What's gonna happen to Bakura? HE'S GONNA DIE!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! No comment, just read...and you'll see!
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"BAKURA!" Akei yelled out, just as he saw the beast take into the air. It was obvious its target was Bakura, but why...? Hardly even thinking, Akei grabbed Bakura out of the way of this 'hound' and watched the creature land gracefully, turning to prepare another go. What freaked everyone out more though, was what it growled at them.
"Faiteir nasai." It was more of a hiss...then a growl though.
If Akei hadn't been holding his light up, Bakura would have fallen to his knees. But nevertheless, his eyes were clenched shut and he screamed in pain at the feeling from the two words the creature had announced out. Again, the beast stated the two words and Bakura lost himself, trying to fight against Akei who continued to hold him still. Yami and Yugi just remained stunned, trying to figure what to do through their mental link.
Akei glanced down at his duel disc and pulled out a card from the deck he had inserted there earlier. So it might work, it might not...but he had to try, whatever this thing was saying every few seconds, would strike at Bakura like needles. Very big needles.
"What are you doing?!" Yami finally yelled out, at Akei.
"Trying a theory. Get ready to run."
"What....?!"
"Just be ready!" He hissed back at the former pharaoh, placing a card on the reader and calling it out as he spun the other half of the disc before the beast. Instinctively, the creature sniffed at it. "Electric Lizard!"
"What good is that going to do?!" Yami continued.
"Run. Now. Back to the palace." Yami looked at him with an odd glance. "GO!"
"Um...yeah....Come on aibou...." Yami grabbed Yugi by the arm and pulled him quickly towards the palace. Of course, the beast didn't notice. Its only interest was Bakura. The creature pawed at the purple Electric Lizard, the creature grinning and immediately feeding an electrifying shock on the creature...paralyzing it for the time being. The fiend howled out in annoyance and tried to break the spell but failed greatly. Akei pulled the duel disc back and placed the Electric Lizard's card back in his deck, still holding Bakura he turned and ran towards the palace.
As Bakura and Akei passed by it creature, it spat out with its growl those two words that get the smaller boy every time. "Faiteir nasai." Bakura fell out of Akei's grip to the ground as the words buzzed through his mind, almost burning him from the inside out.
"Bakura!" Akei turned around and pulled Bakura off the ground again and continued running towards the palace.
Yami and Yugi were waiting in the doors as Bakura and Akei were approaching the steps.
Yugi suddenly winced and did a double take before shouting as loud as he could towards the two. "IT'S MOVING AGAIN!!" Yami stared over at the beast and indeed, it was moving and chasing after them.
"Shit, shit, shit! Bakura, do you think you could MOVE instead of me dragging you?!"
Bakura just clutched his head harder.
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The two nearly jumped inside the palace and Yugi and Yami slammed the doors shut, the beast slamming against the door. They listened as it growled and turned away, sulking as it left.
Bakura collapsed in tears in the middle of the floor in the entryway. Akei sighed and stared to him.
Yami looked over at the other darkness. "I guess the duel discs can be some help. Thanks."
"Hey. Spared us all some time to get back in here. That thing can't get near us now! And it sounded like it gave up." He paused and looked back at Bakura. "But I can't understand. It seems like it was only after Bakura..."
Yami nodded. "Yeah, I realized that too. It's weird..." He paused a moment to think. "But I honestly don't remember a creature like that..."
"Your memory is still fuzzy, Pharaoh."
Yami simply glared back.
[Are you planning on actually getting off the floor any time soon....?] Akei questioned, folding his arms over his chest and staring at his hikari on the floor.
Bakura had been crying still, even after his yami had tried calming him down. It wasn't that he was hearing voices, but the fact that he was just plain scared. All the thoughts of that THING was what killed his father was trying to kill him, came back to haunt him...he just couldn't handle it. Akei on the other hand, was getting....fed up....his hikari was acting himself once again. The boy that fears everything. If Yami and Yugi weren't here, he'd probably....hit the boy. Instead......
[ARG you baka!!]
Bakura cringed at his yami's words as he lifted his head slightly to see Akei storm off down a right hallway.
/Should we go after him...?/
//No, I don't think so. He should be fine and I think he'd try and kill us if we followed after him...//
/If you're sure..../
//.....But I don't think he is going to be happy with the direction he chose to go.....//
/Why..?/
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"Stupid runt. I try helping, and this is what I get, this is what he gets!? I hope you're happy Bakura! You should be. If those two weren't there I would have.....I would have...." He sighed and hung his head. 'I would have lost it...'
