Hey you guys, I just wanted to bring up that I added this line to chapter ten, "She continued to hold onto the now bloodied wash cloth, positioning the rag again so that she could wipe off more of the gruesome red liquid on her face. Katie also noticed that she needed to clean up the bloodied mess on the floor, along with the blood on her daughter's arm" right after one of the sentences (made a stupid mistake because, well... you remember how Terra's mother had blood all over herself, right? Yeah so, I needed to add that line in there and two, I changed one sentence around where I ended up calling the darkside a parasite instead of calling him someone). Well, anyways, just wanted to share the stupid mistakes I both made and changed. :)
Well, anyways, thanks for reading!!!
Oh and, all view points expressed by certain evil characters aren't similar to my own (just trying to figure out what Marik would think) and two, this scene is still taking place in the middle of the night (I'm making Domino City kind of like a Manhattan where several people are out walking about in the middle of the night... but not as much people, at night time, in Las Vegas). You get what I'm saying, right?
Disclaimer: I do not own YuGiOh
Chapter Eleven
Nothing But A Darkened Shadow
The darkside continued to walk calmly over to the elder man and his son, smirking cruelly to himself. Though he didn't have an actual design in mind, he knew he'd be able to improvise on his work. However, he did need to plan ahead on 'how to get the two mortals away from everyone and everything else'. The evil creature, though deeply amused by humans "begging for him to cease in his actions", wanted to find a way to get a point across to his ex-wife, Katie! Along with his daughter...
Marik was going to kidnap those two beings, along with his past lover's mother! It wanted to show the two females that he was nothing but heartless! The massive dark hole, the one in which replaced its heart, wanted to demonstrate to those who believed he could love that, "destruction was something that would always be craved by him". It also wanted to share this with his host, including the male's older siblings. The darkside wanted to drive his light's memories into the past, make him remember what his dark half truly was! Pure hatred, all burned into one mind.
As the dark shadow made his way up to the worthless father, the little boy turned his head towards him. The young child eyed him through curious, light brown orbs... the eyes in which had just recently held soft, light blue tears.
Marik simply looked down at the boy, growling at how naive children were. The evil despised watching children cry when they were hurt! Marik, back when he had been restrained inside the dark portions of his hikari's mind, wouldn't put up with the boys tears! It listened to the young boy's thoughts slightly, sending off cruel responses in return which merely mocked the poor boy...
- Flashback -
Young, ten year old Malik sat on the cold, stone floor in his underground prison. The area had been desolate for the past two hours now and the child had been quite pleased with that! He wanted, or rather needed, to be alone. He didn't want to share how he felt to his older siblings. He couldn't for they just wouldn't understand his true desire to see the outside world, to watch people face the same ritual in which he himself had just recently experienced... the tomb keeper's initiation.
'How can my father just accept our family's duties towards the stupid pharaoh?! And carve those pathetic memories into my back?!' the boy wondered sadly yet furiously, 'Oh Ra, why am I the one that's being punished?! Why is our whole family being punished?!' he continued, looking up as if he would see what was known to the outside world as the sun and the sky, but only found the decayed ceiling above him. The symbol that would forever remind him of his entrapment.
The boy tried to choke down his tears, jolting his head quickly to face the ground again. He couldn't bare this feeling of containment! He wanted to break free of this hell hole! The boy wanted his family to understand... or, maybe, they already did but just didn't care.
'I swear to Ra that I will not stand for this type of punishment! I'll destroy myself if I have to! I hate my father for what he's done! I hate how he just stands there and accuses me of my mother's death!!! He just doesn't care about me! No one cares!!! I want to kill him!!! I want to kill myself!!!' Malik screamed in his mind, the tears falling rapidly from his light violet orbs. The boy unconsciously took his hands and placed them over both of his eyes, his tanned body shaking violently.
'No one ever listens' he thought, his mind racing through the millions of different images that bombarded his head. However, the young boy was completely unaware of the other presence in the room. It had been there the whole time... lustfully feeding away on the child's negative emotions like that of a hungered wolf, savagely ripping apart its prey to get at the portions it desired.
