Little Bitty Pretty One
Chapter Sixteen
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Atem Smirked with an unnerving knowledge that he would win as he did in times before. He slowly walked over to the bar and grabbed thirty thin shot glasses and set twenty of them in two long rows making an alley between them like a bowling alley lane. He made a tower starting with four glasses on the bottom moving up to three on top of them, then two and one on the very top. All thirty of the glasses were filled with highly flammable vodka.
"Interesting set up. Are we bowling?" Pegasus smirked. "I am an expert bowler."
"Before you get too ahead of yourself. Let me explain the rules of this game." Atem smirked as he pulled out a match book and struck a match. "This is like bowling but you do not want to knock those glasses down."
"What are you talking about? How is this bowling if you don't knock anything down?"
"Allow me to finish my explanation and you will see. You do not want to knock those down because this lit match will be balancing on the top glass." He smiled as he gently placed the match on the glass so it was balancing on the brim. He then moved over to the pool table and grabbed the Eight ball and the Que ball. "We will use these instead of bowling balls. Now we each take one turn. Whoever gets the ball closest to the tower without knocking it down will be the winner."
"Hm, I accept your challenge." Pegasus smiled. "Bowling, no matter what kind is my specialty."
"Would you like to go first?" Atem smiled handing him the eight ball.
"Naturally."
Bakura stood by with a furrowed brow and watched in wonder, a dangerous game, this one was. Not lonely with the one who knocked the tower down be the loser but the row of glasses would catch fire like the fuse of a bomb leading to the loser and they would be burned alive. Atem sure knew how to throw a party.
Pegasus took the ball and sized up the playing field and smiled after getting just the right view. He pulled his arm back and gently let the ball roll out of his fingers. "Beat that." He said
"It is unwise to gloat when the ball hasn't even stopped rolling yet." Atem pointed out and growled as the ball tapped the glass casing a sharp 'tink' echo through the bar.
"Ha! What were you saying? The ball is touching the tower, you can't get any closer than that." Pegasus smiled, "I Win."
"I would still like to take my turn." Atem smirked as if he knew something Pegasus did not. He pulled his arm back and licked his lips.
Pegasus grimaced; there was no way he would let Atem do what he was planning. He smirked and gently stepped behind him and knocked the end of a pool stick at the back of his knees causing the businessman to release the ball sharply. "Ha!"
"Pegasus." Atem growled sharply as he watched his ball roll down the alley and braced himself for what would happen next. Suddenly the world came to a stop and only heartbeats were left as the sound of the two balls hitting each other filled the air. Atem's ball had knocked against Pegasus's causing it to smash full force into the glass tower.
The match fell into the first glass as the tower came crashing down. "I win, Pegasus. I figured you would cheat." He smirked and stood back holding out his hand as an eye began to glow on his forehead.
"Ha! You cheated your ball is the one that caused the crash."
"But. It was your ball that broke the glasses. I said whoever's ball is the closest without knocking the tower down would be the winner. Your ball knocked down the tower so I am the winner." He smirked darkly.
"I am not turning myself in. You'll have to kill me before that happens." Bakura stood up as Pegasus yelled.
"I will do you one better." Atem swept his hand over them and curled his fingers. "MIND CRUSH!" he yelled and the world around them swirled and spun in an infinite void of darkness. "Let us see how you like being sold for pleasure," where the last words Bakura and Pegasus could hear before their minds were lost in the world of the shadows.
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"W-where is he?" Yugi asked. He had woken up a few hours ago and was trying to get the location of Atem out of the two men next to him. "He went after Pegasus, didn't he? Did He!" Yugi panicked.
"Yug' listen…" Jou started
"No! You know how bad Pegasus is and you let him go!" tears fell freely from his eyes. "I love him."
Jounouchi paused and gave a small smile, "I knew you were in love. Listen Yug' remember how you are always telling me that when you fall in love you will never lose hope or faith in that person? You told me that when you fall in love you will always trust in that person."
"Yes but-"
"No Buts Yugi. Atem will be fine and he will come back." The moment those words fell from his lips the door began to open slowly.
