AN:
I stated on my first R&M fanfiction that I would probably also post some of my older stuff if people liked my works, so here you have one of the oldest stories that I've written.
This was actually meant to be my "debut story", but unfortunately, I never completed the last chapter/epilogue.
It's still not finished, but inspiration may strike again so I finally continue it this time around.
Anyways, this was written a few years ago and I still remember that I've read a ton of angel/demon fanfictions, but was a little bothered that the sides were always the same, so I wanted to try something slightly different (sorry, if this had been done in the meantime. I've been absent from the YGO fandom for quite a while).
I hope you'll enjoy the read!
No major warnings for this chapter yet.
As should be very well known, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! The characters belong to Kazuki Takahashi.
Fight for the Light – Chapter 1: Strange Visitors
High up in the skies, far away from human sight was a white and golden shimmering palace standing atop the clouds.
Inside was a spacious hall with marble pillars lining the walls.
A pedestal was set at the end of the hall with a small flight of stairs leading to a throne, which was currently occupied.
The man who was seated there wore a white sleeveless short robe, which barely covered his thighs.
Golden bracelets were adorning his legs and arms and a winged crown was resting atop his head.
Over his head floated a brightly shining ring and on his back were a pair of feathered wings folded together, allowing him to sit more comfortably.
His name was Atem and he was the ruler of the heavenly realm. The king of angels.
He was sitting on the throne unmoving and with dazed eyes as if in deep thought.
He did snap out of his thoughts though when suddenly an angel came running to him with a look of panic on his face.
"My king, I have terrible news!" he proclaimed, sounding out of breath.
"What is it?" Atem asked with a nod of his head, urging his servant to speak up.
"It regards Yugi Mutou!"
Atem's eyes widened a bit.
Yugi Mutou. That name wasn't new to him.
He was a human boy but not just a normal human. He was very special.
His soul was so bright and pure that it radiated a powerful light that the angels have noticed the moment he was born.
Ever since that day Atem had been anxiously awaiting his arrival in heaven even though at the moment the boy was just sixteen and still had his life ahead of him.
But there was no doubt that after his timely death he would become an angel and with his light they would finally be able to put an end to the foul beings of the neither realm.
"The king of demons was sighted near him!" the angel continued.
At that sentence, Atem automatically rose up from his throne.
'Yami.' he thought.
Now, as well aware as the angels had been of the light's presence, it didn't go unnoticed by the demons either.
'Looks like he's getting desperate.' Atem thought as he ventured to the doors.
"My king, where are you going?" the angel asked, a bit shocked about his ruler's actions.
"To the human realm."
A young boy with tricolored star-shaped hair was on his way home. His two best friends were escorting him.
He was currently laughing about something funny that Jonouchi, one of his friends, was saying and completely unaware of crimson, slitted eyes that were watching him from a dark alley.
This figure was completely clad in black leather and had black leathery wings that shimmered crimson and were folded behind his back to avoid drawing unwanted attention.
He was none other than Yami, the king of demons.
His eyes narrowed a little as he caught sight of the boy.
It was a little hard to imagine how such a fragile looking human could be a threat to his entire race.
Of course, the demons weren't just going to stand around and fearfully await their fate.
For quite some time they have tried to destroy his light.
They had send school bullies, thieves, even juveniles and murderers from the local prison after him.
Unfortunately, the angels had been sending some guardians of their own that had saved and protected him.
Though they were the occasional chances, were one of his demons would get Yugi unguarded and give him a horrible beating.
While physical damage was successfully dealt it never seemed to influence his light, which was still shining as pure and brightly as the day he was born.
Now quite frankly Yami was getting tired of playing around like this.
Though there was a rule that every angel and demon had to obey, this being that they are to never reveal their existence to humans and thus forcing them to traverse the human realm by either possessing a human or in spiritual form only, Yami gave little to no damn about this rule right now.
He would appear in front of Yugi in all his demony-glory, scare the living daylights out of him and then taint his disgustingly pure light.
He was licking his lips as he caught a glimpse of the boy's backside.
Oh yeah, taint him in every way possible.
It was late into the night already.
Yugi was still sitting at his desk trying to finish his homework which hadn't been done by now since he liked to spend his afternoon more with games and puzzles, which was a rather common thing for him to do.
His grandfather had already stopped by his room an hour ago to tell him to go to bed to which he replied that he still had to finish his homework, earning him a little scolding from the old man. Again, this was an almost daily occurrence.
With a sigh, he dropped his pen on the desk and shut his notebook, finally finished with his task.
He turned off the desk-lamp, plunging his room into darkness as he got up from his chair, stretching his arms high in the air and letting out a long yawn as he slowly shuffled over to the bed.
He crawled under the covers and closed his eyes, falling asleep rather quickly.
Yami was grinning from the rooftop of the game-shop.
This was being too easy.
Fortunately, the boy's room had a skylight, allowing him to easily monitor the boy's every move.
He still waited a few more minutes to make sure the boy was really fast asleep before he silently opened one of the windows and stealthily slipped inside.
The demon-king soundlessly passed through the room, a victorious smirk etched onto his face.
However, before he could reach the bed a light suddenly appeared right in front of him.
Yami had to cover his eyes with an arm at the sudden brightness.
"Don't even think about touching him!" a familiar baritone voice said.
Yami devilishly smirked at that, knowing who stood in front of him even before his eyes adjusted.
