Chapter 7 - When the Lights go out...

[Nya. Disclaimer: I own nothing related to Yugioh. And if you haven't read my past yugioh stories, you won't know who Chikara is . If you want a better idea of who Chikara is, you should read my first two yugioh fics and it may become somewhat, well I guess understandable cause I'm not really good at explaining things o_O And for later issues, Chikara is somewhat...not consciously aware of her yami from the second fic that I wrote .]

The babysitting job had just started and things seemed to be going well. The two babysitters somewhat kept their distance between each other while the two satanic children were planning traps for their soon to be captured guests. Marik wandered around a corner and found the kitchen, with MANY lovely knives that hung neatly on hooks.

"Well...look at what we have here." He said out loud as he walked over to one of the knife racks. "Very nice indeed...I think that I'll keep a few of those."

After admiring the strange cutting blades, Marik wandered into another room and boy, it was like treasure tomb. There were lovely collections of old medieval weapons that were hung from racks, stood tall in glass cases and some tied to the ceiling. Marik's eyes widened at all the dangerous slaughter weapons that were within his grasp, and then he heard a few bangs and sounds of things falling all together. His psychotic mind was already thinking up plans to torture the demon children with them when Chikara entered the room.

Marik looked up and was taken aback from what he saw. "Uh...What in Ra's named happened to you?"

Chikara's eye twitched angrily as she stood at the doorway of the room, with her hair messed up and some of her clothing torn. "I officially state...that I hate children."

Marik looked at her for a moment then burst out laughing. "Then why did you bother to take the Ra damned job in the first place! If you don't like brats, then you should have known better!"

Chikara growled and it was approaching night time outside, casting a slight orange glow underneath the dark curtains. "Then I'll like to see YOU fair with those kids!"

Marik smirked and crossed his arms confidently. "I bet that I can do a lot better than you can. Those kids will be like obedient slaves after I'm done with them."

"Well then! Go ahead!" snapped Chikara as she walked towards the kitchen to get herself a glass of water.

Marik snickered and made his way to the second floor, scanning the area with his eyes. "Alright, brats. Time to come out."

There was silence so Marik decided to peek into the rooms. He found nothing interesting until he saw a light coming from the bottom of one of the doors. He walked over to the door silently, and kicked it open...finding it childless.

"What the hell," he said to himself as he stepped into the room.

The room had broken toys scattered around everywhere and the walls had crayon markings all over them.

"This is ridiculous." muttered Marik as he started walking back out of the room.

One of the devilish children was standing in the hallway, 'innocently'. "Hey, mister!"

Marik looked down distastefully at the child and uncrossed his arms. "What do you want, brat?"

"You know that you're gonna die here! No babysittin person has ever made it out alive! We got their stuff down in the basement!" said the child happily.

"Oh really? Would you care to join them?" growled Marik in a low tone.

"That's funny, mister. You and yer girlfriend are gonna be down there with em forever! And we'll bury you in the backyard for the mousies!"

"...Get out of my sight before I decide to kill you both and leave your carcasses outside to rot!" snapped Marik, as he started losing his patience. "You are testing my sanity and I swear to Ra that I will enjoy slaughtering you both!"

"Who's this guy called Ra? Is he yer imaginary friend, mister?" asked the kid in a snotty matter. "This ain't right! Our babysitta got an invisible friend! Oy! Jerry! Get a look at this guy! He talks to himself and wears funny shirts!"

Marik's sanity level was dropping severely and he clenched one of his fists tightly. He was utterly insulted from the fact that a mere child was disgracing an Egyptian God.

"You little rats! You both die now!" yelled Marik as he took out one of the knives that he snatched from the kitchen.

"I'm tellin me mom on you! You got one of her knives!" shouted Jerry as he jumped up and down.

And so the chase began, with the two children running and the now psychotic Egyptian spirit after them! Little did Marik know, the twins had planned traps for him. The two bolted around another hallway and Marik ran after them, only to trip over a toy and get hit in the chest with an old oak coffee table.

"ARGH!" yelled Marik in pure pain as he dropped the knife and covered his chest with his arms. "Son of a bitch!"

Elsewhere, Malik sat at home and tried to cover up the damages that his yami had made when he suddenly felt a severe jolt within the mental link.

/Yami! Is something wrong? / He asked quickly, fearing the worst.

// This...ends now. // hissed Marik through the link. //I'm going to kill those Ra forsaken brats! They will be slaughtered! //

/GAH! Yami, don't do that! Please! Calm down! / begged Malik as his eyes widened.

Malik started to panic as he didn't hear a reply. "Damn it!"

He grabbed the house keys and ran out of his house, then stopped when he didn't know where to look. "Worst kids...but where the hell do they live??"

Malik decided to go look for SOMEONE that knew where the house was. He happened to find Téa walking down the street and grabbed her shoulder.

"Where do the worst kids in Domino City live??" asked Malik quickly.

Téa raised an eyebrow. "And why are you wondering?"

"Because my yami is babysitting them and he is going to kill them! If he does that, then we're screwed!" yelled Malik.

