Silver Lily: *scratches head* Hmm... 5 reviews, apparently people like yaoi
fics more than anything else.
Yami Yugi: You could pair up Bakura and Ryou.
Bakura: Don't you give her any suggestions!!!
Jade: No, that's actually a good idea. Or maybe Joey and Kaiba.
Silver Lily: Kaiba might be tempted to kill me, but I think it's worth a shot. Let's see if any of the reviewers might like that!!
Joey: *groans* So many fanfics....
Silver Lily: Oh well, on with the fic.
Kindred
Everyone had quite blank stares on their faces. Except for maybe Ryou, most of them weren't used to violence of that sort. Tranquility was still fuming, wanting to kill Seto Kaiba if he was a reincarnation or not.
The gang left shortly afterwards, mumbling their good-byes' and half- hearted merry Christmas's as they stumbled out the door. Lily was still upset by the whole incident, and slightly embarrassed by her darker half. She stayed on the floor, gazing off into space. Why couldn't her yami let things go? Why did she have to get revenge by killing?
Yami sat down in front of the little golden girl and crossed his legs. He looked at her lost gaze to see if he could find her. "Where are you?"
Her golden-amber eyes focused slightly, still starring fixedly at something he could not see. "Somewhere, where no body wants to kill each other."
"Tranquility didn't mean to scare you, you know."
Lily shivered from an invisible chill. Something was bothering her. It was more than what she was letting on, too.
"Tell me what's wrong, little one."
Lily sighed, golden strands falling from behind her ears. "I know that all yamis have shadow powers. I've seen them at work. And I also know that they are supposed to use them to protect their hikaris." She paused, hands reaching up to hold on to her head. She shook it, trying to forget a surfacing memory.
"Lily," Yami pressed.
"I was being stalked home one night. Some drunk guy that just lost his job, I think. She, she was so mad at him. He took a .22 out of his coat and threatened me with it. Yami, she used her shadow powers on him that night. A.. after I saw what she did, I made her promise to never use them again." She squeezed her eyes closed trying to not see an image that was burned into her mind forever
"Why would you make her do that?"
"I know that you have the ability to crush minds, leaving their body a shallow shell, wandering the earth with no purpose. And I know that Bakura can send sprits to the shadow realm. But, my yami, she sends the body and the soul of her victim into eternal torment, forcing them into a self- contained hell. Their bodies burn without actually burning, allowing it to last forever. Even if their body perished, their soul with continue to thrive in torture, and it's irreversible." Her eyes were still clenched shut. "The look on the man's face, I'll never forget it. Even he couldn't deserve that. No one could. So I made her promise to never do it again, ever. She almost broke her promise today." Salty tears strode down her glittery cheeks.
Ah, so _that's_ how Tranquility was burning his hands. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and gave a comforting squeeze. "Remember, you're not alone. We'll all work to help Tranquility. She's had a hard life. But me and Yugi will be there for the both of you, I promise."
She sniffed back her clogging nasal passages. "Thank you, Yami. That means a lot."
Lily's body stiffened when she heard her darker-half screaming from the bedroom.
"Pharaoh!!! You'd better have a good way to deal with this the second time around!!!" She stormed into the living room, startling Yugi from his nap on the couch.
"Yami, what's wrong," Lily asked.
Tranquility's eyes had turned from their vivid blue to a fiery silver. Oh, she was _really_ made right now.
"Yu Gi Oh, I want you to listen to me very, very carefully." She stopped to make sure he was listening. He looked up at her, waiting for her to continue. "I can only keep a solid form for a maximum of three days. Got that? Three. After that, I will immediately revert to a transparent state, then fade into the pendent."
"Okay.." He really didn't see why this was much of a problem.
"Now, I told you that last night was a bad idea, didn't I?"
"Yes..." He suddenly had a lump in his throat that he couldn't swallow.
"I just tried to return to my pendent for some much-needed rest, but found that something was holding me back. Do you know what that something was?"
