Aqua girl 007:I tried to get this done soon as I can to make it up to you guys. I also add an Ice Age reference too since I couldn't resist.
Youngbountygirl: Hey guys! I edited alot of this, because Aqua Girl 007 doesn't have Eclipse to- (everybody boos and throws tomatoes) HEEEEEEEEEY! It's only the legend that I'm going to put in here and it is actually very cool! This was the interesting part of Eclipse. I mean there was violence and gore. This was actually one of my favorite parts of Eclipse. So yeah, the legends of the werewolves here are based off of the legends of the Quileutes. Seriously, it was really REALLY good! Besides, this story actually takes the best parts of Twilight and this actually is the best part of Twilight. Enjoy! AND NO TOMATOES!
A week had passed since the start of Yugi's and Tea's training. Yugi was sitting in the passage seat of Joey's truck while his friend was driving down the highway. The sky was pitch black, except for the full moon and stars in the sky. Yugi stared out of the window. Alot of things have happened over the past week and not just Tea and Yugi becoming so good at hunting vampires that they were now allowed to go fight vampires with the others, though Yugi did find this very awesome.
Yugi heard from his brother that him and Seto found a few new allies, whom Joey had been personally acquainted with. They had been bitten by Dartz's men to create the army, but refused to be part of it. Seto assumed that this would happen sometime, knowing that being bitten and transforming into a vampire without warning does not create a bloodthirsty and uncontrollable vampire. Usually, the vampires, that usually go on a rampage, are the ones who had no morals as a human like bums, druggies, alcoholics, and so forth.
Also, during the week, Ryou transformed into a werewolf, but almost everyone saw that one coming, since he did show signs of changing into his wolf form. What nobody did exactly expect was Tristan to transform into a werewolf as well. He was not related to any of the former werewolves of the previous werewolf pack like Joey, Serenity, Marik, Remu, Duke, Ishizu, and Ryou. In fact, there was a theory Odion did speculate could be the cause of Tristan's transformation.
Ever since the army of vampires attacking Domino City, werewolves have also grown rapidly. Obviously, every werewolf knew that the more vampires show up around the area and make contact the more werewolves will pop from the family gene. It usually starts with the offspring of the former wolf pack members and, if they aren't enough, will spread with the offspring of the former packs before the former pack. This will continue on and on. It was possible that Tristan's distant ancestor was a member of the wolf clan.
There was also Tristan's theory, which was that his real father was a member of the former pack, since he never really knew his real father and his mother was a harlot. Joey couldn't argue with that logic, since, knowing Tristan's messed up family, this was very plausible. Marik couldn't argue either, since he had heard rumors that one of the pack members did go to bars and eventually drank himself to death. It was possible that he played around with Tristan's mother while he was drunk. Everyone just dropped the subject all together, not wanting to go into details.
"Hey Yugi," Joey said, snapping Yugi from his thoughts. He shifted his gaze towards Joey. "You think the full moon will make me have an over-the-top wolf transformation like in the movies?"
"Come on, I know that isn't true," Yugi said. "The full moon never had an effect like that before."
"Who knows? Maybe it makes me more powerful."
"I doubt that," Yugi teased him some more, rolling his eyes. "I mean if that were true, Yami would be burning in the sunlight!"
"You suck," Joey pouted playfully.
"Thanks," Yugi said with a teasing smile.
When they reached the area where the bonfire was going to take place, Joey parked the truck in the lot full of gravel alongside all the other trucks and cars. He climbed out of the truck and saw a large a group of people, who were sitting on lawn chairs, blankets, or the ground, gathering around a fire pit in the distance. There was a table nearby with food, drinks, and condiments. Tonight was the Full Moon Ceremony where all the werewolves and human volunteers gathered around to hear the legends about how the werewolves got their start.
Looking around the area, Yugi noticed alot of unfamiliar/somewhat familiar faces. Most of the kids, far as he could tell, were early high school or middle school age. Yugi assumed that they must be the new wolves with their packs. Due to the number of new werewolves, Marik's pack had to split into three packs. Marik even argued, "I'm not leading a pack of 101 dalmatians to save my life!" so he chose two other wolves to be leaders and each werewolf chose which leader to follow.
