Chapter 39
Yami collapsed against the wall, hands buried in his hair, fingers clenched white with pain. Unchecked light streaked through his head, faded, and ripped twice through, pressing nerve endings against his skull. He shuddered, convulsively.
What are they doing... he raged, as the pain flashed in bursts behind his searing eyes. "Gahh..."
In the rumbling corridors of his Soul Room, he stumbled through the darkness, relying on its patterns and intricacies to guide him through the labryinth. The noise and erratic movement of the pathways increased in intensity as he neared the source of the light, the core of the pain. With no place to support himself on, Yami slipped sideways and sprawled onto the heaving floor. He stayed there, trying to blot out the sounds of part of his Soul collapsing...
That light! How had they revived it? I thought I had removed all traces of... Yami stopped, a part of him frozen away from the blinding pain. Yami Yugi... He had all the lost memories, awakened by the intruder...
I should have killed them both.
One part of Yami's mind knew, faintly, what was going on. The other was consumed by the noise, the crashing, the light, and seemed distant with the destruction taking place around him. Yami forced himself to his feet and limped towards the focus of his rage...
In the core of the disturbance, all was not well.
Yugi threw his arms around Yami, heaving them both upright. Yami seemed exhausted, and wasn't supporting enough of his own weight. Yugi gasped, struggling, and half carried half dragged his friend closer to the exit. His foot knocked against something; it was the shard.
Lowering himself and Yami to the floor once again, Yugi reached out, straining, and managed to grasp the shard tightly in one hand. He slipped it into his pocket, and was about to start trying to encourage Yami to stand himself up when he noticed that something near them was moving.
A swirl of activity was taking place near the gap where the wall had been. To Yugi's vast horror, he saw that the shadows were actually reconstructing the wall; gathering, seethingly crawling over eachother, they were regenerating the damage that the light had inflicted on the Soul Room.
"Run!!" Yugi cried, yanking hard on Yami's arm. Yami stumbled and, with the help of the frantic Yugi, pulled himself to his feet... Too slowly! Too slowly! Yugi panicked and pushed Yami as hard as he could towards the exit, himself toppling behind, the shadows closing around them with ominous intent...
A moment's confusion, and they were through.
Yami collapsed against the wall, hands buried in his hair, fingers clenched white with pain. Unchecked light streaked through his head, faded, and ripped twice through, pressing nerve endings against his skull. He shuddered, convulsively.
What are they doing... he raged, as the pain flashed in bursts behind his searing eyes. "Gahh..."
In the rumbling corridors of his Soul Room, he stumbled through the darkness, relying on its patterns and intricacies to guide him through the labryinth. The noise and erratic movement of the pathways increased in intensity as he neared the source of the light, the core of the pain. With no place to support himself on, Yami slipped sideways and sprawled onto the heaving floor. He stayed there, trying to blot out the sounds of part of his Soul collapsing...
That light! How had they revived it? I thought I had removed all traces of... Yami stopped, a part of him frozen away from the blinding pain. Yami Yugi... He had all the lost memories, awakened by the intruder...
I should have killed them both.
One part of Yami's mind knew, faintly, what was going on. The other was consumed by the noise, the crashing, the light, and seemed distant with the destruction taking place around him. Yami forced himself to his feet and limped towards the focus of his rage...
In the core of the disturbance, all was not well.
Yugi threw his arms around Yami, heaving them both upright. Yami seemed exhausted, and wasn't supporting enough of his own weight. Yugi gasped, struggling, and half carried half dragged his friend closer to the exit. His foot knocked against something; it was the shard.
Lowering himself and Yami to the floor once again, Yugi reached out, straining, and managed to grasp the shard tightly in one hand. He slipped it into his pocket, and was about to start trying to encourage Yami to stand himself up when he noticed that something near them was moving.
A swirl of activity was taking place near the gap where the wall had been. To Yugi's vast horror, he saw that the shadows were actually reconstructing the wall; gathering, seethingly crawling over eachother, they were regenerating the damage that the light had inflicted on the Soul Room.
"Run!!" Yugi cried, yanking hard on Yami's arm. Yami stumbled and, with the help of the frantic Yugi, pulled himself to his feet... Too slowly! Too slowly! Yugi panicked and pushed Yami as hard as he could towards the exit, himself toppling behind, the shadows closing around them with ominous intent...
A moment's confusion, and they were through.