Betrayal and Past Mistakes
A/N: okay this chapter is mostly in the past explaining about how Amelda was changed and how he and Seto met. Sorry Serenity's not in this chapter either!
5th November 1678
Amelda hurried home, it was his brother's birthday and he had promised not to be late for the party. His new long dark red cloak with the gold trim swirled around his ankles as he marched down the street; a mother and daughter who were shopping gave him a respectable bow.
His was Amelda. P. Bostanni (A/N1) the first son of the king's most trusted General and he was going to be his father's successor. He was just shy of his nineteenth birthday. His little brother Michael was going to be twelve, he was already training to be a priest in the Catholic Church.
Amelda opened the door to his family home, and stopped. Lying in the biggest pool of blood was his family, the servants and the first of the guest to arrive. He was frozen, his father was missing a good portion of his throat, his mother was lying face down, and her back was sliced up as if a wild animal had attacked her. And his brother oh god Michael.
The young boy was lying on his back, his neck was broken and most of his face was missing.
Amelda vision was going fuzzy when he was grabbed from behind. He felt a sharp pain in his neck and the life slowly leaving him. The assailant's wrist pressed down on Amelda's mouth and the boy had no choice up to drink the foul liquid forced down his throat.
Amelda woke to see a ceiling of a dingy hut. And the bluest pair of orbs he had ever seen. Amelda blinked a few times hoping to get his bearings when a hand roughly grabbed him under the chin and forced his face upwards, the blue orbs narrowed. Then Amelda realised they were eyes. Eyes that were attached to a face, a face half hidden by chestnut brown hair.
"Newbie. Should have known." The face said.
" Who are you?" Amelda tried to say it but his throat was dry and his voice came out as a gravely gasp. The face looked confused for a moment then reached behind him for something. The face's hand came back holding a small water bag to his lips and helped him drink. Amelda gave a disgusted splutter. That wasn't water. But it helped his throat so he forced himself to drink some more, it didn't taste so bad the second time, in fact it was very nice.
"Who are you?" Amelda asked this time the face understood him.
"Seth." He answered.
"Set? What is set?" Amelda asked.
"My name."
"What kind of name is that?"
"The name I was born with. You don't know what you are do you?"
"What are you talking about? I'm human" Amelda glared at the man.
"Not any more your not."
"What?" Amelda remembered the attacker. His family. His friends. His brother. "What happened?" he asked clutching his head.
"The dizziness will pass. As for what happened I'm not sure. I found you in the street, I recognised what you are."
"What I'm I?" looking to stare at the boy, his can't be that much older than me he thought.
"Vampire. But it is unusual for a sire to leave their child straight after the change. Your sire is either dead or he didn't mean to change you." The brunette started intently at Amelda before shaking his head and talking on, but it was as if he was now talking to himself. "Highly improbable. Sires don't abandon their children when they are Newbies.
"Sires? Children? What in the name of god are you on about?" Amelda snapped. He then said a quick prayer for using the Lord's name wrongly.
"Sires are vampire that change humans. Children are what sires call the human they change. Newbies are what other vampires call a vampire newly changed." Seth sighed. "Look you need someone to teach you how to hunt. I'll do that but you follow my rules and you do as I say or you are going to end up as ash." the boy spoke bluntly.
Amelda seemed to think his options over. Then he nodded. "Okay, but I have a request."
" A request?"
"Yeah. I what you to help me find out who changed me."
"Why? You want a heartfelt reunion? " Seth snorted.
" No. I want to kill it." Amelda stated.
Neither of them saw the pale blond head, which slipped away from the window with a dark smirk on its lips.
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12th February 1909
Gozaburo's chief maid opened the door to three strangers. They were all soaked and all very handsome men. She blushed as the slightly ahead of the other two smile at her; he was very handsome with dark brown hair and cerulean blue eyes.
Then her throat was ripped out. Raphael stared down at her corpse, guilt and despair in his eyes. "Oh god what have I done? I'm so sorry Seth. I…I disappointed you." Before Seth could say anything, another maid followed by a butler and a big man in a smart suit.
The maid screamed and fainted at the sight of her college dead the butler froze; Raphael had killed them both before the other two had a chance.
The man in the suit grabbed Amelda and took a Swiss army knife out of his pocket. Amelda eye widened when his felt the prick of the knife just under his chin, while a vampire can heal themselves quickly a slit throat or a sharp object embedded in the direct centre of their heart would kill them.
