The night was showered in the moonlight… However the moonlight was red that night… The moon of Seth… A female scream was echoing into the royal chamber… The Healers were above a bed…a young woman was n it and she was showered in her own sweat. She had her legs open slightly and her knees were raised as the light linen bed sheet covered her body… She screamed again…
"Come on…come on my Queen… just another push…" someone told her…
The woman screamed again as she did as she as told… A man was standing above her dressed in royal linen and gold jewelry… His face was dark but he was looking down at the woman who seemed to be fighting with her mare life…
"Come on my Queen…"
Another scream. Then a baby cry filled the room… A Healer bent and when he stood up he was holding a small baby wrapped in the linen cloth with both hands as if it was the most precious thing in the world… The little creature was still covered in blood and other liquids from the womb…
"It's a boy! It's a boy!" the man said holding the baby
The woman let out a sigh of happiness and relief before lieing back on the bed exhausted. The man approached at the bed and the man gave him the baby with a bow as if he was giving him the greatest treasure ever…
"His face is shining like the sun, my Pharaoh… What an eulogy!"
"What will be the name of our future king, your Majesty?"
"Atem…" the man said in a deep voice that was hiding many unexpressed feelings…
The night came soon…however in the room of the young Prince something was happening…something terrifying… The baby was covered with the while, linen bed sheet but there was a constant movement under it… The baby was moving all the time as if it was fighting with nightmares and demons in its sleep… Suddenly the sheet curled a little as if the small creature under it was changing its size in single seconds… The movement became more violent and then, sharp claws torn the sheet…
Yami gasped a small gasp and opened his eyes.
"Easy…" he heard a voice…it was female.
His dazed senses had started to return bit by bit and his eyesight had started becoming less blur. He winced in pain and started to sit up slowly…
"Easy…" Mai repeated.
Yami's dizzy mind had started to come back to reality. Then it hit him like a lightning. Seto Kaiba! Kisara and Tea! He sat up immediately and then winced by the sharp pain he could feel in his stomach! He saw that he was shirtless and his stomach was wrapped in bandages…
"Whoa! Easy pal!" Joey said
"Take it easy. That hit went almost till your guts. You were lucky to survive that." Mai said too, "Don't move that much. You'll re-open your wound."
"Tea…where is she?! How is…"
"She's fine." Mai told him with a small and a bit sad smile, "She was just unconscious by the blood loss...and mostly from the shock… She is better now. Joey gave her some herbs and rosemary for the blood to start flowing better. She will be just fine."
Yami sighed in relief and leaned back to his bed but then his eyes widened again as another thought hit him! Of course! Kisara! She was kidnapped! Seto Kaiba had taken her away!
"Oh damn!" he growled, "Kisara!"
He tried to sit up again but when he did, he winced in pain from the wound in his stomach.
"Calm down! Dammit all, stubborn man you will re-open the wound!" she preached him.
"But she…she is…"
"She'll be fine for now…" Mai said.
"Are you crazy?! Seto Kaiba has her!" Yami sounded furious.
Mai looked at him with a half sad, half angry look.
"Seto Kaiba has killed and eaten for this month… Even if he actually wanted Kisara as food he won't touch her yet…"
But suddenly before she had time to react Yami's hand had grabbed her throat like a clamp and he had pushed her against the wall.
"Why!" he yelled
"Ugh…You're…chocking me!" she croaked out angrily
"Give me a reason not to!" Yami's voice was a deadly whisper, "You were there! You heard her! Why! Why didn't you protect her?"
"I…I can't… I-If people knew…" she chocked out again
Yami glared at her and then let her go. Mai coughed a couple of times holding her pained neck with her hand. Joey ran there too.
"Jeez man! Give her a break!"
Yami simply growled in pain and walked to the bed again to lie down.
"You don't…understand…" Mai said again, "I must think for the best of my village… Do you think I enjoy sending an innocent girl to hell? No! I don't but I must also think what's the best of my village! I have many people to protect! Not just one!"
Meanwhile Joey was helping him lie down better while muttering
"Dammit man! You really wanna re-open your wound!"
