Yami had come with Seto to the Long Arms after their flight; it had been a slow journey. No sign of the enemy in their sky, so it had been a pleasurable day of flying. He had time to think on who his new mechanic would be; supposedly he was the best around. He had better be, he did not let just anybody play with his plane.
Yami sat beside Seto, they both had a pint of the local ale and were talking of various topics concerning their plane, what the Germans were doing, weather the rumor of the concentration camps were true. Beside him sat Sagoku; they all called him gramps, even Seto who was known for his cold nature.
"So Gramps, what is my new mechanic like?" Yami asked, taking a swig of ale.
"What Merlin? He is a good hearted fellow, and you Phoenix, will find him very interesting."
"Oh? Why's that? Is he a good mechanic?"
"The best, why do you think he is called Merlin? He is named after the engine. Its like he has a natural affinity with the engine. I may spend days trying to find the problem then he comes over and finds it in 5 seconds. That was why he was given the nickname "Merlin". You can trust him Yami" Sagoku finished, taking a long draught of his drink. Yami looked up as the door opened and his eyes locked with amethyst.
"You have just spotted your mechanic Yami"
"What the? He looks like a younger you" Seto gasped from his right.
Seto's observation was true, Merlin looked exactly like him but for a few differences. He had less gold bangs than he, and his eyes were full of friendship and innocents, the amethyst eyes holding his sanguine orbs enthralled. He watched as a tall blonde youth waved Merlin over. He looked to Seto as a gasped exclamation was muttered.
"Who is that?" Seto asked, all Sagoku could do was laugh at Seto's doe eyed expression. Of all the people he never expected to see that on Seto.
"That is Hound, your new mechanic Seto"
"What is it? You like him Seto?" Yami needled the fellow pilot, only to be pushed off his chair in retaliation.
"Ow"
"Leave me alone Ushiro" Came a sweet innocent voice from the other side of the pub. Yami looked up to see Merlin being troubled by a large bear of a man. Even as he watched he saw Hound rush up to defend his friend.
"Oh, still need your
guard dog to defend you Merlin?" Ushiro sneered.
"What do you
want Ushiro?"
"You have the job that I should have had." Ushiro snarled close in Yugi's face. Some of Ushiro's lackeys were holding Hound back.
"Leave him alone you brainless ape" Hound shouted.
"It's okay Joey. I'm not scared of him." Yugi said then turned back to Ushiro "your Job? I got this job because I know what I am doing, I don't just cut corners to make my fix time quicker. How many pilots have gone down because of your botch jobs?"
Seto leaned over to whisper in Yami's ear.
"He's got spirit" Yami nodded in reply as he watched the scene unfold. He did not like the look that came over Ushiros face.
"Well at least I don't have a father that was a coward and a traitor," he snarled.
"Shut up! He wasn't either of those"
"Then why was he dishonorably discharged? Killed himself didn't he? He could have at least taken you with him, I mean like father like son." His lackeys laughed along with him. Yami felt his anger rise as he saw Merlin's spirit dim. Then Merlin was leaving the pub, Hound was calling to him but he continued on. Hound turned round and punched Ushiro, then a fight broke out. Yami walked out to follow Yugi, Seto decided to help Hound out and joined the fray…
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Yugi walked aimlessly
in the darkness, the bright moon lighting his way, he could see the
lights still on in the communication center as the kept a constant
watch on the movements of the German War Machine. As they tried to
conquer Europe.
Before he realized it
he was beside the proud form of Phoenix's Spitfire, bathed in the
silver moonlight like some divine being.
"You know me don't you? You know I would never hurt you?" Yugi asked of the plane, as if it lived and breathed. He stroked the smooth painted aluminum alloy that covered the metal frame of the graceful fighter. The touched soothed Yugi's troubled spirit. His had ghosted over the strange golden eye painted upon its side beside the canopy, he loved that symbol, but he thought it seemed incomplete somehow.
