Author's Note; Yes, i admit it; I'm a YGO fanatic. How can you not be!? Yami/Atem kicks ass!! Seriously,
I've found a whole new love in Egyptain History because of that show. I recommend looking it up.
When's Atem's face comes up, I bet you'll totally go, "EEEEE!!!"
I did.
It burned, it all burned.
He moved, it burned, he blinked, it burned. There was nothing, nothing...
With empty, unbelieving eyes, burning from tears waiting to fall like diamonds.
It had moved so fast...
Darkdarkdarkdark-YES!-Diediediedie-faster, faster, faster, no escape now, you're mine...
There was no stopping it, it was hungry, and it would feed...
Burn it all, burn it all!!
His mind was gone, his only shelter from the darkness, his familiar, warm darkness he wrapped like a blanket around his quivering body, something to hide from the whispers of emptiness, shelterer of Minds, Memory, Shadow...his friends...
He couldn't bother Him or Them about such trivial matters, no point in worrying any of them with something like this... They wouldn't have the chance to care now anyways.
The burden would be his and his only just like always.
The darkness was rushing, rushing like the wind, lapping at the stone walls, burning away anything and everything it touched with its acidic touch of beautiful black flames.
He simply stood, shocked, panicking, unable to do anything as the tidal wave of black and nightmares rushed him down the narrow stone walls, swallowing every closed door its waters pasted.
His mind tugged, shrieked, cried for any safety, but it was gone, everything was gone, his memory, his name, everything...
His once-bright eyes, now dulled from loneliness and hunger, screwed shut, shutting out the deathly sight of black hopelessness from view. It was all he could do. There was no escaping it now.
It washes over him, crashing down on his body, soaking him in burning thickness. It was terrifyingly suffocating; made him useless like a rag doll, tossed from corner to corner of a room. It jerked him, back and forth, up and down in painful jerks, unrelenting.
Darkness loved pain, he understood that, he knew that, excepted it even. But why did it hurt him so?!
"AAGGH!!!"
"Pharaoh? Are you alright? What's happening?"
He could breathe...
"Pharaoh? Please, answer me!"
"Y...Yu...Yugi..."
"He's awake!! Tea! Quick! Help me get him up straight!"
"Yami!? Are you alright?"
A soft feeling hand brushed against his numb cheek, sparking heat back into his face. Dark eyes fluttered open.
The lightning hurt, everything hurt, but they couldn't know, they didn't need the problems.
"Y-yes, yes I'm alright."
He ignored the concerned eyes that surrounded him, pushing up to sitting.
"I'm alright, Yugi. Really. I just...was...tired."
He didn't care whether or not they believed him. HE WAS ALIVE!!
He closed his eyes, couldn't help but feel extremely relived. He'd lived through it. But it was still there, he could feel it. Waiting in one of the dark rooms he'd yet to discover in his maze of a mind.
But, again, HE WAS ALIVE!!
"Pharaoh..."
He opened his eyes. Tea was still there, looking at him with watering eyes, scared concern soaking her soft eyes.
"Tea, really. It is nothing to worry about. I am fine now... Don't worry about me..."
End