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Renagade: Thief Bakura & Yami Bakura
Miss-DNL: Ryo, Yami, Yugi, Anzu, Jonouchi & Honda
Ba-Ku-Ra!
By: Miss-DNL & RenagadeRexRider
Chapter 4: A Chance to Fight Back
Yugi looked down at the Puzzle with a knowing look on his eyes before he glanced at Jonouchi. He felt a rock in his throat as his best friend tossed his dice. He knew there was nothing could do for him if the roll was bad; not with 'Bakura' watching closely. He gripped the leather strap of the Puzzle tightly, 'If anything happens...' the sensation seemed to acknowledge his thoughts and responded with a gentle reassuring tug.
The group watched tensely as Jonouchi's dice fell on the table. To Yugi and Anzu's dread, Jonouchi had rolled a fumble seeing his fate. To this Ryo's Yami laughed in a dark taunting manner, "Oh... too bad~, farewell Jono~." 'Bakura' said with a cruel grin and an icy tone. Just like with Honda the eye on the Ring lit up, and shadow magic attacked Jonouchi, taking his soul from his body and forcing him into what was to be his new body. All the while the Yami in control of Ryo's body laughed enjoying the misery he was causing.
Seeing Jonouchi sucked into the doll Yugi flinched visibly, before worry and panic could fully set in the tugging sensation in his mind appeared again calming him so he could think steadily. Yugi looked at the puzzle gratefully, doing this the incident from before was brought back to his mind. Steadying himself he looked back to 'Bakura', "We're not the one you're really after are we?" Hearing this Anzu casted Yugi a confused look, but Yugi's gaze stayed focused on their foe.
The Yami looks up from the laptop he was typing on to continue the story and huffs at Yugi's words, a smirk on his lips as he intertwined his thin fingers his piercing eyes just gazing passed them straight back into Yugi's, "Heheh~ Perceptive aren't we, little Yugi~?"
The cold intense gaze 'Bakura' was giving him seemed to push Yugi down making him nervous but the sensation in the back of his mind helped him face the foe again, "Considering what you said yesterday it wasn't too hard..." He replied, mentally sweat dropping as he remembered that over the top moment that had scared and confused him out of his wit.
Hearing the mention of his embarrassing outburst made the Yami's eyes flash in clear rage. His lips pulled back in a snarl, "Shut your mouth you impudent brat!" Recomposing himself he slowly growls, "Make your move..."
For a moment Yugi was caught off guard by his sudden burst of anger but manages to hold steady, "I will, but it won't be me." Yugi declared, 'Bakura' eyeing him sharply but said nothing to it. Looking back to the Puzzle in his hands before looking back up, his voice determined this time, Yugi continued, "You want to fight the 'other' me. I'll give you what you want; but first," Yugi looked down at the board at Jonouchi and Honda who looked back at him, "put me in my figure!" Anzu looked to her friend both astonished and startled by his declaration. "I'll fight with my friends, I trust my other half."
In the Ring Ryo felt a pang of jealously that Yugi could put so much trust in his other half.
Though she wasn't really sure what he was thinking Anzu followed her friend's lead thinking he had a plan, "Same with me!"
From within the Ring, Ryo looked out through his little portal with an expression of sheer shock, 'What are they doing!?' Akefia, watching with him, blinks surprised by the development but keeps silent, level minded and waits to see what they're up to.
Across the table 'Bakura' looked just as surprised, gritting his teeth at the little uprising before smirking in a dark manner, "If that is your wish~ Very well..." The Yami strikes them both with the penalty, their souls entering their dolls. With that done he looks towards Yugi's body expectantly with a dark glare waiting for his real target to emerge.
As he expected, Yugi's body sat up again sitting tall in the simple chair almost regally with his arms crossed and a frown on his face as he looked to 'Bakura'. "I didn't think I'd ever face another spirit with shadow powers...can't say I'm happy about the occasion." He said dully looking at the opposing Yami feeling nothing more than contempt for what he was doing to his host and his friends. Looking down at the board he saw Yugi looking up at him, both felt relief to see each other and Yugi's Yami nodded to him reassuring him that everything would be okay.
