Hi everyone! Did you truly think I would leave "Darkness, Light, and Shadow" off like that? Well, you obviously don't know me then! Here is the LAST installment of this story- I swear! Read on my friends!
*EDIT* 6/8/2012: Sorry, the previous chapter had been changed but I didn't want to ruin the mood of it by adding a author's note in so I thought I would just say so here; I changed a few words, added a sentence, and... a few other things I can't remember at the moment. Also! The song, Scarborough Fair, my choir and I sung it at a regional competition and won 2nd place! We actually won 2nd place across the board- talk about consistency! Anyway, carry on!
Songs:
Scarborough Fair – Adapted and Arranged by: Roger Emerson
Seasons of love – Written by: Jonathan D. Larson; Sung by: Stevie wonder and cast of RENT
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, Sage! Rosemary and thyme!
Remember me to the one who lives there (Remember me!)
He/she once was a true love of mine…
Ariela closed her son's door, at least today was a good day and Yami had stayed away, keeping up the guise that he didn't exist in his son's life… but it wouldn't last for long. Ariela tensed as she felt another body press up against her back, her hair stood up on end when the person behind her smelt her hair and an arm wrapped itself around her waist.
Tell him/her that my loves still burns
Parsley, Sage! Rosemary and thyme!
And that the heart in silence still yearns. (And that the heart…!)
He/she once was a true love of mine…
Yami took a deep breath, "I have missed your scent, koi." Ariela shuddered,
"I wish I could say the same, Yami." So, she still persisted... Yami began pulling her towards her bedroom as black tendrils extended from his shadow and crept onto the walls, soundproofing the walls to keep future sounds from his son's innocent ears. Ariela started to struggle a little as she was pulled towards her bed…
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Ariela curled up on her side of the bed as her former lover sprawled out on his side, her skin crawled as she felt his sweat and his seed dry on her skin; Ariela froze as Yami rolled over in his sleep and wrapped his hands and arms around her form, seeking warmth from the cold air. Her worst nightmare had come true, her mind wasn't willing to accept it until… Ariela squeezed her eyes tight as Yami pulled her in closer to his chest and breathed in her scent. She had to do something, she couldn't let this monster have a part in her son's life; she wouldn't allow it- couldn't allow it.
Her son cried as she hugged him at the airport a few weeks after her rape, "Momma, why can't you come with me?" Ariela held back her tears as she tried to comfort her son,
"Because mommy has to keep the bad guy away from you, but you gotta be strong, ok? You're not going to see me for a very long time, but I'll always be in your heart, ok? I'll be right here." Ariela said as she pointed at his heart, "ok?"
Yugi nodded, "ok…" Ariela picked him up and handed him over to the undercover Japanese agent, Yugi started to cry and squirm in the agent's arms, "No! Not ok! Not ok! MOMMY!"
"Take care of my son, please; he's all I have left." The agent nodded, Yugi continued to squirm as he reached toward his mother until he went down the tunneled walkway but he still screamed for his mother. Ariela turned away and walked out of the airport as fast as she could, never noticing the tears that ran down her cheeks. When she had made it home her apartment was dark, not the normal kind of dark but the kind of dark that hangs in the air when you walk into a haunted house and are standing in the presence of something pure evil.
Ariela gasped as the door behind her shut, casting darkness over her. Ariela hated the dark, to this day she had to leave her curtains open to let the street lights fill her room with dim light, so to be casted in such blackness terrified her; her heart pounded so hard she thought it would jump out of her chest. She nearly screamed as she was spun around and slammed against a wall; she heard a couple of nick-knacks fall and shatter. When she opened her eyes – when had she closed them? – she saw livid crimson eyes, staring straight into her soul as if to find a hidden answer.
Too bad he wasn't getting it.
Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
Parsley, Sage! Rosemary and thyme!
Ariela shot her leg out aiming for the man that had turned her life upside down; upon hearing a pained groan she immediately began to hurry towards her bedroom, feeling the way from the hallway towards her room and to her bedside table where under it was a gun she just bought for the occasion. When she found and swiveled around crimson eyes were upon her. Without a second thought she raised the gun and fired a blind shot; the crimson eyes vanished and a pained howl was heard before the darkness began to recede. When it was completely gone she saw her once-lover-turned-rapist on the floor, holding his stomach as blood ran out on her carpet.
"I told you, Yami, that if you ever did anything to hurt me I would personally kill you. You should have never come back for me or my son." Yami looked up in half-lidded eyes of pain,
"You… forgot… one… thing…"
"And what was that?"
"I… control… the shadows!" Black tendrils shot out at Ariela, pulling her down to the floor, "If I'm going down… I'm taking you with me!" The shadows wrapped around Ariela and just as she was about to die a bright flash of light burst forth, blinding anyone in the room. When it dissipated Ariela and Yami were both on the floor unconscious, and all wounds were healed. Shadowy tendrils wrapped themselves around them both; they disappeared. They both slept in the shadow realm, suspended until twelve years later…
Remember me to the one who lives there (Remember me!)
He/she once was a true love of mine…
Of mine! Of Mine! OF MINE!
Yugi woke up with a start as his grandfather yelled at him from downstairs, "YUGI! You need to come down here, NOW!" he groaned as his back gave off waves of pain from being slouched over the desk all night,
"Coming grandpa!" he called down as he stretched, trying to work out all the kinks in his frame. Yugi now was seventeen years old, grown, and was a little worse for wear. His journey with the pharaoh was over and had been over since a few months ago when he had to fight in the ceremonial duel against the pharaoh. He won and set the pharaoh's soul free; in the process, he lost not only the millennium puzzle but a best friend- a father figure. Now all that there was left to do was to pick up the pieces and move on…
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
Five hundred twenty five thousand moments so dear
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure, measure a year?
