The Tears of an Angel with no Mercy
By Alyssa_Anime_Angel
Alyssa: Please Review cause I like this story and want to continue it soon.
Don't own YU-GI-OH but do own this story Amy. Don't sue! And this has big warnings – ABUSE, VIOLENCE, ATTEMPTED RAPE, LANGUAGE, AND OTHER BAD STUFF. STOP READING NOW IF IT OFFENDS YOU.
Not Yaoi, just the bond between Yami and Hikari.
Thank you Lady Blade WarAngel and JadeYuy. Is that really all? Waaaaa!
Yami Malik will be written as Mariku. Sorry if Mariku and Malik seem a little out of character it's just the story wouldn't have worked if Mariku had started killing people and Malik joined him.
Oh yes and I am saying that Seto Kaiba has the Millennium Eye okay.
By the way this is AU.
'thinking'
~Hikari to Yami~
+Yami to Hikari+
Telekinetic thoughts
Chapter 7 – The Gauntlet
Ryou was going to ask what he had to go but when he turned around there was no Shadi and no door behind him, just another tunnel. He grew hesitant to continue not knowing what he would find but he really had no choice in the matter.
Ryou knew the meaning of the word Gauntlet and he knew that there was going to be trials, but of what he couldn't be certain. He decided to let his intuition guide him. He started to walk forward away from where the door was.
'I must find the end, to save Amy. But why can't I contact Bakura. He could help me, I'm sure of it. I suppose that Shadi wants me to do this on my own…but I cant…I'm not strong.'
"NO!" Ryou shouted at himself, "I mustn't doubt myself or I will perish and with my death, Amy's will surely follow. Only my millennium ring can find her."
Ryou put all of his doubts to the back of his mind and kept all eyes on ahead. He wouldn't be distracted from his goal, to get out of here.
Ryou thought he had been walking for at least a few minutes and was pondering why a challenge hadn't presented itself…but he was considering it good luck.
He took a good look at his surroundings. The tunnels radiated a dim light and he thought they must be gold, but who would have this much gold?
He was considering that Shadi must have created this place when he came to a t-section.
'Left or right?'
Both ways looked exactly the same and he repeated his question out loud as if to get an answer from the gods.
No answer came and he took a step right.
A brick under his foot fell down a few inches and he had a feeling of déjà vu, however this time no fake boulder came to squash him.
He gazed across the walls of the tunnel he had chosen and was about to change his mind when ripples appeared on the right hand side maze edge and he watched as the change of heart came out.
"You're my favorite card!"
The girl did not answer but smiled.
"Are you here to help me or…or a you a challenge?"
Finally she opened her mouth and spoke, "Who is Amy? She is on your mind much!"
Ryou decided to answer her, "She is my friend."
"You're friend?" the change of heart's eyebrows raised in disbelief and she went on, "She is more than that, now isn't she?"
Ryou stuttered, "I-have-to-save-her."
"Truth be told for many young and many old,
Dangers seek blood of liar's bold.
Falling depths of disbelief,
When out from soul truth brings relief."
Ryou couldn't work out if it was a puzzle or a prophecy so he asked, "What do you mean?"
The Change of Heart closed her eyes and Ryou fell through the floor, his clothes and hair all lifted up from the air pressure and the sound that came to his ears was the rhyme."
He tried to work it out as the blood rushed to his head.
'The truth, I have to tell the truth. She wanted to know who Amy was and that…that I am here to find a way to protect Amy and that…that…that I care for her, I desire to keep her safe from harm………Do I…Do I love her?
Could I love, after everything?
I love my father…I care about Bakura, and have the same desire to protect and give my heart to him as I do Amy…
I do…I love Bakura and I …
I…
I love Amy!'
Ryou felt a sharp impact with the ground and as his head came down onto the floor he passed out.
Ryou woke up sometime later with a splitting headache and as he sat up he squinted his eyes open. Upon seeing red walls he jumped up, however he doubled over right away.
