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((………)) Bakura's thinking
/………/ Ryou's thinking
(/………/)Akefia's thinking
"………" Normal speech
'………' Normal thought
Yami's have their own bodies. NO ROMANCE OR YAOI!!!
Summary: When an accident creates two Bakuras, how will Ryou deal with it? And now that Akefia shows his true colors, how can Bakura protect himself from being sealed into the Ring and having Akefia take his place in life?
Chapter Eight
Bakura ran, trying to get away from the last words he had heard as he left the house.
Akefia will take over his life.
Will take Ryou away from him.
And Bakura would be sealed into the Ring without any knowledge of what was going on.
He had to find out how to stop Akefia!
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"Hey, Ryou. Do you, Bakura, and Akefia want to go to the amusement park?" Yugi asked from the door, smiling widely.
"Sure! I'd love to go. Akefia will too." Ryou agreed, slightly perturbed that Bakura had not come home yet.
"What about Bakura?" Yami asked, looking forwards to someone to argue with.
"He left last night and hasn't come back yet." Ryou admitted, and the ones gathered around noticed his slightly worried look.
"Don't worry, Ryou. This is Bakura. He's fine. Come on, you go to the amusement park, and I'll go find Bakura and we'll meet you there." Akefia said, smiling charmingly.
"Sure, thanks Akefia." Ryou said, smiling back.
"Oh, can I borrow the real Ring? It would help me locate him better. Especially when he doesn't want to be found." Akefia questioned,his smile turningdisarming.
"Well, okay. Since I know how hard he can be to find." Ryou said hesitantly. Only he wore the Ring, or Bakura when the spirit was in Ryou's body.
Ryou left with Yugi and his friends, and Akefia's smile became something more sinister.
Time to convince Bakura that his fate was impossible to fight against.
And that Akefia was every bit as powerful in Shadow Magic as Bakura was.
Maybe even more so.
With a laugh, Akefia turned and walked away, using the Ring to guide him to his double's whereabouts.
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Bakura was slumped on a bench in the park, staring at the duck pond.
He couldn't figure out what he could do.
There was the simplest thing: send him to the Shadow Realm.
Or he could just kill him.
But neither of those are guaranteed.
"Well, Bakura, I must say you are really worrying Ryou and I."
Bakura snapped into a roll, coming up into a defensive posture.
Akefia stood not two feet away.
He had been careless, letting his guard slip.
"Come on, the others went to the amusement park. They wanted you to go too, but you weren't there, so I volunteered to come fetch you." Akefia said, smirking all the while.
"I think I'll stay here if you're going." Bakura sneered back. He smirked. "Or maybe I'll go and YOU will stay!" Shadow Magic began gathering around his clenched hands, his teeth bared in defiance.
Akefia's smirk widened.
Bakura let loose the Shadow Magic with a snarl, and it hit Akefia full on.
And was dispelled with ease.
"Fool. I AM the Shadow Realm. I am the Shadows incarnate. Did you forget that a SPELL was used for me to get here??" Akefia laughed.
"Then die the mortal way!" Hissed Bakura, lunging forwards, a knife appearing in his hands as he attacked.
Akefia dodged, but was still hit a glancing blow on his shoulder.
Bakura landed lightly, spun about, and came on again.
Akefia sent a blast of energy at him, striking him and knocking him to the ground.
The knife was kicked into the bushes.
"You are mine, Spirit. I am the more powerful. I can banish you to the Shadows and pull you out again. I can seal you within the Ring and release you. I can –" He was cut off as Bakura launched forwards with only teeth and nails to attack with.
"You can die and have your soul eternally tormented for all I care! I belong to nobody!" Bakura howled, sending his full strength and energy in Shadow Magic at his evil double.
Akefia found it a lot harder to block this attack than the first, Bakura was actually really powerful, and was part of the Shadows himself, since he was in the Ring for so long.
But Akefia was pure Shadow Realm magic, and though that was a blessing, it could be a curse. He didn't know it, but Bakura had realized something about this situation.
And that could be the turning point in this struggle.
But first he had to get enough time to do so.
But then Bakura's attack was sent right back into his teeth, and the pain he felt was more than anything he had felt in a while. Gasping for breath, clutching his chest as his copy of the Ring burned against his skin, he fell to one knee.
Akefia smiled with victory, stalking towards his double.
The power Bakura would provide him would make Akefia surpass the Pharaoh himself. But Bakura would be a constant annoyance as well, protesting and struggling. And then there is the problem with Ryou. Ryou cannot know what was going on with Bakura. He had to believe it was all alright.
Bakura looked up and growled warningly as Akefia approached. He still couldn't breath properly, and his head pounded.
