Black Feathers
This is a chapter to be strange.
And what to do?
Oh...
How tragic...
And how the mighty have fallen...
Even I don't know their fates...
For "fate" has not whispered it
But all now turns to silver glass
And the weight of three lives rest
On Yami's shoulders.
With one ragged and torn
Black feather wing
And a prayer inside
Can he defeat Rafeleu?
Can this be his destiny?
Or will destiny be cruel
More than it already has been?
The game is upon you
When will you rage?
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Black Feathers
Game of the Wild Roses
How could this happen to me?
I've made my mistakes
Got nowhere to run
The night goes on
As I'm fading away
I'm sick of this life
I just want to scream
How could this happen to me?
Yami felt like he was going to cry as he looked at the great iron gates that stood where the wisteria once were. Michael and Gabriel were standing outside the gates, rapiers at the ready. Yami's mood changed when he remembered how the two had helped when he and Sepharin were in need. Now they had been corrupt. His red eye and blue eye condemned her.
"So you came."
Yami knew it was Rafeleu, but he didn't move. With one swift motion, the black tag collar fell dead. Yami was slightly relieved, for that was one thing he didn't have to worry about. The doors slowly swung open into a dark hallway in which there was no light at the end.
"I'll be waiting for you at the end."
Yami folded his wing behind him and walked into the darkness. The doors swung closed behind him, and he was enveloped by that which was his realm. The Epsilon division of Hell was darkness. The undead roamed freely under the command of Phendra, the Queen of the Undead. The wraiths and shades were hers and hers alone. But Phendra was subordinate to the Omega, but it made no difference. The shadow was here, and Yami felt at home.
But he knew that it wouldn't be.
He summoned a red orb of light and it hovered to the end off the hallway, where another door was. Yami walked to the door and pulled it open.
Light hit his eyes as he stepped into the next hall.
There were chairs lined up on either side of the hall, stretching all the way to the end. There were signs with arrows on them, sitting on the chairs and pointing to the end of the hall. Yami sprinted down the hall to the chair at the end. The sign pointed left, and in red letters it said
"Lovers this way"
Yami turned the corner and walked into a small room, like a closet. He saw Yugi sitting (and looking rather defeated) on the opposite side. He tried to run to him but he hit a glass wall. He shouted to Yugi, but then words rang in his head. Raibain's voice telling him how to free him...
You need to tell him how you feel about Sepharin...
Yami felt a knot in his throat. How did he feel? Did he love her? No. That was impossible. He could never love someone
(Who saved you?)
Someone...
(Who showed you everything you missed?)
Someone...
(Who had feelings for you...)
"Yugi...I...I like Sepharin...a hell of a lot."
As soon as Yami finished speaking, Yugi stood up and walked over to the glass. Yami cried out as water began filling the room.
"You're lying Yami." Yugi said.
Water was up to Yugi's knees...
"I...I..."
Up to his waist...
"I LOVE SEPHARIN!!!!!!!!!" He shouted, tears welling in his eyes.
The glass began to crack, and then it shattered. Water poured out onto Yami and into he hallway. Yugi rushed up and hugged Yami, smiling.
"I knew it." He said.
After their moment had passed, they returned to the hallway and walked straight instead of going back to the dark hallway. Yugi kept orbs of light stationed around them, for not even he knew what Rafeleu had put.
"Are you afraid?"
Yami jumped at the question.
"What makes you say that?" He asked Yugi, who was not making eye contact.
"Your hand shakes a bit every so often, and your heartbeat is heard by everyone but you."
Yami stopped in his tracks, head lowered and eyes shadowed. His hands were curled into fists, and his fists were shaking, as was the rest of him. Yugi looked at him, like this was something new.
"Yes...I am afraid..." Yami whispered.
"Then will you give up?"
"No...I am afraid...yes...but Seph is counting on me. And if I fail...then my death will be meaningless."
Yugi took Yami's hand, smiling at him.
"Then let's go. Face your fears and kick some ass."
Yami laughed and the two went running onto the path before them. They ran until they came to another door. It looked like a church door, large and wooden with a large cross-shaped window at the top. Yami pushed on the handle and the door slowly swung open with a haunting silence. Before them was indeed a church, but there was no altar and no pews. The windows had pictures of dragons and roses on them, and sitting in the emptiness were three large coffins with blankets of roses on them. One had orange roses, one had blue, and one had pink.
Doom's voice echoed in Yami's ears this time.
Find Seto lest these be your coffins. One holds Seto and the others hold nightmares...
Yami walked up to the coffins. He scanned them, praying he would be right.
"Yugi, what do you know about Seto?"
"What?"
