Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Vampire and The Slayer ❯ The Meeting ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters (unless otherwise stated) Kazuki Takahashi does, nor do I make any money from these stories.

 

Yami is a vampire who has to reunite with his three friends and former council members Seto, Bakura and Marik and win back his throne. He meets Yugi and has to save her; the sparks fly when she wakes.

AU: The millennium items and shadows still exist. Kick butt leather cat-suited clad Yugi.

 

SPOILERS: Don't think there are but don't hold me to that…

 

Pairings are Yami/female Yugi, Marik/Malik, Bakura/Ryou, and Seto/Joey.

 

Italics = thoughts

 

The Vampire and the Slayer

 

Chapter 1

 

Standing on one of the lower branches of a large tree but still well hidden from view stood a creature of the night, a vampire, but not just any vampire oh no, this was `Yami' as he was known by his friends and enemies alike. This was not his true name, that, he decided, he would not claim until he had reclaimed that which had been stolen from him…

 

Crimson eyes watched intently as a human female, a teenage girl, dressed in tight jeans and figure hugging sweater stalked down the road, the clothes he noticed were torn and dirty, he grinned to himself he could tell she was angry, `angry?' He thought, `hell she was pissed'. He breathed in deeply, her scent enticed him, made the blood pound in his veins…He couldn't help but keep watching her as she walked passed him, his eyes fell to her ass, `Hmm' he thought as he slowly licked his lips `maybe I could bed this one before making her a meal'.

Yami let out an almost inaudible sigh, unfortunately his carnal desires would have to wait, he had other things he needed to do, besides he could always come back for her later, now that he knew where she lived…

 

He melted further into the shadows as the girl suddenly turned as if sensing his presence. After scanning the area carefully she turned back and continued walking until she arrived at the door of an old house, it was larger and set further back than the others. He watched interested as she stumbled up to the door and began to hammer on it. He decided he couldn't waste anymore time watching this girl no matter how enticing she was, he needed to find his three most trusted council members, Seto, his former high priest, Bakura, a former tomb robber and finally Marik, a former tomb keeper. He knew they were here in Japan somewhere, but where he didn't know, he needed to find them, and quickly.

He was about to leave when he heard her call out…

 

“Seto Kaiba! Marik Ishtar! Bakura Whosits! Get your asses out here!”

Yami jumped as the door was thrown open with a bang “Why in Ra's name do you insist on calling me Bakura Whosits!” the white haired man demanded.

“I can never remember your goddamn surname, deal with it!” she snapped back.

Smirking at the irate girl Seto calmly leaned against the doorframe with his arms folded “Problem Yugi?”

“Yes I've got a problem priest!” she hissed.

Yami raised his eyebrows, `She knows who they are?' his interest in the girl rose further

“What is it Yugi?” Seto growled back.

 

As her adrenalin rush subsided the girl suddenly deflated “Wasn't you was it?”

Seto stood straight and his voice immediately softened “Yugi, what's wrong?”

“Jogger…park…drained.” She sagged further “Hoped…one…of…you, easier…deal…with.” Yugi collapsed into Bakura's arms

“Get her inside she's exhausted.” Seto said to Bakura.

To Yami's surprise the tomb robber, without any argument picked up the girl and carried her inside. Yami smirked maybe he would get to have the girl after all.

Yami waited for a while before jumping down from his hiding place in the tree, walking up to the large house he knocked on the door; it was opened by Marik.

“Hello tomb keeper.”

“Pharaoh!” Marik called out in surprise, Seto and Bakura soon came and joined the two old friends out on the doorstep.

“Well aren't you going to invite me in?” Yami asked with a smirk.

“We can't.”

“Why the hell not? You have taken this house have you not?”

“No.” a tired female voice answered, “They have not, they are my friends and I allow them to stay here willingly.”

 

“Explain!” Yami demanded angrily

Seto looked at him “Calm down Yami, this is still Yugi's house because we had no need to take it.”

“And just who the hell is Yugi?”

“That, would be me.” Yami looked across the hall and standing in the doorway was the girl he'd been watching earlier except now she was wearing a simple nightgown covered by an equally simple wrap, she had pulled her hair from its bindings and it still lay over one shoulder from when she had been brushing it. If Yami thought he was interested before, now, he was left in no doubt, he wanted her…in all ways.

 

Yugi turned to Seto and spoke in a tired voice, “Seto you know I trust you, Bakura and Marik but what about him?” she gestured towards Yami.

Seto sighed, “Maybe we should leave this place and talk to him in private, you know, explain things to him.”

Yugi relaxed her stance, “No its okay, it's not safe out there, I'll take my chances.” She looked at the stranger “Pharaoh?”

Yami nodded once.

“I suppose you'd better come in then.”

Yami felt a tingle as he walked over the threshold `Strong magic' he thought `I wonder whose?'

“Yugi?” Seto asked, “What did you mean it's not safe out there?”

“I went through the park and found three bodies drained, to be honest because we haven't had any trouble for a while I thought it was you.” She paused “I was checking the bodies over and that's when I got jumped from behind, Seto, there's a lot of your kind out tonight, it's as if they are searching for something…”

“How many?” Marik asked

“More than I could handle, I had to run.”

`She knows what we are?' Yami thought surprised as he listened to what Yugi was saying to Seto.

 

The four vampires had retreated to a quiet corner and Yugi watched Yami carefully as he quietly spoke to the other vampires. Joey, Ryou and Malik got up from where they were sitting and stood talking to Yugi.

“What if he doesn't agree Yugi?” Joey asked his best friend.

“I honestly don't know, but it shouldn't change your relationship with the others.”

