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A Day at the Park Pt. 2
As the white haired couple joined the group Mai launched into a tirade, screaming how it was rude to keep them waiting, the least they could have done was call. Bakura patted her shoulder, "It's nice to see you too, Mai." Ryuuji grinned and Jyounouchi dragged Mai away from the thief. He could only listen to her screaming so much in one day.
Mokuba was scouting out the rides with Honda when he saw it, The Black Hole. He had heard of this. It was an indoor roller coaster that was completely in the dark with only brief flashes of light. "That one! Let's go on it first." He said pointing to The Black Hole.
Jyounouchi saw where he was pointing and pumped his fist in the air "All right! Roller coaster here we come!"
It was Anzu who was the voice of reason. "Let's save that for last. It's on the other side of the park, let's just work our way over there."
"Aww man, Anzu." Mokuba whined but then brightened at the nearest ride. The haunted house. "What about that one?" he asked.
"The haunted house? Sure, looks like fun." Ryuuji looked at it, bored. Theme park haunted houses were never any good.
"Uhhhh..." Jyounouchi hesitated but Mai pushed him ahead. "Don't be silly, it's not real." [1]
As the group began to walk toward the line that stretched in a zigzag pattern in front of the house, the Millennium Puzzle glowed and another member was added to their party.
"Mou hitori no boku [2]!" Yuugi gasped, "I thought you didn't want to come to the park."
Yami smiled "Well I don't have much of a choice in that do I?" He pointed at the Millennium puzzle dangling around Yuugi's chest.
"Well, no, I guess you don't. But we didn't pay for your admission. We'll have to go back and get a ticket for you. Though I don't know how were going to explain how you got in. I can't really say, 'Oh, he lives in the puzzle'."
"Why worry about it Yuugi?" asked Ryuuji.
"Yeah, it's not like anyone will know." added Mokuba
Anzu pressed her lips into a thin line, "No, I think Yuugi's right. We should go back and get a ticket for Yami."
Jyounouchi ruffled her hair, "Oh, don't be a spoilsport, Anzu. No one will know."
Anzu glanced at Yami; it might be worth a little lie if she got to spend time with him... "Oh, alright. Have it your way. But if we get caught don't say I didn't tell you."
"Wouldn't dream of it." Ryuuji breezed past her getting ahead of everybody else in the line.
"Otogi! I was here first." Mokuba said playfully, truth be told he had a small crush on the raven-haired emerald-eyed man. He looked up at him and grinned.
Ryuuji twirled the said hair around a slender tanned finger and smiled back at Mokuba, "Yes, but I'm here now. So it's my spot."
"Oh really, is that how it is?" Mokuba cut in front of him; "Well, then, this is my spot now." This continued for the next ten minutes drawing knowing smiles from the group, except from Seto who was scowling darkly. Why did I come? he kept wondering.
Finally they arrived at the end of the line. The man waiting there smiled courteously, "How many in your party?"
Yami turned to count. "Let's see," he said under his breath, "Me, Yuugi, Mai, Jyounouchi, Otogi, Mokuba, Kaiba, Ryou, Bakura, Anzu, and Honda..."
"Eleven." Answered Kaiba smugly, beating Yami. Yami glared at him, how dare he. He would make sure to get Kaiba back for that.
"Alright, then you, you, you, and you get into cart #1." He pointed to Mai, Ryou, Bakura, and Yuugi. They pushed through their friends and settled in to their seats. "And you, you, you, and you go to cart #2." Jyounouchi, Mokuba, Otogi, and Honda filed into the second car. "Then you last three, yours is #3. Hop on in." Yami, Seto, settled themselves into the front seat, deciding that sitting together was better than sitting near Anzu.
In car one Yuugi smiled happily, "This is going to be fun!"
Mai returned the smile "Sure."
Bakura wrapped his arm around Ryou, "We got lucky. Look at every one else, they've been separated from the people they'd like to be with. Well not Mokuba." He said turning to look at the car behind them where Mokuba was chatting animatedly with Ryuuji.
Yuugi turned around too and called back "Hey guys! How's everybody doing?"
In car two Jyounouchi gave a thumbs up and Mokuba paused to wave. In car three Yami looked like he wished that he had stayed with in the puzzle and Kaiba stared off into space. Only Anzu answered Yuugi, "Great! See you guys when the ride is over."
One of the ride helpers shh-ed at her, "Please don't yell miss." She went around and checked the seatbelts of each person finding that they were all buckled properly she gave the signal to start the ride.
The carts moved forward with a jerk. A few minuets later the cars came to a three way split. Car #1 drove forward toward the path on the left, car #2 kept going straight stopping at the middle doors, and car #3 came to rest in front of the right hand ones.
"I wonder why we're all splitting up?" Yuugi questioned looking at the others. Anzu waved at him noticing his glanced and he waved back just as all three cars moved forward.
