The moon was now at the face of New Moon. The small silver "nail" in the sky was still playing hide-and-seek with the clouds in the sky… It painted the snow around in a deadly silver color. The song of the lonely wolf was adding another terrible and beautiful at the same time atmosphere. The silence of the night was really making you nervous… Even the wind was barely whispering tonight… Everyone could sense that something was about to happen… Something dark and terrifying… Somewhere in the forest the wolves attacked to a stag…the leader of them bit down its neck with its sharp fangs… Its blood dripped and stained the white snow under the moon's light… Kisara could sense it too. She was in Mai's house where Tea had hidden her. She was feeling the nervousness all the time! She couldn't feel easy no matter what she did even if Mai's house was a proper arsenal! Every sudden darkening caused by the clouds hiding the moon for vague minutes made her gasp in surprise and her heart flatter in fear. Suddenly she heard a soft "whoosh" like someone passed by her. She snapped there but saw nothing.
"Tea…? I-Is that you…?" she whispered shaking
There it was again! She snapped to the other direction but again she saw no one. Her heart skipped beat again… She took some steps back looking around like a trapped mouse that was cornered by a dozen of cats… A sudden cold made her jerk up in fear. Her head snapped towards that direction and she saw the two-leaf window was open and the curtains were waving towards the inside like the cape of a long lost ghost… But nothing else was there…so…was it just the wind?
"Tea…? Mai…? I-Is that you?"
No answer. Then her head snapped at the window again and her eyes widened in fear. There, with the night as a background…at the window that was empty before, was standing Seto Kaiba… His cape was waving with the cold air…his arms crossed over his chest and his icy-blue eyes were looking at her from top to bottom. The girl wanted to scream…to run…to do something at least but it appeared she couldn't! She had frozen completely…in fear…and in strange admiration… She just couldn't even breathe…
"Kisara…" she heard his voice.
His voice was soft…calm and collected…and deep like a deep, frozen lake… And his eyes…oh, those eyes of his were capturing…capturing like magic stones…
"…I came for you again…"
Kisara took some steps back…he took some steps closer. The moonlight was making his eyes look like silver pools of ice… He was approaching…
And Kisara screamed…
Yami jerked up from his sleep. The moonlight was falling on his pale torso making it look like made of alabaster. He knew that he had woken up for a reason…something like a sixth sense had woken him up… There was a strange feeling that was feeling like a rock on his chest…like ice cubes in his veins… He threw the blanket off him and he stood up from the bed…he looked out of the window…
"Darkness…and evil…" he mumbled.
He knew he could sense evil…and right now he could indeed sense it! Just in case he started putting his shirt and waistcoat on… He knew that he had to be prepared…
Meanwhile Kisara was still looking at the devil in front of her…when the door opened to reveal Tea.
"Kisara!" she screamed
She glared at Seto Kaiba.
"Monster! What have you done!"
She grabbed a sword from the many that were hanging from a wall-like piece of furniture and pointed at him. Her own heart was racing. Just a dozen or meters were separating her from Seto Kaiba that was in the other corner of the room…but Kisara…Kisara was right in front of him! Her free hand touched the small cross around her neck and then it traveled to her belt to take a small bottle of Holy Water. She opened it with her teeth and poured the Water over the blade of her sword.
"Stay away from her!"
Seto Kaiba barely looked at her. His eyes were calm, yet mocking and disdainful.
"Or what are you going to do? Kill me with this piece of metal?" he mocked her.
"Tea! Run! Go away! Run!" Kisara wanted to scream…
However the only thing that got out of her mouth was…
"T-Tea…" like a last whisper coming from a dying soul!
Tea narrowed her eyes.
"I said keep away!"
Seto Kaiba looked into her angry cerulean eyes with his own icy-blue ones.
"Nice eyes…" he whispered, "They truly have the will to kill inside them…where have I seen them again?"
Tea released a battle cry and ran to him…but when she raised her sword…Seto Kaiba caught her wrist calmly and easily. The girl gasped in terror and looked up at the tall vampire who hadn't changed his look. Suddenly a strange feeling took over her! Her senses were totally messed up. She wouldn't run…she couldn't… Seto Kaiba simply shook her hand from the wrist softly and that made her drop the sword, that fell somewhere on the floor with a loud clatter.
