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Lady D. Nightshade: Hello everyone I am here as promised. It is the 19th and I have uploaded the next chapter. No muse dialogue today so on to the author thank you comments.
Athar-Luna- ^_^ So glad I didn't disappoint you with the new chapter. I loved writing this chapter especially the part with Yami being all seductive and what not, LOL ^_~. Ah yes I love all my muses, they are so great. ^_^ The scene were Yami kills his maker, wow talk about rage on Yami's part, but I loved writing that part because Yami is his own man, he doesn't need to have a master. Oh my God girl, I can't wait for Saturday. My hands are itching with anticipation of getting the potter. I think I might even go and get it at midnight, but it seems like it might be too crazy at night, so if I don't do that I'll probably get it Saturday like past 8 am. Man I don't think I'll be able to sleep. ^_^
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Chapter 14- The Full Past Revealed
The figure stepped forward into the light and Yami sighed in annoyance. "What the hell are you doing?" The figure asked him, equally annoyed or was it anger in his voice.
"I could ask you the same thing." Yami replied annoyed. "You never learn, do you, Yugi?"
Yugi smiled ironically. "I guess we have that in common." He retorted.
Yami released a mirthless laugh. Yugi noticed Téa lying motionless on the bed and he advanced forward.
"No, no, no," Yami singsong. "Don't come any closer!" Yami warned him.
Yugi stopped in his tracks. "What the hell did you do to her?" Yugi asked looking at Téa.
Yami kept his eyes on Yugi. "I did what you were afraid to do. I let her see the true me." Yami told him.
Yugi looked shocked at Yami's revelation. "She let you do that with her? Did you tell her all the risks?" Yugi asked him.
"Of course I did!" Yami replied defensively.
"I don't believe you!" Yugi replied.
"Believe what you want." Yami lay down beside an apparently sleeping Téa on the bed. He lay close to her that the line of their bodies touched.
Yugi quickly looked away as an image of Yami and Anzu flowed into his mind. "Yami, get away from her!" Yugi yelled angrily.
Yami laughed a laugh full of amusement. He quickly realized that Yugi was remembering him with Anzu. "Why? Does it remind you of something you've seen before?" Yami taunted him. He leaned his face over Téa and mimicked the scene from long ago. Yami laughed again and turned to Yugi with a mocking smile on his face. Yugi's face on the other hand was contorted with fury.
In an instant a still laughing Yami flew off the bed and landed roughly on the floor. Yami stayed on the floor for a second; he had been caught completely off guard. Then he broke into laugher again as he righted himself off the floor. "Look who's all powerful!" He mocked.
Yugi glared at him. "Like you said once before Yami, 'things have changed'." Yugi replied. Yugi tried to throw another wave of power at him, but Yami stopped the attack.
"Yes, they have changed." Yami agreed and he threw Yugi's power back at him. The power hit Yugi on the chest and he staggered. He grabbed onto the wall and the glass door to keep from falling.
Yugi and Yami both righted themselves and immediately threw power at each other. They both hit each other and they screamed out in agony.
"So much power! Where did you get that power?" Yami asked Yugi panting.
"Wouldn't you like to know!" Yugi replied smartly.
"Whatever, this ends now!" Yami said and he vanished.
"Where the-" Yugi was cut off as Yami appeared in front of him. Yami grabbed onto Yugi's shoulders.
"Yes, I would like to know." Yami told him. He jerked Yugi's head to the side roughly and bit into Yugi's neck.
Yugi screamed out in pain as Yami drank from him. Yugi struggled against him, but he couldn't pull him off. So he did the only thing he could. He noticed Yami's bare shoulder and he bit into it. Yami groaned in pain but he kept his mouth against Yugi's flesh.
Something was wrong, the twins could feel it. They tried to pull away from each other but they couldn't. Something was holding them together. They continued to drink from each other and then everything went black.
~Lets just say this is a place in the twins' minds that appeared because of the twins connection~
Yami and Yugi rose from the ground and glanced around the vast darkness that surrounded them.
"Where the hell are we?" Yami asked aloud.
"I don't know." Yugi answered.