Should he venture a guess? She might kill him either way. "Noooo,"
She scowled. Advancing on him, she grabbed his hand and held it to her stomach. "You've got powers, use them. Find out what else there is in there." Already having a better guess than he'd like, Yami complied any ways
He forced his unwilling, whirling head into concentration, feeling with his mind what it was she wanted him to look for. Just her life force was all he could feel. Silvery and strong, with a lot of warmth that was usually hidden. No, wait, something to the left. There, yes, there it was. Something so small, so tiny, with the tiniest blue aura something could have. Something that was a part of her, and yet something entirely separate. "Dear Ra."
He opened his eyes and looked at her. "You can't be," he stated in disbelief.
"Oh, I am. You managed to screw things up once again, haven't you Yu Gi Oh?"
"What is it?" Yugi interjected.
"I can't keep a solid form! What am I going to do? It's going to die!! Another child of mine is going to die!!!!" Her voice rose with each word she spoke, something now that was nothing short of a choking scream.. She collapsed onto the floor next to the coffee table. She couldn't take this again. She couldn't. What was she to do? The pharaoh wouldn't have any ideas. It was going to die. When she reverted back to a gaseous state, it would die, with no living mother to give it nourishment.
Lily looked tentative. "Yami," she began, "can you give it to someone else?" Tranquility shook her dark purple head, vivid crimson dancing along in the reflected light. "The person would have to be like me, aibou, or it will turn into a miscarriage."
Lily bit her bottom lip. She had to. There was no doubt in her mind that she had to. If the situation were reversed, Tranquility would do it for her. "Let me take it, Yami. Let me take the baby."
Tranquility snapped her head up to look at Lily. "No, aibou. I will not subject you to the pains of child birth. Out of the question."
"Yami, please, let me do this for you. I'm the only one that can. Please," Lily moved closer to Tranquility, and put a hand on her arm. "Let me do this for you." Her voice now only a whisper.
The dark woman looked to Yugi and Yami, still needing a bit more encouragement.
Yugi nodded with his approval. "We'll be with you every step of the way."
She sighed submissively. "If you insist, aibou." Slowly, she moved up to her knees, and placed Lily directly in front of her. "Don't move." Lily nodded.
Slowly, Tranquility held her hands in front of her lower abdomen, chanting softly. The color on her hands began to fade, until it was nothing but a transparent impression of what was once there. Her fingers moved slightly, then reached inside of herself. Lily eyes widened. Weird.
After it seemed like they would never stop going in, they came back out again, holding a tiny blue ball of light. She held it close, then opened her hands up, allowing the glowing orb to float above her hands. Sluggishly it drifted its way over to Lily, finally retreating inside to it's new home. Lily started go glow a golden color as the transfer completed itself.
She wrapped her arms around her waist and leaned against the couch, not saying much of anything.
Tranquility opened her eyes. Lily vaguely registered the hug she was given, and felt a warm presence back inside of her pendent. Yugi joined her on the floor and held her close.
"Everything will be okay, I promise."
"It's funny how our yamis always seem to make our lives that much more interesting, isn't it?" She asked.
Yugi laughed softly. "You can say that again."
- - - - - -
Yami decided to follow Tranquility into her soul room. Unlike the puzzle, there were no magical restrictions on the ruby pendent.
Her door was slightly opened, so he just walked in. "Tranquility?" It was dark inside. Very dark. The ebony walls and floor were lined in fine threads of silver, and he couldn't see the ceiling. He couldn't see her. "Tranquility," he called again.
"What do you want this time, your majesty." She sneered. Her voice bounded off of the cold walls, magnifying her angry tone to a painful level.
"Tranquility, please, you know I didn't anticipate this."
He gasped as she appeared next to him. "'Didn't anticipate on this'", she mocked him. "My life was just fine until you came into it. Before I was betrothed to you, I was going to go and explore the world. I wanted to taste the spices of China and see the Alps. I wanted to see a new-world and be the first to discover a new land. Then you came along, so I thought, 'okay, that wasn't to work, so I'll just settle for a nice family.'" She was stumbling over her words, spilling them out faster than her mouth could pronounce them.
"But, but then you had to go, leaving me to die. And now my hikari will have a child, all because of you!!!" A few tears fell down her cheek. She pounded on his chest, too tired to put any force behind it. "Why did you have to ruin my life, why?" Her sobs filled the emptiness of her dark retreat. The first time Yami had ever, _ever_ seen her cry.
