Here you all have it! The second chapter to Exorcism of Shadows! I really wanted to continue this, no matter what! This is not the last chapter, look out for chapter three; it should be posted during the next week or so! Please read on, and do not flame me for who those five bodies were! I promise you, they are not out of the fic!
Disclaimer: I don't own YuGiOh, but I have a closet…mine doesn't contain bodies, though…
What the police had thought was true, yet it was not. They did not know the true events that had taken place once the shadow Akefia had carved the words 'You belong to me, Ryou, and no one else'. This is what took place that night.
Akefia finished carving those possessive words into Ryou's pale skin, the blood pouring out all around the flesh. He went into the bathroom and washed the blood off, for if the skin was covered in blood, how could his light possibly read the words? He then strode into the bedroom, lay down on the bed, and let Ryou switch back into control; waiting in the back of the young teens mind for the result.
Ryou awoke with a terrible pain in his chest. He rose up from his bed. 'Was it all a dream?' he thought. He discovered his shirt was missing, and he looked down at his chest and gasped. There were words there! The shadow snickered in the back of Ryou's mind. Ryou ran into the bathroom and looked at his reflection in the mirror. The words were backwards in the mirror, but they were still as clear as glass. 'You belong to me, Ryou, and no one else.'
Ryou screamed; an endless scream that went on and on and on… It would've been heart-shattering to anyone watching the youth; his mouth twisted in a gaping howl, tears flying out of his eyes, regret and terror at being possessed by that…that demon! How could he have let himself be taken control of? Ryou realized how weak he was, how pathetic, and how utterly impossible it was for him to regain control of his own body. He wept bitterly into his hands.
'No, I cannot be defeated like this; I have to show the shadow that I am strong!' Ryou's thoughts were futile, for escape was impossible, and so was resisting Akefia. He was determined, though, and made a promise to not live his life as a slave to the dark shadow, but to fight and have his own way.
He could not stay here, he realized. He had to escape this place; otherwise he might hurt others near him. He would not want his father, should he ever come home, to be murdered by the shadow. And if Yugi, Marik, Serenity, Tea, Tristan or Joey were killed…he could never forgive himself. He made his way to his closet, pausing by his room to get dressed in warm clothes; he was going to need them if he was leaving.
He opened his closet door, and screamed as five bodies, rotting and putrid, a foul stench to every one of them, came tumbling out. He tried to shut the door, but it had been blocked by the head of a man with a familiar face came tumbling out. Tristan! He recognized the others. Tea, Joey, Yugi, and Serenity! He screamed so loudly, yet hardly anyone heard at all, for he lived in a very closed up building, no windows or doors open.
He cried, hiding his face in the closet door. He couldn't bear to look at those bodies…his friends…
He yelled and beat the door with clenched fists, cursing himself, the shadow, and the world. He couldn't stand it! He'd not only been possessed by that horrible demon, but that demon had murdered his friends! He left the door open, in the end. It wasn't as if he could touch the bodies, anyway.
He ran to his front door, and threw it open. He didn't stop running until he'd reached the bridge by the old path of Sakura trees. 'I must defeat the shadow, I must destroy him, I must…I must…' Ryou soon succumbed to the fact that his thoughts were thoughts from a lost soul. He was never going to beat the shadow Akefia; he was merely the shadows pawn, and nothing else.
The shadow appeared to him, a transparent illusion in the night sky. "I take it you found the bodies, then?" Akefia said, with a knowing look in his eye. Ryou lunged at the shadow, finding that he could make contact with Akefia, also that the shadow could fall quite easily. The shadow stumbled against the rails of the bridge. Ryou lunged at him again, and found himself holding Akefia in the air, the only thin keeping the shadow from hitting the water below. "Silly Ryou, I cannot die, for I am immortal, and no matter what you do, you cannot get rid of me!"
Ryou refused to believe in Akefia's words, and dropped the shadow. He found he too, was falling to the raging river, for he was connected by mind, soul and body to the shadow. 'Finally, I am free of that demon…' he thought, before hitting the water. What he did not know was that the shadow; before falling had placed a curse on Ryou. Ryou would never be at peace; he would continue to be reborn every time he died, along with the shadow. He smirked as he hit the water.
The next time the shadow came to, he was in a dark room inside Ryou's soul, which; once Ryou had died, was floating around in a dead dimension of nothingness. He waited there, in the darkness, for his next precious light to be born.
How was it? I want you all to review, and flamers shall get the lucky opportunity to be fed to my demons of darkness, or maybe I'll let Regan MacNeil deal with them…
Thanks:
Dark Magician Girl Hikaru –Wow, I am so glad you liked it! I am happy you thought it deserved more chapters, and this isn't the end; there shall be many chapters, but as I am busy with a few others multi-chapter fics, this will be updated only one or two times a week. I have a lot of fics to do with exorcism? I'm sorry, but you are mistaken. There is no actual exorcism in this fic, or in any of my other fics; Exorcism is getting a few priests or rabbis to come and expel an evil spirit/demon from a possessed person body with chants and holy items. I only called it Exorcism of Shadows because it was inspired by the book, The Exorcist, which I'd just finished reading. As for Akefia's real name, I have heard Touzokuoh and Doroboo used before, but they are way too complicated, and Akefia is the more commonly used of the three. I prefer Akefia, but I don't know his real name, and I don't think many people do! Bye, thanks for the review!
Computerfreak101 –I'm sorry I freaked you out a bit, but that was the entire point! I will try to keep this PG13 rated, for your sake, but why don't you read R rated stuff? I do, and I'm not meant to! You were so freaked out you turned you light on? Mine is always on when I write, and when I read scary stories…like The Exorcist…but that wasn't scary, just intensely disturbing…have you read it? Wait, probably not, it's very complicated reading material, plus, you'd probably rather see the movie…Thanks for the review!
Stormrose Dewleaf –I'm hyped that you think it was awesome! And here is chapter two of who knows how many more! I'm so glad you liked it! What was Aurora's opinion on it? Thanks for the review!
InsaneShadowFan –It is rather interesting, isn't it? I'm happy you think it is pretty good, I thought so too when I wrote it in the early hours of the evening (around eight at night) and sat back and re-read it. Um, not to make me sound dumb or anything, but what is an AU? I have no idea! Please tell me! Did I update soon enough? I was struggling with the decision of whether I should or not. Thanks for the review!
Love Sami, Ryou's Hikari.
