#rayzarc

“Zarc.”

               That voice. He remembered it all too well, and Zarc completely lost focus for a second at the sheer amount of rage that voice brought him. Her. She- She betrayed him, she hurt him, she mutilated his soul until he was a patchwork of memories in four people.

               “Ray.” He said her name coldly, turning away from Kurosaki and Kaito to meet her gaze. To his utter disgust, it was full of pity. She probably wasn’t seeing him there at all. For a quick second a flash of a girl with short green hair and amber eyes played over Ray’s face, but Zarc pushed the thought away. She was as much Rin as he was Yugo. He had ended his previous four lives, he was ONE now, a whole person.

               “R-Ruri?” Kurosaki croaked out behind Zarc. In another annoying flash, Ruri was standing in place of Ray, wearing her red resistance ribbon at her hip. Zarc shook the thoughts from his mind once more, stepping towards Ray.

               “We’re not supposed to be here, Zarc. This isn’t supposed to happen.” Ray’s voice was solemn, yet it carried a familiar calm with it. As she spoke, Zarc felt that hideous flicker in his chest of an emotion long forgotten. His lip curled into a scowl.

               “Not supposed to be here? This was supposed to be MY world. You created these dimensions as fakes, little bubbles to keep me apart and pacify me. The dimension that should exist, the one you tore apart, is one I sacrificed everything to have, and you can’t take it away from me again!”

               “Zarc, please…” Another annoying flicker to a younger girl that Zarc knew once. “You weren’t happy like that. I saw it, when we met for the last time. But… I’ve seen you happy in Yuya. I’ve seen you laugh as Yuto, alive in Yugo. Those lives… can’t you hold onto the joys you had in those?”

               “Joy? Three years a failure because of a coward father, my home was destroyed, and my city hating me for the place I was born into. Those lives you’re trying to appeal to weren’t happiness! Even when you held the reigns, everything still fell apart!”

               “And was your life before better? Where your life was dictated by anger and hatred? These dimensions are worth protecting, please listen to me-“

               “Why should I? Ray- Everything I did in that world, everything I’m doing in this one, are you saying it’s all worthless?! Were WE worthless?!” He screamed.

               “God Zarc, no,” Ray pleaded,” I hoped that when we met again, I’d get a second chance, and I did. And I’ve screwed it up, I know I have, but just because I’ve lost you… I can’t let you destroy the dimensions. I won’t let you destroy everything we’ve worked to protect!”

               “I DID IT FOR YOU!” Zarc bellowed. “I did… everything… so people like us… wouldn’t be used anymore.” He trailed off, clenching his fists hard.

               “Zarc…” To her credit, Ray never shed a single tear. She was calm, though the infuriating pity on her face made Zarc’s blood boil. She really had the nerve to look at him like that. Like she… cared. “I can end us here. I have the cards, we can be split apart, but… I need to do this with me this time. I can’t do it on my own.” It was only then Zarc realized that Ray didn’t have a duel disk. She meant it literally, the cards couldn’t be played without him… he had to let her split them.

               “Of course. You need to use me. Use me for my weakness, use me for my power, use me for everything I have to offer.” Zarc laughed hollowly. “Not this time. If you want to tear our souls apart, you’ll have to do it by your own hand.” Zarc let a smile stretch across his face, the same one he forced himself to wear the arena for the screaming crowds. The same one he wore when Ray had asked him if he was okay. The same one he wore when the world burned beneath his wings.

               “You have to sacrifice in this world to get what you want. Emotions, lives, sanity. Let’s see what you’re willing to give up.” Zarc slammed a card on his disk, and Odd Eyes Dragon materialized in the air, immediately responding to Zarc’s anger with a roar. “Odd Eyes, kill her.”

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Akaba Ray/Zarc Characters: Akaba Ray, Zarc (Yu-Gi-Oh), Akaba Leo Additional Tags: Pre-Series, Songfic, Developing Relationship, Sacrifice, Implied Sexual Content, briefly implied bracelet girls/yuuboys Summary:

if you wanna fight with me then go ahead it's destiny cause all I wanna do is set you free you will be the death of me

I am very very much into “fucking nerd Zarc who geeks out over his dragons and has no friends because literally all he does is talk about dragons”

and also “touch my dragons and I stg I will fucking rip your throats out”