Chapter Four – Falling Apart
I started heading to the hall again, but on the way I saw Tea.
"Hey Tea," I said and she saw me.
"Hi Femi, cool journal! What does it say on it?" She asked me as we resumed walking to the hall room.
"All it repeats is Light and Dark, I got given this by my brother as a gift." I explained to her, but with not too much detail.
"Wow, well it looks very pretty." Tea told me while staring at the journal.
"I was just about to write a little entry in it once I got into the hall and got a seat." I said and then we arrived in the hall, so we both walked over to the chairs and sat down.
Yugi and the others then arrived and Tea talked to them while I decided to write in my journal.
Dear Journal,
Odion and Joey's duel is coming up and I don't know whether to watch it or not... I want to be there to cheer Joey on, but I am afraid to witness Odion going unconscious and Malik taking control of Malik.
Though, I hope that Malik will figure out about me when all of this soon to be chaos ends.
Actually, I think I may just watch, and if what happens back on the show happens here then I'll try and calm Malik down when he is in pain, though it may not work and when Marik shows up, I think I'll leave secretly or something...?
I closed the book and looked up just in time to see Odion enter the room. Joey began making snide remarks and I wanted to scold him but I stopped myself from doing so, as he would then think I was on Malik's side though I am not.
Finally, the people to duel next were announced. Obviously to me it was 'Malik' (Odion) Ishtar against Joey Wheeler.
With Malik~
Malik was standing at the back of the crowd of duelists and side liners. His adoptive brother, was going to duel Joey Wheeler. He started using his Millennium Rod to have a mind link with Odion, telling him what to do during the duel.
Then Odion and Joey walked with Roland into the elevator to go to the roof dueling platform, while Malik and the others went another way with Kaiba and Mokuba.
Malik did not read Odion's thoughts, only talk to him and hear his replies.
Back with Femi~
I held my journal by my side, a small frown plastered onto my face feeling unhappy about this duel.
I decided to stand near the back of the sidelines like before and far from Malik as possible. I rested my back against the rails and quietly watched the second Battle City Quarter-finals duel.
With Ishizu~
Ten minutes had passed since the duel between her brother and Joey begun.
Ishizu was sitting on her chair in her room thinking in complete silence about the past, and also about Femi.
Her Millennium Necklace had shown her the outcome of the duel, and it made her frown. She allowed one single tear to fall from her eye before standing up and looking outside of her window to see a beam of bright yellow fierce light.
Back with Femi once again!~
It had been ten minutes since the beginning of the duel and Odion had paused for a second before summoning Ra, well trying to.
I glanced at Malik who stared at his duel disk confusedly, his deck was shining. All of a sudden there was a loud noise and I looked up to see a blurry yellow dragon in the sky along with lightening.
In a flash literally, Odion was knocked to the floor by some lightening. I wanted to go and help him but I found my self staying still. I was unsure of whether to help Odion now or wait until Joey wins the duel.
Joey soon was struck with lightening and his friends gasped.
"Joey!" Tristan shouted as he tried jumping up onto the platform but of course, Kaiba stopped him and announced that whoever got up and was able to make their next move would be the winner.
'Come on Odion...' I mentally said a couple of times, though I knew that he would only fall again and Joey would win.
With Joey~ (His P.O.V)
I found myself back at school, I was still sitting at my desk in class while the rest of the room was empty except for my friends.
"Joey! You're going to be late for your duel if you aren't ready yet!" Yugi scolded me.
"Oh yeah, sorry Yuge, I guess I'm just really tired at the moment. I'll just check my deck is good." I said as I went into my pocket and got out my deck. All of a sudden the desk fell forward and my cards all fell onto the ground.
"Joey, be serious about this!" Tea said angrily as they all stared at me.
"We'll help you sort out your deck okay?" Femi suggested and I nodded then I got a piece of paper out from my pocket.
"The order is on here." I gave Femi the piece of paper and all of my friends started clearing up my deck and reordering it up. Wait. Femi never went to Domino High...
While I watched them, I noticed Mai and Serenity. Huh? Oh yeah and Femi doesn't go to our school either! What the?
