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17:What couldn't be is?
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(Tetra's POV)

I stared and fathomed at the black lioness head. It was so real . . . I wonder what would happen if I touched it. Its fur was a glossy jet black, and it flickered in the light of Bakura's torch. If it was completely dark you wouldn't be able to see it at all.

It also had silver whiskers; long and uneven. Ears with small tufts at the ends, a slight silver, too. The ears were perked as if listening. I looked further at the panther-ish lion, searching for any one detail that showed it couldn't be alive.

I looked to its chest, which was where it closed into the wall perfectly. Shiny silver streaks were here and there, but not nearly as many as there were have been if it was a male lion. I looked carefully, still, something about it didn't seem to dead. It looked so real...

Suddenly the chest moved in and then out!

[What was that?!] I panicked to myself.

A trick of the light? No . . . it was too lifelike.

I shook my head. Malik's probably right, it isn't real. In fact, its half in and out of the wall! I closed my eyes and made my thoughts drift to something I should be paying more attention to . . . Where was my yami?

I stomach felt like it turned inside out again, and I was suddenly in a hallway. A corridor of my own mind. On one side, there was large oak door with aqua blue amulets stuck in the sides. It also had hieroglyphics written in gold. On the other side of the corridor was a light, basic, wooden door; much like the one at home to my bedroom. It even had some leftover paint smudges from when my room was painted...

Were these the soul rooms of my yami and I? Sounds like something Yugi had described. Yes, that has got to be it.

I was suddenly sent back to where I was before I entered soul hall, but I kept my eyes closed. I could here Malik and Bakura's soft breathing, and the torch flickering...

I opened my eyes and my they immediately landed on the lion's head. Its eyes were open!

Staring right at me, they were. Hungrily and dangerous like. They weren't that way before. I don't even think they were open before! I could also see the feline's chest breathing deeper. Thinking of this made me feel my own heart throb and my chest to breathe deeply in and out.

"Its . . . . . ALIVE!"

"Its ALIVE!" I screamed again, scrambling over myself and latching myslef onto the nearest person to me. Of which, happned to be Malik.

I was suprised with his reaction. He did shove me away or anthing, but his eyes opened in shock.

"Whats alive?" he asked.

I pointed towards the lioness's head. My jaw nearly dropped. Its eyes were closed and it was as still as stone.

"Whats alive?" Malik asked again, obviously impatient for me to let go of him.

"But...but it was ALIVE I tell you!" I said frantically in my defense.

I let go of Malik and fell to the floor, staring at the lioness's head.

[It was alive. IT WAS! I mean, it IS!]

[[What are you rambling about now?]]

My yamis distinct voice echoed through my head, though I wasn't inside my mind at all. I was still in the concious world, staring at the stuffed animal half out of the wall. But it isn't stuffed and I know it!

[[ANSWER ME!]] she demanded.

I didn't know how. I didn't know how I've been projecting my voice in the first place.

Luckily I didn't have to.

[[Oh? The lion head?]] my yami laughed to herself. [[That? I won't tell you a thing about it. In fact I hope all three of you are stuck in my tomb for all of eternity you grave robbers!]]

Not the response I was looking for. My yami disappeared. I don't if thats exactly the right word, but it fits. When she talked or listened, it felt like I could feel her in me. But when she stopped, she was gone...

I turned my attention back to the two megalomaniacs who I was stuck with. They were both in front of the lion head, Malik holding the torch. And, yet again, they were arguing.

"Its isn't real, Bakura. Its pysically impossible!"

"The second she yelled that it was alive I opened my eyes and saw it staring at her! I saw it with my own two eyes, and so did Ryou!"

From just behind them I saw the black lion's head. It opened its eyes again, but they glowed green in the odd lighting, like night vision of an obviously nocturnal animal.

I was frozen to the spot. I couldn't even yell out to Bakura or Malik. I was paralyzed in fear. I wish my yami would have told me about this thing!

[Why is it alive?!]

I thought, and it projected through my head. But no answer came except for a laugh.

The cats eyes focused in on me in a frightening way. It lifted a paw out of the wall, like there was no wall there at all! Is there wall there? I don't think anyone checked. . . but that means. . .

Our feline friend here is indeed NOT real. But. . . A GHOST!

"Bakura!" I screamed at the top of my lungs unexpectly, "The cat! Its a ghost! LOOK!"

"What?!" Bakura said aloud looking toward the cat, which had completely formed on our side of the wall.

Both Malik and Bakura stepped back a foot from it.

"I told you it was real!" Bakura shouted at Malik.

"How should I have known?!"

The lion suddenly leapt forward as it seemingly regained its strength, bounding towards me.

[[ My faithful pet is the most loyal posession I have.]] my yami told me, [[She'll get my revenge on you for taking my millennium chain!]]

Millennium Chain? What in the world is that?! But thats on the least of my worries! I now have a ghost gaining on my location! I had better get get away here! But I can't move, I'm too scared!

Malik and Bakura's millennium items glowed a brilliant yellow as they ran toward my rescue.

Suddenly the jaguar-like creature turned and glowed purple, making both Bakura and Malik's millennium items back fire, sending both of them crashing into the far wall.

"What kind of shadow magic is this?!" Malik yelled.

The cat turned toward me again. I stood up and tried to back away, but tripped over a fallen peice of floor, winding back on the ground. The ghost lioness was about to pounce on me!

Ghost or not, this creature possesed an ancient magic. I had to get away!

The lion was nearly on me...

I have to get away!

I have to!

Suddenly a piercing scream filled the air, followed by a flash of pink light, I closed my eyes it was so bright. I heard the lion roar in pain; what had happened?

I opened my eyes to see none other than the Dark Magician Girl!

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*laughs evilly* Sorry! I'm going to wait you make another entire chapter to find out what happens! I'm the most demented author aren't I? Chibi eyes dont even work! ^_^

Actually, even I don't know what will happen. The stroy is writing itself. I know they'll go shopping once they get out, but I don't HOW they are going to get out.

~.~ I hate writers block. *sighs* Gomen, just review.