Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh. *cries*
Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter! I know you're all excited to see what happens ^_^
Readers: *yawns*
Nightlight5: . Well... That's really nice...
Joey: *shakes head* You should have bought them something.
Nightlight5: Bought them something? What do you mean?
Joey: You know... like a present. People love presents!
Nightlight5: So you're saying I should give all the reviews a present?
Joey: yeah! I mean... after all the reviews they've given you, they deserve a little something. *takes a bit of the cake Mittens no Hikari gave him*
Nightlight5: Yeah, I guess your right! So what do you guys want? I have a bag full of snickers, see?! *looks into the bag* O.o" Where did... . Joey?
Joey: *looks away really quick*
Nightlight5: Scratch that last statement. I had a bag of snickers. Well, so what do you guys want? I have "Anime Coupons". Aww, a 50% sale on Yu-Gi-Oh plushes, and they even have pictures! Kawaii! *looks at the pictures* Oww, Joey, look at your plushy. What happened to your head? It looks like an uncoordinated elephant seal.
Joey: ;_;
Bakura: *takes the picture* Really? Because it looks like an uncoordinated elephant seal sat on his head to me.
Joey: Oh yeah! Well let's look and see what kinda head you've got Bakura. *turns the page*
Everyone: *_*!
Nightlight5: Starts to scrabble something on her hand...7..8..3...
Bakura: What are you doing?
Nightlight5: Getting the ordering number... o.o' I mean, getting the page number so I'll have black mail material on Joey.o=3.
Anyways, Let's go on to the review responses!
REVIEW RESPONSE:
MITTENS NO HIKARI: Meep! You want to blow up Shadow, but I need him for the story! Yugi, give me the script so I can check and see if you can blow he up. Yugi: Here *hands her the script* I'm with Mittens no Hikari, he's giving me the creeps. Nightlight5: *looks through the script and eyes go wide as she folds up script*. Yugi: What? Let me see. Nightlight5: No I couldn't, it's just to horrible for your eyes. Yugi: Just... Great -_-'. Nightlight5: *smiles* Thank you for the two cakes, they were great and thanks for the review!
SORCERESS VANESSA: Phew... I'm glad that I can stop running now since I just updated, but now I think it's your turn to run, at least until you update your "I'm with you" fic, which by the way, nice job. Thanks for the review!
LADYDEATHSTRIKE1: *jumps and hides behind a rock* Yugi? Yugi: huh? Nightlight5: I think she misses you. Yugi: Sounds like it. Nightlight5: *scratches her head* I wonder why? Yugi: -_-" Thanks for the review LadyDeathStrike, at least someone misses me.
SWORDS MASTER JEFF: Thank you, and those are very good questions that in fact are going to be revealed in this chapter, so read on if you want to know. ^_~
BAYLEEF: Weeeeeee! Bakura is so awesome! But yes, poor Yugi... poor poor Yugi. Yugi: Okay, I think she gets the point. Nightlight5: oh sorry. ^-^ I'm so glad you love the story and thanks a bunch for the review!
UNA1: Yugi: Wait a minute, I want to know the same thing. You're not going to kill me are you? Nightlight5: *looks away and starts to whistle* Yugi: OMG, you are going to kill me. ;_; Nightlight: Now wait a minute Yugi, I didn't say that I was going to kill you, even though it would go good with the story and it would... Yugi: ;_;" Nightlight5: hehe...Ahem, anyways, I have to say yes, the Shadow is an idiot, but don't tell him I said that. Thanks for the review!
TREFENWYD12: Hey, I'm really sorry about the spacing problems, there was something wrong with my old computer, but now I have a laptop and I think it works better now. I'm glad you still like the story though. Thank you for the review. ^_~
DREAMER WOLF: *_* You think I'm a., good... author? *cries* Yugi: ha, she gets a little emotional sometimes... it's kinda embarrassing. Nightlight5: *glares* Yugi: Meep! *hides under the couch* Nightlight5: *wips away the tears* Thank you for the review and the compliment!
