skye_bluu_kitsune: HOLLA' BACK YOUNGIN!!
yami: Aw, for the, love of...Now she thinks she's...What's that word??
yugi: Famous??
yami: No, that's not it...
bakura: Psychopathic??
yami: No, she really is that...Along with you and marik*cough**cough*
joey: Nebulous??
yami: ...Not exactly the word...
skye: DA HEEZY OFFA' DA SHEEZY?!
yami: ...
yugi: Gangsta??
yami: That's the word.
skye: Nah, I'm just bored...First day of school...Grr...Well I don't own them, so don't sue...Unless you're an avid lint collector...
~*~
Shiranai lifted heavy eyelids as she heard some commotion down the hall. As she slowly sat up, she couldn't help but have that odd feeling that she had been hit in the face with a truck, a headache searing it's way across her temples.
When she looked to Amethyst's bed, it was messily un-made and empty, so she went sluggishly down the hall to find her. It was on this little trip to the stairs that Yugi ran into her.
He looked up at her and exclaimed, tiny tears forming in his eyes, "They took her, Shiranai!! They took Amethyst!!"
Shiranai processed this information slowly, while in her groggy state, but suddenly snapped out of her daze as the meaning of what had been said hit her full-on. "What do you mean?!", she exclaimed as a half-lidded, yet worried-looking, Yami walked towards her and handed her a letter.
The letter had been folded into it's own envelope, but Yugi had unfolded it when he awoke to find it on his bedside table. A Funny Bunny sticker hung off of the end that kept it together, and there was a little print of the cartoon rabbit(AN: although Bugs Bunny could kick his ass, sorry, had to make sure American animation got it's dues)all around the edge of the paper.
It read:
Dear Yugi and Friends,
My, my, my. It seems that you have an awful knack for ruining everything that I enjoy. Me and my 'niece' are finally reunited, and you steal her away? Hardly pharaoh-like, Yami. Well, all I could do was to get my men to steal her back. Don't worry about finding her, she won't be seen for a while, as will her Dagger.
Really now, separating family members? How shameful. But, Ta-Ta for now, Yugi.
Sincerely,
Maximillian Pegasus
P.S. How did you like my experimental sleeping gas? We're still working out the after-effects, but it worked quite well on you, now didn't it?
Shiranai sank to the floor, and curled up in a ball next to the wall. As the letter was crumpled into a ball and thrown to the floor, Yugi ran to call the others. Yami, at a loss for words, simply put his arm around the shoulder of his longest friend.
Shiranai looked at him, with glossy, tear-filled eyes, and said, "Again, Yami. Again. Why?? Why, Yami??" And with that, she fell into him, and cried into his shoulder, as he slowly lowered himself to sit against the wall.
He looked down at the sobbing form of Shiranai, and lightly patted her back.
"Why??"
~*~
"Would you move over??"
"How the hell can I move over, Beach Blonde, when I'm tied to you?!", Amethyst hissed at Malik.
Incidentally, she had overcome her fear of him quite quickly, when she realized they weren't leaving the car anytime soon.
Still, being tied to a guy who would probably kill her, or maim her in some way, wasn't all that comforting to her.
But during the ride that didn't seem like it would ever end, they had pretty much come to the conclusion that Pegasus had kidnapped them for the Millenium Items, and agreed to a forced-alliance.
"Would you stop pushing your face in my chest, Chibi Usa??", scoffed Malik. "I know I'm irresistible, but come on now, control yourself."
"I'm not doing it purposely, this ride hasn't exactly been my smoothest one.", Amethyst growled. "And stop calling me that!!"
"Sure, that's what you want me to believe, eh, Chibi Usa?? Don't hide your feelings, I don't mind returning them.", Malik said off-handedly, but ended with a dark smirk as he moved one of his free hands to rest on her inner-thigh.
It took Amethyst a moment to register what happened, and when he started moving his hand, she went to instinct. She brought her knee up as fast, and as hard, as she could.
"ITAI!!", the abused Malik, yelled in a nice soprano voice.
"HENTAI!!"
"Learn how to take a joke!!"
"A joke from a guy who has tried on occasion before to kill my friends?!"
"Like I would ever do that to a girl as ugly as you. Don't flatter yourself!!"
"Shut-up!!", Amethyst yelled, right before reverting to instinct again, and biting Malik's arm.
"You bitch!!", Malik shouted and rolled over so her back was pressed against the car wall.
Amethyst bit and kneed, while Malik rolled and kicked. The fight lasted for a few minutes, until they felt the car slowing down.
"We must be there.", Amethyst said.
"I guess.", replied Malik.
Amethyst looked up at Malik, and he looked down at her. Amethyst took a deep breath, and began, "Malik, we don't like each other, but for the sake of survival and escape, could we kind of work together??"
"I guess we have no choice."
