DJ: Awesome dagger! And book! (holds up book titled '1001 ways to torture fellow yamis') Off to TortureMart! (grabs coupon) Thanks to Hathors-Favorite and Firezone12 for the goodies! (cackles & leaves)
Jaazi: Awww, that was so sweet of you two! Making her feel all special and all. Thanks to all my reviewers for making me feel all special! Hathors-Favorite, HappyDevil, Keoi, Firezone12, Uber Rei, Green Phantom Queen, Tornado Girl w/Issues, Sarah Costa, Killah-sama, Jisen Meizuki, Black Jackal, Deceptigirl, ComputerFreak101, Sirithiliel, Female SSBM Fan, Shinigami, Ilikeyaoi, Hikari Skysong.
KK: Squee! Sugar! C'mon, Jaazi, let's go shopping at HikariMart! We've got coupons!
Jaazi: Let me finish here first. Here are some review replies.
Hathors-Favorite: Much thanks…especially for the yami-proof shelter. You never know what DJ could get at TortureMart. I'm glad you liked Arcane, but you might not like him later on…but that's all I'm saying for now!
Keoi: Just read this chappie and all will become clear! Ick, I sounded like Trelawney! Ew!
Firezone12: My other stories? I'll try, but I'm kind of suffering from writer's block on those. (hisses) WRITER'S BLOCK IS EEEEEEEEVIIIIIILLLLL! Ahem, moving on now…
Jisen Meizuki: Yeah, Bakura acted a bit more insane. But that's because he was so worried about Ryou, that and the fact that he had several infecting wounds and running a high fever. He sort of kept his mind in wolf-state to protect Ryou, I guess. He'll be better soon though.
Black Jackal: (glomps) Don't worry, I'm not upset or anything! It's okay, I'm glad you liked the chapter though. Don't you just hate being in a bad mood? I do, it gives me headaches and those aren't fun. (giggles)
Sirithiliel: Yes, he can turn into any living creature. Including phoenix and dragon, and I'm thinking that he'll be naturally silver, but since he is a shape shifter he can change his color at will to blend in and stuff.
Shinigami: Moony will get his explanation in this chapter.
Draco: SHE TURNED ME INTO A BLOODY GIRL!
(sigh) I so enjoy watching him freak out like that, but unfortunately have to change him back for the fic…awww, man, that's not fair! (pouts and changes draco back)
Draco: I'm soooo glad you took pleasure in my agony! (rolls eyes)
Disclaimer: If I owned Yugioh and Harry Potter, I'd be uber rich! If I were uber rich, would I be typing stories here? I don't think so.
Previously
"Two pairs down, one to go," Zhira muttered to herself.
Chapter Ten: Visions, Memories, and Puzzleshipping!
Malik and Yugi lay curled up in Ryou's bed. They had both been devastated when they lost their white-haired friend. Zhira had told them not to worry and showed them to Ryou. The sight they had encountered made them want to go 'Awwwww, how cuuuuute!'. Ryou was being held protectively by none other that Khalid Bakura, the 'cold hearted' Slytherin. They were both sleeping peacefully, no doubt dreaming about the other. Malik could've sworn he heard Bakura purring, and upon closer inspection, turned out to be correct. Marik, who had been with them at the time, cackled and said something about 'the ultimate blackmail.'
The reason Yugi and Malik were together in bed, was because Yugi had been afraid that Malik would also disappear. Yugi cared about both his brothers a lot, and hated the idea of losing them. So, to reassure Yugi, Malik offered to stay with him. Yugi had happily agreed. But now, instead of being comforting to Yugi, Malik might have to be the one comforted. All because of this dream…
Dream Sequence
Malik lay in bed in a smallish room. He seemed to be seven years old. He lay there in the dark, listening to Isis, his sister, and his father fighting, as usual. Malik was crying into his pillow, he hated hearing them fight. Isis ran into his room looking terrified.
"Malik, you must leave. Daddy is a bad man who wants to hurt you. Hurry out the window, I'll keep him away as long as possible. Don't ever forget that I love you, my dear little brother," Isis said frantically. She gave him a kiss and all but pushed him out of the window.
"ISIS!" his father roared and stormed into the room, "Tell me where your brother is now!" his father pulled out a wand. Isis did the same.
