Farao no monogatari
Title: Hunting Passion
Part: 6/?
Author: Usagi-Atemu-Tom [miakalikestamahome at hotmail dot com]
Warnings: none
Genre: Romance, Angst, Supernatural, AU
Pairings: Yami no Yuugi x Yuugi, Malik + Rishido
Criticism: Constructive criticism welcomed
Disclaimer: Nothing is mine, I don't make money from fanfiction.
Description: They came at midnight. He didn't know how they were able to intrude into his house, but somehow they succeeded. They were a male and a female. HE, was the leader, obviously. She seemed to be some kind of apprentice to him. Not that it really mattered. For they were both strong and deadly.
But when a young teen is able to run from the grasp of his captors, it is the start of a long game of hide and seek. He finds a new side to himself he would have never dreamed he had. And it helps him to keep the game to his advantage. But he knows the game will never end, at least not before his death. Because his hunter is a vampire.
Thanks to my betareader Lee-Ann for the usual quick work. ^^
Farao no monogatari – Story of a pharaoh
Farao no monogatari
Despite what he originally planned Yuugi never got the chance to receive answers on his first day with the gravekeepers. A fact which surprisingly enough he did not mind at all. Instead of talking to Isis, asking her questions, Yuugi was first shown around the entire gravekeeper complex by Malik.
The Egyptian teenager did not demand a lot of answers about Yuugi's current presence. He was happy to have him there and he told the Japanese shifter that he knew his older sister well enough to be aware that Yuugi must be someone important, if he was allowed to the gravekeepers' home. Besides, the blonde already knew from his shifting performance when they met, that Yuugi was part of the lineage of the very same pharaoh whose grave the family was watching over.
Instead of pestering the Japanese teen with question just as Yuugi planned to bother the Egyptians, he introduced the fellow lover of Duel Monsters to the Duelling Disk from Kaiba Corporation. The two male shifters wasted no time returning outside and played their first round of Duel Monsters against each other.
Malik turned out to be a hard challenge, especially since Yuugi did not have his own cards with him. However, even with his deck created from the cards Malik oh so kindly offered, Yuugi was able to win over the Egyptian shifter each round.
Fortunately Malik was a fair player who did not take it personally that he lost to the Japanese teen. Completely the opposite in fact; the blonde shifter was excited and full of wonder at Yuugi's skills and turned out eager for a return match instead of pouting and stomping off. Each game they changed their decks, the last round going so far as for Malik to suggest they simply exchange their decks, after they played with it once, just for the fun of it.
And even with the disadvantage of having a deck not put together by personal preferences, Yuugi was able to win, something the blonde Egyptian continued to be enthused over during the whole evening meal with Isis, Rishido and some of the other members of the gravekeepers. The Japanese shifter ended up feeling a strange mixture of pride and embarrassment, though no one seemed to really mind Malik's talking. Isis and Rishido even chuckled slightly.
The teen all but forgot about his vampire stalker for the whole remainder of the day. Falling into bed rather content and for once being able to fall asleep without worries of a raid in the middle of the night, the shifter only ended up being reminded of his hunter through the return of his dreams. With the rooms being far underneath the ground and not a lot of electricity and light at hand, the whole dreams felt even more acute, especially when he woke up next morning in total darkness, not unlike the one he usually experienced in his dreams, feeling all groggy, hot, tingly and somehow frustrated and pleased at the same time.
To his personal embarrassment Yuugi needed some time to calm his body down before he dared to show his face to the outside world. Where he was greeted by the Ishtar siblings and Rishido; the latter, the Japanese shifter learned, had originally been an adoptive brother of the two Ishtars but for some months now Malik's lover. The four of them shared a rather enjoyable breakfast together outside in the sun, before Isis turned her full attention on Yuugi.
"Mr. Mutou, now that you have had a while to get acquainted with our home, I think it is time that I answer some of your questions", she told the Japanese teen with a small smile. "I am hoping you would like that?"
Nodding eagerly Yuugi stood up from his seat and put the finished trays aside.
"I would love to finally get some answers, Ishtar-san", he told her respectfully before adding. "But please call me just Yuugi. Being addressed as 'Mr. Mutou' reminds me of my jii-chan, really."
Malik started to chuckle, while Rishido smiled and Isis nodded her head in acceptance.
