This Is Beginning To Look Like Malik All Over Again...
How could I be here... ? In the shadow realm... ? No... I didn't want to be here. I hate the shadow realm... I heard a cry of pain and instinct compelled me to run away from the source of the shout. Well, my sense of direction wasn't... very great... I ran almost right into a shadow duel. I stopped abruptly, almost falling forward. I regained my balance and steadied myself. I looked up into the angry face of... Malik.
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Chapter 4: You Can Never Trust A Tomb Robber
Disclaimer: Oh, come on, I don't need to go over this again, do I? *sigh* Now, really.
Malik: You better just go and do it. People have their flame throwers ready.
Silver: Fine. *writes on blackboard that appears out of thin air* I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
There. =P
Malik: Oooh. Lemme see that chalk... *starts doodling on chalkboard*
Silver: Okay..... this should be interesting...
*~*~* millennium ankh- millennium key
millennium tauk- millennium necklace
onegai- please
gomen- sorry
*Translations by Akei*
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ryou Bakura
Malik? What... Where did he come from... ?
"M-Malik...?" I stammered. He didn't answer me, but instead seemed to stare straight through me at something else... He was different too... he looked.. younger... and the millennium ankh hung from a rope around his neck. He was wearing clothes from Egypt too... his eyes burned with fiery rage as he raised his arm and pointed the millennium rod directly at my heart. Terror seized my body and I could not move. "So you were a tomb robber in your past life... this means nothing to me... Now get out. I don't want to kill you, or Bakura... as it's his body..." Here, he paused to smirk, "I know you are possessing him through the millennium ring... Perhaps Ryou would be happy if I removed the curse of a millennium item from him... to have you gone forever..." Malik smiled a wicked grin as a beam of purple light shot from the glowing rod. My eyes widened as I braced myself...
The beam of energy traveled straight through my body.
I felt... nothing. I was... okay...? Then...
A chill zipped down my spine as realization hit me. I whirled around to see my yami barely escape the blast. He held his shoulder suddenly, wincing. The beam of light must have grazed his shoulder.
So it was a battle of millennium items, full out power...
He was wearing clothes similar to Malik's... ah! I remember... my yami had forced me to go to Egypt and once we got there, I didn't have control of my body for more than three hours, he was so excited. I wonder if he really did try to rob a tomb... I wouldn't be surprised to find out he had.
"Happy to have me gone...?" my yami said. "He would be very relieved. Gomen... I need him to survive." He said, clenching his teeth. "What happened to all the fun we had in Domino? You made a pact with me, after all..." Malik's eyes flickered.
"Hear this, dark spirit! You will never get the millennium ankh on my guard! You will not get past me!"
"Well then, I'd better wait until your shift is over."
"I suggest you leave before I blast you to smithereens and your host's body is destroyed completely!"
"I doubt that will happen. The ankh will be mine...and your useless mind will be wandering the shadow realm forever. As a prize, I think I will claim the rod as well. The other items will be simple thereafter. Ah, especially Isis's tauk." My yami laughed harshly.
Suddenly his brown eyes widened. It happened as if in slow motion.
"Yaaaaaammiii!" I cried. The beam of energy burst from Malik's millennium rod and hit yami directly in the chest. He was thrown several feet backwards. I ran toward him, not knowing why, and watched his back hit the floor of the shadow realm. He lay still in shock. "Look out!" I yelled, though I knew he couldn't hear me, and it had already happened. Malik had aimed his millennium rod in the same place, at my yami's heart. He walked closer, narrowing his eyes, and never moving his rod away. Yami stood up, slowly and painfully. Blood dripped from the severe wound on his chest, never stopping to hit the floor. Malik's rod followed his every movement.
In their eyes flamed dark rage. This battle was to the death...
'I don't want to know what happens...I don't want to find out, take me somewhere else...' I pleaded the ring. With a flash, my dark surroundings faded and I found myself in the next memory.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Yami Bakura
I fell to a dreamless sleep in my hikari's lap. Ra, what a pathetic mess I looked. Completely defenseless position... crying... everyone could see this... this... cursed weakness...of mine... damn it all...
Why did he care? I'm so cruel to him... I've mistreated and even abused him over the years... so why in Ra's name did he still help me? Damn his weak soul...
Malik...
Why did you leave me? I never truly meant any harm...
'But I did...'
'I tried to kill him to get the millennium ankh... and I failed too, I might add...
'And he tried to kill me. He hated me.'
'...But... he hated me in a respectful way...'
My dream. 'Oh Malik, what did you do to Yugi...?'
'Why do I care? ...I don't want to think of him as a killer and betrayer, like me.'
