Chapter 6: Sorrow's Shade
Yan: O-kay. No more chit-chat. Just, please, Read and Review...
DISCLAIMER: Ido not own Yu-Gi-Oh, nor any of the other characters in the story. The only things that I own is this donut, here... eats the donut Nevermind. The only thing that I own is Yanimi Saluki, her yami, and the gyrfalcon. Wait. I don't own that. Mother Nature owns that. TT;
Yanimi woke up, sitting upright in her loft, nearly cracking her head open on the ceiling. She winced, rubbing her head, then looked from her vantage point to her mirror. Her frightened, tear-streaked, sweat-soaked face stared back at her from the glass.
Yanimi got out of her loft bed, climbing down the ladder and tumbling to the floor. She could hear a muffled chirp, and looked around to investigate, then turned to the window. A small gyrfalcon stared at her, talons open and nearly ready to tap on the glass. Frowning, Yanimi opened the window against the driving sheets of rain and thunder and pulled the bird in amidst the trills and warbles the bird was giving off. It clambered onto the girl's arm, pulling at the hair.
Yanimi carried it carefully to the fireplace and set it down, lighting the fire with one swift sign(1). Cautiously, not meaning to wake anyone else up, she stole over to Arian's room and jumped on it. Arian woke up and pounced on Yanimi, eyes draconic.
"Geez, Arian. Calm down."
"What? What do you waaaaant... Yan?"
"Can you get off of me first?" Yanimi asked, breathing heavily.
"Oh. Sure," Arian said, clambering back onto her bed and returning her eyes to normal.
"Arian, can you come and help me? There's a gyrfalcon in my room and I don't know why."
"What?" Now Arian was alert. "Where's your room?"
"Across the hallway. It's Yugi's room. He's letting me borrow it for the room."
"And where's Nomi and Moonsong?(2)"
"At Ryou's house."
Arian cackled. "This should be interesting," she said, pulling on her flannel pants. "Lead the way."
Yanimi ran across the hallway back to her room. She looked around curiously for the gyrfalcon, then ran to the fireplace and peered inside. The gyrfalcon was inside the fireplace.
"Weird," Yanimi commented, pulling him out of the fireplace and sitting down. Willingly, he stuck out his foot, with a note attached to his leg. Yanimi pulled it off, only then noticing the oddly-bent wing. "Arian! Look at his wing!"
"I know." Arian had her light's-on-but-nobody's-home expression, which meant that her and the gyrfalcon were communication.
Yanimi pulled the note open, noticing her home language. The letter was only five words long, yet, it confirmed her worst nightmare.
Come home.
We need you.
"Arian..." Yanimi said, getting up and pacing.
"Hold on."
"Alright." Yanimi continued pacing, her feet making no noise on the carpet.
"Done!" Triumphantly, Arian put the now-sleeping gyrfalcon on the sofa under Yanimi's bed, then turned to Yanimi. "What's up?"
Yanimi handed Arian the note, commenting with her voice quivering, " This confirms that what I dreamt is true."
Arian read the note several times over, eyes growing wider with every time. "What! Yanimi, tell me your dream."
Arian listened soundlessly as Yanimi told her friend her dream: Jaels(3) on fire, people fleeing from the city on legs and wings, then the throne on fire.
Yami came into the room, and leaned against the wall, watching the two with sleepy red eyes. When Yanimi was done, he came to sit beside the two, holding Yanimi's hand to comfort her. "What's up?" He asked quietly, trying to keep Yanimi from crying.
Yanimi turned to him, and in one statement, explained everything that had happened since she woke up: "We have to go home."
Yan: YAY! Cliffie! Now, R and R so that I can put up the seventh chappie.
Endnotes:
(1)Unlike her friends and sibling, she had to resort to spell-symbols in order to use fire.
(2)Both Nomi and Moonsong, even if you couldn't have already seen it, have a crush on Ryou. So... yeah.
(3) Jaels their home, and their original planet.
