Iggy

Akira Tosiyama

Uh… today's disclaimer will be from my unidentified music player again.

U.M.P. - Draw a line in the sand and then take a stand! -Use your camera to spar –Use your guitar!

Akira- That was from RENT! has a new obsession with Rent Thanks again, Kat and Pickle. j00 know I love it. Anyway, as usual I don't own any of the random stuff in here. Mainly it's Yu-gi-oh, Maximum Ride, and Final Fantasy VII. Hey! We've reached chapter 20! YAY!

Baku- YAY! Your screams will echo into eternity! YAY! Your torture will last forever! YAY! Everyone join in! YAY!

Akira- Yay for LittleKuriboh on YouTube! Anyway, on to the story.

Chapter 20

Iggy awoke suddenly as the helicopter landed. He heard the side door open and people moving around. Then he felt someone grab his arms roughly. He pretended to be unconscious. Minutes passed and the footsteps faded away.

"Anybody else near here?" Iggy said.

"Yes, Iggy. We're all here." Baku said from Iggy's left.

"Where exactly is… here?" Iggy asked.

"We're in a cell about 20 feet by 15 feet. The door is made of iron. The walls, ceiling, and floor are made of cement. The room is about seven feet high. There is a small window on the side away from the door. It is blocked by iron bars. It looks out into a small courtyard-"

"Okay, Kaiba, we get the point." Max snapped.

He glared at her.

"Wait, did you say iron?" Baku shuddered. "Are you sure?"

"97.5 sure. Why?" Kaiba said.

"Let's just say I'm highly allergic to iron." Baku glanced at the door and shuddered again.

Max looked around, already bored. She noticed Kaiba's fingers were twitching again. "Okay, Kaiba. That's the second time your fingers have done that. What's the matter with you?"

Kaiba glared at her again. "If you must know, I'm having withdrawals."

Everyone stared at him.

"Not that kind of withdrawals." He rolled his eyes. "Withdrawals from my computers. Work. Typing. Jeez. You people. Your mind immediately jumps to the worst thing."

"Not to interrupt this lovely conversation, but we're kind of KIDNAPPED. What the deuce are we going to do about it?" Baku reminded them all.

"Well, Bakura, unless you have some genius idea to help us escape this cell, I'm guessing we're stuck here for a while. Unless you want to break down the door." Kaiba shot at him.

Baku shook his head vigorously. "Kaiba, the day I willingly touch iron is the day the Shadow Realm lights up. Or the day that cats, Ra forbid anything happen to them, fly. Or the day that Wheeler gets a better grade than you."

Fang looked at Bakura, interested. "Who's Ra? And why should nothing happen to cats?"

"Ra is the Egyptian sun god. And nothing should happen to cats because they're sacred to Egyptians. And in case you were wondering, yes, I am Egyptian."

Ryo giggled. "You hate cats, Baku."

"Doesn't mean they aren't sacred." Baku replied.

Ryo rolled his eyes.

"Wait… you're Egyptian? But… your accent is British." Fang pointed out.

Baku sighed. "Well, that's what comes from learning English in England. So now I'm stuck with this blasted accent for the rest of my life. Being stuck with Ryo's voice box for… ten years didn't help matters much either."

Fang decided to let that last comment drop.

"So… again, back to… why the deuce are we here?" Akira piped up.

"I'll tell you why you're here." A voice came from the doorway. They turned to see Reno standing there. "You're here because our boss and his new partner want you here."

"Rufus? Why would Rufus want us here? And who's his new partner?" Akira asked. The flock was lost. Who was this Rufus person?

Reno shrugged. "I really don't think Rufus cares, actually. It seems that this is all the plot of his partner. And… you'll find out who that is… eventually."

"So why are you here?" Kaiba shot at him.

"I'm here to collect those…" He looked at his hand, where something was written in pen. "… Sennen Items. Yeah. Those. So hand 'em over."

"Do you really think we're going to give them up that easily?" Baku asked.

"Sure, why not? They're just some dumb necklaces and crap, right?"

Baku, Kaiba, Akira, Yugi, and the four people in the corner that none of them had noticed before stared at him.

