A/N: Sweet mother of God... O_o This is my longest story since I registered myself in this site August of 2002! ^^ That's GREAT!! And I'll actually finish it *sniffs* That's sooo touching!

Iris: --U

Lily: ^^ Anyway... I'm alive? I'm alive?! I'M ALIVE!! ^_^ YES!! And now, officially on vacation =P Can I say "yay"? yay!

Iris: *roll her eyes* Impossible...

Reviewers' replies:

SilverKnight7 - I did!! ^^ Oh, and very nice pen name you got there

Donella - Oh, don't worry about the cards things... All you have to know is that Ellian knew Yami and Yugi are in trouble =P And fluff... ehh... it's in this chapter... a little... *blinks* Yo Xi Wang? I don't have idea where she is... I haven't given up on her, she probably is too busy and doesn't have time to update. I'm not mad, really, because when she does update, it's always worth it ^^ *blushes madly* My story better than hers?? Wow I never thought I'd live to hear THAT... Hmm... I don't think so though XD The girl has guts. But thanks a LOT

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Bakura: *laughs evilly*

Lily: ¬¬U The cards actually exist *waves her "Forbidden Memories" around proudly* but I just thought the ways Ellian used to find her answers were confusing.. But whatever now ^^ Enjoy the chapter!

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Disclaimer: Hmmm... Yami is nowhere to be found... --U Isn't that a pity? SOO... I decided to do this!! *slaps fingers*

Malik: *appears wearing his underwear* WHAT IN RA'S NAME--

Lily: Repeat with me, Malik-kun, "Lily does not own-"

Malik: NO WAY!! SEND ME BACK, YOU PSYCHO KIDNAPPER!!

Lily: You're one to talk, Malik...

Malik: ....

Lily: Now repeat ^_^

Malik: But if I'm supposed to repeat what you say, then don't you occasionally say the disclaimer yourself?

Lily: ................ so? The point here is hearing a half-naked bishounen say the thing ^_^ now repeat "Lily does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, never will, but she can always glomp the bishounens"

Malik: What?! O_o NO WAY!!

Lily: JUST DO IT!! *glares*

Malik: ................... Lily does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!, never will, but she can always glomp the bishounens -_-U

Lily: Thank you Malik-kun!! ^^ *glomps*

Malik: Oh Ma-riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiik...

Marik: *appears looking really pissed*

Lily: *sweatdrops* Uh-oh...

Warning: This fic contains shounen ai, that meaning boyxboy love, OCs and Teana (Anzu) bashing

Pairings: Yami/Yugi and Bakura/Ryou

Keys: "__" is talking and '__' is thinking

Note: This chapter is, momentarily, rated "R", so beware for violence and cursing.

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Wings of ruby and amethyst

Chapter 15: Fallen feathers of the Angel of Light

By: Lily Maxwell

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(A/N: Yami: I can't believe you're back with your weird titles... I thought after "Runaway" you'd stop... Lily: ^^ Yami: --U)

Seto watched wide-eyed as Teana's Ring glowed. He and Chris had left the High Priest's chambers just a few seconds ago, after the girl told him about what they had found out. He had never been willing to keep Teana in the palace in the first place... After that incident, he thought she was good as dead. But no.... the stupid Pharaoh thought she could be useful. He almost trusted her! Placed faith that she would change under the orders of Kris. But she didn't change... Actually, she just got worse.

He was not prepared, however, for when he turned a corner, to see Teana send both the Pharaoh and his slave to the Shadow Realm. And there was actually nothing he could do... His Rod couldn't open gates to the Shadow Realm (A/N: As far as I know... O.o right?).

"Damn!" he exclaimed furiously, slamming his fist against the nearest wall.

"What the hell is going on there?" Chris asked, pointing to the big dark ball of shadows blocking the way of the corridor. Sparks of lighting flashed now and then around the ball, giving a good warning to stay away from it.

"That..." Seto said, pointing to the ball. "Is the Pharaoh's doom." He answered, and Chris stood frozen, catching what the man wanted to say. Looking at the ball, there was only one thought in her mind.

'Shit.'

