Authoress notes: Marik/Yami Malik/Yami Marik are the same person!

Malik groaned as he came back to consciousness. The Egyptian opened his eyes slowly, and processed what was going on even slower.

He had wrapped his arms around Ryou, causing the small hikari to fall on top of him.

Yami Malik had curled up in a corner, Yami Bakura holding onto his shoulder still.

Kaiba had also fallen in a corner, making sure Mokuba was safe by holding him.

Joey had fallen in a strange way, assorted limb sticking out in all directions.

Isis had pushed up against the wall prior to impact, so she was still conscious, sitting on the ground and staring at Kaiba, muttering something about idiotic CEOs and defunct elevators.

Yugi had curled up in a corner as well.

Suddenly Malik was snapped out of his thoughts by a small groan above him.

Ryou stirred, then opened his eyes and sat up, looking down at the lavender eyed male.

"W-what happened?" The white haired hikari yawned soon after speaking.

"I don't know. I think the elevator crashed." A slightly tired voice spoke from behind the pair.

Malik turned his head to look at the source of the voice, which he noticed was a certain blond dog, in Kaiba's words.

Yugi yawned and uncurled, sitting up just in time to catch the conversation.

"There is a way back up, right?"

……

"I'll take that as a no?"

Malik nodded.

"Oh..."

Yami Malik's glazed lilac eyes slowly opened, then tried to crawl away from the other yami, but this caused Yami Bakura to jerk back on his shoulder.

The Egyptian spirit looked over his shoulder at the awakened tomb robber, who was glaring at him.

Kaiba's sea blue eyes slowly opened, sitting up with Mokuba in his lap. Mokuba yawned loudly, rubbing his eyes.

"Well, obviously, we have fallen to the 10th floor. Unfortunately, all of you survived." This extracted a loud growl from some people, a glare from others.

"The only way to get back to the fourth floor is to find the stairs and escape."

Suddenly Yugi chimed in.

"This sound like a game I played once-"

But he was cut off by Kaiba yanking one of the spikes of hair.

The CEO stood and dusts himself off, then stepped off of the elevator.

"You stay there and rot to death while I escape."

Isis growled at him and stood, following Kaiba.

The group soon began to file out of the broken down mode of transportation and follow the blue eyed Male and female, some shuddering at their surroundings.

The 10th floor was extremely dark, but just light enough to see around the large room that the group was in. The walls were extremely bare, except for large spider webs in the corners.

Ryou began to walk closer to Malik when he saw the webs.

"I don't like spiders…"

Malik didn't reply, his lilac eyes darting towards every sound, scanning for danger.

There was a large hole in the ceiling, the only visible exit on the other side of the room.

Ryou and Malik walked behind Kaiba, who was in front. Isis was next to Kaiba.

Yugi and Joey walked behind Ryou and Malik, 2nd to last.

Finally, Yami Malik and Yami Bakura walked behind everyone else in the main back. Suddenly there was a loud thunking noise from above, causing everyone to jump and abandon their positions.

Kaiba slowly began to make his way towards the door cautiously.

Malik wrapped an arm around Ryou protectively, following Kaiba.

Yami Malik hung his head slightly, Yami Bakura holding onto his shoulder so tight his knuckles were turning white as he pushed the split personality in front of him and followed the hikaris. Slowly everyone fell into a line, and then grouped around the door.

Joey grinned goofily.

"So…who's goin' to open it?"

Kaiba turned to him, smirking.

"You."

Joey growled, a vein popping out on his head as he opened the door.

As soon as the door opened, Joey leapt back and his hands flew up to his face defensively.

Kaiba muttered under his breath and walked into the second room.

"Stupid mutt."

Yugi grabbed Joey's hands, trying to restrain the blond from doing anything drastic.

Joey frowned angrily, then got a grip and followed Kaiba, the others following.

The second room was the same as the first, except for one difference.

There was a large staircase in the middle with flickering light pouring from it. There was a hole in the ceiling, with a large, steel poll coming down from it with the stairs circling around it.

Kaiba frowned deeply, glancing at Isis.

"This was your idea. You first."

Isis hmphed at him then walked up the stairs. Malik was second, Ryou third. Kaiba finally decided it was safe and followed Ryou.

As everyone filed onto the floor, Malik gasped at the room in front of him.