Twilight at Midnight

Twilight at Midnight

Chapter Nine:

Snooping, Scaring and Scarring

(A Normal Day for Possessed People and Vegetarian Vampires)

Bakura, Malik and Yami all sat in a circle in a meadow they had found a few days ago. They had gone here when they wanted to open their mail without interruption. Bakura had the recorders in the middle of their circle; Yugi and Ryou were also sitting in the circle in their Ghost Forms.

They were all discussing the very dangerous possibility they had been found out. By the American Government by all things!

'So what did you tell them?' Malik asked as he had finished telling them what had happened when Tomes had taken him away. Bakura and Yami had laughed loudly when they heard the tape replay.

Bakura went first, he told them about Samuels and how he had wiped their memories and stolen the recorders before they could leave. 'But it doesn't explain how they knew we were here.' Ryou concluded for his Darker Half. 'How they knew we were on this exchange trip, in this school and staying with the Cullen's.'

Everyone nodded. It was worrisome about it, 'Mike Newton!' Yugi suddenly burst out. Everyone turned to stare at the Light of the Pharaoh. 'C'mon guys! It's not that hard, the guy that interviewed Yami and me was called Newton. What if he's related to Mike Newton at school?'

Malik looked more than a little sceptical about it, 'I don't think Mike Newton would have an uncle or something who's an FBI asshole of an agent and not tell anyone about it. You know he likes to brag, having a fairly close family member as a Special Agent is like the ultimate thing to boast about.'

Bakura however now looked thoughtful. 'We need to find out if Mike was the one to call out the Government. We already know that the Government had to be keeping tabs on us, or they wouldn't have brought out three top agents if Mike had mentioned us to his uncle or whoever that guy was.'

Yami nodded his agreement. 'I think we should have a special little talk with Michael Newton. We need to know what he told Special Agent Newton and how he found out.' Bakura and Malik nodded solemnly.

'I don't think he knows about you guys,' Yugi said surprisingly as he gestured to Yami and Bakura. They looked at him questioningly and the Duellist continued. 'If he did know that me and Ryou are, for lack of a better word, possessed don't you think he would terrified of us?'

'He already is terrified of us, Yugi' Bakura pointed out looking bored, he began to play with the Ring around his neck and Malik who looked nervous began twisting one of his gold wristbands around his tanned wrist. Yami frowned looking concerned at his Lighter Self.

'And he would have told everyone what he knew because he that sort of guy, people like that don't keep secrets.' Yugi reasoned coolly, when no one else said anything. Ryou nodded energetically with what his friend had said.

'We also need to find out how much the FBI knows about us, is there anyway we can get into their files?' The white haired boy asked the spirit of the Millennium Ring.

The Thief King smirked 'I have an even better solution. We go directly to the source; they sent those particular FBI agents or a reason. My bet is that they're the ones that are working on the Millennium Item file, so naturally they would be the ones to know the most about it. Maybe some things they haven't put into their files.'

Yami and Malik's faces split into large grins and even Yugi and Ryou looked pleased. Ryou spoke up, 'they haven't gone back to Washington yet, Bakura made them believe they had come down here for a couple days vacation.'

'We need to also wipe Mike Newton's mind before the FBI bastards run into him. He is bound to want to know what they found out and if he mentions the Millennium Items or the interviews their memories will come back.' Bakura added.

'Right!' Malik and Yami said together and Yugi and Ryou nodded determinedly.

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Rosalie stared at the computer screen, she had lived for nearly a century yet nothing she had seen or she will ever seen would have prepared her for what she saw on the screen as clear as day.

She knew that behind her, her family plus Bella-who Edward should hurry up already and change- were staring at the screen with mixture of surprise, confusion and in Bella's case a healthy dose of fear seeing as they were breaking the law in the most serious way short of killing someone.

Well Bella had never killed anyone… she couldn't say the same for the rest of them.

'If we're found out we are in so much trouble…Charlie will kill me!' Bella whispered as she leaned forward to get a better look at the computer, Rosalie smirked at the raw excitement in the mortal's voice. If she was not mistaken, young miss Bella Swan actually liked breaking the law.

She caught Jasper's eye and raised a slight eyebrow, she silently asked if Bella was as excited as she thought. A minimal nod of his head told her what she wanted to know. Jasper had become accustomed to Bella's smell, although Rosalie knew if the clumsy girl cut herself and there was even a drop of blood, Jasper would lose any self-control he had.

