Carved in Stone

Surprise!

            Mokuba tossed a half eaten slice of cold pizza back into the take out box and made a
sour face.

“Yuck” he muttered to himself as grabbed a can of grape soda off the elegant oak end table next
to the couch.

Noa glanced at the open phone book on his lap as he dialed the phone.

“I hope Duke answers” Mokuba chuckled as he sipped his soda..

Noa sank back into the sofa as the phone began to ring.

{High Rollers, Duke speaking.}

Noa took a deep breath and tried hard to not laugh. He covered the mouthpiece with his hand.
“It’s Duke” he whispered to his younger half brother as he pressed the speaker phone button.

Noa cleared his throat.

 “Hello, is Mike there?”

{Mike who?}

“..Rotch” Noa replied, covering his mouth to prevent himself from laughing.

{I’ll ask, hold on.......Hey! There’s a guy on the phone looking for Mike Rotch, Has anybody
seen Mike Rotch today?}

Mokuba covered his face with a pillow and burst out laughing. It took a massive amount of
Noa’s will power to not do the same.

{Sorry dude, no dice. I can’t find Mike Rotch anywhere......uh.....what the fu-HEY! Who the hell
is this!}

“Oh, sorry, wrong number!” Noa laughed as he abruptly disconnected the call.

Mokuba sat up laughing hysterically and wacked Noa over the head with a pillow.

“You’re crazy Noa! That was hilarious!”

Noa caught the pillow. His eyes were teary from laughing so hard.

“I’ve never done that before, that was fun.”

Mokuba picked up the phone book and took a few deep breaths as he looked up a name. After he
had regained his composure he dialed a number.

“You thought that was funny? Check this one out.” he whispered away from the mouthpiece.

Noa sat at the edge of the sofa watching Mokuba enthusiastically.

Mokuba’s eyes flickered with mischief as a person answered. He quickly pressed the speaker
phone button so that Noa could listen in.

{The Pizza Place, How may I help you?} a male voice answered.

Mokuba grinned at Noa as he cleared his throat.

“Uh, yes, my name’s Harry, Harry Blubauls, with whom am I.uh... speaking to?”

Noa covered his mouth with the pillow and snickered into it. To disguise his voice, Mokuba had
lowered his voice and made himself sound like a really dumb hillbilly.

{This is Roy} The man on the other line answered.

Mokuba winked at Noa.

“I’m uh....cawlin’ ‘bout a pizza. My brother and I had ordered one of your fancy ass super
supreme cheese pizzas earlier this afternoon, and uh..... that shit ‘dun made us sicker than dogs!
Weez just spent two hours in the hospital thanks to yar rotten nasty shit rich folk food! I want my
money back you scumbag!”

{You got the pizza here? Are you sure?}

“Skuze me? Are you cawlin’ me stupid? I’ll tell you what mister! My momma din’t raise no
dummy! I know when when I’m gettin’ screwed, and you folks ‘dun screwed me bigtime!”

{I’m not calling you stupid sir, I’m sorry. We have six other locations around the city and I was
just asking if it was possible that you may have visited one of the other establishments.}

“You really think I’d call the wrong damned pizza joint? I’m insulted!”

{I’m sorry sir, I didn’t mean to mock your intelligence.}

“I sure as hell hope you ain’t! If you are......oooh......I’d send my cousin’s over to your stank ass
place and have them teach you’s a lesson! Now, how’s about you givin’ me my money back for
selling me an overripe pizza?”

{I’m sorry sir, I can’t do that}

“What! I’s just spent the past two hours retching up the most disgusting things out of every
orifice because of your food, and you won’t gimmie my money back? I’m callin’ my lawyer! I’m
not asking you to pay the hospital bill here! The colors that were shooting out of me! Lordy it
was hideous! Blues, and greens, and reds.......chunks of turquoise! I thought I was dyin’! I saved
that shit as evidence!”

{ Yeah, but sir....}

“Yeahbuts living in the woods you dufus. Now I want my money back, no yeah buts ‘bout it boy!
Have you ever had your stomach pumped? You know what them there doctors do to you when
you get your stomach pumped? They stuff this tube up through your.....oooooh! I can’t even
think about it! The pain! It was terrible! I hope you all burn in hell for what you dun to my
brother and I! Neither of us’ll be able to fuck for at least a month! You ever gone without sex for
a month?”

