Author's Note: More Yu-Gi-Oh! silliness, with a slightly serious beginning explaining why they have to have "Game Night". Oh and I didn't mention it before but I tend to manga-centric, just so you know.

I'm not to sure about the update schedule on this so bear with me. I tend to work on this when I get writer's block and have get going again.

Incidentally, all the cards mentioned are real cards in the game.

Malik hikari

Mariku yami

Warning: Not too many. Just a bit of bad language.

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! or Munchkin.

Chapter 2: Shadi! No!

Shadi, mysterious servant of Anubis made his way down a nondescript street in Domino City Japan. Isis, another member of the mysterious clan of Tomb Keepers and guardian of the Great Pharaoh, walked beside him, guiding him to a small game shop on the corner.

"Do you know Isis? Have they made any progress?" Shadi asked. Isis sighed and shook her head.

"I know it wasn't going very well," she answered. "Poor Yugi practically had to drag the others there, and my brother said the Tomb Robber walked out of almost every session."

Shadi frowned. Even the Shadow Realm could not contain a spirit as vengeful as that of the former Tomb Robber. And bound as they were to each other, the Pharaoh had been forcibly drug from his rest when Bakura escaped. Oh with Malik Istar's other personality in tow no less.

The problem was, Bakura did deserve his revenge. Even Shadi had to admit that. It was the root of the whole problem. The ghost of Kul Elna had to be laid to rest, and only when the spirits were able to rest in peace, would they cease to torment Bakura.

Shadi had been amazed at the lengths that the Tomb Robber's reincarnated self, his host Ryou, had gone to, to purge Bakura of Zork's poison. Without the dark god's ambition driving him, he was a truly wretched creature.

The Pharaoh had been sick the first time he'd seen Bakura's true self, a used, abused, and beaten child, set up to be Zork's tool from the very beginning. It had all been planned, Bakura's fate had been sealed the moment Millennium tome had been written. What must it have been like? To know you had to be the bad guy. To always hear the dieing screams of your kin. To have your soul raped every time you even thought of straying from the god's design, and yet, not broken.

And then you have to put up with some brat king lecturing you about right and wrong. Let him try it for a while.

All these things had been in Bakura's soul room when Shadi had looked in to find a means of defeating him. Ryou had known. You don't share a body with someone for years without finding out a few things about them. Shadi loathed admitting it, but had he been in Bakura's shoes, he would have wanted to murder the bastards whose bright idea the Millennium Items were too.

He was actually glad the items were gone now. Purified and unmade. And where the Great Pharaoh, the living god, had failed, gentle, melancholy Ryou had succeeded. He had tamed the savage creature by forgiving him and accepting him as part of himself, one soul two lifetimes. Ryou said he saw it as saving himself. They even had the same name he'd remarked.

All that was left, the last challenge, the last test of character, the last piece of the puzzle as it were, was for the two spirits to forgive each other. He wished he'd known this from the get go. Only then would cycle of hate truly be broken. Only then could both spirits move on. He'd saved the world. Now if only he could save himself.

In Shadi's opinion, the Pharaoh was doomed.

The two had gotten into a yelling match moment the terms of the challenge had been announced. Ryou had trustingly allowed Yugi to be the one to decide the means, as he struggled to prevent Bakura from slugging the Pharaoh.

In retrospect, he really should have steered Yugi away from games.

There was probably no way in hell, that they'd be ready for the next step. He wondered how long he'd have to do these little check-ups.

"Almost every game?" he sighed.

"Well…"

Shadi raised an eyebrow.

"Well, they seem to have found a new game," Isis continued. "I'm not really sure what it's about, but Malik and Bakura apparently love it." She tried to remember what else she'd been able to decipher from her brother's hyperactive ramblings.

"It was Ryou's idea to play it. And I don't think the Pharaoh is very fond of it. I sent Rishid with them tonight to find out more."

Shadi nodded. They entered the house prepared for anything.

Well, Shadi had thought he was prepared for anything. He was most certainly not prepared to hear, the moment Yugi let him in the door, someone swearing a blue streak in ancient Egyptian.

The Pharaoh swearing a blue streak in ancient Egyptian.

"(Censored) Malik! (Censored) play that (censored) sex change curse on someone else would you!"

Shadi and Isis exchanged looks as Yugi rejoined the game.

"Hey Yami, how about you speak a language we can all understand?"

He heard the Tomb Robber laughing.

"I think the High Priest will kill him if the Pharaoh teaches those words to Mokuba."

"Oh my, was it that bad?" asked a female voice Shadi didn't recognize.

"It was worse," Bakura said smugly.

"You're just a sore loser." That was Malik.

"I am not a sore loser! I went through a whole huge ordeal to prove that. You watched! "

Malik stuck his tongue out at the Pharaoh.

"Then what's your malfunction dude?" That was the boy named Honda.

"I think it might have something to do with Bakura killing his hireling." Mariku sniggered.

"Hey it was legal!"

"Trying something new are we?"

"Shut up!"

"Bakura, making the wizard hireling look like the Dark Magician and then killing him was going a bit too far." Ah Ryou the mild voice of reason.

"What do you mean 'a bit'?"

"Settle down Atemu." Jounochi. Only someone that close to the Pharaoh would call him by name.

Shadi peered into the room.

