Hmm no reveiws yet darn...guys i'm getting desperate, it's my last week of
school!!!!
I start finals on the 26th (of may!!!!) I'm going to have to finish this
VERY soon!!!so I can do a sequel over the summer...think about it! Super
long chapter!!!! just wait for me to get back!! Think about ten pages at
least!!! (WOW can we even comprehend???) I recommend you get starcraft over
the summer if you're bored because you'll become as addicted as me!!!
and you'll be able to read my story!!! oh yeah! I'm writing this
whoops...better focus
here it is...maybe I can finish in two chapters...maybe in one...I'll just
have to see
thanks
got some of the ideas from 'tales from jabbas palace-a barve like that (the
story of boba fett and his crash into the sarlaac)' many other things are
mine though
chapter eighteen- separated (part I)
royou
-bakura-
how? How?
How could they be separated/
he was a spirit, and he needed royou as his host, without royou able to
control him the small amount he was able to...
Bakura could do anything.
Worse yet, royou was blind and mute, he was in no condition to stop his
spirit, plus he could never tell what side his spirit was on, anyway.
They were as good as dead if the spirit-now with a body of his own, decided
it would be more profitable for him to serve the people who had kidnapped
him. He heard the whips stop once again, the room seemed to become a super
blurry outline
"blguwra" his mouth was starting to come back as well, although what came
out sounded nothing like the spirit's name.
-your voice seems to be working once more.- responded his spirit
sarcastically
my sight too he responded happily then it REALLY came back and with his
new voice he screamed. The walls were covered with half eaten away corpses
of rlena's bretheren, then he noticed the corpses MOVING. The ground was
covered in tentacles that whipped around making the noise he was hearing,
he noticed his shoes were dissolving in the wake of the tentacles, leading
him to believe they were filled with acid. The corpses were moving, he
realized in disgust, because they were ALIVE, indistinct telepathic phrases
came to him from one with no legs, and half of their face gone:
(((it ate my leg first love , then my eye. But i asked it to leave me one,
so it did, even as it eats the rest of me, it leaves me my eye so I can see
the sunshine pour through the mouth-I never would have thought that
something like the sunlight pouring through the mouth of a creature eating
me alive would be comforting, but here i am. I had a talk with Chanis. She
asked me to tell her a story. She said she found a new beautiful mind to
replace my replacement, poor man's probably down here too. Somehow she sat
with her eight legs waiting to listen to my story, but you would be proud
of me, love. I told her your story: the one with one wing lay on the edge
of a cliff, he started to slip, with his one wing he held on, looked up to
the sky and watched his sister soar. How beautiful it was. She didn't
understand it. think I'll let it eat your arm now)))
royou screamed, he could feel the confused half eaten person become horror
struck as the thing started on his arm. He heard bakura shouting and
cursing him, telling him to be quiet.
CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT???????bakura raised an eyebrow -hear what?-
Royou screamed, this was as close to hell as anything he could think of. He
screamed for the beings being eaten alive, then screamed as his feet began
to burn slightly
rlena shuddered, 'did...did anyone feel that?" she shivered-an odd thing
for someone who's veins bled fire. "Yeah." said yugi rubbing his arms. Joey
shivered "I...oh no, ROYOU" rlena grabbed his arm, to prevent him from
running off. 'Stop!" she hissed the others gave wide eyed scared looks as a
chitinous gand passed by, they were in the shadows of a group of tall grave
poles, made of worn stone-crystalline yet opaque, and were thus unseen.
"That was close" breathed tan.
"Now/' said rlena, taking command with a smoothness that declared her a
veteran. "We need to split up, we need at least one battle hardened
individual in each group-meaning my friends-Joey, tan and ty. shade and
Lela are semi battle hardened because they've been trained for it from
birth. Has anyone else here had any experience in battle?"
She said it quickly and softly, but they caught every word kaiba suddenly
stiffendc and spat at her feet 'I will not have nay part in your battle."
she glanced down at the spit. Yami glowed eerily and in his deep voice
announced: "I was a pharaoh-a great ruler many years ago-I led many
battles" she nodded "good." she glanced again at kaiba "I need a reason why
kaiba, or I will merely assume you are a coward, because i can see no other
evidence at the moment."Joe shook his head 'don mess wit him rlena his step
dad made some weapons for combat. He aint helpin us cuz ya opened dat old
wound for him-"
"MUTT!" he wanted to say more, but shade covered his mouth. Rlena sighed
'very well...don't get yourself killed." she split up the groups, hecatate
was with Tristan, tan, and Lela.
