A/N:
MY SCIENCE TEACHER SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!! SHE RIPPED THE MANGA THAT TOOK ME AND MY FRIEND 6 HOURS IN HALF AND THREW IT AWAY!!!!!!!!! i fixed it but im sooooo pissed!!!!!! It took me forever to make, my friend forever to ink, and me forever to tape up and fix!!!!!!!!! I HATE MY SCIENCE TEACHER!!!!!!!!!!!!! SHe is SUCH a be-otch! *kills*
Last year, some kids made a petition to fire her, and she found it and gave them all zeros for MAJOR TEST grades....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
IF ya say you hate my teacher in a review, itll make me sooooooo happy..... *grunt*
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DAY THREE cont.!
Malik shuddered. Yugi scooted over to Yami and clung onto him, looking at Kai, who hung her head over the bed. Tears leaked from her eyes, and her scarlet red hair hung in strands, and shook whenever she sniffled or coughed. Ryou crawled over to her and put an arm over her shoulder. They had built a light bond of friendship ever since she had protected him at the beach early that one morning.
"We're all on this ship for one more night...." whispered Bakura.
"Go lock the door, Malik," ordered Yami, who had an arm around Yugi's shoulder.
"Lucky it wasn't any one of us...." said Malik, as he locked all the locks on his door and walked back to the bed. It had begun to darken and rain outside.
The loudspeaker came on yet again.
"WE'RE CANCELING PUBLIC DINNER AND ROOM SERVICE THIS EVENING, I'M SORRY."
Kai had stopped crying, and had sat down on the bed, her back facing Malik. She looked down at the floor.
"I'm gonna go across the hall and tell the team."
She exited quickly, unlocking the locks and scuttling into the opposite room. Malik got up after her and locked the door again.
Ryou was huddled up next to Bakura, and Yugi was embraced tightly in Yami's arms.
"Am I the ONLY single one here?" snapped Malik.
"Yep," they all said in unison.
"Yugi..." Yami said as Yugi twitched suddenly.
"Yami, I don't want to be the next one killed!" he said, burying his face deep in Yami's warm chest. Yami and the others paused for a long while, putting Yugi's words into consideration.
"I'd die before I let anything happen to you."
"And I, you, Ryou."
"Malik, where's your Yami?" asked Ryou.
Malik paused.
"I don't know. He disappeared a week ago."
"Maybe he's in the Shadow Realm," suggested Bakura.
"I know he's alive....I can feel him...but he's helpless. He can't help me if I'm in trouble. That'd kill him! He and I have such a tight bond..." Malik pounded his fists into the matress.
***
Ryou and Yugi had fallen asleep in their yami's arms. It was late into the night, and Ryou and Bakura had awoken and left to their own room, a room right next to the soccer team's. Yugi and Yami had left, telling Malik to join the girls' room. He considered it, but was too tired to move. He fell into a deep sleep, alone on his bed.
***
Kai stared at the celing blankly. She looked at the clock, which read 1:43 AM. She was too worried about the murder to even close her eyes. All the other girls were asleep. She jolted at every creak, thump, or crack that she heard (or thought she heard). Her senses were so alert, she could even detect the other girls' breathing.
Her face went pale as she heard a loud thud. Probably some drunk downstairs.....just a drunk...a drunk....She heard what she made out to be footsteps. UH....patrolman! Yeah, a patrolman!!!! She made up a logical excuse for every noise she heard. But one noise startled her more than any thud, clang, or rattle.
A faint human voice.
And it came from across the hall.
Oh my god.....oh shit..holy shit....
She sat up in bed, drenched in icy sweat. She was petrified and terrified.
Another sound from across the hall.
She shuddered and trembled, and grabbed hold of the spray can of party goo that the girls had brought for fun. She remembered when they went shopping for it. They had vowed against buying the Spider Man brand of the quick-drying party foam, and looked everywhere to find an alternative. They had finally found their treasure at a party favor shop, and bought at least ten cans of the spraying foamy mess.
She heard another ominous sound, particularly close to her door. She almost shreiked, but held her scream. She then heared what she made out to be faint tiptoeing.
