Ug. My life sucks. But you all don't care, you'd all much rather read my story than listen to me talk about my issues. Can't say I blame you, I'd much you read my story tell me its wonderful than get your dammed sympathy, teehee.
Ok so, the deal is now that Yugi and peoples have got the items all and yamis and hikaris are back in their original bodies. But because they have the items they can go into that astral projection state that Ryou, Yami no Yugi and Yami no Malik were stuck in while their souls were separated. Yeah, that doesn't happen in the show… or manga… I'm horrible. (cries)
As many of you have already noticed this isn't what really happened in Egypt. Yami didn't really make the items, his father did but I really didn't want to spend another five pages explaining all the little meticulous details that are completely insignificant to my particular storyline. So yeah, I made it a whole lot simpler for laziness' sake.
Oh-sama: "Oh" means king, and "sama" is a suffix for someone who is your lord or master person, basically Bakura is making fun of Yami no Yugi when he says this.
This chapter, brought to you by the Power of Cheese. Never underestimate the Power of the Cheese, my friends…
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Chyaputa 24: Grave Robber's Retribution
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The ancient temple went utterly silent; the only sound was the eerie wind swirling around Yami no Bakura's form. Yami no Yugi's hands were balled into shaking fists at his sides.
"So, what your saying is… all this killing, all of this is because of a grudge you've held against me for three thousand years?" he questioned sharply, words ringing painfully through the silence in a voice that would have made anyone else crumble onto the stone floor. "You killed Pegasus, Ishtar-sensei and this guardian just for some cheap revenge, Bakura!" he snapped enraged. "I told you before, I don't know who I am! I don't know if I lived before or if I have my own soul! I don't know what I did three thousand years ago that could make you so angry! But Bakura!" Yami no Yugi screamed. He stepped forward, away from Malik and spread his arms open wide, eyes fierce and challenging. "I won't let you hurt anyone else! Let me take your anger and hatred! Take it out on me! I'll return them to darkness!"
'Is this what you were talking about?' Yami no Yugi realized, thinking back to dark creature he had faced in his test. 'You said everyone is suffering, even Yami no Bakura. Could this really be because of me? Because of what I've done?'
Yami no Bakura stared for a moment, examining Yami no Yugi's ridiculous stance and then once again he roared with laughter, madness still had its hold over his emotions. "Now you are assuming things! I'm quite over you destroying my village but thanks to you I'm barely a person! All that hatred that's been festering within me for centuries has become me; I am darkness, I am hatred. This is no longer about revenge! I'm simply carrying out the fate and sin that you created when you ordered the making the Sennen Items! And once I have them all I'll get my old body back, I'll rule all things and no one, not even you, will be able to stop me!" He was laughing now, cold and hollow, the air quivered from his harsh voice. Insanity had taken hold; it curled around his fingers and stretched out his pale skin.
Yami no Yugi scowled deeply, something in Yami no Bakura's words had caught his attention. "What was that, Bakura? Did you say you'd get your old body back?" he spat cruelly, eyes glowing furiously. Yami no Bakura suddenly stopped laughing. "What was your plan for your host then? What are you going to do with your other soul once you no longer need him? Will you leave him to be sacrificed to the darkness as well!" Yami no Bakura snorted unkindly and his left eye twitched threateningly.
"You shouldn't be worried about such trivial things that don't concern you," Yami no Bakura replied calmly, his voice relieving no emotion. "Worry about your own problems. Like how I am about to take both of your items from you." His twinkling excited eyes were back. "If you give me them peacefully maybe I'll let your lighter halves live a little while longer."
Yami no Yugi hesitated, brain buzzing. If he gave his Sennen Item over to Bakura, would he let Yugi live? Yami no Yugi's iron will shook.
'Is this mess is all because of me?' Yami no Yugi thought horrified. 'Will aibou be dragged down into the darkness because of me?'
"Shut the hell up, Bakura!" Malik cried angrily, gripping his own item closer to his chest. "You'll never get our items! Never!" Yami no Yugi stared at the Egyptian uneasily.
'Aibou… if aibou could live…'
Don't you even think about that, mou hitori no boku! Yugi screamed. Yami no Yugi started out of his own thoughts as though he had just been slapped in the face.
'But aibou… if you could live…' Yami no Yugi thought hopelessly. He looked up at Bakura once last time. 'If I could save you from that…'
Save me? A life without you would be no life at all! I won't leave you, mou hitori no boku! No matter what! Yami no Yugi dropped his head and smiled. Yugi had said the exact same thing in the illusion forest world when Yami no Yugi had told him to run.