Jyounouchi closed his eyes as the doors shut behind them. It was dark. Pitch black, no light at all. He did not like this. "It's just a ride, it's just a ride, it's just a ride." He repeated over and over trying to keep himself from thinking of anything. A moaning sound started up, a wail of the undead, begging to return to the life they had left. Honda reached around Jyounouchi's back and tapped him on the shoulder. Jyounouchi jumped and began looking around wildly, while Mokuba and Ryuuji snickered in the back seat. "Wh- what was that? Hey, what are you two laughing about?" "Oh nothing..." Ryuuji replied in a singsong voice. "Why don't you ask Honda?" He laughed even louder when Honda shot him a dirty look before turning to Jyounouchi, "I don't know what he's talking about. Honest." "Okay, man, whatever." Jyounouchi was staring off into the distance. A greenish light had begun to glow. It was bobbing towards them rather quickly and Jyounouchi didn't like it, not one bit. "Hey what's that?" asked Mokuba pointing to the blob of light. "A ghost." Ryuuji answered seriously knowing that it would scare the already terrified Jyounouchi. "Man, don't say that." He whispered. "It might hear you." "Whooooo are yoooou? What are yooou doooing here?" an ominous voice rang out seeming to come from all directions at once. "This is my home. Get out! Get out! If you do not leave now you will not live to be sorry." With that the light winked out leaving them in darkness again. Nothing could be seen but a creaking sound was heard. "Hey what was that- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!"
"Hey Ryou?" "Yes?" his reply faint and muffled because he was nestled against Bakura's chest. "What's a haunted house?" Bakura asked. This was his first time at a large theme park like this. Ryou had taken him to a fair once that had a Ferris wheel and games but not much else, which was why he knew about the Ferris wheel but nothing else. Yuugi piped up "It's a house with ghosts and monsters in it." "Really? Interesting..." That was all Bakura said but Ryou had a feeling that it didn't mean anything good. "Please, don't. Whatever it is just don't." He groaned and looked up at his koi whose face was barely visible in the darkness. "Whatever do you mean?" Bakura laughed manically as he was often wont to do, especially when he had an idea such as the one that was brewing right now. A sigh came from the front of the car, "Is this it? Some haunted house." Mai said in discontent. "Ouch! Yuugi did you pinch me?" "No Mai. Why?" "Somebody did, was it you Bakura- Ow! Hey! Stop it!" "No Mai he didn't. Believe me I know where his hands are. Are you sure?" Ryou said looking up at her faint outline. "Yes I'm sure! Ow! Stop it, damn you!" She was slapping at her arms trying to beat off her invisible attackers. "Well, isn't somebody going to help me?" Bakura ran a hand down her arm suggestively, "I'll help you, Mai." He snickered softly as she growled at him and them yelped. Now he was the one being attacked by invisible hands. Mai was still smacking herself and Bakura took it up too, although it didn't seem to be helping either of them. Ryou moved to the far side of the car hoping to avoid the ghosts, which was what they were. Yuugi turned to look at him, "What are we going to do?" Just then the cart tilted sharply upwards. "Hold on!" Ryou cried Both Bakura and Mai breathed a sigh of relief, the pinching had stopped and anything was better than that, even going up at a near ninety-degree angle.
A faint light appeared above them. What could it be?
Kaiba shot Yami a look as Anzu screamed, again. What the hell could it be now? Kaiba thought incensed. In the past ten minuets she had felt a bat fly past, saw a ghost, been taped on the shoulder by Frankenstein, and she swore that a mummy had tickled her with it's bandages.
Yami sighed thinking much the same thing as Kaiba, what on earth was she screaming about? "What's the matter Anzu?"
Her brown eyes were wide, "Y- you didn't see it?" Yami shook his head, "It- there was an alien sitting right next to me.
Kaiba couldn't silence himself any longer, "It must have been attracted by you screaming like a ninny every five seconds. Maybe if you'd shut up you wouldn't have any more close encounters of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th kind! It's a ride, a ride." He said slowly as if talking to an incredibly stupid child. "As in it's not real."
Anzu sniffed "I saw it, though."
Kaiba turned resisting the urge to throw up his hands and scream in frustration. He was never going to let Mokuba convince him to do anything ever again.
Yami glanced at him wishing he could do the same but instead patted Anzu's hand and said, "It's gone now. Don't worry. But you know maybe Kaiba is right. You should stop screaming so much. I'd like to keep my hearing."
"Oh okay. I'm sorry. Uh, Yami?" He didn't bother to turn around again, "Yes?" "Are we slowing down?" Anzu was right they were slowing down, coming to rest in front of a large pair of oaken doors. Slowly they creaked open and the car moved forward again.
They had landed in water. Mokuba blinked wiping the spray from his face. Water? In a haunted house? It didn't make sense. They had gone down, really fast. Hence Mokuba's shocked cry. He glanced at his companions; Ryuuji was muttering to himself, saying he was a genius for using the waterproof mascara today, Honda was trying to conceal his laughter from Jyounouchi who was gripping the sides of the car so hard his knuckles had turned white. Mokuba's eyes flicked to his surroundings, the walls were close and seemed to be made of rough gray stone, wooden torches brought a dim, flickering light to the otherwise dark chamber. He peered over the edge of the car and saw shimmering water. Up ahead of them he noticed a barely submerged skull. "Nice touch." he thought. "But let's hope that Jyounouchi doesn't see it." And further ahead he saw a portcullis; it was raising, it's heavy chains clinking and clanging, a skeletal hand with nothing attached to it turned the crank it's partner waving a ghastly hello as they slowly passed under it.