"I will not let you hurt him!" she cried. She shot a look at the window where Malik was peeking through. She mouthed the word 'run' and run he did. But not before he heard the words "Avada Kedavra" and saw his dear big sister fall limply to the ground.
Malik ran and ran and ran, having no idea where he was going. He ran until he could run no more. Egypt was very cold at night, but Malik had no blanket to give him warmth. He curled up in the corner of an abandoned building shivering and crying. He was drifting off to a cold slumber, when he heard someone enter the building also. He stiffened and lifted his gaze slowly from the ground to look at the newcomer. He had spiked blonde hair and reddish violet eyes.
Marik had went to bed laughing quietly to himself. Who'd have thought Bakura, THE Bakura, would PURR, of all things? It was hilarious! He went to sleep with a smirk on his face. The smirk quickly turned into a frown, when he started dreaming.
Dream Sequence
Marik looked around the cave. Bakura was snuggled up to the boy, Ryou, he had found earlier. He was purring. That was odd, Bakura, like him and Yami, never showed or felt emotions, and yet there he was purring contentedly. Marik shrugged. He couldn't sleep, so he got up and left.
He was wandering aimlessly around, it was cold, he hated the cold. He summoned couple flames and wrapped around his arm as if they were armbands. It kept him warm. He walked past an old abandoned building when he heard someone crying. He quickly banished his flames and walked quietly inside, curious despite himself. What he saw made his heart clench. A boy with beautiful silky hair, the color of the sun, the ultimate fire. His lavender eyes were filled with tears and fear.
"D-don't come closer! I-I'm warning you! I'm a real good fighter, if y-you don't b-back off, I'll hurt you," the boy said despite the fact that he was terrified.
"You're crying," Marik said simply.
'N-no, I'm not," the boy mumbled as he wiped his tears away. The boy shivered; he was cold.
"You're cold and hurting too. Why is Pretty-pretty hurting?" Marik asked. The boy scowled.
"My name's Malik, not 'Pretty-pretty'. I'm hurting because my Daddy's a bad man and he tried hurting me and now, Isis-sister is on the ground, not moving, and I'm cold and all alone." Malik muttered.
"Oh. Don't worry, Malik-pretty," Marik said, "I am Mariku, I won't leave you alone," he said. He summoned a small ball of flame, it floated in his palm. Malik's eyes widened.
"That's so cool!" he giggled. Mariku held out his palm.
"You can hold it if you want, it won't hurt you," Mariku said shyly. He really hoped Malik liked him.
"Really?" he held the flame gently, "It tickles! It's so warm too."
"Come with me, I'll give you place to stay. Do you want to stay with me?" Mariku asked. Malik nodded eagerly.
"Thank you Mariku!" Malik gave him an innocent kiss on the cheek. Mariku grabbed a hold of Malik's free hand. They both walked to the cave.
Malik tossed and turned. He couldn't wake himself up. But the other boy in his dream was being so nice. Maybe it would be okay to keep dreaming, Mariku wouldn't let anything hurt him. He settled down and kept sleeping.
Dream Sequence
Mariku took him to a cave thing. It was rather cozy. There were three other boys there too. One with tricolor hair and two with white hair. One of the white haired ones seemed familiar. It was Ryou!
"Hey, I know that boy! His mommy and daddy were friends with my sister and daddy. We're good friends too." Malik whispered excitedly. He noticed Mariku threw Ryou a jealous look and giggled.
"But we're even gooder friends," he said and yawned, "Mariku? I'm sleepy, will you hold me?" Malik asked blushing, "I like snuggling," he whispered shyly.
"Mkay, Malik-pretty," they both settled down, snuggling into each other for warmth. They fell asleep peacefully.
Both Marik and Malik woke up simultaneously. Both were wondering if what they saw was a dream or a memory. They both decided to think of it in the morning and went back to sleep, each were wishing they were with each other snuggling like in their dream.
The next day, Bakura was excused from his classes because of his injuries. Of course, Ryou had to attend his classes otherwise he'd get in trouble. This meant that Bakura was not going to stay in the Hospital Wing as he was told to do. When the professors tried to convince him to stay, he nearly bit any of them who got too close, to Ryou that is.
