Yami Ryou lol now how about that? Though, I think it's kinda more obvious to tell if Ryou is possessed or not than Ryan. I mean if you think about it, Ryan could've helped Yugi when he was dueling against Duke without being possessed. I mean, it's kinda hard to tell if Ryan is possessed or not compared to Ryou. Review please!
Ryan slowly opened his eyes and found himself in his dark soul room. The walls were black and held shelves filled with models of bones, gargoyles, and weird looking creatures. The floor held a carpet that looked like a 2D image of a role playing board game. It wasn't Monster World, but was similar to the set-up. There were stainless steal boxes of priceless artifacts and antiques, and video games found in arcades.
Ryan knew Yami Ryou was out playing Monster World with his new friends and about to trap them in their avatar characters. Ryan ran out from his soul room and into Ryou's soul room. The room, which was once filled with white walls, fountains, and toys, was now clouded in a gray fog. Ryan ran across the room and saw an image of his friends setting up to play Monster World. It was too late to warn them now.
"No," Ryan muttered as he fell to his hands and knees and tears built up in his eyes. "Why? Why now? I... I can't do this anymore."
"Brother!" a voice called from the fog, a crying voice.
"Ryou?" Ryan asked confounded. He wiped the tears from his eyes and followed the sound of that soft voice.
"Brother!" The voice echoed again. This was the first time Ryan heard Ryou's voice when being possessed.
"Ryou, keep calling for me! I'm coming for you!"
"Broootherrrrrr!" The voice cried louder in weeping.
Ryan searched through the gray fog for that soft, tender voice. He had to find Ryou, if he was still in here while being possessed by a psycho freak. Ryan's temperature dropped when he saw Ryou's soul body on the floor of his soul room unconscious. It was like he was still there, but barely holding up. Like he was comatose like his previous friends.
Ryan took Ryou into his arms and brushed the hair from his face. He could feel Ryou's beating life by his touch. Ryou looked so fragile and soft by his brother's fingertips. Ryan couldn't keep his eyes off Ryou for one second.
"Ryou," Ryan whispered while his lips were quivering.
"Brother," that echoing voice spoke again. Ryou's lips weren't moving at all. Ryan knew it was because he could hear Ryou though their mind link.
"Please, wake up," Ryan begged while staring at Ryou's unconscious body. "Please, we can't lose anymore friends. You have to wake up."
"Brother," Ryou's voice echoed again. Ryan knew in his heart that his brother was fighting this evil spirit who was taking control.
Ryan took a hold of Ryou's gentle hand and held the fragile body in his arms closer. Ryou's face was lying on his right shoulder with his lips next to Ryou's ear.
"Keep fighting, Ryou. We can't lose anymore of our friends. We can fight this thing, whoever is taking possession of you. Just know I'm right here when you wake up," Ryan whispered to Ryou in his ear before laying a soft kiss on his forehead. "Stay strong, please."
Ryou continued to lay still as his hand quivered against Ryan's hand as if he was trying to hold it tighter. He was, indeed, fighting against the evil spirit inside his soul room. Ryan continued to look down at his brother and hoping to see those bright gentle blue eyes once again.
In Ryan's bedroom, the game Monster World was finally set up. It was time for the game to start, but there were no monsters anywhere and the characters were just at the starting point, wondering where to start at. Ryan just stood there smirking evilly and widely. Nobody could tell this wasn't Ryan, since he always smirked deviously.
"Where are the monsters!" Joey glared.
"The monsters only appear when we start playing, but first, we need to get information about our enemy," Hanaski explained.
"Oh... I knew that," Joey lied while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Let's check the town," Atem suggested.
"Good idea!" Hanaski replied as the four characters moved to the village.
"Very good," Ryan replied, still keeping his smirk. "You take five turns to enter the village."
Ryan took out the town piece of the game and replaced it with a building that looked to be like a bar with other little dolls inside. The four boys awed in amazement of the detail in the characters. There was an old man avatar at the back of the counter, a businessman doll looking out the window, and a random woman who seemed rather familiar.
"Wow, nice craftsmanship," Joey complimented Ryan.
