A/N: I hope to get everyone out of the maze in this chapter. Maybe we will be lucky and it will happen. Also this is the second last chapter. Please read and enjoy.
Disclaimer: The Lawyers didn't believe me when I say that "I own nothing but the plot, TTH, and WT and now, 'the git/scribe'." so now I have gotten my brand new, one of a kind, Super Awesomo gun all dirty. They will pay by handing the world over to me! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Chapter 16
"Spidey?" Torn Twisted asked in a vain attempt to get Spidey to talk again. Torn Twisted just couldn't understand it; Malik must have had a good reason for what he did so why wouldn't Spidey just let it go? Malik hadn't done anything to hurt her before, he was always the one to try to stop her from hurting herself… at least that was what Spidey had told her via email when they had first started dating and if Spidey didn't tell her, Mossnose would just to annoy her as Wizard-Theif was too busy plotting how to kill Kaiba.
Then Torn Twisted saw something that would get Spidey to talk for sure. The girls had come to a corner like Bakura had earlier and on the other side was something that definitely cheered Spidey up though her jaw dropped to the ground.
"No… way…" Spidey managed to say through her shock and thoughts of blackmail.
"Do you have a camera?" Torn Twisted asked.
"No… but Mossnose does!" Spidey said.
"Mossnose does what?" Mossnose asked as Kaiba and she walked onto the same path as Spidey and Torn Twisted. As soon as they were both in the same corridor that way that Mossnose and Kaiba had come sealed itself.
"Oh and speak of the devil." Spidey said turning away from the corner and facing Mossnose, "Do you have your camera?"
"Yeah but-hey!" Mossnose said as she pulled out her camera which Spidey stole and started to use to film something around the corner.
"Come and look." Torn Twisted said motioning for Mossnose to come over to the corner, she watched Mossnose's face for her reaction and it was very amusing.
Mossnose looked around the corner and her reaction was this:
Her face paled, her eyes got wide and she took a few steps back saying, "Oh… my… No… way…" Mossnose said.
"That was my reaction." Spidey said.
Kaiba himself didn't go look around the corner but whatever was around the corner was going to regret whatever it was doing.
"I can't believe that that's real." Mossnose said walking back over to the corner.
"I know, hard to believe but it is; just wait till the others see this." Torn Twisted said.
Then the girls heard yelling and a grunt of pain and turned around with the camera still filming to see Kaiba being sat on by three familiar faces. One of which Torn Twisted quickly pulled off and it looked evil.
"Has he slowed down at all?" Malik asked and he and Atemu ran from the homicidal Yugi.
"I dunno." Atemu panted as he and Malik came to a fork.
They stopped and looked down the path they had come, nothing. They looked at each other then back down the hallway expecting Yugi to appear out of nowhere.
After a bit Malik said, "Maybe we lost him?"
Then Yugi appeared running down the corridor, his eyes red with rage, "I'm going to kill you!" He yelled.
"AHHH!" the two Egyptians yelled as they ran down on of the paths they had randomly chosen.
"Doesn't he ever get tired!?" Atemu asked.
"Why are you asking me?! He's your hikaru!" Malik yelled back.
"Get back here!" Yugi cut in.
"Run more talk less!" Atemu said.
The next thing the Egyptians knew was that they had crashed into something that in turn had crashed into a wall and they heard laughing.
"Get off of me!" the something yelled over the laughter.
It took the Egyptians a second to realize that they had crashed into Kaiba and that the laughter was coming from Spidey, who was holding a camera and Mossnose, who doubled over from laughing so hard.
"Sorry Kaiba." Atemu said getting off.
"Sorry, did you see an insane Yugi run by here?" Malik asked as he too got off of Kaiba.
"You mean this insane Yugi?" Mossnose asked pointing to Torn Twisted who was holding back a still enraged Yugi.
Both Malik and Atemu jumped back in fear.
"What is wrong with him?" Torn Twisted asked trying to stop Yugi from doing something he would later regret.
"We're not sure." Atemu said, "We had just stopped to wait for him to catch up when he said that he wasn't short. When we told that we haven't called him short he just started freaking out."
"He probably got hit in the face with some sort of gas that changed his personality." Kaiba said. "It'll wear off."
It wasn't till then that Atemu noticed a red blinking light on the camera.
"That thing isn't on… is it?" Atemu asked Spidey.
"Yes but don't worry, you'll get a copy." Spidey replied turning around to videotape something around the corner.
