Thanks reviewers, and again things will stay kinda confusing until maybe chapter 8... I dunno, you might catch on to whats going on before then. xD

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As Yugi entered the room he started running towards Mokuba who was backed up into the wall. Putting the knife back through his belt loop since the snake was not in sight.

"Stop!" Mokuba instantly yelled before Yugi could move.

Yugi halted. He watched as Mokuba gazed down to the floor, his eyes scanning it like looking for something. Yugi also looked to the wooden floor and was relived Mokuba had stopped him, there were large gaping holes everywhere. Making it almost completely impossible to walk over to Mokuba unless he walked around and past them which would require a lot of balance.

Mokuba then looked up to Yugi, their eyes met and Mokuba turned his attention forward and up at the dark ceiling. The room was almost completely dark except for the moon that was trying to shine past the thick layer of clouds. There were also lightening strikes that would brighten up the room for only a second, but still no thunder was heard. Yugi followed the direction Mokuba's eyes were gazing and he saw it.

A large serpent spread out over the ceiling, somehow hanging there. The sight was something that shook Yugi down to the bone, it looked like something that belonged in a horror movie. Right now he almost felt like he was living one. The beast had its eyes closed or Yugi couldn't see them, the red markings on it grew bright red, they almost seemed to pulse. He didn't understand what the symbols could mean or what they were supposed to be of, they looked like some kind of long forgotten language.

Yugi wasn't sure if it was asleep but he began his accent towards Mokuba, very carefully placing his foot down one step at a time. Each time before he stepped he made sure that the floor was sturdy enough to step, the last thing he needed was to fall through the floor. He began to wonder how these holes were even created. Yugi was honestly almost too scared to ask, afraid that the snake may open its eyes.

"H-How did this happen?" Yugi whispered. Stepping quickly over a weak floor board.

Mokuba's voice was shaky, he sounded incredibly scared. "It's venom… it created the holes in the floor… be careful Yugi!"

"How did it get in here?" Yugi asked. Getting a little closer to Mokuba.

"After you l-left… I heard this hissing and… I looked up I saw it on the ceiling… it was here the whole time!" Mokuba stated. His voice very distant and terror filled.

A snake that could travel on the ceiling? Yugi almost wanted to cringe, this had to be a horror movie.

"Duck!" Mokuba all of a sudden shouted.

Yugi without thinking quickly ducked down just to miss a shot of black venom that the snake spat, he watched as it landed on the wall and quickly began eating away at it. He couldn't even imagine what would happen if that landed on him. When Yugi looked back at the snake he saw it's eyes still closed, it must know that he was here, it must sense him.

When the snakes eyes quickly snapped open it transfixed Yugi, taking him away from where he was. Creating a new world in all darkness. Yugi stood now not in the mansion, but in a vast darkness. Nothing around him, like the whole world had just disappeared before his eyes.

"Mokuba!" Yugi instantly cried. What was going on? He franticly looked around but didn't move. Scared that if he did something may happen.

"Yugi."

The boy looked forward and was baffled to see his counterpart standing a few feet away from him. His arms crossed across his chest, deep red eyes, and a slight smile over his lips. Yugi didn't know how he was here or what was happening, but he was just glad to see him.

"Yami! I'm so glad to see you!" Yugi admitted. He was tempted to walk closer to him but decided against it.

All of a sudden Yami's expression completely changed. He glared and looked about ready to charge at Yugi. "When was the last time we even spoke? Why have you been ignoring me Yugi!"

Yugi looked on confused to him. Why did his attitude just suddenly change like that. "Yami… what are you talking about? What's going on?"

"I don't even remember the last conversation we had! What have I done to you to disserve this? I thought you cared about me Yugi!" Yami seemed to completely ignore what Yugi had said to him. Something very unlike him.

"Yami… I do care about you! Where is this all coming from?" why was he saying things like this? Yami knew that Yugi cared deeply about him, he was one of the closet people he had ever come to know.

"How come I never hear anything about you? Clearly you don't! How could you Yugi! How could you do this to me! I thought we were friends!"

"We are friends!" Yugi cried at him. What was going on? This wasn't like Yami. His eyes began to moisten under the situation. "What's going on with you Yami! Your not acting like yourself."

"Me! What about you! I didn't even know you were pregnant until Joey told me! I thought you would tell me something like that!"

Yugi gazed down to the black nothingness underneath his feet. "I'm sorry… I just… it wasn't exactly something I was expecting to happen… It was a big shock…"

"So you don't tell me! Ever since you started dating Kaiba the only person you ever thought about was him! You pushed all of your friends aside!"

