Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Hunters at Midnight II: Utopia ❯ Icy Seduction and Trails of Blood ( Chapter 8 )

Hunters at Midnight II: Utopia 7
Icy Seduction and Trails of Blood
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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Seto sat at his desk unable to get his mind off of the other day when his mate had decided to stop by and pay him another visit at his office; since they hardly spent anytime together anymore now that the search for their future queen. Needless to say, things got interesting when she actually managed to pin him on his desk and started making out with him; he sure as hell didn't mind. The thought of her pinning him to the desk and being the one in charge had been rather arousing and had left him pinning for more.

While remembering what it had been like to make love to Pernia, he didn't notice that his secretary had entered the office. He looked up when he heard the door shut and frowned when he saw Nikushimi standing before him holding the file he had asked for thirty minutes ago. Nikushimi walked towards him holding the file out for him he took into account what she was wearing. The female was wearing dark blue tight pants, a silk black blouse that showed off just a little too much cleavage to be decent, and a dark blue blazer with black heels.

"What do you need Nikushimi?" asked Seto, raising a delicate eyebrow and taking the file from her out stretched hand. "By the way what took so long with the file?"

"There was a bit of a problem in the file room," said Nikushimi, brushing her pale hand against the pants avoiding his eyes and telling him a bold faced lie.

Seto narrowed his eyes at the female vampire and tried to resist the urge to spit at her arrogance for believing she could lie to him and get away with it. He sniffed delicately and could smell dried blood coming from her, he made a mental note to himself to send someone down to the file room and see if anyone was bleeding to death. He scowled to himself and knew that if there was then his mate would have his head for letting something like this happen. She was still human and was at times sensitive about dead bodies.

"Is there something else?" asked Seto, his eyes narrowing when he realized that she had yet to leave his office.

"What ever could you mean Ice Lord Seto?" asked Nikushimi, her dark eyes faming innocents with a hint of amusement.

"I know you want to try and trick me into straying from my mate," said Seto flatly, his lips frowning at her. "Not for your lack of trying, of course."

"May I be frank Ice Lord Seto?" she asked, sighing deeply in such a way to portray boredom and being in deep heat waving her delicate hand before her face.

"Of course," said Seto, nodding at her and rolling his eyes heavenward muttering a pray to the gods for strength.

"Ice Lord Seto," began Nikushimi, taking a deep breath and another step so her thighs were nearly touching his desk. "I do not understand why you seem so attracted to taking that human female for your mate and to bare your children; she is weak and will not survive long enough to give you more heirs and she can surely not be trusted. She is a hunter! How could you have forgotten what her kind did to ours? Besides," she said smirking, flipping her long braided silver hair over her shoulder. "She can't possibly satisfy your dark desires in bed."

"First of all," said Seto, his voice hard and barely restrained in anger at having this bitch insult his mate to his face. "Fire Lady Pernia, WAS a hunter, she is no longer a hunter and is now a member of our king's royal court. Second of all," he continued, his eyes flashing. "You have some nerve coming into my office and insulting my mate and your superior to my face; that either makes your stupid or suicidal and since I doubt you are stupid that must make you suicidal!"

"So," said Nikushimi, smirking and walking around the desk to look into his eyes. "She doesn't please you in bed."

Seto narrowed his eyes dangerously while she wrapped her arms around his neck and rubbed her hips against his in an attempt to get him hard and eager for her and not his whore of a mate, Pernia. Before she could get any further with her attempts to seduce him; Alaw giggling happily burst into the office and ran up to her father who quickly shoved Nikushimi away from him and roughly into the desk; he held out his arms for her to jump into. The little girl giggled and leapt into her father's arms giggling and nuzzling his neck.

"Hi Daddy!" she chirped, clinging to her father's neck while Seto took a seat at his desk placing her in his lap.

"That is all Nikushimi," said Seto, starting to type before starting a conversation with his daughter. "Where is your mother and brother pumpkin?"

"Momma started talking to one of the women that just had a baby and Tanau is having fun running around in circles after a fly."

"I see," said Seto."

"Daddy?"

"Yes?"

"What does this do?" asked Alaw, reaching out her childish hand to touch the monitor and in the process froze it. "Wow! COOL!" she shouted leaping from her father's lap and running around his office trying to freeze it; before running out of his office and into the building freezing almost everything that wasn't moving, including a few body parts.

CHINA______________________________________________________ _

Arora climbed back onto one of her horses a burlap sack with the head of the werewolf as proof of his death. Ironically it had been the villagers who had sought her out; but the only way she could get the job would be if she brought back the head of the werewolf in his animal form. It had taken some doing but she had managed to discover a way to keep the beast in his animal form after death. She had experimented by cutting off various body parts starting with his fingers before discovering a way to cut off the body part without it turning back into a human.

She sighed and set the horse at a gallop and hurried out to a lake so she could bathe and get the blood from her clothing; before returning to village where she had left Gobaith in the care of the village females. The moment she reached a near by lake she climbed off her horse and stripped from her clothes before diving into the ice cold water. She swam a few laps in the water so she could get the smell and feel of blood off of her body. When she finally felt clean enough she climbed from the water and onto a boulder so she could clean the blood from her clothing. When she had finally cleaned the blood from her clothing she pulled it back on and quickly got on her way back to the village. The sooner she got back the sooner she could see her daughter.

