Identities- Yami phone home?
*important author's note! Yes it is important. I would like to say that the tournament will NOT be today in the fic but instead will be in one week's time. Sorry for the inconvenience peoples. And now onward to one of the weirdest and most confusing chapters yet....oh yes and the disclaimer (mutters) I don't own yu-gi-oh ok? Geesh....
(Bakura wasn't the only one who was exhausted. A tired Yugi dropped onto his bed and lay unmoving the second after he hit the mattress. He just stared up at the ceiling, silently thinking)
Yugi I don't know if I can do it anymore. I don't know if I can duel.
Yami //aibou, do not think of such things!//
Yugi /but I'm so tired Yami. I know the cards believe in me, and trust me but I'm just so tired of everything being thrown my way/
Yami //it isn't thrown onto you Yugi. It's your destiny that these things happen. It was destiny that brought me to you.//
Yugi (sighs) /you're right. You are, but I don't want to go to the tournament Yami. I won't./
Yami //what has gotten into you lately? Where is the yugi that I know and love?//
Yugi /here. I'm still here. It's just.../
Yami //that girl. It's that girl isn't it?//
Yugi (rolls onto his stomach, removing the puzzle from his neck) /what if Bakura's right. That cold I felt, I can't get it out of my mind. And her face...like there was something evil behind it. I just don't want to fight anymore Yami!/
Yami (sternly) //if you must fight then you must Yugi. It's the way of life. We've been over this earlier//
Yugi /I'm so cold....that face. I don't know why I didn't notice the way her eyes gleamed until right now./
Yami //mortals tend to overlook things//
Yugi /this seems just like the conversation with Bakura...(shivers) Maybe things will be better tomorrow./
Yami //yes, go to sleep. But remember, if there is reason to fight you know I will not hesitate to act.//
Yugi: zZzzzzZzzzzzZZZZZZZz
Yami (chuckling softly, the pharaoh returned to his spirit room. He huddled in a corner, bowing his head to think.) so I am cold as well. This is magic I sense. Then there's no denying she is hiding something although the little one will not like this...
(there was a sudden crash and he jumped up. Was it outside in yugi's room? Or...could it have been here? He turned around, seeing nothing. Then again and still nothing.)
Yami that's strange....
Voice: pharaoh, pharaooooh..
Yami: What? What is this? Who's there?!
Voice: Coooome, cooooome baaack....
Yami: Back where?
Voice: Cooome baaack, I need you pharaooohhh...i am waiting for you...
Yami: Where are you?! How did you reach me here?!
Voice: Close your eyes pharaooooh, close your eyes and follooow. Folloooow your guide..
Yami (angrily) What is this?!
Voice: Foolloooow....
(Reluctantly he closed his eyes, posed ready for a fight. Strangely though he only felt himself float downward..he was going out of his spirit room and into...an abyss. A cold one which seemed so familiar)
Yami like the power of the girl. But where is this guide? And where am I going?
(as though in answer to his silent thoughts, his feet began to move on their own, pretty much dragging the rest of him with them. Slightly confused, he let his feet lead the way through the endless freezing cold abyss. Once in a while he stopped completely, like there had been an invisible blockage in front of him then finally just a little ways ahead there was a pin prick of light. His pace quickened, growing steadily as he came closer. Now a force was dragging him instead of his feet and he only let himself go along with it. If it was a trap he was too close to do much about it anyway and he couldn't escape without being lost in the darkness. How alike this place was to the Shadow Realm yet so different. He was only a foot away from the light now, a huge gleaming hole was in front of him and as he stepped into it, he was blinded by it's radiance.)
Yami Bakura: You!
Yami: What! What are you doing here?!
Y B: Where 's your puzzle? Where's my ring?!
(Yami scanned the room they were in rapidly. It looked like that of a room in a Egyptian Tomb. Like one of his own really, except that the hieroglyphs read differently. In the middle was a softly blazing fire, causing shadows to dance upon the walls.)
Yami: Where are we? This is almost like home...
Y B: Never mind that. Who are you? (he was glaring icily at six others around the fire)
Shadow one: the question would be who are you? And that man next to you, the shrimp?
Shadow two: No! It's the pharaoh! The pharaoh you idiot!
Shadow one: Oh no..Isis save me!
Yami: quiet! Step forward everyone, closer to the flames.
Shadow two: why should we? (to the one next to him) should we?
