Ieyre: Hey all! Just thought I'd update before I die ^_^!
Yami Ieyre: ...That was so lame...
Ieyre: Oh, shut up! *thwaps her Yami on the head*
Yami Ieyre: Hey! That hurt! *mutters something with the distinct word "Kuwabara" in it. Use your imagination on this one. [I don't own Yu Yu Hukusho!]*
Ieyre: O_O
Yami Ieyre: Yeah, so are you gonna get this chapter started or WHAT?
Ieyre: Oh. Right. Hey, I just realized there was no Joey torture Disclaimer last time. Guess we'll have to make up for it this time, won't we? *grins evilly*
Yami Ieyre O_O Aibou, sometimes you disturb even ME.
Disclaimer:
*Joey and Seto come out, Joey looking really irked, Seto looking amused*
Joey: *glares* Bark woof ruff woof bark ruff bark woof!
Seto: *grins* Translation: Ieyre does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! Is owned by Kazuki Takahashi, Konami and 4Kids. And now I will laugh very pointedly at Joey. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Joey: SHUT UP! *lunges*
Both: *Start kicking each other's butts*
Ieyre: O_O I guess we'll just leave them at it, shall we?
Yami Ieyre: *Eats some popcorn she got from no where* Ooooo...that's gotta hurt. Woah, He's gonna feel that in the morning! Looks like Kaiba's got the upper hand...no, wait, maybe Joey does-no, I take that back. Kaiba's got it under control. Come on Wheeler, fight back, you sissy!
Ieyre: O_O
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Mokuba stirred from a very deep sleep and opened his eyes slowly. Around him, the sleeping forms of Yugi, Adele, Joey, Tea, Tristan and Bakura all slowly lifted their heads and awoke from their slumber as well.
They were surrounded by darkness. It was a bit like being in the shadow realm, with the exception that there was no hostile aura around them. However, everyone was still a little uneasy.
"Why, I thought you'd never wake up!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Joey jumped into Tristan's arms, screaming like a schoolgirl. Yugi, Adele and Mokuba all jumped and Tea and Bakura nearly fell over with shock.
A pretty girl stood before them, a small smile on her face. Light pink hair fell to her shoulders and bright blue eyes shined under her long bangs. She was dressed in a traditional Japanese Kimono of light blue and hand on pretty sandals on her delicate feet.
"Who the HECK are you??" Joey asked, rubbing his head slightly.
The girl looked down, nervously.
"And, come to think of it-where the HELL are we???" Joey demanded into the silence.
"I...I am Ichikoh...and I'm here to help redirect you..."
"Redirect us? What do you mean?" Adele asked, confused.
"Well..." Ichikoh started, "You aren't supposed to be here...but somehow those Millennium Items of yours-" She gestured to Yugi and Bakura "-they somehow brought you on their own accord. However, there is nothing of great importance here, so allow me to bring you back to your own world."
"But, wait...where exactly are we?" Tea asked, carefully examining the bleak surroundings.
"No where." Ichikoh said with a small but tired sigh, as if her statement was not at all cryptic or seemingly impossible.
"What does THAT mean?" Tristan asked with a raised eyebrow. "We can't be NO WHERE...we must be SOMEWHERE."
Ichikoh sighed again, apparently loosing patience with the 6 teens and one boy.
"Allow me to elaborate...you are in the abyss of a mind...there is nothing of real significance to you here..." She trailed off, looking around the darkness, "...Trust me..."
"A mind?" asked Bakura, somewhat timidly.
"Whose?" Mokuba cut in, very curious.
"Well..." She answered. "Judging by our surroundings...someone with a very pessimistic mind..." She gave a bitter small to the encroaching black.
"Why is nothing here?" asked Adele, seemingly troubled by the pressing darkness, rather then finding it petty as Ichikoh did.
"It's actually quite simple. The host of this mind has clear ENDLESS mental defenses...like a fortress, you see? So strong we can't even tell where WE ARE...let alone whose mind we're in." Ichikoh shook her head despondently.
"Really...? But then...how were we brought here?" Yugi asked, thoughtfully, while the others were struck by the thought as well, having come out of their dazed stupor.
"Yeah, how WERE we brought here?" Joey asked, loudly.
