Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Hunters at Midnight II: Utopia ❯ Origins ( Chapter 1 )

Hunters at Midnight II: Utopia
Origins

Author's Notes: You asked for it! You got it! The much anticipated sequel to "Hunters at Midnight!" This story takes place two years after the end of "Hunters" Yami while creating a Utopian world where Vampires, Humans and their children can live together in peace; is searching for the woman that stole his heart. The former Hunters know where she is and are refusing to tell the Vampire King and their mates and friends. However, what shaped the Vampires and their Human companions? Was it their past? Their family lineage? What? The heroes must delve into their past and resurface their memories in order to look for a better tomorrow. But not everyone is happy about this new Utopian Society that Yami is forging and will do anything to stop it from forming.

Once again thanks to thank Sm-candy for giving me ideas for this story and letting me use the characters Rosalie, Dawn Dickinson, and Zelene Calvert. Also thanks to Zatken for her wonderful ideas.
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It began years ago, so many years ago when Dracula, the first Vampire and king, came into existence. As human he was a great king that wanted desperately to save his people and offered his soul to the Devil himself to achieve this power; however, there was one draw back: Satan went back on his word and not only took his soul but the souls of his people after the war was over. Thus the Vampires were created not of their own freewill but of the blindness of their great leader and a broken pact with the devil.

For about a year after the pact the other kingdoms took pity on them for their misfortune and helped out in whatever way they knew how. They mainly helped by sending their criminals to feed the villagers; but that solution had its own disadvantages at first because it would only create more vampires until they learned how much blood they could take and not turn the person. The other draw back to this was that, these new vampires would go to their old villages and slaughter the villagers; until eventually they shut themselves off from Dracula and his people. Dracula in a desperate attempt to take control over the turned vampires called upon the village Ice Mage and Bakura for their advice.

The two men suggested taking one of the daughters of the renegades as a mate. Upon further thought Dracula choose the oldest daughter of the first criminal to be turned, a man convicted of raping and murdering women. The girl's name was Sang (French for Blood) and she was a beautiful young woman with purple eyes and hair of blood and gold. She had a beautiful body and an even kinder heart which softened the deadening heart of Dracula. Together the two of them created Yami and five years later they had Yugi, a boy that seemed to be a carbon copy of his brother only his hair was less wild and he had a lasting innocence. After this marriage and the birth of the two Vampire Princes there was finally peace among the renegades and Dracula's people, the king set about striving to co-exist peacefully with the Humans.

This society would be a haven where the Vampires and Humans would hopefully intermix and eventually the Vampire bloodline would die out. After all Dracula still regretted the pact with the devil and feared that eventually his people would not be able to turn away from their inner Demons, that were already starting to grow. He hoped that his sons would marry Human females which would start off the others vampires into intermarrying. Although Yami had no problems with the Humans he had no intention of marrying one. In his mind falling in love was weak and he did not want to be weak. Yugi was far too young to understand anything about love and was perfectly eager to do anything to make his parents happy.

It is with this thought in mind that Dracula decided to have a meeting with a man that had begun to hunt the renegades; little did the great king realize was that the man he was going to meet with had no intention of sticking by his word and coming unarmed. But the mortal man that was representing the humans had his own reasons for wanting to destroy all the vampires.

Van Helsing, was a man that had a family: a mother, father, and a twin sister; however, a renegade vampire would destroy his world of bliss and happiness by slaughtering them all. That night changed him forever, he became dark and vengeful wanting to kill all vampires and he started to do it as well. He came upon a family of lower vampires traveling alone, they were composed of a man, a wife, and their young daughters who were only five years of age. He butchered them like cattle and became the most hated human of all.

That was only the first of the vampires to fall at this man's hand, many more would soon follow. The vampires retaliated and began to slaughter human villages, until the spiral of violence became so bad that Dracula married one of the renegade's daughters to appease them and set about striving to create peace between his people and the people he longed to join once more. On Van Helsing's way to a village he was ambushed by a renegade vampire that drank his blood, and even though the beast took enough to turn him; Van Helsing didn't change instead he became "The One", someone that is not a vampire but not a human either. He did not crave blood like vampires but he lived forever like them. He used this to his advantage and set about murdering more vampires then before.

