A/N- Sorry everybody. I know, I know. I'm evil to have left you in
suspence, but yesterday I had a list-full of chores to do and today right
after church we went over to my grandma and pop's house cause it was my
grandfather's birthday. That's why it took so long and I'm sorry. I think
you will enjoy this chapter and only one person it seems is even thinking
along the same lines as me. I will NOT say anything about what is going to
happen, though, in the review responses cause that would spoil it all for
you. Thank you everybody that reviewed so much! You guys are the best so
take a cookie! Any kind you want!
Sorceress Vanessa: Thank you! Sorry. Here you go! Thanks for reviewing! Enjoy! ^_^
digigirl-izumi: Like I said before, "You are going to hate me after this chapter; I am so evil" Talk 2 ya at school! ^_^ Thanks for reviewing!
hobbitfeet13: heh, heh. Sorry, ok maybe I'm not all THAT sorry for the cliffies I leave you all with. I can't help it! I'm a sucker for suspense! I love reading and writing suspense!
Hazel-Beka: Yeah, I was annoyed! Did you see how many people thought it was an amulet?! Almost EVERYBODY! Why is it creepy to end all the RR's with ^_^'s? I was just being friendly! ^_^ Of course I knew exactly what I was going to write next, Beka! I've already written the entire story and already have 33 pages written on the sequel. I just have to type the chapters up! Don't encourage Selina! She can get pretty nasty when she wants to if you hadn't noticed in ROD II! I don't want to be on the receiving end of THAT! I tried to squish Bakura! But I forgot about the teleportation thing until it was too late. Yeah, he would have looked better. I agree! HEHE! Thanks for your review ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^! HEHE!
Wendy: Well, here you go! Can't tell ya though! Enjoy! Thanks for reviewing! ^_^
Subieko: Thanks for letting me know about the names I think I'll go with the "C" form of Croquet instead of the "K"! I like it better! I did that on purpose! I LOVE suspense! Glad ya liked it! ENJOY! Thanks for reviewing! ^_^
fishkisser: Pegasus is definitely evil this time! MWAHAHAHAHA! You'll just have to wait and find out! ENJOY! Thanks for your review! ^_^
Tsuki Koumori, Dragon Goddess: Thank you! You've got that right! Just have to find out what happens! Oh, I tried to read your new story like you asked me to, but the "WE BLOCKER" system my parents installed on my computer won't let me!!! I'm sure it is excellent though! I'm really, really sorry so you can have a cookie! Thank you for reviewing and I'm really sorry! ^_^ & V_V!
2lazy2login: Hm...Interesting. See me after you read this chapter. You are on the right track. Thanks for reviewing ^_^
Thank you guys SO MUCH! YOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE *BEST*!!!!!! ENJOY THE CHAPTER!!!! HEHE!! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter 10
Bakura and Pegasus took Yugi and Yami into a basement, cave-like room in the bottom of the castle. There was a large hole in the ceiling and the light that streamed into the hole was concentrated in one spot. The only other light in the room was made by candles that were lit up and flickering everywhere.
Yugi was tied to a pole, right under the skylight; it had a bar that went through the middle of it to support his arms. He was stood up against the pole while his arms went over the bar. Chains were attached to both of his arms then wrapped around the pole. He hung limply from it still not awakened from his spell-cast sleep, while Yami was left unconscious at the bottom of his cage. Pegasus took the wedding band and put it on a long silver chain, which he placed around Yugi's neck, then he and Bakura exited to do other things.
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Tea was really starting to worry about Yugi and Yami. It had been many hours since they were taken away. She didn't even have to say anything to Tristan and Joey, they could see it in her face and they tried to comfort her, while trying to not show any emotion themselves. It didn't work as well as they had hoped it would though, she could tell they were worried too. She was picturing all these terrible things happening to them over and over in her head when Bakura showed up.
He put her, Tristan, and Joey under some sort of spell one-by-one so they would obey him. He had all three of them go into a large cage big enough for them to fit, walk around, and have a few more people inside with them. After Bakura had locked them in and made sure there was no possible way of escape, he released them from his spell of obedience.
Then, somehow, he made the cage that held Tea, Tristan, and Joey float. He steered it with waves of his hands, so it went where he wanted it to go. He took them down to the basement-like cavern by way of the elevator. It was the only way in or out of there and was coded so not just anyone could use it. You had to know the password first.
