Finding Family

Chapter 43 - The Clones

"Amber?" Yugi touched her shoulder gently, "Are you okay?"

"I'm just a little..." Amber couldn't find the right words, "A little scared I guess." Amber put her arms against her chest.

"Of what?" Joey smiled sadly, "You're strong."

"Afraid of what I'm capable of I guess. It's scary to think that I could do that to you guys." Amber groaned, "It's still fresh in my mind."

"It's no big deal," Kaiba commented, "It's not like any of us have gone bad before."

"Speak for yourself," Sakura murmered.

"Maybe you haven't but most of us in our life time have had that happen. Don't worry, you fought to try and gain control. You didn't forget who you were deep down."

"Nice words," Joey smirked, "Very sympathetic."

"Be quiet puppy. I don't want to make your leash shorter." Joey muttered and punched Kaiba in the arm. Kaiba smirked and pulled Joey ahead.

"Still. I didn't fight hard enough. It took me so long to win."

"Amber stop picking on yourself. It's not your fault. Anything can happen here as we've seen. You shouldn't have to worry, even though you do. We're in this together. We'll fall together." Yugi took her hand, "Besides. You're too special not to fight for." Amber smiled and leaned her head against his shoulder.

"Thanks Yugi. Thank you everyone." Yugi ran his hand through her hair.

Opening the doors they looked into the room. It was a factory. Imeadiatly the group was greeted with an explosion that threw them all to the floor. They all stood up and looked around the room. Imeadiatly Sakura, Yugi, Kaiba, and Joey making a barrier around the group as a number of explosions erupted and struck the barrier with brut force. The four struggled to keep the barrier up feeling their magic slowly leaving them.

"We can't keep this up..." Yugi spoke breathing raggedly.

"Let me help." Amber conjered a barrier with her own magic. She told the others to let go. They all looked at her sceptically but they did as they were told. Amber let her hands fall to her sides but the barrier was still holding. "That little incident with me turning boosted my power, although I'm not sure how long."

"What about our plan?" Cala asked.

"Just went out the window..."

"Amara!"

"It's true. Let's wing it." Amara smirked, "When I say go, drop the barrier and blast every where."

"That's not very smart," Seth countered. "It's really very stupid. And you were supposed to be one of the high priestesses?"

"If you think my ideas so stupid high priest then why don't you come up with one."

"I will!" Seth smirked.

"Well?" Everyone looked at Seth.

"Uh...well...uh..." Seth sighed, "I got nothing." Everyone sighed and glared at the priest.

"I have one," Caru and Cala spoke.

"Why don't we wait for Aroga and Erik to show up-"

"And then we can fire at the area around them while-"

"One of us hits them directly with a blast." Caru finished.

"They are twins," Yami commented earning himself quite a few glares. "What?"

"Even the great pharoah has his moments," Amara sighed, "And I had to be stuck serving him."

"Still I the twins plans. We should get moving." They all looked up. Finally Erik and Aroga appeared.

"Welcome," Erik greeted, "How un-pleasnt to see you all here."

"Same goes for us asshole." Amber shouted out.

"I see the final battle is about to start." Aroga appeared behind them. Amber cranked the barriers power up. "Too bad though, I would rather of enjoyed watching you scream in agony. Although I still have that chance my associate and I are rather rushed."

"Go suck it up Aroga. There is nothing you can really do. We'll make it out of here."

"You think so time girl. You won't. I'll make sure of it. You may be my daughter but I have no interest in letting you live now. That wonderful evil in you is banished forever." Aroga frowned, "No matter."

"Shall we. I'm extremely bored just sitting around here waiting," Erik smirked at the group, "And the quicker this is finished the sooner we can turn back time and erase these brats from existance along with the millennium items."

"Idiot..." Sakura muttered to herself.

"What was that my love?" Aroga coed.

"Listen asshole. I'm not going to be one of your whores. I'm not like that." Saying Sakura was angry would be an understatement. She was beyond angry and she was fighting to keep her emotions under control.

"Aw...I'm I making the little arrow girl angry?" Aroga asked.

"Leave her alone!" Amber pointed her staff at him. "This is between you and me!"

"Oh no my daughter, Miss Kodasawa and I have had a lot of personal meetings." Everyone looked at Sakura.

"Yeah, all of them you trying to rape me!"

"Those are the minor details, nothing matters about them." Aroga laughed, "Besides, once we can change time I could make Harmony my wife, I could turn my daughter sooner making her cause chaos. How wonderful would that be?"

"Like hell you will." Amber muttered, "I won't let you destroy all that I've come to love."

"As will we," Yugi stepped up next to Amber, "You think you're so great."

