Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh
CHAPTER 2
"Yami?" Jounouchi immediately noticed the height difference and blinked in confusion. "What's going on?"
" I think Seto Kaiba is in trouble. Ergo, you are in trouble for letting him into your apartment, Jounouchi. And I don't know where Yugi is. Can I come in and speak to Kaiba?"
"Uh... okay..." Jounouchi stepped back and opened the door further to allow Yami inside. "What'd you say about not knowing where Yugi is? Shouldn't you be looking for him?"
" I'm trying Jounouchi. You know I would never let something bad happen to Yugi."
Jounouchi nodded and closed the door. "Seto's in the kitchen."
The apartment was clean. There was a fresh smell that reminded Yami of something Tea sprayed on the first and only time they went on a date. There was no more trash on the floor or empty alcohol bottles on the furniture. Jounouchi finally stood up to his dad, made a man of himself and cleaned up. Seto was in the kitchen like Jounouchi said and it was to his surprise he was wearing a chef hat and boiling something in a pot under the stove burner.
"I didn't know you could cook," Yami commented after a moment of surprised staring.
Seto didn't jump. "There's a lot of things you don't know about me."
" Like how your so insecure about your life with Jonouchi you would listen to Pegasus so no one would find out about your relationship? You should have told him first."
" You think any of this was that simple? I thought I was being watched."
Yami blinked in surprise.
" Being watched? By who? Don't liie to me this time Kaiba and don't try to change the subject."
"It's none of your business, Yami. I would have thought you'd be more invested in looking for Yugi than you would me anyway," Seto shot back.
" Yo Yami," Jounochi said in another room. " I don't have a lot to drink but would you want any?"
"No thanks; I'm fine, Jou," Yami called in response.
" You haven't told him about me and..."
" That was Pegasus!" Kaiba yelled denying what they did was anything more than Pegasus's plan.
Yami sighed and folded his arms. "Calm down, Kaiba."
" The main force he can use is turning us against each other, making us feel like we have to tear each other apart. But you know what, everything I tell you is the truth." Kaiba was still using that tone.
Yami blinked in confusion and surprise. "I would have thought I'd be one of the last people you'd tell the absolute truth to."
" I told you the truth! Every bit of detail was inconceivable and way to difficult for you to understand. You try to help but you just make things worse. It wasn't enough that you felt guilty about the night we had together...now you are trying to make me feel like I didn't have a choice? Why don't you go live in your lamp with your fantasy boyfriend and go fu ck yourselves."
Yami glared at Seto, his hands balling into fists. "Don't you dare patronize me; you have no idea what's going on here either! You're about to be framed for fu cking murder!"
The doorbell rang. " I got it." Jounouchi said walking to the front door and opening it.
When he opened the door he was punched in the torso. A man big as an ape punched him to the floor. Yami and Kaiba heard the sound of Jounouchi falling. There was a guy, one guy, tall white guy. His name was Savage.
Seto ran over to Jounouchi. "Are you okay?"
"I'll live," he replied, standing up with a wince.
" It's been a while since you were fighting in something other than a card game, Yami," Savage said.
Yami gritted his teeth together. "That doesn't mean I can't beat you."
A glowing yellow eye appeared on Yami's head. He didn't have Yugi but he could still control his Millenium Puzzle. Most people would lose their minds from the power of the Millenium Puzzle. Savage wasn't affected. He walked slowly towards Yami. Suddenly, Kaiba jumped out and punched Savage. His fist glanced off his chin.
"That almost tickled." Savage smirked and shoved Seto out of the way.
" How dare you hurt my friends!" Yami shouted.
" Friends? Last I checked Kaiba hated you. Everyone knows how he ripped up your grandpa's Blue Eyes White Dragon."
Savage striked Yami moving his hands faster than a shark ripping through it's prey. Yami dodged his strike and Savage's hands went through the wall. Yami could have striked Savage with his hands in the wall, but as Kaiba showed him it wouldn't do anything.
