Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh.
First of all I would like to thank all the people that reviewed the last chapter, you people are the greatest! *Hugs reviewers*
Review response:
Sorceress Vanessa: *jogs up behind the running Sorceress Vanessa* Boy it's a great day for a jog, especially with the angry mob behind us. *Points to the mob* Do you think this is safe for us seeing that neither one of us are good runners? And plus, *@_@* I'm getting a cramp! But I'm glad you liked the story. ^_^
Mitten no Hikari: I'm really glad you liked the story and sorry about the word mess-ups. Anyways, I would give you a piece of cake, but Joey over here ate it all, even I didn't get any. Joey: Look! How many times do I have to tell you, I Didn't Eat The Cake! Besides, *gets on all fours on the floor and smells around* I can still smell it around here. Nightlight5: @_@ You mean you can smell it out? Geez…Kaiba was right, you are a dog. Joey: WHA?! Nightlight5: Anyways thanks so must for reviewing.
Azzie@Az: *cries* People shouldn't leave cliffhangers. There Evil!! Yami: Does that make you evil then? Nightlight5: huh? ^~^" Me? No! How asked you? Yami: -_-" Nightlight5: Anyways, thanks for the review.
Inuyashabutterfly: I'm really glad you are enjoying the story and I thank you stopping a reviewing. ^_~
Starfire20042002: Hmm…Gee…What can I say to this review. It might would help if I could read it. Yami: *takes the paper* It's just as I thought. Nightlight5 and Yugi: *leans over Yami's shoulder* What? Yami: It's Ancient Egyptian, Hey! I can read this. Yugi: What does it say? Yami: How am I supposed to know? Nightlight5: But you just said you could read it. Yami: Yeah, 5,000 years ago. *rolls eyes* Yugi and Nightlight5: *Anime Fall* Yugi: Well, anyways thanks for reviewing, I think. Nightlight5: Yeah, even though we can't read it, we still are thankful that you took the time to review. ^_^
I would also like to thank the following people for putting me on their favorite story list:
Sorceress Vanessa
CrazyAboutYugi
InuyashabutterflyAnime-crazed33
Isilfea
Anyways, Thanks for the reviews once again you guys, but I guess that's enough for the reviews.
Nightlight5: Joey, can you smell where the cakes at?
Joey: I thought you said I ate it. *Pouts*
Nightlight5: just smell okay!
Joey: Yes my lady. *Rolls eyes*
Nightlight5: *rolls eyes as well*
Joey: *jumps up* I got it! It's coming from over there, in that room.
Nightlight5: *pushes Joey out of the way* Then what are we waiting for?! Let's check it out and then I can give all the reviewers a piece of cake!
Joey: Hey! What about me?!
Chapter 8: The Threat Within
"Isis!!"
Malik clutched his head in his hands as the remained on his knees at the spot where Isis had disappeared.
Yugi smirked at the sight of Malik crumpled and sadden form. He began to walk towards Marik, causing the shadows under his feet to separate with every footfall. He now stood in front of Malik, watching his eyes as they tried to hold on to the tears that threatened to fall. He reached down in front of Malik and slipped his hand around the Millennium Necklace.
"She won't be needing this anymore," Yugi stated, no longer paying attention to Malik's bewilder state.
"How… could you?" a hurt but angered voice arose from Malik.
"It was simple," Yugi stated without feeling, " she was obviously to weak to handle even one of my weaker Shadow Games. One with such few powers, as she should not have a Millennium Item and desires to be sent to the Shadow Realm. You could almost say that, I was doing her a favor."
Marik pulled his self off the floor and wobbled a minute before regaining his balance.
"I don't know what's the matter with you Yugi, but I can't and will not forgive you for sending my sister to the Shadow Realm."
"It's looks like I've upset you Malik," Yugi said in a teasing manner, "But tell you what. I'll give you a chance to bring your sister back, if you think you're up to the challenge."
"Why should I trust you," Malik spat, "After the way you've been acting, after the way you sucked my sister into the Shadow Realm!"
"I guess you can't trust me", Yugi said turning his back, "But tell me Malik, how do you plan on getting her out?"
Malik stood quiet for a moment. He hadn't really thought about how he was going to get her out, and come to think of it, there was no way to get her out without Yugi letting her out his self. He would have to trust Yugi, even thought it might be another trap.
