Chapter 12- Recollection and Pain
**Here we go. Close to the end. And don't worry; I have some of the sequel planned out if I decide to do one! ^^ Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, the characters and such**
Three days passed and nothing eventful passed between Chikara and the spirit of the millennium item. Everything seemed to be back to normal, but Chikara seemed worn out and exhausted ever since her yami took complete control of her body. What looked like a bruise on her neck, disappeared the day after Yugi got the millennium puzzle back. It was nearing mid-day and she still hadn't woken up. Everyone had taken shifts on watching her and it was Malik's turn. He stood above Chikara with his arms crossed and looked at her. He looked at the small alarm clock on the nightstand, 11:35 am, and then looked back at her pale face.
"All right, now you have to get up, Chikara." said Malik as he put his hand on her forehead.
He frowned a bit as he noticed that her forehead was warmer and she didn't even flinch when he touched her forehead. He pulled his hand back slowly when Kaiba entered the room. Kaiba walked up behind him and looked at Chikara with his hands in his trench coat pockets.
"How is she doing...how come she is not awake yet?" asked Kaiba.
"....She's not doing too well....She won't wake up, but her breathing is normal," sighed Malik as he crossed his arms again.
The two chatted a while longer and Chikara could hear them, but she couldn't move or wake up. She felt trapped in complete darkness and the air was warm. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she wasn't in indoors. The landscape was covered in sand and the buildings seemed less detailed than the ones in her neighborhood that she moved to. Everything looked different, but familiar. She walked around the neighborhood and noticed that most of the people were taller and older than her. She looked down at herself and she couldn't understand that she was a child, around 7 or 8 years of age. She was wearing a soft blue robe, which kept her cool in the desert-like heat. She walked, what looked like a marketplace, and looked at the people and houses. The temperature was a lot warmer and the sky had no trace of clouds while the mid-day sun beamed down directly over everyone. Every so often, a few people looked at her then went back to walking. She could feel a pair of eyes watching her and she stopped walking and looked around.
A small wind blew by and picked up some sand, letting it slide gracefully across the small road, but no one was paying attention to her. Chikara shrugged and kept walking towards the residential area of the town. She stopped at one house and looked inside the door. It was completely empty with exception of the graved in stair way that lead into the depths of the earth. There was a gold glow coming from the bottom. She heard the crunch of stones on the ground and she turned around. A tall man holding a long dagger looked down at her coldly. She suddenly had the feeling like they had met before. Her back started to have shooting pains as she cowered back a bit towards the stairs.
"You have escaped once, little girl...but you will not be so lucky this time." said the man coldly as he stepped towards Chikara.
Chikara backed up until she almost tipped backwards on the edge of the stairs. She looked at the man with frightened eyes as he picked up her by her throat. He lifted her to his eye level and glared at her.
"This time, you shall die, brat!" he hissed as he shot his arm forward and let Chikara fall towards the cold, rigid stone steps below.
She did not scream because she couldn't find the voice in her throat. She just shut her eyes tightly as she saw the stone steps rushing towards her mercilessly, almost in slow motion to torture her. Moments later, after what seemed like an eternity of pain, she noticed that she was not falling down the stairs. She slowly opened one of her eyes and could partly see a couple torches in her blurred vision. She sat herself up and her whole body ached from bruises and possibly broken bones. Chikara closed her eyes and rubbed her head painfully to get rid of the dizziness that spun in her head.
She heard a scuffle of feet across the cold stone floor and she opened her eyes slowly. She jumped back as her vision focused and she saw a man wearing a white robe and his hard green eyes looking down at her. She looked around the room and saw that there was a sarcophagus, surrounded by brightly lit torches. On the coffin-like imprisonment, there were pure gold items and empty spaces that were meant for others. Each one of the items looked different, yet they had the same odd eye symbol on them.
Chikara was not really paying attention to the person in front of her until she felt his warm hand on her cheek. She immediately recoiled back and hit her head on the tall stonewall behind her. She growled a bit and held the back of her head, shutting her eyes tight as she felt the pain from bone hitting stone. She curled her tail around her knees and rubbed the back of her head painfully.
