Be Weary When Gods Show Without Summons (Part 1)

DIMENSION: MANGA (The One That Saves the Day)

Game Shop

Mai dug around the fridge with Bakura and Mokuba. "So you're technically in charge, but you don't have the ring? So we don't have power." Bull. Great security system but no security. They were eating the leftovers that wouldn't have gone bad yet.

"It's better to be inside an insecure home where there are plenty of other places to sleep for everyone, than to be outside. Stay warm beneath your covers. By daybreak, I'll have a better solution," Ryou Bakura promised.

"What better solution, the world fell apart!" Mokuba stressed. "I want Seto. Find me Seto, please."

"If he is out there. I will find him," Ryou Bakura promised. He stroked his brow. "The first night of many hard nights, but we can do this. I promise. Just get to your warm beds. It will be cooler than usual. The whole environment has been shifted."

"By egyptian gods," Mokuba said. "Why?"

Ryou Bakura couldn't answer. "Please. Just try and get some rest."

"But. How's the spirit inside-"

"The spirit is fine!" The expression changed, but the voice didn't. "I'm going to bed."

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Hanasake's area.

"Th-the air is cold," Anzu said as she clung closer with Yuugi. The sands hadn't been in danger of shifting, and they wanted to figure out how to cross. Still, it looked steep. "We aren't making it to Bakura's side tonight, are we?"

"I-I-I don't th-think so." Masika was chattering much more. Her clothes were what Anzu gave her. A blue blouse and a skirt. She couldn't stop freezing. Jounouchi had parted with his jacket to help, but it didn't hide her shivering legs.

Atem had pants, a decent shirt, but his jacket was very light. Jounouchi's warm jacket was better for her. She still didn't complain though about the cold, just endured. ///Atem: Bodies truly can hurt.///

"I'm sorry," Anzu apologized to her again. "I should have helped you dress more for the season."

"J-just . . . c-c-cold, b-been through worse," Masika said, barely getting it out. She was still looking around, just like the rest of them.

Then the man from before showed up behind them. "Masika."

Atem turned around with everyone else. So, he did come back.

"I need you to come with me." Then, he gestured toward Anzu. "You as well. We are fixing this mess."

"Wait," Masika spoke. "I want to know who I am. Anzu has nothing to do with this. Return us to the Game Shop, and then Atem will come with me."

"No, because we need her. You need to fuse together again," he instructed.

What?! "You can't do that, they don't have all the same soul parts. They are separated from each other."

"You'll kill her." Yuugi was no fool either, pulling Anzu even further away. "Don't put one hand on her."

"Fusion is impossible again," Masika warned him, "you would do nothing but kill me and Anzu."

"No, we wouldn't. You're more than a regular human soul, and if we don't get this corrected, the Greatest Pharaoh That Ever Was will be in deep trouble."

"Good." Jounouchi didn't care. "Look what he did to the world. To my world. Let him get into so much trouble, he's eternally punished for this."

Those were not the words to use. Atem went into defend him, but Masika was there first.

"We have Hiroto Honda," the man announced. "The Greatest Pharaoh has kept him from judgment yet, to make sure you obey."

"You better release him!" Jounouchi didn't get it. He didn't get it.

"Jounouchi." Atem rubbed his eyes. Yuugi was faltering quickly. "Stop." ///Atem: I'm sorry, Yuugi.///

///Yuugi: Honda.///

///Atem: I know.///

///Yuugi: It's a bluff. Tell me it's a bluff, Atem. Please tell me! I've held it together so far, but, but-///

///Atem: I don't think it is, Other Me. This Pharaoh is ruthless but he has a connection with Horus himself./// Atem could do nothing.

"Are you ready to hear what happens if you don't give up, Masika and Anzu?" He spread his arms out. "Honda's body was taken from the grip of the sands for our purposes-"

"No, you're lying," Jounouchi yelled, coming unglued, but Atem pushed him back, holding him.

