Laughing in the Dark

And here it is.

The seventh chapter.

PH34R!

Yugi is on his own for once!

This will be good.

Let me put in some random song lyrics that have nothing to do with the actual story!

One day the whole world looks

Like an open page

You've been dancing as fast as you can

With a smile on your face

And the earth and the sky they open together

To carry me away as light as a feather

Chase the clouds from the ground

In the big blue sky

Don't want to watch it all go by

So I'm gonna fly

Completely random.

But here we go.

Soul Room stuff is in italics

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Laughing in the Dark

For the Grace of Gaia

I'm numb to you - numb and deaf and blind.
You give me all but the reason why.
I reach but I feel only air at night.
Not you, not love, just nothing.
I run to you,
Call out your name,
I see you there, father away

"He's trapped? Where? How?" Yugi asked frantically.

"That can't be. I'm right here." Yami said. Noa grinned.

"You know him that well don't you? Then let me ask some questions."

Noa sat back, readying herself.

"What is my tribe?"

"Silent Fury."

"My auspice?"

"Full moon."

"Role?"

"Seer."

"What is the color of Yugi's bedroom?"

"Um..."

Noa grinned. The Bone King didn't know personal details. With this proving it, she was ready. She turned to Yugi after she bound Yami's body tighter to the spire.

"Yugi, can you get into his head?" She asked.

"I can get into his soul room."

"Good enough. You're gonna have to get in there and save him. I can't help you on this." Noa realized that he'd be on his own after she had said it, and her ears drooped.

Yugi gave her a thumbs-up and closed his eyes.

Yugi opened his eyes to find himself within his own soul room. He flung open the door and ran across the hall to Yami's. The door wasn't locked, but Yugi still had a tough time opening it. Once it was open, he gasped.

This great black cloaked demon was pointing the tip of his pike at Yami's throat. Yami's twin blades lay halfway across the room, making it impossible for him to defend himself. Yami was trying to push himself off of the floor, but the pike aimed at his jugular was preventing that. There was a puddle of black blood near the demon's feet, indicating that Yami had made contact, but the growing pool of red blood suggested that it was not without a cost.

"Yami!" Yugi shouted. The two turned to him.

"No! Yugi! Get out of here!" Yami shouted before the opposing end of the pike batted him into the wall. There was a spray of blood and a cry of pain from Yami's mouth before he fell to the ground and struggled to stand. His legs gave out from under him and he fell face-first into his own blood.

"Yami!"

Yugi ran to his dark self who was still struggling to stand. Yugi looked around, praying that he would see Noa standing there and waiting for a chance to hurl all the power of the Chrinos form at this demon. But there was no one there. He was on his own.

The demon glared down at them.

"Fool. Do you think that this adjustment would save you? I am the bane of all existence! The earth trembles under my feet! Do you think that you could do anything to stop me!"

Yugi saw the pike flying towards him. He held the injured body of his other tightly, cringing and closing his eyes.

There was a flash of light that lit his eyelids. He opened his eyes to see a woman standing, pike in hand. She crushed it and looked at the demon.

She was no shorter than said demon. Her body was pale and glowing. She wore a skirt made of weeping willow branches, and the branches seemed to be actually coming from her skin. Her shirt was made of fish scales, and it likewise seemed to actually grow from her body. She had two great wings, neither bird nor bat nor butterfly nor dragon. They seemed to be all of these. Her hair was long and silvery-blue, blowing freely around her face. Her eyes were deep green.

"You dare to try to take a body that is under my care?" The woman asked, voice speaking like the ocean when it was growing mad with storm.

"This body is not under your care! It is mine by right! He has the marks! I have claimed him!" The demon shouted.

"Both this body and its counterpart were under the care of one of my children, you had no right to them."

"Noa is a useless wolf-whore! She is not one of your children!"

The woman's body changed from silvery-blue to the angered reds and oranges of a volcano.

"All werewolves are my children, no matter who."

The demon lunged at the woman, who drover her hand through the demon's chest. It screamed before vanishing into nothing. The woman's body returned to the blue-silver and turned to Yugi and Yami.

With one flick of her hand, Yami's wounds closed and the healing process could begin.

"You both will be safe now, my children." The woman said.

"Gaia..." Yugi whispered before the woman vanished.

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Almost done!

Gaia!