The man knelt down to her level and carefully placed his hand on Chikara's head. She knew that if she tried to jump back, she would end up hurting herself again. So she stayed still and opened one eye, looking at the ground. She saw the feet of two other people walk up behind the man who was being gentle to her and she looked up. The two new arrivals had their faces hidden in the shadows and they seemed to be staring at her, with red- tinted eyes. She felt herself behind picked up by the first man that came up to her and turn towards the other two. She couldn't really understand that the words that they were saying but she immediately clung to the man's shirt, in reaction when he tried to give her to one of the other unknown men. The green-eyed man had a surprised look on his face, as the bruised little girl seemed to trust him.
"Come now, no harm will come to you." He said calmly as he looked at the small purple-eyed girl in his arms.
Chikara tried to speak but her throat was dry and she couldn't find her voice. So she shook her head instead and huddled up closer to the one who was holding her. The green-eyed man, otherwise known as Shadi, looked back at the two men and said a few words in ancient Egyptian. They both bowed and walked off silently, disappearing instantly into the shadows. Shadi walked over to a stone table, with a gray blanket on it, and placed the small girl on there. He looked at his hand there was blood on it, there was also blood soaking through the back of Chikara's robe. He raised an eyebrow then looked back at the young girl. Chikara was whining slightly and she was trying to turn around and see her back, because it burned. The two men came back and Chikara almost jumped off of the table. They had arrived to quickly and silently. One of them was holding a bowl of water and the other was holding a plate of fruit.
"Here, you must eat something while we tend to your injuries." said Shadi calmly as he crossed his arms.
Chikara had to admit, she felt extremely hungry and the food looked very appealing. But she didn't want anyone touching her so she took the blanket she was sitting on and put it on her so it covered her head. The darkness seemed better than the creepy torch-lit room that she was in. She closed her eyes and winced as she felt the burning pain in her back. She heard someone walk towards the table and grasp some of the blanket in their hand. He lifted the blanket up slowly and saw that Chikara was staring right at him. Shadi raised an eyebrow as she pulled the blanket back over her face, covering herself completely.
Shadi thought for a second and walked over to the sarcophagus and carefully took a golden necklace with a strange eye symbol on it and then walked back over to the table.
"Here, if you want something to look at, you can look at this." he said as he held his hand out towards her.
Chikara peeked out of the blanket and crawled forward to take a better look at the ancient artifact. She sat down on the edge of the table and took the necklace in her small hands, and looked at it with interest. She traced her finger around the gold eye and just as Shadi thought, it kept her occupied. She suddenly had a strange feeling pass through her body and she stopped fiddling with the necklace. Chikara just had the feeling that there was something extremely dangerous within the item and it had moved into her. Everything started to fade away into blackness and she started to get nervous. The pain in her back got worse by the moment and it started to sting.
Chikara sat up very quickly in bed clutching her back in pure agony as she nearly hit Kaiba's worried face. Hot tears of pain starting to slide down her face as she shut her eyes tight and grit her teeth. Malik extended his arm and placed his hand on her shoulder lightly, but he ended up pulling it back quickly as Chikara pulled away from him. She shook her head slowly and was shaking from the pure pain and stinging that came from her back.
"It hurts...it hurts a lot! Make it stop!" she hissed as she felt the warm blood from the cuts on her back, start to seep out.
Kaiba stepped towards Chikara then stopped as he felt himself step on something. He lifted his foot and his eyes widened. There, on the floor was a bloody dagger, with fresh blood on it.
"What the hell...how..." said Kaiba as he stared at the bloody dagger in pure shock. 'How could of this have happened..we were keeping watch..'
Kaiba walked backwards and sat on Isis's bed and shook his head in disbelief. They kept watch on her almost 24 hours a day. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Unless they missed something, making a fatal error that would determine the young woman's fate. Chikara seemed to be drifting further away from everyone and reality. Kaiba didn't even leave the room when Isis and Tea treated the wounds on Chikara's back. He just didn't seem to pay attention, his mind was wrapped up in all these thoughts of her fate. If she would die, what would happen to her and what she was. His thoughts were broken from the gentle hand being placed on his shoulder. He looked up and Isis was looking at him sympathetically.
"There are many things that you do not know of her...the 'abnormalities' herself has changed quite a bit," said Isis. "But for the moment, until we find a solution, we can't let her sleep for a while."
