Unlockshipping (Shadi x Yami no Yugi)

(please, please, please, someone tell me that Shadi frightens them. I'm not the only weird one, am I?)

Never had he encountered a soul so twisting and turning, so much like a labyrinth. It should be impossible for one to be so defended. Each door a trap. Each trap a door. Stairs on the ceiling, doors upside down, floors that collapsed, illusions and hidden doors, corridors that led nowhere - was this room an intricate defense system? If so, what was it protecting? What secrets did this strange boy guard?

Shadi could not help but feel a little excited. It had been too long since he had faced a worthy opponent. He would find the secrets that this boy with no name held.

The true room…what possible secret could this tomb-like labyrinth hold? What was the boy hiding?

Shadi paused, suddenly wondering.

Did the boy himself even know?

The soul room was a reflection of one's inner self. Shadi had seen many of these souls in his life time. He had seen rooms drowning in slime and discarded treasures, in the mind of woman who refused to let go of the past. He had fought his way through a room filled with ravenous creatures, symbols of the rage and hatred that tore at its owner's mind.

A labyrinth…what did a labyrinth mean? Perhaps a complex mind, filled with lies and secrets that entangled all that entered?

No. That did not seem right.

Slowly, Shadi turned, and a door emblazoned with the Millennium Eye stood before him. He hesitated before laying his hand on the door.

Perhaps this mind was of one who was lost.

If that was so, why was the boy lost?

Shadi opened the door, and there, at the center of the dark room, was the boy, sitting easily in a stone throne. A calm, smug smile rested on his face. Shadi felt his lip curl with distaste. This insolent, overconfident boy could not be lost. The labyrinth was merely a defense for the lies and secrets he kept.

But even he was not convinced by his own words.

A/N: *trying to recover from a seizure brought on by the arrival of Shadi* I. HATE. SHADI. Whenever I think of him, all I can think of is that smug, unconcerned little smile he had on his face in the mange, mere panels after the Millennium Ring had stabbed a guy in the chest and then burned him from the inside out so that he puked fire until he became a heap of charcoal. O-o Yeah. The manga was brutal. But hey, we're out of the V's, finally. Can anyone believe that I got this far in this project? I certainly can't. Next up is…Twistedshipping…Pegasus and…Shadi…again…I think I'm going to die.