/blah/= Yugi to Yami
//blah//= Yami to Yugi
**~~**~~**= change in scene
**~~blah~~**= specific change in scene
'blah'= thinking
CHAPTER 10: AN OLD ENEMY TAKES NEW FORM
Yugi looked down at the steady sand that now contained the remains of six weary travels under it's golden surface. Silences had now replace the once chaotic scene and only the desert wind was there to disturb it. Yugi reached down and gathered up a hand full of sand, bringing it close to his face and letting it slowly slip through his fingers. "Looks as though the sands of time thought your numbers were up, my dear, old, friends." Yugi laughed letting go of the rest of the sand and watching in blow off, out of sight. "Now, it's time to pay that fool Toton a visit." And with that, Yugi left across the sand, leaving light footprints as he went.
**~~**~~**
Yugi left the "sandy graveyard" behind, thinking that all who lay beneath were gone and nothing but a memory... how wrong he was. The sand above quacked and glowed an intense white light. All around the light, the sand began to part and fall away, leaving a fairly large hole tunneling into the ground. The light rose out of the tunnel and dropped to the ground beside the hole. The light soon faded leaving behind the form of white haired boy sitting on the ground with his eyes closed. The wind, ever blowing, rushed by cleaning some of the loose sand from him as he raised up his hand and wiped the rest of the sand off his face. His eyes finally open revealing rough brown puddles that burned with satisfaction as the sinister grin on his face widened. The boy was undoubtably Bakura, the spirit of the Millennium Ring. "Is that the best you've got Pharaoh?!" He yelled to no one in particular, "If so, then taking your Millennium Puzzle away from you will be an easy task.." Bakura rose to his feet and began to walk off when he heard a small grunting nosie come from behind him. He quickly turned around and looked at the hole in the ground that he had made previously. There was nothing different about it, it was still undisturbed. He was about to turn around and walk away when a hand popped out the hole followed by another grunting nosie. Bakura took a step back and gritted his teeth as he watched a blonde headed teenager pull himself out of the hole. 'This can't be! How did that fool survive?! My Millennium Item did not protect him, so how could he still be alive? And if he survived, did the others too? Bakura growled with annoyance and fled back into the Ring so that the teenager wouldn't notice any wrong.
The sandy headed teenager made his way to the top of the hole and pulled himself out with one last mighty pull. Coughing for a second, the boy looked around to survey his surroundings. He rubbed his eyes as he looked around, trying to remove all the sand, when he finally noticed Ryou standing a few steps from him, looking very confessed.
"Hey, Ryou", the blonde boy called, "how'd ya get over there?"
"Oh, umm... I'm not really sure Joey. I just woke up and I was standing here in front of you."
"Oh" Joey said scratching the back of his head.
Ryou walked over to Joey and held out his hand for Joey to take it. He gladly excepted.
"Thanks man." Ryou smiled and nodded to him.
"Hello?!" an angry voice from below called out, "a little help up there would be nice."
"Oh, sorry Tea", Joey said bending down and pulling the angry brunet from the hole.
One by one the others were pulled out of the hole and brought to land on solid ground. They all sat for a minute in the silence catching there breath as the wind finally died down to only a small breeze. After they had sat there for a minute, Tea decided to break the silence.
"So, now what do we do?"
There was another minute of silence. No one knew what to say, or to do for that matter.
Joey, having enough of the silence, finally stood up. This naturally drew the attention of everyone.
"I don't really know what to do, but I'm tired of sittin' around here doin' nothing." Joey turned away from the rest of them and began to walk off. Tristan was the first to jump up.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?" Tristan asked as he stood in front of Joey.
"Where do ya think I'm going, I'm going to look for Yugi." Joey said trying to side step Tristan.
"By yourself?" Tea asked as she too stood.
"You can't go out there by yourself, Joey", Ryou chimed in, "you don't know your way around, you'll get lost."
"Then what do ya want me to do?", Joey asked frustrated. "Anything is better than just sitting here doing nothing."
