Wrath of the Serpent
By: - Millenium Moon
Hi again people. I'm back with another chapter of my fan fiction. But before I begin, I would very much like to apologize for the lateness of this chapter's arrival. I have a whole list of excuses which range from computer crashes, software loss, viruses to just plain laziness. You guys probably don't wanna hear my whining so I'll shut up and let this chapter speak for it self.
A/N: - The real Bakura is referred to as: - Ryou. The Yami is: - Bakura. Clear? But it remember that Yugi and co. always refer to both Ryou and his Yami as 'Bakura.' Also, '' means Yami speech and '/' means Hikari speech. And don't forget: - "talking" 'thinking' ok?
Previously: - The two Death Eaters; Crabbe and Nott raided the Tomb-Keepers' tunnels to steal the Millennium Rod. Their plan was foiled by Marik and some well played Duel Monster cards. But Marik's victory was not without price as Ishizu and Odeon have been taken over by the Imperius curse and have been kidnapped. Marik was completely engulfed in blind rage and vowed to extract his revenge on who ever was responsible for this evil act. His only clues are the reference to a 'Dark Lord' and the address 'Knockturn Alley, London; England.'
Song for the Chapter: - "In the Shadows" by The Rasmus.
:::Chapter 4:::
Nightfall
It was just another normal night in the town of Domino. The time was around 12:47 am. There wasn't as much as an alley cat on any of the streets. The silence was so absolute that it seemed that everything was dead. Almost all of the citizens of Domino, from the mega rich Seto Kaiba to the poorest beggar, were catching their 40 winks.
But there is one light on in the dark and silent town. A lone light bulb of an apartment shone through the absolute darkness of the night. In the apartment sat a young boy; white hair, brown eyes and pale skin. In front of him was a First Aid Kit. He was applying a bandage on his right arm. There was a deep gash there.
'Why must the spirit of the Millennium Ring always act the way he does?' thought Ryou as he continued applying the bandage. It's not like I ask much of him… I would rather prefer he didn't mortally would me every time he took over my body, not that I appreciate him doing that in the first place either…'
Ryou had become something of an amateur paramedic over the past few months. Mending whatever cuts or bruises his Yami inflicted on his body while out on his nightly escapades, he could now fix any problem from a scraped knee to a broken neck!
Are you done with the healing?a raspy voice demanded. It was Yami Bakura, the spirit of the Millennium Ring.
/I…/ began Ryou, /D-don't want you to go out at nights… I'm the one left to mend all the damage and it's MY body! So I…/
So you will be silentinterrupted Bakura I could seal you in a card again you weakling! You are worthless and you…suddenly Bakura stopped as if he realized something. No. Not worthless. At least you can heal the wounds inflicted on me by the lesser thieves of Domino. You DO know what I do when I got out don't you?
/Yes…/ sighed Ryou mournfully. /'Steal from thieves, so it's a good thing'/ he quoted Bakura. /But you kill the thieves! Or worse!/
No one will miss them!sneered Bakura. They are the dregs of this city. I'm probably the only decent thief on this entire land mass!
Ryou sighed. He wished the spirit inside his Millennium item was like the spirit inside Yugi's Millennium Puzzle… The other Yugi, Yami as everyone now called him, actually looked after Yugi! He protected him from people like Pegasus, Marik (at one time…) and of course, Bakura.
I'm sure it must have healed by nowsaid the tomb robber. It's time to go out again!
/What?!/ gasped Ryou. /N-no! Don't do it! Please! Don't make me a prisoner of my own body! I beg of you!/
Hahahahaha!!laughed Bakura Begging is not going to save you. Nothing will. I grow tired of this useless exchange.
/P-please!/ screamed Ryou as he felt the all too familiar feeling. His sight darkened, his hearing was silenced and he felt as if he was falling… falling deep into some bottomless chasm in his mind. /Nooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!/ And of course all of his words, tears and tantrums fell on deaf ears…
Bakura stood up and cleared his throat. He brushed a hand through his spiky white hair before going towards the apartment window. Opening the window, he climbed out onto the fire escape and made his way to the top of the apartment building. He had made it a habit to always start his nightly raid from the top of this building.