In Ryou's soul room, Ryan glanced at the avatar dolls that were at the bar inside the town of Monster World. These people were once actual people, but turned into dolls when playing the game or became the people Ryan didn't like. He would know these people from anywhere. He especially knew the woman in the bar. That woman was his school teacher at Domino High that he joked about with Atem. Ryan held a nasty glare filled with hatred.
"You son of a bitch, you went to my school too?" Ryan growled, still holding onto Ryou. He looked down at his poor dear brother, stroking his thumb against his bangs. "Please Ryou, keep fighting. Stop this game before we lose more friends."
"Ba... brother!"
"Yes, keep fighting," Ryan begged before looking back at the screen that showed his friends. "You shall pay dearly for this."
At the game, Atem, Joey, Tristan, and Hanaski were inside the bar of the town. They were to ask some people nearby for any information concerning any trouble that may've lurked about.
"Let's ask that old man," Joey suggested. His face looked serious. "Hey, old man, as you can see, we're highly skilled adventurers. Any way for us to make some dough?"
"You start with money?" Tristan asked in annoyance. Atem sighed while rolling his eyes.
"That's Joey for ya," Atem grimaced.
"At those words, the villager sends a glance at your direction and sighs as he speaks..." Ryan narrated.
"If money was our problem, I'd give you all I got, then you'd be dead before you could claim your reward," the bar man replied in a squeaky voice.
"With that, the old man moves away from the bar," Ryan narrates as Atem chuckled in amusement.
"So much for that," Atem teased with a devious smirk.
"Sounds like you have a story! We're all ears!" Joey burst aloud as Tristan and Atem chuckled at their friend's nerdiness of the game.
"Hearing those words, the old man opens his mouth and says in a heavy tone..." Ryan narrates.
"A few years ago, this village was peaceful... then Dark Lord Zork assassinated the king and changed the castle into a den of darkness," the old bartender admitted. "After that, monsters began appearing in our lands and valleys. Many of our fellow citizens have become their pray."
"WHAT?" Joey responded in anger, as if the game was real.
"We can't let him get away with this!" Hanaski declared, wanting to take part in playing his character. "We'll take care of this Evil Zork!"
"Yeah, just give us some dough," Joey demanded as Tristan and Atem slapped their faces with their hand at the same time.
"Apparently, this game brings out Joey's bad side," Tristan thought.
"I agree," Atem agreed.
"Brother, is there a speaker in that doll?" Yugi asked.
'No, this is a tabletop RPG. Characters other than the adventurers are played by the Game Master, Ryan Bakura,' Atem explained as Yugi looked out at the game board.
"Oooooooh," Yugi understood. He furrowed his eyebrows. "Then Ryan must be throwing his voice out or something. Though... there's something familiar about that name Zork. I feel like I know him somehow."
'Really,' Atem smirked teasingly.
"I can't really point it out, but... I think I know this Zork somehow."
"Before you start your journey, you must talk to the Gypsy Lady over there," The Bartender Man replied, facing the lady at the bar. "She'll show you the safest rout to the castle."
Joey moved his character next to the lady at the bar. He said, "hey."
"Huh?" The Gypsy Lady replied after Ryan turned the doll. The four kids gawked up laughing.
"Hey! It looks like our teacher!" Hanaski said.
"Isn't that the 3D version of that picture you drew?" Atem asked with a smirk up his lips.
"Perhaps," Ryan shrugged, keeping an evil smirk.
"Kids! You have to help me, Ry..." the Gypsy Lady doll cried as Ryan's millennium ring began to glow. Yugi noticed this and a small gasp left him.
"Atem look!" Yugi cried as Atem saw the ring around Ryan's neck.
'You are no longer a teacher, you are an avatar bound to play your part,' Yami Ryou glared with controlful eyes.
"Z... Zork's castle is to the North outside of the village, b... but stay out of the forest. It's filled with monsters." the Gypsy Lady doll replied, who seemed to be trembling in fear. Yugi looked at his brother with fear in his eyes.
"Brother... something's wrong. I felt it when we first came in Ryan's apartment," Yugi muttered. His fingers were shaking. "Maybe... maybe I'm just overreacting, but don't you get the feeling that maybe Ryan was right about his friends ending up comatose because of the game?"
