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Yu-Gi-Oh Chapter 8
Yugi Motou sat alone near the campfire staring into the dim warm light as everyone else around him slept. They decided it was best to stay put until day came which he gladly accepted. He hadn't been himself at all since his arrival to the ancient time and found himself wishing he was back home. "Without Yami and the millennium puzzle with me I'm useless." The blonde haired teen felt a bit of fear enter his heart as he thought of what would happen if Marik we're to attack again now that he no longer had the help of the pharaoh. For the first time in many years the young man had felt weak as if he wouldn't be able to help out any of his friends. "Yugi what are you doing up so late?"
"Oh hey Mai..." Yugi answered in a slightly sad tone as he threw a few twigs into the fire keeping it alive as the young woman sat next to him. It was pretty hard to sleep when none of them had any sleeping bags. "I was just thinking..."
Mai frowned as she heard the teen's tone of voice. Yugi was such a cheerful person almost all of that time so it was rather easy to tell when he was sad. "Oh, Thinking about what?" The young man didn't bother to turn and face her which made her even more worried about him. "About my millennium puzzle. It was what made me special Mai and without it and Yami I'm useless to everyone. I'm basically just going to get in everyone's way." Though she really didn't have any idea on who Yami was, and what the millennium puzzle did she knew Yugi was wrong about it making him special. "Yugi stop talking like that. Every single person here respects you and have faith in your abilities. It may have been the millennium puzzle that gave you an edge in all of your duels, but it was your heart that gave your the victories."
"Mai..." Yugi whispered as he wiped the tears from his eyes while smiling and turned to face the young woman who had actually helped cheer him up. "Thank you."
Mai returned his smile as the two of them decided it was time to get as much sleep as they could. The next morning Marik and Reina found themselves walking through part of the desert towards the castle in which he knew his master to be located, but as they walked the duo came upon an unconscious boy stuck in the sand. "Hey I've seen this guy before." The brown haired female turned the boy over so she could see his face and smirked. "I knew I've seen him somewhere before. He's one of the kid's I saw with Yugi!" Marik who no longer possessed his millennium rod stared down at the male as his eyes glowed and the symbol of the millennium eye appeared on his forehead. "I could always use another servant in my quest to take control of all the millennium items. Yes...from now on you shall work for me."
"I serve only you..." Kevin mumbled as he was helped to his feet by Reina. After several moments he received a command through his mind and nodded slowly. "Very well I will go and retrieve the god cards."
It was now 7: 14 am in Egypt as the sun began to slowly rise over Yugi and the others who slept around that campfire that was still burning. Kraig was sleeping peacefully next to Destiny who was looking at her surroundings still getting use to life outside of her card. Kaiba was the next person to awake very angered at the fact he had to sleep without anything to cover up with. It only took a few more minutes for the rest of the group to wake up. "Yug we really need to find a town or somethin, I'm starvin over here." Yugi had to agree with Joey since all of them needed something to eat. The only problem was he had no idea on which direction they should travel. "There is a town about a mile from here if we hurry we may be able to get there before it gets too hot." Everyone turned to Ishizu wondering just how she knew that, but gladly accept the information. "Well then we should all get going."
"You might want to be on your guard everyone." Ishizu spoke up as they began
their long walk. Yugi and the other's turned to face her as they continued to
walk. "In this time there was a thing called the shadow games in which people
brought monsters to life and fought for control over lands and kingdoms. There
are many thugs we may run into along the way so we really should be careful."
Yugi smiled at the woman thanking her for the advice and took his spot at the
head of the group again with Mai trailing just a few inches behind while Nick
and Kaiba took up the rear while everyone else walked in the middle. The group
found themselves desperate for water and food as they walked through the hot
desert on the verge of passing out. "Joey...I'm thirsty.." Joey noticed his
sister had fallen behind and as he turned around he noticed she was on her knees
in exhaustion. The heat had really taken a lot out of all of them, but she was
taking it the worse. "I know sis but we have to keep going." Serenity sighed
heavily as she tried her best to stand yet found it was almost impossible. "I
can't Joey.." The group had stopped their walking and turned to the female all
of them trying to think of a way to help. "I'll carry her." Ishizu smiled as her
brother finally decided to help someone and after he had lifted Joey's sister up
the group continued their journey. They walked for what seemed like hours until
finally seeing a town in the distance. "We're almost there guys."
