Yugi in Middle Earth
(Fire Pendant
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-gi-oh or lotr. But I do own the story and the minor characters I make up.
What happens when a certain tri-colored hair boy gets transported to Middle Earth with his yami? A SERIOUS fanfic, but doesn't mean that it isn't funny.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * Okay okay! Don't kill me! Sorry for the really late update. I was grounded off the internet for a week because I left the connection on for the whole night. But I was able to finish this chapter. I had to revise it a lot for it to be more 'real' to the character's personalities.
If you didn't like the slight Yugi torture and send flames, they will be saved to build a decent fire for the fellowship. They'll need it. If in other words you do like that kinda stuff. . . Enjoy!
Chapter 12: Working with a Tomb Robber
"Well, what I mean is, I know that Bakura has good tracking skills so maybe he can help you find Yugi. It might not be too late to catch up with his captors." finished Ryou squirming under the piercing gaze of his yami and Yugi's.
Bakura turned to Yami with a menacing look and then looked back at Ryou. "I'm not working together with the 'Pharaoh all mighty'. If he wants to find Yugi he can do it himself." snapped Bakura, but the answer sounded rather forced.
"But Bakura! Yugi needs our help, and Yami is the only one who knows were Yugi's connection disappeared at. You can't go searching the entire place for signs." protested Ryou, he then looked around thoughtfully; this strategy needed some careful planning, and added, "If you don't want to help, maybe I'll get one of the elves. Maybe they can track down Yugi more efficiently than you."
"NO pointy-eared freak can track better than I do! Alright pharaoh, lead the way. Ryou, you go back to Rivendell. Where you will wait for me to correct you of your contradiction!" demanded Bakura, Ryou nodded meekly knowing that he had gotten on his yami's bad side. But it was worth it. . . to save Yugi. He mounted on his mare and galloped away.
"Now pharaoh, go ahead, show me where the boy disappeared." snarled Bakura. Yami narrowed his eyes at Bakura and started running towards the area that the connection between Yugi and him had snapped.
A whiplash jerked Yugi out of his sleep. "Wake up you little halfling! We torment our captives, not let them sleep!" bellowed a deep guttural voice. Yugi looked in fear at the mutated creatures in front of him.
"What are you?" he asked in a quavering voice. The things laughed.
"The runt asked what we are! Can you believe it?" hissed one of them, it turned back to Yugi with a grin, "All the free peoples of Middle Earth know and fear what we are. We are orcs, not only orcs but the fighting Uruk- hai!" he boasted, twisting the word 'free'.
The orcs all around shouted in approval. "You there! Stop playing with the prisoner. We have to find more of the halflings before those elves come and find us! Scouts have spotted them in the woods every now and then. I have suspicions that there is some kind of elvish village around here. So move! I am Ugluk and my word is law!" commanded a tall muscular orc. He came up to Yugi and lifted him up roughly, jarring him onto his feet. Yugi stumbled slightly and winced. The ropes that bound his hands and feet had started to rub against his skin until it was sore and raw.
"Untie his feet! We need to move to a new area tonight and we can't carry him everywhere." shouted Ugluk, he turned to Yugi as his feet were being untied, "Now you bettered work with us and not make a sound or resist. Or you will be tickled by this!" he waved a many lashed whip in front of Yugi's nose.
* I have to get to Yami and warn everyone about the orcs! Maybe I can stop them! * thought Yugi desperately. He remembered that at the Council they had spoke of orcs and many other evil things. What unnerved Yugi the most was their ways of torture, but anything was worth it to save his friends. As soon as his legs were free, he broke into a wild dash and picked up a large knife throwing it to the direction of any orc. His actions caught the enemy be surprise and the knife buried itself in the chest of an orc. Black blood bubbled up from the wound. Yugi shivered, he would never get used to the sight of blood.
He reached for anything he could get and started chucking them at the orcs. By now they had regained their footing and wits. They dodged most of the throws but some fell, and lay there unmoving. Harsh hands grabbed him from behind and threw him to the ground. The orcs tightly bound his hands and feet again.
Ugluk snarled and took back the whip from one of the orcs and approached Yugi. The small boy cringed a bit but then straightened up to looked at him defiantly. "No words eh? You just cost me five of my troops. I warned you once not again." Yugi let out a pained cry as the whiplashes bit into him. Five bright red streaks marked his body where the lashes had cut through his clothing. The whip came down again, and again until he was smeared with blood. Then another orc took a sturdy stick and thwacked him firmly on the head. Making Yugi black out again.