This dark creature, however, abruptly became bored with its host. The newborn darkside couldn't seem to understand why this child would rant on and on about chaos and destruction yet, never comply with any of it! The boy just sat there thinking about what he was going to do and what he wanted to do! There were no true acts of rebellion... ha, the darkside knew he could help the boy with that little problem though. The pure evil, hidden within the child's tormented mind, had already obtained the knowledge that the boy was disgustingly weak! It also knew that there were these "other" emotions that inhabited its host, keeping the young tomb keeper from proceeding on with his wishes! They were these certain types of emotions that kept him from brutally murdering the lives of others, and causing havoc destruction! Though, to the demon's disgust, it didn't know what the hell those feelings were... it held no clue as to what it was up against.
The young demon was able to get its voice heard straight after the initiation but, disappointingly, nothing living on the outside of Malik's mind acknowledged what this young creature had to say! They wouldn't listen to him! They just listened to Malik!!! They probably weren't even aware of this newborn child's existence!!! The very second it was born, the monster wanted to take control over its host's body and mind! It wanted to walk upon the earth, feel all the sensations that clouded itself around him, and physically cause hellish actions to humans by itself... with no help needed once so ever.
At that moment the young, human boy sniffled, 'It is just not fair' he cried sadly into his strongly tanned hands.
"You're right, it's not fair..." the demon hissed, causing the boy's eyes to widen in fear. Who was that?! How could this person hear his thoughts?!
"Wha... who are you?!" Marik shouted, pulling himself up and onto his bare feet. He began to quickly look around the small, dimly lit room.
"You ask me who I am? Ha, you'd get a better answer if you stuck with what... heh heh" the shadow announced evilly, obviously getting a terrified reaction from the boy. The child began shaking somewhat furiously, jolting his head in every which way possible to figure out where the voice was coming from. However, to his utter most fear, he couldn't find the source.
'He... it must be hidden in one of the corners of this room! This thing has to be somewhere in here!' the young tomb keeper thought whilst backing up into the one area of the room that had the most light! Though, there wasn't a whole lot of it.
"Ha, trying to remain in the light my dear host? I can assure you that the tiny portion of light there won't protect you for long..." the darkside stated mockingly, its coldness truly beginning to reveal itself to the frightened boy.
"... what are you?" the child finally asked softly, trying to cover up his own fear. 'I need to be brave! I can't just stand here and cower in fear over a dumb voice that's probably all just in my head! Something that's probably only a part of my imagination!' the boy pondered, attempting to give himself some confidence.
However, the evil creature laughed menacingly at the child's conclusion! It was quite amused by its weak side's thoughts.
The young boy could hear this cruel laughter, his fear and confusion beginning to return to the conscious state of his mind.
"Well... aren't you going to answer?! What are you?!!!" Marik shouted, his eyes shedding tears rapidly. He still couldn't find the source of the voice but, at that moment, the dark shadows around him seemed to advance on him. The darkness acted as if it were about to consume him! His very form... his very life. The child kept glancing around the darkened room frantically, praying to Ra that this was only a dream! That the voice wasn't truly there.
"You think I'm not real, host?" the evil stated rudely, "Then I guess you'll just have to turn around then, Malik" the voice growled angrily in the back of his mind, waiting for the boy's body to respond.
The child listened, obviously showing no resentment to the demand given. He automatically turned around and then, to the boy's utter horror, his shadow below him caught his eye for it began to change. His nicely brushed hair had sprouted up into these hellish-like spikes, his shadow's fingers became like that of a demon's claws, and the eye of Horus shined brightly on its forehead in gold.
This darkened figure soon grew tremendously in size, looming out over the boy's small form and holding its arms out to him.
"Come now, host. Am I still not real? Or am I just a simple character created from your puny little, overdramatic imagination?" the shadow mocked venomously, slowly beginning to twist up his light's emotions. The demon, though it enjoyed tormenting its host, didn't appreciate being considered not real! The creature was very real, and it would make sure that every being knew of its existence.
