Hi everyone, I am so sorry about the late update, but I have been really busy with my other fics! I will get the next chapter up sooner though, I promise! I tried to get this up last week but I couldn't think of anything to write; my mind was blank. Now, this chapter contains some harsh stuff, but it isn't that bad; I've read a hundred times worse in The Exorcist, believe me. But this is what it would be like to be possessed; it is what you would do. Read on!
Disclaimer: May I be possessed and made to do terrible things before I ever own YuGiOh or The Exorcist!
Once the boy had finished eating dinner he went back up to his room, Sami Ishtar and her father having left, and his grandparents had gone. He felt very tired, but forced himself to stay awake. Upon entering his room, he saw it was foul, covered in rotting corpses and blood oozing thickly on the walls and floor. He paled, feeling sick watching the bodies rise from the floor, and walk towards him, trying to claw at him with their decayed hands and fingers.
He threw up, emptying the contents of his stomach on the floor, and blinked, sweat gathering on his face. It was then he noticed that the corpses were gone; like they had vanished into thin air and had never been in his room. Ryou retched and curled up in a ball on his bed, shaking. What was it he had just seen, was it an apparition; a mere illusion, or was it something much more sinister? Either way, he got a bad vibe off it.
Laying there on his sheets, he stared up at the ceiling, and a wide, gaping mouth appeared over him; blood dripping off the teeth, and foul, putrid breath coming out of the jaws. He closed his eyes, wishing it to disappear, and he blinked them open. The image was gone yet again. Ryou jumped out of bed and pressed himself against the wall, curled in a fetal position, watching his room come alive with monstrous images; upon his wall was a chained corpse; it's jaws gaping wide, and the eyes were hollow and devoid of any life. Blood was coming out of the tattered and bruised limbs, where the fabric of the ragged clothes it wore had worn through.
Ryou shook, rocking backwards and forwards. He had never been scared before, but now he was terrified. All of a sudden, he felt a dark aura within himself, and looked at his hands; they had begun to move of their own accord, and one was reaching up to his neck, about to choke him. He threw himself to the side but as he was attached to the hand it came with him; still desperately trying to strangle him, and the hand found it's way around his neck.
Suffocating and choking, Ryou grabbed his pocket knife from his bedside table, and opened it slowly with his other hand. He stared at the gleaming blade that had been used only once before, and made a hasty decision. He cut down into his hands, wincing as pain shot through his wrists. The hand dropped, and he saw that he had caused a three inch wound on the surface of his skin, that was bleeding profusely. He leaned over and let the blood drip into the carpet, wishing that to have been a dream.
Unfortunately, the pain was real, and it wasn't a dream. Ryou lay there for twelve hours, until his mother came in and found him crawled up against the wall, pale as a sheet, and the room covered in blood and bile from the depths of the boys stomach. It was an unruly sight. When Ryou got to the hospital they declared him not fit for society and he was carted off to the Domino Mental Institution for a trial period. Of course, they would not believe that he had seen such things, and would not even stop to consider the fact that he might have been telling the truth.
But Ryou was telling the truth, for he had seen those horrid things around his room; he had been haunted by them, while they drew ever closer for twelve damn hours! And as Ryou lay there in his room; the walls impeccably white, and the smell of chlorine and medicine in the air, choking him almost as that hand had done, he found he didn't care. He just didn't care…
But Sami Ishtar cared, and she appeared on a grey and cloudy day to the Institution, to ask Ryou what it was he had seen to drive him to be placed in the category of lunatics and psychotic fools. Knocking on his door, she found it opened up to reveal a boy with a face much paler than usual, and his hair strewn about his face like he hadn't a care in the world. But the most depressing feature was his face. It looked empty, but there was a glint of something more inside his eyes. Darkness, evil intentions…whatever it was she didn't like it.
"Ryou…Ryou, what happened that night, when they say you went insane?" she asked, begging. Ryou looked at the wall, and a look of terror spread over his face. "I saw…" it took him a while to begin, "Bodies hanging on the walls, blood everywhere; I saw…terrible things. And then, and then my own hand tried to kill me. I would have been killed by my own hand, possessed by some dark force I have never known of. The corpses were all around me as I lay there, bleeding after slicing into my hand to drive the force away. They tortured me, and their eyes were evil, glaring at me as though it was my fault they were trapped there. The corpses were centuries old, but there were some there that looked like my friends, and they too were glaring…" Ryou cut off, jerking into a delayed attack.
"Nurse, I need a nurse here!" called Sami, trying to control Ryou. But the boy could not be controlled, and he flailed around the room, yelling out profanities as though possessed. And he was possessed, by a darkness that had existed for centuries, before the old Ryou had ever been born.
Well, that is the chapter, and I hope you all liked it! Thanks:
Dark Magician Girl Hikaru –I am very glad you liked it! Hmm, yeah, he did see his past life, but now it seems that the darkness wants more than that, and I wonder why those corpses seemed to blame him? I am sorry for the late update! Thanks for reviewing!
ttSerenity –Wow, you go around throwing confetti, why am I not surprised at this? You chase cars? Hey cool, can I come over to America and chase some cars with you? Have you ever chased a limo? Or maybe a convertible? Oh come on, tell me the story of your pen name, I am dying to know! The very moment I read your name on one of your stories I was all, "Why are there two T's in front of her name?" Well, about Sami Ishtar, she is Marik's daughter! And Marik is Sami Yamashima's best friend, and Sami Yamashima is Ryou's grandmother even though she is like in her forties (Her daughter got pregnant young as you might have read) and Marik likes Sami Yamashima so much he named his child after her! Make sense? Thanks for the definition of a vocab word! Thanks for reviewing!
Computerfreak101 –Hey CF101! Yay, I am so happy I replenished the angst, and even more so in this chapter! The Shadow as you might have guessed, made Ryou see all those things and made his hands try to choke him! Man, I do not want to be possessed, because that is what spirits actually do! Thanks for reviewing; your fic should be up in like a day!
Destiny's Dragon –Sorry about the late update! I am glad you liked the chapter! Hm, yeah, the visions are getting pretty disturbing, aren't they? And now he's in a mental home, oh joy! Thanks for reviewing!
Stormrose Dewleaf –Sorry about the late update! Yep, we Australians use the Celsius scale! I am glad Sami Yamashima can have Kaiba; after all, Aurora has Yami Marik! I am glad you liked the chapter, and hope that this is enough angst for you! Thanks for reviewing!
InsaneShadowFan –You see Shadow, Ryou is a reincarnation of the Ryou that drowned when he fell of the bridge in the first and second chapters. The shadow killed Tristan, Yugi, Joey, Tea and Serenity, and they were also reincarnated, okay? We haven't met Tea or Serenity yet though, that's all. I don't know if Tea is going to be in the story yet. I hope I cleared that up for you! Thanks for reviewing!
DarkMalikThePsycho –I know, it isn't that scary. I suppose you lose all terrifying inspiration when you write a story immediately after reading The Exorcist, and then you have to return the book to the library the next day. You don't really know what to write then… Yeah, the vision is really creepy! Yes, it was intentional that the first chapter had them dead to begin with! Um, yeah it is a shadow, but it can possess Ryou all the same. Well, he could tell who the bodies were because when you rot you don't have to be unrecognizable! Dead bodies begin to rot right away, from the inside out even if they aren't stored in a cold autopsy locker. So when they were rotting, they had only just begun to rot, so the skin was still intact and the hair was all there. Yeah, the friends are reincarnated! Thanks for reviewing, I hope I cleared those things up for you!
Love Sami, Ryou's Hikari.
