Hey I know that I left it at a kinda cliffhanger in the last chap, I was leaving that day BUT! I'm back now I have done my training and… came top of my class too, YEAH ME! It was hard I had no time for anything at all no reading or writing, nothing, not even on the weekend I was studying, (sighs) anyway here's the chap that you have been waiting for me to post.
Warning: M and Yaoi.
Disclaimer: don't own Yugioh.
CHAP 31: Kidnapping And Evil Doings
/…Help me Ryou it's dark I can't see, their doing this to me …/ the voice was faint in Ryou's mind.
"Bakura!" Ryou whispered as if it would bring the world crashing down around them.
Bakura roared in his face and jumped back fading into the shadows. Ryou shakily looked around not seeing Bakura anywhere he walked over to Marik and helped him up. "Lets get out of here." Marik said but winced. Two men ran in with their tranquillisers pointed to where Bakura had gone.
"Don't, just leave him," Ryou ordered them. They gave him a look as they pointed and aimed ready to fire.
"Get out!" Marik yelled at them as they neared them, they both nodded their heads and left, followed by Marik and Ryou. When they walked back into the other room Marik collapsed on the ground taking Ryou with him, "Sorry the travel here wore me out."
"Can we get a room where he can rest?" Ryou asked.
"Of course," Ishizu said, "we'll pick this up tomorrow then." She walked to the door. "But no one is to be in here without a team." She looked at Ryou then Marik, who nodded their heads. They walked down the hallways Marik leaning on Ryou. They soon stopped at a door, "this is the only spare room we have so you don't mind sharing do you?"
"No" it rolled off Marik's tongue as if it was nothing, Ryou gave him a look but then remembered why they were here.
"Very well rest and we will continue tomorrow morning." She bowed and left.
"Lets get you inside." Ryou huffed as he opened the door and helped Marik in, they walked over to the bed and Marik sat down. Ryou turned and walked back to the door, he closed it and the sound of the lock snapping in place.
"Ryou, what are you…?" Ryou walked over to him and sat next to him.
"When Bakura looked at me, he spoke to me." Ryou cut in as he stared at the wall.
"I didn't hear him speak, did you hit your head?" Ryou got up and pushed Marik back and lifted his foot as he pulled off his boot.
"He did… in my mind," he let the leg go and then picked up the other one. "Marik I think Ishizu might be right."
"We're in the field of the gods, I just don't understand why Anubis isn't here." Marik frowned.
"I don't know either," he pulled off the other boot. "It just didn't seem like Bakura at all." Ryou let Marik's foot go, Bakura's voice seemed strained as if he had been fighting against something just to get those few words out.
"He was in Devil's sleep for a whole night." Marik said as he looked at Ryou who had a far off look on his face, but then seemed to snap out of it and nodded his head as he walked into the adjoined bathroom then came out again.
"That night I was going to jump off the roof." Marik nodded his head, a sad look passed over his face, the poor angel was so lost without Bakura around he let out a sigh so was he in a way. "He came to me and we talked, he knew me and before we came here I saw him again, he asked me for help and said that they were doing this to him, but if he knew who I was then, why doesn't he now?"
"You never told me that."
"It was private," Ryou blushed as he sat back down on the bed. Marik moved up to the head of the bed.
"Fine what did he say?" Marik said as he made himself comfortable with the pillows.
"That he was in darkness and all he could feel was pain and it clouded everything for him." Ryou turned his head to the left but didn't look at Marik, "He said he can move freely when it's asleep."
"That doesn't sound good." Marik said as he closed his eyes he was tired.
"How is it, that you can travel to and from earth and heaven and not be that tired but coming here wipes you?" Ryou asked as he got up and climbed onto the bed and crawled up to Marik and lay down next to him with his head on his shoulder.
"We live there and it's easier, but doing it more than once in one day drains you but to travel to this place takes a lot of energy as the gods travel to and from here." He sighed tiredly. Ryou nodded he could remember travelling to earth his first time and how draining it was for him he thought he could sleep for a week.
Later Ryou woke to someone shaking him, "Get up Ryou come on." Ryou blinked a few times rubbing his eyes forcing them open.
"What?" he slurred.
"Come on, we getting Bakura out of here tonight." Marik pulled his boots on. Ryou sat up as he ran a hand through his hair. "Ryou I was thinking on what you said, I agree there's something not right, the room, Bakura, everything. Bakura's strong minded and for anything to pull him down like that isn't right."
