I'm sooo pissed off but hopefully writing to this will help me cool down. For those of you who also read my other story Over A Decades Wait will have to wait. I was almost done with the chapter; I literally had like two paragraphs left. But, something happened and I can't get to it. Like my hard drive is be a B**** and eeeeer!
Lisa: Calm down hikari
I AM CALM!
Lisa: Right, and I'm a big pink elephant. C'mon, let's go lay down/ *leads her to the room and comes back* …Sorry, she's very frustrated and upset. She had like four thousand words written to it with all of these great ideas. And she thinks if she tries to re-write to it, it won't turn out the same. She apologizes.
Yugi: Poor Kairi. She worked so hard on it!
Bakura: Well, too bad. And she shouldn't be complaining about it! This happens to a lot of people!
Yugi: Yeah, but this is her first time, so be nice!
Bakura: ….. How bout I go give her a friendly talk
Lisa: That wouldn't be wise….
Bakura: sure it would be! *Walks into the room*
GET OUT OR I'LL KILL YOU IN MY STORY!
Bakura: *Runs out and slams the door close* She's crazy!
Lisa: Told you it wouldn't be wise.
Yugi: Anyways, enjoy this chapter. Ll Kairi ll doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or any of its characters except for her own.
Chapter seventeen:
Joey, Tristan, and Tea stopped right outside the game shop just as the two cop cars did. The doors to one of them swung opened and two teenage girls stepped out and one older man.
One of the girls had dirty blond hair with chocolate-colored eyes while the other had long brown hair with bright blue eyes. They both were wearing jeans and some kind of T-shirt. The man had brown hair and wore an officer uniform.
"Who're you?" Joey demanded as they walked over to them.
The blond girl examined Joey before saying, "I'm Krissy and you must be Joey."
"And I'm Alex. We're friends of Yugi." The other girl, Alex said.
"Why are you here?" Tea asked curiously.
"We have a lead on Cassandra," Krissy started.
"and we think she'll stop by here."
"So we came to warn Yugi." They finished together. Joey gave them a weird look but kept his mouth shut.
"How did you know he was released from the hospital?" Tristan wondered aloud.
Krissy tucked a strand of blond locks behind her ear. "We called the hospital he was staying at,"
"- and the nurse told us that he had already left for home. When she told us that,"
"we knew that Yugi wouldn't have the protection of the hospital if he went home."
"So to keep him notified, we came here to tell him Cassandra,"
"-was on her w- -,"
"Will you stop that already? You're killing me!" Joey interrupted the two girls with a groan.
The officer came over to the girls and rested a hand on Alex's shoulder. "Welcome to my world."
Alex playfully rolled her eyes. "Whatever dad."
Alex's father smiled, but before he could say anything, a gunshot echoed around.
"Yugi!" Tea, Joey, and Tristan called out in unison. Somehow they knew that their friend was involved with the gun. Within seconds after the fire, the three were already running towards the game shop's door.
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Yami fell to his hands and knees as his hand gripped his left side. Blood gushed from the small wound and pain was signaling into his brain like fire alarms in a school; loud and unbearably painful.
'Yami!' Yugi cried out. He was on his hands and knees next to his other.
"Well, that makes things easier." Cassandra smiled and started walking towards the wounded pharaoh.
'Y-Yami, pl-please be okay.' Yugi whimpered. He watched with fearful eyes as his darker half struggled to his feet. He was much slower, due to the bullet and the poison along with that, he was swaying a bit.
"Where are you going?"
Cassandra appeared in front of Yami and grabbed him by the throat. She didn't squeeze, just held him tight enough so he couldn't escape.
"You know," her free hand gripped the Millennium Puzzle's chain tightly. "You know, I think I would rather talk to Yugi, not that you aren't fun to talk to." And she forced the chain off from around his neck and tossed it over near the window where it laid unmoving.
"Yugi!" Yami cried out before his soul was ripped from the body and Yugi's was shoved back in.
Yugi gasped out loud as the pain exploded when he entered his body. When Yami was in control of his body, he blocked away all of the pain, but since he wasn't there anymore, he felt the full extent. He clutched his side tightly.
