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Chapter 5

Senses

Saturday December 17th, 2011
3:00 PM

The days grew darker as Christmas was closing in. Regan was placing things on the shelf in the Domino Superstore. Two weeks passed and the headache had stayed as long since she left the hospital with Yugi and Seto. It was particularly bad that day as she worked. It pounded even worse when someone walked by and exploded when someone touched her. She thought about calling in sick, but she remembered that staff was short as people were coming down with colds and flus and she just happened to skip the wave. But even with all of her problems, she did her job and didn't hesitate to help shoppers whenever they needed it. She looked at the time on her phone and smiled as her shift was up. She placed the last thing on the shelf and headed back to the employee section to gather her things. It was days like this when she begged to go home and curl up in bed.

She walked towards her locker and pulled out her coat and her bag. She put them on and walked out of the superstore. It was a little cloudy out as she walked home. It was a warmer day though she couldn't help but shiver under her coat. Maybe she was coming down with a cold. She was about half way when her senses picked up something. She stopped and turned to the alleyway beside her. Nile popped out beside her.

"What is it?" Regan asked her.

"I don't know." Nile answered with narrow eyes. "Maybe we should continue home."

Regan didn't want to go home as whatever it was down the alleyway seemed to intrigue her. She took a step forward towards it. "It can't be too dangerous; it's the middle of the day."

"Regan don't, it could be dangerous even if it is the middle of the day."

"Then I'll just summon a monster if it's more than just couple of alley thugs."

She took another step forward and just as she went into the alleyway she suddenly regretted the decision.

"Regan don't go in there!" A British accent filled her ears.

The alleyway was darker and a very evil presence washed over her drowning out her vicious headache and made her brace herself on the wall. A laugh echoed against the walls and she turned to Ryou as he ran beside her.

"What the hell is going on here?" She asked him.

"I tried to get here before you did, sorry I was too late." Ryou told her.

"Too late for what?"

"Someone set a trap for you; I only got word of it a few minutes ago when I sensed it."

"Sensed what?"

"An old enemy." Ryou growled and looked around the alleyway again as the laugh echoed. "Get your arse out of your hiding place Yami Marik!"

"Yami Marik?" She questioned, but her question was drowned out as the laugh wasn't so echoed and right in front of them.

"That would be me darling." Someone said slyly in her ear behind her.

She drew her sword from her belt and had it up to his throat so fast she wasn't sure if it was her or Nile that moved the blade. The man had very spiky white-blond hair gold earrings and choker. His grin showed very sharp incisor teeth and his eyes were outlined in kohl filled with insanity and lusted for blood as the eye of Horus was on his forehead. He was wearing a purple-black cape and a black muscle shirt that showed off the gold jewelry that was on his arms. He had grey cargo pants and black shoes as he stood eight inches taller than her. She wanted to back away from the man and tried hard to make her hand not shake in fear from the man's presence. It was even worse than Zorc's presence, but she didn't move her blade away from the strange man's throat, if the man was even a man at all. "What are you doing here?"

"So much fear hiding inside, but yet you still hold that sword so still, how strange." Yami Marik observed as he placed his neck against the blade and the aura streams started to cut his neck as blood hit the blade. She flinched slightly as she felt the hatred from the simple drops of blood. "I wonder how fast I could break you."

"How did you escape?" Ryou growled out his question.

"I had some help, I have things to do, but first I had to fill up this end of the deal to escape." He laughed as he looked down at her. "You are certainly a charmer, little Yugi must be pretty happy to have someone like you. It would break his heart to find out you are leaving."

She narrowed her eyes as she drew her other blade. "I'm not leaving him and you aren't taking me anywhere, at least without a fight and I will not lose."

"Full of cockiness, just like your brother. But you are nothing against me."

Her eyes widened as her senses were overloaded. He grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back as he tripped her to the ground. Her chest hit the ground just after her puzzle hit the ground beside her. The wind was knocked out of her as she tried to struggle against him.

