Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! (sobs uncontrollably) KAZUKI TAKAHASHI you are so lucky owning Yami! Ahem anyway here's the next chapter.
Yami (sounding lost) This maze is boring when do I get to escape?
Yami Seirei: I'm not saying cause that will give the plot away mwahahaha!
Yugi: Oooooh you're so mean to mou hitori no boku!
Yami Seirei: Sowwee
Yami: Aibou, save me!
Yami KITG: Course he will right Yami Seirei?
Yami Seirei: I'm saying nothing! And you can't make me!
Yami KITG: Oh yeah? (grabs frying pan)
Yami Seirei: Oh no not again! Heeeeeelllllppppppp……
Yami & Yugi (also grabbing frying pans) HA HA! Household stores love us the amount of frying pans we get through! (chases Yami Seirei)
(sound of screaming in the distance and wind whistling as the frying pans are waved..)
Bakura & Ryou: The authoress will return after these messages – and when she's released from the hospital!
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Yami KITG: OMG GET ON WITH THE FIC ALREADY!
Yami Seirei: (sits at her desk and types furiously) Thank you to my reviewers I love you all!
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Chapter 6
Yugi sat on the pharaoh's throne in the immense hall that made up the main room of the palace. So far he had received gifts from two countries wanting to keep peace with Egypt, seen several dancing girls to entertain him and a string of musicians. Right now he was being fed fruit from a platter by a beautiful young girl and although he smiled and nodded and acted like he thought a pharaoh should act. He didn't say very much afraid that he would blurt out this whole sorry mess. His mother stood just behind him the whole time and he kept glancing at her. She nodded reassuringly at him but he was still worried. What if one of the advisers noticed something was wrong? The more he thought about it the more worried he became. He had to get out of here and talk to the Dark Magician Girl and soon or he was going to do something to give the game away and at the moment he couldn't let that happen as he would lose any chance of getting Yami's soul back. He had to play along and act like the pharaoh for now. If it were discovered that he wasn't the real pharaoh, he would be executed as no one would believe he wasn't willingly involved after all, most of Egypt would give their right arm to be pharaoh but to Yugi it just felt so wrong. Yami was his brother and the rightful pharaoh. Yugi swore to himself that he would get his soul back, no matter what.
He turned to look at his mother who was watching the room and him like a hawk. Yugi sighed, he was tired and wanted a rest, he hadn't got much sleep last night due to fretting about the recent turn of events and due to his illness, and although he was healed he still felt drained and weak.
"Mother," he said in a low voice. "I'm tired and want to sleep for a while."
"Very well, rest well my son." She said and he rose from the throne. Everyone in the room bowed low to him as he left and he had trouble hiding the embarrassed flush that rose to his cheeks.
He almost ran to the pharaoh's rooms and flopped on the bed burying his face in the pillow and screaming into it. He thumped his fists into it for a while until some of his frustration left him and he was able to sit up. Hoping that his mother hadn't decided to follow him, he called on the Dark Magician Girl.
"Are you there my friend?"
She appeared before him and he smiled, pleased to see her.
"Young master," she bowed, "We are gathering monsters in the Shadow Realm to aid us in defeating Nephiris. The monster she betrayed has proven very helpful and gathered many to our aid, we should be ready soon."
"Good, have you managed to locate Yami's soul?"
The Dark Magician Girl shook her head.
"I'm sorry, we've searched long and hard but haven't found him yet. I think maybe he is in a place cut off from the rest of us. She planned this very well but I do not think she knows everything. I think it is time you knew young master you have great power inside of you. You manage to tap into a small piece of it every time you summon me to your side." The Dark Magician Girl waited for Yugi's reaction. He stayed surprisingly calm for one who has discovered he has great power and looked questioningly at his friend.
"Power? What kind of power and what will I be able to achieve with it?"
"Well you know you can summon me, you also have the power to summon others and without the normal energy drain. You can also call upon the powers of the millennium items even when they are not near you. You are very special Yugi to be entrusted with such power. Do you think you can handle it?"
Yugi sat and thought for a while. This power he was supposed to have how would he be able to tap into it? And surely he would have had some indication of something so powerful inside of him wouldn't he?"
"I-I don't know." He finally said. "I have no idea how to draw on something I don't even know that's there. How can I use it or even control it if I can't feel it?"
"Concentrate and withdraw into your soul Yugi, you will find your answers there. Now I must go, I sense Nephiris coming and it would not do for me to be found here."
