Let Go

Okay, i’ve managed to finish both this chapter and the epilogue during this week. If my computer doesn’t crash/explode/breaks down I’ll actually be able to finish this fic! I swear that’s a relief to me °sweatdrops° Well, next week will be the epilogue and therefore the last chap, so I hope you all enjoyed this story. It’s given me quite a few headaches when I couldn’t come up with what to do next. R&R folks!
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Fight for Heaven

Shadows that seemed to radiate with a golden glow clashed with a similar force, though lacking the light hue to it. Yuugi’s aura was unstable for a second, the angel still trying to figure out how to focus both his own magic and the shadow magic Yami was channelling through him in a way that they wouldn’t clash against each other. The magics were so different from one another he doubted they would ever mesh into one force, but somehow he managed to focus it to a point where it could at least keep his demonic opponent at bay.

His mind was working on overtime as he tried to come up with a way to get Yami’s soul back into its body, preferably before he got to the point where either he or the body would be on the verge of death or beyond that. This would be no easy fight and deep down he knew the outcome would never be in his favour if he didn’t figure out a way to restore Yami’s soul to its body, but so far he couldn’t think of anything of help.

Seeing the distraction flashing across the angel’s eyes, the demonic ruler shot up higher into the air. Yuugi, as distracted as he was in his thoughts, had no time to compensate and shot forward. He managed to stop before hitting something, but was quickly kicked into the ground below. Yuugi cursed himself for losing focus.

“What’s wrong sweetie?” Demon Yami chuckled as crimson-flecked amethyst glared at him. He raised a mocking eyebrow, “I thought you were going to stop me. What are you doing lying on the ground like that?”

Inside him, Yuugi felt Yami glare at his former self with a certain possessiveness. The shadow aura around him increased, making the balance that had already been hard to keep tip over. Yuugi’s own magic sparked irregularly until it died down, and the angel found himself speaking without actually having wanted to. “Stop joking and just fight.” Yuugi wanted to curse the other inside him but had no chance for it. Shadow balls shot his way as he quickly dodged. Before he knew it, arms snaked around his body from behind and claws dug into his chest.

“As you wish, but at this rate it’ll be over sooner than even I thought.” With a loud cry the demon send Yuugi crashing behind a rock formation, crashing into the ground there.

//Damnit Yami, stop doing that!// Yuugi mentally glared, trying to stay hidden for a moment as he settled the mental fight he’d been having with his lover. Yami had been trying to project his power through Yuugi, and had succeeded. The problem was that Yami had also been trying to dominate the fight, which made an imbalance in their joined power. There had to be an exact amount of both magics for this to work, and Yami wasn’t making that easy.

//What do you mean? I’m trying to win this! You’re trying to keep my power sealed!// Yami sounded just as annoyed as Yuugi, a light twitch in his eye. Yuugi wasn’t sure how he knew this last fact but he did.

With a sigh, the angel ran a hand through his hair, briefly glancing into the sky to see Demon Yami hovering there, a bored look on his face as he checked his nails. It was obvious that he would be waiting there until he actually came out of hiding. Perfect.

//Don’t you get it? We need to synchronize our powers, not let one dominate the other. You’ve been trying to force your shadow powers to overrule my magic and that’s why we’re actually slower and less powerful. You forget that our powers are complete opposites so we need a balance to make this work!// There was a silence for a brief moment, and Yuugi glanced up once more to see if the demonic ruler had changed his mind about waiting yet. He saw the other yawn but he still made no move to come looking.

A sigh was heard in his mind and Yuugi smiled somewhat, knowing he’d won, //Fine, I get your point. So how do we get this right?// Yuugi grinned.

//We have to work as a team. We’ve always been great together, so let’s see if we can do that while fighting as well.// he received an apprehensive nod, but a nod nonetheless. Yuugi took a calming breath, closing his eyes briefly to try and make a new balance of his and Yami’s power. His senses stayed alert, but by the time he reopened his eyes he could still see the demon he was fighting hovering at the exact same spot. A very Yami-ish smirk appeared on the angelic features. The other was underestimating them.

Their spirits fused as one, and an aura that seemed to both glow with golden-white magic and purple-black shadows surrounded them as they leapt into the air with a speed so far not displayed. Demon Yami’s eyes flashed to the spot he had knocked Yuugi to, hoping to catch the movement and block it, but was kicked away before he had even registered something was there. His wings spread to stop him from faltering even further, but he was too late to stop the ball of shadow magic, sparking with golden magic like electricity from hitting him and making him crash to the ground.

