Hey again! We're on a roll! Here's Chapter three coming at ya! I will be using the Siamese Cat Song in, but Marik and Melvin won't sing it, they'll just say it. But first, to thank my awesome reviewers!
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Chapter 3 Summary: Atem and Anzu leave for Nigeria for a few days for business. What will happen when Atem's sister, Isis, and her evil twin sons stay at the palace to watch baby Yugi? Especially when Isis doesn't see Mana as her niece?
Mana looked around in confusion as Atem and Anzu were gathering their things.
"You're leaving for Nigeria already?" Mana whined.
"This is about it..." Atem murmured, not hearing Mana.
Anzu was caressing little Yugi for the last time for a few days.
"Come along, Anzu. We need to get in and out of Nigeria as soon as possible." Atem told her.
"I know, but I can't leave the baby here. He's still so little." Anzu replied, looking at her husband.
"He'll be alright." Atem said with some insensitivity.
Mana gave Atem a surprised look, but he didn't see that either.
"If he wakes up, we'll never get away." Atem pointed out, pulling Anzu gently by the arm.
"I know...but I just feel so guilty leaving him here." Anzu sighed.
"Yeah, you can't just leave Yugi here." Mana added, a bit upset.
"We'll be back in a few days." Atem explained. "Besides, your Aunt Isis and her sons are coming over to watch Yugi. I know you'll be a great help."
"Great. Aunt Isis." Mana spat.
"Mana, enough. Your mother and I have to get going." Atem told her.
Born an Egyptian, Isis had moved to Siam fourteen years ago, which is where she had her evil Siamese twins, Marik and Melvin.
As Atem and Anzu left, Mana groaned. Isis didn't like Mana at all. Since she isn't a blood relative, Isis looks down on her and doesn't consider her a niece. But that wasn't the biggest problem. The biggest problem is the twins, Marik and Melvin. Conjoined at birth, there must have been something damaged in their brain when they were removed from each other. Marik and Melvin are deranged. They dislike Mana just as much as Isis, so they frame Mana for countless incidents that she didn't cause.
"Man, this is going to be hell." Mana muttered, standing at the door.
At that moment, Isis and her sons entered the pharaoh's quarters. Isis immediately went towards Yugi's bed, shutting the door in Mana's face.
"Now to see that nephew of mine!" Isis cooed.
Face palming, Mana went inside her room to enter her parents' room again. Mana laid on her parents' bed, gazing down at her little brother.
"In the name of Ra, what are you doing in here?" Isis asked, treating Mana like some sort of dog. "You're not even our family! Get out, you outsider!"
Isis scooted Mana back into her room. Mana was tempted to grab her scepter and beat the crap out of her aunt, but there was no way she'd stoop to that level.
Then, Yugi started to cry because of all the noise.
"Awww, you poor baby." Isis cooed. "I promise that girl won't frighten you anymore."
Hurt, Mana flopped on her bed and laid there.
Then, Mana heard Isis begin to terribly sing some English song that started out with "Rock a bye baby". Mana covered her head with her pillow, trying her best to block out the off-key singing.
Several hours later, Mana heard Isis say, "I must find my old room in here. It's been years..."
Isis left the baby all alone, so that meant Marik and Melvin were in there! There was no way Mana was going to let their spiky heads touch anything. Mana marched in her parents' room. They were nowhere in sight.
"Where are you, you little schemers?" Mana growled, looking around the bedroom.
When she came across the bed, she felt two hands grab onto her ankles, and pull her down.
"Ack!" Mana cried as she fell on her butt.
The evil thirteen year old twins crawled out from under the bed and on top of Mana, grinning mischievously.
"You evil brats!" Mana spat.
"We are Siamese if you please." Marik purred, caressing parts of Mana's leg that were not covered by her skirt.
"We are Siamese if you don't please." Melvin added, licking Mana's cheek.
"Damn right I don't please." Mana shuddered, wiping her face.
