What Once Was is Again
Diclaimer: I do not own any of the characters within Yugioh, minus Strawberry (who you will find out about in my fic). Said characters are also OOC. So live with it it's the way I write! Hehehe.
Warning: there have been minor to extreme changes within the characters of Yugioh, but it is all interesting changes no less and makes for interesting reading I must say.
Bakura slunk back into his room and out through his door. He could her the mongrel and Kaiba look a like come up from the basement. They weren't that quite. He could hear Joey curse has he stubbed his toe on something downstairs. He laughed to himself silently, stopping at the top of the stairs. His eyes glinted with malice. This was going to be so much fun. He crouched down low against the carpet and blended himself into the darkness. He would wait for his prey to get closer to the stairs before he pounced. They would never expect it coming. Down stairs Noa had elbowed Joey in the side to shut him up.
"Be quiet Joey. Bakura is in the house. This is his house remember."
"I know Noa but it hurt. I can't see anything in the bloody dark."
"Just hold on to my shirt. I lead us up stairs ok." This was just what Bakura wanted. It made him smile even more. Noa crept closer and closer to the stairs, hands out stretched to grab anything in front of him. His foot finally bumped into the bottom step. Bakura shivered. They were so close it made his fingertips itch.
"Okay Joey, I made it to the stairs now it's your turn. You can go ahead of me."
"What? You chicken! That's not cool."
"I'm not a chicken! It's just I have a bad feeling, you know?"
"Fine! Move out of my way." In Joey's anger he caught his foot a little bit on the stair causing him to stumble forward. Noa covered his mouth with his hand and snickered into it. Joey snorted, straightening out his clothes and continued to climb the staircase. They came to the landing pad below Bakura and stood there for a bit. Bakura's eyes flashed as he saw how close they were. Noa saw the small glint and shrunk behind Joey. Joey had blinked when the glint had flashed so he didn't get a glimpse of it.
"There's nothing to be afraid of Noa. That dumb ass yami must be hiding in his ugly ring. So you can stop hiding behind me."
"Don't say that Joey. I think I saw something shine in the dark." Bakura stopped grinning as soon as Joey had said that. He snarled, wrinkling his nose in ill will. That dumb dog was going to feel cold metal on his flesh as soon as he was in reach. Joey looked up at the top of the staircase and took a giant gulp. Okay, here I go thought Joey has he pressed on up the staircase. He did one step at a time. Joey started to whisper, calling for Ryou as he neared the top. He had only four more steps to go. He climbed up two more but he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. His eyes had adjusted to the dark a bit and now he could see something up there. This made Noa weary. Something loomed up from the floor and scared the piss out of Joey. He saw a glint of gold dangle in the air and as quickly has he seen it hang there it disappeared and reappeared as a flash right in front of him. As soon as it disappeared again he felt a searing pain in his chest. Laughing could be heard in the distant but Joey was in shock from the pain in his chest. The force of the blow knocked him back and he screamed. His back hit Noa and they tumbled down the stairs. Joey knocked Noa against the wall really hard causing him to lose his breath and bang his head hard against it. Noa slumped to the floor unconscious. Joey continued to fall until he landed in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. Bakura continued to laugh. He descended the stairs to wreak more havoc on his victims.
Ryou was gathering up his courage when he heard a wail come from the staircase and someone falling. Following the scream he heard a chilling laugh. Ryou's heart skipped a beat. Someone was in the house and Bakura was attacking him.
"Strawberry! That sounded like Joey! My friends are in the house and Bakura's with them!! I didn't hear him walk past my door!" Ryou was freaking out. He was losing his cool fast and was becoming scared again. Strawberry separated from Ryou and looked at his master.
"Calm down Ryou. I heard it to but getting all worked up about it isn't going to help anyone. Your yami could be playing a trick on you. He probably just wants you to come running out so he could jump you and do god knows what."
"Your right Strawberry but we should go check it out just to make sure." Ryou walked slowly to his door and made to open it when Strawberry grabbed his arm.
"Ryou wait. I want to go down in your place. You can stay in your soul room for now until its safe. I don't want Bakura to take his wrath out on you."
