Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.
Hey Guys! Guess what? I bet you'll never guess, but go ahead and try. Alright, I'll tell you. I wrote another story! See, I told you you would never guess. Anyways, I thought since it was taking me so long to update my other fic, I thought I might send in this one that I've had written for a while if for a treat and then I promise that I'll have up Chapter 10 on "Back 2 the Future". Anyways, do enjoy!
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TEST OF FRIENDSHIP
Chapter 1: Metamorphose
Yugi turned the door knob of the small apartment that belonged to Joey and begin to exit. He had barely taken two steps out the door before Joey and Tristan's head popped out in the open door way.
"Are you sure you can't stay, Yugi?" Joey asked.
"Yeah, I'd better go check on Yami, he looked pretty sick when he left." Yugi said as him and Joey looked to Tristan.
"What?! How was I suppose to know he was lactose intolerant?" Tristan said crossing his arms and leaning against the door frame.
Yugi and Joey both laughed at Tristan's screwed up face and clearly angered look. Joey elbowed Tristan trying to change the expression. When that didn't work, Joey reached over and pulled Joey into a headlock and chunked him back into the apartment.
"So, well see you tomorrow Yug?" Joey asked standing in the now clear doorway.
Yugi turned to Joey and nodded.
"Oh and tell Yami, that I hope he feels better and I hope Tristan's double milky malt doesn't kill him.
Yugi smiled at Joey's comment, but his smile quickly turned to surprised when Tristan suddenly appeared in the doorway and grabbed Joey's arm and forced it behind his back.
"I didn't know, it's not my fault!" Tristan exclaimed in Joey's ear.
"I'll see you tomorrow Yugi, but I don't think you'll be seeing Joey."
"Oh, your trying to be tough are ya? Well, I got your tough right here." Joey said as he tried to break Tristan's grip, but instead of breaking the grip he lost his balance and they both fell to the ground.
"Well, that fall did hurt as bad as I thought it would."
"That's because... you fell on me!" Tristan said as he shoved Joey off and onto the floor.
"Owf"
Yugi smiled and shook hid head as he walk down the hallway still hearing the sporadic thuds of Joey and Tristan's quarrel.
Yugi walked down the dark and damp sidewalk on his way back to the Game Shop. He hoped that Yami was feeling better or at least remembered to take his keys since grandpa was going to be gone on a dig in Egypt for a couple of weeks.
Yugi laughed to himself when he thought back to the look on all his friends faces when Yami spit Tristan's malt out across the room, nearly hitting Tristan and Duke, who at the time where both fighting over who got to sit by Serenity.
"It's too bad that Tea had to work. She would have loved to have seen that."
Tea had to work tonight. She had recently gotten a job at Yugi and Joey's favorite burger joint. She had been working a lot at night lately and had been getting home late.
Yugi stopped under a nearby streetlight when he heard a familiar voice inside his head.
//Yugi?//
/Hey Yami, I was just on my way home to see you. How do you feel?/
//Well, I've been better, but I'll live if that's what you mean.//
/That's good, I think./
//You could have stayed a bit longer at your friends house if you wanted to Hikari.//
/I know, but I wanted to check on you./
Yami didn't reply, but simply sent a smile through the link.
/I'll be home in a minute./
Yugi smiled back to Yami before closing the link and sticking his hands into his pockets. Once inside his pocket he felt his finger graze the corner of what felt like a piece of paper. He wrapped his fingers around the square object and brought it out of his pocket.
It was a picture.
The picture was of all of his friends. Joey, Tristan, Tea, Duke, Serenity, Bakura, and Yami; they were all there. Joey had one arm around Yugi's shoulder ruffling his hair with his other hand. Yami stood in the background with Bakura and Tea. He was giving his usual half way smile while Bakura and Tea was looking at Yugi and Joey with a half laughing half smile on their faces. Duke and Tristan were standing on each side of Serenity glaring at one another, unbeknown to Serenity who was smiling and waving a Japanese victory sign at the camera.
