An Unknown Card
Chapter Eleven:
The House of Ishtar
By: fairysphinx
fairysphinx: I have GOT to start reading over my chapters before posting them. Last chapter's end of chapter torture idea was given to me by Angel of Truth & Light, and I am really sorry that I didn't post that last chapter. Anyhow, as you probably guessed from the title, we're going to meet Isis and Malik. I just hope they aren't still sore with me. Oh, well. And since it was a very close race in the nicknames for Y. Bakura, I thought you might like it if the name Yaro was used as a nickname , so I decided to call Y. Malik, Yaro. I hope that's okay with you! Also, I got a review from Zephyr, Brimstone, and Sulfur saying that my fic was a bit confusing. If you could tell my where it was confusing, I might be able to explain it to you, so it isn't confusing. But, on with the chapter…er, after the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, although I do own Ktara, Y. Ktara/Yata, and Harbinger.
/Yugi talking to Yami/
//Yami talking to Yugi//
!Bakura talking to Y. Bakura/Yaku!
!!Y. Bakura/Yaku talking to Bakura!!
{Ktara talking to Y. Ktara/Yata}
[Y. Ktara/Yata talking to Ktara]
+Malik talking to Y. Malik/ Yaro+
=Y. Malik/Yaro talking to Malik=
* indicates action taking place *
indicates a passage in time
"Almost there. Just a little further!" Yugi kept muttering to himself, trying to keep his and everyone else's hopes up. And so far, it hadn't been working. But this time, Yugi was correct in saying that they were almost there. They were, however close they were, walking into a trap…set by none other than Y. Malik/Yaro himself.
"999,999,999,999,999 bottles of Egyptian beer on the wall, 999,999,999,999,999 bottles of Egyptian beer! Put a bottle back onto the wall, and you have1,000,000,000,000,000 bottles of Egyptian beer on the wall!"
"And they think we're loosing it!" Ktara whispered to Yugi, after hearing a section of the yamis' song. About at that moment, roots sprang out of the hot sand, and hooked around them, and then pulled them down into the sand. The four landed in a basement-like room, where stood Yaro.
"Good day to you all. It's so nice of you to drop in!" His tone was cool, on the verge of icy.
"What do you want, Yaro?" Ktara groaned. She had been at the very bottom of the pile.
{Yata, you need to stop eating the bonbons!}
[Hey! I take that as an insult!]
{Good! I was meaning it as one!}
"How did you know my name, pray tell?!"
"It's right there in your mind, just like where we are, what you want, Malik's sister's name, how we got here, what time it is, what you intend to do to us, and why you brought us here. Oh, and what you did to Malik." Yaro's mouth dropped open.
'There's no way that she could have known that. Hmm. Maybe…nah, she couldn't be a fortuneteller. She doesn't even have a Millennium item.'
"Who says I'm not a fortune teller? I'm not at all a fortuneteller like Isis, but you never know, now do you?"
'She read my thoughts?! Okay, let's just keep calm and together. Ah, I know!'
"You have a machine that tells you what I'm thinking, or what's in my mind!" * everyone but Yaro sweatdrops *
"Right. Now, what you're planning to do, trust me, it won't work. We are immune to it."
"No one is immune to it! So, that proves that you are lying!"
"Oh, a card doesn't lie!" Ktara answered, her voice growing cold, and her eyes narrowing to little slits. She was getting very annoyed, and an annoyed Ktara is something you never want to see. Which is why the rest of the little group backed away from her.
"What do you mean, 'a card doesn't lie'? You're not a card!"
"Are you sure about that?!"
"Yes, very!"
"Well, well, well! For a yami, you sure aren't very smart! I'd advise you to think over your options very carefully…you might end up choosing the wrong one." Yup. Yaro had done it. He had awoken the evil side of Ktara (a/n: you'll learn more about this later in the chapter), something that you never, and I mean NEVER want to do.
"You're duelists, right?"
