Nice: Wow! It's been so long since I updated. I know you must hate me for taking too long, but I lost inspiration and couldn't decide on whom Freddy should go after next. But while reading the reviews for this story I saw that kilnorc had suggested on using Marik as a victim. And I thought, 'Yes! What a good idea!' So kilnorc this one is dedicated to you!

Bakura: Can we start now?

N: Oh um yes. I don't own anything.

On with the fic!

Ch.9: Killer Kids

"I can't believe that I'm doing this again!" cried Marik.

Malik and Marik were in the museum surrounded by 10 kids. Malik, who the kids loved, was playing with them. They were always good around him.

Marik, on the other hand, the kids hated him and the feeling was mutual. Marik hated the kids. At first, he tried to like them. But, after getting gum wads and spit balls out of his hair, 'kick me' signs off his back, and getting blamed for breaking things, he had enough.

"Oh, they're not that bad, right kids?" asked Malik. The kids looked at Malik so sweetly and innocently, that Marik swore he saw halos above their heads.

"Right Mr. Malik," said the kids in unison.

"Okay! I've got to help my sister with the exhibit. Be good for Mr. Marik," he said. And then he walked away. As soon as he was out of sight, the innocent look dropped from their faces.

"So jerkwad, what are we going to do, huh?" asked a boy. The kids started to advance on him. Marik slowly backed away.

"We are…um…Going to watch a movie on dinosaurs!" said Marik. The kids looked on with a bored look. He had to think quickly. "It has lots of killing in it!"

Then the kids let out a cheer. "Okay! Now follow me!"

He led them to a room with a TV and a VCR. He popped in the tape and turned around to face the kids. "Okay, you can only watch this movie if you are quiet the entire time and if and only if you don't bother me; I'll get you a treat, deal?"

"Deal!" said the kids. Marik pressed play and the movie came on. As soon as it started, the kids were entranced and didn't move.

'Ah! Now I can catch some sleep. They won't bother me for a long time, it's a five hour long movie!' he thought as he drifted off to sleep.

At the hospital

Tea was wondering what Yugi had said about the boogieman. 'I wonder it's the same boogieman that was in the evil's warning,' she thought as she sat outside of Yugi's room.

Dr. Please and the other doctors had sent her out of the room so they could bandage Yugi up. 'If what Yugi and the letter said is true, then we can't go to sleep anymore or we'll die! I need to call the others and warn them!' Tea pulled out her cell and dialed the museum.

Back the museum

Marik felt a tug on his pants. He slowly opened his eyes and saw a little boy looked up at him with big puppy eyes.

Marik, irritated that he had be woken up, looked at the kid harshly. The kid was wearing a dirty red and green sweater. "What do you want?" he asked.

"I have to go potty," said the kid timidly. Marik groaned. "Why didn't you go earlier!" he exclaimed.

"I didn't have to go then, but I have to go now," said the little boy matter-factually. "So will you take me now?"

Marik looked at the other kids. They were still watching the movie. 'They can take care of themselves for a few minutes,' he thought. He grabbed the little boys hand and pulled him out the room.

They walked past many exhibits but saw no one. 'They must be in another part of the museum,' he thought, 'Now where is the restroom?'

Marik noticed that the giant windows were covered with thick draperies making the hallway dark. Something was giving Marik a bad vibe. But he shrugged it off.

"Are you afraid, Little Marik?" asked the boy sinisterly.

"What? Me scared? Ha ha! You must be mistaken!" exclaimed Marik. "Now let's find that rest room so we can get back."

He tugged on the little boys arm, but the pulled away. Marik turned around to look at the boy.

"What are you doing?" he asked the boy. The kid had a really bad vibe coming from him.

The boy didn't answer…at first. But when he did, he said, "Foolish Little Marik, you still haven't noticed."

"Noticed what?" he asked shrilly. Suddenly, all the other kids had surrounded him, their heads bent and their eyes shadowed.