Noa couldn’t help but notice how ‘good’ Mokuba was at this. He handled the call like a
professional actor. The goofy voice he was using sounded nothing like his own. He continued to
badger the confused pizza place worker until the guy finally hung up on him.

Mokuba and Noa laughed hysterically after the call. The two of them were in tears from
laughing so hard at their antics.

“I just had a really good idea.......I’m calling Duke again.” Mokuba grinned.

      

 

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            Ryou could feel Malik’s warm body snuggled tightly next to him. He could feel every
breath Malik took rising and falling against his back. The air in thom wom was warm and still.
Ryou could smell lingering sweet scent of the oil Malik had rubbed into his skin the night prior.
Almost all traces of his sunburn were gone now, in fact, after staring at his arm for a while, Ryou
thought he looked a little tan. He glanced over at the night stand at the alarm clock and looked at
the time. It was only a little passed seven o’clock. David had mentioned to Ryou that he was
coming to pick them up around ten, so Ryou had plenty of time yet to exercise what he’d read in
his Kama Sutra book. Ryou slipped quietly out of bed and went to brush his teeth. Morning
breath was something he didn’t want to share with Malik. After brushing his teeth and running a
hair brush through his hair, Ryou snuck back into bed with sleeping Malik. He looked over
Malik’s angelic face and smiled. Slowly, Ryou peeled away the blanket covering Malik’s waist.
He wanted to wake Malik up his own special way. Ryou kneeled between Malik’s legs and
lowered his head. Ryou wrapped his hand around the base of Malik’s shaft and using the blade
of his tongue, began to lick upward. Ryou licked up one side and than down the other.

Malik moaned lightly in his sleep. His hand twitched slightly as Ryou kissed and nibbled lightly
on the sides of Malik’s growing arousal.

Ryou loved watching Malik’s face. He looked up at Malik as he took the head of Malik’s shaft
into his mouth. He moved it around in his mouth using his tongue, stimulating Malik even
though he was sleeping. He watched Malik make an array of amusing sex faces as he engulfed
the entire length of the Egyptians growing manhood. Malik moaned again as he started waking
up to Ryou’s surprise.

Ryou’s stopped half way as Malik’s eyes opened and started sucking vigorously. Malik dug his
fingers into the sheets below him and sucked in a deep breath between his teeth. His entire body
stiffened as Ryou sucked him rock hard.

“That’s...amazing....Malik whimpered between clenched teeth. Ryou slid his lips upward and
kissed the tip tenderly.

“Morning Sunshine” he chuckled as he massaged the rigid shaft in his hand with his thumb.

“Yes......” Malik shivered as Ryou wrapped his lips around the tip of his manhood and began to
flick his tongue over the bundle of nerves.

Malik’s senses were exploding with need. He thrust his hips upward in hopes to gain more contact
with Ryou’s warm mouth. Ryou gripped firmly onto Malik’s hip with his free hand as he stroked
him with the other. Malik reached over and laced his fingers in Ryou’s white hair.

“You’re so hot Ryou Bakura.”

Ryou chuckled as he took Malik’s entire length into his mouth. The vibrations of his laugh sent
shivers through Malik’s body. Ryou could feel the pressure building inside Malik, so he slowly
pulled his lips away.

Malik whined in protest from the loss of contact with his lover’s mouth.

Ryou grinned as he licked his finger and slowly inserted it into Malik’s rear entrance.

Malik’s whines turned into whimpers as Ryou prepped him for what was yet to come. Ryou
inserted a second, and than a third finger , eliciting an even louder whimper from hiithiithing
partner.

Ryou stopped and looked up at Malik’s face.

“I’m not hurting you, am I?”

Malik bit down on his bottom lip and clenched his eyes shut.

“A little bit......but don’t stop.....it’ll feel better soon.”

Ryou pulled his fingers out of Malik and rose to his knees.

 Malik brought his legs up and wrapped them around Ryou’s shoulders. He crossed his ankles
behind Ryou’s head. Ryou slowly pressed himself inside of Malik, taking his time to make sure
he was giving as much pleasure as he was receiving. He slowly began to move in and out of his
needy lover. Ryou threw his head back and cried out as Malik’s tight heat wrapped around his
arousal. He quickened his rhythm and thrust deeper into Malik. Malik squeezed his eyes shut and
rocked his hips against Ryou’s.

