Chapter 8

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"Spirit Talking"

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Kidnapped Again

"What?" Malik asked when he and Isis walked out to the village the next day, "You will be busy today?" he whined, "Then you won't be with me in the festival?".

Isis sighed, "I'm sorry, Malik, but I need to buy more herbs, I will try to be fast, but the place was far from the village." She said sadly, "I was planning to ask Bakura to taking care of you when you play with Yugi".

Malik pouted, "Fine, he was pretty interesting too, he kind of acting like Marik." He agreed halfheartedly.

Isis smiled when she heard that, they then turned a corner, they had promised to meet in front of Bakura's stall the previous day, so Malik and Yugi can walked to the town square together. When they arrived though, Isis was surprised to see that only Yugi was there, "Huh?" she mumbled before looking around, "Where is Bakura?" she asked herself.

"Papa went out today, saying that he will be around to get information about the current Pharaoh." Yugi answered when they arrived at the front of the stall, "So today I will be in your care, High Priestess Isis".

"You can call me Isis, Yugi." Isis replied before she sighed, "What to do, I was planning to ask Bakura to take care of Malik today, I need to go buy hers outside the village".

Yugi blinked, "Well, then I will just go with Malik, I'm sure that nothing will happened, there's so many guards today." He suggested with a smile, "And we both had been trained by experts, we can take care of ourselves, so don't worry".

Isis looked troubled, "I guessed." She nodded reluctantly, then looked at Yugi and Malik, "You need to stay in the place where there are many people, so no one will targeting you because you are alone, alright?" she asked sternly.

Yugi and Malik grinned, "We understand." They said together before running of to the town square together.

Isis sighed, "I hope nothing will happen today." She said before walking to the exit of the village.

Isis was counting at the herbs she had just bought when her necklace glowed, she closed her eyes and concentrating at the image shown to her, but her eyes immediately snapped open and she ran to the village's direction right away.

Isis was panicked, she had just seen a future of Malik and Yugi get kidnapped along with many other people, she had to informed the guards to protect the people as fast as she could. Due to her frantic run, Isis didn't notice a figure walking from an alley and crashed with the figure.

"Ow." Isis yelped when she fell on her butt before looking up to apologize, "I'm sorry . . ." her words died when she saw who she had just crashed into, but she know that she was lucky to crashed into him.

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"Yugi! Look!" Malik said as he pointed at the people, "They are dancing, do you want to dance?" he asked excitedly.

Yugi grinning widely, "Sure, why not?" he asked before they run to the circle of people and started dancing with the people.

Yugi and Malik were laughing when they danced, they didn't come to the festival the past two years because Isis and Akefia always busy and they didn't get to come together, so they were so happy that they can finally coming to the festival together.

Although, their happiness was short live when they heard people running to the square with panicked faces and yelled, "Run! The Slave Hunters heading this way!".

Malik gasped and grabbed Yugi's hand, "Let's go, we need to run!" he yelled as he dragged Yugi away from the town square.

Yugi snapped out from his confusion and following Malik, he's mad at himself for not listening to his surrounding more because he was happy, he was careless. He get even angrier when they saw that the exit was blocked, when they looked at the other exits, the people had all stopped running and looking helpless, meaning that the other exits also blocked by the Slave Hunters.

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"Why are you running frantically like that?" Akefia asked as he helped the High Priestess to stand.

"A vision, Akefia, a vision!" Isis answered in panic as she ran to the town squares while dragging a confused Akefia along, "Slave Hunters attacking the town squares! We need to go there fast or Malik and Yugi will get kidnapped!".

"What?!" Akefia gasped in horror before gritting his teeth and running faster, he pulled his hand from Isis, "I will go first!" he yelled as he hastened his pace.

"I'm counting on you!" Isis replied before running to get the guards, she found one nearby and told him what happened before running to followed the Thief King.

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Yugi's ears twitched when he heard Akefia's and Isis's voices, so he could only hope that he and Malik can survived long enough for them to arrived. Yugi pulled Malik closer to him when the hunters coming their way, telling them to just follow the Slave Hunters order, "Don't panic, we had to try and fight them, we had beed trained, remember?" he asked Malik in whisper as he pulled out some darts Akefia had stolen for him.

Malik gulped but nodded, he pulled out his wooden sword, Marik hasn't given him permission to bring a sword around until he reach 13 years old, so he had to use a wooden sword instead. He sometimes envied Yugi because Akefia not only had given Yugi permission to bring weapon around, but also provided him with his weapons even though it's from stealing, like the darts that Yugi gripped in his hands and the daggers that was ready in Yugi's sash.

Yugi glared at the man that was walking to them, he know that his enemy was not just one person, there's more all around the square, but he wouldn't let himself to be kidnapped without any resistance from him, he wouldn't want to be kidnapped, again.