At some point he meet up with a female vampire, Rosalie, he took pity on her and at some point they ended up falling in love and they conceived a child, Arora. The girl was hated by humans and vampires alike for her mixed blood. The three of them traveled the world and Rosalie would weep for the kin she lost but was too scared to say anything for fear of losing her husband's love. She was lowered to drinking the blood of animals and prayed to the gods of her village that her family would not discover what their daughter had become.

When their daughter was five, Van Helsing received word that the vampire king, Dracula, wanted to meet with him. He left at once for the king's palace intent on putting an end to this once and for all. When he reached there he was shown to the throne room; the only person that Van Helsing could see in the room was the king himself. However, if he had looked closer behind a tapestry to his right, then he would have seen the young ten-year old prince Yami.

"You wanted to meet with me?" asked Van Helsing stopping at the foot of the stairs that lead to the throne.

"I did," said Dracula nodding. "Everyone seems to agree that you would represent the Humans better then anyone else."

"I probably would at that."

"I would like to live in harmony with the humans," said Dracula.

"Why?"

"Pardon?"

"Why now? I mean why didn't you try to do that when you first became vampires?"

"I didn't think it would go this far."

"You wished it would have gone farther. Don't you mean?"

"I have no idea what you are talking about," said Dracula flatly.

"No," said Van Helsing. "You know exactly what I mean."

"What are you talking about?"

"You sold your soul deliberately to the devil."

"I'll admit I did that," said Dracula.

"You also sold the souls of your people."

"That is something I did not do."

"I think you did."

"I think you are sadly mistaken."

"Doubtful," said Van Helsing.

Van Helsing extended his arm and a silver stake shot out from his sleeve and slammed into the other man's chest. Dracula gasped before his entire body burst into ashes before evaporating into thin air. Yami stayed hidden behind the tapestry and watched as the hunter left the throne room. His eyes narrowed and his eyes flashed a dangerous color of blood red. The only thing that flashed through his mind was a hunger for revenge. He would find out all he could about this man and he would get his revenge on him even if the man was fifty years in the grave.

It would be another five years before Yami and Arora would have their first glimpses of each other and that would only be because he had finally come to have his revenge on the man that murdered his father. Before Yami and Arora would see each other for the first time he would try to continue his father's plan to live in harmony with the humans. But he couldn't bring himself to do it because all he ever wanted now was revenge. So he stopped trying to live in harmony with the humans and instead focused on enslaving them and found that so much more appealing to his sense of justice and life. So within five years of his enslaving the human race he set out trying to find Van Helsing so he could finally have his revenge.

Van Helsing was in a clearing practicing his sword fighting with his daughter watching him from the shadows of the bushes. It was then that Yami came out of the Shadows wearing black pants and a tight white shirt.

"Van Helsing," said Yami coldly his fangs flashing. "Finally we meet again I have been waiting for this moment for a long time."

"Do I know you blood sucker?" asked Van Helsing.

"Perhaps not," said Yami picking up a blade from the ground and examining it. "But you did know my father, in fact you killed him."

"I've killed a lot of vampires," sneered Van Helsing. "It's hard to keep track of them all."

"Oh, but I think you remember him after all his name is Dracula."

"Was Dracula."

"No, no," said Yami pointing the point of the blade at Van Helsing's throat. "Is Dracula," corrected Yami. "My father lives in me."

Then before Van Helsing could react Yami chopped his head off and drove the sword through his chest. Arora's blue eyes widened in surprise and she had to choke down the scream that threatened to rip from her throat as she watched this vampire chop off her father's head and proceed to tear open his stomach with his bare hands and drink his blood from the hole. She stumbled back and a stick snapped catching his attention. Yami looked up from his meal and in the direction of the shadows.

He straightened his back and followed the sound until he saw a ten year old girl with dark blue eyes and long black hair in a white sundress, a straw hat with a white ribbon that wrapped around it.

Her deep blues eyes reminded him of Van Helsing which lead him to only one thing, this girl was the hunter's daughter. A twisted smirk spread across his lips as he reached out for her, the girl screamed and took off running. Yami laughed and picked up a rock throwing it at her head and knocking her out. The girl crumpled to the ground and he knelt down and threw her over his shoulder and headed toward a river and dropped her into it washing the river wash the young body away. He chuckled and walked back up the path not carrying if he meet up with the girl again or not. He had finally had his revenge and that was all that mattered.


TBC…
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