Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Darkside's Curse ❯ It's Over Marik ( Chapter 1 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Hey, Daring Shadow here! I really appreciate those of you who are checking my story out. It really means a lot to me! Just to let you know, since this is my first YuGiOh story, that after chapter one it will get better. I promise you guys!... and this story's rating pretty much goes between "teen and mature" but I rated it one step higher just in case! lol
Oh and, please keep in mind that the curse (placed on the darkside) is fading... he will not be pure evil in the first like, three to four chapters. This story is about how the darkness within him was beginning to return and, as each day goes by, he becomes more like his character in the manga comics (and most of you know how bad that gets). Well, anyways, yeah, I know that everyone wants to see him pure evil, seeing him bring forth a "living hell" to everyone in the beginning but give me a break! He will be that heartless but, I just didn't want to rush anything! You see, his daughter needs to have a slight uderstanding of the darkside in the beginning (so that she'll want to save him)... not a huge heart attack, later demanding from the police that he goes to jail. I mean, come on! What would be the fun in writing that?! lol
Well, anyways, I still hope that you'll enjoy it as much as I did writing it! Thanks a whole lot you guys!
Alright, you're bored huh? But I'm done with talking I swear!
Now on with the story... lol
Disclaimer - I do not own YuGiOh. I only own the characters Katie, Kevin, and Terra.

'I can't believe that my sister is finally breaking up with that evil nutcase! This is just plainly wonderful!' Yugi thought excitedly whilst laying down on his sister's warm, yet very comfortable, beige leathered couch.
He couldn't stand the fact that his old enemy, Marik, had actually been married to his older sibling. It was all wrong! Yes, the guy did gain the ability to actually care for someone, for once, but still the guy had tried to kill him and his friends whenever he had gotten the chance to do so back at Battle City! He had even killed his very own father when he was just a little kid...
'How had Katie fallen in love with that creep in the first place?' Yugi wondered curiously, 'Oh what? He's cold and evil and is trying to kill me and take over the entire world for his own cruel amusement? It makes no sense at all!' Yugi continued pondering freely in his mind.
Everytime he had tried telling his sister about Marik's coldhearted crimes, she only thought that he was either making it up or just joking about it! In the end, all she ever did was laugh at her little brother. The question that he tends to ask himself a lot was 'Why do I even bother?' The same old answer kept coming back to him though, 'Because she is my sister...'
On a sudden impulse, Yugi automatically rose up from his resting place among the couch. The boy stood there, stretching out both his legs and arms in an attempt to wake them up from their seemingly everlasting slumber.
Once he felt that he was stretched out enough, he had chosen to get on over to his sister's bedroom to see if she was alright. Afterall, there was tons of screaming and shouting coming from upstairs only just a few moments ago between her and Marik.
Yet now, everything was in silence...
'Maybe they don't really have anything else to say for the timebeing I guess...' Yugi thought to himself quietly whilst continuing to walk up the twenty-four steps, his slightly tanned hands placed gently inside the dark blue pockets of his jeans.
What Yugi Motou honestly couldn't believe was that, after a full four years of them being both together and happily married, that she finally realizes that what he was telling her was true! My gosh, it took four darn years for her to find out that Marik had actually been born as a darkside and that he had killed his own father when he was only eleven years old!... and that he was the evil leader of the criminal group known as the 'Rare Hunters'.
Making his way down the short hall, Yugi heard an angered darkside practically growling towards his young, twenty-three year old wife. Apparently, Marik had hit his last nerve and was unleashing all of his rage harshly towards his loved one.
Yugi stopped in his place in front of the light green door to his sister's room and just stared at it, growling slightly to himself.
His sister shouldn't be the one getting yelled at! It was this evil being's own fault that he had done all of those completely gruesome things in the first place... Katie was the completely innocent victim here in this!... for she had been the one to get hit with the whole terrible fact that her husband had killed over millions of people in his life and that he was a pure born darkside.
Once Yugi began to reach for the door knob, Marik had just then turned it harshy from the other side, slamming it wide open with killer force.
The door would of nearly hit Yugi from the side if he hadn't jumped back in time...
Once the killer was outside of his past lover's room, he had a look of pure rage written across his dark tanned features. Marik had apparently not taken this conversation too well for you could see it being expressed in his dark violet orbs which were, in fact, the window to his very soul... or rather, the soul of a monster.