In daylights,
In sunsets,
In midnights, in cups of coffee,
In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife
In five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes
How do you measure a year in a life?
How about, love? (x3)
Measure in love...
Seasons of love...
Seasons of love...
"YUGI!"
"I'm coming! Give me a minute!" Yugi quickly rushed down the stairs to see what his grandfather was making a huge fuss about,
"Grandpa, this better be important since its Saturday morning and I was planning… on…" all thought stopped as Yugi came face-to-face with a woman that he hasn't seen since he was so young…
"Mom?"
Ariela's eyes leaked tears as she opened her arms to her son, "Yugi, I have missed you so much."
Yugi ran into his mother's arms as he started to cry, "Mom…"
Ariela shushed her son, "I know son, I know…"
A deep voice echoed behind them, "Hey, where's my hug at?" Yugi's eyes snapped open as he let go of his mother and looked at the man standing in the doorway to the shop…
"…Mou Hitori no Boku?" Yami chuckled, Ariela raised an eyebrow,
"Aibou, I'm not your other-self anymore, but, I am your father." Yugi blinked,
"My… my father? But how?" Ariela sighed as she pinched the bridge of her nose,
"How about we take this to the kitchen?" Solomon asked,
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
Five hundred twenty five thousand journeys to plan,
Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes,
How do you measure a life of a woman or a man?
In truths that she learned,
Or in times that he cried,
In the bridges he burned,
Or the way that she died,
It's time now, to sing out though,
The story never ends,
Let's, celebrate remember a year in a life, of friends!
"Sure, come on; we all have a lot to explain…" Ariela said with a knowing smile,
"Yugi, you know I still want that hug right?" Yugi laughed and hugged the ex-spirit.
"So, let me get this straight; Yami, my lover and Yugi's father, was only a sociopathic killer because half of his soul was locked away in a puzzle when he sacrificed himself in a past life in order to save the world from a darkness that could have potentially wiped out not only all life on earth but everywhere in the universe? Not only succeeding in solving the puzzle - which, kept me and Yami alive when we tried to kill each other when Yugi was little - my Yugi here got into all kinds of shenanigans including Yami losing our son's soul to a flipping evil seal? Yami, what the hell were you THINKING?" Yugi smacked his forehead when his mother began to glare at Yami,
"It wasn't my fault; that card brain-washed anyone who held it but I didn't push him into it-!"
"Yes, yes, I know but you didn't have to play the damned thing! And you!" Yugi gulped as his mother turned her glare on him, "What were you thinking; letting yourself get pulled into that seal? You could have very well have become snake food for a deranged psychopath!"
Yugi rubbed the back of his neck, "Well, it was either that or let the leviathan get the power boost it needed by taking Mou- I mean, dad's soul…"
Ariela sighed, "I know, but you're my son; what am I supposed to do? Let it slide? Bullshit." Solomon's eyes widened,
"Ariela-!"
"What? With the friends Yugi hangs out with I don't think he's that averse to cursing anyway…" Yami shook his head,
"You never change, do you?" Ariela gave her once-ex-now-current-lover a wicked grin,
"You know it." Yugi shook his head,
"Such a weird family I have- with a capital W." 'And I wouldn't have it any other way.'
Remember the love... (Oh you gotta remember the love)
Remember the love... (Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Remember the love... ('member, sing out, give out, measure your life! Measure in love, measure in love, measure in love, measure in love, measure in love! Oh!)(Measure your life in LOVE!)
Seasons of love... (x4)
In Diapers - Report Cards (Seasons of love…)
In Spoke Wheels - In Speeding Tickets (Seasons of love…)
In Contracts - Dollars (Season of love…)
In Funerals - In Births (Seasons of love…)
And so, with that thought, life went on as usual – though, Yami did have to put on a charm to make sure he wasn't discovered and sent back to prison seeing as he was still wanted from when he was a sociopathic killer – after a few years Yugi moved out, went to college, found a girl, got married and had kids; his grandfather died when Yugi was in his late thirties and had gone peacefully in his sleep. The gang still came around a few times a year to talk about the old times, what was happening to them now, and the adventures they went on, Seto Kaiba even participated since he finally accepted that magic was real after a run-in with a time-traveling Timelord – don't ask.
Just before Ariela went to bed, some eighty years later after her reuniting with her son, she turned to her now-pardoned husband. The look on her face said it all, "We're not going to make it through the night, are we?"
Yami, now aged eighty years, smiled sadly, "No, I don't think so."
Ariela nodded, "Well, we had a good run while it lasted; at least I got to see the grandkids and a few of the great-grandkids graduate…"
"And see a few great-great-grandkids-"
"Don't start with me on that! I feel old enough as it is!"
"You should, your soul is just as old as mine…"
Ariela chuckled, "Well, we don't have to worry anymore after this now do we?"
"Nope, let's not keep everyone waiting, shall we?" Ariela nodded,
"I'm gonna miss the kids…"
"I know. We'll see them again someday…" With that they went to bed and never woke up again until that one special day… but let's not get into that shall we? When they passed through the gate of heaven the descendants of families' past greeted them with open arms and warm smiles, they held each others hands and walked through while the gate shut behind them; warm sunlight washed over their faces while a slightly cool breeze swept through their hair- finally, some rest after all that shenanigans that was life and then some.
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes (Seasons of love…)
How do you figure (Seasons of love…)
A last year on earth? (Seasons of love…) [Whole paragraph x3]
Remember the love... (Oh you gotta remember the love)
Remember the love…
Remember the love…
Remember the love…
Seasons of...LOVE!
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