Hi Everybody!
Random crowd: Hi Doctor Nick!
Daricio: o.O'''' um... kicks crowd out of the room
Malik: That was strange.
Roo: Who in the heck is Doctor Nick?
Daricio: (shrug) But anyway, welcome everybody to the newest chapter of Where's Yugi!
Bakura: (clap clap)
Roo: (sits there)
Daricio: (nudge)
Roo: -.- (clap) (monotone) yay.
Daricio: (Very happy face)
Roo: ... you need mental help.
Daricio: I know... I had an appointment with a psychiatrist last Tuesday...
Malik: ... (raises eyebrow) Seriously?
Daricio: Possibly. But let's get on with the ficcie!!!!!
Roo: Yeah, that way we get to stop listening to Daricio blab.
Daricio: (Happy look) And instead we get to see Roo-y do stuffs!
Roo: -.- joy.
Malik: I'd think you'd have fun with this chapter.
Roo: Not when certain people who don't already know what happens in this chapter proceed to hurt me when it's over.
Malik: Oh.
Daricio: ' Uh huh... Anyways, a few short notes... When this switches to a Joey POV, and he starts talking about Marik, you have to remember that he thinks that Rishid IS Marik at this point. And so does Yugi and Yami, so don't get confused by any descriptions that are given by them...
Also, sorry for the lack of long chappies! And the lack of long sections in this chappie! ' I have certain things planned out for what I want in each section, and so the only things in them need to be in them... I think...
OH, and... Don't hurt Roo-y too much when this is over. I still kind of need him later.
So anyways, read on for the chappie!!
{Yugi}
Mr. Gice took a breath and began to explain. "You know about the FWC's and their Pic Tech, right?"
Yugi and Daricio nodded.
"Good, I don't have to explain it to you then. See, I'm a scientist, and I've been studying the freaky world's cameras. I managed to catch one, and using it, I created-"
"Your own version." Yugi finished, recognition dawning on his face. "Riiiiiight, I remember now. We saw a bit of your broadcast, remember, Daricio?"
Daricio nodded. "Yeah. So you've been seeing who's been following us?"
Mr. Gice nodded. "yes, somewhat unfortunately. See, part of the FWC that I haven't been able to copy is being able to communicate with people at times. They may have thought that mine was allowing me to tell you things about their company. They've been trying to avoid publicity about their technology." He explained.
There was silence for a moment as Yugi and Daricio processed the fact that they had been wrong about the identity of their pursuers.
"Well, that's better than what WE thought we were being followed for. And actually, it's not entirely your fault, sir." Daricio said. "We had already heard of the technology, and I even have tins with the Pic Tech on it, so they were probably already following us before you started watching."
Mr. Gice smiled. "Ok, that's good. Hate to think I had sicced those guys on you."
Yugi looked somewhat puzzled. (No pun intended). "But wait... If it's not Marik that was following us, then how does HE know about Daricio as well?"
"Marik? Marik Ishtar? Isn't he that Egyptian fellow that's been causing trouble with his rare hunters around here lately? I swear I almost ran into those punks at least 15 times today." Mr. Gice said, grimacing.
Daricio nodded. "Yeah, that's who we thought was following us. He's got some sort of grudge against Yugi and Yami for some reason. Do you know anything about him?"
Mr. Gice shook his head. "No more than you probably already know. I haven't been watching him. But... You're going to the finals for Battle City, right? You said you had locator cards?"
"Yeah, I do." Yugi confirmed.
"Then chances are that he will be there as well, am I correct?"
Yugi nodded. "I suppose you're right."
"Then I'll come with you." Mr. Gice decided. "From there, I can study Marik, and see if I can find out what he's up to for you. It's the least I can do for spying on you." He said, nodding at Daricio.
Daricio smiled. "It's no problem, really... As long as you weren't watching when I was... you know..."
Mr. Gice blushed. "No, don't worry. I'm not THAT much of a pervert."
