The horses stopped running a little outside the depressing town that was around Seto Kaiba's castle. Both of the two travelers entered the village slowly to attract as less attention as possible… The houses, all made from wood and stone, seem to be rotting along with the people who lived there. Everyone seemed to be signed with fear. Well they couldn't see many people. Only one or two were walking. The weather was wet and the atmosphere cold. A soft mist was covering everything and the humidity was piercing their bones. Yami though was standing upright on his horse looking around. The silence was almost absolute and the only thing that was heard was the rhythmical sound of their horses' hooves that were tapping on the cobbled road. The two or three people that saw them widened their eyes and then ran away to hide.

"Friendly people…" Joey commented with his jaw clattering slightly from cold.

"Well you would be the same if an undying demon was sucking your blood once in a while…" Yami snapped back bitterly.

He got over his horse and Joey followed him. Then the silence was broken by a new sound. It was the sound of drums.

Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam! Tam!…

It was a steady rhythm, almost matching to the beat of a calm heart. And they could also hear voices…chanting something… It appeared like a ritual or something!

"Y-You can hear that, can't you?" Joey mumbled

"I am a hangover! Not deaf!" Yami growled bitterly and drew the horse's bridles walking to the sound's direction…

The voices were heard more clearly now…as if many people in the same time were chanting something… It wasn't long till they got to the central square. What was before them made Joey gasp a little and automatically to do the sign of cross.

"God have mercy…what the,,,"

Yami narrowed his eyes. There, in the middle of the square, was probably the entire population of the town…and the scene reminded some black magic ritual! Some people around were bounding the drums in a steady rhythm while all together were chanting the same word again and again in Romanian and Yami could finally understand what it meant! They were saying:

"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!…"

…In the steady rhythm given by the drums and they were pointing out each word with passion! And in the middle of everything, four men were holding one wooden, round board and on it…was sitting a young woman! She was really thin and delicate! Her skin was purely white and her hair was…white as the snow! A pure white color that no one ever could have! Yami had seen many albinos in the past but this white color was something he had never seen before! And this woman had beautiful thin hair that was so long that would reach her thighs probably, and was falling over her face softly giving her the face of some kind of fairy or something! The woman was wearing a plain brown dress with long sleeves with no jewels or anything else even to cover herself a little more for the bitter cold…not even a cape! She was sitting cross-legged as if she was practicing yoga but her eyelids were closed and sometimes half-opened, as if they were too heavy and it was a real struggle for her to keep them open! And under those eyelids, at the faint gray light coming from the dull, cloud-covered sky, she was hiding two eyes of the most rare and purest blue they had ever seen! Her limbs though where loose and her head was leaning back as if it was heavy too! Her breathing was also heavy and slow coming out in small expirations like sighs. She looked like she was struggling between reality and the world of dreams! Close to her they could hear another old woman's voice that was mumbling some words in older Romanian neither of them could understand. She was dressed with rawhide and raw material fur and she was covered in jewels made of wood and bone. Deep wrinkles had grooved her face but her eyes were sparkling blue like a youth's eyes! Indeed everything pointed out that it was some magic ritual and she was the witch! Then the girl would be the sacrifice!

"Mother Mary…" Joey mumbled again

"A girl with white hair and blue eyes…no wonder what they are doing to her!" Yami whispered with a growl

"What's…wrong with her?"

"She seems hypnotized, or drugged!"

"I guess then it's opium that does that to her!" Joey whispered, "What do we do?"

"I guess getting our presence known…" Yami said in a low voice and started walking there dragging the horse with him

"Wait! Yami! Yami" Joey whispered but it was too late.

Yami was already walking there…

"Damn me!" Joey mumbled following him weather he liked it or not!

The "witch" saw them and stopped. Chanting. The same went for the others too and every single man, woman and child turned to look at them with not so friendly eyes. They seemed annoyed and angry that the two strangers stopped…whatever they were doing! The angry eyes were sharp like daggers!

"Are they always giving you this warm welcome?" Jounouchi mumbled to Yami through clenched teeth as he was walking mechanically.

He was starting to feel really uneasy, the very least.

"Pretty much…" Yami answered in a low voice as he continued walking as well like nothing happened.

People had started approaching them too much now when.

