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Ch.3 Power
Hearing thunder Rex instantly looked up into the dark gray sky only to have ice cold rain pelt his face. Rex instinctively dove for cover under a nearby newspaper stand. It's owner shuffled uncomfortably within its wooden walls.
"That is so weird, the sky was clear a few minutes ago." Rex thought.
Without a raincoat and having no other alternative option Rex had to brave the storm in order to return home. Luckily for him, he was only a few blocks away from his apartment. Rex shot out of the stand and decided to sprint through the horrendous weather to save time. The medallion glistened like a beacon in the rain.
Unfortunately for Rex as he entered an alley to take a short cut, his medallion attracted the wrong kind of attention. Several street thugs quickly took notice to Rex's medallion and encircled him. Rex stepped back nervously but he was cornered against the wall.
"Hey nice medallion." One pointed out.
"Yeah, how much you think its worth?" Another one asked.
"What's a little guy like yous doing out on a night like this, with such a pretty necklace?"
"Shouldn't you be at home with you're mommy?"
Rex placed his hand over the medallion, strangely he felt that unearthly roar inside of him grow louder. The harder he held onto it, the more strength he seemed to have. One of the thugs took out a pocket knife and held it to Rex's face.
"Just give us the medallion and you can go." He said.
"Hey I heard that the big loser convention was another block over, piss off!" Rex shouted defiantly.
Letting out a gasp, Rex held his hands to his mouth. He had meant to say one thing, but his mouth said another. The thug was in rage now and grabbed Rex by his shirt.
"Brat do you want me to hurt you!" He shouted.
An unearthly snarl erupted from Rex's throat and he grabbed his attacker by the wrist and shook him violently, his partners stepped back-frightened.
"Whoa am I really doing this?" Rex thought as he lifted the thug effortlessly off of the ground.
"NO, please put me down!" He demanded.
"As you wish!" Rex replied and threw his attacker on top of his friends.
"Let's get out of here!" The thug shouted.
"That guy ain't human!" Another shouted.
"Guess this thing really does have powers." Rex said silently looking down at his medallion.
Rex watched the thugs flee before him and grinned, "Time to see what this thing can really do!" Rex thought and started after them.
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"Yow!" Yugi cried out feeling a sharp jolt of pain in his heart.
Yugi stared outside his window, "What's going on? Wasn't the weather clear a little while ago."
"There are strange forces at work here." Yami replied.
"I take it you felt it too." Yugi replied.
"Is the millennium item thief behind this?" Yugi asked recalling Bakura's sinister side.
"I don't believe so," Yami replied, "Though powerful the thieves powers were never this radical, someone or something else is doing this."
"You mean an new enemy is doing this? Whose more powerful than the millennium thief?" Yugi asked shocked.
Yami nodded grimly, "I believe so, we must locate whoever is doing this and put and end to it."
"But what about the storm?"
"Never mind the storm, far worse things will happen if something isn't done."
"Should I call Joey and the others?"
"No time! We have to move!"
Without hesitation Yugi ran out his door and out of his home. The rain chilled his skin, but he kept on running. Something terrible was about to happen and he needed to prevent it from happening.
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"No, please, don't!" pinned against a wall the thug pleaded for mercy as Rex held him up.
"I didn't hear you say please." Rex replied mocking him.
"Pleeease." He replied.
"He he he." Rex laughed in enjoyment.
"Augh!" The next moment Rex felt a jolt of sharp pain in his heart causing him to drop the thug in his hands.
Another made him fall on his knees and clench his heart. Rex watched as the thug fled and stood up to follow only to have his knee give out and fall on the floor.
"What the hell is happening to me?" Rex asked himself.
His skin was burning on the outside, but on the inside he was freezing. His heart was pumping rapidly and it felt as though his bones were being rearranged. Little did Rex know was that his human genetic code was being rearranged. But he understood none of it, all he knew was the pain.
"Yarrrrrgggh!" Rex shouted as his rib cage folded and expanded within him.
His teeth grew long and sharp and his skin grew think and scaly. Fingernails became claws, eyes turned yellow, and bones twisted for his growing height. With a final roar of agony a green light exploded from the sky and engulfed the entire city within its rays. Yami knew that something terrible was about to happen, he would have never guessed that his home would be cast into the bowels of hades.