A/N: The disclaimers will now be like a mini story that no one will read as no one reads the disclaimers or if they do they don't really pay attention to it. Also for the checker game with Kaiba-boy the board coordinates are the ones used for chess. Mossnose helped write her fight with Runningriver instead of writing/updating her own story, thank you Mossnose.
Disclaimer: I want all you bloody sucking lawyers to hear me when I say that, "I own nothing but the plot, TTH, and WT and now, 'the git/scribe'." Now do you believe me? Or do things have to get messy? -Lawyers yell- I'll take that as a yes.
Chapter 15
Torn Twisted still wasn't sure who was leading her down the path, they stayed behind her and the torches were still blown out but her eyes were starting to notice a faint glowing coming from the walls themselves. Once she could sorta see, she started to plan how to get away from her capturer.
"Whoever it is they don't have a weapon so I just have to get out of their grip and I'm home free." Torn Twisted thought. When she saw a fork coming up she acted, she bit the hand covering her mouth to hear a grunt of pain as she was released from her capturer's grip. She quickly picked a random turn and ran down it never looking behind her which might have been smart as her capturer was gaining.
Soon Torn Twisted felt herself tiring and she stopped for a quick breather, looking down the path she had come to see that her capturer was her worst enemy back from her nightmares, the one, the only, the dreadful, the boring, the horrible, the haunting, the forever torturing, the annoying, the ugly, the boring… did I mention boring?... math teacher from grade 7.
"I should have seen that coming." Torn Twisted thought as she willed herself to start running again.
"Where is your homework?" Bellowed the math teacher as he ran after her.
"Damn it! I'm not in your class anymore! I'm outta school and what kind of last name is Pi!?" Torn Twisted shouted over her shoulder.
"Don't you get smart with me, young lady!" Threatened Mr… Pi…
"Leave me alone!" Torn Twisted yelled coming to a fork that split the path into four different ways.
"Oh damn… what way do I go? What way?" Torn Twisted thought looking down all the paths trying to decide which way to go. "What way? What way… hey where did the pictures go?" Torn Twisted thought and then she heard footsteps getting closer and closer. She randomly chose the far left and heard Mr. Pi running after her. She kicked into high gear and was running for all she was worth right down the corridor, painfully aware of her aching lungs and the fact that her old enemy/math teacher was gaining.
"Since when were you a gym teacher?!" Torn Twisted spat over her shoulder as she pushed herself to her limits. Any second she was going to fall down from exhaustion but before that could happen she came to a dead end.
"You should have done your homework, I also taught gym back in the day." Mr. Pi said not even panting or breaking a sweat had he ran after Torn Twisted.
"I knew that there was I reason for me hating gym and avoiding it at all costs in grade 7." Torn Twisted muttered as she turned to face her doom.
:"Have you given up yet? You only have 0.00000000000001 chance of victory." Mr. Pi yelled as he stopped running and put his hand into his briefcase.
"You better double check your math." Torn Twisted yelled boldly.
"I wouldn't be talking if I was you."
"What is that supposed to mean!?!?"
"I mean you failed the last pop quiz." Mr. Pi said, pulling out a sheet of paper from his briefcase.
Torn Twisted walked up to the math teacher and took the paper from him; she looked at it for a few seconds.
"I can see why you never became an English teacher; the name at the top says Jen." She said before handing the paper back to Mr. Pi. As he looked it over Torn Twisted inched her way around him and just as she was about to make a break for it a wall appeared in front of her, cutting off her escape route. "Damn." Now she was trapped with no escape. As Mr. Pi looked through his papers looking for Torn Twisted's test; she realized something; the walls didn't go all the way to the ceiling. "There just might be enough space for me to slip over the walls but how do I get up there?" Torn Twisted thought looking around, twice her eyes landed on Mr. Pi's briefcase that he was looking through but she dismissed the idea of using it.
Papers were still being thrown everywhere by Mr. Pi as he fanatically looked for Torn Twisted's paper. All of them having huge F's on them that reminded Torn Twisted of the show Fairly Odd Parents, slowly the papers began to start filling the room. Oddly enough, the papers were up to Torn Twisted's knees within seconds and she couldn't move.
"What the?!?! Why can't I move?!" Torn Twisted muttered.
Mr. Pi made no signs that he had heard her.
"Why can't I move my feet?" Torn Twisted asked a little louder.
"Raise your hand and wait your turn." Mr. Pi said not even looking up.
Torn Twisted swallowed her pride and raised her hand as she struggled to move her legs.
"Yes?" Mr. Pi said as he stopped looking through his briefcase for a moment.
"Why can't I move my feet?!" Torn Twisted said, it took all her self-control to remain civil to her worst enemy.
"Do you have any questions that have to do with the subject that we are studying?"
"Yes I do, can I go to the bathroom?" Torn Twisted said with a spark of inspiration.
"Pardon?" Mr. Pi asked with a confused look in his eyes.
"May I please go to the washroom, sir?" Torn Twisted said trying to look innocent, remain civil and not kill Mr. Pi right then and there.