Their cart leveled out as the came to a halt. Ryou opened his eyes, blinking in the light. It looked like they were in a hallway. Electric lights above flickered in and out shaking in their fixtures. The walls were covered in deep red wallpaper though in some places copper stains marred it's perfect color.
"Look it's blood!" Bakura pointed out brightly as he freed himself from the safety belt. He hopped out of the cart his light hanging behind with Mai and Yuugi. Bakura bent down to touch the largest stain. "Too bad it's so old." Sighing he leaned against the wall waiting for everyone to join him.
"Um Bakura..."Yuugi's violet eyes widened in shock and Mai gasped.
"Yeah, what? What's wrong with you, Mai?"
"The wall... blood." was all she said as she stared.
"I saw it." He replied still looking somewhat confused. Until he felt the dampness on his shirt. "What-?" He blinked in surprise, and then grinned showing his rather pointed teeth [3]. "Well, it looks like it's not that old after all. Although now my shirt is ruined." The entire wall was covered with blood, sticky hot blood that wasn't very old. It was like the walls had been painted with blood that had instantly dried enough so it wouldn't run.
"Hikari," he smiled, "can we paint the living room like this? I'd even settle for just the bedroom."
Ryou just sighed and pulled him away from the wall. "Let's see what else is here." with that he walked forward down the hall.
"Well, what now?" Yami said as he stepped out of the cart and into a room that looked part kitchen part torture chamber. The walls were hewn stone and a large black cauldron sat in the corner, cobwebs hung in every corner although their spiders were suspiciously absent. Pots and pans hung from the walls and the one window showed a dreary grey sky outside.
"Ewww, this place is creepy." Anzu said looking around and edging closer to Yami.
Kaiba watched her with a disdainful stare. She was really getting on his nerves. "Lets go, the sooner we find our way out the sooner this day will be over." He moved forward quickly but before he could reach the door Anzu screamed. Seto whirled around "What now!?"
Anzu shrieked again, "Oh my god! Spiders! Spiders! Yami save me!" She clung tightly to him still screaming as a horde of spiders crawled across the floor in their direction.
Looking up Kaiba saw that the walls and ceiling were quickly becoming covered with spiders. Shuddering he turned to Yami who was starting to turn blue from the grip Anzu had around his neck. "Come on!" he snapped. Truth be told he didn't like spiders much either but no one would ever find that out, not even Mokuba knew.
"Anzu please let go." Yami gasped. "I can't save you if I can't breathe." He pulled her arms away from his neck and started dragging her towards the door. Unfortunately the door was now covered with the black crawling mass of spiders.
"We're going to die!" Anzu had begun to sob. It was pathetic. Pathetic enough that Kaiba walked over to her, pulled her up from the floor where she had huddled, and slapped her. She fell to the floor, gave a hysterical sob, and passed out.
"Kaiba!" Yami yelled glaring at him. "How dare you slap one of my friends!" He knelt down and gathered Anzu in his arms.
Kaiba wasn't paying much attention to the enraged pharaoh, "She was becoming hysterical." His eyes roamed over the walls looking for something, anything, to get rid of the spiders. "I know what to do." He grabbed Yami's sleeve and pulled him towards the cauldron. "Put her in there. It'll take the spiders longer to get to her." The cauldron was at the very end of the room and the spiders were only about 1/3 of the way there. Yami gently lowered her limp body in hoping she would be comfortable.
"Now what, Kaiba?" Yami asked impatient. The spiders were getting closer and Anzu could wake up any minute.
"Now, you find the door while I work on flooding the place." He pushed Yami ahead and headed for the sinks. In such a large kitchen it made sense to have more than one. Turning on all the taps to full blast he watched smugly as Yami hesitantly crept toward the spiders and then broke out in a full run towards the door. Swatting at the spiders he cleared off patches of wall finally finding a telltale patch of brown.
"Found it!" Yami called out throwing the door open with such force that it banged against the wall loudly. The spiders began to rush through their newfound portal to freedom as Yami hurried back to the cauldron to retrieve Anzu.
Seto stood by the door waiting impatiently as Yami carried Anzu from the cauldron, cradling her gently. "I'm not going to wait all day, you know." He said disdainfully.
Yami just glared at him and passed through the door.
"A dungeon!" Jyounouchi shouted, the walls causing his voice to rebound back to him. "Oh man..." he muttered under his breath as Honda clapped him on his back.
"Hey, don't worry man. If any ghosties or gouhlies come around we'll save you."
Jyounouchi glared, not exactly appreciating the offer. "What are you trying to say? That I'm scared of some ghost?" He leaned against the nearest door. "No way, I'm as cool as a cucumber."
From behind the door came a piercing scream causing Jyounouchi to jump about five feet straight into the air. "Impressive." Ryuuji mused and Mokuba nodded.
Honda laughed, "Cool as a cucumber, huh?"
"Shut up." Jyounouchi growled straightening his clothes. "Let's just get out of here, okay? See those stairs over there. Wherever they lead to it has to be better than here." He pointed to a spiral staircase made of rusting iron.