Arora sniffed the air as she slowly got closer to the village, she could smell burning wood and what smelled like burning flesh. She got the horse into a run and felt herself start to panic when she got closer to the village; she saw the smoke billow up above the trees and urged the horse to go faster.

The moment she reached the village she was greeted with the site of burning houses and already burning bodies. She couldn't believe what she was seeing and immediately panic set in. Where was Gobaith? Was she okay? Arora started tearing through the rubble of every house and every building. She was crying hysterically being unable to find her daughter, her own flesh and blood. What was worse was that she couldn't even smell her baby girl.

"Where are you?!" demanded Arora, has she tore through the town. "Where are you Gobaith?! Gobaith! GOBAITH!" When Arora finally found her the little girl's crumpled body was beneath the body of one of the older women's bodies hidden from the chest up. "Oh thank the gods," whispered Arora, moving the woman's body to get to her daughter, hope starting to reform in her chest. But as quickly as it had formed it even quickly went away. For the moment the woman's body was removed Arora was left holding the headless body of her only daughter. "No," whispered Arora, her entire body shaking as she cradled the headless corpse to her body. "No, no, no!" Arora continued to sob her wails rising to an inhuman level and terrifying the forest animals that were still in the area.

Vampire Palace________________________________________________

Seto and Yami were busy training, since Yami was still peeved that, dream or not, he had still left himself wide open to becoming weak. So of course what else could he do but beat the crap out of his advisor and friend. Yami still couldn't believe that Seto, the Ice Lord, had actually gotten married and had not one but two brats with his chosen hunter female. While Yami had to admit, though not to anyone's face, the woman was strong and Seto's perfect compliment being a wielder of fire and a powerful mage in her own right, Seto had been one of the vampires that had had a reason for hating the humans as much as Yami. The humans had raped and murdered Seto's mother before his eyes.

"You're mind seems distracted my king," said Seto, watching Yami wipe away some blood from an already healing wound.

"Does it?" asked Yami, not really paying attention.

"Indeed," said Seto, nodding. "If I didn't know any better I would say you were having a hard time dealing with the absence of your queen."

"She should be grateful I still want her in my bed after her leaving me all the time!" snapped Yami, his fury rising to unstable heights. "The damn bitch haunts my dreams when I sleep and haunts them when I am awake!"

"I kinda figured that when I smelled you on my children," smirked Seto.

"Do not start with me Ice Lord!"

Seto smirked knowing that the female slayer was in trouble with his king he could become dangerous if she didn't give into him as well. Still if what his mate said was true the hunter female was in love with the Vampire King and just can't handle that fact and the fact that he treated her like a possession. The woman however, was a possession she would be treated better then most vampire females as the queen and carrier of Yami's heir. Seto's mate was a remarkable woman and for someone of human blood she had gotten a great deal of respect amongst his people. Then again maybe it was because she was HIS mate and if anyone harmed her he would kill them.

"Your female must not think you are that good in bed," said Seto, slowly and deliberately. "After all if she thought you were good in bed then she wouldn't always be running off."

The reaction of his king was exactly what he wanted; Yami charged and the next five hours they didn't talk instead they spared and got some serious practice done like before when their women hadn't been in the picture.

Later that Night______________________________________________

Seto stumbled into the bedroom he shared with his wife; he smiled behind the blood that was trickling down along his eyes when he saw his wife brushing out his daughter's hair.

"Seto!" cried his wife, hurrying over to him and taking in his bloody appearance. "What happened to you?!"

"Nothing," said Seto, kissing her mouth briefly. "I just got into a sparing match with our king."

"You never came back from a sparing match this bad!"

"I know," said Seto, smirking. "This is how I normally ended up after a sparing match with him before Arora. How are you princess?" he asked turning to his daughter.

"Daddy why are you bleeding?" the little girl asked clutching the raggedy stuffed cat.

"No reason princess," said Seto ruffling her hair.

"Daddy," whined the little girl trying to smoother her hair out again with one hand. "You messed up my hair."

"Sorry, sweetie," said Seto straightening up and wincing.

"Seto," began Pernia.

Daddy are you hurt?" asked Alaw.

"Not really," said Seto, taking a seat on the bed.

"Alaw," said Pernia, turning to the little girl. "I think it is time for bed."

"Okay mommy," said Alaw, before climbing onto the bed and hugging her father giving him a kiss and placing her stuffed cat into his arms. "I love you daddy."

Then the girl skipped off to bed.

China________________________________________________________

Arora stood there holding the torch watching the abandoned field light up with several funeral fires as they burned into the night burning the villagers; dropping the torch into the small bucket of water she stumbled away from the scene blinded by tears, soot, blood, and grime. She stopped at the edge of the stream and stripped from her blood soaked uniform and dove into the water swimming into the middle before resurfacing and began to scrub at her skin until it was pink. She could smell it though, no matter how hard she tried she couldn't get the smell of their blood off of her; the blood of the people she was supposed to protect and failed to do so. The blood of her own daughter; she was covered in her daughter's smell. She started scrubbing until her skin became raw and blood began to trickle down from her arms; it was then that the tears and sobs come. She was consumed by grief and guilt they were all consuming and as the moon rose high in the sky; she was still there, in the river, trying to wash away the smell of death and blood from her skin.

TBC