"A copy of what?" Malik asked.
Spidey was either too engrossed in her work that she didn't hear him or she was ignoring him so Mossnose answered, "Well, so far on the tape we have, let's see… some our practice duels, our fights when you guys were possessed and merged, some footage of the maze, what's happening around the corner and what just happened with Yugi going insane."
"Do we want to know what is happening around the corner?" Atemu asked looking over at Yugi who seemed to be calming down.
Kaiba finally spoke up, "If you want information to blackmail Wizard-Theif or Bakura with then yes."
"What happened?" Yugi cut in.
"You didn't miss anything important." Torn Twisted said.
"Do you feel alright?" Atemu asked.
"I have a headache but other then that I'm fine."
"Good to have you back." Malik said.
"Did I go somewhere?" Yugi asked.
"We'll explain later." Spidey cut. "You guys get over here before she wakes up."
"Who wakes up?" Atemu, Malik and Yugi asked.
"Remember what Kaiba mentioned about blackmailing Wizard-Theif and Bakura?" Torn Twisted asked before pointing around the corner.
Everyone looked around the corner to see…
"AH!" Atemu yelled jumping back from the wall and for some reason a wall didn't grow out of the floor to stop him from taking 10 steps back from the corner.
Malik's and Yugi's eyes grew to the size of plates when they saw what was happening around the corner.
"That has to be an illusion." Malik said.
"Malik don't you dare start thinking like Kaiba." Spidey said talking to Malik for the first time, her tone was very… for lack of a better word, icy and heartless like Kaiba.
Malik looked taken back when he heard Spidey's comment and looked at Yugi, Atemu and Kaiba for some explanation for Spidey's behaviour. Kaiba gave him a confused look but Atemu and Yugi were giving him, "how did she find out?" looks. Out of the corner of his eye he also saw Torn Twisted giving him a, "you had this coming" glance and Mossnose like her boyfriend, looked lost.
"Guys! She is waking up!" Spidey whispered while zooming in with the camera.
Everyone moved back over to the corner to get a good view of what would happen next.
Wizard-Theif's dream was slowly starting disappear, the land of sand was slowly fading from her vision was being replaced with darkness. She kept her eyes shut as she listened for the sounds of cars driving by on the street outside the hotel; instead she heard suppressed giggles and someone breathing really close to her. Now her eyes remain closed in fear of what she would see when she opened them.
"I'm being stupid, odds are that the breathing I'm hearing is my own, yeah that's it. I'm just hearing my own breathing… Why am I not convinced? …" Wizard-Theif thought before swallowing her fear. Then she opened her eyes and came face to face with…
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Wizard-Theif screamed as she backed away from, "BAKURA-BOY!!! WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING!?!?!?" She yelled once she was safely on the other side of the corridor. She heard laughter and looked over to the corner to see camera holding Spidey, a laughing Mossnose, a gut holding Torn Twisted, and Atemu, Malik, Yugi and Kaiba were all smirking.
"Oh damn…" Wizard-Theif muttered in a sorta song like tone as she felt her face drain of all colour.
"Did you have a good nap?" Atemu asked not bothering to cover his smirk.
"Shut- up- now- pharaoh- boy- if- you- want- to- live." Wizard-Theif muttered, she was now looking at the ground as she felt her face heat up.
"It appears that the wizard thief and the tomb robber have finally gotten together." Kaiba said.
"The last time I checked you still didn't believe in magic Kaiba-boy or has that all changed?" Wizard-Theif asked then out of nowhere shards of rock shot at Atemu, Kaiba and Bakura, all of who ducked thus causing the shards to become imbedded in the wall.
"Are you still recording?" Mossnose whispered to Spidey.
"Of course and besides using it for blackmail it will show those two-" Spidey replied only to be cut off as Wizard-Theif turned her attention to the girls.
"Well?" Wizard-Theif asked, her eyes glowing crimson.
"Uh… well what?" Mossnose asked expecting a gateway to Hell to open at any moment.
"I wasn't talking to you; I was talking to the priestess." Wizard-Theif hissed looking at Spidey coldly.
"I'm just as lost as Mossnose." Spidey said handing the camera over to Torn Twisted who kept filming.
Wizard-Theif then turned on her heel and started walking away, her head down, she only got a few steps before a wall grew from the ground stopping her.