"This is where the connection snapped." panted Yami, they had ran all the way to the spot. Bakura crouched down and examined the ground. Slowly he got up and began walking southeast.
"They took you hikari this way." grunted Bakura disappearing in the brush, not waiting for Yami to follow. When the pharaoh had caught up to Bakura, he found him examining the ground again.
"What happened? Where did they go?" asked Yami, "Tomb robber you better not be leading us on a wild goose chase, who knows where they might be if you waste time!"
"Quiet! I know what I'm doing 'pharaoh'." retorted Bakura, "They. . ." he was cut off as Yami let out a sharp breath and stumbled backwards a bit. "What's going on? You're definitely overreacting."
"Pain. . . Yugi's in pain. We have to get to him quickly. Our bond must not be as broken as I thought." gasped Yami gripping onto a tree trunk and he winced again as if struck by a blow.
"Of course not! The two of you are bonded for life," said Bakura * And I think rather unfortunately for Yugi though. * thought Bakura. "So hurry up and let's go, if what you are feeling is a bit of pain, then think of what Yugi is feeling." Yami bit his lip and pushed himself after Bakura.
They didn't have much farther to go. A few minutes later, they were at the edge of Yugi's captor's camp. Bakura could barely see Yugi at the edge, shivering and very much in pain. Yami wasn't in much better shape. On the way, he had almost collapsed and was holding his head.
When Yami saw his aibou, he nearly leapt out of the hiding place towards him. Bakura grabbed the end of Yami's jacket and pulled him back. "YOU are not going. You'd raise an alarm before you are even a few steps in camp. Let a REAL thief do the job. And of course I'm not going to go there unarmed." Bakura reached into his boot and pulled out a knife.
"I've never seen you with that before. Wait a minute," said Yami, he saw the small elvish engravings on the blade and tightened his grip on Bakura's arm, "That belongs to the elves! You stole it!"
Bakura rolled his eyes, "I didn't 'steal' it. I. . .borrowed it. Only a fool would go out unarmed." He got up from his crouch and ripped Yami's hand off his arm, "The only reason why I am helping you is because Ryou pushed me into this. Also, remember this, any enemy of Yugi's is an enemy of mine (A/N. He really said that before in the Japanese version, at least that is what I have been told. But the evil dubbers cut that out), it's YOU and your father I hate. So watch and learn baka." With that he slunk into the camp quietly like a hunting cat (A/N. Bad analogy I know but I couldn't think of anything else.).
Yugi had curled up in a fetal position where he was, he had been like that ever since he was shaken rudely awake by Ugluk when they had moved camp and was whipped again. Small tear trails shone down his bruised cheeks and his clothes, oh who knows how they held together, were shredded in places and stained with blood. He didn't even have the Millenium Puzzle to comfort him anymore!
The orcs had searched him and started cursing when they didn't find what they had wanted. Yugi had no clue for what though, he had slightly fallen asleep during the Council. But, what had happened to Yami? And Ryou. . . even Bakura.
He squeezed his eyes shut tighter. * Please don't let the orcs find Rivendell. * thought Yugi desperately. A snort of disgust interrupted his thoughts and he opened his eyes by just a sliver. There was Bakura with the whip held in his cocked hand looking at it with a sneer before throwing it to the ground and grinding it into the dirt. The orcs didn't seem to notice the sound and the sounds of their sleeping went on.
Bakura glanced at Yugi and saw a small sliver of his violet eyes showing between his barely closed eyelids. "Wake up runt and stop acting like you're asleep. We're breaking out of here." said Bakura taking out his knife and slipping it through the tightly bound twine ropes. He narrowed his eyes when he saw the raw and bloodied skin underneath the bonds. Apparently there had been some metal pieces threaded into the rope that cut through the skin mercilessly. Bakura rubbed his wrists as in remembrance of when he had been caught at countless times by the pharaoh's guards.
Yugi's eyes opened up wide and looked at him in surprise. "We're?" he asked.
"Yami no baka is here. He's in the bushes, no doubt he would wake up the entire camp if he were to get you." whispered Bakura, "Now get up." The small boy moved and winced.
"It hurts to move," winced Yugi. So the bonds had also cut off most of his circulation as well. Bakura sighed and picked Yugi up like a doll and quickly and quietly stole out of camp.
