Sam: Okay! Here's some more!

Seto: WHo's in thsi chapter.

Sam: The only one I'm saying, is a big scary Fir Giant! Mua ha ha ha-Chokes on gum

Bakura: Laughs like a lunatic

Seto: Sighs Okay, remember, Sam dosn't own any of the original Yugioh characters, just the story and her little, cat like thingy.

Chapter 3: Lunacy and the Mistake

Ryou sat in the hut, tears running down his face. His face was caked with blood and sand. Joe sat at his feet, meowing sadly and rubbing against his ankle to try and cheer him up.

What had happened, was the Darian's greatest creature had kidnapped Ryou's best friend, Yugi last night.

Ryou had tried to stop the dragon, but it had tried to snatch him too. Ryou almost wished it had succeeded, but one of the villagers had grabbed him and pulled him to the ground.

Ryou had struggled and got freed, and the dragon swooped down to snatch him up or eat him, he didn't know which, but the dragon had missed him and the creature's tail had whipped at Ryou, cutting his cheek and winding him in the stomach.

The dragon had also done something the villagers blamed him for. It had destroyed their village and had killed plenty of people.

Ryou sighed and looked down at Joe. He didn't know what to do. Should he go after the monster? Should he try to get by without his little charge? Or should he let the villagers rip him to shreds?

The boy thought for a minute then narrowed his eyes. 'I'm not letting them do anything to me... and I can't leave Yugi... without even trying! I promised!'

Ryou remembered when he was younger, about 5 years ago, when he promised Yugi's mother to take care of him.

"Please, take care of my little one." Yugi's mother pleaded, she was ill and at the brink of death, and Ryou couldn't do anything about it. "I will... I won't ever abandon him, I promise!" Yugi's mother smiled and turned to her child, who was sitting next to Ryou and crying his eyes red.

"Yugi?" The boy sniffled and took hold of his mother's out stretched hand. "I want you to promise me you'll help Ryou. You need to look after each other." Yugi nodded. "I promise mummy, I will." Yugi's mother smiled sadly at the two before closing her eyes and letting one last breathe escape her lips.

Ryou had sworn he had seen a lonely figure standing over them and took hold of Yugi's mother's hand and pull her soul to her feet, and they left. "Did you see that?" Ryou asked. Yugi blinked back tears. "What?" "That shadow leave with your mother's soul?" Yugi shook his head. "I didn't see anything' like that..." And he broke into tears.

Ryou stood and walked out of the hut, with Joe at his side. Ryou glared as he watched people try to fix the village again. Every time Ryou had gone to a funeral sense the day Yugi's mother died, he had seen a black figure int eh background somewhere with a another failure soul by it's side.

'Could that be the Angel of Death?...' He would asked himself before the figure disappeared. The villagers had called him a lunatic and hardly anyone talked to him other then Yugi after that. Not that they talked much int eh first place...

Ryou sighed and looked up at the now clear blue sky. "I can't... I just can't..." Ryou whispered. He went back inside and took a bag and began putting clothes and such in it.

He didn't put much in it. He had a knife, for bones and such. A bundle of food he had put in a smaller bag, his and Yugi's blanket, and a strange stone he had found with Yugi on the beach one night.

It was strange because it was the color of red rubies, and it was always warm to the touch. The village said it must have belonged to the king, and that Ryou and Yugi would get in trouble if any of the guards came to the village.

Ryou finished packing and turned to the door of the hut.

The hut it's self was what it exactly was. A one room dome shaped building, with a fireplace in the middle, and a table like rock near it to eat. A stove like rock sat over the fire, it was thin enough for the fire to heat the whole rock, but sturdy enough to put pots and such on.

Ont he table were a few shells Yugi had been playing with last night. Next to the door of the hut was a trunk, with thing his' and Yugi's parents had owned.

Ryou went over to this trunk and opened it and pulled out a traveling cloak that had belonged to his dad. His father had always been a mystery. He hadn't known him. And his mother hardly spoke about him, but when she did, she said he was a traveler, and a rogue.

Ryou pulled the cloak over his body and fastened it by a emerald green leaf shaped broach. His mother had said it was a good luck charm his father had worn. He sighed and looked through the trunk some more. He pulled out something he had thought about giving Yugi for his 17th birthday.

It was a amulet, it had belong to Yugi's parents. It wasn't much to look at, it was made of bronze and it had a strange shape carved into it. But he had thought Yugi might have liked to have something of his parents. Ryou placed this around his neck and closed the trunk.

He then looked at a strange piece of wood that sat by the trunk and door.

It was a walking stick. Well, that's what Ryou thought it was. It was unusually shaped at the top, it looked kinda like the roots of a small tree. They looked like they were supposed to hold onto something.

