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"In snake form and talking" BOLD

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Chapter 34

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Malik cursed as he was dragged back to Mariku's chambers. Marik was walking behind Malik and Mariku who was obviously angry about their escape. Marik chuckled as he followed after them; he wondered what he would say when he realised that he was also a naga seeing as all his curses were related to Mariku being a naga.

Mariku dragged Malik to the bed and threw him on top of it before chaining his wrists to the bed and backed up as Malik lashed out trying to hurt him. He'd chained him so that Malik couldn't use his arms for anything; they were chained right against the bed head. Mariku glared at Malik for what he tried and looked to Marik who was leaning against the edge of the chamber watching. Mariku moved over and wrapped his arms around his waist and pulled him close and kissed him.

"I missed you."

"Same here. I'm back now though."

"I know."

Marik smirked when he saw Malik look away seeing as no one was paying attention to him now. "I think he's annoyed we aren't paying attention to his insults." Marik whispered.

"Good."

"Malik you know the insults you were throwing weren't going to have any affect seeing we don't really care what you were calling us."

"Not you, you're human, just Mariku."

"Actually when you say those insults to Mariku you insult me as well. I'm a naga as well."

Marik changed his form causing Malik to stare in shock before narrowing his eyes and turning away from them. Marik chuckled as he moved forward and sat on the edge of the bed and looked at him.

"You know you are very hot."

Marik ran his hand along Malik's side and felt him tense up. Malik looked at him in fear seeing as he was restrained and wouldn't be able to stop anything.

"Oh hush I'm not going to rape you. God we all have enough morals in us to not do that." Marik said.

"Regardless of what you may do." Mariku said sitting on his side of the bed.

Malik gasped as he felt Marik's hand brush down the outside of his leg before resting on his shin. Malik stared at him, fear was still evident since he was chained up and he wasn't sure how to respond exactly.

"Hey Malik what do you look like underneath this." Marik asked and all Malik could do was stare in shock at what he just asked. "I mean are you a stick figure or have you actually got some muscle under there."

"I am not a stick figure, thankyou very much." Malik growled out.

"Oh still got some attitude as well. I defiantly like this one. Can we keep him Mariku?"

"Hey I'm not a possession." Malik said shocked that it was like he was just some object to keep.

Marik chuckled while looking at Mariku who was just sitting there watching. Mariku knew Marik was like this and he wasn't surprised that Marik liked Malik like that. He was a lot like them and he could see why Marik was taken with him. Mariku lay down on the bed as Marik tried to get Malik to let him take off his clothing. Malik was flat out refusing and it caused Marik to become upset with him.

"Marik leave Malik be and go to sleep. You could do with some rest after all the travelling you did recently."

"But I want to play with Malik."

"You can play with him later today once you've had some rest."

"Oh alright."

Marik climbed over Malik's legs and curled up next to Mariku. Malik stared at Marik in confusion seeing as he was like the complete opposite of Mariku and himself. He was like a hyperactive child. Malik sighed and closed his eyes seeing as he might as well get some sleep but jumped when a tail wrapped around his ankle. Malik looked at Marik to see him nuzzling Mariku's chest who had his arms wrapped around him and eyes closed. Malik sighed again and closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep.

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After a few days Malik was getting quite hungry and knew complaining about it wasn't going to do anything to help. Yugi was better and his cold was nearly gone and they were still going to the warm chamber where the sun would come through. Malik may have had unlimited access to water but he found that when his stomach was empty having a lot of water made him feel a little unwell.

Yugi and Ryou were worried that he would become sick by not being able to eat. They were right now resting in warm chamber and in the shade. Yugi and Ryou were sitting up playing knouts and crosses in the sand and Malik was laying on the ground beside them, his hand over his stomach.

"Malik are you ok?"

"No. It hurts."

Yugi and Ryou sat beside him and heard his stomach growl in hunger. Yugi and Ryou watched as Malik cringed in pain as his stomach continued to growl for a minute before Malik relaxed on the ground again. Yugi sighed and sat Malik's head in his lap and ran his fingers through his hair. Malik still hadn't forgiven them for how they became friends with Akefia and Atemu but he wasn't going to ignore them, he was going to need them to help him through the punishment Atemu had set.

