Sorry I didn't update yesterday; I was doing family stuff. Played 7 straight hours of that Naruto fighting game… ow, my hands hurt.
I've noticed something. In my last story Happiness is Not a Fish that You Can Catch the first major plot twist was on chapter 5, that's kinda the same thing with this story. Weird, that was totally unplanned.
YES! FIRST PRIZE GOES TO Capricious Purple Clarity! YAY! Haha, I named that doctor Ringo-sensei on purpose! See, I couldn't think of names for all the random nurses and doctors and stuff so I thought, "Hey! Anzu's a nurse, right? And her name means apricot, right? So I'll just name all the nurses and doctors after fruits!" (I was currently learning the names of food at the time in Japanese class) It was a great idea at the time but then it all fell apart when I realized that Ishtar is not actually a fruit. Oh well, all the rest of their names are fruits.
For fun you can figure out what all the other doctors and nurses names mean, if you want. Like "Momo-sensei" mentioned in chapters 3 and 4.
This chapter brought to you by Yami no Yugi in the manga. Simply because he's all angsty and awesome.
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Chaputa 5: Dark Magic Attacks
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Ishizu's head jerked up from her desk again. She had worked yet another all-nighter and now she was dead tried. After drinking four cups of coffee this morning surely she should be able to stay awake now. But not ten minutes later did her head lay upon her desk once again.
"I need a vacation…" she muttered sulkily. She couldn't afford to take a vacation, certainly not now, not when she was so close. Despite the urgency to stay awake, Ishtar's eyes slowly drifted closed and waves of deep sleep soon lapped over her.
A flash of light. Red blood spilling out of her neck. Dark eyes of cold malice watching…
Ishizu woke up again with a violent jerk. This time she was covered in cold foul smelling sweat. She clutched her strained throat, her breathing was fast and her pulse shook her body.
'Not that dream again… oh god…'
Footsteps ran down the hall and her door slammed open. A terrified nurse ran in.
"Ishtar-sensei!" the woman cried out of breath. "Some patients got a gun and they're are holding hostages in room B26! Someone's already been shot!"
"What!" Ishizu cried and jumped up from her seat and ran down the hall, the other woman running slowly behind her.
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Yugi's face had been completely transformed. His features, which had been round and innocent only seconds before, had turned dark and sharp; an eerie red glint lingered in his eyes. Keith and Ushio had both stepped back. The very air in the room was vibrating with his anger. How could such a passive, soft-spoken boy suddenly give off such violent hate?
"You hide well behind your guns and your tough words, I wonder if you have any real courage," Yugi commented not effected at all that there was a gun to his head.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Ushio asked, the gun trembling in his hand.
Yugi smirked. "Let's play a game," he challenged pointing threateningly at the two thugs. "A shadow game," he added grinning madly. "Do you have courage enough to accept?"
"What are you saying?" Ushio asked smiling maliciously. "I have a gun to your head, I don't need to accept anything!"
"Are you afraid?" Yugi questioned mildly, deadly eyes flashing. Ushio growled.
Keith stepped in front of his crony. "Leave him to me."
"What?" Ushio questioned incredulously. "You're actually going along with this?"
"Why not? It could be fun," he said and then dropped his voice so only his companion could hear him. "Don't worry, if I lose you can shoot him." Ushio grinned. Keith turned to Yugi. "What are the terms of this game?" he asked.
Yugi grinned, the evil glint back in his eye. "It is a game of courage, whoever gives up first loses. If you lose you shall suffer the penalty game, and let us go free."
"What if you lose?" Keith asked.
"You can have my life," Yugi answered smoothly. Keith frowned.
"But I can take your life right now," Keith reminded him coolly.
"Are you sure?" Yugi asked, deadly serious. "I would give you my life, as in my life would in your hands forever. I would be at your every command. Have you no need for a servant or slave?"
Keith grinned at the thought of it. "You would keep that promise?"
Yugi sneered. "Of course, but I will not lose."
"Very well, I accept," the man answered grinning.
"Yugi, what are you doing?" Jounouchi cried from the floor. Yugi didn't answer; he did not even turn to face his wounded friend.
