Review Responses: Mattea: the last part was a dream. It'll make more sense in a minute. Marik: The chicken hasn't finished yet. He's only just begun. Keire: Happy Birthday! I doubt we'll see Seto in this. He just don't fit.I mean I live in a small town like this one and it would be like seeing Bill Gates down at the Ice Cream Parlor. It just doesn't seem right, if this was like New York or LA I could see him being there. But maybe I'll write a sequel if you all like. I've thought about it and planned to just for my own amusement. I like theses characters which is a change for me normally I want to kill them all as quickly as possible save a few of my favorite borrowed charcters.
A/N: You lot keep using words like intresting and unique. It scares me. My lil bro and sis use the words so I don't pound them into a bloody pulp when they are commenting on anything I write. Not very long I know but untill after Fair I won't be doing much writing. I have to review my short story for my writing project, gather rabbit care products and clean cages and risers, and tattoo about a billion of my rabbit and... I can't wait till fair soo much fun.
The Hunt
Lilly sat up in bed. The bloody heap of her fallen companion still engraved in her head. She shook herself. It was just a dream. It was probably just because of my costume and what Kura said. She told herself. Her mind spun she knew her white haired companion in the real world too and couldn't place a reason for him to have slipped in to her dreams before she had ever met him. Gretchen seemed to have sensed her confusion because the dog moved from the foot of her bed up to lay her head in Lilly's lap. She sub-consiously scratched the dogs ears. Outside a faint line of pink was visible. Any moment now her alarm would go off. So she reached over and turned it off before it could screech. As she stared into the darkness someone knocked on her door.
"Yea?" she asked. The door opened slowly and a mass of white hair poked in the room.
"It's time to get up." Bakura said ruffly. She nodded.
"Couldn't sleep either?" she asked. He stepped in the room then. So she turned on the desk light.
"Not really, probably something we ate." she supressed a laugh.
"We had a few pieces of candy for dinner. Not enough to give us nightmares."
"Nightmare?"
"Yeah, a guy got beat to death. After we robbed this pyramid or something. I don't know. I'm sick of it though." she shoved the dog off her lap and went to her dresser. "How about you why couldn't you sleep?" She dug through her drawer while he sat on her bed playing with Gretz.
"Same thing. A dream." she was used to the short answers. Serena snorted and rolled over in her bed.
"I don't want to eat the parrot.." she muttered. Lilly caught Bakura's look out of the corner of her eye.
"She's strange. That's all there is to it." he nodded. Lilly found the shirt she was looking for and tossed in over her shoulder before going to her closet to find pants.
"What possesed you to go with that costume?" he asked. She shrugged though he couldn't see her anymore.
"Something you said, and a presistant dream. I really don't know though. Originally I was going to go with a Disney princess. They are soo much easier." He gave a humming sort of voice that proved he was thinking. So she let him be and changed in her closet. "Kura, why a tomb robber? What is so fasinating about them? Clever as they must have been it sounds quiet dangerous from what I've read on the traps that were set in those things." She heard him give a small chuckle.
"Exactly, it was a very dangerous thing to do if you weren't skilled. Which I.." she got a feeling that he might not have just been in a half sleeping mode when she had asked about Norfret. It was something that seemed to come up more often.
"I don't think I could be a theif for a living. To many morals have been drilled into my head. Anyway weren't the punishments for that really horrible? I read somewhere about body parts being removed for stealing. Stealing from thoses who have crossed over seems like there would be a serious punishment to that."
"There were. I'm positive you could have made it though. Back then your mother wouldn't have preached on about your God. It would have been dozens of them some of which did steal."
"Yeah well in mythology there is always someone getting something stolen from them. Lovers, magical items, spouses... nothing was safe." she said coming out.
"You don't count spouses as lovers?" he asked looking at her quizcally.
"No. Okay Zeus for example. He was married to his sister Hera, however he had a thing for taking the form of a bull and going to 'become a lover' to the prettiest maiden he could find. I've heard tell of one case where Zeus took the form of an eagle to be the lover of a young man." she shook her head and walked over to her sisters bed. "So lovers and spouses are different. Not always did the gods love their wives and lovers."
"You read to much." he commented. Lilly shook her sister's shoulder before chasing Bakura out of her room.
Bakura, Lilly, Matt, Mandy, and Justin were finishing up the morning chores while Ryou and Serena took care of the morning dishes. Serena dried the last of the bowls and put it away while Ryou brought both their bags in.
"Did you hear our sibblings this morning? Said a bird sprang out of a cage and attacked them last night." Serena said smirking.
"No, I didn't. Morning Mrs. Halse." Mrs. Halse had just walked in the kitchen and sat down at the table.
"Morning Ryou, sweetie. How are you two this fine morning."
"Pretty good Mamma. How are you?" Serena hugged her mother.
"I'm good. I've got a shift starting at 3 today so I won't get off untill 11. That means you kids are on your own for dinner. Oh and your father is going to go down to the German society for a meeting so he won't be home till late either. Will you two do me a favor?" she asked lowering her voice.
"We're the only ones in here Mamma." Serena reassured her mother.
"After everything you've done for Bakura and I we'd be honored to do you a favor." the woman shook her head.
"No no children. This is for just you two. Make sure Matt and Mandy go home by seven and that your sibblings don't bring that goat of theirs in. Ummm one more thing. Justin hasn't been doing his homework make sure it gets done to night. Can you to do that?" she asked pouring herself a mug a coffee.
