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"This is talking"
'These are thoughts'
"Kaiba! Mokuba! They're statues!" "Don't give up Yugi... I'll think of something!" "My Puzzle! No!" "How else will you reclaim your grandfather's soul?" "Yugi!" "That's enough!"
Yugi cried out as a powerful wave of pain, fear and heartache rushed through, accompanied by various voices. The world around him dissolved in seconds, and he found himself suspended in darkness. He straightened himself to an upright position, the voices echoing around him. He helplessly spun around, trying to find the sources of the voice. Each voice was in pain, physically, mentally or emotionally, and Yugi found emotions racing threw him with such force he could not determine whither he was angry, hurt or upset.
He covered his eyes and shut his eyes tight, muttering to himself to try and drown out the voices. They echoed as loud as ever. "Go away... go away... please..." Yugi whispered helplessly, the unbound emotions causing tears to stream down his face and his voice to become shaky as if fearful. He was not seeing his past, he was merely suffering ever trauma all over again.
"Yugi, switch now, quickly! ... Yugi? Yugi!"
His eyes opened slightly as that sentence echoed into his mind. That voice... He had heard it before. The weakness and mental pain that overtook him was ignored, his mind focused on the voice. He remembered that voice, from when he had visited a soul room months back.
Whilst he was captured by Bakura, Yugi had found himself un an unusual soul room when he feel asleep. The room mirrored his, with staircases, traps and countless doors. In curiosity, he had searched the room and found the memories of whatever soul inhabited it. He had seen, and felt, the memories of that soul, and discovered their name. That soul was the owner of the voice that echoed around him, the voice filled with concern and fear for him. "Ya...mi..."
Bakura groaned and opened his eyes slowly, colours swirling in front of his eyes before his vision cleared. "What... happened...?" Bakura mumbled, placing his hand on his head and wincing slightly at the pain the followed his touch. His blurry vision began to focus and his eyes grew wide. "Ryoura look out!"
To late, Kage grabbed Ryoura and dragged him away from his yami, pressing a dagger to his throat and pulling his left arm behind his back in an attempt to silence him. Ryoura froze when the cold metal touched him, sending a shiver of fear up his spine.
Bakura stumbled to his feet and growled angrily at Kage. With a quick swipe of his left arm from left to right, a saber formed in his hands. His weapon was slightly transparent, created and powered by his magical abilities. He gripped the seemingly nonexistent hilt, which appeared as a strong glow of magic, and held it in front of him. "Let him go." he hissed angrily, the aura around the blade growing stronger.
Kage chuckled in amusement and pressed the blade harder against Ryoura's throat. "Or what?" he asked in a taunting voice, smirking at Bakura's annoyance. He knew the great power of Bakura's Millennium Saber, and it was a power exclusive to that of the spirit of the Millennium Ring, but with Ryoura at his mercy the spirit wouldn't attack. He had nothing to worry about.
"What do you want him for?"
Kage was slightly surprised at Bakura's question, but smirked and looked over at Ryoura, whose gaze was diverted to the floor. "You never told him about me did you?" he whispered, grinning. Ryoura cringed at the iciness in his voice.
"He didn't need to know..." Ryoura whispered. He felt helpless, and he was so afraid he felt like he had to answer Kage's questions. He cringed again as Kage laughed aloud. "True..." the eerie voice hissed in his ear. The dagger was brought away from his throat, but in a quick slicing movement it was brought down to swiftly sever the rope of the Millennium Ring. He grabbed the golden item and smirked, pushing Ryoura's arm further up his back, causing the teen to cry out, to avoid Bakura's interference.
"Well, where are your almighty thief techniques now tomb-robber?" Kage smirked. This only served to anger Bakura further and tighten his grip on the Millennium Saber, and even Kage knew when the situation was becoming dangerous. Bakura had inhabited the Millennium Ring for countless centuries and was, obviously, just possessive of the item. Therefore, anger could cause an outburst, something Kage was sure he couldn't defeat. Bakura was an extremely powerful foe, and most likely knew much more about harnessing Millennium Magic then he did. He needed Bakura to be sidetracked enough for him to escape, and luckily he had the answer to his problems right beside him.
Twirling the dagger for a second, he gripped the hilt hard, driving it deep into the side of the boy beside him. Ryoura cried out and the blade tore threw him, causing an excruciating sensation to surge threw him. Kage threw Ryoura to the floor and tore the dagger from him, turning quickly and dashing out the door.
"Ryoura!"
"Hmm..." he walked over to the table Yugi was on and looked down at him. The yami seemed so calm and relaxed in his slumber Mark had to check if he was breathing. He was, but what had caused the magic to react like that? Curious, he decided to scan Yugi's mind for clues, a power slightly similar to that of the Millennium Eye.
He gasped in slight pain as he struck a strong barrier. True, because Yugi weilded the Millennium Puzzle mind control was ineffective, but he should be able to get a clue as to what Yugi was thinking. This barrier was a surprise to him, and should not be there. He scowled at the Millennium Rod angrily and gripped the handle harder. "He must have been familiar with one of the memories... and the Millennium Puzzle must have automatically sealed off other magic. But... if that's true is he reliving memories right now?"
"Huh?" Yugi opened his eyes quickly at the sudden volume of the voice in his ear. Blinking in confusion at awaking in a standing position, he looked around him, bewildered. "Where...?" He was standing in the middle of what looked like a fairground, but it was much different o the one Yujhi and the others had visited a few weeks previously. The rides looked less technical; fewer holograms, bigger and louder engines as well as half the rides looks old in his opinion.
