[Kitty: Alright, chapter seven! ^__^ Lucky seven... but does that mean that
Kara + Marik will be lucky too? Read, find out, and then review!]
Chapter Seven: Bad Wisdom
"F-Father," Marik stammered, "I-I can explain..."
"SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE!" Mr. Ishtar roared, "I TOLD YOU A THOUSAND TIMES ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE COMING UP, AND HOW DO YOU REPAY ME?! WITH KISSING A FILTHY, LOW-LIFE BITCH!
"Please, Mr. Ishtar," Kara said timidly, "It wasn't Marik's fault, I-I forced him to do so."
Marik gawked. Kara was trying to defend him.
"I knew he didn't want me," Kara whispered, still loud enough for Mr. Ishtar to hear, "but I was just being selfish. I will not deny that I..that I snuck in here for my own gain. It's not Marik's fault. If anyone's, it is my own."
"Well, bitch," Mr. Ishtar snapped, grabbing her by the hair as she let out a strangled cry, "I will not deny that you can make up nice stories to get Marik out of trouble, but I know what my son did!"
In came Ishizu. Her hands were locked in front of her, but they were trembling.
"Sister!" Marik cried, "You...you didn't!"
Ishizu hung her head. "I'm sorry, Brother," she whispered, "but destiny did not agree with you two being together."
Marik stared in horror at his sister. After everything they had shared as siblings, she would betray him to save herself from the wrath of their father?!
"How could you?!" Marik asked Ishizu, tears forming in his eyes, "How could you do this to me, sister?!"
Mr. Ishtar started to drag Kara out of the room by her hair, and she squeaked with each of his tugs.
"Father, please!" Marik yelled, trying to run over, until Ishizu grabbed him, "You're hurting her!"
"Like I care about a Priest Keeper's pain!" Mr. Ishtar snapped, "Especially after everything she has done! Sneaking into your room by night---"
"Because I asked her to!"
"Kissing you---"
"After I did her!"
"Leaning upon you as if you were her spouse---"
"Because I let her!"
Mr. Ishtar glared, and Marik saw in his eyes, for the first time in the conversation, how drunk he really was.
'No,' Marik thought in horror, 'If he's drunk...there's no way Kara can live!'
Kara tried to stand up, but Mr. Ishtar threw her into the wall. Her head hit it sharply, and she collapsed. She didn't get up.
"KARA!" yelled Marik, trying to get himself out of Ishizu's grip, "KARA!" But she didn't respond.
Marik suddenly felt an explosion take place in his head, and all went black for him.
~*~Unseen to Marik, seen to Mr. Ishtar and Ishizu~*~
Marik stopped struggling, and looked down at the floor. Ishizu let go, thinking he was done. But when he looked up, his sun-bleached blond hair was up in a few places, and his eyes were cold and mocking.
"Father," he chuckled in a deeper voice than was normal, "You really shouldn't have done that. Now I shall take what is mine."
"What are you talking about?!" his father demanded.
Marik chuckled again, as he walked toward the holder for the Millennium Rod and necklace.
"Don't you dare touch those!" yelled Mr. Ishtar, but he sounded slightly scared.
Marik laughed a scornful laugh. "Why? The Millennium Rod was to be mine from the very beginning. Why can't I take it now, to fulfill my destiny?"
He grabbed the Millennium Rod, and pointed it at Mr. Ishtar. "Now, for you to suffer the consequences of not obeying me."
Mr. Ishtar was thrown backward onto the wall, trapped in gold magic. Ishizu looked alarmed. "Brother, stop this!" she cried.
Marik laughed. "As for you, you will be joining him!" Ishizu was thrown against the wall also, gold magic blocking all forms of escape.
Suddenly, Kara opened her eyes. She blinked, and then heard voices. Making sure they didn't see, she turned her head as to glimpse what was going on.
'No!' her mind screamed, when she recognized the phony Marik from her nightmare. He was using the Millennium Rod on Mr. Ishtar by the looks of things. He pulled a gold-crusted knife out of the Rod, and slammed the dagger into Mr. Ishtar's heart.
"ISHTAR-SAN!" Kara cried, jumping up as he collapsed, the magic fading from his now-lifeless body.
