"The Dark Magician Girl came to his aid in person… There is no doubt in my mind now… He is a descendant of my ancient enemy."

"Trust me master, Yugi Muto may talk the talk, but he has none of your mojo." said Keith.

"I underestimated my enemies once before… And I paid for it dearly… I can ill afford to make the same mistake again."

"He's just a boy… And the Pharaoh can no longer help him." said Kaiba.

"He beat you… And monsters come to his aid… But he must have a weakness… Everyone does."

"His friends…" replied Kaiba "That's the key… Without them he'll break like an egg."

"Wha… Where am I?"

When Yugi woke up he had no idea where he was. He was lying in bed somewhere with all this medical equipment around. The entire room smelled like garlic. A moment after he had awoken he was nearly smothered by Tea.

"Yugi! Oh thank God you're okay!"

"Tea… can't… breathe…"

"Oh… Sorry."

"Guys, what happened last night?"

"Well… First we got kidnapped by Kaiba so he could challenge you to a duel, then we get locked up beneath the duel dome." said Joey.

"Yeah, then we get rescued by Pegasus' goons, and they tell us that you were near death, they bring us here to his penthouse and give you a blood transfusion." said Tristan.

"Pegasus?"

"Yes me Yugi boy. Fortunately for you I know a thing or two about vampires."

"Vampires?"

"Yes, Seto Kaiba is now serving the un-dead."

"Care to explain?" asked Joey.

"Not long ago I discovered that the game of duel monsters had a place in 15th century Romania, the Shadow Games were studied by the illegitimate son of Price Vlad III."

"The Impaler?"

"Yes."

"Am I the only one who's lost here?" asked Joey.

"You're not the only one." replied Tristan.

"Honestly didn't either of you ever listen in school?" asked Tea.

"You already know the answer to that."

"Prince Vlad III was a Romanian prince from the 15th century and was the primary inspiration for the antagonist of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula."

"So why do they call him the Impaler?" asked Joey.

"Because he was a blood thirsty butcher, who inflicted unspeakable torture on the peasants and on his enemies, primarily Muslim Turks. Cutting off their heads, drinking their blood, and impaling them on iron spikes." said Pegasus.

"Sorry I asked."

"So anyway, some time after his death his illegitimate son Prince Vlad IV came to learn of his noble heritage and sought revenge on the Turks responsible for his father's murder. He heard of the Shadow Games and traveled to Egypt to learn more. Soon he returned to wreak vengeance on the Muslim Turks with his newfound army of shadow monsters that he had learned to summon. The Turks were no match for his monsters, but the bloodlust of Prince Vlad was insatiable… He butchered people over the most trivial things… Even worse then his father… The things he did angered God, so he placed upon the prince a terrible curse… he would be punished for eternity."

"Punished how?"

"He lived outside the grace of God, dead but not dead, vampyr, nosferatu, in other words… A vampire."

"An actual vampire?" asked Tea.

"Yes."

"What happened to him?' asked Yugi.

"He continued to strike terror throughout the land, feasting on the blood of the living, until news of his reign of terror reached Egypt, then he was hunted down by one of the descendants of Atem."

"Wait a minute. Atem wasn't married. How could he have descendants?" asked Joey.

"Well… During one of my expeditions to Egypt I found this."

"What is it?" asked Tea.

"These are photo copies of what we believe to be the Pharaoh's personal journal. It says that one day when he was still the prince his eyes were attracted to one of the royal dancers by the name of Teana. He says she was the most beautiful girl he had ever laid his eyes upon, and one night he called her to his chamber… I'm pretty sure you know what that implies."

"Whoa! Too much information! More then I wanted to know…" replied Tristan.

"Anyway… The descendants of Atem journeyed to Transylvania and branded together with the locals to destroy Prince Vlad. They called on the Pharaoh's monsters to help defeat Prince Vlad's army of Shadow Creatures. In the end there was a heated battle between Prince Vlad and the Pharaoh's closest living blood descendant. Prince Vlad was run through on a silver sword that was laced in garlic. His remains were then buried deep beneath the earth."

"What does this have to do with Kaiba turning into a vampire?" asked Tea.

"Prince Vlad has returned. See when I heard the story myself I traveled to Romania to see if I could find some surviving relics that would allow me make some of his creatures into cards for the game. Eventually I found his lost tomb… When I couldn't find anything anywhere else I looked inside the coffin, naturally after hundreds of years all that we found on the inside was bones and whatever was left of his organs, but when I opened it I cut myself on something, a few drops of my blood trickled down to the place where his heart would be… the next thing I knew his body started to rejuvenate.

"Let me guess. Next you ran like hell." said Joey.

"Yes…"

"But why would a vampire come all the way from Romania to Domino city?" asked Tea.

"Two reasons, He was the ruler of the Shadow Games in 15th century Romania. The Shadow Games have changed since then, that's why he attacked Kaiba. Second, Yugi is the spitting image of the one who originally destroyed him; my guess is he's come here for revenge. Even worse since Kaiba is now a vampire he'll feed just like his new master, and then so will all his victims…"

"Until Domino city has a plague on its hands." said Tristan.

"Precisely… Which is why we need to destroy Prince Vlad before that happens."

"Pegasus… Last night during the duel I…"

"You felt like you were getting the life sucked out of you. That's Prince Vlad's most powerful spell, The Curse of Nosferatu."

"That's the name of a card Kaiba used…"

"I'm not surprised. As you know back in the days of the Shadow Games they didn't use life points. Prince Vlad's most powerful spell, The Curse of Nosferatu, would drain his victims of their blood whenever they fought."

"But that's impossible, if Yugi had lost over 75% of his blood last night we wouldn't be talking to him right now." said Tea.

"It doesn't just happen as soon as you lose life points. It happens slowly, Prince Vlad likes to enjoy his drinks."

"Gees…"

"I'm going to stop this vampire but I may need your help…"

"Well I'm not going to just sit around while my city is turned into a city of the undead!" said Joey.

"But Joey we don't know anything about hunting vampires." said Tea.

"I can help you with that." replied Pegasus.

Pegasus opened a black case that was laid on the table.

"Whoa! Are those G18s?" asked Joey.

(For those of you who don't know a G18 is an automatic handgun)

"Yes, and these are silver bullets that have been laced in garlic with crucifixes carved into them."

"I thought silver bullets were used to kill werewolves." said Tristan.

"Works just fine on vampires."

"I'm not carrying one of these, I hate guns." said Tea.

"Would you rather carry a silver bladed dagger? Just so you know that means you would have to get close to the vampire."

"Give me the gun." replied Tea.

"Now which form of protection do you want to wear? The crucifix or the garlic necklace?"

Unsurprisingly they all picked the crucifix.

"Don't forget to take some garlic bombs and some holy water with you in case you need a quick escape."

"So what do we do now?"

"My men are searching the city for Prince Vlad; hopefully they'll be able to find him before sunset."

"Don't worry Mr. Pegasus. We'll find that ghoul faster then Garfield finds lasagna."

"While you're at it find Duke Devlin… We're going to need all the help we can get."