'Yugi, it was just coincidence,' Atem declared as if it was factual.
"ATEM! HOW DID SETO BECOME COMATOSED?" Yugi asked as a reminder.
'Yugi, that was..."
"HOW?"
'We played a shadow game and he was given a penality game, because..."
"A GAME! HELLO! Don't you think that this game might be the same thing?"
'Yugi, Ryan wouldn't do that! Be reasonable!'
"No... he wouldn't," Yugi muttered, still staring at the millennium item. "Ask Ryan what that ring around his neck is!"
Atem sighed while rolling his eyes, and then asked, "Ryan, what's that ring around your neck?"
"Hm?" Ryan questioned, then smirked when seeing the ring. "Oh, it's a present from my father. It's the millennium ring."
"I KNEW IT! A MILLENNIUM ITEM!" Yugi shouted happily while snapping his fingers. "I knew there was something weird about this game! We must be playing a shadow game!"
'Yugi, how many times must I tell you? This is Ryan we're talking.'
"We don't know Ryan and what if that's not him?" Yugi said as Atem raised his eyebrows. He never thought about that. "You share my soul, what if you and Ryan's millennium items are alike? Atem, face it, we're playing a shadow game!"
Atem hated to admit it, but what if Yugi was right? What if there was more to this game than just a fun-playing game? Atem looked up at Ryan and saw that the face he was seeing now wasn't the same one he saw yesterday at school. Now that he thought about it, this Ryan looked totally different. Not as much as Yugi was from Atem, but... different.
"Hello! Anyone home?" Joey called out to Atem with a hand waving in front of him. "Let's go to the forest."
"Huh? Oh right!" Atem remembered. He slowly took his character and moved it toward the forest. 'Yugi, is there anyway we can know for sure if your theory is correct?'
"I'll see if I can search through Ryan's heart. Though, you'll have to fight Zork. It's the only way to know," Yugi said as Atem nodded.
"Alright, let's all head to Zork's Castle!" Joey grinned joyfully.
"You have just entered into an area where there's danger lurking around every corner," Ryan instructed. He got out two dice that was ten-sided. "From now on, there's a Judgment Roll at every turn to determine if monsters appear or not."
"What kind of dice are those?" Hanaski asked curiously with raised eyebrows.
"They're ten-sided dice," Atem explained, his face showing some seriousness to it. Hanaski began seeing Atem's serious look for the first time. He knew his friend was suspicious about something, but what?
"The area you encountered has a 30% chance of running into monsters," Ryan explained he pointed to the white ten-sided die. "The white die represents the ones column..." He then pointed to the red ten-sided die. "... and the red die represents the tens column." He returned that hand to his side and showed the dice in his hand. "In other words, you get a number between 0 and 99. If you get a roll of 31-99, then you've avoided meeting any monsters." He dropped the dice onto the board. "I make the roll and it's... 21. That's lower than 30, so a monster appears."
"ALRIGHT!" Joey grinned excitedly, pumping his arm. "Now we get to kick some ass!"
"A goblin level 3 appears!" Ryan announced as he placed a goblin on the board.
"Man, and here I thought this game was gonna be boring," Tristan smirked.
"All battles are decided by these dice," Ryan instructed, showing the two dice in his hand. "With a percentile roll." He dropped them in Joey's hand. "You go first."
"Good! Now, time to kick ass!" Joey smirked before rolling the dice on the board. It showed a 13.
"Based on the warrior's level, speed, and weapon, I calculate that the warrior's short sword kills the goblin on a roll of a 40 or less," Ryan calculated while typing stuff on his laptop. "The goblin goes down."
"WHAHOOOO!" Joey cheered victoriously while jumping in the air. "IN YOUR FACE YOU NASTY BITCH ASS GOBLIN!"
"The closer you roll to double-zero, the more damage you do to the enemy," Ryan explained with a short smirk on his face. His smirk grew wider while closing his eyes. "However... if you throw a 99, a fumble, then you have to take... a penalty."
"Penalty game," Yugi glared suspiciously.
