Author's note: Hmm… I don't really have anything to say this time. (That's a first.) Oh, wait, just wanted to say that from now on there will be random updating there won't be a set day it will just be whenever I can finish the chapter. Though I will try to update under a two-week time frame.
Ok, going to use a few more symbols for this chapter concerning speech.
>Ancient Egyptian>
-Orbs- (I won't say more it will be explained this chapter.)
Reviewers:
S. Chensu and Luff: Chewing dead bodies? Hmm…I might save that for a Halloween fic, if I ever come up with an idea for one of those. Yep, got to love Kuriboh, if they were an actual species I'd want one for a pet!
Daikaio: At first that flashback was going to be in chapter 24, but I think I like it better the way I have it now, makes it more suspenseful. Glade you liked the chapter. And no problem getting you out of that hole, sorry you fell in it in the first place. ;;
Juel Haruna: Really you thought 24 was funny? Now you just made my day! I'm still trying to think of how I can use Mecomed, but he will play some part in Marik's plans. Your school ended in May! So jealous now. Mine ended June 22. Uncle Vernon huh? Hope he didn't act like him too. Marik a teacher, oh boy head for the hills, run for your lives…and all that other stuff! Well it could be really early too; you know 5 months in advanced. So here's a five month Merry Christmas to you too!
oreosarecool: Hey I like oldies songs too! Yep Yami isn't going to die, and Kaiba will only be extremely annoyed by the other characters, and yes Joey knows absolutely nothing about history, but we love him for it anyway. I've been bitten by the writing bug, so I'm using practically ever spare second I have to write, hopefully I won't put you guys through another long dry spell. (Crosses fingers and hopes for the best.)
dolphinsaturngirl: Well here you go, the next chapter. Glade you liked the whole 'Naming of the Pharaoh' I showed my sister the outline for it and we came up with a completely random twenty-minuet skit about it that ended up having nothing to do with Yami's real name.
Warnings: slight language
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-gi-oh, but I do own a really nice sports car! Oh wait, I don't own one of those either…Dang!
All I Want for Christmas
Chapter 26 Of Miracles and Memories II
"So uh…why exactly are you here Moneybags?" Joey asked in his cramped spot in the elevator between Tristan and Duke.
The C.E.O. looked over at the blond, "Why is that any of your business Mutt?"
Joey scowled at the brunet's response, that and for some reason Kaiba looked as though he was quite comfortable in the tiny space, while he was finding
Duke's elbow in his side becoming increasingly annoying by the second. "Look Kaiba it's just that your always harping on how magic isn't real, and here you are." The blond snapped.
"Last I heard we're doing something involving a ritual…that doesn't necessarily mean that it involves the 'M' word." Kaiba countered.
"You do realize we're talking about Isizue and Malik right?"
"Humph." Kaiba scowled and looked away from Joey and back to the flashing light indicating what floor the elevator was at.
"Wow man." Tristan nudged his friend.
"What?" Joey asked confused.
"You just shut up Kaiba!" The brunet whispered excitedly.
Joey's eyes opened wide as he realized it was true. He had actually won a verbal argument with Kaiba! 'Who's the man?' The blond thought with a huge grin on his face. 'Score one for the J-man!'
Ding
The doors to the elevator opened swiftly; Isizue strode out first, taking in the crisp, cool December air.
While the snow clouds still loomed overhead there was still a soft glow of light coming from moon hung above where the huge gray blanket covered the sky.
A collected sigh of relief came from the occupants of the elevator when they scrambled out into the cold night.
"So what exactly are we doing up here Isizue?" Tea asked, while fixing the scarf that hung around her neck.
The Egyptian woman began to rummage through her purse as she explained; "It is hard for any spirit to remain on this world when there is nothing there to connect it to the land. Our bodies keep us here in this plane, and until recently the puzzle did the same for the Pharaoh." Isizue trailed off, pulling out a stick of chalk.
