Chapter 3: Yami's Downfall

"I was talking to Yugi before I came here."

"Yugi, Yugi, who's that?"

He was right. She doesn't even know he exists. All she cares about is everyone else. Come to think of it, I don't even think I've seen her look at him in school. Yugi was right, I am stealing his friends.

"What's the matter? You look like you've got a lot on your mind."

"Tea--" There was a knock on the door.

"I'll get it," she stood up and walked over to the door and looked into the peephole. Her head jerked around quickly to look at Yami, and jerked back several times.

"What is it Tea?"

"It looks like… you."

"Hello. I know you guys are there. It's Yugi!"

"Open the door, Tea." She did and in walked Yugi. Yami looked at him. There was nothing peculiar about him. Just the normal Yugi. Tea still looked uneasy. "What's wrong? Why are you looking at him like that?"

"Are you on something?"

Yami looked puzzled. "I'm on a couch."

Yugi shook his head. "He can't see me the way I am. Doesn't matter, in about a half hour, he won't need to." Yugi began to chant something.

Yami's memory kicked in. "Yugi. Don't do it!"

It was too late, he was finished. Yami and Tea began to float in the air. Their bodies became rigid. They faced each other and their legs were chained to the floor and their hands to the ceiling.

"Yugi stop this madness! You have no clue what the powers of the puzzle can do."

"Oh I have a pretty good idea," he smirked. "Plus, it's not like you're going to be around long enough to care." He began the chant again. When he finished it, a whip appeared in his hand.

"Yugi! don't do it!" Yami yelled.

"You're not exactly in a position to stop me, now are you? I'm going to make you feel pain, I'm going to show you what it's like, living in the shadows."

Yami tried to free himself, pulling on the chains as hard as he could. They cut into his wrists.

Yugi moved toward tea, circling her, looking her up and down.

"You wouldn't," Yami said.

Yugi smile evilly. He went behind Tea and unraveled the whip, pulling it back and bringing it forward onto Tea's back.

She screamed in pain as the leather hit her, cutting her shirt open.

"Yugi stop this at once!"

"I think not! It's time for you to realize that you are no longer useful to the world. And Tea's not even the tip of the iceberg."

Tea suffered hit after hit, screaming louder with each one. She was bleeding profusely where each hit had cut her.

Yami couldn't stand it anymore. He summoned all his will and broke the chains that held his arms to the ceiling.

"My, my, my, you are strong-willed. No matter, we can fix that." Yugi launched the whip in Yami's direction catching him in the arm. He pulled him to the floor. He walked over to him and kicked him in his face. "Nighty, nighty. And now that you have witnessed this, you are banished to the Shadow Realm! Oh and I believe this is mine." He pulled Yami's deck from its pouch.

Yami was gone, his body lay limp on the ground, his soul, in the Shadow Realm.

"Why, Yugi?" Tea asked weakly, "Why are you doing this?"

"Why, because the pharaoh was supposed to be dead millennia ago. I'm just doing what nature wouldn't."

Tea fell limp. She had passed out.

He walked out of the room leaving the door wide open. He walked down the hall passing Tristan and Joey on the way.

When they reached Tea's room, they were shocked at what they found. They helped Tea down. "What happened here?" Joey asked her once she had come to.

"Yugi."

"What? Yugi couldn't do this."

"He did. He was different, I could see it in his eyes. Yami's gone. Yugi banished him."

"Let's go find out what's wrong with him," Tristan said.

"Yugi!" they yelled as they finally caught up to him. It was in the middle of a plain. "Yugi, what's going on? Tea said that it was you that did all that at her house."

He continued to walk. "I did."

"How?"

"It doesn't matter how. All you need know is that it was me and that you're going to leave now."

"Hold on. You're not going to go anywhere until you tell us what's going on."

No reply. Yugi continued walking forward without looking back.

"Hey!" Joey yelled as he ran in front of Yugi, "Answer me."

Yugi stopped and looked at Joey. "Get out of my way before I hurt you too."

"I'd like to see the day that happens."

"Fine, your funeral." He pulled out the whip launching it forward catching him in the leg. He yanked back causing Joey to fall backwards, hitting his head in the process. Yugi wrapped the whip back up and continued walking.

"When did Yugi learn that?" Tristan asked.

"Same time he got taller and changed colors. We've got to get help."