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Trial By Nightmare

By: MarikIshtar77
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Seasons in the Abyss

Trial by Nightmare

Disclaimer: I own nothing recognizible.

Warning: some swearing

Authoress's note: This chapter bounces around alot. You'll be surprised if you

can follow along!:-)

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“Hey Joey, why don’t you turn that tv down.....I’m trying to make a call” Yugi said politely.

“Okay Yuug. No prob.”

Marik anxiously tapped his fingers on the table.

“Hurry up with that phone Yugi, I need to call my sister.”

“Hang on a minute Marik.....I’m calling my grandfather.”

After all of them got through making calls to their loved ones, they joined Joey infront of the

television. He had some news station on, and completely absorbed on what was on the screen.

“Live coverage on strange disappearances” flashed across the screen.

“Thousands of people just vanish, no plausible reason why.” The reporter informed everyone.

Nobody was quite sure what to say.

****In the Shadow Realm****

“Holy shit, was that just Bones we passed by?” Bakura snickered.

“Yes.....I think it was” Yami grumbled.

“He was a weak opponent, I waxed the floor with him” Bakura looked back to where he’d

spotted Bones. “Thanks for the star chips!” he yelled mockingly.

Yami rolled his eyes “Oh that was mature”

Bakura laughed maniacally and looked away.

“Hey Malik, what the hell are you doing under that cape?”

Malik fumbled around and finally pulled out a bag of potato chips.

“Ah, yes, there they are. I snarfed these before we left for the park today.”

Yami and Bakura looked at him strangely

“Snarfed? Where did you learn that word?” Bakura chuckled.

“Malik? Why were you looking for chips?” Yami ask nervously.

“Our nightmares will be starting soon. I think of them as a movie, and a movie is not complete

without munchies”

“You really are a nutcase Ishtar” Yami sighed as the went deeper into the shadows.

Bakura stopped suddenly after a few steps.

“Do you hear that?”

Malik and Yami stopped and listened.

“Hear what?”they shrugged.

“The voices....the sound of coins dropping.......” Bakura looked excited

Suddenly, Yami fell to his knees.

“NO! Stop! Please Yugi!”

Malik opened up his potato chips, took a step back and laughed evilly. He watched as Yami and

Bakura started experiencing their worst fears. Even though all three of them were immortal, the

shadow realm still had it’s mental effects.

“Yes, it’s starting......This should be good.” Malik grinned, watching as Yami called out Yugi’s

name and Bakura screamed at the top of his lungs;

“No! Not this! Anything but this! No! Stop..........NOOOOOOOO! Anywhere but STAR TREK

CONVENTION!”

Malik fell to his knees laughing. As he stood up to regain his ground, he realized his own fear

was right before his eyes. A woman wearing a long white gown held out her hand to him.

“Here, take my hand.” she said in a mysterious voice. Malik reached out and took her hand. She

lead him down a long hall and into a small room. She nodded at him as she turned and left the

room. He tried to open the door, but it was locked. There were no windows to escape through

either. He pounded at the door furiously.

“Hey, what the fuck! Let me out of here bitch!”

Malik kicked the door hard.

“I should have brought some beer" he hissed as he started pacing around.

****Back at the hotel****

“Anybody got any ideas on somethin to do? This is getting lame.” Joey groaned after watching

10 straight hours of television.

“I thought you liked watching television” Ryou said softly.

“A man can only handle so many infomercials before he starts declaring himself insane.”

“Hmph.” Marik scoffed. “This is nothing. You try spending your childhood locked underground

in a tomb.”

Yugi hugged his knees and fell back into the couch.

“I wonder what’s taking Yami, Malik and Bakura so long.” he sighed.

“Time is non existent in the shadow realm, it could be hours, days, or even longer for them to

return.” Ryou recalled, thinking back to his own time he’d spent in the shadow realm.

“Well if we don’t start movin’ around and doing something, we’ll all fall asleep here”

“That would be bad.” Tany agreed. Why don’t we play a game or something. Nothing too

strenuous though...” she continued.

Duke stood up and stretched hims hms high above his head.

“A game? Like what? Yatzee?”

“I don’t think so Duke, we don’t have access to any marketed games. We’ll have to think of one”

Tany went on.

“We could play duel monsters. Most of us have cards” Yugi suggested.

“”Oh right Yugi, there’s not enough room in here for that” Tristan noted.

“We could go up on the roof and play” Caroline smirked. “I saw the stairwell to it earlier.”

“The roof? Are you sure we won’t get in trouble?” Yugi cringed.

