Millennium II

Journey to the Past

Chapter 10

By Hikari Tsuki Chi

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Chapter 10

"Why did we even bother dueling each other? It always ends in a draw."

"…We were bored?" Millennium offered up.

For about the first two hours of their imprisonment, Millennium and Moon had dueled each other, with their fellow inmates being fascinated by the duel. They had finally declared it a draw and now, an hour after the end of the duel, everyone was in small groups throughout the room.

"Look at Seto, he's nearly about to have a heart attack."

"He probably will work himself to death. You never know."

"Iie. It's because we're speaking in Nihon-go. You know how much that annoys him."

"Which is exactly why we've been doing it." Serena smirked.

"Will you stop DOING that!" exclaimed Seto, a vein pulsing in his forehead.

Moon and Millennium merely blinked at him. "Gomen nasai. What is it that we're doing?" asked Moon innocently.

"Maybe if you tell us what it is that we're doing maybe we'll stop." Added Millennium.

Seto growled. Revealing a dagger that he was definitely NOT allowed to have around Atemu and Atami, he threw it at the pair that had been the bane of his existence for the last two weeks or so.

Proving that they think alike, they both leaned out of the dagger's path as it neared them. The dagger embedded itself into the stone column they were leaning against. Leaning over to inspect it, Millennium said, "Impressive."

The vein throbbing in Seto's forehead threatened to pop.

"You DO realize that technically you just attacked the Queen, right?" asked Isis.

"I don't think that he cared when he did it." Called Moon.

"Why do you have such a fascination with annoying him?" asked Atemu.

His sister gave him a knowing look. "Like YOU don't have one? His torture started when they replaced his secretaries, on YOUR order." She reminded.

"And the point?" he asked.

"Well his reincarnation isn't as much fun to annoy in the future." Said Moon.

"That's only because he knows what to expect from you." Millennium reminded her.

"So why are you joining in? You never do at home." Asked Moon.

"1. It's entertaining. 2. At home I'm too busy trying to keep Yami and Bakura from killing each other when you're off annoying Kaiba." Answered Millennium.

"Why would those two be trying to kill each other?" asked Shimon.

Millennium shrugged. "All I know is that one minute they're calmly talking and the next minute they're on the floor, throwing punches and insults at each other."

"Hey, is something going on outside?" asked Moon, walking over to the door and placing her ear on it, trying to hear better.

"What do you mean?" asked Jouno, everyone else now walking over to the door.

"Gimme a sec…uhh…youma diein'…Silence Glaive Surprise?" she frowned.

"What's Saturn doing here?" Asked Millennium.

"Dunno. But if 'Taru's here, then Hikami is too."

"But I'm already here." Said Hikami.

"The future you." Millennium told her.

Suddenly there was a beeping sound. "The communicator?" Said Millennium. "Guess we're back in range." Pulling it out, she flipped it open to reveal Sailor Ma'at's face.

"Where are you?"

"Trapped in the throne room by the fourth general, who disappeared after trapping us."

"Oh. How've you been?"

"The enemy forced our hand with a youma army, forcing hikari to drop the spell in order for me to use my Shadow magick. We had to transform in order to defeat it, we got trapped like rats, with people we had to explain things to, and I'm hungry. You?"

"WHAT THE- HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!" screamed Ma'at, looking ready to strangle her if she could get through the communicator.

"I just- never mind. Did ya find the door?"

"Uhuh. Ya better back away from the door." Said Ma'at.

Though Ma'at had reduced her volume, everyone still heard her, and wisely backed a safe distance from the door.

Two attacks later, the door was rubble, and Hikami found herself looking at her mirror image. "I don't think that I can get used to this." She said.

Ma'at rubbed the back of her head. "I KNOW that I can't get used to this."

"Maybe we should start doing this nice thing called RUNNING because in case you haven't forgotten, we kinda angered the youma sentries when we got here." Said Saturn.

"I have no objections."

"I don't think there's time for any."

"I'll buy that."

With that, everyone started running. At one point, Seto tried to send Moon down a dead end hallway, but Millennium pulled her in the correct direction, still trying to figure out just HOW she knew that way was a dead end, since she had never been in this part of the palace before. With Millennium denying her the right of maiming Seto, Moon contented herself to glaring at him, glares that he happily returned.

Suddenly Millennium came to a stop. Running her fingertips over the wall, she said, "Isn't there…"

Atami slapped her head. "How could I forget? The palace is honeycombed with secret passages, running down underground. One of the entrances is here." Reaching past Millennium, Atami pushed in a hieroglyphic, and a door slid open.

"I played in the passages just as much as you, and I didn't know about this one." Said Atemu as they quickly ran into the passage.