"What is it a have to do?" Malik hissed
"You do nothing right now," Yugi said heading towards the door, "Once I have managed to obtain a Millennium Item I am to bring it straight to my master. So Malik, your Shadow Game will have to wait."
"If you think I'm just going to let you walk out that door without a fight you have another thing coming!" Yugi stopped and turned his head to face Malik.
"So why don't you try your luck Malik, Why don't you see if you can come over here and stop me?" Yugi turned back to the door and began to leave.
"Alright then I will!" Malik hissed as he went to take a step forward, but to his surprise before his foot could even touch the cinder block below him, it fell away and disappeared. "What?!" He went to step again but only to have the same thing happen. Before Yugi could even left out of the room Malik was surround by a large pit of blackness, which who know if it even had a bottom to it.
"What's the matter Malik, I thought you were going to come stop me?" Yugi chuckled with a glint of evil in his laugh. (A/N: Wow! That's kinda hard to image Yugi doing that. But it's true! You can ask the blind man down the road, he saw it all!)
"What have you done Yugi?!" Malik hissed angrily as he continued to look for a way to get away from the pit.
"I'm only making sure you stay here so when I come back to take your Millennium Item I won't have to look for you."
"Why do you hesitate, why not take my Millennium Item now and save yourself the trip?" Malik asked.
"Your right Malik, it would make more sense to just take your Item now and save me the trouble of destroying you later," Yugi said as he stood in the doorway with his back turned to Malik, "But it is not my instructions."
Yugi now cut the conversation off and exited the doorway only to be followed by Malik's last statement. "You can't hold me here forever Yugi, it's only a matter of time before I find away out and beat you at your own Shadow Game!"
Yugi chuckled at Malik's last attempted to intimidate him. "Pathetic baka, He doesn't even know an illusion when it's right in front of him." He began to walk up the stairs and could just feel the light dancing across his face once again. He climbed to the surface and pulled himself out of the darkness and onto the warm sand. His first task was done and he could now head back to the Pyramids.
**~~**Inside the Puzzle**~~**
Yami, at this point, had finally been able to free one of his arms from the entanglement of the shadows. He placed his free hand on the shadows that bend him to the wall and gathered his energy, allowing it to swirl around him, allowing it to become stronger. The power was now to it's fullest point and with one mighty blast Yami was able to blast away the shadows and he fell to the floor with thud. He picked his self up and made a beeline towards the cocoon that had previously swallowed Yugi up right before Yami's eyes.
Once he was closer to the cocoon he slowed down a bit feeling that the shadows were sensitive to his presents. He could feel that the shadows would do what ever it took to keep the prize they had inside theirs. "Yugi!" He yelled trying to get a response. "Yugi, wake up! We have to get you out of here. Come on Yugi!" Yami waited for a second hoping that he would hear Yugi's innocent little voice once more, but nothing happened. The shadows around Yugi seemed to hiss in laugher at Yami's attempted to contact Yugi. Yami didn't know what else to do but to try his Shadow Magic again, but he doubted that his Shadow Magic would work on shadows. Once more he allowed the energy to build up inside of him until they threaten to over take him. He released the energy causing it to hiss and sizzle at the point of impacted, but as Yami thought, the energy cleared away and had done no damage. Yami slid down to his knees and panted from lost of energy.
Yugi felt the darkness fade slightly around him as a shadow appeared in front of him. As before it took the shape of his body and approached him slowly.
"So Yugi, are you still holding on to the hope that one of your pathetic little friends will save you, or your yami, or have you finally begun to realize that you are in my hands now and no one can stop me from doing what I will with you." The Shadow said with a small chuckle.
Yugi picked his head up weakly and replied. "I'll never give up… you haven't won yet." After saying that Yugi could no longer keep his head up. The shadows that bound him by the hands and feet seem to be sucking ever last bit of energy from his body. It was almost like being in the Shadow Realm.
The Shadow made a smirk and a glint of amazement could be seen in his eyes. He stood in front of Yugi and reached out his hand. With his extended hand he held Yugi's head up to face his. Yugi's eyes were half open and the beautiful amethyst they once were seemed to be duller and sadder.
"My dear, sweet, Yugi, still fighting to the bitter end I see. And for what? So you can return to your useless friends! Well… let me tell you something Yugi. Your friends don't care about you. If they did, they would have found you by now!"
