To make up for having the big change '^.^ I feel unfair doing that. And this story is strictly when I feel like it! It is not regular updates but I don't think you'll ever have more than 2 weeks before you get something. So yeah, I no own. :P I already explained that as well. Huh? What do you mean they don't believe me? Why would you think I own it in the first place? I already told you! Too much research! .
"Here she is!" was called out as the room was flooded with light.
"Well so much for hiding." Malik muttered as a worker came over to them.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" he asked in heavily accented English.
"I'm Malik Ishtar and these are my friends." Malik said in Arabic. The worker looked relieved that he didn't have to speak in English.
"Why are you down here?"
"We came to see if we could catch the tomb robbers before everyone else got here. We probably should've gotten an ok from someone first though huh?" Malik was acting casual as if this was a normal conversation when Carol started crying.
"Jimi! I'm so scared!" she cried as they watched her latch onto Jimi.
((Jimi! I'm such a two year old!)) Bakura mocked from the back of Ryou's mind. Ryou sweat dropped in response.
"Please get me out of here!" she kept crying.
((See Ryou? This is why you never get a woman. They're always annoying like this.)) Bakura said. Bakura made fun of people a lot so Ryou was used to this type of comment but couldn't help but blush a little at the jab at his sexual preferences.
(Shut up.) Ryou sent quickly before shutting the link down. Carol kept crying and had to be carried out of the cave by Jimi and didn't even look up from his shirt till they were away from the cave with a few of their friends.
Malik, Yugi, and Ryou followed them wondering what had happened. "Did you guys know that I just got back from an ancient Egyptian time period?" she asked. Yugi-tachi glanced at each other. She had gone to ancient Egypt?
"Hey, Carol. You're imagining things now." Jimi tried to calm her down but Carol kept pressing.
"I'm telling the truth! I saw Asisu in the role of Queen of Egypt. But she didn't recognize me, and commanded me to be executed as a present to the gods!" Carol was sounding hysterical at this point. "Luckily that guy came back just in time…" Carol seemed to finally become aware of her surroundings and just looked at all her friends staring at her incredulously.
"Hey Carol…" Her only female friend started nervously. "You're starting to talk nonsense."
"I'm telling the truth!" Carol demanded.
"She's probably still frightened from what happened." Jimi said shrugging it off.
"You guys don't believe me?" Carol asked desperately. "Here. Look at these. My shirt still has the blood stains on it." Carol said looking down at her collar and showing her friends.
"That's probably the result of touching those dead guards' bodies." Jimi explained reasonably. "I got it to." Carol's other friends looked at themselves to and started complaining that they also got some on them. Yugi and the others didn't need to worry about it since Bakura was the only one who had touched the body in spirit form. Blood didn't stick to spirits.
"Impossible. Then…" Carol started starting to believe what her friends were telling her when Asisu arrived.
"Carol, how are you doing?" she asked kindly putting her hands on Carol's shoulders and making her jump like a scared rabbit.
"What!? Ah! Asisu!" Carol cried out. The Yamis immediately took control and Malik grabbed a dagger from somewhere behind him and Bakura did the same but brought out a spare one for Yami. Yami nodded his thanks and the all kept the daggers hidden slightly. Carol's friends were looking at Asisu saying, "This is Asisu?" "She's beautiful!"
"I was looking for you for a while now." Asisu said. "You're face is really pale." She continued acting concerned.
"You need to rest Carol." Jimi voiced over her weak objections.
"That's right. Others will worry about us." Said the other male who was obviously love struck with Asisu.
Before anything else could be said or done a guard blew his whistle. "Attention! The Robbers probably have weapons so we are requesting everyone to evacuate!" he called out.
"You're probably just seeing an illusion. A little rest will cure it." Jimi told Carol as he led her away from the sight.
"Asisu." Yami called. "You have no purpose to be here."
Asisu turned to glare at Yami from where she'd been glaring at Carol. "My business is my own. You hardly have reason to talk Pharaoh."