Seeing this development, Honda looked from one Yugi to the other with a confused look plastered on his figure's face, "There were two of you?" He asked sounding dumbfounded.
"Eheh, I'll explain later..." Yugi said warily with a sweat drop sliding down his face, this was something he'd kept from his friends for a good while and it was going to be difficult to explain, but he trusted his friends to take it well.
Once again Ryo felt a pang of envy hit him, 'That's his Yami...' He thought as he looked out at the other spirit controlling Yugi's body in his stead. Yugi's Yami was calm, collected, kind and caring while his, while also being calm and collected, was cruel and sadistic…
A shiver of anger went through the Thief King as he instantly recognized the other Yami, there was no mistaking it whatsoever, it was his most hated enemy. Akefia calmed himself baring his mind to his current focus, defeating Ryo's Yami. 'Indeed... The Spirit of the Millennium Puzzle... let us hope he's as good as his legend persists...' He said stiffly keeping his hatred and anger to himself for the moment.
Ryo mentally blinked when he felt a prickle of anger go through the link between him and the thief causing him to 'turn' his head to Akefia, or at least where he felt his voice was coming from, 'Something wrong?'
The Thief King glanced at the boy before huffing bluntly, 'Nothing you need concern yourself with for now.' With that Ryo dropped the subject in turn for focusing on his friends.
The Yami controlling Ryo's body smirked slightly amused by the other Yami, "Funny..." He began before his tone became more dangerous but still keeping a mock friendly overtone, "I'd not have it any other way~. Let us proceed, shall we~?" 'Bakura' said gesturing at the board towards where all the figures were congregated.
Yami Yugi smirked picking up the diced bouncing them around on the palm of his hand. "We shall, I believe it was my move? I'll be rolling for each of them after all." He pointed out motioning to the four hero figures his friends were stuck on with his finger.
The Dark Master laughed lightly, "So you shall. Go ahead... bring them to their deaths~." He said darkly looking at his much stronger and higher level character, Zorc. There was no possible way for a group of level one adventurers, or heroes to defeat his Dark Master character. He had set the whole thing up to be so. His victory was well assured. All he had to do was sit back and wait.
Ignoring 'Bakura's' goading Yami Yugi looks to his host and speaks to him for the first time through the link, 'Ready?'
Yugi perks hearing him in his mind and nods curtly, 'Yeah, but he keeps pulling super zero critical...' He thought dreading the one hit kill.
Yugi's Yami leveled his gaze glancing at the Dark Master, he should have guessed he'd use such tricks, 'He is, is he? Don't worry. I can level things a bit.' He reassured before rolling his dice to initiate Yugi's move getting a super critical to tame the Zorc Arm Dragon. The roll after that with Anzu he rolled another super critical to deal damage to Zorc himself and a monster which was destroyed in the magic blast. The spirit looked to the other Yami with a knowing gaze and a smirk on his lips as he saw a stunned expression come over 'Bakura's' face.
"What's this!?" He stops for a moment seeing the look on his opponent's face and realizes what's going on, "Ah... So you know of the technique as well?" 'Bakura' said flatly, he grits his teeth momentarily but then replaces it with a forced accepting smirk, "Very well..." He said slowly, "From now on," He let his dice drop from his hand demonstrating the new rule on how to cast the dice, "No more spinning the die and we cast the die as such...Agreed?"
Hearing and seeing this Akefia chuckled amusedly enjoying seeing the Yami forced to play fairly, 'Forced his hand already? Hahah! There is hope for your friends yet it seems, Boy...' He said to the white haired host. Hearing this good news Ryo smiles slightly feeling a little more hopeful, but suppresses his emotions to avoid being detected by the Yami.
The spirit of the Puzzle smirked, now the playing field was evened out a little, "Very well," He agreed before frowning slightly keeping a close eye on the Dark Master, "your move…'Bakura'." He crosses his arms not liking having to call the monster the same name as Yugi's kind hearted friend, 'I'll get you out of this don't worry partner.' He thought reassuringly to Yugi who nodded showing that he had heard him.
