Goddess: Let me introduce, Doctor Sakkie Akemori! She's a very good friend of mine, and she's here to treat Loki and Bakura from the last fight in the LAST chapter! Duh doi
"Dr". Sakkie Akemori: ALRIGHT! SO LET'S SEE THE PATIENTS! pulls out chainsaw
Loki and Bakura: oo…AHHH! GET HER AWAY FROM US!
Goddess: It's for your own good smiles She's THE best in THE business D
Ryou: So…are they ganna die or do they just get chased around?
Loki: WHAT BUSINESS! ASSASSINATIONS!
Sakkie: Well, now that you mention it, I am a fully trained assassin in the Assassins Association…but that's another story.
Loki and Bakura start running even faster
Bakura: Wait…why am running?
Loki: 'Cause its half ghost.
Bakura: thinks about it for a second Oh…AAHHHHHH runs even faster
Sakkie: ties them down with chains They have a VERY serious condition of idiot-itis. So, in this chapter, they will be VERY absent D starts up chain saw
Ryou: I coulda told you that TT Need some help?
Bakura: YOU BA---
Goddess: OK THEN! Let's start the fanfic!
Loki: Oh Gawd…why me?
(Credit for this go to Sakkie's typing and Goddess's ideas)
"Fires will spring to life from the ashes of forgotten memories; those of the forgotten will be remembered in the burning of mementos." Text from the scroll "Hellhole" found along side the scroll "Secrets" in the Sahara.
I don't want to burn in Hell forever, please someone help me extinguish the flames in my heart, and Please I don't want to kill anymore…
Chapter 3: Forgotten Flames
The sudden closing of the front door wakened Marik, Malik, Bakura, Yami, and Yugi. Bakura turned instantly to look for Ryou but saw he was gone. "Ryou!" He called through the house but no answer came. "Ryou!" He called again, same response. Yugi and Yami went to check the upstairs rooms while Bakura went to look out in the yard. Oh Ra… He thought to himself as he saw the front gate to their residence sitting wide open.
Bakura waited for the others to return, Yami and Yugi said they found nothing upstairs and Marik and Malik said there was no one anywhere in the house. Marik looked out side the window to see an ominous cloud was covering the moon; no doubt it was made with magic. He slammed his foot into the window seal and thought were could Jannon have taken Ryou and better yet why did Ryou try and wake them for help?
"Guys you better come look at this." Yugi shouted from the other room. They came running in to see Yugi pointing at the television. It was breaking news there had been three fires in the past 10 minutes in the same general area and already 12 people, young women ages 26-30 were killed and 25, children ages 5-14, were injured.
"Oh my Ra, You don't think Ryou…" Yami asked looking at Marik and Bakura.
"She is causing him to forget by setting his memories on fire." Marik responded.
Jannon lead Ryou by the hand into a large mansion on the other side of the city. The mansion looked more like a small palace with thousands of flowers layered decoratively in the front yard and several large ponds covered in water lilies. Ryou stopped for a moment and looked into one of ponds, he peered into it inquisitively; he dipped his left index finger into the water and watched in amazement as ripples appeared on the surface of the pond, he looked up at Jannon and she repeated his action. They watched the ripples get larger and eventually fade away on the face of the pond. Could he have truly forgotten?She asked herself looking down at Ryou as he looked fascinated by the delicate peddles of the white water lily.
"Soft, Jannon?" He asked her in a very timid voice. Jannon nodded and replied. "Come now we must hurry and go see mistress." Then she took Ryou's hand and they disappeared into the giant oak doors.
They reappeared in a large dinning room where a woman dressed in only transparent pleaded gown and a long golden chain sat waiting for them. She looked at Ryou with pleased eyes. "I see you have brought me back, Ryou, the wielder of fire." She asked in a pleased voice.
"Yes, Mistress." Jannon answered bowing down. Ryou copied her movements.
The woman looked at Ryou with pleased eyes then teleported herself beside him. She looked him over closely but Ryou's eyes had not left Jannon. "How much of his memory have you erased?" She asked petting Ryou lightly on the head for his obedience.
"I erased everything up to when he first received the ring, but I cannot find the memories of our home." Jannon answered looking down at the floor.
The woman looked at Ryou then kissed him lightly on the nape of his neck. "You won't find them I will." She responded pressing Ryou's back into her breasts, Ryou's eyes opened widely, Mistress now had full access to every passage in his mind.
Marik and the others left the house in hopes Ryou had not gone to far and they would be able to catch him within a few moments. They headed to the sight of the last fire. It was on the other side of town but they hurried as fast as they could. Taking the train then a bus to the accident. As they looked around they found Ryo's school jacket charred remains at the base of a streetlamp on the opposite side of the house. Ryou was nowhere to be found. But the fire was still ragging which meant it was still being manipulated.
"Some one help me!" A little boy screamed looking from policeman to fireman. "Anybody please! My mommy is missing have you seen her?" He cried. A police officer took him to the other side of the street where Yugi and the others stood.