The impersonator Marik turned sharply to look at Kara. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Miss Rozene. I do believe you remember me from your little dream a year ago?"
"Of course I'd remember you, bastard!" Kara snapped, "Where's Marik?!"
He laughed again. "How many times must I tell you? I am Marik!"
"And how many times must I tell you?! You're not Marik, and you never will be, now leave them alone!"
"Really, Kara, I don't know why you're defending them," he said in a mocking tone, "They're trying to keep you and me apart, aren't they?"
"I'd love to be apart from you!" Kara snapped, "And as to me and Marik, I know even he doesn't wish his father to die!"
The phony Marik laughed again. "Your efforts are quite entertaining, trying to convince yourself that I am not who I am. And even if I have not done everything I said in your dream, I will soon be able to repeat them in complete honesty."
"No, you won't!" Kara yelled, "You will never! I will make sure of that!"
"Mistress Takara?!" Kara turned to the alarmed voice.
"Odean!" Kara cried.
"Master Marik," Odean said, turning to phony Marik.
"Not quite," Kara warned him.
"It may not be him speaking, but it is his essence," Odean whispered so that the phony Marik couldn't hear him, "It is his body, but the psyche talking to us is not the Marik we know. Do you remember the counter-spell for such a curse?"
Kara thought, and suddenly nodded.
"Kill the enemy within a friend, Preserve innocence contained by spite, Save the beginning from the end, Banish darkness from the light."
The spurious Marik suddenly looked as if he was in pain. He was gripping his head and he was kneeling on his knees as though praying without the prayers.
\\No, this is my body... no!\\ phony Marik was yelling, but his voice didn't sound cold. It almost sounded like the phony Marik and regular Marik were switching voices along the way.
Finally, he stopped, as though back in control. However, he growled, and looked at Kara.
"I will be back, and when I do, you two will not interfere," was his last cold whisper before he suddenly collapsed. Ishizu's golden bonds vanished, and she also fell to the floor.
Kara ran over to Marik, as he moaned, looking up at her confused and dazed.
"Marik, are you alright?" asked Kara in a worried tone.
"Kara?" Marik whispered, as she pulled him into her lap.
"Yes, it's me."
"W-what happened?"
"I---"
Odean cut her off by putting his hand on her shoulder and looking at her significantly. Kara sighed, and started again with a lie.
"I don't really know. I just awoke, and these two were on the ground," she gestured toward Mr. Ishtar and Ishizu, "If I had to guess, someone attacked you."
"Attacked?" Marik repeated vaguely. Suddenly, his eyes went wide, and he jumped into Kara's arms.
"NO! NO, LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"Marik, what are you talking about?" Kara said, sounding concerned.
"HIM! HIM, ON THE WALL!"
Kara looked, and almost jumped back also.
There was a mist-like version of a man there. He had a turban, gold earrings, and pupiless blue eyes.
His lips moved with the ancient language of the Pharaohs, and she didn't understand what he said, but she knew Marik could hear every single word.
"W-what did he say?" Kara stammered, when he suddenly vanished, and Marik was hugging her tight, his face buried into her shirt.
"H-h-h-he said something about th-the Pharaoh," Marik whispered through some tears, "That it was his w-will that my f-f-father was sacrificed."
Kara stared. 'Well, at least he doesn't have to know about what really killed his father...'
'He's looked in my eyes,
And knows I'm not a child,
But he doesn't dare ask the right question.
Mother, my friends are no longer my friends,
And the games we once played have no meaning,
I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure out why,
So they've left me to my own daydreaming.
What price to pay for bad wisdom?
What price to pay for bad wisdom?
Too young
to know
too much,
too soon,
Bad wisdom...bad wisdom.'
-Suzanne Vega, 'Bad Wisdom'
[Kitty: Chapter seven. *cries*
Marik: Ishizu was so mean in this chapter! Why'd she tell father?!
Ishizu: I didn't do that in the series, ya know...
Kitty: ^_^; No, but you were a bit of a goody-two-shoes. And besides, it works with the story...
Ishizu: How so?
Kitty: Because we can relate to Marik and Kara in hating you! ^_^
Ishizu: -_-; Why am I not surprised?
Kitty: You could've used your Millennium Necklace to find out what I was going to say.
Ishizu: I gave it to Porcupine Head Pharaoh, remember?
