Well, sorry about the short chapter. I might add something later but I
can't think of anything right now. Thanks for all of your reviews. They
make me happy! ^_^ There's not much else to say. A little Seto/ Téa and
Yami/Isis. Well, read and review!
Disclaimer: This is the 5th CHAPTER that I've said: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh! Need I say it again?
Chapter 5
Sight Seeing
"It'd be easier to build it on the ground!"
"But then predators could get in you baka!"
"Baka yourself!"
"How about on stilts?"
"On stilts?! We aren't monkeys Pharaoh!"
"Well maybe you should join them, Yami Malik. After all you could do for a little grooming."
"Would you like to say that to the point of a blade?"
"Are you threatening me?"
"I asked you a question!"
"I thought I was the Pharaoh here."
"You were the Pharaoh. Now you're a stinkin' little spirit."
"Oh? You aren't even that! You were created off of someone's emotions! You never even lived!"
Tristan leaned over to Malik, "Are they always fighting like this?"
Malik shook his head. "It can get worse. Once Yugi and I found them trying to throttle each other. We had to get Kaiba to separate them."
Yami Bakura was drawing something in the sand with a stick and muttering calculations under his breath. After a bit he threw the stick away and glanced up at the two fighting spirits.
"Shut up gaki!" *
The Yami's did shut up but only for a minute.
"GAKI! I SHOULD SLIT YOUR THROAT FOR THAT INSULT!!!"
"EVER HEARD OF A LITTLE RESPECT TOMB ROBBER? No, I guess a low-life like yourself would never hear of such a thing."
Tristan stood up and began to pace up and down the beach.
Malik hurried after him, "What are you doing?"
"Looking for a place to build a shelter."
"SHUT THE HELL UP!!!"
Tristan and Malik gawked in Yami Bakura's direction. Yami Bakura slowly unclenched his fists trying to keep calm. Yami and Yami Malik were grumbling about something ignoring each others' existence.
"Gee, why didn't I think of that?" Tristan asked.
Malik rolled eyes, "Maybe because you're a dimwit?"
"WHAT!"
"Just kidding."
The Yami`s walked up to them, or rather Yami Bakura had to practically pull Yami and Yami Malik.
"Right, now lets get to work. Tristan, find some good sturdy trees with lots of thick branches. Malik, go with these two idiots and find us some wood," Yami Bakura said. Malik and Tristan nodded and got to work, Malik having the fun of dragging along two sulking Yami`s.
Tristan was the first to come back. He had found a small site near a river, the same river Joey had had his small misfortune with. Malik, Yami Malik, and Yami came back soon afterward with a good supply of wood. Yami Bakura had sketched out a plan for the shelter and even the other two Yami`s were impressed. Next Yami and Tristan went out in search for vines, Yami Malik and Malik in search of more wood, and Yami Bakura went back to camp to see if Seto, Serenity, Joey, and Duke had found any nails and hammers. Yami Bakura came back to the site disappointed but the other two groups were both successful.
They started construction; Tristan and Yami climbed into the trees and put the logs in place. The Maliks worked the pulley they had made and Yami Bakura oversaw the work. When it came noon and they struck out back toward camp they had agreed to not let anyone know of their plans except those who were going to help and let it be a surprise.
Tristan absentmindedly fingered his Millennium Chain and thought, 'At this rate we'll be done in about a week!'
***
Téa, Yugi, and Bakura had found numerous supplies of fruits and vegetables. It was Yugi who had mentioned that they needed some meat. That is why Téa sat in a tree waiting for some animal to appear while the two boys lay on their stomachs hidden in the bushes. Each of them held a sharp stone in his hand.
Bakura turned to Yugi clearly annoyed, "You just had to open your mouth, didn't you?"
Yugi sighed, "I'm sorry Bakura. I didn't think she'd actually listen to me."
Bakura growled angrily, something Yugi had hardly seen him do. "Now tell me again why you and I are lying down here preparing to practically kill ourselves while Téa is up there, injury free and safe?"
"Because if we got Téa killed we'd get killed by Kaiba," Yugi answered back.
"Oh."
"No, please no, not that . . . please anything but that!"
Bakura and Yugi glanced at each other in surprise then looked up to see Téa gazing out at sea muttering to herself, her eyes wide with terror.