Daricio blushed as well. "Ok, good."
There was a slightly uncomfortable silence for a moment as Daricio wished she hadn't said anything, and then Mr. Gice offered to take the two of them to the finals in his car.
"Thanks." Yugi said as he got in. Daricio nodded to him, and disappeared back into Yugi's soul room so that there'd be more room in the car when they caught up with the others.
When they did catch up, the others all got in as well, and the rest of the ride to the spot marked on the map that popped up due to the presence of locator cards on the Duel Disk went in silence.
Very soon, they pulled up to Domino's football stadium.
Joey got out of the car, smirking at the stadium. "Football?" he wondered aloud.
Yugi just shrugged, and they all went inside.
{Kaiba}
Kaiba stood by the side of the field of the football stadium, looking up into the sky. He was waiting for the blimp to arrive. It wasn't there yet for some reason.
Not that anybody was there at the stadium yet anyway. Well, nobody besides him, Mokuba, and his employees, of course.
'Spoke too soon' Kaiba thought to himself as he heard footsteps in the doorway that indicated that a semi-large group of people had arrived.
He didn't turn as they came in. He already knew who it was just by listening to them come in. Yugi's gang.
Still searching the sky, even though he knew that he didn't need to, (he'd see the blimp if it came in, obviously, even if he wasn't looking up,) he listened as everyone there greeted Mokuba and himself and then began to chatter amongst themselves.
Kaiba's relative silence didn't last long, however. Soon, he felt a tap on his shoulder, and he looked down.
"Why, Hello! Fancy meeting you here!" Mr Gice said, smiling warmly.
Kaiba returned his attention to the sky without even a simple hello in return, this time just to ignore the smaller man.
"Heeeey, that's no way to greet an old friend!" Mr. Gice complained, stepping around to the other side of Kaiba and tugging on one of the belts hanging off of his sleeve. "What's with all the belts, Kaiba? They're not doing anything! They're just sitting there... hanging... Looking very strange..."
Mr. Gice continued to circle Kaiba, studying the belts and pulling on a few of them. Kaiba rolled his eyes, still attempting to ignore him, and Mokuba tried to hide a smile.
"Coool, is this a KaibaCorp jacket? I can tell, it's got that KC symbol riiiight there!" Mr. Gice poked the symbol, inadvertently activating the communicator hidden there with a beep. "Oooooohh"
"Hey!" Kaiba finally reacted to Mr. Gice's prodding enough to reach up and switch the communicator off again. Then he turned to face him. "How did you get out of the insane asylum anyway?"
"Well, there was this spiffy little door handle..." Mr. Gice began.
Kaiba groaned. "Oh, just be quiet. You're giving me a headache."
Mr. Gice grinned. "Really? Oh, I'm sorry, I'll go join Yugi and his group again, then, shall I? Goodbye, Mr. Thedoor."
He trotted off, leaving Kaiba standing there looking exasperated.
Kaiba sighed, staring up at the sky and wondering why whatever god existed in the world hated him so much... and why in the heck that creep was following Yugi around... and why Yugi was letting him...
(A/n: That was fun. )
{Daricio}
Daricio hung by the door to her own soul room as they all went inside.
The stadium was larger than it looked on the outside, and once they went in and looked past Kaiba, who was standing next to the field with Mokuba and a few of his goonies, gazing up at the sky, Daricio looked around (from Yugi's eyes) the place with wide eyes.
She didn't particularly like watching football games all that much, but even by her standards, the stadium was huge!
Exciting as the whole tournament thing was, though, she couldn't help feeling a little bit nervous about all of them finally meeting that coward Marik face to face.
She had manage to catch the end of an episode that showed Marik's face, so she knew what he looked like, but Yugi had been dueling with Arkana while it was on, and neither he or Yami had seen him.
She sighed as Yugi talked with everyone for a minute and Mr. Gice went off to bug Kaiba. It was all really frustrating, with the episodes being so slow that she couldn't get any more background information to Marik than what she already had.