Cassandra smiled widely. "Glad you decided to chat with me, honey." Her hand now tightened around his small neck and she lifted him off the ground like it was the easiest thing to do. She held him at eye level and let his feet dangle in the air.
"W-why are you . . . doing this?" Yugi managed to say. Through the pain in his side, he couldn't feel his legs anymore. The tingling sensation from before now made its way to his waist and continued up to his chest. ((A/n isn't it weird that he got the shot in his arm but it started in his legs? xD ))
"Because you mocked me, Yugi." The red head growled as her eyes narrowed.
"W-what do you mean?" He clenched his jaw and tried not to cry out from the pain. Of all things, why did a gun have to appear?
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Joey ran through the shop with everyone at his heels. As he rounded one of the corners he almost ran into Mr. Mutou who was holding a few boxes in his hand. From the boxes, Joey guessed he came from the basement. ((A/n basement=storage. And, y'all will ask me, but Solomon did NOT hear the gun shot because he was there. It's hard to hear things and add Mr. Mutou being old.))
"Joey," he said, surprised to almost run into the blond.
"Gramps, where's Yugi?" Joey asked in a rush.
"Upstairs, why? What's going on?" He asked, now noticing the officer and the two newcomers.
Joey didn't give the elder an answer as he dashed around him and ran towards the stairs. Behind him, he could hear Tea talking to Mr. Mutou. The blind took the stairs two at a time as he cussed under his breath.
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"Managing to escape and leaving me there. What do you think you were doing?" Cassandra growled out. Unnoticed by her, she tightened her hand.
Yugi's free hand grasped hers tightly, trying to get her to loosen her grip. "Escaping . . . what else?"
"And everything I've done for you? For everyone else?"
" . . . Done what?"
"I fed you boys, clothed you, and had a roof over your heads. I entertained you all, made you happy. And this is the thanks I get?"
Now it was Yugi's turn to narrow his eyes. "Not to mention kidnapped . . . us . . . raped us . . . killed so-some of us."
"None of that matters. I - -," she was interrupted by a loud banging noise on Yugi's bedroom door with voices following.
"Yugi!"
"J-Joey!" Yugi cried out, recognizing the voice is half a second. His head tired to turn towards the door but he winced from his side. His fingers could still feel the warm blood that seeped in between his fingers.
"Yugi!" Two female voices called at the same time.
'That's Alex and Krissy . . . what're they errrr, d-doing here?'
"Looks like they figured me out." Cassandra glared at the closed door, thankful that she locked it. "But, no matter, I'm almost done here." She looked back at the boy.
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"Yugi!" Joey banged against the locked door with his shoulder.
"He never locks his door!" Tea voiced, somewhere among the group. She sounded very worried.
Alex spoke with such venom in her voice that she made a King Cobra look bad. "Meaning Cassandra's definitely here."
Joey looked at Tristan who looked at him. Something seemed to pass between them because they nodded at the same time and together, at the same time, banged their shoulders against the door. They could feel a bruise starting to form, but they kept at it, determined to get the door open and this time, save their friend.
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"Let . . . go . . . of me!" Yugi tried. The drug had already passed through his chest and was going along his arms. Soon, they too became limp and hand gripping his wounded side, fell down to his side, more blood seeping through now that it didn't have a barrier pressing down on it. The warm liquid oozed down his side and dripped down to the carpet, staining it scarlet red.
'Yugi!' Yami yelled. He kept trying to get over to his light, but for some reason, the puzzle wouldn't let him. Something was holding him back. 'Hang in there!' All he could do was watch helplessly like the first time. He could do nothing to help.
"All in due time, Yugi." Cassandra said to Yugi. With her free hand, she reached into her jeans pocket and pulled another object out. Like earlier, she put the tip into her mouth and twisted the cap off.
Yugi's eyes widened, he stared at the second syringe she was holding. This one contained a purple liquid.
"Why . . . not kill me with . . . the gun?" he asked. He tried to hide the scared in his voice but it wasn't working. "Why kill . . . kill me with those?" he asked, indicating the needle in her hand.
Cassandra smiled. "This is more fun. I get to watch you suffer through the pain."
"Yugi!"