"We have more reason than you." Bakura sneered.
"And who are you to talk to a Queen of Ancient Egypt that way?" Asisu demanded.
"I am the almighty Thief King Bakura." He said smirking and licking his knife.
"The tomb robber who is said to have terrorized all of Egypt and defied event he pharaoh himself?" Asisu asked interested.
"Ha!" Bakura said triumphantly. "I'm remembered in history and you're not. You're just the pharaoh I defied!"
Yami frowned. "This is hardly the time Bakura and I'm forgotten for a reason."
Asisu spoke up. "You're the nameless pharaoh who is said to have battled with real monsters and to have even summoned the gods to do your bidding?" she asked impressed.
Yami smirked. "Apparently I'm not entirely forgotten."
Malik, seemingly having gotten annoyed with this, talked next. "How are you able to be here? All magic should have been sealed along with Yami and Bakura here." He jerked his thumb at said spirits.
"There will always be Magic in the sands of Egypt." Asisu said mysteriously.
"This is not your time and you do not have a mission destined by fate here. You should return to your eternal rest." Yami said commandingly.
"I will not. I have a purpose here and I will fulfill it in any way I see fit." Asisu said her eyes glowing dangerously.
"You don't want to go against us." Bakura said each of them calling some shadows to their aid.
Asisu looked warily at the shadows at their feet. This was magic stronger than she'd ever known and much more dangerous. "I'll fulfill my mission and you can do yours but let's not make it a point to get in each other's ways. Agreed?"
They glanced at each other before Yami spoke for them being the chosen representative. "Agreed. But if you take things to far, we will step in."
Asisu glared not liking the terms but left anyway to follow Carol.
"Yami? What's going on?" Yugi said taking on a spiritual body. He and Ryou had been sealed in their soul rooms this being entirely too dangerous for them.
"Be wary of Asisu, Aibou. She is a spirit with her own body and her own agenda. I do not know what she is planning but it does not bode well." Yami said in his commanding pharaoh voice.
Yugi nodded as Ryou also came out. He'd stopped questioning what was going on whenever he got his body back or even just his consciousness back a long time ago. So he was surprised when Bakura actually said something. "I want you to be wary of Asisu Ryou." Ryou nodded in consent. Bakura would probably tell him why later.
"Well let's go get a burger or something." Malik said switching back to his native tongue. He put his arms behind his head and started walking off leisurely. "There's been entirely too much drama recently. It's like a soap opera with you guys." Ryou and Yugi took control back of their bodies with Bakura and Yami taking spiritual ones.
They proceeded to talk about duel monsters with an argument growing between Yami and Bakura about how they were remembered in history.
~Cairo High School~
"Why do we have to come here?" Malik complained in the sunny afternoon.
Ryou sighed. "My dad wants me to consider staying here with him."
"Ryou would stay?" Malik perked up. "Ok! Let's get you signed up!" Malik charged forward dragging Ryou and Yugi with him. They were going through a hallway when they were stopped by a huge crowd in the middle of the hallway with Asisu at the center.
"…and the most amazing thing is that she can read the language of 3,000 years ago!" they recognized Professor Brown's voice.
"Congratulations on getting a job Asisu!" Carol called happily and sincerely. A job? They moved a little closer trying to catch more. "Asisu, can teach me how to read that ancient language? I really like to learn about ancient Egyptian history." Carol asked with stars in her eyes.
"Yes, I'll teach you how to associate with people from Ancient Egypt." Asisu said kindly.
"What's that?" someone called out.
"Oh, that?" came Professor Brown's voice again. "It's the sarcophagus of the pharaoh whose body was recently stolen."
Asisu rushed to the coffin and knelt beside it. She got a tear in her eye and Malik walked by as if not noticing her but saying "Incest is looked down on in this day and age."
Asisu's eyes flashed angrily for a moment before Carol was hugging her from behind saying "Asisu. Is it because you miss your brother? We'll find him."