"We're going to perform a spell that will actually give Yami a true body for a short time." Malik continued where his sister left off. "It will give his soul something to cling to."
"This is ridiculous!" Kaiba snorted under his breath. 'Give him a true body Give me a break!'
Meanwhile Isizue had begun to draw a series of complex designs and symbols on the ground, making an almost complete circle with a twenty-foot diameter. Leaving a space wide enough for a person to walk through the blue-eyed woman turned to the others. "All right everyone, step into the circle."
"But what are we good for?" Duke asked, looking at his fellow teens for approval, "Most of us here can't use magic."
"All that is needed is your friendship and support." Isizue answered, "I will take care of the rest."
This seemed good enough an answer as any, and with that Joey, Tea, and Tristan stepped into the circle. Willing to follow her brother anywhere, Serenity stepped through next, followed by Duke who in turn would follow the girl anywhere. Malik came after, and was soon joined by Odion.
Mokuba took a step towards the circle, when his brother's hand came down on his shoulder, halting him. "What's wrong Seto?"
His brother did not answer him, however Kaiba did direct a question at Isizue. "I'm a business man, and the first rule is that you never get something for nothing. There is always a price. So what's the price for all this to work?" At this the C.E.O. waved a hand idly at the ritual circle.
"We will each be giving up a tiny portion of our life force." The Egyptian woman said calmly. "It will do no permit damage, though we might feel slightly woozy afterwards."
"Just think of it like donating blood." Malik called over.
"Forget it, I said, I'd watch, not that I'd participate in this foolishness!" Kaiba snapped.
"No one is making you do anything Kaiba." Isizue spoke softly. "In fact there is still time for anyone to leave." She turned and looked at the group assembled before her. None made to move out of the circle.
"What ever, we're leaving." Kaiba said turning back towards the elevator.
"Awe…But Seto…" Mokuba trailed off.
"We didn't need him anyway." Tristan muttered.
"Yeah, he'd probably murk up our cleansing circle with his negative aura." Duke, Tristan, and Malik all gave Tea a funny look at her last comment. The girl blushed and then stammered, "What? This is a spiritual ritual isn't it?"
"That's it run away rich-boy!" Joey yelled, "You're nothing but a big coward!"
Kaiba's retreating form bristled. The C.E.O. spun around, his steel-gaze flaring angrily at the blond, "What did you say Wheeler?" Kaiba hissed.
"You heard me, you're too scared to even step inside a little circle made of chalk."
"I just think this whole thing is a colossal waste of my time." Kaiba growled out, clenching his fist.
"You want to know what I think?" Joey didn't pause for the C.E.O.'s response. "I think you're afraid that this isn't a waste of time, that something will happen, something that can't be explained by numbers or machines. I think you do believe in magic, and that by helping us you'd be admitting it to everyone here! It'd prove that you were wrong."
"I don't need to stand here being analyzed by you Wheeler!" Kaiba exploded.
"Let him go man." Duke said trying to calm down the blond who was nearly as mad as Kaiba.
"We're wasting time." Tea added.
"Kaiba!" Joey continued ignoring his friends, "The way I see it you only have two options here. You could run away, or you can prove to all of us right now that magic isn't real."
The brunet's eyes still shown with anger, but they also held a hint of curiosity.
"All you have to do is step in the circle." Joey finished; placing both hands in his jean pockets and shrugged his shoulders.
Kaiba stood tall, eyes boring down on Joey all the while as he calmly walked past Isizue and into the circle. "I don't run away from anything Mutt."
Joey just grinned, "Whatever Moneybags." 'Score two for the J-man!'
"Joey's really on fire today." Tristan whispered out of the side of his mouth to Duke. The raven-haired teen nodded and tried to suppress a laugh.
After Mokuba had entered the circle and took his place by his brother, Isizue stepped forward and finished the circle with a few more complex symbols.