"...I'm not even going to ask how this started. But that old place is near the outskirts of the downtown area. You can't miss it. It's some big old house with an overgrown front yard."

"Thank you! Thank you ever so much!" said Malik as he ran off towards the old house.

Téa shook her head and continued walking. "Boys..."

Back in the psychotic household of the twins, it was deathly silent. Chikara sat in the kitchen, drinking some water and her curiosity got her wondering about the silence.

// Let me out! // yelled an angry sounding voice.

Chikara spat out the water. "Excuse me?"

And then there was silence once again.

"I must be losing my mind or Marik's insanity has rubbed off on me." Muttered Chikara.

// How about all of the above? // asked the voice, that sounded quite annoyed.

"...MARIK!" yelled Chikara at the top of her lungs. "Get DOWN here!"

There was more silence so Chikara got up and started looking around for the silent psycho. There was a knock at the door and she walked over to see who it was.

"Hello? Yami? Chikara? Anyone in there?" called Malik as he tried to get a look inside.

The door opened and Malik saw Chikara standing there.

"...What are YOU doing here?" asked Chikara.

"You have to let me in! My yami was talking to me through link that we share and he is going to go INSANE! More insane than usual and he's going to kill the kids! My best guess is that they hit him where he is wounded!" explained Malik rather quickly as he went into the house.

"...Great. That's just what I need right now." Muttered Chikara as she kicked the door shut lazily. "Babysitting two annoying and devil-like children, a more psychotic psycho and someone talking to me that I don't even see."

"What did you say?" asked Malik as he slowly turned around and looked at Chikara. "Someone talking...and you can't see?"

"Unfortunately...why?" wondered Chikara.

Malik's eye twitched nervously. 'We're all doomed! This is NOT going to be pretty if Chikara's yami surfaces! I don't even think that she REMEMBERS that she has a yami!'

"Uhm...Chikara, do you have your necklace with you?" asked Malik cautiously.

"Mhmm. Why do you ask? I always have it with me."

"No...reason. Just if something strange happens, try not to do anything, okay? As in stay FAR away from my yami." said Malik quickly as he ran off to find his darker half.

"O...kay then. This day keeps getting weirder." Said Chikara to herself as she locked the door and followed Malik.

Malik made it to the upstairs first and didn't find his yami, but he found a knife on the floor.

"Wait a minute. How come you aren't at work or anything?" asked Chikara suspiciously as she crossed her arms. "Or did you stick me with Marik so you could be alone at your house..."

"Marik? Oh. You must mean my yami." Answered Malik nervously as he noticed some of the lights started to flicker. "I was still at home, trying to fix the Ra damned phones then I could feel as if something bad happened to my yami and here I am."

There was a sound like an electrical surge then all the lights in the house went off with a severe zapping noise. The house was plunged into pitch blackness.

"Oy! What's goin on!? I can't see!" yelled Tommy as he ran blindly down a hallway, and then he bumped into someone. "Ey! Watch it there!"

Marik looked down at the child and smirked maliciously, grabbing the kid by the collar of his shirt and lifting him up to his captor's eye level.

"Why hello there, little one..." Purred Marik unpleasantly. "Isn't it a coincidence that the house is now plunged into darkness, the windows and doors are solidly locked and you are unfortunately stuck in the house?"

"Lemme go, you ugly babysitta!" spat out the kid as he tried to kick at Marik.

Marik sighed sarcastically and hooked the back of Tommy's shirt on a high coat rack. "Now don't go warning your equally devilish brother about me...or an unfortunate accident may happen to you...your parents don't really HAVE to remember that they have children."

Tommy's eyes widened as Marik laughed psychotically and strode down the hallway, smirking sinisterly.

Malik cringed when he heard his darker half's laughing and looked around nervously, as he stood in the dark house.

"Great," he said nervously to himself. "I'm trapped in a pitch black house, with a psychotic yami, another psycho and two children who basically eat people alive."

"Another psycho? Well thanks a lot!" growled Chikara as she slapped Malik upside the head.

"Ow! Don't do that!" snapped Malik.

Chikara crossed her arms and looked down the hallway, trying to see anything or anyone.

"HEY! What the hell did I say about hitting me?!" yelled Malik as he glared angrily at Chikara.

"Excuse me? I did not do anything, Malik." Muttered Chikara.

Malik laughed nervously and his eye twitched slightly. "Come on, stop joking around."

"Gods damn it, my arms are crossed, Malik."

"...I mean it, stop joking. I'm not kidding, Chikara."

"I told you once and I'll tell you again. I-did-not-touch-you! ALRIGHT?!" hissed Chikara.

"If you didn't, then...who did?" asked Malik nervously.

Creaking floorboards got the attention of both of then and Marik stood behind the two with his arms crossed, holding a sharpened scythe that he saw in the weaponry room earlier and smiling a little too dangerously.

"Death says a child to its mother...well, I guess that I will live up to that title, now won't I?" laughed Marik quietly. "This will be fun and won't hurt one bit...I assure you."

[Dun dun dunnn...o_O ANYWAYS! That's chapter 7! What do YOU think is gonna happen in the locked and darkened house of doom?]