Hi! Well it's Nisa-chan again,sadly this story is going to end tomorrow. Other than that thank you for all the nice reviews. Disclaimer time now
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh I only own Winter.
There are things I don't want to write down and other things I shouldn't write down, today Father found one of my diaries that I had forgotten to hide. At first he was quite at diner then the shouts and curses came at me. My face still throbs from where he slapped me. I'm so angry at this family right now I just want to kill them all. What am I talking about mother, this isn't me, what's wrong with me?
Ryou stayed up till the sun rose looking out the window as the light snores of both Yugi and Joey sounded through the room. Tristan had came back, apparently something or someone had led him from one of the family bedrooms that Ryou knew as Winter's room. "So she was protecting them." Ryou thought as the sun came over the horizon. So then, where was Malik. Neither Ryou or the others knew that.
There was a scream as Ryou jumped up out of bed and ran outside into the mist. That was Malik! There was another scream as a gun shot sounded through the air, Yugi and the others joined Ryou at the door. "That's Malik in there isn't it?" Ryou asked as He turned and grabbed a knife and the locket. Something told him the knife wouldn't help. Together with Yugi who had forced himself to come Ryou walked up to the kitchen door and unlocked it. The kitchen was a mess, there was glass on the ground, the sink was torn apart and the walls had the knives stuck in them. The doors to the cellar were torn open and had blood leading down the stairs. There weren't any moans or signs of Malik being down there so Ryou and Yugi headed into the main hall where they were met with a gruesome sight. The paintings were splattered with blood along with the walls that dripped blood onto the ground, the mirrors were shattered and plants at the front door were pushed to the ground the dirt and roots spilled out over the ground. Drapes were torn apart and laid over a body, Ryou feared the worse as blood came spreading across the floor. Yugi gasped as soon as he entered the room and turned into Ryou's chest, "It's him isn't it?" Yugi asked worriedly. Ryou shook his head, "There's only one way to find out." Ryou said as he edged towards the body covered by bloodied blue drapes. He lifted the edge of the drapes and looked at the body, it wasn't Malik. That was good, wasn't it? How ever the body did belong to Allan and that caused Ryou to pull out the locket before anything could happen and opened it. There was a small faint mist coming from the blood as the body slowly disappeared. Standing Ryou beckoned for Yugi to follow him as he whispered "It's not Malik. It was Allan.". The two of them walked throughout the house to the second floor and found Winter with her back to them, arms crossed and head down as a shiver seemed to run up her spine.
"Winter?" Ryou asked as she lifted her head and turned around "Your early. You heard the screams." she said as she quickly crossed the room and put her hand to his cheek. Yugi had taken the time to say he was heading back to the house and left quickly, that's when Winter pushed her lips onto Ryou's as she drew him into a hug. There was a scream that filled the air like a siren, that caused Winter to pull back "Vertigo." She gasped as she turned around. There was Vertigo, her hair tossed all over the place and her face and arms were obscured by blood from multiple cuts and even more blood bled from her neck due to the bullet wound in her neck. She screamed another earsplitting scream as Winter and Ryou began running from her "What happened! Who's Vertigo Winter!" Ryou shouted as Winter explained "Vertigo was killed in the most terrible way, she was killed with the memories of her lost child!". The two ran into the library and slammed the door behind them as Vertigo slammed against the door "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU! YOU BITCH!" Winter wasn't moving as Ryou pulled out the knife from his belt and the locket. "I'm going to open the door Winter okay?" He asked as he looked at where Winter was. She wasn't standing, instead she was on the ground seemingly half asleep. Ryou was finding him self that way, his eye dropping as he fell to the ground "No!" Ryou wanted to shout "Stay awake Ryou! You need to protect Winter!" but, something pulled him into the darkness. The next thing he knew when he was up, Ryou had blood all the way up and down his arms, on his face, his hands, even blood soaked his pants up to his knees. The knife was gone and plunged into the shoulder of Vertigo, he was still in the library and he screamed louder than he had ever. Looking around Ryou backed into the corner, Winter was against the door blood coming from a cut on her cheek. Crawling up to her Ryou cupped her face and looked into the pools of icy blue eyes, "Winter?" Ryou whispered as she looked up at him and whispered "You know what to do, go let her soul into the locket I'll tell you where Malik is then." Ryou nodded and began to leave but, before he did he gave her a quick passionate kiss on the lips and went to take care of Vertigo. Once Vertigo was finished Ryou went back to Winter "Malik is in the master bed room. I cannot come with you though, Vertigo was hard to take down. Father will be even harder, use to Music box on him. He'll be frozen in the memory of mother and that will let you pull him into the after life." Ryou nodded as Winter pushed him off "I'll be waiting." she whispered after him.
