(A/N: Moien! I forgot to do some Author's Notes before. I got some of the words wrong. "Faith" is supposed to be "Fate".)

SHOT 2

Anime: Yu-Gi-Oh!

Song Clip: 'How to Save a Life' By The Fray

Situation: My own little AU of the Waking The Dragons arc final battle, featuring Aclina Lockhart from 'The New Millennium'. Aclina, Yami's guardian in a human disguise, has just seen the mirror warriors, and has had enough of Dartz' antics.

(WARNING: Body horror present! Those who are squeamish may not want to read this!)

"Step one, you say, "We need to talk"

He walks, you say, "Sit down, it's just a talk"

He smiles politely back at you

You stare politely right on through"

"Shut up." came a growl from the sidelines.

Everyone turned to face the voice in shock. It was Aclina who had said this. Shy, polite, innocent little Aclina, who could never hurt a fly unless it deserved it. There was a dark aura about her.

"Excuse me?" If Dartz was at all taken aback by this, he was hiding it very well with that annoying bemused tone of his.

"You heard me, you toxic pile of sludge." Aclina said, getting up and pointing an accusatory finger at him. Her blue gem circlet started to glow.

"Some sort of window to your right

As he goes left and you stay right

Between the lines of fear and blame

You begin to wonder why you came"

"You're not fit to be a king. You're not even fit to exist. The Orichalcos was a gemstone sent by my people to eliminate Atlantis; for it was too technologically advanced for its time. You should have been the first to die." she ranted, the gems in her circlet threatening to crack with every word. She started walking towards the barrier that kept outsiders from interfering.

"But no. You decided to stay like the little leech your species is." That's when Aclina passed through the barrier, sustaining a few burns along the way. She dropped the finger, and her circlet shattered, scattering the pieces across the field and revealing a golden eye in the center of her forehead.

"Where did I go wrong? I lost a friend

Somewhere along in the bitterness

And I would have stayed up with you all night

Had I known how to save a life."

"You decide to stay and ravage this planet. You've killed innocent people. You took my only friends and family away from me, and dare I say, played the only one I loved like a children's card game. You extracted my friends' souls, and are now using them as your own shields. You don't just deserve death. You deserve the Shadow Realm!" she screeched.

"Let him know that you know best

'Cause after all, you do know best

Try to slip past his defense

Without granting innocence"

She fell to he knees, screeching with rage and pain. Her clothes ripped, revealing a back coated with thick brown fur. It rippled, and three brilliant blue spikes, a pair of brown feathered wings, and a gray, spade tipped tail coated with spikes burst out, covered in green blood. Her hands and feet shifted into paws, each holding three claws the size of kitchen knives. Her skull shifted into a cat-like skull, and her ears mutated into those of a cat. Her eyes, which had been closed at the time, snapped open, revealing slitted pupils and brilliant green eyes. She breathed heavilly for a few moments, then let out a deafening roar. Electricity, possibly left over from her entrance onto the field, bounced in between the spikes.

"NoW yoU dIe." she said in a voice that definently wasn't Aclina.