Suddenly the darkness around them began to fade and fill with light and colors. Those things resembled a very familiar place.
"Our old house." Yami observed.
Yugi didn't say a word, he was staring at a corner of the room.
"What is it?" Yami asked and he turned to look at what Yugi was staring at. Yami's eyes opened wide in surprise. He was seeing Yugi and Anzu holding each other.
"No, no, let me out of here!" Yugi cried frantically. He backed away from the scene, but there was no where to run.
"What's wrong?" Yami turned and asked him.
Yugi had knelt down onto the ground and he raised his head to look at Yami. There were tears in his eyes. "This is my memory of Anzu's death." Yugi told him.
Yami frowned at him and he turned back to look at the past Yugi with Anzu.
"I don't want to be here!" Yugi pleaded. He let his head fall back down away from the scene.
Yami turned and was about to say something when a voice spoke out. The voice turned his attention back to the memory.
~Yugi's memory~
"You should be afraid." A male voice spoke out. "You never should have messed with someone as powerful as me." The voice continued.
Yugi pushed Anzu behind him to protect her. "Who are you? Show yourself!" Yugi demanded.
A cloud of mist appeared in the room. In the swirling madness of the mist the figure of a man slowly materialized. He was dressed in a dark red suit. He had white hair that went past his shoulders. He had amber eyes that showed pure madness.
"Who are you?" Yugi asked again.
"My name is Maximillion Pegasus and don't be coy with me. You know who I am." He told him.
"I've never seen or heard of you in my whole life." Yugi replied truthfully.
"Really? Is that so?" Pegasus replied. He took a few steps toward them. "There is no mistake. You are the one that killed my beloved wife." He told him.
Yugi made sure he was protecting Anzu. "I don't know what you're talking about." Yugi replied.
"Liar!" Pegasus shouted. With the wave of one hand he sent Yugi flying across the room. Yugi hit the wall with a loud crack.
"Yugi!" Anzu screamed. She tried to run to Yugi's side, but Pegasus appeared in front of her blockading her path.
"Don't interfere." Pegasus warned her. "If you do, you'll spoil my plans." He said through a charming smile.
Pegasus turned back to Yugi, who was trying to get too his feet. A line of blood cascaded down on the side of his mouth. As Pegasus looked at him with a crazed look in his eye, Yugi wiped the blood away.
Yugi ran forward very awkwardly and tried to punch Pegasus, instead of hitting Pegasus, he was thrown back against the wall as harshly as before. Yugi heard something crack when his body had made contact with the wall. He slid off the wall and slumped down onto his knees on the floor.
"Yugi!" He heard Anzu call out to him.
He touched the back of his head and it came back stained with blood. He coughed violently and blood splattered onto the carpet.
"Stop hurting him!" Anzu screamed at Pegasus. She jumped onto Pegasus back and proceeded to hit him. Pegasus flung her like she was a small bothersome fly.
"Stupid girl!" Pegasus yelled at her. He advanced toward her as Anzu scooted away by dragging herself backwards on the floor.
Meanwhile a terribly wounded Yugi rose to his feet. He swayed on his feet but he stayed standing. "Leave her out of this!" Yugi yelled.
Pegasus turned his attention back to Yugi and smiled. "Persistent, aren't you?" Pegasus told him. "You should have stayed down on the ground. It would have hurt less." Pegasus smirked. A long sword that had been sheathed at his waist appeared and levitated beside Pegasus. He aimed it at Yugi and without a word sent it flying at him.
Yugi didn't flinch as he saw the sword heading toward him. He kept his gaze on Pegasus and it was full of defiance. He staggered back as he felt the impact of the sword hit him. He gazed down and he looked right into the pained blue eyes of Anzu.
"Anzu!" He cried out. The sword was deeply embedded in her back. They both slumped down onto the floor, laying down on their side's right next to each other. "Anzu, why?" Yugi asked her softly.
"Because I love you." She replied softly.
Tears welled in Yugi's eyes as he leaned his face close to her. With trembling lips he placed a kiss on her lips. "I love you too, Anzu, so much." He told her.