He pulled her into his strong embrace, allowing five thousands years of tears to fall to his shoulders. She collapsed into him, soaking his navy blue shirt. Her sobs echoed off of the unforgiving walls, filling the entire area with the sounds of grief.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for every thing. If I could go back and change something to make it better, I would." He nuzzled the hollow of her neck to comfort her. "But, in a way, I'm glad that we're here, just as we are right now. We have our hikaris, and they have us. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't give up Yugi for the world."
She shook her head in agreement, still shaking in his arms. She remembered when she first met Lily. She was rummaging through some of her mothers stuff one day, and happened to stumble across an unopened birthday gift. Curiosity getting the better of her, she snuck it into her room and opened it. Tears filled her eyes as she remembered that she and her father had found the pendent at a second hand shop somewhere in the corner of town. Tranquility could feel her tears falling onto the ruby and felt compelled to come out and investigate this new world that she was in, and the distress of this small person that awakened her. One look at Lily and she new that she could never leave her. Tranquility would be too needed by her.
Yami picked up Tranquility and brought her over to a double bed with gray sheets and laid her down. Joining her, he kept her close to him, and let her fall into a much needed sleep.
Silver Lily: Wahh!!!! So short !!!
Jade: What the hell was that? Why did you stop??!!!
Silver Lily: Writers block!!! Wahh!!!!
Yugi: I'm sure that reviews would cure that.
Yami Yugi: Don't _encourage_ people to read this nonsense, aibou. You'll only make it worse!!!
Yugi: But I like it, Yami!!!
Yami Yugi: Oh, no, She's snagged another one!!!! GAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Jade: *snickers* Keep up the good work, aibou!
Kaiba: (glares) No. I. Won't.
Silver Lily: Do it, Kaiba.
Kaiba: No!
Silver Lily: *sighs* well, if you insist.. *whips out a pencil to do something sinister to him*
Kaiba: Fine!!! Ahem.. Silver Lily does not own Yu Gi Oh, or anything that falls under the copyright laws of Sony, Nintendo, Playstation, or the initial creator. There, happy?
Silver Lily: Much better!!! R&R!!!
Yami Yugi: You could pair up Bakura and Ryou.
Bakura: Don't you give her any suggestions!!!
Jade: No, that's actually a good idea. Or maybe Joey and Kaiba.
Silver Lily: Kaiba might be tempted to kill me, but I think it's worth a shot. Let's see if any of the reviewers might like that!!
Joey: *groans* So many fanfics....
Silver Lily: Oh well, on with the fic.
Kindred
Everyone had quite blank stares on their faces. Except for maybe Ryou, most of them weren't used to violence of that sort. Tranquility was still fuming, wanting to kill Seto Kaiba if he was a reincarnation or not.
The gang left shortly afterwards, mumbling their good-byes' and half- hearted merry Christmas's as they stumbled out the door. Lily was still upset by the whole incident, and slightly embarrassed by her darker half. She stayed on the floor, gazing off into space. Why couldn't her yami let things go? Why did she have to get revenge by killing?
Yami sat down in front of the little golden girl and crossed his legs. He looked at her lost gaze to see if he could find her. "Where are you?"
Her golden-amber eyes focused slightly, still starring fixedly at something he could not see. "Somewhere, where no body wants to kill each other."
"Tranquility didn't mean to scare you, you know."
Lily shivered from an invisible chill. Something was bothering her. It was more than what she was letting on, too.
"Tell me what's wrong, little one."
Lily sighed, golden strands falling from behind her ears. "I know that all yamis have shadow powers. I've seen them at work. And I also know that they are supposed to use them to protect their hikaris." She paused, hands reaching up to hold on to her head. She shook it, trying to forget a surfacing memory.
"Lily," Yami pressed.
"I was being stalked home one night. Some drunk guy that just lost his job, I think. She, she was so mad at him. He took a .22 out of his coat and threatened me with it. Yami, she used her shadow powers on him that night. A.. after I saw what she did, I made her promise to never use them again." She squeezed her eyes closed trying to not see an image that was burned into her mind forever
"Why would you make her do that?"
