Finding Family

Chapter 42 - Scared

Amber smirked at the damage she had caused. "And I thought the great pharoah would never bleed." Amber laughed to herself, "I'm free now. Free to do what I want." She smirked. "And no one can stop me."

"Amber, this isn't you. You're kind, friendly!" Kaiba stood up. Amber landed in front of Kaiba, well...not landed, floated in front of him.

"Really? You barely know me. Know what I am truely capable of in this form. My goodie toosho side is much weaker." She sent Kaiba flying back into Seth. "Besides it's a lot more fun this way."

"Amber think about what you're doing!" Yugi screamed holding Yami's wound, "Think about it. I love you."

"No. You love the old me. The old me loves you as does this me."

"I love you uncondionally but look at yourself...with each step you take in the wrong direction you do harm to yourself." It was true. Amber's body slowly had small cuts emerging on them. The blood dripped down onto the now black flowers. Sakura picked a few of the flowers that were still white.

"Please Amber? This is not you."

"Who are you to tell me who and who I am not?" Amber spat, "You forget, I'm the one with the most power at the moment. You have no hope of defeating me."

"Remember when I got you ready for the talent show. Remember when you sang that beautiful song."

"I don't remember that. Why should I? It's just fake memories like my other ones."

"Kaiba, Yugi, me, everyone, Amara, we're not fake memories." Cala reminded Amber, "We're real. We're here for you."

"Yeah right. You're just a figment of my imagination. Nothing more."

"We're not!" Yugi shouted angrily, "We're your friends, you're family. Try to remember."

"Remember what? How you betrayed me? Lied to me? Took everything away from me?" Amber spoke with an anger to her voice.

"Amber, Aroga fed you those lies."

"He took care of me. Cared for me! Dried my tears!"

"No he didn't!" Kaiba shouted angrily, "We did! We stood by you!" Amber threw him to the ground again. Seth helped Kaiba up and glared at Amber.

Using his staff he fired at Amber who fell the ground, her cuts seeping out quickly.

"What are you doing!" Yugi asked Seth angrily, "How could you!"

"She won't listen now!" Seth argued. "We have no choice but to kill her!" Yugi, Kaiba, Joey and the others backed away from the priest in shock. "Now let me kill her!"

"No!" Yugi jumped on his back and threw the staff away. "You're not going to hurt her." Yugi ran toward Amber. She stood up weakly and looked at Yugi, some of her old self starting to fight again.

Get out of my head! Amber screamed angrily.

I'm a part of you girl. You're not getting rid of me that easily. The darker side of Amber once again took full control after throwing Amber against a wall.

Yugi...run...

He's too in love with you to. Seth is firing a large blow too. It's going to...hit us!

Yes. I'll be glad it does! Amber gained control and opened her arms.

"Let it hit me! She can't come back if you kill me!" Amber screamed.

"I won't let it!" It was as if time slowed for everyone. In what should have been an instant was like an enternity. Yugi was hit in the back by the blow. Slowly his body fell to the ground with a loud thud. A large explosion followed with Amber and Yugi at the core of it. Everyone blocked their eyes. Amber finally found the power to do what she had to do. She took the sword she had and thrust it into the evil part of her sealing it away forever. She opened her eyes and found she was laying unconscious on top of Yugi's back.

"Yug!" Joey rushed over to the pair, "Amber!" He bent down, "You guys okay?" Soon everyone joined Joey.

"Y-yeah...I am for the most part." Amber found that some of the cuts didn't heal. "W-what about Y-Yugi?" She looked at Yugi who was still unconscious. "Y-Yugi? Y-Yugi, e-everyone, I'm sorry. Forgive me."

"It's not your fault. You weren't the one fighting," Yami replied and walked over to Yugi, "I can't believe you made me bleed though." Amber looked down ashamed.

"That didn't help," Kaiba growled at Yami.

"Sorry," Yami said sincerly. "Yugi?" He tried to shake Yugi awake but he wouldn't. "Seth, what kind of spell was that?"

"A destruction spell. If it hits it's target it will kill them, if it doesn't the person stays asleep for a little bit."

"Good to know that were okay there. Let's get everyone fixed up," Amara suggested. Treating Amber was like treating a hollow shell. Amber was badly shaken up and she was scared. "Amber it's okay. You sealed that evil away forever." Amber looked up at her dark, "I know you're scared but we'll get through this."

"Huh...where-" Yugi sat up to face Joey and Yami, "Did Amber...survive?" Yugi looked behind him and smiled.

"Yeah...but she's pretty shaken up." Joey replied, "She's stopped talking after she woke up and asked us how you were and said sorry." Kaiba glared at Yami and Seth.

"Yes...well we must persevre," Seth stood.

"You're one to talk." Kaiba snapped, "If you hadn't forced the pharoah to try and wake Yugi up none of this wouldn't of happened." Standing himself he walked over to Amber. "Has she spoken yet?" Kaiba noted Amber asleep against Amara who shook her head sadly no. Kaiba sighed.

"How's Amber?" Yugi looked at Yami who looked at Kaiba.

"Uh...lets keep going." Yami picked Yugi up.

"I can walk!"

"In the state you're in you can't. You can barely hold a fist." Yugi sighed knowing his darker half was probably right.

"What about your-"

"My shoulder is fine." Yugi smiled at his darks intuition. "Now hopefully we can find the last door and get out of this hell hole." Yugi and the others nodded. Kaiba picked up Amber and looked at her.

"She's so scared." Joey looked at Amber, "It's like she's an inocent child again, scared and alone."

"Yes." Kaiba sighed, "We'll help her through it though, just like the other times."

"Guys!" They all turned around, "We found the door."

Once they entered the door it disappeared and they were left in a hall. Amber stirred but did not wake up. Kaiba was glad she was giving a response. Joey seemed to have his energy back as did the others with the exception of Yugi and Amber who were in the middle of the blast Seth had fired.

"Welcome." Everyone looked up and there was Erik. "It seems you have all made it through, much to my utter most displeasure. No matter though, we will deal with you."

"How do you intend to do that if you're dead?" Joey grinned and pointed a finger at him, "Besides, we're going to make you pay for what you've put us all through."

"Put you people through, please? None of this was about you. It was about her." Erik pointed to Amber, "As you have seen she contains pleanty of power in her body. How do you plan on stopping us when she turns."

"She already did and sealed that part of her away." Erik looked shocked at Amara's comment, "You forget Erik, I have a link with her. I know."

"Still, even if we can't turn her she won't be going back with you."

"What do you mean?" Yugi asked looking up at Erik.

"You'll find out soon enough fool." Erik disappeared. "You want revenge come through this door and face me." Two black doors appeared in front of the group.

They looked apprenhensivly at each other and sat down.

"We need a game plan," Joey commented.

"And a damn good one." Kaiba muttered.

"So what kind of game plan should we use?" Cala asked.

"I don't know but whatever it is, we better think of one soon." Caru complained, "I want to get out of this place just as much as all of you."

"What did Erik mean by Amber not coming back with us, even if we do win?" Yugi muttered.

"I don't know, but we better figure it out."

"It kinda ties in with what she said." Yugi moaned, "Just before we uh..." Kaiba growled but Joey hit him behind the head and whispered something that calmed him down, "Nevermind. Anyway she said find someone else to love. She acted like she was never coming back."

"That's strange, even for Amber."

"As what was stated before, we need a game plan." Cala sighed, "Whatever it is it better be damn good. At this point we've barely made it through. Amber as been the one mainly fighting. The rest of us have mainly been dealing with the weaker creatures."

"What do we do?"

TBC...