Sekhmet's Move Part 2

DIMENSION: ANIME (The One That Pays to Save the Day)

The mist went away, the table had appeared back in the real world, but Masika was missing.

"How did it go?" Bakura asked. "Did the ruse work?"

"It would have." Atem continued to look around. He was sure he had her scared enough to start speaking the truth. "She kept talking about the delusional way she thought I sacrificed her last time. The shadow realm was harder on her mind."

"Asshole."

He ignored Dark Bakura.

"You too!" Dark Bakura said to Light Bakura. "Stupid plan. Scare the crap out of her until she tells you. What kind of plan was that?"

"Simple, desperate, and it was working." Atem didn't understand it. She had started to panic. He had hit one of her worst fears. Something was happening to Téa, and she was too panicked to help explain it. If she had left, she might have been lost. Having their own body, to live again, was a very freeing feeling. Yet, they were still spirits. Still very connected and it would take a great amount to make her tell a secret her host did not want to share.

"Where is she?" Bakura asked. "I don't understand."

"Someone else broke the millennium power I held over the game." He didn't know what to do. Where did Masika go?

He communicating with Yugi to see if Téa had heard from her. He got Yugi to ask, and said she wasn't communicating with Téa right now. "Masika is not communicating with Téa."

"The gods must have interfered," Bakura reasoned. "Where would they have taken her?"

Atem didn't know. "If the goddesses took her, then we must trust they will bring her back."

"Sure. We'll call you when she gets back," Dark Bakura said.

"No, I should wait." This wasn't good. The shadow realm was not a place that gods would dwell in the first place.

"You cannot sacrifice in the name of good, in the shadow realm." Sekhmet's voice boomed before she appeared, bearing her teeth at him. "It is not our domain."

"I know that." Of course.

"You were about to sacrifice her!" Sekhmet accused him.

"No, he was just trying to fish the truth out of her," Dark Bakura said. "Him and Bakura are responsible."

"Téa was hiding something terrible, and we wanted to help," Bakura said to her. "Atem said he would use it to scare her."

"You sounded like you were about to end her!" Sekhmet complained again. She didn't look any better knowing it was a trick. On the contrary, her claws started to come out as she marched across the floor. She looked ready to devour her next meal.

Atem didn't know what to say, he didn't want gobbled up. "I am very sorry for not reaching out to tell you. You aren't easy to reach," he reminded her. "Where is Masika?"

"I should eat you!" She swiped close to him with her huge paw. "I promised Téa I would not hurt Yugi, but you aren't joined with him anymore!"

Atem took another step back. "I did not mean-!"

"No, you wanted to play cards and gain the knowledge that the women hid. Of course, you are Pharaoh. You never know when enough is enough." She growled and backed away. "We had to call in a deal, a deal with a demon that no longer bothered your dimension. Thoth did foresee we would need him, we tried to manage around it, yet you are the one who brought this to be."

Oh no. "Zorc?"

"Yes. We had to ask him to save Masika from your idiotic mistake! Now, he has earned his place with Isis to make the deal." Sekhmet layed down. "I could hear, but I could not enter the shadow realm. I have no form of friendship with you, I'd rather eat you if given the choice, so my words couldn't reach you. You are no longer spirits, but your souls are still tied to your original host. You can hear them, and you would do everything in your power to obey them."

"Yes. Still, I was breaking through to the truth." He watched Sekhmet. "What is the truth?"

"She told you, as best she could. She was holding your most trusted possession, and you are bound to sacrifice her if you don't recast the millennium items." She propped herself back up to her haunches. "She is holding your child. You've just casted a queen you did not know you have, and the unborn you did not know you have, into the reach of Zorc."

What? "Did she tell you that?" He had never done anything like that. "She is a very good actress, but I have done nothing with her."

"Look at your second card, I have revealed it to you now. That power you feel within Masika is a goddess. Your goddess."

What? Atem checked his card. "How . . . but . . ." Each time he wanted to ask the question, he got the answer. It was a small card, but it was filled with all of the information he had wanted. "She is 45 percent mine. She is five percent yours. She is five percent Dark Bakura's?"

"It is what?!" Dark Bakura checked his card, as well as Bakura now.

"Blimey, I'm the father of Téa's child?" Bakura didn't look so good as he leaned against the wall.

"Yes, in preparation for some challenge, Bastet wanted it that way. She is five percent mine too, which is why I had to make the deal for Zorc. I don't trust either of you to actually make it pass Ammut's test, and the next new gods are not going to be powerless because of you."

"Yes, I see that!" ///Atem: Curse this!/// "I just handed Zorc an unborn goddess."

"Yes, your only blood ever born unto you. How's that sit in your loins? You'd sit well in my loins," she said casually. "It is the same with your other half, so run home. Go. Tell Yugi to look at his card. I hope the price of the secret was worth it to you, ignorant Pharaoh."

"Masika?"

"Oh, now he cares. If your other self knew that you . . ." She started to groom herself. "Nevermind, I forgot he pulled that move too when he felt power inside. He was smart enough to know when to stop though."

"I didn't actually sacrifice her, I would never sacrifice her so easily." Yet, he couldn't just say it was her interruption that caused it, she already wanted to carve at him. "How do we get her back?"

"She isn't coming back easily. She is in a place not reachable by gods or demons. I will tell you more later but I have to recruit extra help, whether they like it or not." She growled. "One of you will bend!"