RANT
Yesh, I was reading my very first Yu-Gi-Oh! Story on Saturday (the one I deleted)... 5kb was my longest chappy! That's about a quarter the size these chappys are! Weird how your style changes... coz heck! I couldn't spell to save my life then! So. Many. TYPOS!

-ahem- Anyway, to comment on the crappiness of the last chappy, please note that it was seriously rushed as these chappys take hours and I was trying to get it done the night before I left for Spain, so MWUHA, I have an excuse! I seem to have plenty...
RANT END

Teehee, thats new. Welcome to a new chappy! Note that non-rants are written after the chappy, so lookit! I'm hyper! I won't rant no more! RESPONSES TO ME REVIEWERS! -glomps reviewers-

Reponse to Reviews
Chicary: No prob 'bout the cut-short review, it was a review all the same and thank you so much for it! Most peeps don't bother anymore, so you're special! -glomps- Yupyup, Yami's lookin' over him, ain't it SWEET! Teehee, glad you liked the chappy!

Rowena Raven: -points to rant- uh... thats my only excuse for the crappy last chappy, and I completely agree! It was way off 'cause I deleted a bunch of detail so it wouldn't be to long -sweatdrops- heheh..Bad move?
My sis just drew Lloyd and Noishie! -glomp- Heehee! I LOVE THAT GAME! Ooo! Must see the DA account! I loved your piccys! Don't get fanart anymore, so those are some of my fave pics to look back on! -glomps- Thankies for the review!

Sorceress Vanessa:Took a little longer then a week, huh? I did have fun in Spain! Gotta post a pic or two up in DA in the Calnan account XD
Thankies for the review SV! And glad you love the story! Yup, I've been dying to bring Yami back, but I knew I had to wait till the last of the series to bring him in this way. Can't wait 'til the end (is in the middle of writing it, heehee), tis gonna be great! Or... at least it's great in my head -sweatdrops- heehee. Enjoy the chappy! Thankies for reviewing! -glomps-

Bookdragon: Do you know something about Spain? IT'S HOT! But ya know something else, I hate shopping and I shopped for ages there! So much fantasy and EGYPTIAN stuff! Give me an Anubis figure over a dragon any day!
Hmm.. ranting... my greatest weakness...
Well, I'm glad you liked the chappy, even if I personnally thought it was a little slacky 'cause I cut a load out. I hope you enjoy this one more, it's a little funnier then the last XD Enjoy!

yugirules Again, yes, I did have fun in Spain! Go to Salou, it's one of the best places EVER! Though I'll always prefer good ol' Ireland, wind and rain all year round!
Yay! Everyone's happy Yami's back, thats great! 'Cause it just wouldn't do to have reviewers hate him if he's making another appearance later on. Thanks so much for the review, you and the other reviewers rule!

Hmm, nice lengthy reviews for you all! Now, hope yaz enjoy the chappy! Crappy name, but ignore that!

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!

"This is talking"
"These are thoughts"

Chapter Six - Mysterious Light

"Yugi! Yugi are you ok?" Ryoura yelled frantically, shaking Yugi to try and get a response from the dazed teen. He had began to worry about the teen when the lost souls had turned vicious and grabbed Yugi's arms, but he hadn't been able to do anything, his hands unable to break the barrier that had been made around Yugi and the spirits.

The strangest thing about the past minute or so was the extra conversation Yugi seemed to be having with a person that seemed to be trying to help him. Whoever it was, it wasn't one of the souls Yugi scared away, as Ryoura could see when they spoke to him, even if he couldn't hear it.

Bakura let his guard slacken slightly when he realised the rest of the lost souls had fled, making his way over to Yugi and Ryoura. The smaller teen had his eyes wide open, but was staring directly past Ryoura as he questioned him, skin pale and form frozen. "He's recovering from the same magical shock we went through. He'll be all right."

"You sure?" Ryoura asked worriedly, looking from Bakura too Yugi.

"Just wait a moment."

Sure enough, a few minutes late, Yugi blinked his eyes quickly and looked around himself, as if just waking up. "What..? Where...?" he muttered, looking around himself, slightly dazed. Ryoura's questions of concern fell on deaf ears, and after scanning the area once, twice, three times, he looked at Bakura. "Where's Yami?"