"As you wish, Yuugi-kun", she told him, purposely adding the fitting Japanese honorific to his name. "Well, for your questions, I am sure the one you might be most curious about is the origin of your power, am I right?"
Nodding his head, the Japanese shifter left his place at the table when she silently indicated to follow him with a wave of her hand.
"I think for you to understand your origin, you need to see something first", Isis suggested while she walked away from the gravekeeper camp towards one of the many big rock formations that seemed to dot this part of the desert. Malik and Rishido accompanied them as well, though as soon as the Egyptian teen was out of the shade of the camp, he changed into his tiger form and ran around the three humans, sniffing the air and listening carefully now and then to make sure they were not being followed.
Sometimes, however Malik's playful side got the better of the Egyptian and he returned to his fellow shifter's side, nudging the other teen playfully. Yuugi could not help but laugh about the obvious attempts to get him to change as well and join the fun. Finally, the young Japanese shook his head at the tiger.
"Sorry, Malik-kun", he told the other in a regretful voice. "Currently I'm a bit too anxious about what I'll learn from your sister soon. However when we are finished with business, how about a fair race between two tigers from wherever your sister is taking us to back to the camp?"
"Sounds great", Malik replied excitedly, suddenly back into his normal form. "And I suspect my sister is taking you to the East Porch."
"East Porch?" Yuugi asked curiously, raising an eyebrow.
"It's more or less a small chamber built into a selection of the stone formations you see around here", the blonde Egyptian explained. "There are four of them, all surrounding the place where the last shifting Pharaoh's grave has been built. Each chamber stands for one cardinal point and the one we are approaching is the one of the East side. Therefore we call it 'East Porch'."
"Do you know what's in there?" the Japanese shifter wanted to know but Maliks answer was to show him a wide, teasing smirk.
"Now where would be the fun if I tell you?" he laughed before shifting back into a tiger and started run back and forth between his older sister, who gained a bit of distance and Rishido, who was just behind the other teen. Yuugi shook his head in a bit of exasperation, yet could not help the small, amused smile. He already liked Malik a lot. A good player, nice, a bit of a mischief streak and above that all, a fellow shifter. For the first time since he met the Ishtars, did the Japanese teen wonder if there were more shifters out in the world and if all of them might be nice enough that he could be friends with them.
Yuugi's wondering thoughts were broken when Isis' voice could be heard shouting an order to the still running tiger that was Malik. They had reached their goal. He could see that while all the other rocks around here seemed to be solid, this one held a hole just high and wide enough for a human to pass through. It was the entrance to another man-made cave, it seemed.
A bit nervous over the awaiting darkness but still more curious than anything else, Yuugi followed Isis and Malik through the entrance with Rishido bringing up the rear. As soon as the tiger had entered the cave he turned back into human form and grabbed one of the torches his sister held out to him. The Japanese shifter and Rishido also received their torches, which the Egyptian woman plucked from the walls left and right behind the entrance. And it was a good thing that the torches were available, because beside a small split from where the daylight shone inside through the opening, the whole cave was enveloped into darkness.
The group started their journey in the order as they had entered the cave, Isis at the front, Rishido at the rear. Yuugi looked around curiously and realised they were following a small corridor bordered by Egyptian style columns but otherwise bare. The corridor was not long, just deep enough that they were no longer able to see more of the door when a small light from the outside.
Then all of the sudden the path turned sharply to the left and the columns ended abruptly. It took the Japanese shifter a moment to realise they were now standing in a wide, single room with a high ceiling and large enough that the lights of their torches did not reach the walls. Isis marched straight forward, until her source of light revealed the first wall in their way.
A gasp escaped Yuugi's lips when he noticed the beautiful, though slightly time-worn carving of a scene in the unique Ancient Egyptian style. Stepping beside the woman who held her torch high over her head, the small built shifter took in the artwork and colours, the beauty of details and the fact that the whole picture reached from near the ground till just above the ceiling.
Surrounded by a lot of decorations he could make out an Egyptian male, from the looks of it he assumed it might be a pharaoh or at least someone of high rank. The Egyptian was standing rather straight, with arms spread wide. And right next to it Yuugi was able to make out another painting of the same Egyptian, but this time the body seemed to double over, though the arms remained in their former position.
Right aside to that one was again the Egyptian, but now his body was clearly smaller than before and to the shifter's great surprise he noticed that the hands and legs no longer looked human but animal like. The very next picture confirmed Yuugi's growing suspicion because now the Egyptian was sporting a tail as well. The same pattern of drawing continued until in the end there was no longer a human but a cat, that sat there surrounded by lines representing light.
