I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, but this fic does contain made up Characters. Thanks To All Who Reviewed!!!
[blah]=Dream
/blah/=Yugi to Yami
//blah//=Yami to Yugi
blah=thinking
Nightlight5: **Yawns** So bored…so I guess I'll start on chapter6.
Yugi: **Walks out of his room and rubs his eyes** Good morning Nightlight5.
Nightlight5: Morning Yugi…Yugi watch out for that…**boom**…wall.
Yugi: **rubs head** Ouch! How long has that been there?
Nightlight5: Since forever.
Yami: **stumbles sleepily out of his room** What was that noise?
Nightlight5: Yugi ran into the wall.
Yami: Again?
Yugi: Hey…that wall is hard to see this early in the morning.
Nightlight5: Maybe you need glasses.
Yami: or a Helmet.
Yugi: No really…I'm fine. I probably just need something to eat. **Begins to walk to the kitchen**
Yami: Umm Yugi…watch out for that…**boom** desk.
Yugi: I'm ok.
Yami: At this rate Yugi isn't going to make it to the kitchen.
Nightlight5: At least not without a concussion.
Yami: I'll go check on him.
Nightlight5: Well, here's the story.
Chapter 6: A dream and a scheme
[Joey opened his eyes to a clear blue sky. He could feel the rays of sunshine beating down upon his face, and the warm sand underneath him. "I could lay here for a thousands years," Joey thought to himself. It was the must peaceful spot that Joey had ever been in. Lying there made it feel like all of his problems would just melt away. "Wait a minutes," Joey said as he quickly sat up and looked around. For miles, all he could see was sand glancing like pure gold under the sun. "How did I get here?" As soon as Joey had asked that question a large pyramid shoot into walking distances. "Ahhhh," Joey yelled as the sight of the sudden approaching pyramid caused him to scramble backwards. Then the sky turned a black color and began to roar with thunder. Joey looked up at the sky as a large drop of rain hit him in the eye. Joey growled as he rubbed his eye and felt the rain begin to beat harder on his back. Joey looked towards the pyramid to see an open door in the side. "It's better then being out in the rain," Joey thought right before he made a mad dash toward the opened pyramid. Once Joey was inside, he plopped down on the floor and sat in the large puddle of water that had dripped off of him. The inside of the pyramid was fairly dark, all expect for one beam of light that Joey had just now noticed. Joey looked up at the base of the light and noticed a small figure standing in the light. Joey rubbed his eyes as the figure came into clear view. Joey's heart leaped as he saw what looked like Yugi with his back turned to him. "Yu…Yugi?" Joey said as he took a step forward. The small figure jerked around at the sound of Joey's voice, scaring Joey and causing him to take a step back. Yugi looked at him with an evil glare, but Joey didn't notice it. Joey began to run at Yugi and stopped in front of him and put his hands on Yugi's shoulder. "Aw man Yug", Joey said as he looked at the ground and caught his breath, "where have you been buddy, you worried us to death." But Yugi never answered. "Yugi?" Joey said as he began to look up at him, but before Joey reached Yugi's face he stopped and looked at his right arm. He noticed there was a dark shadow curling and constricting Yugi's right arm. Joey looked at the dark shadow in horror and then grabbed Yugi' left arm and began to pull him along. "Come on Yugi, we have to get out of here." Joey was pulling Yugi along when he felt Yugi put his hand, on his hand that held him. Joey stopped and turned to look at Yugi, but when he turned around all he saw was a brilliant blue flash and a burning sensation on his hand before flying 3 feet away from Yugi and landing on the floor. "I'm sorry Joey", Yugi said as he looked at the blue swirl of energy around his right arm, "but I can't go with you." "What are you saying Yugi?" "Am saying that I have things to do and I can't have you in my way." Yugi then held out his right hand and a red energy flared came out of his hand and created a large hole under Joey, but before Joey fell he grabbed a hold of the side of the hole and hung there. "Yugi", Joey yelled as he tried to get a better grip, "why are you doing this, I thought we were friends?" "Ha, you thought", Yugi said as he stood over the hole, "let's face it Joey, your not the brightest person." Yugi then stepped on Joey's hand and said one last thing before Joey fell into the darkest of the hole. "I have no friends." Then Joey fell deep into the darkest of the hole.]