"So, Kaiba. We're going to be dueling in the football field?" Joey complained. "How unoriginal!"
Kaiba snorted, checking his watch and shooting a glare at Joey before returning his gaze to the sky. "No, you idiot. We're not dueling here. It's late."
"Late? It's only 8:00..." Tea commented.
"Not that" Kaiba said simply, rolling his eyes, obviously irritated.
"Then what?" she asked.
"You'll see." He said simply. Tea looked slightly annoyed.
The nervous chatter between the waiting people began again after a while, and then Kaiba blinked and smiled. "Finally."
"What, Kai-"Tea started. She stopped when she saw the huge blimp soaring into view and began to land in the stadium.
Kaiba turned to her. "THAT." He said.
She stared. "Oh."
Kaiba rolled his eyes again and began walking toward the landing blimp. Daricio smiled.
"Now we just have to wait for the remaining finalists." Kaiba mused to himself as he walked.
(A/n: Hmmm... Kaiba muses.....
Malik: No.
Daricio: Aw....)
Almost as if on cue, footfalls could be heard from the entryway of the arena and everyone turned to see who had arrived. It was Bakura!
As soon as he reached where everyone else was standing, Joey went up to him worriedly.
"Bakura, you shouldn't be here! You should be back in the hospital!" he said.
But Bakura looked cheerful. "No, really, I'm fine. The doctors said it wasn't that big of a wound, and that I could go home. And besides, I didn't want to miss the finals!"
Joey looked pleased. "Cool! So are you a finalist?"
Bakura simply held up his locator cards with a smile on his face.
"Awesome!" Tea told him. "That's really cool!"
Bakura just shrugged, but looked happy about it all the same.
Daricio, Yugi, and Yami hadn't known that Bakura had been hurt, but now that they looked at him, they could see the bandage around his left arm. Daricio was glad that he was ok, though.
They all stood in relative silence, watching the stadium entrance for the next person to arrive. (Did you know that it is physically impossible for a group of teenagers to be totally silent? -.- I learned that in my German class...) There were still 3 more finalists that weren't there yet, and one of them was bound to be Marik.
(A/n: (counts finalists, hoping that she's not forgetting everybody) Kaiba, Joey, Yugi, Mai, Bakura, Marik, and Rishid.... And Isis. . Can't forget Isis.)
Footfalls sounded once again, and everybody (except for Kaiba, Mokuba, Bakura, and the goonies) tensed, waiting to see who it was. The shadow of the person could be seen, coming closer and closer. Finally, he stepped into the light, a determined look dominating his features.
Marik Ishtar. Daricio grit her teeth and glanced over towards where Yugi and Yami were standing, their attention totally focused on the newcomer. Their expressions were unreadable.
(A/n: tries to convince her spell checker that I'm not trying to spell "Ashtray" when I type "Ishtar")
Joey ran forward. "I know you." He said forcefully. Daricio nodded in agreement, even though nobody was watching her.
"You're Namu, right?"
Daricio face faulted. "Who?" she asked in confusion. Yugi and Yami shrugged.
Daricio tried to say more, but the words stuck in her throat. She watched in horror as Joey began talking cheerfully with their worst enemy.
"So what happened earlier with those Rare Hunters, Namu? You ok?" Joey wondered.
"It was strange, really. I got knocked around a bit, and knocked out. When I came to, you guys were gone, and so were they! I'm very relieved to see that you're ok!" Marik returned easily, with a look on his face that made him look truly relieved.
Daricio turned red as she realized what must have happened. She opened her mouth to tell Yugi and Yami her thoughts and to tell them exactly who "Namu" really was, but suddenly she heard a short dull 'thunk' that was accompanied by a sharp pain in the back of her head.
She had just enough time to realize that she had just gotten knocked out before everything went black. Her last sight was a flash of white.
