The Meeting
Ryou's P.O.V
I wake up the next morning sore. My body aches, and I swear to Ra that if I move I will die. And I know I'm serious because I'm an angel, and I have an inability to lie. That, and I swore to Ra.
I finally open my eyes to see my vision still blurred. Normally, I would use my hand to rub away the remaining sleep, but I don't think that will work, I can't even move my arm.
Joey walks into the room and gasps. "Ryou what happened to you?" He asks astonished.
"Dad..." I mutter and Joey nods, all my close friends know that my dad has an extreme hate for me, and they know that I get beat often, for things they consider nothing, but my dad gets infuriated by. Since Joey is always the one to wake me up, he's also the one who has to fix me up after my father's attack. So, we go to our, after beating, normal morning routine in which Joey fixes me up, and then creates a lie as to why I am hurt for Anzu, then tells Malik and Yugi what really happened.
"Why did he beat you this time?" Joey asks, and a sad smile crosses my lips. I haven't told Joey about Bakura and me because I'm not too sure how he'll react. I'm also pretty sure he's straight, he seems to be quite fond of Mai, she's one of the senior advisors.
"Wait, lemme guess. Because he found out that you and Prince Bakura dated a year ago." Joey guesses, and I feel my heart sink.
"How did you know?" I ask softly, turning to look at him. Of course, this movement affects my broken wing, and I wince as a sharp jolt of pain runs through my body pain.
"The Kings were going at it again, and King Amun said that your father doesn't know anything about you, which is true, and your father protested. He then yelled to the world that you and Prince Bakura dated last year and probably only broke up because you two were caught. He then rubbed it in your father's face that you were either homosexual or bisexual, but definitely not as straight as an angel should be." Joey explains, and I blush.
"I'm homosexual...and...well...Bakura and I n-never broke up." I explain to Joey, but then quickly add, "Please don't tell anyone, the only people who know about this are Yugi, Marik, Amane, and I believe Serenity knows too."
Joey looks shocked and hurt, "You told my sister before me." He asks, his honey colored eyes going large.
"She only found out on accident because she was hanging around Amane. I didn't tell her by choice!" I whined, and this made Joey smile.
"It's cool Ry." He says before wincing slightly.
"What's wrong?" I ask the man, keeping my voice soft, and trying to hide my actual fear.
"Ryou, he nearly tore out your right wing. Oh, and he broke it further up too." Joey says, lightly touching both the spots, causing me to wince.
"Ryou, this is going to take some serious magic. We need to get someone with better magic skills in here," Joey informs me.
I sigh, and immediately regret it as a shot of pain claws its way, surprisingly quickly, up my spine. A few tears find its way to my cheek as I, out of peripheral vision, see my poor, destroyed wing.
"C-can you get Mai?" I ask, saying as she's the only senior advisor I really trust. The other ones seem way too close to my father for me to feel comfortable with.
Joey nods before quickly exiting the room, leaving me to my own thoughts. My mind however, is painfully blank, and I do the only thing that makes sense to me right now, and cry.
When Joey returns, there is a woman with long, blonde, curly hair that reaches about her waist. She has bright violet eyes, and the same slight tan as Joey. She is pretty tall, has a big bust, but what always interests me is her half demonic half angelic form. That's right, she's a half and half, they are extremely rare, but cool. She has light purple angelic wings, but then she has two tiny little horns on the top of her head, and tiny little fangs. It's pretty cool if ya ask me, but many people discriminate against them, angels thinking them impure and demons thinking them too prudish, though they rarely are.
Mai smiles at me, and then reaches out and runs her fingers along my right wing. I cry out in pain and she quickly retracts her hand back, her eyes shining with worry and her face portraying how sorry she is.
"What happened?" The girl asks frantically, and I look to Joey for an answer. Saying as I am the worst liar ever, the end.
"One of the demons from last night's dinner screwed him up pretty bad." Joey says, in the half lie that angels are known to use. See, in our eyes, my dad is as a demon, and he was the one that hurt me like this, so it's the truth. Just said in a way that most people wouldn't understand or misconceive.
Mai nods and tells Joey to leave the room. Only one word comes to my mind, and maybe if I wasn't an angel it would've been foul language, but it isn't. That one word is:
Help!
Bakura's P.O.V
Dammit, I want to look good for Ryou, saying as I am partly the reason he got into this mess. Hmm, what to wear...Ryou seems to like it when I dress naturally, so does that mean my trench coat... No, I think I have an idea of what to wear.
