The next morning, Yami found himself completely exhausted. All night, he'd been plagued with nightmares. When he got downstairs, he'd found that Chaos had at some point in the night moved down to the couch. Not wanting to disturb her, he crept quietly into the kitchen.
Yami tried to be quiet when opening the cabinets, but it was nearly impossible. To his amazement, it didn't even arose her. He found some cereal and quietly began to munch on it. He then took the box upstairs with him while he got cleaned up.
When he came back down the stairs, he saw that Chaos wasn't there anymore. Yami reached the bottom and saw that she was in the kitchen, munching on another box of cereal. He set the other box on the table.
"Feeling any better?" he asked. Chaos raised an eyebrow.
"I made it down the stairs in one piece didn't I?" Yami laughed.
"I guess that means we can go see Bakura then." Chaos nodded and closed the box of cereal.
"I'll go get cleaned up real quick," she said as she made her way towards the stairs. Chaos then ran up them to find some clothes.
Yami was amazed by this sudden recovery, but he decided not to ponder too much on it. He sat at the table and waited as she got ready to go. All the while, he munched on Cheerios.
"Okay," Chaos's voice said. "I'm ready." She came down the steps and Yami saw that she was wearing her semi long denim coat again, this time with a white T-shirt under it.
"A little cold for that isn't it?" he asked as she walked past him to the garage door.
"I'll be fine," she said as she took the keys off the hook and opened the garage door. "Come on."
Yami shrugged and followed her out to the car. He was caught by surprise when she tossed him the keys. But he acted quick enough to catch them before they hit him. "I don't feel like driving," she simply said as she got in the passenger seat.
"Yes, your majesty," Yami mocked as he walked around to the other side of the car. "Your wish is my command, your majesty." He opened the door and got into the driver's seat.
"While you're at it," she said idly. "Close the garage door. The door opener is on the visor." She laughed when he looked at her with a look that told her just how lame he thought the whole thing was.
Yami closed the garage door after slightly slamming the car door. "I suppose you want me to start the car too?" he asked. Chaos rolled her eyes at him.
"Lets just get to the hospital," she said in a whiny voice. Yami put the keys in the ignition and brought the car to life.
"I liked you better when you were sick," he said as he put the car in reverse and pulled out the driveway.
The trip to the hospital was filled with short, pointless, arguments. By the time they got there, they were about ready to go for each other's throat. Once they were in the hospital, things quieted down a little.
They passed the desk and several nurses, and even Dr. Hikura by the time they reached the elevator. They got in and found that they were the only ones going up. As soon as the door closed, they fought about who was going to push the button to go up. Yami ended up winning that argument, which was the first time that had happened.
Once they got out and walked down the hall, things quieted down once more. They got to Bakura's room and they went in, while another senseless argument began. Bakura looked at them with a look of pure confusion. Finally, he voiced his opinion.
"Okay, ladies," he voiced. "Lets stop before you start hacking up hairballs." Both turned to him and hissed like cats. Bakura allowed himself to slide a little more under his covers. "There're enough bad vibes between those two to run a voodoo factory," he whispered to himself.
"Ah, shut up," Chaos finally drawled. Yami glared at her and walked to the other side of the bed.
Bakura looked back and forth. "What? You two are alone in the same place for a day and you start cracking up? I'd like to see you guys do that for a week."
"Shizuka ni," Yami spat.
After a moment of silence, everything strangely went back to peace. Yami and Chaos were standing next to each other in a believable coexistence, and Bakura was no longer a target for anger.
"So everything's been smooth here?" Chaos asked. Bakura nodded.
"You feeling better?" he asked as he sat up and leaned against the back of the bed. It was Chaos's turn to nod.
"Things were a little bumpy for a while, but I'm okay now."
"Now we just need to find that monster," Yami growled. He hadn't forgotten about the vision that fiend had created for him. "He toyed with our minds for half the day. I'm not going to let him get away with it."
Chaos sighed. "But how do we find him? We can't just wait for him to show up again. It would take too long, and who knows what he'd do . . ."
Yami turned to Bakura. "Got any ideas, Tomb Robber?" Bakura looked up from where he was looking at his Millennium Ring.
"Yeah," he whispered. "Chaos?"
"Hai?" she asked as she looked over at him.
"Come here," he spoke softly. Chaos obeyed and walked over to the bedside. Bakura took off the Ring and gripped it with both hands. "I want you to take the Ring," he said finally. "Use it to track him down. It will get a better perception than your Bracelet."