"You know Atemu," or someone as arrogant as Kiaba, "Yugi started the whole make the Munchkins look like Dual Monsters thing."

"He did?"

Yugi looked embarrassed.

"Yeah, he made the hench wench look like the Dark Magician Girl," said the black-haired boy named Otogi.

Yugi squirmed under his yami's glare.

"Yugi…"

"I thought maybe you'd like it better if the cards were more familiar. I mean they aren't restricted to just one game right?"

"But the hench wench?"

"I just thought it might be fun. Besides, you gave her to me since you never keep gender specific cards anymore."

"That's not my fault. Stop laughing you psychos!"

"It was just the first idea popped into my head," Yugi said defensively. "Everyone else thought it was a good idea."

"Yeah it was," Bakura sniggered.

Yugi stuck his tongue out at the Tomb Robber. "I did it because I like the Dark Magician Girl. You did it to just to be mean. Killing the Dark Magician. Really!"

"You guys are too obsessed those monsters. Just get over it."

Everyone stared at Kiaba. Shadi thought he heard a cricket chirruping.

"I don't have to take that from you," Atemu snorted.

"What do you mean?"

"I think he means the blue-eyes-white dragon steed, and the blue-eyes-white shoulder dragon big brother."

"Humph. Finish your turn Atemu."

"Fine. I'm looting the room," he said and drew a card from one of the decks on the table. Shadi saw Bakura get Yugi's attention. He held up a six-sided die and rolled it. No one else paid much attention.

Jounochi gave Kiaba a sly look. "Hey moneyman, what's with the shoulder dragon anyway?"

Kiaba looked confused.

"I mean ya hated the toon blue-eyes-white dragon, so why did you make the Cute Shoulder dragon look like a blue eyes?"

Yugi looked at the die, then at Bakura. He grinned and nodded.

"Because the shoulder dragon isn't an insult. It's just tiny, not toony."

"And you're all a little loony," said Isis as she walked into the room.

"And now the dragon's mine!" (1) Bakura crowed snatching the Shoulder Dragon.

"Hi sis!" Malik and Mariku said in frightening unison.

"Hey! You can't do that!"

"Oh yes I can. I'm a thief and if I roll a four or better I can steal stuff from my party."

"He can do that?"

"Yes, Honda he can do that."

Kiaba was tuning red with rage. "No you can't. No one saw you roll."

"I did! I did!" Yugi cheered enthusiastically. The table erupted in laughter.

"Get over it Kiaba and get on with your turn," Otogi snickered.

Kiaba snarled and drew a card.

"Hey Kiaba," the Pharaoh was smirking. This did not bode well for the CEO. Atemu slapped a card down on the table. Kiaba stared at it. His left eye began to twitch.

"What did you do?" Anzu asked. Ryou leaned over and read.

"Curse: spoiled rations. Everyone who owns a steed rolls a die. The low roller must sacrifice his steed to feed the party."

"And moneybags is the only one with a steed!" Jounichi cackled. Kiaba snarled and dropped his steed and the curse card in the discard pile.

Malik looked thoughtful for a moment. "Wait a minute, what just happened?"

Jounochi laughed. "Kiaba got schooled! That's was happened."

"Yeah I know, but…what I mean is…am I crazy or did the Pharaoh and the Tomb Robber just tag team Kiaba?"

There was a long pause. Atemu and Bakura stared at each other in disbelief. Finally Honda spoke up.

"Well, no one's gonna dispute the fact that you're crazy Malik…"

"Hey!"

"Well you are, but I think you have a point."

"Yeah," said Jounochi slowly, "Ya may not have meant to, but…"

"No way," Atemu and Bakura shouted at the same time.

"That's sure what it looked like."

"Yeah."

"Uh-huh."

"Sure looked like it to me."

"Yup."

"Oh hell, not both of them!"

"It's all right big brother."

"How?"

"See? There's hope for you two yet," said Anzu cheerfully ignoring the fact that Atemu and Bakura were locked in a death glare staring match to end all death glare staring matches.

"See Anzu," Ryou grinned, "I told you this game was a good idea."

"I guess so."

"Well I guess that's about a good as it's going to get."

Everyone jumped as Shadi entered the room.

"You?" Bakura spat. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to check your progress. And as I said before, this is about as much as, well quite a bit more really, we could reasonably hope for." He took a deep breath.

"You are now ready (as you'll ever be) for the next step."

The Thief and the Pharaoh looked at each and then back at Shadi.

"Next step?" they asked, wincing as the spoke in unison again. Shadi pulled Rishid aside and began a low urgent conversation in Egyptian.

"I don't like where this going," Kiaba muttered. Everyone nodded in agreement. Rishid sat back down.

"Right then," said Shadi and struck an impressive pose.

The former holders of the Sennen Items stiffened at the sudden inflow of Shadow Magic into the room.

"Oh surely not," groaned Ryou

"Oh no," Yugi protested.

"Come on!" Malik wailed. All the yamis had stood up and were trying to get to Shadi to stop him.

Too late. There was a flash of violet light and then the room was empty. Cards fluttered down to the table. Just on the cusp of hear was a faint high pitched sound, like thousands of little voices laughing maniacally.

To be continued…

1. Good ol'Tiny Toon Adventures. If this isn't proof I need help then I don't know what is! xD I don't own Tiny Toons either.