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Yami awoke with a sudden jolt like he'd been zapped.
"Yugi!" he shouted, surprising Ryou and Marik, who had been sitting off to the side planning.
"Yami?" Ryou asked, walking up to him
"Are you okay?" Yami looked like he was going to be sick he looked at Ryou the tingling feeling wouldn't go away until suddenly it stopped all together
"I feel him he's being hurt" he said rubbing his arms trying to warm himself up
"I have to go, I have to find him" Yami said suddenly lifting himself off the bed and going towards the door Ryou caught him on the arm before he made it there.
"Yami I know you want to save him but you can't just go barging in there"
"Well then what do you expect me to do just sit here?" Yami said still pulling towards the door
"I will take you but you have to listen to our plan first," Marik said standing Yami stopped pulling and stared at him
"I'll listen but could you tell me on the way there?" he said
"Fine but you will listen," Marik said walking past Yami and down the hall Ryou and Yami followed him. They made it down to the lobby, people stared at them as Marik walked casually towards the doors women held onto their children as he walked by; but one little kid got away and ran up to Marik who looked down at him with a smile, he knelt down in front of the boy who was staring up at him with an awed expression.
"Hello," he said his wings coming slightly undone as he knelt,
"Where's your mother?" he asked amused, the kid pointed to a woman who was looking at him fearfully, he looked back to the child.
"You are truly a lucky child," he said, picking the smiling child up and carrying him back to his mother. Marik returned to Yami and Ryou who were staring at him wonderingly, as they left the building Yami asked
"What was that about?"
"that was the first human I've come in contact with, other than you, in a very long, long time I wanted to make a good impression for those people I get the feeling they are going to be seeing a lot more like me," he said taking hold of Yami
"Hey!" Yami shouted as Marik grabbed him
"What are you doing?"
"You said you wanted me to show you where the place was. The only way to get in fast is to fly," Marik explained picking him up
"Oh, sorry," Yami replied
"What about me?" Ryou said pointing to himself
"Get a running start and get flapping the rest will take care of itself; just do what I do, and keep close." Marik turned around and since he was carrying someone heavier, started to run, in seconds he gained enough speed to take off and started to rise as he flapped his massive wings. Unlike his first flight with Yugi Marik rose slowly Yami looked down amazed as the buildings shrunk below him; he looked back to see Ryou performing the same trick only he wasn't a graceful but he did make it up with Marik flapping wildly
"So you said you had a plan," he said once Marik had leveled out
"Actually we're going through this on 'a wing and a prayer' of sorts," he said trying to keep himself from chuckling at Yami's suddenly terrified look
"We were anyway and it was the only way we could think of to get you to calm down and think straight," Marik said
"You know this is suicide," Yami said
"Yeah but why not have fun with it? There it is," he said quickly pointing towards a brick building with a flat roof that was just on the edge of the city it looked abandoned until he saw some movement on the roof
-- Yami, we'll be distractions go find Yugi at the signal -- he heard Ryou say in his mind,
'so they do have a plan,' he thought as Marik circled around behind the smallish building below as they came closer he noticed around five guards gathered around the entrance from the helicopter pad Marik landed quietly behind small building that surrounded what Yami guessed was a stairwell. Marik quickly put Yami down to catch the quickly falling Ryou,
"Get up there," Marik whispered as quietly as possible gesturing to the roof of the building they were crouched behind
-- Wait until they fall, then jump -- Ryou said. Marik suddenly lifted Yami pushing him up onto the roof, before he had a chance to ask what Ryou meant; he scrambled across it until he was at the edge looking down at the guards. Down below Ryou started to put his 'plan' into action he peeked around the corner just enough to see them and started to whistle loud and sharp into their minds they all started to look around for where the horrible noise was coming from. Marik went to the other side and started to whistle the same way physically, after he was done with his first long note he started to scream at a pitch Yami didn't even think was possible for a human, let alone a male one. The guards all ready confused and their ears ringing started to drop like flies onto their knees holding their heads, Yami took that as the chance to jump, he leapt off the building right in front of the door and turned throwing it open he saw Ryou as he turned and said loud enough for him to hear
"Show no mercy," before running inside and slamming the door shut. He ran down the stairs blindly, if there were any booby-traps on them he was already dead because he wasn't slowing down; he ran through the first door he came to and looked around the room he was now in, after flipping on the lights. Yami gasped at the site the room was full of cages stacked three high in rows, around the cages on the walls were counters full of lab equipment and vials. He cautiously approached the closest cage and looked inside he fell backwards at the site there was a small child inside the cage whimpering in the corner, Yami had never seen one of these kinds before these ones had scales that covered almost every part of their body possibly. The bars on the front of the cage were big enough for a human to get their hand through, so he reached into the cage and gently touched the child which he now noticed was only covered by a single blanket in its cage. It slowly cracked open and eye to look at Yami to it all it saw was Yami, a normal human, and huddled back down with its face on its knees
"It's okay I'm not going to hurt you," Yami said feeling sympathetic for the child
"who are you?" the child actually looked at him this time uncurling its self slightly Yami notice that, since it didn't seem to mind the fact that his upper body was bare, he guessed it was male
"Bakura," he said reddish brown eyes blinking as he realized Yami wasn't what he thought he was. Yami got a better look at Bakura now that he was uncurled; the boy had white scales
'Scales?!' from the waist up and from what little Yami could see he was guessing dark green scales from waist down what was odd though was he had the same hair style as Ryou except he had a little bit of his bangs that spiked up to look like bat wings.
