Ni- two

_-sama- pertaining to someone ranking higher

Iya- no

Gomen(asai)-sorry

Feeling the Fates

Ni [The Task and Plan]

By Hirame

                   In a matter of seconds, they appeared inside an enormous enclosed room that stretched about 25 feet high. Being made of thick concrete that has been magically tainted to prevent its' destruction by either outside forces or time itself, there was none to little chance of light seeping through for illumination or even for small bugs or insects to crawl inside and live. The air proved to be musky, thick and unused.

                   But despite its physical architecting, the surface inside was grand. Gold sheets, sculpted to have small but visible ancient messages and arts, layered high, towering walls. Some may have recent Egyptian history written in it to commemorate the also recent interest of the new underworld ruler, Pegasus. Straining one's eye, there can be more to the surroundings inside the darkness of the chamber. However, people do not go there to tour for two reasons. One, only high demon officials get the power and permission to teleport inside since there was no entrance and two, the huge aesthetic chamber was only used as a passage way. Not for appreciation purposes.

                   The room was wide, yes, but it is also lengthy, following a straight course in the middle bordered by large ivory pillars to a large door. As everything was dark, the only path that was lighted for guidance was the long red velvet carpet leading to our two protagonist's destination.

The Main Cell.

"Whaaaaaa!!! ^___________^" Yugi stretched his arms, his mild voice echoing through the whole room.

Ryou merely blinked and looked at him, nose wrinkling in response to their arrival.

"ACHOO!" the white haired bishie sniffled once and brought his silver cloaking to cover his mouth for a while. "Is it me or did it just become chilly in here?"

"Ryou, we are… um… who-knows-where (A/N: ---_______---;;;) and since the heat can't penetrate, then it is unquestionably very cold here… ACHOO!! _.

"*sigh* Come on. Looks like I'm affecting you too and I know you are not the type who notices temperature changes."

"*sniff* Yeah. You're sensitive though, Ryou. I think I *am* catching your cold." Ryou pouted.

"I just sneezed, Yugi. And I don't get sick and neither do you so stop whining."

"Meanie."

"Quick! We are so dead!"

"Hey! Ow! Let go! ;_;"

                   Ryou grabbed his arm and teleported the both of them in front of the door. Upon closer inspection, it wasn't really a door. The entrance was actually alive and currently staring down at them with its crimson eyes. Crimson because the blood of the lost souls kept on running down from it endlessly.

"Good day, Diablos." Ryou curtly greeted the hazy black entity that serves as the entrance. The Soul Sucker peered down at them, its mouth forming a grim smile.

"Ahh… Lords Ryou and Yugi… late as usual? …Do enter…the other Lords and Generals are waiting inside…" The voice was low and hoarse but it hissed smoothly like a serpent.

"My bad, D." Yugi blushed in embarrassment as the almost ghostly figure of a door smiled and became liquid of texture, allowing them to pass. Only the cheery demon ever dared to give the Soul Sucker a nickname for fun and in return, the undead creature didn't mind at all, taking a liking to the two boys.

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"Dammit! They're late! AGAIN!!"

                   The infuriated voice boomed for everyone to hear along with a banging of the table as the angry one stood and paced the room impatiently, long maroon layered robes sweeping the marble floor

"Bakura, sit down, stop shouting and shut up. You're making me dizzy and that's no way to talk to our superiors despite their age." A colder voice spoke up. Narrowed brown eyes glared back at clear hardened blue.

"Don't you dare tell me what to do, Kaiba. You know as well as I do that this meeting is important! Besides-, Bakura sat down heavily and slumped back on his chair for the nth time while giving the stoic brown haired man a defeated look, " don't you get tired of them being late ALL the time??" Kaiba remained silent for a while before giving his own worried sigh.

"Don't mind it so much, Bakura. It's not like something has happened to them. After all, they have higher ranking than us. Remember that."

"I'm not worried!"

"Both of you settle down. Actually, they are not late at all." This time, it was Pegasus who spoke up. Bakura's eyebrows scrunched up in confusion.

"But my Lord, the meeting was scheduled 30 minutes ago."

"Hm? Oh yes. That. Well, I expected them to be late again anyway so I told everyone to meet 30 minutes earlier."

"So…"

"So that way, they'll only be 5-10 minutes late at the most." Pegasus nonchalantly drawled as he took the papers in his hand and skimmed thru it.

"And speaking of the devil…" Kaiba immediately stood up and was followed by Bakura; Pegasus merely waiting.

                   At the entrance, two bodies of black and white emerged. The brown-haired and brown-eyed demons as well as the others bowed their heads in a quick nod of respect, blush-free, as everyone does to a higher-ranking demon in their realm. For their part, Yugi and Ryou paid their respects to Pegasus in the same way Kaiba and Bakura did.

"Yugi-sama. Ryou-sama." Kaiba paused, thinking if he even had the right to say what he wanted to say. "You're late."

Yugi blinked cutely and clapped his hands together under the black silk cloth covering his arms, smiling a little and winking his right eye.

" Sorry, Seto. It was my fault. Ryou said he searched for me for half an hour."

"I-Iya… I didn't mean to reprimand you or anything…"

" Hm?" Yugi tilted his head slightly, still looking at him, which earned Kaiba a pink tinge on his cheek for a second. However, Pegasus immediately noticed this and grimaced silently, cutting off the conversation.