Immediately the symbols began to glow bright white. Kaiba never let his death glare leave Joey, while the blond continued to grin in an, 'I told you so.' manner.
Stepping forward into the center of the circle Isizue spoke to the group. "Once I begin, I can not be interrupted, so please no matter what happens do not utter a sound."
The Egyptian woman closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Slowly, quietly she began to whisper the incantation in an ancient language. Isizue's voice rose higher, and suddenly she raised her hands to the sky and cried out, >Great Osiris, keeper of the dead, send back your wayward son to the land of the living. Let not him walk the paths of death but grant him breath and life!>
Suddenly the clouds broke, revealing a full moon surrounded by a sea of stars.
>Thy humble servants beg of you Great one, accept our offering and restore him on to us.>
At this point, several members of the group had to either clamp a hand over their mouths or bit their tongues to keep from crying out. Everyone within the circle began to glow a vibrant color.
'What's going on?' Tea though. A slightly disorienting feeling came over her as her own yellow light formed a spear and moved just above Isiue's outstretched hands. The brunet turned sluggishly to see Duke and Serenity wear a similar expression of tiredness as Duke's red, and Serenities rose colored lights join hers.
'Wheeler's never going to let me live this down.' Kaiba thought sulkily as his blue glow left his body. It was soon joined by Malik's dusky purple, and Mokuba's teal colored spears.
'Wow, head rush.' Joey's head became slightly fuzzy as his green, Tristan's golden brown, and Odion's gray spears merged with the rest.
Last to join was Isizue's own golden spear; at first the colors swirled like the inside of a prism before blending to form a bright white light. The orb floated gently down into Isizue's hands.
The blue-eyed woman then yelled into the night, her voice ringing clear through the bitter cold. >Return him!>
At that she threw down the orb into the center of the circle; the light passed, unharmed through the concrete and out of sight. The ritual circle flashed before fading into nothingness right before the clouds consumed both stars and moon.
The entire group sank to their knees with either looks of exhaustion or shock some even wore both.
"Hey sis, how you doing?" Joey asked crawling over to Serenity.
"My head feels kind of fuzzy, but I'm ok. What about you?"
"Fuzzy, that's a good word to describe it." The blond agreed, nodding his head then wincing slightly at the sudden movement. "Like you can't focus on anything."
"Well then nothing's wrong with you Mutt. Your head was always like that." Kaiba mentioned from his set on the concrete.
"Kaib…"
"Joey, please don't man." Tristan gabbed the blonde's arm. "Don't get into a shouting match now, I feel like I have a killer hang-over."
"STOP YELLING!" Duke cried, then covered his ears at the volume of his own voice. "Oww."
Everyone else winced too.
"Mokuba?" Kaiba shot a questioning glance at his brother.
"I feel like I just got off a roller coaster." The boy confessed, "But I'm ok." With that he got up, slightly wobbly at first but managed to stand on his own.
"We should all get back inside." Isizue commented getting up as well. "It isn't healthy to be sitting out here." At this the woman stumbled slightly and it took both Malik and Odion to keep their sister from falling and keeping themselves standing as well.
"You alright?" Malik asked.
"Fine, just a little tired." His sister replied.
"How do we know if it worked or not?" Tea got to her feet, keeping both her hands outstretched to keep her balance.
"We shall know soon." was Isizue's answer.
"Let's bring her down stairs." Odion suggested heading for the elevator with his siblings.
"Well Moneybags?" Joey grinned slightly.
"Humph…"
"You can say it." Joey coaxed, "Here I'll start you off. Magic is…"
"Magic is real!" Kaiba said in a rush, "Now leave me alone Mutt." With that the C.E.O. started towards the elevator with Mokuba.
"I wonder what Isizue was saying." Serenity commented while those remaining got to their feet. There was a murmur of agreement when Kaiba turned around to face the group of teenagers.
"What are you talking about? She was speaking English." The group met the C.E.O.'s comment with a blank stare.
