SHADOWED BORDERS
Well, here it is….the sequel….this might turn into a series…what have I gotten myself into.
I.
Yugi sighed and rolled over in his bed. He was content for the moment. Nothing was going wrong, his friends were all happy and Yami was finally at ease.
Yami…
All the trouble they had gone through and all the chaos that Yami himself had put up with. He remembered that time, even though it had been months ago. He remembered being separated from his other half, remembered the loss of part of himself.
But no longer, Yami was content and the cards were at ease.
/Yami..?/
//Yes//
/Ready for the beach tomorrow?/
//Yep, now sleep, my light.//
"Yugi, hurry up! The water is great!" Tea's voice reached him from across the beach. He turned and laughed as he watched his friends play in the water. Even the Kaiba brothers had come.
Yugi ran to the waters and enjoyed the feel of the cool liquid around his legs.
//Yugi? What is Mokuba doing?//
Yugi turned to find the brothers and saw that Mokuba was burying Seto in the sand. He laughed.
/They are having fun in the sand, just being brothers./
//Okay…//
Yugi was then distracted by Joey and Tristan, who were out in the water, preparing for what looked like a race. Mai and tea were laughing and everything was going so well. They beckoned him over and he joined them, the water reaching almost to his shoulders.
"Hey Yugi! We're going to race out to that rock cropping. But we need someone to judge. Could you go out there and be ready to judge?"
"Sure Joey. Just give me a few minutes to get out there." He dove into the water and headed to the rock cropping that they had pointed out. He enjoyed moving in the water and was almost to the rocks in less time that he had thought. Then it hit.
His leg hit something and his leg was scraped open. The pain froze him for a moment and in that moment he lost his concentration and went under. The feel of water around him caused him to panic and he flailed about.
//Light! Relax! Please!//
But he couldn't he felt the rocks around him. He didn't realize how far under the rocks went and how jagged they were. He saw the rock seconds before he hit it and his mind went blank. It was growing dark and he felt light and cold. Dimly he heard a voice he felt he should remember…
//Yugi! My light, don't leave me!!//
He opened his eyes and saw white. It took him awhile to figure out it was a ceiling of some kind. He blinked and heard someone gasp beside him. He turned his head slowly, still unsure of where he was.
He saw a pretty young girl with brown hair sitting in a chair by what he now assumed was a hospital bed. She smiled and looked about to cry. He wondered why.
"Yugi! You're awake. I was so worried but I knew you would make it." He frowned at hearing this. Why had she been worried and why did she call him Yugi, he was…
He didn't know.
He shook his head, hoping to clear it and remember, but nothing came. The girl seemed to sense his confusion and a bit of worry crept into her eyes.
"Yugi," she asked softly, "Do you know who I am?" He shook his head. "Do you know who you are?" He opened his mouth to speak, but found he still didn't know. Wait! He remembered someone calling him Light before. Maybe that was his name. He thought it over for a minute and it felt right.
"I'm Light." She looked startled. He frowned. Why would she be upset if he remembered who he was. She looked closely at him.
"Do you know who Yami is?" That question caused him to stop and think a minute. Yami. He had heard that name before…No!
A flash of light went across his vision, causing him to cry out in pain. Yami was confusion, Yami was hurt, Yami was…Dark. How could that be a person. He turned to the girl and shook his head. She looked ready to burst into tears.
"Oh Yugi, I'm so sorry. If we hadn't asked you to swim out there, if only you had stayed with us. You would remember." She was crying as she reached down and picked something off the floor. It was a pendant that seemed to also be a puzzle. It was shaped as an upside down pyramid and had a cord attached to it. She held it out to him.
"Do you remember this?" He shook his head but still took it when she handed it to him. When his hands touched it he thought he heard a voice cry out and then the puzzle broke. The pieces lay all over the bed, except for the one he was holding onto. The one with the cord wrapped around it.
