((All A/N's will be at the end form now on... cause that's just neater... Yeah... And I decided to skip some things between here and last chapter... Yeah...))
CHAPTER TWO: Bloody Hell
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Yugi Motou, the kid with the spiky, porcupine like multicolored hair, the adorable violet eyes and the very short build, nearly fell out of his chair. Something had just dropped out of his bedroom ceiling!
Yugi? Was that you? Keep it quiet up there! his mother yelled up the staircase.
Yeah mom! Sorry! he called back, cautiously getting up to examine the thing. It was wrapped in dark velvet, some sort of blueish black color. The velvet seemed moist and bunched in places, like it was coated in something sticky. Yugi had the impression that there was a person in the bundle.
)Yugi, be careful. We don't know where it came from... ( Yami told him mentally. Yugi nodded to seemingly no one in response to the voice in his head, and reached down to touch the bundle. It let out a slow groan of pain.
It's a girl! Yugi cried in surprise, and quickly pulled aside the cloth to examine her closer. Her skin was red, and swollen with cuts and scratches, which seemed to criss-cross every part of her exposed skin. Her clothes were all lightly soaked, and appeared american in style. She's hurt bad..., he whispered, examining a deep gash that ran along her side, exposed through a torn black shirt. There was an indecisive silence, and he bit his lower lip. Would his mom and grandpa let her stay? Should he tell them? Finally, he stood and peered his head out the door. Grandpa! I need your help with something!
)She smells of shadows..( Yami whispered in his quiet, mental tone. )There's something dark around this girl, aibou. You must be cautious..(
Yes, yes, I know..' Yugi snapped at his other side. Grandpa, sh, be quiet. I don't want mom to know about this.. Yugi whispered as his grandfather appeared at the doorway.
Yugi? Wha- Oh my.. the old man breathed, laying his sights on the girl. She let out another low groan, writhing in some pain unimaginable.
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Step by step, my senses returning one by one. First, touch, and a horrible pain spread across my skin like wild fire, making me want to scream, but instead I just groaned. Then hearing, and a boy whispered I think she's awake, Granpa, bring over the cloth, she's bleeding again. Next taste, and blood swirled around in my mouth, made thick by saliva. Smell brought on a combination of lilac perfume, old men and metallic water. It made me feel ill. Finally, my sight returned, fuzzy but there, and I groaned again. Stupid tv..
Jac, turn off the Tv. You know I still hate Yu-Gi-Oh, I moaned, and then coughed a few times. Yugi Motou was looking out with concern etched all over his adorable anime face. He blinked, and then brought a cool cloth to my face, and even though it stung, I sighed. My head felt like it was on fire, and pain radiated from my leg, face and side. Suddenly it hit me, like I had just stepped out of a fog.
Hey, you shouldn't move. You're hurt pretty bad, Yugi's grampa commented, and I resisted the urge to roll over and get a better look at him. He looked older up close..
I'm Yugi Motou, by the way. This is my grampa, you can call him Gramps. You can speak right now? What's your name? his voice just oozed innocence, it made me feel just about as ill as the smell of the water that was dripping from the cloth and down my face.
Um, yeah. I'm Anise Stepps, I said uncertainly. This is SO a fanfic. Janis told me all about them, once. Young teens with no lives at all write them and post them on the internet, and usually they're filled with original characters' that are TOTAL Mary-Sues. I guess I'd be the Mary-Sue..
Hi, Anise, um, he started saying something, but I pushed myself up, effectively ending his efforts to do whatever to my forehead.
Oh, you shouldn't be moving! Gramps said, and headed back over, some bandages with him. I gave him and odd look, and pulled my legs up closer to me.
I'll be fine, I insisted, and took damage report. My legs were fine up to my thighs, and there was a bandaged gash along my thigh. I didn't even want to THINK about one of those two taking care of it, but the bandages were a different color, more yellowish and old looking, than the bandages wrapped around my stomach, where I could feel there must've been a series of cuts. And then there was a bandage wrapped around my head right under my bangs, and the bruise I could feel from when Jac hit me. Oh yeah.. I whispered too quiet for them to hear. My family was ruined, that's it. Mom'll be left to starve by dad, I'll be completely forgotten and Jac won't know any of this cause he'll be to busy following his rock star dream. I think I'm going to pass out now, I whispered, falling back onto the bed. Yugi looked at me strangely, and then glanced at his grandfather. I closed my eyes.