"Well… I-I suppose…" Mr. Pi said his surprise over powering his common sense, "But I'm watching you." He added and then… he disappeared.
"Well… that was odd… oh yeah getting out of here." Torn Twisted said looking around and noticing that not only was Mr. Pi gone but so were his papers. Slowly a wall began to shrink allowing Torn Twisted to leave the room. Just as she thought it was safe the ground under feet had collapsed and she fell into the dark hole. Within seconds after the girl had disappeared the hole repaired itself, it was as if no one had ever been down the corridor or if they had it would have been centuries ago.
"Yami let her go." Malik declared.
"I wouldn't be making demands if I was in your place, Hikaru." Marik replied.
"What do you want with her?" Yugi asked.
"If he needs me then he wouldn't kill me!" Spidey yelled and then vision appeared to her. It was a flashback of when the girls were in the plane to Tokyo and Mossnose has just said:
"You know what would be weird… If we met some people from Yu-Gi-Oh and then Yami Marik wanted Spidey's spider powers and the only he could get it is if he kills her and if Yami Bakura wanted to kill Wizard-Theif."
"That would be weird." Spidey admitted.
"What gave you that idea Mossnose?" Wizard-Theif asked looking out the window not really paying attention to anything that the other girls were saying.
"That girl just reminded me of this dream I had, don't know why." Mossnose said pointing to a girl with long white hair.
"You have really twisted dreams… but they're only half as strange as mine are." Wizard-Theif said grinning in a proud sort of way.
"Like the one with your-" Spidey said.
"I Was Drunk, Damn IT!!!!" Wizard-Theif yelled.
End flashback
"I wouldn't do that if I was you." Marik said moving the knife into a more favourable position in order to strike. He was very careful to make sure that none of the boys would interfere with the killing. He moved back slowly keeping his eyes on Atemu and Yugi. That was his mistake; Malik was able to slowly move closer and closer to Marik.
"Can you do anything?" Yugi asked Atemu mentally.
"What did you have in mind?" Atemu replied.
"Something like what Bakura did when he summoned the Millennium Ring. Could you do that to the rod?" Yugi asked noticing that Malik was slowly gaining of his yami.
"Good idea." Atemu replied before concentrating on the rod.
"What's this?" Marik asked as the Millennium Rod and Puzzle started glowing and the glowing eyeball appeared on Atemu's forehead.
The Millennium Rod flew out of Marik's grip and hit the wall that had erupted from the ground behind Atemu. Now Malik was close enough to attack, he punched Marik in the face. No one was more surprised than Malik when his arm went right through his yami who disappeared.
"Elena are you okay?" Malik asked holding a shivering Spidey.
"I'm fine; he was just a little too close for comfort." Spidey replied.
"We should keep moving before something else happens." Atemu said walking over with Yugi.
"What about the Millennium Rod?" Yugi asked.
For an answer Atemu held up the Millennium Rod but now it just looked like a stick.
"So it was just an illusion." Malik said.
"Yes but all the same we should keep moving." Atemu said and the group moved forward once again.
Kaiba was sure that he was going to win, only one thing was standing in his way and that was:
"How am I supposed to move the checkers when they are this big?" Kaiba asked himself looking at his pieces.
"I'll go first." Gozaboro repeated, "Checker # 4 move to H4." A black checker moved from G3 to H4.
Kaiba had a hard time hiding his amazement.
Gozaboro looked over at his step son and said, "If you look at your pieces you will see that they all have numbers on them." He was right, all the checkers, red and black had numbers on them going right to left, middle of the board to outside, starting at 1 and ending at 12. "Make your move." Gozaboro said.
"Checker #1 to A5." Kaiba said with a hint of hesitation. The red checker with the number 1 written on it moved as Kaiba had commanded. Kaiba felt a small spark of control return to him, now that he knew how to move the pieces to beat Gozaboro was a mere matter that didn't have him too worried.
For a little bit it appeared that Kaiba was winning but then Gozaboro doubled jumped him and got himself a king. From then the game went downhill till Kaiba once again turned it around. The game was really intense considering that no shadow magic was being used and nothing really important was on the line… well… I guess that the winner getting out of… wherever they were and the loser having to remain there for all of eternity is a big thing… meh.
Now the gamers were down to their possibly last turn. Kaiba had two pieces both kings and Gozaboro had one king. Everything was pointing to Kaiba's win and he knew it. If Gozaboro moved anywhere he would be jumped as he was on D8 and Kaiba's two kings were on B6 and F6.
"Face it old man you never stood a chance against me, you met your match years ago." Kaiba gloated.
"You think so, do ya?" Gozaboro replied.
Something in his tone made Kaiba stop for a second, his step father's tone was not one of defeat but of a threat, not that Kaiba was surprised by that but there was something going on that had him subconsciously worried.
"I know so." Kaiba said not showing his subconscious' worry, "If you move anywhere I'll jump your piece and win. Those are the rules of Checkers."
"In Checkers yes those are the rules, but who said that we were playing Checkers?" Gozaboro replied.
