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•••YAMI's POV•••

My dark side clicked with his tongue. "Tragic, to say at least. The pharaoh who wasn't able to control his anger takes a step closer to his downfall."

"Yugi..." I stammered, sitting powerless on the ground with widened eyes.

Slifer cried, and the sound of the dragon crying was very sad. Was he crying because he hurt Yugi? Because I hurt Yugi...? I bit my lip because of the pain in my body.

"Get up," my dark side commanded me.

I didn't hear him. I could only wait until the smoke had cleared, to see if he was alright.

"Get up," he spat.

He sighed. "Come on and get up!" I moaned in pain when the lightning struck my chest. The electricity didn't leave my body for a few seconds.

He walked towards me and knelt down next to me, laying a hand on my back. I was too shocked to feel it.

I wanted to say that he was a maniac, crazy, but I knew that I had done this to him. I had hurt him... I deserved this.

"So, now you have seen that your lovely dragon really isn't effective, maybe you should start thinking about what you're going to do now," he said.

He took a strong hold of my jawline.

He smirked. "Can I ask you something?"

I looked at him with a dead look in my eyes. But he didn't see. He didn't wait for a response anyways.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked me.

I looked at him. He had tri-colored star-shaped hair, with white bangs that reached from the center to the top, and a few bangs that framed his face. His eyes were darker as the darkest night sky. His body was taller than Yugi's, but smaller than Joey's. It was like I was looking into a black-and-white mirror. I knew who he was. He was me.

"If I am you, then why can't you seem to control me?" he whispered into my ear. I shivered at the feeling the warmth of his breath on my skin.

"It's because you're weak," he hissed.

He was right. I was weak, I had been weak from the beginning, that is why I couldn't resist him, why I just kept closing my eyes for him. I feared him.

But he was me.

"Yami, am I real?" he asked. "Or are you just imagining me? Am I just a figment?"

"Don't play with me like this," I hissed. I pushed his head away from me and tried to stand up. "I don't know how you came into being, but I need to stop you - myself! What do you want!"

I had stood up, now facing the smoke, and I looked at his face. He was facing the door. He smirked.

"You need me to be gone. I need you to be gone. If your light keeps thwarting me, I can't get what I want. And you know what I want. I have waited so long before I could open the Portal. And now, with your aibou's help, the day has finally come!"

My eyes widened. "Can you remember what happened the previous time? Didn't you get your memory back?" I whispered.

"What does it matter?" he said. "Now you're here, powerless, and the Artist isn't here to helo you, this is going to be easier than I expected."

Then, suddenly, the smoke faded. Yugi was hanging upside down, and he tried to swing back and forth so that he could loosen the ropes.

"I have the power to kill you right now! Don't you understand?" my dark side yelled.

Yugi had freed himself from the ropes and fell down on his feet.

"Not if I kill you first," Yugi hissed.

My dark side's eyes widened and he quickly turned around. "You... But how?"

"Let's just end this," Yugi said.

My dark side closed his eyes and continued smirking. "My pleasure, Artist," he said.

I couldn't see what happened next. Two orbs hit each other in the middle of the room, causing a huge explosion. The light blinded me again. I wished I had my powers back, but I couldn't do anything. Unless...

I looked at the giant red beast that was still sitting beside me.

"Slifer, attack again! Help Yugi!" I yelled while pointing at my dark side, and I hoped that he would attack for me again, despite I had hurt Yugi before.

My dark side turned around, his black eyes met mine. Slifer growled, and then he was blinded by the intense light of the beast's attack.

I ran towards Yugi as fast as I could, pulling him towards my chest and wrapping my arms around him once I reached him. Burning or not, I didn't care. I jsut wanted to feel his touch again. "I'm sorry," I whispered and planted a kiss on his forehead. "I'm so, so sorry."

"Don't worry, I'm alright," he whispered into my ear. "Are we the only ones who know the truth?"

The truth...

The next moment I heard Slifer roar in pain, and the moment after that I saw him exploding into a million bits.

"Oh my..." I whispered.

My dark side laughed and tried to stand up from the floor.

"Go!" Yugi said to me.

"I'm not going to leave you, aibou," I said.

"Now Yugi! The Crystal!" he screamed.

"Yami, you don't have your powers! I don't want you to get hurt!" he said.

"It's my job to protect you! It has always been!" I yelled.

I stepped in front of Yugi, so he couldn't reach him.

"Are you crazy? Are you out of your mind? Move!" Yugi yelled.

"I'm not going to let you! Do you hear me? Now go!" I hissed.

"I need you to move!" Yugi spat, trying to get past me.

"Go!" I yelled at him.

He took a deep breath. "But you-"

"Now, Yugi!" I hissed.

I spread my arms, and with the last bit of power I had, I blasted the walls behind the pillars apart.

Yugi looked at me with widened eyes. "You..."

I cupped his jawlines with my hands and pulled him close to me, crashing our lips together. Slowly, the flames all over his body started to dissapear.

"I think we should start trying to control ourselves," I whispered while looking in his beautiful amethyst eyes.

Then I pushed Yugi towards the opening that was the closest to us, and he gave me a sad smile before he ran towards it and left.

"And I'm starting now," I hissed.

I turned around to see my dark side stand up. "You're so going to die now," he said."

"Try me," I hissed.

"This is the most foolish thing that you could have ever done," he said.

"Maybe," I said. "Or maybe not."

•••YUGI's POV•••

I kept running as fast as I could. I couldn't believe what I had done. What was wrong with me?

After getting my memory back, I just felt so empty. Everything was a blur... Like it all wasn't real...

And it made me feel angry, so angry that I just couldn't control my emotions and myself anymore. The flames had consumed me, and now I had put Yami in danger! This was his fight, but it was also mine! I needed to protect him as much as he protected me!

I looked over my shoulder, seeing the palace, the openings in the room in where I had just hung upside down from the ceiling. Light flashes came from the room, smoke dissapeared into the air. I knew he could do this.

I had almost reached her house. Ishizu. She knew what we had to do. She knew what was going to happen. I had to speak to her about Yami.

I slammed open the front door. "Ishizu?" I yelled. "Are you there?"

There she was. I saw her, pushed against the wall by a man, a knife on her throat.

"Yugi," she whispered. "Get out!"

Ramsis turned around and lowered the knife. "Well, what do we have here? I thought you were with the pharaoh?"

The necklace lied on the ground. It had been broken, destroyed.

"Leave her alone!" I yelled. I could feel the flames again.

"I would love to fight, Artist, but I'm afraid we need you. I don't know how you escaped the ropes, nor the pharaoh, but you're going back," Ramsis hissed, pushing Ishizu on the floor and turning towards me.

Ishizu moaned. I could see some blood dripping from her throat.

She saw me looking. "I'm fine," she whispered.

I wanted to cry. Really bad. I wanted this to be over. But I told myself I had to be strong.

"What are you doing?" Ramsis asked me. "What's wrong?"

I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't be strong. It was over. I lost.

Ramsis smirked.

A tear rolled over my cheek once the dark fog made me fall asleep.