Joey was with joe, yugi(and Yami) and shade.
Lastly rlena took a very angry Kay, Ty, and tea. Then she turned to kaiba
'you don't have to do anything by coming with us-it'll be safer for you
than staying here." kaiba glared. "There is nothing here that would dare
attack me." she shook her head "come with us,, we can protect you-there are
quite nasty things here, I would rather know i don't have your blood on our
hands again..agreed guys?" the others nodded, but tan commented. "I thought
I still had to get you back, come with us kaiba-we could use your
knowledge." she hit the right spot. He went proudly. Tan looked properly
demure and worshipful, rlena shot her a grin behind the arrogant CEO's
back.
'We have to rescue our friends." her voice changed as she spoke-becoming
her real alien form, there was a screaming ring in the other's ears. A ball
of crackling black flames appeared in her hand. "May the six guide your
blades" said hecatate solemnly.
"Galish hecarth!" rlena set a rapid running pace and they all split.
'trouble!" whispered Kay, "I can smell them." rlena nodded "how many?"
'Three." she smirked "lets take them." they crouched in wait for them tea
was directed to merely watch for now. The three gand came seeming to sing
with their floating language, Kay leapt on one with a feral yell, ty
shouted and a wave of earth rippled up crushing one. Rlena slashed with her
tail lashing out against them, dodging the tail and the thorny legs,
slashing home with her centerless full moon blade. The gand erupted into
flames instantly incinerated. Kay's gand crashed to it's knees, his fangs
in it's neck, sucking the energy from the being. Tea's eyes were wide as
dinner plates. 'Please don't make me do that." she whimpered. rlena's eyes
softened "we won't, let's find the others."
They ran off again, Kay in front. Smelling the air, and directing the pack.
the being took the still screaming royou, and knocked him out with one
mighty crashing fist. Bakura couldn't help it-saying 'finally!"
The being turned a sightless face to him.
wish for the screaming. he was surprised, the being didn't speak...not
really.
you will miss it soon...thief...stealer of hope what was more unnerving?
He wondered. The thought of missing royou-his pathetic host that he had
many times wished to be rid of. Or the fact that he had been called a thief
by one who was taking his innocent host to his death.
A pity really...a waste of a good host.
A pity that was all it was-an inconvenience.
Now.
To get out of this alien dungeon.
It wouldn't take long, then he would be free! In a new body of his own!
The gods were finally taking mercy on him (they would regret it later he
was sure)
but he wouldn't give them time to regret it!
the body in the being's arms was royou. The young ice haired teen's face
was contorted in anguish. "No!" Yark was about to go to the teen, the
spider being shoved him back to a sitting position-not intentionally rough
but still enough to fill him with the feeling of weakness, of hopelessness.
now. was all the spider said it's clawed hand settled over the boy's
forehead, white hot sparks seemed to dance across royou's face. His eyes
flashed open as did his mouth, he screamed in unearthly horror. The sound
made Yark's hair stand on end, worse yet, the spider wouldn't let him
comfort royou. The spider slapped him. HARD.
He stopped screaming, his hand went up to his face in disbelieving shock,
his eyes became suspiciously liquid.
silence! she hissed, her black insectoid eyes glittering. no one shall
hear your cries changeling, for what you have done to my prize. yark's
stomach gave a queasy jolt at being called a prize, then dropped completely
when he heard the term 'changeling' applied to royou. "Wait!" his stomach
did a backflip into his mouth when the spider cast all eight black eyes on
him with a look of impatient anger "uh...r-r-royou's not the changeling
you're looking for!!"
The spider's eyes widened then narrowed to razor edges. "Dykanlis." softly
and dangerously "you have failed me." the mutated being, knelt hurriedly,
and spoke rapidly in the musical language. Pleading! yark realized "no
wait! It's not his fault! Even I thought royou was a changeling at first
because of bakura!" the spider ignored him, his heart sank. Despite her
avid protection of him, he was merely a prize to be collected, flaunted,
and used. "Y-y-y-yark???" royou stuttered just catching sight of the teen,
his dirt hair spread behind his ears, his face purple and green for all to
see, with patches of white standing out unblemished. The gray eyes were
wide and afraid, the deep seeing feeling was gone from his sight in the
wake of the overwhelming fear.
Yark saw the astonishment on royou's face at the bruising there, and
hurriedly drew the hair from behind his ears to hide his face. very well
than dykanlis. she turned pitiless eyes on royou. you can send him back
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" royou kicked
and screamed against dykanlis's arms, but the alien had the constitution of
a boulder, and his arms were as unforgiving as iron. "YARK!!!!!!" but yark
was otherwise preoccupied with the unwanted attention of the spider.
