Mikazui, you're back! I missed you... check out my other fic "Waxing Moon(light)" too.

Oh, the name of my little chicken Wee Wee does not refer to a certain part of a man's body.

Yami Bakura: Do you mean this part?

Ryou-Ran: OO" PUT THOSE PANTS BACK ON, YAMI BAKURA!

Hrm... --" Yes, that part. Anyway, in the Netherlands little boys do pipi with their zizi, and not with a wee wee. Wee Wee is called Wee Wee because "wee" is the Scottish word for "small". You know, it's just a wee problem, and we should be solvin' it right now.

My Ra, pipi, kaka, and zizi! What will come of this world.

Yami Bakura: Don't worry, Ryou-Ran. It will be a good world, ruled by the mightly Yami Bakura who owns the amazing power of the seven Millennium Items...

Ryou-Ran: Good? OO" With you as the king? No thanks!

Moonlight: (comes in) Guess what, I washed my hair.

Moonlight's hair: (is wet)

Ryou: Ah, did you take a shower?

Moonlight: Shower? No, I saw Yami Bakura climb out of some big pot and he was wet. I thought I should just dip my head in it. What's a shower, by the way?

Yami Bakura: Mfg mfg! (tries to hold his laughter)

Ryou: OO"

Moonlight: What's the big deal?

Ryou-Ran: Uh... Moonlight, you just stuck your head in (whispers in Moonlight's ear)

Moonlight: OO" (pales) Oh my Ra! (runs away to wash his hair again)

Ryou: --"

Ryou-Ran: What were you doing in the toilet, Yami?

Yami Bakura: Well, while I was throwing iron up Hikari Lunar pushed me in and flushed the toilet.

Ryou: Oh, I see...

Ryou-Ran: Let's do the disclaimer.

Everybody but Moonlight: Ryou-Ran does not own Yu-Gi-Oh! La la la...

We're all just blood, flesh and bones.

Immediately Ryou could feel the ground tremble. The wind and the sharp sand did not reach him. He could hear the wind howl. When he looked down he saw Touzokuou's feet were sliding away. The magician placed one foot firmly on the ground and steadied himself. When Ryou looked up he saw the three almost identical faces, all turned into masks of pain. He saw the cloacks of Touzokuou Bakura-Sama and Moonlight were torn apart by the wind. He saw Yami Bakura's uniform-jacket being shredded. The same thing happened to the jacket Yami was wearing and to King Yami's cape.

Yugi was hoping so much that they would survive. These minutes were the longest of his entire life. He saw Yami and King Yami wince when a new gust of wind sent a million needles into their tormented backs.

The three Bakuras protecting Ryou had slapped their arms around each other's necks to keep themselves on their feet. Ryou was sitting in the center, scared to death. He saw Moonlight almost fall. He heard Touzokuou groan.

Suddenly a drop of red fluid fell down besides his leg. Blood. Another drop came down and landed besides the first one. Ryou looked up to see where the blood came from. It came from Yami Bakura's mouth. The evil Yami coughed. A small wave of blood came from his mouth and splattered on Ryou's leg. Ryou looked up, terrified. Yami Bakura's eyes had been shut, but now he opened them. His brown eyes radiated pure hatred. "Don't think I'm doing this for you, Omote!"he hissed. Tiny red drops rained down on his T-shirt. "I'm doing this all for myself! I know I will die when you are killed." Moonlight opened his eyes too and sent Yami Bakura a look full of contempt. "Hhang on, Ryou."he said, speaking joltingly. "Don't listen to him!" A new gust of wind hit his back. He moaned and shut his eyes tightly.

Yami suddenly sighed and collapsed. Part of the shield protecting Yugi disappeared. The sand was blown into his face. "Oow! Yami!"he cried. He grabbed Yami and was shocked when he felt the blood on Yami's back.

The Bakuras had watched Yami fall. Moonlight squeezed Touzokuou's and Yami Bakura's shoulders and gave a nod with his head in Yugi's direction. Touzokuou nodded too, Yami Bakura hadn't opened his eyes. Moonlight released them. Immediately Touzokuou and Yami Bakura slapped their arms around the tree and each other's neck. Moonlight protected his face with his big hands and began to stagger over to Yugi and King Yami. His long white hair was blown in all directions. When he reached them he wanted to slap his arm around King Yami's neck, but hesitated. King Yami opened his eyes, looked at him gratefully and slapped his arm around Moonlight's blooded back. He felt Moonlight's strong arm around his shoulders. Together they went to protect Yugi and the unconscious Yami. Blood ran down Yami's chin. His breathing rasped. Yugi looked up at the two souls protecting him. They had shut their eyes and revealed their sparkling white teeth. King Yami looked exactly like a darker version of Yami, though his hair was a little shaggier. Moonlight's face was as delicate as Ryou's, but his body was strong and though. The two Egyptians protected Yugi, never giving up battle.