"Don't you remember what happened to you little boy? Those wonderfull black chains you broke free of." Aroga squeezed a fist together. Yugi doubled over in pain. Amber and Yami were by his side right away.

"What did you do to him?" Yami looked at Aroga, "Tell me!" He demanded.

"Simple. When he broke free of those chains they released a venom into his system that, with one squeeze of my fist-" Aroga demonstrated his power again causing Yugi to scream, "I can kill him and cause him pain." Feeling pleased with what he had accomplished Aroga landed.

"You won't win," Amber hissed. Her body soon was surrounded by a golden colour and her outfit changed into the white robs as before. The crown formed and fell against her forhead and her hair was pulled into a pony tail. "I'll make sure of it." Her cuts all sealed and everyones magic was restored. Yugi, Kaiba, Sakura, and Joey felt themselves restored with power. They looked at what they wore. Sakura wore a long white dress that was strapless and long. She wore a head dress made of gold and wore a silver necklace. Her cross bow was in her hands. Yugi wore a white turban with bands of gold on the belt and on his head, in between his bangs, was the millennium eye and Yugi had his sword. Kaiba wore the blue robs that Seth wore and his staff was in his hands. Joey also wore a turban, but it was blue, the colour Kaiba wore, and in his hand was his dagger.

"Well...I guess we know what comes next," Erik observed, "This should be fun."

"Shall we?" Amber asked slowly dropping the barrier. Everyone spread out and dodged attacks of all sorts. Amber just dodged a large beam which slowly was heading for Yugi but Yami threw the attack of with his own large beam of dark energy. Yugi rebounded of the wall and managed to dodge a second attack. Suddenly plasma creatures appeared.

"There's too many for us to take out and deal with those two. We need to think of something." The group of friends were trapped in a circle.

"On the count of three jump in oposite directions and fire the largest beams you can." Cala instructed in whisper. Everyone nodded. "One...two...three!" Everyone jumped in seperate directions and fired a long powerful beam that collided in the middle throwing Erik and Aroga into a wall and destroying every plasma creature.

"I liked that." Amber turned to Aroga and knocked him off the wall. She kneed him in the chest and he managed a small shot into her shoulder causing blood to come out. She rolled off him as he thrust a dagger into the floor. Amber barely dodged but stood up. She held her shoulder where the wound was. Blood ran through her fingers.

Sakura did three back flips and managed to increase her jump as she bounced off the wall knocking Erik to the ground. He rolled away from her arrow and kicked her in the chest. She bent back to avoid the attack but ended up having her knees buckle under her. She hit her head hard on the floor and groaned. Erik laughed and wrapped his hands around her neck cutting off her circulation. She kicked him hard in the legs and rolled on top of him and fired a powerful blast at his chest but he moved and the blast just managed to hit the edge of his shoulder. She jumped off him as he fired another blast.

Yugi struck another creature made of plasma down. Where the rest had come from he didn't know. He stopped and ducked just managing to catch Amber, Yami and Kaiba thrown into a wall and fall to the floor.

He ran toward Aroga and thrust his sword into the mans leg. Aroga screamed in agony but pulled the sword out and laughed. He pushed Yugi back into the wall and Aroga turned into black liquid.

"A clone..." Amber muttered angrily standing up with Yugi's help.

"Did you like my trick?" Aroga asked.

Cala and Amara just managed to miss an attack that would have sliced their heads off. Together they ran up and kicked Erik on either side of the head. He shook away the pain and knocked both females to the ground.

"Well ladies, looks like your all washed up."

"Really?" Caru thrust a hand against his face and fired an arrow into his chest. Erik threw her to the ground and she landed on Cala who groaned. Erik melted into black liquid.

"A clone." Amara sighed, "I've taken out seven of him so far..."

"AH!" Amber landed on Kaiba who groaned and looked up at her. "I'm starting to get sick of this place. You think you got Aroga and he's just another clone."

"He wasn't easy to beat last time. Why should he be easy to beat now?" Kaiba helped her up and looked at her shoulder, "It must hurt."

"Yeah...but I got used to it." Amber winced and fell foreward but Kaiba caught her.

"You're not okay."

"I'll be fine Seto." Amber pulled away and launched herself into the air killing another clone. Soon they were all gathered in a circle once again.

"Okay. Now what?" Amara asked.

"Jump up into the air. Fire a lot of power down into this section. Make sure it spreads through the whole circle of clones and release the rest of the energy in your blast." Amber commented. "It might do the trick." Every jumped as high as they could. They fired a large amount of energy which erupted into an explosion and destroyed all of the clones. They landed and saw the burnt areas of the floor. They all looked up and saw dark beams, sharp and fast heading for them. There was no way for them to dodge.

"Everyone be careful..."