Let Go

Happy times continue folks! decmon Yami will be making a cemeo appearance this chapter cuz I had nothing else to put down and wanted the chapter to be longer, and dead bodies will be here too. We've got depression, crying, drama, and lots more of those happy feelings floating around and I bet you all can't wait to read!

°coughs° For those who are wondering, i've had Bullit, which is an energydrink like Red Bull, and I'm hyper. Sue the people who made Bullit if you must but don't forget to give me some money too.

Anyway, without further ado, LG chapter 6: Curse! R&R folks!


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Curse

Yuugi stared blankly at the by now dead body of Tsumi. He could vaguely hear his friends discussing something, though his senses were too dulled to even comprehend about what. He knew it was over an hour since Yami had left, because that was the time the now demon had said it would take for Tsumi to die.

The teen demon had died minutes ago already, and still Yuugi kept staring at the body.

Joey gave his friend a worried look, once more trying to ask him something but getting no response from his friend. He sighed and looked back up, “Anyone got any ideas how ta snap him out of dis?” All frowned but none answered.

Yuugi had collapsed right after Yami had left, staring unseeingly at Tsumi’s dying body without responding to anything. They all knew why, he was devastated that he’d not only lost Yami, but the other was now also out to kill him.

Kumiko wasn’t in a much better condition. She hadn’t moved from her spot against the wall, crying as she wouldn’t let anyone come close to her. She’d lost her brother, and it was partly her fault at that. Yami’d told her Ayashige was no good but she’d been too wrapped around his finger to listen.

Bakura scowled, “Well we can’t just stand around here and try to get those two to react to us. We need to start thinking of way to defend ourselves.” The arm wrapped around Ryou tightened. He hadn’t let go of his little angel since Yami had left. Ryou didn’t’seem to mind, still in slight shock over coming so close to a demon in Bloodlust. The time they’d fought Aknunkanon didn’t even come close to what he’d gone through at that moment, and Bakura being so protective of him calmed him.

Besides, it gave him a feeling that all the flirting of the past weeks meant something more than just something Bakura did for his enjoyment.

“Well what do you propose we do?” Seto scowled, “Yami’s back to his full demon self and he was unstoppable the first time already, he’s only gotten stronger. I doubt even God himself can stop him now.”

At the mention of Yami now being a full demon Yuugi finally seemed to snap out of the daze he’d been in for the past hour. He looked up at his friends and mentally picked himself up again.

No matter what he couldn’t forget that this wasn’t his Yami, and no matter what would he stop to bring his Yami back. There had to be a way to do that.

The logical part of his brain started working, trying to push the emotions away for the time being. He had to be strong and not sit on the ground like some whimpering 5-year old. There would be more than enough time for that later, right now he needed to think.

“The attack,” All glanced down in surprise as they heard Yuugi speak, the other’s eyes still focused on Tsumi but life shallowly sparking in the amethyst depths. Yuugi was not completely there yet, but at least he was responding to things again.

“What do you mean, ‘the attack?’ Malik rose an eyebrow, glancing from Yuugi to the body he was so intently staring at.

Yuugi finally rose from the ground, his eyes turning to his friends, “Tsumi used that attack to get rid of Yami’s soul, so maybe there’s a way to get it back. We just have find out exactly what he did…” He trailed off. The attack that Tsumi had used was one that had used a different kind of magic than his usual, suggesting Tsumi had learned it from someone else or read it, instead of developing it himself.

“Wow, for someone who was just on da ground not respondin’ to anythin’ you-“ he was cut off by Seto swatting him on the head as Yuugi flinched at the words. As usual Joey had tried to say something nice, and had screwed up before he’d even gotten to it.

“What he meant to say was, that’s a good point.” Seto ignored the glare Joey threw him and looked around the room they were in, “He probably learned the attack from a book or something, which is bound to be still in this castle.”

Bakura scoffed, “This castle is huge. By the time we find that book Yami will be ruler of this world and will come back for us.” As much as he too deserved a punch at his bluntness, no one seemed to bother. Joey scowled.

Yuugi pushed the pain Bakura’s comment caused aside as he tried to focus on the matter at hand. “Well we need to do something and I’m not going to stand around and do nothing.” He started to walk towards the large doors leading further into the castle, intending to find some other servants that Yami hadn’t killed off but who could be forced into giving some information. He briefly glanced back to look at Kumiko but the girl hadn’t snapped out of her state yet. Sighing, he decided to leave her for now; she wouldn’t let anyone close to her and she would probably be safe for now.

Bakura grumbled darkly under his breath as he followed Yuugi, Ryou automatically following since the demon had yet to let go of him. The others followed as well, leaving Mariku and Kumiko as the only ones in the room without even noticing.

Mariku simply stared curiously after them before looking back at Tsumi’s body. Shrugging, the demon hummed happily as he walked over to the corpse with an evil grin plastered to his face.


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“Okay, so after looking through at least ten libraries… we’re still clueless about where the book is?” Yuugi groaned. He knew this was going to be hard but this was ridiculous. Ten libraries and they weren’t even halfway through them all. How many libraries could a guy need?

