Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh. Because 70 bucks can't buy it.

Ryou POV

My yami had a point. There was a pay phone right in the lobby, not even 20 feet from this room. And I do have some change in my pocket. I'm sure Marik wouldn't mind if I left for a minute or two. I looked over from my position holding down Mariku's arms, to see Marik in deep thought. I don't think I should knock him out of it, but he needs to know where I will be.

"Marik? I'm going to the pay phone to call the hospital, okay? Bakura will give me the number once I get to the phone."

"Yeah, It's probably best you do call. I think Mariku should stay still now. Just, hurry up."

Marik POV

Once Ryou had left, I just stayed, watching Mariku. The look on his face suggested great pain. I did something I would have never considered, and placed my hand on to one of his, and noticed the the metal coils connecting his hands were burning hot. I immediately pulled back my hand from touching them. As if I had said a magic word, I felt contact at my mind link. Coming from Mariku. Not actual words, but I felt his emotions flood through. Pain, despair, fear, anger, sadness... All the dark emotions possible flood me, overwhelming my mind. I couldn't stand up to the torrential whirlpool, and blacked out, sprawled over the floor, my clothes soaking in the blood of my yami.

Dream

Sobbing came out as the only clear sound in the overwhelming darkness of the Shadow Realm, no light was given for sight.

"Hi...kar...ri... why? Why d-did y-you b-bet-tray me? Wasn't I enough? Why..." The voice melted away, shadows took over again. Shapes originated in the shadows, shapes of men like creatures, who circled into the sobbing.

I was confused. The despair had disappeared, along with all of the emotions. Bright light surrounded me, and the setting changed. I stared at my yami, who was simply curled up, sobbing as the shadows clung to his body.

"Yami! You're okay! How did you heal so quickly? ...Yami?"

When I tried to shake him, or to hold and try to comfort him, my hand went through him, and I fell to the floor. My eyes were closed when I hit the ground, I didn't see my yami being picked up. But I heard him stop sobbing, and start making strangled sounds from deep in is throat. I looked up, one of the men like creatures had grabbed him by the throat, lifting him 2 feet off the ground.

The creature had black hair that had been slicked back, contrasting sharply with his pale skin, amber eyes focused on my yami. His voice was smooth, hypnotizing.

"Look what we've got here. Someone stuck in this Shadow Realm," My yami immediately tried to hit the other man, but failing from the lack now of oxygen, he grabbed my yami's chin, and forced him to look at the others in the group, "Nice and tan, platinum hair and lavender eyes, he looks like quite a rarity. And a rather spirited one, also. I think we should keep him, he'll be a nice beat toy," whimpers were heard from my yami as he struggled in the cruel hands of his captor, "His whimpers are beautiful, can't wait until he screams. Now, let's taste his blood first. Sirk, hold him, and turn his head back. That's it..."

The first vampire smiled as a blond one came up and grabbed the male, tilting back Mariku's head, revealing his tanned neck to the first, who promptly attached his mouth to Mariku's neck, sucking at the skin. Mariku struggled, he bit at the vampire holding him and tried to kick the one preparing to suck his blood, although he knew it wouldn't do anything to help him. I winced when I heard my yami's sudden scream, I didn't need to look up to know what happened. He had been bitten.

"Now, let's start breaking him." The vampire prepared a ball of pure black energy in his hand, before hurling it at my yami.

I felt tears run from my eyes as Mariku screamed in pain. A dull thump was heard when his body landed on the ground again.

I looked fearfully, and saw my yami, simply laying there, moaning, covered in cuts and bruises as the vampire gave him another kick in the chest area. Blood pooled under my yami, coating his skin. The others began to circle in on my yami. I knew what they were going to do, gang up and beat him, one after another, trying to each get a taste of his blood. I sobbed when I realized I had sentenced him to have to go through this as I listened to his increased screams, I was the one who sent him to the Shadow Realm. I was the one who sent him to this fate.

"I think that is enough, for today. Now, Lithel, tie his arms and legs, and give him the potion. Wouldn't want him to die in a torture session, would we?"

My yami continued whimpering as the vampire that the leader had spoken to tied Mariku arms and legs, and pulled out an odd blue potion bottle, the contents were forced down my yami's throat. I watched as he passed out, and was picked up by the leader vampire, and then all disappeared.

END DREAM

Marik POV(still)

I shot up from my sleep breathing hard, and covered in sweat. I looked around, to assure myself that the dream was over. It was. My yami still lay in front of me, still the same, covered in blood, wings spread out on the floor, awake and trying to sit up...

Wait, did I say awake with his wings spread out! AWAKE? Before I knew, I was hugging my yami.

"YAMI! You're awake! I thought that you might have been dead! Are you okay? Please please say you're going to be fine!" I was cut off by a small yelp of pain from Mariku, and noticed that I was hugging him to much, and probably hurting him as well, " I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hurt you! Just, let me help you sit up," I carefully lift my yami's torso so that he was in a sitting position, then leaned his back on the top of an overturned desk, careful to spread his wings so they wouldn't be crushed.

My yami looked at me as well as he could, he had a black eye. I could see the pain in his eyes as he looked at me, and I could see some sense of betrayal in the eyes that were once like mine, but now darker and seemingly devoid of having any happiness possible, or even hope. He looked back down, his messy blood clotted bangs covering his eyes. It was undeniable. The vampires had managed to break his spirit after a year of torture.

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Sorry for not updating for months. There were final projects for school, and I still have summer homework. Next chapter will be much longer!