Marik continued on his way, not even bothering to look down and meet gazes with his most hated enemy, Yugi... the boy that allowed the past pharaoh to live in his soul room, safely inside their home. The boy that allowed a 5000 year old king, one that had stolen away his light's childhood, stay and remain loved by Yugi's family as if he were an older brother! There was also another sense of love given to this cruel pharaoh, something in which the evil creature would never truly have! No one could ever accept him for what he was, and what he always would be! He would forever be considered the 'heartless shadow filled to the depths with hate'... and this conclusion only drove his mind into madness.
Whilst the seemingly younger boy (a/n: remember, the darkside has only been living for a couple of years now and besides, Yugi is like nine years older than he is! The boy just looks younger...) watched him walk by quickly, he hadn't realized that Marik was fully aware of his most hated enemies presence! The evil had chosen not to say anything to the little runt for he wasn't in the mood though!... but it may of helped him feel better about himself, knowing that he was turning down his forever to be, completely annoying opposer.
The dark one, once escaping Yugi's shocked stare, narrowed his eyes evilly to himself.
'What the hell was he doing up here?...' the darkside thought furiously whilst continuing on his way down the slightly old wooden stairs.
'I will make sure that both the pharaoh and Yugi pay for everything that they've done to me!...and now, so will their sister.' Marik thought coldly, letting an evil smirk form across his darkly tanned lips.
After exiting out the front door smoothly, he made his way down the shadowed streets of Domino City, soon dissappearing completely into the darkness of the night.
Even though the young Egyptian had that curse placed cruely upon him, he could feel that it was slowly starting to wear off. Marik couldn't possibly help but notice that his new, somewhat kind beating heart had already begun to harden tightly inside of his strong pumping chest. That he had once again fallen into the darkness...
'Pff, and they thought that this so called wretched spell would keep me in the light forever! Boy, were they ever wrong! Hahahahaha...' Marik thought evilly to himself whilst walking through the darkened allies of Domino, 'They will never catch me being an annoying good hearted person again! I guess that it's goodbye forever then, my dear Katie...'
With that being said, he continued on his way through the city without the care of as to where he was headed.
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After Marik had left Yugi somewhat speechless, the young boy walked straight into his sister's room, worry spread across his normally cheerful features. Malik's darker half actually looked quite upset about the ending of his relationship with Katie, the beautiful girl that he had once dearly loved. However, you could also tell that he was trying his hardest to hold back his feelings by keeping his dark and emotionless expression plagued across his dark face. Maybe he replaced his sadness with pure anger instead!... maybe he could just plainly careless about her now? Maybe, just maybe, that wasn't just hidden tears...
I guess that it's safe to say that Yugi didn't know these answers because, afterall, he didn't understand Marik in the very least.
The tri-colored haired boy, whilst looking around his sister's small room now, spotted her laying upon her light blue colored bed spread completely torn into pieces! Not literally, but she was crying. Katie was hurt!... and Yugi couldn't help but feel sorry for her.
He slowly walked towards his broken sister, accidentally stepping on something that suddenly cracked beneath his left shoe.
'Uhhh?...' Yugi thought curiously.
He looked down at the object underneath him and then bent over to pick up the last remaining pieces of it.
It was a golden picture frame!... an empty one at that.
'What the heck?...' the boy continued to wonder whilst moving the shattered pieces of glass between his fingers, being careful not to cut himself with them.
Yugi decided that it would be safe to just go ahead and throw them away right now. That way, no one could get hurt if they had accidentally stepped on them or even worse, tripped over some of it and landed on the rest. He was also afraid that since his sister was so upset that she may not exactly be in the right of mind to know where she was going and then hurt herself pretty badly...
The young boy carried some of the pieces of the glass over to the left side corner of the slightly lit room and tossed them into his sister's waste basket. At that moment, he saw a badly torn up photo within the small trash can...
'Is this the one that should be in that frame?...' he wondered whilst picking it up carefully.
Yugi unfolded the two crumbled halves and placed them together so that both pieces fit together like a puzzle.
Once Yugi discovered who it was, both of his eyes began to shed it's own tears. What he saw in that photo pained him and now he had regretted the whole fact that he had told Marik to tell Katie about all of his past evil crimes.
The picture contained a frozen shot in time, a photo of two lovers who had cared for each other dearly.
It wasn't at all like one would predict when you think of the coldhearted darkside known as Marik! It wasn't a photo of an evil killer who was lustful and filled with hate lying beside a young woman who was completely terrified of him out of her wits!... no, it was a man who cared for his wife and a woman who, in return, cared deeply for him.
