A/N: This is without a doubt an AU fic. In this fic, Yugi is 13, and duel monsters has been made at an earier
time. I'll also be using the japanese names for this fic, except for Bakura; his name stays Bakura, and his yami
will be known as...well, Yami Bakura! :P And Grandpa will be Jii-chan.
Oh, and when Yugi and Yami are talking to each other in the soul room, Yugi will be like this:
/blah/
And Yami:
//blah//
Disclaimer: I don't own Pegasus. I don't own Yami(even though I want to), I don't own the whole frigging show. Heck,
I don't even own a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards yet! So, don't sue me, I'm just writing this for fun, capeesh?
Plot: This is an AU, and Japan i ruled by the evil Pegasus, who's millieum eye is extremly close to full power! He
aimes to take over the world, but he wasn't expecting a boy named Yugi to solve the legendary Millieum Puzzle...
~What Lies In A Puzzle~
~Chapter 1~
"Why....oh, why does my life have to be like this?' Young Yugi Moto sobbed, inside of a darkened room. 'I wish..Pegasus
never came to my home.."
~Flashback~
Maximillion Pegasus smirked as forty more bodies hit the floor, totally lifeless. His millieum eye glemmed a bit, as the
power started to fade away from it's previous attack of stealing some more souls.
"I'd like to see if you have any army left, Japan," One of the hundreds of guards behind Pegasus said smoothly.
The small village outside of the city Osaka showed fear, as many faces looked out of their windows. They had no more
defences! They were now very vunerable for the evil creator of duel monster's attack.
"Bring all of the people out of their houses," Pegasus said calmly.
All of a sudden, almost all of the bodyguards started running towards the houses, and a few minutes later after each break in,
a family would be brought out, all with shackles on their wrists, and a look of sadness and dispair on their faces.
Meanwhile, one house at the end of the village was untouched. Inside, was a boy with spike black hair with magenta tips, with
blonde bangs, and innocent violet eyes. Behind him was his mother, with black hair and brown eyes. Both of them had the same
expression: fear and greif.
"Mom..what do we do now?" The twelve year old Yugi wimpered.
Yugi looked up to his mother, who was normally full of courage looked down at her son with sadness and fear. But who could blaim
him? Her own husband's soul was ripped away from him just a minute before, and he was their last hope against Pegasus. "We have
to hide, get out of here!"
Yugi gulped, and looked back outside. Pegasus's cold eyes made him shiver. Just then, Pegasus took a glance at Yugi. He froze.
'What?! That face!' he thought, 'He's..! I must destroy him!' Pegasus narrowed his eyes, but then closed them shut. 'No, I won't
why should I? He poses no threat to me. As long as he never gets the milliuem puzzle, he's just a scared little boy in a nightmare.'
"Oh, croquet," Pegasus said coolily, "You missed a house," He pointed over to Yugi's house.
The boy went white, as some more of Pegasus's goons raced towards his house. He wimpered a little, grasped onto his mother's hand.
"Mommy, I'm scared...!"
His mother gripped tightly onto Yugi's hand. "I've got an idea," she said softly, as she pulled her son away from the window. She
dragged Yugi away, and ran as fast as she could to the stairs. When she was halfway down them, they could hear the banging of their
door, and that it was nearly ready to be knocked off it's hidges. Yugi let out a yelp at this, and they reached the basement two
seconds later. Mrs. Moto looked around franticly, and found what she was looking for. She looked down at Yugi, and whispered to him
seriously, "Listen closely, Yugi. I want you to hide in that cabnet, your small enough to fit."
"But mom, what about you?" Yugi asked with a sad frown.
She half smiled. "Don't worry, I'm going to hide too." Yugi nodded uneasily, as his mom lifted him up, and opened the door to the musty
old cabnet, which made Yugi's nose wrinkle. Mrs.Moto put him on the biggest shelf, which was big enough for him to lay down balled up, in
which he was forced to do. "And remember, Yugi, not a sound." She warned, and Yugi nodded. She closed the cabnet shut, leaving Yugi in
total darkness. He closed his eyes, hearing some footsteps outside. Yugi held back a whimper; he was afraid of the dark. Barely a minute
later, Yugi's eyes opened widely to the sound of a high pitched scream.