"No she wasn't." Tea simply stated as they all entered the elevator.
"Well Kaiba is suppose to be the incarnate of…" Tristan started.
"Don't even finish that sentence Taylor!" Kaiba hissed, "I'll admit magic's real, but not that!"
"AHH! STOP THE LOUDNESS!" Duke yelled, covering his ears in the process.
Ding!
'This is going to be a long ride down.' Tea thought.
He was lost in a sea of endless blackness. He had to find his way out, needed to get back. But how?
He strained to see ahead but there was only the inky murkiness. 'This is ridicules! For all I know I could be walking around in circles!"
Suddenly there was a soft flash in the distance.
"What…" He tried to speak but the darkness swallowed up the sound of his voice.
The light grew brighter, and he could make out the image of a silvery orb coming straight towards him.
He shielded his face with his hands preparing for the worst. The orb stopped inches from his face; he squinted peering at the sphere. While everything around him gave off the feeling of coldness and oppression, this orb gave off warmth and hope.
The orb bounce up and down; twirling around him in a childish manner, as if it had just found a long lost playmate.
Reaching with his hand, he gently brushed the orb with his fingertips.
The sphere shown brighter, spilling out into the darkness. The entire realm burst into light. Warmth seared up his arm and through his body.
He gasped in shock but was unable to yell before he lost consciousness.
There was a collective gasp from the doctors in the operating room.
He opened his eyes, then groaned slightly. His cheek was touching the cold floor of a room. He groggily got up from where he'd been lying on his belly and stood up.
'I know where I am.' Yami thought, smiling briefly to himself.
The room was small with brownish sand stone for walls and a ceiling, the same as the floor. It had a single steel door, and several small torches burned along the walls giving off enough light to see the room's contents.
"I'm back in the puzzle." Yami said to himself.
-The 'Recent Memory Room' to be precise.-
Yami turned to find the silver orb behind him. "You can speak?" He asked wide-eyed.
-Yep.- It did not sound of one voice but of many.
"Who…What are you?" Yami asked knowing it was probably a really rude question, but was in too much shock to care.
With that the orb split into several smaller multi-colored spheres.
-Well that's just great. All that time and energy spent dragging your butt back here, and not even a 'Thank you.'- Snipped a blue sphere that sounded oddly like Kaiba.
"Kaiba?"
-Hey! Leave him alone.- A green sphere with Joey's voice said pouncing on the blue one. -He's had a rough day.-
"What are you doing here?" Yami asked looking more bewildered by the second.
-We're not exactly who you think we are.- A yellow sphere with Tea's voice said, ignoring the blue and green spheres that continued banging into one another in the back-round.
-It's like this Dude,- A golden brown orb came up to Yami with Tristan's voice. -We're part of your friend's life force. At least that's what Isizue said.-
-Isizue used us in a spell to send you back!- A rose colored sphere chirped in Serenity's voice.
-Yeah, but it looks like the spell didn't work.- A red sphere, Duke's, came forward. -He was supposed to get his own body.-
-And I don't think we were suppose to retain the personalities of everyone or the memories of the ritual either.- Malik's voice came from a dusky purple sphere. -We were supposed to form the anchor to hold Yami in this plane.-
-Perhaps the wrong incantation was used.- Isizue's golden sphere muttered in the corner of the room.
-But it shouldn't matter? We brought Yami to the puzzle so it's cool now.- The green sphere said untangling itself from the blue one.
-But what purpose do we have now?- Odion's gray sphere spoke out. -Our task is complete, now we are the one's stuck.-
-I don't want to go, it's fun here!- a teal sphere with Mokuba's voice said zipping past Yami's face, doing flips and twirls in the air. -Can we stay? I don't want to go.- The sphere asked Yami.
The spirit was sure that if it had been the real Mokuba in front of him, the boy would have been giving him the 'puppy-dog eyes'. "Will you being here harm my friends?" Yami asked, still a bit dazed by all of this.
