Trapped Within

A/N: I do not own any of the characters mentioned. They all belong to Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal.

"NO!" Two small fists relentlessly pounded on the invisible barrier that surrounded the boy. "No, stop it! Leave Yuma-kun alone! LEAVE HIM ALONE!" the boy screamed, tears gushing from his eyes as he fell to his knees. Trapped in a void of nothingness, the boy could only watch helplessly as his best friend was being broken spiritually by the very thing that had created him and now kept him imprisoned. The boy continued to scream and attack the force field around him, hoping that somehow his friend would hear him, see him, realize that he existed and was in fact only trapped within the darkness; not part of it. "You monster! Stop it! Stop hurting him! Yuma-kun! YUMA-KUN!" "SILENCE!" screamed the darkness, "You are nothing! A mere mask that has been discarded! You are not to speak EVER unless I was to wear you once more, you pathetic disguise! And even than you would only speak the words that I would twist your tongue to say!" "No, I'll never do what you want! Yuma-kun, please help me, YUMA-KUN!" "You fool! As far as your dear 'Yuma-kun' is concerned now, you no longer exist and in fact never did!" Than the darkness named Vector laughed. And trapped within the deep recesses of Vector's mind, a young human boy named Rei Shingetsu cried.