Me: ANNNNDDD I'M BACK! :D
E: Right, good to see that you're alive.
Me: Yea, isn't it awesome?
E: *Rolls eyes*
Me: Anyways, Thanks to Blood Thirsty Angle and OtakunessandGamer for reviewing, Internet cookies for the both of you! *Random box of rainbow cookies appears* Cause I'm that awesome.
E: If you haven't noticed, she's in a very odd mood.
Me: When am I not?
E: On the bad days when you're depressed.
Me: Right, anyways, the disclaimer is the same as always, and this is the epic fight chapter! And just so no one is confused:
"Talking"
'Bakura talking to Marik via mindlink' (Don't ask, I figured that since Bakura could talk to Marik in Battlecity, I figured that they had a Mindlink.)
'Marik talking to Bakura via mindlink'
"Yami Marik talking to Marik" (Because Yami Marik doesn't need just a mindlink to make Marik's life hell.)
So Enjoy and Happy Readings!
"Any bright ideas, Bakura?" Elecktra asked as they both dashed though the back streets of Domino.
"For one, don't get yourself killed by the raging psychopath that's behind us." Elecktra glared at the thief.
"Thanks for the tip," She said sarcastically. "Anything else?"
"Yes, Move." Elecktra jumped as a blast of shadow magic hit the pavement that her foot was a moment ago. Evil laughter echoed off the walls.
"Running isn't going to help you escape, as much as you like to believe it." Elecktra's eyes scanned the darkness when movement from above caught her attention.
"Move!" Elecktra rolled and Bakura rolled in the opposite direction as Yami Marik hopped down from the roof of a building. Elecktra's eyes widened when she spotted the rod in his hand.
"How...?" She muttered and Yami Marik let out a cruel laugh.
"Did you really think that you could hide it from me?" Elecktra stood.
"You demon!" She ran up to Yami Marik, swinging her staff. Yami Marik dodged and blocked each angry swing by Elecktra's staff. He called up his Shadow magic and tried to attack her but she jumped out of the way and countered with a spell of her own. With a yell, Elecktra swung her staff and it locked with the wings of the rod.
"You really are becoming a pain." Yami Marik growled. Suddenly, Elecktra's staff snapped in two under the force. Yami Marik took it as a window and closed his hand around her throat, lifting her off the ground.
"Hey!" Yami Marik looked over to see Bakura begin to fire blasts of Shadow magic at him. Yami Marik growled. He tossed Elecktra to the ground and turned to Bakura.
"Come and get me." He taunted. Yami Marik growled and started to fight with Bakura. Bakura did mostly dodging and block. Yami Marik was getting irritated.
"Is that the best you can do?" He asked. His answer was a solid punch to his nose.
"No, I'm just getting started." Elecktra had ducked into a darker part of the alley and was watching with narrowed eyes. What she didn't know was there were Shadow binds forming behind her. Soon Yami Marik was on the ground on his behind and Bakura was standing over him with a triumphant smirk on his face.
"Looks like I won." Yami Marik gave a laugh to that.
"Guess again thief." Bakura frowned and a scream made him look up. Elecktra was hovering off the ground in black binds that wrapped around her wrists. A bind was holding her head up by around her neck. Yami Marik stood.
"Make any sudden movements, and the magician will die." The look in Elecktra's eyes made Bakura hesitate. He, for the first time since they were teens, saw fear in her eyes. Out of all of her friends, she was the one that feared Yami Marik the most, because she knew full-well what he was capable of. Bakura narrowed his eyes.
'Bakura!' He frowned when he heard Marik's voice in his head, the Hikani Marik.
'You have to help E!'
'I'm trying to but your yami is making it very difficult.' Bakura could see Marik's ghastly form behind his dark side. He looked completely drained, like he did in BattleCity.
'Can't you do anything useful?' Bakura asked annoyed and Marik shook his head.
'He's holding me down with his Shadow magic, I can't break though.' Bakura heard sorrow in the Egyptians voice. Elecktra let out a strained cry as the bind around her neck tightened. Bakura snapped out of it and clenched his teeth.
"Marik snap out of it!" Yami Marik growled.
"Marik is dead!" Bakura barely dodged the blast that he fired. It chipped the wall. Yami Marik turned to Elecktra who was turning her head. The eye on his forehead glowed as he pointed the rod at E.
"You'll join him next, Elecktra!" The binding around her neck tightened and she yelped as it became harder to breathe.
