Blue Kitsune: Sorry it took me so long with this but with that problem on the user thing and the many things happening, well I apoligize with letting you have chapter 10 now and more later as a forgiven present to all the reviewers. Please read and review!

Chapter Ten: The death of a breed and the Golden Dawn arises

Megumi and Taki had been in her apartment ever since they left the station. She had help Taki get some rest and tend his wounds and held each other throughout as she took away some of the pain he was feeling before with her love. After they had finished getting dressed, it was time for them to leave. They were going to have to get out of there, because the police were still after him with the breed inside. They had planned to go down the stairs when suddenly they heard footsteps, many of them coming their way. Taki and Megumi headed upward, towards the rooftop where the police squad had them cornered and trapped. The squad had the building surrounded. Megumi placed herself protectively in front of Taki.

"Please just leave us alone!" She cried and then gunshots were fired from the other side of the buildings. Three out of the five hit Taki, causing him to fall over the ledge of the building. Megumi saw this and went to see Taki lying on a back of a police car.

"No Takkkiiiii!!!" She screamed as the police grabbed hold of here and pulling away. "Taki!!!"

The police on the ground, move wavering towards where the fallen man had been. Suddenly Taki was convulsing, shaking like mad and was back up his feet, the nightbreed manifested itself again, and attacked some of the men and runs for it.

Téa was sitting by the window in the living room as she thought of what Cain spoke of. What does this all mean? Is this like a riddle for me to try and figure out? The Golden Dawn, what is that?! Suddenly Yayoi came into the room.

"Téa, the nightbreed, Taki had been found. He's heading back to the subway." Téa looked at her as she and Yayoi headed for the car and drove. They were driving through a tunnel when a figure appeared in the way. Yayoi swerved it aside and Téa jumped out when it came to a stop. She ran to the man standing in their way. "Cain what the Hell are you doing? Damn it, let us go by."

"The Golden Dawn is coming Téa." He said.

"The Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn! I'm getting freaking sick of hearing this same bullshit you throw at me! Tell me what so special about this golden dawn thing anyways." He smiled at her and before he disappeared he said, "You will soon find out."

Téa cursed him as she ran back to the car. "Go faster!" And Yayoi pressed her whole foot down as they headed down the tunnel faster than before.

Cain I don't care how special this so called dawn is but I am not going to let you get in my way of helping save innocents from these monsters, even if I am one as well…

They reached the station where they heard gunfire and grunts from what sounded like a wounded animal. The breed must've taken over him, she thought as her eyes glow cat-like and bit her finger to make the blood sword.

Quickly she raced down the station leaving Yayoi a long way to catch up. She got to the place where she had last encountered it and got him cornered. The nightbreed growled angerily and lunged at her, but she managed to dodge the attack. She attempted to strike at the 'breed but it avoid her blows. This went on for several minutes.

I see I have no choice, the man Taki is probably dead due to the gunshots in the chest but why didn't it take it's true form and fight. Suddenly while she had been thinking, the breed jumped in the air and lunged right at her, leaving her an open target. Forgive me Megumi for what I'm about to do to him, I sorry. And she thrust her sword out when he got on her. It impaled him through the heart as she watched the breed struggle yet not change.

"Why didn't you change, tell me." And then the answer hit her hard as the truth met her when she looked into the breed's, no Taki's eyes. He wanted to die as a human. The breed looked up at her with one final gaze, his eyes were Taki's.

"Thank...you..." He said and the body stopped moving and fell to the ground.

. Téa stood there, staring stone still at it when Yayoi arrived to her aid and saw the impaled corpse. "What happened?" She asked but Téa started to walked away from her. Yayoi refused to go without an answer. "Téa....."

"He wanted to die as a human rather than the breed that had taken over his body and let his soul be consumed into the darkness." He wanted to be freed for I believe for Megumi's sake. And that was all she had said once they left the tunnel and headed to the mansion.

Cain watched the little scene unfold and waited to leave with a slight sinister smile on his face. "The Golden Dawn has indeed come." He then allowed himself a small chuckle before vanishing in the gloom.

Three weeks later, after Taki's funeral, Megumi stood at the harbor staring out t sea, staring beyond as she looked up to the night sky. Don't worry Taki, you're still here with me. And place a protective hand over her stomach with a sad smile. "You're here inside…"

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…A second can turn into a minute…

A minute into an hour…

An hour to days, days to months

Months into years…but still I'm waiting for you, don't let me feel alone, I'm still here because I love you…"

The song had ended before Tea decided to shut the thing up. Man that song could get on people's nerves sometimes, how do they enjoy listening to all this about their life and love? Hearing of broken hearts and endless tears was what it felt like to Téa as she waited for Kaiba to return home from the office.

