Disclaimer: I don't own Pegasus. I don't own Yami(even though I want to), I don't own the whole frigging show. Heck, I don't even own a pack of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards yet! So, don't sue me, I'm just writing this for fun, capeesh?
~Chapter 3~
Yugi woke up to the clatter of bar doors opening. He hadn't realized that he hadn't fallen back asleep, but he rubbed his eyes, blinking a lot.
"Come on, kid, what are you waiting for? You have uno minute to get up, before I make you!"
Yugi sat up, and saw another man that was obviously replacing Akira's job to get up everyone, not that Yugi was upset about it. He wore sunglasses like everyone else who worked for Pegasus, and his hair was a black mop, sticking up in many places,
and was very tall, and had tanned skin. He also spoke with a Spanish accent. 'He must be that Panchito guy,' thought Yugi.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Get up!" ordered Panchito harshly.
Yugi was about to get up, when he realized that the puzzle was still around his neck! 'Oh, no!' Hoping that Panchito hadn't seen it yet, Yugi quietly tucked it underneath his white shirt, leaving a lump in the middle, but covered it up quickly with
his blue jacket, blending it in slightly. Yugi got up very quickly after that, noticing that there was to the side two pieces of bread and water to the side, and marched out of the cell, Panchito closing the door behind him. Yugi was placed in his
line, and sighed in relief as Panchito walked to the front, not noticing the puzzle. Yugi nearly collapsed to the ground, his legs now like jello, but kept himself up by leaning on a nearby wall. 'That was close; too close. I can't wear the puzzle
at night anymore..! But...oh, I'll just remember not to fall asleep again next time...or, I could just wear it under my shirt all of the time..'
* * *
"Ne, Yug, over here!" Jou shouted, as Yugi walked away from the line of children waiting to get their so called 'food'. Yugi looked around, and saw Jou waving for him, at a table where Serenity were sitting. Yugi raised an eyebrow seeing two other
people sitting there too, one a female brunette, and another a boy who had odd brown hair; which had bangs that had a point to them. Yugi shook off the small bit of shock, and walked over to the table, and sat on the left side of Jou.
"Hi," Yugi said shyly to the other two people.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to tell ya. These two are Anzu an' Honda, they were friends of mine before Pegasus took us away," Jou said. Jou turned to Anzu and Honda, "And this is my pal Yugi, you guys. He got me out of a jam last night,"
"Hi!" Anzu and Honda said cheerfully at the same time.
Yugi smiled a little, and said with a small blush, "Konnichiwa."
"So, anyway, did ya hear 'bout the guard last night, Yug?" Jou asked.
"Um, I guess, I heard two guards about Akira being...stripped of his soul or something," replied Yugi quietly.
"Ya, it's really strange, one minute Akira's out checking up on us," Anzu said with a frown, as if she didn't really care about the fact that Akira was dead, "And the next, there was some screaming and talking, and he was dead!"
"That is strange," grimaced Honda, taking a spoonful of the muck, but thought better of it and threw it on the ground.
"Well, I know who did it," Serenity spoke up, "It was a boy, a boy who looked fifteen! Ya, and she saved our mommy from Akira, because he was beating her up!"
Jou nodded a bit sheepishly, "Ya, but we're not 'bout to go tellin' anyone, cause I never really liked that Akira anyhow, and we owe that guy a lot. So keep quiet 'bout it, k?"
Anzu, Honda, and Yugi all nodded.
"But the strange thing is," started Jou, "Is that the guy..looked a lot like Yugi here," Jou looked at Yugi, an eyebrow raised.
"W-what? He looked like me?" puzzled Yugi, sweating slightly, "But, it wasn't me...I wasn't out or anything..plus, if I was, I would've escaped with my mom, anyway,"
Jou nodded. "True. I guessed it wasn' really you after all.."
'The truth is, I don't even know what happened to me last night..' thought Yugi with a small sigh.
Eleven or so hours later, after all of the families were sleeping in their cells, faint footsteps could be heard coming down the hallway, of which the families Yugi and Jou laid. A few feet from Yugi's cell, the figure started to be clearer. He has
long silver hair, one brown eye, and the other covered with a golden eye, which looked like a hieroglyphic. It was Maximillion Pegasus.
Pegasus walked past Yugi's cell without a second thought, and walked midway towards Jou's cell, and stopped, and stared at the wall.
The wall was grubby and dull, like most ordinary prison walls. But it wasn't like the other walls that stalked all of Pegasus's prisoners as they walked by; this one had some sort of drawing on it, One of which all of his guards had failed to notice.
The drawing was one that was very familiar to him, one of which he had seen many times. It had two lines on each side, and a curve in the middle to connect each other. In the middle of them, was a circle with s hole in the middle, made to look like an
eye. It was an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic. As he looked the picture over, Pegasus ran his finger along his millenium eye, drawing out what he saw, seeing how much they were alike. They were exactly alike.
'Hmm...I wonder. I know I didn't do this, and no one else around here knows about the millenium items. Unless..' Pegasus moved his hand to his chin, 'Unless somebody around here has recently gained one. And only two around here could possibly have one.
James' son Bakura, or...that boy, Yugi.' Pegasus turned around, and walked over to Yugi's cell. He stared into it.
There, was Yugi, curled up into a ball, sleeping, and having a hard time by the looks of it. Beside him, was his mother, also asleep, both of them on a worn blanket. Pegasus laid his eyes on his chest, seeing if there was anything strange on his neck.
Nothing. Pegasus breathed out silently, not realizing that Yugi had hid the puzzle underneath his shirt, and the chain was hidden by his jacket and some ruffled up hair.
Pegasus was about to leave, when he heard Yugi mumble in his sleep, "No, Jii-chan, don't.."
Pegasus looked back at Yugi. 'Hmm...I wonder what he's dreaming of...but, of course, I'll be able to find out.' Pegasus's eye started to gleam a bit, as he read Yugi's mind. Pegasus saw images of past events in Yugi's dream; A part where Yugi was getting
beaten by Akira, and how 'Jii-chan' saved him, but got himself beat up in the process. And the time shifted to Yugi witnessing him die in front of him, not so long after Akira whipping Jii-chan. He felt that Yugi was having feelings of grief and sadness,
and even some anger. Pegasus broke the connection. 'Oh, I see little Yugi is living through some pain. Well, don't worry, if you ever get that puzzle...I'll put you out of your misery.' He chuckled quietly to himself, and left without another interruption.
"..In...Egypt..?..." Yugi mumbled, turning over in his sleep, and the puzzle falling out of his shirt a little.
* * *
One week later, it was dreary as usual. But, the women were out again, doing which Yugi had found out the day before, searching for whoever stole Akira's soul. Of course, they were doing it reluctantly, because nobody ever liked him much, for obvious reasons.