"But Anubis… could he be behind this?" Ryou whispered and hoped not.
"Maybe I don't know, if there is magic around the place he might not be able to see what's going and I don't think Master would be into hurting one of us for his own gain, he wouldn't get anything out of it." Ryou got up off the bed and pulled his shoes on.
"But won't they find us if we take him?"
"No I have done it before. But I'm going to come back and see Anubis myself and find out everything." He walked to the door.
"But Bakura he might not go willingly." Ryou watched as Marik tried the door handle but the door didn't open. "They locked us in," he growled he crouched down and pulled out lock picks from his jacket and slid them into the keyhole but it shocked him, he yelped falling back on his rear and shook the pain from his hand as he got up, "we're not getting out this way."
"What maybe the locks broken?" but then Ryou remembered that Ishizu had said they locked her in one night, but she wasn't sure and thought that they may have done it every night.
"No they locked it while we were asleep." He turned to face Ryou then walked passed him to the window, he threw back the curtains and the moonlight filled the room. He opened the window his black wings spread out to full length then sat flush on his back. "When we get to the room you go in and talk to him bring him out to me in the room." He waved for Ryou to come to him. Ryou stood next to him as Marik pulled him closer and wrapped an arm around him. "Hold on tight." He then jumped out of the window.
They flew for a bit and soon landed on a small ledge, "Hang onto me and don't let go." Ryou nodded as he held onto Marik's shoulders. He opened the window and stepped down then turned around and grabbed Ryou by the waist and lifted him down onto his feet.
They kept to the shadows as they both moved down the hall, Marik pushed Ryou back as a worker walked by and turned down another hallway, Marik grabbed Ryou's hand and moved to the stairway and climbed down them, at the bottom they stopped and Marik looked down the corridor again then he took the last step and turned to his right and walked as Ryou was right behind him.
He stopped as the door that they were going into opened and Arthur came out backwards followed by another man. Marik looked around as he grabbed Ryou and faded into the shadows and watched. As a long stretcher came out after him and three others helping two more that looked to be injured. Ryou gasped as Marik put a hand over his mouth so he wouldn't make to much noise, for what they saw was Bakura on the stretcher and looked to be asleep with a mask over his mouth and nose.
"He was aware today of what was going on, see to it that doesn't happened again," the last person said as they came out, "we need the ring and for him to tell us… we need to break him mind and soul," the figure turned and started to walk but stopped and turned back. "And find a way to get rid of the angel and reaper." Then turned and left.
"I don't think that he can stand much more of Devil's sleep, she wants him broken, then broken he well be." They pushed Bakura down the hallway passed Marik and Ryou who were in the shadows, once they were gone Marik and Ryou stepped out.
"Come, I want to see who's behind this." Mark grabbed Ryou's hand again and started to walk in the other direction Bakura was in.
"What about Bakura? They're going to put him in that sleep again." Marik stopped and turned to face him.
"We need to know who is doing the ordering, once I know we'll get Bakura and leave." They started to walk again.
They followed the figure to a door just from watching Marik knew it was a female she opened it and stepped inside. Marik looked around as he walked up to the door. "How are we going to find out?" Ryou whispered.
Marik smirked as he moved them both into the shadows again, "my powers." Ryou looked up they were in a room and the figure that they followed was undressing herself. Marik narrowed his eyes as she lent over and turned on the lamp he growled and Ryou gasped Marik putting a hand over his mouth, as Shizuka stood there in her underwear and slipped into the bed then she lent over and turned off the light.
When Ryou looked up they were out in the hallway again, "Come on lets get Bakura and go." Ryou nodded as they hurried back the way they came. Once again they were back to the room where Arthur had taken Bakura out of and started to walk down the hallway.
"Where would they have taken him?" Ryou asked his voice small in the darkness of the hall.
"I don't know?" Marik said but kept walking as his eyes scanned the hallway in front of them. It wasn't long when they heard a scream, they moved to a door. Marik looked at Ryou, "What ever happens don't make a noise." Marik grabbed onto him and pulled him close.
"I'll rip out your heart and eat it." Bakura growled and struggled in the chains and straps on a metal table in the middle of the room.
"Now, now you know why we're doing this, as I have told you before, the lord wants a body for himself and you're in the way." Arthur said, Marik kept a hand over Ryou's mouth.
"You have so much sprit and you're harder to break than anyone I have worked with." He flipped the switch and Bakura's body went rigid as he shook on the steel table then fell limp as the switch was flipped off again. "Are you ready to give in yet?" Bakura shook his head no, unable to form words, seeing Ryou for that short time had brought with it hope that he would be helped, he knew Ryou would make Marik help him and Marik would come soon, that's if Ryou didn't ignore the dreams.
