Serenity walked down the concrete porch steps. It was no longer raining
outside but the ground was slightly wet. She took a few footsteps out into
the yard. Her eyes gazed into the nearby shadows. She saw nothing but
darkness.
A twig snapped behind her. She spun around. Her eyes only fell upon more shadows.
'What had made that noise?'
She froze in place. A blanket fell over Serenity's head and wrapped around her body. She tried to scream but something was keeping her from doing it.
Serenity felt herself being lifted up. In the arms of someone. Someone strong. She continued to try to scream but she found that she could make no noise. Struggling didn't help either. Her captor had a tight hold of her and she couldn't get away or cause, (what she assumed to be), him to let go. After what she thought was about ten minutes she was set down propped against something. This whole experience was very jostling and frightening.
A door opened and she was picked up and set into a comfy seat. She heard a door near her shut and a few seconds later another opened. Someone shuffled around and a door shut. Something jingled and an engine started.
Serenity realized she was in a vehicle.
About twenty minutes later the vehicle came to a stop and the engine turned off.
Yugi ran out the front door. "Yami! Bakura! Where are you guys! Yami! Bakura!" He ran out and across the yard and halfway down his street still screaming out their names.
'This isn't helping. Neither of them can hear me nor respond, even if they are around. And I can't very well look for them on my own in the dark. I should get a hold of Joey, Tristan, and Serenity'
Little did he know that Serenity was caught up in this mess too.
Yugi ran back inside. He had to tell the others.
Bring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..............
Bring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..............
Bring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.............
"ah what's that?" Joey sat bolt upright in his bed. His eyes were wide. "oh just the phone.THE PHONE!"
BRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Joey leaned over to pick up the phone he realized what time it was. 11:50pm.
'Who calls this late? Something must be up.'
"Hello?"
"Hey Joey?" it was yugi's voice
"Yeah- what's up buddy? Why are you calling me so late?"
"I have bad news."
Yugi told Joey about what had just happened. He left out the part about him and Yami though.
"Yugi get over here right now! Something might happen to you." Said Joey after Yugi was done with his story, "And we need to go look for Bakura and Yami as soon as we can!"
Joey hung up the phone.
'I should wake up Tristan and Serenity'
He got up and walked to the living room where'd he had seen Tristan and Serenity asleep on the couch earlier.
'hmm, only Tristan is here, I wonder where Seren is'
Joey didn't hear anything or see any signs of Serenity being awake and around the house.
"Hey wake up!" Joey shook Tristan, "WAKE UP!"
"huh.what?" Tristan mumbled, still half asleep obviously
"Get up dufus and help me find Serenity. Do you know what happened to her?"
"uh.no." Tristan slowly got up. He walked into the kitchen, "I'll look in here for her."
Joey went to the end of the hall and stuck his head in the room he had gotten ready for Serenity to stay in. Nope, she wasn't in there. He walked down the hall peeking his head in every room, even the closet. Well, it was worth a try. Joey began to worry. He hurried toward the kitchen. "Hey Tristan, you find her?"
When Joey walked in Tristan was sleeping in a chair with his head down on the table.
"Wake up dummy I can't find Serenity anywhere!" Joey yelled
"Oh, Joey, I found out that she's not in the kitchen either."
Joey was too worried to say something sarcastic to Tristan, "Where could she be?"
Tristan sat up knocking a cup over. It fell off the table and shattered.
"Is that yours?" asked Joey
"No, hey maybe it was Serenity's"
"Well looks like she was here after I got home since the kitchen was clean when I got back from the store. I'm pretty sure I saw both of you sleeping on the couch unless you grew three feet taller and a head down where your feet should be" He tried to lighten the air, but due to the situation, it didn't work.
They sat in worried silence for a moment before Joey remembered, "Oh Tristan, Yugi's on his way here. Something horrible has happened. He'll probably be able to explain it better than I can though."
The doorbell rang then.
Tristan got up and headed towards the door. He opened it up to see none other than Yugi's face. "Speak of the devil..." he said sleepily.
