Chapter eight.

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"So Joey, what are we looking for?" Mai asked looking around the streets of Los Angelus.

"Well for starters, we are going to need to find a decent hotel room. But first we should eat. That plane food was nasty." Joey commented.

Looking around the busy streets, Joey began to think of where to eat.

'Hm, where to eat. So many great places, with such good food. My mouth is watering already.' Joey thought.

"We should go to McDonalds! Their hamburgers are great. And I love the toys! They even have a low fat salad for you Mai!!" Joey said, excitedly.

"Joey, do you even now how they make those so called great foods?" Mai asked knowingly.

"Um, no I just know that they taste great!"

"Really well let me tell you all about 'Mickey D'."

Mai proceed to tell every nasty thing that went on behind the scenes of McDonalds. Including the words 'Hair, toenail, bodily fluids and lipstick.'

"So that's all the disgusting things that they do behind the scenes. So do they really want to see you smile?"

"Aw I think I'm going to be sick. I'm never eating another thing from there again!" Joey said looking slightly green.

"Why don't we just eat at a café? I get to pick, you get to pay." With a flip of the hair, Mai walked off heading to the most upscale and expensive place there was.

"Aw man. Why do I always have to pay?"

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"Sit here and don't move! I'll be back later." Malik left Kay in some sort of sitting room.

'This is kind of interesting. I've never been in an underground home. I don't really like it though… it's too dark and cold. Elyssa-Chan would like it here. Speaking of Elyssa shouldn't't she be coming to bail me out sometime? Oh well. I might as well torture Malik while I'm here.'

Kay sneaked down the hall that Malik just went down earlier. Unlike the other tunnels, it didn't't twist and turn. When Kay reached the end, there were three doorways.

'Hm okay, well let's try door number one.'

Entering the door to her farthest left, Kay saw another table. It had another candle and matches. Lighting it, the room filled with a soft light. It was still dark but a lot easier to see. The room seemed to be a girl's room. Going over to a vanity, Kay saw various powders and creams. Opening one of the jars, she looked inside. A strong flower scent filled her nose.

'Whoa this is a little strong. Hey! It's pink!! Cool!'

Yes, the cream was pink. A shocking color of passion pink. Putting a little on her finger Kay looked at it. It had the consistency of a thick shampoo. With a frown Kay wiped it off on a rag, only to find that when the cream came off her finger was still pink.

'What? Is this a dye or something? I'll hold on to this it might come in handy. After Kay amused her self with the make up she moved on. In the corner there seemed to be a wardrobe. Kay opened it.

'Wow whoever lived here must have had style!'

There were a lot of outfits in the wardrobe. They sparkled and shined in the dim light. Noticing a drawer at the bottom, Kay opened it. It was filled with some sort of sandals and cloths.

'Finally! I can get some shoes. I don't think the person who owns them will mind...' Kay said picking out a simple pair. They were the flattest shoes Kay had ever worn. They were comfortable though.

After they were tied up Kay turned her attention to the other things in the drawer.

'These sandals fit pretty well. Now what are these cloth looking things? Oh, I see they are used to carry things.Like those hobo bags.'

Placing the jar of pink makeup in it and some other things that she randomly grabbed off the table, Kay tried to tie the cloth up. After she was done, she looked at the sorry bundle.

'I think I'm going to have to work on that.'

Leaving the room, Kay went into the next one. Once again there was a candle at the door way. Lighting it Kay was disappointed. It seemed to be nothing but a bunch of things in it.

'This must be the place that they put all of their junk.'

Walking into the next room Kay saw there was already light coming from the doorway.

'Hey, this must be where Malik is!'

Creeping into the room extra quietly, Kay noticed that there was a hallway that curved slightly. Following it, Kay saw something that she would not have suspected.

Malik was bathing. Candles were all around the bath.

'Oh man I think I should have listened to him. Wait, no don't tell me...'