The demon looked up, glaring as he saw Yuugi with a perfect mesh of shadow and angel magic floating in the air. His eyes once more shone with a crimson hue, though this time it seemed to flow perfectly into the amethyst colour instead of either of the colours dominating it.

He growled, “Well what do you know, they’re actually in perfect sync. This will make this even more complicated.” He slowly rose from the ground again, keeping his eyes trained on Yuugi – or could he actually call him Yuugi now that he and the soul that had been in his own body had become one? He shook the thought away and focused on the fight.

With strong wing beats he shot at the angel still hovering in the air. Yuugi’s eyes followed every move, as if trying to predict what the demon would be doing next, and succeeding as he dodged a few punched with ease. Demon Yami growled in annoyance at the ease displayed, his aura growing more powerful as he created a shadow ball and shot it at Yuugi. The angel didn’t have the time to dodge it at the distance they were fighting at, and instead threw one of his own shadow balls surrounded by angelic magic to counter. The explosion as the two hit threw both sides back.

Yuugi groaned as he felt some of the dissipating shadow magic still hit him, cursing softly. //Are you alright?// Yuugi grimaced at the question.

//We’ve only just begun, it would be bad if I was already feeling the strain.//

He could feel Yami’s presence as if it were looking at him sceptically, //So you are feeling the strain then.// Yuugi really hated Yami for knowing him so well.

//It’s hard to keep our powers fused and focus on the fight. Besides, we still need to come up with something that will get you back in that body.//

The conversation was interrupted as Demon Yami flew at them. Both focused back on the fight in favour of continuing their conversation. Punch after punch was thrown with the occasional kick in between. Yuugi was happy that Yami was just as good at physical fighting as his demonic self was, since he himself didn’t know too much about it. He was great with tactics, had great aim when it came to spells, and had the power to make the spells do damage, but actual fighting like this? He’d never been good at it.

As one of the punches connected with his chest and he was forced back, Yuugi temporarily ignored every bit of pain that seared through him and cast a spell. The demonic ruler dodged, only to be hit by a second spell that Yuugi had send his way after predicting which way he would dodge.

The demon scowled as he winced in pain, mentally cursing the fact that Yuugi had already observed him enough to start predicting his moves. He knew his soul wasn’t the type to observe to the point of predicting his opponent’s moves, but Yuugi definitely was.

With another few low muttered words Demon Yami attacked again, nails sharpening even more than they had already been. Yuugi dodged a few hits, eyes widened as he recognized the attack that Yami had used only a few times, but was the favourite killing manner for his demonic counterpart.

//He wants to poison me now?! I thought he wanted me as a bed slave!// Yuugi’s aura grew, a shadowy tendril wrapping around Demon Yami’s wrists to try and keep his claws at a distance. The tendril was broken as if it were only thread.

//He obviously sees us as a real threat now so killing us is safer for him. I remember that no matter what, safety came first to a certain degree.// Yuugi felt Yami scowl within him, restraining the urge to let his shadow magic expand further since it would break the balance they’d created.

//Any plans to actually stop him yet?// There was silence as Yuugi made more moves to dodge. A few moments later he could feel a smirk coming from his lover, yet he didn’t say a word.

A small fluctuation in the balance of shadow and angelic magic instantly slowed Yuugi down. Within another second he could feel hands wrapping around his neck and sharp nails piercing the skin. “Poison Claw!”

With a sharp cry, Yuugi clenched his eyes shut before finally wrenching himself loose. The fluctuations in his aura continued, the effort to restore the balance and then try to keep it only seeming to weaken Yuugi further.

Demon Yami smirked as he gave a kick to Yuugi and send him to the ground. The angel crashed into the ground with another cry, his eyes still clenched shut.

“Well if I’d known that was all it would take I would’ve done this the instant the fight started.” No movement came from the angel as Demon Yami landed beside him. The demon threw a mocking look down at the form lying on the ground. “And that little union of yours seems to be spreading my poison even faster. Well, I suppose your suffering will become shorter then.”

