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"They're – coming," Yugi whispered.
"Who's coming?" Presley asked. But Yugi said no more.
Suddenly, the door to the room burst open!
"Shabtis!" Presley growled.
Hearing this, one of the shabtis walked over to him and before Presley could do anything, the shabti knocked him in the side temple.
Presley's head exploded with pain, until it all went black.
"What did he do to my hand!?!?!" Scarab said, studying his pale, wrinkled hand, that was now blistering from the burn.
"It looks like he burned it," Heka replied.
Scarab glared at the golden snake. "That was a rhetorical question Heka!"
"Then why ask it at all?" Heka said.
Scarab growled in frustration.
"So, now what?" Heka asked after the short silence that followed.
"Now we go to the Western Gate," Scarab answered.
"What?" Heka said, confused, "Why?"
"I'm not getting any younger Heka," Scarab growled, "The Western Gate only demands one Pharaoh and we have Ramses!"
"But what about the Chosen One?" the gold snake asked.
"At the Gate, he'll be easier to sense." Scarab smiled sinisterly. "Whether or not this One calls him, I have a feeling that the real Pharaoh is searching for him. With the little brat as bait, the Pharaoh will fall right into our hands." He started to laugh manically.
Heka looked around then frowned. "But I don't have any hands."
Joey and Tristan resumed their attacking of the bars when they saw the shabtis start to drag their friends out of the dungeon-like room.
"We have to stop them!" Joey growled.
"Uh, guys?" Tea said slowly, looking out the side bars. Neither of them heard her. "GUYS!!!" she shouted.
"What?!" Tristan shouted, frustrated, turning to look at her. His frustration was forgotten.
Before Joey could attack again, Tristan grabbed his collar, jerking him to a halt.
"What is it!?!?!" Joey demanded.
"We've got trouble," Tristan said.
"Wha?" Joey said confused, looking over where his friends were looking. He was so focused on the door that he missed the three Shabtis coming towards them! The Shabtis each held a staff that was about two-thirds as long as they were tall.
"What could they do to us?" Joey asked, "All they got is sticks, and there's no door in here as far as I can see."
Just then, the head Shabti's "stick" started to glow red. It shot forth a beam that sliced through the bars as if they were made of butter. The bars then fell in, forming a doorway.
"I think they can zap us, man," Tristan said as the three started to back into a corner.
"What do they want?" Tea said, fearfully.
"I get the feeling that we're 'no longer needed' if you catch my point," Joey said as the Shabtis started to walk through the "hole" they made.
Tea was the first to bump into the wall. "Out of room guys," she said, eyes wide.
The Shabtis were moving in, each staff starting to glow red. That is, until.....
"Why'd you have to go and say that?!?!" Tristan shouted suddenly, shoving Joey into the wall. Tea had to jump over into the very corner of the wall as to not get crushed.
Joey looked back, startled, but then he realized, so were the Shabtis. "Say what!?!?!?" he demanded, shoving Tristan back.
"Chosen One!!!!!!" Tristan shouted, "Of all things!!!!! Just go ahead and tell the bad guy Yugi's the Chosen One!!!!"
"How was I supposed to know he'd know what I was talkin' about!?!?!?!?!" Joey argued, giving Tristan another shove for good measure. "I didn't even know what I was talkin' about!!!!!"
"You gotta put more thought into it lame brain!!!!!" Tristan shouted, "You can't be giving important info to the enemy!!!!!"
"You expect me to come up with works of art right off the top of my head!!!!!!" Joey shouted. "And who are you calling lame brain, you baka!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"BAKA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Tristan roared. He grabbed hold of Joey's collar and shook him. "Why you....."
Tea stared at her two friends, horrified. Of all times to fight! But then she noticed the Shabtis.
They were utterly confused, staring back and forth between the two shouting boys, staffs lowered. This had never happened before; they didn't know what to do!
Looking back at her friends, Tea noticed something else that she didn't see before. Between the obscenities the boys were now shouting at each other, they were having a conversation with their body language.
Joey looked over at the Shabtis for a second before looking back at Tristan. His elbow closest to them moved a bit and so did his foot. Then he hunched his shoulders up.
Tristan raised an eyebrow, his hands tightening on Joey's shirt. He slid one foot back behind him and bent his other knee.
Joey gave the slightest nod and then stamped his foot, as if to seal the deal.