"Hey Tristan, I have bad news. Where's Serenity? She needs to hear this too." Said Yugi, stepping in.
"She's not here. We looked everywhere in the house for her." Tristan said, sounding worried.
"That's not good." Said Yugi, "It may have something to do with what happened to Yami, Bakura, and I."
"Hey Yug, before you tell Tristan I Just want you guys to know I'm going outside to look for Seren."
"Okay"
"Kay, don't get in any trouble."
Joey grabbed a flashlight from a shelf in the kitchen and headed out the door.
Yugi proceeded to tell Tristan what had happened. Once he was done Tristan spoke, "I wonder what happened to them? This is pretty bad. They could all be in danger. Do you think it has anything to do with duel monsters? Or Seto Kaiba? Or Pegasus? Or Marik?" He listed the people who had seemed to be the cause of their major "bad guy problems" in the past.
"It could but I really don't know"
Joey arrived inside then winded, "I didn't see Serenity out there, or any sign of Bakura or Yami"
"I think we all need to go out and search. Yugi did you drive your car here?"
"Yeah"
"Well you and me can take your car and search the town and Joey can go in his car and look." Said Tristan
"Do you think we should tell Tea?" asked Yugi
Joey answered, "I don't think we should bother her with it. She doesn't have a car to drive and wouldn't be of much use in a search tonight. Plus she's annoying. She might try to make us use the power of friendship to draw them back to us." He paused, "We can tell her in the morning. Let's just get going"
Bakura opened the car door on the side Serenity was sitting on. He grabbed the blanket and pulled it off of her body.
'She's so beautiful, especially when she's distressed'
Serenity felt the blanket being pulled off of her and to her surprise she saw Bakura. 'Is he the one that kidnapped me? Is this some sort of joke? Maybe he's bringing me to a surprise party!' her thoughts were really.. very.. innocent. She never suspected anyone of wrongdoing until something they did came back and almost literally blind sided her in the face.
'Maybe he is taking me away so we can be alone. Maybe he is trying to do something nice.' again with the happy innocent thoughts.
Then Bakura grabbed a cloth and tied it around Serenity's eyes before she could get a good look around. He took her hand roughly and helped her out of the vehicle. As she stepped out she tripped and he let her fall. She tried to speak but still could not although there was nothing physically restraining her from doing so. She was half pushed and half pulled forward by Bakura as he forced her to walk.
'Okay this is definitely not something nice.' She concluded 'unless he's just doing it on accident?' her thoughts on that statement weren't very confident.
Bakura lead Serenity into a building. She could tell because it got much warmer. The next ten minutes were like a dream to her. Being lead blindfolded down what it seemed to her as many long twisting paths going around many turns.
Serenity could smell something like flowers which was a relief after the previous rooms' musty wet odor. Bakura stopped her, when she breathed the room seemed slightly smoky. She could feel Bakura's hands on the blindfold un-tieing it. Once it came off Serenity saw a room with tan stone walls covered with paintings of animals and strange symbols. There was old looking furniture about the room and a lamp in the middle. She noticed that there weren't any windows. Statues were placed around the room. Many paintings hung from the walls. She realized the smoke, and the wonderful smell was coming from a stick of burning incense.
"Make yourself at home." Said Bakura gently, "you will be here for awhile."
Serenity had no clue what was going on. She didn't know if she should be worried or amazed that Bakura took such interest in her.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you Serenity, I just wanted to be alone with you." That was a partial truth because one reason Bakura took Serenity was to be with her but the more dominant reason was to get Yugi and his friends scared. They would be so preoccupied with finding her that they wouldn't pay as much attention to Yugi's millennium puzzle being missing. Obviously Bakura wasn't one to think through his evil master plans carefully before he carried them out, because kidnapping Serenity could easily have been a fatal move. It had been hard for him to carry out his plans with Ryou butting in and trying to stop him all the time.