But, around the time just after lunch, Yugi was washing dishes with more of the children slaves, including Anzu and Jou. Honda and Serenity were else where, doing laundry, with more of the other children, and some of the women, who were left behind from the
search party.
"Ugh, I hate this!" groaned Anzu, looking over her hands again, "Can't those lazy butts do this themselves? Some people don't like getting sore or blistered fingers!"
"Sh!" warned Yugi quietly, in between scrubbing a plate, "They might hear you!"
"I don't care, it's better than doing this crap day after day!" Anzu huffed back.
"Well, is it better than getting beat by those jerks day after day if you don' do da work?" Jou asked with a frown.
"..."
"Ya, dat's what I thought."
"Well, we'll all get caught if we don't be quiet!" Yugi said in a whisper. 'I don't want them to get hurt like Jii-chan did..'
A few minutes passed by, and it had gone quiet in the room, aside from the sound of clothes being rubbed, water running, and the clatter of dishes being placed on each other. All seemed pretty peaceful..
"Rintaro!" Panchito came running up to Rintaro, the one who was watching the children, and must have been deaf not to hear Yugi, Anzu, and Jou, "Amigo, some of the women are escaping from the island!"
"What?! Tell me, what happened!" Rintaro spat angerly, his tanned skin getting flushed.
"While they were searching to island for the intruder, some of them spotted a boat; they were just spotted boarding it, and we don't have enough men to stop them! You have to come, quickly! Before Akira, you were the strongest one, and Pegasus demands you to come!"
Panchito said quickly in a panic.
Rintaro furrowed his brow. "See to it that these children stay in line!" With that, he sped off, his blue hair becoming a blur as he ran.
Yugi raised an eyebrow. Was his mother one of the ones escaping? He hoped it was true; but at the same time, dreaded it, since if she was caught..
Yugi suddenly felt a pain quickly go horizontally up his stomach, and he groaned out in pain, wincing as he fell on one knee. The puzzle glowed a bit, but you couldn't see it underneath his white shirt. He groaned again, bowing his head, his eyes half closed. It was
almost too much to bare...
"Yugi!" Jou shouted, falling to the floor beside him, "Daijabou, Yugi?"
Anzu fell down beside Yugi, when he groaned in response, "What happened? Has a blister burst, or something?"
Yugi didn't catch on to Anzu's feeble attempt to cheer him up a bit, but he managed to said hoarsely, "It's...my stomach!"
"What, has the lunch made you sick or somethin'?" Jou asked concernedly.
"It...hurts!" Yugi said, followed by a small moan of pain.
"What's going on here?" Panchito asked sternly, baring a whip clasped in his hands, faced to the trio.
"Yugi's stomach's hurtin'!" exclaimed Jou, looking up at Panchito, concern filling his brown eyes up.
"So what? It's just a stomach ache, it'll pass."
Yugi groaned again, this time a bit louder.
"Come on, have a heart! This might be something bad, like salmonella!" Anzu pleaded.
"I doubt it." Snorted Panchito, "Besides, why should I should caring to a bunch of slaves like yourselves?"
"Because, you'll have to live with guilt for the rest of your life!" said Anzu hopefully.
"Ya, guilt that I didn't punish you for questioning me!"
"And 'cause your not like the others. Your not that mean and cruel. That's probably why Akira bit da dust!" Jou said.
"Of course I'm not like Akira! I'm not like that idiot!" Panchito said in defense.
"Then prove it!" shouted Anzu.
"..." Panchito sighed a bit. "Fine, we'll check out what's wrong with him."
Anzu and Jou smiled a bit. Anzu and Jou then had to think fast, as Yugi began to fall forward, with another moan of pain, and catch him. "Easy there, Yug," Jou said soothingly.
Panchito grunted a bit, then walked forward, making Yugi stand up. "Stand up, kid, or you don't get any help." He growled.
Yugi felt like the message was far away, but tried to stand up, his legs much resembling jello(blueberry, not lemon). Panchito clasped onto his hand with a grunt of frustration, and directed him out of the kitchen. Yugi used his free hand to hold onto his stomach,
all the while suddenly feeling another...'presence' inside of him..
/..It's You, your Yami!/
//Yes..//
/Are you...the reason why I'm having this pain?/
//No, I'm not. It's the pain inside you of sadness if your mother got hurt. But don't worry, Yugi, we're going to help her.//
/But how? What can we do?/
//You'll see. We just have to wait for Panchito to leave..//
Yami became silent after that, as Panchito guided Yugi into the nurse's room, and laid him on a bed. "OK," Panchito said gruffly, "You just lay here. I'm going to get some Advil. After that, you can rest here for about ten minutes to see if it helps. And if it does,
then you march right back to the kitchen, alright?"
Yugi nodded weakly, and laid his head on the clean pillow. Compared to his cell, it seemed much like a room well suited for a king or queen. Panchito left, then a few minutes later, came in with an Advil. He gave it to Yugi, when suddenly, another man who looked like
he could be related to Panchito, rushed in. "Brother," The man said, "Pegasus wants all of his men out to get the slave women. It's a riot out there!"
"But Jose," Panchito argued, "Who will watch the slaves?"
"There's no time for that now, we'll just have to hope that the doctors will take care of them," Jose answered, "Now let's go!"
Panchito nodded, and the two Spanish brothers ran out of the room.
//OK, now is our chance.//
/But still, how are we going to help my mother?/
//Just trust me on this.//
"YU-GI-OOOOOOHHHHH!!!" It had happened again, Yugi shouted out, his voice growing deeper resembling the voice of Yami, and a glow engulfed him. The glow passed, and he had changed into Yami.
/...Is this what you meant?/
//Don't fret, Yugi. It'll be ok.//
Yami sat up from the bed, and got up. He looked around, and noticed a door in front of him. He approached it, and cautiously exited it. He looked around, seeing that nobody was around, since most of Pegasus's guards were looking for the women. Yami ran out, making sure
nobody was around as he passed each door. He past the kitchen, hoping nobody would see him..
"Hey, it's dat guy! Da guy who saved my mom!" whispered Jou to Anzu.
"Really?" Anzu watched as Yami passed by. "Hey, he does look a lot like Yugi! Who is he?"
"I dunno, but I'm gonna find out." Jou dropped his dish and towel, and sneaked out of the room, Anzu close by, hoping that nobody else was still inside, guarding the castle.
Yami ran out of the castle quietly, looking each way. All he could see were trees. He ran into the forest, not realizing he had two people(Anzu and Jou) closely following him.
Yami kept on running, panting a little, and kept his ears ready to hear even a twig snap, in order to find the ones who escaped.
"Over there! They're over there!"
Yami stopped suddenly at the voice, recognizing the voice to be one of the guards. 'It came from my left,' he thought to himself. He narrowed his crimson-violet eyes, and turned to his left towards the voice he had just heard.