"I don't have an overdramatic imagination and you... you didn't answer my question! What are you?!" the young tomb keeper cried out in fear. He had to figure out what this thing truly was! Malik knew that it wasn't in the least bit human and that the creature wasn't kind! He could tell that it enjoyed mocking him and that it took great pleasure in toying with his mind and... wait a minute! His shadow, did he look like that now?
Marik widened his eyes and quickly glanced down at his fingers, only to find that they were still normal. The boy then returned his gaze to the shadow, or rather his shadow, finding that it still had all those monstrous characteristics! But, why didn't he look like that?! However, unbeknownst to the boy, the evil creature soon took its shape right next to him. This time it was in its transparency form.
The young darkside frowned, wondering as to how blind his light could possibly be! The creature was able to recover though and, therefore, laughed menacingly... the echo of this blasting through Malik's entire mind, nearly driving him into insanity.
"Do you really want me to answer your question, Malik?!" the heartless creature stated evilly, obviously enjoying every minute of this torture session, "Ha, then here it is! You see, my dear weak side... that I am your hatred, your evil, your jealousy, and your anger!!! and I will take control of you one day, Malik, for you are merely my host and nothing else!!! As of today, I sit here somewhat patiently in the dark portions of your mind and feed off of all your negative emotions! Haha!! and guess what, hikari? The more rage I get, the stronger I become! Oh and trust me, you've given me more than enough negative energy! Hahahahaha..." the dark voice echoed loudly throughout Malik's mind, causing the child to seize a hold of his head and groan in pain from the now tormenting headache.
Just then a sudden evil force blasted throughout his mind, causing the boy to blackout immediately! The darkside, whilst standing over him in its transparency form, watched on as Malik collapsed harshly to the ground. The parasite grinned evilly to itself, deciding that it would torment the boy through nightmares instead. The demon was stronger now but it still wanted to wait! It wanted to plan out the ultimate revenge on its creator, his host's father! Along with the rest of the man's family! And it wasn't going to play nice...
The darkside soon turned its attention towards the child, the boy in which trembled violently on the ground. The demon smirked cruelly at this site for he knew exactly what kind of torture Malik was experiencing through his dreams! Or rather, his nightmares.
The parasite then disappeared completely from the world! Or at least, the creature's form did... however its own sick, twisted mind smoothly entered the tomb keeper's haunted dream, preparing itself to be fed with more hatred, along with the treasure of viewing the child's fear overtake him! Announcing that the darkness, had won...
- End of Flashback -
The father of the small child sensed the egyptian's presence, turning around to face the intruder and glaring through anger filled eyes, "What is it that you want?" he asked venomously.
Marik simply shrugged, "I just saw you two over here, obviously in conflict with one another and I thought I could... help" he stated calmly, smirking at how he could make such excellent statements in which didn't lie, yet didn't exactly tell the truth either.
"Ha, I don't need your help and two, it's none of your damn business as to where my conflicts arise!" the grown man spat furiously, preparing himself to knock the tanned egyptian unconscious. However, his young child looked between the two in fear, once again allowing his tears to fall.
"Daddy, pwease stop..." the young boy begged, tugging slightly on his father's baggy jeans.
The man glared cruelly down upon the boy, preparing to strike! However the demon noticed this and, on a sudden impulse, took a hold of the man's left arm. The darkside then tightened his grasp on the male, slowly beginning to dig his nails into the guy (a/n: no, he doesn't have those sharp girly nails! They're just a bit rough/sharp around the edges).
"Let go of me you bastard!" the man screamed, bringing around his right arm to slam Marik in the jaw. The cruel male didn't miss that time, and managed to get the young egyptian to let go of him ... all due to a sickening crack that took place in Marik's mandible!
The darkside quickly backed up and looked towards the ground, taking his left arm and gently running his hand over his dislocated jaw bone. Without much thought, he seized a hold of both sides of his jaw and cracked it harshly back into place... growling towards the amount of pain!