I waltz into my walk in closest, already fantasizing about what I will wear, how he'll look, and what we'll do. Dammit, I really do want to go all the way with him, and I already know I won't just leave him to rot after we do. I want to feel his lithe form squirming beneath me. ...Shit...Now I'm hard.
I go into the bathroom and take a cold shower (yes, there are times when a demon doesn't masturbate or f*ck someone senseless when they are hard. It's rarely but it is there). Once I am done showering I go into my closet, and choose an outfit in my favorite color.
Once I am done dressing, I go admire myself in the mirror. I am wearing basically the outfit Ryou had on yesterday, but in red, oh and instead of dress pants, I have black skinny jeans (No, they aren't that tight, I just happen to be really thin), and black and red hi-tops. I have to admit, the red really brings out the red in my eyes, allowing people to see the scarlet color of my eyes, and the true paleness of my skin. Also, I guess it shows the very slight silver in my hair, that's right it's not pure white like Ryou's, mine is silverish or grayish.
I turn to leave my room, and I notice my friends dressed up too. I guess they want to make an impression, and well Seto is just Seto. However, we didn't tell Rebecca, she's not close enough to us to be in the loop and know what is going on, plus, she would probably tattle.
"C'mon," I growl, opening a portal to the Shadow Realm. We all step in, and within a few seconds we step out into Ryou and my special place.
I see the angels coming, but there is no mop of white hair, or even beautiful white wings. Is Ryou hurt that badly?
"Where's Ryou?" I ask, my voice coming out higher, and more concerned than what I had originally planned.
A boy with blond hair and honey brown eyes, steps forward. Hmm, he wasn't there yesterday. I give the boy an odd look.
"I'm sorry, let me introduce myself. I am Joey Wheeler; I am the male advisor to Ryou." The boy, now known to be Joey says stepping forward. My eyes then look to Kaiba because he is my male advisor, and because being a thief, I take in my surroundings, and I also take in Yugi and Malik's worried faces.
"This is Seto Kaiba, he is my male advisor." I announce, giving Kaiba a glare.
The man doesn't move, but Yugi, Malik, and Joey do flinch.
"So, where's Ryou?" I ask again, forcing a sarcastic calm into my voice.
Joey gulps nervously, and he quickly looks around the grove. He's scared of me, good. "Well, his father beat him...and he is too injured to meet you." Joey explains quite hesitantly.
I look at him skeptically, and I realize something. "How do you know that? And aren't you risking your job by doing this?" I ask the second question in a more dismissive tone.
"Well, I'm usually the one to fix him up, and yes." Joey explains in a much firmer voice. I smirk.
"Good, because I want to see him." I announce, earning many stares from the people around. I snap my fingers, "I made a demand, and I will see to it that it is done." I say.
"And he says he would never make a demand and that I'm the annoying prince prick." Yami mutters under his breath, and I feel obliged to answer him.
"Ryou is special," I simply reply, and trust me, there is a burning sensation within my heart telling me that I need to see him.
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After all the sneaking around the castle, we finally make it to Ryou's room. I open the door, and all of us slip into the room, however, it's the sight before me that catches my attention (more so than the fact I wanted to be alone).
Ryou is just lying there, out like a light. The boy is resting on his stomach, and I can see cuts and bruises littering the small body. However, none of that is what catches anyone's attention; it is Ryou's right wing, sticking up at a strange angle. I look to Joey, and he explains it.
"The top of his wing has a broken bone, and King Akio was quite successful in ripping out Ryou's right wing, however it took part of his back with him. I think he's currently paralyzed, Mai says he will be better within a week though." Joey explains, and I nod to him, somehow, he has just earned some part of my respect.
"His father did this?" Seto asks disgust evident in his voice. "Why? What is a possible reason that you would do this to your own son? Hell, Ryou's the only reason that he's king." Seto basically screams.
I take a better look around. Yugi is clutching Malik to him; Malik seems to be clutching his head, as if he's thinking of something terrible. Marik's expression is plain, but I already know that he's having flashbacks to his own family. Seto and Yami seem enraged, and well, so does Joey. However, within a flip second, I think everything hits, and damn does it hit hard.
"Where is he, I'm going to kill him!" I growl, and I watch as everyone takes a step back. My eyes flare to a bright red, and I stalk out of the room.
