Black, endless black, no, not this dreams again!
There was only one figure this time, Bakura, Marik must have gone away, he turned she could see his eyes scanning the surroundings warily. She could see him so clearly now, then he whipped round and…she woke up.
"What was that?" Bakura growled as he sensed a faint glow of power leave the Shadow Realm.
Darkness, endless darkness, no, not this dream again!
Marik was there, arguing with Bakura, he punched the spirit in the gut and then walked away, dark cloak swaying behind him. Bakura groaned but got up none the less, she made to take a step towards him but his head snapped up and turned to look directly at her, "Whose there?" he called and then…she woke up.
"It's gone again, damn it, if its Yami then I would so love to get my hands on him," Bakura recited but then turned his attention to more important matters, like where was Marik.
Once again she found herself locked within the gloomy depths of the Shadow Realm.
There was Marik, but Bakura was nowhere in site, it didn't take long but, "Who are you?" Marik called walking in her direction, "your weak but I can sense you, come out?" Marik smirked and Anzu gasped, if they were starting to be bale to sense her presence?
She couldn't stop it, she had no control over her dreams, he was so close now and…she woke up.
"So it's true, Bakura wasn't lying when he said there was a strange presence lingering round here," Marik contemplated, "well, this could prove to be interesting, if not entertaining."
Anzu began to know what to expect, to feel curious about what may happen next, would they both be there, or just one? Should she try speaking to them? Could she touch them? But most importantly, why was she having these dreams?
It was obvious she was connecting with the Shadow Realm somehow but she didn't have a Millennium Item and to the best of her knowledge she had never existed in the Egyptian past that Yami was so fond of.
They were both there, and they looked to her directly when she saw them, Marik came towards her but Bakura stayed were he was, then his eyes widened as though he'd seen her. She took a step back and called, "Marik, it's a girl!"
"A girl you say," she him lick his lips, "want to play girlie?"
"N-no!" she stuttered momentarily but her voice regained composure quick enough, both Yami's paid attention then, had they heard her?
However, before she could investigate further…she woke up.
"Bakura, did you see whom or what it was?" Marik barked turning round swiftly.
"Hai," Bakura answered, he'd indulge the other spirit for a while before retreating to some other area where he would not be disturbed by the homicidal maniac.
"And it was a girl you say?" Bakura nodded and Marik smirked, "well I'm sure this could supply us with some fun don't you agree?"
Bakura growled, "You're sick you know that."
"Did you here her Bakura?" Bakura nodded, "she's no match for me and if you don't want her I'll be quiet happy to have her all to myself."
Bakura snorted before leaving the smirking Yami behind him.
Dark, endless black, rivulets of swirling blue and magenta, she was here again and there they were, Bakura standing on her right and Marik sitting to her left, had they been expecting her?
"So you're back then?" Marik smirked, and Anzu shuddered, she didn't like the look he was giving her and she was still unsure whether or not they could see her.
"C-can, you see me?" she looked at them both; they had obviously heard her because they looked at her more resolutely.
"I can't, Bakura?" Marik answered before then looked at the white haired one.
"I saw for a moment, you're a girl with dark hair but you didn't stay visible for long enough," Bakura answered.
"When did you see me?" she asked.
"Then, when you spoke," Bakura answered and Marik just observed the scene with amusement, he couldn't see her at all.
"So when I'm talking you can see me so that would mean that you can see me now, right?" Anzu reasoned and Bakura nodded then smirked.
"It's the Pharaoh's whore," Bakura commented and Anzu cringed, why did they all call her that?
"You mean the cute little brunette one?" Marik asked and Bakura nodded, the pair smirked and Anzu gulped. They both moved towards her and…she woke up.
"She's gone," Marik commented.
"Thank you for stating the obvious," Bakura smirked, "But why is she here? She has no Shadow Power!" With that as their parting comment they both walked off in different directions, bored of each other company no doubt.
---25th November---
It was late evening and the sky was already dark, 9:00, stars littering its inky blackness like great fireflies trapped forever in the web of the sky and outer space. A pair of heels clicked and a pair of shoes tapped disturbing the almost totally quiet night. Yami squeezed Anzu's hand lightly and she looked at him smiled, he inclined his head gently towards the entrance to Domino Park and she nodded.
The two made their way slowly and deliberately towards the lake situated in the centre of the park. Leaves crunched beneath their feet form frost and the bare branches of the trees swayed slightly as a gently wind toyed with them.
When they reached the gleaming mass of undisturbed water they sat down by the edge and Yami looked at Anzu who said, "Yami, why are we here?"
