Book Dragon: "Wow I got reviews!" *Grins very wide at Bakura*
Bakura: "Um… yes you did…" *Edges away from Book Dragon who looks like she could hug him*
Book Dragon: Um… I do not own Yugioh and probably never will. There is the next chap!
Chapter 4: Mirror, Mirror, Rabbit?
Ryelle awoke, sunlight streaming into her brown eyes. Her body was fully rested, but her mind felt weary. She pulled her self up right, her head pounded in reaction. A world around her began to spin; she sat down on the carpeted floor quickly. She suddenly felt her hands on her head. Such pain she was feeling, it pounded inside. She skin started to ripple, the world around her steadied instantly. She blinked in confusion; this was odd. She somehow felt a little stronger; this was strange. Her dream came back into her head al though she knew it was no dream. She was helpless to any ancient magic in this world. She had to find some way to over come it. After a long period of thinking, she shook her head and stood up, the sun was up and she had no idea of the time. It was Sunday, so she didn't have to worry about school. She decided today she would search the library for some kind of answer. She looked at all the shelves of books and sighed, it was going to be a long day.
Bakura woke up late that morning. His head hurt a little, but it usually did anyway. He got up, got dressed, and went down stairs. As he was making breakfast, he happened to look over to the calendar. He dropped the bowl he had in his hand. He picked it up quickly and ran for his shoes. He slipped them on quickly and ran out the door; he was late. Yugi, Tea, Joey, and Tristan had invited him to go to the mall with them today, and he clean forgot. He sprinted down the street, running as fast as he could.
After a 20-minute sprint to the small game shop Bakura fell to his knees gasping for breathe in front of the glass doors. Just then, Yugi and the gang walked out and looked at a red faced Bakura. Joey knelled at his side.
"What happened to you?" He asked kind amused. Bakura stood up, recovering enough to speak.
"Nothing… I just forgot about today…it unlike me you know…" He said this in an apologetic way. Yugi looked at him and said,
"It's ok… we know you've got a lot of stuff on your mind…"
Bakura nodded and started walking with them. He did have a lot on his mind, and now had a lot of time to think. They were all walking to the mall there was a duel monster's convention and they could not drive. Joey was extremely excited. He was jumping up and down and doing Flaming Sword's Man movements with an imaginary sword. Bakura smiled at his friend's actions. Tea and Yugi chuckled as Tristan made some comments at Joey, which made him mad for short periods.
After 45 minute of walking, they entered the mall, and they were early. The convention wouldn't start for an hour; they had plenty of time. Bakura suddenly heard Tea say something.
"I'll she you guys in an hour I'm going to shop!" She hurried off to the nearest clothes store. The rest of the group sweat dropped.
"What is it in girls and shopping?" Joey asked with a funny look on his face. The group shrugged and started walking in a random direction. Bakura followed them mindless, until he slammed into Joey. He said a quick "sorry" But it didn't matter he was out of it. Yugi looked at his stopped dumbfounded friend; he looked at where Joey was looking. There standing in the bookstore to their left where Joey was gawking was a girl about their age with her back to them reading a black book. Her hair was in a tight braid and wearing the top part of her school uniform but wearing jeans. She was standing next to the outset book self, she didn't see them, and she continually stared into her book her eyes making jerky movements. She was too absorbed in her book to notice them. Yugi looked back at his blushing friend but still gawking mindlessly. He then elbowed a confused looking Bakura and pointed to her. Bakura nodded and chuckled a little. Yugi then looked at Joey and shook his arm.
"Hey Joey if you like her go talk to her," said Yugi. Joey eyes grew and looked at him.
"I can't do that… she'll think I'm a jerk!" Tristan looked at him at that statement and started to push Joey toward the bookstore.
"Oh come on Joey… you know you want to…" Joey struggled under his grip.
"Hey- knock it off man!" Joey shouted, but not too loudly, so the girl would not hear. Joey shook off Tristan and turned to all of them.
"Okay… but you guys have to come with me… stop me from screwing up…" The three of them nodded and started walking to the bookstore with Joey blushing.
