Mijikai: Okay, maybe not so soon as I had planned. Sorry. So I'm going to
shut up so you can enjoy the chapter!
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Domino Chapter Nine
"Yugi?" Yami whispered, mouth gapping, as he stared.
The man's blood red eyes turned towards him, and a smirk twitched upward.
"Yugi? Ha! Yugi is no more. I am Pharaoh Amunhotep. And show more respect!" he snarled.
Yami could only continue to gap.
"But...but, you _have_ to be Yugi! He can't be gone! NO!" Yami shouted as he hugged the broken body of the robot.
"Silence Mortal!" Pharaoh Amunhotep roared, that shook the room. "I am not Yugi! He is a robot while I am a son of a god!"
"Then if you are not Yugi, then you are his murderer. It was because of that puzzle that he lived," Yami said slowly, eyes not wavering from the killer stare the Pharaoh gave him.
"I said silence!"
"Not till you give me back Yugi!" Yami shouted, tears starting to form in his eyes. "Your fucken puzzle was the thing that kept him alive, now give it back!"
Pharaoh Amunhotep slowly walked towards Yami and held his face with one hand and held it steady as his blood eyes bore into Yami's violet.
"I don't fucken care if you want that fucken boy back," he hissed slowly. "Now you shut the fuck up or I'll be forced to make you."
"Then let's have it oh mighty Pharaoh!" Yami spat. "Let's see you try to shut me u-mh!"
Yami's words were cut off sharply as Pharaoh Amunhotep slammed his mouth against his. His violet eyes went wide, and tried to break free, but the Pharaoh's hand held his face in place, and he let out a muffled cry of pain as the Pharaoh slowly removed his mouth from his, and smirked as blood dribbled from Yami's lips. With the flick of the Pharaoh's tongue, he licked the coat of blood that had stained his own lips.
"I usually rip annoying people like you's tongues out but your lucky I only settled to biting it to make it bleed."
'Bastard!' Yami shouted in his mind, since his mouth was in to much pain to move.
Pharaoh Amunhotep slowly spun around and with grace and a high head walked up to the alter and with a flick of his hand, it all crumbled and a golden chair rose up in it's place and he sat in it, and bord down on everyone. Everyone was to stunned to speak, till Pegusas broke the silence.
"Your highness," he said with a sweeping bow, and the Pharaoh's red eyes flickered down to him. "If I may speak..."
"Speak now then!" he snarled, as his eyes hardened.
"Yes, yes...it is said you would grant a wish for your freedom, and give unimaginable power to the one who had freed you. And..."
"And you expect me to fullfill what it says on the ancient scripts?" Pharaoh Amunhotep asked, eyes narrowing.
"Yes."
A smirk adorned his face as he slowly rose, and flung his cape back.
"Very well," he said quietly, and held his hands up high.
Thunder and lightning clashed up in the sky and a huge force was pulled from the floor, causing loose debrise and items to fly up into the air. The people settled to dropping to their knees on the floor, or clinging to pillers that were strong enough to withstand the whirl wind. Pharaoh Amunhotep's puzzle glowed as did he and the third eye of Seth appeared on his forehead, and his eyes became glazed.
"I, son of Seth, grandson of Ra, command the shadows to part and open up the realm, that has ceased to exist, once more!" he chanted, and the lightning from above sped down and hit the middle of the eye in the room, causing a light to form the outline of a huge rectangle.
Another line split it in half and, like a door, it swung open and black and blue swirling colors seeped out of its captivity.
"Go, for I am Amunhotep, son of Seth, son of you, devour all those who dared turn upon me long ago! Kill all those who are still loyal to the God Osiris, Horus, and Ra!" he commanded, "And, don't forget to have a little fun while your at it," he added evilly and a huge surge of colors rushed out of the door and out of the many ways out of the room, leaving all, except Pegusas, to gap in fear, as the Pharaoh bellowed out a cruel merthless laugh.
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The Dark Magician panted as he ran with the Dark Magician Girl behind him and glanced behind them to see the roaring see of blue and black persuing close behind.
