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Chapter 47

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Bold and italics for flashbacks

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"Who wants to explain the next part?" Atemu asked.

Bakura, Marik and Yami looked amongst themselves before Bakura and Marik look at Yami. Yami sighed and nodded as Bakura and Marik relaxed, knowing they wouldn't have to tell the story. Yugi noticed that they didn't look forward to telling this part of the story.

"We were still on the ship at the time. I had just woken up after I had lost consciousness for about four hours...

"How are you feeling?" Bakura asked as Yami sat up, groaning in pain.

"How do you think I feel?"

Bakura smirked and looked around and saw only slaves, all the guards having gone topside as they had left port. No one would bother trying to escape as no one could swim or so the guards thought.

"We have a plan to get out if you are interested?" Bakura said.

"You think I wouldn't be."

"It's just if you fall behind we aren't coming back for you. You get caught you are on your own."

"I would rather try than not. What is it?"

Bakura and Marik explained the plan for their escape. Yami put in suggestions when he thought part of their plan was just wasn't going to work. He was surprised when a couple of them were implemented.

"Hey Yami?"

"Yeah?"

"You know how to swim right?" Bakura asked.

There plan was when land was seen it was always called out and the country was told so the slaves knew where they were. The plan was to jump ship when Egypt was in sight and swim to shore. They just had to figure out how to get their shackles off first but with Bakura and Marik's background that wasn't going to be a problem. They would then run inland and find somewhere to lay low.

"Yes I know how to swim if I didn't I would have said so when you told me. I'm guessing you both know how."

They both nodded before settling back.

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It had been a just over a week since Yami was placed on the ship and they had all been saving their energy for the escape. They knew they would need it. It was late in the afternoon when they heard a racket going on topside. Everyone listened carefully to hear what was going on.

"Land ahoy! Egypt is in sight on the starboard side."

Bakura and Marik nodded and started play with their shackles before turning to Yami and helped him with his. Only the fit were shackled up at the risk of escape. The sick and old were left untied. They had decided to try and get anyone that could swim off the boat and they were told that if they fell behind or got caught than they were on their own.

"We will make port in the morning." They heard one of the men say.

"It might be better to wait till night time when they are mostly sleeping." Yami said. "We're just lucky we won't make port till tomorrow or we would have to try and get away now."

"Yeah we'll wait for nightfall."

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Hours had passed and it was night time and had been dark for a couple of hours now and had finally quietened down. They had decided to leave now. Bakura and Marik made quick work of their shackles and were soon done with Yami's before moving on to the others. Yami helped some of the less sick to their feet. After a few minutes everyone was ready. Bakura and Marik made their way up the steps with Yami right behind them and behind Yami were the other slaves.

Bakura looked through the slats on the door and couldn't see anyone. Quietly he pushed the door open and climbed out. Everyone quickly followed and then all hell broke loose. A guard in the bird's nest saw movement out of the corner of his eyes.

"Escape! The slaves are escaping!" He yelled.

Everyone jumped at this and looked around frantically, unsure what to do. Bakura, Marik and Yami were the closest to the starboard side railing when this all happened and the crew were coming in from the port side.

"Ok time to go." Bakura said and grabbed Yami's arm." Yami let's go."

Yami turned and followed Bakura and Marik to the railing. Bakura jumped over first before Marik followed him next. Looking back he saw six guards coming after them. Yami quickly climbed over the railing and jumped before they got too close.

Bakura surfaced having jumped first and saw Yami jump in just to the left of him and saw guards look over the edge but because it was pitch black, and there was only minimal light on the ship and it didn't reach the water below, they couldn't see anything. They quietly all grouped together and started to swim to shore.

They knew it was only a matter of time before they launched the boats to search for them and thankfully with the ship still moving they should have trouble finding their landing point. They also had the added problem of the other slave they had to lock back up.

It took them a while to reach land and by the time they did it was almost dawn. All three crawled up the beach before they collapsed on their backs in exhaustion. Yami slowly sat up after a good ten minute rest, since he knew he couldn't go to sleep yet even though he really wanted to, as the sun had started to rise.

"We had better keep moving. We don't want to be here if they find where we landed and trace us to here."

