Chapter 9- The Attack
Heba, Ryou, Malik, and Jou were in the main library.
"Hey, Heba." Jou said.
"Yeah, Jou." Heba replied.
"Any idea why Yugi decoded to get himself a personal servant?" Jou asked.
"No, I don't. He never even hinted at the fact that he was interested in getting a personal servant." Heba answered.
"Humph. Like he tells anyone anything." Malik muttered.
Heba glared harshly at his older cousin.
"Sorry, Heba, but you know how we feel about Yugi. We just don't see him in the same, anymore." Malik said.
Heba sighed. "Maybe Yugi has changed, but none of you have helped matters considering you don't even put forth an effort to try and spend any time with him." Heba said.
"Okay. We don't, but we really don't want to spend time with someone that acts that cold." Jou put in.
"I can understand and respect that, Jou, but I'd like for you to stop putting him down and making him seem like a bad person every chance you get. He may have changed, but he is still my brother, and I will always live him, and you know that I hate it when anyone talks bad about him." Heba said.
"Yugi, we love him, too, but we're just not as close to him as we used to be." Malik said.
Ryou looked at his younger cousin. "Heba, do you know why Yugi changed so much?" Ryou asked.
Heba sighed. "No, I don't, Ryou, but I wish that I did. Maybe I could help him in some way if I knew what happened that changed him." Heba replied.
"Come on. Let's go to the lounge. I'm sure that Seto, Bakura, Marik, and Atemu have shown Yami around by now." Jou said.
"You realize that Yami is going to have work that he needs to do." Heba said.
"Is Yugi not letting him spend time with his brothers?" Malik asked.
"Yes, but Yami has to finish his work first." Heba replied.
"Okay. We can wait while we does what he's supposed to." Jou said.
The group stood up and left the library to go to the lounge.
Yugi's POV
Sometimes, I hate being Emperor. There is so much to it that half the time, I want to pull my hair out.
I sigh. I have to do this, though. Rishid will be on my case of I don't get all this done.
I put my pen down to rest my hand. I have been writing and going over all of these damn documents all morning! I need some kind of break.
I rub my cramped hand. I need to finish this. I was hoping to get it all done before lunchtime so that I could go back to me chambers and rest. It's rare that I get that chance, but I need it. I feel like I'm going to collapse on the ground by dinnertime, and I still have work that I need to do after that.
I reach for my pen again when I freeze.
I sense an unfamiliar presence in the west wing.
Unless ordered, no one other than my brother and cousins and their families are allowed their with the exception of Yami, but I do not recognize the aura. I would recognize any aura. Not just that.
It's an evil aura. Someone's going to attack them!
I bolt out of my chair and take off out of my study, running through the halls, hoping to reach the room before something bad happens to one of the members of my family.
Jou, Ryou, Malik, and Heba were already in the lounge with the kids when Seto, Bakura, Marik, Atemu, and Yami returned to the room.
"What are all of you doing here?" Marik asked, surprised.
"Waiting for you." Ryou replied.
"But don't you have work to do?" Seto asked.
"Yeah, but we decided to skip out on the work for a while. It'll be there after lunch." Jou said, waving him off.
Heba looked at Yami. "Yami, you might want to get started on your work. I really don't want you to get in trouble." Heba said.
"Right. I'll be going." Yami said.
Before Yami could move, the doors were blown open, knocking Yami and Bakura, who was beside him, down.
"What the hell?!" Heba shouted.
A moment later, four balls of black energy hit Heba, Jou, Ryou, and Malik. The four went crashing back into the wall with such force that the impact knocked them all out as they fell to floor, unconscious.
Seto, Marik, Bakura, and Atemu started toward their fallen husbands, but were forced back as more balls came at them.
The five brothers looked to see a man with green hair and black eyes walk into the room.
"OI didn't expect those four fools to be in here." the man said.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Bakura growled.
The man turned to them and smirked. "Wouldn't you like to know?" the man asked.
Before they could react, the five were thrown to the floor. They couldn't move.
"That was easy." the man said. He turned and started to walk toward Seth, Inchan, and Crystal, who were crying from the noise.
"Leave them alone!" Seto shouted.
"You see, you're in no position to be giving me orders." the man said.
"They're just kids. They haven't done anything to you." Atemu said.
"No, but they are the children of the Royal family, and they will have magic that can't be allowed to exist any longer." the man as he raised his sword.
"NO!" Seto, Marik, and Bakura screamed, fearful for their children.
When the sword came, down a metallic clank was heard.
"WHAT?!" the man shouted, turning.
A swift kick to the face sent the man flying into the wall.
Yugi stepped in front of the crying children, standing between the children and the man with his sword in had. He was in his Elemental clothes. Yugi raised a hand and snapped his fingers.
It was ten that Seto, Marik, Bakura, Atemu, and Yami found that they could move.
"Seto. Marik. Bakura. Get your children now." Yugi said in a commanding voice.
Seto, Marik, and Bakura didn't waist any time in getting Inchan., Seth, and Crystal and backing away with them.
Yami stood back with Atemu, keeping Atemu behind him.
"Well, if it isn't his majesty. I didn't think that you dealt with commoners." the man sneered.
Yugi starred unfeeling at the man. "How would you know what I do or do not do? You broke into my palace, attacked my family, and you say that to me." Yugi said.