"No, please! Stop!" Yugi's mom screamed again, making Yugi feel like crying. 'She couldn't get away..she hid me, and didn't have enough
time to hide herself!'
He heard the sound of metal snapping into each other, and some footsteps distancing. Yugi shut his eyes tightly, holding back tears.
"Mom.." he whispered.
It stayed quiet for a while, and Yugi started to cry a bit, trying to be as quiet as possible. They were without a doubt looking for him
around the house, and most likely had found Jii-chan, since he was already in the backyard, getting something that must have been very
important to him. 'I hate being alone,'
Suddenly, he heard some more footsteps, and they got closer and closer and closer, until..
"Ah-ha! Got ya, you little worm!" It was one of Pegasus's flunkies! Yugi screamed out in fear, as he traied to grasp onto Yugi's small body.
As soon as Yugi got pulled out, Yugi started to squirm around, kicking and screaming. "Let me go! Let me go! Mommy, help!!" He was kicking like
mad now, and managed to kick the guard in the gut, but only let go of Yugi out of surprise, since the young boy wasn't very strong. Yugi landed
on his knees, but got back up, almost unfased by the pain of the fall. He was so afraid, he just wanted to get out of there! He ran towards the
backdoor, which was wide open, and ran into the backyard.
"Run, Yugi!"
"Get out of here!"
Yugi turned his head to see his mom and his Jii-chan being held captive by some of Pegasus's guards, and they were trying to get to him, as they
were being dragged out of their own backyard.
"Mom, Jii-chan!" Yugi shouted, as some of the guards turned their heads towards the short boy.
"Get out of here, now! Go!" Jii-chan yelled.
"But-" Yugi was cut off by some guards running after him, and his mom calling out his name. Yugi yelped, and started running the other direction.
He stopped dead in his tracks, at the wooden fence. He gulped, and tried to push back his fear and he started to climb it. As he jumped down, he heard
some curses from the guards, and his white short sleeve button-up shirt rip at the bottom. He was about to do something about it, when he heard some
of the guards chasing him scrabble up the fence. "Eek!" shrieked Yugi, as the guards lunged for him. Yugi ran out into the road, and started running in
circles, trying to get away from them. He was much faster than the over-weight flunkies, so he kept ahead of them well, and he heard some laughter in
the backround.
"You fools, you can handle ten full grown men, but not a child?!" snarled Pegasus, quite aggitated.
"It's not our fault sir, he's really fast for a runt!" complained one of the flunkies, starting to get out of breath.
Pegasus sighed aggitated, and said, "Oh, croquet, get this over with already."
"Yes sir," The man named Croquet nodded, and ran towards Yugi. Poor Yugi was too busy to notice, since he was still running from the other guards. Then,
suddenly, the wind was knocked out of him, making him go into a coughing fit, as he was knocked down and pinned to the ground by Croquet. "I've got you
now, you punk!" Yugi closed his eyes tightly, and sobbed as shackles were places on his wrists. He tried moving around before, but the full grown man was
too strong for him. He was hoisted up afterwards, as some warm blood trickled down his left cheek and palms of his hands. He was pushed along by the man,
with a sad look on his face, and tears stained his face. "Don't worry, sir, I got 'im," Croquet said as he stopped in front of Pegasus.
Pegasus chuckled evilly, with a smirk on his face, as he looked down at the short boy. "Thought you could escape, hmm? Well, nobody gets away from me."
