Dark Highway
Chapter 14/news
The three, Marik, Akane and Ryou, were back at Cairo, standing in front of the hotel the Ishtars and the Pharaoh stayed in. The moon was still visible, by the looks of it, it was about 3 or 4 in the morning. The boys looked tired, but Akane… she looked exhausted.
"So… Question. How are you going to explain to the Pharaoh that the same great evil is threatening the world again?" Marik asked, walking by Akane up the stairs. Ryou was behind them.
"Me?.. Why me? He's your yami!" she protested.
"But he's been living in your head for the past month."
"Marik…"
"Alright, we both explain this to him. It's just that you know way more about this than I do. You're the one with the magical stick this time."
She smiled, but her smile was soon wiped away as they stopped by a door. The room that the Pharaoh stayed in. She could hear Ishizu and Odion talking with him, meaning they are there too. "You ready?"
Aka nodded.
"So, the great wannabe Pharaoh let little Akane escape his grip, huh?"
Yami glared at Bakura for the comment as he entered the ritual room in the ruins. "Watch the words, Bakura! Her runaway was... unplanned…"
Yami went to the pedestal that he had left his purple cape on. He threw it on himself, then turned to Bakura once again: "She was here, wasn't she?"
Bakura unwillingly glanced to the sun platform for a split second. "Indeed."
"Well what do you know," Yami smirked, "someone lost their other half, hm?"
"Shut. Up." he hissed.
"Why do you even care about your hikari?" Yami narrowed his eyes.
"To someone as bad as I am it should be obvious - I liked having someone to torture." Bakura leaned on a wall. "So, what's your brilliant plan now?"
Yami's smirk turned into a wicked grin, as he looked at his good old duel monsters deck, that's been with him all the time, and then glanced to the platforms. "Oh, there's a plan alright…
Akane hid her millennium staff behind her back and entered the room. "Er… Merry Christmas?"
"Akane!" "Marik!" "BAKURA?!" Everyone yelled a different thing, along with a different tone. The Pharaoh's voce was rather a growl, when he yelled "Bakura".
Akane immediately calmed him down. "Bakura's not here. It's Ryou… I made sure of that…"
Ishizu looked at Ryou with disbelief. "You separated!"
Ryou's look was just as confused. "Akane, please, if you could just explain what's going on now… Honestly, the last thing I remember is your apartment, Marik's birthday… I really don't think I drank that much that I ended up in Egypt, in some ruins… And… what is that you said about me separating? Do you mean the spirit of the ring? I've noticed my ring is gone and he was laying-…"
"Ryou, just sit down with the rest… I'll explain everything."
He stopped talking and sat down on a sofa by a little coffee table, so did everyone else, except Marik. He never left Akane's side.
"Now then," she started, "do you want to good news of the bad news first?"
"Bad news." everyone said in a chorus.
"So… I kind of… Sort of… Released Marik's yami and now the whole world is at stake. Again."
"YOU WHAT?!"
"OKAY TIME FOR GOOD NEWS! I separated Ryou from Bakura with this ancient separating machine and found the 8th millennium item!"
Ryou, Ishizu, Odion and the Pharaoh stare at her in disbelief. Then finally the Pharaoh repeated himself: "Again, YOU WHAT?!"
Akane took the shiny, golden object behind her back and revealed it to the amazed people on the sofa. "I… I found the 8th millennium item… Or, well, I think it's that."
She put it on the coffee table and let everyone examine it.
"In all my years of studying, I have never heard of such thing…"
"It has the millennium symbol, the eye, too…"
"How could this be…"
Everyone was thinking out loud, still amazed by the find, until Marik interrupted: "As much as Akane will hate me for this, I have to remind you that we still have an evil maniac on the loose."
The Pharaoh turned his attention to him. "Yes, that's true… Marik, Akane, could you please tell us, in detail, what happened, and how? I thought he was gone, in the Shadow Realm?"
Akane sat down and started explaining everything – how Yami hid himself in her head, how Bakura was working with him and tricked her, how she was forced to use the machine in the ruins, how she ended up in Marik's tomb-home, about the staff's powers, how they managed to separate Ryou… But she still left out little details, such as the nightmares she was having, and the purple swirls and streaks on her right wrist.
What she didn't know, was that under her orange fingerless glove, the markings were spreading.
AN: I am so terribly sorry. No, I'm not dead, it's been over a week and you wee probably expecting some really long chapter or something… Sorry x.x
So… I was gone because I was back to playing Borderlands 2. I finished it yesterday and now I'm in some sort of a gaming hangover. I don't know what to do with my life, but I don't want to do anything and just… Oh gosh don't ask. It was the best game ever and now I'm… asdfghjk hangover.
Definitely not a writing mood. Nope. Nuh uh.
BUT AT LEAST I FIGURED OUT HOW TO COMPLETE THIS STORY. Yay, no more writer's blocks!
976 words? I suck.