About several moments later, Chikara was sitting on the dock with Kaiba, watching Yugi and the others, including Mokuba, play in the lake. The temperature had risen, and the water was warm enough to swim in. Bakura had excluded himself from that activity and he decided to stay inside and read a book and Shadi was nowhere to be found. Isis was close by and she sat by the window inside of the cabin and looked out at them. Malik, who was obviously not content about the idea of playing in the lake, was dragged into the activity with the help of Joey and Tristan, pushing him off of the dock.
Joey thought that it would be funny to get the little couple, soaking wet and he crept up behind them and pushed their backs forward. Kaiba didn't get pushed very far, turned around and gave Joey one of his death glares. Chikara, however, was pushed forward and the waters' surface was rushing towards her; just like the old stairway in her dream, or the vision from the past. Kaiba immediately turned around and grabbed the back collar of her shirt, holding her back. He pulled her back into her arms and stroked her hair slowly as she trembled, as if in fear. Chikara looked at her reflection in the water and saw her face. Images of fire, chaos and blood flashed through her mind like a never-ending nightmare. The screaming that echoed in her mind, seemed so real as she covered her ears and shut her eyes. She buried her face in Kaiba's shirt and starting crying.
"Make it stop, Seto....please....make it stop..it hurts too much..." whispered Chikara as she continued crying.
Isis looked out the window with a worried face. She partly understood what Chikara was going through and there was no way to stop it. The pain and injuries that she was going through, we caused from fragments of the past. The wildness of Chikara's other was unbelievable. She wanted blood to be spilled wherever she went. She wanted all the millennium items. And she would take Chikara as an advantage whenever she felt it was needed, destroying the innocence that she had left. Isis could remember each moment; All the pain, suffering and destruction that the spirit had caused. Their luck had somehow reappeared out of the bleak darkness and spared everyone's lives.
Isis shook her head slowly, forgetting the horrible memory that was burned into everyone's mind, she stood up and walked outside towards the group.
**There ye go. Chapter 12. Next chapter coming up soon, if I'm not too busy with schoolwork. Hai, and I hate saying it over and over, but please review. Oh yea.one more thing...erm.the guy Enriku or whatever...you can just shut it, cause people like my story and you can just bother someone else ~_^ Have a nice day**
**Here we go. Close to the end. And don't worry; I have some of the sequel planned out if I decide to do one! ^^ Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, the characters and such**
Three days passed and nothing eventful passed between Chikara and the spirit of the millennium item. Everything seemed to be back to normal, but Chikara seemed worn out and exhausted ever since her yami took complete control of her body. What looked like a bruise on her neck, disappeared the day after Yugi got the millennium puzzle back. It was nearing mid-day and she still hadn't woken up. Everyone had taken shifts on watching her and it was Malik's turn. He stood above Chikara with his arms crossed and looked at her. He looked at the small alarm clock on the nightstand, 11:35 am, and then looked back at her pale face.
"All right, now you have to get up, Chikara." said Malik as he put his hand on her forehead.
He frowned a bit as he noticed that her forehead was warmer and she didn't even flinch when he touched her forehead. He pulled his hand back slowly when Kaiba entered the room. Kaiba walked up behind him and looked at Chikara with his hands in his trench coat pockets.
"How is she doing...how come she is not awake yet?" asked Kaiba.
"....She's not doing too well....She won't wake up, but her breathing is normal," sighed Malik as he crossed his arms again.
The two chatted a while longer and Chikara could hear them, but she couldn't move or wake up. She felt trapped in complete darkness and the air was warm. When she opened her eyes, she saw that she wasn't in indoors. The landscape was covered in sand and the buildings seemed less detailed than the ones in her neighborhood that she moved to. Everything looked different, but familiar. She walked around the neighborhood and noticed that most of the people were taller and older than her. She looked down at herself and she couldn't understand that she was a child, around 7 or 8 years of age. She was wearing a soft blue robe, which kept her cool in the desert-like heat. She walked, what looked like a marketplace, and looked at the people and houses. The temperature was a lot warmer and the sky had no trace of clouds while the mid-day sun beamed down directly over everyone. Every so often, a few people looked at her then went back to walking. She could feel a pair of eyes watching her and she stopped walking and looked around.
