A/N: Yes I am addicted to writing this, Spidey. I'm still not sure if I should move this to Yu-Gi-Oh stories or keep it at X'overs. Please tell me what you think. Thank you and also please give me suggestions on where to torture- I mean visit next… maybe Danny Phantom or Martin Mystery… Who knows, to the disclaimer!
Disclaimer: Would I really get sued if I didn't say 'All I own is the plot, Wizard-Theif and TornTwisted. And I don't own Spidey, Mossnose, and the Yu-Gi-Oh characters'? Well… All I own is the plot, Wizard-Theif and TornTwisted. And I don't own Spidey, Mossnose, the Yu-Gi-Oh characters or the game Duel Monsters or anything that could get me sued or in trouble for saying that I do... like Smarties.
Chapter 8
"Get your game on!" Mossnose said summoning her monster, Amazoness Tiger. The monster just looked like a tiger with a scar on its right eye and it was wearing a golden and jewel incrusted collar along with some bands on its ankles that were also golden and jewel incrusted.
"What the?" Spidey asked Torn Twisted, "Who says that and I thought we were just going to duel."
"Oh, we are duelling but not Duel Monsters." Tea said summoning her monster, Shining Friendship. This monster didn't look very strong as it looked like a green ball with big blue eyes, angel wings and short little arms, no hands.
"That's a cruel joke. I thought you liked friendship and didn't like fighting and yet you want to fight?" Torn Twisted said unconcerned about Tea's monster.
Spidey on the other hand asked, "How are we suppose to duel you when we have no idea what we are doing?! We just barely understand Duel Monsters!"
"Just do what Wizard-Theif and Bakura were doing." Torn Twisted guessed.
"Are you insane!!?? They are playing to the death!"
"We don't have any other options." Torn Twisted said summon her monster, Vampire Lady.
"Alright." Spidey said summoning her monster, Soul of Purity and Light.
"Go!" Mossnose said sending her monster to attack Spidey's.
"Soul of Purity and Light dodge it!" Spidey yelled.
"Amazoness Tiger attack her directly!" Mossnose yelled.
"Vampire Lady! Protect Spidey!" Torn Twisted yelled.
"Now you are wide open." Tea said sending her monster into the fight, aiming at Torn Twisted.
"Soul of Purity and Light protect Torn Twisted!" Spidey said.
Both attacks were stopped but both Spidey and Tea looked a little sick and fell to the ground.
"Spidey, you ok?" Torn Twisted asked trying to think up a plan.
"Soul of Purity and Light needs a shorter name… Man I feel sick." Spidey replied looking up, "Tea must feel the same way."
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Remember what Atemu told us about field bonuses?"
"Sorta, some monsters are stronger in some fields while others can be weakened?"
"Yeah I think that is what is happening. Tea and I both have light monsters and this would count as a… shadow field I think."
"So that means that my monster is stronger here!"
"I hope so because we have to beat these guys and find the others."
"Where are we?" Yugi asked as the guys ran through the streets.
"You don't know?!" Malik asked.
"This place doesn't look like any place I've been before." Yugi said stopping and looking around, "It sorta reminds me of a labyrinth."
"Hmmm… What is going on?" Ryou said coming round.
"Ryou, you're okay!" Yugi said, joyfully.
"Can you walk?" Malik asked.
"I think so." Ryou replied.
"What happened?" Malik asked.
"I'm not sure… I saw the other me and then I blacked out." Ryou explained.
"The other you? You mean Yami Bakura?" Yugi asked.
"Yes but he was fighting Wizard-Theif right?"
"Yeah, I hope the girls are alright… Now that Ryou is ok we should go check on them." Malik said looking back the way they had come.
"Why, what happened?" Ryou asked as the boys started walking back to where they had left the girls.
"While you were passed out, Mossnose and Tea came back and challenged Elena and Akeldama to a duel." Yugi and Malik explained.
Ryou looked lost and asked, "Mossnose and Tea challenged who and who?"
"Spidey and Torn Twisted." Yugi said.
"Oh… Well we better hurry as they just barely understand Duel Monsters and may need some help."