Kaiba's worries were confirmed.
"What are you talking about?" He demanded.
"We weren't playing Checkers but another game in which you try to get rid of all your game pieces first. That's right; we were playing Give Away, Seto." Gozaboro said.
"What?! That's…" Kaiba replied flabbergasted.
"That's right, Seto you are about to lose this game and I will take control of your body and return to the real world." Gozaboro said as his game piece moved to C7.
"This… This is impossible!!" Kaiba said finding his voice again.
Then Gozaboro gave Kaiba a strange look, it was one of pity and said, "You are right." Before disappearing and taking the checkers board and checkers with him.
Kaiba stood there for a few seconds not even moving except for breathing and blinking in confusion looking at the place where his step father had disappeared from.
"This dream is just plain nuts; it must be the stress…" Kaiba muttered as he started walking down the corridor looking for Mossnose or someone he knew that wasn't going try to possess him and/or kill him.
Runningriver had transformed as well, into a she-cat with ember eyes and blue-grey fur. Mossnose knew from experience that Runningriver was very swift and fast. The two cats circled each other each looking for an opportunity to attack. Mossnose was the first to stop circling, she ran at Runningriver aiming her claws at Runningriver's eyes.
Runningriver dodged the blow easily and Mossnose saw a barely visible scar near Runningriver's right eye.
"Unlike a certain little kit, I learn from my mistakes, you won't get me twice with that swipe to the eye." Runningriver said as Mossnose prepare to leap into battle again.
Mossnose tried to ignore the jive and lunged again only to have Runningriver move to the side in a flowing movement, thus dodging the attack again.
"Face it, kit, you are way out of your league there is no way that I'll be beat by a little kit like you." Runningriver taunted.
"I did last time!" Mossnose replied as she started trying to remember Runningriver's weak point.
"But that was last time and in the time that I have been gone you have appeared to have gone soft." Runningriver said watching Mossnose getting mad. Unlike Mossnose, Runningriver remembered her opponent's weak point and was using it to her advantage.
Then Runningriver finally started to attack, leaping at Mossnose and aiming a swipe at her legs in an attempt to trip her. Mossnose jumped back to avoid the swipe and then jumped forward again with an attack of her own. They lunged at each other again and again, scratching, clawing and biting each other trying to weaken their opponent enough to administer the Killing Bite, a bite that snaps the neck.
After many attacks, Runningriver went in for the Killing Bite. Mossnose moved out of the way and avoided the Bite only to receive a slash to her belly instead. She tried to hold back a howl of pain but when Runningriver took advantage of Mossnose's pain and temporary paralysis and she bit Mossnose's back left leg, Mossnose had to howl in pain. Mossnose manage to kick Runningriver off with her good leg but she fell to the ground in pain. Runningriver quickly recovered from Mossnose's kick and came back. Mossnose tried to rise to meet her but she couldn't put any weight on her injured leg. Runningriver was back now and had pinned Mossnose. She stepped back and waiting for Mossnose to get back up.
Once Mossnose was up once more Runningriver attacked. Mossnose dodged Runningriver's attack with ease and saw an opening to get Runningriver in the face. It seemed too easy but Mossnose was running out of options so she took the risk and aimed a claw at Runningriver's face. The attack got Runningriver's nose, instead of her eye and Mossnose noticed the small smile on Runningriver's face showing that Mossnose had waltzed right into her trap. Runningriver tripped Mossnose up and pinned her once again.
"Why don't you just give up?" Runningriver asked, "There is no way that you can win, after all you are only a kit that acts more like a dog."
"What- Did- You- Just- Say?" Mossnose demanded.
"You might as well be a dog demon… or maybe you are just a half-breed." Runningriver said.
"That is it!" Mossnose yelled kicking Runningriver off of her. With all her pain forgotten, Mossnose ran at Runningriver not sure what she was doing but sure that if she went down, so did Runningriver.
"Oh I have seen to have hit a nerve, tell me, do your friends know about your usual behaviour?" Runningriver asked as she dodged Mossnose's attack.
"Yes they do, and one of them annoys me about it every frigging DAY!" Mossnose yelled. Normally Mossnose doesn't swear but Runningriver had her so mad that she wasn't really thinking about being civil.
"What about your special friend, the human?" Runningriver asked dodging the attack once more, enraging Mossnose even more.
"What The Hell Are You Talking About You Dumb Ass?! Of Course Spidey Knows!" Mossnose yelled.
"I was referring to your special male friend." Runningriver calmly pointed out.
Runningriver's calmness was really starting to annoy Mossnose so it took a few seconds for her to realize that Runningriver was talking about Kaiba.
"What is it to you!?" Mossnose yelled as she stopped for a breather.
"So he doesn't know that you are more of a dog demon then a cat." Runningriver thought aloud.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!" Mossnose yelled.
"I bet that he doesn't even know that you are a demon…" Runningriver said not needing Mossnose to talk to know that she was right Mossnose's attack was all she needed.
Mossnose was having trouble thinking straight, Runningriver was using the same tactic that the Other-Wizard-Theif had back in the alley.