"You ok?" Yugi spun round to see the one that had captured his heart, there stood in the moonlight bathed like his plane was the greatest pilot Phoenix
"P-Phoenix!" Yugi stared in shock.
"Please…call me Yami. I hear you have earned the name Merlin, after the engines. You must be jolly good at fixing them to be named after it." Yami leaned casually against the side of his plane, his profile erotically poised as though the plane and pilot were one in perfect synchrony.
"Then you can call me Yugi." He looked back to the eye. "If you don't mind be asking..What is this symbol?" Yugi pointed to the eye.
"That? It is the eye of Horus"
"Horus?"
"He is one of the Egyptian gods. He is the Falcon god, he was the protector of the Pharaohs and son of the great god Ra. Mother always said it would bring me luck, but I always think something is missing. But I don't know what." Yami explained getting up to sit on the wing.
"Wow, how do you know so much about that?"
"My mother was Egyptian, my father was a British pilot. They met in Egypt when he was flying the camel biplane."
"That must have been great, I love planes. Oh to sit in a cockpit as it fly's."
"What? You never flown in a plane?" Yami asked shocked.
"No, I know every bit of the Spitfire. But I mostly look at the engine. I am too small to fly." He said sadly, looking wistfully at the plane. Yami looked at him a moment then smiled.
"Well then, time to remedy that." He walked over to the hanger, he placed his large nolly coat over his form, on it's back a large gold phoenix, its form not like fire as you would expect, but almost as if it was made of gold. Sharp points like sheets of metal for its wings. Then he grabbed another random jacket and threw it at Yugi. He looked wide-eyed at Yami but put the Jacket on. Yami laughed as it nearly devoured the small one.
"Looks like I will have to get you a special coat" he then climbed into his plane and placed the radio headphones on. "Phoenix to Control, come in control over"
"This is control over."
"I'm going out to test me night landing over"
"Okay phoenix, the sky is clear"
"Ready Yugi? Mind giving my propeller a quick spin." Yugi's smile could have lit up the night. He rushed over and pulled down on the propeller as Yami flicked the ignition. With a deep roar the great Rolls Royce Merlin engine breathed life. Yugi ran to the wheels and removed the chucks that kept the plane in place.
"Come on then. Climb in" Yami motioned to his lap. Yugi was small like a child so he would be able to see over his head. Yugi looked scared a moment, not of the flight. But so many people had a kind of hero worship of him. Women like tea would fawn over him. But he wasn't interested. Never had been, he had been played with too many times by women. Only his mother had been true. But she had died young from an illness, his father perishing in the sky.
"Come on. I don't bite Yugi" he smiled and Yugi echoed it. Yugi climbed up and sat on Yami's lap. Yami closed the canopy and angled the Spitfire down the clear grass field. He pushed the throttle full open and the Spitfire jumped forward like a waiting stallion. It raced towards the sky that was its playground. Yami pulled back slowly on the stick and they were air born.
"Bring the landing gear up would you?" Yami asked in Yugi's ear. Making him shiver and Yami smile. Yugi reached forward and pulled the small leaver on the dashboard up. The two green lights that proclaimed the landing gear down. Became one green light to show the gear is up with a whine of machinery and a clunk as the protective doors closed over the wheels. Yugi looked out the canopy in awe, to be in the sky, the clouds highlighted in liquid silver.
"You like it Yugi?"
"I love it Yami. Thank you!" he replied. Yami placed one hand round Yugi's waist she he had no restraints. Then rolled the plane. Yugi whooped in joy as Yami proceeded to do some more tricks. Then he leveled the plane out.
"Here, you take over" he placed Yugi's hand on the control stick, covering them with his own.
"You sure?"
"Yes, just be gentle, like when you fix her engine" then Yami removed his hands leaving Yugi in control. Yami was impressed; there was no waver as the plane obeyed Yugi's touch. Yami's plane had got the reputation of being temperamental, not obeying the hands of any other but him. So to see the plane do so now was surprising.
