Hey guys! It's time for the next chapter, and you know what that means, it's Zork time! Unfortunately that also means the end of this story is coming up quick since after Zork is the duel that had us all crying before it even ended. I know I still can't watch the final scene of Yu-Gi-Oh! with bawling my eyes out, to the point where I avoid the episode like the plague and pretend it didn't exist so that Yami can stay. Then I run to fanfiction to get the finale that I want and not the one that actually happened. T.T Anyways, instead of continuing to remind you of that, let's get on with the story!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!
After we got back to the palace and I managed to convince Yugi that he phased through the wall, we split up in the courtyard agreeing to meet back in an hour. During this time I got to really admire the palace that Kaiba built, the lower levels even have hieroglyphs carved into them. I don't know if they were accurate or not, but it sure looked cool to say the least.
Despite being told to split up I could clearly see Bobasa following us, how Yugi didn't notice him I have no frigging idea, considering it sounded like an elephant was stomping through, but he managed to remain hidden from Yugi at least. After Yugo got some ways down the hall I saw Bobasa give me the signal once more.
"What now Bobasa?" I asked
"Mr. Kaiba said to get you when you got to this point in the hallway."
"Alright, let's go and see what Kaiba wants this time" With that I began walking back to the throne room to meet up with Kaiba.
Once inside the throne room I see that everyone else is in there as well, which I'm guessing means group meeting.
"Glad you finally showed up." Kaiba said to me
"Don't blame me, Bobasa just got me a couple minutes ago."
"Whatever, so basically I needed to inform you of what's going on and what you have to make Yugi believe."
"Is there any reason I have to be told in segments like this and you couldn't have given me a script before hand like them, or at least told me everything at the beginning when we first got here?" I asked getting annoyed
"If I gave you a script, Yugi may have seen it, so that was out genius. As for why I do it like this, I do it so I know you won't screw up and forget something, not a single step can be missed or messed up so I'm giving you the plan step by step. And before you ask, no, I don't trust you to remember everything word for word. Now anymore useless questions? No? Good. Now like I said before next step. You will go back to the same point in the hallway and make Yugi think he's been frozen in that spot for the past 30 minutes, then you're going to influence him to head to the kitchen storage to meet up with his friends and Bobasa. They will find him some food and Bobasa will eat it which will cause him to blow up like a balloon and when this happens you will take over and make Yugi think that Bobasa gave them a ride over to the location of the Pharaoh's name."
At this I just put my hand up and raised my eyebrow not even bothering to ask to question that he knew I was thinking.
"You can either go with it or I tell Yugi. Your choice really." Kaiba said to me and I just growled back.
"Thought so." He grinned evilly "Look at the bright side Yami, once he brings you there, he no longer has a role and you don't have to see him again. Now I know you want to know what I'm going to be doing. So I'll be nice and tell you. I am going to be working on Zork."
"Ugh, I don't even want to think about how much work I'm going to be stuck with trying to make Yugi think it's real."
"Tell that to the giant mechanical monstrosity I built to be our monster slash dark god."
"You didn't!" I exclaimed
"Oh, but I fucking did!" Kaiba retorted right back laughing wildly "Just wait until you see this!" He said before stalking off.
After that it of information I did as Kaiba told me. Back to the hallway, to the kitchen and watch the hilarity of Bobasa blowing up in a very inhuman way. It was too obvious that he had a hidden air tank, but I wasn't saying anything I was just having too much laughing at it. I took over once more when he was done blowing up and headed out for the jeep that would take us to the next building. This building was a little further out and was more of a tomb, apparently the Pharaoh's future one at that, where the name would apparently be located. Once outside and the jeep was hidden I let Yugi take over after giving him the fake memories. Bobasa deflated and Honda ran off somewhere. Everyone else was busy saying goodbye to Bobasa and saying thanks while I was internally shouting YES to the heavens that his loud annoying ass was gone!
They finally enter the tomb, Bobasa free mind you, and run straight into some traps, at least Jounouchi runs straight into them. It would've been funny to watch him get skewered by needles, and I'm pretty sure made this place to test Jounouchi's intelligence, because these traps are very easy to spot, but for Jounouchi that's another story. Fortunately this tomb is based on the story that Grandfather used to tell stories about going through so Yugi does know how to get through it, this is mostly a test of his friends patience and waiting for Yugi to tell them the answer.
The next room was a maze that you always had to keep your left foot forward or the statues would activate and start swinging their swords at you. Amazingly they got through that one without any mishaps. In the final room they have to cross a bridge covered in various monsters that will attack if they sense fear. I'm pretty sure when grandfather was telling this part of the story he was just trying to impress Yugi by making himself seem cooler than he was and that there was never any real danger. Here however, something might actually activate for all I know, and knowing Kaiba he would put some sort of trap in here, because this tomb has been way too easy to get through.
When they reached the other side they weren't able to find anything that lead to the name, but Jounouchi being Jounouchi, the man with the most incredible luck in the world found the one pillar that when you lean on it, you activate the secret entrance. He wonders why I hate him so much, because in case he hasn't noticed this is the biggest reason, nobody is this unnaturally lucky, I don't care who you think it is, nobody has as much dumb luck as this idiot.
So anyways, the secret door opens and in the next room it seems as if there is nothing in there, but Honda points out the floor and how there's writing on it. I think Kaiba told me sometime before we got here that Honda would be "possessed" by Bakura which is why he can read the hieroglyphs that say that Yugi must give back whatever he wished on the puzzle. I'll give Kaiba credit, this is definitely a growing up moment for Yugi and being able to move past needing me and his friends.
