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[[Damn...... I have a feeling Amme is going to get hit -___-' lol]]

Amme soon saw light and quickly felt herself hit the ground. She quickly lifted her head to look around. She saw the ankles of someone. Her eyes followed them up all the way to the person's face. It was Despair! She backed away a little- she knew of Despair's reputation as she knew Bakura's. What should she do? What would Despair do to her? She had to know that she was part of the Pharoah's council- the healer. That couldn't have left good feelings in Despair's mind. She tried to hide her hurt ankle, and she prepared herself to try to run if needed. Amme remained quiet, just staring at Despair.

Bakura wandered aimlessly through the hall. He reached a small staircase and stormed up it. He was pissed at Despair and the only thing that he could rationalize why was because of her attitude and the fact he could have died for somebody so disrespectful and worthless. He hit the side of the wall with the side of his fist, "******** cocky no good woman." What made him even more irritated was the fact she was getting to him. He reached the top of the short staircase and proceeded forward. He saw a siloutte kneeling near a wall. He really wished he had some type of weapon, but he couldn't even take that other one with him from before. He walked slowly toward the person, ready to fight if needed. As he got closer, he recognized the outline. He smirked deviantly and growled, "Pharoah...." Though he ws happy they were alone and he could possibly torture him, he was also in no mood to be near him.

"Who traps some poor innocent girl in here?!" Jonouchi shouted in frustration. He stood up and looked at the door. "I should go and show that no good..." he started to say but was interupted.

"Jonouchi! Don't even think of going out there! That man has a CHAINSAW!" Ryou said worriedly. He grabbed the back of Jonouchi's shirt and pulled him away from the door (or at least tried to).

Jonouchi froze then sat down. "Right, chainsaw," he said remembering now.

"Toy?" she said along with Naomi. Oh god, she didn't like the sound of that. Being called a 'toy' could only be a bad thing- especially in this situation. She put her free hand to her forehead to rub it. She was worried.

Ryou sat close to Naomi, one to give support and two because he was frightened himself. He looked at her with sympathetic eyes- there was nothing he could do for her or anybody else. Nothing he could say to comfort anyone. They just needed to stay together and get through this quickly. "How long have you been down here?" he asked Solia.

[[I love the name Haruka! It means 'distant moon' XD My friend uses that name for her main character when she draws her or if she rp's her.

This is a sick rp- I like it XP ]]

"To get out of this ridiculous pit of hell," he said truthfully. This place was starting to piss him off. He then smirked and said, "Though this place must feel like home for you being that your mind is already a twisted maze of madness." Bakura refered to Atem's soul room. He then crossed his arms and tilted his head a bit. "So, what exactly were you doing before? Or are you going to be a stubborn brat and not tell me?" he said believing Atem may have found something. He decided not to kill him here. Perhaps he could use him to get out- then kill him. Besides, insulting him was quite entertaining.

Amme gulped when Despair spoke. She was even more nervous when she mentioned possibly beating her."No good could come from beating me, I can assure you," she said trying to be brave yet it was a bit shakey. She kept her eyes on her, still very cautious around the thief.

Akiko cringed at the girl's words. This was horrible, this was dreranged and wrong. She let go of Yugi's hand and reached out to the girl. "Why don't you stay with us? We're going to try and find a way out of this place," she said in a comforting voice. She looked at the others- it should be ok to take her with them, right?"

Jonouchi clenched his fists together and gritted his teeth. "When we find that son of a b***h- I'll.... I'll kill him! What type of jerk a*****e mofo would do this to little kids!" he said angerly. Now he was pissed. He was going to find this guy and kick his a** so hard it would kiss the moon.

Ryou gave a saddened look at the child. Like all of their reactions- he was appalled and upset. "How are we going to find Haruka....." he said lowly to himself. He then looked at the little girl and asked calmly, "Do you know this place well? Do you know how to reach the man that captured you?" He leaned over to pet the girl's head lightly.

Bakura raised an eyebrow, something didn't sound right. "And just how do you know there is a trap door there. Is there something you're not telling me?" he said in a dark comical tone. "You know how I don't like secrets," he added with a grin. He was right though, no use staying here- there was nothing. "I'm surprised to see you alone. What happened? Did you're friends die or something?" he said. He wouldn't kill him quite yet, but he wouldn't mind torturing him verbally.

