Man, I get bloodnose after bloodnose! This ain't fun any more... and Fanfic wouldn't upload my ficcies somehow, that's why I updated so late.

Augh! Just read the Dutch television guide... Yu-Gi-Oh! is temporarily outlawed! They only have got Battle City and Battle Ship in the Netherlands. People have complained about that, so they decided to stop broadcasting until Dueltower and the NOA-ARC have arrived. (in fall) The same thing goes for Beyblade. Only V-Force. People complained, stopped broadcasting, wait until G-Revo is here. Stupid burocratic system. Can't stand a few commentaries, Jetix?

Yugi: The egg is going to hatch soon.

Ryou: With Hikari Lunar curled around it it will stay nice and warm.

Mr Bakura: Yeah. That Yami Bakura was already heating the oven, to keep it warm, he said.

Ryou-Ran: OO"

Marik and Yami Bakura: (are secretly trying to tiptoe out of the house)

Ryou-Ran: Not so fast! Where are you going?

Yami Bakura: Uhh... Egypt!

Marik: Yes! To show Yami Bakura my... uh... scarabees!

Ryou-Ran: (holds them by the collar) No, you're not going anywhere!

Marik and Yami Bakura: HELP! SAVE US FROM THE WERWOLF! (run in place)

Yami: It will take a while to hatch.

Ryou-Ran: Yeah... let's start the fic to kill time. Who is going to do the disclaimer?

Yugi: I'll do it! Ryou-Ran does not own Yu-Gi-OW!

Yami Bakura: It's Yu-Gi-OH!, fool!

Yugi: Yes, but someone stepped on me. (big, teary eyes)

Yami Bakura: --"

This only goes for Dutch and Belgian readers: When Moonlight speaks, imagine the voice of Kai Hiwatari. (Kai's voice is a combination of the voices of Ryou and Yami Bakura)

Right roots, but wrong plant

Ryou lay the head of his father is his lap and cradled it. "Oh Dad!"he sobbed. "Please..." Yugi leaned against Yami's shoulder and cried too. Joey, Téa and Tristan were trying to hold back their tears. Marik and Odion watched with sad expressions on their faces.

Suddenly a red flash of lightning crashed down and struck Yami Bakura. The Yami laughed. His hair and eyes had the color of blood. He wasn't wearing his usual clothes either. He wore a dark-blue skirt, golden bracelets around his wrists and ankles and a ring around every finger. He also wore the Millennium Ring.

Outside, in the real world, a stranger appeared out of nothing. He wore long robes and a turban. His eyes were blue and empty. His skin had the color of the desert sand. His hand disappeared into his robes and came out with a big key shaped like an ankh. He walked over to the silent body of Ryou Bakura and touched Ryou's forehead with the tip of the key. He turned it (the key) and the next moment he was gone.

Yami Bakura was still laughing loudly. The others tried the best they could to ignore him, but one can imagine that is kind of hard when there's an ancient Spirit nearby, laughing like mad, making lightning crash down and calling you names.The only one able to succesfully ignore him was Ryou, but he had other things on his mind. He held the soul of his dying father in his arms.

Suddenly someone opened the heavy gate of Yami Bakura's soul room. It was the stranger from outside. "Shaadi!"Yugi cried. Yami Bakura looked up with an irritated expression on his face.

Shaadi bowed for Yami, completely ignored Ryou and his father and walked over to Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura was a little taller than him, but Shaadi walked on until he stood almost chest-to-chest with the Yami and did not seem to be impressed at all by the furious looks of "get the hell out of my soul room" Yami Bakura sent him. "Spirit of the Millennium Ring."he sang. "I came here to-" "Very nice of you, pleasure to meet you, you can go now, bye bye."Yami Bakura snarled like a machinegun. "I came here because someone wishes to speak to you."Shaadi continued. "Tell him I don't want to speak him."Yami Bakura spat. Shaadi shook no. "It's a woman."he said.