“No, we shouldn’t. There was no sign saying keep out.”

“The roof it is!” Tany grinned as she stood up.

“Yeah! It’s time to DUEL!” Joey said excitedly as he grabbed his jacket.

The night was clear, and the moon lit up the sleeping city. They walked to a cleared area

of the roof and stood in a group.

Tany shivered from the chilling wind blowing thr the the night. Ryou instinctively put his arm

around her and smiled.

“Thanks” she replied, resting her cheek oh his shoulder. Ryou chuckled softly.

“Okay, we’ll chose numbers to see who goes first. I’ll be 1, Yugi 2, Marik 3, Ryou 4, Joey 5. I’ll

use my earring to see who goes first.” Duke explained.

“Hey, you forgot me!” Caroline pouted.

“You play too?” Duke ask curiously.

“No shit Einstein.” Caroline mused, “I’m 6, now roll the damn dice”

Duke took out his earring and rolled it.

“3 .......Marik. You’re first.” Marik pulled out his deck and began to shuffle it as he walked to theotheotherside of the roof. Duke tossed the die again.

“6.....Caroline. You’re his opponent.”

“This will be interesting” Ryou pointed out as Caroline took her place across from Marik.

“Heads or tails” Duke said loudly as he flipped a quarter.

“Heads” Marik said quickly.

“It’s heads” Duke nodded. “You’re first”

“Alright! a duel!” Joey exclaimed as Marik laid a card.

*****Back in the Shadow Realm******

“Must.......keep..running........can’t stop.....” Bakura panted as he barely escaped a mob of

Klingons. “Must find Anubis.....can’t let fears get a hold on me.......”

**THUD** Bakura tripped over a rock in his pathway and fell on his butt. He was quickly

surrounded by rabid Trekkies holding something out to him.

“NOOOOO!!!! Not the Star Fleet uniform!!!!!!” he screamed as they descended onto him.

At the same time Yami was experiencing his own worst fear.

He was running frantically, but going nowhere fast. His body seemed to be frozen in one place.

He continued running even though it did no good. He could see Yugi up ahead running away

from him.

“Wait, Yugi! Please! Why are you running away!” Yami called out.

Yugi didn’t even flinch. He just kept running.

“What did I do? Are you mad? YUGI! Please stop!”

Yugi just kept running.

Malik paced around the room, munching on his chips.

“When I get my hands on Anubis there won’t be anything left to him. I can’t believe this. I come

to the shadow realm in hopes to watch everybody suffer and that son of a bitch locks me up in

here. He is so dead!” he growled to himself as he paced around.

******ban thn the hotel roof*******

“Is it my imagination or have these two taken this game to another level?” Ryou chuckled

quietly.

“I’ve never seen anything like this” Tany laughed back as Caroline’s St. Joan attacked Marik

directly.....on the lips.

Than Marik activated Dark Hole, sending all monsters on the field to the graveyard.

Marik grinned wickedly as he summoned his monster and sent his Shining Fairy to tackle Caroline to the ground.....and use

his wicked tickormeorment attack.

Tany looked up at Ryou and nudged his lightly in the arm.

“Are you ticklish?” she ask softly.

Ryou bit his lip and smiled

“Maybe.......a little”

“I’ll keep that in mind” Tany winked back at him. Ryou wasn’t sure how to respond. He just

smiled and shrugged his shoulders. Tany cocked her head slightly, a looked of bewilderment

spread across her face.

“You’re alot quieter than Bak


Ryou nodded his head. He looked back at the duel and began to laugh.

“Oh bloody hell, what’s she going to do with THEM?” he exclaimed as Caroline’s Harpie Lady

sisters pinned Marik to the ground.

Tany instinctively covered Mokubas eyes as the Harpie sisters did things young eyes did not need

to see to Marik.

“I give! I give!” Marik yelled frantically as the Harpie sisters tore at him.

Caroline fell to her knees laughing.

Duke walked over and announced her the winner, laughing hysterically as he did so.

Marik staggered to his feet and picked up his deck.

“Last time I let a girl make the rules” he mumbled as he stalked away.CaroCaroline grabbed her deck and ran after him

“Hey now, it’s only a game!” she shouted after him.

“Okay everyone, we’re going to roll to see who goes next. Remember your number now.”

Duke tossed uo the die. It landed on 5, Joey. The next roll landed on 1, Duke.