"There are worse things than dying!" Atem yelled. "I'm sorry, his life is over, but now we need to be worried about his eternal soul." He looked back toward him. "Tell us."

"He is stuck between judgment, but his soul is just right. If you don't come along, Masika. Katsuya Jounouchi, Shizuka Kawai, Seto Kaiba, Mokuba Kaiba, Mai Kujaku, and Tomoyo Hanasake will all be killed, held in judgement with Hiroto Honda, and then? Their flesh, blood and bone will be melted with gold to create new items to curse them to forever remain, trapped here in Domino City."

"Tomoyo Hanasake is dead," Atem said, seeing how much work they did for information.

"His soul can be be brought back by the gods, and his body lives. To get Masika, killing the host body is worth it," the man said.

"Stop this outrageous nonsense," Masika yelled. "How dare you threaten everyone just to get your way." Her hands became fists. "For what, why? Why are you doing all of this?" Several others were starting to appear. "I did nothing but save Bakura's soul from damnation."

///Atem: If I could. The Dark Magician could do nothing or Jounouchi would have screamed it for himself./// The amount of guards surrounding them. It only took one to kill them, and there were twenty around them.

Anzu started to move forward, while Yuugi tried to stop her. "It's me or everyone, Yuugi. I have to."

///Yuugi: Atem, do something!///

///Atem: I'm sorry, Yuugi. I'm just a mortal man with no real power except to call the Dark Magician and he can't help us. They could kill us already if they wanted to./// Hmm. The cats started to come around again, along with the lions. ///Atem: Someone has been helping us. Many things haven't been explained. Yuugi. We have to have faith.///

///Yuugi: Summon a god! Anything, try anything, please! They already took Honda, don't let them take Anzu away.///

///Atem: I tried to summon Osiris' Dragon before. He came and he went away, Yuugi. He won't follow me, just this other Pharaoh. I have no more power than you do. I cannot save anything.///

"If you go, you won't be you anymore," Yuugi said holding her in a tight hug. "Anzu."

"I would have stayed," she said to Yuugi as she gave him one more kiss. "If this never happened, I still would have stayed." She brushed her tears. "I love you, Yuugi." She ran forward next to Masika and held her hand.

Masika tightened the grip. "We'll cease to exist, as we are. I'm sorry. I still don't understand why, even at the end."

Jounouchi and Atem both went toward Yuugi. To both hold him back, and to comfort him. Yuugi grabbed both of them. He loved Anzu with all of his heart, no matter how much time went by, he always would. Atem never even had to ask if there was another, no one ever conquered his other self's heart.

There were no words of comfort. Anzu wasn't leaving into the afterlife, she was destroying who she'd been. The person Yuugi had loved. ///Atem: Masika. After all you've done, your fate is to stop existing. What was the difference between Ma'at getting rid of an unworthy and evil soul and what was happening to her? A good soul. Both good souls. Her and Anzu. Never again. I am probably casting a death sentence upon myself, but I can't go on not protecting my friends!/// He threw his hand into the air. The ring was still on him. He had to do it. He had to try. "I summon the Winged God Dragon of Ra!"

If he was going for broke, he'd go for the biggest he could. He watched as the skies changed and the Winged God Dragon of Ra came to his aid. He didn't leave.

The guards looked astonished.

"You're not Greatest Pharaoh of All Time, why is the dragon god listening to you?" The man they had been speaking to said as he continually stared at it.

"Leave my friends alone," Atem warned all of them. "I will smite thee from this Earth." He watched all of them drop to their knees and bow down in the way people first did all those years ago.

Then. ///Atem: Yes. I knew it./// Eventually he would show. Wearing an outfit of Egyptian clothes, and daring to wear the millennium puzzle on himself, he stood a small distance from Atem.

The leader in charge. The current one people called Pharoah. Was there.

"You." His voice was deep. "Aren't being very smart."