And again I was forced to write this chappie for the second time because Fanfic couldn't upload it. This really pisses me! I can now only update every three days in stead of one, as usual.
(This been written just after having placed it in de document manager: Yes! It uploaded! (hugs computer) I'm so glad I do not have to write it for the third time...)
The name of the chicken is decided, he's called Chikao! I found it such a cute name... But don't be disappointed, I'm going to breed out lots of chickens and give them the other names that have been proposed. I just hope the chicken called Goku won't Kamehameha my house into pieces.
And because you all did the best you could Ryou will kiss everybody!
Ryou: OO"
Ryou-Ran: Off you go, Ryou!
Ryou: Okay, I'll be back, I hope...
Yami Bakura: (holds a frying-pan) Are we going to eat toasted chicken tonight?
Ryou-Ran: No, we won't! Give me that frying-pan!
Yami Bakura: (reluctantly hands the pan over)
Ryou-Ran: (hits him with pan)
Yami Bakura: OWIE! What was that good for?!
Ryou-Ran: Just to warn you to keep your hands off Chikao. Don't even think of eating him!
Yami Bakura: (pouts) It's not fair, no chicken...
Ryou-Ran: Go stuff yourself with something else. Why don't you go outside and drink some blood, or something?
Yami Bakura: I do not need to go outside for that. (begins to chase Marik around the room)
Marik: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! HELP! VAMPIRE!
Yami Bakura: I'm going to drink your blood! GRAH!
Ryou-Ran: Who is going to do the disclaimer this time?
Moonlight: I am! Please, can I do it? (gives Ryou-Ran THE Ryou-look)
Ryou-Ran: Go ahead. (almost falls on her knees in front of him)
Moonlight: (utters something unintelligible)
Joey: What was that?
Touzokuou: "Ryou-Ran does not own Yu-Gi-Oh!" in ancient Egyptian.
Ryou-Ran: --" And there we go.
Tree fed, plant dead.
"WAAAAAAAH! I DON'T WANT TO GO TO THE SHADOW REALM!"Joey screamed, grabbed Yami by the front of his jacket and shook him roughly. "YAMI, DO SOMETHING!" "There's nothing we can do!"a bit of a seasick Yami cried. "He's too strong for us! And let go of me!" Odion and Yugi were waking Marik up. Tristan stood in front of the group, fists balled, wanting to protect them. Tea hid behind him. Ryou was sitting next to Mr Bakura. "I knew this would happen."he softly said. A jolt of pain went through his chest and made his gasp.
Moonlight and Touzokuou were not afraid. They were standing about twenty feet away from the raging Yami. "Ra has forsaken us!"Moonlight said. "We can't beat him!" "If he didn't have that Ring he would be easier to beat."Touzokuou said. "I know it's powers. It is completely different from the power we both possess." They looked at Yami Bakura and grinded their teeth.
"IT'S ALL OVER! SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR LOVED ONES! YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO SEE THEM AGAIN!"Yami Bakura bellowed. His teeth had grown out to long fangs. His eyes were big, but the irisses were small. His hair was billowing in all directions. The pointers of the Millennium Ring were moving frantically. Suddenly they all pointed in the same direction; at the group of souls standing and sitting in front of him.
Moonlight, Touzokuou and Tristan all gave the same reaction: they clenched their jaws and placed one foot firmly on the ground in front of them. Yugi and Odion helped a shocked Marik get up.
"What made you so bitter, my son?"Yami Bakura's mother shouted over the noise the Yami created. "What made you kill the Pharaoh?" Everybody looked at her in shock. Yami was flabbergasted. The evil Spirit of the Ring had killed him? Yami Bakura just snorted. The circle of golden light surrounding him had gotten larger and almost touched Touzokuou's feet.
Suddenly they could hear the voices of children. Yami Bakura abruptly de-activated the Ring. Through the mist they could clearly see the forms of two little boys.
The boy on the left had white hair that stuck up on the back of his head like the ears of a cat. He had enormous blue-purple eyes and a small mouth. His face was similair to that of a younger Ryou. He wore a pure-white skirt, a tiara on his head, a silver necklace and his arms and legs were plated with gold. His skin was copper-colored. It was a younger version of Moonlight Bakura. This was Yami Bakura at age eight, long before he got bitter and evil. He did not have a scar on his cheek.
