Sometimes I think I'm in over my head with these ideas in my little, pink book.
Oh well. I'm sure it'll be good! .:prays to Anime Gods:. Please, help me!
A Tale of Two Idiots
Chapter 12:
"… Marik, carry me."
"Ugh… no!"
It was about three or four hours later when both Marik and Malik were still trekking through the desert. They thought that at first, they were making some sort of progress, calling out Ryou and Bakura's names into the wind, but they soon found out that the echo was coming right back to them, and if their friends were more than a mile away, there'd be no way they could here them.
Marik didn't really think his hikari would last too long, naked in the Sahara. But of course, as he often does, surprised Marik with endurance and even when they had to run from rabid camels, Malik kept up with his yami despite his obvious disadvantage. But now, after a while of sand hitting against his backside and the sun beating down on his fanny, Malik was losing his enthusiasm.
"Please, Marik, I'm so tired…!" Malik sighed and wiped more of the sweat away from his forehead. He was barely keeping the slow speed at which they were now going and was about four steps behind Marik.
Marik growled, "Malik, it's not my fault you're so tired. The desert is a tough place and if you can't stick it out, you're better off at home on your couch."
"Trust me, I'd rather be on a couch! But, I'm not. I'm naked and sweating in the Sahara and even my own yami won't carry me… Isn't that sad?"
"Oh, please! You act as if this is my fault!"
"Well, actually! It is!"
He turned around, rolling his eyes, "Oh yeah? Did I hold a gun to your head and order you to get naked? Well, did I?"
Malik blinked, sighing. Marik was right, yet again. But this still didn't change the fact the he was too tired to walk anymore. "… Hey, Marik, if you carry me, I'll give you a piece of gum."
"I'm not going to put my naked hikari on my back and trudge through miles upon miles of sand just for a piece of gum."
"… It's Juicyfruit." He said, tauntingly. Malik bent down and dipped his fingers in his sock, pulling out a smushed and sandy piece of gum. It wasn't in a wrapper and had come out of Malik's sock, meaning it had touched his sweating and smelly foot.
"That's sick. Let's go, we're losing daylight."
"So what?" He stuffed the gum back in his sock and followed his yami who was walking off without him, "If we wait till nighttime, then it'll be cooler for us to walk!"
"Yeah… Except, you're forgetting that it gets really cold in the desert at night and you're running around in the raw. You wont be too happy, and there's no way I'm going to give you my clothes."
As he sighed, they both continued to walk into the near setting sun. Marik believed, that since they got out of Happy Chicken at around eleven o' clock or so and, estimating everything else, he figured that maybe it was around five or so. He really didn't want the sun to set without them finding anything or anyone. Besides the fact that his hikari would be complaining non-stop, he'd also think that maybe Ryou and Bakura weren't in Egypt. And if that was the case, they might be in pretty big trouble.
It was less than twenty minutes later and the two were still calling out their friends' names.
"RYOU!"
"BAKURA!"
Malik took in a deep breath, "Okay… I don't think they're around here…"
"What was your first clue?"
"… You know. I've been thinking."
"Wow."
"Shut up! I mean, I've been thinking that maybe Ryou and Bakura left Egypt? To go to a surrounding country maybe? Or to sightsee? You know what a tourist Ryou is."
"That's ridiculous. I think you've been in the sun too long."
"But-"
Before he could finish his sentence, Marik shrieked in surprise. He'd felt something fall onto his head all of a sudden and whirled around to see if anyone was there, but there was not. He looked back at his hikari, feeling on his head for anything.
"Ah… Malik, do you see anything in my hair?"
He blinked and stood on his tiptoes to see. And after two seconds, he found that certain something.
"Oh, gross…!" The hikari twisted his mouth.
"What? What is it?"
Malik scratched the back of his head, "Let's just say… a bird's using you for a toilet."
"WHAT?"
They both looked up at the same time and spotted a white dove flying above their heads in a circle. Marik growled and shouted obscenities at the careless bird and Malik tee-heed behind his back.
"And just what are you laughing at? This isn't funny!" Marik noticed the small giggles escaping his other half and found it insulting that Malik would make fun when he was in distress.
"He he he… It sure isn't. That's gross."
"Well, thanks for informing me!"
"Your welcome."
Just as Marik was about to strangle his light, the same dove that they had seen hovering over head had now perched itself upon Malik's head. He shook his wings and looked around for a moment before pecking the hikari on his head, viciously.
"Ow! H-Help! Cut it out! Ouch!" He ran around in circles, trying to get the wicked bird to stop.
"Ha." Was Marik's revenge for the earlier betrayal. That said, he began to walk off.
Malik noticed this and ran to catch up, "S-Stop! W-Wait for me, Marik…! Ah, this hurts!" It was then that Malik remembered something he was taught a long time ago, in case of such emergencies. He immediately stopped, dropped to the floor and started rolling around in the hot sand.