"SHUT THE HELL UP!!" Mossnose yelled again and then she once again found herself pinned.
Runningriver smiled and moved in for the final attack. It was then that Mossnose saw her last chance to win the fight. Just as Runningriver moved in to finish Mossnose off with a bite to the neck, Mossnose aimed her claws at Runningriver's heart and ripped it out. With a cut off howl of pain, Runningriver disappeared in a flash of red light.
Mossnose fell to the ground, exhausted. She just barely managed to transform to her human form before she fell to the ground. Soon a welcomed sleep came over her and she fell into the darkness.
Wizard-Theif awoke to find herself on the sandy floor of a small alley. She looked up and saw the sun. She lowered her head to protect her eyes and saw that she was wearing her old Egyptian tunic.
"What the? Wasn't I just holding my breath? Why am I wearing this? Where am I?" Wizard-Theif muttered to herself as she got up. She noticed that her legs felt weak and that her skin had a bluish tone to it.
"This place is just like Ancient Egypt but how did I get here? … Ok, I have to find out what happened in the maze and how I got here." Wizard-Theif thought as she started walking down on of the streets. She noticed that here it was around the middle of the day and that people were walking around happily talking to others and children were playing and laughing.
"Wow… it sure is nice here… I wonder if anyone can tell me where I am…" Wizard-Theif thought as she walked up to a person at a booth.
"Hey, can you tell me where I am?" She asked the man at the booth.
He just ignored her.
"Hello?" Wizard-Theif said waving her hand in front of his face.
He didn't even blink.
"Well that settles it. I somehow fell into someone's memories and they can't be mine because I've never been here before… I wonder what is that yelling all about." Wizard-Theif thought as she walked over to a building. She walked over to the door to find it locked. "Figures.Might as well try the roof." She thought as she looked around twice before jumping onto the roof. Once there she slipped through a small crack by transforming into a mouse, she found herself in a huge room full of soldiers.
"What the?" She thought as she transformed back to a human.
"-my voice penetrate your very core." A voice commanded.
The soldiers' faces became blank and many mutters of "Yes, master Akhanden." were heard.
Wizard-Theif looked over in the direction that the soldiers were facing to see four men. "They're casing some sort of mind control spell." Wizard-Theif muttered to herself.
"My voice is the voice of reason, the voice of peace, the only voice you will obey. You have been handpicked to take part in a ritualistic experiment to save the land of Egypt." One of the four men said.
All the soldiers nodded and he continued talking, "There is no turning back now our mission begins tonight in a small village on the outskirts of our kingdom. To Kul Elna!"
"To Kul Elna!" the soldiers all yelled.
"So that was why all those soldiers were at the village on that night." Wizard-Theif muttered as she slipped out of the building, "I guess I better find a horse and tag along." As she was walking by a booth she picked up a fig and bit into it.
"So just because people can't hear or see me doesn't mean that I'm not solid… I better find some way to KulElna… Why am I even going there?" Wizard-Theif thought as she continued to eat the fig and walk around. After a few minutes she came to a stop in front of a building. "This place looks familiar but where…?" Wizard-Theif thought and then it hit her… or rather ran through her. A scribe with an armload of papers had just run through her and through the door. "That's why… Hang on! That guy just walked right through me…creepy… This is the same building that the git was working at… note to self if see self, tell her to murder that git… but then that would mess up history… Oh yeah, gotta go find a horse." Wizard-Theif thought before finishing off the fig and walking around some more.
Suddenly she found herself in Kul Elna and the sky was dark; all the villagers were alive and didn't seem all that worried. Wizard-Theif walked through the streets careful not to walk through anyone and looked around.
"So this is what the place looked like before… Wow…" Wizard-Theif muttered but something in the back of her mind stopped her from voicing what she really thought of the place so instead she thought it, "This is my kind of place."
She continued to look around and was unaware that she was subconsciously looking for a familiar face. Before she had the chance to really look around and explore a man came running through the streets yelling at the top of his lungs, "The Pharaoh's soldiers are coming! Run for your lives."
Wizard-Theif jumped to the roofs and looked to the cliffs surrounding the village. As the man had shouted soldiers were coming and they were being lead by the four men that Wizard-Theif had seen before. Within seconds chaos had over run the village and there was blood spilled everywhere. One could hear the yells of agony and pain coming throughout the whole village. Wizard-Theif growled at the sight of all the bloodshed and slowly started to feel that something worst was going to happen. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a flash of red and silver. She turned around and came face to face with one of the soldiers. He swung the sword and Wizard-Theif ducked.
"This isn't making any sense. People can walk through me and I can't go through nonliving things. Before people couldn't see or hear me now I have this brainwashed freak swinging his sword at me. What the Hell is going on!?" Wizard-Theif thought as she moved away from the soldier. Then the soldier's face changed to someone that Wizard-Theif knew quite well.
"Thanks for making this easier." Wizard-Theif said punching the boy in the face.
