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Akei: I think they get the point.
Huh?
Akei: ::Points at a piece of paper she had wrote thank you all over.::
Oh....right.
Hm....I got a minor brainstorm off Kuthos's character.....I love him, yet I hate him. Anyone else feel that way...?
"Many new things are scary, like leaving your home, and broccoli." -Goku: Dragon Ball
Couldn't resist that quote...
******
"Hm....you know....I was going to kill you...." Kuthos chuckled, pacing shortly before the throne back in the palace. He still had complete control of Duke's body, and how grand it was for him. Yugi still was chained to one side besides the throne, and now...Ryou was on the other. Kuthos gave a dark "giggle" kind of thing, haunting to the two hikaris as he first pointed to Ryou. "I was going to kill you, because it's my job, and I was going to kill you...." his finger traveled to point at a beaten Yugi, "because it's just fun!"
"So.....you aren't going to kill us...?" Ryou muttered, giving Kuthos another good laugh.
"Of course not! Well....yet anyway. First, I use you and drain every last bit of that horrid light aura you have in your bodies....then we'll see what I feel like doing...."
"It doesn't matter what you FEEL like doing! My yami will show you! And at some point you'll have to stop running scared by using other's bodies to manipulate them!"
"Ryou, no!" Yugi yelled over quickly to the boy, but it was too late and the other hikari was struck into the side of the throne, it was as far as he could go with the chains. He held his eyes closed, opening them at last to stare at one of the two albino Saber Fangs, its paw still hanging in the air and holding some of Ryou's own blood.
"Too late, rat. Maybe I should leave you both and let the Motou boy teach you some lessons!" Kuthos hissed in an unseen rage, turning and storming towards the hallway, turning around in a crescent shape, black hair of Duke's form falling before deadly jaded eyes. "Both of you, come with me! Those two have nowhere to move."
The two albinos looked at one another, in a short time swiftly moving to follow their master, leaving Yugi and Ryou alone again.
"Ryou....you can't back talk at him....I've learned, it just makes things worse...."
"Well what am I supposed to do?!"
"I don't.....I don't know Ryou....I don't know how we're going to get out of this....we're the two he wants it seems, I know that's obvious though. But still, we're the last real source of light in this city....when we're gone....there'll only be....darkness..."
"Yugi! That's not true!" Ryou wheezed out, still trying to maintain his voice from his recent hit. "Malik is out there! Just before I got here, I was left with who we all thought was Duke, and the others went to try and make an opening to the outside world because Malik and his yami were trying to get in! There's still one source left!"
******
"Arg! Come on!" Yami hissed, slamming his fists at the dark mist that formed a shield around the innards of the city. Static formed all around where his clenched hands were shoved against, trying to break through the barrier but it was hopeless.
Rekanna and Ayane had been trying spells and Akei was with the thought of fists as well, Seto trying the take the easy way of using a Blue Eyes.
Anu, merely watched, sitting far back on all fours with a drooped head, sharp eyes soft with fear.
"Anu will you HELP already?!" Akei finally stooped over to the female.
"Something is not right........something isn't right at all....."
"Hello....? Explanation here...?" Akei waved a hand infront of the Saber Fang's face. The blank look that crossed her was a frightening sight, and how Akei would hate to admit it...she could be right....something could have been wrong. But....what?
"Ryou....." she whispered and all movements to break through the barrier stopped, eyes held to her.
Akei felt the world spin and his heart drop at the single word.
[Aibou...?]
..............
The yami's eyes went wide, face going an unnatural pale as he stared past Anu, almost afraid to ask the question on the tip of his tongue. "W-what about....Ryou.....?"
The creature's eyes went wide and quickly all her paws hit hard against the ground and she moved out towards where they had left the silver-haired. "No! Something is wrong! Ryou is in trouble, I can sense it!"
Kaiba summoned back his Blue Eyes and followed after Anu and Akei, everyone else moving along with the three in the lead.
