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Chapter 10 – A Midnight Visitor
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Yay! I tripped over the plot again! ^__^
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A few seconds after Yugi knocked on
the huge white door, it swung open so quickly that Yugi took a step back,
slightly startled. Mokuba was standing in front of them.
"Hey, Yugi! What're you doing here?"
He asked cheerfully, a smile on his face. He finally noticed how tired everyone
was, and looked at all of them, completely confused. "Oh my gosh!" He exclaimed
as he saw the blood on the side of Yugi's head. "You're hurt!" He urged them
all to come in, and locked the door behind them. He led them into the family
room, and they all sat down.
"What happened?" He asked in
curiosity, his eyes wide.
"A lot." Yami replied as he sat Yugi
down carefully on his lap. "Can you get your brother? We need to talk to him
about something." At the mention of his brother, Mokuba's face turned a bright
shade of red.
"Um…" Mokuba bit his lip. "He's kind
of… Busy." Mokuba said quietly, and looked down at the ground.
"With what? What could be more
important than the lives of your human race which at stake?!?" Steth finally
demanded. Mokuba jumped, and looked up at him like he had just noticed the
stranger.
"Who are you?" He asked, frowning.
"I am Steth. Now answer my question!"
Steth said, glaring.
"Um, Steth, you don't need to
know." Yugi said quietly, trying out the name. "Trust me, you don't want
to know."
"Don't want to know what?" Steth
looked at everyone curiously, clearly not understanding.
"Mokuba, could you try to get him to
come down? Please?" Yugi asked politely, smiling sadly.
"Alright… But it was you who
interrupted him, not me!" Mokuba gave in, ran out of the room, and up the
stairs.
"Are the rest of you alright?" Yugi
turned to his friends, who all nodded, but remained silent.
"Aibou…" Yami wrapped his arms around
Yugi's waist, and pulled him closer. "Are you alright?" Yugi nodded
slowly, smiling at his Yami. Yami frowned, and pulled Yugi even closer. "Are
you sure?"
"Hai, I'm fine, Yami." Yugi
said softly.
"Even with that sticking out of the
side of your head?" Yami looked at the piece of glass still stuck in his skin.
Yugi sighed and looked away.
A few minutes later, Mokuba came back,
looking nervous, followed by Kaiba and Jou, whose hair were both slightly
messed up, and their cheeks flushed.
Seto and Jounouchi both froze in their
footsteps when they saw the whole group, who all looked exhausted and in pain.
"What…?" Kaiba started then noticed
the stranger standing behind them. "Who…?" He and Jou looked at everyone,
puzzled.
"Don't know." Yugi said quietly. "And
Steth." He added quickly.
"What's going on, here?" He demanded,
staring directly at Steth.
"Let me put it simply. I come from
another world, where our leader decided to open up a gateway between your world
and ours. Only we didn't know why at the time, and we thought it as completely
harmless. He hired several people to watch and follow around several people, to
see if they were the chosen ones of the human race, and see if a prediction our
former leader had said would indeed come true. Only, one by one, he killed of
those he hired, only keeping those who would be too afraid to disobey his
orders. Little did we know, he had his evil spirit minions following us all
around. Only one of our kind was ever able to see his spirits, the one with the
gift of sight." Steth paused to make sure everyone was listening. "And we
eventually figured out that two of your race had the gift of sight, too. He had
been using us to figure out which two had the gift, so that he could eliminate
them, and take over this world as well as our own."
"Whoa…" Yugi said softly, leaning into
Yami's warmth.
"Yes. And there are at least a few
thousand of my kind who are against what he is doing, hopefully more. We were
organizing a mutiny, but one of the Master's most loyal minions overheard my
father and I talking about it. I must explain one thing, though. Once one of
our kind dies, we are reborn automatically into your world. When our former
leader died from unknown causes long ago, they were reborn into this world, as
a woman. And that woman had a younger sibling. Both were given the gift of
sight." Steth looked around at everyone. "And now that my Master knows of the
Mutiny, he will surely be trying to get me back. But not before he kills all of
you."
"Why does he want to kill us?" Malik
asked curiously.
"Because there was another prediction
made, one that indicated that three humans would easily destroy the evil
spirits by combining their forces with their darker sides, and thus destroying
all evil from our world." He stared over at a wall, deep in thought.
"Three humans and their darker sides…"
Yugi repeated. "Oh! Like us and our darker halves?" He asked curiously.
