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Bakura: Here's the warning: Since this is a horror fic, expect horrifying things. Nice doesn't own anything except her OC Mina.
Recap: Yugi and Yami have an argument and are mad at each other. Later, Yugi gets locked in a shower and is scalded to death. Or so it seems.
Ch.5: The Spirit is Revealed
"No!" wailed Tea as she saw her dead childhood friend. She ran up to Yami who was still hugging Yugi's body tightly. Yami was sobbing and he hid his face in Yugi's wet and disheveled hair. Tea knelt down to comfort Yami, but soon found herself sobbing uncontrollably. She put her hand on Yugi's neck. She felt something. She had jumped back.
"H-He has a pulse! He's alive!" cried out Tea.
"What? He is?" said Yami with surprise. He checked for Yugi's pulse and it was there! Faint, but there.
"Come on! Let's call 911!" said Tea. She flipped out her cell phone and called the hospital.
'He's going to be okay. He's going to be okay,' thought Yami.
Yugi was taken to the hospital a little while later. The police questioned Tea and Yami. Then, they went to see him at the hospital. They were walking to his room when a doctor stopped them.
"Hey! Get out of our way! I'm related to Yugi!" said Yami angrily as he tried to get around the doctor.
"You're related to the victim?" asked the doctor. He looked Yami up and down noticing that he looked like more mature, and taller, version of the boy he just treated.
"You must be his older brother," said the doctor, "I'm Dr. Please.
"Uh, yeah, Let's go with that," said Yami, "Now, is Yugi going to be okay?"
"I'm very sorry to say, but your brother is in a coma. When you found your brother he was rigid and his eyes were glazed over and fixed like he was dead, correct?"
"Yes…" Yami was still shocked to hear that Yugi was in a coma.
"Well, the only way the body can do that and still be alive is that his body petrified itself. Petrification is a death- like state. Yugi's body must have felt like it was in danger of dieing and did this. So, he must've had a seizure in the shower and the body thought it was going to die because he was face down in the water."
"So what you're saying is that he's hibernating?" asked Tea, "Did he feel any pain?"
"Well, to make a long story short, yes. And no, I don't think he did. But.."
"But what?" asked Yami.
"Well since we gave him a CAT scan, a scan of his brain, his brain hasn't shifted like it should've in a seizure. But we did find out that he was hit on the head with something blunt, like a baseball bat. So I came with the conclusion that…"
"Someone put him the shower on purpose!" finished Yami.
"Yes. And that he had woken up while in the shower and tried to get out but could not for some reason."
"But why? You just said that he had woken up and could've opened the doors to the shower and had gotten out!" exclaimed Tea.
"I don't know. Maybe something was keeping the doors from opening," said Dr. Please.
"Well, thank you for your help doctor," said Yami curtly as he walked into Yugi's room.
"Hold on!" said Dr. Please, "You kids aren't going to try find out who did this?"
"Yes we are," said Yami darkly.
"Well, here's some more info," Dr. Please leaned in closely to Yami and Tea, his voice dropped to a whisper, "When I was looking up similar cases like this, I found one that happened just like this in a town called Shadyside in the U.S. Shadyside is small but has one of the highest teen murders and "accidents" in their state. One of the "accidents" was a cheerleader named Bobbi Corcoran who had died in school shower and it showed that she could've opened the doors and gotten out, but she didn't. So the police there just said that she had a seizure and had died instantly. But being a cheerleader, she was in shape and had no history of having seizures. Also the coroner there said that anyone could look at the girl's face and tell she was alive while the water scalded her and had suffered before she died. Her face was exactly like Yugi's: eyes fixed and glazed over, body and face completely red and blistered, and face contorted in fear and mouth locked open in a silent scream. Maybe, we're dealing with something like that here."
"Okay, thank you Dr. Please," said Yami. He smiled weakly at the kind, young doctor.
"Here's my number. If you guys find anything out about this weirdness or you need my help, call me," said Dr. Please, handing Yami a piece of paper. He took it.
They bowed to Dr. Please and walked into the room. Yugi was hooked up to so many different machines. The only thing that was missing was a ventilator so that meant that he was breathing on his own. His skin wasn't red anymore but was slightly pink and was peeling. Yami looked at his hikari and fell to the floor crying.
Tea rushed over to him and put a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"It'll be okay Yami. Yugi's alive and that's what matters," she cooed.
"I didn't even tell him sorry!" he sobbed.
"Sorry for what?"
"Last night, he and I got into a fight and he said to speak to him again and he called me a traitor!"
"Oh.."
"I could've lost him forever and now he's just lying there not moving. What if he doesn't wake up? What if he stays like that forever? What if-
SLAP!
Tea had slapped him. "No more 'What ifs'! He will get better and you'll get your chance to say sorry to him. Now stop crying like a baby and stand up like a man. Sure it's okay to cry, but don't you dare blame yourself! Now, the best we can do for him now is to find out who did this to him!" yelled Tea angrily.
Yami had stopped crying and stood up. "You're right, Tea, I need to stop crying and do something!" He clenched his fist tightly. "And on who did this to him, I think I know. But first, we must hurry back to Ryou's and tell everyone what has happened. I need you to trail Kaiba for me. Call me if he is doing anything suspicious looking, okay?"
"Sure. I'll watch him."
"Be careful and don't get into a confrontation with him; I don't want you getting hurt."
"Okay, let's go!"
Yami and Tea started to leave the room. Tea stopped and went back to Yugi's bed and kissed him on the head.
"Be strong," she whispered. Tea turned from the bed and ran after Yami.
