Ch.4 Joey gets attacked!

"Screw this," Mai said. Yami turned around.

"This is serious Mai, who knows what kind of powers this Millennium Item holds? And what will happen if it falls into the wrong hands??" Mai lowered her head in thought.

"Hmm…that's a problem…but right now, I wanna go back to sleep!"

"You are actually sleeping ya know," Yami stated. He looked at her walking around impatiently. "Hey Mai," she looked up, "promise you won't talk about any of this unless the both of us are in this dream…just to make sure no one else knows about it."

"What about Yugi then?"

"I'll let him know soon…"

"Alright. NOW CAN I GO BACK TO SLEEP???? I MEAN OUT OF THIS DREAM????"

"OK fine" Yami waved his hand and Mai disappeared. In the morning, the group forgave each other and booked a tour where they will be going into an ancient tomb in the evening. The friends stayed in their hotel rooms during the whole morning, right after they ate lunch, they assembled in the lobby waiting for the tour bus to go pick them up. The group climbed onto the bus with a few other tourists and the bus sped off towards their destination.

"Which tomb will we be going?" 'Ryou' inquired anxiously.

"So you'll know which tomb to rob once we get there?" Yami said without thinking. The tone in Ryou's voice clearly belonged to Bakura's. Who else in their group besides maybe Yugi would be so interested in knowing which and what kind of tomb they will be going to? Especially one that has not been raided by tomb robbers in the past. He grumbled unhappily then went back to staring out the window. Some time later they arrived. The tour guide led the tourists into the tomb and guided them through the trail inside. After about 20 minutes he paused and announced if they were to go farther it would be dangerous.

"Awwwwwww….." 'Ryou' complained, "I wanted to go further!"

"Can't sorry."

"Come on! We paid you!" 'Ryou' (or Bakura) protested.

"But I also have the responsibility to keep my customers safe!" Then they heard a small 'crack'.

"Uh…you don't suppose this tomb is gonna cave in on us do ya?" Tristan asked shakily. Turned out, nothing fell on them so they all sighed in relief. Little did they know, the fun was just beginning…'Ryou' stomped back into the line of tourists as they headed back quickly. The tour guide seemed desperate to get back out of the tomb somehow. He was sweating and panting heavily, at the same time, his face showed a frightened expression. Something was going to happen, Yami knew it when he saw that guide. But really, what is it? A cold chill ran down everyone's spine as they hurried along quietly. Then, it happened. The same cracking noise was heard again, but only louder and more than once this time. The group turned around for a backwards glance, just to see their worst tomb tour nightmare. They were staring face-to-face directly at a whole army of mummy statues crowding the narrow dark passage! One particular 'mummy' was covered in a large cloak, it stood in front of all the others indicating it was the leader.

"RUN!" the tour guide screamed.

"Like we need someone to tell us that!" someone yelled back angrily, "I want my money back!"

Unfortunately, the mummies caught up, but they just stomped over the frightened running crowd following their leader straight to their target. Tea almost fainted as Bakura, Tristan, Mai and Yugi yelled out, "JOEY!!!!!!"  Joey's head snapped around to answer only to be knocked down by the leaping army of mummies. "ACK! EWWW!!! GET OFF ME! AGHH!!! I'M SUFFOCATING!!!! I'm kgh…" his voice faded within the group of attackers. An odd thing happened though, for some bizarre reason, the leader ordered the rest of the mummies to stand aside while it started beating up Joey with his fists like two man fighting. It kept swearing at Joey in Egyptian no one could understand, except Yami and Bakura who sat totally confused in their soul rooms hearing Egyptian sentences such as "WHY YOU LIL' B**** YA STOLE MAH DEAREST F******…." (A/N: OK…I think that'll be enough swear words for now, I don't wanna change the rating even though I turned the swear words into stars) The tourists and their guide had disappeared, only Joey's friend remained watching their friend get beaten up while their minds ran blank.

"WHAT ARE YOU ALL…OW! WAITING *OW!* FOR????? *OW! *" screamed Joey. They finally seemed to respond. Mai grabbed her bag and began hitting the mummy madly while Tristan wrestled it down. The other mummies tried helping but Yami took over Yugi along with Bakura taking over Ryou and they combined their powers to create a barrier, blocking them from their leader. Tristan managed to knock down the leader mummy giving Mai a chance to drag away his unconscious friend. Mai looked over at the groaning 'mummy', it was staring at her with longing eyes that were barely visible beneath the dark shadows under its cloak. She swung her head around and tried to ignore them. The gang ran for their lives, following the same trail they took to get into the tomb to get out. Soon they found the exit and dashed out. Joey was immediately sent off to the hospital while everyone went to get their money back.

"Whoa! Whoa! Calm down people!" the tour guide shouted.

"We want our money back!"

"Yeah!"

"Right now!"

"This instant!"

"Er..sorry but…" the guide started.

"Ain't got any? Well then we'll beat it outta you!"

"NOOOO!!!! PLEEAASE!! STOOOOOPPP!!!!!!!!" the tourists stampeded over him.

Back to the hotel…

Mai lay wide-awake on her bed still thinking about the mummy staring at her. She ran over the memories of the strange events lately. Is there something wrong with me? Am I hallucinating? She thought. A single tear ran down her face as she fell asleep.

Mai's Dream

"Hey Yami."

"Hmm? You seem depressed. Problem?"

"About that leader mummy today…"

"Oh that…"

"Do you know…what it was saying?"

"It was swearing at Joey in Egyptian."

"But why would it Yami?"

"Dunno. All I know is it said Joey stole something dear to it…or whatever it was saying, I don't know…didn't make sense." Yami crossed his arms. Mai scratched her head, she looked at her feet.

"What I'm really worried about is…well…that mummy…it gave me this weird look. You don't think…it was after me do you?"

"That is possible," replied Yami.

"B-But what did I do???"

"I dunno."

"I'm serious! I could be cursed!"

"Calm down. Look, we've already wasted a lot of time. We are here to talk about your lost Millennium Item and why you were important to me. *sigh* I just hope you're not another queen or something…"

"But don't you think I'm a bit too old for you?"

"How about…the other way around? You do realize I'm over 4000 years old don't you?" said Yami.

"Oh…right. I forgot." She paced around the area, "so, so far we know about me being important to you when you were still Pharaoh and I have a powerful but lost Millennium Item. And we have to find it before someone bad gets their grubby hands on it." Mai stated.

"Yes."

"And neither of us have any idea where or what that item is."

"Actually…did I mention it was a trinket?"

"I…hey why didn't you tell me earlier!"

"Cuz I forgot." Yami said without thinking.

"Grr…some great pharaoh you are…the stuff you say don't even go through your brain."

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