Marik's pack obviously had its original members: Ishizu, Remu, and Duke, but also their new member Ryou. He only stayed, because he wanted to be with the pack Remu was with. This pack still held to their standers to kill any vampire who trespassed into werewolf territory. Despite this, Ryou did believe that not all vampires were monstrous like the other members. Ishizu, however, was neutral about the idea of a few number of vampires possibly not being as monstrous as their ancestors once believed.
Joey was the leader of his own pack. This was a great relief for him due to his and Marik's recent fights when he was under Marik. This was one of the reasons why Marik wanted the pack to split. Joey and Marik created more tension than a vampire did to a werewolf, which was saying alot. At least with Joey being the leader of his own pack, there wasn't so much tension and he could create a pack of his own that believed not all vampires were bloodthirsty monsters and there were ones that didn't drink human blood. His members were Serenity, Tristan (obviously), and Hanasaki Tomoya, who was one of the new werewolves.
Hanasaki did go to the same high school as Yugi and Joey, but was never paid attention to. He was one of those kids that sat at the dark corner of the classroom. He transformed a bit after Ryou transformed. Hanasaki was scared, as most new members are, but once he was told about the werewolves and how they worked he happily joined. Hanasaki and Yugi became almost like the best of friends and now Hanasaki was often found sitting with Yugi's group. This was the first time he ever felt he belonged in something.
The third pack was what most of Marik's pack called the cubs. This was because the group consisted of members that were under the age of 15 and in middle school. Rebecka Hawkins, another new werewolf, was the leader, due to being good with the young ones and is 15 years old in high school. Of course, she went to a private school. She was also one of Yugi's neighbors that lived next door to his and Joey's apartment. Yugi knew, from the moment he met Rebecka, that she was about to transform. Though, what Yugi did not suspect was her transformation to be so quick. Then again, all the other new members' transformations were quicker than Joey's.
When Yugi walked closer to the crowd, he noticed that Marik was holding a small piece of metal in each hand while he flicked the longer piece on the other, trying to start a fire. Yugi heard about that fire starting method before. Though, he was never really sure how it was supposed to work. In fact, the only time he's ever seen this method used before was in movies.
Annoyed, Remu crossed his arms. "You know, that's not how you start a fire, Marik. Why don't you just let me get my lighter?"
"Yeah it is! See, flint, steel, firewood, and spark, easy as pie," Marik replied as Yugi walked closer to the area. "And for the record, I'm doing just fine without your damn lighter!"
"Yeah," Remu said with a smirk, "pie that's hotter than the oven and can explode in your face."
"Whose side are you on?" Marik said, giving his friend a glare.
"The side that won't send me home in a body bag," Remu said with a smirk still on his face and Marik growled like a wild animal. Yugi didn't enough flinch when Marik did that. He saw Marik and Joey do this alot before the pack split. In fact, seeing the wolves fight like this was so common, Yugi wondered why they would criticized about vampires being monstrous, let alone his brother. At least Yami acted civilized!
"Just finish the damn fire, Marik! We don't have all night," Duke complained, who was sitting on a lawn chair beside Joey, getting rather annoyed.
"He has a point," Hanasaki said timidly, not wanting another fight.
"Alright, alright," Marik said, sounding irritated.
"So, how are things going, Vampire Boy?" Maria asked as Joey sat down on the free lawn chair beside Duke.
"Besides watching two wolves fighting over fire? Pretty good," Yugi replied, sitting on the ground, on a blanket, in front of Joey. Maria snorted a chuckle, along with Joey and Serenity.
Marik struck the piece of metal again and a spark was created on one of the pieces of wood in the pit. After Marik noticed a spark, he dumped a few more twigs on it and blew on it. The fire began to grow larger. Duke sighed in great relief after the fire finally started. Yugi kept wondering why Marik didn't bother to use a lighter, then again, Marik's pride always got the best of him.