By now almost every human, in that portion of Domino City, was watching him through now squinted eyes. The site before them made them all quite sick to their stomachs and, therefore, some just chose to run and call the police! Or just use the cell phones in their purses.
However, the darkside looked over at them through hatred filled eyes, soon roaming his gaze back over towards the boy and his son. He then moved his jaw around for a second whilst bringing his right hand behind him, then glanced back over towards the audience, taking a hold of the golden millennium rod.
The coldhearted father, who stood only a few feet away from the evil creature, just narrowed his dark brown eyes furiously whilst shouting, "Now look at what the hell you've done! Ha, yeah you were a real big help, you psychotic egyptian! Now we're both stuck in this mess and we're probably going to jail!"
Marik just glared at him, noticing the racism within his words.
"Hmmmph, at least I know how to resolve it" the darkside stated evilly, reaching out and aiming the eye of the millennium item towards his viewers. The creature's dark violet orbs quickly became bloody red, and the object began to emit a blinding, goldish light that illuminated the entire darkened street!
Once this light ceased, Marik lowered the rod and turned his attention back towards the violent male and his naïve son. Everything throughout the street had been frozen stiff, including the minds of the humans who chose to watch his 'tormenting session'... and the two family members that were now about to truly experience his violent rage.
The darkside then walked past the two males, demanding (through mind link) for their bodies to follow him. They both obeyed this command, making their way right behind the creatures threatening form and, at least one minute later, he released his control on all the witnesses. Though, when he released, he didn't release gently! In fact, he sent a strong wave of his dark power through their minds at a bolting rate! Thereby, killing every single one of them... and the crashing sounds, of all the bodies hitting the pavement, merely caused the demon to smirk cruelly to itself.
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Mrs. Motou woke up with a start at around 4:23 a.m. that morning, all due to a horrific nightmare! She had dreamed that her son and daughter, along with her granddaughter, had been in extreme danger! In her nightmare she also saw a shadowed figure in the distance, standing amongst burning flames, and laughing at her family's' dying forms! She couldn't place who it was but she remembered him saying to the two girls that, "This is what I am Katie... Terra" and then it growled to her something like, "This is what I forever will be, just as your uncle and mother said! I was never a lost child who seeked love, Terra! I never needed it! and now, you can burn for believing that! Hahahahahahaha" and then, the fiery flames consumed them all.
While the elder woman sat on her bed, pondering over this nightmare, there came a harsh knock at the door...
The woman jumped fearfully, her heart racing up to at least a hundred miles per hour!
'Who would possibly be up and about, knocking on someone's door?!' she thought, her mind speeding all over the place! The elder woman decided not to answer, hoping that whoever it was would just go away but, instead, the knocking persisted. Every pound of the fist got harder, obviously showing the person was ready to break through. The elder woman didn't have a working phone in her bedroom and therefore she pulled herself up from the bed, trying to place herself into her wheelchair.
Mrs. Motou then rolled herself straight on over towards her daughter's old room, knowing that the phone in there had worked. However, before she made it halfway there, the front door was slammed open with a tremendous amount of force! The woman paused for a second, debating on whether or not she should continue on for the wood beneath her creaked as her wheelchair glided across it.
"Mrs. Motou? Are you in here?" the darkside called out, growling slightly to himself at the sickening kindness that, strangely, got traced all over his tongue.
"Marik?" the elder woman wondered, slowly beginning to turn her wheelchair around. She knew the young man for he had been her daughter's husband, or rather her daughter's ex-husband. The elder Motou though, had never been told the exact reasons as to why those two divorced each other... she was only told that he was not who he pretended to be! And that had confused her slightly for she had seen him as such a sweet, loving boy.
"Yes, Marik! I'm over here... what's going on?! Is my daughter hurt?! Is your daughter hurt?!" she cried out fearfully, rolling on over to him.
The darkside just stood there with his arms crossed, continuing to watch on as his mother-in-law struggled to get closer to him. His lavender eyes were darkened, and his form had been hidden amongst the shadows with only the moonlight from the outside to illuminate him... and this made the dagger behind his back go completely unnoticed by the elder woman, who now sat before him.