"Joey, Joey, JOEY!"
Joey wake up in a cold sweat.
"Hey Joey, come on it's time to go."
Joey looked up towards who was speaking to him. It was Tristan.
"Come on Joey", Tristan said as he pulled Tea along with him; she was still gripped onto his arm; "were here, so let's go."
Joey pried his self out of his seat and made his way off the plane. Joey scratched his head and yawned.
"That dream really freaked me out. But was it a dream or was it real? Nah…It's just a dream. Dreams aren't real. Are they?"Joey walked into the airport lobby and found Grandpa looking at the map with a confused stare.
"What's the matter Grampa?"
"I hate to say this Joey, but I don't know if I can read this map."
Joey had a shocked look on his face and was about to say something, but Tristan beat him to it.
"WHAT, you mean we came all this way and we can't even read the map!"
"I'm afraid so Tristan", grandpa said as handed the map to Joey, "this map is so old that some of the important details on it has been rubbed off."
"No", Joey said as he placed the map close to his eyes trying to read the rubbed off words, "this can't be, we have come so far, and…and map or no map. I'm not giving up. I'm not going back to Domino City until Yugi is with us.
"Joey's right", Ryou said as he balled up his fist to match Joey.
"Maybe we can ask for directions", Tea stated finally letting go of Tristan's arm.
"Yeah Tea, We're just going to go up and ask someone, Hey! Do you know where they keep all the kidnapped kids around here?" Tristan said in a serious and teasing manner.
Tristan stepped behind Ryou when he saw the deadly look on Tea's face and the fire flames shoot up in the background.
"It was just a joke Tea."
"I know who it is you seek," said a strange voice
They all quickly turned to see the man facing them.
The man stood a little bit taller then Joey and wore a turban. He also wore a plain white cape and a white dress like thing that an Egyptian would wear, but what grabbed their attention the must was the golden like key around his neck.
"Hey I know you", Tristan said stepping out from behind Ryou, "You're the one who saved me and Duke's life on the Battle City Blimp."
"Yes, my name is Shadi, and I see why you have come here. You come in search of your friend, "the stranger said.
"That's right, how did you know that?" grandpa asked.
"Not many things escape the all seeing power of my Millennium Key."
They all gasped as they gazed at his Millennium Key.
"Hmmm…he possesses one of the Millennium Items that I seek", Bakura said as he watched safely tucked away inside the Millennium Ring," perhaps I will take an interest in my aibou's little adventure."
Shadi then stepped up and took the map from Joey's hands. He quickly looked over the map and looked back at them.
"I know where you wish to go. I myself have been there several times. I can take you there if you wish."
"Oh that would be wonderful", Tea said with a glitter of hope.
"Wait a second, Tea, how do we know your not just going to lead us out into the desert on a wild goose chase?" Joey asked in a not-so-sure voice.
"You don't, but what other choice do you have?" Shadi asked.
Shadi then turns and begins to work off. "If you want to find your friend, then you would be wise to follow, but be warned, the deserts of Egypt are no place for the weak."
Joey's expression turned confused and then he fired back. "Are you saying I'm weak?"
Shadi continued on his journey to the door but still replied. "Perhaps."
Joey clearly angered at the comment. "Well, I'll show you." And with that Joey grabbed his bag and ran to catch up with Shadi.
"Hey! Joey", Tristan said in an attempt to stop him, "wait for us!"
Then they all took of after Joey and the strange they had just meet.
**Back at the Pyramid**
Yugi woke up but didn't open his eyes. He could feel that he was sitting upright, in some kind of chair. It was cold, hard and uncomfortable. He decided to give opening his eyes a try, and to his surprise they popped open and everything came into clear view. He began to look around and noticed he was still in the same room that he was in before he passed out, but now the room was totally lit. Yugi tried to stand up but was quickly pulled back by both wrists. That's when he noticed that both his wrists were bund to the armrest of the stony chair, and a sharp pain shooting through his right arm. He then directed his attention to his right arm and saw that his blue jacket had been taking off and the gash in his right arm had been revealed, but that wasn't what Yugi was worried about. He was worried about Yami. He still didn't have his Millennium Puzzle. He had tried the link but nothing came through. They must have been too far apart this time and plus they were both weak from the energy drain they had both received. Yami had taken must of the drain. Yugi still could see the energy flowing out of Yami as the color faded away from him and he became weak. He couldn't stand it to see Yami like that, so he shook the thought from his head. Right now he needed to focus on getting out of here and finding Yami. Yugi struggled to get free from his binds but stopped when the pain in his right arm got worse. It was infected and puffy which didn't help with the pain.
