Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Hunters at Midnight II: Utopia ❯ What Are You Doing? ( Chapter 2 )

Hunters at Midnight II 2: Utopia
What Are You Doing?
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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Yami stared out into the night sky, he found the memories of his past hard to accept. He had murdered Arora's father in front of her and then dumped her into the river. He sighed and took another sip of bline and leaned against the stone railing of his balcony. The wind blew through the trees ruffling his hair and carrying with it the lovely scent of his mate. He closed his eyes and bit his lip against the pain he felt remembering she had up and left him. Then again with how he had acted about the entire Daystalker thing it was any wonder she had left.

He bit down on his lip hard in frustration he couldn't believe he had been so stupid to let his lust for revenge get in the way of his feelings for Arora. He had been half in love with her the day she left and had been too stubborn to acknowledge it, until it was too late. Within a year after she had left he gone about business as usually and then the realization that he couldn't live without her had come to him like a slap in the face. For almost a year his men had been searching for the woman that held his heart in her hands. He couldn't help but think that the former Hunters knew where she was and weren't telling him just to be spiteful bitches. He growled and straightened up throwing the goblet against the stone wall of the palace, shattering it into delicate shreds.

"Thinking about Arora again man?" asked Joey from behind him to his right on the railing of the balcony.

"Whatever gave you that idea?" asked Yami closing his eyes.

"Every time you drink bline you seem to think of Arora and then you break something."

Yami sighed he was right he always did tend to break something when he was thinking about her and at the moment he couldn't help but wonder what she was doing now.
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Arora walked through the woods her black hair pulled into a ponytail and her dark blue eyes searching the shadows for movement. So far she hadn't seen any movement from anything animal or vampire. She sighed and leaned against a tree allowing herself to breathe in the fresh night air. She ran her hand through her ponytail and winced coming across some snarls. She sat on the ground Indian style and looked up at the night sky. Her hand slid over her smooth stomach.

No one that meet her alone would think she have given birth to someone almost fifteen months earlier. A small smile graced her lips as she thought of her daughter, their daughter. The girl that had her ebony hair and sweet disposition yet she also had her father's startling purple eyes. She winced and bit down on her lip looking to the side. Thinking of HIM still hurt, she knew she was in love with him. Gobaith, her baby, their baby was beautiful and seemed to possess something beyond her years.

She sighed and got back to her feet thinking about her baby girl gave her hope. Which is why she had called her baby Gobaith, hope, she thought that perhaps the child would bring hope to a world on the brink of destruction. There were now three sides of a dangerous war brewing: the Utopians; the vampire-human group, the Purists; the humans, and the Blood Gods; the renegade vampires that had no desire to live in peace with the humans. She was currently on her own side returning to her own life as a Hunter.

She hunted vampires and the villagers in payment would pay her for how many she killed and let her and her daughter stay in a hotel free of charge. In the beginning they had been cheap hotels, but the more well known she became the more elaborate the hotels became and they seemed especially attentive the farther along in pregnancy she became. They didn't ask any questions about the father and she didn't tell them anything. At the moment she was staying in a small village in China, the elderly women there seemed very concerned about her health and the health of her child. They were kind to her and she almost hated to leave them once her job was done; but, she would have to for there were other villages that needed her help.

She was so deep in thought she nearly missed the rustling in the trees and the ax that flew straight at her head. Arora leapt out of the way, climbing onto a tree limb and scanning the area. A dark shape slammed into her and knocked her off of the tree limb. She hissed her sapphire eyes flashing and kicked at the stomach of the creature on top of her. The creature let out a grunt and flew off of her body slamming into a tree. The being then landed gracefully onto its feet and stared at Arora.

The hunter could tell that the being was a female because of the light coming from the moon. She removed her swords and prepared to attack the bitch that had attacked her first.

"I don't know who you are bitch," snarled Arora. "But you will regret this night and that cheap shot you took at me."

"Try and make me Daystalker," snarled the other female standing up her features hidden by the black mask. "Or should I say the Vampire King's whore?"

"What?!" roared Arora. "How dare you!"

Arora lunged at the other woman in a rage and sliced her head clean off. She stood there her back to the lifeless corpse breathing heavily.

"Don't you ever mention him around me again bitch," she spat, before a cold smirk slid across her lips. "But, then again I don't think you will be in the position to mention anything again."

With that the hunter left the moonlight clearing and disappeared into the shadows with the head of the vampire as proof that she had done what they had asked. It was time she and her daughter moved on.
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B akura and Arashi were on a roof on an abandoned warehouse: Bakura was standing with his arms crossed over his chest and Arashi was seating, crouched at his feet. Her eyes staring out over the crowded village streets looking for any sign of trouble, and signs of HER.