"Hurry, please!" he begged to her, and she painfully nodded as she strained her already aching legs on.
The both ran down the empty street of now broken buildings and discarded bodies the evil realm had feasted on, lieing face up, blood and flesh sucked out of their bodies. Some were even young children who helplessly were left behind.
The Dark Magician tore his gaze away from the horrid sight and winced as he splashed through a puddle of blood as he turned into an ally way. They continued to run down the dark ally, gray clouds hovering above them, but refusing any rain.
'We must get away,' he thought as he panted and the pounding of their footsteps echoed in his ears. 'We must find some help.'
Suddenly, The Dark Magician Girl tripped and crashed to the floor, and the colors surged forward.
"Ahhhhh!" she screamed as it neared her, and the Dark Magician stopped and turned to see half of her body being devored.
"No!" he shouted, but she was gone as she disappeared into the colors. "No."
He ran towards her, and dragged her corps from the colors and ran before stopping and dropped to his knees, and bowed his head as tears fell from his blue eyes as he gazed upon his love's dead face. He wouldn't run, not anymore. Not without her. He waited, numb of feeling, as the colors of the Shadow Realm roared towards him, and soon was upon him and he hugged her bony corps to him.
'I shall join you soon, my love,' was his last thought before his face disappeared in the colors and his lifeless corpse was left to lie there on top of his love.
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Anzu ran with the crowd of people to escape those mysterious colors that killed people and caused decay as it brushed the buildings sides. All the remaining people of the town of Domino rushed towards the shelter they had built for sunami's, huge earthquakes, or other dangerous things. It was mostly an underground room, with stored food, blankets, and comforts for people to live on till the danger passed.
She hurried inside and once the huge doors were closed and bolted, the lanterns were lit and hung so the people wouldn't have to sit in total darkness. Most people were huddled together, while parents hugged their children tightly, and most wept for their loss of loved ones that didn't make it.
Anzu sat croached in a corner, and wrapped a blanket around herself tightly, and looking around the crowd, but was deeply disappointed to find not a trace of her parents, or Yami. She bowed her head and cried silently, for she knew that if they weren't in here, then they were victims of the mysterious evil devorers. She was alone. And her heart was shattered.
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Pharaoh Amunhotep sat heavily back on his chair, and a sickening smirk adorned his lips. Pegusas was smiling insanely and almost jumping up and down like a child.
"And now my Pharaoh, I wish to be reunited with my beloved Cecilia!"
Pharaoh Amunhotep smirk widened, and an evil glint shone in his red eyes that went un-noticed by Pegusas.
"Very well. Shadows of Seth, I son of Seth call upon thee to grant his wish."
The Shadow Realm seeped upon Pegusas, and his insane happiness disppeared to horrid terror as it seeped into every pore into his body, and his hair started smoking as blood flood from his ears and nose and finger tips.
"What...! My Lord what are you doing!" he screamed.
"Letting you rejoin your wife...in _death_."
"Cecilia," he whispered, and fell to the floor, dead, eyes glazed as blood pooled around his head, and the colors seeped out of his body and Pharaoh Amunhotep watched with an insane smile on his face.
"You're mad!" Sugoroku shouted, and Pharaoh Amunhotep's eyes snapped onto him, his insane smile leaving his face and forming into a snarl.
"He was a fool. An idiot, like all the lot of you."
"Why are you killing everyone!"shouted Seto for the first time. "You just ordered this Shadow Realm to kill people who had worshipped Ra, Horus, or Osiris, and to feast on people which I bet will be everyone."
"You know me well," was his only comment.
"Why are you doing this? It's madness!" Seto asked, and the Pharaoh suddenly stiffened and fire literally burned in his eyes.
"Is it mad to want revenge?" he asked in a deadly hiss. "Is it mad for someone to lock you up for centuries and having to live in a weak corpse like him?" he asked, and with a flick of his hand, Yugi's body disinigrated into dust.
"Yugi!" Yami managed to shout, but winced, as his tongue throbbed. "Bastard! You killer!"
