CHAPTER 8:
Anzu was following Yami. She didn't have an idea of where he was heading to.
-Yami! Wait! Where are you going? –yelled Anzu while she ran behind him
Suddenly he stopped without turning around.
-Hey, Yami! Why are you leaving without say hello to your friends? –said Joey when he and Duke arrived where he was standing with the woman
-Joey? –asked Anzu surprised.
-Anzu? Do you work with my sister? – asked Joey forgetting why he was here.
-Well, yes. I didn't know you knew him –said Anzu staring at Yami's back.
-Yeah, we are best friends so Duke here. –said Joey looking to Duke
-Duke?
But Duke was staring to Yami who hadn't move since they arrived.
-Hey, Yami. Earth calling Yami?? – said Joey and touched him gently on the shoulder.
In that moment Yami make a quick movement and took Joey's hand and turned it around leaving Joey in a horrible pain.
-Ahhhh! Yami why did you do that man!! Ahhh –yelled Joey holding his hand
-Yami, what's wrong with you? –asked Duke frightened
Yami turned around and face them. In his forehead was still the estrange symbol and his eyes were still dead and with a blank expression.
-Oh no! – Said Duke surprised- the millennium eye…
-Man, ahh… could you please explain it to us –said Joey holding his hand with pain.
-He is not Yami –was the only thing Duke could articulate.
-What? –exclaimed Anzu returning to see Yami
-Your friend is right-said Yami in a cold voice- I'm not your friend.
-Yami, you are kidding right? –asked Anzu trying to came near him
-I'm not. I'm pharaoh Atem, and I must fulfill my destiny - he said and then continued to walk but a hand on his arm stopped him.
-No, Anzu. Is dangerous! –advised Duke to Anzu.
-I don't care! –yelled Anzu grabbing his arm with her two arms
-Let go woman, I'm warning you. I must go to my country and stop this before it is too late. –said Atem in his cold voice trying to release off the grip that had Anzu in him.
-Yami, I'm your friend, I can't leave you like this! –said Anzu with teary eye.
-I said I'm not Ya---he was cut off because Anzu planted him a kiss but this time was deeper and warm than the last time.
Duke and Joey were startle for what Anzu had done and feared for the worse. They just stared at the scene and they saw how the glow on the forehead was disappearing into nothing and that the color of his eyes were back to normal. Anzu then broke the kiss and in that instant Yami felt on his knees in the floor. Anzu kneeled beside him silently and waited for him to speak.
-I'm sorry – was all he could articulate because he was difficulty breathing.
-Yami, we are here to help you. We need to talk. –said Duke approaching were he was and helping him to stand.
-Brother, you owe me a hand… ayayai…-exclaimed Joey for his pained hand.
-I'm sorry Joey, I couldn't control me. What's happening to me Duke? I know you know it. –he said staring at Duke.
-Yeah, I know, but we must go to another place, now! –he said motioning to all three to the exit.
They went to a restaurant very quiet and took a sit in one of the tables of the back.
-Welcome, what is your order? –asked the waitress with a smile
-Four cups of coffee, thanks –said Duke for all of them.
-Very well then. –said the woman and soon she bring their order.
Yami all the time was silently thinking about all they said he had done. It was him but at the same time it wasn't. He felt tired for releasing so much energy. But how did he go in that state and how did he get out, he didn't know.
Anzu was thinking how to help him. She stared at him and noted that he was suffering for this. She really wanted to help him in some way.
-Well, I will start to tell you what I have found –said Duke- The millennium items are antiques of Egypt and have about six thousand years. They contain a lot of powers because they were made to protect the mankind of the evil. They were in total seven items, one for each priest of pharaoh.
-Of pharaoh Atem? –asked Joey remembering the event.
-Yes… -said Duke staring at Yami- For each one of your priests.
Yami raised his eyes to look at Duke.
-Are you saying that Yami is the pharaoh? –asked Anzu surprised
-I'm not him –said Yami seriously
-You are not conscious of this, but, you and he are one and the same –said Duke staring directly at him. –the only person that could hold the millennium puzzle was the pharaoh, and you own it.
-How the power can protect the mankind from evil? –asked Anzu
-According to the history, the power contained in a millennium item could make that a person or in this case a priest, fought against the evil with magic. These objects were made for good by pharaoh.
All looked to Yami who just looked back to Duke.
-And what happened? Because that guy Atem, it seems really evil for me, not the good boy. –said Joey rubbing his hand
-It happens that one of the priests betrayed the pharaoh and used the energy to do damage to other people. The priest wanted all the items to gain absolute power and then be the pharaoh but of the entire world. Atem realized what his true intentions were and decided to fight him. There was so much evil energy that the item of pharaoh ended contaminated itself.
-And what happened? –asked Anzu with concern
-That is the part that is missing. The history is not complete. Nobody knows what happens then. –said Duke staring at her
-I… think I know what happen next –said Yami to all them staring to his hands that were on the table
-What? You Know? How? –asked Duke surprised
-I had a vision today in the morning… and I saw myself… dying.
-What? –exclaimed Anzu with disbelief
-Explain yourself please –asked Duke with concern.
-I was standing in the middle of a chamber and I could see myself holding the puzzle. And a woman that was fighting to get by my side but there were cloaked figures that surrounded me by all the angles with daggers. – He stopped for a moment.
-Take your time. –said Duke reassuring him
- I couldn't see well the woman but she was willing to stop me of doing that.
-Of doing what? –asked Anzu
He looked at her and answered.
-I killed myself… with the energy of the item.
-No – whispered Anzu