"He. Fast on your feet, I see." Savage pulled his arm out of the wall. "That makes it even more fun."
" Fun?!" Yami yelled offended by Savage. It was like Savage just said the sickest joke. " You break into Jounochi's home, hurt him, hurt Kaiba, and you think this is fun?"
"Extremely." Savage grinned.
Yami felt something when he looked at his grin. It was something far more sadistic than wanting to hurt him. He was planning something bad against Yami. Yami had to fight back.
His Millennium Puzzle began to glow. Savage smirked. "Resorting to that golden necklace of corpses now, are we?"
Yami closed his eyes. The Millenium Puzzle was speaking to him. Not out loud but inside his mind. Savage striked Yami but he punched the wall instead. Savage was trying to punch Yami but something forced his hand to the wall.
Yami opened his eyes and blinked in surprise to see Bakura and Marik. "Sorry, but if anyone's going to kill the Pharoah, it's going to be me. Not you," Bakura growled as the shadowy tendrils tightened around Savage's arm.
"Now you're going to tell us where our hikaris are before my shadows snap your arm into so many pieces there won't be enough numbers in the world to count them."
Bakura's tendrils tightened around Savage's hand. If Savage was just a normal man with a big temper this would break him, but Savage liked pain like a masochist and lusted over destruction.
" You think I haven't dealt with darkness before? I know your sister, Marik."
Marik's eyes widened. "Bakura, stop."
"Are you insane?" Bakura snapped, glaring at him.
"I said stop! This is only going to fuel him if he knew Makara."
Suddenly, someone grabbed them both and threw them against the wall. The figure was an all black, ninja, female because the only part where her skin was exposed looked to feminine for a man's eyes. Savage grabbed Bakura by his stripped shirt and punched him the face as many times as he felt he had to.
" Your all trapped like paper plates in a tornado. I can bash your head against this wall...if I didn't enjoy having my arm being almost snapped off by your shadows. When I look into your eyes all I want to do is gouge them out."
"Try," Bakura snarled, trying not to be fazed by the numerous hits to his head. "I fu cking dare you!"
Yami pulled him out of Savage's grip. "Are you an idiot or do you just have a death wish?!"
"Funny way to thank someone for saving your life." Bakura wiped a bit of blood from the corner of his mouth.
" I'm almost tempted to take you to the shadow realm. But you giant pompous narcissistic je rk are NOT going there before I make you bleed." Bakura showed him the amount of blood on his face. " More than this blood, you slime."
Bakura bristled at the insult, his pride getting the better of him. The shadows began to swarm around him in massive amounts.
" You stupid..." Savage stopped to think about what he was going to say. He was going to call Bakura a boy.
" Whatever you are. You have a problem thinking that shadows can rip off my head."
"These shadows are special. They can rip anyone or anything's head off," Bakura shot back.
Savage smirked. "Prove it."
Bakura stepped forward and his shadows rushed at Savage. Savage's smirk grew and he caught one tendril and pushed some of his own power into it. Bakura hissed in pain at the action.
" I'm made of more than just flesh." Savage squeezed hard on the shadows. The pain was sent back to Bakura's head. Marik tried running in to fight Savage but without his Millennium Rod he was easily defeated by a swift blow by the black ninja.
"Makara," the psychotic spirit growled in recognition, seeing her pale lavender eyes.
"The one and only, brother dearest."
Makara smirked beneath her mask and lunged. Meanwhile, Savage pushed more power through the shadows. Bakura staggered and gripped his head in pain, eyes squeezed shut.
Yami didn't know how he could help Marik and Bakura. They may have been his enemies one time but they came to help him. His vitality was too low to help them and without Yugi's words of advice he wasn't supple enough to move his muscles to get Bakura and Marik help.
"What's the matter, Yami?" Savage asked. "Not strong enough to help your friends?" He pushed his power further and Bakura fell back against the wall. "Kneel, slime."