Ammeterasu watched as she was passing her. She stood up and kept most of her weight on her good ankle. "He's not a murderer!" she shouted back in his defense. She didn't care, she wasn't going to let somebody saw such lies about the one she loved.

Ryou looked down in saddness as she said there was no way out. Everything felt so, hopeless. He then heard her say, as long as they find her friend, they would help. "So.... there is a way out," he said a bit puzzled.

Akiko froze when she heard something she dreaded, that buzzing sound again. She looked at the little girl and whispered, "Is there more to this room? Hidden pathways or something?" She wasn't sure if anybody else heard it, or if she was imagining it, but they had to be somewhere else. They couldn't be trapped in a corner.

[[I think they should find Haruka. Do you think our big group should be split up? Like Ryou and Naomi, Yugi and Akiko, and Jonouchi by himself? Or girls with girls and boys with boys? I kinda think the couples should go off so they can develope deeper relations, and be s**t scared together. What do you think?]]

"Pity," he said obviously not pitying him. Bakura started walking along, looking any traps. He was a master at this, he's raided many of tombs before. He looked over his shoulder at Atem and snared a bit. He was still angry at her, and he didn't like the fact that Atem asked about her- he took offense to it for some reason. "Who knows who cares," he said at first. He was going to leave it at that at first but the thought of her being so ungrateful angered him. "The woman decided to go off on her own, who am I to stop her? If she wants to get herself killed then fine by me," he added though he kinda felt uncomfortable saying that. He shook his head, why was he talking to the one person he hated the most? He turned around to him, "Why do you care? Worry about your own woman problems." He knew that Atem had barely any memory but it didn't occur to him that he had forgotten Amme. More so, he didn't really care.

Amme didn't like having her so close to her like that, nor did she like the shouting. But what bothered her was these lies that spewed out of her mouth. "It wasn't him!" she almost screamed. "It's thieves and killers like you that take what's most important to people away from them!!!" she shouted back taking high offense to being told she didn't understand lost. How dare she! She knew nothing about her! She didn't know about her childhood and what had happened before she was brought into the palace. She probably didn't even know she was not truly royalty! She gritted her teeth when she was called a palace slut. She didn't know what came over her, but she shoved Despair away from her. Amme was a very passive person, it was probably part of Akiko's personality rubbing off on her. However, when she pushed Despair, her foot went back and she heard a clicking noise. Did.... she just activate something?

Joey was in awe as well. "That was definitely cool!" he agreed with Naomi.

"Awe at it later Jou, let's go," she said wanted to move as fast as possible. That chainsaw man certainly scared the s**t out of her- he didn't want to be near him at all! She grabbed Yugi's hand as they entered into this new door.

Ryou entered in silently, trying to listen to hear how close the chainsaw man was to them. He was defiantly scared as well. He figured everyone was. "We won't tell anyone," he replied to the little girl. Who would they tell anyway?

[[Well, I'm not sure what you have in store for Solai- if you want to pare her up with Joey or not it's up to you. I'm not sure what you have planed for them. *is interested* ^w^]]

He continued walking slowly down the hallway as Atemu asked him the question. "What do you mean what am I...." he said but then stopped. He then just realized something. Bakura stopped and turned around to face the Pharaoh. He couldn't help but smirk and chuckle deviously. "Oh, this is too much," he said while chuckling. "I knew your brain was fried, but you can't even remember that? Surely I thought something as important as that would stick in that thick skull of yours," he said then turned away from him. "And to think you fought so much for her, and now you don't know why," he said exaggerating a shrug. God he loved messing with him. It was especially easy now that he knew he didn't even remember Ammeterasu.

Amme gasped when she heard a door squeak open. She could hear something in the distance, a rumbling sound. She looked around the hallway, noticing it was rather wide. The rumbling noise was getting louder, what was that? She looked at the walls and saw there were rectangular creases going inward- where possible statues were once placed so they would not be sticking out against the wall, instead they were aligned with the wall. She looked down at the floor and saw small rocks and rubble shaking and rolling away from them, away from the noise. Amme suddenly looked up, realizing what was happening. "Get in the creases!" she said moving quickly out of the way and into one of the creases. She knew what was coming down the hall, it sounded like a rolling boulder. Standing in one of the creases would prevent them from being hit. [[lol, the only thing I could think of was a rolling boulder]]

"Naomi..... don't say that..." Akiko whispered and whined in fear at the same time. Oh god..... she didn't want to die, she was going to die here wasn't she? She clung onto Yuugi's hand harder, feeling anxious and claustrophobic. She usually wasn't, but considering the situation, it was making her anxious. She felt herself unable to stop breathing hard, feeling like the walls were closing in on her. She tried her best to go on and try to calm herself, though hard.