Yugi looked up at Pegasus, a look of sadness and angry on his face. He narrowed his violet eyes a bit at him, as he stared at him. He at his left eye clearly,
and saw to his surprise, it wasn't an eye at all; it was a piece of gold, made to look like a hyraglithic, in a shape of an eye. Yugi became almost lost in it,
finding that it seemed familiar to him. Yugi blinked as it shined, and turned away, getting pushed towards the line of people behind Pegasus. 'I'm sorry, mom,
I couldn't get away..'
~End Flashback~
That was a year ago. Yugi sobbed again, as he looked down at the gold pieces in his hands. 'Oh, Jii-chan I'm so sorry...'
~Flashback~
"You dare to question me, and the great Pegasus?!" A man who was giant-like barked at Yugi, with a whip clenched tightly in his hands. His sunglasses hid his ice
cold blue eyes, as he stared down at the boy.
"No, please, I just--" Yugi stuttered. All he wanted to know was why Pegasus had that strange eye instead of his real one. It was big a big mistake. Yugi screamed
out in pain, as the whip came crashing down on his back, knocking him to the ground. He started panting, trying to catch his breath, but had very little time, since
the whip came crashing on him again. He fell on his stomach, his face on the dirt ground, trying spit the dirt out of his mouth, as dirt stung his left eye. He waited
for the whip to crash on him again..it didn't, but he heard whiplash once more, and the sound of a cry of pain, from an older man. Way older. Yugi weakly looked up,
his left eye half closed, but the one good eye widened at what he saw.
"No..Jii-chan.." he mumbled to himself, as his Jii-chan stood in front of him, with a red mark across his stomach, where his shirt was ripped. He coughed up a little
blood.
"Leave Yugi alone.." Jii-chan said defencesively, "He's just a little boy, he shouldn't have to live through your anger, Akira."
Akira growled at Jii-chan. He glared at him, and said, "He should know his place. And so should you!" He lashed the whip out again at the old man, and on the head, knocking
him down. Akira lashed out his whip over and over again, until the old man couldn't stand up anymore. Lots of blood trailed from his wounds, and Yugi yelled out, "Ji--chan,
no!"
"Next time, keep your thoughts to yourself," Akira walked to other way.
Yugi crawled towards Jii-chan, and held onto his hand. "Why, Jii-chan, why did you do that..?"
Jii-chan opened his eyes a bit, and smiled. "Because, I couldn't bear it if anything happened to you." He stood up very slowly, and said weakly, "But I'm fine, really."
*A bit of time past, and Jii-chan wounds became infected, and he grew weaker and weaker, as an unknown disease took over..*
Jii-chan was laying down on a bit of cloth, inside the cell that himself, Yugi, and Yugi's mom lived in since they became slaves to Pegasus, inside his castle on duelist kingdom,
just outside of Japan. Jii-chan had gotten far worse as the days went by, and he couldn't stand up anymore. He was breathing hollowly, and Yugi and his mother were crying for him.
"Please..no.." Mrs. Moto whispered to herself. Jii-chan was her father, so it would make her even sadder since her husband was already dead, and they were all slaves to Pegasus.
Yugi was sobbing on Jii-chan's chest, when suddenly, he opened his eyes. "Yu..gi.." he said softly.
Yugi looked up, his violet eyes blood shot. "Jii-chan..?"
"Yugi.." Jii-chan started, "I have something...I need to give you.." Jii-chan shakily brought his hand to his pocket, where there was a square lump. He pulled out whatever was in it,
and showed it to Yugi. Yugi gasped, as he stared at it. It was a golden box, with the same symbol as Pegasus's eye!
"But that..." Yugi started.
"I know, Yugi, but believe me, there is nothing evil about it," Jii-chan smiled weakly, "It's anything but that. It's a puzzle. It belongs to you, Yugi."
"Me? B-but why?" Yugi asked.
"Ever since I found it on my very last dig in Egypt, before Pegasus came to our village, it always seemed to be warm whenever it came near you, and it even glowed a little. I knew it was
meant for you." Jii-chan coughed a little.
"In Egypt?"
Jii-chan nodded. "But please, Yugi...don't let Pegasus ever find this."
