4-Reckoning

Yami rushed down the swirly stairs and made his way through the living room. Pushing through endless teens that came his way. He got dirty looks and even some insults, but as long as no one touched him, everyone could leave this house alive.

He left Yugi on the couch and gave him those hallucinations to think they went upstairs. As long as he didn't wake up, nothing bad would erupt. He must have passed out after Yami took his light. And speaking of his light, that power felt amazing! Exhilarating to the touch, the feeling was so great, Yami felt like no one could stop him. Yami could say without ego that he could destroy almost anything with this new power. The only problem, was that it didn't connect completely in his body. It didn't feel...complete.

Yami looked down at his left hand as he sped walked through the crowd. A pure white aura surrounded his left hand. Then, it turned into a light gray. That must have been the twilight essence. He could still use the new power, just maybe not correctly. No matter though, he was ready to destroy Toxin.

"Hey!"

Yami stopped in his tracks, halfway out of the dining room to look at who bumped into him. Some human girl with brown hair, blue eyes and a very skimpy outfit. Yami didn't have time for-wait...this was that human girl who invited him. If she was the host, maybe she'd know where Toxin is. Yami smiled, maybe she wasn't too useless.

"Hello. You are...Anzu, right?" Yami just barely remembered her name. Anzu smiled gleefully and nodded.

"You came! That's, really cool of you..." Anzu began to blush. She tried looking away from Yami to hide it. Yami mentally groaned in his mind. This human girl liked him. Oh great...

"Can you do me a favor?" Yami asked with a fake charming smile. Anzu seemed to buy it as her eyes brightened up and nodded quickly.

"Y-Yes! Of course! What do you need?" She asked quickly.

"Do you know where Akefia is?" Yami asked, still doing that fake smile. Anzu nodded, grinning like a maniac.

"He should be in the backyard...Do you want me to-Hey!" Anzu yelled as Yami sped walked away from her. "Where are you going?!" He heard her yell again. But he ignored her and kept proceeding his way to the basement. He got the information he needed, no need to keep conversing with that foolish girl.

Yami found himself walking straight into the basement, still pushing through teens, through the game room and to the back door that led to the backyard. Yami smirked to himself. That would be the perfect place to start this. He stood in front of the back door and grinned. The teens then began to give his confused or strange looks. Yami roundhouse kicked the door, making it break off of it's hinges and smash into the screen door.

A screen door? Yami groaned in annoyance. He had to knock this down to. He heard the teens gasp or cheer for his powerful kick, but he tried to ignore them. Yami knocked on the screen door a few times. Hm, the metal wasn't that hard. This wouldn't be a problem. He clenched his hands into fists and threw a punch in the glass of the screen door. He made a crack. Hm, hard glass. He punched the door several more times, eventually breaking the glass and denting the metal of the door. The door wobbled and fell back, it's hinges flying off.

"Yo! Man what are you doing?!" He heard some teens yell. Yami didn't care though. Why didn't he use the knob, you ask? Because, Yami loved to make an entrance. Yami picked up the broken screen door and walked into the backyard. Everyone outside stopped what they were doing and drew their attention towards him. He swung the door three times into a circle and throwing it in the air. The door flying right out of the backyard to God knows where. He had thrown it only a couple of miles away. The teens had a either an expression of excitement, or fear in their face. They all began to run away from Yami as he made his way in the middle of the yard.

He stomped his foot on the ground, cracking a little beneath his feet. Darn it, where was that Toxin!?

"Akefia!" Yami yelled as he scanned the area. He didn't even feel his aura! Where was he!? Did that girl lie to him? "Akefia Bakura!" Yami yelled again. As the crowd of teens thinned out to only a few sum, Yami became even more angry. He was here. He had to be.

"Move out of my way." A rough voice rudely said. A few whimpers and yelps were heard. Yami turned around half way and saw some teens on the ground. Probably pushed over. Yami looked up to see the culprit grinning evilly from ear to ear at Yami while making his way towards him slowly.

Yami smirked. It's about time he showed up. He finally found him. Yami folded his arms across his chest and began to glare at Toxin. He hasn't changed one bit. White long hair with two part of his hair at the top looking like devil wings or horns. Sharp face with paler skin than Yami. Evil dark brown eyes. He was wearing an odd get-up. A white shirt with blue stripes, pale blue pants and white tennis shoes. Not his style at all, but maybe he was trying to fit in with the humans. And to top it all off he still had that evil looking expression. Nothing's really changed huh? Not even after more than a millennia. "Toxin."

"Poison." Toxin spoke back. He bagan to chuckle. "You still haven't changed."

"Neither have you." Yami countered.

"I sense some Twilight in you. Finally fucked over a human?" Toxin sneered. Yami frowned. He always did have a foul mouth.

"In a way I guess you could say that. I see you've already done that first, however. Tell me, how did you manage?" Yami spoke, making his voice a bit louder. Toxin shrugged, making a fake innocent face.

"Do what exactly?" Toxin grinned as this seemed to make Yami more angry.