"I...I don't really remember what happened before we came here..." Bakura squinted, as if trying to remember something that had just slipped by. "...Sorry."
"It's alright, Bakura. None of us remember." Said Tea, apologetically.
"So, Ichikoh...do you know how we were brought here?" Yugi turned to face the mysterious girl once again after offering a few words of comfort to Bakura.
"Your Millennium Items have many powers...they brought you here for some sort of purpose, undoubtedly...why not ask the spirits within them for some answers? I'm sure they would be able to provide-"
Ichikoh was cut off but a sudden gust of wind and the burst of light coming from the ancient jewelry hanging around Yugi and Bakura's necks. When the dust settled, two more hand entered their party.
Bakura's taller counterpart, the ancient thief spirit of his ring, scowled and crossed over to Ichikoh.
"Neither that dratted Pharaoh nor I know anything about this stupid escapade, woman." Yami Bakura growled. "So there is little need to assume that the spirits that reside within the Millennium Items know a damned thing about how the hell their hikaris and hikaris' annoying FRIENDS were transported to this dump OF A MIND by our metal prisons! So don't even bother ASKING!" He screeched the last few words and stalked back over to his aibou, who looked a tad bit shaken up and smiled apologetically at everyone else.
The remaining spirit, the much more pleasant and understanding Pharaoh of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, rolled his eyes at the old tomb robber's behavior and shook his head, apparently slightly amused.
"Don't think I didn't see that, PHARAOH!" Yami Bakura pointed accusingly at Yami Yugi.
Adele was beyond shock, having never seen spirits come out of ancient Egyptian artifacts and start insulting each other. She looked as though she might faint from the shock of everything around her.
"It is alright, Adele...do not be afraid of me." Yami said comfortingly, approaching the speechless girl with confident strides.
"...Yugi...?" She pointed to the smaller Yugi, than to the larger one, apparently very confused. "Why are there...two of you...and Bakura?"
"Adele...I am not Yugi. I am Yami Yugi, the spirit that resides within the Millennium, or Sennen, Puzzle, the puzzle around Yugi's neck. This is..." Yami gestured to the disgruntled white-haired thief behind him. "...Yami Bakura, the spirit within Bakura's Millennium Ring." Yami briefly explained the Millennium Items to Adele, who watched with curious fascination and wonder. Yami did not go into great detail, not wanting to frighten the girl out of her mind with some of the stories that might have been told, but when he was finished, Adele looked very amazed.
Ichikoh, on the other hand, looked supremely bored. She coughed slightly to indicate that she was present and did not want to hear any more stories.
Yami frowned at her attitude, but answered her initial question anyway.
"As you yourself heard the tomb robber say, we know nothing of why we were brought here. However, our items have never failed us before and I believe there is a very important reason we are here. Therefore-" Yami put on his smug game face. "Me must enter this mind at all costs."
"We're not gonna get in easy, right?" Joey consulted Ichikoh.
"Correct." She said, crossing her arms skeptically at Yami. "Which is why I've come to send you back...YOU could be stuck here for YEARS without getting in."
"But what if it's REALLY important?" Asked Mokuba, frowning slightly at Ichikoh's indifferent attitude.
Ichikoh shrugged.
"I suppose the items have a regime of their own, if the spirits within them didn't influence the transportation...but if it really is as urgent as you seem to think it is, the mind would have opened up to you and allowed you entrance. This one isn't budging, however..."
"You mean...nothing will work?" Tristan asked, surprised. Yugi, Tea, Tristan, Joey, And Bakura all immediately tried to call out to the mind, but nothing they said seemed to matter to the host. After a few minutes of hopelessly trying, the five teens gave up and slumped on the "ground", exhausted.
Mokuba and Adele had both chosen to abstain from the shouting, Adele because she was still quite shocked from the magic and spirits ordeal, and Mokuba because he was trying to explain it to her a little more in depth and take care of her. Everyone else defeated, Mokuba stood up and said, very firmly,
"I think I'll try."
Ichikoh, observing this, laughed slightly at Mokuba's small stature.
"Listen, little boy," She started slowly, "If I cannot open this mind-and believe me, I tried before you all awoke-no mere mortals will be able to either. Here, why don't you try yourself?"
"How shall I do it?" He asked, bravely staring her down.