(Damn, another bloodnose)

The others were surprised. Yami Bakura and a girlfriend? Joey tried to stifle a guffaw. "A... a woman?"Yami Bakura asked, confused. Shaadi nodded. "There she is."he said and made a gesture with his arm. The shady form of a walking woman appeared in the mist. Suddenly she broke through the mist. Her face became visible. She had big eyes, as blue as the ocean. Her skin had the color of gold. She wore a pretty white dress and golden plates around her legs and forearms. Yami Bakura uttered something unintelligible. "My son."the woman sadly said. "What has become of you?" Yami Bakura swallowed a lump in his throat. "Mother?"he asked.

Everybody's jaw fell, even those of Yami and Odion. The woman standing in front of them was Yami Bakura's mother.

Yami Bakura quickly recovered. "Woman, I do not wish to speak to you!"he yelled. "I command you to leave my soulroom!" But his mother did not move a muscle, exept for the ones in her right arm. She stuck up a hand.

Two men, still boys actually, fell out of the dark sky and both landed on one hand and two feet, supple like cats, agile like bats. The one of the left had white hair that brushed over his shoulders. It was wild and plucky. He had a cruel face, with narrow, purple eyes and a scar running over his right cheek. Identical to Yami Bakura's face, exept for the eye-color and the scar. His skin was copper-colored. His chest was incredibly muscular and his arms were thick and strong. He wore the same clothes as Yami Bakura, plus a thick red cloack with white lightning on it. He took the cloack and threw it away. It was Touzokuou Bakura-Sama. Yami Bakura before he died.

The man on the right was different. His hair was white too, with the same five plucks that were always hanging on Ryou's forehead. The rest of his hair was long and graceful, like the mane of a lion. And his eyes; they were almost like Ryou's. Really big, thin white eyebrows above them. But his eyes had a warm, purple-blue color and the lower eyelashes pointed up in stead of down. His face was similair to Ryou's, just as delicate, exept for the scar that also ran down his right cheek. His body was identical to the body of Touzokuou Bakura-Sama. He wore the clothes Ryou was wearing, with razor-sharp, pointy bracelets. A quiver was hanging down his back. Moonlight Bakura. If young Yami Bakura wouldn't have gotten evil he would have been like that. Moonlight Bakura was a Shadow Soul. A soul of a person that had never existed.

The gang was shocked, Yami Bakura most. Ryou had seen everything that had happened, but it couldn't penetrate his mind. He could hear the breath of his father become weaker and weaker. He could feel the heartbeat of his father get slower and slower. He lay his cheek on his father's hair and cried.

"Go, my son."Yami Bakura's mother said to one of the ancient Bakura's present. Moonlight gave a nod with his head and walked over to Ryou and his father. Ryou looked up at him, scared. He could not read any emotions in the eyes of the soul looming over him. Moonlight grabbed the wrists of Mr Bakura. His big hands began to glow. He closed his eyes and focussed.

Mr Bakura's breath and heartbeat became stronger. The color returned to his face. He stirred and opened his eyes. He could vaguely see a face, with big eyes, surrounded by white hair. He thought it was Ryou's, but when he took a closer look he saw it wasn't Ryou's face at all. It was just an Egyptian that looked much like his son. Suddenly another face appeared besides the face of the Egyptian man. A face that sneezed when it got a pluck of hair in it's nose. Ryou's face. Ryou looked at him in amazement. A big smile spread across his wet face. His eyes were red and his nose was dripping. "Dad! You're back!"he yelled. He looked at the copper-colored guy besides him. Moonlight looked back and gave a slight smile. His eyes became warm for a moment. When he stood up his eyes were as emotionless as before again. He walked back, bowed for his mother and took place besides her again.

Ryou ensconced himself in the arms of his father. "Oh Dad... I was so scared you were going to die..."he mumbled. Mr Bakura hugged him tightly. "I'm still with you, Ryou."he warmly said. "I won't let you down." Father hugged son. They released eachother. Ryou sat down besides his father.