The Saber Fang skidded into the building, franticly searching for any sign of Ryou or Duke. There was none. Only a knocked down chair and remains of magic scattered through the room, but that was all. Akei fell against the wall, making no sense again. Kaiba quickly grabbed the two Shinsei sisters without a thought, summoning his Blue Eyes again and boarding with the two upon it.
"We're going to search the alleys and such for him!"
And those three were gone into the air.
Akei was shaking, Yami had no idea what to do, and Anu quickly turned on him. "I told you! I told you not to leave Ryou with Duke! See?! SEE?! He's gone! And that only means Kuthos has him, it is the only thing that could have happened!!"
******
"How....the heck...do we get through..."
"Fuck it all to hell...." a pause, "I have no damn clue..."
Malik took a glance at his darker half, who was sitting back in the nightly air in the sand. The hikari himself was standing before the shield, hand hovering simple millimeters from the electrifying shock of the barrier. Mariku spoke up again, quietly and actually seriously. "You should be able to break through it with magic."
"Why don't *you*?"
"Because I possess dark magic, you have light. That's why you're a 'light half', baka."
"But I- no- arg! Never mind! Fine, fine, I'll try SOMETHING!" Malik cursed, pressing his palms painfully against the barrier, trying to support himself from not being thrown aback. His energy slowly began to rise as he focused it, sensing his darker half stand besides him and actually try to help steady him.
=It.....hurts.....so....much....=
~*Just relax and try focusing your power..*~
=But I just can't....=
~*Do it!*~ The yami hissed cruelly back, causing the other to jump and force himself to focus on the task at hand.
******
Yami glared to the Saber Fang, causing the other to drop quiet as he helped steady the blank other. "We'll get him back, him and Yugi included, they'll be ok."
"How do you know that they aren't already dead?!" Akei merely cried back, his mind clicking back into reality for the time being. "We have no mental link to contact them with! What if they're dead and we can't sense it?!"
He was on the verge of going hysterical, just as Yami firmly placed hands on the other's shoulders. "A hunch, a hunch that they are alive. I just know this for a fact."
******
Malik forced energy into his palms, body, mind, and soul burning as he had to close his eyes from the mad rush. It was a surprise he hadn't fainted, but his darker half seemed to hold him up a bit, enough to allow Malik to push his hands through the barrier.
"Almost through! Don't let your energy down!" Mariku scolded from where he stood besides his other, pulling out the rod and holding it against the barrier to try and widen the opening with it.
'Anytime Akei....anytime to notice we're here could be useful....my light can't open this alone...'
******
Yami felt a pain in his chest and pulled back away from Akei, cringing as he fell to his knees. Akei moved forward from his spot on the wall, looking down at Yami with confusion. "What is it...?" He muttered, ignoring the fact that his ring was reacting again.
"The outside....I can sense it....the world outside of this....hell hole...."
Akei's eyes widened and he pieced together the information, the outside, and his ring reacting... "Malik! He's found a way through! Anu, Yami, we have to hurry!" The yami hissed out, dashing into the streets and down towards the area they had been earlier. He stopped and turned, seeing Yami following in a limp after him, but Anu poised as if ready for battle.
Yami moved in range and passed Akei to where he saw a small opening in the barrier, yelling back towards the other. "Come on! There are two Saber Fangs in the street, Anu said she'll distract them!"
The silver-haired gave a nod, moving back in a run and jesting an arm forward through the closing hole, giving a sign that Malik was weakening.
"Malik! Mariku! ONE OF YOU, grab my hand!"
******
Malik was spread out on his back in the sand, the world spinning in various directions.
Lavender eyes were hardly able to focus on the hand reaching out from the blackness, a hand that was snagged by his own yami. Well this was dandy... Malik joined with his dark half and took control, vision stabilizing and being a light half, he was able to (painfully) slip through the small hole of the barrier as it closed behind him.
His glanced up from the ground at Yami and Bakura, ignoring the distant hisses and growls and barks from ahead, that were becoming closer. But before anything could be said, Yami grabbed Malik off the ground by his shoulders and yelled at him face. "Let Mariku take control! If Kuthos knows there is another hikari in the city, all our chances are over!"
"Who's Kutho-"
"DO IT NOW!"
