Author- Sorry it took so long to get this chapter up all my loyal
reviewers! I just had a bad case of writers block, so I apologize in
advance if this chapter is a little...rough around the edges. ^^ But I did
my best. Besides, as soon as I get over this whole part I'm going to get to
the action parts! Fun fun fun! ^.^ No, really, I'm not being sarcastic! I
LOVE WRITING ACTION AND STUFF!
-.- Only sadly I don't get to write it very often...
BUT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE IN A LITTLE BIT! ^^ YES YES!
Yea, just while I'm thinking about it I'm going to answer a question I got e-mailed to me. The reasoning behind that item thing, is that now that the items are all split between both the Dream Realm and the Physical Realm, if you will. Because of this, the items are all rendered powerless, with help from the confusion concerning which item, in which realm, is the real thing.
To solve the problem, there just isn't any power. The most anyone can do with the item is make it glow, which isn't really all that great. They can do something else with the items too, but I'm not telling you what that is yet 'cause even THEY don't realize it yet! ^^
ALSO, I'm going to tell you all this because I never really explain it in future chapters. The REAL reason that Bakura, and Yami couldn't get into Ryou and Yugi's memories is because they were locked into their minds. Ryou didn't purposely lock his school memories out of his mind like Bakura assumed, just the memories like the ones Bakura was looking for are locked in.
For example, if Bakura would have been able to get into Ryou's locked memory, then he would probably find things like: His ABCs, how to ride a bike, how to read and write, how to speak, how to walk, what to do to use a phone, how to make dinner, ect.
Luckily, Bakura had learned completely on his own how to walk and speak by just being Ryou's Hikari, but the other things.... Anywho, the same holds true for Yami and Cami, although not so much Cami as you will find in this chapter...
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I sat in my new room alone, looking at all the pictures on the wall of pink roses, poppies, and other pink things. It was getting very old just looking at things, and my stomach constantly reminded me that I was hungry. Since I had taken over Yugi's place in the world, I had to cope with the new feelings of being alive that you didn't need to deal with when you were a Yami. I sighed, and sat down on the bed. There wasn't anything to do in here, but I couldn't leave my big room, or the Tomb Robber would probably steal it. I didn't like him, and that was a huge understatement. He had been a little better about not being...psychotic...over the past few years, but he still didn't change his attitude toward things.
Just as I was about to look through the drawers in the room, I heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" I asked.
"It's...uh...Bakura." He answered, in a voice I was sure belonged to Cami.
"What?" Bakura said in reply to the attempt made to trick me. Cami cursed and hissed something at Bakura, who sighed and made his footsteps known as he retreated into his own room. I smiled a little.
"What is it you want Cami?" I said, loud enough for him to hear clearly from the other side of the door.
"There is some guy here, I don't know who he is, and he keeps knocking on the door. He's got a box with him, and the box smells like food. I want the food, but I think that he's going to...I don't know...cackle evilly and try to kill me when I take it because it turned out to be some sort of trap."
"A trap?" I almost laughed at the thought.
"Yeah, you know, like the one Bakura has set up for you in the bathroom."
"SCRIBE!" Bakura thundered. I heard a smack that I was pretty sure was Cami covering his own mouth, and then he started shouting how he was 'sorry'. I made a mental note to avoid going to the hall way bathroom at all costs, and to just stick to the one conveniently attached to my master bedroom.
I shuffled the deck I always kept close by, "Is there any other reason that the person might be here?"
A pause.
"Cami?"
"Well, I was kind of, trying to figure out how to work the phone, and I saw there was an advertisement on the refrigerator for this company or something, and it had symbols matching the ones on the phone. So I tried it out, 'cause I'm hungry and I saw on the advertisement that there was pictures of food, only it didn't work too well..."
[A/N: Yes, this isn't really Yami's flashback, but I got the idea for it and thought it was too good to pass up.]
**FLASHBACK**
Phone- Hello, this is Happy People Pizza how may I help you?
Cami- Yes, I would like...one foods please.
Phone- Uh, sir?
Bakura- *clears his throat loudly*
Cami- Oh, make that two foods.
Phone- But sir...
Cami- And I want them over here ASAP because we're dying of hunger over here so thank you very much and have a nice day! *hangs up*
**END FLASHBACK**
"...So Bakura had to call up again a little later and yell at them for not delivering our food fast enough and we had to give them all kinds of information! It was murder! (Thankfully, not literally.) I mean, what's with this generation and variety! Can't they just sell one type of pizza!"
I sighed, "Well if you are the one who ordered, why don't you just answer the door and take it?"
"Cause, last time I tried taking it he started yelling at me to give it back because I didn't pay for it yet!"
"Then pay for it." I said, noticing Cami's obvious signs of frustration.
"I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TO PAY! DUH! If it was that easy I would be eating by now!"
"Just look through your host's memories."
"I've. Already. Tried. That." I could tell now that he was saying this through his teeth. He said it very slowly and emphasized each syllable. Then he sighed, "I don't know what's wrong! It's harder and harder to get into her memories and when I do, it's all blank! I KNOW she can't be THAT stupid! There are is only a tiny corner of her mind that has a teeny bit of useless information in it. AND I WANT FOOD!"
"That's strange."
"What's strange? Me wanting food?"
"No, the absence of memories."
"Yea, yea, whatever, anyway I'm REALLY hungry and I need your help!"
"What could I do?"
"I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE THE DAMN PHARAOH! Look into Yugi's memories for how many of those green papers to give the guy or something! I already tried bartering with him and he wouldn't take any of the bowls I offered him. Those are the only things left in the house that aren't pink."