"It's straight-forward...just ask the mind to let you pass, as your friends did. If you are, by some bizarre twist of fate, able to be granted passage, you'll know you have succeeded. But don't get your hopes up, if *I* couldn't get through, no mere CHILD will-"
Mokuba interrupted her with his plea.
"Mind! If you don't open up to us, we're never going to be able to help you! Listen to me...we only want to help! Please..." Mokuba looked down at the ground. "Please..." A small tear escaped from his left eye.
As if by the powerful force of some other-worldly being, the black around them began to change, reform. Ichikoh gave a strangled gasp as, by magic, a luxurious looking door appeared before them, beckoning.
Mokuba wiped away his tear quickly, than looked up and smiled.
"Thanks, Seto. I knew it was you." He whispered, smiling at the door thoughfully.
Ichikoh continued to gape in disbelief as Yugi and his close friends all rose to leave.
"I...I don't believe it..." She stuttered, "A...a CHILD??"
"Thanks for your help, Ichikoh! But now we've gotta go!" Mokuba grinned at the speechless kimono-clad girl.
"But...but, you still don't even know where this leads! You could be putting yourselves in DANGER!"
"I'm afraid we must take the path that we feel is the best. It is our destiny to go through that door and to whatever lies beyond..." Yami led everyone to the door, including the disgruntled Yami Bakura.
Without another word, all of them entered the beautiful but dusty doors.
"Don't say I didn't warn yo......" Ichikoh's voice faded behind them.
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Ieyre: So...tired...need...sleep...
Yami Ieyre: According to the computer clock it is 11:23 PM...so, what is that in sundial time?
Ieyre: LATE, Yami, LATE. Now press the stupid send button so I can sleep...
Yami Ieyre: Aren't you going to tell them about the next chapter?
Ieyre: Okay, okay...Yugi and co. go through the mysterious wooden doors to find a young man, apparently writing a diary...who is he? Addy and Mokuba seem to know...
Yami Ieyre: That sounds like something they'd say at the end of DBZ, you know. It royally sucked.
Ieyre: *rolls over* Ah, shut up, will yah? Oh, R&R people, okay? I could really use those reviews right now...k' bye...*collapses*
Yami Ieyre: *clicks send*
Yami Ieyre: ...That was so lame...
Ieyre: Oh, shut up! *thwaps her Yami on the head*
Yami Ieyre: Hey! That hurt! *mutters something with the distinct word "Kuwabara" in it. Use your imagination on this one. [I don't own Yu Yu Hukusho!]*
Ieyre: O_O
Yami Ieyre: Yeah, so are you gonna get this chapter started or WHAT?
Ieyre: Oh. Right. Hey, I just realized there was no Joey torture Disclaimer last time. Guess we'll have to make up for it this time, won't we? *grins evilly*
Yami Ieyre O_O Aibou, sometimes you disturb even ME.
Disclaimer:
*Joey and Seto come out, Joey looking really irked, Seto looking amused*
Joey: *glares* Bark woof ruff woof bark ruff bark woof!
Seto: *grins* Translation: Ieyre does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Yu-Gi-Oh! Is owned by Kazuki Takahashi, Konami and 4Kids. And now I will laugh very pointedly at Joey. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Joey: SHUT UP! *lunges*
Both: *Start kicking each other's butts*
Ieyre: O_O I guess we'll just leave them at it, shall we?
Yami Ieyre: *Eats some popcorn she got from no where* Ooooo...that's gotta hurt. Woah, He's gonna feel that in the morning! Looks like Kaiba's got the upper hand...no, wait, maybe Joey does-no, I take that back. Kaiba's got it under control. Come on Wheeler, fight back, you sissy!
Ieyre: O_O
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Mokuba stirred from a very deep sleep and opened his eyes slowly. Around him, the sleeping forms of Yugi, Adele, Joey, Tea, Tristan and Bakura all slowly lifted their heads and awoke from their slumber as well.
They were surrounded by darkness. It was a bit like being in the shadow realm, with the exception that there was no hostile aura around them. However, everyone was still a little uneasy.
"Why, I thought you'd never wake up!"
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Joey jumped into Tristan's arms, screaming like a schoolgirl. Yugi, Adele and Mokuba all jumped and Tea and Bakura nearly fell over with shock.