"Malik. You're holding on to tight…." Ryou said before Bakura rudely shoved him out of the body. ((You're not going here.))
(What? Baku! Why not!?) Ryou called from his soul room.
Bakura sat down with his arms crossed in a chair in a random classroom. Yugi and Malik followed confused. Bakura retreated to the hallway between their two rooms. "Hikari, I'm not letting you go to school with Asisu."
Ryou huffed angrily. "She's just a spirit and she agreed not to do anything."
"Wrong. She agreed to keep out of our way. Not that she'd keep out of yours."
"But-"
"No buts Ryou." Bakura said firmly. Ryou looked away upset so Bakura gently lifted his face towards him. "I know it would mean a lot to you to stay in Egypt with your dad but I will not have you in danger."
Ryou understood his yami's concern but didn't want to let him win all the time. "Malik is in Egypt to and I'm sure I could convince him to enroll as well and Yugi wouldn't mind staying if I explained it."
"No." Bakura said firmly.
"You'll be there the whole time anyway." Ryou countered.
"You're not going hikari."
"Why not? Do you think you can't keep me safe?"
Bakura sighed at his hikari's stubbornness. "Of course I can keep you safe but I don't want to have a need to keep you safe. Do you understand?"
"Baku, I understand but I really want to stay." Ryou said turning on the puppy eyes of doom.
Bakura made the mistake of looking and instantly crumbled. "Only if Malik and Yugi stay as well." He snapped mad at having lost.
Ryou jumped on his yami happily yelling "Thank you!" and letting all his gratitude flow through their mind link.
Bakura wrapped his arms around Ryou's small waist and looked down at him happily showing the smile that he reserved especially for Ryou in their private moments and kissing Ryou lightly. "You better get back before they start to think you're brain dead." Bakura smirked again.
Ryou blushed and quickly went back to his body where Malik was getting a marker and about to draw on his face. "Kyaa!" Ryou fell backwards out of the chair. "Ah darn." Malik pouted.
Yugi giggled at their antics and then turned to Ryou. "So, what was that about?"
Ryou stood up and made sure to keep the chair between him and Malik who was putting the marker back on the teacher's desk. "Bakura didn't want me to go to school here because Asisu is here. We finally reached an agreement that I can go here only if you and Malik come to."
"What!?" came the indignant cry from Malik. "I don't want to go to school!"
"I'd have to ask my grandpa…" Yugi trailed off nervously.
"We wouldn't start here till next quarter." Ryou said logically. "You have time to think it over."
Yugi nodded gratefully. Yugi's grandpa was his last living relative much the same as Ryou and his father except that Yugi was really close with his grandpa. His grandpa had been sick lately so they didn't know how much time he could spend in Egypt before he'd be called back to the hospital.
"Well, for now we should mess things up a bit since we're already here." Malik smirked.
"Oh no…" Yugi said as Bakura came out in spirit form and smirked.
"Why, let's." Malik and Bakura each took a marker and wrote something rude on each of the desks in Arabic then they used shadow magic on a few of the chairs so that people would get stuck for a few hours until they took off their pants. Bakura also wrote 'The Almighty Thief King Bakura Was Here' and Malik added 'and The Madman Malik'. Looking around at their handy work they both smirked. This was nicely done but not finished. Bakura took a dagger and glyphed his name in Egyptian several times around the room. "Ryou, Yugi. Do you want your names here?" Malik asked getting his own dagger and starting to carve his name.
Yugi and Ryou giggled at their friends antics. "Sure." Ryou said giggling more. This was definitely going to get them in trouble if someone could read Egyptian and figure out their names.
They all looked towards the door as they heard someone coming down the hall. Bakura quickly opened a path into the shadow realm and called "Everyone for escaping through here." Malik jumped through immediately jumped through followed quickly by Yugi and Ryou while Bakura looked once more at the defaced room before smirking and heading through letting it close behind him.
