Hello!!! I know, I know, no need to scold at me!!! I know I have to finish Iggligliot first and then need to start on a new story, but I had this in mind. It are going to be short chapters, most of the time not more then 1500 words or so. But because it's the first chapter: it are more words because of what I've written above. It really depends on how I feel like. Anyway, it does mean a quicker update, I hope.

I'm still working on Iggligliot, but I don't know how to describe Yugi's death yet. Not fully that is. It's almost finished and you can see it updated later on this week. First I want to present my other story: Swan Lake. No, not the Disney Swan Lake, in which I still believe that the Prince is a horrible romanticus and he has no feeling in the whole story and she, the princess, is a total disaster. (I did like the idea for the story of undying love).

Anyway, I like swans as well, especially black swans. And after I read a short story on FF, that was named Swan Lake as well, but had Yami/Jonouchi in it, I wanted to write another story with Swans. Hence, Swan Lake, because of lack for a better title that has to do with Swans.

Anyway, I hope you all will enjoy my new story. Please don't flame me and I hope this is going to be a succes. (sigh)
(Deep breath)

Enjoy!!


Swan Lake, The Swan Prince.
Not Disney's 'Swan Lake'. But a love that has been destroyed. Yugi Muto helps to restore the Fairytal Love, after he gets a Spirit visiting him.

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Chapter 1,
The Spirit

A young man, 18 and very handsome, sighed softly. The library he was in, was quiet. Nobody dared to speak, nobody dared to even look at one another. But he saw them, once outside, sighing relieved and screaming. Because they could talk again, they were allowed to; now they were outside again.

Amethyst eyes looked at the many books which were calmly standing and the young man touched them. A smile played on his face, a face that was surrounded by blond bangs. A face that was cute, but had something wise as well. Suddenly, his amethyst eyes fell onto a pitch-black book, bundled in real leather. Carefully he picked the notebook from out of the other books, getting it out from it's hiding place. Another smile played on his sweet face as soft hands turned the book to get a better look at it. He opened it and gasped, the words were handwritten… This couldn't be, they lived in the 21st Century, books weren't handwritten anymore. The young man was about to return the book at the lady of the library, until he read the first few words.

My love. It hasn't been that long ago since I held you in my arms. You were my undying love and I wished I had been able to tell you this. Now, we are ripped from one another, but to keep your memory mine… My love, please hear my promise: I will see you again.

Amethyst eyes widened as he walked over to the lady of the library. He waited in line, still looking at the first few words. Still admireing the smooth handwriting and the soft gentle touches of the pencil.

"Next?", the lady asked, whispering her word. The young man looked up, snapped out of his musings and he laid the notebook down on the counter.

"I would like to have this one", he said, also whispering. The lady looked at him.

"Yugi, right? This is a book I have never seen before and I remember every book there is in this library. I know all books in my library. Don't pull jokes with me young man. Take your book with you and go home", the lady said. Yugi stared at her and then grabbed the notebook, before she would change her mind, and walked away.

He never saw her eyes turn back to their normal colour.

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"Grandfather? I'm home!!", Yugi called out as he entered the shop, followed by the shining sun and a warm summerbreeze. An elder looked up with a pleasant smile on his face. Yugi hugged his grandfather as he lay the notebook down on the counter.

"It's good to see you home, child", the elder said. Yugi pouted and let go of his grandfather with a small blush on his face.

"I'm not a child", Yugi said, but the elder chuckled as he looked at the book Yugi brought back home. Solomon Muto was glad that his grandchild was spending more time in the library than behind his laptop. Books were more important, they extended the need to fantasize about everything.

"I got it from the library, but Nana-sama said that she had never ordered this book. Look, it's handwritten", Yugi said and his grandfather opened the first page of the book. The page was empty. His grandfather looked at Yugi who stared at the first page with wide, amethyst eyes. Solomon ruffled his grandchild through his spikey hair, which was black and tipped in an amethyst colour. Just like his beautiful eyes.