Bakura walked up behind Serenity, who was still gazing about the room. He put his arms around her waste and spoke into her ear. She tried to pull away from him but relaxed when she realized he was too strong and for some odd reason, even unknown to herself, she didn't feel the need to be scared of get away from him. "Serenity, from the moment I saw you, I had feeling for you. I can't really explain them, but when I saw you I just felt so wonderful."
"Wow" whispered Serenity, "I kind of felt the same way, I mean I was just drawn to you"
This was of course mostly the work of Bakura's millennium ring.
Bakura let go of Serenity. You can go to bed if you want. He motioned to a bed along one of the walls. I will join you shortly after you have gotten dressed. He threw her a bag of presumably clothing. Then he turned and walked out of the room through a passageway on the wall across from the bed.
Serenity looked through the bag. It contained some girl's pajamas that looked comfortable enough. She put them on and sat down on the bed.
Bakura walked in a few minutes' later wearing pajamas also. He walked over to the bed and sat down next to Serenity. He placed his arms around her. She was somewhat nervous so she just sat there unmoving.
"What's wrong?" Bakura asked
"I'm not sure." Serenity lied
'What is he going to do to me?'
It was as if he had read her mind "Don't worry I'm not going to do anything to you that you don't want me to. He gently kissed her lips. She began to pull away from him until the power of the millennium ring took hold of her once again, for it was the ring that made her feel safe and drawn to him.
Then he moved away from her and walked to the middle of the room. He turned off the lamp in the middle of the room. For some reason the room was still slightly lit up. Serenity couldn't figure out why.
Serenity shivered and climbed beneath the covers of the bed. It was very soft and comfy. Bakura walked over to the bed and lay down on the other side under the blankets. They were facing each other and he moved closer to her.
"Serenity, you are so beautiful" Bakura put his arm around her and ran his hands through her hair.
"Well Bakura I don't know if this is much of a compliment but I think the same of you, you are beautiful." She smiled
Bakura held Serenity in his arms and eventually both dozed off. It took Serenity longer than Bakura because she lay looking around at the interesting decorations on the walls and in the room for awhile before she drifted off into a peaceful sleep.
A twig snapped behind her. She spun around. Her eyes only fell upon more shadows.
'What had made that noise?'
She froze in place. A blanket fell over Serenity's head and wrapped around her body. She tried to scream but something was keeping her from doing it.
Serenity felt herself being lifted up. In the arms of someone. Someone strong. She continued to try to scream but she found that she could make no noise. Struggling didn't help either. Her captor had a tight hold of her and she couldn't get away or cause, (what she assumed to be), him to let go. After what she thought was about ten minutes she was set down propped against something. This whole experience was very jostling and frightening.
A door opened and she was picked up and set into a comfy seat. She heard a door near her shut and a few seconds later another opened. Someone shuffled around and a door shut. Something jingled and an engine started.
Serenity realized she was in a vehicle.
About twenty minutes later the vehicle came to a stop and the engine turned off.
Yugi ran out the front door. "Yami! Bakura! Where are you guys! Yami! Bakura!" He ran out and across the yard and halfway down his street still screaming out their names.
'This isn't helping. Neither of them can hear me nor respond, even if they are around. And I can't very well look for them on my own in the dark. I should get a hold of Joey, Tristan, and Serenity'
Little did he know that Serenity was caught up in this mess too.
Yugi ran back inside. He had to tell the others.
Bring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..............
Bring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
..............
Bring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
.............
"ah what's that?" Joey sat bolt upright in his bed. His eyes were wide. "oh just the phone.THE PHONE!"
BRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
When Joey leaned over to pick up the phone he realized what time it was. 11:50pm.
'Who calls this late? Something must be up.'
"Hello?"
"Hey Joey?" it was yugi's voice
"Yeah- what's up buddy? Why are you calling me so late?"
"I have bad news."
Yugi told Joey about what had just happened. He left out the part about him and Yami though.
"Yugi get over here right now! Something might happen to you." Said Joey after Yugi was done with his story, "And we need to go look for Bakura and Yami as soon as we can!"