Near Ryou, Touzokuou was having a hard time protecting Ryou and keeping Yami Bakura on his feet. The sand had eaten right through the skin and flesh of the Yami and his lungs were filling themselves with blood. He was on the point of collapsing. The light of his Millennium Ring flickered. He accidentally stomped on Ryou's hand when he tried to steady himself. Ryou did not dare to cry out. He took his jacket off, swung it over Yami Bakura's head and held it tightly, so the wind wouldn't blow it away. He tried to protect Yami Bakura's back that way. Yami Bakura opened his eyes when he felt something cover his back. He was surprised when he saw his Yadonushi was holding the jacket that proteced him. He did not understand. He had shouted at Ryou, had hurt him, mentally and physically, surely the frail boy would rather let him be torn apart by the sand! But Ryou tried to help him, protect him. Yami Bakura's revenge-ridden mind could not understand what was going on inside Ryou's head.

All of a sudden the wind died. Touzokuou, Yami Bakura, Moonlight and King Yami crashed to the ground, gasping and groaning. Ryou leapt up and took the jacket away from Yami Bakura's back. "Don't touch me."the Yami weakly mumbled, but Ryou ignored his protests and began tearing his T-shirt apart to bandage Yami Bakura's back with. The backs of Touzokuou, Moonlight and King Yami were big, raw wounds, but not really deep. Their skin and flesh were tougher than Yami's and Yami Bakura's, because they were fit for living in the desert. Yugi tried to wake Yami up. Moonlight and Yami looked at each other and just laughed, full of relief. "Thank you, Moonlight."King Yami said. "I would have never been able to protect Yugi on my own." Moonlight bobbed his head. "Always at your service, my Pharaoh."he solemny said. Yami spluttered, groaned and woke up. "Yugi!"he said. A smile spread across his face. "You are still alive! And Bakura... Bakura too!" He looked at Ryou, who was trying to wrap the strips of his T-shirt around the skinny back and chest of a loudly protesting Yami Bakura, and Yami could despite of the burning pain in his back not help chuckling . "We passed the test."King Yami said, with a sigh that came from deep inside his chest. "Moonlight protected both you and Yugi after you had collapsed." "Thanks!"Yami said. Moonlight bobbed his head again. "It was my duty, my Pharaoh."he spoke. "Knock it off, calling me Pharaoh."Yami said. Moonlight almost bobbed his head a third time. "Yes, my Pha... uh... Yami."he said deadpan-faced.

"You did it! You're all alive!"Téa screamed. "This is the fifth test! You must find the jar with salve that can heal your wounds. It is buried somewhere. The book says the "searching-Item" should be able to locate it." All faces were turned to Yami Bakura. "What?"the Yami, who had not been listening, asked. "The "searching-Item" is the Millennium Ring."Yami understood. "You should try to find the jar, Yami Bakura, then Yugi and Bakura-Kun will dig it up." Yami Bakura pulled up his nose and muttered something about "the King of Thieves not listening to a second rate Pharaoh", but activated his Ring anyway. The pointers pointed at the East. Yami Bakura crawled over the floor in that direction, until the pointers pointed right down. "Here it is."he said. Yugi and Ryou walked over to him and began scooping up sand with their hands. Yami Bakura looked at them work and kept murmuring and grumbling. Yugi suddenly bumped with his knuckles into something solid. "Ow! Look, Bakura. I think I found it."he said. He and Ryou dug it up. It was a big jar. Ryou took it out of the hole and took the cork off. It was filled with green salve. "This is it."he said. The others crowded around the two boys with the jar. Ryou took some of the salve on his hand and began to rub it on Yami Bakura's back. Yami Bakura's face looked a lot like a thundercloud. When his back was completely covered with salve Ryou gestured Yami to come over. He treated Yami's back too, after that King Yami's, Touzokuou's and Moonlight's. He cautiously rubbed a bit on Yugi's face too. The little boy had lots of tiny scratches on his round cheeks. Then he put the cork back on the jar and waited. "YEEOOWW!"Yami Bakura suddenly uttered and launched himself a meter into the sky. "This is eerie!" His back was completely healed. The others shivered when a cold sensation ran up their spines. When it was over their backs were okay, so was Yugi's face.

