A/N: I think this would count as the climax… somewhere in this chapter… I hope… And sorry about the wait but I wanted to wait till I wrote all about the maze so that if wouldn't have to repost anything if there was a mistake. Hope you all enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything besides the plot, Wizard-Theif and Torn Twisted… so far… -insert evil laugher-
Chapter 12
(A/N: Yes! We are out of Tokyo for a few chapters but we seem to be having trouble getting out of the Shadow Realm now)
"What happened?" Spidey groaned slowly coming to. Slowly it dawned on her that almost all the good guys were in pyramids except for herself and Wizard-Theif who were lying on the floor and that she was the only one awake. Her hands were bound behind her back and her feet were tied up as well.
"Did anyone get the license plate of that semi that hit me?" Wizard-Theif asked as she slowly awoke and sat up, "HEY! WHAT GIVES?! WHY THE HELL AM I TIED UP!?"
"To make sure that you wouldn't escape." Bakura said.
"And you thought that ropes would stop me from doing that?! How stupid are you?!" Wizard-Theif asked struggling against the ropes.
"If you looked close enough you would have realized that those aren't ropes." Bakura said annoyed.
Wizard-Theif stopped struggling long enough to see that the ropes were really: "Snakes… you tied me up with snakes… You are pathetic, Bakura-boy." She said.
"Cobras to be exact." Bakura said watching Wizard-Theif's face and he saw what he had expected, panic.
"Is that supposed to scare me?" Wizard-Theif asked trying to cover the panic and nausea she was feeling and she also noticed that spider webs bound Spidey. "Damn him. He just had to remember about cobras stopping my powers; I'm as good as mortal, one of those cobras must have bitten me… but on the plus side I won't die from the poison… I think…"
"Now if I remember correctly that should stop you from using most of your powers." Bakura said taking the Millennium Key out of his backpack and walking over to Wizard-Theif.
"You keep that thing away from me." Wizard-Theif said trying to get her hands free and back away from the Millennium Key.
"What's the matter, Masika? Afraid of a golden Ankh?" Bakura asked.
"Afraid, no, I'm just worried about what it can do." Wizard-Theif said as she slowly stopping struggling. "Damn, two of the cobras must have bitten me. I can't move."
"What can the Millennium Key do?" Spidey asked unaware of the spiders crawling over her bounds.
"The Millennium Key allows me to look into a person's soul room and maybe even 'redecorate'." Bakura explained.
"If you 'redecorate' my soul room, I swear, Bakura-boy. I'll kill you again." Wizard-Theif said.
"It appears that one bite wasn't enough to completely paralyze you."
"What are you talking about?! You know perfectly well that it takes two bites to paralyze me from the shoulders down!"
"Wizard-Theif is that reason why you kept transforming into that other Wizard-Theif?" Spidey cut in.
"No and that was part of the plan too, wasn't it?" Wizard-Theif demanded.
"Correct but I don't think we are in need of her anymore." Bakura said as a cobra bit Wizard-Theif.
"Oh, lucky me." Wizard-Theif said starting to feel weak. "He has to be lying! One bite makes me sick, two paralyzed and three, black out! Not one makes me sick and paralyzed and two, black out!" She thought as Bakura kneeled down in font of her.
"Feeling bit under the weather are we, Masika?" Bakura asked.
"You… bastard…" Wizard-Theif managed before she blacked out and the snakes uncoiled from her hands and feet.
"Wizard-Theif! What do you want, Bakura!?" Spidey yelled.
"Don't worry; your friend won't be harmed, we just used her own formula to make the poison affect her more." Marik said coming out of the shadows.
"You, what is going on here!?" Spidey demanded slowly realizing the spiders. Once she fully acknowledged the spiders, she screamed and one bit her. Within minutes Spidey was also unconscious.
"Odd, the girl whose nickname is Spidey, is afraid of spiders." Bakura said getting up and walking over to where Marik was.
"Did you do what needed to be done?" Yami Kaiba asked also coming from the shadows.
"No, not yet." Marik and Bakura replied.
"Well then hurry up."
Marik and Bakura nodded but then Bakura asked, "So who will we finish first?"
"Why not your girlfriend?" Marik said.
"She- is- not- my- girlfriend." Bakura said.
"Oh, that's right, every time one of her friends says that you two have a relationship she denies it at the top of her lungs." Atemu or rather an evil clone of him said.
"Let's just drain their powers already." Bakura said turning his back to Yami Atemu. He walked over to Wizard-Theif and put the Millennium Key to her forehead then something really unexpected happened. Wizard-Theif opened her eyes and kicked Bakura in the knee forcing him away.