"Yea, of course. But why us?" Serena asked.
"Because you have no attachment to the goat, and you'll be more convincing I was the youngest too. I know how much control you have over the others. You two are the babies. They'll do whatever just because you ask." she smiled and kissed both of them on the forehead before going out the back door.
"She's delousional. I don't think we have any influence on them but I know they'll kill us if we don't get our butts out there." Serena said leading him out the back door in time to see Mrs. Halse slam her car door.
"What was that about?" Ryou asked. Serena shrugged and jumped off the porch clearing, easily, the six steps. Ryou walked down them and followed the girl.
"Like I said she's a few nuggets short of a Happy Meal." They both ignored the squawk of the roaster as they passed him. It wasn't unusal for them to get lose like this one had and even less strange that this one felt it nessary to call attention to himself. They tossed their back packs in the back of Matt's car and started down the hill. Again the roaster squawked. Serena looked back, "Ry, not to worry you but RUN!" she said starting off down the hill. He didn't understand until something hit him in the middle of his back knocking him off balance and on to the ground. He must have shreiked because suddenly Lilly and company were there. Of course he didn't notice this because the chicken was repeatedly attacking him. He threw his arm over his eyes and tried to pretend dead.
"Sis?" Serena called out nervously. About that time he was pelted with rocks. From nearly every angle rocks smacked him and the bird. With a final crow that seemed to state he'd be back the bird took off.
"What the hell is going on here?" Chris asked giving Ryou a hand up. Both Ryou and Serena were at a loss for words.
"He attacked me when I got here this morning." Mandy said peeking out from behind Justin.
"Well we know his name then." Lilly said as if the most important thing to decided about the bird was it's name.
"What's that Lils?" Matt asked shouldering a shovel, he'd forgotten to drop.
"Son of Sam. I think Sammie will do for short though."
"Sammie? Lillian Ann, the thing has attacked two people and you give him a cute name?" Mandy demanded. Lilly shrugged.
"Amanda I'm not in the mood to deal with your theatrics. It's time to leave, Matt just prop that against the barn." Lilly said going to get in one of the vehicals.
As always the school day was uneventful. The longer the year drug on the more Bakura got used to not saying anything. The instructors didn't seem to understand that their students would never need to know the name of the eleventh president or the population of the Virgin Islands. Nor would the date a peace treaty was sign, or the cause of the death of any number of kings matter. These students would be doctors and lawyors, some would be teachers, others would be bums, but none would ever need to know 75 percent of what they were taught.
Bakura's mind however belonged to too many things for him to concentrate on any of the aforementioned. He didn't say anything the ride home, or all through that evenings chores. At this very moment he sat on the edge of a trench that had been dug so that the water from the pond had a way to get to creek. He was far beyond the reach of the roaster who had claimed three more victims, six hens, and a duck. But despite the rush of the water and mist in his mind, his thoughts kept returning to what had awoken him so early.
He had come to the conclusion that Lilly had to be Norfret. This was the easiest way to think of it. But what had brought them together again? From what he had remebered Norfret had been the daughter of a village woman and a noble man. Her mother had been killed when their villiage was burned and she had been taken to live with her father, who beat her in a drunken rage nearly nightly. While she had resided with her mother she had often times tended Bakura's own wounds never seeming to notice that it wasn't just the physical ones she tended. His father too abused him and the only thing he had ever cared for his father had killed one night. His baby sister had been killed because his father was a fool. Lilly on the other hand came from a complete household. Her mother was kind and loving and her father had never raised his hand to her. She had sibblings and farm hands and was doing well for all she'd been through. Maybe they'd done something then that had to be done again. He couldn't place it.
Bakura beat his fists into the ground, causing a chunk of mud to fall off the edge of the gash in the ground to meet the water. It's not fair. I never asked for any of this. I didn't want to come back and surely didn't want to have a real body not now. What did I do to deserve this? He questioned letting himself fall back into the tall grasses that surrounded him.
"Hey Bakura." a shy voice called behind him. He grunted in response. "I was getting ready to leave, Matt's driving me home, it's time you come back to the house it's dark." he looked up to see Suteki standing over him. She smiled and offered him a hand which he ignored and stood up.
"You better run along." she shook her head.
"Chicken doesn't attack as often when you travel in groups. He prefers lone souls." she smiled.
"What's wrong with you?" he asked gruffly.
"Nothing, just thinking. I mean you and Ry are a lot alike in the looks department but as far as personalites go You are polar opposites." she talked a mile a minute.
"That's nice."
"I think it's cool. It amuses me that you can be raised in the same exact setting as someone and turn out completely different. Like Mandy and Matt. Of course that could be because ones a girl and the other's a boy. I don't know just intresting don't you think."
"No." he said as they rounded the pole barn and started up the drive way.
"What do you find intresting? Duel monsters?" she mocked.
"Shadow games."
"Here he comes." Suteki suddenly stepped behind him. But, like she had said the roaster was chargeing toward them. So instead of becoming just another victim of the feathered monster he stepped up to challenge the creature. Sammie however didnt' care and jumped his claws hitting Bakura in the knee. Suteki had retrieved a stick from somewhere and was using it like a swoard hacking at the bird. It slowly retreated. "I hate birds."
"I'll join that club." Bakura smirked. She sagged a little now, her burst of action making her arms weigh her down.
"Comm'on little lady." Matt beckoned from his car. Suteki quickly joined him and Bakura retreated to the house. Thoughts of dinner now filling his mind.