Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Stranded ❯ The Secret of the Cave ( Chapter 4 )

Recap: Yugi and Yami were exploring the island some more. They came across two of the legendary sirens, Anora and Rodema. Anora lured Yugi to a cliff with a very deep pond at the bottom. Rodema helped Yami stop Anora and save Yugi.
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Chapter 4: The Secret of the Cave

Yugi and Yami were currently exploring the cave. They paid more attention to the walls. The walls were full of diamonds, rubies and all kinds of gems.
"I haven't really paid attention to these walls. This is amazing," Yugi said.
"I agree. I was here for 6 years, but I've never really paid attention," Yami added.
In addition to the amazing site in the cave, there were also some dangers lurking within. Unfortunately, they were going to discover them. They walked only twenty more feet when the floor started to crumble underneath them.
"Run Yugi!" Yami shouted as he ran ahead.
Yugi wasn't as fast as Yami and was only two steps away from falling. The ground collapsed from under Yugi a few minutes later and stopped crumbling when he was hanging over the edge of the current cliff. If that wasn't bad enough, he was slipping off.
"Yami help!" Yugi cried.
"Hang on Yugi; I'm coming!" Yami shouted as he was on his way back.
Yugi's small size really didn't help him here, and he continued to slip off the edge. It was only a matter of seconds before he fell off now.
"Hold on Yugi!" Yami shouted. He was almost there.
"I can't!" Yugi shouted and slipped off all the way.
Someone's hand grabbed his. He looked up to see Yami. Yugi was still very frightened.
"It's okay Yugi. I've got you," Yami said. He quickly pulled Yugi up. "Are you all right?" he asked.
"Yes," Yugi responded as he regained his composure.
They continued exploring the cave. Soon they came to a wall that looked different from the others. This one was golden with silver and copper highlights. Yugi was drawn to it. He leaned against it. A door slid open, and he fell through.
"Yugi!" Yami shouted as he ran through the opening before it closed. "Are you all right?" he added as he helped Yugi up.
"Yes," Yugi responded. "Where are we?" he added.
"I don't know. I never knew that this place would be in a cave," Yami responded.
Yugi climbed up a nearby tree. 'I still thank Yami for teaching me how to climb trees,' he thought.
"Don't climb too high," Yami said.
"I won't," Yugi said. He stopped when he was about fifty feet up and looked around.
"What do you see?" Yami asked loud enough for Yugi to hear.
"A lot of jungle," Yugi responded. He moved to climb down.
The branch he was on was a weak branch. It couldn't take that movement and broke off. Luckily, Yami was right under Yugi. He stretched his arms out and caught Yugi.
"You okay?" Yami asked as he put Yugi down.
"I am now," Yugi responded.
"We might as well look around," Yami said.
Yugi nodded, and they began exploring. The brush was thick so Yami created a sword to cut the plants down. Fifteen minutes later, he bent the sword like a boomerang and gave it a mighty throw. The sword cut through the rest of the thick brush and came back to him. He caught the hilt and made the sword disappear.
"How did you do that?" Yugi asked confused and amazed.
"To be honest, I don't know. I never knew that I was this strong to bend a sword and throw it that far," Yami responded. "I guess there are more things to me that even I don't know," he added.
They walked through the now cleared brush. They soon came to a river. There was no way around it because it was very long and pretty wide as well. Yami wrapped an arm around Yugi and went into the water. It was peaceful enough to start. Halfway across, Yugi felt something slimy under his feet. He then got pulled down out of Yami's grip.
Yami felt the tug and saw that Yugi was no longer with him. He dove under the water to see Yugi being held by a giant squid. Yami immediately cast the spell so Yugi could breathe underwater. "Yugi, don't try to keep up with me. I'm going to swim circles around the squid," he said.
Yugi got the message as Yami started circling around the squid. Yami went faster and faster. The squid tried to keep up to grab Yami, but Yami was way too fast for it. As Yami kept circling, the squid got dizzier. Soon, the squid let go of Yugi because it was so dizzy. Yami grabbed Yugi and swam the rest of the way to the other side of the river.
They got to the other side half an hour later, and Yami came out with Yugi. Yami was puzzled with something.
