/ Blah / = any hikari
// Blah // = any yami
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"No!" Tea gripped the quivering boy in her arms tighter, the screaming becoming fainter and fainter until she could hear nothing at all.
"Bakura?" She asked quietly.
"...I can't...I...can't..."
"Can't what?" The others were still, peering down at them with apprehension; the only yami left staring with wide, fearful eyes at the one he once loved.
"...He's gone...completely...gone..." Bakura's shuddering body, so weak with sickness, jerked up into a half standing position. Wobbling on his feet he looked to the still smoldering body of his yami for an answer, anything to tell him he was still alive.
/ Yami? Answer me! ...Please... / Half crawling himself to the still form on the cold stone floor Bakura felt tears spring to his chocolate eyes. The others could hear him whimpering. A cruel smile graced the demon's lips.
"You dare to even think he is still with the living?" She laughed. "Ignorant fool! As long as I have your ring his soul is trapped in the Shadow Realm! You too will join him." The staff began a slow decent towards Bakura's body. He had ignored the enchantress and made his way over to his other half. Burns covered the naked body and smoke curled up from the exposed limbs. Bakura's cried grew louder as he gathered his darkness in his arms, tears splashing to a puddle on the floor. Very slowly the body began to disappear until nothing remained. The staff stopped.
"How dare you..." Bakura whispered, holding nothing.
"What did you say?" Anzu asked.
"How dare you!" The broken teen sobbed throwing himself at the devil that stood before him. In her surprise Anzu dropped the staff, able only to look at the rampaging boy in tearing towards her. In no time he was upon her ripping at her robes, kicking and punching as hard as he was able.
"Insolent wretch!" The witch screamed throwing him backward with a wave of her hand. The rest, still dumbstruck snapped out of their trance as Bakura's head connected with a loud crack to the wall. He lay where he had fallen.
"Get back! All of you!" Yami Yuugi cried. "That is just the beginning of what she is capable! Take Bakura and go! Quickly!"
"But Yami-"
"Go Aibou, I will be all right, but I need to know you are safe." He smiled carefully. "Go now." The rest had all ready heeded the darkness's words and were heading back out the way they came, Tristan carrying Bakura and Joey staying behind with Yuugi.
"Come on Yuug', Yami'll be fine."
"Go Aibou, please." Yuugi nodded once and ran to the others, disappearing from sight. Joey still lingered.
"You'd betta come back," he said with no trace of emotion, "tha's all I'm sayin'." With that he was gone. In those few seconds Anzu had regained her staff and was advancing wiping the blood off her face with the back of her slender hand.
"You will pay." She whispered, slinging a blast and catching the pharaoh in the right shoulder as he dodged. He staggered back, blood seeping through his fingers and dripping to the floor.
"Why are you doing this? Anzu, my love, listen to reason."
"Reason?" She laughed. "Where was reason when you pierced my heart with the thorns of the black rose that was your love?" She chuckled, eyes downcast and launched another pillar of fire, missing Yami Yuugi by inches. "I am through with reason. You betrayed me, dear Yugioh, along with that thief. It was your thief's accomplices that slew me by your word." Her laughter rose and a dagger appeared in her hand. Before the darkness could blink it was stuck just above his heart, embedded in the thick muscle of his left shoulder. "Now I will give you what you deserve! Take it and be at death!" Another attack flew from her open hands, laughter becoming high pitched and maniacal.
"I will not be taken down that easily! Eye of Illusion!" Finally becoming aware Yami Yuugi vanished from sight, appearing just behind his love. Snatching the staff from her grasp he held it to the small of her back. "Please, my desert flower, I had nothing to do with that, nor did Bakura. The tomb raider was in truth when he told you he was in prison; it was I who put him there."
"You continue to lie even after my death. You still claim to love me even after those who murdered me confessed to it." Anzu started to sob.
"Anzu..."
"Stay your words; I will not be tricked any longer. If you love me still, as you claim, put my soul to rest at last. I am so weary with this half-existence."
"I can't...I can't stand to lose you again. I have missed you for a millennia." The sorrow, held in secret for so long overflowed and Anzu's hatred dissolved just as Yami Yuugi's tears began to trickle down his face and his hold on the staff weakened. It clattered to the ground as he dropped it.
"I have killed for my revenge and found that it was in vain. My soul is soiled and I can only hope the gods will overlook that in light of our suffering." Her blue eyes stained with pain looked into Yami Yuugi's as she turned. "I can't undo what I have done but I can ask it of you to help me forget it. If what you say is true and right I am sorry for what I have caused.
"My dearest, by the gods it is!" A soft hand traced its way down his damp cheek. "Very well, I will deny your truth no longer. Do you have the strength to undertake my challenge, dear Yugioh?"
"If it is what you want, love, dear one, I will do anything you ask." He smiled. "May I ask of you a favor in return?"
"If it is within my power I will do so." Yami Yuugi's arms encircled her thin shoulders.
"Let me hold you...one last time..." warmly she returned the embrace.
"My soul will finally be at peace...thank you...my beloved..." Slowly Yami Yuugi felt the warmth leave her body, the Sennen items returned to their natural state and she grew limp in his arms. The tears flowed more freely as he lowered her slowly to the ground still wrapped in his shivering arms.
"Forgive me...I should have been there for you..." Crying harder he kissed her forehead. "Be at peace, my love, daughter of Ra...may you pass unheeded to the afterlife worthy of one such as you." He stood up and gathered the puzzle and ring in one bloody hand. More tears fell. "This place of death and suffering will be your tomb. I send my love with you as well as my prayers. Homage to thee, Osiris, Lord of eternity, King of the Gods, whose names are manifold, whose forms are holy, thou being of hidden form in the temples, whose Ka is holy. Thou art the governor of Tattu, and also the mighty one in Sekhem. Thou art the Lord to whom praises are ascribed in the nome of Ati, thou art the Prince of divine food in Anu. Thou art the Lord who is commemorated in Maati, the Hidden Soul, the Lord of Qerrt, the Ruler supreme in White Wall. Thou art the Soul of Ra, his own body, and hast thy place of rest in Henensu. Thou art the beneficent one, and art praised in Nart. Thou makest thy soul to be raised up."
SY: *Sniffles* So anticlimactic! So bad!
DM: There, there, it wasn't that bad.
SY: Really? *Sniff*
CG: Yes, maybe you can redeem yourself in the last chapter!
SY: *cries harder*
DM/CG: Oo;
YB: Serves you right for knockin' me off!
YY: That was my favorite part!
Y#1f: I got more film! Yay!
YY: Ahhhhhhh! *Runs away*
Y#1f: Come back! *Flies past, photos scattering in her wake*
DM: Ooh, neat! *Picks one up*
SY: *crying in her corner somewhere*
CG: Lemme see!
YB: *Peers closer* Is that a teddy bear?
DM: Must've picked up Yuugi's liking for the fuzzy things...
YB: Look at me, the big, bad pharaoh, huggin' a teddy bear! *Falls over laughing while waving the picture in the air*
SY: *Over herself* Aw, I think it's cute.
All the rest of the cast: *Rabid laughter*
