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Lost in the Waves
Chapter 1: Happily Ever Before
It was a dark night, and the bright light of the moon barely broke through the clouds to illuminate a boy running down Domino Pier from the town.
His hair shone as white as the moon, and tightly gripped in his left hand was a hastily folded burlap bag. As he ran down the beach it shook open, and a golden flash of light appeared that was hastily smothered by the boy as he shut the bag and clutched it closely to his chest.
Ignoring the numerous scrapes on his feet and legs he scrambled up a rock cliff looming over the ocean. He slowed as he neared the tip, his exhaustion clear. Panting slighty, he staggered toward the edge and glanced all around him, as if he had expected someone to have followed him. He glanced over the edge at the crashing waves below. His height above them was terrifying, and he reeled back when he finally glanced at the bag still held at his chest.
He carefully shook it so the object inside fell to the bottom, then tied a knot in the top to secure it. Then, carefully shuffling to the edge, he leaned back his arm, mustering all his strength, and hurled it over the edge. Silently through the night air it fell, and after a few long agonizing seconds it hit the water and sank swiftly, with a small splash.
Panting with exertion, the boy seemed misled. "That's it? I would have thought it would make a bigger splash…" he thought to himself. He had expected tidal waves rising up to illustrate the fury of the object in the water.
As he turned back to walk down the cliff, an unseen force dragged him along the ground. With horror, he realized that he was being dragged off the cliff, down to the water.
"It's the ring---" the thought ran across his mind as he fell over the edge and was pulled down to the water.
He hit the surface with devastating impact and was dragged underwater. Barely maintaining consciousness after the blow, he struggled against the water for air. And for freedom. At first his struggles were futile, indeed he could feel its grip, like icy hands, pulling him down, when the pressure of the ring began to drag on the cliff itself.
Boulders bigger than the boy fell into the water, nearly hitting him and landing directly onto the bag. Suddenly the force on the boy subsided, and he made it to the surface.
With large gasps he sucked in air, then swam with all his strength towards the shore, ignoring the pain in his legs and arms. At last staggering onto the wet sand, he sprinted away with newfound strength born of fear.
He disappeared into the night and the waves calmed, leaving no sign of the titanic struggle…
Several months later……..
"Joey, give it back!" a brown-haired girl yelled.
"Ah, c'mon. We're just having some fun!" yelled back a blond boy in swimming trunks.
Next to him a pointy-haired brunette named Tristan silently agreed.
The girl, Tea then took off in pursuit of Joey, who ran into the water, passing the inflated beach ball between him and Tristan.
"Sigh…they never learn" a small boy with multi-colored spiky hair laughed, and then turned to a tall girl next to him. "Has he ever, Serenity?"
"Nope"
"Oh well. Keeps things interesting, right Yami?"
Sitting on a towel in the sun, a nearly identical boy, with a large golden pendant around his neck, said, "Sure sure…"
Panting from his former sprint, Joey returned to Yugi's side and sat down, with the ball long gone and a handprint on his face. "Nothing like a good run!"
"Whatever you say, Jou" his sister responded.
"Say" he addressed Yugi, "When is Ryou coming back? He's already been in London for 3 weeks! I need him as a scapegoat for Tea!"
Tea, catching up with Jou, added, "Speaking of which, did he tell you that he was leaving, he didn't tell me! What was the rush?"
Deep in thought, Yugi returned quietly, "Maybe it had something to do with the ring. Didn't he just get it back from Malik?"
The last of the trio, Tristan arrived, dripping wet from being shoved into the ocean by Tea, "Actually, I asked him right before he got on the plane in the airport. He said that everything was under control. Maybe his…Yami..isn't in the ring anymore."
"Not likely", said Yugi's "twin", and everyone turned to him in surprise. "Right before we left the Battle Ship Marik warned me that he had escaped the Shadow Realm and had returned to the ring. So if everything is supposedly fine, Ryou must just have the ring under control."
"All he has to do is not wear it, anyway" yawned Joey.
"Hmmm" sighed Yami. He turned his gaze away from his friends, who began eagerly discussing what else to do over their summer vacation.
"Yami no Bakura. I haven't actually seen him since Battle City…" he closed his eyes and thought to himself, "Actually, it's been a while since I've seen anyone…"
Sensing through his mind link, which still remained to connect the two partners, Yugi turned to Yami anxiously and said, "Is everything okay? You seem upset about something."
"No, I'm fine. BC is over and everything's peaceful now, but it all seems so pointless now. Your school, vacation, what else is there to do?"
Yugi joked, "So you like it when the world is in danger?"
"No, but it's kind of boring now."
"Really? I think it's nice not to have the whole world on your shoulders. You need to relax once in a while."
Tea interrupted, "Hey guys! Anybody want to play volleyball with me?"
"Sure Tea!" Yugi yelled excitedly.
"Maybe later" Yami replied disinterestedly.
Yugi ran off after her down the beach, shouting over his shoulder, "See you later Yami!", leaving him alone on the towel facing the ocean.
Yami thought, "Relax huh…I can't relax! Everything seems peaceful now, but I can' forget that there are other Millenium spirits around, and likely with their own bodies! Ryou seems safe, he's in London now, but if the ring is still with him there aren't any guarantees of safety! The ring has tricked him before, back at Duelist Kingdom, it can always do it again."
He rolled over onto his back and looked at the pyramid-shaped puzzle hanging around his neck, then back out to the ocean. "Plus Marik and Malik are still out there. Marik's not so bad, but his counterpart is…unstable. Worse yet, I know he has his own body, cuz he's the one who showed us how to separate in the first place! But I wonder why he told us, I don't think it was to help me get out more…"
He looked up at the bright sun. "Dammit! Maybe I should call Ryou…no…I shouldn't bother him about it. He's visiting his father in who knows how long. Maybe I should got save Joey and Tristan instead…" A sweatdrop appeared on his head as he stared down the beach at the 2 boys, who were being held underwater by an irate Tea, with Serenity looking on in half-amusement/half-concern, with Yugi desperately trying to convince Tea to release them.
He chuckled lightly under his breath, "No guesses what they've been up to."
He strode down the sand toward the group to help out Joey and Tristan. The sun shining and reflecting off the ocean's waves gave off a golden sheen not necessarily that of the sky.
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