Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ The Mary-Sue Invasion ❯ The Great Escape ( Chapter 4 )

Wow. This chapter turned out pretty long. ^^There's nothing of the girls in this, I decided that this is long enough without them. They'll come back in the next chapter - unfortunately.

Disclaimer: No no no… Don't own. Go away. (Talking to the lawyers here, not to the readers. ^^)

~*~

Chapter 4: The Great Escape

There are some places in the world, even in the densely populated countries like Japan, of which no one has ever heard about, small one-horse towns leading their own lives separate from the surrounding world and quite forgotten by it.

This town, not so far away from Domino City, was one of those places. Trying to remember the town's name Anzu stared sleepily out of the car window at the silent streets on which no one was walking - well, it was way past midnight, anyway. The journey had gone fine, surprisingly fine keeping in mind who was driving their car. Of course, there was a good explanation for this. Mokuba, who was currently sleeping soundly, head on his brother's lap (who was also still fast asleep) and feet on Anzu's, had refused to tell Mai exactly where they were going, and so she had been forced to follow Yuugi's grandfather who really didn't seem to be in any hurry to reach their destination. The only problem with this was that it made Mai extremely grumpy, and they had traveled in chilly silence.

Well, I guess that's better than to be traveling towards a hospital with sirens hooting, Anzu thought with a small smile.

They saw Sugoroku turning into the yard of an old wooden two-story house. Mouth set in an angry line Mai pressed her foot on the accelerator speeding up as she followed him. For one mad moment Anzu was afraid that she was going to crash into Grandpa's van, but just then Mai moved her foot to the brake. The tires screeched angrily, Mokuba almost fell down to the legroom, and Isis very nearly hit her head against the windshield as the car suddenly stopped, just few inches - or so it seemed to the passengers - behind Grandpa's van.

Mai flung her door open and stomped away from the car without a word. Outside, Sugoroku and Shizuka gave her a long look but wisely said nothing. In silence they began to carry the boys into the house.

"This is a big place," Shizuka whispered softly looking around in awe. The hall really was the size of a biggish room, and the living room that could be seen through the door seemed to be quite huge. There was very little furniture in the rooms, which probably made them appear even bigger.

Mokuba snorted quietly. "If you think this is big, you really should see the Kaiba Mansion. Although…" his eyes darted to the stairs that lead to the upstairs, and a strange gleam lit up in them, "I bet there's a lot of interesting stuff up there in the attic…"

"There might be," Mai said, "but why don't you make yourself useful and keep the cellar door open, I don't want to stand here all day - or night - carrying these." She grunted a little as she tried to get a little better hold of Honda. "Honestly, they don't look this heavy…" she muttered, still feeling quite cranky. The one time she got behind the wheel in a limo like that… Life really wasn't fair.

"Sure." Mokuba dashed to the door and kept it open as the others carried the boys to the cellar. They had decided that that would be the best place to keep them; it was relatively dry and warm place for a cellar and, most importantly, it had a door that could be locked. They had some blankets with them, so that boys wouldn't have to lie on the bare ground, and besides that, few handcuffs and chains. Anzu and Shizuka had at first opposed such 'extreme measures', as they put it, but finally they too had agreed that it was quite reasonable.

After they had the boys chained as securely as possible they left them to sleep the drug away and went, finally, to bed as well.

~

Once the morning came, Sugoroku was the first to wake up. He had always been an early riser, and the older he got, the less sleep he seemed to need. He left the others to sleep and found his way to the kitchen that luckily was equipped with a working refrigerator. After having a quick breakfast, he decided to go to see how the boys were doing. Anyway, they probably were awake by now and they would need breakfast too.

The door creaked a little as he stepped into the cellar, where he was immediately greeted with a chorus of angry voices.

