(Disclaimer: Tora-kun or I own nothing related to Yugioh. We only claim
our characters that we originally made up: Badru, Kanaye, Chikara and
Sanura.)
The night continued on and went without any significant occurrences, for good or bad. Each person who had to supposedly take a shift took it, except for Yugi who was too deeply asleep for Yami to consider waking. Chikara showed no signs of anything out of the ordinary, nor did the two victims of the supposed curse. The markings on their arms, however, didn't fade. Seto of course covered it with the sleeve of his trench coat but Bakura couldn't care less who saw it, even though it gave him a slight chill to look at, himself. Mostly because he was pissed about not being able to remember what it was.
Before noon they were all up and ready to go meet the others who had left them yesterday night. After a small debate, they also decided to bring the yamis; leaving them there was risking too much destruction of the area. So they all packed up and started the trek to the park. Well, it actually wasn't that complicated. Yugi just opened the door and said, "Okay guys, let's go!" And they went.
Tristan and Joey were waiting for them at the entrance to the park, and Téa joined them not much later on. The fairly large group talked for a while about the nothing that had happened and finally decided to get some lunch, sitting in a small area by a stand of thick trees that not many people walked near.
While Yugi went off to a nearby restaurant to pick up some food, everyone sat down on the grass and talked, more or less back into the easy routine of yesterday. They didn't know that very close to them was the cause of the troubles they had endured yesterday.
Really, Badru didn't know they were in the park. He'd been pretty busy stuffing his face with the junk food he'd managed to pay for out of Kanaye's pockets, until Yugi came into the restaurant, practically begging to be mugged with the obvious roll of money in his hand. Instead, Badru continued eating and watched him, noting the obvious similarity to the Pharaoh. That jerk. He was thinking about this and munching on chips when Yugi actually approached him.
He was smiling and looked like he was trying to be friendly. The whole thing was completely foreign to him. This guy's face stretched in that expression was something he'd never thought he'd live to see. He probably hadn't, but he wasn't thinking about that.
"Hi there!" Yugi said. He was definitely making an effort to be friendly. "You're the new student that was at school, right? Kanaye?"
Badru sat for a moment, stunned that he was being spoken to by anyone without starting the conversation, especially by one of the people he had targeted to be cursed by a mirror from what may or may not be the hells. Suddenly he realized Yugi was waiting for a reaction.
"Uh... Yeah, that's me," he said, unsure how to speak to the kid.
"I'm Yugi," he said, bowing slightly. He was a little nervous after the way Kanaye had acted in class, but something was making him want to talk to the new classmate, if a bit strange.
Badru watched the bowing with a little less than understanding and just sat there. Yugi glanced around a bit awkwardly and finally decided he wasn't going to be having a very long conversation with this particular person.
"Well... I have to bring food to my friends," he said, rubbing the back of his head, "So I guess I'll see you around?"
"Bring food to them? Why don't you just eat here," Badru said, stretching back in his seat with no apparent interest in the answer to his question.
"Well... Er, we're having a little get-together in the park, I guess you could say," Yugi was getting antsy standing there, having thought the conversation was over.
"Issat so?" Badru said, yawning as he spoke. Yugi barely understood the words, "well, you go have fun then mister ph- Yugi..."
"Um... I guess I will," Yugi said. Something about the guy was starting to creep him out again. Maybe it was watching his eyes too closely. Someone walked into the store while they were speaking, and he swore he saw one slide slightly off to the side, looking at the person coming in while the other stayed trained on him. He convinced himself it was just his imagination as he went and got the food, the bags of which piled high enough in his arms to severely impede on his sight, and left the store.
Badru got up a few moments after Yugi left and shoved some food into his pockets, fitting as much as he could before just walking off and leaving the rest there. In one of his pant pockets was the mirror; well, not the whole thing, but the sphere of darkened glass that it created when it needed to be mobile. He then followed Yugi at a distance, hoping to be able to find out more about his little group, and cause some trouble while he was at it.
Yugi returned to the group and looked around. People were basically separated in their own groups and left the picnic blanket bare.
