Annzy: I'm baaaack!

Bakura: Annzy! Where have you been?

Marik: Yeah seriously!

Annzy: I was planning the Halloween special, and I went dress shopping.

Marik: Why did you go dress - oh, right…

Annzy: Anyway! This chapter is kind of background info for the next chapter (hopefully I can publish it soon so I can do the Halloween special…) And I'll will try my hardest to update the next chapter soon, but first I need to write it… and I'm really busy…

Chapter 8: Anzu's Story

Ding-dong! rang the bell of a 20-year-old girl. "Coming!" she called. She opened the door to find a short, spiky-haired young boy at her door, smiling widely. She smiled, "Yugi! It's always nice to find you at my doorstep."

Yugi smiled wider, "I have a surprise for you Anzu!"

"Really? What is it?"

He smiled, "I met someone today, someone I think you'll want to meet."

"A person? Who?"

He wagged his finger in a joking manner, "You have to wait! Now how are you?" Most people would have figured Yugi meant "Are you sick?" or "How are you feeling?" but Anzu knew that Yugi meant something entirely different. She lifted her shoulder-length brown hair from her right cheek and showed Yugi her mark. It was slightly pink. Yugi frowned, "You better bite me, if the person cuts his finger I don't want you to go crazy or something."

Anzu laughed, "Right, hold still, this might hurt…"

"No! It doesn't hurt. I've already told you." She smiled and bit down on her boyfriends neck. By now she was used to how good his blood tasted, she had bitten him more than once, but it still managed to surprise her at first every time. She only sucked a little, and then stopped. Her mark was pale again, and then they started walking, with Yugi leading Anzu to her surprise.

Now I know you're wondering, "Yugi's girlfriend is a vampire? How did they meet? What is this?" Well, you see, Yugi and Anzu have been childhood friends. He knew her before she had turned into a vampire. They had also started going out before she was bitten too.

You see, their story begins on a windy fall evening two years ago. Anzu had just gotten an acceptance letter into the acting/dancing college she had wanted to go to. She had called Yugi up, and they were going to meet up at their favorite smoothie place, Jamba Juice (1), to celebrate.

Anzu had been skipping along the street, happy as can be, and humming a cheerful tune to herself, she was on cloud nine. But then she had passed this one corner. She had circled around a light post a few times, and then she felt strong, firm arms grab her arm.

"Hey there baby, come here, I need something from you," said a pompous, clear voice.

Anzu kept pepper spray in her purse for this type of emergency, but he had grabbed her free arm, not the one with the purse, which means she couldn't reach it without him noticing.

She feared the worst, but really all the man wanted was a drink. Of her blood. Because he was a vampire.

His mark was a little just turning red, and he always drank the first person he saw when It started to get red. It just so happens he saw this young girl walking along the street and decided that she would do just fine.

Obviously she struggled, since she couldn't reach her pepper spray and she wasn't one to give up easily, but he was too strong and resistance was futile. He reached up and stroked her cheek, and then got hit in the face with her purse. This made the guy angry, and he squeezed her arm tighter so that it started to turn pale. She cringed, and then the guy was about to biter her, when he felt her kicking where it hurts. It did hurt him, but he didn't let go of her hand, and now the guy was REALLY upset, and he bit her neck roughly so that it would hurt her.

She cried out in pain, which turned into a cry of pure agony as she was injected with Vampire Venom. The guy had decided he wanted to cause as much pain as possible to her, and decided that Vampire Venom would hurt the most. He dropped her, and she writhed in agony. He smiled wickedly, "I hope you die a slow painful death." He expected the Vampire Venom to kill her, but he decided to take her money incase anyone should find her. Then he left.

Meanwhile, Yugi had been at Jamba Juice, sucking a smoothie and waiting for Anzu to show up. After about ten minutes, he was getting worried. It usually took Anzu five-eight minutes to get here from her house. He decided to wait a little bit longer, but after waiting 5 more minutes and calling Anzu's cell phone 3 times, he left the store to go looking for her. He ordered her favorite smoothie before he left, and then walked the way she usually walks to her house. He walked along a little faster then he would have normally, because he had a bad feeling about Anzu.

