Note: Sorry about not updating in a while I had writters block and still do somewhat so thats why the chapter is so short. It's also short because it's only there to explain a few things that have aready happened in the story so far. If you do understand what that means just read and find out. As always R&R!

Yugi gasped in shock and horror, Yami was hurt possibly worse and there was nothing he could do about it. Yugi gulped looking that the zombie creature and saw that it was about to scratch him with its razor sharp scythe fingers. Yugi quickly and franticly looked for a way out but couldn't find one. Yugi screamed painfully as the creature's claw-fingers cut deeply into his rib cage. It grabbed onto a few of Yugi's ribs so he couldn't get away. Blood was pouring everywhere and Yugi continued screaming and struggling growing weaker by the moment.

Suddenly you kicked forward hard with his right foot putting it right into the creature's 'face'. The zombie creature fell backwards out of the duct dragging Yugi painfully with him. Once out of the duct Yugi forced himself unsteadily to his feet. His knees where shaking so hard he thought he was going to collapse; then he turned to run. As he did so he felt such pain in his side hethought that hewas going to back out. He heard a sickening: CRACK! But didn't dare turn around to see what it was. Yugi limped as fast as he could down the hall and into another before he was forced to a dead stop by the fact that there where three of the zombie-creatures in front of him. As far as Yugi could tell they hadn't noticed him yet and he was hell bent on keeping it that way. He slowly turned around only to find himself face to chest of another zombie creature. Yugi was horrified and thought,

"Oh man I've cheated death for the past day and a half against these things but right now I'm not feeling so lucky."

Just as Yugi was about to be scratched again something from behind him reached out and grabbed his shoulders yanking him backward into an elevator. The doors closed just before the creatures could get in. Yugi whipped around to see what had grabbed him only he doing it was more then he shaking weakened body could handle. He collapsed to the floor where the other person examined him. After a few short minutes Yugi stirred and looked up into the eyes of the person who had rescued him.

"Y-Yami?" Yugi weakly questioned.

"Yes young one I'm here. What happened to your side?" Yugi blinked a few times wondering what was going on. Then he looked down at his side to see what Yami meant. Instantly he became sick to his stomach and felt like he wanted to throw up. Now he knew what that nauseating crack he had heard was. It was the sound of the zombie creatures' wrist being ripped off. The creatures hand and scythe-like fingers were still firmly panted in Yugi's bleeding side. Yugi tried to swallow the lump of fear and nausea that had formed in his throat. He looked at Yami wondering what to do. Yami looked very concerned about Yugi's present condition. Finally he said,

"Either you or I are going to have to remove that hand Yugi, I can't heal you with it there and if it stays you'll…" Yami couldn't finish his statement; his eyes hinted at the terrible fear that he was keeping locked inside himself away from Yugi. Yugi nodded but replied,

"Don't talk about it like that Yami you're making me sick and your scaring me worse than I already am." Yugi turned his head to look at one of the walls and think. "Yami, can you remove it, I mean safely?" Yami put his hands on Yugi's shoulder and Yugi looked back at him.

"Well, can you or not partner?" Finally Yami replied,

"I can remove it, but I can't guarantee safety or how much pain it will cause you…of course you know what the guarantee is if you don't have me remove it right?"

Yugi slowly nodded his head.

"Do what ever it takes pal…" Yugi then collapsed against Yami's chest sending him into panic. Yami grabbed Yugi and tried to wake him, realizing he couldn't Yami gulped and franticly went to work getting the hand out. The blood made his hands sticky and that just made his job harder. The hand was positioned so that its 12-inch fingers where sticking through the front of Yugi's rib cage and out of his back. After about ten minutes Yami got them out but the problem was the thumb, its 6 ½-inch thumb was sticking right through the side of Yugi's body. That may have sounded simple to just pull out but it was bent somewhere along the line but it didn't protrude from Yugi's body anywhere but where it connected to the hand. Yami reached into Yugi body and located where it bent he quickly unbent it and pulled it out. Yami looked at the creatures hand resting in his hand then he through it to the other side of the elevator in disgust. Turning his attention back to Yugi Yami laid his head against Yugi's chest and was relieved to still hear a heart beat. Yami reached for the 'Sacred Saber' so he could heal Yugi…and became horrified when he realized that it was missing. Yami was freaked he didn't know where his weapon was missing. He found his eyes wondering back over the zombie scythed hand he had discarded not five minutes before. Yami bit his lip, he really didn't want to do it but he had too to save Yugi. Yami crawled over to it and gingerly picked it up looking its bloodiness and sharp ugliness over carefully before moving back over to Yugi. Yami tried to start the spell but couldn't continue because the blood on his hands made them to sticky for the scythe to cut. Yami looked around the small elevator for something to use. The only thing he could find was the sweat from his own forehead. Feeling disparate Yami did what he had too and ran his left hand across his forehead leaving a bloody mark behind. Then Yami wiped his hand on his leather shirt and when to work trying the spell again. He placed his left hand with the fingers spread on Yugi's rib cage and started chanting the healing spell. He took the index finger of the creatures' hand and placed it up to the knuckle into Yugi's side and like with the 'Sacred Saber' as he pulled it back out he cut the webbing in his hand to (hopefully) create a healing potion. It must have worked at least somewhat because Yugi's wound began to close, when the potion had done it's job Yugi was still left with a surface scab. But that was all the damage he had left from his brutal assault.

All at once Yugi began to stir he opened his eyes to see Yami bandaging his still bleeding hand with his sock which he had taken off, turn up and was trying to tie around his hand. Yugi reached and took hold of the make-shift bandage and finished tying it. Then Yami asked,

"Are you all right Yugi?" Yugi looked at the large scab on his side and replied,

"Well, I'm not dead yet so I guess I'm feeling fine." Yugi looked around the small elevator before asking,

"By the way how did you survive being crushed in the duct by what ever that thing was?" Yami just stared at Yugi looking confused. Yugi tried to explain,

"You know the duct you forced me into up stairs, and then told me to go down the slope…" Yami still looked confused, "is any of this ringing a bell to you?" Yami shook his head and said,

"Yugi I never got into the duct after you got in I was attacked by one of those creatures and when I finally beat it I took the elevator because the smoke, heat or flare hadn't reached the sensors yet so it still worked. Now Yugi looked confused,

"But if it wasn't you then who was in the duct behind me talking to me?" Suddenly Yami's eyes grew wide,

"Hold on I might have a clue," suddenly he reached into his pocket and pulled a blood covered object out.

"What is that?" Yugi asked cocking his head to one side while looking at it. Yami shook his head,

"I don't know it's too covered in blood, I found it in the base of the duct you were in while looking for you." Yugi shivered at the thought of the duct and his experience with it. Yami began to try and rub of some of the blood to see what the object was. Yugi asked,

"Hey Yami while you where near the base of the duct did you happen to see the creature that attacked me?" Yami replied with out looking up,

"No, none of those creatures were anywhere near the duct." Yugi shivered uncontrollably again. Suddenly Yami gasped,

"Oh my RA Yugi, do you know what this is!" Yugi still couldn't identify it so he shook his head at Yami.

"How about now?" Yami managed to open what appeared to be a Duel Monsters card locket and inside was a child-like picture of Kaiba…