Blech. Yes, I have started to notice that nobody reads this story except a
few four. Ah, well. Since when have I written for reviews, anyway? (No
reviews?!? How can there be no reviews?!?)
Sii: I'm bored.
Bakhe: (is asleep)
Sii: How long is he going to sleep?
Scarabsi: Don't ask me.
Sii: Don't ask you!!! You're the freaking authoress!!! Who else do I ask?
Scarabsi: .....Auriyu?
Auriyu: Yeah, sure! Blame it on me!
Scarabsi: Er...
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, and I am sorry if it seems like I do, because I try not to make it that way.
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Chapter Seventeen: Control Freak
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"Wait, so you're telling me that you're Bakura, and you're Sii?" Yugi asked, pointing at the mentioned two.
Yami Bakura nodded, scowling and glaring at Joey and Tristan, who were laughing. (Please note that it looks very strange when an innocent twelve- year-old is scowling and glaring, and occasionally wearing a not-too- feminine chipmunk grin...)
Sii was sulking somewhere outside the conversation. (Please note that this also looks weird...I'll leave the rest for you to imagine.)
""Yami Bakura,"" Yami Sii hissed, ""Stop that growling. You look like a dog.""
Yami Bakura glared at Yami Sii and attempted to make strangling gestures at her, resulting in even more laughs from Joey and Tristan.
In the background, Yami Bakhe (eyes shadowed) was laughing to himself. 'Fools,' he thought. 'Even Mr. Thief King Bakura is puzzled by this situation. How clueless of him. He's getting as forgetful as Pharaoh Yami.' A glance elsewhere. 'And what of Ankhisis?'
He sat thinking about Ankhisis for a moment before he jerked his head up and looked around.
"Bakhe? What's wrong?" Sii asked, noticing the movement.
Without answering, Yami Bakhe stood up and ran out of the Turtle Game Shop as fast as he was allowed. He screeched to a halt outside, growling and looking around. 'For a moment I sensed someone else...'
"Bakhe!" Sii was yelling. Yami Bakhe ignored her. She decided she didn't care and walked back into the game shop.
"But how did this happen?" Yugi was asking Yami Bakura.
"Don't ask me, I haven't a clue," Yami Bakura growled. But inside, he felt that he did know, and didn't remember yet.
Sii was thinking about that 'Ankhisis' Yami Bakhe kept talking about. 'Ankhisis...doesn't that sound a lot like Ishizu's nickname? Isis or something like that, right?' She pondered that. 'Does that have to do with Ankhisis's identity?'
""One...step...closer...""
Sii jumped and looked around for the source of the voice, scared. After that, she felt herself being jerked upward.
Yami Bakura seemed to feel the same thing, because he randomly punched behind him before he went limp.
""Dark..."" Bakura said before he assumed control. Yami Sii did the same.
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When Sii opened her eyes, she saw a corridor. One side had a very, very messy room filled with comic books and drawings, and the other side had a locked door with the symbol of a scarab beetle on it. Sii turned to the messy room. 'This must be my real mind chamber...' she realized, and turned toward the other side. 'And that...'
""What about my room?"" Yami Sii asked.
""YAAAAAHHHH!!!!!"" Sii screeched and jump-turned around. ""Oh, it's you- don't scare me like that!""
Laugh. ""Oh, so I scared you?"" Yami Sii walked to her mind chamber and opened the door.
Sii walked in after her and looked around. It was a very bright room, but that might have been because the walls were something like clear blue glass and let light in. The center of the room had a huge circular swimming pool. Sii walked to the swimming pool and looked down. The pool was very deep, and she could just make out two tiny golden keys in the very bottom.
""Uh, what are those?"" Sii asked, pointing to the keys at the very bottom of the pool.
Ankhisis sighed and pointed to two blue doors. Sii went to one of them and rattled the doorknob, but it was locked tight. She tried the other door with the same result.
""I think those keys down there are the only way to get those doors open, but every time I swim for them, it takes longer for me to swim back up with them in hand. I have no pockets, either."" Ankhisis said.
""Why can't we just kick them down?"" Sii asked, making a motion as if she was kicking a door down.
""Do you think I have not thought of that? I have tried, but these doors cannot be kicked down, broken, impaled, or even scratched for that matter.""
Sii waved her arms around. ""Then why not get something from MY room?!?""
Yami Sii looked at her oddly. ""I cannot enter while you are asleep or in control.""
Sii smacked herself on the forehead. ""Why didn't you tell my earlier?!?"" She went out of the room for a minute and returned with a ball of yarn.
Yami Sii raised her eyebrows. ""How is that going to help our situation?""
Sii winked. ""You'll see.""
She dropped the yarn at Yami Sii's feet and left the room again. She returned with a pair of flippers and a pair of scissors.
""Er, what is that?""
Instead of answering, Sii cut a piece of yarn off, tied the scissors to her waist, thrust the yarn in Yami Sii's hand and told her to hold onto one end. She then dropped the ball into the pool and dived in after it.
""Uh..."" Yami Sii looked over the pool and was amazed when Sii swam to the bottom twice as fast as she had. ""What do I do now?""
Sii swam back to the surface, smiling, but she only had the ball of yarn, and not either of the keys. ""Pull on the string.""
Yami Sii pulled on the string. When it was completely out, she was surprised to see that both of the keys were tied to the other end of the yarn.
Sii winked with the other eye. ""See? I got them for you. Although, I should say, I helped you get them.""
Yami Sii laughed even though it wasn't funny, and unlocked one of the blue doors. She and Sii walked in and gasped.
In the center of the room was the statue. Sii read the bottom for Yami Sii (because she doesn't remember how to read Egyptian symbols). ""Ankhisis and ////// Together in Matrimony.""
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"How long has Yami Sii been in the bathroom, anyway?" Yugi asked, looking at his watch. "That's enough time for me to explore a fifteenth of Yami's room."