"Is it just me or did we just walk by here already?" Malik asked as he stopped walking.
"Huh? You're right, Malik." Yugi said, "But that means that we've just been walking around in circles."
"Yes, you have been, Yugi." A deep, ancient sounding voice came from the shadows behind them.
"Atemu?" Yugi asked turning around.
"Yes." Atemu said coming into the light. He looked perfectly fine but there was something about him that just seemed off. Maybe it was the fact that he wasn't alone and that his companions were-
"You!" Malik and Ryou yelled when they saw their yami's with Atemu.
"If you want to find the way out follow us." Atemu said as he and the other yami's walked away.
The hikaru's looked at each other and Ryou whispered, "Something isn't right here."
"I agree with Ryou. Atemu and Yami Bakura hate each other. How could they work together?" Yugi asked.
"Maybe if their girlfriends were in danger." Malik pointed out.
"My yami has a girlfriend?" Ryou asked, again lost.
"You're slow Ryou." Malik said before pointing out, "And my yami was with them too, Atemu and Bakura both hate my yami. The first chance they have they would send him to the shadows… or worse."
"So what are we going to do?" Ryou asked.
"The only thing we can… We have to follow them, wherever they are leading us it's out of this maze and then we can find the girls." Yugi said.
The other boys nodded and then they started to follow the yami's totally oblivious to the danger they were getting into.
"Sorry, but the game will have to be cut short." Tea said as she summoned her monster back to her before running into the shadows that were starting to disappear.
Spidey and Torn Twisted were in bad shape and were in a way, glad that Tea left the duel without finishing it but Mossnose hadn't left.
"Bring it on, Mossnose." Torn Twisted said, trying to stand. Both her legs were bleeding from two deep cuts on her shins and she had a cut on her cheek.
"Twisted, just stay on the ground. It's over." Spidey said walking over to Mossnose whose monster had returned to card form. Spidey's arms looked burned from Tea's magic blasts, she had some cuts on her legs but unlike Torn Twisted, she could still walk.
Mossnose shook her head, "What happened, where am I? … and what happened to you guys?!" She asked when she saw Torn Twisted and Spidey.
"It's a long story that we'll explain once we find Wizard-Theif." Spidey said, "You stay here with Twisted while I go find her."
Mossnose nodded, still at a lost for what was happening and Spidey ran off to try to find Wizard-Theif.
"Bakura, you are the world's biggest bas-" Wizard-Theif started to say then Bakura cut her off.
"Now, now, Masika, there are children present." He said.
"What are you…? Oh wait now I see him. I'm looking right at him." Wizard-Theif said trying to ignore the pain of her arm that was slowly bleeding her to death.
"You should watch your tongue." Bakura said summoning another monster.
"I don't think so!" Wizard-Theif said having Vampire Lord to attack the new monster that exploded.
"You fell for my bait."
"What?" Wizard-Theif said then she felt like someone had a knife to the back of her neck. The next thing she knew was that her back was also bleeding and she was kneeling on the ground. She knew that the cut was huge and deep.
"Vampire Lord, get him." Wizard-Theif yelled throwing her monster a dagger. Now both duellists were kneeling on the roof, each in a pool of their own blood.
"You shouldn't waste your energy as bait just to attack." Bakura said getting up; he was bleeding from the heart.
"That's impossible! That move should have killed him. Bastard, how can he still move with a wound like that?" Wizard-Theif thought as she started to feel dizzy, "Well… this is a set back… Oh boy" She thought as she jumped out of the way of another of Diabound's attacks.
"HA! That's what you get when you try to swallow me!" Wizard-Theif said as she laughed at the snaky lower half of Diabound as it swallowed the part of the roof that she was standing. But her moment of joy was short lived.
"Uh oh." Wizard-Theif said jumping out of the way of another energy blast attack. Unfortunately she jumped at little too far and fell off the roof.
Panic flowed through her as she fell, "Damn! That sure was bright. Jump right off the roof when you can't use your powers! Moron!" She thought as she fell. Then she hit the street and everything went black.
"Where are we?" Yugi asked as he and the other hikaru's walked out of the maze and up to an old building.
