About an hour later in a dream sequence
I was in Egypt, walking amidst the busy streets of a marketplace. The blazing sun shone down on my face as I explored my new surroundings. The Millennium key still hung around my neck. "Wow, it's really beautiful here." I said out loud, gazing at the pyramids. Then, I glanced to the right and blinked in surprise. Even though I had never been to Egypt before, I saw a familiar face. Wearing a turban and cape with a tan cloaklike thing on. And he was staring right at me. "Isn't that…Shadi?" I asked myself as he began walking over to me. I remembered Shadi from some reading I had done over the internet. My Millennium key was glowing, reacting to his item. I wondered why that was because it didn't react like that to Bakura's Millennium ring or Yugi's Millennium puzzle. What was so special about his ankh?
"Come with me, we must talk in private." He told me. I nodded and followed him inside a pyramid. I wondered if anything could ever be discussed in front of people, instead of always talking in isolation about the Millennium items. We must have descended down thousands of steps into the heart of the pyramid itself. The only light that was in the dark halls was by torch. We kept on walking until we reached a hidden crypt.
"What do you want with me Shadi?" I asked him.
"I have appeared to you in this dream, because I felt the power of the Millennium key stir after thousands of years of lying dormant. It has been a long time, since I have felt the power awaken." He told me. "My Millennium key is the brother to yours, did you know that?" He asked me.
I shook my head. "I thought you had a Millennium Ankh?" I said. Shadi shook his head and stared at me with those fathomless blue eyes of his.
"No, I posses the Millennium key. Your key is the sister to mine. They were both crafted together and from the same materials. I remember when the white light ritual was performed; in fact it was my own sister who it was performed on. It was fate that both of us should befall the twin Millennium keys. My sister's name was Jalisma, she was one of the many dancers for the pharaoh. I am the guardian of the Millennium Items, but I knew that the second key was just too powerful to risk being in the wrong hands. I also knew the grave robber; thief of souls would try to take all the items. If he succeeded in getting the second key, he could conquer whole universes, and dimensions So, with a heavy heart, and knowing that the second key was destined to be a part of her forever, I performed the white light transfer ritual upon Jalisma, and sealed the key inside her, and sent her to a dimension where evil could not touch the key.
That amazed me; it meant that Shadi was over five thousand years old. Maybe it was his yami speaking or something. I didn't know, but I believed his story. "What are you planning to do now Shadi?" I asked him.
He picked up his own millennium key and brought it to my forehead. "To see if the key is in safe keepings." His creepy voice resounded throughout my mind. I suddenly found myself in a dark hallway. There were doors everywhere and Shadi was standing next to me, arms folded across his chest. "You do not object to me searching the recesses of your mind for any traces of evil?" He asked me. "Many who own Millennium items become blinded by greed and search to gain others. I must make sure that my sister's innocence was preserved through the reincarnations.
I nodded. "Search, but you'll find no evil here Shadi, the key is in good hands." I told him.
"We shall see." Shadi answered. He concentrated and his Millennium key began glowing. He walked over to one door that was chained, bolted and imprinted with the Millennium eye on it. "This is the door that contains all the knowledge that I need know. If it contains innocence, I will leave you, content with the knowledge of your purity. But if I find any trace of Malice, the key will be taken from you and you shall be transported back to your own world." I gulped and nodded. Shadi tried to open the door with his key but it wouldn't open. I walked forward, concentrated and used my Millennium and the door opened instantly. "Strange, you have no fear of letting me inside the deepest part of your mind." Shadi pointed out.
I shrugged as we walked inside. "I don't have anything to hide." I told him.
To my relief and delight the room was filled with toys, balloons, cakes, candies, stuffed animals, fluffy pillows, kittens, and other various innocent looking things. Shadi surveyed the room and nodded. "You seem to lack any malice, yet what do we have here?" Shadi asked, picking up a black box and handing it to me. "This box radiates fear; there is something you've been hiding from me. Open the box!"
