--------------half a week later----------------
Yugi was laid sprawled out on the couch with a fan next to her head blowing down on her, Yami was waiting on her every whim and was currently off getting something to cool his wife off with, she had suddenly started getting hot flashes even though it was nearing the end of winter. Her belly had grown, even over the few days after the spa trip, which, to Yami, seemed a little peculiar but they dismissed it as normal.
"Yami! Where are you?" she called fanning herself.
"Right here dear," Yami cooed rushing back into the room carrying an ice pack for her.
"Yugi, if this keeps up I'm calling Dr. Bee," Yami warned, laying the cool pack across her forehead.
"I'm fine, Yami, really," Yugi insisted holding his hand to her head.
"Just stay right there, that feels good," Yugi said sighing as she held her husband's hand on her forehead.
"That's it I'm calling Dr. Bee, you aren't acting normal even for a normal pregnancy," Yami said reaching for the phone balanced on the arm of the couch. Yugi awed at that but stayed quiet when Yami started running his fingers through her hair.
: Hello Yami, you've gone a whole two weeks without calling, I was wondering where you went: Dr. Bee answered the phone trying to get a laugh out of him.
"Hello to you too ma'am, I'm calling on behalf of my wife, I was just wondering if you did house calls, she has suddenly been showing symptoms, erm, signs, I guess, that none of the books have even mentioned and I wanted to know if you could come out to check up on her, she is unable to move much right now," Yami said as Yugi began to cuddle his hand closing her eyes and alowing him to rub her cheek.
: I do house calls, what are her symptoms: she asked over the phone sounding more serious.
"Well she is very tired, so much so she can't get up off the couch, she insists that she is burning up even though the thermometer says her temp. is normal, and her stomach has gotten noticeably bigger over the last three days, is that normal?" He asked curling his finger around the cord as he balanced the phone on his shoulder and knelt down next to Yugi; her shirt was getting too small for her now and more of her belly could be seen.
: That isn't normal, the most you should be able to see of her belly is a slight bulge if anything, no pregnancy ever shows a noticeable change in the middle area it's always very subtle growth, as for the other symptoms those aren't normal either; she should be tired but not that much I'll be right over...: she said hanging up on him. Yami hung the phone up as well and went back to tending on Yugi; he knelt and kissed her on the cheek and she looked at him.
"What did she say?" Yugi asked weakly.
"She'll be right over, don't worry, you and the babies are probably fine," Yami replied lightly tracing his fingers over her obviously pregnant belly and making her giggle slightly.
They waited with each other until the doorbell rang,
"I've got it!" shouted Marik lumbering down the hallway halfway between his dragon and human form.
"Marik, that's Yugi's doctor!" Yami shouted after him making Yugi curl up and cover her ears.
"I'm sorry honey, I didn't mean to be loud," Yami cooed softly pecking her on the forehead. He heard Dr. Bee in the entry way,
"Ah, you must be the servant Yugi told me about, where is the poor girl?" she asked him Marik seemed confused for a moment before he lead her into the living room.
"Oh dear," she said replacing the 'oh dears' often heard from Marik, who left the room instantly, not having much in the ways of human company in the house unnerved him when one came around.
"I told you she was acting strangely," Yami said holding Yugi's hand. Dr. Bee had a portable ultrasound open and ready to go in seconds turning it on she put the gelatin on Yugi stomach and pressed the cool object onto her skin making her sigh.
"I want to make sure those babies are okay," she said moving the wand around her eyes widened.
"This isn't possible," she murmured looking at the screen as she moved it.
"I just saw you a week ago that was at six weeks correct?" she said moving it again.
"Yes, why is something wrong?" Yami asked Yugi's eyes widened as well, when it came to the babies inside her you never said something and wrong in the same sentence.
"No, nothing is wrong, they are completely healthy, what I do not understand is how they jumped from six weeks to twelve weeks in one week's time," Dr. Bee said turning the screen to Yami and Yugi. There they were the babies they both stared at the screen wide eyed, the babies were starting to take on a human shape with stubs for growing arms and legs showing.
"Yami, what is going on?" Yugi asked him hugging him close as she looked at her growing babies side by side.
"I would like to know that as well," Dr. Bee said turning off the portable ultrasound.
"Set," was all Yami could say. He was shocked, almost stunned by the thought that all of a sudden his enemy was aiding in the growth of their babies.
"Set?" Dr. Bee asked.
"Yami, please, not him, you said he was gone!" Yugi responded wrapping her arms tight around Yami's neck; he saw it coming, another mood swing, she had been getting those more often as well, just the night before she had threatened to leave home on him because he checked in on her while she was taking a bath.
"Who is this Set person, is he dangerous? If he is it is one of my jobs to make sure those babies make it into the world safe and sound, and I will need to take Yugi with me and keep her on bed rest if she is under stress," Dr. Bee said seriously. Yami could tell she was not trying to be mean, but the thought of letting Yugi sit alone in a hospital for the months to come scared him, he sighed, it was time to tell the truth.
