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Chapter 7
He was sat there looking through the day's paper when he felt it. He knew that a certain someone was about to enter the room. But instead of looking ready to receive that person he continued to read the paper, with his feet on the desk. He turned a page of the paper as the door banged open.
"Whatever happened to being polite Pharaoh?" Zorc said, lowering the paper.
The Pharaoh was stood there, his expression was unreadable but seeing as Zorc had access to his mind he knew that the Pharaoh was not happy. Zorc waited for a moment to see if the Pharaoh would respond.
Zorc pouted, "You a grumpy Pharaoh today?"
"Don't taunt me, you know why I am here." The Pharaoh said, his eyes narrowed.
"You want to know why I send Mokuba Kaiba to the Shadow Realm. Well, you know me.. I like to get my own way."
"Always by force. For once could you not have to be such an evil-"
"I don't think you want to finish that sentence, Pharaoh."
Zorc stood and walked around the table much like a predator surveying its prey.
"You were a fool to come here Pharaoh. You should know that there is nothing you can do. No one can persuade me to do anything."
"I know that." Atem spat, not fazed by Zorc's intimidation, "I wanted an explanation before I sort this out."
With that the Pharaoh headed to the door but Zorc called to him;
"And how do you plan to do that with no power."
His hand was on the door knob when Zorc had spoken so he paused then said;
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me," Zorc said, folding his arms at the Pharaoh's back, "You have no..."
Zorc trailed off, staring at the Pharaoh in incredulity; "Have you still not figured it out?"
Atem turned to face Zorc, he tried to look like he knew exactly what Zorc was on about but to say that he did was a lie.
"Oh my Gods, seriously? How thick are you Pharaoh? How have you not discovered that I have been stealing your power all this time? How did you not realise that the reason you have collapsed is because of me! Every time I stole power from you it caused you to collapse." Zorc had started to circle the Pharaoh, "You really are the dumbest Pharaoh ever, you really did not know all this time."
The Pharaoh just looked at him, his expression blank. He could not deny that he had not worked that out. Of course he was now inwardly cursing at himself for not working it out sooner. But there was not much he could do about that now, all he had to do now was to work out a way to stop Zorc... soon. The more time he wasted, the more lives would be at risk.
"Ah, but do you really think I would let you go now?" Zorc said, a hint of malice in his voice, "If you had never come here then I may have just left you alone as you are powerless to stop me. But having wondered in here there is no way in hell I will let you go."
"You said yourself I have no power." Atem retorted, glaring at Zorc, "What would be the point of keeping me here if I serve no purpose?"
A claw like hand was around his throat, squeezing it tight. "I want to watch you suffer and make you beg for death."
Atem glared a Zorc for a moment before making a bid for freedom. He head butted Zorc, causing the other's nose to bleed, and bolted to the door. His hand was almost at the door handle when he ran into something which felt like an invisible brick wall and was knocked to the ground. Not a moment later waves of what felt like electricity passed through his body. He writhed on the floor but allowed no sound to escape. The pain stopped as quickly as it came which left him lying on the floor. Before the Pharaoh could even consider getting to his feet, Zorc was standing above him.
"Now, that wasn't very clever was it." Zorc sneered.
Zorc stretched a hand towards the former King and as he did the hand morphed back into his clawed hand. The big, fat, clawed hand grabbed the King's thin neck and drew four bloody lines into the skin. The Pharaoh automatically grabbed his bleeding neck.
"Oh, don't worry you won't die. I don't want to kill you… yet."
Zorc kicked the Pharaoh aside and returned to his desk. He began to type on the computer, searching for something. While Zorc was distracted the Pharaoh crawled to the door, this was quite difficult as he was still trying to stop his bleeding neck. But as he again tried to reach for the door handle, bolts of electricity raced through his body and he collapsed to the ground.
"How many times Pharaoh, you are not leaving here."
"That's what you think." Atem said, turning to glare at Zorc, "I will get away from here and I will stop you."
Zorc just laughed, "Keep telling yourself that Pharaoh."
"Even though you have caught me, my friends will try to free me."
"Yeah, I don't think so Pharaoh because while we have been having this fun catch up, my minions have been taking care of your friends."
Atem staggered to his feet, glaring at Zorc again; "What did you do to them?"
"Just wait Pharaoh."
He did not have to wait long, the door to the office opened and there stood Yugi. But… there was something that was just not right. His eyes were glazed over and there was something stuck in his hand. Yugi walked over to the desk where Zorc was still sitting.
"Master." Yugi said, even his voice was not right it was more robotic, "My conversation is complete."
"Good." Zorc smirked, "Now tell me, who is this?" He pointed to Atem.
Yugi turned, his eyes narrowed as he looked at the Pharaoh. Yugi took in the whole appearance of the Pharaoh. The blood stained clothes, the gashes to the neck that were still bleeding. The face. He knew that face, he knew that face.
"That is the Pharaoh." Yugi said, angry entering his eyes, "He is the enemy."
"And what to do want to do to the enemy." Zorc said, smirking.
"I want to hurt him!" Yugi cried.
The suddenly Yugi tackled the Pharaoh to the ground. Atem tried to defend himself as Yugi threw punches at him. How and why was Yugi acting like this? Just as Yugi threw another punch he saw a black microchip shaped object in his hand. Was that why Yugi was acting this way? Maybe whatever that was making Yugi act like this? Maybe this was how Zorc was taking over the world! It would make sense, by getting people under what was very similar to mind control there would be less resistance from people. The Pharaoh should really learn to think about these things when he wasn't being attacked by someone. While he'd been busy thinking Yugi and taken advantage of this, he managed to smash the Pharaoh's head into the side of the desk. Atem crumpled to the ground, feeling something sticky on the side of his head. The shock of the sudden impact with the desk seemed to immobilise him on the ground. The darkness was starting to creep in to his vision and he was unable to hear what was said but he did see Yugi walked out of the office. Just as the darkness took over a thought crossed his mind. How the hell was he going to sort this out now?
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Soo… I hope that was worth it. I am not sure why but it was harder to write this chapter.. not really sure why. So I do hope this was worth the wait.
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