"Hey, where'd he go?" Jou puzzled, stopping where Yami had heard to sound. Anzu and Jou looked around, when Anzu squinted her eyes. "There, he went to the left!" she shouted. They both ran after Yami, trying to keep up with him...
Yami soon found his way out of the woods, and started to pant a lot, looking around him. There were cliffs of rock and dirt everywhere, ones with waved splashing on them as the winds blew on them, the area stretching out for miles in width. Yami peered around, until he saw
men; men with sunglasses on surrounding a bunch of women on a boat, one looking very familiar..
/It's my mom! She's over there! Oh, no../
//She's probably not the only mother there, Yugi. We have to save them.//
/But how?/
//We need to lure Pegasus's guards away somehow, and get the mothers away from the boat.//
/But, even if it works, they'll still come after them!/
//I can fix that.//
/I REALLY hope you know what your doing, Yami../
"Hey, leave them alone!" Yami suddenly called out, getting everyone's attention. Yugi's mother's eyes widened when she saw Yami, who was trying to keep his attention to the guards.
"Hey, how'd you get out of the castle?" asked Panchito in a shout, as Yami started to walk forward.
Yami ignored that question. "I said, leave them alone." He said calmly.
"Why should we listen to a punk kid like you?" One of the guards asked, who looked like he worked out often.
"Leave peacefully, and I shall not harm you." Yami said, with his eyes narrowed, and index finger pointed at the guards, "But if you choose not, then shall feel my wrath."
A few seconds passed, when all of the guards burst out laughing, some of them rolling on the ground, the rest with tears falling down their cheeks, or laughing very hard.
"Hehe, that's a good one kid," Jose said in between big breaths of air, "Now come on, go away or something."
Yami remained calm, trying not to let them get to him, "Well, what's your choice? Will you leave peacefully, or do I have to force you?"
"You should have guessed already."
"Fine. If that's the way you want it.." Yami started, putting his hand in his pocket, "Shuffle your dueling decks. Because it's time to duel. If whoever represents you wins, I will leave. But, if I win, then you have to leave, and not harm them. Do we have a deal?"
Yami heard snickers from them, and raised an eyebrow, awaiting an answer. "I won't take no for an answer. Duel me, or leave peacefully."
"Sure, I'll duel you," The muscular man said after stopping his laughter, "Whatever. Let's just get this little game of yours over with."
Yami nodded, and said, as a dueling area started to rise behind them, "We'll all start with 1500 life points, to make this a quick game. Whoever loses all of their life points first, loses."
The man nodded. "Fine, but I demand you give me your name. I'll give you mine, too, if you want."
"My name is of no real importance. But, if you wish, you can call me Yami." Yami replied.
"I am Denki. Now, let's start this duel." The man, Denki said, as he went into his dueler's box, as well as Yami. As Denki turned to looked at the area for a minute, to see if they had any field bonus areas on it, Yami looked back at the women, who were watching in awe. Yami
pointed his head towards the castle, signaling them to go back to the castle. They caught on, slowly and quietly crept away. Yami turned back to Denki, who had just looked up. They both shuffled their dueling decks, and placed them on the table in front of them. "You may go
first," Yami announced, as they both drew five cards each.
Denki nodded, and looked over his cards carefully. "I play Sagi the Dark Clown in attack mode!" he called out, placing the card down on the field.
Yami looked over his cards, and placed down a card. "Beaver Warrior, with an attack power of 1200! He destroys Sagi the Dark Clown."
Denki grinted his teeth, as his life points were already falling down to 900. Denki drew another card, and smiled. "I play one card face down, and I play Magical White Hat in attack mode!"
Yami looked as he placed those two cards, and raised an eyebrow. "Hmm.." He drew a card, and said, "I'm placing this card face down as well, and I attack your White Hat with my Beaver Warrior. Attack!"
Denki smirked as the figure of the beaver warrior raced after his monster. "Not so fast, I play my trap card! Spell binding circle! I trap your beaver warrior, and his life points go down to 700, making my Magical White Hat stronger than your beaver warrior! Attack!" The white
hat attacked the trapped Beaver Warrior, but Yami still seemed completely calm.
"I placed a trap card down, Denki, with my own spell binding circle!" The circle of light wrapped around the white hat, and his attack points fell to 500. Denki grinted his teeth, as Yami said, "But, my Beaver Warrior is still trapped, so I can't attack him with him. But.." Yami
drew another card, and smirked at it. "My Curse of Dragon is under no such spell!"
"No!"
"Yes, I attack your White Hat with Curse of Dragon, wiping out your life points, and I win!" Yami said a bit smugly, as he summoned the Curse of Dragon, and obliterated the Magical White Hat.
Denki let out a groan, as the final score came out as him with 0, and Yami with a full health of 1500.
"How could you lose to an amateur like him, Denki? You didn't even scratch his life points, either, and he won within ten minutes! Amigo, you REALLY suck!" Panchito raged.
"Grrr, Shut up," Denki growled.
"I won, so now, you have to leave." Yami said calmly, leaving the area.
"Ha! Like I'm going to listen to you, you punk!" Denki laughed, as Yami frowned. Denki looked over to the side of him, and froze. "Wha-? Where'd they go?"
Al of the guards looked, and gasped to see that the women had disappeared. "You!" Jose hissed, "This was all a diversion to let them escape!"
"Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't," Yami said innocently, "But, since I won, you must leave, and leave the women alone as well, so go!"
"You...little brat!" Denki growled, looking back at the other guards, "Let's get him!"
Yami froze for a minute.
//I wasn't expecting this..//
/Aw crap, we're doomed./
//It only looks like it, Yugi. We can do it.//
/But I'm a REALLY bad fighter. For one thing, violence doesn't solve anything. And two, I can't even hit a pillow and leave a mark./
//Well, maybe you can't, but I can.//
/You took karate?/
//No, I've just had to deal with people like them before, and I have a hard punch and kick after having lots of practice, so..//
/But violence doesn't solve anything!/
//Maybe so, but right now, they don't want to talk, so we have to at least defend ourselves.//
/.../
Outside, Yami frowned at the guards and growled a little in frustration. "I didn't want to resort to this.." he whispered, "But, if I have no other choice, I will fight you." Yami narrowed his eyes a bit, standing ready for any attack.
Jose was the first to run after Yami, sending a punch his way, but Yami ducked just in time. Jose kicked at him, but Yami jumped upwards, getting out of the way once more. Jose frowned, and punched at him again, but Yami blocked it by cupping Jose's fist with his own hand. Panchito
punched from behind, which Yami couldn't block, and moaned in pain, as his fist connected with his back. Yami let go of Jose's hand, and clasped onto the sore spot on his back, wincing a bit. Denki then kicked him in the stomach, sending him to the ground. Yami held onto his stomach,
getting up. Panchito aimed another punch at him, but Yami ducked just in time. Yami ignored the pain for a minute, and jumped into the air, kicking Panchito in the face. Panchito was knocked back, knocked out.
