All Yugioh characters belong to Kazuki Takahashi.
Atem and Mana sprint outside, heading toward their black car. When Atem sees Mana running to the driver's seat, his snatches the keys out of her hand, picks her up by the back of her shirt and throws her to the side. She lands on her feet before glaring up at him.
"I'm driving," he tells her, getting inside and she gets inside the passenger side of the car with her arms folded and a pout on her face. The car starts and he slams his foot on the gas.
Mana sighs heavily in frustration. "By the time we get there, Bakura will be gone already."
"You have any better ideas?" She outstretches her hand, making her wand materialize and he grunts. "Why didn't you do that earlier?"
"I didn't think about until now," says Mana, turning red with an embarrassed smile.
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They appear at the alley way. In the background are police and other cars out on the street, clearing up the crime scene for the day. The sky is starting to get dark and the street lights are already on.
Mana looks up at Atem as he prepares his duel disk that is on his wrist. "Bakura's probably long gone by now…If only we would've gotten here quicker."
"No. Observe," Atem says, pointing ahead. They see a dark figure wearing a hood running away from their current position and they both look at each other before dashing off after him. Mana groans in frustration as Atem runs ahead of her. His legs are a lot longer than hers, giving him more speed.
'Curse my current height,' she says in her mind, narrowing her eyes. They follow the figure out of the alley and into an empty park containing many trees and dark green grass. There is also a large pond in the background. The person finally stops in the middle of the field and they stop as well, standing a couple of feet from him.
'Has he led us into a trap?' Atem asks himself. With his back turned, the person turns around, his face hidden from them by the hood. "Show your face!" Atem demands. The hands come up to both sides of the hood and it is slowly pulled back, revealing the familiar face.
"Cairo," Mana says,
"Not quite. Remember Mana, Bakura is controlling her body," he reminds her. "We must defeat him at all costs."
She whips her head to him with her eyes wide. "But how? If we attack him we'd be hurting Cai as well."
"If you two are done chatting, I'd like to get started," says Bakura, the wand belonging to Cairo materializing in his hand.
"What do you want with her?" asks Atem.
"This girl holds great power and with it, I can get my revenge on you. Once I'm done disposing of you, Mahad will be next," he tells them, making Mana narrow her eyes in anger.
"How dare you use her like that?" Mana asks, the rage continuing to build up in her.
"What's the matter? You seem a little upset."
"Bakura."
"Why not take that anger out on me?" asks Bakura.
"I'm gonna kill you!" exclaims Mana, her wand appearing in her hand and she charges at Bakura, preparing to strike. Bakura only stands there with a calm expression as she gets closer to his location. But something makes freeze and her eyes widen as she stares into his eyes. The same amethyst eyes belong to her daughter. Even though Bakura is controlling her daughter's body, that is still Cairo.
"What's wrong? I thought you were going to kill me," says Bakura grinning.
"Mana, watch out!" Atem warns. Bakura's wand glows and suddenly Mana feels a strong force slam against her stomach and she gasps. It feels as if someone has punched her extremely hard in the stomach. She doubles over, gagging and before she can have any time to recover she is blown backwards.
"Mana!" Atem runs forward and catches her in his arms before falling back to the ground. She tries to get back up again until Atem stops her. "You're going to get yourself killed if you go rushing off without thinking. He's obviously gotten used to Cairo's abilities."
"Yeah I can see that now."
"I don't want to waste anymore time. Mana I have nothing against you. It's your husband I want. You may back down out of this and save yourself."
"No way," Mana replies and Bakura shrugs his shoulders.
"Suit yourself then." The world around them suddenly begins to get dark and cloudy. A dark purple mist appears at their ankles and it gets harder for them to breathe in this atmosphere.
"What's this?" Atem asks, looking around.
"This is what I like to call the Shadow Realm."
'The Shadow Realm?' Atem could've sworn his grandfather telling him about this awhile back. The ancient Egyptians used to use them back in their duels and they were very dangerous. Somehow Bakura has the power to use the shadow realm. "Careful Mana," he advises. "If we lose here, our souls will be lost forever."
