Chapter 3

Battle of Torment Part 1

"Shall we get this battle on then?" Mar was now excited as he got his beyblade. He didn't show it to them but it shimmered of black in silver in his hand.

Yugi took a step back giving Tyson and Mar some room for the bey battle. Tyson placed Dragoon on the shooter and placed in the ripper. Mar did the same waiting for the right moment.

Tyson however felt as though he didn't know what he was doing. After what Yugi said didn't make much sense to him, yet it did at the same time. He didn't feel angry as he should, instead he felt unsure, not just the situation, but of Yugi, Mar and this Marik that has something about him that doesn't feel right. He wasn't sure what these shadow games really did, but he had no choice but to find out. Wait a minute.

"Hey Yugi?" Tyson said, looking straight at Mar, but talking to Yugi. "What's these shadow games going to do once I rip my blade?"

Yugi was about to say something but Marik stopped him. "Don't say anything Yugi! Or Hilary will be done for! Let the boy find out on his own." Marik smirked. Yugi wasn't sure how he would hurt Hilary from where Marik was standing, since Marik was a few feet infront of him, but at the same time Yugi didn't want to know, so Yugi stayed silent and watched the first round.

"I can see your Dragoon in my power, the power of Storm will be fulfilled in my body, and I can finally destroy those in my way." Mar said to Tyson, still hasn't ripped their blade yet.

"In your dreams creep!" Tyson said acting tough now, reassuring himself that Mar wasn't that scary at all. "Now stop chatting and get this battle started!"

"3!

2!

1!

Let It Rip!"

And the blades flew through the air and landed on the ground, that's when Marik's millennium staff suddenly glowed, and the surrounding park changed. The sky changed to red smoky air. The trees were dead and petrified and the sun and Moon stood together in the sky, bigger then they usually looked. The air became thinner dusty. It was a like a transformation of what Hell would really look like.

Tyson coughed as he realized the area changed, Dragoon and Mar's blade were spinning on the ground, not making a move since the surrounding area distracted them.

"Pay attention Tyson! This is just the beginning of Shadow Game!" Yugi warned him from a few feet behind him. Hilary's body was still placed in the same area as it was, except she was laying on grass but dry dirt, and the pentacle was still visible.

Tyson got himself back together when Mar started laughing. "It's a dream come true!" he giggled, "Oh god! Thank you Marik! The place is absolutely beautiful!!" he continued laughing until he suddenly stopped, "You know what's missing?" he asked himself and the rest. "Oh that's right! It must be Hilary's corpse being hung on a cross, and their I can strip her and do whatever I want with her beautiful nude body!"

Tyson got growled as Dragoon reacted and attacked Mar's blade. Yugi became angry and disgusted by Mar's words, but he kept his cool, he'll be able to have his turn soon. Tyson kept swiping and attacking, but Mar kept laughing as though every hit on his blade was a reaction that hit him as well, strange slashing marks started appearing on his arms and chest, and Tyson was sure that was not a newly found tattoo he just noticed. Every slash kept Mar moving a bit back, his gesture going side ways and the marks started to appear until one of them started to bleed. Then he stopped laughing and looked straight at Tyson with blackish bleeding eyes.

"You know what's the best part of this Beyblade Shadow Game?" he asked Tyson but answered himself, "It's the fact every direct hit you make on each other's blade effects the blader as well!" then he started laughing, that's when Mar's blade came swiping in and hit the side of Dragoon. Tyson screamed as he felt the slashed pain that came on his hip. Tyson lift up his shirt to see the mark, and their a large long and slender string of red blood stranded from his hip and across his stomach appeared.

Tyson gasped as he realized what these Shadow Games must really be. Ray, Max, Kai and Kenny made out what just happened and was not sure whether this was the safest thing for Tyson to do. Yugi was right, they didn't know much of Shadow Games but knew enough that it lead to suffering in pain and to perhaps leading to death.

"Come one World Champion! Fight Me!" Mar yelled at Tyson who was now over excited. Tyson has no choice but to bear with the pain and try as hard as he can to dodge the attacks Mar made, and he had to do that fast or he's done for.

Hilary opened her eyes as she notice she was sleeping in bed with the look-alike Yugi by her side. That's when she stood up quickly, the look-alike Yugi was still asleep, naked under the sheets as she was. Hilary placed her hand on her stomach as she thought of something that was not good. Hilary could feel herself now drowning deeper into the dark water, the bed, the dark room and the dark skinned Yugi disappeared as she felt the drowning went on, and she felt as she tried to breathe the air got thinner.

"What's wrong with you!" Tyson's voice yelled to her.

"You don't even know how to Beyblade, so just leave us alone!" his words yelled at her again.

"You have no reason to be here," Kai's cold and low voice was stabbing her painfully.

"You have no reason to be here, you should just stick to your school stuff." Ray said to her.

"Go home Hilary, it's safer there," Max's voice ringed in her ear.

No it's not, home is not safe, mom will be there. And she'll get mad once she knows my secret, she'll lock me up in that room again, maybe then I won't eat food for a month now. How come you guys can't understand that? Why don't you know?

Oh that's right, I didn't tell them about my past, they don't know how my life is at home, or why I act that way. Mom doesn't want to me to have any friends because it will get in the way of my dream becoming perfect for her.