"You heard me."
"Well...I know that he had strived to be an archangel ever since he was hatched as a cherub. He admired Michael. Phoenix is his totem."
Yami stood in silence. Orange would make sense for Seto, for Phoenix was him.
"Yugi, what color is a cherub egg?"
"Pink."
Pink stood for the cherub egg that he hatched from.
What was blue?
Yami stood in silence for a while, thinking about what he could remember from Seto. He had ruled out orange, because that would have been too obvious. He stood between pink and blue, thinking. Then...
"I know where he is..." Yami whispered.
He walked to the blue roses, casting them from the black casket and struggling to push the lid off. Yugi rushed over and joined in. The lid fell to the floor with a crash, and lying in a bed of rose petals, was a sleeping Seto. Actually...it looked more like he had been knocked out. Yami shook him, and his eyes slowly opened.
"What did I do last night?" He muttered before realizing where he was. He sat up with a start and looked at Yami and Yugi.
"You're not dead." He noted.
"Not yet."
"Rafeleu took your wing?"
"Yeah."
Yugi walked over to another casket and pushed the lid off. He looked inside and screamed. Yami and Seto rushed over, and Yami cried out.
In the bed of pink rose petals was Yami's severed wing.
Yami instantly rushed over to the other coffin and, with Seto and Yugi's help, forced the lid off. He screamed and stepped back.
"Doom-sama!!" Yami cried.
Laying in the petals was none other than the Omega Supreme himself. His wings were broken and there was a line of dried blood on the corner of his mouth. Yami's eyes were wide with fear and shock. His entire body shook, like he was about to go into convulsions. Seto grabbed him and backhanded him.
"Pull yourself together, or you'll die before you can get to Rafeleu." He said sternly.
Yami stopped shaking, calming down enough for the party to start off on their last leg of the journey. The doors at the opposing end of the church opened, and the three stepped through.
There was a long, white-stone, narrow floor, with canals on each side. At the end was another door, made completely out of white marble. Yami walked along on the catwalk as Yugi and Seto flew beside him. Yami approached the door, noticing the engravings of dragons on the door. His hand closed around the handle, and blades sprang up, shedding his blood. He winced, but was not discouraged.
Two channels opened from the walls, and blue-green water poured from them. Also, a fellhound came from a door and jumped at them. Yugi drew his blades, buying time for Yami to pull the door open. He and Seto ran through, but Yugi urged them on, to leave him. Reluctantly, Yami did.
Before them was a grand spiraling staircase, white and without a guard rail. Yami and Seto looked at each other and nodded.
Yami ran up the staircase as fast as his legs would carry him, with Seto flying behind him. The spiral just went higher and higher, and Yami wondered if it would ever end. But then, the top, the end appeared in sight. Another door stood before them, rose-stem ropes binding it shut. Yami took a deep breath and wrapped his hand over one of the ropes and ripped it out. He continued this process until his hands were raw and bleeding. He took a deep breath and pulled the door open, with Seto right behind him.
There was no light. It was dark. Seto took this moment to wrap Yami's hands in make-shift bandages before the ventured further.
"Something tells me that this is it." Seto said.
"I know. But I have to go through this door. I know Rafeleu is there, and I know that I might be...' Yami couldn't bring himself to finish. He was scared. He head heard Rafeleu talking.
"I know what will happen if you fail. Rafeleu was talking about it when he came for us. Jonouchi is still hiding, and he probably found Ryou."
Silence fell for a moment.
"I don't think you'll become his whore. You're too stubborn to do that." Seto said, grinning.
"You ass." Yami shot back, grinning as well.
But their smiles faded as their thought turned back to the doorway.
"Angel, Queen of Victory, pray for me."
Yami stepped through the door, and the instant he did, bright lights flashed on. He closed his eyes, blinded. A hand wrapped itself around the back of his neck and he was thrown into something hard. His arms were tied out on either side of him, and his legs tied together straight. A chain was wrapped around his neck as the light dimmed.
Yami slowly opened his eyes, before they shot open in shock. He was tied to a wooden cross, and Rafeleu stood before him, holding the other end of a chain. Seph was tied to the floor, like something not allowed to fly. Rafeleu grinned at Yami, rage and sadistic humor in his eyes. In Rafeleu's right hand was a silver cross the side of a tennis racket.
"This is the final stage, and you will only escape if you can beat me or you surrender."
Rafeleu's eyes darted over to the shocked form of Seto, not only frozen in place but also chained to the floor. Rafeleu pulled on the chain and fastened it to a clip on the tiled floor. He looked at the cross in his hand and then at Yami.
"Now...let's begin..."
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