Chapter 29-Akira
" Are you willing?"
" Not really. It's bad enough that we have a Seto who can't talk and a Syaoran who can't think
straight."
" Well, it's not like you have a choice." Touya pointed out. " We have to get those anyway. You're
the only expert robber we have, and a rather good one, from what I hear from Syaoran. Sure, they'll
kill you if they catch you, but what's a little danger?"
" A little?" I blinked, bewildered. " Five thousand years ago I was stealing among people who don't
know anything about magic. Heck, the only reason I was caught was because I made a bad choice
and tried to steal from a magician. Now you're telling me to come to these immortals and try to steal
from them? A little danger? Are you mad?"
" Relax!" Touya rolled his eyes. " Do you honestly think I was going to let you go in there alone?
Listen. Seto ( once he gets his wits back) was a pretty good...creeper, in his time anyway. ( Not that
he is particularly old. I can't believe he's even younger than me!) But in any case, with the Healer,
and with a professional robber, we're bound to get some info."
I sighed. " You're sick."
" Who's the sick one?" Touya blinked. " Those guys tortured Syaoran. Tortured. Sound familiar?
Do I have to spell it? Oh, good gracious! Don't tell me you, an Egyptian tomb robber, had never
been tortured in your entire pathetic life, let alone, that whole confinement in the Ring was enough
torture for me. Imagine Syaoran! A ten-year-old! Good heavens, you're calling me sick?"
" I don't have magic! Except for several lousy cards!"
" Well, what do you think Sakura had?" Touya spat. " Do you care for Syaoran's well being, or
not?"
I fell silent. Touya was right. I was the only person to do this, whether I liked it or not. And I did
care about Syaoran.
" Go to Hades." I muttered. Touya laughed. It was an amused laugh.
" I'm sure you'll do fine." He said. " Now, back to Seto..."
" Wake up!" I yelled at Seto. I was not in the mood for laziness today. " Wake up! Geez, for being
a CEO of a company, you sure are an ' early riser'!"
" Let him sleep!" Yami sniffed, " His brain was slow anyway, he'll be less of a trouble."
" Wake up!" I shook at Seto. Syaoran woke up beside him-amazing how that kid could sleep
through all this. It seemed his annoyance won over his fear because he slapped my hand violently
away.
Seto woke, more to Syaoran's touch then my absence, and looked around groggily.
" Alright, Kaiba, or Healer, or whatever you are, I want to get this over with. Get up!"
" ?" Seto blinked.
" What, do I have to say things slowly too?" I cried.
" Tomb Robber!" I fell silent. Touya always called me that when he's annoyed. " You might as well
chill. Even the gaki was better then you. Be quiet and let Seto go back to his senses."
I glared at that mortal. Touya glared back.
" Tomb Robber, I'm not here to play games." He warned. " I might not have much magic left, but
Yue does. And you do not want to mess with Yue."
He's right. I don't want to mess with Moonboy.
Seto blinked his eyes and sat up slowly. He stared at everyone in a stupor. Mokuba ran to him.
" Ni-san!" He whispered.
Pegasus shook his head. " Anyone here know how to heal? Kaho-san, do you know anyone who
can help? We don't have all the time in the world, as I would have liked."
" Of course," Seto was rubbing his head. " What happened?"
Touya stared at Seto.
" Kaho? Any time soon?" The guy began, and Kaho remained silent.
Our healer eventually got back to his senses, thanks to Touya and his use of the Sakura Cards
himself. It's amazing, even now, to think he got over his sister's death so quickly, but I'm just some
five thousand year old spirit hanging around where he doesn't belong. What do I know? They never
told me exactly what he did with the cards, but sooner than I would have liked, Seto was back to his
senses, and I found us waiting outside some weird cave opening, not anywhere near where the Li
Mansion was, and Seto was staring at it, perhaps just as afraid as I was.
Well, not afraid, just...tense.
Our trip in there was...quite dark. But amazingly, Seto found his way around with ease. It was all I could do not to trip over his feet. That nonsense about seeing in the dark? That's not true. There is absolutely no way you can see in the dark, unless there's at least a speck of light available to you. Otherwise,
" Shh." Seto whispered to me. " They're coming this way. Get back."
Oh, he didn't have to tell me that. I'm a tomb robber, by Ra!
" Who goes there?"
" Only some bats, I'll reckon."
" Some spirits, actually. Immortal spirits, though not zodiacs." Seto answered.
Suddenly the voices fell silent and Seto grabbed my hand.
" Gah!" I almost yelled, but kept my voice low. " What did you do?"
" Killed them." Seto said simply.
I sighed. " You're even worse than I was."
" Arigatou. Get moving!"
While we were doing our spying, our mortal friends at home were doing all the complaining the
world of complaints can offer. Kero gave me a brief account of how noisy they were, and Kaho
joked that they were even more noisy then Ruby Moon and Spinel...although that sort of got
everyone depressed.
Apparently, Jou thought it was a good idea to get Tarkot back again and deal with this until the stages of whatever happened to Syaoran is over. That spell sort of caught the zodiacs' attention. As for us, we were at the entrance. The zodiacs decided to come out, and there's only one exit to the cave, which, of course, is the entrance, and we-
" Uh oh."
Uh oh's right. We were face to face with immortals. Seto, being the healer that's barely healed, me, being the ex-tomb robber that was executed and dead for five thousand years, trapped within the body of a rather weak individual and sort of nervous out of my wits.
I did the most intelligent thing I could think of. I ran away. I'm a tomb robber. That's what we do. Our genius of the century decided to play hero and started throwing weird things at the immortals.
Luckily Seto didn't get hurt, but when we went back to the shop, Tarkot was eye to eye with the immortals, and we didn't really get anything of much use to us.
Of what happened that day I can't really say. It seemed that day was cut off from my memory and left in its place a gaping black void. I do know that we figured out what had saved Syaoran the fateful day when the Clow Circle had perished.
What exactly happened that day? I know that Syaoran summoned the Dark Magician, like before. No, it wasn't Syaoran, it was Tarkot. And it seemed that we were dropped into some kind of time portal and dumped into the past on the sands of Egypt. The immortals were nowhere to be found...
Ah, hai. The monsters were protecting Tarkot against the immortals, the last ones that are left anyway. Even so, these zodiacs are powerful, and we happened to be no match for them. Even though it seemed as if we were even before, killing one zodiac after another, now we were stuck and in very deep trouble.
Remember how when one zodiac's defeated, his or her powers get transferred to the remaining zodiacs? That's exactly what happened. All of the sudden we're met with really really powerful zodiacs with all the powers of the dead ones, and controlling them with a single mind. Tarkot was better at controlling the monsters then Syaoran was. As for Seto, none of the magic affected him, but unfortunately he couldn't summon much of his magic anyway so the zodiacs didn't suffer much. The mortals, on the other hand, had to run. They really had no choice. But all of the sudden...
What happened? We got dropped in Egypt, I don't know how. Tarkot became Syaoran and Seto and Syaoran were leading us towards the great palace. The rest of the situation was fogged. I think Seto can give you a better description. Therefore, the pen now goes to Seto Kaiba.
