The next time he opened his eyes, Bakura was lying on the floor of a dark room. Groaning as he sat up, the room immediately lit up with more torches. A voice echoed through the room. "Who goes there?" asked the voice. It seemed to be coming from somewhere at the top of a long staircase that laid in front of Bakura, who didn't bother to move, as he'd need to save energy for escaping a tomb, not running up stairs to see what caused his curiousities. Though he did raise an eyebrow. What was this, an Egyptian parody of Jack and the Beanstalk? A tall shadow slowly moved down the stairs, slowly getting shorter as it passed through the light. Bakura tried to see what the light was casting upon that would create a shadow, but it was no use. Until, finally, a young-looking man appeared. "When I ask a question of you I am looking for an answer. Tell me. What are you doing here?" And Bakura raised his eyebrow yet again. "Visiting, and hoping to bring back a trinket or two (or three or four or even *cough* six *cough*) for remembrance." The shadow nowtowered over him as a man with a turban on his head stared down at Bakura, who could think of atleast one person that this man must be related to. They looked almost exactly alike. "Could it be... that you are in anyway a descendant of a priest named Shadah?" The man with a turban on his head allowed a minute or two to pass before answering his question. "I am Shadii... guardian of the Pharaoh's tomb. My role has been passed down through generations..." And his eyes fell upon Bakura's Sennen Ring, which gleamed in the light. "It seems that you were destined to be here... You are the first of many to actually make it within the tomb." "That's because none are as cunning as I, Thief King Bakura." "Well that explains everything," said Shadii, who began to smile. Bakura hadn't realized that he'd left out the detail he'd been looking for most when studying Shadii for the first tim, which was his Sennen Item. It was the Millennium Anhk. (Is that how you spell it? I need spellcheck, dammit. X_X;;)

One of those electricity-like auras shot from eachother's eyes at one another as they knew what they had to do. A Shadow Game was to be played. Bakura had used this before on Pegasus to get the Sennen Eye (which he had accidentally dropped down the toilet one day while he was examining it. *cough*) and was willing to give his Shadow Game another try. "Are you prepared, Shadii, for a Shadow Game?" "The question is whether or not you are destined to lose it." "Your talk of destiny bores me. Let's begin the game. Our minds will be the landscapes of the game." "Don't explain what I already know of the game. It has been played by me for centuries and I never lose." "How significant. Neither do I." "Very good. And a little note for you if you do win, which you won't- do me a favor and don't examine Sennen Items while you're hovering over the toilet, I won't ask for details of what happened last time." OH! He just HAD to throw that in Bakura's face. "THAT'S IT, MORTAL!" "I'm NOT a mortal, I just told you I've played Shadow Games for centuries. Open your ears." "........." Bakura was so flustered that he grabbed a katana hanging on the wall and ran at Shadii, swinging the katana wildly. Shadii found it an appropriate time to be like a magician, disapappearing and reappearing in another part of the room. A fast little bugger, he was.

When Bakura came swinging his little sword this way and that in Shadii's new direction, Shadii thought of what he himself would be swinging around. He looked around, and found another katana. Where Bakura was running from. Shadii dodged Bakura's wild swings and ran to the other side of the room to warm himself up. ((o________o) This might be an out of character Shadii that we don't see. =D) Shadii snatched the katana's handle and tried to pull on it. "Damn damn DAMN!" shouted the guardian as the katana wouldn't come lose. Of all the times for his palace to revolt on him, did it have to do it when a madman is coming after him?

Bakura came upon Shadii and swung his sword at Shadii's head, who ducked just in time, and the sword was knocked from the wall to the ground. A rather large sweatdrop appeared on the side of Shadii's head. How convenient. The fallen katana was snatched up and caught Bakura's before it tried to swing down on Shadii's head again. "If you're going to try and split my head open try to do it PROPERLY!" shouted the guardian, who knocked Bakura's sword away in an elegant swing of his katana. Bakura was shocked at that, Shadii didn't look at all like he could wield any sort of weapon, let alone a katana. Bakura ran over to the sword and bent to pick it up, but before he could grab it, Shadii held his sword in front of his throat. "Die, you horrible thief! How DARE you make me have to take a trip to the sewer for the Sennen Eye!" shouted the guardian. Bakura was tunned at that too. Someone was mad enough to go down into the sewer and search hours on end for an item?

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Hehehe... ^_______^;;;;;;;;;; Shadii is out of character because... actually, he might not be out of character. No one really knows anything about Shadii, he's so mysterious.