Suddenly a soft "Uuuhhn!" broke silence. It sounded like Ryou's voice. Mr Bakura looked at Ryou, but Ryou looked back with alert eyes and was not in pain. It wasn't Ryou who had groaned. But who was it, then? A second "Uuuhhn!" could be heard. Now Mr Bakura was sure it wasn't Ryou. Ryou hadn't opened his mouth. But he saw Ryou look at something and start. His eyes widened rapidly and his jaw fell. When Mr Bakura followed his gaze he saw who had groaned.

It was Moonlight. He had fallen on one knee and had wrapped his arms around his chest. His eyes were cramped shut and he breathed chest-heavingly. When he coughed little golden drops sprayed out of his mouth. Soulblood. He fell onto his other knee too. He slapped his hand in front of his mouth and gagged blood all over himself.

"The poison that affected Mr Bakura is now affecting him."the ever so cool Odion said. "But the process is been sped up for some reason." "We must help him!"Joey cried. "Can't we do anything to help him? HEY, MA'AM! IT'S YOUR SON THAT'S DYING!" But Yami Bakura's mother and Touzokuou looked at it and did not interfere. Yami Bakura looked at it bemused. He had thought only Ryou would be so stupid to sacrifice himself in order to save someone else, but appareantly other people had that bad tendency too.

Moonlight had fallen with his face in the sand, but drew himself up one more time. He still clutched with one hand at his chest. "Aaaarrgh!"he uttered. More blood ran down his chin. Then he rolled over to his back. His eyes turned away and closed. His hand slid down his chest and fell in the grey sand. His other hand was lying besides his head, covered with sand and blood. A little bit of sand was stuck in the bloodied corners of his small mouth.

Ryou, who had been holding his breath, let out a shuddering sigh. Yami had pushed Yugi's face in his jacket so he would not witness Moonlight's death throes. Tea had covered her face with her hands. Joey had grabbed Tristan's sleeve. Tristan had slapped a hand in front of his mouth. Marik looked at it in terror. Odion's face did not reveal his thoughts. Touzokuou and Yami Bakura's mother seemed to be absolutely emotionless. Yami Bakura stared at the "corpse" of the fallen soul open-mouthed. Shaadi was gone.

"He... is...he.."Joey stammered. Marik found the courage to walk over to Moonlight and lay a hand in the thick neck. He looked up and shook no. Ryou looked up at his father. The eyes of the older man were as big as saucers. Ryou knew what went around in the head of his father. Moonlight had sacrificed himself in order to save him and now Mr Bakura felt guilty as hell.

Suddenly the dead body stirred. Marik hopped up with a scream and rushed over to Odion. Moonlight opened his eyes and got up. The blood had vanished. He shook the sand out of his hair and went to stand next to his mother again. He sent Ryou's father a warm look. Mr Bakura hesitatingly smiled back.

"You still haven't told me what you exactly want, woman."Yami Bakura's angry voice suddenly came. "I came to warn you."his mother answered. "That power..." "What's wrong with that power?"Yami Bakura interrupted. He began to get really pissed. "You must give it up."the Egyptian woman said.

Yami Bakura began to boil over. "NOBODY TELLS THE LORD OF THE SHADOW REALM WHAT TO DO!"he screamed and ran over to his mother, fist raised.

Moonlight suddenly flew between the Yami and his mother. Yami Bakura ran into his massive chest. Both souls fell to the floor. "If you want to attack my mother you must first get past me."Moonlight said in old Egyptian. His voice sounded lower than Ryou's, and more confident. Mr Bakura, Joey, Tea and Tristan did not understand what he said, but the others did. Ryou was surprised he could understand the language.

Yami Bakura walked back a few meters, but suddenly spun around and fired a black bolt of dark energy that came from deep within. It flew in the direction of Moonlight.

But Moonlight crossed his fists in front of his face and fired a bolt similair to that. Yami Bakura had not known Moonlight also held the Powers of Darkness. The bolts collided in mid-air. The persons who had fired the bolts were thrown to the floor. They both scrambled up again, ready to continue fighting.

