CHAOS IN HEAVEN
By Starflower Sakura

DISCLAIMER: Ahh… Yuugiou doesn't belong to me, but I really wish I could own Ryou-kun…

To readers/reviewers: I continued! Aren't you guys proud of me? Well, Sami-san, I wouldn't say I'm a genius, but maybe just really, really, really smart? XD ime back-san, surely you wouldn't do such a horrid thing as flame all my fics, ne?

Started: Wednesday, January 05, 2005
Completed: Friday, June 24, 2005

Chaos In Heaven
Chapter 3 – A Game Between the Kings of Games

"Well, that's the last of them," Malik groaned as he heaved Yami, bound and gagged, into the closet with the other two demons.

Locking it, and putting a chair under the doorknob just in case, Malik, Yugi, and Ryou slid down to the floor, breathing heavily. After the demons were knocked out, they all felt a bit guilty for doing such a thing, but it was either that or they get eaten (or so they thought). So Malik suggested that they tie them up and put them in the closet for the time being.

"Okay… now what do we do? We can't keep them in there forever!" Yugi exclaimed, glancing fretfully at the closet door.

"Who cares about them? What about us?" Malik yelled, waving his hands in the air as he did so. "Think of all the trouble we'll get into, and all the rumors that will go around, if word gets out that we're aiding demons!"

"But we're not aiding demons!" Ryou protested. "Besides, don't you think that we'll get in more trouble for hurting, not to mention bounding and gagging, three demons?"

"It's self-defense. The only reason the academy teaches us things like fighting and such is because they're scared that something like this would happen."

Silence hung over them like a heavy mist, each deep in thought, each coming up with different ideas, but the only one who voiced them was Yugi. Before he spoke, he took a look at his two friends, whom both had a look of serious contemplation on their faces. Yugi smiled. At least they were in it together and not handling it alone.

"Maybe we should go inform my grandfather, and then he can decide what to do with them?" Yugi questioned with a hopeful expression.

"That's a great idea! Not only will we get them off our backs, but we'll be known as the three valiant angels who captured the three malevolent demons!"

"Then what are we waiting for?"

Getting up from their current resting spot, and making sure the door was really locked and the chair under it secured, they made their way out of Malik's house. Each relieved that they will soon be able to rid themselves of the demons, and—

BOOM!

—call it a day. They turned around just in time to see a large black beam shoot through the side of Malik's house, creating a more than giant hole through many of the walls. The beam quickly disappeared once it broke through, and thankfully as well. If it didn't, it would probably break through other angels' houses and that will be very hard to explain. Because everyone was at the emergency meeting concerning the sudden appearance of demons, they weren't worried about anyone else seeing that beam. They weren't there because the Elders, mainly Sugoroku, decided that they had a stressful day and he'll catch them up on what went on at the meeting a later date.

"The demons!" Ryou and Yugi cried with wide-eyed horror.

"My house!" Malik screamed with more shock than anger in his voice. "When Isis-neechan gets back from her mission on Earth, I'm going to be in so much trouble…"

They watched as the demons walked out through the hole in the wall, yawning and stretching, completely unbound and gag free. Malik noticed right away that Marik's left hand was still glowing a slight black.

"What a wonderful rest!" Yami exclaimed, yawning a bit.

"Yea… but my head hurts for some reason…" Bakura frowned, rubbing the bump on the top of his head where Ryou hit him with the blunt object.

"So it does…" murmured Marik, rubbing his head a bit as well.

Blinking out of their stupefied state, Malik, Ryou, and Yugi hurriedly push the demons back into the house. They rushed into Malik's room (which was surprisingly still with all the walls intact), slammed, and then locked the doors with a soft click.

"Okay! I demand to know how you three got out!" Malik shouted while glaring at them that probably would've killed… if they were paying any attention to him.

Bakura was sitting on the bed while playing with the silver strands of an exasperated Ryou's hair. Yami was leaning against Malik's table while trying to engage Yugi into a conversation, which he ignored for the most part. Marik was… well… he was stabbing at Malik's dresser with a dagger while making noises he heard from this quite large human contraption that can fly in the air as well.

Malik sunk onto the floor and groaned, "Why don't you three just leave us alone?"

"Do you really expect us to go out there now that we're being hunted down?" Yami questioned with a raise of his eyebrow. "What's more is that the Gate is closed and we can't get out even if we wanted to."

"Besides, it's the first time we've ever seen such pretty angels," Marik purred, looking at his reflection on his dagger.

"It's actually the first time we've seen any angel, pretty or otherwise," Bakura stated, an amused smirk on his face.