Yugi instantly looked up. "That's not true! I've always cared about you guys!"

"Then why am I the last to know everything!" Yami suddenly turned away from him. "Some friend you are." he then began walking away into the blackness.

"Yami! Wait please!" Yugi cried. Tears beginning to stream down his cheeks. He reached out his arm for him like it would somehow bring him back.

"Yugi!"

The boy gazed around, hearing Mokuba calling him. He closed his eyes for a long moment before opening them to be back in reality, back inside the mansion. Yugi found the red eyes of the snake piercing him, almost unable to take it he began stepping away. What had the snake done to him? Why had it made Yami turn against him like that? The snake began sliding down from the ceiling, slowly making its way off of the wall and towards Yugi.

Afraid that it was going to make him see another one of his friends he turned away and escaped the room after jumping over the gaps and avoiding weak boards. He knew now that this snake wasn't after Mokuba, it was never after him, it was after Yugi.

Once out of the room he ran as fast as he could through the hall and down the stairs, the whole time the snake following closely behind. Upon reaching the foyer the snake passed him then whipped its tail at him, causing Yugi to tumble onto the ground very painfully. He sat up a moment after but still feeling the immense hurt from his landing. The snake was before him, it's mouth open showing it's extremely large white fangs that were covered in the black venom.

The snake took a strike at him but Yugi was able to roll away just in time. Even though it was painful he got up off of the ground and attempted to run up the stairs to the second floor but the snake wrapped its tail around his leg and pulled him back. He landed on his stomach with a loud cry and was dragged harshly towards the black serpent, Yugi squirming and clawing at the ground in hopes of a desperate escape.

Yugi then felt the tail wrap around his body and bring him up off the ground. The snake brought Yugi before it and hissed loudly, it's black tongue flicking around in front of him. Yugi wanted to avoid the gazed of the snake but it wasn't possible, he couldn't look away from it. He then felt himself taken away again, into the world of darkness.

The snake's tail was no longer wrapped around him, he was in the never ending black world again. Yugi didn't know whether this was reality or not, did Yami really think he was a horrible friend? Yugi gazed down to his feet sadly. Maybe he did think that, and Yugi had never really thought to make it better. He was right about a lot of the things he said, he didn't even remember the last time he'd spoke to him or he neither had told him that he'd gotten pregnant.

"Your nothing."

Yugi looked up, hearing a harsh voice speaking to him, but he couldn't find the owner.

"You've always been nothing."

Why was this voice saying these things?

"All of your friends hate you. Even Yami."

"Stop! That's not true! My friends don't hate me!" Yugi cried back into the nothingness. He knew that his friends didn't hate him.

"Really…?"

Yugi frowned. Did they? Had they just been pretending to be his friend?

"They all hate you."

Yugi felt a horrible feeling in his chest. They did hate him didn't they? Yugi remembered Joey had been angry when he started dating Kaiba, he said that it would change him. Yugi remembered Joey saying that he would end up just like Kaiba if he spent too much time with him. That never happened but the fact that Joey thought that was frustrating.

"You have no one."

Water formed in his large amethyst eyes, what it was saying had to be true. His friends really did hate him. Yugi closed his eyes to try and keep back tears, after only a short moment did he feel something constricting him. When Yugi opened his eyes he saw the snake before him again, everything was back. Even though the snake was slightly blurry he could still tell that it was gazing at him.

The black serpent moved its head closer to him, giving Yugi a better look at its fangs. Yugi's arms were held down by his sides from the snake's tail wrapped completely around him. He couldn't move whatsoever, the only thing he could do was watch and hope that somehow it wouldn't kill him. Yugi even attempted to struggle to get free but it was completely in vain, he couldn't move, the snakes hold on him was much too tight. If it was any tighter it could begin squeezing all of the oxygen out of his body.

Yugi almost didn't know why he wanted to be free, who would he have to go to when everyone hated him? Maybe it would be better if the snake killed him.

Unexpectedly the snake let out a loud hiss of anger and its grip on him loosened, he could breathe better but was still not free. The snake turned its head to look down on its body, seeing a pool of dark red liquid beginning to spread over the floor and a knife plunged into its black scales. The serpent then dropped Yugi onto the floor as it turned to look more closely at the knife.

"Yugi!"

The spiky haired boy looked over to see Mokuba standing against a wall, he quickly joined him and stood next to him. Watching as the snake wrapped it's tongue around the knife and was trying to pull it out of its skin.