Malik was pouring pink rose petals into his bath. With a content smile Malik leaned back and closed his eyes.

Looking around Kay saw bottles of shampoo and conditioner, behind Malik, then a semi see through curtain. An evil idea crossed Kay's mind. Quietly sneaking around the bath, Kay was finally behind him.

'Wait, maybe I shouldn't't be doing this. It's to evil, does Malik really deserve this? ... Yes!!'

Kay reached up and grabbed the bottles with a 'joink!' noise. Opening her bundle Kay pulled out the cream. Opening the shampoo and conditioner, Kay looked inside. They were about halfway full of a white substance each.

'Eww, that looks like… No stop Kay! Get your mind out of the gutter now!'

Shaking her head Kay poured half of the pink dye into each or the bottles. After shaking them, Kay looked at them. They were a bright pink. Screwing the tops back on, Kay replaced them.

'There that should give his hair a slight pink tint. Now I'm out of here.'

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'Finally, I have some time to relax.'

Malik had just poured some water into his bath. He had waited until the fire underneath heated the water. Once it had, he jumped in. Looking around he saw a bag of Isis's rose petals. Malik had never used them before. His father would have given him a severe beating for 'being weak'.

'Well father isn't around now, so why not give them a try?'

Grabbing the bag he poured them all into his bath. The scent was quite nice. Malik sat back and let the warm water loosen his muscles.

'What was that? I could have just sworn I heard a 'joink' noise. Oh well must have imagined it.'

Sitting back again he began to relax. He sat there for several minutes not thinking of anything. Until he remembered that Kay was still in the sitting room.

'I better hurry up. Who knows what kind of trouble Titi could get into?'

Sitting up a little, he reached behind him and grabbed one of the shampoos pulled off the lid and dumped a large amount on to his head.

'Wow, these flowers have an awfully strong scent. Oh well."

After he was done he used the second shampoo. He rinsed it out of his hair. For the heck out of it, he submerged his head in the water. After a couple of seconds he got out and grabbed a towel. Looking back at the water he noticed that a lot of the petals were missing and the water was very pink, almost red.

'The petals must have turned the water that color. They have a dye in them right?'

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'What an idiot! Leaving the Millennium Rod in the same room as me!'

It was true. In his hurry to go and take a bath Malik had foolishly left the Rod with Kay. She was now looking at it from all sides and trying to activate some of the shadow powers.

"I send the candle to the shadow realm!"

Nothing happened.

'Oh well it was worth a try.'

Looking it over Kay continued to play with it. A dagger popped out. Flinching back in surprise Kay almost dropped it

'Interesting.'

Kay Twisted the rod, and the dagger popped back in.

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"Hey what is that?" Elyssa asked.

On the horizon there seemed to be some sort of structure.

"Well if I'm not mistaken, that would be where Malik lives." Yami said calmly.

"Good it seems like we have been walking for hours. So how long will it take us to get there?'

"Well if we continue to go at this pace it will take about 1 hour."

"One hour!? Fuck that! Let's speed up." Elyssa said.

True to her word, Elyssa started to walk a lot faster. In 45 minutes they were almost there.

"Ok we are here, now what are we suppose to do?"

"Well first we have to find Malik then…." Yami didn't't have a chance to say anything.

Malik and Kay came running out of structure.

When Elyssa and Yami saw Malik's hair they started to laugh hysterically.

When they stopped laughing Yami managed to say.

"Nice hair Malik."

"Yes it's very…. Unique but I don't think that pink is your color, eh Kay?" Elyssa asked her.

"What are you two talking about?" Kay asked waving her hands frantically, trying to shut them up.

"Here Malik, have a look in this mirror." Pulling a small mirror from her pocket, Elyssa threw at Malik. Opening it he looked at himself and let out a terrified gasp.

His hair was a bright passion pink and was covered in rose petals.

"No, my hair! You had something to do with this didn't't you?" He screeched glaring at Kay.

"Hey why were you two running?" Elyssa said trying to distract Malik from killing Kay.

