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Auriel glared at Bakura as he rushed him again, another bolt of lightning just whizzing past his albino capped head as he moved to the right.
"You fool, you will run out of energy just dodging my attacks!" he shouted, running at him. Bakura was too slow this time and Auriel's fist connected with his jaw, sending him back a few feet, landing on his back. He groaned as he rolled to the left and sprang back to his feet, running further to the left as a fire ball hit the stone of the sides of the pit.
Kali turned left and ran down the torch-lit corridor, her bare feet causing slapping sounds to echo through the hall. Her lungs burned in her chest as she continued to run, though her breath had run out a couple minutes before.
"Got to. . . find. . . a mirror. . ." she gasped, trying to run too fast for herself, she tripped over her own foot and skidded against the ground a few feet, coming to a stop before the open chamber. Kali moaned in pain as she picked herself up, brushing off her arms and checking a scraped elbow.
"God damn it!" she growled, dropping her arms and looking straight ahead, at herself. Well, not really herself, but a mirror-like glass. She jogged up to it and read a plaque on the bottom. It read: "Those with half will find the whole and take the looking glass".
"Huh?" she cocked her head and looked up into the glass, a voice from within whispered,
"Kali. . . the other half lies within. . ." a light began to shine from the mirror, intensifying as she raised a hand and moved it towards the glass. She was surprised when she didn't touch the mirror and instead her hand passed through, her fingers touching something warm. She was about to pull her hand away when the warmth turned into heat and spread up her arm, she screamed and frantically tried to pull away as the heat spread from her arm, across her shoulder, down her neck, and into her heart. Her scream got louder until a force pushed her away from the mirror and she collapsed onto the floor in unconsciousness.
Bakura rolled once more and doubled over, trying to catch his breath. Auriel stopped and watched as his opponent wheezed, he knew it wouldn't be long until he could finish the fool off, and then keep the others captive.
"You have come to your end, you dolt. . ." Auriel prepared to launch a devastating magic attack which only the strongest magician could survive, holding the energy in his hand and raising it. Bakura dropped to his knees and covered his face with his arms, preparing for the end.
'Here it is. . . I'm going to die. . .' he thought sullenly to himself, noting that the only up would be that his Yami would never beat him again. His Yami. Bakura snorted in spite of himself.
"This is for you, Yami, what you've always wanted. . ." he muttered, opening his eyes to accept his fate.
"Oh, get over yourself, Bakura, and get up." A dark voice snarled from behind, Bakura spun around and saw a sight he never thought he'd see. Yami Bakura, holding the string tied to the Millennium Ring in his hand, and who he guessed was Kali's Yami, standing beside him with her Ring.
"You, intruders!" Auriel shouted, glaring at the two materialized spirits.
"Intruders!?! WE own this very place, YOU are the intruder!" Kaliandra screeched, crossing her arms, Bakura looked to his other half in wonder.
"What are YOU doing here?" he asked, almost expecting a violent reaction, but it didn't come.
"You made a stupid mistake, hikari. . . but. . ." he looked away, trying to avoid saying something kind, maybe even 'caring'. Bakura raised an eyebrow and almost smirked.
"But what?" he asked, his Yami sighed.
"But. . . you'veshownsomecourage and. . ." he mumbled quickly, causing Bakura to chuckle at him and look towards Kaliandra.
"And you? Why are you here?" he asked, noticing that Kali was missing from the room.
"History is changing, you wouldn't understand." She sounded upset, but they had no time to notice. Auriel picked Bakura up by the front of his shirt and tossed him aside, glaring at the other two. Bakura stumbled a bit and fell back onto the ground, looking up to see another bizarre sight. . . a look of rage on his Yami's face.
Kali slowly opened her eyes and blinked, trying to remember where she was.
'The temple. . . oh yeah. . . what was I. . the mirror!' she listlessly pulled herself up into a sitting position and noticed a significant weight in her chest when she remembered what had happened. The mirror, the heat, and the strange force that had pushed her away. She raised a hand to forehead, pushing up off the floor and standing up. Kali looked over to where the mirror hung on the wall, but the plaque was gone, she cautiously stepped up in front of it and ran her fingers across the glass. She looked at her hazy reflection, blinking as she watched it become more clear, and then the image flashed. Where she once was stood Bakura, smiling at her, then the image flashed again and she saw her own reflection once more.
