||The Millennium Chain||
Mariku gracefully slid down from the old clay roof and landed on the packed sand ground to greet Bakura-Chan and the strangely-familiar looking guests.
"You're early back, 'Kura, did you steal the gold from Cuzco's? And who are these guests of yours?"
Bakura-chan grinned and laughed,
"Yeah. I got Cuzco's shop good," he proudly held up the bag, "He didn't even notice when I ditched the guards down the alley!"
"And they are-?" Mariku said indicating with his hands.
Yami Bakura butted in.
"Look here, Mariku, it really doesn't matter in the end and we'll explain ourselves inside. But we have to get this girl- Tetra -in the shade!"
Mariku took a close look at the girl and noticed how much the other two looked like himself and Bakura-chan. He moved out of the door way, and let them enter, but wearily.
"'Kura!" he whispered through clenched teeth, "Why do they look like me and you?"
"Something about them coming from the future," he replied, also whispering, " But check out that girl! I was thinking about bringing her back, but these two-"
Mariku nudged Bakura-Chan in the shoulder,
"Stealing people isn't as easy as stealing trinkets from the market place, 'Kura. Come on, let's get them welcome here. If they're us from the future they can help us with our goals!"
With that, Mariku walked inside casually to find Yami Bakura and Malik already at home with the dusty sheets, broken pots, straw pile, gold pile, half gone roof, as if they had lived here all their lives.
In essence the have... or at least in a past life.
Bakura set Tetra down on the straw pile (what did you expect? a mattress?) and placed a hand over her forhead to see how much heat was coming from it. And there was. For people not used to living in Egypt, the heat could be deadly. Tetra must get something cold quickly, so she can cool down. This fever was one that was spent in her subconciousness... Not painful, but burning hot and sweaty...
(Tetra's POV)
Who knows where I am now... its cooler than whever I was before, whever that was was... but not by much. I have this terrible headache.
//Girl, are you there?//
/Huh? Yes, but barely, where am I?/
The alter ego paused and thought.
//I don't know any more than you do.//
/Oh./
The air was hot, and I could barely hear anything. All I heard was:
"Mariku, Bakura-chan, you two stay here and make sure she's okay. Malik and I are going to go to the Nile and get some cold water, we won't be gone more than a half hour, understand?"
It was Bakura! And the cold water he's talking about sounds good. I want to get up and have some right now.
//You're going delisional from the heat. If you get up now, you'll only waste what little cold you have left to keep you from fainting. I won't let you get up.//
I found that she made it so I couldn't get up. I'm not going delisional! I want to get up an tell Bakura I'm okay, so we can find a way home!
My efforts to move failed, it felt like I was paralyzed, or rather, that I wasn't there and couldn't move what I didn't have anymore... strange. I could feel, though. I could feel... straw under me. Great. I was laying on straw, oh well.
//Yes, oh well.//
/.../
//Looks like you're never going home.//
/Why do you always have to be so negative?/
//Because I want to make you as miserable as possible.//
/Why would you want to do something like that?/
//I'm no longer alive, so why should I care? Maybe I want you dead too.//
/Stop it! You're freaking me out!/
//I know.//
/I don't understand. Why do you want to make me miserable? You could help me back home instead; we could be friends./
//I was a pharaoh's child. Why would I want to be friends with a thief like you?!//
/I'm not a thief! What makes you think that? And whats your name, anyways?/
//I am Niramsis. And you must also be a lier as well. You stole my millennium chain.//
/When did I do that? I'm not a thief!/
//Then what do you wear around your neck?//
/What my brother gave to me, before.../
//Before what?//
/...I don't want to talk about my brother.../
Niramsis snorted. //Would you rather have me search your thoughts and memories? I can do that you know, as a yami.//
/No. The point is that my brother gave it to me... before...he was killed. Don't ask about him, ever again./
//I won't...but I'll remember this, maybe I can hold your memories randsom later.//
/Just leave my brother out of this!/
//So I will. You say your brother gave it to you. Now, where did he get it?//
/I don't know.../
//No... you don't. But, your brother worked for Malik, correct?//
/YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T LOOK INTO MY MEMORIES YOU LIER!/
//Nevertheless, what can you do to stop me? I did it before you told me not to.//
/... Yes, my brother did work for Malik as a..../
//Mind slave?//
/yeah, something like that... My brother and I always used to really close because we never had any family besides eachother. He gave me the chain necklace the night before-/
//You mean my Millennium Chain.//
/The millennium chain, the night before I saw him fighting with himself, or probably Malik, inside his head... he commited suicide by jumping off a building. He asked me to keep the millennium chain and to always remember him.../
//But you don't know where he got it?//
/no./
//... Fine, I won't hold you as a thief anymore, but you were still associating yourself with the neferious tomb robber Bakura. Hmm... I think you're rather attracted to him as well.//
/Stop taunting me and go away!/
//What makes you think I want to? I still like to make you miserable. But I'll leave you for now, as I need to think over the subject of Malik...//
/Malik?/
//Yes, the same Malik that you said back in the tomb was-//
/That was a first impression only./
//So you think Bakura looks better?//
/Well, I suppose- HEY! You have no right to know about my feelings toward guys!/
Niramsis' laughter echoed through my head and faded away. Grr... so what if I MAY like Bakura OR Malik OR kawaii little Bakura-chan -- err... did I actually say that?
