Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the characters. The story
itself, however, is mine.
The door swung open almost the instant he'd touched it. He raced through the door hoping that it didn't lead him to whoever else was in the house, the last thing he needed was detention and to be charged for trespassing all on the same day. Lucky Jou, it didn't instead it led him to a flight of stairs and as the saying goes 'there's no where to go but up.' So the boy raced up the stairs to the second story of the house. However just as he thought he was safe Jou heard the footsteps again, closer this time.
"I've gotta get outta here!" Jou mumbled to himself.
He raced across the hall, ducking in and out of rooms to try and lose whoever was fallowing him. He kept dodging, kept running until he finally came to another stairwell, like the last, this one also leading up. The best thing to do in this particular situation would have been to find a way back downstairs to the first floor and out of the house, and Jou knew this but whoever was pursuing him sounded like they were getting closer. So he didn't really have a choice in the matter. Jou raced up the stairs in panic. He again raced down the corridor and started ducking in and out of rooms again. He kept this up for a long time until.well, until he got tired. Jou stopped abruptly, gasping and panting, in the middle of the hallway out of pure exhaustion. He figured that he couldn't run anymore, so he decided to duck into a room and hide until whoever was out there went away. Not a very smart plan, but nevertheless Jou jumped into the nearest room he could find, the library. Joey rushed inside, shut and locked the door, then jumped behind a rather large stand with a bust of a man resting on top.
"Oh man oh man oh man!" Jou muttered anxiously looking around for a better place to hide. "Hey maybe if I squat behind this thing whoever's chasing me won't see me when they come in." Jou then immediately went into a squatting position, his hand over his ears. He sat there for a while, all the time expecting someone to be banging on or breaking down the door. Instead he heard nothing except the ceaseless drumming of his petrified heart. After a while he, nervously, removed his hands from his ears and still heard nothing. He then got up and looked around the room, looking back at the door every few minutes to make sure the person outside didn't burst in and catch him off guard. The room, being a library, was wall-to-wall books, the floor was covered with a thick red carpet and there was a large wooden desk in the middle of the room. Over to the right side of the room, where Jou had been "hiding", there were five busts on small pillar like stands were lined up to the back of the room. The same held for the left side of the room. All the busts lead to a very large statue of a man in the back of the room. Jou, after realizing that no one was coming in after him decided to get up and have a better look around the room, he'd been particularly interested in the busts. He got up and examined on side then the other. All of the statues seemed to be of the same guy except for the last four which consisted of two children, that looked strangely familiar to Jou, and the heads of two creatures that Jou had never seen in his life, nor ever wanted to. Jou wandered to the back of the room to look at the statue and realized that it was the same man from all the busts he'd just examined.
"Wow," Jou thought to himself looking up at the statue, "This guy must've either been of a real big importance to who ever lived here, or had a really big head. Kind of a weird place to put it though.Hey! What's this?" Jou had looked toward the back of the statue to see if he could find the name of the man carved in stone to see what looked like a bit of gold. Intrigued by this new discovery Jou tried to find a way to get behind the statue. He stepped back from the statue and looked it over. He desperately wanted to know what was behind it but there seemed to be no way around it. Still standing in front of the statue he crossed his arms and squeezed his eyes shut trying to think of a way to get to the back. He stood there for about ten seconds before he decided to try and push it. He went over to the right side of the statue and pushed at first it didn't budge, but then after a few seconds it seemed slide across the floor as a boat on water.
Smiling to himself he turned around to see what he'd just unearthed. It was.a mirror about as tall as the ceiling and as wide as the boy standing in front of it. Jou looked at the mirror that reflected his shocked expression. Of all the things that could've been hidden behind that statue all he had found was a mirror. Still Jou went up to it and looked at it closer, he desperately wanted to believe that there was more to the mirror then this after all the person who put it here obviously didn't want it to be found. He examined the gold frame thinking that maybe there was some kind of code or something inscribed on it. However he found nothing but vines and roses carved into it. He was about to turn around and go when he remembered about the other person in the house. Jou didn't want to be stuck in this room for the rest of his life but he didn't want the person outside to catch him either.
Torn between both options Jou looked at his watch, it was 6:00; he'd wait five more minutes before making a break for downstairs. In the mean time he decided to amuse himself by making faces in the mirror. He turned his attention back to the mirror and began to make faces until he noticed that he couldn't see himself that well. He went closer to the mirror and started to, lightly, brush off the dust. As he was doing this he tried to stand on tiptoe to get the part over his head, his hand slipped and went right through the mirror.