Dykanlis will find them my beautiful prize. she said holding him close to
her distorted form. All yark could feel now was revulsion, helplessness,
and fear. It was nearly as bad as when he suspected that the spider was
male, but before he at least had the feeling of being cared for. Now he
only had the feeling of being an object. Perhaps his brother was right,
perhaps people only liked him because they could use him. In fact, when had
he gotten the friends? After he had his powers. His heart sank another
notch. He curbed the urge to shove away the spider. He also curbed the
feeling of wanting to yell in hopeless rage.
joey wasn't having much luck in finding yark or royou. Yami was hopeless in
battle-directing instead of fighting himself, yugi...yugi was a bully
magnet-not any help at all, joe was ok-lots of strength, but not much in
the way of strategy on how to use it. A former bully, he could tell by the
tactics he used. Shade was shade-unwilling to kill because of his species
lust for blood, he feared he would never stop once he started. So naturally
the killing was left mainly to him. He grimaced. Wind was not good for
killing things, and he had too much experience with picking up people and
flying away. Besides he probably couldn't do it with four people at once.
Thus he was left with the opportunity to run when it presented itself in
the form of a gand armed with a pressure staff. "RUN!" bolts hit the ground
behind them Royou, now would be a good time to have a psychotic tomb
robber spirit in the group!
Thus looking behind him he ran smack into an individual with white hair and
scar on his face.
"Bakura???" the person grinned in a way that wasn't very reassuring, "so,
Joey, we meet again." a bolt sizzled a hole through joey's pant leg. "
AUGH!!!" bakura ran...in the wrong direction. "Bakura no! That's where the
gand is!!" to his surprise, the thief snuck behind the thing as it ran
after a fleeing (and cursing) Joey, he pulled out a large knife, jumped on
the thing's back and sliced off its head. The thing toppled and writhed
headless, reflexively firing the pressure staff, until joey grabbed the
thing from it's hands and shot a bolt into it's chest. "Where's royou??? I
KNOW that's not his body."
"Thank you for noticing Joey, I had a feeling you would be the type to."
Joey's look darkened "my pathetic host? Ah yes, well he seems to be having
fun screaming in the ear of that mutant creature trying to be a gand."
"WHAT?!?" Joe yelled "you'd better be tellin us where he is bakura or I'll
wipe that smirk off yer new face!!!!!" he waved his fist as if to punctuate
his remark. Bakura snickered "I'll get him." said Joey quietly, in a
lightning fast move, he grabbed bakura's arms close to the pit, and lifted
off. Bakura began to curse, his snickers died away almost instantly, and
instead he struggled, but this time joey gave him no opportunity to knock
him out of the sky. "Tell me where royou is Damn it or I SWEAR I'll let you
go. I'm sure nobody would miss you, especially not Yami, and judging by the
way you treat him, royou won't either."
Bakura grimaced at the clawlike hands digging into his arms. "Try to find
him in the living cave of acid surrounded by the half dead, and the half
rotting, Screaming like a child in a nightmare." he pronounced every
disgusting syllable with relish. "Run and save him little Jayjee!" he
mocked singsongingly like his younger brothers. Joey with an expression of
hate, dropped to about eight feet and let go, then urged his group to hurry
the living cave of acid he shuddered. There was a large billowing mass of
yellow smoke, "ocme on! Follow the smoke!"
Tristan could only watch hecatate and admire her,Plus. He thought in glee,
he was surrounded by girls, How bad could things be?
Hecatate moved with a sort of slow, long pace. Which he found nearly
impossible to adapt to, and lela had turned into some kind of four winged
snake/bird thing and was scouting above, for any sign of the others to see
if they had found anything. The thing landed and turned into the white
haired girl with the feline gaze. "What do you see, far gazing changeling?"
sometimes hecatate seemed too formal and ritualistic, but still it was
peaceful to be with her. It was calm...
Almost too calm.
"The caves of acid." said the feline eyed girl. With a sorrowful look.
"royou is there, screaming as though in a never ending nightmare." she
paused catching the eye of everyone "he has gained a mental link to the
other prisoners there." Hecatate held her head in her hands. 'We must find
him." she said finally "I cannot see which path is his, but i do see ours
connecting to his and bending it."
she sees the future! they left. Tristan, holding her in newfound awe.
he was blind! He was blind!!! AHHHHH!!!!! the thing was eating him! It was
burning him, and he still couldn't scream, something held his throat. He
drew in air. I need all my energy so someone hears my scream! Just one
scream, just one! he thought feverishly as the acid burned at his feet.