'Where am I?'
He slowly composed himself and examined the new path.
"The last challenge?"
Ryou slowly put two and two together and realized that Shadi did indeed make this maze. Shadi has the millennium scales, which can weigh truth. Ryou knew he had to do and speak only truth in this maze now and so he set out with another rule of the gauntlet.
'If that was the first challenge, and only to give me a rule then the ones that I still have to face…are going to be much more difficult than I have ever imagined.'
Ryou started to walk down the path and blocked out the pain of the headache.
Soon another t-section appeared and Ryou was wary of choosing but he knew that if there was a challenge he would find a way to overcome it.
He decided to choose left this time and took a step into that path. Nothing changed and so he continued down the path upon going three meters he tripped over.
Ryou lay still for a moment before getting up. He looked down at the ground and saw a very fine crack in the floor.
'Just me being clumsy.'
"YOU CLUMSY PATHETIC WEAKLING, GET OFF YOUR BUTT!"
Ryou froze and turned around to see the darker half of himself standing there.
"B-B-Bakura?"
"Call me Master…perhaps I will punish you for that."
"You promised, you helped to save me, you said…"
"What else would I say? Of course I came for you, as if I would want to throw away my punching bag. You know how I love your blood…actually I am rather hungry at the moment…"
Bakura seemed to be deciding how to punish Ryou and Ryou was in total shock.
Ryou couldn't move, couldn't think. All he knew was that Bakura was here to hurt him and Ryou's fear was enveloping him.
No memories of the past few days came to him, all he remembered was Bakura and those awful, torture filled days.
Ryou collapsed to the ground, tears welling up in his eyes. All he could think about was pain and how he wished things were different.
Bakura knelt down beside him and took a handful of Bakura's hair and made the light face the master.
Ryou's heart was beating so rapidly that Bakura could hear it. He grinned a sadistic smile and pulled out a knife and dragged it down Ryou's face.
Ryou cringed but never once looked Bakura directly in the eyes.
Ryou closed his eyes as he felt his Yami's rough tongue lick the blood off his cheek.
Ryou cringed and this earned him a punch in the stomach. He was sent sprawling into the opposite wall and Ryou remembered one memory.
He remembered looking down at a girl in his arms, she was crying. He could feel her emotions and he remembered the truth.
H stood up with harsh breaths and faced Bakura, "I will not take it any more, you will leave!"
Ryou's voice was soft but it contained a vehemence that made the Bakura turn into shadows and leave.
Ryou backed against the wall and sagged to the ground.
He was injured again.
'Just a little rest, to regain some strength.'
That was the last though before he passed out again.
Ryou found himself floating in a crystal blue sky where no clouds could be seen.
He looked down and saw Yami and a girl walking along the street. Ryou had to see so he willed himself to float down and see.
Upon landing he approached the two and they didn't notice him. However he saw that it was Amy with Yami. She had different hair. It was black.
He was about to try and touch them when they leaned in and kissed.
Ryou stood back… 'WHAT!'
"Amy?"
But they didn't hear him and Ryou just stared at Yami. He was angry but…but…Amy was alive, and safe and…she was…
Ryou forced himself to accept the truth
…
…
…
Amy was happy…and that was all that mattered.
Ryou turned away saddened and forced himself to walk away.
If Amy was happy then Ryou would let her be happy…he had to.
Ryou saw a large hand grab him and he screamed as he opened his eyes.
Ryou sat up and saw his own hand on the tuff of his shirt.
"Right?"
Ryou stood up and looked around, he noticed that his back still hurt but his headache was gone and he would continue on his journey.
Ryou was still in the red walled paths so he continued on.
'These challenges have been all mental…Shadi is testing who and what I am?'
Ryou finally came to a choice, however this time it was a cross section. He decided to continue on and he stepped past the two branches. The walls shifted from being red, to being blue and he figured that he had chosen the right path. He continued on but he came to a dead end.