"Would you mind watching him while we attempt to locate his mother?" Yugi and the others agree. The little boy would not stop crying.
"Why would he abandon me like that?" The boy cried into his hands. Yugi bent down and looked at him. The boy damp white hair clanged to the back of his neck and glistened from his sweat but was more amazing was his eyes; there were deep chocolate just like Ryou's. "Why didn't you help him? Why didn't you stop her from taking him? Why didn't you stop Inferno?" He asked, standing just an inch or so shorter than Yugi, looking at Bakura. Bakura stared at the little kid who looked at him with this intense hatred.
"What are you talking about?" Bakura asked the child, taken completely off guard. The child just stared at him and frowned.
"It is all your fault… We lost her again." He said turning to were the paramedics where wheeling a body bag from the house.
"Tell me," Marik asked looking at the child. "What is your name?"
The child looked at him then slowly reached for something around his neck, "You know who I am, Marik Ishtar." He said revealing the millennium ring, but it was shattered with cracks and chips. "I am one of the shattered memories left behind by Ryou, who had now long forgotten about both me and you." He said as he began to evaporate (think of what happened to Marik and Yugi during the Yami Vs Yami Marik duel during Battle City.) into the air and disappear from site.
He parted the world leaving behind the word, "Fire" burned into the grass he had been standing on. A sudden scream for help from a nearby house caught Bakura's attention from the word and he and the group dashed of in that direction.
Mistress let Ryou fall to his knees after she freed him; he was covered in sweat and gasping for air. Mistress had just reunited him with his true item, the invincible Saint Apollo's Spear. The spear remains a spearhead worn around the neck until it is needed as a weapon when it feeds of its owner's energy to become the almighty spear. Mistress smiled at Ryou who stood before her now as a very well trained solider for her army. Ryou looked back at her with inhuman crimson eyes and a wicked fang-baring smirk, his gentle personality was now thrown into the darkness of his mind and the real Ryou, the Ryou that was hidden away by his mother's death, had reawakened.
"There are two young men and three spirits looking for you, near the northern side of the house. I want you to meet them and pretend to be their friend, Ryou. Then when you have gained their trust I want you to use the Spear and attack the spirit called Bakura." She commanded him.
"Of course my Mistress, would you like me to destroy or just injure him?" He asked her hesitantly.
"I will answer that when the time comes." She responded licking Ryou lightly on the cheek and touching his fangs with her finger, So beautiful. "Until then love have fun playing with your new toys."
"I will." He responded as he took Jannon's hand and they left the house.
The air was cold on Ryou's exposed face and he smiled lovingly welcoming the cold icy air. Jannon looked at him; he was an entirely different person from the boy this morning screaming for his spirit to help him escape her she could not convince herself of why but this form of Ryou seemed to be the true him, the one who belonged to her people, but not the person who belonged in the body. Putting these thoughts aside they made their plans.
Jannon took Ryou and held him in the captive position making it seem like he was helpless and unable to protect himself, Ryou pretended to fight back and scream for help when they heard footsteps coming they made the struggle look even more realistic. Ryou began to kick just light enough for it to seem like he was really struggling to keep himself from being dragged while Jannon continued to pull him towards her car which was parked outside the house.
Soon there unknowing victims turned the corner to see Ryou being forced into a car. Ryou screamed for help and begged for someone to help him. Bakura and Marik tackled Jannon holding her to the concrete while Yugi helped Ryou out of the car. Ryou began to shake and tremble as any normal person would after being taken hostage. Bakura allowed Malik to take his place on top of Jannon while he went over to see Ryou. Ryou not knowing it was Bakura was unsure how to act towards him. He looked shaken and afraid but after a moment of looking into the spirits eyes he was sure it was Bakura only to have it confirmed by Jannon's yelling.
"Bakura, you stupid ghoul, there is no place for you here, leave and let me finished what I started." She cried out but nothing happened. Bakura looked down at Jannon with cold eyes.
"What where you planning on doing with my other?" He asked with a psychotic smile on his face. Jannon looked at Ryou who began to whimper and cry. Bakura took his eyes off Jannon to comfort Ryou and that was all it took she kicked off the two Egyptian boys and made haste away from them then changed her figure to become a bird and flew away into the night.
Jannon kept a close eye on Ryou from above waiting for the right moment for her to strike. She waited patiently for Ryou to stop his acting and get down to business as he guided them towards an apartment like lambs to a slaughter.
Ryou convinced Bakura and the others he had been held in an apartment not far from here, and that he wanted to take them there to show them what he saw even though he could not remember what was there. Bakura walked along side Ryou with his arm around his shoulders holding him close. Ryou who would normal be melting all over from this contact had to restrain himself from push Bakura away, for no one but Mistress and Jannon were allowed to touch him, he also had a hard time keeping his fangs from showing when he talked. Malik noticed this strange behavior but before he could ask Marik they had arrived at an apartment building down the street from where the car had been parked.
