Chapter 7
[Aye, we have this chapter done so soon. Disclaimer: We do not own Yu-Gi- Oh. We only take credit for our original characters that follow. The ones created by Bakura13 are: Sanura, Chikara and Keket. The ones created by
Tora-kun are: Badru, Kanaye and Uadjit. The items were created by us originally just because we were bored and decided to use them during role-
play.]
Yami clenched his teeth as he flicked his eyes over to every moving shadow across the floor. "Chikara, that is enough!"
Chikara's frown turned into a slow sadistic grin as she pointed the pike at the former Pharaoh. "You're not in the position to tell me what to do..."
She stopped, the grip on the pike loosening as she put a hand over her face and winced, still glaring at Yami.
"Come on, Chikara. You can fight this! Don't let them use you!" Yami said, stepping forward.
"Shut up!" Chikara hissed as she glared back through the spaces of her fingers; the eye of Horus glowing brightly on her forehead. But it wasn't glowing completely gold, the interior of the eye outline was glowing a dangerous burning black while the outside had a gold hue.
The room dropped into complete silence as Chikara glared hatefully at Yami as she breathed through her teeth, almost hissing. Shadi moved his gaze over to Chikara's shoulder curiously, thinking that her image was jumping slightly then got a glimpse at what was really there. Chikara lowered her hand back at her side, being back to back with her yami then Sanura turned her head and looked at the guardian of the millennium items and the former pharaoh.
"Sanura, thank the gods you're well rested." Yami paused as the shadows increased and a smirk appeared on the other yami's face. "... Oh no, not you too!"
"Enough with the pleasantries, Pharaoh. It would be better if you watched your precious little light instead." Sanura warned, showing her fangs.
"What are you talking about?! Don't you dare try to harm Yugi!" Yami snapped back.
He didn't like the sinister glances that the yami and hikari exchanged as they both said. "You know what to do."
Sanura crossed her arms and her feet rose about a foot from the floor. "You, dear Pharaoh, do not belong here anymore. You two have overstayed your welcome now leave."
"What are you two planning?" Yami yelled at them again. "Who's in charge of your minds?! Whoever it is! Badru! Keket! Uadjit! You will pay for this! I know you can hear me!"
"Save your breath." Chikara hissed, stabbing the pike into the shadows but not damaging the floor.
"I told you that you were not welcome anymore." Sanura grinned, licking her cat fangs slowly with her tongue. "And now you get an all expenses paid trip to the shadow realm. Why not send you to the hell, you ask? Why do all that trouble while I can bring it here!"
Shadi stepped back as the shadows seemed to take a form and slither across the floor; the empty spaces being replaced with more swirling black and purple foggy shadows. He narrowed his eyes and followed the path of shadows which seemed to coil around the room and end behind Sanura and Chikara. Both the Pharaoh and the guardian looked up when they heard a slow menacing hissing sound from the other side of the room. The shadows took a solid form and crashed on the floor. Black scales, reflecting gold and black patterns shifted slightly on the floorboards. The two followed the trail of dark scales until it came to an ending point, at the rearing head of an open-mouthed serpent which hissed again, bearing its poison covered fangs and flickering its pink tongue.
Shadi narrowed his eyes. "The serpent that has one eye..."
"Correct!" Sanura said as her attitude switched to one much more less serious but sadistic at the same time. "And you wonder why the lovely item is called the Serpent's eye? It is because Uadjit borrowed the eye from this poor, poor little one... Isn't that right?"
The large snake hissed, rearing back more and focusing its one eye on Shadi and Yami.
Yami cringed slightly. 'She's acting like those horrible toons that Pegasus used in the Duelists Tournament... and yet a rift to the Shadow Realm has been opened and focused on this house... soon it will expand past its boundaries and go into the city...'
Sanura and Chikara flinched slightly when the snake shifted and accidentally making its scales touch their feet. Yami took careful note of that and took careful steps backwards, not making any fast movements from the odd Duel Monster.
Sanura pointed at Shadi and Yami, smirking again. "Now my One-Eyed Serpent! Offer these two prying visitors a little taste of your Poisoned Fang!"
The snake hissed more viciously and charged forward between Sanura and Chikara, heading straight towards Yami and the calm Shadi.
"Kuri!" A squeak echoed from the hallway then followed by many more. "Kuri! Kuri!"
