The Mummy of Yugioh
BlackRoseDragonCK
5. Prince Bakura
Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Yami Yūgi & Anzu M. - Reviews: 18 - Updated: 09-06-11 - Published: 08-31-11 - Complete - id:7341199
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Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or The Mummy.
Oh, man...I had to delete this chap right after I published it because I put "Anck-su-namun" instead of "Isis"! Anyway, time for Bakura to make his debut in the future!
Rex, Espa, and Mako ran frantically through the halls of the ancient temple, desperate to evade the marauding insects outside.
"Where in the name of brachiosaurus did they come from?" Rex demanded to know.
"I'm not waitin' to find out!" Mako shot back.
Being the crafty one of the group, Weevil thought to himself that if the curse was after them, it would certainly halt in its pursuit…if one of their group were to fall. He was not about to surrender his own life, so instead, he decided to sacrifice one of their comrades.
Muttering a quick, "it's nothing personal" under his breath, the insect man pulled the rifle off his back and banged the butt of it against the rocky ceiling. Just as Weevil had thought, small boulders began to crumble from the roof, and Espa, being in the back of the group, was knocked unconscious and abandoned. (A.N: I know Beni steps on the guy's glasses and leaves him in the original, but since Espa doesn't have glasses, I had to improvise. Plus, I figured that Weevil would have no qualms about sacrificing someone to save his own sorry butt.)
After the others had been gone for several minutes, Espa awoke and wandered about groggily. He had a pounding migraine, thus making it difficult to see. The green-haired man felt along the wall, hoping to "sense" where his comrades had gone, but feeling only cobwebs. Suddenly, a low growl sounded from the end of the tunnel.
"Who's there?" Espa panted nervously, pulling out his gun and cursing his temporary blindness.
He heard the growl again and turned around to see the blurry shape of what looked like a man. "…Raptor…?"
The being remained silent and yet another snarl came from behind the false psychic. He whipped back around and saw only the distorted corridor, then turned back to see…nothing. The figure was gone. Then….Espa's heart stopped…when he felt someone…something…standing directly behind him. He turned around…and screamed.
In another part of the ruins, Yami led Tea and Joey through the ancient corridors, using a torch as their source of light. Suddenly, the entire chamber shook violently and Tea cried out, clinging to her brother. The trio watched in horror as the sand in front of them rose up into a mound…then exploded with millions of flesh-eating insects.
"Scarabs!" the brunette shrieked and the group took off down the tunnel, relentlessly pursued by the ravenous bugs.
Yami threw his torch in the midst of the horrid creatures, then began shooting at them with his shotgun. Their path led to a room which consisted of a large stone road surrounded by a black abyss. The two boys leaped onto a platform in the middle of the chasm while Tea pressed up against an indention in the wall. She felt along the gap…then screamed when it suddenly opened, dropping her into another room and closing the trap door behind her.
When the insects passed, Yami and Joey let out a collective sigh of relief…which was immediately replaced by panic when they realized someone was missing.
"TEA!"
Tea yelped when she found herself in a dark room, lit only by a few bands of silvery moonlight. At first, the brunette thought she was alone…but a soft moaning in the room told her otherwise. She turned to see…
"Oh, Mr. Roba! Thank goodness! I was just starting to get scared that I'd lost everyone, and—"
He turned around and the girl screamed in horror at the gruesome sight…for Espa Roba…had no eyes…and no tongue it seemed. He fell to the ground, moaning in agony, and Tea whipped around to see….the mummy.
She screamed and backed against a wall while the creature slowly moved towards her, studying her intently with his newly acquired his stolen tongue, he murmured,
"…Isis…?"
Back in the stone bridge chamber, Yami frantically drove the butt of his shotgun into the wall that had swallowed Tea.
He swore and spat, "It's a trap door! There's gotta be a switch or something around here someplace."
Suddenly, Rex, followed by Weevil, Mako, and a few diggers, came running down the path, shouting, "Run, you morons, run!"
Yami and Joey didn't need to be told twice as another wave of scarabs came flooding into the room, stopping only to devour one of the fallen diggers.
Tea pressed as hard as she could against the wall, hoping that she would trigger another trap door and escape from the beast that stood before her.
The mummy stretched out his grisly hand and murmured in ancient Egyptian, "Come with me, my Princess Isis."
Just then Yami burst into the room and ran to Tea's side, not even noticing the creature.
"There you are! Will you quit playing hide-and-seek?" he grabbed her arm. "Come on, let's get out of here!"
The girl continued to stare ahead, and the soldier turned to see…
"WHOA!"
Joey, then came into the room, calling out to his sister. He, along with Rex and Mako, froze in shock when they beheld the mummy standing before them.
None too pleased by these foolish men's interruption, the creature roared angrily. Yami roared right back, shot the beast with his rifle, then high-tailed out of there, his hand firmly grasping Tea's arm.
"Did you see that?" Mako cried as they fled.
Rex nodded. "It was walkin'! The freakin' mummy was walkin'!"