They came out in Ryou's father's backyard where Malik and Bakura broke out into full fits of laughter and Yugi and Ryou kept trying not to giggle. As you can guess, Mr. Bakura had jumped out of his chair when he heard noise in his backyard thinking that some had broken in only to find his son and Yugi trying not to laugh and Malik rolling around on the ground in full out howls of it. Mr. Bakura shook his head. 'How did they even get in here? I thought they were checking out the school…' he thought as he returned dutifully to his work.
~Mr. Bakura's House~
"Ryou! Look at this!" Yugi said rushing into his room waving the newspaper around.
"What is it Yugi?" Ryou asked taking the newspaper from Yugi as he got his breath back. The head article read An American Millionaire, Mr. Rido Conten Died the Result of a Snake Bite. "Yugi, what does this have to do with anything?" Ryou asked.
"Look at the part about how the daughter was bitten to. That's Carol." Yugi said finally getting a hold of his breath and sitting down on the edge of Ryou's bed. "It also says that there was a curse written in Ancient Egyptian next to his body."
Ryou looked through the paper and read both articles quickly. "Is it Asisu?" Ryou asked looking up.
Bakura and Yami came out in spiritual form in front of them both with their arms crossed over their chests. "It probably is Asisu but we can't interfere Aibou." Yami said.
"Why not? She killed him and tried to kill Carol!" Yugi cried indignantly.
Bakura spoke up this time shaking his head. "We agreed not to get in her way unless she took things too far. For all we know her business here is to punish those who disturbed the pharaoh's rest and she holds Carol's family responsible since they financed this expedition."
"But-" Yugi started when Ryou cut him off.
"Yugi, I agree with them. It's sad but that may be her business here." Yugi looked upset having hoped that Ryou would side with him. "Besides," Ryou started standing up and placing a hand on Yugi's shoulder "we have our own work to do here. We have to find where in history Bakura and Yami came from and then we need to fix all the mistakes that were made. We don't need to be worrying about Asisu and Carol's problems as well." Yugi nodded his head knowing that his friend was right.
"Ok then." Ryou stood up straight and looked back towards Yami and Bakura. "Well, we're going to go meet Malik and Isis today to see what they can figure out."
~A couple later~
Yugi ran into Ryou's room again once more waving a newspaper. They hadn't gotten anywhere other than determining that it was more than 3,500 years ago and had spent entire days going through the scrolls of the tomb keepers. "Look! Carol's been kidnapped and no one can find her!"
"And?" Bakura asked having control of the body just then.
Yugi rolled his eyes. "Even the American FBI couldn't find her. What if Asisu took her back in time? That's going to far isn't it?"
"Yes, it is but that's probably not it. She probably ran off with the black haired guy that she was always clinging to." Bakura said disinterestedly turning away from Yugi and going back to sharpening his knives as he had been doing before Yugi burst in.
"I saw Jimi just yesterday and she disappeared from a party where she was right next to Jimi."
"So she ditched him." Bakura said simply looking down the blade and running his finger along it coming away clean. He went back to sharpening it deciding it wasn't sharp enough.
Yugi frowned. "She wouldn't do that. She relies on Jimi for everything. You saw that back at the tomb last week."
"Yugi, you should leave before I test my knife on you." Bakura threatened not looking up from his work.
Yugi brushed it off, Bakura would never actually hurt him. "She was calling out for help and there was no where she could have gone. There was the Nile, but there was no splash so she didn't go there and the reads had all been cut down on the side of that path."
Bakura glanced up at Yugi. "You're not going to quit bothering me over this are you?" he asked stopping his work momentarily. Yugi nodded. "Go get Malik then. If we're going to go back in time we might as well bring everyone." Yugi brightened up before running out of the room to get a phone and Bakura took his sharpening stone down his blade another time.
~Nile: Where Carol Was Kidnapped~
"Honestly. Yugi, we agreed not to meddle." Malik said exasperated. He was actually happy that they were going since this meant he got out of helping Isis with some translations but annoyed that it was for such a stupid reason.