"... Did something happen while I was gone?" Asked Yugi, setting the bags on the blanket.
Joey looked up with a black eye. "It's just that Kaiba over there, thinks he's too good enough for the rest of us."
"Well, if the mutt wouldn't stop giving me a hard time about this... THING on my arm, maybe I wouldn't have to waste my time beating him to hell." Snapped Kaiba.
"Guys, come on. We aren't supposed to be fighting. We're supposed to be having a good time." Yugi said, using his hands to help him talk.
Yugi continued his attempts to negotiate with the two while the others sat out of it, staying silent. Marik glanced over his shoulder then sharply cuffed his hikari upside the head.
"Take a quick glance behind you and don't make it look obvious." He hissed quietly.
Malik blinked but looked behind him out of the corner of his eye, turning his head slightly. "What... I don't see anything."
"..." Marik grit his teeth and hunched his shoulders slightly. "Someone is watching... and I can sense some very, very powerful black magic... the others are too busy to notice but it's completely noticeable to me..."
Malik glanced around again. "We're a few people short!"
Sure enough, Chikara, Ryou and Bakura were missing.
Marik got up quickly and searched the surrounding area with his eyes. "Damn it... something's up with her and the damned pharaoh should have taken care of it last night!"
He started walking off one direction then Malik saw him take off running. Malik glanced back at the group, who were still preoccupied with the argument and he ran after his darker half.
"Wait up!" he said, trying to keep up with his yami.
Not even a few moments later, Marik slammed to a stop and found the three missing persons. Ryou was kneeling in front of Chikara, who was sitting on the grass under a tree and didn't look too well at all. Bakura stood there, with his arms crossed and the bag of assorted sodas and water at his feet.
Ryou looked up at Marik and Malik. "She took a nasty fall close to here and we don't know why it happened. She may be getting sick or something like that but... I have a hunch that it has something to do with the strange occurrences lately. From what I've heard, she didn't sleep much at all last night, nor did she try eating anything."
Marik flicked his gaze over to Chikara. "And the rich boy is getting a little too anxious. He was fighting with the Wheeler brother earlier, gave him a good bruise across the eye."
"Bakura," Ryou started. "Hand me one of those bottles of water."
Bakura rolled his eyes, lightly kicking one of the bottles over within Ryou's reach. Ryou uncapped it and quietly tried to coax Chikara into drinking some, with little success. Bakura, Marik and Malik stood around, not speaking but exchanging a few tense glances.
Badru watched them from between the tangled branches of a few trees. He was curled comfortably in the nook between two thick branches, munching contently on some of the food he'd taken from the restaurant. His other hand was curled around the orb of the mirror, looking in it at the curved, darkened reflections of Chikara and the four boys around her. The orb didn't do as much as the full-sized looking glass could, but it seemed to be taking a slight affect on the already partially weakened Chikara. Or maybe the fact that she wasn't speaking or doing much of anything was completely due to the fact she'd barely slept and not eaten. He didn't care, as long as she was having some sort of trouble-the whole revenge thing was complicated in theory but once he'd gotten started, it was simple to do. Just attack everyone who made you mad or was close to someone who'd made you mad. Fun. Easy. He was pretty satisfied thus far, and none of them were any the wiser.
Chikara sighed uneasily, closing her eyes and just ignoring the people who were watching her.
"Maybe we should have gotten Shadi last night..." Malik hissed quietly. Obviously not quietly enough.
Chikara sat up quickly, looking at the three. "No! No, you don't need to call him. You keep him the bloody hell away from me or you'll regret it!"
Malik sweat dropped and held his hands up defensively, giving Chikara a wary look. "Alright, forget I mentioned him."
"On any note, we have to get back to the others and make sure that she doesn't pass out again or something." Ryou said, crossing his arms.
Malik gathered the remaining full bottles and cans and put them back in the shopping bag. "I'll go back to the others and say that... uh... you went to get something else."
"Just tell them that we got hung up." Ryou said, trying to help Chikara up to her feet.