"It doesn't look too safe. Maybe we should look for other ways out first." Mokuba suggested. "Let's see what's in that room." He pointed at the door Jyounouchi had previously been leaning on.
"No way. I'm not going in there." Jyounouchi shook his head and walked toward the staircase wading through the shallow water they had arrived on. He walked on to the first step of the stairs, testing in before putting his full weight on it. "See, it's fine." He climbed all the way up his head disappearing in the hole the stairs led up to. "There's like a trapdoor here or something." What could be seen of his body tensed and he gave a small grunt pushing up with all his might. "Isstuck." He slurred through gritted teeth.
"What was that?" Ryuuji called as Jyounouchi made his way down the stairs a defeated look on his face.
"I said it's stuck. I can't get it to budge." He wiped his hands on his jeans as he joined the group again.
"Alright. There has to be another way out. Let's find it." Mokuba pushed open the many times aforementioned door and peered into the darkness. "It looks like a torture chamber." He moved forward into the dimly lit room, a guttering torch the only light.
"Look and Iron Maiden and a rack." Honda pointed out while Jyounouchi shuddered.
"Bakura would have a field day in here." Ryuuji said smirking.
A small smile crept up on Mokuba's face, "I hope he never sees this place, then."
"Wow! A coffin." Honda dusted off the black lid, "Let's open this baby up."
Mokuba ran over to help Honda push the lid up.
"Isn't there vampires in coffins?" Jyounouchi asked beginning to panic. Ryuuji, who had been lingering in the darkness came up behind him wrapping his arms around Jyounouchi pulling him close and drawled in a fake Transylvanian accent, "I vant to suck your blood." He dipped his head to bite Jyounouchi's throat but instead went flying backward landing on his behind.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Huh, dice boy!" Jyounouchi screamed his face livid.
"Dice boy?!" Ryuuji yelled indignantly getting to his feet. "I'll show you dice, puppy dog!" The said dice flew from his fingers hitting Jyounouchi in the face, drawing blood.
"That's it!" Jyounouchi began to lunge but Honda grabbed him just in time.
"Sorry to interrupt you fun guys but," he turned pointing to the coffin and the stairway that it hid "while you two were messing around we found the way out."
Mokuba smiled and waved from the stairway, "Well come on!"
"Stop that, Bakura!" Mai tuned away dodging his hand. Since the realization that the walls were covered in blood Bakura had been chasing them around with bloody hands trying to wipe the blood on their face or arms.
Ryou tugged at his darks sleeve, "Leave Mai alone, I'm getting jealous." He was joking but Bakura came back to his side, his arm wrapped around Ryou's waist possessively. Ryou blushed and rested his head on Bakura's shoulder, nodding slightly as Mai mouthed "Thank you."
"Alright," Yuugi said looking down the long hallway, "Where should we go?"
"Let's look into the other rooms to see if there's anything in them." Ryou suggested. Everyone moved to a different door opening them and peering in.
"This one's locked!" Yuugi shouted from down the hall.
"Just a bedroom in this one." Mai called out.
"Same here." Said Ryou. He looked over at Bakura "Anything interesting in there, Koi?
Bakura smirked shutting the door. "Nope."
Ryou didn't really believe him but decided not to bother with it. There was still one more door.
Everyone gathered around it, "Ready?" Mai asked her hand resting on the golden knob.
"Yeah." Bakura muttered.
She turned the knob and pushed the door open slowly, revealing shelves and shelves of books and a stairway that led down to the rest of the library.
"Oh..." Ryou breathed and ran to the nearest shelf, looking at all the different titles. "This is amazing."
Mai looked at Yuugi, We're going to have to drag him out of here."
Bakura smiled at his light and silently slipped back into the hall opening the door he had opened earlier and climbed up the stairs, laughing softly to himself. Time to execute his plan...
A/N: Oh my lord this has to be the longest chapter I have ever written.... Eight fricken pages... With this chapter and the fist this thing is already longer than the entirety of Unmentionable Words. sigh I hugged my monitor when I realized I could end this chapter here. Ugh. But there will be more. Lot more, prolly three more chapters, I think. Please review since you've read it already. What's a few more minuets, right? wink
[1] If you haven't figured it out yet Jyounouchi is afraid of ghosts and zombie, pretty much all supernatural things creep him out.. I'm not making this up. In the episode where he duels Bonez he's deathly afraid, just by Bonez's appearance. Also in the RPG arc, the episode when Yuugi, Mokuba and Jyounouchi walk through the graveyard he's is noticeably scared.
[2] Literally the other me. This is what Yuugi calls Yami in the Japanese show.
[3] Bakura does have pointed teeth, this isn't one of those "Bakura is a vampire fics". (Although that would be damn sexy.) If you look and some pictures you can see it. The best evidence is, however, the steak scene. If you have the Japanese episodes up to at least the first few Battle Ship episodes you'll know what I'm talking about. If not you can go to to see what I'm talking about. It's the fifth picture on the right side. Wait awhile for it to move though.
Well see you all next chapter!
P.S. I'm really sorry about the formatting FF.N keeps getting rid of it in parts. Sorry. Oh and the scene changes are when there's a space in between lines. It gout rid of the scene changey things, too.