"Those eyes want so much to kill me…" Seto Kaiba kept saying walking a few steps…and she took steps back like enchanted as Kaiba was leading her a bit further still holding her wrist, "…Oh I have seen this look before…"
Tea let out a breathless sigh while Kisara was watching terrified…unable to move… Tea was feeling like melting…a strange feeling of her legs slowly melting and melting as she couldn't take her eyes from the vampire's. He had caught her in his charming…dark…underworld aura… He could do whatever he wanted with her and he knew it… He smirked mockingly down at her… Meanwhile Yami was running in the streets of Transylvanian village… He recalled this feeling! It was the same he had every time he was close to him! Seto Kaiba had returned!
"I haven't seen this look to a human for more than four hundred and fifty years…" Seto Kaiba continued…
He pulled her wrist up and pulled her up too, now her back was against his chest as he was holding her fully on his body… Her neck was exposed to him completely…he could hear her blood racing…her pulse racing…but also he knew that she couldn't escape… Seto Kaiba leaned forward and gave her neck a long and slow lick…she shuddered.
"Oh…so much and warm blood running inside your veins…and the taste of it…"
"Ugh…you make my skin crawl…" she whispered in disgust in her half-unconscious state…
"Is this all that I can do to your skin…?" he whispered giving her neck and open-mouth kiss.
Tea gasped. His movements were not acts of lust she knew it! He was playing with her! He was tasting her like humans taste a rare sweet! Seto Kaiba wrapped his arm around her waist and made her throw her head back as if they were dancing some passionate tango! He leaned forward and his tongue traveled from the beginning of the valley between her breasts up to her throat… Tea released another breathless sound… Seto Kaiba smirked.
"How does it feel…my dear…?" he whispered pulling her up again, "…Having the blood of a murderer inside you…?"
Tea gasped… Yami in the meantime had reached Mai's house, which looked like a small palace indeed, and he ran inside from a small window he broke using a small stone…
"What are you…saying…?" Tea whispered again in her delirium…
Seto Kaiba smirked again.
"You will be glad to hear…that by all the men that pulled me to my grave…the one that was leading that "operation"…was one for your ancestors…my dear… His name was Velkan Gardner…" he hissed the name…
Tea's eyes opened wide and she gasped again… Seto Kaiba opened his mouth to reveal his white fangs…
"Don't…" Kisara whispered…but her voice barely came out.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!"
Seto Kaiba barely raised his head to see Yami at the door holding his gun in his hand. He smirked.
"Oh the great Atem has finally come huh…?" he mocked, "You can't kill me though…"
Yami shot him right in the forehead! But Seto Kaiba barely smirked as the wound was healing right away…
"…I'm already dead…"
And with those words he sank his fangs into Tea's neck! Tea let out a breathless moan of pain. Kisara's eyes widened in horror and Yami's too!
"TEA!" he screamed.
Tea sighed again…Seto Kaiba smirked…and Yami's eyes narrowed in absolute anger and rage! Seto Kaiba though let Tea fall to the floor…she let out a breathless sigh and she remained there… She was breathing…barely though…her eyes were watery and were looking nowhere…the two holes on her neck kept bleeding…Kisara screamed…and Seto Kaiba whipped the blood from his lips with the back of his palm… Yami now was completely crazy in anger!
"You filth!" he yelled and ran at him grabbing one of the daggers he had.
Seto Kaiba barely smirked and moved aside to avoid him. Yami didn't stop and he attacked again…and again… Sometimes Seto Kaiba was blocking his attacks! Yami jumped back, a few meters away from him, after a little panting heavily. Seto Kaiba smirked.
"I expected that from you…Atem… You are like me after all…"
Yami's eyes widened.
"What do you mean? What are you trying to say!"
"You are just like me…you are not human!"
Yami's eyes widened and every hint of color left his face.
"What are you saying…"
"You are like me… An undead…a person who lived, lives and will live into the centuries… But unlike me…you are still alive…"
Every word was hitting him like an axe that hits a large tree… Seto Kaiba smirked again.
"You are a Demon…"
Yami's breath got caught in his breath.
"You're lying!" he yelled
"You know it better that I am not!" Seto Kaiba said, "The alcoholism? Do you think that a mare human could possibly handle so much drink without anything happening to his system? Also…you can jump higher than an average human…you can run faster…you heal quickly…you can hear perfectly…you can see in the darkness… You don't get tired easily…and you have no memory…"
Yami wanted to yell…to yell that he was wrong! But then he realized that everything the vampire said was true…all of that, which was happening to him, it was true… He even remembered his battle with Rolland…he had climbed on that tree so easily…he remembered every battle he ever had…his nightmares…
"How do you know me?"
