KITG: here you go guys, next chapter
Yami: ARRRGH IT'S TOO HOT
KITG: yeah I know, sorry for the wait. My brain melts in the heat, and we got a bit of a heat wave
Yami: were is my air con?
KITG: air con? What air con?
Yami: my palm leaf that you're supposed to fan me with.
KITG: In your dreams Yami, if anything you should be fanning me…
Chapter 6They all sat in the meeting room, around the large steel conference table. Seto and Joey sat close to one another. Next to them was Yugi and Yami, Yami would not have been included. But Yugi had brought him, thinking his knowlage would come in handy. Dogan outlined what the problem was, the need for the water chip, and where it resides. They would send out a raiding party to find and retrieve the water chip, and thus saving them all.
"So as you see gentlemen" Dogan stated, turning to the others at the table " we need that chip to survive. Our water reserves will hold for a time. But we need that chip as soon as possible"
"What do you suggest then Dogan?" Seto asked quietly, he did not like the sound of this. Yami glanced at him, seeing his face dark, calculating. Dogan just sneered at him.
"I Surgest we send out a raiding party, to get the chip Seto."
" and I bet you just have the men to mind don't you?"
" Well, a small force of about ten. We need guards for those who are to claim the chip. Cover their back as it were. Joey assembled the small strike force."
"Dogan this is madness" Yugi stated, all looked to him. Both him and Dogan glared at each other.
"And why would that be?"
"You know they'll be killed the moment they step from the barrier" Yugi's voice calm, knowing what he spoke was the truth.
"Then you'll have to protect them won't you?"
"You give me little choice" with that Yugi stood and left the room; Joey, Seto and Yami watched him a moment, then Yami rose to follow his light. Seto looked at Dogan as he heard Yami leave the room.
"I don't know what you are planning, but it will not succeed."
"my dear Seto, I am trying to make sure we all survive"
"all?"
"all" with that last word leaving Dogans lips……he knew he was lying.
Yami ran after Yugi down the hall ways. Yugi had quite a quick step now; it hurt Atemu to think he had missed so much of his Hikari's life. He saw the shape of Yugi enter their room. As he entered Yugi had grabbed his sword from its resting place on the table. It's surface glinting harshly in the floresant light.
"Yugi?" Atemu asked quietly. Here with the two of them alone, the name Yami held no meaning. Here his true name was all he was. No lies, no hidden paths. He got no response from Yugi. So he tried again. But Yugi just went over to his wardrobe to claim a new leather vest. He then grabbed a knife and cut the badages from himself. Atemu was about to protest, thinking the wound would be fresh. But all he saw once more was the large scar, it looked the same as the first time, old but badly healed.
"Hikari?" Yugi stopped then, as if noticing Atemu for the first time.
"Yes Atemu?"
"why do you have to go? Don't play his game"
"I have no choice Atemu, I am the strongest weilder of our monsters. They need me. I can't change that. You made me the strongest." Yugi said with a smile.
"I wish I hadn't. I wish I had never met you, you would have been better" Atemu turned from him, eyes wet with threatening tears. Yugi walked to the front of him, placing his flat palms on Atemu's chest. That touch making his heart speed up.
"Don't say that my love. Never say that. I would change nothing in my life, Without you I would have been nothing." Yugi's hands left his chest and were placed either side of his face, guiding his eyes to those amythist ones that held is soul.
"You wouldn't have been nothing, you would have been the light of Ra on this world." Atemu touched his forehead to that of Yugi's. eyes boring into one another. Then he sought those sweet lips. Yugi responded, snaking his arms around Atemu's neck while Atemu placed his around Yugi's waist. The kiss was tender, expressing their love for one another. They broke and Yugi stepped away.
"I'm coming with you."
"no, you can't as of yet. You haven't been able to summon a monster here. It is different from before. When I get back I will teach you. Here" Yugi took off the melenium puzzle and held it out to Atemu. Atemu looked shocked. "well it is yours my love"
"No Yugi. It is now yours, I died a long time ago. It stopped being mine then."
"Take it Atemu"
"No" Yugi sighed then had an idea. He held the puzzle between his hands. It flashed brightly, then in his hands he held two, but if you looked one side of each pyramid look faded. As if it had been split in half and a ecco of it remained. Which wasn't far from the truth.
"here, we are parts of whole. So we will never be separated. You hold my soul. And I yours" the puzzle flashed in acknowlagement of this fact. Atemu hugged Yugi then stepped back as an announcement came over the antennoy.
'YUGI MOTTO REPORT TO THE GARAGE"
"looks like they are ready to go. Come on" the two walked from the room and into the lift that ended in the underground garage. They saw the jeep was ready, Joey sat atop manning the gun, Seto seemed annoyed by this. They seemed to be arguing, not too far from what he and Yugi had been talking about
"Look Mutt, just be careful ok?"
"ok, ok. Give a guy a break Seto, but I'm not letting Yugi go out there alone. I'll be ok. We both will won't we Yug?"
"yeah. We'll be back before you know it." Yugi said clapping Seto on his back. He then closed his eyes. Atemu knew he was going to summon his loyal monsters.
"Dark Magician, Dark magician Girl. And Magician of black Chaos. I think I will need you also." As he said each their names they appeared bowing before Yugi. Atemu smiled. Yugi was their leader now. Not him. And he was glad of it. Yugi placed a hand on their shoulders as he walked to his Motorbike, kicking it to life as those inside the jeep started their engines. Seto pushed the Button to open the door, and the team roared out. Yugi in the lead, his monsters on watch. Leaving a worried Atemu and Seto behind.