"Oh, for crap's sake! What're you doing?"
"I-I've stopped! I've dropped! Now I'm ROLLING!"
"Well, cut it out, you're an embarrassment."
It seemed that Malik had failed to notice the bird getting off his head about fifty seconds ago and was now flapping it's wings in front of Marik. He was about the smack the thing out of the way, but then noticed a small, rolled up piece of blue cloth tied to his left leg.
"Hey… Hey, Malik, look at this. This bird's got a piece of someone's jacket on him."
Malik was spitting out the sand he had acquired during his fire drill.
Marik detached the blue clothing from the dove who then rested on the yami's shoulder. Though it was a bit annoying, Marik made no motion to get rid of him as he opened up the jacket piece. His hikari was up now and they read it together.
Dear Marik and Malik,
It's me, Mokuba:D I'm in a cell in Domino along with Seto, Joey, Tristan and Otogi! We found out some stuff that may help you out. If we're right, you should be looking hard for Ryou and Bakura! Well, don't leave Egypt, cause they're right around there! They're supposedly with a cult that hates Yami and Yugi! I don't where it is, though… But I hope this helps. Send Mr. Dove back with a note saying you got this, alright? If you did…
Bye bye!
She was in a bad mood. And there was no way to shake it either. As Heidi flew through the skies in a green and blue striped helicopter, she contemplated the ups and downs of her life. The ups took less than two seconds to think about. And that's because there were zero to none presently. The downs, however, were more than abundant and she couldn't shake this awful, sick feeling in the pit of her stomach. Most would say that feeling came from the seventeen fish tacos she'd had for lunch. But she knew better.
"Ugh! I can't believe this!" He yelled to herself. She'd been doing that a lot, lately. Talking out loud when no one was there. She convinced herself into believing it was an effect of working under the Pharaohs, "How the hell can Yami call me all the way from New York and order me back by nightfall! And he knows I have things to do!"
When things had calmed down at Happy Chicken after Marik and Malik's escape, she got away from Cody and left for the next city on her list. Which was New York. The statue there hadn't even finished before she got a call to come back to Domino.
"That runt better give me another week to finish…" Heidi ran a hand through her hair as she shifted the controls. The roof of the large palace now came into view and she dreaded landing. But did so anyway.
As she hopped out and a few Spike Patrollers greeted her with a salute, she ran over a few things in her mind that could possibly make the Pharaohs call for her so urgently, 'Well… Maybe it was because I made that joke about Yami being constipated? No, he couldn't have found out about that. Um, maybe it was last week when I stole a bag of Yugi's Cheetoes from the kitchen? No, he's got thousands of bags, he couldn't miss just one. Or… maybe… Oh no!'
She came back to reality and found herself at the throne room's double doors. Trembling, she knocked and, at once, heard a voice order her inside.
"Ah… Hello, my Pharaohs!" She kneeled down before them after entering, "I-I'm very pleased that you called upon me. But… tell me, why did you extract me from my mission?"
Yami had been wearing a very docile look on his face until now. He stood from his seat and sauntered down the steps until he was less than a foot away from the general, "… I really wasn't expecting to see you back so soon when you left for the first city, Heidi. But something has come up."
She swallowed hard, "O-Oh?"
"I'm aware that Happy Chicken's movie night was the other evening. You were there, weren't you?"
"… Y-Yes. But, you see, it wasn't my fault, Pharaoh Yami. Cody was wanting me to go, and I was just finishing up in Cairo, I saw no problem with it-"
"It's fine."
Heidi blinked twice and muttered, "It's fine? Oh… Well, then…"
"Marik and Malik got out that night."
"Meep!"
"Happy Chicken Man reports that you were sitting next to them. Right next to them." He looked up from the floor and smirked, looking into her eyes, "… Something you would like to tell me, General Heidi?"
She was sweating bullets. That feeling in her stomach had worsened and she felt like she wanted to upchuck. It was a long minute of silence between the two before Heidi took in a deep breath… and scrambled to the floor, bowing again and again whilst sobbing.
"Oh-ho! M-My Pharaoh, forgive me! I didn't mean it! M-Marik… he was just so… Ugh, I didn't mean to conspire against you! Honest!"
Yugi had been sitting silently up in his throne and now felt the need to speak, "I think we have a confession, Yami."
"Indeed, we do. Heidi."
She looked up from the floor, teary-eyed and shivering, "Y-Yes, your lordship?"
"I'm very disappointed in your behavior." With that, he signaled to the left to two guards who came over and grabbed Heidi by the arms. She struggled and kicked, but they were twice her size.
"W-Wait a minute! YAMI!" The doors shut behind them as they left both Pharaohs to their evil giggles and tee-hees.