"There was something written there! I swear it grandpa!", Yugi said, taking the book from his grandfather as he stared at the first page. He skipped through the pages, but he found nothing. No ink, no words, no nothing.

"I think you need some rest, Yugi", Solomon said softly. Yugi looked at his grandfather and sighed deep. He smiled a little bit and rubbed his head.

"Maybe I was dreaming", Yugi said as he walked up the staircase. Solomon shook his head as Yugi left the shop he was running. Solomon sighed, but then looked up as a small breeze passed him. For a minute old, purple eyes opened wide, but then it was gone. Solomon shook his head, this couldn't be true. He just did not see a mini-swan flying up the staircase after his grandson. Nope, absolutly not.

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At night, Yugi wasn't sleeping. All day long he had flipped through the pages of the book he found at the library, but so far, he hadn't found anything. He had eventually gone crazy, he wanted to know what the story was about. He wanted to know if everything would end happily ever after, because the first few lines he had read from the book were still troubling him. Softly Yugi sighed and turned to his side and looking at his desk, where the notebook lay.

A ghostly hand lay upon the black, leatherbound book. Attatched to that hand were fingers and an arm. Yugi traced the arm with his wide, amethyst eyes, following the clothes wrinkles to a lithe body dressed in royal robes. But Yugi could only stare at the man who stood in his room. It was as if the man was glowing, but then again, Yugi could look right through him as well.

Yugi screamed, drawing attention upon himself. Fierce, rose-red eyes looked at him, staring at him with a sad expression. A curious one as well and a dreamy smile on his tanned face. The man's hair was like Yugi's: blond bangs framing the man's face, but they also shot up his raven-black hair that was lined with the same colour of his eyes. Yugi stopped screaming as the man looked away from him, softly stroking the leatherbound book, still with that dreamy smile on his tanned face.

"What are you doing?", Yugi asked, raising up from his bed and walking over to his desk. He saw the book being stroked and the man had such a sweet and loving smile on the tanned man's face, that Yugi couldn't grab the book from his desk and hide away under his blankets.

"You set me free from the book. You must have a True Heart", the man said, once again looking at Yugi. Yugi stared into those rose-red eyes and he could see the passion for life in them. Those eyes were an open window to read this man's emotions, to read this man's soul.

"Set- Set you free? How is that possible? You weren't here yet before I wanted to go to sleep. Before I had the book in my hands or even when I had the book in my hands. I just see you now and what are you?? A ghost?", Yugi asked. The tanned man looked at Yugi and stroked the book again, as if it was the softest cheek he was touching. Yugi blushed at his insane thoughts, but the man had never heard them. Yugi watched at how the man walked passed by him and sat down on his bed.

"My name is Atemu and I'm a lost Soul. You freed my Soul with your True Heart. That's also why you found that book, wherever you might have found it", the man said softly. Yugi sat down beside him, the notebook in his hands.

"You want to tell me that you were locked up in this book?", Yugi asked softly. Atemu nodded and pity took over Yugi's emotions. Softly he laid a hand on Atemu's shoulder and he was surprised to find out that he could actually touch him. Atemu looked at him and Yugi could tell he was was almost crying. Yugi gave him the notebook and Atemu smiled at it.

"A long time ago, I was the Prince of Latarna. It was a small land, the borders running across dead land. My castle was made of white stones and red roofs. The windows were large and colourful, as were the gardens near the lake. I loved hunting, the thrill was everything because it made me feel alive. One time, I couldn't bare to shoot a swan, a black one with a crimson spot on it's forehead. The swan had been so close-by that I could've killed it easily, but there was something about him that made my inner struggle with my Soul", Atemu said softly, as if he was speaking to no one. But Yugi heard him and smiled.

"You wanted to write your story down, didn't you? You wanted to see your lover again", Yugi whispered.

"Yes. My lover… the sweetest man in the whole world. The most handsome beauty ever seen. His name was Yami, and it fit him well. Knowing he was a Black Swan", Atemu said and smiled at the shining stars.

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The End!! No, I'm kidding. Just wanted to make sure you guys made it through the first chapter!! Good luck with chapter 2!!