The next day everyone was biting his or her nails! They would gladly hand Kisara to Seto Kaiba…well…if they could find her that is! Tea had hid her into her house with a little help from Yami. That was the reason villagers hadn't given her to the vampire the hour they should have and now they were all biting their nails in fear! What was going to happen? How was the Son of the Devil planning to take revenge? They wouldn't dare to guess! They wouldn't dare to imagine! The night that came made their skin crawl! The clouds were gathering black and thick to the sky but still it was allowing the yellow moon to shine the fear in their hearts! Night…and still nothing… Setoko lived in a small house in a dark alley. Her house wasn't much different than Kisara's. However inside it was full with small bottles with the various pills and elixirs for the pain or for fever and others, also dried herbs were hanging from the ceiling, ready to be used. The house smelled musk and spices all the time. The small pot on the stove had probably another medicine in to be boiling on the low fire… Setoko, the old druid was still wearing all her strange jewelry and her amulets and she was praying for the night sometimes also muttering some other words in the ancient language that no one else seemed to understand… A sudden cold pierced her bones and made the hairs on her nape to stand! And then she felt another chill and suddenly the fire at the stove blew out along with the aromatic candles around her! She stood up immediately only to face the tall, black dressed man! The blood drained from her old face and her blue eyes widened in absolute fear and terror! The old lady grabbed a crucifix that was close to her and extended it to him!
"Stay back!" she yelled in a trembling voice.
Seto Kaiba's face didn't change a single expression. The dead light of the moon was making his eyes looking like two pools of sharp ice, ready to stab her heart! He moved forward and grabbed the woman's wrist! His hand was cold like death! The woman croaked out something that it could be a scream, if her lungs had enough strength and they hadn't got frozen in fear.
"Sorry, old lady…" he said in a voice that was calm…alluring and yet so terrifying! "Nothing personal…I just need blood…for what I am about to do…I need extra blood…"
The woman wanted to scream! She wanted to do something…to save her life but her voice, her limbs even her own heartbeat wouldn't listen to her! That man was holding her in place without doing a single thing! His dark aura…his icy eyes…were capturing her in an invisible net she would never get free from!
"Oh my God…mercy…" she whispered
Seto Kaiba's lips drew in a smirk revealing his fangs…and the next thing she knew was that he was behind her, holding her head to the side by the chin…his breath was on her nape…cold…and at the same time burning hot… Chills were running down her spine…her heart was beating like crazy…her senses were blur…
"I am sorry…not tonight, old lady…not tonight…" he whispered
And then she felt the sharp pain as the two fangs sank in her flesh and then the dear liquid life leaving her system as the dark lord was sucking it greedily but yet slowly as if he was actually devouring a nice glass of wine… Cold surrounded her…
Seto Kaiba was at the window of his castle looking down at the village again. It was showered in the moonlight, behind the thick clouds… It had been centuries since the last time he had used his full potential…and he was ready to do it again… He hadn't used all his powers for so long now…so many centuries…and he would do it again… And the most serious thing was that he didn't have the slightest hesitation or guilt about it. He had warned them, and they defied him! Now they had to pay…! He opened the big window with a determined and strong move. The night, cold air waved his hair and long cape. He climbed on the window and stood there, in the window-frame looking down at the village…like the eagle that was staring at the snake hundreds of meters below, ready to strike and mangle its pray. He drew a deep breath allowing the frozen air pass to his long dead lungs… Midnight. It was time… He breathed another time and then he raised his arms in the air…as if he was glorifying God above…as if he was ready to lower the skies in his lap…
"Umbra ac obscurum…" he whispered
He was feeling the freezing air filling him up from top to bottom…filling his dark interiors with great power…the power that was sleeping inside him for so many centuries…the power he thought that he never awakened again…now he was feeling it filling him up like the water that is filling the bottle from the bottom to the top! Every inch of his body, inside and outside was feeling it now… His voice was low…and steady…
"…Devolate Inferno!" he whispered again…
And his voice traveled like death whisper with the cold air… The clouds started to become more and darker…
The last villagers were now going to their homes. However no one it seemed able to go to sleep… Teeth were clattering from cold and fear…soft prayers were being whispered… No one though seemed to notice…the sudden frozen fog gathering under their feet…that was gathering slowly like the smoke created by the burning grass. It was gathering slowly… A young woman went to the wheel to get some water when…suddenly when she took the bucket up…saw…the water was frozen! She gasped loudly. How was it possible the water to freeze in a few hours! She turned her head slowly in fear. A sudden cold was covering everything! Even her breathing was painful! She was afraid that her breath would freeze in her lungs! To be exact everyone felt this way! It was as if the air itself would turn into ice any moment now! Suddenly a soft sound…the one that the bat makes when it yells in the night…drew their attention. And everyone looked at the sky… Suddenly the black clouds starting coming down on Earth! It took them a couple of seconds to realize that they weren't clouds but thousands and thousands of bats that were flying down…straight to them!
"Look!" someone yelled pointing there!
Everyone turned to look…their faces were now masks of fear…pure fear…
"God help us!"
"Oh my God!"
