Trial By Nightmare

Trial by Nightmare


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Warning: swearing, violence.

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Almost everybody rushed out behind Mokuba to catch a glimpse of the Ishtar battle royale

outside. Mokuba lead them all to the alley behind the club. There was no mistaking where the

fight was happening, Marik and Malik could be heard screaming obscenities for quite some

distance.

“YOU DIRTY ROTTEN SHITHEAD! I’m going to shove that rod right of your conniving ass!”

“Make my day weakling! Just go ahead and try!” Malik yelled back.

Bakura was only a step behind Mokuba. He never could resist a good brawl.

“Yes! Hit him! Harder!” he shouted out.

Malik and Marik were moving so fast, it was impossible to tell who was getting the best of who.

Both were throwing hard punches, and using whatever means they could to subdue the other.

Marik managed to get a good grip around Malik’s shoulders, and he slammed him into a nearby

dumpster. Malik was winded, but it didn’t stop him. He grabbed Marik by his hair and punched

him as hard as he could right in the face. Marik was stunned, but he was able to shake it off.

Tany knew she should stop the fight, the there was no way she could. She was only a little over

100 pounds, and she didn’t exactly propose much of a threat to either Ishtar. She turned to Ryou

with an unnerving look in her eyes.

“What do we do? I don’t think any of us can take either one of them!”

Ryou shrugged calmly,

“Don’t worry yourself sweetheart, guys do this sort of thing all the time. Interfering with a guys’

fight, is almost as bad as interfering with a duel. You just don’t do it. Bad things happen to

anyone who does usually.”

Bakura had found himself a front row seat on a garbage can, and was cheering loudly for nobody

in particular. He just wanted to be the first to kick the loser.

Fists were flying wildly, and blood was gushing from Marik’s nose. Malik was just a bit stronger

than his light, he managed to get Marik in a headlock, squeezing his throat until he was near

passing out. Once he was sure Marik wasn’t much of a threat any more, he threw him violently

against the dumpster. Marik fell to the ground holding his throat and gasping for air.

Malik stalked over to his light and gave him one last good swift kick in the stomach.

“nevenever should have messed with me” he hissed as he reached into his beltloop. Marik looked

up at his darker half, his face was bruised and bloody, but he still wasn’t ready to give in.

“You have no right to treat me so bad Malik. I’ve done nothing wrong. Why are you doing this!”

he choked.

Malik grinned evilly,

“I’m doing it because I can. If you weren’t such a Ra-damned pussy, maybe I’d consider treating

you differently. The world is better off without you
M
Malik pulled out his Millennium rod and began laughing evilly.

“Marik, I think it’s time for you to visit the Shadow Realm again. And this time you WON’T be

leaving!”

Malik held the rod out and it began to glow.

“no......please ...........Malik.......” Marik pleaded.

A purple mist swirled around the alley, scaring everybody to the point where they took a few

steps back.

Even Bakura got off his garbage can and stood back by Ryou.

“What’s happening?” Tany whispered.

Bakura knew exactly what was going on. He bravely stepped forward.

“This isn’t good, he’s summoning his shadow powers. I have to stop this”

Bakura was just about to stop Malik, when somebody else stepped in.

“NO! Malik! STOP! PLEASE!” Caroline screamed as she threw herself at Marik, shoving him out

of the way of Malik’s shadow powers.

“Where the fuck did she come from?” Bakura gaped as he stepped back again.

Before Malik could react, the dark mists of the shadows encompassed Caroline, and pulled her

into the Shadow Realm.

Everybody just froze in place, completely shocked at what had just happened.

Malik was even stunned over what he’d just done. He dropped the Millennium Rod and fell to his

knee
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Marik very slowly pulled himself to his feet. While Malik was staring blankly at the spot where

Caroline once was, Marik took his chances and lunged forward. He grabbed the Millennium rod

off the ground before Malik could get his hands on it again.

Malik didn’t budge, he just stared forward with a look of sheer horror.

Marik shoved the rod in his own belt loop and got to his feet. He grabbed Malik by his shoulders

and shook him violently.

”Ra-fug-alg-almighty Malik! What the fuck did you do that for! You sent our girlfriend to the

fucking Shadow Realm! Are you stupid as fuck!?!” he screamed in Malik’s face as tears rolled

down his cheeks.

Malik opened his mouth, but nothing came out. He was too stunned at what just occurred to even

speak.

Bakura approached them both slowly.

“You realize this is not good, don’t you Malik” Bakura stated matter-of-factly.

Malik shook his head.

“I-I.......I didn’t mean for that to happen.....fuck.....what have I done?”

Everybody who had been watching the fight gathered around Malik, Marik and Bakura.

“I think we better go back inside and find Yami.” Bakura suggested.

Malik nodded

“Yes, we should.” he turned to Marik with tears welling up in his eyes, “Marik, I’m sorry”

Marik swallowed the lump in the back of his throat and glared at his darker half.

“I’ll forgive you if we can get Caroline back”

Malik took and deep breath and nodded

“I understand. I’m such a dumbass. I never should have tried to keep her from you. I never

thought it would come to this.”

Malik bit his lip and looked straight into his light’s teary lavender eyes.

“I’ve been selfish Marik, I’m sorry. It’s just that Caroline was the only person that ever seemed to

understand me. Nobody ever gave me a chance like she did, and look what I did! I sent the only

person who ever actually care to the shadows. To make things worse, I was controlling her mind

since we got out of the hospital. Even under my mind control, she cared about you so much that

she was able to break free.”