Sii walked out of the bathroom, looking a bit shocked.
"There you are!" Tea said, smiling. "That took you a bit of time."
Sii nodded. 'I can't believe ling yi ge wo said I was using the restroom...' She thought, sighing at how her yami was so pathetic at thinking up excuses.
A delighted shout. "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone in the room jumped three feet in the air (which is not healthy, by the way) and landed hard on their butts. "What was that?!?" Joey asked, using his usual I'm-ticked-off-so-you-better-watch-your-ass voice.
Yami Bakura came bouncing into the room. "I'm back! I'm back! I'm back! I'm back!"
Everyone else sweatdropped.
"Disturbing..." Yugi said to Tea.
"Very disturbing indeed..." Tea replied.
"Er...who wants ter go biking?" Joey asked nervously.
"Biking!" Sii started bouncing up and down.
"Biking?" Bakhe asked, poking his head into the room. "What's that?"
Sii rolled her eyes.
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"And you keep your balance, otherwise you'll fall down," Bakura finished. Bakhe nodded and gave it a try, almost immediately falling down.
"Oh, great," Yugi groaned when he inspected the tire. "He blew the tire out. Now we all have to use tandem bikes."
He went into the garage and came back. "The problem is...we only have three tandem bikes, which means that only six people can come along."
"Ah, well that's alright," Tristan said, scratching the back of his head. "I wanted to go back to your house and visit Serenity, anyway. I don't have time to hang with babies. See ya." With that, he turned and walked away. Sii was seething while Bakhe sniffed. (for once he understood an insult.)
Tea smiled. "I know there's room for me, but I should help Yugi's grandpa with the game shop. So I don't want to go," she explained, walking into the game shop.
"All right! I call driver's!" Joey hopped onto the first half of a bike while Yugi climbed into the seat behind. Bakura helped Bakhe onto the back seat of one and sat in front of him (because Bakhe still didn't know how to ride a bike) and Sii (mumbling and grumbling) took the last bike alone.
When they were in the middle of the trip, a girl walked across the road they were biking on. A girl that didn't exactly seem to be a stranger.
"Hey, wait!" Sii suddenly said. When nobody stopped, she started yelling. "EVERYBODY STOP BIKING!!!"
Everybody screeched to a stop. Sii quickly parked her bike and ran happily to the girl on the road. "Hey, Youen! HEY, YOUEN!!!"
The girl turned around. "S-Sii?!? What the hell are you doing here!?!" She asked. The two laughed and playfully slapped each other on the back, then stopped to choke and gasp because they had hit each other too hard.
Everyone else was looking at the two with sweatdrops suspending from their heads until Yugi (somewhat) broke the silence to Yami. "Hey, didn't we see her before?"
""What do you mean?"" Yami asked, puzzled.
"I mean, it feels like I've seen her before, but I don't remember where."
""Hmm... that does seem a little odd...""
Meanwhile, this was the outside conversation.
"Sii, do you know this girl?" Bakhe was asking.
"Do I know this girl? DO I KNOW THIS GIRL?!? Of COURSE I know this girl! She's my best friend for crying out loud!!!" Sii yelled. She turned to the girl. "Right?" she asked, half strangling her.
"R-right..." the girl gasped weakly, choking for air.
"Well, if that's the case, then I certainly hope I never become your best friend," Bakhe said, inching away from Sii.
"Oh, yeah, how rude of me. I forgot the introduction. Bakhe, this is Youen Moyo. Youen, meet my current annoyance, Bakhe Bakura."
Youen looked at Bakhe as if she was trying to study his soul. "You mean he's taking your sister's place?"
Sii nodded sadly, then gave a sigh. "Sadly, yes. He is almost as skilled as she was. Here, I'll give you an example." She walked to Bakhe and 'accidentally' tripped on a tree root. "Oh! SHIT!!!" She shrieked, holding her foot and jumping up and down in fake pain (a bit over-acting, I might add).
"Huh?" Bakhe asked, blinking at Sii. "What does 'shit' mean?"
Youen cracked up as Bakura stared in horror at his younger brother having his innocence ruined by dirty words.
"And why are you jumping up and down on one foot with an expression of pain on your face?" Bakhe asked, slightly overdoing it.
"BAKHE!!! THAT'S STUPID EVEN FOR YOU!!!" Sii growled. Well, if you could call screaming your lungs out growling.
"Hey, is he really that dumb?" Youen asked.
"I doubt it," Sii told her, "But he didn't even know the English alphabet until today. I had to teach it to him."
"Wow, scary," Youen said.
"A-HEM!" Bakura cleared his throat loudly; he was being ignored. Bakhe, Youen, Sii, Yugi, and Yami all turned toward him.
"This is taking such a long time. Why doesn't Youen just bike behind Sii? That way they can talk all they want," Bakura smartly suggested.
"....."
"...Good idea. Why didn't we think of that?" Youen wondered.
"Dunno." Sii shrugged.
"Okay!" Bakhe said with a super-cute smile on his face, not even registering what his brother had said.
"Hop on," Sii said, un-parking the bike.
"But what about Bakhe...?" Youen asked.
"Why?" Sii looked over at Bakhe.
"WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Bakhe yelled. He was dangling with his arms on the bike trying to either land on the ground or get on without hurting himself. His legs were putting on quite a show.
"Hey, I didn't know human legs could go that fast," Youen commented, pulling a gigantic pack of popcorn out of nowhere.
"Neither did I," Sii agreed, pulling out drinks from nowhere. "They're almost a blur."
"What do you mean? They are a blur."
"Yeah. You're right."
Pause of silence, crickets chirping, an anonymous passerby farting.
"Uh, Sii? A little help here...?" Bakhe begged helplessly.
"Nah. You're getting a nice workout here." Sii continued to sip her drink.
"Yup," Youen agreed, continuing to eat popcorn.
