November 7th + 8th: - 2763 Words
“Get out of the way!”
Harry let out a pained cry as he was backhanded across the face by a rather pissed off looking Dark Red Enchanter and crashed to the floor, unable to defend himself with his hands bound and his magic inaccessible.
“Leave him alone.” Yugi protested, moving between Harry and the enraged Spellcaster. “He did nothing to…”
Before Yugi got the final word out, the Spellcaster had grabbed Yugi by the collar and lifted him off of the ground, causing the hikari to struggle before kicking out and hitting the Dark attribute monster hard in the shin and causing effect monster to drop him, while letting out a pained bellow.
Yugi dropped to his feet and scrambled away, keeping between Harry and their attacker, who had enered the cell and tried to grab Yugi, while the guards, these ones a pair of Gil Garth, appeared to have no interest in stopping the ‘fight’ if it could be termed that way, and were, in fact, just stood in the doorway watching.
Yugi silently thanked Joey for the training, while at the same time cursing the fact his hands were bound. It put him at a distinct disadvantage and limited his options. It didn’t help that with these shackles on he couldn’t call on the magic he’d come to be so reliant on.
The Dark Red Enchanter got to his feet and snarled viciously launching himself at the tiny Pharaoh, who backed up, well aware that this was likely to hurt.
Only for the attacking Spellcaster to get blown away by a Dark Magic Attack that knocked everyone off their feet.
“I sent him to collect the Pharaoh of Light. Not murder him.” The red Dark Magician sounded angry as he stepped into the cell in time to see Yugi and Harry picking themselves up.
The anger swiftly turned to amusement as fear crossed Yugi’s features before disappearing behind a mask of calm and Harry stepped between Medan and his light link partner, defending his friend the way Yugi had been defending him just moments before. The pair were predictable, almost too alike in some ways, probably why the Millennium Puzzle he’d taken from the Pharaoh of Light reacted, or so Medan had been informed, to both of them.
“I suggest you step aside,” Medan said to Harry who just glowered at him, “Unless you want to see whether you can survive an attack from me.” Medan lowered his staff and Yugi darted between his friend and the Dark Magician, all too aware of how dangerous taking a hit like that at close range would be.
After all, he’d been further away from the attack’s starting point when he’d been hit and he’d needed a healer before he’d wake up.
“Leave Harry alone. If you want to talk to me, I’ll come willingly but don’t hurt him.”
“Yugi!” Harry’s angry hiss went ignored by the royal who just waited for Medan’s response.
He didn’t have to wait long. Medan lowered his staff, moved aside and gestured for Yugi to precede him.
`Yugi…` Harry growled over the link as Yugi took a step forward.
“Do you want to get blasted?” Yugi sent the mental equivalent of a scowl, “I’d like you to stay in one piece thanks.”
`But…`
Yugi hesitated at Harry’s mental tone and turned to look at his friend. Yugi pursed his lips and turned to look at Medan. “I want your word that no harm will come to Harry while I’m gone.”
The red Dark Magician looked amused. “You’d trust my word? I’d’ve thought that you’d know better than that, Pharaoh. Fine. I have a deal for you. Follow me upstairs without creating a fuss and no harm will come to your friend. Start any trouble and I’ll let my fiends play with him. I know of at least one Memory Crush King who has been dying to see what their powers can do to a Duellist.”
Harry’s mental growl, as the realisation of why he hadn’t been sent back or thrown to the rest of Medan’s monsters yet sank in, seemed to bolster the decision that Yugi had already made. The heir gave his friend a sharp look before nodding at Medan and following the rogue Dark Magician out of the cell.
Medan smirked at Harry as he left and the door slammed shut behind him, the bolt slipping across the door, locking Harry inside, before Medan cast a spell that caused a dim purple light to cover the door.
Then Yugi and Medan vanished out of sight.
“Shit.” Harry swore, kicking the wall, furious at himself.
