Cursed Millennium Necklace (Part 3)

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

Outside her body again.

Téa opened her eyes. She was in the middle of the darkness again. "That really did help, Masika, thanks." She started to take off, a little less scared. "It would have been a dead giveaway if my cat had an Egyptian name." Then again? "Actually, probably not. I never would have guessed this outcome."

///Masika: Téa, there is something you should know. I didn't save you easily.///

"I know, you had to use a monster," Téa said. "It tore up that block. I'm guessing my co-worker won't be coming back tomorrow?"

///Masika: He is dead.///

///Téa: Maiming him would have been right. Who knew what he would have done, but? Killing?///

///Masika: The deed is done. That is not the concern though. It's how I did it. I made a decision, and I don't know what the consequences will be for my actions. I summoned The Dark Magician with your card.///

"My cards are all fake, just pretty cards to remember my friends," Téa said crossing a street. She noticed a building she saw once.

///Masika: Only to your official Earth Battles. Your card was still in the image of The Dark Magician. Although it paled in comparison to the power I could have called forth from the original stone tablets, although it was in fact quite glittery and shiny, in which I have to say they were pretty, and it worked just as well as your official cards.///

///Téa: Nevermind the Pharaoh statement. This spirit is really wordy and branches off into different subjects once you talk to her long enough./// "The Dark Magician?" Téa asked. The environment was becoming clearer. She knew where she'd been. "That's what caused the destruction."

///Masika: It's not the first time I have summoned to protect you. In the alley years ago, I summoned Flame Swordsman. There were no consequences that could befall on you.///

"Are you kidding? I could be imprisoned!" Téa said, making it clear. "Please don't do that."

///Masika: You haven't seen the big picture, Téa.///

///Téa: Jail and murder wasn't the big picture?///

///Masika: Well, let me try again. Though imprisonment is bad, you'll find that you don't really escape punishment either way, with what the Pharaoh had done, and while he was not a pure Egyptian God, his power reigned supreme and back then, your friend Yugi was the pharaoh's vessel. I could summon the Flame Swordsman because the Pharaoh was still here.///

///Téa: Yugi.///

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Home wasn't far away now. Téa never went that direction to her house, it was to the North of her. She readied her keys. Practically a couple of blocks away.

///Téa: But? Who are they?/// Téa heard Masika tell her to run again as people started to run at her. "I don't get it, now who wants me and why?"

///Téa: Téa, I need to take over.///

"No way, you're going to kill them." She couldn't go around killing everyone. Téa was lucky that she wasn't found the first time around, but she couldn't count on that luck. She kept running, but some others were coming in another car. "What do they want from me? I'm not worth all this to anyone."

///Masika: You'd be surprised, Téa. Let me take over.///

No. Téa was willing to learn to live with the spirit until she figured out what she needed to do, but she couldn't just let her kill. "I can lean to maiming, can you get us out here maybe just maiming?" At least it wasn't the end of their lives.

///Masika: Doubtful. All you have is the Red Eyes Black Dragon. It will burn them alive with more damage than the Flame Swordsmen.///

Others in these buildings around here could be hurt too. Téa tried to reason with her. She wanted to escape, but she didn't want to kill anyone. How many times in the past had she met someone she thought she would absolutely hate forever, and they ended up being redeemed? For all she knew, they could be after her for some mixed-up reason.

She ducked through a few more streets, trying to circle around back home.

///Masika: You are noble, but you are also being naïve. I cannot let you fall now. If I do, everything I just committed with the Pharaoh will have been for nothing.///

With the Pharaoh? "You don't mean Atem, do you?" Oh. Oh now she went quiet. ///Téa: Is Atem involved in this? Masika?///

MASIKA

"Who else was The Greatest Pharoah," Masika answered, having taken control of Téa against her will. There was a time and place for peace, and this wasn't it. Of course, that is what she had appreciated about her all those years. But, it wouldn't be what got her killed.

Holding up the second summon monster, she could use the Red Eyes Black Dragon, once. Téa was correct though, she couldn't just use it out in the open, innocents did live nearby. ///Masika: The street, in the middle. My power has never been that great, it will barely have enough time to breath fire. Five seconds or so./// From the look of how many were out, perhaps Téa wasn't the only one being abducted that night.

No, too convenient. Masika checked herself over. That man that the Dark Magician killed must have slid a tracer on her. Masika held up her card. It was glittery, shiny as it turned. Kind of pretty. They were coming, each from the other side of the street.