A small wind blew by and picked up some sand, letting it slide gracefully across the small road, but no one was paying attention to her. Chikara shrugged and kept walking towards the residential area of the town. She stopped at one house and looked inside the door. It was completely empty with exception of the graved in stair way that lead into the depths of the earth. There was a gold glow coming from the bottom. She heard the crunch of stones on the ground and she turned around. A tall man holding a long dagger looked down at her coldly. She suddenly had the feeling like they had met before. Her back started to have shooting pains as she cowered back a bit towards the stairs.
"You have escaped once, little girl...but you will not be so lucky this time." said the man coldly as he stepped towards Chikara.
Chikara backed up until she almost tipped backwards on the edge of the stairs. She looked at the man with frightened eyes as he picked up her by her throat. He lifted her to his eye level and glared at her.
"This time, you shall die, brat!" he hissed as he shot his arm forward and let Chikara fall towards the cold, rigid stone steps below.
She did not scream because she couldn't find the voice in her throat. She just shut her eyes tightly as she saw the stone steps rushing towards her mercilessly, almost in slow motion to torture her. Moments later, after what seemed like an eternity of pain, she noticed that she was not falling down the stairs. She slowly opened one of her eyes and could partly see a couple torches in her blurred vision. She sat herself up and her whole body ached from bruises and possibly broken bones. Chikara closed her eyes and rubbed her head painfully to get rid of the dizziness that spun in her head.
She heard a scuffle of feet across the cold stone floor and she opened her eyes slowly. She jumped back as her vision focused and she saw a man wearing a white robe and his hard green eyes looking down at her. She looked around the room and saw that there was a sarcophagus, surrounded by brightly lit torches. On the coffin-like imprisonment, there were pure gold items and empty spaces that were meant for others. Each one of the items looked different, yet they had the same odd eye symbol on them.
Chikara was not really paying attention to the person in front of her until she felt his warm hand on her cheek. She immediately recoiled back and hit her head on the tall stonewall behind her. She growled a bit and held the back of her head, shutting her eyes tight as she felt the pain from bone hitting stone. She curled her tail around her knees and rubbed the back of her head painfully.
The man knelt down to her level and carefully placed his hand on Chikara's head. She knew that if she tried to jump back, she would end up hurting herself again. So she stayed still and opened one eye, looking at the ground. She saw the feet of two other people walk up behind the man who was being gentle to her and she looked up. The two new arrivals had their faces hidden in the shadows and they seemed to be staring at her, with red- tinted eyes. She felt herself behind picked up by the first man that came up to her and turn towards the other two. She couldn't really understand that the words that they were saying but she immediately clung to the man's shirt, in reaction when he tried to give her to one of the other unknown men. The green-eyed man had a surprised look on his face, as the bruised little girl seemed to trust him.
"Come now, no harm will come to you." He said calmly as he looked at the small purple-eyed girl in his arms.
Chikara tried to speak but her throat was dry and she couldn't find her voice. So she shook her head instead and huddled up closer to the one who was holding her. The green-eyed man, otherwise known as Shadi, looked back at the two men and said a few words in ancient Egyptian. They both bowed and walked off silently, disappearing instantly into the shadows. Shadi walked over to a stone table, with a gray blanket on it, and placed the small girl on there. He looked at his hand there was blood on it, there was also blood soaking through the back of Chikara's robe. He raised an eyebrow then looked back at the young girl. Chikara was whining slightly and she was trying to turn around and see her back, because it burned. The two men came back and Chikara almost jumped off of the table. They had arrived to quickly and silently. One of them was holding a bowl of water and the other was holding a plate of fruit.
"Here, you must eat something while we tend to your injuries." said Shadi calmly as he crossed his arms.
Chikara had to admit, she felt extremely hungry and the food looked very appealing. But she didn't want anyone touching her so she took the blanket she was sitting on and put it on her so it covered her head. The darkness seemed better than the creepy torch-lit room that she was in. She closed her eyes and winced as she felt the burning pain in her back. She heard someone walk towards the table and grasp some of the blanket in their hand. He lifted the blanket up slowly and saw that Chikara was staring right at him. Shadi raised an eyebrow as she pulled the blanket back over her face, covering herself completely.
Shadi thought for a second and walked over to the sarcophagus and carefully took a golden necklace with a strange eye symbol on it and then walked back over to the table.
"Here, if you want something to look at, you can look at this." he said as he held his hand out towards her.
