By Aiko Hotaru

Chapter 6: Two chosen, One Bakura…

I don't own Sailor Moon or Yu-Gi-Oh! P.S. Thanks for all the compliments…I hope you enjoy this chapter!

Hotaru stared at Yugi and the completely shadowed Illusion. 'Taru! We have to be careful!' Maat yelled in her mind. 'That's the stupidest thing you've said tonight, Maat…' Hotaru muttered back. 'The shadow realm is the home of the shadow games. The only victor of those games is the Game King…but he's been dead for years…' Maat's voice became suddenly chilled, almost as though she were depressed about the Game King's death. 'Later…' Maat read the Senshi's mind. "Now Yugi…We play a little game…" Illusion lifted up a card. "You battle me with a weapon from the monster dueling game and winner leaves here…alive…" Illusion spoke. Holding his card to his lip, the dark eyes of the penetrating stare hit Hotaru again. "And leaves with the judge as well." He grinned at her and Mokabu. The tiny boy gripped onto the back of Hotaru's shirt even tighter than before. "I have a better idea Illusion. You stop hiding in that Human form…" Yugi spoke in a nerve hitting tone. Hotaru, Joey and Tristan gapped down at him. "Say what?" Tea' questioned. The man of shadows laughed loudly. Suddenly a black sort of dark light took him. Soon a monster unlike any the group had seen stood there. Huge claws reached out of its hands and dark blood red skin was very visible, even if the creature was glowing with a black light.

The amazing and scary creature startled Yugi as he stood there. His mind unable to think of what to do next except stare in horror as the once man thing now became the hideous sight before him. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Tea' faint into Joey's and Tristan's grasp. 'Stupid women…' A voice in the back of his mind hissed. Yugi blinked and looked around. 'Did I just here that?' He thought. 'Hello again…Yugi…' Came the same voice. Yugi felt himself leave his own body and look at another. 'Yami…' He whispered, slightly shocked. 'Leave this demon to me, Yugi…' the other self told the innocent boy who nodded at him. "Are you prepared, Yugi?" The monster hissed. "Have you selected you're weapon?" It snarled. Yami Yugi smirked. "I have." Lifting up a card, Yugi felt a bright light encircle him. Then he stood a large Dark Magicians' staff in hand. "Then let the fun begin…" The monster charged at the smaller teen boy.

Hotaru watched all of this in horror. 'He's a mortal boy…facing a shapeshifting Youma…' She told herself. 'No worries Hotaru…he can win…' Maat spoke to the concerned girl. 'I know…but does that mean…that the Millennium Pieces have magic like the Sailor Senshi do?' Hotaru stopped herself to look down at Mokabu. He glanced at her with wide scared innocent eyes. Gripping his shoulder, she tugged him away from the battle to where Tristan and Joey were standing. When the boy tripped once against the ground, she lifted him up slightly and basically ended up carrying him to the others.

"Man…this is beyond spooky…" Tristan stated the obvious. "Yeah…" Joey stated as he helped Hotaru with Mokabu. As soon as the teen and small child was near, Joey took Mokabu into his arms. The smaller boy clutched like dear life to the older teen for comfort. Joey could do little than look on at the battle between Yugi and Illusion in strange silence. Yugi slashed here and there with the mystical powers of the Dark Magician's staff. He also had to avoid getting hit by the claws Illusion was using. 'Maat…' Hotaru whispered, watching Illusion. 'I think I figured something out.' Maat told her. 'Yugi needs to identify the card that Illusion used.' Hotaru's eyes widened in understanding. "Yugi! You have to figure out the Card that Illusion's using against you! If you don't he can keep on fighting with it!" Hotaru called out to the teen.


Yami heard the pretty raven-haired girl shout out what to do. He felt like probing her energy to find out how she'd come up with such an answer as that to this fight, but realized that he was fighting for keeps and shouldn't worry bout such things. He concentrated on the claws spread from the hands of the red monster. 'Perhaps the red skin color and claws are a hint…' He concentrated hard on thinking about the cards. 'Wait! Yami! His skin maybe red but his claws are black!' Yugi told the older self. Yami's eye's widened finally. "I know now!" He shouted. "You are using the Red Eyes Black Dragon!" He told Illusion. Illusion screamed in agony as the red skin melted away leaving him in a strange shadowy form. "I have won…release us now!" Yami confidently spoke. "No…" The creature hissed. "Then into the shadow realm shall you forever go!" Came another. It was definitely not Yugi's or Yami's. It was female. The man like shadow disappeared and colors again encircled the group. Yami disappeared into Yugi, but not before glancing at Yugi's friends and a specific purple eyed teen girl. 'She's very useful indeed…' His mind sighed as he entered slumber inside of Yugi.

Hotaru stared as Yugi got up and brushed off the edge of his shirt. "What the heck happened?" Joey asked the smaller teen. The blonde red head simply shrugged. "I know as much as you do…Joey." The teen gave off an innocent smile that captivated the girl's eyes for a while. 'He's so much like Chibi-Usa…' Her mind shook itself as she became aware of some rattling in the near by bushes. A white headed boy with strange dark black like eyes stared at the group. "Bakura!" Yugi and Joey cried at exactly the same time. Hotaru tiredly watched the stranger, her eyes never leaving his for about 2 minutes, before she and Tristan directed their attentions to their companions Tea and Mokabu who were still unconscious….

TBC…

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