Yugi had now felt like he had represented that harsh tear down the center between the two pieces of the picture. He was the cause of their seperation! He broke them up!... just like what that tear had done to that picture.
It was once whole, but now it was only half! Half of a dream, half of a future... it was all seperated because of his hatred towards Marik!
Yugi's tears began to shed more freely now and he was wondering if his loving sister had heard him or not. She apparently did hear her younger sibling though because she ended up looking at him through tear filled eyes, sparkling up at him with a strong sense of pure pain.
"Yugi..." she said softly which was soon left off with a soft sniff.
"Yes?" he asked, trying to sound as strong as he possibly could for his sibling, even though he was the younger one.
"I'm so sorry that I didn't believe you! You were right all along! I can't believe that jerk! Oh, so now he tells me about all of the terrible deeds he's done? I hate him for it! I just hate him! Both me and him, we're through!" she then raises her voice and then shouts towards the window as if Marik was still there and listening to her neverending amounts of pain, "You hear me Marik Ishtar? It's over! You got it? I'm sick and tired of you!" she then turned her head back towards her younger sibling again, now speaking to Yugi through broken tears, "That's the last time I'll ever be seeing him again." she murmured softly before looking towards the ground of her bedroom floor, letting one last tear shed down from her torn dark blue eyes. Then, she told her younger brother to leave her alone and never speak of Marik again which, at the mentioning of this, only left Yugi with nothing but bruised pain.
After what seemed like hours and hours of waiting at the hospital, Katie was finally ready to give birth to her newborn baby. She was lying down comfortably beneath the soft white, angelic like sheets of the bed that they had so kindly given her to use for her stay.
After a few brief moments her most trusted doctor and friend came rushing into her hospital room going as fast as his legs could carry him, trying to prepare for the arrival of the young child. He had two nurses by his side. One was around maybe in her late twenty's early thirty's while the other looked about fourty at the most.
Kevin, her doctor, was quite a handsome man actually! He had short type spiky black hair, tan, and was built extremely well! Not as well as Marik of course but he was getting there.
'It is quite suprising that he's not a wrestler or anything, but he loves taking care of people and I respect that! It makes him even cuter. He's only twenty-eight too...' she thought, smiling happily to herself, knowing that her baby was now in good hands.
'Ok, this whole having a baby thing is making me frickin nervous! I gotta relax. Just rel...' She paused her thoughts and jumped fearfully, her already fastly beating heart raising it's speed dramatically. She had just heard a huge collision occur between two great forces over on the right side of the hospital room in which she was in.
There the young nurse had bumped into Yugi who accidently slammed themselves, and another, into a nearby metal like table.
"Please sir, would you mind moving back a little? I'm really really sorry..." the nurse stated calmly yet quickly towards the slightly younger boy, soon reaching down to pick up all of the fallen items that both she and the other two had so smartly knocked over due to their carelessness.
"No, it's my fault." he said completely embarassed whilst kneeling down himself to help her out.
Katie, after laughing at her brother's stupidity, turned her attention back to the thoughts of her future child. All she knew was that it appears to be healthy and that it's a girl. This excited her greatly for she had always wanted a girl! Maybe it was because she was so used to having a young boy, her brother, being around the house all of the time made her want to try something a bit different! This was revolved around most people's decisions. Not all of the time though! Her brother on the other hand had wanted a nephew. Hmmph! Brothers. Think they know everything! She had hated to admit that he was right about one thing though... Marik! She knew he was afraid of what this baby would look and act like, but that didn't matter now! The only thing that she was afraid of now was of all the future pain that she was soon going to endure.
Yugi in all truth was just as excited as his sister! Maybe even more, but he sure didn't show it! He, as far as Katie was concerned, was more worried about the baby and how much of a resemblence it would share with Marik...
"Okay, now you've got to push when we tell you to, alright?" the doctor asked calmly.
Katie just nodded, unable to speak.
"Ok... push!" he shouted.
Katie started pushing but gave up after she just started to feel all of that pain! She had obviously made up her mind about this whole idea thing really quickly!
"Forget it! I don't want to do this!" she shouted with much frustration.
"You have to! Just think, when this is all over with you'll get to hold your baby. Now you got to push!" the nurse shouted.
"Well when you're about to have your baby don't come running to me!" she was pretty much bursting out rude comments now to every single person in the room telling her to push.
The nurse, named Alisha, just ignored her. "Push!"
