Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh. I wish I did. But no.
Author's notes: Alternate ending!! I know this isn't what happened, nor is it really anything close. Oh well. Oh, and I rewrote some stuff! Read and review!
Redemption
By Lasafara Fett
Yugi fell to the floor, his deck scattering to the wind.
"I…failed. I'm so sorry," he said softly, as a single tear fell softly from his eye. The faces of the ones he had tried so hard to save flashed before his eyes. His grandfather. Seto Kaiba. Mokubo Kaiba. And himself. And now, Pegasus had won. Again.
Pegasus stood above the fallen boy. "Now, remember our deal, Yugi-kun? Winner take all!" Laughing hysterically, he reached down, pulling Yugi's Millennium Puzzle from the chain it hung on. Then he pulled back the silky silver hair that fell in front of his left eye. Or rather, the hair that fell before where his left eye had once been. Now replaced with the Millennium Eye, it contained the power to entrap souls.
Tristan, Joey, and Tea all dashed forward, in a vain attempt to prevent the inevitable. They were too far back, too slow to save their friend. Stripped of his Millennium item and the spirit contained within it, Yugi was helpless before Pegasus. An indefinable presence wrapped itself around Yugi, and he felt himself being pulled away. And then, he was gone. All that was left was an empty shell, a dim reminder of the boy who had seemed so sure to win.
His three friends, on the other hand, were still in control of their souls, and were not happy.
"Bring him back! Bring Yugi back!" Joey raised his fist, as if he were prepared to call down lightning from the sky onto Pegasus. But Pegasus only laughed, resting his forehead in his hand.
"And what do you plan to do? You're not really planning on fighting me, are you Joey-kun? If your vaulted Yugi tried and failed, what makes you think you could do anything?"
The boy paused. There honestly wasn't much he could do. Nor was there anything the rest of them could do. And in the pause, there was a sense of helplessness. Joey slumped, before his friends came up next to him. But before they could back him up, Pegasus acted.
He clapped his hands, and a squad of security guards appeared. "Please escort my guests to the door. It appears that the contest is over, and I have won."
The men moved to obey. Yugi's friends attempted escape, but it was to no avail. The guards rounded them up and forcibly escorted them outside the palace. Joey and Tristan struggled against their captors, attempting to make it back to Yugi's body.
"You won't get away with this!" Tea shouted as she disappeared from Pegasus's sight.
"Oh, but I already have, little one," Pegasus chuckled under his breath.
Once he was alone, Pegasus sat down on the ground, looking for all the world like a child with a new toy to inspect. When his subordinates came in to check on him, he curtly ordered them away. They knew what to do in regards to KaibaCorp. He was busy.
For weeks, he worked at the Millennium Puzzle, attempting to crack its secrets. It had the power to grant him his deepest desire, and there was only one thing Pegasus lived for.
Joey, Tristan, and Tea spent their remaining time on the island coming up with rescue plans. None seemed feasible. Just having Yugi's body back would accomplish nothing, because they didn't have the means to return his soul to it. There was nothing they could think of that would convince Pegasus to grant Yugi his soul back.
Three months after his victory over Yugi, three months of working and wrestling with the Millennium Puzzle, Pegasus cracked it. Having a Millennium item himself, Pegasus had an advantage that other people did not. Finally it came to life for him and became his own. And with its deciphering came the only thing Pegasus had ever wanted.
Her.
She appeared, her flowing blonde hair encircling her body as a halo, as innocent and beautiful as she had ever been, without the devastation that had killed her.
"Cecelia? Ce-chan?"
"Peega-chan? Where am I?"
Not answering, with tears in his eyes, Pegasus stood up and enveloped her in his arms. She was here. She was finally here, and she was his.
When he finally pulled away, she stood there, a little confused, but she was with him. His eye softened.
"Peega-chan? What's that?" She ran a finger underneath his Millennium Eye.
"A replacement. I had an incident, and I needed a replacement." He didn't explain further, but she saw the pain in his soul.
"I've been away, haven't I?"
"All that matters is that you're here." Cupping her face in his hands, he met his nose with hers. "I won't let anything happen to you, ever again. I love you, my Ce-chan."
She moved slightly, and their lips met in a never-ending kiss.
Pegasus brushed his hand along his wife's cheek. She looked so beautiful, so peaceful in her sleep. Some small, almost impossibly small part of him had returned from her grave with her, and his heart was finally softening.
'It's not that I don't care, but that she was everything. Haven't they ever had something so precious, so dear that it could never leave?' He leaned down and kissed her lips, before settling back in the bed and wrapping an arm around her. Pegasus smiled softly as she instinctively curled up against him, and he fell asleep once more next to the one he loved.
To Be Continued