"STAY OUT OF MY HEAD!" She yelled getting up.
"What the, I thought you said that the cobras would paralyze her?!" Yami Atemu said.
"They did but not for long enough, the poison's effects must have worn off faster too." Bakura said also getting up, "It looks like I'll have to do this the old fashion way."
"Like you have the power to kill me." Wizard-Theif declared boldly.
"I'm not the one you're fighting, Marik now." Bakura said.
"What are you-? OH DAMN!" Wizard-Theif said jumping out of the way of a sutra.
"What's the matter, Masika? Afraid of a little combat?" Bakura asked cockily as Spidey threw more sutras.
"Combat, no, magic paper with priestess powers, that's a different story." Wizard-Theif said dodging more sutras.
"Doesn't she ever run out of those things?!" Wizard-Theif thought as she kept dodging Spidey's sutras. "I need time to think" With that thought she merged with the shadows. "That should buy me sometime as long as she doesn't sense my aura." Wizard-Theif thought as she hid in the shadows above Mossnose's pyramid, "Now let's see, Yami Marik is controlling Spidey. First thing on my to-do list, get Spidey unpossessed… or maybe get everyone else out of the pyramids… but maybe I should wake them up first…Well I can get Mossnose up with no trouble." Wizard-Theif appeared inside of Mossnose's pyramid and tapped her friend on the shoulder.
"Mossnose, Mossnose, wake up, Kaiba-boy is making out with another girl." Wizard-Theif whispered but Mossnose slapped her and remain asleep.
"I can't blow my cover by yelling but maybe this will wake her up." Wizard-Theif thought before pulling a whistle out of one of her hidden pockets. "Thank goodness that humans can't hear well" Wizard-Theif said before blowing into the whistle. Mossnose awoke with a start and Wizard-Theif whispered:
"Shh, Spidey is being controlled by Yami Marik and is trying to kill me."
"Nothing new?" Mossnose whispered back calmly.
"Uh… no." Wizard-Theif replied somewhat surprised that Mossnose wasn't more worried.
"I thought so… Wizard-Theif, look out!" Mossnose said pushing Wizard-Theif out of the way. A sutra flew right though the pyramid. If Mossnose hadn't pushed Wizard-Theif out of the way the sutra may have killed her.
"I guess my cover is blown. Man, I just can't win right now." Wizard-Theif said and then the pyramid started falling to the ground, it was about 500 feet in the air.
"Hang on!" Wizard-Theif said grabbing Mossnose's hand and merging with the shadows. They appear moments later on the ground 15 feet away from the crashed pyramid.
"Well that wasn't all that bad." Wizard-Theif said grinning at Mossnose then she fell to the ground in pain, "Damn, I really can't win."
"So glad that you finally realized that, care to give up now?" Bakura asked.
"Are you kidding?! This will only make this about 1000 times more fun!" Wizard-Theif said in reply while trying to get up.
"It's as if gravity has increased and is crushing me." Wizard-Theif thought, "I've gotta get that sutra off." Then the pressure disappeared.
"What the-? Oh… thanks Mossnose." Wizard-Theif said getting up.
Mossnose was in cat form when she spat out the sutra and said, "That tasted even worse then they usually do. You own me big time."
"Huh? ... Those things have a taste?"
"Duh."
"Well I wouldn't know; I don't use my mouth to remove them, I try to avoid touching them at all costs."
"I hate to cut in but-" Bakura said summoning Diabound, "We have places to go and we can't leave till you are dead, Masika."
"Fun." Wizard-Theif replied dodging another sutra and then she thought, "I think I know how to get out of this mess… I just hope that Mossnose is good at playing catch"
Wizard-Theif merged with the shadows and appeared in front of Malik's pyramid.
"What does she think she is doing?" Yami Kaiba asked.
"Bakura, we have no need for your monster. There is no reason for you to waste your energy keeping it here." Yami Atemu said.
Bakura obeyed and his monster disappeared.
"That's probably the last time I'll ever see something like that. I can't believe that Bakura-boy is actually taking orders from Pharaoh-boy." Wizard-Theif muttered to herself, "What is taking Spidey so long to attack me?"
"Die!" Spidey yelled throwing another sutra at Wizard-Theif who jumped out of the way and merged once again.
"You know when you said that I thought InuYasha." Wizard-Theif said appearing behind Spidey but when Spidey had turned around Wizard-Theif already disappeared.