"Isn't there anything we can do?" she asked, turning to the High Priest. Seto breathed deeply and released slowly, trying to calm himself and think straight.

"There're two ways... And only one really works." He said, and the girl narrowed her eyes.

"And the problem is...?" she asked, knowing there had to be a catch in Seto's hesitation.

"Bakura is the key." He said, and Chris could have sworn there was fear in the priest's voice.

~^:^~

It was cold. There was only black wherever he looked, and he felt trapped in a prison of nothingness. His insides burned. He felt his soul being slashed by an invisible scythe, his lungs refusing the act properly.

Was this the end?

His eyes searched desperately from one side to another, trying to find something to grip on, something in which he would find salvation. Some light...

Suddenly, two little points of light appeared in the dark environment, and he tried to get some air into his lungs. His eyes were widened to their limits, trying desperately to focus on the lights, never taking his attention off them.

Slowly and carefully, he walked towards the little lights. His feet seemed to touch a cold floor, but there was absolutely nothing under him. He ignored the idea of walking on thin air, gulping at the simple thought of being lost into the nothingness, and simply walked towards the lights.

He stopped, being face to face with one of the little balls of light, which danced around 'happily', stopping mere millimeters from his nose. He got cross-eyed looking at the little light, and was caught completely out of guard when the darkness changed around him.

He stood in the middle of a road; the dark sky covering the environment in darkness pretty much like the place he had been just a few seconds ago. The leaves of the trees around him shuffled occasionally due to the violent wind that circled around, and he was surprised to notice he was not feeling cold.

He looked from one side to the other, trying to look for a sign of explanation for this... vision? Where was he?

He looked up quickly when he heard the sound of a car coming by. Gazing at his right, he spotted two weak lights coming at his direction, vaguely remembering him of the little lights that brought him there. The car was of a dark-blue color, and shone weakly in the dim light of the night. He narrowed his eyes. He remembered that car...

When the car was coming closer and closer, he did not move... He just stood there, contemplating the car's lights with a faraway look on his face. He did not seem aware that the car was slowly coming closer to him, dangerously at the risk of being hit by accident. When he finally noticed, moments later, it seemed too late.

But the driver did not hit him. Although he was coming in a speed rather faster than he was supposed to, he instead turned the car around at the last minute, in result losing complete control and skidding until he hit a tree with force, splitting the car in half in the front.

Horrified, he followed the car's trajectory until the fatal hit with wide eyes. And it was then that, his head turned in the car's direction, he noted that he was not alone in the deserted road.

A man with dark magenta hair wore sunglasses even though it was night, his long trench coat floating in the wind's rhythm. He stood just behind himself, but didn't seem to acknowledge his presence at all, or maybe it was just simple ignorance of such. Slowly, he walked towards the destroyed car with great indifference, as if he was going to see nothing but an everyday thing.

He followed the black-clothed man involuntarily, feeling an unknown kind of anger against him. The man stopped near the car, eyeing the driver and his passengers. The driver had hit his head against the windshield so hard that blood fell freely down his face covered with pieces of glass everywhere. The woman beside him apparently wasn't using her seatbelt and flew from her seat, passing through the windshield and hitting the tree. It was a mess.

His eyes widened, but the man didn't show a change in his attitudes or temperament. He simply took off his sunglasses, showing bright bloody crimson eyes, reminding him vividly of familiar ones... But his shock was too much tom contemplate anything any further. He just looked mortified with what just happened, and confused of why the man didn't acknowledge his presence yet.

The man didn't gaze at the corpses for too long. Instead, he moved his glance towards the passenger's door, slowly walking towards it and opening with caution. He held his breath as the man did that, waiting for any more blood. But there was no corpse in there... However...

Big, wide and confused lilac eyes looked at the man. He couldn't believe it...

'It's... it's me.' he thought looking at the child. 'And.... this is... a memory... from the day...' his eyes widened with realization and he gazed quickly at his hands, for the first time noticing that he was transparent. Invisible to the eyes of the others, a mere invader in an old memory.

A woman interrupted his trail of thought, her high heels making loud sounds on the pavement. Her waist-length hair, a dark color that rivaled the darkness of the sky at the moment, with blonde highlights on the front, flew around as she moved. Her simple dress, an ebony color, was long enough to cover her cream shoes, and was strange stylized. Something that was, without a doubt, not Japanese...

