Disclaimer: Yu-gi-oh does not belong me~

I'm tired but its not late, Internet is so totally evil it won't let me on for long.

Silver Dragon I did get your e-mail and thank you for showing it to me I really appreciate it and I will try to get better at my use of commas, I'm so bad at English even if I'm in the A set ^^;

Anyway this will be soon be finished. I'm way to lazy to bother writing more and it will hopefully be the longest. I need rest because otherwise I'll fall asleep in lessons.

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Mermaid Angel

Chapter 6

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She watched through the open window out into the darkness, which was the night. The palace was cold it had been since her son had left and it would be cold evermore. She left the window with one glance out of it and descended down the stairs, which were nearby.

"I pray for your happiness," she said wiping away a tear that had formed. Her son whom she had raised to they young man he was she would never see again.

As she entered the ground floor of the palace she went straight to the garden, it was her thinking place, as much as it had been her sons. As she opened the door she was greeted by a blast of wind, she knew it weren't a good sign; the way the wind was acting. The weather usually showed the feeling of her son she believed. The night was dark and the wind was powerful, it was eerie and the night extended into the oblivion.

She watched the water feature and approached it with silent footsteps.

"Water sorceress Mia may you let whatever my son wishes for happen," she told the feature.

Moving her hand to hold a golden chain that was around round her neck her, she then removed it from around her neck. At the end of the golden chain was a small dagger encrusted with rubies. It was a dagger created by Mia, only two of these daggers were created, one encrusted with rubies the other with sapphires. They were daggers used in sacrifice and held magical abilities once a sacrifice was offered to either one.

Holding the dagger she pulled the chain off, all the rings, which made up the chain dispersed and fell upon the ground and the water surrounding the water feature. Holding the dagger she plunged it into her heart, the pain, which was released from it shot through her body causing her to fall upon her hands and knees. The blood stained her azure dress, which soaked the blood preventing it from dripping.

"I pray that my sacrifice for you my son will not be in vain," she whispered before she slumped to the ground dead the dagger in her hand, which she had removed before she fell.

The night sky grew cloudy and the wind roared so loudly and forcefully that several trees fell. A chilled rain started to fall heavily.

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Yami watched into the sky something was wrong, terribly wrong. Weather like this didn't happen unless something was wrong with his mother, or with him on occasion, which was why whenever she was beaten or harmed the weather became foul. Though this time was the worst so much so that he couldn't look into the sky fully because so much wind was blowing into his eyes.

He feared the worst, the worst there could be, death. He never believed such a thing would happen. He tried to think straight but his mind wouldn't let him, this was too much, he had lost his mother the only other person apart from Yuugi he loved. He knew she had gone, if it weren't so then the weather would not act this way. He tried to hold back his tears but it was no use they just streamed down his face.

He despised the next thought that bore into his mind; the thought that she had died for him that she had sacrificed herself for his sake. He knew she had sacrificed herself. She had talked at times about sacrifice, and about the dagger which she bore round her neck, which he undoubtedly believed was used to sacrifice herself. So if she had sacrificed herself for him, he knew he should honour it.

The weather calmed down returning to what they once were and Yami continued to watch the night sky once more.

~*~

Two hands holding either arm held down Yuugi. They were from the same soldiers that had taken him away from Yami. They were a little way from the building where Amemoyo resided; awaiting orders to take him in to be judged by her.

"Leave him with me and get back to your duties, for I wish to speak with him," came a voice from behind them. The soldiers turned back and noticed it was May. The soldiers both nodded and released Yuugi from their grip.

May swam over to Yuugi once they had left and put her hand on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry that such things have come to pass and I'm sorry that you are the one who must suffer because of it," May whispered to him.

"You have no need to be sorry for such things, I knew such things would come to pass," he sighed.

He turned round and faced her and was pulled into an embrace.

"There may be away you can survive from this and that is to destroy him, you must he will bring you nothing but sorrow if you don't,"

"How can you say such a thing, I can't live without him I can't I would rather die than not be with him," he cried and pulled out of the embrace.