"Oh, what's this I see? Did you have..._feelings_ for the boy?" he asked slowly, voice dripping with amusment and venom and with an emotion that Yami couldn't place.
Yami blushed, but did not go for the bait.
"You keep out of my buisness!" he shouted.
"You loved him didn't you," he asked with a smirk. "But poor innocent Yami. Didn't you realize that a robot has no feelings?"
"That's not true," Yami whispered. "Yugi had a lot of feelings, and..."
Yami suddenly stopped and stared. For a moment, he swore he saw an image of Yugi's face replacing the Pharaoh's.
'Could..it be that Yugi is still alive?' he thought.
"Pharaoh Amunhotep," he said slowly, changing the subject. "do you have feelings?"
The Pharaoh's face faltered, before hardening into a death glare.
"How dare you ask me such a thing you insolent brat!" and a rush of wind threw Yami into the wall, where he lay there, groaning in pain. "Don't talk with such emotions with me."
Yami slowly rose back up with the help of Sugoroku, swaying a bit, but was still able to stay on his two feet.
Suddenly, a huge light lit up on the open roof top and a surge of a white bolt struck the floor and split it in half, opening up the whole building, flaring fire licking upwards. Pharaoh Amunhotep looked up at the light bluntly.
"So Ra, you've come to kill me and cast me into the fire pit of Anubis."
There was another bolt of white lightening and it struck behind him and the force of such power threw him across the room, and slidding near the open crack in the middle of the floor, causing the Millenium puzzle to fly off his neck and shatter as it hit the floor. He slowly strained up and with a fling of his hand, the dark colors of the Shadow Realm rose up and attempted to shoot up into the light, but the Light knocked the darkness away like it was nothing and worriness flickered across his features as the light quickly started over coming the darkness, and another bolt of lightening hit close to the Pharaoh and the stone cracked and started tipping.
"Whaaaaaaaaaa!" Pharaoh Amunhotep shouted as he started tilting towards the boiling fire of Anubis, when a hand shot out and grabbed his.
He slowly looked up and his red eyes met violet.
"You!" he snarled.
"Hold on, I'll pull you up!" Yami shouted, but his grip kept slipping and the Pharaoh wasn't exactly light enough to pull up easily.
"Let me go! I rather die then be saved by a mortal!" he spat and Yami cried out as he felt burning pain sear up his hand.
"S...stop that!" he shouted. "I don't want to lose you!"
Pharaoh Amunhotep's eyes narrowed.
"Why?"
"Becuase deep inside, I know you are there, Yugi. I saw you, I saw your fear."
"I told you Yugi was no more you fucken idiot!" Pharaoh shouted.
"Yugi, I know you are still there. I saw you through Amunhotep's mask of evil. I _know_ you are there," Yami said quietly, and tightened his grip around the Pharaoh's as he felt it slip.
He panted with the strain of holding him, and tried pulling up but only collapsed back down, panting even more.
'It's no use, he's too heavy,' Yami thought.
"Yugi," he said again. "I know you're there."
Pharaoh Amunhotep felt something happening inside of him. Something he hadn't felt for centuries, something he hadn't felt since he had become Pharaoh Amunhotep.
"Yugi, I love you."
With a gasp, his eyes suddenly blanked out and slowly his hardened features softened, his body shrunk, his clothes became modern and his blood red eyes became its once more, beautiful amethyst.
"Yugi."
Yugi slowly looked up at Yami, tears running down his face.
"Yami," he whispered, and his small hand started slipping. "I'm afraid."
"Afraid of what?" he asked gently, to sooth the young one, though he thought he knew perfectly why he was afraid.
"I'm afraid...of being forgotten...like long ago. My people forgot me and I became Amunhotep, but you freed me again," Yugi whispered. "And...I don't want to be forgotten again."
"Yugi," Yami said lovingly. "I'd never forget you."
Yugi sniffed as he continued to gaze up at him.
"Yami, thank you," he whispered and his hand slipped so Yami was only grasping his finger tips. "I love you."
His small hand slipped from Yami's grasp and he fell into the roaring flames.
