Name: Immortal Guardians
Chapter 3: Love is a Battle Field
Author: Black Starr, Planet Starr's Ashes, Yami… u pick it's all me
Disclaimer: don't own Yugioh sorry people
Thanks to Kenny for helping me write this the first time….
Malik didn't sleep well, his head was pounding and when he woke for the first time he had weird bloody bandages around him. He heard his sister sneaking in at some ungodly hour and he was sure she was shocked when she entered his bathroom no doubt to tidy it. She came screamed at him shaking him awake while simultaneously checking him for wounds. Malik opened his eyes to see that Odion had come home with his sister which made everything all the more worse. Malik didn't get a chance to sleep until early in the morning. It was a long talk about what happened verses what he remembered. His sister who was leaving him to think about was praying that he didn't murder anyone. Ignoring her inane babble Malik tried to sleep more but failed miserably. Getting out of bed, Malik packed his bag looking around his room for any signs of what happened last night. He head was still pounding and the gentle whispers of his sister outside his door were in concern for his safety. He ignored her when she demanded he go back to bed and when she asked him how he felt he quickly lied. He was going to school if she liked it or not and if anything was wrong with him he was sure he would feel worse. Taking a quick shower -that he was positive his sister was up late cleaning- Malik got ready for school he needed a good attraction and actually paying attention in class would be just the thing. With a wave to his sister he left for Ryou's place. At least he can get something good out of this day and seeing Ryou's face when he woke up to him sitting on top of him would do the trick. The blonde laughed to himself as he walked into the apartment complex gates. No one was up but, there was a tag on one of the walls that caught the boys eyes. Quickly braiding his hair back Malik headed up the stairs to the not so quite noise from within. It was almost like Ryou was wresting with someone from within. Knowing Ryou, it was his dad and they were just catching up so Malik walked around the balcony to the back where Ryou's bedroom was and entered the window. The noises got louder as he entered the small room. It was dressed in blue with dark wood accents to clean for Malik's taste but when he tried to dirty it Ryou always cleaned up after him.
"Good morning Malik." Yugi didn't seem phased by the other boys entrance, but Malik stared at him as if he was a ghost. Why was Yugi here this early and why was Ryou up for that matter.
"Why are you here? Why is Ryou being loud in his bedroom?" Yugi grinned big, opening the door to sneak into the hallway and showed Malik the White haired stranger who instantly knew they were being watched. But, like a true friend he didn't mention it. "Who is that?"
"I don't know, But he's like an alarm clock. Ryou just sensed him and bam he was awake." Yugi pushed Malik back into the room and pointed out the door. "The tattoo's the same and he looks just like Ryou. That little monster was hiding this the whole time."
"What? He knew?! That Jackass!" Yugi nodded his head, he peeked out the door to see Ryou was alone. "I can't believe he just kept it from us and even when you found your look a like!"
"I already tried to ask him he just says that he's a cousin… Ryou is holding back some serious information." Taking a Seat on the bed Yugi stared at the door as Ryou walked in with a huge smile.
"Hungry?" He asked innocently. Yugi and Malik just glared at their friend who pretended not to get the hint. "Something wrong?" Yugi shook his head and Malik laughed trying to download his old files back into his brain. He thought whatever gave him this headache dislodged something.
"So THAT Man was your cousin?" Ryou nodded his head.
"He's just visiting." Yugi rolled his eyes slowly starting in a bad mood. This was Malik's turn to nod, getting up the blonde Egyptian walked towards the window in attempt to focus. Ryou was sure keeping to his secret but for what reason why aren't Malik and Yugi aloud to know. Ryou made the same squeak effectively grabbing Malik's attention from the window. Walking in Ryou introduced the tall Egyptian Albino to the hellcat Blonde. Malik didn't stay long which left Yugi to fold his arm standing really close to the boy and looking up at him. Bakura more or less politely stared back when Yugi circled him. He reached up barley touching the tattoo on the back of his neck. "Cousin?" Ryou was barley able to nod when Yugi let out a loud humph.
"When you want to tell us the truth Ryou you know where we are.". Ryou shrugged it just wasn't the right time to say he said as Yugi left them both. He turned to his older brother who just looked back a Ryou unsure it was the best idea to keep it a secret any longer.
"So Bakura tell me about Egypt?" Ryou packed his school bag while the older one explained hot summers of Egypt. The explanation kept Ryou full of questions not afraid to interrupt the story telling of his white haired brother. Ryou prodded deeper into the story behind the Guardian Brotherhoods though Bakura was skimpy with the details. One his way to school Bakura explained many other things more of on how got on in Egypt. Ryou shook his head he had a horrible grammar and he screams during what he calls
The bloody awesome part!' The school lot came quicker then either had expected; stopping at the entrance Bakura hastily finished up a story of young Thief Bakura in the wild sand monsters play yard.