The boy on the right had white hair too, that brushed over his small shoulders. His face was similair to little Moonlight's. His skin was just a little paler. He wore shorts and a T-shirt with the kanji for "Ryou" written on it. Ryou at age eight. He was strong and healthy. His skin was not pale, as the skin of the older Ryou, but was gold-colored.
The boys had been walking besides eachother, but now went their own way. Little Ryou walked over to Ryou, gave him an enormous smile and allowed him to lean on his shoulder. Little Moonlight went to stand besides Moonlight and let his small hand slip into Moonlight's.
Yami Bakura stared at them. The little boys were not scared. They had a look of "and we will all go down together" on their angellic faces. Little Ryou had slapped an arm around Ryou's leg. Ryou's hand rested on his shoulder. Little Moonlight was leaning with his shoulder against Moonlight's hip. He had an arm crossed in front of his already muscular chest.
The evil Yami did not know what to do. He activated the Ring, but de-activated it again. The percevearance he read in the eyes of the boys confused him. He saw Ryou had that look on his face too. Moonlight, on the other hand, had a look on his face that said: "You can't beat me." The four Bakuras confused Yami Bakura, turned his thoughts into a mess.
"OKAY! OKAY! TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL ME!"he suddenly screamed. The pointers of the Ring had fallen down. It was not active any more.
"Good."his mother said. "Do you know what happens every time you use the Powers of Darkness you retrieved yesterday?" Yami Bakura shook no. "When you use those powers you will draw energy from the body you are in. When you were still alive that wasn't much of a problem because your body was strong and you did not really know how to use the power. But Ryou's body is weak. Every time you use that power you draw energy from Ryou's body. Ryou's soul will automatically draw energy from your soul in order to feed his body. But your energy is completely different from Ryou's. Ryou has got human energy, but yours exists completely of Darkness. Ryou will slowly get sicker and sicker until his soul is completely filled with darkness."Yami Bakura's mother said. Yami Bakura nervously stepped back. "I don't believe you!"he shouted. His hands trembled. Yami had never seen him that nervous before.
"You don't believe me?"Yami Bakura's mother said. "Then allow us to show you." She gestured with her hand in the direction of Moonlight.
Moonlight spun around one one foot and then fired off one of his bracelets. The sharp, pointy end dug itself into Ryou's chest, right between two ribs. Golden blood began to spray out of the wound. Ryou's eyes turned away and then closed. He fell down without a sound. Mr Bakura let himself fall onto his knees and grabbed the shoulders of his son. He shook him roughly. "RYOU! SAY SOMETHING!"he hysterically cried. Ryou's head rolled around like a rag-doll's. His soul was dead.
In the real world Ryou's eyes opened. They were empty. The eyes of a young man without a soul.
Mr Bakura leapt up. Tears ran down his face. He rushed over to Moonlight and punched him with all his might in the chest. "YOU MURDERER! YOU KILLED MY SON! MY ONLY CHILD!"he screamed. Moonlight's chest was so thick that he barely felt the punches, but the words the Japanese man hurtled at him hurt him badly. He grabbed Mr Bakura's wrists. "NO! YOU NO UNDERSTAND!"he cried in broken Japanese. Mr Bakura was crazy with sadness and tried to wrench his wrists free. "YES, I DO UNDERSTAND! YOU KILLED RYOU!"he yelled. "MY WIFE'S DEAD, MY DAUGHTER IS DEAD, NOW MY SON'S DEAD TOO!" "LISTEN!"Moonlight screamed with such an authority in his voice that Mr Bakura shut up. "Ryou no dead. He come back. If Shadow Soul kills he can bring back."he said, looking right in Mr Bakura's eyes. Mr Bakura collapsed. Moonlight could just catch him, or he would have fallen. "You mean Ryou can be revived?"he asked. Moonlight cocked a brow. "Revived?"he asked, not understanding. "Ryou will be alive?"Mr Bakura asked, rephrasing his sentence. Moonlight nodded fiercely. "Yes. But Ryou not well. Much pain."he said. "Come back cause Ryou pain." Mr Bakura hung with one arm over Moonlight's shoulder. He was absolutely exhausted. He looked at the "corpse" of his son's soul. Blood still ran down the thin chest. Ryou's arms were spread, like he was about to fly away. The bracelet was still stuck between his ribs.