Bakura rolled his eyes. "Let me explain a few things to you. For Akira and me, at least, it would be painful and possibly even fatal to give up our items. I don't know about Malik, Isis, and Shadi, but I would be willing to bet that they would rather not give them up."

Reno looked confused. "How could it be fatal to hand over a necklace?"

"Well, since my immortal soul is trapped in it, to take off this necklace would be to remove my soul from my body."

Reno nodded. "Well, I guess so. But what about Akira?"

"Reno, do you know what her Sennen Item is called?"

"Eh…" He looked at his hand again. "The… Sennen Eye?"

"Yes. And where do you think she would have that Eye?"

"Uh…" Reno looked queasy.

"It's in her eye socket. She would have to rip out her left eye and give it to you. This would potentially be very gory." Baku said.

Reno turned to the door. "Uh… I'll go talk to my boss again."

Nearly everyone was staring at Akira, or, more appropriately, her left eye.

"So… that eye isn't real?" Max said, pointing at the very real looking blue eye.

Akira blushed. "No… it's a hologram. Seto wired it into the Eye for me." She winked her eye slowly. The hologram turned off, and they could all clearly see a golden eye residing in her eye socket.

"How long have you had that, Akira?" Ryo asked.

"Ever since Baku gave it to me for my birthday a few years ago."

"So that was why Pegasus disappeared!" Ryo exclaimed. "Baku stole the Eye from him!"

"Thank you. I think I did a rather nice job of it too." Baku bowed theatrically.

"Wait a minute… who's Pegasus?" Fang asked.

"He was the previous owner of the eye, but he used it for evil purposes. That's why I took it from him." Baku said.

"No it isn't, it's because you have a greedy obsession with the Items." Kaiba pointed out.

"Oh yeah."

"So wait. Who are all those people?" Max pointed at the people in the corner.

Baku looked over. "Oh. That's Malik, Isis, Rishid, and Shadi."

The flock gave him blank stares.

Baku sighed. "Malik, Isis, and Rishid are siblings, and Shadi has two of the aforementioned Sennen Items. Malik and Isis each have one, and I assume Rishid got in their way and they had to bring him."

"Oh."

"I don't know why the rest of you are here, though. Why would they bother bringing the flock?" Baku said thoughtfully.

Everyone shrugged.

"So what do we do now?" Kaiba asked. "We can't just sit here. We should try and escape."

"No freaking DUH, Kaiba." Bakura said.

Kaiba glared at him. "Oh, can it."

"Can it? Oh, I'm so scared. Kaiba told me to can it!" Baku said sarcastically.

"You know what Bakura…" Kaiba started.

Akira cut him off. "Boys! Stop fighting! We're going to get out of here eventually."

They stopped fighting, but continued to glare at each other.

Max, being curious, wanted to know why those two fought so much. Remembering Ryo's bluntness, she pulled him aside.

"Why do those guys fight so much? And why is Akira the only one who can make them stop?" She asked.

"Well, they're jealous of each other. Baku envies Kaiba's romantic relationship with Akira, and Kaiba envies Baku's friendship with her. Since they both like her so much, they'd do almost anything for her. Oh, and I think some of their Ancient Egyptian personalities are still left over."

"Their WHAT?" Max asked incredulously.

"Oh dear. I shouldn't have said that." Ryo said. "Well, we've got nothing else to do. Hey guys!" he yelled. "Let's tell the flock about Ancient Egypt!"

Kaiba rolled his eyes. "I'm not helping. I don't believe in that crap."

"How do you explain ME then?" Baku said.

"Maybe you're just a psychopath. Or a figment of my imagination. Or maybe you're fooling yourself."

Baku gritted his teeth. Ignoring Kaiba, he turned to Ryo. "We're going to have to tell MY side of the story, then."

"Fine with me!" Ryo said happily. "Let's get started then."

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Finally, an update! Next chapter should be fun, and explain to you all my twisted view of the characters' past.

To any Herd members reading this coughChaoscough If you go back to any chapters with the Herd in them and make a diagram of where the people are standing/sitting, you'll find that Sumi is ALWAYS next to Alphonse. Not a coincidence. BWAHAHA!!!

http:// www. freewebs. com/vampireket/ thestory.htm

If anyone wants to read about the Herd, there is Chaos's website about them. Without spaces, that is.

Until next chapter, then.

A-bye.

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