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Chapter 6

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Everyone had gone to bed now and Malik, Ryou and Yugi couldn't get to sleep. Malik sat up annoyed and turned the lantern on. Yugi and Ryou looked at him and could tell he was annoyed.

"Ra damn it!" Malik cursed quietly.

"Can't sleep?"

"No I can't... Hey let's go look around the cliff faces. Maybe that will help."

"Malik I don't know. Ji-chan said we had to be back before sunset. The sun has set."

"Yes but he didn't say we couldn't go out after."

"Yugi you both are right." Ryou said.

"Come on, we won't go far. We'll have the GPS and torches. We won't get lost."

"A...Alright but only for a little bit and we don't mention it to Ji-chan... Ever!" Yugi said, both nodded and they climbed out of bed and got dressed into their clothes and head out, not forgetting the GPS, torches and jackets since it gets cold at night and even colder in caves.

As they made their way through the camp, they kept the torches off and remained quiet till they were out of the campsite. As they headed towards the cliff face, Ryou and Yugi stuck close to Malik who was working off the GPS. When they got there, Malik had a large grin on his face.

"Come on, let's look at a cave a little." Malik said.

"There aren't dangerous animals are there?" Yugi asked.

"Why do you think I gave you the knife for? There could be a few wild dogs around but they are normally alone so they won't attack. There are too many of us. Just stick close."

As they walked into the cave the temperature dropped lower causing the boys to shiver. They quickly stopped and pulled on their jackets and then wandered further into the cave.

"I'm glad you told us to bring our jackets. It's quite cold in here."

"I know. The joys of knowing your home country." Malik said proudly.

Yugi and Ryou giggled and shook their heads as certain things on the ceiling caught their attention. There were tree roots coming down from the ceiling.

"Malik were there plants on the top of these hills?" Ryou asked.

"I don't know. We'd have to climb them to find out. Though there might have been at one point and they died off leaving only these roots behind."

As they progressed further they came to a point where the cave divided off into two tunnels.

"Malik let's go back. We could get lost." Yugi said.

"No we won't. Let's go left and if it divides off again we'll turn back. Besides, we have the GPS and it's still recording. We can't get lost."

"I agree with Yugi, Malik, but if it does divide off again we head back to camp."

"Alright."

Malik turned to the left tunned and headed for it. Yugi was clinging to him in fear of getting lost and his grandfather finding out. As they walked further in they came to another divide and turned around and left the cave completely. As Yugi and Ryou started back once they left the cave mouth Malik wanted to do more looking.

"Hey guys come this way." Malik said.

"Malik that's not the way back to the camp." Yugi complained and Malik saw something.

"Yeah I know but look at this."

Malik was now over by the entrance corner furthest from the camp. He was looking at some tracks in the sand. Ryou and Yugi walked over and bent down next to Malik. There were weaving tracks in the sand.

"What are they?"

"It's snake tracks. They weren't here when we entered the cave." There were gasps from both boys. "Oh relax, it probably by-passed us, besides its heading around the cliff face."

Malik stood and walked around the corner, away from the camp. Yugi and Ryou jumped up and followed Malik who was following the tracks.

"Malik stop." Yugi said.

Malik turned to Yugi who was shaking in fear. The wind blew up around them and it erased the snake tracks in the sand. Yugi and Ryou shivered as the wind suddenly died down and the hairs on the back of their necks stood on end because they suddenly felt like they were being watched, even though they had been watched the whole night unknown.

"Malik please let's go back." Yugi whimpered. "There's something out here and watching us."

"Yugi there's nothing out here but us. Nothings..." Malik suddenly stopped as the hairs on the back of his neck stood up. "Alright."

Malik wrapped his arm around Yugi's shoulder and linked his other arm with Ryou; this held the GPS. With that, they headed back while three sets of glowing eyes watched them.

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When they finally got back to the camp they were inside their tent and huddled under the blankets.

"What do you think it was Malik? That was watching us." Ryou asked.

"I think it may have just been the fact that we saw snake tracks and it scared us a little bit."

"I don't think it was snakes but whatever it is I don't ever want to meet it." Yugi murmured softly enough for them both to hear.

They both agreed with him and said their goodnights and this time were able to fall asleep.

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