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Marik looked over when he saw Malik cringe in pain and he didn't like it one bit. Marik glared at Atemu in his snake form. They all were and soaking up the sun's warmth. Atemu looked a little started seeing as he had no idea why Marik was glaring at him.

"What is that for?" Atemu asked.

"Do you not see the pain you are causing to Malik?"

Atemu looked over to see Malik was indeed in pain before he relaxed and a look of relief spread across his face. Atemu just looked back at Marik before talking to Yami. Marik hissed in anger and reared up as he continued to glare at Atemu. Mariku quickly reared up and pushed Marik to the ground and they rolled around as Mariku tried to pin Marik and Marik tried to get out of Mariku's grip and attack Atemu.

Atemu glared as he watched this before looking over at the group and saw they were all watching in surprise. He couldn't blame them for that seeing how all of them had been very quiet for most of the day and were just relaxing.

"Marik that's enough!" Atemu hissed loudly causing the boys to look at him. "He chose for it to happen to only him. He will deal with the consequences."

Marik hissed as he was pinned by Mariku and hissed at in the face by his lover. Malik stood up and stumbled slightly and walked over to the two. Malik knelt down beside him and he felt a tail wrap around his ankle.

"Marik let it go. I'll be alright. I only have ten days left."

"You'll be worse by then."

"True but by then I will be able to eat."

Marik hissed at that thought before nudging Mariku's neck so he would climb off. Mariku narrowed his eyes at him before slowly releasing his grip and slid off Marik's body but still stayed in between Marik and Atemu just in case. Marik wrapped his tail around Malik's waist and dragged him over to a corner and wrapped around him.

Malik had been getting quite use to how Marik acted. He had been very possessive over Malik the last few days and seemed to like holding onto him. Malik had not liked it much at all but found that he couldn't get out of his grip even if he wanted to so he let it be. Malik settle down for the rest of the time Marik would end up holding him.

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Malik groaned softly as someone shook him awake. Opening his eyes he found that he was still in the chamber and Marik, Yugi and Ryou were there waiting for him to wake. Malik groaned and sat up, holding his head as a dizzy spell happened.

"You ok Malik?" Yugi asked. "It took us a while to wake you."

"I was having a good dream." Malik lied.

"Ok."

"Come time for us to go in."

Malik nodded and stood up and followed Yugi and Ryou as they headed to the chamber where they ate. Atemu's chamber had only been used for while Yugi was sick but after he was better they migrated to the chamber where their food was stored and where the table was.

Atemu was already in there and each seat had a plate filled with food except for one down the end which only had a glass and jug of water in front of it. Malik walked over with everyone else and sat down. They started eating and Malik just pushed the glass and jug aside and laid his head on the table and looked away from everyone and slowly fell asleep again. He didn't have much energy and whatever he did have, he needed to save it.

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Malik gasped as he woke later that night. He found himself in bed with his wrist chained to the bed head with a length of chain on it so he could move around more freely. Malik sat up and felt the tail wrapped around his waist tighten slightly before relaxing. Malik groaned and held his stomach as he growled loudly and caused pain. Malik looked around before stumbling, after gently removing the tail, over to the table in the corner that had water sitting on it. Malik poured a little bit in the cup and drank it down before setting it on the table and sighed.

He heard movement and saw Mariku was awake and looking at him from his place on the bed. Malik walked back over and lay back down.

"You ok?"

"Yeah."

"You're starving."

"Yes of course I am. I have another ten days of this."

"I'm going to talk to Atemu about this."

"Don't bother he won't change his mind."

"You aren't going to last much longer."

"I'll just have to."

Malik rolled over and felt a tail wrap back around his waist and another around his ankle. He knew Marik was wrapped around his waist he was surprised Mariku would wrap his tail around his ankle. Malik slowly fell asleep the hunger pains making it harder.

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