"This?" asked Atemu, "This is the end."
"What?" Yugi asked as he turned around to ask Malik and Ryou what they thought was happening. What he saw turned his blood to ice. Malik and Ryou were lying face down on the steps to the building; there were deep cut in both of their backs that were in the shape of a scarab. Their yami's just standing behind them each holding a bloody knife.
"It is the sign of permanent renewal, Yugi." Atemu said walking up behind Yugi and then everything went black.
"Ow… So this is what death looks like… go figure it just looks black… and boring… and mortals worry about this?" Wizard-Theif thought as she moved her arm that was still bleeding only to feel pain, "What the? I thought when you die everything goes black and you don't feel anymore pain… So… I'm not dead?" Wizard-Theif sat up and looked around, "Street lamps, road with pool of blood on it, me bleeding, and-" Wizard-Theif said as she saw a snake coming at her. As she jumped out of the way she thought, "And that, I'm alive…I wonder how though… Maybe running is a good idea right now…" She thought as Diabound readied for a new attack, "Yup, time to motor!"
She ran into a back alley, summoned Vampire Lord to herself and hid.
Bakura took his time getting down from the roof and even longer walking to the back alley where Wizard-Theif was hiding.
"Come on out, Masika. We can finish this the easy way or the hard way." He said as he walked into the alley. He walked right past Wizard-Theif without realizing it. Wizard-Theif came out of hiding and followed him till she saw her chance. She put a dagger to the back of his neck and said:
"Looking for me?"
Bakura stood still and looked forward, completely unmoving.
"How can you still move with a blow to the heart?" Wizard-Theif continued.
"How can you still be alive when you fell from that roof?" he replied.
"I asked you first." Wizard-Theif said then Bakura turned around and Diabound appeared behind Wizard-Theif.
"If he attacks me, I'll kill you." Wizard-Theif said her dagger to Bakura's neck.
"Why would you do that when you have already won and I'm already dead?" Bakura asked.
"What?!" Wizard-Theif asked not moving her dagger, "What are you trying to pull, Bakura? You're still moving; I thought you said first person unable to move loses. We are both still moving or are you blind and insane?!"
"You won." Bakura repeated in a far off sort of voice like he was possessed.
"What is that suppose to mean? I'm sure that you didn't stop moving at all!" Wizard-Theif said removing her dagger.
"Wizard-Theif!" Spidey yelled, coming into the alley.
"If I won, where are our friends!?" Wizard-Theif yelled, ignoring Spidey and grabbing the front of Bakura's clothing.
"Your friend knows." Bakura said still sounding like he wasn't really all there.
"What is that suppose to mean?! My friends are what I'm looking for! Where are they, Bakura!?"
"Your friend knows." Bakura repeated.
"Is that some sort of riddle?!" Wizard-Theif demanded.
"He must mean the note evil Marik gave me." Spidey said.
Bakura nodded and disappeared, leaving Wizard-Theif holding onto air.
"Coward!" Wizard-Theif yelled after him as the sky returned to a sunny day as Vampire Lord became a card once more.
"Wizard-Theif, calm down, take a chill pill."Spidey said putting a hand on Wizard-Theif's shoulder.
"That coward." Wizard-Theif muttered, "And, Spidey, I don't want a Smartie."
"Wizard-Theif didn't you notice the way that Bakura was talking when he said that I knew where our friends were?" Spidey asked.
"I wasn't calling Bakura the coward. He was possessed. I was just calling the person who possessed him a coward." Wizard-Theif said walking away keeping her arm hidden from Spidey. Unfortunately, her arm and back were still bleeding.
"Look, it's Torn Twisted and Mossnose. You guys found her?" Wizard-Theif said trying to keep Spidey from noticing the damage.
"Yeah."
"Wizard-Theif! You're really hurt!" Torn Twisted said noticing the trail of blood leading to Wizard-Theif and the cut on Wizard-Theif's back when she and Mossnose were walking with the two other girls, "We have to get you to a hospital!"
"No!" Wizard-Theif said raising her arm in a 'stop! There is no way I'll do that' motion, accidentally showing her arm.