"She trusts you" he placed his arms round Yugi's waist. "Yugi….what did Ushiro want with you?" Yugi sighed.
"He wants to fix your plane, he only wants the respect that goes with it. He wouldn't care if you crashed. He was at my other base. He would do shoddy work and the plane would crash."
"And you would care if I crash?" Yami asked, he wanted to know if this one was as caring as he looked. He got his reply.
"Of course I would! You are a person, and…." Yugi cut off blushing.
"And?" but Yugi just looked back to flying making Yami smile. There was more hope than he thought to love this one.
"Yami..don't you think it's strange we look alike?"
"Yes. But my mother always said that if you found a soul that was destined to be yours it would be a mirror of your own"
"Your mother sounds like a great person"
"She was, she died when I was about 12. My father was already dead. He was good friends with Gramps so he took me under his wing so to speak"
"Oh I'm sorry." Yugi said sadly.
"What of you?" Yami asked without thinking only after did he remember what Ushiro had said about Yugi's father. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to"
"No. It's okay. My father died in Germany, but he shouldn't have been there. The Germans knew things they shouldn't that he knew. So he was branded a traitor. Mother….she became shunned as a wife of a traitor. Because I looked so much like my father she started to blame me. She tried to beat me…she drank a lot. Then one day she just….walked off the white cliffs." Yami gasped and tightened his arms round Yugi. The small one rested against his chest and sighed.
"I was left on the streets for a while. Then I joined the RAF and loved Merlin engines so.."
"Well I feel I could have no better looking after my plane and I think she agrees. Come on, we had better land. And don't think I have not noticed the improvements to her. She handles better than knew"
"I'm glad you like it. Tell me anytime if you think anything is wrong. No matter how stupid okay"
"Sure. Why don't you hang with Seto and me when you have some free time? I know Sagoku thinks you're are the best"
"I would like that. Thank you"
"Good. Right hold on." He placed his mike to his mouth "Phoenix to control come in over"
"Control here. Had your fun phoenix? Over."
"Yep. Permission to land. Over"
"Permission granted. Control out"
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Yami angled the plane to the field. Yugi brought the landing gear down and he got ready to land. The fighter glided down to touch the grass with only a slight bump. Yami throttled back the engine and then shut it off. Yugi climbed out and placed the chucks in front of the wheels. Yami climbed down behind Yugi, taking off his large flying jacket and placing it back in the cockpit before he closed the canopy incase it rained. Yugi took off his own Jacket handing it to Yami who placed it back where the owner had left it.
They walked side by side as Yami escorted Yugi to his bunk. When they got there they saw Seto saying goodbye to Joey.
"Well, well, well. What do we have here?" Yami asked. Seto nearly jumped half a mile.
"Nothing!" he turned to walk away. "See you later mutt"
"It's Hound!" Joey shouted. Yami did not miss the smirk on Seto's face as he walked off. Nor the fact that his hair was in a mess. As if it had been ruffled. This would be fun.
"Night Yugi, I'll see you tomorrow. Guess I'll be seeing you too Hound" Joey waved Yami goodnight as he went into the bunk area.
"See you tomorrow Yami" Yugi replied. Yami took a step forward. Looking into those amethyst eyes then he placed a chastate kiss on Yugi's shocked lips. Before turning to go to his own bunk. He had a smirk on his face as he left the shell shocked Yugi behind. Yami had just found his soul mate…he just knew it.
TBC...
KITG:Well this is the next chapter. Sorry for the long wait. Right to clear up some questions that you asked. No this is not set in America but Britain near the White Cliffs of Dover. Which is a coastal town. As for the nicknames here is the run down.
Merlin-Yugi
Hound-Joey
Phoenix-Yami
Dragon-Seto.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter please R&R. Ja ne