"What is this exactly?" the Japanese shifter wanted to know, looking curiously from one Ishtar to the next. It was Isis who started to explain after she allowed her guest to take everything in.
"As you can see, Yuugi-kun, this scene shows one of the ancient shifters changing into an animal", she told the wondering teen. "From what we learned from the inscription, this might be the first pharaoh who gained the ability to change forms. In fact, this whole chamber is supposed to tell the story of the shifters from its beginning till the time of the sealing. Just take a look around."
And Yuugi did. Step by step he went along the wall and looked at each image his torch illuminated. There was a picture of a pharaoh changing and hunting in the form of a lion or a picture where various shifters fought against their enemies by taking the form of elephants and various predatory animals.
When the Japanese shifter nearly finished his walk around the room, his gaze was caught by the last pictures particularly. First there were a lot of shifters that seemed to attack helpless looking Egyptians. The image looked rather cruel, with some of the attackers at the side either watching the slaughter with a content face or counting through the riches they must have gained with their attack. What captured Yuugi's eyes however was the lone figure partly hidden at the side that seemed to be watching the spectacle with a look of horror on his face.
The half-hidden man was small and while it was difficult to make out details he bore a suspicious resemblance to someone and he very obviously bore the signs of a pharaoh. What started as an unconscious suspicion became confirmation for the small built teen when he gazed at the next image and a gasp escaped his lips. Here he was, the pharaoh he already suspected to be the last in the line of shifters.
His hair and features bore a frightening similarity to his own. When Yuugi took a closer look though he realised that more so even than himself, this pharaoh resembled the vampire that had been after him for such a long time. In this scene, the pharaoh was sitting on his throne, a look of surprise on his face because there was a shifter in form of a panther trying to attack him.
And as if that was not already shocking enough, the Japanese shifter was even in for more of a surprise when he finally reached the last picture. There again stood the pharaoh that resembled him but he was not alone. By his side stood a priest and though Yuugi had to look twice, he realised that the features were familiar as well. The face and the eyes, that were painted a steel blue, resembled one of his classmates by the name of Kaiba Seto. The two high ranking Egyptians stood in the middle of a room; in front of them were six golden items while one more was located in the hands of the pharaoh. Yuugi recognised the puzzle in the hands of the Egyptian monarch and the tauk within the pile, realising that these must be the Sennen items. Opposite to the pharaoh and his priest stood ten men and women, all of them obviously bound by their hands. They had a look of terror on their faces and above their heads something spirit-like that seemed to originate from their own bodies, floating towards the Sennen Items.
The final parts of the image contained three monster-like creatures that flew above all of the humans. One monster looked suspiciously like a red Chinese dragon, the next like a golden bird and the last like a giant stone with features.
After Yuugi finished gaping at the final image in disbelief he turned around to the patiently waiting Isis, Malik and Rishido. All three of them wore rather serious expressions on their faces. Even Malik did not show a hint of his usual mischievousness.
"That is...", the Japanese teen was able to stutter before he trailed of and looked back at the pictures with wide eyes.
"Yes, that man, that seems to bear a rather stunning resemblance to yourself is the pharaoh that banned the power of shifting from the world", Isis told the shocked young man, stepping to his side to gaze up at the last image herself. "His name was Atemu. And from the inscriptions we gathered that the man besides him must be High Priest Seto, his cousin and one of the few family members loyal to him."
"What exactly happened?" Yuugi wanted to know as he allowed his gaze to wander between the last three images in particular. "Are these shifters over there attacking innocent people?"
"Those shifters are all part of the royal family", Isis explained, spreading her hands wide. "You see, only members and descendants of the royal family ever showed the ability of a shifter. At the beginning things had been well. The pharaohs and their relatives used their power for fun or in war against Egypt's enemies. But the more time passed the greedier the other family members seemed to become."
"At one time", Malik continued the tale of his sister, "the corrupted shifters went as far as to simply attack the farmers and wealthy merchants for their riches. Being able to take the form of any animal possible combined with their ability to think things through made them rather dangerous. Their victims had no chance at all."
