Dreaming Sensation
Chapter Seven: A Miracle Worker
I don't own Yugioh.
Aku gazed and dazed at the wall. She was speechless. What would you do if you were buried alive, having everyone think you're really dead for sure? She knew that she'll run out of air in a couple of hours. A miracle needed to happen quick, but for the odds of that happening will be a miracle itself. The end of the rope is coming near her, but will there be a split end? A twist that might even save her life? Did God really have a notion to have her in his kingdom of heaven right now? The moment is now and the truth is near.
She closed her eyes and plunged into the water of deep darkness. Her head throbbed into many beats and her heart pounded loudly, so distinguished that anyone near her could feel and hear its rhythm and the pattern of its beats.
"If-if I go now… I will cherish this moment on… although the sadness…" Water began dripping from her amethyst eyes. As she cried she chanted a small prayer. A small prayer learned by her forsaken mother. She didn't say anything, but she felt a unusual feeling to say it.
"Golden light, gleaming bright, hear my call to you for sight. I dear your voice, fallen for your touch, grant me help I may ask for your might. Please guide me, be beside me, when things go wrong. I ask only one thing and for love to be strong… I'm sorry for my weakness, I hope to survive. Please bless me with great faith and reveal my destined fate…"
The Kame Game Shop
Yugi just took a good shower. Coming out from a steamy room, he was dressed from top to bottom, head to toe in blue, star decorated pjs. He walked into his room, his orbs examining his surroundings. The room seem to be dark, no light illuminated in site except the shadow of the glowing moon pressing against the window of Yugi's room. He stepped inside the peaceful room and looked forward to a good night sleep since he, Joey, and Tristan got in trouble for tampering with Aku's funeral.
/Flashback/
Yugi, Joey, and Tristan sat in an deserted classroom durning the weekend after Aku's funeral. There wasn't an teacher inside of the room.
"Man… it wasn't my fault that I trip!" Joey complained.
"It wasn't my fault for falling into the hole. Joey is just bad luck," Tristan thought verbally.
Yugi didn't even wanted to be reminded of what happened this morning.
"Flys are evil creatures aren't they Yuge," Joey asked while a fly flew swirled around Joey's head.
"Joey!" Yugi shriek with exasperation.
Both Tristan, Joey, and a fly flying by laughed at Yugi meanly.
/End of Flashback/
He slowly moved to the direction where his bed sat which seem to be unwrinkled as if no one had even slept on it yet.
"Ugh… I can't wait for a good night sleep." Yugi grabbed the top of his covers and slid his little body into it. His hands ran over his golden pendant and then to the rope, grabbing it over his head for the process of taking it off. Finally, the millennium puzzle laid upon Yugi's study desk. He turned off the lights to his room and went into his sleep.
In a sudden, gleaming rays stretched out of the engraved eye of Ra from the Millennium Puzzle.
"Huh! What's happenning!" The sudden light startled the little Yugi. Soon Yami appeared out of the puzzle in a state of shock. Yugi stared at the silhouette figure standing before him and awaited for a response.
"Yami-"
"Yugi… Aku is still alive."
Yugi gazed at him weirdly. "How do you know this?"
Yami gave him a serious expression. "I'm serious Yugi. Somehow, I have this feeling that she is still here somewhere. The puzzle activated by itself."
"Do you mean the coffin?"
Yami stared blankly at him. Yugi's eyes widen as he quickly ran got out of bed to change into his casual clothes.
"Yugi… I'll do this. I think I know where she is located," Yami said firmly and with confidence.
"Okay… are you sure Yami? I mean I could find her-"
"No Yugi. I'll do it. After all the puzzle activated itself. You've done your part of searching and now's it's my turn to explore and if I'm lucky enough, I may even find out some answers to my own problems. Anyway… I have this weird thought about something…"
Yugi gave him his weird stare again. "Huh? What do you mean other me?"
"You will find out soon enough…"
Yugi nodded and immediately altered himself into Yami; quietly got out of the soundless house, running towards a near burial ground with all his energy until no more. It was rainning intensely and you can easily hear the thundering drops hit the solid crust of earth's land. He quickly and heedlessly stepped onto water puddles, instantly wetting Yami's dusky pants. Before long, the raining combined with lighting and the loud thundering became even louder. It looked as if the great gods were angered by the pharoah's actions. The sounds he made was loud thumps against the ground every time he rushed to the cemetery. Every minute seem to be between life and death for Aku. It was strange how he felt her presence from major distance yet, he still approved and trusted his intinct from the eccentric occurrence. Lighting persisted on striking as if it was struggled on hitting its desired target. The lighting and the sounds didn't fazed the bold pharoah but his thoughts did.