"No Strawberry. I have to face my yami. If I don't I'll never be brave enough to face him. Lets not give him the pleasure to see me hiding or afraid." Strawberry let go of his arm and nodded in acceptance. Another scream broke their silent stares. Now they could hear pleading and angry shouts. Ripping noises came up to meet their ears and more painful screams followed. Bakura's laughing reached Ryou's room.
"There's two people now! I think Bakura isn't faking Strawberry."
"I think your right Ryou. I hear a Kaiba's voice down there."
"Come on Strawberry! Bakura is torturing my friends!!" Ryou opened his door silently and slunk out of his room. Strawberry floated behind him. Ryou approached the top of the stairs. He could hear the screams very clearly and one belonged to Joey. There was a small whimpering further away from the stairs. Strawberry wrinkled up his nose and growled.
"Ryou, I can smell blood every where. Bakura must be mangling one of them and just playing with the other one."
"Can you smell whose blood is all over the house?"
"I can't. I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I'm going down there and I'm going to face my yami. I just have too." Strawberry never answered. He saw a slight movement close by. He floated down passed Ryou and went straight for the person that was moving. Ryou ran after him.
"Strawberry where are you?" whispered Ryou.
"Over here. I found on of your friends." Ryou raced over to where Strawberry was standing. He saw someone lying on the floor. More noises came from the basement. Sounded like things were being smashed. Ryou could hear Bakura talking to someone and it sounded like Joey when the other person screamed. More noises came and a flash of light lit up the house. Ryou saw Noa lying on the ground moaning. His head was bleeding badly and there were a few badly place cuts on his body but other then that he didn't look like he was in bad shape. He was going to make it. The light went out and it was silent for a while. Ryou bent down and whispered into Noa's ear. "Noa, can you hear me?" Noa answered him which made Ryou's heart jump in joy. "Yes I'm still living. But I hurt all over. Where's Joey?"
"Ryou's heart sank again. "Don't worry about him o.k. I'll find Joey. You're going to be all right." Noa laughed a bit. "That's funny cause we came to help you but instead you're helping us." Ryou nodded and turned to Strawberry. "Watch him for me please." Ryou headed for the basement. He took a deep breath and descended the stairs quietly. As he entered the basement he could hear light breathing. He saw a silhouetted figure standing near a lumpy form. That must be my yami thought Ryou. Ryou walked over the light switch and held his finger over it. 'Here I go. Calm yourself Ryou. He won't attack you. Okay, well maybe he will but you can't show any fear. Be strong.'
"Yami?" His voice echoed through the silence. It made it sound eerie. The figure that was standing turned around and looked straight at Ryou. It made his heart pound harder. Ryou could see his yami's cold, ruthless eyes staring at him. They seemed to bite into his soul. Ryou shook it off.
"It's okay Bakura. I'm not going to hurt you. No one is. Just calm down and listen to me." A could sharp laugh answered Ryou. Ryou couldn't stand it anymore. He flipped the switch. What meet Ryou's eyes made him look paler then he already was. There was his yami standing there in a pile of blood that was slowly crawling across the cement floor. His yami was covered with Joey's blood from head to toe. The blood that was plastered on the ring stained his shirt and some of the blood ended up on his face. His hands were covered with the red substance and his jeans had blotches of blood here and there. And there was Joey, lying in his own blood. His body was basically torn. It was hard to tell were he was bleeding from. He was basically bleeding from every place in his body. Was he dead yet? Ryou looked at his yami with disgust. His yami just laughed.
"Why Bakura? Why did you hurt him?"
"HAH!! What a dumb question. Can't you figure it out for yourself, you stupid tool." Bakura's response basically slapped Ryou in the face. He pulled back a bit but remembered that his yami was just lost so he pressed forward.
"I guess that was a dumb question." Bakura just nodded with his Cheshire cat grin spreading across his face.
"Please yami just stop before they hurt you." Again Bakura laughed.
"What are you talking about you little whelp? Who's going to hurt me? Are you going to hurt me? His he going to hurt me?" Bakura pointed down at the motionless Joey. He titled his head back and belted out more crude laughs. Ryou took some more steps closer to his yami.