"Who could ask for more? I have the best friends in the world." Yugi thought to himself.
Yugi was about to place the picture back into his pocket when a strange wind whipped about him snatching the picture from his hand and sending it flying down a nearby alley.
"Hey!" Yugi yelled reaching out after the picture, but it had already blown to far out of reach and into the blackest of the alley.
As soon as the wind died off Yugi brushed his golden bangs from his eyes and stepped into the unwelcoming alley. The alley was dark and eerie. Yugi scanned the ground quickly as best as he could with the little amount of light he had. He began to travel farther and farther back into the alley until there was no light at all. Now he had to resort to using his hand to find the picture. After a few minutes of hand searching, Yugi's hand finally came upon one of the sharp corners of the picture. He placed the picture close to his eyes and could just make out the smiling faces of his friends. He sighed and held the picture out away from his face.
"Phew... I thought I had lost you guys."
"But would they care if you got lost?" came a deep voice from the eerie blackness.
Yugi jumped nearly dropping his picture and began to look around. "Who said that?"
No response...
"Sh...show yourself." Yugi studdered.
"In due time, my boy." said the deep velvety voice that sent shivers up and down Yugi's spine.
Yugi began to take a step back but hit something hard and let out a loud puff of breathe.
"What's your hurry?" the deep voice echoed.
Finally, out of the dark came a dark figure outlined by a pure blue light that lit the alley just enough for Yugi to see what was now behind him. It was a wall.
Yugi let out a stunned gasp to see a wall where there had once been a clear path leading to the street.
"No way!"
Yugi noticed a soft glow coming from his hand. He looked down to see what it could be when he saw the picture of his friends outlined in the same color blue as the shadow figure. He felt a sharp tug on the picture causing it to fly from his hand and into the ghostly hand of the shadowy figure.
"So these are your friends?" the shadowy figure said with a voice that rattled the end of the alley. "Are these the same friends that you would do anything for? But I suppose the real question is, would they do anything for you?"
Yugi didn't know how to answer this question. He had never been asked that before. Of course his friends would do anything for him. Yugi knew that, or at least he thought he knew. Why couldn't he answer the shadowy figure's question? Was he really not that sure about his friends?
"Of course they would." Yugi spat.
"Are you sure?" the Shadowy figure asked. "You seem unsure."
Yugi didn't like his situation at all. He didn't want to be there anymore, but what could he do, he was boxed in.
"W... what do you want?" Yugi asked slightly shaky.
"I don't want anything", the Shadowy figure said stretching out his grim hand and causing the same light around him to outline Yugi, "I only wish for you to see."
Yugi began to feel strange. "Wait, what... what are you doing?"
He tried to get away but the blue light held him firmly in place, and even if he were to get away, where would he go? He was boxed in with no way out. He was trapped. Yugi could only think of one last thing to do.
/Yami!/
Yugi felt Yami jump through the link. He felt bad for having to yell and startling him, but he didn't know how much time he had left.
"No no", the shadowy figure said as he stretched out his other hand in front of Yugi's head. His hand glowed blue and he drew it together into a fist. Yugi gritted his teeth in pain. Even though the Shadowy figure's hand was out in front of Yugi, it felt like his hand was inside of his mind squeezing his link shut. The pain was horrible. The tried to hang on to the link as long as he could. He could hear Yami faintly through the barely opened linked, but it was weak and he couldn't understand what he was saying, nor could he reply. Finally he felt the link completely go dead.
"Why are... you doing this?" Yugi panted from the energy he had wasted on holding on to his link.
"I want to test your friends." the Shadowy figure replied. "I want to show you that you don't have the friends you think you have."
"You leave my friends alone!" Yugi forced out.
"Oh relax dear boy, I don't plan to hurt your friends", the Shadowy figure said taking a step closer to stand face to face with his small victim. "but I can't say the same for you."
Yugi felt himself go pale.
"Yugi, the friends you think you have don't exist. You think that your friends will always be there for you. But what if they didn't know who you were or even what you looked like. Do you think that your friends could figure out who you are if I were to change you?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Yugi said feeling a little more frighten then before.
