AN: I don't own Yu Gi Oh, its characters are just my playthings.
Thank you to everyone for reading and reviewing and faving and being awesome! I forgot to mention in the last chapter my comment on "Snow"; lol it was by far the most commented on/complimented story in the bunch, possibly out of any of the chapters so far. I'm glad that so many of you loved it and that it really moved you guys...but I'm sorry it depressed a lot of you :( Lol as a writer I am very pleased to move my readers to tears, I just feel terribly guilty doing so :P Lol I also wanted to say that I do kinda view it as a happy ending cause they're together again at the end :)
On to the show! This is an excerpt from a multi-chap "Eternal: The Curse of Love"
34. No Way Out
The sky was overcast and dark; an unnatural air hung about them. The sand was sticky wet with blood. So much had saturated the ground that it had seeped deep into the sand and colored it as dark as the sky.
Now the two that had brought about such bloodshed stood within easy sight of each other, no more than twenty feet apart. Yet, for how close they were, how tangible they could have been to one another, everything had already changed. They were further from each others' arms now than they ever had been and there was no going back, neither had the humanity left to do so.
"Heba!" The cry was hoarse, desperate, and there was a wild, crazed look in its bearer's eyes. With tattered clothes and sullied skin Atemu wavered on his feet. His chest heaved as he panted, but the demonic red in his eyes remained an inferno; he was not a tired man, oh no, but a savage beast pushed to the edge of the precipice, waiting to deliver a final, suicidal strike. The once great pharaoh was ready to destroy all around him; it no longer mattered who or what met their demise at his hand.
"That is not my name Pharaoh. That is only the name you gave my former self, but that was not his true name nor is it mine. Just as you are no longer Atemu I can no longer recognize that word as my name. You have forfeited any right to use it." His words were so cool they threatened to freeze the heart of living things, devoid of emotion but full of unworldly power. And while Atemu's eyes were raw and beastly with hellfire his own were frigid and empty, the sparkle that once filled them had been sucked out and replaced by something black and bottomless. His face was expressionless, no anger, no pain and he never drew breath as he stood erect. There was no hint of what he had once been and how joyfully his voice had once called his lover's name, all that radiated from him now was that unearthly, terrifying spiritual essence that sprung from him like an invisible shield. "Pharaoh!" His voice raised for the first time, "This will end here!"
Thanks for reading! Sorry for the shortness of the excerpt, but this scene is at the height of some drama and I didn't want to give too much away for anyone possibly interested in reading the story later in its entirety.