"What in Ra's name you think you're doing?!" Yami bellowed shaking his fist, as Seto sprung to his feet, demanding to be freed at once, or otherwise he'd make sure that the Kame Game Shop would be ruined for good. Jou was shouting something about treacherous backstabbing friends, accompanied by Honda (well, Sugoroku found it a little comforting that they were for once on the same side of an argument), Malik was describing quite graphically what he was going to do to his captors at the first chance (he had clearly been hanging around his yami too much lately - although, how'd he be able to avoid that?). Bakura was threatening the old man with the Shadow Realm, and even Ryou informed him with determination that, although he was in principle against violence, he would not hesitate to do what ever was needed to get back to his love. The only one quiet was Yuugi; he was crying. Every now and then he stopped the waterworks for a moment to sob quietly "I want my Aurora…"

Sugoroku stared at them with a growing headache. "I…"

"…to treat a Pharaoh like this! If you imagine that Nightfall will let you get away with this…"

"… and after that I'll rip off your limbs one by one and roast them on a fire!"

The headache was really getting bad. He rubbed a little his temples, frowning at the boys. "Be qu…"

"…finally found someone to love and then my friends…"

"Be QUIET for a moment, will you!" Quite miraculously, everyone did fell silent. Sugoroku sighed as he watched them. If this is going to continue for long, I'll go nuts… "We are just trying to help you," he said slowly and soothingly. "After a couple of days…" He blinked.

The eye of Horus had flashed on Yami's forehead. Faster than one would have believed a man of his age to be able to move, he rushed out of the cellar, just when he heard Yami's voice from behind him.

"MIND CR…" The cellar door slammed shut.

"Oh my." He leaned against the door, feeling his heart beat wildly - a little too wildly. I really don't need shocks like that…

"What…?"

He turned to look and saw Isis, Mai and Mokuba staring at him with wide eyes.

He took a deep breath. "They're awake," he said nodding faintly towards the cellar door.

~*~

In the cellar, eight pairs of eyes stared at the door in sullen silence. Soon the silence was broken with a loud crash, Seto had thrown an old broken vase against the opposite wall. As if that had been a mark they had agreed on, everyone began to mutter aloud.

"…ruin them for live, that's what I'll do…"

"I can't believe this…"

"…backstabbing, treacherous…"

"I want my Aurora!"

"I can't believe this. I just can't believe this. I can't…"

"Be quiet, Pharaoh, I believe you with one saying."

"Don't talk to me like that, tomb thief."

"Hn. And what are you going to do about it?"

"…pop out their eyes and make them…"

"Baka."

"You're one to talk."

"…double-crossing, deceitful, traitorous, dishonest…"

"I don't have time to lose on the likes of you. I have to come up with a way to get back to my beloved Nightfall… I just can't believe…"

"You've said that already."

"Shut up tomb thief. I'm trying to think here."

"...I'm gonna skin them alive…"

"Think quietly then, if you can."

"…disloyal, false, untrue…"

"Hn. You have a larger vocabulary than I'd have believed, mutt."

"It's not nice to do such things to others but if they don't let us go soon, I'll help you."

"…devious, perfidious, fraudulent…"

"Much larger…"

"…lying false-hearted bastards!"

"I want my Aurora…"

"Finally!"

Yami's eyes snapped to Bakura. "What do you mean fi…" The said eyes widened. "You're free!"

"Indeed. Did you really think it'd be a problem for me to pick this lock?" He threw the handcuffs away. "Although your constant babbling did make it difficult…" He walked to the door and looked at it thoughtfully. Suddenly the room was totally quiet, even Yuugi's sobbing had ceased.

"Say, tomb th… umm, Bakura, could you pick my lock too?"

"Why?" Bakura kept on examining the door.

"Well… surely you wouldn't leave me here… We're both Egyptians, anyway."

"Hey, I'm also Egyptian! Could you pick my lock too?"

Bakura was pushing the door slightly, trying the lock. Damn. I think they have barred this from the outside… "I don't really understand why I'd do it," he said to Yami and Malik. "Maybe you should learn to do it by yourself. Now you have good time to practice."

Everyone started to speak at once.

"Come on now, baka tomb thief! I'll give you whatever cards from my deck you want…"

"I'll give you enough money to buy all the cards you'd ever want!"

