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The Power of Love

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CHAPTER 11:

Pegasus J. Crawford walked out of his apartment building towards the company really early, so much that it was still dark outside. He was whistling in happiness because today he got to see Cinthia, his crush since he knew about her existence. He lived close to the company so in no time he arrived there. So concentrate he was inside his little brain that he didn't notice someone watching him from the corner of the main door of the company. Pegasus took out the keycard and inserted it in the slot of the automatic door. It slowly opened and he stepped inside quickly. The man in the dark followed slowly, a few meters behind him.

When Pegasus arrived at his office, and entered, the man walked in as well closing the door with a loud thud, this action made Pegasus turn abruptly to the source of the noise.

"What the…" he stopped, spotting the man and immediately recognizing him.

"What the hell are you doing so early here?" Pegasus exclaimed madly

The man just smirked and one could see only his sparkling blue eyes in the dark of the office with the lights still off.

Pegasus narrowed his eyes and tried again.

"What? Do you enjoy scaring me out or what?" he exclaimed again but only received one question as an explanation.

"Where are the five items?"

Pegasus really arched an eyebrow to that question.

"Why do you care? You were skeptical in the first place, now you are interested? Please, made your mind already boy!" Pegasus exclaimed swinging his arms in annoyance.

Pegasus saw he made a movement and extended a brilliant golden object in front of his face. He recognized what the object was. Now, worry was taking over him.

"Hey, what are you planning?" he asked slowly taking a step back

The man didn't answer and took a step forward. Pegasus suspected to where he was heading… and he will not let him, so, he decided to stand straight and with a hand, he discovered his left eye that was covered by a hair cowlick in his face.

The man only narrowed his eyes but continued taking steps towards him.

"We agreed to cooperate, together with the other four people" Pegasus remembered but only received a snort.

"Don't oppose to me" the man said and Pegasus answered

"If that's it, then until here you will arrive"

The man smirked widely "We will see about that"

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For some time, Atem remained leaned against a window close to the main door of the house, staring outside with the view lost in the darkness, thinking about what the next steps were, how to solve this mess, wondering why the gods hated him, why Seto had to be the center of the mess, why Anzu had to be here as well… Practically, the past was mixing with the present of the world and that could be really dangerous… the consequences could be catastrophic; playing with the time and space, as they were doing it, was really dangerous…

The line that represented the time-space was really thin, a single movement, and the rest would enter in chaos. He needed to act quickly, so to not cause that single movement… He needed to stop Seto in this present era and defeat him once and for all... but, remained one question… one question that surrounded his head continually since he made that binding-spell in the past and really didn't stop to think about it…

"What will happen with m---" his thoughts were interrupted

"Atem" Anzu called him softly and he turned to stare back at her, showing her his full attention. She continued.

"Something is not right, can't you feel it?" she asked and he could feel in her tone a hint of worry and concern.

He narrowed his eyes at what she had said, confused.

"Well, some time ago I felt something" he said

"Yes, I know, because I felt it too, we crashed in the corridor remember?"

He nodded obviously, that happened some minutes ago… how to forget it…

"What I'm talking about is what I feel now, in this moment, can't you feel it?" she asked again. Atem broke his stare from her, and closed his eyes, focusing his senses. He opened them after some seconds while negating with his head.

"I don't know what you are talking about, I can't feel nothing"

"Atem!! This sensation is really strong! What is wrong with you!" she yelled grabbing his shoulders and shaking him a little. He didn't make a move to stop her, and closed his eyes. Anzu stopped shaking him and waited until he opened his eyes again.

When he did it, he stared at her. "Nothing, are you sure--" she cut him off

"Yes! This is really strong; it's dark magic in a great scale! I know it! Why can't you feel it? Atem, what is wrong?!" she yelled with worry showing in her blue eyes.

Atem put a hand on his forehead massaging his temple softly. "I don't know why I can't feel it" he said and turned to stare out of the window, putting a hand against the glass of it.

Anzu narrowed her eyes maybe realizing why he seemed to not sense it… She approached him, while murmuring a little incantation. Then, her hands glowed a little in green and she grabbed both his shoulders at the same time.

Atem flinched by her suddenly grab.

"What are you doing?" he reacted immediately but Anzu ignored him and just pressed softly.

In seconds Atem started to feel tired, his arms slowly going numb as well as his legs. He couldn't stay on foot, his legs gave out but Anzu grabbed him so he wouldn't hit hard the floor. She placed him softly on the ground and supported him against her own body.

"What…did…you…" Atem whispered feeling his eyelids close against his will.

Anzu sighed. "This will last ten minutes, we will talk then" she said but Atem had already closed his eyes.

--- Ten minutes later….

Atem opened his eyes abruptly, his body reacting to a feeling of a huge dark energy in the environment. He noted he was lying on the floor, so he stared up and found blue eyes looking back at him with a smile on her face.

"Now can you feel it, right?" she asked triumphant

Atem looked at her for a few seconds and then, he stood up quickly from her lap and on to his feet. Approaching the window again, he stared at all the place outside; worry taking over him… he saw darkness all over…

"This energy is huge…" he thought. Then he remembered what Anzu had done, so he turned again towards her.