A Day at the Park Pt. 2
As the white haired couple joined the group Mai launched into a tirade, screaming how it was rude to keep them waiting, the least they could have done was call. Bakura patted her shoulder, "It's nice to see you too, Mai." Ryuuji grinned and Jyounouchi dragged Mai away from the thief. He could only listen to her screaming so much in one day.
Mokuba was scouting out the rides with Honda when he saw it, The Black Hole. He had heard of this. It was an indoor roller coaster that was completely in the dark with only brief flashes of light. "That one! Let's go on it first." He said pointing to The Black Hole.
Jyounouchi saw where he was pointing and pumped his fist in the air "All right! Roller coaster here we come!"
It was Anzu who was the voice of reason. "Let's save that for last. It's on the other side of the park, let's just work our way over there."
"Aww man, Anzu." Mokuba whined but then brightened at the nearest ride. The haunted house. "What about that one?" he asked.
"The haunted house? Sure, looks like fun." Ryuuji looked at it, bored. Theme park haunted houses were never any good.
"Uhhhh..." Jyounouchi hesitated but Mai pushed him ahead. "Don't be silly, it's not real." [1]
As the group began to walk toward the line that stretched in a zigzag pattern in front of the house, the Millennium Puzzle glowed and another member was added to their party.
"Mou hitori no boku [2]!" Yuugi gasped, "I thought you didn't want to come to the park."
Yami smiled "Well I don't have much of a choice in that do I?" He pointed at the Millennium puzzle dangling around Yuugi's chest.
"Well, no, I guess you don't. But we didn't pay for your admission. We'll have to go back and get a ticket for you. Though I don't know how were going to explain how you got in. I can't really say, 'Oh, he lives in the puzzle'."
"Why worry about it Yuugi?" asked Ryuuji.
"Yeah, it's not like anyone will know." added Mokuba
Anzu pressed her lips into a thin line, "No, I think Yuugi's right. We should go back and get a ticket for Yami."
Jyounouchi ruffled her hair, "Oh, don't be a spoilsport, Anzu. No one will know."
Anzu glanced at Yami; it might be worth a little lie if she got to spend time with him... "Oh, alright. Have it your way. But if we get caught don't say I didn't tell you."
"Wouldn't dream of it." Ryuuji breezed past her getting ahead of everybody else in the line.
"Otogi! I was here first." Mokuba said playfully, truth be told he had a small crush on the raven-haired emerald-eyed man. He looked up at him and grinned.
Ryuuji twirled the said hair around a slender tanned finger and smiled back at Mokuba, "Yes, but I'm here now. So it's my spot."
"Oh really, is that how it is?" Mokuba cut in front of him; "Well, then, this is my spot now." This continued for the next ten minutes drawing knowing smiles from the group, except from Seto who was scowling darkly. Why did I come? he kept wondering.
Finally they arrived at the end of the line. The man waiting there smiled courteously, "How many in your party?"
Yami turned to count. "Let's see," he said under his breath, "Me, Yuugi, Mai, Jyounouchi, Otogi, Mokuba, Kaiba, Ryou, Bakura, Anzu, and Honda..."
"Eleven." Answered Kaiba smugly, beating Yami. Yami glared at him, how dare he. He would make sure to get Kaiba back for that.
"Alright, then you, you, you, and you get into cart #1." He pointed to Mai, Ryou, Bakura, and Yuugi. They pushed through their friends and settled in to their seats. "And you, you, you, and you go to cart #2." Jyounouchi, Mokuba, Otogi, and Honda filed into the second car. "Then you last three, yours is #3. Hop on in." Yami, Seto, settled themselves into the front seat, deciding that sitting together was better than sitting near Anzu.
In car one Yuugi smiled happily, "This is going to be fun!"
Mai returned the smile "Sure."
Bakura wrapped his arm around Ryou, "We got lucky. Look at every one else, they've been separated from the people they'd like to be with. Well not Mokuba." He said turning to look at the car behind them where Mokuba was chatting animatedly with Ryuuji.
Yuugi turned around too and called back "Hey guys! How's everybody doing?"
In car two Jyounouchi gave a thumbs up and Mokuba paused to wave. In car three Yami looked like he wished that he had stayed with in the puzzle and Kaiba stared off into space. Only Anzu answered Yuugi, "Great! See you guys when the ride is over."
One of the ride helpers shh-ed at her, "Please don't yell miss." She went around and checked the seatbelts of each person finding that they were all buckled properly she gave the signal to start the ride.
The carts moved forward with a jerk. A few minuets later the cars came to a three way split. Car #1 drove forward toward the path on the left, car #2 kept going straight stopping at the middle doors, and car #3 came to rest in front of the right hand ones.
"I wonder why we're all splitting up?" Yuugi questioned looking at the others. Anzu waved at him noticing his glanced and he waved back just as all three cars moved forward.
