Man Hunt

well u voted, and trying to make out your reviews, I do believe that the spooky trail one… which is wat I was hoping for because this path makes for a more interesting story! And now to get to ur reviews!

Eres: I think…there will be another ryou/marik/Bakura, then maybe a malik… just thinking about ryou and having a good time… ;) …a malik/ryou, a Bakura/marik.. then if I can fit it in, maybe a malik/marik/Bakura/ryou…

happy yaoi lover: thanx for ur vote

crazieanimefan1: sounds good…I’ll do it!

.... (um I hope I got that right): thx for ur vote

Anon: thx for your vote

Malik chick: hm… sounds good…thx for ur vote

Catty: sure catty…as you wish..
Me: get your arse over here baku-kun!
Bakura: and y should I listen to u?
Me: I swear if you don’t, ra help me, I’ll write you and anzu having ‘fun’
Bakura: you wouldn’t dare!
Me: *pulls out quill and parchment* watch me…
Bakura: *kisses artimus quickly* I’m sorry baby…
Me: its k, u know I love you my dark angel

Elle-Fate2x1: thank you… it doeck fck for them….heh

Here we go…

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(Ryou)

I sigh… there’s nothing we can do to… we just have to take the chance.

I look at the road again, too manyicesices for comfort. I have to think… ok… If I was a demon who wanted to toy with humans, what would I do? I can’t take this any more, I wish I knew.

All these things they make no sense, what could I do to save my friend. The answer to this puzzle is so…

“Simple” Malik says.

“What do you mean?” I ask Malik staring at him through the darkness.

“Its reverse psychology, our instinct is to go to the safest looking path… the one to the right... the well kept one… this is what they would want because they want us. The normal one wouldn’t catch or attention enough and the spooky one would scare us. So we would avoid the spooky looking trail and take either the road ahead or the safe looking path. Both of those paths will lead to our capture… so the one we should take is the spooky path” Malik said with a thoughtful expression on his face.

“I lost you” I said as I climbed to my feet slowly.

“The closer we are to danger the farther we are from harm” Malik said quoting the lord of the rings movie he so enjoyed.

I just shrugged and followed him. The road is so unkempt, the path is full of sharp rocks, I must remember to walk carefully. There are thorn vines snaking around the trees and along the path. Their sharp points as long as my pointer finger. The sky is much darker as the trees hold their dead branches over our heads.

Malik walks ahead of me… he looks so unafraid. How can he be so brave? I close my eyes, hoping the whole thing will pass me by. I open my eyes again and I could sense the things in the shadows staring at me and Malik with hungry eyes.

I would bet my tail that two of those pair of eyes belongs to Marik and Bakura. I walk and…hey… what’s this?

I pick up a paper cup; this is the paper cup Malik threw out the window on our way here. What a litter bug, all because his sister cleaned up for him he thinks he can litter the…wait…

This means were on the right road. I’m so happy. I run a little faster and pass Malik, I can smell water ahead too, the bridge we past on the way in to the woods is definitely up ahead. So close to freedom, Malik is running to keep up with me. I hop over all the little obstacles in my way, maybe its because its deeper in to the night… maybe its because I’m discovering my own abilities.

Unless it’s because I’m becoming more like a cat…. I hope its not that reason…I really hope that’s not the reason.

I hear a little yell and a thunk as I’m running. I turn to see Malik down on the floor, one of the spiky vines is tangled around his foot, and apparently he tripped. Strange… why didn’t I trip? That looks like a large vine.

I walk back to Malik whose just laying on the ground, tears forming in his eyes. I take a closer look as his foot. No damage to the ankle, he looks fine.

But wait… I can smell blood in the air. The smell is so strong… I know not much blood has been spilt but…still… I think I can smell it better because of what Bakura did to me.

The aroma smells sweet… teasing… I help Malik up and search for the injury. Sticking out of his arm is one on the biggest spikes on any vine I’ve passed so far. Blood is slowly spilling out of it, Malik is biting his lip. Trying desperately not to scream out in pain.

I break the vine attached to the large thorn. I gently pull Malik to me. He starts sobbing on my chest. I reach over and touch his arm. I feel him flinch and sob harder. I was such a fool for running, why didn’t I slow down to let Malik catch up?

I guess I was just too caught up in my own desire to become free. I close my eyes to, readying my self for my task. I open my eyes, focus on the thorn and rip it out of Malik’s flesh. He screams in to my shirt and I wrap my arms around him holding him tighter to my body.