Akefia raised a hand over Bakura's head, smiling as he prepared to seal him within the Ring.
"Back!" came a shout from the side, and a rather weak bolt of Shadow Magic came crashing into Akefia. It was actually strong enough to knock him off his feet and give Bakura time to stand and back away.
Malik stood, the Millennium Rod outstretched and pointed towards Akefia. He was not as adept at using the Shadow Realm for attacks as Bakura or Marik, since he hadn't been using it for long enough.
But what he had would be a grand help.
The two faced off against an annoyed Akefia.
He frowned at the two.
So much trouble.
He raised his hands and sent bolts of Shadow energy shooting at Malik, smirking as the inexperienced Egyptian clumsily blocked them.
Bakura was moving to the right, trying to flank Akefia while he was entertaining himself with Malik. Akefia noticed the spirit and spun about, sending Bakura dodging and twisting to avoid the shooting missiles.
The Tomb Robber still had a few more tricks, but better save them for when he really needed them.
Bakura launched an attack, but his full-scale offense earlier had tired him and drained him.
Akefia was easily able to block his attacks.
Bakura cursed the fact that he didn't have his deck with him.
The Man-Eater Bug and a few others could be some helpful additions to this battle.
Malik decided to go with the attack he could do easiest, the one that he had had plenty of practice doing.
Banish Akefia to the Shadow Realm.
Magic swirled around Malik, before following his commands and flying towards Akefia.
Akefia shook and screamed in pain at the attack, weakened as he was by the earlier battles. But he was able to soon control himself and concentrate on a counterattack.
Malik never knew what had hit him.
Bakura dodged another barrage of energy bolts, and spotted Malik's still form in the brush.
Angered, he found the energy to send back the attacks, this time making Akefia dodge.
Something gold glinted beside Malik.
With an evil grin at his evil twin, Bakura took a running dive, feeling the energy bolts singe his back.
His eyes widened at the closeness of them.
But then he hit the ground in a roll and came up beside Malik's body, Millennium Rod pointed out.
He grinned evilly once again, the copy of the Ring surfacing through his shirts to rest upon his chest, the Rod in hand, and the Eye in his back pocket.
Akefia had only the original Ring, which, while being more powerful than the copy Bakura had, was still dwarfed by the combination of the Rod and Eye.
It was time to get serious.
Akefia snarled and approached.
The Rod and the Eye, coupled with Bakura's copy of the Millennium Ring. That gave Bakura more energy and power than Akefia's single Ring.
((Ryou?)) Bakura called, trying to see if he can reach his light.
Akefia laughed.
"There is no way for him to hear you. He can only hear me. Only me." Akefia taunted, laughing.
Bakura hissed and prepared a devastating last attack, one that would drain him of the rest of his power but hopefully will destroy Akefia.
Akefia felt the power stirring and building around the spirit of the Ring, and a sudden idea came to him.
Bakura was bound to the Ring, and it was his bane or curse.
Smirking at the thief, he raised his hands around the Ring.
"Come here." He hissed.
Bakura laughed outright at that.
"Come here." Akefia repeated, grinning wider as he felt the power stirring within himself and the Ring this time. "Come to your precious Ring, come to your home. Your prison." Akefia laughed again.
Bakura sneered, but he felt the stirrings as well, and began backing away, not knowing how to counter this.
Then the Ring reached out for him.
Black energy warped from the Ring's center, gripping Bakura in a incredibly powerful hold and pulling him relentlessly towards the Ring.
Akefia laughed as Bakura's form disappeared into soft glowing light, and then was sucked into the Ring.
((You'll pay for this!)) Bakura's mind shouted, but Akefia silenced him with a wave of his hand, sealing him deep into the Ring's depths and away from where Ryou could find him.
"You are mine, Spirit. I have control over the Ring, and control over YOU. Ryou will not know, and neither will his little friends." Akefia walked over to where Bakura had been standing.
"And I also now have two more Millennium Items to add to my collection. The Eye and the Rod are mine." Akefia stated, grinning.
"And soon the rest of the items will belong to me. And Ryou, he shall find you when I think the time is right. You both shall provide me with unlimited Shadow Power!" Akefia crowed, laughing to the night air.
Akefia began cleaning up the area so that no one will know.
Meaning that Malik's soulless body was hidden away, and all evidence was cleaned up.
And Malik's soul stayed in the Shadow Realm, where Akefia believed he had banished it.
Though he didn't know that Bakura had transferred Malik's soul from the Shadow Realm and into the Rod, to protect his only loyal friend from the Shadows.
Bakura sat confined in the Ring, worrying about his light and what the evil double of his would do next.
"Now, let's go to the amusement park and have fun with Ryou and his little pathetic friends!" Akefia said, grinning.
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End chapter.
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