"I'm Marik Ishtar, Lord of the Flames!" Marik boasted, probably trying to amuse his girlfriend. When Marik did that, put his leg up on the ledge of the fire pit, and his pants caught on fire.
"Hey Lord of the Flames, your leg is on fire!" Remu called out, walking towards the table.
Embarrassed, Marik kicked his leg in the air, then patted it to try to put out the fire. Everyone around Yugi burst out laughing at the strange sight, even Maria. Yugi let a chuckle escape him. He has to admit, this was quite funny. He even heard Rebecka and the other children gawking up in laughter. At least they got their laughs after being teased by Marik's pack almost all the time. They deserved a good laugh.
When Marik put out the fire, he sat down on one of the lawn chairs around the fire pit with a blush on his cheeks, especially since he was being laughed at by the children.
"Well, that was embarrassing," Marik growled. Remu and Duke let out a snort.
"Don't worry, I still love ya," Maria said before she kissed Marik on the lips.
"Where's the chocolate?" Remu called out rather rudely, looking around the table for something.
"You're not gonna try melting chocolate on a stick, are you?" Duke said with a small smirk.
"Do you think I'm that stupid?" Remu retorted, shifting his gaze towards Duke.
"Yes. Yes I do," Duke replied, causing the whole group to laugh again.
"F*** you," Remu grumbled.
"Remu, watch your language," Ishizu rebuked which caused Remu to groan.
"But serious, where are they?"
"They are under the graham cracker box."
Angry and embarrassed, Remu spotted the bag and grabbed a few pieces of chocolate along with a bunch of graham crackers and marshmallows before he sat down on the free lawn chair beside Marik.
"Hey guys!" Tea greeted, walking to the group, sitting at Yugi's side. She noticed the new werewolves. "Who are all the new faces?" She looked toward the middle school kids. "Are there really this many new members? I mean I know Hanasaki and Tristan joined in, but I didn't think there were more."
"Sorry," Marik said, rubbing the back of his neck. "They came around just a few days ago. Those are the guys in the Cub Pack—"
"Cub Pack?" Rebecka yelled at the remark. Yugi showed a slight smirk, being familiar with Rebecka's quick temper. "We can handle ourselves perfectly fine! If anything, we are just as good as you guys are, So don't you dare insult us like that!"
"I'm sorry, who are you?" Tea asked, looking at the girl in confusion.
"Sorry," Rebecka said sheepishly, calming down. "My name is Rebecca. I'm the leader of the new wolf pack. This is Leon," she said, pointing to a boy who had straight red hair. "Alex," she said, pointing to a brunette hair girl. "And John," she said, pointing to a boy with short black hair.
"Nice to meet you," Tea said politely.
"Is she your girlfriend, Yugi?" Rebecka asked.
"Guilty as charged," Yugi slightly teased as Rebecka fixed her glasses.
"How do you know her?" Tea asked with furrowed eyebrows.
"Next door neighbor. We met a few days ago and Joey just took her a tour around the town and even let her be acquainted with our new allies."
"Cool!"
"Anyways, a few new wolf packs formed since I couldn't watch out for a pack with that many people," Marik explained.
"Yeah, Yugi told me about the split, but still why are so many people transforming all of a sudden?" Tea asked, shifting her gaze towards Ishizu. "It took Joey a few months to transform. Now, all of a sudden, it's taking people a week or a couple of days to?"
"With Joey, he only hung out with one vampire and he wasn't even as threatening," Ishizu explained. "While it is possible that Yami could've triggered Joey's transformation, he is only one vampire. Plus, Yami was Joey's friend, not a foe. I will explain the rest of it when the ceremony starts."
Yugi and Tea got their hotdogs, chips, and soda as their dinner. They enjoyed spending time together while waiting for the ceremony to start. Yugi felt both excited and nervous about learning about the werewolf clan. He knew that his brother Yami would want to hear about this, especially knowing his curiosity. Yugi, Joey, Tea, and Hanasaki just sat about in their group talking and laughing.