"Good. Look, I have a plan. If we pretend to still be asleep, they're bound to untie us and leave us unguarded sooner or later, right??"
"Yea, I see where you're going, Chibi-Usa."
"Don't call me that."
"No, Chibi-Usa."
"Fine, but at least work with the plan. And when we do run, we run together. WE have a better chance to escape then."
As the car pulled to a complete stop, Amethyst and Malik closed their eyes, and tried their best to look like they were both in a state of unconsciousness. Hence, when the trunk was opened, their audience was quite convinced.
"They're still out."
"Then...Prop 'em up next to a tree, or somethin' like that."
"But we can't carry them both at once. How 'bout we untie 'em?? They ain't goin' nowhere."
"Guess you're right."
As the ropes were loosened, and slowly removed, Amethyst had to fight the urge to just stretch her arms and legs. Right after they were untied, they each felt themselves being lifted from the car, and placed back-to-back by a tree.
Malik opened one eye, and watched the retreating figure of one of Pegasus' men.
"Chibi-Usa", he whispered, "We leave now."
"Gotcha. Let's go.", she answered. And with that, the two slowly stood up, and hid behind the tree. The men, being to preoccupied with getting other things out of the car, never noticed the two walking off...
That is until Malik stepped on a twig.
Now the twig was not the problem. The twig had led a fairly decent twiggy life, starting out on an oak tree, being broken off for unused firewood, played fetch a couple of times. Yes, this surely was a marvelous example of the model twiggy existence. But the fact that a chip of the twig shot into Amethyst's eye was a problem.
"YOU BASTARD!! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!", a girls voice was heard shrieking.
"IT WASN'T DONE PURPOSELY!!", a deeper, yet still young, voice retaliated, just as loud.
After a quick check to the spot where the two had been placed, now vacant, it was pretty obvious that they were screwed if they didn't find them soon.
As Malik and Amethyst took off in a dead sprint, deeper into the woods, they could hear some men barking out orders and following them. But when they heard the familiar 'click' of someone cocking a gun, they picked up their pace.
Their chasers were getting closer, and things kept whizzing by their heads. "Bullets??", Amethyst said, panting.
"I don't plan on asking them anytime soon.", Malik said back.
Amethyst opened her mouth to reply, but was cut off when one of the things whizzing by caught her in the sleeve, efficiently pinning it to a tree's trunk.
"Malik!! Help!! I can't reach the damn thing to pull it out.", Amethyst called to his retreating figure.
Reluctantly Malik came back, and using the sharp end of his Millenium Rod, he sliced her sleeve off at the shoulder, although he left a thin line of blood on her arm. The two took off running, but not before Amethyst picked up what had been shot at her after it had dislodged from the tree.
"Thanks for the help."
"I couldn't have you hollering and leading them to where we were, could I, Chibi-Usa?? And why are you still holding that thing??"
Amethyst looked at him and said, "Malik, they don't want us dead."
"Really now?? Explain the guns then!!"
"They're darts, probably to knock us out again."
Malik was about to make another comment, when he fell flat on his face.
"Damn.", he growled out, realizing a line of netting had entangled around his legs.
"Here.", Amethyst said, "Don't move, or I'll cut you as well as the net." And with her Dagger, she sliced off the netting slowing Malik down.
They took off running again, until they came to a wide clearing. The two made it halfway across, before they were completely surrounded by guards. Back-to-back, they each held out their items, poised to jump if anyone tried to get near, but they knew they were no match for dart guns.
"Now, now, Ame-chan, Malik-kun, no need to be violent.", came a rich, velvety voice from the crowd. The men parted, and Pegasus stepped forward. "Let me bring you two to your new home."
"Go to hell, you bastard!! You have no right to keep us here!!", Amethyst shouted at him, sliding into a fighting stance.
"Fuck off, Pegasus. I'm not to be taken lightly.", growled out Malik, as he stood, poised and ready to attack.
Pegasus lightly laughed, then said, "Always the hard way?? Fine...Shoot them both."
Malik and Amethyst didn't have time to dodge, as they felt a sharp pain in their necks, and they collapsed to the grassy ground.
Right before they faded into blackness again, Pegasus walked over, smirking. "You always have to have things the hard way, Ame-chan. Just like your mother.", Pegasus said, grinning down at the immobilized pair.
Amethyst tried to talk back, but her muscles were lax, and she could only muster a pathetic glare, before she totally blacked out.
~*~
In two separate places, miles from the scene where the two hikaris lay unconscious, two spirits felt a small part of them in pain.
"Amethyst...", Shiranai said softly, in the company of the others as they were about to head out to find her.
The other spirit, already on the move, softly said, "Malik...", a twinge of sadness heard in the calling of that name.
~*~
skye: AND SCENE!! hope ya' liked it. get another chappie out soon!! and if you can't figure out who the guy at the end is...shame on you!!