Yugi in Middle Earth

Ó 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.

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Reviews:

Dragonmaiden: Thank you! I'm glad you like it unlike some other people. Don't worry about Yami and Bakura, I have everything planned out for them! Kukukukuku. And about Malik and him coming. A lot of people have asked about that. I have something about it in my author's note at the bottom.

Sarah: I am sorry! Please don't kill me (or flame me)! I hope this chapter is long enough for your liking. I'm trying very very hard to make it longer okeyday? Happy that people like this ficcy.

Devious-Duo: The mysterious character will appear in the next chapter. Actually, most of the chapter is dedicated to him . . . them. So be looking for that soon!

rogue solus: Why thank you. I didn't know this idea was ingenious. If you want to know about Malik like sooooo many other people, see the author's note below and please don't kill me about it! It was just that it wouldn't work out any other way in my mind!

ShadowCatLeader: Whoa! I wish I had a dream like that. Yeah, now that you mention it Marik covered in blood is kawaii. And Malik is just naturally kawaii anyways (stupid computer doesn't say anyways is a word) * pounds on computer * there is goes! Wow, a lot of people are asking about Malik. I'll try to put him in as early as possible!

Sorry the update took so long. I am very busy this summer and the next update won't be in a week or so cause my parents are taking me to visit relatives. * sigh * The wonders of living with a very busy family. Well enough of my own problems, just read the fic!

19: Braving the Caradhras

Bakura winced as he slowly tottered after the fellowship. Ra, why did this have to happen to him? Why not lame the pharaoh instead? But no! Stupid prince-sama had to be the one who was supporting him instead. Ryou was a little ahead with the rest of the fellowship who were waiting for the two spirits to catch up.

"Are you sure you're alright?" asked Ryou when they had caught up with the group.

"I'm fine." snapped Bakura irritably.

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Boromir looked back at Bakura and Yami with distaste. He turned to Gandalf for the third time. "You see they are holding us back! What are we going to do when . . . if we are attacked? You must find a way to speed them up!" pleaded Boromir.

"I'm sorry Boromir. But I don't know any way in which we can help them along other than slow down our normal pace." said Gandalf, with a sigh as he looked up ahead at the slowly approaching mountains and the reddish peak of Caradhras.

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"Bakura how about you go back into your soul room?" asked Ryou, "You can rest a bit and get better and mean while we can go on a little faster in our journey." Bakura raised his eyebrow curiously at Ryou and then nodded. He quickly faded away and the Millenium Ring that hung around Ryou's neck glinted.

{ Are you feeling better now? } asked Ryou.

There was a grunt from inside his yami's soul room and then Bakura replied {{ I'm fine. Just fine. }} Ryou smiled at him and started sped up closing the small gap between him, Yami, and Yugi from the rest of the fellowship.

"Now if I didn't know them better, I'd say they were avoiding us." whispered Yami narrowing his eyes in a look of disgust as the tall man with the shield slung over his back . . . Boromir, yes that was his name, edged away from them with doubt etched over his face.

"I guess it's not every day that they come across ancient spirits then." said Yugi cheerfully.

The hobbits weren't daunted by that fact for soon Merry and Pippin trotted over to them with silly smiles on their faces. "Don't tell old Gandalf there but we just snatched some of his pipe-weed," said Merry lifting up a long and flat looking pipe and putting some of the weed in the flat bowl.

He blew out a small smoke ring as he exhaled. Pippin just walked next to Yugi and watched in wonder at what his cousin could do.

Yami was slightly amused at these hobbit's antics. Next to Aragorn, Frodo was walking next to Sam looking very downcast. Sam on the other hand looked as if he was trying to comfort both his master and the pony beside him. Merry and Pippin seemed like the only two other than his own hikari and the tomb robber's that weren't very weighed down by the prospect of this journey.

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"Where are we?" asked Frodo looking up at the tall wizard beside him.

"We are traveling now in the lands of Hollin. Soon we shall reach the slopes of Caradhras," said Gandalf.

"There is something amiss. I have traveled here many times and it was empty. No Man, Elf, or Dwarf dwelt here. But there was always plenty of birds and many different creatures. But now it seems barren and empty." said Aragorn.