"We will use these," Yugi explained and held up the chessboard Kaiba had brought and the knife he had taken from Kozuka's unconscious body. Yugi slid two tables together and clamped the chessboard in the crack where the two met so that the board stood upright.
"We shall take turns placing one of our hands on the board, then the other shall take the knife and try to stab the other person's hand," he explained placing his hand on one side of the board and moving his other hand in a stabbing motion. "The first person to take their hand away from the board will lose."
'This is sick,' Keith thought staring at the boy in front of him.
'What the hell is Yugi thinking?' Jounouchi thought desperately.
'This is exactly like the time when he played me in chess,' Kaiba thought watching the whole thing with close interest. 'I wonder what he will do?' Kaiba smirked.
"We'll play 'Janken' to see who goes first. Are you ready?" Yugi asked, sharp dark eyes glaring at the man. Keith nodded stiffly.
Yugi played rock and Keith's hand landed on scissors. Keith cursed silently.
"I'll go first then," Yugi said and took the knife and sat down at one end of the table. Sweat trickled down the sides of Keith's face as he sat down, staring blankly at the chessboard in front of him. "Place your hand on the-" Yugi instructed.
"I know what to do!" growled Keith irritated. Yugi grinned.
"I should warn you, this is not a normal game," he advised as Keith put his hand on the board. "It shall test not only your skills but you psychological self as well."
There was a swish and a thunk as the knife's blade ran through the cardboard. Keith jumped but managed to keep his hand on the board. The edge of the knife had nicked Keith thumb and a small drop of blood dripped down his hand.
"Looks like I missed," Yugi said and passed the knife across the table to Keith. "Your turn."
'How dare he touch me? How dare that kid smirk at me! I'll show him,' Keith grinned. Now that the knife was in his hand he was confident he could win. Yugi placed his hand on the board and Keith struck. He felt the blade pierce the cardboard but there was no flesh on the other side, he had missed.
"Here," he grunted and slid the knife toward his opponent.
Across the room, Jounouchi groaned in pain. Almost his whole left pant leg was red now. The room swirled around him.
'Damn, I can't see what's going on!' he growled. A sharp pain erupted in his leg again and he gasped.
"You're going to want to stop that bleeding," Kaiba said, cool eyes fixed on the game in the middle of the room.
"I know that, dumb ass!" he snarled, the world spinning again. He tried to rip off a piece of his shirt but his fingers were shaking too bad. Kaiba sighed, turned around and ripped off a large section of Jounouchi's white hospital shirt, delicatelyslipped the cloth underneath Jounouchi's legand tied it tightly around his wound. Jounouchi hissed with pain.
"W-why couldn't it have been your shirt?" Jounouchi grunted through his clenched teeth. Kaiba glared at him.
"I don't feel like going around half naked for the rest of the day," he commented dryly. Jounouchi rolled his eyes.
There was another thunk and the other prisoners reacted.
"What? What happened?" Jounouchi asked Honda urgently.
The knife Keith pulled out of the board had a line of red blood a long its edge. He laughed.
"You want to stop now?" he asked playfully. "Next time it'll be your whole hand!" Yugi stared down at the inch deep wound through the side of his hand as though it were a mer scratch, the dark blood oozing down his forearm drenching his white hospital shirt red.
"You would like if I stopped, wouldn't you?" chuckled Yugi darkly, a deadly glint glowing in his red eyes.
'He's crazy!' Keith thought, eyes wide with panic.
"It's my turn," Yugi commented calmly and reached for the knife. But as Keith went to hand it to him, the man's arm shook.
'What's wrong with me? I'm not afraid of him!' he thought desperately staring at his trembling hand. Yugi smirked knowledgeably.
'The shadow game is exposing your true nature.' Yugi thought smugly. 'Keith, you are nothing but an insecure coward who hurts others to hide your own inner fear. In this game I shall teach you to fear me!'
Keith's whole body was trembling as he passed the knife across the table. Yugi took it and grinned. "This will be your last turn," he announced.
"What? How can you say that? I was the one who cut you, remember?" Keith argued, trying and failing to keep his cool.
Yugi laughed. A cold sharp laugh that made everyone in the room shiver. "It's my turn," was his only answer.
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Ishtar sprinting at full speed down the hall ran into a barricade in front of the doorway to room B26. She stopped, breathing heavily, bracing herself against a nearby wall for support.