"Yami…please…"
The soft, barely heard voice made Yami look at the door…and he saw Tea… She was barely supporting herself on the doorframe… She was dressed in a white nightgown but…she was so pale that Yami could swear that she had the same color with her gown! She was pale as wax! And she seemed so fragile as though ready to collapse again! Her eyes were half-lidded as if she was struggling even to keep them open…and they had bags and black circles under them! Her neck was wrapped with a small bandage and Yami could even distinguish two small bloodstains there…where Seto Kaiba had bit her… She looked like a walking dead! Not like a human being that breathes and is alive…
"T-Tea…" Yami whispered
"Please Yami…" she repeated…
Her cheeks had red lines and her eyes inside were red too… She'd been crying! Even in her unconscious state she was crying… He simply couldn't bear seeing her in this state! Thankfully Mai found the chance to take her away slowly whispering
"Come on hon… You shouldn't have gotten up from bed…go back…"
Soon after Joey left too and he was left alone in the bed…
He remained there, gazing at the ceiling without practically looking at anything! His mind was still buzzing from all the thoughts… All the facts were spinning in his head…and the worst of all was that the truth was terrifyingly obvious now… He wasn't a human either… He was hunting down monsters so passionately and now…he was one of them…no…he was worse than them… He was a man-eating demon straight from Hell… He was eating humans for crying out loud! And also…others had hunted him down…sent him from place to place like he was doing now… Suddenly he was such a hypocrite to his own eyes… He looked at his hands.
"Did these hands kill innocent people…and then…"
His hands traveled to his mouth to touch it.
"…And then took human flesh into this mouth…?"
Just at the thought of it he was feeling like killing himself here and now! Well…that would be if he actually was weak…but unfortunately for him...he was strong enough… He then remembered that intoxicating power he felt running in his veins…the power coming straight from his anger…his animalistic wrath… He shook his head trying to lift the thoughts away! He looked at the table nearby…it had some liquors on it… Mai had some impressive collections in her house, he had noticed… Wincing in pain he sat up to his bed and then walked to the table and took a bottle of absinthe. It was the strongest drink he could see there, and he didn't want to waste time searching… He also didn't want to drink from his flask… His flask was too small and also he was afraid that his anger would make him throw it away… The bottle on the other hand would help him drown himself… He walked to the bed and sat on it again. He removed the cork and threw it away. Then he raised the bottle to his lips and took some good swings from it. The well-known burning feeling of alcohol touched his throat again… He lowered it and took a deep breath.
"Atem…" he whispered… "My name…is Atem…?"
He made it sound like a question… He used to be a Pharaoh? He was more than three thousands years of age? He took some good swings from the Green Fairy again…and he kept drinking it…soon his eyes closed and he was drifted to sleep…
"Mmm…" she whispered and nuzzled to the pillow…
Her closed eyes started to open and she sat up to the bed she was lieing on. Kisara looked around. How long had she been sleeping? Where was she? What was going on? She looked around observing the room… It was bigger than any room she's ever been in… Damn! At that moment she thought that it was bigger than any house she's been in! She saw that she was in a queen-size double canopy bed, under warm blankets and that her head was resting on a feather pillow… Velvet, red curtains were carefully wrapped on the canopy bed and even the wood of the bed was sculptured. She realized also that she was dressed in a white nightgown with tall neck and long sleeves, that was made from the best quality Egyptian cotton… The room around her would be fitting for a queen… There was a huge window close to the bed with its heavy, velvet, red curtains closed though… The marble floor was covered with a wonderful Persian carpet… At the corner there was a beautiful dressing table with a mirror and a small fireplace to another corner… Kisara sat up a bit better on the bed and looked around…
"I see you're awake" a voice made her gasp and turn towards the direction she heard it.
And then she saw him! Seto Kaiba was leaning against the wall looking at her with his piercing icy-cold eyes… She got alarmed and something in her told her to run but something else was holding her there…
"Don't be afraid… I mean no harm…" he said softly.
His voice was strangely calming and she felt less afraid…but she was still afraid.
"Wh-Where am I…?" she uttered
"In my castle" he replied simply
"Wh-What happened to my clothes?" she questioned again
"I couldn't let you sleep in your clothes… You wouldn't feel comfortable… That's why I gave you a nightgown to wear"
"Y-You mean that you…you dressed this on me?"
"Yes"
She stopped for a second. So many questions that she wanted to ask… It was hard to choose…and fear was constantly clenching her heart…
"What do you…want from me…?" she finally uttered.
"Nothing" Seto Kaiba said simply.
His calmness…his eyes that were looking at her…
"Nothing?" she questioned.
Seto Kaiba moved away from the wall he was leaning against but he kept looking at her.
"Nothing" he repeated
"Then…why… Why… You…you kidnapped me…you kidnapped me… why…?"
Her voice was trembling slightly.
"I never wished it to be done this way. I wanted you to come here at your free will. I am sorry it had to be done this way…"
He never stopped looking at her and the girl felt a slight blush to her pale cheeks.