"Wizard-Theif your wounds are serious, we have to get you to a hospital!" Mossnose said.
"I'll be fine once I'm back at the hotel and no one sees me." Wizard-Theif said hiding her arm again and trying to ignore the increasing dizzy sensation that was making it hard for her to concentrate.
"Alright, let's get you to the hotel." Spidey said.
"What?! Spidey can't you see how badly hurt she is? She needs to get to the hospital!" Torn Twisted said trying to walk.
"Mortal doctors would just cause more trouble right now. Trust me; I don't plan on dying till I kill whoever is behind this mess." Wizard-Theif said as she ran to the hotel, "You guys get to a hospital and worry about your own injuries. I'll worry about mine."
Before the other girls could disagree with Wizard-Theif's plan, she was gone.
Spidey sighed and helped Mossnose get Torn Twisted to a hospital.
Once there they were all fixed up and within the 2nd hour they had a visitor.
"So what's the damage?" Wizard-Theif asked as she walked into the hospital room that the other girls were staying in.
"They want us to stay over night because of the large amount of blood we lost." Spidey explained.
"Wow. Tough break." Wizard-Theif said sitting down on a chair by Mossnose's bed, "Luckily you three have this whole room to yourself so we don't have to watch our language."
"You okay?" Mossnose asked.
"Me? I'm fine the only odd thing was the cut on my back. It was in the shape of an Ankh and it left a scar."
"A what?" The other girls asked.
"Oh yeah… Well, the Ankh symbolized life in Ancient Egypt. It was shaped like a cross but the top part was a loop not a line." Wizard-Theif said trying to describe an Ankh; she even drew it for the other girls.
"Why would Bakura give you a cut in that shape?" Mossnose asked.
"I'm not sure."
"What if the symbol gave you powers?" Torn Twisted suggested.
"What powers could it give me that I don't have?" Wizard-Theif asked laughing.
"So what happened in your fight?" Mossnose asked.
"Uh… I think right after you guys left I nagged him about attack you guys being a low blow and then he said I shouldn't be talking because I was immortal…"
"No! You didn't!! Tell me that you didn't!" Mossnose yelled.
"So I made myself the equal of a mortal."
"She did." Mossnose said hopelessly.
"What were you thinking!?!" Torn Twisted and Spidey yelled.
"I'm not sure…" Wizard-Theif said quietly, "Anyways, after I was sorta mortal, I attacked him and got him dead on but he wasn't finished yet and then he started to glow gold and he recovered."
"That must be when Ryou passed out!" Spidey explained.
"What? Ryou passed out?" Wizard-Theif asked.
"Yeah", Mossnose said, "before he passed out he said 'you' and then became as pale as death."
"So that's what he meant by back up power…"
"So then what happened?" Torn Twisted asked.
"Bakura had the Millennium Ring."
"What?!" The other girls yelled.
"I don't know how or if it really was the ring but he had it and it was glowing. But when he stopped glowing he had Diabound attack me, that's how I hurt my arm; the snaky lower half bit me." Wizard-Theif said answering Spidey's unasked question.
"Then I had Vampire Lord attack him, he got a cut on his arm that began to heal immediately." Wizard-Theif continued, not giving her friends time to cut in, "He must have used some of Ryou's energy to heal himself. Then he tried to summon a second monster that Vampire Lord destroyed. Then he attacked me again, that was when it was the Ankh cut on my back. Then I had Vampire Lord attack again. The attack got Bakura in the heart but he could still move and he didn't seem in pain. Diabound tried to attack again and I dodged then it attacked a second time and I fell off the roof."
"What?!" the other girls cut in.
"I fell off the roof." Wizard-Theif repeated.
"But if you were the equal of a mortal you should have died!" Spidey pointed out.
"I know but-"
"The Ankh! You said that it stood for life right?" Mossnose asked.
"Yeah, so?" Wizard-Theif asked.
"What if it kept you alive when you fell?"
Wizard-Theif laughed, "Why would Bakura do something like that? He would just be helping me win and he would never do that."