Yami felt a rush of air behind them then dozens of brown furred Kuriboh zoomed from the hallway, providing a shield for the almost doomed pair. The snake ate about half of the army of Kuriboh and it pulled back, coughing up tuffs of fur. Yami exhaled slowly, glad that luck was on his side for that moment.
"Get the boys for starters." Sanura said, flicking her gaze over to her hikari.
Chikara stole one last silent glance at Shadi and Yami, and then the window of the room was surrounded by more fog of the shadow realm.
"Chikara! Don't you dare go anywhere!" Yami said again.
Chikara furrowed her eyebrows and ignored the yelling, jumping through the rift that had opened up in the window, causing another one to open within the Kaiba Mansion. She glanced around the hallway of the darkened foyer, seeing no one and hearing silence. She started walking up the stairs slowly, making next to no noise as she kept careful surveillance about the place around her.
She knew that there were cameras around to catch the movements of intruders. She even managed to remember where most of them were placed, stopping under them, out of their reach, and slipping by, using the darkness of the hallway as cover. It was easier than she'd thought-nothing was set off, there was no barely audible click of machinery as a camera spotted her and followed her movements, and definitely no alarms.
Her steps carried her down a particular hallway, less dim than the rest. A bit of light from the small gap under a door sliced through the darkness, making it harder to pass by. She took her time, knowing that her yami would need the extra moments to get Shadi and the Pharaoh out of her house. Soon she was a bit down the hall, the next door that she saw was letting no light through.
Opening the door without a creak, Chikara slipped into the room. By the window was a small bed, and in it she could see a mess of tousled hair beneath thick blankets.
She stepped closer, watching Mokuba carefully for any sign of movement. Once she got right next to the bed, she took the hand with the mark from the Swirls of Shadow and pressed it against the boy's cheek.
He woke after a moment, blinking a few times to get the sleep out of his eyes, and looked up questioningly.
"Huh..? Oh, Chikara... What are you doing here? Did something happen..?" He said, glancing at the hand that touched him.
Chikara smirked for little or no reason as the symbol on the back of her hand began to glow, transferring itself to the boy's cheek. His eyes grew wide for a moment, and then began to close halfway, looking tired.
"There we are..." she muttered, backing up as Mokuba got up, pulling himself from under the blankets and hopping off his bed. Slowly, quietly, she started leading him back to where she had come in, skirting the cameras again easily, and pushing Mokuba into the rift that remained open. She heard a small whirring sound and looked to a corner that wasn't too far away and saw that the camera was focusing right on her. She swore out loud and quickly slid into the rift, hearing an alarm go off.
Once they were both in, the rift closed behind them, bringing them back to Chikara's house and the bedroom that was slowly being taken over by the shadow realm. Sanura was nowhere to be seen, yet neither were Yami or Shadi. She led the small, dazed Mokuba out of that room and into the one next to it, locking the door behind him.
She could hear quite a bit of noise from downstairs, and assumed it was Sanura driving away the two annoyances. That didn't leave her with much time, if Yami were to retreat soon. Chikara sighed heavily, feeling the weariness starting to catch up with her already. The last supposal person she had to retrieve was Yugi, who's darker half was still preoccupied with Sanura.
"Yugi..." She said quietly, looking at the floorboards.
Chikara jumped when she heard the phone ring, and looked at it hesitantly. She stepped back in her room, where the shadow realm was still expanding and picked up the phone.
"Where's Mokuba?!" She heard Seto Kaiba's voice. "He's not in his room and the home security alarm went off! Did you take him?!"
Chikara stayed silent, her eyes drifting over to the fogginess of the shadow realm, which swirled around the room. Kaiba heard the hiss and crashing from the oversized serpent from the first floor though the other line.
"Chikara, what's going on?!" He asked again, then the line was cut short.
Chikara dropped the phone and walked through the same rift that she recently just exited, but this time advancing towards Yugi's house.
Sanura had successfully driven Yami and Shadi out of the house and was standing on the edge of the roof of the house, smirking down at them.
"Your little fur balls couldn't stand a chance against a serpent, now could it?" She almost cackled, but still sounded less serious than any threatening person would. "Don't you want to play a bit longer before the world ends, Pharaoh?"
"Never!" Yelled back Yami as he looked at the One-Eyed Serpent that had coiled itself around part of the house, hissing down at him. "If it's a battle with duel monsters then you're going to get it!"