"Hey, you aren't taking her without going through me first!" Ryou shouted and tackled Yami Marik to the ground. "I have a few bones to pick with you."

"You're all grown up huh little Bakura." Yami Marik laughed. "Alright, you were on my list to slaughter anyway."

"How about a rematch, just you and me, not like before in Battle City?"

"Fine, but we won't be playing with cards, I want to deal you pain and feel your blood through my fingers." The sadist smiled cruelly as shadows formed around his hand and knife was left after the shadows left.

"You won't make your delivery; you won't make it out of the alleyway alive."

"Ryou..." Regan said in awe and worry as Nile appeared beside her. "You don't have to do this."

"I do, you and Nile are my friends and for once in my life I can actually do something to protect my friends." He argued.

"Be careful Ryou." Nile told him and Regan tried to give him her swords, but he waved them off.

"I don't need those, I'll be fine."

She gripped the handles and the color on them intensified.

"You have grown up, bringing fists to a blade fight, oh well, your funeral, if there is anything left of you."

Regan moved to the side of the alleyway. She didn't want Ryou to fight. She could fight her own battles and solve the whole issue by giving Van'Dalgyon a snack, but the look in Ryou's eyes made her stop. They were pure determination and he really wanted to do what she thought to be really stupid. There was silence for a moment and then as if there was a bell, the two ran at each other. Yami Marik held the knife backwards as he charged and Ryou moved swiftly. Just before they collided, the psychopath brought up his blade and Ryou apparently was ready. He grabbed the knife arm and twisted around so fast Regan thought it was inhuman. And then she realized his speed was being helped with the Shadows as Yami Marik's arm was using the Shadows for power. She heard a sickening pop as the psycho's arm dropped motionless and the knife disappeared as it touched the ground.

He started to laugh as the two separated again. "You popped out my shoulder. Not bad, didn't think you would last this long." Yami Marik placed his arm against the wall and Regan flinched as he popped his shoulder back in. "I guess I need to play with my food instead of taunting it."

Ryou growled, but he stood still as Yami Marik ran towards him. The yami threw a punch that Ryou skillfully avoided and sent a knee into his stomach. Blood spat out of his mouth as he recovered and shot a punch to Ryou's side. Regan let out a screech as Ryou went down on one knee and Yami Marik kicked him against the wall.

A knife appeared in his hand again. "This was fun, but I don't have time to play with your body right now, perhaps later."

Regan shouted, but it was cut short as a very broad blade poked through his cape.

"Just die like the hatred you were born from." Ryou grunted as the blade disappeared.

Yami Marik fell to the ground and Regan watched his body start to disintegrate. Yami Marik laughed. "Looks like you win this round, but next time, I will finish the match."

"No, I'm deciding the match now." Ryou got up and Regan realized the broad blade was almost as wide as Ryou not to mention it was about her height. She couldn't imagine how heavy it would be if he wasn't using Shadow Magic. He walked over to the disintegrating body as the sword was placed up on his shoulder. The blade turned a purple color and she could feel the shadow magic being sucked into it. "Your manifestation will cease to exist."

The blade was brought off his shoulder and Ryou grabbed it with his other hand as it was raised up and then it was brought down on Yami Marik's chest as the man screamed. She felt his existence disappear and the sword shattered at the same time his body shattered into millions of particles of dust. Ryou dropped to one knee and Regan walked over to him.

"Ryou that was amazing." She cheered.

"Thanks," Ryou sighed as the alleyway lifted its heaving aura weight away; Regan helped him up from his knee. "Hopefully he will never return again."

Regan flinched at his touch as it was so different from everything else she had felt. His aura was bright but it held loneliness. It reminded her of Yugi's; full of strength and purity, yet it was soft. But even as soft as it was, it hurt her.

"Regan are you alright?"

"I fine," she forced a smile.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, but you should be more worried about yourself. Let me walk you home as a thank you."