"What do I want from you, you asked. Nothing. However I want everything for you… I could see the life you had down there…I could see it in your eyes that you were not happy Kisara… They are all afraid of you for what you are… I brought you here…where you'll be safe…"
Those words reached Kisara's heart and made it flatter… She wasn't exactly sure how "safe" she would be in the vampire's castle but his tone…his eyes…were so soft…
"Those idiots cannot understand… They cannot understand you…but I can" the vampire continued.
"…Because you cared for my happiness…?" Kisara barely whispered
"Yes"
Kisara looked around and she saw the window and the heavy curtains that were covering it.
"But…what time is it…?" she whispered and got up and walked to the curtains to pull them
"Don't!" Seto Kaiba's voice stopped her.
She looked at him
"Don't open them…" Seto Kaiba repeated, "It's ten o' clock…in the morning…"
"Morning?" she blinked in confusion.
She looked at the covered window and then back at him.
"But then…why are you…"
Seto Kaiba's lips pulled back to a small smile…or better…smirk…
"As you know very well I tend to sleep during the day but that doesn't mean that I cannot stay up in the morning. It is like when you stay up at night I guess…"
"Oh" she whispered
Seto Kaiba looked at the covered window for a second.
"Its too bright outside and the snow is making it worse… Daylight won't kill me but it is…rather painful…"
Kisara looked at him and then at the window and finally decided to move away from the window… She was still feeling kind of weak… Even though the thought of being in the same room with a vampire was not really appealing to her but she knew it would be stupid to try to run away…so she went back to the bed and climbed on it and then crawled on her four till she got under the covers again. She looked at him…
"But…I am
"Well I hope you'll like it here…" Seto Kaiba said softly, "You can move wherever you want inside the castle with no limits. Like I said I tend to sleep in the morning but you can keep wandering around as long as you want. No doors will be locked for you and usually the doors will be open. If you see any locked doors then don't try to open them…that means that they are off limits… Also you can go outside at the back garden if you need fresh air. Those gardens have view to the mountains and it is to the opposite side of the village just in case you ask… There are clothes you can have and everything you may need…"
Kisara was looking at him with her eyes open wide. She didn't know what to think.
"Anyway all in all you can go wherever you want in my castle except the West Wing"
"Why not there?"
"It's off limits… I don't want you to see what is in there…" he said in a low voice.
Something in his voice sent chills down her spine…chills of fear… What was that supposed to mean? What was in that Wing that she shouldn't see?
"Wh-What if I want to go outside?" she asked in a small voice meaning out of castle.
"I'm afraid that's impossible. The gate is pulled up and the door is locked."
"So I am…your prisoner…"
"You are my guest, Kisara. And I sincerely hope that you will be fine here."
Kisara's eyes filled with tears.
"I…I want to go back home…" she whimpered.
"I am sorry Kisara…but I hope that soon enough this will become your home…"
He crossed his arm over his chest and bowed slightly.
"Get some rest Kisara…" he said and then he disappeared in a shadow like never there
Kisara was left alone again… She pulled her knees to her chest and hugged them. She was shaking all over. She was trapped in this huge cage… It was comfortable yes, but it was still a cage…a jail… Tears were burning her eyes as she was sobbing quietly trying not to cry. Why was she there? Why all those things should happen to her? What was in that West Wing? And what would that vampire do to her? She was shaking all over from sobs… She missed her small room in her small house… She missed her sweet smelling food she had baked… She missed Tea… Tea…how was she? Was she dead? Was she alive? And Yami? She was still shaking in fear remembering those eyes of his…those demonic eyes… The burning hot tears started running down her cheeks and finally she fell with her face in the pillow and cried…cried for her life and because of her fear…her uncertainty… She cried for too long till she was exhausted and she fell asleep…
It was a deep sleep…with no dreams…
Another chappie is ready! Yami in a bad condition, Tea in worse and Kisara in Seto Kaiba's castle!
Well for starters you have realized that my inspiration for the catsle was the castle in Beauty and the Beast! and don't tell me that this picture doesn't fit perfectly for the mob climbing to Seto Kaiba's castle! . /tumblr_m7zyvzQtyL1ryd482o1_
And the West Wing is inspired by Beauty and the Beast! What is in there? Why is it off limits?! Will Kisara servive? Will she become his next meal?
Also when 'Green Fairy' is mentioned it means the absynthe ^^
(This chappie is a tribute to my friend on DA because she loves Beauty and the Beast!)
Well that's all! I hope you liked it! Please review me!
Enjoy!