Since I don't really like being without reviews, I'll need at least five to update the last part of the story. This part is the most creepy though, if I can say so myself. I hate myself for being so mean.

Scarlet eyes

Chapter 2

written by

Mjus

Outside mist gently embraced the trees, and Yugi could once again make out the fairies dancing in the curtains of silvery mist. Now when he finally was outside the calling after him got stronger. The whole forest seemed to bath in bluish silver mist and the night song of the forest could so clearly be heard in Yugi's wide open mind.

The tones scared him somehow, though it obviously just wanted to calm him. He closed his eyes and rested his cheek on the door he still held onto tightly.

Yugi wished with his whole being that there could be just one other who could hear and see all the things he could. Once he had checked himself up, but the doctor had stated he was just paranoid. But Yugi knew he wasn't. He really could hear things, not ghosts or wandering souls, just things. Voices without bodies, sounds without a voice, winds whispering about what happened all around.

The young duellist knew it wasn't magic, not an illusion of his mind. He knew what it was. His open mind. Since he had always wanted to feel the safety presence of his other in his mind, he never closed his mind for whatever could come from the other side of the link. And now, when the pharaoh was gone, his side of the link was filled with things no one else was able to hear. Bakura could, if he really opened his mind enough. He had tried it once, just to make Yugi sure he wasn't crazy. But the albino had much harder time to open his mind enough. When he had his dark side, he had done everything in his power to lock him out of his mind.

But Yugi didn't know just how to close his mind from everything that kept calling for his attention. It took so much out of him when he tried. The winds' whispers were the only thing he didn't really want to shut outside. It told him whenever there was someone coming to him, and warned him if it was safe or not to wait for whoever. But all the other things he could easily live without.

A gentle sound called Yugi from the forest. He turned around to look back into the house, hoping against hope to find someone, whoever, standing there wondering what he was doing up this late at night. But the room behind him was just as empty of any physical presence as before.

The fairies looked up at him when he slowly and silent walked through the mist. They giggled, faint sounds that wasn't really there. One of them took the one at its side and started dancing around Yugi, and soon more followed. Their song mixed with the one of the forest and the bodiless dancers happily danced to the slow rhythm as was their way of life. Yugi smiled gently at them. He had a few fairies in his room at home too. The fairies of moonlight, but strangely enough they just appeared in his house and nowhere else. He didn't mind having them around though. They were just silent dancers and his sort-of friends, and they obviously loved him a lot too, since they did what they could to make his night time less lonely.

It was closer now, much closer. It still didn't have a real voice, but yet its calling was so intense, and the fairies dance was slightly faster.

Yugi stopped, and so did everything else around him. The younger fairies drew closer to Yugi's body, afraid of what was coming. They knew this forest way better than any other creature, and now they were afraid. The only thing Yugi could do was standing there, a strong protector of theirs.

It moved. For the first time Yugi could make out what it was; a ghost created of emotions of the forest itself; fear, loneliness and pain. It was beautiful, though its body wasn't really there. It was like the fairies, and Yugi understood why they feared this being, and in front of his eyes it took a more visible form. Eyes, as blue as the night sky above, drilled into Yugi's very soul and he did everything to hide what it was looking for.

The fairies now were all around him, wanting to be as close as possible to him. Its fear and pain rubbed off on them, Yugi could feel it.

It drew closer to Yugi forcing up his fear, but still he tried to suppress it. The blue eyed wanted to tell him something, and he couldn't let his own fear and pain block his view.

So much pain. Flames that ate the young trees alive. Axes, and saws, cutting off the bigger trees by the root before the laughing humans took the best wood to build the house Yugi's friends were sleeping in right now.

So much fear. Birds had to abandon their nests and eggs, which the humans mercilessly burned with the useless branches. Foxes and smaller animals had to run away when their holes under the trees were falling in. But just half of them made it in time, the rest was killed, slowly choked when they got stuck under the weight of earth and wood.

So much loneliness. Every animal had lost a mate, parent or cup. Tears were visible in animals as well as trees and the bodiless beings of the forest. They had to watch as their previous home, home of so many beings, were taken over by the ones who had set everything up; two humans. Honda's father's grandparents.

No one had the power to change what had happened. They just had to leave. But the strong emotions created another being. A being that was soon to be as feared as what had happened.

It drew closer to Yugi. Now when he had been so kind and listened to its pain, it wanted to do something back. But it wasn't in its nature to be kind to anyone. With suppressed fear Yugi backed away from the pained eyes.

The fairies finally reached an end of patience. They liked Yugi, loved him, he could see them and didn't cut them out like so many others did. They wanted to protect him from the cruel fate it was about to give him.

Melting together as many as possible, until they were as big as Yugi, they took him by the hand and with silent voices begged him to follow. Yugi didn't have much of a choice. He had to go with the fairies or this other being treated to take him and swallow him whole.

He ran, as silent and graceful as the fairies, which as tightly as were possible for them held his hand. The fairies led him at safe paths in the forest to where they once came from; a lonely tree in the middle of a swamp. His light, silent footsteps didn't leave any tracks in the soft earth.

Tired Yugi sat down in the fast mud under the tree along with fairy pearls. The silver mist gently embraced him, wanting to sooth his torn nerves. The big fairy sat down in front of him watching him in concern. Yugi's seeing eyes locked with the fairy's, the next second it lightly placed it's faint lips on his, before they split up into many beings once again.

The fairies were beings of the forest, the ever dancers in the mist. They loved Yugi in a way impossible to understand since they didn't really exist, weren't really there, yet they stood out so clearly in Yugi's eyes.

But you can't hide from emotions. It silently followed Yugi's scent to where he sat, and this time, the fairies couldn't save him.

It lightly touched Yugi's face making him look into its eyes. It dove into his unprotected mind and dug up feelings he had buried in the deepest parts of his very soul. It found his fear of being left behind, alone and lost.

'Jono and the others will help me,' Yugi thought desperately, his hope the only thing that saved him from this being.

They can't hear you, it whispered, just like the wind, within his mind.

Digging deeper, the being found the feeling of loneliness from the pharaoh's disappearance. Loneliness no one alive could ever imagine.

'They have always helped me out, they will save me again,' flew through his brain.

Only as long as the pharaoh was there and they knew you needed constant protection, it whispered.

In the deepest, darkest corners, at the wall between heart and soul, it found what it had sensed from the beginning; pain. The pain of knowing forever didn't exist. Pain of knowing his life had to change as a rule of passing time. Pain of loneliness. Pain of knowing he would always be bullied for something.

'My friends won't leave me like this. They will come, they'll save me once again. They have to,' Yugi thought as the pain reached though his whole being. But his hope was too weak.

They will never find you here.

The fairies cried unstoppable as the being feed on Yugi's heart and soul, on his emotions of what once created the unwanted being. There was nothing they could possible do to prevent it.

tbc