I sat on the floor and I saw Tristan sit next to me.
"Hey dude, are you okay?" He asked me concernedly.
"Kinda, I'm just tired Tristan, nothin' to worry 'bout." I reassured him.
"Hey Joey, we've finished sorting out your deck, now let's get you to the tournament!" Yugi said, Tristan stood up but for some unknown reason, I couldn't get up.
"Joey, stop messing around, you need to get up." Tea said but I frowned embarrassedly.
"Sorry Tea, it's just I can't get up." I told them honestly and yet sheepishly. Tea rolled her eyes but each one of my friends held out their hand, I slowly took their hands and managed to get up. But then everything blacked out and I reopened my eyes to see I was back on the platform of Kaiba's blimp.
I looked in front of me to see a guy lying on the ground. Then there was cheering coming from my right, so I turned around to see Yugi and the others. "What happened?" I asked lazily, still tired.
"Both you and Malik were struck with lightening, Malik managed to stand up but he fell again so you had the chance to win!" Yami told me and my eyes brightened. Oh yeah I remember dat now!
"Joey Wheeler is the winner of duel two!" Roland announced and then me and Yami ran up to Malik.
"I'm sorry master Malik..." 'Malik' whispered slowly. I kneeled down in front of the guy, confused about who he was talking to. Who is the real Malik?
With Femi~ (Her P.O.V)
While everybody's attention was on Odion, I went up to Malik for he was growling silently. "Hey Namu, what's wrong?" I asked him concernedly.
"N-nothing F-femi." He said as he tried standing up straight again, but he failed as the pain in his head kept throbbing badly.
"Seriously Namu, tell me what's going on." I said sternly to him but he was too busy clutching onto his head in deep pain as the darkness was trying to take over.
"What's going on with Namu?" Tea said worried and I shrugged as I tried getting him to stop scaring me.
"Malik, this wasn't part of your plan was it?" I asked him quietly so that no one could hear me and he tried shaking his head.
"Namu! That is not your real name is it?! You are the real Malik!" Yami announced and Yugi's friends gasped in shock. Malik then removed his hands from his head and he snickered at Yami.
"Yes I am Malik. It took you time to find out who I really am!" Malik said and then he grabbed his head again, yelling in pain as his Yami finally got control. The first thing his Yami did was grab my wrist and tear off the bracelet before throwing it off the side of the blimp.
"Hey!" I protested but he ignored me and looked at Yami Yugi smirking.
"Hello Pharaoh, it's nice to finally meet you thanks to my foolish weaker half." Marik said sarcastically.
"You aren't Malik, who are you really?" I asked him.
"I am his darker half and I go by the name, Marik." Marik told me, and the others too. "Don't worry, Pharaoh.Our duel will come soon." Marik told the Pharaoh who looked unhappily at him.
Marik laughed before leaving to his, no. Malik's room.
The others began to try and help Odion who was comatose, while I went to the hall. I sat down in a seat on my own and went to my page where I did that doodle of battle city. I drew the next duel and then Bakura and Marik's Shadow duel too.
I yawned minutes later when I finished doodling the duels and closed my journal, then I decided to go see Bakura.
When I arrived to where he was staying, I saw that the room was empty except for him luckily. "Hey Bakura?" I whispered to him, I planned on telling him about the fact that I had come from another dimension and also about Malik and his family, maybe he could tell Malik.
"Touzoku-ou Bakura." I said and his eyes opened to stare or glare at me.
"There's something I want you to tell Malik when you next see him." I told him and so I told him everything. He raised an eyebrow and nodded once. I showed him my doodles and he stared at the before looking at me again. "I'm gonna see Ishizu now, later Bakura. And don't forget to tell Malik!" I said and then I left his room to go to Ishizu's which was close by. "Hello Femi, Marik broke the bracelet didn't he?" Ishizu said as I sat down on one of the two beds, my bed. "Yeah..." I replied and then looked out of the window. I shivered, I wasn't very keen on heights.
I yawned and lied down on my bed, ready to drop into unconsciousness any second now. "I'm gonna rest onee-san." I told her before pulling my covers over my body and falling into an unconscious state called sleep.