Suddenly, there was a pause with Ishizu raising her hand to gather attention. Odion was on her right and, to Tristan's and Tea's shock, Joey's father was there as well. Tristan, who was sitting on the lawn chair behind Joey, leaned over to him.
"Why's your father here?" Tristan asked.
"He's the only surviving member of the former wolf clan. The other two died. I had to threaten my dad to stay sober or I'll never speak to him again," Joey explained as Tristan nodded, not blaming his friend for doing that.
"We have always had magic in our blood!" Ishizu started her speech, "Though, how did we start out this way? You may ask!
"In the beginning, we were spirit warriors. The Istars settled at the harbor of Japan, being shipbuilders and fishermen. The clan was small, and the harbor was rich in fish. Many would covet the Ishtar territory and try to attack us. Since we were small, we could not hold it, so we used our ships to escape them."
Everyone was completely hypnotized into the story Ishizu was telling. She had known her history of the Ishtars and how they started to become werewolves. Yugi, especially, grew in interest. A smile was shown upon his face.
"We do not know the first spirit warrior, but we do know that the farthest we can go back to is the leader Shada, the great Spirit Warrior. He would use his magic to defend our territory. According to the stories, their spirits would leave their bodies, women watching over them, and would use their spirit magic to blow fierce winds to blow their enemies' camps, make screaming winds to scare their foes, and command the animals of the forests, who could see and understand them, to do their bidding. Shada would wreak havoc on the intruders. The enemy's dogs would turn against their masters and bring an infestation of bats from the mountains. The dogs and bats won, Shada and the other spirit warriors returned to their bodies, and the Ishtars gained back their territory once more.
"Unfortunately, that is not the end of this tale. The most famous spirit warrior was one named Akefia. He is the one that gave us this magic in our blood. He had a brother named Zork Necrophades, who held great envy against him. On one of their spirit fights, created by Zork himself, he sacrificed his body and took over the body of his brother Akefia to rule the Ishtars as their leader. At first, Zork did nothing, but made sure everyone believed he was the true Akefia. Then, things began to change – Zork's first edict was forbidding any warrior from changing into their spirit forms, fearing of being caught or his brother taking control of his body once more. Zork claimed that he had a vision of danger to the people. He became a burden and made decisions Akefia would never request like taking a second and third wife, while the first one still lived, and making a bunch of rational decisions that included killing anyone growing suspicious, including women and children. Akefia watched in helpless fury.
"Eventually, Akefia tried to kill his own body to save his family. He would bring fierce wolves, but Zork stood behind his guards and the wolves kill off one of the young men protecting Zork, whom Akefia was close to. Because of this, he sent the wolves away.
"It was a burden to be a spirit warrior, which is why using the power of the spirit leaving the body was only used during time of need. Akefia roamed in agony, watching helplessly and being disoriented, uncomfortable, and horrified. He had been away from his body for so long, he was in dire depression and agony, stuck in this torturous nothingness forever.
"There was a great wolf that followed Akefia's spirit as he twisted and writhed in agony through the woods. The wolf was very large for its kind, and beautiful. Akefia was suddenly jealous of the dumb animal. At least it had a body. At least it had a life. Even life as an animal would be better than this horrible empty consciousness.
"That was when Akefia had an idea. He asked the great wolf to make room to share his body with him. The wolf agreed and Akefia entered the body of the great wolf with great relief and gratitude. It may have not been his human body, but it was better than roaming around as just a spirit filled with nothingness.
"As one, the man and the wolf returned to the family clan on the harbor. Everyone ran in fear, shouting for the warriors to come. The warriors ran to attack the wolf with their spears with Zork staying safely behind. Akefia did not attack his warriors, but speaking with his eyes and yelping some of the songs of his people. The warriors began to realize that this wolf was no ordinary animal and that there was a spirit influencing it. One older warrior named Shimon decided to disobey the false leader's orders and try to communicate to the wolf.
"Shimon left his spirit from his body at the same time Akefia left the wolf's body. Shimon gathered the truth in an instant with great shock, relief, and joy, welcoming the true leader home.