“From what Bakura says” Ryou broke in “Yami will be angry to start with but he doesn't think he will say no.”

“We'll see.” Yugi muttered absentmindedly.

Yami surreptitiously watched Yugi as she spoke to her friends, he could see that she was worried about something, his arrival most probably, but, before he said or did anything else he wanted to know, just how it was that three vampires and four humans could become friendly enough to live together.

 

“Yugi!” Joey's voice suddenly rang out as she slumped into his arms, the four vampires turned and rushed to the fallen girl, Yami took her from Joey's arms and carried her to the large sofa, she opened her eyes, and for the first time Yami got a good look at them and soon he found himself falling deeper into twin pools of pure amethyst, he felt her stiffen “P…ain r…ight sh…oulder.” She hissed through clenched teeth.

Yami gently turned her so she was pressed against his chest and searched her shoulder; he spotted a small dart, not knowing what type of tip it had he decided to warn her “Yugi.”

She opened her eyes slightly

“I am going to remove a small dart it might hurt okay?”

She looked up at him, eyes half lidded “O…kay.” She whispered as her eyes closed again.

Yami pulled the small dart out and handed it to Malik

“I'll take this down to the lab and see if I can find out what this is.” Marik went with him so he could offer his help should Malik need it.

“Close that door!” Yami commanded. He figured that as all of the windows were closed and still intact someone must have fired at her through the open french doors, `but why?' Yami wondered to himself.

 

It wasn't until he heard the quiet snickers coming from Seto and Bakura that Yami realized he still had Yugi pressed snugly - and he'd have to admit, comfortably - against his chest, reluctantly he lay her down and Ryou covered her with a warm blanket.

“Now.” Yami asked, “Who wants to enlighten me as to what exactly is going on here?”

“We'd rather wait until Yugi wakes.”

They all turned when a quiet voice answered, “She won't.”

“What the hell do you mean she won't?!”

“Calm down Joey.” Ryou grabbed his arm “Let Malik explain.”

Joey nodded and sat down heavily. The human half of the blond haired look-alikes looked at Yugi and then at his two friends. “Pegasus, he finally got her…”

Marik put his arm round Malik as he started to tear up.

 

“What the hell has Pegasus got to do with this?” Yami demanded.

“This.” Marik hissed as he held his hand out “He couldn't beat her in a straight fight so he turned dirty.”

Yami took the tranquilliser style dart from Marik's hand and looked at it closely, on the flight he noticed Pegasus's insignia. A capital `P' with wings either side…

“Damn it!” Yami yelled “Why the hell is he not dead yet?”

Seto sighed, “We'd better sit down, this may take a while.”

“We don't have a while!” Malik yelled at him “Yugi could be dead by morning if we haven't found a cure by then!”

“What is this cure?” Yami asked, taking his eyes away from the girl to look at the two blonds.

“I…don't know.” Malik whispered suddenly deflated, “I don't know what Pegasus used, there isn't enough in the dart reservoir for me to test.”

Yami stood up “Bakura, Marik find the one responsible for this and find out what he used.”

“How do we do that?” Bakura asked

“I don't care how you do it, just do it!”

Marik and Bakura bowed then left, Yami couldn't help but notice the worry in Malik and Ryou's eyes as they watched them leave.

 

Ryou, Malik and Joey were sitting by Yugi and Yami and Seto were sat at the table talking to each other.

“Tell me what has been happening in my absence?”

Seto frowned, “We were informed of your capture and subsequent death at the hands of Pegasus.” Seto looked at his pharaoh “We were warned that Pegasus was hunting us down, he wanted us dead, apparently he was afraid we'd come after him to avenge your death.”

Yami smirked, “It's not my death that needs avenging.”

“Then whose?” Seto asked

Still smirking Yami looked at his high priest and simply said “Dartz.”

“You killed him?”

“Yes.”

“How?”

Yami sighed, “That is a story for another night.”

Seto noticed Yami's eyes start to darken “Hungry?”

“A little.”

“Wait here.” Seto left the room and Yami took the opportunity to really look at the four humans, for the first time he noticed that Malik looked like Marik, Ryou looked like Bakura, hell when he thought about it Yugi looked like a softer version of himself, the only two that didn't look alike was Seto and Joey. But Joey, he noticed watched as Seto left the room.

 

Seto soon returned carrying two large goblets, he handed one to Yami.

Yami looked at the contents and then he looked at Seto eyebrows raised

“Drink it.” Seto smirked taking a drink from his own goblet.

Yami took a tentative sip and tested the taste, finding it quite palatable he took a longer drink, his hunger soon dissipating “What is this?”

“Lamb's blood, it's the nearest and safest thing to human blood there is. Yugi gets it for us.”

“The girl?” Yami asked in total surprise as he looked over at the stricken girl again.

“Yes she makes sure there is always a fresh supply.” Seto looked across at Yugi “She makes sure we don't go hungry.”

“What about human blood? You still need to drink that from time to time.”

“We…get that once a week.” Seto looked back at Yami “More if we want it but we don't abuse their trust.”

“Them?” Yami asked as he nodded towards the four humans.

“Yes Ryou, Malik and Joey let us drink from them once a week.”

“Nice little set up you have here.” Yami remarked as he finished his drink, idly wondering if Yugi would do the same for him.

“Yes.” Seto's eyes narrowed “And we will not allow anyone, no matter who they are destroy it.”

 

Yami recognised the veiled threat, normally he would have had Seto punished for speaking to him in that manner but he would let it slide, for now at least, until he knew just exactly what was going on…

 

 

 

(While it's true Pig's blood is also close to human blood, it is not considered as safe as lamb's blood for consumption.)