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[[Amme has a natural love for people and does not believe in murder. The shadow realm is like death or even worse then death- so she is against it. She always feels like there is 'another way'. But since Yami Marik isn't really another soul, but a malefestation, she's fine with that- he's not really a soul..... more like a demon or ghost kinda. I think he was put in the puzzle....... lolz I forget. It was to keep him protected or to save the world in the future? FFFFFF this is why I am getting the episodes, so I can refresh myself more often XD]]

Marik looked over to see Lerena had come back into control. He sighed a little in relief. At least now only one thing was pissing him off instead of two things. Now all he had to do was take care of the Pharaoh. He shook his head, "No, this duel has to happen. If I don't win what is rightfully mine then I will never be at peace. I just wish I was able to plan this better then be rushed- thanks to Darla." He growled when he thought about Darla but then looked over to Lerena and softened just a little (yet still looked serious as usual), "Are you ok?" he asked her.

"I don't have to give you s**t!" Marik argued with the Pharaoh. "You were supposed to return to us! I don't care if you lost your memories! Your excuses mean nothing to me! They told us to wait for you, that we would have your memories, all you had to do was find us. Why would they tell us this IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THE ******** YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO!? Tell me!!!!" he screamed.

"Because it's your destiny!" Ammeterasu answered him, "he would have been lead to you! You would have fulfilled your destiny and you would have been free of your duties! But you've been lead off your track by your dark shadow, thinking your the victim!"

"You don't know s**t woman! Do you know what I've been through? Waiting in that s**t hole all alone! In the dark!" he shouted at her.

"I've waited all my life in the dark! Twice! And I never strayed from my path! Don't blame your struggles! Everyone has them and they should make you stronger! " she pointed at him. She couldn't help but become emotional about the situation.

"I don't care! They did make me stronger, and smarter. I'M going to take change of MY life! My right! My destiny!" he yelled back. Suddenly, he put his hand on his forehead. He felt a horrible pain in his head and a tunneling feeling. He growled and glared at the two of them

"It's not yours to have. And it's not your destiny. *It* wants you to think that. It feeds from your anger," she said. "All you have to do is what you were supposed to- then you will be set free from everything. Able to live your life to the fullest," she added.

"Lerena, if it means anything to you I don't put anybodies life in front of someone elses. Everybody has a right to be happy. Both Marik and the Pharaoh can be happy if Marik follows his destiny. But it seems *it* won't let him. Not until he is cleansed will he be relieved of his despair and pain. He had a chance to fight it itself, now he can no longer," she said.

She then looked at Atemu, "It is no longer an option to just simply receive your memories. You have to win it from him, sad to say," she said pointing out that things are no longer as easy as they could be. She hope that he could see the evil force that was driving Marik.

He looked over at Lerena. "Don't worry about it Lerena. We'll deal with Darla after this," he said basically willing to help her with her problem.

"So are we going to duel or not?" he hissed darkly.

[[so should Darla try to resurface and Atemu tries to send her to the Shadow Realm but Amme stops him. But then Yami Marik succeeds in send her to the shadow realm and Amme can try to save Darla? Does that sound good?]]

[[I dunno how to do the duel. Perhaps just summerize bits and pieces of it? I can't rp duel that well. So maybe just vague details like "He brought out a monster and the monster was stronger then his". Who is going to win?]]

"I don't think it's a person who can save Marik. It's his journey that will save him. He will save himself," she replied back to her maturely. "And perhaps the best way to learn is to lose. You can't win until you lose," she added. She too wanted to see this man saved from his dark side. It was eating him inside- it could consume him. Amme's eyes widened for a moment when Lerena said that she had feelings to. Not because she doubted Lerena had feelings, she wasn't sure if Lerena was talking about her as well. Could she read people? Their minds? That was ridiculous. And if she could, she certainly wasn't thinking anything of the sort herself- she told herself. But was Lerena talking about her feelings? She flushed a little and turned her head a bit. She didn't bother responding about her own feelings- she didn't understand them and it wasn't the time to think about them anyway.

"No, that's not good enough," he said pointing at Atemu. "If you lose, I want you to give me your puzzle, and you must surrender your life to me," he said deviously. "Do you agree to that?" he added with a wicked smirk. He then turned to Amme and threatened, "So don't bother trying to duel me for the puzzle after I destroy him!"

Amme's eyes narrowed as her fists clenched a bit when she heard the deal. "I don't have to duel you for it," she said pointing at her orb.

"Then I'll kill you if you try to take it from me. Got that you stupid b***h?" he hissed darkly, too dark for Marik alone. It almost sounded like another voice speaking a long with him.

Amme just sneered back at him.