"I so damn tired of these walls." Wizard-Theif said before punching it, the wall crumbled on impact and if Wizard-Thief had turned around she would have noticed everyone, even Bakura who was still in a daze, jaws drop. But another wall grew to replace the old one; Wizard-Theif took her anger out on the walls till she remembered there was a special someone that she had planned to kill, brutally and with lots of blood and gore, so violent that if it was in movie it would be rated R++++++++++++ x infinity. She turned around walked right up to the still dazed Bakura and kicked him in the gut. When he fell to the ground she just muttered, "You are so lucky that I didn't aim lower."
"What was that for!?" Bakura yelled as he got up.
"Well, he is back to his old self." Atemu muttered to no one.
"You know perfectly, what for!" Wizard-Theif yelled back.
"Refresh my memory then." One could practically see lightening shoot from their eyes.
"Well, let's see…YOU SHOW UP IN TOKYO! YOU HELP MAKE ME TRANSFORM INTO THE OTHER ME! YOU MAKE AN ILLUSION OF TOKYO IN AN EARTHQUAKE AND TRY TO KILL ME!" Wizard-Theif yelled her voice's volume increasing as she talked.
"THAT WASN'T ME!" Bakura yelled over Wizard-Theif.
"THAT IS BESIDE THE POINT! YOU DISAPPEAR ON US AND GO COMPLETELY INSANE ON US WHEN YOU MERGE WITH THE OTHER YOU'S! YOU POISON ME! ONCE AGAIN NEARLY KILL ME! YOU WOULDN'T STAY DOWN IN THE DUELS!" It seemed that all the rage that Wizard-Theif had in her was rushing out right at this moment.
"WAS I SUPPOSED TO?" Bakura yelled his eyes starting to glow as well.
"YES! AND YOU ARE SUCH A----" Then followed a lot of cursing in Ancient Egyptian that only Atemu, Malik and Bakura could understand. When Wizard-Theif finished cursing she said, "AND WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING!?!"
"Care to be more specific?" Bakura asked as he tried to forget all the things Wizard-Theif had called him, where she learned all the curses he had no idea didn't really want to know.
"JUST NOW OVER THERE, WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING BEFORE I WOKE UP!?" Wizard-Theif yelled still not calmed down just yet.
"He was thinking about making out with you." Spidey said, after she had said this, Malik and Atemu covered their ears in case Wizard-Thief started swearing again.
Wizard-Thief seemed unable to move from shock. Luckily Bakura had no such trouble.
"No I wasn't!" Bakura yelled.
"We have it all on tape." Spidey replied pointing at Torn Twisted who was still recording.
Bakura didn't look all that worried; he hadn't done anything wrong so he had nothing to fear. Wizard-Theif must have noticed that because she turned to Torn Twisted and said,
"Give me the tape." In an emotionless voice, all Sesshomaru style.
Torn Twisted shrugged and was going to hand over the camera when Spidey grabbed it.
"Spidey, give me the camera, I won't believe it till I see it… wait… if he was thinking about it… how would you know?" Wizard-Theif said with a hand held out for the camera.
"Because he also kissed you." Spidey said.
"The camera Spidey." Wizard-Theif said in the same emotionless tone.
"Uh…"
"I know that I have told you before but I'm telling you again, you are the worst liar in the history of the world."
"No, Ryou is the worst." Bakura cut in.
"Whatever the point is that she is a bad liar." Wizard-Thief said, her voice was starting to sound more human now but as the group walked down the corridor relating what had happened to them to the others, Bakura and Malik kept their distance from Wizard-Theif and Spidey.
"I just don't get it, why is she so mad at me and how did she find out?" Malik asked Bakura as the two were walking, he had told the annoyed to all bounds Bakura everything.
"Did it ever occur to you that she could have listened through the wall?" Bakura asked. He was still a bit unnerved by Wizard-Theif's outburst, it wasn't that she had never sworn at him it was just that she hadn't sworn at him like that before.
"Wizard-Theif sure seemed mad at you." Malik said decided that he had annoyed the spirit enough.
"I didn't even know that she knew all those words." Bakura said.
"Hurry up." Wizard-Theif yelled over her shoulder at the boys who were taking their sweet time.
"Sorry, your darkness, is this better?" Bakura said with a mock bow before he and Malik started walking faster.
Wizard-Theif, if possible, looked even madder then before and looked like she was plotting ways to kill the tomb robber without killing his hikaru.
