Chapter 2: The Ground

Yugi was sitting in the middle of his room with a blank face. His hair was slowly changing from its tri colors of purple, black, and blonde to the pitch black of Shadow's. The once kind, soft, and warm eyes were now hard, cruel, and cold. A triumphant smile spread across Shadow's face as he looked down at Yugi's journal and read what was last written.

April 2 - 9 months, 2 weeks since Yami left

3:57pm

I don't know what's real anymore. Shadow shows me things, things that can't possibly be there. I see my friends betraying me or lying on the ground in their own blood. I see blood dripping from my face, my wrists, my chest. I see the world around me fall. I see maggots in my food and whatever I try to drink will look like blood, I haven't eaten for 8 days now. It was today that I broke, that I finally stopped falling and hit the ground. I saw Yami walking away from me in the hall al with all my friends and I saw Yami turn to Tea and tell her that he loves her. I shattered even before I had a chance to hit the ground.

Shadow's POV

Shadow laughed hysterically as he finished reading what Yugi wrote. He picked up the pen that Yugi had dropped when he surrendered to the dark and wrote his own entery on the next page.

April 2 - day 1 of freedom

11:28pm

Finally, I got out. It took longer than I thought it would for Yugi to become weak enough for me to take over, but I did it. When the nightmares were not enough, I turned his reality into fantacies and my horrors into his reality. The blood, maggots, and betrayal of his friends wasn't enough, so I took advantage of his one weakness, the pharoh, Atem, his Yami. I wish I had done it sooner instead of using all those other useless images. Well, it doesn't matter now, it's over and done with. I'm free and Yugi's trapped within the dark world of my mind that he can never get out. I have him chained, strapped to the ground that he's been falling towards for months. I'm torturing him with visions of a life he can't have. He hit the ground and I will never let him get back up again.

Shadow looked at what he had written and planned out the life he'll live as Yugi to tear apart the friendship of Yugi's percious, pathetic, little friends.

"I've got to thank you pharaoh," Shadow said, "it was because of your decision to leave that allowed me to gain the strength to take over Yugi. You probally never realized that you were suppressing me and my darkness. If you had stayed, I would have vanished."

Shadow felt a slight annoyance coming from the abyss that he had trapped Yugi in. He gave out a frustrated growl and then closed his eyes and focused on the abyss that Yugi was in. Yugi no longer had the blank look that had been on his face when Shadow possessed him, now he looked scarred and lost.

"What?"Shadow snapped at him.

"Is it true?" Yugi asked in a pained voice.

"You'll have to be more specific." Shadow said irritated.

"Did Yami really have a choice?" Yugi asked with disbelief written all over his face, "Could he really have stayed with me if he had chosen to?"

"Of course. Did you really believe that someone as powerful as him did not get a say in the matter?" Shadow asked him with a laugh. "Do not ask me why he chose to leave," he said when he saw Yugi open his mouth, "because I do not know. Maybe it was because he no longer wanted to be with you, maybe it was because he no longer wanted to share a body with a brat." He sneered.

Yugi flinched and then the light drained out of his eyes as he gave in. The darkness that had been surrounding him now covered him in what looked like black glass. Shadow laughed as the glass covered Yugi and even more chains strapped him to the ground

"You're never getting out." Shadow told him, then vanished.

Yugi's POV

I froze when he said that, then I watched as the darkness covered me in what looked like black glass. I watched as more chains surrounded the glass and sunk into the ground. I watched as the chains strapped me to the ground, where I would stay, not able to do anything, but watch as shadows swirled and danced above me. To watch as the shadows destroyed my world from the inside and out.