He’d known that him being here would limit what Yugi would try to get himself out of here, he knew Yugi too well to think otherwise. If Yugi had been here alone, the heir would have tried anything and everything in his power, including risking his own safety by attempting to call the Shadow Realm, in order to avoid Mahado getting hurt trying to save him.
But with Harry there, Yugi’s choices were limited, as he wouldn’t attempt anything that would endanger a friend, and the bad guys could, and apparently, would use the young wizard as leverage against the Prince.
`Sorry, Yugi.` Harry sent irritably over the link, part of him relived that Atem’s memories hadn’t changed Yugi enough for Yugi to put himself before his friends, while at the same time part of him was frustrated that there was so little he could do to help anyone right now.
“For what?” Yugi sounded surprised, having been feeling guilty himself, since he had a feeling that he was to blame for all of this. “You have nothing to feel sorry for. I’m the one who dragged you into…”
Before Yugi could finish his sentence pain crossed the link. `Yugi?` Harry demanded, moving towards the door to try and reach his friend, only to hesitate when the dim purple light brightened slightly.
Harry felt a mental equivalent of a wince before Yugi replied. “I’m not going to talk over the link for a while.” Yugi said, this thoughts coming slowly, as if he was having trouble pulling them together, “If you can listen in to what’s being said, do it, but…” A second burst of pain crossed the link and Yugi went silent.
Harry settled quickly, focusing on the link, trying to do what Atem was rather good at doing and use the link to see what his partner was seeing, still able to sense Yugi but confused by his sudden silence.
In the corridor above the cell block, Yugi was being pulled to his feet, by the collar, by a rather angry looking Medan. “Where is he?” The red Dark Magician demanded.
“Who? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Yugi denied, dazed and confused as Medan looked up and down the corridor sharply, having smacked his head when Medan had hit him the first time, knocking him down, and the kick to the stomach hadn’t improved his concentration any.
“You stopped suddenly and were completely distracted.” Medan growled. “I was warned that you can speak with the Dark Pharaoh mind to mind. Where is he?”
“I wasn’t talking to Atem.” Yugi’s eyes widened as he protested, glad that Atem wasn’t in range considering. “I can barely sense Atem, yet alone talk to him!”
Medan scowled, “You’re lying.”
Yugi shook his head, “No, I swear. Atem’s nowhere near here.”
Medan considered him carefully, before nodding slightly, “No, I suppose you’re right. If the Pharaoh could find you using your link, he’d have been here by now. So who were you talking to?”
Yugi nearly told the Dark Magician the truth and that he’d been speaking with Harry, but something told him to keep it hidden. Instead he gave Medan a smug smile and said, “I told my partner monster where we are. He’s going for help.”
“Your partner monster?” Medan snarled, his free hand grabbing for Yugi’s throat, the other one joining it moments later, squeezing just tight enough to make Yugi let out a panicked squeak and struggle wildly, causing Medan to drop him, allowing him to scramble away as best as he could.
In seconds Medan had grabbed Yugi again, pinning his captive to the wall by the throat.
“Who? Who is it?” Medan demanded, “What type of monster?”
Yugi attempted to push himself away from the wall, refusing to answer.
Medan tightened his grip, cutting Yugi’s air supply completely.
Yugi fought then, refusing to give up. Medan could feel Yugi’s pulse speeding up under his fingers, as the young man attempted to free himself from the Dark Magician’s clutches, fear obvious in his eyes, the heir’s attempts at getting free frustrated by the armour that shielded Medan from attack.
Medan waited until Yugi’s frantic struggle had almost stopped before loosening his grip enough to allow the heir to breathe.
“I suggest you listen to me carefully.” The red Dark Magician said, as Yugi took in rasping breaths that sounded painful, struggling to get air past the magician’s grip, “Just because I need you alive, doesn’t mean that I need your friend. Now, I suggest you tell me who and what your partner monster is, or I’ll have your friend killed.”