"Now let us show you."Yami Bakura's mother said.
Mist began to flow out of Ryou's nose and half open mouth. It formed a cloud hovering above him. In the cloud they could see two forms appear. It served as a window that showed the future.
Through the window they could see Yami lying on the floor. Yami Bakura was standing over him, a mean grin on his face. He bent over to take the Puzzle off Yami's neck. Yami tried to crawl away from him.
But suddenly the expression on Yami Bakura's face changed completely. His eyes began to bulge. His mouth was wide open, but no cry came from it. Yami looked at him in shock. Yami Bakura's hair fell down and he crashed to the ground, no, Ryou crashed to the ground. His face had an alarming grey color. Yami got on hands and knees and shook him. "BAKURA! SAY SOMETHING! PLEASE, BAKURA!"he cried.
The next moment the window showed a hospitalroom. Ryou was lying in a bed. Stickers were attached to his forehead and chest. An oxigen-tube was inserted into his nose. He did not move a finger. Only his chest rose and fell slowly. Yugi was sitting at his right side, Mr Bakura at his left. Mr Bakura stroked Ryou's hand.
Suddenly Ryou bent his back in a heavy convulsion. He uttered a long moan. The monitor checking his heartbeat produced a chilling "BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!" The line on it had flattened. Ryou opened his eyes widely. A rattling sound came from deep inside his throat. A load of nurses burst in, shoving Yugi and Mr Bakura aside. They began to pump on Ryou's chestbone and tried to make him breathe again. Another one of them came in with a defibrilator. She placed two metal discs on Ryou's chest, shouted "Loose!" and sent bolts of electricity through Ryou's frail body. And again. And again... until the doctor stated him dead. Mr Bakura sighed and passed out. The Millennium Ring, that had been lying on the bedside-table, suddenly emanated a bright light. One by one the pointers fell off. The Ring was useless. The Spirit of the Ring was dead.
The mist disappeared. Yami Bakura had been staring at it open-mouthed. He had seen the future. A future that meant a certain death for him. He staggered back, tripped over a rock and fell onto his rear end. He did not care to get up again.
Moonlight knelt down besides Ryou and gently pulled the bracelet out of Ryou's chest. He looked at it in disgust and then crushed it under his heel, with a furious "Ungh!" Mr Bakura had been holding Ryou's hand all the time and it had been numb, but suddenly he felt the fingers curl around his. He saw Moonlight's eyes were radiating a blue light, that fell on the body of his son's soul.
Ryou rolled his head around. He exposed his teeth and sighed. Then he opened his big brown eyes. He tried to sit up, but screamed in pain and fell back again. "Ryou! What's the matter?!"his father cried. Ryou tossed and turned, hands pressed against his face. "My head! Everything hurts!"he yelled. Boiling oil ran through his veins and burned his heart and brains. Moonlight took the trembling boy in his arms. His lay his cool cheek on Ryou's feverish one. "Don't fight the pain."he softly said in Egyptian. "It will soon be over." Mr Bakura looked at the two almost identical boys. Moonlight treated Ryou as if he had known him for years. Almost the way a father would treat his son. "After all,"Mr Bakura thought, "that boy is Ryou's ancestor. In a way he is Ryou's father." He looked at his hands. "And mine..."
"A decision should be made."Yami Bakura's mother suddenly broke silence. Yami Bakura was startled by the sudden sound of her voice and leapt up. "You must decide now, before it's too late." Yami Bakura gulped. "Can't I just keep the powers but not use them?"he asked. His mother shook no. "The existance of those powers within Ryou already draws power from his body."she said. "It will kill him -and you- anyway."
The others watched. They all hoped Yami Bakura would give up the Powers of Darkness and that way, save his own life, and Ryou's. They did not care much about Yami Bakura, of course, but they did care about their friend Bakura-Kun.
Moonlight stood and lay Ryou in the arms of Mr Bakura. He walked over to Touzokuou. They both grabbed their bows and an arrow. They armed the bow, strained the tendons and pointed at something right between Yami Bakura and Ryou.
Suddenly Yami Bakura spread his arms and exposed his chest. He began to laugh insanely. The Millennium Ring thrashed around his neck. Moonlight and Touzokuou pointed their bows at the Yami and released the arrows.