"I know that you have the ability to crush minds, leaving their body a shallow shell, wandering the earth with no purpose. And I know that Bakura can send sprits to the shadow realm. But, my yami, she sends the body and the soul of her victim into eternal torment, forcing them into a self- contained hell. Their bodies burn without actually burning, allowing it to last forever. Even if their body perished, their soul with continue to thrive in torture, and it's irreversible." Her eyes were still clenched shut. "The look on the man's face, I'll never forget it. Even he couldn't deserve that. No one could. So I made her promise to never do it again, ever. She almost broke her promise today." Salty tears strode down her glittery cheeks.
Ah, so _that's_ how Tranquility was burning his hands. He wrapped his arms around her shoulders and gave a comforting squeeze. "Remember, you're not alone. We'll all work to help Tranquility. She's had a hard life. But me and Yugi will be there for the both of you, I promise."
She sniffed back her clogging nasal passages. "Thank you, Yami. That means a lot."
Lily's body stiffened when she heard her darker-half screaming from the bedroom.
"Pharaoh!!! You'd better have a good way to deal with this the second time around!!!" She stormed into the living room, startling Yugi from his nap on the couch.
"Yami, what's wrong," Lily asked.
Tranquility's eyes had turned from their vivid blue to a fiery silver. Oh, she was _really_ made right now.
"Yu Gi Oh, I want you to listen to me very, very carefully." She stopped to make sure he was listening. He looked up at her, waiting for her to continue. "I can only keep a solid form for a maximum of three days. Got that? Three. After that, I will immediately revert to a transparent state, then fade into the pendent."
"Okay.." He really didn't see why this was much of a problem.
"Now, I told you that last night was a bad idea, didn't I?"
"Yes..." He suddenly had a lump in his throat that he couldn't swallow.
"I just tried to return to my pendent for some much-needed rest, but found that something was holding me back. Do you know what that something was?"
Should he venture a guess? She might kill him either way. "Noooo,"
She scowled. Advancing on him, she grabbed his hand and held it to her stomach. "You've got powers, use them. Find out what else there is in there." Already having a better guess than he'd like, Yami complied any ways
He forced his unwilling, whirling head into concentration, feeling with his mind what it was she wanted him to look for. Just her life force was all he could feel. Silvery and strong, with a lot of warmth that was usually hidden. No, wait, something to the left. There, yes, there it was. Something so small, so tiny, with the tiniest blue aura something could have. Something that was a part of her, and yet something entirely separate. "Dear Ra."
He opened his eyes and looked at her. "You can't be," he stated in disbelief.
"Oh, I am. You managed to screw things up once again, haven't you Yu Gi Oh?"
"What is it?" Yugi interjected.
"I can't keep a solid form! What am I going to do? It's going to die!! Another child of mine is going to die!!!!" Her voice rose with each word she spoke, something now that was nothing short of a choking scream.. She collapsed onto the floor next to the coffee table. She couldn't take this again. She couldn't. What was she to do? The pharaoh wouldn't have any ideas. It was going to die. When she reverted back to a gaseous state, it would die, with no living mother to give it nourishment.
Lily looked tentative. "Yami," she began, "can you give it to someone else?" Tranquility shook her dark purple head, vivid crimson dancing along in the reflected light. "The person would have to be like me, aibou, or it will turn into a miscarriage."
Lily bit her bottom lip. She had to. There was no doubt in her mind that she had to. If the situation were reversed, Tranquility would do it for her. "Let me take it, Yami. Let me take the baby."
Tranquility snapped her head up to look at Lily. "No, aibou. I will not subject you to the pains of child birth. Out of the question."
"Yami, please, let me do this for you. I'm the only one that can. Please," Lily moved closer to Tranquility, and put a hand on her arm. "Let me do this for you." Her voice now only a whisper.
The dark woman looked to Yugi and Yami, still needing a bit more encouragement.
Yugi nodded with his approval. "We'll be with you every step of the way."
She sighed submissively. "If you insist, aibou." Slowly, she moved up to her knees, and placed Lily directly in front of her. "Don't move." Lily nodded.
Slowly, Tranquility held her hands in front of her lower abdomen, chanting softly. The color on her hands began to fade, until it was nothing but a transparent impression of what was once there. Her fingers moved slightly, then reached inside of herself. Lily eyes widened. Weird.
