Here's the next chapter. Enjoy.

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Chapter 8

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Three creatures watched as three bodies fell into a tunnel from the sand roof. They had manipulated the tunnel ceiling to let it become sinking sand so when the boys stepped on it they sank into it. They had been watching the boys for a while and were going to leave them alone but as soon as they found the statue, they had to do something. They could not let anything happen to their home so they had to do something.

Moving over to the three unmoving bodies, they check they were still breathing and had a pulse. Moving them around they picked them up and headed back to the temple, not forgetting to turn the quick sand back to normal sand so no other unwanted visitors entered.

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Ryou, Malik and Yugi woke to find themselves on sand and underground. It was a little dark but there was light caused by lit lanterns on the walls. All three coughed a little and pushed themselves up.

"Are we dead?" Yugi asked. "Ow! Malik!"

"What? If you can feel, then you're not dead." He said.

What happened was that Malik had punched Yugi in the arm but not enough to bruise him. So now, Yugi was holding his arm and rubbing it. Ryou stood up and looked around to find themselves in a temple. To their right were some large pillars that went all the way around the room, but just behind those pillars was an entranceway that was dark. To their left was a throne that had statues beside it but back a little to leave a space on either side of the throne. In front of them were three tunnels, behind the pillars, that were dark and behind them was the same.

Yugi scrambled to his feet and looked around. In front of them was a pile of animal and human bones.

"Oh god." Yugi whispered and pointed to what he looked at.

Ryou gasped and latched onto Yugi's arm. Malik stood up, ignored the bones, and looked around the rest of the temple they were in. The two statures that were up by the throne were exactly the same as the ones they saw earlier.

Looking around more, they found pottery, both broken and whole, there were wooden staffs that had snakeheads carved on the top and the body wrapped around the staff down to the bottom. There were tools from long ago discarded and also fresh animal skins that were less than a few year old; fresh being not as old as the tools. It made them think something still lived there.

"Let's look around. Just stay in sight. Who knows what's out there." Malik said.

Both Ryou and Yugi nodded and started look at the throne, pottery and staffs, staying well away from the animal bone and skin and also the humans bones. Malik on the other hand looked at the bones and skins. Looking through them, he soon found one that had flesh on the bone indicating it was eaten not too long ago, but he could not find any marks from animal teeth on the bone or any other bones.

Malik gulped and looked at Ryou and Yugi before deciding not to say anything. He quickly hid it under some of the other bones even though he knew Yugi and Ryou would not go near the bones. Look through some he found some human skulls were broken. It looked like they were bashed in either on the side or the top.

Malik abandoned the animal and human bones and went to the animal skins. They looked like they were made into things that were like blankets and warm things.

Yugi and Ryou were looking at the pottery that was there. Yugi was sorting though bits of extremely old pottery and trying to get an idea of what they would look like whole. Ryou was looking at the whole pottery. They were still old but looked well cared for so they would not have broken too easily. They then turned to the tools that were there. They looked like old Egyptian tools that was back to the days of the Pharaohs and some making their way further through history.

Malik had finished with the skins and went to the staffs with Yugi and Ryou. They each picked up one, turned them over and looked at them closely. They noticed now up close that there were even scales and very fine details placed on the staffs.

"You know how famous Ji-chan and Arthur will be when we get out and show them." Yugi said.

"I know." Ryou said. "Hey Malik you still have the GPS?"

Malik frowned and checked his clothing before finding it was gone. Malik ran over to where they left their bags from where they woke. Malik shifted through them before tipping it all out and then went through it all.

"It's not here. Where did it go?"

"Could you have dropped it when we were in the quick sand?" Yugi asked.

"No. I put it in my pocket the instant we were stuck."

"How will we get out?" Ryou asked.

All three froze when they heard three sets of hisses. They looked up in front of them to see three very large snakes that were so big that it was not humanly possible. They were at least 2-meter diameter round body and the length they could not see.

Malik recognised what each one was. The one on his left was a King Desert Snake, the middle was a King Cobra and the one on the right was a Rattlesnake. All three were poisonous and deadly if not treated quickly, if bitten.

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