She looked at the boy in the eyes, lifting his face up by the chin to do so, and 'hmphed' angrily, looking up to glare at the man. Her golden eyes met impassive crimson ones.

"It is not him." She said in a very angry tone that scared his smaller self, who shivered involuntarily. But the man didn't flinch.

"I noticed." He replied, and the woman stared back at the scared boy. He looked at his past self with pity and sympathy.

"What are we going to do?" she asked, her tone, somehow, more soft than before. The man, like before, remained impassive.

"We're leaving." He said simply, and the woman blinked, before looking up at him again. They held their gazes for a while before the woman sighed and let go of the boy, standing up straight and nodding. Without any more words, they left the scene, leaving him alone in there.

He looked at his past self, looking at his pitiful smaller form, who poked his father's shoulder constantly in a futile attempt to wake him up, and he couldn't help but place a hand on his mouth to suppress any sob, and let the tears fall down his face. He never had this memory too vivid before, but seeing it now, so clearly, hurt... Hurt too much... Seeing his father's immobile body perforated by innumerous cracks of glass from the windshield, dark hair soaked with blood and all messed up. And his mother... oh his beautiful mother... He just couldn't describe her... And he could more less gaze into their eyes, his mother's beautiful green eyes and his father's amethyst ones, so much like his own...

He collapsed to the ground. It was too much...

He was unaware, then, when his surroundings changed again, and the two little lights came back, making everything spin and show a different memory. When he finally came to realize he was in another place, his vision was slight blurred with tears. But he recognized a pair of bright blue eyes.

Oh no....

"You... like me?" came a sweet voice, and his eyes widened. This memory, unlike the last one, was not one he watched from outside. This time he watched everything through his own eyes...

He felt himself nod but he did not product such action. So the only explanation was that he was indeed watching everything from his eyes. The girl in front of him giggled and shook her head, then looking at him with an expression of... sympathy...

"I'm... sorry, Yugi..." the girl answered, wiping away one of her bangs from her eyes. "It's just that... I... You're my friend... And I..." she hesitated too much for his own good so his past self sighed.

"It's okay, Anzu... I... I understand..." he felt himself speak. He could feel tears forming in his eyes, but they did not fall.

"We can still be friends, right??" she asked cheerfully, and he nodded vaguely, the ghost of a smile playing on his lips.

"Yes... we can..." he replied, but at the same moment, excused himself and ran away, finally letting the tears fall.

The next moment he was not watching the memory from his own eyes but from the outside again. What happened next he knew all too well. It was a recent memory, yes, but it was one of the most painful he had. Not just because he was rejected, no.... There was more in the story.

He may have been rejected by his first love but, at the same day, he saw that same love dissipate into a vague old ghostly feeling. He had being beaten that day, moments after his rejection, and Anzu, Anzu Mazaki, the girl he loved and that was even considered his friend... Saw. And didn't do anything. She could have thought, yes, but she ran away. He didn't know what for, he just knew that she went away... Away from him... Left him to his own misery, alone. He was saved only minutes later, the big guys being shoved off by Elle and then, being beaten up by Jou... But that didn't change the fact that he was hurt.

Hurt inside... And at that night, while Elle took care of his wounds, her words soothed him, and he learned to forget his old love. He learned she was not all that he thought she was, and instead, was someone he could simply ignore... Someone ordinary little spoiled and popular little cheerleader. And he learned to fear her. Fear for the day that she would try to be his friend again...

He didn't cry this time, but he admitted it hurt to see all those images again. It was like living them again... Living his worst nightmares again...

He closed his eyes and fell on his knees as he felt the darkness coming back, at the same time the world spun. But this time it was different... He felt his breath stop for a moment before he was brought abruptly to somewhere else. His knees touching the ground and he fell forward.

But...

The darkness was gone.

But so was his consciousness.

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"He is gone!" Kris fumed, hitting the Meeting Room's table with ferocity with her closed fist half an hour later. "He escaped right in front of us! How stupid can we get?!" she continued, but nobody answered her. Instead, they tried to stay as calm as possible.