I throw the thorn in to the bushes and hear the scramble for blood thirsty creature to reach the spike first. It disgusted me...but… it had smelled so sweet. Now I’m regretting throwing the thorn away.

I help Malik to his feet. He starts limping as we walk… he might have twisted his ankle. I let him lean on me; the road starts to become smoother. So close, hold on Malik, we’re almost there.

The smell, that sweet smell is making me thirsty now. I just want to taste a bit of it. I don’t think Malik will mind. He just leans on me and limps; I think he would understand if I took just a little lick.

I bend over Malik’s wound and put my lips to it. I hear Malik hiss from the pain, I can tell he’s staring at me now… probably shocked.

I can hear Marik’s voice in my head, “Take him, feast on him my little puppet, take all you wish then come home to nap. Abi senef, miew khered.”

I understood that… he told me to take blood, because I was his cat child. I bite down in to Malik’s wound; I feel my fangs sink in. Sweet blood. Malik is trying to push me off now, but I hold him there with incredible strength I never before possessed.

Nothing is better then this human’s blood…I…wait… what am I saying? I’m human too!

I release Malik; I can hear his screams now. I guess I hadn’t noticed it when I was drinking his blood.

Malik falls back and stares at me in horror. I can see in to his eyes, I can see in to those reflective depths. I see my self, my eyes glowing red as the blood I drank, my tail swinging back and forth, my ears standing at alert for any danger. I was a monster.

I look just like Bakura…no…I…I don’t want to be a demon…no…

I fall to the floor, shedding tears all over the cold hard ground. What have I done? What did I do to my Malik? I put my hand to my lips and look at his blood on my finger tips. His blood is on my hand, I put my finger back to my lips and suck the blood off.

My eyes fly open in shock. What am I doing!? Why did I do that! I’m scared. I’m scared for Malik. I’m scared for my self.

I’m scared of my self…

Malik watches me. He watches me cry in the dark of this accursed forest. Slowly he crawls over to me. I pull away.

“Stay away! I don’t want to hurt you again!” I yell as I crawl away from Malik.

“But, we have to make It out of here together…” Malik says as he comes closer to me again.

“No! I don’t deserve to! I can’t believe I did that to you. Some where in side of me I heard your screams, your pleas for me to stop...I…I eed ted them. I liked the taste of your blood. You can’t trust me not to do that again. You have to go on with out me” I say as I pull my self to my feet and start walking away.

I feel arms wrap around me. “I can’t do that… I love you” Malik whispers.

I feel my body go rigid. Did…did he just say he loved me? I turn around and look in to his eyes. He does, I can see it… why haven’t I noticed it before?

“I wont let you go, I don’t care if you try that again… inside myself I liked it. Not that I would have it again any time soon, but, what I’m saying is, if you don’t go… I wont either. No life is a life with out you. And I would be honored if you were the one who ate me” He said with a little blush to his cheeks.

I kissed him, snaking my tongue in to his mouth, I held him against me, my tongue dominating over his, Pushing my mouth in to his. I needed to feel his lips press against mine with great urgency.

I broke the kiss and started licking the tears off his face, the tears he cried for me, that I would love him so. That I would return his love. I went back to kissing him, this time planting kisses lightly all over his face, running my hands through his hair.

How badly I needed him, how much I wanted him. I suddenly heard a growl form the bushes. I quickly held Malik to me, wrapping my hands around me protectively.

We have to go… we have to run now! I grab Malik’s arm and start dragging in him through the path. I look down at my watch. Not much time left.

I see a bridge ahead. Its large steel frames painted a rusty red. The paint staring to peel off. I saw the wooden floor of that bridge, the polished floor f your salvation.

Run faster!

I turn around to see to large shadows right behind us. They look like some type of large three tail fox, or maybe a shadowy wolf of some kind. The only thing I can tell for sure is that they’re almost as tall as me.

The sun!

I see it rising over mountains. Over the large green trees, it slowly spills its light over the forest. Heading toward me faster then the two large shadow creatures.

I run faster pushing Malik, to run faster then he ever did in his whole life. Not enough time. I pick Malik up and throw him through the bridge. He lands in the dirt, tumbling across the bridge before looking up at me.

Not enough time. I see the shadow creatures disappear, and then I feel the warm rays of the sun on me. Never had I hated the light of day so.

“Malik!!!” I scream as I feel myself disappearing.

“Malik I love y-“ was all I got out before the sun light engulfed me

I disappeared in to the dark.

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What did ya think? Don’t worry… this story isn’t over yet. The next chappy will be Malik’s struggle to reclaim Ryou. Please review what you think.