Oh, that's right. Yugi. I had forgotten why I had walked in this small game store in the first place. My main reason for changing my mind to come here. I had some questions to ask him. I had to know...I had to...
'Hm?'
What's this? Ryou... in my soul room?! How...? Why...? I hadn't time to ponder over why and how he did it, just that he even dared... the bastard! I'll kill him for this... How ignorant of me! If I hadn't been worrying so much... he... he... he put me to sleep so it would be easier to enter my soul room! I... gods, what a smart hikari... He... in general, he manipulated me...! He... really did...!
But what good was it going to do him, looking through my mind...? Whatever, I should have noticed him earlier... Damnit! I'll beat the living hell out you, Ryou. Clever as you are, impressing me won't save you...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ryou Bakura
Various scenes flashed before my eyes, but none very important. Just Malik... suffering and in pain in some images, or happy, and bringing back more memories, and I could clearly see why yami missed him. Good God... that's like a scene from a horror movie... poor Malik... But these weren't helpful.
'These aren't helping...what's important here...?'
Then I caught a glimpse of something.
A pair of cold crimson eyes...red as the color of blood...They flashed up, almost glowing in the darkness.
What the hell...?
That was it. That was the thing I needed to see. I felt the warm glow of the ring beneath my fingers. The next moment I was inside the dream yami had had earlier.
*~*~*~*~
I was still shaking after seeing Malik take the puzzle from Yugi's neck, but what happened after, I didn't know. For my head snapped backward painfully. In terror, I looked up into the face of my yami. "Hello..." he said in a dangerously low voice. I struggled in vain to free my hair from his grip. A bright flash...then I saw nothing but pitch blackness...
I opened my eyes in the real world, staring fearfully at yami. The next instant I felt cold metal plunge into my arm. I cried out in pain. "I warned you countless times in the past, hikari." he said coldly. "And now you use the power of the millennium ring against me...? How foolish. You have to be reminded what happens when you anger me..."
Tears sprang to my eyes. "Take it out, p-please..." He only sneered menacingly at me. "Why did you...?" he demanded. "F-For your own good... I want-ted to know... you wouldn't tell me exactly..." "So you raided my soulroom. You are clever. Putting me to sleep...knowing it is easier to enter one's soul when they are asleep or unconscious... very cunning. Why, it's exactly the manipulating kind of trick I'd use." With that, he pulled the knife out of my arm. I cried a second time. Why doesn't he ever understand? But that...was true...
I should have used that time to escape. Yami brought his knee hard up into my stomach. My breath knocked out of me, I fell face forward to the ground. Yami was immediately on top of me and twisted my already wounded arm behind my back painfully. "BUT NEVER DO IT AGAIN!"
Clonk. Yami collapsed on top of me. I raised my head slightly to see Jounouchi swimming in and out of my vision. I rested my head back on the carpet. Everything was blurred and spinning... I heard Jounouchi's voice as though from a distance.
"Go back inside the millennium ring! That's enough!"
"Urk...!"
"Go back, or I hit ya harder next time."
The weight of my yami's body was gone suddenly. But that was all I heard before I blacked out.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Yeah, I know, it was short and cheap. ^^; Gomen, I'm working on chaptah 5. Sick of the memories and flashbacks? 'Cause even I'm beginning to get tired of stopping the story in the middle of something good and repeating something that already happened. Should I do that less?
And I hope I didn't make Yami Bakura look too bad in the last chapter... first attempt at fluff, with Akei's help... so, yeah...
Gimme a break, it's 12:08 a.m.!
Anyway, please welcome Akei, who will be working with me on this fic from now on. ^^
Akei: *waves*
Silver Wolf: Okay, what's Malik doing?
Akei: Uh...Drawing on a random chalkboard.
Malik: ^_________^
Silver: Drawing... what exactly...?
Akei: A town burning up in flames. I think it's in Egypt.
Silver: The destruction of a village...?
Akei: Yeah, and for some reason CG is there, as well as Kaiba and Bakura.
Silver: Um... what's destroying the town?
Akei: Bakura's giant killer bunny rabbit.
Silver: ....... ^^; *cough cough* ... *dashes away* DAMMIT MALIK!!!
Akei: Okaaaay...
Read and review plz!
Also...
Come check out to see Malik when he's older!
And
That being said...
Next Chapter:
All the millennium item holders sense a great evil arise in the town of Domino... a familiar feeling, though. It is making Yugi extremely anxious waiting for the enemy to reveal himself and make his move...
Meanwhile Kaiba is in a bit of a chaotic mess himself.
Ryou having been unconscious for an hour, Yami Bakura impatiently takes control... But a terrible tragedy on the news takes his attention completely away...