'Right… of course. Forgive me, aibou,' Yami no Yugi corrected himself. 'I will fight for both of us.' His lighter half sighed with relief.
"Bakura!" Yami no Yugi cried sharply, head snapping up again, a new stronger determination in his eyes. "I won't let you reach that dark power! If I somehow stopped you back then I can stop you now!"
"You think so?" Yami on Bakura hissed. "Haven't I already explained it to you? It is useless to struggle. Or perhaps you would like to count yourself? I have five Sennen Items; together you and Malik have two. It is only a matter of time before they both become mine."
"Are you sure about that?" Yami no Yugi snapped, red eyes hardening. "There are more factors in this game other then your Sennen Items, Bakura!"
Yami no Bakura's grin faltered slightly in irritation. "Really?" he scoffed. "And what else do you plan to fight with? Do you have another power up your sleeve, Oh-sama?"
"We have the power of unity, Bakura!" Yami no Yugi shouted, red eyes glowing from the bottom of the steps. "You might have five items but there is only one of you and three of us!" To strengthen this argument, a transparent form of Yugi appeared at his darkness' side, purple eyes steadfast.
"Make that four," Malik added firmly. Both Yugis turned to see a transparent form of Yami no Malik appear next to his light. Yugi and Yami no Yugi took a step back for a moment, evidently they had not forgotten the incident in the illusion world.
/You sure this is okay, Malik/ Yugi asked cautiously, eyeing Yami no Malik skeptically. Malik nodded definitely.
"Don't worry, everything is okay. Besides he says he wants to help," Malik reassured. Yugi and his darkness turned to each other and nodded. Meanwhile Yami no Bakura was staring at the four souls down on floor with an almost gleefully degrading expression.
"Power of unity!" he spat, eyes alight with unbelieving amusement. "Don't make me laugh! Trying to threaten me with this disgusting power! No matter how you all stand you are all still less powerful then I am!" He laughed, face twisted. It looked like he was drunk with power. The air around him twisted writhed. "Well, lets see if your power of unity can stand up to my attack," Yami no Bakura hissed dangerously.
Both Yugis and both Maliks watched in horror as all five sennen items lit up in Yami no Bakura's hands. The over whelming pressure was amazing, Yami no Yugi felt as though he was going to be thrown backwards at any minute.
Yugi reached over and clutched his darkness' hand. Yami no Yugi turned to his light, their eyes connected for a brief moment, absolute unspoken trust passed between them. Yugi gave him a small brave smile. Yami no Yugi nodded and turned to Malik.
"Brace yourselves," Yami no Yugi advised to his comrades.
The dark power whipped around Yami no Bakura's body, he looked as though he could have been lifted right off the ground and floated ten feet in the air.
"Hang around in hell forever," Yami no Bakura snarled. The air screamed as thousands of rays of dark power cascaded down upon the heroes heads. At the exact last second all four of them released a combined shield to meet on coming flood of darkness.
There was a loud ear-splitting crack. The whole temple shook. The shield around them shattered almost instantly. All four of them were thrown backwards against the wall, Yugi's hand was ripped from his grasp. The darkness so cold and biting against Yami no Yugi's skin it felt like he was burning, like it was eating at his flesh and his very bones. He screamed, he heard the others around him crying out as well. For a moment he couldn't see anything, he couldn't think or remember anything then slowly the darkness faded, the temple materialized around him again.
He was panting, struggling to breathe; his lungs were stiff as though they had forgotten how to expand. He turned around and saw Yugi's ghostly form curled up against the wall a few feet away, shivering. Yami no Yugi immediately jumped up and ran to lighter half, fear driving his stiff legs.
"Aibou!" Yami no Yugi cried frantically and leaned down to help his lighter personality. Yugi looked up shakily.
/What was that? I felt so cold…/ Yugi said as Yami no Yugi helped him to his trembling feet.
"Are you okay?" Yami no Yugi asked concerned, wrapping his arms around Yugi's shoulders.
/Yeah, I'm alive/ Yugi reassured grimly, wincing.
Mou hitori no boku, that was too powerful! If he continues attacking us like that we won't survive much longer! Yugi admitted through the mind link. His voice was thin and frightened. There has got to be something else we can do!
But what? Yami no Yugi cried, voice strained and panicked. He knew his lighter half was right. There was no way they could beat Yami no Bakura, he had too much power. Yami no Yugi looked over at Malik and Yami no Malik slowly pull themselves off the ground. We've barely any power left and Bakura's got no weak points… Yami no Yugi pondered hopelessly.