"In wonder what the sixth test is going to be."Yami said. He looked at the people around him. "I don't know if I really want to know."Ryou said, his voice trembling a bit. Téa's face appeared behind the window again. "You must walk on until you reach that piramid over there."she said. The seven boys spun around and saw a piramid that hadn't been there seconds before. "That't can't be so hard."Touzokuou said. He began to walk in the direction of the piramid. Ryou had pulled his shoulders up a bit. "I don't feel well about this."he said. His Yami snorted. "Female intuition?"he sneered. Ryou turned away his face.

Suddenly the ground began to shake. "Dashed!"Moonlight cried and fell flat on his face. Ryou grabbed the arm of his Yami in an impulse and they both fell to the floor. Touzokuou was hugging a tree to remain on his feet. "It wouldn't be so hard, huh?"King Yami angrily shouted. "I can't see the future!"Touzokuou angrily blustered back. Yugi was not so tall and managed to stay standing. The others got up too. Yami Bakura grabbed Ryou under the armpits and roughly hauled him to his feet. They began walking again, but it did not go very fast. The ground was regularly slammed away from underneath their feet.

Touzokuou's leg suddenly sank up to his knee in the sand. "What the... quicksand!"he bellowed. He tried to wrestle himself free, but now his other leg was stuck too. "Damn!"he cried. He grabbed the first thing within his reach, Yami's leg, and almost pulled him in too. Moonlight quickly grabbed his right hand and tried to pull him out. Touzokuou was as stuck as a house. And he sank deeper and deeper. "Help! Someone!"he cried. Moonlight was not strong enough to pull the big man out of the sucking mud. He turned to Yami Bakura. "Come help me, idiot! We are the only ones strong enough!"he demanded. Yami Bakura had been watching with his thin arms folded in front of his chest. "Why should I?"he asked. "We could also clear the trials without him." Moonlight's eyes began to glow a red light. Yami Bakura was caught in a net of red sparks and moaned. "Aahh! Okay, okay!"he cried. "I'll help you!" He grabbed Touzokuou's left hand. Together they began pulling. Touzokuou groaned. His arms were almost pulled out of their sockets. He had now sunk in the mud up to his groin. "Hhuuuuhhh..."he shivered. "It's cold..." Ryou, Yugi, Yami and the Pharaoh grabbed Touzokuou's wrists too. They pulled with all their might.

Suddenly Touzokuou shot out of the quicksand. All the people fell on their backsides. Touzokuou landed with his chin on Yami Bakura's chestbone. "Oosshh!"Yami Bakura uttered as all the wind was knocked out of him. Ryou sat up, rubbing his rear end. "I now understand why this is one of the trials."he said. Yami helped him get up. "Come on."he said. "We should go on to the piramid."he said. Touzokuou was rubbing his legs, that had turned a little purple. He got up, almost fell, but rejected Moonlight's helping hand. They walked on.

Suddenly King Yami fell right through the ground. He cried out in shock and could just grab the side of the hole he had fallen in. Yami rushed over to him and pulled him out. King Yami sat down on the floor and sighed. "That was close."he said. Yami tried to take a peek into the hole, but it had filled up with sand again. "We can count on more of these holes being in the ground."Yugi said. "What are they good for?" They would find out seconds later, because the ground disappeared under Moonlight's feet.

They saw him vanish completely into the ground and then heard a high scream that slowly died. "Moonlight?!"Ryou anxiously cried. He ran over to the hole, peered into it and leapt back with a cry. He fell onto his behind. The others took a look too. Their breath got stuck in their throats.

Moonlight's body was pinned on thick, pointy sticks that were standing upright in the hole. He was with his chest turned to the others, in a pose like he was about to fly away. His eyes were closed. The sharp wooden poles were stuck in his back and legs and one had even run through his stomach. The blood ran down the poles and over his stomach. Moonlight Bakura was dead. Ryou covered his eyes with his hands.

"Damned, Yadonushi! What the hell are you crying for?!"a harsh, loud voice shouted. It was Yami Bakura. He looked down at his look-alike in disgust. "That guy is im-mor-tal! He'll be back within a minute!" He was right. Moonlight's corpse suddenly disappeared. Left of the pit a bright light was visible. It took human shape. When the light died out Moonlight was standing in front of them. He opened his eyes. He looked at the hole, the poles still dripping with his blood. "I'm back."he said. "There must be more of those holes here. If you just follow me we will find out where they are." He walked on top, the others followed.