"Yugi what's up with you?"
Turning to face the voice, Yugi's eyes grew wide. In front of him was the spirit he had met in the hospital, the Joe look-alike. Of coarse, now he seemed much more solid and not so mysterious. On the contrary, he looked jumpy, hyper and incapable of standing still. "Um, n-nothing." He answered, confused. Where was he? What was going on?
"Joey! Yugi!"
"Finally..." Joey exclaimed with a sigh, looking back at someone behind him. "How long does it take to buy candy floss Yami?"
"Yami?" the name echoed in Yugi's mind before the person came into sight. Yami was a greatly similar in appearance to Yugi. His tri-coloured hair resembled Yugi's, save for the extra blond lightning-bolt through it. His eyes were an equally deep purple, but though they where more evil looking they still held warmth and kindness. This was Yami, his yami of previous millennia.
Joey looked at Yami curiously as he laughed, arms folded. "So where's the candy floss you where so eager to buy?"
"Huh?" Yami looked at Joey with confusion, before realising what he said. "Oh! The candyfloss! Well, um, the thing is, I, I ate it! Ya, that's right."
"Uh-huh? Ya right Yami." Joey commented, grinning. "You used that candyfloss thing as an excuse to go flirt with Crystal again, didn't you?"
"Wh-what?!" Yami choked, blushing furiously at the accusation. "Joey I-"
"Ya-mi's in love! Ya-mi's in love!" Joey chanted in a sing-song voice, causing Yami to blush even more. Yugi held back a laugh with some effort as Joey laughed at Yami's expression. "Admit it Yami, you like her!"
"Joey, please! Keep it down!" Yami almost begged, trying to quieten his friend while glancing nervously over his shoulder.
"You wanna hug her, you wanna kiss her, you wanna-" Joey was silenced when Yami slapped his hand over Joey's mouth, Yugi now laughing uncontrollably. Joey pushed Yami's hand away and grinned. "Admit it and I'll shut up."
"Ok, I like her! Happy now!" Yami hissed.
"Awww, Yami's in love. Isn't that so sweet." Joey said in a mockingly in a tearful voice. He looked back at Yugi. "Our little Yami's all grown up."
Yugi was laughing whilst Joey was talking, but he nodded in responce. He was surprised how at home he felt around Joey and Yami, but it only proved the closeness of their friendship to him. He didn't feel like an outsider or a misfit like he commonly did around Yujhi's friends, he belonged here. Looking up he noticed Joey was still making fun of Yami. "Come on Joey, cut it out.
"Aww but Yugi..." Joey moaned, Yami smirking over at him. Joey folded his arms and grinned over at Yami. "Kissey, kissey..." he whispered.
Yami grumbled and walked past Joey beside Yugi. "Come on, if we're going to enjoy the fair might as well get going." he smiled down at his lighter half and began to walk away. Joey ran passed Yugi and grabbed his wrist, dragging him off after Yami.
Wherever he was, whenever he was, Yugi didn't care.
He finally remembered his friends.
Mark narrowed his eyes angrily. He didn't like the tone in Ilia's voice. "I'm pretty sure that, somehow, he is trapped in a parallel dimension which-"
"Leads to that past? That's true." Ilia finished, standing up and walking to the window, looking out. "Somehow he has found himself in his own time, the time he truly belongs too, but his mind still remembers this time and not all about the time he's in."
"So basically it's like he travelled back in time." Mark finished as he leaned back in his chair and folded his arms. "Well goodie, isn't that great? How are we supposed to get the pharaoh's powers now..."
"Well if you had held off on the tortures you could have attempted a shadow game, but you didn't. We'll just have to find a way to get him back."
Mark grumbled in annoyance and sunk deeper into the chair as Ilia left the room, thinking. "Figures... the one time we have the opportunity to get the Millennium Puzzle and it back-fires. It was the final piece of the plot... we already have Slifer the Sky Dragon, Obelisk the Tormentor and the Winged Dragon of Ra, all I needed was to defeat the guardian of the Millennium Puzzle and-" Even Marks thoughts froze as realisation hit him.
"That weak hikari is also the guardian of the Millennium Puzzle..." he whispered to himself, grinning. "All I have to do is destroy him and the Puzzle is mine, and without his Yami the strengths of the Shadow Realm will be unbearable." he stood up and made his way out the door and down the corridor to Yujhi's room. "Once his soul is torn apart it will count as a loss..."
"That's the type of thinking I wish your sister had..."
Mark jumped at the voice behind him and spun around, sighing at the sight of the man leaning against the wall. "Hello father."
"Where is the boy then?" the man asked, unmoving.
"Just down the corridor." Mark answered simply. "He should be easy enough to defeat, he hasn't had any real training or experience in the Shadow Realm to my knowledge. Yugi's out of commission for the moment, so he will be of no threat." Mark's father nodded in approval. "So, how did your mission go? Did you get it?"
The man looked up and grinned. Reaching into his pocket he pulled something golden out and held it out in front of him. "Like taking candy from a baby son." Kage grinned as he held the Millennium Ring before him.
To Be Continued
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Awww... I'm so happy for Yugi! -- Glad I could bring Yami in, I miss him, and Joey too! -huggles- Why they had that conversation about Yami's crush I'll never know... hope yaz liked the chappy! ALOT more is happening in this story then the first 'Soul Destruction', it's only chappy 5 and by chappy 5 of the last one Yugi was just captured.
Meh, me's will shut up now, please review and slán slán for now!
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