Yami had taken note that the shadows expanded into the front yard and he took a chance of trying to use a duel monster. He pulled out his Dark Magician card and summoned it onto the front yard as protection. He looked back along the street as one of Kaiba's non-limousine cars screeched to a halt and Seto stepped out from the driver's side.
"Where's Mokuba?!" He questioned immediately, looking around. "And what the hell is going on!?"
"Mokuba?" Yami raised an eyebrow, then looked back at Sanura. "That's what she could have meant! Oh no! YUGI!"
At that same moment, Chikara had left Yugi's house but not through the shadow realm rift. It had closed so she was forced to run back to her home to take the dazed Yugi, using the same spell she had used on Mokuba, to the little 'prison'. She carried Yugi on her back and started to sprint through the streets, flicking her gaze around at the empty sidewalks. She skid to a jolting stop when she saw Marik walking about with Malik and Isis. They were out on watch and a search for Badru while the darkness cloaked them, and it seemed even stranger that Isis was along with them. Chikara backed up a few careful steps, keeping her eyes glued on the three Ishtars.
Her tail twitched nervously as Marik stopped suddenly, not moving.
"Yami?" Malik asked. "What's wrong?"
"The Shadow Realm, I can feel it somewhere near.... it's been bothering me for quite a while now and I think we've found half of what we've been looking for..." Marik looked over his shoulder directly at Chikara.
Chikara hunched down slightly and bolted onto another street, trying to get back to her house as soon as possible. She winced as it felt like the chain that held the Swirls of Shadow was tightening around her neck and making it harder for her to breathe. She swore in Ancient Egyptian, not knowing what words she was saying because the words were stolen from her yami's mind and vocabulary.
Sanura could feel her hikari suffering and soon felt as if her own neck was being constricted with the chain. She winced, her eye twitching as she tried not to put her hands to her throat to the invisible restraint. She saw Chikara running towards the house with Marik and Malik chasing after her, but the chain of the Swirls of Shadow were glowing black.
"Yugi!" Yami yelled, seeing his hikari being carried by Chikara. "Malik, one of you try to get Yugi before she drops him!"
Marik smirked when the Pharaoh asked for help and snagged the collar of Yugi's pajamas, pulling him back just before Chikara fell on the front lawn, grasping at the chain that was choking her.
"Yugi!" Yami ran over to his hikari and took him from Marik. "Yugi, what's wrong? Snap out of it!"
The symbol that was on Yugi's cheek disappeared and the boy blinked a few times, looking at his yami. "Yami? What happened... The Dark Magician? What's going on?"
"Seto! Anyone! Where is everyone!" Mokuba's voice came from one of the other second floor rooms.
"Mokuba!" Seto yelled up. "Stay where you are, wait for me to come get you!"
"I'm scared, Seto!"
"I'll be up there in a minute, Mokuba! Don't worry!" Seto yelled back, then turned his attention back to Yugi and Yami. "Explain what's going on!"
"I'll be happy to answer all your nosy little questions, you clueless mortals..." Said a female voice.
Yami snapped his gaze over to Chikara and Sanura, finding them both unconscious with the hikari lying on the grass and the yami slumped over the edge of the roof.
"Show yourself!" Yami said, looking around quickly.
There was a tall torrent of shadows that gathered beside Chikara and a separate one that gathered on the roof by Sanura. All the present and conscious people watched as the shadows, lowered to the ground and two women were standing there.
Yami narrowed his eyes. "Keket...Uadjit..."
Keket smiled coolly, looking at the angry Pharaoh with her burning stare. "Pharaoh..."
Keket looked at the unconscious form of Chikara and the shadows crept across her body, covering her completely and she disappeared. The exact same thing happened to Sanura then:
"Seto! Chikara's in here and I think she's hurt! You've got to come here quickly and help her, big brother! And someone else is here too! Hurry!" Mokuba yelled from the room.
Seto shook his head, starting for the door of the house. The woman who had been on the roof jumped down in front of him, her fully dark eyes narrowing. Uadjit hadn't spoken yet at all, her voice remaining a mystery.
She was also in his way, and Mokuba was sitting in the window watching, teary-eyed.
"Alright, either get out of my way or explain just what is going on here..." he growled, meeting the almost soulless snakelike gaze before turning around and running into Keket's glare.
