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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