"I know everything about you…things that you have forgotten. Your name is Atem. And you were the Pharaoh of Egypt around three thousand years ago during the Middle Kingdom!"
Yami felt as if the world had crumbled around him! A Pharaoh?! Three thousand years ago?! A Demon?! Seto Kaiba took advantage of his shock.
"Three thousand years ago the Pharaoh of Egypt didn't have any heirs for his throne, so he made a contact with the Devil, or more accurate, the Devil that they named Seth. He was promised to have a son, but there would be consequences. And one night, when the moon was red, the Queen gave birth to a son…and died during childbirth…and also…the kid was not born normal! It was a demon. A demon in human form. However every night that it had a full moon, the kid would change its appearance and transform into a demon, killing people to feed. It needed human flesh and blood to feed once every month! No one knew what it really was even when you became the Pharaoh… But even if the years passed, you wouldn't age…you wouldn't change to the very least! So your people had started to see…had started to suspect…till one night it was clear who you were! You ran away…soon you re-appeared as one of the Roman Generals…but one day you were given away too so you ran away again…and again and again going from place to place…"
Yami was listening absolutely stunned…
"…However there was someone that was after you…a secret organization named Silver Order. They had vowed to find you and stop you at any cost… And one day they did…and they sealed your powers! They sealed them away…along with your memory! The Seal…is on your back! The ankh that you have on your back…that is the Seal! That is the Seal that is holding your demon self inside you! How do I know that, you may ask… I know it because the ritual took place in my castle! That's right! At the basement of my castle, this ritual took place! How long has it been? Eighty years? Seventy five? That was the first time I saw you…and the last one. The leader of the organization back then…at the time when I was alive, he had told me about you when he visited my castle and he asked for my support… I promised it to him, therefore his descendants came to me, expecting me to honor my vow."
He smirked a little.
"I am a man of my word… so I promised that I would let them finish the ritual without threatening their lives…which I did!"
Yami's heart would have surely stopped if he were a normal human… But what the vampire said next made him truly turn white like a ghost.
"However there is a catch… The ritual does not last forever… One day it will stop have effect on you…and then…when the full moon goes on the sky…you will transform again… "The Mark is awakening"…"
Now Yami finally realized what he had meant with that message of his! The Mark was awakening! His powers…his nature…
"And there is more… Once every one hundred years or so, never sure about it, a comet comes and lines up with the full moon. If that night the full moon turns red like blood by an eclipse…and the comet lines up at the same time…your sanity will be lost…you will be a real beast!"
And he burst out laughing…
"You scum!" Yami yelled and attacked the vampire again
Seto Kaiba just jumped out of the way and landed a dozen of meters away.
"So what are you implying huh? That soon the Vatican will be after me?! That they will kill me with the silver stakes?!" Yami yelled furious while attacking
"Don't underestimate yourself Atem…silver is for common Werewolves…" a sparkle appeared in his eye, "…You can only be killed with gold!"
"You scum!" Yami growled loudly attacking him, but Seto Kaiba jumped a dozen of meters away from him again.
"You can't stop it Atem…it is coming…it is rotting you like the Curse of the Werewolf…bit by bit it is consuming you…it won't be long… However…as long as you are in this human shape, without your memories or all your powers…"
Suddenly he moved with a speed that couldn't be caught with the eye! In a blink of the eye he was now right behind him and he whispered in his ear…
"…You are no match for me…"
And then with a swift move….he "stabbed" his bare hand into Yami's stomach! Yami's eyes widened from pain.
"YAMI!" Kisara screamed.
Then they saw that Yami had grabbed Seto Kaiba's wrist when he had sank it in his flesh! He spit out some blood… Seto Kaiba smirked.
"Hm! Your training saved you to avoid the fatal damage…you managed to protect your internal organs from being damaged…but…"
He pulled his hand out of Yami's stomach with a swift move and a fountain of blood came out of the wound. Yami growled in pain holding his wound with his hand. But before he had time to breathe, Seto Kaiba hit him with his uncanny strength and his body flew backwards hitting one of the weapon-display benches, throwing to the ground daggers, swords and knifes… Yami landed to his knees panting heavily…his own blood dripping to the floor…
"Too slow…" Seto Kaiba said.