"You believe that your friends will always come through for you, right? Then if I were to change you, would your friends be able to over come the difference and help their friend?
Yugi was now confused along with the already feeling of fright. What was this thing planning on doing to him?
"My friends can over come anything you do." Yugi said trying to put on a brave face to not show any weakness to this creature.
"I hope so, because if they don't, it'll be your life", the shadowy figure said as he drew his finger up and laid it on Yugi's forehead causing the blue outline around him to turn red.
Yugi immediately felt the pain from the shadow's touch. His small frame began to burn like fire as he felt himself changing. He wasn't sure how to describe what he was feeling. His vision, which was usually low already, began to get lower and all the colors around him faded away. Soon, he felt himself laying on the ground and the pain around him had disappeared.
Yugi began to pick himself up but found that when he stood up he was very low to the ground.
"What's the matter with me?" Yugi frantically thought.
"What did you do to me?!" Yugi said in a strange voice. In fact, if he hadn't known any better, he would have thought he barked.
"What's that little Yugi?" the Shadowy figure asked with a smirk, "Your going to have to speak up."
Yugi began to say something else but stopped when all that came out was a bark. The one bark seemed to ring out throughout the alley, as if to mock him. Yugi took a step back trying to figure out what was going on when his foot slipped into a water puddle. He quickly regained his balance and turned to face the puddle. The water rippled for a moment and then settled on his reflection. Yugi's eyes widened at the sight of what was looking back at him. He wanted to look away, but found that he couldn't. He didn't want to believe in what he saw, but how could he not believe in what was right in front of him. Yugi turned and looked back up at the Shadowy figure.
"You made me a dog?!"
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A/N: Well, that concludes Chapter1! So what do you all think? Should I continue with it or what? Now be completely honest. *holds fist in the air* I can take it! Well, please R&R and tell me what you think or what I could do to improve it or if I should even continue it. Arigatou! ^_~
Nightlight5
Hey Guys! Guess what? I bet you'll never guess, but go ahead and try. Alright, I'll tell you. I wrote another story! See, I told you you would never guess. Anyways, I thought since it was taking me so long to update my other fic, I thought I might send in this one that I've had written for a while if for a treat and then I promise that I'll have up Chapter 10 on "Back 2 the Future". Anyways, do enjoy!
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TEST OF FRIENDSHIP
Chapter 1: Metamorphose
Yugi turned the door knob of the small apartment that belonged to Joey and begin to exit. He had barely taken two steps out the door before Joey and Tristan's head popped out in the open door way.
"Are you sure you can't stay, Yugi?" Joey asked.
"Yeah, I'd better go check on Yami, he looked pretty sick when he left." Yugi said as him and Joey looked to Tristan.
"What?! How was I suppose to know he was lactose intolerant?" Tristan said crossing his arms and leaning against the door frame.
Yugi and Joey both laughed at Tristan's screwed up face and clearly angered look. Joey elbowed Tristan trying to change the expression. When that didn't work, Joey reached over and pulled Joey into a headlock and chunked him back into the apartment.
"So, well see you tomorrow Yug?" Joey asked standing in the now clear doorway.
Yugi turned to Joey and nodded.
"Oh and tell Yami, that I hope he feels better and I hope Tristan's double milky malt doesn't kill him.
Yugi smiled at Joey's comment, but his smile quickly turned to surprised when Tristan suddenly appeared in the doorway and grabbed Joey's arm and forced it behind his back.
"I didn't know, it's not my fault!" Tristan exclaimed in Joey's ear.
"I'll see you tomorrow Yugi, but I don't think you'll be seeing Joey."
"Oh, your trying to be tough are ya? Well, I got your tough right here." Joey said as he tried to break Tristan's grip, but instead of breaking the grip he lost his balance and they both fell to the ground.
"Well, that fall did hurt as bad as I thought it would."
"That's because... you fell on me!" Tristan said as he shoved Joey off and onto the floor.