"What about him then? Do you think he does not feel the same way? Unless you kill him and yourself then you will never be released from what you feel. So kill him and yourself and be released from this torment in which you both reside from one another's presence and be free," she cried. Yuugi knew that if it weren't for the water her tears would have been seen. Of course she was right, unless they were both released from the life, which they now led they would never be able to be together.

He looked away from her and shut his eyes.

"What if he doesn't want to…?" he began.

"He will but do not think over it we must go to Amemoyo to discover your fate," she motioned Yuugi to follow her.

They swam to a building, which blazed with a golden light and approached the entrance. As they reached her throne, they noticed that the soldiers who had come with May were all standing beside Amemoyo including the chief advisor. An elderly mermaid who was supposed to be 'wise beyond his years' but Yuugi believed Amemoyo was wiser; she had least had compassion within her he had none.

"Yuugi," Amemoyo began as she rested her eyes upon him "you have broken the law by falling for one other than a mermaid and therefore your fate must be decided."

The chief advisor watched him with his slanted eyes "your fate mermaid is death for you have shone a sexual attraction towards this human which is more than should be permitted…" he began.

"You are being too harsh on him he has only loved if that is so wrong then all those here should have at least some kind of punishment," she hissed at him.

"This one loved a human and the is against our law, you have sentenced many to that fate but you wish not to do that for him then you are not such a great leader are you?" the chief advisor hissed back.

Amemoyo glared at him with a heated fury till something caught her eye and calmed her momentarily. It was the dagger around Yuugi's neck, the sapphires encrusted upon them had become red, they had become rubies but it was only possible when a sacrifice had been given to the other dagger. Until the sacrificed soul was at rest this dagger would harm no one. Though as soon as this thought had set in the jewels became sapphires once more. Whoever had been sacrificed knew what they had been doing.

"AMEMOYO ANSWER ME!" the chief advisor roared.

Amemoyo snapped out of her thoughts and back into reality she turned to the chief advisor shaking with a silent fury before she let it lose with silent words coated with fury.

"Do not question my leadership skills advisor I am a better leader than you when I left for a meeting with the mermaids in the sea fifty of my mermaids were executed for petty reasons," the chief advisor glared at her was about to answer back but she still spoke "the reason, which even with your violent ways must understand if that he is the son of Mia or a reincarnation of him which is why he will not be killed," she said the words calmly and everyone's mouths dropped open. Yuugi was Mia's reincarnated son. This explained the reason of why Amemoyo was so protective of him and the reason she was against his death.

"He is the reincarnated son of Mia this cannot be," he said in disbelief "you lie to me how can he fall for a human and above all things a male human."

She began to shake with fury "this is based upon his love of a man? All of this is based for his love of a man you disgust me," she spat at him.

Yuugi watched as they talked how Amemoyo whom he had always seen with a calming aura surrounding her was blazing with fury. It was quite unsettling in a way. He watched when the chief advisor grew inpatient with her and with a spear, which he grabbed from one of the guards he turned to attack Amemoyo. She grabbed it in her hand, as is tore threw the water and ordered the guards to take him away to be executed. He watched in shock at how quickly she had decided upon the fate, but then again no one had the right to lay a finger upon her.

She turned to Yuugi and smiled open heartedly.

"I am sorry for his behaviour he will bother no one anymore. Did you know you were Mia's reincarnated son?" she asked him.

"I did know though, maybe you could explain the reason of why I have no parents," he asked intently.

"You have no parents for when you were born, you were torn from your mother so to be protected from those who despised Mia, heaven forbid it would be any mermaid," she replied, "now to what I shall have to do about your sentence. I guess that because I shall not sentence you to death, I will have to tell my mermaid what I know," she decided.

"May I ask, how did you find out where I was?" he asked after he had pondered over his question for some time.

