MG: Sup' everyone. Chapter 12 is up and boy this was a challenging chapter. I do get to include a few things that the manga nor the anime explains like why Yami is almost insane when he is released from the puzzle so without boring you guys with my commentary, enjoy the chapter
Kris Horus's POV
Now when Mokuba said who would spin first, I was praying that no one would step up to the challenge. Jonouchi decided that he will spin and got the Kid's meal. "Really…I get the kid's meal." Mokuba gave a dark smirk. "You know that there is a prize in two of these meals…who knows you might have a winning meal." Jonouchi smirked. "It isn't poisoned is it?" I wanted to slap Jonouchi, tell him not to eat the food. Knowing Mokuba, it probably was poisoned. Jonouchi took a few bits. "It isn't to…" that was when he dropped the fork and clenched his shirt. "JONOUCHI!" Both Yugi and I shouted. Yugi ran over to Jonouchi while Mokuba laughed like a mad man. "You're the winner Jonouchi! You won the prize!" I looked at Mokuba with anger in my eyes. "MOKUBA YOU F***ING BRAT! HOW DARE YOU!" I was about to let Lady Hawk take over when a pair of strong arms kept me in my wheelchair. I knew it was Yami, "Damn it Mokuba…you just don't get it do you? Give me the antidote for Jonouchi and let us go NOW!"
"I can't let you guys go but…if you win the game then I'll give you the antidote." It was like a trigger. I didn't mean to look into Yami's mind but I did. Even though he let go of me and sat down at the table, my fear made me pry at his mind…his inner fears.
It was total darkness in this stone maze. The endless twist and turns was enough to drive anyone mad. As I looked around I saw Yami running. His eyes filled with fear. "STAY BACK! LEAVE ME ALONE!" behind him was a human like thing. The face was warped, there was nothing but darkness in its eyes and mouth, the arms were elongated and spider like and it ran on all fours, making it run like something strait out of a horror film.(no wander why he didn't want anything to do with that monstrosity, that thing looked like a creature from the pits of hell) He opened one of the doors and hid. I followed, obviously I wasn't seen by him or what ever that thing was that was scaring him. The room was cold and dank, like a tomb, a mausoleum. Yami fell to the ground, his arms wrapped against his torso and his knees were against his chest. "please leave me alone…leave me alone…whatever I have done…I can't remember…who am I? WHO AM I!?" he pressed his hands against his ears and shook his head as I began to hear screams and wails of many people, spirits. "TRAITOR! MURDERER! YOU KILLED MANY! YOU DESERVE TO SUFFER! YOU MUST SUFFER FOR YOUR CRIMES!" Yami looked up, tears flooded his eyes. "WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU TO MAKE YOU HATE ME SO?! WHAT HAVE I DONE!?" but the voices kept egging on. Yami covered his ears and shook his head. His voice was shaky. Yami was crying from how scared he was. "I can't remember…I just want this to stop…please…I'm scared, you succeeded…I don't want to live like this…I give up…I….give….up…."this was all that came out of his lips, a tiny fearful and confused whisper in a room full of pure hatred.
Yami gave me a grave look when that memory ended (You know that look when you just know that the person is pissed off but they won't yell at you and you just wished that they yell…Yea that was the look Yami had in his eyes). He knew I looked into his memories, (Well what little memories he had) and I just knew that that memory was very personal. "Kris…when I'm done with Mokuba…We need to talk." I looked down. "I…"
"Mokuba…I will spin." Yami spun the turn table and got the pasta. At this point I was hungry and mad at Yami for just brushing me off like that. So I did something that just made him flustered, I took the fork from his hand and the pasta before he could even have a bite. "KRIS!"
"Mmmmwhat?" (My mouth was stuffed with Italian goodness)
"You are going to get yourself killed that way!"
"Then it will be the best death for me…Kris Horus O'Hera, died eating Italian goodness made by the Gods of food themselves." (Yep I was obsessed with Italian food.) Yami's face was just priceless. Mokuba snickered. "Well you are lucky because that plate wasn't poisoned."
"I got that when she was talking with her mouth stuffed." I rolled my eyes and set the empty plate down. "So now I have to play hu?" Yami growled and Mokuba smirked. "I'll take my turn then Yugi will spin again." Mokuba spun the table and I noticed that Mokuba touched the syrup bottle. He landed on the parfait. "Ohh my favorite!" He wolfed that thing down like it was nothing. What did I get myself into!?
Yami's POV
Oh my Ra! Kris is truly insane! The fact that she decided to play this dangerous game says it all. I was also angry that she had looked into my memories of the uncompleted puzzle. She did it on accident; I know that much, but that memory and others like it haunts me. I will explain later but now I had to deal with Mokuba and his cheating. I knew he had a switch in the bottle and that there is one more poisoned dish on the table. Well I can fix that, now I just hope that luck is on my side. "Mokuba, what is in the glass bottle?" as Mokuba was trying to come up with a lie, I took off the puzzle and tied it to one of the pegs on the turntable. Hopefully it doesn't break but I doubt it. "Oh that's the syrup bottle…there are pancakes aren't there?" I just sighed. "Then why is it empty?"
"Because it will be filled for the first time, when you taste poison and you die." Now that was just a bullshit answer but hey what ever. "Let's finished this off in one turn, we both eat what lands in front of us."
"What ever." I looked over at Kris and she nodded. How could she stay so calm in this game? "Yami…your move."