"Of course," She said, smirking still, "I could explain this easily... The Pharaoh knows why this is all happening." She turned toward Yami again, her head tilted slightly.
"... Of course... It's your own foolish anger," Yami said plainly. Keket snarled, pulling a weapon out of the shadows suddenly as Chikara had earlier.
"This isn't just some foolish grudge!" She said, practically yelling in her anger, "We lived our lives subordinate to you because of only who our parents were, never able to have a life as good as yours because of something we had no control over! Not only that, but you grew angry when people -tried- to rise, punishments, terrorizing the peasants into fearing you and your foolish court, into believing that you were thinking of their better interest... Your reign was long due to end, and your ignorance of the fact only made it important that it be crushed all the more quickly!"
Yami crossed his arms. "Changing the system that's been around for centuries was something that would have taken a long time to do, no matter what you would have liked."
"That doesn't matter now!" Uadjit yelled from the front of the house, her hands clenching into fists as if she wanted a weapon to cling to, as well. "We almost succeeded and you put a stop to it... Sealed in the gods- forsaken shadow realm! Do you know what it's like in there for so long!?"
"It's supposed to be a punishment... You knew what the dangers were when you set out to kill me."
"I would have preferred you take my life to being stuck in... That place!" Uadjit said, literally hissing the words. "Five thousand years, Pharaoh... With no sunlight... No warmth... We lived, but little more than you have lived." She lowered her face, looking at the ground as she spoke. After a moment of silence, she looked up at Yami through the veil of hair that had fallen over her eyes, a dimming streetlamp glinting off them.
"What you see here, we are no more than our desire for revenge," she said, a malicious smile spreading over her face.
"And the other? What is Badru's part in all this..?"
"Badru is an idiot," Keket said out of nowhere, causing everyone to look at her once again. She was twirling the weapon she had created from the shadows before between her fingers, looking a bit bored. "He is, unlike Sanura and her light, working on his own accord. But he's doing exactly what we planned, in exactly the way we planned."
She paused, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "And us telling you this can't stop us. You can't defeat us, Pharaoh, and even if you were to get rid of us, our little toys are perfectly ready to take on the mission, now..."
[Aye, we have this chapter done so soon. Disclaimer: We do not own Yu-Gi- Oh. We only take credit for our original characters that follow. The ones created by Bakura13 are: Sanura, Chikara and Keket. The ones created by
Tora-kun are: Badru, Kanaye and Uadjit. The items were created by us originally just because we were bored and decided to use them during role-
play.]
Yami clenched his teeth as he flicked his eyes over to every moving shadow across the floor. "Chikara, that is enough!"
Chikara's frown turned into a slow sadistic grin as she pointed the pike at the former Pharaoh. "You're not in the position to tell me what to do..."
She stopped, the grip on the pike loosening as she put a hand over her face and winced, still glaring at Yami.
"Come on, Chikara. You can fight this! Don't let them use you!" Yami said, stepping forward.
"Shut up!" Chikara hissed as she glared back through the spaces of her fingers; the eye of Horus glowing brightly on her forehead. But it wasn't glowing completely gold, the interior of the eye outline was glowing a dangerous burning black while the outside had a gold hue.
The room dropped into complete silence as Chikara glared hatefully at Yami as she breathed through her teeth, almost hissing. Shadi moved his gaze over to Chikara's shoulder curiously, thinking that her image was jumping slightly then got a glimpse at what was really there. Chikara lowered her hand back at her side, being back to back with her yami then Sanura turned her head and looked at the guardian of the millennium items and the former pharaoh.
"Sanura, thank the gods you're well rested." Yami paused as the shadows increased and a smirk appeared on the other yami's face. "... Oh no, not you too!"
"Enough with the pleasantries, Pharaoh. It would be better if you watched your precious little light instead." Sanura warned, showing her fangs.
"What are you talking about?! Don't you dare try to harm Yugi!" Yami snapped back.
He didn't like the sinister glances that the yami and hikari exchanged as they both said. "You know what to do."
Sanura crossed her arms and her feet rose about a foot from the floor. "You, dear Pharaoh, do not belong here anymore. You two have overstayed your welcome now leave."
"What are you two planning?" Yami yelled at them again. "Who's in charge of your minds?! Whoever it is! Badru! Keket! Uadjit! You will pay for this! I know you can hear me!"