"If you must know we have the animals, spirits and fairies to help us and we help them in return. They know of our law with humans and various other ones so I believe. So when one of our mermaids breaks a law, it is passed on till it reaches one of the generals or me. I hope this answers your question Yuugi," she replied.

Yuugi nodded. He thought he would have been sentenced to death but it hadn't happened which had amazed him. Maybe, he began to think as the thought crept into his mind, maybe he would be able to see Yami again.

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Anzu pouted and glared to where Yuugi had been taken.

"I can't believe they didn't let us in, I mean where're his friends for god sake, I can't believe they did such a thing," she told Ryou who calmly agreed.

"Yeah well if it's important, then maybe they don't want 'commoners' around," he suggested.

" It's not fair though, I want to be beside him so I hear the sentence from them, and not from others," she closed her eyes and looked down "what if they sentence him to death Ryou despite what Amemoyo knows, what is they sentence him to death," she asked. He just gave a grim smile; he wasn't sure what to say.

"Well," Anzu said trying to smile "we might as well go talk to Yami, I'm sure he's pretty worried," she motioned to him to follow her; she swam to the surface of the water with Ryou behind her.

As she broke though the surface of the water the cold blasts of the wind greeted her. Her wet body shivered as she swam to the edge of the lake where she had last warned Yuugi. She searched the land and saw a figure beneath a tree watching the sky. The sky was dark and it was covered with clouds.

"Yami," she called out to him. The figure turned to face where she was and stood. Anzu watched as the figure emerged into Yami. She smiled at him and Ryou who was a little way behind her swam to her side.

Yami walked to them and kneeled down to be at their level.

"Hm? What is it?" he asked her.

"We just wanted to talk to you, I guessed you might have been kind of worried about Yuugi," she said.

Yami just nodded "that's nice of you to do that um… Anzu right?" he began.

"Yeah that's right,"

"Could you tell me if you know how he is? I know that he'll be alright because I can feel it," Yami asked her.

Anzu was amazed by what he said, if he knew he would be okay then he must be.

"Well I don't know his sentence, if you say he'll be okay then he must be. I thought that he might be sentenced to death, despite what Amemoyo, our leader knows," she said with a sigh.

Yami looked at her curiously " despite what Amemoyo knows? What do you mean by that?" he asked her.

"Yuugi is the reincarnated son of Mia," she said simply.

Yami gasped at the words, which Anzu spoke. Yuugi was the reincarnated son of Mia. His mother had spoken of her often. She had said many things about her, including what she had done for the mermaids. Her mother knew a lot about Mia. She even had one of the scared daggers, which she had used to sacrifice herself for him. He shivered at the thought. He had fallen in love with the reincarnation of Mia's son, he could almost laugh at the thought.

"Yami," she said silently, he had been quiet for some time and she was growing worried.

"I'm sorry, its just my mother knew so much about Mia that I almost find it ironic to have fallen in love with the reincarnation of her son. I guess that her son never found love so he was reincarnated to find it," he said, he watched their expressions on their faces and added "my mother told me of his story and how he was to be reincarnated to find love. I guess he found what he was looking for, too bad it's caused him so much trouble," he said with a sigh.

Ryou looked at them both, he had been silent for some time as Anzu talked. He had been thinking deeply about what was happening, about everything he knew. He looked at Yami and then asked him a question.

"Yami, Yuugi had a dagger round his neck and he told us that Amemoyo gave it to him. You see he said it came from Mia and I guess you saw it but why would she give him the dagger and then said it had something to do with his 'destiny'. Do you know what she's talking about?"

"Destiny? The only thing which the daggers can course is dea—," he stopped in mid sentence as it dawned on him what would happen to Yuugi, he may not be sentenced to death, but the daggers would course it.

"Yami what were you going to say?" Ryou asked him.

"You don't need to worry about it…" he said and quickly added so he wouldn't be questioned again "you better go I thought it was forbidden to see humans and you might be put to certain death."

"Well I guess you're right so we better be leaving," Ryou smiled before slipping back into the depth of the lake.