"YUGI!" Yami screamed as tears sprang from his eyes.
The ground shook violently as the ground closed up again, sealing itself so it looked like nothing had ever happened to it, and the Light above shone upon the whole city of Domino. Every scrap of the Shadow Realm had diminished and the heavy gray clouds broke and the sun shone. The danger had passed. The danger was dead.
Yami continued to cry on all fours, pounding the ground till his hand bled.
"Yugi!" he shouted. "YUGI!"
Arms wrapped around him and he continued to sob on his Grandpa's shoulder, as Sugoroku patted his distressed grandson on the back.
"Shhhhh, it's alright," he whispered, and waited patiently till Yami was out of tears and sniffing.
He brought Yami up and tugged on his sleeve sadly.
"Let's go home Yami," he whispered quietly, "if it hasn't been destroyed yet."
Yami reluctently nodded and Sugoroku slowly went out of the room and with one last look, Yami too left, leaving Seto, who had been mostly quiet the whole time, stood there, hands shoved into his pockets as he gazed upon the eye, with the scattered pieces. Once outside, Yami and Sugoroku was able to see the full extent of damage the Shadow Realm had done, and at the same time, people who had been in the shelter started coming out and greeting the blessed morning. With a heavy sigh Yami looked back at the top of Pegusas Corp and let a single tear fall from his eye.
'Fare well Yugi. Farewell...I'll never forget you. I love you.'
Up on the last floor on top of the eye on the middle of the floor, was the scattered pieces of the Millenium Puzzle, and on the pupil of the carving was the piece with the eye of Ra printed on it. On that piece a drop slowly slid from the end of the eye, like a tear drop of happiness that Amunhotep was gone, and Light shone once more.
The End
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Mijikai: And that's the end of Domino. I shall now run for the border as I'm showered with protests. (runs away)
Yami: You killed Yugi! Animal! (runs after her)
Yugi: (sigh)
Mijikai: (running) Please review, even though its a sad ending! Thanks to all readers! And check out my other fanfics if you want a different choice of theme!
A/N: A new authoress named Neferket posted her first story. Please read and review. Please?
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Domino Chapter Nine
"Yugi?" Yami whispered, mouth gapping, as he stared.
The man's blood red eyes turned towards him, and a smirk twitched upward.
"Yugi? Ha! Yugi is no more. I am Pharaoh Amunhotep. And show more respect!" he snarled.
Yami could only continue to gap.
"But...but, you _have_ to be Yugi! He can't be gone! NO!" Yami shouted as he hugged the broken body of the robot.
"Silence Mortal!" Pharaoh Amunhotep roared, that shook the room. "I am not Yugi! He is a robot while I am a son of a god!"
"Then if you are not Yugi, then you are his murderer. It was because of that puzzle that he lived," Yami said slowly, eyes not wavering from the killer stare the Pharaoh gave him.
"I said silence!"
"Not till you give me back Yugi!" Yami shouted, tears starting to form in his eyes. "Your fucken puzzle was the thing that kept him alive, now give it back!"
Pharaoh Amunhotep slowly walked towards Yami and held his face with one hand and held it steady as his blood eyes bore into Yami's violet.
"I don't fucken care if you want that fucken boy back," he hissed slowly. "Now you shut the fuck up or I'll be forced to make you."
"Then let's have it oh mighty Pharaoh!" Yami spat. "Let's see you try to shut me u-mh!"
Yami's words were cut off sharply as Pharaoh Amunhotep slammed his mouth against his. His violet eyes went wide, and tried to break free, but the Pharaoh's hand held his face in place, and he let out a muffled cry of pain as the Pharaoh slowly removed his mouth from his, and smirked as blood dribbled from Yami's lips. With the flick of the Pharaoh's tongue, he licked the coat of blood that had stained his own lips.
"I usually rip annoying people like you's tongues out but your lucky I only settled to biting it to make it bleed."
'Bastard!' Yami shouted in his mind, since his mouth was in to much pain to move.