Suddenly Bakhe gave and fell to the ground butt-first, swirly eyed.
"Aww, man!" Youen said.
"Yeah! You ruined the show!" Sii continued.
"Uh... if yer finished..." Joey hesitantly said.
"Huh?"
Sii looked around. Youen. Check. Joey. Check. Half-dead Bakhe. Check. Yugi and Bakura. BIG RED "X".
"WHERE DID YUGI AND BAKURA GO?!?!" Sii screamed.
"Dey asked me ta babysit you while they went on ahead, 'cause you were takin' too long," Joey explained.
"Oh," the sixth-graders answered simultaneously.
Joey picked Bakhe up and dropped him in the back seat before hopping on himself. Sii climbed into the back seat and Youen got the driver's seat. (They did rock-paper-scissors, okay?!?)
"By the way, Youen, what are you doing all the way in Domino?" Sii asked.
"Well," Youen began, "My parents found out that you moved here, and became interested. They bought brochures and magazines and stuff, and decided to stay here for a vacation."
"Wow," Sii whispered. "Did you hear about Yugi Motou?"
"Oh! Yuuuuuuuuugi-boy?" Youen said loudly (and scarily). Sii leaned back as far as she could go in her seat. "Sorry," Youen apologized. "I meant, of course I've heard on Yugi Motou! He's the reason I came!!! Don't you think he's so kawaii?"
"Uh..." Sii looked away. 'Well, he is kind of cute, but he's my friend, so I'm not going to get all hooked up on him.'
"No?" Youen asked, sounding slightly disappointed. "That's a shame. I was thinking 'bout blackmailing you a little...but I guess you like someone else, huh?" She shrieked and almost tipped the bike over when Sii attempted to aim a punch at her head. "Geez! Sorry! You don't have to be so sensitive!"
"Never say anything like that again!" Sii growled.
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"A-Achoo!" Bakhe sneezed and wiped his nose. "Why am I sneezing? It's not even cold out..."
Joey shrugged. "Dunno. Don' worry 'bout it."
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"A-Achoo!" Yugi sneezed and wiped his nose. "Why am I sneezing? It's not even cold out..."
Bakura shrugged. "I don't know. Just don't worry about it."
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""Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!"" Somebody's yami cackled insanely.
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"Come to think about it," Yugi told Bakura, "That girl Sii was talking to did kind of look familiar..."
"Really? Who does she remind you of?" Bakura asked curiously.
Yugi looked like he was splitting his head trying to figure it out. "I don't remember..."
"Hum. If you don't know, then it's probably just déjà vu. It makes people think they've seen or heard something before, but they haven't really. Like a mental issue." Bakura told him, before regretting it. "Ah! I wasn't saying you have mental issues, I was saying- "
"Forget it," Yugi said kindly, smiling. "I used to think I was crazy. Everyone does at some point."
"Really?" Bakura wore a confused expression. "I never thought so. I always knew that I wasn't the crazy one; dark was."
Yugi giggled. "Yeah. That's a good one. I wish I could have thought of that."
""HEY!!!"" Yami and Yami Bakura shouted, insulted.
Bakura and Yugi laughed at their alter- egos.
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""They told me they were going to be sane when they got reincarnated, but no, they had to be so stupid and giggly. Gay, or what? They aren't any fun anymore. Probably can't even stand one prank without jumping up in surprise and screaming..."" someone ranted in the shadow realm. Another shadow appeared behind it and...
""BOOOO!!!"" Yami Bakhe screamed in the person's ear, slightly (cough cough) out of character.
""WAH!!!"" The person tumbled backward, revealing someone looking similar to Youen. When she saw Yami Bakhe, her wide eyes narrowed to a sliver. ""That wasn't funny, Besket.""
Yami Bakhe laughed uncontrollably. ""They who know me call me 'Yami Bakhe',"" He said in a mystical tone. ""And that was one of your own favorite pranks. You used to pull it on me all the time,"" he added.
The person started to smile. ""Oh, I remember those times. You were richly funny. You would do- "" she made a funny face that if you looked closer, resembled surprise. She stopped making the face and laughed. Yami Bakhe frowned.
""Get serious, Chielesut. Now, listen closely. You will have to reveal yourself sooner or later, or the pharaoh will find you. When they know of your existence, call yourself 'Yami Youen'. That would be the name of your host, added 'dark'. They know all of us by that.""
Yami Youen nodded. ""I see."" She looked around. ""By the way, is Scarabsi here? There doesn't seem to be anyone else around.""
Yami Bakhe sighed. ""No, I confronted her. She wouldn't remember how to get here, and even if she did manage to get here, it wouldn't be to play with you. She would probably turn you in.""
Yami Youen nodded. ""I see. I will miss playing pranks with her."" She turned around. ""So, until next time, Yami Bakhe."" She disappeared into darkness.
A smile crept on his lips. ""Yes. Until next time.""
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"Hey, what's that sound?" Yugi looked around, trying to find the source of the sound.
"What sound?" Bakura asked. "You mean that music?"
"Yeah, that. It sounds eerie." Yugi shivered and yawned. "Ah, Bakura, I'm getting a little- "
"A little what?" Bakura asked. His question was answered by a thud. "Scared? Spooked? Sleepy?" He turned his head around and found that Yugi had fallen off his bike. "Uh... I'll assume it was sleepy." He stopped the bike to make sure Yugi was all right before he felt the wave of sleepiness as well.
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"That was too easy. I took care of all three of them with one tune." Yami Youen cackled and slipped her flute back into her pocket. She walked up to Bakhe and shook him. "Come on, Besket."
Yami Bakhe grumbled and pushed her hand away. "Idiot, stop calling me 'Besket'. Our names are supposed to be secret."
Yami Youen rolled her eyes. "Yeah, whatever. We have to track down the pharaoh and challenge him, right? Any idea where he might be?"