Anzu looked at him intently and sighed, "Yuugi will die won't he?" she looked away and a tear fell down her pale face "I guess that I'll lose one of the greatest friends I've ever had," she said with a sigh "but if he'll find happiness by it then I guess I should be happy for him."

"You're a good friend to him aren't you? And I see you care for him deeply, I'm sorry I guess, if it means anything to you."

"There's no need to be sorry, I want him to be happy," she told him as she too slipped back into the depth of the water, leaving Yami alone once again.

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The soldiers had left the building leaving Yuugi and Amemoyo alone together. Yuugi watched Amemoyo, she had gone back to sitting on her throne as she had been doing when they first met, she has ordered the soldiers to leave, but had asked him to stay. His eyes shifted around the building, he had been here once but that time everything was bright and hid the truth of what went on here. This was the place where Amemoyo sat with others and sentenced people to their fate, usually unpleasant ones, ones like death on occasion. The golden walls with their tiny details of leaves and feathers hid this fact. He stayed silent as she appeared in deep thought, he dared not disturb her, and she had for the first time in his knowledge been in a rage of fury, this was not a good sign for him.

Finally after all this Amemoyo looked at Yuugi and motioned him to her.

"When you came here, I saw the dagger, I saw how the sapphires changed to rubies and as quickly as they had changed they returned back to sapphires. The only way this could have happened to my knowledge is if the other dagger had taken a sacrifice and its soul was at rest, meaning that the 'sacrifice' knew exactly what they were doing…" she was mainly talking to herself but it was in a way directed at him "the daggers are amazing things, they have the power to grant wishes though death is usually the way the wish ends, in a way though not to change the inevitable, though they need a sacrifice to do so. This means that this person must have granted a wish when committing the sacrifice but what could the wish be?" she asked herself more than to him.

Yuugi watched as she repeatedly asked herself the questions. He decided to ask her finally why he was here.

"Amemoyo?" he asked to grab her attention. She looked up and smiled.

"What is it Yuugi?"

"Why am I here? You asked me to say but I am confused you keep talking of the dagger you gave me and I do not understand what it going on, please tell me," he asked.

She smiled and swam to him and held the dagger around his neck and let her hands cross over the sapphires. With a sighed she let the dagger go.

"I am not really sure of the reason, maybe I wanted answers for what I saw but I know you can't answer them it was pointless for me to have kept you here," she smiled.

"It's all right I didn't mind," he told her smiling.

"Well you better go then, I hope that you will be content with the outcome of this all. I wish sometimes that there were no laws but of course there is and I must uphold them but sometimes they can be bent," she said winking.

"Amemoyo if I weren't the reincarnated son of Mia would I be sentenced to death?" he asked politely.

"I believe not, I love you and this is not from you being Mia's reincarnated son. You are one of the most kind and innocent mermaids I know and I would protect you from fates, which are not meant to be. You being Mia's reincarnated son just gave me more of a reason not to sentence you to death. I have sentenced many to death but they were things, which should never have happened," she smiled at him wholeheartedly "if you were older and if were possible I would marry you," she said winking once again and her remark caused Yuugi's face to turn red. He muttered goodbye and swam out the door.

Amemoyo smiled as she watched him swim out the exit.

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Yami sat by the edge of the lake and looked at the glittering surface, it was about at hour before dawn. His heart leap, as he saw the surface of the water break and his angelic mermaid emerged. He looked at beautiful, possibly even more so from the first time be saw him. Yuugi looked round the edges of the lake till he saw him, Yami. He looked out to him and swam over.

When he reached the edge he immediately looked away from Yami and clutched the dagger that was held round his neck with a chain tightly, a thought had emerged into his mind. He couldn't ask him, to ask someone to choose weather thy lived or not because of the love they held for someone, it felt wrong to him. Yami looked at him and using his hand he turned Yuugi's face to face him. His lips met his and he gave him a gentle kiss. He slipped into the clear waters beside him, as the water soaked his clothes he pulled his angelic mermaid into an embrace.