"I would sooner bow to the one that killed my village," Bakura growled in response, pushing himself to stand again.
Yami had no other choice. He had to ask the heart of the cards what to do. He took out his deck and concentrated very hard on the voices speaking to him from his deck.
'Summon one of us,' they urged him. 'Trust us. We can help you.'
' I do trust you. Each and every one of you are an important friend of mine. Help me stop this dark heart man and find Yugi.' Yami summoned Dark Magician from his deck. He was his most trusted companion.
Bakura blinked in surprise when he looked up, seeing the Dark Magician standing in front of him and Yami.
"I see. You're finally doing something useful, Yami," Savage mused.
"Oh shut up already," Bakura muttered as he reached for his own deck.
" I wouldn't do that unless you want to lose that arm." Bakura felt a big ripping pain through his arm. A needle being sewed out of someone's arms wouldn't be as painful as this sensation. " That's for the shadow trick and my arm. Dark Magician, show me what you got."
Dark Magician however waited patiently for Yami's mental command. 'Wait for him to get impatient; just defend for now,' Yami decided.
'Of course.' Dark Magician gave a small inclination of his head. Yami glanced at Bakura. The boy's arm was pinned against the wall and from the loud crack it had made before, Yami assumed it was broken. He didn't know or want to know what would happen if Bakura tried to move it. Marik was still fighting Makara and it didn't look like the battle would end anytime soon.
" I'm familiar with your Dark Magician. Your not the only one with a magician." Savage put his hand on his heart. His heart was black, at least it looked that way when the inside of his chest changed black.
Slowly, a semi-transparent figure emerged from his body before becoming fully physical. It was a magician with a red jester hat with three purple gems on his hat and his face was shadowed in purple mask. His eyes were slanted and yellow. He was holding a sceptre with a green gem on the tip.
"Please welcome to the stage my own magician." Savage smirked. "Now lets see who does better."
The Dark Magician grasped his staff in a defensive stance. The red magician raised his sceptre now glowing in green light. The magician split into five different copies and moving around in circles at super speed. The Dark Magician held steady, determined not to be confused by the red magician. He just had to find the real one. The magicians suddenly stopped and all attacked at once.
" Dark Magician, Dark Magic Attack!"
The four magicians turned into balls of white light absorbed into his staff and fired a beam of white light he fired into Dark Magician and Dark a Magician fired a dark orb into the white light.
The two lights clashed violently before causing an explosion that forced Yami to look away.
' I won.' Yami opened his eyes. Dark Magician was standing and smiling, but so was Savage who was standing behind Dark Magician.
Savage chuckled slightly. The chuckle soon became a cackle. "Fool! Don't assume magicians are so easy to be rid of!" The red magician appeared again, but this time, there was an identical one beside it.
" I know what your monster can do," Yami said. " It has the power to replicate itself."
" Correct. But it's replicates are more than just clones. They are energy he creates from his body strength and absorbs to make his magic strength stronger."
Savage smirked. "And just as his strength grows, so too does mine." He clenched a fist and there was a sickening crack from Bakura's arm. The spirit clenched his teeth tightly to stop himself yelling in pain. "And that's just the beginning."
XXX
Yugi was still trapped in the dark room where a rescue attempt had failed. He heard footsteps coming his way and the door opened. Suddenly, Ryou and Malik were thrown in beside him.
" Ryou! Malik!" Yugi tried to help them but his arms were still tied to rope attached to a ceiling. Malik staggered to his feet and glared at the figure.
" Yugi Motou," Malik said staring at his eyes as Yugi was chained to a wall.
"Are you guys okay?" Yugi asked, concerned.
"We're fine," Malik replied. Ryou nodded in agreement, shakily pushing himself up.
"Not for long," a voice laughed.
It was Savage's creepy wife Yuuichi who was chuckling in the shadows. Yugi was afraid she was going to torture them.
Apparently Ryou and Malik were afraid of the same thing. "Don't you dare go near them again!" Malik growled.
