By the time they traveled to the third pyramid, the sun had already started to set. Joey took his hat and started to wave it. "Well, at least we'll be able to walk a step without turning to toast." Joey commented as he stepped out of the vehicle.
"Yea. Speak for yourself." Yami looked down at his own leather attire. Mental note: hurt Yuugi later. Yami thought to himself. I HEARD THAT! Yuugi responded. Dammit... Yami sighed. He forgot Yuugi knew everything he was thinking.
Tahirah had stayed at the pyramid the whole time, wandering around a bit. She looked up as a car approached "Hn?" She knew that it wasn't one from her parents' team...though they'd probably come looking for her sooner or later. Preferably later.
Joey stretched from the long ride. "SO, you said something about meeting here right?" he asked no one in particular. He then trudged in the sand and leaned against the pyramid.
" So is there a -push me- button on this thing?" he said as he looked over the pyramid.
Tahirah watched Joey and Yami, and then raised a brow at Joey. She knew both of them from school, vaguely, but the shorter one, Yuugi she believed was his name, seemed to slap her in the face a bit more. He looked different too..anyways. "Of course there's not," she stated, walking over to Joey with an exasperated look.
Tahirah followed Joey and Yami, curious as to why two students from her high school...would walk into a pyramid like it was a mall or something. "Weird," she murmured, feeling an odd tingling on her forehead. A reaction to the Millennium Puzzle, she'd later figure out.
Joey turned his head and walked over to Yami. " A door huh. Let's go in." he said it as simple as that. He flung the door open, and a huge spike came from the floor as Joey tumbled back, barely missing being pitched by the spike. " Easy does it." Joey said as he laughed nervously.
"Yea.. Joey. I'm going to assume that there's traps set up for us as mouse traps are set for.. well mice. So we have to be careful." Yami said as he watched Joey tumble backward.
He looked to his right to see a girl looking at him, her face clearly stating - what the-----. Joey stood up and shook his head rapidly. He then straightened himself. " So..you see anything out of the usual besides an attacking spike?" he said as he inched away
Yami turned around to see a girl behind him and Joey. "Hello...?" Yami said to the girl. She looked familiar... like he had seen her somewhere before.
Tahirah blinked at Yami, okay, he definitely looked different from when she'd seen him, but still familiar. "Ah..hi to you too," she replied, watching Joey inching away with a raised brow before looking back at Yami.
Yami looked at the girl in wonderment. Where have I seen her before? He wondered.
Tahirah noticed the look Yami was giving her, and blinked once again, returning it almost identically. 'What the...?'she thought in confusion. "..What is it?" she asked aloud, trying to sound nonchalant.
Failing.
" Any clue what's in here? We got a - meet here or die- note." he said giving her his world renowned cheesy grin. He then peered into the open door. " I can't really see anything from here, and I don't want to end up like Swiss cheese either. " he admitted.
Tahirah raised a brow "I don't know anything about the note...but I might be able to help navigate the pyramid." She shrugged. "...And by the way, my name's Tahirah Nosara."
"I could've sworn I've seen you somewhere before... I just can't quite figure out from where." Yami looked down at his biker boot shoes. "I wish I could remember where I've seen you before..."
Tahirah's gold eyes blinked once again. She stared at Yami in confusion "Well...we do go to the same school," she muttered, again failing to sound casual. 'What..is he talking about? What's with this guy? And why the heck is my head hurting like this?' she thought, absently raising a hand to rub under her bandana.
Yami looked back up at the girl. "Is something wrong? Does your head hurt?" He asked as he seen Tahirah rubbing her forehead.
"Hm?" Tahirah hastily dropped her hand to her side. "Nah..just the after effects of the heat, I guess," she stated a bit too quickly. She glanced at the door to the tomb "...I'm curious, neither of you brought a light source, did you?"
Joey looked from Yami, to Tahirah, to Yami again. " So...can I call you Terra?" he said as he dodged another scorpion. "Why won't you leave me alone!" he insulted the scorpion as he danced across the sand.
Yami looked behind him and stared absent mindedly at the dark door that awaited them. "No. We weren't expecting to be coming here. But here we are." Yami held up the Millennium Puzzle in his hands. "I just hope coming here wasn't a big mistake..." He said as he looked at the puzzle in his hands.
Tahirah's hand shot out to grab Joey's shoulder "Stop leaping around like that, you'll only attract them," she stated blandly. "And call me whatever you want, so long as it's in proper etiquette." She'd been called some pretty...interesting things.
Tahirah looked at Yami, still gripping Joey's shoulder, she blinked at the puzzle. 'Huh? That thing..'she thought, an expression of shock crossing her face. She eradicated it before she did something stupid "...Well there's probably torches inside, so maybe that won't be an issue," she murmured.
"Is he always blonde? Yes, I'm afraid so."
Tahirah sighed "This could be a long night," she grumbled to herself. She looked back at the door "...Well, shall we?" She didn't want to get caught by her parents going into a pyramid without permission.