"What is it Yami?" Yugi asked.
"I noticed that I swam faster than I thought I could," Yami responded.
"Do you think that this place has something to do with the secrets about you?" Yugi asked.
"Probably," Yami responded.
"So far, we found out that you are very strong, and you can swim faster than you thought," Yugi said. "Let's keep going."
Yami nodded, and they continued walking. Yami suddenly felt like running. He scooped up Yugi and ran through the jungle. He noted that he now ran as fast as he swam.
"How can you run so fast?" Yugi asked. He only saw a blur as they passed things.
"I don't know," Yami responded. He stopped at a large temple an hour later. He put Yugi down, and they entered.
The entrance disappeared soon afterwards and the torches inside lit up on their own. They could see a tablet nailed to a wall on the left side.
"According to this tablet, we have to work together as we face three tests. The first is the test of trust," Yugi said.
The moment he finished speaking, the room turned into a house of mirrors. Yami was transported to the exit while Yugi was at the start.
"What happened?" Yugi asked.
"According to the tablet in front of me, I have to guide you safely to the exit," Yami responded. "I have a small model of the maze in front of me with a peg that will move through it as you move through the maze. Listen to me very carefully because there are pitfalls in this maze. I can't help you if you fall down one, so be very careful," he added.
"Where should I start?" Yugi asked.
"Take three steps forward, then go down the left path," Yami responded.
Yugi did as Yami instructed. He was going down the left path. A few minutes later, he came to a blocked path.
"What do I do now?" Yugi asked.
"I have to answer a question for you to move on," Yami responded.
"What was the answer to the Out riddle?" a voice asked.
"The arrow with the word two on it was the dangerous path. When two was spelled backwards, you got the word out with a w in place of the u," Yami responded.
"Well done Yami," the voice said as the block disappeared.
"Go forward Yugi," Yami said.
Yugi went forward. He soon came to two doors. He moved to go down the left one. Yami saw a pitfall in the model of the maze behind the left door.
"Yugi stop. Open and go through the door on the right," Yami said.
Yugi went through the door on the right. He saw a tablet on the right wall saying that he was halfway through. He continued down the right path. A few minutes later, he ame to a door with a question mark. There was a lever next to the door. Yugi pulled it and heard a shuffling noise.
"The room behind the door is shuffling. You will have to answer a question. If you answer correctly, you will have no more traps to worry about. If you answer incorrectly, you will have to make your way across a wide pitfall," Yami said.
"What is a siren?" the voice asked.
Yugi had forgotten what Yami told him about that and was trying to remember. 'Now what did Yami tell me about sirens?' Yugi thought.
'Come on Yugi. You can do it,' Yami thought.
Then Yugi heard a singing voice in his head. 'That's it!' he thought. "A siren is a woman who sends sailors to their doom if not death with her beautiful but hypnotic voice," he said.
"Very good, that is correct," the voice said.
The door opened to reveal a safe path. Yugi walked down the path and reached the exit in half an hour. Yami was there to greet him.
"Hey Yugi. I knew you could do it," Yami said.
"I couldn't have done it without you," Yugi said.
They walked on through the temple. An hour later, they came to another tablet. All it had on it was the test of friendship. They were both confused, but they walked on.
"What could the test of friendship be?" Yugi asked. He found himself in the air soon afterwards. He looked up to see that he was in the arms of a skeleton with leathery wings.
Yami was running below. 'This is the test. I have to prove my friendship to Yugi,' he thought.
The dryad looked down and saw that Yami kept up with it, even though it was in the air. Suddenly, a deep and wide chasm appeared in front of Yami. He had to stop. The dryad got ahead and had a good lead half an hour later.
"I won't give up dryad! I refuse to!" Yami shouted in determination. He then felt open air around and underneath him. He looked down to see himself higher than he could ever float with his levitation. He stretched his body horizontally and moved through the air. "I can fly?" he asked.
Meanwhile, Yugi was scared for his life. 'If only Yami could fly too,' he thought as he got taken farther away.
Yami knew that the dryad had a good lead over him. He suddenly sensed where Yugi and the dryad were. He vanished and reappeared in front of the dryad. The dryad screeched and stopped. Yugi was amazed to see Yami flying. The dryad turned and flew back the way it came.
