Puzzling Determination
Chapter 3
Disclaimer: Not Mine.
This is going to stray from the format of the previous two chapters.
Puzzleshipping
/Aibou? Yugi! Are you there?/
Yami was greeted with silence. Yugi didn't reply. His end of the link remained empty. Yami couldn't connect to the body at all; his link to Yugi gave him nothing. He tried searching down his end of the link only to reach an immeasurable distance of mist. He couldn't see through it. Sending tendrils of shadow magic, the darkness was warded off with a blinding flash of light.
/Yugi!/
Dizzy and dazed, Yami stumbled back. What's going on?
Puzzleshipping
Amethyst eyes widened in shock. 'No. Way. He couldn't- he must be lying-Yami wouldn't- he'll never-' Yugi closed the link hurriedly. He flung the puzzle onto his bed; he didn't want Yami to see him like this. He didn't want to talk to Yami after that. 'Why would he say something like that?' Suddenly, he could feel the cold icy feeling he usually associates with safety and warmth trying to seep their way into his mind. Scared, he tried to force it back. He thought he heard Yami shout 'Yugi!' but he was too desperate to leave. He couldn't deal with Yami after that. Not after he said he was beautiful. Yugi blushed as he shouted to his grandpa that he's leaving. Yugi can't go to Anzu, she likes Yami and might react badly to this. Honda doesn't like this stuff after he got rejected. Maybe Jou will know! He'll understand this, hopefully. Or Serenity, she's a girl, she might understand why he's blushing as red as a fire hydrant after Yami said he was beautiful.
Puzzleshipping
Yami was in a nightmare. Flashes of a dark maze, the laughing, the jeering, the sneering, the PAIN RIPPING TEARING PUSHING PULLING BLOOD BLADES BURNS FIRE POISON WHIPS CHAINS DARKNESS SHADOWS REVENGE began to fight the light that Yugi's mere presence left behind. Pushing his back against the steel door of his mind, the Nameless Pharaoh vanished. In its place was a mere teen with too much pressure and too much pain. Crimson eyes shut tight as every memory he did have was that of his millennium imprisonment and the shadows that took advantage of it. A small burst of light flashed in front of him, the white light easily being seen even behind his eyelids. He felt safe until it died off. The shadows approached him less aggressively, but by then Yami had lost himself to the memories and nightmares once more.
Puzzleshipping
Yugi could feel something was wrong, the link, the little he could feel of it after he blocked it off, felt like it was burning. Trying to see what was wrong, he was unsure if he should unblock it or not. Remembering his reasons for closing it in the first place, Yugi only sent a blast of power at it, trying to get it to stop. Feeling the burning sensation die off slightly, he decided to leave it at that, continuing on his way to Jou and maybe Serenity if she was visiting him.
Puzzleshipping
I just realized how late this was, but it's still in the two months' timeframe I gave! My sister's in the hospital recuperating from her spinal surgery so things have been hectic. I spend half of my date or three quarters of it at the hospital hanging out on my phone or in the play room monitoring my other sister. Not really any time left for writing. I've had this on the writing board for some time; I just couldn't get it to a length I liked. I just threw in the towel and decided I stalled posting this long enough. I got the idea for PTSD! Yami from Laryna6's story "Do You Dream of Me?" Honestly, trapped in a magical item with 99 vindictive souls of Kul Elna, there must be a reason he lost his memories beyond tabooing his own name, wiping it from existence. Amnesia happens because of something, this something is torture in this story.
So the following are the results for the poll…
[3] 3)Yami confesses to Yugi right there
[1] 4)Yugi runs off to one of his friends and closes off the mindlink
[1] 5)Nothing happens and Yugi believes it is all a dream because Yami takes over the body, puts Yugi to sleep, and lays him down in bed, making Yugi wakes up with nothing seeming wrong
[1] 6) Yugi hides in his soul room
[1] 7) Closes off mindlink
[1] 8) Questions Yami
[0] 1) Yami plays it off as Yugi's eyes reminding him of something
[0] 2) Yugi ignores Yami in a state of shock
I plan to incorporate some of the ideas voted upon. So this story might go beyond the 5 chapters I originally though it would end at. I'm expecting 7-15? Depends on how much I can fit in one chapter without getting a severe writing block. Again.
-SilverReplay