Hello, loyal readers, it's Kaiseress again, back with a new fic called:

Fight to the Finish

I hope you enjoy, though there will be some violence and that kind of stuff. My god, that's quite a theme in my stories isn't it?

Kaiseress: Zane, read the disclaimer please.

Zane: Why? Make Atticus do it.

Kaiseress: I want you to do it!

Zane: sigh fine. Kaiseress does not own Yu-gi-oh GX because she is too poor to afford anything but the plot and her very sick mind, which provided aforementioned plot. Happy?

Kaiseress: Yes.

Chapter 1: Pain

"No, stop! This isn't right!" Zane screamed from deep inside himself, the one place where he still existed. "Stop it, Hell Kaiser, you're killing him!"

"That's the point," a cold, cruel voice replied. The duelist across the arena fell, unconscious. Another Pro match won by Hell Kaiser "Zane Truesdale." The true Zane hated these victories, hated himself for allowing Hell Kaiser to take over. All he wanted was to escape these chains that bound him; made him a prisoner in his own mind.

Syrus was the last straw. Zane tried harder than ever to break free when he saw Hell Kaiser hold out the electrodes that created a true Hell Duel.

"No! Get away, Syrus! It's not me, dammit! He'll kill you!"

"Shut up," Hell Kaiser snarled. "You can't do anything. He will feel exactly what you did whether you accept it or not."

Zane lashed out, one hand freed from the chains. Hell Kaiser sneered.

"So you still have that much strength, do you? I'm impressed; most duelists would be dead from what I've done to you. Still, you can't really hope to beat me with only one hand." He attacked Zane, kicking him savagely while he was still on the ground. Zane coughed up blood, and then fell unconscious. Hell Kaiser had total control. Syrus ended the duel in almost the same condition as his brother, senseless on the ground, but Syrus at least had his friends and his free will. Zane had neither.

Later, with Hell Kaiser back in the Pro League apartment in Domino, Zane's eyes opened to see a few flecks of his own blood on the floor. He wasn't really even in his own mind, he knew. He was trapped within a small piece of the Shadow Realm, but he could occasionally shift into his mind to try to escape Hell Kaiser's hold on him. Every time, the dark part of himself had beaten him to within an inch of his life. Zane couldn't die because he wasn't truly alive in this place, but he felt himself growing weaker. If he didn't break out soon, he knew that it would be too late.

Jaden, Atticus, Alexis…anyone. I really need you guys now. He's killing me. I can't break away.

"Thinking about getting out, Zane?" his tormentor asked in a tone of derision. "You know you're too weak, so why try?"

"Why are you doing this to me? I'm already chained, why bother?"

"Because you break out with strong emotion, like when you saw your brother. Now, you're too weak to completely escape; I've been here too long, but you might get in my way."

"I didn't know what I was doing at first, when you came," Zane said regretfully.

"Came?" The dark one laughed. "I was always here, Zane. The Hell Duel simply brought me out into the open."

"Does everyone have something like you?" Zane asked.

"No, not at all. You're quite different, Zane. Very few people have someone like me within them. One of your friends does, but his wasn't there originally. Your brother doesn't, or the Hell Duel would have brought him out. Or perhaps not. After all, it was your feeling of abandonment that truly let me take over. Your friends didn't give a damn about you, and you know it."

"Shut up," Zane growled. "They did care, I just didn't get it. And I was alone in the Underground." For a few moments, there was silence. Zane simply lay on the ground, enduring the pain every time he took a breath.

"You want to know why I really do this? Want to know why I hurt you and your pathetic friends?" Hell Kaiser smirked. "Frankly, your pathetic escape attempts and their idiotic thoughts that they can beat me amuse me. You're helpless, and it's funny to see you screaming every time I hurt one of your so-called friends. You feel their pain, don't you?"

"You evil bastard," Zane said angrily.

"You really shouldn't do that. Want me to hurt your little brother again? You realize that you share half of everything I do to your friends, right? Didn't you wonder why you felt those shocks? That's right. And you really should thank me for it. Little Syrus might not have survived if you hadn't split the pain."

"Please just leave them alone," Zane tried to say, but his captor kicked him again, just where he had recently broken a few of Zane's ribs. The duelist doubled over in pain.

"This won't get you anywhere," he gasped through clenched teeth. "I won't give in so easily."

"Oh, just stop trying. If you keep doing this, maybe I'll duel that Alexis girl next. She looks pretty easy."

"No, leave her alone! Leave all of them alone and just… just go, I don't care where, just go," Zane sighed.

"Then stop trying to escape me," Hell Kaiser demanded. Zane stopped moving, but he glared angrily at the alternate of himself. "That's a little better, but something's not right here…" Hell Kaiser said. "Of course, that sickening look on your face. You still think you're better than me, I can tell, but give up the tough-guy act. Do you want me to attack your friends again?" Zane, too weak now even to talk, slipped into unconsciousness. Hell Kaiser smiled viciously and kicked him again, forcing the air from the hurt duelist's body and making him gasp in pain. Finally, the dark one left Zane to return to the real world. The former Obelisk Blue's breathing slowly returned to a semblance of normalcy.

End Chapter

I know, I know, it's weird. Just press the button, will you? I have retracted my previous "no flame" rule. I guess I can handle it.

Zane: Why do I get hurt in every story you write?

Kaiseress: It makes the story more dramatic, and it's really just the way I am. Sorry, and don't give me a concussion like you did in the foreword to chapter 2 of Broken Down.

Zane: Fine. puts down baseball bat

Kaiseress: Where did you get that?

Zane: The shed in your backyard.

Kaiseress: Curses. You have found a vast supply of deadly weapons with which you can destroy things. Will you destroy my little brother please? Mine isn't submissive like Syrus, and he's a friggin squealer. He made my parents take my kunai.

Zane: Maybe.

Kaiseress: Come on! I said please! puppy eyes

Zane: I never could resist puppy eyes, and anyway, your brother ticks me off. Sure.

Kaiseress: Yayness! Now peoples, press the button and tell me what you think. Flames are okay cuz' I'm a pyro! SQUEEEEEEE! That is all.