" My husband brought you here because he knows how much I like torturing cute boys," she said.
Malik narrowed his eyes. "Makes sense why you don't torture him then."
" Oh shove off Malik!" Ryou shouted.
Malik gave him a warning look. The Egyptian - knowing that he was physically stronger than the other two - was trying to divert Yuuichi's attention into him so that they hopefully wouldn't be hurt.
" Don't embarrass yourself," she smiled walking towards Malik. " I know all about you Egyptians and what you can do."
Malik narrowed his eyes, reaching for his millennium rod. Yuuichi slashed her claw at Malik. Malik grabbed his Millenium Rod just in time to block her claws from slashing his face.
"I won't be as easy to take down as you think," he growled, pushing her back.
Yuuichi went after Ryou but Malik swung his rod at her. She dodged going for his chest but Malik dodged her claws.
However, he hadn't anticipated her going for his chest again with her other hand. He yelled in pain as her claws were dragged across his chest, ripping his shirt. The blood that swelled up dyed his shirt red.
He stumbled back, clutching his chest. Yuuichi smirked. "That was a lot easier than I thought it would be."
The more Yuuichi hurt Malik the more scared Yugi became of her and the more excited she seemed to get. Yugi was trying to escape so much he almost gnawed on the chains around his arms.
He heard Ryou come up behind him. Turning to face him, he was about to say something, but Ryou pressed a finger to his lips in a 'shhh' motion. Then Yugi noticed the fairly glowing ring and the shadows being redirected to the chains.
" Your boyfriend is in a life and death battle with her husband," said Ryou. " I'm getting you out of here and when I do I want you to run back to him."
"But what about you guys?"
Ryou hesitated. "We'll be okay."
Ryou's shadows shattered the chain and handcuffs around his hand. Yugi ran as fast as he could out of the warehouse. He felt terrible leaving Ryou and Malik behind to a woman who could make any man feel their worse pains but he had to find Yami.
Yuuichi yelled in outrage and went to go after him but a wall of shadows blocked her. "You're not bringing him back."
Yuuichi made an irritated exasperation noise. If she was going to help her darling she would have to fight Ryou and Malik first.
' On the other hand,' she thought opening her hand and closing it. ' I haven't had this much fun since our marriage and first sacrifice of human life.'
XXX
Yugi ran through the streets of Domino, trying to find Yami. Yugi was never told where Yami was or how he could get to him. There was a loud explosion nearby and Yugi realised he was near Jounouchi's house. 'That might be him!'
Yugi ran as fast as his little legs could move. He had no way of knowing who was in Jounochi's house or if they were harmed in any way. He reached the apartment front door. Behind that only slightly broken door was fire. He pushed through the broken door.
" Yami...Jounouchi...?"
There was silence for a moment before Yugi heard someone coughing because of the smoke. Yugi followed the sound of that coughing. It lead him to someone very special to him, his best friend Jounochi.
"Jou, what happened?" Yugi asked, running over to help him.
" Yugi...Is that you?" Jounouchi looked dreary. Whatever happened to him didn't go well with his help. Jounouchi looked at Yugi and smiled. " Yugi...you saved me."
"Come on; we need to get you out of here." Yugi helped Jounouchi up and the two staggered outside.
" Yugi!"
" Jounouchi!"
Anzu and Honda were running towards Yugi and Jounouchi. The four of them were all together, only Yugi was missing his friend Yami.
"Where's Yami?" He asked.
"He, Seto, Bakura and Marik were captured," Jounouchi coughed out.
" Oh no!" Yugi's eyes widened in horror. Yami wouldn't be captured unless the person who captured him was some kind of ultimate force. But Yami faced Egyptian Gods. " Where did he take him?"
"I don't know," Jounouchi admitted, looking ashamed.
" It's okay, Jounouchi," Yugi said but he sounded like there was a bone in his neck. " Do you know anything about where Yami and Seto were taken?"
"All I know is that they were all going to be split up, so to find them, we might need Ryou and Malik."