"What is this, a puzzle?" He asked the girl, but her eyes were looking at the scattered pieces. She seemed really upset. He patted her arm and smiled. "Don't worry, I'm sure you could get a refund or someone could help you put it together." It didn't seem to help. She stared at him for a moment and then whispered.
"It's yours and you were the only one who could put it together. Don't you remember it? Can't you remember its importance?" He could only shake his head as she cried clutching on to him. She kept repeating the same things over again and again,
"I'm sorry Yugi, I'm sorry Yami, I'm so sorry.."
They had brought him to what they had told him was his home., but Light didn't remember any of it. He looked around and saw pictures about something called 'Duel Monsters'. It looked violent and didn't interest him in the slightest.
He sat down on the bed, still holding on to the bag with the pieces of the puzzle in it. The elderly man that had picked him up from the hospital had said he was his Grandfather, but Light didn't recognize him. But he knew to respect his elders and had done as the man had asked him and kept the pieces with him.
Other people had been in the shop that was under the living area of this place and they had all called him Yugi. He didn't know who any of them where. But when the girl from the hospital had told them that he had amnesia they had all looked really sad. The blond and browned haired boys looked really upset.
He had told them his name and the white haired young man had seemed to react to that. He made a note to go and talk with him. Maybe he had really known him before all this had happened. They had all seemed nearly devastated when they had seen the pieces of the puzzle.
They had looked like a friend had just died, and when he had told them that he had no intention of trying to put it back together…the blond boy had looked ready to attack him, but was held back. All others just stood there in shock.
They had sent him upstairs to rest, so he had gone. He didn't know them and didn't feel like talking to them. But something wasn't feeling right. At first he had thought it was just because he was in a strange environment or that the cut on his head was bothering him, but no. This was different. More important, somehow. But he couldn't quite place his finger on it. It was like he was missing something, something important. He looked down at the bag and decided he didn't want to hold it anymore. He got up and put it on the desk, next to a stack of cards.
He looked at the cards curiously for a moment and then picked up the first one. It had a picture of the sea and was called a Field card. He didn't know what that was. It was not until he had said its name out loud that he felt anything.
"Umi." He had just whispered it, but all of a sudden it felt like he was surrounded by water and he panicked. He saw rocks close by and put a hand out to stop them. When he felt nothing there he realized he was still in the room, the card clutched tightly in his hand.
He was shaking and terrified. But of what…he didn't know. He set the card back down on the deck and the feeling of missing something grew almost unbearable.
"Whatever has happened, has happened. I'll be fine." He was talking to himself and he knew it, but it seemed to work. He relaxed and went over to the bed. He lay down and didn't bother turning off the lights. Something about the dark bothered him. He didn't worry about it, he just turned his head and, frowned.
There was a peg by his bed and it seemed as if something should be hanging there. He ignored the feeling and went to sleep. If he had only listened for a moment he would have heard it. The desperate plea, sounding as if it were coming through a closed door.
//My Light, Yugi! Please! Don't leave me!//
Yami had been pounding at the door to his soul room for what felt like days and still no reply. He couldn't get through to his light and he was growing weaker. His light was part of his strength and after all the fighting to try and find a balance…
"The sea goes and takes him away from me." He remembered the first time had dueled with Yugi on a sea field. The dueler had wanted to find his father. The sea had claimed another life at that time and now it had taken part of his.
He slumped down against his door and stared in to the black that surrounded him and offered him no other escape. For the first time in his life he did what only Yugi had ever done before.
He cried. The darkness was sapping his heart, while fueling his powers. If this kept up, he wouldn't be able to fight the call of the Shadow realm and the power deep within it. But for Yugi's sake, he would fight it off.
For as long as he could, even if it meant destroying himself.
Light woke up in the morning, trying to remember the strange dream he had had. There had been an elf in armor and a magician in purple. They had been calling out to him, but although he could see their mouths moving, he couldn't hear anything. They had seemed to realize that and were gesturing to something by them. He had looked and gasped.
There, crumbled on the floor had been what he would have called his twin. The ruby eyes had been lifeless and his whole body had screamed defeat. To Light's mind this didn't seem right. He had tried running to the double calling out to him, but something had stopped him.