Yami took Yugi from Bakura and hugged him tightly. Yugi grinned weakly. "This is no time to be happy, and lovey-dovey. We aren't even away from this camp yet, so git!"
Before they were even a hundred or so feet from the camp, they caught the sound of galloping hooves. Ryou trotted up on his mare with a concerned look on his face. "Is Yugi alright?"
"I thought I told you to go back to Rivendell," hissed Bakura.
Ryou flinched slightly at his look but answered back, "Elrond would probably question about where you all were, so I decided to go after you instead." He waited for his yami's outburst but nothing came.
"Take Yugi to Rivendell then. I don't care what Elrond asks but just do it." demanded Bakura. Ryou nodded and lifted Yugi up in front of him in his saddle and galloped away.
Yami straightened up and looked relieved. Knowing that his aibou would probably be alright helped him a little in his pain. He looked back towards the orc encampment. Vengeance bubbled up inside him. "I'm going back there to teach those orcs a lesson. Never mess with my aibou!" he snarled.
"You can't keep the fun all to yourself." grinned Bakura. And with that they turned back. Frightened orc cries and screams soon filled the air. The camp was darkened with the expulsion of destructive Shadow Magic, lightning bolts laced the dark matter.
Back in Rivendell, every elf flinched and got up in surprise. "All that darkness. Has Mordor found us already?" whispered Erestor paling. Glorfindel had his sword drawn and readied. Elrond stood as calm and serene as usual, seeming untroubled by the news to all, but to those who where close to him, they could see the worry around him. The elven lord of Rivendell was twisting the skin around his right ring finger (A/N. Remember nobody is supposed to know that Elrond has the elven ring Vilya.).
The elven twins Elladan and Elrohir bounded into their father's study; their dark hair made unkempt by the sudden gusts of wind. "Father, what is all this? The darkness seems to threaten to envelope us, yet it just barely touches us as if retrained." asked Elrohir.
Elladan finished his brother's question, "Surely we can do something about it father. Maybe."
"I don't know son. All we can do is to wait." cut in Elrond shaking his head at his two sons. Their grey eyes looked at him in concern.
"Gandalf is also here to see you. The half- I mean hobbits have been sent to their rooms for safekeeping." informed Elrohir. Elrond nodded as the old man strode in.
"Well, Elrond. I'm sure all of this is very surprising." mused Gandalf, looking not even fazed by the lightning storm outside. One particularly bright bolt streaked across the sky and lit up Elrond's study like a fire and just as quickly disappeared.
"I don't see how you can be so calm Mithrandir." murmured Elrond following the wizard's movements with his eyes.
"Simple, it is not Mordor that controls this madness. If it were the enemy then the evil would of spread drastically. That is all I know. Who is behind this I have no idea." explained Gandalf sounding amused and strolling around the study with his hands clasped behind his back.
"Ada! [1]" shouted Aragorn bursting into the room, Elrond and everyone else looked up at the ranger, "The two boys had just come back. Their brothers are no where to be seen. And the little one looks heavily beaten, he was speaking of orcs in the wood, but I couldn't make out the rest of his words. He passed out in his friend's arms."
Everyone immediately sprang into action. "Elladan, Elrohir, Aragorn, tell the scouting parties to go and stay on lookout for the orcs." The twins ran out of the room shouting orders to the elves outside, "Erestor go and fetch the two boys and take Yugi to his room. Glorfindel, you go with the scouting parties. You have the most experience with fighting the yrch [2] and make sure that my sons don't get into any trouble. I've lost enough of my loved ones to orcs. [3]"
Glorfindel nodded, "I'll keep as close of a watch as I can on them my lord." He strode after the elves rounding up more of the scouts.
Elrond opened a door that led to an adjoining room to his study. Inside he took some bandages off the shelves and ointments. He also snatched a small towel and a basin before hurrying to Yugi's room.
"Don't worry Yugi, you'll be fine." assured Ryou in the stables, an elf with dark hair (Ryou couldn't remember his name) came in and lifted Yugi off the saddle.
"Lord Elrond will treat you friend. Better get inside. We want everyone to be safe while the orcs are about." said the elf firmly holding Yugi in one arm and steering Ryou in front of him with another.
"So that's it." laughed Bakura looking at the devastated campsite, he was leaning on a tree for support after using so much Shadow Magic. His body was drenched in water making the white linen button-up shirt he was wearing cling to him. He had unwittingly fallen into a nearby pool. Driven into it by a dozen or so orcs he was toying with.
