SW: Hello all!
Malik: You're going to die. Why the hell would you start another story when you have one out already?
SW: Anywho, I'm going to be taking some of the plot points of Peter Pan the book, the movies 1 and 2, and the musical and mashing them all together in a Yu-Gi-Oh! themed story! It'll be rated T for the time being, but it might move up in later chapters.
Bakura: *snicker* Good luck.
SW: Thank you. I'll need it.
Hope you like!
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A boy with white hair and brown eyes ran through the streets, making sure to jump over puddles so that his tan combat boots stayed dry. His clothes were practical as well, black pants tucked into his boots and a blue and white striped shirt hidden under a black trench coat. He was wearing an army hat on his head and was carrying a small bundle wrapped in paper.
He hoped that the sirens wouldn't go off tonight. That he'd be sure to get home safe and sound before Mother and Grandfather left.
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Yugi laughed as he jumped from bed to bed in the large room, avoiding the arrows tipped with suction cups that Malik shot at him. "You'll never catch me, Dartz!"
Malik growled and shot again, swearing lightly when he missed again. "Why do I always have to be Captain Dartz?"
Looking up from his book for a split second, Seto rolled his eyes. "Because I refuse to play Yugi's ridiculous game, Ryou is always out, and Yugi of course has to be Yami Atemu." He smirked when Malik sighed in relief as Yugi collapsed in exhaustion on his bed.
"Oh, c'mon, guys. I'm not Yami Atemu all the time." His head hung off the edge of the bed and he stared at his two brothers upside down.
It was Malik's turn to roll his eyes as he stood up to put the bow away. "Yes, you are. And don't you think we're a little old to be playing nursery games?"
"Of course not!"
But before Yugi could defend his playfulness any further, their mother, Mana, and grandfather, Sugoroku, entered the room. "Boys, we're about to leave."
The older of the two looked around the room worriedly. "Where's Ryou?" The minute he said that, the air raid warning sirens went off, blaring through the city.
Seto sighed at the inconvenience and closed his book, slowly following as Malik, Mana, and Sugoroku all scrambled to the shelter outside. Yugi was following behind them, but stopped outside half way between the house and the shelter surrounded in sand bags.
"Dad!" He turned around and ran back inside, quickly grabbing a framed picture before hurrying back out.
"Hurry, hurry!" Mana held the door open for him and waved him along with her hand.
A bomb shook the earth, and Yugi tripped, falling straight into the shelter, and Mana quickly closed the door behind him. Yugi hissed and rolled up his blue pajama pants to stare at the small red mark he had gotten from sliding on the hard metal floor of the shelter. He made sure the picture of Mahad was still intact, smiling at the image.
Another bomb hit the ground and the aftershock caused the entire room to shake. Mana worriedly hovered over Yugi as he stood up, carrying the picture with him into his bunk, before going to check that everyone was in their bed.
"Mom…Ryou's still not back yet." Malik stared at the bottom of the top bunk he was under, the one holding Seto, with his arms behind his head, trying not to pout as the woman pulled the covers over his body. "And don't treat me like a child."
Sugoroku chuckled. "You're not an adult yet, Malik, you're only seventeen. Let your mother pamper you, you'll miss it one day."
Malik rolled his eyes and turned away from Mana, missing the hurt look in her eyes. "It's not like she's my real mom."
Silence filled the room, only broken as the door opened and closed again when Ryou burst in, panting lightly. "Sorry I'm late!"
Mana let her eyes linger on Malik's back for a minute, before she turned around with a small smile. "Where have you been? I've been worried sick about you!" She crossed the small room and hugged Ryou tightly.
The albino laughed and gently pulled himself away, holding out the package he was had to the top bunk Yugi was laying in. "I was getting a present. Happy Birthday, twin."
"Oh, but I didn't get you anything…" Truthfully, Yugi had completely forgotten that it was their birthday altogether. Still, Ryou didn't pull the gift away, so he sheepishly took it. "Thank you." Ryou smiled and waited patiently as Yugi ripped into the paper that covered his present. As Yugi balled up the wrapping, he bit his lip before forcing a smile. "Oh, gee. Socks. You shouldn't have." He held up two mismatching socks, one a crimson red, the other green with a patch of yellow on it.
Sugoroku let out a laugh, it was obvious Yugi was just trying to be nice. "How practical of you, Ryou." The boy smiled proudly at what he considered a compliment and slid into the bed underneath Yugi.
Mana huffed as she pulled herself onto the bed over Sugoroku and held her hand out for the pair. "But they aren't just socks, Yugi."
"They aren't?" Imagination already running wild at what they could really be, Yugi eagerly handed his gift over to Mana.
"Nope!" She slipped one on each hand. "They're puppets!" Frowning as she moved the green one up and down, she made her voice deeper and gruffer. "Darn you, Yami Atemu! You've foiled my plans again!" She switched to moving the crimson one, and made her voice confident and proud. "You'll never make me a corrupt adult, Dartz!"
Yugi laughed and clapped, unaware that every one of his brothers had rolled their eyes. Seto tried to ignore Mana as she told another story about Yami Atemu and keep reading, Malik scowled into the wall and tried his best to fall asleep, and Ryou took off his coat and helmet before lying down.
"You should really stop telling him fairy tales, Mother." Ryou said sternly as another bomb made the shelter shudder.