"Without Bakura, we have very remote possibilities to find them... They could be anywhere, and if they are still in the Shadow Realm, Kris could take months until we found them there." Seto said, contemplating the table with interest.

"But don't we have any ideas of where Teana could have taken them?" Ellian asked.

"We don't even know why she took them!" Kris replied, glaring at the wall as if expecting it would spit Teana out of her hideout.

"I was just wondering how Bakura got out so easily out of his cell..." Ellian said more to herself than to the others.

"Considering the mess he made down there, probably with the help of some of his Shadow Monsters." Seto said bitterly, and the girls fell silent.

Outside the meeting room, in Ellian's room, Chris and Elle were as nervous as the others.

"He has to be okay... That Teana girl must not lay a finger on him, or else..." Chris said angrily, and Elle raised an eyebrow.

"I never thought Yugi was that much of your friend..." she said, impressed by the way Chris was worried about Yugi.

"He is not." Chris answered simply, making Elle blink. "But he's our passport out of this world. Without him, we're stuck here forever, and I don't want to know the consequences of that." she explained, and Elle "oh-ed", realizing that Chris was not acting so out of character...

"Consequences?" she asked, blinking more. "What kind of consequences?"

"Well... I don't know if you noticed, Elle, but we're in something more than just a book... We're in the past." She said, but seeing the clueless look on Elle's face, she sighed and continued. "If we're the past, then we're about to change something in history itself. And that's not all." she got a very serious look on her face. "I don't know if you noticed, but the similarities between me and Kris are too many to be a mere coincidence... And I don't think that's good."

"You're saying that... Maybe... Kris is your past self?" she stiffed a chuckle. "Well, Chris that's..."

"Improbable?" she asked, and Elle nodded. "Maybe. But if we're here... I think there's more to it than it seems." She frowned. "But if I really am her reincarnation... I don't know what can happen if we coexist in the same place for too long... Maybe both she and me can disappear... And then, the history will change completely, and, maybe, even you and Yugi can disappear..."

Elle widened her eyes. Chris' words made sense, like always, and now, more than ever, she wanted to get out of that world...

~^:^~

Yami opened his eyes, trying to make out where he was and what had happened. He looked left and right, trying to make out anything in the deep darkness within the room he was. The good thing was that he could see very well in the dark.

He was surprised then when he noticed where he was. Broken statues, stone floor and dim illumination. A message was slight visible in front of him and, had he not known what it said, he wouldn't be able to decipher its content in the darkness. But he knew what it said. Because he had been there before.

'What am I doing in my father's tomb?' Yami questioned himself in his head, but didn't think too much. His head ached incredibly, and he had just remembered that Teana had captured him... and....

"Yugi?" he asked, searching in the room for any sight of him. It didn't take too long for him to spot the boy. He was hanging on the wall just beside him. When he tried to reach him he realized, for the first time, that he too had magic binding him to the wall. "What...?"

He heard footsteps. Looking up he saw a shy golden light shining in the darkness and then a feminine voice cut through the silent air.

"You're finally awake, Yami?" she called, and he recognized the voice right away.

"Teana, what are we doing here?" he asked roughly. "What are you thinking keeping me here??" he continued, but she didn't seem to listen. Actually, she didn't seem to be in the best of her mental conditions, because she bent down and caressed his face lovingly, smiling at him. He could only stare at him with wide eyes. "What's wrong with you?" but yet again she ignored him and simply smiled.

"You still like me, don't you." It wasn't a question, it was a statement. Yami's mouth hanged open.

"What are you saying, have you lost your mind??" he asked, but she just sighed, and kept her hand on his face. Yami turned his face away from her touch and she blinked.

"You can't.... you and me...." Yami didn't understand her words, but she wasn't making any sense anymore, her phrases were incoherent and meaningless. She stood up and walked towards the message, tracing the words with her fingers.

In the mean time, while Yami just watched her with an eyebrow raised and his mouth hanging open, he heard some rustling beside him. Looking down, he vaguely saw as two amethyst lights shone in the dim illumination.

