(Waves madly) HI! EVERYONE! I haven't updated on this one in a while so here I am with a chap for you.
Warnings: M Yaoi
Disclaimer: don't own Yugioh.
CHAP 24: Falling Into Me
Marik growled as he turned on his heels. "You witch, open that same portal now!" he demanded.
"I can try and I have a name." Ishizu hissed as she closed her eyes. Marik narrowed his eyes as she opened them, "I can't see its energy wave I don't know where they have gone." Bakura was on his feet and grabbed her by the front of her shirt pulling her closer to him.
"Try again, your so called beloved bother is with that psycho." Bakura growled his fangs bared, he then let her go standing by Marik's side. She nodded closed her eyes and tried again but then opened and shook her head.
"I can't find them I'm sorry." Bakura like lighting slapped her across the face her head snapped to the left and she fell to the floor holding her cheek.
"No but you found Ryou easily enough back in Egypt and killed him." Bakura advanced on her, Marik held him back.
"I think wherever they are it's going to be up to Malik and Ryou to get out of this one." Yami said as Mea's guards pulled away the council. "Put them in the dungeon and keep that binding spell on them." Yami ordered.
"I know that Malik can take care of himself but it's Ryou he's not well." Bakura looked at Marik. "I shouldn't have left him." Marik wrapped his arms around him patting his hair and whispering words of comfort in his ear.
"I can do a spell and have their powers taken away for good," Shadi said to Yami as a portal opened up. Bakura and Marik held their breaths hoping that it was Malik and Ryou, but Anzu and Odion stepped out and fell to the floor. "Good to see you're back," they looked worse for wear healers took them away, Shadi followed them out of the room.
Marik sighed as he closed his eyes then opened them, "Bakura can you sense Ryou at all?" Bakura frowned and concentrated for a minute.
"No I can't," he moved away from Marik and closed his eyes again the light around his feet and shadows wrapped themselves around his legs and fingers but then all of a sudden they were sucked back and the light was gone. Bakura growled and recalled the shadows using more power but he got the same result as before.
"It's okay, Malik will take care of him and they will come back soon," Marik ran his fingers through Bakura's hair.
"It's Tabor we're talking about, Malik is petrified of him… and Ryou," Bakura gathered a ball of energy and hurled it at the stonewall it crumbled leaving a hole in its wake. "I feel so useless." He roared.
"Bakura don't destroy my castle," Yami growled at seeing the hole he turned to Ishizu "is there anything you can do to help them out, you owe them that much."
"I'll have to see to my books," she said. "If you two will follow me I'll see what I can do." Marik gave her a look he felt the same as Bakura but they followed the witch anyway.
Ryou gasped as he looked around from on the floor, "How?" he pushed himself up and he was now standing in the palace in the very room that Marik read him the hieroglyphs off the wall a few days back. He started to walk, "MALIK!" Ryou called out and started to cough his throat burned. 'They couldn't have gotten to far' Ryou passed the rows of pillars.
The sand and dust was kicked up around Ryou's feet as he walked he looked down then scanned the floor around him, he walked forward and crouched down and seeing the scuff marks in the dust a sign that some one had just been there, he got up and followed them thanking Bakura and Marik for taking the time to show him such things, though he wasn't as good as Bakura and Marik but what he knew would help him out and he hoped that it wasn't the thieves that Bakura spoke of when they first came here.
Something snagged on Ryou's shoe and tripped him over putting his hands out he landed hard on the ground, he cried out as he sat back on his knees he lifted his wrist a big black bruise was there and it was swollen tears fell from the pain. "It's broken," he held it to his chest, he could deal with it for now and as soon as he had Malik and was back at the castle it would be healed right away. He looked back to see what had tripped him and cursed it for what it had done but stopped as he reached out with the other hand and pulled it out.
It was a spear well a strong stick with a knife tied to the end of it, Ryou smirked "this will do just nicely" he said to himself, he hadn't really thought of what he was going to do once he found Malik and Tabor but this would defiantly help in someway.