Dragons appeared out of the shadows and blocked his path to the boy, but he could still see him and the shape of a man behind him. He could also make out the glint of a chain that ran from his hand to around his double's neck.
He felt angry at this and was about to charge through when the elf and magician had pulled him back. He had woken up at that part and lay there on the bed, wondering what it had meant. He felt weak, but just assumed that it was because of his injury. He got out of bed and was about to exit the room when something he stopped him. He turned back and looked on the desk.
The bag with the pieces looked so rejected that light couldn't help it. He picked up the bag and took it with him downstairs. He didn't know why, but he felt better just having it with him. Downstairs he met an even larger group than last night. There was a girl with blond hair and two other guys. A young one with a lot of black hair and a tall slender one with brown hair. They looked to be brothers. He looked at all of them and then the old man came out with trays of food.
Light's stomach reminded him he was hungry and so he went top get some food from one of the trays. Others were doing the same, but they kept watching him out of the corner of their eyes. He didn't much care. He couldn't help them.
He set the bag down to grab the food, but something screamed at him to not let go of it. It hit him so hard that he gasped and clutched the bag, but his hand slipped and he fell to his knees. The slender brown haired boy grabbed for him and held him. He was feeling very weak and knew he needed the bag.
The boy seemed to sense this and handed it to him. He sighed in relief as some of the weakness passed. The white haired boy was watching him very carefully and it may have been because he was dizzy, but his eyes looked different than yesterday.
Light didn't know what was going on, but as he looked down at the bag he began to realize that the puzzle was important.
So why was he scared to put it together.
Yami felt his Light's fear and it took more strength from him. He couldn't even reach out to his deck anymore. The borders between his world and the Shadow realm grew darker and Yami shuddered. A pair of eyes gleamed out of their darkness and he knew who they belonged to.
If his light didn't come back to him soon…
//I'll destroy myself before I will become a card for 'him'. I swear it!//
Well, here it is….the sequel….this might turn into a series…what have I gotten myself into.
I.
Yugi sighed and rolled over in his bed. He was content for the moment. Nothing was going wrong, his friends were all happy and Yami was finally at ease.
Yami…
All the trouble they had gone through and all the chaos that Yami himself had put up with. He remembered that time, even though it had been months ago. He remembered being separated from his other half, remembered the loss of part of himself.
But no longer, Yami was content and the cards were at ease.
/Yami..?/
//Yes//
/Ready for the beach tomorrow?/
//Yep, now sleep, my light.//
"Yugi, hurry up! The water is great!" Tea's voice reached him from across the beach. He turned and laughed as he watched his friends play in the water. Even the Kaiba brothers had come.
Yugi ran to the waters and enjoyed the feel of the cool liquid around his legs.
//Yugi? What is Mokuba doing?//
Yugi turned to find the brothers and saw that Mokuba was burying Seto in the sand. He laughed.
/They are having fun in the sand, just being brothers./
//Okay…//
Yugi was then distracted by Joey and Tristan, who were out in the water, preparing for what looked like a race. Mai and tea were laughing and everything was going so well. They beckoned him over and he joined them, the water reaching almost to his shoulders.
"Hey Yugi! We're going to race out to that rock cropping. But we need someone to judge. Could you go out there and be ready to judge?"
"Sure Joey. Just give me a few minutes to get out there." He dove into the water and headed to the rock cropping that they had pointed out. He enjoyed moving in the water and was almost to the rocks in less time that he had thought. Then it hit.
His leg hit something and his leg was scraped open. The pain froze him for a moment and in that moment he lost his concentration and went under. The feel of water around him caused him to panic and he flailed about.
//Light! Relax! Please!//
But he couldn't he felt the rocks around him. He didn't realize how far under the rocks went and how jagged they were. He saw the rock seconds before he hit it and his mind went blank. It was growing dark and he felt light and cold. Dimly he heard a voice he felt he should remember…
//Yugi! My light, don't leave me!!//
He opened his eyes and saw white. It took him awhile to figure out it was a ceiling of some kind. He blinked and heard someone gasp beside him. He turned his head slowly, still unsure of where he was.