Tristan took a deep breath. "Fine then!!!!!!!!!!" he shouted in Joey's face, actually lifting him inches above the ground. "GO!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed. Twisting his body, Tristan flung Joey at the Shabtis!
Joey flew, colliding feet first with the head Shabti's stomach, causing it to fall backwards. As soon as the Shabti landed, it broke into a thousand pieces!
Joey turned his fall into a sideways roll, grabbing the fallen staff and popping back up behind the remaining Shabtis. "Surprise," he said, pointing the staff at them. It did nothing. "How do you get this thing to work!?!?!?!" he shouted desperately to his two friends.
"I don't know!!!" Tristan said, "Why even ask us!?!" He had grabbed Tea and the both of them were ducking, expecting a blast to come.
"Come on, FIRE!!!!!!" Joey shouted at the staff. It suddenly glowed EXTREMELY bright red and shot out a continuous beam, slicing the two Shabtis in half, causing the rest of them to explode! Along with cutting through the bars on the other side and putting a deep dent into the wall beyond.
"Wow!" said Tristan from the floor as soon as the beam disappeared, "How did you do that?!"
"I have no idea," Joey said amazed.
"Don't you two EVER scare me like that again!!!" Tea said.
"Come on Tea," Tristan said, "That was the oldest trick in the book!"
"And I can't believe they fell for it," Joey said. He looked down at a remaining hand of one of the Shabtis, "You guys need to watch more TV."
Suddenly the hand jumped up at him!
"AAHHH!!!!" Joey screamed, pointing the staff at the hand and blasting it to oblivion.
"Stop playing and let's go find Yugi," Tristan said, picking up a staff for himself and started to walk out of the hole in the bars.
"Hey, I think I'm getting the hang of this!" Joey said happily, tapping the bottom of the staff to the ground. It shot up to the ceiling causing some rather large pieces of rock to fall.
Joey leaped out of the way. "Then again, maybe not."
Yugi slowly woke to the sound of waves and the smell of salt water. 'That's strange,' he thought. His whole body felt sore and his shirt's collar was choking him a little. Suddenly the sound of three voices chanting loudly replaced the sound of waves. Yugi opened his eyes to find himself standing on the edge of a bridge!
"AAHHH!!!" he yelled, quickly trying to back away, but to no avail. He then realized that something was holding him up by the collar of his shirt. He looked back to discover that a Shabti was holding him.
Yugi looked around, trying to figure out what was going on. That Scarab freak was also at the edge of the bridge, chanting along with two other voices coming from a tape recorder he was holding, the Millennium Puzzle hanging around his neck. Of course he was surrounded by several more of those stone Shabti things. And Presley was unconscious, also being held up by a Shabti, luckily nearby.
"Presley," Yugi whispered urgently. He reached over a foot to tap the boy. "Presley, wake up!"
"Oh my head," Presley mumbled as he started to come to. Opening his eyes, he looked around.
"Presley, what's going on?!" Yugi whispered.
"We're at the Western Gate!" Presley said quietly, eyes wide.
"The what?"
"The Western Gate. Scarab's got this crazy idea that if he sacrifices a Pharaoh to the Western Gate, he'll become immortal. Since I WAS the only Pharaoh around, he's been chasing me for the last couple of years."
"What, you mean he's not immortal now?"
"Apparently not."
"Man, how old is he?"
"3,500 years old, give or take a hundred years."
"And he's not immortal?"
"Go figure."
There was a pause after that strange conversation.
"Uh, how are we supposed to get out of this?" Yugi asked.
"I – I don't know," Presley answered. Presley looked around, hoping something would spark a plan in his mind. Nothing.
Then the chanting suddenly stopped. Yugi looked at Presley, who now was looking down towards the water. Looking down as well, Yugi saw the gap between the bridge and the water start to glow. A strange, yet VERY familiar dark smoke started to gather around it, making a chill go down Yugi's back.
"The Western Gate," Presley whispered, eyes wide.
"The Shadow Realm," Yugi whispered in surprise.
Yami ran frantically through the streets, Mummies and Ishizu close behind. He felt both extreme relief and fear at the same time. Relief because Yugi was alive! Fear because that might not be true for long!
Suddenly an enormous amount of power came flooding through his Bond, causing Yami to halt as if he'd just crashed into an invisible wall.
"What's wrong?" Ishizu asked, worried after just seeing him rebound off of something that was invisible to her.