"What's that, Atem? Actually coming all the way down to earth? And here I thought that your winged ass was glued to the throne."
"I could ask you the same thing. You must be really getting desperate if you decide to come personally." Atem replied.
"Screw you, Atem!" Yami screamed, clearly being pissed off by the other's presence.
"I won't leave until I've made sure you're back in hell. You're not going to lay even a finger on the boy." Atem answered seriously, ready to fight the demon if need be.
"Oh sure I'll go back to hell, but not without the boy! Don't you dare think you can just command me around, Pharaoh!" Yami spat, getting in the other's personal space.
"You're either delusional or really stupid if you think I'll just let you walk away with him." Atem said, moving closer too, their noses almost touching.
"Excuse me? Who are you and what are you doing in my room?" a voice from the bed spoke up.
Both men turned around to the voice with a rather shocked expression on their faces.
Yugi would have probably laughed at the look on their faces if the situation wouldn't be so…awkward.
The boy had woken up some minutes prior from the two males arguing.
Normally he would have screamed at two men standing in his room in the middle of the night if they hadn't looked so weird.
One of them looked like a demon with his horns, tail and the black leathery wings.
He was completely clad in black leather, belt buckles were adorning his slightly tanned arms and legs and some were strapped in a crisscrossing fashion along his torso ending at a metal-ring on his chest.
The man who he was arguing with looked like he could be his twin, but his skin had a much darker tone.
He wore a short sleeveless white robe which showed off his nice muscled thighs.
His arms and legs were covered by golden bracelets, a golden winged crown and cross-shaped earrings were adorning his head.
Above his head was a brightly shining halo and on his back he was having beautiful white feathered wings.
Though, the fact that they looked like a demon and an angel, respectively, wasn't so much of a shock to Yugi, nor the fact that they looked so much like each other.
What shocked the boy was the fact that their looks resembled his own so much. At least they happened to have the same star-shaped tricolored hair even though theirs looked a bit wilder and they had some blonde lightning-shaped bangs going up into their hair, which Yugi had not.
They seemed to be about the same height as him too, meaning they were rather on the short side, considering Yugi's bullies liked to nickname him midget.
Their eyes though looked very angular whereas Yugi's were round and big and shining with innocence, as people often said.
Yugi kept starring at the two males for a while who were far too busy arguing with each other to actually notice that he had woken up.
He couldn't help thinking that if he would imagine a good conscience who would tell him to stop if he were to do something he shouldn't do and a bad conscience who would tell him to go through with it, they would probably look like this.
Yugi shook his head after having pictured that and decided that he was apparently dreaming so, he pinched himself and tried some other methods which all failed to wake him up.
So he decided to just go along with his dream and spoke up to the two who were still arguing about… him, he figured.
Said males looked at him in shock after having heard him and he had to bite his tongue to not break out laughing and the dumb twin expressions.
Instead, he decided to raise a delicate eyebrow still expecting some kind of answer to his questions.
Both of them just kept starring though before Atem turned his head a little to Yami.
"Great. You made us both break the rule. He has seen us." Atem hissed to him in a low voice, hoping the human didn't hear what he said.
Atem's hissed words made Yami break out of his stupor.
"To hell with that stupid rule! The fate of the whole underworld rests on this!" Yami shouted at Atem before he pushed passed him and took hold of Yugi who had no idea what was currently going on now.
"Yami, what are you doing?" Atem shouted angrily at him, being cautious about his movements to not provoke the demon into harming his freshly acquired hostage.
"Oh, nothing. I think I'll just take him on a little vacation." Yami replied with a smirk.
"Don't you dare…" Atem started, but Yami already jumped up and flew through the skylight not caring a second about the shattering glass.
Yugi could only blink at the suddenness of the events happening.
Though it did register to him that he and the demon were flying through the night-sky, thanks to the way the demon was holding him he didn't really get a good few of what happened below them.
But it was probably a good thing considering he was scared of heights.
The feeling of flying did feel a bit nice though.
Even if Yugi couldn't see much of their surroundings he was able to get a good look at his kidnapper.
The human boy had to blush a little, seeing as the demon was rather good-looking.
'Maybe this dream isn't so bad.' he thought, but silently eeped as the demon smirked a very seductive smirk.
Yugi just hoped that the demon couldn't actually read his thoughts.
Out of the corner of his eye, Yami noticed the boy starring at him and then blushing.
He had to smirk at that thinking that the human might probably be getting some dirty thoughts while looking at his handsome face and being clutched to his sexy body.
Oh, he was really going to enjoy tainting the boy and had a pretty good idea on how to start doing that.
He would have liked to let his thoughts wander in that direction, but unfortunately, he was busy dodging Atem's light arrows that said angel kept repeatedly shooting at him.
Yami knew that Atem was able to fly just as fast as he was so there was no way to actually out-fly him.
So, he had to come up with a plan to trick the annoying angel to make his escape.
An idea instantly came to him as he spotted a bridge. A victorious smirk was already making a way to his face as he directly flew at it.
He dived under the bridge and hid in the shadows beneath it.
Not only was he out of sight to Atem, but he could use these shadows to open up a gate to hell, too.
Atem followed them under the bridge fervently looking around the shadows that Yami was hiding in.
A sudden idea struck him and he used his power to illuminate the entire area under the bridge only to find them gone.
Atem instantly knew that Yami had opened up a gate to hell and took Yugi to his palace in the underworld.
"Damn it!" he cursed in a for an angel uncharacteristic manner.