Chaos looked at Bakura with disbelief. "But Bakura . . . You'll be defenseless without it," she finished with a whisper.
"What would I need it for here?" he asked. "With you tracking him, if he did show up, you and the Pharaoh would be here to save my sorry hide." Bakura finished his statement with an over exaggerated smile.
Chaos still didn't really look convinced. "Well . . . Okay," she whispered. Bakura motioned for her to bend down and she did. The white haired teen slipped the Ring over her head and she stood up and pulled her ponytail out from under the rope.
She looked at it sitting on her chest and looked over at Bakura with a sly grin. "It looks way better on me," Chaos said with a wink.
The spirit then swayed a little and found her vision growing dark. Chaos's eyes rolled into the back of her head and she slumped back into Yami's arms. Yami caught her and looked at Chaos with disbelief. "What happened?" he cried. Bakura looked from his bed a little worried.
"The extra magical powers she received must have overwhelmed her some," he finally said. "I think she'll fine in a few minuets."
"Some?" Yami asked as he sat Chaos's limp form into a chair. Chaos was trying to gather her breath as her head hung back.
Bakura looked away. "I thought she was getting better," he whispered. "I wouldn't have given it to her if I had known."
Yami looked over at the guilt-stricken Tomb Robber. "None of us knew it was going to happen," he growled. "It could have happened to any of us." Bakura nodded, but couldn't bring himself to look over at Chaos.
"I hope you guys kill him," he said abruptly. Yami looked over at Bakura in surprise. It was quite a strange comment to come out of the middle of nowhere.
"That's what I plan on doing," Yami said as he reached into his jacket and gripped his gun. 'I'm not letting him get away with those illusions,' Yami thought angrily. "In fact, I intend to do it myself."
Seto walked down the halls of Domino high to his first class of the morning. Everything had been much quieter the night before. Mokuba had proclaimed that he never wanted to see ice cream again for as long as he lived. Seto gave him three days to change his mind.
"Hey, Kaiba!" a Brooklyn voice called from down the hall. "Wait up!" Seto slowed to a halt and looked up at the ceiling with an exasperated sigh.
"Why now?" he pleaded. Joey Wheeler was not exactly one of the people on his list that he liked to see first thing in the morning.
Joey and Tristan ran down the hall to where Kaiba was waiting for them. When they got there, they saw a very tired, unhappy CEO. "Man," Joey said with a whistle. "What side of the bed did you get up on, Kaiba?" Seto glared at the blonde with one of his infamous death glares.
"What do you want, Wheeler?" he demanded. All Seto really wanted to do was get to class so he could get the day over with. Unfortunately, all ending the school day would get him would be several more hours of work at Kaiba Corp.
Joey scratched the back of his head nervously and gave a self conscious smile. Kaiba wasn't in the mood to be pushed, better make it quick. "I was just wondering how Yug' and the others are doin'," he finally said. "We haven't got to hear anything from them or anything and Yami really couldn't tell us anything."
Seto sighed, and he began to walk to his class, while motioning for the two to follow them. "Everybody's fine," he said as opened one of his books and shuffled through papers to find his homework. "We're just waiting for this all to be over."
"Yeah," Joey said softly. "I hope Yami and them are doing okay too."
"How much longer do you think this will take?" Tristan asked as he shoved his hands in his pockets.
"I have no idea," Kaiba said quickly as he walked into his classroom, leaving Joey and Tristan standing by themselves in the hallway.
"Charming as usual," Joey said with a shrug as they began to walk to their class.
"What else can you expect from Kaiba?" Tristan asked as he looked out the long set of windows. "That's how he always is."
"Tazi's working on it," Joey said as he looked out the window as well. "Who knows? Maybe she sees something we can't."
"Or something that he won't let anyone else see," Tristan suggest. Joey shrugged.
"Anything's possible," he said as they came to their morning class. "If there's one thing I've learned after all these weird happenings, it's that anything's possible."
Kaiba walked across the room to his desk at the very back corner right next to the window, and the heater. As he sat down, he found himself looking out the window. If you were to keep going down the road he was following with his vision, you'd end up at the docks. A lot weird, and dangerous things had come through those docks.
For the first time in a while, he found himself laughing. Chaos technically had come from those docks. When Tazi and her father had moved to Japan from U.S., they had landed in Tokyo, then boated to Domino.
