Where the elevator stops

Yami continued his flight through the doors of the tower and he looked through the long hall where he saw an elevator. Quickly he ran into it and pressed the button that read R25, and watched the doors close. Thoughts of Tea filled his mind he would rescue her as he had before when a mugger tried to take Tea's money in the abandoned warehouse.

He smiled in memory of her; it was then that he had known that she was a part of his past some how. He was never sure but now he knew and he would not let her get away from him. He loved her with a power that was much stronger than the power that lay dormant in him for so long.

Yami was actually planning to use his powers to save her. He would also save the real Ryou and Marik. Though he had no idea how to call upon his powers but he figured that if he had faith in himself he could do no wrong.

Suddenly the elevator stopped, puzzled Yami looked at the light on the top of the elevator door, it read twenty-three. The elevator had stopped two floors from its true destination the door flung open revealing a very angry Bakura. His eyes were narrow and his hair cast a shadow over the color of his eyes.

Thinking about it, Yami would have said that Bakura was the very essence of Shadow itself. "What do you want Bakura?" Yami grunted in anger, he was running out of time, "I have no time for games." He said

"Oh I don't plan to play a game with you. As you know this is much more than a card game." Bakura then drew a short golden sword "this is real." He said

Yami gasped inwardly, "Bakura you don't want to do this."

"Oh yes, I'm certain I do." Bakura spoke

"I wasn't talking to you." Yami snapped and looked through Bakura's eyes to find the real one. Ryou was locked in a soul room similar to Yugi's only it held a British flag on the door. "Bakura, come out of there. Don't let him have control. You can stop him." Yami called

Bakura laughed and closed his mind blocking Yami from getting through to his other half. Yami grunted once more in anger, what was he going to do if he could not get through to real Bakura? His powers were still unexcitable to him. But he could not give up, not on Tea, not on Yugi or the others. He would have to fight Bakura in order to save him.

As the dark Bakura advanced toward him Yami began to fidget and began searching for a weapon, or something...anything. There on the other end of the room he saw it, but thought it too convenient, however Yami needed it so he ran quickly behind Bakura and grabbed the object that so happened to be there when he needed it. The silvery sword hung on the wall like a trophy on the bare wall of white paint, one and a half feet of pure steel with the ankh shape at the top acting as a hilt. It seemed to be fitting for the Pharaoh so he grabbed it and wheeled around to face Bakura. A battle of swords, Yami wasn't sure how he knew but something inside him told him that he could and knew how to use the sword.

Bakura pointed his sword and the Pharaoh, and Yami did the same to him, the swords were soon to engage in a conversation only the understood. "Ah, this will be a fight worth having. Lets see when I win I will send you to the Shadow realm, or worse the place of darkness." Bakura's lips twisted in a demonic smile.

"I will free my friends and you will be the one to visit the Shadow realm, and this time you will not come back." Yami did not flash a smiled for he didn't take joy in having to harm a friend in order to free him. "Forgive me Bakura." Yami said and charged for Bakura who was also charging for him.

With Tea

Hopelessness filled her heart and he mind, she was losing faith in everything she believed in. Something in the back of her mind was taking her memories and aspirations. Tea's eyes opened wider and there before her stood Marik, he was holding his rod toward her. It was then she realized what he was doing he was trying to make her his mind slave once more. She struggled and twisted her arms hoping for freedom.

Hold still my sweet." Marik said "I need you to perform the ceremony, but this time I will not let you make anymore mistakes." He said, "This won't hurt a bit." He gripped the rod tighter and held in fast to her forehead. It began to glow and let out a chime that only Marik could hear. Yep he had her mind once more. Her eyes lost their shine and she fell limp within her bindings.

"Foolish girl, your love and hope in friendship will let you down, it is too bad that you have to learn this little lesson in such a hard way." Marik said.

"Yes My Pharaoh." Tea nodded in a tone that no longer belonged to her. "What do you wish of me my lord?" she asked as he untied her.

"I want you to kill Yami." Marik smiled, "Bakura will need your help." He added

The Twenty third floor

Bakura was being held down By Yami with his sword pointed at his throat... "What are you going to do, stick it in me?" Bakura asked "do it...you wont get another chance" Know that this would get Yami to let him go

"Ryou! If you can hear me break free from his hold..." Yami said

"I told you he is too weak to stop me..." Bakura said "so just kill me, or is this hesitating because you can bare the thought to losing a friend, or having their blood on your hands?"

"Stop!" Both Boys look to the left where they see Tea with a bow and Arrow. "Yami, you get away from him"

"Tea?" Yami looked up to see that she had small cuts all over... "Who did that to you." Bakura uses this chance to push Yami away but he did not mind, instead he ran over to Tea but was stopped when Tea turned her bow on him... "What are you doing?"

"Yami, the real pharaoh cannot exist in this world with you, so you must be taken out of the picture..." Tea let her arrow fly...