"How long did you think you could hide? You know the high archangels grew weary when you stopped looking for Ryou and stopped coming, so they put a plan forward to Pegasus about your angel to see if it would draw you out, but Pegasus enjoyed what he did to Ryou he was a sick bastard, no?" he laughed as Bakura pulled on his restraints. "Oh don't worry, your angel is here trying to help you with your reaper friend, but they will be handed over to the lower level demons by tomorrow, as will, Yugi and that human Marik keeps as a pet."
Marik bit his tongue his mouth filled with blood as tears fell on his hand from Ryou. "Well food for thought no, we'll leave you and the sleep will be turned up to eight."
"But Arthur that could destroy him."
"Would you like to take his place," he asked as he got up.
"No."
"Then do it." Arthur growled then turned to Bakura "The lord has such good things planed for you." Arthur patted Bakura on the head "If you give up the ring, it will all go away," Bakura growled and bared his fangs, Arthur turned around and left but stopped at the doorway. "Don't worry about Ryou, Bakura, if you don't kill him yourself tomorrow, then the demons will… eventually." The door closed. Marik and Ryou waited as they heard footsteps leave the other side of the door and were no longer heard.
Marik and Ryou stepped out into the room, Marik ran over to Bakura and pulled out a knife from his boot and cut the bonds, "Bakura," Marik lifted his head and looked into his closed eyes.
"Will he be alright?" Ryou asked as he placed a kiss on Bakura's hot cheek.
"Lets get him back and cleaned up then we'll see." Marik grabbed onto Ryou and the other arm around Bakura then they were gone.
Malik sat wrapped up in a blanket with a hot chocolate in his hands as he watched t.v it had been two days now since Marik and Ryou left and a snowstorm raged outside the house, he flicked through the channels but found nothing to watch and stopped on the weather channel. He gasped as Marik, Ryou and Bakura appeared in the room.
"Malik run a bath now, get clean clothes." Marik ordered Malik jumped up and put the cup down and ran up the stairs. Marik lifted Bakura into his arms and followed.
Marik walked into the bathroom and lent Bakura on the basin and started to take off his clothes. Malik moved out of the way and Marik lay Bakura in the water, it ran up Bakura's body to his shoulders and stopped under his chin, Marik kept an arm under the back of his head.
"Marik what happened?" Malik asked as he put the boxers on the basin, Bakura's pale skin was covered in muck, dirt, blood and the awful blue pants and top.
"I'll tell you after," he looked around, "where's Ryou?"
"He didn't come up here." Malik said.
"Go see him, comfort him he heard some really bed news before." Marik said, as he looked Bakura over he had bruises, burns and cuts. Malik nodded and ran out of the room and down the stairs.
"Bakura you have to pull through this," he said softly as he caressed Bakura's bruised cheek, but no answer came, he soon pulled the plug out and lifted Bakura out he dried him the best he could and dressed him, lifting him once again and walked to the room where Ryou had been sleeping in and laid him in the bed and covered him up. Hopefully Ryou's scent would help him while he slept, he turned and left the room walking down stairs into the living room to find the two on the couch Malik sat there patting Ryou's hair as he was sobbing in Malik's lap.
"Ryou I put Bakura in your bed," Marik sat down next to them.
"I can't see him or be near him." Ryou said his voice dry and raspy.
"You can he'll need you now more than anything." Marik rubbed his back.
"They'll use me to get to him and get the ring back for themselves and I'll end up…" he closed his eyes.
"Ryou, Bakura's not going to give you up to anybody or let you go, why don't you sleep on it for now and we'll fix everything in the morning." He wiped the tears but more only fell as Ryou nodded. Marik got up and lifted him in his arms and walked to the stairs, Malik ran around and turned everything off.
They reached the top floor and walked to their room, he stopped just outside the room Bakura was in and an eerie quite came from within. Marik looked down at Ryou as he to looked at the door. But Marik took a step forward and passed the door, Ryou looked away and they walked into his room, he laid Ryou on the bed and Malik slid in behind him. Marik pulled his clothes off all but his boxers and slid in front of Ryou. Marik sighed and hoped that tomorrow Bakura would be back to his normal self but he doubted Bakura would be.
TBC
More fun to come, you won't have to wait that long, but I'll be updating my other stories as well.
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