"Save your breath." Chikara hissed, stabbing the pike into the shadows but not damaging the floor.
"I told you that you were not welcome anymore." Sanura grinned, licking her cat fangs slowly with her tongue. "And now you get an all expenses paid trip to the shadow realm. Why not send you to the hell, you ask? Why do all that trouble while I can bring it here!"
Shadi stepped back as the shadows seemed to take a form and slither across the floor; the empty spaces being replaced with more swirling black and purple foggy shadows. He narrowed his eyes and followed the path of shadows which seemed to coil around the room and end behind Sanura and Chikara. Both the Pharaoh and the guardian looked up when they heard a slow menacing hissing sound from the other side of the room. The shadows took a solid form and crashed on the floor. Black scales, reflecting gold and black patterns shifted slightly on the floorboards. The two followed the trail of dark scales until it came to an ending point, at the rearing head of an open-mouthed serpent which hissed again, bearing its poison covered fangs and flickering its pink tongue.
Shadi narrowed his eyes. "The serpent that has one eye..."
"Correct!" Sanura said as her attitude switched to one much more less serious but sadistic at the same time. "And you wonder why the lovely item is called the Serpent's eye? It is because Uadjit borrowed the eye from this poor, poor little one... Isn't that right?"
The large snake hissed, rearing back more and focusing its one eye on Shadi and Yami.
Yami cringed slightly. 'She's acting like those horrible toons that Pegasus used in the Duelists Tournament... and yet a rift to the Shadow Realm has been opened and focused on this house... soon it will expand past its boundaries and go into the city...'
Sanura and Chikara flinched slightly when the snake shifted and accidentally making its scales touch their feet. Yami took careful note of that and took careful steps backwards, not making any fast movements from the odd Duel Monster.
Sanura pointed at Shadi and Yami, smirking again. "Now my One-Eyed Serpent! Offer these two prying visitors a little taste of your Poisoned Fang!"
The snake hissed more viciously and charged forward between Sanura and Chikara, heading straight towards Yami and the calm Shadi.
"Kuri!" A squeak echoed from the hallway then followed by many more. "Kuri! Kuri!"
Yami felt a rush of air behind them then dozens of brown furred Kuriboh zoomed from the hallway, providing a shield for the almost doomed pair. The snake ate about half of the army of Kuriboh and it pulled back, coughing up tuffs of fur. Yami exhaled slowly, glad that luck was on his side for that moment.
"Get the boys for starters." Sanura said, flicking her gaze over to her hikari.
Chikara stole one last silent glance at Shadi and Yami, and then the window of the room was surrounded by more fog of the shadow realm.
"Chikara! Don't you dare go anywhere!" Yami said again.
Chikara furrowed her eyebrows and ignored the yelling, jumping through the rift that had opened up in the window, causing another one to open within the Kaiba Mansion. She glanced around the hallway of the darkened foyer, seeing no one and hearing silence. She started walking up the stairs slowly, making next to no noise as she kept careful surveillance about the place around her.
She knew that there were cameras around to catch the movements of intruders. She even managed to remember where most of them were placed, stopping under them, out of their reach, and slipping by, using the darkness of the hallway as cover. It was easier than she'd thought-nothing was set off, there was no barely audible click of machinery as a camera spotted her and followed her movements, and definitely no alarms.
Her steps carried her down a particular hallway, less dim than the rest. A bit of light from the small gap under a door sliced through the darkness, making it harder to pass by. She took her time, knowing that her yami would need the extra moments to get Shadi and the Pharaoh out of her house. Soon she was a bit down the hall, the next door that she saw was letting no light through.
Opening the door without a creak, Chikara slipped into the room. By the window was a small bed, and in it she could see a mess of tousled hair beneath thick blankets.
She stepped closer, watching Mokuba carefully for any sign of movement. Once she got right next to the bed, she took the hand with the mark from the Swirls of Shadow and pressed it against the boy's cheek.
He woke after a moment, blinking a few times to get the sleep out of his eyes, and looked up questioningly.
"Huh..? Oh, Chikara... What are you doing here? Did something happen..?" He said, glancing at the hand that touched him.
Chikara smirked for little or no reason as the symbol on the back of her hand began to glow, transferring itself to the boy's cheek. His eyes grew wide for a moment, and then began to close halfway, looking tired.
