Hikaru: We're back with more of this!!!!!
Yami: Dear Ra, not again.
Witty: Yami, shut up.
Hikaru: Yeah, before Witty and I decide to play a little game of keep-away with that puzzle of yours.
Yami: You wouldn't dare.
Hikaru: You really want to find that out, Pharaoh? The last one who was stupid enough to say that to me got a little.....make-over. (Gestures to Raphael, who looks very much like a male-version of Mimi from the Drew Carey show)
Yami: (Scowls, but shuts up)
Hikaru: (Chibi smile) Witty, would you be so kind?
Witty: We don't own YGO, but anything original is ours!
Hikaru: Arigatou, Witty-chan! And now, on with the fic!!
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Chapter 6: Stalked By The Darkness
Witty watched her friend as she rode alongside her. "Okay," she said. "Forget about them for now. But what the hex happened when you pulled those cards?!"
Hikaru glanced at her as they made a right turn down the avenue. A grin spilled across her face. "Magic," she said and shook her head. "Just magic."
Witty chuckled, the kind of chuckle she inherited from her master. "Magic," she echoed. She shrugged. "Well, that was awesome magic, wherever it came from."
Hikaru nodded.
As they turned down a side alleyway , Witty glanced behind them to make sure they were still safe. Then, something like a cape swept behind a corner behind them. A purple cape? Witty thought. What the...?
Hikaru noticed her friend's worried glances and she followed the other's looks. "What is it?"
Witty frowned and looked ahead. "I don't know," she said. She suddenly reared her motorcycle in a 360 circle that left scorched black tire marks on the street.
Hikaru slowed to a stop and turned in her seat. "Witty! We have to keep going!"
Witty touched the rim of her hat, a nervous habit she picked up from her master. "Hold on a second..." She slowly dismounted her bike, and then crept over toward the corner. She peeked behind the corner and saw only a dead end brick wall with a black ray of shadow to one side and a broad ray of sunlight on the other. She peered into the dark side and something gold briefly sparkled from the sunny side of the wall. She gasped and backed up. Before she could steal a peek at anything else, Hikaru pulled at her arm.
"Come on," she said.
Witty finally followed her friend back to the bikes and in moments, they rode down the alleyway, and back onto the streets of Domino.
Hikaru glanced at Witty. "What was that about?"
Witty did not answer at first. She just shook her head. "I don't know," she said. "We should watch our backs more closely," she warned her friend. "We can't afford to have too many palace guards on our tails." She glanced down at Hikaru's pouch. "Keep those cards safe," she said.
Hikaru nodded. "I will," she promised.
As the two girls rode away, the figure who had been lurking in the alleyway stepped out of the shadows, watching them go with a smirk on his face. His blonde hair stuck up at wild angles, and his piercing violet eyes would make even those with the bravest of hearts run away screaming with just one soul-piercing stare. He wore black leather pants and a sleeveless black shirt. A dark purple cloak billowed out behind him dramatically, looking for all the world like dark wings of some sort. He held a short, gold, scepter-like staff in his hand. The top of it was round, though, with a sharp, wing-looking thing on both sides, and the Egyptian Eye of Ra was in the center of it.
"Are those two girls the ones you want me to capture?" he asked in a deep, gravel-like voice to another figure lurking in the shadows behind him, a voice that could send a shiver down even Dartz's spine.
The other stepped into the light and nodded, a smirk on his face as well. "Yes, they're the ones"
The blonde, Marik, as he was known, nodded and unsheathed the dagger that was concealed inside the Millennium Rod. The sunlight shimmered off the blade and he watched it for a moment, before sheathing it again and putting the Rod in his back pocket where he usually kept it. Then he turned to the other and his eyes narrowed slightly.
"What's in it for me?" he asked.
The other shrugged. "Whatever you want, I don't care"
Marik smirked more, his eyes taking on even more of a light of insanity and nodded. "Fine, I'll capture them"
The other, Raphael, nodded. "Good. Bring them to the old wherehouse on Domino pier. And I want them alive. I have plans for them"
"As you wish," Marik said smoothly and bowed, seemingly vanishing into the shadows again.