Seth appeared behind Gozaburo "let him go." He snarled. Seth sank his teeth into the back of Gozaburo throat and tore out most of the man's spine.
Seto, Gozaburo's oldest son appeared a stared at the blood bath. Raphael acted without thinking and broke the boy's neck. Seth and Amelda stared at the blood on the floor, thinking what they had done. They had only wanted a place to stay to get out of the cold.
A small boy appeared he was younger than the other. He looked at his brother then at Seth.
"You look like my brother. You killed them didn't you?"
"Yes." Seth decided there was no point in trying to tell the boy that he had only killed one human in all his years and that it was his father.
"Would you take my brother's name? Our father never called him by his name."
"What is your brothers name?" Seth asked.
"Seto."
"I'll take your brother's name, but you must never tell any one of us."
"Deal" the boy held out his hand. Seth shook it.
Raphael looked suitably ashamed. Inside his was laughing.
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Amelda stared at Raphael. Part of him was gleeful that his was right about their friend but that was mostly out weighed by dumb shock.
"But I'm older than you. You couldn't have changed me. I would have seen it, felt it." Amelda managed, his whole body felt numb.
Raphael threw his head and laughed. "Do you think you could go into my mind? You foolish boy, I only changed you because I thought you were a girl. I abandoned you straight after because why would I want a boy?"
Amelda shook his head, trying to clear it. When he had hatred and anger slammed into his heart and for once in his long lifetime he wanted to cause pain and death.
"You tricked us. You hurt Valon. You betrayed us."
" Yeah. Anything else?" Raphael wanted to know.
" You changed me. And that my old friend was your biggest mistake" Amelda looked up at Raphael, and the blonde felt fear.
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Marty studied the family. After finding the young boy's body they received an anonymous tip that Serenity was being held against her will at the old Kaiba mansion. Now Joey, Mai and Margaret Wheeler were insisting on coming with the police to get her.
"Fine. But stay out of our way." He gave a hard look at Joey before strapping on his weapon and marching out to debrief his team.
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As seven police cars roared up the road to Kaiba mansion, Raphael was thrown through the doors skidding on the gravel. The seven police cars screeched to a stop when they saw a young man struggling to his feet.
Another young man with flaming red hair was standing in the doorway. He wore a long grey trench coat and leather pants. Stripping off the coat he revealed that his was wearing a white tank top underneath. Tossing the coat carelessly by the door, the redhead walked calmly down the steps towards the blonde.
"Is that the best you can do, my child?" the blonde sneered through a bloody lip. Marty caught sight of pointy teeth and motioned his men to prepare their weapons.
"Don't call me your child! And to answer you question you are in for a lot more pain yet." The red head screamed. He slammed his fist into the blonde's face.
The blonde pivoted and grabbed the other's arms and wrapping a leg around the redhead's legs. So he was behind Amelda and locked Amelda hands in his, the position would have looked almost romantic is both males were not snarling at one another.
"You'll always be my child." Raphael leaned forward and ran his tongue up the side of Amelda's face because he knew it would annoy his child.
Amelda flinched at the contact, and then he shoved his head back and crashed it into Raphael's face.
Raphael and Amelda wrestled until Raphael was sitting on Amelda, pinning him down with his weight alone. Amelda brought his knee up into Raphael crotch. Raphael rolled off the slighter vampire in pain.
The cops had forgotten about rescuing the young girl. The two men before them had moved gracefully and viciously. If these were the men they had to protect that girl from they were going to lose.
Raphael was known crouching by Amelda, glaring at him with venom. "That was a poor and girlish trick, Amelda." He gasped.
" I thought I looked like a girl, that's why I'm here isn't it. You killed my family and changed me." Amelda roared.
" Ah yes, your family. Tell me Amelda how much of your brother's face was left when I was finished with him?" Raphael sneered.
"You son of a bitch!" Amelda screamed as he lunged forward, Raphael dodged and in a flash a hunting knife was in his hand. Without any hesitation he had plunged it in to Amelda's hip. The red head gave a cry of pain before falling to his knees.
The cops looked on unsure of what they could do and whom they should help.
A/N1: I didn't know what Amelda's last name was (I don't think you ever find out do you?) any way Amelda sounds kind of Italian to me so I tried to give him an Italian sounding last name.