Disclaimer: Once again I tell thee IT'S NOT MINE! Hehe well the plot, Anobi and Sulchi are mine.
Chapter 7
Anobi decided to inflict mental pain to Yugi as he knew that was a lot worse than physical pain as mental scars took so much longer to heal than physical ones. He smiled to himself and began the night's work.
Atemu once again glowed with a red light and rising from his bed in the reinforced steel room, he dressed and blew the door off its hinges with an energy blast. Walking out, he made a bee-line for the control room where Yugi and Seto were fast asleep. He melted the door away from its hinges and it crashed to the floor. Yugi and Seto woke with a jump and were faced with Atemu glowing red and with a very evil twisted look on his face.
"Atemu!" Yugi gasped and Seto just stood and gaped. Without warning Atemu strode forwards and grabbing Yugi, he blasted a hole in the wall and flew through it blasting away walls as he went until emerging into the night air. Yugi shivered not daring to struggle as they flew high above the Kaiba Corps building.
"Now watch." Atemu said but it was not Atemu's voice that came forth from his mouth. The voice Yugi could hear was deep and sinister and Yugi knew that it definitely was not Atemu and he shivered again but this time it was in fear of his and Atemu's very lives.
Yugi watched in horror as balls of energy appeared in Atemu's hands and began to rain down on the KC building turning it to a huge pile of rubble along with the surrounding area. The main area round the building was residential and Yugi knew that no one living there would stand a chance of survival against the onslaught.
Atemu stopped firing when he seemed satisfied that KC was gone before flying down to the ground and dropping Yugi there. He landed hard and cried out as he felt his ankle break. He ignored it for now and looked up at Atemu hovering some twenty feet above him.
"Atemu I know this isn't you, you have to break free of the control over you!" Yugi shouted but it was no good there was nothing. No flicker of recognition in those crimson eyes, no change in the red glow surrounding him.
"Atemu please." Yugi begged wincing at the pain in his ankle but there was nothing. Atemu actually smirked down at him.
"Well little Yugi seems I have the upper hand now don't I? Soon the whole world will either be destroyed or bow down to me! Poor Pharaoh, he never saw this coming, he was so desperate to return he was ready to do anything and I was ready with a solution." The figure who wasn't Atemu laughed a hollow and mirthless laugh and Yugi quivered in fear. What had Atemu done to return? He wished the former Pharaoh had been able to remember. Then he had a thought.
"You! You made him forget how he had returned didn't you!" he accused looking up at the figure with all the courage and defiance he could muster.
"Yes I did." The one above him gloated. "Now I will go and cause more devastation at the hands of the Pharaoh."
Then he flew off leaving Yugi on the ground tears running down his face and the evil one's laughter ringing in his ears. There had to be a way to stop this but how? Would Atemu be himself again tomorrow or would this evil entity possessing his body decide not to let him live normally but just keep on destroying everything until there were hardly anything left? He didn't know. What he did know was that there was no was Seto could have survived the collapse of the KC building and he wept for his lost friend and one-time rival.
"I'll save you Atemu…somehow." He added knowing that the situation was pretty much hopeless. He found a stick to lean on in the grass and began to hobble his way to the hospital in Domino. He needed to get his ankle seen to and then he could think about what to do.
This was way more serious than the duel he had had with Jou when Marik had controlled his mind. Marik had only wanted the Puzzle and hoped to control the world with the power of the Pharaoh. This one wanted the whole world but it looked as if he was a lot more powerful than Marik had ever hoped to be. Sighing hopelessly, he hobbled towards the hospital.
Atemu flew up and out of the Earth's atmosphere the power he possessed allowing him to breathe normally. He looked around and saw just what he was looking for. Several satellite systems were slowly orbiting the earth and in hell Anobi smiled to himself.
"Why should I just take out Kaiba's satellites when I can take out more and devastate communications for these pathetic humans?" Sulchi nodded.
"Yes master and they won't have a clue what's going on!"
Anobi concentrated and began to direct Atemu to fly round the earth destroying satellites as he went.
On Earth, families banged their televisions as they went dead, satellite feeds destroyed by energy blasts from Atemu's hands. None escaped him and when he had finished, he sank back into the atmosphere using extra power to stop him burning on re-entry. Surveying the world below him he realised he had come back somewhere over China. He decided to have a little more fun before he left Atemu alone for another day to live with the horror of what he was doing.
He flew towards Hong Kong and saw that it was all lit up. Instead of standing this time, he hovered and fired more energy destroying everything there. By the time the dawn was signalled by light in the east, Hong Kong was no more than a pile of rubble.
Anobi flew Atemu back to Japan where he searched for little Yugi. He had decided to return use of his body to him there so Yugi could fill him in and the pharaoh would be gutted over what he had done. Of course neither of them would know about Hong Kong, now all the satellites were gone, there would be no news. Anobi thought to himself that world domination was much easier than he had imagined it would be. All he had needed was the soul of the Pharaoh – the most powerful one to have ever ruled Egypt – and his body in the real world to carry out his plan.