Yami Bakhe shook his head. "He was biking with us a few minutes ago, but he disappeared when my stupid host tried to get on his bike."
"Huh?" Yami Youen looked confused. "You have a host?"
"Of course I have a host! We all do!" Yami Bakhe replied in shock.
"Hm," Yami Youen said. "I thought I was the only one. That explains why the pharaoh and raider were acting so sissy."
"You saw them?!?" Yami Bakhe almost screeched.
"Well, yeah, now that I think about it," Yami Youen nodded.
"Idiot, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Yami Bakhe yelled over his shoulder, running down the path. "Lead me there!"
"But I don't remember the way!!!" Yami Youen called back to him as she started running also. "Boy, do I wish Merari were here now..."
"She isn't!" Yami Bakhe shouted. "That's why we're looking for them ourselves!"
"Oh! Right!" Yami Youen remembered.
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"I do not like this," Yami stated, looking around for the strange sound from earlier. "I suspect fowl play."
"Of course you do, pharaoh, you're King of Games. You always suspect fowl play," Yami Bakura commented from the sidelines.
"I do not need your interjections here!" Yami shouted at him.
"Ha ha, well, I'll just stand on the sidelines and let you do all the work, then," Yami Bakura made a 'welcome' gesture with his arm, which he knew really pissed Yami off. "The puzzle's yours."
Yami growled, but continued brainstorming about how the situation might have occurred. Unfortunately for him, he needed to remember about his past as a pharaoh to complete this brainstorm, and that requirement is currently out of reach for him.
"Aaargh! I don't remember a thing and this fog is making it harder to think!" Yami finally said, pounding a tree and looking frustrated.
"Frustrated, pharaoh?" Yami Bakura taunted.
"Be quiet, Bakura!" Yami growled.
"My, my," said a nearby female voice.
"Looks like we found him," added a nearby male voice.
"Who speaks?" Yami demanded.
Two pissed-off looking people appeared in the slight fog that was forming. "We speak," said the female.
"And who are you?"
"I am Yami Bakhe, and she is Yami Youen," Yami Bakhe introduced, holding out his hand as if he wanted them to shake it. "Pleased to meet you, pharaoh."
"What do you want?" Yami asked.
"To challenge you, of course," Yami Youen stated as if it was obvious. "You want our items, you need to duel us, right?"
Yami narrowed his eyes. "Of course. You are the holders of the Millennium Jar and Millennium Flute, am I not correct?"
Yami Bakhe made a clucking noise. "Tsk, tsk. Don't remember us, do you? Well, I guess if we duel you, we can refresh your memory." He and Yami Youen chanted a spell, and a circle of black light circled around them, finally twisting around their left wrists and forming a duel disk.
"Duel us!" They both said together.
"You are two and I am but one! By the rules of the game, that is not allowed!" Yami's frustration was growing, until he heard the familiar taunting voice that he thought he would never be glad to hear.
"So let me duel as you team mate, pharaoh," Yami Bakura said, reappearing from the fog that was covering him. "If you haven't forgotten, I still know how to duel."
"Oh, and how could we forget the tomb raider, Rayou?" Yami Youen taunted. Yami Bakura twitched.
"Oh, bro~ther, you don't look we~ell!" Yami Bakhe taunted in a sing- song voice.
"Don't call me Rayou OR brother!" Yami Bakura snapped.
Yami Bakhe chuckled. "Whatever you say, brother."
"Talk later! We can start the duel now!" Yami glanced at Yami Bakura. "I hope you know what you're doing. You don't really have strategies that would work well in tag-teams."
Yami Bakura did his usual smirk. "If my plans fail, I have a special backup."
Yami did not know what Yami Bakura was talking about, but decided it best not questioned.
"DUEL START!!!"
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Scarabsi: Man, that was a lot more random than usual. And don't worry, I will do Youen's past memories later. About after their vision of the past, because Youen tells the full story.
Youen: And then Yugi said, "Get the fuck off!!!" And Yami said, "There isn't any fuck on you," and Yugi continued to try to pry him off, and-
Scarabsi: Unnecessary speech, Youen.
Youen: Why thank you.
(Sii, Joey, Yugi, and Bakura are asleep)
Scarabsi: Uh.
Yami: What?
Scarabsi: How long do the pills last?
Yami: Let's see. (picks up bottle) It says here it lasts for four hours.
Scarabsi: (falls over from shock) FOUR HOURS?!?
Yami: (shrugs) Well, yeah.
Scarabsi: I need them in the next chapter! I think.
Yami: Uh.
Yami Bakura: Why did you leave us in the middle of the starting of a duel?
Scarabsi: I tried making it a cliffhanger, but it didn't work, so yeah. ):P
Yami Bakhe: Oh, and where's my light?
Scarabsi: He's asleep, like Sii, Joey, Yugi, and Bakura.
Yami Bakhe: No, he's not. His name wasn't up there. (points up to parenthesis line stating people who are asleep) It has Sii, Joey, Yugi, and Bakura, but it doesn't have Bakhe.
Scarabsi: Wait. I found him. (points over to library corner)
Bakhe: (is reading a book titled "How to be a Dummy for Dummies Egyptian Translation")
Yami Bakhe: (stares at Bakhe oddly)
Bakhe: What? I'm not as stupid as I seem, you know! I have to be a good actor to convince Sii and Youen that I am! (continues reading)
Yami Bakhe: Why did I not stop him when I could have? The book could have been stolen very easily...
Scarabsi: You're acting like Sii...
Yami Bakhe: ...
Yami Youen: BOO!!
Scarabsi: Thank you for that necessary heart jolt.
Yami Youen: You're welcome!
Scarabsi: Sarcasm, Yami Youen.
Yami Youen: WHEEE!!!
Yami Bakhe: I think she's on sugar high or something.
Scarabsi: ...
Yami Bakhe: Hehehe.