Domino's Cemetery
He finally reached Domino's local cementry. It seemed haunted, pocessed, and it even appeared like any sudden dangers could approah any moment. The dark accompanied Yami on his journey to find Aku's burial site.
"huff… huff…" Yami breath heavily from his sprinting and speed walked around the various graves, running his amethyst orbs from name to name. At last he found Aku's tombstone, a freshly covered ground with newly growing grass enclosing on top.
"AKU! AKU!" Yami felled on his knees and yelled roughly at the ground where the imprint of the coffin was laid.
"Huh!" Aku openned her buffy eyes due to her crying. "Is… is that Yugi?" She couldn't believe herself. Someone came to save her and it was her one and only best friend Yugi Muto. "YUGI!" She created banging noises with her hands hoping that he'll hear them.
Yami twisted himself from left to right wishing to see a shovel, but unfortunately there wasn't. He found no other than himself as the only tool to release Aku from this unfair prison. He sighed and quickly grabbed the dirt, shoveling it out with handfuls of coarse sediment. He benefited for the rain's source of water which helped him quickly grab hold of the dirt easier.
Aku smiled in happiness as she knew that she'll still live on, but air soon began to reduce to bits. It began to become difficult for Aku to inhale.
Yami finally found the handles to the coffin and lifted up the lid with all his might. Air ran out for Aku as breathing immediately transformed into coughing. How long will it take for the pharoah to lift up the heavy coffin? Amazingly he manages to drag it to the left so that half of the coffin was openned. The left half was closed while the right half was free of Earth's surroundings. Rain poured into the white coffin in doing so. Aku coughed.
What happened?
"Where is she!" Yugi yelled inside of Yami's mind. Yugi began to even stronger his belief about what Yami had said earlier. Aku was somewhere and she wasn't in the coffin placed before her tombstone. "How are you going to find her in time? There are way to much tombstones to search throughout for!"
"Yes I know that. There has to be a way." Yami ran throughout the vast, horrifiying graveyard, but in a sudden, his puzzle activated. Shining light spreaded out of the eye of Ra as he past one of the tombstones. A blank tombstone.
"I don't understand… why did the puzzle activate?" Yugi pondered.
"YUGI! YUGI!" A distant sound called.
"AKU!" Both Yami and Yugi said in unison.
"She's got to be inside of that blank tombstone!" Yugi pointed out.
A evil chuckle came from behind Yami. "What do we have here…" A silhouette figure approached him. Its feet shuffled like a lifeless ghoul, a ghoul with no mind of its own.
"Stay away, don't speak of what's happened, and I may spare your life from evil's clutches." It spoke.
"Explain yourself!" Yami demanded.
Yami's view of the figure cleared as it entered the moonlight. He examined her figure from top to bottome. It was a female and her clothes seem tattered and her skin was dressed in wrinkles all over the place. She was missing an eyeball which exposed her right eye socket and her auburn hair appeared greasy and white roots grew from various places from her skull. She didn't walk like a normal human being and instead, her feet shuffled towards him. She was lifeless. She was a ghoul and she was clearly pronounced dead. "Hello… my name is Kira Henson. A young girl who used to be a student at Domino High… you don't need to know the details behind my dreaded past… but once again, if you don't leave now I will throw you into the pit of evil's darkness. Leave now!"
"No! I refuse to do so!" Yami confirmed.
"YUGI!" Aku bellowed.
"AKU!" Yami turned around and faced towards the tombstone.
"I can free her if you want… but there will be a cost. That is if you hand over the Millennium Puzzle."
Yami sighed. Of coarse. That is never an easy way out of things. There always have to be a twist behind a solution. Yami turned to look at his most prized possession. If he gave the puzzle, what evil plot will uncover?
"Hurry now. Your friend doesn't look so well," Kira advised.
She was right. Time was thinning out, there was no light at the end of the tunnel, except to hand over his puzzle. If he doesn't, he may lose his friend forever, only by the cost of his hand. Only because he hadn't given the puzzle to a evil undead person who is probably after power. But if he did, he may lose Yugi forever! He was caught in double the problems. In a criss cross. What will he choose? Yugi or Aku?
Yugi instantly felt Yami's spread of worriness and agony. His, Yami's, emotions were all set upon a table, on plates and what Yami seemed to consume the most was the plates full of sadness and anxiety.
