Dreams of Angels
Pan: Stupid has removed one of my stories. Luckily, it was my first story, and crap anyway. You can probably the panic an email from FF net Admin instills! I was so afraid it would be this story or one of my other good ones! It was pretty unfair too, I was banned from updating until the 17 October, because the story that was deleted was actually in script format. Now, I uploaded that story AGES before the rule banning script format was brought in, but they didn't give any warnings to us authors to delete script format stories, did they? No. And they said it was interactive, but I don't see asking for ideas as interactive.
And I'm sorry I've taken so long to update. I've been swamped by english coursework, and my teacher won't give me the notes I need for it. Plus, I'm rehearsing for a concert in December, and I've got to learn a Spanish dance and an Irish dance in my tap dancing class for February. As a note, it will be unlikely that I update for any of January, as I have mock GCSEs that month.
And, Romeo and Juliet is, of course, written by Shakespeare, (not me, jerk lawyers) and happens to be what I'm studying in school at the moment. Hence the reason I have a copy of it in front of me. I am also aware that it's unlikely that people in a Japanese school would study Romeo and Juliet, but you'll have to deal with.
LilAznSp0nge, it was cool cheese, wasn't it?
And you, Angel Reaper, don't tell anyone! You're the only person to figure that out!
Anime Crazed, I get the Egyptian words from hieroglyphs (dot) net.
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"Yami, let me out for a while, let me stretch my wings!" Youkai asked quickly as Yami awoke the next morning.
"No, Youkai. Get your own body." Yami murmured moodily, turning over and re-closing his eyes in an attempt to fall back to sleep.
"Aw, Yami, you know that's not fair! I'm a part of you, I can't have my own body!" the Demon whined loudly in Yami's head.
"I was a part of Yugi. I got my own body. Go figure." Yami replied. "Now, SHUT UP!"
"Yami, you're not being nice." Youkai pouted.
"Whoever said I was nice? All I know is, whenever you've had control of my body, I get so low on my magical energies and Life Force that I can hardly open my eyes. So, no." Yami said.
"Yami, we've got to go to school!" Yugi called.
"Shit." Yami muttered, throwing his bedcovers off, and stalking towards the bathroom. He passed Yugi on the landing, and received a quick kiss.
"Cheer up, Yami." Yugi said. "It's not all so bad." He frowned suddenly, taking Yami's hand.
"What is it?" Yami asked, suddenly more awake.
"You're missing energy..." Yugi murmured, closing his eyes. "Your magical energy is there... your Life Force is there... Darker energy.... Youkai's energy..." He opened his eyes, looking up at Yami's face. "I can't find what it is. You usually have four different types of energy inside you, excluding Youkai's, but one of them is missing. Do you know what it is?"
Yami smiled softly. "Yes, I know. My Ancient Energy's gone."
"What's that?" Yugi asked curiously.
"It's the energy that kept my spirit alive inside the Puzzle, and that sustained our bond while I still resided inside the Puzzle. It's basically the Life Force carried over from my previous life." Yami answered.
"So why's it gone?" Yugi asked.
"Because I have no need for it anymore. I no longer live in the Puzzle, and our bond is sustained by other means now. It's been dissipating since I became free of the Puzzle." Yami explained calmly. "I'm just like you now. I'll live until you die, and then I'll pass onto Judgement. I'm no longer immortal."
"Why only until I die?"
"Because I couldn't live in a world without you."
Yugi laughed. "Ya-chan, are you angling for something?"
"Maybe, koi..."
"Well, not now. We have school."
"Aww, can't we call in sick?" Yami pleaded.
"No, we cannot."
"Ah, not fair!" Yami complained, sliding his back down the wall until he was sitting on the floor.
"Very fair." Yugi said, smiling. "We have as long as you want after school."
"I won't survive until then!" Yami said, putting on a very dramatic air.
"Oh yes you will!" Yugi said. "You've always been too impatient Atemu!"
"Don't call me that. I don't like it." Yami said, looking up very abruptly.
"Atemu! Atemu!" Yugi chanted, teasing his other self. Yami suddenly grabbed Yugi's hands, and pulled him down to his level, kneeling on the floor.
"You know you'll have to be punished for that, right?" Yami said with a smirk.
