Hey everyone, it's me, Melody! I just wanted to quickly thank all of my current reviews or those who reviewed chapter 1. I really appreciate it, considering it shows you took time to write something nice, like me, except without the nice. 030 Oh, and thank you so much for so many views, favorites, follows, etc. I know it's not really a lot, but it is to me. Thank you all!

Review Replies (I only do this if it's a question):

guest-

Hi, and thanks for reading first off. And yes, you are a lamb! *claps her hands* Anyway, please don't feel as if you're imposing or hurting my feelings. On the contrary, I am glad you pointed out that you could not understand. Yes, the hand cuffs were enchanted and Yami was paralyzed by them. I read it over myself and I found I could understand it, but I was the one who wrote it so I don't really have any kind of excuse now do I? Thank you for reviewing and I truly appreciate it.

Rainbowc-

When I read the first part of your review... *sobs* Anyway thank you for reading the things this 'sadistic bitch', AKA me, writes. She really appreciates it! o.o You thought he was gonna rape them? Hmm, that probably would've happened, but I honestly didn't want to add something so traumatic at the very beginning. I felt it would be more fitting sometime into the story and if he did rape them it would have to contain plot behind it just so it wouldn't seem as if I'm a 'VERY sadistic bitch' versus 'sadistic bitch'.

And to everyone else who reviewed and said such sweet things, thank you so much! You have no idea how it makes me feel, especially since my stomach pains have been getting worse and I current have a cold, it's brightened up my day. Oh, and did I mention that Malik would be in this chapter? I really like Malik and I feel as if he isn't in enough stories, and if he is he's never a major character which he-along with Ryou- are in this fic.

And I will be updating my other Yu-Gi-Oh! fic as well (not Angel Without Wings, which is now complete).

Just for future reference-

Malik=hikari

Marik=yami

"Yami?" Yugi's voice echoed, bouncing off of cement walls covered in paint. Turning his head, Yami forced a rather odd looking smile to show he was paying attention. "We need to escape." Yugi mumbled, eying the window that was left partly open in order to taunt them into anger and insanity. Nodding his head in response, Yami fought against his bonds, but they were still magically possessed. "I need someone with magic to break the spell." Yami explained irritably, wondering how Yugi's father had even managed to obtain such cuffs. Searching his mind for someone, Yugi's face lit up. "Malik knows magic, remember?" The boy said, hope making its way into his voice. It was refreshing to hear Yugi sound like his old self, but Yami was still slightly skeptical.

"Yes," Yami frowned. "But how do we contact him?" The hopeful look in Yugi's eyes fell abruptly as if Yami's very words had crushed all sense of light in his heart. "I-I..." The boy trailed off, unable himself to accept the truth of the matter, or what he thought was the truth. "Yugi." Turning his head at his name, he looked into Yami's familiar purple eyes which burned with their usual sense of justice and courage. "You have to get Malik." When Yugi opened his mouth to protest, Yami forced his face to harden into a firm but gentle frown. "I can't." He held up his hands, shaking them back and forth in example.

Gulping, Yugi nodded his head and stood up. Looking at his yami expectantly, he gestured his hands forward so Yami could use a weak, but strong enough spell to disfigure the cuffs enough so Yugi would become free. After this had been accomplished, Yugi gave Yami one last forlorn look, which was returned with a not-so-forced smile, and he climbed out of the window that his father had so foolishly left open.

"I'll get it!" Malik yelled loudly, making sure his yami, who was currently upstairs heard him. Walking towards the door, Malik swung it open to reveal a beaten and tired looking Yugi. "What happened?" Malik asked immediately, scanning the nearby streets for any signs of bullies or criminals, but he was greeted with no one. It was rather late. "My father abuses me," Yugi began, holding up his hand so Malik wouldn't interrupt him (though he doubted he would anyway). "and put a magical spell on some cuffs, which Yami is wearing right now, and we need help escaping-" Having heard enough the moment Yugi said the word 'abuse', he tugged on a jacket and yelled to Marik that he was going out.

As they rushed towards Yugi's house, which was only a couple houses down, they were both utterly revealed to find that Yugi's dad was still gone. Walking to the front door, Yugi stood as if waiting for Malik to cast a spell to undo the lock. But the blonde didn't cast a spell; he tried the knob itself first and was surprised when the door swung open. Walking inside the dark house, Yugi flicked the light switch, illuminating the small space. It was a nice house at first, with sweet pictures of Yugi's father and mother, with a younger Yugi in the center. But now, all Yugi could do was look at those pictures wistfully, having lost his mother all together and his normally happy father, who was nothing more than a abusive freak now.