Ryou accepted Naomi's hand and tried to comfort her with his hand in hers. It was all he could do though, he was just as scared as all of them. He wanted to stay strong for Naomi, but he couldn't even be strong for himself. "Are we almost there Solai?" he whispered, hoping they were almost out of this and somewhere a bit safer.

"If anything pops out at us, I'm going to beat the s**t out of it...." Jonouhi added in a whisper. Nobody pops out at Jonouchi and gets away with it. He hated that s**t, and usually resulted in an automatic fury of fists.

Bakura also stopped when he heard the strange noise. But it passed, he then continued his malicious rein. He cackled out loud. "Oh don't mind me. I'm just enjoying the irony, poetic justice for me really. But if you don't want to know then I will gladly oblige and leave it be," he said grinning as he walked pass the Pharaoh. Of course he wouldn't tell him, it was far too funny to watch him mentally squirm, trying to remember.

Unlike Despire, Amme's wall was not a trick wall. She stayed in the same room after the boulder passed. She then slid down the wall and sat there. Her ankle hurt so much, she also felt exhausted. She closed her eyes for a moment to try and think. She was horribly worried about Atem, Akiko, and all of their friends. She opened up her eyes to surprisingly find a large man in front of her. She froze like a deer in headlights. The man had a black mask on that covered his whole head. There were slit holes for his eyes to peer down at her. He toward over her like a statue. He wore rags mainly, and his muscular arms were exposed yet his hands were covered with black gloves. Amme did not move, she stared at the man with fearful eyes. The man held something, but she couldn't tell what it was, she was too busy keeping her eyes on his head. Suddenly, he moved quickly and stuck her with something in her neck. Amme shrieked only slightly from fright and shock. What did he just do? It was so fast. It was sharp.... it was in her neck. What was in her neck? Next thing she knew she blacked out. But it would only be temporary.

A lurking shadow followed closely near Despire...

"Nothing is going to happen. I'll make sure of it," Jonouchi said. Of course he was scared like all of them, but he was a fighter. He wasn't going to let anyone hurt his friends, he would take on any challenge. "A library?" Jonouchi questioned after Solai said it was ok.

Ryou looked at Naomi, he knew she didn't mean it like that. "Solai, is this a library? I can't imagine this psychopath actually being sophisticated enough to have his own library.... to actually read," Ryou commented. He walked with the others to one of the rows and picked up a random book. "The Science of the Human Body: Version 3.5" Bakura read the title off of the book. He then made a face and put it back, "Creepy..." he added. He looked back at Naomi. "Naomi, are you holding up ok?" he asked making sure she was better now from the torture she indued.

She did think about that fact, that at least she was not alone. She then gulped a little. She wondered if Amme was alone or not. And that upset her, Amme was very close to her, like a sister. And the thought of her being alone in this crazed hell hole sickened her. And what about Naomi, Yuugi, and Ryou's other selves? Where were they? She looked into the supposed 'library' but didn't walk far into it. She heard a creeking noise that frightened her so she automatically grabbed onto Yuugi. She then looked over at the source to see it was just from Jonouchi's footstep on a creeky board. She sighed a little then looked at Yuugi. "Sorry, I'm really jumpy..." she said letting go of him.

[[sorry I was away for a while. Oh man, I have a fantastic idea for Naomi. I saw Saw 6 back on Halloween. I don't know if you saw that one yet but it's a game both her and Bakura have to play XD *is evil* ]]

Bakura only cackled as he puzzled the Pharaoh ever so. He could tell he was perplexed. His cackling and smirk went away as he suddenly stopped. He looked serious. He then spun around behind him to see what was behind him. He thought he heard something. There indeed was a man standing in the shadows. Only a silhouette could be seen. From what Bakura could see, it was a man of normal build in possibly a suit. Somehow, the man's eyes glowed like white small circles. And strangely enough, his crooked smile could also be seen. "We have company...." Bakura said keeping his guard up. The man in the shadows cackled in a creepy broken way- like no normal person would laugh. "Just who the hell are you?" Bakura snared as he narrowed his eyes.

