Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Trials of Life ❯ Sacrifices ( Chapter 17 )

Sacrifices

AN: Sorry this took a little longer than usual, but I was busy yesterday and I'm leaving about one this afternoon and won't get back till tomorrow afternoon. So I really wanted to get this chapter out.

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Thanks to you all. I've said it before and I'll say it again, you'll never understand how much you all help me.

Also, all the characters are 18, but I put 16-18 because at the beginning they were 16 but now they're 18. Just for those of you who were confused.

You know the rest…..

~*~*~*~Last time~*~*~*~

Yugi nodded, smiled, and walked out the door. He knew that soon he would probably be able to finally tell Yami the feelings he'd identified two years ago and recently concluded that he definitely still had. He still loved his yami.

To bad he didn't know that before anything else could happen, fate was going to have a little trick up her sleeve. A trick no one would enjoy.

~*~*~*~On with the story~*~*~*~

As Selene ran through the streets, she thought back on what exactly had been happening since they'd split up the day before. When she, Jake, Damien, Jason, and Derek all got home they each had nothing to report. They had waited for half an hour for Yugi to at least call, but when he hadn't she'd called him on his cell phone. She'd been relieved to find out that he'd just been at his grandpa's and had lost track of time. He said he'd be coming straight home but he hadn't.

The five of them had gone out looking for him after another half hour because it doesn't take quite that long to get from the Kame game shop to their apartment, even at a slow pace. They each came back to the apartment after not having found anything. They'd all been worried, but knew that Yugi probably knew what he was doing. They agreed that if he wasn't back by morning they'd search the whole city. Then there was this morning.

Selene had been the first one up, and, unlike usual, she didn't wake Damien when she got up. She still wasn't sure why. She'd gotten dressed in a pair of black leather hip huggers and a black top with a silver dragon winding it's way up to rest on her right shoulder. She also felt the urge to put her hair into a low bun instead of the normal low ponytail and when she'd looked in the mirror she was shocked to find that she looked like she did when ever she knew there was a big fight coming.

She'd gone into the hall and had cracked open Yugi's door to see if he was there asleep then threw it all the way open when she didn't see him. She, also, still wasn't sure what made her go into the kitchen and downstairs before waking anyone else up, but she had and in the small stack of letters she'd found a note.

`Hello Selene. I know that you're probably the one reading this at the moment. You're also probably concerned for your friend Yugi. Don't worry we haven't done anything yet. And we won't if you come to the assigned place, alone. Hope to see you there. ~Akuma'

Akuma was a member of the Lotronis, their rival group. He was also the strongest out of all of them and had been after Selene since the first time they'd gone against each other. And not just in the sense for beating her, he also evidently found her attractive as he always made crude comments when they were fighting on the occasions that they did. And this also always caused her to smack him down harder than need be.

Selene had crumpled up the note and thrown it away after memorizing the place to meet them. She ran upstairs to get her weapons before running out of the building. That's where she found herself now. She stood outside an abandoned warehouse and, after thoroughly checking her weapons, pushed open the door. She was met with the sight of Yugi half-unconscious and hung from a chain from the ceiling by the wrists with his feet touching the ground.

"Welcome Selene," came the smooth voice of Akuma.

~*~*~

Yugi groaned slightly as he started to come through. At first he was slightly confused at why he was hanging by his wrists when eh suddenly remembered what had happed earlier.

He'd been walking home after having left the game shop when he'd been ambushed. He'd known immediately by the way they fought that they were the Lotronis, and all five of them at that. He'd managed to take down two of them and was holding off a third when one managed to get behind him and put a chloroform covered piece of cloth over his mouth. He'd blacked out a few seconds later only to wake up now. Then he heard a voice he recognized.

"Welcome Selene," it said. It was Akuma. "So good of you to come. And to rescue your friend too. How sweet."

Then he heard a voice he wished he hadn't. "Stuff it Akuma. I'm here, now what do you want?" It was Selene's voice and he'd hoped that she wouldn't come. He knew she was in danger.

"I think you know what I want." Akuma said.

"How could I forget. You remind me every time we meet. Though that wouldn't be anymore if I had my way." Selene said. She was still standing in the doorway, though now she had closed the door.

"And now the stakes are higher. I have one of your friends and with one word I could easily have him killed." Akuma said.

Selene growled, obviously angry. "Fine, what do you want me to do?" She wouldn't let him hurt her friends.

"Nothing," Akuma said, a slight smirk on his face and in his voice.

"What?" Selene said, obviously very confused.

"I said to do nothing. Absolutely nothing at all. Just stand still." Akuma said.

Selene, getting his idea now, growled again. But after a moment said, "Fine."

Yugi eyes snapped all the way open at the sound of skin on skin contact. One of the other four around him had just hit Selene in the stomach on orders from Akuma. Selene gasped but firmly remained standing. She refused to show any weakness. A couple more came up and in the end it was three of the five beating up on Selene with Akuma watching and the other guarding him incase Selene tried to do anything. Yugi was currently unable to move and was still in a half-daze. It seems that they'd found some new kind of chloroform as the regular stuff shouldn't be doing this to him.

`Help!' he screamed out into his mind. `Someone help her!'

"Stop." Came Akuma's voice. He slowly walked over to the now very bruised up Selene. "Well my dear, will you do as I wish?"

Selene didn't say anything, but the look in her eyes said enough. She would never submit herself like that to him.

"Fine then." Akuma threw her down from where he'd picked her up and her head hit the floor hard, sending her to the brink of unconsciousness, but she stubbornly stayed conscious even if she couldn't do anything.

Yugi was now fighting to stay awake, but right as he was about to pass out he saw the doors slam open and several voices cry out in anger. That was the last thing he knew before the darkness took him.

TBC…..

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