Harry was, over the link, proclaiming that he was going to do something drastic to Medan once he had his wand back, but Yugi, who was fighting to avoid passing out, just bowed his head. “Boh.” It hurt to speak, but Yugi did so, knowing that, while he was getting Boh into trouble, the Kuriboh, who was probably safe with Mahado and Mana, would Resummon, while Harry wouldn’t. “He’s a Kuriboh.”
Medan let go and Yugi dropped to the floor, gulping in air and coughing badly.
By the time he’d managed to stop coughing and take in enough air to prevent himself from blacking out, Medan had dragged him into a room down the corridor and chucked him aside, before ordering a Twin Headed Wolf to hunt down the Kuriboh that would still be in the area and sliced Yugi’s left palm open, taking the bloody knife to a bowl on the other side of the room as an Apprentice Magician bandaged up the wound.
Yugi sat up slowly, wondering what Medan was up to, aided by the Apprentice who wouldn’t look at him properly, only to watch Medan let the blood drip from the dagger, into a bowl that glowed with a dim red light.
Medan’s resulting smirk worried Yugi and, as Medan decanted the liquid inside into a goblet, the heir tried to move away from the red version of his favourite card, only for the Apprentice Magician to grab his shoulders and shake her head at him.
Yugi tried to protest but all that left his bruised throat was a weak, pained, whimper that caused Medan to look at him and snigger as he came over and offered the goblet.
Yugi shook his head, attempting to spill the contents of the goblet all over the floor by knocking it out of the Dark Magician’s hands with his shoulder.
Medan pulled the goblet away easily, without spilling a single drop of the glowing liquid inside, before backhanding the hikari across the face.
“Either you drink this, or I make your friend do it.”
`Yugi no. You don’t know what it does.` Harry growled at him over the link.
“What…?” Yugi managed to croak, wincing as he did so, his voice hoarse and barely audible, and nodded towards at the goblet.
Medan snorted, “It’ll allow me to find out the shape of your Ka beast. You’ll transform temporarily.” He chuckled when Yugi gave him a distrusting look, “Only temporarily. A few minutes at most. You’re no good to me as a monster after all. I just want to know the shape of your soul.”
Yugi tried to croak something, but it came out almost inaudible and Medan had no interest in trying to work out what the heir, who had two lovely bruises coming up on his face and finger shaped bruises already forming on his neck, was trying to say. “You’ll return to the state you’re in once the effects wear off of course, but I’d’ve thought that even a brief release would be welcome right now. Now, you? Or him?”
"Me." Yugi whispered, ignoring Harry’s protests that this was a really bad idea.
Medan brought the goblet to his lips.
`Yugi…`
Yugi drank the potion.
Almost immediately a pained cry was torn from him as he felt his body changing.
Medan muttered something and the cuffs fell from Yugi’s wrists just in time as wings sprouted from the heir’s back, white feathered ones, though in the torch light they shimmered a pearlescent version of several colours, and his clothes changed form and colour.
“Master Medan?” The Apprentice Magician asked nervously as an aura of light surrounded the man, who was growing taller and more muscled.
Medan wasn’t too worried. The new monster in front of him looked dangerous and felt powerful but Medan was, after all, a Dark Magician, he was confident in his power.
The duel monster stood up, his face still obviously Yugi but, at the same time, his mannerisms and build told the lie, not to mention the look that he was giving Medan.
Before Medan could ask anything, the monster had launched an attack.
He dodged out of the way of the beam of light but the Apprentice wasn’t so lucky and was instantly disintegrated, as was part of the floor.
The obviously Light attribute monster, though it wasn’t obvious what type he was, darted into the hole, causing Medan to snarl and go after him. He could guess where the Light monster was heading and darted that way himself, in time to see the two guards, who were high powered fiends, get obliterated by the light the monster fired.
“What are you?” Medan demanded, suddenly a lot more wary, considering that the two guards had had, in the terms of the card game, which was the modern summoning tool, 2000 attack point monsters and this light creature had taken them down without a sweat.