Meanwhile, the two girls rode on in silence. Hikaru, having become slightly edgy by the silence, turned her attention to the gadgets that she had asked Varon to install when Dartz and Shaadi had first surprised her with the motorcycle on her birthday two years ago. Finally finding what she was looking for, she toyed with the radio until she found a station that wasn't playing constant commercials and started to calm down.
She had been a little nervous ever since the incident in the alleyway, and the fact that Witty had noticed that someone seemed to be following them made her even more on edge. She sighed to herself as a song that she had never heard before came on and her hand unconsciously went down to rest on the pouch where she kept her deck for just a brief second. Then she looked up at the sky, the slight smile on her face concealed by the helmet she wore.
Thank you, my spirit guardians.
She could have sworn she had heard a soft answer in her mind, but she shook it off when she realized that Witty was speaking to her. She looked over at the other girl curiously.
"Hikaru, how far are we going?" Witty asked.
Hikaru shrugged. "I'm thinking we can probably make it into Kyoto or Tokyo by tonight. If we're being followed, I don't think it's a good idea to continue after nightfall. And besides, we need to find somewhere that's fairly deserted, I don't want to chance using too much of my magic where there's a lot of people around," she answered.
"What do you mean?" Witty asked.
"Yugi and the others are in San Francisco. I think I might be able to teleport us there, but I don't want to risk anyone seeing anything," she replied.
Witty nodded. "Good point"
She trailed off as a cloaked figure suddenly stepped out in front of them. Witty and Hikaru both screeched to a halt to avoid running him over. Hikaru removed her helmet, shaking her head for a second to let her hair flow loose behind her and glared at the stranger, her eyes glowing with the same unnatural aura as before. The other didn't even seem to notice, and if he did, he was completely unphased by it.
"Hey, didn't anyone ever teach you not to step out in front of a moving vehicle?" she demanded, her tone cold.
The other didn't speak. Instead a smirk crossed his face as he made an odd gesture. Hikaru narrowed her eyes as she watched him, and a thought struck her. Could this be the one who was following them?! Suddenly she was snapped out of her thoughts by the sound of a startled scream beside her. She turned and saw someone who could very easily pass as a twin to the guy who had stepped in front of them holding a struggling Witty. Hikaru got off her own motorcycle and headed towards them, but the other was faster and he grabbed her from behind. She screamed and started twisting and thrashing desperately in his arms, but fell still when she once again felt the cold steel of a blade lightly touch her neck. Her eyes went wide, but still they seemed to glow with that strange light.
"Who are you?! What do you want with us?!" Hikaru demanded.
The one who held her chuckled darkly, sending a frightened shiver down her spine, but she concealed it well. There was no way she was going to give whoever these people were the satisfaction of seeing her fear. She glanced over at Witty, who had also stopped struggling and was glaring at their captors. Hikaru tried to summon an energy ball, but the one who held her tightened his grip on her painfully, bringing the blade just a little closer to her throat.
"Don't even try it, little one. I know all about your magic." Here he turned to Witty. "And I wouldn't suggest you try anything either, because if you do, I won't hesitate to kill the princess, and I don't think you want to see your friend die," he said in that same chillingly calm voice, his violet eyes gleaming with pure insanity.
Hikaru gasped in shock. How did these two know who she really was?! She looked over at Witty with wide eyes. The other girl glanced at her, then glared at the one who held Hikaru. "What do you want?!" Witty hissed.
"That is none of your business. You'll see soon enough," he said cryptically. Then he started to mutter a spell in ancient Egyptian, and moments later, both girls had fallen unconscious. Marik turned to his twin and smirked. "Come on, let's go"
"Right behind you," the other, Malik, said, and with that they took off with their two captives towards Domino pier.
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To Be Continued. I know it's taken me a while to get this up, but now that the holidays are over for the most part, I should be able to update at least something. I have the next chapter, so I'll put that one up here tonight as well. Please R&R, and no flames. I mean it, because this is also my friend's story, so I'll really be mad if someone flames this. If you have something CONSTRUCTIVE to say, then fine. But if you have nothing more to say than "this sucks!" or something like that, don't bother, because neither one of us needs that. Well, anyway, I'm gonna go so I can get the next chapter of this up too. I know it'll be past Christmas by the time this shows up, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Merry Christmas minna-san! (Or whatever you celebrate. ) Ja ne, all!!
Hikaru Shinatoru, Daughter of Shaadi and Dartz