"By this point, Zork came to see if the wolf had been defeated. When he saw Shimon's body lying lifelessly on the ground, surrounded by protective warriors, he realized what was happening and it was already too late. He drew a knife to kill Shimon before he could return to his own body, crying, 'traitor!'
"The warriors did not know what to do. The leader had forbidden their spirits to leave their bodies and it was their leader's decision how to punish those who disobeyed.
"Luckily, Shimon jumped into his body in the nick of time, but Zork had his knife at Shimon's throat and his hand covering the old warrior's mouth. Akefia's body was strong and Shimon's body was weak with age. Shimon could not say one word to warn the others before Zork silenced him forever.
"Enraged by Shimon's murder, Akefia entered the great wolf's body and the greatest magic happened. Akefia's anger was too human to be a wolf and Akefia transformed into a man in one instant. This man did not look like Akefia's body, for his body was far too tan, he held snow-white hair, and dark brown eyes. This new man was the interpretation of Akefia's spirit. The warriors recognized him all at once, being that they have flown with Akefia's spirit.
"Zork tried to run, but Akefia had the strength of a wolf in this new body. He killed and crushed Zork's spirit before Zork could jump out of this stolen body.
"The people rejoiced when they understood what had happened. Akefia did not hesitate to make things right, working with his people again and giving the young wives back to their families. The only change he kept in place was the end of spirits leaving the bodies. He had realized that it was too dangerous, now that the idea of stealing a life was in place. The spirit warriors were no more.
"Though, nobody needed the spirit warriors anymore, for there was a half man half wolf in their midst. Akefia also gave birth to many sons with this half wolf ability. They discovered that with this wolf ability, they could no longer age. The ones who did not like the wolf life would simply give up their wolf spirits and age like everyone else.
"Due to this still age, Akefia watched his wife grow old and die, eventually marrying his second, then third wife. The third wife was the one he had found as his true spirit wife, who shared the same spirit length. That is where the organs of imprinting originated. Many of you have questioned about this due to some people's bad explanation." Ishizu darted two glaring eyes at Remu and Duke, who both rolled their eyes. Yugi had only heard a little about this imprinting with werewolves, but never bothered going deep into it. Tea seemed curious about it like most of the girls around the fire. "Imprinting is not love at first sight, as some people say it is." Remu just snorted like he didn't believe it. "It is when a wolf finds the one woman or man who shares the same spirit wavelength. Because of this, the two are both attracted physically, and then eventually emotionally as they grow up together. This is not considered love, but more along the lines of physical attraction."
"Or lust," Remu muttered before Marik elbowed him, making him cringe in pain. Yugi found this very odd. Usually, Marik would laugh at almost every joke Remu or Duke made. Yugi knew for curtain that Yami laugh would at this idea. In fact, he'd probably make more jokes.
"Anyways, after finding his true spirit wife, Akefia decided to give up his wolf spirit and grow up with his true wife and die when she did. That was the story of how the magic came to us, but it is not the end of this story..."
Joey's dad came forward, clearing his throat before he began to speak in a more rational deep voice. He didn't seem out of it like usual, much to Joey's relief. Joey's father began, "I am the remainder of the living members of the former wolf pack... of course during my day we never had more than one pack... or ones that have this theory of goody vampires. Of course, during my time, we didn't make friends with people that made friends with vampires." Almost everyone laughed, because it was very true. This was not taken as an offense to Yugi, since Joey's father did have some gratitude toward Yugi for being there for his son during the transformation. Though, he did have a tendency of teasing people he liked when he was sober, or so Joey proclaimed. "Continuing from what Miss Ishtar has left off... many years have passed and Akefia was an older man. He began having troubles at the North with several young women disappearing and blamed it on the neighboring wolves due to discrimination. The wolves could read each others' minds in wolf form and knew it was not themselves to blame. Another notion that was very odd was the number of new wolves appearing and ones unable to give up their wolf spirit over 30 years old. This was becoming troubling in both cases."