Yami shook his head to try to calm the flow and get his thoughts back. "It's Yugi," he said, "He's been moved. I – I can feel him better than I ever could before! I know exactly where he is!" His crimson eyes widened as he looked down the street. At the end of the street was the Crystal Bay. And on the other side of that was.....
"He's there!!!!" Yami said, pointing to one of the strangest sights he'd ever seen in this new world!
"The Western Gate!!!!" the mummies shouted.
"We must get there fast!!!" Jakal shouted, "Or Presley and Yugi won't be with us much longer!!!!"
"It's been opened," Scarab hissed evilly.
Both boys, wide-eyed and scared, started to struggle fiercely against their captors, but to no avail.
Scarab's smile curled cruelly. "Drop him."
Both Presley and Yugi took in breaths of surprise when suddenly their feet dangled over the side of the edge of the bridge.
"STOP!!!" Scarab shouted enraged. Everyone looked over at him as he put his non-burned hand over his eyes. "I'm surrounded by imbeciles," he moaned into his hand. Looking up again, he said, "Only Ramses you nitwits! We still need the Chosen One as bait for the Pharaoh! Drop Ramses!"
Yugi and Presley looked at each other, fear shinning in their eyes.
"I don't think so!"
BOOM
The Shabti's head exploded in a blast of red light, the one holding Yugi that is.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yugi screamed as the broken Shabti's hand loosened and he began to fall.
"YUGI!!!!!!!" Presley, Joey, Tristan, and Tea screamed.
"OOOWWWW!!!!!" Presley yelled in pain. He looked down at the person hanging off his right shin.
"Sorry," Yugi said, holding on for dear life.
"No – problem," Presley said, smiling with gritted teeth. He was holding on to his Shabti's arms, holding himself up so he wouldn't choke to death.
Joey released the breath that he was holding. "Good job Tristan," he said sarcastically, hitting his friend on the shoulder, "Shoot the guy's head off and he won't drop Yugi! Now why would he do that?!"
"Yeah, like I knew," Tristan said back.
"Guys this isn't the time to fight," Tea said, "With each other at least."
"What's going on!?!?!?!?!" Scarab screamed, "You're supposed to be dead!!!!!!!"
"Were hard to kill," Tristan said, pointing his staff at Scarab, Joey backing him up.
"Now hand them over!" Joey demanded.
Scarab sighed and put his uninjured hand over his eyes again. "Such fools these mortals be," he said. Then he held up his hand towards them and a purple ball of light appeared at the end of it.
But before he could fire though, a green ball of energy hit him in the center of his chest and exploded!
"AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scarab screamed as he was blown back by the explosion.
Everyone else looked up to where the energy ball came from. What they saw was a man flying on hawk wings holding another that was dressed as a snake.
"The Mummies!" Presley said happily.
"The Mummies!!!" Scarab shouted evilly, "Shabtis, ATTACK!!!!!!!" Jakal dropped Rath off on the bridge, who pulled out his sword and started to slice through the several Shabtis now converging on him. "I could use a little help here!" Rath shouted.
"Coming!!!" Armon shouted as he and Nefertina ran up to help him.
Jakal flew down to be level with Yugi. "Need a hand?" he said, smiling.
"I just might," Yugi answered.
Jakal reached to pick him up, but before he could, a small ball of purple energy exploded on his back! "AAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed in pain.
The force of the explosion caused the boys to swing dangerously and Presley's shirt to rip. Now they were only hanging by his arms. "Hold on Yugi!!!!" Presley shouted.
Jakal turned just in time to stop another ball of energy from rocking the boys again. "SCARAB!!!!" he shouted in anger.
Scarab, now transformed into the huge purple bug that he was, dove towards them.
Jakal flew up to face him, long bow pulled out and a firry arrow drawn.
Yami and Ishizu arrived to see a huge fight ensue! Three mummies were fighting what seemed like an endless amount of Shabtis and the fourth one was in an enormous dog fight with a huge purple bug in the air!
"Yami!!" he heard a familiar female voice shout. Tea, Joey, and Tristan ran up to the two. They were followed by five Shabtis.
"Behind you!!!!!!!!" Ishizu shouted.
Joey and Tristan whipped around, and the staffs they still held glowed red and the Shabtis exploded.
Yami looked on in shock! But, first things first. "Where's Yugi!!!"