Shadow one: yes. I'm just as confused as he sounds.
(each of the shadows took one step closer to the fire and all gasped loudly)
All: You!
(Yami's eyes travel from yami Bakura to each face in turn. There was a person who looked exactly like Pegasus, the two who had been speaking he didn't recognize, nor the other one beside them or his companion. But as the figure on the other side of the fire raised her head, Yami furrowed his brow and pointed a finger accusingly at her)
Yami: Nimu. The mortal girl.
Girl: No, pharaoh. You are wrong.
Yami: Then, who are you?
Shadow one: What are we doing here? This isn't a dream because we can't sleep!
Girl: That I will not reveal. (pauses) You fools! Don't; you see? The mighty pharaoh stands before you, as well as the grave robber. We all speak Egyptian and we all call this place home! Idiots! We are the immortals of the millenium items!
Shadow two: Then why are there eight of us?
Girl: Because if you haven't forgotten, the millenium sphere has two halves and with them two guardians. I being one. My brother the other.
Shadow one: Oh great pharaoh! At last I see you once more! I have forgotten how short you are! I mean... (to Y Bakura's infinite disgust the young man flung himself down at Yami's feet. Crying and whimpering) How I longed to see you once more!
Yami (looking down at him) Kantum. Yes I remember now. Faithful warrior you may stand again.
Kantum: One moment my aibou was sleeping on his bed and now here I am. Oh how I am blessed!
Shadow two: Oh don't be a suck up Kantum.
Yami: Sakuren?
Sakuren: Yes it is me. You're healer oh great one. But still, I am wondering how have we come to be here? All of us pulled from our spirit rooms to this place.
Shadow three (timidly shuffles over to the group) Great pharaoh, great one. I don't deserve the honor to be in your presence.
Yami: You are...?
Shadow three (sinks to his knees) I am a slave and illusionist. Why I was put into the sphere is my guess.
Yami: you're name then slave?
Shadow three: Scarab. You have asked my name! Oh what a joy!
Yami: please..it's no big matter...
Kantum: He is so kind! I've forgotten how kind he was!
Yami: er....
Y B: this is too disgusting. I'd rather be back with my mortal than here.
Pegasus look alike: (bows down on his knees) Jou. I am, was, your priest.
Yami: Yes. And yours? (turns to the Girl)
Girl (repeats) My name is not your business pharaoh. My loyalties were never to you.
Y B: This is all very nice but why the hell are we here?!
Voice: I have calllled you here. I am calling you hooooome....
All: ???
Voice: looook into the flames....the flamesssss..
(they instantly direct their attention to the fire and in it a shape begins to form)
Voice: All of you lived in the dayssss of the shadow games..and were saved by the millenium items. Together your strength is undefeatable...
Y B: like we didn't know that...
Voice: But greater magic exisstssssss...my magic...you must come home and save meee...
Yami: Save you? From what?
Jou: You are another immortal?
Voice: noo..I have always been immortal, I never was human like you all were...alwayssss will be....you must come...humans, mortals they will find me! They will find me soon! You cannot let them...all life is at stake...
Sakuren: But...what is this? Where are you? I'm so confused!
All (nod) @_@
Voice: I have called yoou my children...for soon I will be found and all will end...(eyes form in the fire and they glare at the nimu double) you know of this already...
All: Huh?
Girl: No, I don't know what you're talking about....
Voice: Your mortal has seen it....she knows...
Girl: No she doesn't!
Voice: Don't deny it young one! Don't deny me! I can see into your mind, your heart. That is how I got you all here..
Girl: no!
Voice (sharply) yes! She is here to set things right and she will fail.
Girl: You're wrong! (there was silence in the room now and she let out a screech) get out of my head! Stop it!
Voice: then do not defy me again. (turns back to the others) You must, one of you must come....save me...from the mortals...
Yami: Who or what are you?
Voice (faintly) I am the endless abyss itself, the blowing sands of eternity. I neither begin nor end. I am forever and whole, as well as nothing.
Y B: (sarcastically) Well that's helpful.
Voice: need I punish you too? It is the father of your mortal who will bring destruction! And the mortal of you Scarab the Coward and slave will help in the cause.
Scarab: Then I won't let him!
Voice: foolish youngling, you're strength is halved compared to his.
Yami: We don't understand this. What must we do?
Voice: Save me!
Yami: But where are you?!
