Yami stared at his doctor friend in disbelief. He had thought by healing Yugi he would be alright. So he asked:
"What do you mean he may not wake up?" Doctor Molly shook her head and sighed:
"He may be in a coma, and there's a slim chance that he won't wake up." Yami narrowed his sleek eyes stubbornly at her.
"I know he's going to wake up and I'm not going to leave him until he does." Molly sighed again, Yami always was stubborn. So she wasn't at all surprised at his answer.
"Fine then, I'll see you when visiting hours are over." Yami had his back turned to her as she left. He muttered quietly to himself.
"I know he's going to wake up and I'm staying here until he does." He shuffled across the room and sat tensely in a chair facing Yugi.
"I don't care that I can't stand hospitals; Yugi needs me now and I'm going to be there for him."
While all that was going on in the outside world, Yugi had just woken up in a strange new place. He couldn't ever remember being here before. Yugi was in a 'realm' that looked similar to the shadow realm. The exception was that, instead of dark purples and blacks there were dark reds and blues meshed with the black. Yugi was slightly nervous, he had a bad feeling about this place and with each passing second, it was getting worse. Yugi was walking around when he heard something behind him; he turned and upon laying eyes on it, screamed bloody murder. The screams echoed, until they finally died away.
At 8 o' clock visiting hours drew to a close. Doctor Molly was making her nightly rounds, to check on her patients. When she opened Yugi's door she was met with an interesting surprise. Yami was standing over Yugi's bed gently caressing the small boy's hair. He was muttering softly as if the calm the motionless child. Doctor Molly silently walked over to Yami and asked:
"How is he?" Yami looked up for the first time and responded:
"His condition hasn't changed I'm afraid." He still looked sad and sorrowful for what had happened. Doctor Molly gently patted him on the back and said:
"I'm guessing you're not going to leave, so I'm just going bring you a blanket in case you get cold." Yami nodded, only half listening to her. She left and returned a few minutes later with a warm fleece blanket and a cup of cappuccino.
"Here you go," she said handing them to him. "Don't stay up all night watching him." Yami again, was only half listening and merely nodded at her statement.
After she left, Yami set the cappuccino down on the table beside Yugi. Then he wrapped himself up in the blanket. He stretched out down next to the bed on the floor and sighed. If Yugi wasn't coming out, then he was going in. Yami placed his hands on either side of the puzzle before concentrating on getting inside Yugi's mind. When he got there he was surprised to find that Yugi wasn't in his soul room, or anywhere else in his mind. This worried Yami.
"Where are you hikari?" he wondered as he used the Millennium Puzzle to try to detect Yugi's life force.
Suddenly Yami sat bolt upright and gasped, he knew where Yugi was.
"The realm of Mirrors? How did he manage to get into that tortured hell of a realm?" he again wondered. "Well it matters not; I still have to get him...before something else does." Yami summoned himself into the realm to find his worst fears confirmed. Yugi ran up to him and his was crying like a river. Yugi grabbed and hugged Yami's waist tightly. His clothes in rags and blood seeping from his chest, Yugi was in obvious pain. Yami reached out and wrapped his arm around Yugi, and then he looked where the injured boy was pointing. His crimson eyes fell upon a hideous creature. It looked like a zombie with long thin spider-like scythes as fingers.
"Oh, bloody hell dimension..." he murmured. Yugi was shaking like a leaf and begged Yami to destroy the foul shadow creature. Yami studied it's movements as it drew nearer to them. Finally Yami decided which attack to use against this antagonist.
"Yugi please stand clear, I don't want to take a chance of this blast hitting you," Yugi nodded and stood back. Yami closed his eyes and placed his hands on either side of the puzzle before summoning a blast of explosive magnitude. When Yami opened his eyes, they were completely dark purple. He reached down and grabbed the 'Sacred Saber', when he touched it, it began to glow. Yami raised the weapon in sword mode and dashed at the slow moving shadow creature. He slashed it in a samurai style while yelling:
"Mercy flash, shadows slash!" when he landed on the other side of the creature, it blew up like a duel monster. Yami fell to one knee breathing hard. Yugi limped up to him and asked:
"Yami are you okay?" Yami didn't answer immediately, he just rested before replying:
"This realm has the same weakening effects on me that the shadow realm has on you." Then he muttered "I shouldn't have summoned that blast, to took so much of my energy..." Yami fell forward, putting the 'Sacred Saber' right through his body. Yugi screamed upon seeing it come out his back, covered with fresh blood.
"Y-Yami...P-lease...Please get up, pal." Yugi stammered in fear. Yami stirred before remarking:
"I don't think I can," Yami hissed through his teeth as he tried. Yugi was hurt, but he knew Yami was in a worse position then he was. He reached out and grabbed Yami's shoulders, gently helping him to his hands and knees. Yami reached out and grabbed the 'Saber' but didn't have enough strength to remove it. He struggled a little before Yugi carefully reached out and grabbed Yami's wrist and tried to help him. The blade wouldn't budge; it must have been caught on something. Finally Yami murmured for Yugi to stop:
"It's stuck, I-I don't know what to do." Yugi wondered the same thing before replying;
"We have to get out of this place, it's only making you worse." Yami looked up at him weakly after a moment he replied in a low voice:
"I don't have the energy to get us out." Yugi looked frightened, but tried his best to look calm.
"There's got to be something we can do to get out of here, where ever here actually is." He thought.
"Yugi...Yugi!" Yugi looked back down at his pierced friend. Yami continued:
"We may have one chance left...I'll need you to help me." Yugi reached down and gently held Yami's shoulders to keep him from falling again.
"Anything pal, just name it." Yami nodded weakly. He then looked back down at the 'Saber' sticking through his body.
"In order for the ritual to work, I have to get the 'Saber' out of my body, please help me." Yugi shook his head:
"I can't do that Yami, the 'Sabers' stuck, and I'm not ripping it out of your body. There has to be another way." Yami shook his head and responded:
"I don't know of one but I'll try," Yami placed his hands on the hilt and murmured something illegible. Then suddenly a blast of light erupted from then 'Saber' causing Yami to cry out in pain. The light slowly took a solid form, a form of a fox/wolf creature. Demon, that had to have been her. Yugi gasped in surprise at seeing her, he reacted just in time to stop Yami from collapsing again. Yami spoke weakly to the creature:
"Demon, please help us, I don't have enough energy to get us out of here."
"And please do something about the 'Saber' if you can, it's stuck." Yugi added. Demon nodded and gently reached out and grabbed the 'Saber' in her teeth. She pulled slowly and gracefully as not to cause Yami too much pain. Finally he was free of the weapon and she lay in front of him. Yugi sighed with relief, glad to not see Yami with the 'Saber' sticking through his body. Yami seemed a bit stronger now; he turned to Demon and said:
"We still need to find a way to get out unless we want to be kept here forever." Yugi nodded and answered:
"Yami, I don't think you could survive in here forever." Yami nodded
"You're right and I'm still weak, so can we please leave?" Yugi and Demon nodded.
Yami stirred and opened his eyes, Yugi stirred as well. Both were glad to be back in the real world and to be healed. Yami silently thanked Demon for coming to their rescue. Then he tried to sit up, only to realize that, while he meditated some one had handcuffed his wrists above his head to a bar attached to the wall. Yami struggled trying to free himself. Suddenly a smoke detector went off. Yugi looked down at Yami's struggling form and said in panic:
"There's a fire!"