The red head ignored the yelling from outside as she started to explain her methods. "You see, in this syringe," she shook the object, "contains a very poisonous chemical that if you let a few small drops enter your system, you are rushed immediately to the hospital. But, if you were to say, have this much enter your body, you'll die a slow, painful death." She didn't give Yugi any time to say anything as she stabbed the syringe's needle into his shoulder close to the first small wound.
Hot liquid entered his blood stream and immediately felt the chemical attacking his insides. He let out a pain-filled cry.
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"On the count of three," Tristan said as he and Joey stepped back from the door. They squared their shoulders towards the door and got ready.
"Three!" They shouted together and at the same time, hit the door. Finally, after several attempts, the door broke and it swung opened. They stumbled inside with the three girls behind them. What they saw made their blood boil.
"Yugi!"
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Yugi noticed Cassandra flinch slightly when the door banged open. Even though he shouldn't be able to feel anything, thanks to the first shot, he could feel Cassandra's hand tighten more around his neck, almost blocking his air ways.
"Yugi!" Both Tristan and Joey yelled.
"Let him go, Cassandra!" Alex exclaimed.
The red-head smiled, but didn't release him. Instead, she moved him aside so that she could see who she was talking to. Yugi struggled with his last remaining strength, but failed. "And why should I, Miss Hatake?"
Alex pulled out a hidden gun from her waist band. "I'll tell you one more time, let. Him. Go." She clicked the safety off and pointed it at her.
"And don't think you can get away," Krissy added. "You're surrounded by the Tokyo police. The Domino police are on their way too."
"Fine, you win." Cassandra said sarcastically, and kept her smile in place. Instead of setting Yugi gently down on the floor, she tossed him towards the window like he was a rag doll.
Yugi squeezed his eyes shut just as he collided with the floor with a loud thunk. He slid a bit and stayed in the same position, limp and unmoving. He breathed heavily through his mouth as the pain exploded once again from his wounded side.
"Yugi!" Everyone called out, even Yami.
Alex handed Krissy the gun as she and Joey ran to their friend. They crouched down next to him. Alex picked her friends head up and rested him on her lap.
"Are you okay?" She asked, panic-stricken.
When he opened his eyes, he could feel pain eating away at his insides from the poison. "Mnn . . ." Was all he could make out.
"Yuge? C'mon, answer!" Joey practically shouted.
Laughter was heard then. The two looked over to see Alex's dad handcuffing Cassandra.
"He won't answer, if that's what you're wondering."
Krissy looked from her two friends to the (crazy) red-head. "What did you do to him?" She growled.
Cassandra just shook her head. "Even if I told you, there wouldn't be anything you could do. Once it enters your system, you have five minutes to live before you die. Now he's down to two. Tick tock."
Shutting the woman up, one of the officers that just entered the room started to recite, "Cassandra Sensamino, you have the right to remain silent. Anything that you say or do will be used against you in court."
She rolled her eyes. "Yeah yeah."
"Joey! Yugi!" Tea squeaked as she squeezed herself through the door and ran over to her friends. "What's wrong with him?" She knelt down next to them just as Tristan came over.
"Don't worry," Joey replied, panicking. He looked his friend over and noticed him start to turn pale.
"What do we do?" Tristan asked.
"We have to find out what happened to him first!" Alex said. Though she had no clue what had happened to him.
"Poi . . . son . . . ing." Yugi managed to breathe out. His lips barely moved.
"What kind of poison?" Tea asked as everyone gasped out in relief that he could still at least talk. Before answering, Yugi's eyes squeezed shut.
Alex cried out, "We n-need to get him to the hospital." Her hand rested on his side and when she brought it up, a warm, sticky scarlet plastered her hand. "He's wounded."
Joey went to scoop his friend up, but the teen shook his head. "Y-Yami." He gasped out.
Tea's eyes widened when she noticed for the first time that the puzzle wasn't around his neck. She looked up and quickly scanned the room for the golden pyramid. She spotted it just a few feet away from the group. She reached out and snatched the chain and pulled back.
"Joey." She handed him the puzzle.
Right when Joey took Yugi's hand and let it rest upon the puzzle, the pyramid made a soft 'bing' and a flash of golden light flashed. Everyone had to shield their eyes to avoid being blinded but before they did, they caught sight of the light wrapping itself around Yugi as if it was a golden blanket.
