::Evil smirk.:: I have gotten a brainstorm! A good one too.....This story will be longer then I thought.... ::Laughs out evilly for about ten minutes when throat goes dry.:: Ack. *sigh* Now if only to get to the part where my "master brainstorm" kicks into play...one or two chapters...hopefully....
~Akei to Kuthos~
*Kuthos to Akei*
Other mental connections remain, you'll understand this one at the end of the chapter.
******
Akei groaned and rolled over.
{Yami! Oh thank god you're alive!}
Another groan came from Akei and he rolled onto his stomach, placing arms over his head. Bakura stood and stared down blankly at his yami and looked over to the other three...all seemed clueless for the time being. Bakura sighed and continued on with the mental connection. {Wake up Yami!}
[.....Five more minutes........]
{Eh....Yami...?}
[....Go away.....] Came a groggily responds. Bakura just blinked, his yami was acting almost like an unwilling child not wanting to wake up. "Yami come on....."
"What's going on Bakura..?" The silver haired looked back at Yugi and sighed.
"He refuses to move."
Yami smirked and walked over to kneel by Akei, leaning over slightly so he could whisper in his ear. He spoke out softly in his native tongue and Akei stirred, rolling over his back and flashing a tired glare at Yami, only whispering back with his source of energy. "You bastard..." Again, the former pharaoh smirked and stood back to walk between Yugi and Kaiba.
"Yami (Yugi) that was mean!" Bakura shot a look to Yugi's yami accusingly.
"You understood that...?"
"Sort of.."
Yami turned his head away as if he did nothing.
/What did you say..?/
//Nothing aibou.//
"Bakura what did he say?"
//Aibou!// Yami's eyes widened as he looked to Yugi who after not getting an answer from his dark, went to the next best thing. His ruby eyes fell back to Bakura, worry shrouding them. He did NOT want Yugi to know what was said to Akei in Egyptian...but his worries dropped from Bakura's responds.
"Eh...nothing Yugi...it's not important...."
"Come on it can't be that bad!"
Everyone but Kaiba (who didn't know Egyptian either) stared at Yugi with weary looks. The small boy sighed and at last gave up his begs.
******
The group hadn't moved much, everyone sitting in an even line on the steps. Bakura had been trying for over an hour to get the ring to lock on the trace of where his father had died, even Akei tried to assist with it. A hopeless waste of time.
Kaiba, was getting restless, Yugi was getting hot and ended up disappearing into his soul room and Yami was trying to run what was going on through his mind.
"Alright!" Everyone, including Akei looked to Bakura who stood up from his position. He pointed his arm out to an area of the desert. "We go that way!"
The remaining people sitting stood as well and Yami blinked. "How did you find out...?"
"Erm..."
The former Pharaoh's face faltered dramatically. "You're guessing...aren't you...?"
"Something like that....But we can't just w-"
Something seemed to snap in Akei's head and he whirled to face the opposite direction his light was pointing. "It's that way."
"Again I repeat myself: how did you find out?"
"I can sense it." His eyes narrowed slightly, yet no one noticed before they returned to his normal sharp look. Kaiba sighed behind them and headed in the spoken direction, Bakura blinking before following, leaving the two yamis to walk in the back. Yugi emerged from his soul room an ran to walk besides Bakura. The two dark halves did follow after them, but slower...Akei seemed to have something on his mind and Yami intended on finding out.
"What's on your mind...?"
"What are you talking about...."
Yami half sneered. "I know something is bothering you."
Akei sighed, giving easily in defeat. He had to say what happened in his soul room, though it was hard. His eyes closed a moment and reopened, staring ahead of him as he explained. "While I was held by the darkness in my soul room, I had a few flashbacks of things..."
"Such as..?"
The yami cringed and whispered. "Being sealed in the ring, the Shadow Realm, Dansei, more of the Shadow Realm and a few others...." The voice raised to speak normally. "But I used enough of my remaining energy to stop and play a memory of my past life through my mind."
"Why do I get the feeling it's bad...?" Akei didn't answer and Yami just stared at him a moment before growing stern. "Tell me what you saw."
"I....was in an alley with someone else, I'm not sure who...we were both dressed in robes and the other's voice couldn't recognize...But anyway, I gather there was a tomb I was preparing for.....and the person was supposed to give me information...instead he told me not to go, that even the most skilled have refrained from entering...."