"Okay." I spun that table and heard the glass from the bottle shatter. Mokuba looked shocked. When the table stopped, Kris had the pizza, I had pancakes, and Mokuba had the hamburger. By the look on his face, the hamburger was poisoned. I started to eat the pancakes. (Blueberry is my favorite by the way) Kris devoured the pizza. Once we were done, Mokuba took a bite out of the burger and fell out of the chair from the poison. Luckily, he had an extra antidote. I gave Jonouchi the antidote and he slowly woke up. "Neyh?...What the hell hit me?"
"Poison…Jonouchi will you be okay?"
"If I took a warm shower and sleep." I sighed. Good he will be okay. I turned my attention to Kris. I still needed to talk to her about looking at my personal things. (very bad memories and things like that). I looked around and noticed that she was already gone. "Kris?" that was when the butler walked up. "Mistress Kris was taken to her room to sleep. We will be taking you to your room now."
"Where is Kris's room?"
"She will be across the hall from you and next to Jonouchi's room, but everyone is to stay in their rooms. You are provided with fresh sheets and pajamas." Crap…Kris was already taken to her room and they are forcing us into our rooms. This really bites.
Grandpa Motou's POV
Yugi and Kris should have been home by now. My daughter (Yugi's mom) was pacing the living room with a worried look on her face. "Where are they?" She walked over to the chair and sat down. "Yugi and Kris should have been home thirty minutes ago." The store door open and I walked over to the counter. "Can I help you?" My daughter walked out and noticed that these men had guns. "Dad wait!"
"Shut up woman! Or else Yugi and Kris will die." My daughter gasped and I glared. "Where are Yugi and Kris? What do you want from us?"
"We are here to take you Gramps. You better come with us or your grandson and his friend will die."
"Then I will go…Miku…keep an eye on the game store…I will sort all of this out."
Yami's POV
In my room at night and I was far from sleepy. Actually, I am so restless that I had to get up and walk around the room. Looking at the clock, I saw that it was eight o'clock already. "I should try to talk to Kris." Walking over to the door I tried to open the door. The thing was that it wouldn't open. I was locked in from the outside. "LET ME OUT OF HERE! DAMN BASTARDS LET ME OUT!" I punched the door a few times before giving up. The damn bastards had us locked up in our rooms like animals. Why Kaiba…what are you planning? "Yami?" I looked around and saw that Kris was in the closet. "How did you…"
"I asked politely to let me talk to you and the maid showed me a little secret door that I can use to come here without the guards finding out." I just sighed. "Hey about that memory…what was that all about? Those creature things freaked me out." I looked away. It was painful thinking about that. "I don't know what they are…and what you saw was only a fragment of what they did to me."
"Then talk to me about it." I cringed. "For as long as the millennium puzzle was in pieces, those things…spirits, demons, what ever you like to call them, tortured me. I was lost…I don't have my memories but they somehow knew me. They harbored hatred against me and I didn't know why." Kris kept a close eye on me while I told her my time of isolation. "I would run from those things, but I could never get away from the voices that echoed in the halls. They called me things like traitor, murderer, monster, and dark heartless demon. In a way, they were right."
"No they are not…you save lives."
"But I have also killed. Kris you didn't know me when I was first released from the puzzle…I nearly killed a guy for beating up Yugi. I killed a man who held Anzu hostage by letting him burn himself alive. I even let someone blow themselves up. I am a monster…I…." I couldn't talk. I looked away as my face turned red. "I don't deserve to be here." Kris rolled up to me in her wheelchair and grabbed my hand. "Yami I don't see a monster…I don't see a greedy cruel ghost, I see a spirit with an ancient way of thinking. I see not a ghost but a guardian, a hero and a diamond in the rough."
"I guess the reason I am so frustrated and angry is that I have been locked up for so long. Tortured and beaten until I cracked."
"They beat you?" I pulled my hand out of Kris's hand and took my shirt off. She gasped as she saw my side and back. My back was covered in whip lashes from the demons of the puzzle and the scar in my gut is unknown. "Your back it's covered in…"
"whip lashes….yea that was when they caught me…thing is, they only appear when I take over. This was what happened to me when I was caught. They held me down and tear my back up to the point where I felt like I was dying a second death. Yet…the puzzle kept me alive somehow."
"You think that the puzzle tried to protect you?" I smiled at Kris's confusion. "Yes I think it tried to…but it was in pieces so it wasn't strong enough to help me fight…just to keep me somewhat alive." I sat down on the bed and rubbed the back of my neck. "The sad thing was…I went insane just as the puzzle was solved…that is why I am very harsh in a shadow game." Kris rolled over to me and got herself onto my bed. She sat up and gave me a hug. I blushed. "Yami…if my nana knew you were a spirit do you know what she would say?"
"No."
"You are not a spirit…but an angel. You are harsh yes…but you have a good heart, it's in the right place." I looked into her eyes. Her silver and gold eyes and just knew that she was being sincere. "Kris I think it's time to call it a night…we have a long day tomorrow." Kris nodded and got back in her wheelchair. "We'll kick Kaiba's butt…together." I nodded as she left. Closing the door, I noticed that I had a single tear rolling down my face. I had never told anyone about my torment and even when I told her about my insanity…she didn't see me as a monster…but as a friend in need. I knew the real reason why I fight the way I do. My fears of being alone and going back to that state of mind compels me. Yet I knew in my heart that my reason to fight on will change soon. Thanks to her, Jonouchi, Anzu, Honda, and Yugi, I have an honorable thing to fight for…love.