Bakura and Marik nodded and both sat up. Looking around where they were they saw dunes behind them. Looking at that as the best scenario they headed to the dunes and into the desert that lay beyond them.

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It had been nine days since they had escaped the ship and went into the desert. They had found an oasis after the first three but decided to keep going the day after. They rehydrated themselves there before moving onwards. They didn't know where they were and by the fifth day after the oasis they were lost and overly dehydrated.

It was late on the eighth day after they escaped from the ship or fifth day after the oasis. The sun had just dropped below the horizon and they sat against one of the dunes.

"We aren't going to last much longer guys." Yami said weakly as he laid down.

"We just need to keep pushing on. Hopefully there is a village nearby that we can get food and water." Marik said.

"Get some sleep. We'll need it for tomorrow."

Yami and Marik followed Bakura's instruction and followed him off to sleep.

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The next morning the three woke to the sun beating down on them. It was still early morning and they carried on. They were slowly getting weaker now and they needed shade along with food and water and there was none of those things around.

They carried on till the later afternoon when they saw a cliff face come up from the horizon. Knowing that there must be shade nearby they hurried towards it. Though there first thoughts were if it was a mirage since it had happened a couple of times in the last few days. They hurried onwards till they finally reached the cliff face. There was shade from a few overhung rocks which they quickly hid under and slid into the cool sand.

"Thank god."

"I wouldn't just yet. We still need to find food and water." Bakura said.

"But we have shade."

"Yeah but that won't do much good if we don't get some water at the least."

They nodded and stood back up and walked along the cliff face, hiding in the shade. As the afternoon rolled on the wind started to pick up and sand started to blow all over the place. They found themselves out in the middle of a sand storm.

"We need to get to some shelter." Yami yelled over the noise of the wind.

"Yeah but where? There is nothing out here." Marik yelled back.

"We just need to keep moving. There should be a cave at least along this cliff face. Just keep a hand on each other's shoulder and one on the rock face." Bakura yelled back.

Bakura was leading the way with Marik behind him and his hand on Bakura's should and Yami was behind Marik with his hand on Marik's shoulder. This was so that they didn't get lost or separated in the sand storm. Bakura pushed forward against the wind and sand whipping against them. He knew they needed to get out of the wind but there was literally nowhere to go.

After what felt like forever Bakura lost hold of the rocks beside him and when he moved back towards them they were going inwards into the cliff face. Bakura tried to open his eyes a little more and saw what looked like a cave. Bakura continued with his hand against the wall and the other out in front of him he walked inside. He felt Marik turn with him and follow after him.

"I think we found a cave. I'm going to take us in further."

As they walked deeper they were able to let go of each other and open their eyes completely now that the wind and sand wasn't whipping them in the face. Yami was about to sit down when Bakura grabbed his arm to keep him standing and shook his head. Just after that the wind changed direction and started to come into the cave where they were. All three covered their face with their arms to shield them.

"We need to go deeper. Come on. Same way again."

They lined up again and started down further and once they turned a corner away from the wind and sand they relaxed a little more and walked along side each other before they reached a fork in the tunnel before deciding to go to take the one on the right and headed down further.

It was getting late now and there was little to no light in the cave and they were relying on their adjusted eyes to see. Yami was slowly lagging behind now and was really trying to keep up with them but was finding it really difficult. He didn't come from their background so he didn't have the same stamina they did. He was just lucky he was able to keep up with them as much as he did already.

"Guys maybe we take a rest for the day." Yami said bringing their attention to him.

"Yeah alright we'll get some rest here. It seems we have gotten away from the sand storm now. Hopefully tomorrow it will have passed and we can go back out and see if we can find some water and maybe food." Bakura said.

Marik sat down beside Yami who collapsed as soon as Bakura agreed. He didn't know how much longer he would be able to go on before they left him. He knew it wouldn't be for much longer.

"Yami are you ok?"

"Not really. I'm going to try to get some sleep. Hopefully I'll feel a little better tomorrow."

Marik nodded and watched as best he could as Yami laid down on the ground and was asleep very quickly. Marik looked to Bakura who was beside him.

"How much time do you think we have left?" Marik asked.

"Not much. Get some sleep." Marik nodded and laid down and went to sleep with Bakura following him.

Neither of them noticed three sets of eyes watching from the far end of the tunnel they were in.

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