Tonight he had started a bit late. Normally he would be robbing the city blind from around 11:30 pm. Last night, he learned that it wasn't wise to attack gang members in their own territory. The idiots he attacked pulled out knives from out of no where and retaliated. They managed to cut his arm, after which they just disappeared into the alleys. So tonight he had to wait till Ryou could patch up his wound.
Bakura stared out towards the rows of buildings. It was very quiet. He enjoyed the death-like silence very much. He walked towards the edge of the apartment building. He then bent his knees and leapt onto the nearby building! Luckily that building had fewer floors so he had no problems reaching there with ease.
He then started running. He leapt from building to building and finally jumped onto the street. There he ran, not paying any attention to where he was going. He ran down neighborhoods and near malls until he wound up at the Kaiba Corp building.
Bakura had always admired this building. Its structure, its products. But what he admired the most was its high security. Motion sensors, laser beams, heat detectors, infrared cameras and even trip wires made it the pinnacle of modern security measures. It would take one hell of a thief all of his luck to break in and after going in, he must also be able to break out…
Bakura was constantly testing himself. He had sneaked into the Domino Mall, the Turtle Game Shop of Solomon Mouto, the homes of Joey Wheeler, Tristan Taylor and Téa Gardner and even the Kaiba Mansion. All of those entries were exciting, yes, BUT sneaking into the impregnable 'Kaiba Corp Headquarters' was always a wish of his…
"Heh! This is going to take all of my skills to pull off…" said Bakura to himself. "Kaiba, you can upgrade your alarm systems until you go blue in the face but you can never keep this thief out!"
"Really?" said a harsh voice. It was speaking in perfect Japanese. "I think you can't pull it off. If memory serves me correctly, you once went into the Pharaoh's tomb to rob it. But you nearly lost you life. It was only luck that you got out. And thanks to you after that the Pharaoh had the Dark Magician protecting him…"
"Eh?" snarled Bakura. "Who goes there? Show your self coward!" he spun around as he talked trying to locate the source of the voice.
"Coward?" said the voice. "I'm hurt. But I will, however show my self." With that there was a faint swishing noise and the faint 'click click' of boots against the road.
Suddenly out of the shadows, he appeared. It was a tall man. He was wearing black robes with a hood. The hood covered his eyes but Bakura could make out a fanged smile and extremely pale skin.
"And to whom do I have to thank for enlightening me with his blessed presence in the dead of night on a dark street?" said Bakura with mock respect. "Oh please do tell!"
"Quite the sarcastic spirit aren't you?" smiled the man. "I can tolerate that in one of my Death Eaters. Oh, forgive me. I haven't introduced myself. I am Lord Voldemort the most feared wizard in the modern world."
"'Wizard?'" said Bakura with a blank look. "Alright, my 'Lordship.' Number one:- how do you know I am a spirit? Number two:- What do want with me? Number three:- Will you leave me alone willingly or should I throw you remains into the sea in a card board box?"
"I know all about you, Thief King!" said Voldemort, his voice no more than a hiss. "I want to make a deal and give you an invitation. As for number three, I think you lack the power to back up your threats!"
"Oh?" Bakura raised an eyebrow. "How about THIS!" He suddenly unleashed a blast of shadow powers from his Millennium Ring at Voldemort. The spell was meant to throw him off his feet.
But suddenly Voldemort vanished into thin air! The spell hit where he had been a second ago and blasted a hole in the concrete road!
"WHAT?!?" yelled Bakura. "Where did he go?" then he raised his voice and called out, "What's the matter 'my lord'? Lost your courage?"
"Hardly," came Voldemort's voice from somewhere far behind Bakura. "I am aware that at this point you will not listen to anything I have to say…" then Voldemort Apperated exactly behind Bakura. "So, I'll take this…" He pointed his wand at Bakura and muttered, "Accio Millennium Eye!" The Millenium Eye in Bakura's pocket leapt into Voldemort's hands at once. "…and be on my way." Then he Disapperated again.
