"Well, guess we better start running." Yami stated. He looked at the walls one final time and down the thin strip path that lay before them. "Here goes nothing." He began to run, as the walls got closer and closer to their bodies.
Joey sighed and simply replied. " Well, it's not like we came all this way to turn back." he said as he took a step forward. " Now how bout' hurrying up?" he said with a cocky grin.
"Follow your own advice!"Tahirah snapped, once again giving Joey a light shove. Once he got moving, she took off behind him. 'I can't /believe/ this..'she thought to herself.
Joey could already feel the room closing in on them. He had a fear of heights, but that didn't include impending doom, does it? He hurried forward, already feeling the walls press against him.
Yami kept running, hoping he wouldn't trip and fall on his face. Good thing Yuugi's not in control... he thought, knowing that would anger Yuugi. Yami looked ahead, seeing a small glimer of light. "GUYS, UP AHEAD. I think I see an opening!" He informed.
"It better be or we'll be seeing a different kind of light!"Tahirah called up to Yami. She felt her arms scraping the sides of the ever-shrinking tunnel. Oh boy...
Joey, already tired out of his wits, kept up with Yami, and could also see the light. That really sounds like going to heaven doesn't it..? Odd...He barely squeezed out of the walls, and could her a resounding clamp as the to walls crushed against each other.
Yami escaped from the walls with minor scrapes on each of his arms. "Well... this has been a lovely vacation." He said sarcastically, looking at his arms.
He turned around to check if they were all still there. " So...was that another mouse trap." he said in sarcasm as he pointed his thumb toward the now " back of the room". " You sure there isn't a monster in here..?" he said cautiously.
Tahirah barely managed to leap out just behind Joey. The scrapes on her arms didn't even bleed. "Jeez..I know the Egyptians liked games and all...but this is ridiculous." She got up and dusted herself off "What the hell could be worth so much protection!"
"Alls I know is if nothing ends up being here, I'm going to be one angry 5,000 year old pharaoh." Yami looked around in the room that they were now in. Bare. Yami sighed. "This is going to be a never-ending journey. I can feel it."
Tahirah looked around "There's gotta be some sort of trick to this..."she muttered. She walked into the room and looked around a bit "...So weird."
Joey looked at Yami in concern. If Yami meant this was going to be tough, you knew it was going to be TOUGH. " I'd like to see Kaiba get his ugly mug through that." he said in criticism. " What now?"
Other me... what's that? Yuugi interrupted Yami. What? Yami looked around, seeing nothing. I don't see anything... Over there! On the wall. Yuugi had seen a lever on the far end of the wall, opposite of the trio. "That wasn't there when I looked around..." Yami said aloud.
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"Huh?" Tahirah looked at Yami, then followed his gaze to the lever. "...What the-? Where in the world did that come from?"
PULL IT! Yuugi instructed. "Hell no, I'm not pulling it!" Yami yelled out loud. He looked over to Joey and Tahirah apologetically "Sorry... internal problems."
Tahirah pointed at Joey "External problems," she answered Yami.
Joey walked up to the lever and scratched his head. A lever was just a big billboard saying, -pull me!- to him. Joey, with a blank face of - okaay...-, pulled down the lever.
"Maybe that's not-" Tahirah paused as Joey pulled the level. "...a good idea." She groaned.
" So you want to just sit here and wonder why we didn't pull the lever?" he asked as he turned around. If they were going to get into trouble, it'd either have to be blandly obvious, or - where'd that come from!- trouble.
"... so uh... anything change?" Yami asked, looking around.
"Not that I can see."Tahirah replied. She scratched her head slightly, frowning. "..."
Yuugi sighed. Dammit Yami, let me take over. You guys are so slow. There's a door right there! Yuugi's spirit pointed beside the lever. I don't see anything... Yami said, looking right where Yuugi was pointing. If I didn't know better, I'd say you were seeing things.
Tahirah watched Yami with interest, then at the level. "...Did I miss something?" The question was directed to Joey.
" Not that I know of. " he said as he tapped Yami on the shoulder. " Maybe you should tell her about Yugi, or I can just tell her you have split personalities." he said as he poked Yami. " Terrah, meet, Yami!" Joey said as he introduced the exactly same person. "I mean, Yugi AND Yami!" he said exasperated.
Yami put his hand up to his forehead "Oy... no bother in YOU trying to explain. You'll scare the poor girl."
She seemed surprised for a few moments "Uh..right then!" She looked at Yami/Yuugi, whatever. "So what's going on?"
Joey quirked up his eyebrow. " Well go ahead then." he said as he handed Yami an imaginary microphone. Joey then began to make a drum roll by pounding his fists against the walls.
"Great, Joey. Now she probably thinks I'm some schizophrenic." He turned back to Tahirah. "You see... I'm actually the spirit of a 5,000 year old pharaoh from... well... Egypt. I locked my spirit away in this puzzle." He held up the puzzle in his hands. "And Yuugi, this kid.. solved the puzzle and he's kind of my... host body I guess you could say." "We can change back and forth and talk to each other through our thoughts... it's kind of weird and uncomfortable at times but it's not too bad."
Tahirah stared at Yami for a little while, and then she closed her eyes. "...I see." She nodded, then smiled "Well, I get the impression you do not understand whatever Yuugi's saying."
