Okay, heyas guys, new chappie! ^_^
The next day Anzu arose bright and early, stretching her arms above her head and arching her back, smiling as her body became used to moving once again. She turned to see an already awake Bakura sitting up in his bed looking at her. She raised an eyebrow and smirked, "Hoping to catch something?"
"I might have been, but then, I might not," he replied getting out of bed and pulling a t-shirt over his head he grabbed his bag and headed for the bathroom. Anzu shrugged and got dressed herself heading out the door as soon as she was ready having already packed.
Today was the last day of Seto's little sleepover and everyone was to leave after breakfast much to Mokuba's disappointment and Seto's pleasure, not that he hated the people present; he just needed a break from so much socialization. Anzu sighed as she slumped down in a seat at the breakfast table. "Could you at least show some manners Mazaki," Yami sneered at her smirking over his mug of hot chocolate.
"Really Yami, I could care less right now," Anzu replied sighing she really didn't feel well all of a sudden. As though she'd been drained, she didn't know quite what off but defiantly drained, her eyelids felt heavy and her body seemed to refuse to move.
"Huh?" Yami asked raising an eyebrow at her odd behaviour then he blinked having felt a sudden force take over the brunette girl and drain her of her energy leaving her weak. He noticed the effects immediately and wasn't surprised when Mariku's head snapped up and Bakura appeared next to Ryou having come through the ring rather than dash down flights of stairs.
For some reason Seto also noticed the change in Anzu, he felt something taken from her; he looked to the three Yamis that had their attention fixed on Anzu. No one else seemed to have noticed, but they did when the room went completely black and faded away until they were all that was left.
"Yami, where are we?" Yuugi wailed clutching his Yami's arm in a death grip, Yami put a reassuring hand on Yuugi's shoulder calming the boy slightly.
"I don't know, but we have to find a way out of here," Yami commented looking around franticly for some kind of escape route.
"Thank-you Mr State-the-obvious," Bakura snickered and Yami glared at him, growling deep in his throat.
"A new dog to add to the litter," Kaiba commented and Yami fumed.
"Yami, the others, they're gone," Yuugi cried being the first amongst them to know that the majority of their group had vanished. All that remained were the three Yami's, their respective Hikari's and Seto.
Malik looked back and forth between all present and ten something hit him, Anzu hadn't been with them earlier, when the darkness had surrounded them and the fact that all present, except Yuugi and Yami had strange cards that had previously been unheard of. Fishing into his pocket, the Egyptian blonde pulled out his deck and began to search franticly for the card he had found before, what was it? Seeker of new things? Yeh that was it.
He pulled the card out and turned it over and over inspecting it. He jumped backwards when the card glowed, a golden light streamed from it and while it struggled to take form the card flew back to Malik's hand. They were all looking at him confused while he stared wide-eyed at the card. The place where the picture of a shadowed figure had once been was a blank white space.
As the form cleared, it revealed a man, wearing what appeared at first to be a Kimono; looking closer you saw that it split in two to form a pair of leggings. The material was a light purple, golden sash rapped tightly around his waist, sword hanging at his side. He had short, vibrant sandy blonde hair, with ocean blue eyes tinted purple. He looked around before his eyes fell on Mariku whose arm fell protectively over his light's chest (NOT YAOI)!!! What surprised everyone most was the figure, without a word, went down on one knee and literally bowed to the Egyptians'.
---The rest of the gang---
They felt themselves falling, they had seemed to slip through the floor and suddenly found themselves crashing to the floor of Seto's living room. "What jus' happened?" Katsuya demanded sitting straight up and looking around franticly.
"I don't know, but I was scared K-chan," Shizuka whispered holding onto her brother's waist.
"Well, whatever it was, I think the other are in danger," Ryouji pointed out, everyone looked around and noticed who were missing.
"Yeh," Hiroto agreed nodding and sighing.
"My big brother's in trouble, oh no," Mokuba gasped and started crying, so much so that Isis was forced to pull the boy into her lap and rock him gently. He fell asleep from exhaustion and the gang was left to wait and hope, hope for the best when they hopes depended on the one girl they hated most, well, all except Ryouji and the girl's, Anzu Mazaki.
---Where Anzu is…---
Blinking her eyes open she found that she seemed to loom over endless darkness, a darkness that stretched about her in all directions possible. And yet, she could still se herself and a grey shadow lay beneath her on what she presumed to be the floor. She sat up and looked around, unsure of where she was, it was just black. "Where am I?" she asked the silence, not a disturbing silence, but one that put her on edge, "the shadow realm?"
"No, little girl, most defiantly not," Anzu sprang to her feet as a chain reaction when a silky voice rang out to her. Her eyes soon connected with a black haired, red-eyed boy and a shadowed figure beside him who she couldn't make out, she saw something gleam from the shadow's side but took no notice of it. Her attention was on the boy who was approaching her until he stood right in front of her.
"Who are you?" she growled glaring at the boy.
"Oh just a memory, just a memory," he replied fading slightly, from what she could see he had become slightly transparent. She could see part of the shadowed figure through him and the idea made her cringe internally.
"Memory of who?" She demanded eyes burning with anger.
"Just…a memory," he replied and suddenly form his back sprouted a pair of dark demon wings, rimmed with red. His shirt ripped to shreds, a pair of shoulder plaits adorned his…well, shoulders.
"Hey wait a second," Anzu cried, something having clicked, "you're that card, Demonic layer." Her eyes widened when she realised the boy before her was indeed, a duel monster.
---Flashback---
Anzu was looking quietly through some cards in a shop, she just wondered through the isles. She was standing looking at some when some bloke accidentally pushed her sending her backwards. She turned to fid the man gone and turned back to once more look at the cards for sail. The one that caught her eyes was the rare card 'Demonic Layer'. The power of the card was to control the minds of monsters for one turn and uncover, then disable all magic cards.
----End flashback---
"Yeh huh, smart girl, and now, the main question. Do you want to get out of here?" she nodded meekly watching him warily, "do you want your friends to be able to get out of here?" he asked smirking.
She gasped and went wide-eyed unwilling to believe that they had been dragged into danger. Sweeping his arm back the demon revealed Bakura, Ryou and everyone else, including the card that had been identified as 'Seeker of New Things' standing protectively in front of the group, sword barred.
"Ha," the demon laughed, "Pathetic, you really think you can defeat me," he cried pointing his hand at the group. He smirked when he saw Anzu run in front of them positioning her body as th0ough it were a shield, covering as much surface area as possible. "So now you'll defend those that aren't even your friend, my that card is more fitting than you realise," he commented and at that a card came out of Anzu's pocket to spin rapidly before her eyes.
"Changing Covers," she gasped suddenly realising what the figure in front of the other reminded her of, the card Malik had shown her on that day when they had turned up on her doorstep.
"Correct," he replied and with another wave of his hand the Yami's, Hikari's and Seto found themselves trapped in an orb of golden light that sent them flying into each other every time they tried to get free.
"Oh no," Anzu breathed but her breath hitched in her throat as the figure that had previously been forgotten ad gone un-noticed drew it's sword and became visible.
Right, so that's it. BTW, Ryuji is, in the dub, Duke Devlin! But can anyone guess who the person with the sword is? ^_~ Lucky guessing!