Superhero Shadow

AN: You will see Yami calling Yugi 'aibou' after this point. This is not in the normal sense of the word when used in fanfics, it's nothing to do with the Puzzle. Please treat 'aibou' as it's correct translation - 'partner'.

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Yami hugged Yugi, his new aibou, tightly, happier than he had been in a while. "You can start helping me right away." he said, releasing Yugi. "I got a message about the location of that statue, and I want you to help me get it back." Yugi's eyes lit up. "Sure!" He jumped up and held the mask over his eyes. "How do I look?" he asked, laughing. "Like Shadow." answered Yami, getting up. "But you need a name." Yugi folded his arms, thinking. Yami smiled. "Hmmm..." Yugi thought about it. "Surely it can't be that hard!" Yami exclaimed. "Hikari." he decided finally. "Light?" Yami said. "I think that's fitting. Now, we don't want to waste too much time. Car or flight?"he asked, walking to a drawer, and pulling out his own mask. "Car!" Yugi responded instantly. "I can't fly properly yet." "Car it is." Yami snatched up some keys.

Yami and Yugi ran out the door of their room, both carrying bags with their masks in. Yami ran straight into Bakura. "Watch it!" Bakura exclaimed. "I'm sorry! In a hurry!" Yami apologised quickly, and ran off, with Yugi close behind him. "Fifth warehouse!" Bakura yelled after them "Huh?" exclaimed Yami. He shrugged, and led his aibou towards his car's hiding place.

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"You hid it HERE?!" Yugi exclaimed. Yami nodded. His car was concealed in the school - well, in the school car park. "Yeah. Nobody would suspect the school. And it's pretty much hidden by that tree." Yami stated, taking out his keys, and getting in. "Come on then!" He shut the driver-side door sharply, and waited for Yugi to get in.

Yugi looked around, checking there were no stray teachers hanging around, before jumping into the car next to Yami. Yami smiled at him, and quickly took to the roads, heading towards the harbour where the stolen statue was supposedly to be found.

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Between the school and the harbour was not very far. The journey took a couple of minutes, until Yami and Yugi were standing on the front, while cargo ships moved about in the water. However, they were faced with a new dilemma, as the pair looked along the long row of warehouses.

"There must be like fifty here!" Yugi exclaimed, looking down the row in despair. "The fifth warehouse..." Yami muttered. "But from the left or right?" Yugi looked up at him. "Right would be normal. You read from left to right." he suggested. "Yes, I suppose..." Yami said, walking down the row to the fifth warehouse. It looked pretty much the same as the others, except this one had a giant Egyptian eye on it, instead of the normal logo of the company who owned it. Yugi caught up to him. "I think this is the one." he said. Yami smiled, and put his mask on, Yugi following his lead.

They walked towards the warehouse, and put their hands up against the walls. With a little focus for Shadow, and a great deal more from Hikari, the pair passed through the thin walls in a flash of blue light.

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The single room inside was dimly lit through a single skylight in the roof. Shadow and Hikari could now clearly see the glittering gold statue, shining faintly in the light. Three 'guards' stood before it, all with bored expressions on their faces. Shadow saw that he could easily sneak up on them from behind, keeping to the darkened areas by the walls, and using a Heka skill called Silent Step*. But he hadn't taught Hikari to use it yet. Hikari could, however, pass through objects, and passing through objects was silent.

"Listen, I have a plan. We have to get behind those guards. I can Silent Step to get there, but you can't, so you go through this wall..." Shadow indicated the wall to their left. "Run around behind, and come back through the wall there. Attempting not to crash into me again." Hikari smiled, and nodded. He passed through the wall quietly, with a dim blue flash, while Shadow's whole body glowed a very faint blue, and he walked quickly around the edges of the walls in the shadows, and waited for Hikari to re-emerge into the room.

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I am SO sorry this took so long! I have been on major writer's block for this fic (maybe I should watch X-Men Evolution again.) However, R&R!

*Silent Step: The art of walking or running at normal pace or very quickly without the feet making a sound. In theory, this is possible without the use of Heka (which supposedly did exist in Egypt.) by walking very lightly on your feet. I can do it over grass and concrete, and I'm currently trying to learn to do it down my stairs (which are very creaky. Don't try it, it's very irritating on squeaky floorboards)

There you are, a nice Heka skill for you to try. There are actually lots of things you could do without Heka (thougth it's more fun if you have the patience to learn it, if you can find any information). I'll include some more in later chapters.