It's raining. I'm looking out the short tube of a tunnel, with its tiny low ceiling and its thin enclosed walls. He is coming. Through the flames and the water he is finding his way to return back to me. To protect me. To comfort me until I believe the chaos before my eyes is just a dream.
I can hear screams, and another explosion engulfing its prey of poor and vulnerable people. I dig my head into my knees and let my tears panic down my cheeks. My tears are burning at my scars, but now I have become too numb to let it bother me. Only he could change it all now.
"Yugi?" I hear his voice. My head raises.
His appearance is rough, and his clothes dirtied yet he is beautiful as always. From the flames behind, he is the darkness in the light. The reflection of the fire dazzles at his pupils, and the crimson blazes into the background, as though they are screaming and longing to become an illustration in the massacre.
"Are you alright?" he asks, his breath quick and abnormal.
I nod. My eyes are still dripping with tears.
"Thank you. I was so worried about you...I can't...I don't..." I can't help it. My sobs get caught in my throat.
He pulls me to him and holds me in a tight hug.
"It's alright," he says, "I'm here now. I won't let anything happen to you."
Another explosion bursts behind us. Rubble flies past behind Atem and I am held tighter against his torso.
"You'll make it, Yugi," he promises, when I raise my head. "I love you."
He kisses my forehead and smiles down to me. I feel the unintended lie in his words. I don't want him to believe them. Yet still he smiles, beautiful and warm.
He lifts me before I can protest.
In a moment, and another loud echo of noise, he runs outward, dodging the flying ashes and embers. Over broken wood and glass he speeds, and more screams pierce our ears. They are far in the distance, and the rain snaps at their true volume. I close my eyes, squeezing them together as hard as I can.
Flames roar around us and Atem yells out. His call is unanswered, yet he tries again.
My eyes fling open. I scream as another shot of fire drops further toward us from the sky. Atem's eyes widen. In a split second, he gazes at me, locking our eyes together, before shifting me from his chest and shoving me away until I skid along the cremated ground.
I glance up from the floor and turn my head, but another explosion right before me demands that I hide my face again.
After the mass ends its landing, I abruptly lift my head. The smoke clears once minutes have passed, yet I don't dare move my limbs until it is completely gone.
But the sight before my eyes is bare. Bare and stripped of what I long to lay eyes on.
Atem is gone. Lost under the mountains of rubble that replaces our tunnel. The destruction which took away the only soul I was surviving for. And now I was alone. Alone with just the memories of my love to guide me forward.
Until the devastation is at its end, and I am buried along side him, giving life to the newer land, and creating our own time in our memories of history.
I've never adored one of my one-shots so much. Seriously, I love this so much. o.o
Don't ask what the hell is going on, I don't know. XD
I just wrote this randomly in a notebook and I looooove eeeettt.
Kinda reminds me of WWI or WWII. XDDD
Anyway, please review! ^^