The door was still cracked open and the lights were on as if someone was in the room but when they opened the door and looked around no one was there. There was a small bed that could fit no more than two people, cut ropes and used duck tape on the floor as well as a prepaid cell phone with all of its memory erased.
Marik looked at Ryou and decided to ask him something that seemed completely stupid. "What's that around your neck?" Ryou looked down at the spear head then looked back up at Marik.
"I don't know it's just something a girl gave to me while I was here." Ryou really did not seem to believe him he just shrugged his feelings off again and held onto Malik's hand.
/Malik…/
/Yes…/
/I want you to protect Bakura. / At that Malik looked at him, Marik however did not look up at him.
/Why would I need to do that/He asked holding on to his lights hand tighter.
/Ryou's about to do something that will change the playing field… Everything has been changed but the problem is Bakura won't fight against him because they are one and the same. So please protect Bakura. / He said loosening his grip on Malik's hand and walking forward to meet Ryou.
Ryou watched his advance with waiting eyes; he watched the young boy and waited for him to challenge him. He knew that the boy was not Bakura so he could not hurt him but he could always 'play' roughly.
"Ryou, what do you say to a game?" Marik asked suddenly taking everyone especially Bakura by surprise.
"What kind of game?" Ryou responded talking a few steps back from Marik.
"Truth or Dare…"
"Alright, but must we play it here?" He answered. Marik smirked and answered yes.
"Is this really the place for this?" Yugi asked trying to cut through the tension of both Ryou and Marik.
"Yes!" They both shouted. "This place is fine."
I am sorry I could not fully infiltrate this time Mistress but I must strike now or rise being injured. Ryou thought to himself as he reached up for the spearhead around his neck. Marik charged him sending them both flying out of a seven-story window to the floor, Ryou landing flat on his back. Bakura, Malik, Yami and Yugi came running out of the front of the apartment to the ally where the two boys fell to see Marik lying several feet away from Ryou who lay back down in a small creator in the concrete; he was most certainly knocked or at least injured. Marik stood stumbling to his feet and began to walk away from Ryou and towards them.
"Are you crazy?" Bakura asked as he began to walk towards Ryou. Before he could reach Ryou one of his eyes opened and Marik turned around with a small chuckle.
"How could I expect you to go down so easy?" Marik asked himself turning around to face Ryou who was lifting himself out of the concrete and brushing the dirt from his pants and shirt. Then he removed the spearhead and allowed it to grow into a gigantic double-edged spear. Marik had not fought with Magic for many years this would be a battle of wits and recollection more than a battle of pure strength and skill. "Bakura, guys just stay back and let me challenge him." Marik said taking a defensive fighting stance and it looked as if he was holding a sword in his right hand.
Ryou smiled at the challenge presented to him by the smaller still human boy. He decided the spear was too much so he held it in one hand and snapped the fingers on his other causing a stream of fire to shot from his hand. (Think of Roy Mustang from Full Metal Alchemist. I don't own sadly either.) Marik jumped out the way just before the blazing wipe hit him. Ryou turned and lunched another attack but found it deflected by an invisible force that was protecting Marik. He launched another attack with more force but nothing came of it, it was useless. Damn it! He thought to himself as he attempted to reach Jannon through a link.
: Jannon hurry and run an interference while attempt to attack Bakura. : He said launching another attack at Marik only to have it defected. : Or at least tell me where that shield is coming from. : He called into the link.
Alright I am sending back up now hold on. Jannon called. Attempt an attack on the little boy with multicolored hair he is the one putting up a shield.
:Alright. : Ryou said changing his direction and charging Bakura.
Bakura did not have any time to react but Ryou suddenly stops.
Sakkie: So, Goddess went to calm those two…geniuses down…
Loki: E MC2
Bakura: 1+2FISH
Sakkie: Obviously I'm not quite down with HIM yet
Bakura: NO! KIDDING! Albert Einstein was German and was fleeing from the Nazis since he was a Jew…yadi yadi ya
Sakkie: puts chain saw away Fine…hey…won't your light ALSO used to have idiot-itis?
door slams in background
Sakkie: TT…guess not
Loki: since EMC2…that means…RYOUDOORSLAM YES!
Sakkie: Yeah…umm…now…they have a severe case of…genius-itis…TT I'm BACK IN BUSINESS BABY!
4 doors slam in background
Goddess: CAN YOU GUYS COUNT! THERE ARE ONLY TWO OF YOU! Hope you enjoyed this! runs after Bakura and Loki By the way, tell me if you find any errors!
Preview
Ryou stops his attack suddenly with no explanation. Two strange teenagers dressed in plated transparent gowns decorated in shinning gold and glittering jewels. They seek conference with Ryou but he does not comply for he has stopped the spear from piercing Bakura's chest. Who are these strange new girls? What is Inferno's true name? Who is Mistress really? Why are we asking so many questions?