"I'll see ya." Ryou said with a wave as he entered the courtyard of his school, Bakura watched as Ryou walked slowly to the center of the yard scanning it for his only friends. No one at all? Where they that made at him that they ignore him? Was that possible? Ryou stood alone against the wall of the building a balcony above him. Not one of his friends showed, and rest of the kids scattered around aimlessly like normal but his two buddies had vanished. His head lit like a bulb on Christmas… Domino effect, Ryou quickly made it to Yugi and Malik's shared locker and placed two cards neatly written in it. "Thank you Bakura." Ryou whispered starting to disappear into the on coming students. They would surly forgive him once they fallen in love.
Yugi was the next to visit his locker with Malik not far behind. Ryou stood behind a door looking onto them watching them carefully.
"Do you think it's a prank?" Yugi asked quietly taking the note from the bottom of the lockers Malik didn't even think about the possibilities; grabbing the note and smelling the sweet rose sent… "I love roses." Malik said quietly his eyes closed. He felt like this could be the beginning of thing beautiful.
"Who do u think it's from?" Malik replied, he opened the card and read it to himself. "Wow, amazing." Yugi glanced at Malik's card and stared in disbelief. He took it from his hands to read it for himself.
"Hey! That's my poem?" Yugi stared at his own card and though about it. "And this?" He showed the card and with a quizzical look Malik nodded.
"I didn't send that! I wrote it but didn't send it." Malik said in a rush, looking over the two cards and sighed. As much as he wanted to send it to Yugi he didn't have the guts. Behind the scenes Ryou cursed a thing he never did. He had a feeling that he trusted the wrong ex thief to do his bidding. Asking Bakura to create a poem must have been hard for him to accomplish. Ryou headed for his first class barley seeing the white head bouncing around the background of the second floor. Running towards him was his weird 24 year old looking brother his arms wide and open.
"SOOOO?" He cooed , his head struck fantasies and in the brief second Ryou was sure he had hearts in his eyes. Ryou smacked Bakura in the head bringing him back to reality from whence he came.
"You moron, you gave them poems from each other written by each other…" He said, Bakura smile faded and he looked away. He knew this was to good to be true he just wasn't good at this sort of thing. "What are we gonna do now?" Ryou looked around for any signs of his best friends and then back to Bakura. Shrugging Ryou shoved his hands in his pockets something was unlike him.
"I'm not the one who deiced to play cupid you are. But, this might work out to our advantage. " Ryou shook his head and started pacing, just as the bell rang for class to start. As soon as Ryou looked up, Bakura vanished down the hallway into the crowds.
"What was he talking about?" Ryou stared off into the distance slowly finding ground and walking into his first class. Malik had made it already and the look on his face proved he might have over heard the conversation. Ryou sat down beside him knowing the two were not talking by the look of anger they both gave him. They two of them ignored there friend, until Malik plopped a note on to his side of the desk.
'Ryou your hand writing is well known it tells all.' Ryou winced, but managed to say nothing to the inclination but it only angered the other two when he said nothing. Bakura screwed up with the letters and Ryou forgot how telling his writing really was at least to his best friend. Class soon started about five minuets later of pure agonizing silence for Ryou. Yugi hadn't made a cheery remark except to Malik and Serenity who shared their class. The anger between them was deafening and he didn't know what to do. The teacher rambled on about letters, which they were to write to official intelligence agencies. But, what came next was a little bit of Bakura's magic. The Whole 'this might work out to our advantage.' ran through Ryou's mind at bullet speed and shattered like glass.
"Class, I have randomly selected half of you to read your writing now and the other half to do it in the Domino School News Paper." The Teacher stated pulling a list of names from her laptop file. Yugi smiled faintly unlike any other time and even turned pale. But Malik looked paler then the rest of them his poem was about how much he loved Yugi. The only thing that didn't keep him from faking illness.
"Malik please step up to the class and read your poem." Malik looked away more ashen then before as he grabbed a white piece of paper from his binder and headed for the front of the class. But, when he came to the front of the class and instead of reading what was on the paper something else filled his mind. Shaking it loose he tried to organize the words to make sense.
"My Poem is titled Choice; I live this mortal world knowing what i know… " Malik read his poem to dramatic degree in which it was designed. His class mates hanging on to his words as if listening to a sonnet by William Shakesphere. Malik used the dramatic sad side to his poem as if he was longing for the effects of his poem… After getting everyone's attention he left them hanging as the poem finished. It would be a standing ovation if people actually like Malik. Instead they clapped and whispered as the teacher thanked the blonde for that dramatic battle of the wills.