Ah! I have more important things to think about than the hot looking Egyptians! I just said that too... I'm making myself lok like an idiot...
//But you are an idiot.//
I think I'll ignore her as much as possible. I'm not even ready to have a boyfriend yet because I don't trust anyone.
Now, to thinking SERIOUSLY. Why is Niramsis going to think about Malik, now that I mentioned how I actually got the millennium chain? Oh, I know. If she blamed me for stealing it, then it was stolen. My brother had been under Malik's trance for over a month or two, so the only way he would have gotten something would have been from Malik himself.
Is this Malik's setup? Is this why he wants me? Because he stole the Millennium Chain, brainwashed my brother to give it to me, and told Bakura to rob the very tomb of the first owner of the Millennium Chain? My mind puzzled at all sorts of things. Did Malik want me, the Millennium Chain, the power it has because its an eighth item, or does he want the spirit of the pharaoh's sister?
Well, whatever he was planning, his plans are certainly screwed now. We're back in time by nearly five millennia, where Bakura isn't a spirit yet, and there's a past Malik named Mariku...
Wait? If this is back in Egypt and Bakura isn't a spirit yet...THAT MEANS THE MILLENNIUM ITEMS DON'T EXIST YET!
THE EVIL POWERS THAT THE PHARAOH SEEKED TO STOP ARE STILL RUNNING FREELY THROUGHOUT EGYPT.
THE SAME EVIL POWERS THAT BAKURA-CHAN, MARIKU, PRESENT DAY YAMI BAKURA, AND MALIK WANT TO CONTROL TO RULE THE WORLD.
I slowly opened my eyes... that means I'm no longer being restained by Niramsis to lay down. I didn't stir because I saw Bakura-chan and Mariku talking in the crumbling clay doorframe.
"Mariku, we can still take the girl before they get back. She's from the future and knows nothing about how dangerous we are, nor how dangerous just walking in the market place is without being mugged. She'd be forced to trust us. If we get her on our side, then we can come back and convince the other two that we alone will conquer the forces of evil and rule the world!"
Mariku nodded and smirked evilly.
"This will be fun. Lets pack some water and get some for her. I already know the perfect excuse to use on her." Mariku shrugged casually, "Besides, she's quite beautiful, and the perfect desert flower to claim as our own."
"Mariku, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I like the way your mind thinks."
They left the light of the door way and I heard some shuffling of what I could only guess to stolen hand-sewn bags. I shut my eyes, and pretending to be asleep or unconcious like before. They can't know that I heard they're plans. They're planning to take me away from Bakura and Malik! And there really is nothing I can do about it.
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Hah, hah! This chapter is longer than most of my other ones!
And I actually have thought up some demented storyline for this to follow!
So, review and answer:
Will someone get Tetra? Or two someones? Or not at all?
I REALLY need to know. Until I get at least 5 votes in any one direction, I'm not doing nothin.
(Anyways, so now you know a little about Tetra's brother, Malik's original plot, and a tincy wincy bit about the Millennium Chain. BUT REMEMBER: the title of the story is TOMB ROBBER, as in, it must CENTER around Bakura. ^^;)
Review. ^_~
Mariku gracefully slid down from the old clay roof and landed on the packed sand ground to greet Bakura-Chan and the strangely-familiar looking guests.
