Yami: Unseeing Eyes

"For the past, and the future!"

"Your words have no relevance. You will all be destroyed, one by one!" Megami yelled, unleashing a bolt of purple lightning, which struck the group of four. Their screams echoed off of the unseen walls of the dark realm. When the attack let up, all of them fell to their hands and knees, gasping for breath. Yami looked down at the floor, with a scared look on his face; he had never lost before, but before he had had the full power of the Millennium Puzzle, and he had been immortal. Now, he was no more immortal than his young aibou.

The Millennium Puzzle was hanging below his head as he knelt on the ground. His eyes were staring straight down at it. He noticed that on it's now- dulled surface, there were small patches where the gold had been stained a reddish colour. The few patches glistened and shone with the light the once belonged to the Puzzle itself. Slowly, Yami put up one hand, and in curiosity, touched one of the glimmering spots. It gave of a small burst of dark light, then faded. Stunned, Yami realised that these shining, magical patches were where his own blood had dripped down his face in long streams, and onto the top of the Puzzle, after the first attempt on his life. It was his own blood, and Yugi's, as they were the same, that now shone with the powerful magic once held by the Millennium Puzzle. The power had been transferred from the golden object into the very bodies of it's inhabitant and solver. Yami stood up, and held his arm before his face. Tight white- but-slightly-reddened bandages were wrapped around it; this was where he had made the few cuts after Yugi had disappeared, to punish himself. He quickly ripped off the bandages, and looked at the healing wounds. Yugi stood next to him, eyes wide in curiosity. Yami put his other hand up to the wounded arm, and pulled his fingernails across the semi-healed scratches. "Yami, what did you do that for!?" asked Yugi in shock. "To prove something to myself." Yami answered. A small trickle of blood fell down his arm. Without warning, Yami grabbed Yugi's left arm, and pulled it up to examine it. Yugi didn't resist, although he was puzzled.

Sure enough, a trickle of blood was making it's way down his arm, identical to Yami's. It rolled to his elbow, then slipped off the side, and fell, still identical to Yami's. The two drops seemed to pause in mid-air, as they let off a huge burst of the darkened light. Megami raised her arms to to shield her eyes. Yugi and Yami stared at each other in disbelief. Ryou and Bakura were looking to their own dulled items.

"Yugi, the magic of the Puzzle is in us! It left the Puzzle long ago! It runs through our blood!" Yami exclaimed, excitedly. "So... the Puzzle is useless?" said Yugi. "No, it's not useless. I realise now; the Puzzle, all of the Items were just a focus for our own magic. That's how I came to be with you; the Puzzle went to the person with the right kind of magic, the same as my own. The Puzzle itself is not magical. You're magical Yugi, and so am I. So are Ryou and Bakura, and Malik, and Pegasus (was) and Ishizu, and Shadi, and... well, whoever has an Item!"

Bakura had carefully made a scratch in his own arm. Blood fell down it, as it did for Ryou. "Our Magic, our destiny!" he smiled. "There, we know we can defeat Megami!" the pair said together happily. "I doubt it!" shouted Megami. She launched a spear of purple lightning towards Yami and Yugi. It split in two, each spear headed directly for one of their hearts. Yami and Yugi stepped back, and froze in fear.

/Looks like it's the end.../

//Yugi... aishiteru. Aishiteru eien.//

/Aishiteru.../

The bolts struck...