"I'm afraid entering the town won't be so easy!" A voice called out causing them to all stop in their tracks just as the ground in front of them caved in. "Well aren't you the lucky ones managing to avoid my trap hole."
Everyone looked up into the air to see a familiar person riding atop a
Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Well the person wasn't that familiar, but they had
remembered him from the duel he had against Mai. "Kevin..?" The blonde on top of
the dragon nodded while smirking deviously. "That's right Yugi I have come for
your god cards! Hand them over and I promise I'll go easy on all of you." Kaiba
growled in response to the teen's last comment and quickly took out one of his
cards that instantly started to glow. "Kaiba wait!" Yugi grabbed his arm trying
to stop him from summoning a monster, but was pushed to the ground for his
efforts. "Rise Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Mai helped the fallen teen up as they
watched the bluish white dragon form in the air above them staring at the
Red-Eyes in anger mimicking it's owner's feelings. "Attack with White
Lightning!"
"Kaiba don't you'll hurt him!" Yugi screamed while watching Kaiba's dragon
attack Kevin's Red-Eyes with full force. The lightning attack flew straight for
it, but just before it hit the air it's self seemed to absorb the energy. "What..just
happened?"
Kevin smirked as he looked at a card in his hand called negate attack. "Glad I brought that along with me." Kaiba was furious at the fact his monster's attack was stopped. He slowly pulled another card out of his deck and stared at it for a moment wondering if it would work after all his opponent had been able to bring a trap card to life. "I'll use Dragon's Gunfire!" The Blue-Eyes white dragon opened it's mouth wide as a ball of fire began to form in it. "Attack him directly!" Yugi gasped as the fire ball was sent into the air totally missing the Red-Eyes and coming into direct contact with Kevin who screamed out in pain as it hit. "Kaiba stop this! He's one of our friends!"
"Forget it Yugi he's on their side now, and that means he's my enemy." Kaiba growled in response waiting for his opponent to make his move since his Blue-Eyes couldn't attack anymore. "And If we're to ever get back to our own world we can't let any of our enemies survive!"
Mai was surprised at the look she saw in Yugi's eyes since it was the first time she ever saw him angry and it wasn't a very pretty sight. "Kaiba this is the last time I'm going to say this. Do not attack him again!" Kaiba noticed the change in the teen's voice, but still ignored him. "Forget it Yugi I will spare no one!" In the air Kevin grunted in pain holding on to his chest which had been hit due to the effect of the card that was used on him. "Oh he's going to pay for that! I'll now summon the Summoned Skull!" Everyone watched as the large skull beast appeared beside the Red-Eyes while the teen that owned them both began to laugh. "And now I'll use polymerization and fuse them into one!" Everyone watched as the two monster's we're pulled into each other taking on the form of a creature that was familiar to a few of them. It's roar alone was enough to tell them all how powerful it was, and actually seeing it come to life was causing Joey to take a few steps backward. "No..way."
"I present to you all The Black Skull Dragon!" Kevin smirked as he now sat on the large creature's back while it slowly descended towards the ground. "Now attack his Blue-Eyes!"
Kaiba smirked as the dragon fired a molten fire ball towards his way only to be absorbed the air just as his Blue-Eyes attach had been moments before. "Looks like I have a negate attack of my own." Kevin narrowed his eyes in anger but smirked since he was going to attack him again. "Enough games I'm going to finish you off once and for all!" Kaiba knew what his opponent was planning and wouldn't allow it. "I'll now summon Obelisk the Tormentor!" Everyone gasped in unison as clouds began to cover up the sky darkening the area over them. The large blue beast appeared above them all staring down at the Skull Dragon with an almost demonic smirk on it's face. "Destroy that Dragon!" Obelisk roared in response to his master's orders and threw his fists forward tearing the dragon apart as he did so throwing Kevin's body to the ground.
"Kevin!" Yugi and the others quickly rushed to the teen's side seeing that he was unconscious. In that moment the former holder of the millennium puzzle narrowed his eyes in anger and turned to the cause of problems. "Kaiba look what you did! You could have killed him!"