The blonde female vampire shoved the mental image away from her mind she didn't want to think about that. A slight kick in the back of Carlisle's office chair told her Edward had seen what she had seen.

Fighting the urge to turn around and do something babyish and human, like sticking her tongue out at him she focused more on the screen.

It was a photograph, not quite clear as there was a glass panel in front of the object but it was still easy to pick out what it was.

It were two sandy coloured stone tablet; one of those old types that you saw in museums, actually this probably was from a museum. They all looked Egyptian but it was unclear seeing as there were no markings on the stone that even resembled hieroglyphs.

Rosalie clicked on one to get an enlarged picture of it.

The first one was of seven items, an round orb with an eye engraved on it, a ring pendant with points dangling off it, a pair of scales and a type of cross with a looped head-Rosalie thought it was called an ankh. There was also a necklace with the same eye as the orb on it; there was a short sceptre with an orb on one end and that same eye.

The last was the most interesting. It was a upside down pyramid with the same eye as the other items, it was interesting because they had all seen it before, hanging off the neck of the exchange student Yugi Mouto.

Exchanging nervous glances with the rest of her family before she clicked on another one, this one had two people on it. One was tall wearing priest robes and an ornate type of hat, he had a lot of gold at his wrists, upper arms and waist and neck. He was clutching the sceptre they saw in the previous picture.

The figure had wildly spiked hair into a star shape and he wore even more gold than the taller one, including a head piece that looked between a circlet and a crown, bearing that eye they had seen on all the items in the first tablet. Above the figures were three rectangles with a different monster carved on them.

One was a long snake like dragon, it had two mouths, and both open wide in either attack or a deafening roar, Rosalie wasn't sure which. Leathery wings curled around it slender body.

The second one was of what looked like huge hulking blue monster; it had a large mouth twisted into a smile that radiated cruelty and malice. Two horn curve from the top of its heads to its chin.

The third was situated in the middle of the other two. It was another dragon, this one had more of a compact body, and it was coiled as if it was waiting orders to spring into action. Its wings were like metal feathers at the side of its body.

Bella was the first to talk. 'That one looks just like Yugi,' she whispered pointing at the second figure carved onto the second tablet. 'But how can that be? These are like a thousand years old.'

'More like five thousand.' Jasper corrected her, she turned and poked her tongue out at him, and he copied her action with a quick grin and caused Emmett and Alice and Edward to chuckle at her.

'Okay fine, so why does the FBI have them? Why would they be interested in ancient Egyptian mythology?' she asked raising her eyebrows at all of them, Rosalie frowned and tapped a few more keys and suddenly the screen changed. It was a word document or report of some sort.

Edward leaned forward, gently pushing Bella back so he could see the screen and began to read aloud in his beautiful voice.

'The seven Millennium Items are considered a myth to every archaeologist that can't see what's right under their noses. The Items, considered being some of the most deadly and dangerous and also the most beautiful objects in history. There are few historical accounts of the Items ever existing and therefore people tend to claim it as a fairytale, a legend.

The Millennium Scales: there has been no record or account of the Millennium Scales as there has been of the other Items. The power of the Scales is supposed to judge a person's heart and their sins. This is much like the scales Anubis used weigh a person's heart to see if they are worthy enough to pass on to Paradise in Egyptian God Mythology. (A/N1)

The Millennium Necklace: this Item has had a few ties in historic events, apparently being able to see the future or the past, the wearer of the Necklace is granted a great power. The Necklace is supposed to have come from the Goddess Isis herself, given to a mortal woman so she could help her Pharaoh. (A/N2)

The Millennium Ankh: this Item is one of the most interesting. A small scripture on the item; found deep in a priest's tomb and the only writing there was on about the item, said that the Item could 'change a man's heart from evil to Goodness.'

The Millennium Eye: this is an Item with extraordinary power as it is thought to be able to see into another persons mind. The few reports on it say that it went missing from a tomb nearly twenty years ago.

The Millennium Rod: one of the most circumstantial Items and the one with the power to control another's actions and thoughts. The Rod went missing around the same time as the Necklace. It is considered that the same people stole the Items.

The Millennium Ring: stolen by a thief in Ancient Egypt the Ring has the power to find the other Millennium Items and their bearers.