"I know what you wish to ask of me and the answer is yes, I will die for you, for our happiness," he whispered in his ear.

"I can't…" he whispered "I can't ask you for death it just feels so wrong to me."

Yami let a warm smile escape his lips "I want this for us Yuugi, I would die for you. My mother would never had sacrificed herself if she knew everything would be fine," his words were gentle; Yuugi looked up at him and sighed.

'So that's what Amemoyo meant by sacrifice, it was his mother. She must have loved him so much to sacrifice herself this way, I guess Amemoyo was right saying the dagger was part of my destiny I am supposed to die,' Yuugi thought to himself.

"Tell me," Yuugi asked him "how are we to die?" he parted from the embrace, which Yami held him in. He watched him, soaked to the skin in the cool water, the smile, which he bared, warmed up his heart. Though he quickly looked away, he couldn't believe how he could have asked such a question.

He felt Yami's hands grasp his arms and push him till he was lay upon the ground beside the lake. He watched as Yami crawled till he was facing him. His body dripped with water, he bent down and captured Yuugi's lips with his own. While he did so he moved his hand to hold the dagger around Yuugi's neck. He held it tightly and picking it up, he stabbed it quickly into Yuugi's heart with one quick thrust. Yuugi gasped as blood poured from the stab wound, it trickled down the sides of his body and stained the ground.

Yami pulled the dagger out and smiled, he kissed his temple before taking the dagger out from Yuugi's heart. The blood soaked dagger dripped with his lover's blood taking one look at it he then plunged it into his heart. He watched his lover's eyes close as he died. As the blood dripped from the wound he fell to his side beside Yuugi. He felt no pain from the wound; his mother's sacrifice must have prevented it. Though as the blood oozed out the wound his sight began to cloud over and soon he fell into darkness.

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He arrived home at the precise time he had intended to. Though given to some reasons unforeseen to him his son's to-be-wife had fallen ill and died before he had started his journey to return home. He walked into the palace and noticed how quiet it had been. He watched as a servant came to him and told him the news of his wife. He was told how she had committed suicide with the dagger, which she wore around her neck.

He felt grief stricken by the news; he may not have loved her before and was pushed into this marriage with her, but as time grew his love for her grew. He couldn't believe such a thing had happened.

His own son was reported to have run away, which he knew was possible for he like his won father had pushed him into a arranged marriage. He cursed himself for doing such a thing, though he knew it was too late to be sorry. Everything he had loved had fallen apart, except for his country, everything had gone, and he knew he was the only one to blame.

He tossed the thought of worry from his mind and said that it was two less people for him to care about. It was only his country that mattered; all they did was defy him. His country would never do that to him. He told the servants who had preserved his wife's body to burn it and scatter the ashes so he could get on with ruling.

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Amemoyo watched the two figures with a sigh from the edge of the lake. She had wished wholeheartedly at that point, that such laws between mermaids and humans didn't exist, also that she didn't have to be leader. Life was hard for her and she knew people took her job for granted though he, Yuugi never did. He respected her and honoured her so devotedly that others were envious. She watched him and his lover both who were both dead with the sapphire dagger of Mia. She had never seen his lover, so she gasped when she saw who it was. It was the prince who had protected their lake at one point. She smiled; Yuugi could never have fallen in love with a better human in her mind.

She called her guards including May and asked them to prepare a scared ceremony for them both. She believed that as he was the reincarnated son of Mia he and his lover should have the privilege. Also she knew that after the ceremony the other inhabitants would need to know that Yuugi was Mia's reincarnated son.

To her there was so much more she could have done and said to Yuugi, and though she wished to break down in tears at that specific moment, she knew she would have to be strong, she would shed a tear.

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Chapter 6 done just one more bit to go and then it is done, that bit is just a finish so everything wraps up so that will be kinda short or really short ^^;

Dude this is like ten pages long in word *faints* longest chapter fwee~

Sorry that it's so late I am so busy doing homework.