"Téa? Are you okay?" Bakura called up. Téa though either didn't pay any attention to him or didn't hear him. She continued shaking her head and moaning.
"Bakura, go get help. I'm not quite sure what's going on but Téa doesn't look like she can climb down at the moment and you and I certainly aren't fit to climb up and get her," Yugi said not peeling his worried, violet eyes from Téa.
"But what if she falls or some animal comes or -"
"JUST GO ALREADY!"
Bakura blinked at the annoyed Yugi then turned and ran to the camp which wasn't too far away.
***
Yami let the hot sand run through his fingers. He lazily watched Isis as she and Mai talked. He unconsciously wondered where Yugi, Bakura, and Téa were. He also pondered his last night's conversation with Isis. Then there was also the fact that both Duke and Joey had activated their items. It was kind of funny how Duke's powers resembled that of Pegasus's, his - celebrity, he should say. Yami glanced over at Yami Bakura who was apparently taking a little snooze. Yami had a sneaky suspicion that Yami Bakura knew where Pegasus's Millennium Eye was.
Seto Kaiba had taken to pacing the sands frequently looking up into the undergrowth. Yami suspect him to be waiting for Téa to arrive back though he would never admit to it. Malik and Yami Malik had taken to preparing lunch. Obviously the only reason Yami Malik was helping was to stay away from Mai. Yami couldn't help but grin as he remembered last night.
Suddenly there came the sound of someone crashing through the trees. Everyone stopped what they were doing and glanced up getting ready to flee if it was an unfriendly predator.
They were relieved when Bakura burst through the foliage and not some wild animal. Yami Bakura's eyes had snapped open and when he saw his hikari he leapt up just in time to catch him as Bakura fainted on the spot from running such a long distance.
***
By the time Bakura had awakened both Joey and Duke were awake as well.
"Where are they?" Seto asked shaking Bakura as soon as he had let out a groan to let them know he was waking up. Yami Bakura sharply slapped Seto's hands away.
"What happened Bakura?" he asked his aibou.
"Uh . . . Yugi and I were on the ground waiting for some animal to emerge 'cause Yugi mentioned we needed meat in our diet. Téa was keeping a lookout then she started talking to herself and moaning . . ."
"Where's Yugi and Téa now?" Yami asked.
"They should be back there . . . I think," he said pointing into the jungle.
Isis stood up, "I know where they are, or where they should be. Yami, Kaiba, follow me. Joey, if you're feeling up to it you probably should come too incase something happened to either of them."
The three boys got up and quickly followed Isis through the trees.
***
"YUGI!!"
"TEA! WHERE ARE YA?"
"Really Wheeler, must you yell any louder? Anyone ten miles away can hear you."
"Watch it, Kaiba," Joey growled dangerously.
Yami was scanning the scenery around them obviously angry with himself for losing Yugi twice in the last two days.
Isis, who was walking beside him, said, "Don't worry, Yami. We'll find them. We're almost there."
Yami nodded absently.
"Téa! Are you alright? Come on, say something!"
The foursome sped up their pace following the voice.
"YUGI!" Yami cried out as soon as he spotted his other half. Yugi looked up with a smile of relief. He was sitting next to Téa. She lay on the ground, pale and unconscious.
Yami knelt next to Yugi. "What happened?"
"Téa was sitting up in the tree and I think she fainted or something. She fell and hasn't woken up yet," he answered.
Seto gently helped pull Téa into sitting position while Joey started to heal her. Isis examined Téa's bracelet.
Yami saw her frown, "What is it?"
"I don't believe this had anything to do with her Millennium Item. Whatever it was that caused her to faint must've been something she saw," she said.
"What?"
Isis didn't answer. Instead she pulled herself up on the first branch of the tree that Téa had fallen from.
"Isis, what are you doing?" Yami called up. Isis had gotten to the same place as Téa now. She turned her gaze out toward the sea. The boys below saw her eyes grow wide. She quickly peeled her eyes away from whatever she was staring at, but held onto the trunk of the tree tightly. She looked terrified at what she had seen.
"Isis!" Yami climbed up to her and put a hand on her shaking shoulder. "Come," he commanded quietly. The Egyptian girl nodded but she didn't remove her hold from the tree.