I seized up with fear, thinking that whatever was inside the box would be my doom. I didn't even know what was in the box, hadn't done anything wrong. I was just getting close to Joey, and I didn't want to leave him. Didn't want to return to my mundane world where nothing special or magical ever happened. Where I wouldn't be with Joey anymore, or have any hope of ever seeing him again. My hands trembled as I put my Millennium key inside the keyhole and turned it. I slowly lifted up the lid until it was only open a crack. A stream of pure white light filtered out of it and took a humanoid image before me. In fact, it started looking like…Joey! "Joey…?" I gasped.
It looked like a spirit form of Joey, standing in front of me, protectively. He glared at Shadi. "I don't know who you are, but yah not hurten her." He said, making fists.
"What is this new form that has taken hold in your mind?" Shadi asked shocked.
"The spirit of the one I love." I answered quietly, understanding as much as Shadi did, which wasn't much. I remembered that when Yugi needed help, he drew strength from the support of his friends; maybe that's what was happening. "Joey, what are you doing here?" I asked him.
Joey turned to me and smiled. "Remember that promise yah made me? Your gonna keep it right?" He asked me. I smiled and nodded. Joey's spirit turned to Shadi. "Promise me you'll leave her alone. If I wake up and don't find her there, the promise will be broken."
Shadi nodded. "I promise, having already seen that she possesses no malice, but I must see this fear that is in the box. I only wish to find out what this fear is and help her." Joey gave me the thumbs up sign before disappearing altogether.
"Well, that was pretty random", I said
"Quite." Shadi agreed. "He must care greatly for you to have appeared in spirit form to defend you." He commented. I smiled at the thought as I opened the box all the way. I nearly dropped it in surprise. The sinister look of evil Bakura stared back at me. He was laughing and clutching my Millennium key in his hand. I looked down and sighed with relief that it was only an illusion and my Millennium key still hung around my neck.
. But not one made from Iron bars, a mental cage, from evil Bakura.
Shadi shut the box. "You must free the innocent one, and imprison the evil with the Millennium key!" Shadi exclaimed.
"Well, what do I do?" I asked frightened.
"Only you know…" Shadi answered fading away.
"Wait come back, tell me what I have to do!" I yelled, but Shadi had already faded too far away.
I awoke in a cold sweat. I blinked several times, remembering where I was and trying to sort out what just happened in my dream. I looked over at Joey, relieved to see him still there and snoring happily. I silently thanked him for the support and protection he had given me in the dream. I breathed deeply and shook my head. "How do I trap evil Bakura and set free good Bakura…" I asked myself out loud. But that was just it. I would set the good Bakura free using the Millennium key, and trap evil Bakura. "Speaking of trapped…" I laughed. Joey had a death grip on me. I couldn't even move. I smiled, knowing just how to deal with this problem. I reached into my jean pocket, took out my feather pen and began brushing it along his sides up and down. Joey chuckled in his sleep, swiped at the feather then rolled over. I put the feather back in my pocket, gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek, slipped my sandals back on and took a deep breath.
"Well, here goes…" I said to myself. I took one last glance at Joey's peacefully sleeping form before I concentrated the Millennium key upon the room door. I concentrated on finding good Bakura. Teeth grew at the end of the key and I slipped it inside and turned. On the other side of the door was complete blackness. The first thing I needed to do was find good Bakura. I walked into the blackness and the door closed behind me. I was enveloped in total blackness. "Bakura where are you!?" I yelled. My echo was heard but nothing more. I began walking, the Millennium key glowing, giving me some light. After a while, I called again. "Baaaaaaaaaakuuuuuuuuuuuuuuura!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.
"Over here!" I heard his faint cry.
"Keep calling out, I'll follow your voice!" I told him, running toward that direction. Soon I came to Bakura himself. He was tied to a chair with a thin glowing chain marked with the Millennium eye on it. "Are you alright Bakura?" I asked him, trying to see if the chain would get any looser.
"I'm fine, but the evil spirit has me trapped here using some sort of mental chain, do you think you can break through it with your Millennium key?" I wondered how he knew about the key but then again, they shared the same body, so I think Bakura listened in when evil Bakura was telling me about it.
I picked up the Millennium key and put it inside the lock on the chain. It opened immediately and I threw the chains off of Bakura. "You're free now." I told him as he stood up and stretched out his limbs.