Pharaoh Amunhotep slowly spun around and with grace and a high head walked up to the alter and with a flick of his hand, it all crumbled and a golden chair rose up in it's place and he sat in it, and bord down on everyone. Everyone was to stunned to speak, till Pegusas broke the silence.
"Your highness," he said with a sweeping bow, and the Pharaoh's red eyes flickered down to him. "If I may speak..."
"Speak now then!" he snarled, as his eyes hardened.
"Yes, yes...it is said you would grant a wish for your freedom, and give unimaginable power to the one who had freed you. And..."
"And you expect me to fullfill what it says on the ancient scripts?" Pharaoh Amunhotep asked, eyes narrowing.
"Yes."
A smirk adorned his face as he slowly rose, and flung his cape back.
"Very well," he said quietly, and held his hands up high.
Thunder and lightning clashed up in the sky and a huge force was pulled from the floor, causing loose debrise and items to fly up into the air. The people settled to dropping to their knees on the floor, or clinging to pillers that were strong enough to withstand the whirl wind. Pharaoh Amunhotep's puzzle glowed as did he and the third eye of Seth appeared on his forehead, and his eyes became glazed.
"I, son of Seth, grandson of Ra, command the shadows to part and open up the realm, that has ceased to exist, once more!" he chanted, and the lightning from above sped down and hit the middle of the eye in the room, causing a light to form the outline of a huge rectangle.
Another line split it in half and, like a door, it swung open and black and blue swirling colors seeped out of its captivity.
"Go, for I am Amunhotep, son of Seth, son of you, devour all those who dared turn upon me long ago! Kill all those who are still loyal to the God Osiris, Horus, and Ra!" he commanded, "And, don't forget to have a little fun while your at it," he added evilly and a huge surge of colors rushed out of the door and out of the many ways out of the room, leaving all, except Pegusas, to gap in fear, as the Pharaoh bellowed out a cruel merthless laugh.
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The Dark Magician panted as he ran with the Dark Magician Girl behind him and glanced behind them to see the roaring see of blue and black persuing close behind.
"Hurry, please!" he begged to her, and she painfully nodded as she strained her already aching legs on.
The both ran down the empty street of now broken buildings and discarded bodies the evil realm had feasted on, lieing face up, blood and flesh sucked out of their bodies. Some were even young children who helplessly were left behind.
The Dark Magician tore his gaze away from the horrid sight and winced as he splashed through a puddle of blood as he turned into an ally way. They continued to run down the dark ally, gray clouds hovering above them, but refusing any rain.
'We must get away,' he thought as he panted and the pounding of their footsteps echoed in his ears. 'We must find some help.'
Suddenly, The Dark Magician Girl tripped and crashed to the floor, and the colors surged forward.
"Ahhhhh!" she screamed as it neared her, and the Dark Magician stopped and turned to see half of her body being devored.
"No!" he shouted, but she was gone as she disappeared into the colors. "No."
He ran towards her, and dragged her corps from the colors and ran before stopping and dropped to his knees, and bowed his head as tears fell from his blue eyes as he gazed upon his love's dead face. He wouldn't run, not anymore. Not without her. He waited, numb of feeling, as the colors of the Shadow Realm roared towards him, and soon was upon him and he hugged her bony corps to him.
'I shall join you soon, my love,' was his last thought before his face disappeared in the colors and his lifeless corpse was left to lie there on top of his love.
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Anzu ran with the crowd of people to escape those mysterious colors that killed people and caused decay as it brushed the buildings sides. All the remaining people of the town of Domino rushed towards the shelter they had built for sunami's, huge earthquakes, or other dangerous things. It was mostly an underground room, with stored food, blankets, and comforts for people to live on till the danger passed.
She hurried inside and once the huge doors were closed and bolted, the lanterns were lit and hung so the people wouldn't have to sit in total darkness. Most people were huddled together, while parents hugged their children tightly, and most wept for their loss of loved ones that didn't make it.
Anzu sat croached in a corner, and wrapped a blanket around herself tightly, and looking around the crowd, but was deeply disappointed to find not a trace of her parents, or Yami. She bowed her head and cried silently, for she knew that if they weren't in here, then they were victims of the mysterious evil devorers. She was alone. And her heart was shattered.