"What the hell?" gasped Bakura. "How did you do that? Show yourself! Don't you dare runaway from me, you bloody coward!"
Suddenly he heard, or rather, 'felt' a voice. It seemed to be coming from his head but somehow it felt as if his body was becoming numb with every word. "If you want the Millennium Eye, you must come and meet me on the top of the Kaiba Corp building. Show me your real capabilities as a thief, Bakura. When you reach the top of the building, we shall play a game for the ownership of the Eye."
"Name your game!" roared Bakura. "I'll crush you what ever game you choose. You should be honored to fall by the hand of the Thief King!"
"The game will be Duel Monsters." Came Voldemort's voice. "I know you have your deck with you. Let's see if you are really worth all this trouble…"
The voice faded slowly and Bakura didn't feel numb anymore. He felt enraged. He was going to decapitate this 'Lord' and smear his guts on the KC building's windows… Oh yes, Voldemort had no idea what he was in for…
Seto Kaiba woke up quite suddenly. He had no idea what he was dreaming about before he awoke. He tried to shut his eyes and get some sleep but it didn't come. Cursing, Kaiba got up, changed into his Battle City outfit and walked out of his room. He walked down the corridor and stopped near Mokuba's room. He stood there quietly with his ear near the door.
He heard nothing, so he continued walking until he came up to the game room. He walked in and was greeted by a myriad of gaming consoles and mechanic devices.
'Trivial items of the distant past,' he thought. 'I don't think even Mokuba uses most of these anymore.'
Kaiba continued walking until he came up to a huge book shelf. It had a small safe in the middle. The whole shelf was full of Mokuba's DVDs. Kaiba rarely saw any of them so he didn't quite know what they were. There were titles such as 'Detective School Q' and 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' etc… etc…
Turning his attention towards the safe, he entered the combination: - 60 91 9.
He heard a clicking noise to confirm the code and opened the safe to reveal his briefcase. It contained his duel disk with a deck already placed in it.
Sliding it onto his arm, he walked towards the empty space in the middle of the room. He picked up a remote that lay on the floor and pressed a button. There was a faint humming sound as part of the floor opened up and a robot appeared. It was round in the middle with six slots to put cards and had a rectangular contraption onto which cards could be played. There was also a duel monsters deck. It was a duel robot. Kaiba wanted to duel.
"Set skill level to max." he told it. "Use the deck of Marik Ishtar; Battle City." Kaiba wanted a challenge and Marik was the only person, other than Yugi, who could give him one.
"DUEL!" said Kaiba, signaling the beginning of the duel. A/N:- I'll be doing duels in dialogue format, so it'll be easier to understand. P/S:- Don't worry you'll hear from Bakura very soon.
The first turn goes to the duel robot.
Duel Robot:- "Draw. Processing card data base. Formulating strategy. Set one monster. Place two cards face down. End turn."
Kaiba:- "My turn! Draw. I summon Kaiser Seahorse (1700 Atk / 1650 Def. Effect:- If you Tribute Summon a LIGHT monster, you can treat this monster as 2 Tribute Monsters for the Tribute Summon.) in attack mode. Then I place a card face down and end my turn.
Duel Robot:- "Draw. Analyzing battle data. Summon Bowganian (1300 Atk / 1000 Def. Effect:- During each of your Standby Phases, inflict 600 points of damage to opponent's LP) in attack mode. Put one card face down. End turn.
Kaiba:- 'The robot now has three cards face down…' "Draw. I sacrifice my Kaiser Seahorse to summon Blue Eyes White Dragon. I only need to sacrifice one Kaiser Seahorse due to its special effect. Next I play the trap card Light of Intervention. It forces all face down monsters into face up defense mode and now neither of us can set monsters!" 'So there…'
The duel robot's face down monster is flipped into face up defense mode. It was the shape shifting Revival Jam. (Effect:- Cannot be destroyed in battle. Always revives itself.)
Duel Robot:- "Draw. Bowganian's special effect; drain opponent's LP by 600 points. (Kaiba's LP 4000 – 600 3400) Activate face down trap card, Jam Defender. Effect:- All of opponent's attacks are directed towards Revival Jam. End turn."