That's where he went almost every day for the past few months, she thought sadly. He barely came to school, the teachers thinks it's all right with him running a company and all, but he barely show up home from work now, only coming in late when everyone was asleep, except her as she waited in her room. When she heard the front door creaked opened and Kaiba walking up the stairs, she peeked behind her door and saw him walking by the hall, he looked different. He looked empty and hollow out, with a barrier surrounding him as he went by their rooms and into his own. She wasn't the only one who thought so either.

Mokuba knew his brother sometimes who spent a few weeks in the office, but this was longer then expected. It's been a few months since Téa had taken care of that breed down in the subway. She was tired out from and feeling older by that minute and slept in her coffin that day. She had a strange dream, one that had to do with herself, and Kaiba and yet it was set in the past. She barely recalled it when she woke up but something inside her told her it was more than just a dream.

Now, here she was taking a stroll down the street. Just as she was about to headed down to the park, she walked up to an apartment building where Megumi stood carrying some groceries in hand.
"Here let me help." She said and Megumi did, allowing Tea to take some bags from her. "Téa is that you? Oh I'm sorry if I shot you in the shoulder, are you all right?"
"I fine thanks, I heal pretty quick." She and Megumi went up the elevator towards Megumi's room. "Won't you stay and have something to drink." Téa said sure and stepped in. "You have a lovely place here." She told her as Megumi went to fix some coffee. She brought them into the living room and handed Téa hers.

"So tell me Téa? How are things with you and Seto?" Téa nearly dropped her cup but some coffee spilled on the table when she heard the question. "What? H-how did you know?" She blurted out. Megumi shrugged her shoulders. "Whenever I saw you two in class together, you just gave me the feeling. And I had never seen Kaiba that cheerful before in my classes until he met you." Téa was quiet when as she listened. She did missed the way things had been between them, almost as much as what? What had she been getting at? She looked down at her sapphire ring.

"Téa are you all right?"

"Huh, yeah I fine. It's just well, Seto been a little too busy at the company and I do miss him a lot and..." She trailed on her words. Megumi understood. "Like me and Taki." Téa nodded her head gravely and said, "I'm sorry about him, your fiancé but I hope you will be all right and will get through this now that he has gone to a better place."

She smiled at Tea. "Come with me, I want to show you something." She grabbed Téa's hand and led her down to another room. Inside the room, it was painted a pretty aqua and there was a cradle in the room with baby's toys and things lying scattered around.

"You see, you don't have to worry. Taki still lives inside me, in fact I'm going to have his baby soon." Téa turned and stared at Megumi and then at her stomach, seeing it for the first time round and swollen with new life inside.

No way it can be Taki's, as a human's I don't think so. But could it be the breed's when it took over him. She was too lost in thought when Megumi asked her if she wanted to feel the baby kick.

"W-what?" She asked but already her hand was brought over to Megumi's womb.

"There, feel the nice lady. You're going to be big and strong like her someday..."

The thing inside, the one that Téa was feeling was alive like a real baby and it was kicking against her palm. Suddenly she felt her hand being absorbed by the thing inside, wrapping the flesh around the hand and pulling her in.

Oh God, this is no human baby, no way it feel so unusual that any normal kid I know. No! Téa fell backwards on the floor.

"Téa are you alright?!" Megumi asked, her face pale and frighten as Téa back away from her and ran for the door. "I just remembered something. I gotta go, bye!" She said as she headed out and down to the nearest alley. Téa was panting hard as she leaned against the wall and looked down at her hand. It was still attach to her wrist, all five fingers still jointed in place. But it felt like my hand was being eaten alive somehow, she thought. That thing...that thing inside Megumi, could it be possible for a breed and a human... She shook her head wildly at the thought. But as she made it back to the mansion, the thought never left her, instead it seemed to attach itself into her mind as she got there. Mokuba and Guni greeted her at the door. "Téa, Yayoi called. She said she got a weird case today the N.O.S. and....Téa you all right?"

"Sort of." She said, and then turned to look around the place, hoping he was here, "Mokuba has Seto called or at least come--"

He shook his head, "Not all day. Like yesterday." He looked sadly out the window. Guni went to sit on Téa's shoulder.