He shrugged, turning towards his yami. "Come on, let's go."
Marik gave hikari this look then flicked his gaze to Chikara then back to him.
"Oh. Bakura, let's go." Malik corrected himself.
Bakura raised an eyebrow then followed Malik back towards the rest of the group. Marik looked at Ryou, who gave him a puzzled look in reply when Marik stuck his hand out to help.
"If she passes out again, I'll be able to carry her." He said in a quiet and low tone, keeping his face solemn.
Ryou nodded and held one of Chikara's arms. "Are you alright now?"
"... Yeah... I'm fine, really..." Chikara answered quietly.
They started walking back to where the rest of the group was having lunch and things had seemed as if they settled down. Ryou allowed Chikara to sit down, but she ended up lying on the ground, covering her eyes with one arm.
"Eye. What's wrong with her?" Asked Joey, jabbing a thumb in her direction.
"She's just..." Ryou paused.
"Tired." Marik finished his sentence. "She didn't get much sleep last night because of what's been going on with the rich boy and the blonde, over there."
"I see-HEY!" Joey growled.
"Basically we've found nothing out of the ordinary since last night." Yogi started out, setting his bottle of soda on the grass. "We don't know who's doing this or how they are. There was this one guy in the restaurant. He was really, really creepy. I don't know who he is but he really looks like Kanaye, but different somehow... like his not usual self."
"More evil?" Yami suggested, his arms crossed over his chest.
Yugi thought for a moment, and then nodded slightly. "I guess you could call it that," he said finally, looking at his Yami in question.
"It may be just a coincidence," Yami said, looking over the group assembled there, "but even so, keep on the look out for Kanaye, or anyone who looks like him, in the future. I have a hunch he may be the one who's causing all this trouble."
Yugi stood, more or less blinking at Yami. "Why would you think that?" he asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Kaiba said, looking over his shoulder at the others. "Some new guy shows up and everyone starts going insane at random... There are no coincidences."
There was an awkward and eerie silence; Kaiba had a point.
"Well, we're just gonna have to teach him a lesson if it is Kanaye that's doin all of this." Joey said, much in an overconfident manner.
Ryou glanced over at Chikara, then nudged his yami. / There she goes again. What can possibly be wrong with her? She didn't bother eating or drinking anything during lunch and I think she passed out again. /
Bakura looked past Ryou, to the now sleeping Chikara. // ... The damned pharaoh knows nothing. He should have listened to Malik and Marik. Ugh... let's end this little meeting early and take her back to your home. If the other mortals want to join then that's just... fine. //
Chikara found herself in a room... a soul room. She didn't know if she was still sleeping or not but she decided to take a glance around. The room that she was in was pretty dark... the walls were covered with all sorts of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that she couldn't even get a clue of what they meant. She saw a few doorways, covered by hanging silk covers of various colors; black, gold, silver, purple. Chikara walked up to the closest doorway, the purple trimmed one and pulled the material back, looking in.
'... What is this place?' She thought, taking half a step in and seeing many ancient Egyptian relics and scrolls lying around on stone tables.
She felt a hard grip on her shoulder and pull her back out of the room. She was about to turn around to see who it was but a dagger was placed at her throat. She was being pulled back by someone, and she swallowed nervously, feeling the blade slightly knick her throat.
"Don't -ever- do that again..." Growled a voice, then Chikara felt something hit her; the whole place going black.
Chikara sat up quickly in a bed at Ryou's house, feeling the wet hand cloth that was on her forehead, fall in front of her. She glanced around hastily, seeing a few people standing in the room.
"Have a nice nap?" Bakura said from the window, looking out towards the street.
Chikara brushed some of her long dark purple hair out of her face and flicked her gaze over to the next person who was in the room; Marik.
"..." She started getting nervous, edging towards the back of the bed.
"There's no reason for you to be too worried, Chikara." Yami said, looking at her from the doorway with his arms crossed. "We're simply concerned of what's going on and we'll have to talk to you."