Chapter 5: Run Away
How could I be here... ? In the shadow realm... ? No... I didn't want to be here. I hate the shadow realm... I heard a cry of pain and instinct compelled me to run away from the source of the shout. Well, my sense of direction wasn't... very great... I ran almost right into a shadow duel. I stopped abruptly, almost falling forward. I regained my balance and steadied myself. I looked up into the angry face of... Malik.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Chapter 4: You Can Never Trust A Tomb Robber
Disclaimer: Oh, come on, I don't need to go over this again, do I? *sigh* Now, really.
Malik: You better just go and do it. People have their flame throwers ready.
Silver: Fine. *writes on blackboard that appears out of thin air* I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh!
There. =P
Malik: Oooh. Lemme see that chalk... *starts doodling on chalkboard*
Silver: Okay..... this should be interesting...
*~*~* millennium ankh- millennium key
millennium tauk- millennium necklace
onegai- please
gomen- sorry
*Translations by Akei*
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ryou Bakura
Malik? What... Where did he come from... ?
"M-Malik...?" I stammered. He didn't answer me, but instead seemed to stare straight through me at something else... He was different too... he looked.. younger... and the millennium ankh hung from a rope around his neck. He was wearing clothes from Egypt too... his eyes burned with fiery rage as he raised his arm and pointed the millennium rod directly at my heart. Terror seized my body and I could not move. "So you were a tomb robber in your past life... this means nothing to me... Now get out. I don't want to kill you, or Bakura... as it's his body..." Here, he paused to smirk, "I know you are possessing him through the millennium ring... Perhaps Ryou would be happy if I removed the curse of a millennium item from him... to have you gone forever..." Malik smiled a wicked grin as a beam of purple light shot from the glowing rod. My eyes widened as I braced myself...
The beam of energy traveled straight through my body.
I felt... nothing. I was... okay...? Then...
A chill zipped down my spine as realization hit me. I whirled around to see my yami barely escape the blast. He held his shoulder suddenly, wincing. The beam of light must have grazed his shoulder.
So it was a battle of millennium items, full out power...
He was wearing clothes similar to Malik's... ah! I remember... my yami had forced me to go to Egypt and once we got there, I didn't have control of my body for more than three hours, he was so excited. I wonder if he really did try to rob a tomb... I wouldn't be surprised to find out he had.
"Happy to have me gone...?" my yami said. "He would be very relieved. Gomen... I need him to survive." He said, clenching his teeth. "What happened to all the fun we had in Domino? You made a pact with me, after all..." Malik's eyes flickered.
"Hear this, dark spirit! You will never get the millennium ankh on my guard! You will not get past me!"
"Well then, I'd better wait until your shift is over."
"I suggest you leave before I blast you to smithereens and your host's body is destroyed completely!"
"I doubt that will happen. The ankh will be mine...and your useless mind will be wandering the shadow realm forever. As a prize, I think I will claim the rod as well. The other items will be simple thereafter. Ah, especially Isis's tauk." My yami laughed harshly.
Suddenly his brown eyes widened. It happened as if in slow motion.
"Yaaaaaammiii!" I cried. The beam of energy burst from Malik's millennium rod and hit yami directly in the chest. He was thrown several feet backwards. I ran toward him, not knowing why, and watched his back hit the floor of the shadow realm. He lay still in shock. "Look out!" I yelled, though I knew he couldn't hear me, and it had already happened. Malik had aimed his millennium rod in the same place, at my yami's heart. He walked closer, narrowing his eyes, and never moving his rod away. Yami stood up, slowly and painfully. Blood dripped from the severe wound on his chest, never stopping to hit the floor. Malik's rod followed his every movement.
In their eyes flamed dark rage. This battle was to the death...
'I don't want to know what happens...I don't want to find out, take me somewhere else...' I pleaded the ring. With a flash, my dark surroundings faded and I found myself in the next memory.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Yami Bakura
I fell to a dreamless sleep in my hikari's lap. Ra, what a pathetic mess I looked. Completely defenseless position... crying... everyone could see this... this... cursed weakness...of mine... damn it all...
Why did he care? I'm so cruel to him... I've mistreated and even abused him over the years... so why in Ra's name did he still help me? Damn his weak soul...
Malik...
Why did you leave me? I never truly meant any harm...
'But I did...'
'I tried to kill him to get the millennium ankh... and I failed too, I might add...
'And he tried to kill me. He hated me.'
'...But... he hated me in a respectful way...'
My dream. 'Oh Malik, what did you do to Yugi...?'
'Why do I care? ...I don't want to think of him as a killer and betrayer, like me.'