(a/n: I have a lot of stories that end up having POV's of people just as they get knocked out from behind. O.o')
{Joey}
Joey was glad that so many of his friends were actually there at the tournament with him. With everything that he and Yugi were going to have to go through to defeat Marik, (who kept freaking Joey out with those piercing golden eyes constantly glaring at him), they were going to need all the support they could get.
And hey, maybe he could talk Mai, Bakura, Namu, and Kaiba into helping them take Marik down! Well... Maybe not Kaiba, but the rest of them, definitely! And besides that, he wanted to ask Bakura something.
With this goal in mind, Joey moved from the banquet table he had claimed for himself to go talk to Bakura about it.
"Hey, Bakura." He said as he sidled up next to him. Bakura jumped slightly, then he smiled at Joey.
"Oh, Hello Joey. Didn't see you there."
Joey grinned. "Eh, that's ok. Say, I wanted to talk to you about something. You didn't have a duel disk on when Namu brought you to us earlier. Did you start all of your dueling after you got out of the hospital?" he asked.
Bakura shook his head. "No, actually. I've been dueling for quite a bit of the day. I managed to get 5 locator cards total, but then I went and got myself mugged." He said, looking sheepish. "He took my duel disk and most of my locator cards, but he left me with 1. He didn't take my deck, though..."
Joey nodded. "He might have heard Namu coming." He suggested.
Bakura shrugged. "Or maybe he was just stupid. Who knows?"
"So how'd you get the rest of your locator cards?"
"I asked around as to the whereabouts of duelists. I was directed to the graveyard. Creepy place, that." Bakura said with a small smile. "But there were duelists there. I did an all or nothing match with one of them."
"And they let you do that?" Joey wondered.
Bakura smiled. "Well, let's just say I didn't give them much of a choice."
Joey grinned and turned away. "Well, see ya later, Bakura."
Bakura nodded. "Yes, good luck with your dueling!"
As soon as Bakura was out of earshot, Joey shuddered to himself, muttering something about graveyards and bad seafood. He then remembered why he had actually been going to talk to Bakura in the first place.
He was just about to turn around and ask him when Roland, the official judge of Battle City, began to address the crowd of duelists.
"Attention duelists! The order of dueling in the semifinals is about to be chosen! Please gather around!"
Joey sighed and dumped his paper plate in the trash, moving to go listen to him. "So how's this going to work?" he asked nobody in particular.
Roland turned to Kaiba, who nodded at him to continue. He then pressed a button that made what looked like a big Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon with a bubble on one of it's heads pop slowly out of the floor.
Joey raised an eyebrow. "Figures." He muttered.
"I heard that, Wheeler." Kaiba said, glaring at him.
"Heard what?" Joey asked, looking innocent and sidestepping further away from him.
Kaiba simply rolled his eyes and gestured at Roland to continue. He explained to everyone how the chooser thing-o worked. Then he started it to choose who would be the first two to go against each other.
This turned out to be Bakura and Yugi. There was very little conversation after this, at least as far as Joey was concerned, and then the duelists were told to go up to the top of the blimp where the duel was taking place.
Yugi VS. Bakura, Joey thought to himself. This should be interesting.
{Yugi}
"Yami! Where's Daricio?" Yugi called, feeling anxious. Yami blinked, looking around the soul room.
"I'm not sure." He admitted, frowning. "I thought she was here watching. Have you checked her soul room?" Yugi nodded. "And in the puzzle?"
Another nod. "As far as I could, anyway. She's not there!" Now Yugi was starting to feel panicked. "Yami, what if Marik really DID find a way to get to her?!"
Yami sighed, returning his attention to his and Yugi's surroundings, the elevator leading upward and Bakura across from them shrouded in shadow.
I don't know, Yugi. I hope with all my heart that that's wrong, but I don't know.
{Bakura}
Bakura paced his soul room, deep in thought. Pacing was probably just wasting all of whatever energy he had left, but he wasn't sure what else he should do.
