short i know but im back dead lines over and lfe is back to norm well as norm as it gets for me.. i may as well say that i have wrighters block for my other story at the mo so it might take me a while to get back to it.. erm my muse is doing her A levels so she dosent have much time to prof my stuff anny offers will be gratefully excepted but other wise my updates are going to be hitty missy for a while.. THANX FOR WAITING
Chapter 10
They were, once again, gathered in the large living space. Kaiba was looking slightly harassed from his place at the edge of the group. There were various other mutants gathered around the room apparently only the younger students had stayed with the professor and Reanne who was insisting that she was well enough to get out of bed. But she obviously hadn't escaped yet; all of the teachers and Rouge, who had insisted on coming, were looking at Yami expectantly the pharaoh wasn't giving an inch Yugi would blush and fidget, the pharaoh waits, looking relaxed and collected. Logan looked at the kid and prepared to speak.
Yami turned as he herd a voice behind him. "You said that some one had stole the pro's soul"
"That's right."
"And if you perform this ritual thingy then you can bring him back."
"That's right, but that's not all I'll be bringing back." I looked across to Kaiba, well at least I know why they made getting out so easy, they needed us aware of the stakes. I thought of my aibou's words /Remember that we promised that we would keep them safe and he needs his brother to keep safe, without Kaiba Mokuba is lost and with out Mokuba Kaiba could be worse than Marik ever could be./ Yami mentally shivered no matter how suspicious every thing looked and they did the enemy had been one step faster than them the whole as soon as he and Kaiba had prepared every thing they would have efficiently countered it. He would just have to hope that when the crunch came that they would be the stronger. "And dose all of this palaver mean that you actually bring people back from the dead." Kaiba laughed, "I hope not. We'd have mummies every were." /that's below the belt/ said Yugi "Kaiba." Yami growled his warning, "Marik isn't dead, he is in a prison of his own making."
"A straight answer please." Said Rouge folding her arms suspiciously. "We have defeated Marik before, sending the evil part of his soul to the shadows where it is trapped until it is destroyed or some one with an item frees it." Stated Yami. "How did you beet him last time?"
"Through a shadow game, the loser of the game is trapped for all eternity reliving their worst experiences. I almost lost, and Marik had changed the price, it wasn't my soul on the line it was Yugi's." Yami's face changed softening as Yugi took control "Marik also had two sides to his soul as well but he didn't respect his hikari, he believed his lighter half to be week so he put his lighter half's soul on line knowing that even if he lost he would still have all of his power. My and Yami's power comes from each other, with out one of us the other would fail. But the hikari fought and to gether the three of us managed to win the game and make sure that it was the evil half, not the good half was destroyed. It was close." Silence consumed the group as they all became lost in their own thoughts. Ororo broke the silence, "If he is that bad then why do you want to bring him back?"
"I have my reasons.." finished Yugi as Yami took over, "Because his followers used shadow powers they have continued the game so as long as we bring him back then the shadows will make sure that the rules are followed, and will return the souls and every thing that they promised will happen. Then we can start another game whether it be cards, dice, or fighting, and then we have to be sure that we win."
"The only problem" Seto piped up "Is that you need a hikari for his spirit to enter, and I'm sure that you wont let Yugi, and Malik won't be willing, so pharaoh what are you going to do about that?" Yami glared at the C.E.O. "Since we need a hikari and your right about Yugi, but you Seto, with out Seth… I doubt that you would volunteer so stop fussing about that, I'll think of some thing."
"Don't you always." Kaiba grumbled. "Besides how do you know that Seth won't be the hikari?" Yami smirked "Been thinking about this a lot?" Seto gave Yami a dangerous look before saying "Do you want to know how to do this spell or not!" Yami just shrugged "I was just going to use the puzzle and drag him through exhausting but effective, I didn't realise that you could do Magic."
"I can't, but the dragon's remember. So shut up and listen." Seto seamed to wane his normally strong and stiff composure seemed to vanish to be replaced by slouching frail form, a wave of strange magic overwhelmed them his voice seemed to crackle as he spoke. "Of light and dark the power shall come, the goddess of life and death shall guard and judge, demons standing by her left, loyalty at her right. one from many shall her circle be made, in the centre the vessel of the soul open and willing, If the soul is strong but it's desires stronger, be prepared, sealed nightmares this way wander its name called to bind it to this world, the dammed one shall walk, a half life has been returned." He let in a shuddering gasp, breathing heavily he started to regain his composure. Yugi shuddered as he felt the unfamiliar magic withdraw and Yami sink back into the puzzle "Never do that in front of Mokuba you'll scare the kid witless." Kaiba rubbed the bridge of his nose and said "Things will have to be very hard pushed for me to do that again, ever."
