Mijikai: Sorry for the delay, and thank you all for the reviews! ^_^

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Slave The Colossium

Yami winced as the hot sand scraped his arm, and quickly pulled himself up.

His eyes widened as thousands of people surrounded him from above and they seemed to spin faster and faster till his eyes landed on a high balcony where the Emperor was seated.

He snarled and felt like calling upon a monster to devour that fucken bastard.

"My people!" Emperor Katsuya bellowed.

Everyone cheered.

"Today is a special treat! We have found a foreign slave and our greatest beast is ready to devour!"

Yami winced at the volume of the cheer.

It was deafening.

"Bring out the Lion!"

Yami whiped his head towards the opening iron gate and felt his courage freeze up as he saw a huge lion bounding out.

But it wasn't any ordinary lion, no.

It was Leo the King of Beasts.

Yami reconized the monster and searched for something to defend himself desperately, but knew it was to late as the lion ran towards him with amazing speed.

Yami dodged a leap and started running, but could hear snarls close behind.

He glanced behind him, and saw yellow eyes, filled with lust.

Unfortunately, he turned his eyes away to late, and smacked into the tile wall.

It took him a moment to come back to his senses, before seeing the huge body about to slam into him.

He rolled quickly to the left and jumped up, facing the lion in a fighting stance.

The lion stared at him, then bellowed a mighty roar and bounded towards him with agile leaps.

Yami couted slowly to five, then thrust his fist foreward, connecting it with the beasts stomach and taking hold, then taking his other, grabbing the mane, and threw him.

There was silence as the beast flew through the air and fell with a crash to the ground.

Every thing still...silent.

Yami slowly approached the beast, but it suddenly leaped to it's feet and sharp claws tore flesh.

Yami gasped, and let out a cry of pain as he grasped his bleeding arm.

Blood spurted out, and the pain dulled his senses, and didn't hear the lion leaping towards him again, and felt more pain hit him in the back.

He fell harshly to the ground, and lay there.

His breaths came raggedly, and felt something warm and sticky starting to pool beneath him.

He cried out as a huge paw slammed into his back and glanced up wearily into yellow eyes.

Yellow eyes.

Red eyes.

Red eyes.

Yami's eyes widened at the memory.

Those red eyes that didn't care that they killed such an innocent person.

Both yellow and red filled with lust for blood.

Yami gritted his teeth as he pulled himself up, and gave a battle cry as he grabbed the beast by the mane with both hands and threw him into a wall.

"Damn lion!" he shouted, as he staggered to stay standing. "You are only getting in the way of me getting my little one back!"

The lion shook it's head, but snapped it's head up, bellowing in pain, as Yami slammed all his body weight onto the lion.

With a huge swing, Yami was hit with it's paw and flew to the ground, but pulled himself back up.

"You will not stop me from getting Yugi back!" he shouted, as the lion started charging for him.

The lion roared angrily and leaped, knocking Yami down and pinning him down by placing his heavy paws onto his shoulders.

Both crimson and yellow glared at each other.

Suddenly, the trance was brocken when the lion jerked it's head down and bit Yami in the shoulder.

Yami winced, and squeezed his eyes shut, gritting his teeth, refusing to cry out.

But the sinking of teeth was agony and couldn't hold a scream down his throat.

"I summon Silver Fang! Go! Attack the lion!"

Yami felt the weight disappear, and just lay there.

He felt blood run from his three wounds and knew he was going to die.

'I'm sorry Yugi. I failed to get you back,' he thought sadly, and was ready to die, when he heard pattering of feet. 'Shit, the damn lion's back.'

He readied himself for the lions weight, but instead felt arms prop him up, and a hand on his cheek.

"Yami? Yami?" came a choked whisper. "Yami...wake up."

Yami felt his heart flutter.

'Could it be?'

His eyes fluttered as he struggled to open his eyes, and through small slits he saw that familiar face.

"Y...Yugi?" he managed. "Am I...dead?"

"No, not yet. But please don't! Please!"

Yami shook his head slightly, and forced his eyes open a little more, and could clearly see a tear stained face of Yugi.

A trembling hand caressed Yugi's cheek, and Yugi grabbed it and buried is face.

"How?"

"I'll...(sob) explain later. Just don't...die."

Yami slowly, painfully rose up, and with a big breath forced his arms around Yugi and pulled him into a hug.

Snarls were heard from far away, but with Yugi in his arms, he didn't care.

His eyes closed and everything turned to oblivion.

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Mijikai: Okay, it's short. I"m sorry! But the next chapter should be longer.

Yami: You killed me!

Mijikai: I did not!

Yugi: How did we escape the shadow realm. I thought Yami had to beat the lion to have that happen.

Mijikai: You'll find out in the next chapter.