"Oh Ra, I almost forgot!" she shouted, picking the mirror up off the wall and tucking it under her arm, hurriedly making her way back to the fighting arena.
"Auriel, do you know what we 'do'. . . with intruders?" Kaliandra narrowed her eyes and walked towards him, her "partner in crime" not far behind. Bakura stood behind and to the side, hoping that he wouldn't be noticed and attacked again.
'Where'd Kali go? I hope she's okay wherever she is. . .' he thought, feeling a bit jumpy all of a sudden. Auriel backed up a few steps and outstretched his arms, swiftly charging another attack, a quick but deadly one.
"I'll have to kill all three of you then!" he shouted, releasing the bolt of high-strung energy. Kaliandra and Yami Bakura shielded their eyes from the on coming attack, Bakura just looked straight ahead with eyes wide open, completely caught off guard.
Kali sprinted the rest of the way with some new found speed and leapt from the edge of the arena, soaring through the air above the four fighters. She took the mirror in two hands and in a quick movement threw it down in front of Auriel so it settled upright in the sand. She reached the ground and landed sprawled on her back, Kaliandra looked at her in horror, then at the mirror, which had landed correctly and was directing the mighty attack back at the nasty magician. With a gargled scream it was over, they had prevailed over the evil man of the desert. The restraints holding Yami to the wall disappeared and he was released, he jumped down into the pit and lowered himself onto his knees near Kali's head. Bakura got over his shock and glanced to where she lay, he ran across the sand and dropped down to her side. Yami Bakura and Kaliandra only stepped towards them a little, stopping to watch from a distance. Kali lifted her head a little and winced, dropping it back onto the sand and began panting from her "heroic" run and leap.
"Did it land in front of Auriel?" she asked with a smirk, in a strangely good mood. Yami chuckled and nodded, as did Bakura, who took her hand.
"Are you alright, though? What hurts?" Bakura asked, quickly becoming doctor, Yami Bakura almost grinned but then realized what he was doing and bit his lip, Yami noticed this and stared at him questioningly.
"Just my back and my shoulders, but I'm alright." Kali answered, raising her hand to touch his cheek, he cocked his head to the side lifted his hand to cover hers, smiling down. Yami Bakura shuddered a bit and watched as Yami approached him.
"Bakura, you seem to have changed. . ." he said quietly, the grave robber growled.
"Oh shut up, will you? I have not. . . So I suppose you'll be sealing Kalia and I here, where we belong?" he asked, a bit gloomily, the former Pharaoh pursed his lips thoughtfully.
"That was the original plan, but answer this question for me, both of you. Do you truthfully enjoy hurting Bakura and Kali, and making them miserable? For that is the reason we planned to seal you here." He crossed his arms, Kaliandra sighed.
"It's not our goal in life to do that, if that's what you mean, Pharaoh. I guess we do what we do to them because they are in our way, and we cannot do as we wish with them under our feet." She replied, Yami Bakura nodded.
"If we could be on our own without them, we wouldn't bother them. You know how it is, don't you?" he asked, Yami shook his head.
"No, I don't know how it is, but I guess I do understand your statements. I will allow you to stay in Domino City, but you must abide by the rules or I will banish you both to the Shadow Realm. Do you understand?" he asked sternly, only making this deal with Bakura and Kali's best interests in mind. Both of the spirits nodded, so with that, Yami turned around to get the "kids" attention and then return them all home.
"Guys, we're leaving now. . ." he called, Bakura took Kali's hand firmly and lifted her to her feet, then slipped his arm around her back carefully. Yami then bowed his head, grasped the sides of his Millennium Puzzle, and in a flash of light they were on their way home. . .
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The uneventful night had passed and Bakura had gone to sleep in his empty home, Yami had it arranged so that Bakura and Kali could stay in Bakura's home and Yami Bakura and Kaliandra could stay in Kali's home. Kali had stayed for a while until Tea called and asked that they come over, Bakura had remained home because he wasn't feeling well.
It was 9 A.M. when Bakura woke, rather early for someone who went to bed at 6 the night before. He rubbed his eyes and turned away from the window, which was letting in the bright California sun, and almost fell onto the floor as he rolled out of bed. He yawned and stretched, shouting a little when his muscles ached rather tenderly. He reached up and pushed his hair back away from his bare shoulders, stumbling into the hallway and across to the bathroom.
