Chapter 7: Backstabber
Bakura thought he may be traumatized for life, with all the ghosts he had seen in the last few hours. He had lost Jou and Kaiba, and he didn't really care. They probably got out. But it was his job to stay. It was his job to destroy them all.
A ghost, a particularly bloody one that looked like it came from the Revolutionary War, appeared, grinning stupidly at him. It was holding a very real looking knife. Bakura tripped and then crawled over into a corner. His heart beat faster, and he breathed at a rapid pace.
"Go away," he growled weakly. The ghost approached slowly.
The ghost was agonizingly slow (like how fast I update, says a reviewer), and Bakura just wanted it to be over. Bakura's mind flashed to random scenes of his life, slowing down to the scene where he had tricked Yugi and his friends to play (insert the name of that game with the little figurines here). He turned them into little dolls.
Well, these are just souls, so wouldn't they just stay dolls, with no left over parts? Bakura thought, a random impulse that just popped into his head. Wait a sec; I know how to get rid of them!
Bakura leapt to his feet and then willed for the ghost to be a doll. The ghost shuttered, and then stepped back. Bakura did it again, and then the ghost opened his mouth in horror. He shrank into a small wooden doll and Bakura reached down to pick him up.
"I did it. I did it! I know how to get rid of them! Fuck yeah!" Bakura smiled and began laughing, looking at the bloody little figure. The figure still held the knife, now just a dull wooden splinter.
But some other ghosts came, and soon surrounded him.
A long time ago, when the sun was still up…
Jou and Kaiba wandered the halls, looking for either the exit or Bakura, whichever came first. A ghost suddenly sprang out at them, and they jumped and clung to each other.
But alas, the ghost was a cat. Jou and Kaiba looked at each other, and then separated with disgust written on their faces.
"When we get out, we didn't do that." Kaiba asked. Jou nodded.
After wandering for another twenty minutes, they had found the door. The door was wide open, inviting them out. They raced towards it. Kaiba tripped and fell on an odd angle on his leg, crying out in pain. Jou stopped and looked back at the heap on the floor.
He thought about just leaving Kaiba, but his heart gave in. Yes, Yugi had done something to him; he had made his heart much bigger. He walked quickly over to Kaiba.
"Get on my back and I'll carry you out." Jou said tonelessly.
Kaiba nodded and tried to get onto Jou's back with one leg, but was failing. Jou had to put much more effort into it then he wanted to, but soon Kaiba made it onto Jou's back.
But when Jou and Kaiba looked up, the door was shut. Jou ran towards it, with Kaiba on his back, and then tried to open it. It was locked. Then, he rammed into it with all his and Kaiba's weight, and it snapped. The door fell, revealing the outside and Yugi and Téa waiting on the sidewalk.
"Jou!" they yelled, getting up.
"Help me," he muttered.
They ran to aid him and then went to a neighbor to phone an ambulance. Kaiba disagreed, but they ignored him. They went to the hospital, where they found out Kaiba had a hairline fracture in his leg. No, sadly enough for Jou they weren't going to amputate it. It may have cool for Kaiba though, because he probably would have built himself an electronic leg with equipped guns.
The gang, though missing a few members, headed home after visiting Ryou. Ryou was barely conscious, so their visit was not long. After getting to Yugi's house, they realized how many of them were gone. They also realized they were missing Serenity and Bakura.
But when they realized this, it was late at night. They decided that the ghosts might not be active in the morning. So, even though their friend's lives could be at stake, all of them were too scared to reenter the house at night.
Morning arrived quickly, as they went to sleep early. They dressed quickly, the three of them, and then walked to the house. Unfortunately, it was still there, staring down menacingly at them.
Jou stepped up to the house; his chest puffed out, and looked up. He started to shake, because the house and what it contained was very intimidating, but stopped himself.
Geez, they're like, ghosts on steroids or something. Jou smiled at his own joke.
"Am I the only one who's going?" Jou asked, looking at Yugi and Téa. They nodded. "Okay, wish me luck."
