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16: Another False Floor
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(Bakura's POV)

//Why is this creepy room glowing?//

Tetra shifted in my arms. She was finally back in consciousness.

"Are you alright?" I asked.

Still in my arms, she looked up at me curiously, like she just recognized where she was .

"Huh? Yea, I'm fine." She paused a second and blinked, "I thought I was one supposed to be carrying you."

I smirked. Yeah, I had ordered to carry me. I remember now.

"Well an unconscious person couldn't carry someone, now could they?"

I looked back up and saw Malik walking toward the next door. But this corridor seemed oddly familiar...

"Here." I put Tetra down and looked around the room, to the ceiling, the walls...

//Where do I recognize this?//

Finally I looked at the floor. The floor! That's it!

"Malik! Stop walking, right now!"

"Huh?" Malik turned around.
The second he put his foot down, the floor jolted downward.

"Not another false floor!" Tetra said in a panicked tone and moved closer to me.

"Bakura, what's going?" Malik asked immediately, "What just happened!"

He took another step, and the floor jolted again. Tetra suddenly clung to me.

"Drop, now!"

We all held to the floor. It was going to be a bumpy ride. It wasn't the room so much so that was familiar, or the glow, it was that the floor just ended at the corners. Which meant that barely anything was keeping it up!

The floor lurched and started to skid downward slowly. Tetra was still clinging to me. She didn't do that last time. It was a strange feeling though. I never had anyone cling to me before.

//What is this feeling?!//

/I think you like her Bakura./ Ryou stated in a small voice.

//That's absurd! I don't want to here another word from you, go back to your soul room now!//

Was that the truth, though? That can't be, why is Ryou always being so foolish? I can't love. Can I...?

The floor went into a free fall much like it had last time. My stomach felt light as air, a sort of adrenalin rush feeling. One that I hadn't had in over a thousand years. I just now realized how good it feels to be back in action.

The floor suddenly slammed to the ground again, throwing me even closer to ground. It crumbled and a few rocks rolled.

/Bakura! What just happened?/

Finally a reasonable question from Ryou.

//The floor caved in and fell about a sixty feet.//

/Oh.../

"Bakura, is the girl okay?!" Malik's angry voice shot from the darkness somewhere.

"She's fine."

"Fine..." she whimpered, sitting on the ground and clutching her arm.

"Are you hurt?" I asked. It was instinct. What did I care!

Something in the back of my head twitched. Ryou was thinking to himself. Trying to keep his thoughts from me again, like he used to before I met Malik. I though he learned that lesson the first time. I tapped into his thoughts...

*/Bakura is lying to himself. He just doesn't--/*

//RYOU!//

/Ah! What is it Bakura?/

//You were hiding your thoughts from me. I don't want to EVER catch you doing that ever again. Especially when its about me! Do you understand?!//

/I'm sorry Bakura..../

//Pathetic mortal! Answer me straight or stay silent!//

In my mind I could feel him prepare for me to hurt him. Luckily for him I just wasn't in the mood. Tetra may be hurt!

I turned back into the normal dimension. Malik was helping Tetra up. It looked like she scraped her arm really bad. It wasn't bleeding, but it was bruised and reddish in color, but under the skin. More of a burn.

"Malik is she okay?"

He sighed, "She's fine. Now what just happened?"

//Fine?! She grazed her arm on the walls when we fell!//

"It was a false floor and we just fell." I said with a flat tone. Malik could be so ignorant.

"How do we get out then?"

"I don't know! Why are you asking me? Find your own way out!"

He lifted his Millennium Rod in disagreement.

"Get. Me. Out. Of. This. Pyramid. NOW!"

"I don't now the way out automatically Malik. We'll have to find it." I said with my eyes narrowing.

Malik sighed and looked around the room.

The room was dark. Very dark. I could barely see I a few feet ahead of me. It was also huge. I could hear our voices echo a little.

The strange glow that had been in the room above flowed down like a shadow, hitting what looked to be door. A door with something on it. I narrowed my eyes and walked toward it, my eyes at the same time adjusting to the darkness.

The glow hit it exactly in a circle around something black, and large. It wasn't shiny like rock. It was glossy, like fur. I walked closer until I was a few feet close to it, Tetra, with the help of Malik followed me.

It was a the head of a black lioness! Those were awfully rare. It couldn't be real, so I took a closer look. It was just its head, coming out of the door. The door of which I realized wasn't even a door at all.

I looked into the fake cat's eyes. They were closed. You could see the eyelashes even. It was so real-looking.

"...Bakura, what is that?" Tetra asked.

"I really don't have a clue."

"It looks alive. Its freaking me out!"

"Of course its not real," said Malik from next to her, "Its head is half out of the wall!"

"I'm not so sure, guys."

"You can't really believe that thing's alive, Tetra."

She dropped the subject. My eyes were fully adjusted to the dark now. I scanned the room and looked for a way out. A door, trap door, tunnel, anything. But nothing was there. No way out. Just a corridor with a cat's head.

"Malik, it looks like we're stuck staying here for a while until we can figure how to get out."

"Can't we just get a duel monster to fly us out?"

"Well, we cou--"

As if Malik had jinxed it, there was a ground rattling lurch and the ceiling from the floor above us fell lose and covered the hole out, shutting off the glow that illuminated the cat's head.

"I guess not now," Malik stated.

"I'll get us some light and guess we can sit and think of a way out. Other than that, it looks like we're stuck down here."

I used my Millennium Ring to summon another torch, since my last one I had lost when Malik hit me in the head with his Millennium Rod.

Malik rolled a stone over and sat on it. I did the same and stuck the torch between two boulders, keeping it upright.

"Tetra are you going to come over here?"

"Huh?" She blinked back into thought.

"What were you doing?"

"Staring at this cat head. It looks so real..."

She sat on the ground and hugged her knees, back half toward us, still staring at the lioness head, transfixed.

I looked at Malik. He was deep in thought, sometimes looking at Tetra and sometimes counting things on his fingers. Probably something to do with her having a yami.

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Ok, I couldn't update for a while because of lack of ideas. But don't worry, I'm alive, and I'm back! Review please.