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Well my Yami (YamiKITG) is eating noodles to spite me so I guess I better write another chapter for her to calm her frazzled nerves!

Chapter 8

Yugi stared at the empty window through which Atemu has vanished under the influence of this mysterious entity that had control of his mind. What city would he devastate next? He had no idea but one thing was for sure, he wasn't just going to sit there and do nothing!

Grabbing his personal phone book, Yugi looked up a number and dialled praying that the time difference wouldn't mean that the person he wanted was fast asleep. He clutched the phone to his ear praying that the other would have an answer of some kind and maybe would know where they could find the magic to combat a force so powerful it flattened cities.

"Hello?" A voice at the other end of the phone said and Yugi relaxed a little.

"Marik, hi it's Yugi."

"Yugi! Wow it's good to hear from you how are things in Domino?"

"Well pretty crap actually Marik. I was wondering if you could help me."

"Why what's wrong Yugi?" Marik's voice had become full of concern at the desperation he could hear in his small friend's voice.

"Well Atemu found a way to return to the real world," Yugi began but was cut off by Marik.

"Wow Yugi that's great!" he gushed.

"Hang on Marik before you get too excited, yes he came back but it seems he paid a heavy price because there is something or someone who is controlling his mind. Marik…It's Atemu who is flattening the cities…." Yugi broke down then unable to comprehend the enormity of what was happening to the world. He cried for a few minutes while Marik waited in shocked silence at the other end of the phone. In fact he was so quiet, Yugi began to think he had gone.

"Marik? Are you still there?" He asked panicking slightly.

"Yes I'm here, oh Yugi what are you going to do?"

"Well I was kind of hoping for your help here you see I know you hate being reminded of your days of controlling minds with the Millennium Rod but…well…I was hoping that you may have picked up on any other way this might be possible. I don't think it's a Millennium Item as they were all buried and besides it is a much more powerful force I think. Atemu glows red when this thing takes him over also he can fly and fire energy balls and who knows what else he is capable of? If you can't think of how it is happening then have you heard of a magic powerful enough to be able to stop it?" Yugi ended his long speech and gripped the phone so tightly to his ear in hope that his knuckles turned white.

"Yugi, I'm not sure let me talk to my sister and we'll get back to you okay?"

"Okay I'll wait for your call and thanks Marik."

"Don't thank me yet Yugi, thank me when we've found a way to beat this thing."

"Okay ja ne."

"Ja ne." Marik said and hung up. He turned to Ishizu who had been listening to the one-way conversation with interest.

"What's happening brother?" She asked in her soft-spoken voice.

"Believe it or not sis, Atemu found a way to return from the afterlife but it seems as a result he is being mind-controlled by a force more powerful than the Millennium Items."

Marik waited for this information to sink in. Ishizu sat and thought for a while.

"It sounds like it is not a force of this world my brother. Maybe there is something written in the ancient scriptures we can find that will help."

"Let's go." Marik said and the two of them left the room. Even though they were not Tomb Keepers any more as there was no need, they still lived near to the tomb and all the scriptures were still preserved in it's dark and dreary passageways. They descended into the gloom to search for clues as to what might be happening to Atemu.

From his cavern in hell, Anobi watched as Yugi made his phone call and he growled. Well he would just have to put a stop to the ex-Tomb Keepers search for an answer. At that moment, Atemu was busily destroying cities in South America and Anobi could control him doing this easily. He concentrated on the stone he used to view what was going on in the world and switched the view to inside the tomb where Marik and Ishizu were searching the scriptures.

They probably wouldn't find an answer but he couldn't take any risks. Grinning evilly he stopped Atemu destroying the capital of Peru and made him fly at top speed to Egypt.

Marik and Ishizu were still rifling through pages and pages of ancient scriptures when the room they were in was bathed in a glowing red light.

"Atemu!" Marik cried out when the former Pharaoh flew into the room they were in an energy ball at the ready in his hand.

"You think to challenge me Tomb keeper?" Atemu snarled. "I will not allow anyone to spoil my plans. Now it is time for you to die!" So saying, he flung the energy ball at Marik who was too shocked to dodge and received a direct hit killing him instantly.

Ishizu screamed as the force of the blast threw the lifeless body of her brother against the wall where he hit it with a sickening crunch.

"Your turn." Atemu said with an evil grin.

"Please whoever you are please stop!"

"Sorry but I want to rule the world and no one will be able to stop me." He said gathering energy to his hand again.

"Yugi will find a way and he'll beat you." Ishizu said and stood defiantly waiting for him to strike.

"I will not be defeated!" Anobi shouted through Atemu enraged. He flung the energy at Ishizu and she flew through the air to land next to her brother. She felt nothing as she landed as she was already dead.

Anobi looked through Atemu's eyes round the room. Thinking he couldn't leave anything to chance, he dropped a candle onto the ancient pieces of parchment and watched them begin to burn. When he was satisfied with the blaze that was now raging, he made Atemu fly out of the tomb and head back to Domino City. Dawn was approaching and he wanted to make sure Yugi knew just what happened to people who interfered with his plans.

