Chapter 7!!

Keep Hoping

Disclaimer: I'M GOING TO TEXAS!!! *ahem* I own everyone you don't recognize, but everyone else belongs to Mr. Takahashi.

Mojobubbles: IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!!! THE LONG-AWAITED CHAPTER 7!!!!!!

Kamilah: It'll be answering questions such as: is Malik alive? If so, where is he? And what part does his yami play in all this?

Mojobubbles: So, keep reading!!!!

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Review responses:

Arian Starswing: PREPPIES SUCK!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! And I will have fun in Texas. I love airplanes!!!!!

Europa: Hmm....I'll have to try it... 'fwee!' Moving on....you've lived in Texas too! I was born there and all my friends think that's hysterical and they like to talk with Texan accents all the time. -_-

Daricio: Nope, actually, what you said was this: "bad Yami... But he shouldn't have stalked Isis like that... She wanted to know who it was, and he just hid in the shadows like that... He wanted to make her feel better, but he wouldn't come out... Instead, he just scared and confused her... Bad Yami..." The thing about Malik's body will make sense, but I guess that Isis should've worded it differently, because they didn't actually find him, but they saw him........aw, you'll see.

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Symbol thingies:

/blah/ hikari to yami

//blah// yami to hikari

~blah~ Kaya to either Yami or Yugi

~~blah~~ Yami to Kaya

++Yugi to Kaya++

'blah' thoughts

*~*Flashback*~* or *~*End flashback*~* Kind of self-explanatory, I guess

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(Yes, the beginning is supposed to confuse you. Don't worry, it makes sense in the end.)

The fall.

It was absolutely terrifying, of course, but at the same time exhilarating.

Then, I realized that I was going to die if I kept falling. So, I saved myself, although I lapsed into unconsciousness in the process.

Hours later, I finally came back into consciousness. I was painfully aware of my surroundings. My body was sore from the fall, and my mind was clouded. The silence pressed in on me. Blackness covered my eyes, and when I tried to open my eyes, get rid of the blackness, I couldn't.

I was paralyzed.

So, that's what happened to me. Who am I? Well, I was Malik Ishtar. I don't know about now, though. After all, everyone thinks I'm dead. And maybe I'm good as dead, since I can barely move.

I can open my eyes now, a day or two later, and move my limbs a little. Well, I think it's been a day or two; when you're here, the hours run together until you don't know what is a day or a week or a month.

I guess I really should start from the beginning and try to sort out what happened.

It started when I heard his voice again, I suppose. I had just enrolled at Domino High, and Isis and I had rented an apartment. We - my friends and I - were all at a local mini-mart, sipping sodas.

And then I heard it - 'Hello, my little /aibou/.'

I waved it away. I thought maybe it was the just the stress.

That was one of the stupidest things I've ever done, which is pretty stupid, considering the stupid things I've done in my life, like try to take over the world and murder Yugi and the pharaoh.

Because he came back. Yami Malik came back. I tried to resist, but it was pretty futile. He just brushed me away and took over.

I was petrified when I saw he was talking to Isis.

"DON'T YOU DARE HURT HER!!!" I had screamed, pounding on the door of my soul room.

He ignored me. Surprise, surprise.

Then Yami Malik, controlling me, left for this bridge near the school. And he started plotting all his happy killing sprees and taking over the world. At the moment, why my evil yami decided to plot at a bridge had been beyond me.

Just then, a girl stepped out of the shadows. Her name was Akina Matsu. I knew, because I had seen her a few times during school that day.

'GET OUT OF HERE!!!!!!' I had screamed mentally.

My yami decided that she had heard too much. I agreed about that part. But I didn't agree that she should be 'disposed of'.

He took the Millennium Rod from my/his/our pocket and flipped the top of, exposing the dagger inside.

I shivered in my soul room. I hate that thing.

Before Akina could react, she was dead.

/WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?/ I had screamed again.

//Shut up.//

/If you dare hurt my friends or my sister-/

//SHUT UP!//

Then I realized he was going closer to the bridge. Closer, and closer.....then suddenly I realized we were falling.

He had jumped.

I could hear people screaming, shouting, yelling.....I remember thinking something along the lines of: 'Great, witnesses. Just perfect.'

Now, I was in control, and I was falling. I couldn't move, but then I realized what would happen if I didn't do something. I tugged at the Millennium Rod, and closed my eyes, concentrating, tapping into the powers. And the next thing I knew was blackness.

So here I am, in the Shadow Realm. I used the M. Rod to bring me here just seconds before I hit the water. True, I am alive, but I'm stuck here. Maybe even forever.

But what a lot of people don't know about the Millennium Items is that when two of the item holders share a special bond, they are linked, in the same sense as a yami and hikari.

That's how Kaya and Yami are connected. And Isis and me are connected that way too. And at times I can even feel some of Kaya's emotions, I guess because we've been best friends for so long.

I've tried countless times to get through and 'talk' mentally to either of them, but it's never worked. But I can still feel their pain.

So, I know everything that's been going on. I know that they all think I've committed suicide. Which I thought was kind of weird, because there was no body. But then I realized that witnesses had seen 'me' murder Akina and jump off the bridge.

A few times, I was able to contact Kaya and Isis through dreams. At first I didn't think they had taken the dreams seriously, but just a little while ago I sensed Isis and Kaya talking about the dreams.

For the first time in a while, I was happy. Because they're considering the possibility that I'm alive.

I hope that maybe......they'll keep hoping.

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Mojobubbles: What a.......nice.......chapter.....*falls over* Z_Z

Kamilah: Aw......she's tired.......packing for Texas, of course......

Inuyasha: *goes over and picks up one of Mojobubbles' bags* *drops it on his foot* OH GODS!!! OW OW OW OW!!! WHAT THE HELL IS SHE KEEPING IN THERE?!?!?

Kamilah: CDs, Digital Dobby Jr., her Inu-Yasha mangas, various notebooks, Richard the Sea Turtle and Bakura the Raccoon..........

Inuyasha: O_O.......

Kamilah: So anyway, we'll all be in Texas until Wednesday. And after that, we're gonna have to catch up on "Harry Potter And The Hunt" and take a bit of a break from this story.

Mojobubbles: *rolls over* *still sleeping* Killer bunnies and Sesshomaru........Naraku and Pegasus........review please.......