"Yami?" Bakura asked, surprised. He frowned when he came to a conclusion and shook his head. "Yugi, that wasn't Yami, it was just a lost soul that-"

"No, I know that, I mean the real Yami," Yugi interrupted, pushing himself to his feet quickly, stumbling when his vision blurred from dizziness. He knew Yami had been there; he had sensed and felt his presence, but where was he now? Had he run away again? No... he wouldn't do that again. He knows how much it hurts, he wouldn't...

"Yugi, what are you talking about?" Ryoura stood up quickly after Yugi and held his shoulders to steady him. "There's no one here but you, me and Bakura-"

"No, Yami was here, he was!" Yugi insisted, looking around the room once more. It was only then he seemed to realise the bones littering the floor and leapt slightly, stepping back on a number of other bones by accident.

Ryoura again placed his hand on Yugi's shoulders, this time more firmly. "Yugi, your losing it, calm down!" his voice may have been confident, but the look in his eyes showed the fear he felt of Yugi's condition.

"But... But I know..." he let his sentence trail away as his eyes looked on something about him, and his constant staring made the others look up also. A small ball of glowing white light, slightly bigger then a baseball, had appeared a few metres above the group, hovering quietly in place while the group had been talking. Yugi went to take a step so he would be directly under the ball of light, but it suddenly began floating down quickly and stopped right in front of Yugi's face.

"Get back!" Bakura yelled, grabbing Yugi's jacket and pulling him back, away from the ball of light. Ryoura shut his eyes, reading Bakura's thoughts, and tried to focus a small amount of magic into the palm of his had.

"No guys! Wait!" Yugi pushed passed Bakura and Ryoura, turning to face the bewildered pair. "Don't attack it, it's ok!" he said, waving his hands in front of him as if trying to wipe their magic away.

"Are you serious?" Bakura asked, shocked. Was Yugi really that stupid? He had no idea what this thing was!

Ignoring Bakura, Yugi turned around again and looked at the ball of light, taking a step closer so his face was a mere few centimetres away he raised a hand up beside his head and nervously tapped the ball. On touch it vibrated a tiny ripple of energy and began flying around his head wildly, as if flustered.

"Yugi-"

"No, it's ok!" Yugi insisted, interrupting Bakura yet again, the ball bouncing through the air almost happily, maybe even playfully, before stopping again in front of Yugi's face. Smiling softly, Yugi tapped it again, and once again the ball of light bounced away. "It's ok, it's not evil."

"Are you sure?" Bakura asked, though he knew Yugi had become instantly attached to the ball of light as soon as he saw it. Sighing heavily he brushed past Yugi, walking across the room without so much as flinching at the cracking bones under his feet. "Fine, keep your little pet, but we have to find a way out of here first."

"Uh..." Yugi looked away from the light that bounced around in front of his face and around the green-lit room. There wasn't a door in sight, and the only way out seemed to be the hole in the roof ten metres up which they had come through in the first place. "Why aren't there any doors?" he asked just before the ball of light bounced itself playfully off the side of Yugi's face.

"This was a false entrance to the temple..." Bakura sighed, sounding exhausted, as he stopped under the hole in the roof and looked through, seeing a box of light when the opening way above them. Stuffing his hands in his pockets angrily he narrowed his eyes at the light.

"It's to far away..." he muttered to himself, then continued his explanation, "These chambers were sometimes used to mislead thieves when they tried to steal anything. They guarded it heavily to trick people into believing that it really was the entrance, when it was really a trap. As you can see, there are no escape routes and the roof in the ceiling is to far away, not to mention if we made it to the roof we would have a very difficult if not impossible climb, as the walls are slanted so we couldn't grip them.

"If the fall alone didn't kill intruders, then they would die of starvation..." he paused for a moment, thinking, then sighed, "I'm guessing the children that are in here must have fallen in when the barrier wasn't protecting the entrance, or maybe they'd been travelling with the thieves that tried breaking in."

"Children?" Yugi asked in shock, and even the ball of light stopped bouncing at the news.

"Yes, those were the souls that went after you, Yugi. Apparently Ryoura can see them and he believes they were lonely and wanted you to stay with them," at the mention of the teens name Bakura turned around; Ryoura hadn't spoken in a while. The teen was standing behind Yugi, staring at the white ball of light. "Ryoura?"

Yugi blinked and looked back, spotting Ryoura behind him as he continued to stare at the ball. "Ryoura?" he said also, but the teen seemed completely captivated by the bouncing ball of light in front of him and wasn't listening. "Ryoura, what's wrong?"

"What's going on?" Bakura asked, walking over and placing a hand on Ryoura's shoulder.