"What are you doing here?" Yami asked curiously as he looked around he saw that the rest of the cages held other angels, demons, and dragons some of which were trying to see who, or possibly what, he was. Bakura's eyes suddenly went huge and he pointed fearfully behind Yami; as Yami turned a boot met the side of his face sending him flying into another cage who's occupant screeched, scared awake. As Yami rubbed the side of his face he heard the clatter of the same boot kicking Bakura's cage and someone shouting
"Shut up you little lizard runt!!" as Bakura screamed fearfully in his cage.
"Leave him alone you jerk!" Yami shouted getting up now that he saw his attacker he was slightly sorry he'd said it the man was a tall muscular guy with a whip at his belt, no doubt he'd used it once or twice on these children, Yami who looked like he wasn't very strong at all suddenly darted at the man tackling him into the wall then turned to run but before he got two steps he was met with a huge jolt of electricity, like a tazer, dropping him instantly, he lay there twitching on the floor before everything went black.
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Yami woke again this time to the sound of footsteps he slowly opened his eyes to se the floor moving below him and a pain in his knees he looked up to see that he was being dragged towards an open door. He looked up at his captors and gasped when he noticed it was an angel and a demon but something just didn't look right about them before he could point out what it was though he was chucked through the doorway and into what to him looked like a bowl shaped dome arena with a balcony to one side.
"Where am I?" Yami thought out loud
"welcome to my battle arena," he heard a voice say from the balcony Yami looked back up to the balcony to see a man sitting in the chair he was holding onto another dragon child this one was a girl with deep blue scales wearing nothing but a towel
"Allow me to introduce myself I am Malik the purveyor of your death and let me introduce you opponent," he said gesturing towards the opposite end of the arena where a door was opening
"Yugi!" Yami shouted he was about to run up to him when he drew a pair of Harry Carrie daggers and went into a fighting position. Yami stopped
"Yugi?"
'Something's wrong why is he acting like he is about to attack me?' Yami took a closer look his eyes were a dull lifeless purple
'And why is he wearing that collar?' Yugi was also wearing a color that seemed to be slowly choking him then releasing and repeating the same thing making Yugi's breathing uneven.
"Get him!" Malik yelled the girl he was holding onto cringed and turned away; with a small scream Yugi lunged at Yami with one of his daggers Yami jumped out of the way but as he jumped Yugi turned and slashed him across the side, with a cry of pain Yami knelt down holding his side. Yugi turned standing over him he raised one of his daggers above Yami's head as Yugi brought the knife down though Yami rolled out of the way Yugi looked at him wildly, he lunged at Yami again this time Yami ran to the opposite side of the room trying to stay away from Yugi, no matter what, he wouldn't be able to forgive himself if he hurt him. It went on like that for a few minutes until Yami realized
'The collar,' it must have been the collar making Yugi like this. Yami decide to make a run at him and rip the collar off, but as he ran Yugi started to run too holding a dagger upright as Yami reached him Yami snatched the collar off of Yugi's neck but at that very moment the dagger Yugi was holding plunged into the side of Yami's waist right next to his stomach. A spark flashed before Yugi's eyes and he blinked his eyes turned back to their normal shining violet he heard Yami make a choking noise above him and he looked up his eyes widened; Yami was bent over him as warm blood ran down the dagger and onto his arm
"Yu-gi," Yugi slowly removed the dagger trying to keep himself from throwing up and or screaming. He laid Yami down on the floor the collar was still clutched in his hand; Malik, annoyed by the loss of any noises that signaled battle, looked over the edge of his balcony, pulling Mai along with him, to see Yugi kneeling next to Yami crying and trying to apply pressure to the wound he had created with the dagger as Yami grunted in pain.
