Fate of the Angels

Part Four

Ryou Returns



I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, or anything related to it.

Actually, I don't own much of anything, besides my precious computer here.

And 'The One Ring', I have four of those! :)

Anyway, if you're reading this, you should probably have read Hidden Truths, High Twilight, and Falling Stars.

Parts One, Two, and Three of the Tingilya Arc.

Well, I've rambled on long enough, thank you for putting up with this little note!

Now, on with the Angst!


~~~~~Domino~~~~~


"Ryou! It's good to see you again!" Seto smiled weakly, greeting the stony young man as he stepped out of the security check point. Seto wondered what had happened to him over the years.

While Ryou had always been incredibly shy, he now seemed to be a completely unfamiliar person. Where once was soft now was hard, and cold. Seto doubted that he had even smiled in years. And, had his hair not been white to begin with, it certainly would have been by now.

"Seto, it's been a long time. Not long enough." Ryou whispered, regripping his slightly overloaded bag. Seto eyed him, and nodded.

"Shall we get your bags, and go then? I'd like to find Estel as soon as possible, please." Ryou looked at him, his eyes unreadable.

"This is all I brought with me. I only want to get this over with, and leave." Ryou whispered, and followed Seto from the airport to his limo.

Seto surpressed a shudder, and was glad that Ryou was more of an ally than an enemy.

He had a feeling that the stoic albino would make for a gruesemly horrid advisary.


~~~~~Egypt~~~~~


"So, how are the studies going?" Malik asked, looking in on Estel.

The first thing he had done was sit her down to study, and practice. It was no good having a power than could not be used at will. It was beyond stupid, it was dangerous. And Malik, for all his insanity, was not a suicidal idiot.

The first thing the little girl needed was training. Nothing that would scare her, or the power would hide itself. And so, for the most part, he was trying to be as kind as possible to her. No torture, no starvation tactics. Just studies.

Unleashing her power was one thing. Unleashing it against himself, with a controler bent on killing him, totally beyond not the same thing.

"Fine." Estel whispered, looking up from her book. As her power grew, her personality seemed to be hiding itself, dissapearing amongst the surging energy. Malik wondered briefly if that meant that Ryou had been powerful, too.

"Good. I brought food!" Malik grinned, holding up a plate, with a lemon sandwich (1) on it. Estel glared at him.

She did not seem to share his taste in raw lemon sandwiches. (AN: I wonder why! ^.^)

"I'll get myself something later." Estel whispered, going back to her studies, Malik shrugging, and closing the door as he left, chewing on the food.


~~~~~Domino~~~~~


"So?" Seto asked, as Ryou concentrated on the glowing Ring, letting it free float in front of him, getting a bearing on where exactly Malik had headed.

/Ryou?/ Ryou's head shot up as Bakura's voice rang clearly through his mind.

//Get out of my head!// Ryou snapped, glaring mentally, his words dripping with venom.

/Ryou, please, where is my daughter?/ Bakura begged, his voice cracked and broken.

If Ryou had still cared, he would have been surprised. The entire time the Tomb Raider had been near him, he had only shown hatred, and cruelty. And now, here he was, begging and pleading for a little girl, a daughter born out of that self same hatred and cruelty.

//Egypt. Malik took her to Egypt.// Ryou whispered, shutting off the link with his darker half.

"He's in Egypt. I know where." Ryou said, his voice as cold as any night in Antarctica.

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go get her!" Seto snapped, jumping up unsteadily.

"I leave it to you to arrange for transport, Seto." Ryou yawned, heading toward his room, "But for now, I need rest."

"I'll book the earliest flight out of Domino, so keep your things packed!" Seto barked up the stairs, giddy with excitment.

His foster family, what remained of it, was finally going to be reunited. And the billionaire swore nothing was going to separate them again.


~~~~~Egypt, the next day~~~~~


'By Ra, she's more powerful than I ever imagined!' Malik swore to himself mentally as Estel finished the final exercise. He had never thought that the little girl, so much like her father, would ever have as much power that she proved to hold. Enough to break the seals easily, and bring back what he wanted so dearly.

His sister, Isis.

"You did well, Estel." Malik smiled as the tiny albino girl looked over at him, violet eyes questioning.

"Yes." Estel whispered mutley, her voice barely heard within the silent room.

Malik wondered, for the first time, if her mind would be able to survive the coming challenge.

For, tomorrow, he would bring her into the cavern beneath the house, and he would use her power to summon his sister back to him, sanity be damned. It was the least Bakura could do for him, sacrifice his daughter, after all they had been through together.


~~~~~Egypt~~~~~


"So, so, so Malik, think you could hide her here, did you?" Bakura hissed under his breath, stepping up to the front door, pounding on the weathered wood. He didn't care if Malik opened it, he would pound on his face a little, for kidnapping his daughter.

Seto, too, if he was here.

The door opened, a tiny white haired girl, clothed in a white linnen dress, opened the door meekly, to Bakura's shock.

"Estel? Oh, Estel! He didn't hurt you, did he? Oh, Estel, Estel, Estel!" Bakura sobbed, pulling his daughter into his arms

Estel just looked blankly forward, confused by the situation.....


~TSUZUKU~


This chapter brought to you by the color Melentine, and the song Run Rabit Junk! (2)

^.^

*sigh* I'm so sorry it took this long to post this chapter up, but college turned to complete crap on me... ^.^;

Explanations:

1) The lemon sandwich is a joke for Americal Civil War historians. Stonewall Jackson was infamous for loving raw lemons. I have a fondness for them at times, too, but never to the amount he did! ^.^

2)Melentine is a pretty color of blue, sorta purplish, and very dark! ^.^ Has Ocean written all over it!!! ^.^

Run Rabit Junk is from the series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, trust me, if you've seen the series (Only 16 eps available in the US so far, 18 have been released of 24 in Japan), and heard the song, you know what I'm talking about! ^.^

Yeah, well, I can't promise how long it will be until the next chapter is posted, maybe soon, maybe half a year, who knows?

^.^;

Part Five