"Hmm."
Ryou turned around and saw Sarissa standing there.
He jumped back against the wall and started to shiver.
'No it can't be, it just can't be…please no.'
Sarissa smiled that devilish smile and approached him.
Her silky voice whispered, "Now don't be afraid, I am not here for your innocence…just your light."
Ryou didn't believe her as she ran her hands behind his neck.
Her touch was as cold as ice and he tried to convince himself that it wasn't her that she was dead, but his mind couldn't deny that she was standing in front of him.
Sarissa pulled his face up to her and pressed her lips against his. She slipped her tongue into his mouth and brought one of her hands up to his head and grabbed a bang.
She pulled on the hair and he tried to scream as she forced the kiss deeper. Darkness was surrounding the two and he tried to get away but her grip was vice like.
He tried to stop himself from crying but a tear escaped. As though the tear was reacting with the darkness it started to light up and Sarissa let go and shuffled backwards covering her eyes.
The light burnt her and the single tear erupted in a great explosion of light on Ryou's face. She melted before him and became part of the floor.
Ryou collapsed in a fit of tears, tears of relief and joy.
Taking deep breaths to calm himself Ryou once again stood up his bangs bouncing around his face. His eyes were alight with fresh tears giving them a beauty that proved he was one of light. Ryou started forward his strength renewed with his victory over the Sarissa challenge.
Though Ryou had blood encrusted on his clothes along with dirt he looked like an angel and his determination made him seem invincible.
But the next challenge would take that strength with its defeat.
Ryou had backtracked to the cross section and turned to his left. He continued down the path but also found it to be a dead end. Ryou was about to turn back when he noticed hundreds of cracks in the green wall so he tried to push it down. However it was still extremely strong.
Ryou decided to go back when a pillar of golden stone crashed down in front of him blocking the way back.
Ryou was trapped and was trying to work of a way to crack the green wall when a voice sounded out.
"Draw on energies like thy dark realm
Call out beasts that can overwhelm
Make thy path and fly to ahead
Lest you fall down to a black bed"
Ryou found this rhyme much more easy to figure out than the last but doing what it said, well that was another matter.
Ryou looked at the wall and dug his hand into his jean pocket and pulled out his duel monster cards.
Ryou knew that Bakura could summon monsters in the shadow realm and Ryou figured that is what the voice intended him to also do.
'But I'm not in the shadow realm. How am I supposed to do this?'
Ryou knew he had to do it so he pulled out the man-eater bug and he imagined the card coming to life.
Nothing.
Ryou sat down and said the rhyme to himself.
"Fly?"
Ryou searched his deck for a monster that could fly and pulled out the Whiptail Crow.
He imagined giving his energy to the monster allowing it to take form and materialize in front of him.
Closing his eyes he felt the energy drain out of him and he almost collapsed from exhaustion. However he managed to hold onto reality and the Whiptail Crow and shakily stood up.
The monster was standing in front of him waiting to be told what to do so Ryou whispered, "Break down that wall."
The Whiptail Crow flew upwards away from the wall, then turned around and dived. Upon impact the wall blew to pieces scattering green everywhere.
The Crow was somewhat weakened but Ryou still held onto it and said, "Fly me onwards."
Luckily the crow was quite large so it was able to carry Ryou fairly easily.
Though the crow could fly reasonable fast Ryou seemed to be getting nowhere or rather somewhere was not coming to him. There were no paths branching off from the tunnel he was in and he couldn't see an end in sight. Ryou's eyes were starting to sag and he was worried that if he fell asleep the crow would disappear and Ryou would slam into the ground. So he decided to hope off and walk.
"Stop and let me off."
The Whiptail Crow obliged and Ryou got down from the beasts back.
To Ryou's astonishment as soon as his feet touched the ground a path appeared to the right of him. Ryou turned to look down the path and saw an inviting ray of light.
