Omega19x: *Ryou, finally released from the hospital... It had been almost a week... comes home.*
ph33r my rod: *...to find the house completely and utterly ransacked.*
Omega19x: *gasp* "... ohmygodohmygod..."
Omega19x: "... Not here!" He thought back to his apartment that one time. "... oh no... what did they steal... Malik? Malik? Are you home?!"
ph33r my rod: *there is no answer*
Omega19x: "... Malik?" Ryou walks around, looking.
ph33r my rod: *Many things in the house has been tampered with in some form. Their bed is completely unmade, clothes are scattered all throughout the house, and the only other living beings in there seem to be Aisha and Zahra.*
Omega19x: Ryou looked down. The cats seemed terrified. "Oh, are you all right?" He tried to calm them down. "... What happened here... do you guys know?"
Omega19x: Ryou thought himself silly for a moment for talking to his cats.
ph33r my rod: *Aisha jumps up onto the bed, where there is one thing of importance: a piece of paper with what looks like newspaper clippings pasted on.*
Omega19x: Ryou picked up the paper.
ph33r my rod: *It reads: We've taken our old leader back with us. If you wish to see him again, you will have to bring us the Millennium Rod, and pass our tests just like our last encounter. Except this time, we highly doubt you will pass...*
ph33r my rod: (( I probably should've thought this kind of stuff through earlier. XD ))
Omega19x: (lol)
Omega19x: *gulp*
Omega19x: "... he... the.. the ghouls... and... and Malik...and he... the rod... oh no... oh no..." *gulp* "..."
Omega19x: (although, um, how is he supposed to find them without them already having the rod so he can use his ring to find it?)
ph33r my rod: (( Ryou keeps the Ring with him, right? And I know Malik has the Rod thoroughly hidden - they obviously didn't find it when they were searching the house. ))
Omega19x: (right, so... how is Ryou going to find where Malik is? Was there some kind of clue left?)
ph33r my rod: (( They did still have the rest of the items - save for the Ankh, obviously - from when they used them in Egypt, right? @_@ Or did they give those back to Bakura or whoever owned them before? :o ))
Omega19x: (Isis has the tauk. Mahaado has the ankh. No clue what became of the scales, eye, and puzzle)
ph33r my rod: (( I guess they kept those, then. *shrug* ))
ph33r my rod: (( Okay, nevermind, scratch the line about the Rod; they found it and took it with them. *ded* *rewrites the note thing* ))
Omega19x: (... heh)
ph33r my rod: *We've taken our old leader back with us, and we plan on making him feel every ounce of pain and suffering he made us feel. If you wish to see him again, you will have to grow some balls and pass our tests just like our last encounter. Except this time, we highly doubt you will pass...*
ph33r my rod: (( I'd forgotten that this isn't really about wanting the Rod, so much as it is to get revenge on Malik. ))
Omega19x: *gulp* *repeat same stuttering pattern as before*
ph33r my rod: *Aisha meows*
Omega19x: "... oh no... Malik... Malik's GONE!"
ph33r my rod: *Indeed he is. Perhaps he should be more careful with what he wishes for.*
Omega19x: "Now... now what? I... I've got to do something... They're going to hurt him... I... I can't let them... but... but what can I do?"
Omega19x: "Shiz is... is right... I'm just a pansy..."
Omega19x: "... but... but I don't want Malik to be hurt!"
ph33r my rod: *Aisha hops up onto the nightstand, looking down in one of the opened drawers. There is a multitude of socks scattered around the nightstand, and one thing in particular is missing from the drawers.*
Omega19x: Ryou notices the cat's odd behavior, and follows her. "Wh...what is it, Aisha?"
ph33r my rod: *meow*
Omega19x: Ryou looked through the drawer. "... t...this is where Malik kept the millennium rod!"