Wincing as he dodged a piece of glass from a broken beer bottle, Malik shot up the steps after Yugi, who lead him towards an oddly colored door. It was red, which wasn't the odd thing about it. It had various kinds of paintings on it, and Malik's violet eyes trailed a blue swirl before it disappeared in more red paint. Noticing how that paint flaked oddly, he touched it and was horrified to find that it was not paint, but blood. Looking up at Yugi, he could see his normally bright face contorted with disgust. Gathering up his courage, the blonde Egyptian kicked the door open, not caring what happened to it, and he was sure Yugi didn't either.

"Yami!" Yugi exclaimed, rushing over to his darker half, who looked pleased to see his lighter half again. Malik smiled a bit, touched by the scene, but quickly replaced it with a serious expression. Walking over, he bent down on one knee and examined the cuffs. Nodding his head once he understood the spell, he placed his hands in the center of the cuffs, in between Yami's hands. "Kaerb eht sniahc taht dinb." He recited, obviously having down this many times before. And just like that, the chains fell to the floor. "Thank you so much Malik!" Yugi thanked him gratefully, smiling even broader when Yami stood up.

Before Malik could reply, they heard a loud slam, which was most likely wood hitting wood. His father was home. Frantic, Yugi instructed the other two to rush towards the window, but his father was making fast progress up the steps. "Go!" Malik yelled, standing in a position that showed he had something up his sleeve. Nodding, Yami scooped up a protesting Yugi bridal style and jumped out of the window, landing on two feet and rushing towards Malik's house.

Turning his attention towards the impending doom, Malik put his hands together, prepared to cast a spell if needed. When the man arrived, he saw no Yami or Yugi, just one blonde kid. "Hmm, so you let them escape, did you?" Yugi's father said it as a statement, not a question. Malik hardened his face and gave no response other than moving into a more battle-friendly position. "Do you think you can possibly beat me boy?" He scoffed as if dully surprised, but the smirk on his face hinted he wanted a battle.

"Alright, bring it then." All of a sudden, a blinding light filled the room and Yugi's father was now holding a black blade, which glowed despite its color. Surprised but not moved by the impressive show of magic, Malik summoned something as well. But it wasn't a weapon. "Ekat em ot imay dna iugy!" A purple portal appeared in front of him, clearly startling the man behind it. Rushing into it and yelling "Esolc!", he fell through a tunnel of space and time before falling onto his very own couch, next to a startled looking Yugi and an expectant Yami.

"Sorry it took so long," Malik said as he stood up to lock the door. Even though Yugi's father didn't know who he was or where he was, with magic like that, it was possible he could track Yugi or Yami, which ever one he had a magical harness on. "Thanks again, Malik..." Yugi said sleepily, yawning loudly before going to rest in Yami's arms. Smiling, Malik pointed to a door down the hall, hinting that Yugi could sleep there. After Yami had deposited his little hikari onto a warm and safe bed, he decided to ask Malik some questions about that sick man's magic.

"Is it common?" Yami asked curiously.

Malik shook his head.

"That's just it. It's a common spell that I could've easily summoned at around five," Violet eyes darkened. "but it's magic is far stronger, meaning the weapon he summoned is stronger as well." Nodding his head in surprise, Yami pondered other questions to ask the blonde in front of him. "Anything else we should worry about?"

Malik thought, then nodded his head. "There was a strong sense of darkness within a normally harmless spell he used. It's the one he placed on your cuffs. Normally, I'd just say the word kaerb and they'd snap in half." His current scowl turned into a glare. "But it required much more of my magic than it should've, meaning the spell was altered." Yami frowned.

"I thought as much. My magic would've worked on it as well. I wondered why it didn't..." Yami raised an eyebrow. "But this means either he's been cursed or he practiced altering spells." Malik nodded his head. "Yes, it would seem so." The two's conversation was interrupted by the loud ringing of a phone, which Malik soon picked up.

"Malik, is Yugi with you?"

"Hey Ryou, and yes, he is."

"Good." Malik heard a relieved sigh. "He told me about his father and all, and then he just hung up, and I was so worried-!"

"He's alright, Ryou. Would you like to come over?"

"Yes please. I mean, if it wouldn't be imposing or anything, and please tell me your yami isn't there..."

Malik's face fell slightly, inwardly groaning at the 'reputation' his yami had earned.

"He is, but he won't hurt you because Isis is here for a bit."

Refraining from laughing when he heard a hesitant 'Mmmm', he said goodbye to the albino and put the phone back down.