"What?" Mana asks in disbelief but before Atem can explain any more, a light surrounds Bakura, redirecting their attention on him. Mana is quite familiar with this light surrounding him. It is the same light that surrounds her whenever she summons her monster. Her eyes widen in realization. "He must know how to summon Cairo's monster!"
A dark shadow appears behind him before a tall dark looking magician appears. Atem narrows his eyes and grits his teeth at the familiar monster. "The Magician of Black Chaos," he says. 'The same monster Cairo summoned years ago.'
"Atem, look!" Mana exclaims, pointing at Bakura as his body starts to change back to his original self. He now stands tall with his white hair, brown eyes and pale looking skin. "How did he do that?"
"I bet your wondering where your daughter is."
"Yes. What did you do?" asks Atem.
"That you shall soon find out. In the mean time, summon your monsters so that we can duel!"
"I guess we have no choice…" Atem throws down his Dark Magician card on his duel disk and it appears in front of him. Mana crosses her arms over her chest with her wand clenched in her hand and her body glows as the Dark Magician Girl is summoned.
"So it's a two against one duel eh? That's not quite fair don't you think? I'll just have to change that. Now who to get rid of first?" Bakura asks himself. He first looks at the Dark Magician Girl and Mana. Sure he wants his revenge on Atem, but he thinks it will be a lot more exciting to let Atem see his own wife get tortured by him first. "You're lucky Atem."
"And why's that?" he asks.
"You get to see your wife suffer," he replies and with that, the wand glows and Atem is forced back to the wall of the shadow realm and he hangs there with his wrists and ankles caught in chains that contain magic. His duel disk deactivates and his magician disappears.
Mana looks back at him in horror and runs up to him. "Atem!" she exclaims and she reaches for the chains, only to be blown back. She sits up slightly, observing the chains closely before narrowing her eyes. 'There's some sort of magic barrier keeping me from getting any closer to his chains. I wonder if I could…' She suddenly cries out as she feels pain surge through her head. Clenching her hair, she looks over to see the Magician of Black Chaos holding Dark Magician Girl by her hair.
"You should be worrying about yourself little Mana," says Bakura.
"He's right Mana," Atem agrees, causing Mana to turn her head to him. "Don't worry about me. You must defeat Bakura or we'll never be able to get out of here or save Cairo."
Bakura grins. 'Those fools don't have a clue what I've done to their precious daughter. But they'll find out soon enough.'
"Dark Burning Attack!" Mana calls out, snapping him out of his thoughts and his magician is hit. Dark Magician Girl returns to Mana's side, striking a pose and Mana smirks. But there is one thing that bothers her though. Dark Magician Girl had just inflicted a powerful blow. So why didn't Bakura flinch or cringe when his monster was hit? "Give him another blow!"
Her magician flies toward Bakura's magician with her wand outstretched toward him, preparing to attack with another blast. That is until the Magician of Black Chaos goes by her and grabs her wrist, pressing his own wand against her stomach and letting out a powerful attack, causing both Mana and her magician to scream. Dark Magician Girl falls while Mana goes to her hands and knees. She has never felt such an unbearable pain in her abdomen before. She clasps one hand over her mouth as she feels something coming up. When she cannot hold it in any longer, she upchucks the red liquid, causing Atem to look away, not wanting to see her like that.
'Just one attack and I'm already down and weakened. I can't fight him all by myself especially in this small body. I'm just too weak!'
"You'd better get up. I'm afraid Cairo isn't the only one you have to save," says Bakura and she lifts her head. He points to Atem who grimaces as some of his body disappears into the darkness.
"What's…going on?" asks Mana in barely audible tone.
"The more you get attacked by my monster, the more he loses his body to the shadow realm."
"I attacked you once before…so why aren't you disappearing?"
"Observe." He takes one step to the side revealing Cairo hanging just as Atem is. Part of her body is gone from Dark Magician Girl's previous attack. Her head is bowed and she appears to be unconscious.
"No…But how?"
"What you are looking at is Cairo in a ghost-like form. It was the same form that you turned me into. I guess you can say we switched places. I was just able to use this magic to turn back into my normal self. If you attack me, I'm afraid she will be paying the price."
Ok, seriously, I really don't know when the next update will be. I have like another week before this laptop completely shuts down. Please review!