Third P.O.V (to rest my powers)
Mai runs through the house, trying to locate the three members of the royal family so that she could tell them about Ryou's current condition.
She dashes into the Throne Room, and sees the King and Queen quietly conversing, the king looking slightly stressed.
"Your son, he was injured by one of the demons last night. He's in critical condition, but he'll hopefully be better in a week or so." Mai explains in a gush of air. The King looks at Mai without any emotion, while the Queen has her hand over her chest, as if she almost had a heart attack by the news, and seems to be very worried.
The queen then gets up and dashes off to where Amane is, sitting in the kitchen, watching the chefs make breakfast, and every now and then conversing with them.
"Amane, come upstairs for a moment, we're going to go check on your brother. He was hurt by a demon last night." Queen Emily says softly. Amane's eyes go wide and she runs straight to her older brother's room, not even caring who she bowls over to get there.
Bakura's P.O.V
As I am raging through the halls looking for Ryou's father, I run into a small girl with lavender hair and indigo eyes. She looks up at me, and I see navy eyes glistening with tears.
"Did you do it?" She asks her timid voice cracking under me. I shake my head no already understanding what she is talking about, and she nods. "C'mon, we have to go see him." The girl says grabbing my hand and starting to lead me back to Ryou's room.
It's so strange, but so cute how she and Ryou have this ability to act and look so much younger than they are. I swear to Zorc that they aren't twelve and sixteen.
I arrive back in Ryou's room, and see Ryou in the same position, still not awake. A new flare of anger surfaces, but at the same time I feel my heart crack, damn heart.
The door opens and in comes the queen, my heart stops, took the damn organ long enough.
She takes one look at us, and she silently murmurs, "So, are you two still together?" She asks her bright green eyes boring into my soul. I simply nod, and she nods in understanding.
"Then who did this?" She asks, glancing over at her daughter, and then taking in the sight of her broken son.
"The Prince's father," Joey answers, expecting his half lie to fly with the queen, it didn't. Well, he probably shouldn't have answered at all, but he doesn't seem to be the brightest crayon in the box.
"Which Prince?" She asks rather harshly, I have to say, she can be quite scary when she wants to be.
I am about to say something, but I am abruptly cut off. "So it was our King," she starts, "Thank you Prince Bakura." She says in a way with the utmost respect, it disgusts me. However, I am also intrigued by how quickly she figured that out. She has a sharp wit doesn't she?
"No honorifics please Queen." I say, and she smiles, "Then I shall ask the same of you." Man Ryou has an awesome mother.
I watch as she goes up by her daughter, soft purple hair swinging behind her.
The woman bends down and runs her fingers through her son's hair, pulling her daughter's hands away from her son's wounds. "He nearly tore out his wing..." The woman murmurs and I walk up to her, not really caring about how she feels, but how my angel is.
The Queen looks up at me with bright eyes, but I completely ignore her, instead choosing to do as she does and running my hand through Ryou's white locks. I love the feeling of his silky hair between my fingers. I bend down and kiss his cheek gingerly. I can't stand to see him like this, it irks me.
"C'mon guys," I mutter, not really trusting my voice anymore. "There's nothing we -hic- can do for him." I whisper, now unable to hold in my anger or hurt. It feels like a part of me has been hurt beyond repair, and I finally understand how much this beating has affected Ryou, even though we haven't seen the results yet, they will be there.
I turn to leave the room before I truly lose the temper I have worked so hard to keep under control. I look over my shoulder, and I see my friends following me, just like they should.
"We'll meet up same time same place in a week, hopefully Ryou will be better by then." Yami explains to the others, as I open the Shadow Realm so that we can leave.
Hey here's a fun fact: The Demon Realm used to be within the Shadow Realm. However, when an Angel goes into the Shadow Realm alone, they don't come out, and since Angels often had to go to the Demon Realm, they were often the ones to make journeys, lots of Angels were lost. Yep, so they protested, and somehow got us to move, actually, I'm pretty sure they threatened us. Damn Angels.
Author's Notes:
Sorry, I think that that last note was well needed. Well, here is the aftermath of the attack, and our broken Ryou. He'll be better soon, hopefully. Well, hopefully you guys like the chapter.
Now, will you please review and vote in my poll.
Also, to all those who suffered through Sandy, I send out my condolences, because I am suffering too.