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Chapter 11 – Alone
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Yes! Chapter 11! ^_^
Must… write… can't stop… now… ^_^
Yay! Writing is so fun! ^.^
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Yami turned over on his side, and
reached out to hold his familiar hikari. Only his hands never came into contact
with anything, and his eyes snapped open.
"Yugi…?" He whispered out into the
darkness, and sat up in bed, worry quite clear in his voice. "Yugi!" He called
out a little louder.
Receiving no response, he got up and
out of bed, and headed towards the door. As his hand reached out towards the
knob, there was a scream from somewhere behind it.
"HELP!!" The voice rang out so
loudly that Yami could have sworn he heard echoes of it several seconds after.
His eyes widened when he realized that the voice belonged to someone that he
loved and cared for, very much.
He threw open the door, and ran out
into the hall, searching the darkness for any sign of his koibito. But there
was nothing. Then, all of a sudden, a crash sounded from somewhere down the
hall, and the sound of glass being broken met his ears. He ran towards the
sudden source of light from the broken window, and could clearly see a dark
figure climbing out of it with something or someone thrown over their
shoulder.
He ran to the window, and reached out
to grab the figure with both his hands, but missed, and fell to the floor and
onto several shards of broken glass.
"Yami?" A voice called out from
somewhere behind him, but he couldn't respond. He jumped back up to his feet,
and leaned out the window, looking for the dark figure. He looked up into the
sky, and saw tiny black speck speeding away in the air. He froze when he
noticed something lying on the ground in front of him. Yami fell to his knees,
and his shoulders sagged when he realized what it was. It was the Millennium
Puzzle, shining slightly in the moonlight.
"Yugi…" His whisper seemed to carry
off into the wind that blew past the broken window, and into the dark shadows
of the night.
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Yugi woke up with only one thought on
his mind.
"Where… Am… I…?" He coughed out, his
voice weak and hoarse.
There was no response. Instead, the
only sound he could hear was the water dripping somewhere in the darkness.
He sat up slowly, and felt the ground around
him for a wall. But he couldn't find one. He waited until his eyes adjusted,
and he noticed he was in a very, very dimly lit underground cave of some sort.
But it was divide into two parts with a set of iron bars. Almost exactly like a
jail cell. He was completely alone in the middle of some kind of underground
jail with no way out. If only Yami were there, he could use the shadow magic to
get them out of there.
A sharp pain passed over of his head,
and his hands instinctively flew to the sides of his head. He suddenly felt
very alone. It wasn't that he hadn't been alone before, but it was more than just
being alone physically. He felt… incomplete. Like a part of his soul had been
ripped away.
"Yami…" Yugi choked back a sob, and
reached one of his hands towards his neck. But what he was searching for wasn't
there. His heart nearly stopped when he realized that his Millennium Puzzle
wasn't there, and he bit his lip. "Yami… Oh, Yami… Where are you?" He sobbed
into his hands, all hopes he once had were now lost. Completely lost. Or were
they?
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Back at the mansion, Yami was still
sitting on the ground in front of the broken window. Only there were no more
pieces of glass on the ground beneath him, and the window had been boarded up
by one of Kaiba's servants. Yami had refused to speak to any one of his
friends. Instead, he buried his head in his arms, and rocked back and forth on
the ground, completely frustrated beyond belief. He still had the Millennium
tight in his grasp. His free hand had found its way to the side of his head, where
he could feel a dull aching. He wasn't sure why he could feel it. But at least
he felt something. He could no longer feel Yugi's presence, nor hear his
comforting voice through their mind link. He only felt as if there was
something big, some part of him, missing. Without Yugi he was incomplete.
"What are going to do now?" Malik
looked helplessly from his Yami, to each of his friends, to Yami, then back
again.
"We need to find that 'Steth' person
again." Marik looked around, and as if on cue, a bright light filled the room,
two windows were thrown open, and Steth flew through them. He landed several
feet from their current position.
"Good timing." Malik raised his
eyebrows. Everyone nodded.
He looked at them for a moment, sought
out Yami's hair, then walked swiftly over to him. He knelt down, placed his
hand on Yami's shoulder, and waited for a moment before speaking.
"You need to find your light, right?
Well I can take you to where we believe he is being kept. As for taking you right
to him… I have no such power." Yami's head popped up, and he looked at Steth,
and frowned. "Come."
Yami took a few moments before he got
up, and followed Steth to the window on the second floor. Steth bent down, and
Yami reluctantly got on his back.
"Hey, wait!" Malik ran to the window,
a frown on his face. "Were coming, too!" Steth shook his head.