Kaiba:- 'Damn it! Revival Jam… I'll need to get a rid of it or it will be trouble.' "Draw! Activate face down card; Remove Trap. I'll destroy the Jam Defender card. Blue Eyes White Dragon, attack his Bowganian now! (Duel Robot's LP:- 4000 – (3000 – 1300) 2300) End turn…"
He was so absorbed in his duel that he didn't notice a small man suddenly appear behind him. The figure held a thin wooden wand which was pointing at Kaiba's back.
"STUPEFY!!"
Kaiba whirled around just in time to see a red colored beam of light engulf him. Then he fell to the floor, unconscious. The last thing he remembered was a shorter than average person…
Wormtail's hands shook as he walked over and checked whether his victim was fully unconscious. Satisfied, he used his wand to turn one of Kaiba's cards into a Port key. Then he and Kaiba (with his help) touched the Port key. The magic took effect instantaneously and Wormtail and the now unconscious Kaiba were transported to the top of the Kaiba Corp building where the Dark Lord was waiting…
An amused Bakura looked at the crisscrossing laser beams in front of him. 'Now this is going to be a challenge. Even if one laser is cut, it will trip the entire alarm system. That's enough to wake the entire block!'
This was the first time he had been forced to think of a plan ever since he got into the building. The front door, made from glass, was easy enough. The main hall with its 25 cameras weren't hard either. Even the temperature sensitive hallway was not so hard. (He had to spray himself with a Fire Extinguisher to lower his body temperature for that one…)
But this, the laser protected hallway was more complex. Someone somewhere had put his heart and soul into making this system. The laser were coming from random places so there wasn't a pattern and the spaces were so tight, Bakura couldn't even stick his arm in without tripping the alarm.
'To get past this I'm going to have to think it through.' Though Bakura. 'Lasers… what do I know about them? Not much… so I'll have a chat with Ryou. Maybe I can obtain some useful knowledge.' So Bakura retreated deep into his mind to find Ryou.
Hikari,he growled when he found Ryou, who was crying, again… What do you know about lasers?
Sniff/W-why?/ chocked a tearful Ryou. /W-what have y-you gotten yourself into t-this time?/
Nothing. Just answer me!an impatient Bakura glared. What are the properties of lasers? Can something go through them without tripping them?
'I might as well answer,' though Ryou. 'Maybe then I'll get my body back a lot faster…'
/Lasers are sort of like rays of light./ said Ryou trying to remember his last Physics class. /I suppose you should reflect them using a mirror or something./
Ku, now that's an idea.said Bakura before returning back to the body. He then looked up towards the ceiling. For some reason, Kaiba had covered the entire ceiling with mirrors. If anyone were to stare upwards, they would see themselves reflected on the ceiling. It must be pretty weird for the employees…
Bakura counted the number of lasers, which was no easy task as they were all intertwined. In the end, he concluded that there were 40 individual lasers, so he would have to use 40 mirror pieces.
He reached into his Ring and used a trickle of its power to crack one of the mirrors. Then he forced the energy into the crack, making more cracks. Suddenly, he sent a powerful blast, which broke the mirror into pieces!
'Mirror pieces:- Check!' thought Bakura. 'Now, how to use them… Ah, I know! I'll use my shadow powers of levitation.'
Bakura extended his arm towards the broken mirror pieces. He felt a slight shiver as the shadow powers flowed out of his fingertips and held each of the mirror pieces.
He then waved his hand, causing the pieces to float towards the field of lasers. With the precision of a brain surgeon, Bakura forced the pieces, one by one to intercept the lasers. As expected, the mirror pieces reflected the lasers, forming a clear path through them. Feeling slightly drained, he made his way through the lasers. The cost of holding up the pieces was taking a toll on him.
Slowly, but surely, Bakura got through. He then relinquished his powers over the mirror pieces, causing them to fall onto the floor. The web of lasers activated again.
Bakura checked where he was. It looked like a corridor filled with cabinets. Curiosity got the better of him and he opened one of the cabinets. Inside was a duel disk, which he took. He then inserted his deck into the disk. As he was about to close the cabinet, something caught his eye. It was a duel monsters card.