"What they say is truth, Chikara." Shadi said, walking into the room. "With the extraordinary phenomenon, we need to know more of what precisely is going on. And you, are holding some of the answers."
The night continued on and went without any significant occurrences, for good or bad. Each person who had to supposedly take a shift took it, except for Yugi who was too deeply asleep for Yami to consider waking. Chikara showed no signs of anything out of the ordinary, nor did the two victims of the supposed curse. The markings on their arms, however, didn't fade. Seto of course covered it with the sleeve of his trench coat but Bakura couldn't care less who saw it, even though it gave him a slight chill to look at, himself. Mostly because he was pissed about not being able to remember what it was.
Before noon they were all up and ready to go meet the others who had left them yesterday night. After a small debate, they also decided to bring the yamis; leaving them there was risking too much destruction of the area. So they all packed up and started the trek to the park. Well, it actually wasn't that complicated. Yugi just opened the door and said, "Okay guys, let's go!" And they went.
Tristan and Joey were waiting for them at the entrance to the park, and Téa joined them not much later on. The fairly large group talked for a while about the nothing that had happened and finally decided to get some lunch, sitting in a small area by a stand of thick trees that not many people walked near.
While Yugi went off to a nearby restaurant to pick up some food, everyone sat down on the grass and talked, more or less back into the easy routine of yesterday. They didn't know that very close to them was the cause of the troubles they had endured yesterday.
Really, Badru didn't know they were in the park. He'd been pretty busy stuffing his face with the junk food he'd managed to pay for out of Kanaye's pockets, until Yugi came into the restaurant, practically begging to be mugged with the obvious roll of money in his hand. Instead, Badru continued eating and watched him, noting the obvious similarity to the Pharaoh. That jerk. He was thinking about this and munching on chips when Yugi actually approached him.
He was smiling and looked like he was trying to be friendly. The whole thing was completely foreign to him. This guy's face stretched in that expression was something he'd never thought he'd live to see. He probably hadn't, but he wasn't thinking about that.
"Hi there!" Yugi said. He was definitely making an effort to be friendly. "You're the new student that was at school, right? Kanaye?"
Badru sat for a moment, stunned that he was being spoken to by anyone without starting the conversation, especially by one of the people he had targeted to be cursed by a mirror from what may or may not be the hells. Suddenly he realized Yugi was waiting for a reaction.
"Uh... Yeah, that's me," he said, unsure how to speak to the kid.
"I'm Yugi," he said, bowing slightly. He was a little nervous after the way Kanaye had acted in class, but something was making him want to talk to the new classmate, if a bit strange.
Badru watched the bowing with a little less than understanding and just sat there. Yugi glanced around a bit awkwardly and finally decided he wasn't going to be having a very long conversation with this particular person.
"Well... I have to bring food to my friends," he said, rubbing the back of his head, "So I guess I'll see you around?"
"Bring food to them? Why don't you just eat here," Badru said, stretching back in his seat with no apparent interest in the answer to his question.
"Well... Er, we're having a little get-together in the park, I guess you could say," Yugi was getting antsy standing there, having thought the conversation was over.
"Issat so?" Badru said, yawning as he spoke. Yugi barely understood the words, "well, you go have fun then mister ph- Yugi..."
"Um... I guess I will," Yugi said. Something about the guy was starting to creep him out again. Maybe it was watching his eyes too closely. Someone walked into the store while they were speaking, and he swore he saw one slide slightly off to the side, looking at the person coming in while the other stayed trained on him. He convinced himself it was just his imagination as he went and got the food, the bags of which piled high enough in his arms to severely impede on his sight, and left the store.
Badru got up a few moments after Yugi left and shoved some food into his pockets, fitting as much as he could before just walking off and leaving the rest there. In one of his pant pockets was the mirror; well, not the whole thing, but the sphere of darkened glass that it created when it needed to be mobile. He then followed Yugi at a distance, hoping to be able to find out more about his little group, and cause some trouble while he was at it.
Yugi returned to the group and looked around. People were basically separated in their own groups and left the picnic blanket bare.
"... Did something happen while I was gone?" Asked Yugi, setting the bags on the blanket.