Scarabsi: I'm sorry about chapter sixteen, and please review...?
Sii: I'm bored.
Bakhe: (is asleep)
Sii: How long is he going to sleep?
Scarabsi: Don't ask me.
Sii: Don't ask you!!! You're the freaking authoress!!! Who else do I ask?
Scarabsi: .....Auriyu?
Auriyu: Yeah, sure! Blame it on me!
Scarabsi: Er...
I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, and I am sorry if it seems like I do, because I try not to make it that way.
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Chapter Seventeen: Control Freak
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"Wait, so you're telling me that you're Bakura, and you're Sii?" Yugi asked, pointing at the mentioned two.
Yami Bakura nodded, scowling and glaring at Joey and Tristan, who were laughing. (Please note that it looks very strange when an innocent twelve- year-old is scowling and glaring, and occasionally wearing a not-too- feminine chipmunk grin...)
Sii was sulking somewhere outside the conversation. (Please note that this also looks weird...I'll leave the rest for you to imagine.)
""Yami Bakura,"" Yami Sii hissed, ""Stop that growling. You look like a dog.""
Yami Bakura glared at Yami Sii and attempted to make strangling gestures at her, resulting in even more laughs from Joey and Tristan.
In the background, Yami Bakhe (eyes shadowed) was laughing to himself. 'Fools,' he thought. 'Even Mr. Thief King Bakura is puzzled by this situation. How clueless of him. He's getting as forgetful as Pharaoh Yami.' A glance elsewhere. 'And what of Ankhisis?'
He sat thinking about Ankhisis for a moment before he jerked his head up and looked around.
"Bakhe? What's wrong?" Sii asked, noticing the movement.
Without answering, Yami Bakhe stood up and ran out of the Turtle Game Shop as fast as he was allowed. He screeched to a halt outside, growling and looking around. 'For a moment I sensed someone else...'
"Bakhe!" Sii was yelling. Yami Bakhe ignored her. She decided she didn't care and walked back into the game shop.
"But how did this happen?" Yugi was asking Yami Bakura.
"Don't ask me, I haven't a clue," Yami Bakura growled. But inside, he felt that he did know, and didn't remember yet.
Sii was thinking about that 'Ankhisis' Yami Bakhe kept talking about. 'Ankhisis...doesn't that sound a lot like Ishizu's nickname? Isis or something like that, right?' She pondered that. 'Does that have to do with Ankhisis's identity?'
""One...step...closer...""
Sii jumped and looked around for the source of the voice, scared. After that, she felt herself being jerked upward.
Yami Bakura seemed to feel the same thing, because he randomly punched behind him before he went limp.
""Dark..."" Bakura said before he assumed control. Yami Sii did the same.
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When Sii opened her eyes, she saw a corridor. One side had a very, very messy room filled with comic books and drawings, and the other side had a locked door with the symbol of a scarab beetle on it. Sii turned to the messy room. 'This must be my real mind chamber...' she realized, and turned toward the other side. 'And that...'
""What about my room?"" Yami Sii asked.
""YAAAAAHHHH!!!!!"" Sii screeched and jump-turned around. ""Oh, it's you- don't scare me like that!""
Laugh. ""Oh, so I scared you?"" Yami Sii walked to her mind chamber and opened the door.
Sii walked in after her and looked around. It was a very bright room, but that might have been because the walls were something like clear blue glass and let light in. The center of the room had a huge circular swimming pool. Sii walked to the swimming pool and looked down. The pool was very deep, and she could just make out two tiny golden keys in the very bottom.
""Uh, what are those?"" Sii asked, pointing to the keys at the very bottom of the pool.
Ankhisis sighed and pointed to two blue doors. Sii went to one of them and rattled the doorknob, but it was locked tight. She tried the other door with the same result.
""I think those keys down there are the only way to get those doors open, but every time I swim for them, it takes longer for me to swim back up with them in hand. I have no pockets, either."" Ankhisis said.
""Why can't we just kick them down?"" Sii asked, making a motion as if she was kicking a door down.
""Do you think I have not thought of that? I have tried, but these doors cannot be kicked down, broken, impaled, or even scratched for that matter.""
Sii waved her arms around. ""Then why not get something from MY room?!?""
Yami Sii looked at her oddly. ""I cannot enter while you are asleep or in control.""
Sii smacked herself on the forehead. ""Why didn't you tell my earlier?!?"" She went out of the room for a minute and returned with a ball of yarn.
Yami Sii raised her eyebrows. ""How is that going to help our situation?""
Sii winked. ""You'll see.""
She dropped the yarn at Yami Sii's feet and left the room again. She returned with a pair of flippers and a pair of scissors.
""Er, what is that?""
Instead of answering, Sii cut a piece of yarn off, tied the scissors to her waist, thrust the yarn in Yami Sii's hand and told her to hold onto one end. She then dropped the ball into the pool and dived in after it.
""Uh..."" Yami Sii looked over the pool and was amazed when Sii swam to the bottom twice as fast as she had. ""What do I do now?""
Sii swam back to the surface, smiling, but she only had the ball of yarn, and not either of the keys. ""Pull on the string.""
Yami Sii pulled on the string. When it was completely out, she was surprised to see that both of the keys were tied to the other end of the yarn.
Sii winked with the other eye. ""See? I got them for you. Although, I should say, I helped you get them.""
Yami Sii laughed even though it wasn't funny, and unlocked one of the blue doors. She and Sii walked in and gasped.
In the center of the room was the statue. Sii read the bottom for Yami Sii (because she doesn't remember how to read Egyptian symbols). ""Ankhisis and ////// Together in Matrimony.""
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"How long has Yami Sii been in the bathroom, anyway?" Yugi asked, looking at his watch. "That's enough time for me to explore a fifteenth of Yami's room."
Sii walked out of the bathroom, looking a bit shocked.
"There you are!" Tea said, smiling. "That took you a bit of time."