"The only way to kill it is by the knifes! This is why my brother sent me them! To protect me, us!" Mokuba cried. "That has to be the reason why!"

That made sense. That had to be why the knifes were sent to him. So that meant Kaiba, the real Kaiba knew about the beasts, or had it been the imposter that sent the knifes? Why would it want to help him though? Yugi glanced down to the knife still on his belt loop and pulled it out. He held it tightly in his hand, looking at the glowing blue on the handle.

"Why is it glowing though?" Yugi questioned.

"Maybe it's just how your able to tell it's not a normal looking knife." Mokuba stated. "But you've got to stab it Yugi! That's the only way it will die!"

Yugi looked to Mokuba. Why was he doing this? Why were they working together when he knew that Mokuba hated him.

"Yugi?" Mokuba called hurriedly at him.

"Do you hate me…?" Yugi suddenly asked. Unable to help himself from saying it.

Mokuba gave him a look like he thought Yugi was crazy. "Why would you ask me that? You're the best thing that has ever happened to my family! You made me and my brother so much happier when you came to live with us! I've never hated you!"

Yugi gazed at Mokuba for a moment. Eventually believing what he said, why had he thought that everyone had hated him? That snake, it must have messed with his head, it must have tried to make him believe that no one cared about him, and he had believed it. Yugi frowned, he hated being so naïve and gullible. He then turned his attention back to the snake that had failed to get the knife out and was sitting in a pool of blood.

"I can distract it while you try and get to it." Mokuba said.

"No, this thing isn't after you. It would be looking for me." Yugi stated. "I'll have to find a way to get to it myself, and I want you to get out of here. I don't want anything to happen to you."

"But I want to help you!" Mokuba cried seriously.

"You'll help me by going!" Yugi stated while then taking off towards the snake before Mokuba could say anymore.

He was extremely terrified of it but he had to put an end to it. He couldn't let it mess with his head anymore or hurt Mokuba. As Yugi moved closer the snake noticed this, it hissed viciously at him and spat venom straight towards him. Yugi managed to duck before it could touch him, but barely. Right before Yugi reached where Mokuba had stabbed it he was very forcefully hit by the tail of the serpent and sent tumbling to the floor again. He gripped his stomach with one hand, it was hit so hard he almost threw up.

Yugi pushed past it and stood up before being smacked again. He was pushed back farther and if he hadn't of quickly scooted backwards the snake would have completely swallowed him because it's quick strike had been where he was seconds ago. While it was on the rebound he rose up his knife and with as much force as he could, stabbed it.

Dark blood poured from the wound as the snake let out a shriek that made Yugi cover his ears. He watched as the serpent rose up and trashed about like trying to get the knife out of it. Blood from the snake splattered all over the walls and the floor, it looked to Yugi to spit venom at him in an attempt to kill him too.

Yugi quickly moved away but drops of the venom touched his coat, it instantly burned through it and his shirt to singe his skin. He cried out painfully as he gripped his arm, he was barely able to watch the snake give up the fight for life and drop down onto the ground for death.

Mokuba came from the upstairs level to Yugi, he dropped down next to him and looked on worriedly.

"What happened Yugi? Are you ok?" Mokuba yelled.

Yugi slowly shook his head, his face twisted in pain from the burning sensation in his arm. "The venom… it… it burned my arm." Yugi managed to say past the pain.

Mokuba moved closer to Yugi's arm and pulled his hand off of it to see a short bloody cuts on his arm. "Let me take you to the living room." Mokuba said while pulling Yugi up by his other arm. "Can you stand alright?"

Yugi nodded. He returned to gripping his arm and hunched slightly but could stand and walk.

They slowly got to the living room and Yugi laid more comfortably on the couch.

"I'll be right back! Just try to relax." Mokuba hurriedly said while running out of the living room and most likely to the bathroom.

Yugi tried his best to ignore the pain but it was excruciating, he couldn't believe he had actually killed that snake. Never before had he killed something, but he knew it wasn't senseless. If he hadn't killed that snake then it would have killed him. Then he would have never found out what was going on with Kaiba. He also needed to learn more about these beasts, first the wolf, he remembered it had caused him to think of a horrible memory. Now the snake, it made him think friends hated him, that had always been something he feared.

Did these beasts have the ability to control his mind? Or at least mess with it? Yugi knew as he closed his eyes that those questions needed to be answered. There may be more of these strange beasts, he didn't think that they even had any importance but he would need to know what they were capable of. Right now he just tried to relax, not every day had he fought a snake twice his size. Yugi just hoped that he never would have to again.