The group finally made it outside…and was met by the Magi, pointing their guns and looking none too pleased. Zigfried was among them, squeezing his eyes shut in preparation for the end and ironically clutching the Book of the Dead as if it were his lifeline.
Shadi stepped forward and growled, "I told you to leave this place or die. You refused. Now…you may have killed us all. For you have unleashed the creature we have feared for more than three thousand years."
"Relax. I got him," Yami replied.
The Magi leader scowled. "No mortal weapon can kill this creature. He's not of this world." He then stepped aside as two of his men dragged a moaning Espa Roba forward and placed him before his comrades.
Horrified, Rex wrapped an uncharacteristically gentle arm around the blind, mute man's shoulders and supported his head with his forearm while Mako knelt down as well.
Looking up with hatred in his gaze, Rex hissed, "You…what did you do to him?"
"We saved him!" Shadi snapped. "We saved him before the creature could finish his work. Leave, all of you, quickly…before he finishes you all." He signaled to his men to retreat and he started on his way as well. "We must now go on the hunt and try to find a way to kill him."
"I already told you," Yami growled impatiently. "I got him."
Shadi turned around and stared seriously at the young warrior. "Know this. This creature is the bringer of death. He will never eat, he will never sleep….and he will NEVER stop."
Unbeknownst to everyone else, Weevil was still racing frantically around the temple, clutching a gun in one hand and a torch in the other. Wanting to keep an eye on a suspicious-looking tunnel, he began to walk backwards….and finally turned around to see the mummy. The insect man yelped and dropped his torch, stepping backwards as the creature advanced.
Always one to negotiate, Weevil began to dig through his plethora of religious pendants, trying to find out what language this undead being spoke. First, he tried English.
"M-may the good Lord protect and watch over me as a shepherd w-watches over his f-flock…."
The mummy merely cocked his head, wondering what on earth this scarab-looking man was trying to do.
Weevil proceeded to try Arabic and Chinese…but to no avail. Finally, when the spectacled man had his back against the wall, and the creature was reaching his gruesome fingers out to him, he pulled out a Star of David pendant and began speaking in Hebrew.
The mummy recoiled his hand and responded, "The language of the slaves…I may have use for you. And the rewards…" he presented his new follower with a handful of golden trinkets, "…will be great."
Weevil's eyes bugged greedily at the treasure, and he slowly met his new master's gaze, murmuring, "My prince…"
Satisfied, the creature held up a broken artifact and demanded, "Where are the other sacred jars?"
The next morning, Yami, Tea, Joey and the others all left Hamunaptra and moved to an inn in Fort Brydon, Cairo. Another one of the plagues had begun to present itself in the form of sable, rumbling clouds hovering above Egypt.
Holding several of Tea's outfits, Yami stormed through the room, shooing a cat off the suitcase. "I thought you said you didn't believe in that fairy tales and hocus pocus stuff," he said, throwing the clothes into the case.
Tea moved the snowy-furred feline and replied, 'H-having an encounter with a three thousand-year-old walking, talking corpse…" she took her clothing back out of the case, "…does tend to convert one."
"Forget it," the soldier snapped, grabbing and packing more things. "We're out the door, down the hall, and we're gone."
"Oh, no, we are not!" she emptied the suitcase.
"Oh, yes, we are!" he filled it back up.
Tea huffed. "Oh, no, we are not. We woke him up, and we are going to stop him."
"We?" Yami shouted. "What we? WE didn't read that book! I told you not to play around with that thing! Didn't I tell you not to play around with that thing?"
The brunette rolled her eyes. "Yes…me, me, me, I, I, I woke him up and I intend to stop him." She put her books back into place.
"Yeah? How? You heard the man—no mortal weapons can kill this guy!"
"Well, we're just going to have to find some immortal ones."
The soldier muttered, "There goes that 'we' again."
"Will you listen to me?" the girl shot back. "All we have to do—"she slammed the suitcase shut…right on Yami's fingers. He howled in pain as she continued, "Once this creature has been reborn his curse is going to spread until the entire earth is destroyed."
"Yeah? Is that MY problem?"
"It's EVERYONE'S problem!"
Yami kneaded his forehead. "Tea…I appreciate you saving my life and all, but when I signed on, I agreed to take you out there and bring you back! I HAVE DONE THAT! End of job, end of story, contract terminated!"
Tea stared at him, a mixture of anger and hurt in her sapphire eyes. "That's all I am to you? A contract?"
The spiky-haired man felt a pang of guilt. He truly did care for the girl…but he wasn't about to go along with this insane fool's errand. "Look…you can either tag along with me…or you can stay here and try to 'save the world'! What's it gonna be?"
"I'm staying!"
The adventurer stared at her for a moment, then stomped towards the door, saying, "Fine."
"Fine," Tea crossed her arms.
"Fine!"
"Fine!"
"…FINE!" he slammed the door.
Tea scowled…but couldn't help feeling a little sad that she had just fought with Yami.