He saw a pretty young girl with brown hair sitting in a chair by what he now assumed was a hospital bed. She smiled and looked about to cry. He wondered why.
"Yugi! You're awake. I was so worried but I knew you would make it." He frowned at hearing this. Why had she been worried and why did she call him Yugi, he was…
He didn't know.
He shook his head, hoping to clear it and remember, but nothing came. The girl seemed to sense his confusion and a bit of worry crept into her eyes.
"Yugi," she asked softly, "Do you know who I am?" He shook his head. "Do you know who you are?" He opened his mouth to speak, but found he still didn't know. Wait! He remembered someone calling him Light before. Maybe that was his name. He thought it over for a minute and it felt right.
"I'm Light." She looked startled. He frowned. Why would she be upset if he remembered who he was. She looked closely at him.
"Do you know who Yami is?" That question caused him to stop and think a minute. Yami. He had heard that name before…No!
A flash of light went across his vision, causing him to cry out in pain. Yami was confusion, Yami was hurt, Yami was…Dark. How could that be a person. He turned to the girl and shook his head. She looked ready to burst into tears.
"Oh Yugi, I'm so sorry. If we hadn't asked you to swim out there, if only you had stayed with us. You would remember." She was crying as she reached down and picked something off the floor. It was a pendant that seemed to also be a puzzle. It was shaped as an upside down pyramid and had a cord attached to it. She held it out to him.
"Do you remember this?" He shook his head but still took it when she handed it to him. When his hands touched it he thought he heard a voice cry out and then the puzzle broke. The pieces lay all over the bed, except for the one he was holding onto. The one with the cord wrapped around it.
"What is this, a puzzle?" He asked the girl, but her eyes were looking at the scattered pieces. She seemed really upset. He patted her arm and smiled. "Don't worry, I'm sure you could get a refund or someone could help you put it together." It didn't seem to help. She stared at him for a moment and then whispered.
"It's yours and you were the only one who could put it together. Don't you remember it? Can't you remember its importance?" He could only shake his head as she cried clutching on to him. She kept repeating the same things over again and again,
"I'm sorry Yugi, I'm sorry Yami, I'm so sorry.."
They had brought him to what they had told him was his home., but Light didn't remember any of it. He looked around and saw pictures about something called 'Duel Monsters'. It looked violent and didn't interest him in the slightest.
He sat down on the bed, still holding on to the bag with the pieces of the puzzle in it. The elderly man that had picked him up from the hospital had said he was his Grandfather, but Light didn't recognize him. But he knew to respect his elders and had done as the man had asked him and kept the pieces with him.
Other people had been in the shop that was under the living area of this place and they had all called him Yugi. He didn't know who any of them where. But when the girl from the hospital had told them that he had amnesia they had all looked really sad. The blond and browned haired boys looked really upset.
He had told them his name and the white haired young man had seemed to react to that. He made a note to go and talk with him. Maybe he had really known him before all this had happened. They had all seemed nearly devastated when they had seen the pieces of the puzzle.
They had looked like a friend had just died, and when he had told them that he had no intention of trying to put it back together…the blond boy had looked ready to attack him, but was held back. All others just stood there in shock.
They had sent him upstairs to rest, so he had gone. He didn't know them and didn't feel like talking to them. But something wasn't feeling right. At first he had thought it was just because he was in a strange environment or that the cut on his head was bothering him, but no. This was different. More important, somehow. But he couldn't quite place his finger on it. It was like he was missing something, something important. He looked down at the bag and decided he didn't want to hold it anymore. He got up and put it on the desk, next to a stack of cards.
He looked at the cards curiously for a moment and then picked up the first one. It had a picture of the sea and was called a Field card. He didn't know what that was. It was not until he had said its name out loud that he felt anything.
