The High Priest's Secret Tomb


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Chapter: The Geeks And Spiders


The only sound was the distant echo of water...

...as shuffling feet sauntered on down the darkening hall. "Yugi, where do you think that water is coming from?" Tea whispered.

The boy looked at the ground and noticed that their shoes were getting soaked at the heels. The hallway's stone ground was filled with an inch of high water. "M-maybe the melting snow?" Yugi stuttered. It was cold in wherever they were going towards.

Tea shivered and with a twinge of hope asked, "Well, we don't know how long this tomb's been here, so what if the water has been gathering up into some kind of lake?"

Yugi laughed, "True, but the water would be freezing cold!"

The light was now so dim to the point where they had to get their flashlights out.

"But wherever there's water, isn't there usually an exit?" Tea wondered.

"Hm, that is true. Hey," Yugi stretched an arm out and halted his friend. "...did you h-hear that?"

The brunetteblinked. "Hear what?"

"Shhh, listen..."

The distant running of water was now audible as well, but that wasn't what he was referring to. The boy was referring to the fast paced scuttling on stone.

"Could it be one of the guys?" Yugi inquiredonly toreceive a negative.

"None of them run or walk that fast...and besides, listen to the steps. There's water on the ground, so there would be splashing sounds if they were even walking on the ground."

Their breaths were now hitched in their throats as they hushed their apprehensive breathing. Yugi tugged at Tea's arm, leading her back down the opposite direction. Unfortunately something was coming towards them down that hall as well.

A new chamber then popped up on the wall next to them.

Before entering though, the quick steps had suddenly stopped.Thequivering duolooked down the halls, but nothing was in their line of sight. "Where'd they go...?"

Now they knew what it was that was following them, for they creatures were above them now. And not wanting to call more attention upon themselves, the pair slowly inched towards the chamber.


Tristan was pushing and pounding on a wall as Duke shook his head. "That won't work Tristan, Kaiba's probably in a different room by now."

The other sighed. "But how could he have just vanished like that?"

The boy's green eyes narrowed in growing annoyance. "I told you already, the tomb must change rooms everynow and then because that's the way it was designed!" he explained,but didn't manage toconvince the doubtful Tristan one bit. "I give up! Keep pushing that wall to keep yourself preoccupied if you want, I don't ca-," Duke stopped.

"What's wrong?" his friend asked. Duke was staring at some part under one of the stairs as his answer. Something was moving around in the shadows.

Tristan flashed some light towards it. "What is that thing?" he exclaimed and was quickly hit over the head for this.

"Shhh! Keep your voice down, we don't need or want that thing waking up!" Duke quieted in a low whisper. Both watched in great disgust as the thing slept on for a minute or two.

"Gross man, what is it?" Tristan took the flashlight's light off the thing.

"It looks like a huge spider,"his companionstated, flashing light on it again. "Oh boy...it's gone."

Both sweat-dropped. "Gone!" The duo scanned around the area, not much to check anyway.

There were merely two torches of fire that werekeeping themcompany. That is,besides the bottomless abyss traveling all the way down the stairs they had previously climbed.

"Think spiders eat people?" Duke frantically asked, looking up above them.

"I don't know, but I'm not sticking around to find out!" The wall Tristan had been pushing finally changed into a chamber and both boys scrambled as quickly as possible inside.


Back in the dome like chamber...again...

Yami Bakura was pacing back and forth on the high, long, and narrow catwalk. "So these chambers change every so often. Hm, I guess I underestimated that crazy man," he chuckled, but just as quickly regained his scowling demeanor. "That is still no excuse for why I cannot find that chamber! No one outsmarts a tomb thief!"

The night air was crisp and frigid, a sandstorm was coming as two silhouettes secretly spoke...

"So tomb thief, you have everything in set?" asked a stranger.

"Hmmhmm, do not worry yourself about such trivalries. Just concentrate on your part of this partnership," Yami Bakura assured.

The stranger's left eye flashed. "You will remember that he-,"

"Yes, yes, of course," the spirit nodded.

"Do not even think of back stabbing me thief. I know your every thought before you even think it."

Yami Bakura gave him a scowl. "You just make sure you don't do the back stabbing. But back to the point, do not fail me in bringing all five other Millennium Items to the altar. After all has gone well, you may do as you wish."

"And if all goes wrong?" the stranger queried.

Yami Bakura did not respond though.

The other smirked. "Ah, so you have no plan to carry on with if this little fiasco fails you then? And here I was thinking you tomb thieves were intelligent, seeing as how you outsmart every tomb you break into."

"Silence!"

The stranger didn't flinch. "It would be quite interesting to see how you fare with my tomb though. I doubt you would be able to handle it."