When the light disappeared, everyone looked back, including Cassandra who hadn't yet left the room.
Yugi blinked his eyes a couple of times before slowly sitting up. He winced from the pain in his left side but otherwise, sat straight up.
"Hey, what's going on?" Tristan asked, somehow confused, like everyone else in the room.
"I don't know . . . But, I don't feel hurt anymore, well, except for my side." In which he winced as the pain exploded again and his hand grasped his side.
"Son of a bitch!" Cassandra shrieked.
Five heads looked over to see the red-head glaring at a Yugi. "That damn pharaoh! He healed you!"
Yugi opened his mouth just as Yami's voice filled his head.
'The power of the puzzle healed you of the poison and the paralyze. They no longer course through your body. But, the gunshot wound, I have no control of. It's physical.'
/Thank you, Yami!/
"Oh, shut it," Officer Hatake said, escorting the chick out of the room with the other officer. "Save it for court."
When the three left, Alex let a sigh of relief out. Krissy walked over to the group and did the unexpected, flung herself at Yugi.
"Yugi! I'm so glad you didn't die!" She squeezed him tightly.
"He will be if you keep squeezing him like that," Tea mumbled only low enough for her to hear.
"Krissy . . . one, can't . . . breath." The blond let go with a sheepish smile. "Two . . . hurts a lot." He was still gripping his side.
"Oh right!" Joey gently scooped his friend up and stood. "I heard one of the officer's call for an ambulance. It should be here now."
"Great," Yugi said sarcastically, "another hospital."
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Back at the hospital, the doctor just finished patching Yugi up and let his grandpa and friends in the room. Grandpa went directly to his grandson.
"Yugi, are you alright?"
"Yeah . . . thanks to Yami and you guys, I'm still alive." The young teen didn't have a shirt on. Instead, he had on a huge gauze on his left size, covering the wound.
The pharaoh appeared and smiled at his light. 'Just doing what I can.'
"Yugi, I'm so glad that you're alright." Alex exclaimed. She and Krissy stood near the end of the bed as the ones closer to the boy stood nearest to him.
"That, and glad we came when we did." Krissy added with a smile.
The tri-haired slowly got to his feet. "Thanks for coming. You saved my life, all of you." He smiled.
"Ah, well, that's what friends are for, Yuge." Joey said, scratching the back of his head.
Tristan puffed out his chest a bit. "Yeah, for now on, we'll always be there for you, no matter what."
A ringing noise filled the air after Tristan finished his sentence. Alex's eyes lit up as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a green phone. She checked the caller ID and flipped it open.
"Excuse me," she muttered to the group before she started walking towards the door. Into the phone, "Hey dad . . . yeah. The hospital. Already? Kay, meet you there." Alex didn't even make it half way out of the room when she closed her phone and pocketed it. She came back. "Sorry, that was my dad." To Krissy, she said, "he's coming to pick us up in a few minutes to go home."
"Right." The two girls turned to Yugi. "Well, as you heard, we gotta go; her dad's waiting."
"See you whenever?" Alex smiled.
Yugi nodded just as Krissy elbowed her friend. "We'll see him in the court room."
"Court?" Tea questioned.
"Yup. We have to have a court hearing for Coby and Cassandra. Though, I don't know when."
Grandpa nodded and spoke, "Everyone should be getting a letter of the date."
Within a few minutes, the two girls hugged Yugi and said their goodbyes. Left in the room was just the normal group.
Joey leaned against the wall. "So, now what?"
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Till next time!
Well, sorry about earlier…. I was in a freaking out zone
Lisa: You still are.
But, not as bad. My brothers neighbor managed to get back a smaaaall portion of my story. Out of the four thousand words, he only could get back one thousand. But, at least I don't have to start from scratch! XD
Yugi: That's true. But, it still sucks that you still have to rewrite it.
Yeah…. So, it's going to take me a bit longer with that chapter. x.x Oh, that and I have some good but bad news. Good for me, bad for y'all. :p
Lisa: This story, as you can see, is coming to an end
Sadely, yes. It has only ONE chapter left, pluuuuuuuuuuuus the epilogue. So, two chapters left. That's it. It's depressing, but in a way, it's awesome! XD
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