Tenshi- she's kinda of pissed off at the moment. So she needed something to take her mind of some stuff.
Spirit- and this fic provided that. Since in the rest of my stories, I'm more at a lovely dovey, or comical moment. I needed something more...sadistic. Well yeah, here's what I came up with.
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88 Last Time 88
Bakura just watched him join his lover and help her build the fire. Deep inside he was screaming at himself for acting this way. It was like watching a bad dream. The Millennium Ring was like using him. The words he said were not his own but it's. He felt like a puppet. Somehow he needed to find a way to be rid of it's hold. But for now, there was nothing he could do, but watch all of his friends turn against him.
88 This Time 88
Hotaru's back connected painfully with stone floor of the palace dungeons. After a night and day's walk they had reached what used to be a once beautiful and grand city. Now the people had been enslaved and forced to build who knew what. Everything had gone to hell. Corpses lay outside the city limits burnt and rotting. Soon to become buzzard food. Some houses were torched and were now just piles of ashes. There were probably people still inside when they were set afire. It hurt to think of what would become of the rest of Egypt.
Sitting up, the violet eyed girl groaned and rubbed her bruised and bleeding wrists gently. Moments ago they had been bound by a coarse rope. Same with Tenshi. Looking down she saw her brother just lying there staring up at the ceiling blankly. She had almost thought him to be dead. However the steady movements of his chest signified he was still breathing. Letting a sigh escape her lips she looked around the rest of the cell. That's when she noticed two other forms near the back. One was sitting, but was a little hunched over. The other one was lying next to them almost completely still. Instincts took over and immediately her muscles tensed.
Though a little timid she managed to croak out "hello?" her voice cracked due to lack of water. She cleared her throat hoping it would help some.
The one sitting tilted his head up. Instantly she recognized him. "Marik?" she cried getting up and rushing over to him. Tenshi also sat up and turned to see his sister hug there long time friend.
The tomb keeper was at first a little startled, but soon realized what was going on. After a moments pause he hugged the girl back. "Hotaru? Tenshi? What are you two doing here?"
"Simple we got caught." Tenshi stated walking over to the two.
"But I thought Hotaru was with Bakura..." instantly the smile on the girls face fell. Marik couldn't guess what happened, and didn't want to ask.
Wanting to change the subject Hotaru turned to the one lying down. She found it was a young woman with long raven black hair. She was dressed like a guard, but the outfit didn't look like it fit to well. The girl looked like she had gone through hell. Blood stains covered her garments as well as a few scorch marks. "Whose she?"
The sandy haired teen shrugged. "Not really sure. Apparently she caused a big problem though. After they drug her half unconscious down her a few of the guards continued to beat her."
"I know her. Her name's Rei. She's a sorcerous." Tenshi explained. Hotaru nodded and was about to heal the girl. Tenshi quickly caught her hands though. She looked up at him confused. "Better let me. I don't get weak like you do."
After she nodded. Tenshi knelt down and let his hands hover over the girl. Soon a light purple aura surrounded her and after a good minute she opened her eyes. Tenshi pulled back and smiled. The girls deep purple eyes were dazed but soon focused and spotted him. Instantly the girl was on her feet and in a battle stance. Hotaru noticed in time and caught her when her legs give out. "Easy, you shouldn't push yourself so quickly. We're not going to hurt you." she said softly.
"W-where am I?" the girl asked, relaxing some.
"In the palace dungeons. I'm Hotaru. That's my brother Tenshi, and friend, Marik. Do you remember what happened."
"I'm Rei.. . .and. . ." Rei's hand went up to clutch her head. She was trying to remember what happened before she blacked out. Then she remembered. Her eyes widened and began to water. "Oh god . . . I . . . I killed her. . ."
Hotaru looked to the others who just stared back, confused. Looking back at the girl saw tears running down her face. On instinct she wrapped her arms around her comfortingly. "Shh, it's ok. It's going to be ok."