"Because I wanted to ask you a serious question," Yami replied.
"What was it?" asked she.
"I was going to ask," he looked away briefly before looking into her eyes, "if you loved me?"
Anzu sat transfixed in his gaze, her mind turmoil, Malik had said nothing about that incident some 20 days ago but why was he in her mind now? This was her and Yami's moment and she wasn't going to let him get in the way of that.
"Yes Yami, I do," she answered truthfully for she did love Yami it was her feelings for Malik of which she was unsure, but once again, why had he entered her mind?
"Good," Yami said closing the gap between them, claiming her slowly and deliberately, her hands reached up to curl long fingers gently at her throat. As Yami began to explore her mouth more intimately he began to put pressure for her to lie down. She complied, feeling the grass and leaved flatten underneath her, the slight cold it brought, but it didn't matter at the moment.
Yami broke away and lay down beside her wrapping his arms tenderly about her waist, she herself cuddling up to him and burying her hands and face into his chest. "Yami?" whispered her small and timid voice.
"Yes love?" he responded, she smiled, he'd never called her love before.
"There's something I've been hiding from you," she felt Yami stiffen slightly and she gulped wondering how she was going to tell him about Malik.
"What is it?" he asked.
"Malik's back," Yami growled, "and Isis to, they live a few blocks from here," she explained.
"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Yami demanded.
"B-because," he looked at her encouragingly, no malice or anger in his eyes, "I work for them," and Anzu burst into tears.
"What; why?" Yami asked, sitting up, pulling Anzu with him and rocking her back and forth gently, rubbing her back to calm her down.
"It paid well, nothing was wrong but, oh Yami," she couldn't stop crying, she'd betrayed him, she felt so ashamed.
"I understand, but what happened Anzu," he took her wrists in his hands and held them a way from him so she had to look at him, "did he hurt you?"
Anzu stopped crying momentarily to look him in the eye, she sniffled pathetically, "No, he didn't hurt but Yami, h-he kissed me and touched me and said that he wanted me."
"What! How dear that slimy, good for nothing," Yami stood up abruptly, and despite her distraught mind and clouded thoughts she knew what Yami might do. He was already striding off but she scrambled to her feet none the less and dashed after him.
"Yami, no, wait, don't do anything rash, please Yami stop," she ran so that she was in front of him and stood there, arms outstretched, legs shoulder width apart.
"Move Anzu," he said in a dead pan voice making a move to make her budge.
"No Yami, I won't let you hurt him," Yami growled, his eyes flashed an unnatural red and the Senen eye began to materialize on his forehead, glowing bright and brighter.
"Get out of the way Anzu, I don't want to have to hurt you too," he warned, growling and bringing his hand up, palm out towards her, she was about two feet away from it.
"Please Yami stop!" she begged, the Senen eye glowed brighter and a black, blue and purple bomb exploded form Yami's hands and hurtled towards her. Anzu screamed, but felt an odd feathery sensation take over her body, perhaps this was what being sent to the Shadow Realm felt like, no, it' couldn't have been. She felt pain when the Yami no Senen Ring had transported them to the Shadow Realm on top of turning them into cards.
"What the?" she gasped as she found herself whisked into a room as though she weighed nothing, the room had pale blue walls and was quiet nice. Then the door slammed and she became trapped, with very little light, "Hey, let me out," she began to pound on the door with her fist, over and over again.
"Let me o-aaah," she screamed again as she suddenly felt an electric shock race through her nerves and found herself thrown backwards onto her back, scraping against the dirt of the ground in the Park.
Then something happened which she'd never though she'd see, a huge black whole, swirling with bleu and purple opened about three feet from her, first a pale hand appeared and then an arm, a green shirt, blue and white stripes, folds of white hair and dark brownish red tinted eyes and long firm legs.
She gasped, "Yami no Bakura," then she began to shake, there was a tanned arm reaching from the portal now, "NO, YAMI NO MALIK!" she screamed.
Then an arrow of pure white light appeared and shot into the portal, a deep throated yell and the arm was gone, a few seconds later the swirling mass dissolved and the Park returned to view.
Now you're probably all wondering what happened, so we'll go back in time to just when Yami released his Shadow Bomb.
The ball of crackling blue and purpled electric light burst form Yami's hand, heading straight for Anzu. It was about to hit when suddenly her eyes flew wide open, her pupils dilated and then the irises of her eyes began to go purple and then red, her hair waved madly in the wind, slowly lengthening about an inch and going several shades darker.