"Owf"
Yugi smiled and shook hid head as he walk down the hallway still hearing the sporadic thuds of Joey and Tristan's quarrel.
Yugi walked down the dark and damp sidewalk on his way back to the Game Shop. He hoped that Yami was feeling better or at least remembered to take his keys since grandpa was going to be gone on a dig in Egypt for a couple of weeks.
Yugi laughed to himself when he thought back to the look on all his friends faces when Yami spit Tristan's malt out across the room, nearly hitting Tristan and Duke, who at the time where both fighting over who got to sit by Serenity.
"It's too bad that Tea had to work. She would have loved to have seen that."
Tea had to work tonight. She had recently gotten a job at Yugi and Joey's favorite burger joint. She had been working a lot at night lately and had been getting home late.
Yugi stopped under a nearby streetlight when he heard a familiar voice inside his head.
//Yugi?//
/Hey Yami, I was just on my way home to see you. How do you feel?/
//Well, I've been better, but I'll live if that's what you mean.//
/That's good, I think./
//You could have stayed a bit longer at your friends house if you wanted to Hikari.//
/I know, but I wanted to check on you./
Yami didn't reply, but simply sent a smile through the link.
/I'll be home in a minute./
Yugi smiled back to Yami before closing the link and sticking his hands into his pockets. Once inside his pocket he felt his finger graze the corner of what felt like a piece of paper. He wrapped his fingers around the square object and brought it out of his pocket.
It was a picture.
The picture was of all of his friends. Joey, Tristan, Tea, Duke, Serenity, Bakura, and Yami; they were all there. Joey had one arm around Yugi's shoulder ruffling his hair with his other hand. Yami stood in the background with Bakura and Tea. He was giving his usual half way smile while Bakura and Tea was looking at Yugi and Joey with a half laughing half smile on their faces. Duke and Tristan were standing on each side of Serenity glaring at one another, unbeknown to Serenity who was smiling and waving a Japanese victory sign at the camera.
"Who could ask for more? I have the best friends in the world." Yugi thought to himself.
Yugi was about to place the picture back into his pocket when a strange wind whipped about him snatching the picture from his hand and sending it flying down a nearby alley.
"Hey!" Yugi yelled reaching out after the picture, but it had already blown to far out of reach and into the blackest of the alley.
As soon as the wind died off Yugi brushed his golden bangs from his eyes and stepped into the unwelcoming alley. The alley was dark and eerie. Yugi scanned the ground quickly as best as he could with the little amount of light he had. He began to travel farther and farther back into the alley until there was no light at all. Now he had to resort to using his hand to find the picture. After a few minutes of hand searching, Yugi's hand finally came upon one of the sharp corners of the picture. He placed the picture close to his eyes and could just make out the smiling faces of his friends. He sighed and held the picture out away from his face.
"Phew... I thought I had lost you guys."
"But would they care if you got lost?" came a deep voice from the eerie blackness.
Yugi jumped nearly dropping his picture and began to look around. "Who said that?"
No response...
"Sh...show yourself." Yugi studdered.
"In due time, my boy." said the deep velvety voice that sent shivers up and down Yugi's spine.
Yugi began to take a step back but hit something hard and let out a loud puff of breathe.
"What's your hurry?" the deep voice echoed.
Finally, out of the dark came a dark figure outlined by a pure blue light that lit the alley just enough for Yugi to see what was now behind him. It was a wall.
Yugi let out a stunned gasp to see a wall where there had once been a clear path leading to the street.
"No way!"
Yugi noticed a soft glow coming from his hand. He looked down to see what it could be when he saw the picture of his friends outlined in the same color blue as the shadow figure. He felt a sharp tug on the picture causing it to fly from his hand and into the ghostly hand of the shadowy figure.
"So these are your friends?" the shadowy figure said with a voice that rattled the end of the alley. "Are these the same friends that you would do anything for? But I suppose the real question is, would they do anything for you?"