Voice: Hooome, you must come hooome...
Kantum: Egypt!
Voice: yessss....hooome..
Yami: but we're thousand of miles away. Our mortals are only children, most of them anyway. I cannot let my aibou endure this. He has suffered much.
Voice: Doesn't matter.....you must come..or all...will be lost...there will be four of you in this room who will be the key to....save me before....it is...too late....
(the fire starts to fade out, crackling down and making the room darken)
Scarab: No!
Jou: Wait!
Kantum: But what do we do now?!
Sakuren: this can't be the end of the world..can it?
Scarab (crying) I don't understand any of this!
Y B: You! Second Keeper of the sphere! That THING said you knew what would happen.
All (turn to her)
Girl: Well I don't!
Yami (narrows eyes, strolling around the fire to her) you do know.
Girl (now she starts to fade) ^_^
Kantum: No! No, I can't leave my pharaoh! (clutches Yami's pant leg)
Sakuren: Kantum! Get up! Oh my hands, look they're gone!
Scarab (still crying) What's happening now?!
Jou: Simple. Now that the THING is gone, it's magic that connected us to this..this different spirit room must have worn off. We are all returning to our own.
Sakuren: Then we can do nothing?
Jou: No. We can do nothing but wait and see. Exactly what's going on..what was that..i don't know.
Y B (joins Yami, trying to punch her now un solid form) tell me!
Girl (smiling as she vanishes)
Y B: ARGH!
(first she disappeared then Sakuren with a final sorrowful look at yami. Jou next and then the crying Scarab. Kantum began to cry to as he faded, solemnly promising that he would try to find his pharaoh once more)
Y B: Just you and me now Yami.
(which was of course when yami felt himself tugged out and the room was suddenly dwindling from view as he hurtled through the cold emptiness and landed with a hard thud on the floor of his spirit room.)
Yami: I'm beginning to agree with Yugi. That was weird... (the mind of his aibou suddenly opens, signaling his awakening.) //yugi?//
Yugi (yawns) Yami? What is it?
Yami: //I...I..//
Yugi: something wrong?
Yami //no, everything is ok aibou. Go back to sleep// You deserve to rest little one. Tomorrow will be a day of many surprises for you. Sleep well..
*important author's note! Yes it is important. I would like to say that the tournament will NOT be today in the fic but instead will be in one week's time. Sorry for the inconvenience peoples. And now onward to one of the weirdest and most confusing chapters yet....oh yes and the disclaimer (mutters) I don't own yu-gi-oh ok? Geesh....
(Bakura wasn't the only one who was exhausted. A tired Yugi dropped onto his bed and lay unmoving the second after he hit the mattress. He just stared up at the ceiling, silently thinking)
Yugi I don't know if I can do it anymore. I don't know if I can duel.
Yami //aibou, do not think of such things!//
Yugi /but I'm so tired Yami. I know the cards believe in me, and trust me but I'm just so tired of everything being thrown my way/
Yami //it isn't thrown onto you Yugi. It's your destiny that these things happen. It was destiny that brought me to you.//
Yugi (sighs) /you're right. You are, but I don't want to go to the tournament Yami. I won't./
Yami //what has gotten into you lately? Where is the yugi that I know and love?//
Yugi /here. I'm still here. It's just.../
Yami //that girl. It's that girl isn't it?//
Yugi (rolls onto his stomach, removing the puzzle from his neck) /what if Bakura's right. That cold I felt, I can't get it out of my mind. And her face...like there was something evil behind it. I just don't want to fight anymore Yami!/
Yami (sternly) //if you must fight then you must Yugi. It's the way of life. We've been over this earlier//
Yugi /I'm so cold....that face. I don't know why I didn't notice the way her eyes gleamed until right now./
Yami //mortals tend to overlook things//
Yugi /this seems just like the conversation with Bakura...(shivers) Maybe things will be better tomorrow./
Yami //yes, go to sleep. But remember, if there is reason to fight you know I will not hesitate to act.//
Yugi: zZzzzzZzzzzzZZZZZZZz
Yami (chuckling softly, the pharaoh returned to his spirit room. He huddled in a corner, bowing his head to think.) so I am cold as well. This is magic I sense. Then there's no denying she is hiding something although the little one will not like this...
(there was a sudden crash and he jumped up. Was it outside in yugi's room? Or...could it have been here? He turned around, seeing nothing. Then again and still nothing.)
