SORRY ABOUT THE LONG WAIT! But I wrote more stuff so I should update faster than I have been. I hope...

Previously on Triangular Hallway *cue "previously on yugioh" sounds*:
"I know what's going on here," Bakura announced. "Obviously our minds have been linked. So our hallways have been linked as well. We now seem to have a triangular hallway."
Everyone gasped and shouted at the same time. "WHAT?!"

"So, Touzoku," Malik said, "What is your brilliant theory?"
"If you'd let me finish, Malik." He turned around and faced everyone else. "I also have noticed that this link seems to be two days old. So my theory is this: the reason why the hallways are linked has to do with me, the Pharaoh, and Malik. Since this happened two days ago, then it must have something to do with whatever happened that day in the volcano/temple system. Probably the volcano."

"Wait a minute..." Yugi said. "I think I may have a theory as well."
"Well?" Malik asked expectantly. "Out with it!"
"Um..." Yugi twiddled his thumbs shyly. "It's... not really all that sound. It's just something I noticed that happened on the plane. With the Millenium Puzzle."
"Something happened to the Puzzle?" Ryou asked. "I think the same thing may have happened to the Millenium Ring. I also noticed that on the plane."
"Speaking of which..." Bakura turned to his hikari. "What did happen on the plane? You never told me."

"Yugi, you never really told me either."
"Hey, why don't we tell them now?" suggested Marik.
Yugi and Bakura both nodded. They really wanted to know what went on in the volcano-temple place, but right now everyone's immediate concern was sharing what they observed on the plane.
*dramatic outro noise*

Just so you know who is who, these are the names used: Hikari Marik is 'Marik'. Yami Marik is 'Malik*'. Hikari Bakura is 'Bakura', but sometimes called 'Ryou' by Yami Bakura and Marik. Yami Bakura is 'Bakura*' (don't worry you'll be able to tell the difference), sometimes called 'Yami' by Ryou or 'Touzoku' by Malik. Hikari Yugi is 'Yugi'. Yami Yugi is 'Pharaoh' or 'Yami'.

BTW thanks to Scaehime-KingofKing's Daughter for asking for a note about the brackets! The words in [ ] are Yugi, Marik, and Ryou narrating during the flashback. It should be easy enough to tell who is talking in each.

This is Part 1, chapter 4.

R&R

ENJOY~!


Chapter 4
Flashback: On The Plane


~Somewhere, on a plane...~

["I woke up and the first thing I saw was a seat in front of me. I looked down and the second thing I saw was my Puzzle. Then I noticed that my arm and my neck and chin hurt. And my hand was red."]

The teen in the middle looked to his left and his right. To his left was his friend, Marik. To his right was his friend Bakura. Both were still sleeping.

Yugi then looked out the window to his right. All he saw were trees and sky. Then he realized where they were. On an airplane. But where were they going?

["Obviously the first thing I did was wake them up..."]

Yugi reached a hand to those on either side of him and shook their shoulders. "Guys... Wake up. I think..."

["Ryou woke up first..."]

Bakura slowly opened his eyes and looked around. The first thing he registered was Yugi's face. "Yugi..." he said sleepily. "Where are we? And..."

["And I noticed that once again, I had been injured while unconscious. My arm hurt a bit, my hands were a bit red, and my face..."]

He reached a hand up to his cheek and felt the area below his right eye. "Yugi... Why is there a scratch on my face? What happened? Why are we here?"

"Um... I don't know."

["I'm sorry. I lied to you. I actually did know a bit of the situation. Yami told me that we were going somewhere and a few other minor details, but that was it."]

["Then I noticed Marik sitting next to him."]

Marik started stirring and slowly opened his eyes. He looked around for a moment or two before waking up completely and sitting up. He turned to the right and noticed his two friends sitting there.

["My head hurt a lot for some reason. And my hands looked a bit scratched up and my arm hurt. You two also looked like a mess."]

"Wh- Yugi? Ryou? Are you two okay? Where are we?"

"Oh a private plane I think," Yugi responded. "I think we're going back home."

"Home?! Where are we leaving from?! Where did we go? I don't remember a thin..." He trailed off as he felt a small pain in his head. "My head hurts... Wh-"

["And I knew why..."]

"Yugi... Do you have any idea how we got here?" Bakura asked. "I don't even remember leaving the house this morning, as far as I recall."

"Ryou... I think it's the next day already," Yugi told him.

He looked shocked for a moment. "What?!" The expression faded.

["I'm no stranger to memory lapses, if you know what I mean..."]

"I think we all went on some crazy adventure to do something in some temple place. I don't know how I know that."

"Oh not the ancient history bull crap again!" Marik exclaimed. "Haven't we had enough of those?"

"Apparently not," Bakura replied.

"So right now, I believe we are heading home."

"That's good. But I wonder what happened that would give me a scratch on my face..."

["I have to be honest... I saw that Marik was holding the Millenium Rod and I got a little bit suspicious."]

["I also noticed that I was holding it... But I didn't suspect that I had hurt anyone with it. Thanks for trusting me..."]

["Well forgive me for being wary of the physical pain that those items can inflict."]

["You have been forgiven."]

["Anyway... I had also noticed that the two of them had their Millenium Items with them. Which made me wonder..."]

"I wish I could remember what happened. I'm jealous of you Yugi. You have the good spirit in your Item..."

With that statement, Bakura had pretty much stated what was on everyone's mind: they had been out of the action; their darker halves hadn't.

"Wait a minute..." Marik said. "Why are we here?"

"What do you mean?" Yugi and Bakura asked at the same time.

"Well... Whatever happened here... This kind of stuff usually happens to Yugi. Not us. Why are me and Ryou here?"

"Well... I think he's right," Yugi said. "The three of us don't remember anything of what happened yet here we are. So it's obvious who really went through whatever just happened."