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Pharaoh Amunhotep sat heavily back on his chair, and a sickening smirk adorned his lips. Pegusas was smiling insanely and almost jumping up and down like a child.
"And now my Pharaoh, I wish to be reunited with my beloved Cecilia!"
Pharaoh Amunhotep smirk widened, and an evil glint shone in his red eyes that went un-noticed by Pegusas.
"Very well. Shadows of Seth, I son of Seth call upon thee to grant his wish."
The Shadow Realm seeped upon Pegusas, and his insane happiness disppeared to horrid terror as it seeped into every pore into his body, and his hair started smoking as blood flood from his ears and nose and finger tips.
"What...! My Lord what are you doing!" he screamed.
"Letting you rejoin your wife...in _death_."
"Cecilia," he whispered, and fell to the floor, dead, eyes glazed as blood pooled around his head, and the colors seeped out of his body and Pharaoh Amunhotep watched with an insane smile on his face.
"You're mad!" Sugoroku shouted, and Pharaoh Amunhotep's eyes snapped onto him, his insane smile leaving his face and forming into a snarl.
"He was a fool. An idiot, like all the lot of you."
"Why are you killing everyone!"shouted Seto for the first time. "You just ordered this Shadow Realm to kill people who had worshipped Ra, Horus, or Osiris, and to feast on people which I bet will be everyone."
"You know me well," was his only comment.
"Why are you doing this? It's madness!" Seto asked, and the Pharaoh suddenly stiffened and fire literally burned in his eyes.
"Is it mad to want revenge?" he asked in a deadly hiss. "Is it mad for someone to lock you up for centuries and having to live in a weak corpse like him?" he asked, and with a flick of his hand, Yugi's body disinigrated into dust.
"Yugi!" Yami managed to shout, but winced, as his tongue throbbed. "Bastard! You killer!"
"Oh, what's this I see? Did you have..._feelings_ for the boy?" he asked slowly, voice dripping with amusment and venom and with an emotion that Yami couldn't place.
Yami blushed, but did not go for the bait.
"You keep out of my buisness!" he shouted.
"You loved him didn't you," he asked with a smirk. "But poor innocent Yami. Didn't you realize that a robot has no feelings?"
"That's not true," Yami whispered. "Yugi had a lot of feelings, and..."
Yami suddenly stopped and stared. For a moment, he swore he saw an image of Yugi's face replacing the Pharaoh's.
'Could..it be that Yugi is still alive?' he thought.
"Pharaoh Amunhotep," he said slowly, changing the subject. "do you have feelings?"
The Pharaoh's face faltered, before hardening into a death glare.
"How dare you ask me such a thing you insolent brat!" and a rush of wind threw Yami into the wall, where he lay there, groaning in pain. "Don't talk with such emotions with me."
Yami slowly rose back up with the help of Sugoroku, swaying a bit, but was still able to stay on his two feet.
Suddenly, a huge light lit up on the open roof top and a surge of a white bolt struck the floor and split it in half, opening up the whole building, flaring fire licking upwards. Pharaoh Amunhotep looked up at the light bluntly.
"So Ra, you've come to kill me and cast me into the fire pit of Anubis."
There was another bolt of white lightening and it struck behind him and the force of such power threw him across the room, and slidding near the open crack in the middle of the floor, causing the Millenium puzzle to fly off his neck and shatter as it hit the floor. He slowly strained up and with a fling of his hand, the dark colors of the Shadow Realm rose up and attempted to shoot up into the light, but the Light knocked the darkness away like it was nothing and worriness flickered across his features as the light quickly started over coming the darkness, and another bolt of lightening hit close to the Pharaoh and the stone cracked and started tipping.
"Whaaaaaaaaaa!" Pharaoh Amunhotep shouted as he started tilting towards the boiling fire of Anubis, when a hand shot out and grabbed his.
He slowly looked up and his red eyes met violet.
"You!" he snarled.