Yami that's strange....
Voice: pharaoh, pharaooooh..
Yami: What? What is this? Who's there?!
Voice: Coooome, cooooome baaack....
Yami: Back where?
Voice: Cooome baaack, I need you pharaooohhh...i am waiting for you...
Yami: Where are you?! How did you reach me here?!
Voice: Close your eyes pharaooooh, close your eyes and follooow. Folloooow your guide..
Yami (angrily) What is this?!
Voice: Foolloooow....
(Reluctantly he closed his eyes, posed ready for a fight. Strangely though he only felt himself float downward..he was going out of his spirit room and into...an abyss. A cold one which seemed so familiar)
Yami like the power of the girl. But where is this guide? And where am I going?
(as though in answer to his silent thoughts, his feet began to move on their own, pretty much dragging the rest of him with them. Slightly confused, he let his feet lead the way through the endless freezing cold abyss. Once in a while he stopped completely, like there had been an invisible blockage in front of him then finally just a little ways ahead there was a pin prick of light. His pace quickened, growing steadily as he came closer. Now a force was dragging him instead of his feet and he only let himself go along with it. If it was a trap he was too close to do much about it anyway and he couldn't escape without being lost in the darkness. How alike this place was to the Shadow Realm yet so different. He was only a foot away from the light now, a huge gleaming hole was in front of him and as he stepped into it, he was blinded by it's radiance.)
Yami Bakura: You!
Yami: What! What are you doing here?!
Y B: Where 's your puzzle? Where's my ring?!
(Yami scanned the room they were in rapidly. It looked like that of a room in a Egyptian Tomb. Like one of his own really, except that the hieroglyphs read differently. In the middle was a softly blazing fire, causing shadows to dance upon the walls.)
Yami: Where are we? This is almost like home...
Y B: Never mind that. Who are you? (he was glaring icily at six others around the fire)
Shadow one: the question would be who are you? And that man next to you, the shrimp?
Shadow two: No! It's the pharaoh! The pharaoh you idiot!
Shadow one: Oh no..Isis save me!
Yami: quiet! Step forward everyone, closer to the flames.
Shadow two: why should we? (to the one next to him) should we?
Shadow one: yes. I'm just as confused as he sounds.
(each of the shadows took one step closer to the fire and all gasped loudly)
All: You!
(Yami's eyes travel from yami Bakura to each face in turn. There was a person who looked exactly like Pegasus, the two who had been speaking he didn't recognize, nor the other one beside them or his companion. But as the figure on the other side of the fire raised her head, Yami furrowed his brow and pointed a finger accusingly at her)
Yami: Nimu. The mortal girl.
Girl: No, pharaoh. You are wrong.
Yami: Then, who are you?
Shadow one: What are we doing here? This isn't a dream because we can't sleep!
Girl: That I will not reveal. (pauses) You fools! Don't; you see? The mighty pharaoh stands before you, as well as the grave robber. We all speak Egyptian and we all call this place home! Idiots! We are the immortals of the millenium items!
Shadow two: Then why are there eight of us?
Girl: Because if you haven't forgotten, the millenium sphere has two halves and with them two guardians. I being one. My brother the other.
Shadow one: Oh great pharaoh! At last I see you once more! I have forgotten how short you are! I mean... (to Y Bakura's infinite disgust the young man flung himself down at Yami's feet. Crying and whimpering) How I longed to see you once more!
Yami (looking down at him) Kantum. Yes I remember now. Faithful warrior you may stand again.
Kantum: One moment my aibou was sleeping on his bed and now here I am. Oh how I am blessed!
Shadow two: Oh don't be a suck up Kantum.
Yami: Sakuren?
Sakuren: Yes it is me. You're healer oh great one. But still, I am wondering how have we come to be here? All of us pulled from our spirit rooms to this place.
Shadow three (timidly shuffles over to the group) Great pharaoh, great one. I don't deserve the honor to be in your presence.
Yami: You are...?
Shadow three (sinks to his knees) I am a slave and illusionist. Why I was put into the sphere is my guess.
Yami: you're name then slave?
Shadow three: Scarab. You have asked my name! Oh what a joy!
Yami: please..it's no big matter...
Kantum: He is so kind! I've forgotten how kind he was!
Yami: er....
Y B: this is too disgusting. I'd rather be back with my mortal than here.