"We all want to get help Yugi just as bad as you do Joey," Tea argued, "but we can't just go running off into parts unknown."
Joey sighed and ran his fingers through his sandy 'sand filled' hair. He turned to look at grandpa, who had said nothing throughout the entire conversation. Walking over to the old man, Joey sat down beside him.
"You okay, Gramps?"
"Oh, yes Joseph, just thinking."
"Well, don't you worry Gramps, we'll Yugi back."
Joey looked away from Mr. Motou's face, not wanting to see his saddened expression that he was trying so hard to hide. While looking away, Joey seemed to finally notice Shadi, who seemed to deep in thought.
"So, Shadi? What do you think we should do?" Joey asked simply for the reason that he needed something to occupy his mind while he tried to formulate a plan.
"It's hard to say Joey. I sense a great struggle between good and evil within the mind of your friend. I think it fair to say that what ever has trespassed into hi mind, need not be taken lightly."
Joey frown and fiddled with his fingers as he sat on the ground awaiting a suggestion from anybody.
"However", Joey snapped up at the sound of Shadi's voice. "Perhaps since your friend is having trouble in the mind, then made my Millennium Key could be the answer to the puzzle.
"Your Millennium, Key?" Tea asked, "How can it help?"
"The Millennium Key holds the power to look into the minds and souls of an individual, and reveal their true self to me. Maybe, if I were to get close enough to Yugi then I could go into his mind and see what it is that troubles he."
"Well alright!" Joey yelled with excitement. "What are we waiting for? Let's go get our little buddy and fix that brain of his." Joey began to take a step forward when he was stopped by a sharp pull on his collar shirt which yanked him back and caused him to fall on his butt.
"Owf! What was that for Tristan!?" Joey yelled waving an irritated fist at him.
"Sorry to rain on your parade here Joey, but unless you've come up with so kinda plan to find Yugi, we're still just as lost as ever."
"Oh... right"
"Hey! Mr. Motou? What happened to that map you had? Won't that help us?" Ryou asked hopefully.
Mr. Motou shook his head. "I'm sorry Ryou, but with no knowing of where we are anymore, I'm afraid the map is of no use."
Ryou slumped back down onto the sand and began to think again, unaware that he wasn't the only one inside of him that was thinking.
"Those fools, they can't even find there own way around their school, how do they expect to find their way around Egypt? If they had of just died under the sand like normal people, then they would be out of my way and I would be closer to being the new Pharaoh of Egypt, but now look what I have to deal with! If I'm going to get anywhere near the Pharaoh now, I'm going to have to reveal myself so that I may use the power of the Millennium Ring."
Ryou, still in deep thought like the rest of the group, began to feel the familiar warmth growing inside him again. The feeling was the same feeling he had gotten right before the tidal of sand had swallowed them up. That same feeling of replacement swept over him like the desert wind and swallowed him into darkest.
A bright flash shone from the Millennium Ring, bringing everyone's attention towards Ryou.
"What's going on?" Tristan cried.
The light died down leaving the silhouette of Bakura standing before them; his eyes shielded in the shadows that his bangs produced.
"What was that all about?" Tea asked hoping to her feet.
"I don't know"
"Hey, Ryou," Joey yelled cupping his hands together to amplify his cry. "Are you okay?"
No response. The only sound that came from his direction was a low rumble of a laugh that began louder with every passing moment.
"Hey, what the matter with you man?" Tristan asked.
"Haha, sorry kiddies, but Ryou's not here right now."
"What?" Joey asked baffled.
"I know", Tea shouted and pointed her finger. "Your that creepy spirit from Ryou's Millennium Ring, your Bakura."
"I must say that I'm impressed, that someone with your very few brains was able to even remember my name." Bakura snorted. Tea made a high pitch humph in disapproval and folded her arms across her chest.
"But how are you back?" Tristan asked in disbelief. "I throw the Millennium Ring off of Pegasus' Castle, you shouldn't be here."
"Humph, you think a pathetic mortal like you can get rid of me?"