"Yes. Exactly that. But there is
something else. Before our former leader died, they wrote a long letter to my
father. They hid it, and my father eventually came across it. It spoke of
nothing but the dark times ahead and the sacrifice of one human. One sacrifice
that would save the entire human race from the darkness." He stared down at the
ground, and sighed. "But before any of that can happen, we must find a safe
place for all of you. And I must return to my world to ensure that you can
succeed."
"…" Kaiba looked around at everyone,
completely confused. Jou's mouth was hanging open, and he couldn't seem to
understand what was going on.
"I shall leave you here to rest and
heal your wounds. I will come back with news, whether it be good or bad." He
bowed to them, and disappeared in thin air.
"What's… going on?" Jou finally found
his voice, and looked around at his friends.
"No clue." Malik said softly, but loud
enough for everyone to hear.
"Oh." Kaiba said suddenly. "I have
first aid kits upstairs. Follow me." He turned around, and walked out of the
family room, followed very closely by Jounouchi and everyone else.
"This is so weird…" Yugi muttered, as
they began their ascent up the stairs. He opened his mouth to say something
else when they heard a thud, a gasp, and a curse from Bakura.
They all stopped, and turned around to
look down to where Bakura was. He was at the bottom of the stairwell, kneeling
over Ryou.
"What happened?" Asked Jounouchi.
"Dunno." Bakura mumbled, and lifted
Ryou up into his arms. They continued on their way up the stairs, and followed
Kaiba into a very large room. There were several beds, and a bunch of chairs
inside. He opened up the closet beside the door, to reveal several things
related with health and first aid.
"Here's everything you'll need, I'll
be in the room at the very end of the hall if you need anything else. And you
can sleep here tonight." He turned to leave, but stopped, and looked back at
them. "I still have no idea what's going on." With that he left, followed by
Jou.
Yami poked through the stuff in the
closet, and grabbed a small first aid kit, then went over to a bed, and sat
down beside Yugi. Marik and Bakura both grabbed one as well, and found their
way over to their Hikaris.
Bakura lay Ryou down on a bed, and
checked him over. The only thing he could find that was wrong with him was a
cut on his hand. He was completely puzzled. Marik and Malik were both fine,
except for a few cuts and bruises on their arms and backs. Yami managed to
remove the piece of glass from Yugi's head, with nothing more than a yelp of
pain and a few tears from Yugi.
"This is all happening so fast…" Yugi
mumbled as Yami bandaged the side of his head.
"I agree." Yami whispered back,
smiling. When he finished, he put away the kit, pulled Yugi under the covers,
and snuggled up to him. A few minutes later, the lights were off, and the whole
mansion was quiet as the inhabitants slept.
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Yugi woke with a start when he heard a
noise from somewhere in the mansion. He sat up in the bed, careful not to move
Yami too much, and slid off the side of it. He walked over to the door very
cautiously and as quietly as he could. He opened the door slowly, and closed it
behind him with a quiet snap.
He walked down to the other end of the
hall, and peered cautiously down the stairs, and into the huge front hall.
Before he could react, his mouth was covered with something, and his arms were
pinned to his sides so tightly that he thought they would break. He could hear
breathing somewhere close to his left ear.
"Struggle and I'll kill you." A deep
and raspy voice whispered softly into his left ear as he felt a cool sharp
object being pressed against his neck. The hand that had covered his mouth was
removed, and Yugi opened his mouth so that he could breathe once more. His
heart started to beat faster when the knife was also removed from his neck, and
he took a big chance.
"HELP!!" He screamed out, and
thrashed out into the darkness behind him, searching to find and hurt his
captor. Before he knew what had happened, he was on the ground, blinking
furiously as he tried to keep his eyes open. There was a faint throbbing of
pain in the back of his head as he lost his battle to stay conscious, and fell
into a dreamless sleep, unsure of whether or not his cry for help was heard…
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Argh… Nothing much happens in this chapter… I know, I know… But I just kind of
got stuck, and I had to post this otherwise I'd be dead author-meat . Although
I did add a little bit more to the plot… Hmm… Seems as though I should start on
the next chapter right away or I'll be in big trouble with everyone, won't I?
Well, I'll start on it right after I finish replying to your reviews!! ^_^
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told us to 'withdraw' our papers… O_o), and stayed up 'til 3 in the morning
each night, and I'm still tired! Anyway, this week isn't any better,
considering the toilet overflowed in the morning, and I had to leave before I could
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bad as I thought it would be! Thank god for that. Because of my efforts,
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and also the drain in the basement! Heh, turns out the toilet overflowed into
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