A pretty girl stood before them, a small smile on her face. Light pink hair fell to her shoulders and bright blue eyes shined under her long bangs. She was dressed in a traditional Japanese Kimono of light blue and hand on pretty sandals on her delicate feet.
"Who the HECK are you??" Joey asked, rubbing his head slightly.
The girl looked down, nervously.
"And, come to think of it-where the HELL are we???" Joey demanded into the silence.
"I...I am Ichikoh...and I'm here to help redirect you..."
"Redirect us? What do you mean?" Adele asked, confused.
"Well..." Ichikoh started, "You aren't supposed to be here...but somehow those Millennium Items of yours-" She gestured to Yugi and Bakura "-they somehow brought you on their own accord. However, there is nothing of great importance here, so allow me to bring you back to your own world."
"But, wait...where exactly are we?" Tea asked, carefully examining the bleak surroundings.
"No where." Ichikoh said with a small but tired sigh, as if her statement was not at all cryptic or seemingly impossible.
"What does THAT mean?" Tristan asked with a raised eyebrow. "We can't be NO WHERE...we must be SOMEWHERE."
Ichikoh sighed again, apparently loosing patience with the 6 teens and one boy.
"Allow me to elaborate...you are in the abyss of a mind...there is nothing of real significance to you here..." She trailed off, looking around the darkness, "...Trust me..."
"A mind?" asked Bakura, somewhat timidly.
"Whose?" Mokuba cut in, very curious.
"Well..." She answered. "Judging by our surroundings...someone with a very pessimistic mind..." She gave a bitter small to the encroaching black.
"Why is nothing here?" asked Adele, seemingly troubled by the pressing darkness, rather then finding it petty as Ichikoh did.
"It's actually quite simple. The host of this mind has clear ENDLESS mental defenses...like a fortress, you see? So strong we can't even tell where WE ARE...let alone whose mind we're in." Ichikoh shook her head despondently.
"Really...? But then...how were we brought here?" Yugi asked, thoughtfully, while the others were struck by the thought as well, having come out of their dazed stupor.
"Yeah, how WERE we brought here?" Joey asked, loudly.
"I...I don't really remember what happened before we came here..." Bakura squinted, as if trying to remember something that had just slipped by. "...Sorry."
"It's alright, Bakura. None of us remember." Said Tea, apologetically.
"So, Ichikoh...do you know how we were brought here?" Yugi turned to face the mysterious girl once again after offering a few words of comfort to Bakura.
"Your Millennium Items have many powers...they brought you here for some sort of purpose, undoubtedly...why not ask the spirits within them for some answers? I'm sure they would be able to provide-"
Ichikoh was cut off but a sudden gust of wind and the burst of light coming from the ancient jewelry hanging around Yugi and Bakura's necks. When the dust settled, two more hand entered their party.
Bakura's taller counterpart, the ancient thief spirit of his ring, scowled and crossed over to Ichikoh.
"Neither that dratted Pharaoh nor I know anything about this stupid escapade, woman." Yami Bakura growled. "So there is little need to assume that the spirits that reside within the Millennium Items know a damned thing about how the hell their hikaris and hikaris' annoying FRIENDS were transported to this dump OF A MIND by our metal prisons! So don't even bother ASKING!" He screeched the last few words and stalked back over to his aibou, who looked a tad bit shaken up and smiled apologetically at everyone else.
The remaining spirit, the much more pleasant and understanding Pharaoh of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle, rolled his eyes at the old tomb robber's behavior and shook his head, apparently slightly amused.
"Don't think I didn't see that, PHARAOH!" Yami Bakura pointed accusingly at Yami Yugi.
Adele was beyond shock, having never seen spirits come out of ancient Egyptian artifacts and start insulting each other. She looked as though she might faint from the shock of everything around her.
"It is alright, Adele...do not be afraid of me." Yami said comfortingly, approaching the speechless girl with confident strides.
"...Yugi...?" She pointed to the smaller Yugi, than to the larger one, apparently very confused. "Why are there...two of you...and Bakura?"
"Adele...I am not Yugi. I am Yami Yugi, the spirit that resides within the Millennium, or Sennen, Puzzle, the puzzle around Yugi's neck. This is..." Yami gestured to the disgruntled white-haired thief behind him. "...Yami Bakura, the spirit within Bakura's Millennium Ring." Yami briefly explained the Millennium Items to Adele, who watched with curious fascination and wonder. Yami did not go into great detail, not wanting to frighten the girl out of her mind with some of the stories that might have been told, but when he was finished, Adele looked very amazed.