"How would you know who lives in your palace and who doesn't?" the man demanded.
"I'm the Emperor. It's my business to know such things." Yugi said.
"It doesn't matter. You won't stop me." the man said.
"Don't bet on it." Yugi said.
"Why do you give a damn about what happens to those children? I am here to kill them. I don't want to deal with you." the man said.
Seto, Marik, and Bakura tightened their hold on their children at those words.
"Then you'll have to kill me first." Yugi said.
"Gladly." the man said.
The man charged at Yugi. Yugi blocked the sword and then kicked the man in the chest. The man threw a ball of black energy at Yugi. Yugi let the ball hit his sword, but deflected the attack, and it was thrown back at the man. The man jumped out of the way. Yugi formed a ball of fire in his hand and threw it at the man. The attack hit the man, and he was thrown back into the wall. The man tried to go back at Yugi, but Yugi grabbed the man by the throat and slammed him into the wall, his sword at the man's throat.
"Do not tempt me." Yugi said in a threatening way.
Something in Yugi's eyes had the man scared out of his wits, and he dropped the sword.
It was then that Heba, Jou, Ryou, and Malik came around.
"What hit us?' Jou asked.
Heba looked up and saw the man Yugi had pinned to the wall. He then noticed the frightened looks on Seto, Marik, Bakura, Atemu and Yami's faces. He also noticed the crying children. "Yugi, what happened?" Heba asked, getting up.
"That guy tried to kill the kids." Bakura said, glaring at the man Yugi had pinned.
"WHAT?!" Jou, Ryou, and Malik shouted, jumping up.
The man's smirk returned. "You couldn't stop if you tried." the man sneered.
Yugi sensed that Jou, Ryou, and Malik were about to attack.
"Malik. Ryou. Take Seto, Marik, Bakura, Yami, Atemu, and the kids to my chambers and do not leave them until I say so." Yugi ordered.
"Right." Ryou said.
Ryou and Malik left the room with the others named.
"Heba, go get Ishizu and take her to my chambers. I want all of them looked over for injuries, especially the kids and Atemu since he's pregnant." Yugi said.
"Sure." Heba said and left the room as well.
"Jou, help me get this piece of trash to the dungeons." Yugi said.
"With pleasure." Jou replied. He got a pair of wrist cuffs that covered the man's entire wrists with an energy beam connecting the two, and the two led the man out of the lounge.
"I can't believe that we let something like this happen." Malik said.
"It's not your fault. You couldn't have noticed that he was coming." Yami said.
"He's right. There was nothing that you could have done to stop him." Atemu agreed.
Seto, Marik, and Bakura had finally gotten Seth, Inchan, and Crystal to calm down.
"Why did he attack the kids, though?" Bakura asked.
"I don't know, but I am going to find out." Malik said.
"We have to stay here." Ryou said.
"Since when do you two do what he says?" Marik asked.
"Since Yugi coming there is the only reason that none of you are dead." Ryou said.
"He's right. Any later, and the kids would have died." Seto said quietly.
Heba came in a few moments later with Ishizu.
"What's going on?" Ryou asked.
"Yugi has said for everyone of them to get checked out for injuries, no exceptions." Heba said.
"We're fine." Bakura protested.
Ishizu sighed. "Bakura, these are actually the Emperor's orders. Heba merely relayed them to me, so I have to. Besides, I think I should, especially you, Atemu and the kids." Ishizu said.
"Why me?" Atemu asked.
"You're pregnant." Ishizu, Malik, Heba, and Ryou said at the same time.
"Oh." Atemu said.
"Yugi's right. This is just to make sure nothing happened." Heba said.
"Fine." Marik said.
Ishizu got to work.
Yugi and Jou had gotten the man to the dungeons and threw into a steel cell.
"His magic won't be of any help. That cell blocks all forms of magic." Yugi said.
The was a crash and a curse from inside the cell.
"I think he just found that out." Jou said.
Yugi nodded.
Jou looked at him and said, "What happens now?"
"We'll go and make sure that all of them are all right." Yugi said.
"Then what?" Jou asked.
Yugi stopped at two guards. "Honda. Otogi." Yugi said.
"Sire." the two said, bowing.
"I want that prisoner guarded. I'm holding you two responsible for him." Yugi said.
"Yes, sire." the two guards replied.
Yugi and Jou walked on.
:What happens?' Jou asked.
"He'll be questioned and then killed." Yugi said.
Ishizu had finished looking over them all when Yugi and Jou walked in.
"Ishizu." Yugi said.
"They're all fine." Ishizu said.
"What happened to him" Bakura asked.
"He's in the dungeons for now. He'll be questioned and the killed." Yugi said.
"Killed?" Yami asked.
"Yes. He attacked members of the Royal family. The laws state that even just an attempt on their lives warrant deaths. I didn't make this law, but I do have to enforce it." Yugi said.
"I want to be there." Ryou said.
"We all do." Seto added.
"You'll watch the questioning, but not be in the room." Yugi said.
"Why not?" Malik deadened.
"Because the second you see him, you'll kill him." Yugi said.
"He's right." Heba agreed.
"We need to learn who, if anyone, sent him, once he's been questioned, he'll be executed." Yugi said.
Sorry. It was a little shorter than the other chapters.
The next chapter will be about the questioning of the attacker.
R&R.