Silver Dragon: Welcome back to another episode of Desert Shadow.
Devil's Wyrm: We hope you are enjoying it.
SilverD: Now let's get to the story!
Notes: No new one for now.
Disclaimer: You get the point: we do not own YGO.
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Chapter 8: Scout Mission
Bakura sat at Ryou's home, pondering what he had felt near that boy Nabe. 'I must know what he is,' though the tomb robber. 'Is my vessel's friend a ghost come back to haunt me? Maybe he is like the pharaoh and me: a spirit of an ancient being trapped in an Item. That gold manacle does seem vaguely recognizable. It must be another Millennium Item. The spirit I felt must be trapped in it, if a spirit he is. I will not get any answers sitting here. I must go forth and find them.'
The Ring spirit got up and left the house. He began a search of the area with the power of his Millennium Ring. 'I sense an Item in this city, not the Puzzle though, not the Manacle either. It is a new one. I must acquire this Item.'
Using the Ring, Bakura headed in the direction of Domino Museum.
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It was the third day of the Battle City tournament. Nabe now had four locator cards; the newest one from another puny fan who had heard of his underground exploits. /I guess I'm getting ahead, huh Sebak. \
//Yes, maybe we can do something else today. \\
/Oh, like what? \
//I have noticed wall signs showing pictures of an Egyptian exhibit at Domino Museum. \\
/So? \
//I want to go see it. \\
/Sure. I'm not really into history stuff much. But since you have come along, I am kind of curious about were you come from. Let's go take a look. \
//Thank you. \\
So Nabe grabbed his dueling equipment. He asked Katsuro if he wanted to come, but he had some school project he needed to work on. The hikari departed for the museum.
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Domino Museum was a ghost town; very few people were visiting that day. Everyone was at the tournament or at work. The only people there were the employees and the owner of the exhibit: Ishizu Ishtar, along with Bakura and Nabe. Bakura arrived first, in hot pursuit of a Millennium Item. He made his way into the museum only to loose the magical signal of the Item. Disgruntled, he turned his attention to the large stone tablets mounted on the walls of the room he was in. 'Soon, I will posses all the items and the infinite powers will be mine!' contemplated the Ring spirit.
As Bakura was musing inside, Nabe made his way into the building and to the Egyptian exhibit. /I hope we learn something, even if we're not at school. \
//Yes, I hope so as well. \\ 'Soon, pharaoh, your powers will be gone, stripped away by the black shades of the Shadow Realm! Left to rot for eternity!'
As Nabe approached, Bakura sensed the presence of the Manacle. 'Here's my chance to learn more about this mysterious spirit.'
The tomb robber stepped into an adjoining hallway where he could see and hear all without being noticed, hopefully. Nabe arrived in the area that the tomb robber had just left and began scrutinizing the slabs of stone mounted on the walls, trying to decipher the pictographs. /It's no good Sebak; the pictures look cool and all, but I don't know what they mean. \
//That is fine; you should not understand them anyway. But can. \\
/Good, so what do they mean? I recognize some of them as Duel Monsters. \
//Correct, these tablets are a history of the games. \\
/Games? \
//The Shadow Games, where powerful magicians and daring warriors fought great battles using the creatures you see on the cards you duel with. \\
/What about the magic and trap cards, where they used? \
//Yes, priests and conjurers cast potent spells on each other during these duels. \\
/And you were a part of these duels; that's how you know this much. \
//Yes, I was a participant. I was one of the chief priests to the pharaoh himself. \\
/Whoa. It sounds like you were a pretty important guy. \
//Yes, if you call High Priest of Set important. \\
/Yeah, I would. Wait, I thought Egyptians hated Set, wasn't he the bad god, kinda like the devil or something? \
//No, they feared him and despised him, for Set is the god of evil, chaos, the desert, and foreign lands. I suppose he is the 'bad god,' but we still worshiped him in fear of what he could do to us. \\
/Ooooh. Okay, all this info is starting to hurt my brain. I'll let you take the wheel for a while. I'm going to go play video games in my soul room. \
Nabe left control of his body to the spirit, immediately settling down in front of the big-screen TV in his chambers. Sebak took complete control, the tall, muscular teen body conforming to his appearance. The jet-black hair stood up more with the two horns sprouting up high amongst them, his skin took an almost reptilian texture as billions of tiny, beige scales formed, his fingernails blackened and grew into short, razor sharp claws, his teeth sharpened, everyone coming to at least one point, and lastly, his eyes changed from the black, round orbs of their owner, to the cat-like, smoldering eyes of the dragon spirit. Sebak looked himself over, plain happiness showing on his rough face; a pair of fangs gleamed in his smile. 'It is a good thing that vessel of mine wanted to go play, I have missed this so much. It compares not to the part change yesterday. Now I can work in peace and comfort.'
Bakura stared in shock at the physical changes that occurred right before his eyes. 'No, the spirit is no one I knew, at least not well. But those eyes, they seem… familiar, as if I have seen them before. I wonder if he would be adverse to a meeting.'
Bakura slowly stepped out from his hiding place and quietly walked towards the other spirit staring at the hieroglyphs. His shoe squeaked on the stone floor; Bakura froze. Sebak spun, his eyes burning bright. He saw the "teen" standing statue still, staring back at him, into his eyes, afraid, the Millennium Ring dangling by its robe from his neck. The dragon spirit released a guttural roar and charged at Bakura, fire in his eyes.
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SilverD: Short, but with a twist!
DWyrm: You mean cliffhanger.
SilverD: To all you Bakura fans out there, I'm sorry I picked on your fav character, but it had to be done!
DWyrm: Now, for the reviews:
Mina-chan AMD: Sure you can be in it! I reviewed your story to give you the details!
Sdrive: Since you asked first of all you can be in it too! Same thing as above, I reviewed you the details.
LittleYugiBoy: Glad you like, keep up the hard work!
Shayken Destiny: Thanks, and don't worry, you'll learn soon enough!
SilverD: To all of you dueling fans, there will be another duel in the near future. But with midterms and all, we have not found a good time to write it. We will probably get it out during Christmas break.
DWyrm: There is also an unofficial contest. The duel will be a team duel between Nabe and two other guys. Give us your suggestions for Nabe's partner. We have a character in line for the spot, but we want your opinions too.
SilverD: Please review!