After Zorc fled to his castle the adventurers chase after him getting trapped in a tower. During which Yami Bakura summons Zorc nearly claiming victory over the heroes when the tables suddenly turned on him. Despite the situation the Dark Master smirks deviously to himself, 'Think you have me on the run? Sorry...but here is where you all will meet your fate~!' he thought as he glanced down at a hidden set of mind dice, dice with a fragment of his soul guaranteed to get super criticals by his will alone, 'and with these~ Victory is assured~~' He chuckled to himself.
Throughout the whole game Akefia had been watching carefully and winces at the development picking up on the Yami's plan, 'DAMN...eh?' He thought confusedly as he suddenly picked up on something strange in the Ring's power, 'what is this...?.' Akefia thinks to himself, trying to figure it out. Pin pointing it he realizes it's a weak point in the ring's power, 'what is...wait... of course!' With this information he whispers to Ryou, 'Boy... This bastard is about to throw another cheap shadow trick into the mix... I can't move like you...' He whispers much to his chagrin, loathing the fact he was unable to act himself, 'and you must act quickly! When Zorc was injured earlier, it affected this bastard's hold on chaining you out. The chain on your left arm is no longer there... it's not much. But you can control it now! If he lands that attack correctly, this game is lost!' He warned urgently, if the others lost that meant both he and Ryo were stuck with the sadistic tyrant for who knows how terribly long.
Hearing this Ryo snaps up to attention with the urgent desire to help his friends, 'feeling' his left arm he looks surprised when he feels a response from his physical body, 'Right.' Immediately he gets an idea of how to help. While 'Bakura' is distracted with his gloating Ryo quietly took control of his hand as his Yami reached for his mind dice and grabs the regular dice in their stead as his Yami glanced up at his opponent…. The following roll landing a lucky high number causing a bad fumble for Zorc.
On the other side of the board the spirit of the Puzzle blinks noticing the odd movement in 'Bakura's' movement but says nothing.
'Bakura' is shocked when Zorc fumbles allowing the others go first instead of him, 'WHAT?! What is this?! Th-these aren't my mind dice!?' He growled as he took up the dice in his right hand, gritting his teeth furiously trying to figure out what had gone wrong, 'what the hell happened?!' He screamed in his mind.
Akefia grins broadly pleased with seeing the Yami get so frustrated and angry over the fumble.
Ryo, feeling so exhilarated that he 'feels like his heart is racing', smiles feeling a bit more confident about succeeding before quickly returning back to the reality of the situation and releases control of the arm so that his Yami doesn't notice he had taken back control of it.
Yugi's Yami smirked, "Well, looks like it's our turn since you missed, the adventures gain a sneak attack as their much faster." He says as he rolls the dice landing criticals and a few super criticals dealing plenty of damage to the Dark Master's character. "Zorc isn't looking too good 'Bakura'." He mocked to the other Yami.
Growling angrily 'Bakura' glares down at the regular dice in his hand, 'What the fuck happened? I'm certain that I had the mind dice... how did I manage to pick up the wrong dice?' Getting a sneaking suspicion he grips them angrily in hand like he was attempting to crush them out of anger. 'Did HE have something to do with this...? No, no he can't know of this...' The Yami thought with a glare at his opponent. He then smirks looking down at the board remembering he had set it up to make it impossible for the heroes to win over his Zorc, "Feh, it makes little difference. My chances are well beyond 100, and on this turn you will all be obliterated!" he replied, grinning he prepares to throw the dice for his move.
Akefia grits his teeth at the situation seeing no time to come up with a thought out plan, 'BOY! Use the mind dice right now! If he lands anything but a fumble they'll die!'
Reacting quickly and immediately to his prompting, Ryo takes up the mind dice tossing them quickly as he could. The dice react to Ryo's mind giving Zorc another fumble. Ryo relaxes a little seeing the fumble go through and hastily releases control of his hand once again.
By now the spirit of the Puzzle gets a vague idea of what's going on and smirks deciding to taunt the opposing Yami to distract him, "What's going on 'Bakura'? Is karma catching up to you? Regardless it's our turn again." Rolls the dice again having Anzu heal the group of their damage then starts dealing more damage to the boss getting a super critical with Honda.