*********Back in the shadow Realm*********

Bakura, now sporting a yellow and black Star Fleet uniform, ran as fast as he could. He

could hear the sound of water flowing in the distance. “Almost there......” He panted. Suddenly,

something fell on him from overhead, sending him rolling.

“What the-” he paused as he looked at the creature.

“Oh no, Oh gods no.....A TRIBBLE! AHHHHH!” Bakura got up and began running again.

Fuzzy tribbles showered down from the sky above him.

Yami watched horrified as Yugi kept running away from hiis vis voice was horse from

yelling.

“Please stop and tell me what’s wrong! Please!” he croaked .

Nothing worked to get Yugi’s attention. Nothing at all. Yami just kept on running though,

something inside him kept him going.

Malik clicked the backs of his boots together and began talking to himself

“There’s no place like home.......There’s no place like home............There’s.....oh fuck it.”

He continpacipacing around the room, munching a chip every now and than.

****back on the roof****

“So tell me Ryou....Why is Bakura’s first name the same as your last name?” Tany mused while

playing with Ryou’s hair.

Ryou shrugged his shoulders.

“I don’t think he ever actually was given a name when he was born. If he was here right now

he’d probably say something like ‘my real name is Egyptian, and youre all too braindead to

pronouce it, so you shall only refer to me as Bakura!”

Tany chuckled at Ryou’s impersonation of his dark.

“Is it weird not having him with you at the moment?”

Ryou sighed and nodded his head.

“Yes, in a way. I don’t miss him nagging me to let him out, but I do miss having him to back me

up if I get to nervous.”

Tany cocked her head

“You’re nervous? Why?”

Ryou’s cheeks grew 3 shades of red.

“I guess I’m just not as good with people as he is.”

Tany burst out laughing.

“Bakura? Good with people? You have got to be jokme..me.....Just yesterday he stuffed a kid in a

garbage can after they got the last scoop of Blue Moon ice cream!”

“Good grief” Ryou groaned.

“Than he stole the kids’ cone!” Tany laughed some more.

Ryou scratched his head and laughed nervously.

“That’s Bakura for you. He’s always pushing people around. Like this one time when I took him

to a Star Trek convention.......”

****back in the Shadow Realm once again******

“Is that what I think it is? Yes! I have finally made it!” Bakura proclaimed as he reached the river

that flowed into the after life. Not only did it house the door to the afterlife, but also Anubis’s

doorstep.

Bakura looked back and could see Yami running towards him.....and Malik stolling casually far

behind.

Yami raced after Yugi, screaming for him to stop. “Yugi! Slow down please!” He yelled

as he stopped to catch his breath.

//What’s this I hear? Flowing water? There must be a river ahead. I don’t see a bridge, Yugi will

have to stop there.// he thought to himself.

Yami shook off his exhaustion and picked up running again. As he reached the river bank, he

stopped and looked around. He realized where he was and what was going on. He had just made

it through his worst fear.

“Took you long enough” Bakura grumbled.

“Where’s Malik?” Yami ask, looking around.

Bakura pointed behind Yami

“He’s taking his precious time”

Marik paced slowly around the room. He suddenly stopped and looked up.

“Huh? Water? How can I hear water? I’m locked up in a padded room........wait......that’s

right.....Anubis. I bet I’m at the river.” he said to himself. He continued pacing until he

came face to face with Yami.

Bakura was smirking evilly.

“What’s so funny tomb robber” Malik snapped.

Bakura cleared his throat

“You were walking in circles the whole way here” he laughed.

“Oh fuck you” Malik glared.

“Shh, quiet...I hear somebody coming.” Yami interrupted.

A woman with long black hair approached them. She was dressed in a flowing linen gown.

Malik took a step back and grabbed Bakura’s arm

“Don’t let her take me again!” he cringed.

Bakura slapped Malik away

“Get off me you fool!”

Yami shot them both an icy glare.

“Quiet, Nephthys is approaching.”

Malik cringed behind Bakura

The women stopped right infront of them.

“Yami, Malik, Bakura. I am not surprised. I know why you are here. Please follow me and I will

lead you to Anubis.” the goddess of death smiled.

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Well, they made it. Now all our Yami's have to do is face off with Anubis. I wonder

what is causing Anubis to lash out so fiercely! I wrote this chapter pretty fast today....

After downing 2 pots of coffee I was pretty wired. 2 hours and 50 trips to the bathroom

later I'm finally calling it a day. I know this chapter didn't have any *good* stuff,

but I'm saving that for later.....

*happy dance* Ryou and Marik will be the main focus of the next so bring a spare pair of ...

*grin*... you know!!!!
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