WARNINGS! MARY SUE! SWEARING! NAME CALLING AND OTHER SUCH KIDDY STUFF! Shard: because it fits our personality sooo well.

Kat: But basically the same as the last five acts; only now we add in Bakura musing.

Erin: psst! Kleb owns bad spelling!

Kleb: smacks Erin.

ACT VI

"A wise choice, Duelists'!" Shardai blinked her eyes repeatedly at the suddenly loud sound of Rosenkreuz's voice. What was going on?

"I see you are well versed in judging a situation," Rosenkreuz to a step back, "Welcome to the Rose Crusaders!" and bowed, "I...am honored."

"Not as much as Shardy," Kat sighed.

"Okay, old man, it's time you made yourself scarce."

"Wha...?" Rosenkreuz grabbed McMooran by his robes and tossed him into the darkness of the stones where he had entered the scene from. "Guards! Take him away!"

"Oh my god! Oh my god!" Kassie stepped back, a hand over her mouth. Simon could be heard screaming, "What are you doing! Stop! Nooooooooooo!"

"Oh god!"

"Don't worry, I'm not going to hurt him, I just need him out of the way until everything is settled. Now, girls, who are you?"

"My name is Kat."

"K, Kassie."

Shardai looked up at the man that resembled Seto Kaiba, awe struck and still not sure what had just happened.

"And you, My Lady?"

Oh, he's talking to me! "Me?" she asked with a squeak.

"Yes, you, what is your name?" Rosenkreuz asked again angrily, a sign that he didn't like how long this was taking.

"...Shardy..."

Rosenkreuz narrowed his brow in thought, "Shardy? That is an odd name."

"It means wine."

Rosenkreuz turned and walked a bit away from the three girls, "Ah, well, yes, that's good to know. Let's talk about the Red Rose Cards. Simon mentioned that he spread the cards among certain individuals just after summoning you three."

"Yes," Kat said, "one was Mai...Mai...something or other."

"Then I think it's safe to assume that a large number of those individuals are his confederates currently located in France."

"France?" Kassie asked.

"Quick! Do what the French do! Runaway, runaway!" Kat joked, laughing hysterically.

"Uh, yes," Rosenkreuz said, shaking his head with his back to the girls. "In any case, I would like to ask you to enter France from Dover and retrieve those cards for our cause."

"O, ok, but why not do it yourself, Set--Rosenkreuz?" Kassie questioned.

"If it is easier for you, you may call me Seto." He turned around, his hand folded into the other behind his back, "I would go myself, however, I'm needed here to maintain our barrier against any invading forces."

He continued, pacing slowly in front of the girls, "I've also heard somewhere that the Celts inherited their Red Rose Cards from the original inhabitants of Stonehenge. This would mean that our enemy, Prince Yugi--who comes from a line of Welsh nobility--would likely have inherited one of the Red Rose Cards himself."

"PRINCE YUGI?" the girls yelled together.

"Yes, Prince Yugi. This means that those who oppose the Rose Crusaders are sufficiently equipped to duel against us as equals. Given their desperate situation, they will retaliate with everything they've got. It would be wise not to underestimate them!"

Rosenkreuz, or Seto, stopped his pacing, standing as still and as straight as a true solider. "Bakura will take you to Lord Crawford's camp." A shadow came out from the darkness, creeping like a thief and stood next to Seto, dressed in red armor. "I'm depending on you..." and Seto left.

"Hello, ladies," the man with white hair purred, "I am Sir Bakura. I will be your guide through the lands."

"Bakura?" Kassie stepped forward, not believing who was standing in front of her.

"Holy shit, it is Bakura!" Kat blurted out.

"No...It's, it's not Bakura, he's too dark looking." The words left Kassie's mouth but her mind thought on this information. Bakura Ryou got really nasty in the store. He was so kind and then...maybe...

"What the bloody hell are you girls talking about? I am Bakura! That's my given name!"

"You don't understand, so we wont explain it."

Bakura looked at Kassie, anger rising, "Now listen here you bitch, I--"

SLAP!

In an instant, Kassie had found her way over to the Demon and had slapped him, and he now stood there holding his face. "Don't you ever call me that!"