"You there! Turn around!" they heard a woman's commanding voice with the heavy Transylvanian accent

They both did to see a tall woman with rich, golden wavy hair that reached till her hips. She was wearing tight pants, high leather high-heeled boots and a shirt, over it wearing a corset to support her scandalously big breasts that her low cleavage was giving quite a good view of! Her eyes were violet and sparkling with suspicion down to the new comers! Having her hands on her hips she was standing on the wheel in the center of the square. She appeared to be in her middle twenties. Joey's eyes opened wide for a brief second. Well…she was sure quite a woman!

"Let me see your faces!" the woman ordered again since Joey was wearing his cape's hood and Yami had his head lowered.

"Why?" Yami asked with a bit provoking way.

"Because…we don't trust strangers!" she said again.

"Do as she says!" they heard another voice from the right.

They turned their heads and now it was Yami's turn to open his eyes, barely though. It was another woman dressed in a similar way with the blonde one but her heels weren't so high and she wasn't wearing a corset nor her cleavage was so low. Her hair was chocolate-brown and shoulder-long while her eyes were big and crystal-blue. She looked much younger, around sixteen years old, Yami presumed and her eyes were not so provoking but certainly they were suspecting them too! The voice of the blonde one distracted them again.

"My name is Mai Valentine and I am the daughter of the town's leader! Since he is dead some years now, his burden falls on me!"

"I see…" Yami mumbled with a smirk and then turned to the brunette again, "And what's the name of the pretty one here?" even if his voice was sarcastic…he kind of believed of what he said.

The girl's brows frowned.

"My name is Tea Gardner! Who are you strangers?"

Yami didn't respond and he simply looked around at the men of the village that were holding hoes, sickles and whatever else they could use as a weapon.

"Gentlemen, I am afraid that now you will be disarmed!" the woman named Mai said

As if waiting to hear that, the villagers started to move in small steps in a rather threatening way. Yami put his hand quickly on one of the many daggers on his belt.

"You can try!" said in a determined voice. His eyes piercing like liquid rubies!

Suddenly the villagers didn't seem so sure anymore and started taking a few steps back. Unlike them, the man in front of them sure knew how to use his weapons.

"You refuse to obey our laws? You sure have a nerve!" Mai commented.

"Ma'am, your laws mean absolutely nothing to me!" Yami said calmly.

"Fine" she answered back, calmly and then said, "Kill them!"

The villagers took some rather unsure steps forward. Yami's eyes were still…fresh in their memories!

"Oh really? The way you were planning to kill her?" Yami snapped a bit angrily pointing towards the girl's direction.

The white-haired girl was still sitting on the board, that as now on the ground, and she was still in her euphoria state with the witch close to her. Mai's eyes narrowed angrily

"I forbid you to talk about things you don't understand!"

"Oh I think I can understand what I see with my two eyes!"

A villager approached him.

"Try to touch me and you are dead!" Yami said in a low and calm yet serious voice

The red eyes the man saw made him back down a little. Yami didn't really mean that but still his eyes looked indeed experienced in…killing and that made everyone else who even had in mind to come closer, they re-considered it! Yami returned to Mai.

"Then what is that with the girl? She is so drugged that she can barely keep her eyes half-open!"

And he looked at the girl. She didn't seem older than thirteen or fourteen years old! Fifteen was the oldest he could make her!

"Kisara was chosen! She will be given as a bride to the vampire Seto Kaiba! So he can leave our village!"

"I can help." Yami said

"We don't need your help!"

"Oh, really?" Yami mocked and grabbed his dagger!

Mai was ready to attack him to defend herself but the dagger slit the air and…aimed to the three creatures that were coming from behind! Creatures that looked like bats but still had human features! Two women and a man!

"Vampires!" a villager exclaimed!

The three monstrous creatures flew low making everyone scream in terror

"Everybody inside!" Mai yelled and her voice was loud enough for everyone to hear.

Not that she needed to say that since everyone was running around like ants that are seeing their nest collapsing. Yami grabbed daggers in both hands and threw them to the creatures! The one simply hit thin air but the other got stabbed in the shoulder of one of the two females, the one that had short silver hair. She screamed in pain for a brief second.

"Ruuuun!" Mai kept yelling.