"Yes, oh mighty pharaoh." Yugi said sarcastically. Yami rolled his eyes, and pulled Yugi into a bruising kiss. He released Yugi's hands, and slid his own around the younger's waist, as his eyes slid shut. Yugi smiled into the kiss, thinking that this time, Yami wouldn't get any power over him. The young pharaoh jumped, eyes flying open as he felt Yugi's tongue brush across his lips, asking to be allowed in. Yami's surprise made his lips part slightly, though unwillingly. Yugi took the opportunity quickly, with a mental smirk, pushed his tongue gently into Yami's mouth. After several minutes of this, Yugi pulled away.
"Yami?" he said quietly.
"What is it, koi?" Yami asked, still in shock.
"Now we really will be late."
Yami groaned.
Ten minutes later, after Yami had had a hurried (cold) shower, got dressed and managed to find a piece of toast, the two were on their way. However, considering the fact that it was twenty minutes walk to school, and school started in fifteen minutes, they were likely to be in trouble.
"We're never going to make it!" Yugi complained.
"Good." Yami muttered, though Yugi heard it.
"There must be some way we can get to school quicker!" Yugi said. Something sparked within Yami's mind.
"Youkai, you know you wanted a chance to stretch your wings?" Yami asked the demon in his mind.
"Yes..." Youkai replied warily.
"Can you get us to school in less than fifteen minutes?" Yami said.
"I should think so."
"Yugi, let Tenshi take over." Yami said, glowing purple kanji forming under his feet. Yugi nodded, and moments later, there was blue underneath him. After a final few seconds, the wings belonging to the Demon and the Angel appeared at their shoulders.
"Ready?" Tenshi asked, turning his bright blue eyes to the Demon. His wide, white feathered wings flapped, lifting him from the ground.
"I'm always ready." Youkai replied, smirking, and taking a short run-up before joining Tenshi in the air.
"Now, let's get to their school." The pair flew higher, scaring several birds on the way. High over Domino, they easily spotted the school. Youkai reached for Tenshi's hand as they dived towards the building, gliding over the wire mesh fence and onto the roof, just in time to hear the 'Pin-pon pan-pon' of the school bell. The wings dissolved from them, leaving Yami and Yugi to run quickly down the stairs to their classroom.
Despite being yelled at for being late, Yami still noticed, as he took his seat, that Malik was missing from the room. He looked questioningly at Ryou, who, on noticing the glance and comprehending its meaning, shrugged his shoulders.
The day passed with Yami slipping ever deeper into a pit of boredom. He once again spent most of his lessons doodling on pieces of paper. That was, until his second to last lesson (Mathematics), when he discovered the joys of making chalk fly across the room and hit random people, or scrawl things across the board. At lunch, he had asked everyone he knew if they knew where Malik was that day. Unfortunately, no-one knew.
And thus began his last lesson of the day; Literature. Even Yugi, who normally paid no end of attention to the teacher, was slumped back in his seat, half-asleep. This particular teacher liked to drone on and on, and never took any notice as to whether his class was listening or not. Yami had found something new to focus his attention on. He was watching Yugi with a day-dreaming look on his face.
"We have as long as you want, after school." Yami smirked, remembering Yugi's words that morning.
"Mr Muto, is there something amusing about Juliet's suicide after finding Romeo dead?" the teacher suddenly asked, bringing Yami out of his ever-so-slightly dirty thoughts.
"Uh... well, yes, I find it rather amusing how a thirteen year old can kill herself over this boy; is it ever really that deep a love at thirteen?" Yami said quickly, concuting a response, thanking Ra that Yugi had had to learn "Romeo and Juliet" for his drama class last year. Yami had helped him learn. Well, a couple of time it passed the line into not-helping-at-all, but he had helped some of the time.
"That is not a good reason to be amused by Juliet's death. Maybe you would like to read Juliet's part aloud for the class?" the teacher replied.
"No, not this scene." Yami said. "It's... too depressing, right before the end of school."
"Then you can read another scene," the teacher said. "You can read Juliet's part for the balcony scene. Act two, scene one please, class."
"Who is to read Romeo?" Yami inquired politely. The teacher scanned the room with narrowed eyes, attempting to find the student who it would cause Yami most embarrassement to have to share the scene with.
"Yugi will read Romeo." he said, on the grounds that Yugi was Yami's brother. Which he wasn't, it was just how they were registered at the school. "Both of you, come to the front."