-We were never meant to return to them.- The golden sphere answered -We were meant to vanish into nothing once our task was completed.-
-If it helps, I can still feel Tea.- The yellow sphere floated over. -She's a little tired but fine other wise.-
"Is it like that for the rest of you?"
The spheres all bobbed up and down several times which was apparently their way of nodding.
"Alright then. Feel free to stay if you like. Although I should warn you, it's quite easy to get lost in here."
-Hump, Like I need your permission to do anything.- The blue sphere scoffed.
'I thought having one Kaiba in my life was plenty. Now there's one in my soul room.' The spirit sighed inwardly as the green sphere spoke to him.
-If you ever need anything, you know where to find us.
The spheres then spun together forming the silver orb once more. It drifted lazily around the room as Yami turned to leave.
"Thank you." The spirit said, hand on the doorknob, ready to open it.
-Don't mention it- Came the combined answer. -By the way, Yugi's probably worried about you, better let him know you're safe.-
"I will." A small smile played on the spirit's face as he ran into the main chamber of his soul room.
Near Town Square
"…And your lucky that that nice police woman was so patient otherwise you could have been…"
"Enough with the lecture Ryou! I get it!" Bakura cut his hikari off as the four jogged back to Mai's car.
"Hold on." Yugi called to the others. He had felt something brush his mind. 'It felt like…Oh please let Yami be alright!'
"We don't have time for you to catch your breath runt, we need to get into Mai's 'death-trap' and back to the healers."
"It's just that…" Yugi trailed off looking at the puzzle that now hung around his neck.
"What's wrong?" Mai asked, cocking her head to one side.
"I though I felt Yami just now."
"Check the mind-link." Ryou suggested.
Yugi nodded, "Right." The mind-link had been reformed, it was still fragile, but strong enough to support words. /Yami/
/…/
Yugi frowned and concentrated harder. /Are you there/
/…/
The amethyst-eyed teen groaned in frustration, "I could have sworn he was in the puzzle. Where could he have gone?"
"Turn around."
The four jumped slightly at the new voice. Obeying the command, Yugi turned to see his darker half leaning against the side of a building in a casual manner. A small smile crept on his face as he pushed off and strolled over towards the group.
"Your…your ok!" Yugi launched himself at the spirit, enveloping Yami in a hug.
The spirit of the puzzle grunted at the sudden pressure around his ribs, "Yugi." Yami sighed with a mixture of relief and exhaustion while he placed a hand on the boy's shoulder.
Yugi looked up at his darker half, eyes shinning bright with a huge grin on his face.
The spirit smiled back before being questioned by Mai and Ryou.
"How in the hell did you get here?"
"Oh my! How are you feeling?"
"Are you sure you should be standing like that? You were in pretty bad shape Hon."
"Are you alright?"
"Is there something we can do?"
"Give the man some room." Bakura pushed past the two, "Well you look fine enough." He eyed Yami, then the thief turned to Ryou, "Can we call it a night then?"
/You are really something else Bakura/ Ryou began/I swear one day…/
/Not another lecture Ryou, it's late./ the thief interrupted tiredly.
/Oh all right./ The teen gave in with a roll of his eyes.
"Actually Bakura has a point." Yami spoke up, "It is pretty late, and I'd like to get out of the cold."
"You're the boss." Mai winked, then pointed to the direction of her car.
Bakura winced as he saw the light blue convertalble, but followed anyway.
/I'm glade you're safe./ Yugi said as both he and Yami walked at the back of the group. He took his darker half's hand, afraid that it was a dream that would fade should he let go.
/I'm glade you're safe./ Yami answered. /I had no idea what happened after…/ The spirit trailed off and furrowed his eyebrows.
A wave of guilt hit the former Pharaoh from the mind-link and he turned to his lighter half. /Yugi/
/It's just that it's my fault you were hurt. If I had just taken the puzzle when you asked me to then none of this would have happened./ The teen said looking downcast.
