"Haahahah!" Samalia laughed while Yuugi and Ryo were dueling each other, and being overly dramatic.
Wow, Yuugi is really good. So, he must be the re-incarnation of Atemu. Not a bad job!
Wonder who Akefia's re-incarnation is.
In the end, Yuugi won (shocker). So, Jou piped up a question.
"Okay if you could pick one song to represent yourself, which one would you pick and why?"
"I would pick 'Firework' by Katy Perry because it shows you're amazing no matter what." Ryo said all proud.
Everyone named off song titles and gave their answers.
"What's your Samalia?" Anzu asked.
"Missing by Evanscence." She replied simply.
"What? Why that!" Samalia smiled, but Ryo recognized that smile. A forced smile.
"In my life, I was always forgotten. My brother probably doesn't even recognize I exist." She sat up and headed for the bathroom.
"Weird." Honda said.
"Who wants to play 'Truth Or Dare'?" Yuugi asked.
Everyone agreed and Ryo started.
"Bakura truth or dare?" Ryo asked said person.
"Truth." He said simply.
"Oh…okay." That had Ryo. He thought and then thought of a really hard question. "Whats your biggest regret?" Bakura looked at him. Atemu glanced at him, and thought of the same thing.
"That's easy. Pharaoh, you think what I'm thinking." Atemu nodded his head and Bakura sighed in.
"A long time ago, I had a lover. She was very… different. She well… was a slave. A slave for the Pharaoh." All eyes glanced at Atemu who had his head down. "I mistreated her. Told her she was nothing. I stabbed her and I regret it. I sent her to shadows to 'burn in hell' I believe I said. I never saw her again, and I wish I got to see her again. But I can't even remember her."
Samalia walked in as he finished.
"Woah why is everyone in tears?" She asked.
"Bakura's story. It's so sad!" Anzu said.
"Ummm… okay? I'll get some snacks."
Samalia went into the kitchen to get some hot coca and spilled some on her arm.
She screamed in pain.
Bakura's eyes went wide.
"AAAH! Please stop!"
"I don't think so."
That scream. No way.
"You okay?" Ryo asked.
"Yeah! Just burned myself!" And Samalia came out with the hot chocolate, and a towel around her wrist.
"Hold on, I need to wrap this up." She said as she went and got the first aid kit.
Minutes later, she came back up and her right wrist was bandaged up.
"Man am I tired!" Honda said while yawning. Everyone agreed and found a place to sleep. Samalia and Ryo shared the couch while everyone else slept on the floor.
Bakura was having sleeping troubles that night.
Akefia.
Mother?
Yes. Now listen to me. I want you to take a closer look at the girl who is sleeping next to your light.
Bakura obeyed, and looked at her closer. Then he realized something.
"Tiny pink streaks in her hair." He said shocked.
Look at her skin.
Once again, Bakura looked closer. There on her foot were some specks.
"I-Its tan."
Yes. Don't you understand now?
Shadow Magic….
Yes my child.
So, it's been her all alone?
Yes Akefia.
"Bakura?" Bakura's eyes snapped open.
"Huh? Where am I?"
"At Samalia's house. Look Ryo and Samalia are getting some groceries. They told us to tell you they'll be back in 15 minutes."
"Okay. You're point?"
"It's been over 35 minutes." Yuugi said.
Then (as if on cue) the door was slammed open. Ryo ran through the door, and hugged Bakura. He started sobbing quite heavily.
"Calm down, Ryo. What's wrong?" Bakura said.
"I-its Samalia. She's been kidnapped."
TO BE CONTINUED…. NOW
"What!" They all said. "How?"
Ryo told the story as he recalled it.
Ryo screamed in fear and pain. 2 men had corned him in an alley way.
"Help please!" He said as one of them pulled out a knife.
"Now listen here. You're coming with us." He said as he brought the knife close to the small hikari's face.
"STOP!" All three of them turned their heads to see Samalia looking worried and panicked.