"Nice going, Joey!" Atem congratulated while slapping his friend's back.
"Yeah, you're the man!" Tristan agreed.
"Now let's get going to Zork's Castle!" Hanaski smirked with a game face.
"Zork's Castle here we come!" Tristan smirked as the players moved their characters closer to Zork's Castle.
"Suddenly, you stop and see someone up ahead lying across your path," Ryan narrated as he put a character on the board and lied him across.
"Hey look, there's someone up ahead," Hanaski said.
"Let's check to see if he's alive," Atem suggested.
"It could be a trap," Tristan thought.
"I'll just poke him with my sword," Joey said as he moved his character to the one who was lying ahead and poked it with the tiny sword.
"Joey pokes the strange person with a sword, and then he moves slightly," Ryan narrated as he flipped the random character lying on the board face-up. "It appears to be a young man. He looks at you fearfully."
"Hey, are you okay?" Hanaski asked.
"Yeah, we're not your enemies," Joey assured.
"Please, help me! A monster attacked me and stole my treasure!" The figure cried. If the hat and robe didn't cover the character so much, he could be mistaken for Ryan's twin. "I was on my way to give it to the hero of the village. It has a Holy Sword! The only weapon that can defeat Zork!"
"A sword that can defeat Zork?" Atem questioned with furrowed eyebrows.
"Please! I beg of you! Find the treasure and give it back to me!" The figure begged.
"Do you respond to the man's request?" Ryan asked.
"Didn't that gypsy lady tell us to stay away from the forest?" Hanaski asked with cocked eyebrows.
"Are you nuts? He's talkin' treasure guys!" Joey glared as Atem furrowed his eyebrows.
"I don't know. He's a non-player character, so he could be an ally or... it could be a trap," Atem suspected as his friends, except Ryan, raised their eyebrows.
"There's only one way to find out," Joey smirked as he faced the mysterious figure. "Take us to the forest."
"Thank you, heros! I'll come along for the ride," the mysterious figure said as everyone moved their characters while Ryan moved the non-player character.
"You heed to the young man's plea and head for the forest," Ryan narrated as he turned the piece of the board to show a path through the foresty area. Everyone placed their characters inside the forest. "The shadowy green leaves rise all around you. This area has a monster encounter rate of 80%"
"80%?" Hanaski gasped.
"DANG!" Tristan responded as Ryan rolled the dice, which showed a 05.
"Not a good roll for you! The closer you get to 00, the stronger the monsters appear," Ryan explained as he calculated the strength of the monsters that would appear on the board. Once he was done, he placed five monsters on the board. "Five monsters emerge from the trees!"
"Not good!" Hanaski responded.
"Let's kick some butt!" Joey smirked with his fist shaking in front of him.
"If you attack, I might be able to figure out what's going on with this shadow game. There's no doubt we're facing deadly waters," Yugi said as Atem nodded.
'There is something odd about Ryan. I need you to find out what's going on deep inside his soul room,' Atem instructed as Yugi nodded.
"Time for me to take a whack at 'em!" Joey grinned with a game face. He threw the dice on the board, which showed an 82. "Oh f***!"
"You needed to roll a 30 or less to hit Beega," Ryan explained with a slight smirk. "Not only does Joey miss, but he trips and falls!"
"Let me take a whack at 'em," Tristan smirk as he rolled the dice, which showed a 21. "ALRIGHT!"
"You did it!" Hanaski grinned after the Beega was defeated.
"One down, four to go," Tristan smirked.
"My turn," Atem declared. He knew this was his chance to figure out what was going on with Ryan and why he was acting so abnormal. He rolled the dice, which ended up being a 25. 'Ok Yugi, when my character attacks, you go inside Ryan's soul room through the game. If this is a shadow game, than the characters we play represent us and the monsters represent Ryan.'
"Right," Yugi agreed as his spirit disappeared and merged with Atem's avatar.
"The Beast Tamer can touch one monster with his magic hands and make him an ally," Ryan explained to everyone. "The brainwashing power has a success rate of 50%. You succeed!"