Ryou sprinted up the steps and pulled out the music box and the locket, he was in the front of the master bed room when the door opened. Ryou gasped at the even more gruesome sight. Malik was there in the corner, bleeding heavily as a pair of chains were wrapped around his arms and legs. The room was gruesome, the bed over turned and torn apart feathers falling from the ceilings, windows were cracked, the mirror was broken, books were strewn about and the pages ripped out as the book shelves that once contained them were broken into sharp pieces. There were clothes torn apart and sheets that had blood all over them. Celia was behind him as the door slammed shut as soon as Ryou stepped into the room. "Malik!" Ryou said as he rushed to his friends side. Malik seemed half dead but still looked at Ryou and managed to whisper hoarsely "Ryou…. look… behind you…. he's here.". There was the feeling again, only this time it ramped off the scale Ryou had set up. The energy gathered and focused around a certain point as a voice whispered in a sing song voice the master has returned, master of the house, master master master, sick twisted man. Killed his only family. Master master master. "STOP IT!" Ryou shouted as the voices died off. There in the center of the room was Winter's father. Tall and menacing the man was as he quickly crossed the room and slapped Ryou across the face, he stumbled and fell into a piled of feathers and blood. The music box was in his hand as he stood winding it, he opened the lid and 'swan lake' began to play. This froze the man as Ryou set the box down and opened the locket, it was hard getting the man to start fading but before he left he told Ryou something "Don't trust Winter boy. She's as bad as her mother. Lovely little bad one." Ryou took this as a distorted message. Tossing the locket and the box into the bag he took with him Ryou ran to Malik and helped him to the groundskeepers house where Yugi and the others began to take him to the hospital. "Aren't you coming with?" Tristan asked as Ryou shook his head, "I still have Celia to take care of. I'll be back by tomorrow. Don't worry for me." Ryou said as he walked back to the manor.
Finding Celia was easy as she wanted to leave, Ryou actually found her on the roof waiting for him. "When father left, I feel alone. I want to be with him again." With that Ryou gave Celia her last wish. As soon as Celia was done Ryou fell to the ground as wind centered around one point creating a whirlwind. The power coming from this was way way stronger than Winter's father as lightning flashed and thunder rolled through the forest. Rain began falling as the world outside of the manor became darker than night, there was a brilliant flash and Winter stood again with her back to him, head down and arms covered in blood. Drops of the red liquid dripped onto the ground "Winter? Winter are you okay?" Ryou asked as Winter lifted her head and laughed sinisterly. She turned and smiled crazily "You know what's going to happen now Ryou!" She shouted as she ran towards Ryou a bloodied knife in her hand, Ryou didn't have time to think, he ran from her. Down the steps and into the kitchen, Ryou grabbed a knife and began running for his life towards the lake with Winter screaming behind him "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS! JUST LIKE I KILLED MY FAMILY!" Ryou's mind went blank as he ran, So it was Winter. She killed everyone and now she was going to kill him.
Ryou broke out of the trees and stopped at the lake catching his breath. There was rustling through the trees as Winter came out and stopped "I FOUND YOU!" She screamed joyfully as another sinister laugh echoed about the trees. Winter ran at him with the knife as Ryou blocked her attacks with his knife. "You want to know why I killed my family!" Winter shouted "Because they ignored me! Because they forgot about me! I was so lonely! Only one girl can take so much! I killed them all in their worst fears! Then my father raped me and then killed me! So I killed him just like I'm going to kill you!" Winter made a last attempt at attacking Ryou but, there was a split second and Ryou was on top of her…. his knife plunged into her heart and blood coming from it. There was the Winter he knew, the one he loved. She was crying "thank you Ryou. You just made a dead girl happy." Ryou found that he was crying "But Winter, you can't leave! I love you! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!" Winter put her hand to his lips and then kissed him passionately. "So do I but, I'm dead. My time has ended. Thank you." With that she faded away into water. Ryou stood and wiped the tears away from his eyes with a blood soaked hand. The sky became lighter as the lake gleamed before him. Ryou knew what he had to do pulling out Winter's treasure and heading towards the middle of the lake. He made it to the island and opened the door to the small shack dragging out Winter's body Ryou felt a fresh set of tears coming on, he held them back he needed to get a grip and finish what he was doing. He took Winter's body and set it in the halfway point to the back of the lake, covered it in flowers and let Winter sink in beauty for the last time. Ryou then turned and hid his eyes behind his hair, replacing the treasure back on the shack desk Ryou walked slowly to the cabin and started a hot shower. As soon as he stepped into the hot water though Ryou started crying, the tears coming down in long streaks as he sobbed and moaned. The blood from Winter and Yugi and Malik and everyone else washing away into the water with his tears, the same thing would happen to his memories after a long time. Stepping out of the shower Ryou looked at Winter's locket and put it on, something told him to go back to the manor. He didn't want to but he ended up going in there anyways. When he walked into the front Ryou gapped at the sight, the manor was clean. No blood or bodies, it even looked as it would have in it's heyday. Ryou walked out and pulled out the old wood from the stairs, it wasn't damp at all as he laid it out for a fire. At that time Yugi and the others besides Malik had returned, Malik was okay and recovering at the hospital he would be out in a few days once he could walk again.
That night Ryou gathered everyone in a circle around the pile of wood and used a single match to burn the diary, he then tossed the burning book onto the wood as it quickly caught. There in the flames Ryou swore he saw Winter with her family all together and happy. He smiled, he knew the girl he loved was safe. Ryou looked to the sky and saw all the stars out that night, it comforted him as he closed his eyes one last time before falling to sleep.
*Sniffle* *Sniffle* I hope you liked it, it was sad how it turned out though. Ryou killing her and finding out that Winter was lonely and all she wanted was a friend. That was sad. Other than that I'll see you tomorrow with the last chapter! Bye! R&