Oh, that's right. Yugi. I had forgotten why I had walked in this small game store in the first place. My main reason for changing my mind to come here. I had some questions to ask him. I had to know...I had to...
'Hm?'
What's this? Ryou... in my soul room?! How...? Why...? I hadn't time to ponder over why and how he did it, just that he even dared... the bastard! I'll kill him for this... How ignorant of me! If I hadn't been worrying so much... he... he... he put me to sleep so it would be easier to enter my soul room! I... gods, what a smart hikari... He... in general, he manipulated me...! He... really did...!
But what good was it going to do him, looking through my mind...? Whatever, I should have noticed him earlier... Damnit! I'll beat the living hell out you, Ryou. Clever as you are, impressing me won't save you...
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Ryou Bakura
Various scenes flashed before my eyes, but none very important. Just Malik... suffering and in pain in some images, or happy, and bringing back more memories, and I could clearly see why yami missed him. Good God... that's like a scene from a horror movie... poor Malik... But these weren't helpful.
'These aren't helping...what's important here...?'
Then I caught a glimpse of something.
A pair of cold crimson eyes...red as the color of blood...They flashed up, almost glowing in the darkness.
What the hell...?
That was it. That was the thing I needed to see. I felt the warm glow of the ring beneath my fingers. The next moment I was inside the dream yami had had earlier.
*~*~*~*~
I was still shaking after seeing Malik take the puzzle from Yugi's neck, but what happened after, I didn't know. For my head snapped backward painfully. In terror, I looked up into the face of my yami. "Hello..." he said in a dangerously low voice. I struggled in vain to free my hair from his grip. A bright flash...then I saw nothing but pitch blackness...
I opened my eyes in the real world, staring fearfully at yami. The next instant I felt cold metal plunge into my arm. I cried out in pain. "I warned you countless times in the past, hikari." he said coldly. "And now you use the power of the millennium ring against me...? How foolish. You have to be reminded what happens when you anger me..."
Tears sprang to my eyes. "Take it out, p-please..." He only sneered menacingly at me. "Why did you...?" he demanded. "F-For your own good... I want-ted to know... you wouldn't tell me exactly..." "So you raided my soulroom. You are clever. Putting me to sleep...knowing it is easier to enter one's soul when they are asleep or unconscious... very cunning. Why, it's exactly the manipulating kind of trick I'd use." With that, he pulled the knife out of my arm. I cried a second time. Why doesn't he ever understand? But that...was true...
I should have used that time to escape. Yami brought his knee hard up into my stomach. My breath knocked out of me, I fell face forward to the ground. Yami was immediately on top of me and twisted my already wounded arm behind my back painfully. "BUT NEVER DO IT AGAIN!"
Clonk. Yami collapsed on top of me. I raised my head slightly to see Jounouchi swimming in and out of my vision. I rested my head back on the carpet. Everything was blurred and spinning... I heard Jounouchi's voice as though from a distance.
"Go back inside the millennium ring! That's enough!"
"Urk...!"
"Go back, or I hit ya harder next time."
The weight of my yami's body was gone suddenly. But that was all I heard before I blacked out.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Yeah, I know, it was short and cheap. ^^; Gomen, I'm working on chaptah 5. Sick of the memories and flashbacks? 'Cause even I'm beginning to get tired of stopping the story in the middle of something good and repeating something that already happened. Should I do that less?
And I hope I didn't make Yami Bakura look too bad in the last chapter... first attempt at fluff, with Akei's help... so, yeah...
Gimme a break, it's 12:08 a.m.!
Anyway, please welcome Akei, who will be working with me on this fic from now on. ^^
Akei: *waves*
Silver Wolf: Okay, what's Malik doing?
Akei: Uh...Drawing on a random chalkboard.
Malik: ^_________^
Silver: Drawing... what exactly...?
Akei: A town burning up in flames. I think it's in Egypt.
Silver: The destruction of a village...?
Akei: Yeah, and for some reason CG is there, as well as Kaiba and Bakura.
Silver: Um... what's destroying the town?
Akei: Bakura's giant killer bunny rabbit.
Silver: ....... ^^; *cough cough* ... *dashes away* DAMMIT MALIK!!!
Akei: Okaaaay...
Read and review plz!
Also...
Come check out to see Malik when he's older!
And
That being said...
Next Chapter:
All the millennium item holders sense a great evil arise in the town of Domino... a familiar feeling, though. It is making Yugi extremely anxious waiting for the enemy to reveal himself and make his move...
Meanwhile Kaiba is in a bit of a chaotic mess himself.
Ryou having been unconscious for an hour, Yami Bakura impatiently takes control... But a terrible tragedy on the news takes his attention completely away...
Chapter 5: Run Away