I paused, searching through Yugi's memories at a fast pace. 'He has less memories too...' I thought, looking everywhere for anything useful. 'The only memories he has left are not very detailed, too shady to even know why he remembered it. The memories were fine this morning, why are they disappearing?' I was able to find a little bit of information about money, but it only said to give the 'pizza man', as Yugi called it, 10.
"Ten." I answered coolly, returning to my dutiful boredom.
"Ten what?" Cami asked, knocking on the door again as I heard Bakura start to shout obscenities at the Pizza Man for not letting him just take the pizza.
I shrugged, "I don't know, money?"
If I actually cared whether or not Bakura got fed, I might have been perturbed that I didn't know exactly what 'ten' meant. I was going to have to find out why Yugi's memories were incomplete...
"Ten moneys..." Cami repeated, "Got it, thanks!"
And with that, Cami ran off to do Ra knows what. I had to keep guard in my room though, so I was sure no scribe or tomb robber would take it when I wasn't looking.
Sadly, it was a long night. But at least I had homework to keep me busy, not that it was entertaining or anything. Especially since they weren't studying about Egypt at all, but about the Greeks. I had to listen to a CD that they had given all the students with the assignments on it, then write a paper on it. It was slightly interesting, but also annoying to have to write down that Apollo was the sun god, instead of Ra, who was the REAL sun god. But, for Yugi's sake, I managed.
[A/N: Just so you know, Yami wrote in Egyptian. ^^ I wasn't going to back down on my rule already.]
Finally, at ten or something, I got frustrated with staying in my room and decided to just hope that no one stole it when I ventured out into the living room.
I found Cami and Bakura, sitting on the couch, eyes glued on the Television, and an almost empty pizza box lying on the coffee table in front of them. They didn't even notice me coming in, and I couldn't help note that both of their jaws were hanging open just enough to be funny to look at them. There was a 'Hooked On Phonics' book and tape was laying forgotten next to the pizza, with sauce dripped all over the page that was opened titled, 'CAT'.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
They jumped and glared at me for scaring them like that. I grabbed a cold pizza slice and sat down in a cushy couch with my name on it. "And where did you get this pizza anyway? Did you finally find out how to use the money stuff right?"
Cami shook his head, with a sort of devilish gleaming in his eyes, "Nope. Didn't need to. Bakura stole the pizza from him when he had his guard down, and I chucked water balloons at him from the front window so he didn't really notice. Well, he noticed I guess. Cause he started screaming at us until Bakura made it inside and we locked the door. Locks are so helpful. Kept the screaming guy out and our pizza in."
Bakura nodded and smirked, "We should order pizza more often."
I turned my attention back to the television, which was the only thing lighting the entire pitch black household. There was a rather elderly looking man asking questions he was reading off a big screen thing to three different people. Although I couldn't read, I could defiantly hear, and one of the categories was 'Ancient Egypt'. Eagerly, I leaned a little closer to the bright screen and listened closely as they read the first question.
"The containers used to hold the internal organs that were removed from the body before mummification and embalmed separately." The man said.
A woman buzzed in, "What is The Selket Jars?"
"I am sorry, but that is incorrect. The correct answer is 'Canopic Jars'"
"What is this?" I asked them both, not needing to look at them.
Bakura jerked his head at the Television screen, "They're playing a Jeopardy Marathon of some sort, this one has a whole batch of questions about Ancient Egypt and they keep getting them wrong."
"They've only got one right so far." Cami said maliciously, "And that was one about the Sphinx."
Sounded interesting enough, so I sat down next to them and watched the show. It was unbelievably frustrating being the Pharaoh and having to watch everyone get the questions about your own civilization wrong every time! These people must have been stupid not to know which method the Priests used to prepare the dead for the afterlife!
"An often occurring punishment for Tomb Robbery." The host person said.
"Having your nose and ears cut off...or death." Bakura said, nonchalantly. "And I should know, seen it done a many number of times."
"Um...What is being hanged?"
"No that is incorrect. The correct answer could have been having your nose or ears cut off, being sent to Ethiopia, or death. Next question."
Bakura growled at the people on Television for not knowing that one, and the questions kept going on and on like this.
"The god of chaos, desert, storm, and infertility."
"...What is...Isis?"
I couldn't help loosing my cool at that answer. I threw my arms up into the air and shouted, "No! Nononono! GOD! Isis was the GODESS of mothers and magic! SETH! SETH WAS THE GOD OF CHAOS!"
"Sorry but the correct answer is actually Seth."
"What did I tell you." I muttered angrily to Cami and Bakura, who nodded in agreement to my outburst.
"Last question on the board, it's a daily double. Ready for the question Marie?" The announcer person asked the brown haired girl, who nodded excitedly as a movie appeared on the screen. It was a woman walking through a very old looking temple pointing out hieroglyphics on the wall.
"Ancient Egypt was a time filled with mysteries and magic," The woman began, "I'm here in a Temple where the first ever evidence of the Sau was found. In Ancient Egypt, the Sau played a very important role in life, although it is uncertain what EXACTLY the Sau did, what is it believed that his or her job in life was?"
The movie ended and the screen was back on the face of this 'Marie' character. I couldn't remember exactly what the Sau did back then, and judging by Bakura's face, he didn't remember either. Cami, however, sighed deeply and answered the question quietly, with a surprising seriousness in his tone.
"The Sau was the man or woman in the town that was responsible for making the amulets required by the local villagers or townspeople. They were also responsible for performing the ritual that would imbue the amulets with magical significance and supernatural powers. That was why the Sau usually needed to have great heka." [1]
We both turned and looked at Cami like he had just started ranting fluid Russian. Cami looked somewhat melancholy about the information he had just said, but as it turned out, he was right. No one was paying much attention to the TV at this moment though, because we were both too busy blinking in amazement at Cami's ability to...know this.