The monster ignored him, casting a spell that broke the purple energy surrounding the door.
That answered that question.
A powerful Light Spellcaster... interesting...
“Yugi?” Harry gasped as the beast opened the cell door, having sensed Yugi’s light go out and feared the worst.
Before the Light monster could answer, Medan seized the monster’s arm, figuring that there wasn’t much longer before Yugi changed back.
With a single swipe, the Dark Magician went flying across the room.
“Stay away from us.” The Light monster snarled at Medan who winced as he picked himself up.
“What are you?” Medan repeated, demanding answers, wary of the power this monster possessed.
“Responsibilities of Friendship.” The Light monster replied, suddenly looking unsteady, his wings beginning to fade. Medan smirked. The potion was fading…
Responsibilities attacked.
Medan’s eyes widened as he attempted to cast a spell to shield himself.
The attack was faster and the light struck.
The red Dark Magician disintegrated.
Responsibilities darted forward, grabbing the Puzzle by the chain before it could hit the floor.
Harry darted out of the cell just in time to see the Light attribute Spellcaster collapse as the last of the potion’s effects wore of, leaving an injured Yugi on the ground, cradling the Puzzle.
Quickly glancing down the corridor, Harry rushed to his side, noting the injuries and scowling at the thought that Medan would be back before too long. “Yuge?”
The heir slipped the Puzzle on and got, unsteadily to his feet. “I’m ok.” Harry didn’t need the link to sense that was a lie, but they needed to get out of there before anyone else came down.
Yugi focused on his link with Boh, grimacing when he couldn’t call him, and led the way down the corridor; keeping a sharp look out, considerably more confident now he had the Puzzle on.
They got the stairs before anyone reached them, then a pair of Chthonian Soldier attempted to attack them. Yugi raised his hand and blasted them away with a burst of shadow magic, before seizing one of the dropped swords and slicing through the chain connecting Harry’s shackles.
Now free to use his hands, Harry grinned at his friend, trying to ignore he fact that his shoulders were killing him from where his hands had been trapped behind his back for the last few days, and picked up the other sword.
“The prisoners are escaping!”
Further down the corridor, one of the Abaki that had been on guard was bellowing at the top of his lungs.
The call echoed through the ruins and before they could get to the monster to shut him up, several other Dark monsters had joined him.
“Uhh, Yuge?” Harry murmured nervously as the pair of Chthonian Soldier got up, looking furious.
Yugi was well aware they were out numbered and wished he had his deck on him, so he could summon something to help them out.
“This way.” Yugi glanced over his shoulder to find a Marie the Fallen One gesturing into one of the room.
Yugi quickly took in their surroundings, decided they didn’t have much of a choice and darted into the room, dragging Harry in with him and shutting the door behind them, leaning against it to try and prevent someone opening it from the outside.
“That won’t work, light one.” Marie stated, considering the heir carefully.
“Why are you helping us?” Harry asked, confused and wary.
“Because creatures of light shouldn’t rest here.” The fallen angel replied as the door shuddered. “They’ll be in here soon.”
The door shuddered again and Marie seemed to make up her mind about something, “I have a friend, a Fire Princess, who told me that if I know anyone that needs help I can send them her way, but…” Marie quickly cast a spell and the shadows rose in a corner of the room.
“We need to get out of here first?” Harry hazarded a guess, moments before Yugi pulled him away from the door, just in time for the door to collapse.
Yugi went on the offensive almost immediately, knocking the first few down, before someone grabbed him.
“Don’t attack.” The person who’d grabbed his arm yelped as Yugi’s Puzzle glowed again.
Yugi looked over his shoulder, only to find the woman who’d grabbed him was a Dark Necrofear and she’d grabbed Harry too.
“We have to go.” Marie yelped, as the dark monsters started piling through the door.
Before Yugi could ask how, shadows rose around them.
When the shadows in the middle of the room dispersed all four of them were gone.