"Ryou your next, please read your poem out loud." The teacher sat down at her desk now tired of directing the children to the front of the room. Lazy teacher, sitting she waited for Ryou to move to the front and start reading. It went on through Serenity's poem about her older brother, and Yugi's poem about is best friends. The class stumbled onward through the annoying lectures and learning's of English class. Most of them had been ignoring her sense the beginning of class but the rest were dazing off through the monotone lectures she tended to give. When class was nearly finished the class was surprised to find she was handing out Two books to read in the time frame of four weeks… 'The Immortal Highlander and The Dark Highlander.' Yugi eyed the book with a weird intent to actually read it. Romance wasn't his specialty, fantasy was but the back of the book made it sound good. The class settled into silent reading for the next few minuets of class.
Bakura paced the fence of the schoolyard explaining his plan in clear detail even bringing out drawings of stick figures to prove his point. Yami wasn't biting, but he was sure that Bakura was doing this for good not torture so he agreed anyway. Getting into the building unseen was easy. Up through the roof and down to the second floor bathrooms where no one will seen them. Bakura pulled out silver tinted card from his pocket and giggled like an extreme maniac while powering a shadow spell. Yami was watching the exit for intruders.
"Nightmare's Forgotten Souls!" The card in Bakura's hand Burst into a raging flame and shot onto the ground of the bathroom. The fire flared upward, mixing into the whirling chaos of ashy smoke rising from the gates of a monstrous world. a glowing blue soul-sucking fiend from fire and smoke emerged a hideous half-tiger half-horse. Glowing blue to a soul-sucking black from the fire emerged its eyes glowing with all the corruption of hell itself. The head was of a tiger, fangs dripping with the blood of it's last kill. The front hooves pounded the ground ready to charge. The rear paws of the tiger pawing at the ground with scythe like claws. The middle of the creature seemed to melt a purple horse body with white and black striped furs in every other place. Together into one the body wrapped in warn bandages. The creature raised up and the fire behind it exploded into a shower of twisted animal souls each one eventually joining the monstrosity. Yami turned and almost screamed. He didn't realize that his twisted friend had ever created such demon.
"What the hell is that?" He asked not able to look towards Bakura who was behind it laughing. Bakura raised his hands up one hand covering half his face the other went to on top of the beast head pushing on it. The horse struggled to free it's self under the weight of the pressure.
"Yami, if anything goes wrong use a the safe card." For such an evil plan to work there must always be a plan b. He was sure to have an escape root that aptly name the safe card.. Bakura murmured protecting magic out of nowhere remembering the first release of the soul of Nightmare. Instantly he pulled a second card out and released it to ensure only the few that needed to be where in the middle of this.
"Change of Heart!" Ryou called, a Blonde haired angel with one black and white wing come out holding a red heart in her palms her white gown flowing from her body. Change of heart walked slowly from the bathroom to the hallway and as she graced the halls with her presence a red glowing mist came from the heart and blew in the mystical wind thorough the school. The children didn't even see her as they walked zombie like out the doors. She graced the stairs and down the hallway again flowing with grace and beauty as the children and staff followed her. Walking back up towards the rooftop where she stayed there the wind blowing her hair widely the mist of red constantly flowing in the direction of the children out on the back feild.
"Your sure Malik will be out of confusion when this thing starts his rampage?" Bakura nodded, watching his buddy try not to look over his shoulder at the hell beast. "Ryou is going to stay in confusion right?" Bakura nodded again, Yami hated the idea of putting his little brother in danger but as Bakura explained he wouldn't be harmed just phased in effect. What wasn't planned was how would they help Malik stop the beast. Bakura took the hand the was on the beast and rubbed his blue creation commanding it in gestures to go and hunt the target. Bakura hands slipped to his side a lopsided grin on his face as it charged off in the direction of his pray. Yugi who awoke with confusion as much as came out of it looked around him the moment The Dark Beast was through the doors of the classroom. It reared and neighed and made a roaring like sound charging at the smaller of the two boy. Yugi let out a terrified scream looking up at what was a mix of duel monster cards. He was dwarfed by the size of the creature and he knew he had no chance of taking it out. Dodging the first attack Yugi scrambled across the room in attempt to find something to hide behind. It was little use as Yugi dodged another attack. Bakura watched from outside his black leather wings flapping to keep him afloat. He was laughing like he was back in Egypt killing people. Yami looked displeased and quite scared at the moment the hell beast throwing a dark multi colored ball of spirits at Yugi. The ball directed a bit away from Yugi and hit a bookcase near him. Yami cringed but felt a bit relieved when his brother got to his feet. Yugi shook his head picking the splinters from his right arm. He glared in defiance at the beast despite how scared he felt. If he could just get behind it he would be able to escape. The beast burst with anger his body enflamed charging up a dark energy ball. When it was released from innards of the demons Yugi was thrown back into the storage closet stunning him. Malik looked around the soccer field for a third time everyone was acting as if appearing on a soccer field was normal. Then out of the corner of his eye he saw it standing their waves of red mist flowing towards them. "Change of heart?" Malik ran over to Ryou and tried to get him into a conversation but his topics where little to none. Forgetting his friend here he looked for Yugi; not seeing him anywhere leaving Marik panicked. He thought if one duel monster was here turning people into freaks two or more could be here. Malik raced into the school as fast as he could heading towards the last place Yugi was before the nightmare began. He didn't have to search long as the high pitched scream erupted from one of the rooms. English classroom it was the end of first hour when this happened. Running towards the classroom and into it he saw what had to be the most hideous thing he could have seen. Staring at the cold dead eyes of the beast Malik barley noticed Yugi huddled in that background. His finger grabbed the nearest object closer to him which happened to be a pole for pulling down the projection screen. As a distraction he flung the pole over at the front of the room and ran for the back of the room. The beast neighed angrily and charged crushing Malik into another bookcase. Yugi opened a violet eye trying hard no to cry he staggered to his feet slowly making his way around the beast and to his friend.
