Symbols, symbols everywhere and no one here knows what's going on
"speech"
'thought'
/aibou to yami/
//yami to aibou//
~scene change ~
((Telepathy))
{Personal thoughts} Sorry, but italics won't work for me. (Stupid FF.net or Word)
Warning: I don't own anything of Yu-Gi-Oh. The Dragons are mine and anything that goes along with them. There is yoai in this story, meaning boy/boy pairing. I'm past the major limes so now it'll be just kissing and minor cuddle scenes.
MEGA WARNING: The first scene in this chapter contains mention/nearly seeing non-consensual sex. If you don't like then don't read.
Now that I have your attention.
* * * * * * * *
It was dark. Yet it wasn't the dark of everlasting space or even the darkness that crept along the edges of night. It was the type of darkness that came with old forgotten places and absorbed the smell of dampness. Only a glittering in the corner let anyone who was there that light was around.
In that darkness a pale light appeared. Slowly that light took the form of a youth; magenta tipped black hair that stood up in spikes gave the figure an odd crown. Golden bangs hung down framing a youthful face and large violet eyes. Those eyes, although full of innocence, were sharp and quickly scanned the place the young man found himself in. He glanced down at his hands and noticed that he could see the tops of his polished black boots threw them.
'Where am I?' Yugi thought. 'Am I dead? Why am I transparent?
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Yugi called out into the darkness.
Yet no one answered the young man. Yugi turned in a circle where he stood. Suddenly the gentle light that he seemed to emit caught on something and glinted in the darkness. Curious Yugi walked over and gasped in horror at the sight before him.
The bronzed body before him was covered in bruises, cuts and (Yugi almost wretched at this) bite marks. The figure was huddled onto itself, trying to get whatever warmth its naked form could provide. The person shifted, revealing an equally bruised face. What was once sandy colored hair was now plastered to the youth's head with sweat and blood.
"Marik!" Yugi ran over to the prone figure, noticing for the first time the chain that emerged from the floor to attach itself to the Egyptian's ankle. "Marik can you hear me? Marik!"
Yugi went to touch the other man but suddenly he felt his mind shift. Suddenly it was dark again, but this time it was the darkness that greeted a sleeper. Yugi struggled against his powers, terror from both himself and Marik overwhelming his senses. Suddenly he heard a noise and Marik jerked awake. Terror swelled through them and Marik huddled more into himself, pressing against the cold stone wall behind him.
From the middle of the room a light was growing in the ceiling. Yugi could now make out a circular patch of light and figured that Marik was in the bottom of some sort of shaft or well. Marik whimpered and Yugi shuddered. Marik was not the person to whimper.
The light grew steadily stronger and Marik pressed even harder against the wall. Suddenly the feet of a person emerged from the ceiling, followed by a cloaked figure holding a torch. When the figure touched the ground he placed the torch into the wall bracket and then headed for the curled up boy.
"No, please." Marik whispered his voice hoarse and almost none existent.
Yugi couldn't see into the shadow's of the person's hood, but the maliciousness rolling off this person was enough to make him want to vomit. The figure stopped just short of where Marik was. He leaned down and grabbed some of the chain and gave a powerful yank. Marik screamed as the resulting action was him being pulled by his ankle and sent flying a very short distance. He landed with a thud on the rough granite floor. He tried to scramble out of the way, but a firm foot on the chain prevented that. Yugi felt as Marik was roughly flipped over. For a moment both boys froze in terror at the face looming over them.
The screams were eaten up by the darkness as the stones drank in the small rivulets of blood forced from the beaten body.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The terrified and pain filled scream ripped through the small room above the Turtle Game Shop. Yugi jerked out of his lovers grasp to sit bolt upright in bed. But the terror still seized him and he failed around until he fell out of bed. Even then he ended up crawling to the middle of the room before he was able to orient himself. Exhausted and terrified he knelt in the middle of the room and sobbed.
Needless to say the actions of the young man woke the other up. Yami was startled out of a sound sleep and was looking frantically for his partner. Seeing Yugi sobbing on the floor the dark spirit quickly slid out of bed and went to embrace his lover. For a moment Yugi stiffened, but then he relaxed knowing it was just Yami.
"Koi, what happened? Nightmare?" Yami asked as he gently rocked Yugi back and forth.
"No." Yugi managed to get out. "Vision."
The breath caught in Yami's throat. "Is someone in trouble? We should call the others."
Yugi shook his head and grasped onto Yami's arm with a death grip. "It's no one in Domino. It's already happened, but we need to get to him. Soon."
"Who Yugi?"
