Ha ha. I'm already updating. The reason is, I guess I'm just having fun writing this and all the reviews I'm getting. ^_^ Lol!
So, last chapter Yugi, Joey, and Tristan were doing a spell from the dark book and . . . well, you get to see what they did. HERE WE GO . . .
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Bound
Chapter 3
Yugi, Joey, and Tristan froze as the scream rose and fell. Together, as if they had been thinking the same thoughts, they shoved everything under Yugi's bed and practically flew under the covers.
A moment later, they heard Grandpa Mutou's door open and slam shut. Steps ran down the stairs and the front door burst open. Yugi got up and slowly peeked out his window. "What's going on, Yugi?" Joey whispered from under his blanket.
Yugi held up a finger as he watched lights turn on in buildings, people coming out on their porches and front doors. When Yugi looked toward the street, he felt his blood run ice cold.
A crack ran down the street, splitting it in half. "Guys . . . I think we need to put the book back, tomorrow when Grandpa leaves, because no doubt he's going to go look at the damage. We need to wrap it up and bury it under tons of little things. Whatever we did . . . I think we just tore the street in half."
His friends bolted out of bed and looked out the window. Their faces paled as they looked out. Joey was the first to speak. "I say we burn it."
"That would be a bad idea, dude." Tristan said, his voice shaking. "If it was in the attic then Grandpa had to have been the one to put it up there."
"Or he doesn't know anything about the book and his father or someone else put the book up there." Joey argued.
"No," Yugi whispered. "Grandpa moved in to this place when he was forty-years-old. He said his father was long gone. That's means Grandpa had to know."
They paused as fire engines roared to life, the ambulances' alarms rose up and could be heard from everywhere around them. "Something tells me," Joey said. "That there's more damage then what we're seeing."
In the morning, they found out just how extensive it was. Buildings now had harsh, jagged cracks running up them, glass windows were shattered and in some places, fires still burned.
People were crying, holding on to their families.
Death was having a field day.
Yugi, Joey, and Tristan walked around after they practically buried the book under objects and made a pyramid type seal. The box was in the middle of eight heavy boxes and topped off with light, but still heavy, boxes.
Someone came up from behind them, making them jump. "Hey now, I didn't mean to scare you guys that much."
Duke.
Yugi sighed. "Sorry, Duke, it's just . . . all this . . ." he paused when he couldn't come up with a word.
"Chaos?" he offered. It made all three of them flinch as they remembered the story Grandpa had told them.
"Disaster." Tristan said. Yugi nodded.
"Yeah, that's it. Do they know . . . ?"
"The rescue people and a few others predict that there could be deaths from around a hundred to a thousand people."
A heavy gloom settled over them at the information. "There was that much damage?" Yugi whispered.
Duke nodded. "Whole buildings fell to the ground, turned to dust, basically. No one knows how many people are missing. For once, I don't think the media are blowing this up. Too many people lost family members, I bet the media lost a few members too."
Guilt clawed at Yugi, though he had no idea how it felt to be mauled by a tiger, he could only guess that it felt like this. No mercy, only pain.
They walked around for a while until they found Mokuba, looking pale and frightened. Dread filled Yugi, if he had hurt his friend . . .
"I was wondering when the geek patrol would get here." A cold, familiar voice said. They turned to see the teenage business man.
Joey sighed and muttered under his breath. "I can't believe I'm happy to hear rich boy is alive." Yugi stepped forward.
"Is everything all right with you, Seto?"
"A building went down, but that's it. Nothing I can't fix. But I do wonder if taxes are going to go up so the city can fix the road."
"That's a lot of dirt, rich boy." Joey snapped.
Seto turned his ice blue eyes on to Joey. "What was that, mutt?"
"Have you seen just how deep the crack is?" Joey growled, their rivalry flaring up again.
A young woman stepped in between them, her pale blond hair tied up in a messy pony-tail. "Would you two stop it so we can concentrate on the situation?"
Kisara Nightfall was the girlfriend and soon-to-be fiancée of Seto. She had a soft spot for Yugi and his friends and hated it when Joey and Seto fought. Her pale blond hair and pale blue eyes were strikingly beautiful. More then once, Yugi wondered how she would choose her wedding dress. A stark white dress would make her look like a ghost, no mattered how beautiful the dress was.
