Yami
had been on edge for the latter half of the movie and he couldn’t understand
why. It had thoroughly ruined the film for him. It was a shame because until then
he had been enjoying the thriller.
He
hurried home, his friends only just behind him, still discussing the movie and
the plot twist at the end. He didn’t know why but he had a horrible feeling
something had happened to Yugi. He knew he was being unreasonable. Yugi was at
home. Their home. It was much safer than their school. There were no
Philosopher’s Stones hidden there for a start.
His
ominous feeling was proved right when he got to the shop to find the front
window had been smashed and the store was in disarray.
He
barged his way through the door, panic rising as he took in the devastation and
realised that there was a trail of mess and mayhem that lead upstairs.
“Yugi?!”
Joey beat him to the stairs but not by much and Yami’s call echoed up the
stairs as the pair darted up them. Upstairs wasn’t in much better a condition.
Tables and chairs were overturned, ornaments were broken, cards and game pieces
scattered everywhere. Worst of all the safe was open and the money within had
been scatted everywhere. Not that Yami paid attention to it for more than a
brief glance, “YUGI!”
There
was no answer, furthering Yami’s panic as he darted down the corridor and into
the attic conversion that was Yugi’s room.
There
was no one there. The bed looked like it had been vacated hastily and it was
quite obvious that there had been a fight. Yami didn’t magic to see that Yugi
had not gone down quietly. The bookcase was damaged. Three of the shelves were broken
where something or someone had hit them at speed. The desk was a mess, all the
books and cards stacked on it had been swept onto the floor and the desk chair
was on its side, halfway across the room.
“Yami!”
Joey called from the kitchen, “Yami!”
The
Pharaoh darted down the corridor and into the kitchen to find Joey was clenching
a letter in his right hand, his fist closed so tight the paper was crumpled as
he turned to look at his friend. “You need to read this.” He said, shoving the message
in Yami’s face.
The
Pharaoh took it, scanned the contents, let out a furious sounding growl and
shoved the paper at Tristan as his magic started slipping his control, causing
a dark purple aura to surround him and start blazing up like flames. Joey
backed away quickly from the chill that they radiated as Tristan read out the
note.
“Yugi.
We have your brother. If you want to see Yami alive again, you will come to the
DimSoft demo. We will give further instructions once you are there. Bring the
Puzzle. If you call the cops or try anything funny we’ll kill him.” Tristan’s
tone grew angrier the longer it went on, but Tea frowned and asked one simple
question.
“If
we want to see Yami alive again?”
“They
think they have me. They must have mistaken him for me and taken Yugi instead.”
Yami snarled, his magic still flaring like mad, its radius expanding, causing
his friends to have to back up further still, “If they’ve harmed him, I will
make their lives a living hell. And their afterlives too.”
“Yami,
if you can’t use that magic to locate Yugi you need to put it away. We can’t
help if you send us to the Shadow Realm.” Joey pointed out, still backing away
from the swirling darkness surrounding his friend.
The
Pharaoh considered the darkness around him. There was a lot he could do with it.
The bond to Yugi was broken when his other self wasn’t wearing the Puzzle, but
the golden trinket had been used to find his friends before. This should be no
harder, especially if he was using more than just the Puzzle itself.
“Show
me where Yugi is.” He demanded of the item and the darkness swirling around
him.
There
was a moment where nothing happened and then the Shadows formed an illusion, showing
Yugi was led on a rather uncomfortable looking floor, unconscious, blindfolded and
with this knees and ankles tied together. It wasn’t hard to guess, considering
the angles of his arms, that his wrists had been either bound or shackled
behind his back too. Yami let out a low growl when he took note of the bruise
rising on Yugi’s left cheek.
The
group couldn’t get any details from the room as to the location of their friend,
but they could see that Yugi was alive at least and they got a brief glimpse of
the ocean out of the porthole in the wall of the tiny room.
The
illusion faded away, causing Yami to let out a frustrated sound but let the
magic fade away and started pacing the room.
“Well,”
Tristan sighed explosively “That didn’t help.”
“Yes
it did.” Tea pointed out, “We don’t know where he is, but at least we know he’s
okay.”
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