Joey hung up the phone.
'I should wake up Tristan and Serenity'
He got up and walked to the living room where'd he had seen Tristan and Serenity asleep on the couch earlier.
'hmm, only Tristan is here, I wonder where Seren is'
Joey didn't hear anything or see any signs of Serenity being awake and around the house.
"Hey wake up!" Joey shook Tristan, "WAKE UP!"
"huh.what?" Tristan mumbled, still half asleep obviously
"Get up dufus and help me find Serenity. Do you know what happened to her?"
"uh.no." Tristan slowly got up. He walked into the kitchen, "I'll look in here for her."
Joey went to the end of the hall and stuck his head in the room he had gotten ready for Serenity to stay in. Nope, she wasn't in there. He walked down the hall peeking his head in every room, even the closet. Well, it was worth a try. Joey began to worry. He hurried toward the kitchen. "Hey Tristan, you find her?"
When Joey walked in Tristan was sleeping in a chair with his head down on the table.
"Wake up dummy I can't find Serenity anywhere!" Joey yelled
"Oh, Joey, I found out that she's not in the kitchen either."
Joey was too worried to say something sarcastic to Tristan, "Where could she be?"
Tristan sat up knocking a cup over. It fell off the table and shattered.
"Is that yours?" asked Joey
"No, hey maybe it was Serenity's"
"Well looks like she was here after I got home since the kitchen was clean when I got back from the store. I'm pretty sure I saw both of you sleeping on the couch unless you grew three feet taller and a head down where your feet should be" He tried to lighten the air, but due to the situation, it didn't work.
They sat in worried silence for a moment before Joey remembered, "Oh Tristan, Yugi's on his way here. Something horrible has happened. He'll probably be able to explain it better than I can though."
The doorbell rang then.
Tristan got up and headed towards the door. He opened it up to see none other than Yugi's face. "Speak of the devil..." he said sleepily.
"Hey Tristan, I have bad news. Where's Serenity? She needs to hear this too." Said Yugi, stepping in.
"She's not here. We looked everywhere in the house for her." Tristan said, sounding worried.
"That's not good." Said Yugi, "It may have something to do with what happened to Yami, Bakura, and I."
"Hey Yug, before you tell Tristan I Just want you guys to know I'm going outside to look for Seren."
"Okay"
"Kay, don't get in any trouble."
Joey grabbed a flashlight from a shelf in the kitchen and headed out the door.
Yugi proceeded to tell Tristan what had happened. Once he was done Tristan spoke, "I wonder what happened to them? This is pretty bad. They could all be in danger. Do you think it has anything to do with duel monsters? Or Seto Kaiba? Or Pegasus? Or Marik?" He listed the people who had seemed to be the cause of their major "bad guy problems" in the past.
"It could but I really don't know"
Joey arrived inside then winded, "I didn't see Serenity out there, or any sign of Bakura or Yami"
"I think we all need to go out and search. Yugi did you drive your car here?"
"Yeah"
"Well you and me can take your car and search the town and Joey can go in his car and look." Said Tristan
"Do you think we should tell Tea?" asked Yugi
Joey answered, "I don't think we should bother her with it. She doesn't have a car to drive and wouldn't be of much use in a search tonight. Plus she's annoying. She might try to make us use the power of friendship to draw them back to us." He paused, "We can tell her in the morning. Let's just get going"
Bakura opened the car door on the side Serenity was sitting on. He grabbed the blanket and pulled it off of her body.
'She's so beautiful, especially when she's distressed'
Serenity felt the blanket being pulled off of her and to her surprise she saw Bakura. 'Is he the one that kidnapped me? Is this some sort of joke? Maybe he's bringing me to a surprise party!' her thoughts were really.. very.. innocent. She never suspected anyone of wrongdoing until something they did came back and almost literally blind sided her in the face.
'Maybe he is taking me away so we can be alone. Maybe he is trying to do something nice.' again with the happy innocent thoughts.