"Look, we can just go and look around a bit and if we don't find Carol we can come back."
Bakura snorted. "This is a waste of time and Magic. Pahraoh, how did Yugi talk you into this?"
Yami materialized next to Yugi saying "He's very persuasive." and leaving it at that.
Bakura rolled his eyes figuring that that could be translated to 'Yugi seduced me'. "Can we just get this over with? I have plans to rob the bank tomorrow that I need to polish up a little."
Yugi nodded his head determinedly. They all stood in a circle and called on the Magic of Egypt with some of their shadow magic to help them along. They focused their entire beings on a wish to go back in time to 3,000 years ago and hopefully, find Carol. With a bright flash of light from the Millennium items (Yugi had the remaining ones in his bag) they were taking back in time to the rule of King Menfuisu.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Looking around they had landed in a patch of reeds. "Well, we certainly went somewhere." Malik commented.
"Look!" Yugi called pointing down. "There's an indent as if a person was lying there for a while. It must have been Carol."
"It doesn't have to have been Carol. It could've been a slave taking a nap." Bakura commented. "I often used to take naps in the reeds." Yugi looked disappointed that his proof wasn't proof at all and Malik had already started heading off.
"Well let's check the town." He called pushing his way through a recently made path through the reeds. Yugi and Bakura followed closely behind. There had been walking for a couple minutes when they heard a bell sound. "That's the signal for the slaves to work." Bakura explained as they kept going. They'd dressed as Egyptians before they came and Yugi was finding it a little hard to move in his wrap since he was the only one not used to it. Yami took over for him upon seeing this. /Thank you Yami. / Yugi sent through the mind link.
They entered the building area where Bakura and Malik guided them through alleyways and kept in the shadows looking into the main street searching for Carol. They saw the pharaoh ride by probably checking on the construction before riding off to the palace again. They heard a few whip cracks and calls of "Get moving! The construction has to be done in 5 days!" The last of the slaves fled for their safety to move some statues to the palace.
Yugi came out in spirit form and said "I'm going to look for her."
"Aibou! Stop! Yami called in vain for Yugi was already gone. //Yugi! Come back! //
/I'm going to find Carol! I can feel it. She's here somewhere! / Yugi replied before shutting down the link. Yami cursed for several moments in every tongue he knew which was a pretty impressive string of curse words.
"I'm surprised Pharaoh." Bakura said. "I thought the stick was to far up your ass for you to be able to curse."
Yami glared at Bakura hardly before saying "Yugi just ran off in ancient Egypt. I'm sorry that I'm a bit concerned." Yami was going heavy on the sarcasm.
Just then, Yugi called through the mind link. /I found her Yami! She's disguised as a slave! /
"Aibou!" Yami cried out loud and through the mind link. "You found her?" Bakura and Malik looked interested at this.
/Yes. / Yugi said worriedly. /She's in lots of trouble! She tried to stop all the construction to save a woman's life because the woman was about to get run over by a wheel. /
"We have to hurry. Carol got herself in trouble." Yami said as he started running towards where he could feel his Aibou.
/Wait! / Yugi called and Yami immediately stopped running causing Malik and Bakura to run into him and an angry cry of "What the hell!?" from Bakura. /Carol just got saved. She's taking the woman back to her hut. /
Yami nodded even though Yugi couldn't see it. //We'll follow you there Aibou. //
"Change of plans." Yami said turning towards an annoyed Malik and a very angry Bakura. "We're going to meet Yugi at a slave hut."
"Well that's just great. Couldn't we have just gone there in the first place and saved ourselves a lot of trouble?" Bakura said angrily.
~Sephora and Sechi's hut~
Yugi watched and waited inside the little hut where Carol was taking care of the woman whose life she had saved and her son. The woman was named Sephora and her son, Sechi. Apparently that indentation was from Carol and Sechi had found her.
"What's Captain Minue like?" Carol asked.
