Moons: Sorry it took so long. I was in Vermont for a week. But I'll make this quick (while Aurora's in the other room) Things are really going to start up in this chapter. So enjoy and review when you're done!!

Aurora: PLEASE!!!

Moons: She said please *faints*

Aurora: n.n

Unbroken

CHAPTER ELEVEN

            The explosion startled everyone. Even Bakura, who was seemingly unshakable came a foot off the ground. The cards that Yugi and Ryou were holding fell from their grip and fluttered to the ground. A strong scent, like burning wood drifted up into the room. Ryou glanced at the remains of his chair and saw that there were no longer smoldering. So where was that awful scent coming from?

            "They're back." Yami rasped.

            The sound of foot steps down stairs seemed to confirm this statement. Yami and Bakura quickly rose to their feet and raced to the nearest window. Searching the streets for any sign of the black van, they came up empty handed.

            "It's not Alan or Brett." Bakura turned back to the door where the foot steps were headed. "But it is someone with powers. I can feel them."

            Yami nodded as shiver ran down his spine. He walked over the door and was about to pull it open when it exploded in his face. Fiery shards of wood blew past him and a terrific wave of heat knocked him backwards. Yami let out a pained scream as he crashed to the ground.

            "Yami!" Yugi ignored whatever present danger there was and ran up to his fallen look alike. "Yami, are you okay?"

            "Y-yes." Yami seemed shaken but otherwise fine. The only injury that was visible was slice on his upper arm. Blood trickled down his bicep, staining Ryou's carpet. But Ryou didn't seem to care. Both he and Bakura were staring at the hole were the door had been. Yami and Yugi looked up expecting a three headed monster to be there. Instead there was another boy.

            This boy stood proudly in the smoldering doorway. He had long, platinum blond hair and lavender eyes. His skin was darkly tanned and his lips were pulled back in an evil snarl. He let his eyes drift from Bakura and then to Yami. Chuckling to himself, the boy stepped into the room.

            "Marik." Bakura growled. "What the hell are you doing here?"

            "Hello to you too Tomb Raider." Marik laughed when he saw Bakura scowl. "You're right, you're out. Maybe I should call you Bakura."

            He turned and looked at Yami who was now kneeling and cradling his injured arm. The sight was exhilarating. It was something he had always wanted to see. The Pharaoh kneeling before him, bleeding and broken. And he would get that just yet.

            "And hello to you Pharaoh, Yami." He gave Yami another smirk before turning his gaze to Yugi and Ryou. His eyebrows raised. These innocents really did look just like clones. Maybe The Master had been cloning people all along. It had been a rumor for a while. But even he knew that was impossible.

            "And who are these two?" He circled the two innocents like a lioness circling its prey. "They look just like you." He grabbed Yugi by the chin forcing him to look at his face. "Except the eyes. They have innocent eyes."

            Yami growled and rose to his feet. Bakura grabbed his arm forcing him to calm down. He knew that Marik wouldn't hurt them, not if he saw the innocence in them. Not even Marik would kill am innocent.

            "Leave them be." Yami snarled, pulling at Bakura's hold. "They did nothing but give us a place to stay."

            Marik released his hold on Yugi and brushed past Ryou to step closer to his powerful comrades. Ryou shivered and took a reflexive step backwards. Bakura noticed this and allowed his own anger to flare up. He almost let Yami's arms go, intending to let him attack Marik but suddenly regained his composer and clamped down harder.

            "I wouldn't dream of doing anything to them." He shrugged and stepped up to Yami and Bakura. "I'm like you if you haven't noticed. I'm free, I escaped that dreary lab too. But I was let go. Walked right out the front door and past the security. They didn't even look at me twice."

            Yami's jaw dropped open. There was no way they had just let him walk out of that place. Nobody had been able to leave that place unless heavily guarded and even then it was those who didn't wield much power. People like him never got let out. The ones that held enough power to end the world.

            "Y-you lie." Yami felt all the words leave him. "There's no way they let you just walk out. What have you agreed to do for them?"

            "Bring us back."

            Yami's head jerked towards Bakura who stood beside Ryou now. When had he let go of him? It didn't matter. All that mattered was Yami was now free to attack. He allowed his anger to flare about him in a bright light. Yugi and Ryou had to shield their eyes, but even then they could hear Bakura's gasp.

            "The element light." Bakura stood still for a second before taking a quick step forward. "Yami you can't fight him like this!"

            But Yami didn't hear his friend's plea. He cupped his arms in front of him. A ball of white hot light formed between his palms. His eyes snapped open to glare at Marik over the bright light.

            "I will not let you take us back with out a fight." He growled. "I will call on all the powers of all the elements to see to it that you don't win. I wish for light to help me beat you."

            Marik sneered at Yami and repeated his actions. But instead of light, a ball of fire appeared between his hands. Bakura took a step back and prayed that Yami still wasn't too weak from those damn bullets that Alan and Brett had used on him. As if to answer his question, the light in Yami's hands flickered and faded. He stared at it with horror. But Marik laughed and allowed his own element, fire, to grow stronger.

            "Seems as though I hold the upper hand Pharaoh." He chuckled. "Are you sure you still want to fight?"

            Yami's eyes were wide. His power was failing him. Those damn bullets were still at work. With a sigh he dropped his hands to his side, the sphere of light completely disappearing. He looked up at Marik, fatigue visible in his eyes.

            "It seems as though I am still under the effects of Alan and Brett's inventions." He sighed. "I am in no condition to fight you. I have no choice but to surrender."

            Marik's grin widened but he didn't allow the ball of fire to disappear yet. He glanced at Bakura and the two innocents, Ryou and Yugi.

            "It appears I'm taking your new friends back with me." He spoke to no one in particular. "The Pharaoh can't even fight me."

            "But I can!" Bakura growled stepping up and pointing a finger at Marik. A jet of water swirled around his arm, gathering at the tip of his finger and swirling back up around his arm to the shoulder. "Yami's right, we won't go with out a fight."

            Marik shook his head. "That's really a pity. I was hoping for a fight that was worth my time."

            He let go of the fireball. It swallowed Yami up in its inferno. Yami screamed before dropping to his knees. The fire didn't burn, but allowed a terrible pain to jet through his entire body. He had only felt Why does this pain during his lessons. And with his powers failing him, he had no way to defend himself.

            "Yami!" Bakura tried to run to his side but was forced back by a wave of heat that sent painful tingles shuddering down his limbs. He gasped and dropped to one knee. This was insane! He shot a quick glance at Yami and saw that he had collapsed, giving into the pain and drifting into the darkness. That actually didn't sound like a bad idea. Bakura pitched forward, but never felt himself hitting the carpet of Ryou's floor.

            Marik finally let up on the fire and turned to the two innocents that stood there with stunned tears in their eyes. He walked over to them and placed a not so comforting hand on their shoulders. The two of them jerked away and looked at him with wide frightened eyes. He sighed. This wouldn't be as easy as he thought. Marik aimed a hand at them and in a flash they both crumpled to the ground. He tossed one over each shoulder and headed towards the hole of a door. Before he crossed through he turned to the two bodies of his lab partners.

            "Like I said," He laughed. "It appears I'm taking your new friends back with me."

            With that he stepped out of the room and brought the two innocents with him. He would see to it that The Pharaoh and Tomb Raider would be broken.

Moons: Ta Da!! Chapter eleven down and now things are really heating up!! Will Yami regain full control of his powers? Will they be able to save Ryou and Yugi? Marik want to break Yami and Bakura??!!

Aurora: Who cares? As long as he remains evil and hot that's what will really matter in this story.

Moons: I see you really care about your job…