"Bastard." Yami insulted, chuckling to try to keep his anger down. "Do not make this harder than it already is. Explain!" Yami yelled, his eyes becoming red. "I made sure that when I last defeated you, I made you rot in Limbo. You were locked in there tight. How did you manage to escape, bait some human into taking their rarity and hiding yourself so well after all these years?" Yami clenched his teeth in anger. "I want answers, Toxin."

Toxin blinked and continued to stare at Yami with a rather surprised expression. He seemed to think Yami was being serious. Toxin shook his head quickly and glared at Yami once again.

"Alright. Fine. In fact!" Toxin smirked, pointing his index finger in the air playfully. "I think you'll love hearing the last part." Toxin cleared his throat and closed his eyes with a sigh. After you banished me in Limbo and tied me up with those weird chains..."

Akefia POV

He couldn't move. Not a muscle, not a nerve could move. These damned chains Poison put on him. That bastard must have disappeared to the Earth world with those dreadful humans again. Where could he go? It was a wasteland here! Black skies, grey grass with absolutely no trees or plants what-so-ever. It was an endless plain of grey, dead grass. And here he was. Chained to the one and only tree in this forbidden place. A huge dead tree with blackish looking bark and long, pointy branches. The tree, compared to those Earth buildings the human made, was at least seven times bigger than any building they could ever accomplish building. It was very humongous. Around the tree, were floating dead souls, glowing white just like these chains. The tiny ball shaped white glowing orbs, were constantly groaning like wandering lost ghosts.

This place was Hell. Well, that wasn't completely true. But it was sure close enough.

He just sat there. And sat there. All he could do was stare into nothing, or sleep. He couldn't move a thing. There was no way of escaping. He had no hope. So he chose the latter, and let himself fall, into a deep, blissful sleep.

Time passed. He didn't know how long he stayed there. He slept and slept, not knowing how long he would stay here. His dreams were empty. Being in the depths of limbo didn't grant you such luxuries. So he slept. And slept. Fast asleep.

Until one day...

Akefia opened his eyes slowly. How long has it been since he woke up? He didn't know, and he had no idea. Nothing changed, he noted. The souls were still circling the trees, and this place still looked gloomy. The only difference was that, he felt very weak for some reason.

This was ridiculous. He needed to get out of here. But how? With these damned chains, there was no way Akefia could even flinch an eyelash. It kept him completely still. The only things he could move were his eyeballs. He needed to do something! He averted his eyes to the dead souls circling around the tree. Maybe, if he could some how use his shadows to pull one of those things over here...Yes! In limbo, dead souls are purified forcefully. Anything pure could probably get these things off no problem! But these chains were cutting off any portion of shadow magic he could muster up inside of him. It was cutting off his shadow energy.

His eyes widened as he realized. If these chains stay on him any longer, they will drain him of all of his energy, killing him in the process. And he'll end up like those dreadful souls surrounding this tree. And it was draining it fast. He needed to do something! Quick! But what!? Oh wait, that's right! If he could just some how get a shadow to grip one of those souls, he'd be home-free! The chains weren't draining him of all his power completely, so he'd be able to muster up a very weak shadow. But it should be enough!

Akefia focused, channeling his power towards his back. There were existing shadows in Limbo, so he didn't even have to use much energy for this part. He made his shadow collide with the one behind him to make it connect to himself, almost like making a link. It inked it's way up towards the tall tree. The souls weren't too far up. If he could just grab it...

Now here comes the hard part...Akefia inhaled, then exhaled slowly. This was gonna hurt. He manipulated the shadow into a hand, small enough to grab a small object. No bigger than a child's. But this was perfect, because those souls were about as big as a medium sized marble. As the souls circled the tree, Akefia waited for the right moment. As one came close to his shadow hand, he tried to make it grab it. However, he was too fast and didn't catch it. Only making it float farther away from the hand.

Crap..One more screw up and his energy would be gone. And he would die. He had once more chance.

Akefia felt himself pant heavily from the lack of energy, and he felt the link weaken. He needed to do this, and quick, just not too quick or too slow. If he didn't have the right timing, this would be all over. Akefia waited and waited. One particular soul float near the shadow hand in a pretty good spot. Close enough to grab it even if he was too fast. But he needed to be quick He wouldn't want it floating away.

This was it. All or nothing!

Akefia snapped his eyes open as he felt the shadow hand successfully grip the soul in it's black palm. Yes! He caught it! Now to break these chains. He manipulated the shadow hand to merge with the shadow of the tree again and inking it's way down to him while still having the trapped soul in it's dark aura.

The shadow inked next to Akefia, and faded away as the dead soul floated up towards Akefia's face. It began to aimlessly float around him. Akefia mentally groaned. These things were practically as blind as bats. They had absolutely no direction. He had to guide it some how but he couldn't move. As Akefia was trying to think of a way to guide the soul, it floated towards the chains. Akefia could almost smile if he was physically able to. The stupid thing probably senses another form of pure energy nearby like it's own. It's attracted to these chains!

