Marvelous chapter ten!

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Anthy rounded the corner and stopped suddenly, "wha? Where did they go?" Anthy looked around they alley, "there isn't any place to go and I'm sure they went down this way…"

"Anthy!"

"Yami?"

Yami ran up behind Anthy, "Where are they? Where'd they go?"

"I don't know, but they're gone…"

"Anthy I'm sorry. I should have listened before, now they're on the loose with all the items…"

"don't. it's okay. Besides they still need you're puzzle, lets go back, get everyone somewhere safe I have no idea what those two will do next.."

"neither do I, but I won't be good…" the two turned and ran back to the game shop.

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"okay Bakura, time to arm up." Kinta pulled the torch from the pillar and lead Bakura down the hidden passageway, but instead of going down the usual path of twists and turns she kept going straight.

"where are you going?" Bakura demanded.

"you haven't seen everything. Weapons are this way."

Though still dark Bakura could tell they had entered a room-no a hall, the glow of the torchlight only a few feet but he could tell the room was huge.

"stay here." Kinta commanded before walking forward, she lowered her torch and flames sprang up, it was a basin of oil, she'd light it with the torch. Bakura gazed shocked at the racks of weapons and other various items in the hall.

"c'mon B, this way, Bakura was mesmerized as he past racks of keys and armor and shields, he meet Kinta next to the basin in the center, he felt the heat penetrate his sin as he neared. Kinta turned to walk but Bakura stopped fascinated.

"what is this.."

 Bakura asked, it was a dagger, shining in the firelight on a pillar, the blade was twisted, jagged edges, sharp as hell too,. A green stone glowed in the hilt.

"that. Well that's the dagger of earth, each dagger on a pillar is an elemental dagger-earth air, water and fire, they have certain powers and when four bearers are chosen they are said to have the power over darkness and light-good and evil. You can send the world into chaos or heaven the bearers' choice. Of course the chosen have certain qualities that complement the blade, similar to Wiccan tradition now, earth is the grounding force, water's the peace, air's the free sprit and fire's the power. It all balances out so nothing happens, the daggers also can contain magic. As well as give it to the bearer. .."

Bakura looked at the daggers, then he came to the back pillar-"this one's empty where's the dagger?"

"don't know, the dagger of fire was lost. Shame too, that's my element, would help me a good bit about now. But now's not the time, load up. Rest, we need our energy levels at max. this is going  down and we aren't going to fail. Yami will die."

"hope so"

"He. Will." The fire was glowing in Kinta's eyes again, along with the firelight of the room she looked like a deadly demon-hell spawn. "Yami will die, he'll lie with his father where he belongs.  They deserve each other-pity Yami hated him."

"how do you know this?" Bakura asked suspiciously.

"one of my many secrets."

"what did he do to you? Yam's father I mean. You couldn't have been 15 when he was murdered."

"I was seventeen, Yami was fifteen, that's when he became pharaoh which I'm sure you remember."

Bakura nodded, signally her to continue but she didn't. she instead, turned her back and went picking though her tables of knives, daggers, dirks and swords. Bakura followed suit.

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Kinta couldn't speak anymore, she didn't trust herself to tell the truth and keep it together before the final battle, she'd tell Yami before she killed him, Bakura could find out then. She didn't' want to think of the past because then she thought of Her, she didn't want to think of Her. That memory only brought pain.

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Ryou sat in the corner of the game shop in shame-he should have guessed, Bakura had been out a lot and that time e had told him to say he was in all day. It all added up to Bakura plotting something, but god, he'd been too scared to say anything, he was afraid of his Yami. Maybe if he had said something they would have known earlier-now Shadi Malik and Isis were gone. Isis dead too. Now they were, hiding in Yugi's basement and waiting for Yami and Anthy to return again. They were sitting ducks. Tears welled in Ryou's eyes as he sat, he barely noticed when Yugi came up to him.

"it's okay Ryou, Anthy and Yami will stop them."

"no, Yugi, I knew, I knew and I didn't' say.. I knew Bakura was up to something he's been acting  more violent and going out a lot I didn't' say anything because I was c=scared, I could have said something and we might t have found out sooner…" Ryou was crying now. Yugi put an  arm around his friend and tried to comfort him.  

"it's okay, what good would it have done, no one knew about Kinta, she tricked us and knowing Bakura was up to something wouldn't have told us anything.."

Yugi continued to calm Ryou, as they sat in his basement, Yugi trying to calm the wave of fear and impending doom he felt, he was afraid he might not see Yami again.

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"where do you think they would have gone? We don't' know anything they have us in their hand."

"not if I can help it." Anthy wasn't going to quit, and she wasn't going to sit and wait to be attacked; " let's just keep going, check Ryou's place and Kinta's for any signs."

"we don't know where Kinta lives though. If she even had a place to live. She could have been living straight from the band."

"Yami, after being coped up for five thousand years would you spend anymore time than you need to in your soul room? As I thought now let's move, Ryous' is up this way."

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"Bakura. "

"what?"

"over here, look we need to be at full strength, drink this, it'll do the trick." Kinta handed him a vial of a dark liquid. Bakura held it to the light and looked at it, he sniffed at it he didn't really trust Kinta.

"baby, it's not poison. Get over yourself I'm not killing you. It's a stimulant and it numbs pain, you won't feel a blow or cut unless it hit something major. Keeps you fighting." Kinta pulled another vial out and drained it. "much better, drink it Bakura."

Bakura did, the liquid burned his throat the way down.

"feel good?"

Bakura nodded then tossed the bottle to the floor where it shattered.

"let's get going then. We have a puzzle to steal."

They walked out of the hall, each had several daggers and dirks hidden on their person, Kinta held onto her favorite, with the ivory handle and jeweled hilt. Bakura held a dagger made of…well the blade was black and it was sharp, Bakura couldn't tell what it was but he liked the way it handled so he carried it. They entered the main room and checked everything one last time before leaving the soul room for possibly the last time.

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bum bum bum….

And now for the fighting! Yay!

And you get to hear more about Kinta's past oh how fun _that_ is!

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