either send them back or devour them if we're famished." he finished as he let Ryou down.
"What would happen to you in the morning?" Diamond asked as Ryou walked over to her. "If we didn't master the ability to transform so we could hide in the Moonlight Sakura Field from the sunlight, we were turned to stone on the mythic symbol of our demon form."
"Oh, that's horrible." Ryou whispered.
"Well, you better head home now, it's getting close to dawn but soon, you will be with us. Mother Luna told us that in our future we'll find our eternal partner and we happened to have found ours as she promised many years ago..." A rush of wind flew past them, forcing them to close their eyes and when they looked again, he was gone.
-End Flashback-
"After that night, we heard wind that our father was killed by Bakura when he was heading to Phoenox even though they never go on any other demon's territory. But what we wondered is why would he kill our father if they were so caring the night before?" Diamond finished.
"Wow, that's pretty harsh. But I'm wondering why he did such a thing? Your father wasn't a part of anything to anger him." Kaiser murmured. "I know, it sounds pretty suspicious to me." Jou added. "Well, there was a note left for me that said 'No one will take him, he is mine and I will kill anyone that stands in my way.' I have a feeling it came from Bakura since we then heard that a girl's father was killed the next night in Phoenox by the set of demons that were there." Ryou finally answered.
"Hmm, did you're father say anything about that?" Jou asked. "He did say that he had an arranged marriage set up with a girl there but she was killed as well. I believe that her father was the one that was killed as well." Diamond explained. "Well, I guess we better do something, I don't want you to get hurt since we have to do the same for ourselves, we can barely go anywhere near your village unless we come and leave early." Kaiser said as they reached Phoenox.
Malik and Topaz waited at the exit leading to Hereos and they looked up once they saw them. "Sheesh! What took you guys so long?! I thought we wasn't going for a while." Malik said as they left. "Now you know I can never break a promise with Yugi, Malik. I don't want to hurt Yugi's feelings if we didn't come. Who's knows what could happen if we never see each other for fear that the demons would try and capture us without the villagers agreeing with that." Jou replied.
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Back in Agido, Jou and Kaiser's mother, Tsukiyume was arguing with the village captain of the group of soldiers that protected their village. "Tsukiyume, we have all agreed that your two sons should be tonight's offering to the Demon Lords." The captain said. "No! I will not offer my sons! My husband died because of those demons and I'm not having them go through that same fate! Jounouchi is the only living version of my husband and I'm not letting him go!" Tsukiyume yelled.
"Well, you don't have a choice in the matter. It's either give up your sons or have a part of this village destroyed because you don't want to do the sacrifice. We are all sorry for the loss of your husband, Tsukiyume, but you have to let go of your children as well." The captain said softly. She had tears in her eyes, knowing that there was no way how she could change Jou and Kaiser's fate. "Alright, but please, at least let them say goodbye to their sister." Tsukiyume said.
He nodded. "Don't worry, once they come back from Hereos, I'll have one of my soldiers give them a few minutes to spend with you and your daughter before they leave." The captain said. "Thank you Captain Shadow." Tsukiyume said before she walked back into the house, wiping the tears away from her eyes. Shizuka came downstairs and saw her mother's distressed state.
"What happened, kaa-san? Who was at the door?" she asked. "It was Captain Yomi. The village made a decision of who should be offered tonight." Tsukiyume said. "Who?"
"It's…your brothers." She said quietly. "No, it can't be. Please tell me it's not true..." she whimpered but when she looked into her mother's eyes, she knew it was true. She cried and ran up to her room.
"I'm sorry, Shizuka… I did my best but it couldn't be helped." Tsukiyume whispered before heading into the kitchen.
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Yugi: Well, that's the end of the chapter, so please review everyone so Zypher will be a happy person.