"We shall. But let's wait for Joey. Though I must warn you, he may take a while. He's a little slow in the head." Yami said, looking at Joey.
" Well, I've got a lighter in my pocket." he said as he pulled it out. " I've also got some lint, 20 dollars, and a stick of beef jerky." he said as he nibbled on the beef snack. "Well, it's now or nothing. " Joey said as he popped his head into the door.
Tahirah grabbed Joey's shirt and gingerly tugged him back "Call me crazy, but maybe it's a bad idea for /you/ to go first," she stated to him, rolling her eyes.
"Yeah, I think it's best if I go in first." Yami said, looking through the dark doorway.
Joey staggered back and glared at her. "I can go first, with my hands tied behind my back!" he said with a smug grin. That was obviously not the answer she was looking for. " Well, missy, why don't you go?" he said as he made room for her.
Yami sighed. "I said I'll go. I don't want to put you guys in danger. Especially you Joey. Lord knows you have enough damage in your brain already."
Tahirah nodded lightly "Hey, Joey..." She was pretty sure that was his name "..Light that torch, unless you want to be falling into a pit or something."
Tahirah glared at Joey "Light that torch without burning yourself, and maybe I'll be impressed." She glanced at Yami with a 'you put up with him /how?' kind of look.
Joey took the torch to his right and flicked out his lighter. Ironically, it fell to the ground, and in an embarrassing -woopsie!- moment he searched the ground for it and picked it up. " Eh..I meant to do that!" he said as he lit the torch.
Tahirah blinked slowly "...Y'think there's even any brain cells /left?"she asked Yami with a smirk. He seemed rather brave, he rather risk his own life than his friend's, and even a girl he'd barely met. Interesting..
Yami walked up to the pyramid and slammed his head into the pyramid wall repeatedly. Yami stopped shortly after a warning from Yuugi about destroying his short term memory and turned to look at Joey. "Hand me the torch, Joey" Yami held out his hand.
Tahirah blinked slowly '...Well...this should be great fun' she thought. Her eyes glanced towards Joey 'Mental note: be sure /not/ to warn him of any prophecies on the walls' she added to herself. She watched Yami calmly.
Yami grabbed the torch and cautiously went inside the pyramid. It appeared to be a hallway, leading to somewhere. Yami stopped and turned around "OK Guys, it seems to be all clear from here." Yami shouted.
Tahirah gave Joey a ginger push in front of her, and then followed. She glanced at the walls, which were blank. "Now that...is very weird,"she commented.
"So..eh.. You sure this place ain't cursed?" he asked hesitantly. He remembered death-T. He paced across the narrow passage slowly, wary of any other random spikes flying towards him.
Yami held up his torch looking around at the walls. They were defiantly bare. "I expected them to be filled with hieroglyphics." He said aloud.
"They usually are,"Tahirah replied to Yami. She ran her hand over a section of the wall "...But these are bare, and smooth..."she murmured to herself. She glanced at Joey "...If it is cursed, you're going to walk into it before we do."
Joey practically fell on his butt at that comment. " Well, aren't you a lovable bunch." he said in sarcasm. " So... what's in here anyways?" he asked as he swept away a cobweb.
Yami walked a bit further until he came to a fork in the hallway" Which way should we go?" He asked.
"How should I know?" Tahirah rolled her eyes at Joey, then glanced at Yami and the separating paths. "..That's a good question." She walked forwards slowly, noticing something on the ground "Hn?" She knelt, it was a piece of a slab with a few characters on it. Her eyes scanned it "...Ah...this makes no sense. It says 'curse of Anubis will'...and then cuts off."
"More egyptian mumbo jumbo. Am I the only one that doesn't understand any of this?" he yelled out. He was met by the dead echo of the pyramid. "Spooky. " he said afterwards.
Joey shrugged. "Well, obviously right, because all the horror films I've seen the monster is always lurking on the left side of the hall." he said in a matter of fact way. Joey's definitely watched too many movies.
Yami stared at the slab for a moment reciting the words in his head a few times. "Hmmm... I wonder what that could mean."
Tahirah resisted the urge to throw the slab at Joey's head. Instead she stood up, with it in one arm. "Well we could go with Dense's method..."she commented, shaking her head.
Yami sighed. "Well, I hate to say this but I guess I'm gonna go with Joey on this one. We're going to have to choose one eventually so we might as well go right."
Tahirah smirked "If we run into a trap, at least we can blame him for it." The girl's best shot at a joke as she turned towards the right-side path. Tahirah paused as Joey yelled "...Or maybe whatever creatures are lurking here will just /come to us/ instead!"she added with a pointed glare.
Yami peered at the walls, only to stop short in his tracks. He saw a life-sized carving of Anubis on the wall. "Wow, was he ever tall." Yami said, looking the carving up and down.
"Joey one! Terra none!" he said laughing as he marched toward the right outlet. He looked up to see dozens of bats nesting on the top of the chamber. He widened his eyes as he crept across trying his best not to sound noisy.