"You're early back, 'Kura, did you steal the gold from Cuzco's? And who are these guests of yours?"
Bakura-chan grinned and laughed,
"Yeah. I got Cuzco's shop good," he proudly held up the bag, "He didn't even notice when I ditched the guards down the alley!"
"And they are-?" Mariku said indicating with his hands.
Yami Bakura butted in.
"Look here, Mariku, it really doesn't matter in the end and we'll explain ourselves inside. But we have to get this girl- Tetra -in the shade!"
Mariku took a close look at the girl and noticed how much the other two looked like himself and Bakura-chan. He moved out of the door way, and let them enter, but wearily.
"'Kura!" he whispered through clenched teeth, "Why do they look like me and you?"
"Something about them coming from the future," he replied, also whispering, " But check out that girl! I was thinking about bringing her back, but these two-"
Mariku nudged Bakura-Chan in the shoulder,
"Stealing people isn't as easy as stealing trinkets from the market place, 'Kura. Come on, let's get them welcome here. If they're us from the future they can help us with our goals!"
With that, Mariku walked inside casually to find Yami Bakura and Malik already at home with the dusty sheets, broken pots, straw pile, gold pile, half gone roof, as if they had lived here all their lives.
In essence the have... or at least in a past life.
Bakura set Tetra down on the straw pile (what did you expect? a mattress?) and placed a hand over her forhead to see how much heat was coming from it. And there was. For people not used to living in Egypt, the heat could be deadly. Tetra must get something cold quickly, so she can cool down. This fever was one that was spent in her subconciousness... Not painful, but burning hot and sweaty...
(Tetra's POV)
Who knows where I am now... its cooler than whever I was before, whever that was was... but not by much. I have this terrible headache.
//Girl, are you there?//
/Huh? Yes, but barely, where am I?/
The alter ego paused and thought.
//I don't know any more than you do.//
/Oh./
The air was hot, and I could barely hear anything. All I heard was:
"Mariku, Bakura-chan, you two stay here and make sure she's okay. Malik and I are going to go to the Nile and get some cold water, we won't be gone more than a half hour, understand?"
It was Bakura! And the cold water he's talking about sounds good. I want to get up and have some right now.
//You're going delisional from the heat. If you get up now, you'll only waste what little cold you have left to keep you from fainting. I won't let you get up.//
I found that she made it so I couldn't get up. I'm not going delisional! I want to get up an tell Bakura I'm okay, so we can find a way home!
My efforts to move failed, it felt like I was paralyzed, or rather, that I wasn't there and couldn't move what I didn't have anymore... strange. I could feel, though. I could feel... straw under me. Great. I was laying on straw, oh well.
//Yes, oh well.//
/.../
//Looks like you're never going home.//
/Why do you always have to be so negative?/
//Because I want to make you as miserable as possible.//
/Why would you want to do something like that?/
//I'm no longer alive, so why should I care? Maybe I want you dead too.//
/Stop it! You're freaking me out!/
//I know.//
/I don't understand. Why do you want to make me miserable? You could help me back home instead; we could be friends./
//I was a pharaoh's child. Why would I want to be friends with a thief like you?!//
/I'm not a thief! What makes you think that? And whats your name, anyways?/
//I am Niramsis. And you must also be a lier as well. You stole my millennium chain.//
/When did I do that? I'm not a thief!/
//Then what do you wear around your neck?//
/What my brother gave to me, before.../
//Before what?//
/...I don't want to talk about my brother.../
Niramsis snorted. //Would you rather have me search your thoughts and memories? I can do that you know, as a yami.//
/No. The point is that my brother gave it to me... before...he was killed. Don't ask about him, ever again./
//I won't...but I'll remember this, maybe I can hold your memories randsom later.//
/Just leave my brother out of this!/
//So I will. You say your brother gave it to you. Now, where did he get it?//
/I don't know.../
//No... you don't. But, your brother worked for Malik, correct?//
/YOU SAID YOU WOULDN'T LOOK INTO MY MEMORIES YOU LIER!/
//Nevertheless, what can you do to stop me? I did it before you told me not to.//
/... Yes, my brother did work for Malik as a..../
//Mind slave?//
/yeah, something like that... My brother and I always used to really close because we never had any family besides eachother. He gave me the chain necklace the night before-/
//You mean my Millennium Chain.//
/The millennium chain, the night before I saw him fighting with himself, or probably Malik, inside his head... he commited suicide by jumping off a building. He asked me to keep the millennium chain and to always remember him.../
//But you don't know where he got it?//
/no./
//... Fine, I won't hold you as a thief anymore, but you were still associating yourself with the neferious tomb robber Bakura. Hmm... I think you're rather attracted to him as well.//
/Stop taunting me and go away!/
//What makes you think I want to? I still like to make you miserable. But I'll leave you for now, as I need to think over the subject of Malik...//
/Malik?/
//Yes, the same Malik that you said back in the tomb was-//
/That was a first impression only./
//So you think Bakura looks better?//
/Well, I suppose- HEY! You have no right to know about my feelings toward guys!/
Niramsis' laughter echoed through my head and faded away. Grr... so what if I MAY like Bakura OR Malik OR kawaii little Bakura-chan -- err... did I actually say that?