"What do _you_ want?" Joey fumed.
"Not that's it's any of your business what I do", Bakura sneered and turned his side to them, "But you are wanting to find that _brat_ friend of your's aren't you?"
"Yeah", Joey said as he cocked an eyebrow.
"Then you're going to need me."
"The only thing we need you to do is, give Ryou back his body."
Joey and Bakura glared at each other for a moment. Bakura was about to open his mouth and say something, when he was cut off by another voice.
"Of course."
Bakura and Joey looked up from their glaring contest to see that it was Shadi who had spoken up.
"What are you talking about Shadi", Joey asked.
"Ryou's Millennium Ring holds the power to trace the energy of other Millennium Items", Shadi stated, "so if Bakura were to trace the power of Yugi's Millennium Item, then it would lead us right to him."
Joey looked back at Bakura who was giving him an extremely smug look.
"What's in it for you?"
Bakura smirked. "What makes you think I want anything."
"Joey", Tea said in a pleading voice, "We don't have any other choice, if we want to find Yugi."
Joey glared back at Bakura and then sighed.
"Fine, but I'll be watching you."
"Humph, I'll be sure to behave myself then." Bakura said sarcastically.
"I'll behave, until it's time for me to take back what is rightfully mine."
**~~**~~**
*Crack*
A small crack formed in the cocoon that bound Yugi. The crack began to twist and turn as it made it's way to the bottom. Through the cracks leaked out dark swirling smoke as the crack became larger. With one great sickening pop, the cocoon fell away and Yugi fell to the floor with a thud. It was quiet. Finally, he opened his eyes to the surroundings of the Millennium Puzzle. He slowly picked himself up and sat back on his knees. Stretching out his hand in front of him, he examined it, as if to see if it meet to his requirement.
"Finally, I have my own body", the so called Yugi said. For it was not Yugi at all, only the Shadow who had stolen Yugi's body and called it his own.
The Shadow felt Yugi's soft voice projecting from him and smiled with delight of his work, but his enjoyment was short live when he felt a presents standing not to far behind him. The Shadow twisted around on his knees to meet a confused looking Yami.
The Shadow grabbed his chest as he felt his heart give off a jolt. His tightly gathered fist began to tremble has he fought to keep the pain down. After a few seconds his fingers relaxed and his eyes were filled with understanding as a small smile formed on his lips.
"I see. Your going to fight to the very end, are you? It seems that I haven't quiet gotten rid of you yet Yugi. Your heart still resides inside of me, therefore a piece of you still exists allowing the baka Pharaoh to still exist as well. Hmmm, you're a bigger pest than I thought, but it doesn't matter, all I have to do is pretend to be you until the darkest in my soul eats away the rest of your weak heart, then there will be nothing left of you, not even memories."
"Yugi?" Yami asked kneeling down in front of him.
"Yes", the Shadow said in the sweetest voice he could muster.
"Yugi", Yami sighed and pulled him into a hug. He hugged Yugi tight waiting for him to hug back, but he never did. Yami pulled away and looked at him for a moment. The Shadow shifted nervously under Yami's glare, not sure if he was buying his act.
Yami cocked his eyebrow and sat down. "What's wrong with you?"
"Huh?" the Shadow asked innocently.
"You seem different, what's the matter and what happened in there?"
The Shadow stood to his feet and watched Yami shoot up to his as well.
"Nothings wrong and I'm fine. I just need some sleep." the Shadow said as he turned and let out a sigh of relief. The Shadow was half way to the soul room door when he heard Yami again.
"You're not Yugi"
The Shadow stopped and smirked to himself.
"Hmmm, he's smarter than he looks."
The Shadow turned back around facing Yami once more. His eyes gave a flicker of fiery delight, taking Yami back. He growled slightly and then fired back.
"Who are you?"
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A/N: PHEW.... boy am I beat! That was six pages. Well, I hope you like it, but don't worry the next chapter should be much better. Please leave a review and tell me if you like it or if I need to improve something. ^_~
Nightlight
Hey guys! I'm back with another chapter! I know you're all excited to see what happens ^_^
Readers: *yawns*
Nightlight5: . Well... That's really nice...
