Two days passed and it seemed that everything was going well. No other attack of a vampire was reported. However this was increasing the people's suspense. They were constantly waiting for an attack that it never came in the end.

"Damn those bastards! They can wait for centuries, cause they can't die! However humans are starting to loose it with all this waiting!" Mai was muttering

And she was right. The villagers were expecting the two vampires or even Seto Kaiba himself to come for the stranger and kill him for revenge! Then they could finally breathe in relief. But it appeared that the vampires wouldn't do them the favor! During those two days the weather was the same. It was gray and kind of snowy. It was snowing really weakly from time to time during the day while at nights it was getting clearer and it would snow too weakly sometimes. The cold was sweet and not too sharp because the fog wouldn't come back any time soon and because of the weak snowfalls the cold wind was soft and sweet. Also people had started to think about the ball that was taking place once every year to Mai's place. Her house was the biggest and it was different from the others cause it was made of stone instead of wood. Because she was the leader of the village she had this big house that also hosted the big library, Joey had found the book from. Once every year the ball was taking place in the large ball hall it had…. It was the event of the year…

Tea was walking in the forest alone. She liked walking there, especially when the snow was falling softly and weakly, like that day. She was wearing a red cape over her shoulders with the wood on. Her face was slightly flushed by the cold and her appearance resembled the Little Red Riding Hood from the traditional Falk story. She liked feeling the snow crumbling under her feet or the whisper of the wind among the trees. She felt free in there. Today the village was so gloom that she felt like chocking. She walked a little further and then the sounds of a human breathing reached her ears. It was as if someone was putting effort to do something. She walked a little more and her eyes widened in surprise…and some admiration. It was Yami and he was pulling his body up and down while hanging from a branch, exercising. He was shirtless despite the cold! His coat and his leather shirt and pullover were hanging from a nearby branch. A barely noticeable layer of sweat was formed on his body. She couldn't help but stare. His body was toned perfectly and it was muscular. The abs and his broad shoulders had hard muscles that she was sure that couldn't feel a thing if she hit him with her fist! She watched the muscles of his arms moving while he was exercising. He had his eyes closed and his lips were moving slightly, probably he was counting how many times he had lifted his body. After a little, he opened his eyes to see her and stopped.

"Good morning" he said in a flat voice as if it he had greeted her for typical reasons.

"Good morning…" she answered back

She looked at him from top to bottom.

"Have you lost your mind, or you are planning to die from cold out here?"

Yami simply let go of the branch and landed to his feet softly.

"Exercise is good for a hangover" he simply said

"Well, true but this way…" pointed at his naked torso, "You will probably die from cold soon!"

He smiled a little with no humor or joy.

"Don't worry. Cold doesn't affect me so quickly and also I am not here long. I had some good running before and after that I felt warm enough…"

He went to his clothes and started putting them on. Tea had the chance to see the black ankh mark on his shoulder blade.

"What's that?" she questioned.

Yami didn't even bother to turn around.

"I had it since always. I have no idea where I got it from."

He finished his dressing and put his coat on, last.

"Now it is my turn to ask. What are you doing here?" he questioned

"Just walking around."

"I see…"

He took the flask out and took a sip of it. He then looked over the small brook that was running right next to them. Tea looked at him.

"How did you come in here?" she asked

He looked at her and shrugged a little as if it wasn't really important.

"From the sea" he said

"I have never been to the sea" she said in a nostalgic voice, "I bet it is beautiful"

Yami shrugged.

"I guess…" he said in a low voice.

Tea clenched her red cape on her a little.

"Let's head back to the village shall we?" she asked him.

He looked at her a little without saying anything. He then nodded his head slowly

"Okay…"

They soon got in the village. They were walking in the road as usual. Black and Red were walking next to each other. Neither of them spoke to the other for quite some time. People were passing by them and some of them and they would secretly glare to Yami…obviously because they thought him responsible for the suspense they were getting through. Yami simply ignored them. He was used to it after all. However then some people went all around them, and soon more followed. Soon many people that didn't seem really pleased circled them.

"Get out of our village!"

"You are the reason we are suffering all this!"

"It's you demon who did this!"

"Get out of our lives now!"

Yami took another swing from his bottle commonly as if nothing happened.

"Hey man! What is it?" Joey approached too only for angry eyes to fall on him too!

"You and your demon! Get out of our village!"

Joey swallowed hard once.

"Have I…dropped by in a bad moment…?" asked nervously.

"No the usual…" Yami replied sarcastically.

Tea was trying to calm everyone down while all the others kept yelling to Yami when…the sound of the organ made everyone go silent! The haunted music started to play with passion and power! It was coming straight from the castle of Seto Kaiba! The notes were tearing the sky and the atmosphere like the cold touch of death! Everyone took steps back except Yami and Tea who were looking towards the castle and Joey who was standing there, totally freaked out though.

"Th-This is…" Joey mumbled

"It is Toccata by Johan Sebastian Bach in D minor." Yami remarked calmly.

"You know it?" Tea asked never stopping looking towards the castle.