"It's just like that time…when Seto been under our stepfather, Gozaburo's control." He said as they sat in the living room. Téa had been a little curious about Seto's past, after their father died, now she listened intently as he told her what happened as to how Seto became that way. "He would be punished very severely for minor stuff he done, forced to do computer programs and things, never given the respect he deserved. And when I was the one who got blamed, Seto took them from him, saying he had to protect me because we're family." Tears were brimming in his eyes. "And when our stepfather died, I thought for sure Seto would come back, his normal kind self I knew and cared for, but it's like our stepfather's ghost or shadows still haunts him like that, leaving another scar than what's been done to him damaging him worse. It isn't fair!" He cried. Téa embraced the little boy as she smooth the hair away from his face.

"Oh Mokuba..."

"But when I saw how happy he was with you, I thought you could help set him free too. Away from that guiled cage he was in and let him soar in the sky with us, from imprisonment to his old self again. To the one who always smiled at me.... But why has he fallen back into the darkness all of a sudden?" She hugged the boy more closely to her.

I don't know why he's doing this Mokuba? Why he's making a barrier around himself again like Mokuba said. Why are you doing this Seto?

The phone ranged and Téa released Mokuba and went to picked it up. Maybe it Seto calling? She thought with a little hope it was him. But it was a woman's voice, Yayoi's.

"Téa, are you there. Thank God, I have been trying to reach you all day. Listen I just got a strange killer case going on. Apparently a few days ago, some killings were happening. At first the police thought it was a serial killer, but this happened in crowded streets and there were eyewitness everywhere who could've seen it happened. And get this, the victims die from the shock right after they were attack and saw the blood."

"God, sounds like a breed all right. But I never heard one doing this sort of attacks. All right I'll see you there." She hung up and was getting ready to leave. Before she headed out she told Mokuba to let Seto know she went on a case. Mokuba said he would and she left.

Téa arrived at Yayoi's place where she said she meet her there. Yayoi let her in and lead her to the living room where pictures were scattered on the coffee table. Téa picked up one and stared at it. The victim's back were punctured with millions of tiny holes. Like being stabbed with a thousand knives. Or teeth, she thought as she recalled what Yayoi said of being no serial killing. "What do you think this means Téa?" But Téa was thinking back on Megumi and her unborn child. A spawn of a nightbreed. Half breed and half human. Were these two connected in some way?

"Téa?" Yayoi asked, concerned. Téa looked over at her.

"Yayoi there's something I need to tell you." And she started to explain about Megumi and the baby she believed to have as Taki's but could be the breed's. "So what do you think?" Yayoi was thinking on this as she did try to put the two together. "It would explain a lot on the phantom killings. But is it really possible for someone to have a baby with a breed like that? A relationship with one is very likely if they don't show their true form or have blood all over them."

"I never heard of this ever happening in all my years as a vampire. This is likely inconceivable. But can you imagine, a hybrid of both a human and a nightbreed, one from the light, the other from darkness, it's highly possible. But I-- wait a minute, wait just one bloody minute...this is a crossbreed of a human and breed and-- No this can't be, it cannot." She thought back to what Cain was saying.

"Tea what, what is it, what is it that you think cannot--" But Tea interrupted.

"Shit! The Golden Dawn approaching! Was this what he meant when he said it was rising?"

"That is precisely what I had meant my dear, I'm surprised it didn't take you longer to figure the details." Cain spoke as he stepped out of the shadows of the apartment. The room turned instantly dark and shadows the place. "The new era is the beginning by blending the species, forming a union between the nightbreed and the humans. Soon creatures of the night will be able to walk freely in the light like mortal, but as they are breeds with eternal darkness dwelling inside, they will have special 'traits' from the breed's line as well. This is the era of which has been spoken of." He extended his hand out towards her. "Come Téa, come and witness the rising of the Golden Dawn." She looked at his hand as if it was a cobra ready to bite. She immediately slapped his hand away. "Leave me the damn alone Cain! I will never be by your side ever again, never!" She cried. He chuckled at her as if he found it amusing to see her refusal.

"You belong to me Téa, remember I had made you into what you are." She snarled angrily. "Very well Téa, soon you shall see things my way."

He disappeared. "Oh and one more thing darling, Megumi has been taken in custody of the N.O.S. So I suggest you hurry..." And then his voice disappeared as well did the darkness of the room.