"Long story but we were trying to get away from the Shadow Ghoul." Kay said.

"Oh I see. You are safe up here because of the sun; the Shadow Ghoul can't stand it." Yami said knowingly.

Like the clock work a huge black cloud came and blocked the sun's light, So it was much, much darker.

"You were saying?" Elyssa asked.

With a terrible shriek the Shadow Ghoul appeared in the entryway. He made a dive for Kay. Jumping out of the way, Kay ran to where yami and Elyssa were standing.

"What the hell?" Elyssa said in shock at how ugly the creature was.

The Shadow Ghoul turned it's eyes on Malik. The Shadow Ghoul let out a high pitched coughing noise. Wait, it wasn't coughing. It was laughing at how stupid Malik's hair looked.

"I'll take care of this monster!"

Elyssa and Yami were about to summon Dark Magician girl and The Dark Magician, When the Shadow Ghoul spit on them. Trying to pull apart they found that it was like a huge spider web. Tripping, Yami fell on top of Elyssa. He found that his arms were wrapped around her waist and she was pressed against his chest.

"This so does not mean I like you." Elyssa said after a long pause.

"Likewise." Yami replied.

Craning his neck he saw Malik was now also wrapped up in the Shadow Ghoul's Spit. Twisting his neck a little more he saw that Kay was beating on it with a rock.

"Aw, damn we need to help her." He said.

"We need to cut this stuff apart." Looking at Yami's fro-like hair, Elyssa asked, "You wouldn't't happen to have anything of use in your hair would you?"

"My hair? No of course not. Why would there be something in my hair?"

"Never mind. Yami I need you to do something." Elyssa asked.

"What would that be?" Yami asked.

"Ok, I need you to roll over so that I'm on top and reach into my back pocket." Elyssa said.

"Akila this is not the time! We have to help Kay! We can't have a Make-"

"YOU IDIOT! I want you to get the knife in my pocket!' Elyssa screamed.

"Oh so sorry. Of course."

Rolling over he reached into her back pocket and extracted a Switch blade. Opening it he began to hack and saw at the spit, which now was more like leather.

As Yami cut and hacked, Elyssa was watching Kay. Looking over, she saw Malik almost totally covered in the web. All that was sticking out was a tuff of pink hair. He was kicking and rolling and twitching trying to get out of it. With a snort she looked back at Kay. She was holding a large rock. Using all of her strength, Kay tossed it. By some stroke of luck it landed on the shadows ghoul's leg breaking it with a loud snap and pinning it down.

"Kay! Here catch." Yami threw Kay the knife.

Grabbing it she began to hack the Shadow Ghoul to bits. With one final shriek it died. But Kay wasn't done. She continued to hack at it, getting here totally covered in the ghoul's blue blood.

"Kay! Fuck girl the thing is dead! Chill out! Give us back the knife." Elyssa shouted.

All of the sudden the sun came out. It dissolved all the blood off of Kay and the remains of the Shadow Ghoul.

"Neat." Kay said. Looking down on the knife, Kay saw that all of the blood had dissolved… along with the blade.

"OK, maybe not so neat." Kay said with fear in her face.

"Kristina Hamilton! You just melted our only way out! You two bit prick son-of - a-bitch!"

"Calm down, the spit is melting too see look." Kay pointed out.

It was true. The leather-like spit was turning soft and in some places it was melted entirely.

Rip! There was a tearing noise. Turning around. Kay saw Malik with his Rod turned into a dagger. He cut himself out with a single swipe.

Grabbing, Kay he held the knife to her throat. "Well look at this. The Pharaoh is a little tied up at the moment. We will be going."

'There is no we! Now let go of me pinky!" Kay said.

"I have had enough of your talking Titi, now say good bye to your friends. I'll be waiting in the shadow realm." Malik then teleported away.

I'll stop there. What will happen in the Shadow room? Find out in the next chapter, Chapter nine.