"Umi." He had just whispered it, but all of a sudden it felt like he was surrounded by water and he panicked. He saw rocks close by and put a hand out to stop them. When he felt nothing there he realized he was still in the room, the card clutched tightly in his hand.
He was shaking and terrified. But of what…he didn't know. He set the card back down on the deck and the feeling of missing something grew almost unbearable.
"Whatever has happened, has happened. I'll be fine." He was talking to himself and he knew it, but it seemed to work. He relaxed and went over to the bed. He lay down and didn't bother turning off the lights. Something about the dark bothered him. He didn't worry about it, he just turned his head and, frowned.
There was a peg by his bed and it seemed as if something should be hanging there. He ignored the feeling and went to sleep. If he had only listened for a moment he would have heard it. The desperate plea, sounding as if it were coming through a closed door.
//My Light, Yugi! Please! Don't leave me!//
Yami had been pounding at the door to his soul room for what felt like days and still no reply. He couldn't get through to his light and he was growing weaker. His light was part of his strength and after all the fighting to try and find a balance…
"The sea goes and takes him away from me." He remembered the first time had dueled with Yugi on a sea field. The dueler had wanted to find his father. The sea had claimed another life at that time and now it had taken part of his.
He slumped down against his door and stared in to the black that surrounded him and offered him no other escape. For the first time in his life he did what only Yugi had ever done before.
He cried. The darkness was sapping his heart, while fueling his powers. If this kept up, he wouldn't be able to fight the call of the Shadow realm and the power deep within it. But for Yugi's sake, he would fight it off.
For as long as he could, even if it meant destroying himself.
Light woke up in the morning, trying to remember the strange dream he had had. There had been an elf in armor and a magician in purple. They had been calling out to him, but although he could see their mouths moving, he couldn't hear anything. They had seemed to realize that and were gesturing to something by them. He had looked and gasped.
There, crumbled on the floor had been what he would have called his twin. The ruby eyes had been lifeless and his whole body had screamed defeat. To Light's mind this didn't seem right. He had tried running to the double calling out to him, but something had stopped him.
Dragons appeared out of the shadows and blocked his path to the boy, but he could still see him and the shape of a man behind him. He could also make out the glint of a chain that ran from his hand to around his double's neck.
He felt angry at this and was about to charge through when the elf and magician had pulled him back. He had woken up at that part and lay there on the bed, wondering what it had meant. He felt weak, but just assumed that it was because of his injury. He got out of bed and was about to exit the room when something he stopped him. He turned back and looked on the desk.
The bag with the pieces looked so rejected that light couldn't help it. He picked up the bag and took it with him downstairs. He didn't know why, but he felt better just having it with him. Downstairs he met an even larger group than last night. There was a girl with blond hair and two other guys. A young one with a lot of black hair and a tall slender one with brown hair. They looked to be brothers. He looked at all of them and then the old man came out with trays of food.
Light's stomach reminded him he was hungry and so he went top get some food from one of the trays. Others were doing the same, but they kept watching him out of the corner of their eyes. He didn't much care. He couldn't help them.
He set the bag down to grab the food, but something screamed at him to not let go of it. It hit him so hard that he gasped and clutched the bag, but his hand slipped and he fell to his knees. The slender brown haired boy grabbed for him and held him. He was feeling very weak and knew he needed the bag.
The boy seemed to sense this and handed it to him. He sighed in relief as some of the weakness passed. The white haired boy was watching him very carefully and it may have been because he was dizzy, but his eyes looked different than yesterday.
Light didn't know what was going on, but as he looked down at the bag he began to realize that the puzzle was important.
So why was he scared to put it together.
Yami felt his Light's fear and it took more strength from him. He couldn't even reach out to his deck anymore. The borders between his world and the Shadow realm grew darker and Yami shuddered. A pair of eyes gleamed out of their darkness and he knew who they belonged to.
If his light didn't come back to him soon…
//I'll destroy myself before I will become a card for 'him'. I swear it!//