"...Why..?" Yami was getting fearful now, could he be speaking of the tomb they were heading for...?
Akei seemed to have a hard time relaying this. The group of five had left the city, trudging into the desert sand. Yugi sensed Yami's worry and asked him what was wrong, but the former Pharaoh simply said nothing and to stay walking with Kaiba...Akei said the same to his aibou. Taking in a breath, Akei continued. "He talked about how the darkness within the tomb is worse then that of the Shadow Realm, and creatures inhabited it that were neither feline or canine." He paused, finally turning his gaze on Yami, eyes filled...with fear. "Yami...he was referring to the Saber Fangs..." He had never been so shaken in his life, the tomb-robber's whole body was trembling, Yami could see it and he was clueless on what to do. The two had stopped walking, facing each other fully and telling their counterparts that they'd catch up. But even when noticing his own fear, Akei continued to speak of his flashback. "Yami, they are after Bakura because his father was the first one to near the tomb, break the seal, awaken the curse! The man said that the first one to encounter that spell will be killed, all other family members included with go afterwards, once they're down...everyone else will perish as well. That's why Bakura is being hunted, as am I because the ring bonds both of us like family!"
"Akei...calm down......"
"How the hell do you expect me to calm down?!" He snapped back.
"Go to your soul room."
This caught Akei off guard. "What...?"
"I said go to your soul room."
"What, are you trying to be my mother?!"
Yami glared darkly at the one before him and grasped his shoulders adding pressure into them causing Akei to flinch and nearly sink to his knees if the pharaoh weren't holding him up. Through gritted teeth Yami hissed harshly at the tomb-robber, who was shaken with fear of this tomb before but with the way Yami had him positioned...he wasn't holding up too swift. "Go to your soul room you damn BASTARD!" He dropped Akei to his knees as the silver-haired stared with an empty glance. Though Bakura was a semi distance away, the replica of the Millennium Ring glowed and excepted him into his soul room.
Yami turned to stare in the direction his aibou and the other two went and sighed, muttering to himself. "I'm sorry Akei, but you had to get to your soul room. You are a prime target, we know that now and you must be watching over Bakura. I know you're shaken about going here........but I had to yell, even if it broke down the last defense blocking fear that you had."
******
/Yami, Bakura said his yami returned to his soul room....where are you?/
//I'm coming, I'm coming aibou..// Responded the darkness with a huff, he was running through the desert sands, seeing a now short distance image that looked like ants, but it was the group he was searching for. //Aibou will you all please stop walking..//
Yugi chuckled. /Sure thing./
******
Yami at last caught up to the group and saw ahead of him the area of the dig, still about twenty yards away. Kaiba looked over at the Pharaoh curiously. "So what are we actually doing....?"
Yami just stared back. "I said last night that we were going to _find_ the tomb and make sure it was the right one. I never said I had a plan."
Bakura blinked, "You're kidding...?"
"No...no I'm not. But we still have to see if it even is the right tomb, come on."
******
Now only a foot or two away lay a doorway to an underground tomb, piles of desert sand pushed away from it. The workers had uncovered it at least, too bad they never had though...would of been less trouble. Bakura, Kaiba, and Yugi all looked at Yami for an answer, the former Pharaoh sighed and spoke up. "Yeah...this is it...but we have to figure out what to d-" Yami blinked and stopped as he looked over at an added body, Akei had left his soul room, rubbing his head with one hand. 'Damn I thought he would stay in his soul room...'
"Yami...are you ok..?" Bakura looked to his dark side, who seemed to have a severe headache. Akei looked ready to answer, but then broke into a run through the darkness of the tomb.
"AKEI!" Yami shouted after him then cursed loudly and headed after him until he was grabbed back by Seto. "Kaiba let me go NOW!"
"Don't you think we need a plan to go in there?!"
"Something's wrong..."
Everyone looked to Bakura who seemed to have a more pale face then normal.
"What is it, Bakura?" Yugi tilted his head at his friend.
"My yami won't respond to the mental link...yeah that's happened before but it doesn't feel like he's even...I don't know...conscious."
Yami narrowed a glare in Kaiba's direction who sighed and released his arm. "We have to enter the tomb, something bad is going to happen either way." His glance shifted to Yugi and the shorter boy seemed to understand, disappearing into his soul room. With only three left outside now, each followed one behind the other (Yami in the lead, Seto in the back, Bakura in the middle) after Akei.