"I choose you!" Atem announced, pointing to a small round monster. As the monster was transforming, Yugi's spirit swift right inside the monster and into Ryan's mind.
Yugi glanced at his surroundings and walked through the hallway to Ryan's soul room. There, in front of him, were two doors on each side just like his and Atem's soul room. He gasped and knew that his theory was correct: Ryan shared a body with another spirit. Yugi walked in between the doors. To his right, he saw the black-walled room, which was obviously Ryan's soul room. Yugi's gut told him to go to the room on the left, and that's exactly what he did.
When Yugi opened the door to the other mind room, he was attacked by some sort of gray fog. It was choking him for a while before he walked around to explore the place. It was as if this person was possessed, whoever soul room this was. Yugi wasn't sure what to do. He couldn't see hardly anything.
"Hello?" Yugi called out. He kept walking through the fog. "Is anyone there?"
"Who's there?" A voice called out, in anger perhaps. The voice scared Yugi silly. "Show yourself or else!"
Yugi coughed through the gray fog before making out the person to his right. It was Ryan. He looked very angry, as if he was going to kill the first person he saw. Yugi rubbed his eyes before making out the figure of Ryan. It was him alright. He seemed very angry at this point, probably because Yugi trespassed into his mind room or his other mind room. Though, he still had to be sure that this was his friend before making conclutions.
"Ryan, please tell me that's you!" Yugi shouted.
"It's I and who the heck might you be? I know you're not Atem!" Ryan glared in threat as he walked closer to Yugi. "Whoever you are, if you're here to hurt my brother Ryou, then get the f*** out!"
"Brother," Yugi muttered. He looked over to the right where his friends were still playing Monster World. His eyebrows furrowed. "You mean the one playing a shadow game against my brother?"
"NO! That imposter is NOTHING like my brother. He's the one who's been stealing my friends' souls and sealing them into these f***in avatars!" Ryan shouted with furious anger. His fists were shaking and his head was boiling. "He keeps possessing Ryou and stealing our friends away from us! Ryou doesn't need to face anymore pain!"
"I guess that explains the fog," Yugi said as he then saw another figure lying across the ground on his back. He looked like Ryan, only held more innocents. "Is that your brother?" He ran over to the helpless boy and put his hand against the boy's chest. This ticked Ryan off. He ran over toward Yugi, fearful of what he might do to Ryou.
"HANDS OFF HIM!" Ryan threatened while taking Yugi by the neck.
"R... Ryan... I'm... your friend... I would never... harm you," Yugi promised as Ryan threw him against the floor away from Ryou.
"Why should I trust you?"
"Because I am like Atem's Ryou," Yugi replied as Ryan stared at the boy with a deep untrustful glare. "Atem used his millennium item, so that I can help you."
Ryan balled up his fists and shook them furiously. He knew this boy might be right, but he might also hold an evil spirit, just like Ryou. Ryan couldn't bare losing Ryou, it was bad enough losing his friends. Ryan opened his eyes, picked up Yugi by the throat, and met their eyes.
"If you harm Ryou by any means, I will make you pay dearly. I will hunt you down and kill you. I don't care if you're Atem's brother or not. I cannot forgive anyone who dares to lay a hand on my brother," Ryan warned Yugi as he dropped the boy and he caught his breath. "I should be kicking you out of his soul room and leaving you black and blue."
Yugi crawled over to Ryou and felt his spirit fighting hard by touch. His body was still and calm, but his spirit was fighting on the inside. Yugi sensed this through his touch on the boy with his hand against Ryou's chest. Ryou was fighting this evil spirit who was possessing him. Yugi looked up at Ryan who still gave an untrustful glare, not that he could blame his white-haired friend. If that were Atem and some stranger was in his brother's soul room, he'd be infuriated.
"Your brother's fighting, there's no doubt. My brother and I will help you win this fight, but you must help him. Ryou right? He can't fight alone!" Yugi instructed as Ryan furrowed his eyebrows even deeper.
"You think I haven't been trying?"
"No, but there's room for encouragement, right?" Yugi asked with a bright smile before laying Ryou down. He gave Ryan a warm hug, which made him flinch. "I promise Brother and I will free you from this somehow. I don't know how, but we'll find a way." He broke from the hug with a soft smile. "Trust me."