"Marik."
~ ~ ~ (Around 9 am in the Rookery)~ ~ ~
Blue wandered into the kitchen area of the Rookery, perched herself on one of the high stools that surrounded the large island in the middle of the room and dropped her head onto its sleek surface. On of the Kuribohs placed a mug of steaming coffee in front of the Dragon leader and received a grunt of thanks. Blue lifted her head enough to sip the liquid ambrosia and then rested her head back down, this time so she could watch the triplets running around.
Like the rest of the Rookery the kitchen was a hodge-podge of different types of gimmicks and gadgets. There was no universal theme, this entire place repelling any type of uniformity. However the entire kitchen appliances stilled gleamed with a newness that Blue found amazing.
'After a two and a half years this place still hasn't been broken in properly.'
Of course Blue's and the rest of the Rookery's idea of breaking something in usually meant just that. Breaking it.
Two and a half years ago Blue's boyfriend had finally proposed to her. Yet she was unwilling to leave those under her care. So to compensate for it Seto Kaiba had bought a warehouse in the downtown area of Domino; updated it and filled it with new replicas of everything in the Rookery. And everything meant every toaster (all three of them) to the tools in Gizmo's lab. Then the multibillionaire had flown all the inhabitants of the Rookery to Domino.
The reactions of the inhabitant of the Rookery had very mixed reactions. The Deck had been impressed and in awe. The Hatchlings had been nervous and scared at first, but when they saw all of the new toys they lost track of everything else. Bear amazingly had been speechless, at least for a moment. Doc was impressed, especially when he realized that his medic center in the basement had not only been upgraded, but was better than some hospitals. Gizmo took everything in stride and broke in the new lair of the Dragons by promptly causing the blenders to go haywire and all of the toilets to flush simultaneously. The Kuribohs had promptly made a feast and invited everyone in a two mile radius to come and eat.
A presence sliding into the stool next to her let the raven haired girl know that one of the other Dragons had arrived. "Mornin' Curse."
"Morn." The giant of a man replied, accepting a cup of coffee from one of the Kuribohs.
"What the bloody hell is this all about?" Red came stomping in, with Bakura still attached to him. Ryou followed giggling at the two.
"You know you have a Bakura attached to you?" Blue inquired, slightly more awake at the scene.
Red gave her the middle and positioned himself in front of a stool. Bakura somehow managed to climb up on, mumbled something and snuggled more into his lover's shoulder. Ryou snorted and accepted a cup of tea while Red took coffee. The serving Kuriboh eyed Bakura but let him be.
"Morrrrrrrrnnnnninnnnngggg." Petit sang as she literally bounced into the room. She took one look at the scene and cracked up. "You'd think it was four in the morning and not nine by all of the droopy faces."
Red would have replied in kind, but Ryou clamped a gentle hand over the other man's mouth. "Not this early in the morning love."
Red just captured that hand and gave it a gentle kiss. "If you say, but she's too annoying at any time."
Petit giggled at the sweet scene while Blue and Curse just rolled their eyes. "To answer your question, didn't you get woken up by Yugi last night?"
Red quirked an eyebrow at his leader. "No, what happened?"
"Vision. Scared the shit out of me. Set wasn't too happy either."
"Why would Set be upset? He's not bonded to Yugi like us." Petit asked as she shoved a piece of toast and strawberry jam into her mouth.
"Uh . . . . you don't want to know." Blue said, a faint pink crossing her cheeks.
Petit looked like Christmas just came early for her. But before the sanity challenged one could do anything they heard the door open. Several figures soon joined the group in the kitchen. One was the spiky haired pair of Yami and Yugi. Although Yami hadn't changed much in the past couple of years, Yugi had. During the senior year of high school Yugi had suddenly hit the mother of all growth spurts and was now the same height of his yami. He had also gained some muscle since joining the swim team.* Behind them came two blonde haired figures. Joey had also grown a little, now just an inch taller than his wife Mai. Behind them came a brunette with hard blue eyes that softened when he caught a sight of Blue.
"Hey everyone." Blue said, exiting her seat and allowing Yugi to take it. The young man looked absolutely exhausted.
"Hey." Yugi muttered as he climbed onto the seat. Then he promptly drank Blue's coffee, grabbed the one the Kuribohs gave him and downed that to.
All eyebrows rose about two inches.
"So what is this all about. I've got a board meeting in an hour I have to be at." Seto said, giving Blue a quick peck on the cheek.
All eyes rested on Yugi (except for Bakura who was still asleep). The youth took a breath. "Last nigh I had a vision. It . . . it was horrible. It was about Marik. He is in trouble. We have to help him."