Ryou took the staff and looked over at Joe. "You wanna come? I won't be coming back here... at least, not for long time..." The little cat meowed and ran up to Ryou, and with amazing agility, quickly climbed up his leg, and hooped onto his shoulder. Ryou smiled and left the hut.

He took one last, long look at his home before turning and heading down the trail. A she neared the village, villagers came over. "Ryou! Where do you think your going? In your father's clothes and that little creature on your shoulder?" One of the elders asked.

"I'm going after the dragon." Ryou stated. The villagers broke into laughter. Ryou didn't know if they thought he was joking or what, until one of them said. "Come now Ryou. You'd be eaten alive, or turned to ashes before you got anywhere near that brute! Besides, what point is there in it!? The dragon's probably swallowed the boy whole by now!"

Ryou felt his face turn red with rage. "Then I'll be eaten as well!" He yelled at the man. The said man shut up instantly, and the others did as well. He sighed and looked at them all. "I... I don't know why the creature took Yugi. And don't know why the dragon attacked you. But I am NOT going to sit here, fishing my life away, when I know my best friend is out there somewhere..." Ryou said shoving past them.

He looked towards the road to Rocky Ridge, so named for it's rocks and dangerous cliffs and slopes.

"I might never see you again. So I guess this is good-bye." Ryou turned to the villagers and sighed. A little girl then ran over and hugged Ryou's leg. "Will you come back?" She asked with big blue doe eyes.

Ryou sighed and keeled down so they were almost eye level. "I don't know... maybe I will. But until then, pray to the gods for me." The little girl nodded and hugged Ryou around the neck before running back to her mother and repeated what Ryou said.

The elder sighed and shook Ryou's hand. "Fare well my boy." "Fair well. And take care, all of you!" And with that, Ryou walked up the road. Cheers and calls sounding behind him.

One of the men sighed and shook his head. "Just like his old man... he'll never make it. He'll never make, you wait and see." The man who had said this was one who had never been found of Ryou's father. "You don't know that, Mitchell. He just might make..." The elder replied. "With help... I hope he gets it along his road to finding the Little One."

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Far away, to the west of the sea, lay the capital of Solarios. It was in ruin and desolation. The people who had survived were nothing now but mind slaves, working to re build the capital into a fortress.

Inside the castle, Seto, Prince of Darian was sitting on the throne where, the King or Solarious would have sat. He was tapping impatiently on the arm of the throne.

His eyes were closed in train of thought and his clothes were still a bit bloody from the kills in the city. His mask was off, revealing a scar, black as night. It was just an inch below his eye. It was an inch wide and 3 inches long, curving from under his eye up to his brow, in a 'S' sort of shape.

Suddenly, the door to the throne room opened, and a Fire Giant(a very strong Darian creature) tumbled in. He was just big, or should I say small, enough to get through the door, but he had to stoop down to do so.

"Beg my intrusion, mi'lord." It said in a thundering voice, but it was laced with fear. Even this mighty fire body was afraid of the Prince. "What is it?" The prince demanded, opening sapphire blue eyes.

"T-the Blue Eyes White Dragon, Kisara, has returned. M-mi'lord." The Prince stood up. "Finally. I was beginning to wonder what was taking her so long to get back!" He placed his mask back on and walked briskly out of the room.

He walked through the halls, passing Darian goblins and such who were cleaning up the dead bodies of the humans and Mythics who died trying to defend their king.

The King of Solarious, also known as, the Enchanter, had disappeared during the battle. He had been wounded very badly by Seto, but had gotten away by the means of teleportation magic. Seto thought the King weak and a coward for running away, instead of fighting him till the death.

Seto soon came out into the court yard, where one of his magnificent Blue Eyes White Dragons stood, holding something in her talons. Seto instantly recognized the tri colored hair of the King.

"Well done, Kisara. You've found our little run away King." Seto said with a smirk. He was too focused on the figure int eh dragon's claws to notice the worried and upset look in the dragon's eyes.

"Atem, Atem. My dear cousin. It's very rude for a host to run away and leave his guest alone." Seto said in a mocking tone as he came to a stop in front of the figure. But suddenly, he realized something. He grabbed a good handful of the tri-colored hair and lifted it to reveal, not the face of a king. But the face of a boy!

"This is not the King!"

Seto: WHAT!? How could she ge the wrong one!?

Sam: Ain't her fault, I'd probably mistake Yugi for Ymai if I had never seen either the kid nor the king in the face before too!

Bakura: WHEN DO I COME IN!?

Sam:That anxious to meet your lover huh?

Bakura; No, I'm getting annnoyed with Kaiba and Ryou holding the spot light!

Sam: Well, remember. Your goign to kiss Ryou!

Ryou: Turns Red

Bakura: Turns green

Seto: Red, stop! Green, go!

Sam: And I'm go-ing! Review please!!