'ELECKTRA!' Bakura heard Marik scream from the Shadow Realm. She gazed off and before her head fell forward, she whispered Marik's name. The bindings fell and her body fell front first on the concrete.
"She's dead, the poor thing." Bakura couldn't believe it. Sure, he and Elecktra had their differences, but even he had to admit she was different from any person he had ever met. Yami Marik turned to Bakura with a twisted smirk plastered on his face.
"Well thief, she put up a fair fight, but her fighting wasn't enough. Now, where is their daughter?"
"You lay as much as a finger on that girl, I'll kill you with my bare hands." Bakura threatened and Yami Marik laughed.
"Did you not just see what happened to the magician? Your powers and my powers are one in the same." It was Bakura's turned to chuckle.
"My powers are nothing like yours, but I wasn't kidding, that girl never did anything."
"She was the offspring of that magician's and my host's relationship, she is a pest that needs to be erased."
'You harm my daughter, I'll kill you!' Bakura heard Marik growl. He sounded brave, but Bakura knew that he was afraid. He had seen with his own eyes what his dark side is capable of.
"You're in no place to make threats, Marik. You really need to learn how to shut up!" Bakura frowned as he saw Marik be engulfed by purple flames like he did in Battlecity.
"Marik!" Bakura called but he couldn't contact him. Yami Marik laughed and started to walk towards the thief.
"Now step aside, Bakura." Bakura smirked.
"You still need to knock me down." Bakura punched the other yami in the nose, making him step back, holding his nose like a girl. He lowered his hand to reveal the small stream of blood that dripping from his nose.
"Son of a bitch!" He yelled as he took a swing at Bakura, who smirked as he dodged.
"You ready fight like a girl." Bakura taunted, dodging another angry swing. Bakura dodged and handed three solid punches to Yami Marik's gut and jaw. Yami Marik placed a hand on the wall of the alley. Thunder rumbled in the distance. Bakura silently counted to three as another rumble of thunder cracked.
'Marik, now is your chance.' Marik didn't reply. Bakura failed to see the fist that punched him in the face from Marik's dark half. Bakura shook his head as his vision shook.
"Didn't see that one coming didn't you thief?" Bakura chuckled, amused.
"You get a lucky shot and you're already think you've won? You're as bad as Kaiba." Yami Marik landed a solid punch in Bakura's gut and sent him to the ground. Bakura grunted an pain as the other yami placed a foot on his chest.
"You give up yet, you stubborn bastard?" He asked smoothly. Out of the corner of his eye, Bakura could see a small purple flame burning in mid-air by Elecktra's fallen form. It flickered, but it started to glow brighter. Keeping a foot on Bakura's chest, Yami Marik turned to see the flame take form of Marik.
'You may be my dark side, Yami Marik, but you've done harm to the people I love.'
"You still have hope in that pathetic little heart of yours? Well I'll change that." Yami Marik turned fully and lifted the rod.
'Go back to the shadows where you came from! This body is mine and mine alone!'
"What?!" Yami Marik exclaimed as a deep purple flame that was around Marik engulfed him. He screamed and Bakura looked away as a bright glowed. When he looked up again to see Marik standing in Yami Marik's place, panting.
"Marik? Did you just...?"
"Kill my yami? Yes and no, but I sent him very deep into the Shadow Realm, so it's going to be a long time before he comes back." Marik offered a hand to him and he took it. Marik grunted as he pulled him up.
"Marik, look." Bakura pointed at Elecktra's limp form and Marik's eyes widened.
"Oh Ra, Elecktra!" He dashed up and gently turned her over. Her head flopped hopelessly from side to side and Marik swallowed.
"Gods, I'm sorry E... I let you down." Tears slipped from his eyes as he hugged her body to his chest.
"M-Marik... I can't breathe." Marik pulled away to see Elecktra looking up at him with half closed eyes. Scars and bruises from the battle covered her face.
"I'm kinda dizzy."
"E," Marik hugged her close and she let him.
"I was afraid that I lost you." Rain started to sprinkle on them and Bakura looked up.
"We should get back, before it gets hell out here." Marik picked Elecktra up bridal-style and followed Bakura as they walked back to the house. Elecktra rested her head on his shoulder and didn't say a word as they walked though the back alleys. What was there to say? He had just risked his life for her and he had cried when he thought she was dead. Elecktra started to think about how she used to pull away from them in order to protect them. Marik was stubborn and stayed by her side though everything. A tear slipped from the corner of her eye.
"Thank you Marik." She whispered to him and he smiled as she buried her face into his shirt.