"Well, I should have let Yami rebandage it yesterday when he wanted to."
"Hey, your awake."
Yugi snapped is head back in the direction of the voice and was surprised at who he saw.
"Dad," Yugi managed to spit out.
Yugi sat there staring at his father. He didn't know whether or not to be mad at him or glad to see him. From what Toton had told him his father had no choice but to bring him here.
"But why didn't he just tell me, I would've understood. But he shouldn't have gone about it the way he did."
"What are you doing here," Yugi said trying not to sound so angry.
"I'm here to check on you; I thought you were never going to wake up." Peter said as he made his way over to Yugi's side.
"How long have I been out?"
"Only for a couple of hours, but you know how us fathers worry," Peter said as he knelt down beside him..
"No", Yugi said turning away, "I don't."
"Yugi, I", Peter began but was quickly cut off by Yugi's next question.
"Why did you bring me here?"
"Yugi I can't tell you everything", but once again Yugi cut in.
"I already know", Yugi said pausing for a second, "I just wanted to know your side of the story, since I had to hear Toton's side of the story."
"Look", Yugi said looking back at him, "I don't expect you to tell me what's going on, and I just want to know where my puzzle is."
"Yugi, I'm sorry", Peter said as he looked up at his son's surprised face, "I know that me and your mother caused you a lot of pain in the past, and I don't expected you to forgive us so easily or even at all, but I want you to know that what your mother and I did in the past was…well…we thought it was the best thing to do at the time".
Peter looked up at Yugi and noticed his eyes were watery and his head was held low. Peter looked back down at Yugi's arm and put a warm cloth on he's gash. Yugi turned to his arm and hissed in pain.
"Sorry", Yugi's father said as he continued to examine the infected gash. "What did you do to get this Yugi and why did you let it get so infected?"
"A freak window accident, and between being paralyzed and tied to a chair I really haven't had time to tend to it." Yugi said.
Peter smiled for a moment at the humor in Yugi's voice but it quickly faded when realized how frightening all this must be to his son.
Yugi looked down at his father once more. His expression was sad and distance. It was clear that his mind wasn't on what he was doing. Yugi had felt bad for saying what he had, even if it was true. The silence was unbearable, and Yugi wouldn't have normally said anything, but he had to know something.
"If you only answer one of my questions, then answer me this." Yugi said as his dad looked up at him.
"I shall try," Peter said as he nodded.
"Where is my Millennium Puzzle?"
"Can I answer that?" came a strange but familiar voice.
Both Yugi and his father jerked their stare away from each other to see who was talking. They both had a good idea as to who the familiar voice belonged to, and sure enough, they were right. There stood Toton about ten feet away from them holding the Millennium Puzzle in his hands.
"I'm guessing your looking for this."
"Give me back my Millennium Puzzle", Yugi demanded as his father rose to his feet and stood beside him.
"As you wish", Toton said and began to walk over to him.
"What", Yugi thought, "he's just going to give it back, just like that. Something isn't right here. There's no way he would just give it back. He's up to something, but what?"
Yugi felt his father tensed up with every step that Toton got closer. He couldn't tell if he was afraid of Toton or if he just didn't want him anywhere near him. When Toton was finally in front of him, he reached down and slipped the puzzle back around Yugi's neck, then backed up a few steps. When Peter saw that Toton was backing away he relaxed for a moment.
"See, I'm not such a bad guy after all." Toton said as he stood watching the both of them and putting his hand into his pocket.
