Saiyan Jedi: -_-; I've been neglecting this.
Kageka: Yeah, you have. SHAME ON YOU!
Saiyan Jedi: But it took me so freaking long to figure out that stupid sentence! And I didn't even use it!
Dragon Child: So? You could have gotten someone else to do it.
Saiyan Jedi: they're both against me! I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. This is the LAST intro chapter, I SWEAR!
Yami talking to hikari
^Hikari talking to yami^
~No POV~
Meanwhile, halfway across town, Yami flinched and felt his shoulder, almost as if he had been the one who was shot.
"What's your problem, pharaoh?" Marik asked, pausing. Even though circumstances had forced them to work together, they still disliked each other.
"I think Yugi's hurt." Yami said and opened up the mind link between he and his hikari.
Yugi, are you alright? he asked, trying to not sound as anxious as he felt. They were close to their goal and if something went wrong now, the entire plan was screwed.
Silence came from the other side of the link.
Yugi? Yami reiterated, and when he still heard nothing, he panicked, well as much as he can. Yugi, answer me! still nothing, so he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and told the others, "Yugi isn't answering. I think something happened to him."
"I'll ask Ryou if he knows anything." Bakura said. And opened up their link. Vessel! Did anything happen over there?
^Bakura? Something's wrong. Yugi answered the door, there was a shot, and by the time we got there he was gone, a bullet hole in the opposite wall and blood on the floor.^ Ryou said, sounding very frightened.
What about the other two and yourself, all unharmed?
^We're all fine, scared, but fine.^
We'll be right over. Bakura looked up, keeping the link open in the back of his mind just in case, and told the others what Ryou had said. Almost before he'd finished, Yami was running off towards the game shop.
The others followed, trying to keep up with the worried former pharaoh.
Ryou met them at the door and showed them the bullet hole and blood spot on the floor. "You need to tell us what's going on. Now." He said after the group had finished looking at the hole and spot.
"Alright. Come into the living room and we'll tell Mokuba and Malik as well." Seto said. When they were all in the living room, Seto started off. "This all started four days ago, when I received a strange e-mail. It read something along the lines of 'Lock your doors and warn the spirits, I am coming.' I would have thought nothing about it, except it was in my private e-mail, an account only two people not including myself know about and it was addressed 'former high priest'. So, I kept quiet until three days ago, when Marik called me about a strange letter he got, with no postage and no return address that read along the same lines but with instructions to tell me that I was neglecting what our mystery correspondent had told me to do. I of course told him about the e-mail then called Bakura and Yami."
Yami picked up from there, "Two days ago I got a letter, telling me that I would soon loose possession of my Puzzle, and that the others would loose their items. It also said that Seto would loose his power, whatever that is in this modern day. The signature, which was absent on the e-mail and Marik's letter, was a golden scarab. I called the other and we arranged to meet during the night, but we couldn't meet until last night. Originally we planned to tell you all about the situation as soon as we got the background information."
From there, Bakura began. "Then something happened that changed everything. Yesterday I got a letter that threatened all the hikaris and Mokuba. It said that we would get another letter today and if we did not comply to what they wanted, they'd kill you."
Then Marik spoke, "so we met last night and found out over the Internet that the signature on the letter to the pharaoh is a mysterious Egyptian artifact with a heavy curse on it. So heavy that people die within a day of touching it, and no one has ever been known to survive touching it. But it disappeared fifteen years ago during a solar eclipse."
"We suspect that it's some kind of rouge Millennium Item." Seto added, "and that the holder plans to use you four to get their Items and whatever power I supposedly held in Egypt." Seto still didn't quite believe in all that magic crap, but someone had found out somehow what his private e-mail account was, and he hadn't gotten any trace that anyone had hacked into his system to get to it. That required some deal of unexplainable phenomenon, magic or not.