"He KO-ed Panchito!" One of the other guards gasped.
"Let's get him!" Jose said, infuriated.
'Uh-Oh.' Yami thought, as they all charged for him again. Yami did a back flip backwards, escaping a few punches, and landed on his feet again, getting in a stance ready to punch. Denki aimed a kick at Yami, but Yami jumped to the side, escaping it, and did a twirling kick on him. Denki
clasped onto his nose, as it started to bleed a little. "Ow!" he whimpered.
Yami let out a breath of air, as Jose ran after him again, but Yami punched him in the stomach just in time to stop him in his tracks. Yami began to pant a lot, as Jose tried to recover from the punch. Yami closed his eyes for a moment, only to have two other guards squeeze onto his arms,
Yami struggling to free himself, but failing.
"You think your so tough, eh?" sneered Denki, wiping blood from his nose, "Well, check this out!" Denki walked up to the defenseless Yami, and started punching him in the stomach. Yami held back cries of pain, not letting Denki feel proud of himself, and came out as short grunts.
Denki was laughing his head off, as Yami was unable to do anything to defend himself. He tried to not focus on the pain and escape, but found it very hard to do so.
Suddenly, a rock came falling from the sky, and hit one of the guards holding Yami on the head, forcing him to let go, and fall backwards. Another rock hit the other guard, and with a 'oof!', fell back as well, both of them unconscious. When Yami was released, he fell on his knees, and
started to pant a lot, clutching his stomach, and wincing a lot.
Denki had stopped his punching frenzy, and had a puzzled look on his face. "What the--?!" he sputtered, as another rock landed on his head. "Ow!" he squealed, rubbing his head in pain(Unlike the other two guards that were hit, Denki is smart, and doesn't fall unconscious just by being hit
in the head by a rock). "What the hell is going on here?! Get over here you cowards!" he sneered to the other guards.
The other guards were staring ahead, and looking in all directions to see where the rocks came from, but were having a hard time, and didn't feel like listening to Denki right now. Denki growled in frustration, but yelped in pain as another rock collided with his head.
"Take that, you bully!" Anzu whispered to herself, as she threw another rock at Denki, and him yelping out in pain. Anzu and Jou both giggled from behind the trees as Denki looked around, trying to find the source of the flying rocks.
Yami had been near the trees, though, and slowly looked behind himself after he heard some giggling. Yami's eyes widened when he saw Jou and Anzu right in front of him!
/Oh, no! Anzu! Jou!/
//I'm just as surprised as you are, Yugi.//
When Jou and Anzu had realized they were spotted, they grew pretty nervous.
"Um, hey, what's shakin'?" Jou asked trying to play innocent. Anzu and Jou both laughed nervously.
"You shouldn't be here," Yami said weakly, but in a stern and concerned voice.
"It's a good thing we came here, Yugi, or else you'd been toast!" Anzu exclaimed quietly.
Yami's eyes widened slightly, but then he sighed. "I'm not Yugi," he said quietly.
"Then who are ya?" Jou puzzled.
"Well, in a matter of speaking, I AM him, yet I am also not."
"Your really confusing me here," Jou said scratching his head.
Suddenly, Yami cried out in pain and surprise as a kick collided with his leg. "Well, I finally got some kind of REAL sign that you do in fact feel some sort of pain, Yami," Denki chuckled cruelly.
"Yami?" Anzu puzzled.
"Oh, you could tell him, but now us?" Jou frowned.
They shouldn't have said that, because Denki had heard the two speak. He looked up from Yami, who was growling angrily at him, and looked directly into Jou and Anzu's eyes. He smirked and chuckled as he saw the fear in their eyes. "Hey, guys, I found our little rock lovers.." he said to the other
guards. They all ran towards the trees, looking pretty pissed.
"Hehe," Anzu laughed nervously followed by a gulp.
Jose dashed into trees, and a few moments later, he came out, with Jou and Anzu in his arms, as they struggled to free themselves.
"Let us go!" demanded Anzu.
"Oh, and why should I?" sneered Jose.
Denki chuckled a bit, and kicked Yami for fun once more, but Yami didn't cry out again. He bit his lip, and weakly looked up, and gasped at Anzu and Jou. "No..!"
"Yes," Denki smirked, "They must mean something to you, eh? Well, they'll be joining you on the floor soon enough, Yami!"
Yami closed his eyes sadly, trying not to look into Anzu and Jou's look of despair in their eyes. "No.."
/We've got to do something!/
//I know, Aibou.//
/..Aibou?/
//We are sharing the same body, right?//
/Ya./
//Well, then I guess your my Aibou.//
/Heh. I guess your right, Yami. But we've got to save them! I've seen what they do to people who don't follow their orders, or do something they don't like!/
//I know, too..//
"No!" Yami suddenly shouted out, and before anyone could react, Stood up, limping very slightly, as he ran towards Jose, and kicked him in the gut. Jose recoiled, forcing himself to drop Jou and Anzu. "Run!" Yami gasped, as he kicked some more people who were running after him. Jou and Anzu didn't
have to argue; they ran away, and into the forest, and out of sight. With anger showing on his face, Yami dodged many coming attacks, not to mention gave some, too. Some after, most of the men were either on the ground, or were making reservations to land on the ground. Denki was getting pretty beat
up, too, while Jose was already on the ground. Denki's pine green eyes shone with anger, very similar to Yami's crimson-violet eyes, only for different reasons. Yami kicked down one other man, and his landed face first into the ground. Yami started to pant wild, and glared at Denki.
"W-what are you?" Denki sputtered, realizing he was the only one left up.
Yami blew some of his blonde bangs out of his face. "I'm the ally to good, and worst nightmare to you."
Denki was about to scramble away, when the eye of Horus appeared on Yami's forehead. "Sorry, but I can't let you remember this. If you do, then you'll be putting all of the women as well as my friends in danger." Yami closed his eyes, focusing as much power as he could muster from him, and yelled out,
his hand sticking outwards. A blast of invisible energy hit all of the guards, erasing their memories of the past events, and making Denki faint. The eye of Horus faded away, and Yami fell to his knees, incredibly exhausted. Yami started panting a lot.
/What did you do to them?/
//I just put a small memory spell on them. Don't worry, they'll be fine, Aibou.//
/Memory spell? How-/
//Please, don't ask, Aibou.//
Yami became Yugi once more, and Yugi collasped to the ground, and closed his eyes tightly, spiraling into a world of darkness...