But as soon as his little moment of joy had begun, it ended. A strange sense of foreboding had sunk in and he found himself looking towards the docks very intently. Something was going to happen soon, he could feel it in the pit of his stomach. Finally, he shook it off as the teacher walked in.
'You're paranoid, Kaiba,' he told himself.
Chaos groaned as she felt herself being brought back to reality. The bright lights in the room were hurting her eyes as she cracked them open. What had happened? She remembered Bakura giving her the Ring, then darkness.
"Welcome back," Bakura commented as she sat up in her chair and rubbed her temples.
"What happened?" she asked as she squinted at the lights while she looked over at him.
"You were overwhelmed by trying to control two Millennium Items," Yami answered as he came up behind her. Chaos turned around and saw that he was constantly letting his hand slide into his coat.
"How long was I out?" she pondered as she stood up. Her legs felt a little wobbly and she took hold of the back of the chair for support.
"Just a couple minutes," Bakura replied. "Do you feel that you have control of the Ring now?" Chaos nodded as she slowly let go off the chair and walked over to Bakura's bed.
"Are you gonna be okay?" she asked with concern. It was Bakura's turn to nod.
"I will be once you guys get that guy," he said with a low voice.
"I think that's an indication that we should be going," Yami said quickly. He was already walking to the door. "Lets go."
"I'll be there in a second," Chaos said when Bakura grabbed her wrist. Yami nodded reluctantly.
"I'll wait downstairs for you," he said as he walked out, shutting the door behind him.
Chaos turned to Bakura and saw a look of puzzlement on his face. "What exactly happened last night?" he asked as he looked at the door strangely. "He's bent on killing that guy, now more than ever." Chaos thought back to the night before when Yami had been falling apart right in front of her.
"That monster was toying with his mind," she whispered softly. "He made himself look like the Pharaoh and showed him killing Yugi. It really shook him up." Bakura shook his head in disgust.
"Just watch his back and make sure he doesn't do anything irrational," he advised.
Chaos nodded. "I will." She then turned and made her way to the door.
"Be careful," Bakura called. Chaos looked back.
"I will," she said softly as she closed the door.
Bakura sat in the bed and looked around his empty room. "You'd better be," he said quietly. "I don't want to be left alone with that Pharaoh. That would get very lonely, very quickly."
When Chaos walked into the waiting room and found Yami pacing. His hands were fidgeting and his right kept darting into his coat to grip an unknown object. Chaos could see why even Bakura was wondering what was wrong. Yami was blinded so badly by fury that all he was seeing was crimson.
"Ready? Or haven't you finished putting a floor in the waiting room?" Chaos asked as she put her hands on her hips, something she really didn't do too often. Yami whipped around.
"Lets go," he said as he headed straight for the doors. Not wanting to waste any time either, Chaos followed him.
The two walk out of the hospital and out to the street. They both looked around in every direction. There were so many places he could be. This was were the Millennium Ring would come in handy.
"Do your thing," Yami said as he looked over at Chaos. The spirit of the Bracelet nodded and looked down at the Ring and took it in one hand.
"Ring," she called. "Show me . . ." Before she could finish her statement, the Ring's pointers pointed straight ahead. They tugged furiously on the Ring and it seemed that they would pull themselves loose.
"Come on!" Yami called as he sprinted down the road in the direction the Ring had pointed. "He has to be close!"
"Wait up!" Chaos called as she chased after the Pharaoh. "I'm the one the with Ring!" After a hard sprint, Chaos caught up and even passed Yami.
Chaos moved onto the sidewalk so she would run into any cars or vise versa. After several blocks, the Ring directed her to take a left. She took a sharp turn with Yami right at her heels. Then, several blocks later it pointed to the right. Once again, Chaos changed course and Yami followed right behind her.
About two miles later and about ten course changes later, the Ring suddenly became lifeless and they stopped running. Chaos looked around and saw that she was in an alley. There was nothing abnormal about it, and she didn't feel anything dark or foreign.
"This is where we found Bakura," Yami panted. Chaos looked back at him.
"You sure?" she asked in disbelief. Yami nodded firmly.
"I'm positive," he answered. Chaos swallowed hard and tried to catch her breath.
"There's nothing here," she concluded. "He's leading us on a wild goose chase." Yami nodded as he wiped the sweat from his face with his jacket sleeve.
"True," he said as he took a deep breath. "But we have no choice but to follow." Chaos scowled and looked down at the Millennium Ring, which was still dead.
"Well this just sucks," she drawled, spitting out every word scornfully. Yami nodded and looked up at the sky.