Jou opened the door and stepped inside. He looked back at the two who were slowly waving to him. He swallowed, and then stepped inside. After the first rays of sun dissipated and were replaced by full-fledged sun light, Jou still saw nothing. He searched, calling out his sister's name. But to no avail, did Jou find his sister.
After about an hour of searching and finding nothing, Jou was ready to look for the exit when he heard something. It was a very soft voice calling out to him.
"Jou… come here Jou…"
Jou turned, frantically looking for the voice. He saw a holographic looking version of his red-haired sister, floating there. He gasped.
"Serenity… did you…?" Jou stuttered.
"Yes, they got me and my body. But you can still save Bakura. He knows the secrete. Save him from our fate." Serenity said in an echo of her voice.
"What? What secrete… where?" Jou stood, awed and confused. Tristan floated up to Serenity and took her hand.
"Save him from our fate." They said monotonously in unison. Then they pointed to the living room. "That way,"
Jou nodded, and without thinking ran there. The two ghosts looked at each other and their eyes glimmered red. They smiled and giant rows of fangs protruded from their mouths.
"We shall feast greatly soon, Tristan." Serenity said with difficulty because of her fangs.
"Yes, we shall." He hissed back.
Jou, who had located a paper-white, near death Bakura, picked him up and looked nervously for the door. He ran through rooms upon rooms, Bakura gradually getting heavier. Jou, now breathing hard, looked desperately for the door. He swore it had moved when-
"Brother! Feed me brother, for I am starving!" an inhuman voice called. An ugly form of Jou's sister came flying at Jou, who screamed.
Bakura's eyes snapped open and Serenity was immediately a doll on the floor. It was not really Serenity, but the mutated version of her. The house had done something to her, that, or the poltergeists had.
"What… in… the hell… just happened?" Jou gasped.
"I got rid of another one." Bakura mumbled and shut his eyes. "Let's go stupid."
Jou obeyed willingly and started to, yet again, search for the door. The door was found, and then they exited, Jou looking very sad.
"What happened in there?" Yugi asked, running up to Jou and a nearly unconscious Bakura.
"I found my sister… she died and…" Jou lowered his head. "She attacked me but Bakura saved me." Bakura groaned.
"Will you stop whining and get me a fucking Advil?" he growled.
"Well, let's go to the hospital," Yugi suggested. "Bakura, as mean as he is, he is important to Ryou. Something may be wrong with him."
"We already know something wrong with him; we knew that a long time ago." Bakura growled at Jou's remark. "Hey, I can drag you to the doctor, and give you a good reason to be there." Bakura stopped growling, as Jou took advantage to him not being able to move (no, you sickos, he didn't do anything dirty).
They continued on to the hospital, where Bakura was placed in a bed next to Ryou. He was asleep by now, peaceful and quiet. That was the only time he was ever peaceful and quiet.
The other three went to visit Kaiba, who would be getting out soon, leaving Bakura and Ryou alone for about an hour.
Bakura woke up within that hour, and looked over to a sleeping Ryou. He got up and poked Ryou until he awoke, then crawled into the bed with him.
"Bakura?" Ryou muttered sleepily.
"Yeah?" He responded, closing his eyes.
"I was worried when you went in there. I dunno, but lately, you don't seem so bad. Did you figure out how to get rid of them?" Ryou asked groggily.
"Yes, but it makes me tired, and not be able to use my body. Jou had to carry me here. Why don't we just burn it down?"
"It sounds like a plan." Ryou said, and then they both drifted off to sleep.
When they woke up, no one was there and it was the dead of night. Bakura was starving. So, he got up and looked around for some food. Now, everyone, even Bakura, knows that a hospital is an easy place to get lost in. Bakura did just that.
After eating all he felt like, he left the kitchen, which was deserted, and looked for his room. He stumbled in to the room of a little girl staring out a window. The little girl only seemed around five or eight, age wise, (giving you a good range there, at that age they all look similar) and had curly blonde hair, was sitting on the ledge of a window.