Wait a minute? My dream? It's not my dream, it's her dream. My dream…my dream is….shattered. I have no dream because mom took it away, and now I can't remember it.

What would it matter, Tyson and the rest wouldn't care anyways, no matter what it is, they won't have any sympathetic feelings for me. I'm just in their way. Maybe Mom was right? Maybe I should just stick to her dream, she'll be happy, and I'll live good life style, probably have a better life then Tyson's!

No I won't. I'll never be as happy as Tyson can be. Maybe I should just disappear, maybe I do deserve to die, no one could really want me in this world, not here, not anywhere, not now, not ever.

As she was about to drift away, Hilary felt her skin being swept away from her flesh and bones, and she was put into a dark hole of fire sticks that pierced through her, the pain was not satisfying, but she deserved it.

Yugi somehow felt as though he was going to vomit, parts of his body was hotter then most, and he wondered if these actions of his body was coming from something in this shadow world. He tried to ignore the strange symptoms his body was making and watched the battle.

Tyson was in complete danger, there were more bleeding marks on his chest that bled through his yellow shirt, his jeans were ripped as blood drenched through. His yelling in pain became louder, each attack from Mar on Dragoon was trying to put him down to his knees or to the floor.

Dragoon was dodging each swipe and attack but the edges he kept going, Tyson felt he was running away, once he tried to attack, Mar's blade quickly dodged it and attacked from the back, Tyson's back was swiped like rakes raking down his back. Yugi couldn't take anymore watching Tyson go through this pain.

"Stop!" Yugi yelled. "Stop the match!"

"No! I can beat him!" Tyson panted. He closed one eye as the side of his head was bleeding and blood dripping down to wear his eye was.

"No you can't!" Yugi yelled at him. "You've won Mar, the battle is over!"

"A beyblade match can't be over until one of the beyblades stops spinning!" Kenny panted explaining it to him.

Yugi just glared down at him with a scowl, "And once Tyson's beyblade stops spinning, so will Tyson's heart! This battle is clearly is a win or die battle, that's how all Shadow Games are like!" Yugi yelled down at Kenny. Kenny backed off.

"Then what should we do then!? Tyson won't stop beyblading!" Max nervously yelled at Yugi.

"Yes he will!" Yugi assured him and that's when from Max's pockets, Yugi swiped Draciel and his launcher shot Draciel to the floor where Draciel pushed Dragoon and flew into Yugi's hands where he catched it before he fell. Tyson collapsed on the ground and Ray and Kenny ran to him. Draciel was still spinning as he swiped a knock off to Mar's blade and it flew back into Mar's hands.

"That's not fair! You aren't aloud to do that!" Mar yelled at Yugi.

Yugi gave back Max's launcher and Draciel. "You've won Mar, any more of that battle and Tyson would have died."

"What!?" Mar screamed. "What the hell is"--"Enough Mar!" Marik interrupted him by yelling at him. "Yugi clearly is a weak hearted one, he wants to duel me that much, then let him. Those Beyblade brats don't know anything of how to handle the Shadow Games, thus you automatically win."

Mar calmed himself down as he smirked. "Well that wasn't much of a battle, but I still say he kept playing, that way I can watch him die trying."

Yugi growled at his thought. This was enough to make him mad, and that means he was about to become scary.

"Marik!!" He screamed at him, that's when he put his hand up to point at him, suddenly the millennium puzzle started glowing, the beybladers notice a golden Egyptian glowing eye appeared on Yugi's forehead. "I will defeat you! You've done enough to mess with my friends in the past, but this is the last straw you make!"

Yugi's millennium puzzle started to float up to Yugi's chest, the eye in the middle glowing brighter. "It's Time to Duel!!"

The pain in Hilary's body that burned like burning stakes suddenly disappeared when she noticed her eyes became clearer and the air was easier to breathe. There she noticed she was on her knees, her wrists were tied together, her neck was tied by a leach and so was her waist, she looked up to find the dark skinned Yugi looking down to her, her face emotionless, but he grabbed his chest as though something was inside it. From there he was standing on a white marble stoned stage where behind him was his Egyptian servants and a few other people that looked somewhat familiar. She was kneeling in the sun, two large and tall Egyptians were holding the ropes from her neck and waist, and she heard a mumbling voice that became louder as she focused and knew what the man in white robes with golden jewelry and wearing a weird hat was saying.

"For being an Evil spirit brought into our kingdom, you are here to be banish from this world, Osiris shall take your crimson heart and…"

He went on explaining such things that made her think she was being punished for something she knew she didn't do. But some part of her said,

What does it matter? I know he wouldn't love me for this, not when I'm…I'm

The thought just hit when she realized what was wrong with her.

That's right…I forgot, I forgot to tell Atem that I'm……

She felt the world went black around her as she felt the blade swiped her head off from her neck.

A/N: wowzers! Yugi's battle with Marik will be the next chapter! Things are getting' crazy now, Hilary is having strange dreams, Tyson is hurt, and Yugi goes wacko!! Yay! Well I finished this chapter in like one day! It's already 12:15 am! Ha! Okay then, the story still continues, so until then, wait and see!