She then grabbed a long, wooden pole and started waving it with great talent using extremely remarkable fighting skill! Somewhere kind of hidden, trying to fight back with a piece of wood, Joey saw her and whistled a little in admiration.

"What a woman!" he mumbled

Yami also managed to see with the corner of his eye, Tea going to the girl named Kisara and putting her hands on her shoulders, helping her up.

"Come on sweetheart…come on…" she was whispering to the drugged girl that was at least one head shorter than the brunette one.

Yami didn't have time to think anything more! He jumped almost three meters in the air making a perfect roll in the air and threw another dagger! And he landed on the back of the women vampires. This time it was a woman with red hair! The vampire woman hissed in frustration and started flying with violent spins to get him off her back! Soon she found a solution and fell with force on a tiled roof with her back so she could hit him on it! Yami barely had time to see the…tiled roof rushing on him before his back hit it and him seeing some little stars with the hit! He groaned in pain and he fell to the ground, luckily for him for having good reflexes, he landed on his feet! The red-haired vampire flew to the air to meet the male vampire who had short-cut black hair and long, thin face.

"Heather! Kill the stranger!" he hissed

"Gladly!" she said in a voice that hid some lust in it and also a sadistic joy and flew down again!

Yami jumped aside so he could avoid her! He only earned a hysteric laugh from her. Meanwhile Tea had taken Kisara in a house that looked like a cellar and locked the door behind her. However when she turned her head she…faced the silver haired vampire!

"Hello sweetie!" she hissed and changed her form.

Now she looked like a normal woman with short silver, or extremely blonde, hair and bluish eyes. Tea tried to catch her breath.

"Nice to see you too, Callisto…" she mumbled.

Outside the battle was still on going! Yami had the dagger in one hand and the pistol to the other but no matter how many times he hurt the vampire girl she would revive in a second! Then the red-haired vampire, whose name was Heather, attacked again! Yami jumped back rolling on his shoulder and he had the chance to see Mai that was grabbed by the male vampire.

"Want a flight?" he hissed and laughed madly.

Yami jumped and grabbed her legs. The vampire lost his balance and let her go! They both fell on the ground and she was now sitting on him. Yami had barely time to pen his eyes wide before pushing Mai off him, cause he had seen Heather rushing to him again and this time she succeeded to grab him and raise him in the air. Yami hissed in frustration and grabbed her wing to make her lose balance! She did and she did let go of him only to grab him again, this time from his waist.

"I always loved wild guys!" she hissed and licked his neck!

Yami growled and stabbed her on the shoulder. She shrieked in pain and let go of him! Yami fell on a tile roof and then rolled on it to land on the snowed ground again. She saw her coming again so, while he was still lieing on his back he used his hands to do a barrel-roll backwards and land on his feet again and stand up avoiding her!

"What's the matter? Have I broken you a nail or anything?" Tea was saying to Callisto while backing down slowly with her body in front of Kisara's protectively.

"Stop playing with me, darling! And give me the girl! She has no place in anyone's heart!"

"Oh I hope that you did have a heart anymore Callisto…I really hope you did!"

And with those words Tea grabbed a bottle of wine from the ground and hit Callisto's head with it! The bottle broke in thousands of pieces and the vampire screamed as glasses got in her skin. Tea found the chance to grab half-drugged Kisara's hand and run out as fast as they could…

Yami on the other hand wasn't in better luck! The vampire girl seemed to be playing with him! She grabbed his neck firmly so his breath was cut!

"Oh what a brave and manly heartbeat…" she hissed at him as she flew!

Thankfully for Yami she changed her grip so now she was holding him by the shoulders and her bat-like legs were holding his. She ran her finger on his hard chest.

"…So steady and strong…"

And before Yami had time to react she crushed her lips on his! Yami's eyes widened in frustration and disgust, as he also tasted the metal taste of blood in her mouth. She pushed her away violently so she let him fall…while falling he grabbed the pistol and shot again and again and again! And then he fell on his back. He groaned again in pain and coughed a couple of times rubbing his pained neck he got up and whipped his mouth with the back of his hand.

"I was kissed by a vampire!" he growled!