The teen instantly jumped and looked around wildly. "Huh? What?" his gaze met Bakura's, who was staring at him with a confused expression, "Oh... were you saying something?"

"What happened?" Yugi asked, equally as confused as Bakura. "Why weren't you responding? What's wrong?"

"Nothing!" Ryoura said straight away, laughing and scratching the back of his head. "I was just thinking! Dangerous sport, thinking is, had you all worried for no reason!"

Neither Bakura nor Yugi were convinced by his act.

"Ryoura..."

"No seriously, I'm fine!" Ryoura declared, smiling brightly as he pointed at the hole in the ceiling. "Besides, we have more things to worry about then my deformed mentality, we gotta figure a way out of here!"

"He has a point..." Yugi muttered, looking back at the orb of light that had begun bouncing lazily from side to side. He could tell Bakura was worried about Ryoura, but the teen had a point. They needed to find a way out of here or it wouldn't matter whether or not there was something wrong with Ryoura, and Yugi's two companions seemed to be worrying about him also. Maybe this would take their attention away from him for a few minutes at least.

"Fine..." Bakura muttered, pacing back across the room to where the hole in the roof was, staring up at it. "We don't have much magic, so we'll have to think carefully through our plans."

"If we can come up with any," Ryoura said, walking up to stand next to Bakura and looking up at what looked like a small window of sky above them. "Monsters any good?"

"No." Bakura answered flatly. "If we try to summon a monster here, this close to the boundary between our world and the shadow realm, we may leave it wide open to welcome any monster that wanted to come into this room."

"Climbing?"

"I already told you, it's to high up and the climb is impossible."

Yugi sighed and reached his hand out to the orb again, tapping it lightly and smiling when it made an odd, happy sound that reminded him very much of a Kuriboh. "What are you...?" he whispered as it began to whirl around his head again. He didn't understand his own feelings around the little ball of light; he wasn't afraid of it, even though he knew nothing about it, which was odd considering he had learned to be cautious of the unknown over the centuries.

"Flying!"

"Of coarse, why didn't I think of that?" Bakura said sarcastically, rolling his eyes. The truth was, he couldn't think of a way out of this situation. He had only been in a place like this once before, and when he had been he'd had about a dozen or more other thieves outside to get him out. Now, though, there was no one on the outside to help and they had nothing with them that could be of any use. He was fresh out of ideas.

"So what do we do now?" Yugi asked as he began to walk towards the others, the orb bouncing along the air behind him before zooming in front of his face. "What the-?" the ball began to bounce around wildly in front of Yugi's face, as if excited. "What's going o?"

"What's it doing?" Bakura looked back, raising his guard slightly when he saw the orbs strange actions.

"I think it has an idea," Ryoura answered, in a much to knowing voice not to get attention. Bakura wondered did he understand it, and if so, how?

"Really?" Yugi looked at Ryoura then back at the orb. "Is that it?"

The orb just bounced around more then curved in the air and darted towards the hole in the ceiling, shooting up it and disappearing. The group sat in silence for a moment, surprised, and stared as if waiting for the orb to come back. But at the sped it was going it was long gone in a matter of seconds. Growling Bakura threw his arms in the air and yelled.

"Well thanks a lot! That was really helpful!"


"This way?"

"Are you sure," Joe asked Ilia sceptically, leaning on the neck of his horse and looking sideways at Ilia and Steve. "You don't sound very positive."

"Hey, this isn't easy stuff!" Ilia protested, pouting. They had been travelling for hours on one trail left behind by Yugi's group, but now their direction had changed and she was trying again to locate them. Standing in the middle of the desert after a few hours of riding in the scalding weather had not put the group in the best of moods. "I'm doing the best I can!"

"Leave her alone, Joe," Steve said, pulling the reigns of his horse to try and steady the unsettled beast. It had been standing fairly still, only moving it's hooves off the heated sand once in a while, but it had suddenly begun to try and trot away. "What is wrong with you?" he asked, pulling the reigns harder.

"At least yours isn't the only one.." Ilia muttered, looking over at Joe, who was having an equally difficult time with his horse. "I thought you were an expert on horse-riding," Ilia said, smirking.

"I never said I was the expert, Ryoura was a whole lot better!" Joe gripped the reigns hard when he horse reared up because he was pulling too hard on the reigns. "Yesh, what's gotton into them?"

"That way, I'm sure!" Ilia ordered, pointing east. It was only after she pointed she realised that was the very direction the horses were eager to travel. "That strange..."