"Yugi, man I know you have a big heart. But why should we help him?" Joey asked, hugging Mai close. "After all he did in Battle City I can't forgive him for that."
"For once I agree with the mutt." Seto said, coldness lacing his voice. "Why should I help someone who kidnapped Mokuba and put him in danger? Marik's on his own."
Yugi looked around at Ryou and Bakura. The dark spirit was still asleep, but Ryou caught the other hikari's eyes and nodded. Yugi turned back to the other. "You don't understand he's in real trouble. He's . . .he's being tortured and r . . . raped."
Joey looked uncomfortable and Mia had a look of horror on her face. Seto's stony mask was still in place, but his eyes betrayed his unease. Blue looked around at the group. She had no idea what was going on, but if Yugi was worried about someone then she would help. "Where is this Marik guy anyway?"
"Egypt. Supposedly his sister is watching him. But something must have happened." Yugi shuddered; Yami wrapped a protective arm around him. Yugi glanced back and gave him a small smile.
"Do you know where in Egypt?"
"No, Ishizu was never very clear about where they were going. She did work at the museum."
"Her home address was never listed. And I could never find out where exactly she came from." Seto said, leaning up against the kitchen's doorjamb.
"We don't need that if we can just get a hold of something that either one of them had on them."
"I thought about that, here." Yugi held out something. Blue took it and looked it over. It appeared to be a necklace with the Sennen Eye in the center of it. "It's the Millennium Necklace and Ishizu used to be the owner of it."
Blue handed it to Petit. The insane one took it and started sniffing, licking and staring at it. "Well?"
"Oh we'll be able to find them."
"Don't forget about the Rod." Bakura said still nestled in Red's neck. "Malik was evil, but I'm sure he's worried about his hikari."
"Don't worry we won't." Blue said earning a quirked smile.
"When will you leave and how will you get there?" Seto asked.
"We'll fly and leave now."
* * * * * *
Treska: *Wanders in.* I know I usually write a little more, but for some reason I can't keep my mind on it. And this is most likely a treat. I won't be able to get two chapters up every week. So I'm going to rotate between the two stories. Hope you like it. Read and review.
*This is actually an idea that I got from Tiger-Serenity and her "Yin and Yang" story.
"speech"
'thought'
/aibou to yami/
//yami to aibou//
~scene change ~
((Telepathy))
{Personal thoughts} Sorry, but italics won't work for me. (Stupid FF.net or Word)
Warning: I don't own anything of Yu-Gi-Oh. The Dragons are mine and anything that goes along with them. There is yoai in this story, meaning boy/boy pairing. I'm past the major limes so now it'll be just kissing and minor cuddle scenes.
MEGA WARNING: The first scene in this chapter contains mention/nearly seeing non-consensual sex. If you don't like then don't read.
Now that I have your attention.
* * * * * * * *
It was dark. Yet it wasn't the dark of everlasting space or even the darkness that crept along the edges of night. It was the type of darkness that came with old forgotten places and absorbed the smell of dampness. Only a glittering in the corner let anyone who was there that light was around.
In that darkness a pale light appeared. Slowly that light took the form of a youth; magenta tipped black hair that stood up in spikes gave the figure an odd crown. Golden bangs hung down framing a youthful face and large violet eyes. Those eyes, although full of innocence, were sharp and quickly scanned the place the young man found himself in. He glanced down at his hands and noticed that he could see the tops of his polished black boots threw them.
'Where am I?' Yugi thought. 'Am I dead? Why am I transparent?
"Hello? Is anyone there?" Yugi called out into the darkness.
Yet no one answered the young man. Yugi turned in a circle where he stood. Suddenly the gentle light that he seemed to emit caught on something and glinted in the darkness. Curious Yugi walked over and gasped in horror at the sight before him.
The bronzed body before him was covered in bruises, cuts and (Yugi almost wretched at this) bite marks. The figure was huddled onto itself, trying to get whatever warmth its naked form could provide. The person shifted, revealing an equally bruised face. What was once sandy colored hair was now plastered to the youth's head with sweat and blood.
"Marik!" Yugi ran over to the prone figure, noticing for the first time the chain that emerged from the floor to attach itself to the Egyptian's ankle. "Marik can you hear me? Marik!"
Yugi went to touch the other man but suddenly he felt his mind shift. Suddenly it was dark again, but this time it was the darkness that greeted a sleeper. Yugi struggled against his powers, terror from both himself and Marik overwhelming his senses. Suddenly he heard a noise and Marik jerked awake. Terror swelled through them and Marik huddled more into himself, pressing against the cold stone wall behind him.
