Chapter Eleven: The showdown between two vampires

"What have I done? What have I done!" Téa said, staring at her hands as if they were covered in blood. The blood of that man she had purposely chopped his hand off. God why!

She and Megumi stood inside a little chapel. It was dark and empty as Téa stand in front of the cross of Christ. "Dear lord, what in the name of your soul I done…I had swore... sworn never to hurt another human being again...and now I just did..." She placed her face in her hands and wept bitterly. Megumi came towards her and placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder.

"Are you all right" She asked. "Téa..."

Tea pushed her hand away, swatting it like if it were a fly. "Stay back! You shouldn't even want to be near me after what you seen me do, what I'm capable of doing to innocents like you." She looked down at her palms. "I'm a monster, I had made a promise not to do this again and I broken it."

"Téa you were only trying to save me and my baby. And I thankful that you came to my rescue. Helping others is a strong ability, pushing all other things aside and breaking promises are hard but you didn't mean to. I'm sure you didn't really mean to do that. You're not being a monster. You're human at heart. You're a good in spirit and that's what makes you different than others around here." Téa looked up at her for a second.

"Megumi..." She said softly and using the back of her hand to wipe the tears from her eyes. Suddenly, the silent solitude was interrupted when they heard the music. They turned and saw Cain playing the church organs, his back turn to them.

"Humans, ha! They are no more than cattle for us Téa. Nothing but cowarding, greedy little weaklings just waiting to be taken a bite of. They existed for that purpose and nothing more. There is one overriding principal, one controlling law which governs all our traffic with humanity and it is this: the only good human is a bleed human."

Téa stared at him, her eyes glaring daggers at him from behind. "Is that what you think Cain?"

"No that is what I know is true, and so do you. That is why God has blessed us with our eternal life." He continued to play the horrible gloomy music.

"It's a curse he placed on us for the sins that we have wronged. For taking the life of humanity is a sin!" She shouted. Cain ignored her words as he turn around and looked deeply into her eyes.

"Téa, my dear bride. Do you not remember those moments when our love had been pure, exquisite and full of rapture back in Transylvania." His voice forced Téa to listened, to remember back in...Transylvania...

She did remember those times, she and Cain lying naked together as they both feasted on the same human, their prey, blood pouring from her lips down her naked body as she drained the victim dry.

"Yes, remembered them and come back...be by my side once more." He extended a hand out to her. "Come..."

She got up on one knee, and then stood up. "Téa what are you doing?" Megumi asked scared. She saw something was wrong when the stranger continued to call Téa over to him.

"That's right come to me..." His eyes glowed red and called her again.

Téa took walked slowly as she went to him.

"Come my love..." His voice was hypnotic and forced her to moved closer and closer to him. When she was standing in front of him, her hand reaching out towards his. "That's right my love... come back to me again. Be by my side once more." Her hand was nearly in his grasp when Megumi cried, "Téa!"

That snapped Tea out of the trance. She looked at him and slapped his hand away from her and growled, "I will never go back to you, not ever. Not even if you threaten my life shall I ever be yours."

Cain looked at the woman disapprovingly who had broken his spell.

"You bitch!" And bit his finger and threw three slicing blood discs at her. "Megumi!" Téa cried but Megumi already duck as they flew at her. Téa looked back at Cain. "You monster!" She was about to bit her finger and make a blood sword when he back away from her.

"Foolish Téa, you could have been by my side again and let your 'lover' live a peaceful life instead of having me destroy him." He pulled his cloak aside to reveal the one person she cared for in this life, Seto. He was not awake but he was breathing, meaning he was still alive.

Not for long as long as Cain still had him in his grasp...

"Release him, he has nothing to do with this!" He chuckled at her vain attempt. "Oh but he does, Tea. How sweet to care for this man, the exact same person who you've cared so deeply once. The one I was force to rid between us." His nail extend as he ripped the chain holding both the cross and the picture frame he had. The frame fell to the ground and open, revealing two pictures inside.

One of Mokuba as a kid and the other of her, standing by, smiling. She didn't know he had taken it or how exact but that picture seem to wrench at her very soul as she stared at it.

"Please don't..." She begged as she saw his finger move now to Kaiba's chest. "No!" She cried and watched in horror as he slashed it deeply into Seto's chest, leaving him to bleed to his own death. Cain released him and let the boy fall.

"Hmm pitiful boy..." He said and disappeared. Téa caught Kaiba and laid him at one of the pew. Megumi came over to them.

"I'll watch over him. Go and stop that guy." Téa looked at her. "Thanks Megumi" and then looked down at Kaiba. Please hang in there Seto, and quickly went after Cain, through the roof.

I won't lose him, I can't. Seto, please don't die, Mokuba still needs you...I need you. Please stay alive for me. She raced after Cain with heated anger as she found him waiting for her on the roof.

"You bastard...you will pay for this Cain!" She bit on her finger and produced the blood whip and attack.

Yayoi sat in a dark room being interrogated by the N.O.S as they asked her question about Tea. Please be all right T, she thought.

"How long have you've know she was a vampire?"

"Have you ever been bitten by her before?"

"Have you two had sexual intercourses?" These questions were asked and Yayoi gave them the same answer for each.