Radley was out, parading around pretending to be him. Bakura wasn't sure exactly where he was at the moment, but he hoped that he wasn't getting them into too much trouble.
Radley hadn't let Bakura see what was going on at all since he had actually let him rest for a while at the hospital. (Speaking of which, he hoped that Yugi's Grandpa was ok. Soon after Radley forced him back to his soul room once again, he had heard Radley laughing, and the only person that had been in the room at the time had been Mr. Moto.)
It had been almost two hours since then, and Bakura just hoped that his yami wouldn't force him out into some uncomfortable situation where he had no idea what was going on.
Bakura's soul room door opened, and Bakura froze, watching Radley enter the room, something slung over his shoulder.
"What's tha- Radley!?" Bakura cried as Radley flopped what he was holding into the middle of the room and started to leave.
"Here, a friend. To keep you company." Radley left the room, cackling to himself.
Bakura turned his attention to what Radley had brought in, and gasped when he realized that it was a girl, who looked to be about his age.
Quickly, he picked her up and laid her on the bed in his soul room. Using his first aid skills, he checked her over and was relieved to find that her only injury was a bump on the head.
Even after all the moving around, she was out cold, and all Bakura could really do for the moment was watch her and hope she woke up soon so he could ask her if she knew what was going on.
He sighed and sat down in a chair next to the bed.
Trying to find something to do to help her, he took out a cold compress and put in on her head. Even if she didn't have a fever, it would help the pain go down a little.
After a little while of this, he bit his lip and glanced at the door, wondering how and why Radley had brought her in here. Probably something that that stupid Marik had wanted him to do.
Bakura rubbed his arm, which didn't really ache at the moment since he was in his soul room, but that seemed to feel hurt just at the mere thought of Marik. Suddenly, he heard a small noise and looked back at the girl just as she started to stir.
He backed the chair up a little so that she wouldn't be startled when she awoke.
She mumbled something to herself and her eyes fluttered open. The first thing she did was reach up and rub her head. "Where am I?" she asked.
"You're in my soul room." Bakura answered after a moment.
She blinked, looking somewhat surprised, and tried to sit up on the bed, looking over at him. "B... Bakura?" she asked softly.
Now it was Bakura's turn to be surprised, and he nodded. "Yes, that is my name. I'm... afraid I don't know yours, though."
She blinked. "Oh, sorry. I'm Daricio."
Bakura cocked his head, remembering something. "Daricio? Hey, aren't you the person that those really big people were looking for?"
Daricio was confused for a moment, then she nodded. "Oh, yeah. They found me, though. They're my brother and sister."
"Ah, I see."
There was silence for a moment, then Daricio asked, "Um, sorry if I'm supposed to know this already, but what am I doing in your soul room, and how did I get here?"
"I'm not entirely sure, really. I've been locked in here for a while, and I can't see what Radley's been doing. I assume that he kidnapped you, though..."
Daricio blinked. "Who's Radley?"
"My yami." Bakura explained. "Radley was his name back in ancient Egypt."
"Ah." Daricio thought about this for a moment, a small smile appearing on her face.
Bakura sat on the bed next to her. "So... Radley wouldn't tell me anything about it, but what were you doing that made him want to kidnap you? Or do you remember?"
Daricio shrugged helplessly. "I'm not entirely sure what I've done to get him in particular mad. I've never actually met him personally, just seen him before. It might have something to do with somebody named Marik, though. You heard of him?"
Bakura's face darkened. "Yeah, I know him. He and Radley are working together to try and win the Millennium Items." He said, fingering the Millennium Ring. "Radley agreed to join a tournament called Battle City and get an Egyptian God card for Marik from Yugi. In exchange, Marik's going to give him two Items."
Daricio nodded slowly. "That explains why you were at the finals matches, then."
