Crystal Child -By Mosobot64

Act 1: Secret in the suffering Part 3: Attack in the Crystal Caverns

(Ryou was laying on the ground beside where Yugi was asleep. Joey and Tristian were snoring, and Teya had blankets wrapped around her just in case Joey woke up and did something perverted. Ryou had his white shirt off, (although he kept his other one on) and had his green shirt unbuttoned a bit, looking at the Millenium Ring. )

-Ryou: **Sigh** I wish I were free of the Ring's power..I want to be free again..

(Ryou looked at the sleeping Yugi longingly.)

-Ryou: Now more than ever.

(The Millenium Ring started glowing. He let go of the Ring, and felt it burn him..like being stabbed in the heart with a knife endless times..)

-Ryou: Oh, great..what could it be this time.

(His Yami came out in a ghostly form. He looked very angry.)

-Ryou: What is it this time?

-Yami Bakura: Your thought, your actions.you're being worse a slave than usual.

-Ryou: What is it? What did I do wrong?

-Yami Bakura: (Angrier) You should have pressed on!! But no, you had to dawdle and let everyone go to sleep! And now you've done something even worse for a slave!

-Ryou: I'm not your slave..and I've done nothing wrong!

-Yami Bakura: (Slaps him) DON'T CONTRIDICT ME YOU OVER-GROWN BABY!!! YOU'RE MY SLAVE SO ACT LIKE IT!!!!

(Ryou was frightened.tears starting to come over his eyes uncontrollably. )

-Ryou: Yami, what have I done wrong?

-Yami Bakura: Thinking about being free. Freedom isn't yours, and it never will truly be, so you might as well not think about it. And don't think about those foolish mortal "Friends" of yours, either.

-Ryou: Yes, Yami.

(Yami Bakura returned to the Ring. Ryou moped in despair. He missed his life, his freedom, his childhood.everything that gave any sort of happiness in this pointless life.)

-Ryou: Everything I do is worthless! All that happens in the end is my death, something we have feared since the beginning..

(And he realized.just how much he missed his mother.someone who had given him his happiness before she died. And then he heard this melodious voice.sounding like his mother who had helped them all those years ago.)

-Mother: Ryou....come to me....

-Ryou: Mother?!? Where are you!?!

-Mother: Follow my voice....

(Ryou ran throughout the cavern looking for his mother. When he finally stopped hearing her call, he didn't run into her, but something far worse than his worst nightmares..)

-Ryou: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

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(Yugi woke up from an ear-piercing scream he heard. Tristen was awake as well.)

-Tristen: Did you hear that?

-Yugi: Yeah, it sounded like Bakura!

-Tristen: I think he's in trouble. We'd better help him!

-Yugi: Right!

(Yugi and Tristen ran in the direction they heard Ryou's voice.)

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(Behind a stalactite in the cave, Yugi and Tristen saw the beast that held Ryou prisoner. It was armoured, with dark green and black plated armour, enamelled white. It was wearing a mask, with a grotesque screaming mouth engraved into it. It held Ryou by the the throat, when the beast, howling loudly, said these words: )

-Armoured Beast: ~~you are mine, Cryssstal Child...~~

-Tristen: I don't think so!

(Tristen charged into the beast. Letting go of Ryou, who fell on the ground gasping for breath, it screeched, and brought it sword to bear, plunging it into whatever it came it contact with. It ended up wounding Tristen's leg. )

-Yugi: Leave him alone, you filthy beast!

(Yugi, then charged, taking the beast by surprise. )

-Joey: Yeah, if you deal with one of us, you deal with us all!!

(Joey charged right after. Frightened by the numbers, it ran off screeching excrutiatingly.)

-Joey: And stay out!

-Yugi: Joey, why did you come?

-Joey: 'Cause SOMEONE couldn't help himself!

(Joey then glared at Ryou, who was still on the ground, panting.)

-Yugi: Joey, please it wasn't his fault.but how did you get here, Ryou, and whatever was that..thing.

-Ryou: I was lured here by my own emotions.as for what that thing was...I don't know.

-Joey: GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT!!

(Joey picked up Ryou and threw him on the stone floor. Ryou struggled, trying to get back up. Tristen was now unconscious.)

-Joey: You weakling! You can't even defend yourself, and 'cause of that, Tristen could very well die!

(Joey kicked Ryou in the stomach hard. He groaned, and then fell unconscious. )

-Yugi: Joey, you shouldn't have done that!

-Joey: Who cares? He was trouble, right from the start. And now, 'cause o' him, Tisten could die!

-Yugi: Still, that's no way to treat a loyal friend.

(Joey laughs, and then replies with these words: )

-Joey: Friend? The minute Tristen told me about the Millenium Ring, I knew he was our enemy! But, no offence, you're too naïve to see it! And now, he gotten his revenge over Tristen by seriously injuring him!

-Yugi: Joey..Bakura would never do such a thing..

(He looked down at the unconscious Ryou, laying on the ground.)

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Ooooohh.getting Angst!

-Ryou: Why did you hurt Tristen?

For my own reasons.

-Yami Bakura: Yeah, my idiotic Hikari.

Errr..right. Umm.I'm scaling it down to 50 parts, 5 for each act, (Which will be posted as if it were a separate story) so, sorry for the misinfo.

-Yami Bakura: 50 parts!?! AND YOU SAID THERE WERE 100!!

(Wahcks him with a frying pan) Grrr.when will you ever learn...