Zorrrrrrrc! (Part 3)

DIMENSION: MANGA (The One That Saves the Day)

"I did."

Anzu watched Satiah's mouth. It was smirking.

"Thanks for the assist, Atem." Those eyes on Satiah. "I couldn't have been freed again without a little help from an old friend."

"What's going on?" Set demanded. "Who are you inside of Masika's body?!"

"Who else?" She threw her head back and laughed. "What do you expect when you work with a demon, Set? You did after all, sacrifice her to me."

"I did no such thing, you promised to get her out!" Set accused her.

"I did. She's mine now." Satiah looked around the room. "Do I have to introduce myself?"

Atem. It was like day and night. Anzu was trying to adjust to the fact of who it was, while Atem seemed to revert back to the wildness of before. She looked at Yuugi. He was holding Hikaru tightly and glaring at Satiah too.

Because it wasn't Satiah anymore.

"Zorrrrrrrc!" Atem screamed with all of his energy. The millennium puzzle part on him was throbbing with light, pulsating along with Yuugi's.

"Zorc?!" Bandit King gritted his teeth. "Why . . . why her?!"

"Why indeed?" Zorc answered. "Let's see? Hm. She was available. Um. She used to be the whole of Atem's bride. Oh yes. She was your only friend ever," he said firmly to Bakura. "She's the other side of Yuugi's little wife too. As nice as it would be to have that evil inside of me again, you're not the same," he warned Bandit King. "Plus, this one?"

"Let her go!" Atem yelled at him. "Let her go now, Zorc, you are not going to hold her!"

"This one really gets under his skin," Zorc said. "Not to mention the current Pharoah-"

"How dare you trick me!" Set threatened him. "I summon-"

"You can't summon shit," Zorc reminded him. "You've abandoned the gods, remember?" He fluffed his cloak. "Amazing little invention of Kaiba's. Too bad he was nowhere around." Then, Zorc looked toward Anzu. "I doubt she would have cared about her manner of clothing. In all the things she's screaming from inside of me, clothes don't seem to be apart of it."

"The heiroglyph. Protection." Yuugi could only uttered a few words.

"No god can interfere in the game," Zorc said again. "Don't you get it you infernal? The heiroglyphs are nothing but tattoos at this point." He laughed slowly, staccato as he stared at Atem. "How much is your blood boiling right now, Pharaoh?"

"Zorc!" Set yelled at him.

"Ah, yes, the current Pharoah. The one with the power, but less brains," Zorc said as he glanced toward Set. "What?"

"Let her go!"

"Make. Me. Oh, that's right, you can't. No gods. No Horakhthy, no nothing." Zorc laughed. "You have to admit, Horakhty has a great sense of humor." Zorc looked toward Atem. "Do you regret coming back yet, Pharoah? Because of you. I get to join the game." He shrugged. "Or not? I can just sit back and keep this soul forever in my grasp. An eternity of suffering. Oh, but hang on?" Zorc paid attention to Yuugi. "There are of course two parts to Pharaoh, just like there are two parts . . ."

What was he doing?

" . . . to the tears of Ra!"

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"Annnzuuuuu!" Yuugi's voice rang out as he watched in an instant. Zorc had pulled her to him. Having been one before Bastet and Sekhmet destroyed her, she stood standing there.

Masika. Similar to Anzu, but she wore her hair in braids. She was dressed in an older looking type of cloth, just a wrap, but with fine jewelry upon her finger.

Anzu. She had been absorbed into Masika.

"Well, well!" Now Zorc's voice was cheery like Anzu's. "Would you look at that? I guess I'm in control of the favorite pet of the gods now." She kicked up her foot, which strangely wore a high heel while the other didn't. "So many lives. So many memories. So interesting. I'm going to like it here. I'm staying."

"You are not!" Atem, Yuugi and Set all yelled at once.