Ryan, this time, stared at Yugi dumbfoundedly. It was as if he just saw something that was never seen in a thousand years. Yugi raised his eyebrows as Ryan stared at the ground with furrowed eyebrows in confusion. Why sudden change of attitude?
"Ryou... he used to smile like that," Ryan muttered. A tear rolled down his left cheek. "He taught me how to love someone. I used to be cold and heartless until he came into my life. Perhaps... if you can save Ryou, then you will have my complete trust."
"You have my word," Yugi said as his final statement before he disappeared back into his brother's heart and just in time too.
At the game, Atem had just transformed a monster named Pokie into his ally. Hanaski had rolled a 00 and destroyed the rest of the monsters everyone was fighting. They all leaped for joy and continued on their journey. Unfortunately, the mysterious stranger that everyone had met, was an enemy leading them into a trap. He changed into the Dark Lord Zork. Just when the players were about to face Zork, Yugi appeared next to Atem again.
"Zork gets the first attack," Ryan, or Yami Ryou, declared as he rolled the dice.
"Watch out brother! That's not Ryan!" Yugi warned Atem as his eyebrows rose. "I saw the whole thing! Ryan is just like us. He has a brother who lives inside him like you have me, but something's happened to him. Ryou, Ryan's brother, is fighting inside his soul room. It's completely covered with fog. That means a dark evil is inside that ring and it's harming Ryan and his brother."
'Oh no!' Atem gasped as Yami Ryou roll the dice with his fingers in an odd manner. The dice rolled 00. "NO!"
"The first target is you, Hanaski!" Yami Ryou declared, pointing his index finger at Hanaski.
"HANASKI! NO!" Atem shouted, though his friends this outburst as a playful act for his character. Hanaski then limped right onto the table. It was too late.
"HANASKI!" Everyone gasped. Joey ran over to Hanaski and shook him to wake him up, but no hope.
"What have you done to Hanaski?" Atem asked furiously. He pointed to Yami Ryou. "BETTER YET! TELL US WHO YOU REALLY ARE! I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT YOU'RE NOT RYAN AND THIS GAME IS A F***IN SHADOW GAME!"
Everyone gasped aloud as Yami Ryou's smirk grew wider and chuckled darkly, too darkly. They then heard a voice from the game board.
"Heeeellllp!" a voice called from Hanaski's character.
"Hanaski!" Atem gasped before glaring at Yami Ryou. "You son of a bitch, who are you?"
"3000 years ago they called me the Thief King. To be honest, besides Ryou's name, I have no name," Yami Ryou replied, though part of it was a lie.
"Ryou?" Joey asked dumbfounded.
"My guess is that this Ryou is Ryan's brother just like Yugi is to me," Atem concluded.
"Damn," Tristan muttered.
"You bastard! GET OUT OF RYAN AND LEAVE THE OTHER RYAN ALONE!" Joey snapped.
"Why should I? They're both my key to power and glory," Yami Ryou smirked before laughing manically. He then stared at the friends with an evil smirk.
"THEN IT'S HIGH TIME I KICKED YOUR F***IN' ASS FOR F***ING WITH MY FRIEND!" Joey shouted in anger before throwing the dice onto the board. Unfortunately, luck wasn't on his side when the dice showed a 99.
"JOEY!" Atem and Tristan cried together.
"Hm," Yami Ryou smirked evilly before releasing a dark chuckle. "What a fool. It wasn't even your turn yet. You should know by hanging with Atem, who carries Yugi's soul, that cheating results in a timeout."
Before anyone could react, Joey's body went limp and fell onto the game board. Atem rushed to his best and closest friend and held onto him tightly. Joey also had his soul sealed into his avatar, just like Hanaski. Atem shot dagger eyes at Yami Ryou as he laughed so evilly and sickly.
"You sick son of a bitch!" Tristan glared in anger.
"Great! Just great! I'm like six inches tall, wearing a dress, and having to fight my giant friend!" Joey complained grumpily.