“Oh Ryou, that feels so good! Harder, harder!” He moaned as Ryou repeatedly struck his
prostrate, sending shockwaves of pleasure through his lithe body.

Ryou grabbed Malik’s ankles and ran his hands slowly down Malik’s long legs. Malik continued
to squeeze his ankles tightly together around Ryou’s neck. Ryou lightly raked his fingernails
down Malik’s chest, leaving light red welts in the wake. Malik’s body twitched with his pending
orgasm. He grabbed two fist fulls of his creamy blond hair and growled under his breath.

“Fuck me hard, Ryou, HARDER!”

Ryou plunged his himself harder and deeper inside of Malik to the point where he could barely
breath. He stroked Malik’s throbbing manhood vigorously to help draw out his release. Ryou’s
body couldn’t handle anymore and with one final deep thrust, he screamed Malik’s name as he
spilled his essence inside of the blond. Malik felt his body tingle as his release shot out onto his
chest. Ryou leaned over and eagerly started licked the salty fluid off of Malik.

“Mmm, Malik......” Ryou moaned as he licked up the last drops.

Malik pulled Ryou up into a passionate kiss, tasting the salty left over remnants of their passion
on Ryou’s soft, supple lips.

“I love you Ryou” Malik said softly against Ryou’s lips.

Ryou smiled brightly and nipped at Malik’s lower lip.

“And I love you, Malik Ishtar.”

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            Tristan stared into the intense emerald eyes gazing back at him. A thin film of sweat
covered his forehead as he and Duke fought for dominance in an old fashioned arm wrestling
match on top the pin ball game. Duke let out an agonizing growl as Tristan let out a final grunt
and slammed Duke’s hand down.

“H win win!” Tristan grinned triumphantly.

Duke rubbed his knuckles and made a sour face.

“Yeah, yeah. I let you win, Taylor. Next time I won’t let you off so easy.”

Tristan rolled his eyes as he made his way behind the bar and poured himself a mixed drink.

“If that’s what you want to think, buddy” Tristan chuckled as he picked up a white dish cloth
and wiped off the bar.

Duke propped his chin up with his hand on the pin ball game and groaned.

“I could really go for a buzz right now.”

Tristan sipped his mixed drink and sighed.

“You just got high an hour ago, dude.”

Duke scratched his head. “Oh yeah.......I guess I did.”

Tristan looked at the clock and groaned.

“I wonder when that new bartender you hired is going to show up. I was really hoping on getting
out of here by five o’ clock so I could talk to Boom Boom Blackmore about selling me his 1972
Chevy Monte Carlo with the 454 engine and duel four barrel aluminum intake. The one that
throws flames out the exhaust.”

Duke perked up and joined Tristan behind the bar.

“You mean Boom Boom the smelly old hippie that lives in a parked school bus out in the
woods?”

Tristan nodded his head.

“Yeah man, he said he’d cut me a good deal. I told him I’d meet him in the beer tent before the
races tonight.”

Duke shrugged his shoulders.

“I can stay here tonight, you go ahead. I know how much that car means to you.”

Tristan’s face lit up with excitement. He threw his arms around Duke and kissed him on the lips.

“You’re the best, dude. Thanks!”

Duke grabbed a bag of cheesy popcorn off of a rack next to the cash register and pulled up a seat
behind the bar.

“No prob. I’d rather stay here tonight anyway.”

Tristan grabbed his jacket off of a hook on the wall and pulled it on.

“Mind if I take your Harley? My Honda is running like shit.”

Duke grabbed a chocolate bar from the candy rack and tore the wrapper open with his teeth. He
pointed to his set of keys that were laying on top of a shelf beneath the bar.

“Go ahead, just don’t fuck it up man. I just had it detailed.”

Tristan grabbed Tristan’s keys and headed out the door quickly.

“Don’t worry, I’ll bring your baby back in one piece. Later dude!”

“Yeah, later” Duke sighed as he got up from his seat and walked into the newly added kitchen
located through a door behind the bar.