"And how do you know this?" Bakura asked, "Did you just swallow a text book or something? That's the first time I've heard you say one work that had more then two syllables in it."
"Yes, Scribe, why did you know this so easily?"
Cami smiled weakly at us, as if having something on his mind suddenly. "I...had a friend."
And with that, he scooped up his 'Hooked on Phonics' and made his way back to his bedroom with a mumbled, "G' night."
Then, there was silence. Except for, of course, the screaming of 'Marie' as she won enough money to take her into the lead, and the other woman named 'Penny' started trying to answer the next question, which she got wrong. In fact, she got it so wrong that Bakura ended up putting his foot through the TV screen [2] and screaming, "THE NILE RIVER YOU BITCH!" With the only light source on in the house out, we were left with darkness.
...TV time was officially over for the night.
*@* BAKURA *@*
Thunder roared and tore me roughly from my sound sleep. I groaned and covered my head with a pillow, seeing out of the corner of my eye that it was no longer the middle of the night. I was already sick of the rain. It had been storming all night while we were watching Jeopardy, and I was done. Now that it was morning, I was inconveniently reminded of the school I was required to attend. Curse school. Now I know why Ryou is so inclined to stay in bed in the morning.
I tried to cover my body up with the warm pink blankets on the bed, but it was caught on something. I tugged harder, and was shocked to hear a loud groan when the blankets were pulled away from me. Confused, I pulled the blankets as hard as I could and low and behold, they were pulled once again away from me.
"What the-?"
I saw a lump under the covers and took it upon myself to kick it. The lump struggled and fell of the side of the bed where I saw who was the culprit.
"SCRIBE!" I bellowed, seizing the blankets back from him.
He looked up at me and screamed, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED!"
"YOUR BED! THIS IS MY BED!" I yelled back at him.
"YOUR BED!? WHY WOULD I BE IN YOUR-" He stopped, blinked as if recalling a memory, then his mouth formed a silent 'O'.
"Oh yeah..."
"I WANT AN EXPLINATION! RIGHT NOW!!"
"Well after everyone went to bed, I got kind of bored and I had the TV in my room on long enough to see the end half of 'Signs'. It's a movie about aliens and stuff. Anywho, after words, I thought I heard something at my window and freaked out. THEN it started pouring down rain and lightning and thunder and...I just got, freaked out. I tried to go into Yami's room, but he had locked his door, and you hadn't so..."
"OUT!" I yelled, pointing firmly at the door and glaring at him.
Cami looked up at me, "I think you're taking this the wrong way, I stayed on my side of the bed only cause I was cold. Otherwise I would have slept on the floor..."
"I SAID OUT!"
Cami obiendiantly got up and started to leave, "I'm going to go change 'kay?"
"I DON'T CARE! FOR THE THIRD TIME, OUT!!"
He closed the door quickly and carefully, and I sighed with relief. If Pharaoh got wind of this, he would have a field day. I gave a last look out the window at the rain and my eyes involuntarily narrowed. There was something about this rain that didn't seem natural.
-(*.*)-(*.*)-(*.*)-
After I had dressed into Ryou's school uniform, I walked out into the kitchen and found Yami and Cami discussing something at the table. They looked up at me when I entered, and offered me a piece of old pizza, which I declined.
"The rain." I said simply, "Something about it doesn't seem normal to me."
The Pharaoh nodded, "I know what you mean. The scribe and I had just been discussing the resent changes in the weather, and from what Cami has told me, the rain started up late last night."
"I still don't understand it." Cami said, "It's just rain, right? Rain goes on almost every week or so, what makes this one so different?"
"I can't put my finger on it." Pharaoh sighed, "But I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this isn't a good omen."
"True." I said, though it pained me to agree with the Pharaoh, "Do you think it has something to do with our hosts?"
Yami looked off into the distance, "It may be. Even though we have been separated, I'm sure that our souls are still bound in an unexplainable way."
"Whoa whoa whoa, you mean you think our hosts are in some sort of danger?" Cami asked, now in a sort of panicked state.
Yami leaned back in his chair, "You never know about these things, but it seems highly probable."
"What would the rain have to do with them being in danger though?" Cami continued, "They are in another realm entirely, how could the two be linked? Do you think it's some sort of...message they are trying to send us? I mean, we don't know anything about the realm they are in, or what kinds of things they can do there."
"No." I said, "I don't think that it would be easy to alter the climate from the 'Dream Realm'. But it is possible that this is a premonition about what is going to come."
"A premonition?" Cami asked, "What kind of premonition?"
The Pharaoh shrugged, "It may be a sign that something bad is going to happen in the near future."
I got up and looked out the front window at the rain, still steadily falling with occasional thunder and lightning strikes, "Or a simpler way of putting it, this could be some sort of way to cover something up. The items aren't the only things on the world that contain magic."
"Do you really think it's magic rain?" Cami said, almost skeptically, "Am I the only one that thinks you guys might be jumping to conclusions? A lot?"
Yami sighed, "We cannot know for sure until we have more information, maybe someone can give us useful tips, or we can find something out at a different location..."
Cami stiffened and made a face, seeing where the Pharaoh was going with this. "I'm not going to school today if that's what you're implying."
We both looked at him curiously, Yami cocked an eyebrow, "Why not?"
Cami blushed, "They gave me a new uniform for this year."
"And?"
Cami continued to get redder, "It's...a girl's uniform! I can't wear a girl's uniform to school! I'll get laughed at!"
I couldn't help making a comment to that one, "You get laughed at anyway, what would be the difference?"
The Pharaoh laughed under his breath at the look on Cami's face and pushed him in the direction to his room, "Go get changed anyway, we're going to need you to be there so you can help us with the mystery."
Cami's face brightened a little, but he still seemed to hesitate, "Need me? Since when do you NEED me to do anything?"