"Over there!" Joey said. He pointed to the Shabti that Presley and Yugi were still hanging off of.
"How are we supposed to get them down?" Tristan asked.
"I don't think we have to," Tea said. The other four looked at her, but then over to where she was looking.
Sixty seconds ago
"Hey Yugi."
"Yeah?"
"We gotta get on the bridge," Presley said. "And I've got an idea."
"What?" Yugi asked.
"If you could swing back and forth, maybe we can swing up there."
"Alright, I'll try."
Back to present
The group of five watched in horror as the two boys swung back and forth. After one big swing, Presley let go!
"AAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" the two boys shouted as they flew through the air... and landed on the bridge!
Only to be surrounded by more Shabtis!
"What do we do now?" Yugi whispered as the boys stood back to back, surrounded by a circle of Shabtis.
"There too close for my Boom-Ra," Presley said, looking around at all the fighting, "And the Mummies seem to be busy, so we'll just have to fight." Presley took a fighting stance. He really hoped that lessons of Egypt-su with Armon would pay off.
"Great," Yugi said sarcastically, holding up his fists.
"Yugi, DUCK!!!!!!!!!!" came Joey's voice through the crowd.
Yugi dropped to the ground out of reflex, pulling Presley down with him. The Shabtis started to explode in a red light that swept over above the boys. Then the noise stopped.
"Yugi are you okay!?" Tea asked as she and his other friends ran up to him.
"Yeah, we're fine," Yugi said.
"What happened?" Presley asked.
"Good old Shabti sticks," Tristan said, patting his staff.
"But how did you get it to work!?!" Presley said in amazement.
Joey was about to say something before Yami ran up to Yugi. "Are you alright!?" he asked, worried.
"I'm okay Yami," Yugi answered.
Yami put his hands on Yugi's shoulders, looking into the shorter teen's eyes. "Next time," he said, "wake me up."
Yugi smiled. "Sure."
But then Yami's hands went strait through Yugi! "Yami, you're disappearing!!!!" Yugi shouted.
Yami was quickly turning transparent!
Then Ishizu thought of something. "Yugi, where is the Millennium Puzzle?"
Yugi's eyes went wide. "Scarab still has it!!!!!!"
"WHAT!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" shouted five voices. The group of them turned around.
"Give it up Scarab!!!!" Jakal shouted, "You have no hope of winning!!!"
All the Shabtis defeated and Presley safe with the other group, the four mummies were now cornering Scarab at the edge of the bridge, weapons pointed towards him.
After taking several severe hits from them, Scarab no longer had the ability to fly. He was stuck! But he did have one ace up his sleeve.
Taking the Millennium from around his neck, Scarab held it over the edge. "I would stop if I were you," he growled.
The Mummies were confused for a second before someone screamed, "The Puzzle!!!!!!" Running up to Jakal was Chosen One, an almost exact twin to the Pharaoh, along with the rest of his group.
"You can't let him drop it!" Yugi said desperately.
"Why is it so important?" Armon asked.
"It's connected to Yami's life force!!!!" Tea said, "If we lose that, we lose him forever!!!"
Scarab's eyes widened at this new information. His mind was reeling. 'All I have to do is throw this into the Western Gate and I can get my immortality! And the Mummies won't be able to touch me!!!'
"Didn't we already have this conversation about sharing info with the bad guy?!" Tristan said.
"Say goodbye to your Pharaoh!!!" Scarab yelled as he dropped the Puzzle. The instant it left his hand, Yami disappeared completely!
Three things happened at the same time. Jakal shot out a firry arrow that hit Scarab in the shoulder, causing him to fall off the bridge. Yugi, before anyone could stop him, ran over to the edge of the bridge and leapt off after the Puzzle. And Presley went tearing after him.
"NOOO!!!!!!!!!" shouted the remaining figures.
Joey and Jakal leaped after them before anyone could stop them!
They spotted the three falling towards the opening of the Western Gate! Yugi had just grabbed onto the Puzzle before he and the other two disappeared into the glowing gate, Joey and Jakal not that far behind!
That's the end of this chappy! I'm sorry about leaving you guys on a cliffhanger again but I really wanted the next part to be its own chapter. But do know there are only two chapters left! Please do review and I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can!
I went back and fixed the last chapter. I'm not too good at grammar so if you guys happen to find any more mistakes, please point them out and I'll fix them.