He looked around hurriedly, and then he saw something lying on the floor. He didn't really realize that it was Anzu until he got closer and saw her face. He immediately started freaking out, especially when he heard her screaming. He called for an ambulance, and they came in three minutes flat. The doctors realized that she had lost a lot of blood, but they weren't sure from what. They infused some donated blood with hers, and then began to do tests to find out what did this to her.

Little did they know that that blood saved Anzu's life.

Because, the vampires prediction was coming true, the venom was slowly killing her.

Because she was so tough, her blood cells tried to fight the vampire venom, now this is normal, but her blood cells were trying really hard, so the vampire venom couldn't travel to her heart, so it released the poison early, and it was starting to kill her. Because, if the poison is released before it gets to the heart, then the poison doesn't work right and starts to kill you. But when the new blood came in, the vampire venom cells attached themselves to those blood cells, and got transferred into her heart. Then the change began.

The change usually lasts 24 hours, so that when you are a vampire, you're not in blazing sunlight and you don't die right away.

Anyway, during those 24 hours, Yugi never left Anzu's side. He called her parents, and they showed up for a little bit, but they had to go to work sometime, and the doctors assured them that she was looking better.

So it happened, that when Anzu woke up, 24 hours later, she was greeted by Yugi's relieved face.

"I'm so glad you're okay!" He said as he hugged her, then on an after thought, "How do you feel?"

Anzu thought about it. "I feel, fine…Better actually. But I'm really thirsty-"

"I'll get you some water!" Yugi said hurriedly before he ran out of the room like a 3-year-old with a sugar rush. Anzu smiled, thankful that she had such a caring boyfriend, and she got up to look around her, test her strength.

She did feel fine, in fact, she felt the best she'd ever felt in a long time. But when she felt her skin, it was dead cold, and when she looked in a mirror, she noticed something on her cheek.

It was her new mark. And it was blood red.

She didn't know what it was at first, she thought maybe it was a practical joke from Yugi, but he would never do that, would he? She tried to wash it off, but that didn't work. She tried to rub it off, but that didn't work. She was really starting to wonder where this new addition to her face had come from, when Yugi came back in with a tall glass of water.

"Here you go, drink up!" he said happily.

She took it gratefully, but even after draining the glass, she still felt thirsty. She smiled anyways and said, "Thanks Yugi, I feel a lot better."

Yugi frowned, "What happened anyway? Do you remember? The doctors can't find anything wrong with you."

Anzu, got angry, "This boy was harassing me!" She said before she explained what happened. Yugi paled when she mentioned that he bit her on the neck, and when Anzu told him the last thing she remembered was this breath-taking pain overwhelming her, he was very blue.

"I'm sorry Anzu, I should have walked with you. I'm no good in a fight, but maybe he would've hurt me and not you."

She hugged him, "Oh Yugi, it's okay. You couldn't have known, and besides, I'm fine now, right?"

He sighed, "But still…"

She kissed him to shut him up. His cheeks turned a bit pink, and then he said that he'd go tell the doctors that she's awake. But then he cut his shoulder on the door hinge on his way out. A nail was sticking out.

Anzu was going to go find a band-aid, but then she smelled his blood. It was a delicious, sweet scent, that overwhelmed her senses and drove everything else form her mind. She walked slowly towards Yugi, almost as if in a daze, then she licked the blood of Yugi's shoulder.

Yugi, who didn't understand what was happening, went bright red and was mumbling something.

Anzu moved her mouth closer to Yugi's neck, and bit down. His blood was like an explosion of flavor on her taste buds. She drank more and more and more, until she heard Yugi mutter, a weak, "…An…Zu…" before passing out. His voice had stirred memories inside her, and made her stop drinking Yugi's delicious blood.

She started freaking out, wondering, "Why did I do that?" "What should I do about Yugi?" "Why was his blood so delicious?" while she put Yugi up on her hospital bed. She looked at him wearily, wondering what she should do. She kind of hoped a doctor would walk in, because she was frozen in her tracks. Plus, she didn't want to explain what happened.