"Téa's... a good person. The fact that she being a vampire doesn't change anything." She prayed Téa was not hurt or caught yet by the others N.O.S scouting for her and Megumi. Please be safe...

Guni had flown many distances, but still there had been no sign of Téa anywhere. "Where could she have gone to?" Then she saw something going on in a old abandon church and went inside. She saw two people, one lying on the pew, unconscious, the other standing by the victim's side. Megumi took a strip of the hem on her dress and pressed down hard to stop the bleeding. "Stay alive Kaiba, don't give in, you got to keep breathing. For Tea's sake." Guni flew over and saw them. "What happened?" Kaiba moan and said in his sleep, "She... after (cough-cough)...C-C..." Guni got the idea and went towards Megumi. "Where did they go?" She pointed above them. "On the roof. I heard the commotion happening but the noise seems to stop and-." Guni didn't need to hear the rest as she flew up top and search around. She looked around and then saw the fighting elsewhere by the Bay Bridge. Hope I can get there before it's too late. She flew with renewal speed to help save Téa.

Téa and Cain fought on different side of the battlefield as they lashed their whips on one another. Téa was giving it all she got while Cain looked like he wasn't even trying. Not even breaking out in a sweat. They had soon reached the Bay Bridge where Téa chose to change her weapon for her sword. Cain merely smiled. "Are you certain this is what you want? To live with these mortals like you're one of them?"

"At least they are better than being with the likes of you!" She cried as she lunged at him. She missed but he lashed out with his blood orbs. She dodged them. Some fell down below them, causing the vehicles to exploded underneath their battle. The ground was a fiery pit to Hell as they continued to fight. Then Cain ensnared her in his long flowing locks as they grabbed her wrists and her neck. She tried to break lose, but still kept a tight grip on her sword.

"You were a fool then as you are now Téa. Do not force me to kill you." She looked at him, hatred in her eyes. She knew her life had been over when she saw Kaiba bleeding to death, now she would join him in the afterlife if fate would allow it. "Just...do... it you son-of-a-bitch!"

"So be it." And he was ready to strike her down when lightening orbs hit him at his back. He let his hair loose as he turned to stare at the imp. "You shall pay for this you wretched lit-" But he was cut short when a sword was struck into his neck. He looked down disbelieving as Téa steady her hands on her weapon.

"Téa, do not do this to me...I, I gave you eternal life which others have desired the most. What about your memories Téa, your memories when you had been a mortal. Will you be willing to risk them now?"

Téa held the sword still on his neck ready to swipe his head off, but when he made mention of her memories, she thought could she do it? Could she finish him off and then what would happen to her memories? Would she be willing to risk losing all the memories of her once mortality forever? Her eyes saw the sapphire ring glowing on her finger in the fire's light. It was the same color as Seto's eyes. Seto's and someone else's. Priest Seth's...She recalled the dream vividly.

Long ago a young woman was standing by the Nile waiting. This was the place they had first met and became their special spot as time went on for them. She watched Pharaoh ride the beautiful water in his boat towards his city. She had been up since morning, waiting and watching as night faded and Ra rise from the east and then heard someone come up behind her. She turned and smiled.

'Seth...' She said to him as he joined her side.

Seth, the pharaoh's high priest, her one true love.

They had known each other as children and their love had grown throughout the years together. He was dressed royally in his magnificent blue and golden garment and turban, the symbol of the priesthood embark beautifully on him. He smiled at her as they sat down, holding hands. They talked and laughed like old times as they stood by the Nile.

Then he looked at her and said, 'Anzu...' his voice becoming serious and she turned to stare deeply into his eyes, feeling like she was drowning deep in his blue depths. He took her hand and whispered into her ear, 'Will you become my bride?' And pulled out the ring he had been given by Pharaoh for his high deeds. The way he asked her to marry him, her saying 'yes' to him and slipping the ring onto her finger. She stared at it then at her beloved, her eyes overflowing with tears as love and happiness showered from within and smiled as he smiled back at her. He stood up and then helped her stand as well. They stared at one another before he proclaims his vow to her by the rising of Ra, the eternal sun.

'I shall always love you Anzu until the end of my life by Ra's forever rising and then be reborn to you once more to live again in your life'.

'As will I Seth. My love for you is forever lasting, nothing shall ever be changed, not even centuries to pass or however long it will take to relive again our love. And will be together for all times.' And they had sealed their vows with a truehearted kiss...

That was no dream that was my memory, my memory of one true moment of happiness when I had been mortal. The man, Seth had been Seto in her dream. Seto had been Seth, her lover in her mortal past.

They were one in the same. Seto was Seth, her lover's reincarnation. She looked up at Cain once more.

"I remember something now Cain, my beloved, Seth, the one I truly loved. My memories had died after he did when you killed him and changed me, but now he's back. I prefer this life with him. So see you in Hell Cain!" And with strong determined hope and rejoice, she swiped his head off, his eyes wide and shocked and heard him saying before his head was lost in the fire.

"Téa!" Soon the rest of him joined it. She watched for a few minutes as the flames consumed him to where he belong.

Is he really gone, can it be I killed him and left my only chance of memories to go fluttering from me. She looked down at her ring again. Not all of them, she still had him.

If he lives...

She saw Guni come by her and picked her up in her arms. "C'mon, Seto still weak and possibly dying. I have to go to him." And they disappeared from the burning bridge.