“Hey Duke, you’re sure looking all bummed out tonight, is something the matter?” Geraldine,
more commonly known as Jeree, the top notch cook Duke had hired to run the newly added
dining area, ask sweetly.

Duke poured himself a cup of steaming hot fresh coffee and smiled at the friendly middle aged
woman who wore white-blond hair up in a cute little pony tail.

“It’s nothing Jeree, I’m just a little tired tonight.”

Jeree patted Duke on the back and smiled up at him.

“Aw, I wish I could help you out, but I don’t know jack about mixing drinks.”

Duke pulled the smaller woman into an affectionate hug and laughed.

“Don’t worry about it sweetheart, you just stick to doing what you do back here. I have yet to
hear any complaints about your cooking.”

Jeree blushed because of Duke’s compliment and lightly chuckled.

As Duke took a sip of his coffee, the phone began to ring.

Jeree winked playfully at Duke as she started walking toward the storage room.

“If you need to talk honey, I’ll be here.

Duke nodded his head as he went to answer the phone.

“I’ll keep that in mind” he answered her before he picked up the receiver.

“High Rollers, Duke speaking.”

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            Malik and Ryou cuddled up next to each other and relaxed after their little early morning
romp between the sheets. They knew they had to get out of bed, but they didn’t really want to.
The warm sun laid out a choppy blanket of light over them as is crept in through the window
blinds. Malik stretched his arms above his head and yawned. The sun reflected off his gold wrist
bands and cast funny shapes on the ceiling. He chuckled as he made the reflections dance around
on the ceiling.

Ryou watched Malik’s little light show and giggled at Malik’s commentary.

“Come here my little orb of light, don’t run away from me!” he laughed as he made one circular
reflection chase the other. “AHHH! Noooo! The darkness is taking me! Help! Help! Ahhhhh! ”
he continued on playfully as he flicked his wrist and made one of the orbs of light disappear.

Ryou reached up and grabbed Malik’s hand. He brought it up to his lips and kissed Malik’s
knuckles.

“You’re so cute Malik, but we better get our lazy rear ends out of bed before my father returns to
pick us up.”

Malik propped himself up on his elbows and nodded his head.

“I hope I can remember how to get out to that oasis again.”

Ryou sat up and swung his long legs over the edge of the bed.

“I’m sure you will. If you don’t, Marik will remind you.”

Malik nodded his head as he watched Ryou pull on a white button up shirt.

“M’hm.....hey, did that stuff I bought you work on your sunburn?” he ask curiously as he
admired his perfectly bronzed legs.

Ryou looked back at Malik and smiled.

“Yes, it worked phenomenally! It doesn’t even feel as if I was ever burned. Thank you very
much, Malik.”

Malik waved his hand in front of his face and shrugged his shoulders.

“It was nothing.”

Ryou pulled on a pair of shorts and sat down on the bed to put on his socks and shoes. Malik
quickly gathered his own clothes and put them on. Just as Malik and Ryou finished dressing,
Ryou’s father knocked at their hotel door.

“It’s open” Malik yelled as he put in his earring.

David walked into the room looking very tired. He hard dark circles under his eyes, and he
looked like he was lacking greatly in the sleep department.

Ryou walked up to his father and gave him a big hug.

“Hello father, are you feeling alright? You look a bit disheveled this morning.”

David rubbed his eyes and sighed as he sat on the bed.

“Just sleepy. Are you boys ready to go?”

Malik and Ryou nodded their heads as they gathered their belongings.

David looked on the floor next to the bed and noticed a book had fallen under the bed. He picked
up the book and read the title, “The Kama Sutra.”

A big grin swept over his face and he handed it to Ryou.

“I don’t think you’ll want to forget this, son.”

Ryou took the book from his father and blushed as he stuffed it into the bag he was carrying.

Malik burst out laughing.

“No Ryou, you can’t forget that! We need that for later!”