"W-why?"
"Because," Jii-chan breathed, "He wants it for some reason. He'll kill you if he does."
"K-kill me?!" shouted out Yugi. His mom hugged Yugi. "Dad, please don't tell that to him!"
"I'm just trying to warn him. But, Yugi, you might be our last.....hope...." Jii-chan coughed again, and gave the box the Yugi. "I love you both very much...." Jii-chan closed his eyes.
"Jii-chan? Jii-chan?! JII-CHAAAAN!!" Yugi shook his body, but it was useless. His loving Jii-chan had past away, and Yugi and his mother cried hard for a long time.
~End Flashback~
"It's been three months, Jii-chan...I miss you, so much...you were always there for me, you kept me smiling, and even when I didn't have friends...you were always mine.." Yugi said softly,
as a tear fell down his face. It fell on a puzzle piece, the one with the eye on it. It glowed slightly, but it faded away quickly. He was almost done the puzzle, and everything his placed
two more pieces together, he would think of his Jii-chan. He wished that Jii-chan was on the trip to Brazil like he was suppose to do a year ago, but didn't go because Yugi didn't want him
to go.
Click.
'It's my fault,' Yugi thought to himself. 'Jii-chan should have gone to Brazil...and I shouldn't have made trouble with the second in command of Pegasus's guards, Akira.'
Click.
'I want to help everyone...I want Pegasus to go away, then everything would be OK. He brought us here, and made all the children and women be his slaves, while all of the boys over 15 years old
become part of his army. Well, when I'm 15, there's no way I'm going to fight for him!' He shifted a bit ontop of the same cloth that Jii-chan died on. 'I'll die first.'
Click.
'Well, at least mom's still alive...but I wish she was here with me, but right now, she's working for Pegasus, washing the dishes or something!' Yugi grinted his teeth. 'The world and my family
is not safe as long as Pegasus is in power, somebody has to stop him! I want to...but what can I do?'
Click.
Yugi stared down at the puzzle pieces. "I'm...done..." The puzzle was like a necklace, and in a shape of a triangle, with the eye in the middle. 'I wish I could stop Pegasus...and I wish I wasn't..
so alone. I want a friend.'
The puzzle seemed to glow at this. Yugi's violet eyes widened, and the eye on it suddenly started to glow. "What the..?" Yugi suddenly became mesmerised by the eye, just like that day a year ago when
he looked at Pegasus's millieum eye, only this time, the stare was warm, and not cold and evil. Yugi's eyes softened, as the eye seemed to scan him, of his very soul, and a rainbow eye appeared on his
forehead. A gust of wind, a blinding light, and Yugi let out a cry, feeling a burst of energy flow through him, and knocking him out of his trance. He fell back, and everything suddenly became dark.
A bit of time past by, and he slowly opened his eyes. He groaned a little, and sat up. He shook his head, trying to get the numbness out of it. After the numbness went away, he held onto his head,
feeling like something had just hit him, hard. He looked down, and saw the puzzle. It wasn't glowing anymore. 'What just happened here..?' Yugi wondered. He remembered a bright light, and the eye of his
puzzle glowing, but the rest was a blank to him. He shook his head again, clearing it. 'Whatever that was, it's gone now.' He stared at the puzzle, and picked it up again. It felt warm. He half smiled,
and as if drawn to it, placed it over his head. It felt a bit heavy on him, but not uncomfortable; he just really never worn anything around his neck before, besides on special occassions a neck choker.
He noticed it fell close to his heart, and smiled a little more. 'Now I'll always have Jii-chan close to me..' Yugi looked around, and saw that his mother wasn't back yet. But by the looks outside the
very small window, it was night time. 'Please come back soon..' he thought, as he layed back down on the cloth, and went to sleep.