Demon Yami gave the body one more glance, feeling the power almost drained away, before turning his back and scowling at the amount of angels and demons staring at him. He didn’t care so much about the angels but his demons had stopped fighting as well. By the energy he felt a little away, Bakura and Mariku had not bothered to stop and watch and were happily killing demons left and right now that they weren’t paying the slightest bit of attention.

“What do you think you’re doing?! We have a war to win!” All demons snapped out of the daze they’d been in and instantly started to fight again. The angels responded with just as much vigour, the battle starting up again.

With a quick glance around, the demonic ruler instantly spotted God, his smirk returning to his face as he concentrated back on the angelic ruler, “Shall we continue where we left off as well?”

God glared as he let his aura blaze, killing a few demons around him as he did. He did not enjoy killing anyone, whether they were angel, mortal or demon, but at the moment there was no other way. He focused back on his opponent only to have his eyes widen at the sight before him.

Demon Yami’s eyes narrowed at the look of shock, not aimed at him but right behind him. Though it could be a mere trick, he knew he could take a few hits from the angelic ruler. He would keep his senses on alert anyway so he doubted the other could even get close to him with his back turned.

The demon slowly turned around, but before he was even able to face what was supposedly behind him, he felt a strong spell bind him, before more spells were shot his way and send him flying. He crashed into the ground some feet away, the binds around him still holding even with the abuse the spells had given them. Demon Yami growled as he looked up, his eyes meeting a sight he did not expect

Yuugi was standing there, aura in perfect harmony once more and power at full. A small smirk was playing on his lips, obviously a trait his soul had brought into this form, and a new spell was already aimed at him.

With great effort the demonic overlord broke the bind that had been holding him, dodged the spell send his way, and flew forward. The question of how Yuugi was still standing after having been nearly killed by his poison shot through his head but he had no time for them as he dodged spell after spell.

At last the two opponents stood before each other again, Yuugi still with a cocky smirk and Demon Yami with a glare. The demon was the first to finally speak his mind, “How did you manage to beat my poison?!” he was outraged and insulted. No one had ever defeated that attack and yet Yuugi still stood before him, the wounds in his neck already healed and no sign of weakness to be spotted.

“How? You seem to forget that part of us is you. Did you think Yami did nothing while in control of that body?” Yuugi threw the ruler an insulted look and Demon Yami had the distinct idea that no matter how much in sync the two in front of him were, his soul was the one speaking mostly now.

“While in that body, Yami made his soul impervious to that attack. He is the antidote itself as it were, and so the minute your attack penetrated our skin, his soul started cleaning the poison. He actually made us play along by forcing control for a while.” That explained why the angel had kept his eyes clenched shut so tightly. If they’d opened, crimson would have been the only colour there and he might have become suspicious. He had been a fool.

With another scowl Demon Yami attacked with full force. The fight between the two supreme powers continued, spells, curses, punches and kicks being used in quick succession in an attempt to subdue the other. They were completely equally matched. The slight bit of extra power Demon Yami seemed to have was negated by the quick thinking of Yuugi, making them completely evenly matched.

With yet another explosion of shadow balls hitting each other the two were thrown apart for a moment, both using the time to recover and try to plan something.

//Yuugi, I think I have an idea on how to stop him.// Yuugi panted as he tried to regain some energy, the strain of keeping the balance in power fully taking effect by now. He knew he didn’t have much time left before he’d run out of energy completely.

//Good, because we won’t be able to keep up with this much longer. What’s the plan?//

//I want you to hang the puzzle around his neck.// Yuugi’s eyes widened, quickly glancing around him to see if the demonic ruler hadn’t snuck up on him yet. Nothing yet.

//You want me to what?! Yami, the only reason we’re still alive is because we’ve been working together! If I put the puzzle around his neck, you’ll go with it and I won’t stand a chance!//

//I know that, but that way my soul will enter his body. I don’t know if I’ll be powerful enough to take control, let alone keep it, but it’s the only thing I can come up with!//

Yuugi’s stance was hesitant for a moment and Demon Yami took that moment to attack. Yuugi was hit multiple times by attacks before he was able to counter, his eyes once more blazing with determination. He trusted Yami, and he believed in the other. If this was really the only way then he would trust that the other could take control of his body again.

With a few fast moves that cost him the last of his energy, Yuugi managed to bind the demon once more. Demon Yami roared in protest, his power already reaching to break the shadow chains. Yuugi wasted no time as he tore the puzzle from his neck and quickly threw it over Demon Yami’s head. The pendent hit the demon´s chest harshly, but Yuugi didn’t care at the moment.