"We just do, scribe, that comes as a surprise to you?" The Pharaoh acted shocked. Keyword being, ACTED.
Cami smiled a little, "I...guess...fine. But you owe me!"
Once Cami left, I turned to the Pharaoh and scoffed, "Since when do we need his help?"
Yami sighed, "We don't really, but the only way we'll be able to get him in that uniform is to act like we care."
"I noticed." I sighed while opened the front door. Yami stopped me, "Where are you going?"
I opened the door further, and pulled my arm from his grip, "I'm going to go outside for a little while. I need to think about some things."
Yami finally let me go, and I walked out onto the front porch. The rain misted my face a little as I looked out into the distance. No one was outside, even though a bobbing green umbrella was visible far down the sidewalk. A tree across the street looked like it had been struck with lightning, and the whole sidewalk and road was flooded.
It seemed too quiet, even for a rainy day, and everything seemed strangely eerie. I scanned the area in front of me for any signs of something suspicious. Then I saw what I was looking for. A person of some sort, masked in a cloak of rain, standing firm in front a house three down from ours. The water from the street came up to the person's ankles and it looked more like they were floating then standing in three inch high water. The rain was so thick I couldn't tell who this person was, what gender it was, or even how old they might be. But one thing was for sure, I knew at once that they were defiantly suspicious material.
The figure silently walked backward from the house, shaking their head at something mysteriously. The water from the street didn't even waver as they started to walk in our direction, not really paying attention to anything, and keeping eyes hidden in the storm.
"Hey!" I called, "You!"
They turned and looked at me, and I could now tell that the person had blazing, unnatural yellow eyes that could be easily spotted in even the thickest rain. There was something wrong with this persons eyes, and it wasn't just their color. As soon as the person noticed who I was, though, they turned around and disappeared. What the hell? I only blinked! That person couldn't have just disappeared into thin air like that! I clenched my fists and looked as hard as I could through the storm for the person who had looked at me, but there was no one there.
"If I were you-" A voice cooed. "I would watch your back, Ryou Bakura."
I jumped, searching again for who spoke to me. The voice was not male, or female...it just was. Seeing no one was there, I shouted into the sheet of storm, that was getting thicker by the second.
"Who are you!" I shouted, "And how do you know my host's name!"
A cold wind blew, carrying icy water from the rain with it that caused me to unconsciously wince. A cold laugh rang from the mixtures of gray and blue around me and I saw the pair of yellow eyes once again staring back at mine.
"Ah, names." It purred, "Names are nothing of importance. If one would be not named, would it not go on living as itself? Would it not breathe like the others around it? You yourself never use your name anymore...why should I?"
Another cold laugh sent shivers up my spine, but I glared back at the pair of eyes that seemed to appear out of nowhere. "I have my reasons, now reveal your name!" I shouted.
"You may call me Zaria, though if everything goes according to plan, you won't ever need to have the grace of calling me by my name. In fact, if you ever lay eyes on me again, then something has gone seriously wrong, Spirit of the ring."
I was stunned she knew so much already, "How do you-?"
"Ah, I do not intend to go on blurting information that you do not need, Spirit of the ring. It's just extra weight, don't you agree? Besides, I came only to deliver a warning."
The eyes closed, and the only sound was wind and rain, "Take heed, Bakura, I will be watching your every move. One false step," There was a flash of lighting, and the eyes glared back at me with a sudden mixture of both anger and amusement, "-and I might be forced to show my wrath."
"What do you mean!?" I shouted back, "You aren't making sense!"
"Lot's of things don't make sense, Spirit of the Ring, like for instance, why I'm not punishing those who meddle in things that aren't meant to be snooped in to." She growled, another harsh wind kicking up, shaking the wind chime on the next door neighbor's front step.
"Remember my words, Spirit of the Ring, and never trust the expected and assumed. For assumption is demonic and deceiving."
Lightning lit the sky, and the streets were illuminated for a brief second. Just time enough to see a young woman, dressed in loose white robes, fade into the colorless morning. I cursed under my breath as the piercing eyes of the woman too, went away, and I was again alone. I looked at the powerless ring hanging loosely from my neck and sighed agitatedly.
I never liked rain.
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Author- *looking around* Oh come on! You didn't think I was going to leave Cami, Bakura, and Yami out of the darkness of the plot! There had to be something to keep you readers entertained, I was almost getting bored writing their story! :-P
Now, peoples who care, comes the parts in the story where you have to pay attention to A LOT. Every detail counts! And for everything, there is a reason. Heck, there is even a reason why Bryac's hair is black and Yoko's is pink! Details are VERY important, and by the way, *smirk* what I wrote about assumption, holds true for EVERYTHING.
This has been an Authoress tip.
[2] Now, when Bakura put his foot through the TV screen...Before people start asking me about this, I do not know if you would get zapped or cut or killed if you put your foot through the TV screen. Seeing as, I have not personally tried it out, and I do not intend on trying it out in the near future. Sorry folks! If someone out there has actually done this sort of thing, please contribute your ultimate knowledge to the Authoress of this fic right after you call this number.
1-800-AGR-MANGMNT
Joking! Joking! ^^;;
[1] Actually, all of this information is true. The 'Sau' in the city or town could be either male or female, 'Sau' meaning 'Amulet Man'. And 'Heka' was translated to mean 'Magic' in Egyptian. In fact, everything that I wrote in the Jeopardy thing is true. Even the fact that Tomb Robbers that were caught, were punished by getting their nose cut off. *grimace* I found this all in my humanities textbook, and was simply stunned at all the information I found out. You see, I've already written some of the last few chapters, and all of the Egyptian stuff I put in there turned out to be real Egyptian stuff in the book. And there you have it! History lesson in a fanfic! How do I pull it off, I THANK THE HUMANITIES BOOK!
