I felt a shadow loom over me, but I still held my act of being asleep. Please fall for it, please!!

A second shadow joined the first and I heard Bakura-chan's voice whisper in my ear, with and ever so fake "nice" tone.

"Wake up Tetra, we have to go meet back up with your friends, now."

I opened my eys to find, just as I suspected, Bakura-chan leaning over me. I now noticed even more differences between him and Yami Bakura. Bakura-chan's hair was just as ragged and pointy as Yami Bakura's, but it was shorter by a bit and more of an off-white. His skin too was tanned darker than Yami Bakura's. What I'm really suprised I hadn't noticed before was a scar under his right eye. Slashed down towards his cheek for maybe an inch or two, then crossed over itself twice, to make a double crossed t, sort of. His eyes were already like Yami Bakura's, though.

"Where are we going?" I asked innocently, trying my best to sound as clueless as possible.

Must be my lucky day, both Mariku and Bakura-chan were buying my act.

"We're going to go meet them in the market place." said Mariku, also faking a nice tone of voice.

"If thats what they want us to do." I replied, sliding into sitting position.

Mariku looked at Bakura-chan, and Bakura-chan looked at Mariku. The both exchanged grins. They think everything's going exactly to thier plans, but it isn't really a plan, if the hostage already knows it.

//Precisly. But go along with what they say, we don't need any trouble. Once we can we'll escape, and then we'll head to the palace and I'm sure the pharaoh will listen to me!//

/How are you so sure he'll listen to you? Will he recognise you?/

//Are you really that clueless? The Bakura you know looks exactly like his past self, and so does Malik and Mariku. If they look the same, me as I was will look exactly like you. I'll just sneak in, dress you in my royal garb, then go to the pharaoh as me, while conviently getting my past self to cooperate.//

/I'm not even going to ask how you're going to manage to pull that off./

//I have my ways.//

I stood and put my hand in my pocket. And I guess what I found there that I had forgotten entirely about? The little clump of gold Yami Bakura gave me from in the tomb. I rubbed it with fingers.

/And we're going to the market place, too. I'll say these two will have quite a shock when they see this./

//Greedy, aren't you?//

I also found in my pocket one of those miniature Snicker candy bars. Real food! At last! I haven't eaten in a long time! But I think I'll wait until these two aren't looking...or maybe longer, who knows when I'll crave some chocolate.

"This way." said Bakura-chan who grabbed a white head viel to hide his hair.

I followed him, and Mariku walked beside me. Probably making sure I didn't run for it.

//Like you could out run them.//

/You know, I was just thinking the same thing./

//Then you're more intelligent that I thought.//

As we left the crumbling adobe building, the sun once again burned on my skin.

/I can't stand this heat!/

Mariku nudged me in the shoulder.

"Here," he siad, "You'll need it so you don't faint on us."

He handed me a container of water, it was actually cold, too! I shook the container a little and carried it. Just holding made me feel ten degrees cooler.

In the distance, besides the sand that was everywhere, was the city and market place that we had arrived in from... the future, I suppose you could call it. The far future. It seemed to me more like we had traveled into another dimension. I just wanted to go home through some portal, somehow.

I trudged on, but my sneakers just couldn't handle walking over desert. They were hot and sweaty and I'd probably get a blister or rash or something...

//Do stop complaining, will you?//

*****(elsewhere, where we haven't been recently)*****

"Yug, where are we for the 43rd time?!" complained Joey, half sagging behind him.

The others, too, followed them. They had been sent back in time like Bakura, Malik, and Tetra had as well. Yami decided it was best if everyone got in local garb and head veils quickly. Yugi had to wet his hair down with water Mai insisted on keeping with her while she was in Egypt, just so his hair wouldn't stick up. If anyone associated Yugi with the pharaoh of past Egypt, there would be major trouble.

"Joey, we're back in ancient Egypt."

"Ya mean the place with all the spells, and magic, and such?"

"Yes, Joey." Yugi replied, a little irritated, which was suprising for his usual ever cheery mood.

"Hey, Yugi, if you don't mind my asking, where are all the air conditioners?! Its like, 90 degrees out here with not a fan in sight." said Mai.

Yugi sighed and turned into Yami.

"Listen everyone, I don't know who's doing this is, but somehow we've been sent back in time. We must find a way to get back."

"Is here food back here? I'm starvin!" said Tristin.

"Tristin, I'll be sure to get you all someplace where there's food, water, and fanners, but to do that we have to work together as a team and get to my palace."

"You have a place Yugi? That is like, so cool! And I love the idea that we all get to be team mates! Yay!" exclaimed Tea. You'd think she was the Dark Magician Girl's cousin...hyper and all.

"Uh...yes, Tea. Now, follow me and I'll try to find a caravan to take us to the palace."

Yami successfully flagged down a caravan with camels, and they all left. (Much to Mai's complaint, she doesn't like camels.)

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Ok, there were the two chapters I promised a couple of people. ^_^ I hope you liked them, because I think next we're due in for a visit of Bakura or Malik's POV! I'll write more once I get the chance, but thats all for now.