"What did you do to me?" he demanded. Anzu just smiled.

"I deduced that a huge worry must be blocking your senses… so I decided to make you relax a little, I was right; a huge worry was blocking you, now I wonder what the huge worry was… or is, since I only eased it a little."

Atem just arched an eyebrow "Do you hear what you are saying? Of course I'm worry with all this stuff! That is the huge worry!"

Anzu negated. "No, Atem, there is a huge worry that was able to block you. I'm worry too, with all of this, but that didn't block me unlike you" she said.

Atem pressed his teeth, indeed there was one concern circling his head…

"Ok Anzu" he decided to admit it "There is a concern, one that I'm not going to discuss right now" he turned again to look outside and noted it still was dark, not a single hint of light… well the posts of light but the sky was still dark…

"What time is it?" he asked narrowing his eyes.

Anzu immediately provided the info looking at her watch in her wrist; Isis had taught her how to read time in it while they were in the room.

"It's seven thirty… already past sunrise?" she said realizing the problem at the same time Atem did. She opened wide her eyes and Atem couldn't avoid saying what he said…

"Shit…"

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Yugi was placidly asleep in his room, hugging a pillow and squeezing it tightly to feel the softness that it provided. Joey was sprawled along the bed, with the blankets falling over the edge of the bed… All was calm inside the room, when suddenly…

Atem entered banging and wide opening the door, making a loud noise when the door hit its frame.

Joey woke up abruptly yelling about the end of the world and that the house was falling in pieces! Yugi by the other side woke up slowly with slack.

"Wake UP!" Atem yelled with a loud and deep voice that Yugi completely woke up, with his heart wanting to explode by the fright he felt, and Joey stopped yelling about nonsense…

"Atem, man, why the shock?" Joey asked rubbing his eyes

"It's already late! We must hurry!" Atem said and approached to grab Yugi so he could stand quickly

Yugi reached to look at the clock and saw it was seven forty five.

"Brother, it is still early..we have time" he reassured, but Atem negated

"You don't understand!!" he exclaimed desperately and ran towards the window of the bedroom and wide opened it.

Joey hadn't caught what was the meaning of his action. Yugi wide opened his eyes.

"You see! Now you understand why my hurriedness?!" he asked still holding the curtain.

"Man, what? I don't catch your point" he said and Atem exploded.

"Hell! Don't you see it? It's dark! A dense dark, you can't see a thing! Only the posts of light but they are dim! And is past sunrise for god's sake! Where is the daylight?" he yelled exasperated

"Oh oh…" Joey mumbled

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Anzu too arrived at the girl's bedroom banging the door and yelling, making a loud noise and roar.

"Wake up girls! Time is running! We are already late!" she screamed and Isis slowly woke up rubbing her eyes. Serenity just hugged more her pillow and Mana cuddled herself more in the bed.

"Girls! Wake up! Something is happening!" Anzu yelled but to no avail. Isis took a seat on the bed and asked.

"What are you talking about Anzu?" she asked still rubbing her eyes with tiredness

"Isis, help me to wake them up! A dark energy is engulfing the place! We must hurry" she said and Isis narrowed her eyes.

"Are you sure Anzu?" she asked and Anzu sighed exasperated. In that moment Atem entered in the room to see if Anzu had awoken the girls. He found them still asleep, only Isis was awake and talking with Anzu.

"Atem, they don't pay me attention!" Anzu exclaimed and saw Atem with a huge frown and putting his hand into a fist.

"Eh… Isis better cover your ears please, this could be deafening" she said and covered hers quickly. Isis followed her advice and covered them too.

Atem yelled loudly "WAKE UP!" with full force and with his fist; he banged the door really hard.

Serenity woke up immediately and seated on the bed hugging the pillow and looking around in fear. Mana woke up and grabbed her wand swinging it around yelling about where was the bad guy to shoot him…

Isis and Anzu sweat dropped

"Damn! Hurry up this is an emergency!"

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After an hour, all people were up and ready to go, they were in the living room. Grandpa was there too.

"Isis, guide us towards that man, what was his name?" Atem asked

"Is Pegasus" she said. "Good, let's move out" he said and opened the door. A dense cold air hit all their faces and all quivered.

"Why is it so cold?" Yugi asked hugging himself

"Is the dark energy, it's really cold because there is so much o it in the environment" Anzu said hugging herself too.

Atem knew this was abnormally cold; they could die out of hypothermia with this cold. Really it was freezing… He turned around and saw all hugging themselves individually.

"We need transport" he said and hugged his body with his arms as well, starting to feel the freezing air make effect on him.

Joey nodded.

"My car" he said and ran outside towards the car and tried to turn it on.

A few failed intents and he came back again defeated. "It doesn't want to light!" he exclaimed hugging himself again.

"Damn" Atem murmured. In that moment, Tristan ran through the wide open door of the house.