Akei continued down the hall he was wandering. "This....looks vaguely....familiar...." He glanced ahead to what seemed the hall opening up and continued until he entered a large dome like room with a throne far infront of him until it touched the wall. There were a few tables set up, seemingly worn. Akei walked into the room, stopping before the old throne and then nearly fell backwards...
***Flashback***
"It's time you pay for your 'evil' you have done to this city! Let's hope you never become awakened again. Instead of killing you like most people though, you will be sealed away into eternal darkness! ....Any last words, before you never again see the light of day?" The voice mocked from a throne in the room.
A figure was on his knees before it, blood dripping down to the ground from his face due to being struck various times. Silver hair dangled over the pale face, the form not even looking up at the one ready to seal his soul away as he spat out rudely. "Only that you, Pharaoh and these people of this city are worthless bastards."
The Pharaoh grinned and snapped his fingers, a servant carrying over a golden ring object to the Pharaoh.
"If those are your last words..."
***End Flashback***
Akei fell to his knees. Now he remembered why this area was so memorable. The room where he was sealed into the ring....he was in it. His mind was distorted and if anyone bothered talking to him, mentally or physically...they should expect no responds, as Bakura soon found out.
{Yami? Yami I'm sorry....I.....I acted like a jerk back there, I just was remember my father and how this thing was after me...but at least we're safe in here. Please, come back..}
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{Yami?}
............
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Bakura stood and rubbed his eyes with a sleeve. "He won't listen to me...I hope he's ok..."
"I bet he's fine, just probably....a stroll down memory lane...." Yami muttered, leaving Bakura to simply nod. Yugi jumped at a new sound though, the ramming of the doors. Again that _fiend_ was trying to ram the door down. Yugi looked at his darkness wearily but the voice of his other comforted him again. "Don't worry, these doors are near impossible to break down, aibou."
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Akei winced and came back to reality at a sudden sound. No, it wasn't the sound of the hound ramming the door...but it was....growling. The same kind of growl heard before by everyone. This time, Akei really did fall backwards. Something jumped ontop one of the tables and glared at him. 'A-another one?! No, no, it must be the same, yeah it is.'
The yami pushed off the floor and darted back into the hallway, duel disc and all. As soon as he approached closer to the entry way, he started yelling. "It got inside!! That THING got inside!!!" He stopped infront of Yami, panting to try and get air.
"What are you talking about? Can't you hear? It's outside trying to break down the doors." Yami stated, folding his arms. He was surprised when Akei grabbed both his shoulders and nearly gasped out.
"Then there is TWO!"
"Akei. Don't be silly....there aren't-" Yami immediately froze all words and body as he stared passed Akei into the hall he had come down from.
There. Standing in it, was the second beast, the one that attacked Akei. Akei saw the look on the former pharaoh's face and turned his head towards the doorway (hands still clenched on the shoulders). He pushed Yami away from him and backed up, shaking his head. "Please tell me Pharaoh, that you have a back entrance..."
"That would be really nice.....wouldn't it?"
Yugi looked at his dark sighed almost in shock.
"Aibou, go into your soul room."
"You too, Bakura."
The two lights looked at each other for a moment but nodded and with a glow of both Millennium items...they were gone. "How stupid do you think these things are...."
The creature in the growled for a moment seemed offended, and the second one....broke through the doors at last. Both stalked near the two dark halves, licking the saliva on their teeth. One presumably smirked and Yami blinked over at Akei, mumbling.
"I think it heard you."
Akei's eye went wide and he stared at the open door. Yami seemed to catch the drift and pulled out two cards from his deck on the duel disk and flashed them so Akei could see a moment. The past tomb robber nodded and looked to see the creatures moving around towards their sides, giving the darks the ability to move into the doorway of the exit. "You could very well loose that Kuriboh card you know."
"Hai, I know." Yami whispered, holding up the disk and placing his Multiply card and a Monster card so they both activated. "Kuriboh!" The furry fiend appeared in the doorway and began multiplying quickly. Yami left the whole device in the doorway and pushed Akei out the door as they both took into a run. "That should get curiosity stimulated."