'Bakura' gasps in fury as his left hand cast a pair of dice, Zorc then fumbling and grasps his left hand tightly his frame shaking at the rage he felt, 'WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?!' He roared in his mind while he grinds his teeth at the damage dealt, 'Why did the mind dice-' His eyes flashed in fury, there was only one reason his hand and the mind dice would turn on him… 'RYOU BAKURA! Are you doing this?!' He demanded yelling out his anger at his host.
Akefia feels an rough push in energy and tenses from the force 'shit...!' He cursed, they had been found out…
Feeling and hearing his Yami's rage Ryo's confidence seemed to have vanished into nothing as he cowered in fear of his dark half, 'H-how can I do anything!?' He whimpered pitifully.
Seeing the Dark Master's sudden and obvious spike in anger the spirit of the Puzzle raises a brow wondering what was going on. "Well? Are you going to move? Or are you forfeiting your turn?" He questioned bluntly.
Using the shadow energy the dark spirit of the Ring forces Ryo into the corner where he had gained control. 'I don't know HOW you did it...' He growled seething in anger, 'and I don't care! But,' He turned his burning gaze to a pointed tower grinning viciously, 'you will NOT interfere again!' He rams his left hand down over the castle spire impaling the hand blood dripping out onto the castle tower. The Yami then begins laughing cruelly, almost if enjoying the pain, "Let's see you try that again, Landlord, HAHAHAHAHAHA!" He laughed aloud a crazed manic look in his eyes no longer caring if he revealed that he was in fact not Ryo Bakura at this point.
Ryo let out a loud yelp in the space he had now been shoved into gripping his spirit forms hand feeling the pain of the part of his physical body he still had control of. It was a sharp burning pain that couldn't be ignored. Still in hopes of avoiding his insane Yami's wrath further he whimpers quietly to himself cradling his injured hand.
Akefia tenses distinctly seeing what the Yami did to Ryo's hand and shoving him into the corner of his soul room, 'BOY!' Thinking to himself he mutters, 'Damn it... there was no time to react... fuck...Damn it...,' He cursed stiffly wracking his mind trying to find a solution to the problem before it was too late, 'if he seals Ryou ... there won't be a way to stall Yami anymore and this game is over...' The Thief King looked out as the Yami pulled his hand off the spire and held it with his other then he looked at Zorc who was missing a hand. Slowly a grin came over his face, 'There's a way...'
With a contorted cruel grin he addressed the other Yami, though traces of pain were seen on his expression he ignored it, while his hand continue to bleed out, "Now..." He started in a twisted version of causal talk, "I believe you have one turn left... Beast Tamer Yugi is it not?" He questioned looking down at the Yugi like prey. He could almost taste victory now that he had taken care of his host properly.
Thinking to himself Akefia silently urged the other spirit to pick up on what he found out, 'Come on! Do it!'
The spirit of the Puzzle sitting straight up due to sheer shock of what the Dark Master had done to his host's body, though shock quickly turned to anger for the action. 'He's insane!' He thought to himself seeing him chuckle to himself like an insane asylum patient. He put the thought aside to think about what he was going to do for his move, 'I need to think carefully I only have a move left I can't afford to mess it up!' Humming slightly he looks at Zorc particularly the missing hand, 'Zorc reflects him so...' Getting an idea he smirks, "I'm going to use Yugi's ability on Zorc to free our friend. He does mirror you after all." Ignoring Bakura's boasting of his wasted turn, he rolled the dice landing the super critical he needed. Yugi then used his monster training gloves on the Dark Lord Zorc, who laughed at his attempt when smoke began billowing from the stump where Zorc's left hand had been and pulled out a white wizard that was Ryo's Monster World character.
Overjoyed Anzu and the other rushed over to help Ryo up as he had been gently laid on the ground, "It worked!" She exclaimed as he got up.
White Wizard Ryo smiles cheerfully as he looked at all his friends, "Thanks for freeing me! I'd love to join your party!" He requested following the rules of the game and gave a slight head bow.
"The more the better!" Honda cheered giving Ryo a pat on the back.
"Alright a new ally!" Jonouchi cheered loudly now feeling more confident about defeating Zorc than he had before.
Things are really starting to get heated in the RPG! Yami Bakura isn't down just yet though! What will happen to Akefia when the game is over!?
Renagade is writing the next chapter I'll get it posted soon as she's done :)
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