~To Be Continued...~
A/N: Boy ,that was one long chapter! @_@ Don't expect anymore chapters that are over 5000 words long, unless Yami is fighting Pegasus or something. Anyways, thanks for reading! Please Review! ^^
~Chapter 3~
Yugi woke up to the clatter of bar doors opening. He hadn't realized that he hadn't fallen back asleep, but he rubbed his eyes, blinking a lot.
"Come on, kid, what are you waiting for? You have uno minute to get up, before I make you!"
Yugi sat up, and saw another man that was obviously replacing Akira's job to get up everyone, not that Yugi was upset about it. He wore sunglasses like everyone else who worked for Pegasus, and his hair was a black mop, sticking up in many places,
and was very tall, and had tanned skin. He also spoke with a Spanish accent. 'He must be that Panchito guy,' thought Yugi.
"Well, what are you waiting for? Get up!" ordered Panchito harshly.
Yugi was about to get up, when he realized that the puzzle was still around his neck! 'Oh, no!' Hoping that Panchito hadn't seen it yet, Yugi quietly tucked it underneath his white shirt, leaving a lump in the middle, but covered it up quickly with
his blue jacket, blending it in slightly. Yugi got up very quickly after that, noticing that there was to the side two pieces of bread and water to the side, and marched out of the cell, Panchito closing the door behind him. Yugi was placed in his
line, and sighed in relief as Panchito walked to the front, not noticing the puzzle. Yugi nearly collapsed to the ground, his legs now like jello, but kept himself up by leaning on a nearby wall. 'That was close; too close. I can't wear the puzzle
at night anymore..! But...oh, I'll just remember not to fall asleep again next time...or, I could just wear it under my shirt all of the time..'
* * *
"Ne, Yug, over here!" Jou shouted, as Yugi walked away from the line of children waiting to get their so called 'food'. Yugi looked around, and saw Jou waving for him, at a table where Serenity were sitting. Yugi raised an eyebrow seeing two other
people sitting there too, one a female brunette, and another a boy who had odd brown hair; which had bangs that had a point to them. Yugi shook off the small bit of shock, and walked over to the table, and sat on the left side of Jou.
"Hi," Yugi said shyly to the other two people.
"Oh, sorry, I forgot to tell ya. These two are Anzu an' Honda, they were friends of mine before Pegasus took us away," Jou said. Jou turned to Anzu and Honda, "And this is my pal Yugi, you guys. He got me out of a jam last night,"
"Hi!" Anzu and Honda said cheerfully at the same time.
Yugi smiled a little, and said with a small blush, "Konnichiwa."
"So, anyway, did ya hear 'bout the guard last night, Yug?" Jou asked.
"Um, I guess, I heard two guards about Akira being...stripped of his soul or something," replied Yugi quietly.
"Ya, it's really strange, one minute Akira's out checking up on us," Anzu said with a frown, as if she didn't really care about the fact that Akira was dead, "And the next, there was some screaming and talking, and he was dead!"
"That is strange," grimaced Honda, taking a spoonful of the muck, but thought better of it and threw it on the ground.
"Well, I know who did it," Serenity spoke up, "It was a boy, a boy who looked fifteen! Ya, and she saved our mommy from Akira, because he was beating her up!"
Jou nodded a bit sheepishly, "Ya, but we're not 'bout to go tellin' anyone, cause I never really liked that Akira anyhow, and we owe that guy a lot. So keep quiet 'bout it, k?"
Anzu, Honda, and Yugi all nodded.
"But the strange thing is," started Jou, "Is that the guy..looked a lot like Yugi here," Jou looked at Yugi, an eyebrow raised.
"W-what? He looked like me?" puzzled Yugi, sweating slightly, "But, it wasn't me...I wasn't out or anything..plus, if I was, I would've escaped with my mom, anyway,"
Jou nodded. "True. I guessed it wasn' really you after all.."
'The truth is, I don't even know what happened to me last night..' thought Yugi with a small sigh.
Eleven or so hours later, after all of the families were sleeping in their cells, faint footsteps could be heard coming down the hallway, of which the families Yugi and Jou laid. A few feet from Yugi's cell, the figure started to be clearer. He has
long silver hair, one brown eye, and the other covered with a golden eye, which looked like a hieroglyphic. It was Maximillion Pegasus.
Pegasus walked past Yugi's cell without a second thought, and walked midway towards Jou's cell, and stopped, and stared at the wall.
The wall was grubby and dull, like most ordinary prison walls. But it wasn't like the other walls that stalked all of Pegasus's prisoners as they walked by; this one had some sort of drawing on it, One of which all of his guards had failed to notice.
The drawing was one that was very familiar to him, one of which he had seen many times. It had two lines on each side, and a curve in the middle to connect each other. In the middle of them, was a circle with s hole in the middle, made to look like an
eye. It was an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic. As he looked the picture over, Pegasus ran his finger along his millenium eye, drawing out what he saw, seeing how much they were alike. They were exactly alike.
'Hmm...I wonder. I know I didn't do this, and no one else around here knows about the millenium items. Unless..' Pegasus moved his hand to his chin, 'Unless somebody around here has recently gained one. And only two around here could possibly have one.
James' son Bakura, or...that boy, Yugi.' Pegasus turned around, and walked over to Yugi's cell. He stared into it.
There, was Yugi, curled up into a ball, sleeping, and having a hard time by the looks of it. Beside him, was his mother, also asleep, both of them on a worn blanket. Pegasus laid his eyes on his chest, seeing if there was anything strange on his neck.
Nothing. Pegasus breathed out silently, not realizing that Yugi had hid the puzzle underneath his shirt, and the chain was hidden by his jacket and some ruffled up hair.
Pegasus was about to leave, when he heard Yugi mumble in his sleep, "No, Jii-chan, don't.."
Pegasus looked back at Yugi. 'Hmm...I wonder what he's dreaming of...but, of course, I'll be able to find out.' Pegasus's eye started to gleam a bit, as he read Yugi's mind. Pegasus saw images of past events in Yugi's dream; A part where Yugi was getting
beaten by Akira, and how 'Jii-chan' saved him, but got himself beat up in the process. And the time shifted to Yugi witnessing him die in front of him, not so long after Akira whipping Jii-chan. He felt that Yugi was having feelings of grief and sadness,
and even some anger. Pegasus broke the connection. 'Oh, I see little Yugi is living through some pain. Well, don't worry, if you ever get that puzzle...I'll put you out of your misery.' He chuckled quietly to himself, and left without another interruption.
"..In...Egypt..?..." Yugi mumbled, turning over in his sleep, and the puzzle falling out of his shirt a little.
* * *
One week later, it was dreary as usual. But, the women were out again, doing which Yugi had found out the day before, searching for whoever stole Akira's soul. Of course, they were doing it reluctantly, because nobody ever liked him much, for obvious reasons.