Joey: *shakes head* You should have bought them something.
Nightlight5: Bought them something? What do you mean?
Joey: You know... like a present. People love presents!
Nightlight5: So you're saying I should give all the reviews a present?
Joey: yeah! I mean... after all the reviews they've given you, they deserve a little something. *takes a bit of the cake Mittens no Hikari gave him*
Nightlight5: Yeah, I guess your right! So what do you guys want? I have a bag full of snickers, see?! *looks into the bag* O.o" Where did... . Joey?
Joey: *looks away really quick*
Nightlight5: Scratch that last statement. I had a bag of snickers. Well, so what do you guys want? I have "Anime Coupons". Aww, a 50% sale on Yu-Gi-Oh plushes, and they even have pictures! Kawaii! *looks at the pictures* Oww, Joey, look at your plushy. What happened to your head? It looks like an uncoordinated elephant seal.
Joey: ;_;
Bakura: *takes the picture* Really? Because it looks like an uncoordinated elephant seal sat on his head to me.
Joey: Oh yeah! Well let's look and see what kinda head you've got Bakura. *turns the page*
Everyone: *_*!
Nightlight5: Starts to scrabble something on her hand...7..8..3...
Bakura: What are you doing?
Nightlight5: Getting the ordering number... o.o' I mean, getting the page number so I'll have black mail material on Joey.o=3.
Anyways, Let's go on to the review responses!
REVIEW RESPONSE:
MITTENS NO HIKARI: Meep! You want to blow up Shadow, but I need him for the story! Yugi, give me the script so I can check and see if you can blow he up. Yugi: Here *hands her the script* I'm with Mittens no Hikari, he's giving me the creeps. Nightlight5: *looks through the script and eyes go wide as she folds up script*. Yugi: What? Let me see. Nightlight5: No I couldn't, it's just to horrible for your eyes. Yugi: Just... Great -_-'. Nightlight5: *smiles* Thank you for the two cakes, they were great and thanks for the review!
SORCERESS VANESSA: Phew... I'm glad that I can stop running now since I just updated, but now I think it's your turn to run, at least until you update your "I'm with you" fic, which by the way, nice job. Thanks for the review!
LADYDEATHSTRIKE1: *jumps and hides behind a rock* Yugi? Yugi: huh? Nightlight5: I think she misses you. Yugi: Sounds like it. Nightlight5: *scratches her head* I wonder why? Yugi: -_-" Thanks for the review LadyDeathStrike, at least someone misses me.
SWORDS MASTER JEFF: Thank you, and those are very good questions that in fact are going to be revealed in this chapter, so read on if you want to know. ^_~
BAYLEEF: Weeeeeee! Bakura is so awesome! But yes, poor Yugi... poor poor Yugi. Yugi: Okay, I think she gets the point. Nightlight5: oh sorry. ^-^ I'm so glad you love the story and thanks a bunch for the review!
UNA1: Yugi: Wait a minute, I want to know the same thing. You're not going to kill me are you? Nightlight5: *looks away and starts to whistle* Yugi: OMG, you are going to kill me. ;_; Nightlight: Now wait a minute Yugi, I didn't say that I was going to kill you, even though it would go good with the story and it would... Yugi: ;_;" Nightlight5: hehe...Ahem, anyways, I have to say yes, the Shadow is an idiot, but don't tell him I said that. Thanks for the review!
TREFENWYD12: Hey, I'm really sorry about the spacing problems, there was something wrong with my old computer, but now I have a laptop and I think it works better now. I'm glad you still like the story though. Thank you for the review. ^_~
DREAMER WOLF: *_* You think I'm a., good... author? *cries* Yugi: ha, she gets a little emotional sometimes... it's kinda embarrassing. Nightlight5: *glares* Yugi: Meep! *hides under the couch* Nightlight5: *wips away the tears* Thank you for the review and the compliment!