Tomorrow there would be more cities to destroy and pathetic humans to wipe off the face of the Earth.
Laughing to himself he flew on before finally spotting Yugi below hobbling along desperately holding onto a stick.
"Foolish mortal." Anobi muttered through Atemu before landing near Yugi and returning Atemu's mind to his body.
The red glow vanished and Atemu fell forwards landing hard on the floor and jolting awake.
"Wha…Where am I?" Atemu mumbled confused as he felt cold earth below him.
"Atemu! Atemu!" Yugi cried out and hobbled forwards on his makeshift crutch. "Is it you now?"
Atemu looked up completely confused now.
"Yes aibou it's me but why are we here? I thought I went to bed in Seto's mansion."
"You don't remember anything?" Yugi asked with some relief. If Atemu couldn't remember anything then it was a good chance that he had no clue that KC was gone.
"No nothing." Atemu said and frowned trying to remember what had happened after he had fallen asleep but there was nothing.
"Atemu, Kaiba Corps is gone, you destroyed it but it wasn't you, there was someone possessing you and it seems he is the cost of you returning to the real world. He is going to use you to destroy most of it and after that I don't know." Yugi said.
"Kaiba Corps? What about Seto? I mean you got out okay didn't you, where is Seto?"
"H…He didn't make it out, the only reason I'm here is because you brought me here but again I know it wasn't you for one thing the voice was different a lot deeper and more sinister than your own."
"I killed Seto? And possibly caused more devastation than just here?"
"I think you must have Atemu you were gone a long time after the KC building fell."
Atemu hung his head in shame.
"What am I going to do aibou? If can't feel whoever it is how will I stop him?"
"I don't know but we'll think of something. Do you think you can help me to get to the hospital? I think my ankle is broken."
"How did you break it?"
"You carried me from the KC building and dropped me on the ground."
"Oh aibou I'm so sorry." Atemu said tears springing to his eyes at having hurt his little light.
"It's okay I know it wasn't you but it does hurt."
Atemu scooped Yugi into his arms without another word and began the long walk to the hospital thinking all the way about what to do. Deep down he knew but he didn't want to face it. In order to stop whatever it was possessing him, he knew he either had to die or find some magic powerful enough to stop it. He knew the former would devastate Yugi but the latter would be nigh on impossible.
They reached the hospital a few hours later and Yugi's foot was soon set into a cast.
Atemu watched the sinking afternoon sun and realised with dread that the night was coming again and once again his body would be at the mercy of the evil one using him to destroy the world.
They left the hospital after Yugi had been told to rest the foot. Knowing that he couldn't but being scared of kept in where he couldn't help Atemu, Yugi had merely nodded and promised he would.
"Yugi there are two possible ways we could stop this." Atemu said when they had arrived back home to find the house deserted and a note from Sugoruku saying that he had gone to see if his old friend Professor Hawkins could help with what was going on. Atemu had shaken his head knowing that they could really do nothing about it.
"How can we?" Yugi asked eagerly. "I knew you'd think of something Atemu."
"Well neither way is good." Atemu said sadly. "Either we find a magic strong enough to beat this evil entity, or I have to die but even if I did whose to say it wouldn't find another vessel to use?" Atemu had no idea that Anobi needed his body to do his dirty work. There was no way he would be able to use another body, as the power of the Pharaoh had to flow through the Pharaoh himself. Since the Millennium Items were gone, buried under a pile of rubble at the gateway to the Afterlife, there was no other way the power could be used. But Atemu didn't know this and he didn't know it was his own power that he had never fully been able to use.
"You'd have to die?" Yugi said his eyes filling with tears. "Not again! There must be another way and I swear I will find it. I won't lose you again." He said and Atemu knew that Yugi was determined.
"I believe you Yugi, together we'll fight this thing."
"I…I don't want to sleep tonight mou hitori no boku." Yugi said fearfully.
"I don't either. Maybe if I stay awake, this thing won't take over me." Atemu said not really believing it. If this entity was strong enough to flatten whole cities with energy then why would he not be able to take over him at any time? Come to think of it why hadn't it just kept him under its control? He voiced his thoughts to Yugi.
"I think it's to make us suffer knowing what he's making you do and not being able to do a thing about it."
"Aibou! He's coming I can feel my mind being suppressed." Atemu said real fear in his voice. As Yugi watched helplessly, the familiar red glow appeared round the Pharaoh and his eyes became hard and evil like a demon's Yugi thought to himself. He scooted away from the being as it fixed its evil eyes on the small form in front of him.
"Hello little Yugi, now which cities should I make Atemu destroy for me tonight?"
Yugi just stared in horror.
"Please no more." He whispered but the being in Atemu's body just laughed and flew away through the open window.
TBC…
Yay another one done more to follow tomorrow! Ja ne!