Yugi was still awake having been unable to sleep and still waiting in vain for a phone call from Marik.

Atemu flew in through the open window and landed on the bed still glowing red so Yugi knew he was still possessed.

"Well little Yugi I thought you might like to know that your two Tomb Keeper friends are now dead by the Pharaoh's own hands. No one interferes with my plans and lives got that little one? The only reason you are still alive is that I doubt you could figure anything out and now I doubt you would dare ask for more help. You wouldn't want anyone else blood on either of your hands now would you? Plus I enjoy seeing you in so much emotional pain. It is said there is no pleasure without pain, well it's my pleasure and your pain." The evil entity laughed in Yugi's face before releasing Atemu's mind from his control.

Atemu shook his head trying to clear the fuzz that was clouding it. He remembered feeling something suppressing his mind and then…nothing. He couldn't remember a thing. He looked at the window and realised it was daylight and with an awful sinking feeling, he looked at Yugi who was crying as if his heart would break.

"Yugi what happened?" Atemu asked gently and Yugi looked up to see the real Atemu looking at him.

"Atemu, last night you…you killed Marik and Ishizu." Yugi said through his sobs.

Atemu drew in his breath sharply and tears pricked his own eyes. Why them? What had the thing possessing his mind possibly have against them?

"Why Yugi?"

"It's my fault, I called Marik to see if he knew of a way because he once used mind controlling powers and he said he would go read the ancient scriptures with Ishizu. That thing had taken you over and you were gone and when you came back it told me it'd used you to kill them because it didn't want anything getting in the way of its plans! First Seto and now the Ishtars. Atemu I don't think we can involve anyone else I think we have to fight this alone and I don't know if I can."

Atemu looked at his aibou and didn't know what to say. What could he say? Marik and Ishizu killed by his own hand. He could barely believe it and yet deep down he knew it was true. Yugi was right he knew, they couldn't involve anyone else lest they too get killed and what about the cities he was destroying?

"Yugi we have to find a way of beating this thing soon or the whole world is going to be destroyed. What do we know so far?"

"Well you paid a price to return here from the afterlife. If I remember rightly, Ishizu said the door would not open again so it seems you found another way."

"I just wish I could remember what it was." Atemu said bitterly.

"That thing told me that it was the one that has made you forget what you did to return here. I think you paid it somehow and it enabled you to return. Atemu what did you agree to?"

"I don't know." Atemu said feeling wretched. He wished with all his heart and soul he could remember. What could he have possibly given to this thing in payment. Words he had once spoken to Isis in the afterlife suddenly came back to him.

'I would sell my soul to return to the real world.'

"Yugi! I remember. I once told Isis in the afterlife that I would sell my soul to return here. That's it, this thing must have come and offered me a way to return and I would pay with my soul."

"I think you're right Atemu. I wish we knew more about this being whoever he/she/it is, then we could fight him. I know you said killing you would work but what if it doesn't? What if the thing is released if you die."

"But what if it isn't? What if it needed my soul and planned it? If it's tied to my soul and I return to the afterlife after I die then what if it can't return? Maybe it needs me alive and in this world to destroy it?"

"You could be right Atemu. But I think it's too high a risk to take until we know more."

"But if we don't do something, tomorrow may be too late. What if the next time it possesses me it doesn't let me go? Then it will make me kill you, destroy the world and all hope will be lost."

Yugi hung his head.

"I don't know if I could do it Atemu, I care about you too much. You are the darker half of my soul remember? How can I kill one half on my own soul? How can I?" Yugi broke down in tears and Atemu's heart went out to him. How could he expect Yugi to do it? But on the other hand how could he not?

It was a terrible dilemma and one that neither of them wanted to face. If Yugi killed Atemu but the devastation continued through another source Yugi would have done it for nothing and the world was doomed. On the other hand if he didn't, the world would be destroyed anyway and Yugi would likely be killed soon. Neither wanted to think about it and Atemu was becoming too exhausted from his body gaining no sleep for three or four days since this whole thing started.

"I'm so tired Yugi." Atemu said suddenly and leaning against Yugi's shoulder, he closed his eyes. He was instantly asleep and breathing deeply. Yugi lay him down gently on the bed and covered him up to let him sleep.

"Later we will choose what to do mou hitori no boku." Yugi said sadly and lay down next to the other half of his soul. They slept like that through the day.

Anobi himself was also resting in his chamber in hell. Although his power was great, it was not infinite after all; he was a demon not a god and had to regain his energy after a certain time. He currently had no idea that Yugi and Atemu had worked out what was going on and thought he had no worries. He rested happy in the knowledge that nothing could stop him…

TBC

There ya go another one done. Wow two chapters in one day! Hehe I am getting very into this story and so it will be continued as soon as I can.

Ja ne peeps!