"However", the female Ishtar took over the tale telling once more, "while some of the past pharaohs tolerated their relatives' actions, when Atemu came into power and found out about the crimes his own people were doing, he became angry and started to hunt them down. This of course enraged his corrupted relatives, especially his uncle who held a high rank himself. In the end the last straw was one of many assassin attempts on Atemu. That was when the pharaoh realised that by now the powers of shifting had become more a curse than a blessing for his country."
"Atemu talked with his cousin", Malik interrupted her sister, eager to add his own part. "The High Priest Seto had been one of the few relatives that respected Atemu and was never interested in wealth and power. Together with five other, trusted priests they came up with the idea of creating the Sennen Items and sealing the power of shifting away from everyone."
"After the successful expulsion of the corrupted shifters", Rishido now took over for the first time, "the unique power of the Items was used for the judgement of criminals, which ensured that peace would continue to reign in Egypt. Each of the priests present at the ritual owned one of the Sennen Items with the pharaoh himself keeping the Puzzle. The Items were fated to be given from one successor of the priests to the next and it was made sure that each was worthy beforehand."
"When Atemu's end approached, he smashed the Sennen Puzzle, declaring that, by the prediction of his priestess Ishizu only a descendant of the pharaohs with a pure heart, who the powers of the Sennen Items would recognise as being unable to become corrupted will be able to put the puzzle together again. And only this chosen one will be able to awake the power of the shifters once more", Isis finished the tale. "Mutou Yuugi, you ARE this chosen one. In your hands you hold the power of the shifters. You are and will always be the only one to be able to shift into as many animals as you wish. Everyone else, though they too have the blood of the pharaohs flooding through their veins, are restricted to one animal only and they have to at least touch one of the Sennen Items once before they could ever think about awakening the power within."
"You are also the one capable of sealing the whole shifting powers once more if necessary", Malik added, face grave. "And through me, you'll receive the key later on."
"Wow, that is honestly a lot to take in", Yuugi breathed, all of the sudden feeling faint with the awareness of how much power he truly held in his hands. Yes, now he finally had some answers to his questions. He knew the history of the shifters, about his pharaoh-ancestor and most of all why he suddenly bore a power he never felt or could use before. Well, how could he have been able to, if the release of it was in the completion of the Sennen Puzzle, a task that had taken him years.
"Hey Yuugi, are you all right?" Malik was suddenly by his side, looking worried. The Japanese shifter glanced at the blonde before shaking his head.
"No, I am fine, I think", he said. "It's just a bit of a shock, that's all. I mean, if you add all the facts together this means I am the only person in the world able to change into whatever I want. That thought feels strange, even though just two days ago I never assumed there was another shifter like me out there."
"How about we return back to the sun, where it's warmer and better air, then you can think everything you've heard through, Yuugi-kun?" Isis gently suggested and Yuugi nodded his head in agreement.
"A bit of sun would be nice", the small built shifter confessed before allowing Malik to lead him towards the small corridor.
"But don't forget you promised me a race back towards our home", the Egyptian reminded him on their way outside, trying to lighten his new friends mood a bit more. Yuugi's answer was a short, amused chuckle.
Yuugi stayed with the gravekeepers for one whole week. And while the dreams never ceased to remind him each night that soon his follower would certainly appear again, on the whole the Japanese had one of the best weeks in his life. The only really uncomfortable moment had been when the small built shifter dared to try and ask Isis about his dreams, though he did his best to keep the contents as vague, as possible. To his great embarrassment the female shifter smiled knowingly while telling him in that typical kind voice he had become used to:
"I can only make a guess, but this might have partly something to do with the fact that he bit you, Yuugi-kun. And partly I have the feeling he came in contact with a Sennen Item before. These two kinds of magic seem to have created the first threads of a connection."
Yuugi's only reaction was to silently wish his body would vanish on the spot, while groaning openly over his luck of having now formed an even deeper connection to the vampire. Though he slowly started to question his feelings for the creature of the night, because connection or not, that should not be the whole reason to dream something as he did now, should it?
Also as promised, after his recovery from the shock, the Japanese shifter raced Malik back to the camp in a tiger form. It was one of the few times the other won a game if just barely. As Yuugi confessed he was not very athletic and even with the time of one and a half year running, it had not done enough to change that fact, though he had become better. Still the Japanese shifter ran himself usually more to exhaustion than to contentment.