"I do. I am kind of surprised to meet a monster that plays music…" he mocked

Tea kept looking up when she said calmly

"He plays only requiem. They say that he is doing it for his murdered wife! Some superstitions say that if you listen carefully, you will hear her voice still singing…"

She then shook her head and started walking away.

"So you just let it be…"

"He is playing the organ for more than four hundred years" Tea said, "Everyone has now learnt to get used to it…"

Her eyes darkened a little.

"…Or respect it…"

And that was the last thing she said before walking away…and the haunted music was now filling the atmosphere…as if the time had stopped at that moment…

"Damn that Seto Kaiba!" Joey mumbled later on at their room in the inn

His pants and his loose brown shirt that looked like a cassock were blowzy from the hours he had spent in the room trying to figure out what was written in the book. Yami took another sip from his flask and looked at him.

"Leave that! What did you find out?"

"Well it appears that the vampire cannot be killed with human weapons and he can create vampires too…"

"…At will! I already know that Joey! Maybe something else would help!"

"Well try to translate it yourself man!" Joey said faking a fight, "And what was that out there?"

"Nothing special, don't worry. They are angry and they have every right to be!"

Joey sighed a little and leaned on the desk a little.

"Honestly man I don't like this at all! I think that we are fighting with the Devil himself!"

"It seems like it Joey… It seems like it…" Yami said in a low voice.

Late at night people were almost locked in their houses. Some women were pouring some holly water to the windows and outside the doors to keep the evil away before pulling their kids to sleep. It was snowing a bit heavier now. Some men were at the inn that night so they could celebrate in a way their nice catch at the hunting. They had managed to catch a really big deer and they had spent all day to catch it and carry it to the inn so Anna had to ask her husband and other workers she had for the kitchen, to cook it properly and of course they had to accompany it with good wine and the best black beer they had in the inn. Tea and Mai were there too. First of all because Mai loved black beer and she asked from Tea to come along too and secondly because it wasn't possible for the leader of the village not to come after such a successful hunt! The deer was cooked deliciously and everyone was laughing and singing at the soft music that was heard by a boy that was playing the lute. Men were complimenting him and some of them, slightly drunk already were laughing pouring the beer in their throats with the big cups. Yami and Joey were sitting at a table in a deep corner of the inn but no one paid the slightest attention to them. It was as if the incident of anger had never happened. Yami didn't bother anyway! He was simply drinking from his beer and eating his food without talking…

Outside the street was silent. However…the sound of calm steps and the sound of leather shoes tapping rhythmically on the cobbled road could be heard… A man was walking alone in the street ignoring everything around him. His heavy boots were crumbling the soft snow underneath them and he was whistling to lift his nervousness away. He stopped for a second to light his pipe on and smoke a little. He didn't notice someone approaching him from behind.

"Beautiful night, isn't it?" he suddenly heard a soft voice in his ear

The man's breath got caught in his throat and his heart almost stopped beating for a second.

"Wh-Who's there?" he stuttered

"There is no need for you to turn around" the male voice continued, "I am sure you already know…"

The man was now panting like a trapped rabbit.

"M-My L-Lord…p-please…" he kept stuttering

The man behind him chuckles softly, enjoying hearing the man's heart beating crazily.

"There is no need to panic…I am gorged for this month as you already know…"

He smirked.

"However…" he ran a finger down the man's neck.

The man gasped a little. Suddenly cold swear showered him.

"…I could make a little…aperitif with you…" the man smirked

His finger rested on the man's raging pulse in the base of his neck…and his finger had now a long nail… The man was almost at the point of fainting.

"No… P-Please…m-my Lord…I-I'll do anything…"

"Then listen carefully. I know that you have a stranger in the inn…someone named Yami. I know he has come to kill me but it is not my time to face him yet. I want you to deliver him a message for me…"

"A m-message…?"

"That's right… Go and tell him that…the clash for the past…has begun…"

The scared man could actually feel his smirk!

"Th-The clash f-from the past?"

"The clash FOR the past…" the dark man corrected him patiently, "Deliver him the message to the exact word. Do you understand?"

"Yes! Y-Yes my L-Lord…"

"Alright…and there is something else I want you to tell him…"

The man smirked to reveal two sharp fangs in the darkness and liked his lips once.

Inside the inn the small celebration was going well. People were talking from everywhere and their voices were getting mixed up so it was impossible for someone to distinguish a specific conversation. Suddenly everyone stopped when the door opened. Some snowflakes came in along with a blow of cold air. At the door there was the man, powdered with snow and he was pale like dead! His eyes seemed so scared that they looked like two glass eyes that belonged to a doll. He opened his mouth to speak but the only thing that came out was a weak croak and then the man collapsed on the floor. Immediately everyone jerked up from their tables and ran to the half-conscious man on the floor. Tea went to him and raised half of his body from the ground calling him to hand on! Yami somehow managed to get through people and kneel next to the man.

"He is pale like death something happened!" Tea said to him

She didn't know why she had confessed her fear to Yami but from everyone in that room Yami seemed the most capable to handle it except Mai!