//Yugi?//
/Yami!/
//Are you ok? I've been trying to reach you but you never answered. They didn't hurt you did they?//
/I'm fine, I tried to reach you too but you never answered. Are you ok?/
//Yes, I'm fine, A little drained but I'm ok. I heard you but you never answered back. You had me worried to death.//
/I'm sorry/
//It's all right, your ok now, but I wonder why you couldn't hear me? Are you sure your feeling ok?//
/Yes, besides feeling drained myself, I'm fine./
//Then we must be careful, I feel some kind of strange energy coming from within this chamber.//
/What kind of energy?/
//I'm not sure, but I know that this energy feels dark and unfriendly.//
Yugi mentally nodded and then pushed himself back into reality. When he finally came back into the real world, Toton was staring at him. His stare sent a chilled down his spine.
"Now", Toton finally said, "I gave you your puzzle back, now you must do something for me."
"I knew he was up to something."
//be careful Yugi.//
"I want you to bring me the seven Millennium Items."
"What?"
//Yugi, let me speak to him.//
/Are you sure you're up to it? With your energy drained you wouldn't be able to take control for very long./
//I'm fine//
/Uh…okay…if your sure./
Yami nodded to Yugi and then left him behind in the puzzle.
A brilliant flash came from the Millennium Puzzle and Peter had to squint his eyes to see what was going on. However, Toton did not. It was almost like he had expected it. When the flash was gone Peter looked to Yugi. He was shocked. It no longer looked like Yugi anymore, but someone completely different.
"Hmph, I can assure you that's not going to happen." Yami snorted.
"Well, looks like the Pharaoh has finally come out to make sure little Yugi wasn't in any trouble." Toton said with amusement in his voice.
Peter looked at his son in shocked. "Pharaoh? Is this still my son?"
"I don't know why you want the Millennium Items or why you even think that I could get them, but you will never get me to bring them to you." Yami said in a weaker voice then before.
"From the sound of your voice Pharaoh, you're not going to be able to do much more for much longer. Besides, by the time I'm through with you, I think you'll be more then happy to bring me the Items.
Yami growled under his breath.
/He's right Yami, why don't you let me take over for a little while./
//I'll be ok aibou.//
"What makes you think that I can bring you the items," Yami asked.
Toton smirked then began to tell his tale. "For years I have read the tablets of ancient text, learning anything I could. Until one day I stumbled onto an ancient text that spoke of how the Pharaoh had locked ancient powers away into seven Millennium Items. I have tried to find these ancient artifacts but always in the end, I'd fail. I was discouraged by my failure and decided to go back to reading the ancient text. That is when I discovered that only the Pharaoh had the power to collect the Millennium Items. But the Millennium Items aren't the only things that contain great power."
Toton brought out a golden circle, which almost resembled a coin, and held it between his finger and thumb. The golden item had the same eye on it as the Millennium Items did.
"For example", Toton said, "this little artifact is not a Millennium Item, but it still holds great power. When the power inside the Millennium items were locked away 5,000 years ago, they couldn't all contain this last piece of power. So this disk was created to store away the last bit of magic that the others could not. This artifact is called the Shadow Disk."
"And what does this Shadow Disk do?" Yami asked clearing hearing the energy drain in his voice.
"Why don't I just give you a demonstration?" Toton said as he walked over to where Peter was standing.
"J, please take Peter back to his room." Toton said as he waved a heavily muscled man in black over.
J grabbed Peter by both arms and put them behind his back.
"What are you planning on doing Toton?!"
"Nothing that concerns you anymore."
J began to drag Peter off out through an open door, but not before Peter yelled back one final thing.
"If you hurt him Toton, you'll be in more trouble then you're in now."
"Yes, Yes", Toton said as he waved off Peter's outburst.
/Yami, are you sure you're ok, I can feel your energy getting low and whatever Toton's about to do might seriously worsen your condition./
//I'm fine…really.//
Toton began to lower the shadow disk to Yugi's gash.
/You don't sound fine. I'm going to take over./
//No…Yugi Wait!//
Another bright flash came from the Millennium Puzzle and this time Yugi appeared. Unfortunately for Yugi, he had appeared at a bad time. Toton had finally reached Yugi's arm and had rammed the disk into he gash. Yugi flinched and was about to let out a yell of pain, when he noticed that the background around him was fading away and being replaced with the background of the Millennium Puzzle.