//...Well, one thing's for sure: I'm not in Egypt anymore...//
~To Be Continued...~
A/N:Pleeeease don't be mad at me, Jii-chan and Yugi fans! Gomen! But I hope you guys found this interesting! Arigatou for reading, and please review! ^^
time. I'll also be using the japanese names for this fic, except for Bakura; his name stays Bakura, and his yami
will be known as...well, Yami Bakura! :P And Grandpa will be Jii-chan.
Oh, and when Yugi and Yami are talking to each other in the soul room, Yugi will be like this:
/blah/
And Yami:
//blah//
Disclaimer: I don't own Pegasus. I don't own Yami(even though I want to), I don't own the whole frigging show. Heck,
I don't even own a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards yet! So, don't sue me, I'm just writing this for fun, capeesh?
Plot: This is an AU, and Japan i ruled by the evil Pegasus, who's millieum eye is extremly close to full power! He
aimes to take over the world, but he wasn't expecting a boy named Yugi to solve the legendary Millieum Puzzle...
~What Lies In A Puzzle~
~Chapter 1~
"Why....oh, why does my life have to be like this?' Young Yugi Moto sobbed, inside of a darkened room. 'I wish..Pegasus
never came to my home.."
~Flashback~
Maximillion Pegasus smirked as forty more bodies hit the floor, totally lifeless. His millieum eye glemmed a bit, as the
power started to fade away from it's previous attack of stealing some more souls.
"I'd like to see if you have any army left, Japan," One of the hundreds of guards behind Pegasus said smoothly.
The small village outside of the city Osaka showed fear, as many faces looked out of their windows. They had no more
defences! They were now very vunerable for the evil creator of duel monster's attack.
"Bring all of the people out of their houses," Pegasus said calmly.
All of a sudden, almost all of the bodyguards started running towards the houses, and a few minutes later after each break in,
a family would be brought out, all with shackles on their wrists, and a look of sadness and dispair on their faces.
Meanwhile, one house at the end of the village was untouched. Inside, was a boy with spike black hair with magenta tips, with
blonde bangs, and innocent violet eyes. Behind him was his mother, with black hair and brown eyes. Both of them had the same
expression: fear and greif.
"Mom..what do we do now?" The twelve year old Yugi wimpered.
Yugi looked up to his mother, who was normally full of courage looked down at her son with sadness and fear. But who could blaim
him? Her own husband's soul was ripped away from him just a minute before, and he was their last hope against Pegasus. "We have
to hide, get out of here!"
Yugi gulped, and looked back outside. Pegasus's cold eyes made him shiver. Just then, Pegasus took a glance at Yugi. He froze.
'What?! That face!' he thought, 'He's..! I must destroy him!' Pegasus narrowed his eyes, but then closed them shut. 'No, I won't
why should I? He poses no threat to me. As long as he never gets the milliuem puzzle, he's just a scared little boy in a nightmare.'
"Oh, croquet," Pegasus said coolily, "You missed a house," He pointed over to Yugi's house.
The boy went white, as some more of Pegasus's goons raced towards his house. He wimpered a little, grasped onto his mother's hand.
"Mommy, I'm scared...!"
His mother gripped tightly onto Yugi's hand. "I've got an idea," she said softly, as she pulled her son away from the window. She
dragged Yugi away, and ran as fast as she could to the stairs. When she was halfway down them, they could hear the banging of their
door, and that it was nearly ready to be knocked off it's hidges. Yugi let out a yelp at this, and they reached the basement two
seconds later. Mrs. Moto looked around franticly, and found what she was looking for. She looked down at Yugi, and whispered to him
seriously, "Listen closely, Yugi. I want you to hide in that cabnet, your small enough to fit."
"But mom, what about you?" Yugi asked with a sad frown.
She half smiled. "Don't worry, I'm going to hide too." Yugi nodded uneasily, as his mom lifted him up, and opened the door to the musty
old cabnet, which made Yugi's nose wrinkle. Mrs.Moto put him on the biggest shelf, which was big enough for him to lay down balled up, in
which he was forced to do. "And remember, Yugi, not a sound." She warned, and Yugi nodded. She closed the cabnet shut, leaving Yugi in
total darkness. He closed his eyes, hearing some footsteps outside. Yugi held back a whimper; he was afraid of the dark. Barely a minute
later, Yugi's eyes opened widely to the sound of a high pitched scream.