Drawing energy! MORE!! Finally he broke the constraint on his throat. "AH-
cklk -AH! CCCCHHHHLK!!!!" his throat made weird sounds bearing broken
screams. Then he felt the strange living bonds bearing his hands being torn
away, something soft and warm was being wrapped around him, he was dimly
aware of his clothing disintegrating as he was moved. Something else was
draped over him to cover him, then he heard "sick!" it sounded like Joey
"J...."
He still couldn't speak, it took too much energy. He fell into
unconciousness seeing a black blur before he did so, then another thing
rushing accross the room "my brother!"
there, tailess, and missing half his limbs, but her brother daeworr, lay
before her, his one good eye staring at her. She embraced him. And angrily
slashed at the living bonds, when they whipped her she cursed, sliced down
the prisoners with her flaming tail, and set them outside the cave. Then
proceeded to lay waste to the cave, slashing all the creature's stinging
appendages, and setting fire to it, so it burned in it's acid, and her
flames. The creature let out wails and shreiks, finally lying dead before
her, she then spat upon the heap of vanquished creature, and proceeded to
destoroy the remains, finally when all that remained was a bloody heap, she
set fire to it. Acrid yellow smoke filled the air. Her brother smiled, said
a few words in whisper about how he could now die in peace, thank you. Then
he went limp. Rlena shook, black tears falling to the ground and
crystallizing. "I will avenge you brother."a limp royou lay beside dead
mutilated bodies. she had draped her cloak across the boy, but it appeared
that the human was especially frail to such torture. He was feverish and
burned by the acid, his feet and arms would be scarred, the ends of his
long hair had burned as well. He needed water. Rlena gritted her teeth, she
could no more summon water than she could make kay shut up. She needed Tan,
and only the gods knew where she was. Then as if in a dream, Hecatate's
group materialized from the woods like a mist.
"Teacher! Please! Royou's badly hurt! He needs water. I need tan's
ability."
Tan stepped forward, pale. "What...happened?" she stared at the still
burning mass in the cave, then at the bodies spread out across the ground.
There was a crack of a twig, kaiba, tea, and kay were holding branches and
began assembling a sling at Rlena's direction. There was a loud thud,
followed by a lot of cursing. Then Joey flew in a few seconds later. He
took in the scene in a matter of seconds, with a openmouthed expression of
shock. "Y-you found royou?" rlena looked up with a haunted expression.
'Yes." she said dully. And gestured to the burned individual who's
breathing was starting to rasp, Tan gently lifted up his head, and trickled
water down his throat, his eyes opened a crack. "Hln..." Rlena nodded "yes
royou. You're safe now." unlike my brother. she thought bitterly. Another
part of her family taken from her. 'If only we could find yark." said Joey,
gingerly examining royou, this got a response out of the boy. 'Jly!ylk!"
'Shh...' said hecatate, touching his face softly, instantly royou's lids
slid down, and his face smoothed, relaxing.
It was at this moment that a very angry bakura showed up in the clearing,
cursing Joey loudly. Then he caught sight of royou. His eyes widened. He
stood there cursing joey slightly more quietly. So rlena got up...then
kicked him smack between the legs. Then when he sank to his knees, grabbed
him by the hair, forcing him up again, 'If i ever so much as HEAR,' she
began in a silky whisper filled with black rage "about you ignoring royou,
or leaving your host, royou in any situation. I'll have the part i just
kicked, ripped off you.' bakura's eyes widened, had be not been busy
holding himself, he would have probably attacked her, but he was obviously
incapacitated. 'Let's find yark,' she gestured at royou's treacherous dark
spirit, 'before he decides to abandon us to the gand.' she turned on her
heel, and grabbed the saddle/sling, transforming into some alien feline,
carrying royou's ling form draped across her back, wrapped in the cloak,
and kept in place by a cleverly cradling seat, made from twigs. The
creature that rlena had transformed into was roughly the size of a horse,
it's face was made more noticeable by it's bushy black eyebrow whiskers,
and the similar things on her ears. 'Take care of royou.' muttered Joey,
'this is my fault anyway, I'd hate to never have the chance to tell him how
sorry I am.' the beast rolled it's eyes, then nodded. 'Don't have too much
fun.' the thing wagged it's tail and loped off into he jungle, closely
followed by all save lela, who had transformed into her bird/snake again.
And bakura who was swearing his revenge on her, and anyone who dared to
threaten him so.
To be continued...in a while
ugh...it's 12:28am.
And i have two finals left in about six hours, i'll finish it and get it up
later...somehow. sorry guys.
school!!!!