Honda then pushed Yugi to one end of the balance beam and himself, Jounouchi and Anzu to the other. The floor crumbles away once on their respective sides and a door opens. Honda tells Yugi that if he wants to find the Pharaoh's name he has to go through that door and leave them behind, but Yugi won't because he thinks his will die. This is a little dark even fro Kaiba, I mean making Yugi choose between killing his friends or getting the name, we all know which he will choose. He doesn't have the heart to kill off his friends, so Honda makes the choice for him and goes through the door causing the balance beam to tip. Jounouchi and Anzu cling onto the cliff and Yugi jumps over to Jounouchi to grab onto his waist while Honda is running off to who knows where.
Once inside the room they find the name, but still not knowing hieroglyphs they can't read it so Jounouchi most expertly memorizes it as : "Bird, rock, lamb chop, bird, and a bigger bird." You know sometimes I wish I could see into Jounouchi's brain to see what goes on in there, other times I want to bash it in. This just happens to be one of those bash it in times. More importantly though they have the name now and they can return to the Pharaoh. Anzu pointed out the exit and they ran to it only to run into Honda in the hallway who in a flash turned into Bakura who revealed he had been possessing Honda the whole time.
The ground started to shake and Bakura tells Yugi that Zork is coming and he's not leaving with the only way to defeat him. He makes a duel disk appear on his arm in another flask of light, which I know is just slip of hand, but Yugi doesn't, so now I have to think of a way to make Yugi think he did. I just decided to take over and my idea was rewarded with Bakura giving me a duel disk to put on myself and I gave Yugi control again.
The duel commenced and I was pleasantly surprised to see that the deck I encouraged Yugi to create on his own was quite different from the one we created together and it also worked quite well. He managed to beat Bakura all on his own and with some impressive strategies, not that I'm too surprised considering he is me in some ways, but still.
When Bakura fell to the ground after losing another flash of light appeared and left Honda's body behind. He wakes up and they all run out of the collapsing tomb and out onto the cliffside. They slide down the cliff and run into some of the thief Bakura's soldiers which Jounouchi and Honda take care of easily since they used to be in gangs. Jounouchi also brought his own duel disk which took some intense concentration to make Yugi think appeared out of nowhere. Honda and Anzu follow making their own appear as well. You know some warning before you pull this shit would be nice you assholes. They summon some monsters to wipe out some remaining soldiers and they concentrate on getting back by thinking about flying. At this I take over and we all take the jeep back to the palace while I give Yugi the memories of flying over the desert.
Now when Kaiba said giant mechanical monstrosity he wasn't fucking kidding. This thing was frigging huge and for some reason had a...dragon penis. Yeah don't know why that was needed, but it spout fire so that distracted me a bit, but not enough to take away the scars. Kaiba had pretty much destroyed the entire town with this thing and I only had to wonder how it worked. I mean it talked and everything, was somebody inside controlling it? Was it remote controlled? Or was it all just plained programmed? That was definitely going to be the first question once we finish this. Most of the Pharaoh's council had been taken out and Atem was calling for Yugi as Zork was about to attack him.
We hid the jeep once more and we ran over to him where I let Yugi take control once more. Yugi and the others tell him about finding his name, but not knowing what it was since it was written in ancient Egyptian This causes them to think that the previous attempts of stopping Zork with monsters that failed, will now magically work because they're there. Granted this is actually pretty sound thinking considering what we've done up until now, but at the same time, what the hell guys you couldn't think of anything else to do?
After that plan failed miserably the next idea is to be as cheesy as possible. I kid you not, the train of thought went like this: "If we can concentrate and make ourselves fly we can concentrate and make the symbols of the Pharaoh's name appear on his cartouche." Oh what am I going to do with these people? So they join hands and his cartouche begins to glow and once it stops the hieroglyphs have "magically" appeared on there. He shouts out "I am King Atem!" Wow Kaiba, couldn't even come up with an original name for this guy?
Anyways Atem summoned the gods again but this time he merged them together into the God of Light, the only being that could stop Zork. Beams of light shoot up from the ground surrounding Zork and he gets destroyed with him falling into the ground and being swallowed up by the sand. Or in other words Zork was lowered back into his holding chamber that Kaiba had him hidden in before. The friendship speeches are given between everyone, while "The Pharaoh" marvels over his name being Atem.
To finish off the memory world arc Atem ceremoniously gave the millennium puzzle to Seth to crown him king and heads back over to Yugi and the others. Once he makes it back over, I take control again and make Yugi think they flew into the sky towards a giant puzzle or something that will lead them back to the real world. In reality I went to take my puzzle back from a once again spray-tanned and we prepared for our return flight back to Domino. We said our goodbyes to all the various actors all of whom we won't see again except for Atem. I also took the time to say good riddance to Shadi since I finally get to say I will never see his ass again. We went back to the hotel to sleep and pack up and went home after an exhausting 3 days in Egypt.
And scene on the Shadow RPG/Memory World Arc. It's really here guys, the end is coming very soon either next chapter or the one after, as you have seen before I'm not very good at predicting my own story. I almost thought Zork wasn't even going to be in this chapter and that I lied again, but then I just made this chapter a little longer than usual just so I could finish off the arc.
Alright, see you guys next time! R&R plz :)