"You can have my Rod if you want to… although I don't seem to have it now with me…"

"Surely you'd help your own hikari…"

"I'll give you Mr. Feathers…"

"I'll give you Yuki!" [1]

Jou and Honda were desperately trying to come up with something they had that might interest Bakura. Unfortunately, they didn't face any success.

"…gold and diamonds…"

"Yuki and Dark Magician!"

Bakura sighed and rolled his eyes. "Shut up now." He turned to glare at others. "If I want money, I'll steal it, and the same goes for cards. I don't have any use for rods or stuffed animals either… All I want is to get back to my Black Pearl."

"But maybe we could help you in that!" Yami leaned forward as much as his chains allowed him to. "You see, if we all escape at the same time, you'll have a much better chance to fly, since they have to try to catch us all!"

Bakura thought about that for a moment. "Good point," he admitted finally, albeit reluctantly. He walked to Yami and started to work on his chains.

He was just picking the lock of Yuugi's handcuffs when they heard some noise from the other side of the door. All others but Yuugi and Jou were already freed. They had been wondering how they'd get the door open, but now everyone fell silent, listening carefully.

"Hey!" Mai's voice. "If we open the door to bring you some food, do you promise not to use your shadow powers against us? …As far as I'm concerned, you could very well fast for a few days, but the others want to feed you…"

Yami blinked. What a chance. "Of course we promise," he shouted quickly. "What good would it bring, anyway, to mind crush you if we're still in chains?"

There was a moment's silence, during which they could hear silent voices from the other side. Bakura finished quickly his work with Yuugi's lock.

"Hey!" Jou whispered fervently, rattling his chains a little. "Don't forget me!"

Just then the door creaked open. "Sorry, fella!" Bakura shouted as he ran with the others towards the gateway to freedom. For a split second shock registered on Mai's face, then she was pretty much run over.

"Don't leave me here, guys!" Jou yelled after them, but he received no response.

"Shit." He fell down to sit on the floor, tugging his chains halfheartedly. "Backstabbing, treacherous…" He sighed. "So unlike my Maryann."

"To the outdoor!" Yami was shouting, pointing at the said door.

"I see it very well, thank you," Bakura muttered, dashing past him.

"What…" Sugoroku and Anzu appeared by the living room's door, carrying food. It took a small moment for them to realize what was going on… Mai was lying on the floor, shrieking 'Catch them!', and a bunch of boys was running out of the cellar like horses to summer pasture. The moment wasn't long, though. Dropping the trays they snatched Yuugi just when he ran out of the door and pushed him back to the cellar slamming the door shut behind him.

"Hey!" Yuugi scrambled back to his feet and banged the door with his fists. "Let me out of here! Let me out! Yami! Yami, help me!"

Unfortunately his yami was running far from the house at the moment.

"Damn, damn, damn, damn, damn!" Mai jumped up from the floor. "I knew this was going a little too easily…" The others had already run after the boys, and quickly she too sprinted after them.

~

He really, really, really didn't understand why he had agreed to buy his daughter a dog as a birthday present. Not that he had anything against dogs in general, and he had to admit that this one was quite a nice little puppy, but… he should have known that after few weeks she would grow tired of taking care of it. Well, of course she did take care of it most of the time, but if the dog, say, relieved itself on the kitchen floor, she would hardly be the one to clean it up, or if the dog decided that it really had to have a walk around six am, she only tugged her blankets tighter around herself.

So, here he was, walking in the empty streets on a Sunday morning, when all sensible people were still fast asleep, with a dog that just couldn't seem to be able to decide what bush would be suitable for its uses. Honestly, he hadn't known that dogs could be this picky.

"Hurry up, will you," he muttered, trying to sound stern, but now that he had woken completely up, he really wasn't that angry anymore. The small dog sniffling busily in the bushes was cute, he had to admit that, and it was a beautiful morning. Everything bathed in the soft light of the first rays of the sun, the birds were singing and the air was fresh… He inhaled deeply. Yes, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing, after all, to be up this early…

"…Catch them…!"