"Yes," Yami answered blandly.
"Then I challenge you to a duel!" He was pointing right at Yugi.
"Please, make yourselves comfortable. I did the best I could to tidy up before you came." Isis seemed to be a very sweet woman.
"Just a question," Joey started, "but how did you know we were coming?"
"That is rather a secret."
"You don't have to worry about us. We know of the Millennium items. That's what brings us out here in the first place. And since you know were coming, I say you hold in your possession the Millennium Tauk (spell check?)." Yaku was a definite expert of the Millennium items.
"How do you know?"
"Well, my yami and I have the Millennium Eye and the Millennium Ring. Our friend, Yugi, has the Millennium Puzzle, and Shadi has the Millennium Scale and the Millennium Ankh."
"Well, that is quite a collection. Why do you wish the Millennium items?"
"We would tell you, but it's not our piece to tell. It's Ktara and Yata's, but they aren't here yet."
BOOM!!!!!!!!!!!!
"What was that?" Joey asked, leaping out of his seat.
"That explosion came from my brother's room in the basement! What has he done now?!" Isis, followed by the guests, marched down to the basement, where they saw a duel monsters game being played on a holograph machine…or, was being played. On one side was Yugi, looking scared to death, lifepoints at one hundred (100), and on the other side was someone that they didn't know (Yaro), lifepoints at zero (0). The arena was filled with smoke, and the duelists and the room looked like they had suffered some sort of explosion.
"Malik, what in the world is going on down here?!"
"A d-d-duel-l-l-l?"
"I can see that, but what happened?"
"That card! That card!"
"What card? You're making no sense, Malik!"
"His card! It's evil! Keep that Harbinger far from me!"
"Weird," Bakura said. "He stated that Harbinger is evil. But Yata is over there, with Yami, hiding behind the couch, and Ktara is the good half."
!!Not quite!!! The smoke had cleared, showing Ktara with a red aura around her, and she wore a very evil grin.
"What card is that?!" Isis shrieked, in surprise.
"I think that used to be Ktara," Joey said, simply. Kaiba ended up whacking him on the head.
"Yata, what's wrong with her?" Yami asked.
"It's not her that's doing this. It's another being that lives inside her. Believe you me, this thing is not somebody you'd want to invite to a birthday party."
"If it's not Ktara, then what is it?"
"He lives in her body. The thing used to come out a lot. Back then, it had control over her, kind of like Yaku used to have control over Bakura. Yaro must have pushed her far enough. You see, after I came around, he got very frightened, and started only to come out when she got really annoyed, or mad. He wreaks all kinds of havoc, and is very, very hard to stop, although there is one way that I know of."
"Then perform it, already! I don't think this gives a good impression on the hosts with the Millennium items!"
"It'll take a while to prepare, and I need something of high voltage to speed the process up."
"There's an electrical outlet over there!" Isis pointed to a place that had many cords hooked into it.
"Thanks. All I need for the rest of you to do is to make sure she doesn't go anywhere."
about ten minutes later
"I don't think we can hold the door shut much longer!" Yaku stated the obvious. They had managed to shut the possessed Ktara in a closet, using Joey as bait.
"You don't have to. It's complete. Now, as soon as you let the door go, hide! I want no chance of anyone being attacked besides me, and of course Yami, who can't go anywhere, anyway. And are the water buckets fastened so the water will fall on her when she comes out?"
"Yes." Isis was one of the more calm on the matter. Then, they scattered, as the door burst open, and the water drenched Ktara, which only made her madder.
"Hey, you want to attack something? How about attacking me?" Yata knew this would put the focus on her. Exactly what she wanted to happen. As Ktara came after her, Yata socked her in the stomach. The blow didn't have any effect, but what came with the blow did. An electrical current quickly flowed through her body. Screams came out of her mouth, but they weren't hers. They were higher pitched, and screechier than Ktara's. The electricity had no effect on her body. After a while, the screams died down, and the electricity vanished. Now, there was just Ktara, unconscious on the floor.