Malik gulped and bodily features shifted as Mariku smirked, chuckling over the other two. "Well, well, well, my good friends!" That remark caused him to be hit over the forehead by Yami. "Hey!"
"You didn't come here just to make fun of us now, did you?!"
"Well-"
"Look. Both of our hikaris have been taken from us, I don't think you want the same with yours, or at least we would hope," Akei murmured.
"No....never..."
"Then-"
"I can't hold them off anymore! There's four now!" Anu was running towards the group of four in a panic, quickly stopping as something bound her down. "Run!"
Mariku gave a smirk. "Alright, I didn't come all the way to Egypt to be pushed around by rapid hounds," he growled lifted so the rod was pointed at one of them. "Let's see if these things like magic." A chuckle arose from his throat, the Millennium Rod glowing in the process. Yami stayed poised, the Dark Magician card in hand as he watched to see what the rod's effect would do to the Saber Fang. Akei was much the same, just a different card in his hand; Doma the Angel of Silence.
"You're mine..."
******
A fist connected into a near wall of the throne room, sending a crack through the material. Yugi and Ryou, including the two albino Saber Fangs shot a gaze to look at Kuthos (still possessing Duke). Jaded eyes twitched in anger, his true voice cutting through the air in hiss.
"Master...?"
"How dare he.....whoever that bastard is....HOW DARE HE TAKE CONTROL OF ONE OF MY KIN!!!!!"
Violet melded to meet with chocolate eyes, Ryou and Yugi with the same thought.
Malik and his yami have come to town.
******
Ohhh.....Kuthos is very pissed, VERY pissed. And he does have plans for Yugi and Ryou, not incredibly *good* plans, but it is something. Let's see...what else now...to JessiChi, yeah, I call Yami Malik Mariku ^^ Sometimes Marik though, it depends on what kind of fic it is, the level of Egyptian kind of stuff is how I figure, Mariku seems more Egyptian. Lol. Now I know there was something else.....arg.....I can't remember...
Review please and I'll see ya next chapter ^^
Akei: I think they get the point.
Huh?
Akei: ::Points at a piece of paper she had wrote thank you all over.::
Oh....right.
Hm....I got a minor brainstorm off Kuthos's character.....I love him, yet I hate him. Anyone else feel that way...?
"Many new things are scary, like leaving your home, and broccoli." -Goku: Dragon Ball
Couldn't resist that quote...
******
"Hm....you know....I was going to kill you...." Kuthos chuckled, pacing shortly before the throne back in the palace. He still had complete control of Duke's body, and how grand it was for him. Yugi still was chained to one side besides the throne, and now...Ryou was on the other. Kuthos gave a dark "giggle" kind of thing, haunting to the two hikaris as he first pointed to Ryou. "I was going to kill you, because it's my job, and I was going to kill you...." his finger traveled to point at a beaten Yugi, "because it's just fun!"
"So.....you aren't going to kill us...?" Ryou muttered, giving Kuthos another good laugh.
"Of course not! Well....yet anyway. First, I use you and drain every last bit of that horrid light aura you have in your bodies....then we'll see what I feel like doing...."
"It doesn't matter what you FEEL like doing! My yami will show you! And at some point you'll have to stop running scared by using other's bodies to manipulate them!"
"Ryou, no!" Yugi yelled over quickly to the boy, but it was too late and the other hikari was struck into the side of the throne, it was as far as he could go with the chains. He held his eyes closed, opening them at last to stare at one of the two albino Saber Fangs, its paw still hanging in the air and holding some of Ryou's own blood.
"Too late, rat. Maybe I should leave you both and let the Motou boy teach you some lessons!" Kuthos hissed in an unseen rage, turning and storming towards the hallway, turning around in a crescent shape, black hair of Duke's form falling before deadly jaded eyes. "Both of you, come with me! Those two have nowhere to move."
The two albinos looked at one another, in a short time swiftly moving to follow their master, leaving Yugi and Ryou alone again.
"Ryou....you can't back talk at him....I've learned, it just makes things worse...."