[[sorry this took awhile. I was away working on my new (used) car. Finally on the road! :3 ]]

[[Sorry I was away for a week. Lots of things I ended up doing. I have to take a shower now, but I'll be back to post (if your on). I'm having a difficult time thinking about what to post next. If Atemu loses, and Marik tries to kill him, what should happen? Should he kill him? I don't think that would go anywhere. What should happen? I don't know where to go after that.

No problem about the week thing :3 That works for me too cause I got things to do this week as well :3

I'll be back, I'll try to make a decent post ^.^' If by any chance I don't come back tonight, I'll try tomorrow morning]]

[[eeee! sorry I was away for so long. I ended up getting sick and well, I don't really want to talk about it >.> Again sorry, if I was able to get to a computer to tell you I would have but I couldn't. I'm doing much better now and the past day or so I have been checking all my online stuff (inboxes from other sites are completely FULL @___@) So yea, I'm back. Oh and I'll be sending you a pic of a sketch I did for your oC's. It was done a while ago and I have some questions about their design. I may end up redrawing the poses- it was a sketch to get an idea how they should look

I kinda like the idea of Amme saving Lerena (after Darla is sent to the Shadow Realm) instead of her saving Atemu cause I think it would be kinda whimpy if she had to help him XD haha I dunno. plus Atemu's Puzzle would have helped him. However, maybe instead of either of them winning we can have Marik's dark side emerge during the middle or toward the end of the duel- thus the winner is unknown. I don't know how you feel about that, but I kinda like leaving it at a "who would have won" feeling. What I'm going to do it set it up so it is in the middle of the duel and signs of Marik's dark side is coming out- or ends up coming out. Probably after your next post he'll send Darla to the Shadow Realm (giving you the chance to give him a reason why- since she tends to piss people off like you said XD). Or if not, give us time to figure out where to go with this.]]

It was already halfway through the duel and it seemed both the Pharaoh and Marik were neck and neck. Neither wanted to lose, because for both it was life or death, well, life or death for Marik's manifestation. It was like a parasite, and like anyother living thing, it did not want to die. Amme could feel the coldness emitting from both duelists. Yes, even from the Pharaoh. The whole room was filled with this icy hatred. Everyone hated one another, and it was because of the two puppet masters. Lerena's other self and Marik's other self were playing everyone in the room- and the fact that the Pharoah wasn't letting down played a great role. But who wouldn't back down? He wanted what was rightfully his and he wasn't going to stop for anything.

Even though Marik wasn't losing, he was becoming more and more aggrivated. Because the Pharoah wasn't losing. And if he wasn't losing, there was a less and less chance to obtaining his goal and eliminating him for good. "You really are quite the pest aren't you? Refusing to go down like the dog you are," he snipped at the Pharaoh.

Amme had stayed quiet practically the whole time, even while Marik and the Pharoah traded words. However, she could feel his manifestation raising. "Not as easy as you thought it would be now is it?" she commented.

Marik's eyes lit up with anger. "Don't you speak to me like that you worthless piece of s**t!" he growled. Everything was angering him, he couldn't just calm down. He felt like his eyes were burning and tunneling, like his head was spliting in two. He placed his hand onto his head, as if he had a head ache but it was far worse than that. He continued to growl under his breath. "You and the Pharoah think it's that simple don't you?" he spoke not making sense really. Marik felt as if he was falling asleep, or rather passing out. But it wasn't so peacefull, it was like ripping every folical on his skin then feeling like he was falling back. He closed his eyes, hoping it would stop. Once it did, Marik was no longer conscious- his other self had forced himself through.

He shot open his eyes and grinned evily. This was in no way the same Marik as before. This was a being of pure hatred and no remorse. "Don't you see that no matter what you'll end up dead? All of you will end up dead?" he hissed evily. He looked at everyone. This was not Marik- so he did not have the same feelings as Marik did.

Amme's eyes widened for a second when Marik's other self took over. She shook a little- this being was quite powerful and vicous. And his threats were not to be taken lightly. The man wanted everything in his way dead. "So you're the one whose been rotting away in this man's body," she said staying as cautous as possible.

"I am the one with no name who rots this boy's heart and soul," he repeated liking what he has done. He glared at the Pharoah and grinned evily, "I really must thank you though, without you the events that created me would have never happened. But now you have to die. I'll enjoy ripping your insides apart." He then looked at Lerena. He simply grinned malicously. They all must die, and he couldn't help but think how sweet it will be to tear her apart.

For once, Amme actually looked worried and bothered. She tried to hide it as much as possible. She peeked over at the Pharoah.