The boy spat out blood and gave Wizard-Theif a frighten grin. He was wearing a mantel that covered his hair but his shifty hazel eyes were ones that Wizard-Theif remembered well. Now not only did his face change but so did his body. He became smaller and rounder. "What's the matter? I have the plans now." He said holding a scroll out to Wizard-Theif, his voice was as she remembered it, educated and annoying, especially when he was scared. Why had she worked with this scum, she had no idea, it had taken her and her partner almost two years to track the git down.
Wizard-Theif was about to pull out a knife when someone put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Let's at least have a look at these plans."
Wizard-Thief put her knife back into its hidden compartment, took the plans from the git as she had decided to call him and walked behind her partner. As she pass she muttered, "I still say that I could have saved us all this trouble and just 'borrowed' these."
"I'll talk about that with you later." He muttered back.
Spidey, Malik, Yugi and Atemu had finally come to a fork that split 3 ways. All of them were worn out so they stopped for a quick breather right in front of the fork. After they had all had a breather Spidey turned to the fork.
"Before you guys mess up the maze anymore, I'm going this way." She said pointing down one of the paths.
The boys shared a glance, they all knew that Spidey expected them to split up too but they weren't so sure that it was the greatest idea.
"Alright, bye." Malik said walking towards one of the paths, Yugi and Atemu noted that he was walking a bit slow but thought nothing of it. Spidey on the other hand had also started walking to the path that she had chosen.
"See ya." Yugi said as he and Atemu walked down the last remaining path.
Spidey was the first to disappear from view; once she had stepped onto her path a wall erupted from the ground sealing off her path. It appeared that the maze was fed up with the guys not splitting up so once a person had stepped upon one of the paths the maze would seal that way. Its plan would have worked but Malik quickly changed directions and ran up to Yugi and Atemu before they stepped onto the path.
"I thought that you were going the other way." Atemu said.
"I think that you were right when you said that we shouldn't split up and besides since this place is just like a tomb, it's a good idea to have a tomb keeper around." Malik said.
"What about Spidey?" Yugi asked.
Malik looked at the ground, shifted from one foot to another uncomfortably. "What she doesn't know won't hurt her right?" Malik said looking up.
"In this maze who knows." Atemu replied.
"But if she does find out…" Yugi thought and cringed at the memory of what happened to Marik.
"Alright, since there is nothing we can do now, let's keep moving." Atemu said leading the way down the path.
The boys walked in silence, unsure why they did so but their eyes kept moving over the walls.
"I hope that everyone else is ok." Yugi muttered once the silence began too much and the other two boys flinched. Just thinking of what might be happening to the others sent shivers down their spines.
"Let's keep moving." suggested Atemu.
The boys kept moving and within seconds they had a new fear, booby-traps. Within seconds of continuing on their way, Yugi had stepped on a title that had sunk lower into the floor.
"Uh oh." Yugi said.
"Uh oh what?" Atemu said turning around and looking at Yugi who was looking at the floor in worry.
"I think that I just set off some sort of trap." Yugi muttered.
"Do you guys hear that?" Malik asked looking down the path that they had come.
The other two boys were quiet and listening, then they heard it, it sounded like a soft rumble and then it grew to a roar. Soon they saw what was causing it, rolling towards them was… a giant… massive… enormous… gigantic… statue of Kuriboh, that's right a statue was rolling after them. Not boulder, not rock, a giant statue of Kuriboh was rolling towards them.
"Oh Damn!" All the boys yelled before trying to out run it but before them even went three steps the floor under them collapsed creating a huge pit. Luckily for the guys they landed on something soft, another burst of good luck, the hole was too small for the statue to fall into so the guys didn't have to worry about being crushed by it.
"Wow that was lucky." Malik said.
"Yeah… but what are we sitting on?" Yugi asked.
"I'm not sure." Malik said looking down at what he was sitting on but since the Kuriboh was blocking the hole no light was coming into the pit.
"I don't think it's good news." Atemu said.
"What makes you say that, Atemu?" Yugi asked.
"Well, I can't move now, it's got me all tangled up." Atemu replied, the others could hear him try to release himself from the grasp of whatever had him.
"I can't move either." Malik said trying to release himself.
"What is this stuff?" Yugi asked.
"I heard about some sort of plant like this, it was called Devil's Snare." Atemu said trying to remain calm.
"I can't breathe." Yugi and Malik said.
"Hang on." Atemu said somehow summoning the Winged Dragon of Ra in Phoenix mode causing the plant to be burned to a charcoal. The stood up on shaky legs.
"Is anyone keeping count of how many times this maze has tried to kill us?" Malik asked.
"I think this is only the fifth time." Atemu said.
"Really? It feels like more."
"I think we should keep moving." Yugi said as he started walking down the corridor.
The other quickly followed.
"Oh he is so dead." Spidey muttered to herself as she listened through the wall. When she had walked onto her path she made a wall appear so that she could hear if the guys had really split up. They hadn't and now it looked like Malik may not see tomorrow.
