A/N: (Actually more of a warning) if you are a die hard Isis/Seto fan it's best you skip the Pyramid scene, unless your okay with a conflict between these two, I suggest you don't read it (not that it is well written anyway).
Ch12 of Reawakening of the Pharaoh!
Tomb Keepers Revealed!
Yugi and Ryou set down to eat while their friends had just come down. "Yugi, I hate when you're a morning person…" Honda and Jounouchi said simultaneously. Yugi just smiled.
Suddenly. A scream was heard as Kayiki- the champion sea duelist walked in, he was wet and smelled like the salty seawater. This attracted much negative attention. "Kayiki! What's up!?" Jounouchi said, while jogging over to his old friend.
" I'm sorry to dissapoint you Jounouchi, but I've lost to Inspector Haga…"
"Haga?! The bug twerp?" kayiki just nodded.
Across the table Bakura (in disguise as ryou) inwardly smiled. His eliminator had been going after additional prey. He'd kill off the insect pest and take what item cards he had, when he needed to.
At the Pyramid…
Isis was getting ready for breakfast when a noise was heard on her balcony window. 'Who could that be?' Two figures stood in the doorway to her balcony. "Sister." One said. "N-no, Malik? What are you doing here?" "
"We've come to warn you that an ancient evil is approaching. The tomb thief has made his first movement against the Pharaoh." Rishid said.
"Rishid? You're here too?" Isis looked around. "What's going on here?"
"Yes, also we also witnessed something that has made this evil stronger than before it was sealed from this realm by Pharaoh Atemu…Zork Necrophedius has absorbed the darkness of the dark spirit that infected Malik."
"I realize what you are trying to ask me Brother, but I simply cannot stop this tournament. The finalists are to be recognized in one week. There will not be enough ships to hold everyone on the island, I'm already on tight terms with that stuck up CEO."
"Don't you realize that The Tomb thief is part of The Dark Spirit?! He already has four of the Millennium Items! According to the Ancient Scriptures, the Pharaoh had to sacrifice almost everything in his kingdom, including himself to stop this thing!" Malik screamed. " If he isn't stopped now, then…everything…including you, sister, everything we hold dear will be destroyed!"
"Malik I…I will talk to Kaiba about this."
As for Kaiba, his morning had been going pretty well. He almost had all of his Item cards so he could qualify for the finals, that way he'll beat Yugi to reclaim his title as the King of Duel Monsters.
Isis Ishtal stepped out of her room for some food. 'Great my day is already ruined…' he looked at her for a moment. 'Okay, she doesn't look half bad; in fact I just noticed her bust is really- Whoa!! Kaiba your losing it!' "Kaiba?"
No answer.
"Kaiba!"
The CEO woke up from his trance, startled.
"What is it?"
"I just heard some gang is trying to release another dark spirit upon us and I was wondering if…we could…stop the-"
"No."
"What?"
"I said NO! I'm not stopping this Tournament because your "magical crystal ball" said so Isis! I've worked to damned long on setting this up to stop it right now! I want to reclaim my Title as the GREATEST DUELIST! Even if that means beating YUGI FIRGGIN MOUTO to a bloody pulp!" He ranted. "I don't care if some ancient evil is about to destroy us all! I don't care if your fairy tales praise a dead pharaoh and you ask me to help because it's my destiny! Those IDIOTIC MYTHS ARE TALKING ABOUT MY WORST ENEMY!! Do you think I really want to help my enemy?"
Isis stood in shock. "Seto I"
"What's worse, I have to work with YOU!" He pointed at her. "It torments me to look at you! Not only do you annoy me with these myths, but your body makes me do things I don't want to do!" Tears welled up in Isis' eyes. The outrage Kaiba just given her broke her heart.
Meanwhile, Mokuba who had been cooking, saw this one sided battle. 'Three…two…one.'
SLAP!
Isis Ishtal stood in front of Seto Kaiba her arm following through with her slap. Her face was a mix of anguish and anger. "Seto Kaiba you're an insensitive jerk!" She slapped him again. "I don't see why I took a liking to you anymore! After all that Mokuba told me about the pain you went through and how you promised him and yourself that you would never end up like your stepfather, you turned out just like Gozaburo Kaiba! A Heartless, Insensitive, Bastard!" She turned to slap him again but ended up with her wrist caught.