People were saying similar things, and they were frozen in fear! And they barely had time to think when the cloud of bats came and all the bats were flying around every human…every man, woman and child like a cloud of angry flies around corpses! Their shrieks and screams could make the people go crazy! Their nails and teeth were scratching them! Seto Kaiba was still on the window and his gaze was up at the sky…he drew another deep breath and then his hand stretched out towards the village's direction and closed in a fist… His eyes were now glowing red in the darkness…he could see…he could see everything… Every single creature he sent…every single terrified face in the village… He could see through the bats' eyes too… He could see everything… His ears were flooding by a deluge of sounds…a deluge of screams and cries and prayers… He breathed again…looking at the sky…
Every single villager was now screaming as the bats kept on attacking! Some of the animals, the weaker or the older let out a last cry before falling to the ground and dying! The air was almost painful to breathe, as it seemed like frizzing in the lungs! They were screaming…begging and waving their arms over their heads desperately to send the bats away! Yami was outside as well! He had heard the yelling and everything that was happening outside and he ran outside! What he saw had made him indeed freeze to his spot not in fear but in unpleasant surprise! He grabbed his pistols and his daggers and ran to help as many people as he could! The freezing cold seemed to be able to freeze the blood of people in their veins! People were yelling, animals were crying out and the bats that were shrieking! Yami was shooting the one bat after the other but he knew that he was technically trying to empty the ocean with a single thimble! Roofs from the houses had started to crackle while some walls had already started to crack! The skies were dark from clouds…but it was impossible for them to see that because of the billions and billions of bats that had fallen like the locust Plague described in the Bible! However now there wasn't fire the one burning them…it was ice! Freezing ice! And it froze everything in its path! And if you were unlucky enough to feel it in your skin it would make you feel a burning as if you had just touched burning metal and the ice would burn you! The scene reminded the Apocalypse! Many religious people had already started to pray for their future salvation! Sometimes doing the sign of cross or falling to their knees… Water in wheels had frozen! The rivers and brooks had frozen and the freezing-cold mist around their feet was making them unable to see their steps but all the rest scenery was crystal clear! The black cloud was going to kill them all!
Kisara was alone in her hiding place in Tea's house. However the terrible noise from outside was absolutely natural to reach her ears! She ran outside and her eyes opened in absolute fear and terror!
"That…that can't be!" she whispered
She ran outside! Meanwhile Seto Kaiba had his arms open like before! Yami saw him! His eyes narrowed in anger and he ran to him…or better he tried to run towards the castle because when he tried hundreds and hundreds of bats fell on him! Seto Kaiba was watching from above and he shot him with a derogatory look before returning back to what he was doing! Kisara ran outside with her tears falling. She couldn't bear the sight all around her! The shrieks of the bats were piercing her eardrums…the screams coming from people and animals were tearing her heart! Suddenly she fell and she started to struggle to lift the bats away but suddenly she stopped. The impact never came! She looked at her hands and realized that the bats were flying past her! She looked around her all people that were struggling with the bats…Yami that was all covered by them…the animals that were dying one by one…the breaths that were almost freezing in the mid-air by the bitter cold… Suddenly, to her terror, she realized how monstrous that was! The bats wouldn't harm her! They were harming everyone else except her! The cold didn't seem so torturing to her! She could feel the cold but it wasn't piercing in her soul like it did to everyone else! Everyone else was suffering…but her! She felt desperation taking over her senses! Everyone else but her! She started to run again among the villagers… She wanted to do something! Anything! Anything! She could see the blood running from the scratches that the bats caused to the villagers! And that blood was freezing at the spot by the bitter cold! Mai was trying to fight back with her long wooden pole! Tea was there too! She saw her! She ran to Kisara and she fell on top of her to protect her from the bats…and then she realized it too! Now that she was touching Kisara, the bats weren't harming her… She gasped and looked around… Kisara had hidden her face in her palms and she was crying her eyes out!
"No…" she was whispering…
She never wished for that! No! She never wanted that for anyone!
"No stop…!" she was whispering once again!
However everything was still moving that way! The destruction…the plagues! So that was what would happen if someone defied the Son of the Devil?
"No!" she now screamed, "Please no more!"
The scenery was because of her! The plagues were hitting them was because of her! Everything happened because of her!
"No! Please! I beg of you! Stop!"
Desperation…Fear…Terror…Anguish…Angst…Sorrow…
"No! I beg of you STOP IIIIIT!" she screamed at the top of her lungs and her burning tears were falling freely!
Seto Kaiba's ears caught the scream…he heard the words. With no second thought he moved his arm with a harsh move…and everything stopped… The cold stopped like never happened… The bats disappeared as if never there…the moon was now glowing at the empty and clean sky as if it was always there…as if nothing never stopped its brightness… The report? Ruined buildings…frozen wheels…five people dead…they couldn't take it…three babies and two older men…fifteen mammals were dead…cows and horses and sheep…and also countless poultry… The village was now poorer in people, in food… Countless people were hurt, either they simply had scratches or more serious wounds such as broken legs from certain falls or frostbites… Joey was helping Yami to stand… He had many scratches but he seemed okay… However now everyone was looking at Kisara…as if she was some stranger to them now…as if she was someone else… Kisara was looking around too…seeing their eyes burning like coals while looking at her with pure anger…hatred and fear… No sign of compassion in their eyes…the smallest sympathy… Only Tea's eyes were looking at her with sympathy…Yami was also looking at her with concern…Joey had some pity in his eyes…however everyone else…everyone else was looking at her as if she was the one who had ordered that horrible thing…as if she had killed them with her bare hands…! She couldn't even breathe! She couldn't even look! It was as if a huge chasm had opened between her and her fellow villagers… She had stopped Seto Kaiba from destroying them… Seto Kaiba had done it because of her… Right now to them…Seto Kaiba wasn't the only monster in their village anymore…
Another chappie is ready! Also here now it is night and it has full moon I think!
Anyway! Here is another chappie! I hope that I described the scene good enough! I had in mind an Apocalypse scene! I hope I managed to do that! Kaiba bit and killed Setoko... He needed more blood to awaken his powers!
So here it is! Eveything freezing around...bats attacking...well yeah! Kaiba lives up to his name!
Also what Kaiba whisperes is latin...I hope I did it well! If I did he firstly says
"Shadows and darkness..."
and then says
"...unleash Hell!"
I hope I did it right anyway!
I hope you liked it! Please review!
Enjoy!
