Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Exfoilation of Perenial Beings ❯ Chapter 10 ( Chapter 10 )

WARNING!!! THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS GRAPHIC BLOODY DESCRIPTIONS; ANYONE WHO IS LIKELY TO SUFFER PSYCHOLOGICAL DAMAGE SHOULD NOT READ IT!!! IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE GRAPHIC VOILENCE AND MENTIONS OF RAPE, DO NOT READ!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, I WARNED YOU FOR YOUR OWN PEACE OF MIND!!! (Hell, I'm not going to be looking at any raw meat for a while, and I wrote it!) (The rape mentions are pretty much just that, the implication, nothing graphic, I don't think I could have handled doing any more graphics after that....)

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Yugi gave a scream as his body was suddenly pulled off the ground and sent flying back through the air. Ryo jumped up so fast that Yugi saw the beginning and felt the end, but missed the whole movement.

He hit the ground, Ryo pinning him. Pieces of Ryo's flesh seemed to peel off as the shifter blocked the magic from hitting Yugi.

The only sound Yugi could hear was that of the wind whistling in his hair and the whimpers from Ryo as his back was flayed. Dimly he thought he heard Jou scream before extra weight was added to the only anchor he had keeping him down. Ryo whimpered loudly, and Yugi saw Bakura pressed above them. Bakura glanced down at them, animal eyes blinking before he got up and ran back into whatever fray was going on that Yugi couldn't see. Bloody imprints on his back from where he had fallen on Ryo

Ryo's form was slowly slipping into that of a panda, white fur rushing over his body, back stained pink from the blood that was brought to the surface. Yugi felt a comfortable heat emanate from the shifter, but it disappeared as quickly as Ryo got up. Almost immediately Yugi was pulled back by the magical force that the shifters seemed able to see. Ryo snatched out, grabbed Yugi with a puffy paw and all but threw him into the car.

Yugi hit the back seat softly, inches away from hitting the other door.

The wind stopped for a few moments, allowing Yugi to sit up and see what was going on with the panther, elf and vampire; several figures had joined the fight and Bakura was steadily kicking undead butt, Jou had pulled a semi automatic from somewhere and was shooting at Yami who didn't seem to notice the way his body was being showered in bullets and was yelling at two figures by the door of the building. Yugi had a vision of white and amethyst eyes when he looked at the first figure before the whole car lifted into the air.

Yugi screamed in fear, feeling the metal beneath him shaking as the vehicle was forced toward the building and the two figures there. He looked around the back seat, locating four guns and what amounted to a mini sword. He snatched a shot gun and sat back up, reaching into the front seat and picking up exploding bullets that Jounouchi seemed so fond of.

The car was almost upon the building.

Yugi said a quick prayer as he loaded up, praying Jounouchi wouldn't kill him for was he was about to do. He slipped one of the handguns between his legs and aimed two handed with the shotgun, straight ahead.

BLAM!!!!

The front windscreen burst open as the exploding bullet zoomed out and at the two figures by the door. One of them looked up and Yugi blinked as he reloaded and pulled the trigger at his fastest speed.

Seto Kaiba? What was he doing here?

The exploding bullets took huge chunks out of the pavement and Yugi aimed a little higher.

Kneecaps were a son of a bitch to hit with a shotgun.

The car began to drop as a shrill scream tore through the night.

Yugi fired a fourth round before he lost the shotgun to the front seat as the car hit the ground he was almost thrown into the front seat himself with the momentum but he managed to twist back into the back where the weapons were. He flicked the safety off the gun in his lap and fired one handed at the vampires in front of him, other hand searching for the second handgun that was scattered across the seat and flicking the safety off.

It was a pleasant feeling to see Seto Kaiba on his knees as bullets poured over his body. Made Yugi tingly all over.

He brought the other gun up and began firing at the second figure who was wearing what looked like a white caftan. Blood blossomed on the caftan. Yugi ran out of bullets and knew he wouldn't reach the third handgun before he was in deep shit. He grabbed the short sword and got out of the car. There was no point staying anywhere he couldn't maneuver.

He turned and began running back toward the screams and shouting, senses alert as he ran. The vampires would take a minute to heal.

