The weather in Rome was cloudy as usually this day of era! The sky was gray as if all the color was washed away from the rain. And in the middle of it…was the Vatican…the center of Catholic Church. A big black horse appeared and crossed all the roads and beautiful squares as if it was the horse of death itself. The dark man on its back passed by many people not really bothering to slow down to let them pass or give them the chance to jump aside. They usually did after all! On his black horse, Yami passed through the square and reached the Vatican's doors. People were already opening them so he didn't bother to slow down! He passed through them without stopping till he finally pulled his horse's bridles and stopped his strong horse. He stayed on its back for a little longer and took a long sip from his small, square bottle before hoping down from its back. Some monks, that were helping there, stopped the horse and took it aside. The usual routine for Yami, that is! Yami took another sip of his alcohol before starting to head towards one of the many churches inside the Vatican. His steps were barely less stable. He never let himself stagger with other people around not even when he was so drunk that he was at the point of fainting. It was another talent of his, he presumed. Anyway he walked in one of the churches and headed straight for the Confessional and when he closed the small door he knocked the wooden back in a specific way. A preacher appeared to the other side. And he didn't seem really happy!

"May God bless you" Yami told him but his words were hollow

It was the typical thing to say. And it was just that; the typical and nothing more.

"That bell was more than three hundred and fifty years old!" the preacher said bluntly with his heavy Italian accent, "The floor underneath it was recently re-constructed! The floor underneath that, where the bell landed was more than six hundred years old! Wish we can afford paying that!"

"Oh at least now I know where the bell landed" Yami mumbled through clenched teeth.

The preacher's brows frowned.

"I heard that you caused much trouble in Paris! And it ended up with the death of the creature we asked you to bring here alive!"

"I was trying to save my damn life!" Yami mumbled taking another sip from the bottle. The alcohol was over, he saw.

The preacher ignored his curse and continued.

"Don't get me wrong! Your results are unquestionable! Your methods, though, are causing far too much attention! There are already people out here who offer reward for your head!"

"Hey, give me a break! Do you think I like being the most wanted man in Europe by killing monsters here and there? I haven't seen you doing much about it!" Yami snapped back

The preacher opened the false Confessional wall and looked Yami in eyes.

"Because we do not exist!" he pointed out every word in his whisper.

Yami's bloody eyes darkened and leaned forward. His alcohol smelling breath was hot all over the preacher's face.

"Oh yeah? Well I do! I am the demon that is killing people! I am the one who is running out there doing the dirty job and I am the one they gladly would kill! Not you!"

The preacher didn't move an inch and then backed down from him and started walking to the small tunnel that was behind the Confessional's false wall.

"When we first found you, half-dead crawling in this church's entrance you had nothing! We took you in and gave you food and a bed to sleep"

"And you gave me a gun in the other hand making me a hunter!" Yami snapped back again.

"Precisely. We gave you a purpose. We thought that you were indeed sent by God, our Maker"

"Humph! Strange thing God sending a demon to famish!" the words came out of Yami's mouth before he was able to stop them.

"Don't be blasphemous!" the preacher scolded him, "Your talents are remarkable"

"I still have nothing! I have no memories! No real identity! Am I supposed to be grateful that I have the talent to kill?"

The preacher was already walking down the tunnel's stone stairs.

"You wish to recover your memory? The House of God is now your home and your identity… However if you indeed keep seeking for answers, I suggest you to keep traveling! And you know that only Vatican can offer you the right documents! Think about it!"

And his voice started to getting lost in the tunnel. Yami remained there for a little. Indeed he was a man with no memories that was taken in by the Church and he had become something like a Hunter for beasts that were threatening humankind! Of course such job was neither pleasant nor welcome to him but he had no other choice! That was one of the reasons most of the time when he wasn't on duty he was almost constantly drunk but even in the worst type of drunkenness Yami could keep his senses and he could still control his thoughts and most of his acts! He sighed and started going down the stairs as well following the man to the secret chambers below.

Under the Vatican there was an entire laboratory! People from all the corners of earth and from all civilizations were working there. They were working on everything and anything was known as forbidden for church.

"We are the force that should fight evil"

"It's easy for you to say! But I am the one who sees all those creatures you call 'evil' dying! I am the one who hears the last cries they make!" Yami interrupted.

The preacher looked at him.

"You may call it a test of faith for you!"

Yami growled but nevertheless he didn't protest anymore. The preacher smiled a little and then switched on a slights machine. It showed a map of Europe.

"And now…we need you to go to the East, to the far and cursed land of Romania, in Transylvania. The village there is terrorized for centuries now by an undying demon, a vampire"

"A vampire?" Yami questioned raising a brow.

"Yes." The preacher answered, "It is something you've never faced before isn't it?

The slight changed from the map showing now a man. He was dressed with clothes that would fit to an era centuries ago. The man was pretty handsome and he had a smug smirk on his face.

"Everything started four hundred and fifty years ago when the Earl of Transylvania, Seto Kaiba was brutally murdered inside his own castle. He was buried alive in a coffin in his castle's crypt in January of the year 1400 by dozens of men that were holding him and putting him in his coffin."

Yami walked closer to see the picture better.

"Really? And what had he done to deserve such death?" he questioned.

The preacher changed the picture again, now showing a lovely lady with soft characteristics and delicate face. Her hair was falling nicely on her face and her beautiful eyes making her almost like a fairy or a mermaid or something.

"This was his wife. Lady Sylvia. She was found murdered in a pool of her own blood when Seto Kaiba brutally murdered her. Some people believe that he did that so he could remain young forever by drinking blood coming from her heart. Or that is one of the countless superstitions that are heard for the reason he murdered his wife."