From the middle of the room a light was growing in the ceiling. Yugi could now make out a circular patch of light and figured that Marik was in the bottom of some sort of shaft or well. Marik whimpered and Yugi shuddered. Marik was not the person to whimper.
The light grew steadily stronger and Marik pressed even harder against the wall. Suddenly the feet of a person emerged from the ceiling, followed by a cloaked figure holding a torch. When the figure touched the ground he placed the torch into the wall bracket and then headed for the curled up boy.
"No, please." Marik whispered his voice hoarse and almost none existent.
Yugi couldn't see into the shadow's of the person's hood, but the maliciousness rolling off this person was enough to make him want to vomit. The figure stopped just short of where Marik was. He leaned down and grabbed some of the chain and gave a powerful yank. Marik screamed as the resulting action was him being pulled by his ankle and sent flying a very short distance. He landed with a thud on the rough granite floor. He tried to scramble out of the way, but a firm foot on the chain prevented that. Yugi felt as Marik was roughly flipped over. For a moment both boys froze in terror at the face looming over them.
The screams were eaten up by the darkness as the stones drank in the small rivulets of blood forced from the beaten body.
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
"NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The terrified and pain filled scream ripped through the small room above the Turtle Game Shop. Yugi jerked out of his lovers grasp to sit bolt upright in bed. But the terror still seized him and he failed around until he fell out of bed. Even then he ended up crawling to the middle of the room before he was able to orient himself. Exhausted and terrified he knelt in the middle of the room and sobbed.
Needless to say the actions of the young man woke the other up. Yami was startled out of a sound sleep and was looking frantically for his partner. Seeing Yugi sobbing on the floor the dark spirit quickly slid out of bed and went to embrace his lover. For a moment Yugi stiffened, but then he relaxed knowing it was just Yami.
"Koi, what happened? Nightmare?" Yami asked as he gently rocked Yugi back and forth.
"No." Yugi managed to get out. "Vision."
The breath caught in Yami's throat. "Is someone in trouble? We should call the others."
Yugi shook his head and grasped onto Yami's arm with a death grip. "It's no one in Domino. It's already happened, but we need to get to him. Soon."
"Who Yugi?"
"Marik."
~ ~ ~ (Around 9 am in the Rookery)~ ~ ~
Blue wandered into the kitchen area of the Rookery, perched herself on one of the high stools that surrounded the large island in the middle of the room and dropped her head onto its sleek surface. On of the Kuribohs placed a mug of steaming coffee in front of the Dragon leader and received a grunt of thanks. Blue lifted her head enough to sip the liquid ambrosia and then rested her head back down, this time so she could watch the triplets running around.
Like the rest of the Rookery the kitchen was a hodge-podge of different types of gimmicks and gadgets. There was no universal theme, this entire place repelling any type of uniformity. However the entire kitchen appliances stilled gleamed with a newness that Blue found amazing.
'After a two and a half years this place still hasn't been broken in properly.'
Of course Blue's and the rest of the Rookery's idea of breaking something in usually meant just that. Breaking it.
Two and a half years ago Blue's boyfriend had finally proposed to her. Yet she was unwilling to leave those under her care. So to compensate for it Seto Kaiba had bought a warehouse in the downtown area of Domino; updated it and filled it with new replicas of everything in the Rookery. And everything meant every toaster (all three of them) to the tools in Gizmo's lab. Then the multibillionaire had flown all the inhabitants of the Rookery to Domino.
The reactions of the inhabitant of the Rookery had very mixed reactions. The Deck had been impressed and in awe. The Hatchlings had been nervous and scared at first, but when they saw all of the new toys they lost track of everything else. Bear amazingly had been speechless, at least for a moment. Doc was impressed, especially when he realized that his medic center in the basement had not only been upgraded, but was better than some hospitals. Gizmo took everything in stride and broke in the new lair of the Dragons by promptly causing the blenders to go haywire and all of the toilets to flush simultaneously. The Kuribohs had promptly made a feast and invited everyone in a two mile radius to come and eat.
A presence sliding into the stool next to her let the raven haired girl know that one of the other Dragons had arrived. "Mornin' Curse."
"Morn." The giant of a man replied, accepting a cup of coffee from one of the Kuribohs.
"What the bloody hell is this all about?" Red came stomping in, with Bakura still attached to him. Ryou followed giggling at the two.
"You know you have a Bakura attached to you?" Blue inquired, slightly more awake at the scene.