Malik, Marik, Yugi, and Yami were with them the entire day. Mostly to make sure Bakura didn't do any physical harm to the other students. The only one who succeeded in talking him out of hurting anyone was Ryou. He had to soothe Bakura's protective instincts several times. Bakura kept growling the word 'mine' under his breath. During lunch time the group separated to go to their separate tables. Ryou had sat down and began to get some food when someone plopped down next to him. Ryou looked up and met the warm garnet eyes of Bakura.
"B-Bakura! Wh-what are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to sit at the Slytherin table?" Ryou said. Bakura wrapped an arm around Ryou's waist and nuzzled him.
"Why would I sit across the room when I can sit here with you?" Bakura responded.
He gently picked up Ryou and settled him onto his lap. Ryou squeaked and blushed a bright red. The Gryffindors looked at Bakura in shock. Never before had a Slytherin willingly sat at the Gryffindor table. The Slytherins, especially three certain ones, gaped at Bakura also. Draco snapped out of it first. Yami and Marik glanced at him, and together the three stood up and walked to the Gryffindor table. Marik sat next to Malik, Draco sat next to Bakura and Yami sat between Yugi and Bakura. Bakura glanced at his friends.
"What are you three doing here?" he semi-growled. Draco smirked.
"Did you honestly think we'd let you brave the Lion's Den by yourself?" Draco said casually.
"What kind of brothers do you think we are? Who knows what the blood thirsty lions would do to you!" Yami said in a mock hurt voice.
"Besides, not only wouldBakura not be able to survive against all the lions by his little lonesome, he'd miss us too," Marik said with a playful grin. He had an arm wrapped around Malik's waist and Malik didn't mind at all.
"I doubt it," snorted Bakura, "You three do know that we're going to be in BIG trouble if a certain someone at home found out about this, right?"
"Well, I'M not going to tell, are you Marik?" Draco asked Marik.
"Of course not, are you Yami?" Marik asked Yami.
"Not me, and I highly doubt you'll say anything Bakura. So I think we're pretty safe." Yami said. Bakura looked around and saw the gaping Gryffindors.
"If you don't mind, I'd prefer to eat without being stared at," Bakura growled at them, baring his teeth. Ryou tugged on his sleeve.
" 'Kura, be nice." Ryou said. Draco, Marik, and Yami choked on their food. Bakura's face paled.
"K-kura?" Draco choked out. The three burst out laughing. Bakura snarled at them.
"Quit it," he barked.
"Awww, Kura watch your temper," Yami taunted.
"Ickle Kura-kins might hurt someone's feelings with that tone," Marik teased. Bakura's jaws clenched.
"Hey, leave him alone! Only I can call him Kura!" Ryou shouted as he smacked each of them on the back of the head. The look of shock on their faces was priceless. Bakura smirked. Harry started coughing which sounded curiously like laughter.
"Yes, haha, very funny Potter," Draco grumbled.
"Yes, I agree with you, Malfoy. I find it VERY funny," Harry laughed.
"Don't worry about it you guys, Ryou does that to me and Ron all the time," Malik said cheerfully.
"Strangely enough, that doesn't make me feel any better," mumbled Yami as he pouted. Yugi giggled.
"You're cute when you pout," he told Yami. Yami choked on his pumpkin juice.
"Wh-what did you say?" Yami said wide eyed.
"I'm pretty sure you heard me, Yami," Yugi winked. He leant over and placed a soft chaste kiss on Yami's lips. Yami blushed a bright red that rivaled Ryou's.
"I, er, uh," stuttered Yami. He snapped out of it when he heard two girls squealing. Pansy came running towards them. She and Hermione hugged the two.
"Well, it's about time!" Hermione said. Pansy grinned wickedly.
"What did I tell you, Maya(1)? Now pay up, I won!" Pansy said triumphantly. Hermione sighed and handed over five galleons.
"You placed a bet on them?" Ron asked incredulously.
"What was the bet?" asked Harry.
"I bet Yugi would be the one to kiss Yami," Pansy said.
"And I bet Yami would be the one to kiss Yugi…I can't believe I was wrong!" Hermione said.
"Serves you right, never bet against a Slytherin," Pansy said. Pansy sat down at the table too and was shortly joined by Blaise. Some Gryffindors, being the brave souls that they are, went to sit with the Slytherins. Ron tried to stop some of them.
