Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Tomb-Scape ❯ Missing ( Chapter 2 )

Mokuba: last time on Time-Scape

Yugi, Yami, Malik and Marik were exiting the tomb to find where Ryou and Bakura had gone. Going through the main passage way they freeze as a thumping noise comes from the wall.

Equilla: now the continuation of the story

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Missing

They all stared at the wall with wide eyes, frozen to the point. Even Malik was freaked by the occurrence. The thumping continued as they stared shocked at the wall paralysed with fear.

“Oy you lot out there?” came Bakura's voice through the wall causing them to loose their fear but to gain confusion.

“Bakura? Is that you?” Yugi asked staring at the wall.

“No it is Ramses, of course it is me,” came the annoyed answer.

“How did you get there and is Ryou with you?” Yami asked looking the wall up and down.

“Yeah I'm here,” Ryou answered through the wall, “I fell into some type of passageway.”

“Those sort of things should have been found by previous inscriptions,” Marik commented in a half mutter to himself.

“Yeah well Ryou is a big clutz, get us out of here,” Bakura snapped back hearing what Marik had said.

“How exactly do you expect us to do that,” Yami commented, “we can't exactly break down the wall.”
“Why don't you just use the shadow realm to travel from there to here,” Marik commented rolling his eyes.

“Already tried that,” Ryou answered from further down the wall, “and can you guys stop moving, it is getting confusing.”

They paused briefly looking at the wall where they had heard him from before and now heard him from.

“We didn't move,” Yugi replied slowly, “you did.”

They waited for an answer for a little while, but none came. After calling out their names for awhile and banging on the walls on Yugi's half till his hand hurt, they quickly made their way up to inform the others of what happened.

Ishizu listened calmly to Yugi's and Marik's story before asking them to show her where they were and what was happening when it occurred.

They travelled back down into the tomb tracing back their steps and showed her where they had last seen Ryou.

“What was he doing when you last saw him?” Ishizu looking up at the wall Ryou was facing when they had last seen him.

“He was putting his fingers along the images on the wall,” Yugi answered shaking a bit out of worry and fear. What if they weren't able to find Ryou again, he wondered as he watched Ishizu trace her finger along the wall and travel along it.

Reaching a strange image Ishizu paused her finger hovering above it. Suddenly she heard someone calling her name. Looking towards the exit she saw one of the workers appear.

“What is it,” she asked looking at him along with Yugi and Marik.

“We found a doorway,” he replied earnestly.

“Lead the way,” she replied forgetting what she was doing and following him out with the other two behind her.

Both Marik and Yugi were hoping that the doorway would lead to where ever Ryou and Bakura ended up, but their hopes were dashed as they found themselves being lead in the opposite direction once out. Following after them to where there was now a crowd of people. Making their way through the crowd they made their way to what was unburied. They soon found themselves looking down at a wooden door set into the ground. Marik stared at it with wide eyes not able to move from the spot. Ishizu glanced over at her brother, she could understand why he was acting as such. The hatch seemed very much like that which led down to where they had stayed growing up. What she couldn't see was the glares that Malik were giving it from where he stood behind Marik.

Wanting to get the similarities out of sight and hopefully out of Marik's mind, Ishizu quickly had the closest workers open the door. Shining torches down into the opening they managed to see a number of steps, which didn't go too deep, but low enough to be able to stand in the room that started afterwards. Ishizu slowly lead a group of people down into the room and Yugi looked towards Marik, who still hadn't moved very far from where he had stood.

“You going to come down?” Yugi asked the blonde Egyptian.

“No, no you go on down,” Marik quickly muttered back, “I think I might stay up here and figure out what happened to Ryou and Bakura.”

Yugi nodded before following the small group down into the underground room.

“I wonder whose tomb this is?” a male archaeologist with a strong American accent mused out loud shining his light around the room.

“I doubt it is a tomb,” a female replied with a different accent, “tombs would go deeper, have a sloping roof, and wouldn't have a wooden hatch door.”

“It might be if it was a rushed job,” the first retorted annoyed.

“Ow don't you to start,” another replied with another foreign accent.

Ishizu moved her torch around the low roof room, there was no doorways leading off from it. She didn't notice Yugi come down the stair case into the room.

“I do not believe this is a tomb,” Ishizu commented generally causing the earlier female to stick her tongue out at the American, “from the look of this place someone was living here.”

“Why would someone want to live near the tombs?” asked the second male.

“Maybe they were to protect the tombs,” replied the American with a laugh, causing Ishizu to think and Yugi blink realising that they probably didn't know of Marik and Ishizu's heritage, while Yami looked around the room curious.

There wasn't much there, just a single low wooden bed with light hay ontop, a bundle of tall jars stood in the corner, though there wasn't much else, it was so plain and empty, they probably weren't going to spend much time there.

“This place is a great find, sure it ain't no gold and copper, but how many people find places like this intact,” one of the others commented, though Yugi was unable to differentiate from one to another in the dark, so he just listened to the conversation no longer putting names to voices.

“Why would anyone live this close to guard the tombs.”

“Who ever it was didn't do a good job.”
“Maybe they just didn't stay here long.”
“I think it was just for Tut's tomb.”
“Why do you think that?”
“Someone had to reseal the tomb after it was broken into twice.”

This came as a surprise to both Yugi and Yami. From the pictures they had seen in the tomb of what had been there, it seemed unlikely that there had been even one robbery, let alone two. Also the fact that it had been resealed made no sense.

“We shall return outside, and then you can come down later with more of the others to catalogue all the items, but at present we have to find someone who got caught in a trap in the Tutankhamun tomb” Ishizu commented breaking the talk and heading back towards the exit.

The others nodded following her up leaving Yugi alone in the room with Yami. Something about the room didn't seem right to Yami, and even Yugi was getting strange vibes from the room. Shaking his head Yugi went back up the stairs, and Yami followed soon after.

Once again reaching the daylight he found Ishizu talking with Malik heading back down into tomb with some others to conduct a search for Ryou. Yugi quickly caught up to them in the burial chamber as the search group spread out looking for the hidden passage way. Ishizu was surrounded by Marik and hidden to most people, Malik, as Yugi made his way over leaving Yami at the door.

Ishizu moved back to inscription where she had left off, “This makes no sense, I do not understand why this wasn't noticed before?”

Yugi and Marik looked over her shoulder at the inscription and Yugi inquired, “What does this mean?”

“I don't know, it is a name isn't it?” Marik replied, asking his sister.

“It is in a cartouche, but it does not hold a name,” she replied reading it, “he who withstands the test of gods.”

“Sounds like who ever it is about was well thought of,” Marik commented as she traced her hand over the inscription.

Ishizu's finger got caught in a notch of the inscription and the ground shifted under her feet, along with Malik' and Yugi's who was standing on the same slab of stone. As he watched his sister disappear, Marik called out after her, as Yami did as Yugi disappear. While Malik thought, `sure no one thinks to call out my name.'

The light appeared again, the smell of Lotus was stronger this time then before. He reached out from the cold and grabbed at what he could see infront of him. He felt the threads of hair in his hands, and could feel cold skin under his touch. Grabbing firmly onto the arm he had found, he pulled himself out of the cold and through the light.

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Mokuba: what on earth is with the cryptic parts?
Equilla; wait and see, though there shouldn't be anymore for awhile now

Mokuba: thank you.