"Ryou?"
A
voice saying his name, stirred Ryou from his thoughts. "Hm?"
He looked around to see Yugi staring at him in concern. Behind him,
Tea had her head in her hands. Ryou only had to look to the left of
her to discover why. Joey and Tristan were wrestling. Again.
"Relax
man, I was just saying hello!" Tristan said, attempting to push
Joey off him.
"In her bedroom?" Joey asked
incredulously.
They were arguing over Serenity. Again. Ryou would
have laughed, were it not for the bad feeling he'd just had.
"Ryou?
You ok?" Yugi asked again.
Ryou nodded and gave his friend a
reassuring smile. Yugi's large amethyst eyes stayed on the
white-haired boy for a while. Clearly he could tell Ryou had been
lying.
So it came as only a mild surprise to him when Ryou
collapsed on the floor, clutching his head.
"Ryou!" He
shouted, leaping off the sofa to crouch by the other teen.
Tea ran
over at the sound of Yugi shouting. Even Tristan and Joey fell silent
as they realised what was going on.
Ryou slowly opened his eyes
and saw Yugi and Tea sat above him, both with expressions of concern
on their faces, Yugi shaking him gently by the shoulders.
"My
word! What happened?" Ryou asked, sitting up.
"You just
collapsed and fell off the sofa." Yugi told him.
"Really?"
Tea
turned to him, fixing him with a strong gaze. She was preparing to
study his reply. "Has anything weird been happening lately?"
She asked carefully, her blue eyes never once leaving his
chocolate-brown ones.
"N-no." Ryou answered, cursing his
voice for sounding so shaky and unconvincing.
Tea opened her mouth
to say something but stopped as she noticed Ryou wincing.
"I-I'm
sorry, I h-have to g-go." He managed to say before scrambling to
his feet and running out into the street.
Once he was around the
corner from the game shop, he stopped and clutched his head again,
his chocolate-brown eyes narrowing in response to the icy stabbing
pains he was feeling in his head. 'It can't be!' He thought to
himself.
/Ah but it can, my little hikari./
Ryou's eyes opened
in shock and terror.
'B-Bakura?'
/Glad to hear, you remember
me./ The yami chuckled evilly.
Ryou ignored his Yami's amused
response. 'No! You can't be back!' Ryou stepped back despite the fact
there was nothing in front of him. 'I won't let you be back!' He ran
forward down the alley.
/Ah but you see my little hikari, there is
nothing you can do to stop me!/ Ryou could almost see the smirk on
Bakura's face.
'No! I won't let you control me again! I WON'T!'
Ryou fell to his knees, in the rain soaked alley, the rain continuing
to beat down on him, as a barrage of icy pains shot through his head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Ryou's scream
of pain gave way to a maniacal laugh as his yami took control.
His
chocolate-brown eyes lost their shimmer of innocence and his hair
began to change, two sections sticking up to resemble horns. His
shoulders shook from laughing.
Bakura stood and flexed his arms,
admiring the muscle that Ryou had accumulated in order to defend
himself, should his yami ever fulfill his promise to find a body of
his own.
'Bakura, please stop!'
"Ha! There is no stopping
me now hikari!" An evil grin formed on his features as he felt
the fear running through Ryou at his mere presence.
Bakura stepped
out of the alley and looked around. He noticed the game shop was only
a few doors to his left and his grin broadened. "Time for some
fun I think." He chuckled darkly and strode towards the
shop.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
"Yugi don't worry. Bakura
will be fine." Tea attempted to reassure the smaller boy, who
refused to stop staring at the door. Joey and Tristan had resumed
their wrestling match.
They all froze, staring at the door, as it
was thrown sharply open. The figure in the doorway was hidden in
shadow, but they knew who it was.
"Ryou! Are you ok?"
Yugi ran to his friend. He froze.
It wasn't Ryou.
His hair was
the same shade of white and his eyes were still a rich
chocolate-brown but there was no innocence left in them. No
mercy.
"Bakura!" Yugi gasped, backing away.
Yami
sensed the fear in his hikari and attempted to take control.
"Don't
move Pharoah!" Bakura ordered, knowing Yami would attempt to
take control of his own hikari. "Unless of course, you trust me
with Mokuba's safety!" Bakura tormented in a mocking voice,
raising a small boy with long black hair into the hair, his eyes
closed and his body limp.
The four teenagers stared in horror at
the boy.
"What did you do to him?" Tristan hissed.
"He
was tired, so he's having a little nap in the shadow realm."
Bakura grinned.
"Does Kaiba know about this?" Tea asked
angrily.
Bakura chuckled. "Why, Kaiba is with little Mokuba.
Call it a family vacation." He paused with a finger on his chin,
looking like he was thinking. "Then of course, most family
vacations aren't quite so..." The corners of his mouth twisted
upwards in a distinctly insane grin as he stared back at the four
teenagers. "Deadly."
Tristan charged at Bakura, raising
his fist as he ran. Bakura ducked to avoid his attack before
delivering a forceful kick to Tristan's midriff, sending him flying
backwards into a bookshelf.
'No! Bakura stop it! Please stop!'
Ryou whimpered through their mind link.
/You know? I don't think I
will. I'm rather enjoying this./
//Yugi! Allow me to take
control!// The urgency in Yami's voice was evident.
'I can't. We
can't risk Mokuba's safety!'
