Yugi: Atemu where are you?
Atemu: I'm here! I'm only missing in the story remember?
Yugi: Oh yeah (giggles)
(Sounds of affection can be heard)
Yami Seirei: Calm down you two!YamiKITG: Get a room!
Yami/Atemu: Sorry! (they both vanish upstairs)
YamiKITG/Yami Seirei: here we go again! (put earplugs in again)
Okay for those readers who don't know, Atemu is Yami's real name that he discovers in season 5 (english dub) when they go to Egypt.
Chapter 7
Yugi ran to the place where Atemu had been standing moments before and collapsed into a crumpled heap his shoulders shaking uncontrollably as sadness and loss washed over him in waves like a tsunami.
'Atemu, Atemu!' he called through their link but there was nothing there. He couldn't even feel his twin.
"Please, please don't let him be dead." He whispered.
He lay there sobbing until a gentle hand was felt on his shoulder and a worried voice broke the barrier of pain and loss that he was trapped behind.
"Yugi what's wrong?" Seto said as he looked down on his small best friend.
Yugi looked up fresh tears shining in his amethyst eyes.
"It's Atemu, he just vanished. One moment he was here and we were trying to work out why this game wouldn't work and when I went off to find help he…he…" He couldn't finish the sentence and the threatened tears fell from his eyes and he clung to Seto sobbing.
Seto looked at the games as he comforted Yugi. All of them seemed to be working fine. He couldn't figure it out.
"Maybe he went to try a different game?" He said and Yugi looked up at him.
"No it's not that Seto I know he's gone because I felt it and I can't hear him anymore."
Seto knew of the mind link between the two brothers having been told of it after losing spectacularly in a game of charades once to both twins' amusement. They had told him about it then and as soon as Yugi had said he couldn't hear Atemu anymore Seto knew it was more than just a case of Atemu going off somewhere. This was serious.
"Come on Yugi, I'm taking you home." Seto said and suspecting that Yugi probably would have trouble even walking, he scooped the small form into his arms.
"Thanks Seto." Yugi said and rested his head on the CEO's shoulder crying quietly.
Seto carried Yugi out to his car after leaving his brother Mokuba with instructions and drove Yugi to his mansion.
After going inside, Seto ordered drinks for them both and then gave instructions that they were not to be disturbed so as to avoid Yugi any embarrassment.
Seto let Yugi cry for as long as he needed passing tissues to him when necessary and after a while, Yugi calmed down enough to talk properly.
"Yugi, you mentioned a game that didn't work but I checked all the games round you before we came home and all of them seemed to be working fine."
"It wasn't any of those, when I ran back to where Atemu had been the game was also gone."
"What sort of game was it?"
"Well it had an Egyptian theme and the whole thing seemed to sparkle. It was very beautiful and Atemu was desperate to play it but when we put our keys in, the game shut down and we couldn't get our keys out so I went to find someone."
"And that's when Atemu vanished."
"Yes." Yugi said and tears threatened again but he checked them. His crying was done, now he needed to find his brother.
"I'm going to study our CCTV footage Yugi, I have a direct link from the arcade to here so we can go and watch it. Maybe that will shed some light on what happened."
Yugi nodded and got up to follow the CEO to his control room.
Twenty screens beamed pictures from various points in the arcade. Seto found the one he was looking for giving a good view of the area where Yugi and Atemu had been standing and made it show on all twenty screens.
"What time was it when you found the game?"
"About eleven thirty I think."
Seto rewound the footage to the specified time and they watched.
"There's the game!" Yugi said pointing at the Egyptian game they had found. Seto frowned.
"Well I didn't install that game at all, I've never seen anything like it."
"Oh look here's Atemu and me."
They both watched as the two on screen took out their keys and the game died. After a moment or two, Yugi walked off and Atemu tapped his foot in waiting.
Then he collapsed.
Yugi watched in horror as his brother suddenly vanished before their eyes. Seto himself was dumbstruck by what he saw, and then something else caught his eye.
"Yugi look." He said and they both watched as a woman approached the place where Atemu had been and waved her hand at the game which dissolved into dust, leaving something on the floor which sparkled.
The woman pocketed the item and was joined by a man. Together they walked off and moments later Yugi appeared collapsing on the floor where his brother had been.
Yugi and Seto looked at each other for a long time neither one able to speak.
"Oh Yugi." was all Seto could manage and Yugi shook his head.
"He has to be alive somewhere Seto, will you help me find him?"
"Of course." Seto said and began to search the footage from outside the arcade to see if he could spot the mysterious couple while Yugi watched feeling utterly helpless.
'I'll find you Atemu' he sent determinedly through their link but there was no reply.
Atemu stirred and opened his eyes. He felt disorientated and strange as if he had no strength in his body. He tried to sit up but his lack of strength wouldn't allow it so he lay where he was and looked round managing to turn his head slightly.
What he saw struck fear into him.
He was in a cage like the one Yugi had described in his dream. It was not very big and made him feel claustrophobic. He looked through the bars and saw many shelves lining the walls of the room with various books, bottles and instruments on them. He could see a table and on top of the table he could make out a box. It looked old and had an inverted pyramid carved on the front with a strange eye in the centre. He could make out ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved round the pyramid.
He couldn't stop staring at the box, he didn't know why but he felt attracted to it in more than just a physical sense. It was as if the box itself was calling to him but trapped and weak as he was, he could do nothing.
'Yugi' he called through the link but there was no reply. Somehow the link with his brother had been severed. Then exhaustion came over him and he fell asleep.
He was woken later on by noises in the room. Slowly he opened his eyes and waited for his vision to clear before looking at the source of the noise. Recognition flashed across his face followed by anger.
It had been six years since he had seen her but he knew right away who it was.
"You!"
The woman turned and looked at him her face a mask of evil and hatred.
"Yes it's me my son."
Yami Seirei: There ya go chapter 7 all done!
Yugi: Oooh
Atemu: Oooh I hate cages!
YamiKITG: You going to write the next one soon my hikari?
Yami Seirei: Quite likely! Probably after I been to my daughter's school play this evening.
Everyone: Yayyy!