Marik licked his lips as Darla spoke of him. He turned toward her and brought his hand out, gesturing according to what he spoke, "Is it not joyful to have life in your hands? Like a small animal in your palm, the sound of it as you squeeze tighter and tighter. Bones crushing and those small helpless cries. And then finally, muscles popping and it just completely stops moving. With such simple joy, why stop with just the people you hate?" He stopped and then cackled a bit, "And you say I do not appreciate the finer things in life." It was apparent that this being lacked any type of remorse or simpathy for anything in life. It was not human, it did not hold human emotion. It did as it pleased, and it pleased him to kill.

"You're sick," Amme responded to his fasination to killing things. She looked back at Atemu, not very reinsured, "I don't doubt the host, I worry about this being. The fact that Marik has held his own against it all these years is astounding. But it's grown since all that time." She wasn't sure who could sense it's stregnth, but she herself could see. This thing was digging Marik deeper and deeper into subconscous. There was no sign of Marik's presence whatso ever.

Yami Marik sneered at Darla when she said that the other Marik was better. "He would be no where without me! He would still be in that hell pit he called home, scared and weak. That boy is weak even with me residing in him! I was the one to motivate him to take charge, I was the one to fill him with the hatred and paranoa to get him on his path. He is nothing, and when we are done here there will be nothing to him left but me." There was something that angered him about Darla saying his host was better then him. Everything angered him, but that particularly made him set his death glare at Darla.

Amme took a step forward, "You won't have time to do anything to Marik's soul. If you try during the duel, I would imagine Darla would not allow it. If you lose the duel, you'll be diminished before you could even realize." She wouldn't admit it, but she was actually quite frightened of this being- but she pushed herself to stay strong. She showed no real sign of how she felt. "You're practically surrounded with people who are aggainst you," she added.

"If I lose," he smirked.

"You will lose," she reinstated.

"You fear me don't you? You should. Because when this is over with, I'm going to tear you're pretty little head right off your neck. Don't believe me? You don't think it's possible? I could prove you wrong right now. I think I would start with those darting eyes of yours. I'd rip them out so you couldn't see what was coming. You're fear would be delicous. There's something dilectable about a woman's death that really gets the blood flowing," he said crackling afterwards. "Or perhaps seeing what was coming to you would be more striking," he grinned evily as he glared at Darla and Renoko refering to either one of them.

[[I'll have Yami Marik go after Darla next post. As I have a feeling she may something to say to Marik after what I wrote >w< ]]

Amme recoiled a bit but glared at him. Her item was supposed to protect her from the other Millennium items, but it still kept her cautous of this being. She had to, there was nobody else who would protect her- she had to protect herself if need be. And as far as she remembered from her past life, that's how it always was. When she had no sight, she had to fend for herself. She did not speak to it again, he wasn't just talking, he would do it if she annoyed him. But she kept an eye on him as Darla and Renoko taunted him. She could feel it getting colder and mistier.

Yami Marik snickered from time to time when the two girls spoke. He did not respond however, he just stared at them with madness in his eyes. Especially Darla. "Oh yes," he murmured to himself. He was summoning the shadow magic within his item. The room became clouded and dark. "It is my turn isn't it?" he said sarcastically. He couldn't concentrate on the duel at the moment, he wanted to fill his need for death. And Darla was so perfect, her diminish would be so sweet. He pointed at her and snickered deviously, "You first." He used his shadow magic to rip Darla from Lerena's body. Darla did not have her own body, so the only thing he could do to her is send her to the shadow realm. He pointed his Millennium Rod at her and summoned it's power. Slowly Darla began to disappear, Yami Marik made sure to make it as agonizing as possible. Once he was finished, he glared at Lerena with the same type of madness he's had in his eyes. "And now for you," he said licking his lips. He lifted the rod to the sky, readying to bestow his dark magic unto her.

Amme gasped when she watched him eliminate Darla. She couldn't let him hurt Lerena! He was a monster, she couldn't watch someone take another's life! She dashed as soon as he even as much glanced at Lerena. She ran in front of Lerena and summoned her Orb to neautralize Yami Marik's attacks. The other items may be stronger then hers, but at least she could protect herself and other's by neautralizing the other items. When Yami Marik swung the rod down, it was like a aura like shield absorbing the shadow magic. Ammeterasu's eyes glared defiently at the being as the attack ended.

Yami Marik screamed with aggravation as the attack did nothing to Lerena. From anger, he back handed Amme in the face. "Get out of my way! Leave me to my kill you filthy swine!" he screamed at her.

Amme fell back and to the ground when she was struck. Not only was she fairly physically weak, but he was quite strong. She sat up and placed a hand on her face. Blood drizzled out from her nose, she used her hand to wipe it off. She was a bit startled from from the strike but she should have seen it coming.

He grabbed Lerena by her arm and pulled her close to him, "I'm going to enjoy ripping that pretty skin from your..." he stopped suddenly. The madness in his eyes faded for a moment to blank eyes. They then came back and he gripped onto Lerena even harder. He turned his head away from her and stared at nothing, "Shut up! Shut the ******** up you ungrateful brat! I can do whatever I want! I made you who you were today! I'm the reason you survived! And I'll do as I please!"

