His hand was firmly grasped on to my shoulder. He started to squeeze it and I winced in pain. I looked out of the corner of my eye to see that the Millennium Rod was right near my face. I froze in horror. I barely escaped him once, how could I do it again?

"I'll finally kill you! You little bitch! If Bakura wasn't there to save you before you would not be alive right now! I'll give you one last chance, give me your Millennium Key or die!" Malik laughed.

I glanced over at Bakura. His face was serious once again and I saw him reach over behind him. What was he doing? I had to get out of Malik's grasp before I was dead.

"Go fuck yourself!" I yelled weakly at him.

He slashed opened one of my wounds as I said this. I screamed out in pain and grabbed the wound, blood was all over my hand. Bakura had slowly moved over closer to me and Malik. I glanced at Bakura weakly with a pleading look.

"Damned woman! You do not know what type of torture I can put you through! Fine, I will kill you first and than deal with Bakura. Enjoy hell Ayaka!" he screamed at me as he began to thrust the Rod towards me.

"Ayaka!" Bakura yelled.

I turned as he said this. He threw my Millennium Key towards me and I caught it with my bloody hand. I turned around quickly to face it towards Malik and it began to glow brightly. This forced Malik to be pushed back and immobile as he began to glow gold as well. I had no idea what I just did, but it worked!

"It won't work for long." Bakura told me.

I kept my focus on keeping Malik immobile. I was feeling very weak, and Malik began to slowly move his arms. He slowly picked up the Millennium Rod and the eye of the Rod began to glow. I suddenly was covered in gold and could not move. I fell to my knees. There was a pool of blood around me and he stood right in front of me, smirking. He rose the Millennium Rod above his head. I closed my eyes. I knew it was over. I couldn't move. Suddenly I heard Malik scream out in pain. The gold around my body had disappeared and I looked up to see Bakura stabbing Malik's abdomen with a knife. He pushed it in as hard as he could, Malik weakly grabbed Bakura's arms.

"Damn you Bakura! I should of expected nothing less from a traitor like you. I did not know you grew so soft, caring for others..." Malik snickered.

"Shut up!" Bakura snarled back, pushing the knife in more.

Malik grinned. He weakly grabbed the Rod and cut off the rope that the Millennium Ring was attached too. Bakura did not cry out, but was surprised to see the Millennium Ring drop slowly towards the ground. The eerie ringing sound was heard once again as it slammed onto the ground. Bakura took the knife out, causing Malik to wince in pain.

Malik pointed at Bakura, holding his puncture wound with his other hand, "You are finished Bakura! Your power is gone."

Malik threw the Rod at a inhumanly fast pace at Bakura. The Rod punctured Bakura's chest. He turned his head slowly towards the Rod, it was so close to puncturing his heart. He weakly grabbed the Rod and tried to pull it out with no luck. Malik slowly went over to him and pushed it into him farther, causing a substantial amount of pain. Bakura began to cough up blood.

"You cannot pull the Rod out of you without your Millennium Ring! You are finished Bakura!" Malik laughed.

I was lying on the ground, bleeding heavily. I could see the Millennium Ring, but it was closer to Malik. I looked over at Bakura, his face was full of pain. I had to help him.

"Bakura..."

I crawled slowly towards the Millennium Ring. I remembered something Bakura had told me before we became I guess what you could say allies. This was our only shot. I was about to grab the Millennium Ring when Malik saw me out of the corner of his eye. He stepped on my left hand, the one with the complete puncture wound, as I had my fingers grasped around the Millennium Ring. I cried out in pain as he put more force on my hand.

"Sneaky little bitch, I just can't get rid of you can I? I was going to wait to kill you until after I killed Bakura, but I guess I can just do it now."

He began to laugh psychotically. I could see the Millennium Ring begin to glow. My eyes widened. This was our only shot, if this didn't work Bakura and I are dead.

"Millennium Ring! Separate the souls of the good and dark Malik! Let the good soul of Malik take control once again!" I yelled.

He looked down at me, surprised by my words, "How did you know what the Millennium Ring can do? Do you know what you just did?"

"Yes, I am making sure the rightful owner takes control of his body once again! Millennium Ring! Separate!"

The Ring began to glow brightly. Malik stepped backwards, fear was written all over his face. Suddenly he began to scream violently. His hands were covering his eyes.

"Give me control!"

"Never!"

I could hear another voice yelling at the evil Malik. Malik uncovered his eyes and I could see two different eyes on him. One had fear in it. The other had a determined look in it.

"I won't give you control so easily Malik! How about we make a deal? If you let me be the primary controller of this body, we can work together to control the world!"

"I will never let an evil soul that I never should of created be a part of me. Be gone!"

The evil Malik began to scream even more violently. His head was faced up towards the ceiling. I slowly went over to Bakura and took the Rod out of him. We were both not in that good of shape. The screaming finally stopped and we both looked at Malik, wondering if it worked. Malik turned his head towards us and smiled weakly.

"Thank you both, for saving me. The dark character is not completely gone within me, but I shall find a way to destroy him. But for now let me join you, Ayaka, to help you complete your task of destroying the Millennium Items."

I breathed a sigh of relief. I looked slowly at Bakura. His chest wound was pretty deep, but he could still move around pretty good. How the hell did this guy feel no pain?

"Of course Malik! Its good to have the real you with us now."

I looked at the clock. It was 3:30 am on Saturday. At midnight today the Millennium Item holders would gather at my house to finish my task. I did it! I walked weakly towards the hospital bed. I could still barely walk with all of the deep gashes in my legs. Malik looked at me worryingly, I knew he felt guilty for how bad he hurt Bakura and I. He was not in the best shape himself, the puncture wound Bakura gave him was pretty deep.

"We have to get back to your house. We will find a way to heal there. Malik do you want to join us?" Bakura asked.

Malik raised his arm up, "No, I think I will just meet up with you guys at midnight. I really want to see my sister, it has been five years after all."

He crept slowly out the door and waved to us good-bye. I got up when he left.

"Okay we have to be quick in getting out of here. The thing is I cannot walk that fast..."

"Here let me help you."

"Wha...What? You don't have to, I know you are hurt too!"

"I have suffered worse." He laughed.

I put my arm around his shoulders and he put his arm around my waist. I felt myself starting to blush. I really wanted to believe that we were allies now, but it was only a few days ago that he wanted to kill me. I was in too much pain to care right now. We both walked quickly out of the hospital and back to my house. Today was finally the day, my task would finally be complete.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I am SOOOO sorry for the long wait. I started school the day after I put up the last chapter and I have been sooo busy since. Taking five AP classes is not that fun haha. I will try when I can to put up the remaining chapters, I hope to put up another one today. Thanks everyone and sorry for the wait! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! :D