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Chapter 48
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This means flashbacks
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The eyes that watched them grew larger and moved higher off the ground till they were at the height of an average sized human. Three beings looked down at the three unconscious boys before moving in closer and shook them slightly to see if they would wake and when they didn't they picked them up and disappeared further down the tunnel away from the howling of the sand storm.
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Marik was the first to wake but it was slow. He was exhausted and weak. He knew something was wrong but couldn't quite place what it was. Marik slowly opened his eyes and noticed that it wasn't dark but lighter, there was an orange glow lighting the area he was in. He could tell that they weren't in the tunnel anymore but somewhere else. Sitting up slowly, he looked around.
He was covered in animal skins and was in a cavern and laying but a fire. Bakura and Yami were on either side of him also covered in animal skins, both still asleep. Yami was looking worse than Bakura and himself.
Reaching out Marik shook Bakura awake who woke reasonably quickly before looking to Yami and shook him awake. Yami took longer to come around and was a little disorientated. Bakura sat up and took a look around before slowly climbing to his feet.
Yami groaned and opened his eyes and saw a blurry form in front of him. It took him a few blinks to then see Marik clearly.
"What's going on?" Yami asked, his voice was a little croaky.
"We've been moved."
"What?"
"We're in a cavern with a fire and animal skins, not back where we fell asleep."
Yami shakily pushed himself up on his arms and with Marik's help was able to sit up completely. Yami looked around and saw Bakura looking through a few things. It looked like someone's room. Marik stood and stumbled a little, getting a little dizzy before becoming stable. Yami saw Marik hold out his hand and took it and was helped to his feet. Yami held his head with his free hand as a dizzy spell came over him and it was longer than Marik's.
"Yami you ok?"
"Yeah I'll be fine. You guys best find a way out of here."
"What about you?"
"Come on. Look at me. I'm not going to get much further. You two will. I'm only going to slow you down. Besides you did say that I wasn't meant to slow you do or get caught. So I'm only going to slow you down."
Bakura starred at him in shock he did remember saying that but he really only said it so that he would have more motivation to try and escape. Bakura shook his head before walking over to Yami's other side as Marik had Yami's arm around his shoulder.
"Come on, let's get out of here before whoever it is comes back."
Bakura took Yami's other arm and put it over his shoulder before they headed for the only exit. As they made their way through the dark tunnels they didn't notice they were being watched. They found a large cavern that had pillars going all around the room. There was a throne to one side that had statues behind and to the side of it. There were torches lit on the pillars so it threw light around the room.
They spotted three exits on the other side of the chamber. They walked over to the three tunnels and Akefia took a look down each of them before shrugging his shoulders.
"Which one?" Yami asked.
"I don't know. I guess we should just pick one and see what happens."
They nodded and went to head towards the first tunnel when they heard movement and hissing behind him. Turning they saw three huge snakes, way too big to be normal, making their way into the chamber. They all had the decency to look frightened at what was in front of them.
"You guys take a tunnel each."
"What about you?"
"You can't escape these things while dragging me with you. Leave me here and get out here. You'll have a better chance alone."
"Are you crazy?"
"Please even if we were to get out I would never survive getting to another village. Just go now."
They were about to argue with him when the snakes moved towards them. Yami quickly pushed them each to a tunnel before collapsing to the ground. Bakura and Marik when to grab him when they snakes moved forward quicker so they darted down a tunnel each and Yami covered his head with his hands as the snakes continued to get closer.
Yami felt them two move passed him going after the others and Yami waited for the strike of being swallowed whole. When nothing happened Yami carefully moved his arms to look around and saw the snake in front of him still and was looking at him. Yami tried to moved away but it just moved and circled around him before watching him again.
"Just do it already." Yami said softly to the snake hoping it would hear him and just get it over with.
The snake just cocked it's head at him before using its tail and scooped Yami up in it and made its way out of the chamber and back the way it came. Yami tried to struggle to get out of the coils that were around him but he failed to do so. Sighing Yami gave up and only hoped that the coils wouldn't tighten and slowly crush him because he didn't want to go through that pain.
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Marik ran down the tunnel he was in and could hear one of the extremely oversized snakes follow after him. Marik looked behind him as he ran down the tunnel to see two eyes staring back at him and gaining on him. Marik skidded as he turned a corner and continued running. Looking back again Marik gasped as the snake was a lot closer than it should have been. Marik turned to look back around and ran straight into a wall. Because he hadn't been looking where he was going he missed the turn and went straight into the wall.
Marik fell to the ground with a groan. It hurt and it knocked the wind out of him causing the snake to catch up with him. Marik turned over to look behind him to see the snake had stopped chasing him and was extremely close. Marik groaned in annoyance knowing this was the end. He was tired before he was running away and now he just couldn't even be bothered to try and get away. Marik just laid back on the ground trying to calm his breathing and waited for it to end.
Marik waited and after a few minutes he noticed that the snake hadn't moved to strike him. Marik looked over and that was when it moved. Marik flinched as it got closer and watched as it stilled before its tail came around. Marik flinched again as the tail moved around under him before wrapping around his body.
"Oh god." Marik gasped realising that it was going to crush him before eating him instead of just striking him.
The snake wrapped its tail securely around his body before turning and going back the way they came. Marik tried to struggle out but found that the tail tightened only slightly to warn him to stop moving. Marik whimpered and stilled his movements as he waited for the snake to decide what to do with him.
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Bakura raced down the tunnel knowing at least one of the snakes was most likely following him. He knew he needed to find a fork in the tunnel to throw the snake off guard and hopefully trick it in order to get away. Bakura knew Yami was most likely already gone and he just hoped it was painless. Marik he was hoping was able to get away and they would be able to catch up when they lost the snakes.
Bakura ran until the tunnel stopped and there was nowhere to go. It was a dead end. Bakura growled and looked around trying to find anything in the hopes of defending himself. Finding a couple of large rocks. Bakura picked one up and it was just large enough to find in his hand. Bakura turned back as the snake came into view and held the rock up and waited. He would go down fighting. Bakura watched as the snake slowed down and looked at him a little confused from the cocked head and slightly wide eyes like it didn't expect Bakura to try and defend himself.
Bakura watched as the snake suddenly moved forward and Bakura was ready and waiting. What he didn't expect was the tail that came around and wrapped around his body quickly, it had also managed to pin his raised hand to his body making him drop the rock in the process. Bakura growled in anger and started to struggle to get out. The snake hissed and the tip of its tail that wasn't holding him flicked his head hard enough to knock him out but not do any damage.
Bakura slumped forward against the snakes tail and it now satisfied turned and headed out of the tunnel.
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