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I hate having a cold. All the sneezing and coughing! Man… oh well.
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Chapter 6
It had taken a little then the Pharaoh wanted to return to Domino. They had been stuff in Egypt because of some issue that he had no legal documents to allow him to travel. But that had been sorted and they had finally landed in Domino. The problem now was people faffing around. Téa was faffing around with her luggage, as one had gone astray which was still to annoy the Pharaoh. He was getting restless. He had still not worked out how to destroy Zorc and knowing that the longer he took the more Zorc's power would grow this worried him. He was standing slightly away from the rest of the group, he'd moved away to calm down but turning he returned to the group.
"I'm sorry Miss but it seems that your bag was put on the wrong plane." The airport worker was saying, "I can contact the airport in Cairo to find where it is now but we may not have it here for a while."
"But how was it even put on the wrong plane in the first place, it was clearly labelled!" Téa asked.
"It's just a mistake that does happen."
Atem let out a frustrated huff as Téa continued to argue with the man. Yugi heard this, turned and seeing the expression on the latter's face called to Téa;
"We'll wait outside Téa."
Yugi then tugged the Pharaoh's sleeve as a hint to move outside. While Ishizu stayed with Téa the others made their way outside, it was very sunny in Domino.
"So what now?" Joey asked, turning to Atem.
"Find Zorc." Was the answer.
Joey and Tristan exchanged a look, they both had guessed that the Pharaoh had not worked out how to stop Zorc yet or he would have told them.
"But what do you plan to do?" Joey asked, "Is there some way you can reason with him or use some form of – hey, what's Kaiba doing here?"
Turning, they saw Seto Kaiba striding towards them with a face of fury; they had never seen such a expression on his face. Due to his long legs Kaiba was with them in seconds. Within a fraction of a second Kaiba had grabbed the Pharaoh by the neck and pinned him to the wall.
"You son of a –" Kaiba yelled, before Yugi cut across him.
"Kaiba stop! What are you doing?"
"Tell me." Kaiba spat, glaring at the Pharaoh.
A flick of a frown crossed the Pharaoh's face.
"TELL ME!" Kaiba yelled, increasing the pressure around the Pharaoh's neck. "Why did you send Mokuba to the shadow realm! WHY!"
"Mokuba's in the shadow realm?" Yugi asked, "How?"
"Because this rat sent him there." Kaiba was literally shaking with anger, this grip was becoming tighter on the Pharaoh.
Tristan and Joey ran forward and dragged Kaiba off of the Pharaoh, who fell to the ground. Kaiba fought against Joey and Tristan's grip.
"Why are you protecting him?" Kaiba barked. "He knows what he's done. But he not man enough to own up to it!"
"Kaiba calm down!" Yugi said, he was kneeling protectively in front of Atem. "Atem wouldn't do something like that.
"How would you know!" Kaiba bellowed, "You don't even know who he is! You only learnt his true name days ago!"
"Yugi knows the Pharaoh more then any of us do." Marik said, stepping between Yugi and the still struggling Kaiba, "Plus, even I know that the Pharaoh would never do that. It was no him who sent Yugi to the Shadow Realm."
Kaiba finally decided to stop fighting Joey and Tristan's grip, "Then who did."
"Zorc."
All eyes turned to Atem, whose voice was hoarse due to the near strangulation and who was holding his hand against his throat.
"No." Kaiba said, "It was the guy at Visual Arts with a surname I can't pronounce. But he said that you told him to."
Atem suddenly shot to his feet, "Now now Mister Kaiba don't give away all of my secrets."
They all looked at Atem in disbelief. Did this mean that Atem had actually done such a dark deed? Atem strolled towards Kaiba;
"You can't tell these brats all about me because then where's the fun in watching them stress about trying to discover me?"
"Atem.. what? What are you saying?" Yugi asked.
Atem turned to look at him, it was then that Yugi noticed that Atem's eyes were red not amethyst.
"What is going?" Marik asked, he too had spotted the different colour in Atem's eyes.
"I bet you are not as innocent as you want as to believe you are." Atem said, looking at Yugi.
While most of them glared at Atem, not believing what they were hearing. Yugi, however, was not fazed at all.
"I know that Atem would never say that. You are not Atem."
"Oh, then who am I?"
"Zorc, the Dark One."
Atem or rather Zorc laughed, "Clever, I would have never guessed that someone like you would guess that."
"Back off." Joey said.
Zorc turned and walked towards him, "Oh look it the goofy sidekick who thinks that he's tough. You are nowhere near that."
Joey squared up to the possessed Pharaoh, "You leave my friend alone, Zorc. Oh, and know this. We are coming for you."
A laugh then, "I'll believe that when I see it."
With that Joey watched as the red dissolved from Atem's eyes. Joey only had a second to react as Atem collapsed, but he caught him.
Kaiba stared at the fallen Pharaoh, "What was that?"
"That wasn't Atem there, that was Zorc." Yugi said, eyes on Atem who was twitching, "Zorc is the one behind this, he is the one who sent Mokuba to the Shadow Realm."
"Then go and confront him. I want my brother back." Kaiba snapped.
There was a pause as they watched Atem, who had regained consciousness. He straightened up, swayed slightly but managed to stay on his feet, a hand on his wound.
"Atem, you ok?" Yugi asked.
A nod was the response. Satisfied, Yugi turned back to Kaiba as a question had come to him.
"Why was Mokuba even sent to the shadows?"
"I refused to merge with Visual Arts and that creep sent him to the shadows."
Kaiba glared at Atem, apparently he was still convinced that he had something to do with it.
"Then that is where I need to go." Atem said.
Yugi turned to him, "What will you do?"
"I am going to fix this."
There was no stopping Atem who had already asked Kaiba for directions and set off. The others hurried to keep up with him. They reached the company within minutes. Atem starred up at the building. Zorc was in there, doing who knew what. He was still not sure what he was up to but he was about to find out. That was a major flaw with Zorc he would sometimes give away what he was planning, if he could get Zorc to tell him that it would give him more of a chance to find out a way to beat him.
"I'm coming with you." Kaiba said, "If you screw up then I will merge."
"You're willing to let this freak have you company?" Joey said.
"To save my brother, I have to." Kaiba stated.
Kaiba made to move but Atem blocked his path.
"No. Kaiba you must stay here. I will sort this."
Kaiba seemed to battle with this statement before glaring at him he said; "Fine. But when screw this up and I swear I will swing for you."
Atem nodded, he had expected this kind of response. He felt Yugi trying to gain his attention but ignoring it he turned and walked into Visual Arts.
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So there we go my friends…
I thought that this would not take up a whole chapter, this was originally only half the chapter but it took up the whole chapter so that means this story should have two more chapter instead of only one!
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