/blah/= Yugi to Yami
//blah//= Yami to Yugi
**~~**~~**= change in scene
**~~blah~~**= specific change in scene
'blah'= thinking
CHAPTER 10: AN OLD ENEMY TAKES NEW FORM
Yugi looked down at the steady sand that now contained the remains of six weary travels under it's golden surface. Silences had now replace the once chaotic scene and only the desert wind was there to disturb it. Yugi reached down and gathered up a hand full of sand, bringing it close to his face and letting it slowly slip through his fingers. "Looks as though the sands of time thought your numbers were up, my dear, old, friends." Yugi laughed letting go of the rest of the sand and watching in blow off, out of sight. "Now, it's time to pay that fool Toton a visit." And with that, Yugi left across the sand, leaving light footprints as he went.
**~~**~~**
Yugi left the "sandy graveyard" behind, thinking that all who lay beneath were gone and nothing but a memory... how wrong he was. The sand above quacked and glowed an intense white light. All around the light, the sand began to part and fall away, leaving a fairly large hole tunneling into the ground. The light rose out of the tunnel and dropped to the ground beside the hole. The light soon faded leaving behind the form of white haired boy sitting on the ground with his eyes closed. The wind, ever blowing, rushed by cleaning some of the loose sand from him as he raised up his hand and wiped the rest of the sand off his face. His eyes finally open revealing rough brown puddles that burned with satisfaction as the sinister grin on his face widened. The boy was undoubtably Bakura, the spirit of the Millennium Ring. "Is that the best you've got Pharaoh?!" He yelled to no one in particular, "If so, then taking your Millennium Puzzle away from you will be an easy task.." Bakura rose to his feet and began to walk off when he heard a small grunting nosie come from behind him. He quickly turned around and looked at the hole in the ground that he had made previously. There was nothing different about it, it was still undisturbed. He was about to turn around and walk away when a hand popped out the hole followed by another grunting nosie. Bakura took a step back and gritted his teeth as he watched a blonde headed teenager pull himself out of the hole. 'This can't be! How did that fool survive?! My Millennium Item did not protect him, so how could he still be alive? And if he survived, did the others too? Bakura growled with annoyance and fled back into the Ring so that the teenager wouldn't notice any wrong.
The sandy headed teenager made his way to the top of the hole and pulled himself out with one last mighty pull. Coughing for a second, the boy looked around to survey his surroundings. He rubbed his eyes as he looked around, trying to remove all the sand, when he finally noticed Ryou standing a few steps from him, looking very confessed.
"Hey, Ryou", the blonde boy called, "how'd ya get over there?"
"Oh, umm... I'm not really sure Joey. I just woke up and I was standing here in front of you."
"Oh" Joey said scratching the back of his head.
Ryou walked over to Joey and held out his hand for Joey to take it. He gladly excepted.
"Thanks man." Ryou smiled and nodded to him.
"Hello?!" an angry voice from below called out, "a little help up there would be nice."
"Oh, sorry Tea", Joey said bending down and pulling the angry brunet from the hole.
One by one the others were pulled out of the hole and brought to land on solid ground. They all sat for a minute in the silence catching there breath as the wind finally died down to only a small breeze. After they had sat there for a minute, Tea decided to break the silence.
"So, now what do we do?"
There was another minute of silence. No one knew what to say, or to do for that matter.
Joey, having enough of the silence, finally stood up. This naturally drew the attention of everyone.
"I don't really know what to do, but I'm tired of sittin' around here doin' nothing." Joey turned away from the rest of them and began to walk off. Tristan was the first to jump up.
"Hey, where do you think you're going?" Tristan asked as he stood in front of Joey.
"Where do ya think I'm going, I'm going to look for Yugi." Joey said trying to side step Tristan.
"By yourself?" Tea asked as she too stood.
"You can't go out there by yourself, Joey", Ryou chimed in, "you don't know your way around, you'll get lost."
"Then what do ya want me to do?", Joey asked frustrated. "Anything is better than just sitting here doing nothing."