******
"Ugh...what happened...?" Akei blinked and found himself in a room, head still pulsing with pain. The room was dark, and yet he could see in it....it was almost like a black mist. The tomb-robber had been sitting on the floor, just realized his wrists were chained to the wall behind him. He pulled at the shackles but it made no prevail to break him loose. "Great, just great....the last thing I remember was running into the tomb...almost like being lured into it..."
[Aibou..?]
"Don't bother with using your mental link. No one can hear you."
"Who's there?! Who are you?!" That's when he noticed a pair of eyes staring at him, the black mist in the room swirling away from one area to reveal a Saber Fang, tail lashing against the ground.
"I could kill you now..." It's voice half hissed, half growled. "But that would be no fun, I wouldn't be able to play with your friends' minds..."
"What are you talking about?!" He snapped out as the creature pawed towards him.
"You'll see. Don't worry, I'll keep your body alive....or should I say, my body..." The Saber Fang smirked, rising to sit on its haunches mere inches from the yami. "My name is Kuthos, and I repeat that you shouldn't bother connecting to your other half, it won't matter soon enough. You're link will be transferred to me.." Again it smirked, a dark aura forming over it's body.
Akei twitched and pushed himself against the wall in fear as the Saber Fang's devilish tongue rolled over its teeth and loosely hung and its body...vanished. But the yami soon found out that it had only left the room, to be transferred into his own body. Akei felt himself be thrown aback from his own body, locked in his mind within a soul room that was not of Bakura's or any one else's. But what was even more fearful, was this "Kuthos" had full control of Akei's body. With Kuthos in control, new strength ran through Akei's body and he stood up, ripping his wrists free of the shackles holding him.
~Give me my body back!~
*And have my fun spoiled? I think not. I thank you for being the weak soul that was easy to lure in this tomb, your body is very fitting. Now if you don't mind shutting your mouth, I have to pay your friends a visit...*
******
::Evil smirk.:: Kuthos is mean isn't he? Why does he want Akei's body?! WHY?!
Akei: Because you made him..
Oh right... ::Shakes head then looks to Yami and Akei in the story and shakes her head again.::
Next chapter hopefully will be up soon, school starts Wednesday. 9th grade so maybe slower...
~Akei to Kuthos~
*Kuthos to Akei*
Other mental connections remain, you'll understand this one at the end of the chapter.
******
Akei groaned and rolled over.
{Yami! Oh thank god you're alive!}
Another groan came from Akei and he rolled onto his stomach, placing arms over his head. Bakura stood and stared down blankly at his yami and looked over to the other three...all seemed clueless for the time being. Bakura sighed and continued on with the mental connection. {Wake up Yami!}
[.....Five more minutes........]
{Eh....Yami...?}
[....Go away.....] Came a groggily responds. Bakura just blinked, his yami was acting almost like an unwilling child not wanting to wake up. "Yami come on....."
"What's going on Bakura..?" The silver haired looked back at Yugi and sighed.
"He refuses to move."
Yami smirked and walked over to kneel by Akei, leaning over slightly so he could whisper in his ear. He spoke out softly in his native tongue and Akei stirred, rolling over his back and flashing a tired glare at Yami, only whispering back with his source of energy. "You bastard..." Again, the former pharaoh smirked and stood back to walk between Yugi and Kaiba.
"Yami (Yugi) that was mean!" Bakura shot a look to Yugi's yami accusingly.
"You understood that...?"
"Sort of.."
Yami turned his head away as if he did nothing.
/What did you say..?/
//Nothing aibou.//
"Bakura what did he say?"
//Aibou!// Yami's eyes widened as he looked to Yugi who after not getting an answer from his dark, went to the next best thing. His ruby eyes fell back to Bakura, worry shrouding them. He did NOT want Yugi to know what was said to Akei in Egyptian...but his worries dropped from Bakura's responds.
"Eh...nothing Yugi...it's not important...."
"Come on it can't be that bad!"
Everyone but Kaiba (who didn't know Egyptian either) stared at Yugi with weary looks. The small boy sighed and at last gave up his begs.
******
The group hadn't moved much, everyone sitting in an even line on the steps. Bakura had been trying for over an hour to get the ring to lock on the trace of where his father had died, even Akei tried to assist with it. A hopeless waste of time.