Ichikoh, on the other hand, looked supremely bored. She coughed slightly to indicate that she was present and did not want to hear any more stories.
Yami frowned at her attitude, but answered her initial question anyway.
"As you yourself heard the tomb robber say, we know nothing of why we were brought here. However, our items have never failed us before and I believe there is a very important reason we are here. Therefore-" Yami put on his smug game face. "Me must enter this mind at all costs."
"We're not gonna get in easy, right?" Joey consulted Ichikoh.
"Correct." She said, crossing her arms skeptically at Yami. "Which is why I've come to send you back...YOU could be stuck here for YEARS without getting in."
"But what if it's REALLY important?" Asked Mokuba, frowning slightly at Ichikoh's indifferent attitude.
Ichikoh shrugged.
"I suppose the items have a regime of their own, if the spirits within them didn't influence the transportation...but if it really is as urgent as you seem to think it is, the mind would have opened up to you and allowed you entrance. This one isn't budging, however..."
"You mean...nothing will work?" Tristan asked, surprised. Yugi, Tea, Tristan, Joey, And Bakura all immediately tried to call out to the mind, but nothing they said seemed to matter to the host. After a few minutes of hopelessly trying, the five teens gave up and slumped on the "ground", exhausted.
Mokuba and Adele had both chosen to abstain from the shouting, Adele because she was still quite shocked from the magic and spirits ordeal, and Mokuba because he was trying to explain it to her a little more in depth and take care of her. Everyone else defeated, Mokuba stood up and said, very firmly,
"I think I'll try."
Ichikoh, observing this, laughed slightly at Mokuba's small stature.
"Listen, little boy," She started slowly, "If I cannot open this mind-and believe me, I tried before you all awoke-no mere mortals will be able to either. Here, why don't you try yourself?"
"How shall I do it?" He asked, bravely staring her down.
"It's straight-forward...just ask the mind to let you pass, as your friends did. If you are, by some bizarre twist of fate, able to be granted passage, you'll know you have succeeded. But don't get your hopes up, if *I* couldn't get through, no mere CHILD will-"
Mokuba interrupted her with his plea.
"Mind! If you don't open up to us, we're never going to be able to help you! Listen to me...we only want to help! Please..." Mokuba looked down at the ground. "Please..." A small tear escaped from his left eye.
As if by the powerful force of some other-worldly being, the black around them began to change, reform. Ichikoh gave a strangled gasp as, by magic, a luxurious looking door appeared before them, beckoning.
Mokuba wiped away his tear quickly, than looked up and smiled.
"Thanks, Seto. I knew it was you." He whispered, smiling at the door thoughfully.
Ichikoh continued to gape in disbelief as Yugi and his close friends all rose to leave.
"I...I don't believe it..." She stuttered, "A...a CHILD??"
"Thanks for your help, Ichikoh! But now we've gotta go!" Mokuba grinned at the speechless kimono-clad girl.
"But...but, you still don't even know where this leads! You could be putting yourselves in DANGER!"
"I'm afraid we must take the path that we feel is the best. It is our destiny to go through that door and to whatever lies beyond..." Yami led everyone to the door, including the disgruntled Yami Bakura.
Without another word, all of them entered the beautiful but dusty doors.
"Don't say I didn't warn yo......" Ichikoh's voice faded behind them.
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Ieyre: So...tired...need...sleep...
Yami Ieyre: According to the computer clock it is 11:23 PM...so, what is that in sundial time?
Ieyre: LATE, Yami, LATE. Now press the stupid send button so I can sleep...
Yami Ieyre: Aren't you going to tell them about the next chapter?
Ieyre: Okay, okay...Yugi and co. go through the mysterious wooden doors to find a young man, apparently writing a diary...who is he? Addy and Mokuba seem to know...
Yami Ieyre: That sounds like something they'd say at the end of DBZ, you know. It royally sucked.
Ieyre: *rolls over* Ah, shut up, will yah? Oh, R&R people, okay? I could really use those reviews right now...k' bye...*collapses*
Yami Ieyre: *clicks send*