"Well, Marik? Please tell me what's wrong?!" she asked sadly, wondering as to what was bothering her past son-in-law.
The darkside merely stared down her, surprised to see that she didn't know of what he was yet... he thought Katie would have told her! However, that didn't matter now.
"Oh there's nothing wrong with those two, Mrs. Motou! At least not now, anyways. I just wanted to come on over and... say my goodbyes." he stated slowly whilst lowering his head a bit, an evil glare and a cruel smirk beginning to form out across his dark features.
Though his mother-in-law could barely see the true color of most of his form, the moonlight had shone slightly down on the right portion of his lip, allowing her to see him smirk... along with both of his sharply narrowed eyes, telling her that he was going to do something terrible to her!
"Marik..." she trailed off, watching on as he pulled out his golden dagger, "Marik, no... why are you doing this? This isn't like you" she cried, her mind obviously lost as to why such a sweet male, like Marik, would wish to commit homicide! There was so sense in it!
"Oh but this is what I am!... and what I forever will be!" he shouted with sickening amusement, slamming the front door closed behind him so that no one from the outside could view this little episode.
Mrs. Motou's eyes widened in fear! He said the same exact words in which the man brought up in her dream! Wait!!! The monster in her dream...
"It's you..." she looked on fearfully, backing her wheelchair up as he advanced on her with the golden dagger.
"Huh?!" the darkside questioned, halting to an automatic stop. What the hell did she mean by, it's you?!
"You're the creature that will wind up killing my family! You sickening bastard, how could you just stand there and let your family burn?!" the elder woman shouted out furiously, tears beginning to splatter directly onto her lap.
The evil just stood there, a look of confusion spread out across his face... though, the elder woman could not see it! Now that the door was closed, nearly everything was in darkness! All except for where the moonlight brushed itself through the window in the other room, causing the objects within her home to cast their shadows.
The darkside finally snapped out of his daze, the good within his heart rushing forth to take control, "I... I'll kill my family?" he questioned himself sadly, letting his dagger drop to the floor. The young darkside then dropped down to his hands and knees, crying. He buried his face into his darkly tanned hands, slightly rocking back and forth. The goodness within him beginning to take over his mind!... and his heart. The kind portion of his mind was shattered and broken though, wondering as to how in the heck he could commit such terrible sins! Wondering why he originally chose not to fight off the bad.
"I hate myself!!! I fuckin hate what I am!!!" he screamed furiously, clutching at the sides of his head in an attempt to kill himself, "and what I'll forever be" he whispered, his tears falling to the floor. The darkness within him though was angered, and it was tearing and slashing away at the good...
"Gaaaaahhhh!!!!!" the creature shouted whilst looking up at the sky, his hands still gripping away at his head! No, not the sky! The ceiling! It was just a ceiling, the symbol of his entrapment... the darker portions of his mind made him remember his host's emotions! These feelings were all fed to him! The darkness made him remember what he truly was! It made him remember his twisted pleasure for taking away the lives of humans! It made him remember his desire to torture, his urge to feed off of negative emotions, his urge to mock anything that showed the weakness known as good!! The humans... all the humans!!! Something in which he could never be! Grrrr, it wasn't fair... the worthless humans needed to perish!
The elder woman watched on and listened as her son-in-law drove himself into insanity on her wooden floor. However, just when she decided to roll on over to him, he stopped clutching his head and chuckled evilly! The demon's shoulders vibrated slightly, and his hair was now pointed up so sharply that, one would assume, he had been emitting an extremely powerful, dark aura... one that was so evil that it caused its inhabited body to express the sense of supernatural control.
The darkside just then seized the golden dagger, eventually pulling himself up from the ground. She saw his shadow advance on her threateningly, and noticed that his right arm was slightly raised up.
"No, Marik..." she cried, fear and sadness consuming her.