Kaiba, was getting restless, Yugi was getting hot and ended up disappearing into his soul room and Yami was trying to run what was going on through his mind.
"Alright!" Everyone, including Akei looked to Bakura who stood up from his position. He pointed his arm out to an area of the desert. "We go that way!"
The remaining people sitting stood as well and Yami blinked. "How did you find out...?"
"Erm..."
The former Pharaoh's face faltered dramatically. "You're guessing...aren't you...?"
"Something like that....But we can't just w-"
Something seemed to snap in Akei's head and he whirled to face the opposite direction his light was pointing. "It's that way."
"Again I repeat myself: how did you find out?"
"I can sense it." His eyes narrowed slightly, yet no one noticed before they returned to his normal sharp look. Kaiba sighed behind them and headed in the spoken direction, Bakura blinking before following, leaving the two yamis to walk in the back. Yugi emerged from his soul room an ran to walk besides Bakura. The two dark halves did follow after them, but slower...Akei seemed to have something on his mind and Yami intended on finding out.
"What's on your mind...?"
"What are you talking about...."
Yami half sneered. "I know something is bothering you."
Akei sighed, giving easily in defeat. He had to say what happened in his soul room, though it was hard. His eyes closed a moment and reopened, staring ahead of him as he explained. "While I was held by the darkness in my soul room, I had a few flashbacks of things..."
"Such as..?"
The yami cringed and whispered. "Being sealed in the ring, the Shadow Realm, Dansei, more of the Shadow Realm and a few others...." The voice raised to speak normally. "But I used enough of my remaining energy to stop and play a memory of my past life through my mind."
"Why do I get the feeling it's bad...?" Akei didn't answer and Yami just stared at him a moment before growing stern. "Tell me what you saw."
"I....was in an alley with someone else, I'm not sure who...we were both dressed in robes and the other's voice couldn't recognize...But anyway, I gather there was a tomb I was preparing for.....and the person was supposed to give me information...instead he told me not to go, that even the most skilled have refrained from entering...."
"...Why..?" Yami was getting fearful now, could he be speaking of the tomb they were heading for...?
Akei seemed to have a hard time relaying this. The group of five had left the city, trudging into the desert sand. Yugi sensed Yami's worry and asked him what was wrong, but the former Pharaoh simply said nothing and to stay walking with Kaiba...Akei said the same to his aibou. Taking in a breath, Akei continued. "He talked about how the darkness within the tomb is worse then that of the Shadow Realm, and creatures inhabited it that were neither feline or canine." He paused, finally turning his gaze on Yami, eyes filled...with fear. "Yami...he was referring to the Saber Fangs..." He had never been so shaken in his life, the tomb-robber's whole body was trembling, Yami could see it and he was clueless on what to do. The two had stopped walking, facing each other fully and telling their counterparts that they'd catch up. But even when noticing his own fear, Akei continued to speak of his flashback. "Yami, they are after Bakura because his father was the first one to near the tomb, break the seal, awaken the curse! The man said that the first one to encounter that spell will be killed, all other family members included with go afterwards, once they're down...everyone else will perish as well. That's why Bakura is being hunted, as am I because the ring bonds both of us like family!"
"Akei...calm down......"
"How the hell do you expect me to calm down?!" He snapped back.
"Go to your soul room."
This caught Akei off guard. "What...?"
"I said go to your soul room."
"What, are you trying to be my mother?!"
Yami glared darkly at the one before him and grasped his shoulders adding pressure into them causing Akei to flinch and nearly sink to his knees if the pharaoh weren't holding him up. Through gritted teeth Yami hissed harshly at the tomb-robber, who was shaken with fear of this tomb before but with the way Yami had him positioned...he wasn't holding up too swift. "Go to your soul room you damn BASTARD!" He dropped Akei to his knees as the silver-haired stared with an empty glance. Though Bakura was a semi distance away, the replica of the Millennium Ring glowed and excepted him into his soul room.
Yami turned to stare in the direction his aibou and the other two went and sighed, muttering to himself. "I'm sorry Akei, but you had to get to your soul room. You are a prime target, we know that now and you must be watching over Bakura. I know you're shaken about going here........but I had to yell, even if it broke down the last defense blocking fear that you had."