Yami: HEY!
Ishizu: 0_0;;;;; Oh, my Pharaoh! I didn't know you were listening!
Yami: -`_`-
Kitty: Anyway, reviews, reviews, reviews!
Lina: StoryWeaver1 is first...
Kitty: You reviewed twice! ^___^ YAY!
Marik: Yah, I am cute, aren't I? ^___~
Kara: ^_^ Yah, I knew Marik and I were meant to be...
Marik: But after this chapter... will we end up together? 0_o
Kara: ;_; We gotta be!
Kitty: Not to kanikameskhenet's second review.
Yugi: 0_0 Can I can you "kani" 4 short? Your name's kinda long...
Kitty: *punches him in the arm reproachfully* o`_`o
Yugi: *ahem* Anyway, kani... yah, Marik and Kara were BUSTED!
Marik and Kara: ;_;
Kitty: ^_^ I luved that part too...
Kara: ^__^ Me too!
Lina: Now, to MysticChaos.
Kitty: YAH! Didn't expect him to catch them right then, did ya?
Yugi: At first I thought it was going to be Ishizu again.
Ishizu: -_- What is it with these guys flaming me today?
Kitty: We're not FLAMING you, we're just talking about you in a not-so- friendly manner... but that's because of what you did in my fanfic!
Ishizu: -_-;
Marik: ;_; At least you like me now, MysticChaos.... ?_? It's my Yami you should hate, not me!
Kara: You can say that again! 0`_`0 Where is that bastard?!
Y. Marik: *peeks his head under Kitty's bed* EEP!
Kara: *jumps under the bed to catch him*
Marik, Kitty, Yugi: 0_0;;;
Lina: To LadyKnight19?
Kitty: Yah, that is very cute. I decided to backtrack slightly to when Kara first met Marik by doing that... that way Xmas can always be their special time *wisely* when they can reflect on their true feelings for each other.
Marik: :P I don't care about that crap...
Kara: *pokes her head out from under the bed* Unless we can spend the night together! ^_~
Marik: ^_^
Kitty: 0_o;;;;;; You two are so STUPID. R&R!!!!]
Chapter Seven: Bad Wisdom
"F-Father," Marik stammered, "I-I can explain..."
"SHUT UP, YOU LITTLE ASSHOLE!" Mr. Ishtar roared, "I TOLD YOU A THOUSAND TIMES ABOUT YOUR MARRIAGE COMING UP, AND HOW DO YOU REPAY ME?! WITH KISSING A FILTHY, LOW-LIFE BITCH!
"Please, Mr. Ishtar," Kara said timidly, "It wasn't Marik's fault, I-I forced him to do so."
Marik gawked. Kara was trying to defend him.
"I knew he didn't want me," Kara whispered, still loud enough for Mr. Ishtar to hear, "but I was just being selfish. I will not deny that I..that I snuck in here for my own gain. It's not Marik's fault. If anyone's, it is my own."
"Well, bitch," Mr. Ishtar snapped, grabbing her by the hair as she let out a strangled cry, "I will not deny that you can make up nice stories to get Marik out of trouble, but I know what my son did!"
In came Ishizu. Her hands were locked in front of her, but they were trembling.
"Sister!" Marik cried, "You...you didn't!"
Ishizu hung her head. "I'm sorry, Brother," she whispered, "but destiny did not agree with you two being together."
Marik stared in horror at his sister. After everything they had shared as siblings, she would betray him to save herself from the wrath of their father?!
"How could you?!" Marik asked Ishizu, tears forming in his eyes, "How could you do this to me, sister?!"
Mr. Ishtar started to drag Kara out of the room by her hair, and she squeaked with each of his tugs.
"Father, please!" Marik yelled, trying to run over, until Ishizu grabbed him, "You're hurting her!"
"Like I care about a Priest Keeper's pain!" Mr. Ishtar snapped, "Especially after everything she has done! Sneaking into your room by night---"
"Because I asked her to!"
"Kissing you---"
"After I did her!"
"Leaning upon you as if you were her spouse---"
"Because I let her!"
Mr. Ishtar glared, and Marik saw in his eyes, for the first time in the conversation, how drunk he really was.