"Why? 'Cause of your Necklace, or 'cause of the horses?" Joe asked, ignoring Ilia's scowl as he began trotting in her pointed direction. About four seconds later, both horses had taken off eastwards without their riders command. "What the heck is going on with these horses!"

Ilia wrapped her arms tight around Steve's torso so as not to fall off, focussing instead on the magic she had sensed from the Millennium Puzzle. From the strength of the wave, Yugi had used the magic while very weak because the wave wasn't very strong. At least the ripple had lasted long enough to let her Necklace lock on to Yugi's Puzzle, and now she could sense the direction he was in. They couldn't be very far away.

"What the heck is that?"

Ilia yelped as Steve's horse stopped abruptly, rearing up and neighing loudly. Joe's did the same before their hooves thumped down on the sandy ground again. Shaking her head and sighing with relief, she hit Steve's shoulder. "What do you think your playing at? I could have fallen off you know!"

"Ilia look!" Steve yelled over her, pointing ahead of him. Leaning to the side she looked past him, but couldn't make out what he was pointing at through the heat waves from the sand. Then she saw it, a white ball of light darting directly for them. Steve looked back at her. "Please tell me I'm going delusional from the heat."

Ilia shook her head, eyes locked on the orb. "I don't think so, that things got a lot of magic coming from it."

"I vote we run!" Joe yelled, trying to turn his horse around by pulling the reins, but it simply jerked it's head back so it was still facing east. "What the-? Hey! I'm the boss around here!"

"Joe they're not listening!" Steve said, pulling hard on the reins but not succeeding in making the horse move in the slightest. It stood completely still, like a statue.

"Wait guys, calm down... I don't sense anything evil from it. It's not dangerous, don't worry," Ilia whispered, watching curiously as the orb slowed itself in front of them instead of crashing into them like he thought it would. It stopped a few metres away and danced through the air from side to side, emitting strange noises and making the horses heads move with it's bouncing rhythm, as if hypnotising them.

"Seriously, what is that and what is it doing?" Joe almost yelled, pointing at the orb as it spun a few times. Unfortunately, that was the time the orb arched itself around and took off eastwards, the horses taking off after it at a gallop. Joe nearly fell off the back but managed to grab the horses mane, pulling himself up and latching his arms around it's neck.

Ilia once again clung to Steve, who managed to hold his horse's reins when it took off. Turning her head to the side she watched the sandy ground race by beneath them as the horses galloped after the mysterious force that had appeared from seemingly nowhere. "Where is this thing taking us?"


"You sure you can't reach it?" Ryoura asked, frowning.

"Positive now help me down!" Yugi yelled, struggling to keep himself stable from where he was standing.

"Why did I let you talk me into this..." Bakura muttered, glaring sideways at Ryoura, "I told you it wouldn't work, the ceilings too far away. And would you stop digging your feet into my shoulders!"

"It's not my fault!" Yugi yelled down at Bakura, whose shoulders he was presently standing on. Ryoura had somehow convinced them that the may be able to reach the ceiling if Yugi stood on Bakura's shoulders and reached up and like fools they had listened to him. They were at least a metre or two off! "I haven't got very good balance up here and-whoa!" Yugi had leaned a little too far back and was trying desperately to straighten himself, arms flailing madly in an attempt to straighten up.

"Yugi!" Bakura yelled, holding onto Yugi's feet tighter with his hands. Unfortunately, he to was thrown off balance trying to help Yugi and began stumbling backwards.

Ryoura yelped and covered his eyes as Yugi and Bakura tripped and fell, only hearing their yells and the crashing sound of the bones underneath then when they fell. Moving his fingers apart to look at them he bit his lip, trying desperately not to laugh. "You guys ok-ay?" he move his hands from his eyes to his mouth as he began sniggering.

Bakura groaned and tried to sit up but found Yugi lying across his stomach. Grumbling he placed his hands on Yugi's side and shoved him off forcefully, rubbing the back of his head where he'd hit it off the ground. "Idiot."

Yugi sat up and shook his head to knock himself out of his daze. "Me? This isn't my fault you know! If you hadn't been moving I wouldn't have lost my balance!"

"Oh boy," Ryoura muttered, though he was still smiling, and walked over to the others. He tried to imitate the voice of a psychiatrist he'd seen in a movie as he spoke, still grinning, "Yes, I sense a build up of great tension in this relationship. You are both unable to accept responsibility for the accident."