"Don't laugh Bakura. Anything can happen to you too. I can decide to kill myself and let you become locked up in your ring for another thousand years or I can hand the ring over to Otogi and let him set you free." Bakura stopped laughing. This seemed to piss him off and Ryou knew he had angered his dark half.
"Don't you dare threaten me you little ass!" Bakura blasted Ryou into the cement wall causing the smaller boy to scream. Ryou slumped to the floor. Bakura smirked and was about to say something when Ryou got back to his feet. He stopped and looked at him with hate.
"I'm not afraid of you anymore Bakura. Do all you want to me but I'm not going to curl up in fear and beg for you to stop. This is between me and you so leave my friends out of this." With that Ryou charged his yami, catching him off guard. He knocked his yami to the ground and punched him right in the face.
"I'm so sorry Yami but you leave me no other choice. You've backed me up into a corner and now the only way out is through you." Tears fell down Ryou's cheeks as he continued his assault on his yami. Ryou punched anything he could. He nailed his yami in the chest causing him to gasp. Bakura was shocked that his light was trying to beat him up but fear grew up and took over. He grabbed Ryou's arms shocking the boy and threw him off of himself. Ryou landed with a dull slap in Joey's blood. Bakura jumped on Ryou causing the two too slide a bit across the floor. Bakura grabbed his ring and started to slash at Ryou causing the boy so scream in pain. More blood was shed that night and only more was going to fall.
They finally reached Ryou's house. It felt awkward to stand outside of this dark house. The two yamis were just laughing and playing until they felt the surge of shadow magic shot through the air. They stopped dead in their tracks, their faces becoming solemn. But being the ass he was Malik got in one last shove before they became truly serious. Yami fell over with the impact because he wasn't expecting it. He stood up, nostrils flaring, eyes about to pop out of his head. "What was that for you idiot?" Malik just put a hand in the pharaoh's face and told him to be quiet. Something had grabbed his attention.
"Can you smell that? It's blood. Someone is dying." Yami calmed down and looked at the house. "Yes I can. Come one someone needs our help."
"Wait you dumb ass! You can't just charge in there. You could be ambushed. You have to slink in there stealthily. That always works." The two yamis started to bicker about who was right and what tactic they should use.
"Are you two coming?" Mokuba poked his head out of the door. The two looked at each other dumb founded. They both raced towards the door trying to get in. they got stuck have way and started to bitch slap each other. Being the bigger one Malik bitch slapped harder and knocked Yami back, giving him room to run threw the door. Yami followed behind, rubbing his face. It was dark in the house but Malik's sennen eye gave the room an eerie glow.
"Who's there?" A voice from the living room echoed threw the doorway. In the back they could here someone screaming and dull thumps. Malik put his hand over his nose. The smell of blood was thick in the air. Yami almost gagged. The group slowly entered the room with caution. They stopped when they saw a figure standing across the room from them.
"Who's there?" Came the voice again. Seto looked around for the light switch, feeling along the wall. He found it and flicked it on. Everyone hissed and covered their eyes from the bright light.
"Much better." Stated Seto. Strawberry drew his hand away from his eyes and looked at them. His gold eyes expressed so many emotions they could tell what he was feeling. "You guys finally came to help Ryou. Took you long enough!" Strawberry noticed his master slumped over Malik's shoulder.
"Sensei!!!" Strawberry raced over to Otogi and snagged him from Malik. Malik have him the sarcastic 'you're welcome look.' Strawberry took of the drool gag and laid Otogi on a chair next to Noa. Mokuba saw Noa lying on the couch all bloody and bruised. He seemed to be asleep.
"Noa!!" Mokuba ran over to Noa's side and hugged him. Mokuba was crying on Noa's shoulder when Seto walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"He'll be all right Mokuba. It seems that any major wound was bandaged up." Mokuba sniffled and clung to Seto's arm. A little light interrupted the little scene between the two. They turned to face it. Strawberry had given Otogi most of his strength.
"What are you stiffs waiting for? Go help Ryou!!" With that they all raced to the basement were they could hear screams of agony and smell a thick scent of blood. Seto made Mokuba stay with Noa and followed quickly behind.
