Disclaimer: WookieeBeta does not own Yuugiou. Nor does she own caffeine, which she seriously needs right now.
Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude
Chapter Five: Just Go
By WookieeBeta
"Jou!" Yuugi exclaimed, pointing upwards. "Jou, look!"
"Wha...? Aw, man! Come on, Yuug, we gotta get out of here!" He grabbed the shorter duelist's arm and began dragging him in the opposite direction.
"No, wait, Jou - that's Kaiba driving the helicopter!" He felt like doing a jig. They were saved! But wait...Kaiba didn't look happy. He kept glancing backwards and frowning at something. Yuugi shaded his eyes with a hand and searched the skyline. He cursed.
"What is it?"
"It's the Big Five," Yuugi growled. "They're too close - Kaiba'll never be able to get back off the ground! We've got to do something, Jou!" They started jumping up and down, waving and shouting for Kaiba to turn around, but the CEO steadfastly ignored them. The chopper slowed and stabilized.
WHAM!
Even from so far away, Yuugi could hear the screaming. Something very big and very heavy had hit the side of the helicopter, knocking it out of control; now it was plummeting towards the ground. Then the wild spin changed subtly; the blades kicked back into gear, and the chopper settled professionally into the snow. The door swung open.
"Come on!" Mokuba yelled. "We've gotta move! Come on, let's go!"
The two duelists took off at a dead run. Jou soon outpaced his shorter friend; he hesitated in the open door and glanced over his shoulder.
"Yuugi! Yuugi, look out!" he screamed. The shorter duelist spun around, and his eyes widened in fear. Jinzo: Psycho Shocker was standing just behind him, a ball of deadly energy already forming in his hands.
Thinking quickly, Yuugi pulled a random card out of his deck and held it in front of him, calling on dormant Shadow Powers to bring the monster to life. Big Shield Gardina shimmered into being just in time to take the brunt of the hit. Even so, the force of the blow sent him tumbling head over heels and forced the air from his lungs.
Jounouchi started back out of the chopper, but an iron hand on his arm pulled him up short.
"No," Mokuba shouted. "No, Jouno! Let him go! We have to leave!"
"But Yuugi - !"
"Get in!"
"Yuugi!"
Bleary-eyed, Yuugi tottered to unsteady feet. "Just go, Jounouchi! Go with Shizuka!" He pulled another card from his deck, and the puzzle glowed.
/Let me help/ Yami said.
/No. It's too cold for you, you'd freeze to death - this is my battle./
/But Yuugi -/
/I said no, all right/ Even mentally, his voice was breaking; the sound of the helicopter taking off behind him sounded more like burning bridges than anything else he'd ever heard. Sure, he'd faced death before, but that didn't mean he enjoyed it.
"Well, well," Jinzo gloated. "Look who's decided to stay and play. I guess I'm going to get a new body after all."
"In your dreams," Yuugi snarled.
The deck master didn't reply. Instead, he collected another sphere of energy between his palms and sent it flying at Yuugi; still winded, the young duelist couldn't move swiftly enough to dodge it.
/No! Yuugi/ The puzzle flashed for a brief instant, and Yuugi felt himself thrown roughly into his soul room as the spirit took over.
/What? Yami! No, don't - /
/Yuugi...I'm sorry.../ He felt the spirit separate from him, and as his eyes refocused he could just make out the ghostly form, limp on the ground.
Gentle violet eyes narrowed and glinted in sudden rage. "Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl," Yuugi growled, pulling two cards from the top of his deck. "Annihilate him!" The mages leapt forward to attack; Dark Magician Girl brought her staff down on Jinzo's head, but the armored mage spun at the last second, sending a blast of black magic to intercept an attack rushing towards Yuugi. The young duelist dropped to his knees as the two attacks collided overhead and cancelled each other out. He drew another card and tried to summon it, but no luck; having two monsters in action was already too much of a strain on his limited powers, he couldn't support a third.
By now the other members of the Big Five had caught up and entered the fray. Dark Magician Girl fell first, destroyed by an attack from Deep Sea Monster; the other mage just managed to save his master from another direct attack by throwing himself in its path. Still standing protectively over his unconscious dark's form, Yuugi brandished his Millennium Puzzle as a weapon, swinging it at the end of its chain like a mace; Nightmare Penguin learned the hard way just how sharp its edges were. But the gundam wasn't bothered by the cold metal, and it wrapped its iron fingers around the young duelist's neck. Yuugi kicked and writhed until he could struggle no more; he fell limp, and the gundam tossed him easily through the air to land crumpled several yards away.
"Jou," he whispered, and then everything went black.
A/N 1: The text inside theslashes (/…/) is mental speech, because FFN hates the vertical bars and I don't like underlining. No difference from person to person. I'll try to make it clear who's talking, but if there's any confusion please let me know and I'll try to fix it…thankies!
A/N 2: Minor edits, title change. – WB 08Nórui2006
