Zypher: As promised, here's the other epilogue. It may be shorter than the first but I know you'll all love it either way. Enjoy.
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Yami no Game
Epilogue 2: Bakura and Crimson
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Bakura growled as he paced through his soul room. "Those two will pay for what they did. I was so close and they ruined it!" he hissed. Crimson waltzed in, their items both connected in such a way so both could enter each other's soul rooms in their separate items and looked to him. "Bakura, don't get so angry about it..." he stated and Bakura turned to him with a glare. "Why shouldn't I be angry?! Thanks to those demons of the Sennen Puzzle, not only did we lose the chance to gain said item but now, we're trapped here with no way out unless our masters place the Ring and Gem back on and what are the chances of that happening!"
"You never know. We know they won't put the items on but we can still speak to them while in here. It will only take some coaxing before they have to place them on. Then we'll gain the souls we need to grant us a body and claim what we desire ever since the last fool who place on the Ring and was rejected." Crimson explained and Bakura smirked. "Yes, I remember that and it was oh so interesting and exhilarating to watch. I will always have a good laugh every time I think of that memory." Bakura spoke. Crimson chuckled darkly. "Yeah, the fool didn't know what he was getting himself into when he stole the Ring that day." Crimson spoke before he switched the subject. "But enough about that. What are we going to do to gain our masters' trust? Like I said before, for us, it will take a lot of coaxing and knowing you, you may somehow trick him into placing it back on for it would help him out of some sort of danger that Yami and Aqua can't figure out." Bakura grinned. "That's the plan on my part."
Crimson sighed. "You're helpless."
Bakura glares at him. "Am not!"
"Are too."
"Am not!"
"Are too."
"Am not!" Bakura charged and tackles him down to the floor. They got into a scuffle and Crimson won, grinning as he sat on top of the other demon. "I hate you sometimes." Bakura mumbled. "I know you do. But seriously, we need to think of a way to have them place the items back on again so we can devour enough souls to gain a body so we can finally have them." Crimson hummed. "Easy, just coax them like you said. It won't be long before they would desire our help to get them out of some sort of situation that would help them, and their friends if they happen to be in the same place at the same time." Bakura answered.
"Do you think that would actually work? They know what we do and the chance that they possibly would throw away the Ring and Gem is a bit possible." Crimson said, pondering the thought. "Well, if they try, they will never suspect the items to come back to them. I'm not going to lose my sweet prince to no one and whoever does try to get closer to him other than friends will die by my hands." Bakura hissed before turning his head as much as he could since Crimson was still sitting on his back. "And will you get off me?!" Crimson laughed as he jumped off. "Well, either way, I'm sure we can think of something else. If not, we'll go with the coaxing. I want to be with Diamond more than you want to be with Ryou and I'm not going to waste any spare seconds in here with a dumbass like you." Bakura growled as he got up and looked to him.
"Who're you calling a dumbass?!"
"I'm calling you one."
"Don't start with me!"
"Or what?! You're gonna attack me again?"
"Yes!" Bakura tackles him again and they got into another scuffle and again, Crimson was victor. "Man, in the past you were the greatest thief and I was second to you. Now we're demons in the present and I am the greatest fighter with you second to me. What a turn of events~" Crimson preened with a little grin. "You're so lucky we're friends or I probably would've killed you by now for being an 8 on the annoyance scale." Bakura muttered as Crimson climbed off him again and helped him up. "I'll let bygones be bygones as long as we can succeed with getting out these items and getting our future partners." Crimson said before leaving the Ring and heading back to his own item.
Bakura watched as he left before snorting as he walked over the to bed that materialized in his soul room and laid down. 'Hopefully I can receive your love. It may be a tedious task since I know you despise me for what I almost did to your new friends and what I have done in the past. If you can forgive me, Ryou, I will grant your deepest desires with every inch of my demon power.' he thought before he decided it was time for some well deserve sleep since it would be a long while before he would be released again.
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Zypher: And that's it for this extremely short epilogue. I can safely say that most of what they talked about in this is actually many hints to what will happen in the sequel when it comes to them. Anyways, hoped you enjoyed this last epilogue and I shall get started with the sequel. See you all later.
A note: as i finally finish the minor grammatical and spelling errors this old story was wrought with, i have made a modernized retooled version over on AO3. it is a complete 180 of things here to work with my fresher writing style so it is an exclusive version to be posted there while this original take is left here. go give it a read if you want to see the true meaning of a demon's shadow game~
A note of a note [2/13]: title has been changed on AO3 to "Yami no Game: Arise from Darkness".