He blinked. What was that? As if someone… The door of an old house that had been abandoned for long was suddenly flung open and a group of teenage boys ran out of it. He stopped on his heels staring in bewilderment as three girls, one young boy and an old man dashed out of the door as well, running after the boys who had scattered on the streets… two of them running actually towards him.

"Out of my way!"

A tri-color haired boy with a wild look in his eyes darted past him giving him a shove in the process. He stumbled a little and stared after the boy. There had been some weird picture on his forehead… but… it had seemed to glow… Where did the young people get tattoos like that?

"Don't block the road, idiot!"

Another boy ran past him giving him an angry glare, since he and the dog were pretty effectively blocking the pavement. Hastily he drew the barking dog closer to himself. "Sorry…" he found himself muttering. The boy's glare had really been what he called unnerving.

"Wait niisama!"

He backed away from the pavement as he saw the young boy running towards him with a brown haired girl. The girl flashed him an apologetic smile as she passed him. "I'm sorry, sir, we're having some problems…"

He nodded dumbly after the girl, not knowing what to say - and not having time to say anything in any case.

He could see the wild-eyed and wild-haired boy glancing over his shoulder at his pursuers.

"You'd better stay away from me or I'll send your souls to the Shadow Realm for eternity!"

He blinked. This whole affair was starting to feel quite unreal. He couldn't help but wonder whether he was really awake, or still lying in his bed having some weird dream. I knew I ate all too much yesterday, he thought absentmindedly.

Just as he was going to continue his way one more girl, this one with beautiful blond hair, sprang out of the house.

"I'm going to show you Shadow Realm, baka Pharaoh," he heard her muttering as she passed him.

For a moment he stared after them and shook then slowly his head. He had never realized how weirdly people acted this early. Next time he would just tug the blankets around himself too… maybe his wife would take care of the dog from now on.

~

Bakura glanced over his shoulder while running. Good. It seemed that he had managed to lose his pursuer - which really hadn't been difficult at all. The lil' sister of the Pharaoh's guard dog really wasn't anything compared to the soldiers he had used to fool in ancient Egypt.

He kept on running for a while just for sure before slowing down. Great. He was free. Maybe he'd someday get his revenge on those who had dared to imprison him, but for now he would have to go to see how his pretty Pearl was doing. It had been over half a day since he'd last seen her… Seen the beautiful black hair flowing in the wind, the deep dark eyes which held the greatest mysteries the world had ever known, the flawless alabaster skin that was so soft to touch… Oh, how he longed to run his fingers through that hair, feel the silky locks again…

He sighed dreamily. The day Black Pearl came back to him had to be the happiest in his life… or death, to be exact. Although it was a little strange that he didn't remember anything about the times in ancient Egypt when they'd been together. Well, it didn't matter. What mattered was that he would soon be together with his dark angel again.

He stopped walking for a moment to think back to that wonderful day. They had been in the park, Ryou had been in control… He remembered his host opening his eyes and looking at the black haired angel who was admiring him… and… He frowned a little. Well, if it was this difficult to remember what had happened few weeks ago, maybe it wasn't so strange that he didn't remember what had happened 3000 years ago.

He had a vague feeling that he had been angry at Pearl first. Why, he couldn't understand… But he did remember… how he had been walking away from Pearl and she had run after him and grasped his hand and looked into his eyes… She had so beautiful eyes… eyes… Uh. He was starting to feel a little dizzy. This strange dizziness was getting quite familiar to him nowadays, but Pearl said it was nothing to worry about and anyway, she always made him feel better just with her beautiful eyes and gentle smile…

Smile… He rubbed his temples softly. Why was thinking suddenly so difficult? Her beautiful smile… He would give her anything, just anything to make her smile… The most beautiful jewels he could steal, anything she wanted, everything he had, even his Ring… his… He blinked. …Ring?

What the hell I'm thinking about?