"Thank you very much, now that I'm no longer a slave to that evil spirit, let's get out of here." Bakura said.
I nodded, "One thing before I take on evil Bakura though." I said. Bakura looked at me quizzically. I smiled. "You have really great hair, it's so cool."
"Er…thank you." He replied, confused.
I began concentrating on where Evil Bakura was. A steel door appeared in front of me and I placed the Millennium key inside it and turned the handle.
"Enter if you dare!" Came the sinister laughter of evil Bakura. Bakura and I walked bravely inside. The room appeared to be cave like, lit with many torches and having piles of plundered treasure all over the place.
"Figures, he's a grave robber." I commented. Bakura nodded.
Evil Bakura materialized from the shadows and walked forward. "Welcome to my domain, I see that you have succeeded in freeing my slave."
I narrowed my eyes. "Your out of touch, slavery isn't tolerated anymore, at least not where I come from, you should get up to date!" I sneered.
Evil Bakura just chuckled. "You should have stayed in the ghost realm. Had you fallen asleep, your soul would have left your body and I would have had a new host, and even more important, the Millennium key that you hold so dearly, would have become mine! Now, I shall have to dispose of you myself, it would have been painless had you just given up freely."
I gasped. "You tried to trick me into having my soul taken away!" I tightly grasped my Millennium key in my hands, as If at any moment he would take it away. Evil Bakura nodded and grinned evilly. Then, an idea formed in my head. Evil Bakura wasn't the only one with trickery up his sleeve. "Why didn't you tell me you just wanted the Millenium key? I mean, if that's completely all it would save everyone a lot of trouble if I just gave it to you.
Both Bakura's looked at me with confused expressions.
"Your not going to just give the evil spirit your Millennium key are you?" Good Bakura asked me. I nodded.
Evil Bakura grinned evilly. "I knew you wouldn't put up a fight, give it here." He said, reaching out his hand.
"Wouldn't you like to have all the Millennium Items?" I asked evil Bakura slyly. I concentrated hard. A door appeared before us, it was made entirely out of candy and sweets. I opened it with the Millennium key and showed him what was inside. There lying in the middle of the room were all seven of the Millennium Items, even the Millennium puzzle. I took off my Millenium key and tossed it amongst the pile. "I'll even add that to the collection."
Evil Bakura smiled and strode forward. That's it just go in, just go in. I thought to myself. He was almost in the doorway. Then he stopped. "This is all just an illusion, I still posses the Millennium ring and there is one In there too!" He yelled. Quickly seeing he had found out my plan, I shoved him into the room. I tried closing the door quickly behind him, but he pushed himself against it. Now we were fighting strength vs. strength and I knew that he was stronger, and that I couldn't do it alone.
Bakura rushed to help me and together, we slammed the door closed on the evil spirit, trapping him inside the world of illusion I had summoned up using the key. "That was quick thinking, but won't he just get out again using your key?" Bakura asked me.
I took the key out of my pocket. "Me throwing it in there was also an illusion." I told him. "There must be trillions of dimensions out there, so all I had to do was concentrate on one that I knew he couldn't resist entering. A realm where the desires of the evil become a reality but only in their minds." I told him. His presence still rests within your mind, but at least you have a lot more control now."
"Thank you." Bakura answered. "It feels good to have control of my own body again, it's been so long."
"No thanks needed, now if you don't mind, I'd like to get back to bed." I told him. I was just about to go when Bakura called me back.
"I just have one question." He said to me.
"Shoot." I answered.
"Just what were you doing in Joey's room?"
I face faulted. I picked myself up and blushed with embarrassment. "I uh… was testing just how much he could sleep through." I answered.
"Oh." Bakura answered with a puzzled expression on his face. "Well, take care." He told me.
"See yah in the morning Bakura." I called out, before using my Millennium Key to get out of there. I concentrated on being back in the room and the door to our room materialized in front of me. I went in and gently closed the door behind me, kicked off my sandals and snuggled back into bed with Joey. Man what a night. I thought to myself. I smiled as immediately, Joey got me in that teddy bear sleep hold of his and made me feel better. I closed my eyes and drifted off to sleep. This time, to nice quiet dreams.