After Bakura relieved himself, he walked over to the sink and washed his hands, looking up into the mirror as he dried them with a dry wash cloth, taking note that he looked a little better than he had in a while. He dropped the cloth by the sink and flipped the light switch off, walking down the remainder of the hall and bounding down the stairs. On the couch there was a pillow and a blanket pushed down to the end messily, he guessed that Kali had come home while he was asleep and had slept there. He knew someone was there because the whole lower floor of the house smelled of bacon and eggs, he roamed down the little stretch of hall from the stairs towards the kitchen and turned right, walking in.
Kali turned around from her place in front of the stove and smiled warmly at Bakura, taking a moment to note that he was just in blue checkered boxers.
"Hey, are you feeling better? I thought I'd cook some breakfast incase you were hungry." She shrugged, turning back around and flipping some bacon over, reaching up and turning the heat off. Bakura smiled and walked up next to her, leaning over and kissing her cheek.
"Yeah, I'm feeling better. . ." he was about to snicker suggestively but changed his mind and smiled 'innocently'.
"Did you have fun at Tea's?" Bakura asked to cover up his previous tone, Kali shrugged and put the bacon on the plate with the eggs and brought it across to the table.
"Not really. . . to tell you the truth I wished you had felt better so I could've stayed here with you. . ." she didn't need to say the rest for him to understand, he sat down and frowned playfully.
"Damn it. . ." he chuckled, watching her as she laughed while getting two plates made.
"Yeah, I know. Instead I was forced to watch Joey and Tristan compete to see who could eat the most slices of pizza. . . needless to say, Joey won. . ." she rolled her eyes, remembering the contest as she set a plate in front Bakura, then sat down across from him.
"Thanks." He told her, she shrugged it off.
"Don't worry about it, in fact, get used to it. On days off from school, at least. Hey, what is today, anyway?" Kali asked.
"Sunday, I think. Say, is your homework done?" he asked mischievously, she raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. . . why?" Kali asked, Bakura grinned.
"No reason. . . just checking to make sure we have the whole day off. . ."
Okay, is that my longest chapter? I do believe so! I think you'll like the next chapter. *tries not to snicker* It gets a little hhhhhot. LOL, I think so, at least, so stay tuned for more! We're almost done here!
Auriel glared at Bakura as he rushed him again, another bolt of lightning just whizzing past his albino capped head as he moved to the right.
"You fool, you will run out of energy just dodging my attacks!" he shouted, running at him. Bakura was too slow this time and Auriel's fist connected with his jaw, sending him back a few feet, landing on his back. He groaned as he rolled to the left and sprang back to his feet, running further to the left as a fire ball hit the stone of the sides of the pit.
Kali turned left and ran down the torch-lit corridor, her bare feet causing slapping sounds to echo through the hall. Her lungs burned in her chest as she continued to run, though her breath had run out a couple minutes before.
"Got to. . . find. . . a mirror. . ." she gasped, trying to run too fast for herself, she tripped over her own foot and skidded against the ground a few feet, coming to a stop before the open chamber. Kali moaned in pain as she picked herself up, brushing off her arms and checking a scraped elbow.
"God damn it!" she growled, dropping her arms and looking straight ahead, at herself. Well, not really herself, but a mirror-like glass. She jogged up to it and read a plaque on the bottom. It read: "Those with half will find the whole and take the looking glass".
"Huh?" she cocked her head and looked up into the glass, a voice from within whispered,
"Kali. . . the other half lies within. . ." a light began to shine from the mirror, intensifying as she raised a hand and moved it towards the glass. She was surprised when she didn't touch the mirror and instead her hand passed through, her fingers touching something warm. She was about to pull her hand away when the warmth turned into heat and spread up her arm, she screamed and frantically tried to pull away as the heat spread from her arm, across her shoulder, down her neck, and into her heart. Her scream got louder until a force pushed her away from the mirror and she collapsed onto the floor in unconsciousness.
Bakura rolled once more and doubled over, trying to catch his breath. Auriel stopped and watched as his opponent wheezed, he knew it wouldn't be long until he could finish the fool off, and then keep the others captive.
"You have come to your end, you dolt. . ." Auriel prepared to launch a devastating magic attack which only the strongest magician could survive, holding the energy in his hand and raising it. Bakura dropped to his knees and covered his face with his arms, preparing for the end.
'Here it is. . . I'm going to die. . .' he thought sullenly to himself, noting that the only up would be that his Yami would never beat him again. His Yami. Bakura snorted in spite of himself.