'Perhaps it is the end?'
Ryou took a step into the path and then another until he was out of sight of the crow. He hadn't even realized that the Crow wasn't following until he spoke to it, "Do you feel that?"
Ryou didn't get a reply and turned around to see a dead end behind him.
Ryou ran to the wall frantic and started to bang on it.
"Trapped again," he sighed.
"I can save Amy for you…"
Ryou slowly turned around and saw a little boy with pitch-black hair and red eyes.
"You can?" Ryou asked softly and slowly.
The boy smiled baring his sharp teeth. "I can, for a price…"
Ryou hesitated to ask dreading the answer but he did, "what is the price."
"Why your life and…soul."
The little vampire like boy started to get a very hungry look in his eyes making Ryou back up against the wall.
"She would be free to live and all it would cost is your life and soul surely you love her that much?"
Ryou took this in and was about to say yes when something stopped him. He started to see all the consequences of his actions and he saw Bakura dying because Ryou had died, he saw Amy being alone for ever and taking her own life, he saw Yugi loosing his innocence and naivety and he saw Malik becoming like his Yami.
Ryou looked at the boy and said, "No, I choose life with the challenge and I will not take a free ride. People's lives would be ruined if I died and I couldn't allow that."
The boy opened his mouth in a scream but no sound escaped and Ryou just stared as the body was sucked into the tiny hole of the mouth to disappear completely.
The wall behind Ryou didn't disappear so he had no choice but to continue… 'this must be getting near the end?'
Ryou stumbled onwards past the pink walls until he found purple.
"Oh Amy, I am sorry this is taking so long. I promise I will defeat this maze and come and rescue you."
Ryou had passed reached a black walled area where no light entered and he grew very nervous. But there was no way but forward.
Ryou walked into the black tunnels and found himself blind to the path. He had to trust his inner guide to help him through the maze and it was more than once that Ryou walked into a wall.
He would always stand up and keep going though and soon was walking very well in the dark.
After about half and hour of walking Ryou saw a dim florescent light ahead and rushed ahead.
The light lit up two paths.
On the wall, in what seemed blood words read, 'Thee who chooses wrong, will come to the river of deaths song, thee who choose right, will find the light. Both are one and both are separate, but only chosen one is chosen yet.'
Ryou was utterly confused but he knew that he had to choose a path. Which one though, that was the question. Ryou read and re-read the words over and over again but no hints were given.
He finally decided to take the plunge with Amy in his heart.
He would not fail.
Ryou approached the doors and chose the left door. The door opened and Shadi appeared there.
"I didn't believe you would make it here."
Ryou was a little shocked but mostly relieved.
"Why?" the blood stained boy asked.
"The last challenge involved you not picking the right door but letting the doors pick you. They are one and the same in that they are twins and choose together but they are separate in that one will lead you to your death and the other leads you to the light. They decided that you are pure of heart and soul and that you are the chosen one, the one that will make all the difference. At first I believed it was the Puzzle Keeper because of his innocence and that he housed a pharaoh but I realize now that it is you. I should not have made up my mind for the millennium items are linked to fate and that the fates with the Millennium Item's respect choose the destiny. That is not to say destiny cannot be changed for the Millennium Item's can change fate's decisions and that even the power of the human soul can also change its own destiny but that Fate sets the most intricate and complicated destiny it can. The Items have chosen you or rather the Millennium Crystal's keeper has chosen you. She who would choose tainted light is proof that the human soul is greater than destiny. And that the item she holds can greatly increase another item's power is proof that the millennium items have allowed her decision. You are tired I know so I will take you back to your friends. They will play important parts in the times ahead but I will tell you more of that when you are rested. Come, follow me."
Ryou hadn't understood much of the one-sided conversation but he followed knowing that he was going to a place where he was safe. He was going to be with his Yami, his protector. That was what kept Ryou from collapsing into unconsciousness.
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