"Akefia was too old and let his eldest son Bakura take over and find the true culprit, so there would be no war between the two families. Bakura led five other wolves in his pack on a search through the mountains, searching for evidence of the missing wives of this neighboring family. They came across something they never encountered before – a creature which looked like a man, but was hard like stone and as cold as ice. His name was Atem." Yugi froze stiff, knowing that name was very familiar. When him and Yami encountered Seto, he explained about the vampires. Atem was known as the first of the vampires to encounter the werewolves. Yugi was curious to know the wolves' side of the story. "The wolves attacked the monster. Atem put up a good fight and eventually killed three of the wolves, one of them being Bakura's brother. Bakura cried in vengeance and ripped the monster's head apart until he was no more."
Yugi winced. He couldn't imagine dying like that. This story was definitely different from the one he heard from Seto about Atem's story. In Seto's story, Atem was an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh who, into a vampire and ruled Egypt with glory. When his people discovered he was a bloodsucking vampire, they shooed him from their country and he was left poor and hungry... well thirsty. He would salvage for any kind of blood to satisfy his thirst, but only ones that usually pursued him.
One day, Atem faced the werewolves in the mountains and put up a good fight. He fought for his life, but was killed off. His wife, Queen Mana, who was the former Queen of Egypt until her and her husband were caste out of the land due to them being vampires, pursued revenge. She avenged her husband by killing off the wolves' village, but was killed off in the process. Nobody really knew how, but since that day, every vampire feared these werewolves and they became a threat to the vampires. Now, Yugi knew that Atem pursuing and drinking human blood was what caused these wolves to pursue against him.
Of course, Yami believed from day one that the reason for the wolves attacking was probably due to the amount of innocent people Atem had killed and Yami's assumptions were right. This was why Yami believed drinking human blood was preposterous, and not just because it was gross. Yami believed a vampire who drank human blood was a cannibalistic savage and acted like one. Why would someone, dead or alive, want to eat what they were once were?
"They lived in fear that the man wasn't alone. Unfortunately, they were right. Atem had a mate, another blood drinker who came to the village to seek revenge, destroying everything in sight and killing many of its people. Bakura changed into his wolf form after hearing the news. He went to destroy the vampire wife alone.
"At first, they could not find the creature, only evidence of her attack. There were bodies that laid broken all around and drained of blood all across the road. That was when he heard screams from the harbor.
"Many of the people ran to the ships for refuge, but the vampire wife swam to them like a shark. She broke the boats and ships into pieces with her incredible strength. Those who tried to swim away were broken and killed too.
"She saw Bakura in his wolf form and forgot about the swimmers. The vampire wife swam so fast in a blur and came before Bakura. They fought in a bloody battle and Bakura lost his life to the woman. Akefia screamed his name in defiance. He limped forward and shifted into an ancient, white-muzzled wolf. He was old, but his rage was strong and the true fight began.
"Akefia's third wife just seen her son die before her. Now her husband fought, and she hoped Akefia would win. She heard from the witnesses of the fight with her son Bakura and Atem and that his brother's diversion had saved him.
"The third wife took the knife that laid beside Bakura. She stared at the only living sons she had left and knew if their father died, they would be the only ones left. The third wife ran to the vampire wife with her dagger raised high. The vampire wife smiled, barely distracted from her fight with the old wolf. She had no fear of weak human woman or knife.
"The third wife did something that the vampire wife did not expect. She fell on her knees at the woman's feet and plunged the knife into her own heart. Blood spurted through the third wife's fingers and splashed against the vampire wife. The vampire could not resist the lure of fresh blood leaving from the third wife's body. Instinctively, the vampire wife turned to the dying woman, consumed by thirst.
"Akefia's teeth closed around her neck and snapped the head of the vampire wife, blood pouring from her body.
"The battle had not ended, but now Akefia was no longer alone. Watching their mother die, the remaining sons felt rage that they sprang forth into their wolf form, though very young and not yet men. Many would guess they were... cubs. These were the ones that ended the war..." Marik and his team stood quiet at the last notion. Rebecka smiled genuinely, feeling glad that they were being given some credit for their use instead of being teased about all the time. "Akefia never returned back to the village nor did he ever change to human again. He laid for one day beside the body of his third wife, growling whenever someone tried to touch her, then went into the forest and never returned.
