KITG: here your next chap guys. It seems a few don't like what I did to Yugi's grandfather. But unfortunately it had to be done, I never painted that this fic would be pretty.
Chapter 8
Dawn graced the sky, turning it monetarily blood red before; it lost its power to the dark clouds that surrounded the place. Even this small amount of sun was enough to deter the monsters of the dark tide to stay away. The Dark magician looked around the area as Yugi slept, he could find no sign of the monster that once was Yugi's Jii-chan, so thought it safe to wake him.
" Yugi, time to go" The Dark magician gently shook him awake. He winced as the pain from his leg returned.
"Yeah ok, this place is full of old memories anyway." With the help of the dark magician, Yugi was able to stand and get down to the lower floor. They walked a little way but the pace was so slow that finally the Dark magician called them to stop.
" This is going to take to long, and do your leg no good. How is your magic Yugi, do you think you could summon one of our friends here?" the Dark magician looked to Yugi who was leaning against a warped lamppost panting heavily, he rubbed is splinted leg gingerly.
" I think I might, I'll try winged dragon guardian to the fortress." Yugi closed his eyes and focused his thoughts on his winged friend. Slowly, the portal formed and the winged dragon appeared before them, blue wings flapping to stay aloft. He landed and bowed before Yugi, crooning softly. Yugi smiled and stroked the large snout; the Dark magician picked Yugi gently up and with equal gentleness placed him on the back of the winged dragon guardian of the fortress. The dark Magician took his place behind Yugi, to hold him there. The young man looked pale and exhausted. The winged dragon guardian to the fortress took to the dark sky, heading for the glowing dome that was the barrier. He flew fast, wanting to get his master home. They had to avoid a few dark tide arrows shot at them but not many. Yugi was pretty out of it, the pain getting to him; he also had a fever by the look of it. They passed through the barrier, seeing Atemu waiting for them, also there was the magician of black chaos and the Dark magician girl, the barrier sustaining them. The relief to Yugi was instantaneous, the Dark magician saw his face relax at not having to sustain his monsters. When the winged dragon landed Atemu ran up and lifted Yugi from the blue dragons back, he laid the Yugi on the bed trolley they had wheeled out, Joey and Tea pushed him inside he complex, Atemu following, leaving The monsters to themselves. The winged dragon decided to return; with a nod he did so. The Magician of black chaos walked up to the Dark Magician.
" You have done well my former student. But I sense something troubles you."
"You would be right master. I have to tell you all something" the dark magician looked grave, he others listened to what he told them, about it seeming like a trap and the fact of how it transpired, and worst of all, he told them what he saw in the old home, of the safety and horror. Of Yugi's grandfather and what he had become. Silence reigned as the story ended, leaving two monsters looking grave, and one with her hands to her mouth, tears running down her face for her young master….
A couple of hours later Yugi awoke to find himself in the medical wing and his leg in a cast. He looked over to see Atemu sat in a chair beside the bed. He was asleep, Yugi's face split into a grin at this. He looked over to the other bed, seeing Mokuba.
"Hey Yugi. Your awake." The boy got out of his bed and walked over to Yugi's
"Hey Mokuba. Seto not let you out yet?"
"I get to come out today. Will be staying in Seto's room."
"Know what's going on with me?"
"From what I heard Seto say, you can leave tomorrow. Think they said you have a fever."
"Ah" Yugi sighed. He hated being stuck here. Too many evil looks. Both looked to Atemu as he stirred, eye blinking at the now awake form on the bed.
"Yugi!" Atemu held onto Yugi's hand, wanting o hug the form before him, but not wanting to hurt the man further.
"Hello Atemu, sorry to have worried you." Yugi gently cupped Atemu's cheek. He leaned into the touch.
"Yes you worried us all, but your safe and that's all that matters." Yugi smiled at Atemu, then he remembered something.
"It was strange back at the game store. The second floor seemed untouched. Like it was protected. We went into to Ji-chan's room, and there were some old artifacts from your tomb there. Ji-chan had saved them after the Dark Tide rose, hoping there was some clue as to how to fight it. I wonder if something in there was stopping the Dark Tide from entering. We'll have to go back some day"
"Yes. It might be worth a look, but not until your leg is better."
"Yeah, yeah," Yugi giggled at how Atemu seemed to act more like a parent "oh I seem to remember saying I would teach you how to summon our monsters. Now is a good as time as any." Atemu nodded.
"So you said it was different from before"
"Yes, you must feel the power inside yourself instead of the puzzle this time. The puzzle spends all it's energy on the barrier. You must separate your natural power from that of the puzzle. With this, focus it on a monster." Atemu closed his eyes and looked within himself. He saw a ball of gold light, red and blue tendrils shooting across it. It was very powerful. He focused, and tried to summon a monster, he opened his eyes as he heard Yugi laugh, there sat on the bed was Kuriboh. Atemu sighed; Kuriboh was a low level monster.
"That's ok Atemu. It was very good for your first time. I nearly made Kuriboh pop when I tried it"
"Pop?" Atemu looked aghast that he could have harmed the monster.
"Not pop as in explode. Pop back to the monster realm, drains them a bit but doesn't hurt them. But they make a pop sound, so hence the name." Yugi giggled as Atemu relaxed.
"Seto!" Mokuba exclaimed and running to his brother, hugging him round the waist.
"Hey little brother, keeping those two company?"
"Yugi was just teaching Atemu how to summon outside the barrier."
"So inside the barrier you just need to think and they appear?"
"Yes do it in the same way as before but focus on the barrier instead of your own power." Atemu looked as a monster appeared for Mokuba, the Kiser sea horse.
"See Atemu it's easy" So Atemu tried and the Dark Magician appeared.
"Its' good to be summoned again by you my Pharaoh" The Dark Magician bowed to his former master.
Yugi yawned once more.
"Looks like you should get some more sleep. I take it Atemu that you will be staying here?" Seto asked taking Mokuba's hand. Atemu nodded in reply. "Ok then rest well you two, I will see you in the morning." With that Seto walked from the medical room.
"You don't have to sat Atemu." Yugi said in a sleepy voice.
"I don't, but I want to. Sleep my Hikari."
Yugi drifted off into a blissful slumber, Atemu soon following.
The voices were driving him insane. He wanted their insistent chatter to stop. They promised they would stop if he smashed the puzzle. Let the dark tide in. on and on, every moment of his existence the chattered on, calling sometimes in the voices of his wife. He wanted them to stop…please stop. He banged his head against the wall, trying to make them stop, he drove a thin pike in his ear bursting the ear drum, but still he heard them. how, he could now hear nothing else, they rose in such a cacophony that others must hear it. But none gave the indication that they did. It was then, ears streaming with blood in the dark hours that he saw the two in the med bay. The gold of the puzzle gleaming, calling. He walked in quietly, over to the gas cylinders that held the sleeping gas.
He placed a mask over his face to stop him being affected and turned on the gas. The room being sealed soon filled with the gas. They would sleep for a long time. Long enough for him to get away with the puzzle.
He removed the halves of the puzzle from the young men's necks and ran from the room, he finally found himself in the observation dome at the top of the mountain. The voices screamed at him to smash it, break the thing that caused him Pain, it was hit's fault. With an animalistic cry of desolation, he smashed the puzzle
And the barrier fell…………