I am keeping this book.
Its name is Bob.
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-.- Only sadly I don't get to write it very often...
BUT THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE IN A LITTLE BIT! ^^ YES YES!
Yea, just while I'm thinking about it I'm going to answer a question I got e-mailed to me. The reasoning behind that item thing, is that now that the items are all split between both the Dream Realm and the Physical Realm, if you will. Because of this, the items are all rendered powerless, with help from the confusion concerning which item, in which realm, is the real thing.
To solve the problem, there just isn't any power. The most anyone can do with the item is make it glow, which isn't really all that great. They can do something else with the items too, but I'm not telling you what that is yet 'cause even THEY don't realize it yet! ^^
ALSO, I'm going to tell you all this because I never really explain it in future chapters. The REAL reason that Bakura, and Yami couldn't get into Ryou and Yugi's memories is because they were locked into their minds. Ryou didn't purposely lock his school memories out of his mind like Bakura assumed, just the memories like the ones Bakura was looking for are locked in.
For example, if Bakura would have been able to get into Ryou's locked memory, then he would probably find things like: His ABCs, how to ride a bike, how to read and write, how to speak, how to walk, what to do to use a phone, how to make dinner, ect.
Luckily, Bakura had learned completely on his own how to walk and speak by just being Ryou's Hikari, but the other things.... Anywho, the same holds true for Yami and Cami, although not so much Cami as you will find in this chapter...
~*~
I sat in my new room alone, looking at all the pictures on the wall of pink roses, poppies, and other pink things. It was getting very old just looking at things, and my stomach constantly reminded me that I was hungry. Since I had taken over Yugi's place in the world, I had to cope with the new feelings of being alive that you didn't need to deal with when you were a Yami. I sighed, and sat down on the bed. There wasn't anything to do in here, but I couldn't leave my big room, or the Tomb Robber would probably steal it. I didn't like him, and that was a huge understatement. He had been a little better about not being...psychotic...over the past few years, but he still didn't change his attitude toward things.
Just as I was about to look through the drawers in the room, I heard a knock on the door.
"Who is it?" I asked.
"It's...uh...Bakura." He answered, in a voice I was sure belonged to Cami.
"What?" Bakura said in reply to the attempt made to trick me. Cami cursed and hissed something at Bakura, who sighed and made his footsteps known as he retreated into his own room. I smiled a little.
"What is it you want Cami?" I said, loud enough for him to hear clearly from the other side of the door.
"There is some guy here, I don't know who he is, and he keeps knocking on the door. He's got a box with him, and the box smells like food. I want the food, but I think that he's going to...I don't know...cackle evilly and try to kill me when I take it because it turned out to be some sort of trap."
"A trap?" I almost laughed at the thought.
"Yeah, you know, like the one Bakura has set up for you in the bathroom."
"SCRIBE!" Bakura thundered. I heard a smack that I was pretty sure was Cami covering his own mouth, and then he started shouting how he was 'sorry'. I made a mental note to avoid going to the hall way bathroom at all costs, and to just stick to the one conveniently attached to my master bedroom.
I shuffled the deck I always kept close by, "Is there any other reason that the person might be here?"
A pause.
"Cami?"
"Well, I was kind of, trying to figure out how to work the phone, and I saw there was an advertisement on the refrigerator for this company or something, and it had symbols matching the ones on the phone. So I tried it out, 'cause I'm hungry and I saw on the advertisement that there was pictures of food, only it didn't work too well..."
[A/N: Yes, this isn't really Yami's flashback, but I got the idea for it and thought it was too good to pass up.]
**FLASHBACK**
Phone- Hello, this is Happy People Pizza how may I help you?
Cami- Yes, I would like...one foods please.
Phone- Uh, sir?
Bakura- *clears his throat loudly*
Cami- Oh, make that two foods.
Phone- But sir...
Cami- And I want them over here ASAP because we're dying of hunger over here so thank you very much and have a nice day! *hangs up*
**END FLASHBACK**
"...So Bakura had to call up again a little later and yell at them for not delivering our food fast enough and we had to give them all kinds of information! It was murder! (Thankfully, not literally.) I mean, what's with this generation and variety! Can't they just sell one type of pizza!"
I sighed, "Well if you are the one who ordered, why don't you just answer the door and take it?"
"Cause, last time I tried taking it he started yelling at me to give it back because I didn't pay for it yet!"
"Then pay for it." I said, noticing Cami's obvious signs of frustration.
"I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TO PAY! DUH! If it was that easy I would be eating by now!"
"Just look through your host's memories."
"I've. Already. Tried. That." I could tell now that he was saying this through his teeth. He said it very slowly and emphasized each syllable. Then he sighed, "I don't know what's wrong! It's harder and harder to get into her memories and when I do, it's all blank! I KNOW she can't be THAT stupid! There are is only a tiny corner of her mind that has a teeny bit of useless information in it. AND I WANT FOOD!"
"That's strange."
"What's strange? Me wanting food?"
"No, the absence of memories."
"Yea, yea, whatever, anyway I'm REALLY hungry and I need your help!"
"What could I do?"
"I DON'T KNOW YOU'RE THE DAMN PHARAOH! Look into Yugi's memories for how many of those green papers to give the guy or something! I already tried bartering with him and he wouldn't take any of the bowls I offered him. Those are the only things left in the house that aren't pink."
I paused, searching through Yugi's memories at a fast pace. 'He has less memories too...' I thought, looking everywhere for anything useful. 'The only memories he has left are not very detailed, too shady to even know why he remembered it. The memories were fine this morning, why are they disappearing?' I was able to find a little bit of information about money, but it only said to give the 'pizza man', as Yugi called it, 10.