By this time Tristan had gotten to
his feet with Joey's help and was running full pelt at Bakura who,
being distracted by his hikari, didn't see him coming.
Bakura fell
backwards against the wall, blood running down his chin from his
mouth. He smirked and wiped it away on the back of his hand.
Time
seemed to slow.
Tristan fell to the ground clutching his chest.
Bakura laughed as Joey ran forward to help Tristan. Tea gasped as she
saw the knife and ran to him, Yugi following close behind.
"No!
Tristan, wake up man!" Joey yelled as Tristan fell limp and his
ragged breathing ceased. "NO!"
He climbed to his feet
and ran at Bakura, grabbing the front of his shirt and shoving him
into the wall.
'Bakura? What have you done?' Ryou sounded
petrified.
Joey held Bakura firm as his head slumped forwards, his
chin resting on his chest.
"What the-"
When Bakura
raised his head, Joey was looking into the innocent eyes of
Ryou.
Ryou looked to see Tristan on the floor, thick, dark blood
swirling into a large puddle around him. "Oh no!"
Joey
released Ryou and dropped to his knees in defeat. He didn't notice
Bakura take control once again and grin down at him, his eyes
flashing with amusement.
Tea and Yugi looked around at the sound
of a large 'Crack!'.
"NO! JOEY!" Yugi shouted. Tea
screamed.
Bakura had grabbed Joey's head and forced it roughly to
the left, he had continued to push until the neck had snapped,
snuffing the life out of the blonde teen instantly. Joey now lay,
blood spilling from his broken neck, eyes and mouth, flowing slowly
across the floor to mix in with Tristan's.
Tea stared at Bakura in
horror. "Why are you doing this?" Her voice was bordering
on hysterical.
Bakura shrugged. "Guess I was bored."
"You
heartless fiend!" Tea shrieked, running over to slap him,
hard.
The dark reeled from the strike but quickly regained his
control.
"Tea, no! Get away from him!" Yugi made to
switch with Yami but Bakura grabbed hold of Tea, pinning her arms to
her sides.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Yugi." He
said mockingly. "I know how much you care for dear, sweet Tea
here." He smriked as he snaked a pale, long fingered hand across
her jaw. Tea shuddered.
"Let her go!" Yugi's voice was
shaking from anger.
Bakura continued to torment him. Caressing
Tea's face, smelling her hair and nuzzling his face in the crook of
her neck. Yugi snapped.
"LET HER GO!" He
bellowed.
Bakura complied and released her.
Tea fell to her
knees and held her hands out to stop her face hitting the ground.
Bakura quickly dropped to his own knees behind her, weaving a hand
round to the front of her neck. Tea's breath was pulled from her
throat as a sharp tug brought her body up against a lean but strong
chest. Bakura smirked again before deftly running a blade across the
delicate throat. The pale skin staining a deep crimson.
Tea
coughed and spluttered as her hands flew to her throat. Yugi ran to
catch her. He sat there cradling her in his arms. "Tea! Please
don't leave me! Not you too!"
"Y-yugi...I...I..."
Tea whispered between splutters. Her eyes glazed over and her chest
stopped its erratic rising and falling.
"NO!" Yugi
screamed. "No..." He broke down in tears, burying his head
in Tea's hair.
He turned and stared at the spirit in fury. How
dare he laugh!
"Your turn, Yugi." Bakura grinned.
Yugi's
rage immediately dissipated as he looked at the bodies of his
friends. "I don't care anymore, you've already taken everything
from me!"
Bakura smirked. "Not quite Yugi, and what
better way for me to kill you than to have your last surviving friend
do the deed."
Yugi stared at him in horror. Ryou?
Ryou
stared at Yugi in horror, the two of them stained in the blood of
their three friends.
"No! What has he done?" Ryou felt
the burning tears slip down his face.
Yugi just watched him with
emotionless eyes. He didn't react when Ryou pulled him sharply to his
feet and slammed him against the wall.
"What? No! NO! Bakura
I won't! I WON'T!" His eyes widened in horror as he saw the
knife in his hand slashing down at Yugi cutting him in different
places. "NO!"
Yugi just stood staring with glassy
eyes.
"Bakura stop it! PLEASE!" Ryou screamed, the tears
soaking his face, and running down his neck to soak his shirt.
He
closed his eyes as he felt the knife embed itself in Yugi's stomach,
he could feel the flesh pulling at the knife, slowing its progress
only a little. He kept his eyes clamped tightly closed as his arm
dragged the blade up from Yugi's stomach, up through his chest and
pulling itself out of the boy as it reached the base of his neck. He
felt warm, sticky blood splattering over him, turning his hair red
and coating his face and clothes. Ryou opened his eyes and watched in
horrified fascination as the light faded from Yugi's eyes, his body
crumpling to the ground and his hand, ironically, falling to cover
Tea's.
Ryou smiled through his tears. 'They're together now.
They're all together. Forever.'
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
oh dear. what a cheesy ending line XD I'm sure this fascination with slaughtering the good guys isn't healthy XD Don't look at me like that! It's not my fault Bakura is so awesome! ^^
I have no idea where Mokuba came from, perhaps he and Seto were driving around and just happened to pass the Kame Game Shop *shifty eyes* Besides I find it amusing in Episode 200(?) when Bakura holds up Mokuba and Seto gains such an over the top expression of pure disbelief (I mean seriously! Is he not used to Mokuba being kidnapped by now?! It only happens, what, every 20 or so episodes? XD)
