Here's the next chapter. Man, this is really taking a while isn't it? I really apologize! I am trying to get through this as soon as I can. I really want to get started on my other stories lol. Also... you probably want to add the song It Ends Tonight. Seriously, this chapter right here actually fits the title. Review please!
Yugi's team was in the middle of a battlefield against dark shadows that held the power of killing its victims from the inside out. They were able to kill them off with swords and arrows. It was hard to know how, since they couldn't touch the shadows physically. Yami could only guess that the shadows could probably touch metal, but even he didn't know. It didn't matter now. They were defeating these creatures.
The battlefield was so dangerous, that Solomon was taken on the back of Yami's dragon to escape from the shadow creatures with eyes like demons. Though, that did not stop Yami from shooting down a couple of shadow creatures with his bow and arrow. He would try to get them back after shooting them, but it was so much trouble, he mostly just had his dragon shoot fire at them, if they ever flew toward him.
"How many of these things are there?" Tristan complained, swinging his sword at the creatures and making them disappear as soon as his sword slashed through them.
"At this rate, probably thousands of them!" Joey replied, shooting another arrow at several shadow creatures.
"It seems like Dalor is really hitting us with everything he has," Professor Hawkins assumed.
"No kidding!" Tristan agreed, killing two more shadow creatures.
Yami commanded his dragon to shoot fire right at the rest of the shadow creatures before Tristan and Joey killed their last remaining. Yami yelled, "co'mon, we have to move on!"
"Right!" Joey and Tristan replied together as they all got on their horses and began moving North.
"Are you sure it's a good idea to keep moving this direction!?" Joey asked.
"No idea, but I tried going another direction and I can't!" Yami cried back.
"No wonder the sun keeps pointing left from me!" Tristan complained.
"Nowhere to hide, children!" A dark voice said from the sky before laughing maniacally.
"Hey, is that you, Dalor!? Why don't cha come and get a piece of me!?" Joey yelled aloud in anger, shaking his fist. Just then, a black leviathan began slithering toward them at the blink of an eye. "Oh second thought... RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN!"
The gang began running from the black dragon as Yami rode his toward the ferocious thing. His dragon sent blasts of fire at the black dragon before it slithered right toward them unharmed and sent black fire at his direction. Yami was able to dodge it right on time. Solomon was holding onto the back of the dragon for dear life.
"Careful! I'm too old to be doing crazy things like these!" Solomon complained.
"I'm coming Grandpa!" Yugi cried out, crawling to his grandpa's direction and helping him forward toward the front.
Just then, the black leviathan shot a blazing black fire at Yami's dragon again. It began moving backwards to the left before Yugi pushed his grandpa forward and fell off the dragon. Yami gasped and made haste to catch his partner, who was falling. He was able to catch Yugi with his free hand and swiftly pull him up.
Yami's dragon began moving up in the sky while Yami held onto Yugi with one free arm around his waist. The dragon than began attacking with its mighty jaw at the neck of the black leviathan. Yami, Yugi, and Solomon hung onto the dragon with their lives as the two dragons fought like lions. The trio were afraid they'd be yanked off the dragon due to the fight.
On the ground, the rest of the gang were seeing the whole fight between two dragons with their friends hanging on. It was almost like a Bull Riding contest, only with three people riding. All their jaws were hanging open, eyes bulging out of their eye sockets.
"Holy... cow," Tristan muttered.
"You took the words right out of my mouth," Joey commented.
"How long do you think they can last like this?"
"Knowing Solomon, I'm sure he'll last on that thing for a few more hours," Professor Hawkins said confidently.
"He couldn't last a minute in the duel box with a bunch of ferocious duel monsters surrounding him without scaring him to death," Joey commented.
"Did I mention I last saw him when we were in our forties?"
The dragons kept clawing, biting, and shooting fire at each other. They both seemed to be aiming for the neck, which was moving the trio around left, right, up, and down. Anyone, who couldn't handle the big rides in a theme park, could certainly not handle this kind of ride. Yugi climbed down to help his grandpa up a little farther, so he wouldn't fall. He was able to get Solomon up farther before the black dragon scratched the breast of Yami's dragon and its head pulled back in one swift second.
Yugi screamed as his hands were beginning to slip, but, as they were slipping, Yami took Yugi's hand and pulled him back on the dragon before its head was quickly lifted up and he was knocked off. Yugi gasped, watching Yami fall to his doom.
"YAMI!" Yugi shrieked, holding his grandfather onto the dragon.
Yami was able to grab onto the scales of the black leviathan before it grabbed him with its hand. Yugi was trying to remember how to get the dragon to go a certain direction, but he didn't know how to ride a dragon. All he could do was say, "move!" or "hike!" Neither of those worked. The black leviathan began squeezing Yami, its claws sinking into his skin and his body turning blue.
"YAMI NO! CO'MON DRAGON, GET HIM!" Yugi screamed. The dragon he was on attacked the black leviathan, but it was rammed by the hard skull of the black dragon.