“If there even is a book. He could’ve learned it off someone else… though that’s less likely since I’ve never heard of anyone being able to do an attack like that.” Bakura gave the library they were currently in a thoughtful look. He didn’t even know exactly why he bothered. Even if there was a book, Tsumi would’ve hidden it much better than just putting it in one of his libraries.

“Well there has to be some clue. It’s not likely that he hid the information without anybody knowing anything about it.” Seto frowned, walking to the next shelf of books and starting to look through the pages of a worn out book that was nearly falling apart, “Unless he destroyed the book of course.”

No one answered to that, not wanting to think of that as an option.

More time passed in silence as the group looked through the old room. They were almost done in the library when the door to the room opened and a happily humming Mariku walked in with Kumiko at his side. The girl was looking at the ground, her posture still screaming depression and her aura filled with a sense of guilt, but at least she had finally snapped out of the state she’d been in prior.

“Well look who showed up at long last. Where’ve ya been?” Joey gave the demon an annoyed look before glancing down at the book the other was holding. The blonde frowned as he looked back up at the bright smile on the other’s face.

“I was looking for the book,” He threw the large tome he’d been holding onto a table, “and I found it.”

All stared in wide-eyed shock as Mariku simply sat down at the table. All knew Mariku wasn’t the smartest demon around, his insanity before he’d accepted that demons weren’t anything to mourn over having affected his brain more than just a little. To think that the demon had found the book they’d been looking for all this time was more than just a little shocking to them.

“How the fuck did you find that?” Bakura raced over to look through the book Mariku had brought to see if it indeed held the information they needed. At seeing the entire book filled with details to the attack, he once more stared in shock at his friend.

Mariku just shrugged, “It’s not like you ever told me everything you can do, so I haven’t told you everything I can do.” He’d simply dug his nails into Tsumi’s brain and absorbed the information still in it. This wouldn’t always work, a corpse still needed to be fresh, but since Tsumi had died only moments before it had been quite easy to extract the information that he’d wanted, as well as learning some other things.

Bakura just scowled at the comment, “You knew of a way to get the location of this damned book and you didn’t tell us immediately?!” He would’ve slammed his fist down on the book below his hands, possibly destroying it if Yuugi hadn’t snatched it away just in time. The book looked old so he was sure it wouldn’t survive Bakura’s wrath.

“Bakura, shut up. The point is that we found it.” He glanced at Kumiko who had sat down as well, her eyes still downcast, “Are you okay?”

The girl stayed silent at first before raising her eyes to him. Yuugi winced at the pain in the normally cheerful emerald depths, “Just get Yami back, don’t worry about me.”

Yuugi would’ve tried to cheer her up at least a little if his own heart wasn’t still breaking. He took a deep breath to calm himself, knowing he’d break down again if he gave the matter much more thought, before focusing back on the book in his hands.

“Okay, well all we need to do is look up what happens to the souls that are absorbed by the attack and we can think of a plan to get Yami back. ‘If we can get him back.’ Yuugi’s mind automatically added. He kept it to himself as he opened the book again.

He’d only flipped a few pages before the pages of the book started to let go of the cover. Yuugi grimaced as he saw pages falling to the ground.

“Well, if it’s already falling apart anyway,“ Malik snatched the book away from his friend and tore part of the book out of the cover, “Might as well help.” Yuugi’s protests were in vain as the rest followed Malik’s example, taking pieces of the book to read and settling down around the table. Yuugi sighed; now they knew for sure the book would be gone by the time they were done.

The group went into a long silence as they all read their part of the book, the silence only being disturbed by pages being flipped or falling to the ground. After an hour Bakura finally ripped a page and jumped up with a triumphant cry. The action was so out of character for the demon that all present stared in shock before registering the only reason why Bakura would do something like that.

“You found it?!” Joey threw his section of the book carelessly to the ground, no longer caring what happened. The second the pages hit the ground they scattered into random direction. If Bakura didn’t have what they were looking for and it so happened to be in Joey’s part, it was sure never to be found now.

Yuugi briefly noted this fact before turning his attention back to Bakura, “Are you sure?”

Bakura just grinned smugly, some stress falling off him though he hadn’t completely read over the entire section of information yet. He’d just seen the title ‘souls’ and scanned over it a bit, but he knew this was what they were looking for, “I’m sure.” He couldn’t even say anything else before the page he was holding up was snatched out of his hand by Yuugi. His usual scowl returned to his face.

Yuugi ignored the scowl and the fact that he’d ripped the page out of the other’s hand as he scanned over the page himself, taking in the information in search of what they were looking for. He didn’t have time to to ask for the page, he needed to save Yami.

As he finally found the information that was actually relevant to him, he started reading out loud so everyone could hear.