The door swung open almost the instant he'd touched it. He raced through the door hoping that it didn't lead him to whoever else was in the house, the last thing he needed was detention and to be charged for trespassing all on the same day. Lucky Jou, it didn't instead it led him to a flight of stairs and as the saying goes 'there's no where to go but up.' So the boy raced up the stairs to the second story of the house. However just as he thought he was safe Jou heard the footsteps again, closer this time.
"I've gotta get outta here!" Jou mumbled to himself.
He raced across the hall, ducking in and out of rooms to try and lose whoever was fallowing him. He kept dodging, kept running until he finally came to another stairwell, like the last, this one also leading up. The best thing to do in this particular situation would have been to find a way back downstairs to the first floor and out of the house, and Jou knew this but whoever was pursuing him sounded like they were getting closer. So he didn't really have a choice in the matter. Jou raced up the stairs in panic. He again raced down the corridor and started ducking in and out of rooms again. He kept this up for a long time until.well, until he got tired. Jou stopped abruptly, gasping and panting, in the middle of the hallway out of pure exhaustion. He figured that he couldn't run anymore, so he decided to duck into a room and hide until whoever was out there went away. Not a very smart plan, but nevertheless Jou jumped into the nearest room he could find, the library. Joey rushed inside, shut and locked the door, then jumped behind a rather large stand with a bust of a man resting on top.
"Oh man oh man oh man!" Jou muttered anxiously looking around for a better place to hide. "Hey maybe if I squat behind this thing whoever's chasing me won't see me when they come in." Jou then immediately went into a squatting position, his hand over his ears. He sat there for a while, all the time expecting someone to be banging on or breaking down the door. Instead he heard nothing except the ceaseless drumming of his petrified heart. After a while he, nervously, removed his hands from his ears and still heard nothing. He then got up and looked around the room, looking back at the door every few minutes to make sure the person outside didn't burst in and catch him off guard. The room, being a library, was wall-to-wall books, the floor was covered with a thick red carpet and there was a large wooden desk in the middle of the room. Over to the right side of the room, where Jou had been "hiding", there were five busts on small pillar like stands were lined up to the back of the room. The same held for the left side of the room. All the busts lead to a very large statue of a man in the back of the room. Jou, after realizing that no one was coming in after him decided to get up and have a better look around the room, he'd been particularly interested in the busts. He got up and examined on side then the other. All of the statues seemed to be of the same guy except for the last four which consisted of two children, that looked strangely familiar to Jou, and the heads of two creatures that Jou had never seen in his life, nor ever wanted to. Jou wandered to the back of the room to look at the statue and realized that it was the same man from all the busts he'd just examined.
"Wow," Jou thought to himself looking up at the statue, "This guy must've either been of a real big importance to who ever lived here, or had a really big head. Kind of a weird place to put it though.Hey! What's this?" Jou had looked toward the back of the statue to see if he could find the name of the man carved in stone to see what looked like a bit of gold. Intrigued by this new discovery Jou tried to find a way to get behind the statue. He stepped back from the statue and looked it over. He desperately wanted to know what was behind it but there seemed to be no way around it. Still standing in front of the statue he crossed his arms and squeezed his eyes shut trying to think of a way to get to the back. He stood there for about ten seconds before he decided to try and push it. He went over to the right side of the statue and pushed at first it didn't budge, but then after a few seconds it seemed slide across the floor as a boat on water.
Smiling to himself he turned around to see what he'd just unearthed. It was.a mirror about as tall as the ceiling and as wide as the boy standing in front of it. Jou looked at the mirror that reflected his shocked expression. Of all the things that could've been hidden behind that statue all he had found was a mirror. Still Jou went up to it and looked at it closer, he desperately wanted to believe that there was more to the mirror then this after all the person who put it here obviously didn't want it to be found. He examined the gold frame thinking that maybe there was some kind of code or something inscribed on it. However he found nothing but vines and roses carved into it. He was about to turn around and go when he remembered about the other person in the house. Jou didn't want to be stuck in this room for the rest of his life but he didn't want the person outside to catch him either.
Torn between both options Jou looked at his watch, it was 6:00; he'd wait five more minutes before making a break for downstairs. In the mean time he decided to amuse himself by making faces in the mirror. He turned his attention back to the mirror and began to make faces until he noticed that he couldn't see himself that well. He went closer to the mirror and started to, lightly, brush off the dust. As he was doing this he tried to stand on tiptoe to get the part over his head, his hand slipped and went right through the mirror.