Kageka: If you people would not make her do that, I'm as eager to find out where this is going as y'all are!
Dragon Child: She has twelve reviews total, a max for her.
Kageka: kicks SJ's limp form She's either really dead or just out for a chapter. So…
Both: PARTY!
Dragon Child: opens door and all sorts of anime characters stream in, decked out in party hats and party favors Yami, if you will.
Yami: blows on party favor Saiyan Jedi, Dragon Child, and Kageka own nothing!
Yugi's POV
"What do you mean?" I asked, trying to sound timid.
"Do you really think I'll tell you, midget?" the woman said angrily.
"It's not like I can tell anyone else." I said with a shrug. Then I realized that I wasn't tied up. I sat up on the cot and looked around. Through the dim light I could tell that the floor was two different colors – one color near me and another about ten feet away from me.
"I'll tell you this much. This conflict goes back to when your yami was the pharaoh. You're in way over your head." She said and suddenly the lights came on. I saw that she was a girl about 15 or 16 who looked Egyptian. She was standing about five feet away, fingering the scarab.
"Is that a Millennium Item?" I asked, curious.
She glared at me, but then answered. "It is the Millennium Scarab."
"Why are you doing this?"
"Muto, you're pushing your luck." She said and walked away.
"One more thing, what's your name?" she stopped.
"Hbny, in your tongue, Ebony." And she walked away. "One more thing for you – if you wish to escape, be my guest… if you can get past the defenses of this place."
I stood and walked away form the bed, but the instant I touched the different colored floor, I was electrocuted.
No POV
Yami was jolted awake by a harsh pain all over his body, like an electric shock or something. He looked around and couldn't spot the source of his pain, and that left one option – it was a shadow of Yugi's pain. Yami shook his head. If he felt it that strong, then what kid of agony was his hikari experiencing?
"Yugi, Yami, I'm home!" He heard Grandpa yell. In all of what had been going on, Yami had forgotten about Grandpa, who'd been in Egypt with one of his American archeologist friends.
"This will not be good." Yami muttered, standing and walking out of the room to the hall. Grandpa was putting down his bags and looking around.
"Anyone home?" he asked.
"I am." Yami said, coming down the stairs.
"Where's Yugi?"
"That's a long story… and I know I should have called as soon as things started getting bad around here…"
"Stop beating around the bush, Yami. Where is Yugi?" Grandpa interrupted, giving Yami a glare that would whither Seto Kaiba. Yami bit his lip and then explained the situation.
"And after we explained it to the others, we decided to take a break for a while and rest." Yami finished.
"If anything happens to Yugi, I'll…" Grandpa said, but the doorbell rang, interrupting him.
"I'll get that." Yami said, almost running to the door. Boy, Grandpa could be SCARY when he was mad. Yami opened the door to see two police officers standing there, looking grave.
"Yami Muto?" one, a tall skinny woman whose badge read Officer O'Neil, asked.
"Yes." Yami said, almost unable to keep his voice steady.
"Can you come with us?" the other, a shorter man with a lot of muscle whose badge read Officer Greene, asked.
"Why?" Yami asked, feeling his mouth get dry.
"You are an acquaintance of Seto and Mokuba Kaiba, are you not?" O'Neil asked.
"I am."
"They were in a car crash. Before he blacked out, Seto Kaiba asked paramedics to bring you and two others to the hospital. Seeing as Seto Kaiba is a very famous person, they decided a police escort would be best." Greene replied and Yami blinked and had to keep his mouth from falling open. "We also have reason to suspect that it was not an accident."
"How are they?"
"Both are in ICU."
Yami ran through the hospital to the ICUs where the Kaibas were, pushing his way past several doctors and nurses. He arrived at the rooms – they were next to each other – to see Marik, Malik, Ryou, and Bakura there.
"So you were the other one notified?" Bakura asked, a slight amount of interest in his voice.
"Yeah. How are they doing?"
"Kaiba's almost well enough to be moved to a regular room, but they think they'll lose Mokuba." Ryou said, his voice cracking. He just barely stopped himself from crying. The three hikaris were very close to Mokuba and Malik was also close to tears.