"Malik, are you okay?" Malik just stared blankly at the ceiling.
"I'm fine it's you I'm worried about." Malik struggled to hug his angelic friend trying to keep his movement slow so the beast didn't charge at him. But, no matter how slow he had been the blast of souls found him. At least the window above him anyway, the glass shattered covering Malik and Yugi in minor cuts luckily when the beast attacked he took everything out completely. Malik and Yugi were shadowed by a figure not looking up to see who it was. Malik hung on to Yugi tighter as the figures shadow disappeared. Black leather wings folded into the skin of the blonde Egyptian boy named Marik.
"Guardian Solider of The Bone Dragon" Malik head shot up he didn't know there was someone here with them. He looked over briefly and shuddered. It was? Remembering back to the picture that Yugi showed him before school of four best friends fought his confused brain for remembrance. Malik knew him but his name escaped his bloody lips if Yugi even told him one. Before the nameless warrior was a beast patch worked together quite like the one attacking everyone. Before the blonde Egyptian stood a Blonde haired guardian solider with green shoulder armor lined in silver with a matching chest plate and jeans. A long silvery sword gleamed by the soldier's side bursting with golden Fire. He looked down proudly the beast that was known as the safe card. His dragon wings unfolded going all the way to each side of the room. He had powerful claws and spikes down his back. And a larger sea horse tail with matching red green scales of bone.
"I pay tribute to the Elements my Guardian Solider of the Bone Dragon! ELEMENTS BURST!" the dragon gave it's protest with a mighty roar but was soon taken by a white spirit in short time the four original monster that made the great beast formed into tiny balls shooting into the sky and bouncing right into the Hell beast. The Beast sparked blue flames from it's body and that was all the was seen the smoke took the room the light made it even harder to see. Yugi opened his eyes still partially beneath Malik and took one very small peak at the remains. Three monsters remained Soul tiger, Nightmare Horse, and Souls of the Forgotten. Yugi shut his eyes moving closer to Malik for protection. Malik complied to the small request using his body as a shield . Marik glanced at them then quickly summed his next action.
"Kaiser Colosseum!" A round glowing ring formed around Marik and the monsters. Soul Tiger and Nightmare horse cried out bursting into flames and vanishing in it's own smoke. The Souls of the Forgotten flew widely around trying to form a higher power but with nothing on Marik side of this battleground the souls burst into puffs of air and vanished. It was a few seconds as Malik helped Yugi from the floor dusting of the dirt and shards of glass. Looking over Malik studied Marik as he swayed in his place his golden aura was flickering in and out. Malik gasped as the ancient man fell to his knees holding his stomach as dizziness came over him. As desperate as he was he couldn't make it stop.
-Flash back-
Marik sat at the bottom of the closed bathroom door staring over at the leg of what was his brother. He banged his head hard against the door whispering under his breath. He stood on shaky legs grabbing the knife that was still on the counter. He slide his hand over the steal blade feeling the texture against his hands. He then brought the dagger up as he took a step forward and drove the dagger into his heart. As the words filled the air in the room. Marik stopped in front of the body looking over the wreck.
"Hi, My name is Marik I am your older brother." He said as he picked up the body. "My blood will cure you."
-end flash back-
The ground hit him hard and before the world turned blck he heard one faint voice says something he never though he would hear again.
"OLDER BROTHER!" Malik wasn't even sure why he screamed it but for some reason he knew he was the older brother he wanted
Wow what a story thanks to Kenny the first time… helped me out a lot and I want u to read and review and tell friends thanks… Chapter three is up and I'm so glad for that… and I might no disclaimer but if a product on TV I don't own it…