Harry let out a pained cry as he was backhanded across the face by a rather pissed off looking Dark Red Enchanter and crashed to the floor, unable to defend himself with his hands bound and his magic inaccessible.
“Leave him alone.” Yugi protested, moving between Harry and the enraged Spellcaster. “He did nothing to…”
Before Yugi got the final word out, the Spellcaster had grabbed Yugi by the collar and lifted him off of the ground, causing the hikari to struggle before kicking out and hitting the Dark attribute monster hard in the shin and causing effect monster to drop him, while letting out a pained bellow.
Yugi dropped to his feet and scrambled away, keeping between Harry and their attacker, who had enered the cell and tried to grab Yugi, while the guards, these ones a pair of Gil Garth, appeared to have no interest in stopping the ‘fight’ if it could be termed that way, and were, in fact, just stood in the doorway watching.
Yugi silently thanked Joey for the training, while at the same time cursing the fact his hands were bound. It put him at a distinct disadvantage and limited his options. It didn’t help that with these shackles on he couldn’t call on the magic he’d come to be so reliant on.
The Dark Red Enchanter got to his feet and snarled viciously launching himself at the tiny Pharaoh, who backed up, well aware that this was likely to hurt.
Only for the attacking Spellcaster to get blown away by a Dark Magic Attack that knocked everyone off their feet.
“I sent him to collect the Pharaoh of Light. Not murder him.” The red Dark Magician sounded angry as he stepped into the cell in time to see Yugi and Harry picking themselves up.
The anger swiftly turned to amusement as fear crossed Yugi’s features before disappearing behind a mask of calm and Harry stepped between Medan and his light link partner, defending his friend the way Yugi had been defending him just moments before. The pair were predictable, almost too alike in some ways, probably why the Millennium Puzzle he’d taken from the Pharaoh of Light reacted, or so Medan had been informed, to both of them.
“I suggest you step aside,” Medan said to Harry who just glowered at him, “Unless you want to see whether you can survive an attack from me.” Medan lowered his staff and Yugi darted between his friend and the Dark Magician, all too aware of how dangerous taking a hit like that at close range would be.
After all, he’d been further away from the attack’s starting point when he’d been hit and he’d needed a healer before he’d wake up.
“Leave Harry alone. If you want to talk to me, I’ll come willingly but don’t hurt him.”
“Yugi!” Harry’s angry hiss went ignored by the royal who just waited for Medan’s response.
He didn’t have to wait long. Medan lowered his staff, moved aside and gestured for Yugi to precede him.
`Yugi…` Harry growled over the link as Yugi took a step forward.
“Do you want to get blasted?” Yugi sent the mental equivalent of a scowl, “I’d like you to stay in one piece thanks.”
`But…`
Yugi hesitated at Harry’s mental tone and turned to look at his friend. Yugi pursed his lips and turned to look at Medan. “I want your word that no harm will come to Harry while I’m gone.”
The red Dark Magician looked amused. “You’d trust my word? I’d’ve thought that you’d know better than that, Pharaoh. Fine. I have a deal for you. Follow me upstairs without creating a fuss and no harm will come to your friend. Start any trouble and I’ll let my fiends play with him. I know of at least one Memory Crush King who has been dying to see what their powers can do to a Duellist.”
Harry’s mental growl, as the realisation of why he hadn’t been sent back or thrown to the rest of Medan’s monsters yet sank in, seemed to bolster the decision that Yugi had already made. The heir gave his friend a sharp look before nodding at Medan and following the rogue Dark Magician out of the cell.
Medan smirked at Harry as he left and the door slammed shut behind him, the bolt slipping across the door, locking Harry inside, before Medan cast a spell that caused a dim purple light to cover the door.
Then Yugi and Medan vanished out of sight.
“Shit.” Harry swore, kicking the wall, furious at himself.
