Chapter 4
Unworthy

"You have felt it, you have been traumatized, you have been forced into ultimate pain," the familiar voice echoed all around me as Pegasus and I kept being tortured, none of the pain had numbed, he had said before that it never would.

The fear of the next needle piercing another part of my body never goes away. It felt like days had gone by. Pegasus's tears had turned into blood as our shared vision was blurry and covered in a thick layer of blood.

I tried to scream, I tried to move even a single muscle but nothing was possible. I was doomed for eternity, drowning in this pain. Pegasus's piercing screams; his saddened and pained thoughts flowed into me at all time, making me have even more tortured nightmares of what was going to happen.

I was enduring the foul smell I felt from his body disgustedly, as well as the excruciating pain of his body and mind. I never thought it would end and I had given up, but even when I had done so, the reality that I had to face was that I would go for eternity in this hellhole of pain and sickening fear.

I couldn't think straight. I just wanted this to end. I kept wishing that this would just end, that I would do anything to just leave this place, even for a second.

The never ending pain went on without intermission. A second, what I would give for just a second of not feeling this pain. But then I heard the voice that resonated around us again. It was dark. But whenever it spoke, a tiny light appeared in the distance.

Pegasus never even saw it, as if he couldn't even if he wanted to. Every time I heard the voice, I tried to reach out for it, but I still couldn't move.

"This should be enough. I think it's time to get you out of there..."

What? What was the voice talking about? Getting me out? Out of this hellhole? I was filled with hope as I tried to scream to it, this time I managed to raise Pegasus's head a little somehow.

I was filled with hatred towards this place and I was afraid, afraid of missing this only chance of getting away. I forced my spirit to grasp Pegasus, I made it lose control of him, and I was ripping a piece of him from himself and gained control of him.

I rose up and screamed as loudly as I could. The pain of moving was much more than I imagined but I held my head high as I screamed on the top of my voice.

"Get me out of this place!" I hadn't heard another voice in so long. The voice responded in a chuckle and then a door appeared from the darkness a few metres away. An eerie purple stream of light almost leaked out of the edges of the door.

"I'll let you out of there. I've given you a door. Now all you have to do is walk towards it, whoever's spirit is in it when it walks through the door, gets to leave."

What? But... How? It took me all my strength to control his body once, how am I supposed to walk that distance?

I felt my spirit being forced out. I wanted to let Pegasus out. But an eternity of this pain, I would never be able to endure it.

I felt a massive amount of anger and hatred towards the Thief King. I wanted to get my revenge on him for putting me through this. Right now I couldn't care less if Pegasus, the one person who was always there would be banished entirely to this world of pain, I was getting my revenge!

I forced his spirit out somehow as I managed to stand up. I took a step closer to the door and the splinters stabbed into my skin and ripped it up into several small pieces.

The splinters stabbed into my spinal cord, ripping it up and cracking it in several places.

I couldn't see a single thing; all my senses were messing with me. My mind was overcome with an overwhelming rage as I forced Pegasus's spirit away from his physical body.

Blood while still hot was spurting from the several holes in my body. Keeping myself walking slowly towards the door. It hurt so much, as the feeling never numbed no matter how enraged I was, I still didn't give up. I wanted to get out of this place; I would walk any distance in this pain for it!

Every step felt like a lifetime of energy lost. I was coughing up blood on the ground and my legs quivered hard, trembling. I couldn't walk straight as the splinters flew towards me all the time, piercing my body, stabbing my organs.

I was a few steps away from the door. The splinters got more aggressive and ripped up my neck so I couldn't even grasp for air the slightest even if I tried. They pierced my eyes repeatedly until they were nothing but a broken, thin, shell in the holes in my eyes.

The liquid inside my eyes were flowing into my head and dripping down on the ground as I forced this body to take a step forward. One step. I just needed to walk a measly step and I would reach it.

I would be able to open the brown door with that golden doorknob. I would be free. I reached out my arm and tried to take the last step. The splinters forced themselves into my palm, ripping up all the bones inside of it and cracking it to pieces.

I wouldn't give up.

I couldn't hold up my arm even a little. I forced myself to lean forward and press my foot against the ground as I tried to force every muscle in my arm to keep it up. I managed.

The intense pain flooded through my body as hundreds of small holes in my body reopened and blood spurted out, but I managed.

My flayed fingertip touched the doorknob and the door suddenly flew open, hitting my head while doing so. I flew backwards through the splinters behind me as I saw a purple, thick cloud flying out the door. I thought I had flown backwards but I now saw I was just a spirit again.

Pegasus's spirit was in his own body again. The cloud flew into his mouth, pressing him backwards. I looked at him scared as I saw his body corrode from the inside out. Several vesicles appeared on his body as the gouged out eyes regenerated.

