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"Pst! Malik, Marik! Let's go, if we hang around we'll end up regretting it." Bakura hissed, slipping a dagger out of one of the guards' belt.
"What about your hikari?"
"He'll be fine with Yugi, not that I like leaving him. We, on the other hand, will have major problems if we stick around. I'll go get him later."
"You're right, ok, let's move!"
"Hey! Come back here!" A guard shouted as the three jumped over the side of the chariot, beginning to scramble to their feet.
"Oh fuck" Malik muttered, spotting the guards running after them.
"Forget it Malik, just run!"
Malik nodded, beginning to run after the two yamis.
"Down here!" Bakura suddenly yelled, grabbing Malik's arm and steering him down into a cave behind his yami.
"Stop!" Marik commanded, flinging his arms out and catching the other two.
"Why?" Malik muttered, frowning.
"Do you want to fall down there?!" Marik growled, gesturing at a large hole in the floor, the bottom of which none of them could see.
"Ah. So what do we do now?"
"Jump. Here." Bakura said, throwing a long pole at Malik.
"You've got to be joking. No way am I jumping over that! I can't even see the other side! I wouldn't even have seen that if Marik didn't know it was there! Where the hell are we anyway? Where are we going?" Malik exclaimed, glaring around at the cave they were in.
"And why is it so dark?" He added, blinking and not remembering running so far in that he wouldn't be able to see light from the entrance.
"Well, If you don't want to jump, you can just stay here and die, cause those guards have shut us in here, that's why it's dark. We'll go back and shift that boulder in a week or so, so we have this escape rout again. The other side of this isn't so far away; it's easy to make the jump, unless you're a wimp. To tell you the truth, I'd forgotten that was there to, so we all owe Marik now. We are in a cave at the East Side of the desert, and the palace thinks this has a solid back. We got shut in here and made a tunnel through the back, that tunnel is hopefully still there, and it leads to an alleyway in the slums, our hideout isn't far from there." Bakura explained,
"Does that answer everything? Or are we playing twenty questions?" He added with a snarl and a raised eyebrow.
"I still don't want to jump over that."
"Malik. I'm not being stupid; you have more of a chance of living if you just jump. Me or 'Kura'll go first, then you can see how far it is, ok?"
"I suppose."
"Fine then, I'll go, but if you wimp out I'm leaving you." Bakura snarled, taking a few steps back and raising the pole above his shoulder on the right side. The albino then ran forward, and pushed off the very edge of the pit, digging the pole firmly into the dirt at the other side and pulling himself the rest of the way over, landing crouched, before standing up and turning back to the other two.
"Go on Malik." Marik said slightly irritably, giving his hikari a small shove. Malik copied Bakura's actions, making it safely to the other side, followed by Marik.
"This way. And don't touch anything. This is an old tomb, it's full of traps." Bakura said as he started off, the other two following.
"Tomb? You mean of a pharaoh?! Why the hell are we just walking through here then?! I've heard Marik and Ishizo talk about all sorts of horrible curses on the earlier tombs!"
"Malik, since when have you been such a wimp?! It's a fucking tomb! There is nothing in here except an old coffin! This place has been done over by loads of people, most of the traps and curses have been activated or didn't exist in the first place, just hurry up!"
Malik sped up a bit, walking in between Marik and Bakura.
"Stop here a minute." Bakura muttered, before crouching down and pressing on the dirt, finally he stood up with a satisfied smirk, a small passageway opening at his feet.
"You first Malik. There's nothing down there." The thief said with another smirk, gesturing at the hole.
Malik nodded slightly and crouched down, crawling through the little opening and almost at once being plunged into complete darkness, he crawled a little way forward and waited. A small amount of light came through as the door was opened again, then again and a harsh hand slapped his behind, causing him to try and turn, cursing, only to hit his head on the wall, cursing more as he began to crawl.
"How long is this tunnel?!" Malik growled after what felt like hours, crouching lower so as not to hit his head on the steadily lowering roof.
"'Bout double what we've already crawled." Marik replied with a snarl.
"We've only been down here about 20minutes. Stop complaining!" Bakura mumbled, suddenly bumping into Malik's behind.
"What the fuck's the problem now?!"
"I can't get through, it's too low." Malik muttered,
"What do you mean, 'too low'?!" Bakura almost shouted, feeling his anger rise again, Malik was going to be in so much trouble when they got out of here if he held them up much more.
"It's only about 30cm high, I'll get stuck."
"No you won't! You're smaller than Marik, and me, and we used to use this tunnel all the time! Get on your stomach, pull yourself along with your hands, and push with your feet! And if you dare kick meâ€!" Bakura left that threat hanging; Malik knew what he was likely to do.
"Ok, I'm going."
About half an hour later, Malik stopped again. His hands were covered in blood and dirt, they were scratched, and almost numb, he was not crawling any further! It was then an angry hiss filled his ears, and he froze, not daring to breathe.
"Bakura. You didn't tell me there was a Sand Winder burrow down here!" Malik hissed, remaining still.
"Just keep crawling, we're almost at the exit."
Just wanting to get away, Malik began to pull himself along again, ignoring the complaints his body was screaming at him. Not much further along the tunnel his hands touched stone.
"It's blocked." He muttered. He could still here the snake hissing somewhere; it must be behind his yami.
"Right, up the left hand side there should be a small hole, just up from that there should be a stone, pull the stone down and the door'll open." Bakura said, Malik instantly following the instructions.
"It won't budge!" Malik growled, pushing down on the stone as hard as he could.
"Just keep trying, it'll move eventually. You ok back there Marik, or is that snake giving you problems?"
"No, it's ok, I just kicked it in the head, it's knocked out."
"Ok, now hurry up Malik!"
"I'm trying! There!" And with that last triumphant yell, the floor Beneath Malik gave out and he fell, a startled cry escaping his lips.