Malik on the other hand was very athletic. He had done a lot of exercises around his home, he rode horses regularly and best of all, he did not need to run from a crazy vampire after his blood. Despite everything, Yuugi realised he had made some great new friends. Isis and Rishido were really nice, though a bit quieter. And Malik, even though he seemed so easy going, turned out to host some dark parts of his personality as well, just hiding them well most of the time.
One evening, after the Egyptian shifter had been particularly annoying, not that Yuugi minded, Isis had taken the Japanese teen aside, while Rishido kept him busy and apologised for the blonde's actions. After Yuugi smiled and assured her it was no problem and that he enjoyed Malik's company a lot, the Egyptian female explained to him about their rather hard childhood. She told him that their father had been crazy about their duty as gravekeepers. So crazy in fact, that he tattooed the very key Yuugi was still supposed to take a look at into Malik's very skin, when he was only a child .
"But that's awful", the Japanese had exclaimed in horror while Isis nodded sadly.
"Yes, in fact it was the terrible last straw", she admitted in a quiet voice. "That very same night Rishido and some of the other gravekeepers who kept an eye on us while we grew up, made sure he never could hurt anyone ever again."
Yuugi had of course realised immediately what she meant. And while he was certainly shocked to find out Rishido, who seemed so nice and friendly, could hurt, never mind kill, anyone, he could also understand the reasoning. No father should hurt his child as that Ishtar had done to Malik.
Isis continued to tell the Japanese shifter, that even the death of his father had at first not been able to sooth the hurt Malik felt over the pain inflicted to him. But then Rishido had done a drastic step. He tattooed his face, a bodypart everyone could see, with hieroglyphs, just to share the young Malik's pain. Following that day the blonde Egyptian had become further attached than ever to his older adoptive brother until the day brotherly love turned into more.
After her tale, Yuugi perceived a whole new aspect of Malik and he could not help but respect what the young man had gone through. Yuugi himself understood a childhood of abuse all too well. He had grown up being bullied because of his delicate built and small height. And his best friend Jounouchi for a long time lived in a really bad environment under his father's care, who was a violent alcoholic. It was Jounouchi that befriended Yuugi after an incident and became the smaller one's protector while Yuugi with the help of his jii-chan supported the blonde to find his own apartment where he could live away from and under better conditions than with his father.
The Japanese shifter never mentioned to Malik that he knew about his past and he never acted differently. He still suspected the blonde shifter knew but if he did, then he did not care. They two teens continued to play games, Malik taught Yuugi some of the old Egyptian games that his jii-chan never knew of. Of course, the Japanese shifter was a fast learner and had no problems winning, once he got the hang of the rules. The two of them, sometimes together with Isis, or even Rishido in a car, discovered the desert in animal form. Yuugi varied his changes, of course while his new Egyptian friend and his sister could only change into the one form they had.
It was a lot of fun, especially since the gravekeepers of course knew the desert very well and were able to show him every little corner. The Japanese shifter got a chance to see the other three Porches, though he was told that it was forbidden for everyone to enter the grave of the pharaoh itself.
The grave, as Malik told him, was an upside down pyramid, dug into Earth instead of rising into the sky. No one besides the gravekeepers knew about this grave since the resting place of the last shifting pharaoh consisted a lot of magical trinkets that should never be allowed to be shown in public. For this purpose, besides awaiting the one person who would awaken the shifters once more, the gravekeepers lived near the grave, keeping away any tourists or tomb robbers.
Yuugi, even though he could not help feeling a bit curious about pharaoh Atemu's grave, understood the reasoning and accepted that choice, even though he suspected that with his abilities to change into whatever animal he liked it would have been child's play to turn into something small and enter the grave without the gravekeepers being able to stop him. Yet, that would have been a break of trust against his new friends, not to mention he never had been that kind of person. Therefore the shifter stayed content by visiting the grave and staring at the stones that could be seen out of the sand.
On the evening of his seventh day with the gravekeepers, Isis addressed him after they had taken in their evening meal.
"Yuugi, while we all enjoyed your presence here with us, and even though I know you had just as much fun, I fear I have to announce that it's time for you to continue your journey", she told the Japanese teen in a grave, but kind voice. Yuugi and Malik were both surprised of her words and especially Malik was about to protest heavily when his sister gave him a hand sign to keep quiet and she continued, looking the Japanese shifter straight in the eyes.
"It's not about us not wanting to have you here or anything else you might suspect", she explained, a knowing smile on her lips about the teens assumptions. "It's more the fact that if Yuugi stays any longer his hunter will catch up to him and that's something we don't want, do we?"