"No, please! Stop!" Yugi's mom screamed again, making Yugi feel like crying. 'She couldn't get away..she hid me, and didn't have enough
time to hide herself!'
He heard the sound of metal snapping into each other, and some footsteps distancing. Yugi shut his eyes tightly, holding back tears.
"Mom.." he whispered.
It stayed quiet for a while, and Yugi started to cry a bit, trying to be as quiet as possible. They were without a doubt looking for him
around the house, and most likely had found Jii-chan, since he was already in the backyard, getting something that must have been very
important to him. 'I hate being alone,'
Suddenly, he heard some more footsteps, and they got closer and closer and closer, until..
"Ah-ha! Got ya, you little worm!" It was one of Pegasus's flunkies! Yugi screamed out in fear, as he traied to grasp onto Yugi's small body.
As soon as Yugi got pulled out, Yugi started to squirm around, kicking and screaming. "Let me go! Let me go! Mommy, help!!" He was kicking like
mad now, and managed to kick the guard in the gut, but only let go of Yugi out of surprise, since the young boy wasn't very strong. Yugi landed
on his knees, but got back up, almost unfased by the pain of the fall. He was so afraid, he just wanted to get out of there! He ran towards the
backdoor, which was wide open, and ran into the backyard.
"Run, Yugi!"
"Get out of here!"
Yugi turned his head to see his mom and his Jii-chan being held captive by some of Pegasus's guards, and they were trying to get to him, as they
were being dragged out of their own backyard.
"Mom, Jii-chan!" Yugi shouted, as some of the guards turned their heads towards the short boy.
"Get out of here, now! Go!" Jii-chan yelled.
"But-" Yugi was cut off by some guards running after him, and his mom calling out his name. Yugi yelped, and started running the other direction.
He stopped dead in his tracks, at the wooden fence. He gulped, and tried to push back his fear and he started to climb it. As he jumped down, he heard
some curses from the guards, and his white short sleeve button-up shirt rip at the bottom. He was about to do something about it, when he heard some
of the guards chasing him scrabble up the fence. "Eek!" shrieked Yugi, as the guards lunged for him. Yugi ran out into the road, and started running in
circles, trying to get away from them. He was much faster than the over-weight flunkies, so he kept ahead of them well, and he heard some laughter in
the backround.
"You fools, you can handle ten full grown men, but not a child?!" snarled Pegasus, quite aggitated.
"It's not our fault sir, he's really fast for a runt!" complained one of the flunkies, starting to get out of breath.
Pegasus sighed aggitated, and said, "Oh, croquet, get this over with already."
"Yes sir," The man named Croquet nodded, and ran towards Yugi. Poor Yugi was too busy to notice, since he was still running from the other guards. Then,
suddenly, the wind was knocked out of him, making him go into a coughing fit, as he was knocked down and pinned to the ground by Croquet. "I've got you
now, you punk!" Yugi closed his eyes tightly, and sobbed as shackles were places on his wrists. He tried moving around before, but the full grown man was
too strong for him. He was hoisted up afterwards, as some warm blood trickled down his left cheek and palms of his hands. He was pushed along by the man,
with a sad look on his face, and tears stained his face. "Don't worry, sir, I got 'im," Croquet said as he stopped in front of Pegasus.
Pegasus chuckled evilly, with a smirk on his face, as he looked down at the short boy. "Thought you could escape, hmm? Well, nobody gets away from me."
Yugi looked up at Pegasus, a look of sadness and angry on his face. He narrowed his violet eyes a bit at him, as he stared at him. He at his left eye clearly,
and saw to his surprise, it wasn't an eye at all; it was a piece of gold, made to look like a hyraglithic, in a shape of an eye. Yugi became almost lost in it,
finding that it seemed familiar to him. Yugi blinked as it shined, and turned away, getting pushed towards the line of people behind Pegasus. 'I'm sorry, mom,
I couldn't get away..'