"Well what am I supposed to do?!"
"I don't.....I don't know Ryou....I don't know how we're going to get out of this....we're the two he wants it seems, I know that's obvious though. But still, we're the last real source of light in this city....when we're gone....there'll only be....darkness..."
"Yugi! That's not true!" Ryou wheezed out, still trying to maintain his voice from his recent hit. "Malik is out there! Just before I got here, I was left with who we all thought was Duke, and the others went to try and make an opening to the outside world because Malik and his yami were trying to get in! There's still one source left!"
******
"Arg! Come on!" Yami hissed, slamming his fists at the dark mist that formed a shield around the innards of the city. Static formed all around where his clenched hands were shoved against, trying to break through the barrier but it was hopeless.
Rekanna and Ayane had been trying spells and Akei was with the thought of fists as well, Seto trying the take the easy way of using a Blue Eyes.
Anu, merely watched, sitting far back on all fours with a drooped head, sharp eyes soft with fear.
"Anu will you HELP already?!" Akei finally stooped over to the female.
"Something is not right........something isn't right at all....."
"Hello....? Explanation here...?" Akei waved a hand infront of the Saber Fang's face. The blank look that crossed her was a frightening sight, and how Akei would hate to admit it...she could be right....something could have been wrong. But....what?
"Ryou....." she whispered and all movements to break through the barrier stopped, eyes held to her.
Akei felt the world spin and his heart drop at the single word.
[Aibou...?]
..............
The yami's eyes went wide, face going an unnatural pale as he stared past Anu, almost afraid to ask the question on the tip of his tongue. "W-what about....Ryou.....?"
The creature's eyes went wide and quickly all her paws hit hard against the ground and she moved out towards where they had left the silver-haired. "No! Something is wrong! Ryou is in trouble, I can sense it!"
Kaiba summoned back his Blue Eyes and followed after Anu and Akei, everyone else moving along with the three in the lead.
The Saber Fang skidded into the building, franticly searching for any sign of Ryou or Duke. There was none. Only a knocked down chair and remains of magic scattered through the room, but that was all. Akei fell against the wall, making no sense again. Kaiba quickly grabbed the two Shinsei sisters without a thought, summoning his Blue Eyes again and boarding with the two upon it.
"We're going to search the alleys and such for him!"
And those three were gone into the air.
Akei was shaking, Yami had no idea what to do, and Anu quickly turned on him. "I told you! I told you not to leave Ryou with Duke! See?! SEE?! He's gone! And that only means Kuthos has him, it is the only thing that could have happened!!"
******
"How....the heck...do we get through..."
"Fuck it all to hell...." a pause, "I have no damn clue..."
Malik took a glance at his darker half, who was sitting back in the nightly air in the sand. The hikari himself was standing before the shield, hand hovering simple millimeters from the electrifying shock of the barrier. Mariku spoke up again, quietly and actually seriously. "You should be able to break through it with magic."
"Why don't *you*?"
"Because I possess dark magic, you have light. That's why you're a 'light half', baka."
"But I- no- arg! Never mind! Fine, fine, I'll try SOMETHING!" Malik cursed, pressing his palms painfully against the barrier, trying to support himself from not being thrown aback. His energy slowly began to rise as he focused it, sensing his darker half stand besides him and actually try to help steady him.
=It.....hurts.....so....much....=
~*Just relax and try focusing your power..*~
=But I just can't....=
~*Do it!*~ The yami hissed cruelly back, causing the other to jump and force himself to focus on the task at hand.
******
Yami glared to the Saber Fang, causing the other to drop quiet as he helped steady the blank other. "We'll get him back, him and Yugi included, they'll be ok."
"How do you know that they aren't already dead?!" Akei merely cried back, his mind clicking back into reality for the time being. "We have no mental link to contact them with! What if they're dead and we can't sense it?!"
He was on the verge of going hysterical, just as Yami firmly placed hands on the other's shoulders. "A hunch, a hunch that they are alive. I just know this for a fact."