A dark vampire saw him and rushed from the fray of blurring blood and roaring shifter to attack the human. Yugi heard the sword whistle as he cut through flesh, organ and bone in a lightening quick strike, catching himself and the vampire by surprise, blood sprayed over his body and he ducked the decapitated upper body as it fell. He rolled to one side and came up with his sword in an elegant beginning dance.

"Step one. The enemy needs to get close to kill you. They are faster and stronger. Condition to react before the attack." He murmured, reciting the words that his kendo teacher had taught him.

A blur rushed at him and he ducked, sword held two handed as he twisted his upper body mid duck, a head rolled away and more blood splattered his back as he came back up.

"Step two. Aim for the vocal points."

Bakura stumbled near him but Yugi didn't turn to jump. "Step three. Recognize the allies from the enemies." He murmured again, letting the shifter lean on him briefly. "Bakura, you and Ryo are getting off detention, but I want essays detailing why you shouldn't get messed up in this kind of thing."

Bakura gave a sound somewhere between a bark and a laugh before literally jumping back into the fray as he regained his balance.

Seto and the white clothed vampire whose face Yugi couldn't see were slowly gliding toward him. There was a murmur in the air and Yugi knew what was going to hit him before it did. His kendo teacher had liked to surprise him and he recognized the words, knowing how to react.

"Step four. Expect dirty tricks. DISARM THIS, BITCH!" He yelled the last, kicking the vampire head at his feet into the air. It exploded in a shower of blood and thicker things as the spell hit. Yugi was already launching into the level thirteen sword dances before both vampires were attacking.

Seto's smirk was annoying as both figures danced away from his blows, but the smirk gradually faded when neither got any closer. Yugi was panting as he alternated his patterns, switching mid swing or parry of pale flesh to a new technique. Little cuts were decorating the vampire's arms and chest as he moved at top speed. It was obvious both vampires were trying not to mortally wound him, but they also wanted to keep their limbs. it seemed. This meant that nothing was touching Yugi's body.

The pace darted on.

Yugi almost stumbled over a pale flicker he had thought was a parry but regained himself quickly. Ducking none too elegantly under a pale fist aiming for his stomach. These two weren't used to fighting someone so small. But Yugi had been smaller than every opponent he had ever fought. What they had in skill and strength, he made up for in size and movement.

Ryo choose that moment to join in. The almost completely panda form tackled the white dressed vampire to one side, pinning the vamp under several pounds of panda-ness by sitting on his chest.

Seto frowned as Yugi switched into offensive now that he only had one opponent.

"Step five. Do not tire until your enemy is dead or heading that way steadily." He panted, twisting out of the way of one kick and moving forward so fast he was already driving the sword through Seto's chest before his mind caught up.

Seto made a small sound before he fell down, bleeding heavily.

Yugi ignored Seto and turned as Ryo screamed; the shifter was thrown several feet away, one arm at the wrong angle and slumping against a fallen lamp post.

"Step six. Never think more than two steps ahead of your capabilities. I hope you feel big; you just attacked an endangered species! I've half a mind to call the World Wildlife Federation." He said, stepping away from the bleeding vampire behind him and spreading his legs. He was panting heavily but he was already mapping out the next two moves.

The white figure chuckled softly.

It was rare that vampires ever got his sense of humour.

Yugi tsked and kept in defensive stance. A shadow at his side alerted him and he was already rolling before the vampire flew over his head.

"Step seven. Don't forget the dirty tricks." He sliced upward as he rolled, blood falling over his face and the white cloth. His teacher had been very sadistic when it came to teaching Yugi.

It was a real pity he always saw through illusions and the real thing.

Another scream tore through the air and Yugi glanced at the main fight that was going on in time to see Jounouchi pinned and Bakura heading that way with vampires on his arms apiece.

"Step eight. Fight the battles one at a time in order of which you can win." He slashed out; fake parried and stepped right next to the vampire, smacked him with a side kick and then hit him over the head with the sword. The white figure hit the ground, presumably unconscious; he didn't have time to check.