Wait! Yugi exclaimed suddenly, purple eyes growing wide. That's it! Bakura does have a weakness! Yugi cried. Yami no Yugi stared down at his light puzzled.
What? Yami no Yugi repeated. Yugi nodded excitedly.
There is one more person we haven't called out to yet! Yugi explained. The other Bakura. If we got him to stand up to his darker half then we might have a chance! He could attack from the inside while we get him from out here!
Yami no Yugi's eyes widened. That might… actually work. The light of hope came back into his pale face. But how will we reach him?
Yugi frowned in thought. /Malik/ he hissed, walking over to the Egyptian. The platinum blonde haired teenager looked up. /We need your help./
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Yami no Bakura watched his prey scatter, power burnt out, and then fall helplessly to the ground. A savage joy alighted in Yami no Bakura's blood; a powerful rush of adrenaline at made his body shiver with excitement. It was pure ecstasy; the dark power was infused in every fiber of his being. He could feel it eating it's away down into his core, feeding and driving his hate and anger as it went. This was wonderful. This was better than he had imaged. He felt like, no, he knew at that moment no one could stop him. Power, there was so much power it was leaking out of him, in his clothes, in his thoughts, in his mind, in his sight. And once he got the last two items it would be complete. He could get his own body; he could control the world. At last, after all his careful studious planning.
The group in front of him staggered weakly back onto their feet. Yami no Bakura had no worries. That shot had been nothing, merely a warning yet it had already done so much damage.
"That was just a taste," he hissed, black darkness dripping out of his mouth as he spoke. "None of you will survive the next shot." They all knew it too, he could see it in their frightened eyes. Yami no Bakura laughed, the darkness trembled in the air around him, feeling his drunken rapture.
Yami no Bakura's hungry gaze drifted over his enemies and then suddenly his black eyes caught on Malik's bright violet ones. There was a sharp pain in the back of his head. Yami no Bakura gasped, hand clutching his skull.
It felt as though something was digging painfully into his brain.
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The room had stopped spinning a while ago but Ryou was still curled up at the place where his darkness had left him. His head was still throbbing from the forcefulness of the visions. Even as Ryou lay there, knees folded up to his chest they came back to him in flashes. Ryou flinched weakly, trembling like mad.
Bakura-kun… a voice could be faintly heard over the chaos of Ryou's own thoughts. For a moment Ryou thought is must have been in his head mingling with all the other screams and cries of pain but then it came again more urgently. Bakura-kun, can you hear me? Then finally, Ryou recognized it.
"Yu-gi…kun?" Ryou croaked, throat as dry as sand paper.
Bakura-kun, you've got to help us! Yugi cried. His voice sounded desperate. Your other self is going to kill us!
Ryou did not move on the floor.
"Kill…" he mouthed softly.
Bakura-kun please, you're the only one who might be able to stop him! The whole world is in danger! Yugi cried shrilly. Ryou kept his eyes on the floor, unmoving, blank and dead.
"I know, Yugi-kun…" Ryou answered.
So are you going to help us? Yugi asked hopefully.
There was a long pause. Ryou opened his mouth but found he had nothing to say.
Bakura-kun? Yugi asked after Ryou didn't answer.
"Yugi…" Ryou's head was still aching, it was so painful to speak. "I… can't…" he admitted.
What! But Bakura-kun, Yugi exclaimed, panicking. He's going to take away our items! If he does that… Yugi hesitated. Do you know what that means! His voice was so shrill. The burning in Ryou's brain moved down to his eyes.
"I'm sorry… I can't…" Ryou repeated. "I… you haven't seen what he's been through…"
He's going to take my other half! He's going to take him away from me! Please Bakura-kun! Yugi was begging now. Ryou was burning, tears dripping out of his eyes down onto the dirt floor.
"I'm sorry…" Ryou repeated.
There was silence. Ryou assumed that Yugi had left. Now he was alone again, trembling on the cold dirt floor.
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With a roar of rage, Yami no Bakura flung a whip of darkness at Malik. It hit the Egyptian hard in the stomach, snapping his connection to Yami no Bakura's thoughts, throwing Malik back against the wall, this time knocking him unconscious. Yami no Malik dove down to his lighter half trying to wake him up.
"You bastards! Trying to control me!" Yami no Bakura laughed harshly. "Me? I'm on a different level from you all!"
"What happened? Did you manage to contact him?" Yami no Yugi questioned Yugi anxiously, squeezing his light's shoulder. Yugi nodded solemnly, large purple eyes hollow.