" Someone took them to the warehouse where I was taken," said Yugi. " Maybe their still in the warehouse."
"Come on; we need to go check!" Anzu insisted.
XXX
Savage was squeezing Ryou's hand so hard he couldn't move it anymore. Savage then threw Ryou through the wall of Jounouchi's apartment. Savage didn't kill him. His men were going to capture him and take him to a warehouse.
Ryou hit the wall with a yell of pain. "Bakura!"
Malik charged at Savage and swing it like an axe. Malik was no match for Savage.
Savage smirked and slammed Malik back into the wall. "Pathetic."
Malik cut his lip on the left side. Even though he was slammed to the wall he struggled to get out. Savage smirked when he felt Ryou try to take command of the shadows and pull him away. "Even more pathetic."
Savage took Malik's Millenium rod and stabbed it into Bakura's shadows.
Bakura growled, helping Ryou up. "Who are you and what do you want with them?"
" What I want? All I want to do I cause a little trouble and have a little fun," Savage said laughing.
Stay away from Ryou and I have no problem with you doing that."
"But you see; he's a large part of my plan." Savage smirked. Ryou couldn't help but shudder at the evil glint in his eyes that even Marik hadn't possessed when he was evil.
" He is not part of your plan!"
"I'm afraid that he is. Now you can either let me take him, or I'll just have a bit of fun."
Bakura stepped in front of Ryou protectively.
" He needs me not you. Whatever you plan on doing to him you'll have to get through me first."
"A simple task." Savage smirked and threw Malik hard against the wall again. The boy hit his head off the wall and collapsed, unconscious. Savage strode towards the barers of the ring.
" The Millennium Ring." Savage grabbed the ring and pulled it off Bakura's neck. " It belongs to me."
"No way in hell!" Bakura caught it and pulled it back.
" Come on. Why can't you just share your Millenium Ring with me?" Savage said pulling his Millenium Ring back to him.
"One, I don't trust you. Two, it's mine. Three, I'm not about to hand over something my village died for just so you can have your fun," Bakura snarled, pulling back the ring.
" Your right. People did die for your Millenium Ring. But they were created from the lives of the weak; the strong are the only ones who keep the hikari, I don't know."
Rage flashed in Bakura's eyes, more so than Ryou had ever seen his yami possess. "Don't you dare call my family weak," Bakura spat.
Bakura hit Savage in a flurry. He hit him many times until he let go of his Millennium Ring and took it back from Savage. Savage took a step back and there was silence for a moment. Bakura smirked and put the ring back on. Suddenly, Savage began laughing.
" I think it is fair to tell you one thing about me." The ceilings were covered in shadows. Bakura didn't know what was in that shadow but it had wide white glowing eyes. " When you face with me you're facing monsters."
"And when you're facing me, you're facing a demon," Bakura shot back.
Savage smiled before snapping his fingers. That sound made the creature hiding in the shadows attack! It was a green goblin like creature with big scary smile.
"Retrieve Ryou. Do what you want with the spirit," he told it.
The goblin laughed grabbing Ryou to take him away. Bakura grabbed the goblins shoulder. " This thing is pathetic."
The goblin shot a blast of pure, intensified light at Bakura which the thief king barely dodged. "I think you'll find him a bit more of a challenge than you think."
XXX
Savage summoned a creature when no one was looking to search for the rest of the boys in Jounochi's apartment. Bakura's Millenium Ring raised its metal points at the creature.
A blast of darkness and light met in the middle, both trying to push the other back. Eventually, it caused an explosion that threw Ryou back. The explosion left debris over the floor and flames scattered in different locations.
Bakura groaned and pulled himself up, but Savage and the creature had left with Ryou and Malik.
" Damn you!" Bakura yelled hitting the wall. " It pains me to do this but I have to get the Pharaoh's help."
He growled, clenching his teeth. He could get his revenge after he got his hikari back. Ryou mattered more to him than dead souls.