Sii nodded. 'I can't believe ling yi ge wo said I was using the restroom...' She thought, sighing at how her yami was so pathetic at thinking up excuses.
A delighted shout. "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Everyone in the room jumped three feet in the air (which is not healthy, by the way) and landed hard on their butts. "What was that?!?" Joey asked, using his usual I'm-ticked-off-so-you-better-watch-your-ass voice.
Yami Bakura came bouncing into the room. "I'm back! I'm back! I'm back! I'm back!"
Everyone else sweatdropped.
"Disturbing..." Yugi said to Tea.
"Very disturbing indeed..." Tea replied.
"Er...who wants ter go biking?" Joey asked nervously.
"Biking!" Sii started bouncing up and down.
"Biking?" Bakhe asked, poking his head into the room. "What's that?"
Sii rolled her eyes.
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"And you keep your balance, otherwise you'll fall down," Bakura finished. Bakhe nodded and gave it a try, almost immediately falling down.
"Oh, great," Yugi groaned when he inspected the tire. "He blew the tire out. Now we all have to use tandem bikes."
He went into the garage and came back. "The problem is...we only have three tandem bikes, which means that only six people can come along."
"Ah, well that's alright," Tristan said, scratching the back of his head. "I wanted to go back to your house and visit Serenity, anyway. I don't have time to hang with babies. See ya." With that, he turned and walked away. Sii was seething while Bakhe sniffed. (for once he understood an insult.)
Tea smiled. "I know there's room for me, but I should help Yugi's grandpa with the game shop. So I don't want to go," she explained, walking into the game shop.
"All right! I call driver's!" Joey hopped onto the first half of a bike while Yugi climbed into the seat behind. Bakura helped Bakhe onto the back seat of one and sat in front of him (because Bakhe still didn't know how to ride a bike) and Sii (mumbling and grumbling) took the last bike alone.
When they were in the middle of the trip, a girl walked across the road they were biking on. A girl that didn't exactly seem to be a stranger.
"Hey, wait!" Sii suddenly said. When nobody stopped, she started yelling. "EVERYBODY STOP BIKING!!!"
Everybody screeched to a stop. Sii quickly parked her bike and ran happily to the girl on the road. "Hey, Youen! HEY, YOUEN!!!"
The girl turned around. "S-Sii?!? What the hell are you doing here!?!" She asked. The two laughed and playfully slapped each other on the back, then stopped to choke and gasp because they had hit each other too hard.
Everyone else was looking at the two with sweatdrops suspending from their heads until Yugi (somewhat) broke the silence to Yami. "Hey, didn't we see her before?"
""What do you mean?"" Yami asked, puzzled.
"I mean, it feels like I've seen her before, but I don't remember where."
""Hmm... that does seem a little odd...""
Meanwhile, this was the outside conversation.
"Sii, do you know this girl?" Bakhe was asking.
"Do I know this girl? DO I KNOW THIS GIRL?!? Of COURSE I know this girl! She's my best friend for crying out loud!!!" Sii yelled. She turned to the girl. "Right?" she asked, half strangling her.
"R-right..." the girl gasped weakly, choking for air.
"Well, if that's the case, then I certainly hope I never become your best friend," Bakhe said, inching away from Sii.
"Oh, yeah, how rude of me. I forgot the introduction. Bakhe, this is Youen Moyo. Youen, meet my current annoyance, Bakhe Bakura."
Youen looked at Bakhe as if she was trying to study his soul. "You mean he's taking your sister's place?"
Sii nodded sadly, then gave a sigh. "Sadly, yes. He is almost as skilled as she was. Here, I'll give you an example." She walked to Bakhe and 'accidentally' tripped on a tree root. "Oh! SHIT!!!" She shrieked, holding her foot and jumping up and down in fake pain (a bit over-acting, I might add).
"Huh?" Bakhe asked, blinking at Sii. "What does 'shit' mean?"
Youen cracked up as Bakura stared in horror at his younger brother having his innocence ruined by dirty words.
"And why are you jumping up and down on one foot with an expression of pain on your face?" Bakhe asked, slightly overdoing it.
"BAKHE!!! THAT'S STUPID EVEN FOR YOU!!!" Sii growled. Well, if you could call screaming your lungs out growling.
"Hey, is he really that dumb?" Youen asked.
"I doubt it," Sii told her, "But he didn't even know the English alphabet until today. I had to teach it to him."
"Wow, scary," Youen said.
"A-HEM!" Bakura cleared his throat loudly; he was being ignored. Bakhe, Youen, Sii, Yugi, and Yami all turned toward him.
"This is taking such a long time. Why doesn't Youen just bike behind Sii? That way they can talk all they want," Bakura smartly suggested.
"....."
"...Good idea. Why didn't we think of that?" Youen wondered.
"Dunno." Sii shrugged.
"Okay!" Bakhe said with a super-cute smile on his face, not even registering what his brother had said.
"Hop on," Sii said, un-parking the bike.
"But what about Bakhe...?" Youen asked.
"Why?" Sii looked over at Bakhe.
"WAAAAAAHHHHH!!!" Bakhe yelled. He was dangling with his arms on the bike trying to either land on the ground or get on without hurting himself. His legs were putting on quite a show.
"Hey, I didn't know human legs could go that fast," Youen commented, pulling a gigantic pack of popcorn out of nowhere.
"Neither did I," Sii agreed, pulling out drinks from nowhere. "They're almost a blur."
"What do you mean? They are a blur."
"Yeah. You're right."
Pause of silence, crickets chirping, an anonymous passerby farting.
"Uh, Sii? A little help here...?" Bakhe begged helplessly.
"Nah. You're getting a nice workout here." Sii continued to sip her drink.
"Yup," Youen agreed, continuing to eat popcorn.
Suddenly Bakhe gave and fell to the ground butt-first, swirly eyed.
