Hi! Welcome to chapter 5 of Elemental Mages, I hope you all like!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh or anything that resembles another work.

Warnings: Shounen-ai (boyxboy) pairings, don't like, don't read. Simple!

Oh! Last chapter I forgot to say that italic text is a memory...I think you are all smart enough to have realised that though '

Last chapter: Once again, Yami's hands glowed crimsonand he transported Ryou, himseld and the new Water Elemental back to his own dimension...

Yami, Ryou and Bakura opened their eyes and saw darkness. Shuffling around, Yami
realised they were inside a cupboard.

"I really have to get a bit better at the trip home," he mumbled to himself.

"Hmm," Ryou sniffed the air, "Rose scented, quite nice, very artificial though."

"Hey, there's plenty of water around too. It's hot though, unnaturally hot…then again, I'm not home, so maybe it is normal here."

Yami went to open the door but he hesitated. Rose scents, hot water, cupboard. Rose scents…hot water…cupboard…Yami thought for a moment before groaning.

"What's wrong?" Ryou asked.

"We're…"

Suddenly the door opened, allowing light to flood into the cupboard. The three boys blinked at the bright light before their vision cleared and they saw…

"A…Anzu," Yami stuttered.

"Miss Ishizu."

"Ah, hello, ladies," Bakura said with a bow. Being in a new dimension he figured he should be as courteous as possible and was hoping to the Mother of the Oceans that they did not find his polite behaviour offensive. After all, they may have strange customs here. Bakura was completely oblivious to the fact that they were three males in the female bathhouse.

"What in the name of the Gods…" Anzu growled

"Are you three doing in here!" Ishizu screeched.

"We're sorry! Really!" Ryou said, dashing out of the cupboard, politely averting his gaze.

"I was dimension travelling! How was I supposed to know I would end up here!" Yami wailed, following Ryou out, ducking to miss the shampoo bottles and bars of scented soap that were hurled after him.

"Nice to meet you ladies," Bakura said with another bow, walking out after the two other Elemental Mages.

Anzu and Ishizu just looked at Bakura strangely then turned and stared at the cupboard suspiciously, wondering if there were any more boys inside waiting to come out.

(Elemental Mages)

Down one of the many halls in the palace, Yami let out a laugh.

"Did you see the look on their faces?"

"Yami, it's not very funny."

"Oh gods! I have never seen a healer come that close to using an attack…oooh, we must havemade Anzu angry."

"Why were they so angry?" Bakura asked, wondering what all the fuss was about. Yami looked at Bakura and promptly began laughing again, leaning against a statue of the God of Air for support.

"In this dimension, people aren't as…open... about their bodies as they are in your dimension," Ryou explained.

"Oh, so, they also wear these clothes things?" Bakura said with a tug at the sparse amount of blue material wrapped around his waist.

"Yes, and if they aren't wearing clothes, you really shouldn't be there because they'll get mad."

"Like today?"

"Yes."

"So, if they wear clothes all the time, why didn't they have them on?" Bakura asked, somewhat innocently.

"Well, they were bathing. You know, washing and stuff. In this dimension, you don't wear clothes when you're bathing."

"But, if they don't like people seeing them without clothes, how come they were in the same room without clothes on?"

"Because, if you're with the same gender, it's alright, I suppose…"

"Alright, so if I don't want them to be mad at me, I should stay away from the room with the hot water and nice smelling air."

"That's right…well, the one for girls anyway," Ryou turned to Yami."Yami! Stop laughing, it's not that funny!"

"I wonder if Ishizu saw that one coming," Yami continued to giggle as the three returned to Yami's room to find some clothes for Bakura.

(Elemental Mages)

After the meal that night, at which it was discovered that Bakura refused to eat seafood and that Ryou was a complete vegetarian, Yami decided to spend a little time teaching Bakura and Ryou how to meditate.

"Get comfortable," Yami sighed as a bed of moss formed underneath Ryou. Ryou just smiled.

"Umm…Yami?"

Yami looked over at Bakura.

"Do you think that maybe we could move to where there is some water? I'm not used to such a dry climate," Bakura said, a little embarrassed.

Yami glowed a crimson red as the shadows shaped themselves into a deep bath filled with cold water.

"Thanks."

"Yes, yes, now back to meditation. Are you both comfortable?"

Ryou and Bakura nodded.

"Good, now, close your eyes and breathe in…2…3…4, hold 2…3…4…out 2…3…4. This calms your breathing to a manageable rate. Now, I want you to move into your mind. Find your magic's source. Now, your's will probably be sprawled in every direction, try nudging it to be a sphere, or whatever shape you would like your magic inside of you to be."

Ryou fell inside of himself. His mind a thick, dense forest. Walking through his mind, he came upon a very large water fountain. In the water fountain, there was a glowing green light, which was sprawled everywhere; tendrils were sprouting from it in all different directions. Walking up to the fountain, Ryou took a look at the sculptures. It was a merperson who was holding a human in their arms. Ryou pouted slightly and took a closer look. The merperson has familiar hair and so did the human inthe merpersonsarms. Ryou looked a little harder and realised that is was Bakura in his merperson form and Ryou. He smiled; Bakura had a special place in his mind after all. Smiling, Ryou noticed that all the plants in the garden were either Bakura's or his own favourites. Smiling warmly, he took one last gaze before he started his quest of collecting all the little tendrils of magic that were snaking around his mind, forming his magical source into a rose.

Bakura entered the depths of his mind. Looking around he realised it was underwater. Remembering what Yami had said about their magic being sprawled around the place, Bakura looked for his magic source. Swimming around, he turned a corner and swam into an undersea garden. In the middle of the garden, he noticed a glowing blue sphere with little bubbles coming off of it. Looking around the little garden, he noticed a few glowing pearls. Collecting them, they formed one large pearl and merged with the sphere of magic in the middle of the garden. Bakura made his sphere of magic a water drop, smiled at the little garden (which reminded him immensely of Ryou) and continued looking for the glowing pearls of magic that were littered around his mind.

A calm silence fell in the room, only broken by the slight slapping of waves against the shore and the very, verygentle breeze that was rustling the leaves…

Hang on…breeze rustling the leaves?

Yami opened his eyes to find that the meditation room had been transformed into a tropical paradise. Azure blue water surrounded the golden sand with lush tropical trees growing in the middle of the island. A gentle breeze blew, making the trees dance in the wind. Ryou was perched in one of the trees and Bakura was sitting in a small pool. Reaching inside himself, Yami pulled a few threads of his Shadow Magic and carefully used it to communicate with Ryou and Bakura.

Ryou, Bakura? Come back to the real world…come back...his deep voice resonated within the minds of Ryou and Bakura. Slowly, their eyes blinked open.

"There's a storm," Bakura said simply,standing and walking to the window, the paradise disappearing.

Ryou and Yami followed and gasped at the scene before them. A huge tower of spinning debris was destroying a nearby town.

"I learned about these," Ryou said, "I haven't ever seen one though."

"What is it?" Yami asked.

"A tornado. It's a huge spinning funnel of air that picks up things from the ground and spits them back out. It's really quite destructive."

"I think," Yami said, fear evident in his voice, "We need to find the Air elemental."

Ooooh! Was that an okay chapter? I hope I didn't leave it in too much of an evil place. Grins If anyone wants to know how Ryou knows all this stuff when he's only just been born it's because they had some learning program playing as he was growing or whatever, it does make sense! Thanks to all who reviewed and to those who haven't, please do, it helpsme alot! Ja ne!