Yami stood nearby radiating with the Shadow Magic still coursing through him. The Sennen eye glowed on his forehead and he looked not at all drained from all the destruction he wreaked. The cotton jacket he was wearing had a few slashes in it, but other than that the pharaoh was fine. "That was fun." smirked Yami, "Tired all ready tomb robber? That was barely even a warm-up."
"Easy for you to say." snapped back Bakura holding his knees.
"We better get back. Yugi and Ryou will be waiting and so will the elves." announced Yami, Bakura hobbled over to the pharaoh and stumbled. Yami caught him and lifted him back up. "Growing clumsy now are you?" Bakura made a swipe at Yami but missed, "Here, you can lean on me."
"Why are you helping me?" asked Bakura as Yami put his arm over his own shoulder and helped prop Bakura up as they started walking back.
"Well you did help me rescue Yugi, so maybe we can put our differences aside." said Yami.
Bakura looked at Yami suspiciously and spat into his hand free and held it out to the pharaoh, Yami did the same and they shook. "Maybe, but that doesn't mean I'm abandoning my quest for power. If you do ever get into the way, I'll crush you. And just remember, we AREN'T friends, just temporary allies." said Bakura.
* What am I doing? Am I crazy? * thought Bakura but then he smiled to himself, * This could work to my advantage. *
* * * * * to be continued . . . * * * *
[1] Ada - father in elvish. You know Aragorn was kinda 'adopted' by Elrond right? So he's like a father to him.
[2] yrch - orcs/orc
[3] Elrond's wife had been captured and tortured by orcs. His sons managed to save her and Elrond healed her, but she was spiritually damaged and emotionally. So she left for Valinor. Gil-Galad and Isildur were also killed in a war against orcs, but they were slain by Sauron himself.
Okay, an okay chappie I guess, a tiny bit longer too. Not that good. So will Bakura and Yami keep up their 'temporary alliance'? So no ideas for slashes anybody? If you do suggest any, don't do yaois please. Not that I don't like them, it's that I'm not an experienced romance writer yet. Hope Yugi wasn't poisoned.
(Fire Pendant
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-gi-oh or lotr. But I do own the story and the minor characters I make up.
What happens when a certain tri-colored hair boy gets transported to Middle Earth with his yami? A SERIOUS fanfic, but doesn't mean that it isn't funny.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * Okay okay! Don't kill me! Sorry for the really late update. I was grounded off the internet for a week because I left the connection on for the whole night. But I was able to finish this chapter. I had to revise it a lot for it to be more 'real' to the character's personalities.
If you didn't like the slight Yugi torture and send flames, they will be saved to build a decent fire for the fellowship. They'll need it. If in other words you do like that kinda stuff. . . Enjoy!
Chapter 12: Working with a Tomb Robber
"Well, what I mean is, I know that Bakura has good tracking skills so maybe he can help you find Yugi. It might not be too late to catch up with his captors." finished Ryou squirming under the piercing gaze of his yami and Yugi's.
Bakura turned to Yami with a menacing look and then looked back at Ryou. "I'm not working together with the 'Pharaoh all mighty'. If he wants to find Yugi he can do it himself." snapped Bakura, but the answer sounded rather forced.
"But Bakura! Yugi needs our help, and Yami is the only one who knows were Yugi's connection disappeared at. You can't go searching the entire place for signs." protested Ryou, he then looked around thoughtfully; this strategy needed some careful planning, and added, "If you don't want to help, maybe I'll get one of the elves. Maybe they can track down Yugi more efficiently than you."
"NO pointy-eared freak can track better than I do! Alright pharaoh, lead the way. Ryou, you go back to Rivendell. Where you will wait for me to correct you of your contradiction!" demanded Bakura, Ryou nodded meekly knowing that he had gotten on his yami's bad side. But it was worth it. . . to save Yugi. He mounted on his mare and galloped away.
"Now pharaoh, go ahead, show me where the boy disappeared." snarled Bakura. Yami narrowed his eyes at Bakura and started running towards the area that the connection between Yugi and him had snapped.
A whiplash jerked Yugi out of his sleep. "Wake up you little halfling! We torment our captives, not let them sleep!" bellowed a deep guttural voice. Yugi looked in fear at the mutated creatures in front of him.