Pegasus look alike: (bows down on his knees) Jou. I am, was, your priest.
Yami: Yes. And yours? (turns to the Girl)
Girl (repeats) My name is not your business pharaoh. My loyalties were never to you.
Y B: This is all very nice but why the hell are we here?!
Voice: I have calllled you here. I am calling you hooooome....
All: ???
Voice: looook into the flames....the flamesssss..
(they instantly direct their attention to the fire and in it a shape begins to form)
Voice: All of you lived in the dayssss of the shadow games..and were saved by the millenium items. Together your strength is undefeatable...
Y B: like we didn't know that...
Voice: But greater magic exisstssssss...my magic...you must come home and save meee...
Yami: Save you? From what?
Jou: You are another immortal?
Voice: noo..I have always been immortal, I never was human like you all were...alwayssss will be....you must come...humans, mortals they will find me! They will find me soon! You cannot let them...all life is at stake...
Sakuren: But...what is this? Where are you? I'm so confused!
All (nod) @_@
Voice: I have called yoou my children...for soon I will be found and all will end...(eyes form in the fire and they glare at the nimu double) you know of this already...
All: Huh?
Girl: No, I don't know what you're talking about....
Voice: Your mortal has seen it....she knows...
Girl: No she doesn't!
Voice: Don't deny it young one! Don't deny me! I can see into your mind, your heart. That is how I got you all here..
Girl: no!
Voice (sharply) yes! She is here to set things right and she will fail.
Girl: You're wrong! (there was silence in the room now and she let out a screech) get out of my head! Stop it!
Voice: then do not defy me again. (turns back to the others) You must, one of you must come....save me...from the mortals...
Yami: Who or what are you?
Voice (faintly) I am the endless abyss itself, the blowing sands of eternity. I neither begin nor end. I am forever and whole, as well as nothing.
Y B: (sarcastically) Well that's helpful.
Voice: need I punish you too? It is the father of your mortal who will bring destruction! And the mortal of you Scarab the Coward and slave will help in the cause.
Scarab: Then I won't let him!
Voice: foolish youngling, you're strength is halved compared to his.
Yami: We don't understand this. What must we do?
Voice: Save me!
Yami: But where are you?!
Voice: Hooome, you must come hooome...
Kantum: Egypt!
Voice: yessss....hooome..
Yami: but we're thousand of miles away. Our mortals are only children, most of them anyway. I cannot let my aibou endure this. He has suffered much.
Voice: Doesn't matter.....you must come..or all...will be lost...there will be four of you in this room who will be the key to....save me before....it is...too late....
(the fire starts to fade out, crackling down and making the room darken)
Scarab: No!
Jou: Wait!
Kantum: But what do we do now?!
Sakuren: this can't be the end of the world..can it?
Scarab (crying) I don't understand any of this!
Y B: You! Second Keeper of the sphere! That THING said you knew what would happen.
All (turn to her)
Girl: Well I don't!
Yami (narrows eyes, strolling around the fire to her) you do know.
Girl (now she starts to fade) ^_^
Kantum: No! No, I can't leave my pharaoh! (clutches Yami's pant leg)
Sakuren: Kantum! Get up! Oh my hands, look they're gone!
Scarab (still crying) What's happening now?!
Jou: Simple. Now that the THING is gone, it's magic that connected us to this..this different spirit room must have worn off. We are all returning to our own.
Sakuren: Then we can do nothing?
Jou: No. We can do nothing but wait and see. Exactly what's going on..what was that..i don't know.
Y B (joins Yami, trying to punch her now un solid form) tell me!
Girl (smiling as she vanishes)
Y B: ARGH!
(first she disappeared then Sakuren with a final sorrowful look at yami. Jou next and then the crying Scarab. Kantum began to cry to as he faded, solemnly promising that he would try to find his pharaoh once more)
Y B: Just you and me now Yami.
(which was of course when yami felt himself tugged out and the room was suddenly dwindling from view as he hurtled through the cold emptiness and landed with a hard thud on the floor of his spirit room.)
Yami: I'm beginning to agree with Yugi. That was weird... (the mind of his aibou suddenly opens, signaling his awakening.) //yugi?//
Yugi (yawns) Yami? What is it?
Yami: //I...I..//
Yugi: something wrong?
Yami //no, everything is ok aibou. Go back to sleep// You deserve to rest little one. Tomorrow will be a day of many surprises for you. Sleep well..