Kaiba's blue eyes met her own eyes with a deadly gaze. "DON"T. EVER. SAY. HIS. NAME." He commanded. He pushed her into the door and went to the elevator to leave.
Isis returned to her room as well. She told her brothers the sad news and told them to at least tell Yugi. They merely nodded and left. As they did, Isis made a vow that she would break Kaiba from this barrier of Ice.
Yugi and Jounouchi decided to get some last minute Item cards. The cut off point was only four days away and Mai had already qualified. Yugi had four Item points, Jounouchi had three, and Ryou had six. They were on the border between the forest area and the wasteland area. The dueling villages for contestants to rest at were highly valued for the gang. They had just left one when a rustle was heard.
Anzu and Shizuka screamed thinking it was some kind of ferocious monster. "Show your self!" Honda said.
Malik and Rishid stepped out of the bushes. "IT'S THE PSYCHOPATH!" Jounouchi screamed. "Shut up!" Malik replied. "What do you want?" Yugi asked curiously. "Yugi! Incase memory has failed you, this is the same guy who wanted you dead!" Mai told Yugi. Everyone else nodded. "Don't trust him Yugi!" Anzu said. Yugi simply ignored them.
"Malik, I asked, what did you want?"
Malik pointed at Ryou who had been silent since they met up with Malik. "He's trying to kill you Pharaoh!" he accused.
"Yugi he's trying to trick you!" 'Ryou' said. 'Blasted TOMB KEEPER!' he thought.
"My master would never lie about something as serious as this, my Pharaoh! Theif Bakura is under the mask of his Hikari!" Rishid exclaimed.
"How can that evil spirit thingy be back? I thought Yugi banished him from Ryou in their duel."
'Yami, do you anything about this?' Yugi asked through their mind link. / Yes, the tomb thief is back, I met him inside our puzzle before we even left for this tournament. /
"I'll prove it to you!" Malik pointed the Millennium Rod at 'Ryou'.
In a flash of light, the innocent face of Ryou turned into Thief Bakura. His hair became wilder, his eyes were more angular and he looked wiser now.
"Ah, so you finally, managed to uncover me, looks like my hikari outlived his purpose." He smiled wickedly as the others stood in shock. He kicked malik in the face and took the knife part of the Millennium Rod out of its holding place. Then he grabbed Yugi by the neck. "Come near me and the Hikari dies!" "N-no! I won't let you take Yami!"
Inside the puzzle…
/Aibou! Don't do it! / Yami called out from the puzzle.
Back to Yugi
"You Idiot vessel! What are you doing?" He grabbed the puzzle from Yugi's neck. "Y-you… won't… get… the puzzle! Yugi said in-between breaths as he held on to the puzzle.
Jounouchi and Honda put Bakura into a lock. "Quit choking him you son of a…" Honda grabbed the Rod and threw it on the ground.
The four of them hit the ground as Yugi pulled the Puzzle away from the Thief. Yugi and the puzzle was hurled into a huge stone and the Millennium Puzzle shattered into its original pieces…
From within the puzzle…
/Aibou!! Nooo! / The spirit of the Pharaoh said as the puzzle shattered into thousands of segments.
"You IDIOTS! The puzzle could've been mine!" The thief ran off into the woods while Rishid and Malik tried to catch him.
Jounouchi, Mai, Honda, Anzu and Shizuka looked at their fallen friend crying over the puzzle. They knew he had lost someone today, someone very special to all of them. The worst part was... Thief Bakura had gotten away with one piece.
Everyone lost something today. 'It had to be a sign that Zork Necrophedius was coming…' Malik thought.
To be continued…
Here's a preview of what's coming up next.
"Show yourself cowards!"
Two figures jumped out of the trees.
"We wish to challenge Yugi Mouto to a duel! We are…"
Okay, that is probably the saddest (or most pathetic) chapter in this story. For the Seto/Isis fans, this isn't the end of Kaiba and Isis.
I'm sorry if you were hoping for a duel this Ch. Next chapter there will be a duel!
Please review!