"What are you?" he asked in a quavering voice. The things laughed.
"The runt asked what we are! Can you believe it?" hissed one of them, it turned back to Yugi with a grin, "All the free peoples of Middle Earth know and fear what we are. We are orcs, not only orcs but the fighting Uruk- hai!" he boasted, twisting the word 'free'.
The orcs all around shouted in approval. "You there! Stop playing with the prisoner. We have to find more of the halflings before those elves come and find us! Scouts have spotted them in the woods every now and then. I have suspicions that there is some kind of elvish village around here. So move! I am Ugluk and my word is law!" commanded a tall muscular orc. He came up to Yugi and lifted him up roughly, jarring him onto his feet. Yugi stumbled slightly and winced. The ropes that bound his hands and feet had started to rub against his skin until it was sore and raw.
"Untie his feet! We need to move to a new area tonight and we can't carry him everywhere." shouted Ugluk, he turned to Yugi as his feet were being untied, "Now you bettered work with us and not make a sound or resist. Or you will be tickled by this!" he waved a many lashed whip in front of Yugi's nose.
* I have to get to Yami and warn everyone about the orcs! Maybe I can stop them! * thought Yugi desperately. He remembered that at the Council they had spoke of orcs and many other evil things. What unnerved Yugi the most was their ways of torture, but anything was worth it to save his friends. As soon as his legs were free, he broke into a wild dash and picked up a large knife throwing it to the direction of any orc. His actions caught the enemy be surprise and the knife buried itself in the chest of an orc. Black blood bubbled up from the wound. Yugi shivered, he would never get used to the sight of blood.
He reached for anything he could get and started chucking them at the orcs. By now they had regained their footing and wits. They dodged most of the throws but some fell, and lay there unmoving. Harsh hands grabbed him from behind and threw him to the ground. The orcs tightly bound his hands and feet again.
Ugluk snarled and took back the whip from one of the orcs and approached Yugi. The small boy cringed a bit but then straightened up to looked at him defiantly. "No words eh? You just cost me five of my troops. I warned you once not again." Yugi let out a pained cry as the whiplashes bit into him. Five bright red streaks marked his body where the lashes had cut through his clothing. The whip came down again, and again until he was smeared with blood. Then another orc took a sturdy stick and thwacked him firmly on the head. Making Yugi black out again.
"This is where the connection snapped." panted Yami, they had ran all the way to the spot. Bakura crouched down and examined the ground. Slowly he got up and began walking southeast.
"They took you hikari this way." grunted Bakura disappearing in the brush, not waiting for Yami to follow. When the pharaoh had caught up to Bakura, he found him examining the ground again.
"What happened? Where did they go?" asked Yami, "Tomb robber you better not be leading us on a wild goose chase, who knows where they might be if you waste time!"
"Quiet! I know what I'm doing 'pharaoh'." retorted Bakura, "They. . ." he was cut off as Yami let out a sharp breath and stumbled backwards a bit. "What's going on? You're definitely overreacting."
"Pain. . . Yugi's in pain. We have to get to him quickly. Our bond must not be as broken as I thought." gasped Yami gripping onto a tree trunk and he winced again as if struck by a blow.
"Of course not! The two of you are bonded for life," said Bakura * And I think rather unfortunately for Yugi though. * thought Bakura. "So hurry up and let's go, if what you are feeling is a bit of pain, then think of what Yugi is feeling." Yami bit his lip and pushed himself after Bakura.
They didn't have much farther to go. A few minutes later, they were at the edge of Yugi's captor's camp. Bakura could barely see Yugi at the edge, shivering and very much in pain. Yami wasn't in much better shape. On the way, he had almost collapsed and was holding his head.
When Yami saw his aibou, he nearly leapt out of the hiding place towards him. Bakura grabbed the end of Yami's jacket and pulled him back. "YOU are not going. You'd raise an alarm before you are even a few steps in camp. Let a REAL thief do the job. And of course I'm not going to go there unarmed." Bakura reached into his boot and pulled out a knife.
"I've never seen you with that before. Wait a minute," said Yami, he saw the small elvish engravings on the blade and tightened his grip on Bakura's arm, "That belongs to the elves! You stole it!"