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            Yami stared at his son’s angelic face and studied it from every angle. There was no doubt
in Yami’s mind that this was his son. The baby boy had the same crimson eyes and defined
facial features as he did. Yami could also see the Ishtar in his son, Solon resembled his uncle
Malik quite a bit. He had bright blond hair that was exactly the shade of his uncle’s. As much as
Yami didn’t like to think about it, he and Malik were related, and there was no way to it. it.
He held his small, sleeping son close to his chest and listened to the delicate child breathing
deeply in his arms. Yami closed his eand and sighed. He knew his time with Solon was limited.
Isis was only visiting, and had plans to leave the next day with Solon back to Egypt. It bothered
Yami that he’d already missed out on the first five months of his offspring’s life. He felt strongly
compelled to try to be part of Solon’s life. He wanted part in raising him. He didn’t want his son
feeling neglected by his father. Yami knew he only had one option if he was going to a major
part of Solon’s life: to go back to Egypt.

Yami opened his eyes and glanced over at Yugi and Isis. They were both sitting at the kitchen
table looking at photographs. For the first time in months, Yami opened up their mind link.

//Aibou......I need to speak with you about something.//

//What’s wrong?// Yugi replied casually through their link.

//I’d rather talk with you about it tonight after we go to bed. Do you think you could wrap things
up down here?//

//Yeah, sure Yami. Anything you want.// Yugi responded.

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            On the drive out to the oasis, David explained to Malik and Ryou what he knew about
early Mesopotamia. Ryou brought up the information Bakura had mentioned about a king named
Malik, and his father acknowledged the validity of the existence of the ancient king, though it
wasn’t common knowledge. The only reason he’d heard of the ancient king was because he’d
been fortunate enough to be part of an excavation team digging at Nineveh that found some
ancient cuneiform tablets containing the name back in the 1960's. After a long drive out into the
desert, they finally spotted the oasis. David parked the truck they were riding in under a tree and
they all piled out. David followed Malik and Ryou as they sprinted toward where they had seen
the stone markers.

“Over here, father!” Ryou waved excitedly.

David rushed over and gaped at the ancient stones.

“Simply amazing” David gasp as he ran his fingers over the headstones. He looked at the ancient
writing and studied it.

“Hey Malik, come here please.” Ryou shouted.

Ryou looked up after he didn’t receive a response and noticed Malik was nowhere in site

“Malik?” Ryou called out again, a little louder this time.

“Over here!” Malik finally answered as he came running out from a cluster of trees. He quickly
made his way over to Ryou.

“Sorry, I had some business to attend to.” Malik chuckled.

Suddenly David looked up with shock written all over his face.

“Father, what is it?” Ryou ask curiously.

David just shook his head from side to side.

“I don’t believe this, these tablets contain both Sumerian and Babylonian words. This site may
be helpful in finding what connected these two ancient civilizations.”

Malik cocked his head curiously as he crouched down next to Ryou.

“Who were the Babylonians?”

David chuckled as he brushed off some sand covering a partially hidden tablet buried in the
sand.

“They were a very rich civilization who had a lot of interaction with the Egyp- oh my, what’s
this?”

David brushed off the rest of the sand from the ancient tablet and stared at it in amazement.

“I don’t believe this! This tablet is written in cuneiform!”

Ryou and Malik both poked their heads over David’s shoulders and looked on as David did his
best to translate the ancient words for them.

“I think it says, ‘Light reveals darkness, morning ends the night.......”

David stopped suddenly. “Damn, I’ll have to bring this back to camp to translate it all. Can you
boys help me carry this back to the truck?”

Ryou and Malik nodded their heads and they leaned over to help David lift the heavy stone tablet
out of the desert sands. Suddenly Malik fainted for no reason at all.

David and Ryou set the tablet down and rushed to his side.

“Malik!” Ryou shouted as he kneeled next to his fallen friend.

Malik wasn’t responding though.

David quickly scooped Malik up and carried him back to the truck. He laid him down on the
front seat. Ryou hovered over Malik nervously as David an back to retrieve the stone tablet.
Fortunately, Malik regained consciousness after a couple of minutes.

“Where......what.......?” he moaned as he opened his eyes.

“I love you Malik, I was so scared.” Ryou exclaimed as he kissed Malik’s forehead.

Malik slowly sat up and put his hand on his head.

“Ryou? What happened? Everything suddenly went black, and I can’t remember a damn thing.”

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I finally got around to posting this, sorry I’m late. It seems to be my hobby......grrr......Anyway,

I wanted to get it up quick, so please excuse my typo’s. I’ll be fixing up the boo boo’s in this
chapter later tonight. Just a reminder: if you can’t access Aff.net, check
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