Omega19x: "It's gone!"
ph33r my rod: *meow* *hops down into the drawer and lays there*
ph33r my rod: *it's almost as if she's trying to feel her owner's presence in a place where he kept a treasured item*
ph33r my rod: (( brb ))
Omega19x: Suddenly Ryou looked down at his ring. One of the metal spikes was levitating, pointing to the southesast. The ring only does that when it reacts to a new millennium item wielder. "... someone else has the rod!!"
ph33r my rod: *meow*
Omega19x: "... I... I've got to follow it... I... I have to..." he bent down, and scratched Aisha underneath the chin. "I... I have to find Malik... I... I can't let them hurt my boyfriend..."
Omega19x: "I... I... I won't let them hurt him!"
Omega19x: And with that, he ran from the house, following the direction of the millennium ring.
ph33r my rod: *The ring leads him to a warehouse near the middle of the city. The doors are chained shut.*
Omega19x: "... I... I can almost feel him in there... at... at least the... the ring can feel the rod..." Ryou gulped. "... but... how do I get in?"
Omega19x: He pulled at the chains, but they didn't give way.
Omega19x: He pulled on the door as hard as he could, but it still didn't help.
Omega19x: "Hello?" he cried out. "Is anybody here?"
ph33r my rod: *There is nobody around, but there is something noticable about the doors - the hinges on them are old and rusty. Brittle, even.*
Omega19x: He studied the door more closely. "... if... I could just find something to... to pry those off... maybe..." He looked around for a tool of some sort.
ph33r my rod: *There are a few metal bars around, but not much else.*
Omega19x: He picked up the only thing he could find, a metal bar, and started trying to pry the hinges off.
Omega19x: *grunt* "... th...this is hard..."
ph33r my rod: *Fortunately, the hinges are so old and rusted that they're chipped away relatively easily.*
Omega19x: And after some hard work, the door falls off its hinges, almost crushing Ryou underneath. "... okay... good... Malik?! Malik are you in here?!"
ph33r my rod: *There's no answer. Inside the warehouse are many many chains hanging off of the ceiling and walls. Chains hang down so far that lots of them even touch the ground. The windows are boarded up, so the only light is coming from the doors that Ryou just opened.*
Omega19x: *shiver* "... this place gives me the creeps..."
Omega19x: "MALIK!!" he shouted. "Are you here?!"
ph33r my rod: *Ryou can just barely hear the rustling of chains in one corner of the room.*
Omega19x: "... Malik!" he rushed right over there, not thinking about anything else.
ph33r my rod: *There is a large bundle of chains hanging from that corner of the room. Ryou can just barely make out an arm hanging from it - one with several blood-stained armbands wrapped around it.*
Omega19x: "Malik!!" he shouted, looking up. He looked around for some sort of stairway, but couldn't find anything. He tugged weakly on the chain, and decided quickly on climbing that.
ph33r my rod: *As soon as Ryou's full weight pulls on the chain, it pulls loose, falling to the ground. The large bundle of chains that apparently has Malik wrapped in them is tugged upward.*
Omega19x: *EEP!*
Omega19x: "... okay... that didn't work..."
Omega19x: He let go of the chain.
ph33r my rod: *However, as one chain was pulled down, another one was tugged lower along with it.*
Omega19x: *blink*
ph33r my rod: *Perhaps there's something special about those chains.*
Omega19x: "... something's going on here..."
Omega19x: Not knowing exactly what it was yet, though, he tugged on a different chain.
ph33r my rod: *The chain that lowered down before lowers a bit more, as does the large bundle.*
Omega19x: "... okay..." he pulled down on that chain more.
ph33r my rod: *Something drops down to the floor from the last chain he pulled on. It looks like a large iron nail, which might have fastened the chain to something else.*
Omega19x: "... Is it nailed to the ceiling?" he asked himself, trying to see up in the dark warehouse.
Omega19x: He pulled down on that chain more... harder this time.
ph33r my rod: *Another nail falls, and the bundle lowers again. It's now about eight feet above the ground.*
Omega19x: "... I've got to keep pulling!" he grunted, as he yanked a hard as he could. "Just... just hold on, Malik... I'm coming!!"
ph33r my rod: *The more he pulls, the lower it drops. Eventually, the bundle drops down to the ground, along with the chain that had started lowering with it.*
Omega19x: He dove to the bundle. "Malik! Malik!!"