"Ma'am, we aren't what you'd call a normal family, you see we are vampires, all of us but our servants, the Set we speak of is the Egyptian god I angered, thousands of years ago and recently he has been haunting us; I believe he has something to do with this, please believe us, I'm not making this up," Yami told her rubbing Yugi's back tenderly as she tried to 'run and hide' in Yami's shoulder.
"Sir, you are going to need to come with me..." she started, disbelieving, but Yami cut her off.
"Ma'am it is true, see for yourself, I have fangs, so does every member of this house hold, only two of them aren't used for blood, I heal instantly, almost, and I can show you," Yami continued showing her his long fangs. He broke one of them out and showed her; as he said, another tooth popped into place almost instantaneously after wards.
"Ryou, get out of the corner," he slurred slightly, cleaning off the new tooth.
"You are insane," she said shocked by him.
"He isn't insane," Yugi said.
"I'm the same, only I do not heal as fast," Yugi said weakly smiling enough to show her smaller fangs. Her eyes however weren't on Dr. Bee, they were on the wall behind her so she turned around in time to watch Ryou descend the wall and turn over onto the floor.
"Well, I must admit, I'm pretty sane for an eight hundred year old fledgeling, and I don't see my tail and feet changing anytime soon," he said walking past her and coming to perch on the arm of the couch above Yugi's head.
"Your not joking," she said looking Ryou up and down.
"So this isn't a normal pregnancy anyway," she said looking at Yugi.
"Please Mrs. Bee, I need help, I've never been pregnant before, I don't know what to do, and all I know is I hurt and that may not be a good thing for my babies," Yugi said.
"And I am here for you, this is just a shock that's all, even I am not quite sure what to do," Dr. Bee said taking out a stethoscope and listening to her heart as she spoke.
"I have someone who can help you, but he is a bit tied up and can not leave his house," Yami told her smiling, Monteague was on his mind.
"Is he sick?" she asked concernedly.
"Oh no, not at all, he's just occupied by a bunch of hatchlings that have grown rather attached to him, you can visit him if you want, his name is Monteague La Fayette," Yami told her watching her work with Yugi like he always did.
"That big man? He's a vampire too?"
"Oh yes, he's a bit younger though, he's only about four hundred and forty years old, and he is the smartest person I've ever met, he had a wife once after he had become a vampire and had a baby, he can probably tell you more about this, but for now is there anything wrong with Yugi?" Yami asked changing the subject back to his aching wife.
"Just give me his address and I will go see him, as for Yugi, keep doing what you have been doing, keep her cool but not too cool, if it feels cold to you it is to her, and Yugi, eat small frequent meals instead of large ones all at once, it will help with the growth of the babies now that they are possibly growing faster than normal and help keep morning sickness down, that's all I can really say for now," she said packing her things and looking sadly at them as if she wished she could do more to help.
"I'll do that," Yami replied and he gave her Monteague's apartment address, Dr. Bee thanked him and shook his hand before leaving. Yugi lay back looking up at Ryou and smiled.
"Thank gods you don't look normal," she said wrapping up in her blankets as she got a sudden flash of cold over her body.
"No, thank gods I was sleeping in that corner when she got here, that dumb doorbell woke me up," he replied. Yami got up for a moment to get the door as the bell rang again,
"Oh My Gods!" he shouted; Yugi heard a faint,
"H-help us," coming from the main entrance. Jou and Marik rushed in behind him and Yugi heard their sounds of surprise as well. She tried to sit up and look over the back of the couch at the door way, but couldn't do it.
"Ryou, do you have any brothers that you know of!" called Marik.
"Only dead ones, why?" he asked stroking the side of Yugi's head to get her to calm down.
"Because now you do," Jou said rushing in carrying a larger white haired version of Ryou and Marik was carrying another. They sat them down on the floor, the pair crying and sniveling, the two new fledgelings were chained together at the neck. Yugi's eyes widened as she stared at them, she recognized the two from before.
"Yami!" she called shrinking back into the couch.
"What is it Yugi, are you okay?" Yami replied running around the end of the couch.
"Yami! those are Bakura's, they snapped at me when he kidnapped me," Yugi cried curling up and wrapping up in a cocoon of blankets. Yami turned to the two crying fledgelings that Marik and Jou were tending to.
"What are your names?" he barked at them making the pair curl up as well in fear.
"Ba," cried the biggest one.
"Ka," cried the other, the pair were mimicking each others movements, when one curled, the smaller copied, when one spoke the other spoke as well.
"Why did you attack my husband when your father held him captive?" he asked again.
"He threatened to kill us," they echoed together.
"We could not speak and he was hurting us," they added snaking their tails together and wrapping their arms around each other.
"Yami they're harmless just like Ryou," Jou said rubbing some peroxide on their raw necks.
"Ba, Ka, why have you sought refuge in my home?" he asked once more after the pair stopped screaming as their necks stung.
"We remember our father mentioning you-" Ka said.
"And we were being hunted-" Ba continued.
"And we need a home that's safe-" Ka added.