******
/Yami, Bakura said his yami returned to his soul room....where are you?/
//I'm coming, I'm coming aibou..// Responded the darkness with a huff, he was running through the desert sands, seeing a now short distance image that looked like ants, but it was the group he was searching for. //Aibou will you all please stop walking..//
Yugi chuckled. /Sure thing./
******
Yami at last caught up to the group and saw ahead of him the area of the dig, still about twenty yards away. Kaiba looked over at the Pharaoh curiously. "So what are we actually doing....?"
Yami just stared back. "I said last night that we were going to _find_ the tomb and make sure it was the right one. I never said I had a plan."
Bakura blinked, "You're kidding...?"
"No...no I'm not. But we still have to see if it even is the right tomb, come on."
******
Now only a foot or two away lay a doorway to an underground tomb, piles of desert sand pushed away from it. The workers had uncovered it at least, too bad they never had though...would of been less trouble. Bakura, Kaiba, and Yugi all looked at Yami for an answer, the former Pharaoh sighed and spoke up. "Yeah...this is it...but we have to figure out what to d-" Yami blinked and stopped as he looked over at an added body, Akei had left his soul room, rubbing his head with one hand. 'Damn I thought he would stay in his soul room...'
"Yami...are you ok..?" Bakura looked to his dark side, who seemed to have a severe headache. Akei looked ready to answer, but then broke into a run through the darkness of the tomb.
"AKEI!" Yami shouted after him then cursed loudly and headed after him until he was grabbed back by Seto. "Kaiba let me go NOW!"
"Don't you think we need a plan to go in there?!"
"Something's wrong..."
Everyone looked to Bakura who seemed to have a more pale face then normal.
"What is it, Bakura?" Yugi tilted his head at his friend.
"My yami won't respond to the mental link...yeah that's happened before but it doesn't feel like he's even...I don't know...conscious."
Yami narrowed a glare in Kaiba's direction who sighed and released his arm. "We have to enter the tomb, something bad is going to happen either way." His glance shifted to Yugi and the shorter boy seemed to understand, disappearing into his soul room. With only three left outside now, each followed one behind the other (Yami in the lead, Seto in the back, Bakura in the middle) after Akei.
******
"Ugh...what happened...?" Akei blinked and found himself in a room, head still pulsing with pain. The room was dark, and yet he could see in it....it was almost like a black mist. The tomb-robber had been sitting on the floor, just realized his wrists were chained to the wall behind him. He pulled at the shackles but it made no prevail to break him loose. "Great, just great....the last thing I remember was running into the tomb...almost like being lured into it..."
[Aibou..?]
"Don't bother with using your mental link. No one can hear you."
"Who's there?! Who are you?!" That's when he noticed a pair of eyes staring at him, the black mist in the room swirling away from one area to reveal a Saber Fang, tail lashing against the ground.
"I could kill you now..." It's voice half hissed, half growled. "But that would be no fun, I wouldn't be able to play with your friends' minds..."
"What are you talking about?!" He snapped out as the creature pawed towards him.
"You'll see. Don't worry, I'll keep your body alive....or should I say, my body..." The Saber Fang smirked, rising to sit on its haunches mere inches from the yami. "My name is Kuthos, and I repeat that you shouldn't bother connecting to your other half, it won't matter soon enough. You're link will be transferred to me.." Again it smirked, a dark aura forming over it's body.
Akei twitched and pushed himself against the wall in fear as the Saber Fang's devilish tongue rolled over its teeth and loosely hung and its body...vanished. But the yami soon found out that it had only left the room, to be transferred into his own body. Akei felt himself be thrown aback from his own body, locked in his mind within a soul room that was not of Bakura's or any one else's. But what was even more fearful, was this "Kuthos" had full control of Akei's body. With Kuthos in control, new strength ran through Akei's body and he stood up, ripping his wrists free of the shackles holding him.
~Give me my body back!~
*And have my fun spoiled? I think not. I thank you for being the weak soul that was easy to lure in this tomb, your body is very fitting. Now if you don't mind shutting your mouth, I have to pay your friends a visit...*
******
::Evil smirk.:: Kuthos is mean isn't he? Why does he want Akei's body?! WHY?!
Akei: Because you made him..
Oh right... ::Shakes head then looks to Yami and Akei in the story and shakes her head again.::
Next chapter hopefully will be up soon, school starts Wednesday. 9th grade so maybe slower...