~End Flashback~
That was a year ago. Yugi sobbed again, as he looked down at the gold pieces in his hands. 'Oh, Jii-chan I'm so sorry...'
~Flashback~
"You dare to question me, and the great Pegasus?!" A man who was giant-like barked at Yugi, with a whip clenched tightly in his hands. His sunglasses hid his ice
cold blue eyes, as he stared down at the boy.
"No, please, I just--" Yugi stuttered. All he wanted to know was why Pegasus had that strange eye instead of his real one. It was big a big mistake. Yugi screamed
out in pain, as the whip came crashing down on his back, knocking him to the ground. He started panting, trying to catch his breath, but had very little time, since
the whip came crashing on him again. He fell on his stomach, his face on the dirt ground, trying spit the dirt out of his mouth, as dirt stung his left eye. He waited
for the whip to crash on him again..it didn't, but he heard whiplash once more, and the sound of a cry of pain, from an older man. Way older. Yugi weakly looked up,
his left eye half closed, but the one good eye widened at what he saw.
"No..Jii-chan.." he mumbled to himself, as his Jii-chan stood in front of him, with a red mark across his stomach, where his shirt was ripped. He coughed up a little
blood.
"Leave Yugi alone.." Jii-chan said defencesively, "He's just a little boy, he shouldn't have to live through your anger, Akira."
Akira growled at Jii-chan. He glared at him, and said, "He should know his place. And so should you!" He lashed the whip out again at the old man, and on the head, knocking
him down. Akira lashed out his whip over and over again, until the old man couldn't stand up anymore. Lots of blood trailed from his wounds, and Yugi yelled out, "Ji--chan,
no!"
"Next time, keep your thoughts to yourself," Akira walked to other way.
Yugi crawled towards Jii-chan, and held onto his hand. "Why, Jii-chan, why did you do that..?"
Jii-chan opened his eyes a bit, and smiled. "Because, I couldn't bear it if anything happened to you." He stood up very slowly, and said weakly, "But I'm fine, really."
*A bit of time past, and Jii-chan wounds became infected, and he grew weaker and weaker, as an unknown disease took over..*
Jii-chan was laying down on a bit of cloth, inside the cell that himself, Yugi, and Yugi's mom lived in since they became slaves to Pegasus, inside his castle on duelist kingdom,
just outside of Japan. Jii-chan had gotten far worse as the days went by, and he couldn't stand up anymore. He was breathing hollowly, and Yugi and his mother were crying for him.
"Please..no.." Mrs. Moto whispered to herself. Jii-chan was her father, so it would make her even sadder since her husband was already dead, and they were all slaves to Pegasus.
Yugi was sobbing on Jii-chan's chest, when suddenly, he opened his eyes. "Yu..gi.." he said softly.
Yugi looked up, his violet eyes blood shot. "Jii-chan..?"
"Yugi.." Jii-chan started, "I have something...I need to give you.." Jii-chan shakily brought his hand to his pocket, where there was a square lump. He pulled out whatever was in it,
and showed it to Yugi. Yugi gasped, as he stared at it. It was a golden box, with the same symbol as Pegasus's eye!
"But that..." Yugi started.
"I know, Yugi, but believe me, there is nothing evil about it," Jii-chan smiled weakly, "It's anything but that. It's a puzzle. It belongs to you, Yugi."
"Me? B-but why?" Yugi asked.
"Ever since I found it on my very last dig in Egypt, before Pegasus came to our village, it always seemed to be warm whenever it came near you, and it even glowed a little. I knew it was
meant for you." Jii-chan coughed a little.
"In Egypt?"
Jii-chan nodded. "But please, Yugi...don't let Pegasus ever find this."
"W-why?"
"Because," Jii-chan breathed, "He wants it for some reason. He'll kill you if he does."
