10 Words
by Mahayana
#5 - Fallen: Kiryu Kyosuke fell asleep in his jail cell and never woke up. The cause of death, unknown. The mortician signed the death certificate without an autopsy. He died in prison as he lived in prison, they said. He was never alive to begin with. Nobody on Satellite was alive. Neo Domino City was a haze of glittering lights across the sea, and Satellite was its underworld. Boatloads of dead arrived every day, scheduled for prison beatings. Even more roamed the streets, unmarked until they broke into government warehouses, looking for food and cigarettes and card games. Anything to stave off the hunger. Anything to stave off the boredom.
Kiryu Kyosuke tried to set the world on fire trying to make it stop. And now he opens his eyes, and everything is dark. He is cold, and he can't feel his fingers. But there is a man hovering over him, his face smudged with dirt, and a crow bar in his hand.
"They were going to incinerate you tomorrow. Let's go before they notice you're not dead anymore."
Kiryu doesn't understand that, but he takes the man's hand anyway, unfolds from the black body bag like a moth emerging from his cocoon. Nothing feels real. He thinks he's still dreaming. The man has black eyes. Black all the way through. Kiryu feels at his side, but his cards are still missing.
"Don't worry. We will find you a new deck."
That's good, Kiryu thinks. That's good. That's the only thing that matters now.
#6 - Candles: There is no electricity in the Dark Signer's lair. It is a dark, dusty tomb illuminated only by candles. Kiryu thinks it's fitting, considering they are all dead. He spends his time burning cockroaches and centipedes. There is no end to them here. He doesn't touch the spiders. He knows better. But he burns the others, even the moths, and he dreams of Yusei's eyes as the flames flicker and curl the insects into ash.
Author's Notes:
I not-so-subtly yoinked these prompts from someone else's prompts list, who claimed they came from the 10iloveyou community on Livejournal, as the "Mystic" set.
Oh crap, "10iloveyou"? Was I supposed to write romance? Whoops.
Prompts in no particular order, because I am not organized like that.