What should we do, Granpa?Well, we can't just keep her here, and we need to tell your mother..,But mom won't let me keep her!
Gramps let out a low chuckle. It sounds like you've found a lost puppy! Yugi, she's not a pet!I know, he sounded ashamed at the way he'd been referring to me.
Well, if you don't mind sleeping on the floor, I suppose she can stay this one night. But we've got to find out where she came from, and what's going on.
I felt hot breath across my check for an instant. I think she's asleep. Okay, Gramps. And in the morning we can talk to her.Yes. Now, Yugi, I've got to go back to the store. I'll be back to check up on her in the morning. You're lucky she showed up saturday afternoon when school was out.Yes, gramps. G'night.Good night Yugi.
I managed not to smile. I could go to sleep then. Good. I let myself be carried away and out of this world, back into my dream world.
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Anise stared, unseeing, at the pitch-blackness. There was nothing in front of her, nothing behind her, nothing below her, nothing around her. She drew in a deep breath, but nothing came. There was no air here. There was nothing.
Two sparks of red light flashed into view in front of her, and then the hazy form of a woman in the shadows. The reddish light surrounding her was enough that Anise could see herself again, and could see that the weight on her arm was still the ready duelling device. Experimentally, she pushed some weight onto her left leg. The pain seared back, but not so much that it was impossible to stay stable. Fine then. I'd recovered.
It took a second, but I realised that something was missing. The pressure, the throbbing of blood pouring out by my heart's will. The bandages were missing.
You sure get hurt a lot, the shadow breathed. I grinned, a complete façade.
Yeah, I guess, I responded idly, and drew my card. Fissure. I played it, voicing my actions, throwing Silver fang into attack mode and charging it. 1200 life points bit out of the shadow's stock. I watched it grin horribly, blood trickling down it's forehead and around the impressions that housed it's eyes.
Not bad. But are you as good as the pharaoh? it breathed, drawing a card. I didn't want to do another turn, get hurt again, crash into someone again. Someone? Was there someone else in this place? My lips began to form the question, to ask the shadow, when a second thought, a painful flash of hazy memory, shot at me. A picture of the dark stone tablet, me-
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Anise? Anise? Are you up? Yugi's voice roused me. I heard me yawn. Anise, you want something to eat? I'm gonna go bring up breakfast. I'll be right back, okay? You can get up now, okay? he said. I groaned and pulled my eyes open sleepily. More weird dreams.
I said, and he smiled sleepily and left the room, closing the door behind him. Terrific. Groaning again, I sat up, and made exhausted runs through my hair to straighten it. When I was officially satisfied, I stood up, careful not to put too much pressure on my left leg, which felt like it was bleeding again, and half walked, half limped over to the mirror right by his bed. Funny, I didn't remember being an anime person when I went to bed at home last night/afternoon/whatever. My old, messy, plain black hair was an odd, sort of black sort of purple, raven like color, spiky at the bangs, and shoulder length. My brown eyes glinted goldish, narrowed and with thick, strong outlines. My features were sharper and my body stronger, it seemed. Good point one; you always look good here, even in blood stained bandages. Bad point one; People in Animes bleed a lot. Despite what they say and what it looks like, it hurts like Hell. I decided to busy myself messing with my hair till Yugi got back. Here, as long as I wasn't asleep, I didn't really have to deal with getting hurt or my stupid family or my manipulative friends. I just had to worry about soul-stealing, card-playing psychos like Marik. Speaking of which, I better figure out where in this Godforsaken series I am, or else I'll never know what to expect.
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A/N: SOOOOOOOOOOOO SORRY! To ANYONE who's reading this, I am eternally apologizing! First my internet was busted, then my mom was busted (and still is) and now I'm on probation too! CURSE MY FATE! Please review so I know whether or not you're still out there, okay? And sorry it's so bad, too. I tried to fix it up some at the end, but I don't think it's working. Bah.