Yugi felt his heart stop at what the shadow had said. Was it truth? Had his friends and his yami already forgotten about him? Yugi closed his eyes tightly and let a small tear ran down his face and stopped when it hit the shadows hand.
"That's it Yugi. If I can get him to let me in his body, then I'll be able to take over him completely and then no one will be able to stop me or tell me what to do. Not even at baka Toton."
"There There Yugi," the shadow said wiping another tear from Yugi's face, "I'll be your friend, and you won't ever have to worry about me leaving. All I ask is for you to just let me in."
Yugi opened his eyes and looked at the Shadow as if to consider his offer. Yugi blinked the tears out of his eyes and was about to ask when he heard a familiar voice calling out his name.
"Yugi, wake up! We have to get you out of here. Come on Yugi!"
Yugi's eyes widen and tried his best to look around with the shadow still holding his head. "Yami? Is that you?"
Yugi turned his head back to face the shadow. "Your wrong… Yami would never… forget me, and neither would my friends."
The Shadow's face turned angry as he squeezed his hand, that was holding up Yugi's head, harder causing Yugi to wince at the additional pain.
"You and your stupid yami!" The Shadow spat. "But don't you worry I'll get what I want sooner or later and then you'll all be sorry. I'm done talking to you. So to make sure you don't try any lame attempts to get out and hurt yourself, I'll have to put you back to sleep."
Yugi felt his energy being sucked away and he tried to pull away, but it was to late. He blacked out. The last thing he heard was the Shadow's harsh voice.
"Night night Yugi!"
**~~**Back with Shadi and the group**~~**
Shadi eyed the map careful making sure that there was no mistake in their direction. Grandpa stayed close to Shadi and tried to help him in anyway he could.
Joey sat pouting on his camel. He didn't like riding on camels, because every time the camel would take a step forward it would almost bounce him off.
"Hey Shadi!" Joey spat out trying to keep his bounce. "Do you think you could have found anything better then these things for us to ride on and when are we going to be there?!"
"Patience Mr. Wheeler," Shadi said, "we will be there soon enough, and as for our rides, camels are the best way to get across the desert. They can go days without water."
"Maybe your camel just doesn't like you Joey," Tea said as she rode proudly by him with Ryou close behind her.
"What?! You gotta be kidding me. Animals love Joey Wheeler." Joey said with a goofy grin "Isn't that right my little camel?"
The camel made what sounded like a growling noise, which wiped Joey's grin off his face. The camel then jumped off into a high-speed and hit the back of Ryou's camel. Joey, which of course was screaming to the top of his lungs, then flipped completely over the camel's head, hit Ryou, and they both hit the ground with a thud.
"Ouch! Joey, your on my leg!" Ryou said in his British voice.
Tea and Tristan couldn't help but to laugh at the sight of both Ryou and Joey face first in the sand with Joey squishing Ryou
"Looks like you're no Doctor Dolittle after all eh, Joey?" Tristan mocked.
"Shut your yap Tristan, or I'll have my camel run into you next time."
"Strange," Shadi said looking at Joey and Ryou, "and camels are usually such gentle creatures."
Shadi took a look up at the horizon ahead, before looking back at the map, but something caught his eye. He looked up again towards the horizon and could see a small figure approaching them. "It can't be…
"What is it Shadi?" Grandpa asked worriedly. The rest of the group heard the tone Grandpa had used and what Shadi had said and were now eager to know what was going on.
"What's the matter Shadi," Tea asked as they all gathered close to him.
"Look out in front of you and tell me what you see." Shadi said pointing.
Tea and the rest looking up to the black figure approaching them, but the group know the small figure to well.
"It can't be," Tea gasped.
"But it is," Ryou chimed in.
"No way!" Tristan exclaimed.
Joey looked on at the figure in front of them and finally spoke one word.
"Yu… Yugi?!"
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Nightlight5: YAY!!! I'm finally done with this chapter! I'm really really sorry it took so long everybody, but my computer broke and my mom's computer doesn't have any kind of writing software on it, so my sister is the only person with a half way working computer now and I don't live with her so I have to write on this fic whenever I can. Again, I'm really sorry, but I'm suppose to be getting a laptop for Christmas and then I'll be able to write on this fic all the time and you know what that means?! More Updates! Thanks for reading everybody! Please review and have a Merry Christmas!