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"Oh Ra...what I have gotten myself into?" Anubis murmured. He was hopelessly lost in the labyrinthine shrine; he had never been told how to make it through to the important rooms safely. "I have already been here before..."
Anubis...He turned around in a full circle slowly. "Who...who is there?"
...my child...
"Osiris," he said softly. "But how did he know I was..."
...come to me...
A loud, screeching, ringing noise echoed through the halls. Anubis covered his ears and gritted his teeth. If this noise continued to sound he was certain that he would go deaf. He fell to his knees and closed his eyes. Blood trickled out of the corners of his eyes and his ears. It dripped on the ground and disappeared into the cracks of the floor. The wicked voice that he had heard before sighed with pleasure.
You always were the sweetest of them all..."Leave me alone; I want nothing to do with you, you monster!"
Then came the laughter and Anubis could have sworn that he saw Osiris appear before his very eyes. Only he looked somehow different. He looked stronger than he remembered. Although it was only a vision (or an apparition), it chilled Anubis to his very core and he wanted nothing more than to curl into a ball and wait for the feelings of fear to pass. Anubis backed away on his hands and knees, blood still trickling from invisible wounds, while the ghost of his Master slowly approached.
It is not like you to feel fear, Osiris said without moving his lips or making a sound at all.
"You...you're not here...you're a figment of my imagination...I'm hallucinating..."
Swear loyalty to me once again and I will give you power beyond your wildest dreams.
"No...no...I won't."
An excellent choice...I promise that you shall not regret it.
"I didn't agree to anything!" Anubis yelled, gaining enough confidence to stand up. But Osiris was gone. There was no blood on the floor or on his flesh. He wasn't lost in the middle of the Shrine either; he was standing just a few feet away from the entrance. It was all just a... "Then why did it feel so real?" he asked himself. He shivered. He could still hear Osiris' voice echoing through his mind. It still gave him chills.
"Yugi!" a familiar voice yelled from one of the rooms down further.
"Yami?" Anubis said. Had something happened? He didn't have time to think, only to act. He took off in a full sprint but the voice of his comrade seemed to be coming from every hallway and every room. One hall led to another. One door led to an empty room. No matter how hard he tried, he could not find the room he heard Yami's voice in. Now he couldn't even find his way back to the entrance.
He truly was lost.