"You don't have too. It's a long walk from my house to yours."

"I insist, and I can call Roland or Alex to come and get me later." She told him and then idea came to her so she could walk him home. "Maybe you can tell me how to play Monster World."

Ryou lit up like a Christmas tree. "I would love to and maybe we could invite our friends over to play."

She smiled and walked out of the alleyway. "Come on then before it gets too late."

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Hours passed and Regan was home in bed after a nice shower. Her headache from being with all her friends playing Monster World took everything out of her that she almost passed out in the shower. Now that she was in bed she felt something that her headache was covering. Her chest felt knotted as if something was eating her on the inside. She tried to mentally call for Nile, but she didn't come. She sighed as she figured Nile was doing something in the River's Puzzle that was making her feel this way. Regan closed her eyes and fell to sleep.

Her dream was nothing like the dream that had repeated in her mind the nights before. The place she was in was uncomfortably silent except for the sounds of dripping water onto a floor. It was a lot darker as her senses were on overdrive and way out her control as she tried to understand the facts that her senses were sending her. She walked blindly though the hallway when suddenly the lights brightened the room and Regan saw each of friends and family chained to a wall in silence as blood dripped from bodies onto the floor. She ran over to them and only Yugi stirred at her voice.

"How could you betray us?" He sneered in hatred and it cut her down the core.

"Betray you, what are you talking about?" She asked as she tried to get him out of the chains.

Yugi jerked away from her. "Don't touch me. How could I trust you after all the blood that's on your hands? I will never forgive you for your actions towards us."

"Yugi-"

"Stop saying my name like that! Look in the mirror if you have forgotten what your soul is truly made out of, not the things you pretended to be."

"Yes look in the mirror." Someone hissed in the behind her.

She turned around and found she was standing face to face with herself only the person in front of her was almost exactly like the one found in Yugi's dream only civilized. The girl walked around her and stood next to Yugi as she drew a sword from her own belt. The sword was the exact same as hers only the aura wasn't the northern lights; they were so red they were almost black.

"Who are you, why do you look like me?" Regan demanded.

"I am you; you are just reflection of what people want you to be." The girl said as she placed the sword in front of Yugi's heart. "Welcome to my world."

Regan screamed Yugi's name just as the sword pierced him.

Regan jolted from bed screaming and it wasn't long before her brother and several securities came rushing into the room. She was looking at her hands as they trembled before her and wasn't paying attention to anyone as she saw some people leave the room.

"Regan, what's wrong?!" Seto words finally reached her head, but she couldn't look away from her hands as they danced with her aura.

He placed his hands in hers and then she snapped them away to grab her head as it shot up in pain.

"Nrg!" She smothered a shout. His aura was too much for her to read and she moved out of bed to a far corner of the room quickly.

"Regan?"

"Just stay there," She managed to get out as her head started to allow her to see again.

"Fine, just tell me what happened to make you scream like a banshee."

"A really horrible nightmare." She answered after a moment to settle her breathing. "Something that makes the common one peaceful."

"Do you want to-?

"No!"

Seto didn't say anything as she moved to her dresser. She looked at one of the swords and hesitantly picked it up. The blade flashed a second of red and then went to her usually color. She dropped it on sight of the color. She looked in the mirror slightly as she saw herself looking really pale with her eyes navy blue with a trace of red as she moved her hand on the aura sword again. She backed away from the mirror and accidently tripped over the bed and fell on it.

"Regan tell me what's going on?" Seto demanded grabbing her shoulders to face him. She flinched under the sharp pain of the detail of his aura of how old some traces were while how worried he was imbedded in it.

"I don't know." She told him looking at her hands as she waited for something to appear on them, like the blood that Yugi in her dream was talking about. "I don't know, but if I see it again I will never be able to sleep until I know it will never be in my dreams."

Let the Christmas Special begin tomorrow or today as it is early morning here with Volume 8: Family Ties

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