Needing a chance to cool down, Yami made his way to a local casbah, where he bumped into an old friend.
"…Solomon."
The grey-haired, older man followed him as he went to sit by Joey at the bar.
"You know, Mutou, ever since the end of the great war, there hasn't been—" he tripped drunkenly over a fountain in the room, "—there hasn't been a single challenge worthy of a man like me."
"Yeah?" Yami took his seat by his blonde companion. "We all got our little problems today, Solomon."
The pilot sighed forlornly, his violet eyes gazing off into the distance. "I just wish I could have chucked it with the others and gone down in flame and glory instead of sitting around here rotting of boredom and booze…" he took a drink and clapped both boys on the back, saying, "Well, back to the airfield."
Once Solomon was gone, Yami stared at his drink thoughtfully before saying, "Tell me…has your sister always been—"
"Oh, yes," Joey replied, guessing the man's next words. "Always."
Rex approached the bar and grabbed a drink, wearily muttering, "We're all packed up, but the dang boat doesn't leave 'till tomorrow morning."
"Tail set firmly between your legs, I see…" Joey smirked.
"You can talk…you don't have some sacred walkin' corpse after ya!"
Yami looked over at Mako and gently inquired, "So uh…how's your friend?'
The ebony-haired man's jaw tensed. "…He had his eyes and his tongue ripped out. How would you be?"
(A.N: I'm distorting Espa's speech in this part since he has no tongue.)
"I…so…peased oo mee you," Espa struggled to say, blindly holding out a hand to the black clad, masked man Weevil had just introduced to him as Prince Bakura.
Weevil caught the green-haired man's arm, saying, "Prince Bakura does not like to be touched. A silly Eastern superstition, I'm afraid."
"Pease…orgif…me…" Espa recoiled, accidentally knocking over a cup of tea in the process.
"Oh…whoops," the spectacled man put a falsely caring arm around the psychic's shoulders and murmured, "Mr. Roba…Prince Bakura thanks you for your hospitality…and for your eyes…and tongue." The color drained from Espa's mauled face. "…but…I'm afraid more is needed. Prince Bakura must finish the job and consummate this curse which you and your friends brought upon yourselves."
And with that, Bakura removed his mask, preparing to assimilate his first victim. (A.N: This scene always makes me so sad in the movie since Burns seems to be nice compared to the other guys.)
At the tavern, the boys clinked their glasses together, took a drink…and immediately spat the liquid out, as did everyone else in the bar.
"Sweet jumping tyrannosaurus!" Rex gagged. "Tasted just like…"
"Blood…" Yami dropped his glass, staring in shock at the fountain which now overflowed with crimson liquid.
Joey gaped in awe, quoting, "'And the rivers and waters of Egypt ran red…and were as blood'."
It was then that the spiky-haired man's heart sank and he realized, "…He's here."
Yami ran outside and was relieved to find Tea, walking and reading a book.
"Oh, Tea!" he shouted, running up to her. "I'm glad you're still here, 'cuz we've got problems."
The "problems" made themselves known when fiery hail began to fall from the sky, striking everyone who was not under the protective awning of the building. Towing Tea up to a stair case, the soldier turned just in time to see Weevil running away from him.
"Hey!" He grabbed the worm and held him against the wall. "Weevil, you little stinkbug, where have you been?"
The interrogation was interrupted by a scream, followed by a loud roar coming from inside the hotel. Weevil took the chance to escape while Yami and Tea ran to see what was happening.
Bursting into Espa's room, the brunette gasped in horror when she beheld…what was left of Espa Roba.
Yami turned and pointed his gun at the being responsible…who was currently regenerating more of his decayed body by the mantel. Bakura turned around, revealing that he now had a more developed face as well as muscles and the soldier muttered, "We are in SERIOUS trouble…"
He tried shooting at the creature, but the bullets had no effect . Joey, Rex, and Mako came in just in time to see Bakura shoving Yami, sending him crashing into them.
The mummy then turned his attention to Tea, who cringed in horror and backed herself against the wall.
"You saved me from the undead," he spoke in Egyptian. "I thank you."
Bakura then leaned in, intent on pressing his decayed lips against Tea's live ones.
Yami sat up off the floor, hatred plain in his crimson eyes…and was surprised when Bakura stopped at the sound of the brunette's cat meowing. He turned, took one look at the hissing feline… and screamed in genuine terror, disappearing into a cloud of sand.
Yami, who had been knocked over by the force of the indoor sandstorm, sat up once again and announced, "We are in VERY serious trouble."
Tea agreed with him, and she knew there was only one person alive who might have a clue as to how to kill this creature. It was time to consult Professor Arthur Hawkins.
This chapter was so much fun to write and it had my first Yami/Tea argument scene. I hope you enjoyed and please review! Hopefully I'll be able to write and post chapter six today as well, but it's raining cats and dogs and I'm just waiting for the electricity to go out. I HATE hurricane season with a fiery passion. For anyone who's living in Louisiana, or who has friends or family there, you are sincerely in my prayers.