The man smirked when he saw what in the children's hands, "Heh, what two kids like you can do with them?" he asked mockingly as he pulled out his sword, "You should just do as we told you if you want to live".

"As if." Yugi growled before he threw one of the darts to the man's upper arm, at one of the spots Akefia taught him to aim to immobilized his opponents.

The man yelped in surprise and pain before he glared at Yugi and stomped closer to hit Yugi, but Yugi already threw another darts that stabbed the man at his ankle, causing the man to fell and had difficulty to stand again.

Yugi sighed in relief before dragging Malik and ran passed the fallen man, he had to at least get out from the square and get into a narrow alleyway so he can face them one by one. "Come on, we need to get into a narrow alleyway so they couldn't surrounding us." He told his friend.

Malik nodded as they run to the Slave Hunters that guarding one of the exits, he swung his wooden sword, aiming to hit the man at his feet, but the man jumped upward to avoiding Malik's attack. Too bad for the man because Yugi had seen it coming and throwing another dart that aimed at the man's feet, he felt that it would be better to aimed at their feet than any other spots if his objective was to make them unable to chase after him and Malik.

Yugi and Malik running passed the man and to a narrow alleyway so the Hunters couldn't surrounding them, they can focused at one opponent then.

But before they even fully out of the gate, an arrow was shot and stabbing Yugi at his shoulder, causing the boy to fell with a cry of pain. "Yugi!" Malik gasped out in fear and panic, he looked back to see a man with a bow and ready to shot again, he trembled in fright, he was not ready to face that kind of situation yet.

Yugi groaned as he tried to stand, but another arrow was piercing his thigh, he blacked out due to the pain.

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Akefia and Isis arrived at the square and looking around to find Yugi and Malik, when they found them though, their blood turned cold. Yugi and Malik was tied and placed in a carriage with a bar along with the other people so they couldn't flee, and Yugi was injured pretty badly with so much of blood flowing from his wounds. Akefia was maddened in an instant and marched forward, "Diabound!" he summoned his Ka, his Ka then attacked the Slave Hunters.

"Spiria!" Isis also summoned her Ka, she was more to supportive than offensive, so she make a barrier around her and Akefia to protect them from the Slave Hunter's arrows.

Akefia though, was not the type to just stay in a safe place while his Ka fighting, he run forward to also attacked them. He managed to kill some of them on his way to the carriage where Yugi and Malik was being held captive, but then he felt a pain at his shoulder, he looked at his shoulder to see an arrow piercing his shoulder. He growled out in anger, he had been careless.

Isis running to Akefia, she want to summoned Mystical Elf to heal the Thief King's wound before the man suddenly turned around and running to her. "The guards coming, I have to go." Akefia said in a hurry, "I can't fight with my shoulder injured, so I will go now, but I will get Yugi and Malik back from them." He promised before running to the exit and fled.

Isis's shoulders were slumped and her eyes watered when she saw that the Slave Hunters had escaped with their horses, she couldn't help them, she know she shouldn't blame herself because she was a Healer and not a fighter, but she still sad that she couldn't do anything to help the children.

She turned around just in time to see Akefia turned a corner before disappeared completely, she wipe her tears. Akefia's right, I should retreat now to inform the Pharaoh and the others, but I will make sure that both Yugi and Malik will be saved, along with the others. She thought in determination before running to the Palace's direction, she had to informed Marik, the man had to know what happened.

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"What?!" Everyone in the Throne Room exclaimed in shock when Isis finished telling them what happened, the one shocked the most was a man with sandy blond hair with dark purple eyes, he looked just like Malik, but his hair was more wilder and his eyes more sharper than the boy.

"Malik was kidnapped?!" Marik asked High Priestess Isis in shock, "How come?!".

Isis wiped her tears, "I was just walking back from buying herbs when I received a vision, I ran as fast as I could to the town squares but I was too late, the Slave Hunters already starting to retreat. I and one of the people summoned our Ka to try to stopped them, but we still lost and they escaped, they kidnapped Malik and many other people." She told Marik in sobs.

Marik clenched his hands into fists and turning to the Pharaoh, "Pharaoh." He started, causing the Pharaoh to looked at him, "Please give me permission to search for information about them, I couldn't just stay here knowing Malik was out there with them." He pleaded with his body trembling in anger, he just barely controlled his anger enough to not just running out without the Pharaoh's permission.

The Pharaoh nodded, "I understand." He answered with a calm tone, "I command you to find their location, report to me when you found them, we will attack right away".

Marik bowed to the Pharaoh before running out to his room, he had to changed into an ordinary clothes first if he want to asked some information to the backstreet people.

To be continued . . .

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