She waited ten painstakingly long minutes that felt like 10 centuries to her, and then Yugi's eyes started to open. She started shedding tears of joy. "Oh, Yugi!" She hugged him and started crying into his shoulder. It was then that he noticed the mark on her cheek, only this time it was just a dark outline against her skin. How did he not notice that before? He had probably just been to happy that Anzu was okay that he wasn't paying attention.

Eventually, Anzu stopped crying, and she began to beg Yugi for forgiveness. He gave it to her (obviously, he loves her) but then wanted to know why she did that. "I-I don't know!" she wailed, "Wh-when I smelled it, I just w-wanted it, and, before I kn-knew what was happening, I-I…" she began crying again, and Yugi stroked her hair, ensuring her that everything was all right.

But then he got to wondering…

Why could Anzu smell his blood? And why did it make her want to drink it? He kept thinking about it. He was going to ask the doctors about it, but something in his gut told him that he shouldn't.

Anyway, Yugi had walked Anzu home that night, and decided that he would check on her early in the morning.

He was glad that he did.

When he had walked to her house, the first thing he noticed was that the door was wide open. He assumed that a robber had broken in, and went inside to…Actually, he didn't really have a plan when he went inside, he just acted on an impulse.

Anyway, he went inside, and heard Anzu moaning in pain. He thought that maybe the robber had hurt her and was going to go see if he could do anything for her. However…

When he had saw her, he had to rub his eyes because he thought that he was seeing something wrong. He saw Anzu laying on the ground in her living room, with what appeared to be third-degree-burns all over her body. Whenever she moved she moaned in pain. Yugi immediately went to her, and then Anzu did the rest.

She was in so much pain right now that everything else was just a jumbled mess. Her eyes were shut tight, to try and take some of the pain away, so she couldn't see anything. Her ears were throbbing so loudly that she couldn't hear anything either. She couldn't even feel the floor the pain was so intense. But when Yugi came in, when he was close to her, touching her… She could sense him. Or more importantly, his blood. She could almost taste the sweet liquid on her tender tongue. She knew she had to drink it, yet she didn't want to either. Inside, her body and mind was conflicting with itself.

The body knew it needed the blood, it needed it to feel better. But the mind, the mind. The mind didn't want to hurt Yugi, it didn't want to hurt it, because it knew if it did, then all of the sweetest supply of blood might be gone, and it didn't want it to be gone. It didn't want it to be gone forever… In the end, the body won, but she only drank a little bit. Now, she didn't know this at the time, but this is a big deal.

For a vampire who has severe burns all over their body, they need a lot of blood to heal themselves. In fact, they probably end up killing their victim, draining them completely, leaving a pale empty shell in the wake.

So, by logic, Anzu should have drained Yugi, correct? Wrong.

You see, there are special people whose blood reacts to vampires in a, different, way. Normally, blood is just something that vampires need to live on. It does taste good, but more like one-of-your-favorite-meals-good. For some people however, their blood is the-best-meal-you've-ever-had-good, and usually it is only this way to a certain vampire.

When a vampire finds their "special person," only a few drops of blood is all it will take to heal any wounds they have, and they will usually become stronger afterwards.(2)

But anyways, back to the story.

After she drank the blood, she immediately felt better. She looked at Yugi, who was a little in shock of what happened, but then he got this sad look on his face. Yugi felt at the place where Anzu had bit him, and noticed with surprise that the bite marks were gone. He cast this away for now, because he had an idea to tell Anzu.

But, before he could tell her his thoughts, Anzu started babbling something that was inconceivable. Yugi tried to interrupt her.

"Anzu…"

"I'msahsryyugiididn'tdoitonpurpose..." (3)

"ANZU!"

She became quiet with tears in her eyes.

Yugi sighed, "I don't know how to tell you this, but… I think you might be a vampire."

Anzu's house was silent for a moment.

Then Anzu's mouth cracked a grin. She started to laugh, then she laughed loudly. "Don't be ridiculous!" she said, "A vampire? Those things don't exist!"