"We all want to get help Yugi just as bad as you do Joey," Tea argued, "but we can't just go running off into parts unknown."
Joey sighed and ran his fingers through his sandy 'sand filled' hair. He turned to look at grandpa, who had said nothing throughout the entire conversation. Walking over to the old man, Joey sat down beside him.
"You okay, Gramps?"
"Oh, yes Joseph, just thinking."
"Well, don't you worry Gramps, we'll Yugi back."
Joey looked away from Mr. Motou's face, not wanting to see his saddened expression that he was trying so hard to hide. While looking away, Joey seemed to finally notice Shadi, who seemed to deep in thought.
"So, Shadi? What do you think we should do?" Joey asked simply for the reason that he needed something to occupy his mind while he tried to formulate a plan.
"It's hard to say Joey. I sense a great struggle between good and evil within the mind of your friend. I think it fair to say that what ever has trespassed into hi mind, need not be taken lightly."
Joey frown and fiddled with his fingers as he sat on the ground awaiting a suggestion from anybody.
"However", Joey snapped up at the sound of Shadi's voice. "Perhaps since your friend is having trouble in the mind, then made my Millennium Key could be the answer to the puzzle.
"Your Millennium, Key?" Tea asked, "How can it help?"
"The Millennium Key holds the power to look into the minds and souls of an individual, and reveal their true self to me. Maybe, if I were to get close enough to Yugi then I could go into his mind and see what it is that troubles he."
"Well alright!" Joey yelled with excitement. "What are we waiting for? Let's go get our little buddy and fix that brain of his." Joey began to take a step forward when he was stopped by a sharp pull on his collar shirt which yanked him back and caused him to fall on his butt.
"Owf! What was that for Tristan!?" Joey yelled waving an irritated fist at him.
"Sorry to rain on your parade here Joey, but unless you've come up with so kinda plan to find Yugi, we're still just as lost as ever."
"Oh... right"
"Hey! Mr. Motou? What happened to that map you had? Won't that help us?" Ryou asked hopefully.
Mr. Motou shook his head. "I'm sorry Ryou, but with no knowing of where we are anymore, I'm afraid the map is of no use."
Ryou slumped back down onto the sand and began to think again, unaware that he wasn't the only one inside of him that was thinking.
"Those fools, they can't even find there own way around their school, how do they expect to find their way around Egypt? If they had of just died under the sand like normal people, then they would be out of my way and I would be closer to being the new Pharaoh of Egypt, but now look what I have to deal with! If I'm going to get anywhere near the Pharaoh now, I'm going to have to reveal myself so that I may use the power of the Millennium Ring."
Ryou, still in deep thought like the rest of the group, began to feel the familiar warmth growing inside him again. The feeling was the same feeling he had gotten right before the tidal of sand had swallowed them up. That same feeling of replacement swept over him like the desert wind and swallowed him into darkest.
A bright flash shone from the Millennium Ring, bringing everyone's attention towards Ryou.
"What's going on?" Tristan cried.
The light died down leaving the silhouette of Bakura standing before them; his eyes shielded in the shadows that his bangs produced.
"What was that all about?" Tea asked hoping to her feet.
"I don't know"
"Hey, Ryou," Joey yelled cupping his hands together to amplify his cry. "Are you okay?"
No response. The only sound that came from his direction was a low rumble of a laugh that began louder with every passing moment.
"Hey, what the matter with you man?" Tristan asked.
"Haha, sorry kiddies, but Ryou's not here right now."
"What?" Joey asked baffled.
"I know", Tea shouted and pointed her finger. "Your that creepy spirit from Ryou's Millennium Ring, your Bakura."
"I must say that I'm impressed, that someone with your very few brains was able to even remember my name." Bakura snorted. Tea made a high pitch humph in disapproval and folded her arms across her chest.
"But how are you back?" Tristan asked in disbelief. "I throw the Millennium Ring off of Pegasus' Castle, you shouldn't be here."
"Humph, you think a pathetic mortal like you can get rid of me?"
