Ur reviews have made me happy. I'm updating on time and that makes you [the reader] happy! Isn't this a nice cycle?

Also, to whoever is good at drawing...I would be eternally grateful if you would draw scenes from the story. I tried to, but as Carly would not tell you, they sucked.

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"Hehehe."

Carly and Alyssa awoke to a maniacal laughing sound. Marik then walked in, emitting the laughing.

"Who shall be first," he crackled, twisting the end of the Millennium Rod and revealing the dagger. He waved it between Carly and Alyssa, just to scare them.

Frankly, it worked, as both girls were terrified out of their wits. Although they did have some fear of the pain from the dagger, Alyssa, and especially Carly, held the most fear for Carly's baby. He or she was only a week old, and undoubtably still very fragile. Thankfully, Marik had no idea of the child and therefore would not purposely harm it to cause grief to the friends. All the captives had to do was distract Marik away from Carly's abdomen, at ANY cost.

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Yugi, Ryou, and Hannah sat around playing poker, completely unaware of the stressful events happening else where in the city.

Ryou suddenly felt light headed and fell backwards, away from the card table. With her amazingly quick reactions, Jackie caught him. Everyone there gathered around Ryou, worried about his health.

"What's the matter?" Jackie anxiously inquired.

"Something's happened to Bakura!" Ryou gasped.

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Yami and Bakura, meanwhile, dashed to the car, jumped in, and started racing out of the parking lot.

"Drive man, drive!" Bakura shouted at Yami. "Carly as well as the baby are in danger!"

"I'm going as fast as I can, but I can't sense either of their auras at all. Someone must have clouded it!"

"Well of course Marik would know a simple shielding spell. Luckily, I know the counter to it." Bakura chanted something under his breath a couple of times. A wave rippled out from him and he looked expectantly at Yami.

"I still can't!" Yami, almost hysterically, cried.

"Marik must also have put a locking charm on it." Bakura cursed. "You're going to need more power."

In a surprisingly brotherly way, Bakura placed his hand on Yami's shoulder. Yami tore his eyes away from the road to glance at Bakura quizzily, before feeling the slight sting of Bakura sending his magic over to Yami. With almost twice the magic, Yami could easily 'see' both Carly, Alyssa, and the baby's aura through both of Marik's spells. The ex-Pharaoh swerved the car in the other direction, like a bloodhound following a scent.

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Alyssa gasped, at the same exact moment as Ryou, as Marik turned to Carly to torture her first. The more-than-slightly-insane bad guy started to lower hi dagger toward Carly's belly, causing both the girls to panic.

Alyssa spit on the back of Marik's neck, attempting to distract him. "You disgust me, you despicable son of a *censor*

Marik turned toward Alyssa, a horribly dark look on his face. Alyssa began wishing her seemingly useless-at-the-moment necklace would show her what she should do next.

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Bakura slumped down into his seat, releasing his hand from Yami's shoulder, and warring the King of Games in the process.

"Bakura!"

"I'm fine," he said weakly. "Just a bit drained with out my magic."

Yami turned his attention back to the road, while still talking. "Bakura, I have bad news. Marik some how managed to get the girls many, many miles from here. And there's a traffic jam ahead."

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Marik happily swung the very not blunt dagger into Alyssa's arm and ripped the said body part from shoulder to wrist.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!"

"Alyssa! NOO!" Came Carly's concerned yell.

Marik, the evil sadist, began to laugh at the situation he was standing over. A girl with her arm practically cut in half because she wanted to protect her best friend's stomach, Marik found, was incredibly amusing. Worst of all, Alyssa was loosing too much blood to concentrate properly and therefore had no chance of healing her arm.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG!!!!!" Alyssa's agonized scream still rang. The pain was unbearably over powering to the brain. Blinding white hot, Alyssa could think of nothing but the feeling of hideous feeling shooting all over her body, originating from her arm.

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"Yugi, call Yami or Bakura or one of them's cell phone!" Hannah took on leader duty. Yugi quickly punched in Yami's cell's number, glancing worriedly at a pale Ryou. (Well paler than usual anyway...)

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"What," Yami snapped into his phone, not wanting to be distracted at the moment, nor caring who was on the other line.

"Y-Yami?" Yugi stuttered into the phone, not used to being on the receiving end of his dark side's harsh treatment.

"Sorry Yugi. I can't talk now unless this is VERY important."

"Ryou's not feeling well-"

Yami fumed. "You interrupted me to tell me Ryou's feeling a little ill-"

"No. He suddenly just got really weak and almost passed out. He thinks there is something wrong with Bakura. I was calling to see if you could ch- "

"Bakura's fine. He lent me his magic to help search for Alyssa and Carly, who Marik kidnaped. I need to go, bye." With that terse good-bye, Yami snapped his phone shut.

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Alyssa could stand the pain no longer. Her mangled are started to glow. The light shined brighter and brighter, until not even Marik, with his narrow eyes, could see a thing.

BOOM!

Then all was black.

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Do you think that Carly should be kicked out of her house and come to live with the Alyssa and the FES? PLEASE TELL ME in a review or e-mail. Thanks.

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