"What the hell is going on here!" she demanded furiously. The doctors turned around. "There are hostages in there, shouldn't you be trying to get them out!"
One of the doctors spoke up. "But look," he stammered and pointed to inside the room. Ishtar pushed her way through the crowd and looked inside. Her eyes fell upon the two figures in the middle of the room, they looked as if they were playing some sort of game.Then something invisible flashed around the players. Ishtar squinted and thought she could see a dark fog like an ominous cloud floating around them.
Ishtar's eyes widened. It was shadow power.
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Yugi waited for Keith to place his hand on the board as he fingered the edge of the knife playfully. Keith gulped and his fingers visibly shook as he placed them on the board. Yugi stabbed. Pain erupted in Keith's finger. He screamed and took his hand away from the board. To his horror he found that there was only a tiny scratch on his pinky, but for some reason it felt like the boy had cut off his whole hand.
"What the hell did you do?" Keith cursed, cradling his crippled hand. The pain was so strong tears were leaking out of his eyes. Yugi flashed a malicious grin.
"I didn't do anything. The shadow game is feeding off of your fears and letting them consume you," Yugi explained smugly crossing his arms over his chest. "Are you giving up?" he asked.
Keath stared at his hand. It hurt. It was pain beyond imagination. He was frightened. There was no way he would last one more round. Keith searched for a way out. There had to be something he could do to get out of this nightmare.
'I'll kill him. All I need to do is kill him and I'll win!' Keith thought frantically. But the knife wasn't in his hand.
"Ushio!" Keith cried. "Kill Yugi!"
Ushio pointed the gun at Yugi's head.
"YUGI!" Jounouchi screamed from the floor, Honda and Otogi holding him back.
The gun fired. The shot echoed through the building.
Keith looked across the table and saw Yugi still sitting there, unhurt. Ushio and Keith both stared at him horrified. The whole room lit up in a blinding golden light.
Yugi glared at Ushio, eyes flashing lividly. "I shall not allow you to disrupt the shadow game." His hand lifted from the table and pointed at Ushio. "PENALTY GAME!" he shouted. The room flashed, a sound like a gunshot echoed again and Ushio's body fell to the floor.
No one moved. Ushio's eyes were wide and empty, staring blankly up at the ceiling, his dead face white with terror. Keith stared utterly horrified at his partner's unmoving form on the floor. Yugi's dangerous eyes locked on Keith once again.
"It's your turn," he said simply as if there had been no interruption. Keith stood up from the table and backed away.
"You're insane! I quit, I'm not playing anymore," Keith said trembling and tripping over the leg of his chair and tumbling clumsily onto the floor.
"Do you give up then?" Yugi asked with a deathly tone in his voice.
Keith nodded. "Yes! Just please spare my life!" he groveled pathetically, kneeling onto the floor begging. Yugi scoffed, ruby eyes unmoved by the man's patheticness.
"I shall spare your life if that is what you desire," Yugi said and grinned again. "But you may wish you were dead in the end." He walked over to the pitiful man curled up on the floor and turned his palm towards him.
"PENALTY GAME!" Yugi's voice echoed like a canon as once again the room was engulfed in a brilliant golden light.
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Yugi slowly became aware of his surroundings. He could feel the cold hospital floor beneath his feet and the slightest air currents caused by the whispers from people around him.
'Did I fall asleep?' he wondered as he slowly piled his eyelids open. He found himself standing in the middle of the room where he and Jounouchi and the others had been playing cards a few moments ago. Then the memory hit him.
'Jounouchi-kun! Is he all right?' he spun around and saw Jounouchi and the others in the corner where they had been last.
"Jounouchi-kun, are you okay?" Yugi asked taking a step forward. Honda and Otogi stepped in between their wounded friend and Yugi; their faces were white.
"What's wrong, Honda-kun, Otogi-kun?" he asked taking another step forward. Honda and Otogi recoiled fearfully. Yugi noticed that Kaiba was also looking unusually pale and stunned. "What happened?"
An old deep fear suddenly awoke in Yugi's chest. He had been in this situation before. The sick feeling in his stomach was all too familiar. He looked franticly around the room hoping for some kind of explanation. He spotted Keith's and Ushio's lifeless bodies on the floor.