He’d known that him being here would limit what Yugi would try to get himself out of here, he knew Yugi too well to think otherwise. If Yugi had been here alone, the heir would have tried anything and everything in his power, including risking his own safety by attempting to call the Shadow Realm, in order to avoid Mahado getting hurt trying to save him.
But with Harry there, Yugi’s choices were limited, as he wouldn’t attempt anything that would endanger a friend, and the bad guys could, and apparently, would use the young wizard as leverage against the Prince.
`Sorry, Yugi.` Harry sent irritably over the link, part of him relived that Atem’s memories hadn’t changed Yugi enough for Yugi to put himself before his friends, while at the same time part of him was frustrated that there was so little he could do to help anyone right now.
“For what?” Yugi sounded surprised, having been feeling guilty himself, since he had a feeling that he was to blame for all of this. “You have nothing to feel sorry for. I’m the one who dragged you into…”
Before Yugi could finish his sentence pain crossed the link. `Yugi?` Harry demanded, moving towards the door to try and reach his friend, only to hesitate when the dim purple light brightened slightly.
Harry felt a mental equivalent of a wince before Yugi replied. “I’m not going to talk over the link for a while.” Yugi said, this thoughts coming slowly, as if he was having trouble pulling them together, “If you can listen in to what’s being said, do it, but…” A second burst of pain crossed the link and Yugi went silent.
Harry settled quickly, focusing on the link, trying to do what Atem was rather good at doing and use the link to see what his partner was seeing, still able to sense Yugi but confused by his sudden silence.
In the corridor above the cell block, Yugi was being pulled to his feet, by the collar, by a rather angry looking Medan. “Where is he?” The red Dark Magician demanded.
“Who? I don’t know what you’re talking about.” Yugi denied, dazed and confused as Medan looked up and down the corridor sharply, having smacked his head when Medan had hit him the first time, knocking him down, and the kick to the stomach hadn’t improved his concentration any.
“You stopped suddenly and were completely distracted.” Medan growled. “I was warned that you can speak with the Dark Pharaoh mind to mind. Where is he?”
“I wasn’t talking to Atem.” Yugi’s eyes widened as he protested, glad that Atem wasn’t in range considering. “I can barely sense Atem, yet alone talk to him!”
Medan scowled, “You’re lying.”
Yugi shook his head, “No, I swear. Atem’s nowhere near here.”
Medan considered him carefully, before nodding slightly, “No, I suppose you’re right. If the Pharaoh could find you using your link, he’d have been here by now. So who were you talking to?”
Yugi nearly told the Dark Magician the truth and that he’d been speaking with Harry, but something told him to keep it hidden. Instead he gave Medan a smug smile and said, “I told my partner monster where we are. He’s going for help.”
“Your partner monster?” Medan snarled, his free hand grabbing for Yugi’s throat, the other one joining it moments later, squeezing just tight enough to make Yugi let out a panicked squeak and struggle wildly, causing Medan to drop him, allowing him to scramble away as best as he could.
In seconds Medan had grabbed Yugi again, pinning his captive to the wall by the throat.
“Who? Who is it?” Medan demanded, “What type of monster?”
Yugi attempted to push himself away from the wall, refusing to answer.
Medan tightened his grip, cutting Yugi’s air supply completely.
Yugi fought then, refusing to give up. Medan could feel Yugi’s pulse speeding up under his fingers, as the young man attempted to free himself from the Dark Magician’s clutches, fear obvious in his eyes, the heir’s attempts at getting free frustrated by the armour that shielded Medan from attack.
Medan waited until Yugi’s frantic struggle had almost stopped before loosening his grip enough to allow the heir to breathe.
“I suggest you listen to me carefully.” The red Dark Magician said, as Yugi took in rasping breaths that sounded painful, struggling to get air past the magician’s grip, “Just because I need you alive, doesn’t mean that I need your friend. Now, I suggest you tell me who and what your partner monster is, or I’ll have your friend killed.”