But suddenly a black shadow surrounded Ryou. The boy twisted his frail body in all kinds of weird postures and moaned. When he opened his eyes they radiated a red light. Yami Bakura was caught in the light and began to sway a bit. He gasped and clutched at his throat. When the light vanished again Yami and Hikari were lying on the floor, panting and gasping.

Yami Bakura had a high endurance and recovered quickly. If he could not beat Moonlight that way, he should find another way to beat him. He looked at the penant hanging down his chest. The good old Millennium Ring. He activated the Millennium Item, that immediately activated the Ring hanging down Ryou's chest too. Ryou let out a small cry. Blue beams exploded out of both Items.

Moonlight fired a ray of his energy too, but the energy was completely different from the Millennium Magic. The beams pierced right through the energyshield he had produced and hit him in the chest. The power of the attack sent him sprawling.

Yami Bakura walked over to the dizzy soul with a look of pure, evil amusement on his face. His teeth were long, like those of a vampire. His eyes had the color of fresh blood. And that was what the evil Yami wanted to see. Blood. He grabbed Moonlight by the hair and lifted him from the ground. Yami Bakura lived inside a weak body, but he had kept the amazing physical he had had before his death.

He punched Moonlight hard in the stomach. Moonlight uttered a shrieking noise and wrapped his arms around his poor stomach. Yami Bakura raised his hand to slap him again.

Ryou looked at Moonlight. The look in the eyes, the expression on the face, the way he tried to crawl away from the Yami and pulled up his knees to protect his chest... Ryou recognised that all. That was they way he looked like when his Yami was for some reason torturing him. Something began to boil inside Ryou. He narrowed his eyes. He clenched his fists. He strained the sinewy muscles in his arms and chest.

At the moment Yami Bakura wanted to bring down his fist something white flew into his field of vision and grabbed his wrists. He was flabbergasted when he saw it was his host. Ryou looked more like Yami Bakura than like himself. He was furious. A golden light enveloped him. The light did not come from the Ring. It came from deep inside Ryou's heart. His hands were still clasped in Yami Bakura's. The two Bakuras tried to push each other down. Yami Bakura was surprised when he felt how hard it was to push his usually weak Hikari down.

"GET'M, BAKURA!"Joey madly screamed. "SHOW HIM WHO'S THE MAN!" Marik, Yugi and Yami did not dare to cheer. Their Items sensed what others couldn't see. They saw Ryou was quickly weakening.

Suddenly the golden light vanished. Ryou crashed to the ground. Yami Bakura, who had not expected that, almost fell on top of him. When he saw Ryou had lost his powers his anger grew. "Never do that again, Yadonushi!"he shouted. Ryou was submissive as ever and hung his head. "N-no."he stammered. Yami Bakura went to stand behind him and squeezed him in the neck, just above the collarbone. Ryou threw his head in his neck and opened his mouth in pain. "I did not quite understand you, Omote."Yami Bakura whispered. "What did you say?" Ryou hung his head again. "Lie, Shukun."he softly said.

Mr Bakura looked at his son in shock. Ryou had called that thing, that ghost his master! Master! What had happened to Ryou's dignity?

"Good."Yami Bakura contently said. He took his shoe off. "Now kiss my feet." Ryou looked up with an incredulous look in his eyes. "Eh?"he said rather stupidly. Yami Bakura touched Ryou's nose with his toe. "Kiss-my-feet."he said in a deadly whisper.

Yugi was startled when he saw Ryou got on hands and knees. He was shocked when he saw Ryou brought his head closer to Yami Bakura's foot. He was bemused when he saw Ryou revealed a mouthful of white teeth and bit his Yami in the ankle.

"AAAAAAAOOOOW!"Yami Bakura screamed. "BAKURA! WORTHLESS RAT!" He kicked Ryou in the face. Ryou fell onto his back, holding his cheekbone in his hand. He rolled over to his stomach and curled himself up to a ball, trying to protect his head with his hands. Punches kept raining down on his back and the back of his head.