"Man, the world is going crazy, look this weather and it's eight!" he exclaimed trembling by the cold.

"You ran from your house towards here?" Yugi asked surprised

"Well… yeah! My car didn't want to light so I decided to run. And is not too far from here Yugi, is only two blocks… This weather I know has to do with this 'end world' issue, right?" he asked turning to look at Atem.

"Unfortunately, yes" he said and turned to Isis

"This place, where Pegasus is at, is it too far from here?" he asked and Isis thought about it a moment.

"Well, it's near but walking we could take a little long" she said. All turned to look at Atem expectantly.

"With this weather we won't last an hour out there" he said with worry "But we have to do it, more time and could be worse"

"Then, what are we going to do? Run?" Anzu asked.

Atem nodded. "Indeed" and he added "But, we are going to run in groups of two"

"In groups of two?" Tristan asked

"Yes, so we can maintain the heat a little longer. We will go one group after another. Isis you will lead the run" he said and Isis nodded with determination.

"Mana, want to go with me?" Yugi asked and Mana turned to look from Atem towards Yugi. She wanted to go with Atem but Yugi had asked first.

She smiled. "Sure!" she said and both hugged each other in order to keep the heat of their bodies.

Joey immediately grabbed Serenity and hugged her, shooting a death glare at Tristan. Tristan snorted.

"Anz--" Tristan was cut off by Anzu who spoke

"Atem, can I go with you?" she asked and Atem just nodded.

"Ok." She said and hugged him, he hugged back.

Tristan only had left Isis.

"Well, I guess I'm going with you" he said and Isis nodded. So, they both hugged.

"Kids, take care please" Grandpa, who had been silent listening all, spoke for the first time

"Don't worry grandpa, we will take care" Yugi reassured him

"I will not let anything happens them, I assure you" Atem said seriously

"Ok" Grandpa just nodded

"Ok," Atem said turning to the rest "Prepare to run with all your legs can afford" All nodded.

"Isis and Tristan first, then Anzu and me, then Yugi and Mana and then Joey and Serenity, ok?" he asked and all nodded again

"Good, on three"

"Three!" Atem yelled and all started to run in the order Atem had said.

When they were all out, Grandpa closed the door to avoid the chilly air continued entering.

"Good luck kids" he said sighing.

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On the streets…

They were running, all was desert, closed; there were no people… the chilly freezing cold more intense as they were running.

Their breaths made a tiny cloud in the air that disappeared quickly and appeared every time they breathed.

"Isis… is too far that… company?" Tristan asked brokenly by the running

"Well, not too far but we are not there yet" she said slowly

Atem was running closely behind Isis, every now and then looking back to see if the rest were following and hugging Anzu tightly to maintain the heat he felt he was losing.

Anzu too was running all her legs could, and hugging Atem for support.

"Atem, is too cold, my legs are starting to numb" she said agitated

"Don't weaken, be strong" he said whispering

They were running like that, non stop for some time. They didn't know how long, but the more they got near the company, colder they felt. It was like the company was the source of the cold air…

Finally, they arrived to the building. When they entered, in the main hall, Serenity gave up and fell on the floor, with Joey holding her.

"She-is-too-tired-and-freezing" Joey said hugging her.

Mana and Yugi felt on their knees still hugging each other by the cold they still felt and was unbearable in that main hall.

Isis and Tristan still didn't want to break the hug, and not to tell Anzu and Atem… they were freezing!

"Isis-where-is-he?"Atem asked

"He's-in-the-second-floor-office-204" she answered her voice broking at every word she said,

"I-Isis… I- can-put a field- to prot-ect them- from-the cold…but main-taining it-would-be –too hard-for me-because-I-have-to go up-to meet that –man- and I can-t maintain it-from distance-" he said brokenly by the cold, he was freezing by now.

Isis answered "I-can-maintained-for you-but- you-have to- start it-"

Atem nodded. "All-gather here" he commanded and all moved slowly, trembling all…

All were against each other, except Anzu, who was still hugging Atem.

"Anzu, -you-too" he said and she negated "No, I-I will-go-with-you" she said. "I'm not-going-to-discuss-with you, its-too-cold" he sighed, a tiny cloud appearing and disappearing in an instant from his mouth.

He raised his arms, slightly trembling and Isis imitated him.

He chanted something and closed his eyes to focus a little, if the cold let him…

Few seconds later, appeared a red faint circle around the group that was gathered inside and Isis felt the energy and maintained it with her item. The necklace glowed.

All suddenly started to feel the temperature got down and they stopped trembling.

"It's working!"Joey exclaimed.

Atem let his arms down and hugged Anzu again she hugged back. "I'm-glad-it--" his voice broke.

"Damn cold…"

"What about you brother? Can't you put a field like this one around you two too?" Yugi asked concerned

Atem negated with his head. "It-doesn't-work-in-movement-.-Don't-worry-we-will-be-back-in no-time" he said and guided Anzu towards the stairs.

They arrived slowly and finally they found the number of the office '204'.

"This is" Atem whispered and pushed the door open.

When they stepped in they found…

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