Yami was listening to him carefully.

"One year later, Seto Kaiba rose from the grave and he got back as a demon that drinks blood from humans. He has remained youth and he can't die. People tried to stop and eliminate the monster that was killing them. No one succeeded till now…"

Yami was looking at the pictures with no expression at all. The preacher stood next to him.

"Those people need redemption from this evil"

"So you are sending me to hell" Yami commented in bitter sarcasm.

The preacher smiled.

"In a way…" he said, "But we need you sober!" he added as he headed to another direction. Yami followed him.

"In some books about him we found this specific mark! It is like the Coptic Cross or rather the Egyptian Cross Ankh, the word for 'life'. Sounds familiar right?"

Yami looked at it and gasped. It was indeed familiar! On his right shoulder blade he had a mark, a tattoo, with the exact symbol!

"It fits your mark huh? Whatever lies there, it sure hides the answers you seek!"

Yami's heart bounded in his chest and his mind, even clouded with alcohol started to race again. What if indeed that mission could hold the key to the questions that he was trying to answer all those years?

Later on he found himself even deeper to the underground laboratories of Vatican where new inventions had been tested. Everyone was working really hard in there.

"Hey! Hey, Yami!"

He turned around to see one of the apprentices to become preachers. Joey Wheeler. He didn't have a preacher name yet since he was still an apprentice. It was a tall, young man with blonde hair and hazel eyes. Honestly his appearance didn't resemble a preacher at all and Yami was still wondering why on Earth that guy was there in the first place!

"There you are!" he told him in a friendly way.

He approached him.

"Did you bring the big guy here or you killed him?"

Yami ignored the question.

"You killed him didn't you? That's why they get so annoyed! When they ask you to bring a monster here they don't mean a corpse man!"

Yami glared at him a little. He wasn't really mad. Actually Joey was the only man in there that he would address as a pleasant person, but at that moment he wasn't really at the mood for more scolding! He didn't even have any alcohol left to keep drinking!

"Okay man! I got it! I got it you are not in the mood!"

He then twisted his face a little by the strong smell of alcohol coming from Yami.

"Man! You're drunk again? Jeez! What are we gonna do with ya?"

Another glare.

"Fine I stop! I stop! Follow me now! Here are some things you'll need to your trip!"

He threw him an empty sack.

"Here! Take this! Rings or garlic…Holly Water…a wooden stake…a silver stake…a Cross…"

"Why in all hells do I need these?" Yami stopped finding this the very least amusing if not ridiculous.

"You have never been after a vampire right?"

"Vampires, warlocks all the same! What's the difference anyway?"

"Nonononono… Vampires have nothing to do with any of this! Believe me! Even I could kill an old witch!"

Yami finally cracked a chuckle.

"And how do you know about that huh?"

"I read. And I do research! Jeez man! I am not that useless!"

"Whatever you say!" Yami chuckled again.

"Yeah, yeah! Take more daggers too. And put bullets to your guns! You're gonna need them! The horse is already fed and ready to go! And you better use more…imagination this time so you won't destroy the entire village while killing Seto Kaiba-vampire! And you better hold tight on your sack that contains all those things!"

"Oh, no you could do that cause you're coming with me!"

"What!?" Joey suddenly screamed totally taken aback.

"What? Did you expect me to carry all this by myself? After all you weren't the one who was complaining that he gets no action?"

"Dammit, Yami! I have never been to such a thing before!"

Yami smirked.

"Hey! You are supposed to become a preacher one day! You shouldn't curse!"

"Hey, as long as the 'big guy' isn't in here I can curse as far as I want! Dammit!" Joey said as if enjoying his little…'rebellion'

Yami chuckled.

"Alright I see you're full of energy! Let's go!"

And with those words he started to walk towards the exit, putting more alcohol in his bottle on his way out and putting daggers and bullets on his belt along the way as well while Joey was after him calling him.

"Hey Yami I didn't say yes! Hey! I don't wanna go there! Honestly I have never… Yami! Yami!"

However weather he liked it or not he was, a few hours ago, on a small stallion's back, right after Yami's big black one and they were both riding out of the city with speed, heading to the harbors. Later they were both in a ship that was dancing wildly with the big waves! Joey sometimes bent over the edge so he could throw up, while Yami was constantly drinking from his bottle or being in his cabin checking the maps and the details or at the front part of the ship gazing the rough sea in deep thought with the air waving his tri-colored hair. When they reached land they were moving from village to village asking for information, eat something or rest and feed the horses and Yami to put alcohol to his small bottle…only to leave again in a haste… The scenery soon changed again to give its place to rough mountains covered totally in white snow. Dangerous and unwelcoming that had killed many passing by people in the past! The black stallion and the brown horse were heading through them…rough mountains around them and over them the clear, blue sky…

Soon, after days of tiring trip through the frozen mountains they saw from far away the castle they were looking for… It was there as if piercing the sky…as if provoking God Himself… They had found it… Seto Kaiba's castle…

Well here is the next chappie! As you can see Yami is heading to Transylvania to kill the vampire (Seto Kaiba)

I chose to give Jounouchi (Joey) the english name so it would fit to the country the story is supposed to take place in! Since it is in Europe I cannot possibly give them Japanese names!

The trip scene of the movie of Van Helsing was one of my personal favourites! I fell in love with it and with the Ost playing in the background!
More is coming soon! Thank you so much for reading this and I hope you liked it and that you'll keep reading me!

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Enjoy!