Joey and Seto turned away from each other but one could tell, it wasn't over. She turned to Yugi, the worried expression on her face that looked so out of place. "Does anyone know what started this? We're not on a fault, I know that much." Her hands were clasped together as she waited for Yugi to answer.
"Truthfully, I don't know, but I'm sure they'll come up with something."
Kisara sighed and leaned against Seto as he wrapped his arms around her protectively. "The castle." He said.
"What about it?"
"It's old, sure, not as old as some other castles, but still old, I bet that natural rock wall had to fracture."
With the castle in mind, they all walked to it, but to their shock and surprise, the wall was intact and so was the castle beyond it.
"I can't believe this," Seto muttered. "After standing for so long, I figured this earthquake would bring this wall down, I guess not."
They were all standing outside the wall. Yugi noticed that the people passing did not even look at the castle, in fact, when they came into sight of the massive rock wall, they ran away.
One man, tall and lanky with messy brown hair walked forward, unafraid. "Looks like I'm not the only one with the same idea."
They turned to see their World History teacher, Mr. Crazy.
"Mr. Crazy, what are you doing here?" Duke asked, making the teacher smile.
"Me? Oh, I just came to see if this place was in one piece, but seeing this rock wall untouched, my question appears to be answered."
They nodded and stayed silent, continuing to stare up at the wall until Kisara commented on the fleeing people. "Why is everyone running from this place?"
Mr. Crazy smiled. "Why? That's quite easy. Humans are superstitious, no matter what they say. When they see such widespread damage over a large city but to see this place untouched, that just creates fears."
An agreeing silence fell over the small group. They stood there for a few more moments before turning to leave. Before Yugi got out of hearing distance, he turned to Mr. Crazy, who continued to look at the wall.
"What's going on with school?"
His teacher turned. "Still happening, but they made Friday a half-day. Thought you could get out of it, huh?" he laughed. It sounded hysterical and insane, but that was how Mr. Crazy always sounded when he laughed.
Kisara shivered slightly. "It makes me wonder why he doesn't just change his last name to Crazy."
"A couple of students asked him the same thing, but he said that his last name was just as old as the Mutou and Mazaki family, so I take it he's really proud of it." Tristan said.
They walked to the park and sat down in the grass, even Seto. The unnatural silence in the air felt heavy and dark. A girl with long brown hair and blue eyes walked by then.
Yugi instantly recognized her. "Emily!"
The girl turned and smiled. "Hey, Yugi. Is your home still standing?"
"Thankfully. How about yours?"
She shrugged. "Yeah, it got shaken a little bit, but that's about it." She sat down with everyone.
Emily Mazaki was your typical proper rich girl with a tomboy side. Her long brown hair was the color of rich dirt with a few gold highlights. Her eyes were her oddest feature. A light blue, about the color of the sky on a cold day and her other eye, a deep sapphire blue.
"Did you hear about the castle?" she asked.
Yugi nodded. "We went to go see it. It's still intact."
She nodded. "Yeah, my Dad is happy about that."
"Why?" Seto asked. She turned to him, a surprise look on her face.
"You haven't heard?"
"Obviously not, do tell what you've heard."
She sighed. "My father has been trying to buy the castle for several years now."
"Why?" Joey asked. "It's just useless land, no one can even get in."
"That's what my family has been telling him but he refuses to see it. He claims that it rightfully belongs to the Mazaki family, but if you ask me, that place owns itself."
"Why do you say that?" Kisara asked.
Emily shrugged. "The air around it. It plainly says, 'no-one-can-own-me.' My brother agrees as well as my mother, but no, my father doesn't want it in anyone else's hands. Also, if there should be any ownership in this, it should also belong to the Mutou family."
"Why?" Mokuba asked.
"Because, my mother believes that Anzu Mazaki is resting in the castle with her lover, Atem Mutou. She believes that it would be wrong to disturb their peace."
Curiosity crawled past the guilt and took root. "How do they tell the story in the Mazaki family?"
"Well, only that Atem and Anzu's story is like Romeo and Juliet and they ran away. We even have the note she left her father. Anzu's brother and Atem's brother, supposedly, didn't care for the family rivalry and all that. Our story, probably unlike the way the Mutou family tells it, tip-toes around the whole castle thing."