/Yes but… he's not going to help us…/ Yugi answered. Painful, heavy, dread filled his stomach once again. /He can't turn against his darker half…/ That had been their last hope. There was no way they could survive Yami no Bakura's next blow. They were all going to die.
Yugi grabbed Yami no Yugi's arm desperately. Their eyes connected once again.
"Aibou…" Yami no Yugi said and pulled Yugi's body into a fierce hug, clutching frantically at him. Yugi sobbed into Yami no Yugi's shoulder.
At least we'll be together… Yugi thought.
Yami no Yugi held Yugi tighter. Forever, aibou…
Yami no Malik was crouching on the floor, his lighter half's limp unconscious body lay in his arms dark arms, like a child desperately holding onto his mother's corpse. Yami no Malik's dead white eyes gazed down at his light fearfully, stroking Malik's pale blonde hair lovingly with his clawed dark fingers.
/Wake up, wake up/ he ordered harshly. /We can't die, main personality-sama, I won't let us…/ he hissed in Malik's ear, voice trembling, pleading.
Satanic laugher filled the room as once again five Sennen Items began to glow.
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Time was passing as it did back in the illusion world forest. He was sure he had been lying there for days, years, decades… millenniums? The room stank just as much as it had when he had entered it. All the torches had gone out except for the one above Ryou's head; he was surround by a glowing orb of orange flickering light. Now that his head was clear though, Ryou thought he saw the darkness shifting around him. Drawing closer?
Ryou blinked.
The darkness shifted again.
Ryou sat up suddenly. Was it just him or did it seem like the darkness in his darker personality's mind was growing. It felt like he was sitting on the edge of a cliff, his toes hanging off the very edge, if he took even one step forward he would surely fall, be consumed by the ever mounting darkness.
The torch above his head crackled. Ryou flinched. He knew if it went out, the darkness would reach him. But the torch seemed to be growing weaker by the second, or was the darkness growing stronger? Ryou was afraid.
Then a sound came out of the darkness. A soft airy sound. Ryou's ears strained to listen, eyes stung as they tried to penetrate the darkness. The sound was becoming louder. It must have been coming closer. Ryou suddenly recognized it as breathing.
A small human figure stumbled out of the darkness. Its wide fearful eyes fixed on the light above Ryou's head. Its weak legs tripped and fell forward. Ryou caught him and was actually surprised to feel the weight of its cold shivering body fall into his pale arms.
"Shh, it's okay," Ryou cooed softly, holding the figure in his lap. "You're safe now…" The child looked up. His white hair was stained with blood, dirt and filth and the filthy ripped and torn rag he was wearing could not cover up the enormous amount of bruising covering his golden brown skin. His body had been marred and beaten, littered cuts and burns.
'He's been…' A horrible hollow sorrowful feeling writhed in his gut. Ryou suddenly felt sick. The child's mouth opened but no sound came out. The boy pointed out into the darkness urgently.
"No, it can't hurt you anymore," Ryou said kindly. The boy shook his head and pointed out into the darkness once again, more forcefully. "I don't understand…" Ryou protested.
The boy struggled to his feet and tugged on Ryou's sleeve, pointing yet again into the darkness.
"You want me to go in there?" Ryou asked fearfully. The child nodded and tugged at Ryou' sleeve again. Ryou hesitated. "I can't… it will eat me," he protested again. The boy's face was lined with pain, his innocent eyes pleading.
He needs you…
Ryou bit his lip nervously. The child clutched Ryou's hand. Ryou looked up at the torch and then slowly and awkwardly stood up. The boy pulled the white haired teenager into the darkness and Ryou stepped off the cliff.
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A feeling was bubbling up in his system. Hard to describe. It made his blood rush; too much oxygen and darkness flowing in to his brain making him dizzy.
Was this joy? Was he happy? Excited? Aroused?
The darkness felt so good on his skin, so numbingly cold his body was dissolving into it. His organs were protesting under the pressure, the darkness eating at his human flesh. He was burning, drowning, intoxicated in pain. It hurt and yet it felt so good.
'It's only temporary,' Yami no Bakura told himself. 'Soon I'll get back my old body. I'll get the power of darkness… I will win.' His was drunk on the darkness.
"It's over. There's no reason to draw this out any longer," Yami no Bakura hissed. The feeling was boiling up in him again, rising up out of his throat like bile. He laughed as all five Sennen Items lit up in his hands. He could see the four insignificant figures lined up against the wall. They knew it was the end.