Yami Bakura looked mildly interested. "Your tomb?" he asked.

"Yes, I have a tomb, just in case this plan goes to fail."

"Care to elaborate some more and stop stalling?" the shorter albino prompted impatiently, which only caused his companion to laugh.

"My tomb was specially designed with magic and traps, which I will not elaborate with you." The evil spirit glared. "But I will tell you a bit about this certain...chamber..."

"Well?" Yami Bakura demanded.

"Patience my friend."

"I am not your friend!"

The stranger's left eye flashed once more as he continued, "The twelve mirrored chamber, it obviously holds twelve mirrors, but they hold a certain power to them. They were made from a special type of shadow magic. They hold be-, well, if you are unfortunate enough you will find out." The stranger was stalling once again.

"Yes, but what do mirrors have anything to do with your plan?"

"Well...if he refuses to comply with his destiny these mirrors shall set him in the right path."

Yami Bakura raised an eyebrow. "And may I ask what makes you think his destiny is that of the Pharaoh's?"

"Hmmm, that is not any of your business, is it?" the stranger countered.

"No, but care to reveal the whereabouts of this tomb then?"

There was a pause and then the other answered, "In a distant land, over the sea to the west. Quite the opposite of Egypt, very cold if I do say so myself...and very white."

The albino haired thief laughed."You wish for him to be the ultimate King of Darkness and yet you place your sanctuary in the complete opposite of it?"

The stranger found nothing amusing though. "It may be so, but you call yourself the King of the Shadows."

"Hm, hair color does not matter in this case, for I can say the same for you. The setting of which you place dark power in is what matters most."

"Perhaps, but my tomb is not above ground with the rest of the white, no, it is underneath the dark ground. With a few, what shall I call them? Pets of mine."

The thief stopped laughing. "Where have you put the entrance then?"

"You would love for me to tell you because you know there are treasures there, would you not?"

The younger of the two didn't answer.

"Three certain caves is all I am going to give you."

Both were quiet for a moment. "How did you find this distant place?"

"Magic," was all the cloaked man said.

"And how do you expect to lure the boy all the way over there to begin with?" Yami Bakura further interrogated.

"You are quite the curious one aren't you?" asked the stranger. "Well, to put it simply short, three Millennium Item holders shall assist me."

"You have wasted a great deal of time and gold for something you shall not need, for my plan will not fail."

The stranger only smiled maliciously. 'Says you thief, but this is only a precaution for the present and the future, whether it be millennias later,' the stranger thought to himself.

The two then departed ways without another word as the sand began to pick up pace with the blowing wind.

Yami Bakura was snapped back to the present as he shouted, "No! You will not have the last laugh!"

Quickly turning around to go through the hall, he thought he had heard someone walking up to him. 'Must be those pets of his,' he thought, but suddenly froze in mid-step. 'What are these pets of his?'

Taking the horribly heavy backpack his vessel was carrying off, he took a flashlight out. After working out how to turn it on he looked around the room, but there was nothing. "Must be dogs or maybe even bats, how original," mocked the thief derisively. Walking through the hall entrance he braced himself for anything, wondering, "I know bats can survive a long time without food, but dogs?"

Deciding it best to ignore that small fact he turned a corner and noticed an inch of water hit his feet. Yami Bakura sighed, "Water means an exit, but that is not what I am looking for."

A strange carving on the floor then caught his eye.

Jirai Gumo.

Twelve feet moving all at breakneck speed suddenly broke out, almost as if though the creatures had been waiting for that precise moment.

The noise stopped just above him, yet when he looked up he gave a wary smirked. "Looks like I have underestimated him once again," Yami Bakura murmured.

Bakura was then momentarily freed as he dropped to his knees. "Not again," he groaned. "Where am I now, anyway? Hey Tea! Anybody...?"

That was when he caught a glimpse of them, andnot even having the nerve to yell out yet, Bakura frantically scrambled to his feet and ran for his dear life.


"I love food, food loves me!" Joey sang his version of the Barney Theme. He had ingeniously come up with it at the age of five. "We're a happy family! With a great big gulp and bite from me to you! Won't you say you love me too!"

"Aaaahhh!" someone's yelling pierced the dead silence. "Someone help me!"

"Hey, that sounded like Bakura!" Joey cheered, now he wouldn't have to walk around in the dark alone.

Bakurawas sprinting down the hall, two nasty black spiders hot on his heels.

"Hey, pal!Over here!" the blonde called, jumpingand waving in the air. Then almost immediately stopped as he optedfor running down the hall he had previously come from. "Please don't send me to the Shadow Realm, Mr. Evil Spirit!"