"I don't know why." Wizard-Theif said unmerging and merging again.
Malik's pyramid still haven't fallen yet so Wizard-Theif appeared in front of it again and waited for Spidey to attack once more. Within minutes Spidey had and Malik's pyramid had exploded instead of falling to the ground.
"Well… that's an interesting way to go." Wizard-Theif said standing beside Mossnose who had caught Malik.
"He's not dead." Mossnose whispered.
"Just pretend he is. It might knock some sense into her. You have to be the one to do it. If I did she would know right off the bat that it's bogus." Wizard-Theif said out of the corner of her mouth.
"Ok." Mossnose said and then the act began.
First Mossnose transformed to a human and tapped Malik on the shoulder.
"He-is-still-breathing." Wizard-Theif hissed.
"Well if you have an idea to make him stop, I'm all ears." Mossnose whispered tapping Malik on the shoulder again.
"Lucky that our backs are to Spidey or else we would be dead right here and yes, I do have an idea."
"And that is?" Mossnose asked starting to shake Malik's shoulder.
"We kill him for real."
"Malik? Malik?!" Mossnose asked putting on a show for Spidey.
"Mossnose, I don't think he is breathing." Wizard-Theif said gravely before turning to Marik and saying, "I hope that you're happy."
"Extremely." Marik replied.
"But what does your mind slave think of what you forced her to do?" Wizard-Theif said pointing to Spidey, "Spidey, Hikaru Malik is dead and you're the one who killed him... ish… If you killed someone while you were possessed does that still mean that you killed them?"
"Wizard-Theif! How could you say something like that?!" Mossnose yelled.
Slowly Spidey started to show some emotion like confusion and pain as Marik tried to regain control. Fortunately the emotions that Spidey was showing started making Mossnose tear up making the act even more convincing and within seconds Spidey was back to herself.
"What happened?" Spidey asked looking around before realizing that Malik was on the ground not moving and Mossnose was crying. "No." Spidey whispered before running over to Malik and Mossnose.
Wizard-Theif put a hand on Spidey's shoulder and said gravely, "Don't blame yourself, Yami Marik was controlling you."
"No!" Spidey said before she started to break down completely.
Because of her crying she failed to notice that Malik was breathing and that Mossnose was nagging Wizard-Theif who was laughing.
"You shouldn't have done that!" Mossnose yelled.
"I had to just in case that Yami Marik was still able to control her." Wizard-Theif reasoned while still laughing.
"Still! You are the one who is going to tell her that Hikaru Malik isn't dead." Mossnose said calming down.
Wizard-Theif was spared from the pain of explaining because Malik had finally awoken.
"What is going on?" Malik asked sitting up.
"MALIK!" Spidey said hugging him.
"She better let up on the hug or else she really is going to kill him." Wizard-Theif said with an anime teardrop on her temple.
"I agree… Wizard-Theif?" Mossnose said looking up.
"Yeah what?" Wizard-Theif asked looking at her friend.
"Look up."
"Huh?" Wizard-Theif did as she was told and then with a, "OH DAMN IT!" she jumped out of the way of a White Lightening attack.
"Mossnose, I don't care if you kill me for this but he deserves it!" Wizard-Theif said before merging with the shadows.
"Where did she go?!" Yami Kaiba asked looking around.
"I'm right here!" Wizard-Theif said before appearing in front of him and kicking him in the gut, "You're lucky that I didn't aim lower."
"Diabound now." Bakura said having his monster appear out of nowhere.
"What part of your aim sucks don't you get?" Wizard-Theif said dodging the blast. Unfortunately/fortunately, the blast also missed Yami Kaiba.
"Wizard-Theif, be careful!" Mossnose yelled.
"Why? As far as I'm concerned THEY'RE the ones in danger." Wizard-Theif said pointing to the crazed psychos'.
"But they are still our guys!"
Wizard-Theif almost did an anime fall down but as Diabound was still trying to blast her she didn't, instead she kept dodging and said, "Our guys?! Mossnose, I don't know how you could have missed me yelling at the top of my lungs that I don't have a boyfriend but-"
"And she can kill Yami Marik for all I care." Spidey cut in.
"Thanks Spidey!"
"But you have a husband." Mossnose said.
"She has a husband?" Atemu asked summoning Dark Magician.
"So you are trying to steal another man's woman? Bakura, I don't think you could be anymore… pathetic then you are right now." Marik said.
"Shut up." Bakura muttered.