He closed his eyes, trying to think. Of course I'd give her… my Ring?! My Millennium Ring… but if she wanted… If she wanted it, what else I could do?

The very idea of denying Black Pearl anything felt quite horrible. But still… so did the idea of giving his Ring to anyone. Anyone.

Just then he saw a boy running past few blocks away. A very familiar boy, in fact. "Ryou?" On impulse he sprang after the other. "Ryou wait!"

It was easy for him to catch the other boy, as it was, he was much faster than his host.

"Ryou, wait. Where are you going?" He grasped the other's shoulder and stopped him.

"Let go!" Ryou turned around and hit him in the chest. In surprise he almost did let go. Ryou hitting him? That was… absurd.

"Let go of me!" Ryou squirmed in his grasp, and he captured quickly the smaller boy's wrists with his hands.

"Ryou listen…"

"Let go let go let go…" Ryou struggled desperately, trying to kick him, and getting suddenly angry he shook the other boy strongly.

"Quiet! Keep quiet I said! What the hell's wrong with you?"

"I…" Ryou was all but crying now. "I need to get to Pearl… I need…"

Bakura blinked. This was… weird. Now that he came to think about it, Ryou had been quite obsessed about Pearl lately, although he hadn't paid much attention to that. Anyway, he had been spending all his time with Pearl's yami, who… Waitaminute. I… I can't be as obsessed about her yami as Ryou is about her, can I?

Unnerving thought. But he couldn't deny that the urge to get back to Black Pearl was very strong… Suddenly he remembered what Sugoroku had said at that cellar where they had been imprisoned. We are just trying to help you… He blinked again.

"Maybe we should go back there… they might know something about this that I don't," he muttered, thinking aloud.

"Umm… You can go back if you want to, but let me go, okay?" Ryou looked at him hopefully.

Bakura gazed for a moment at his desperate looking hikari and shook then his head.

"Nope." With one swift move he threw Ryou on his shoulder. "We're going back together."

"Noooo!" Ryou wailed, hitting his back with his fists. "Put me down! Put… me… down!"

"Shut up, yadonushi," Bakura muttered angrily, feeling thankful that it was still so early that there was no one walking on the streets making awkward questions. Of course, just then a man with a dog appeared from behind a corner.

Bakura glared at him while walking past.

"This is none of your business," he hissed as menacingly as he could.

The man stared at him blankly, ignoring Ryou's pleas for help. "Don't worry, I'm not interested," he muttered.

~

"It's a miracle that no one has called police yet," Isis muttered as she dragged with Sugoroku's help her cursing, screaming and tied brother into the house. "We really should have gagged him…"

"They still have time to do that," Sugoroku muttered darkly as they threw Malik into the cellar, somehow managing to keep Yuugi inside as well. God, I'm really too old for things like this, he thought, feeling himself quite miserable as he heard Yuugi's desperate begging from the other side of the door.

"I wonder where the others are…" Isis walked to the outdoor and took a look around. She saw Shizuka approaching on the street ran to her.

"No luck?"

Shizuka shook her head sadly. "No. I was trying to chase Bakura but… no luck, as you said. Anyway, I really don't know what I'd done if I had caught him… How about you?"

"Me and jiichan caught Malik but that's all… I don't know how the others are doing."

"Damn…" Shizuka sighed. "For a moment I almost believed that we'd manage to pull this off."

"I know. But at least we still have… Hey look! They're coming and I think they have Kaiba!"

Anzu and Mai really were approaching very slowly, staggering under Seto's weight. Mokuba was walking beside them, looking quite angry.

"They knocked my brother out!" he exclaimed as Isis and Shizuka ran to them.

Mai made a sound which was meant to be a snort but reminded more a gasp. "It was he or us… he ran to a dead end, otherwise we wouldn't have been… able… to catch him at all… and still it was pure luck… Would you mind helping a little?"

Isis and Shizuka took quickly hold of Kaiba as well, and together they carried him inside, lowering him on the floor in the front of the cellar door.

