-Yami Yugi
Yugi lied soundless on his bed. Gazing at the ceiling, he decided that it's best to rest for a while. His puzzle still wasn't finished yet. And another day had passed. How little sleep had he received, yet he could not fall asleep while something urged him to go on.
He had just woken up from his sleep. How long had he slept? That he wasn't sure, it was probably around nine o'clock right now. The last time he looked at the clock it was six o'clock. Adding up, he had about three hours of sleep. Was that enough?
His amethyst-purple eyes were half-open as he slid off the bed like a carpet and fell to him knees on the floor with his head down.
The box and puzzle pieces were right in front of him. Pursing with gold lights reflected from the sunlight. With whatever energy he had, he used it and took two pieces and put them together.
Click
It fitted together perfectly. Taking another piece, he added on to the two. Then connect them with the puzzle top that he had already started. Then he picked up a few more pieces and started to connect them each by each. His eyes were still half opened and dull while he did that, as if being hypnotized.
An hour later Solomon knocked on Yugi's bedroom door "Yugi, I'm coming in" he said before turning the doorknob and slowly push the door back. He stepped in and saw Yugi, asleep on the floor with a strange 3D pyramid puzzle by his side and a box.
Solomon shook his head, "This child sure can sleep." He sighed. He walked over and tried to pick him up, "And he's getting heavier by the days!"
Putting the golden box and puzzle besides his grandson's pillow, Solomon noticed that the puzzle was only missing one piece: The very end tip of the puzzle.
Yugi suddenly groan in his sleep and switch his sleeping position making him face where the puzzle and the box is. He was gripping something in his right hand, but enough to let Solomon see what he was gripping "Ah! The last piece!" He smiled.
He took the piece in his hand even thought Yugi was still gripping on it as well. He chuckled and inserted the piece into the awaiting hole. "There we go." He smiles. Then he headed out the door and closed it gently.
Yugi, still holding the last piece, was in his dreamland already. He grabbed the puzzle and brought it into his arms. Ignoring the fact that it was uncomfortable to be hugged with.
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The pair of garnet eyes looked up again. He sensed the power being unleashed back into the world, thought it was not enough to bring him out, the connection is still pretty strong. He felt a presence making an exit out for him from the room.
The spiky hair teenager stood up. His golden side bands bounced a bit as he did so. Walking to the hole, which was still small when he had last seen it. His eyes widen when he saw how much it'd changed, from a little hole to this. It was now big enough for a wardrobe to fit in, and certainly enough for him.
Poking his head into it first to check for signs, he was surprised to find that it had brought him to a meadow. Flowers and trees grew on the ground and different color birds flocked themselves about.
What is this place? Unseen before to the teen, he soon realized that it was a dream. A dream from whoever had connected with him.
Walking into the meadow he searched for the person, he was astonished to see the different colors. He had been the white chamber for too long, not used to the sudden change of colorful settings. Yes, it was too long. How long? He doesn't remember and it doesn't matter.
It wasn't long before he spotted someone. It looks like a mere boy in the age of eleven or so wearing purple woodland clothing. His back faced him as he played with his small flower ball. He seemed to be having fun with it. Thought he could not understand how that ball could've caught anyone's interest.
Walking closer, he noticed that the child in the woodland clothing seemed oddly familiar. There was a mirror back at the white chamber, where he'd usually looked at himself out of boredom and often wondered if that's what he really looked like.
The little boy laughed merrily and tossed his flower ball into the air and caught it when it fell back to the ground.
The taller boy stopped in a distance. His eyes widen when the little boy turned a bit, but enough for him to see his face. He looked exactly like him! Except that he looked younger, more innocent, he didn't have the blond hair at the top and he had light amethyst color eyes instead of bloody garnet.
The small elfin boy seemed to have finally noticed him as he stood up to face him, but he didn't look surprise, at least not that much comparing to him.
"Hello," he greeted the teen "Who are you?"
He didn't answer. He was still in shocked about the elfin boy in front of him. But the boy didn't look surprised, scared, or anything except that curious face. Is this what you feel when you dream? He never had one, so that's what he guessed.
It took him a few minutes to figure the whole thing out. About why he looked like him, and what is the reason behind this whole thing. He smiled darkly and stepped in front of the boy with his arm crossed.
"Who are you may I ask?" he replied.
"Yugi..." the small boy answered, suddenly uncertain about whether it was a good idea to greet him as he clenched the ball in his hands. Even in his dreams, he could see the teen clearly. He looked pretty much like him, and surprisingly to himself, he didn't found that so strange. "Who are you?" he asked again.
"Me?" the taller teen smirk "I am you, Yugi"
Yugi gulped and drew his ball closer to his arms. The petals were starting to lose its color as he squeezed it tightly upon his small hands "Who?"
"In another word, Yami, Yami Yugi"
"O-oh? Well...can I ask you?" he squeaked, looking down "Why do you look like me-no, why are you me?"
Yami stood still and asked back, "Why am I you? Why are you Yugi? Why does Yugi exist? And why do you look like this? If you can answer these questions, I can tell you why I am you."
Yugi stood there, speechless and unable to answer any of his questions.
Looking at the speechless boy, Yami smirked again and answered "Well, guess I can't answer you then."
Making a quick thought to change a subject, Yugi said "Why are you here?"
"Because you're dreaming, and when you're dreaming, your dream is the only place that I can access to. But if you gain more darkness, perhaps I can access to more..." he trailed off looking at another direction.
"More...?"
"You're waking up," Yami interrupted "You're dreamland is fading, and I shall have to go"
"Go? Wait, are you real?" Yugi asks hastily.
Yami turned to him, "I might be, and I might not be, it's all for you to choose. My path is for you to direct, so choose wisely for yourself..."
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Yugi's eyes fluttered and he stirred. Groaning and turned over. His eyes slowly opened, refreshed and suddenly energetic.
Who had he met again? His name...Yami Yugi? That person who look like him? Yes, Yami Yugi, that's it.
Then he started to question himself in his thoughts. What had he meant when he said that 'my path is for you to direct' and 'I am you'.
Could he actually be one of those people who got too desperate and made up someone? An imaginary friend? Well, not exactly, he hadn't been talking to the air, or whatever you call them. Yami. That name seemed utterly surprising.
He sat up, and the puzzle fell on his lap. The puzzle, why did he feel that Yami Yugi was somehow connected to the puzzle?
Yugi blinked. The puzzle was finished! The last time he looked, or when he had last remembered, it was barely halfway finished. Deciding that it's best to leave that alone for now, he jumped out of bed with the puzzle in his hand.
He had saved a string from one of his project. Taking it out from his drawer, he slid it through the small hanging hole at the other end of the puzzle. Then attached the ends together.
He dangled the puzzle in the air. It was golden like an upside-down pyramid with a strange eye in the center. It was a bit strange, but Yugi didn't mind. He smiled happily at it and said, "We'll be good friends Yami!"
a/n: This chapter is mostly about Yami Yugi and Yugi himself. What a hasty chapter, but I'm losing sleep, I'll load this another day...