Finally curiosity overcame him and he took a quick glance at the sea. Below, Seto, Yugi, and Joey watched as fear flooded Yami's face. Yami pushed Isis down onto the branch below them as fast as he dared. By the time they had reached the bottom neither of them spoke.
"Yami?" came Yugi's tentative voice.
Yami didn't even glance at him.
"Where-where am I?"
Joey's work was done. Téa was awake and not the least bit harmed. She noticed someone was holding her upright. She glanced up and was startled by seeing Seto's icy blue eyes looking back down at her. Tea felt her face grow hot and looked away and saw the stricken faces of Yami and Isis.
"Um . . . Téa?" Téa glanced over at Yugi, "What did you see up there?" he asked pointing to the tree. Téa blinked trying to remember. Then slowly she recalled everything that had happened. She grew pale again and when she spoke her voice quivered with fear.
"It was that - ship. But at first I couldn't see it very good . . . because the fog covered it. I-it wasn't just fog. It was shadowy and . . . and the sails were ripped and, and . . ." She shuddered unable to go on.
Joey and Seto looked confused but Yugi seemed to understand at least one part of the gibberish she had just uttered. "Fog? A shadowy fog?"
Téa didn't answer; she had pulled her pulled legs up to her chest and held her head in hands shaking as if having a fit. Yugi was lost in thought, Joey didn't seem to be paying attention at all, and Yami and Isis were still in their frozen state. Seto put a comforting arm around Téa which no one noticed.
"They're coming . . ." Isis said in a low and hoarse voice that did not belong to her.
"This is really startin' to sound like a ghost story," Joey said rubbing his hand up and down his arm as if he were cold.
Yami suddenly snapped his head up looking over Joey's head. Téa froze also looking over Joey's head. Yugi and Seto frowned and followed their gazes. They both turned deathly pale.
"Uh . . . g-guys, this ain't funny. Stop starin' at me like that," Joey said. Yugi opened his mouth but no sound issued from it. Instead Yugi just pointed over Joey's shoulder. Slowly Joey turned around . . .
*****
* - Gaki means brat in Japanese. I couldn't find moron so I had to stick with brat. Oh well. Sorry about the cliffhanger. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up in a week. *crosses fingers* PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! Thanks ~_^
Disclaimer: This is the 5th CHAPTER that I've said: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh! Need I say it again?
Chapter 5
Sight Seeing
"It'd be easier to build it on the ground!"
"But then predators could get in you baka!"
"Baka yourself!"
"How about on stilts?"
"On stilts?! We aren't monkeys Pharaoh!"
"Well maybe you should join them, Yami Malik. After all you could do for a little grooming."
"Would you like to say that to the point of a blade?"
"Are you threatening me?"
"I asked you a question!"
"I thought I was the Pharaoh here."
"You were the Pharaoh. Now you're a stinkin' little spirit."
"Oh? You aren't even that! You were created off of someone's emotions! You never even lived!"
Tristan leaned over to Malik, "Are they always fighting like this?"
Malik shook his head. "It can get worse. Once Yugi and I found them trying to throttle each other. We had to get Kaiba to separate them."
Yami Bakura was drawing something in the sand with a stick and muttering calculations under his breath. After a bit he threw the stick away and glanced up at the two fighting spirits.
"Shut up gaki!" *
The Yami's did shut up but only for a minute.
"GAKI! I SHOULD SLIT YOUR THROAT FOR THAT INSULT!!!"
"EVER HEARD OF A LITTLE RESPECT TOMB ROBBER? No, I guess a low-life like yourself would never hear of such a thing."
Tristan stood up and began to pace up and down the beach.
Malik hurried after him, "What are you doing?"
"Looking for a place to build a shelter."
"SHUT THE HELL UP!!!"
Tristan and Malik gawked in Yami Bakura's direction. Yami Bakura slowly unclenched his fists trying to keep calm. Yami and Yami Malik were grumbling about something ignoring each others' existence.
"Gee, why didn't I think of that?" Tristan asked.
Malik rolled eyes, "Maybe because you're a dimwit?"
"WHAT!"
"Just kidding."
The Yami`s walked up to them, or rather Yami Bakura had to practically pull Yami and Yami Malik.