"This is for you, Yami, what you've always wanted. . ." he muttered, opening his eyes to accept his fate.
"Oh, get over yourself, Bakura, and get up." A dark voice snarled from behind, Bakura spun around and saw a sight he never thought he'd see. Yami Bakura, holding the string tied to the Millennium Ring in his hand, and who he guessed was Kali's Yami, standing beside him with her Ring.
"You, intruders!" Auriel shouted, glaring at the two materialized spirits.
"Intruders!?! WE own this very place, YOU are the intruder!" Kaliandra screeched, crossing her arms, Bakura looked to his other half in wonder.
"What are YOU doing here?" he asked, almost expecting a violent reaction, but it didn't come.
"You made a stupid mistake, hikari. . . but. . ." he looked away, trying to avoid saying something kind, maybe even 'caring'. Bakura raised an eyebrow and almost smirked.
"But what?" he asked, his Yami sighed.
"But. . . you'veshownsomecourage and. . ." he mumbled quickly, causing Bakura to chuckle at him and look towards Kaliandra.
"And you? Why are you here?" he asked, noticing that Kali was missing from the room.
"History is changing, you wouldn't understand." She sounded upset, but they had no time to notice. Auriel picked Bakura up by the front of his shirt and tossed him aside, glaring at the other two. Bakura stumbled a bit and fell back onto the ground, looking up to see another bizarre sight. . . a look of rage on his Yami's face.
Kali slowly opened her eyes and blinked, trying to remember where she was.
'The temple. . . oh yeah. . . what was I. . the mirror!' she listlessly pulled herself up into a sitting position and noticed a significant weight in her chest when she remembered what had happened. The mirror, the heat, and the strange force that had pushed her away. She raised a hand to forehead, pushing up off the floor and standing up. Kali looked over to where the mirror hung on the wall, but the plaque was gone, she cautiously stepped up in front of it and ran her fingers across the glass. She looked at her hazy reflection, blinking as she watched it become more clear, and then the image flashed. Where she once was stood Bakura, smiling at her, then the image flashed again and she saw her own reflection once more.
"Oh Ra, I almost forgot!" she shouted, picking the mirror up off the wall and tucking it under her arm, hurriedly making her way back to the fighting arena.
"Auriel, do you know what we 'do'. . . with intruders?" Kaliandra narrowed her eyes and walked towards him, her "partner in crime" not far behind. Bakura stood behind and to the side, hoping that he wouldn't be noticed and attacked again.
'Where'd Kali go? I hope she's okay wherever she is. . .' he thought, feeling a bit jumpy all of a sudden. Auriel backed up a few steps and outstretched his arms, swiftly charging another attack, a quick but deadly one.
"I'll have to kill all three of you then!" he shouted, releasing the bolt of high-strung energy. Kaliandra and Yami Bakura shielded their eyes from the on coming attack, Bakura just looked straight ahead with eyes wide open, completely caught off guard.
Kali sprinted the rest of the way with some new found speed and leapt from the edge of the arena, soaring through the air above the four fighters. She took the mirror in two hands and in a quick movement threw it down in front of Auriel so it settled upright in the sand. She reached the ground and landed sprawled on her back, Kaliandra looked at her in horror, then at the mirror, which had landed correctly and was directing the mighty attack back at the nasty magician. With a gargled scream it was over, they had prevailed over the evil man of the desert. The restraints holding Yami to the wall disappeared and he was released, he jumped down into the pit and lowered himself onto his knees near Kali's head. Bakura got over his shock and glanced to where she lay, he ran across the sand and dropped down to her side. Yami Bakura and Kaliandra only stepped towards them a little, stopping to watch from a distance. Kali lifted her head a little and winced, dropping it back onto the sand and began panting from her "heroic" run and leap.
"Did it land in front of Auriel?" she asked with a smirk, in a strangely good mood. Yami chuckled and nodded, as did Bakura, who took her hand.
"Are you alright, though? What hurts?" Bakura asked, quickly becoming doctor, Yami Bakura almost grinned but then realized what he was doing and bit his lip, Yami noticed this and stared at him questioningly.
"Just my back and my shoulders, but I'm alright." Kali answered, raising her hand to touch his cheek, he cocked his head to the side lifted his hand to cover hers, smiling down. Yami Bakura shuddered a bit and watched as Yami approached him.