"While you were with Shimon I would explore more."

"Weren't you supposed to be with your own tutor when I was with Shimon?" he questioned.

Atami rolled her eyes. "I skipped. Our parents never found out, and that was years ago."

Little did she know, her parents were currently flabbergasted, Moon silently snickered at their shock.

"I don't think we need to run anymore." Said Shimon. "Unless they somehow learned the existence of these passages, and their entrances."

"Probably not. It's not as if they were common knowledge…" Millennium trailed off, a faraway look in her eyes.

"Speaking of knowledge…just WHAT are the two of you doing here? Pluto-okaa-sama definitely wouldn't just take you two here." Moon accused.

Saturn and Ma'at's silence was echoing. While the others looked on in amusement, Moon and Millennium began to grate on their friends. "What did you DO?"

"Nothing we swear!"

"That's what Yami said after all my underwear went missing!" exclaimed Moon.

"Wait, don't tell me… you knocked her out and stole a time key, didn't you?"

"Well…"

"You did, didn't you?" accused Millennium.

Moon gave the pair a wry look. "She's gonna kill ya, you know."

"Maybe not kill…more like maim." A voice said from behind Saturn and Ma'at.

Gulping, they turned to find a severely ANGRY Sailor Pluto behind them. Whimpering, they hid behind their 'friends', who promptly moved away, revealing their hiding spot. Pluto tapped her foot. "We were worried about them! Can you blame us?"

"You could have tried asking."

"Would that have worked?" asked Ma'at hopefully.

"No."

They were spared their maiming when Moon exclaimed, "Yugi! Ryou-kun! What are you doing?"

"We found Pluto-okaa-sama out cold, and when we revived her, I…"

"You used the puppy dog eyes on her."

"No I…'

"You used the puppy dog eyes on her."

"Well yeah."

"Pluto, I thought you were immune to them." Said Millennium.

"It seems that I'm out of practice. Just be careful." With that, she disappeared.

"Does she always do that?" asked Mana.

"Unfortunately, yes. By the way, this is Yugi and Ryou. Yugi conned Pluto into taking them here." Explained Millennium.

"Wait a sec…where are the Puzzle and Ring?"

Millennium, Saturn, and Ma'at followed Moon's glaze to Yugi and Ryou's chests, which were suspiciously lacking certain gold items.

"Ano…you see…" started Yugi.

"We were…worried about how…Yami and Bakura would…act, so we left them…at home." Ryou finished, stumbling over the words.

Sure, he knew how to speak it because his yami knew how, but this was his first time actually USING it. Yugi didn't have that problem because he was Lunarian, thus having the same ability as Serena.

"You DO know that they are going to kill, right?" asked Saturn.

"Yes." Chorused Yugi and Ryou.

"Just checking."

"Umm…I think we have a problem." Said Atami.

"What kind of problem?"

"This…is not the passage we should be in.," she said, pointing past those in front.

With that, everyone started just WHERE they were. "Are we in a maze?"

"…This looks familiar…" Said Yugi.

Suddenly, one of the points on the Millennium Ring began to glow, and stood up perpendicular to Mahaado's chest. It also began to pull him down the path. "The Ring's pulling me this way! Why I don't know!"

"Tell it to pull slower!"

"This is REALLY starting to look familiar. And why is the Kaiba-look-alike twitching?" asked Ryou.

"He does that whenever someone speak in Japanese. He has issues." Moon blinked innocently as Seto's eye twitched.

Suddenly, after a few sharp turns, Mahaado came to a stop. Those running behind him nearly crashed into him. "Give us some warning please!" Yelled Saturn.

"What is it, Mahaado? Why have you stopped?" asked Atemu.

"THAT'S why." Said Yugi, pointing.

That's when everyone noticed the strange room in front of them, with some sort of unusual (To those of the past) platform in its center…

End of Chapter 10

PLEASE DON'T KILL ME! The astute (or the Yu-Gi-Oh! obsessed) will realize just WHO will be appearing in the next chapter. But it should be noted that the manga version, with some quotes from the TV version, will be used. The idea that Hotaru and Hikami knock Pluto out just so they could go help Serena and Yama has pretty much always been there, at least as far as I remember. Also, Yugi and Ryou have pretty much always gotten Pluto to take them to the past.

Proceed to the purple/blue/lavender/periwinkle box in the bottom left hand corner of your screen on pain of death. But on a lighter note, my friend Sarah (Akirah Hyashi) will NOT be killing my cousin this year. Hey, if there's someone reading this and likes Naruto, can you go and send some reviews to her story, Ghost's eye? I think that's what it's called…