Yugi ran forward, still breathing in pants as he shoved the sword right through the vampire pinning Jounouchi, almost hitting his friend in his haste. He was already mid low turn and cutting a second vampire's legs off as Jounouchi struggled to his feet. The vampire toppled forward screaming piteously.

Yugi rolled, feet over head as he picked up a spare handgun that Jounouchi had dropped. He switched the sword to one hand and fired two shots into the vampire on Bakura's right. Bakura reacted quickly by grabbing the vampire on his left and literally pulling out his heart.

Yugi stopped and covered his mouth. That was really, really, really, really, really, revolting. "Bakura… I'm gonna be sick." He muttered; dropping the gun and counting to ten.

He couldn't afford to throw up anything more.

From the sound of gunfire everywhere Yugi bet Jounouchi had recovered his semi.

The human swallowed twice, remembering he had to keep alert! A fault like this could cost him his life!

"Step nine, Yugi-kun. Expect someone to know how to use a sword as well as yourself." Yami's voice from feet away brought Yugi back to the present and the human swallowed again.

Just because Bakura had pulled someone's freshly beating, blood pumping, meaty…. No, he was going to throw up.

"Kami." Yugi collapsed forward and threw up more blood, retching and holding his stomach as hot pain spread through it. He almost wished he had food in there to throw up; blood meant something might have ruptured.

It wasn't that bad, he scolded himself. The tricoloured haired boy shuddered as he forced himself up, gripping the sword in both hands and spreading his feet apart to face Yami.

The Egyptian had grabbed a sword from somewhere and his plum eyes were glowing eerily. "I didn't want to do this, Yugi-kun, but your friends will die if you do not lay down your sword."

Yugi shuddered more, wiping his mouth with one hand. He couldn't summon up a voice; his stomach really didn't feel good.

Concentrate! He told himself, he had to kill Yami!

The thought drove more daggers into his heart but Yugi was used to it by now.

He had to be strong!

Yugi slipped into the third sword dance. Yami mirrored him.

"Step ten. When confronted with another sword, there is only the soul, the body and the sword." They murmured at the same time.

Yugi didn't want to know how much better Yami would be at this than he was. Vampires had a lot more time to play with swords than the six years Yugi had devoted to learning the twenty step dance. But he didn't really have much of a chance. He was not going back in there.

Vampire… Yugi swallowed. He'd pour acid on his flesh if the shower didn't work…

The twins launched into the third step and Yami switched immediately into the fifteenth. Yugi ducked and twisted, Yami's sword was fast and the vampire's movements were crisp.

They moved at Yugi's fastest speed, Yami going slowly because if he went too fast he would injure the shorter, Yugi because he simply did not possess vampiric speed.

Yugi gasped when Yami threw in a new move flipping the sword over so he held the blade and speeding up to a point he simply disappeared from Yugi's sight. The next thing the human felt was the hilt of Yami's sword slam into his gut. His own sword was wrenched from his fingers.

Yugi fell to his knees, holding his mouth against the sudden rush of blood that rose in his throat. He made a gurgled sound against the aching pain spreading through his stomach, swallowing convulsively.

It really wouldn't be good to throw up more blood.

"Relax." Yami's vice washed over him, turning tense muscles to mush.

It would be all fine if-

Yugi growled and purposely scrapped his knee against the gravel. He began bleeding more but the psychic attack leaked away.

The pain also helped him focus. He frowned and swallowed properly. One hand reached for his sword but Yami kicked it away before he could reach.

Yugi growled and rolled back, muscles burning as he began to speed up again. Flipping to one side after the sword, or a weapon, or, well, anything.

Yami was quicker.

One booted foot shot out and met Yugi's chest, pinning him to the ground. Yami's sword leveled at his neck.

"If you move, your friends die." Yami's cold voice said, 'oh so' matter of fact.

Yugi blinked slowly. Opening and closing his eyes slowly as he stared at Yami. Under the vampire's foot his chest rose in quick breathes as his muscles strained before he slumped a little.

"If I move my foot, will you move?" Yami asked, seeming to take Yugi's slump for surrender.

Yugi snorted softly. "Are you kidding me, Mr. Yami? The moment you move your foot, I'll rush for the sword." He answered. He would have shaken his head, but it was pointless to lie to the undead.