As the soul tried pushing into the chains, the chains slowly began to fade away before Akefia's eyes. The soul was absorbing it! The chains fell loose on Akefia as he began to gain his strength back. He felt his fingers and toes twitch. He cracked his neck from side to side and looked up into the black sky. The only way out was up. No problem. Akefia looked back down towards his 'savior' and saw that the soul had gotten much larger. It became huge. Almost the size of a bowling ball. It tried floating away without falling to the ground due to it's new weight.

Akefia turned his attention back to the sky, and stood up.

Finally, he was free. And the first thing he was gonna do, was get revenge.

Revenge on Poison.

~Yugi~

"What the heck?!" Ryou yelled. Yugi took off without a second and ran out of the living room, to the end of the kitchen where the basement door stood.

The door was open, so Yugi, without hesitation, ran down the stairs, through the game room and towards the end of the basement. He stopped immediately when he saw someone on the floor. He seemed to be passed out. And this door wasn't even here! It looked like someone broke it..And the screen door wasn't even there anymore! What happened?

"Wait! Yugi!" He heard Ryou yell from up the stairs. Yugi paid this no mind and ran out to the backyard.

"Yami-" As Yugi said his name, he felt himself trip and lose balance. He fell to the ground and winced in pain. He recovered quickly, and looked back to what made him fall. His eyes widened in fear.

Why the heck were there unconscious bodies all over the ground!?

As he sat up and looked around, there were nothing but bodies all over the yard! W-Were they dead!?

"Yugi..!" Ryou said slowly walking next to him, also witnessing the bodies scattered everywhere. "W-Wha...What happened!?"

"I-I don't..know..." Yugi whispered fearfully. Ryou quickly helped Yugi up. Yugi quietly thanked him and treaded past the unconscious bodies with Ryou closely behind him. While walking towards the center of the yard, Yugi gasped at what he saw. Jou, Honda and Anzu were all unconscious on the ground too!

Why!? Why is everyone out-cold except for them!?

"I apologize Yugi." A familiar deep voice said. Yugi slowly turned to his right and gasped a little.

"Y-Yami."

"Indeed." Yami replied, smirking. And just in front of him by only a few feet, was Akefia! Standing in front of him with a glare. He whipped hi head at Yugi and scowled. But as he pointed his gaze at Ryou, he saw his expression soften a little. So he really was going to fight him here. But, that doesn't explain all the bodies...Did they do this? Because then, what was Yami apologizing for exactly?

"Why did you just apologize?" Yugi spoke as quietly as possible. Almost whispering. He was frightened. He really was scared. He was also afraid of the answer he might get.

"Why because I did this, of course." Yami replied with a smile. Yugi gulped and backed away, accidentally bumping into Ryou. "I only knocked them all unconscious. We do not need any witnesses for what we are about to do." Yami looked at Ryou and smirked. "So Toxin, this is the human you held hostage?"

Toxin? Who the heck was-

"Heheh..." Akefia chuckled. It was him?! But, what kind of name is that? "Indeed. I see that yours was the little shrimp. We've conversed before. We know a bit about each other." Akefia licked his lips at Yugi. "Don't we, Yugi?"

"Stop this brother!" Ryou yelled. Yugi was a bit surprised at his outburst. As was Yami and Akefia. "If this was the guy you were looking for, then I can't let you do this!" Ryou continued to yell. Akefia just chuckled, not giving a care.

"And why should I listen to you?"

"Because he's...I can sense his power, brother!" Ryou's expression became pleading. Akefia groaned in frustration.

"So what!?" He yelled back.

"He's stronger than-AAH!" Ryou screamed as his own shadow slammed him to the ground. Hard. He landed on his back, and it knocked the wind out of him. He coughed and hacked, trying desperately to breathe normally. Yugi whimpered and ran to Ryou, kneeling down to help him regain his breath. Yugi looked up and whipped his head towards Akefia. His expression became no longer scared, but angry.

"Why would you do that!?" Yugi shouted. Akefia grunted and turned his head back at Yami.

"Shut it before I throw you next-"

"And you will do no such thing without dying first!" Yami interrupted. "Unlike you, I care about my pure essence. So you will not lay one finger on him, Toxin."

Yugi felt his cheeks warm up. N-Now was not the time to feel embarrassed!

"So then, Poison..." Akefia said with true hatred dripping from his mouth, walking closer towards Yami, as Yami began to do the same. "You planning on doing something about that? I might just blast the little shit into the ground right now. What will you do then?"

Yugi felt himself swallow fearfully again from the intense tension in the area. They were so close to each other now. Forehead to forehead, almost as if they head butted each other.

They both held angry expression, and Yugi saw both their eyes turn bright red. Their eyes becoming cat-like with slits for pupils. The glaring contest was intense, and there was no telling what could happen. No telling who would strike who, or if someone were to pull out a weapon. Yami's teeth began to grow sharp, as did Akefia's. Yami clenched his teeth and then...

"I'll tear your ass apart and send you back to hell!"

The shadows underneath their feet, grew larger and larger, engulfing the entire area with shadows. Things were going so fast. Yugi blinked in amazement.

He saw Yami's arm thrust back, and towards Akefia.

The fight has finally begun.

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