"Hey, little girl, could you tell me where room…?" the little girl was singing to herself.
She heard Bakura's voice and slowly turned around, revealing an ugly, charred and burnt face. Bakura screamed and backed up.
"Yeah, I know this hospital okay. Mommy was here for a long time. And then when the house caught on fire, I came with mommy too."
The girl rose and walked up to Bakura. He moved and she opened the door. Quietly, she led him back to the room.
"Tha-thank you." Bakura stuttered, being the not-so-polite person he is.
"Thank-you mister, I needed a walk." And the girl skipped out of sight.
Bakura walked into his room and woke up Ryou. They both sat up on the bed.
"What?" Ryou snapped.
"When I was lost, I accidentally went into this room with a little girl in it, and she helped me get back here." Bakura said. "She had a burnt face, and she was in room 209."
"And…? You woke me up to tell me about your adventures through the hospital with a burnt girl?" Ryou growled rudely. "I need my sleep!" Ryou covered his face with his hands and whined.
"She was nice." Bakura retorted. "I thought you might know who she is."
"Wait. Did you say 209?"
"Yeah," Bakura cocked an eyebrow.
"That can't be possible, the little girl in that room died yesterday. I heard the girl's parents talking. Apparently the mother had had a child and they were both very sick so the girl had been here a lot, and then their dad had trouble with the grill and their house caught on fire. She was inside at the time and she got the worst of it. She died of infections." Ryou smiled. "You don't know how much you overhear just sitting here." Bakura paled.
"I-I-I was… ghost? Talking?" Bakura shivered.
"I guess, but she wasn't like the ones at our house." Ryou shrugged.
"Why do the ghosts want you?"
"I think… I know why." Ryou sighed. "Once, a little before my sister died, I was helping my mom in the kitchen. We all knew that Amane was sick. I guess the pressure went to my mom's head, and she started to hit me at night, when she would put me to bed. So, when I was helping in the kitchen, my mom asked for a large butcher knife. I got it off the counter, and while I was walking over there, I tripped and plunged the knife into her side. She told me to call the ambulance, but I was too scared. There was blood everywhere. I was so afraid…" Ryou held onto Bakura and cried. "They must've thought that I killed her on purpose."
They sat there, and then soon fell asleep. The next morning the hospital was bustling with business. Ryou got on his real clothes and checked out. But before leaving, they saw Kaiba, who was leaving too.
Kaiba led them to his mansion, where he agreed his part of the deal. Ryou and Bakura went back to the house after that. Jou, Yugi, Yami and Téa were there.
"Hey guys," Yugi said and waved. Bakura growled at Yami.
"Yami's here?" Ryou asked, backing away.
"Yes, you see, when the ghost got his body, he went back into the puzzle. I found this out and got him a new body. He's fine now." Yami nodded.
Jou looked up at the house angrily.
"I can't believe that my sister backstabbed me." He said in a low voice.
A helicopter roared overhead. It bore Kaiba-Corp's symbol. A ladder was thrown down and Ryou and Bakura crawled up.
"Thanks Kaiba," Bakura said, smirking.
"Mm,"
The helicopter hovered over the house and Bakura and Ryou poured gasoline, provided by Kaiba. Kaiba wanted, as much as everyone else, to burn that house down. It scared him, so therefore, there was no better reason. Kaiba is not one to like fear.
When they had emptied out five big, red, plastic things of gas, Bakura took out a cigarette. He lit it, inhaled deeply, and then passed it to Ryou. Ryou tried to copy him, but instead ended up giving it back to Bakura, coughing and sputtering.
Bakura flicked it onto the house, and it ignited. Screams were heard, and they sounded like hell's angels.
Okay, one more chapter to go! Start thinking of story ideas, if you have one in mind then you can tell me. I have lots, but I'll have to look through the depths of my computer to find some. But, if you want to instead of stories, then suggest genres. Try to suggest ones I haven't done before, that aren't romance because I suck at romance. One-hundredth reviewer gets a story dedicated to them!