"I would have to agree," Yami replied. He then heard the clanking of the Millennium Ring's pointers and looked back over at Chaos and saw that the Ring had picked up on the scent again.
Immediately, Chaos was yanked forward and she began to run to the other end of the alley. Yami took off after her and in the process, slipped and hit the old pavement at a harsh impact. The former Pharaoh hissed in pain and quickly scrambled to his feet and sprinted in the direction Chaos had run. He caught up with her when she stopped at the curb.
In her hands, the Ring's pointers were going wild. They were all pointing in different directions. Chaos growled in frustration. She closed her eyes and concentrated harder on the Item.
Yami breathed heavily and gritted his teeth as sweat ran into his newly acquired scrapes. "Come on," he said under his breath. Chaos seemed to be chanting something under her breath and it appeared to be working. Slowly, all the pointers turned to one direction, straight.
Chaos opened her eyes and looked down at the pointers. They were all completely straight and they didn't even shake. Without any more thought on it, Chaos ran out into the street, nearly sending two cars colliding. Yami didn't do much better.
This time, their coarse didn't change. A couple minutes later they found themselves by the docks, in the middle of all the storage warehouses. The Ring then died once again.
"This is becoming rather annoying," Yami growled as he looked at his surroundings. Every direction pretty much looked the same. The ground was covered with fog that went up to his waist and made everything in the distant look like white-out. The air was chilly, yet moist from the sea.
Chaos shuffled her feet anxiously and snow crunched under her boots. She couldn't sense anything, but she knew he was near. The spirit looked over at the other and saw that he was beginning to reach into his jacket again, and this time, he did pull his gun out. Chaos then did the same.
For a moment, the two stood next to each other with their guns raised to their shoulders and all that could be heard was their breathing. The tension in the air grew and they both began to grow nervous. Both knew something was about to happen, but they couldn't be sure of what.
"I'll take those . . ." a some what familiar voice said from somewhere. But it wasn't really spoken, the words had been brought to their ears by a strange wind. Suddenly, their guns were torn out of their hands and taken to some unknown destination. Both yamis look frantically for the culprit.
"Ring!" Chaos snapped. "Where is he?!" The Ring glowed and the pointers jingled and pointed . . . Up. Chaos and Yami looked up and saw what they knew they would, their enemy.
The fiend was floating in mid air, mocking them with his smirk. "It took you long enough to find me," he said tauntingly. Yami growled dangerously and clenched his fists. Slowly, he began to call upon his Puzzle.
"DIE!!!" Yami shouted as he shot out his hand and send a beam of dark energy straight at the man. As it grew nearer, the fiend only waved his hand as if to brush it off, and did just that. The beam bounced off an invisible barrier and headed back to the two on the ground, twice as strong as before.
Chaos cried out in surprise and they both dove out of the way. The beam drove itself into the ground and shards off cement flew in about every direction. As the smoke cleared, the yamis heard the fiend laughing.
"You'll have to do much better than that if you want to defeat me, Pharaoh," he called from his bird's eye view.
"Don't worry," Yami called with hatred. "I've only just begun."
Chaos looked from where she was and saw what the fiend had done. He had obviously known that they would move out of the way of such an obvious attack. The man had played an ancient tactic, divide and conquer.
The spirit's thoughts were broken by the sound of Yami shouting in Egyptian. She whipped her head around and saw a Wall Shadow jump out of the ground and swipe at Yami. He jumped back just in time. All the while, the fiend laughed. As a Headless Knight came after the Pharaoh, he shot an attack at it, but it only absorbed it and continued after him.
"Regroup!" he shouted as he ran towards her and away from the Duel Monster. Chaos started to run toward him when she was stopped by a Wall Shadow that came out of the ground.
"Just run!" Chaos shouted as she turned the other direction and ran away from the thing. Yami also chose his own direction and ran. The warehouses became a labyrinth as they ran from one monster after another after discovering that they only absorbed the attacks.
Finally, Chaos was headed off by a Headless Knight. When she turned around, there was a Wall Shadow. With a battle cry, she headed straight for it and dove in between its legs. The Wall Shadow wailed in aggravation and disappeared into warehouse wall. Chaos started to scramble to her feet, but her boot slipped on wet snow and she crashed back onto the cement.
The Headless Knight turned around and raised his sword high. Chaos looked up and saw that she couldn't escape. She covered her face with her arms and shut her eyes tightly.