"What was that?" was the question on everyone's minds and tongues. They all turned to Yata for the answer.
"I'm not really sure, although I have a guess. I think there is a demon, taking refuge inside of my other half's body. It hasn't been awoken for a long time, and there is nothing in my or Ktara's power to get rid of it. He is very evil, and very powerful, and rarely ever dares to poke his head out anymore. But once in a while, he does. And I've found that only electricity will stop him, or at least put him back to sleep. Now, when Ktara wakes up, ask no questions of this, and act normal around her. Don't act like anything's changed. If she found out that she nearly destroyed her friends, she'd commit suicide for sure."
"Why would she do that?"
"Ktara acts like a motherly figure, as most of you know. And she'd rather die than put anyone she cares about in danger. Even people she doesn't care about. So, just pretend that this never happened. I think it would be best. * looks around the semi-destroyed room * As for your room, I'll fix it the best I can, though I have to admit that Ktara is much better at fixing things." With that, Yata placed her hands in front of her, palms away from her. The destroyed room was suddenly repaired to almost the same state as before the duel, with only a few cracks to show that the room was once destroyed.
"Whoa!" Joey said. "I didn't know you could do that!"
"You don't know a lot of things I can do. Even I don't know all of the things I can do."
{I blew it, didn't I?}
[What are you talking about?]
{The Millennium item carriers. They probably saw me when I was possessed by the demon, and thought I was going to use the item to take over the world, so now I'll never get a body!}
[How did you know? That you were possessed by the demon?]
{I've grasped a better hold on myself, to where he doesn't control me completely. I could have hurt someone. I could have killed someone. I shouldn't have gotten so upset with him! Oh, I am so stupid. And my stupidity could have cost someone their life. Oh, I don't deserve to live!}
[Ktara, you are banned from using anything sharp, or anything that could kill you. Now I guess you're going to be depressed. How long will it last?]
{Maybe a week.}
[Hopefully that week will go fast. And could you get a hold of Malik for me? I don't want to talk to his yami about it. That guy's a big jerk.}
[Already done!]
{I should have known. And I'm guessing that Yaro is locked in a closet?}
[Yup. I've already told them about our situation, and they agreed to it. Both Isis and Malik.]
{Thanks, Yata. For everything.}
[You'd better get to sleep. We have a long walk tomorrow, and you'll need every bit of strength you can get.]
{Where is it that we have to go, again?}
[To the Gate of Shadows.]
{Where's that?}
[At the top of Mount Everest.]
{That's bad.}
[And then that leads to the Circle of Appurtenance, where we can get our body. But we have to pass through the Shadow Realm to get there. We walk along a bridge. If you fall off of it, you will be stuck in the Shadow Realm forever. So don't fall off.]
{I didn't plan to. Oh, well. Good night, Yata.}
[Good night.]
'I just wish we weren't going to the Circle of Appurtenance for nothing.'
END OF CHAPTER ELEVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fairysphinx: Well, what did you think of chapter eleven?
Ktara: What do you me, we're going there for nothing?
fairysphinx: Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing…that you need to know right now.
Ktara: Ugh! You are impossible!
Joey: Hey, people! Review this fic, okay? Now she can't zap me for not saying the line! Wahoo!
fairysphinx: Hey! You said it before I told you to! Now, you shall pay! MUWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joey: Oh, great. * is turned into a puppy… a chuwawa (spell check, please?) puppy * Okay (yes he can still talk!), okay! I'm sorry, I'm sorry!
fairysphinx: Good! Now say it!
Joey: Please review this fic!
fairysphinx: Good. Now, before I turn you back, fetch me my Yami! * Joey comes back dragging Yami by the coat into the room *. Good, Joey! * glomps Yami * *snaps and Joey is back to Joey *. YAMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yami: v_v Help? Please?
I