I start finals on the 26th (of may!!!!) I'm going to have to finish this
VERY soon!!!so I can do a sequel over the summer...think about it! Super
long chapter!!!! just wait for me to get back!! Think about ten pages at
least!!! (WOW can we even comprehend???) I recommend you get starcraft over
the summer if you're bored because you'll become as addicted as me!!!
and you'll be able to read my story!!! oh yeah! I'm writing this
whoops...better focus
here it is...maybe I can finish in two chapters...maybe in one...I'll just
have to see
thanks
got some of the ideas from 'tales from jabbas palace-a barve like that (the
story of boba fett and his crash into the sarlaac)' many other things are
mine though
chapter eighteen- separated (part I)
royou
-bakura-
how? How?
How could they be separated/
he was a spirit, and he needed royou as his host, without royou able to
control him the small amount he was able to...
Bakura could do anything.
Worse yet, royou was blind and mute, he was in no condition to stop his
spirit, plus he could never tell what side his spirit was on, anyway.
They were as good as dead if the spirit-now with a body of his own, decided
it would be more profitable for him to serve the people who had kidnapped
him. He heard the whips stop once again, the room seemed to become a super
blurry outline
"blguwra" his mouth was starting to come back as well, although what came
out sounded nothing like the spirit's name.
-your voice seems to be working once more.- responded his spirit
sarcastically
my sight too he responded happily then it REALLY came back and with his
new voice he screamed. The walls were covered with half eaten away corpses
of rlena's bretheren, then he noticed the corpses MOVING. The ground was
covered in tentacles that whipped around making the noise he was hearing,
he noticed his shoes were dissolving in the wake of the tentacles, leading
him to believe they were filled with acid. The corpses were moving, he
realized in disgust, because they were ALIVE, indistinct telepathic phrases
came to him from one with no legs, and half of their face gone:
(((it ate my leg first love , then my eye. But i asked it to leave me one,
so it did, even as it eats the rest of me, it leaves me my eye so I can see
the sunshine pour through the mouth-I never would have thought that
something like the sunlight pouring through the mouth of a creature eating
me alive would be comforting, but here i am. I had a talk with Chanis. She
asked me to tell her a story. She said she found a new beautiful mind to
replace my replacement, poor man's probably down here too. Somehow she sat
with her eight legs waiting to listen to my story, but you would be proud
of me, love. I told her your story: the one with one wing lay on the edge
of a cliff, he started to slip, with his one wing he held on, looked up to
the sky and watched his sister soar. How beautiful it was. She didn't
understand it. think I'll let it eat your arm now)))
royou screamed, he could feel the confused half eaten person become horror
struck as the thing started on his arm. He heard bakura shouting and
cursing him, telling him to be quiet.
CAN'T YOU HEAR THAT???????bakura raised an eyebrow -hear what?-
Royou screamed, this was as close to hell as anything he could think of. He
screamed for the beings being eaten alive, then screamed as his feet began
to burn slightly
rlena shuddered, 'did...did anyone feel that?" she shivered-an odd thing
for someone who's veins bled fire. "Yeah." said yugi rubbing his arms. Joey
shivered "I...oh no, ROYOU" rlena grabbed his arm, to prevent him from
running off. 'Stop!" she hissed the others gave wide eyed scared looks as a
chitinous gand passed by, they were in the shadows of a group of tall grave
poles, made of worn stone-crystalline yet opaque, and were thus unseen.
"That was close" breathed tan.
"Now/' said rlena, taking command with a smoothness that declared her a
veteran. "We need to split up, we need at least one battle hardened
individual in each group-meaning my friends-Joey, tan and ty. shade and
Lela are semi battle hardened because they've been trained for it from
birth. Has anyone else here had any experience in battle?"
She said it quickly and softly, but they caught every word kaiba suddenly
stiffendc and spat at her feet 'I will not have nay part in your battle."
she glanced down at the spit. Yami glowed eerily and in his deep voice
announced: "I was a pharaoh-a great ruler many years ago-I led many
battles" she nodded "good." she glanced again at kaiba "I need a reason why
kaiba, or I will merely assume you are a coward, because i can see no other
evidence at the moment."Joe shook his head 'don mess wit him rlena his step
dad made some weapons for combat. He aint helpin us cuz ya opened dat old
wound for him-"
"MUTT!" he wanted to say more, but shade covered his mouth. Rlena sighed
'very well...don't get yourself killed." she split up the groups, hecatate
was with Tristan, tan, and Lela.
Joey was with joe, yugi(and Yami) and shade.