Harry was, over the link, proclaiming that he was going to do something drastic to Medan once he had his wand back, but Yugi, who was fighting to avoid passing out, just bowed his head. “Boh.” It hurt to speak, but Yugi did so, knowing that, while he was getting Boh into trouble, the Kuriboh, who was probably safe with Mahado and Mana, would Resummon, while Harry wouldn’t. “He’s a Kuriboh.”
Medan let go and Yugi dropped to the floor, gulping in air and coughing badly.
By the time he’d managed to stop coughing and take in enough air to prevent himself from blacking out, Medan had dragged him into a room down the corridor and chucked him aside, before ordering a Twin Headed Wolf to hunt down the Kuriboh that would still be in the area and sliced Yugi’s left palm open, taking the bloody knife to a bowl on the other side of the room as an Apprentice Magician bandaged up the wound.
Yugi sat up slowly, wondering what Medan was up to, aided by the Apprentice who wouldn’t look at him properly, only to watch Medan let the blood drip from the dagger, into a bowl that glowed with a dim red light.
Medan’s resulting smirk worried Yugi and, as Medan decanted the liquid inside into a goblet, the heir tried to move away from the red version of his favourite card, only for the Apprentice Magician to grab his shoulders and shake her head at him.
Yugi tried to protest but all that left his bruised throat was a weak, pained, whimper that caused Medan to look at him and snigger as he came over and offered the goblet.
Yugi shook his head, attempting to spill the contents of the goblet all over the floor by knocking it out of the Dark Magician’s hands with his shoulder.
Medan pulled the goblet away easily, without spilling a single drop of the glowing liquid inside, before backhanding the hikari across the face.
“Either you drink this, or I make your friend do it.”
`Yugi no. You don’t know what it does.` Harry growled at him over the link.
“What…?” Yugi managed to croak, wincing as he did so, his voice hoarse and barely audible, and nodded towards at the goblet.
Medan snorted, “It’ll allow me to find out the shape of your Ka beast. You’ll transform temporarily.” He chuckled when Yugi gave him a distrusting look, “Only temporarily. A few minutes at most. You’re no good to me as a monster after all. I just want to know the shape of your soul.”
Yugi tried to croak something, but it came out almost inaudible and Medan had no interest in trying to work out what the heir, who had two lovely bruises coming up on his face and finger shaped bruises already forming on his neck, was trying to say. “You’ll return to the state you’re in once the effects wear off of course, but I’d’ve thought that even a brief release would be welcome right now. Now, you? Or him?”
"Me." Yugi whispered, ignoring Harry’s protests that this was a really bad idea.
Medan brought the goblet to his lips.
`Yugi…`
Yugi drank the potion.
Almost immediately a pained cry was torn from him as he felt his body changing.
Medan muttered something and the cuffs fell from Yugi’s wrists just in time as wings sprouted from the heir’s back, white feathered ones, though in the torch light they shimmered a pearlescent version of several colours, and his clothes changed form and colour.
“Master Medan?” The Apprentice Magician asked nervously as an aura of light surrounded the man, who was growing taller and more muscled.
Medan wasn’t too worried. The new monster in front of him looked dangerous and felt powerful but Medan was, after all, a Dark Magician, he was confident in his power.
The duel monster stood up, his face still obviously Yugi but, at the same time, his mannerisms and build told the lie, not to mention the look that he was giving Medan.
Before Medan could ask anything, the monster had launched an attack.
He dodged out of the way of the beam of light but the Apprentice wasn’t so lucky and was instantly disintegrated, as was part of the floor.
The obviously Light attribute monster, though it wasn’t obvious what type he was, darted into the hole, causing Medan to snarl and go after him. He could guess where the Light monster was heading and darted that way himself, in time to see the two guards, who were high powered fiends, get obliterated by the light the monster fired.
“What are you?” Medan demanded, suddenly a lot more wary, considering that the two guards had had, in the terms of the card game, which was the modern summoning tool, 2000 attack point monsters and this light creature had taken them down without a sweat.