******
Malik forced energy into his palms, body, mind, and soul burning as he had to close his eyes from the mad rush. It was a surprise he hadn't fainted, but his darker half seemed to hold him up a bit, enough to allow Malik to push his hands through the barrier.
"Almost through! Don't let your energy down!" Mariku scolded from where he stood besides his other, pulling out the rod and holding it against the barrier to try and widen the opening with it.
'Anytime Akei....anytime to notice we're here could be useful....my light can't open this alone...'
******
Yami felt a pain in his chest and pulled back away from Akei, cringing as he fell to his knees. Akei moved forward from his spot on the wall, looking down at Yami with confusion. "What is it...?" He muttered, ignoring the fact that his ring was reacting again.
"The outside....I can sense it....the world outside of this....hell hole...."
Akei's eyes widened and he pieced together the information, the outside, and his ring reacting... "Malik! He's found a way through! Anu, Yami, we have to hurry!" The yami hissed out, dashing into the streets and down towards the area they had been earlier. He stopped and turned, seeing Yami following in a limp after him, but Anu poised as if ready for battle.
Yami moved in range and passed Akei to where he saw a small opening in the barrier, yelling back towards the other. "Come on! There are two Saber Fangs in the street, Anu said she'll distract them!"
The silver-haired gave a nod, moving back in a run and jesting an arm forward through the closing hole, giving a sign that Malik was weakening.
"Malik! Mariku! ONE OF YOU, grab my hand!"
******
Malik was spread out on his back in the sand, the world spinning in various directions.
Lavender eyes were hardly able to focus on the hand reaching out from the blackness, a hand that was snagged by his own yami. Well this was dandy... Malik joined with his dark half and took control, vision stabilizing and being a light half, he was able to (painfully) slip through the small hole of the barrier as it closed behind him.
His glanced up from the ground at Yami and Bakura, ignoring the distant hisses and growls and barks from ahead, that were becoming closer. But before anything could be said, Yami grabbed Malik off the ground by his shoulders and yelled at him face. "Let Mariku take control! If Kuthos knows there is another hikari in the city, all our chances are over!"
"Who's Kutho-"
"DO IT NOW!"
Malik gulped and bodily features shifted as Mariku smirked, chuckling over the other two. "Well, well, well, my good friends!" That remark caused him to be hit over the forehead by Yami. "Hey!"
"You didn't come here just to make fun of us now, did you?!"
"Well-"
"Look. Both of our hikaris have been taken from us, I don't think you want the same with yours, or at least we would hope," Akei murmured.
"No....never..."
"Then-"
"I can't hold them off anymore! There's four now!" Anu was running towards the group of four in a panic, quickly stopping as something bound her down. "Run!"
Mariku gave a smirk. "Alright, I didn't come all the way to Egypt to be pushed around by rapid hounds," he growled lifted so the rod was pointed at one of them. "Let's see if these things like magic." A chuckle arose from his throat, the Millennium Rod glowing in the process. Yami stayed poised, the Dark Magician card in hand as he watched to see what the rod's effect would do to the Saber Fang. Akei was much the same, just a different card in his hand; Doma the Angel of Silence.
"You're mine..."
******
A fist connected into a near wall of the throne room, sending a crack through the material. Yugi and Ryou, including the two albino Saber Fangs shot a gaze to look at Kuthos (still possessing Duke). Jaded eyes twitched in anger, his true voice cutting through the air in hiss.
"Master...?"
"How dare he.....whoever that bastard is....HOW DARE HE TAKE CONTROL OF ONE OF MY KIN!!!!!"
Violet melded to meet with chocolate eyes, Ryou and Yugi with the same thought.
Malik and his yami have come to town.
******
Ohhh.....Kuthos is very pissed, VERY pissed. And he does have plans for Yugi and Ryou, not incredibly *good* plans, but it is something. Let's see...what else now...to JessiChi, yeah, I call Yami Malik Mariku ^^ Sometimes Marik though, it depends on what kind of fic it is, the level of Egyptian kind of stuff is how I figure, Mariku seems more Egyptian. Lol. Now I know there was something else.....arg.....I can't remember...
Review please and I'll see ya next chapter ^^