Yami spit out some more blood and stood to his feet. He grabbed one of the swords on the ground and attacked again. Seto Kaiba moved aside and with another kick sent Yami flying backwards and his back hit on the wall. The wall cracked under that impact! And Yami moaned in pain before falling back down on the floor…
"In this state you are no match for me…" Seto Kaiba said again.
Kisara was shaking
"Yami!" she yelled and tried to run to him, "Ya-…"
She stopped almost immediately because what she saw…made her heart stop… She saw panting Yami…but his eyes were looking at Seto Kaiba with pure anger…and hatred…however…his eyes were not normal anymore… The apples of his eyes were slit…slit like a cat in the daylight…slit like…
"A demon…" she though shaking, showered in cold sweat…
She took some steps back…right now she didn't know which of the two she feared the most! Tea's breathing was rasping now…and a tear flowed down her cheek. Yami struggled to his feet again… He was looking straight at his opponent…as if his wound didn't matter to him anymore… Seto Kaiba was looking at him motionless…the moon was illuminating the room…the cold wind was waving their hair and clothes…
"Even if you have such a wound…you reacted quicker…our battle is bringing it out…" he said…
Yami glared at him.
"Here I go…" he growled. His voice was deeper than ever!
And with that word he spoke he rushed at him! He moved much faster! The last second before he reached him he changed direction and bent down, ready to sink the knife he was holding into the vampire's heart with an upwards thrust but…
"I told you, you're slow!" Seto Kaiba kicked him on the jaw.
Yami flew back again but this time his hands, grabbed the wall and pushed, as if he had run on the wall, and thrust forward towards the vampire again with a loud cry that was something between a battle cry and an animalistic growl! Seto Kaiba avoided him again…and Yami attacked again with the strength and the fury of an animal now! Kisara's heart was ready to break… Yami's fearsome eyes…his animalistic growls…Seto Kaiba's amazing abilities and dark aura… So this was how the demons fought in Hell? She wanted to yell for them to stop…to run away…but she couldn't do either of them…she was frozen! Suddenly Seto Kaiba's fist hit Yami in the stomach…straight to the wound… Yami let out a breathless but yet chocked moan and spit out more blood…and then he fell on the floor…panting heavily…completely exhausted by the blood loss…and back to his normal self… Seto Kaiba looked at him and then at Kisara that was standing at her corner with her hands cupping her mouth…shaking… Seto Kaiba extended his hand for her to take it…like she did the previous time…
"Come with me Kisara…come with me…" he whispered again…
Kisara was shaking all over…she was looking at Tea who was at the point of death if not dead already…she looked at Yami that was bleeding on the floor…and then at him…at his dark charming eyes… Right now…after what she had saw…Yami scared her more! Her heart was ready to break…and her mind was drifting to his charm…
"Come with me…" he repeated for the third time…
She couldn't anymore…she just couldn't… Her eyes felt heavy and closed…and she fell in his arms… Seto Kaiba held her in his arms in a protective way as if holding the most precious thing in the world.
"Ki…sa…ra…" Tea barely whispered
"Kisara!" Yami yelled but his yell was mixed with a moan of pain…his eyes were blur…
Seto Kaiba barely looked at him…his cape and hair waving with the cold air…and then he flowed in the air still holding Kisara in his arms and then he started flowing outside slowly…as if he was a ghost with no weight…standing in the air…he was slowly moving away…
"Kisara! Kisara! KISARA!" Yami yelled...
Then pain took over his senses…the last thing he saw was his own hand that extended in a desperate move to catch them…even if they were hundreds of meters away…and then two blonde figures at the door…and then…a red mist covered his eyes…
And then darkness took over him…
Here is the next chappie! Finally I have something new for you!
Apparently Seto Kaiba has told us some things about Yami...or better...Atem! I couldn't resist! He had to be something like that too! Actually I was inspired by many pictures of demon Atem! This one was the best!
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Therefore...Yami is a Demon! Not a Werewolf! A Demon! And his powers were shieled away long ago...and he can be killed only with gold instead of silver! He is not dead like Seto Kaiba though!
The battle with them was inspired by Rurouni Kenshin battle Kenshin vs Hajime watch?v=QqHObo1yvyg ...where Atem/Yami's powers start to awaken during the battle!
Now you see why he was so good at his job, why he healed so quickly and stuff! Also he has taken part in many battles in the past so he sees nightmares from them and others! You'll see in future chapters!
Anyway that's all for now! Please comment me!
Music that inspired me for the "hand-stabbing" moment: watch?v=oJWlqDisISE
Enjoy!