Yami walked to the front without looking at Yugi, because he knew he would laugh. He stole a sideways glance at the smaller boy as they turned to face the class. Yugi's cheeks were flushed bright red. Ryou was looking on in amusement, and Yami could see Bakura's spirit form leaning against the wall, obviously entertained.
"I want you to act as well as read." the evil teacher. "So, Yami, up on the desk." Yami quickly jumped up onto the desk top, and sat down on a chair that the teacher placed there. "Yugi, please begin."
Yugi took a deep breath, and lowered his eyes to the page he was supposed to be reading. Yami crossed his legs, looking bored, as he knew that Juliet hadn't anything to say for ages.
"But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?" Yugi started hesitantly. "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon who isalready sick and pale with grief..."
The whole class rustled as everyone turned a page. There was a pause in Yugi's speech.
"That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green, and none but fools do wear it. Cast it off."
Yami stood, reading the stage directions that said that Juliet entered at this point. He looked down at Yugi, blushing red as he read the lines.
"Yugi, look up from your script more often!" The teacher said sharply. Yugi looked up from the page, having memorised the next couple of lines, and met Yami's eyes for a second, before the older looked away.
"It is my lady, Oh it is my love, oh that she knew she were!" Yugi glanced back at the page. "She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that? Her eye discourses; I will answer it. I am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all the heavens, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in the spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylinght doth a lamp; her eye in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night." Yugi looked up again. "See how she leans cheek upon her hand. Oh that I were a glove upon that hand, that I might touch that cheek!"
Yami sighed, and spoke what he found to be a very silly line. "Ay me."
"She speaks." Yugi began again. "Oh speak again, bright angel, for thou art..." He coughed to cover a laugh. "As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, as is a winged messenger of heaven unto the white upturned wond'ring eyes of mortals that fall back to gaze on him when he bestrides the lazy puffing clouds and sails upon the bosom of the air."
Yami was distracted by Bakura whispering something in Ryou's ear, and the white-haired teen obviously had reason to stuff his hand in his mouth to stop himself from laughing. Whatever it was, Yami missed his cue.
"Yami!" Yugi said suddenly.
"Hm? Oh, yeah." Yami looked back to his script. "Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy; Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
"Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?" Yugi said, trying to catch Yami's eye.
"'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? It is nor hand nor foot, nor arm nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man. Oh be some other name! What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet..." Yami paused his recitation, as something flickered in his senses. By the way Bakura was looking, he had sensed it too.
Yugi, something is coming...Yami murmured through their bond.
/I know, I felt it too./ Yugi replied. /It feels like.../
"Yami! Yugi! Why have you stopped?" the teacher demanded, seconds before the glass of the windows shattered and shivered to the floor.
"Malik!" Yami exclaimed, as the figure of the Egyptian teen jumped in through the window.
"Pharaoh." Malik said blankly. "Turn over the Demon."
"I'll be doing no such thing!" Yami said, jumping down from the desk.
"What kind of silly game are you boys playing?!" the teacher shouted.
"It doesn't matter; just get everyone out of here." Yugi urged. "Unless you want to be responsible for their deaths."
Reluctantly, the teacher ordered the class outside. Yami's eyes were locked on Malik's.
"You go too, Yuu-chan." he said quickly.
"No, I'm not leaving you!" Yugi replied.
"Yugi, please, go!"
"No. You need your balance." the younger boy said firmly.
"The Demon, Darker!" Malik said loudly. "Or I kill you both!"
"I'm not giving Youkai to you. Malik, how could you let the Karyuudo control you?!" Yami said carefully.
"That is irrelevant. Turn over the Demon or you die too." Malik said, sounding evermore like a robot.
"No!" Yami replied shortly.
"Meet your death then!" Malik unleashed a ferocious attack of Shadow Magic.
"The Shadows!?" Yami exclaimed, before yelling as he was thrown back against a wall.
"Yami!" Yugi cried.
"Yugi, please go!" Yami begged weakly. He slowly stood up, leaning on the wall.
"I won't leave you! I won't!" Yugi shouted, tears beginning to stream down his face.
"Meet your doom, Pharaoh!" Malik said, preparing another attack. The deep magic flowed sharply towards Yami. The young pharaoh closed his eyes and waited for the end. But it never came.
"Yugi!" he said, opening his eyes. The smaller boy was standing in front of him, holding off the rush of Shadow Magic.
"I won't leave you, Yami." Yugi said, looking over his shoulder. "I will never leave you. I love you."