They all responded at the same time.

"The Pharaoh."
"Malik."
"Bakura."

[So we all knew that the three of you were responsible. But that meant more to Marik and Ryou than it did to me."]

Marik thought about his yami. Again, he had taken over and done something crazy. And now his head hurt and something had probably gone wrong. At least the other two were still alive. That's a good sign.

Bakura also thought of his yami. It had happened again. But what had happened? And why was he injured yet again? What exactly was he doing?

Yugi, however, was thinking more about the others than himself. He wondered how and why his yami had trusted Malik and Yami Bakura enough to do something like this with
them. Was it because he needed help? Or because they were involved? He knew one thing: the other two yamis had willingly joined him, and they hadn't simply run into each other and stuck with him. But again...

"What happened there?" all three said at the same time.

"Oh finally!"

The three looked toward the sound of the voice who had just spoken. Moments later, they saw a young woman in a flight attendant's uniform walk next to them. She looked back and forth between a piece of paper in her hand and the three teens in the row. Finally, her head stopped moving and she asked, "Yugi Muto, Marik Ishtar, and Ryou Bakura?"

"Yes?" they responded in unison.

"Oh good." She looked at Yugi. "Someone you know told me to check on you three when you woke up. He needed to tell me what you looked like so I wouldn't get confused." She winked. "If you know what I mean."

["I had absolutely no idea what she meant."]

["Neither did I."]

["I did. My yami gave her a picture of what the three of us looked like so she wouldn't confuse us for our yamis."]

["Oh."]

["Oh."]

"You three need anything?" she asked Yugi. "Something for your head?" she asked Marik. "Something for your face?" she asked Bakura.

The three shook their heads.

"Wait!" Yugi said. "Where did we come from and how far is it from home?"

She smiled weakly and shook her head. "Sorry. I don't know."

["I could tell she was lying though."]

"If you need anything later, just call for me. My name is Kirani." She turned away with a smile and left.

["This is the important part. Pay attention."]

The three decided to just sit there quietly for a few moments. With nothing better to do, they decided to examine their Millenium Items.

The first thing Marik did was remove the bottom of the Millenium Rod and examine the blade of it. Yugi and Bakura held their breaths.

There was nothing on it. It was totally clean and dry.

They breathed and sighed in relief.

Marik sheathed it again.

Then they turned to their own items.

Bakura felt the prongs of the Millenium Ring as well, looking for the same thing Marik had. There was nothing there. However, three of them were rough at the tips. And the ring itself was chipped a bit. But he figured that it must have hit something. Maybe the same thing that scratched his face?

["That didn't really seem odd to me at the time. It still doesn't."]

Yugi had that random thought of taking the puzzle apart and putting it back together again. But obviously he didn't do that. He looked in the cracks between the pieces. He noticed several little specks of gold where the cracks were melded together.

["I noticed the same things and scratches I noticed later. There were four of them."]

Then he removed the puzzle from around his neck. When he did, he remembered the pain in his neck/chin area. He felt there and discovered two or three deep grooves that felt like they were made by the Puzzle's chain. But why? He'd never had that problem before.

["That was a bit odd. The chain had never left marks that deep before. They made little marks, but it was light enough not to be that deep. And in the front too? It made me wonder..."]

As for Marik, there wasn't much to look at. He just stared at the eye symbol on the top of the Rod and wondered more about what might have happened. Then he noticed two tiny, almost unnoticeable, dents on the inside of the Rod's wings.

["I just figured it was part of the design. I don't know the Rod the way Yugi and Ryou know their items."]

["So all of us noticed something odd about the surfaces of the Millenium Items we had. That couldn't have been a coincidence. Could it?"]

["Yes... But what does that have to do with anything? Like I said, it could have just been something they hit or scraped against."]

["Two on mine, three on Ryou's, four on Yugi's... What does that mean?"]


This commercial break was brought to you by Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. About half as popular as Team Four Star. Hmph.

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Suffered damages at the hands of your opponent?
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Now back to your regularly scheduled fanfic!


The six stood there, looking at each other. Actually, sat and stood. The three yamis had somehow ended up sitting on the floor.

"So..." Yami finally said. "It seems that those marks and dents on the Millenium Items is the key. Which means that this is all Bakura's fault."

"Me?! But I didn't do anything! I have no-"

"Shut up he was talking to me. Now what did I do?"

"You may have linked us accidentally through our Millenium Items. Especially you and me. Somehow. And you were the only one of us who held all three at once. How do I know you didn't do something to them? And you might have made them scrape against each other as well. And you are the least trustworthy out"

Bakura held up a hand and interrupted. "If you recall, Malik also held the items all at once when I threw them at him."

"You did what?!" Yugi and Ryou shouted at the same time.

"Wait!" Marik interrupted. "One thing I want to know. The injuries we all had. How did we get those?"

Everyone looked at Marik, wondering what to say. Then the Pharaoh answered. The answer to all of these questions lie in the retelling of the last part of the adventure. I think it's our turn to talk." He looked at Malik and Bakura. All three of them nodded.

"So since this is apparently me fault," Bakura started, "I will start telling the story first. I believe it would be best to start at the part where I said that it was all Malik's fault."

"Which one?" Malik asked sarcastically.

"The last time."


*Review if you want me to change it to something else, but not 'Melvin' or 'Florence'. This is not abridged AT ALL.

I'm sorry if part one isn't very exciting. But please bear with me because part two is much more interesting and eventful. That's where the DRAMA happens tee hee hee!

Next chapter:
PART 1: Chapter 5- Flashback: The Volcanic Escape
~A flashback chapter. Yami, Bakura, and Malik describe what happened when they were in the volcano.

See you next chapter!

BYEEEEEEEEEE~!