"Look what they found at the scene of the crash." Marik said, handing Yami a piece of papyrus paper with a now familiar golden scarab on it.
"Things have gone too far. We need to find out who this person is. Fast." Yami said, adding quietly to the other yamis, "Before they kill someone."
"You don't think it'll go that far, do you?" Marik asked.
"I do." Yami said, shaking his head. "Mokuba is in bad shape, and Kaiba probably not far behind him. We don't know what's going on with Yugi and they've already threatened the hikaris and Mokuba."
"I agree with the pharaoh, as much as I hate to admit it." Bakura said with a sigh.
"Alright, so where are we going to look first. The only leads we've gotten are dead ends and Kaiba is currently unable to offer his assistance, which means that a vital part of our …" Marik stopped, trying to think of the right word.
"Our group, Marik." Yami whispered, "whether we like it or not, we're in this together, from the beginning to the end."
"Yes. An essential part of our group has pretty much been taken out." Marik said with only a slight glare cast Yami's way.
"So what kind of leads do we have to work off?" Bakura asked.
"Well, that one letter sent us to the docks… perhaps that's where they make their base." Yami said with a shrug.
"If that's the best we have to go on we're screwed." Marik muttered, but he and the other two stood anyway.
"Where are you going?" Malik asked.
"We have … business to attend to." Marik responded with a growl, "stay here."
"I'm coming too!" Malik said and stood.
"Me, too." Ryou stood next to Malik.
"No. If one of you has to come, then it'll be Malik. But, Ryou, we need someone to stay and protect Kaiba and Mokuba." Yami said gently.
"I'll stay." Ryou said, sitting again and picking up a magazine.
Yugi's POV
When I woke up I was on the cot again. It was still bright in the room and instead of concentrating on getting out, I looked around. It was a huge room, with one door and the entire floor except my corner was one solid color. The only furniture was my cot and a toilet near me that I hadn't noticed before. Ebony was sitting in a far corner, meditating it seemed. But the Eye of Horus was bright on her forehead.
"Necare! I have a job for you!" she shouted and a lean man came into the room.
"Yes, mistress?" he asked, bowing to her. I almost gagged.
"The yamis and Malik Ishtar are heading for the docks. Intercept them. Kill one or two if you wish, but make sure that the other two or three can get back to Kaiba and the others to tell them what happened. Oh, and good work with the car crash." She said, an evil glint in her eyes. He nodded and left.
"You can't do this! You'll never get away with it!" I shouted, unable to keep quiet for long.
"I already have. Mokuba is near death, Kaiba is unconscious in an ICU in the hospital, and two of the others will die before the night's end. If I can not kill any more than that, I will die happy." She said, laughing at my shocked expression.
Kageka: kicks SJ she isn't getting up soon. You all should be glad she made sure to write out review responses before she fainted.
Random anime characters: blow on party favors YAY RESPONSES!
Dragon Child: --; thank you cheerleaders. Reponses;
Haku – high as a kite? POCKY DOES THAT TO ME! Okay, calming down… sorry this update wasn't so fast. I had major writer's block but it's so far gone that I'm writing chapter six now too.
Koujo Silverwolf – wow. How sugar high were you when you wrote that response? And thanks for promoting my story on your story. Though a lot of good it did me. You have no idea how depressing this is! I read something with well over a thousand reviews once, and I have twelve. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Anyways, this update fast enough for you? (though it's not as fast as you update Asayake.)
Phoenixfire – Yeah, I know how it's like to have to fight for the Internet. We have four people, and one computer hooked up to the net. My sister's on here all the time and I have reviewers (though not many) to please. Missing updates is BAD! I've done it before, not fun! Yeah, the plot points are merging, sorta. Yugi will get one half, the rest of the gang will get the other, and y'all will get all of it. As to avoid confusion, or perhaps promote it, I'm not too sure yet. But I am leaning towards 3rd person more than Yugi's POV. The chisel helped, and now I've got this and I'll write chapter six as soon as I get this posted, though I'll have to wait a while to actually post it.
Carpe diem!