Yugi's anger rose to a greater extent as the taller teen laughed as if he hadn't done anything wrong. "As I've told you before Yugi. I will spare no one!" Mai knew what the small teen beside her was thinking and gently placed her hand on his shoulder actually managing to calm him. "Yugi it's not worth your time to get angry with Kaiba. Besides I think Kevin needs us right now." Nodding his head slowly he turned away from Kaiba and walked over to the unconscious teen who seemed to be pretty injured. "Yugi the town is really close we might as well take him with us so he can get healed." He looked at Kraig and agreed with him. "Are you all insane! We can't take him with us he's working for Marik now!" Ishizu sighed as she walked over to the most annoying member of the group and did something that shocked them all. She gave him a kiss on the cheek causing him to become speechless. "Thank you for saving Kevin. If it weren't for you he'd still be under Marik's control."
"Ishizu..are you out of your mind?" Nick asked her in a whisper while glancing at Kaiba whose entire face was red since it had been the first time he was ever kissed. "Why on earth would you kiss Kaiba?"
Ishizu smiled at her brother then continued to walk through the desert with the others leaving him confused though he quickly followed while carrying a still tired Serenity. The group continued to walk while Yugi struggled to carry Kevin barely able to take steps forward. "We're almost there." Kaiba was now slowly walking behind everyone as Kraig and Destiny snickered at the look on his face, but continued their walk. "I'm afraid there is one more thing we'll have to face before getting into the town." Mai overheard what Ishizu had just said and curiously turned to listen in on the conversation. "In two minutes we'll be attacked by Marik and Ra again. He's already convinced the towns people that we are against the pharaoh so they'll of course join him in his attack."
"There they are!" Voices cried after they had walked for two more minutes causing Mai to turn to Ishizu in shock that she was right since Ra now floated in the air above the people. "Get them all!"
Yugi gasped as the people came running for him and the others. Usually he would refuse to fight but now he was beginning to wonder if Kaiba was right. Maybe they shouldn't spare anyone. "What am I thinking? No one deserves to be hurt. Even if they are crazy enough to believe Marik." Still holding Kevin he took a few steps backward trying to figure a way out of the situation, but didn't wait for very long as Ishizu stepped beside him. "Summon your god card Yugi." He turned to her nervously but she smiled. "Trust me little one." The crowd of people froze instantly as the roar of Osiris echoed across the sky as the dragon slowly took form in the air above it's owner staring at everyone menacingly.
"Hey how come he's glowing?" Kraig asked as Yugi began to glow the same color as the large dragon above him. Destiny held his hand tightly as if becoming nervous all of a sudden. "Yugi..are you okay?"
Everyone else we're wondering the same thing as the male calmly took a few steps forward. Ishizu knew what was about to happen and smiled. "We don't mean you people any harm. We're just looking for a place to stay so that we may eat and rest up." After seeing Osiris the people backed away not in fear but in respect for the power the young boy obviously possessed if he was in control of the god dragon. "What are you people doing? Attack him!" The people didn't budge and instead began to walk back towards the town as Yugi stared up at the man who was the cause of most of his current problems. "Marik!"
"We'll finish this later Yugi!" Marik growled now that his plan had failed. Sure he had control over Ra a powerful god monster, but one against three was something even he couldn't handle. "Come on Ra get us out of here!"
Yugi stared up in the air watching as Marik retreated towards a place in that distance that seemed to have a castle. He made a mental note to make that his next stop. "Come everyone let's keep going." Though he didn't know it the small teen had just taken charge of the group like a true leader, and without the help of his other half. Seeing that it was no longer needed Osiris returned to it's card as the group entered the town. Once entering people bowed before the young man since he had a remarkable resemblance to the pharaoh himself. Ishizu had to translate most of the things he asked for since the people didn't understand English, but the group found themselves sitting at a large table as the people prepared them a large feast.
"This is great Yug! Look at all of that food." Joey said as tears left his eyes from the joy of actually being around food. "It's like I'm in heaven or somethin."
Serenity shook her head as she stared at her brother almost single handedly eat all of the food by himself since everyone else only ate a small amount. "What a pig..." Joey didn't listen to Kaiba and instead focused on eating more food while Kevin silently looked around at everyone amazed they could be so normal even though they were stuck in the past. "Something wrong Kevin?" The spiky haired blonde shook his head as he turned to face Yugi who was staring at him with concern in his eyes. "No I'm fine Yugi, It's just that I can't thank you guys enough for helping me, and everything." Everyone in the group minus Kaiba smiled glad to have helped the young man. They all ate peacefully that night enjoying their time together since all of them mainly Ishizu knew that the future ahead of them wouldn't be a pleasant one.