Akei nodded and they ran into an alley way, Yugi separating from his dark's form. The smaller boy fumbled through his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "I'm calling Kaiba.." No one seemed to object as Yugi dialed the right number. "Hello? Kaiba? Yes, we _need_ to get out of here and FAST..."
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Kaiba was in his mansion, and actually started sounding half worried with Yugi's sound of voice. "Why? What's out there??"
"I-I don't know...it's something trying to kill us...I don't know what to call it....it's like a cat and a wolf in one...." The voice called back.
"...Call it a Saber Wolf.....I mean, are you still in the city?"
"Kaiba? Yes, we're still in. But you have to-" The line went dead.
"Yugi? Yugi?! YUGI?!!" Kaiba shouted before hanging up the phone and staring at the ground. He grumbled and then took off in a run. "Damn guilty conscience."
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Yugi frantically stared at the phone, he had been yelling through it before, but that came to no good use. "It went DEAD!"
"You have got to be kidding aibou.....That was our only plan of escape."
Akei looked out of the alley back at the palace to the amount of Kuriboh in the front. At least it made a good wall. "We're still ok."
"But what do we do...?!"
The two darks only stared at Yugi.
{Should I stay in my soul room still....?}
[Are you hearing any voices there?]
{Other then yours, no.}
[Then yes. Stay in there.]
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As Kaiba called them....one of the 'Saber Wolves' paced infront of the small furry army. They seemed to do nothing and the Saber Wolf was letting a good meal slip away for waiting on these 'things'. Finally, it swiped a paw at one of the Kuriboh and the second Saber Wolf farther back watched as the paw slid through. The second one growled a deadly sound and lunged off the ground, through the mass of holograms onto the palace steps. The one remaining inside did the same and sat out besides its other, trying to find a scent to follow.
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There was a long pause between the two, until Bakura broke it with an expression of worry. {Are you ok..? Yami said before when you left that you had a 'flash of the past' but I didn't understand what he meant, you wouldn't answer me through the mental link either.....}
[Hai....it was only...a memory....]
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Though none of the group, realized what was in store for them, and what was coming to seek their flesh.
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Bahahahahahaha! Hey, I let Bakura live....for now ^^ All thanks to his yami. Of course...poor Akei...his awful memories of being sealed in the ring coming back to haunt him.... I am so cruel!
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"BAKURA!" Akei yelled out, just as he saw the beast take into the air. It was obvious its target was Bakura, but why...? Hardly even thinking, Akei grabbed Bakura out of the way of this 'hound' and watched the creature land gracefully, turning to prepare another go. What freaked everyone out more though, was what it growled at them.
"Faiteir nasai." It was more of a hiss...then a growl though.
If Akei hadn't been holding his light up, Bakura would have fallen to his knees. But nevertheless, his eyes were clenched shut and he screamed in pain at the feeling from the two words the creature had announced out. Again, the beast stated the two words and Bakura lost himself, trying to fight against Akei who continued to hold him still. Yami and Yugi just remained stunned, trying to figure what to do through their mental link.
Akei glanced down at his duel disc and pulled out a card from the deck he had inserted there earlier. So it might work, it might not...but he had to try, whatever this thing was saying every few seconds, would strike at Bakura like needles. Very big needles.
"What are you doing?!" Yami finally yelled out, at Akei.
"Trying a theory. Get ready to run."
"What....?!"
"Just be ready!" He hissed back at the former pharaoh, placing a card on the reader and calling it out as he spun the other half of the disc before the beast. Instinctively, the creature sniffed at it. "Electric Lizard!"
"What good is that going to do?!" Yami continued.
"Run. Now. Back to the palace." Yami looked at him with an odd glance. "GO!"
"Um...yeah....Come on aibou...." Yami grabbed Yugi by the arm and pulled him quickly towards the palace. Of course, the beast didn't notice. Its only interest was Bakura. The creature pawed at the purple Electric Lizard, the creature grinning and immediately feeding an electrifying shock on the creature...paralyzing it for the time being. The fiend howled out in annoyance and tried to break the spell but failed greatly. Akei pulled the duel disc back and placed the Electric Lizard's card back in his deck, still holding Bakura he turned and ran towards the palace.
As Bakura and Akei passed by it creature, it spat out with its growl those two words that get the smaller boy every time. "Faiteir nasai." Bakura fell out of Akei's grip to the ground as the words buzzed through his mind, almost burning him from the inside out.