"Elves have lived here. But they are gone now. They have left for the havens now," said Legolas softly.

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Two days later they reached Caradhras. Yugi and Ryou stared up at the great mountain. Bakura's ankle had gotten better so he was out of his soul room. "So the old man wants us to climb over his stupid mountain." muttered Bakura, "It would be much easier if we could just summon the kaa [1] of a monster and fly over it."

"Well it won't be that simple. These mortals only know of our Shadow Magic. Not of the monsters that can be summoned by it. If they did who knows what could result from that. It would be best to keep it a secret." advised Yami. Bakura growled and nodded, as he picked up various branches of wood off the ground, he hated it when the stupid pharaoh was right.

Boromir had advised the fellowship into making them gather as big of a piece of wood that each one of them could carry. "A word of advice. I was born under the shadows of the White Mountains and know some things of journeying in high places. We shall meet bitter cold, if no worse, before we come out on the other side. It will not help us to keep so secret that we are frozen to death. When we leave from our rest, there are a few trees and bushes, each of us should carry a bundle of wood, as large as he can bear."

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Yugi and Ryou had finished making their small load. Soon the others had as well. The Company set out with good speed. Yugi and Ryou walked close with the hobbits exchanging words of encouragement and help. The climb began growing steeper and more difficult.

The trail twisted and turned and almost disappeared at some times. Yugi huddled closer with the others as the wind blew bitterly. It was almost midnight now and though he wouldn't admit it to anyone else nearly everyone knew for they were feeling it themselves. The cold and hard travel was wearing them slowly down. Yugi blinked as he felt a small soft brush across his face. He looked up and saw small white snowflakes tumbling through the air.

He put his hand around a carefully hidden golden necklace around his neck. It was the Millennium Tauk Yami had given to him before the fellowship had set out. So far it had done nothing but just hang around his neck and remind him of home and of the Ishtars. * I wonder how Malik and his sister are doing? * thought Yugi.

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Yami put his arm in front of his face to block some of the wind and snow that was being hurled into his face by the malevolent weather. The small snowfall had now become a small blizzard. He put the Puzzle under his tunic so that it wouldn't fall to pieces by the battering of the wind. The snow was now up to his ankles and steadily rising. He could barely see a few feet ahead of him. The travel was now harder than ever.

Suddenly they stopped. Was it just him or did he hear shrill shrieks through the wind and cackles of wild laughter. The others seemed to hear it too. Yami pulled Yugi closer to him. Bakura was sharing his cloak with his hikari and shaking him every now and then to wake the teenage boy up. It would be death to fall asleep in this kind of weather. He had learned that when Yugi's class had went on a camping trip on Mt. Fuji and they were caught in a blizzard almost exactly like this.

"We shall have to stop for the night!" shouted Gandalf over the wind. "The only shelter is the cliff wall that we are under right now."

Quickly as they could the fellowship huddled closer to the cliff with their backs against its wall. Now Yami was trying to keep Yugi awake. The small boy had snuggled right next to Yami and underneath his cloak like Ryou was. His weariness and his comfort were not helping him stay awake. So now Yami had to pinch Yugi's cheeks to startle the boy awake. The pony Sam had taken along on the trip had made itself a windbreaker and stood patiently in front of most of the fellowship, mainly the hobbits.

Soon the snow was nearly up to the beast's hocks. Yami shivered as the cold finally started to sink into him. Being a spirit helped make him immune to such conditions but being that he shared the same body with Yugi he could feel what the boy was feeling, though at a milder condition.

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Bakura cursed and violently shook Ryou awake again. Stupid weather. *I wish I were back in Egypt dammit! * thought Bakura as Ryou blinked slowly at him. It was about time when the fellowship finally decided to start a fire. The night passed very slowly, but at least they were warmer now.

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It first started out as small vibrating feeling. But soon the feeling of the mountainside rumbling loudly awoke the fellowship. Large boulders made of snow were crashing down the mountainside growing bigger with each roll. Bakura pulled Ryou closer to him and pressed himself farther against the cliff wall. When the last of the tremors stopped, it was dawn.