“Any soul captured by this method will become a part of the person using the curse. Their soul will remain there, fused with that person and powering him or her, until the caster dies. When this happens, not only do the souls that have been trapped, but also the soul of the caster if he or she has one, will be send to a limbo neither in Heaven nor Hell. In this limbo they are trapped in depression, sadness, and self-loathing, making some think it is actually a place worse than Hell could ever be for any soul.”

The page went on to describe numerous other things that were said to happen to the souls once they entered the limbo, and a discussion of whether or not it was worse than Hell or not. All the pros and cons to the statement were there but Yuugi didn’t care much anymore. His heart had wrenched painfully when he’d stopped reading and he was having trouble just keeping hold of the page without dropping it from his shaking hands.

“A place worse than Hell for souls?” Malik frowned at the statement and glanced at the page, “Is that even possible? I mean, that they’d even consider calling it that must mean it’s really fucking bad.” No one answered but all silently agreed.

They fell into another silence, a tense and awkward one this time, as they all tried to vaguely imagine what a place like that could be. Even Bakura shivered involuntarily at the thought, though he concealed it best.

“So, where is this limbo?” Ryou tilted his head in thought, “I’ve never even heard of anything like this.”

The five angels present glanced at each other with questioning eyes, but not even Seto who was considered God’s right hand knew the answer to the question. It irritated the brunette to not have an answer for once.

“Well the quickest way would most likely be to ask God, since he will most likely know.” At that mention, the brunette also reminded himself that God could’ve helped with the information they’d been looking for. If they’d just gone straight to Heaven it might’ve saved them a great deal of time.

“I guess we have no choice.” Yuugi glanced at all the paper that had been thrown to the ground the moment Bakura had announced he’d found what they were looking for. Even if that information had also been in the book, he doubted it could be found now. The book had had no page numbers, so sorting it back into the right order would be near impossible now.

With a heavy sigh and a shake of his head, Yuugi started out of the castle, all the others following after him. If they didn’t turn Yami back to normal soon, who knew what could happen.


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Yami yawned as demon after demon came before him, sucking up to him as much as possible and apologizing for whatever they thought was necessary apologizing for. He didn’t really care too much, he just wanted them to leave him alone so he could rest for a while. The Bloodlust that had taken him over and the fighting afterwards had tired him somewhat. Since a demon in Bloodlust wasn’t exactly someone who would think of the amount of energy he used during that period, he’d used a lot of it.
He really hated Bloodlust, thank the devil that he would never have to go through that again now that he no longer had a soul.

The demon that was now considered the overlord smirked at the thought of his soul. God had gotten to him once when he’d made the mistake to anger him enough to increase his power. He wouldn’t make that mistake again.

Besides, as far as he’d gathered God had no lover at the moment, so there was no reason to worry over such things. Now if only the fool wasn’t crushing on anyone Yami might kill out of boredom. That would prove problematic because surely the old man hadn’t been sitting still and had gained power just like he himself had.

“My Lord?” Yami snapped out of his musings and glanced down from the raised platform where his throne was standing to see a male demon bowing before him, glancing questioningly up at him through his dark bangs.

Yami didn’t even bother to look interested, “What?” His tone and posture still showed extreme boredom but no one dared to comment on it.

“We were just wondering… what are your plans?” The demon looked nervous, and his auro only enhanced that feeling. Yami smirked; he had only just returned and already they feared him.

“We’re going to attack Heaven. In my period as,” Yami grimaced and his next two words came out in a disgusted tone, “soulful demon, I’ve discovered where all entrances to Heaven are and where the weak spots are. There’s no way God will be able to win this time.” That had been the only pro to being a demon with a soul and bedding that angel look-alike of his. At least now he knew some more information about Heaven.

All demons present muttered softly to each other, but Yami paid no attention to what they were saying. He scanned the demons intently and scowled. Not only were most of them weaklings, but none of them were to his taste. Now that he no longer had that angel, he needed someone else to satisfy him. He didn’t care one bit who that would be, but whoever it was had to be to his liking.

And of course, none of the demons around him were worth his time.

Letting out a frustrated sigh, Yami stood up and ignored all the questioning gazes and nervous queries about where he was going. He dismissed them all, muttering to them all that they had to prepare an army and left the throne room.

He glanced around him as he walked through the halls impatiently, looking at anyone he came across to see if they were any better to his liking than what he’d seen so far. If he wanted to relax after that fight and the Bloodlust he’d gone through, he’d need someone to lay first.

With a small smirk Yami continued his way, positive that there would be at least one demon around he would find worthy enough.


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And that was it people. As you can see, the chapter was not influenced by Bullit - thank god for you sweatdrops - so I hope you all enjoyed. I'm glad my little plottwist came as such a surprise to everyone °grins° To be totally series, it was a surprise for me too. At first I actually only had the whole Bloodlust thing planned, and then this idea came to me. You'll never know how happy I suddenly was with the fact that Tsumi had done his little attack in the prologue already so I could use that, cuz when I wrote it I didn't have this all planned. Okay, so that's a bit about me writing this story. You must all be very happy to knw that... or not but oh well. Anyway, I'll cya all next week with the next oh-so happy chapter! Review!