"Ten." I answered coolly, returning to my dutiful boredom.
"Ten what?" Cami asked, knocking on the door again as I heard Bakura start to shout obscenities at the Pizza Man for not letting him just take the pizza.
I shrugged, "I don't know, money?"
If I actually cared whether or not Bakura got fed, I might have been perturbed that I didn't know exactly what 'ten' meant. I was going to have to find out why Yugi's memories were incomplete...
"Ten moneys..." Cami repeated, "Got it, thanks!"
And with that, Cami ran off to do Ra knows what. I had to keep guard in my room though, so I was sure no scribe or tomb robber would take it when I wasn't looking.
Sadly, it was a long night. But at least I had homework to keep me busy, not that it was entertaining or anything. Especially since they weren't studying about Egypt at all, but about the Greeks. I had to listen to a CD that they had given all the students with the assignments on it, then write a paper on it. It was slightly interesting, but also annoying to have to write down that Apollo was the sun god, instead of Ra, who was the REAL sun god. But, for Yugi's sake, I managed.
[A/N: Just so you know, Yami wrote in Egyptian. ^^ I wasn't going to back down on my rule already.]
Finally, at ten or something, I got frustrated with staying in my room and decided to just hope that no one stole it when I ventured out into the living room.
I found Cami and Bakura, sitting on the couch, eyes glued on the Television, and an almost empty pizza box lying on the coffee table in front of them. They didn't even notice me coming in, and I couldn't help note that both of their jaws were hanging open just enough to be funny to look at them. There was a 'Hooked On Phonics' book and tape was laying forgotten next to the pizza, with sauce dripped all over the page that was opened titled, 'CAT'.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
They jumped and glared at me for scaring them like that. I grabbed a cold pizza slice and sat down in a cushy couch with my name on it. "And where did you get this pizza anyway? Did you finally find out how to use the money stuff right?"
Cami shook his head, with a sort of devilish gleaming in his eyes, "Nope. Didn't need to. Bakura stole the pizza from him when he had his guard down, and I chucked water balloons at him from the front window so he didn't really notice. Well, he noticed I guess. Cause he started screaming at us until Bakura made it inside and we locked the door. Locks are so helpful. Kept the screaming guy out and our pizza in."
Bakura nodded and smirked, "We should order pizza more often."
I turned my attention back to the television, which was the only thing lighting the entire pitch black household. There was a rather elderly looking man asking questions he was reading off a big screen thing to three different people. Although I couldn't read, I could defiantly hear, and one of the categories was 'Ancient Egypt'. Eagerly, I leaned a little closer to the bright screen and listened closely as they read the first question.
"The containers used to hold the internal organs that were removed from the body before mummification and embalmed separately." The man said.
A woman buzzed in, "What is The Selket Jars?"
"I am sorry, but that is incorrect. The correct answer is 'Canopic Jars'"
"What is this?" I asked them both, not needing to look at them.
Bakura jerked his head at the Television screen, "They're playing a Jeopardy Marathon of some sort, this one has a whole batch of questions about Ancient Egypt and they keep getting them wrong."
"They've only got one right so far." Cami said maliciously, "And that was one about the Sphinx."
Sounded interesting enough, so I sat down next to them and watched the show. It was unbelievably frustrating being the Pharaoh and having to watch everyone get the questions about your own civilization wrong every time! These people must have been stupid not to know which method the Priests used to prepare the dead for the afterlife!
"An often occurring punishment for Tomb Robbery." The host person said.
"Having your nose and ears cut off...or death." Bakura said, nonchalantly. "And I should know, seen it done a many number of times."
"Um...What is being hanged?"
"No that is incorrect. The correct answer could have been having your nose or ears cut off, being sent to Ethiopia, or death. Next question."
Bakura growled at the people on Television for not knowing that one, and the questions kept going on and on like this.
"The god of chaos, desert, storm, and infertility."
"...What is...Isis?"
I couldn't help loosing my cool at that answer. I threw my arms up into the air and shouted, "No! Nononono! GOD! Isis was the GODESS of mothers and magic! SETH! SETH WAS THE GOD OF CHAOS!"
"Sorry but the correct answer is actually Seth."
"What did I tell you." I muttered angrily to Cami and Bakura, who nodded in agreement to my outburst.
"Last question on the board, it's a daily double. Ready for the question Marie?" The announcer person asked the brown haired girl, who nodded excitedly as a movie appeared on the screen. It was a woman walking through a very old looking temple pointing out hieroglyphics on the wall.
"Ancient Egypt was a time filled with mysteries and magic," The woman began, "I'm here in a Temple where the first ever evidence of the Sau was found. In Ancient Egypt, the Sau played a very important role in life, although it is uncertain what EXACTLY the Sau did, what is it believed that his or her job in life was?"
The movie ended and the screen was back on the face of this 'Marie' character. I couldn't remember exactly what the Sau did back then, and judging by Bakura's face, he didn't remember either. Cami, however, sighed deeply and answered the question quietly, with a surprising seriousness in his tone.
"The Sau was the man or woman in the town that was responsible for making the amulets required by the local villagers or townspeople. They were also responsible for performing the ritual that would imbue the amulets with magical significance and supernatural powers. That was why the Sau usually needed to have great heka." [1]
We both turned and looked at Cami like he had just started ranting fluid Russian. Cami looked somewhat melancholy about the information he had just said, but as it turned out, he was right. No one was paying much attention to the TV at this moment though, because we were both too busy blinking in amazement at Cami's ability to...know this.
"And how do you know this?" Bakura asked, "Did you just swallow a text book or something? That's the first time I've heard you say one work that had more then two syllables in it."
"Yes, Scribe, why did you know this so easily?"