"There we are..." she muttered, backing up as Mokuba got up, pulling himself from under the blankets and hopping off his bed. Slowly, quietly, she started leading him back to where she had come in, skirting the cameras again easily, and pushing Mokuba into the rift that remained open. She heard a small whirring sound and looked to a corner that wasn't too far away and saw that the camera was focusing right on her. She swore out loud and quickly slid into the rift, hearing an alarm go off.
Once they were both in, the rift closed behind them, bringing them back to Chikara's house and the bedroom that was slowly being taken over by the shadow realm. Sanura was nowhere to be seen, yet neither were Yami or Shadi. She led the small, dazed Mokuba out of that room and into the one next to it, locking the door behind him.
She could hear quite a bit of noise from downstairs, and assumed it was Sanura driving away the two annoyances. That didn't leave her with much time, if Yami were to retreat soon. Chikara sighed heavily, feeling the weariness starting to catch up with her already. The last supposal person she had to retrieve was Yugi, who's darker half was still preoccupied with Sanura.
"Yugi..." She said quietly, looking at the floorboards.
Chikara jumped when she heard the phone ring, and looked at it hesitantly. She stepped back in her room, where the shadow realm was still expanding and picked up the phone.
"Where's Mokuba?!" She heard Seto Kaiba's voice. "He's not in his room and the home security alarm went off! Did you take him?!"
Chikara stayed silent, her eyes drifting over to the fogginess of the shadow realm, which swirled around the room. Kaiba heard the hiss and crashing from the oversized serpent from the first floor though the other line.
"Chikara, what's going on?!" He asked again, then the line was cut short.
Chikara dropped the phone and walked through the same rift that she recently just exited, but this time advancing towards Yugi's house.
Sanura had successfully driven Yami and Shadi out of the house and was standing on the edge of the roof of the house, smirking down at them.
"Your little fur balls couldn't stand a chance against a serpent, now could it?" She almost cackled, but still sounded less serious than any threatening person would. "Don't you want to play a bit longer before the world ends, Pharaoh?"
"Never!" Yelled back Yami as he looked at the One-Eyed Serpent that had coiled itself around part of the house, hissing down at him. "If it's a battle with duel monsters then you're going to get it!"
Yami had taken note that the shadows expanded into the front yard and he took a chance of trying to use a duel monster. He pulled out his Dark Magician card and summoned it onto the front yard as protection. He looked back along the street as one of Kaiba's non-limousine cars screeched to a halt and Seto stepped out from the driver's side.
"Where's Mokuba?!" He questioned immediately, looking around. "And what the hell is going on!?"
"Mokuba?" Yami raised an eyebrow, then looked back at Sanura. "That's what she could have meant! Oh no! YUGI!"
At that same moment, Chikara had left Yugi's house but not through the shadow realm rift. It had closed so she was forced to run back to her home to take the dazed Yugi, using the same spell she had used on Mokuba, to the little 'prison'. She carried Yugi on her back and started to sprint through the streets, flicking her gaze around at the empty sidewalks. She skid to a jolting stop when she saw Marik walking about with Malik and Isis. They were out on watch and a search for Badru while the darkness cloaked them, and it seemed even stranger that Isis was along with them. Chikara backed up a few careful steps, keeping her eyes glued on the three Ishtars.
Her tail twitched nervously as Marik stopped suddenly, not moving.
"Yami?" Malik asked. "What's wrong?"
"The Shadow Realm, I can feel it somewhere near.... it's been bothering me for quite a while now and I think we've found half of what we've been looking for..." Marik looked over his shoulder directly at Chikara.
Chikara hunched down slightly and bolted onto another street, trying to get back to her house as soon as possible. She winced as it felt like the chain that held the Swirls of Shadow was tightening around her neck and making it harder for her to breathe. She swore in Ancient Egyptian, not knowing what words she was saying because the words were stolen from her yami's mind and vocabulary.
Sanura could feel her hikari suffering and soon felt as if her own neck was being constricted with the chain. She winced, her eye twitching as she tried not to put her hands to her throat to the invisible restraint. She saw Chikara running towards the house with Marik and Malik chasing after her, but the chain of the Swirls of Shadow were glowing black.
"Yugi!" Yami yelled, seeing his hikari being carried by Chikara. "Malik, one of you try to get Yugi before she drops him!"
