The agony that their spell had inflicted upon him still hadn't cleared, and with the sudden fear and terror rushing through his quivering being he felt as though he could die at any moment. His heart pounded so loudly in his ears that he could just barely make out what they were saying.

"How easily the young mind is tricked and the body weakened," Lucius mocked as two of the other Death Eaters kept Yugi's lithe form pressed against the cold stone building, his head hanging as he was beginning to succumb to the paralyzing and numbing effects of the spell. His vision was becoming worse, until he could only make out deluded colors and messy forms before him in the darkness. Desperate cries for help managed to catch in his throat, suffocating him and never escaping to alert Dumbledore and the others as to what had happened. He was alone and had to get himself out of this, or he just might pay the ultimate price as Yami had warned he could from ignorance.

"W-why…" was all that could manage to come from Yugi's mouth, noticing that they weren't attempting to force him anywhere or carrying out any of the horrific fates he was envisioning. Lucius first uttered something to the two remaining Death Eaters who weren't restraining Yugi, who rushed off towards the end of the alley after his command, before he looked down upon the helpless teenager and explained.

"That little demonstration you provided for us at the Dursley home has sparked an interest in that artifact you're wearing. Our master will be pleased should we bring him an object with such potential," Lucius said, and Yugi's eyes dilated out with fear as he felt the Millennium Puzzle glimmer slightly, as though Yami were attempting to save him but couldn't. It seemed that dark force that had managed to harm the spirit earlier had returned and was barring any of his attempts at saving Yugi.

"It won't do you any good, the Millennium Puzzle only works for me and definitely not for servants of evil like you," Yugi said, feeling a stream of fresh blood slither down his face as he spoke; his throat was so dry and hoarse with illness that the flesh was beginning to crack. Lucius appeared to be enjoying his agony as he looked down upon him, producing his wand from his robes and holding it out menacingly.

"You know at this point we could so easily take your life with the right spell, or perhaps even drive you insane to the point where you would take your own life, but with what you've just said I believe I shall keep you alive a bit longer, if only to prove you are lying," Lucius said, and Yugi felt his body stiffen with absolute horror at what the Death Eater had just said. They couldn't possibly carry out any of what he had threatened…could they? What was the good of performing so many good spells when there were ones that could take lives and ruin decent minds? All these unanswered questions served to add to the growing confusion Yugi was undergoing.

And it was only going to get worse.

"Who is this 'Master' you keep talking about?" Yugi finally asked, his voice beginning to fail him and wavering as his consciousness did. This question seemed to take the Death Eaters by surprise, as though he should have known.

"Our master is Lord Voldemort, the most powerful sorcerer to have ever lived, and it is to him we shall be taking you and your 'Millennium Item' as you called it," Lucius said, continuing as Yugi was beginning to recover a bit from his pains, and he could sense Yami was partially responsible. He may not have been able to send out defenses for Yugi, but he was healing him from the inside out it seemed as the pain became numbness. "Many people greatly fear our master, but since you've lived the life of a Muggle you wouldn't know all this I suppose. Many just call him 'You-Know-Who' or 'He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named,' but I believe those are all putrid regards to his greatness. They fear him so much they dare not even utter his name as though it is a curse."

"And what has your master done to earn himself such a title?" Yugi asked, though he knew he probably didn't want to know. With the cunning smile that suddenly appeared on Lucius's face, his suspicions had been assured.

"I see that wretched fool Dumbledore truly hasn't told you of all the dangers of the wizarding world, even though he and our master are the greatest of rivals. Lord Voldemort has taken the countless lives of the weak who didn't deserve to live, or who were too foolish to understand his great prospects of the world. Many wizards and witches would so much rather live in fear of Muggles, hiding amongst them than put them in their place as an inferior division of humanity, whereas my master wanted to put an end to this."

"So you take command from a man who would enslave or murder all those who weren't born with the ability to do magic?"

"A rather brutish way of putting it, but yes, the Muggles have overrun this world for too long and Lord Voldemort shall put an end to that."

Yugi suddenly clenched his hands into fist and gritted his teeth. "The Millennium Puzzle won't work for you, it only works for me, and I'll never do anything this Lord Voldemort asks or forces me to, no matter what I have to suffer. I've seen darkness and evil before, and I know that simply succumbing to it is never the answer."

"Braves words from a mere child, but I promise you that Lord Voldemort always finds a way to make people serve him and reveal what he wishes. The number and power of spells increases each day, and there are a handful of spells that would, well, let's just say your mind would be made useless," Lucius said, and Yugi realized how similar this was to when he had struggled through the events of the Battle City tournament. He didn't know precisely what Lucius was talking about, but it sounded an awful lot like being turned into a mind slave…