The man in the shadows stopped cackling. He spoke with a creepy high pitched voice. He pointed up and then pointed downward. "They'll both die if you don't help them," he said still smirking.

"I don't really care," he said snuffing him off. Bakura had no use for anybody here. Or so he thought.

The man cackled again then added, "The woman you were with, the one who can't swim very well. She will die first."

Bakura's eyes shot open for a moment. He then growled and shouted, "She's not as week as you think. Just because I was with her doesn't mean your lame attempts at striking fear into me will work!" Bakura however lied, something made him shake inside when the man told him point blank that she'll die.

He did not reply to Bakura. "She will die if you are not her eyes for her. She will run right into a garden of knives," he spoke in riddles. He then continued, "And the girl you were with, the one who can no longer walk, she will die second. If you don't find the solution to the demon that lurks inside her veins, she will die slowly and painfully." The shadowy man took one step back. "The clock is ticking boys. Is the fact that it is a human life at stake enough to drive you to assist? Is there something more? I promise that you will both suffer greatly if you try and help them, is that enough motive to make you choose to ignore them? After all, they are just two lives.... two lives..... 1.... 2...... 1....... 2......" he said.

What the hell was this guy talking about?! Garden of knives? Lurking demon? He didn't like when it was someone else messing with his mind. Was he lying? Was he telling the truth? If he was, how would he find Despire? His arms actually shook a bit. A little bit from over flowing anger and a little from actual nerves. He couldn't even tell himself 'so what if the woman dies?' he couldn't.

...

Something lurked in the darkness near Despire. When everything went dark, it lurked closer to her. Suddenly, it grabbed her hair and pulled her down away from the wall and into the darkness. It had to find her again on the ground.

Amme slowly awoken finding herself on the ground. She felt even more exhausted then before. She sat up. What had happened? The last thing she remembered was a sharp sudden pain in her neck. She touched the same spot to find something crusted on her neck. She picked it to find it was dry blood. She rubbed her neck more to realize there was also a bump where the sharp pain was. Was she.... stabbed? No, it's too small. Was it a needle? Was she..... injected with something? She felt her head get dizzy and hot from fear. She was about to stand up when she noticed something was in her other hand. It was a piece of paper, a note? She opened it up and read it:

'There is a solution to the demon that runs rampant in your body now. However, only one person can retrieve it for you. If they do not give you what you need within an hour, the demon will eat your body from the inside out. Like the fires of hell your body will burn from the inside out. Now you can only pray to the gods who let you down.'

Amme just sat there for a few minutes, taking in everything. She was going to die wasn't she? She had no idea what to do for herself. She wasn't given any other clues how to help herself. She couldn't.

"You mean, he used to do.... you know.... non murderous activities?" Jonouchi said turning a little blue in the face. "None-for-nothing, but I can't imagine this guy doing anything nice. I mean look at this death hole! The guy isn't right. And why do you call him master? I mean, he's obviously keeping power over you, but you don't have to pay him respects," he said to Solai.

Naomi may have let go of Ryou's arm, but he made sure to stay close to her. He agreed with Naomi, who ever this man was he wasn't an idiot. Deranged yes, stupid no. He was a little reinsured when she said she was fine- given there current circumstance. "Oh ah.... I'm ok. I mean, for what we have to deal with at the moment, I'm fine..." he said. He then chuckled a little and said, "Although I would certainly be doing a lot better once we're all out of here." He tried to be light hearted but it came out rather awkward. Because truth was, he couldn't even pretend to be light hearted. This was a horrible situation they were in. And the sooner they reunited with everyone and get out of here, the better. He looked at Solai and Jonouchi. Now he was rather curious, "Solai, why is your master doing this? You said this was his game but why?"

Akiko was kinda thinking the same thing Jonouchi and Ryou were. But she was far too afraid to ask, or to hear the answer. Akiko looked down at the ground and said to Yuugi, "I've been thinking about my other self..... and something doesn't.... feel right." She paused and tried to think about how to explain it. "I just feel something's wrong," she said walking off a little bit in front of him. "It's probably just nerves, I just really want to find her and the others as soon as possible....." she added feeling unable to convey the message she had wanted to.