"Right, now lets get to work. Tristan, find some good sturdy trees with lots of thick branches. Malik, go with these two idiots and find us some wood," Yami Bakura said. Malik and Tristan nodded and got to work, Malik having the fun of dragging along two sulking Yami`s.
Tristan was the first to come back. He had found a small site near a river, the same river Joey had had his small misfortune with. Malik, Yami Malik, and Yami came back soon afterward with a good supply of wood. Yami Bakura had sketched out a plan for the shelter and even the other two Yami`s were impressed. Next Yami and Tristan went out in search for vines, Yami Malik and Malik in search of more wood, and Yami Bakura went back to camp to see if Seto, Serenity, Joey, and Duke had found any nails and hammers. Yami Bakura came back to the site disappointed but the other two groups were both successful.
They started construction; Tristan and Yami climbed into the trees and put the logs in place. The Maliks worked the pulley they had made and Yami Bakura oversaw the work. When it came noon and they struck out back toward camp they had agreed to not let anyone know of their plans except those who were going to help and let it be a surprise.
Tristan absentmindedly fingered his Millennium Chain and thought, 'At this rate we'll be done in about a week!'
***
Téa, Yugi, and Bakura had found numerous supplies of fruits and vegetables. It was Yugi who had mentioned that they needed some meat. That is why Téa sat in a tree waiting for some animal to appear while the two boys lay on their stomachs hidden in the bushes. Each of them held a sharp stone in his hand.
Bakura turned to Yugi clearly annoyed, "You just had to open your mouth, didn't you?"
Yugi sighed, "I'm sorry Bakura. I didn't think she'd actually listen to me."
Bakura growled angrily, something Yugi had hardly seen him do. "Now tell me again why you and I are lying down here preparing to practically kill ourselves while Téa is up there, injury free and safe?"
"Because if we got Téa killed we'd get killed by Kaiba," Yugi answered back.
"Oh."
"No, please no, not that . . . please anything but that!"
Bakura and Yugi glanced at each other in surprise then looked up to see Téa gazing out at sea muttering to herself, her eyes wide with terror.
"Téa? Are you okay?" Bakura called up. Téa though either didn't pay any attention to him or didn't hear him. She continued shaking her head and moaning.
"Bakura, go get help. I'm not quite sure what's going on but Téa doesn't look like she can climb down at the moment and you and I certainly aren't fit to climb up and get her," Yugi said not peeling his worried, violet eyes from Téa.
"But what if she falls or some animal comes or -"
"JUST GO ALREADY!"
Bakura blinked at the annoyed Yugi then turned and ran to the camp which wasn't too far away.
***
Yami let the hot sand run through his fingers. He lazily watched Isis as she and Mai talked. He unconsciously wondered where Yugi, Bakura, and Téa were. He also pondered his last night's conversation with Isis. Then there was also the fact that both Duke and Joey had activated their items. It was kind of funny how Duke's powers resembled that of Pegasus's, his - celebrity, he should say. Yami glanced over at Yami Bakura who was apparently taking a little snooze. Yami had a sneaky suspicion that Yami Bakura knew where Pegasus's Millennium Eye was.
Seto Kaiba had taken to pacing the sands frequently looking up into the undergrowth. Yami suspect him to be waiting for Téa to arrive back though he would never admit to it. Malik and Yami Malik had taken to preparing lunch. Obviously the only reason Yami Malik was helping was to stay away from Mai. Yami couldn't help but grin as he remembered last night.
Suddenly there came the sound of someone crashing through the trees. Everyone stopped what they were doing and glanced up getting ready to flee if it was an unfriendly predator.
They were relieved when Bakura burst through the foliage and not some wild animal. Yami Bakura's eyes had snapped open and when he saw his hikari he leapt up just in time to catch him as Bakura fainted on the spot from running such a long distance.
***
By the time Bakura had awakened both Joey and Duke were awake as well.
"Where are they?" Seto asked shaking Bakura as soon as he had let out a groan to let them know he was waking up. Yami Bakura sharply slapped Seto's hands away.
"What happened Bakura?" he asked his aibou.
"Uh . . . Yugi and I were on the ground waiting for some animal to emerge 'cause Yugi mentioned we needed meat in our diet. Téa was keeping a lookout then she started talking to herself and moaning . . ."
"Where's Yugi and Téa now?" Yami asked.
