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Chapter 7

Three days, three days had gone by and he still hadn't found that ruddy door. If Yugi didn't know better, he'd say that the demon was moving it. But Yugi did know better, he knew that despite him being an evil creature he always played a fair game. Still, he was getting anxious, everyday that went by without him finding the door was another day that he had to spend in his presence. Another day he was that much closer to Hell.

Yugi leaned against the pitch black wall, fighting his heavy eyelids. He would guess that he had had probably only two to three hours worth of sleep in the past three days and it was starting to take its toll on him. Yugi had found his clothes, well his pants; his underwear had been missing, perverted demon, and put them on so he wasn't walking around in just a torn shirt anymore. Still, Yugi knew he needed sleep; he just didn't want to go to sleep, because every hour spent sleeping was another hour wasted. Shaking off the sleep, Yugi got back up and started searching for the door again.

"MARIK!"

Yugi whipped around, the noise had come from behind him. That was Malik, but he hadn't heard any noises out in the hallway, perhaps they had been smarter than the last group, quieter than the last group. But Malik was strong; there was no way he would be taken so easily.

"Stop kicking you crazy little brat!" a voice said.

Yugi walked towards the sounds, not thinking, keeping his mind blank. He just followed the noises, and tried not to let their words penetrate his mind. Any sound in the depths of his brain would give away his position, which was the last thing Yugi wanted.

"MARIK!" Malik screamed again.

Yugi heard growling coming from the hallway as well. That had to be Marik, but Yugi didn't even want to know what form he had taken on, he didn't want to know his true form. Shoot, he was thinking, silence the thoughts, silence the thoughts. Yugi heard a deep chuckle in the depths of the darkness.

Yugi kept walking forward, following the sounds of struggling, growling, and screaming. With each step the noise grew. It kept growing until Yugi walked into a soft, fleshy wall. He'd found the door, and found its guard.

"Yugi, I've missed you." Atem's voice said slipping out of the darkness along with a hand cupping his cheek. Yugi leaned into the touch, before moving forward and wrapping his arms around the demon.

"I've missed you too, Atem." Yugi said back resting his head against the demon's bare chest.

"You have?" Atem asked his voice immediately giving way to suspicion.

"Yes, why do you doubt me?" Yugi asked in a sad tone.

"Hm, it could be from all the times that you've told me you hate me and want to get rid of me." Atem said bracing his hands on Yugi's biceps like he was going to push him away. Yugi clung tighter to him.

"But being away from you all this time made me realize, how much I…I yearn for you." Yugi said in a breathless voice.

"Prove it." Atem said.

"Just tell me what I need to do and I'll do it." Yugi said looking up where he thought Atem's eyes were.

"Kiss me."

"How can I kiss what I cannot see?" Yugi asked. He felt Atem moving in front of him.

"Now kiss me." Atem said his warm breath washing over his face.

Yugi moved his head up slightly and felt his lips connect with Atem's. Yugi reached up and wrapped his arms around Atem's neck both pulling Atem down further and himself closer. Yugi felt Atem's hands on his hips, pulling him closer still. Yugi's eyes slid shut as he put all his effort into kissing Atem. Yugi moved and molded his lips against the ones above him, pouring his faux need for the man into the kiss.

Once Yugi was sure he was fully engaged in the kiss, he started to walk them backward. They hit the door, and Yugi unwove one of his hands from Atem's hair, and started to search for the door handle. After groping for a few seconds in darkness, Yugi's hand curved around the polished surface, and he twisted it, opening it a sliver with an audible click.

In the faint sliver of light coming into the room Yugi saw Atem's eyes snap open to meet his. With the grip he still had around Atem's neck he switched their positions, and pushed him into the room. In the same second he swung the door open, the light flooding the entrance into the room. There was an unearthly shriek, and Yugi watched with sick satisfaction as Atem cowered before him for once. After being in the dark so long, the light burned him. Atem hissed at Yugi, confirming his thoughts. Yugi turned around to the hallway. Two guys were holding a struggling Malik, and Yugi looked down the hallway to see a wolf, a wolf larger than any Yugi had ever seen, advancing, quickly. Thinking fast, Yugi grabbed Malik's arm and using the leverage of him being carried flung him into his room, straight at Atem, who had no choice but to catch him. Yugi felt fur brush his face, before he grabbed the handle of the door and slammed it shut.

"I'd say you have about 30 seconds before he gets out of there, so shall we get moving? I can't wait to be free of my demon." Yugi said turning to the two men still standing in the hallway. Both men looked at one another before shrugging and turning around.

"This way." One of them said motioning with his hand.

Yugi walked in between the two men down the long brightly lit hallway. The light didn't affect him as much as it did his demon because he was a light. He was a bright beautiful light, and he wouldn't be darkened by Atem if there was anything he could do about it. They were perhaps a quarter of the way down the hallway when Yugi heard a deep rumble from behind him. Stopping, Yugi turned to look behind him and was met with the strangest sight.

There standing in the hallway with glowing crimson eyes stood a T-rex. No, not a T-rex, that wasn't the right animal at all. Yes, it did have a long tail, short stumpy little arms, and it was standing on two feet but the rest of it was wrong. It had dark as a night sky, with no moon and stars shining, scales. Its nose was too long, its tail too spiky at the end of it, and wings, it had wings. It flicked its tongue at Yugi, and he saw that it was forked. So it belonged to the lizard family, but what lizards did he know that had armor on its body in the form of scales? Yugi's eyes widened as the answer to his puzzle hit him full in the face.

"Dragon. RUN!" Yugi whispered and it smiled at him. So Yugi shouted for them to run realizing the two idiots next to him were still trying to figure out what they were facing.

Yugi took off not even bothering to see if his escorts were following. Yugi heard Atem give out a mighty roar, and loud footsteps that shook the walls giving chase. He didn't look back, looking back slowed you down, that's what his track coach always told him, looking back slowed you down, never look back. There was an open door at the end of the hallway, Yugi went running for it.

Yugi almost reached the door when he was shoved on his right side into a room on his immediate left. Yugi skidded on his side into the room as the door shut with a resounding bang behind him. Yugi sat up cradling his left arm, and wondered if leaving the room hadn't been a dream. Though if it was a dream, he guessed he wouldn't be able to feel the pain he was feeling now. Still, it was as pitch black in this room as the other one. Yugi heard Atem's large feet stop right outside the door.

"And what's your name?" he asked.

"Jeremiah." A man responded.

"Open the door." He half growled half hissed at him.

"I don't have the key." He said in a strangled voice, Atem must have had him by his throat. Atem growled in frustration before there was a sickening snap, a gurgled breath, and the sound of something heavy hitting the floor.

"Yugi dear, open the door." Atem said in a sickly sweet voice.

"I don't have a key, and why would I want to anyway?" Yugi said back.

"Yugi, open the door." Atem said more firmly.

"Can't you hear me?" Yugi asked in both his head and out loud.

"OPEN IT!" Atem screeched.

"I guess not." Yugi said as he heard a slight scuffling noise.

Yugi turned towards the sound and saw something moving slightly. A shadow shifting in the darkness, and there was another one. And there, and there, they were all around him, shadows shifting in the darkness. Then they started to make noises, noises only too familiar to Yugi. Yugi didn't need a light to know what was in the room with him; he already knew that it was Atem's pets.

"NO!" Yugi screamed throwing his arms up in an X in front of his face, his light flaring up instantly in his sudden fear.

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