"But-"
"Anyways, I awoke on the street a little while after hitting it and passing out. When I awoke Diabound tried to attack again and I had to run into a back alley and hid. Then he came into the alley… It was way too easy to sneak up behind him and a put my knife to the back of his neck and then I asked him some questions."
"Like what?!" the other girls asked.
"Like how he could still walk around with a blow to the heart."
"And?!"
"He asked me how I could still be alive after I fell from the roof. Then Diabound appeared behind me and I told him if Diabound attacked me I would kill him. He asked me why I would kill him when I had already won the shadow game and he was already dead. He sounded like he was possessed when he told me that I had won and when Spidey showed up he told me that she knew where our friends are and then he disappeared."
"Did you see Ryou, Malik or Yugi while you were walking around the hospital?" Spidey asked.
"No, why, should I have?"
"I thought that they were coming to this hospital because of Ryou being virtually dead."
"I didn't see or hear them. So what happened to you guys?"
"I'm not sure what happened to me, the last thing I remember is talking to Torn Twisted about the earthquake and then I find myself in an alley being told that I had been possessed into duelling Spidey and Torn Twisted," Mossnose said.
"Spidey and I were with the guys till Tea and Mossnose showed up." Torn Twisted explained as Spidey had became very quiet.
"Before or after Ryou passed out?" Wizard-Theif asked.
"After, Tea came first acting like everything was rainbows and sunshine. I told her that I was visiting me fiancé and she got mad when I told her who it was."
"It looks like you're not the only one who has the hots for Pharaoh-boy."
"Did you see him at all?"Torn Twisted asked, worried.
Wizard-Theif and Mossnose shook their heads.
"Oh well, then Tea and Mossnose challenged us to the same sort of duel that you and Bakura were fighting and Mossnose was using Amazoness Tiger while Tea used Shining Friendship."
"Cruel joke." Mossnose commented.
"That's what I said. Anyways, so we fought."
"What monsters did you and Spidey have?" Wizard-Theif cut in.
"Spidey had Soul of Purity and Light-"
"That's a mouth full."
"And I had Vampire Lady-"
"You don't say."
"So we fought and Spidey and Tea were being weakened because of the field being full of shadows and them having fairy monsters-"
"I don't recall that happening in other duels but whatever." Wizard-Theif cut in again.
"Are you going to be quiet now?"
"Sure."
"Ok then…then Tea cut the duel short and left Mossnose with us and Spidey went to find you. Mossnose helped me over to you guys and then we went here. End of story."
"I don't like this." Spidey said.
The other girls all turned to look at her, "What are you talking about?" Mossnose asked.
"The note." Spidey said, showing the others the note she had been reading while Torn Twisted had been talking about.
"What about it?" Wizard-Theif asked.
"It says that we have to go to the Shadow Realm if we want to find out what is going on." Spidey explained.
"Where in the Shadow Realm? You know it's a pretty big place." Mossnose asked.
"I think I know where." Wizard-Theif said her eyes turning red, and then she shook her head and asked, "What were we talking about?"
"Wizard-Theif? You okay?" Spidey asked carefully.
"Yeah… Why are you talking to me like I'm a bomb that could explode at any moment?"
"Because the 'Open-a-gateway-to-Hell' Wizard-Theif is the only person who may know where to go in the Shadow Realm." Mossnose said.
"What are you talking about?"
"Wizard-Theif… have you been having odd dreams lately?" Spidey asked carefully once more.
"What have you been smoking?" Wizard-Theif asked and then Spidey gave her a look. "Yeah…but what does that have to do with this?!"
"What were they about?"
Wizard-Theif looked at the floor and muttered, "Stuff."
"Wizard-Theif this is important, what were your dreams about?" Mossnose asked.
"Stuff… from before…" Wizard-Theif muttered reluctantly looking down and away from her friends.
"How long ago was 'before'?"
"A while."
"Wizard-Theif could it be that your past it catching up with you?" Torn Twisted asked.
Wizard-Theif nodded.
"That is why you know what the guy was talking about in the note with the whole open the gate thing." Mossnose said, "And why you keep transforming into the other Wizard-Theif."
"No." Wizard-Theif said.