"Uh Joey, you're smaller than six inches. In fact, I think you're at least an inch and three quarters," Hanaski corrected in his avatar.
"WHO THE F*** CARES?" Joey shouted uncontrollably in his avatar form.
"Joey, hold on, we'll get you out," Atem promised. 'I hope.'
"Tristan," Yami Ryou called. "I believe it's your turn." His eyebrows furrowed even deeper into seriousness. "However, according to your courage score, you have a 70% to conquer your fear and go first. Otherwise Zork gets to go first."
"WHAT? THAT'S F***IN RETARDED! I AIN'T SCARED!" Tristan yelled.
"Let's see what the dice have to say then, shall we?" Yami Ryou smirked as Tristan threw the dice and it landed on a 94.
"A 94? THAT IS JUST F***ING RETARDED!" Tristan screamed. His fists were balled up and shaking in anger.
"Tristan, calm down!" Atem said with two hands on his friend's shoulders, trying to calm him down. Tristan took a deep breath, and then looked back at the game.
"The Magic Gunsman is frozen in fear, and then curses himself for his cowardice," Yami Ryou narrated.
"You son of a bitch," Tristan hissed, Atem's hands still on his shoulders as Yami Ryou rolls the dice, again in a weird manner with his fingers. Yugi, in the meantime, was studying Yami Ryou's dice rolling technique. The dice spun around and landed on a 00. "NO!" Suddenly, Tristan went limp into Atem's arms. His soul was now inside his avatar saying, "believe me, I wasn't a coward."
Atem laid Tristan gently on the floor with anger swelling up in himself. His fists were balled up and were shaking furiously. If only he saw this coming! Yugi sure saw it coming and even convinced Atem to let him go inside Ryan's mind. Atem blamed himself for not listening to his brother's judgments. He was also angry because of what Yami Ryou was doing. Atem knew he had to fight this evil spirit and there was only one way to do it.
Yami Ryou was going to pay for what he did to Ryan and Ryou. Atem was to make sure of that. He stared at his enemy with those cold dark eyes. All of his friends were gone, trapped in their avatars. Atem was going to make sure that Yami Ryou paid for the souls he sealed into their avatars. There was no doubt in Atem's mind.
"Atem, roll for us!" Joey cried.
"You can do it, man!" Tristan cheered.
"No," Atem muttered as the little characters froze in shock. He stared at Yami Ryou coldly. "You..." He pointed his index finger straight at Yami Ryou. "You filthy son of a bitch. You took possession of my friend... NO! MY FRIENDS CLOSEST LOVED ONE! I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!"
"How charming," Yami Ryou mocked.
"I'm too angry to think clearly," Atem said, also speaking to Yugi. "I want to fight with my friends. I want to make you pay." He stared coldly at Yami Ryou's dark blue eyes. "Transfer me into my character!"
"What!" Hanaski confounded.
"You? You want to become a doll?" Yami Ryou glared confounded as Atem continued to stare at his enemy with cold dark eyes. Yami Ryou smirked deviously with a dark chuckle. "Very well. TIMEOUT!"
Atem felt his spirit whoosh right into his own little character. Yugi immediately took over for his brother and showed a game face. He smirked widely and was ready to face Yami Ryou straight on. Yami Ryou laughed manically before opening his eyes and staring confoundedly at Yugi, who was smirking widely.
"Thank you Brother for letting me keep my promise," Yugi thanked Atem.
"What? You... you're taking over for Atem!" Yami Ryou glared furiously.
"Oh, and it took you just now to realize that?" Yugi asked rhetorically. He showed a wide smirk.
"Theif King! I want you to meet my brother, Yugi!" Atem introduced with his wide smirk.
"I saw what you did to Ryou and I know he's still fighting in there!" Yugi glared all of a sudden. "I promised Ryan I would save Ryou with every ounce of strength I have. I'm planning on keeping that promise by playing against you."
"Very well," Yami Ryou smirked before giving out a dark chuckle. "Though, that is foolish to think you can stand against me, but if you really want to play in your friends' place, fine by me."
"Then let the real battle begin," Yugi smirked. 'Don't worry Ryan, Ryou is in good hands. I'll fight till the very end.'