"Pharoah." Yugi spoke. Yami divided his attention between Yugi and Kara.
"You don't have to worry about me… I trust that'll you can find me once again. Right now, our priority is the sake of out friends, not ourselves and Aku needs our help. I know you can find me like how you did the other time I was locked away in a stone from the Orichalcos curse! And besides that, we've faced many different dangers even worst than that and at the end of it all… we succeeded to win and save everyone and everything we had our love for. Remember Yami, if we part away, remember that I'm always with you no matter what! So lets do this and save Aku!"
A smile started to from across his wan face. "Yes… thank-you partner." He slowly took the golden item off his neck and then passed it to the eager and greedy Kira. "Here… take it! Release my friend!" Yami demanded.
"Wise choice my pharoah…"
Yami grunted."Good-bye Yugi... I promise to come back for you soon. I promise..."
Slowly, Yugi's presence vanished from Yami's mind.Yami knew he didn't have time to think about it for his fellow acquaintance was dying soon if he didn't make his choice right away. He quickly handed over the puzzle to Kara and she promptly snatched it, got up, and was ready to run away.
Yami's eyes widen as he observed his adversary's movements.
"RELEASE HER NOW!" Yami yelled.
"Uh-Ah! I like a pretty please more than a demand. Fare well!" In a quick, a spiral of smoke covered the green haired girl and in an instant, she vanished. Yami's pupils shrunk in size as he had no time to get her out of the grave. Easily tricked by some mere move, he grunted in madness. He needed to pull himself together. Once again, he rapidly dugged his way through the mushy dirt with all his might. Not realizing it, surprisingly he got to the coffin. He heard no sound but that didn't keep him from losing hope. He quickly openned the coffin and saw Aku inside, her eyes closed and her hands folded properly on her lap. Was he too late?
Yami stared at her as rain fell upon both of them. His mind was filled with so many different things. Staying out in the rain wouldn't do much good so he carried her back to the Kame Game Shop.
Kame Game Shop
When he finally reached the shop, he was about to lay her on the couch when suddenly Aku's Millennium Circlet provoked. Blazing lights glowed out and seperated of the circlet. It swirled in a circular motion as Yami stood speehless and gazed at the sudden action. Aku blinked and waited until her eyes adapted. A miracle has come about. She blinked her eyes as Yami still held her in his arms like a baby. They both stared at each other awkwardly with small blushes.
"Oh so-r-sorry," Yami lowered her down to the floor.
"Don't apologize … I'm the one who should be saying sorry and so sorry, sorry that I had forced you through this," Aku sadly said. She calmly quieted herself down and smiled. "You now have my trust now Yugi-er-I mean Yami." She gradually bended over angling a bow. Yami stared as she seem to acknowledge him like a king. A pharoah.
"Why are you bowing?" Yami asked.
Aku smiled again. "Because I praise you for your doing. I know you're thinking I'm weird but anyway I can't be a burden. Is there anything I can do for you?"
Yami thought for awhile until an idea spouted. "Aku, where did you get that circlet?"
Aku grinned. "What a coincidence. That's the same question that Yugi asked me. Well I got it from my mother when she pasted away. Unfortunately, I was adopted… which I didn't know… until Femi decided to tell me. I don't have any memories of my real mother though I have small fragments of memories that don't even make any sense of what I know of. Its just like a puzzle, but in order for me to complete it, I need more pieces that just the ones I currently have." Soon, her smile faded and turned into a frown. She bent down and sat on the ground of the shop. She didn't feel like sitting on the soft couch.
Yami listened and attempted to console her. "Its okay. I too have lost memories and my mind is also resembled as a puzzle. Different series of reminiscence accompanies me, but I can never put them together and that's why different problems happen to everyone. They are all part of your memory and part of your puzzle. Futhermore, it is your choice as well to continue working on that perplex puzzle or will you leave those pieces to waste? Leave them to fly and alter into dust of air? If I stand up and continue walking on the road to success, will you stand up with me?" He lended out his hand to Aku as she gazed upon his action.
She smiled equally sensing his strong perserverance. She placed her hand into his as he pulled her up next to him. Thank-you Yami…
"Of coarse."
It was raining intensely outside and thunder struck not far away from the city. As the first thunder struck, Domino's Game Shop seem vulnerable and deserted, but as the second one struck, a dark Bakura laughed and smirked from the Game Shop's doorway, gripping onto the chain of the one and only Millennium Puzzle.
To be continued…