"Huh?" the other girls asked.
"You're wrong. Even if my past was catching up to me I shouldn't transform into another completely different person." Wizard-Theif said looking up her eyes looking even blacker than usual.
"So what do you think?" Spidey asked.
"Someone was possessing me or influencing me to forget a lot everything but the past, thus causing it to seem that I have transformed into another person."
"Did you have Smarty-O's for breakfast, Wizard-Theif?" Spidey asked, "Because that seemed too smart for you."
"I'm going to ignore that."
"The problem is that only, the other Wizard-Theif would know where to go to find out what is going on in the Shadow Realm." Torn Twisted said.
"Once we are allowed to leave the hospital we'll think about what to do then." Mossnose said.
"We have to go sooner." Spidey said.
"Huh? Why?" Wizard-Theif asked.
"They have Kaiba, Malik, Ryou, Yugi, and Atemu."
"How do you know?" Mossnose asked.
"It says so in the note."
"But that is impossible!" Torn Twisted yelled.
"Huh?" Wizard-Theif and Mossnose asked.
"Evil Marik gave you that before Bakura and Wizard-Theif had even started duelling. How could he have known what was going to happen?"
"The Millennium Objects…" Wizard-Theif muttered.
"What?" The other girls asked.
"The Millennium Necklace can see the possible future if nothing is changed before the future has become the present… I am aware that, that most likely made no sense." Wizard-Theif said.
"How could whoever-", Spidey asked.
"Let's call him Man Z." Wizard-Theif suggested.
"Whatever, how could Man Z get them?"
"I have no idea but we have to believe that he does or else we can't plan ahead for whatever he has planned."
"But if he does have something like the Millennium Objects he could use the Eye or Necklace to find out our plan!" Mossnose said.
"Not really, both of those objects were proven obsolete." Wizard-Theif said.
"Yeah, Atemu and Yugi beat Pegasus' Eye with the help of Joey, Tea and Tristan." Torn Twisted pointed out.
"And as I hate to say it but Kaiba-boy proved the Isis' Necklace wrong in a duel by drawing 'Obelisk the Tormenter' and winning the duel." Wizard-Theif said.
"Do you guys feel well enough to travel?" Mossnose asked.
"Yeah but there is no way that the doctors will let us out early." Torn Twisted said.
"Maybe… Oh Wizard-Theif." Mossnose said sweetly.
"NO! N-O SPELLS NO! MOSSNOSE! NO! I REFUSE TO PUT ON THAT COSTUME ANYMORE! NO!!" Wizard-Theif yelled.
"I was only going to ask you to keep the doctors busy but your idea is better and it solves the how to get to the Shadow Realm problem." Mossnose replied.
"Damn me and my big mouth." Wizard-Theif muttered.
"How is a costume of Bakura going to get us to the Shadow Realm?" Spidey asked.
"She can just send us to the Shadow Realm." Mossnose explained
"I thought that you were going to return that though." Spidey said.
"She bought a Bakura costume?" Torn Twisted asked.
"I only bought it because I accidentally sent Mossnose to the Shadow Realm and I had to show Pharaoh-boy that I wasn't joking around and when I tried to return it they told me no refunds. Stupid mortals." Wizard-Theif muttered the last part.
"Go to the hotel, change into the costume and get back here A-S-A-P." Spidey said.
"Fine." Wizard-Theif said as she turned on the spot and merging with the shadows.
Within minutes she was back dressed as Bakura.
"I'll kill you all later." Wizard-Theif said.
"Good for you now to the Shadow Realm, Robin." Spidey said.
"Next year, I going to be Batman." Wizard-Theif said.
Next thing they knew, they were in the Shadow Realm.
A/N: The Smartie-O's was from Fairly Odd parents, which I don't own. Also to explain this: "Wizard-Theif, calm down take a chill pill."Spidey said putting a hand on Wizard-Theif's shoulder. / "That coward." Wizard-Theif muttered, "And, Spidey, I don't want a Smartie." It's a inside joke that Smarties for some unknown reason calm Spidey and me down so now we call chill pills, Smarties and Smarties, chill pills. See ya later and please review.