"Ya... 'cause it was your idea!" Yugi said, though he seemed to be smiling slightly at Ryoura's accent.

Ryoura grinned, shaking his finger at both of them, "Blaming others will not solve the intimate relationship between you two-"

"Ryoura!" Yugi yelled, swiping out at the teens leg from where he sat on the floor. Ryoura quickly dodged by jumping away and laughed. Yugi couldn't help but smile. And play along. "He's so not my type."

Bakura raised an eyebrow at Yugi, curious to his actions while completely ignoring Ryoura who was practically rolling on the floor with laughter. Yugi had become very unpredictable lately; one minute he was ranting and raving about his dead friend being in the room and the next he was playing along with Ryoura's stupid games.

Why was he acting like this? What had happened to him to make him so unbalanced? He knew for sure now that Yugi was being manipulated, especially sense Yugi had never carried a dagger before, and Bakura had felt the one inside Yugi's jacket when the Puzzle spirit had been lying across his stomach. "I don't remember him ever getting one... why would he hide it from us?"

Suddenly the green room became a little lighter and Bakura realised the orb of light that had appeared earlier had darted back down the hole and straight to Yugi's side, cause the spirit to jump with surprise.

"Hey, you came back," Yugi smiled, reaching out and tapping the orb playfully. It rippled and bounced around slightly, then flew back to the opening. For a second, Yugi thought it was going to leave, but it stopped for a moment, bounced around, then flew back to him. "You... want me to follow you?" the orb whirled around his head then darted back towards the hole, but staying lower down so it was at Yugi's eyes level when he stood up.

"What's that boy? Is someone in danger?" Ryoura asked the ball of light in faint shock, then grinned and laughed nervously a second later as if the orb had glared at him.

Yugi stood directly under the opening and looked up, confused. "I don't see any-"

"HELLOOOOOO!"

"Hey, that's Joe!" Ryoura ran up next to Yugi and looked up, but his friend was too far up and difficult to see. Ryoura grinned and yelled up, "'Ello Joe!"

"Ryoura? Is that you down there?" Joe yelled down, his tone shocked.

"No, Ryoura's dead. I'm his happy fairy counterpart!"

"A fairy with huge lungs! Hang on, we'll get you out of there!"

"Now what on EARTH would he do if I was serious?" Ryoura asked, grinning. He punched the air and cheered. "All right! We're getting out of here!" He'd had enough of this skeleton-infested tomb to last him a lifetime and couldn't wait to be out.

"You brought them to us, didn't you?" Yugi asked, looked at the orb, which simply bounced un and down once in response. "Thanks..." Yugi said, taking the orbs action as a yes, and it simply bounced around again in a happy gesture.


"That little orb brought their friends?" the Lost Soul said in disbelief, watching as Ilia and Joe bickered over methods to get the others out of the trap they'd practically thrown themselves in. "What is it?" he wondered, standing at the edge of the opening and looking down. His much keener vision spotted Yugi down in the dart, laughing as the orb danced around his head again. Ryoura, who was standing next to him, though, looked at the orb with curiosity.

"Well... no matter..." the spirit grinned, rubbing his hands together as he looked over at the new arrivals. "Much more fun for me... Now I have a few little victums to play with before I deal with Yugi...

"I'm sorry my friends..." he apologised sarcastically to the group, invisible and inaudible to them. A grin spread across his face, "But I'm afraid you've thrown yourself into my web when you first befriended that Bakura boy... Linked with him, and also with Yugi, I'm afraid I just cannot afford to leave you out of my little game..." he drew his sword and looked at it with a type of lust, imagining the blood of his victims smeared across its gleaming blade. "Enjoy life while you can, my friends, because it may only be a matter of days or even hours before it all comes crashing to an end..."


To Be Continued
(Thanks to my friends Sammy and Joe for the whole 'Ello Joe' thing XD)
Yujhi: And now the ranting begins... -sweatdrops-
Bayleef:Bwaha! That chappy was so weird and so stupid, but I loved it so much! I haven't enjoyed writing a chapter this much for a very long time! -glomps the chapter- So even if you guys didn't like it, I LOVED it! Not the way it's written, tis written yucky, but it was so much fun I couldn't care less! XD
Ryoura: Yay! Happy author! Don't get that much! Glomp me! -glomps Bayleef-
Yujhi: -smacks forehead- Why me? Bayleef:Welp, dispite all that, I hope someone liked it! Please review everyone, coz me's lovies reviews! Slán slán till the next chappy everyone! -glomps everyone-
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