It felt a bit like a slap in the face, when all of the sudden Yuugi's whole purpose of traveling through the world came back to him. This last week he felt so safe, so taken care for that he all but forgot about his worries about the vampire, except for the continuation of the dreams at night. Eyes wide, he stared at Isis with his mouth open and the Japanese shifter needed to blink a few times to get himself out of his stupor.
"Oh", he squeaked, immediately turning red about his own undignified reaction. "Oh, of course, I can't stay if the vampire is nearby once more. I also don't want to put you in danger. Oh, I hope he won't do anything to you. That would be horrible. Are you sure you'll be all right if I leave?"
Laughing about Yuugi's concern, which was obviously greater than his fear for his own life, Malik gripped the smaller teen into a friendly headlock before looking eyes with his sister and Rishido, who both nodded.
"Don't worry, Yuugi, we'll be perfectly fine", the Egyptian shifter assured him. "Don't forget that two of our family are shifters as well, it would be far more difficult for your follower to deal with three shifters instead of one."
The blonde halted all of the sudden when he thought about his own words before turning to his sister, looking at her with wide, accusing eyes.
"Just a second, Isis, if three shifters are better than one, why can't Yuugi stay with us and we protect him? That vampire should be unable to get rid of the three of us, not to mention with Rishido and the other gravekeepers around."
The female shifter allowed her brother to voice his opinion with the usual calm aura she possessed and then she turned around to look at Yuugi with strangely knowing eyes.
"My brother is indeed right, Yuugi-kun", she agreed. "Together and with the knowledge we gravekeepers posses, we would be able to get rid of the vampire easily enough. The question is, do you want that, Yuugi-kun?"
That day, long ago day when Yuugi started his run from the vampire after the fateful night where he discovered his shifter abilities, the Japanese teen would have said 'yes' within a heartbeat. However, now the small built shifter found himself hesitating already right after Isis asked him the question.
He remembered how the female shifter mentioned about her knowledge of power to get rid of his hunter and asking him if he would be interested to learn. Back then already Yuugi felt no longer comfortable with the idea of killing the vampire. And with the continuation of the dreams and when he thought about the past months of their chase and the actions of his persuader, the Japanese shifter realised he was indeed even less inclined to allow the creature to get killed, strange as this realisation was.
"No", Yuugi answered Isis after thinking her question over for a moment, voice sounding surprised about his own feelings, "I don't want him to get killed. It might sound strange, but I have this feeling that this vampire not as evil as I first assumed, even though he is indeed chasing me around the world."
"Huh, what do you mean?" Malik interrupted the Japanese, eyes and mouth wide open after hearing the decline. "I mean that CREATURE chased you for over a year now, did it not? And you are always afraid of your life, yet you don't want to kill him? That's a bit crazy, don't you think?"
Yuugi could not help but raise his eyebrow over that last declaration of the blonde because Malik was not exactly the picture of sanity. Smiling slightly to sooth the now slightly hurt looking teen, the Japanese shifter stepped towards Malik to be able to face him better.
"It's true what you say, Malik-kun and I am the last to disagree with your statement of me being crazy", he told him with a slightly embarrassed chuckle. "However when your sister just confronted me with the question, I thought about the last months and besides the fact that I can't deny the thrill this deadly game of hunting has given me, I also realised that the vampire already had more than one chance to kill me, but did not go through. It makes me curious about his reasons. To be honest, I am slowly starting to become unsure if he would kill me at all."
He stopped here with his explanation and turned around to Isis before he continued.
"My journey to you has been to find out more about my abilities and my ancestors. These questions have been answered. I guess now it's time for me to find out more about my pursuer. And I doubt I'll get the answer at Atemu's grave, even though I already feel sorry that I have to leave you behind."
Seeing how Isis nodded her head in approval of Yuugi's words, Malik's defiant stance wilted and he let out a sigh of defeat.
"I guess you are the best person to judge that vampire of yours", the blonde admitted grudgingly. “Doesn't mean I have to like it, though."
"Fair enough", Yuugi agreed with a small smile before he turned back to Isis once more. "So, when I am supposed to leave?"
"Tomorrow morning will be the best time I can advise you to", the female Egyptian shifter answered seriously. "Your vampire will arrive at our place exactly one day after your departure. And if I may give you an advice about your next destination, Yuugi-kun - return home."
tbc...
