Tralala! Starting this tonight!! Hopefully I'll be able to finish it!!
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In the last chap, I forgot the translation for gomen! Sorry!!! Any ways, gomen means sorry!! ^-^
Chapter 10 (we've reached the double digits!)
Beneath the palace floors, Yugi sat crouched on a cold floor, oblivious to his surroundings, attention completely devoted to the sparkling object in his hands. The little box was next to him, nearly empty. Yugi pulled the last piece from the box, and slipped it into place. He sat back to look at what the pieces formed.
It was flat on the sides, with sharp edges, and a ring at the top, but not complete. The pieces of Yugi's box seemed to only make part of the object. It appeared to be half of a flipped pyramid, made of shining golden bricks.
(AHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHH!! Writers block!! I know what I want to happen but HOW!? Hang on, I have to go get some chocolate to restore the brain power….ok, hmmm….*crunch crunch* ^-^)
Yugi pulled one of the drawstrings from the bottom of his pant leg out, and tied it securely to the ring on the top of the puzzle. He slipped it over his head, the cool metal beating against his small chest. (yes, he does have a shirt on even though it sounds like he doesn't)
Yugi lay back against the wall and listened to the distant dripping of the scarce water trapped below the sand. Then he heard another sound, alien to the quiet cell. It was the sound of footsteps on the stairs. He stood up, the tips of his pointy hair brushing the stone ceiling. As he watched the steps, and from above, a pair of feet wearing dark sandals appeared, followed by Keturah's face, both anxious and relieved.
"Yugi!" she exclaimed, stooping to avoid crashing her head into the ceiling. "I'm so glad I found you! Are you alright?"
Yugi smiled and nodded, happy to once again have human company. "It's not as bad as it looks," he told her shrugging. "There's no sun beating down and burning you into a brown crisp," he said cheerfully.
"Your very optimistic," she said, eyes twinkling. "Yugi, what is that?" she inquired, pointing at the puzzle around his neck.
Yugi fingered it delicately. "I'm not quite sure myself," he said. "I found it in my soul room."
"What?"
"When the Dark Magician attacked me, and Maha Vailo took the blow, I was sort of thrown into this place that exists within our subconscious selves," he explained. Yugi went on to tell how he had found the door to Yami's mind and after being thrown out had found the golden box in his own room. "It was just sitting there, as if it were waiting, just for me." The small boy smiled as he looked down at the golden object between his hands.
"But you haven't finished it," Keturah noted.
"I used all the pieces in my box," Yugi told her defensively. "The other half must be out there somewhere, I just have to find it! Which is a little difficult when you're in a room you can walk around in twelve steps…"
Keturah grinned. "As to that," she said slyly drawing something from beneath her robes, "I think these might come in handy." Clasped in her brown hand, was a large ring laden with keys.
Yugi's eyes nearly popped from their sockets. "How did you get those?" he breathed.
"I have some magic of my own Yugi," she replied, not fully answering. Before he could interrogate her further, she pulled from the mass of keys a small iron one, and fitted it into the lock on the cell door. It swung open, but not without letting out a huge squeak, making both of them wince as Yugi leapt through the opening. "Alright," she said replacing the keys once more within the folds of her clothing. "Let's go." She placed her foot on the lowest step, but just as Yugi was about to follow, he heard again, the sound of footsteps, only this time, it was more than one pair of feet.
Yugi paled, backing up away from the stairs. Keturah's eyes peered upward to the source of the sound. She whirled around and grabbed Yugi by the arm. "Come here," she whispered, and pulled him into the corner by the wall. The footsteps were growing louder, and now the sounds of voices reached their ears.
"That's right," said one, "He's to be brought straight up, no delay."
Yugi clutched desperately at the wall, but there was no escaping. They were boxed in.
"Yugi," Keturah hissed in his ear, "Don't worry." She closed her eyes, and at her side, materialized the Dark Magician Girl. Yugi smiled, his worries momentarily forgotten as he looked happily at the monster before him. The magician raise her wand, spinning it to her right as a stream of silver poured forth, and wrapped itself around the two figures huddled in the corner.
Everything was dark for a moment, but then sunlight brighter than any Yugi had seen for a time, poured from the sky, trying to seep beneath their squinting eyelids. Yugi blinked, his eyes adjusting to the bright light and was amazed to see around him not the gray walls of the dungeon, but a street full of busy merchants and shoppers, all bustling about and jostling one another as they hurried toward the stalls. He looked up at Keturah and the Dark Magician Girl in amazement. The Magician Girl put her wand over her shoulder, winked, and disappeared.
"H-h-how?" Yugi stammered.
Keturah grinned at him and winked, copying her ka's response. Then she tossed Yugi a small brown cloak, already carrying grains of sand. "Put it on," she said eyes scanning the street. "You attract to much attention with that hair."
Yugi slipped the cloak over his head, pulling the hood up to further shield his features. Keturah gave him one last reassuring smile, before turning and heading quickly but discretely back to the palace gates, with Yugi darting after her.
And now it is 6 and I have to get off so the rest of the fam can use the computer. -_- I have to save up to buy my own. $_$ Does anyone want any of Yugi/Yami's present day friends in this story? Cause if you don't I'm just going to leave them out! R&R please! ^-^