Once more the darkness trembled, making the room scream as it tore through the air, circling around Yami no Bakura's crouched rigid form. All the torches in the temple went out. There was totally blackness in the underground stone temple, the only light coming from the five glowing items in Yami no Bakura's hands.
"Die," the word was whispered from Yami no Bakura's pale chapped lips.
But before the darkness could reach the four figures on the other side of the room, the Sennen Ring suddenly grew red-hot in Yami no Bakura's pale hands. He cried out, cursing, and dropped the scorching hot metal impulsively. It clanged as it tumbled down the steps of the stone temple and skidded across the stone floor.
Everyone in the room shielded their eyes as blinding white light exploded from the middle of the room. The tendrils of darkness cringed and trembled unpleasantly in the light, retreating back to their master's side. The white light was coming from the Sennen Ring on the floor. The light stretched curving around Yugi, Malik and the others like a giant shield.
Yami no Bakura's black pupils shrunk, his mouth left slightly open.
"No…" he muttered, still shocked. "No, no, no, NO!" he screamed recovering himself, enrage. "You will not stand against me, yadonushi!"
/Bakura-kun…/ Yugi mouthed, stunned purple eyes growing wide, staring at the shining white shield.
"He came back for us," Yami no Yugi gaped, arms still wrapped around his aibou.
"I'm taking back what is mine," the voice of Bakura Ryou echoed from the white light coming from the Sennen Ring. "I will not let you use the item I found against my friends! I will not let you hurt them!"
"You bastard!" Yami no Bakura screamed, deadly furious. "How DARE you stand against me! This will accomplish nothing! I'm still stronger than all of you!"
"Maybe so," Bakura Ryou spoke. "But I will not sit back and watch you kill them! I'm going to fight too!"
The darkness surrounding Yami no Bakura was still pulsing, seething and hungry. It desired to consume. It desired to consume the light. Black inky tendrils dripped oozing to the floor creeping forward towards the glowing shield.
Yami no Bakura's eyes suddenly widened in realization.
'Wait… Yadonushi's tapped into the power of the Sennen Ring but the Ring doesn't have the power to create shields, it can only manipulate souls. This should be impossible… unless… he's created a shield out of his own soul…' Yami no Bakura hesitated, his whole body trembling. 'If that shield is broken, his soul will die… this is suicide!'
The next second the darkness leapt hungrily forward with a roar. There was a scream, the white shield shattered, its glittering pieces dissolving into the air.
Silence.
All the torches were out, nothing could be seen through the darkness.
Then a small pop in everyone's ears. Like a vacuum, air rushed violently forward passed Yami no Yugi's face, whipping his multicolored hair around his head. It was like a giant tornado had appeared in the temple. There was a loud unpleasant cracking sound above their heads.
"The temple's collapsing!" Yami no Yugi's voice shouted through the fierce wind. The violent gusts suddenly stopped, followed by another loud crack and the sound of falling rock. "We need to get out of here!" he cried. But the room around them was still pitch black; they had no way of finding the exit.
With another loud crunching sound of cracking stone, part of the ceiling above them collapsed. Sunlight flooded into the temple. The power of darkness was gone. Yami no Malik had taken control of Malik's body was now running toward the exit and caved in ceiling had created. Yami no Yugi turned to follow.
What about Bakura! Yugi shouted. He had already returned to Yami no Yugi's mind. Yami no Yugi looked frantically around and saw an unconscious white haired figure lying in the middle of the floor, the golden Sennen Ring clutched desperately in his pale hand. Yami no Yugi ran over, picked Bakura Ryou up and carried him out of the collapsing ancient stone temple.
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Wooo! Exciting, ne? That's one fucking awesome chapter if I do say so myself.
Bet you're all confused now. This chapter kinda… ends suddenly but I like it that way, makes you all want to read MORE! Good thing there's still three chapters to go. YAY!
(bursts into seizers of uncontrollable laughter) And that's such a Yami thing to say too, "WE HAVE THE POWER OF UNITY, BITCH! FEAR OUR UNITY! THAT'S RIGHT, BOW DOWN!" (more mad seizers of laughter) God, SO cheesy!
Bakura and Ryou is my favorite pairing. Can you tell? Does it show a little bit you think? (muses) But Ryou was so fucking kick ass in this chapter! WOOT!
NEXT CHAPTER! Wait! I don't understand? What exactly happened at the end of this chapter? Which Bakura is controlling the body now and why? What happened to all the other items? Stupid Yami Hitokiri and her dammed cliff hangers! (shakes fists threateningly) One thing she can tell you though, JOUNOUCHI AND KAIBA RETURN AGAIN! YAY!
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