Bakura had their cage positioned so it was adjacent to another large cage with a lone shadowed figure in it. Bakura thought about just dropping them and rattling their teeth a little, but decided to wait till Pegasus gave them to him before he started his fun. He set them down gently and they had their first glance of the underground room.
In the very center of the room, with the full moon's light sprayed over him, was Yugi. His head hung limply and his golden bangs were hanging in his closed, large amethyst eyes. His arms and midsection were bound with chains to a cross-like pole. He was clearly unconscious and had not the slightest inkling that his best friends were present.
Tea looked around some more and saw Yami in a cage like theirs, right beside them draped in shadows. Neither one of them looked hurt, but Yugi had a beautiful gold bracelet with a dragon carved into it on his arm and a silver necklace that held a ring, around his neck.
"Yugi, Yami. Wake up you guys. Come on, wake up," Tea pleaded, but she went unheeded, the look-alikes slept on.
"They won't wake that easy, Tea," Bakura said, a sneer evident on his face.
"Why not?"
"They have been placed under a spell and won't wake up till it has been lifted."
"What do you want with us?"
"I'm afraid that, that is Pegasus's story to tell. Don't worry he'll be here shortly."
After a few minutes, a shadow seemed to materialize out of the darkness, coming from the direction of the elevator.
"Ah! Here he is now."
The shadow turned out to be none other than Maxamillion Pegasus himself.
"What do you want with us?" Tristan repeated Tea's previously asked question.
"Let me wake those two up and then I will tell you." He stood still for a minute and Yugi and Yami opened their eyes. Yami stood up and Yugi struggled and pulled at the chains. "It is time for me to tell you what I have brought each of you here for. Now, as you know, the last time I allowed each of you here, you three," he indicated Joey, Tea, and Tristan, "helped Yami here," he pointed to the cage beside theirs, "keep his cards hidden from me. Allowing him to win and beat me as no one had ever done before. Not only that, but your *friendship*," he spoke the word with utter distaste, "kept Yugi-boy alive and thus prevented me from getting the Millennium Puzzle and taking over Kaiba Corp. Preventing me from resurrecting my wife, Cecilia. At first I was lost in my despair with no hope of raising her from the dead. But now everything has changed and I have found another way to bring her back to me, thanks to this," he picked up an old, worn book that appeared to have been made in Ancient Egypt.
"It says I can get her back if I sacrifice one of a pure soul to the Shadow Realm. Yugi-boy, here, was brought to my mind at once. I started to think on that and a plan formulated in my head. It all made perfect sense. I could get my revenge on all of you by making you watch one of your best friends, not to mention your hikari, Yami, suffer at my hands as he is banished to the Shadow Realm forever. Oh, by the way Yugi? Did you know that those 'little collapses' you were having were made by me just touching the thing that will bring about your final destruction?"
He ran one of his fingers over the edges of Yugi's sweet, gentle face. Yami, fuming, glared and yelled, "Pegasus! Leave him alone or I'll. . ."
"You'll what? I'm afraid your fate is going to be decided by Bakura, as well as yours," he said glancing at Yugi's friends. "Now back to what I was saying. I will not only get rid of Yugi-boy forever, but in return for banishing him to the Shadow Realm, I'll get my dear Cecilia back; convenient, yes? How is he to accomplish this, you may ask. Well, with this necklace and wedding ring," he pulled at the silver chain around Yugi's neck bearing the wedding band, "Cecilia will take Yugi-boy's place when he leaves us. I will also succeed in sending Yugi-boy away thanks to this crystal."
Pegasus had taken the crystal out of its box and held it up for everybody to see. It was completely black except when he held it under the light it had a dark violet hue. It was in the shape of a star and when Pegasus had picked it up and held it in his hands, Yugi had flinched and fallen limp against the pole like he did the day at school. Only this time it was much worse; Yugi was having a hard time trying to keep from blacking out. Yami wasn't inside him anymore to shield him from its rays and the crystal was also in much closer vicinity. Pegasus released the crystal as he set the jewel back into its box enabling Yugi the ability of being able to stand up.
"Now," Pegasus resumed, "the first things I had to do was get you all here, separate Yugi-boy from his yami, and collect the rest of my ingredients. You already know how I got you here and I will not bore you with the other things I needed. I separated Hikari and Yami with the Millennium Eye Bakura gave back to me just for this purpose. Observe."