Diclaimer: I do not own any of the characters within Yugioh, minus Strawberry (who you will find out about in my fic). Said characters are also OOC. So live with it it's the way I write! Hehehe.
Warning: there have been minor to extreme changes within the characters of Yugioh, but it is all interesting changes no less and makes for interesting reading I must say.
Bakura slunk back into his room and out through his door. He could her the mongrel and Kaiba look a like come up from the basement. They weren't that quite. He could hear Joey curse has he stubbed his toe on something downstairs. He laughed to himself silently, stopping at the top of the stairs. His eyes glinted with malice. This was going to be so much fun. He crouched down low against the carpet and blended himself into the darkness. He would wait for his prey to get closer to the stairs before he pounced. They would never expect it coming. Down stairs Noa had elbowed Joey in the side to shut him up.
"Be quiet Joey. Bakura is in the house. This is his house remember."
"I know Noa but it hurt. I can't see anything in the bloody dark."
"Just hold on to my shirt. I lead us up stairs ok." This was just what Bakura wanted. It made him smile even more. Noa crept closer and closer to the stairs, hands out stretched to grab anything in front of him. His foot finally bumped into the bottom step. Bakura shivered. They were so close it made his fingertips itch.
"Okay Joey, I made it to the stairs now it's your turn. You can go ahead of me."
"What? You chicken! That's not cool."
"I'm not a chicken! It's just I have a bad feeling, you know?"
"Fine! Move out of my way." In Joey's anger he caught his foot a little bit on the stair causing him to stumble forward. Noa covered his mouth with his hand and snickered into it. Joey snorted, straightening out his clothes and continued to climb the staircase. They came to the landing pad below Bakura and stood there for a bit. Bakura's eyes flashed as he saw how close they were. Noa saw the small glint and shrunk behind Joey. Joey had blinked when the glint had flashed so he didn't get a glimpse of it.
"There's nothing to be afraid of Noa. That dumb ass yami must be hiding in his ugly ring. So you can stop hiding behind me."
"Don't say that Joey. I think I saw something shine in the dark." Bakura stopped grinning as soon as Joey had said that. He snarled, wrinkling his nose in ill will. That dumb dog was going to feel cold metal on his flesh as soon as he was in reach. Joey looked up at the top of the staircase and took a giant gulp. Okay, here I go thought Joey has he pressed on up the staircase. He did one step at a time. Joey started to whisper, calling for Ryou as he neared the top. He had only four more steps to go. He climbed up two more but he suddenly stopped dead in his tracks. His eyes had adjusted to the dark a bit and now he could see something up there. This made Noa weary. Something loomed up from the floor and scared the piss out of Joey. He saw a glint of gold dangle in the air and as quickly has he seen it hang there it disappeared and reappeared as a flash right in front of him. As soon as it disappeared again he felt a searing pain in his chest. Laughing could be heard in the distant but Joey was in shock from the pain in his chest. The force of the blow knocked him back and he screamed. His back hit Noa and they tumbled down the stairs. Joey knocked Noa against the wall really hard causing him to lose his breath and bang his head hard against it. Noa slumped to the floor unconscious. Joey continued to fall until he landed in a heap at the bottom of the stairs. Bakura continued to laugh. He descended the stairs to wreak more havoc on his victims.
Ryou was gathering up his courage when he heard a wail come from the staircase and someone falling. Following the scream he heard a chilling laugh. Ryou's heart skipped a beat. Someone was in the house and Bakura was attacking him.
"Strawberry! That sounded like Joey! My friends are in the house and Bakura's with them!! I didn't hear him walk past my door!" Ryou was freaking out. He was losing his cool fast and was becoming scared again. Strawberry separated from Ryou and looked at his master.
"Calm down Ryou. I heard it to but getting all worked up about it isn't going to help anyone. Your yami could be playing a trick on you. He probably just wants you to come running out so he could jump you and do god knows what."
"Your right Strawberry but we should go check it out just to make sure." Ryou walked slowly to his door and made to open it when Strawberry grabbed his arm.
"Ryou wait. I want to go down in your place. You can stay in your soul room for now until its safe. I don't want Bakura to take his wrath out on you."