The Millennium Puzzle: the most powerful and dangerous Item out of all seven it is said that whoever solves the Puzzle will have procession over all the Shadows.' Edward trailed off, no one in the room had moved since he began talking. The only movement was Bella's eyes that flicked to each and everyone in the room.

'Well… it's a story, like the guy said in the beginning. It's just a myth.' Emmett tried to reason but his voice said he didn't believe it anymore than the others.

Jasper frowned at the screen, 'it was written by two well-known archaeologists. A Japanese one called Solomon Mouto, isn't that Yugi's grandfather and his legal guardian?' Jasper looked for confirmation even though he already knew the answer. 'The other guy was an American Arthur Hawkins.'

'We need to talk to them. We need to discuss this.' Alice whispered. She quickly closed her eyes and saw ahead if she and the rest of her family were to confront the Exchange Students. 'I don't see any danger.' She added for their benefit.

The other Cullen's and Bella nodded.

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Yami, Bakura and Malik followed Mike Newton as he helped his father in their outback store and he flirted with as pretty girl that Yami recognised from his English class, she was pale with shoulder length dark brown hair that was wildly curly and looked untameable. Yami also knew she was a bit of a flirt herself.

Malik glared at the boy. His loathing of the human had intensified and they hadn't even been here for a full week yet! They waited until Mike came out for obviously his break. Making sure their cloak of Shadow Magic was still covering them, this made them invisible to anyone who wasn't an Item Bearer, they moved silently forward until they were right behind him.

'OI! Newton!' Malik hissed in a cold whisper. Mike jumped a mile and spun around wildly looking for where his name had come from. Malik lifted the Shadow Magic and it looked like he and the others had just stepped out of nowhere with purple and red and black mist curling around their ankles.

'We want a word with you.' Bakura said in a dangerously calm voice as he studied the mortal boy with cold piercing red brown eyes. Mike shivered, this looked like the timid docile white haired boy so why the HELL wasn't he acting like that boy?

He shifted his weight, ready to make a run for it as soon as he could. Yami easily cut off his escape route by circling him, he was so quiet that Mike didn't even notice until Yami sniggered in a voice that was devoid of any emotion. He was just like a ghost, Mike thought fearfully as he fought back another shiver.

'Don't be so afraid Newton. We just want to know what you told the FBI.' Yami said, his words might have been reassuring but the tone and the emotionless coldness that delivered them told Mike that they weren't as forgiving as they were pretending to be.

'I don't know what you're talking about.' Mike said shortly. He was a terrible liar.

'Now, now. I though we could resolve this as men.' Malik sounded bitterly disappointed but only the ones with a Millennium knew that Malik wasn't disappointed at all. With Mike lying they knew Malik could have some fun with the mortal. Because Malik was a sick freak.

'Don't lie to us Newton. It could be the last thing you do.' Bakura threatened in a voice that was usually used when discussing the weather.

Mike now looked terrified. He spun on his heel and attempted to push past Yami and make an escape. Yami merely placed a hand on Mike's shoulder as he tried to shove by. The grip was almost light but it was strong enough to keep Mike were he was.

'Malik. Would you like to do the honours?' Yami asked easily as he shoved Mike roughly back into the circle the three Millennium Item bearers had created.

Mike saw the Egyptian whipped something from his back pocket and saw it was a short sceptre of some sort. It looked like it was completely made out of gold and as the mysterious Item began to glow Mike forgot everything else. He was trapped in the swirling blackness.

He thought he heard Malik's voice but it sounded so far away. He could only just make out the words. 'Tell me everything you told the FBI agents.'

He was shocked when he heard his own voice answer. Telling them everything, how he had noticed Yugi looking different when he duelled, how he thought the strange necklace the boy wore looked familiar. How he called his uncle and how his uncle had told him that he had done his country a great service.

Malik's voice again, it echoed strangely and somehow seemed more sinister than before. 'What did your uncle tell you about what you said?'

Again his voice answered without his consent. 'No, he didn't tell me anything. Only that I had done the right thing going to him.' mike tried to fight the darkness now but a new voice joined Malik's, echoing the same way.

'Forget.'

Mike felt like he was drowning, the darkness pressed against him and he couldn't fight anymore.

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By that night, the whole town knew that Mike had been attacked while he went out for his break at his dad's store. He was currently in a coma and nobody knew what was wrong with him.

Except the Shadow wielders that is, but what they didn't know was that their involvement had sparked a war that had been teetering on the edge for centuries.

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A/N: Tell me what you think! Review!