"WHAT?!?!" Wizard-Theif yelled almost getting blasted by Diabound and Dark Magician, "Oh lucky me, Dark Magician has joined the party. Oh and Mossnose… IT WAS A NIGHTMARE YOU MORON!!! AND IS NOW REALLY THE TIME FOR A DREAM REFERENCE?!!"
"Of course."
"I never should have told you or Spidey that dream."
"Too late." Spidey said.
"Look, I don't have nor need a guy thank you very much and I don't see you fighting."
"You're hurting your husband's feelings."
"I can't believe that I miss it when they were annoying me with the boyfriend thing." Wizard-Theif muttered.
"Let's just get this over with." Yami Atemu said, "Bakura can your monster poison her?"
"So you are trying to kill me with poison? Or are you just trying to paralyze me?" Wizard-Theif yelled before disappearing again.
"Diabound, find her in the shadows." Bakura commanded his monster.
Just as soon as Diabound disappeared, Wizard-Theif reappeared behind Yami Atemu.
"Since Torn Twisted isn't awake to tell me to not hurt you. I'll just go easy on you." She said before kicking him in the back and then disappearing once again.
When Yami Kaiba and Yami Atemu hit the ground Hikaru Kaiba, Yugi and Torn Twisted's pyramids all exploded and they all fell to the ground.
"Oh Damn It!" Wizard-Theif said, her top half appearing from the shadows way above the ground.
"Think think, what monster do we have that can help here? … or rather what card?" Mossnose thought before yelling to Spidey, "Spidey use change of heart!"
"What?!" Spidey yelled.
"I get it!" Wizard-Theif thought and then said, "Use it on Diabound now!"
"Are you insane!?" Spidey yelled back.
"Do it!" Mossnose and Wizard-Theif yelled.
"But I don't have the card!"
"Here." Wizard-Theif said throwing the card to Mossnose who threw it to Spidey.
"Change of Heart, possess Diabound and have him catch our friends." Spidey commanded.
At once the card began glowing and the angel/bat winged girl appeared. She flew over to Diabound and merged with it. Diabound caught the people falling and put them gently on the ground by Spidey. Then the card stopped glowing and Diabound returned to Bakura's control.
"Where did you get that card?" Spidey asked suspiciously looking at Wizard-Theif who was still only half there.
"My deck… but does it really matter?" Wizard-Theif asked cockily appearing beside Spidey who was no longer killing Malik.
"No."
"Good girl, does the tomb keeper want a cookie? Does she?" Wizard-Theif asked patting Spidey on the head.
"Wizard-Theif, I'm going to kill you later."
"That's what they all say... Uh oh, bye." Wizard-Theif said merging once more.
"What was that all about?" Spidey asked looking at Mossnose.
"I'm not sure." Mossnose said walking over.
"Everyone seems fine, unconscious, but fine." Malik cut in.
Then everyone heard a crash and turned to see Wizard-Theif standing in the middle of a huge crater, yelling at Bakura, "You bastard!"
"Why don't you just give up?" Bakura asked.
"Because I don't feel like it, Vampire Lord, attack him." Wizard-Theif said. Her monster had crept up behind Bakura so silently that he never saw the attack coming. "Did you seriously think that I would allow myself to be hit without summoning my monster in order to counter attack?" She asked.
"You're not the only one who uses that strategy." Bakura said.
"Any idea what is going on over there?" Spidey asked.
"Relationship problems?" Mossnose suggested.
"Uh oh, I think she heard you."
"How can you be so sure?"
"Because Wizard-Theif just went rigid."
"I ALREADY TOLD YOU GUYS A THOUSAND TIMES THAT THERE IS NO RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ME AND THAT-" Wizard-Theif yelled turning to Mossnose, Spidey and a silent and totally lost Malik in the background.
"Anomalous, uncharacteristic, idiosyncratic, aberrant, deviant, pathetic, about to be assassinated loser." Mossnose supplied.
"Uh… yeah that…"
"Wizard-Theif you shouldn't call your boyfriend names in front of him." Spidey said.
"You shouldn't call him names at all." Mossnose added.
"HE- IS- NOT- MY- BOYFRIEND!!! ... or husband before you say anything else." After yelling that Wizard-Theif turned her back and tried to locate Diabound. "Damn him, this just like the duel a little while ago, why won't he still fall down and stay down?" Wizard-Theif thought before saying, "So where is your monster?"
"Diabound, attack now." Bakura said in reply.
Out of nowhere Diabound appeared behind Wizard-Theif and once more bit into her already injured shoulder.
"Why is it always my shoulder? Grrr… It's not like it has a sign that says bite here!" Wizard-Theif yelled her monster disappearing.
