“Go have fun.” Yugi’s words echoed in Yami’s head
as he sprinted for the Game Shop, having bolted from the cinema the moment that
he’d suddenly been assaulted by an intense wave of fear over the link, “I’ll be safe here. After all this is our
house. Remember?”
He
hadn’t really wanted to leave Yugi in the house alone, not after Voldemort had almost
destroyed Yugi’s soul during their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry, but his hikari had convinced him to go with the others to the
cinema, stating that there wasn’t much point him going considering that he was
still sleeping over half the time and would, most likely, sleep through the
entire film, but that was no reason for Yami not to spend time with their
friends.
Now
the Pharaoh wished he’d listened to his instincts and stayed at home with his
still recovering hikari. If it had just been a burst of fear, Yami would have
been panicked but not this badly however the link was gone, dead, Yami couldn’t
even make the leap from his soul room to Yugi’s and he feared...
No.
Yugi couldn’t be...
He
let himself in and rushed up the stairs to find the front room in a mess, the
Millennium Puzzle in pieces and no Yugi.
“The
hell...?” Yami wheeled around, magic already summoned, only to find Joey had
come up the stairs behind him.
The
Pharaoh left Joey to examine the living room and searched the house high and
low, only to find Yugi was nowhere to be found.
“Yami.”
Joey’s voice carried easily in the silence of the empty house, “You need to see
this.”
Yami
shot back into the living room to find Tristan and Tea had followed him too. He
felt a twinge of guilt for pulling all of them away from their expensive movie,
then it was gone, drowned by his fear for his hikari. “What?”
Joey
handed him a letter. One addressed to ‘Mutou Yugi, King of Games’ and Yami’s
scowl deepened as he ripped it open, having had Yugi’s permission to open his
post months ago.
He
read it. Then he reread it. Then he dissolved in several colourful curses and
then he handed it over to Tristan, who had held his hand out for it, before
glowering at thin air and picking up the Puzzle pieces.
“Mutou
Yugi, we have your brother.” Tristan read aloud, his face darkening as he
spoke, “The one you’ve been hiding from the world for so long. We left you the
Puzzle. There’s no point us having it until you’re defeated after all, however
if you wish to see Yami again you’ll come to the Dimension Software tournament
in two days time and duel us for both the Millennium Puzzle and your title and
lose or else you’ll never see him again. Call the police or refuse to come and
we’ll kill your brother. See you in two days...”
“Shit.”
Joey kicked the over turned table. “Wait... they have Yami?” Joey blinked at
the Pharaoh who had an oddly feral look in his eyes.
“They
think they have me.” Yami spat out as he picked up the last piece, rage
obvious, “They thought they’d taken me in order to get to him. Not vice versa.”
“Can
you sense where he is?” Tea asked, concern obvious.
“No.”
Yami shook his head as he started pacing the room, hands only fiddling with the
Puzzle for a moment. When another piece fell out, he put it carefully on the
side, “Not with the Puzzle in pieces or I’d hunt down whoever took him and deal
with them now.”
“So
what? We’ve got no choice but to do as they say?” Joey didn’t like that idea.
“For
now.” Yami snarled, already beginning to piece together a plan even as the
others panicked.
“We
should tell Kari and Ombre.” Tea worried, “They might have some ideas.”
“If
the bad guys haven’t gone after Kari too.” Tristan scowled, “She’s got a Item
as well.”
“I’ll
ring her now.” Tea pulled her phone out of her pocket and dialled Kari. All the
while wondering if it said something that they were so used to kidnappings that
their first response wasn’t to call the police, but to check on the other
members of their party. The response she got wasn’t reassuring.
“Hi,
you’ve reached Kari’s phone, I’m sorry I can’t be reached at the moment, but if
you’d like to leave your name and telephone number I’ll get back to you as soon
as possible. Please speak clearly after the long tone, thank you. BEEP.”
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