'Not again…' His heart beat faster. Panic rising in his chest. 'Not again…'
"Jounouchi-kun? Honda-kun? Otogi-kun?" he asked hopelessly looking towards his friends for support. Honda and Otogi took another step back but Jounouchi could only look at Yugi with complete shock.
"Restrain him!" a voice yelled somewhere behind Yugi from the open doorway. Hands grabbed him, restraining his limbs.
"But I didn't do anything…" Yugi said still looking desperately at his friends. "I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING!" he screamed, his shrill voice echoing painfully on the walls. Honda and Otogi looked away but Jounouchi struggled to get up.
A sharp pain stung the side of his neck as a needle pierced his skin. Yugi saw Jounouchi calling to him, his hand reaching out for him. Yugi tried to grasp it but he was too far away.
"Jounouchi-kun, I didn't…" and the drug hit him and he blacked out.
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The stinging in his left eye woke Pegasus from his sleep. He sat up in the blank darkness with a feeling of deep panic in his heart. His empty eye socket throbbed under its patch.
"W-who is it? Who's there?" he called into the darkness stammering. Familiar feelings of hate and blood lust filled the room. "C-come out!" he demanded.
I have felt it, an unearthly voice mused excitedly. A new source of power has entered this hospital. One who controls the powers of darkness…
"Who's there?" Pegasus repeated trembling, panic rising. "Come out!"
I have no use for you anymore…
Tendrils of darkness wrapped themselves around Pegasus. They entered his mouth, nose and ears suffocating him. The man tried to scream but within seconds the darkness had entered his brain, heart and soul, devouring him whole.
Pegasus' body fell dead upon the floor.
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Yugi could hear the sound of desperate crying clearly in his dreams but when he opened his eyes there was nothing there.
'Maybe I am being haunted?' he thought as his wide panicked eyes tried to pierce the darkness around him. 'Maybe this is all a bad dream.'
He lay his head back down on his pillow. 'Just try to get some sleep,' he ordered himself but as he closed his eyes for the hundredth time that night the vision of Keith's and Ushio's faces resurfaced in his mind. Yugi sat up again, breathing strained and tight. Would it ever stop? Would these nightmares ever stop? Yugi pulled himself up against the wall of his new padded cell. He had been moved into the Red wing after the event with Ushio and Keith, Yugi hadn't even been allowed to leave his new room. His whole body was shivering, muscles quivering in terror and revulsion.
'Did I kill them?' he wondered for the thousandth time. Their lifeless cold faces had been stretched with panic and fear, their unseeing eyes never to see light again. Hollow empty sobs that he had been trying to suppress all day were building up inside him. His throat tightened as a quiet whimper escaped from his lips.
'Did I kill them?' he questioned himself again. Sobs shook his body. 'I don't want to kill anybody…' A cracked wail escaped his throat and Yugi bowed his head and cried. Tears streamed down his face. He cried and cried and cried, not even trying to hold back any longer.
'I don't want to kill anybody…'
The room spun. Maybe it would all go away? But Yugi couldn't stop, his wails echoed dully through out the empty room. No one could hear him. He was alone.
Faintly, as if it were all in his mind, Yugi felt arms encircle him. Protecting him from his nightmares, the phantom arms tightened around his shoulders. Yugi had no idea if they were real or if his was just making it up, at the moment he was too depressed and tired to care. Yugi leaned against the unseen figure's chest and cried his heart out.
"I don't want to kill anybody…" he mumbled through tear-streaked wails. His head was against the shadow's chest as he cried himself to sleep.
A pair of red eyes watched him carefully. For the first time, a flicker of emotion glowed within their depths.
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WOOT! SQUEEE! Heehee, I love this chapter! Yami no Yugi so cool and evil, though not really. EEEEEE POOR YUGI-KUN!
Oh yeah "Janken"? Its basically rock paper sissors. I've heard it called many things actually like, "Bo sham po" or "Ro sham bo" (that's what the YGO manga 1 calls it I think) so I have no idea what its actually called.
OMFG NEXT CHAPTER! You'll meet a member of the Red Wing. What about this mysterious disorder? Ishtar please explain.
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