Thank you for the reviews! I really do appreciate them! Okay, here's the next chapter.
"They're – coming," Yugi whispered.
"Who's coming?" Presley asked. But Yugi said no more.
Suddenly, the door to the room burst open!
"Shabtis!" Presley growled.
Hearing this, one of the shabtis walked over to him and before Presley could do anything, the shabti knocked him in the side temple.
Presley's head exploded with pain, until it all went black.
"What did he do to my hand!?!?!" Scarab said, studying his pale, wrinkled hand, that was now blistering from the burn.
"It looks like he burned it," Heka replied.
Scarab glared at the golden snake. "That was a rhetorical question Heka!"
"Then why ask it at all?" Heka said.
Scarab growled in frustration.
"So, now what?" Heka asked after the short silence that followed.
"Now we go to the Western Gate," Scarab answered.
"What?" Heka said, confused, "Why?"
"I'm not getting any younger Heka," Scarab growled, "The Western Gate only demands one Pharaoh and we have Ramses!"
"But what about the Chosen One?" the gold snake asked.
"At the Gate, he'll be easier to sense." Scarab smiled sinisterly. "Whether or not this One calls him, I have a feeling that the real Pharaoh is searching for him. With the little brat as bait, the Pharaoh will fall right into our hands." He started to laugh manically.
Heka looked around then frowned. "But I don't have any hands."
Joey and Tristan resumed their attacking of the bars when they saw the shabtis start to drag their friends out of the dungeon-like room.
"We have to stop them!" Joey growled.
"Uh, guys?" Tea said slowly, looking out the side bars. Neither of them heard her. "GUYS!!!" she shouted.
"What?!" Tristan shouted, frustrated, turning to look at her. His frustration was forgotten.
Before Joey could attack again, Tristan grabbed his collar, jerking him to a halt.
"What is it!?!?!" Joey demanded.
"We've got trouble," Tristan said.
"Wha?" Joey said confused, looking over where his friends were looking. He was so focused on the door that he missed the three Shabtis coming towards them! The Shabtis each held a staff that was about two-thirds as long as they were tall.
"What could they do to us?" Joey asked, "All they got is sticks, and there's no door in here as far as I can see."
Just then, the head Shabti's "stick" started to glow red. It shot forth a beam that sliced through the bars as if they were made of butter. The bars then fell in, forming a doorway.
"I think they can zap us, man," Tristan said as the three started to back into a corner.
"What do they want?" Tea said, fearfully.
"I get the feeling that we're 'no longer needed' if you catch my point," Joey said as the Shabtis started to walk through the "hole" they made.
Tea was the first to bump into the wall. "Out of room guys," she said, eyes wide.
The Shabtis were moving in, each staff starting to glow red. That is, until.....
"Why'd you have to go and say that?!?!" Tristan shouted suddenly, shoving Joey into the wall. Tea had to jump over into the very corner of the wall as to not get crushed.
Joey looked back, startled, but then he realized, so were the Shabtis. "Say what!?!?!?" he demanded, shoving Tristan back.
"Chosen One!!!!!!" Tristan shouted, "Of all things!!!!! Just go ahead and tell the bad guy Yugi's the Chosen One!!!!"
"How was I supposed to know he'd know what I was talkin' about!?!?!?!?!" Joey argued, giving Tristan another shove for good measure. "I didn't even know what I was talkin' about!!!!!"
"You gotta put more thought into it lame brain!!!!!" Tristan shouted, "You can't be giving important info to the enemy!!!!!"
"You expect me to come up with works of art right off the top of my head!!!!!!" Joey shouted. "And who are you calling lame brain, you baka!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"BAKA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" Tristan roared. He grabbed hold of Joey's collar and shook him. "Why you....."
Tea stared at her two friends, horrified. Of all times to fight! But then she noticed the Shabtis.
They were utterly confused, staring back and forth between the two shouting boys, staffs lowered. This had never happened before; they didn't know what to do!
Looking back at her friends, Tea noticed something else that she didn't see before. Between the obscenities the boys were now shouting at each other, they were having a conversation with their body language.
Joey looked over at the Shabtis for a second before looking back at Tristan. His elbow closest to them moved a bit and so did his foot. Then he hunched his shoulders up.
Tristan raised an eyebrow, his hands tightening on Joey's shirt. He slid one foot back behind him and bent his other knee.