"What are you going to do about it?" Zorc looked toward them. "Are you going to fight me? All that will do is hurt the precious little tear. No, I'll stay here and slowly think about how to destroy the world again." She shooshed away Atem. "Play your silly game out. It's just two little souls, after all."

Hikaru cried as Yuugi gritted his teeth and held him closer.

Zorc waved at the boy. "Momma's fine, Sweetie!" He said jokingly with Anzu's voice. Then, with Satiah's voice, he turned back to Atem. "Or can I play too?"

Into the game. Zorc wanted into the game. Yuugi tried to hold back his tears as Hikaru cried in his arms, sensing his mommy was in danger. ///Yuugi: He's going to put them up for the game, I know it!/// If he won, there would be no deals made. The gods were able to appease Set with several treasures and wives, but Zorc wouldn't do that. If they let him into the game, and he won.

The Earth was doomed. Anzu will eternally be with him!

"Forget it!" Set screamed. "Fine, I give in. I won't let her stay with you for eternity! I'll use the gods to end you, and end the game."

Zorc just chuckled. A chuckle like Anzu. "The gods can't give them back. They are under my control. All Horakhty could do is destroy this body to send me back. Do you know what that would do? Just keep them with me still. Besides, why would Horakhty? Masika is the first tear. Their favorite. When it comes to the ends of the Earth, she is the only one they wanted. Why break their little hearts?"

Then Zorc switched to Satiah's voice. "Go ahead and try. I dare you. You won't win. Satiah was sacrificed to me, and with one, comes the other. You'll never get them back." He shrugged and smiled like Anzu. "But hey, it's your guys' choice after all."

"Will they be used?" Set said strangely to him. "I won't agree if they are the pawns in the game."

"Pawns in the game?" Yuugi had to ask. "They're already pawns. He's already stole them, what more could he do?"

"The gods game . . . will require pawns." Set didn't explain himself any better. "Well?"

"No. I couldn't. Obviously, these are the reward for winning, to the one that wins." Zorc changed from Anzu's playful voice back to Satiah's again. "If you win, Set, they all go to you. You'll get your full bride, the way you really want her. You'll even get my power. With that, I'm sure you can coerce her to finally love you. I'll even make sure they end up in your kingdom, in the afterlife. No one will ever touch her again but you." Zorc looked back toward Atem. "If you win, then you get her separated, back into Anzu and Satiah." He chuckled. "If I win, I keep them for eternity and destroy everything. Well, gentleman? What will it be? Can I join your fun little game?"

"H-h . . .h-how?" Yuugi spoke up first.

"Here." Next to Zorc, a box appeared. "I've been handed it before the game even started. Horakhty is well prepared. How odd, don't you think? Such an all-knowing and powerful being. Didn't see this coming?"

"They did." It was the first thing Atem had said in some time. "If I was here for this fight." Atem squeezed his fingers tightly into his palms. "I would truly be fighting for the world, not just one Pharaoh who couldn't decide on whether he wanted to destroy it or rule it."

"Bingo." Zorc curtsied like Anzu at the end of a dance. "If mankind is worth saving, then you can do it without assistance." She gestured to him. "You win, the Earth is saved. It means it deserved more time. That you saw a side to Earth that Horakhty couldn't understand. You even get the added bonus. Whatever cream filling Horakhty put inside of them for winning. I cannot remove it from me. I can feel it in there. It's radiance." He made a disgusted look. "Queasy. Definitely god power, just sitting there. I can't interfere with it, and it can't interfere with me. So, you'll get the little gods that were promised."

Zorc gestured toward Set. "If he wins? Then his more biased conclusion is the right answer to what happens to Earth. He'll get time to rule and see if it can be restored. He'll even have a new little strong, single god to help him." He smiled. "If I win, everything is destroyed, including this light hiding within. There is no middle ground, no extra gods to restore anything, and I am most eager to play this game. So now that everyone is in place? I'll see you all at the Game Shop. Now is the time to learn the real rules."