'No,' Marik thought in horror, 'If he's drunk...there's no way Kara can live!'
Kara tried to stand up, but Mr. Ishtar threw her into the wall. Her head hit it sharply, and she collapsed. She didn't get up.
"KARA!" yelled Marik, trying to get himself out of Ishizu's grip, "KARA!" But she didn't respond.
Marik suddenly felt an explosion take place in his head, and all went black for him.
~*~Unseen to Marik, seen to Mr. Ishtar and Ishizu~*~
Marik stopped struggling, and looked down at the floor. Ishizu let go, thinking he was done. But when he looked up, his sun-bleached blond hair was up in a few places, and his eyes were cold and mocking.
"Father," he chuckled in a deeper voice than was normal, "You really shouldn't have done that. Now I shall take what is mine."
"What are you talking about?!" his father demanded.
Marik chuckled again, as he walked toward the holder for the Millennium Rod and necklace.
"Don't you dare touch those!" yelled Mr. Ishtar, but he sounded slightly scared.
Marik laughed a scornful laugh. "Why? The Millennium Rod was to be mine from the very beginning. Why can't I take it now, to fulfill my destiny?"
He grabbed the Millennium Rod, and pointed it at Mr. Ishtar. "Now, for you to suffer the consequences of not obeying me."
Mr. Ishtar was thrown backward onto the wall, trapped in gold magic. Ishizu looked alarmed. "Brother, stop this!" she cried.
Marik laughed. "As for you, you will be joining him!" Ishizu was thrown against the wall also, gold magic blocking all forms of escape.
Suddenly, Kara opened her eyes. She blinked, and then heard voices. Making sure they didn't see, she turned her head as to glimpse what was going on.
'No!' her mind screamed, when she recognized the phony Marik from her nightmare. He was using the Millennium Rod on Mr. Ishtar by the looks of things. He pulled a gold-crusted knife out of the Rod, and slammed the dagger into Mr. Ishtar's heart.
"ISHTAR-SAN!" Kara cried, jumping up as he collapsed, the magic fading from his now-lifeless body.
The impersonator Marik turned sharply to look at Kara. "Well, well, well, if it isn't Miss Rozene. I do believe you remember me from your little dream a year ago?"
"Of course I'd remember you, bastard!" Kara snapped, "Where's Marik?!"
He laughed again. "How many times must I tell you? I am Marik!"
"And how many times must I tell you?! You're not Marik, and you never will be, now leave them alone!"
"Really, Kara, I don't know why you're defending them," he said in a mocking tone, "They're trying to keep you and me apart, aren't they?"
"I'd love to be apart from you!" Kara snapped, "And as to me and Marik, I know even he doesn't wish his father to die!"
The phony Marik laughed again. "Your efforts are quite entertaining, trying to convince yourself that I am not who I am. And even if I have not done everything I said in your dream, I will soon be able to repeat them in complete honesty."
"No, you won't!" Kara yelled, "You will never! I will make sure of that!"
"Mistress Takara?!" Kara turned to the alarmed voice.
"Odean!" Kara cried.
"Master Marik," Odean said, turning to phony Marik.
"Not quite," Kara warned him.
"It may not be him speaking, but it is his essence," Odean whispered so that the phony Marik couldn't hear him, "It is his body, but the psyche talking to us is not the Marik we know. Do you remember the counter-spell for such a curse?"
Kara thought, and suddenly nodded.
"Kill the enemy within a friend, Preserve innocence contained by spite, Save the beginning from the end, Banish darkness from the light."
The spurious Marik suddenly looked as if he was in pain. He was gripping his head and he was kneeling on his knees as though praying without the prayers.
\\No, this is my body... no!\\ phony Marik was yelling, but his voice didn't sound cold. It almost sounded like the phony Marik and regular Marik were switching voices along the way.
Finally, he stopped, as though back in control. However, he growled, and looked at Kara.
"I will be back, and when I do, you two will not interfere," was his last cold whisper before he suddenly collapsed. Ishizu's golden bonds vanished, and she also fell to the floor.
Kara ran over to Marik, as he moaned, looking up at her confused and dazed.
"Marik, are you alright?" asked Kara in a worried tone.
"Kara?" Marik whispered, as she pulled him into her lap.
"Yes, it's me."
"W-what happened?"