"Aww, man!" Youen said.
"Yeah! You ruined the show!" Sii continued.
"Uh... if yer finished..." Joey hesitantly said.
"Huh?"
Sii looked around. Youen. Check. Joey. Check. Half-dead Bakhe. Check. Yugi and Bakura. BIG RED "X".
"WHERE DID YUGI AND BAKURA GO?!?!" Sii screamed.
"Dey asked me ta babysit you while they went on ahead, 'cause you were takin' too long," Joey explained.
"Oh," the sixth-graders answered simultaneously.
Joey picked Bakhe up and dropped him in the back seat before hopping on himself. Sii climbed into the back seat and Youen got the driver's seat. (They did rock-paper-scissors, okay?!?)
"By the way, Youen, what are you doing all the way in Domino?" Sii asked.
"Well," Youen began, "My parents found out that you moved here, and became interested. They bought brochures and magazines and stuff, and decided to stay here for a vacation."
"Wow," Sii whispered. "Did you hear about Yugi Motou?"
"Oh! Yuuuuuuuuugi-boy?" Youen said loudly (and scarily). Sii leaned back as far as she could go in her seat. "Sorry," Youen apologized. "I meant, of course I've heard on Yugi Motou! He's the reason I came!!! Don't you think he's so kawaii?"
"Uh..." Sii looked away. 'Well, he is kind of cute, but he's my friend, so I'm not going to get all hooked up on him.'
"No?" Youen asked, sounding slightly disappointed. "That's a shame. I was thinking 'bout blackmailing you a little...but I guess you like someone else, huh?" She shrieked and almost tipped the bike over when Sii attempted to aim a punch at her head. "Geez! Sorry! You don't have to be so sensitive!"
"Never say anything like that again!" Sii growled.
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"A-Achoo!" Bakhe sneezed and wiped his nose. "Why am I sneezing? It's not even cold out..."
Joey shrugged. "Dunno. Don' worry 'bout it."
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"A-Achoo!" Yugi sneezed and wiped his nose. "Why am I sneezing? It's not even cold out..."
Bakura shrugged. "I don't know. Just don't worry about it."
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""Mwahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!"" Somebody's yami cackled insanely.
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"Come to think about it," Yugi told Bakura, "That girl Sii was talking to did kind of look familiar..."
"Really? Who does she remind you of?" Bakura asked curiously.
Yugi looked like he was splitting his head trying to figure it out. "I don't remember..."
"Hum. If you don't know, then it's probably just déjà vu. It makes people think they've seen or heard something before, but they haven't really. Like a mental issue." Bakura told him, before regretting it. "Ah! I wasn't saying you have mental issues, I was saying- "
"Forget it," Yugi said kindly, smiling. "I used to think I was crazy. Everyone does at some point."
"Really?" Bakura wore a confused expression. "I never thought so. I always knew that I wasn't the crazy one; dark was."
Yugi giggled. "Yeah. That's a good one. I wish I could have thought of that."
""HEY!!!"" Yami and Yami Bakura shouted, insulted.
Bakura and Yugi laughed at their alter- egos.
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""They told me they were going to be sane when they got reincarnated, but no, they had to be so stupid and giggly. Gay, or what? They aren't any fun anymore. Probably can't even stand one prank without jumping up in surprise and screaming..."" someone ranted in the shadow realm. Another shadow appeared behind it and...
""BOOOO!!!"" Yami Bakhe screamed in the person's ear, slightly (cough cough) out of character.
""WAH!!!"" The person tumbled backward, revealing someone looking similar to Youen. When she saw Yami Bakhe, her wide eyes narrowed to a sliver. ""That wasn't funny, Besket.""
Yami Bakhe laughed uncontrollably. ""They who know me call me 'Yami Bakhe',"" He said in a mystical tone. ""And that was one of your own favorite pranks. You used to pull it on me all the time,"" he added.
The person started to smile. ""Oh, I remember those times. You were richly funny. You would do- "" she made a funny face that if you looked closer, resembled surprise. She stopped making the face and laughed. Yami Bakhe frowned.
""Get serious, Chielesut. Now, listen closely. You will have to reveal yourself sooner or later, or the pharaoh will find you. When they know of your existence, call yourself 'Yami Youen'. That would be the name of your host, added 'dark'. They know all of us by that.""
Yami Youen nodded. ""I see."" She looked around. ""By the way, is Scarabsi here? There doesn't seem to be anyone else around.""
Yami Bakhe sighed. ""No, I confronted her. She wouldn't remember how to get here, and even if she did manage to get here, it wouldn't be to play with you. She would probably turn you in.""
Yami Youen nodded. ""I see. I will miss playing pranks with her."" She turned around. ""So, until next time, Yami Bakhe."" She disappeared into darkness.
A smile crept on his lips. ""Yes. Until next time.""
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"Hey, what's that sound?" Yugi looked around, trying to find the source of the sound.
"What sound?" Bakura asked. "You mean that music?"
"Yeah, that. It sounds eerie." Yugi shivered and yawned. "Ah, Bakura, I'm getting a little- "
"A little what?" Bakura asked. His question was answered by a thud. "Scared? Spooked? Sleepy?" He turned his head around and found that Yugi had fallen off his bike. "Uh... I'll assume it was sleepy." He stopped the bike to make sure Yugi was all right before he felt the wave of sleepiness as well.
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"That was too easy. I took care of all three of them with one tune." Yami Youen cackled and slipped her flute back into her pocket. She walked up to Bakhe and shook him. "Come on, Besket."
Yami Bakhe grumbled and pushed her hand away. "Idiot, stop calling me 'Besket'. Our names are supposed to be secret."
Yami Youen rolled her eyes. "Yeah, whatever. We have to track down the pharaoh and challenge him, right? Any idea where he might be?"
Yami Bakhe shook his head. "He was biking with us a few minutes ago, but he disappeared when my stupid host tried to get on his bike."