"They should be back there . . . I think," he said pointing into the jungle.
Isis stood up, "I know where they are, or where they should be. Yami, Kaiba, follow me. Joey, if you're feeling up to it you probably should come too incase something happened to either of them."
The three boys got up and quickly followed Isis through the trees.
***
"YUGI!!"
"TEA! WHERE ARE YA?"
"Really Wheeler, must you yell any louder? Anyone ten miles away can hear you."
"Watch it, Kaiba," Joey growled dangerously.
Yami was scanning the scenery around them obviously angry with himself for losing Yugi twice in the last two days.
Isis, who was walking beside him, said, "Don't worry, Yami. We'll find them. We're almost there."
Yami nodded absently.
"Téa! Are you alright? Come on, say something!"
The foursome sped up their pace following the voice.
"YUGI!" Yami cried out as soon as he spotted his other half. Yugi looked up with a smile of relief. He was sitting next to Téa. She lay on the ground, pale and unconscious.
Yami knelt next to Yugi. "What happened?"
"Téa was sitting up in the tree and I think she fainted or something. She fell and hasn't woken up yet," he answered.
Seto gently helped pull Téa into sitting position while Joey started to heal her. Isis examined Téa's bracelet.
Yami saw her frown, "What is it?"
"I don't believe this had anything to do with her Millennium Item. Whatever it was that caused her to faint must've been something she saw," she said.
"What?"
Isis didn't answer. Instead she pulled herself up on the first branch of the tree that Téa had fallen from.
"Isis, what are you doing?" Yami called up. Isis had gotten to the same place as Téa now. She turned her gaze out toward the sea. The boys below saw her eyes grow wide. She quickly peeled her eyes away from whatever she was staring at, but held onto the trunk of the tree tightly. She looked terrified at what she had seen.
"Isis!" Yami climbed up to her and put a hand on her shaking shoulder. "Come," he commanded quietly. The Egyptian girl nodded but she didn't remove her hold from the tree.
Finally curiosity overcame him and he took a quick glance at the sea. Below, Seto, Yugi, and Joey watched as fear flooded Yami's face. Yami pushed Isis down onto the branch below them as fast as he dared. By the time they had reached the bottom neither of them spoke.
"Yami?" came Yugi's tentative voice.
Yami didn't even glance at him.
"Where-where am I?"
Joey's work was done. Téa was awake and not the least bit harmed. She noticed someone was holding her upright. She glanced up and was startled by seeing Seto's icy blue eyes looking back down at her. Tea felt her face grow hot and looked away and saw the stricken faces of Yami and Isis.
"Um . . . Téa?" Téa glanced over at Yugi, "What did you see up there?" he asked pointing to the tree. Téa blinked trying to remember. Then slowly she recalled everything that had happened. She grew pale again and when she spoke her voice quivered with fear.
"It was that - ship. But at first I couldn't see it very good . . . because the fog covered it. I-it wasn't just fog. It was shadowy and . . . and the sails were ripped and, and . . ." She shuddered unable to go on.
Joey and Seto looked confused but Yugi seemed to understand at least one part of the gibberish she had just uttered. "Fog? A shadowy fog?"
Téa didn't answer; she had pulled her pulled legs up to her chest and held her head in hands shaking as if having a fit. Yugi was lost in thought, Joey didn't seem to be paying attention at all, and Yami and Isis were still in their frozen state. Seto put a comforting arm around Téa which no one noticed.
"They're coming . . ." Isis said in a low and hoarse voice that did not belong to her.
"This is really startin' to sound like a ghost story," Joey said rubbing his hand up and down his arm as if he were cold.
Yami suddenly snapped his head up looking over Joey's head. Téa froze also looking over Joey's head. Yugi and Seto frowned and followed their gazes. They both turned deathly pale.
"Uh . . . g-guys, this ain't funny. Stop starin' at me like that," Joey said. Yugi opened his mouth but no sound issued from it. Instead Yugi just pointed over Joey's shoulder. Slowly Joey turned around . . .
*****
* - Gaki means brat in Japanese. I couldn't find moron so I had to stick with brat. Oh well. Sorry about the cliffhanger. Hopefully I'll have the next chapter up in a week. *crosses fingers* PLEASE REVIEW!!!!! Thanks ~_^