"Oh no you don't!" Yami shouted. He aimed carefully and fired a beam of fire and energy at the dryad's back.
The beam hit its mark, and the dryad disintegrated to dust. Of course Yugi fell by that action. He fell straight into the chasm.
"Yugi!" Yami shouted. He flew down into the chasm and caught Yugi. "Are you all right?" he asked.
"I am now," Yugi responded. "How did you find me?" he added.
"I don't know. It was like I could sense where you were," Yami responded.
"Now we know that you can fly too," Yugi said.
"Yes we do," Yami said as he flew over the chasm. He landed on solid ground half an hour later. He put Yugi down.
A third tablet was waiting for them. It read, "You have passed the tests of trust and friendship. This last test is the hardest of the three. You must pass this one, or you will be stuck here for all eternity. The final test is the test of courage."
The room darkened, and Yugi whimpered.
"Don't be afraid Yugi. I'm right here. It's not that dark," Yami said.
The walked through the room. They heard creepy laughs all around them. Yugi continued to be strong for Yami. Yami wasn't scared one bit. Then, a ferocious beast confronted them and roared. Its roar would make just about anyone run for cover. Yugi was very scared. The beast started to grow. For fifteen minutes, the beast kept growing. Yami noticed something. The beast looked its normal size to him.
"Yugi be brave. That thing is feeding off your fear. That's why it's getting larger. It will disappear if you show it that you're not afraid. That thing is its normal size to me," Yami said.
Yugi nodded and showed the beast that it couldn't scare him anymore. Everything the beast tried didn't make Yugi scared. It tried to scare Yami, but Yami just glared at it. The beast disappeared.
"I knew you could do it," Yami said.
"I would've caused us to fail if if wasn't for you," Yugi said. Suddenly, he felt invisible hands choking him. A few moments later, he collapsed from lack of breath.
Yami checked for a pulse. Yugi's pulse was very faint and getting even slower.
"Yugi, please breathe," Yami said.
One of his two greatest fears was taking place. Yugi was dying. Yami was frantic. He was very scared that he might lose Yugi. He started CPR. There was nothing after 5 tries. Yugi still wasn't breathing.
"Come on Yugi," Yami said frantically. 'I've got to be brave or Yugi won't make it,' he thought. He pressed down on Yugi's chest again. "I know you're alive Yugi," Yami said with calmness, "one more time." He breathed into Yugi.
Yugi took a harsh breath and started coughing. Yami shed tears of joy and pulled Yugi into a warm embrace.
"I felt like I was not going to live," Yugi was.
"But you are alive. That is what matters," Yami said.
"Thank you for not giving up on me," Yugi said.
Yami pulled back and said, "I wouldn't be a friend to you if I gave up. That's what having to pass this test was about. If I gave up on you, I would've lied about my friendship to and my trust in you. In other words, this test was a redo of the other two tests too. Failing this test would've been saying that we really weren't friends and didn't really trust one another," Yami said.
The voice said. "Well done. You have passed my tests." The source of the voice appeared in front of them.
"Who are you?" Yugi asked.
"That is Zeus, king of the gods," Yami responded.
"Now I will tell you something that I told your parents to keep secret from you. I am your real father Yami," Zeus said.
"You mean I'm a god?" Yami asked.
"A demigod to be more precise. You were born from a regular mermaid, but you've always had my blood flowing through you," Zeus responded.
"So this secret place was to help reveal the secrets about me?" Yami asked.
"Yes my son," Zeus responded. "I will be watching you," he added.
Yugi and Yami found themselves back in the cave. The cave looked as ordinary as any other cave. The walls were only stone now. Yugi fell asleep as soon as he lay on the ground. Yami wasn't sleepy at all, even with all the stuff he did today. He watched over Yugi.



Whoa! That was a real secret wasn't it? Preview for Chapter 5: The First Confrontation: It had to happen sometime. This is one of the two confrontations Yami will have with his brother. Erick is swimming along when he sees an island. He surfaces and see Yugi with Yami. There is going to be a battle between the brothers. Will Yugi be safe?