"Oi, Alicia! Where do you think you are going?" he yelled at a third year girl who was good friends with his sister Ginny.
"I'm going to sit with my friend Neffetari," she said defiantly.
"But, who knows what those Slytherins will do to you!" Ron protested.
"Look, Ron, Neffie is my friend, she won't let those other Slytherins bully me around. I won't let you bully Neffie either just because she's in the Slytherin house. Yeesh, you older kids have got to learn to let this rivalry go. Professor Zhira was right, this rivalry is petty and pointless." she rolled her eyes and she, with Ginny, went to the Slytherin table. Blaise glared at Ron.
"The way you say it, it's as if we were going to ritually sacrifice them to some creature/god thing." he said angrily.
"I wouldn't put it past you!" Ron spat back.
"Ron stop!" Harry said.
"But Harry, he-" Ron defended himself.
"I mean it. It seems to me that if Marik, Bakura, and Yami can care about Malik, Ryou, and Yugi, then they can't all be that bad. I suggest a truce, for the sake of our new friends." Harry said calmly, looking straight at Draco. Harry extended a hand towards Draco.
"What do you think, Malfoy? Truce?" he asked. Draco looked at his hand, and was hit by a wave of déjà vu. Draco looked at Harry critically and finally shook it.
"I'm only doing this because of Marik, Bakura, and Yami. So don't get any ideas of getting all congenial with me, got it Potter?" Draco said stiffly.
"The thought never even crossed my mind," Harry good-naturedly.
The rest of the day went by peacefully enough, until dinner time. The Slytherins and Gryffindors sat together once again. Bakura was sitting very close to Ryou, because Remus Lupin was sitting nearby at the professors' table watching Ryou closely. Bakura sent him a glare.
Snuffles came trotting into the Great Hall, his tail wagging. He went and greeted Harry cheerfully barking. Then he tried to get to Ryou and greet him also. He would have if it weren't for Bakura. Bakura felt the mutt was getting too close to Ryou, so he bared his teeth and growled a warning. He'd known that the dog wasn't an actual dog, his scent was human.
"Get any closer and I'll mutilate you," he snarled in dog/wolf-speak.
Snuffles rolled his eyes and approached Ryou anyway. He lay his paws on Ryou's lap and gave his face a lick. A silver wolf immediately knocked him down, growling and snarling, his fur bristling angrily. Snuffles bared his teeth also. Bakura/wolf attacked the defiant mutt. Moony shot out of nowhere to protect Snuffles. Moony and Bakura/wolf were in another fight. Both were still weakened from their previous encounter but neither were backing down. Both were protecting their mates from an enemy wolf and would fight to the death if need be.
"Bakura! Stop it! Please, you're still weak, you haven't healed yet!" Ryou cried frantically. Malik and Yugi held him back so that he wouldn't get torn to shreds by the angry wolves. Sirius Black stood in the place where Snuffles was.
"REMUS! GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF!" he bellowed, getting the attention of everyone in the Great Hall. The two wolves stopped their fighting. Moony went up to Sirius and slowly transformed back into Lupin.
"But, he attacked you…" he said softly. Sirius enveloped him in a hug.
"It was my fault. I shouldn't have taunted him, but I'm okay now. I don't want you killing yourself in a pointless fight for me. Besides, Ryou didn't do anything to me. My scent was on him because I was supposed to take care of those three, but I spent most of the time with him since he knew who I really was." he whispered.
"Uh, Sirius, you do know you just blew your cover, right?" Harry said nervously glancing around at everyone's shocked faces.
"So you're the infamous Sirius Black?" Draco said loudly to get everyone's attention, "You know, Father and the rest of the Death Eaters think you're a great joke. An idiot who was easily framed by sniveling, cowardly rat. How could you let yourself be framed by Pettigrew, of all people?"
Harry gaped at Draco. If he didn't know any better, he'd of thought Draco was trying to save Sirius's hide…but that be so out of character that it wasn't possible. Sirius chuckled.
"I TRIED to prove I was innocent by capturing the rat during your third year, but the damned thing got away," Sirius said cheerfully. Draco shrugged.
The silver wolf was whimpering guiltily. He had worried his Light/mate so much. Ryou was crying for him. Ryou tried to get closer but Bakura edged away from his touch. He didn't deserve Ryou's kindness. Not at all.
