Origins
It was just an average day in Domino City, Yugi and his friends were walking down the street, joking. Little did they know a secret, hidden for fifteen years would be reviled.
"So, Yugi, are you busy tonight?" Joey asked. "Not really," Yugi replied."Why do you ask?" Joey stopped walking and said, "I have a big science project due tomorrow on
Astrology and I need your help with it. You know how much I suck at science." "Yeah" Yugi replied. When they finally reached the game shop Yugi opened the door. What he saw made him scream in horror.
The floor was covered in scarlet blood, and his grandfather's lifeless form was lying on the floor. There was a man, dressed all in black and holding a silver knife, and it was stained with blood.
"What have you done to him?" Yugi yelled at the man. "Isn't it obvious?" said the man in a menacing voice, "You all will soon be joining him." The pain Yugi felt about his grandfather's murder, and that the man was going to do the same to him was growing.
He felt the pain slowly ripping at his heart. Why? Why is he doing this? It's not fair! He thought to himself. He felt like the pain would destroy him. It was then that something within him snapped.
There was a blinding flash of golden light as the murderer dropped his knife in awe. As the light faded, Yugi looked and felt very different. His hair had changed from the normal three colors to a bright gold. His eyes from violet to a calm green, as if they were the eye of the raging storm of sorrow and anger. There was a strange aura around him, an aura of sheer spiritual power. What's happened to me? He wondered to himself. This has never happened to me before. The murderer tried to run away, but almost instinctively Yugi ran after him at breakneck speed. The murderer found himself trapped in the alleyway with nowhere to run. Yugi drew back and punched the murderer with such power that the man flew through the wall. The man had suffered instant death. Suddenly Yugi's power faded. He fainted for the power had overwhelmed him.
It was about three hours when he was found and brought back home.
"Wha....What happened?" He asked when he finally woke up. "You passed out. We found you in an alleyway." Tea replied. "Is Grandpa all right?" Yugi asked groggily. "We came back and he was still alive, but just barely. They rushed him to the hospital. He might not make it, but there's a chance he will." replied Tea. "Let's just hope for the best." Yugi got up from the bed. He felt something rub against his back, something furry. "Ahhh!" He yelled as he reached up the back of his shirt and grabbed the culprit. What he found kind of surprised. He found what looked like a monkey tail. "What the..OW!" He yelled as he tried to yank on it. It was quite painful when he pulled it. He screamed, for he discovered he had a tail. "AAAAAACCCCCKKKKKK! WHAT THE CRAP IS GOING ON HERE?!?" He said when he realized this was his tail. "Oh, man! My best friend has a tail!" Joey said. "This is like the Sci Fi channel or something!" Yugi replied in a not-so-calm matter. "First that little power thingy, now the tail?! What's going on here?!"
It was about three months later. Grandpa had survived the attack and was back home. "Yugi?" He said when he came home from the store."Yeah?" Yugi replied. "I have something to tell you." Grandpa requested. "I'm listening." Yugi said as he sat down in his armchair. "I've been waiting for the right time to tell you why that happened three months ago. When you were born, you were, well, let me put it this way, you weren't normal. Your father was a strong man, but he just disappeared, leaving you with your mother, who left you with me when she died of a virus that attacks the heart. She never got the name of the man, but she remembered what she looked like. He was quite tall, and had black hair.
. She remembered that she had a tail, much like the one you have. He was the son of a famous tournament fighter named Goku. He looked just like his father. said he would be back one day, but when he returned she was gone. I still have the obituary, for it is the only picture I still have of my little girl." He pulled out a piece of newspaper. It was yellowed with age, and the date read 1990. The names on the list were :
Cecilia Pegasus
Goku Toriyama
Nami Sensei
Hikari Motou
The picture was of a beautiful woman, a bit short for her beauty. Her hair was bright crimson red. "This is my mother?" Yugi asked. "Yes. She died when you were just three years old. She told me to take very good care of you just before she died. She loved you very much." Tears came from his eyes as he told his grandson the rest of the tale. "It seems like only yesterday that I held my little girl in my arms. I was devastated when she left. You remind me so much of her. Kind, silent, a bit shy, and very confident, and you have the same eyes.," he said as even more tears streamed from his eyes. "Grandpa?"
"Yes?" he replied. "Can I have the picture of my mother?" He asked. "Yes you may."
"Thanks." Yugi said as he went up into his room. He turned on the radio and just stared at his mother's picture. Just then, as if by fate, one of Yugi's favorite songs called "Through Her Eyes". He sang along with it, for it reminded him of his mother.
"She never really had a chance
On that fateful moonlit night
Sacrificed without a fight
A victim of her circumstance
Now that I've become aware
And I've exposed this tragedy
Sadness grows inside of me
It all seems so unfair
I'm learning all about my life
By looking through her eyes
Just beyond the churchyard gate
Where the grass is overgrown
I saw the writing on her stone
I felt like I would suffocate
In loving memory of our child
So innocent, eyes open wide
I felt so empty as I cried
Like part of me had died
I'm learning all about my life
By looking trough her eyes
And as her image
Wandered through my head
I wept just like a baby
As I lay awake in bed
And I know what it's like
To lose someone you love
And this felt just the same
She wasn't given any choice
Desperation stole her voice
I've been given so much more in life
I've got a son; I've got a wife
I had to suffer one last time
To grieve for her and say goodbye
Relive the anguish of my past
And find out who I was at last
The door has opened wide
I'm turning with the tide
Looking through her eyes"
He turned off the radio, lay on his bed and cried. There had been so much he had learned about himself that night, maybe more than he ever knew before. He opened the window and looked out as a gentle wind blew through his hair. He smiled, and with teary eyes, said,
"Good night, mother. I'm glad that I finally got to meet you." He closed the window, and could have swore he heard a voice that told him "My son..." It was soft and gentle, just like the wind he felt when he opened the window. "Mother..." He whispered to the silent enigma that he felt around him. He lied down on his bed and slept, dreaming about his late mother, and who might be his father.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh, the sayin race, and the song "Through Her Eyes belongs to my favorite group, Dream Theater. All I own is my own ideas."