Hello everyone! I have updated. It continues on with Emily and we see another side of someone else. (guess who!)

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Bound

Chapter 9

Emily Mazaki was leaving the forest where she now lived. Today she had a mission to complete. She had to get the spell book. Yugi had told her about it when they first explored the castle.

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Yugi and Emily walked through the halls, listening for anything out of the norm. "I wonder what scared Mai . . ." She asked herself softly.

"Who knows?" Yugi said. "Do you have the feeling that someone is watching us or following?"

Emily stopped for a moment to soak in the atmosphere around her. "No. I think you're just paranoid." Yugi's shoulders slumped.

"You know what? You're probably right." They were silent for a few moments before Emily had to ask.

"So . . . about that spell book, where is it?"

Yugi shrugged. "In my attic buried under a pyramid of boxes. Man, I wish I hadn't opened that book at all." He muttered miserably.

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"Thank you, Yugi. Now I don't have to ask you questions." She said, smiling as she walked out of the forest and into the destroyed city. A vision filled her eyes. The city, a ghost town now. Only the screams of the man she wanted to kill. "I'll make sure that you're given a merciful ending, Yugi." She promised.

The game shop was now across the street from her, looking lonely in the morning light. Walking across the street, she ignored the massive crack and continued walking as a soft blue glow surrounded her the moment she stepped on air. She walked over the crack as though it was solid ground.

Emily smiled. "I like this magic." She giggled and started to skip, feeling the freedom she had craved for so long. Knocking on the door, she put on her sad face as foot steps approached the door.

Yugi opened the door, not expecting it to be Emily.

"Em?"

"Yugi . . . I need to ask a favor." Yugi snapped to attention when he noted the fear and panic in her voice.

"What's wrong?"

"My parents . . . they're fighting again and I'm afraid my dad will take it too far. Could I stay here?" she begged. "Just for a little while, please!"

Yugi paused. His Grandpa was meeting with someone and wouldn't be back until three PM. But this was Emily asking for help, how could he turn her plea down? "Of course you can, Emily."

He heard her sob and felt her arms wrap around him quickly. "Thank you so much, Yugi!" she let go and ran into the house like something was going to come after her.

"There's food in the fridge if you get hungry." He yelled up at her.

"Alright." He heard her say. Closing the door, he locked up and left, making the worst mistake in his life.

Emily watched him go, smiling in victory. "Now let's see what's in that attic of his." She said, spinning around on her heel to the attic door that she had seen in the hallway. Grabbing the string, she yanked it down, letting the latter fly downwards. With a loud bang, it hit the floor.

Not wasting any time, she crawled up the stairs in a hurry and immediately saw the pyramid of boxes. One at a time, she looked through each box and if she found some jewelry or other expensive item, she stuffed it in her bag for Atem and Anzu.

When she came upon a diamond locket, Emily knew it was Anzu's. A large diamond covered the front and on the back, a pentagram. Atem had worn a similar necklace the night she had met him, only it was a ruby. "So there must me a sapphire in here somewhere." She said.

After looking through five more boxes, she found it. A beautiful sapphire, the same size as the diamond, but Emily knew this jewel went on the locket. Carefully, she removed the gem and replaced it with the sapphire. She slipped both locket and diamond in her pack and went for the center.

For the book.

There is was! Wrapped in a white sheet just waiting for someone to find it. Grinning, she pulled the sheet off. It was old, the leather, but at the same time it looked incredibly new too. She crawled out of the attic once she put everything back, still grinning madly.

"Ha! I have it!" she laughed and ran out into the disserted street.

"I don't think that's yours, Miss Mazaki." A man said, his voice soft and dangerous. Growling, Emily spun around to see a tall lanky man with messy brown hair. Plain shirt and jeans, but what stood out was a sword that was held in his hands.

Her eyes narrowed and she pulled the magic that rested within her as she spoke. "Who the hell are you?" she snarled.

The man smiled. "My name is Mr. Bottle, but everyone calls me Mr. Crazy. Now, are you going to return that book?"

"Over my dead body!" she growled, making Mr. Bottle laugh softly.

"Then so be it." He raised his sword, but not before the girl cried out, tears spilling from her eyes.