"I hope Yugi is alright..." Ryou mumbled as he prepared to leave for Malik's house. Bakura was sleeping on the couch, and Ryou didn't have the heart to wake him up. He just looked so peaceful, which was extremely rare in Bakura's case. "I'll be back soon." He said softly, sending a sleeping Bakura one last smile before exiting the house.

Though it was very late, it was a very beautiful time of night, even in the city. Every thing seemed to be shining. Ryou paused in his steps, becoming fearful when a unknown man came towards him. Unknowingly, this was actually Yugi's father.

"Excuse me, but do you know Yugi Moto?(1)"

Ryou hesitated. He wasn't completely naive, and knew that there was a chance of this being Yugi's father.

"Um, yes, he's in my class." Ryou offered back with a fake chuckle. He hated how empty it sounded, and hoped this was indeed Yugi's father instead of some innocent teacher from school. The man smiled kindly. "I need to give him some papers he left at school." He informed Ryou, flicking out the papers from the palm of his hand.

This raised more suspicion in Ryou's brain. No teacher of theirs would ever go out this late, let alone past 9:00. It was a weekend, yes, but it still seemed extremely odd. Trying his best to reply politely, Ryou responded with: "Can you please do that tomorrow?" He knew how odd this was, especially if it was a teacher (but the doubt in his mind said otherwise).

Frowning, the man shook his head. "It's a project he's supposed to finish." An idea popped into Ryou's head. "What if I give the papers to him?" He suggested, knowing that if this was indeed a teacher-albeit an odd one-, he would give him the papers and they'd both be on their way.

"Alright, here you go."

The man handed the papers to Ryou and shook his hand in a way of thanks. Waving goodbye to him, Ryou continued walking down the street to Malik's house.

"Hello." Ryou said warily, shutting the door behind himself. "What happened?" asked Malik's voice from the kitchen. When the blonde had finally come out, Ryou decided to spill his story.

"A man stopped me and asked me if I knew Yugi. I told him he was in my class, but I didn't tell him that I knew him well." Malik and Yami looked so impressed, Ryou couldn't help but blush, continuing. "He said he needed to give Yugi some papers, and I asked him if he could do it tomorrow. The man said it was a project that he needed to finish, which I didn't believe because I didn't get a project at all. He did give me the papers though."

When Ryou had finished, he handed Malik the papers and watched him study them. Touching the papers with his hand, a purple light flashed and soon, nothing was in Malik's hand. "Malik, was that you?" Yami asked curiously, wondering if the blonde himself had caused the papers to disappear. Malik shook his head. "No, they did it on their own."

"Oh, and is it important that he shook my hand?" Ryou added, feeling slightly stupid for saying something like that. Nodding his head, Malik held up Ryou's hand and examined it. Wincing when Malik wrenched something off of it, all three of them looked at it curiously. It was some sort of little black box. "That certainly was Yugi's father, then?" Both nodded in response to the albino's question. But why on earth had he bugged their conversation? Yugi was asleep thankfully, so he might assume that Yugi wasn't with them.

Still, this raised far to many questions. They needed to wake Yugi up and move him somewhere else. Where, they did not know, but Yugi's father was slowly catching on to where he was, and they needed to prevent that as much as possible. Thoughts were interrupted by a pounding on the door. Gulping and instructing the other two to hide, Malik walked over to the door and yanked it open. On the other side was a frowning-

Yes, there is a freaking cliffhanger. Deal with it, I'm the writer. Oops, sorry, that was kinda mean wasn't it? But I'm always grumpy as shit when I'm sick, so I'll apologize for that in advance. I hope this chapter wasn't to random and that it made sense.

FAQ:

(1): This is technically the English spelling of Yugi's name. The Japanese being Yuugi Motou or Motou Yuugi. It was easier for those of us non-native speakers to understand.

Malik is the hikari, or the one that isn't hellbent on obliterating the whole universe, which is his yami's, who's name is usually Marik, intent.

For those who are utterly confused about Malik's 'magic' powers (which is sort of canon, it's just he uses a rod normally. Kinda?) and how they work, let me explain. Some might have already figured this out, but his spells aren't randomly generated words. He says what he wants to do, what he wants to happen, etc. backwards. If you're still confused, scroll upwards and examine the words carefully. Notice that when he created that portal, he yelled 'Esolc', which is just the word 'Close' backwards. I'm sorry if this was utterly confusing. So every time Malik uses magic, just remember he's saying the words backwards.

And for those wondering why I use no other female than Isis, it's because I hate them (I do like Mai, however). Each main female in every Yu-Gi-Oh! series I hate. They're all so freaking annoying, and they do literally nothing, which makes them useless and pointless characters. Plus they get in the way of every main shipping like Tea gets in the way of Puzzleshipping (Yami/Yugi).

R&R!