"No Strawberry. I have to face my yami. If I don't I'll never be brave enough to face him. Lets not give him the pleasure to see me hiding or afraid." Strawberry let go of his arm and nodded in acceptance. Another scream broke their silent stares. Now they could hear pleading and angry shouts. Ripping noises came up to meet their ears and more painful screams followed. Bakura's laughing reached Ryou's room.
"There's two people now! I think Bakura isn't faking Strawberry."
"I think your right Ryou. I hear a Kaiba's voice down there."
"Come on Strawberry! Bakura is torturing my friends!!" Ryou opened his door silently and slunk out of his room. Strawberry floated behind him. Ryou approached the top of the stairs. He could hear the screams very clearly and one belonged to Joey. There was a small whimpering further away from the stairs. Strawberry wrinkled up his nose and growled.
"Ryou, I can smell blood every where. Bakura must be mangling one of them and just playing with the other one."
"Can you smell whose blood is all over the house?"
"I can't. I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I'm going down there and I'm going to face my yami. I just have too." Strawberry never answered. He saw a slight movement close by. He floated down passed Ryou and went straight for the person that was moving. Ryou ran after him.
"Strawberry where are you?" whispered Ryou.
"Over here. I found on of your friends." Ryou raced over to where Strawberry was standing. He saw someone lying on the floor. More noises came from the basement. Sounded like things were being smashed. Ryou could hear Bakura talking to someone and it sounded like Joey when the other person screamed. More noises came and a flash of light lit up the house. Ryou saw Noa lying on the ground moaning. His head was bleeding badly and there were a few badly place cuts on his body but other then that he didn't look like he was in bad shape. He was going to make it. The light went out and it was silent for a while. Ryou bent down and whispered into Noa's ear. "Noa, can you hear me?" Noa answered him which made Ryou's heart jump in joy. "Yes I'm still living. But I hurt all over. Where's Joey?"
"Ryou's heart sank again. "Don't worry about him o.k. I'll find Joey. You're going to be all right." Noa laughed a bit. "That's funny cause we came to help you but instead you're helping us." Ryou nodded and turned to Strawberry. "Watch him for me please." Ryou headed for the basement. He took a deep breath and descended the stairs quietly. As he entered the basement he could hear light breathing. He saw a silhouetted figure standing near a lumpy form. That must be my yami thought Ryou. Ryou walked over the light switch and held his finger over it. 'Here I go. Calm yourself Ryou. He won't attack you. Okay, well maybe he will but you can't show any fear. Be strong.'
"Yami?" His voice echoed through the silence. It made it sound eerie. The figure that was standing turned around and looked straight at Ryou. It made his heart pound harder. Ryou could see his yami's cold, ruthless eyes staring at him. They seemed to bite into his soul. Ryou shook it off.
"It's okay Bakura. I'm not going to hurt you. No one is. Just calm down and listen to me." A could sharp laugh answered Ryou. Ryou couldn't stand it anymore. He flipped the switch. What meet Ryou's eyes made him look paler then he already was. There was his yami standing there in a pile of blood that was slowly crawling across the cement floor. His yami was covered with Joey's blood from head to toe. The blood that was plastered on the ring stained his shirt and some of the blood ended up on his face. His hands were covered with the red substance and his jeans had blotches of blood here and there. And there was Joey, lying in his own blood. His body was basically torn. It was hard to tell were he was bleeding from. He was basically bleeding from every place in his body. Was he dead yet? Ryou looked at his yami with disgust. His yami just laughed.
"Why Bakura? Why did you hurt him?"
"HAH!! What a dumb question. Can't you figure it out for yourself, you stupid tool." Bakura's response basically slapped Ryou in the face. He pulled back a bit but remembered that his yami was just lost so he pressed forward.
"I guess that was a dumb question." Bakura just nodded with his Cheshire cat grin spreading across his face.
"Please yami just stop before they hurt you." Again Bakura laughed.
"What are you talking about you little whelp? Who's going to hurt me? Are you going to hurt me? His he going to hurt me?" Bakura pointed down at the motionless Joey. He titled his head back and belted out more crude laughs. Ryou took some more steps closer to his yami.