Joey walked around the room in a circle. " Well, any ideas about how to get out of here? " he said as he traced a circle on the dust from the walls. " Who knows if a man-eating mummy will come from the walls and chase us around like from Scooby Doo." he laughed. He then realized what he just said and burst into laughter. Yamispirit.
Tahirah snorted to herself at Joey's comment, then walked over beside the lever. She extended her hand to touch the wall "Hmmm..."
"He says there's a door by the lever... but I don't see one." Yami responded, looking at the wall again. "Yes, thank you Joey for your superb sense of humor." Yami said, sarcastically.
Joey edged across the wall and felt around for, a handle of a type. Tough luck, duh there wasn't one. "Well, did you check Yuugi's eyes lately? "He said as he peered into Yami's blood red eyes. "hmm, you could use some sleep, but I recommend eye drops." he stated in a British accent.
"I'll get right on that Joey. I'll grab some Clear Eyes on the way back to the hotel." Yami snorted. /YAMI DAMMIT LET.. ME.. TAKE.. OVER./ Yuugi screamed. "OW DON'T SCREAM!" Yami yelled, holding his hands to his ears.
Tahirah jumped back from Yami, almost whacking her head on the wall. "Jeez!" She exclaimed. "...I think maybe we could let Yugi try whatever it is he's thinking, we're not getting anywhere."
" Well, if you didn't want my advice, you could of just said so. " he said as he pried Yami's hands off his ears. He slumped to the floor. "Are we just trapped? Just like that? Is that it?" he said as he looked around the dark room, torch still in hand. " Whoa, I didn't notice I still had that."
"Yea..." Yami said. It's all yours... Yami surrendered Yuugi's body back to him. "Finally! I can only take so long in that soul room of mine." Yuugi said.
Tahirah watched the small change as Yami relinquished control to Yugi. She cleared her throat "Ahem...pardon me, but we're still stuck in this room," she established.
"Yes, I know." Yuugi walked up calmly to the door that he seen before him. He placed his hand on the handle and opened it up, a bright white light shining through. "I can't believe you guys couldn't see this." Yuugi said.
Tahirah blinked slowly, shielding her eyes slightly. "Well excuuuuse us,"she grumbled, walking up behind him. "..What the heck's up with the miniature sun?"
Joey looked at Yugi in bewilderment. He raised the torch up to the handle, where small shadows flickered on the handle. "Well, as long as it's there, I say we go in." he said as he shrugged. He stepped through into the blinding light.
Yuugi walked through the light as well, revealing yet another room. Only this time there was what appeared to be a sarcophagus in the middle of it.
Tahirah followed them, and then glanced around. This room was different; it had hieroglyphs all over the walls. The girl stumbled back, looking sheer shell-shocked "This...this place," she whispered. This was the tomb she'd slept in for 5000 years.
Yuugi approached the sarcophagus cautiously, looking at the perfected art upon it. "I wonder who lies inside of this..." Yuugi thought aloud.
Tahirah shook her head. 'Idiot, don't say that, you want them to find out that you spent 5000 years in a tomb and still look 18!'She thought to herself. She walked over beside Yugi "...Won't know 'less we open it," she replied, her tone a bit shaky.
Joey sat on the edge of the sarcophagus, thinking it was a fancy bench. His gaze rose to see the others staring at him madly. " What...?" he said baffled.
"Joey, someone's BODY lies in that. It's an Egyptian coffin." Yuugi informed.
"Joey...you're sitting on a 5000-year-old corpse case,"Tahirah stated.
Joey hopped off and wiped all traces of any "curse" off his bottom. "So, what's so important about the coffin?" he said as he slowly lifted off the cover," it's just a mummy right, he couldn't have written the note. "he said as he imagined the mummy with a pen.
"Well I doubt HE wrote the note." Yuugi said. He helped Joey lift off the cover, only to reveal a rotting mummy corpse. "Ew." Yuugi said. "Let's cover it back up..."
"You never know." Tahirah watched Joey heave the cover off. She was a bit nervous to see what was inside. The Eye of Horus on her forehead kept burning, but she forced herself to endure it.
Yuugi... wait. Yami's voice interrupted. His voice was concerned... and had a hint of shakey-ness to it.
"Wait a sec..."Tahirah advised, stopping them from covering it. She looked at the mummy studying "That's..." She paled, if that was possible with her dark skin tone.
What is it? Yuugi asked, now concerned. I... I need to take over... Yami's voice was depressing, and Yuugi couldn't help but surrender to it.
Yami, now in control, took a step forward and looked at the corpse, speechless as he realized whose body that was.
Joey twisted his face in a -ok, I'm not touching that- look as he looked over the golden mask over the mummy. "I wonder if it was tri colored hair under there." he laughed nervously as he helped Yugi cover it again.
Tahirah watched Yami's reaction, and then looked back at the corpse. "...By the gods..."she whispered, just as stunned as Yami was, prolly to a lesser scale, mind ye.
Joey looked to Terrah, then to Yami, then to the mummy. He cringed. "Mind tellin me who that handsome dude is?" he asked as he looked to Yami again.
Yami knelt beside the sarcophagus... tears in his eyes. "So this is what it's like... to see your own body... in a state of never-ending rest." He put his face into his hands and wept silently, stunned by the body that lay before him.
Tahirah looked down at Yami, frowning. She knelt down beside him and rested a hand on his shoulder silently. Damn...so she'd shared a room with the Pharaoh's dead body..but why? She didn't get it, and wasn't too focused on it right then.