"That this is a nightmare!" cried the kids in unison. They snapped their heads up. Marik had to keep from gagging. All of the kids' eyes were gone! There was nothing except empty sockets!

The kids lifted their hands and pointed to Marik. Then they started to chant, "One, two, Freddy's comin' for you. Three, four, gonna lock the door. Five six, he's gonna kill you next. Seven eight, gonna stay up late. Nine ten never sleep again!"

Marik tried to run but bumped in to a man where the little boy was standing. Marik looked up at the man with scars and claws on one hand.

"Y-you m-must b-be F- Fr-Freddy," Marik stuttered with fear. Freddy smiled at him with a toothy grin.

"Yes I am. Now die!" he exclaimed.

Marik let out a loud and long agonizing howl.

To Malik

"What! Are you serious!" said Malik in disbelief. He was talking on the phone with Tea.

"Fine, I'll warn Marik," he said and hung up. 'Man, this is messed up!'

Malik walked to where Marik and the kids were. He heard high- pitched screaming. He ran down the hallway. He reached the room and kicked the door open. The kids were huddled over someone shaking them and screaming, "Mr. Marik, wake up! Please! You're scaring us!"

The kids saw Malik and ran to him. "Oh Mr. Malik help! We were watching a movie when all of a sudden; Mr. Marik fell on the floor and started jerking around. We tried waking him but he wouldn't!" said a little girl, her eyes brimming with tears.

Malik bent down on the floor, but when he did. Marik was lifted into the air and spinning around.

"What in the name of Ra!" exclaimed Malik in horror.

In the dream

Freddy grabbed Marik and shook him back and forth, making his head spin. 'If I don't do something quick, this guy is gonna snap my neck!' thought Marik.

Freddy spun him around and threw him onto the marble floor hard. Marik felt something snap. Freddy stood over him, grinning manically.

"Now for the finishing touch!" he exclaimed. His clawed hand was aimed for Marik's heart. He brought it down and Marik rolled away just in time. The claws hit the marble and got stuck. Marik took his chance and ran while Freddy struggled to get unstuck.

Marik ran as far away as he could, but he still heard the kids' deadly rhyme. He stopped at the windows and grabbed the draperies and ripped them down. To his horror, all of the windows had brick walls behind them.

The rhyming got closer and Marik ran back to the room where he had woken up in. There was a light under it and he heard his lights voice.

"Marik wake up! Don't die! You are stronger!"

Marik reached for the doorknob but as soon as he almost touched it a hand grabbed him and roughly turned him around. Freddy was behind him and his hideous face was twisted in rage.

"Oh no, I'm not letting another one get way!" he said as he slashed for Marik's neck. But just then, Marik felt a cold chilling sensation and Freddy disappeared. He opened his eyes to find Malik with an empty bucket in his hand and the kids crying their little eyes out. Malik had used a bucket full of ice cold water to wake Marik up.

"Marik, what happened? Was it the boogieman?" he asked.

Marik shivered with cold and fear. "H-he isn't the boogieman. His name is Freddy and he's the devil."

"The devil? What do you mean?"

"I might have been evil before but he is like evil incarnate. Now find me a lot of coffee, I'm not going to go to sleep for awhile and shouldn't either. No one should."

Marik looked at the shaking kids. He shivered at the thought of how the kids looked in his dream.

"Erase their memories with the rod so he won't attack them."

"Okay." Malik pulled out the rod and pointed it into the direction of the kids. There was a bright light and the kids had forgotten what had happened in the last four hours. Their parents came and got them and took them home.

After the last kid left Marik said, " I should tell you what happened in my dream and why that dream just deepened my hatred for kids even more…"

To be cont.

N: Sorry again for the long update. This had been sitting on my computer for the longest and I forgot about it.

Next chapter: Joey, Duke, and Tristan get attacked by bunches girls! Can they survie when the girls want more than just their love, they want their lives! Find out in Chapter 10: Shopping & Girls can Kill You!