Joey looked up with a black eye. "It's just that Kaiba over there, thinks he's too good enough for the rest of us."
"Well, if the mutt wouldn't stop giving me a hard time about this... THING on my arm, maybe I wouldn't have to waste my time beating him to hell." Snapped Kaiba.
"Guys, come on. We aren't supposed to be fighting. We're supposed to be having a good time." Yugi said, using his hands to help him talk.
Yugi continued his attempts to negotiate with the two while the others sat out of it, staying silent. Marik glanced over his shoulder then sharply cuffed his hikari upside the head.
"Take a quick glance behind you and don't make it look obvious." He hissed quietly.
Malik blinked but looked behind him out of the corner of his eye, turning his head slightly. "What... I don't see anything."
"..." Marik grit his teeth and hunched his shoulders slightly. "Someone is watching... and I can sense some very, very powerful black magic... the others are too busy to notice but it's completely noticeable to me..."
Malik glanced around again. "We're a few people short!"
Sure enough, Chikara, Ryou and Bakura were missing.
Marik got up quickly and searched the surrounding area with his eyes. "Damn it... something's up with her and the damned pharaoh should have taken care of it last night!"
He started walking off one direction then Malik saw him take off running. Malik glanced back at the group, who were still preoccupied with the argument and he ran after his darker half.
"Wait up!" he said, trying to keep up with his yami.
Not even a few moments later, Marik slammed to a stop and found the three missing persons. Ryou was kneeling in front of Chikara, who was sitting on the grass under a tree and didn't look too well at all. Bakura stood there, with his arms crossed and the bag of assorted sodas and water at his feet.
Ryou looked up at Marik and Malik. "She took a nasty fall close to here and we don't know why it happened. She may be getting sick or something like that but... I have a hunch that it has something to do with the strange occurrences lately. From what I've heard, she didn't sleep much at all last night, nor did she try eating anything."
Marik flicked his gaze over to Chikara. "And the rich boy is getting a little too anxious. He was fighting with the Wheeler brother earlier, gave him a good bruise across the eye."
"Bakura," Ryou started. "Hand me one of those bottles of water."
Bakura rolled his eyes, lightly kicking one of the bottles over within Ryou's reach. Ryou uncapped it and quietly tried to coax Chikara into drinking some, with little success. Bakura, Marik and Malik stood around, not speaking but exchanging a few tense glances.
Badru watched them from between the tangled branches of a few trees. He was curled comfortably in the nook between two thick branches, munching contently on some of the food he'd taken from the restaurant. His other hand was curled around the orb of the mirror, looking in it at the curved, darkened reflections of Chikara and the four boys around her. The orb didn't do as much as the full-sized looking glass could, but it seemed to be taking a slight affect on the already partially weakened Chikara. Or maybe the fact that she wasn't speaking or doing much of anything was completely due to the fact she'd barely slept and not eaten. He didn't care, as long as she was having some sort of trouble-the whole revenge thing was complicated in theory but once he'd gotten started, it was simple to do. Just attack everyone who made you mad or was close to someone who'd made you mad. Fun. Easy. He was pretty satisfied thus far, and none of them were any the wiser.
Chikara sighed uneasily, closing her eyes and just ignoring the people who were watching her.
"Maybe we should have gotten Shadi last night..." Malik hissed quietly. Obviously not quietly enough.
Chikara sat up quickly, looking at the three. "No! No, you don't need to call him. You keep him the bloody hell away from me or you'll regret it!"
Malik sweat dropped and held his hands up defensively, giving Chikara a wary look. "Alright, forget I mentioned him."
"On any note, we have to get back to the others and make sure that she doesn't pass out again or something." Ryou said, crossing his arms.
Malik gathered the remaining full bottles and cans and put them back in the shopping bag. "I'll go back to the others and say that... uh... you went to get something else."
"Just tell them that we got hung up." Ryou said, trying to help Chikara up to her feet.
He shrugged, turning towards his yami. "Come on, let's go."