Spidey walked down the corridors in a rage induced daze plotting ways to kill Malik or at least torture him. While she was contemplating about a very violent method of torturing Malik, she heard something like screaming coming from above her. She looked up to see the ceiling. Next thing she knew was that she was on the floor with Torn Twisted sitting on her.
"Thanks for the save Spidey." Torn Twisted said getting off of her.
Spidey was silent as she got up and her face was twisted into a frown.
"Hey, sorry about falling on you… are you really that mad about it?" Torn Twisted asked as the two girls started walking down the corridor.
"No, it's just… Malik." Spidey replied.
"Oh no what did he do this time?" Torn Twisted asked.
"He lied." Spidey said avoiding eye-contact with Torn Twisted, man was she ever glad that Torn Twisted was there so that she could vent.
"About what, he's not double timing you is he?" Torn Twisted asked pretending to be interested in what Spidey had to say. To be bluntly honest Torn Twisted hated talking about other people's relationships but Spidey seemed really mad and in need to talk so Torn Twisted took a breath and dived in.
"Do you know why the lights went out?" Spidey asked finally meeting Torn Twisted's eyes.
"Uh… no… not really… why?" She admitted.
"Because they made that happen."
"How? Wait a minute, they?"
"Yes they, Yugi, Atemu and Malik didn't split up like they were supposed to."
"So we are all cursed because of them?"
"Yes."
"And you are mad at him for that?"
"No, I mad at him for saying that he was going to split up and not splitting up back there."
"Are you sure that he really said that he was going to split up?"
"… No… but he had it look like he was going to."
"Ok, now you can blame him all you like." Torn Twisted said hoping that that would be the end of it but boy was she wrong.
For the next leg of the trip all Spidey was talking about was Malik and how she couldn't believe that he would do something like that. At first Torn Twisted pretended to listen and then she just gave up and started thinking about more important things, like how to get out of there and Atemu and Yugi.
Mossnose awoke to find Kaiba running over to her and her left leg with blood pouring out of a cut so deep that you could see the bone. She also passed out again after looking at it. Kaiba also turned a bit green when he saw the state that Mossnose was in. He pulled out a first aid kit and bandaged her up.
"Where did you get that?" Mossnose asked.
"Found it." Kaiba muttered, and then he stood up and helped Mossnose to her feet.
"Thanks." Mossnose muttered. For some reason she just couldn't look Kaiba in the eye.
As the two were walking down the corridor looking for the others, a battle was being fought and lost in Mossnose's head. "I should tell him that I'm really a cat demon… But he won't believe me, he thinks this is all just a dream… then wouldn't this be the best time to tell him? That fight with Runningriver really messed with my head… but that scary part is how much she managed to mess with it. I just can't look Seto in the eye without feeling like blurting everything out… Maybe that is what I'll do… but if we don't stay together… What is a girl to do?!"
Just when Mossnose was about to blurt out everything about her abnormality Kaiba stopped walking, they had come to a huge pit in the floor with a statue of Kuriboh stuck in it.
"Somehow, I'm not surprised." Kaiba muttered.
Mossnose just nodded and started to climb up over the statue.
"Hang on, Sentai what are you doing?" Kaiba yelled.
"Come on, we have to find the others." Mossnose replied still thinking about what would be the best way to tell Kaiba that she was a cat demon.
Kaiba greatly surprised Mossnose by being a horrible climber.
"I thought you were good at climbing." Mossnose said as she looked down at Kaiba who was having trouble.
Kaiba merely growled causing Mossnose to smile a bit more. When Kaiba fell to the floor for the fourth time in that time span Mossnose also burst out laughing at how silly he looked. Once again, luckily or unluckily depending on how much you like Kaiba, he was only like two feet above the floor so he wasn't all that badly hurt.
"Come on." Mossnose tried to encourage him but this only cause him to look up at her and say:
"You are starting to sound just like Tea."
"How do you know that Tea doesn't sound just like me?" Mossnose asked happy to find that she could look Kaiba in the eyes again.
Kaiba was silent as he had tried to climb the statue again. Finally he made it to the top.
"What took you?" Mossnose asked as he pulled himself over the edge.
"It's not as easy as it looks." Kaiba replied panting.
"How did you make it up the cliff that one time in Duellist Kingdom?" Mossnose asked as she effortlessly climbed down the other side of the statue.
"I'm just a bit out of practice." Kaiba said in his defence.
"You mean you do stuff like this for fun?" Mossnose asked stepping onto the floor.
"No…" Kaiba said looking down.
"Ok then, come on slow poke." Mossnose moved a bit back from the statue so that if Kaiba fell he wouldn't land on her.
Amazingly he got down fairly fine.
"Shall we continue?" He asked walking up to Mossnose.
"Sure." Mossnose replied as they started walking away from the giant Kuriboh.
"Now about my payment." The scribe said walking over the Wizard-Theif's partner who unlike Wizard-Theif herself, wisely kept his face hidden under a hood.
"Alright." The boy thief said reaching into his cloak as Wizard-Theif looked over the plans.
"Hey." Wizard-Theif said tapping him on the shoulder, "I wouldn't give him the money just yet."