Bakura rolled his eyes, "I didn't 'steal' it. I. . .borrowed it. Only a fool would go out unarmed." He got up from his crouch and ripped Yami's hand off his arm, "The only reason why I am helping you is because Ryou pushed me into this. Also, remember this, any enemy of Yugi's is an enemy of mine (A/N. He really said that before in the Japanese version, at least that is what I have been told. But the evil dubbers cut that out), it's YOU and your father I hate. So watch and learn baka." With that he slunk into the camp quietly like a hunting cat (A/N. Bad analogy I know but I couldn't think of anything else.).
Yugi had curled up in a fetal position where he was, he had been like that ever since he was shaken rudely awake by Ugluk when they had moved camp and was whipped again. Small tear trails shone down his bruised cheeks and his clothes, oh who knows how they held together, were shredded in places and stained with blood. He didn't even have the Millenium Puzzle to comfort him anymore!
The orcs had searched him and started cursing when they didn't find what they had wanted. Yugi had no clue for what though, he had slightly fallen asleep during the Council. But, what had happened to Yami? And Ryou. . . even Bakura.
He squeezed his eyes shut tighter. * Please don't let the orcs find Rivendell. * thought Yugi desperately. A snort of disgust interrupted his thoughts and he opened his eyes by just a sliver. There was Bakura with the whip held in his cocked hand looking at it with a sneer before throwing it to the ground and grinding it into the dirt. The orcs didn't seem to notice the sound and the sounds of their sleeping went on.
Bakura glanced at Yugi and saw a small sliver of his violet eyes showing between his barely closed eyelids. "Wake up runt and stop acting like you're asleep. We're breaking out of here." said Bakura taking out his knife and slipping it through the tightly bound twine ropes. He narrowed his eyes when he saw the raw and bloodied skin underneath the bonds. Apparently there had been some metal pieces threaded into the rope that cut through the skin mercilessly. Bakura rubbed his wrists as in remembrance of when he had been caught at countless times by the pharaoh's guards.
Yugi's eyes opened up wide and looked at him in surprise. "We're?" he asked.
"Yami no baka is here. He's in the bushes, no doubt he would wake up the entire camp if he were to get you." whispered Bakura, "Now get up." The small boy moved and winced.
"It hurts to move," winced Yugi. So the bonds had also cut off most of his circulation as well. Bakura sighed and picked Yugi up like a doll and quickly and quietly stole out of camp.
Yami took Yugi from Bakura and hugged him tightly. Yugi grinned weakly. "This is no time to be happy, and lovey-dovey. We aren't even away from this camp yet, so git!"
Before they were even a hundred or so feet from the camp, they caught the sound of galloping hooves. Ryou trotted up on his mare with a concerned look on his face. "Is Yugi alright?"
"I thought I told you to go back to Rivendell," hissed Bakura.
Ryou flinched slightly at his look but answered back, "Elrond would probably question about where you all were, so I decided to go after you instead." He waited for his yami's outburst but nothing came.
"Take Yugi to Rivendell then. I don't care what Elrond asks but just do it." demanded Bakura. Ryou nodded and lifted Yugi up in front of him in his saddle and galloped away.
Yami straightened up and looked relieved. Knowing that his aibou would probably be alright helped him a little in his pain. He looked back towards the orc encampment. Vengeance bubbled up inside him. "I'm going back there to teach those orcs a lesson. Never mess with my aibou!" he snarled.
"You can't keep the fun all to yourself." grinned Bakura. And with that they turned back. Frightened orc cries and screams soon filled the air. The camp was darkened with the expulsion of destructive Shadow Magic, lightning bolts laced the dark matter.
Back in Rivendell, every elf flinched and got up in surprise. "All that darkness. Has Mordor found us already?" whispered Erestor paling. Glorfindel had his sword drawn and readied. Elrond stood as calm and serene as usual, seeming untroubled by the news to all, but to those who where close to him, they could see the worry around him. The elven lord of Rivendell was twisting the skin around his right ring finger (A/N. Remember nobody is supposed to know that Elrond has the elven ring Vilya.).
The elven twins Elladan and Elrohir bounded into their father's study; their dark hair made unkempt by the sudden gusts of wind. "Father, what is all this? The darkness seems to threaten to envelope us, yet it just barely touches us as if retrained." asked Elrohir.
Elladan finished his brother's question, "Surely we can do something about it father. Maybe."
"I don't know son. All we can do is to wait." cut in Elrond shaking his head at his two sons. Their grey eyes looked at him in concern.