His eyelids were bubbling up and bursting into bloody, disgusting spurts. The splinters were viciously piercing him and bursting the vesicles on his body as more and more appeared.

I felt all the pain. I felt his senses. In his mouth, several vesicles had been created, he couldn't scream, every time he tried to move his jaw, the vesicles would give a horrible amount of pain whenever it even made physical contact with anything.

He finally couldn't hold it as he screamed and when he closed his mouth; his teeth pierced the vesicles in his mouth as they burst open with a weird, green fluid mixed with the blood.

The pain was insufferable. Even worse than before… I couldn't take my eyes of him as I felt it all, even though I was just looking at him as a spirit. While I was lying on the ground in intense pain, I saw a black figure walking towards me.

He held out his hand and looked at me with a grin on his face. He was nothing but a black silhouette, nothing but the wide, white grin and those huge, white eyes held reflected colors.

It was a scary sight. I was couldn't think straight and was just staring at him. He chuckled as he grabbed my hair and stared into my eyes as he held me up by the hair. I was too frightened for anything.

The pain still flowed through me; no words can describe the utter pain that I could feel. He flung me towards the open door and walked after. It was the strangest sensation. The second my spirit passed through that door, all the pain just flowed away in an instant.

I was flying backwards out of the room as I saw Pegasus at the opening at the door as the door was closing. His clothes were ripped into small bits with deep cuts. His right eye was covered in blood and his entire flesh was ripped into pieces. But I saw something weird just as the door almost closed.

The bangs that covered his eye that should have no eye - there was a weird golden light from his eye. Before I could see what it was, the door closed and nothing could be seen from that world.

I fell to the ground in another black void, but this one felt comfortable. I noticed the purple streams that flowed through the air and I noticed what had happened.

I was in my mind world. The black figure from earlier walked up to the Bakura who was standing behind me. I turned to him and saw his smug face. That person had sent me to those days of torture, of underlying pain destroying my will to live! I stood up and raised my arm to punch him but he grabbed my arm and glared at me.

"Bakura, you deceitful bastard! You banished Pegasus to an eternity of torture! Just leave my life, I don't want to help you, you ruined my life!" I was overcome with rage.

I remembered the intense pain of all that time. Tears were flowing from my eyes, tears that I had been holding inside of me, the tears that I couldn't cry when I was in Pegasus's body.

"Ruin your life? No, that was just a fragment of the pain I'll make you go through for our perfect synchronization. And it was you who banished him to that world, you could have let him leave instead of you, but you chose your own life to save" He was grinning widely as he let go of my arm.

It was my fault… I had left him there. I chose to save myself, I could have saved him. The thought that pained me the most was the fact that I knew that even if I relived it, I would still save myself.

Perhaps I was the one who was the true evil one… No! This is just his mind tricks! But there was some truth in it. I would never had tried to save him no matter how many times I'd go through that, when I was there, I would have done anything to have to get out of that place.

"Thief King… Why… Why would you make me go through all that? I feel broken, the pain that you made me go through, all those days of extreme pain, how was I supposed to endure it?" I fell to my knees and the tears fell from my eyes to the ground.

I felt emotionally broken. I had experienced more pain the last few days than most people do in an entire lifetime. I had no will or reason to live anymore; I didn't want to feel an ounce of pain anymore.

"I've already told you, the merging of souls is not an easy task, I need to get you to experience extreme pain. You haven't even gotten enough yet; nobody has ever succeeded in merging souls due to this fact. But for us it is possible, by forcing your soul into the body of the one who loses the game allowing you to feel their pain is the only way for you to ever feel the pain that you need to feel for us to become one."

"But what if I don't want to become one with you? I don't ever want to feel that pain again… Please… I've had enough, just leave my life forever; I can't take any more of this." I hated my life, I hated him, I wanted him to just disappear from my life and never come back.

"I won't ever disappear from your life, you are my vessel and you always will be! No matter how you try to escape it, you know you can never rid of me until you help me and endure all the pain that is going to be forced upon you by me" I knew it. Somewhere inside of me, I already knew that there was no way to avoid this horrible pain.

I was going to have to face such pain and misery so many times until my soul would be tamed for him to do anything with. I would have to ruin people's lives just to form a stronger bond with the one who destroys my will to live.

I was powerless. I could do nothing but be his slave, I had no way I could even do anything towards him, he was the master of this mind room and can do anything here.

"I understand… I will cooperate… Just please don't hurt any of the ones close to me" I felt pathetic as he walked up to me and looked down at me.

He stomped my head down when I was on my knees. He started to laugh loudly while giving the look of a lunatic.

"You are unworthy to try to talk against me! Bakura Tsuiho, you are my possession!"