Marik smirked when the Pharaoh asked for help and snagged the collar of Yugi's pajamas, pulling him back just before Chikara fell on the front lawn, grasping at the chain that was choking her.
"Yugi!" Yami ran over to his hikari and took him from Marik. "Yugi, what's wrong? Snap out of it!"
The symbol that was on Yugi's cheek disappeared and the boy blinked a few times, looking at his yami. "Yami? What happened... The Dark Magician? What's going on?"
"Seto! Anyone! Where is everyone!" Mokuba's voice came from one of the other second floor rooms.
"Mokuba!" Seto yelled up. "Stay where you are, wait for me to come get you!"
"I'm scared, Seto!"
"I'll be up there in a minute, Mokuba! Don't worry!" Seto yelled back, then turned his attention back to Yugi and Yami. "Explain what's going on!"
"I'll be happy to answer all your nosy little questions, you clueless mortals..." Said a female voice.
Yami snapped his gaze over to Chikara and Sanura, finding them both unconscious with the hikari lying on the grass and the yami slumped over the edge of the roof.
"Show yourself!" Yami said, looking around quickly.
There was a tall torrent of shadows that gathered beside Chikara and a separate one that gathered on the roof by Sanura. All the present and conscious people watched as the shadows, lowered to the ground and two women were standing there.
Yami narrowed his eyes. "Keket...Uadjit..."
Keket smiled coolly, looking at the angry Pharaoh with her burning stare. "Pharaoh..."
Keket looked at the unconscious form of Chikara and the shadows crept across her body, covering her completely and she disappeared. The exact same thing happened to Sanura then:
"Seto! Chikara's in here and I think she's hurt! You've got to come here quickly and help her, big brother! And someone else is here too! Hurry!" Mokuba yelled from the room.
Seto shook his head, starting for the door of the house. The woman who had been on the roof jumped down in front of him, her fully dark eyes narrowing. Uadjit hadn't spoken yet at all, her voice remaining a mystery.
She was also in his way, and Mokuba was sitting in the window watching, teary-eyed.
"Alright, either get out of my way or explain just what is going on here..." he growled, meeting the almost soulless snakelike gaze before turning around and running into Keket's glare.
"Of course," She said, smirking still, "I could explain this easily... The Pharaoh knows why this is all happening." She turned toward Yami again, her head tilted slightly.
"... Of course... It's your own foolish anger," Yami said plainly. Keket snarled, pulling a weapon out of the shadows suddenly as Chikara had earlier.
"This isn't just some foolish grudge!" She said, practically yelling in her anger, "We lived our lives subordinate to you because of only who our parents were, never able to have a life as good as yours because of something we had no control over! Not only that, but you grew angry when people -tried- to rise, punishments, terrorizing the peasants into fearing you and your foolish court, into believing that you were thinking of their better interest... Your reign was long due to end, and your ignorance of the fact only made it important that it be crushed all the more quickly!"
Yami crossed his arms. "Changing the system that's been around for centuries was something that would have taken a long time to do, no matter what you would have liked."
"That doesn't matter now!" Uadjit yelled from the front of the house, her hands clenching into fists as if she wanted a weapon to cling to, as well. "We almost succeeded and you put a stop to it... Sealed in the gods- forsaken shadow realm! Do you know what it's like in there for so long!?"
"It's supposed to be a punishment... You knew what the dangers were when you set out to kill me."
"I would have preferred you take my life to being stuck in... That place!" Uadjit said, literally hissing the words. "Five thousand years, Pharaoh... With no sunlight... No warmth... We lived, but little more than you have lived." She lowered her face, looking at the ground as she spoke. After a moment of silence, she looked up at Yami through the veil of hair that had fallen over her eyes, a dimming streetlamp glinting off them.
"What you see here, we are no more than our desire for revenge," she said, a malicious smile spreading over her face.
"And the other? What is Badru's part in all this..?"
"Badru is an idiot," Keket said out of nowhere, causing everyone to look at her once again. She was twirling the weapon she had created from the shadows before between her fingers, looking a bit bored. "He is, unlike Sanura and her light, working on his own accord. But he's doing exactly what we planned, in exactly the way we planned."
She paused, brushing a strand of hair behind her ear. "And us telling you this can't stop us. You can't defeat us, Pharaoh, and even if you were to get rid of us, our little toys are perfectly ready to take on the mission, now..."