"Gandalf is also here to see you. The half- I mean hobbits have been sent to their rooms for safekeeping." informed Elrohir. Elrond nodded as the old man strode in.
"Well, Elrond. I'm sure all of this is very surprising." mused Gandalf, looking not even fazed by the lightning storm outside. One particularly bright bolt streaked across the sky and lit up Elrond's study like a fire and just as quickly disappeared.
"I don't see how you can be so calm Mithrandir." murmured Elrond following the wizard's movements with his eyes.
"Simple, it is not Mordor that controls this madness. If it were the enemy then the evil would of spread drastically. That is all I know. Who is behind this I have no idea." explained Gandalf sounding amused and strolling around the study with his hands clasped behind his back.
"Ada! [1]" shouted Aragorn bursting into the room, Elrond and everyone else looked up at the ranger, "The two boys had just come back. Their brothers are no where to be seen. And the little one looks heavily beaten, he was speaking of orcs in the wood, but I couldn't make out the rest of his words. He passed out in his friend's arms."
Everyone immediately sprang into action. "Elladan, Elrohir, Aragorn, tell the scouting parties to go and stay on lookout for the orcs." The twins ran out of the room shouting orders to the elves outside, "Erestor go and fetch the two boys and take Yugi to his room. Glorfindel, you go with the scouting parties. You have the most experience with fighting the yrch [2] and make sure that my sons don't get into any trouble. I've lost enough of my loved ones to orcs. [3]"
Glorfindel nodded, "I'll keep as close of a watch as I can on them my lord." He strode after the elves rounding up more of the scouts.
Elrond opened a door that led to an adjoining room to his study. Inside he took some bandages off the shelves and ointments. He also snatched a small towel and a basin before hurrying to Yugi's room.
"Don't worry Yugi, you'll be fine." assured Ryou in the stables, an elf with dark hair (Ryou couldn't remember his name) came in and lifted Yugi off the saddle.
"Lord Elrond will treat you friend. Better get inside. We want everyone to be safe while the orcs are about." said the elf firmly holding Yugi in one arm and steering Ryou in front of him with another.
"So that's it." laughed Bakura looking at the devastated campsite, he was leaning on a tree for support after using so much Shadow Magic. His body was drenched in water making the white linen button-up shirt he was wearing cling to him. He had unwittingly fallen into a nearby pool. Driven into it by a dozen or so orcs he was toying with.
Yami stood nearby radiating with the Shadow Magic still coursing through him. The Sennen eye glowed on his forehead and he looked not at all drained from all the destruction he wreaked. The cotton jacket he was wearing had a few slashes in it, but other than that the pharaoh was fine. "That was fun." smirked Yami, "Tired all ready tomb robber? That was barely even a warm-up."
"Easy for you to say." snapped back Bakura holding his knees.
"We better get back. Yugi and Ryou will be waiting and so will the elves." announced Yami, Bakura hobbled over to the pharaoh and stumbled. Yami caught him and lifted him back up. "Growing clumsy now are you?" Bakura made a swipe at Yami but missed, "Here, you can lean on me."
"Why are you helping me?" asked Bakura as Yami put his arm over his own shoulder and helped prop Bakura up as they started walking back.
"Well you did help me rescue Yugi, so maybe we can put our differences aside." said Yami.
Bakura looked at Yami suspiciously and spat into his hand free and held it out to the pharaoh, Yami did the same and they shook. "Maybe, but that doesn't mean I'm abandoning my quest for power. If you do ever get into the way, I'll crush you. And just remember, we AREN'T friends, just temporary allies." said Bakura.
* What am I doing? Am I crazy? * thought Bakura but then he smiled to himself, * This could work to my advantage. *
* * * * * to be continued . . . * * * *
[1] Ada - father in elvish. You know Aragorn was kinda 'adopted' by Elrond right? So he's like a father to him.
[2] yrch - orcs/orc
[3] Elrond's wife had been captured and tortured by orcs. His sons managed to save her and Elrond healed her, but she was spiritually damaged and emotionally. So she left for Valinor. Gil-Galad and Isildur were also killed in a war against orcs, but they were slain by Sauron himself.
Okay, an okay chappie I guess, a tiny bit longer too. Not that good. So will Bakura and Yami keep up their 'temporary alliance'? So no ideas for slashes anybody? If you do suggest any, don't do yaois please. Not that I don't like them, it's that I'm not an experienced romance writer yet. Hope Yugi wasn't poisoned.