"But it is your weak point to inject cobra poison." Bakura said.
"What? Since when does Diabound have cobra poison in its fangs?!"
"Who said that Diabound was the one injecting the poison?" Bakura said as his monster disappeared again.
"What the Hell are you talking about?" Wizard-Theif demanded looking around for Diabound and then realizing, "Hey, where is everyone else?"
"They haven't moved you are the one who has."
"You've been hanging around with Yami Marik too long, you're starting to sound just like him." Wizard-Theif said slowly sinking to the ground.
"You're weakening."
"Tell me something I don't know."
"You are as good as mortal right now and the cobra poison may kill you, it is regular cobra poison, the stuff without your formula, and your own monster was the one that poisoned you, you're not the only one with a Change of Heart card."
"… Well… I didn't know that…" Wizard-Theif said alarmed at how fast the poison was spreading.
"I'll give you a choice Masika; you can take your chances and see if the poison will kill you or I'll just kill-"
"I don't need to hear the second choice, Bakura-boy. I'm taking my chances with the poison thank you very much." Wizard-Theif cut in while getting up. Once she was standing she was uncomfortably aware how sick and weak she was feeling. "Damn him, poison isn't the only thing making me sick. He must be stealing my energy. That's the only way that I could be this affected by the poison." She thought as she started sinking to the floor once again, "I don't… have much time… What can I do… to stop him?"
"It won't be much longer, soon you will be gone." Bakura said walking over to Wizard-Theif; once again he had the Millennium Key in hand.
"I thought that you didn't need to 'redecorate' my soul room." Wizard-Theif said weakly looking at the ground planning how she was going to get out of this.
"We still need your power." Bakura said lifting up Wizard-Theif's face so that they were looking eye to eye. He moved the Millennium Key closer and closer to her forehead.
As the Millennium Key came closer and closer Wizard-Theif thought, "He forgot one of the most important rules in combat, watch your opponent's eyes not their weapon. Well too bad for him that I'm not the sort that let a mistake like that unpunished." Wizard-Theif waited till the Millennium Key was almost touching her forehead and then she acted. She punched Bakura in the gut, got up, grabbed the Millennium Key and ran for it.
"Should have known that she wouldn't come quietly." Bakura muttered to his monster, "Oh well, she won't get far with the poison."
"Where did Wizard-Theif and Bakura disappear to?" Mossnose asked.
"I'm not sure." Spidey replied.
"Ow, what happened?" Torn Twisted asked finally waking up.
"Torn Twisted! You're okay!!" Spidey replied joyfully.
"Can someone please explain what happened?" Malik asked.
"I'm not sure, we were just annoying Wizard-Theif about Bakura when they just disappeared." Mossnose said.
"Why are Atemu and Evil Clown Kaiba lying on the ground with a pained expression on their faces?" Torn Twisted asked.
"What did Atemu do?" Yugi asked sitting up and wiping sleep out of his eyes.
"I don't know, I was just asking them." Torn Twisted said pointing to Spidey and Mossnose.
"Wizard-Theif kicked the clown in the gut and Atemu on the back." Malik explained.
"Wow… she must have been mad." Torn Twisted said.
"Where is Wizard-Theif?" Yugi asked.
"No idea, she was fighting Bakura when both of them disappeared." Spidey said.
And then Kaiba woke up.
Spidey looked over at Mossnose and said, "If he asks, you get to explain."
As if on cue Kaiba asked, "What happened?"
Mossnose walked over and tried to explain but if Kaiba actually listened or believed what she said, he didn't show it.
"So is that Atemu?" Torn Twisted asked Yugi pointing to the guy in the ground.
"No", Yugi said before transforming into Atemu, "I'm right here. If I'm right, that is my yami from 5000 years ago."
"Oh boy, more evil spirits out to destroy or rule the world." Spidey said.
"But the looks of things, yes, that seems about right."
"Where could Wizard-Theif be?" Torn Twisted asked.
"I'm not sure but we should tie these guys up before something else happens." As soon as Atemu said that, Yami Atemu and Yami Kaiba disappeared with a scream of pain.
"Ok… that was weird." Mossnose said as she and Kaiba came over.
"What happened?" Spidey asked.
"I'm not sure but whatever is going to happen next, it's not good." Atemu said summoning Dark Magician, "We should summon some monsters to protect ourselves. Try to refrain from using light monsters."