"Marik where are you taking us...?" Reina asked as they flew over the large gates of what seemed to be some sort of castle. It was an expected occurrence for the guards since they had expected them to arrive. "Marik..?"
Marik turned to face the young woman with an angered expression on his face. He wasn't pleased that his small plan had failed and that the townspeople had quickly turned on him. Ra landed on the ground in front of the castle as it's master quickly jumped off forgetting to help the girl down. "I've been expecting you." Reina was a little confused as the male beside her bowed while a large figure slowly walked towards them. "What's going on?" The figure seemed to smirk darkly as he glanced at the female who hadn't bowed yet. Usually someone like that would have had their souls taken away from them, but he would make a special acceptance. This time anyway. "We would have been here sooner but.."
"Yes you tried to get the townspeople to attack the little one and his friends." He said while cutting him off slightly angering Marik though he didn't say anything. "Something I didn't order you to do. If you do something like that again I will make you a mindless puppet understand?"
Marik gritted his teeth as he nodded. It was hard for him to follow the orders of someone. "Now follow me you two. I'll fill you in on my plans." The duo reluctantly followed the large man neither of them really trusting him. Back with Yugi and the others the group we're just heading for their small rooms to get some sleep, but first the current leader of the group had to ask someone a few questions. "Ishizu do you happen to know where the Pharaoh is located? If we are to succeed in getting back to our own time I'm sure we'll need his help." Ishizu nodded her head causing him to sigh in relief. "His kingdom is to the east of here if we were to leave tomorrow it would take at least three to four days of walking to reach it."
"That long..?" Yugi asked while sighing. It sure wasn't easy traveling on foot, and even though he didn't have a choice he was trying to find another way. "What if we used our monsters to get us there. It'd be a lot faster right?"
Ishizu shook her head though she kept her smile. It was hard to frown around the young man in front of her. "Although it may be faster, using our monsters to travel would draw all our enemies toward us. While three of you may possess god cards there is still no way we can stand up against those odds." Yugi frowned since he hadn't thought about that. "I see. I guess walking by foot is the only way then." Out of the corner of her eyes the female saw a man staring at them. He had messy white hair and dirty clothes, and evil brown eyes that were currently locked on the both of them. This wasn't the first time she had noticed him in fact he had been following them all since their arrival in the town. "That is the boy who summoned that dragon earlier. If I had the power of that monster then not even the pharaoh himself could stand up to me." His lips curved into a smirk while he began to formulate a plan in his mind while still staring at Yugi. "That's it. I'll just steal the monster from him and use it for myself!"
"Well Yugi I think it's about time for the two of us to get some rest." Ishizu said after yawning to show him just how tired she was. "We'll need all the rest we can get for we have a long way to travel in the morning."
Ryou the tomb robber grinned as the woman left Yugi's side leaving the young man alone. "Now is my chance. He's to small to defend himself. This'll be simple." He took a few silent steps forward hiding behind whatever he could each time the teen would look his way, and then when he was finally behind him he made his move. "Hey!" Yugi gasped as he felt something reach into his pocket taking out half of the cards he owned. The white haired man stared at them for a moment confused at just what they were. "Give those back!" After the confusion wore off he took off into a sprint laughing as he did so. "Sorry kid, these are mine now." Normally he would have just gotten rid the young man, but Ryou didn't like to harm children. At least sometimes he didn't. "Come back with those!"
Yugi ran as fast as he could though his small legs could only push him so far. Ryou cursed as he took a wrong turn that led him to a dead end. "There you are!" Now he was cornered by the small teen who was breathing heavily almost on the verge of falling to his knees in exhaustion. "You just made a big mistake kid." The man's brown eyes narrowed menacingly as he began to walk forward towards the teen who wasn't backing away. "Because now your forcing me to finish you off." Yugi gulped as the man neared him, and desperately tried to find a way to save himself. "What am..I going to do?" Everything became black for the young man as the tomb robbed finally reached him.
To be continued.....