/Yugi, you had good reason to be mad at me. I wasn't exactly playing nice with Kaiba, and I had broken…/
/Oh forget the star/ Yugi interrupted. /It was important to me, but I'd rather loss it then you. Besides, I know Marik had tricked you with Kaiba./
The teen took a breath and then turned to face his darker half. "I was accusing you of breaking my trust, when I broke yours. I didn't even hear you out. God! I'm such a hypocrite!"
"Don't say that." Yami answered calmly. "You have a tendency to led with your heart, you were only doing what it told you was the right thing to do at the time."
"So you forgive me?" the hikari asked.
"I already have. Does that mean I'm forgiven as well?" Yami asked raising an eyebrow.
"Of course. Friends?" Yugi released his darker half's hand and raised it above his head.
"Friends." Yami nodded giving the hikari a high-five. "Just please take the puzzle next time. I had to get directions from Marik of all people." The Pharaoh narrowed his eyes at this causing the hikari to laugh quietly.
"Now see that? Why can't we have a relationship like that Ryou?" Bakura asked draping an arm around his lighter half's shoulder.
The hikari sucked in a bit of the night air and puffed out his cheeks in thought, then let out a sigh of fine white mist. "Because I won't help you in your mad schemes of pillaging Domino's convenient stores." The teen answered bluntly, shaking off the yami's hand but smiling back at the thief all the same.
"All right boys, hop in." Mai said while unlocking her car. "Should I drop you guys home?"
"Home's good." Yugi suppressed a yawn while snuggling deep into the car's back seat.
"Yeah…Wait a bloody moment!" Ryou snapped up in his seat. "Yami, if you're here, then who's in the operating room?"
"What?" The spirit of the puzzle gave a confused look at the white haired teen.
Ryou turned to the back seat, "You were in the hospital, but somehow you got here."
"How are we going to explain this to the doctors?" Yugi burred his face in his hands as he realized the predicament they were in.
"And the others are there. They must be freaked at the 'Houdini" you pulled." Mai groaned.
"Dame!" Bakura muttered, "Those bakas are probably running around like jackals with their heads cut off."
The Pharaoh made a slightly disgusted face, "Lovely analogy."
"You know you've only been back five minuets and you're already a pain in my…"
"Mai we'd better go to the hospital quickly!" Ryou shot a glare at his yami.
"No! Don't say quickly!" Bakura protested, but it was too late. All four males were pushed back into their seats as Mai slammed on the accelerator and tore down the street.
Hospital Hallway
"Now lets see what fun we can have…" Marik said while stroking the hamster that was in his hand. "Hmm…" His eyes came to rest on a receptionist's desk; behind it stood a fairly pretty woman in her late twenties.
A sly grin spread to Marik's face before running up to the desk, "Nurse! Nurse!"
"Can I help you?" The receptionist asked to the frantic person in front of her.
"There's this man, he's running around the hospital." Marik sputtered, feigning shock and confusion.
"It's alright sir, calm down."
"He's this way, I think he might be doped up. He's swinging a fire extinguisher at an orderly and keeps screaming incoherently in all manners of gibberish!" The madman began to lead the nurse down the hall he had come from.
"Where is he?" The woman asked before she was shoved in a janitor's closet.
"Heh, Heh, Heh!" Marik cackled as he placed a chair under the handle of the door. He paused a moment, listening to the nurse's muffled cries of protest before he heard something else.
"Hello, I need help now! My wife she's…she's in labor! We need a doctor!" Came the voice of a flustered man near the now empty receptionist's desk.
"Hmm…" Marik spied a rack of unused white coats, and quickly snatched one.
Walking briskly to the desk the dark soul put on his best 'serious' expression and spoke to the man. "Can I help you?"
"Yes, please my wife…baby…doctor…" The man babbled.
