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Pyra: Whew! The story's almost finished!!

Yami: YEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ryou: awwww, I kind of liked it though...

Pyra: Yami, you don't like my story...? (is crying)

Ryou: I do,

Pyra: Thankies, you're so nice, Ryou, (Hugs him)

Ryou: (pats her head)

Yami: (is a little lost) I - I didn't mean that I didn't LIKE it, it's just...

Ryou: Maybe we'd just better continue...

Pyra: *sniff sniff* okay....

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"You wouldn't!" Yami gasped. Yami Bakura smiled evilly.

"Oh yes I would." He pressed the blade harder against Yugi's throat.

"Y-Yami...!" Yugi cried desperately, but he knew that his yami couldn't do anything.

"Hey, look, Yami B's got the Millennium Puzzle!" Yugi heard someone whispered in the bushes to his right.

"Shhh!!! He'll hear you, Joey!" Came a louder whisper.

"Too late for that." Yami Bakura said, turning his head towards the brush, but keeping the knife at Yugi's neck.

"Hiiiyaa!!" Joey yelled, tackling Yami Bakura head on.

"Joey! Wait for me!" Tristan called, then he, too, emerged from the bushes. He went over to the others and quickly untied them.

"Thanks, you guys." Yami said. Yugi rubbed at his throat where the knife had made a small cut.

"Hey! - Yami!" Yami turned to see Joey wrestling Yami Bakura to the ground.

"Joey!! Wait, Joey!!" Yami yelled. Too late. The Puzzle started to glow brilliantly and Yami was enveloped in pain.

"J-JOEY!!" Joey saw what was causing Yami's pain and he tugged hard on the Puzzle. The string holding it snapped in two and the Puzzle came free.

"Yami! Catch!" Joey tossed the Millennium Puzzle over to Yami and the pharaoh caught it with ease. Yami retied the string and quickly placed it around his own neck. Then, unexpectedly, the Puzzle started to glow again.

"Wha-?" Then, Yami disappeared. Just like that.

"YAMI!!!!" Yugi shouted.

"Oh no!" Ryou exclaimed.

"What happened?" Tristan asked. No one could answer. Then they all heard Yami Bakura chuckling softly. The chuckling turned to laughter then.

"Don't you see?" He asked them. "I sabotaged it. Right now, Yami isn't IN this realm. He is in the Shadow Realm!"

"No! How could you?!" Yugi's eyes were filled with tears.

"How could I? I'm evil. I thought you knew that, Yugi." Yami Bakura stated simply. Yugi fell to his knees in tears.

"It's....not.....f-fair....!!" He wept.

"I won't allow you to do such things to my friends!" Ryou shouted suddenly.

"Oh? And just what are you going to do about it, Aibou?" Ryou glared fiercely at his yami.

"I'M GOING TO SAVE MY FRIENDS!!" Ryou started strangling Yami Bakura in his rage.

"L-l-let - g-go!!!" Yami Bakura ordered. Ryou just got even more mad and started shaking his yami violently.

"I won't let go!!" He yelled in fury. Everyone else watched in confusion, wondering just what had possessed nice, innocent, Ryou. Yami Bakura was more confused than ever. Then Ryou stopped strangling his yami and tore the Millennium Ring from Yami Bakura's neck. The Ring glowed brightly and Yami reappeared, shaken and pale. Then it glowed even brighter and Ryou appeared to be even more ominous.

"Now I'm sending you to the Shadow Realm so that you may have a taste of your OWN medicine." The Ring glowed so brightly then that the others had to shut their eyes. When the light dies down, Yami Bakura was gone and Ryou was on his knees, scared and shaken and weak from all the magic he'd used.

"Ryou," Yami went down to his knees to comfort the boy. But he didn't know what exactly to say. Ryou looked up into his eyes, tired and afraid. "Why don't we all spend the night together." He suggested. The Millennium Puzzle flashed and sleeping bags appeared as well as a small campfire. "You deserve a rest," Yami told Ryou. He pushed Ryou gently down onto one of the sleeping bags and, with the help of a little magic, Ryou was soon sleeping, no longer tormented by nightmares and evil spirits.

"Goodnight, Ryou, and thank you." Yami whispered.



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Pyra: Well, that's it!

Yami:.....*sniff sniff* That was so....good...

Pyra: Thank you! ^__^

Ryou: *sniff sniff* That was really good...

Yami: But I don't think that Ryou would really strangle someone.

Ryou: (Starts strangling Yami)

Yami: !!

Ryou: (let's go) I would if the occasion called for it.

Yami (rubbing his neck)....? .....oww....

Pyra: Well, as usual, please review. Don't worry, if you guys still like it, I'll write a sequel!! ^_____^ Where Yami Bakura somehow comes BACK!!!!!

Ryou: O__O Oh no...... x_x

Pyra: I'll call it...um.....The Malignant! Yeah!!

Yami: What does malignant mean?

Pyra: .....well let's just say that it describes Yami Bakura really well. So anyways, I hoped you liked the story, and be on the watch for the sequel!!

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