Lastly rlena took a very angry Kay, Ty, and tea. Then she turned to kaiba
'you don't have to do anything by coming with us-it'll be safer for you
than staying here." kaiba glared. "There is nothing here that would dare
attack me." she shook her head "come with us,, we can protect you-there are
quite nasty things here, I would rather know i don't have your blood on our
hands again..agreed guys?" the others nodded, but tan commented. "I thought
I still had to get you back, come with us kaiba-we could use your
knowledge." she hit the right spot. He went proudly. Tan looked properly
demure and worshipful, rlena shot her a grin behind the arrogant CEO's
back.
'We have to rescue our friends." her voice changed as she spoke-becoming
her real alien form, there was a screaming ring in the other's ears. A ball
of crackling black flames appeared in her hand. "May the six guide your
blades" said hecatate solemnly.
"Galish hecarth!" rlena set a rapid running pace and they all split.
'trouble!" whispered Kay, "I can smell them." rlena nodded "how many?"
'Three." she smirked "lets take them." they crouched in wait for them tea
was directed to merely watch for now. The three gand came seeming to sing
with their floating language, Kay leapt on one with a feral yell, ty
shouted and a wave of earth rippled up crushing one. Rlena slashed with her
tail lashing out against them, dodging the tail and the thorny legs,
slashing home with her centerless full moon blade. The gand erupted into
flames instantly incinerated. Kay's gand crashed to it's knees, his fangs
in it's neck, sucking the energy from the being. Tea's eyes were wide as
dinner plates. 'Please don't make me do that." she whimpered. rlena's eyes
softened "we won't, let's find the others."
They ran off again, Kay in front. Smelling the air, and directing the pack.
the being took the still screaming royou, and knocked him out with one
mighty crashing fist. Bakura couldn't help it-saying 'finally!"
The being turned a sightless face to him.
wish for the screaming. he was surprised, the being didn't speak...not
really.
you will miss it soon...thief...stealer of hope what was more unnerving?
He wondered. The thought of missing royou-his pathetic host that he had
many times wished to be rid of. Or the fact that he had been called a thief
by one who was taking his innocent host to his death.
A pity really...a waste of a good host.
A pity that was all it was-an inconvenience.
Now.
To get out of this alien dungeon.
It wouldn't take long, then he would be free! In a new body of his own!
The gods were finally taking mercy on him (they would regret it later he
was sure)
but he wouldn't give them time to regret it!
the body in the being's arms was royou. The young ice haired teen's face
was contorted in anguish. "No!" Yark was about to go to the teen, the
spider being shoved him back to a sitting position-not intentionally rough
but still enough to fill him with the feeling of weakness, of hopelessness.
now. was all the spider said it's clawed hand settled over the boy's
forehead, white hot sparks seemed to dance across royou's face. His eyes
flashed open as did his mouth, he screamed in unearthly horror. The sound
made Yark's hair stand on end, worse yet, the spider wouldn't let him
comfort royou. The spider slapped him. HARD.
He stopped screaming, his hand went up to his face in disbelieving shock,
his eyes became suspiciously liquid.
silence! she hissed, her black insectoid eyes glittering. no one shall
hear your cries changeling, for what you have done to my prize. yark's
stomach gave a queasy jolt at being called a prize, then dropped completely
when he heard the term 'changeling' applied to royou. "Wait!" his stomach
did a backflip into his mouth when the spider cast all eight black eyes on
him with a look of impatient anger "uh...r-r-royou's not the changeling
you're looking for!!"
The spider's eyes widened then narrowed to razor edges. "Dykanlis." softly
and dangerously "you have failed me." the mutated being, knelt hurriedly,
and spoke rapidly in the musical language. Pleading! yark realized "no
wait! It's not his fault! Even I thought royou was a changeling at first
because of bakura!" the spider ignored him, his heart sank. Despite her
avid protection of him, he was merely a prize to be collected, flaunted,
and used. "Y-y-y-yark???" royou stuttered just catching sight of the teen,
his dirt hair spread behind his ears, his face purple and green for all to
see, with patches of white standing out unblemished. The gray eyes were
wide and afraid, the deep seeing feeling was gone from his sight in the
wake of the overwhelming fear.
Yark saw the astonishment on royou's face at the bruising there, and
hurriedly drew the hair from behind his ears to hide his face. very well
than dykanlis. she turned pitiless eyes on royou. you can send him back
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" royou kicked
and screamed against dykanlis's arms, but the alien had the constitution of
a boulder, and his arms were as unforgiving as iron. "YARK!!!!!!" but yark
was otherwise preoccupied with the unwanted attention of the spider.