The trousers she wore faded, the t-shirt vanished, socks, trainers, everything, to be replaced by a simple, flowing white tunic that reached the ground. It was bound at the waist by a length of golden cord and two golden clips at the shoulder straps held the material up. Two, hidden mind you, white sandals adorned small feet and a silver tiara lay amongst auburn locks.
Two pale arms moved quickly to form an arrow of white light that split the balk in two sending the two halves rocketing into the air and out of sight in two completely different directions.
"Yami," the small, pleasant sounding, but frail voice of the woman before him called.
"Teana," Yami gulped, how could this be, the woman he'd loved in his past, here now?
Suddenly Teana's muscles tightened and from her exploded Anzu, who flew backwards screaming onto her back. Teana turned to look at her with and odd look of curiosity on her face. The girl who looked so much like herself, she observed, groaned and then Teana whipped round as a surge of shadow magic rippled through the whole of Japan.
Three waves in fact, one for her arrow and two for Yami's Bomb, the Senen eye glowed on Yami's forehead and a huge portal opened creating a gateway between the real world and that of the Shadow Realm. She felt the cold pull of it's depths but resisted as she felt a familiar presence coming closer.
An idle hand reached up to trace a finger along the line of the scar he had left behind the last time she'd seen him.
Then a man immerged, white haired and pale, the girl cried out, "Yami no Bakura," the girl began to shake, then another form, tanned and muscular, so un-like the first, the girl screamed this time, "NO, YAMI NO MALIK!"
The white haired one turned swiftly around and Yami stepped forwards, sensing the danger Teana raised her arms again firing a white arrow into the darkness, finding its target and sending the hit back into the darkness.
Then the portal closed up and the four were left in the cold night air, Teana sank to her knees, confused and scared about where she was and what was happening.
Bakura looked around frantically, looking at Yami, glancing at Anzu, smirking slightly before turning to look at the hunched figure of Teana, his eyes widening as he sensed an aura he hadn't felt in millennia.
Yami glanced at Bakura warily but though better than to send him to the Shadow Realm now, the temperature had dropped dramatically and he didn't think any of them were in any kind of fit state at the moment.
Anzu, scarred, upset; mortified and just plain terrified had shaken violently, coughed, sneezed and fainted from exhaustion and cold.
"I'll get you Yami," Bakura croaked before he fell forwards in a dead faint, the struggle with that portal had obviously taken a lot out of him.
"B-Bakura," Teana gasped, "It can't be and," her head whipped round to look at Yami, "Y-Yami." She'd seen him there before but it had apparently not quiet registered to her whom he actually was, after all, he was wearing modern clothing, not at all the attire she remembered him in.
"Where are we?" she gasped, Yami sighed, this was going to take a lot of explaining.
"I'll tell you in the morning, but right now," he took out a cell phone and dialled Ryou's number, the white haired boy was usually up at this hour and his house was very big.
*Hello Bakura household, Ryou speaking*
"Hey Ryou, it's me Yami, I need a favour and no questions asked, I'm in Domino Park I need you to come here now and help me," Yami explained.
*Um…okay Yami, I'll be over in say, ten minutes, meet me by the main gate?*
"Alright, bye Ryou," and they hung up, "Teana," she looked up, "Can you carry Anzu?"
"Anzu?" she looked confused.
"The one that looks like you," he waved at the out cold brunette and sighed as it began to pour with rain, "just my luck."
Teana nodded and went over to Anzu, picking her up bridle style, Yami, who was substantially shorter than Bakura loaded the spirit onto his back, his arms dangling lifelessly over his shoulders.
They made their way to the main gate to be met by Ryou and his car, Ryou looked absolutely out of his mind when he saw Bakura, let alone the state Anzu was in and her look alike. They shoved Bakura and Anzu into the backseat and it took a lot of convincing from Yami to get Teana into the car.
Yami sighed and clambered into the front passenger seat, they were, by this point, all dripping wet. Ryou didn't say anything, just sighed, shook his head and drove back to his house.
There were two guest rooms, Teana agreed to sleep in the same room as Bakura although Yami made many protests.
"Oh for goodness sakes, just shut up Yami and deal with it," Ryou yelled brushing wet bangs out of his eyes, Yami looked at him but shut up all the same.
"Teana," she looked up, "your with Bakura," she nodded, "Yami, your in my room and I will take my fathers room, everybody got it?" they all nodded, "then all go to bed, get some sleep and talk this over in the morning."
And that was that, as far as Ryou was concerned that was all there was to it, he went into his father's room, collapsed on the bed and fell straight to sleep.
Ta da, not exactly as I expected when I first planned this chapter out but yeh, this works to.