Nothing Eternal

Anthy: Mew...

Anshi: Spawned by a combo of Eva unit 01 going psycho (eating the angels)

BPP: And by the end of Utena.

All: Shudder.

BPP: This is what nightmares are made of.

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Nothing Eternal

The Rose

Don't want your hand this time i'll save myself

Maybe i'll wake up for once

Not tormented daily defeated by you

Just when I thought I'd reached the bottom

I'm dying again

It was the rose.

Yes...

The rose began it all.

Yes...

The rose brought them back...

Yes.

The rose brought back the memories...

Yes!

The rose brought back the prince that would save him...

YES!

The rose brought the darkness...

Yami opened the door to the game shop, in a better mood than was before. Yugi had gone ahead, rushing to get home and get everything ready for nothing. It was their anniversary of the date they first met. It had been a while...so none of them remembered the exact date.

(It was the rose.)

Yami put his stuff on the chair in the kitchen before being pushed downstairs by Yugi because he didn't want to spoil the surprise. Yami shrugged and went down to tend the shop.

(Yes...)

The door opened and a cloaked figure entered. Yami wasn't really puzzled. This person had Malik's aura. But it was Bakura once the hood fell back.

"Hello." Yami said. Bakura just nodded. Something seemed wrong...terribly wrong.

(The rose began it all.)

Bakura placed a strange package on the display case and left. Yami stared at the strange package, and at the word "Yami" scrawled on the side facing him in red ink.

(Yes)

Or he assumed it was ink.

Yami slid the box off its hidden item and discarded it. He walked around to the front, back to the front door. He pulled off a layer of tissue paper and stared at the gift.

(The rose brought them back...)

It was a small glass vase, and standing upright like a pole, was one simple rose. It was in full bloom, and blood red.

(Yes...)

Something, like s heartbeat, filled Yami's ears. He could feel something rising in the back of his mind, like a wave. Like a wave of memories.

The blades...

The rose...

The prince...

The sword...

(Help me...)

(I will be the one to save you...)

(You shouldn't be here!)

(I swear! I will come back here and save you someday!)

Yugi heard a crash, and stopped setting the table to run downstairs. Yami was on his knees, back arched upwards and hands on his face, as if to keep something from getting out.

"Yami!!" Yugi saw the shattered glass and the blood-red rose lying dead in the puddle of water.

Yami didn't hear him.

The rose brought the darkness...

Yes...

Who is the new prince...?

Who?

Do we know?

Yes...

Will the darkness be saved?

...

Will the darkness be saved?

No...

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Anthy: Chapter two is coming!

Anshi: Tell me what you think.

BPP: Ideas and such are welcome....I think...