"Someone stop him!"Tea screamed. Tristan tried to run over to Yami Bakura and stop him, but Yami Bakura activated the Millennium Ring and pushed him back.

He turned Ryou to his back and pulled his wrists down. He revealed Ryou's scared face, the left cheek swollen and vaguely gold-colored. He began to kick and punch Ryou at every available piece of his body, especially in the face and stomach. Ryou cried out in pain. "Please! OW! You'll kill me! OUCH! Please, stop! AAAAAIIII!" Yami Bakura had kicked him the ribs with al his might.

Mr Bakura was horrified. He had never heard his son scream like that. He saw Ryou wiggle, the delicate face turned into a mask of pain.

Suddenly Touzokuou rushed over to Yami Bakura, swung his arms under Yami Bakura's and pushed his fists in the neck of the Yami. Yami Bakura managed to give Ryou one last kick, but felt the fists of the soul holding him in his neck. He knew Touzokuou could easily break his nack if he wanted to. And only Shadow Souls were immortal, because they had never existed, as Moonlight had proven already. Yami Bakura's was immortal too, but for a Yami it was extremely painful to come back as a living soul again. He hung his head. "Okay, I give up. You've got me."he said. Moonlight did not trust him and quickly pulled Ryou away from him. Ryou screamed in pain when Moonlight accidentally touched one of his broken ribs.

Touzokuou made the mistake of relieving the pressure on Yami Bakura's thin neck. Yami Bakura wrenched himself free, spun around and flew at Touzokuou's neck, quick like a viper. Touzokuou felt the fingers of the demon wrap themselves around his neck in an iron grip. He began to suffocate and uttered a choked cry for help at the adress of his " brother".

Moonlight carefully lay the softly groaning Ryou down in the arms of his father. Then he flew with so much power into Yami Bakura's side that the ancient Spirit of the Millennium Ring let go of Touzokuou's throat and rolled over the ground, together with Moonlight. Touzouou coughed and rubbed his sore throat. Moonlight and Yami Bakura rolled over the ground, delivering each other punches and kicks. Moonlight was bigger than Yami Bakura and more muscular, but concerning physical strength they were equally matched. The two men groaned and cried out, kicked and punched, scratched and bit. Touzokuou decided to interfere and just slapped the first white-haired head he saw. It happened to be Moonlight's. "SAY, HAVE YOU GONE MAD?!"the Shadow Soul furiously shouted at a stupified Touzokuou. Touzokuou turned red and dove into the clew of fighting souls.

The others watched them fight. Yami Bakura fought like a lion. The two other souls were having a hard time trying to beat him. Suddenly Yami Bakura hit Touzokuou so hard on the chin that the soul of the thief fell onto his back and passed out. Yami Bakura stood over him, legs wide and wanted to send him to the Shadow Realm forever.

But before he could activate his Ring Moonlight rushed forward and grabbed his neck from behind. He bent Yami Bakura's neck forward so quickly that he could hear it snap. Yami Bakura's body numbed. He slumped onto his back on the floor. He could not feel his arms, legs, chest and belly any more. Moonlight had broken his neck. He was paralyzed.

Mr Bakura still held Ryou. He was really worried, especially when Ryou's breath began to rasp and a little streamlet of blood began to trickle from the corner of his mouth. He saw Moonlight threw worried glances on Ryou. Moonlight woke Touzokuou up. Touzokuou went to stand next to his mother like nothing had happened.