"Bakura!" Akei turned around and pulled Bakura off the ground again and continued running towards the palace.
Yami and Yugi were waiting in the doors as Bakura and Akei were approaching the steps.
Yugi suddenly winced and did a double take before shouting as loud as he could towards the two. "IT'S MOVING AGAIN!!" Yami stared over at the beast and indeed, it was moving and chasing after them.
"Shit, shit, shit! Bakura, do you think you could MOVE instead of me dragging you?!"
Bakura just clutched his head harder.
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The two nearly jumped inside the palace and Yugi and Yami slammed the doors shut, the beast slamming against the door. They listened as it growled and turned away, sulking as it left.
Bakura collapsed in tears in the middle of the floor in the entryway. Akei sighed and stared to him.
Yami looked over at the other darkness. "I guess the duel discs can be some help. Thanks."
"Hey. Spared us all some time to get back in here. That thing can't get near us now! And it sounded like it gave up." He paused and looked back at Bakura. "But I can't understand. It seems like it was only after Bakura..."
Yami nodded. "Yeah, I realized that too. It's weird..." He paused a moment to think. "But I honestly don't remember a creature like that..."
"Your memory is still fuzzy, Pharaoh."
Yami simply glared back.
[Are you planning on actually getting off the floor any time soon....?] Akei questioned, folding his arms over his chest and staring at his hikari on the floor.
Bakura had been crying still, even after his yami had tried calming him down. It wasn't that he was hearing voices, but the fact that he was just plain scared. All the thoughts of that THING was what killed his father was trying to kill him, came back to haunt him...he just couldn't handle it. Akei on the other hand, was getting....fed up....his hikari was acting himself once again. The boy that fears everything. If Yami and Yugi weren't here, he'd probably....hit the boy. Instead......
[ARG you baka!!]
Bakura cringed at his yami's words as he lifted his head slightly to see Akei storm off down a right hallway.
/Should we go after him...?/
//No, I don't think so. He should be fine and I think he'd try and kill us if we followed after him...//
/If you're sure..../
//.....But I don't think he is going to be happy with the direction he chose to go.....//
/Why..?/
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"Stupid runt. I try helping, and this is what I get, this is what he gets!? I hope you're happy Bakura! You should be. If those two weren't there I would have.....I would have...." He sighed and hung his head. 'I would have lost it...'
Akei continued down the hall he was wandering. "This....looks vaguely....familiar...." He glanced ahead to what seemed the hall opening up and continued until he entered a large dome like room with a throne far infront of him until it touched the wall. There were a few tables set up, seemingly worn. Akei walked into the room, stopping before the old throne and then nearly fell backwards...
***Flashback***
"It's time you pay for your 'evil' you have done to this city! Let's hope you never become awakened again. Instead of killing you like most people though, you will be sealed away into eternal darkness! ....Any last words, before you never again see the light of day?" The voice mocked from a throne in the room.
A figure was on his knees before it, blood dripping down to the ground from his face due to being struck various times. Silver hair dangled over the pale face, the form not even looking up at the one ready to seal his soul away as he spat out rudely. "Only that you, Pharaoh and these people of this city are worthless bastards."
The Pharaoh grinned and snapped his fingers, a servant carrying over a golden ring object to the Pharaoh.
"If those are your last words..."
***End Flashback***
Akei fell to his knees. Now he remembered why this area was so memorable. The room where he was sealed into the ring....he was in it. His mind was distorted and if anyone bothered talking to him, mentally or physically...they should expect no responds, as Bakura soon found out.
{Yami? Yami I'm sorry....I.....I acted like a jerk back there, I just was remember my father and how this thing was after me...but at least we're safe in here. Please, come back..}
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{Yami?}
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Bakura stood and rubbed his eyes with a sleeve. "He won't listen to me...I hope he's ok..."
"I bet he's fine, just probably....a stroll down memory lane...." Yami muttered, leaving Bakura to simply nod. Yugi jumped at a new sound though, the ramming of the doors. Again that _fiend_ was trying to ram the door down. Yugi looked at his darkness wearily but the voice of his other comforted him again. "Don't worry, these doors are near impossible to break down, aibou."
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Akei winced and came back to reality at a sudden sound. No, it wasn't the sound of the hound ramming the door...but it was....growling. The same kind of growl heard before by everyone. This time, Akei really did fall backwards. Something jumped ontop one of the tables and glared at him. 'A-another one?! No, no, it must be the same, yeah it is.'