"I did as I was told." The git explained.
"And more then that," Wizard-Theif remark coldly holding up the plans, "everything is gibberish."
"I had to put it in code, so that if I was caught with the plans that no one would be able to read them but my employers…?" The git said unsure.
"I doubt that, what do you think?" Wizard-Theif said handing the plans over to her partner.
He looked over them for a second before turning to the git, "If it's in code then why don't you read some of it out to us."
The git gulped and took the scrolls from the boy. He looked them over for a few seconds obvious to the world.
"You can tell that he is lying about the code, why can't we just slit his throat right now?" Wizard-Theif said impatiently.
"You sure do enjoy killing don't you?" Her partner said.
"That's it, I'm not letting you near any bars till this break in is over. You're so tiresome right afterwards." Wizard-Theif said dodging the question.
"Like you could stop me."
"Is that a challenge?"
"Maybe."
"And this is the path way to avoid all the traps." The git cut in.
The two partners stopped fighting and turned back to the common pain in the neck.
"If you are so sure then you can go first." Wizard-Theif said.
"What?" the git said, what colour left in his skin disappeared.
"That's a good idea, actually." Her partner mused.
At this the git looked ready to drop dead right then and there.
"After all, my partner and I are unfamiliar with your code and if these plans are in fact what we are looking for then since you can read them you can lead the way into the tombs." The boy continued.
"Please reconsider your order." The git said, "I'm not a tomb thief, I have no knowledge of what lays in the tombs."
"But if those really are maps then you should be able to lead us right now." Wizard-Theif said, unsure why she was playing along with his idea.
"But… but… But…" The git looked ready to faint; he finally realized who he was dealing with.
Wizard-Theif grinned at the look on the scribe's face.
"Face it, when Touzoku-ou gets an idea in his head there is no talking him out of it." She said, "So when are we going in?"
"Well we have the plans so why not now?" Touzoku-ou said.
"Ok, things were getting dull." Wizard-Theif said, "But I have to go and get the equipment."
Touzoku-ou turned to the scribe and said, "We will meet at the entrance to the tomb in one hour."
A drop of the odd slime fell onto Bakura's out stretched hand. He still heard the roar from the other side of the wall but for some reason he wasn't feeling very curious about what it was, slowly he was starting to lose interest in the slime as well but for some reason he couldn't stop staring at it. Everything seemed to be getting farther and farther away. It was the same feeling of distance that Bakura had whenever Ryou was controlling the body and Bakura was watching from the sidelines. The roaring seemed to have quietened itself to a small purr. Then something moved in the darkness, Bakura spun around and came face to face with the git, suddenly he was 15 again, his face covered and standing in a small room with a candle burning. Out of the corner of his eye he saw the 15 year old, Wizard-Theif leave the room. Just as he was about to follow, the third person in the room turned to him and asked:
"Master, may I have a word with you?"
"What is it?" Bakura said, not even thinking about what he was saying, his back turned to the person he was talking to.
"I feel that it is my duty to warn you that someone knows about our plan to break into the tombs and they are planning to turn you in." the scribe with hazel eyes and of smaller, rounder built covered in bandages said, "and I believe that the girl is part of the plan."
"I believe that you are mistaken." Bakura said as he started to walk to the door.
"This is just what I have heard from my sources." The scribe said and an undercurrent of smugness caused Bakura to stop again.
"The only people who knew about this operation are you, my partner and me." Bakura said not looking at the scribe.
"As I already said, I believe that the girl is taking part in the other plan."
"I find that hard to believe."
"Did you know that your partner came to see me and she had an odd boy with her?" The git said watching Bakura's back for his reaction.
"When?" Was all Bakura had said, he was careful to not show what he thought of the scribe.
"My memory is a bit weak…" The git said falling into silence but when Bakura threw a pouch of coins to him without turning to face him, he started talking again, "The girl came to see me with a boy who kept his face covered as you did when you came with her just now-"
"How do you know that that boy wasn't me?" Bakura cut in, unsure of why he was listening to this scribe. "Masika is right, this guy can't be trusted." Bakura thought as he made to leave once more.
"Why would you want to go to the tombs twice?" the git said counting the coins.
Bakura stopped hand on the doorframe, silence; it wasn't broken till the scribe had finished counting his coins.
"When did she come to see you?" Bakura asked wanting to see what the scribe would say and then prove him wrong.
The scribe held out a hand Bakura walked over and placed one coin in it. "At about dusk a week ago but the boy wasn't with her. She lured me into a back alley and…" The scribe said shuddering at the memory.
"And?" Bakura said trying to get the scribe to talk some more.
The scribe gave Bakura a look of fear and said, "She was like a demon, just appeared out of nowhere and attacked me. When she was done with her 'fun' as she had called it, I was a bloody mess. That is why I'm wearing these bandages. The doctors are amazed that I'm still alive after the beating I received. She told me not to tell anyone the real cause of all my wounds. She said that she would be dropping by my house with a friend of hers the next day and to have the plans and be ready to go to the tombs, she also said to make up fake plans to trick anyone else who wanted to break in later."