Yugi had his grandpa hang on while he dropped himself toward the black leviathan to rescue his friend. He wasn't going to stand there and watch his closest friend suffocate to death. He tried pulling on one of the fingers of the black leviathan, but it was too strong. He then climbed himself inside the hold of the dragon's hand, using his legs to push the dragon's fingers, his back against the palm. There just seemed to be no way to free Yami and he was slowly turning into a blueberry.
Yugi couldn't give up! Yami was his closest friend, like the twin brother he never had. They did everything together, LITERALLY. Not only that, but, if Yugi didn't save Yami, he would never gain back his memories and crossover to the Underworld. Yugi couldn't let Yami die.
Suddenly, Yami's dragon pushed the black leviathan against the ground, hurting it, before it dropped Yami and Yugi to the ground. Solomon was able to drop off back on ground. Yugi ran to Yami as he tried to gain back his breath, his arms and body shaking. Yugi took Yami and held him up in his arms.
"Are you okay?" Yugi asked as Yami nodded his head.
Yugi took the healing knife from his belt and cut it through Yami's wounds and they healed. Despite that, Yami was still hurting from the hard pressure of the leviathan's iron grip. Yugi held onto Yami, sitting him up behind a bolder and away from the fight of the two dragons.
Everyone else ran out of the way, since it was obvious they stood no chance against a giant black dragon. Though, the black leviathan kept shooting black fire all over the place, making it hard for the gang to dodge the attack. Joey was even more afraid than the rest of the trio.
"I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die!" Joey cried.
"I think it's obvious we all don't wanna die!" Tristan glared.
"Now boys, there's no time for fighting!" Professor Hawkins rebuked.
"Sorry Professor!" Joey and Tristan apologized.
Suddenly, the black leviathan took its claws and stabbed them against the shoulders of Yami's dragon right before its jaw bit right into the dragon's neck. Yami's dragon screamed in agony as everyone looked back in horror and witnessed the dragon's neck being ripped from its body and thrown across the valley. The black leviathan than slithered toward the gang as they stood frozen in fear.
"We have to-" Professor Hawkins shouted before black fire consumed them and they all screamed, their flesh burning in black fire.
"No..." Yugi muttered, his lips quivering.
"Oh my-" Solomon whispered.
"And we can't get out of here until the game is finished."
"Then, I will go!" Solomon declared boldly, standing up bravely.
"Me too," Yugi said.
"W-Wait... Yu-" Yami muttered, but Yugi and his grandpa had already left and in one millisecond, the black dragon flew right passed the duo.
Yugi felt a jolt of pain as he saw a huge claw marks across his arms and chest. Him and his grandpa fell onto the ground with the scratch marks. The healing knife was with Yami and Yugi could barely move to get it. The black dragon tossed Yugi and Solomon with its scaled tail and they both hit against the invisible barrier, their bodies hitting the ground.
Yami couldn't take it and began running toward them with the healing knife, but not before the black dragon stepped on both Yugi and Solomon, it's claws sinking right into them. Blood coughed out of Yugi's mouth, eyes bulge wide open. Yami used his sword to stab the black dragon before it shrieked and began going after Yami. He let the beast follow him.
"I will make you pay for this!" Yami promised in a dark snarled voice as his sword began glowing black.
The dragon began zooming toward the young Pharaoh as he took his sword and stabbed the dragon right inside its mouth. The dragon jerked its head up, Yami being inside the mouth, then the tip of the sword began showing from the top of the nasal. The dragon then began tripping, then finally fell right on its back as Yami jerked his sword from the top of the dragon's mouth, then crawled himself out.
Yami ran right to Yugi's and Solomon's side. Solmon laid still with no breath or impulse and Yugi's situation was no different. Yami took Yugi in his arms, holding him tight to gather the last warmth from his dear friend. He had lost everything again: his friends and family. Everything was taken from him and now he was trapped inside a tomb with nobody but himself... himself to only drive him mad.
Yami held onto Yugi's body tighter as tears streamed down his cheeks, his nose running. He didn't hold back any emotion and cried his heart out onto his dead friend. He was alone again. Yugi was the one, who took away the pain and agony Yami faced for 3000 years. He was the one to give Yami a name... an identity... a reason to live. Yami would forever live by that. He would live for Yugi's sake.
Yami gently placed Yugi down before closing his eyes. Yami placed a kiss on Yugi's forehead, then whispered, "sleep well, Yugi. I will avenge you and everyone else." Yami stood up as darkness began surrounding his body, giving a dark glow to him. His eyes were even more redder than usual. In a dark voice he had not used in almost a year, he stated, "So... this is your idea of fun. You destroy our friends! You use them as your own pets! YOU ENSLAVE US! Well, I've got one thing to say, Dalor..." Just then, Yami began to transform, using a power he felt he had not used in thousands of years. Suddenly, his body began changing into a dark violet suit of armor with golden decorations. His sword began morphing into a stronger shaped sword, his eyes an even darker red, and his skin turning brownish. Yami had become Black Luster Soldier, his Ka. "Game start!"