Cami smiled weakly at us, as if having something on his mind suddenly. "I...had a friend."
And with that, he scooped up his 'Hooked on Phonics' and made his way back to his bedroom with a mumbled, "G' night."
Then, there was silence. Except for, of course, the screaming of 'Marie' as she won enough money to take her into the lead, and the other woman named 'Penny' started trying to answer the next question, which she got wrong. In fact, she got it so wrong that Bakura ended up putting his foot through the TV screen [2] and screaming, "THE NILE RIVER YOU BITCH!" With the only light source on in the house out, we were left with darkness.
...TV time was officially over for the night.
*@* BAKURA *@*
Thunder roared and tore me roughly from my sound sleep. I groaned and covered my head with a pillow, seeing out of the corner of my eye that it was no longer the middle of the night. I was already sick of the rain. It had been storming all night while we were watching Jeopardy, and I was done. Now that it was morning, I was inconveniently reminded of the school I was required to attend. Curse school. Now I know why Ryou is so inclined to stay in bed in the morning.
I tried to cover my body up with the warm pink blankets on the bed, but it was caught on something. I tugged harder, and was shocked to hear a loud groan when the blankets were pulled away from me. Confused, I pulled the blankets as hard as I could and low and behold, they were pulled once again away from me.
"What the-?"
I saw a lump under the covers and took it upon myself to kick it. The lump struggled and fell of the side of the bed where I saw who was the culprit.
"SCRIBE!" I bellowed, seizing the blankets back from him.
He looked up at me and screamed, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY BED!"
"YOUR BED! THIS IS MY BED!" I yelled back at him.
"YOUR BED!? WHY WOULD I BE IN YOUR-" He stopped, blinked as if recalling a memory, then his mouth formed a silent 'O'.
"Oh yeah..."
"I WANT AN EXPLINATION! RIGHT NOW!!"
"Well after everyone went to bed, I got kind of bored and I had the TV in my room on long enough to see the end half of 'Signs'. It's a movie about aliens and stuff. Anywho, after words, I thought I heard something at my window and freaked out. THEN it started pouring down rain and lightning and thunder and...I just got, freaked out. I tried to go into Yami's room, but he had locked his door, and you hadn't so..."
"OUT!" I yelled, pointing firmly at the door and glaring at him.
Cami looked up at me, "I think you're taking this the wrong way, I stayed on my side of the bed only cause I was cold. Otherwise I would have slept on the floor..."
"I SAID OUT!"
Cami obiendiantly got up and started to leave, "I'm going to go change 'kay?"
"I DON'T CARE! FOR THE THIRD TIME, OUT!!"
He closed the door quickly and carefully, and I sighed with relief. If Pharaoh got wind of this, he would have a field day. I gave a last look out the window at the rain and my eyes involuntarily narrowed. There was something about this rain that didn't seem natural.
-(*.*)-(*.*)-(*.*)-
After I had dressed into Ryou's school uniform, I walked out into the kitchen and found Yami and Cami discussing something at the table. They looked up at me when I entered, and offered me a piece of old pizza, which I declined.
"The rain." I said simply, "Something about it doesn't seem normal to me."
The Pharaoh nodded, "I know what you mean. The scribe and I had just been discussing the resent changes in the weather, and from what Cami has told me, the rain started up late last night."
"I still don't understand it." Cami said, "It's just rain, right? Rain goes on almost every week or so, what makes this one so different?"
"I can't put my finger on it." Pharaoh sighed, "But I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that this isn't a good omen."
"True." I said, though it pained me to agree with the Pharaoh, "Do you think it has something to do with our hosts?"
Yami looked off into the distance, "It may be. Even though we have been separated, I'm sure that our souls are still bound in an unexplainable way."
"Whoa whoa whoa, you mean you think our hosts are in some sort of danger?" Cami asked, now in a sort of panicked state.
Yami leaned back in his chair, "You never know about these things, but it seems highly probable."
"What would the rain have to do with them being in danger though?" Cami continued, "They are in another realm entirely, how could the two be linked? Do you think it's some sort of...message they are trying to send us? I mean, we don't know anything about the realm they are in, or what kinds of things they can do there."
"No." I said, "I don't think that it would be easy to alter the climate from the 'Dream Realm'. But it is possible that this is a premonition about what is going to come."
"A premonition?" Cami asked, "What kind of premonition?"
The Pharaoh shrugged, "It may be a sign that something bad is going to happen in the near future."
I got up and looked out the front window at the rain, still steadily falling with occasional thunder and lightning strikes, "Or a simpler way of putting it, this could be some sort of way to cover something up. The items aren't the only things on the world that contain magic."
"Do you really think it's magic rain?" Cami said, almost skeptically, "Am I the only one that thinks you guys might be jumping to conclusions? A lot?"
Yami sighed, "We cannot know for sure until we have more information, maybe someone can give us useful tips, or we can find something out at a different location..."
Cami stiffened and made a face, seeing where the Pharaoh was going with this. "I'm not going to school today if that's what you're implying."
We both looked at him curiously, Yami cocked an eyebrow, "Why not?"
Cami blushed, "They gave me a new uniform for this year."
"And?"
Cami continued to get redder, "It's...a girl's uniform! I can't wear a girl's uniform to school! I'll get laughed at!"
I couldn't help making a comment to that one, "You get laughed at anyway, what would be the difference?"
The Pharaoh laughed under his breath at the look on Cami's face and pushed him in the direction to his room, "Go get changed anyway, we're going to need you to be there so you can help us with the mystery."
Cami's face brightened a little, but he still seemed to hesitate, "Need me? Since when do you NEED me to do anything?"
"We just do, scribe, that comes as a surprise to you?" The Pharaoh acted shocked. Keyword being, ACTED.