"There was never a bloodbath war that was as worse as that... at least not until recently. Sometimes vampires will come and we'd kill them off. Wars came from time to time, but never were as memorable or as dangerous as the one I have just told you... at least not until recently and it is to be debated..." Joey's father gave out a sigh, then looked over at Yugi's direction. "We have also have never had a vampire for an ally before." He turned back to the audience. "Hopefully, this will give us hope that we will win this war, even with the help of our new and surprising allies, if they prove to be called allies. There are some of you that don't trust them and some of you that can even be considered friends with them. With this ceremony, we can have hope for the future and win this war to protect our family and city." He, Ishizu, and Odion left and everyone applaud for the story about the werewolves.
"That was sure... interesting," Tea said, gazing her eyes down. "I kinda like the third wife though. She was very brave for what she did."
Yugi shifted his gaze towards Joey. "What I kinda was backtracked on was... imprinting."
"Eh, it's just legend stuff," Joey explained. "Despite how Ishizu tries to get out of it, imprinting is love at first sight thing to keep us from having a life."
Confused, Yugi stared at his friend. Could something like that really exist? Love at first sight was just fairytale stuff, right?
"Imprinting is not love at first sight and it actually is known to happen with wolves." Ishizu said, shifted her gaze towards her little brother. "That's what happened with Maria and Marik about a year ago."
Marik blushed at that comment. Marik loves Maria, but he hates it when his sister has to point it out like that. Yugi's eyes widened a little. Was it true that Maria was Marik's imprint? Obviously, Joey didn't seem to buy it, seeing that he was rolling his eyes.
"Yup, and it was quite entertaining to see Marik going all gaga over Maria before they started dating," Remu said, trying to get Marik's goat. "In fact, I think he still does."
"Yeah right!" Marik snapped. "I know I'd love to see how you react when you imprint."
"I'm a lone wolf," Remu said with a smirk. "I probably won't imprint on someone anyone time soon."
"You know, that doesn't make sense when you are literally not a lone wolf," Marik retorted.
"Whatever," Remu said smugly, still roasting his marshmallow on the open fire. "I'm just surprised that you didn't imprint on a guy."
"Well, I know you're going too," Marik said with a smirk before Remu glared fire at him.
"That's it," Remu growled before he charged at Marik, pushing him out of his chair.
"That's enough you two!" Ishizu rebuked.
Growling, Marik pushed himself off of the ground, then sat down in his chair while Remu sat down in his spot. Yugi sighed deeply, leaning back and supporting himself with his arms. Just then, a thought occurred to him.
"I'm wondering. Is it possible for a werewolf to imprint on a vampire?" Yugi asked curiously. Marik froze in place with a bite of a hotdog in his mouth. "I mean, they were human once too."
"Possibly," Ishizu muttered unemotionally, shifting her gaze away from his. Yugi furrowed his eyebrows with such curiosity. What was she hiding from him?
"Actually, it is possible," Joey's father said with such a deep and sorrowful voice.
"What do you mean?" Joey asked with two glaring eyes. He still had mistrust toward his father.
"I imprinted on a girl... one with cold pale skin..." Joey's dad admitted with a hint of rage and sorrow. Joey rose two eyebrows, showing a slightly gaping mouth. "During my day, they were killed on sight, but... nobody ever thought..."
"Son of a bitch," Duke muttered horrifically.
"Usually, a death of an imprint would mean fight to the death, but... there never was one. That is why our pack split."
"Is that also why you drink?" Tea blurted out.
"Maybe... I don't know why I do what I do. Maybe I'm just the lone wolf like Akefia. Once you lose that imprint, it hurts you both physically and mentally, making you do things you'd normally never do."
Yugi stared at the ground. He felt sorry for Joey's father and it seemed that Joey, though still distrusted his father, now understood him a little better. There was no doubt he was like Akefia after his third wife died, wondering into the wilderness and not knowing where to go. He was like a stray sheep.