Yami frowned. "You'd risk your friend's lives, Yugi-kun?"

"I can't see if they are in danger, so why not?" He asked, glaring at the vampire.

"What the hell have you got against vampires, Yugi-kun?" Yami asked. It was evident that nothing was going anywhere until someone had some answers. That was fine with Yugi. He wanted to know a few things himself.

"I told you; I killed the thing that killed my parents."

"I gathered it was a vampire. But I think it's more than that."

"No! Yugi-kun! Don't tell him!!!" Jounouchi's voice was cut off with a whimper.

Yugi tried to turn his head to one side to see what was up but Yami pressed down harder with his boot. "Never mind him. What more is it?" he shook his head at something Yugi couldn't see before looking back down at the human.

Yugi chuckled bitterly trying not to relive the memories. "I was nine years old when I killed that vampire, Mr. Yami. Can you imagine me at nine?"

Yami frowned and shook his head. "No."

"Well, imagine me right now. Jounouchi's size."

Yami smiled softly. "Kawaii." He frowned, shaking the imagery off. "What does that have to do with anything?"

Very cute indeed, Yugi's little voice said softly, not too happy to be remembering these things.

Yugi closed his eyes, when he opened them again they were cold gems. "I dripped with innocence, Mr. Yami. Or at least that's what the psychologist said it probably was. For three years the bastard was my 'friend', three years in which he was nothing but nice and taught me history that my school teachers didn't. And then I turned nine, he decided he'd waited long enough and killed my mother and father on my birthday; he video taped it and sent it to me at school. He even killed my dog." Yugi chuckled bitterly, obviously reliving his own personal hell. "Not such a horrible thing? Right?"

Yugi moved his chin in Jounouchi's direction; well he figured Jou was in that direction. "Jounouchi saw the video tape with me. Ask him about the most horrible thing he's ever seen. It's at the top of a long list." He closed his eyes again. Yami's plum orbs were looking at him softly, consideration as Yugi went on.

"I sat in a classroom and watched my parents being flayed slowly. First he removed all their hair, then he started on their feet, and peeled their skin off, layer, by layer, by layer; he let them scream while he did it too. He then went to cutting off their bodies, like shish kebabs, cutting all the muscles and tendons around the bones of their tows and fingers, slowly creeping up their arms, he broke their kneecaps, pulled the bones right out. He carved my puppy up, wrote pretty messages all over it with a knife, poked its eyes out, skinned it and broke its spine. My parents could only scream and watch. Somehow he kept them from dying from shock…"

Yugi shuddered as the images replayed themselves before his eyes.

So much red paint…

"You ask me why I hate vampires while I watched him lick the blood from their open wounds, fuck, their whole bodies were open wounds. He killed my father first, cracked his skull open and ran the brains all over my mother. She screamed, and screamed, and screamed, and god, I could hear her screaming when Jou flicked the mute button on. He broke her arms and pulled one of them off. Then he cracked open her ribcage, rib by rib and ripped her organs from her body…"

The sound of retching floated to his ears, someone was being sick everywhere. Yami swallowed hard, looking whiter than usual.

Yugi pressed on, unable to truly stop as he replayed what he had seen.

"He tortured them for hours, and all I could do was sit there and watch."

"I ran home; all the while he sang nursery rhymes inside my head, twisted nursery rhymes. When I got back it was night and he'd started teasing me physically. Pushing me over as I ran, singing and laughing at me…"

Yugi shivered, still bleeding from his leg but seeming to not remember the wound, his chest rose and fell softly. Everyone was silent again, but he would have bet anything there was horror written on everyone's faces. Even the vampires. Yugi had asked a three hundred year old vampire, before he killed it, if there was anything worse the vamp had ever heard, the answer had been no. You just didn't find much else that was so horrible.

"I opened the door and all I saw was red paint and meat everywhere. He'd taken a sledge hammer to their already mutilated bodies and splattered their brains and organs everywhere. He was waiting for me when I got in…."

Yugi looked away at the horror that slowly wrote itself across Yami's face.