"What am I doing inside", Yugi paused for a second and sat down on the floor as the pain in his arm increased," inside…the Millennium…Puzzle."
Yugi had his head hung down looking at his arm, until he heard the sound of running footsteps coming towards him. He pulled his head up just in time to see Yami slide on his knees and stop beside Yugi. He then took Yugi's arm into his hands.
"Why did you do that Yugi?"
"Do what?"
"Why did you switch with me at the last second? If you haven't, then I would be here instead of you."
And that's why I did it." Yugi said. "I knew that whatever Toton was about to do wouldn't be good for your already bad condition; and don't try to say your fine because I know your not; so I couldn't just sit by while Toton tried to destroy you."
"So you risked your life for mine?" Yami asked surprisingly, but didn't give Yugi time to answer before he began to speak again. "It shouldn't surprise me, you have always been willing to risk your life for others Yugi, and that is what makes you a special person. Throughout our travels, I've meet many people, but I have never meet anyone else like you Yugi. I am glad you are my aibou."
Yugi smiled at Yami. He could tell that Yami was worried from the uneasiness in his voice. Yugi was still looking at Yami's face when he noticed Yami's eyes widen.
"What's wrong," Yugi began to ask but stopped when he saw what Yami was looking at.
They were both looking at the gash. At first it looked like it had been the last time he had seen it, but then it started to close up, and within a minute it had closed together completely. His arm now appeared perfectly normal, like nothing had ever happened, except for the now clearly glowing Millennium eye on his arm where his gash had been.
"I don't like the looks of this," Yami said as he let go of Yugi's arm and watched it fall limply to the ground. "What's wrong Yugi?"
"I can't move my arm."
Then, just as Yugi had said those words, dark shadowy beams shoot out from his arm and began to coil around him and pushed Yami away. Yugi gasped and began to remember back to his dream he had had only a night ago.
"It's just like my dream. I can't let this happen or who knows what evil will come from this, but what can I do when I can't even move."
Yugi struggled trying to get away from the shadows, but it only caused them to become tighter. The shadows were now forming a cocoon like ball around him and shutting him out away from the light and causing him to become weak and drowsy. Yugi couldn't see anymore, it was totally dark. All he could do now was hear the cries from Yami who had obviously made his way back over to the cocoon and was trying to use what like Shadow Magic he had to free him, but it was no use. It wasn't working. Yugi was now suspended inside the hollow ball of shadows. He felt his self go cold as his mind went blank and he lost all consciousness.
"Yugi!", Yami yelled as he shot a white light of magic from the Millennium Puzzle at the cocoon, but it didn't effect it. Yami tried to grab a hold of the cocoon but a piece of the shadow reached up and knocked him away causing him to hit one of the walls inside the puzzle. When he hit the wall shadows flew away from the cocoon and pinned him to the wall. He struggled to get free of the shadows, but his efforts fell short.
"Yugi, I have failed you. You risked your life to save mine and now I have failed to do the same for you."
Toton kneeled down in front of Yugi waiting for results. Yugi had been sitting still with his eyes closed and slumped over in the chair for a few minutes now and Toton was beginning to wonder if the disk had worked. Finally Yugi straighten up and began to open his eyes. When Yugi's eyes were completely open Toton smiled in satisfaction. Yugi's eyes were completely glazed over in a purple color and there was no sign of life in them.
Toton stood and snapped his fingers causing the binds around Yugi's wrist to release.
"Stand up Yugi."
Yugi rose to his feet.
Toton laughed as he watched Yugi obey his command.
"Now your mind belongs to me," Toton said as he instructed Yugi to come over where he stood. Toton began to circle Yugi.
"So Yugi, do you still believe that you wouldn't bring me the Millennium Items?"
Yugi said nothing. He just stood there with the same glazed look on his face.
"Well, let me show you how easy it is. Yugi, go bring me the seven Millennium Items."
Yugi turned and grabbed his jacket, and with that, he disappeared from the pyramid and from sight."
Nightlight5: Well that's it finally. I'm sorry it took so long to get it up, we have been moving and I haven't had a chance to update. So I hope you enjoyed it. Please R&R, and still tune for chapter 7. Hopefully I can get it up quicker then this time.