Marik gave hikari this look then flicked his gaze to Chikara then back to him.
"Oh. Bakura, let's go." Malik corrected himself.
Bakura raised an eyebrow then followed Malik back towards the rest of the group. Marik looked at Ryou, who gave him a puzzled look in reply when Marik stuck his hand out to help.
"If she passes out again, I'll be able to carry her." He said in a quiet and low tone, keeping his face solemn.
Ryou nodded and held one of Chikara's arms. "Are you alright now?"
"... Yeah... I'm fine, really..." Chikara answered quietly.
They started walking back to where the rest of the group was having lunch and things had seemed as if they settled down. Ryou allowed Chikara to sit down, but she ended up lying on the ground, covering her eyes with one arm.
"Eye. What's wrong with her?" Asked Joey, jabbing a thumb in her direction.
"She's just..." Ryou paused.
"Tired." Marik finished his sentence. "She didn't get much sleep last night because of what's been going on with the rich boy and the blonde, over there."
"I see-HEY!" Joey growled.
"Basically we've found nothing out of the ordinary since last night." Yogi started out, setting his bottle of soda on the grass. "We don't know who's doing this or how they are. There was this one guy in the restaurant. He was really, really creepy. I don't know who he is but he really looks like Kanaye, but different somehow... like his not usual self."
"More evil?" Yami suggested, his arms crossed over his chest.
Yugi thought for a moment, and then nodded slightly. "I guess you could call it that," he said finally, looking at his Yami in question.
"It may be just a coincidence," Yami said, looking over the group assembled there, "but even so, keep on the look out for Kanaye, or anyone who looks like him, in the future. I have a hunch he may be the one who's causing all this trouble."
Yugi stood, more or less blinking at Yami. "Why would you think that?" he asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Kaiba said, looking over his shoulder at the others. "Some new guy shows up and everyone starts going insane at random... There are no coincidences."
There was an awkward and eerie silence; Kaiba had a point.
"Well, we're just gonna have to teach him a lesson if it is Kanaye that's doin all of this." Joey said, much in an overconfident manner.
Ryou glanced over at Chikara, then nudged his yami. / There she goes again. What can possibly be wrong with her? She didn't bother eating or drinking anything during lunch and I think she passed out again. /
Bakura looked past Ryou, to the now sleeping Chikara. // ... The damned pharaoh knows nothing. He should have listened to Malik and Marik. Ugh... let's end this little meeting early and take her back to your home. If the other mortals want to join then that's just... fine. //
Chikara found herself in a room... a soul room. She didn't know if she was still sleeping or not but she decided to take a glance around. The room that she was in was pretty dark... the walls were covered with all sorts of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that she couldn't even get a clue of what they meant. She saw a few doorways, covered by hanging silk covers of various colors; black, gold, silver, purple. Chikara walked up to the closest doorway, the purple trimmed one and pulled the material back, looking in.
'... What is this place?' She thought, taking half a step in and seeing many ancient Egyptian relics and scrolls lying around on stone tables.
She felt a hard grip on her shoulder and pull her back out of the room. She was about to turn around to see who it was but a dagger was placed at her throat. She was being pulled back by someone, and she swallowed nervously, feeling the blade slightly knick her throat.
"Don't -ever- do that again..." Growled a voice, then Chikara felt something hit her; the whole place going black.
Chikara sat up quickly in a bed at Ryou's house, feeling the wet hand cloth that was on her forehead, fall in front of her. She glanced around hastily, seeing a few people standing in the room.
"Have a nice nap?" Bakura said from the window, looking out towards the street.
Chikara brushed some of her long dark purple hair out of her face and flicked her gaze over to the next person who was in the room; Marik.
"..." She started getting nervous, edging towards the back of the bed.
"There's no reason for you to be too worried, Chikara." Yami said, looking at her from the doorway with his arms crossed. "We're simply concerned of what's going on and we'll have to talk to you."
"What they say is truth, Chikara." Shadi said, walking into the room. "With the extraordinary phenomenon, we need to know more of what precisely is going on. And you, are holding some of the answers."