Blood dripped down from his mouth and he pulled away from her. He didn't want to get more blood on her.
Anzu coughed violently and blood seeped from her own mouth. "Always?" She asked him.
"Forever." He replied.
Anzu smiled at him. Yugi grabbed a hold of her hand and they held on tightly to each other. Yugi knew he was dying and he knew Anzu was dying. It was a strange comfort to know that they would die together.
(*author takes a moment to compose herself* *elevator music plays* *15 minutes later* Sorry guys but man was that emotional. I got all teary eyed and had to stop typing for a few minutes. The screen was getting fuzzy. Yes, very sad that an author is crying at her own story, but in my defense God, this is just too sad. *wipes at eyes with a tissue* *Exhales deeply* Ok back to the story. Sorry if my interruption took you out of the story! Sorry! ^_^)
Yugi gazed up when he noticed a figure looming over him. Pegasus looked down at Yugi with a satisfied smirk on his face.
"I've very happy. I killed you both with one attack." He said cheerfully.
Yugi's eyes opened wide when he noticed Yami had appeared behind Pegasus. Pegasus had barely enough time to turn. "Another one!" Pegasus gasped.
Yami gazed at him, expression very neutral.
"You're the one!" Pegasus exclaimed.
Yami took the opportunity to throw power at Pegasus and he sent him flying into the open doorway of the closet. Yami heard a loud crashing sound as Pegasus hit something in the closet and he closed the door. Yami walked closer to Yugi and Anzu, to see them better. Yugi had his eyes closed and Yami knelt down beside Anzu.
"Anzu." He said softly, sadness in his voice.
"Yami." She whispered. She gave him a small smile. Yami tried to lift her but she cried out in pain and he froze. He didn't want to hurt her anymore. One of Anzu's hands held Yugi's tightly but with the other she gripped Yami's hand. "Yami, I'm dying." She told him.
"No, you won't die." He told her reassuringly. "You're strong."
She shook her head. "I'm dying, I can feel it, but before I do. I want you to do something for me." She told him. "Will you do it?"
Yami's eyes filled with tears. "I'll do anything." He told her.
"Don't let Yugi die." She told him.
Yami turned to look at Yugi, tears falling from his eyes.
"Promise me." Anzu pleaded. "Promise me!" He turned to look back at Anzu. "I promise." He said and he kissed her on the forehead.
"Thank you, Yami." She told him gratefully. " Now I can die in peace."
Yami turned his head as he heard a noise come from the closet. He glanced over at Yugi and back to Anzu. Then he walked over to Yugi's side and knelt beside him. He gently lifted him off the ground and the tip of the sword fell out of Yugi's torso. The blade had penetrated them both, but Anzu had gotten most of it. Yami cradled Yugi in his arms and with one final look at Anzu, Yami and Yugi vanished.
~End of Yugi's memory~
Yami watched the memory with his eyes glassed over as the memory faded and turned black. Unshed tears threatened to fall from his eyes, but he'd be damned if he let them fall. He wiped away the unshed tears and turned to look at Yugi.
Yugi still knelt on the floor crying quietly. Yami looked at him as glimpses of the memory he had just seen flashed before his eyes. He had to admire Yugi on how he dealt with Pegasus. He was still a mortal when he went up against a vampire of vast power. Yugi had shown bravery beyond any if had ever seen. Just as Yami was about to speak to Yugi another memory began to manifest and Yami turned his attention to it.
~Yami's memory~
The past Yami appeared in a dark, dirty underground room with a mortally wounded Yugi in his arms. Yami looked down at the pained face of his twin who was making urgent but quiet pleas to Anzu. Yami's eyes spilt over with tears. Anzu was gone and nothing was going to bring her back.
Now Yugi lying dying in his arms. He promised a dying Anzu that he wouldn't let Yugi die, but to save him it would come with a price. Even though he wasn't on good terms with his brother, he couldn't do it; he couldn't bring himself to damn him. That wasn't the real reason, inside him he knew he didn't want Yugi to die. He couldn't bear the thought of losing his other half, because that was exactly what Yugi was to him.