"Anzu! Atem!" she cried out.

Two shadows flashed before the girl. One curled around her, another whipped towards Mr. Bottle, a black blade slammed into the silver one. The shadow solidified, turning into a young man with black spiky hair tipped with violet and blond bangs that framed his face. Eyes that glowed with an unholy red that was a siren that singed to the killer in every man and woman.

"So we finally meet, Atem Mutou. My family has passed stories down about you." Mr. Bottle said, his voice strained.

Atem smiled seductively, a lure to any fool. His finger nails were sharp needles that looked as though they could cut air and on one of his cheeks ink was starting to curl into intricate designs of darkness, chaos, and death. "I'm sure they have." He whispered softly. His voice much like his smile. "But, did they ever tell you our weaknesses?"

"Anzu is your only weakness." Mr. Bottle growled. Angry at himself for not knowing how to defeat this being of chaos.

"Yes, that's right, but tell me, do you think you can get to her like your great, great, grandfather?" His crimson eyes glowed with laughter.

Bottle gritted his teeth together. "Probably not since he caught her while she was asleep."

"So," Atem whispered, leaning in close to the teacher and whispered in his ear. "What makes you think you can beat me at the sword when I've been fighting for so much longer? What makes you think you can even touch us?"

In a sudden movement the black blade was gone from the silver and it moved toward his . . .!

Bottle dodged the sword as best he could, but instead of his heart, it hit his shoulder. Hissing at the sudden pain, he stepped away, still holding the blade that had been passed through his family as he clutched his shoulder. Atem smirked and turned to Emily. "Do you have it, my dear?"

She smiled. Mr. Bottle's jaw dropped as she eagerly gave him the book that would make things so much harder. "What have you done with her?" he demanded.

Atem turned to look at the bleeding man. "We did nothing. She did this of her own free will."

Wha-"

Anzu smiled and kissed Emily's forehead. "She has given us the book, and now her father can be put six feet under." The girl gave a happy yip and hugged Anzu Mazaki as if she were a child that had just won her mother's praise.

"My revenge," she said softly, but loud enough for Bottle to hear. "It finally starts. Mother will leave this place and be safe from the curse while my father gets to be buried."

Mr. Bottle was confused for a moment but then it clicked, and horror dawned in his eyes. "No! You can't-"

The girl snarled and her eyes turned to a neon blue as they glowed to life. "My revenge, not yours! Stay out of my business. I won't kill him, yet. He will experience the curse that was meant for the Mazaki males. My brother will be spared since he is away. But my father is all I need." She whispered. The three people disappeared. Bottle watched as they headed toward the Mazaki mansion.

He wanted to help but he knew it would be too late.

Emily walked into the massive home, her eyes glowing with glee as she drifted through the halls of her former home. Her mother came around the corner, freezing at the sight of her daughter. "Emily?"

"Mother, leave this place. Pack up all the riches you can and leave, go as far away as you can. Go to where brother is, father will get what is coming to him."

"Emily-"

"We both know you don't like to be hit, and neither do I."

Horror dawned in the woman's face. "He's hit you?" she sobbed. Emily smiled and hugged her mother.

"I'm okay now, for forever, I'll be ok. Leave and pass away with old age, don't let me stand before a grave that says you died of abuse. You always wanted your wings mother, now take the ones I am offering and go!"

Her mother bowed her head and sobbed. Quickly, she hugged her daughter and gave her four kisses. One on each cheek, one of her forehead, and one on her lips. "Please be safe."

"I will, I promise." Emily said and watched as her mother went to get her things and leave. Anzu stood beside the girl and smiled down at her.

"She's safe now."

"Yes . . ." Emily said. "That's all I can ask for."

Yugi walked into his house and instantly, something was wrong, very wrong. "Emily?"

No answer.

He dropped his stuff and ran upstairs. He looked down the hall that had the doors to his room and his Grandpa's room. Looking down the other end, he finally figured out what was wrong.

The attic door was open. "NO!" he gasped, horrified as he ran up. The pyramid was no more, and right in the center, the box was missing something. Yugi paled.

Emily . . .

Took it.

She took the spell book.

Now that the book is in Atem and Anzu's hands, I wonder what'll happen next? Hmm... :3

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