"After we met, Bakura and I walked here talking. This is on his way home, and he stopped here to use the restroom. He was about to come out when Yugi woke up and I pushed him back into the bathroom, closing the door behind me. Then the letter arrived. As had all the previous letters, we turned around and there it was, with no explanation of how. The two of us were to go to the docks at two o'clock in the afternoon. Neither Marik nor Kaiba were to accompany us. Bakura punched the wall hard enough to leave a dent, which I'm sure Yugi saw this morning, then he left out the window and I made it out of the bathroom and downstairs to the breakfast table with time to spare." Yami added
"When we arrived at the docks, we were greeted by four large, burly men. They immediately rushed us and engaged us in a fight. When we tried to use shadow magic on them or even send them to the shadow realm they seemed impervious to it, so we ended up defeating them by pushing them into the water. None of them seemed to be able to swim very well, but they could float. Yami was badly injured and seeing as we're in the same nasty situation, I helped him back here."
"At about the time the two of them were fighting, Kaiba got another e-mail, telling him that the tomb robber and the pharaoh would be here and to call me and tell me to come here as well. Then it said to leave the game shop. No real instructions on where to go or how long to stay gone. Under normal circumstances none of us would be that stupid, but our hikaris were being threatened so we decided to go. When we came Yami and Bakura put up no argument because they knew that it was likely that we had received a letter and not them." Marik said.
"Of course we see now that the reason was so that whoever it is would have a hostage, but what could we do." Seto added.
"That's a lot to take in at one time." Malik muttered.
"Did you figure out what that scarab does?" Ryou asked.
"Taking into account what the scarab is in Egyptian mythology, we figured that it had something to do with life and death." Seto shrugged. "Perhaps we're right, perhaps we're wrong."
"I'm thirsty." Yami announced and got up and went into the kitchen.
"Bakura, how'd your wounds heal so fast? Yami's, too, they're almost completely healed."
"An abstract form of shadow magic. It helps our bodies heal, but if we act too strenuous soon after they heal, they'll rip open again easier."
"KAIBA, MARIK, BAKURA!" Yami shouted from inside the kitchen.
"What?" Seto asked and the three said males jumped up and ran into the kitchen, to discover Yami standing there with a letter of papyrus in his hand.
"Another one?!" Bakura groaned.
"It's a warning. They're taunting us, it says if we don't watch out what happened to Yugi might happen to the other hikaris or Mokuba."
"Let's get in there and watch them, then!" Marik snapped and went back into the living room. Bakura followed, but Kaiba stayed behind.
"Does it name anything specifically?" he asked Yami in what would be considered a gentle tone.
"No. I hope he'll be alright, though."
"He will be, Yami. He's strong. And we'll find him before anything bad happens."
~Yugi's POV~
I woke up slowly and I found myself in a cold dark room. I couldn't see anything, it was that dark. My shoulder stung, but also felt dry. I think perhaps they cleaned the wound.
"Oh, the poor boy. He's fallen right into the middle of things. Right in the middle of a plot several thousand years in the making." A cruel female voice said and through the darkness I could make out the glint of a golden scarab.
Saiyan Jedi: Okay, folks, you have as much explanation as the yamis and Seto have, that enough for you? And the quote from the villain was originally going to be in Latin, then she'd correct herself and translate it in the beginning of the next chapter or the end of this, but I realized that I don't know how to say that last half. And it's not nearly so dramatic the other way. Replies!
Haku: Bubble Tea? Anyways, by my reckoning, I did leave you with a cliffy, and then leave you hanging for a month. Oops!
Iced Blood: I wouldn't miss your story! You've got me hooked! I know I can jump around kinda fast. One second I'm thinking about anime, the next I'm thinking about a book I'm reading. I think I need a roadmap for my head.
Lone Wolf16: POTENTIAL! YEAH! Well actually, when does potential evolve into something else? My mom has a closet and room full of crap she insists have potential. But they are almost newer used as anything else? The plot has been collected, as far as the yamis and Seto know, y'all know too. But I still can't fine-tune the scarab's powers!
Reaver of Heaven: If they're in something life-or-death, yeah, he would. Glad you reviewed and please do so again!
Saiyan Jedi: Now that that's done – carpe diem!