"I am pushing!" Katie shouted at the top of her lungs.
"Just a bit more Katie...' the doctor said.
"Oh my gosh, I just can't do it!' Katie cried out seemingly in tremendous amounts of pain.
"She's out."
"What?" she asked.
"It's over." the doctor reassured her with a warm smile spread out across his face.
"Thank heavens." she said panting heavily.
The young girl was now completely covered in tremendous amounts of sweat! That was a lot of work afterall...
'I am never doing that again.' she promised herself over and over again.
Katie soon lyed her head back down to relax, waiting for either one of the nurses to arrive with her only child. After they were finished with cleaning up the baby, Katie finally got to hold her like the nurse had promised. She was beautiful! A big smile formed across her face while a big frown formed on Yugi's.
"Yugi, she's beautiful." Katie announced dreamily...
Yugi just stared. "She looks like Marik."
"Pff, so what? She's supposed to look like him! Afterall, he is the father Yugi!" Katie retorted angrily at her younger brother.
"I know that but... oh whatever! I'll admit that she does look pretty though." Yugi stated back cooly, not wanting to upset his sister any longer.
"That's good then..." Katie replied happily with a huge smile formed across her young charming face.
She was once again facing the sweet baby girl who was lying peacefully in her soft, warm arms whilst playing with her mother's dirty blond hair.
'But she does look like him a lot though...' he thought quite disappointedly. He couldn't keep his mind off of it! Katie's newborn baby had Marik's hair color, his strange dark eye color, and his same skin tone... was she going to have his cruel personality as well?
The only difference that he saw right now between Marik and his daughter was that she was filled with love and wonder...
The girl seemed to have tons of fun filled energy in every small precious movement that she made!... just like her mother.
Now that did bring a huge smile to his once frowning face!... but people do change afterall. Maybe the young girl would adapt to her father's coldhearted ways once she's reached her later teen years... or maybe even sooner!
All that Yugi could really do on that matter now was to hope that his young niece wouldn't be like that at all in the following years to come...
'Life is going to certainly be different now! It would be that way even if this baby girl wasn't like Marik at all. Now I just have to get used to...' His thoughts were quickly interrupted by his older sister.
"We'll call her Terra, my little sweetheart Terra Ishtar." she said dreamingly facing her young daughter, smiling happily down at her warmly for Terra was now finally fast asleep in her mother's loving and gentle arms.
Katie just then turned her head upwards towards Yugi to meet his strong gaze.
"Well what do you think?" she asked him questionably.
"It's a perfect name for her." he answered back with a kindhearted smile now spread widely across his young, sweet face.
He knew that Katie's daughter was totally innocent and that he shouldn't judge her too quickly, but he still couldn't stand the fact that she was related to Marik!... he'd probably never get over it!
That doesn't mean that he would never give her a chance though...
'I wonder what Joey and the rest of the gang are going to think about this?' he wondered curiously, thinking of all the completely suprised expressions in which he'd get from all of their faces if he had told them.
He also came to the sincere conclusion that, since Marik didn't even know about the birth of his own child, than that automatically meant that Terra would most likely be growing up without a father! Nomatter how much hate Yugi felt towards Marik, he would have try to reach him somehow!... but that psychotic would be nearly impossibe to find for he's always hiding within the shadows! That's pretty much where he has chosen to live for the rest of his life now! Away from everything else...
Besides, Marik wouldn't even bother showing his face to the Motou family ever again!... unless of course he had figured out how to either kill the pharaoh or if he had made the drastic decision of killing off both Yugi and his sister for good this time!
Yugi, afterall, did know that from day one, they would always remain the worst of enemies...
'And I thought that I would never have to see him again.' thought a very upset Yugi as he sat down gently on the little seat next to his sister's hospital bed.
O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O ...end of chapter one basically. lol
Well, anyways, I really really really hope that you guys liked it! Please please please review and tell me what you think, okay? Thanks to those of you who will do that and constructive criticism is allowed as long as it's going to improve my writing!
By the way, I'm giving full credit to Solitudity for the whole 'having Yugi discover the ripped picture' scene. I thought that was an extremely cool idea! Thanks again Solitudity... and thanks for helping me out a lot with this chapter and with what needed to be fixed. :)
Well, anyways, if you thought that I did either bad or good on this chapter then please, do tell! I need to know how I'm doing... lol
Goodbye for now (oh and, please keep in mind that Atemu considers Katie his sister as well! That's where the "their sister" came from).