Joey gave the slightest nod and then stamped his foot, as if to seal the deal.
Tristan took a deep breath. "Fine then!!!!!!!!!!" he shouted in Joey's face, actually lifting him inches above the ground. "GO!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed. Twisting his body, Tristan flung Joey at the Shabtis!
Joey flew, colliding feet first with the head Shabti's stomach, causing it to fall backwards. As soon as the Shabti landed, it broke into a thousand pieces!
Joey turned his fall into a sideways roll, grabbing the fallen staff and popping back up behind the remaining Shabtis. "Surprise," he said, pointing the staff at them. It did nothing. "How do you get this thing to work!?!?!?!" he shouted desperately to his two friends.
"I don't know!!!" Tristan said, "Why even ask us!?!" He had grabbed Tea and the both of them were ducking, expecting a blast to come.
"Come on, FIRE!!!!!!" Joey shouted at the staff. It suddenly glowed EXTREMELY bright red and shot out a continuous beam, slicing the two Shabtis in half, causing the rest of them to explode! Along with cutting through the bars on the other side and putting a deep dent into the wall beyond.
"Wow!" said Tristan from the floor as soon as the beam disappeared, "How did you do that?!"
"I have no idea," Joey said amazed.
"Don't you two EVER scare me like that again!!!" Tea said.
"Come on Tea," Tristan said, "That was the oldest trick in the book!"
"And I can't believe they fell for it," Joey said. He looked down at a remaining hand of one of the Shabtis, "You guys need to watch more TV."
Suddenly the hand jumped up at him!
"AAHHH!!!!" Joey screamed, pointing the staff at the hand and blasting it to oblivion.
"Stop playing and let's go find Yugi," Tristan said, picking up a staff for himself and started to walk out of the hole in the bars.
"Hey, I think I'm getting the hang of this!" Joey said happily, tapping the bottom of the staff to the ground. It shot up to the ceiling causing some rather large pieces of rock to fall.
Joey leaped out of the way. "Then again, maybe not."
Yugi slowly woke to the sound of waves and the smell of salt water. 'That's strange,' he thought. His whole body felt sore and his shirt's collar was choking him a little. Suddenly the sound of three voices chanting loudly replaced the sound of waves. Yugi opened his eyes to find himself standing on the edge of a bridge!
"AAHHH!!!" he yelled, quickly trying to back away, but to no avail. He then realized that something was holding him up by the collar of his shirt. He looked back to discover that a Shabti was holding him.
Yugi looked around, trying to figure out what was going on. That Scarab freak was also at the edge of the bridge, chanting along with two other voices coming from a tape recorder he was holding, the Millennium Puzzle hanging around his neck. Of course he was surrounded by several more of those stone Shabti things. And Presley was unconscious, also being held up by a Shabti, luckily nearby.
"Presley," Yugi whispered urgently. He reached over a foot to tap the boy. "Presley, wake up!"
"Oh my head," Presley mumbled as he started to come to. Opening his eyes, he looked around.
"Presley, what's going on?!" Yugi whispered.
"We're at the Western Gate!" Presley said quietly, eyes wide.
"The what?"
"The Western Gate. Scarab's got this crazy idea that if he sacrifices a Pharaoh to the Western Gate, he'll become immortal. Since I WAS the only Pharaoh around, he's been chasing me for the last couple of years."
"What, you mean he's not immortal now?"
"Apparently not."
"Man, how old is he?"
"3,500 years old, give or take a hundred years."
"And he's not immortal?"
"Go figure."
There was a pause after that strange conversation.
"Uh, how are we supposed to get out of this?" Yugi asked.
"I – I don't know," Presley answered. Presley looked around, hoping something would spark a plan in his mind. Nothing.
Then the chanting suddenly stopped. Yugi looked at Presley, who now was looking down towards the water. Looking down as well, Yugi saw the gap between the bridge and the water start to glow. A strange, yet VERY familiar dark smoke started to gather around it, making a chill go down Yugi's back.
"The Western Gate," Presley whispered, eyes wide.
"The Shadow Realm," Yugi whispered in surprise.
Yami ran frantically through the streets, Mummies and Ishizu close behind. He felt both extreme relief and fear at the same time. Relief because Yugi was alive! Fear because that might not be true for long!
Suddenly an enormous amount of power came flooding through his Bond, causing Yami to halt as if he'd just crashed into an invisible wall.