After it seemed like they would never stop going in, they came back out again, holding a tiny blue ball of light. She held it close, then opened her hands up, allowing the glowing orb to float above her hands. Sluggishly it drifted its way over to Lily, finally retreating inside to it's new home. Lily started go glow a golden color as the transfer completed itself.
She wrapped her arms around her waist and leaned against the couch, not saying much of anything.
Tranquility opened her eyes. Lily vaguely registered the hug she was given, and felt a warm presence back inside of her pendent. Yugi joined her on the floor and held her close.
"Everything will be okay, I promise."
"It's funny how our yamis always seem to make our lives that much more interesting, isn't it?" She asked.
Yugi laughed softly. "You can say that again."
- - - - - -
Yami decided to follow Tranquility into her soul room. Unlike the puzzle, there were no magical restrictions on the ruby pendent.
Her door was slightly opened, so he just walked in. "Tranquility?" It was dark inside. Very dark. The ebony walls and floor were lined in fine threads of silver, and he couldn't see the ceiling. He couldn't see her. "Tranquility," he called again.
"What do you want this time, your majesty." She sneered. Her voice bounded off of the cold walls, magnifying her angry tone to a painful level.
"Tranquility, please, you know I didn't anticipate this."
He gasped as she appeared next to him. "'Didn't anticipate on this'", she mocked him. "My life was just fine until you came into it. Before I was betrothed to you, I was going to go and explore the world. I wanted to taste the spices of China and see the Alps. I wanted to see a new-world and be the first to discover a new land. Then you came along, so I thought, 'okay, that wasn't to work, so I'll just settle for a nice family.'" She was stumbling over her words, spilling them out faster than her mouth could pronounce them.
"But, but then you had to go, leaving me to die. And now my hikari will have a child, all because of you!!!" A few tears fell down her cheek. She pounded on his chest, too tired to put any force behind it. "Why did you have to ruin my life, why?" Her sobs filled the emptiness of her dark retreat. The first time Yami had ever, _ever_ seen her cry.
He pulled her into his strong embrace, allowing five thousands years of tears to fall to his shoulders. She collapsed into him, soaking his navy blue shirt. Her sobs echoed off of the unforgiving walls, filling the entire area with the sounds of grief.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for every thing. If I could go back and change something to make it better, I would." He nuzzled the hollow of her neck to comfort her. "But, in a way, I'm glad that we're here, just as we are right now. We have our hikaris, and they have us. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't give up Yugi for the world."
She shook her head in agreement, still shaking in his arms. She remembered when she first met Lily. She was rummaging through some of her mothers stuff one day, and happened to stumble across an unopened birthday gift. Curiosity getting the better of her, she snuck it into her room and opened it. Tears filled her eyes as she remembered that she and her father had found the pendent at a second hand shop somewhere in the corner of town. Tranquility could feel her tears falling onto the ruby and felt compelled to come out and investigate this new world that she was in, and the distress of this small person that awakened her. One look at Lily and she new that she could never leave her. Tranquility would be too needed by her.
Yami picked up Tranquility and brought her over to a double bed with gray sheets and laid her down. Joining her, he kept her close to him, and let her fall into a much needed sleep.
Silver Lily: Wahh!!!! So short !!!
Jade: What the hell was that? Why did you stop??!!!
Silver Lily: Writers block!!! Wahh!!!!
Yugi: I'm sure that reviews would cure that.
Yami Yugi: Don't _encourage_ people to read this nonsense, aibou. You'll only make it worse!!!
Yugi: But I like it, Yami!!!
Yami Yugi: Oh, no, She's snagged another one!!!! GAAAAHHHHH!!!!!
Jade: *snickers* Keep up the good work, aibou!
Kaiba: (glares) No. I. Won't.
Silver Lily: Do it, Kaiba.
Kaiba: No!
Silver Lily: *sighs* well, if you insist.. *whips out a pencil to do something sinister to him*
Kaiba: Fine!!! Ahem.. Silver Lily does not own Yu Gi Oh, or anything that falls under the copyright laws of Sony, Nintendo, Playstation, or the initial creator. There, happy?
Silver Lily: Much better!!! R&R!!!