"Huh?" Yami Youen looked confused. "You have a host?"
"Of course I have a host! We all do!" Yami Bakhe replied in shock.
"Hm," Yami Youen said. "I thought I was the only one. That explains why the pharaoh and raider were acting so sissy."
"You saw them?!?" Yami Bakhe almost screeched.
"Well, yeah, now that I think about it," Yami Youen nodded.
"Idiot, why didn't you tell me sooner?" Yami Bakhe yelled over his shoulder, running down the path. "Lead me there!"
"But I don't remember the way!!!" Yami Youen called back to him as she started running also. "Boy, do I wish Merari were here now..."
"She isn't!" Yami Bakhe shouted. "That's why we're looking for them ourselves!"
"Oh! Right!" Yami Youen remembered.
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"I do not like this," Yami stated, looking around for the strange sound from earlier. "I suspect fowl play."
"Of course you do, pharaoh, you're King of Games. You always suspect fowl play," Yami Bakura commented from the sidelines.
"I do not need your interjections here!" Yami shouted at him.
"Ha ha, well, I'll just stand on the sidelines and let you do all the work, then," Yami Bakura made a 'welcome' gesture with his arm, which he knew really pissed Yami off. "The puzzle's yours."
Yami growled, but continued brainstorming about how the situation might have occurred. Unfortunately for him, he needed to remember about his past as a pharaoh to complete this brainstorm, and that requirement is currently out of reach for him.
"Aaargh! I don't remember a thing and this fog is making it harder to think!" Yami finally said, pounding a tree and looking frustrated.
"Frustrated, pharaoh?" Yami Bakura taunted.
"Be quiet, Bakura!" Yami growled.
"My, my," said a nearby female voice.
"Looks like we found him," added a nearby male voice.
"Who speaks?" Yami demanded.
Two pissed-off looking people appeared in the slight fog that was forming. "We speak," said the female.
"And who are you?"
"I am Yami Bakhe, and she is Yami Youen," Yami Bakhe introduced, holding out his hand as if he wanted them to shake it. "Pleased to meet you, pharaoh."
"What do you want?" Yami asked.
"To challenge you, of course," Yami Youen stated as if it was obvious. "You want our items, you need to duel us, right?"
Yami narrowed his eyes. "Of course. You are the holders of the Millennium Jar and Millennium Flute, am I not correct?"
Yami Bakhe made a clucking noise. "Tsk, tsk. Don't remember us, do you? Well, I guess if we duel you, we can refresh your memory." He and Yami Youen chanted a spell, and a circle of black light circled around them, finally twisting around their left wrists and forming a duel disk.
"Duel us!" They both said together.
"You are two and I am but one! By the rules of the game, that is not allowed!" Yami's frustration was growing, until he heard the familiar taunting voice that he thought he would never be glad to hear.
"So let me duel as you team mate, pharaoh," Yami Bakura said, reappearing from the fog that was covering him. "If you haven't forgotten, I still know how to duel."
"Oh, and how could we forget the tomb raider, Rayou?" Yami Youen taunted. Yami Bakura twitched.
"Oh, bro~ther, you don't look we~ell!" Yami Bakhe taunted in a sing- song voice.
"Don't call me Rayou OR brother!" Yami Bakura snapped.
Yami Bakhe chuckled. "Whatever you say, brother."
"Talk later! We can start the duel now!" Yami glanced at Yami Bakura. "I hope you know what you're doing. You don't really have strategies that would work well in tag-teams."
Yami Bakura did his usual smirk. "If my plans fail, I have a special backup."
Yami did not know what Yami Bakura was talking about, but decided it best not questioned.
"DUEL START!!!"
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Scarabsi: Man, that was a lot more random than usual. And don't worry, I will do Youen's past memories later. About after their vision of the past, because Youen tells the full story.
Youen: And then Yugi said, "Get the fuck off!!!" And Yami said, "There isn't any fuck on you," and Yugi continued to try to pry him off, and-
Scarabsi: Unnecessary speech, Youen.
Youen: Why thank you.
(Sii, Joey, Yugi, and Bakura are asleep)
Scarabsi: Uh.
Yami: What?
Scarabsi: How long do the pills last?
Yami: Let's see. (picks up bottle) It says here it lasts for four hours.
Scarabsi: (falls over from shock) FOUR HOURS?!?
Yami: (shrugs) Well, yeah.
Scarabsi: I need them in the next chapter! I think.
Yami: Uh.
Yami Bakura: Why did you leave us in the middle of the starting of a duel?
Scarabsi: I tried making it a cliffhanger, but it didn't work, so yeah. ):P
Yami Bakhe: Oh, and where's my light?
Scarabsi: He's asleep, like Sii, Joey, Yugi, and Bakura.
Yami Bakhe: No, he's not. His name wasn't up there. (points up to parenthesis line stating people who are asleep) It has Sii, Joey, Yugi, and Bakura, but it doesn't have Bakhe.
Scarabsi: Wait. I found him. (points over to library corner)
Bakhe: (is reading a book titled "How to be a Dummy for Dummies Egyptian Translation")
Yami Bakhe: (stares at Bakhe oddly)
Bakhe: What? I'm not as stupid as I seem, you know! I have to be a good actor to convince Sii and Youen that I am! (continues reading)
Yami Bakhe: Why did I not stop him when I could have? The book could have been stolen very easily...
Scarabsi: You're acting like Sii...
Yami Bakhe: ...
Yami Youen: BOO!!
Scarabsi: Thank you for that necessary heart jolt.
Yami Youen: You're welcome!
Scarabsi: Sarcasm, Yami Youen.
Yami Youen: WHEEE!!!
Yami Bakhe: I think she's on sugar high or something.
Scarabsi: ...
Yami Bakhe: Hehehe.
Scarabsi: I'm sorry about chapter sixteen, and please review...?
