(A/N) Yes, I am a bad girl. I should update more often. I should not loose my notebook. Blah blah blah…
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Chapter Four
Monsters
Calvin sprawled out on his bed and sighed. "Hobbs," he said, "what are we gonna do?"
"Whatever do you mean, Calvin?"
"Our baby-sitter's possessed! Ryou's OK, I guess, but there's no telling what Bakura'll do next. He could kill us, or tie us up, or feed us to the monsters under the bed!"
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/Yami-sama, what was all that about? You think Calvin has magic/
/Yes, but I don't know what kind…/
/Please please don't harm Hobbs or Calvin in any way, don't try to steal Calvin's magic and take over the world, and try not to use Shadow Magic./
/Huh/
/We've never encountered any other kind of magic, so there's no telling what Shadow Magic will do to it./
/But…Yadonushi-sama, what about the leakage from the Ring/
/Just don't use it any more that you have to, all right/
/Fine…I can use my knives to defend us, anyway./
/Us and Calvin./
/What ever./
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Calvin jumped when the curtains closed by themselves. Unpleasant laughter began to emanate from under his bed.
"C'mon!" Hobbs shouted, picking up Calvin and fleeing the room as the lamp turned off and hideous, tentacled monsters came out from under Calvin's bed.
"Get him!" they cried, and "I call the left leg!" and "No fair I want that one!" as they chased after Calvin and Hobbs.
"To the living room!" Calvin shouted.
"Why there?" asked Hobbs.
"If Bakura comes out, he'll fight the monsters, and we can escape in the confusion!"
"Yeah, we'll hole up at Susie's!"
"If we must…" Calvin wearily conceded.
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Yet again, and without warning, Bakura took control of Ryou's body.
/What…/ Ryou weakly asked, before loosing consciousness.
/Yadonushi-sama/ Bakura called. Then he sensed some very strong magic coming down the stairs. Just before he could see what it was, the curtains closed by themselves, the lights snapped off, and he heard the front door lock itself.
The spirit pulled out the Sennen Ring and caused it to glow, so he could see.
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Just before Calvin and Hobbs could get to the living room, everything went dark. They kept running, though, because they could hear the monsters behind them.
When they managed to reach the living room, they saw that it was illuminated by a glowing pendant, above which they could see feral red eyes.
"Do I even want to know what you did?" Bakura growled.
"B-Bakura," Calvin squeaked, "the monsters from under my bed are on the move!" As he made this declaration, Calvin pulled Hobbs around behind the possessed baby sitter.
"Oh, this is just great," Bakura said sarcastically, "and I suppose they're huge and ugly with great, long tentacles, right?"
"How'd you know?" Hobbs whimpered.
"Because they're here," the spirit growled, tensing. "You boys hide behind the couch while I see if knives are any good against these things."
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Bakura flicked the knives out of his sleeves, one in each hand, and darted forward toward the encroaching monsters.
"Yaaaah!" he yelled, slicing off a tentacle as it reached for him. /Now would be a good time to wake up Yadonushi-sama/ he called in frustration.
"Heheheheheheheh….he won't wake," one of the monsters chuckled.
"What do you mean…?" Bakura growled menacingly.
"I mean," the monster sneered, "that your poor, foolish host's mind has been overwhelmed by the sheer power of our magic!"
Bakura glowered at the monsters, and fought furiously, spraying green ichors all over, but the tentacled abominations had him surrounded.
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Calvin and Hobbs watched the scene with growing horror. As scary as Bakura was, all he'd said he intended to do was terrorize them. The monsters from under the bed wanted to eat them alive!
"I have an idea," Hobbs whispered, pulling Calvin out of his horrified stupor.
"What?" the boy asked, watching as one of the uglier monsters wrapped a tentacle around Bakura's waist and lifted him into the air, ripping his shirt apart in the process.
"If we can light the room up, those monsters will shrivel and die."
"Good idea, Hobbs, but how can we light the room up? The curtains are closed, the door is probably locked, and if we move, we'll be monster bait."
"The door locks from the inside, so we can get it open, but we'll have to do it while the evil spirit is still distracting the monsters."
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"Aaaauuughh…" Bakura moaned. He was being held up by the thick, rubbery tentacle around his waist. His shirt had been torn apart in the fight, and if he got out of this with his host's body intact, Ryou would have something to say about what would probably be some very nasty sucker wounds.
Wait, why was he worrying about what Ryou would have to say about the sucker wounds on his abdomen when the monsters from under a six-year-old's bed had finally managed to disarm him?
Another monster wrapped two tentacles around his wrists, and a third wrapped tentacles about his ankles. The firs one let go and the ones that still held him moved him about so that he was spread-eagled about four feet above the ground.
'Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit…Ryou's going to die and these stupid monsters are going to get my Ring…oh shit oh…' he thought as the tentacled creatures inspected him.
"I want a leg!" one cried.
"No way, Sidney," said the one that had picked him up and disarmed him, "I get first dibs. You can have the liver."
"I don't want no stinking liver," Sidney complained.
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Calvin and Hobbs had made it to the door.
"Great," Calvin muttered, "it is locked."
"So unlock it," Hobbs hissed.
"I'm…trying…" Calvin replied in a strained voice. Then…"GOT IT!" he shouted, pulling the door open.
Light flooded into the building from the open door. The hideous monsters shrieked as they were vaporized.
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When sunlight flooded the room, Bakura allowed the light of the Sennen Ring to fade. The monsters holding him shrieked as they died, banishing in the pure light.
He dropped to the floor and lay there, the sucker wounds on his abdomen dripping blood.
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The good cheer of the young heroes was cut short by a thud and a voice grunting from the pain of the impact.
Calvin and Hobbs exchanged glances.
"Bakura," they said in unison. Although for some strange reason, the name of the ancient spirit no longer frightened them, they were still wary of approaching him.
"Bold, fearless tigers first!" Calvin giddily laughed.
"No, no…heroes first. I insist. You're the one that got to the door and finally defeated the monsters, after all!" Hobbs dodged.
However, neither one, tiger or boy, got a chance to check on the ageless specter possessing their baby-sitter, because the prone figure sat up, and, in soft, harmless tones, murmured, "did anyone get the number of the spell that hit me?"
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(A/N) does victory dance
OK, you weren't supposed to see that. But this is the first time one of my fics went over four pages! Yaay! Please R&R. It's only polite.