Yugi nodded and the Dark Magician Girl vanished back into the Shadow Realm.
Yugi hurriedly dived under the covers of his brother's bed and closed his eyes just as his mother entered the room.
She walked over to the bed and stood looking down at Yugi who made his chest rise and fall evenly as though he were in a deep sleep.
She watched him for a few moments more before whispering, "Rest well my son." before leaving the room.
Yugi waited until all was quiet before opening his eyes. He saw that he was completely alone. His brow furrowed as he tried to think.
'Look into my own soul? How am I supposed to do that?' he wasn't even aware one could do such a thing, still he had to try. The Dark Magician Girl had told him that he had incredible power inside of him but he needed to unlock the power. 'How?' he wondered, well he had to try.
Closing his eyes, he completely relaxed his body and tried to retreat into his mind. He felt as though he was sinking through a thick fog. He concentrated harder and felt the seemingly oppressive fog lift and he felt very light as if he was floating. He opened his eyes to find himself standing in a room made of stone.
'Is this the inside of my soul?' he looked around to see he was in a large room with many doors leading off it. He walked up to one and opened it to see one of his memories played out in front of him. The memory was of when he was very small and being looked after by the old couple. He was laughing as the old man tickled him and he smiled at the memory.
'So these rooms hold my memories, my very special memories as some things are not worth remembering.' He knew behind some doors there would be bad memories too of his life on the streets and there was bound to be one for his recent memory of waking up to see Yami – his brother soul-less and unconscious.
'I must succeed, if I don't she will have won and I will be stuck pretending to be the pharaoh until it is discovered I am not him and then my death will surely follow.'
He continued to walk round the vast room as he had many memories, some of the doors were locked and he guessed that memories were laying within that he had locked away into the dark recesses of his memory where they stayed locked away.
Eventually he came to a section of the room, which was shrouded in darkness. He took the handle of one door and opened it. He was met with a dark and foreboding room that held nothing inside it and the very darkness inside the room seemed to reach towards him and try and pull him inside. Fear tore at him as with great difficulty he managed to slam the door shut on the darkness and he sank to the floor trembling and very much afraid.
'What was that room?' He looked round the room and noticed that the door he had recently opened was the last memory he had of finding out that he had a mother even though she was evil and must be stopped. That door was very close to this darkness and he realised then what this area was.
'They are rooms waiting for memories to happen.' He thought and realised that this room in his soul mush get bigger all the time as more memories happened and were held in these rooms.
'I wonder if everyone's soul is like this?'
he thought it probably was and got up again having calmed down from the scare the darkness room had given him he looked round the room.
'The power the Dark Magician Girl told me about must be here somewhere,' he thought 'but where?'
He wondered round the room examining all the doors again but they all looked the same and he was beginning to feel a little frustrated. Then one door caught his eye. It was a door just like any other door in this place apart from this one has the eye of Horus in the centre of it. It was not very pronounced and unless he had been specifically looking for a door with something different on it, he would not have seen it.
'This has to be it.' He said to himself and grasped the handle.
Stepping into the room, he was met with a long and winding corridor. He began to walk down it treading very carefully in case all was not as it seemed.
All was not as it seemed and as he walked down the corridor, the walls either side of him began to fall away to reveal endless space and darkness all around him. Fear once again stabbed at him but he kept going. He had to unlock this power and save Yami, even if he died trying. He did not want to die of course and determined not to be beaten by his fear, he carried on.
The path he was on began to crumble and fall away either side of him and into the blackness all around which seemed to swallow it up greedily. Yugi never faltered in his step and carried on until he found himself walking on a path that was a single stone in width.
Still he went on methodically placing one foot in front of the other as the darkness swirled all round him threateningly. He looked ahead down the path and saw to his horror that the remaining stones were falling away into the darkness. Looking behind him, he saw the path behind him was also falling away and fast. Swallowing, he carried on walking until he met the end of the path. Looking back he saw that the path behind was also all gone and that he was standing on one stone only.
'What's going on?' he wondered. 'Am I being tested? Or is this just a trap for me to meet my doom and be lost in my own soul forever?' He remembered the eyes of Horus on the door and felt sure this was the right room.
'Maybe I am being tested, maybe this is a test of faith in myself. I haven't stepped anywhere that isn't seemingly a solid stone floor, maybe if I trust in myself and step forwards I will not fall to my death but my faith in myself and my determination to save my brother will keep me afloat.'
He had absolutely no idea of this would work but for Yami's sake, he had to try.