Ryelle heard a small shout and looked in the corner of her eye. There standing about 20 feet away from the bookstore she was in where four boys. All that different colored hair, brown, blonde, white, and a combination of blonde, black, and violet. The brown haired boy wore a tan trench coat. The blonde one wore a green button down shirt unbuttoned with a white shirt under it. The white haired boy wore a white sweater with blue jeans. In addition, the tri colored haired boy wore a blue shirt with a black tank top under it. In the middle of his chest, a golden triangular object was placed. It was Tristan, Joey, Bakura, and Yugi. She felt a thump form in her throat. She started to think quickly, "What can I do…what can I do…" She saw the four boys start walking toward her. She started to panic. Her skin began to tingle and memories of an angry Yami came to mind. Curse my knowledge! She had to escape, but how with out being seen… They were 5 feet away when Joey and a fairly hansom boy about her age slammed into each other. The fair boy looked disgusted at Joey and shouted some insult. Joey having his street life shouted something back, and so the huge brawl began. For the first time in Ryelle's life, she was happy to see Corey. Fists flew in all directions, and Bakura and Tristan tired to hold back a red faced Joey and weren't having success. About 5 minutes into the fight, when no one was looking, Ryelle shut her book and started walking quickly in the other direction. About five more feet from where she was, she sprinted down the walk way as fast as she could. She was an excellent sprinter in short bursts, like she could usually out run her friends to the other side of a football field, In her old town. She heard a shout behind her; she didn't dare turn around to she whom it was. She took a sharp turn that lead to a staircase. She sat on the railing quickly and slid down at alarming speed. She had to leave the mall now at any cost, accepted, of course, her life. She quickly jumped off the rail and ran in a random direction. Her legs started to give, but remembering an angry soul in Yugi's puzzle got her running faster. She suddenly looked up at the nearest sign that flew pass her head. The sign processed though her head and she gasped. The exit was in the other direction. Damn echoed through her head, she would have to double back somewhere to lose them. She sprinted on her head swinging in all directions for a place to loose them. Light suddenly caught in her eye and she looked over. It was a little maze that was set up in the middle the floor, a maze of mirrors. She commanded her all readies wore out legs into the entrance of the maze. Her head swung in all directions following random passageways and didn't stop running until she was deep in the maze. There her legs gave out and she fell/slid onto the ground at the speed she was running at. She pushed herself to her knees and gasped for breath as quietly as possible. The reflections all around her mimicked her, some with big heads small bodies and small heads and big bodies. She didn't care, she could only think how close she was to death at Yugi and Bakura being there both were very dangerous, especially Bakura. For she was the only one that knew the spirit in his ring is still there and in Bakura's possession. He could not control that spirit like Yugi could his at times. She was lucky to be out of there, but now realized she was lost. 'Curse my feeble mind!' She thought angrily. To make things even worst she heard a familiar voice.
"Hey Joey! I think she ran this way!"
At the sound of that voice she began to sweat, it was Yugi's. She heard the patter of sneakers, getting closer. An other familiar voice came, but she knew it was in her mind. It was something Pegasus had said, maybe thought, to Yami in battle that took 5 episodes.
"You can't even save your self!" Pegasus's voice echoed through her head. This led her to remember Pegasus hacking into Kaiba's computer when Yami was dueling for Mocuba's life. She remembered it clearly, the pink bunny walking on the screen and started saying "Hello Kaiba!" A cartoony voice and started filling the three screens to his computer's making faces. The first time she had saw that she had stated, "It's the attack to the pink bunnies!" This has sent her two siblings on the floor laughing. Her siblings… She was suddenly aware of close patting of feet raging breaths, her body quivering and tingling abnormally. She was suddenly aware of her dueling deck in her pocket. She shook her head. No, she was not fully trained and wouldn't have a chance against The King of Games. What can I do? She saw something move in front of her; she looked up expecting a gasping Yugi.
To her surprise, there was no Yugi, in stead there was a pink cartoon bunny in the mirror in front of her, wagging a finger. She blinked, and she knew what Joey would say if he was there. He would say, "This is freaky." And she nodded to her self in agreement to her last thought and stood and looked at the cartoon rabbit in the mirror. The rabbit knowing it got her attention, winked at her and suddenly grew into many rabbits covering all the mirrors around and, what she expected, the whole maze. She heard the patter of feet stop and a gasp. All the rabbits now were making faces like on Kaiba's computer. She almost smiled, almost. The original bunny pointed to the left of her, directing her out of the maze. All she could do was nod and run for her life before Yugi knew what was happening. She ran through all the passages always going left like the rabbit had directed. She got to the end of the maze, and found it was close to the exit. She looks behind her to see a whole crowd of people flocking and gawking at the rabbits in the first mirror of the maze. She could have laughed at their faces of horror, to think something like a cartoon could scare people. Then again she was afraid of a cartoon Pharaoh from 5 thousand years ago now in a puzzle around a kids neck. Yup, she was nuts. She shook her head with some strange grin on her face that she thought was unseen by anyone, but it was not.
The Millennium Ring glowed under Bakura's sweater at the sight of the flocking pink bunnies on all the mirrors of the stupid mortal's maze. He could have laughed at his prey's imagination, but didn't because this was a clear sign her power was growing which was bad and good at the same time. He simply followed a baffled Joey and Tristan into the now cartoony maze of rabbits. The rabbits continually made faces and started wagging their fingers at not Joey or Tristan, but at the spirit in Bakura's ring which on was controlling him. Joey and Tristan didn't notice thought, they were to worried about Yugi because he had ran in there after seeing the girl run in there. He looked a great deal worried before he ran in but did not come out yet. The TombRobber gritted his teeth in annoyance, curse these rabbits! All three of them finally stumped into a confused looking Yugi, TombRobber was more than pleased to see him ok with his puzzle. He held out a hand and looked like his unknowing host to fool him. It did, Yugi took his hand with a grin and a "thank you" Expression on his face.
As this was done, the rabbits started going nuts; they started jumping up and down yelling something no one could understand but the TombRobber.
"Stupid TombRobber!" They chanted in their cartoony voice before they disappeared in puffs of smoke one by one shooting nasty looks at him. He gritted his teeth and made a mental note to cause his prey extra pain before she died. He walked out this the three of them and let go of Yugi as well as his grip on Bakura's body. Bakura came back in a flash and gripped his head, the world spinning. He fell and blacked out not knowing what happened, last thing he saw was swirling blackness and a brief pink rabbit in his mind smiling at him before he blacked out totally.
Book Dragon: I will keep writing this even if I don't get reviews to tell you. Thanks for all the reviews Yami Bakura Kia! I am glad you like my fic!