Bakura merely nodded, not sure what to make of the scribe's story, yes, Masika had disappeared for a time last week… "No" Bakura mentally shook his head he wouldn't think such things.
"And Master that wasn't the half of it." The scribe said, "Once inside the tomb the girl seemed almost in a trance, her companion was holding the torch but after we got to the first tomb she commanded that the torch be blown out. I'm not sure what happened after that but I awoke to find myself at the entrance to the tombs and the plans missing."
Bakura could do nothing but nod.
The scribe continued, "I tricked her though, the plans that were taken from me were the fake ones. I had tried just to give them to her and the boy and run but…"
"She is not one to trust anyone; she read the plans and found out that they were the fake ones?" Bakura mused.
"Yes, when I came back to my study I found the real plans gone and a note saying to make up some more fake ones to replace the ones that were taken and then later when I was in a bar I over heard some tomb keepers talking, they said that one tomb, the tomb that you are going into in less than an hour was robbed and in the middle of the floor they found a body in a pool of blood and a pile of ashes."
"I see." Bakura managed to mutter before finding himself back in the maze. He blinked and looked around for a second in a dazed state noticing that he had moved from where he was before. He shrugged it off and continued.
The boys had been walking in silence for a while and it wasn't making the maze any less creepy. Things were relatively uneventful till Atemu stepped on some symbol. The result of Atemu's carelessness? Yugi got a mouthful of some unknown gas. Unfortunately the other two boys failed to notice that something was wrong till the gas took effect. They had stopped to wait up for Yugi who was walking rather slowly.
"Hurry, up Yugi." Malik said.
"Who you calling short!?" Yugi yelled in reply.
Malik gave Atemu a mystify look and Atemu said to Yugi, "No one called you short, Yugi."
"I'm not small!!" Yugi yelled.
"We never said that you were." Malik said starting to worry.
"I'm! Not! SHORT!" Yugi yelled.
Atemu looked at Malik who shrugged, and then Atemu had an incredible stupid idea.
"You know, you are on the small side." Atemu said.
Malik's jaw dropped and was giving Atemu 'what the Hell are you doing?' looks. Yugi's jaw also dropped and he was silent.
"Help me out here Malik." Atemu muttered to the tomb keeper.
Malik swallowed and looked at the insane Yugi before saying, "I never really noticed it before but Yugi is really short."
Atemu nodded and continued, "That's I was saying, Yugi is like 20ish and he still only just reaches Ryou's neck and that's only because of his hair."
"And Ryou is kinda short too." Malik said.
Yugi was looking murderous again and the two other boys involuntarily took a step back.
"I'm going to murder you guys!" Yugi yelled as he ran at the other boys who turned on their heels and started running as well.
"We better look out Malik; we have a rabid munchkin on our tails." Atemu yelled.
"I think we should stop talking and just run, Pharaoh." Malik said.
"What makes you say that?"
"Why don't you look over your shoulder!?"
Atemu did so and then started running faster, "Oh boy, he is mad!"
And the boys were off like a shot one trying to kill the other two and the other two trying to figure out how to get the one back to normal.
Wizard-Theif suddenly felt pain in her shoulder. She blinked and noticed the soldier was back and looking very confused. Wizard-Thief noticed that his sword was broken in half; one half was still attached to the hilt of the sword which the soldier was holding and the other half… was stuck in her shoulder.
Wizard-Thief pulled the blade out of her shoulder with only one small flash of pain crossing her face and dropped it onto the roof. She looked over at the soldier and said, "What's the matter? Never fought an immortal before?"
The soldier appeared to not have heard her and called for back up.
"Oh yeah, I forgot that you can only hear lord… whatever his name was… " Wizard-Theif said, "Oh well." She walked up to the soldier and with a casual flick to his face; she sent him flying off the roof right into three other soldiers. "You'd think that these guys would put out more of a fight… but then they are brainwashed…" Wizard-Thief muttered to herself, "So what do I know about this place so far? ... well, I can only touch non living things like food, buildings and weapons… brainwashed people can see me but can't hear me… and normal people can't see or hear me… fun… Now where is the exit?" Wizard-Theif said looking around. She was just about to walk to the exit of the village when a flash of red came from an alley and the world suddenly went black again. Wizard-Theif felt pressure coming from all around and she couldn't breathe.
"Oh joy, I'm back on square one… I wonder… does this count as darkness? ... Well, I have nothing to lose." Wizard-Theif thought as she merged with the shadows. At once she could breathe again and she found herself back in the maze, kneeling on the ground.
"Yes… It worked…" Wizard-Theif panted then she fell to the ground. She knew that if she fell asleep it might be the end but as she saw it, at least she would be able to dream one more time.
A/N: Things are all coming together, perfect… I know I know, really long chapter and we still aren't out of the maze yet but if I hadn't cut out some parts it would have been even longer. Yes so now hopefully next chapter will be shorter and we may be out of the accursed maze. Shrugs who knows, please review and happy Halloween!