"So." Anzu sighed as she looked at him. "Now we're missing, besides Otogi, also Yami, Honda, Ryou and Bakura."

"You're missing me?" a voice interrupted her by the door. "Wow, I'm touched."

"Put me down, yami!"

"As you wish, yadonushi…"

Everyone turned look at the door just in time to see Bakura dropping Ryou down and closing the door quickly before the other boy managed to run out of it.

"Bakura! What…"

"The more I think about this thing, the more it starts to stink," Bakura interrupted Mai's question, trying to keep Ryou from reaching the door. He took a firm hold of the other boy's wrists and looked at the others, ignoring Ryou's protests. "What is going on here?" he asked gravely.

"Well…" Sugoroku glanced at the others. "This all started when those seven girls arrived and… they, ummm… kind of enchanted you all with their Millennium Mascara and…"

"Millen…" Bakura's eyes widened. Suddenly he remembered a scene from that day in the park. A silvery haired girl was clinging to Yami and telling him how she was his wife and the spirit of the Millennium Mascara, or something like that. "He wasn't married," he muttered. "I can swear that he wasn't married…"

A dangerous gleam lit up in his eyes. Those girls had dared to use their magics to enchant him, and probably had made him to act like a fool in the process. As soon as he'd get that beautiful… err, damned bitch into his hands he'd… kiss… no, uh… He shook his head, trying to get his thoughts into order. It was difficult though, he missed his Pearl so much…

"Damn…"

Dragging Ryou after him he grasped Seto's collar with his other hand. "Open the door," he said to Sugoroku.

"But…"

"Open it!"

As Sugoroku obeyed him he stepped into the cellar dragging Ryou and Seto after himself. Sugoroku slammed the door close quickly before Malik and Yuugi could use the chance to fly.

"You'd better not to open that door before I tell you to!" they could hear his voice from behind the door.

Mai blinked. "That… was kind of weird."

"I know," Sugoroku said as he barred the door again firmly. "But I'm not complaining…"

~*~

[1] Yeah… Pikachumaniac's stuffed animals are invading my fic… I just couldn't resist the temptation to write that line. ^^ It's by Yami (and the previous by Yuugi). Yuki is… Yuugi, would you tell the readers who don't know Yuki who he is?

Yuugi: *smiling brightly* Sure! Yuki is the stuffed seal I gave to Yami. (If you want to know his story, read PM's fic Kody.) Yami really likes him, by the way… actually… Can you keep a secret? *whispering* He's in love with that seal. That's my Yami for you. Loves inanimate objects… a card and a…

Yami Yuugi: *appears from nowhere and bends down to whisper to Yuugi's ear* Mr. Feathers… [If you don't remember who Mr. Feathers is, read the notes in the end of the second chapter.]

Yuugi: *flushing red* Oh, keep quiet about that, Yami! That's… different. Everyone has a favorite stuffed animal, there's nothing strange in that…

Yami: *eyebrows rise* Mmm~m…

Yuugi: *bright red* I… really have to go now. Bye!

…Damn. Look what you did, Yami… I'm not sure when I can get him back to my AN:s after that… Yami? *looks around* Damn. He's gone too. Well… I guess it's no wonder after what I've put him through so far… which reminds me. Something I've been going to say many times but always forget. I realize that this fic has parts which could be called minor (well, I hope it's minor ^^;;) character bashing, but that is purely coincidental. *blinks* I mean… Coincidental. Where did that come from? What I mean is… I have nothing against any of the characters and I don't mean to bash anyone, I just can't resist the temptation to write… things.

Okay. When writing English becomes this difficult, it's time to go to bed. Gah. You wouldn't believe what that last sentence looked like after I wrote it for the first time…

Good night.

…Nope, not yet. One more note I always keep forgetting. As it is, I don't really have a beta for this story, and I know that my English skills are still far from perfect, so if you spot there any… well, mistakes/weird things (like odd word choices etc) feel free to tell me. Actually, please tell me. ^^ Okay, now to bed.