Omega19x: Ryou pulled at the chains, trying to get to his boyfriend.
ph33r my rod: *He doesn't move, but the chains are loosely wrapped around him, making them easy to pull away.*
Omega19x: Which Ryou quickly does!
Omega19x: (dude, I typed 'dies' first... old habits die hard...)
ph33r my rod: (( ... XDDD ))
ph33r my rod: *Unfortnately, as soon as Malik is free of the chains, he turns into an old crash test dummy. It turns out that Malik's appearance was nothing more than a hologram.*
Omega19x: *eep!*
Omega19x: "... th...that wasn't Malik at all!"
Omega19x: "... Malik?! Malik are you in here?!"
ph33r my rod: *There is no answer. However, in the doorway, there are the shadows of a few people standing in it. One of them looks like they're carrying someone on their back, and the faint outline of blonde hair is visible. The people quickly dart away, leaving the door unblocked, and leaving Ryou alone in the warehouse.*
Omega19x: "No! Come back!!" he shouted, running towards the open door.
ph33r my rod: *By the time he gets to the door, they're long gone.*
Omega19x: "... no..." Ryou looked around, fighting back tears. "... Malik..."
ph33r my rod: *It seems that the Ghouls must be testing him somehow. They had stood there and watched Ryou work the entire time, knowing that he would be disappointed in the end. Perhaps they want to make certain that there's somebody who really cares about their former master... something they can use against Malik...*
Omega19x: Ryou looked down at the millennium ring again, but it wasn't reacting yet.
Omega19x: "... oh... where'd they go..."
Omega19x: "Come on Ring... please... please work..."
ph33r my rod: *Nothing from the Ring. It worked the first time because the Rod had been taken into possession of someone else; now the only way to get it to work is if he figures out how to make it work.*
ph33r my rod: *Or if he gets close enough to another item. But now it's starting to get dark outside... and bad things happen in the dark.*
Omega19x: "... M... Malik... please... I... I'm going to find you... somehow... I... I just need help..."
Omega19x: "Please... please work..." he shook the ring again, but it did nothing.
ph33r my rod: (( brb again ))
ph33r my rod: *Unfortunately, it may be time to call it quits for the evening. But there will be more tests for Ryou to overcome, if he wishes to get his boyfriend back.*
Omega19x: *nodnod*
Omega19x: "... m...maybe Yami can help... He knows how to work the ring..." Ryou said to himself, as he went home...
ph33r my rod: (( @_@ How was that? ))
Omega19x: (a little short, but I assume they'll get longer later.)
ph33r my rod: (( Yeah, they will. XD Didn't want to overwhelm Ryou on the first task... or something 8|; ))
Omega19x: (I felt like I was playing return to zork!)
ph33r my rod: (( XD Good thing~? ))
Omega19x: (I like Return to Zork!)
ph33r my rod: (( Wooo~ 8D ))
Omega19x: (quick, I need a level 4 or below monster that Yugi would have in his deck)
Omega19x: (that's not a kuribo)
ph33r my rod: (( Uhhh... one of the magnet warriors :o ))
Omega19x: (I mean Yami Yugi.)
Omega19x: (are the Jack's knight and the others 4 star or below?)]
ph33r my rod: (( I think the King and Queen knights are... I think Jack is five, but can be special-summoned when the other two are on the field. I think. x.x ))
ph33r my rod: (( *checks* ))
ph33r my rod: (( Yeah. If he summons Queen's Knight first, then King's Knight, he can special-summon Jack's Knight. ))
Omega19x: (meanwhile plotbunny is up to 19 pages, with knights being summoned.)
ph33r my rod: (( w00t~ 8D ))
Omega19x: (20 pages... and the climax...)
ph33r my rod: (( :o! ))
Omega19x: (night!)
ph33r my rod: (( Night~ ))
Omega19x signed off at 10:25:21 PM.