"I was still too shocked to realize that it was all real and he grabbed me."

Someone sobbed, Yugi figured it was Jou, Jou had never heard what happened, but the elf had seen him afterward. Yugi had not been a pretty sight.

"Do you want to know what he did to me, Mr. Yami?" Yugi whispered. He turned, glaring back up at the vampire.

"First, he strapped me down to a chair, and ran my mother's mutilated hand all over my body. He read from a story book while he did this. I screamed and struggled quite a lot, and he just smiled, ever so calmly." He paused, looking back up at the vampire. "Can you guess what he did next?"

Yami nodded softly, horror written all over his features. "…You're so healthy though… mentally. That kind of trauma would send people insane." He spoke softly. All was quiet save for their soft breathing and the sound of more than one being throwing up its stomach mixed with Jou's sobs.

Yugi laughed, coldly. "Some people don't get over it, some people do." Yugi wasn't one of them though…

Yami just sort of started at him. "You recovered from something like that?"

The little voice in Yugi's head just started laughing, Yugi blinked, banishing the memories as well as he could, focusing on the pain he was in right now.

Pain was good. "Whatever, Mr. Yami. Now, since you got answers, I want answers." He said, raising an eyebrow in question.

Yami swallowed again and shook his head. "What do you want to know, Yugi-kun?"

Yugi glared at the vampire, trying to concentrate on what he didn't know. "Several things actually."

"We can go inside-"

"Iíe. We'll all stay out here until everyone has answers and you're dead."

Yami blinked. "Dead?"

"Yes, I'm going to kill you." Yugi said offhandedly. "Now, my first question; how old are you?"

Yami frowned. "I don't remember, hold on." He turned; upper body the only thing moving. "Kaiba? How old am I again?"

"I lost count at three thousand." Seto Kaiba's cold voice called back.

Yugi cursed, he thought he'd killed him…

Then what Kaiba had said sunk in.

Three thousand???

"Fukano na!" Yugi exclaimed, violet eyes wide.

That was ancient. Fuck, Yami didn't have 'Pharaoh tie ins' he probably was a fucking pharaoh!

Yugi swallowed down the sudden rush of fear that he had no idea how to kill Yami and put forth his next question. "Okay, right. Next question. What's the connection between you and Mr. Kaiba?"

Yami blinked. "Why do you want to know that?"

Yugi snorted. "Please, I get stalked for a month by one and fucked by the other; I'd think there would be some connection."

Yami blinked and looked back again. "You were the one stalking him?"

Yugi couldn't see what Seto answered with, but by the way there was no sound and Yami turned back after a few minutes he guessed some kind of telepathy had gone on.

Vampires were creepy.

"Ohh, I see. Tch. You have unbelievable luck, Yugi-kun." Yami said as he turned back.

Yugi frowned and waited for his answer.

Yami blinked a few times, watching the smaller form before realizing what Yugi was waiting for.

"Seto is my tomb keeper. He's a friend."

"Get real, vampires don't have friends. What did you do? Set it up so that you ran into me? Was the whole biker gang incident your idea?" the tricoloured haired boy asked skeptically.

Yami frowned. "Yugi-kun, stop being so vindictive. It doesn't become you. And no, we didn't set anything up, Seto has the same taste in mortals that I do. The biker gang 'incident'… I imagine was just that. A biker gang incident." The vampire shifted his foot and settled down, knees either side of Yugi, still holding his sword to the boy's throat. "Although the priest incident was sort of set up. Seto wanted to get rid of a few bad bodies so he played around with the Clanne. Which I was very pissed off at when I discovered that he purposely had you drawn in. You could have very easily died that night."

Yugi blinked and smirked at the realization that he had been correct. "So I was right! It was a setup. Hn. Why do you keep mentioning priests?" He asked.

Yami looked around at the people that Yugi couldn't see.

"Because all my people are priests."

Yugi frowned. "Why are you in Tokyo?"

"Because I'm touring the world. Is that all your questions?"

Yugi thought for a moment. "No. What do you intend to do to me?"

Yami smiled sexily.

~ To Be Continued…

Sweet notes: My god, that only took two days to write! Hehhehe! Reviews?