"Well, I thought so too, but, what burned you, before I came in? Do you remember?"

Anzu looked puzzled. "Burning? All I remember is stepping outside and then I felt pain and somehow came back here."

"You see?"

"See what?"

Yugi counted the symptoms off on his fingers. "One, you drink blood now, and it appears to heal you. Two, sunlight burns you. And three, you have that mark on your cheek."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Anzu asked, a little hurt that her boyfriend sounded like he was accusing her.

"Well, it could mean nothing, but I think it shows that you're a vampire."

All was silent once again. The silence was so absolute, that it could have went on for 5 years, it certainly seemed like forever.

"…So…you think that I'm…a vampire? But, but, no, no. If this is true…How am I going to live? I can't go to college without being burned now, and I can't get a job, I'll have to live on the street…" Anzu was looking depressed at the ground. And Yugi, deciding that Anzu need some time to think over things, left silently. He came back the next day, but her door was locked, and she wouldn't let him in. He knew she was inside because her could hear her sobbing. He felt sick when he heard her cry and wanted to help her, he even thought about breaking a window to get inside, but decided that she just needed a bit more time.

He came back every day after that.

Each time was the same. He would ring the doorbell, he would stand there for a few minutes, he would put his ear to the door and hear some sign of life inside, and then sigh and go back home. The only thing that would change occasionally is when Yugi would start talking about how they could solve this problem together, how it didn

T matter if she was a vampire now, but Anzu never listened.

Yugi was genuinely worried, he wanted Anzu to feel better, but he had no idea what to do. How could he help her if she wouldn't let him? He began to research vampires, but nothing he found had information that he could use. He was beginning to get depressed too, but then found a special book entitled "A Vampire's Story."

He read it, and then found out that the vampires in this book had the exact same mark that Anzu had. Yugi read the entire thing in one sitting, bought the book, and immediately went to Anzu's house. This time he knocked on the door continuously (and obnoxiously) until she opened up. She looked super angry though, and depressed. Yugi put that aside and shoved the book in her face and announced, "I'm not leaving until you read this book," and then walked into her house and sat down in the living room. Anzu felt exasperated and her throat felt incredibly dry since she hadn't drunken anything in about three months.

And she could hear Yugi's blood being pumped through his veins.

She took the book and locked herself up in her room to read it.

After a while she came out feeling a lot better. She had decided that being a vampire wasn't all bad, and some things were pretty cool.

She went up to Yugi to give him his book back, and then Yugi said, "Are you thirsty?"

Anzu blinked and said, "Uh, I'm fine…"

Yugi brushed Anzu's hair back and jumped back in shock. Her mark was so red it was starting to turn purple. Yugi figured that's bad, so he put the neck of his collar down and told Anzu, "I don't care if you're a vampire, it doesn't change how I feel about you. So drink my blood."

Anzu felt like she could cry, in fact she did start crying, and then she drank his blood.

But only a little.

After this, Yugi devoted all of his time and efforts to science. Why? It's simple.

He wanted to find a cure for Anzu's vampire-ism.

So he went into medical science. He got very good grades, and some teachers claim that he has two minds inside his head.

Which of course is true.

Anyway, Anzu thought of the author of "A Vampire Story" her hero, and she is very thankful that he published the book. And that is why Yugi was taking her to Ryou's house as we speak. But, little do they know, that the person they are going to meet isn't actually Ryou.

(1): there smoothies are sooo good! ^ ^

(2): This entire concept will be better explained in later chapters, but please be patient.

(3): I will dedicate the next chapter to you if you are the first to figure out what the heck Anzu is saying because I actually did make her say something, but it's hidden.

Annzy: Also, I know this is (very) late, but I'm going to reply to Anonymous Reviews now, because Anonymous reviewers are important:

ThatsWhatCheeseSaid: Thanks! I try to make this story as funny as I can, I didn't know this was suspenseful or dramatic though… Actually, whenever I write a chapter for this story, I feel like someone else is writing it…except when I get writers block of course. And yeah, Twilight… Not so sure about it anymore… I'm more into HARRY POTTER!