"Damn it." He croaked. He gently knelt down on the floor with Yugi still cradled in his arms. He looked at Yugi's innocent face and closed his eyes letting the hot tears fall from his eyes. "I'm sorry, brother." Yami said softly. Yami lifted Yugi until his neck was inches away from his mouth. Yami bared his fangs and plunged them into Yugi's neck.
Yugi omitted a pain filled gasp and his eyes jerked open. "What…Stop!" Yugi muttered. He hardly had any strength to move, let alone to struggle against Yami.
Yami pulled away when he had drunk enough. He had left Yugi breathing shallowly. Yami bit his wrist and placed it above Yugi's mouth.
"No! Don't!" Yugi protested. "I want to die. Just let me die!" Yugi muttered sadly, tears falling from his own eyes.
Yami looked at him, his own expression pained. "Sorry, I can't let that happen." Yami whispered. He pressed his bleeding wrist forcefully to Yugi's lips and forced him to drink. As Yugi drank, Yami gazed into his eyes and saw pure hatred in them.
~End of Yami's memory~
Yami turned away from the scene and stared right into a pair of amethyst eyes that matched his. Yugi had finally had composed himself and had watched the memory of his transformation into a vampire. Yugi looked into Yami's eyes and saw pure, raw sorrow.
Yugi pondered was it sorrow for him or was it sorrow that Yami felt for himself. Yugi couldn't be sure, but he desperately wanted to ask him. Yami must have sensed something because he averted his eyes. Before he could ask though, he had a feeling of someone pushing on him and then everything went black.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Yami and Yugi both opened their eyes to see Téa kneeling between them. She looked worried but she also looked angry. Yami had turned his head to the side and saw Yugi panting for breath, Yami's own chest was also heaving with the effort to breathe. What the hell had just happened? Yami pondered to himself.
Yugi turned to look at Yami and his face seemed to wonder the same things as Yami's. Just what in the hell had happened. He stared at his brother, but they didn't say a word to each other.
Téa's angered voice jolted their attention back to her. "What the hell were you two doing? If I hadn't woken and separated you two, you would have killed each other!" She scolded them.
"You separated us?" Yugi inquired.
"Yes." Téa said quickly.
"How?" Yugi pondered aloud. He was surprised to hear her say that because separating two fighting vampires is no easy task.
"Using my strength from when we shared blood." Yami answered him. Yami and Yugi both rose to their feet.
"Are you all right?" Téa asked them. She wrapped her arms around both of them.
"I'm fine." Yami replied. He ran a hand through her hair.
"Yugi?" She prodded when he didn't answer her.
Yugi stopped staring at them and spoke up. "I'm fine." He told her.
"I'm glad you're both okay." She said relieved.
Yugi broke away from them. "How are you feeling?" he asked her.
Téa leaned her head onto Yami's chest and he wrapped his arms around her. "I'm fine too." She told him. "Just a little tired." At that moment she yawned.
"You should rest." Yami told her.
She rolled her eyes up to look at him. "Don't worry, I will." She told him and her eyes closed. She seemed to have fallen asleep standing up.
"She didn't change." Yugi observed amazed.
"No she didn't." Yami replied. "I was very careful with her." They stared into each other's eyes, both of them wearing a neutral expression. Yugi still wanted to talk about what had happened earlier, but just as he was about to open his mouth to speak, Yami spoke first.
"Later." He simply said. "Right now she has to rest." Yami looked at Yugi.
Yugi was surprised that Yami had answered a question he had never even asked. Apparently there minds were still linked together, more then usual anyway.
I think they are. Yami said telepathically.
I'm sure it will pass though. Yugi added.
Yami nodded in agreement. Now please go. Yami added.
It was the please that prodded Yugi to leave. Yami hardly ever said that word. Yugi gave Yami one final look and he vanished.
Lady D. Nightshade: Woo another chapter done and this one was long too!! Well I hope you guys liked the chapter. As for me I'm on my HP high, I can't wait to get the book!!!! Don't forget to give me your comments with a review!
Next Update: I would say next Friday, but I will be out of town. So the next chapter will be up on July 3. So till then everyone stay safe! ^_^