"Yami?" he heard Yugi calling him, looking lazily from one side to another, until their gazes met. He blinked when he saw Yami's light bindings and noticing he too had what. "What's going on, where are we?" he asked, fortunately, in a low voice.

"Teana brought us here, probably through the Shadow Realm... She opened a portal and led us here, but I don't know why..." looking up at the girl, he continued. "I think she lost her mind."

But Yugi wasn't listening to him at all, the words "Shadow Realm" echoing everywhere in his mind. The dimension where the Shadow Monsters were locked in... But...

"Yami... what is there in the Shadow Realm?" he asked, turning to Yami, who looked at him curiously. "What is the Shadow Realm?"

"A powerful dimension in which the Shadows are born... The souls that are sent there are drained off its energy and suffers the torture of its worse nightmares for all eternity... The Shadow Monsters' powers come from the Shadows, so the best place for them to exist is in the Shadow Realm, where more Shadows are born every day..." the voice of Teana answered, startling the two of them.

So... the visions Yugi had was when he was in the Shadow Realm? If Teana just used the place as a way to transport them to elsewhere then he wasn't there for more than just a few minutes... And if he had those two painful memories in just a few minutes, he sure didn't want to know how it was to live there...

"Teana, why did you bring us here?" Yami said through gritted teeth. "If you harm me, or worse, Yugi, you're going to be dead before you can ask Ra for help..." he said, and Yugi was slightly surprised for his protection.

Teana turned around and glanced from him to Yugi with unsure eyes.

"You can't like him..." she said, and they felt more confused than ever. "You like me... you love me..."

"I NEVER LOVED YOU!" Yami yelled, rather frustrated. But Yugi thought it wasn't such a smart thing to say, because the girl looked at the verge of tears.

"You saved me..." she said. "I know you like me... why do you deny it? Why... why do you seem to like him?" she seemed delirious.

"You're delusional." Yami said, trying to break the magical chains in vain. "I never liked you and I didn't save you, I merely spared you." He replied, but Teana wasn't listening anymore. She turned her back to them and, as the magical chains disappeared, she exited the room quickly, a stone door closing the passage behind her.

Yami instantly went over to Yugi, holding his shoulders and sounding really concerned.

"Are you okay? Did something happen to you in the Shadow Realm? Are you hurt?" he asked, but Yugi mere breathed in deeply then released slowly, trying to remain calm.

"I'm fine... It's just that... What was she talking about?" he asked, purposely trying to avoid the subject, which Yami, unfortunately for him, noticed. Frowning, he tried to look into Yugi's eyes in the dark mist.

"Did something happen in the Shadow Realm, Yugi?" he asked, and Yugi stared at the ground. He sighed and, unconsciously or not, leaned against Yami's chest.

"I had visions... I saw my parents die and my love be rejected again... It hurt..." he said, a hand clenching his shirt on the side where his heart was located. Yami, feeling a wave of sympathy and concern about him, circled his arms around his shoulders and brought him up tighter against his chest.

"That's what happens in the Shadow Realm... Your nightmares, they... They flash before your eyes... Haunting you..." he answered and Yugi nodded, closing his eyes and enjoying the warmth he was feeling. Yami felt his heart still ache at the thought of Yugi loving someone else... Should he feel jealousy or anger?

"Yami..." Yugi asked, both unable to do anything at the moment beside wait for what Teana would do. "Did you have any visions there?" he continued, and Yami sighed, shaking his head. "Why not?"

"Because I'm immune to the power of the Shadow Realm... The Puzzle protects me..." he answered, not realizing the meaning behind his own words, lost in his emotions.

"What would your nightmare be?" Yugi asked innocently, not able to think of one thing that Yami could fear. It couldn't be death... It couldn't be lost love... what could it be? Maybe it was a personal subject, but Yugi just needed to know... And Yami, not shaken by the question, simply backed a little to look into Yugi's face to answer.

"Lose you... and get trapped in the shadows." He said, and Yugi felt a nail penetrating through his heart... Leave Yami...

The two of them remained in that position, sitting on the stone floor in each other's arms, wondering about Yami's answer. The Pharaoh felt his heart beat in an insane rhythm, thinking about the breathless sensation he was feeling... Was it... fear? While Yugi felt guilty, thinking about when he would leave... Would he be able to leave Yami?