"What do _you_ want?" Joey fumed.
"Not that's it's any of your business what I do", Bakura sneered and turned his side to them, "But you are wanting to find that _brat_ friend of your's aren't you?"
"Yeah", Joey said as he cocked an eyebrow.
"Then you're going to need me."
"The only thing we need you to do is, give Ryou back his body."
Joey and Bakura glared at each other for a moment. Bakura was about to open his mouth and say something, when he was cut off by another voice.
"Of course."
Bakura and Joey looked up from their glaring contest to see that it was Shadi who had spoken up.
"What are you talking about Shadi", Joey asked.
"Ryou's Millennium Ring holds the power to trace the energy of other Millennium Items", Shadi stated, "so if Bakura were to trace the power of Yugi's Millennium Item, then it would lead us right to him."
Joey looked back at Bakura who was giving him an extremely smug look.
"What's in it for you?"
Bakura smirked. "What makes you think I want anything."
"Joey", Tea said in a pleading voice, "We don't have any other choice, if we want to find Yugi."
Joey glared back at Bakura and then sighed.
"Fine, but I'll be watching you."
"Humph, I'll be sure to behave myself then." Bakura said sarcastically.
"I'll behave, until it's time for me to take back what is rightfully mine."
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*Crack*
A small crack formed in the cocoon that bound Yugi. The crack began to twist and turn as it made it's way to the bottom. Through the cracks leaked out dark swirling smoke as the crack became larger. With one great sickening pop, the cocoon fell away and Yugi fell to the floor with a thud. It was quiet. Finally, he opened his eyes to the surroundings of the Millennium Puzzle. He slowly picked himself up and sat back on his knees. Stretching out his hand in front of him, he examined it, as if to see if it meet to his requirement.
"Finally, I have my own body", the so called Yugi said. For it was not Yugi at all, only the Shadow who had stolen Yugi's body and called it his own.
The Shadow felt Yugi's soft voice projecting from him and smiled with delight of his work, but his enjoyment was short live when he felt a presents standing not to far behind him. The Shadow twisted around on his knees to meet a confused looking Yami.
The Shadow grabbed his chest as he felt his heart give off a jolt. His tightly gathered fist began to tremble has he fought to keep the pain down. After a few seconds his fingers relaxed and his eyes were filled with understanding as a small smile formed on his lips.
"I see. Your going to fight to the very end, are you? It seems that I haven't quiet gotten rid of you yet Yugi. Your heart still resides inside of me, therefore a piece of you still exists allowing the baka Pharaoh to still exist as well. Hmmm, you're a bigger pest than I thought, but it doesn't matter, all I have to do is pretend to be you until the darkest in my soul eats away the rest of your weak heart, then there will be nothing left of you, not even memories."
"Yugi?" Yami asked kneeling down in front of him.
"Yes", the Shadow said in the sweetest voice he could muster.
"Yugi", Yami sighed and pulled him into a hug. He hugged Yugi tight waiting for him to hug back, but he never did. Yami pulled away and looked at him for a moment. The Shadow shifted nervously under Yami's glare, not sure if he was buying his act.
Yami cocked his eyebrow and sat down. "What's wrong with you?"
"Huh?" the Shadow asked innocently.
"You seem different, what's the matter and what happened in there?"
The Shadow stood to his feet and watched Yami shoot up to his as well.
"Nothings wrong and I'm fine. I just need some sleep." the Shadow said as he turned and let out a sigh of relief. The Shadow was half way to the soul room door when he heard Yami again.
"You're not Yugi"
The Shadow stopped and smirked to himself.
"Hmmm, he's smarter than he looks."
The Shadow turned back around facing Yami once more. His eyes gave a flicker of fiery delight, taking Yami back. He growled slightly and then fired back.
"Who are you?"
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A/N: PHEW.... boy am I beat! That was six pages. Well, I hope you like it, but don't worry the next chapter should be much better. Please leave a review and tell me if you like it or if I need to improve something. ^_~
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