It was dark when they got outside the hospital. Yami dropped her off at her house and drove off to Ryou's. Tea got her keys and got into her little pink convertible and drove to North Domino, where the Kaiba's lived. She approached the ominous looking mansion and put the top up on her car. She stopped when she saw that all the lights in the mansion were off.
"I guess he went to bed early. I bet he didn't even notice that Mokuba and Mina have been gone all day!" she said to no one. Then she heard a car start up. She leaned forward to see a sliver car parked on the side of the road. The interior light came on and showed the person in the car.
"It's Kaiba! Where's he going? It's almost 11!"
Kaiba's car started to roll past, its headlights shining into her car. 'He's going to see me!' thought Tea. She ducked her head and covered it with her coat. Kaiba drove past, staring straight ahead. His car picked up speed and sped around the corner.
"That's good, he didn't see me," said Tea as she let out the air she had been holding. "Now let's see where Mr. Big shot CEO is going." Tea backed her car up and turned around and drove off after Kaiba.
The road was nearly devoid of cars, so Tea slowed down and put some distance between their cars. They were near the old part of Domino, the old creaking houses looked like they would fall in the wind.
"Why is he over here?" she asked. Suddenly Kaiba's car stopped. "Oh!" said Tea in surprise as she eased on the brakes as quietly as she could. She quickly turned off her car. ' Where are we?' wondered Tea. She looked out of her window and saw grave markers. She gasped. "W-we're at the cemetery? Why would Kaiba be coming here at this time of night?"
Kaiba got out of his car and walked onto the wet grass of the cemetery and disappeared among the tall graves. Then there was a bright blue light where Kaiba disappeared.
"What was that?" said Tea in shock. She got out of her car and ran to the blue light.
"OMG! It's a portal!" she exclaimed. There in the graveyard was a blue portal. "Did Kaiba go though? Did he make the portal?" She got close to the portal. She pulled out her cell. "Guys?" she said into the phone, "Come to the old cemetery. I think you would want to see this."
She got closer to the portal and put her hand in it. The next thing Tea knew, she was sucked into the portal, going God knows where.
A little while later, Yami and the other showed up. They looked around.
"Where's Tea?" asked Joey.
"Yeah where is- Hey what's that?" said Tristan. He pointed to the portal. A pink cell phone was right next to it.
"You don't think…"
"Let's go!" yelled Yami and he jumped into the portal. The others followed in suit.
"Ugh.. Where did I land?" asked Tea as she picked her self off of the ground. She was in another cemetery. She looked around. "Kaiba has to be around here somewhere…" she trailed off. She had spotted Kaiba. He was dancing around a tall gravestone. He kicked his long legs high in the air and twirled around. The fog in the graveyard swirled around him, the moon had tinged it green. He arched his back and bowed to the moon. Then he did his silent tango again, and again he bowed the moon. He started dancing again, spinning around, the moonlight shining on him, he had a strange tranquil smile on his face. Soon, Tea couldn't stand it any longer.
"Kaiba? What are you doing?" she asked him as she stepped out of her hiding place.
Kaiba stopped dancing and the smile disappeared from his face. He turned to face Tea. "I'm not Kaiba," he said huskily.
"What? I don't understand, Kaiba?"
"I'm not Kaiba," he repeated softly, then he screamed, "I'M NOT KAIBA!"
"But I saw you!" cried Tea.
Kaiba's eyes glowed and he lifted his hand high in the air.
"Oh!" Tea cried out as dirt flew off of the grave he was on. It flew high in the air and then came back down and spun around the two teens. Soon Tea couldn't see the graves or the portal anymore.
"Stop it! Stop it, please!" she screamed but it was drowned out by the roar of the dirt.
Kaiba's hand was still in the air. His eyes glowing at the excitement of his power. Soon, the roar stopped and his husky voice rose fresh in the cyclone of dirt.
"I'm not Kaiba. Kaiba is gone for now and maybe forever."
"What are you? Why are you doing this?" demanded Tea.
"I'm, what you would call an evil spirit. And I was hired to torture and kill you, Tea dear, and your friends. Also I like doing what I do."
"Hired? Who hired you? Why would he want us killed? Why do you?"
" He calls himself Mr. Zero. And I don't know why he wants you dead. I want you dead because I've been put in my grave or defeated by teens countless times. Actually we're standing next to where I was buried for 100 years. But I was freed and went on a rampage again but that story is for another time.
"This isn't happening," said Tea quietly as she hugged her self tightly.
"Please let me go, okay? Please?"
The spirit shook its head no.
"Please!"
"No," he pointed down to the grave, "It's time for you to go down there!"
"No!"
The spirit laughed.
"Why did you hurt Yugi? He didn't even get to fight back!"
With this statement the evil looked at her with confusement. "I haven't hurt little Yugi yet. I was going to go after him next."
"What? If you didn't…" started Tea but she was cut off.
"No more talking. It's time to meet your coffin mate!"
Tea looked down and saw a coffin. The lid lifted open. Tea almost gagged at what she saw. Hundreds of white worms were slithering over a skeleton. Tea looked away and tried to push away the image of the worms out of her mind.
Then she heard voices. She recognized them. Yami and Joey's yell. Tristan's reply. Mokuba and Mina frightened shout.
'They came for me!' thought Tea.
"Your friends are too late to save you, said the evil calmly and without out urgency.
"Please no!" screamed Tea, "Don't do this!"
Kaiba grabbed her and with inhuman strength , threw the screaming Tea into the grave.
Tea screamed as she saw the dark coffin with the disgusting worms in come closer…
To be Cont.
N: Wow a cliffie!
B: Why are you stopping? It's finally getting good.
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Next Chapter: Will Tea survive against the inhumanly strong CEO or is she and the Gang doomed to fall at his hands?
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