"Do they consider the castle something like a blemish on their reputation?" Seto asked, making Emily laugh.
"Are you kidding? Hell yeah! Besides, my brother has given the family plenty of hits on the perfect family." She said, waving her hand. "I don't give a damn about being a Mazaki, I'm just going to get married to some guy and loose the dang name, thank the gods for it too." She muttered.
"Why?" Duke asked. "I'd figured all Mazaki's were proud of their name."
Emily snorted. "Yeah, those who are too dull-witted are."
Yugi tipped his head to the side. "Why?"
The girl sighed. "Well, it's odd, but you guys know about the chaos that happened after the two lovers left? My mother, brother, and I believe that's it's a curse that should be respected. But I also think this curse was meant to hit the Mazaki family only, but it got out of hand and spread to the people in the village."
"Why do ya think that?" Joey asked.
"Because first of all, no one in the Mutou family ran into any problems. Errow Mutou was perfectly fine. His business was booming, nothing happened to him. On the other hand, the Mazaki family ran into a field of problems. Business was bad, family problems that I won't say . . . just downright disorder."
As the gang took in the information Yugi turned back toward the castle. What was hiding in there . . .
"Hey, Seto."
"What?"
"Is it possible to use one of your satellites to map out the castle?"
He snorted. "Of course it is. Why ask?"
"Because, I want to go into the castle. I bet there's more info on all of this."
"Hold on," Kisara said. "You think the castle has something to do with all of this?"
"Not just the castle," Tristan groaned. "I think it was us too. Yesterday we found a spell book and we did a spell called Awaken the Darkness. Right after it was over, all this happened."
"But what does the castle have anything to do with this?" Duke asked. Joey and Tristan looked at Yugi. Sighing, the boy told his friends the story that his Grandpa had told last night. When he was done, there was a moment of silence before Emily spoke.
"I guess that fills in some empty spaces."
"Oh please, you're going to believe some story that's been passed down so many times that half of the story is lost?" Seto rolled his eyes but flinched when Kisara pinched him lightly.
"I think it makes since, but we have to prove it." Duke said. They turned to Seto, waiting to see if he would scan the castle with his satellites. After a few minutes he sighed.
"Fine, I'll make maps and a few copies." Kisara hugged him and gave him a kiss on the cheek as everyone cheered. Emily leaned over and whispered into Yugi's ear.
"You know, if we're going in that castle, we're not just going to have to prepare for this physically, but probably mentally too."
Her ominous words shot around Yugi's mind before falling to his stomach. Something told him that she was right.
In the shadows of the castle, a misty figure could barely be seen in the morning light. But one could make out the female figure. Another misty figure joined her, this one in the shape of a male.
"Why aren't our bodies awake? The spell was preformed." She whispered.
"We are awake, that is true, but the fountain is still asleep, therefore, we can't really use our bodies until someone puts the crystal heart back on the fountain. That damned James Bottle removed it, remember? It was the reason why we fell asleep in the first place."
The female figure snarled. "Never mention that man!" A building that was barely holding on fell to the ground. Screams went up but thankfully, no one was in the building.
"I'm sorry, love."
She sighed and turned. "Why not just let the magic whiplash on us? Does resting in peace sound so horrible?"
The mist figure turned to her. "Even if we did become free of this curse, we would continue to be immortal. It has become too ingrained in our cells. Besides, if we did 'rest in peace', then I wouldn't be able to give you your dream."
"I have many dreams, Atem." She whispered.
"But I know that you wish for a child, Anzu."
There was a moment of complete and comfortable silence before the female mist figure swirled to the other side of the rock wall facing the park were Yugi and the gang was.
"Errow and my Uncle's decedents are coming tonight." Anzu whispered. Atem formed beside her.
"So it seems, but I do wish I could tell them that not even my brother's blood can stop them from being targets."
"Nor my uncle's blood, but we need Yugi and Emily, their blood is the only thing that can awaken the fountain now."
"Then we wait." Atem said softly as the sun rose higher into the cheerful blue sky. If one looked up, you could almost forget the destruction in the city, the sky looked that cheerful.
There they are! So, we know that the Bottle family isn't Anzu's best friend. Now, if you go back to the first chapter, you'll find out who's connected to the Bottle family. Hee hee! I have plans! XDDD
Thank you for reading, have a nice day!