"Bakura, are you okay? You scared me a bit. Let me check your wounds. I won't hurt you, just come closer," Ryou pleaded. Bakura returned to human form and let Ryou look at his wounds. He took in the scent of Sirius Black.
"You don't smell like a murderer," Bakura muttered.
"What do you mean by that?" asked Sirius.
"Murderers, they smell different. They have the smell of the dead, of the people they killed. You don't smell like you killed anyone." Bakura said indifferently.
"No, he hasn't killed. He's seen many horrors but he's never killed," Ryou said. Dumbledore stood up and caught everyone's attention.
"Yes, Sirius Black is in Hogwarts," he announced, "but I assure you, he is innocent of all the crimes he's been accused of. So do not worry or panic. Now, dinnertime's over, I suggest you get to you Common rooms. It has been a very interesting dinner, hasn't it?" he chuckled.
As everyone left, Yami grabbed Yugi and dragged him into an empty classroom.
"Yami, what are you doing?" Yugi asked.
"I need to talk to you." Yami said nervously.
"About what?" Yugi asked as he watched Yami pace around nervously.
"Did that kiss mean that you're my boyfriend? And if it did, how could you just have come out and kiss me like that? I mean, yeah, Gryffindors are brave and all, but that's just-mmph!" Yugi stopped Yami's nervous ranting by kissing him.
How Yami relished having Yugi's lips on his. So soft and sweet as honey. Yami eagerly deepened the kiss, clutching onto little Yugi as if he were his last life line. Yami, unfortunately, had to breathe so he reluctantly ended the kiss. Yugi had a dazed look on his face, his eyes dreamy and his pink looking thoroughly kissed.
"Ah, um, what were the questions again?" Yugi said hazily.
"Will you be my boyfriend? And how could such a sweet person like you be so bold as to kiss me, one of the dreaded Slytherin Quartet?" Yami said, grinning like there was no tomorrow.
"Oh, yeah. I kind of already knew that you really liked me, I'm an empath. And I got impatient waiting for you to ask me out. You came so close to doing that so many times, but you always ran away," Yugi pouted.
"You knew! So I made a fool of myself all those times I tried to ask you out!" Yami said dismally, ducking his head. How embarrassing. Yugi giggled.
"I have to go to my Common Rom now, but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?" Yugi said all chipper-like. Yami nodded numbly.
"G'night Yami, I love you," he said. Yami's head shot up to see Yugi, but by then Yugi was long gone. A grin slowly slipped on to his face. He licked his lips to get every last taste of Yugi's sweet honey flavor.
Yugi was walking towards the portrait of the Fat Lady. On his way, he was distracted by what sounded like Ryou's voice. He turned the corner and saw that Ryou was pinned to the wall by Bakura. Bakura was kissing Ryou's neck, much to Ryou's embarrassment.
"Bakura! S-Stop, I-I have to go!" he moaned.
"But, we waited for mate for so long…we waited, we want Ryou now!" Bakura said in a dual voice.
Bakura's eyes, in fact, had had begun to change. An eerie icy crystal blue seemed to be trying to drown the normal cranberry red color. Like, there was two there instead of one. His voice, Bakura's voice could clearly be heard but there was an underlying voice, a feral animalistic voice. And the emotions coming off of him, like there was too people fighting inside of him. One felt nothing but lust, greed, and a hunger for blood, the other was fighting against it, wanting nothing more than to stop just as Ryou asked him to. Unfortunately, that one was weaker than the dominant animalistic one.
"Soooooo looong, mate evaded us for too loooong, we must have mate NOW, sweeeeet, delicious mate…mmmmmm, vanilla and miiiint, ours, ours, ours only," the dual voice said. Bakura and whatever the other thing inside of him was, were biting on Ryou's neck. At the curvewhere his neck and met hisshoulders, Bakura's sharpened teeth bit down hard. Ryou yelped in pain. Blood seeped from the bite mark. Bakura lapped it up hungrily.
"BAKURA!" Yugi shouted. He knew the real Bakura didn't want to do this to Ryou, but he couldn't stop the other thing inside of him.
"Ah, helloooo, small Yuuuuugiiiii, is there something you wish from ussss?" the Bakura-but-not-Bakura thing asked. His eyes were almost completely icy blue, only a hint of red could be seen here and there.