"I don't think so girly." And they brought the knife closer.
"Please" She began to break down, "Take me instead! Just let him go! You can do anything, just don't hurt him!" The two men looked interested and grinned an evil grin.
You got a deal." The backed off of Ryo and one of the men pulled out a pair of hand cuffs. They hand cuffed Samalia and pushed her into a car.
"And I ran to you guys." Ryo began crying again. Bakura was furious. The one time he finally finds her, and she's taken away.
"We'll find her." Atemu reassured everyone.
You better be right Pharaoh. You better be right.
Samalia woke up and looked at her surroundings. She was now tied up in chains against the wall (Like Mokuba was in Pegasus's castle). She smiled. This didn't seem unfamiliar at all.
5 days have passed since then. No one has heard a single word from Samalia. Bakura is enraged with himself. He finally has found the love he has been waiting for, and she is now gone. That is until Bakura suddenly gets a vision.
There is Samalia tied up with a bloddy cheek, and her right wrist is throbbing. She is wearing a black tank top with black pants, she is also bare footed. She still looks like the Samalia that Ryo is friends with. He can hear a piano in the background. She smiles and takes a deep breath.
"Akefia" She says in a hoarse whisper.
"Say my name
So I will know you're back you're here again
For a while
Oh let us share
The memories that only we can share
Together"
She smiles and almost giggles. Bakura is sickened by her appearance.
"Tell me about
The days before I was born
How we were as children"
Then her appearance starts to change. Her jet black hair becomes tri-colored once again. Her pale skin becomes tan. This is the Samalia he was familiar with. This proves that it's been her all along.
"You touch my hand
These colors come alive
In your heart and in your mind
She holds up her Sennen Puzzle and starts to smile. We breath the air"
I cross the borders of time
Leaving today behind to be with you again
She takes a long deep sigh.
"Do you remember how you used to touch my hair?"
She puts her fingers through her hair.
Bakura now is using his Sennen Ring to try to locate her. He runs out of Ryo's apartment with no explanation. The vision is still being played in his mind.
"You're not aware
Your hands keep still
You just don't know that I am here"
Samalia becomes sadden by this statement. "It hurts too much"
She clenches her heart to show that she is in pain. You touch my hand
"I pray now that soon you're released
To where you belong
These colors come alive
In your heart and in your mind
I cross the borders of time"
Once again, she holds up her Sennen Puzzle.
"Leaving today behind to be with you again"
Bakura is now running for his life. He has to locate her.
Samalia is now taken by the two men, and is taken outside. They tie her wrists together, and the next thing she is on the edge of a cliff. The sound of the waters clashing is in the background. Samalia just looks down below.
"I'm sorry." She mutters. For she knows, it's her time to go and escape this world. She believes she never got her wish fulfilled.
Bakura is panicking. Are they going to push her off? What is happening? He knows that this is not a joke or a dream. It's happening. He takes a sharp turn as one of the needles points to the right.
Samalia looks below and sheds a tear. She sings in a quiet voice.
"Please say my name (do I know you?)
Remember who i am
You will find me in the world of yesterday"
She looks up to the sky, thinking of where she will be with her mother and father. But not with her lover.
"You drift away again"
She turns her head towards the ground and starts sobbing. She has given up. She has failed.
"No. No you haven't." Bakura says
"Too far from where I am"
She closes her eyes and looks downwards, as if ashamed or rejected.
"When you ask me who I am"
Then one of the men pulls out a knife, and stabs her right in the back. Not just anywhere, the exact spot where Bakura hit her thousands of years ago.
"NO SAMALIA!" Bakura screams
She screams in pain. Her weight goes forward and she plummets to her death.
"Say my name
These colors come alive
In your heart and in your mind
I cross the borders of time
Leaving today behind to be with you again"
She tries to swim but the waters are too forceful, and she goes under.
"Say my name"
She does not come back up.