Outside, Teana stood, frozen, against the wall that held the passage to the room Yami and Yugi were trapped in. Their words entered her mind with intensity that she felt her soul was succumbing to nothingness...

And tears of blood fell down her cheeks.

Her Ring glowed and, in the blink of an eye, a figure stood beside her, its arms crossed and its eyes closed.

"In a moment like this I don't know who to cheer for... I hate the Pharaoh, and I hate you, but I can't help but wonder who should die... Hmm... Maybe you both should die, at the same time, yeah..." it babbled, but when it faced Teana, the smirk faded.

Tears of blood. It was a sign. A very bad sign.

"You can't defeat him." It said.

"I will. My Yami has been tainted by the Angel of Light... And both shall pay." She replied, but her voice was different. The figure sighed and disappeared, at the same time Teana entered through the passage once again

The tears faded, but she was shocked to find the Pharaoh and his slave in each other's arms when she entered. Her Ring glowed. This was it.

"Angel of Light... You stole my Yami." She said, and both were startled by her voice, looking at her figure surprised she had entered the room so soundlessly. But Yami recovered quickly and frowned at her.

"I was never yours... And who EVER said you could call me by the name?" he asked, but the girl didn't flinch, didn't move. A golden light shone against Yami's chest. The Puzzle.

What happened next was a mere blur. While Yami tried to summon his Dark Magician, he wasn't as fast as Teana, who summoned The Spirit of the Winds who threw Yami back against the wall, and the Dark Magician, midway through his portal, sent a spell against Teana, making the girl hit the wall across from the one Yami hit, both knocked unconscious.

Yugi only stared awed.

He ran to Yami's side, and winced when he noticed blood falling from a wound on Yami's head, and saw, with horror, that the Puzzle had been shattered.

'It's over... Teana's going to kill us both...' he thought, but was interrupted from any further thoughts when a bright light emerged from Teana's Ring. He looked up... and widened his eyes.

There, before him, was the transparent figure of Bakura's partner, Kyou.

"Hello, infamous Angel of Light." She said, but Yugi had lost his voice.

~^:^~

Elle and Chris entered the Meeting Room, making all its occupants look up at them with surprised eyes.

"What are you doing here??" Seto inquired, but while Elle shuddered involuntarily at his tone, Chris only closed her eyes.

"We think that our case is not lost." She said, but everyone was intrigued.

"What do you mean by that, slave?" Seto asked, wondering what a slave could help in an important matter like this.

"Ryou, the boy with that tomb robber, is our friend. Bakura probably fled from the prison for revenge against his partner, and if he found out that she used the Ring... Maybe he'll follow her. When he does, he'll eventually find the Pharaoh and Yugi, and with Ryou being Yugi's friend, I'm almost sure he'll save them." The girl said.

"What guarantees us that when he finds them it won't be too late?" Ellian asked, fear in her voice. Everyone fell silent.

"We can only hope." Elle said.

"Teana got the Pharaoh, huh?" a voice called from the entrance, and everybody looked up.

Bakura and Ryou stood there, the first one smirking and the second looking rather concerned.

"We'll help." He declared.

[ To be continued... ]

Iris: Well, I hope you liked the chapter, so don't forget to--

Yami: Wait, where's Lily??

Iris: Well...

Lily: YEAH!! TO THE SHADOW TEMPLE WE GO!! ^___^ *waves her Nintendo 64 joystick around*

Iris: .... Still playing Zelda...

Yami: -___-UU Lilyyyyyy...

Lily: *blinks* Huh?? ...... OH! Oh, hello!! ^_^ How're you guys doing??

Iris: Aibou...

Lily: Ehh... hmm... yeah.... I'm sorry for the delay --U But you know how vacation is, I get carried away with the great amount of free time... hmm... so, sorry... But Zelda: Ocarina of Time is sooooooo cool...

Iris: And you got addicted...

Lily: Yup! ^^U Also, I was reading The Order of the Phoenix and, you know, Harry Potter is MORE than addiction, it's a must... --;; Anyway, please review and see ya in the (probable) last chapter!!

AND MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR ALL!!! ^_^