Marik and Melvin's actions only served as a distraction, for they were already off of Mana and scavenging the bedroom. They came across Atem's fish, the Phagrus fish, in a round glass jar. That fish was sacred and not allowed to be eaten!
"You see that fish swimming round and round?" Marik asked Melvin .
"Yeah, maybe we can reach on in and make it drown." Melvin replied.
Marik face palmed. "You can't drown fish, you idiot."
"Oh, right." Melvin sweat dropped. "But," he continued. "If we up upon it carefully..."
"There will be a head for you and a tail for me." Marik finished, licking his lips.
Marik and Melvin reached for the jar, but Mana snatched it away. The twins pulled back, and Mana tugged harder. Finally, the twins let go of the jar. Mana fell backwards and she was drenched with river water.
"Gross!" Mana whined.
Then, she realized the Phagrus was missing.
"Where did it go?" Mana cried, looking everywhere.
She spotted it, flopping around on the floor, and Marik's hands were reaching out to grab it. The fish slipped from his hands, and Mana caught it. She tossed it back towards the half empty jar, but it turned out Melvin was sitting in front of it with his mouth wide open.
Mana snatched the fish back, only for it to slip out of her hands.
"This is just great!" Mana muttered, going after the fish again.
Baby Yugi started to cry, woken up again by the noise.
"Do you hear that?" Marik asked, looking towards Yugi's bed.
"Yeah, it's Uncle Atem's new son." Melvin replied.
"And where we find a pharaoh's baby, there is gold on it." Marik added, an evil glint in his eye.
Mana gasped as she threw the Phagrus back in its jar and ran in her room.
"And if we look in Yugi's bed, there could be..." Melvin said, edging towards Yugi's bed.
"A gold bangle or two for you and me." Marik finished.
Mana jumped in front of the Siamese twins with a snarl, her scepter pointed at them.
"Whoa!" Marik cried.
They started to run away, and Mana chased them. Beams shot out of her scepter, a freezing spell. Marik and Melvin ran into the drapes, immediately knowing what to do. They tugged Anzu's expensive drapes down and entangled Mana in them. Mana had no idea where she was going, and crashed into Atem's lamp, causing it to fall near Yugi. Mana herself fell on the floor, hurting her right arm in the process.
Then, Marik and Melvin plopped on the floor and pretended that they were hurt.
"What in the name of Ra is going on here?" Isis asked, coming in Atem and Anzu's room.
"Sweet mother of Osiris!" Isis cried when she saw her sons on the ground moaning in "pain".
Mana peeked out from under the drapes, her eyes lidded. Her scepter was in plain sight.
"Oh, that wicked girl." Isis muttered, helping her boys up from the floor. "I'll make sure she'll never hurt my poor little angels again with her evil magic."
As Isis walked them out of the room, Marik and Melvin used their free hands to give each other a handshake while sneering at Mana.
That afternoon, Isis dragged Mana to the pharaoh's priests. They were standing in the royal court like Isis requested.
"What is wrong, Isis?" Aishizu asked Isis.
"This girl attacked my sons with her scepter!" Isis cried. "And she destroyed the pharaoh's sacred quarters, nearly killing Yugi!"
The priests gasped in shock.
"Mana, is this true?" Mahado asked, looking at his pupil sadly.
There was nothing Mana could say to defend herself. Even though Marik and Melvin set her up, she did attack them with magic, she did wreck her parents' room, and she almost got her own little brother killed.
"...yes." Mana replied, looking down.
Mahado closed his eyes and exhaled through his nose. Aishizu, Set, Karim, Shada, and Akunadin looked at the pharaoh's daughter sadly, but they had no choice.
"We hereby suspend Mana of her title as Elite Spellcaster until the great pharaoh comes back to deal with this. This includes the suspension of her scepter and wearing a magic restrictor." Mahado announced.
"What? Please Master Mahado, no!" Mana cried, sinking to the ground.
With a snap of his fingers, Mahado made four cloth shackles and a cloth gag appear. Those weren't just any items of cloth. Even though they looked harmless, the cloth held the power to contain any type of magic or spell cast.