Bakura's eyes flew up to meet hers in surprise. "I was at the finals matches?" he asked. "The tournament's gotten that far already?"
Daricio nodded. "Yeah. What, has Radley been in control that entire time?"
"Yes." Bakura said, looking down. "What were you doing at the finals? Are you a finalist?"
Daricio shook her head. "No, but you are. And so's Yugi. I was there watching him. Sort of, anyway..."
"What do you mean, sort of?"
"Well, I wasn't really there, per say... See, I have a mind link with Yugi, and I was watching from there."
"Oh, I see. Well, that explains how Radley got you into here, then. He has a link with Yugi as well."
Daricio looked surprised. "He what??"
"Well, sort of. He put a piece of his soul into a part of Yugi's puzzle once, and he goes looking around in there now and then. We actually have most of the puzzle mapped out, and we can navigate around it pretty easily. Radley's favorite room is one where there's a switch that shifts all the rooms around a little bit."
Daricio blinked. "Oh, yeah... right... Well, that's two mysteries solved, then. Now I know who's been doing that, and I know who's been sneaking around my soul room..."
Bakura smiled sheepishly. "I suppose..." he said, not admitting that before Radley had betrayed him, he had been doing some of the 'sneaking' while trying to map out the puzzle.
The two of them sat talking for about 10 more minutes, for a lack of anything better to do, before they were interrupted by a dark chuckle from the doorway.
"I see your little friend finally decided to wake up, Ryou." Radley said, smirking and leaning up against the door frame.
"Roo, leave her alone." Bakura said tiredly.
Radley grinned sadistically. "Not like you can do anything about it." He turned to address Daricio. "I hope my aibou hasn't been too entirely annoying, kid." He said, putting a sarcastic emphasis on the word aibou and nodding at her. "Now come here, there's something I need you to see."
"Why just me, and not Bakura too?" Daricio ventured.
Radley gave her a calculating look. "Kid, you better stick to subjects that concern you if you know what's good for you. Get over here before I have to drag you over. And believe me, that won't be fun."
Daricio quickly stood and walked over to him. "What?"
Radley gave her a small sniff of disapproval and pushed her through the doorway, closing the door. "Over here, you dolt."
{Daricio}
"So what's so interesting in here?" Daricio asked the ring spirit, perhaps a little too boldly. They were in the soul room of the Ring.
Radley rolled his eyes. "Not what's in here, Kid. I've hooked things up so that you can only be in control of Ryou's body from this room rather than from his own soul room, so I had to bring you in here in order to show you what's going on. Now look."
Daricio blinked, not expecting that, but concentrated on looking out through Bakura's eyes.
Radley was currently walking out of an elevator towards a platform, disguised as Bakura. His eyes were trained mostly on the ground, but he looked up at his surroundings for Daricio's sake.
(A/n: No, not Sake'... sake sake' sake sake' there's a difference.)
Once they were on the platform, along with Yami, who was walking a few feet away, it began to rise up.
Don't even try calling out to that stupid pharaoh, Kid. He won't be able to hear you. I've got control at the moment; you're just watching.Radley told Daricio firmly. She mentally nodded, continuing to observe.
Yami activated his duel disk, and Daricio realized that he and Radley must be dueling for Battle City. This was confirmed a few moments later when the elevator opened again, and the rest of the gang shuffled out, staring in slight awe at the dueling arrangements.
Roland announced the beginning of the duel, and both players drew the cards for their hand.
Just my luck to go up against Yugi this soon and take him out early, wasn't it?Radley said to Daricio, mostly just talking to hear himself talk.
Daricio decided to answer him back. They'll beat you. Like they did last time.
In the soul room, Radley glared at her. "You've got a big mouth, Kid. And besides that, you've got a lot to learn about dueling strategies. See, in a duel, you could go up against somebody much weaker than you and still end up losing, mostly because that's the way Duel Monsters works. It's all half luck. That duel in Duelist Kingdom was one of those types of flukes. Now keep watching and keep your mouth shut. There's still more."