Jyounouchi closed his eyes as the doors shut behind them. It was dark. Pitch black, no light at all. He did not like this. "It's just a ride, it's just a ride, it's just a ride." He repeated over and over trying to keep himself from thinking of anything. A moaning sound started up, a wail of the undead, begging to return to the life they had left. Honda reached around Jyounouchi's back and tapped him on the shoulder. Jyounouchi jumped and began looking around wildly, while Mokuba and Ryuuji snickered in the back seat. "Wh- what was that? Hey, what are you two laughing about?" "Oh nothing..." Ryuuji replied in a singsong voice. "Why don't you ask Honda?" He laughed even louder when Honda shot him a dirty look before turning to Jyounouchi, "I don't know what he's talking about. Honest." "Okay, man, whatever." Jyounouchi was staring off into the distance. A greenish light had begun to glow. It was bobbing towards them rather quickly and Jyounouchi didn't like it, not one bit. "Hey what's that?" asked Mokuba pointing to the blob of light. "A ghost." Ryuuji answered seriously knowing that it would scare the already terrified Jyounouchi. "Man, don't say that." He whispered. "It might hear you." "Whooooo are yoooou? What are yooou doooing here?" an ominous voice rang out seeming to come from all directions at once. "This is my home. Get out! Get out! If you do not leave now you will not live to be sorry." With that the light winked out leaving them in darkness again. Nothing could be seen but a creaking sound was heard. "Hey what was that- Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!"
"Hey Ryou?" "Yes?" his reply faint and muffled because he was nestled against Bakura's chest. "What's a haunted house?" Bakura asked. This was his first time at a large theme park like this. Ryou had taken him to a fair once that had a Ferris wheel and games but not much else, which was why he knew about the Ferris wheel but nothing else. Yuugi piped up "It's a house with ghosts and monsters in it." "Really? Interesting..." That was all Bakura said but Ryou had a feeling that it didn't mean anything good. "Please, don't. Whatever it is just don't." He groaned and looked up at his koi whose face was barely visible in the darkness. "Whatever do you mean?" Bakura laughed manically as he was often wont to do, especially when he had an idea such as the one that was brewing right now. A sigh came from the front of the car, "Is this it? Some haunted house." Mai said in discontent. "Ouch! Yuugi did you pinch me?" "No Mai. Why?" "Somebody did, was it you Bakura- Ow! Hey! Stop it!" "No Mai he didn't. Believe me I know where his hands are. Are you sure?" Ryou said looking up at her faint outline. "Yes I'm sure! Ow! Stop it, damn you!" She was slapping at her arms trying to beat off her invisible attackers. "Well, isn't somebody going to help me?" Bakura ran a hand down her arm suggestively, "I'll help you, Mai." He snickered softly as she growled at him and them yelped. Now he was the one being attacked by invisible hands. Mai was still smacking herself and Bakura took it up too, although it didn't seem to be helping either of them. Ryou moved to the far side of the car hoping to avoid the ghosts, which was what they were. Yuugi turned to look at him, "What are we going to do?" Just then the cart tilted sharply upwards. "Hold on!" Ryou cried Both Bakura and Mai breathed a sigh of relief, the pinching had stopped and anything was better than that, even going up at a near ninety-degree angle.
A faint light appeared above them. What could it be?
Kaiba shot Yami a look as Anzu screamed, again. What the hell could it be now? Kaiba thought incensed. In the past ten minuets she had felt a bat fly past, saw a ghost, been taped on the shoulder by Frankenstein, and she swore that a mummy had tickled her with it's bandages.
Yami sighed thinking much the same thing as Kaiba, what on earth was she screaming about? "What's the matter Anzu?"
Her brown eyes were wide, "Y- you didn't see it?" Yami shook his head, "It- there was an alien sitting right next to me.
Kaiba couldn't silence himself any longer, "It must have been attracted by you screaming like a ninny every five seconds. Maybe if you'd shut up you wouldn't have any more close encounters of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th kind! It's a ride, a ride." He said slowly as if talking to an incredibly stupid child. "As in it's not real."
Anzu sniffed "I saw it, though."
Kaiba turned resisting the urge to throw up his hands and scream in frustration. He was never going to let Mokuba convince him to do anything ever again.
Yami glanced at him wishing he could do the same but instead patted Anzu's hand and said, "It's gone now. Don't worry. But you know maybe Kaiba is right. You should stop screaming so much. I'd like to keep my hearing."
"Oh okay. I'm sorry. Uh, Yami?" He didn't bother to turn around again, "Yes?" "Are we slowing down?" Anzu was right they were slowing down, coming to rest in front of a large pair of oaken doors. Slowly they creaked open and the car moved forward again.
They had landed in water. Mokuba blinked wiping the spray from his face. Water? In a haunted house? It didn't make sense. They had gone down, really fast. Hence Mokuba's shocked cry. He glanced at his companions; Ryuuji was muttering to himself, saying he was a genius for using the waterproof mascara today, Honda was trying to conceal his laughter from Jyounouchi who was gripping the sides of the car so hard his knuckles had turned white. Mokuba's eyes flicked to his surroundings, the walls were close and seemed to be made of rough gray stone, wooden torches brought a dim, flickering light to the otherwise dark chamber. He peered over the edge of the car and saw shimmering water. Up ahead of them he noticed a barely submerged skull. "Nice touch." he thought. "But let's hope that Jyounouchi doesn't see it." And further ahead he saw a portcullis; it was raising, it's heavy chains clinking and clanging, a skeletal hand with nothing attached to it turned the crank it's partner waving a ghastly hello as they slowly passed under it.