Chikara peeked out of the blanket and crawled forward to take a better look at the ancient artifact. She sat down on the edge of the table and took the necklace in her small hands, and looked at it with interest. She traced her finger around the gold eye and just as Shadi thought, it kept her occupied. She suddenly had a strange feeling pass through her body and she stopped fiddling with the necklace. Chikara just had the feeling that there was something extremely dangerous within the item and it had moved into her. Everything started to fade away into blackness and she started to get nervous. The pain in her back got worse by the moment and it started to sting.
Chikara sat up very quickly in bed clutching her back in pure agony as she nearly hit Kaiba's worried face. Hot tears of pain starting to slide down her face as she shut her eyes tight and grit her teeth. Malik extended his arm and placed his hand on her shoulder lightly, but he ended up pulling it back quickly as Chikara pulled away from him. She shook her head slowly and was shaking from the pure pain and stinging that came from her back.
"It hurts...it hurts a lot! Make it stop!" she hissed as she felt the warm blood from the cuts on her back, start to seep out.
Kaiba stepped towards Chikara then stopped as he felt himself step on something. He lifted his foot and his eyes widened. There, on the floor was a bloody dagger, with fresh blood on it.
"What the hell...how..." said Kaiba as he stared at the bloody dagger in pure shock. 'How could of this have happened..we were keeping watch..'
Kaiba walked backwards and sat on Isis's bed and shook his head in disbelief. They kept watch on her almost 24 hours a day. Nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Unless they missed something, making a fatal error that would determine the young woman's fate. Chikara seemed to be drifting further away from everyone and reality. Kaiba didn't even leave the room when Isis and Tea treated the wounds on Chikara's back. He just didn't seem to pay attention, his mind was wrapped up in all these thoughts of her fate. If she would die, what would happen to her and what she was. His thoughts were broken from the gentle hand being placed on his shoulder. He looked up and Isis was looking at him sympathetically.
"There are many things that you do not know of her...the 'abnormalities' herself has changed quite a bit," said Isis. "But for the moment, until we find a solution, we can't let her sleep for a while."
About several moments later, Chikara was sitting on the dock with Kaiba, watching Yugi and the others, including Mokuba, play in the lake. The temperature had risen, and the water was warm enough to swim in. Bakura had excluded himself from that activity and he decided to stay inside and read a book and Shadi was nowhere to be found. Isis was close by and she sat by the window inside of the cabin and looked out at them. Malik, who was obviously not content about the idea of playing in the lake, was dragged into the activity with the help of Joey and Tristan, pushing him off of the dock.
Joey thought that it would be funny to get the little couple, soaking wet and he crept up behind them and pushed their backs forward. Kaiba didn't get pushed very far, turned around and gave Joey one of his death glares. Chikara, however, was pushed forward and the waters' surface was rushing towards her; just like the old stairway in her dream, or the vision from the past. Kaiba immediately turned around and grabbed the back collar of her shirt, holding her back. He pulled her back into her arms and stroked her hair slowly as she trembled, as if in fear. Chikara looked at her reflection in the water and saw her face. Images of fire, chaos and blood flashed through her mind like a never-ending nightmare. The screaming that echoed in her mind, seemed so real as she covered her ears and shut her eyes. She buried her face in Kaiba's shirt and starting crying.
"Make it stop, Seto....please....make it stop..it hurts too much..." whispered Chikara as she continued crying.
Isis looked out the window with a worried face. She partly understood what Chikara was going through and there was no way to stop it. The pain and injuries that she was going through, we caused from fragments of the past. The wildness of Chikara's other was unbelievable. She wanted blood to be spilled wherever she went. She wanted all the millennium items. And she would take Chikara as an advantage whenever she felt it was needed, destroying the innocence that she had left. Isis could remember each moment; All the pain, suffering and destruction that the spirit had caused. Their luck had somehow reappeared out of the bleak darkness and spared everyone's lives.
Isis shook her head slowly, forgetting the horrible memory that was burned into everyone's mind, she stood up and walked outside towards the group.
**There ye go. Chapter 12. Next chapter coming up soon, if I'm not too busy with schoolwork. Hai, and I hate saying it over and over, but please review. Oh yea.one more thing...erm.the guy Enriku or whatever...you can just shut it, cause people like my story and you can just bother someone else ~_^ Have a nice day**