Guilble Yugi Alert

Yami stretched and yawned as he slowly returned to consciousness, enjoying the comfort of Yugi’s bed as he...

The Pharaoh sat upright and looked around, his mind full of sleepy confusion. He had not been in control when they’d gone to sleep last night, nor had Yugi been wearing the Puzzle. He looked down at his chest, mentally poking Yugi as he did so, trying to work out why Yugi might have put it on during the night but not called him, only to have a horrifying shock as not only was he not wearing the Puzzle, but Yugi wasn’t in his soul room nor could he sense his light anywhere...

Yami bolted out of bed when he realised that the Puzzle wasn’t where Yugi normally left it either and searched the room, finally finding it underneath the bed minus the large piece with the eye of Anubis on.

This wasn’t possible. If Yugi wasn’t wearing the Puzzle he wasn’t supposed to be able to take control of Yugi’s body. If the Puzzle was broken... Yami shuddered as his memories informed him of exactly what he should be going through right now.

Eyes widening, the Pharaoh dove under the bed, searching frantically for the missing piece, frightened that Yugi had been trapped in the Puzzle somehow when the piece had fallen out and dragged into the Shadows in his place, moving onto the rest of the room when it became obvious that the piece wasn’t there.

By the time Solomon came up to find out what the noise was, Yami had turned the entire room upside down and was starting on the hallway outside Yugi’s room. He definitely remembered the Puzzle being whole when Yugi had gone to bed last night, he wouldn’t have been aware of what time Yugi had been up finishing his homework till otherwise, but something had to have happened during the night. Yami just wished he knew what.

“Yugi, you’ll be late for school.”

“Don’t care.” Yami said roughly, fear making him sharper with his Grandfather than he otherwise would be.

“What’s wrong?” Yugi’s grandfather asked, pausing in his reprimand long enough to realise that the one he was speaking to wasn’t his Grandson but the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle.

“A piece of the Puzzle! The eye piece!” Yami continued to scrabble about, desperate now as it became more and more obvious that the Puzzle piece wasn’t here. “It’s missing.”

It took a moment for the spirit’s words to sink in and then, despite his back problems Solomon was there helping him look. The panic in the teen’s voice told Solomon all he needed to know and when he combined it with what he’d seen the previous night he came to a conclusion he didn’t really like.

“I don’t think you’ll find it here.”

Terrified ruby eyes caught amethyst pools as the Pharaoh stared at Solomon.

“What do you mean? The Puzzle was whole last night.”

“There was a boy here last night, a friend of Yugi’s. I had to tell them off when they were still talking at two o’clock this morning. Tall, willowy, black hair, red eyes, pale skin.”

“Spectre.” Yami hissed, recognising the teen by description. After the Ghost type Trainer had nearly killed Yugi, Yami had had a vendetta against him and this, this was the final blow.