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Chapter 52

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It had been a couple of hours since they were trapped in the cave. Ryou and Malik had fallen asleep within Akefia's coils, Yugi however was still awake. His body trying to doze but his mind wide away. Atemu had his eyes closed along with Akefia and anyone would think that the two snakes were asleep but they were wide awake.

Yugi's body had almost reached a point where it was going to sleep regardless of what he wanted when Atemu suddenly lifted his head off his shoulder and looked towards the entrance, Akefia doing the same knocking Ryou and Malik awake as well. Yugi looked towards the entrance and they could see a shadow on the other side of the webbing, making Yugi whimper.

Atemu looked to Akefia before both uncoiled around them and Atemu nudged Yugi over to Malik and Ryou. Yugi looked like he was ready to latch onto Atemu and not let go but he hurried over to Malik and Ryou sat huddled to the wall, Malik's arm wrapped around him. They watched as Akefia and Atemu went on separate sides of the tunnel opening, hidden. All of them could hear mumble cursing as whoever was trying to get in was having a difficulty getting through the webbing.

Atemu and Akefia sat poised where they were for half an hour waiting for whoever it was to get through. It was suddenly silent and there was no mumble curses or the sound of cutting and ripping on the webbing. Yugi, Ryou and Malik were staring at the entrance to the dugout cave when a shadow started making its way through the tunnel. Yugi whimpered and pressed closer into Malik's side and into the wall behind them.

Atemu and Akefia heard Yugi's whimper and saw the shadow making its way closer to them. Poised they waited till the person made it into the cave and walked passed them a little. They needed to be certain that the person was a threat before they attacked.

Yugi watched as the figure came into the cave and his heart nearly jumped out of this chest. Ushio stood before them with a menacing smile. Yugi whimpered as tears threatened to fall, he was scared. He knew Atemu and Akefia were there but it didn't matter, he was still scared.

"Hello Yugi." Yugi whimpered again. "Miss me? I won't make a mistake this time. This time I'll make sure your dead before I leave."

Atemu and Akefia knew now that this person was a threat and knew exactly who this person was. Atemu hissed as he slithered in closer. Ushio had stiffened hearing the sound coming behind him followed by another hiss from another creature. Ushio turned around to see two extremely large snakes behind him. He wondered how he missed them but he was so focused on Yugi and his two friends he didn't check his surroundings like his two helpers had told him to.

"What the hell? It's not possible, there is no way a snake can get that big, let alone two." Ushio muttered to himself.

"Well it will be the last time you thing you remember."

Ushio wasn't sure where the voice came from because it was coming from in front of him, not behind where Yugi, Ryou and Malik were sitting scared. Ushio fumbled with the knife in his hand and backed away as the snakes moved closer. He figured if he could get rid of one quickly he would stand half a chance with the second.

Ushio watched as one snake moved closer to him before springing up towards him and latched onto his shoulder. Ushio screamed in pain and brought his knife down but wasn't focused on where he was aiming because he was in pain. Atemu winced as the knife cut into his side but was thankfully not too deep.

Akefia sprang forward after seeing Atemu hit and latched onto the other side of Ushio's body and they pulled him to the ground. The knife was dropped when Akefia latched on as Ushio was in too much pain. He tried wrenching away from them but that only tore into his shoulders even more. Atemu and Akefia wrapped their tails around him holding him steady and squeezing slightly making him cry out in pain.

Yugi having saw Atemu get cut was worried. He couldn't see where the injury was but he knew he had been. There was some blood on the ground that didn't come from Ushio. Yugi shakily got to his feet and moved closer making sure he was behind Atemu and not Ushio.

"Atemu?" Yugi saw him move his head as much as possibly, jerking his teeth that were in Ushio's shoulder making him cry out. "Are you ok?" Atemu nodded his head.

"Argh! Let go! Gods stop moving!" Atemu and Akefia locked eyes and bit in harder making Ushio cry out more. "Yugi! Get these things off me. Argh!"

"Why should I? You tried to kill me. You raped me. Why should I help you!" Yugi cried, tears falling down his face.

Atemu looked over at him before looking at Akefia silently telling him he was letting go. Atemu removed his coils from Ushio making Akefia hold him tighter before removing his fangs from the shoulder. Atemu slithered across to Yugi quickly before wrapping around him firmly. Yugi buried his face in the scales when Atemu reached his face.

"I'm not helping you. I don't care what they do but I'm not helping you." Yugi sobbed.

Atemu tightened slightly in comfort and hissed to Akefia who jerked his fangs in Ushio's shoulder and they ripped muscle and scrapped bone. Ushio let out a pain filled scream.

"Stop. Gods just stop!"

"Why should we? Yugi would have screamed those same words to you when you were hurting him. Did you stop? No. So why should we?" Atemu hissed at him.

Atemu nodded to Akefia who uncoiled around Ushio and started to slither off out of the tunnel, growing bigger, as he dragged Ushio with him. Ushio was screaming bloody murder, his arms were useless. Yugi looked up at Atemu who changed back to his human form and wrapped his arms tightly around him.

"What's Akefia going to do with him?"

"Kill him. This way he won't ever hurt you again."

"How?"

"I'm not sure. I'm sure Ushio will wish he never hurt you though."

Yugi shuddered and buried his face back into Atemu's chest. Atemu tightened his arms around him before walking him back over to Ryou and Malik who were still sitting on the ground. Ryou was huddled against Malik's side and both had tear tracks running down their face. They felt so sorry for Yugi and had wanted to comfort him before when he got up but knew he had to face it. Malik hadn't wanted to let him go but knew he wouldn't have been able to change his mind.

Atemu made Yugi let go before pushing to Malik and Ryou who wrapped their arms around him. Atemu made sure he was Yugi was fine before going back to the start of the tunnel to keep an eye out. Atemu saw movement ten minutes later and an extremely large Akefia came back with a bloated stomach. Atemu smirked as Akefia moved in and stopped in front of him.

"Your side is bleeding."

"It's alright Akefia. It's a small cut. It's stopped bleeding already."

"You sure?"

"Yeah it's fine."

Akefia slithered back inside and up against a wall covering a quarter of the cave. Atemu looked back at Yugi, Ryou and Malik to see the boys had called down and were sitting quietly together. They were also shooting looks at Akefia and looking at the slight bulge in his stomach. He knew they were wondering how long till he would be till he would be able to change back.

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