Their cart leveled out as the came to a halt. Ryou opened his eyes, blinking in the light. It looked like they were in a hallway. Electric lights above flickered in and out shaking in their fixtures. The walls were covered in deep red wallpaper though in some places copper stains marred it's perfect color.
"Look it's blood!" Bakura pointed out brightly as he freed himself from the safety belt. He hopped out of the cart his light hanging behind with Mai and Yuugi. Bakura bent down to touch the largest stain. "Too bad it's so old." Sighing he leaned against the wall waiting for everyone to join him.
"Um Bakura..."Yuugi's violet eyes widened in shock and Mai gasped.
"Yeah, what? What's wrong with you, Mai?"
"The wall... blood." was all she said as she stared.
"I saw it." He replied still looking somewhat confused. Until he felt the dampness on his shirt. "What-?" He blinked in surprise, and then grinned showing his rather pointed teeth [3]. "Well, it looks like it's not that old after all. Although now my shirt is ruined." The entire wall was covered with blood, sticky hot blood that wasn't very old. It was like the walls had been painted with blood that had instantly dried enough so it wouldn't run.
"Hikari," he smiled, "can we paint the living room like this? I'd even settle for just the bedroom."
Ryou just sighed and pulled him away from the wall. "Let's see what else is here." with that he walked forward down the hall.
"Well, what now?" Yami said as he stepped out of the cart and into a room that looked part kitchen part torture chamber. The walls were hewn stone and a large black cauldron sat in the corner, cobwebs hung in every corner although their spiders were suspiciously absent. Pots and pans hung from the walls and the one window showed a dreary grey sky outside.
"Ewww, this place is creepy." Anzu said looking around and edging closer to Yami.
Kaiba watched her with a disdainful stare. She was really getting on his nerves. "Lets go, the sooner we find our way out the sooner this day will be over." He moved forward quickly but before he could reach the door Anzu screamed. Seto whirled around "What now!?"
Anzu shrieked again, "Oh my god! Spiders! Spiders! Yami save me!" She clung tightly to him still screaming as a horde of spiders crawled across the floor in their direction.
Looking up Kaiba saw that the walls and ceiling were quickly becoming covered with spiders. Shuddering he turned to Yami who was starting to turn blue from the grip Anzu had around his neck. "Come on!" he snapped. Truth be told he didn't like spiders much either but no one would ever find that out, not even Mokuba knew.
"Anzu please let go." Yami gasped. "I can't save you if I can't breathe." He pulled her arms away from his neck and started dragging her towards the door. Unfortunately the door was now covered with the black crawling mass of spiders.
"We're going to die!" Anzu had begun to sob. It was pathetic. Pathetic enough that Kaiba walked over to her, pulled her up from the floor where she had huddled, and slapped her. She fell to the floor, gave a hysterical sob, and passed out.
"Kaiba!" Yami yelled glaring at him. "How dare you slap one of my friends!" He knelt down and gathered Anzu in his arms.
Kaiba wasn't paying much attention to the enraged pharaoh, "She was becoming hysterical." His eyes roamed over the walls looking for something, anything, to get rid of the spiders. "I know what to do." He grabbed Yami's sleeve and pulled him towards the cauldron. "Put her in there. It'll take the spiders longer to get to her." The cauldron was at the very end of the room and the spiders were only about 1/3 of the way there. Yami gently lowered her limp body in hoping she would be comfortable.
"Now what, Kaiba?" Yami asked impatient. The spiders were getting closer and Anzu could wake up any minute.
"Now, you find the door while I work on flooding the place." He pushed Yami ahead and headed for the sinks. In such a large kitchen it made sense to have more than one. Turning on all the taps to full blast he watched smugly as Yami hesitantly crept toward the spiders and then broke out in a full run towards the door. Swatting at the spiders he cleared off patches of wall finally finding a telltale patch of brown.
"Found it!" Yami called out throwing the door open with such force that it banged against the wall loudly. The spiders began to rush through their newfound portal to freedom as Yami hurried back to the cauldron to retrieve Anzu.
Seto stood by the door waiting impatiently as Yami carried Anzu from the cauldron, cradling her gently. "I'm not going to wait all day, you know." He said disdainfully.
Yami just glared at him and passed through the door.
"A dungeon!" Jyounouchi shouted, the walls causing his voice to rebound back to him. "Oh man..." he muttered under his breath as Honda clapped him on his back.
"Hey, don't worry man. If any ghosties or gouhlies come around we'll save you."
Jyounouchi glared, not exactly appreciating the offer. "What are you trying to say? That I'm scared of some ghost?" He leaned against the nearest door. "No way, I'm as cool as a cucumber."
From behind the door came a piercing scream causing Jyounouchi to jump about five feet straight into the air. "Impressive." Ryuuji mused and Mokuba nodded.
Honda laughed, "Cool as a cucumber, huh?"
"Shut up." Jyounouchi growled straightening his clothes. "Let's just get out of here, okay? See those stairs over there. Wherever they lead to it has to be better than here." He pointed to a spiral staircase made of rusting iron.