Marik glanced over to a woman in a wheelchair next to the man; she had her hands protectively over her swollen belly while she took deep breaths.
"Sorry, can't help you." Marik said quickly.
"Thank…Hey wait. What?" The man's face shown with clear confusion.
"Can't. Help. You." The dark soul spaced out the words as though he was talking to an idiot.
"Why not!" The soon-to-be father demanded.
"All full, not a single room left in the whole building. Can you believe it?" Marik smiled with amusement.
"But my wife…What do we do now? The next hospital's almost two hours away."
"I'm not the one who impregnated her. It's not my problem." Marik made to leave but the man called him back.
"Isn't there anything you can do?" The husband pleaded.
"Oh alright." Marik sighed in defeat. "I can get you some towels and the your wife can lay down there." The madman then pointed to a corner of the room.
"Excuse me!" The woman asked in outrage.
"Just try not to get things too messy. We like to keep things sanitary around here."
The man just stared dumbly at Marik, lost for words, until a small squeak made him jump. The man looked down and saw a brown hamster in the 'doctor's' pocket.
"Now if you excuse me," Marik continued, "I need to give my hamster a bath in one of the drinking fountains of this fine facility."
As soon as the couple were out of hearing range the madman let out a cackle, "Mwahahah! Did you see the looks on their faces?" He asked Mecomed
Squeak!
"I know, that poor fool looked like he fainted on his feet!" The psychopath then paused in his merriment, "Who knew a professional career in medicine could be so rewarding?"
Squeak!
"Excellent suggestion my evil creation!" Marik then looked to a door they were standing next to, there was a clip board with a patient's information suspended on a plastic rack right on the wall.
Taking the clipboard and scanning it over the dark soul mocked concern, "Awe…Looks like someone has an ear ache. Let's tell Mr. Smith the bad news. Heh, Heh."
Entering the room Marik found a skinny, middle aged man with glasses sitting in a chair, "Umm…did the results come back?" the man asked, pushing his glasses back to the bridge of his nose "Your not my usual doctor, has Dr. Jones taken a break?"
"Mr. Smith have you been to Africa recently?" Marik asked, ignoring the man's questions.
"Huh? No."
"Well your tests show that you have a rare African Ear mite."
The patient blanched, "Is that what's causing the problem? Can you remove it?"
"Heaven's no!" Marik put on an expression of shock, "The Ear mite is an endangered species. It's only ever been located in the You-a-moron plains of Nigeria."
"But then you're just going to leave it there? It hurts really bad." The man said weakly.
"Don't worry." Marik soothed, "Soon she will have dug a path to your brain were she will lay her eggs."
"Won't that kill me?"
"Not right away. Just once the little hatchlings start eating you from the inside out. I give you…maybe a week to live." The psychopath said, sizing up the man.
Mr. Smith went as pale as a bed sheet.
"Well, Merry Christmas." Marik left the room with a smile, waving at the near hysteric man.
"I love my job!" The dark soul exclaimed right before pushing an elderly woman in a wheel chair back into the elevator she had just come out of; he then pushed all the buttons on the panel, "Sorry Madame." He explained, "This is a restricted zone."
"Heh, Heh." The spirit watched with delight as the lights indicating the elevator's floor flashed in odd patterns.
"Now my…Hey Mecomed!" Marik went through his coat pockets trying to find his furry companion.
Squeak!
"What are you doing over…" the madman stopped as he read the words above the door his hamster had found. "Interesting." The psycho murmured while picking up Mecomed. The sign read Morgue.
Ok, so I didn't get as much done as I wanted but there's always next chapter. Hope you liked it.
Next time: Just because Yami's back doesn't mean that the gang's troubles are over; Marik's causing more chaos, while the group from the hospital are in a desperate search to find the missing Pharaoh.
You know the drill, review please!
So far the voting goes as follows: 1 for the somewhat sequel of this fic, and zip for my crossover idea.