Conquest
By SMYGO4EVA
The Thief King quite enjoyed this little game.
Bakura smiled as he leaned back upon the walls inside the Millennium Puzzle, inside the Pharaoh's mind. He didn't have to go searching for the Pharaoh; the King of Games was apparently going to come to him.
He wouldn't know that his greatest enemy was waiting for him, of course. But he would stumble into the web that had been laid out for him nevertheless.
The Pharaoh was going to find his memories; the Thief King had no doubt about that. He himself had a portion of his own spirit sealed in the puzzle, though he was sure that the Pharaoh's little host Yugi had no idea of that fact. If Yugi did indeed know that he and his friend were being spied upon, he hadn't given any indication of it.
No, he didn't have one solitary clue - Bakura was sure of that.
He let himself relax upon the stone walls as he watched the Pharaoh and little Yugi what he had been searching for, almost wishing that he could be there when the Pharaoh would meet with the sands of Egypt again. Would they fall back into old habits once again, be friends and then the seeds of distrust be sown once again?
He didn't think so - the two of them might enjoy a friendship now, but they had much to learn when it came to the past, present and the future of them both.
All well and good, Bakura thought. The King of Games belonged to him, no matter what the foolish mortals might think. Always had, and always would.
If the Pharaoh thought that was going to change, then he was foolishly mistaken. Reciprocating little Yugi's companionship wouldn't mean that he belonged to the Thief King any less than he ever had. Or that Bakura wouldn't claim his long-awaited conquest.
He'd been waiting thousands of years for this to happen.
Victory would surely taste sweet. He had been waiting for this for so long now that he could almost taste it; he licked his lips in anticipation, his wicked smirk growing.
His victory was assured - he had no doubt of that. The Pharaoh didn't know it, but there was a plan set in motion, a plan that would turn this accursed world upside down, the dark one to be reborn in the past and the present, and what would have both the Pharaoh and Yugi relenting to his every command in order to keep it from destruction.
Oh yes, victory will indeed be his, and he just couldn't wait to savor it.