"Hold on, I'll pull you up!" Yami shouted, but his grip kept slipping and the Pharaoh wasn't exactly light enough to pull up easily.
"Let me go! I rather die then be saved by a mortal!" he spat and Yami cried out as he felt burning pain sear up his hand.
"S...stop that!" he shouted. "I don't want to lose you!"
Pharaoh Amunhotep's eyes narrowed.
"Why?"
"Becuase deep inside, I know you are there, Yugi. I saw you, I saw your fear."
"I told you Yugi was no more you fucken idiot!" Pharaoh shouted.
"Yugi, I know you are still there. I saw you through Amunhotep's mask of evil. I _know_ you are there," Yami said quietly, and tightened his grip around the Pharaoh's as he felt it slip.
He panted with the strain of holding him, and tried pulling up but only collapsed back down, panting even more.
'It's no use, he's too heavy,' Yami thought.
"Yugi," he said again. "I know you're there."
Pharaoh Amunhotep felt something happening inside of him. Something he hadn't felt for centuries, something he hadn't felt since he had become Pharaoh Amunhotep.
"Yugi, I love you."
With a gasp, his eyes suddenly blanked out and slowly his hardened features softened, his body shrunk, his clothes became modern and his blood red eyes became its once more, beautiful amethyst.
"Yugi."
Yugi slowly looked up at Yami, tears running down his face.
"Yami," he whispered, and his small hand started slipping. "I'm afraid."
"Afraid of what?" he asked gently, to sooth the young one, though he thought he knew perfectly why he was afraid.
"I'm afraid...of being forgotten...like long ago. My people forgot me and I became Amunhotep, but you freed me again," Yugi whispered. "And...I don't want to be forgotten again."
"Yugi," Yami said lovingly. "I'd never forget you."
Yugi sniffed as he continued to gaze up at him.
"Yami, thank you," he whispered and his hand slipped so Yami was only grasping his finger tips. "I love you."
His small hand slipped from Yami's grasp and he fell into the roaring flames.
"YUGI!" Yami screamed as tears sprang from his eyes.
The ground shook violently as the ground closed up again, sealing itself so it looked like nothing had ever happened to it, and the Light above shone upon the whole city of Domino. Every scrap of the Shadow Realm had diminished and the heavy gray clouds broke and the sun shone. The danger had passed. The danger was dead.
Yami continued to cry on all fours, pounding the ground till his hand bled.
"Yugi!" he shouted. "YUGI!"
Arms wrapped around him and he continued to sob on his Grandpa's shoulder, as Sugoroku patted his distressed grandson on the back.
"Shhhhh, it's alright," he whispered, and waited patiently till Yami was out of tears and sniffing.
He brought Yami up and tugged on his sleeve sadly.
"Let's go home Yami," he whispered quietly, "if it hasn't been destroyed yet."
Yami reluctently nodded and Sugoroku slowly went out of the room and with one last look, Yami too left, leaving Seto, who had been mostly quiet the whole time, stood there, hands shoved into his pockets as he gazed upon the eye, with the scattered pieces. Once outside, Yami and Sugoroku was able to see the full extent of damage the Shadow Realm had done, and at the same time, people who had been in the shelter started coming out and greeting the blessed morning. With a heavy sigh Yami looked back at the top of Pegusas Corp and let a single tear fall from his eye.
'Fare well Yugi. Farewell...I'll never forget you. I love you.'
Up on the last floor on top of the eye on the middle of the floor, was the scattered pieces of the Millenium Puzzle, and on the pupil of the carving was the piece with the eye of Ra printed on it. On that piece a drop slowly slid from the end of the eye, like a tear drop of happiness that Amunhotep was gone, and Light shone once more.
The End
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Mijikai: And that's the end of Domino. I shall now run for the border as I'm showered with protests. (runs away)
Yami: You killed Yugi! Animal! (runs after her)
Yugi: (sigh)
Mijikai: (running) Please review, even though its a sad ending! Thanks to all readers! And check out my other fanfics if you want a different choice of theme!
A/N: A new authoress named Neferket posted her first story. Please read and review. Please?