"Yugi, Ryou. Take your seats so we can start." He said almost sweetly which the older twin knew was completely directed to his brother. Ryou rolled his eyes when he was sure his face was out of sight.

"Oh, and Ryou."

Eep.

"Don't do that again."

"E-eto, gomenasai. It won't happen again." Ryou sweatdropped. Damn that all-seeing left eye of his! _

"You are pardoned.", was the only reply before the man turned back to whatever he was reading. Ryou knew Pegasus couldn't hurt him anyway. First, his powers along with his twin still cannot be scaled so it's dangerous and the second reason was obvious.

He was Yugi's beloved *twin* brother. He wouldn't dare.

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Pegasus cleared his throat, catching the attention of all the people inside, including some rarely invited leaders and a couple of rich demon nobles.

"The reason why I summoned you all today is that I, along with the Circle of Council have reached a decision, which might change the course of this war…" he trailed off but before he could continue, Bakura stood up and excused himself.

"What is it?"

"Pegasus-sama, excuse me while I receive an important message from one of my men supervising the battle ground."

"Is it grave?"

"Let's pray to Ra that it's not much…"

"…"

                   Bakura opened a small portal and at once, a hand holding a telegram reached inside to give him the parchment. Closing it after, he began to read, eyes narrowing dangerously as he sighed and sat back down with an irritated expression.

"Bakura?" Ryou immediately inquired.

"…After a century of war… I seems that… we are slowly but surely starting to lose the war, my lord…"

"What??!" Pegasus glowered, fist clenching. The other leaders seemed shocked as well, Seto closed his eyes calmly, Ryou's features told unrest and Yugi's held worry for those on the battlefield. Ryou's eyes flashed dangerously.

"Pegasus-sama, please allow us to go and take this matter into our own hands."

"And what are you implying?" Bakura growled at the impossible request because deep inside, he'd be worried to death if this were considered. As for Seto, he looked slightly horrified with the idea.

"I'm saying that don't you think it's time that we support our troops by fighting by their side?? Just like what Heaven is obviously doing?" Bakura cursed under his breath and Pegasus looked at his left hand demon.

"As much as you can help, I remind you once again Ryou, that you and Yugi are my personal officials. On top of your duties is being there to protect me at all times, being the Lord of the Dark realm and I will not consider putting both of you into harm's way. Am I understood?"

"…" Ryou angrily sat down and remained silent, Yugi looking at him sadly across the long table.

"Demo, Pegasus-sama, I do think Ryou has a point." The innocent one spoke, looking up at the man beside him.

"Yugi…?" Ryou looked at the tri-colored haired teen.

"It will really help the soldiers gain upper hand and boost their morale…Besides, Ryou and I can protect ourselves just fine, Pegasus-sama-

"Yugi. For the last time, I won't settle putting you, or your brother, in that… that filth where bodies pile, blood reeks and where you can get hacked by a no-good angel!" He finished, noting that the boy and probably some demons in the room are looking at him like he was a lunatic.

"Okay, fine. Maybe not hacked or even get neared to but still…" he muttered. "Look. As Lord of Hell, I command you to stay put by my side and not to utter such nonsense for as long as this meeting is held. And that goes for you too." He pointed at the white haired demon at his left.

"Hai, Pegasus-sama." Both spoke in unison.

"Well, now that we have all heard about Hell's situation via Bakura, it looks like the decision that I was talking about earlier is more crucial, and needed, than before."

"…!" Yugi's eyes widened as he surprised everyone by suddenly jerking up, wide purple eyes locked on his master's. "P-Pegasus-sama! Masaka…!"

"We have to awaken Anzu."

"But it would cause total destruction of Heaven-!" Ryou looked really taken aback by his twin's reaction, lavender eyes wildly looking now at him to say something.

"And isn't that our main purpose??!" came the harsh reply.

"Many would die, my lord!! All angels would and some demons have to be sacrificed!! It's just not right to claim victory this way…!"

"Then what do you propose to do then, Yugi-sama?" Seto sadly challenged the boy diagonal from him. He knew of the boy's principles but in this case, if Hell's Savior isn't awakened in time, it was their race that was going to die.

"…but…"

"Enough."

"…"

"We have no choice on the matter. Now, as many of you might be wondering, how will we wake Her up when the last of the Ren clan member was banished to become mortal ages ago."

"Yami?" Bakura scoffed.

"Correct. If I didn't know any better, he is still alive and somewhere out there in a country called Japan."

"But what will we do with him, Pegasus-sama? He was robbed of his powers and immortality." Seto looked at him questioningly.

"That is why…" Pegasus turnd to Yugi and Ryou, "I will send the both of you to the mortal realm to search for Yami and I will give Yugi the power to give Yami back his shadow abilities."

"WHAT???!" Everyone screeched. Pegasus covered his ears before continuing with a smirk.

"As high school students of course."

TBC…

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A/N: Ho hum… I'm off to type the next chap so c ya… actually, I was suppose to go on and on and on… but I just remembered the title so I'll save the next scenes for the 3rd chap, ne? Better stop here…

Once again, read and review kudasai.

-Hirame-