"It doesn't look too safe. Maybe we should look for other ways out first." Mokuba suggested. "Let's see what's in that room." He pointed at the door Jyounouchi had previously been leaning on.
"No way. I'm not going in there." Jyounouchi shook his head and walked toward the staircase wading through the shallow water they had arrived on. He walked on to the first step of the stairs, testing in before putting his full weight on it. "See, it's fine." He climbed all the way up his head disappearing in the hole the stairs led up to. "There's like a trapdoor here or something." What could be seen of his body tensed and he gave a small grunt pushing up with all his might. "Isstuck." He slurred through gritted teeth.
"What was that?" Ryuuji called as Jyounouchi made his way down the stairs a defeated look on his face.
"I said it's stuck. I can't get it to budge." He wiped his hands on his jeans as he joined the group again.
"Alright. There has to be another way out. Let's find it." Mokuba pushed open the many times aforementioned door and peered into the darkness. "It looks like a torture chamber." He moved forward into the dimly lit room, a guttering torch the only light.
"Look and Iron Maiden and a rack." Honda pointed out while Jyounouchi shuddered.
"Bakura would have a field day in here." Ryuuji said smirking.
A small smile crept up on Mokuba's face, "I hope he never sees this place, then."
"Wow! A coffin." Honda dusted off the black lid, "Let's open this baby up."
Mokuba ran over to help Honda push the lid up.
"Isn't there vampires in coffins?" Jyounouchi asked beginning to panic. Ryuuji, who had been lingering in the darkness came up behind him wrapping his arms around Jyounouchi pulling him close and drawled in a fake Transylvanian accent, "I vant to suck your blood." He dipped his head to bite Jyounouchi's throat but instead went flying backward landing on his behind.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Huh, dice boy!" Jyounouchi screamed his face livid.
"Dice boy?!" Ryuuji yelled indignantly getting to his feet. "I'll show you dice, puppy dog!" The said dice flew from his fingers hitting Jyounouchi in the face, drawing blood.
"That's it!" Jyounouchi began to lunge but Honda grabbed him just in time.
"Sorry to interrupt you fun guys but," he turned pointing to the coffin and the stairway that it hid "while you two were messing around we found the way out."
Mokuba smiled and waved from the stairway, "Well come on!"
"Stop that, Bakura!" Mai tuned away dodging his hand. Since the realization that the walls were covered in blood Bakura had been chasing them around with bloody hands trying to wipe the blood on their face or arms.
Ryou tugged at his darks sleeve, "Leave Mai alone, I'm getting jealous." He was joking but Bakura came back to his side, his arm wrapped around Ryou's waist possessively. Ryou blushed and rested his head on Bakura's shoulder, nodding slightly as Mai mouthed "Thank you."
"Alright," Yuugi said looking down the long hallway, "Where should we go?"
"Let's look into the other rooms to see if there's anything in them." Ryou suggested. Everyone moved to a different door opening them and peering in.
"This one's locked!" Yuugi shouted from down the hall.
"Just a bedroom in this one." Mai called out.
"Same here." Said Ryou. He looked over at Bakura "Anything interesting in there, Koi?
Bakura smirked shutting the door. "Nope."
Ryou didn't really believe him but decided not to bother with it. There was still one more door.
Everyone gathered around it, "Ready?" Mai asked her hand resting on the golden knob.
"Yeah." Bakura muttered.
She turned the knob and pushed the door open slowly, revealing shelves and shelves of books and a stairway that led down to the rest of the library.
"Oh..." Ryou breathed and ran to the nearest shelf, looking at all the different titles. "This is amazing."
Mai looked at Yuugi, We're going to have to drag him out of here."
Bakura smiled at his light and silently slipped back into the hall opening the door he had opened earlier and climbed up the stairs, laughing softly to himself. Time to execute his plan...
A/N: Oh my lord this has to be the longest chapter I have ever written.... Eight fricken pages... With this chapter and the fist this thing is already longer than the entirety of Unmentionable Words. sigh I hugged my monitor when I realized I could end this chapter here. Ugh. But there will be more. Lot more, prolly three more chapters, I think. Please review since you've read it already. What's a few more minuets, right? wink
[1] If you haven't figured it out yet Jyounouchi is afraid of ghosts and zombie, pretty much all supernatural things creep him out.. I'm not making this up. In the episode where he duels Bonez he's deathly afraid, just by Bonez's appearance. Also in the RPG arc, the episode when Yuugi, Mokuba and Jyounouchi walk through the graveyard he's is noticeably scared.
[2] Literally the other me. This is what Yuugi calls Yami in the Japanese show.
[3] Bakura does have pointed teeth, this isn't one of those "Bakura is a vampire fics". (Although that would be damn sexy.) If you look and some pictures you can see it. The best evidence is, however, the steak scene. If you have the Japanese episodes up to at least the first few Battle Ship episodes you'll know what I'm talking about. If not you can go to to see what I'm talking about. It's the fifth picture on the right side. Wait awhile for it to move though.
Well see you all next chapter!
P.S. I'm really sorry about the formatting FF.N keeps getting rid of it in parts. Sorry. Oh and the scene changes are when there's a space in between lines. It gout rid of the scene changey things, too.