Then the vampire woman Heather landed airily on a wooden parapet of a house just a few meters in before him and transformed to her human form. She was a woman with slim pale body and red hair that were falling on her shoulders softly. She was walking in a rather seductive way on the parapet while her skin was getting fixed again and…small bullets were popping out of her skin slowly and softly. She cracked her fingers a little by stretching them and starting staring at him, lustfully and teasingly with her bright, blue eyes.

Joey managed to run to the sack where they had their things and started searching madly in it, almost in a panic!

"Alright! Alright no panic…" he was talking to himself, "…if it is good to drink…"

He finally found a small bottle with the cross on it! He grabbed it

"Holly Water!" he yelled throwing it to Yami!

Yami was ready to grab it when the male vampire grabbed it and pushed it aside.

"Stop your teasing, Heather and finish him off!" he hissed.

Heather took a fake hurt expression.

"Too bad… So sad…" she pouted

Tea on the other hand was still trying to protect Kisara when Callisto flied over her head and landed in front of her grinning.

"Give me…the girl…" she hissed

"Over my dead body!" Tea snapped at her

"Love to!" she hissed again and flew over her.

Heather was now resting her hands on her knees looking at Yami with a lustful grin. Her fangs were now growing again and her face expression was changing to that of a monster. Yami's every singe nerve was on guard! He was ready for everything! Every sharp move! Every sudden attack! Then another thing drew his attention! The other vampire had attacked him from the back! But it never reached him! Someone had hit the vampire away!

"I am your opponent, boy!" Mai said spinning her stick!

"With pleasure!" the vampire hissed and attacked.

Yami's head snapped back at Heather's direction! Just in time to avoid her upcoming attack! He jumped aside so the vampire hit thin air!

"Dammit!" Yami hissed in frustration!

Tea was holding a piece of wood trying to protect Kisara… Callisto was approaching her slowly…

"I can feel the fresh blood running through your and her veins!" she hissed.

"Yami!" Joey yelled from afar.

Yami turned his head to see the small bottle with the Holly Water. Unfortunately the vampire saw it too from above! Heather hissed and dove in the air.

"There she comes!" Joey yelled

Yami growled in frustration and rolled on his shoulder, jumped in the air and finally grabbed the bottle! However Heather dove there too making him jump aside again! With one more frustrated yell he crushed the small bottle of holly water on his…dagger! He saw the vampire, that was about to come again changing in an expression of terror! Before she had time to fly up again, Yami leaped high, grabbed her shoulder and…stabbed her chest with the dagger. Heather screeched loudly in pure pain…so loudly that Yami had the impression his eardrums burst! He let go of her and fell on his back on the road again! As for Heather she hit her back on a tile roof still screeching and moving violently like crazy and her skin started to rotten as if it was burning till there was nothing left but bones…which soon turned into dust too! Yami, who was watching the entire thing with his eyes opened wide raised himself to his elbows and did the sign of cross with his hands.

"May God forgive you…" he mumbled still in shock. He had never faced such thing before!

The other two vampires screamed feeling the death of their partner! The man-vampire was ready to rush upon Yami when…the clouds moved aside and revealed the weak sun! Then both of the vampires hissed and screamed as if someone was burning them with boiling oil, opened their wings and flew away still screaming and screeching! Yami, still panting heavily fell back down on the snowy road to catch his breath a little. It wasn't the fatigue or anything. Mostly it was the shock. Those vampires were something completely different from every challenge and every creature he had faced before! He remained there panting! People had started to come out of their hiding places…slowly…and carefully. Tea was still with Kisara who had started to come around a little. She looked up at the cloudy sky and then at Yami and Joey…

"It's the sun…" she stated in a low voice, breathing heavily as well…

Even those weak rays…were tearing the gray clouds…like the light after eternal darkness…

Here is another chappie of my story! Yami in Transylvania! Well...not the best welcome gift for him!

In it they appear some OCs that were requested by some people!

Heather (remember she appeared in chapter two!)

Callisto (she is supposed to be one of the victims too)

The "witch" (I had to make her older for my story!)

The man is Rolland the one in Kaiba's service!

Yes! Kisara appears too! She was chosen to be given to Kaiba as a bride so they could make something like a deal with him! Poor girl I don't think she really wanted that!
Mai's clothes were inspired by Anna's clothes in Van Helsing movie! Yup! Tea is in too! (I kept her English name for the same reason I kept Jounouchi's English name too!)

Please review! Enjoy!