"Oh really?" came an all to familiar voice. Hotaru's entire being froze and she dreaded the person she would find when she looked up. After a moment, her head slowly turned and her eyes widened. There, standing outside the cold steel bars, was Etaxu. The man who had run the slave traders. The men who nearly killed her. Instantly his maniacal eyes connected with hers and he grinned. "Well, well, if it isn't the little whore who escaped me the last time. Looks like your luck hasn't improved much."
Immediately Tenshi stood up and shielded the girls from the mans sight. He didn't speak a word, but his eyes said enough already. They were hard, and cold, almost evil looking. Etaxu did not falter however, since after all, what could Tenshi do locked in a cell? Ignoring the soldier and glanced over his shoulder, and stared at the crying sorcerous. "Hey Rei. Why are you crying? Didn't you want to kill her? I mean she was holding you back from achieving your goal. Whatever that may be. And besides it's not like she was your sister or anything. Oh oops, that's right. She was."
Hotaru felt Rei now being to tremble in her arms. "Go on Rei. Tell them. Tell your new friends how you savagely killed the only family you have left."
"Shut up!" Tenshi cried. Now Marik was standing ready incase this psycho tried anything.
"Oh but wait, you really must hear this. It's actually quite funny. She completely torched her sister. Nothing was left but her smoldering, bloody corpse. Stank up the entire room, still has a lingering smell to it still. I've heard of sibling rivalry, but what you did was just inhuman to your poor elder sister."
"I said shut it!" Tenshi snapped trying to grab at him through the bars. Unfortunately the man just barely stood out of his reach. Tenshi growled in anger.
"Hold on I'm not finished." Etaxu said, as if he were telling them all a joke, and hadn't reached the punch line yet.
"Get Out!" Hotaru screamed.
Etaxu stepped back when he felt a sudden sharp sting graze his right cheek. Lightly pressing it with his fingers he felt warm liquid. Bringing his hand in front of him he realized that somehow, she had cut him. His eyes fell on her and he noticed her's were no longer a brilliant purple, but a glazed black. When he blinked however, they were back to their normal color. Looking at the others, he saw they were all still glaring at him, minus Rei who just buried her face in Hotaru's shirt. Quickly wiping the blood off, he sent one last look towards the ebony haired girl and left the dungeon.
Rei dried off her eyes then sat back up, looking ashamed. "He's right. I'm nothing but a monster."
"If you're a monster, then that man is Satan." Hotaru stated, wiping off some of the dirt that got on the other girls face. Rei couldn't help but show a small smile to that comment.
"Well guess we'll just have to break out of here now." Tenshi said as if it were the easiest thing in the world.
Marik arched a brow at him. "And how do you propose we do that."
"Rei's a sorcerer, and so is my sister apparently. Rei can just heat up the bars enough, then Hotaru can zap them like she did to the smart-ass ugly psycho." The two girls laughed at Etaxu's nickname.
Then Hotaru turned to her brother, "but I don't even know how I did that, if it even was me. It might've been you."
"No, I was thinking of blowing his body to bits. You were just really angry, and wanted him to shut up as fast as possible. So, then that means, just think of something that'll make you angry and it might happen again."
"Alright, but we can't do this now." Rei stated.
"Why not?" Tenshi pouted.
Rei sighed. "This palace is full of guards, and there isn't an escape route in this dungeon. We have to wait for most of their attention to be drawn somewhere else."
"How?" Marik asked.
"When my sister and I were fighting I saw images in the fire I used. An army is coming. I saw Haruka and Michiru with them. That means there's going to be a major battle."
Hotaru began to catch on. "So we wait for most of the guards to go off to fight and that's when we make our escape."
Rei shook her head at that. "No, that's when we attack."
Spirit- the main battle is about to commence.
Tenshi- yay blood!
Spirit- yep, blood, pain, death. All that good stuff. Bit of drama too. so yeah, I'm going to try and sleep now. well Please Review! Ja ne
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