He picked up the crystal again and held it up to the light. A beam of red light issued from the Millennium Eye and shot at the crystal. The light refracted and struck Bakura in turn. After the light disappeared there were two Bakura's. Bakura picked Ryou from up off the floor and threw him in the cage with Tea and the others.
"Finally, once we got them apart we had to keep them that way. I put a spell on Yami to keep him from harnessing his powers, and this thing," he pointed to the Dragon Armlet on Yugi's arm, "prevents these two from connecting with each other, especially while Yugi-boy is in the Shadow Realm. Ok, I think that's everything you wanted to know, now let's begin, since the time has come."
The moon was directly overhead of the skylight so all the moon's rays were focused on Yugi. Pegasus held the crystal and walked up to Yugi, who shied away from him, but couldn't get far enough away. The poles behind him prevented him from going anywhere. He whimpered and Tea burst into tears. Bakura walked over and held Yugi's head still and Pegasus put the Black Crystal against Yugi's forehead. Yugi jerked viciously one last time, to get free, while Pegasus held it to his face.
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Pegasus and Bakura stepped away from Yugi as the crystal began pushing itself into his essence, into his soul and mind.
The Black Crystal began to disappear into Yugi's skin.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Yugi screamed, from the mental pain it caused him, and kept screaming. While the whole time, a bright, white light was forming around Yugi and was becoming more pronounced as each second progressed.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Yugi's cries grew weaker as he lost strength.
A/N- Hahaha! I'm evil! To those of you who thought I could never do something like this to little Yugi- BOOYA!
Selina: Oh, no. She's hyper. I have a question though.
Serafina: What?
Selina: Why are you not scared of your reviewers after that big cliff hanger you just left them with?
Serafina: They wouldn't kill me. If they did they wouldn't get to find out what happens in the next chapter.
Selina: Yeah, but who says they have to KILL you? They can still throw stuff at you and do bodily harm.
Serafina: Oh, yeah. *runs away*............*from a distance* Next up, the point of views of everyone witnessing it. Their thoughts and feelings and it shows exactly what happens to Yugi. His p.o.v. last. (sorta) Let me know if you update and stuff! You guys are going to hate me even more cause next weekend I'm gonna try to catch up on reviewing so I MIGHT not get to update. I'll try, but you never know! We'll just have to wait and find out! Later!
Sorceress Vanessa: Thank you! Sorry. Here you go! Thanks for reviewing! Enjoy! ^_^
digigirl-izumi: Like I said before, "You are going to hate me after this chapter; I am so evil" Talk 2 ya at school! ^_^ Thanks for reviewing!
hobbitfeet13: heh, heh. Sorry, ok maybe I'm not all THAT sorry for the cliffies I leave you all with. I can't help it! I'm a sucker for suspense! I love reading and writing suspense!
Hazel-Beka: Yeah, I was annoyed! Did you see how many people thought it was an amulet?! Almost EVERYBODY! Why is it creepy to end all the RR's with ^_^'s? I was just being friendly! ^_^ Of course I knew exactly what I was going to write next, Beka! I've already written the entire story and already have 33 pages written on the sequel. I just have to type the chapters up! Don't encourage Selina! She can get pretty nasty when she wants to if you hadn't noticed in ROD II! I don't want to be on the receiving end of THAT! I tried to squish Bakura! But I forgot about the teleportation thing until it was too late. Yeah, he would have looked better. I agree! HEHE! Thanks for your review ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^! HEHE!
Wendy: Well, here you go! Can't tell ya though! Enjoy! Thanks for reviewing! ^_^
Subieko: Thanks for letting me know about the names I think I'll go with the "C" form of Croquet instead of the "K"! I like it better! I did that on purpose! I LOVE suspense! Glad ya liked it! ENJOY! Thanks for reviewing! ^_^
fishkisser: Pegasus is definitely evil this time! MWAHAHAHAHA! You'll just have to wait and find out! ENJOY! Thanks for your review! ^_^
Tsuki Koumori, Dragon Goddess: Thank you! You've got that right! Just have to find out what happens! Oh, I tried to read your new story like you asked me to, but the "WE BLOCKER" system my parents installed on my computer won't let me!!! I'm sure it is excellent though! I'm really, really sorry so you can have a cookie! Thank you for reviewing and I'm really sorry! ^_^ & V_V!