Ryou looked the spear over it must belong to one of those pathetic thieves as Bakura had put it. Ryou jumped as a scream echoed through the place "Malik!" Ryou started to run to where he thought the sound was coming from.
He ran down a long hallway through a few rooms and another hallway, following Malik's cursing that bounced off the walls around him. "I'm coming hang on," Ryou panted as he turned and ran down another hallway. The place was so big and he was just right behind them so how did they get so far away?
The cries were getting louder with every step Ryou slid to a stop outside a doorway he took a step forward. In the room Malik was laying on the floor not moving at all and through his shoulder was a long knife pinning him to the floor and other wounds mirrored Malik's body. Ryou looked around the room as he cautiously walked in, clutching the spear in his hand where was Tabor? Ryou's eyes landed on Malik for a second. "Malik?" Ryou said and hoped that Malik would jump up and take them out of this place, he now stood over Malik and knelt down next to him. "Malik!" Ryou sobbed and shakily reached out a hand and touched him on the unwounded shoulder giving him a light shake, but he was grabbed and thrown across the room the spear fell from his hands and landing near the wall.
"What are you doing here?" Tabor hissed.
"Taking Malik back," Ryou got up but yelped as he was pinned to the wall by the others body and his chin was grabbed and the others nails dug into his skin.
"The only way your going to take Malik back is when he's dead and after I've had my fun with him." he smirked and he drew blood with his nails.
"Keep your filthy hands off him." Ryou snapped back disgusted. Tabor grabbed him by the front of his shirt and pulled him away from the wall and slammed him back again knocking all the air out of Ryou's lungs and creaking the wall a little.
"You're going to stop me, I don't see how but your welcome to watch," he threw Ryou onto the ground.
Malik groaned as he opened his eyes turning his head he looked right at him, "Ryou?" he whispered Ryou looked up and started to move over to Malik.
Ryou was about to say something but was kicked in the face sending him backwards on his back as he laid there Malik called out in anger and lunged for Tabor.
The world swirled and went black and the pounding in his head, cold laughter was all Ryou could hear in his head as he was coming to. He whimpered putting a hand to his head. He looked over and saw the spear lying there near him. He looked over to see Malik under Tabor, the sound of bones breaking and pained screams as Malik's wing was broken and twisted in the wrong way.
Ryou reached out for the spear and got up without making a sound and by this time Malik's shirt was already torn and it hung off his body by strings as Tabor worked on Malik's belt on his pants. "GET OFF HIM!" Ryou yelled as he plunged the spear into Tabors back.
Malik thinking quickly pulled the long knife from his shoulder and stabbed it thorough Tabor's stomach. "You bitch," Tabor backhanded Malik as he pulled out the knife. Ryou fell back as Tabor kicked him, Ryou screamed out as a piece of wood went through his shoulder he slid off it and fell to the ground.
Malik and Tabor started to fight for the knife rolling on the floor, he had gotten Malik a few times gashes and cuts. Ryou whimpered as he pushed himself up he narrowed his eyes that now shone with gold in there depths.
Ryou growled he was pissed as he got up he ran over and pushed Tabor down with his heel in the small of his back so he couldn't get up but he was crushing Malik at the same time with his body weight. Ryou pulled out the spear and plunged it back in, it hit just near his shoulder blades and out the other side, Malik cried out as the tip got him in the chest. Tabor gasped but it died, as Ryou pulled it out, Malik gasped as well, Ryou reached down and grabbed Tabor's black wing and snapped it and twisted it, he screamed out. Ryou pulled his foot off his lower back and dragged him off Malik, "Beg for your life," Ryou sneered at him as he pointed the spear at him.
"I beg to no one," his eyes were on the blade.
"I assure you that I know how to use this and killing demons isn't that hard," Ryou kicked him.
"Ryou?" Malik sat up.
"Beg like the dog you are," Ryou yelled at him, as he stabbed Tabor through the top of his shoulder then pulled it out again. "I don't ask to many times."
"I'll never beg to a pathetic human like you."
