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"This is talking"
'These are thoughts'
Both players summoned their mosters to the field. Summonings weren't important, which meant another showdown between the Dark Magician and the Summoned Skull. Yujhi looked down at his hand and at the Millennium Puzzle Bakura had given back to him. Because it was a shadow game, Bakura saw no problem with giving it to him. Without it he couldn't play the Shadow Game, and when he lost he would have to hand it over, no matter what.
Yujhi looked over at Yugi. His yami looked unconscious, head hanging and eyes closed, but what Yujhi worried the most about was his injuries. They had healed somewhat, possibly from the magic of the Millennium Puzzle, but Bakura had kept him in pain, that was clear. He could see Yugi mumbling something to himself... what was he saying?
"Let the games begin..." Bakura said, offering the first move to Yujhi.
"Alright, I play the magic card, Yami!" Yujhi raised the card above him, darkness erupting from it.
"I knew you would play that card..." Bakura whispered, holding one of his cards up. "Dark Sanctuary!" He called, Yujhi's field card destroyed by Bakura's. "Now if your monster attacks, it will attack you insteed of me..."
"No it won't, I play De-Spell!"
"Then I play trap hole!"
"Remove trap!"
"Rush Recklessly!"
Joe looked from Yujhi to Bakura and back again. This was the weirdest duel he'd ever seen. Yujhi was quiet now, which worried Joe. "Hey, wait a sec... were'd Ryoura disappear to?"
"Attack!" Bakura comanded, Yujhi had forfited his turn to Bakura, leaving him wide open for an attack. The Summoned Skull was surronded by electricity, which shot towards Yujhi.
The electric shock shot towards Yujhi, but at the last second, he held up a card. "Mirrior Force!"
"No!" Bakura yelled as he monster was destroyed by it's own attack. He looked back, only to see Yugi had disappeared back into the Millennium Puzzle. He growled and glared forward. "This is not over... Come out and face me Yugi!" He yelled in anger.
"Stand aside..." Yugi said in a harsh, dead tone. "I must fight him..."
"Yugi are you crazy?!" Yujhi yelled, but Yugi simply pushed him aside, walking out of his soul room.
"I don't understand why this hate has grown so strong... but this is my fight..." Yugi whispered, gripping something in his hand. Confusion suddenly sweeped over him. What was he holding. looking down, he saw a glowing red orb in his hand. He gasped. "A... a memory?" Those memories weren't a figment of his unconscious imagination. They were real! Yami was real!
The orb suddenly burst in a million pieces, disolving into nothing, but Yugi didn't care. He suddenly felt more confident, and determined to defeat his enemy. "Bakura... You're going down..."
Looking back in confusion, Bakura rolled his eyes. "What's the matter now Ryoura?" He asked. Ryoura was sitting on the floor a short distance away, arms rested on his knees as he stared blankly at the floor.
"Can we go home...?" Ryoura spoke up in a small, shaky voice, which was barely audible. "I.. I don't like it here..." He whispered, looking at the smoke like spirits that rose from seemingly no where, circling the area but making no sound.
"Oh for-" Bakura smacked his forehead and walked over to him, standing in front of him. "Look, your safe as long as you don't have a shadow game. Besides, most of the stuff here is an illusion. Anything can be. Like, water." He pointed his hand towards the ground beside Ryoura and a splash of water came up. "Or... fire." A flame suddenly erupted beside Ryoura, causing him to yelled and leap away from it. Bakura watched in confusion as Ryoura hugged his knees and shivered, looking at the floor. "What are you? Five? Get ahold of yourself!"
"Bakura!"
"Yugi..." Bakura looked back and grinned at his long time nemesis. He turned to face him, ignoring his fear-struck hikari, and opened his hand, a ball of green magic appearing in it. "Let's begin..."
Yujhi appeared beside Yugi and ran over to the others, who were talking to Ryoura. "Ryoura what's wrong?" He asked, putting his hand on his friends shoulder. Behind him he could hear the buzzing and such of magic firing from one opponint to another. Ryoura was spaced out, and not responding. "I just want to get out of here." He finally said.
"What, are you clusterphobic?" Joe asked, recieving a smack around the bak of the head by Steve. "Ow! Hey!"
"How the heck could be be clusterphobic in an open area?"
Yugi and Bakura where both exhausted, panting heavily from loss of magic. But both refused to give up though, as they powered up one last blast of magic. They both cried out and released the magic in unison, both powerful blasts meeting in the middle.
Suddenly... the explosion covered the whole area. A bright light covered them all, blinding them, as they felt themselves being pulled, but to where, and why...?
"Yujhi!" Yugi called out, narrowing his eyes and strugling to see, he spotted his partner and grabbed his hand, trying to stop him from being pulled ino the portal that had ripped open in the Shadow Realm. He dug his heels into the ground, trying to prevent the vacuum-like luring. Unfortunately, his feet were suddenly knocked from under him by someone else, but who it was he couldn't see. He felt himself being pulled into the portal, into another demension.
The last thing he remembered, was the light disappearing and crashing into something, before everything were black...
To Be Continued
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I'm sorry, no inspiration guys! I know everything that's gonna happen, and I know some peeps are finding this as boring as ****, but I'm really sorry! Maybe I shoulda brainstormed with me sister first... bleh! Sorry guys, next chappy should be better, the story-line starts off better there. Sorry again!
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