"He's the kings trusted general." Sephora started. "He's everyone's idol because of his gentle personality." Yugi wondered what Yami's general would've been like.
But, like all timely interruptions, that was the moment Bakura decided to knock the door down. His red eyes immediately settled on Carol ignoring all the gasps at his big entrance. "Carol you stupid girl! Do you have any idea how much trouble we've been going through to find you? We even had to travel back in time to get you you stupid idiot!"
Yami came in the door next frowning. "Bakura, you're scaring her out of her mind."
"Well I'm pissed right now and it's either I yell at her or I could go send someone to the shadow realm. Since you would put me there myself for the second one I'm trying to work my frustrations out in a legal way."
Malik worked his way in ignoring the arguing. "Sorry." He said. "Those two are always like that." Carol and the others could do nothing but stare. These odd looking strangers had just burst into their house yelling first at Carol, then at each other.
"Malik? Ryou? Yugi?" Carol asked upon recognizing them. "What are you doing here!?" Sephora and Sechi looked towards Carol. She knew these strange people?
Bakura snorted in disgust. "One, We're here to find you. And two, I'm not Ryou, and he's not Yugi. We're the ancient Egyptian spirits that haunt them and we're using their bodies right now. I am the Thief King Bakura. He used to be Pharaoh a few thousand years ago." Bakura explained; he didn't appreciate being taken for his weak hikari.
Carol stared... and stared... and stared some more. "Well?" Bakura yelled getting impatient. "Have you gone completely stupid girl?"
"Bakura, let Ryou take over. You're scaring them too much." Malik sighed. Bakura was really annoyed that they had wasted an entire day finding her and it was never fun to deal with him like this. Bakura glared at Malik for a moment before he rudely woke Ryou up and tossed him into the body without a single word.
Ryou stumbled a little and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He looked around the room and saw all the eyes on him and sighed. "What'd Bakura do?"
"Oh, nothing much," Malik said casually. "just scared everyone witless. Oh, and just so you know, we're 3,000 years back in Egypt."
"Why are we in Ancient Egypt? Did you figure out exactly which time Yami and Bakura came from?" Ryou asked his eyes wandering.
Malik shook his head. "Nope. Yugi thought that Carol might be here and he was right."
"Hmm? Carol? Why are you in ancient Egypt?" Ryou asked quizzically not sure what was going on.
"How long has Bakura had control?" Yami asked.
"Since last night at dinner." Ryou flinched at a thought he had. "I hope he didn't say anything rude to my father." He muttered quietly to himself.
Yami nodded. "That's when Carol was kidnapped by Asisu."
"She was!?" Ryou asked worried. Then he seemed to think for a moment. "Doesn't this count as a point where you can interfere with her?"
"Yes. But she's no longer in present day so there's nothing for us to do. This is her time. As long as we take Carol back, everything goes back to normal." Yami explained. "There's nothing for us to do anymore."
"Oh…" Ryou said and took notice of all the people in the room staring at him and blushed.
Sephora fainted. She'd found a golden haired girl, almost been flattened, and suddenly had these odd strangers in her house who were saying they were there to take Carol back to the future even though they came from the past, all in one day. Not to even mention their strange appearances or the fact that one boy had changed his personality one-eighty. This was more than a slave usually saw in a life time. There was also the part about one claiming to be the legendary Thief King and another to be the spirit of a pharaoh.
Umm… yeah….. I cut off at a really bad point but it's 11 pages! I usually go for 10! So you're already getting extra. This. Was. Hell. To. Write. You have no idea. I woke up at 5 and worked on it for hours. Plus it's break and a weekend. T^T
Notes!
You have to read the manga if you want to know anything that happened to Carol in the time she was not featured. I'm actually surprised if this makes any sense.
And yeah, I bullshitted a lot in this chappie. T^T
Oh, and would people like a YxYxBxR or should I even include Malik and Marik in there?
And Marik shows up when I choose! ….or get it to make sense -.- Well laterz peeps.