The yami pushed off the floor and darted back into the hallway, duel disc and all. As soon as he approached closer to the entry way, he started yelling. "It got inside!! That THING got inside!!!" He stopped infront of Yami, panting to try and get air.
"What are you talking about? Can't you hear? It's outside trying to break down the doors." Yami stated, folding his arms. He was surprised when Akei grabbed both his shoulders and nearly gasped out.
"Then there is TWO!"
"Akei. Don't be silly....there aren't-" Yami immediately froze all words and body as he stared passed Akei into the hall he had come down from.
There. Standing in it, was the second beast, the one that attacked Akei. Akei saw the look on the former pharaoh's face and turned his head towards the doorway (hands still clenched on the shoulders). He pushed Yami away from him and backed up, shaking his head. "Please tell me Pharaoh, that you have a back entrance..."
"That would be really nice.....wouldn't it?"
Yugi looked at his dark sighed almost in shock.
"Aibou, go into your soul room."
"You too, Bakura."
The two lights looked at each other for a moment but nodded and with a glow of both Millennium items...they were gone. "How stupid do you think these things are...."
The creature in the growled for a moment seemed offended, and the second one....broke through the doors at last. Both stalked near the two dark halves, licking the saliva on their teeth. One presumably smirked and Yami blinked over at Akei, mumbling.
"I think it heard you."
Akei's eye went wide and he stared at the open door. Yami seemed to catch the drift and pulled out two cards from his deck on the duel disk and flashed them so Akei could see a moment. The past tomb robber nodded and looked to see the creatures moving around towards their sides, giving the darks the ability to move into the doorway of the exit. "You could very well loose that Kuriboh card you know."
"Hai, I know." Yami whispered, holding up the disk and placing his Multiply card and a Monster card so they both activated. "Kuriboh!" The furry fiend appeared in the doorway and began multiplying quickly. Yami left the whole device in the doorway and pushed Akei out the door as they both took into a run. "That should get curiosity stimulated."
Akei nodded and they ran into an alley way, Yugi separating from his dark's form. The smaller boy fumbled through his pocket and pulled out a cell phone. "I'm calling Kaiba.." No one seemed to object as Yugi dialed the right number. "Hello? Kaiba? Yes, we _need_ to get out of here and FAST..."
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Kaiba was in his mansion, and actually started sounding half worried with Yugi's sound of voice. "Why? What's out there??"
"I-I don't know...it's something trying to kill us...I don't know what to call it....it's like a cat and a wolf in one...." The voice called back.
"...Call it a Saber Wolf.....I mean, are you still in the city?"
"Kaiba? Yes, we're still in. But you have to-" The line went dead.
"Yugi? Yugi?! YUGI?!!" Kaiba shouted before hanging up the phone and staring at the ground. He grumbled and then took off in a run. "Damn guilty conscience."
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Yugi frantically stared at the phone, he had been yelling through it before, but that came to no good use. "It went DEAD!"
"You have got to be kidding aibou.....That was our only plan of escape."
Akei looked out of the alley back at the palace to the amount of Kuriboh in the front. At least it made a good wall. "We're still ok."
"But what do we do...?!"
The two darks only stared at Yugi.
{Should I stay in my soul room still....?}
[Are you hearing any voices there?]
{Other then yours, no.}
[Then yes. Stay in there.]
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As Kaiba called them....one of the 'Saber Wolves' paced infront of the small furry army. They seemed to do nothing and the Saber Wolf was letting a good meal slip away for waiting on these 'things'. Finally, it swiped a paw at one of the Kuriboh and the second Saber Wolf farther back watched as the paw slid through. The second one growled a deadly sound and lunged off the ground, through the mass of holograms onto the palace steps. The one remaining inside did the same and sat out besides its other, trying to find a scent to follow.
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There was a long pause between the two, until Bakura broke it with an expression of worry. {Are you ok..? Yami said before when you left that you had a 'flash of the past' but I didn't understand what he meant, you wouldn't answer me through the mental link either.....}
[Hai....it was only...a memory....]
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Though none of the group, realized what was in store for them, and what was coming to seek their flesh.
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Bahahahahahaha! Hey, I let Bakura live....for now ^^ All thanks to his yami. Of course...poor Akei...his awful memories of being sealed in the ring coming back to haunt him.... I am so cruel!