"This'd be so much easier if we tore out his vocal cords," she growled to herself. She glanced at the carving of Anubis "...Indeed," she agreed, and then she looked at Joey in confusion, then up as she noticed the bats. "...Ah...those are so not native to this place."
"Blame Joey for the bats. He created them." Yami said gruffly.
Hey then spotted Yami staring at the statue. "Was he your uncle or something?" he said while poking it.
Yami looked at Joey. "... No. He was an Egyptian Lord of the Dead. Didn't you learn any of this in school?"
"Already done." Tahirah chimed in reply to Yami. She then stared at mentioned blonde "...Oh by the gods..." She rested her forehead in her hand.
Joey shot an angry glare at Yami but Yami didn't seem to notice it. "What..do you mean not..native?" he said fear edging his voice.
"I mean bats and Egypt are like Goths wearing floral pink dresses," Tahirah replied in a somewhat snippy tone. Okay, bad comparison, but ah well.
"Joey, bats don't typically live in a hot Egyptian environment. Plus... this is a pyramid. How did they get in?" Yami stared at the bats hanging. "Darn you Joey for creating the bats that I see."
"That's a good question." Tahirah looked up at the bats. "Not to mention...why they're still sleeping, even thought its nightfall already." She paused, looking to Yami and Joey.
"I wonder how they get out to ea..." Yami stopped short. "UH guys? We might want to start moving faster along. I have a feeling these bats haven't had anything to eat in a while and... I'm sure they're hungry..."
Joey's eyes seemed to get yet wider as the bats began to still from the movements from the three. Joey tapped lightly on Yami's shoulder. "We've got...trouble.." he gulped.
"Yea... I concur with you Joey." Yami said.
Tahirah raised a brow at Joey, then looked up "...Ah...joy..." If she got out of this, she was never ever ever /ever/ leaving the camp again
A high pitched squeal came from one of the bats as it flapped it's wings, preparing to fly down upon the trio. Yami, upon seeing this shouted "GUYS LETS GET MOVING!" He ran the only way he could run: wherever the hallway was taking them.
"Right behind you!" Tahirah snagged Joey's sleeve and took off right behind Yami. She knew the other bats would swiftly take off, and they had to get-the-hell-away before that happened. She had a hunch that they weren't fruit bats.
The bats swooped down, filling the hallway with an even deeper blackness than before. Yami looked behind him, only to see his two friends running behind him, along with the bats chasing after them all. "Come on!" he called
Joey felt himself pulled and he began to run after Yami. He could hear the fluttering wings from the bats, enough to give him the adrenaline to speed ahead of Yami.
Tahirah kept herself at a relatively even pace with Yami. "Does he...even know where he's...going!" she asked between the jolts that her running caused in her breathing rate.
"I seriously... doubt it." Yami responded while running. He looked for a possible outing but found no luck of one being around.
Joey's heels screeched to a stop as he heaved open a heavy door, most likely leading to the center of the pyramid. He tried with all his might to open it, but utterly failed. " Peeps! I could use your help here!" he yelled down the hall.
Yami ran at the door at full speed, pushing it open with ease "IT'S A PUSH DOOR JOEY, NOT PULL" He yelled. "COME ON HURRY UP!"
Tahirah ran right up behind Yami, pushing Joey through the door with enough force to knock him over. She breezed in behind him, and then slammed the door closed again. Leaning against it, she took a few seconds to catch her breath.
"I think... I'm ready to go back home now..." Yami breathed.
"Don't think...that's an option, dude." Tahirah replied, straightening she glanced at the door. "...Now we have to either find another way out, or hope those things aren't there when we get back, 'cause odds are they /really/ don't like us now."
Joey, his hair ruffled, slumped to the ground. "Now, what? There better be glittering gold in there with my name on it or my name's not Joey Wheeler!" he jumped up. He looked around the utterly bare room. Why were the walls closing in on them...?
"We have another problem here..." Yami said as he watched the walls getting closer to the trio.
Tahirah looked up "...Oh great," she grumbled. "Isn't this cliche." She looked at the two boys with her "/Now what?" Tahirah looked at the walls, with the way they were moving, the three of them had maybe a minute before they were all turned to pancakes. She glanced rapidly around the room, not seeing any door or any semblance of an exit "/Now/ what!" she asked of Joey and Yami.
"Well, we could go back and get swarmed by bats... or we can run like mad through these walls and hope for an outing." Yami responded, watching as the walls got closer to the three.
Joey looked back and forth between the walls to the ceiling. "Is there a weak spot in the walls?" he said as he kicked it firmly. Of coarse, this lead to foot bruising and a wincing Joey. "I think not." Joey answered himself.
Tahirah glanced at the door behind them, and discovered that it had closed to a flat surface, no hope of pulling it back open. "Scratch idea one...now our choices are either run like hell or get turned 2D..."she stated with a sigh.