"What did you just do?"
"He just gave us the spell." Stated Yugi "Now all we have to do is figure it out."
"That's a big help." Logan was starting to sound slightly annoyed at the sudden turn of events. "well for the last spell they needed a mind walker which is an ancient name for a telepath so logic says that the goddess of life and death there was some thing about demons and loyalty and a vessel so they should be mutants too… one of many what the hell dose that mean? All we have to do is put the peaces together."
"Like a riddle." Said one of the younger mutants, Kaiba looked slightly more alert to this and sneered "Well king of games looks like you've got another puzzle to complete."
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Bakura felt suddenly disorientated, he extended his senses, which confirmed that he was still in his soul room, but some thing was wrong. Opening his eyes he suddenly sat up, clutching his head as a wave of dizziness over whelmed him. He slowly got up staggering slightly as he left his shadowy room into the hallway between he and Ryou's minds, the walls were swirling with red showing a unwelcome influence on the body. Bashing on his hikari's door, and not waiting for an answer he stepped into his hikari's soul room. Looking around the room nothing seemed out of the ordinary, the room was classically furnished with remnants of a short child hood strewn about the room. On the bed there was a mass of blankets and white hair, as he stepped closer he noticed that Ryou was deeply a sleep with a strained look on his face showing an unpleasant dream. Slowly leaving the room he felt his anger rise, they had tried to hurt his host, who ever had dared tried to control the wearer of the ring was going to pay!
Bakura felt himself take over the body he listened to the surrounding noise. He could hear a range of crinkling noises there were people sitting on various peaces of furniture, probably just the mutt and his friends. There was a man crunching plants just out side of the window just another flesh puppet. A faint smell of shadow magic coming from the corner, if he focused he could see the shape of the summoner, a man, tall, with only a week grasp of the shadows. He's now going to learn not to dabble in what he doesn't understand.
Muscles tensed Bakura jumped gracefully off the sofa extending one arm and instantly sending the man's soul to the eagerly awaiting shadows with out a sound escaping his lips. Turning quickly from the flesh puppet to the shadow user, he reached out with the shadows enveloping the man in the swirling black mass. Casting a quick look around the rest of the room he noticed the shocked looks from the cheer squad, "Is that all of them?" they nodded dumbly. Slowly he stepped towards the black cocoon its tendrils reaching out and supporting itself from various walls, he ran a finger from the top to about half way down the mass as the shadows parted there was a shocked face in the centre if it was possible he was trying to back away further into the shadows away from the masochistic glint in Bakura's eyes. "Who did you serve?" The man seemed at a loss for words still trying to scramble backwards into the shadows "There will be time for that later, now… Who Did You Serve?"
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Yugi was standing outside in the cool evening breeze he sighed feeling the air move through his hair turning to face apparent thin air he asked "Some things wrong Yami, I can feel it some things not right, every thing fits to well. It's like a puzzle but things are going to well in their favour. Were being out manoeuvred." The air seamed to thicken and swirl next to Yugi /'they have to have some one on the inside, that's the only way they could be keeping constantly ahead of us. Plus the harming of the professor they could only be done from the inside/' "I don't want to believe it but your right, who do you think it is?"
/'We cant have them interfere again they'll let us bring back Marik but they've obviously been put inside to make sure that he escapes. It can't happen. Yugi do your feelings say who it is, I know that you hate to think about it but … has any one been acting against their nature." Yugi started to tremble slightly, Yami started to solidify wrapping his arms around his smaller twin making quiet calming noises. "I know this has been hard aibou it's as if their emotional blows were real, its part of who you are, my hikari, a light against the gloom of the world" Yugi slowly started to calm. "Thank you my darkness… … I think I know who it is … the mutants have been true to their auras, the only one's who are slightly out of character are Scott who hates Kaiba, and Rouge who is starting to trust… but it's Kaiba he's been acting odd he's so withdrawn he's even missing chances to insult us, it's not just the threat on his brother.. It's him.. but he's our friend we promised to protect him not lead him into more danger…" Yami wrapped his arms around Yugi feeling his aibou rest heavily on his shoulder after a while he said "But he wasn't acting like this before we came here, right.." He felt Yugi nod into his shoulder. "Then it was some thing they did to him while we were captured, if they did it, then chances are that we can undo it. So all we have to do is stop Seto rescuing Marik and then every things ok." If only it was that easy he thought, although Kaiba and Marik will be weakened by the spell. It's still two against one, never good odds. Speaking into Yami's shoulder Yugi's voice became slightly muffled "Yami I know it wont be as easy as that, I can read you, you know." Yami gave a slight laugh as he watched the sun start to set already whishing to be back in Domino. "We need to figure out the riddle first." "We've never been beaten yet."