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Chapter Ten – Time to Duel

Yugi looked across at his closest friend, a mixture or determination and worry in his eyes. He had just seen Atem split blood from his mouth. Yugi's attention turned back to the blond man who had lowered his fist and turned to face him, but a golden glint took his attention. Out of the corner of his eyes he saw the millennium puzzle, but he could see no way of getting to it. As the blond man spoke, Yugi's attention was brought back to him.

"So, you have finally found us. It took you long enough."

Yugi gave the man a stare which would have sliced the man in two if the blond man had been intimidated, which he hadn't been. He had to stop his eyes from dared to Atem, who had looked in his direction.

"Let's get to the point. You want a duel and I want my friend back."

"Oh, you want your friend back. But, yet, you have not looked properly at him. You two share something in common now."

Yugi's determined face etched a slight frown. The blond man grabbed Atem by his wrist and forced Atem to show his face and forearm to Yugi. Yugi's compose broke slightly and the blond man smirked.

"You are both stubborn and were punished accordingly."

Yugi looked at a long, deep cut which ran through Atem's wrist and half way up his forearm. It was the same as the wound that Yugi currently had bandaged up. Yugi looked into Atem's face noting the slip lip and the large, black bruise which cover one side of his face. Their eyes met but as there was no mental link between them anymore or it was too weak to be of any use to them. No words passed between them but somehow the same message passed to them both. Be strong. Yugi's pride in his friend grew as he watched that spark, the spark of determination, that same spark which had taken down the Lord of Darkness so long ago re-enter Atem's eyes.

Despite the amount of pain it gave him, Atem twisted his forearm free for the man's grip and backed away. The man turned away from Yugi and looked at Atem, but that spark in Atem's eyes did not faultier. Not even when the blond man had over powered Atem and slammed him to the ground. Although Atem was not strong enough to get up he gave the man a stare which, Yugi was amused to see, made the blond man's composer break slightly. Turning his back on Atem the blond man opened his mouth to speak but Joey cut in as a girl with red hair came out the back room, looking frightened.

"Scarlett!"

Scarlett looked to Atem who was now sitting up, the blond man who was looking at her, to Joey with worry in his eyes. Her eyes swelled with tears and she ran to Joey, but the blond man got in the way. He pushed her back to join Atem but she stumbled and fell, landing on Atem. Tristan was holding Joey back, while Yugi watched the man's posture. It was not something he usually did, but he had noticed something. The man gave a powerful look over the two figures on the ground, which gave Yugi the answer.

"You're power hungry."

Every eye turned to Yugi, the blond man gave Yugi a powerful smirk which actually made Yugi laugh out loud.

"That's it your just power hungry, you think you want all this power but actually you don't."

Atem looked at Yugi at those words, his mind racing. That was what his father had meant; he had finally worked it out. But he still did not know what he was going to do when he finally got home. Atem subconsciously rubbed his bruised face, his head was throbbing too much to think logically, which gained him worried looks for Scarlett and Tea. He felt a hand his on back, which belonged to Scarlett. She pulled Atem back into a sitting position, looking into his face. There was the sound of talking but Atem was not listening nor was he returning Scarlett gaze. His eyes were fixed on his knees, trying to make his head stop throbbing.

"So we have a deal. I win a duel against you and you give us back our friends." Yugi was saying

The blond man nodded, throwing a duel disk to Yugi while placing his own on his arm. They then both, dramatically, pulled out their duelling decks and inserted them into the duel disks. As the duel began Yugi started out in a way which Atem was not surprised by. Yugi placed his Silent Magician in attack mode, while the placing down two face down cards. The blond man brought out the Electric Lizard in defence mode.

Atem noticed the strategy that Yugi used was similar to the one he had used during the ceremonial battle. But Yugi had still improved so much; he kept surprising Atem which tricks which he could never have imagined Yugi could do. It was not a long duel due to the fact that the blond man was not as a good duellist as he had said. As the man life points hit zero, he fell to his knees. No one moved except Scarlett who took the opportunity to run to Joey. A sound in the distance caught their attention, it sounded like sirens. The other members of the gang panicked running down the stairs and out the house. The blond man looked up, daggers in his eyes. He turned to look at Atem who returned his gaze. But as he launched towards Atem, Tristan jumped in between them pushing the man away. Yugi took the opportunity to grab the millennium puzzle while discarding the duel disk on the floor.

Tea, Joey and Scarlett ran out the door. Yugi was on his heels, the millennium puzzle in his hands. But at the door he turned to see whether the pharaoh and Tristan were on their way. Tristan was supporting Atem and they were coming towards Yugi. Yugi waited for them and helped Tristan support the Pharaoh out the house. Yugi then saw police cars, they had surrounded the house and the various gang members were being hand cuffed. As they joined the others, a police man walked over to them.

"You should not have gone after them, it was dangerous."

"But we had to, they had our friend." Yugi said, indicating Atem.

The policeman smiled and motioned to another police man to come over. The man jogged over and motioned to Tristan, who was still supporting Atem, to help support him.

"We have an ambulance here; the paramedics will need to decide whether your friend needs to go to hospital. Meanwhile, I have questions." The policeman said.

Yugi wasn't looking at the policeman talking to them. He was watching the other policeman and Tristan support Atem over to the waiting ambulance. The policeman asked them questions about exactly what happened. They explained all about what Scarlett told them, then the duel between Yugi and the man. As the policeman finished his note taking and told them they were allowed to go, Tristan re-appeared with Atem, Atem's bleeding arm had been bandaged. Yugi looked anxiously at Atem, who was looking extremely tried.

"What did they say, Tristan?" Tea asked.

"They said that he should be fine. He needs rest and we should watch him for the next 48 hours, in case of any signs of concussion."

Yugi sighed in relief, then pulled out his phone and called his grandfather. Yugi, again, helped Tristan with Atem over to the place where Grandpa would pick them up. Grandpa pulled up in the car, and before they knew it they were back at Yugi's house sitting around the kitchen table. Once again, they were drinking hot chocolate while Atem was sleeping on the sofa.

No one spoke they were still taking in what had just happened and were trying not to wake Atem. As Yugi thought, he released that now Atem was free he would be looking to find a way home. Yugi was not sure whether he wanted Atem to go, he had enjoyed Atem being here. Although it got off to a rough start, having Atem there when he arrived home from school had been nice. Yugi was embarrassed to admit it but he sometimes forgot that Atem was not part of his family. His friends excused themselves and went home, the same thought had occurred to them. How hard will it be this time for Yugi?

Later in the evening as Yugi was heading towards his room, his eyes caught sight of Atem. Peacefully sleeping, seemingly without a care in the world, but yet Yugi knew that was not true. He knew that the first thing Atem would talk about would be when he awoke was how to help his people. Yugi turned his back to the Pharaoh and walked into his bedroom. Shutting the door, he saw the cartouche with Atem's name engraved in it on his desk. He remembered throwing it at the wall but not putting it on his desk. Atem must have put it there. Yugi picked it and ran his finger over the engravings. Then he fell to his knees, tears streaming from his eyes. He gripped the cartouche hard as he cried.

"I don't want you to go." Yugi whispered.

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