Cami smiled a little, "I...guess...fine. But you owe me!"
Once Cami left, I turned to the Pharaoh and scoffed, "Since when do we need his help?"
Yami sighed, "We don't really, but the only way we'll be able to get him in that uniform is to act like we care."
"I noticed." I sighed while opened the front door. Yami stopped me, "Where are you going?"
I opened the door further, and pulled my arm from his grip, "I'm going to go outside for a little while. I need to think about some things."
Yami finally let me go, and I walked out onto the front porch. The rain misted my face a little as I looked out into the distance. No one was outside, even though a bobbing green umbrella was visible far down the sidewalk. A tree across the street looked like it had been struck with lightning, and the whole sidewalk and road was flooded.
It seemed too quiet, even for a rainy day, and everything seemed strangely eerie. I scanned the area in front of me for any signs of something suspicious. Then I saw what I was looking for. A person of some sort, masked in a cloak of rain, standing firm in front a house three down from ours. The water from the street came up to the person's ankles and it looked more like they were floating then standing in three inch high water. The rain was so thick I couldn't tell who this person was, what gender it was, or even how old they might be. But one thing was for sure, I knew at once that they were defiantly suspicious material.
The figure silently walked backward from the house, shaking their head at something mysteriously. The water from the street didn't even waver as they started to walk in our direction, not really paying attention to anything, and keeping eyes hidden in the storm.
"Hey!" I called, "You!"
They turned and looked at me, and I could now tell that the person had blazing, unnatural yellow eyes that could be easily spotted in even the thickest rain. There was something wrong with this persons eyes, and it wasn't just their color. As soon as the person noticed who I was, though, they turned around and disappeared. What the hell? I only blinked! That person couldn't have just disappeared into thin air like that! I clenched my fists and looked as hard as I could through the storm for the person who had looked at me, but there was no one there.
"If I were you-" A voice cooed. "I would watch your back, Ryou Bakura."
I jumped, searching again for who spoke to me. The voice was not male, or female...it just was. Seeing no one was there, I shouted into the sheet of storm, that was getting thicker by the second.
"Who are you!" I shouted, "And how do you know my host's name!"
A cold wind blew, carrying icy water from the rain with it that caused me to unconsciously wince. A cold laugh rang from the mixtures of gray and blue around me and I saw the pair of yellow eyes once again staring back at mine.
"Ah, names." It purred, "Names are nothing of importance. If one would be not named, would it not go on living as itself? Would it not breathe like the others around it? You yourself never use your name anymore...why should I?"
Another cold laugh sent shivers up my spine, but I glared back at the pair of eyes that seemed to appear out of nowhere. "I have my reasons, now reveal your name!" I shouted.
"You may call me Zaria, though if everything goes according to plan, you won't ever need to have the grace of calling me by my name. In fact, if you ever lay eyes on me again, then something has gone seriously wrong, Spirit of the ring."
I was stunned she knew so much already, "How do you-?"
"Ah, I do not intend to go on blurting information that you do not need, Spirit of the ring. It's just extra weight, don't you agree? Besides, I came only to deliver a warning."
The eyes closed, and the only sound was wind and rain, "Take heed, Bakura, I will be watching your every move. One false step," There was a flash of lighting, and the eyes glared back at me with a sudden mixture of both anger and amusement, "-and I might be forced to show my wrath."
"What do you mean!?" I shouted back, "You aren't making sense!"
"Lot's of things don't make sense, Spirit of the Ring, like for instance, why I'm not punishing those who meddle in things that aren't meant to be snooped in to." She growled, another harsh wind kicking up, shaking the wind chime on the next door neighbor's front step.
"Remember my words, Spirit of the Ring, and never trust the expected and assumed. For assumption is demonic and deceiving."
Lightning lit the sky, and the streets were illuminated for a brief second. Just time enough to see a young woman, dressed in loose white robes, fade into the colorless morning. I cursed under my breath as the piercing eyes of the woman too, went away, and I was again alone. I looked at the powerless ring hanging loosely from my neck and sighed agitatedly.
I never liked rain.
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Author- *looking around* Oh come on! You didn't think I was going to leave Cami, Bakura, and Yami out of the darkness of the plot! There had to be something to keep you readers entertained, I was almost getting bored writing their story! :-P
Now, peoples who care, comes the parts in the story where you have to pay attention to A LOT. Every detail counts! And for everything, there is a reason. Heck, there is even a reason why Bryac's hair is black and Yoko's is pink! Details are VERY important, and by the way, *smirk* what I wrote about assumption, holds true for EVERYTHING.
This has been an Authoress tip.
[2] Now, when Bakura put his foot through the TV screen...Before people start asking me about this, I do not know if you would get zapped or cut or killed if you put your foot through the TV screen. Seeing as, I have not personally tried it out, and I do not intend on trying it out in the near future. Sorry folks! If someone out there has actually done this sort of thing, please contribute your ultimate knowledge to the Authoress of this fic right after you call this number.
1-800-AGR-MANGMNT
Joking! Joking! ^^;;
[1] Actually, all of this information is true. The 'Sau' in the city or town could be either male or female, 'Sau' meaning 'Amulet Man'. And 'Heka' was translated to mean 'Magic' in Egyptian. In fact, everything that I wrote in the Jeopardy thing is true. Even the fact that Tomb Robbers that were caught, were punished by getting their nose cut off. *grimace* I found this all in my humanities textbook, and was simply stunned at all the information I found out. You see, I've already written some of the last few chapters, and all of the Egyptian stuff I put in there turned out to be real Egyptian stuff in the book. And there you have it! History lesson in a fanfic! How do I pull it off, I THANK THE HUMANITIES BOOK!
I am keeping this book.
Its name is Bob.
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