"I---"
Odean cut her off by putting his hand on her shoulder and looking at her significantly. Kara sighed, and started again with a lie.
"I don't really know. I just awoke, and these two were on the ground," she gestured toward Mr. Ishtar and Ishizu, "If I had to guess, someone attacked you."
"Attacked?" Marik repeated vaguely. Suddenly, his eyes went wide, and he jumped into Kara's arms.
"NO! NO, LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"Marik, what are you talking about?" Kara said, sounding concerned.
"HIM! HIM, ON THE WALL!"
Kara looked, and almost jumped back also.
There was a mist-like version of a man there. He had a turban, gold earrings, and pupiless blue eyes.
His lips moved with the ancient language of the Pharaohs, and she didn't understand what he said, but she knew Marik could hear every single word.
"W-what did he say?" Kara stammered, when he suddenly vanished, and Marik was hugging her tight, his face buried into her shirt.
"H-h-h-he said something about th-the Pharaoh," Marik whispered through some tears, "That it was his w-will that my f-f-father was sacrificed."
Kara stared. 'Well, at least he doesn't have to know about what really killed his father...'
'He's looked in my eyes,
And knows I'm not a child,
But he doesn't dare ask the right question.
Mother, my friends are no longer my friends,
And the games we once played have no meaning,
I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure out why,
So they've left me to my own daydreaming.
What price to pay for bad wisdom?
What price to pay for bad wisdom?
Too young
to know
too much,
too soon,
Bad wisdom...bad wisdom.'
-Suzanne Vega, 'Bad Wisdom'
[Kitty: Chapter seven. *cries*
Marik: Ishizu was so mean in this chapter! Why'd she tell father?!
Ishizu: I didn't do that in the series, ya know...
Kitty: ^_^; No, but you were a bit of a goody-two-shoes. And besides, it works with the story...
Ishizu: How so?
Kitty: Because we can relate to Marik and Kara in hating you! ^_^
Ishizu: -_-; Why am I not surprised?
Kitty: You could've used your Millennium Necklace to find out what I was going to say.
Ishizu: I gave it to Porcupine Head Pharaoh, remember?
Yami: HEY!
Ishizu: 0_0;;;;; Oh, my Pharaoh! I didn't know you were listening!
Yami: -`_`-
Kitty: Anyway, reviews, reviews, reviews!
Lina: StoryWeaver1 is first...
Kitty: You reviewed twice! ^___^ YAY!
Marik: Yah, I am cute, aren't I? ^___~
Kara: ^_^ Yah, I knew Marik and I were meant to be...
Marik: But after this chapter... will we end up together? 0_o
Kara: ;_; We gotta be!
Kitty: Not to kanikameskhenet's second review.
Yugi: 0_0 Can I can you "kani" 4 short? Your name's kinda long...
Kitty: *punches him in the arm reproachfully* o`_`o
Yugi: *ahem* Anyway, kani... yah, Marik and Kara were BUSTED!
Marik and Kara: ;_;
Kitty: ^_^ I luved that part too...
Kara: ^__^ Me too!
Lina: Now, to MysticChaos.
Kitty: YAH! Didn't expect him to catch them right then, did ya?
Yugi: At first I thought it was going to be Ishizu again.
Ishizu: -_- What is it with these guys flaming me today?
Kitty: We're not FLAMING you, we're just talking about you in a not-so- friendly manner... but that's because of what you did in my fanfic!
Ishizu: -_-;
Marik: ;_; At least you like me now, MysticChaos.... ?_? It's my Yami you should hate, not me!
Kara: You can say that again! 0`_`0 Where is that bastard?!
Y. Marik: *peeks his head under Kitty's bed* EEP!
Kara: *jumps under the bed to catch him*
Marik, Kitty, Yugi: 0_0;;;
Lina: To LadyKnight19?
Kitty: Yah, that is very cute. I decided to backtrack slightly to when Kara first met Marik by doing that... that way Xmas can always be their special time *wisely* when they can reflect on their true feelings for each other.
Marik: :P I don't care about that crap...
Kara: *pokes her head out from under the bed* Unless we can spend the night together! ^_~
Marik: ^_^
Kitty: 0_o;;;;;; You two are so STUPID. R&R!!!!]