Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty Within Darkness ❯ The Blaj Tragedy ( Chapter 6 )

 

 

Beauty Within Darkness

By: Oneos Pitri

Chapter 5

 

A soft, clinking sound, traveled through castle halls, waking Ryou from his enchanted slumber. The petit boy groaned, as he sat up in the bed. "God, what happened?" He muttered to himself, looking around the unfamiliar room. This is when he became conscious of an arm around his waist. He lifted the covers, confusion written all over his face. He gasped, when the white hair of none other, than Bakura was revealed. Ryou screamed and scooted away.

 

Bakura awoke with a start. He looked at the boy, fallen on the floor. He watched Ryou scramble back up, with amusement. "What are you doing, little one?" Ryou glared. "What the hell am I doing here?" Bakura sighed. "All right, just stay calm. I put a sleeping charm on you." Ryou's eyes widened. "WHAT?! What did you do that for? Why?" Bakura smirked. "Isn't it obvious?" Ryou yelped, as he was pounced on. Bakura was much stronger, than Keith. Ryou thrashed. "Get off! Please! Don't do this!" Ryou yelped, as Bakura licked up his neck. "You taste divine." Ryou's eyes widened, as he stared into the dull, red orbs of vampire.

 

"B-Bakura?" Bakura blinked, his eyes returning to their natural, brown color. "Ryou… Sorry." He got off the boy. "I have to go feed." Bakura left the room in a hurry, leaving a very confused Ryou behind.

 

Ryou left Bakura's room and walked to his own. On the way, he remembered the earlier events. He touched his lips. Ryou gasped and shook his head. No! I musn't! Thoughts swirled around in his head, making him dizzy. Ryou stumbled a little, when he finally reached his room. "Why would he use a sleeping charm on me?" Ryou muttered to himself.

 

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Bakura cursed, when he came back to find his room empty. He sighed and lay down on the spot, that Ryou occupied just mere minutes ago. It still held Ryou's unique scent. Bakura groaned and pulled the covers up and over his head, trying to save Ryou's heat and scent from escaping.

 

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Ryou stood with his brothers on the drive way of the Bran castle. "Ryou? Must you really go?" Asked Yugi. Ryou sighed. He couldn't take it anymore. Especially after that night. He was too confused and being around Bakura, wasn't making things any better. "Yes, Yugi. I do not want to stay longer, than need be. I will see you later." Yugi nodded and he and Malik waved their youngest brother off.

 

Yami stood by Yugi's side. "Something seems odd about your brother." Yugi blinked. "No. I think he is just stressed. He will be fine. He always is." Yugi said; bitterness laced his words. Yami looked hard at Yugi, but decided to drop it, as he, Yugi, Marik and Malik reentered the castle. Bakura was the only one left on the driveway. He stared off into the distance, where Ryou had just been. "There is something about you. That bitterness. That tough attitude. That is not who you really are, is that? And I can see that." Bakura whispered to himself, before following the others.

 

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Ryou sighed, as his eyes closed, the soft rocking of the carriage, lulling him to sleep.

 

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"Ryou? Dear? Where are you?" A three year old Ryou looked up from the book he was reading. "Me here momma!" He smiled, as the beautiful figure of his mother, entered the room. She smiled at her son. "Ryou? Why don't you play with Malik and Yugi?" Ryou pouted. "But, me want to read." Harriet smiled and picked Ryou up, hugging the boy close. "Not 'me', Ryou, but 'I'. 'I' want to read." Ryou nodded. "'I' want to read." Harriet let the boy down and ushered him out of the library.

 

Ryou ran to the garden, where his brothers were playing with a ball. He giggled, when Yugi didn't catch the ball and it went over the garden wall. Yugi pouted. "Wyou? Can you wetweive my ball?" Ryou snickered. Yugi still didn't know how to pronounce 'r'. "Of course Yugi." Ryou climbed the tree and slid down from one of the branches, onto the street. He ran after the ball, as it traveled across the street and into a dark alley.

 

Ryou stopped, when he entered the main square. His eyes wide with shock at what he saw. The only word that could describe it, was 'massacre'. A total: all out massacre. Ryou backed away, when he bumped into someone. He looked up to see, dull, red eyes sneering at him. Sharp, ivory fangs glinted in the light of day. Ryou gulped and moved away from the vampire, only to find himself circled by ten, out of control, bloodsuckers. Ryou cried out.

 

He closed his eyes, awaiting his end, when he was roughly pushed aside. His eyes snapped open and he stared, as vampires murdered each other and everyone that got in their way. Ripping everything to shreds in their hungry fury.

 

Something snapped inside Ryou and he ran, as fast, as his small legs could carry him, back to the garden. Screams, blood. Ryou winced, tears springing into his eyes. He climbed over the wall, just in time, as his mother rushed towards the three brothers. "Ryou! Yugi! Malik! Hurry! Get inside!" Ryou pulled Yugi with him and Malik followed, as they tried to keep up with their mother's long strides. She led them down to the basement and pushed them into the 'waiter elevator' (I dunno what's it called, but you get the idea.). "Stay here and do not, by god, make a sound." She said before closing the door. The boys gasped, as they heard their mother scream and beg.

 

Ryou couldn't hold back the tears, as he held Malik and Yugi to himself. The three boys cried, listening to their mother's dying screams and anguish. Ryou jumped, as the door opened and a clawed hand grabbed inside…

 

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Ryou woke up, clutching his heart. "Dear God." He muttered to himself, as he fell back onto the seat, panting heavily. "No, no, no, no. Not again." He winced, tears brimming his eyes. "I vowed to my mother in heaven to be strong. I haven't cried in years." He wiped the tears away, before they could fall and watched, as he passed the Blaj square, grimacing at the memory. The Blaj Tragedy. No one really knows why or how, but the vampires went on a rampage. Completely out of control. Ryou thought. Since then, I hated vampires. They killed off my parents. They killed half of Blaj! Ryou rubbed his temples.

 

The carriage stopped and Ryou smiled, looking at the castle that was his home. Finally. Maybe I will be able to clear my thoughts a little.

 

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And here I go writing a chapter that should explain some things, but to tell the truth, I'm even more confused myself. God! But I will keep on writing if you want me to. So tell me…

 

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