Chanting quickly, the task was done. Masika started to run to a nearby market as she checked herself over again.

A small sensor on the side of her dress, sewed in. Finally finding it, she ripped up the clothing that was stitched around it. ///Masika: Tracking her all this time.///

Home was too dangerous, but the market would have a few night people working. They could open up the doors for the emergency.

"Hello?!" She banged on the doors of the shop. "Help, please help, someone is chasing me!" When someone came to her aid, she rushed inside.

Then crumpled to the ground. She saw the spirit of Téa right next to her, also crumpling down. There was a vicious pain in her chest. ///Masika: Oh no, I knew it. I knew it!/// Masika looked back at Téa. ///Masika: Your life was worth this curse.///

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Kul Elna

Masika coughed and gasped, looking around. She was in some kind of underground. In front of her was a place with the millennium items. Most of them anyway. Uh? "Téa?" Voice, she had voice.

She could feel. She was cold. She was scratched. She started to try and stand up.

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Bakura's Home

Bakura was playing a game of solitaire, unwinding from his day, when he heard a strange sound come from his hotel bedroom. He got up and checked it out. "Oh my!"

It was - was it- it was Téa! And? She was. She was . . .

She stood up. In. Nothing. "Bakura?"

Oh. Great. "Hello?" He watched her walk toward him. "You know, I am just going to go and get you some clothes!" Anything please? He went to his closet and grabbed some long shirts. The pants might not fit, but he got some anyway. "You could help out, you know."

///Dark Bakura: No, this is better. I'll meet my old friend later.///

Old friend? "Isn't that Téa?"

///Dark Bakura: If she came to me? No. Especially as comfortable as she is at being naked. The other one could never be mistaken for her.///

So, not Téa. He went back to the room and gave the clothes to her. He tried not to stare, but she didn't seem bothered by her presence at all in front of him. "Thank you," she said politely. "Bakura. Sorry about your world."

"So, you know about him?" Bakura asked. Bakura the Bandit Thief King, Dark Bakura, devoid of Zorc, had come back to him without the millennium ring. He wasn't sure what to do about it at first, but he was always able to keep him under control. He had harsh words and views, but he wasn't Zorc. He never even wanted to try and hurt Yugi or anything when he came over.

As more time went by, he even seemed to be more mellow, and expressed concepts in new ways to Bakura that he didn't know before. However, he hadn't ever mentioned knowing someone that looked like Téa. "Who are you?"

"Masika," she answered. "I . . . have been given the gift of life again." She looked at her hand. "Where is my vessel, Téa Gardner?"

Oh. "Is she your reincarnation?" Bakura had revealed how he actually looked just like him, and how Yugi was almost a perfect image to the Pharaoh.

"I don't know," she answered. "I need to find her, she is in trouble." She started to get more frantic. "She is in trouble in New York City, Bakura, we need to help her."

"We are in New York City. I was here for a convention," Bakura told her. "That's a good bit of luck."

///Dark Bakura: It's not luck. If someone as unimportant as Masika came back to life, then something done by the gods is going on. We should get Téa. But, don't dwell on me with them.///

///Light Bakura: I can't just hide your presence when something crazy like this is happening.///

"Try." Hmm. The Bandit King found himself in control of Light Bakura. He could only be given control if Light Bakura allowed it. "Masika."

She just grinned at him miscievously. "Bakura. Do you know anything about what's going on?"

"Not the slightest. Let's go."

"I was in Kul Elna," she said softly to him. "Then I came to you. Like I always used to do. I was . . . given a body again." She didn't look proud, she looked scared. "The gods don't gift second lives. I've never seen it for humanity. I've never even heard of it, except for the pharaohs."

"It was just jabbering back then, that whole second life thing for pharaohs. They were no more important than you or me," he insisted. "Let's go get Téa before Yugi gets involved." The last thing he wanted was for Atem to make some stupid appearance from the dead.

Atem's line always took everything from him. He wasn't getting Masika too.

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Téa

Téa yelled as she felt something pulsating through her chest. "What is that?!" It hurt so much, like her heart was ready to explode. She banged on the ground in the middle of the shop while a couple of workers gathered near her.

She watched, half in horror and terror, as something started to rise out of her neckline. It felt choking, restricting, and a part of her felt like she was about to die. Then, there was an explosion of pain and blood as something burst forth.

Under the bloody mess, she made out the eye on the millennium necklace, before she fainted.

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