"Not on this journey. When I come back
I will need your aid in something far greater and more dangerous than young
Yami's journey. I am taking him to my world for a short while. But I will
return." He bid them farewell, flew out the window, and off into the night.
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It seemed to Yugi like he'd been in the
cold, dark and damp cell for nearly an eternity or more. He had taken to
rocking back and forth, muttering useless words and fragments of sentences.
"Lost…" He mumbled as his mind
wandered to different subjects, and he reflected on his life. For once he could
actually see the things in his life that were wrong, that he was on the wrong
path, that he needed to be free from his life. Free from everything in the
world that demanded his attention, his time, parts of his life. He frowned at
his thoughts turned into opinion-based facts.
"Forever…" He muttered under his
breath as his thoughts went back to Yami, the love of his life, his savior, his
life. Without Yami he was no one. He could not life without his darkness,
without his love. Without the two, his soul was cut in half, and his heart in a
million pieces or more. A dull aching in his chest forced him to concentrate
more so on his thoughts than before. "Lost…"
It was true, he was lost. Lost with no
idea of where exactly he was. Lost with no way to escape, no way to contact the
ones he loved most in life, no way to really do much of anything but wait. He
hated waiting. He had never told anyone before, but he hated waiting. Even
though he showed patience to the world around him, he hated every last ounce of
it. It was like time literally stopped, and waited for the perfect moment,
usually just before he got angry enough to shout out to the world the truth of
what he thought.
He wasn't as innocent as people
thought him to be. But he wasn't 'tainted' as some people would say. He just
wasn't as childish deep down inside as he showed on the outside. And the only
person to get close enough to the truth had been Yami. Not just because of
their soul bond, but because of the bond they shared through their love.
A single tear escaped the confinement
that was his eyes, and dropped onto the ground beside his trembling hands. He
squinted through the darkness at the tiny tearstain on the ground, and frowned
sadly. Every time he heard the 'drip, drip, drip' of the water from nearby, the
hairs on the back of his neck would rise up slightly, and he would shiver. He
didn't like the feel he got from being in that place. It was dark, confined,
small, cold, and damp amongst other things. It literally gave him the creeps.
He then heard something move somewhere in the shadows.
"Yami…?" He looked out into the
darkness, hoping that every second that ticked by brought Yami closer and
closer to himself, and that nothing lurked in the shadows pressing in all
around him. But that's all that he could do. Wait, and hope for nothing short
of a miracle.
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Oh man… I got it up sooner this time! Go me! ^_^ Except for the fact that it's
quite a bit shorter than last chapter . I need to keep up the plot
more!
Oh no… My friends have found me a nickname… O_O;; Not a good one, at that. A
reeeeeaaaaaally scary nickname. And I blame my friend, who I gave a weird
nickname to… -_-; I think she was getting back at me _ Anyway… They
nicknamed me 'Saries'
O_O
I don't know if I could live with that or not… And at school they pat my head
and shake their heads while saying 'Poor Saries… you'll find out about
sexual stuff sooner or later…' ………… I don't think they've ever read my
stories ^_~ Especially this one!! Hee hee! *giggles* Yeah… anyway… I
obviously have no life . As well as no boyfriend, which means my
friends poke fun of me at every chance they get, and try to get me to go out
with certain guys…. -_-' Ahem… Anyway…
Enough from my 'un'life… And onto the thanks!!! ^____________^
Thanks to:
Yamishadowcat22: Yay! I'm glad you think it's getting good! I hope that the
next chapter will add even more the plot, and perhaps there will be some
resolution to it as well ^_^ But I hope this gave you more hope to the fact
that Yugi might be saved! Thanks for reviewing!!!!!!
Dagger5: I would love to have never-ending chapters! It would be the best thing
ever invented! ^.^ Thanks for loving my story! Nah, you don't lack imagination!
^___^ I'm just glad that you review my story! It's such an honor to have people
reading and reviewing my stories!!! ^_______^ Two hours? Aw! Well I hope you're
not too late! Thanks for the review!!! *huggles*
Hikari: Thanks!!! ^.^ O_O He has black ones with a dragon on them!!! O_O That's
so KOOL!! ^.^ I love dragons, they're really such neat creatures! Yeah, I loved
being weird! It's just so.. fun! ^-^ I agree, it is! I did alright on my exams,
at least I know that I didn't fail, which is a relief to say the least! Aaw!
Well I hope you do well on your exams AND 'FCAT's! Thanks! -^.^- Hopefully the
next chapter will be up, soon, too! ^_______^
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