Téa and Yayoi looked at each other. Téa grabbed Yayoi's hand and took her down to the garage where her car was. Yayoi put the engine in gear and drove. "Megumi been taken. I don't damn care if that baby of hers is a breed 'Jesus' or is the 'Golden Dawn' kid or whatever, it's still a unborn child and Megumi would be devastated to lose it after Taki's death." She said as Yayoi put the petal to the metal as they raced to stop the N.O.S.

Kaiba sat in his office, trying to work on business, yet he was going nowhere. All he could do was think of Téa. Every time he tried to concentrate, his mind went to the first day when she came into his life. He opened his locket and looked at the pictures inside. One of his brother back in that orphanage, the other of Tea, a picture he secretly took when she was not looking. Her smiling face looked at him, her blue eyes shining brighter than any jewels he ever seen. Her warmth being had smashed all the cold barriers around his heart. She had saved them and let him know she was a vampire. I still can't fall out of it, he thought. It was like falling in an eternal void where he knew he had once been happy with, now he was trying to escape it.

'You're weak Seto' He heard his stepfather's voice, Gozaburo. 'You're pathetic and weak, how can you call yourself a Kaiba if you are acting like this over a damn woman!'

"It's not a weakness, it's not!" He cried, slamming his fist against his desk. He could imagine his stepfather laughing at him for his weak excuse. 'It's too your weakness and your downfall. She's not a human, she is a vampire and likes to suck more than just blood. She wants to suck you dry...' Suddenly his stepfather's voice faded and another appeared. Someone's he didn't know but he did somehow.

'Do not listen to what he's saying to you Seto. Your love for Téa is not a weakness. It's a symbol that has been blessed by the both of you. It had been symbolized over the ages.'

He thought the voice sounded so different than what he ever heard in his life, except in Téa's he did. Full of joy and hope.

'Téa's life had been empty ever since Cain took all memories away from her, leaving her a hollow and empty shell of her inner self. If it were not the fact she had someone in her life, she would have found it meaningless. It's all thanks to you she has found her true happiness. She also has shed some light onto you from the cruel darkness your stepfather had left on you.'

"How do you know, who are you?" But the voice had stop before he could asked it what it meant. Kaiba stood up from his desk and looked out the window.

'Téa.... I do love her, I really do.'

"I got to go and find her." Gotta go and tell her how I really feel. He shutdown the computer and was getting ready to leave when he sense something wrong in his office. It had been quiet when he got in, now it was utter silence, no one working or talking, nothing. He felt a cold darkness wrapping itself where he stood, his hand frozen on the knob. He heard someone crept in behind him.

"So it is you again, you who has dare to steal my beloved away from me. I disposed of you once before, and I can do that again." Kaiba turned only to see a cape being wrapped around himself and darkness swallowing him in.

The N.O.S. were driving, with four vans and two cars, one of them carrying Megumi inside. They had knocked her out with knockout gas in her apartment and would be out cold by the time they got back to headquarters. They thought they finally capture the phantom nightbreed. It had to be her doing the killings, why else had she gone to the trouble of protecting that other breed? The cars came to a halt when they saw one intercept in their way. Yayoi and Téa got out. The head of the N.O.S. team stepped out of the vehicle. "Matsunaga! What 's the meaning of this?"

"Just tell me what you planned to do with that woman?"

"Hah, she's none of your concerns. This woman happens to be the one on the phantom nightbreed killings. In fact, she could be one herself." Then he noticed Téa and pointed, "Why is this kid here, you have some serious explaining to do once we reach HQ." He called in a few armed men out, "Detain her and the girl."

"Leave Megumi alone, she had nothing to do with it! Release her this instant!" Téa said as some of the men grabbed hold of her. Guni popped her head out. "Téa what's going on?" One of the troopers noticed her and grabbed her. "What is this?" He held it in his hands. "No Guni!" Téa cried. Then she heard a cry and turned to see Megumi trying to get out of the van, but one of the troopers trying to pull her back in. "Stop it...leave us alone...it's just a baby please!" And with those words of anguished running in Téa's head, she broke loose and all hell raged inside her. Her eyes flashed as she went towards where Megumi was. She bit her finger and produced the blood sword. She sliced down on the man, causing him to lose his hand. Blood spurted out of the stump as she stood still in the spot. Everyone stared at her. Then suddenly the N.O.S commander said, "She...she's a vampire, she must be working for one of them, the nightbreeds. Get her!" He shouted but everyone was still in shock but Téa wasted no time on it. She grabbed Megumi around her waist and said, 'Hang on' as she walked up on one of the buildings and made jumps across the city.

"Téa!" Guni cried and then bite the man on the finger and he released her so she could fly away after the two.