The other froze, his eyes instantly glazing over as his thrashing stopped and his wings beat slowly just as the shadow chain broke, the beats just enough to keep him up. Yuugi felt his body returning to normal, the increase of power gone and the strange feeling of having two souls in one body dissipating. He looked on with half-lidded eyes as a struggle for power shone in crimson eyes. He could see anger surging through the other from both sides, indignation that he was being violated once more by a soul opposed to determination to regain the body. The eyes closed and Yuugi panicked, now unable to see who was winning and who would be in control by the time the eyes opened again.

Below him, he sensed a pause in the fighting that had been going on. The demons felt the change in their master and all looked up. The angels, confused by the sudden pause, looked up as well.

A male demon flew up, stopping next to his ruler and briefly glaring at Yuugi. After having seen the enormous power the angel had displayed, he didn’t dare attack him though. He focussed back on his master.

“Your Majesty, are you alright?” There was a long moment of silence, the struggle for dominance obviously not over yet. The demon looked in confusion at getting no response. Yuugi supposed he was wondering why the epic battle had suddenly come to a halt and why Yuugi himself wasn’t even attacking. Yuugi mentally shrugged, too tired to care and not really feeling any need to explain himself to a demon.

A few more moments passed before the chaotic aura that had been raging around the demonic overlord ever so subtly calmed down. Yuugi bit his lip in anticipation. Half his mind didn’t want to know what the outcome was, fearing his lover’s soul had been beaten and there would be no more hope from now on. The other half was beating the former up for ever doubting Yami, and was screaming at him that it would all be alright. Yuugi didn’t know exactly what side to believe, but he’d rather have the demon open his eyes before he went mad with the suspense.

Slowly crimson eyes opened, staring at the demon to his side. Yuugi’s stomach dropped as he saw the cold look only the demonic ruler had shown so far in the eyes he used to adore so much. His eyes closed as tears slowly made their way down his cheeks, his hope gone.

“How many times have I told you?” the nameless demon looked fearfully at his leader as the other glared at him with a coldness even he hadn’t seen yet. Hands wrapped around his neck as nails slowly pierced his skin, the poisonous attack Yami was known for most already kicking in.

“I am not your leader!” Yuugi’s eyes shot open as those words were growled out. The nameless demon’s eyes widened before closing as the poison took effect. He was a weak demon, so the poison needed near to no time to take effect.

“Y-Yami?” Yuugi stared in shock as the other simply threw the body down at the crowd still staring at him with a scowl. The demon flashed him a brief smirk before once more turning his attention to all staring at him from below.

“Demons, go back to Hell! This war is over as of now! All who dare to stay will meet the same fate as he did.” Yami glanced briefly at the body that had by now hit the ground quite painfully. He was sure a few bones had broken, possibly his neck. “Though I’ll prolong the suffering will greater.”

All demons’ eyes widened at the sound of the booming voice. Within no time they had all fled, back to Hell as they’d been ordered. Yami sighed in relief as he ran a hand through his hair, “Good, now only to tell the other idiots at the other entrances they have the get the fuck out of here and everything will be fine again.” Before he could go anywhere, he felt Yuugi crashing into him, the younger hugging him and sobbing. Vaguely Yami distinguished words between the sobs, though he had no idea what the other was saying. He simply smiled reassuringly, wrapping his arms around the angel and soothing him. He didn’t bother trying to calm Yuugi down as he took off towards the next place where the demons were attacking, knowing the other wouldn’t calm down for a while but needing to stop the fighting as soon as possible.

There would be quite a mess to clean up after all of this, and the sooner he stopped all the fighting, the sooner that cleaning up would begin. Besides, his demonic self was still raging within him, trying to break free and take control again. He needed to get to God as soon as possible so he could seal his soul into the body again, which would most likely get him back in control completely.

And after that? He actually had no idea. Right now he was taking everything one step at a time, unsure of how long he could even keep suppressing his demonic side.

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And that my dear people is it. Credit to be given out goes to SuzaShizune for coming up with the idea of hanging the puzzle around Demon Yami’s neck to get him back to normal ages ago when I wasn’t even thinking about it yet. I liked it so I used it so now she’s getting credit. Well, that’s about it for now. Next week will be the epilogue so see you all then!
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