Mustering all his faith in himself and his theory that this was a test for him, he stepped forwards.
His foot hit solid ground and he let out a long breath of relief as he saw he was indeed standing on what seemed like nothing but he could feel the floor under him.
'A leap of faith in myself.' He thought and glad that that was over, he carried on walking over the emptiness until he came to a door. Taking a deep breath, he opened it and stepped through.
He was met with a room and in the centre was a mirror. 'What now?' he wondered and walked over to it. Standing in front of it he peered into it. He saw himself as he was dressed in the pharaoh's robes and looking just like Yami. He closed his eyes in disgust at the sight. He hated what his mother had done and vowed stronger that he would succeed. When he opened his eyes again however, he was met with a completely different image. The image that stared back at him was that of a very young boy. Himself age seven or eight, but this was no ordinary picture. For one the figure had wings and the other he was dressed in long white robes.
'What is this?' he wondered as the figure smiled at him from inside the mirror before placing a hand over it's heart and pointing at Yugi.
"My heart?" he asked the reflection who nodded. "It is a reflection of my heart."
Again the figure nodded and beckoned to Yugi.
"You want me to step through the glass?" The figure nodded and Yugi, thinking he had nothing to lose, placed a hand on the glass. It went right through and so he stepped all the way in.
"Welcome Yugi." His reflection said and smiled.
"Who are you?" he asked.
"I am the reflection of your true heart. This mirror is used to reflect a person's true nature and intentions back at them. The result is quite often devastating for the person as they are usually much darker and frightening than they think they are. You are pure, faithful, honest, true and loyal. All these qualities create me as you see me now as an angel of light. Your very soul is pure and untainted and as such you will now be given the key to the power that you seek to save your brother and defeat the one who stole his soul."
"You know all this? How?"
"I have one more question for you before I answer. You seek the power locked away within yourself, why?"
"I need to save my brother's soul and to stop my mother's evil plans."
"And what will you do with the power once you have used it to accomplish this task."
"It will be locked away again within my soul."
"And if it cannot be locked away? There are those who would seek the power you possess."
"I would rather die than allow another to use it."
The angelic reflection smiled and nodded.
"You have passed the final test. I was sent by the god Ra himself to test you and make sure you were not trying to gain the power for evil purposes. You have passed all the trials and I can now grant you the key to your power. Once you have used it, you will be permitted to lock it away once again, because you were willing to die rather than allow it to fall into the wrong hands Ra has granted you the ability to do this."
Yugi bowed to the being whose shape changed and became a figure of beauty and light, which was almost too bright to look upon.
"Thank you." He said and the figure held out his hand. In his hand was a statue with wings.
"Place this into the door in the room you just left, behind that door is where your power lies."
Yugi nodded and bowed again before turning and leaving the place through the mirror's glass. He looked round and saw the door with the slot in it ready to accept the figure. He placed it into the slot and it glowed white-hot for a moment before going back to normal. Yugi watched as the door swung open to reveal a room with a sphere in the centre. The sphere was glowing and humming with power and energy and Yugi felt nervous as he approached it wondering if he was really worthy to receive such power. 'Well Ra thinks I am worthy so here goes.' He thought.
He came to stand in front of it and reaching his hands out he lay them on top of the sphere. Immediately he felt the power flowing into him and he cried out as it consumed him. It felt as though a million needles were stabbing at him and his knees gave way under him. He collapsed to the ground still holding onto the sphere as it continued to relinquish everything to him.
He screamed in agony as the last of the power left the sphere and he was finally able to let go. He writhed round on the floor clutching his stomach, tears running down his face as he tried to make the pain go away.
It seemed a long time before it subsided and he was able to lay still. Sweat ran down his face plastering his bangs to it. He lay panting as his body adjusted and absorbed it all until he felt he could get up again.
'Now I have to find my way out of here again.' He thought and walked over to the mirror. Ra's messenger was still there having listened to Yugi receiving his power but being unable to help him.
"Thank you messenger of Ra." Yugi said and the messenger nodded.
"Your new power will take you out of here from where you are now. Just concentrate on returning to your body."
"Really?" 'That's a relief' he thought.
"I wish you luck Yugi, farewell." And the messenger vanished.
Yugi concentrated as he had been directed and closed his eyes. He felt himself rise and when he opened his eyes again, he found himself in the pharaoh's bed again. The sun was setting and he went over to the window to see Ra kissing the world goodnight for another day.
"Thank you Ra." He whispered. "I will get my brother's soul back and defeat my mother, I swear it."