"Hold his head up!" Yami said taking the small flask out.

Tea did so and Yami poured a little absinthe on the man's lips and in his mouth. The man's eyes flattered and opened a little.

"Hang in there!" Tea said again

However the man's eyes fixed upon the spiky haired man over him! His hands were shaking and he grabbed Yami's sleeve as if he was a drowning man and he was ready to sink in the abyss. His voice was shaking and trembling.

"S-Seto K-Kaiba…" he croaked out, "S-Seto Kaiba…"

People gasped in shock. Yami's eyes widened and leaned closer to hear the man's words!

"H-He told me…to tell you… 'The clash for the past has begun'…" he croaked out again

"The clash for the past?" Yami repeated confused.

The man's eyes were wide as if they would pop out of their sockets as he was looking up at Yami…deep in eyes.

"And he also…s-said 'The Mark is awakening'…"

Yami's eyes widen in the second! Now it was his turn to turn pale and not in fear…

The night was moving soothingly. The unlucky man was in a room of the inn recovering while everyone had immediately returned to their houses and locked the doors with chains and locks! Joey was at Mai's house in the library after Yami's command! He had to find as many clues as he could in order to catch and kill Seto Kaiba as fast as possible! Even though the night was calmer now and the much snow was now turned to a weaker snowfall…suddenly.

"NOOOOOOOOOO!"

The scream torn the silence again and again and again! Anna was in her room shaking in fear, in a corner holding her small cross with both hands so hard that her fingers had turned white, and whispering prayers. It was that again! The demon! The one in her inn!

"AAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH! N-NOOOOOO!"

She covered her ears with her hands hoping that the voices would stop! That God could spare her and make it stop. However the screams were coming out even louder! Even more merciless! Someone was screaming in pain and agony! She was shaking all over now.

"God…help me…p-please…make it stop…m-make it stop…" she was praying in a small voice

"NOOOOOOOO! D-DON'T! AAAAAAHHHHHHRRRGGGGHHHH!"

The screams were increasing! It was becoming unbearable! Now she was sure though! The screaming was coming from inside her inn! Somewhere in her inn there were demons that were torturing human souls!

"KEEP AWAY! NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

She couldn't take it anymore! She had to do something! She did the sign of cross to find the strength to stand up and with hands that were shaking uncontrollably she switched a candle on. With shaking hands she threw a shawl over her shoulders and opened the door of her room…

"KEEP AWAY! NOOOOOOO! DON'T TOUCH ME! AAARRRRGGGHHHH!"

The screaming was keeping on louder and louder. She followed the screaming with her legs barely keeping her standing. Her legs were telling her to run but her heart was pulling her towards the voice's direction. For a second the thoughts crossed her mind. She could save whoever had problem! Maybe she could lift the demons and the bad spirits away with her small cross and this way she would save the poor unfortunate soul that was being tortured so badly!

"God…help me…save me… Help the unfortunate soul…God give me strength…"

She was whispering all the time while walking to the hallway. Her hand was shaking so much that the candle was making the thousands of shadows dancing on the walls and she was dripping drops of melted candle on the carpet. The screams leaded her to the stairway that leaded…to the guests' rooms! She covered her mouth with her hand so she wouldn't scream and she started climbing the stairs. Her knees seemed ready to collapse. Somehow she found the strength to climb up. She followed the yelling and…she stopped in front of a certain door. An iron hand was clenching her heart as her shaking hand opened the door barely to look inside. What she saw almost made her faint in the end! It was Yami! Yami was in his bed and his back was arched as if an invisible rope was pulling his body up and his head was thrown back on the pillow! His hands were clenching the blanket as if he hated it and he wanted to tear it apart! To tell the truth the blanket had already started to tear as his muscle arms and hands were holding it and clenching it with all their strength! His body was covered in sweat and from his opened mouth was coming the screaming

"NOOOOOOOOO! KEEP AWAY! AAAARRRGHHHH! AAAHHHHHHHH!"

She almost screamed at the sight of him! She was scared to death now as he was screaming! He seemed like he was controlled by a demon! His body was so arched that she had the impression that he would now tear his own chest instead of the covers and that the demon would come out! All her courage left her as she shut the door dropped the candle, which thankfully switched off as it fell, and ran back to her room! She locked the door as many times possible and he got hidden in the corner. Her eyes were watery and she was whimpering softly.

"AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGHHHHHHH! YAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Yami was screaming.

She covered her ears with her hands and she kept on crying in the corner, praying for it to stop…but she didn't have the courage to move from her place. She didn't find the courage neither when the screaming actually stopped for good… She remained there whimpering and crying in fear and absolute terror and she also knew, even though she didn't think of it at that moment, that no one else in their village would sleep that night… Even the moon seemed darker that night…

Here is another chapter! I hope you liked it! I wanted finally to put Kaiba on the move at last!

Of course a vampire that respects himself should play the Toccata written by Bach!

Yami x Tea moment! And finally I showed you who does the screaming! Nightmares!

I hope you liked it! Please review!

Enjoy!