Everyone summoned their monster, Mossnose with Amazoness Tiger, Torn Twisted with Vampire Lady, Spidey with Soul of Purify and Light, Malik with Wing Dragon of Ra that Atemu was letting him borrow and Kaiba with Blue Eyes White Dragon.
"So where to?" Torn Twisted asked.
"In the Shadow Realm it's best not to move around a lot." Malik said.
"We can't just stay in one spot." Spidey said, "We have to find out what is going on! Come on." Spidey said walking away from the group. Within minutes everyone was walking in a group looking for any signs of trouble.
"The Shadow Realm keeps getting creepier and creepier." Torn Twisted said.
"I just hope that Wizard-Theif is ok." Spidey and Mossnose said.
"She is only fighting Bakura, what is the worst that can happen?" Malik asked.
"You'd be surprised." Marik said appearing a little ways in front of the group.
"You!" Malik said stepping in front of Spidey.
"Don't worry we're not interested in taking your friend's priestess powers." Marik said walking over.
"Then what do you want, Yami Marik?" Atemu demanded.
"You'll know soon enough."
"You've been hanging around with Bakura too long, you're starting to sound like him." Mossnose said.
"Actually, I think that it's an improvement." Atemu said.
"You should watch your tongue, Pharaoh." Marik said.
"I take care of him." Malik said.
"You don't have to do this." Spidey said.
"True there is an easier way, just hand over Elena and I'll leave." Marik said.
"No way in Hell!" Malik said.
"Have it your way."
Since when did the Shadow Realm have mazes in it?" Wizard-Theif muttered to herself as she stopped to take a breather, she was standing at the entrance to a maze. It appeared that the maze's walls were made of something like limestone, lit by torches and a few feet into the maze there was a fork two ways, straight and left.
"This is weird." Wizard-Theif thought as she looked into the maze, "But maybe I can hide the Millennium Key in here somewhere and lose Bakura-boy at the same time." She entered and when she came to the fork she randomly picked to go left. "A compass would be so useful right now." Wizard-Theif thought as she continued forward. "What the-? What are these drawings?" She thought as she looked at the wall. All over it, pictures of her past were carved with symbols looking like hieroglyphics surrounding the pictures, "This is the making of the Millennium Objects… and this is meeting Bakura…What are these?" All along the walls were scenes. "What is this place? Am I dying and I'm just seeing my life pass before my eyes? I thought that when you are dying you see your life like in flashbacks not on walls in some maze. I wish I knew what this was all about."
Then Wizard-Theif felt herself start to slide down the wall. Soon she was sitting on the ground trying to ignore the pain from the poison as she tried to get up. Soon the pain left again and she continued to walk through the maze. At the next fork she took right and found more scenes of her life this time Mossnose and Natsuko Ren (The original Spidey) were in the pictures.
"Is this maze showing me the path that I did and could have taken in life?" Wizard-Theif asked aloud. Her voice echoed off the walls and for a second she forgot that she could be dying and that a once good friend was tracking her down to kill her.
"The forks could symbolize all the major decisions in my life. The first fork, two ways… I took left, which showed me my life in Ancient Egypt… except for one memory… If I took straight… destroying the world right away… that could have been what was down that path?" The echoes seem to tell her that she was right.
"The second fork straight, right or left, I took right. I met Mossnose and Natsuko Ren. If I took straight I could have destroyed the world but if I took left I could have just kept killing whoever I met and never make friends." Once again the echoes seem to tell her that she was right and give her the strength to keep walking even when the poison stabbed into her. Once again all the memories of Mossnose and Natsuko Ren were there but one.
"At every fork I had a choice, if I was to take straight at any time it would be the end of the world… but what about right and left?" Wizard-Theif asked coming to the third fork, this time not echoes answered her. When she chose right she wasn't aware of dropping the Millennium Key. The walls had pictures of meeting Spidey and fooling around with Mossnose and Spidey. Once Wizard-Theif even laughed at one memory, it was of her telling Mossnose and Spidey about her nightmare, the one that had brought her so much trouble now. Other then laughing once she was silent in that section of the maze looking at all the memories and fighting the pain of the poison. No memories where missing here unlike the other two sections.
The next fork came much sooner then the others and this one again had the three ways. Wizard-Theif picked left and noticed the pictures of when she almost opened a gateway to Hell but Bakura stopped her. Once again no pictures or times missing. This section went right up till when she entered the maze then she came to a dead end.
"This is odd, I wonder what it means." Wizard-Theif thought and then the poison's pain came back with a vengeance. "I think I know now, this is the end." She thought and then she passed out from the pain.