Yami Bakura's laugh was cut off abruptly. Both arrows had hit him in the stomach. Blood squirted out of the wounds. Black blood. Yami Bakura looked down at the arrows and his blood. A horrible, shivering pant escaped his mouth. He had an eerie grin on his face. He fell onto his knees. Blood exploded from his mouth. He did not smile any more. Instead, a loud, reedy scream escaped him. It was the scream of a hurt animal, barely recognisable as Ryou's voice. His body made a weird move and he began to fall back slowly, almost like it was in slow motion. When he hit the floor the soul of the King of Thieves was dead.
Ryou inhaled deeply. The pain in his head had stopped. He felt fine again. The wounds on the bodies of Moonlight and Touzokuou disappeared. Ryou got up and walked over to the body of Yami Bakura. He looked down at the Yami, at the face that was so much like his, but so different too. He looked at the closed eyes and the half open mouth, where the now gold-colored blood was still flowing out of. "Is he-"Ryou began, but suddenly Yami Bakura opened his eyes. Ryou uttered a cry and rushed over to his father as fast as he could.
Yami Bakura got up. He looked at the souls surrounding him. His gaze rested on Ryou for a while. His eyes were brown, as before. Yami Bakura licked the blood off his chin, spun around and dissappeared into the darkness.
"You no stay. Souls grow weaker."Moonlight's pressing voice came. He meant to say the Shadow Realm was draining the souls of their energy. "Leave. Door is open." Mr Bakura walked over to him. Moonlight looked at him. "Who are you?"Mr Bakura asked. Moonlight sighed. "I Shadow Soul. Shadow Souls no exist."he said with a sad smile. He looked a lot like Ryou. "Touzokuou made me no exist." "Do you mean he killed you?"Mr Bakura incredulously asked. Moonlight looked a little helpless. "I... uh..."he hesitated, looked at his mother and let out a stream of Egyptian. His mother smiled. "Moonlight Bakura is who Touzokuou Bakura-Sama would have been if he hadn't gotten bitter."she said. "Shadow Souls are the souls that never even got the chance to exist. Because my son has become a Yami, Moonlight became a Shadow Soul. If Yami Bakura had not become a Yami, Moonlight would not have been here." Moonlight nodded. Mr Bakura grabbed his hand and shook it like a thermometer. "Well, thanks for having saved the life of my son, boy."he blustered, having regained his enthusiasm. Moonlight just smiled and gave Mr Bakura a pat on the back that almost sent the older man to his knees. Then he walked over to Ryou. He lay a hand on Ryou's shoulder. "I live in your heart."he said, tapping with his finger on Ryou's chest. "I in there for eternity." He slapped his arms around the skinny boy and hugged him warmly. Ryou felt safe, like there was a fortress built around him. Moonlight released him and began to gently push him in the direction of the gate that led to the corridoor between the two soulrooms. "Now go."he said. When Ryou spun around he saw Moonlight slowly vanish into the darkness. "No, Moonlight! Wait!"he cried in Egyptian, but Moonlight Bakura was gone. Ryou stood there a little lost. Then he remembered wat Moonlight had said when he touched Ryou's chest. Ryou lay his hand on his heart and could feel it beating strongly. "Remember you are never alone."a voice whispered inside his head. Moonlight's voice. Ryou looked up and smiled.
"Come on! We should leave this rotten place as soon as possible!"Tristan urgently said. He had opened the door already, ready to leave. The others followed him, but Yami dawdled a bit. He looked at Yami Bakura's mother and Touzokuou Bakura-Sama, who were still standing there. He looked at the bitter, arrogant face of Touzokuou and recognised Yami Bakura's face in it. "So the Spirit of the Millennium Ring is the one who killed me and made it possible for me to return as a Yami five-thousand years later."he thought. "That's what he meant to say with "I have done terrible things in the past to get my hands on the seven Millennium Items." Little Moonlight and little Ryou waved at him. Yami hesitatingly waved back and smiled a bit. Then he left the soulroom of the evil collegue Yami and closed the door behind himself.
When they stepped into Ryou's soulroom a bright light was shining. It came from Ryou's avatar. White Magic User Bakura was the avatar that possessed the Power of Life. The light he emanated refilled the souls with their former energy and made them feel warm inside. Ryou walked over to one of the walls of his soulroom. He rubbed it with is hand. It became a portal to the real world. He stepped through it, the others followed.