"So we came here and hoped you would take these things of too," Ba finished pulling out on the chain connecting their necks.
"Hold still," Marik said changing into his dragon form, the fledgelings shrieked and scrambled to get away, losing their copying ability and trying to scatter.
"Help!" they cried pulling in opposite directions, Marik rolled his eyes and walked over to them; he opened his big mouth and chomped down cleanly on the chain that was pulled tight between them. The chain snapped instantly and the the pair went tumbling away from each other, curling up.
"You two seem okay, but if you so much as touch my wife inappropriately I will kill you," Yami threatened watching Ba and Ka right themselves, the large shackles dangling loosely from their necks.
"Jou, why don't you go get them cleaned up, I guess you'll have to get Seto to take those chains off," he added as the two began cowering away from Marik.
"Damn, you weren't even that afraid of me when you first got here," Marik said after had Jou gently led the two out of the room by the chains around their necks.
"I know, but maybe they're younger by a few hundred years," Ryou replied getting off the couch and curiously following his brothers.
"I'm telling you, Bakura threatened to let them kill me and tear me apart before he chained them to a wall and they started attacking each other like rabid dogs," Yugi said huddling down trying to hide as the bad memory hit her.
"Yugi it's okay, I will always be here to protect you, so if they try anything bad I'll be there too stop them," Yami said sitting down next to her and calmly stroking her forehead.
Meanwhile, up in Seto's room, the owner of the room was currently struggling with a terrified fledgeling as he tried to cut away the shackles around Ka's neck; the first one had gone willingly and was sitting in a corner with his tail wrapped around himself, but this one wouldn't shut up. He was kicking and crying for Ba, almost sounding like a sheep that was being led to the slaughter. Jou finally helped his lover by tying a blind fold around his head, covering his brown eyes, the little one froze unable to see, he was not going to move either. This one was so much like and animal. He made a chirping noise that Ba responded too with a low throaty sound; Seto continued his work using shadows to cut lines across the front and back of the shackle and the chunk of metal fell away in halves Seto got behind him and gently plucked the blindfold off the fledgeling's head. Ka instantly became animated again, looking around, chirping, Ba replied every time and the little one scurried over to him and curled up tight against him.
"Big baby," he hissed quietly at him so that the other two vampires couldn't hear.
"They aren't climbing the walls like Ryou does," Jou said to Seto who was glaring at the pair.
"I don't care if they do or not, just so long as they don't bother me," Seto said leaving the room with Jou following him like a puppy.
As soon as Ba was sure they were gone he got up standing straight and tall on his feet,
"Get up you idiot," he hissed menacingly.
"Stupid fool left us in here," Ba murmured as his weaker side stood up behind him.
"Search the room for any hidden doors, I know this fool has weapons around here somewhere," he hissed at Ka; he began rubbing his neck even though he was healed over it would take a while to get the feeling off.
"Damn Set," he muttered walking around the room. There were a few small daggers hanging from the walls, but he knew there was more than that in here.
Ka looked over the book shelves pulling out books with strange titles like: 'To Tame a Tiger in 3 Days' and 'Dagger Throwing for the Faint of Heart', he finally pulled another out titled 'Dracula' and the shelf shifted over revealing an elevator shaft.
"Good you found it," Ba hissed out, pushing him out of the way and stepping into the old glass elevator.
"You stay here, and point at the door if anyone asks where I went," he ordered knowing his other half would obey instantly. He hit the down button and the elevator silently closed and went down, the shelf closing as well to cover the open shaft. Ba grinned, showing his sharp teeth as the doors opened for him at the bottom, revealing an entire weaponry, filled with armor and items used to torture and kill from all around the world and since ancient times. He marched into the room, his ideal haven, humming the tune 'California hear I come' only with different words that went something like this.
"Ultimate power here I come, all the way from where It started from..." he continued on, going into gross detail of how he would slaughter the pharaoh, rape his wife again and again, and mutilate his children once they were born, as he looked over devices that would make even the cruelest hardest men in the world beg for mercy, Bakura was back, in two parts, and with this plethora of weapons there was nothing to stand in his way.
notes: Thank you snow angel for pointing out those mistakes. As the end of this chapter says Bakura's back in two parts and he's pulling an act that fools even his own son. as for the weapons, it's like Seto's private collection, he doesn't use them, save for a select few for his job (mythical creature hunter). And the spell Set cast... yes, you guessed it, the spell is making the babies grow faster and I intend to jump it three weeks growth for every week of pregnancy so the babies should be completely developed ten weeks after Set cast the spell so they will be born fully developed at seventeen weeks (which is four weeks into the second trimester) so it will be a very unnatural time of birth because a normal baby is born at thirty nine weeks maximum. (if you understood any of that or have trouble understanding it I'm sorry it seems so complex when I type it out).
Gruzzee: wow! so now Dr. Bee is in on the fact that they are all vampires
Cazi: what are you going to do when she meets Monteague (shifty eyes and an evil grin)
Gruzzee: just wait and see and for you readers R&R and come back for more