"She got much farther than I thought she could have." Bakura muttered to himself and his monster.
Soon he too came to the maze; on the way before the fork were pictures of Thief King Bakura's life in Ancient Egypt before the killing of all the villagers. As he walked he didn't look once at the pictures and hieroglyphics carved into the wall nor did he even notice them. Then came the killing of the villagers and the making of the Millennium Objects. Right after the pictures of the Millennium Stone appearing Bakura came to a fork. He had the choice of right, left, or a steeper left; he picked the steeper left. Once at the fork he noticed something on the path going right on the floor and he realized that his monster had completely disappeared. Bakura walked over to the object and picked it up.
"It's the Millennium Key, so Masika must have gone this way." Bakura said turning right and going a few steps before stopping and thinking it over. "If Masika did leave this, why would she have it point to her? It just isn't her style she must have gone left." Bakura said changing his mind and walking down the steeper left turn. Slowly he realized how silent everything was. "Just like in the tomb." He thought before hearing something that seemed like voices, which caused him to stop and listen with all his might. On the wall was a picture of a small boy and girl meeting. After a few seconds he was rewarded and he heard it again but this time he made out what the voices were saying.
"I still don't get why this is part of the plan." A female voice whispered, "Why can't we just sneak in?"
"You know why we can't do that; those guards would catch us in like two seconds." A male voice that Bakura recognised as his own answered in a low voice.
"But what about my magic?"
"No, it's too risky; if you get caught using magic you could be in serious trouble."
"If we are caught at all we are in serious trouble."
"He sure is taking his sweet time, he better have the plans."
"But wouldn't stealing them be faster then this and less work and trouble? If he says anything we are so caught."
"This is easier, just wait a bit longer."
"But come on, just a second and I'm in and out." The girl whispered angrily.
"No, it's too risky, you could get caught."
"This coming from the dare devil himself? Who are you and what-?"
"Cut it out."
"I'm just saying that if they did manage to catch me I could escape."
"But if you weren't able to you'd be toast."
"Have I ever be caught and stayed caught before?"
"No but there is a first time for everything."
"Alright I won't go… do you hear a hissing noise?"
"It's a cobra." The boy said in a hollow voice.
"How do you know?" The female voice asked suspiciously.
"I can see it, don't move, it's on your foot." He said in a tone that showed that he was being careful not to scare who he was talking to, unfortunately didn't work.
"Get it off." The female's voice was begging and full of panic.
"It's ok, it's ok, don't worry." The boy said as trying to sound comforting and hide his own panic.
Then the voices creased to talk and the maze was silent. Bakura kept on walking still not looking at the pictures but keeping his ears open for any sounds. It wasn't till he got to the pictures of that moment with the snake and girl that he heard something again. He closed his eyes so that he could hear the voices better. It was the same two voices with the female getting more and more worried and the snake hissing in the background.
"Please just get it off." She pleaded, she sounded close to tears.
"Hang on, don't worry, I won't let it bite you." The male replied still trying to cover his own panic.
"It's not that I'm worried about… The guards are coming this way." The girl said sounding even more upset.
"Damn it, let's concentrate on the snake and worry about the guards later."
"They must be hiding." A new male voice said, he was obviously one of the guards the girl mentioned.
"Search the whole area; they have to be here somewhere." Another male voice said having a superior sound to his voice.
"Look you just go and I'll deal with the snake." The girl thief whispered.
"Forget it." The male thief replied fiercely.
"If you are worried that I'll turn you in, you have another thing coming." She said trying to sound tough.
"I know that you wouldn't do that but if the guards scare the snake you could get bitten; any idea why it likes you so much?"
"No but just go, I'll be fine."
"No, I'm not going; there is no way in Hell that I'm deserting my best friend!" The male thief said in a final sort of way but the girl didn't take the hint.
"Stop being so noble and just go!" she said equally as final.
Then yelp of pain was heard.
"What was that?" one of the guards asked.
"It came from over there." Another guard said.
"Damn that snake." The boy cursed keeping his voice low.
"I'm fine, just go." The girl thief said weakly, it sounded like the snake had bitten her.
"Now there really is no way that I'll leave." He replied.
"But-"
"No."
And once again the voices stopped. When Bakura opened his eyes he noticed that he was sitting on the floor. He got up and continued walking once more alert for any signs of motion or life, still not looking at the pictures on the wall. If he had he would have noticed that some scenes were missing in the Thief King Bakura's pictures.
"You don't have to fight him, Malik." Atemu said.