Kat and Shardai just stood there gaping. Had Kassie just lost it? No, no; impossible even. Kassie never got angry, she never hit anyone, and she sure as hell didn't put anyone in their place. So what had changed so quickly?

"Damn it, woman, I'll call you what I want, when I want."

"How dare you--"

"ENOUGH!!" Kat screamed, "We're irritated and tired. Can we sleep before we leave?"

Shardai's head twisted left to stare at Kat, "We're leaving? Where are we going?"

Bakura let out a sigh, What a bimbo. "Weren't you listening? We will make our way from here to Lord Crawford's military camp. Then we will go to Windsor once we have re-supplied for that particular journey to face the known duelist there."

"Ok," Kassie said, "where do we sleep?"

"For Shardy and Kat, there are two beds made in the tent reserved for the duelist."

"Only two? But there's three of us!" Shardai squeaked,

"Well, we were only expecting one duelist." Bakura shrugged and turned to Kassie, letting an evil smile grace his lips, "So for you, my lovely lady, I have just the spot."

"Hell, no!" Kat chased the very amused Bakura around the large campfire, his laughter and her yelling accompanying the barking of the hunting dogs that Bakura had so fondly told the sun cat was her bed companions as she slept outside like the bitch she was.

Kassie seemed ready to cry, but held back the tears like she held back the rest of her emotions. "...hic..."

Shardai hugged Kassie's shoulders, "It's okay to cry, you deserve to."

Kassie turned away from the scene, trying to stop the rebelling tears, "No. I wont give him that satisfaction." Kassie walked off to another lonely campfire some walking distance away.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Shardai screamed at Bakura, joining Kat's race to get to him.

"Ha, ha, ha, ha! Just try it!

"Why did you do that? That was mean!"

"What am I suppose to think when you come to our time dressed like that?"

Kat stopped in mid run, panting heavily, "What do you mean, "dressed like this"? I'll have you know that Kassie paid good money for her school uniform!"

The Rabbit Demon tilted his head in mockery, "School uniform? I didn't know there were schools for sluts!"

Kat and Shardai's jaws dropped. Had he just, really, called them whores because of their clothes? "You're crossing the line, Bakura," Kat stated loudly, stepping up next to him. "You have no right to call us that!"

"And you have one hell of a loud mouth!" Bakura yawned, sticking his pinky in his ear and turning it back and forth.

"Damn it, you bastard," both Kat and Shardai shoved Bakura into Kassie's direction, "go and apologize!"

Kassie sat on the cold ground, the soft grass providing a interesting mix to her absurdly long brown hair and a napkin to wipe tears and snot away from her hand. Why is everyone so mean to me? Why wont they just leave me alone? I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!

She brought her knees up, taking one hand in the other under the bend as she brought her forehead down to rest on her knees. "...i want them to stop..." she sobbed.

"Are you hungry?" came the familiar voice.

She quickly wiped the tears from her checks, "No, I'm not."

"Well, here's some food anyway." A plate was hurriedly placed by her side.

"But, but I'm not..." she began, but the pale haired man walked away, her heart throbbing with pain and sadness. "Mister--Mister Bakura, I'm, I'm sorry for slapping you. You...just made me mad."

He stopped in his tracks, turning back to her, looking...well, she wasn't sure. Scary was in her mind, because only his lower half was highlighted by the firelight, as well as dark, mysterious and--

Bakura, her mind whispered to itself, remembering the shy boy from her time. Kassie bowed her head, now sitting on her knees, "I can understand why you're mad at me and I'm sorry."

She didn't hear anything after a long moment, and she let her eyes move halfway up into her skull to see Bakura's armored feet. At lest he's still standing there, so I don't look like a big dork talking to thin air. What do I do now?

"Are you just going to sit there, bowing your head, or are you going to eat what I gave you?"

Kassie, always lost for social conversation, said the first thing that popped in her head rather quietly, "I'm not hungry."

"So you're going to sit there and pout over a joke?" the Rabbit Demon sneered, turning away. "It was just a stupid, funny joke!"

"...i didn't find it funny..." Bakura heard the woman mutter quietly; so quietly that a dropped pin would have drowned her out. He turned his head just enough so that she could hear him clearly; a deep, rich voice that sounded a bit...sad? "It was meant to be."