[[I hope this came out ok. I didn't want to make Lerena seem week, it's just Yami Marik is really strong. FFFF Amme getting beaten on as usual XD]]

Amme jumped up and took a step back. She was still a bit startled, but she had to stay on guard. She was a bit shocked to hear Atemu call her name, just because she was shocked anybody cared. But there was no time to think about it, this monster still had Lerena in his grip. It was like a complete stand still, everyone was glaring at one another, see what the other would do. She looked over at Renoko, still wiping her nose a bit, "You're welcome," she paused and looked at Marik, "he's not a bad person- the actual Marik, he's just very alone." She could understand that, Amme felt very alone too, however she and Marik were not the same. They just, had the same fears so to say. But who didn't want to be alone?

"The boy IS weak, he's just a nuisance," he said getting in Lerena's face. All of their comments kept him unfocus, he tried to focus to push Marik back down into his subconscious.

/I swear to god if you don't let go of her hand I will chop off my own hand just so you can't hurt her anymore!/ Marik screamed at the being that took over.

"You really have a big mouth on you don't you?" Yami Marik said out loud but to his host. "Besides you wouldn't dare, you treasure yourself too much to do so for this weak little ******** b***h," he added.

Marik went on to scream as much obscenities as he could. He couldn't let this thing hurt Lerena, especially in his body! His subconscious was like a deep well he couldn't get out of. Of course, it wasn't really a well, but an imagery created by Marik to understand this state of mind. To reclaim his body was equivalent to climbing out of the well. And he attempted, and every time Yami Marik shoved him down underneath the water- drowning him. But when he started hurting Lerena, he was able to keep climbing upward. /When I reclaim my body I'm going to extinguish you myself!/ he growled. He could feel Lerena's sorrow and pain, he couldn't be this weak and let some parasite take over his body like this! Could he not protect anyone or anything?

"And how? With what power?" he said out loud again. "Face it boy, you have no way of destroying me. You may hide me away but I'll always come back. I'll always be a part of you," he snickered.

He was right, he had no power to banish his own spirit away- there was no way. He still had to take back control, even if that meant living with this thing his whole life.

Ammeterasu could see the struggle between the two. Did this thing have no intention to finish the duel? It had continually ignored all of their demands to finish the duel. She closed her eyes and thought hard, she knew she had the power to heal people, but to exorcise spirits? She was never fully trained to do so, but there were many things she was never taught that the orb was able to do. She tried to think of anything that would tell her the answer. If this being was an parasite- harming the body- then technically wouldn't she be able to alleviate it? She growled a bit, "I can't remember," she murmured to herself. Then she just realized something, if Yami Marik was talking out loud to himself, then that meant that the real Marik could hear everything and sense everything that was going on! "Marik! Listen to me, if you take back control of your body then I can remove that being from your soul," she instructed. She needed him to be able to overcome this thing, even if that meant guessing at her own skills. She highly doubted she could do so, but at least things would be under control.

"You lie!" Yami Marik hissed. "Go ahead and try and you'll just end up dead just like she'll be in a minute," he added.

"I can if you repress him. I need to be able to touch you as well," she spoke out to Marik. "If that's so then why haven't you been able to move? Marik has stopped you from moving most of your body, he's close," she added.

Yami Marik growled, he had been trying to move his body to start ripping this girl apart, but he couldn't. He tried raising his other hand to choke her, it came slowly and struggled, but never reached her neck. Had the girl's promise encouraged him? He felt his own presence slip away and face to the darkness he had lived in for years. His grip lessened but he pushed Lerena away from him. Marik had almost full control of his body. He didn't mean to push her so hard, but he didn't want her near incase HE came back.

"You better be right woman. Hurry up!," he said to Ammeterasu. Marik panted as his eyes readjusted. His body felt like it had gone through hell and back, he was completely exhausted.

Amme approached Marik slowly as her orb glowed. She remained silent and focused on what she had to try and do. She touched his forehead and concentrated.

[[I was thinking that Amme's powers don't eliminate manifestations like this and Yami Marik comes back. Perhaps then Atemu can step in and send Yami Marik to the shadow realm? I was going to have him strike Lerena, but I wasn't sure if that would be too much for her. I was thinking that when Yami Marik comes back he's going to probably strike (or beat on) Amme again. If you want to traumatize Lerena as well (lol) she can be standing near them too and he could strike her as well. I don't mind beating on my own characters but I always feel uneasy doing so to others XD. Well none-the-less, I guess Atemu's motivation for sending the guy to the shadow realm would be beating on the women again? haha]]