Let's Play a Little Game

Anthy: Weeee!!!

Anshi: She has...*plans*

Anthy: *runs around with a sharpie*

Anshi: Oh Ra...she took after Dais.

Anthy: *scribbles on Anshi's face and runs off giggling*

Anshi: Dais is from Ronin Warriors and he occasionally gets high on sharpies...

Anthy: @_@

Anshi: Ask Pop Flower...she'll tell ya...

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Let's Play a Little Game

Going Under

Now I will tell you what I've done for you

50 thousand tears I've cried

Yugi's body had been ripped apart.

Screaming deceiving and bleeding for you

Nazura remembered what Saris and said...but ran out of time. Yami screamed in fear and the cruel realization that this was not a dream. He had been too late. Nazura held him back as he tried to run on the blood splattered floor. She held his face up to hers, so they met eye to eye.

And you still won't hear me

Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself

"Yami! Look at me! Look at me!" She shouted, trying to calm Yami. But it didn't work.

Something strong hit Nazura in the back, and she (still holding Yami) dropped to her knees and dragged down the pharaoh as well. The sickle end of a Kusari-gama was planted in her back and blood poured from her wound. Yami slowly stood and walked (er...it looked like walking...) slowly over to Yugi's head...whose purple-ish eyes were closed.

Maybe i'll wake up for once

Not tormented daily defeated by you

"Yami!" Nazura shouted, trying to make her way over to him.

Yami sat down and picked up his hikari's head. He pulled it against his chest, eyes wide with what is beyond fear and rationality. He closed his eyes and sank down into the depths of his own darkness, holding Yugi's head close to him.

Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom

I'm dying again

He felt so warm and safe, like he was back where he should be...with his mother and Yugi and Nazura...

I'm going under

Drowning in you

Yami opened his eyes and found himself (and the head still in his hands) underwater. It was warm and pure and safe. He felt something moving and his eyes saw something coming. It was...a fish?

I'm falling forever

...no...a mermaid...no...

I've got to break through

I'm going under

"Mother!" Yami cried happily. This mermaid was his mother.

"Mother...why are you a mermaid?"

Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies

So I don't know what's real and what's not

"Because I am a sinful woman, my son..." Yami was confused.

"Why?"

"Because I was unable to protect the one I love. I thought I could die for her. I couldn't save her, nor could I save her daughter."

Always confusing the thoughts in my head

So I can't trust myself anymore

"And you were unable to do the same. But you might be able to change. Your task has not been completed yet."

The mermaid vanished. Yami held onto Yugi's head and now did not find himself underwater. He was on land, standing on a rock. And Yugi (yes...with his head...not the one in Yami's hands...don't ask how it works...it just does.) stood next to him.

I'm dying again

"Yami, if you stay here anymore...your body won't wake up. You'll be dead."

Yami tried to protest but found himself rising, far away from Yugi and back into the dark room. Nazura was struggling to push herself to stand with the sickle in her back.

"Heh..." Yami giggled slightly to himself and stood up. Nazura looked at him, with both fear and concern in her eyes.

I'm going under

Drowning in you

"Mother said that this place would crumble...that we'd both be killed..." Yami giggled again and looked at the remains of Yugi's body on the altar. A door opened behind it.

Nazura pulled the sickle out of her back and flopped onto the back of Kalnaz. The two followed Yami and the head through the door to a small shrine. Yami placed Yugi's head on the altar and that head kinda was crushed and torn apart.

I'm falling forever

I've got to break through

In its remains was a dagger. Yami touched it, and a horde of painful memories flooding into his head returned him to what he was before. And the pain of Yugi being gone hit him hard.

So go on and scream

Nazura, Kalnaz and Yami watched in sorrow as the temple collapsed. Yami cried and pulled the dagger close to his chest.

"Why aren't you dead? Didn't Yugi die?" Nazura asked.

"No...he's here...in this..."

Scream at me I'm so far away

I won't be broken again

"What do we do now?" Nazura asked.

"Go back to our lives..."

I've got to breathe I can't keep going under

"...Bury the dead..."

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Anthy: There's more to come!

Anshi: And I'm in control of that!!!