The monster ignored him, casting a spell that broke the purple energy surrounding the door.
That answered that question.
A powerful Light Spellcaster... interesting...
“Yugi?” Harry gasped as the beast opened the cell door, having sensed Yugi’s light go out and feared the worst.
Before the Light monster could answer, Medan seized the monster’s arm, figuring that there wasn’t much longer before Yugi changed back.
With a single swipe, the Dark Magician went flying across the room.
“Stay away from us.” The Light monster snarled at Medan who winced as he picked himself up.
“What are you?” Medan repeated, demanding answers, wary of the power this monster possessed.
“Responsibilities of Friendship.” The Light monster replied, suddenly looking unsteady, his wings beginning to fade. Medan smirked. The potion was fading…
Responsibilities attacked.
Medan’s eyes widened as he attempted to cast a spell to shield himself.
The attack was faster and the light struck.
The red Dark Magician disintegrated.
Responsibilities darted forward, grabbing the Puzzle by the chain before it could hit the floor.
Harry darted out of the cell just in time to see the Light attribute Spellcaster collapse as the last of the potion’s effects wore of, leaving an injured Yugi on the ground, cradling the Puzzle.
Quickly glancing down the corridor, Harry rushed to his side, noting the injuries and scowling at the thought that Medan would be back before too long. “Yuge?”
The heir slipped the Puzzle on and got, unsteadily to his feet. “I’m ok.” Harry didn’t need the link to sense that was a lie, but they needed to get out of there before anyone else came down.
Yugi focused on his link with Boh, grimacing when he couldn’t call him, and led the way down the corridor; keeping a sharp look out, considerably more confident now he had the Puzzle on.
They got the stairs before anyone reached them, then a pair of Chthonian Soldier attempted to attack them. Yugi raised his hand and blasted them away with a burst of shadow magic, before seizing one of the dropped swords and slicing through the chain connecting Harry’s shackles.
Now free to use his hands, Harry grinned at his friend, trying to ignore he fact that his shoulders were killing him from where his hands had been trapped behind his back for the last few days, and picked up the other sword.
“The prisoners are escaping!”
Further down the corridor, one of the Abaki that had been on guard was bellowing at the top of his lungs.
The call echoed through the ruins and before they could get to the monster to shut him up, several other Dark monsters had joined him.
“Uhh, Yuge?” Harry murmured nervously as the pair of Chthonian Soldier got up, looking furious.
Yugi was well aware they were out numbered and wished he had his deck on him, so he could summon something to help them out.
“This way.” Yugi glanced over his shoulder to find a Marie the Fallen One gesturing into one of the room.
Yugi quickly took in their surroundings, decided they didn’t have much of a choice and darted into the room, dragging Harry in with him and shutting the door behind them, leaning against it to try and prevent someone opening it from the outside.
“That won’t work, light one.” Marie stated, considering the heir carefully.
“Why are you helping us?” Harry asked, confused and wary.
“Because creatures of light shouldn’t rest here.” The fallen angel replied as the door shuddered. “They’ll be in here soon.”
The door shuddered again and Marie seemed to make up her mind about something, “I have a friend, a Fire Princess, who told me that if I know anyone that needs help I can send them her way, but…” Marie quickly cast a spell and the shadows rose in a corner of the room.
“We need to get out of here first?” Harry hazarded a guess, moments before Yugi pulled him away from the door, just in time for the door to collapse.
Yugi went on the offensive almost immediately, knocking the first few down, before someone grabbed him.
“Don’t attack.” The person who’d grabbed his arm yelped as Yugi’s Puzzle glowed again.
Yugi looked over his shoulder, only to find the woman who’d grabbed him was a Dark Necrofear and she’d grabbed Harry too.
“We have to go.” Marie yelped, as the dark monsters started piling through the door.
Before Yugi could ask how, shadows rose around them.
When the shadows in the middle of the room dispersed all four of them were gone.