Red gave her the middle and positioned himself in front of a stool. Bakura somehow managed to climb up on, mumbled something and snuggled more into his lover's shoulder. Ryou snorted and accepted a cup of tea while Red took coffee. The serving Kuriboh eyed Bakura but let him be.
"Morrrrrrrrnnnnninnnnngggg." Petit sang as she literally bounced into the room. She took one look at the scene and cracked up. "You'd think it was four in the morning and not nine by all of the droopy faces."
Red would have replied in kind, but Ryou clamped a gentle hand over the other man's mouth. "Not this early in the morning love."
Red just captured that hand and gave it a gentle kiss. "If you say, but she's too annoying at any time."
Petit giggled at the sweet scene while Blue and Curse just rolled their eyes. "To answer your question, didn't you get woken up by Yugi last night?"
Red quirked an eyebrow at his leader. "No, what happened?"
"Vision. Scared the shit out of me. Set wasn't too happy either."
"Why would Set be upset? He's not bonded to Yugi like us." Petit asked as she shoved a piece of toast and strawberry jam into her mouth.
"Uh . . . . you don't want to know." Blue said, a faint pink crossing her cheeks.
Petit looked like Christmas just came early for her. But before the sanity challenged one could do anything they heard the door open. Several figures soon joined the group in the kitchen. One was the spiky haired pair of Yami and Yugi. Although Yami hadn't changed much in the past couple of years, Yugi had. During the senior year of high school Yugi had suddenly hit the mother of all growth spurts and was now the same height of his yami. He had also gained some muscle since joining the swim team.* Behind them came two blonde haired figures. Joey had also grown a little, now just an inch taller than his wife Mai. Behind them came a brunette with hard blue eyes that softened when he caught a sight of Blue.
"Hey everyone." Blue said, exiting her seat and allowing Yugi to take it. The young man looked absolutely exhausted.
"Hey." Yugi muttered as he climbed onto the seat. Then he promptly drank Blue's coffee, grabbed the one the Kuribohs gave him and downed that to.
All eyebrows rose about two inches.
"So what is this all about. I've got a board meeting in an hour I have to be at." Seto said, giving Blue a quick peck on the cheek.
All eyes rested on Yugi (except for Bakura who was still asleep). The youth took a breath. "Last nigh I had a vision. It . . . it was horrible. It was about Marik. He is in trouble. We have to help him."
"Yugi, man I know you have a big heart. But why should we help him?" Joey asked, hugging Mai close. "After all he did in Battle City I can't forgive him for that."
"For once I agree with the mutt." Seto said, coldness lacing his voice. "Why should I help someone who kidnapped Mokuba and put him in danger? Marik's on his own."
Yugi looked around at Ryou and Bakura. The dark spirit was still asleep, but Ryou caught the other hikari's eyes and nodded. Yugi turned back to the other. "You don't understand he's in real trouble. He's . . .he's being tortured and r . . . raped."
Joey looked uncomfortable and Mia had a look of horror on her face. Seto's stony mask was still in place, but his eyes betrayed his unease. Blue looked around at the group. She had no idea what was going on, but if Yugi was worried about someone then she would help. "Where is this Marik guy anyway?"
"Egypt. Supposedly his sister is watching him. But something must have happened." Yugi shuddered; Yami wrapped a protective arm around him. Yugi glanced back and gave him a small smile.
"Do you know where in Egypt?"
"No, Ishizu was never very clear about where they were going. She did work at the museum."
"Her home address was never listed. And I could never find out where exactly she came from." Seto said, leaning up against the kitchen's doorjamb.
"We don't need that if we can just get a hold of something that either one of them had on them."
"I thought about that, here." Yugi held out something. Blue took it and looked it over. It appeared to be a necklace with the Sennen Eye in the center of it. "It's the Millennium Necklace and Ishizu used to be the owner of it."
Blue handed it to Petit. The insane one took it and started sniffing, licking and staring at it. "Well?"
"Oh we'll be able to find them."
"Don't forget about the Rod." Bakura said still nestled in Red's neck. "Malik was evil, but I'm sure he's worried about his hikari."
"Don't worry we won't." Blue said earning a quirked smile.
"When will you leave and how will you get there?" Seto asked.
"We'll fly and leave now."
* * * * * *
Treska: *Wanders in.* I know I usually write a little more, but for some reason I can't keep my mind on it. And this is most likely a treat. I won't be able to get two chapters up every week. So I'm going to rotate between the two stories. Hope you like it. Read and review.
*This is actually an idea that I got from Tiger-Serenity and her "Yin and Yang" story.