"Let Ryou go!" Yugi shouted. He glanced at where Ryou stood ony to see that he had disappeared again. Bakura knew he was still there, his hand gripping Ryou's arm painfully. The real Bakura would never hurt and scare Ryou into his invisibility. If only he could help Bakura snap out of it…wait! Was he an empath or what? He could help the real Bakura.
"Look at him, Bakura! You've scared and hurt him so much that he went invisible! He's completely terrified. I know you don't want that, I know that you love Ryou. Fight that thing inside of you!"
Ryou knew that Bakura wasn't doing this to him. He saw Bakura fading away. In his place stood this distorted thing, that resembled a wolf only worse. The wolf-shape shifted endlessly. His coat changed from fur to scales to feathers, his claws turning to talons to poisonous stings. His muzzle turning to sharp beaks and back. It was enough to make Ryou sick. Bakura was fading away, but he still fought the awful thing. Ryou thought he heard Bakura shout out to the thing, calling him Ark…Arcane? Ryou hazily noted that Yugi yelled something to Bakura. Bakura turned and listened.
"Don't let that thing hurt him anymore!" Yugi shouted. He couldn't see the 'two Bakuras.' He only saw the physical one. The one with a feral grin, sharp teeth and nearly icy blue eyes. The not-Bakura cackled.
"We aren't hurting him…we're plaaaaayying. Bakura and Arcane always wanted our mate. We finally have him…" suddenly the dual voice changed into Bakura's weak sounding single voice, "he's too strong." he managed to croak out before being again swamped by Arcane.
Yugi did what any empath would do. He put his heart into helping Bakura magnify his emotions of protectiveness, hope, and love. Bakura could not give up! The magical assistance, although did strengthen him a bit, didn't work nearly as well as it could have. It was foreign Light magic, coming from someone other than his Light, thus most of it slid off of him. Ryou looked at his Bakura, his image was still faded. He wanted Bakura to stay with him, he didn't want to lose Bakura again, he didn't want to be alone.
"Bakura," Ryou whispered. He reached up to touch Bakura/Arcane's face. He sent all the strength and magic he could. Bakura's battered magical self was filled with the warmth and care of his Light. All his wounds healed and strength renewed. He fought with Arcane to gain control of his body again.
"Noooooo, mate! Must have mate'ssss blood…delicious miiiiine. Illyria, help meee," Arcane's voice faded from Bakura's. Bakura's eyes lost it's icy blue color and was replaced with his normal warm cranberry red. Bakura's eyes were filled with guilt and shame. He stepped slowly away from Ryou. His mouth tasted of Ryou's sweet vanilla and mint flavored blood. He felt dirty and sick. How could he have done this to Ryou?
"Light, Ryou. I'm so sorry. I almost lost myself. I should have never gotten close to you in the first place. You're hurt and it's my fault. I was weak," he said in a broken voice. Before either Ryou or Yugi could respond, someone else did.
"On the contrary, Bakura. The fact that you stayed away from your Light for so long, caused it to become stronger." Zhira stepped out from the shadows.
"You were here the entire time and you didn't do anything about this!" shrieked the tear faced Yugi. Zhira gazed coldly on the little Light.
"No. I sensed a disturbance and thought I should check it out. I just arrived." she said icily. Ryou looked at Bakura, puzzled.
"Who's Illyria?" Ryou asked him.
"What?" Bakura asked, just as confused.
"Before Arcane left he asked Illyria for help…" Yugi trailed off.
"That would be me…my darker self that is." Zhira said. Ryou gazed at her.
What he saw was just as terrible as Arcane. It seemed to be made of white-blue lightning. It was incredibly thin, looking more like an electric skeleton than anything else. It's eyes were just pits of the darkest blue that looked more like black. It crackled and popped with a fury. It was retained by some kind of brittle chainlike things.
Seeing the thing plunged Ryou into a vision.
He saw Illyria sneering down at him. Illyria cackled an evil laugh that sounded more like a shriek. Zhira was completely gone, not a trace of her left. At either side of her were other creatures. Arcane in all his disgusting glory, Bakura nowhere to be seen. He saw a thing made of nothing but cyclones of flame with black pits as mouth and eyes. The last thing looked more like a human shaped black misty shadow. It's eyes were like a cat's, blood red with slits of a sickly yellow for pupils. The four creatures were towering over the Forbidden forest. They were destructive elemental giants, and they were headed to Hogwarts.