But, around the time just after lunch, Yugi was washing dishes with more of the children slaves, including Anzu and Jou. Honda and Serenity were else where, doing laundry, with more of the other children, and some of the women, who were left behind from the
search party.
"Ugh, I hate this!" groaned Anzu, looking over her hands again, "Can't those lazy butts do this themselves? Some people don't like getting sore or blistered fingers!"
"Sh!" warned Yugi quietly, in between scrubbing a plate, "They might hear you!"
"I don't care, it's better than doing this crap day after day!" Anzu huffed back.
"Well, is it better than getting beat by those jerks day after day if you don' do da work?" Jou asked with a frown.
"..."
"Ya, dat's what I thought."
"Well, we'll all get caught if we don't be quiet!" Yugi said in a whisper. 'I don't want them to get hurt like Jii-chan did..'
A few minutes passed by, and it had gone quiet in the room, aside from the sound of clothes being rubbed, water running, and the clatter of dishes being placed on each other. All seemed pretty peaceful..
"Rintaro!" Panchito came running up to Rintaro, the one who was watching the children, and must have been deaf not to hear Yugi, Anzu, and Jou, "Amigo, some of the women are escaping from the island!"
"What?! Tell me, what happened!" Rintaro spat angerly, his tanned skin getting flushed.
"While they were searching to island for the intruder, some of them spotted a boat; they were just spotted boarding it, and we don't have enough men to stop them! You have to come, quickly! Before Akira, you were the strongest one, and Pegasus demands you to come!"
Panchito said quickly in a panic.
Rintaro furrowed his brow. "See to it that these children stay in line!" With that, he sped off, his blue hair becoming a blur as he ran.
Yugi raised an eyebrow. Was his mother one of the ones escaping? He hoped it was true; but at the same time, dreaded it, since if she was caught..
Yugi suddenly felt a pain quickly go horizontally up his stomach, and he groaned out in pain, wincing as he fell on one knee. The puzzle glowed a bit, but you couldn't see it underneath his white shirt. He groaned again, bowing his head, his eyes half closed. It was
almost too much to bare...
"Yugi!" Jou shouted, falling to the floor beside him, "Daijabou, Yugi?"
Anzu fell down beside Yugi, when he groaned in response, "What happened? Has a blister burst, or something?"
Yugi didn't catch on to Anzu's feeble attempt to cheer him up a bit, but he managed to said hoarsely, "It's...my stomach!"
"What, has the lunch made you sick or somethin'?" Jou asked concernedly.
"It...hurts!" Yugi said, followed by a small moan of pain.
"What's going on here?" Panchito asked sternly, baring a whip clasped in his hands, faced to the trio.
"Yugi's stomach's hurtin'!" exclaimed Jou, looking up at Panchito, concern filling his brown eyes up.
"So what? It's just a stomach ache, it'll pass."
Yugi groaned again, this time a bit louder.
"Come on, have a heart! This might be something bad, like salmonella!" Anzu pleaded.
"I doubt it." Snorted Panchito, "Besides, why should I should caring to a bunch of slaves like yourselves?"
"Because, you'll have to live with guilt for the rest of your life!" said Anzu hopefully.
"Ya, guilt that I didn't punish you for questioning me!"
"And 'cause your not like the others. Your not that mean and cruel. That's probably why Akira bit da dust!" Jou said.
"Of course I'm not like Akira! I'm not like that idiot!" Panchito said in defense.
"Then prove it!" shouted Anzu.
"..." Panchito sighed a bit. "Fine, we'll check out what's wrong with him."
Anzu and Jou smiled a bit. Anzu and Jou then had to think fast, as Yugi began to fall forward, with another moan of pain, and catch him. "Easy there, Yug," Jou said soothingly.
Panchito grunted a bit, then walked forward, making Yugi stand up. "Stand up, kid, or you don't get any help." He growled.
Yugi felt like the message was far away, but tried to stand up, his legs much resembling jello(blueberry, not lemon). Panchito clasped onto his hand with a grunt of frustration, and directed him out of the kitchen. Yugi used his free hand to hold onto his stomach,
all the while suddenly feeling another...'presence' inside of him..
/..It's You, your Yami!/
//Yes..//
/Are you...the reason why I'm having this pain?/
//No, I'm not. It's the pain inside you of sadness if your mother got hurt. But don't worry, Yugi, we're going to help her.//
/But how? What can we do?/
//You'll see. We just have to wait for Panchito to leave..//
Yami became silent after that, as Panchito guided Yugi into the nurse's room, and laid him on a bed. "OK," Panchito said gruffly, "You just lay here. I'm going to get some Advil. After that, you can rest here for about ten minutes to see if it helps. And if it does,
then you march right back to the kitchen, alright?"
Yugi nodded weakly, and laid his head on the clean pillow. Compared to his cell, it seemed much like a room well suited for a king or queen. Panchito left, then a few minutes later, came in with an Advil. He gave it to Yugi, when suddenly, another man who looked like
he could be related to Panchito, rushed in. "Brother," The man said, "Pegasus wants all of his men out to get the slave women. It's a riot out there!"
"But Jose," Panchito argued, "Who will watch the slaves?"
"There's no time for that now, we'll just have to hope that the doctors will take care of them," Jose answered, "Now let's go!"
Panchito nodded, and the two Spanish brothers ran out of the room.
//OK, now is our chance.//
/But still, how are we going to help my mother?/
//Just trust me on this.//
"YU-GI-OOOOOOHHHHH!!!" It had happened again, Yugi shouted out, his voice growing deeper resembling the voice of Yami, and a glow engulfed him. The glow passed, and he had changed into Yami.
/...Is this what you meant?/
//Don't fret, Yugi. It'll be ok.//
Yami sat up from the bed, and got up. He looked around, and noticed a door in front of him. He approached it, and cautiously exited it. He looked around, seeing that nobody was around, since most of Pegasus's guards were looking for the women. Yami ran out, making sure
nobody was around as he passed each door. He past the kitchen, hoping nobody would see him..
"Hey, it's dat guy! Da guy who saved my mom!" whispered Jou to Anzu.
"Really?" Anzu watched as Yami passed by. "Hey, he does look a lot like Yugi! Who is he?"
"I dunno, but I'm gonna find out." Jou dropped his dish and towel, and sneaked out of the room, Anzu close by, hoping that nobody else was still inside, guarding the castle.
Yami ran out of the castle quietly, looking each way. All he could see were trees. He ran into the forest, not realizing he had two people(Anzu and Jou) closely following him.
Yami kept on running, panting a little, and kept his ears ready to hear even a twig snap, in order to find the ones who escaped.
"Over there! They're over there!"
Yami stopped suddenly at the voice, recognizing the voice to be one of the guards. 'It came from my left,' he thought to himself. He narrowed his crimson-violet eyes, and turned to his left towards the voice he had just heard.