"Pathetic, I'm not the one that had to run away with what I wanted… I simply take it." He narrowed his eyes at Malik.
"Ryou calm down" Malik got off the ground and walked over to him.
"Back off or I'll do more then break your arm." He hissed Malik stopped. Tabor got up and grabbed Ryou around the neck, Ryou did the same and he cursed himself for not having the same strength that he once had. Tabor was turning blue, as was Ryou there was a loud snapping sound.
Ryou grinned as Tabor's grip loosened and the look of confusion and pain passed over his face, Ryou watched as Tabor's eyes clouded over and he fell to his knees, Ryou pushed him away turning his gaze from Tabor's lifeless body to Malik a few feet away. He dropped the broken spear to the ground and lifted his hands to see all the blood on them.
Ryou's eyes now swirled with brown and became clear "I killed him," Ryou whispered Malik slowly took at step towards him looking at him.
"He would have killed you then me, no one will blame you for it," Malik wavered a bit the wounds were to many. "Are you alri…" Malik stopped as Ryou gave him a look.
"What do you want?" he hissed. "This is all your fault." He growled clenching his teeth.
"What?"
"I could have killed him three times over if you hadn't put that binding spell on me and took my powers." He wiped his hands on his pants.
"It's you again, leave Ryou now." Malik hissed but gasped as Ryou grabbed him around the neck.
"Don't tell me what to do," he squeezed, "You don't have much strength left do you, you were always so weak Malik even as a demon your weaker than everyone, just like this Ryou really, Marik and Bakura carrying you protecting you all the time."
"They love me it's only that they worry," Malik gasped out as he put his hands over Ryou's he didn't want to hurt Ryou.
"Love, love Malik, is it love when your locked up for three days and you just obediently take orders from Marik and Bakura quite pathetic really wouldn't you say?"
"No," Malik hissed then said. "Marik's my sire I have to, Ryou had to be punished it was Marik's way to keep him from being hurt by the council."
"Really now, I don't care much about that as I feed off Ryou's anger," Malik pushed him away a hand around his throat as he glared at Ryou.
"Ryou doesn't have anything to be angry about he knows that we."
"No Malik he doesn't know about your," he narrowed his eyes. "Dirty. Little. Secret," the grin grew on his lips Malik looked confused, "Well that stopped Ryou from struggling with me," he chuckled then said, "he's now asking me what I'm talking about" Ryou turned to Malik, "Should I tell?"
"I don't know what your talking about I have no secrets from him," Malik spat.
"You forgot Malik how could you…But… if you don't then they are keeping secrets from you now too. Oh you must feel so loved." He chuckled, Malik's vision was starting to become blurred.
Bakura growled as he tapped his finger on the arm of the chair and Marik's fingers ran over the back of his neck under his hair, his eyes constantly glowing crimson to show how annoyed he truly was. Bakura narrowed his eyes at the woman was she trying to piss him off? By mucking around with her books saying that she 'might' have a way to track Malik and Ryou. Who knew what that bastard was doing to them while he sat here. He looked up at Marik who was looking through a book, funny thing was demons weren't supposed to know magic like witches they had abilities but Marik and Malik used it from time to time.
Marik's fingers moved down his neck over his shirt and down his back as he read, his face set in a frown and his dark lavender eyes scanned the pages in front of him. "Marik?" Bakura hissed. Marik's dark eyes left the page and to Bakura's dark brown eyes. "I'm sick of waiting."
"We don't have any other way to find them, not that I can think of. I'm worried for them two," Marik turned back to the book in his hand.
Bakura sighed as he got up Marik watched as he walked across the room to the other side looking out the window he called up his power and the shadows grabbed onto his hand and pulled him along, Marik jumped to his feet and followed him.
"I have found Ryou," Bakura said as he was now running the shadows were pulling harder on his hand.
"Lets hope that Malik is with him," Marik was right behind him. They leaped out of a window at the end of the hallway they flew across the forest below them it was just a blur they didn't slow down as they got to the tavern they broke down the door shot through to the other side the doors to the house blew out Bakura and Marik shot out into the night sky heading to the palace. Bakura landed running because of the speed he was doing not wanting to slow down at all.