Ryou fell out of the vision as abruptly as he found it. He looked into the worried gaze of Bakura and smiled. Zhira had left.
"Bakura, that wasn't you who hurt me. I don't want you to leave me alone any more. Not because are magics need to stay together, but because…I as a person, need you. I love you and I know you would never willingly hurt me or put me in danger."Ryou said. Bakura looked at him and smiled.
"I won't leave you alone, I'm tired of being alone too." Bakura gave him a gentle, chaste kiss and left. Ryou and Yugi walked into the Common Room. Malik turned to them and quickly glomped them.
"Hey, what took you guys so long?" He asked cheerfully. Ryou pulled his robes to cover the bite mark on his neck.
"Sorry Malik, Ryou and I just got sidetracked, is all." Yugi said, "We're kind of tired. Let's go to bed."
"Isn't it a bit ear-" Malik started to say, but was quickly dragged upstairs to their dormitory by Ryou and Yugi.
Once upstairs, Ryou and Yugi filled him in on what had happened. Malik listened to all of it in shock. Ryou then told them about the vision that he had.
"The fiery cyclone was probably Mariku," Malik said.
"And the misty shadow was Yami," Yugi whispered.
Malik suddenly heard one of the usual whispers in his head get more audible. It was a girl's voice. "I hope they can hear me…or see me or something" The voice said. Yugi felt a sudden swirl of emotions, pain and loss with hope mixed in. Ryou saw another vision, only this time it was someone else's memory.
A younger version of Professor Zhira was chained onto a wooden chair. A girl with long black hair, silver-blue eyes, and a tan just a few shades lighter than Malik's, was straddling Zhira. Zhira was kicking frantically and had a look of utter horror on her face.
"Get off of me! Don't get anywhere near me with those things! Dammit! I'm serious Kira!" Zhira said. Kira giggled.
"Calm down Zhira, it's just a bit of make-up. I promise it won't kill you." Kira laughed.
"I don't want or need make-up! I'm not going to that stupid dance, I'm not putting on that dress either!" Zhira protested.
"Yes you are, and you're going to have FUN too!" Kira said cheerfully, "You're going to find a nice boy and you're going to date him, and finally have someone special in your life. Then you'll come back to me, years later with three kids, a husband and a successful career, and you're going to be thanking me for it forthe rest of eternity." Zhira stopped her struggling for a moment to look at Kira as if she had gone insane.
"You've got this all planned out, don't you? Why do you insist on getting me a boyfriend? Dating is a pointless waste of my precious time."
"But don't you get lonely? Don't you want someone else to care about in life?" Kira said sadly. Zhira looked as if she questioned Kira's sanity.
" You're not planning on leaving me are you? Kira, I've got you. My Light. Why would I want anyone else?" she asked. Kira's eyes softened.
"Awww, Zhira, that was so sweet!"
"Does that mean you'll let me out of these chains and let me free without make up?" Zhira asked hopefully.
"Nice try…but no."
"Damn!"
Ryou, Yugi, and Malik looked toward the middle of their little circle. There stoodan intangible girl with long black hair and silvery-blue eyes. She realized that she was seen by the other three.
"Oh, hi there! You have no idea how long I've been trying to catch your eye for! I've never met other Lights before!" she giggled.
The three other Lights gawked at her.
END OF CHAPTER
TBC
(1) You know how Hermione is pronounced Her-my-a-knee? Well, I spelled it out differently like this: Her-maya-knee, and it's pronounced the same. So, I took the part 'Maya' and made it into Hermione's nickname.
Jaazi: (squeals) I love this chapter! It turned out sooooo much better than the last one!
DJ: (waltzes in) I'm baaaaack! Look! I bought a new flame thrower with the coupon at TortureMart!
KK: (groans) Just what we need…
DJ: (misses the sarcasm) My thoughts exactly!
Jaazi: Oh, how fun…(sweat drop)
KK: I bought lots of plushies at HikariMart! (holds out box of Ryou, Yugi, and Malik plushies) All who review get one!
Jaazi & KK: REVIEW PLEASE!
DJ: OR ELSE! (gets whacked by Jaazi & KK) Tch, I'm so under appreciated!