Ah! I have more important things to think about than the hot looking Egyptians! I just said that too... I'm making myself lok like an idiot...
//But you are an idiot.//
I think I'll ignore her as much as possible. I'm not even ready to have a boyfriend yet because I don't trust anyone.
Now, to thinking SERIOUSLY. Why is Niramsis going to think about Malik, now that I mentioned how I actually got the millennium chain? Oh, I know. If she blamed me for stealing it, then it was stolen. My brother had been under Malik's trance for over a month or two, so the only way he would have gotten something would have been from Malik himself.
Is this Malik's setup? Is this why he wants me? Because he stole the Millennium Chain, brainwashed my brother to give it to me, and told Bakura to rob the very tomb of the first owner of the Millennium Chain? My mind puzzled at all sorts of things. Did Malik want me, the Millennium Chain, the power it has because its an eighth item, or does he want the spirit of the pharaoh's sister?
Well, whatever he was planning, his plans are certainly screwed now. We're back in time by nearly five millennia, where Bakura isn't a spirit yet, and there's a past Malik named Mariku...
Wait? If this is back in Egypt and Bakura isn't a spirit yet...THAT MEANS THE MILLENNIUM ITEMS DON'T EXIST YET!
THE EVIL POWERS THAT THE PHARAOH SEEKED TO STOP ARE STILL RUNNING FREELY THROUGHOUT EGYPT.
THE SAME EVIL POWERS THAT BAKURA-CHAN, MARIKU, PRESENT DAY YAMI BAKURA, AND MALIK WANT TO CONTROL TO RULE THE WORLD.
I slowly opened my eyes... that means I'm no longer being restained by Niramsis to lay down. I didn't stir because I saw Bakura-chan and Mariku talking in the crumbling clay doorframe.
"Mariku, we can still take the girl before they get back. She's from the future and knows nothing about how dangerous we are, nor how dangerous just walking in the market place is without being mugged. She'd be forced to trust us. If we get her on our side, then we can come back and convince the other two that we alone will conquer the forces of evil and rule the world!"
Mariku nodded and smirked evilly.
"This will be fun. Lets pack some water and get some for her. I already know the perfect excuse to use on her." Mariku shrugged casually, "Besides, she's quite beautiful, and the perfect desert flower to claim as our own."
"Mariku, I've said it before and I'll say it again. I like the way your mind thinks."
They left the light of the door way and I heard some shuffling of what I could only guess to stolen hand-sewn bags. I shut my eyes, and pretending to be asleep or unconcious like before. They can't know that I heard they're plans. They're planning to take me away from Bakura and Malik! And there really is nothing I can do about it.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hah, hah! This chapter is longer than most of my other ones!
And I actually have thought up some demented storyline for this to follow!
So, review and answer:
Will someone get Tetra? Or two someones? Or not at all?
I REALLY need to know. Until I get at least 5 votes in any one direction, I'm not doing nothin.
(Anyways, so now you know a little about Tetra's brother, Malik's original plot, and a tincy wincy bit about the Millennium Chain. BUT REMEMBER: the title of the story is TOMB ROBBER, as in, it must CENTER around Bakura. ^^;)
Review. ^_~