They ran into the palace they stopped and listened they could hear talking they started to run following the noise, they soon came to a stop outside a room to find a wounded Malik and Ryou talking both on either side of the room.
"Malik?" Marik ran over to him and hugged him tightly his broken wing hung limply and dragged on the ground, Bakura did the same but stopped at the look Ryou gave him.
"The traders have arrived," he growled. Bakura growled back and bared his fangs at Ryou who just smirked arrogantly at him.
"You again, what is it this time?" Bakura snapped, Marik frowned as he looked over at Ryou.
"For you to leave him after what you did."
"What are you talking about?" Marik growled.
"He says that you have a secret that you keep from Ryou," Malik said as Marik was supporting him in his arms.
"We keep no secrets from Ryou," Bakura pointed out "so piss off and give him back."
"Do you remember that night so long ago, a fight that you had that almost cost you your life?"
Bakura's eyes widened, 'he couldn't be talking about?'
"That stormy night where you ambushed" Ryou didn't get to finish as Bakura slammed him into the wall.
"It was an accident we didn't know, it wasn't our fault we had orders and he doesn't remember the past anyway, so this Ryou doesn't care about what happened then." Bakura pressed him more into the wall.
"No but I do and with time he'll know as well that you killed…" Once again he didn't get to finish as Bakura slammed the back of Ryou's head against the wall his eyes widened instantly turning brown he gasped as he fell forward into Bakura's arms.
"I'm sorry Ryou," Bakura held him close closing his eyes and nuzzling into his hair. "This is one thing you'll never know." Bakura turned to Malik and Marik.
"Bakura if he remembers everything he might not forgive us and sooner or later that side of Ryou will tell him, if not he already has." Marik looked down at Malik who looked confused.
"What was he talking about?"
"Nothing" Bakura and Marik snapped.
"Don't you dare keep it from me," Malik growled.
"It's just best that you don't know," Marik said.
"If you're so worried about what he was talking about… I can see Ishizu and have his… mind erased," Malik sighed he didn't like this one bit Marik lifted his chin.
"Are you alright? He didn't" Marik looked worried.
"No, just a few cuts and bruises that's all nothing a good feeding and a nights sleep can't fix." Marik lent in and kissed him on the lips relieved.
"Lets get Ryou back." Bakura lifted him up into his arms and started to walk out of the room that they were in.
Back at the castle Bakura placed Ryou on the bed in the healers room, when he removed his hand from the back of Ryou's head it had blood on it, he sighed he could smell it all the way back to the castle. The door opened at that time and Rell walked in.
"Hey," she said as she walked over to the bed. "This shouldn't take long." She looked at Bakura and placed her hands on Ryou's chest. Rell gasped and collapsed Bakura watched as she fell to the floor.
The door opened again "Out!" Bakura turned to see Seto at the door.
"What?" Bakura snapped.
"Out, so I can heal him." he said as he walked into the room with Ishizu right behind him. She lent over Ryou and flashed the light into his eyes.
"Malik told me what happened, so I can wipe out the last two hours from his mind," she looked at him. "I can also rid that side of him for good if that's what you want? I can put it in a pendent but you'll be the only one that can destroy it," she looked at Bakura.
"How you said that you couldn't do that?" Bakura growled getting annoyed.
"Yes but Ryou will be better off without that side of himself especially if that side knows what you did" she said. "But didn't I also tell you that he couldn't have stress." she hissed. Bakura growled but he was pulled away and to the doors and then Seto pushing him out the door.
"Don't worry I'll take care of him." the doors closed in Bakura's face, but they opened again, "You should go see Marik he needs you right now."
"What did you do to Malik?" Bakura growled.
"Malik's asleep for now he needs to regain his strength back that's at least a few days of rest," Bakura went to yell at him but the door was shut on him again.
TBC
That's it for me tonight people I'll update again soon, but do R&R I love to hear what you have to say. (Smiles and waves)