However, the evil creature just smirked down upon her, "Ha, go to hell Motou! and stay there" he growled with pleasure.
He automatically brought the dagger down, slashing her stomach apart. After a few seconds, he placed the dagger back in its place beside his belt and reached down into her belly to pull out the intestines. The evil creature smirked to himself, soon beginning to nibble on her organs (a/n: okay, I think I'll stop now! Seriously, I'm making myself sick).
"Haha..." the darkside smirked evilly after finishing its meal, "I wonder if Terra too, finds a meal like this enjoyable" he stated darkly, continuing to lick up his bloodied fingers. To his disappointment, there was nothing else on this body to feast upon! But there were those two males outside...
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"Hello, this is your local news station with breaking news. Two males, one being just a child, and a woman were killed late last night. Police weren't able to confirm who these people were yet but they do know that it took place in the house of the Motou family" the female news reporter stated seriously, though the Motou part was what caused Katie and Terra to look over at the screen, "The killer seemed to have... sliced up the victims and police state that they have no idea as to where the rest of their bodies were. If you have any information on this murder, please call this number: 618-3675-5738. Once again it's 618-3675-5738"
"Mom, you don't think it was dad, do you? I mean, he went a little insane last night and..." the young teenager said, obviously not able to keep her attention focused her her Cookie-Crisp cereal.
However, her mother quickly grabbed her coat and rushed out their apartment door, slamming it behind her.
Terra merely just shrugged and continued to listen to the news, hearing about how there were at least 49 people killed last night from an unknown cause...
'What the hell is going on...?" she wondered, debating whether or not the world was coming to an end. However, the ringing phone interrupted her thoughts and so she, reluctantly, got up and picked the darn thing up.
"Hello?" she asked, trying to place herself into somewhat of a happy mood.
"Hello there, Terra..." the darkness answered, his tone drowning in cruelty, "I'm sure you saw the news, am I not correct?"
"... who is this?" the young teenager asked somewhat fearfully, worried that this was some sort of a psycho that acted like the serial killer in 'Scream'.
"Awww, you don't even remember your own father's voice..." he stated, acting as if that hurt his feelings.
"Dad?" she questioned, surprised that he would actually call her! Didn't he tell her last night to stay the hell away from him?!
"Yep, and I have a proposition to make..." he growled mockingly, waiting for his daughter's answer.
"...okay, shoot!" she announced.
"No not shoot... I'm not talking about guns" the darkside frowned.
Terra just laughed and rolled her eyes, "My gosh dad, you're just like mom! 'okay, shoot' is just a simple matter of speech" she stated jokingly, but the darkside took it seriously.
"I am not calling to receive these so called simple matters-of-speech that have nothing to do with the situation at hand, Terra!" he shouted furiously, unable to control his anger, "I merely called to..."
His daughter caught him off, "Well, my bad father! I didn't realize that you'd take that soooooo seriously! Holy shit..."
The evil creature just frowned again, 'my bad?! What the hell is my bad?! That doesn't make any sense...'
"Hello?" Terra asked, wondering if her father was still on the other line.
The demon just growled and finally stated, "Meet me at the huge warehouse near the Domino Pier" he then announced, "and bring your duel monster cards..."
With that, he hung up, leaving his daughter quite confused.
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Well, anyways, what did you guys think of this chapter?! A little crazy and long, huh? lol
Though, I didn't reread over this chapter because (when I do that with a much longer chapter) I tend to try and add in more details and etc... and never remain satisfied with anything I wrote! lol. But my real point is that I'm not quite sure of whether or not this chapter turned out good or bad so, if it's bad, please don't freak out on me! lol
Well, anyways, I have a huge deal for you! If you haven't noticed the whole pattern yet of "I update Saturday... then two weeks later... then another two weeks later and etc" then well yeah, that's what I had been doing! But the deal is that, if I get at least two or three reviews for this chapter, I'll update sometime this week... and I won't hold off on it! (Pff, you see how desperate I am? lol)
Well, anyways, hope that you enjoyed this chapter! Goodbye for now. :)