2lazy2login: Hm...Interesting. See me after you read this chapter. You are on the right track. Thanks for reviewing ^_^
Thank you guys SO MUCH! YOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE *BEST*!!!!!! ENJOY THE CHAPTER!!!! HEHE!! *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Chapter 10
Bakura and Pegasus took Yugi and Yami into a basement, cave-like room in the bottom of the castle. There was a large hole in the ceiling and the light that streamed into the hole was concentrated in one spot. The only other light in the room was made by candles that were lit up and flickering everywhere.
Yugi was tied to a pole, right under the skylight; it had a bar that went through the middle of it to support his arms. He was stood up against the pole while his arms went over the bar. Chains were attached to both of his arms then wrapped around the pole. He hung limply from it still not awakened from his spell-cast sleep, while Yami was left unconscious at the bottom of his cage. Pegasus took the wedding band and put it on a long silver chain, which he placed around Yugi's neck, then he and Bakura exited to do other things.
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Tea was really starting to worry about Yugi and Yami. It had been many hours since they were taken away. She didn't even have to say anything to Tristan and Joey, they could see it in her face and they tried to comfort her, while trying to not show any emotion themselves. It didn't work as well as they had hoped it would though, she could tell they were worried too. She was picturing all these terrible things happening to them over and over in her head when Bakura showed up.
He put her, Tristan, and Joey under some sort of spell one-by-one so they would obey him. He had all three of them go into a large cage big enough for them to fit, walk around, and have a few more people inside with them. After Bakura had locked them in and made sure there was no possible way of escape, he released them from his spell of obedience.
Then, somehow, he made the cage that held Tea, Tristan, and Joey float. He steered it with waves of his hands, so it went where he wanted it to go. He took them down to the basement-like cavern by way of the elevator. It was the only way in or out of there and was coded so not just anyone could use it. You had to know the password first.
Bakura had their cage positioned so it was adjacent to another large cage with a lone shadowed figure in it. Bakura thought about just dropping them and rattling their teeth a little, but decided to wait till Pegasus gave them to him before he started his fun. He set them down gently and they had their first glance of the underground room.
In the very center of the room, with the full moon's light sprayed over him, was Yugi. His head hung limply and his golden bangs were hanging in his closed, large amethyst eyes. His arms and midsection were bound with chains to a cross-like pole. He was clearly unconscious and had not the slightest inkling that his best friends were present.
Tea looked around some more and saw Yami in a cage like theirs, right beside them draped in shadows. Neither one of them looked hurt, but Yugi had a beautiful gold bracelet with a dragon carved into it on his arm and a silver necklace that held a ring, around his neck.
"Yugi, Yami. Wake up you guys. Come on, wake up," Tea pleaded, but she went unheeded, the look-alikes slept on.
"They won't wake that easy, Tea," Bakura said, a sneer evident on his face.
"Why not?"
"They have been placed under a spell and won't wake up till it has been lifted."
"What do you want with us?"
"I'm afraid that, that is Pegasus's story to tell. Don't worry he'll be here shortly."
After a few minutes, a shadow seemed to materialize out of the darkness, coming from the direction of the elevator.
"Ah! Here he is now."
The shadow turned out to be none other than Maxamillion Pegasus himself.
"What do you want with us?" Tristan repeated Tea's previously asked question.
"Let me wake those two up and then I will tell you." He stood still for a minute and Yugi and Yami opened their eyes. Yami stood up and Yugi struggled and pulled at the chains. "It is time for me to tell you what I have brought each of you here for. Now, as you know, the last time I allowed each of you here, you three," he indicated Joey, Tea, and Tristan, "helped Yami here," he pointed to the cage beside theirs, "keep his cards hidden from me. Allowing him to win and beat me as no one had ever done before. Not only that, but your *friendship*," he spoke the word with utter distaste, "kept Yugi-boy alive and thus prevented me from getting the Millennium Puzzle and taking over Kaiba Corp. Preventing me from resurrecting my wife, Cecilia. At first I was lost in my despair with no hope of raising her from the dead. But now everything has changed and I have found another way to bring her back to me, thanks to this," he picked up an old, worn book that appeared to have been made in Ancient Egypt.