"K-kill me?!" shouted out Yugi. His mom hugged Yugi. "Dad, please don't tell that to him!"
"I'm just trying to warn him. But, Yugi, you might be our last.....hope...." Jii-chan coughed again, and gave the box the Yugi. "I love you both very much...." Jii-chan closed his eyes.
"Jii-chan? Jii-chan?! JII-CHAAAAN!!" Yugi shook his body, but it was useless. His loving Jii-chan had past away, and Yugi and his mother cried hard for a long time.
~End Flashback~
"It's been three months, Jii-chan...I miss you, so much...you were always there for me, you kept me smiling, and even when I didn't have friends...you were always mine.." Yugi said softly,
as a tear fell down his face. It fell on a puzzle piece, the one with the eye on it. It glowed slightly, but it faded away quickly. He was almost done the puzzle, and everything his placed
two more pieces together, he would think of his Jii-chan. He wished that Jii-chan was on the trip to Brazil like he was suppose to do a year ago, but didn't go because Yugi didn't want him
to go.
Click.
'It's my fault,' Yugi thought to himself. 'Jii-chan should have gone to Brazil...and I shouldn't have made trouble with the second in command of Pegasus's guards, Akira.'
Click.
'I want to help everyone...I want Pegasus to go away, then everything would be OK. He brought us here, and made all the children and women be his slaves, while all of the boys over 15 years old
become part of his army. Well, when I'm 15, there's no way I'm going to fight for him!' He shifted a bit ontop of the same cloth that Jii-chan died on. 'I'll die first.'
Click.
'Well, at least mom's still alive...but I wish she was here with me, but right now, she's working for Pegasus, washing the dishes or something!' Yugi grinted his teeth. 'The world and my family
is not safe as long as Pegasus is in power, somebody has to stop him! I want to...but what can I do?'
Click.
Yugi stared down at the puzzle pieces. "I'm...done..." The puzzle was like a necklace, and in a shape of a triangle, with the eye in the middle. 'I wish I could stop Pegasus...and I wish I wasn't..
so alone. I want a friend.'
The puzzle seemed to glow at this. Yugi's violet eyes widened, and the eye on it suddenly started to glow. "What the..?" Yugi suddenly became mesmerised by the eye, just like that day a year ago when
he looked at Pegasus's millieum eye, only this time, the stare was warm, and not cold and evil. Yugi's eyes softened, as the eye seemed to scan him, of his very soul, and a rainbow eye appeared on his
forehead. A gust of wind, a blinding light, and Yugi let out a cry, feeling a burst of energy flow through him, and knocking him out of his trance. He fell back, and everything suddenly became dark.
A bit of time past by, and he slowly opened his eyes. He groaned a little, and sat up. He shook his head, trying to get the numbness out of it. After the numbness went away, he held onto his head,
feeling like something had just hit him, hard. He looked down, and saw the puzzle. It wasn't glowing anymore. 'What just happened here..?' Yugi wondered. He remembered a bright light, and the eye of his
puzzle glowing, but the rest was a blank to him. He shook his head again, clearing it. 'Whatever that was, it's gone now.' He stared at the puzzle, and picked it up again. It felt warm. He half smiled,
and as if drawn to it, placed it over his head. It felt a bit heavy on him, but not uncomfortable; he just really never worn anything around his neck before, besides on special occassions a neck choker.
He noticed it fell close to his heart, and smiled a little more. 'Now I'll always have Jii-chan close to me..' Yugi looked around, and saw that his mother wasn't back yet. But by the looks outside the
very small window, it was night time. 'Please come back soon..' he thought, as he layed back down on the cloth, and went to sleep.
//...Well, one thing's for sure: I'm not in Egypt anymore...//
~To Be Continued...~
A/N:Pleeeease don't be mad at me, Jii-chan and Yugi fans! Gomen! But I hope you guys found this interesting! Arigatou for reading, and please review! ^^