Daricio's lips tightened together. She hated when people acted like they were better than her, but in this case she decided she had better just comply with what he was saying, mostly because he actually WAS more powerful than she was.
It didn't take long before Yami figured out who exactly it was he was dueling with, and Radley gave up his Bakura impressions, letting his hair fly wild.
As the two of them dueled, Radley quickly gaining the upper hand, Radley began talking to Daricio again.
Ok, lesson number one, Kid. When I win this duel, as it is fairly obvious that I'm going to do just that, your only link back to your world will be completely severed. Won't that be just great for you? You'll be trapped here, nothing but a soul residing within the mind of a pathetic boy, as I have for so long.
Daricio stared out at Yami, who grimly played another monster down in an attempt to guard his life points.
He'll win...Daricio told Radley. He just laughed.
You don't sound very sure of that, do you?he mocked her. That's lesson number two. I always win.
He'll win.Daricio repeated, mostly to herself. He has to...
{Yami} (Later)
Yami placed his Egyptian God Card on the field, still upset that he had to use the powerful God in order to win.
The use of the Egyptian God cards was not a thing to be taken lightly, and Yami knew it, even if he had only known of their existence for a little less than two days.
The spirit of the Millennium Ring, the Evil Bakura, looked confident, obviously having never seen an Egyptian god card before.
As Slifer the Sky Dragon's head appeared, body stretching vastly upward and curling around the blimp about half a million times, the mists from Dark Sanctuary were brushed aside, its effect scattered.
Evil Bakura didn't seem very worried about this, however.
"Nice dragon." He said snidely, glancing up at it and smirking. "But no matter how powerful you make it, it still can't get past my set-up, even with Dark Sanctuary unavailable."
Yami kept his face neutral. "So you think."
Evil Bakura laughed. "My Spirit of the Silent, possess his dragon!"
The holographic spirit/skeleton raced for Slifer, but disappeared once it touched the huge dragon's surface. The Evil Bakura looked shocked. "...But..."
"That's the power of an Egyptian God card." Yami said matter-of-factly. "Slifer the Sky Dragon! Atta-"
"Wait just a minute, pharaoh." Marik's voice came floating up from behind him.
Yami turned, a growl in his throat. "What do you want?"
"I have the Spirit of the Millennium Ring under my control, and if you attack him, I can force him to relinquish his control on his host, Bakura, leaving him vulnerable to your attack!" Marik explained in his usual nasty monotone, holding the Rod up and letting the light gleam across it to prove his point.
Yami blinked. "You can control the spirit with a Millennium Item?" he asked skeptically.
"I'll prove it to you." Marik said, sounding unruffled by the Pharaoh's skepticism.
He held the Millennium Rod up and it glowed faintly. Yami whirled to look at Evil Bakura.
He had a look of surprise on his face for a second or two, then he looked annoyed. Finally, the Millennium Ring began to glow, and Yami had to cover his eyes.
When the glow subsided, instead of the Spirit standing there, there was Bakura. And this time it wasn't just the spirit pretending to be him...
Bakura looked confused for a moment before collapsing to his knees and holding his left bandaged arm with the other hand. "Wha- Where am I?" he asked aloud, his eyes closed in pain.
"I... Why is there a duel disk on my arm?" Bakura asked in momentary confusion. "Am I dueling somebody?"
Nobody answered him, they were too busy either glaring at Marik or watching him in shock.
"There's more, Pharaoh. Have you been missing somebody? Take a look at your crowd of cheerleaders! Anybody that you don't see?" Marik asked, the same frown on his face as he glared.
"Daricio." Yami murmured.
"Veery good, Pharaoh. Would you like to know where your little girlfriend is at the moment?"
(A/n: oOUU waaaaiiittt.... (fwaps Rishid))
"Marik!" Yami yelled. Marik simply pointed at Bakura, who was now looking over at Rishid strangely with a slightly clouded look in his eyes.