"Hey, where'd he go?" Jou puzzled, stopping where Yami had heard to sound. Anzu and Jou looked around, when Anzu squinted her eyes. "There, he went to the left!" she shouted. They both ran after Yami, trying to keep up with him...
Yami soon found his way out of the woods, and started to pant a lot, looking around him. There were cliffs of rock and dirt everywhere, ones with waved splashing on them as the winds blew on them, the area stretching out for miles in width. Yami peered around, until he saw
men; men with sunglasses on surrounding a bunch of women on a boat, one looking very familiar..
/It's my mom! She's over there! Oh, no../
//She's probably not the only mother there, Yugi. We have to save them.//
/But how?/
//We need to lure Pegasus's guards away somehow, and get the mothers away from the boat.//
/But, even if it works, they'll still come after them!/
//I can fix that.//
/I REALLY hope you know what your doing, Yami../
"Hey, leave them alone!" Yami suddenly called out, getting everyone's attention. Yugi's mother's eyes widened when she saw Yami, who was trying to keep his attention to the guards.
"Hey, how'd you get out of the castle?" asked Panchito in a shout, as Yami started to walk forward.
Yami ignored that question. "I said, leave them alone." He said calmly.
"Why should we listen to a punk kid like you?" One of the guards asked, who looked like he worked out often.
"Leave peacefully, and I shall not harm you." Yami said, with his eyes narrowed, and index finger pointed at the guards, "But if you choose not, then shall feel my wrath."
A few seconds passed, when all of the guards burst out laughing, some of them rolling on the ground, the rest with tears falling down their cheeks, or laughing very hard.
"Hehe, that's a good one kid," Jose said in between big breaths of air, "Now come on, go away or something."
Yami remained calm, trying not to let them get to him, "Well, what's your choice? Will you leave peacefully, or do I have to force you?"
"You should have guessed already."
"Fine. If that's the way you want it.." Yami started, putting his hand in his pocket, "Shuffle your dueling decks. Because it's time to duel. If whoever represents you wins, I will leave. But, if I win, then you have to leave, and not harm them. Do we have a deal?"
Yami heard snickers from them, and raised an eyebrow, awaiting an answer. "I won't take no for an answer. Duel me, or leave peacefully."
"Sure, I'll duel you," The muscular man said after stopping his laughter, "Whatever. Let's just get this little game of yours over with."
Yami nodded, and said, as a dueling area started to rise behind them, "We'll all start with 1500 life points, to make this a quick game. Whoever loses all of their life points first, loses."
The man nodded. "Fine, but I demand you give me your name. I'll give you mine, too, if you want."
"My name is of no real importance. But, if you wish, you can call me Yami." Yami replied.
"I am Denki. Now, let's start this duel." The man, Denki said, as he went into his dueler's box, as well as Yami. As Denki turned to looked at the area for a minute, to see if they had any field bonus areas on it, Yami looked back at the women, who were watching in awe. Yami
pointed his head towards the castle, signaling them to go back to the castle. They caught on, slowly and quietly crept away. Yami turned back to Denki, who had just looked up. They both shuffled their dueling decks, and placed them on the table in front of them. "You may go
first," Yami announced, as they both drew five cards each.
Denki nodded, and looked over his cards carefully. "I play Sagi the Dark Clown in attack mode!" he called out, placing the card down on the field.
Yami looked over his cards, and placed down a card. "Beaver Warrior, with an attack power of 1200! He destroys Sagi the Dark Clown."
Denki grinted his teeth, as his life points were already falling down to 900. Denki drew another card, and smiled. "I play one card face down, and I play Magical White Hat in attack mode!"
Yami looked as he placed those two cards, and raised an eyebrow. "Hmm.." He drew a card, and said, "I'm placing this card face down as well, and I attack your White Hat with my Beaver Warrior. Attack!"
Denki smirked as the figure of the beaver warrior raced after his monster. "Not so fast, I play my trap card! Spell binding circle! I trap your beaver warrior, and his life points go down to 700, making my Magical White Hat stronger than your beaver warrior! Attack!" The white
hat attacked the trapped Beaver Warrior, but Yami still seemed completely calm.
"I placed a trap card down, Denki, with my own spell binding circle!" The circle of light wrapped around the white hat, and his attack points fell to 500. Denki grinted his teeth, as Yami said, "But, my Beaver Warrior is still trapped, so I can't attack him with him. But.." Yami
drew another card, and smirked at it. "My Curse of Dragon is under no such spell!"
"No!"
"Yes, I attack your White Hat with Curse of Dragon, wiping out your life points, and I win!" Yami said a bit smugly, as he summoned the Curse of Dragon, and obliterated the Magical White Hat.
Denki let out a groan, as the final score came out as him with 0, and Yami with a full health of 1500.
"How could you lose to an amateur like him, Denki? You didn't even scratch his life points, either, and he won within ten minutes! Amigo, you REALLY suck!" Panchito raged.
"Grrr, Shut up," Denki growled.
"I won, so now, you have to leave." Yami said calmly, leaving the area.
"Ha! Like I'm going to listen to you, you punk!" Denki laughed, as Yami frowned. Denki looked over to the side of him, and froze. "Wha-? Where'd they go?"
Al of the guards looked, and gasped to see that the women had disappeared. "You!" Jose hissed, "This was all a diversion to let them escape!"
"Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't," Yami said innocently, "But, since I won, you must leave, and leave the women alone as well, so go!"
"You...little brat!" Denki growled, looking back at the other guards, "Let's get him!"
Yami froze for a minute.
//I wasn't expecting this..//
/Aw crap, we're doomed./
//It only looks like it, Yugi. We can do it.//
/But I'm a REALLY bad fighter. For one thing, violence doesn't solve anything. And two, I can't even hit a pillow and leave a mark./
//Well, maybe you can't, but I can.//
/You took karate?/
//No, I've just had to deal with people like them before, and I have a hard punch and kick after having lots of practice, so..//
/But violence doesn't solve anything!/
//Maybe so, but right now, they don't want to talk, so we have to at least defend ourselves.//
/.../
Outside, Yami frowned at the guards and growled a little in frustration. "I didn't want to resort to this.." he whispered, "But, if I have no other choice, I will fight you." Yami narrowed his eyes a bit, standing ready for any attack.
Jose was the first to run after Yami, sending a punch his way, but Yami ducked just in time. Jose kicked at him, but Yami jumped upwards, getting out of the way once more. Jose frowned, and punched at him again, but Yami blocked it by cupping Jose's fist with his own hand. Panchito
punched from behind, which Yami couldn't block, and moaned in pain, as his fist connected with his back. Yami let go of Jose's hand, and clasped onto the sore spot on his back, wincing a bit. Denki then kicked him in the stomach, sending him to the ground. Yami held onto his stomach,
getting up. Panchito aimed another punch at him, but Yami ducked just in time. Yami ignored the pain for a minute, and jumped into the air, kicking Panchito in the face. Panchito was knocked back, knocked out.