"It says I can get her back if I sacrifice one of a pure soul to the Shadow Realm. Yugi-boy, here, was brought to my mind at once. I started to think on that and a plan formulated in my head. It all made perfect sense. I could get my revenge on all of you by making you watch one of your best friends, not to mention your hikari, Yami, suffer at my hands as he is banished to the Shadow Realm forever. Oh, by the way Yugi? Did you know that those 'little collapses' you were having were made by me just touching the thing that will bring about your final destruction?"
He ran one of his fingers over the edges of Yugi's sweet, gentle face. Yami, fuming, glared and yelled, "Pegasus! Leave him alone or I'll. . ."
"You'll what? I'm afraid your fate is going to be decided by Bakura, as well as yours," he said glancing at Yugi's friends. "Now back to what I was saying. I will not only get rid of Yugi-boy forever, but in return for banishing him to the Shadow Realm, I'll get my dear Cecilia back; convenient, yes? How is he to accomplish this, you may ask. Well, with this necklace and wedding ring," he pulled at the silver chain around Yugi's neck bearing the wedding band, "Cecilia will take Yugi-boy's place when he leaves us. I will also succeed in sending Yugi-boy away thanks to this crystal."
Pegasus had taken the crystal out of its box and held it up for everybody to see. It was completely black except when he held it under the light it had a dark violet hue. It was in the shape of a star and when Pegasus had picked it up and held it in his hands, Yugi had flinched and fallen limp against the pole like he did the day at school. Only this time it was much worse; Yugi was having a hard time trying to keep from blacking out. Yami wasn't inside him anymore to shield him from its rays and the crystal was also in much closer vicinity. Pegasus released the crystal as he set the jewel back into its box enabling Yugi the ability of being able to stand up.
"Now," Pegasus resumed, "the first things I had to do was get you all here, separate Yugi-boy from his yami, and collect the rest of my ingredients. You already know how I got you here and I will not bore you with the other things I needed. I separated Hikari and Yami with the Millennium Eye Bakura gave back to me just for this purpose. Observe."
He picked up the crystal again and held it up to the light. A beam of red light issued from the Millennium Eye and shot at the crystal. The light refracted and struck Bakura in turn. After the light disappeared there were two Bakura's. Bakura picked Ryou from up off the floor and threw him in the cage with Tea and the others.
"Finally, once we got them apart we had to keep them that way. I put a spell on Yami to keep him from harnessing his powers, and this thing," he pointed to the Dragon Armlet on Yugi's arm, "prevents these two from connecting with each other, especially while Yugi-boy is in the Shadow Realm. Ok, I think that's everything you wanted to know, now let's begin, since the time has come."
The moon was directly overhead of the skylight so all the moon's rays were focused on Yugi. Pegasus held the crystal and walked up to Yugi, who shied away from him, but couldn't get far enough away. The poles behind him prevented him from going anywhere. He whimpered and Tea burst into tears. Bakura walked over and held Yugi's head still and Pegasus put the Black Crystal against Yugi's forehead. Yugi jerked viciously one last time, to get free, while Pegasus held it to his face.
"AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Pegasus and Bakura stepped away from Yugi as the crystal began pushing itself into his essence, into his soul and mind.
The Black Crystal began to disappear into Yugi's skin.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Yugi screamed, from the mental pain it caused him, and kept screaming. While the whole time, a bright, white light was forming around Yugi and was becoming more pronounced as each second progressed.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!" Yugi's cries grew weaker as he lost strength.
A/N- Hahaha! I'm evil! To those of you who thought I could never do something like this to little Yugi- BOOYA!
Selina: Oh, no. She's hyper. I have a question though.
Serafina: What?
Selina: Why are you not scared of your reviewers after that big cliff hanger you just left them with?
Serafina: They wouldn't kill me. If they did they wouldn't get to find out what happens in the next chapter.
Selina: Yeah, but who says they have to KILL you? They can still throw stuff at you and do bodily harm.
Serafina: Oh, yeah. *runs away*............*from a distance* Next up, the point of views of everyone witnessing it. Their thoughts and feelings and it shows exactly what happens to Yugi. His p.o.v. last. (sorta) Let me know if you update and stuff! You guys are going to hate me even more cause next weekend I'm gonna try to catch up on reviewing so I MIGHT not get to update. I'll try, but you never know! We'll just have to wait and find out! Later!