Then Bakura grabbed a cloth and tied it around Serenity's eyes before she could get a good look around. He took her hand roughly and helped her out of the vehicle. As she stepped out she tripped and he let her fall. She tried to speak but still could not although there was nothing physically restraining her from doing so. She was half pushed and half pulled forward by Bakura as he forced her to walk.
'Okay this is definitely not something nice.' She concluded 'unless he's just doing it on accident?' her thoughts on that statement weren't very confident.
Bakura lead Serenity into a building. She could tell because it got much warmer. The next ten minutes were like a dream to her. Being lead blindfolded down what it seemed to her as many long twisting paths going around many turns.
Serenity could smell something like flowers which was a relief after the previous rooms' musty wet odor. Bakura stopped her, when she breathed the room seemed slightly smoky. She could feel Bakura's hands on the blindfold un-tieing it. Once it came off Serenity saw a room with tan stone walls covered with paintings of animals and strange symbols. There was old looking furniture about the room and a lamp in the middle. She noticed that there weren't any windows. Statues were placed around the room. Many paintings hung from the walls. She realized the smoke, and the wonderful smell was coming from a stick of burning incense.
"Make yourself at home." Said Bakura gently, "you will be here for awhile."
Serenity had no clue what was going on. She didn't know if she should be worried or amazed that Bakura took such interest in her.
"Don't worry, I won't hurt you Serenity, I just wanted to be alone with you." That was a partial truth because one reason Bakura took Serenity was to be with her but the more dominant reason was to get Yugi and his friends scared. They would be so preoccupied with finding her that they wouldn't pay as much attention to Yugi's millennium puzzle being missing. Obviously Bakura wasn't one to think through his evil master plans carefully before he carried them out, because kidnapping Serenity could easily have been a fatal move. It had been hard for him to carry out his plans with Ryou butting in and trying to stop him all the time.
Bakura walked up behind Serenity, who was still gazing about the room. He put his arms around her waste and spoke into her ear. She tried to pull away from him but relaxed when she realized he was too strong and for some odd reason, even unknown to herself, she didn't feel the need to be scared of get away from him. "Serenity, from the moment I saw you, I had feeling for you. I can't really explain them, but when I saw you I just felt so wonderful."
"Wow" whispered Serenity, "I kind of felt the same way, I mean I was just drawn to you"
This was of course mostly the work of Bakura's millennium ring.
Bakura let go of Serenity. You can go to bed if you want. He motioned to a bed along one of the walls. I will join you shortly after you have gotten dressed. He threw her a bag of presumably clothing. Then he turned and walked out of the room through a passageway on the wall across from the bed.
Serenity looked through the bag. It contained some girl's pajamas that looked comfortable enough. She put them on and sat down on the bed.
Bakura walked in a few minutes' later wearing pajamas also. He walked over to the bed and sat down next to Serenity. He placed his arms around her. She was somewhat nervous so she just sat there unmoving.
"What's wrong?" Bakura asked
"I'm not sure." Serenity lied
'What is he going to do to me?'
It was as if he had read her mind "Don't worry I'm not going to do anything to you that you don't want me to. He gently kissed her lips. She began to pull away from him until the power of the millennium ring took hold of her once again, for it was the ring that made her feel safe and drawn to him.
Then he moved away from her and walked to the middle of the room. He turned off the lamp in the middle of the room. For some reason the room was still slightly lit up. Serenity couldn't figure out why.
Serenity shivered and climbed beneath the covers of the bed. It was very soft and comfy. Bakura walked over to the bed and lay down on the other side under the blankets. They were facing each other and he moved closer to her.
"Serenity, you are so beautiful" Bakura put his arm around her and ran his hands through her hair.
"Well Bakura I don't know if this is much of a compliment but I think the same of you, you are beautiful." She smiled
Bakura held Serenity in his arms and eventually both dozed off. It took Serenity longer than Bakura because she lay looking around at the interesting decorations on the walls and in the room for awhile before she drifted off into a peaceful sleep.