"He KO-ed Panchito!" One of the other guards gasped.
"Let's get him!" Jose said, infuriated.
'Uh-Oh.' Yami thought, as they all charged for him again. Yami did a back flip backwards, escaping a few punches, and landed on his feet again, getting in a stance ready to punch. Denki aimed a kick at Yami, but Yami jumped to the side, escaping it, and did a twirling kick on him. Denki
clasped onto his nose, as it started to bleed a little. "Ow!" he whimpered.
Yami let out a breath of air, as Jose ran after him again, but Yami punched him in the stomach just in time to stop him in his tracks. Yami began to pant a lot, as Jose tried to recover from the punch. Yami closed his eyes for a moment, only to have two other guards squeeze onto his arms,
Yami struggling to free himself, but failing.
"You think your so tough, eh?" sneered Denki, wiping blood from his nose, "Well, check this out!" Denki walked up to the defenseless Yami, and started punching him in the stomach. Yami held back cries of pain, not letting Denki feel proud of himself, and came out as short grunts.
Denki was laughing his head off, as Yami was unable to do anything to defend himself. He tried to not focus on the pain and escape, but found it very hard to do so.
Suddenly, a rock came falling from the sky, and hit one of the guards holding Yami on the head, forcing him to let go, and fall backwards. Another rock hit the other guard, and with a 'oof!', fell back as well, both of them unconscious. When Yami was released, he fell on his knees, and
started to pant a lot, clutching his stomach, and wincing a lot.
Denki had stopped his punching frenzy, and had a puzzled look on his face. "What the--?!" he sputtered, as another rock landed on his head. "Ow!" he squealed, rubbing his head in pain(Unlike the other two guards that were hit, Denki is smart, and doesn't fall unconscious just by being hit
in the head by a rock). "What the hell is going on here?! Get over here you cowards!" he sneered to the other guards.
The other guards were staring ahead, and looking in all directions to see where the rocks came from, but were having a hard time, and didn't feel like listening to Denki right now. Denki growled in frustration, but yelped in pain as another rock collided with his head.
"Take that, you bully!" Anzu whispered to herself, as she threw another rock at Denki, and him yelping out in pain. Anzu and Jou both giggled from behind the trees as Denki looked around, trying to find the source of the flying rocks.
Yami had been near the trees, though, and slowly looked behind himself after he heard some giggling. Yami's eyes widened when he saw Jou and Anzu right in front of him!
/Oh, no! Anzu! Jou!/
//I'm just as surprised as you are, Yugi.//
When Jou and Anzu had realized they were spotted, they grew pretty nervous.
"Um, hey, what's shakin'?" Jou asked trying to play innocent. Anzu and Jou both laughed nervously.
"You shouldn't be here," Yami said weakly, but in a stern and concerned voice.
"It's a good thing we came here, Yugi, or else you'd been toast!" Anzu exclaimed quietly.
Yami's eyes widened slightly, but then he sighed. "I'm not Yugi," he said quietly.
"Then who are ya?" Jou puzzled.
"Well, in a matter of speaking, I AM him, yet I am also not."
"Your really confusing me here," Jou said scratching his head.
Suddenly, Yami cried out in pain and surprise as a kick collided with his leg. "Well, I finally got some kind of REAL sign that you do in fact feel some sort of pain, Yami," Denki chuckled cruelly.
"Yami?" Anzu puzzled.
"Oh, you could tell him, but now us?" Jou frowned.
They shouldn't have said that, because Denki had heard the two speak. He looked up from Yami, who was growling angrily at him, and looked directly into Jou and Anzu's eyes. He smirked and chuckled as he saw the fear in their eyes. "Hey, guys, I found our little rock lovers.." he said to the other
guards. They all ran towards the trees, looking pretty pissed.
"Hehe," Anzu laughed nervously followed by a gulp.
Jose dashed into trees, and a few moments later, he came out, with Jou and Anzu in his arms, as they struggled to free themselves.
"Let us go!" demanded Anzu.
"Oh, and why should I?" sneered Jose.
Denki chuckled a bit, and kicked Yami for fun once more, but Yami didn't cry out again. He bit his lip, and weakly looked up, and gasped at Anzu and Jou. "No..!"
"Yes," Denki smirked, "They must mean something to you, eh? Well, they'll be joining you on the floor soon enough, Yami!"
Yami closed his eyes sadly, trying not to look into Anzu and Jou's look of despair in their eyes. "No.."
/We've got to do something!/
//I know, Aibou.//
/..Aibou?/
//We are sharing the same body, right?//
/Ya./
//Well, then I guess your my Aibou.//
/Heh. I guess your right, Yami. But we've got to save them! I've seen what they do to people who don't follow their orders, or do something they don't like!/
//I know, too..//
"No!" Yami suddenly shouted out, and before anyone could react, Stood up, limping very slightly, as he ran towards Jose, and kicked him in the gut. Jose recoiled, forcing himself to drop Jou and Anzu. "Run!" Yami gasped, as he kicked some more people who were running after him. Jou and Anzu didn't
have to argue; they ran away, and into the forest, and out of sight. With anger showing on his face, Yami dodged many coming attacks, not to mention gave some, too. Some after, most of the men were either on the ground, or were making reservations to land on the ground. Denki was getting pretty beat
up, too, while Jose was already on the ground. Denki's pine green eyes shone with anger, very similar to Yami's crimson-violet eyes, only for different reasons. Yami kicked down one other man, and his landed face first into the ground. Yami started to pant wild, and glared at Denki.
"W-what are you?" Denki sputtered, realizing he was the only one left up.
Yami blew some of his blonde bangs out of his face. "I'm the ally to good, and worst nightmare to you."
Denki was about to scramble away, when the eye of Horus appeared on Yami's forehead. "Sorry, but I can't let you remember this. If you do, then you'll be putting all of the women as well as my friends in danger." Yami closed his eyes, focusing as much power as he could muster from him, and yelled out,
his hand sticking outwards. A blast of invisible energy hit all of the guards, erasing their memories of the past events, and making Denki faint. The eye of Horus faded away, and Yami fell to his knees, incredibly exhausted. Yami started panting a lot.
/What did you do to them?/
//I just put a small memory spell on them. Don't worry, they'll be fine, Aibou.//
/Memory spell? How-/
//Please, don't ask, Aibou.//
Yami became Yugi once more, and Yugi collasped to the ground, and closed his eyes tightly, spiraling into a world of darkness...
~To Be Continued...~
A/N: Boy ,that was one long chapter! @_@ Don't expect anymore chapters that are over 5000 words long, unless Yami is fighting Pegasus or something. Anyways, thanks for reading! Please Review! ^^