Yugi didn't know how to answer this question. He had never been asked that before. Of course his friends would do anything for him. Yugi knew that, or at least he thought he knew. Why couldn't he answer the shadowy figure's question? Was he really not that sure about his friends?
"Of course they would." Yugi spat.
"Are you sure?" the Shadowy figure asked. "You seem unsure."
Yugi didn't like his situation at all. He didn't want to be there anymore, but what could he do, he was boxed in.
"W... what do you want?" Yugi asked slightly shaky.
"I don't want anything", the Shadowy figure said stretching out his grim hand and causing the same light around him to outline Yugi, "I only wish for you to see."
Yugi began to feel strange. "Wait, what... what are you doing?"
He tried to get away but the blue light held him firmly in place, and even if he were to get away, where would he go? He was boxed in with no way out. He was trapped. Yugi could only think of one last thing to do.
/Yami!/
Yugi felt Yami jump through the link. He felt bad for having to yell and startling him, but he didn't know how much time he had left.
"No no", the shadowy figure said as he stretched out his other hand in front of Yugi's head. His hand glowed blue and he drew it together into a fist. Yugi gritted his teeth in pain. Even though the Shadowy figure's hand was out in front of Yugi, it felt like his hand was inside of his mind squeezing his link shut. The pain was horrible. The tried to hang on to the link as long as he could. He could hear Yami faintly through the barely opened linked, but it was weak and he couldn't understand what he was saying, nor could he reply. Finally he felt the link completely go dead.
"Why are... you doing this?" Yugi panted from the energy he had wasted on holding on to his link.
"I want to test your friends." the Shadowy figure replied. "I want to show you that you don't have the friends you think you have."
"You leave my friends alone!" Yugi forced out.
"Oh relax dear boy, I don't plan to hurt your friends", the Shadowy figure said taking a step closer to stand face to face with his small victim. "but I can't say the same for you."
Yugi felt himself go pale.
"Yugi, the friends you think you have don't exist. You think that your friends will always be there for you. But what if they didn't know who you were or even what you looked like. Do you think that your friends could figure out who you are if I were to change you?"
"Huh? What do you mean?" Yugi said feeling a little more frighten then before.
"You believe that your friends will always come through for you, right? Then if I were to change you, would your friends be able to over come the difference and help their friend?
Yugi was now confused along with the already feeling of fright. What was this thing planning on doing to him?
"My friends can over come anything you do." Yugi said trying to put on a brave face to not show any weakness to this creature.
"I hope so, because if they don't, it'll be your life", the shadowy figure said as he drew his finger up and laid it on Yugi's forehead causing the blue outline around him to turn red.
Yugi immediately felt the pain from the shadow's touch. His small frame began to burn like fire as he felt himself changing. He wasn't sure how to describe what he was feeling. His vision, which was usually low already, began to get lower and all the colors around him faded away. Soon, he felt himself laying on the ground and the pain around him had disappeared.
Yugi began to pick himself up but found that when he stood up he was very low to the ground.
"What's the matter with me?" Yugi frantically thought.
"What did you do to me?!" Yugi said in a strange voice. In fact, if he hadn't known any better, he would have thought he barked.
"What's that little Yugi?" the Shadowy figure asked with a smirk, "Your going to have to speak up."
Yugi began to say something else but stopped when all that came out was a bark. The one bark seemed to ring out throughout the alley, as if to mock him. Yugi took a step back trying to figure out what was going on when his foot slipped into a water puddle. He quickly regained his balance and turned to face the puddle. The water rippled for a moment and then settled on his reflection. Yugi's eyes widened at the sight of what was looking back at him. He wanted to look away, but found that he couldn't. He didn't want to believe in what he saw, but how could he not believe in what was right in front of him. Yugi turned and looked back up at the Shadowy figure.
"You made me a dog?!"
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A/N: Well, that concludes Chapter1! So what do you all think? Should I continue with it or what? Now be completely honest. *holds fist in the air* I can take it! Well, please R&R and tell me what you think or what I could do to improve it or if I should even continue it. Arigatou! ^_~
Nightlight5