"Ra! What's going on?"Yami Bakura cried. "I can't move!" He saw his mother loom over him, the two ancient souls at her flanks. "Moonlight broke your neck."she said. "Will you listen now?" "I don't have the impression I have much of a choice."Yami Bakura muttered. His mother knelt down besides him. "Look at what has become of you."she sadly said. She stood and walked over to Moonlight, who was squatted on the floor. "You could have become happy and healthy. You could have built up a family and lived long and prosper." She stroked Moonlight over the hair. Moonlight closed his eyes and smiled. He lay his cheek in her hand. They could almost hear him purr. Yami Bakura's mother released him and went over to Touzokuou. She lay a hand on his hair to, but he did not even look up. He kept staring at Yami Bakura, a cold, bitter look in his eyes. "But you became bitter and went astray. You died young." "Hoh! But I continued living five-thousand years later!"the Yami on the floor blustered.

"You won't for long, if you go on like this."his mother said in such an indifferent way that he shut up. "What?"Yami Bakura asked. "Why not?" His mother knelt down besides him again and turned his head to Ryou. "Let us show you."

"Omote!"Yami Bakura hissed. "I knew it was because of you!" He sent Ryou a look full of hatred. Ryou crawled back.

Suddenly the Ring on Yami Bakura's chest exploded in a flash of golden light. Yami Bakura was thrown onto hhis feed and remained standing there. He looked down at the shocked souls in front of him. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS!"he screamed. "YOU ARE ALL GOING TO PAY!"

Yami and Marik exchanged glances and nodded to eachother. Yami concentrated his thoughts on the Millennium Puzzle. Marik tightly held the Millennium Rod in his hand. Then they both attacked. The eye of Sennen appeared on Yami's forehead. Yami Bakura was caught in a flash of golden light. But it did not seem to affect him at all. He activated his Ring and sent the fire back. Both Yami and Marik were blown upside-down. Marik blacked out, but Yami, as a Yami, had a higher endurance. He scrambled up again, knowing Yami Bakura could not be beaten by Millennium Magic.

Moonlight and Touzokuou both fired rays of dark power, but Yami Bakura formed a shield that made the attack bounce off and return to the person it originated from. Both Egyptians flew through the air screaming and landed on thier backs. They both knew the future was all up to Yami Bakura.

And that future did not appear to be a good one. Ryou was sick and coughing up blood. Marik had blacked out. Millennium Magic was not able to harm the furious Yami, and Moonlight and Touzokuou weren't able to beat him either.

"TO THE SHADOW REALM YOU WILL GO!"Yami Bakura screamed. "ALL OF YOU! YOU TOO, BAKURA! YOU WILL WANDER IN THERE FOREVER! HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA!"

This is actually the second time I'm writing this chapter. Somehow the status of the previous version had gotten lost. I could read the chapter, but the computers did not know whatever it was. I had to create a new file in order to upload it. It took me hours to write the newer version, but this one became better than the previous one.

Believe it or not, but chapter seven was completed before chapter six. Whatever.

Ryou: I can see a little beak!

Ryou-Ran: (is overexited) A little beak, a little beak, a little beaheak!

Yami Bakura: (holds a frying-pan in his hands) Warn me when it has hatched. I'm going to heat the oil.

Ryou-Ran: Oh, no, you won't! (snatches the frying-pan out of Yami Bakura's hands and hits him on the head with it)

Yami Bakura: Ow... that... hurt... (has a head with a frying-pan-print on it)

Yugi: Oh, it comes out!

Ryou-Ran: It comes out, it comes out, it comes ou-out!

Eggshell: (cracks)

Little Chicken: (sits on the table)

Ryou: Aw, look at that!

Ryou-Ran: My little chicken!

Mr Bakura: It's white with brown eyes! It's a Ryou-chicken!

Moonlight: (extends his hand and shakes Ryou-Ran's entire arm) Congratulations!

Yami Bakura: (pouts) Can't we really have it for dinner?

Ryou-Ran: No! I don't want anyone to eat my kawaii chibi Ryou-chicky! Can you guard him and Ryou for us, Hikari Lunar?

Question: Can someone give my little chicken a name? A Japanese name would be just fine. A name in Swahili would be a little weird, don't you think? Ryou will kiss the person that finds the name I like most.

Ryou: OO" I will?

Ryou-Ran: You will.

Pleaaaasssse review!