"Just look!"
Suddenly, Bakura's form seemed to split into two as a second individual came out in a temporary physical form, also kneeling on the ground. Daricio.
Yami looked pained. He couldn't attack. Not with both Daricio and Bakura there unintentionally blocking!
Bakura looked over at Daricio. "You know, somehow I just knew he was going to shove me out into a situation where I had no idea what was going on." He said, trying to make a joke. He still looked as though he was in pain and his right hand still clutched at his wound, but his spirits were still fairly high.
As Yami internally fought between trying to decide whether to attack or not, Daricio quickly but quietly filled him in on what was going on.
Soon, however, silence filled the air again. Slifer's occasional roaring and Bakura's heavy breathing was all that broke it. Yami kept looking up at the dragon, then back down at the two in front of him. Worry was etched all over his face.
Yugi was in hysterics, pacing around the soul room somewhat frantically, which wasn't helping Yami decide anything.
'We can't hurt anybody! End our turn, Yami! I don't want anybody else getting hurt!' he cried.
'Yugi...' Yami frowned even more. 'We can't. If we don't attack now, then we lose the duel, and the entire world-'
'I don't care anymore, Yami! No more of my friends are going to get hurt any more! NO MORE!' Yugi sobbed.
Yami couldn't say anything to this that would calm Yugi down so he just put an arm around him comfortingly and let him sob into his shirt as he tried to think of a way around this.
(A/n: NO YAOI. COMFORTING! COMFORTING!)
He didn't have to wait too long, fortunately, because the Millennium Ring began to glow, shrouding the area in light once again, and when it faded, the spirit had once again taken control, laughing madly.
Daricio was still kneeling beside him, however, blocking Yami from attacking...
Yami bit his lip.
"Attack me you fool!" The Spirit cried, the insane grin on his face growing wider at the Pharaoh's indecision.
Daricio glanced at Yami, then back at Evil Bakura, then yelled at Yami. "I can take the attack, Yami! Do it!"
Yami only hesitated for a second, then nodded. "Will you be able to find a way back once this is over?" he asked her.
She nodded firmly. "I'll be fine. Just attack!"
"Okay."
'Is this all right, Yugi?'
'I hope so.'
"Slifer the Sky Dragon! Attack!!"
The dragon's blast filled Bakura's side of the field completely, and when it was over, the spirit was no longer in control, and Bakura was unconscious. The Ring was gone. Daricio's temporary form had disappeared, retreating back to Bakura's soul room.
She was probably out cold, too...
Yami sighed as all the holographics disappeared and several people climbed up onto the dueling stand to help Bakura.
For now, at least, everything was okay.
Now they just had to wait until Daricio was able to find her way back.
{Bakura}
Bakura sighed as he watched the unconscious forms of Daricio and Radley lie in separate beds in his soul room. He was greatly hoping that Daricio was able to awaken before his yami did, so that he could show her a way out without Radley finding out.
He wasn't sure exactly why Radley had pulled him out of there without pulling Daricio out, but it was rather inconvenient for her.
Bakura knew that it wasn't entirely Daricio's fault that she was caught up in all this, and he knew that at the moment she just wanted to go home, and that's why he was trying to make sure she would be strong enough to do this by the time she woke up.
He continued his first aid stuff wearily for a while before deciding to rest for a while himself. These two would take a while to wake up, and he was getting increasingly tired due to the wear on his physical body.
'Everything will be ok.' He thought to himself. 'Eventually.'
Yayayayayayayayayayaaaaaaay!!! I finished the chapter!!!!!
(VERY happy look)
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(Kills QuickEdit) (sweatdrop) This this is very annoying... It killed my double slash thing that I was using to show Yugi an Yami's thoughts!
Will have to write FF.net about this sometime...
Ah well. happy look See you all next chapter!!!
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IF anybody reviews, that is. -.-
--Daricio