Moonlight fell into more holes, died every time, came back again. After a while Ryou saw the Shadow Soul had paled. Little drops of sweat ran down his face. "What is it, Moonlight?"he asked. "Stay behind me!"Moonlight warned him, as Ryou came too close to him. "Resurrecting myself takes a lot of my energy away. I should take a rest." Ryou went back to the group at a gallop and told them about what Moonlight had said. "Hoh! The Shadow Soul is tired!"Yami Bakura sneered. "I want to go to that piramid as quickly as possible! There's no time to take a nap!" Touzokuou agreed with him. The Yugis, on the other hand, thought Moonlight should rest for a while. "Oh no, we are going on!"Touzokuou shouted. At that moment Moonlight provided an interruption of their fight by tumbling with a scream into a new hole. But he did not become silent. The Shadow Soul continued screaming. Ryou rushed over to the hole, slipped and fell in. The Yugis uttered a cry.

Ryou landed on Moonlight's chest. Moonlight was still alive. A lock of Ryou's hair fell into a green fluid Moonlight was lying in. It sizzled and vanished into white smoke. "My God! Acid!"Ryou cried. Now he understood why Moonlight wouldn't stop screaming. The acid was slowly eating him alive. And when he was eaten Ryou would be eaten too. "Ryou... Get out!"Moonlight panted. "You will be killed! Aargh! Just let me!" Ryou looked up at the walls of the hole and saw the Yugis and other Bakuras were looking at him from above. "I can't! It's too high!"he cried. "What should we do?"

Touzokuou got an idea. He took Yami Bakura apart. "What if I hold your ankles and you grab Bakura?"he shouted in Yami Bakura's ears, trying to drown out Moonlight's howling voice. "Good plan!"Yami Bakura yelled back. He went to lie on his stomach near the hole. Touzokuou grabbed his ankles and slowly shoved him in.

Ryou had been trying to calm Moonlight down when he suddenly felt something soft on his small shoulder. When he looked up he looked right in a fiendish, red face, surrounded by white hair. He cried out and almost fell from Moonlight's chest. "Ssh! Be quiet, coward!"Yami Bakura hissed. "Let me grab your wrists, then Touzokuou will pull us out!" Ryou extended his arms and Yami Bakura grabbed them. "Okay!"the Yami shouted. Touzokuou placed one foot in front of himself and began to pull. His face flinched. Ryou was lifted from Moonlight's chest. Yami Bakura winced when Ryou's full weight pressured on his arms and ankles. Moonlight wheezed and looked at the process. The acid began to eat his lungs. He began to cough up blood.

Touzokuou pulled Yami Bakura and Ryou over the rim with a furious scream. Ryou rolled over the floor until he banged into Yami's legs. King Yami was looking at Moonlight's death throes with a look of sad frustration on his tanned face. His friend was in pain and he could not help him.

Moonlight suddenly made a jerk with his body and clutched at his throat. He could not breathe any more. His hand fell into the green acid and was dissolved. Moonlight tried to scream, but no sound came from his mouth. All that was left of his left arm were white bones. Blood squirted from the stump of his arm. Ryou could not look at it and turned away, afraid he would get sick. Yugi hid his face in Yami's side. Even Yami Bakura couldn't look at it.

Moonlight's purple eyes opened widely when the acid ate his heart. His body fell silent. Ryou heard the splashing noise the dying Shadow Soul had created stop and looked into the hole. He should not have done that. He saw the muscles on Moonlight's chest were eaten away and the ribs were visible. He saw the acid corrode Moonlight's face. He wanted to look away, but he couldn't. Eventually everything left of the strong Egyptian was a skeleton wearing a skirt with a blue waistband and another blue stripe on it. A weak sigh escaped Ryou's mouth and he fell onto his side.

Pretty gross, huh?

My God, Marco Borsato on the radio... (sticks her fingers in her ears)

Moonlight: Urgh... acid?

Ryou-Ran: Yep! Guarantees a slow and painful death!

Ryou: You know, you just sound like one of those TV-commercials: "This product guarantees clean floor without any pains."

Ryou-Ran: Quiet, Ryou. You did one of those commercials yourself, remember? (Dutch Ryou did a commercial for Swiffer about a year ago)

Ryou: (lower-lip trembles, ears are filled with tears)

Ryou-Ran: (eyes begin to water too) Sorry, Ryou! I didn't mean that! (hugs Ryou)

Ryou: Sob... R-really?

Ryou-Ran: Yes, of course!

Ryou & Ryou-Ran: (hold each other) WAAAHAAAH! (anime-fountains of tears)

Touzokuou: --"

Moonlight: (big puppy eyes) Would you look at that... (tender sigh)

Yugi: --"

King Yami: I have never seen anything like that before.

Yami Bakura: Ra up in heaven... This is unbelievable! (rolls eyes)

Ryou: Please review... sniff... sob... (gives you THE look)