'Must be one of Kaiba's cards.' He thought. 'It's not the type of card that I use in my deck but it does have an interesting effect. I'll add it to my deck. Voldemort may have studied the type of cards I used in Battle City and formulated a counter strategy… This will be my wild card which might give me an edge.'
After adding the card to his deck, Bakura then headed towards the end of the corridor. After there were two more rooms and finally he reached the staircase. He dashed up the staircase, which itself was no easy task as he was on the 5th floor and needed to get to the 35th floor which was the top…
After running up thirty floors, Bakura was exhausted. "I NEVER want to see another staircase in my ENTIRE LIFE!!!" he wheezed. He waited a bit to catch his breath before kicking the door open. Voldemort would be outside. He rushed outside, duel disk in hand, ready to duel.
But when he stepped outside, there was no one around. "VOLDEMORT?!?" he roared. "WHERE ARE YOU? FACE ME NOW!"
"Very well," came the reply in his head.
Then there was a faint scraping sound and a figure appeared out of the darkness. He walked towards Bakura at a steady pace until they were only a few meters apart. But it wasn't Voldemort… It was Kaiba! But there was something strange about him. He is face was hidden in the shadows, but a small sneer was visible.
"Kaiba?" exclaimed Bakura. "What the hell are you doing here at this hour? Shouldn't you be asleep in that king-sized bed of yours?"
Kaiba stayed silent for a few seconds. Then he opened his mouth to speak, but the voice that came out wasn't his.
"I am not Seto Kaiba." Said a cold voice he now recognized as Voldemort's. "I'm merely using his body to duel with you. I am a powerful wizard. Did you really expect me to play a card game with you?" he then smirked and said, "Besides, I don't have a deck to duel with…"
"Ku, how pathetic." Sneered Bakura. "You challenge me to play a game, yet you can't play by yourself?" even though he was putting on a tough guy façade, Bakura was very concerned. If Voldemort was going to use Kaiba's deck it would mean he would have to face three Blue Eyes White Dragons! He could barely take down one Blue Eyes, three was out of the question!
"Even though I am using Kaiba's deck, I'll be making my own moves," hissed Voldemort. "Just to make things fair, I will not refer to Kaiba's knowledge of the game to help me win."
Bakura glared at him.
Then both of them in one voice cried out, "LET'S DUEL!"
Author's Notes:
Well, there you go:- The much awaited 'Chapter Four!!' (Applause) I would like to thank the nice people who reviewed so far. Thanks a lot! You guys rock! And I would like to request that none of you Ryou fans try to kill me because I'm not portraying him as weak. Ryou will play a very important part in this fic before it ends. Yu-Gi-Oh ended with Yugi VS Yami (Atem), maybe I should do Ryou Vs Bakura? What do you think? Please give me your opinions.
Also, when I'm writing duels, most of the card used here will also be used in anime/manga. I will also try to get the Atk, Def and Effect accurate as possible. But if any of you spot an error, review or email me at '. And let's hope I can create the kind of eye-popping strategies they use in the series. Anyway next chapter, 'Kaiba' VS Bakura and more on Yugi and Marik as well.
Also a special thanks to Seto's Angel who proof read this chapter for me. Thank you! You really didn't think I would forget about you didja?
A/N on Kaiba's safe combination :- '91' is actually supposed to be 291. that's the episode of the Yu-Gi-Oh manga in which the Priest Seto beats the crap out of all of the Priests using his spirit beast Dyosu. In the end Yami kicks Seto's butt using Kuriboh. ; But the point is that Seto beat all of the priests single-handedly… Just some general knowledge from your friendly neighborhood Yu-Gi-Oh maniac… 60(the number of cards in his new Duel Monsters deck) and 9(His birth day was in September, the ninth month.)
P/S: - 'Prince of Persia; The Warrior Within' and 'Metal Gear Solid 3 : Snake Eater' are awesome! And mustn't forget 'Grand Theft Auto : San Andreas' as well. If you own a PlayStation2™, buy those games! You won't regret it!
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