They sped across the destroyed landscape; the engines hum settleing into his bones. He looked to his right seeing the Dark Magician close by his side. He was the closest to the Dark magician like Atemu had been, he knew the Dark magician would sacrifice his life to save his. And in truth Yugi would do the same. Further in front was the Dark Magician Girl, she was scanning ahead, near her was the Magician of Black Chaos. He was keeping an eye on the Dark Magician Girl and what lay ahead. Yugi knew that the Magician of Black Chaos looked at the Dark Magician Girl and the Dark Magician as his children. He looked out for them both, even though the Dark Magician Girl was in truth the Dark Magician's apprentice. Yugi shivered in the cold that permiated this place, the sun never seeming to heat this destroyed city.
"Hey Yug. Everything ok?" Came Joeys voice over the speaker in his ear.
"Yeah, so far, though I don't like it, there being too quiet." Yugi locked eyes with the Dark Magician, knowing he felt the same.
"Yeah, heads up Yug, there's the supply depot" Joey replied, cutting the link.
Yugi looked ahead, the old wire fence slick with the black tide like weed. He gunned the engiune roaring inside, past the collapsing watch towers. Inside the supply deapot wreaked choppers creeked in the slight breeze, their main routers drooping to the ground, tails broken. Yugi skidded to a stop, as did the jeep beside him.
"Right, you guys look for the chip, me and Joey will keep watch."
"Aren't you coming in with us?" one of the science men stuttered, his gun shaking in his hands.
"Ok, Dark Magician Girl you go with them. But understand. She's in charge, if she says out you get out right?"
"Sure" they watched as they all went inside leaving Yugi and Joey outside. Joey leaned against the gun, looking about. He then looked up and was quiet a moment. Yugi knew what he was doing. So he left him a moment turning to his two monsters. The Dark Magician was standing to his right again, his purple robe flapping in the breeze, his arms folded with the green staff held in his right arm which was folded across the top. The Magician of black chaos was standing to his left, his two-pronged hat curving back like ram horns.
"I don't like this Master" Yugi smiled, he knew he would never get the magician of black chaos to use his name, though he knew he considered Yugi a friend, he was just too stuck in his ways.
"What is that old friend?"
"It is too quiet, no tainted ones have attacked us" the Magician of Black Chaos looked about the eerie landscape.
"I agree with him Yugi" The Dark magician earned a glare from the magician of black Chaos for the use of his name
"Down old friend, you know I said he could use my name, as can you. But you won't so lets leave it at that and deal with the matter at hand" Yugi said with a smile.
"Yes master"
"Red-eyes agrees with them Yug. He says it's clear for miles"
"Ok Jou, I'm really not liking this. They found the chip yet?" Joey started to talk over the radio. Then looked back to Yugi.
"They say they have found the door, but they can't get through."
"Dark magician Tell the Dark magician Girl to open the door, we need to get out of here"
"Of course Yugi"
"Oh and make sure she doesn't destroy the whole area." The dark magician smiled then grimaced. 'Let me guess, she heard that"
"Yes"
"Ah"
There was a bang and smoke as the dark magician girl cleared the way, they came out of the building, coughing.
"Sorry master"
"It's ok as long as the chip is ok"
"We have it"
Yugi was about to reply to get them moving back to base when a rumbling started. Then the ground started to buck and convulse, throwing them off their feet. Then with a loud cracking sound, a column of black tide broke from the soil and shot skyward. There was a deafening roar, the column whipped back and forth as if it was in a tug of war with something. Yugi watched as the thing rippled and whipped downward, pulling its prey down.
"REDEYES!" Joey screamed as his faithful friend crashed into the ground.
"JOEY GO! I'LL GET HIM" Yugi looked around, seeing the land come alive as the tainted monsters rose, they're waiting over. There was so many.
"BUT YUG"
"JOEY GO NOW, YOU NEED TO GET BACK, WE'LL BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU" Joey watched as Yugi pulled forth his blade and ran at the tide holding his Red-eyes black dragon. The jeep sped away; he gave a cheer as he saw his Red-eye rise to the sky, then return back to his realm to heal. But he could find no sign of Yugi. And with a sickening realization…the path between him and Yugi was totally blocked off.
Yugi slashed at what he could only call a vine. It was the Dark tide holding the Red-eyes Black dragon. Finally it broke letting the Red-eyes escape
"DARK MAGICIAN GIRL, GO WITH HIM. MAKE SURE HE'S ALRIGHT!" Yugi shouted, with a nod the Dark magician Girl obeyed passing over to the shadow realm.
"RIGHT YOU TWO LETS GET OUT OF HERE" Yugi snapped round at the cry from the Magician of black Chaos. He was kneeling on the floor, the tide piercing his arm. Yugi ran over, cutting this vine also. He then laid the Millennium puzzle to the monsters forehead. There was a flash and he was healed of the tide, but because it was only half of the puzzle, it did not heal him completely, he needed rest.
"Go my friend"
"I can't leave you master"
"You can and have to, don't worry, the Dark magician shall look after me" reluctantly he left, knowing there was no point to argue, Yugi could just send him back.
"COME ON, LETS GO"
"YUGI THERE IS NO WAY TO THE BASE" Yugi looked up realizing the Dark Magician was right. There was no escape…they were doomed.
"Sorry Atemu…"
And miles away… "YUGI!"
KITG: hope you like (she is considerably cooler.)
Yami: GRUMBLE! (Is fanning KITG, so he is even hotter)
KITG: could he possibly be hotter? (Wink)