"Bakura, you seem to have changed. . ." he said quietly, the grave robber growled.
"Oh shut up, will you? I have not. . . So I suppose you'll be sealing Kalia and I here, where we belong?" he asked, a bit gloomily, the former Pharaoh pursed his lips thoughtfully.
"That was the original plan, but answer this question for me, both of you. Do you truthfully enjoy hurting Bakura and Kali, and making them miserable? For that is the reason we planned to seal you here." He crossed his arms, Kaliandra sighed.
"It's not our goal in life to do that, if that's what you mean, Pharaoh. I guess we do what we do to them because they are in our way, and we cannot do as we wish with them under our feet." She replied, Yami Bakura nodded.
"If we could be on our own without them, we wouldn't bother them. You know how it is, don't you?" he asked, Yami shook his head.
"No, I don't know how it is, but I guess I do understand your statements. I will allow you to stay in Domino City, but you must abide by the rules or I will banish you both to the Shadow Realm. Do you understand?" he asked sternly, only making this deal with Bakura and Kali's best interests in mind. Both of the spirits nodded, so with that, Yami turned around to get the "kids" attention and then return them all home.
"Guys, we're leaving now. . ." he called, Bakura took Kali's hand firmly and lifted her to her feet, then slipped his arm around her back carefully. Yami then bowed his head, grasped the sides of his Millennium Puzzle, and in a flash of light they were on their way home. . .
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The uneventful night had passed and Bakura had gone to sleep in his empty home, Yami had it arranged so that Bakura and Kali could stay in Bakura's home and Yami Bakura and Kaliandra could stay in Kali's home. Kali had stayed for a while until Tea called and asked that they come over, Bakura had remained home because he wasn't feeling well.
It was 9 A.M. when Bakura woke, rather early for someone who went to bed at 6 the night before. He rubbed his eyes and turned away from the window, which was letting in the bright California sun, and almost fell onto the floor as he rolled out of bed. He yawned and stretched, shouting a little when his muscles ached rather tenderly. He reached up and pushed his hair back away from his bare shoulders, stumbling into the hallway and across to the bathroom.
After Bakura relieved himself, he walked over to the sink and washed his hands, looking up into the mirror as he dried them with a dry wash cloth, taking note that he looked a little better than he had in a while. He dropped the cloth by the sink and flipped the light switch off, walking down the remainder of the hall and bounding down the stairs. On the couch there was a pillow and a blanket pushed down to the end messily, he guessed that Kali had come home while he was asleep and had slept there. He knew someone was there because the whole lower floor of the house smelled of bacon and eggs, he roamed down the little stretch of hall from the stairs towards the kitchen and turned right, walking in.
Kali turned around from her place in front of the stove and smiled warmly at Bakura, taking a moment to note that he was just in blue checkered boxers.
"Hey, are you feeling better? I thought I'd cook some breakfast incase you were hungry." She shrugged, turning back around and flipping some bacon over, reaching up and turning the heat off. Bakura smiled and walked up next to her, leaning over and kissing her cheek.
"Yeah, I'm feeling better. . ." he was about to snicker suggestively but changed his mind and smiled 'innocently'.
"Did you have fun at Tea's?" Bakura asked to cover up his previous tone, Kali shrugged and put the bacon on the plate with the eggs and brought it across to the table.
"Not really. . . to tell you the truth I wished you had felt better so I could've stayed here with you. . ." she didn't need to say the rest for him to understand, he sat down and frowned playfully.
"Damn it. . ." he chuckled, watching her as she laughed while getting two plates made.
"Yeah, I know. Instead I was forced to watch Joey and Tristan compete to see who could eat the most slices of pizza. . . needless to say, Joey won. . ." she rolled her eyes, remembering the contest as she set a plate in front Bakura, then sat down across from him.
"Thanks." He told her, she shrugged it off.
"Don't worry about it, in fact, get used to it. On days off from school, at least. Hey, what is today, anyway?" Kali asked.
"Sunday, I think. Say, is your homework done?" he asked mischievously, she raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. . . why?" Kali asked, Bakura grinned.
"No reason. . . just checking to make sure we have the whole day off. . ."
Okay, is that my longest chapter? I do believe so! I think you'll like the next chapter. *tries not to snicker* It gets a little hhhhhot. LOL, I think so, at least, so stay tuned for more! We're almost done here!