Mana smiled kindly, but took the socks off her hands and gave them back to Yugi, who immediately stuffed them under his pillow for safe keeping. "Everyone needs to have a dream."
"Yugi's an eighteen-year-old now. A legal adult, so there isn't any reason that he should believe a ridiculous idea like Yami Atemu."
Yugi hung over the edge of the bed, frowning at Ryou upside down. "That's not true! Yami Atemu is real!"
"Don't be ridiculous, Yugi." Ryou sighed and pulled out a little notebook out of his pocket, looking over a checklist he had made earlier that day. "There's no such thing as Dartz, Neverland, Lost Boys, and definitely not Yami Atemu. Grow out of those nursery stories."
Tears pricked in Yugi's eyes and shook his head franticly. "Stop lying! You know that isn't true!" Mana had told such realistic stories about Yami Atemu, and had sworn he was real. He knew that Seto, Malik, and Ryou had all stopped caring about the tales, but that didn't mean they weren't real.
Sugoroku coughed lightly and stood up. "Well, listen to that, the sirens stopped. Mana and I still need to attend the factory meeting that was set for tonight, so you boys head back inside."
"Do you have to go?" The teary eyes that had been trained on Ryou focused on his grandfather next.
Mana climbed down the ladder on the side of the bed and ruffled Yugi's hair with one hand. "Now, now, Yugi. You know we need this job."
The two left, leaving the brothers alone in the shelter. Seto sighed and started down his own ladder. "Guess we should head inside too." He was the first out, eager to get to a quiet place where he could finish his book.
"Yeah." Ryou rolled out of his bed, moving out of the door. "Don't forget Father, Yugi."
The boy grabbed the picture frame and climbed down from his bed, letting Malik go in front of him before following. He heard a thud on the ground behind him and he turned around to look at what had fallen, only to have his vision cut off by coarse fabric.
He screamed and struggled, hearing laughter follow as he was lifted off his feet and the rest of his body was shoved in the bag that had covered his head.
"Yugi!" That was Malik, Yugi cried out again and forced a foot out of the top of the bag, feeling a sense of satisfaction when he heard a yelp of pain and a swear when he connected with something. "Let him go!"
There was a dark chuckle, and he heard a voice from the person holding him speak up. "Seems like Atemu's replaced us, don't you think Marik?"
"Give him back!" Ryou spoke up.
"Ryou, no!" There was the sound of running and then there were another set of hands on him, trying to pull him away from whoever was holding him.
There was a cackle and then Ryou was gone. "Ryou!" Yugi struggled again and a small patch on the sack half fell off, letting him see some of what was happening. Seto and Malik were glaring at the person holding him and there was a small squeak to his right, and Malik took a step forward. Ryou must be being held by someone else.
"What is taking you two so long?" There was another voice, this one coming from above him. Yugi watched as Seto and Malik look up in that direction and their mouths unhinged before Malik looked back his captors and Seto's teeth clenched.
"Are you Germans?" Seto asked, tight-lipped, "Is this a new type of warplane?"
They didn't answer his brother, but the one that must be holding Ryou called upwards. "It seems Yami Atemu has got some new recruits! Should we bring them with us or dispose of them?"
Did Yugi just hear right? Yami Atemu? Was that a code name or something? Yugi blinked and looked back at Seto and Malik, who had taken defensive poses. And what did they mean by recruits? "I don't know anything, I swear! Let me go!" He squirmed and the man holding him growled, and a fist from his right connected with his side and he yelped.
"Keep quiet, you bastard!"
"Yugi!" Ryou called out again, but then his screaming was muffled, probably by a hand.
The voice from above them yelled out an answer. "Bring them with us, we could always add to our barracks."
Yugi heard the sound of rope falling through the air, and he watched as four more men dressed in strange clothes slid down ropes that seemed to be hanging from nothing. Malik tried to fight against them, but it was two against one and he was quickly overpowered. The sound of footsteps followed the fight, and Yugi's eyes widened at the sight of a man who looked a lot like Malik holding on to Ryou by the mouth.
"I like this one." He grabbed Malik by the chin, but he jerked his head to the side and tried to bite the hand that had been holding him a minute ago. The man just laughed. "Feisty."
Even though Seto lasted longer than Malik, the result was the same and he was held by the arms as the two men holding him grabbed one rope and tugged twice. He swore as the rope slowly started to move upwards, carrying the two men and Yugi's older brother with it. Struggling, trying to loosen the men's grip before he was too high, Seto watched helplessly as he and his brothers were kidnapped.
Malik screamed in frustration as he was soon put through the same ordeal, and started to cuss out everything involved with the men. Ryou started to fight again, trying to kick the man holding him and reached his hands up to try and pry the hand away from his mouth.
The man cackled again, before swearing. "Damn it! He just bit me!" He brought up his other hand up and cuffed Ryou roughly, and Yugi whimpered as he watched his twin's eyes flutter closed.
"You'd think Yami Atemu would put up more of a fight," the man who was holding him shifted, now only holding him with one hand, and he felt them rise like the others, "at least this will finally be over."
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SW: I'm officially dead to the world.
Ryou: That's not true.
SW: I can no longer have a social life.
Yugi: Don't say that! You'll just have to write chapters faster!
SW: Ugh…
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