Dykanlis will find them my beautiful prize. she said holding him close to
her distorted form. All yark could feel now was revulsion, helplessness,
and fear. It was nearly as bad as when he suspected that the spider was
male, but before he at least had the feeling of being cared for. Now he
only had the feeling of being an object. Perhaps his brother was right,
perhaps people only liked him because they could use him. In fact, when had
he gotten the friends? After he had his powers. His heart sank another
notch. He curbed the urge to shove away the spider. He also curbed the
feeling of wanting to yell in hopeless rage.
joey wasn't having much luck in finding yark or royou. Yami was hopeless in
battle-directing instead of fighting himself, yugi...yugi was a bully
magnet-not any help at all, joe was ok-lots of strength, but not much in
the way of strategy on how to use it. A former bully, he could tell by the
tactics he used. Shade was shade-unwilling to kill because of his species
lust for blood, he feared he would never stop once he started. So naturally
the killing was left mainly to him. He grimaced. Wind was not good for
killing things, and he had too much experience with picking up people and
flying away. Besides he probably couldn't do it with four people at once.
Thus he was left with the opportunity to run when it presented itself in
the form of a gand armed with a pressure staff. "RUN!" bolts hit the ground
behind them Royou, now would be a good time to have a psychotic tomb
robber spirit in the group!
Thus looking behind him he ran smack into an individual with white hair and
scar on his face.
"Bakura???" the person grinned in a way that wasn't very reassuring, "so,
Joey, we meet again." a bolt sizzled a hole through joey's pant leg. "
AUGH!!!" bakura ran...in the wrong direction. "Bakura no! That's where the
gand is!!" to his surprise, the thief snuck behind the thing as it ran
after a fleeing (and cursing) Joey, he pulled out a large knife, jumped on
the thing's back and sliced off its head. The thing toppled and writhed
headless, reflexively firing the pressure staff, until joey grabbed the
thing from it's hands and shot a bolt into it's chest. "Where's royou??? I
KNOW that's not his body."
"Thank you for noticing Joey, I had a feeling you would be the type to."
Joey's look darkened "my pathetic host? Ah yes, well he seems to be having
fun screaming in the ear of that mutant creature trying to be a gand."
"WHAT?!?" Joe yelled "you'd better be tellin us where he is bakura or I'll
wipe that smirk off yer new face!!!!!" he waved his fist as if to punctuate
his remark. Bakura snickered "I'll get him." said Joey quietly, in a
lightning fast move, he grabbed bakura's arms close to the pit, and lifted
off. Bakura began to curse, his snickers died away almost instantly, and
instead he struggled, but this time joey gave him no opportunity to knock
him out of the sky. "Tell me where royou is Damn it or I SWEAR I'll let you
go. I'm sure nobody would miss you, especially not Yami, and judging by the
way you treat him, royou won't either."
Bakura grimaced at the clawlike hands digging into his arms. "Try to find
him in the living cave of acid surrounded by the half dead, and the half
rotting, Screaming like a child in a nightmare." he pronounced every
disgusting syllable with relish. "Run and save him little Jayjee!" he
mocked singsongingly like his younger brothers. Joey with an expression of
hate, dropped to about eight feet and let go, then urged his group to hurry
the living cave of acid he shuddered. There was a large billowing mass of
yellow smoke, "ocme on! Follow the smoke!"
Tristan could only watch hecatate and admire her,Plus. He thought in glee,
he was surrounded by girls, How bad could things be?
Hecatate moved with a sort of slow, long pace. Which he found nearly
impossible to adapt to, and lela had turned into some kind of four winged
snake/bird thing and was scouting above, for any sign of the others to see
if they had found anything. The thing landed and turned into the white
haired girl with the feline gaze. "What do you see, far gazing changeling?"
sometimes hecatate seemed too formal and ritualistic, but still it was
peaceful to be with her. It was calm...
Almost too calm.
"The caves of acid." said the feline eyed girl. With a sorrowful look.
"royou is there, screaming as though in a never ending nightmare." she
paused catching the eye of everyone "he has gained a mental link to the
other prisoners there." Hecatate held her head in her hands. 'We must find
him." she said finally "I cannot see which path is his, but i do see ours
connecting to his and bending it."
she sees the future! they left. Tristan, holding her in newfound awe.
he was blind! He was blind!!! AHHHHH!!!!! the thing was eating him! It was
burning him, and he still couldn't scream, something held his throat. He
drew in air. I need all my energy so someone hears my scream! Just one
scream, just one! he thought feverishly as the acid burned at his feet.