"Restrain her." Mahado said slowly.
Before Mana could do anything, Karim and Set grabbed Mana by the arms.
"No! Please reconsider!" Mana cried.
Her struggling was futile. Karim and Set were just too strong. Aishizu took Mana's scepter from her hands, and Mahado began the ritual.
"For those who are strong-willed but have no control. Let these restrains keep their hold!" Mahado chanted. "You will keep your ability to speak, but you'll lose your power and become meek. For there's only one way these can be taken with bait. That is the dagger of fate!"
The cloth shackles and gag forced itself on Mana. The restrainers began to hurt Mana because of the force. Mana screamed and writhed. Karim and Set had a tougher time keeping her still than expected. When the ritual was over, the gag and shackles were stuck firmly to her. When Set and Karim released Mana, she ran off, tears streaming down her face. Isis didn't even blink.
As the priests walked out of the court, Mahado looked back at where Mana ran off.
"I hope you'll find the dagger of fate." he whispered before leaving.
Mana was running blindly through the sandy roads. Chaos erupted as horses neighed and people were knocked over by Mana. She turned down a dark and sinister road. Before Mana knew it, she collided with a large stand with several bags.
"Ahhhh!" Mana screamed as she fell.
Inside those bags were smuggled jewels from other countries.
"Hey! What the hell do you think you're doing?" A gruff man shouted.
Before Mana's eyes, two other criminals stood behind their leader.
"You'll die for this." the man told her, taking out a dagger.
Oh no! Mana thought frantically, getting up quickly.
Mana ran away as fast as she can, the crooks hot on her trail.
"Somebody help me!" Mana cried through her gag.
The men saw the magic restrictors and smirked.
"She's a magician!" he called to his henchmen. "We can use her as a ransom for the pharaoh...then kill her!"
Mana ran even faster, the fear kicking up her adrenaline.
Meanwhile, Bakura was drinking water from an old jar, minding his own business when he spotted a girl running with three men behind her.
"It's that magician Mana... " Bakura realized.
Bakura dropped the jar and ran after them.
"I've been looking for some trouble, and now I found some." Bakura smirked.
There was no way he could catch up to them in time from behind, so he went another way, hopping over several fences that protected people's homes.
After about five more minutes of running, Mana came to a dead end. She hid behind some boxes, hoping the felons thought she managed to jump the six foot brick wall. But they were smarter than they looked as they walked towards the boxes. Out of nowhere, the thief jumped over the brick wall and landed in front of Mana. He had no visible weapon, but he looked pretty intimidating. Mana didn't know who this guy was, since she can only see his back.
"Get outta the way!" the lead criminal shouted.
"I suggest you leave before I really have to hurt you." Bakura snarled with a bit of a sadistic tone.
The Millennium Ring started to glow, and even though Mana couldn't see anything, she heard screams and crunching noises.
Before she knew it, the convicts fled the area, fearing for their lives. Bakura gave a victorious smirk before facing the frightened girl.
"Charmy..." Bakura said, walking over to her. "What brought you to this side of the city? As an magician, I thought you'd be smart enough to-"
Bakura cut himself off when he saw the restrictors on Mana's mouth, ankles, and wrists.
"What the hell did you do, Charmy?" Bakura asked, looking at the shackles and gag.
Mana just blinked away more tears, looking helplessly at the thief. He almost felt bad for the girl.
"Well, I guess we'll have to get these off of you." Bakura said with some reluctance.
Mana stayed quiet as Bakura thought about what to do.
"I think I know the very place." he told her.
Even though Mana's mouth wasn't visible, Bakura could see the smile in her eyes.
"C'mon." he told her, taking her by the arm.
He led her away, and they headed towards Ra knows where.
Yay! Bakura to the rescue! Sorry if Bakura was too OOC, but he is based on a Disney character after all. There will be Mischiefshipping next chapter, so stay tuned. This is PRK saying ja ne! :3