Yugi, Tea, Tristan, Joey, Mr Bakura, Marik and Odion opened their eyes and got up. Ryou did not open his eyes. He was unconscious and dried out, but there was a vague smile on his lips. Mr Bakura gave him something to drink and carried him home.
A week later the gang would return to Domino City. They were discussing the things that had happened in Mr Bakura's small living-room. "One thing is sure."Mr Bakura bellowed, lying a hand on Ryou's shoulder. "I don't think we'll ever forget what happened a week ago."
"That's was you think."A harsh voice answered. Mr Bakura felt the shoulder of his son stiffen. When he looked at him he looked right in the arrogant face of Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura made his hands form a circle around the Ring. He chuckled as the Ring began to glow. He erased their memories and filled them with events that had never transpired.
He had lost the Power of Darkness, but he had noticed something else. That power he had felt deep inside Ryou's soul, at the moment Ryou had attacked him, if he could get his hands on that...
End of fic. Tateretaa... (Dutch trumpet-sound) Guess what, I managed to get my hands on a DVD with the episode "Kwaadaardige Geest van de Ring" on it. Huh? What episode? The name is Dutch for "Malignant Spirit of the Ring". The American version is on that DVD, but I didn't watch it yet. I watched the Dutch version and Yami Bakura sounded like a farmer. Really weird. He tried to sound like someone with a low voice, and succeeded, but his voice (the natural voice of the actor) is usually so high that he was forced to mispronounce a few words. He said "bescherrremeuh" ("perrowtect") for example, in stead of "beschermen" ("protect"). And Yugi's acting was poor, as usual. Dutch Yugi is a poor actor. His voice is too high (sigh). Yami Bakura has got three different voices. His Duel Kingdom voice, his early BattleCity voice and his BattleShip voice. The DK voice sounds a little harsh and low. The BC voice sounds deep and not harsh. The BS voice is not very low, but extremely harsh. That's my favorite voice.
Thank Ra Yami Bakura will stop singing in the future when he uses him Millennium Ring.
And he gave a load of good screams in that episode. When the Reaper of the Cards destroyed him he screamed "AAAAAAAAAHHH-AAAAAAAAHHHHHRRRRRGGGGGLLL!" with every letter pronounced. The only Yu-Gi-Oh!-character able to give better screams than Yami Bakura is Ryou. I wish I could let you hear, but I can't. Dutch Marik gives the worst screames, together with Yugi.
My God, what have I been talking about?
Whatever. Back to business.
Marik: (is sitting up the lamp) SAVE ME! YAMI, YOU'RE THE PHARAOH! DO SOMETHING!
Yami Bakura: (tries to grab him) Come down! I'M HUNGRY!
Yami: Spirit of the Millennium Ring! I, King Yami, Pharaoh of Egypt, command you to leave Marik alone!
Yami Bakura: DOWN WITH THE PHARAOH! (drools all over the place)
Yami: (trips and falls)
Yami Bakura: OO Speaking of coincidences!
Lamp: (wire breaks, lamp comes down)
Marik: Whoa!
Lamp: (knocks Yami Bakura out) CRACK!
Yami Bakura: Aargh... (faints) XX
Moonlight: OO"
Ryou-Ran: That's the second lamp that comes down. (draws a new one and attaches it to the ceiling) Will you stop climbing into lamps, Marik?
Marik: Uhhh.... oooookkkkaaayyyy...
Ryou-Ran: (to Mr Bakura) I think Marik's battery should be replaced by a new one. This one is dead.
Marik: AAAAAAAAAARGH! (drops dead)
Yami: OO"
Touzokuou: WHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Odion: OH NO! MASTER MARIK!
Mr Bakura: That was just in a matter of speaking, Marik.
Marik: (hops up) You should have told me so.
Ryou-Ran: Ah, guess who's there? Ryou's back!
Ryou: (stumbles in, hair is a mess) H-hello...
Ryou-Ran: And, Ryou, was it fun?
Ryou: (is exhausted) I'm exhausted. (slumps down in a chair, falls asleep)
Ryou-Ran: Aw, look at that...
I'm going to start writing a new fic right away! TO DAH LAPTOP! (runs away, humming the intro of the "Thunderbirds")
Please review.