"I'm going to and just stop trying to talk me out of it, my mind is made up." Malik said when he noticed Spidey was about to beg him not to.
"You should have listened to your friends, Hikaru." Marik said.
"I'm not afraid of you."
"You should be."
"Oh, is that a fact?!"
"Just shut up. I need Elena either way you aren't getting in my way."
"Aww isn't that sweet? Evil Marik needs you." Mossnose said to Spidey
"What the?" was all Spidey could muster
"I'm filling in for Wizard-Theif." Mossnose explained.
"Guys look! The guys started to fight, and Malik just punched Marik in the nose." Torn twisted exclaimed
"Which Marik punched which Marik?" Spidey asked
"Hikaru punched Yami." Torn Twisted explained
"WHOO!" almost all of the gang yelled… Kaiba excluded as he still believed that this was all a dream.
It looked like Malik had the upper hand, and then came the hidden knife from the Millennium Rod. Marik flipped it out and stabbed Malik in the arm. Spidey decided enough was enough. She slapped a sutra on both of her hands and stepped between the boys.
"No more fighting!" She yelled. Immediately the sutras formed barriers, pushing the boys away from each other, encasing each of them in their own protective bubble.
Many boos were heard from Torn Twisted and Mossnose, but Spidey ignored it and asked the boys:
"Can you two behave yourselves?"
"Yes" Was the reply from the boys. She released Malik, who ran over to her.
"Spidey how long can you keep that manic trapped?" Atemu asked.
"Considering how dizzy I'm feeling right now and how he keeps attacking the barrier… not long." Spidey replied.
"Come on, this way!" Mossnose said running into the shadows.
"Follow that cat!" Torn Twisted said following human Mossnose and dragging Kaiba by his pointy collar.
Spidey, who was still holding up the barrier, tried to run after the others, but almost fell.
"Man, you look dizzy." Malik said, realizing that his girlfriend wasn't behind him. He propped her up onto his back and ran after the others, trying desperately to catch up.
After a few minutes they came to a wall made of what Kaiba told them was made of limestone.
"Yes, the first thing we were going to ask when we ran up to this wall was that it was made of." Spidey said sarcastically when Kaiba told them about the wall being limestone.
"Kaiba… is being useful? Wizard-Theif would gasp right now." Torn Twisted said.
"My boyfriend is plenty useful!" Mossnose yelled.
"So Kaiba is your boyfriend." Spidey said weakly still on Malik's back.
"I'm who's what when?" Kaiba asked.
"Never mind."
"Hey isn't that Bakura?" Malik asked looking over at a break in the wall.
"Yeah, I wonder what he is doing here." Spidey said getting down, "The barrier has been destroyed so we don't have much time before Yami Marik finds us."
"Bakura just went in there." Torn Twisted said.
"I think we should follow him, maybe we can find out what's going on or where Wizard-Theif is." Spidey said.
"It's most likely a trap." Kaiba said.
"Still believe that this is a dream?" Atemu asked.
Kaiba just glared at Atemu.
"Malik you're bleeding!!" Spidey exclaimed in shock.
"Still?" Malik asked looking at his arm.
"Here." Atemu said throwing Spidey a first aid kit.
Spidey gave him a puzzled look.
"You never know when you'll need it with morons like Yami Marik and Yami Bakura running around."
Once Malik was all patched up Spidey looked over to the maze and thought, "If Wizard-Theif is in there she could be in massive trouble." After a second of hesitation, "I'm going in." Spidey said walking towards the opening, "If I don't make it out tell Yami Marik that's he is a moron."
"Wait, I'm coming with you." Malik said walking up to Spidey.
"If Spidey is going so am I." Torn Twisted and Mossnose said.
Kaiba and Atemu looked at each other, sighed and said, "Alright."
Once they entered they came to a fork in the road that split into 6 paths.
"It's maze." Spidey said.
A/N: Another chapter done. So does that count as the climax or not? And Malik only has the Wing Dragon of Ra because I couldn't think of a monster in his deck that symbolized him. Please review.
Spidey- Damn it Wizzie you got me addicted to this story now! MOSSNOSE!! REVIEW!!! Muahaha… I'm done
Wt- You been hanging out with Yami Marik too much, you're starting to sound just like him
Spidey- Going to Kill WT.
On a sort unrelated topic, Halloween is almost here!! YES! Even though I'm 'too old' to go out, I'm still going trick or treating and no one can stop me not even the cops! You heard me… ish… Not even the cops can stop me from Trick or Treating and the CANDY!!
\HAPPY HALLOWEEN!