"What are you doing!? Kill him!" Malik commanded Yugi looked up to where Malik was standing
"NO!" he screamed the sound echoing off the walls
"you insolent little brat I aught to..." he never even finished what he was going to say as Yugi jumped up onto the unprotected balcony seizing Malik by the neck angrily
"I'll kill you!" Malik started laughing
"You wouldn't kill me you don't have the heart to,"
"Oh yes I can you've killed too many people, children, babies, even adults; you deserve to die," Yugi said his grip tightening Malik was laughing insanely
"Then I've have succeeded, I've truly created the next step in human evolution, I've created the future generation," he said Yugi stared at him slowly becoming scared by the man's actions
"Kill me then show me that my creatures that I've given life have a backbone!" he yelled. Yugi was frozen his anger was gone replaced by fear, that moment of hesitation was enough though; Malik reached up and flipped Yugi slamming him onto the ground before stomping on his back
"I knew you couldn't do it, spineless runt, I should have killed you when I had the chance," he said pressing down Yugi cried out in pain as his wings where slowly being crushed.
"Aaaagghhhh!!!" Yugi heard Malik scream from above him Yugi looked up to see Mai on top of Malik clawing at him with her sharpened nails she tore through his cloths viciously shredding at his skin the man removed his boot from Yugi's back as he stumbled trying to get her off. Mai finally gave Malik a final scratch right across the back of his neck, a deep gash breaking his spinal column, Malik dropped dead immediately, Mai stood up off of the dead man's body helping Yugi stand up.
"Yugi, okay?" she asked innocently Yugi nodded amazed it was finally over, the meaningless deaths, and the winged children born without parents no more. Yugi looked at Mai she was actually taller than him now that she was standing, she was licking her claws clean right then
"What did you do?" he asked cautiously now slightly scared of her
"he hurt Yugi," he said hugging Yugi tightly she may have looked like she was seven or eight years old but her mind was only working at a four year olds pace, she only knew that Yugi was being hurt and acted on it Mai had no idea the magnitude of what she had just done. Yugi blushed slightly as she hugged him because sometime during the entire brawl she had lost the towel that had been wrapped around her body. Slowly his mind slipped back into reality, first, by remembering Yami
"Yami!" he shouted quickly trying to get towards the edge of the balcony to see if he was okay Mai let go of him following Yugi. Yugi jumped off the balcony and into the arena where Yami lay still bleeding slightly from the wound his eyes were wide open as he took in ragged breaths of air he looked at Yugi who was now bent over him trying to think of how to help him
"Yu-gi," he said pulling on his shirt Yugi looked at him getting closer Mai bent over him trying to see who this new person was Yami smiled at him seeing Mai hovering over Yugi
"Did we win?" he asked weakly
"he's gone Yami it's all over we can go home and live happily ever after just like your story," he said holding Yami's head in his lap
"Could you find Ryou for me I don't feel to good," Yami moaned blinking lazily Mai knelt down next to him sensing Yugi's fear
"Who're you?" she asked sweetly
"Yami Mouto I think I've met your brother somewhere," he said slurring his words. He coughed once, twice, then some blood came dribbling out of the corner of his mouth just like Yugi had done when he'd broken his ribs Yugi started to cry holding Yami close, this was the end he'd known Yami for only a short period of time but in that time he done something only birds do, he had impressed upon (A.N: I think that's right) Yami,
"Yami you can't die you just can't there's so much you need to teach me, I need you we all need you please don't go!" he cried holding Yami closer he heard Yami's heart again it was still beating but just barely Yami smiled weakly at him his eyes slowly closed as darkness clouded his vision.
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Gruzzee: arrrrggghh! The ever present evil cliffhanger
Cazi: good God tell me you aren't ending it like that that's just plain depressing
Gruzzee: look up birdbrain it says To Be Continued right there so I'm not done yet
Cazi: all right then will you at least tell me whether he lives or not
Gruzzee: nope but I will say this R&R and come back later for the answers to these questions: What will become of Yami? What happened to Ryou and Marik? And what will become of the winged children? Stay tuned for the next episode of DB... oops wrong show, the next chapter of "Tenshi Yugi"
P.S. please don't leave me long arse reviews like Faith if you've got something like that to say to me please e-mail me.