"And to ensure that our being here is kept a secret… how about I play a little game against one of you? Anyone of you," Yami smiled, looking at all the angels to see who would accept his challenge.

"How will a game ensure your being here be kept a secret?" Ryou questioned, tilting his head in slight confusion.

"Easy. You three are angels and angels, being as good and pure as they are assumed to be, are supposed to keep to their word no matter what, right?"

"Well… I suppose that's how it goes…" Yugi mumbled, biting his lower lip, afraid of where this is going.

"Now, before we start a game, the angel side will have to promise, if we win, that they will not tell anyone our location and actually let us stay until the whole thing blows over."

"And if you lose?" Yugi asked, starting to be intrigued by the prospect of a game.

"If we do lose, you can turn us in!" Yami said, almost cheerfully.

Bakura and Marik didn't even seem to be fazed by this as they both grinned identically. Malik didn't seem to notice this, but Ryou did. Ryou wasn't that concerned at their confidence of winning because they had a secret weapon.

"Then we'll play you with our very own renowned King of Games!" Malik shouted, jumping up and rushing to Yugi.

"How interesting…" Bakura murmured.

"Interesting?"

"Your little Yugi might be the King of Games in Heaven but Yami here, this arrogant, and extremely confidant bastard—Ow!"

"You're supposed to be on my side, Bakura!"

"Right… right… anyways, he's the King of Games from well… where we're from."

"So it'll be the King of Games against… another King of Games?" Ryou asked, humored by the fact that there are two kings of the same title. "Then I suppose that whoever wins will gain the true title of 'King of Games' right?"

"Seems like it," Malik said. "But I have confidence in Yugi! Go Yugi! Get these freaks out of my house and protect your hard-earned title!"

Yugi sweatdropped. He was confidant of his abilities, yes, but he didn't know how good Yami was or what he had up his sleeves. He wouldn't know unless he tried either way.

"I accept your challenge then."

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"You are familiar with the mortal game Duel Monsters, right?" Yami asked as he shuffled Yugi's deck.

"More or less…"

The two were sitting opposite each other with a table between them. Ryou and Malik stood behind Yugi, peering at each other and at Yugi. Yami and Yugi sat opposite each other with a miniature dueling area on the table between them.

"Then shall we get started?" Yami asked, handing Yugi's deck back to him and vice versa.

Yugi nodded, biting his lower lip in a fretful manner. They both drew five cards and the game started. During the play of the game, Ryou couldn't help but notice how Yami remained almost frighteningly calm whilst he was losing.

He must have something up his sleeves… But what?

"You better be ready to be turned again, demons!" Malik exclaimed in glee as Yugi killed another one of Yami's monsters and bringing his life points down even lower.

"I wouldn't be so sure of that if I were you," Yami murmured to himself with a smirk.

Yugi tilted his head in confusion as Yami took hold of a new card in his deck, but instead of picking it up, he closed his eyes, as if concentrating on something.

"What are you doing? Are you forfeiting?" Yugi asked, looking dubious.

"Hmm? Oh no, I was just taking a little rest," Yami explained.

"Well, rest on your own time! You're just delaying your defeat!" Malik shouted.

Bakura and Marik exchanged smirks that went by unnoticed.

"This card will be the end to our game and proving me the victor," Yami announced, picking up the card from his deck without even looking at it.

"And what card would that be?"

"This."

Yami laid down all of his five cards—the four that was in his hand and the one new one that he picked up—and Yugi's small gasp in the silence that followed. The five pieces of Exodia laid there before them.

"WHAT? He must've cheated!" Malik screamed, staring still disbelievingly at the cards.

"You never said I couldn't use my power."

"Power? What power?"

Bakura interjected at this point, "The one that he used in the game is to call forth the card he needs to the top of the deck. His healing powers best us as well. With all the fights he gets into, it has to be."

"And do you two have powers as well?" Ryou asked curiously.

"I am best known for my ability to get free from anything and some others. But those you do not need to know about."

"No wonder they all came out unbound…" Malik whispered to Yugi and Ryou who nodded in agreement.

"I'm known for making pretty black beams that destroys everything and anything in its path."

"Is that all you can do?" Malik asked, not quite impressed seeing as those "pretty black beams" destroyed half of his house.

"Of course not!" Marik exclaimed, but wouldn't elaborate on what he meant to Malik's annoyance.

"Since we won… where would we be staying?"

To be continued…

-cackles- Another chapter finished! Okay… I'm not good at the whole Duel Monsters thing so you can't really expect me to write out the whole game play. I'll probably mess up the attacks or the attack/defense points and have avid Yuugiou fans murder me for such a mistake o.0 Yea… so just let it go at what I have and just move on.

- Starflower Sakura