Shattered Soul
A/N: Here is a Yami chapter. Other characters will refer to him as Atemu or Pharaoh so that no one gets confused as to which Yami's being spoken about (since Malik will have a part in this story too).
I still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. (But I'm now the proud owner of a DVD of the first season of classic Jonny Quest. :D I'm so happy!)
Two innocents.
They are lost within the forest of the world, lost and easy prey.
Two children, pure of heart, and I can only save one.
As the Pharaoh, I must save one. I am still the Pharaoh, still a child of the gods...
An ancient ruler in a new age of the world.
Uncertainty nags at my mind. I am all-knowing, yes,
all-powerful, but what happens when I must choose between the two innocents?
What happens when one must die for the other to live?
One, weak and wounded, the other, my very heart and soul.
He is the sun and stars of my little universe.
(The Pharaoh, all-knowing and all-powerful, has been captured body and mind.
Captured by a young man, a commoner.
Captured so wholly that he would never escape voluntarily!
My captor is one Yuugi Mutou; my cage, a thing called Love.)
Of course I must choose my lover. There is no other way.
The other is the brother of my rival, of the High Priest Set. He can save the boy.
I know it. I must know it.
I am the Pharaoh. I know all.
Honda says I closed my eyes once, three years ago.
Closed my eyes to a dying boy named Ryou Bakura.
But I never knew a Ryou Bakura. All I knew
was a white-haired tomb thief's lover who had to be punished. He was never my friend.
Even his name sounds alien now. With practice, anything will be forgotten.
By the will of the Pharaoh,
Yuugi will survive. There was never a choice.
There never will be.
Sorry to all you Yami fans... He's like this in the dub, at least here in America...