Soon they got to the end of the maze and the only thing standing between them and the exit was…
"Nice work, Bakura." Marik said.
"Real thing?" Malik asked Yugi and Atemu.
Atemu picked up a random pebble at threw it at Marik; it hit him in the face and bounced off.
"Real thing." Atemu replied.
"Good to know Pharaoh-boy because then I can do this." Wizard-Theif said turning to Bakura.
"And I can do this." Spidey said walking over to Marik.
Surprisingly both boys stood their ground which was very stupid of them considering Wizard-Theif still hadn't calmed down yet and Spidey was ready to kill a Malik Ishtar yami or hikaru, it didn't really matter to her. Wizard-Theif, sure that Bakura would summon Diabound to shield himself, silently summoned Vampire Lord as she attacked. She was right; Diabound appeared and was going to bite her but instead was blocked by Vampire Lord. The end result? Bakura got kicked in the gut, again. Wizard-Theif continued kicking him, all the while swearing at him and calling him things that were most definitely X-rated in Egyptian meaning that only Bakura, Malik, Marik and Atemu could understand her and because of what she was calling him all of them we wishing that they didn't know the language as well as they did.
Then Spidey stepped in, she walked up to Marik and… well… let's just say that all the other boys excluding Bakura closed their eyes and winced in pain, Bakura closed his eyes and winced in pain for other reasons. Then Marik got back up and his Millennium Rod, eyes and the weird Egyptian eye thing started glowing. Spidey then was thrown against the wall and a weird gold glowing surrounded her keeping her there. Then before anyone could do anything Marik turned his Millennium object to the others who weren't attempting to kill Bakura and they joined Spidey on the wall.
Wizard-Theif was too busy taking her rage out on Bakura to really noticed anything was happening with the others and since she was swearing so loudly she couldn't really hear either, now that she was out of Egyptian curses she had moved on to Latin X-rated curses to the relief of some of the previous listeners. Her Vampire Lord was keeping Diabound busy and for some reason Diabound wasn't really in a fighting mood, maybe it was because Bakura wasn't able to think straight with Wizard-Theif's attacking.
Finally she paused for a breather and Bakura took the chance to strike back. He went to punch her only to have the attack blocked and he received another kick to his gut. Luckily for Bakura, Wizard-Theif seemed to have gotten most of her rage out of her system for the moment and she waited a second or two before she resumed kicking and swearing at him now moving on to a new old and mostly dead language.
"What's the matter Bakura?" Marik asked amused at how Bakura was getting his butt kicked.
"Shut… up… Mar… ik…" Bakura grunted as Wizard-Theif continued her attacks and now Vampire Lord had started to attack the motionless Diabound instead of just blocking it.
"Wizard-Theif! Watch out f…" Mossnose yelled as Marik walked over while removing the casing on the Millennium Rod but she changed her answer when she saw shards of rock fly at him, "Never mind."
Wizard-Theif stopped kicking Bakura for a bit and turned to Marik who was almost unharmed by the shards of rock. Then next thing that anyone knew was that Marik was on the ground clutching his gut in pain and Wizard-Theif seemed to have calmed down enough to stop kicking people. Unfortunately everyone except for Wizard-Theif, Marik and Bakura were still pinned to the wall.
For some reason Vampire Lord disappeared and Spidey sensed Wizard-Theif's aura change immensely and in a bad direction. Wizard-Theif's hood was covering her eyes but Spidey was willing to bet that the girl's eyes were glowing crimson and that she was about to open another gateway to Hell.
Spidey wasn't alone in sensing something was off; in a few seconds everyone could see Wizard-Theif's aura appear and change from black to crimson. The next thing that anyone knew was that everyone pinned against the wall were released, Wizard-Theif, Bakura and Marik were kneeling on the ground panting with Bakura and Marik looking in horrible shape, bleeding.
Wizard-Theif and Bakura shakily got to their feet. Bakura's monster had disappeared but he seemed unconcerned.
"Why don't you just stay down?" Wizard-Theif muttered.
"I have my reasons." Bakura replied quietly.
"How about you save us the trouble of having to get rid of you and just leave?"
"Now where's the fun in that?" Bakura said summoning Diabound once more.
Wizard-Theif merged with the shadows and appeared behind Bakura. She tied to kick him but he dodged and pulled out a knife with which he used to stab Wizard-Theif in the gut. She fell to the ground arms around her stomach.