"What's wrong?" Ishizu asked, worried after just seeing him rebound off of something that was invisible to her.
Yami shook his head to try to calm the flow and get his thoughts back. "It's Yugi," he said, "He's been moved. I – I can feel him better than I ever could before! I know exactly where he is!" His crimson eyes widened as he looked down the street. At the end of the street was the Crystal Bay. And on the other side of that was.....
"He's there!!!!" Yami said, pointing to one of the strangest sights he'd ever seen in this new world!
"The Western Gate!!!!" the mummies shouted.
"We must get there fast!!!" Jakal shouted, "Or Presley and Yugi won't be with us much longer!!!!"
"It's been opened," Scarab hissed evilly.
Both boys, wide-eyed and scared, started to struggle fiercely against their captors, but to no avail.
Scarab's smile curled cruelly. "Drop him."
Both Presley and Yugi took in breaths of surprise when suddenly their feet dangled over the side of the edge of the bridge.
"STOP!!!" Scarab shouted enraged. Everyone looked over at him as he put his non-burned hand over his eyes. "I'm surrounded by imbeciles," he moaned into his hand. Looking up again, he said, "Only Ramses you nitwits! We still need the Chosen One as bait for the Pharaoh! Drop Ramses!"
Yugi and Presley looked at each other, fear shinning in their eyes.
"I don't think so!"
BOOM
The Shabti's head exploded in a blast of red light, the one holding Yugi that is.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Yugi screamed as the broken Shabti's hand loosened and he began to fall.
"YUGI!!!!!!!" Presley, Joey, Tristan, and Tea screamed.
"OOOWWWW!!!!!" Presley yelled in pain. He looked down at the person hanging off his right shin.
"Sorry," Yugi said, holding on for dear life.
"No – problem," Presley said, smiling with gritted teeth. He was holding on to his Shabti's arms, holding himself up so he wouldn't choke to death.
Joey released the breath that he was holding. "Good job Tristan," he said sarcastically, hitting his friend on the shoulder, "Shoot the guy's head off and he won't drop Yugi! Now why would he do that?!"
"Yeah, like I knew," Tristan said back.
"Guys this isn't the time to fight," Tea said, "With each other at least."
"What's going on!?!?!?!?!" Scarab screamed, "You're supposed to be dead!!!!!!!"
"Were hard to kill," Tristan said, pointing his staff at Scarab, Joey backing him up.
"Now hand them over!" Joey demanded.
Scarab sighed and put his uninjured hand over his eyes again. "Such fools these mortals be," he said. Then he held up his hand towards them and a purple ball of light appeared at the end of it.
But before he could fire though, a green ball of energy hit him in the center of his chest and exploded!
"AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" Scarab screamed as he was blown back by the explosion.
Everyone else looked up to where the energy ball came from. What they saw was a man flying on hawk wings holding another that was dressed as a snake.
"The Mummies!" Presley said happily.
"The Mummies!!!" Scarab shouted evilly, "Shabtis, ATTACK!!!!!!!" Jakal dropped Rath off on the bridge, who pulled out his sword and started to slice through the several Shabtis now converging on him. "I could use a little help here!" Rath shouted.
"Coming!!!" Armon shouted as he and Nefertina ran up to help him.
Jakal flew down to be level with Yugi. "Need a hand?" he said, smiling.
"I just might," Yugi answered.
Jakal reached to pick him up, but before he could, a small ball of purple energy exploded on his back! "AAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed in pain.
The force of the explosion caused the boys to swing dangerously and Presley's shirt to rip. Now they were only hanging by his arms. "Hold on Yugi!!!!" Presley shouted.
Jakal turned just in time to stop another ball of energy from rocking the boys again. "SCARAB!!!!" he shouted in anger.
Scarab, now transformed into the huge purple bug that he was, dove towards them.
Jakal flew up to face him, long bow pulled out and a firry arrow drawn.
Yami and Ishizu arrived to see a huge fight ensue! Three mummies were fighting what seemed like an endless amount of Shabtis and the fourth one was in an enormous dog fight with a huge purple bug in the air!
"Yami!!" he heard a familiar female voice shout. Tea, Joey, and Tristan ran up to the two. They were followed by five Shabtis.
"Behind you!!!!!!!!" Ishizu shouted.
Joey and Tristan whipped around, and the staffs they still held glowed red and the Shabtis exploded.
