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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: THE SEARCH
(Friday)
"When do we have a funeral?" Tea asked suddenly.
"I don't even wanna think about that," Joey replied.
"Me neither," Tea sighed. "I just thought I'd ask."
The four of them, Joey, Tristan, Tea, and Serenity, were walking to the Moto house after school. They were all very sad because Yugi wasn't walking with them.
It had been four days since Yugi had been murdered. No one said much about it. Tea went to Yugi's house after school to check on Yami. None of them were sure what to do with the Puzzle since its owner was gone, so they just let Yami have it.
As of yet, they hadn't told anyone. They didn't how exactly how. Were they supposed to talk to some of their other friends and just say "And on another subject, my best friend's been murdered"?
"I just thought of something," Tristan said as they approached the house.
"What?" Serenity asked.
"Yugi's grandfather is coming back home this Monday," Tristan informed.
"What will we tell him?" Tea asked.
"What else? Da truth," Joey said.
They rang the doorbell. In a few moments Yami answered. "Come in," he said rather wearily.
SUBCONSCIOUS
Yugi stared at the golden door. It had just appeared in front of him, the thick fog its wall. Maybe it was a way out and that's why it was padlocked. Behind Yugi, the Dark Magician stood silently.
Yugi had no idea he had been searching for an exit for four days. There was no sense of time in his subconscious. Since he wasn't alive, he didn't need food, or water, or sleep, or potty breaks. But since he wasn't dead, his brain and heart and lungs were still functioning.
But it was so only in his subconscious.
Yugi put his hand on the door and pulled it back quickly when he felt the searing heat. The heat started to radiate from the door now.
"That's strange," Yugi said. "Why did heat just start coming off as soon as I touched it?" He carefully touched the lock and was surprised that it felt icy cold, like it was made of ice.
"Well, I'm getting through this door somehow," Yugi said. "Dark Magician?"
Immediately the Dark Magician went into action. It raised its staff and fired a black stream at the door, breaking it into a bunch of pieces. Yugi blinked in surprise.
Walking forward, Yugi peeked inside the room. The walls and ceiling and floor were covered in Egyptian hieroglyphics. There was a table and two armchairs at one end, with three candleholders on the top. The right corner held, oddly, a widescreen flat-surfaced TV.
"Where is this place?" Yugi wondered aloud, stepping inside. The Dark Magician dutifully followed.
"Hey, no trespassers!"
Yugi jumped at the loud voice. He turned and saw a figure emerge from a door on the left wall. It turned out to be a solid-looking Yami wearing a long-sleeved red shirt and black jeans. "When did you get here?" he demanded.
"Duh, I told you," an extremely familiar voice said. Transparent Yugi walked right through the nearly closed door. He smiled at Yugi. "You're lost, aren't you?"
"I-I think so," Yugi faltered, shocked to see Yami. But he could tell it wasn't the Yami he knew. This one didn't have on the Millennium Puzzle; instead he had a red pendant on a string around his neck, which looked a lot like the one Transparent Yugi wore.
"That was awfully stupid," Solid Yami said with a pretend yawn.
"Where do I go from here?" Yugi asked.
Both Transparent Yugi and Solid Yami shrugged. "We don't know," Transparent Yugi said. "We've never tried to get out of here."
"And even if we had, it wasn't this foggy until you died," Solid Yami added unnecessarily, acting as if Yugi's death was his fault entirely.
Transparent Yugi shot him a look, and Solid Yami sighed loudly and plunked himself into one of the chairs, draping his left leg over the arm. "If you must know, there might be a way for you to get out. I saw a black door with gold light shining from behind it once when I was exploring. When I tried to open it, I had a seizure. It could be the way out."
"It would make sense, since neither of us are allowed to leave here," Transparent Yugi added.
"Do you think you could help me find it?" Yugi asked Solid Yami hopefully.
Solid Yami yawned and scratched his left knee through his jeans. "Probably not," he replied promptly.
"Oh." Yugi sighed. "Well, then I guess I'll find it myself."
A worried look crossed Transparent Yugi's features. "Are you sure you'll be okay?" he asked, sounding the like the real Yugi for the first time.
Yugi nodded, smiling his don't-worry-I-can-take-care-of-myself smile. "Sure." He left.
Transparent Yugi turned to Solid Yami. "Think he can take care of himself?" he asked.
Solid Yami examined his fingernails. "Nope," he replied. "So what?"
Transparent Yugi rolled his eyes. "You are so uncaring," he said.
THE LIMO
Seto looked at his gold watch. His newest driver was insane. He always pushed the speed limit. Someday he would kill Seto and Seto's ghost would come back to fire him.
"I'd better tell that idiot to slow down before he crashes the limo," Seto said. He was just about to push the intercom button when he heard the horn blare and the limo screeched to a stop. Seto stuck his head out of the window and saw the figure step in front of the limo.
"Don't-!" Seto managed to say before the limo hit the person. The person, obviously a girl, went flying, her long black hair going crazy in the wind. She fell back down and hit the asphalt with a sickening thud.
That driver is so fired, Seto thought as he climbed out of the car. He joined the driver at the front of the limo, and they checked out the girl.
She was not going to live. That was obvious from the injuries. (Injuries unexplained-too unPG to mention).
"You are an idiot," Seto said to the driver.
"Oh, don't blame him," the girl said weakly. "I stepped in front of the limo on purpose. I was sure it was big enough to kill me."
"You're--committing suicide, miss?" the driver said. To Seto, it almost sounded like he was saying "See? It wasn't my fault!"
The girl managed to laugh. "You guessed it. My mission was complete, so I had no other reason to live. It was my time."
What was this girl talking about? Seto was confused, which didn't happen often.
The girl sighed, and it seemed to take the rest of her life with her. "Thanks," she said to the driver, before she died.
"You're still fired," Seto said to the driver.
END CHAPTER
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NEXT IN CHAPTER 14…As Yugi finally begins to make headway, his subconscious becomes even more dangerous. Especially when he finds out about Expiration Time…