"Don't laugh Bakura. Anything can happen to you too. I can decide to kill myself and let you become locked up in your ring for another thousand years or I can hand the ring over to Otogi and let him set you free." Bakura stopped laughing. This seemed to piss him off and Ryou knew he had angered his dark half.
"Don't you dare threaten me you little ass!" Bakura blasted Ryou into the cement wall causing the smaller boy to scream. Ryou slumped to the floor. Bakura smirked and was about to say something when Ryou got back to his feet. He stopped and looked at him with hate.
"I'm not afraid of you anymore Bakura. Do all you want to me but I'm not going to curl up in fear and beg for you to stop. This is between me and you so leave my friends out of this." With that Ryou charged his yami, catching him off guard. He knocked his yami to the ground and punched him right in the face.
"I'm so sorry Yami but you leave me no other choice. You've backed me up into a corner and now the only way out is through you." Tears fell down Ryou's cheeks as he continued his assault on his yami. Ryou punched anything he could. He nailed his yami in the chest causing him to gasp. Bakura was shocked that his light was trying to beat him up but fear grew up and took over. He grabbed Ryou's arms shocking the boy and threw him off of himself. Ryou landed with a dull slap in Joey's blood. Bakura jumped on Ryou causing the two too slide a bit across the floor. Bakura grabbed his ring and started to slash at Ryou causing the boy so scream in pain. More blood was shed that night and only more was going to fall.
They finally reached Ryou's house. It felt awkward to stand outside of this dark house. The two yamis were just laughing and playing until they felt the surge of shadow magic shot through the air. They stopped dead in their tracks, their faces becoming solemn. But being the ass he was Malik got in one last shove before they became truly serious. Yami fell over with the impact because he wasn't expecting it. He stood up, nostrils flaring, eyes about to pop out of his head. "What was that for you idiot?" Malik just put a hand in the pharaoh's face and told him to be quiet. Something had grabbed his attention.
"Can you smell that? It's blood. Someone is dying." Yami calmed down and looked at the house. "Yes I can. Come one someone needs our help."
"Wait you dumb ass! You can't just charge in there. You could be ambushed. You have to slink in there stealthily. That always works." The two yamis started to bicker about who was right and what tactic they should use.
"Are you two coming?" Mokuba poked his head out of the door. The two looked at each other dumb founded. They both raced towards the door trying to get in. they got stuck have way and started to bitch slap each other. Being the bigger one Malik bitch slapped harder and knocked Yami back, giving him room to run threw the door. Yami followed behind, rubbing his face. It was dark in the house but Malik's sennen eye gave the room an eerie glow.
"Who's there?" A voice from the living room echoed threw the doorway. In the back they could here someone screaming and dull thumps. Malik put his hand over his nose. The smell of blood was thick in the air. Yami almost gagged. The group slowly entered the room with caution. They stopped when they saw a figure standing across the room from them.
"Who's there?" Came the voice again. Seto looked around for the light switch, feeling along the wall. He found it and flicked it on. Everyone hissed and covered their eyes from the bright light.
"Much better." Stated Seto. Strawberry drew his hand away from his eyes and looked at them. His gold eyes expressed so many emotions they could tell what he was feeling. "You guys finally came to help Ryou. Took you long enough!" Strawberry noticed his master slumped over Malik's shoulder.
"Sensei!!!" Strawberry raced over to Otogi and snagged him from Malik. Malik have him the sarcastic 'you're welcome look.' Strawberry took of the drool gag and laid Otogi on a chair next to Noa. Mokuba saw Noa lying on the couch all bloody and bruised. He seemed to be asleep.
"Noa!!" Mokuba ran over to Noa's side and hugged him. Mokuba was crying on Noa's shoulder when Seto walked over to him and placed a hand on his shoulder.
"He'll be all right Mokuba. It seems that any major wound was bandaged up." Mokuba sniffled and clung to Seto's arm. A little light interrupted the little scene between the two. They turned to face it. Strawberry had given Otogi most of his strength.
"What are you stiffs waiting for? Go help Ryou!!" With that they all raced to the basement were they could hear screams of agony and smell a thick scent of blood. Seto made Mokuba stay with Noa and followed quickly behind.