Marik shook his head.

“Malik, what you did was stupid. Controlling her mind was even stupider. I learned a long time

ago that you might be able to control a person’s mind, but their heart can’t be controlled.”

Malik nodded,

“I know that now. And I promise I’ll do everything in my power to get OUR girlfriend back. I

also promise I’ll never turn on you again Marik......my light.”

Marik smiled.

“And I promise I’ll have Bakura kick your ass if you ever get stupid again.”

Bakura smiled mischievousl
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“I’ll be more than happy to do the honors, Ishtar”

Malik put his hand on his lights shoulder and nodded.

“Let’s go find Yami.”

Marik put his arm around Malik as they began walking back into the club.

“Yes, let’s do that.”

“Kaiba is not going to be happy about this” Tany groaned to Ryou as they went inside.

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Yami stood up so fast, the amplifier he had been seated on fell over.

“You sent Caroline to the Shadow Realm? What the hell were you thinking Ishtar!”

Malik bit his lip nervously,

“I.....uh.....didn’t exactly send her there purposely, Yami.”

Yami rolled his eyes as he stood the amp back up and sat on it.

“Well you’ve certainly fucked up this time. The longer she’s there, the harder it will be to find her

and bring her back. We can’t exactly give her a call and tell her to wait for us infront of the 7-11.

Besides that, our lights have a show to do tonight. If we go to the Shadow Realm and something

were to happen to us, you know as well as I do that our lights would pay the ultimate price. The

Shadow Realm is very dangerous”

“You think I don’t know that Yami! Damn it! I’ll go by myself, fuck it! I’m the one that got

myself into this, I’ll be the one to fix it.” Malik shouted.

“What you’re considering is very perilous, I wouldn’t advise you go about this on your own.”

Yami said sternly.

“Well I can’t just sit around doing nothing.” Marik growled.

Yami nodded his head,

“I understand how you feel, but you know how going alone into the Shadow Realm is even more

dangerous than stuffing your dick into an automatic meat grinder. We can go try to find her after

the show, okay? I don’t want you going alone.”

Malik grit his teeth and punched the wall.

“Damn it! I can’t wait Yami! I have to get her back, I owe it to Marik!”

“Malik, listen to me......don’t you also owe Marik his safety? If you go alone, there’s a big

possibility that you will never return, taking Marik with you. Please Malik, wait until after the

show. I’ll talk to Bakura and see if he’ll come with us. With three of us searching, I can almost

promise you we’ll be able to bring Caroline back.”

Malik took a deep breath and nodded his head slowly.

“Fine. After the show.”


“Malik! Hey, I was looking for you! I need to ask you something!” Marik shouted from across the

room. He made his way quickly over to Malik and Yami. Yugi was not far behind him, carrying

his guitar.

“Malik.....would you do a song with me tonight?”

Malik screwed up his face

“What? Why?”

Marik grabbed Maliks arm,

“Just come on, You’ll do fine.”

Yugi smiled brightly at Yami as he sat next to him on the amplifier.

“Yami? Can you help out on guitars tonight? Ryou and Marik had this really cool idea for our last

song, but we need our darks’ to help us.”

Yami raised an eyebrow and cocked his head.

“I can try......I can’t guarantee Ill be any good though Yugi.”

“Awesome! I’ll show you what you have to do.” Yugi exclaimed as he handed Yami his guitar.


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“Okay, Bakura, you think you can handle this?” Ryou ask his dark nervously.

“No shit I can handle it. You act like I never played fucking drums before.” Bakura scoffed.

Ryou laughed sarcastically,

“Uh, Bakura? You haven’t. I’m the drummer, your an evil tomb robbing spirit that lives in a

fucking old piece of jewelry.”

Bakura rolled his eyes,

“Yeah, yeah, whatever. I’ll have you know I played drums back in Egypt. I was good too!”

Ryou smiled warmly at Bakura.

“I’m just giving you shit. I believe you. I just want this performance to go on without a hitch.

Marik really feels that if he includes Malik in on our performances he’ll realize how much we all

appreciate him.”

Bakura pouted out his bottem lip playfully,

“What about me? Are you planning on showing me how much I’M appreciated?”

Ryou rolled his eyes,

“Yes, infact......I’ll show you right now!”

Ryou lunged forward at Bakura and tackled him. They both started wrestling around like 12 year

old boys and laughing all the while they did so.

Malik followed Marik up onto the stage nervously.

“Do you really think I’ll be able to do this?” Malik ask nervously.

“Oh hell yes. All you need to remember is have fun. Sure everybody’s going to be staring at you,

but who cares! Suck it up! Show them what you’re made of!”

Malik nodded his head. He paused at stared down at his shiney black boots. “Marik? You know

you don’t have to do this.”

Marik just shrugged it off,

“Hey, it’ll be fun.”

Malik couldn’t believe how kind Marik was being after all he’d put him through. He just stared at

his light in disbelief.

“Yo guys! Better get off the stage, doors open in 5 minutes!” Joey shouted.

The guys walked slowly off stage and headed for their dressing room. As they reached the door,

they could hear Kaiba yelling from clear across the building.

“He did WHAT!” Kaiba’s voiced echoed through the building.


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