Bakura looked around with wide eyes. The snow was now about up to his chest! How were they going to get through this? He harrumphed loudly when the Elf prince suggested that Gandalf burn their way through. Hmm! The wizard might have been able to light a piece of wet wood. But burning snow. That would be something rather strenuous.

Why did he take the baka pharaoh's advice about not summoning a monster's kaa so it would fly them over this stupid mountain. * Take note to oneself, never follow the advice of a former enemy. * thought Bakura sarcastically.

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A few hours later they had descend from the Ra-be-damned mountain and were trying to decide whether or not to go underneath it; through some sort of mines call Kazad-dumb. What sort of name was that? The fellowship was sitting in a circle of trees trying to shelter from the ruthless winds. They might be off the mountain and away from the snow. But the wind had not gone away at all!

The sound of howls being carried on the wind made Bakura's ears prick. The midgets heard it too. It seemed that they were at least good at something other than eating, sleeping, and making food. "Wargs!" shouted Aragorn jumping to his feet and looking around intently.

Two of the hobbits, Merry and Pippin huddled closer to Yugi and Ryou. "I wish I had taken Lord Elrond's advise about staying in Rivendell. I am of no use here." moaned Pippin.

The fellowship quickly took shelter atop a small hilltop nearby. The howling of the wolves grew louder and closer to the small company. Bakura had his hands resting atop the hilts of his hidden long-knives in his sleeves. Yugi and Ryou were pushed into the middle of a protective circle made by the bigger folk of the fellowship along with the midgets and that pony of theirs.

There was a ring of stones around the hilltop as well. As if out of nowhere, a pair of great yellow eyes appeared outside a gap in the stony ring. A great wolf stood still for a moment and gave a blood-curdling howl. More wolves appeared. Gandalf shouted angrily at the wolves warning them to come no further. Suddenly one of them pounced towards the old man. An arrow flew from Bakura's left, from princey-boy Elf; and buried itself in the neck of the wolf. More started attacking and Gandalf ordered the hobbits to make a fire to frighten or scare them away.

Bakura unsheathed a couple of his knives and daggers and glared at as many wolves as he could as they slowly started approaching the fellowship. One by one the great blokes tried to maim one of the fellowship. Bakura managed to take a few slashes at the things and was splattered with their dark blood.

"Naur an edraith ammen! Naur dan i ngaurhoth!" shouted Gandalf, sounding a lot louder than a normal old man would. The surrounding trees burst aflame. The wolves were caught by surprise at this sudden new strategy and retreated quickly back into the darkness. Bakura looked at the glowing battlefield and then at the wizard in amusement. Maybe this old man was more than he looked to be.

"Hurry, we must reach the doors of Moria by sunset or there will be even more wargs on our trail." advised Gandalf making great strides now towards the direction of the path in which he was leading them.

* * * to be continued . . . in a short while * * *

See I wrote a different 'to be continued' for a change! So I'm really really sorry about the lack of an update. Things were a little . . . uninspiring for me as a writer. * sigh *. But now it's all over thanks to some really nice people and authors like Millennium Slinky (go read her Yu-Gi-Oh! fics! They're sooo awesome!).

Okay. Just to make it a little clear to you all. Malik, I'm very sorry to say won't be coming for a while. And I'm not sure whether or not to include his yami in this. 'Cause I was planning to have someone else come with him that wasn't really supposed to, but he is a big help. I'm having second thoughts about that and am considering including Y. Malik. And to tell you the truth. . . Don't kill me please! But Malik and co aren't coming until pt. 2. In the Two Towers part. Sorry please don't hate me! I'll try and make up for it!

And for those of you wondering what the heck? The fellowship is going to be HUGE! I've got that problem solved * has an evil look on her face * Mwhahahahahahahaha!!!! So please review! I didn't get a lot of reviews for the last REAL chapter. But thanks to you who did. And just to tell you all. I'm going to start responding to reviews! Whohoo!

The review button is right down there in the corner as you know! Chow! –Fire Pendant.

P.S : Mystery character is appearing in the next chapter!

Sabrion: She has been very pepped up about that. * shakes head * Sometimes I fear for her sane-ness.

Seth: Don't bother worrying about her. Baka.