OH MY GOD!!! What if that creep hurt Malik? I so can't risk this...I'd never be able to live with myself if---
Kai got up out of bed, although every one of her instincts were telling her not to do so, but she did anyway. She opened the door silently, and looked across the hall in horror.
Malik's door was open. And the chain lock was sliced in half.
Kai plowed through her door and ran to Malik's room, not caring if the so-called murderer was right behind her. Her face went pale with terror as she entered the cabin.
i told you i would strike again
Malik was but two meters away from her. HIs feet dangled about two feet above the floor. His hands lay lifeless on his hips. His green shirt was torn and bloody, lying on the ground. The message was written on the wall in dark, red blood. Malik's blood. A dark slice in his blood-soaked chest was the source. Red also coated the noose that bound him. Rope was tied tightly around his neck. The rope was tied to the base of the celing fan. Kai stared in horror for a moment, staring at Malik hanging by his neck from the fan above his bed.
Kai couldn't even breathe. Something snapped inside of her.
"HELP!!!! SOMEONE HELP, GOD DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!"
She screamed at the top of her lungs, and screeched as loud as she could. EVERYONE WILL BE AWAKENED BY ME, MUREDER, DON'T YOU COME BACK TO KILL ME OR YOU'LL BE CAUGHT, YOU SONOFABITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"HELP!!!!!!!!!!!SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kai ran outside and ran down the hall, pounding loudly on every door. She found Bakura's and pounded so hard her fists began to bleed.
"BAKURA!!! BAKURA!!!! RYOU!!!!!!! GET OUT HERE!!!!!!!!!! GOD DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!"
Tears ran down her face as she ran wild in panic. She rammed the door with her bloody hands, and backed up and ran toards it, slamming her body into the door.
Bakura jerked it open, having heard Kai frantically screaming and ramming into the entrance of his cabin.
"GET YOUR KNIFE!!!!!! KNIFE!!! SHARP KNIFE!!!!!! HELP!!!!!!!!! CUT ROPE!!!!!!"
Bakura ran back into the room and fetched his pocketknife. Ryou, in nothing but boxers, ran out and looked at Kai in horror.
"MALIK'S ROOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she screamed.
Ryou, Kai, and Bakura ran next door, to find Malik still hanging above the floor.
"Holy SHIT!" yelled Bakura.
He jumped on the bed and used his left hand to bring Malik's limp body closer to him. He slashed at the rope with his knife, cutting the young blonde loose. He then cut the noose around his neck, and laid the boy down on the bed.
"Ryou, go tell the other people to stay calm!" he ordered.
Ryou rushed out of the room, as told.
"Kai, check his arm for pulse!!!!"
Kai grabbed Malik's wrist and laid her index finger on the place she had always learned to feel for a heartbeat. She cried even harder, part with relieved fear, and part just because she felt like crying, when she felt a faint beating in his hand.
"He's alive!" she said. She grabbed a washcloth from the dresser and pressed it down hard on Malik's open abrasion to try and reduce the bleeding.
"He's not breathing!" snapped Bakura. Bakura positioned himself above Malik's head, knowing what must be done. Bakura held Malik's nose shut and inhaled deeply, then met Malik's lips and exhaled harshly into his oral passage. He pulled back and took another deep breath, and plunged back onto Malik again, but Malik would not respond. Bakura tried desperately to force Malik to breathe by means of artificial respiration, but he remained motionless on the bed. Bakura howled in frustration and took another deep breath. This time, though, when he forced air into Malik's mouth, he heard a faint sputtering sound. He withdrew his head immediately.
Malik began to cough a little, and started to quiver. Blood wasn't gushing from the wound in his chest any longer. He took short gasps of air, each time releasing a scratchy noise from his throat. He coughed and wheezed again, and then started to breathe in a more relaxed motion.
"He's breathing....he's okay!!" Kai whispered. She looked at Malik's steadily rising and falling chest as he inhaled and exhaled.
Malik faintly opened his eyes and looked at Bakura. Kai rushed over to Bakura's side on the bed.
"You didn't bite me this time," said Bakura.
Malik glanced at Bakura, then at Kai, and fell into a deep sleep.