Drawing energy! MORE!! Finally he broke the constraint on his throat. "AH-
cklk -AH! CCCCHHHHLK!!!!" his throat made weird sounds bearing broken
screams. Then he felt the strange living bonds bearing his hands being torn
away, something soft and warm was being wrapped around him, he was dimly
aware of his clothing disintegrating as he was moved. Something else was
draped over him to cover him, then he heard "sick!" it sounded like Joey
"J...."
He still couldn't speak, it took too much energy. He fell into
unconciousness seeing a black blur before he did so, then another thing
rushing accross the room "my brother!"
there, tailess, and missing half his limbs, but her brother daeworr, lay
before her, his one good eye staring at her. She embraced him. And angrily
slashed at the living bonds, when they whipped her she cursed, sliced down
the prisoners with her flaming tail, and set them outside the cave. Then
proceeded to lay waste to the cave, slashing all the creature's stinging
appendages, and setting fire to it, so it burned in it's acid, and her
flames. The creature let out wails and shreiks, finally lying dead before
her, she then spat upon the heap of vanquished creature, and proceeded to
destoroy the remains, finally when all that remained was a bloody heap, she
set fire to it. Acrid yellow smoke filled the air. Her brother smiled, said
a few words in whisper about how he could now die in peace, thank you. Then
he went limp. Rlena shook, black tears falling to the ground and
crystallizing. "I will avenge you brother."a limp royou lay beside dead
mutilated bodies. she had draped her cloak across the boy, but it appeared
that the human was especially frail to such torture. He was feverish and
burned by the acid, his feet and arms would be scarred, the ends of his
long hair had burned as well. He needed water. Rlena gritted her teeth, she
could no more summon water than she could make kay shut up. She needed Tan,
and only the gods knew where she was. Then as if in a dream, Hecatate's
group materialized from the woods like a mist.
"Teacher! Please! Royou's badly hurt! He needs water. I need tan's
ability."
Tan stepped forward, pale. "What...happened?" she stared at the still
burning mass in the cave, then at the bodies spread out across the ground.
There was a crack of a twig, kaiba, tea, and kay were holding branches and
began assembling a sling at Rlena's direction. There was a loud thud,
followed by a lot of cursing. Then Joey flew in a few seconds later. He
took in the scene in a matter of seconds, with a openmouthed expression of
shock. "Y-you found royou?" rlena looked up with a haunted expression.
'Yes." she said dully. And gestured to the burned individual who's
breathing was starting to rasp, Tan gently lifted up his head, and trickled
water down his throat, his eyes opened a crack. "Hln..." Rlena nodded "yes
royou. You're safe now." unlike my brother. she thought bitterly. Another
part of her family taken from her. 'If only we could find yark." said Joey,
gingerly examining royou, this got a response out of the boy. 'Jly!ylk!"
'Shh...' said hecatate, touching his face softly, instantly royou's lids
slid down, and his face smoothed, relaxing.
It was at this moment that a very angry bakura showed up in the clearing,
cursing Joey loudly. Then he caught sight of royou. His eyes widened. He
stood there cursing joey slightly more quietly. So rlena got up...then
kicked him smack between the legs. Then when he sank to his knees, grabbed
him by the hair, forcing him up again, 'If i ever so much as HEAR,' she
began in a silky whisper filled with black rage "about you ignoring royou,
or leaving your host, royou in any situation. I'll have the part i just
kicked, ripped off you.' bakura's eyes widened, had be not been busy
holding himself, he would have probably attacked her, but he was obviously
incapacitated. 'Let's find yark,' she gestured at royou's treacherous dark
spirit, 'before he decides to abandon us to the gand.' she turned on her
heel, and grabbed the saddle/sling, transforming into some alien feline,
carrying royou's ling form draped across her back, wrapped in the cloak,
and kept in place by a cleverly cradling seat, made from twigs. The
creature that rlena had transformed into was roughly the size of a horse,
it's face was made more noticeable by it's bushy black eyebrow whiskers,
and the similar things on her ears. 'Take care of royou.' muttered Joey,
'this is my fault anyway, I'd hate to never have the chance to tell him how
sorry I am.' the beast rolled it's eyes, then nodded. 'Don't have too much
fun.' the thing wagged it's tail and loped off into he jungle, closely
followed by all save lela, who had transformed into her bird/snake again.
And bakura who was swearing his revenge on her, and anyone who dared to
threaten him so.
To be continued...in a while
ugh...it's 12:28am.
And i have two finals left in about six hours, i'll finish it and get it up
later...somehow. sorry guys.