Yami looked on in shock! But, first things first. "Where's Yugi!!!"
"Over there!" Joey said. He pointed to the Shabti that Presley and Yugi were still hanging off of.
"How are we supposed to get them down?" Tristan asked.
"I don't think we have to," Tea said. The other four looked at her, but then over to where she was looking.
Sixty seconds ago
"Hey Yugi."
"Yeah?"
"We gotta get on the bridge," Presley said. "And I've got an idea."
"What?" Yugi asked.
"If you could swing back and forth, maybe we can swing up there."
"Alright, I'll try."
Back to present
The group of five watched in horror as the two boys swung back and forth. After one big swing, Presley let go!
"AAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!" the two boys shouted as they flew through the air... and landed on the bridge!
Only to be surrounded by more Shabtis!
"What do we do now?" Yugi whispered as the boys stood back to back, surrounded by a circle of Shabtis.
"There too close for my Boom-Ra," Presley said, looking around at all the fighting, "And the Mummies seem to be busy, so we'll just have to fight." Presley took a fighting stance. He really hoped that lessons of Egypt-su with Armon would pay off.
"Great," Yugi said sarcastically, holding up his fists.
"Yugi, DUCK!!!!!!!!!!" came Joey's voice through the crowd.
Yugi dropped to the ground out of reflex, pulling Presley down with him. The Shabtis started to explode in a red light that swept over above the boys. Then the noise stopped.
"Yugi are you okay!?" Tea asked as she and his other friends ran up to him.
"Yeah, we're fine," Yugi said.
"What happened?" Presley asked.
"Good old Shabti sticks," Tristan said, patting his staff.
"But how did you get it to work!?!" Presley said in amazement.
Joey was about to say something before Yami ran up to Yugi. "Are you alright!?" he asked, worried.
"I'm okay Yami," Yugi answered.
Yami put his hands on Yugi's shoulders, looking into the shorter teen's eyes. "Next time," he said, "wake me up."
Yugi smiled. "Sure."
But then Yami's hands went strait through Yugi! "Yami, you're disappearing!!!!" Yugi shouted.
Yami was quickly turning transparent!
Then Ishizu thought of something. "Yugi, where is the Millennium Puzzle?"
Yugi's eyes went wide. "Scarab still has it!!!!!!"
"WHAT!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!" shouted five voices. The group of them turned around.
"Give it up Scarab!!!!" Jakal shouted, "You have no hope of winning!!!"
All the Shabtis defeated and Presley safe with the other group, the four mummies were now cornering Scarab at the edge of the bridge, weapons pointed towards him.
After taking several severe hits from them, Scarab no longer had the ability to fly. He was stuck! But he did have one ace up his sleeve.
Taking the Millennium from around his neck, Scarab held it over the edge. "I would stop if I were you," he growled.
The Mummies were confused for a second before someone screamed, "The Puzzle!!!!!!" Running up to Jakal was Chosen One, an almost exact twin to the Pharaoh, along with the rest of his group.
"You can't let him drop it!" Yugi said desperately.
"Why is it so important?" Armon asked.
"It's connected to Yami's life force!!!!" Tea said, "If we lose that, we lose him forever!!!"
Scarab's eyes widened at this new information. His mind was reeling. 'All I have to do is throw this into the Western Gate and I can get my immortality! And the Mummies won't be able to touch me!!!'
"Didn't we already have this conversation about sharing info with the bad guy?!" Tristan said.
"Say goodbye to your Pharaoh!!!" Scarab yelled as he dropped the Puzzle. The instant it left his hand, Yami disappeared completely!
Three things happened at the same time. Jakal shot out a firry arrow that hit Scarab in the shoulder, causing him to fall off the bridge. Yugi, before anyone could stop him, ran over to the edge of the bridge and leapt off after the Puzzle. And Presley went tearing after him.
"NOOO!!!!!!!!!" shouted the remaining figures.
Joey and Jakal leaped after them before anyone could stop them!
They spotted the three falling towards the opening of the Western Gate! Yugi had just grabbed onto the Puzzle before he and the other two disappeared into the glowing gate, Joey and Jakal not that far behind!
That's the end of this chappy! I'm sorry about leaving you guys on a cliffhanger again but I really wanted the next part to be its own chapter. But do know there are only two chapters left! Please do review and I'll try to get the next chapter up as soon as I can!