"Joey, it's me, Bakura!" reassured his friend.

"Oh, really?" Joey suddenly stopped. "Well, in that case am I glad to see you ba-,"

"Don't stop running!" Bakura interrupted.

The blonde blinked. "Eh? Gaahhh! I forgot!" Now the two friends were running side by side. "So, who are your friends?" Joey kidded.

"Joey, we're going to die! How can you joke around at a time like this?"

"Hehe, sorry!" Making a turn to their right they stepped into the chamber Joey had runaway from, thinking the evil spirit was going to mutilate him. "Hey! What gives? They aren't supposed to like the light!"he cried out.

"Maybe you met something else!" Bakura suggested.

Joey thought for a minute. "But then that means there are other monsters in here with us!"

Crossing about five chambers and going in all sorts of directions, both knew they weren getting nowhere.


"I don't think these things are getting tired!" Tea informed. When she found no short boy running next to her she panicked.

Yugi was crawling and panting a few feet behind her, his short legs weren't getting him anywhere so he switched over to Yami.

"Hmmm, what?" Yami turned to see what he was supposed to be running from.

"Yugi! Don't just sit there!" The brunette grabbed Yami by the back of his collar, dragging him like a stuffed toy.

"Tea, what are those things?" asked the Pharaoh.

Tea turned her head and studied the boy's face more closely. It was Yami. "Yami? What are you-? Haven't you ever seen a spider?"

The long ago Pharaoh's eyes turned into saucers at this. "Not that huge!"

In all honesty, Tea was getting exhausted from carrying Yami across who knows how many rooms. "Still following us, Yami?" she queried.

"Unfortunately, yes!" he answered. Almost fainting as the spiders' creepy pincer pinchers nearly grabbed his legs.


Duke and Tristan weren't cooperating very well at the moment.

"It's that way!" Duke once again insisted.

Tristan thought otherwise though. "It's the other way!"

"No, it isn't!"

"Here they come!"

"That way then!" both agreed on the other's last choice. Sweat-dropping, they went left.

"So tired," complained the raven headed boy.

"Suck it up!" Tristan advised.

Jumping off the monkey bar like part of the ceiling, Kaiba had long ago passed, they ran on intothe nextroom. Luckily it wasn't the altar room though, but instead a normal stable chamber. Going onto the next room they noticed that on either side of them bloody spikes were moving in on them.

Unable to utter a word of horror, the duo gracefully hurtled themselves out at the last minute. Only scrambling away from the chamber when oneof their spider's legs fell near them.

"Now that's just plain gross!" Duke kicked the thing away. Thankfully they were saved more running by the spiky walls.

Nowtheir first and main goal was to regroup with the others.


On the top mosthighest floor...

Kaiba was aimlesslyambling down one of the many corridors of the upper tomb, cautiously making sure there weren't any fake walls or floors along the way.

"What kind of person would make places like this? Oh, that's right, an insane person would," he concluded with an air of cynicism.

Kaiba honestly didn't see why these abstract places fascinated most people, including his brother.

He partly blamed Yugi and his convention for his brother's new found obsession, but he was equally at fault for letting him associate with the group to begin with. He often found himself wondering: What was the deal with these geeks? They constantly moved from one odd theme to an even odder one.

But frustratingly never able to find an answer, Kaiba gave the case a rest for the umpteenth time. For now he continued to tape things on camera.

Silently, he walked to stand right underneatha squarehole in the ceiling above him. All the whilewondering how he was supposed to get up there.

But by the time he made it to the middle of the room, he was knocked to the floor, havingcrashed into something solid, almost like metal.

Outstretching a hand,the tips of Kaiba's fingers brushed against an invisible, climbable wall. "Huh? Hmph, what a surprise. Here I am, working my brain off for such a little matter, but when it comes to the big things, like finding an exit, it's never that easy," he grumbled.

Not wanting to waste any more of his time in this...place, he readied himself to start climbing.

That was when he heard two familiar people...

"Hey Kaiba! Finally, we found you!"

"Sheesh! We thought you were probably eaten by one of those spiders!"

Kaiba turned, behind him were a running and huffing Duke and Tristan. He scowled. 'The geeks are here too? And why would I be eaten by spiders?'

Upon reachingtheir roommatethey stopped and stared at him for a while. "Um, Kaiba...what are you doing? Are you practicing to work as a mime or something?" Duke laughed.

Kaiba glared at them, how dare they come and make the situation worse than it already was! He was doing just as horribly on his own, but now he had to share it with them?

"AAAHHH!" the yelling of four certain people echoed around them.

The newly formed trio looked to their left and right as thirty-two shuffling feet were heard running down both opposite halls.


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