"Do you think we will ever find her?" asked Arashi softly.

Bakura didn't need to ask who it was that Arashi meant because he knew all to well who it was his mate was talking about. Arora, the future queen of the vampires, when she was found she would seat at the right hand of their king. If they could ever find her that is. Yami had offered a great reward for anyone that returned her to him. The entire Utopian populace was searching far and wide for her; the humans because she was the main reason for Yami's change of heart and the vampires because their king ordered it. The rest of the world didn't give a damn about whether or not she was returned to him.

"To be perfectly frank my sweet I don't know," said Bakura sighing. "It as been two years, for all we know she could be dead."

"Don't say that!" said Arashi. "She is alive, I know she is!"

"So you've been keeping in touch with her I take it?"

Arashi bit her lip refusing to answer her mate's question.

"I'll take that as a yes," said Bakura sighing and taking a seat next to his mate. "Why don't you tell the king?"

"Because," said Arashi. "I promised her I wouldn't, we all did."

"So she is alive?"

"Of course," said Arashi. "We would have told him if she were dead."

"Are you going to tell me where she is?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"We also promised not to tell any other of where she was."

"I'll accept that for now," said Bakura nodding. "Only, tell me why the secrecy?"

"Because," said Arashi. "Yami needs to learn a lesson, when he does then he will learn of where she is."

"Are you keeping anything else from him?"

"Maybe," said the female with a secertative smile.

"What?"

"You'll find out sometime later," said Arashi flashing a smile before catching scent of a renegade vampire. "I found one!" she said shooting to her feet and taking off.

"I know," said Bakura taking off after her.
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" So?" asked Joey. "Are you going to go after her?"

"What do you mean?" snorted Yami. "I have been trying to find her for months."

"No," said Joey. "We have been trying to find her. If I didn't know any better I would have to say that you were scared of finding her."

"Why would I be scared to find her?" snorted Yami.

"Perhaps it is because you are afraid she might have forgotten you."

"She hasn't forgotten about me," said Yami firmly.

Joey looked into his eyes and saw that his king and friend was no where near as sure of himself as he sounded.

"I am not saying she has," said Joey. "I am just saying that maybe that fear is what is keeping you from looking for her for yourself."

"I have a kingdom to run," said Yami.

"Let Yugi run it," said Joey. "Just for a while and some of us will stay behind to make sure that nothing happens and give advice."

"I don't know," said Yami slowly running his hand through his hair.

"Look man," said Joey placing a hand on the other male's shoulder. "You care about her right?"

"Of course."

"Then find her and do whatever it takes to get her back. Hell kidnap her again if you have, it worked great the first time."

"I know," said Yami.

"Look," said Joey. "You are her mate maybe you will have a better chance of finding her if you look for yourself. Leave the ruling to us, I promise we won't destroy the palace."

Yami sighed and looked back up at the moon and came to a decision that would change his life.
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Arora and her daughter, Gobaith, sat in the wagon as the black mustangs lead them towards their next destination. Arora took the chance to steal a glance at her daughter; the toddler's hair was black as night and her eyes were the color of amethysts.

"Where are we going now mommy?" asked Gobaith.

Then there was the fact that the child was developing faster then most normal children. However, considering the child was three-fourths vampire that didn't surprise her. Gobaith's intelligence was starting to scare her since even most vampire children weren't this smart. She wondered if there was something else that was different about the child. Her thoughts were broken when her daughter once again broke into her thoughts.

"Mother where are going?" asked Gobaith rephrasing her question. "Are we going anywhere in particular or are we just traveling again like always?"

"We are going to any village that needs us," said Arora calmly. "Like we always do."

"Alright," said Gobaith going back to playing with her doll.

The two females traveled for several more feet in silence with only the soft sounds of the forest breaking it.

"Father," Said Gobaith after a long moment of silence.

"What?" asked Arora stopping the horses to turn and look at her daughter.

"Father," repeated Gobaith. "I want to know about my father."

"What brought this on?"

"All the children at the other town wanted to know about my father and I didn't know what to tell them, because I don't know my father."

"I was wondering when you were going to ask me this," said Arora starting the carriage again.

"So?"

"Well," said Arora. "I have no idea where to begin."

"Why don't you begin where you meet daddy?" suggested Gobaith.

"I guess after all," said Arora. "We have a long way to go."

TBC