Before anyone could do anything Marik was back up and pinned everyone else against the wall again. He walked over to Atemu and took his Millennium Puzzle and the Millennium Scales.
"Why didn't you guys just get those when you knocked us unconscious?" Mossnose asked.
"The only way we could get to this maze for the final phase of our path was to use three demons' power." Bakura replied.
"How could you have done that when there are only two full demons here?" Spidey asked.
"Whoever said that the power had to be pure?" Marik asked.
"So what are you planning on doing now?" Atemu asked.
Marik was about to reply when Bakura stopped him, "Just wait a few minutes for our friend to arrive and you'll see."
"Sorry but you guys don't have that long." A voice said.
Marik and Bakura turned around to see Spidey and Mossnose out of the power of the Millennium Rod.
"Well this should prove interesting." Bakura said looking around for Wizard-Theif.
"If you are looking for Wizard-Theif you won't find her." Mossnose said.
"Is that so?" Bakura said.
"So so." Wizard-Theif said appearing and 'borrowing' the Millennium Rod and grabbing the Millennium Puzzle from Marik, thus causing everyone to be released, again.
She then tossed the Puzzle to Atemu and the Rod to Malik who quickly summoned their shadow magic and blasted the two yamis who went right through a wall.
"Could you two have at least waited till I was out of the way before blasting them?" Wizard-Thief asked walking over to the boys and Torn Twisted.
"Maybe…" Atemu said carefully.
"I hope you realized that when you blasted Bakura you blasted Ryou too."
"Actually, I didn't." Atemu said amused at the look of confusion on Wizard-Theif's face.
"Care to run that by me again?" Wizard-Theif asked, "How could you not blast Ryou when Bakura is controlling their body? Even in Battle City you still blasted Ryou a bit when you blasted Bakura with Slifer."
"Ryou is back on Earth." Yugi said walking over.
"You lost me." Wizard-Theif admitted.
"You're not the only one lost." Spidey, Mossnose and Torn Twisted said.
"Ryou is back on Earth." Atemu said.
"You've said that already." Wizard-Theif said starting to get annoyed.
"Ryou- is- back- home." Atemu said slowly.
"You are enjoying this aren't you?"
"Extremely."
"Did it ever occur to you that the longer it takes to explain, the longer the idiots have to find us?"
"…"
"Burn!"
"So how did Ryou get back home?" Mossnose asked Malik ask Atemu fell silent.
"When we unmerged Ryou must have been sent back to wherever he was before." Malik guessed.
"Then why weren't you guys?" Torn Twisted asked.
"Probably because you girls were here." Yugi said.
"That's makes little if any sense." Wizard-Theif said looking down the corridor to see if the two psychotic yamis were coming.
"Well… uh…" Malik said struggling to make a sentence.
Atemu took it from there, "Odds are that we have a connection with one of you girls so we can't leave till you do."
"And Ryou left because he doesn't know anyone of us." Spidey said.
"He knows Mossnose and Torn Twisted and maybe Wizard-Theif." Yugi said.
"So what's with the connection thing then?" Torn Twisted asked.
Before Malik, Yugi or Atemu could answer Wizard-Theif piped up, "It means that they have to have a like-like connection with the person… wait… so you are saying that I didn't have to show mercy?!"
Malik, Yugi and Atemu nodded.
"Damn it!"
"They're coming down the corridor." Kaiba said finally talking.
Wizard-Theif and Malik looked around on the ground for something and Wizard-Theif found it first. She stepped on a title and it sunk into the floor thus blocking the corridor.
"That was too easy." She said before turning back to the others.
"I agree," Malik said, "They'll most likely have that wall down in a minute so let's get out of here."
Everyone ran out of the maze and saw it disappear into the shadows of the Shadow Realm.
"Once again, too easy." Wizard-Theif said.
"Shut up, you're going to jinx it." Spidey said.
"Too late." A voice said.
"Told ya it was too easy." Wizard-Theif said not even turning around to see who the voice belonged to.
"I must say that I'm surprise to see you again, Miss Touzoku." Now everyone who had turned to see the owner of the voice saw who it was and none of them knew him but Wizard-Theif's pupils shrunk when she heard how the voice had addressed her.
A/N: WE ARE OUT OF THE MAZE! YES! AWESOME! Ok now that that's all done, we are back in the Shadow Realm. Now is the time to make your bets on how long it will take to get out of there. Please Review and Happy Halloween!