[YGO Fic] Chibi For A Day - Part Thirty Seven
※ Part Thirty Seven: Enter Isis
※ Warnings - None - just remember that this is the unrevised version.
※ Disclaimer - I obviously don't own it.
“What’s a moosium?” Malik asked as he looked at Joey as the two of them waited for Yami Bakura to get dressed. The shy chibi had locked himself in the bathroom to get dressed and had yet to come out.
“Well, it’s a place to look at old things. There’s an Egyptian display too that you’d probably be interested in. Your older sister works there.” Joey explained.
“Ithith? Yay! We goin’ ta a moosium.” Malik grinned. “Is Wyou comin’ too?” He wondered as he looked at the miserable chibi being held in Mai’s arms.
“No, Ryou’s going to stay here and keep Duke company. But Yami Bakura’s going to come with us. He’s never seen a museum before.” Joey shrugged. Well, he truly doubted that the tomb robber had ever gone to a museum to actually look around so he’d learn more.
“Otay.” Malik nodded, happy with that answer. Good thing too, the bathroom door opened and Yami Bakura came out.
“Ready?” Joey asked, kneeling down to the chibi’s level.
Yami Bakura shook his head and looked around with his large eyes, he seemed to spot something and quickly scramble over to it. Joey realized he’d spotted Ryou as he watched Mai get down on her knees so the boy could see the other. “I wanna stay wit’ you.” Yami Bakura looked at Ryou.
“No, have fun!” Ryou grinned. “You’ve neva’ seen a moosium befo’, stay wit’ Mawik ta make suwe he don’t gets in twouble.” Ryou advised as Malik stuck his tongue out. Ryou stuck his tongue out back at him.
“But yous is sick! I’m youw ‘ami! I hafta pwotect you!” Yami Bakura insisted softly.
Ryou giggled, “Pwotect me when you get back.” He shrugged simply.
Yami Bakura blinked and then thought it over and finally gave in and nodded, “Otay, but onwy ‘cause you say.”
“Good, now that that’s settled.” Joey said, snatching Malik up off the floor. “Let’s go downstairs and find the others.” He said to Mai as she nodded and followed him down the stairs. The others were all waiting in the living room and everyone stood up as they came down. “Ready to go?” Joey wondered, purposely carrying Malik upside down.
“Joey!” Malik squealed as he giggled.
“Yep.” Yugi smiled as Joey turned Malik the right side up, then turned to Duke as Mai handed the boy the small chibi. “Are you sure you want to stay here?” He wondered.
Duke nodded, “I went to the museum like, last week. My sister wanted to go.” He rolled his eyes, “And I’m pretty sure it’s going to be just as boring today. Besides, someone has to take care of Ryou.” He shrugged.
With that settled, almost everyone left the house.
***
“So,” Tristan began as the group entered the museum. “What are we going to see first?” He wondered.
“Why don’t we split up into two groups?” Yugi suggested, “And then we can meet up for lunch in the museum’s restaurant.” He said and everyone agreed. So they split up and after a moment Yugi realized something. He, alone with Joey and Seto, had been left with four chibis as Mai, Tea, Tristan and Mokuba wondered off on their own. He looked at the other two.
Joey shrugged, “Marik won’t leave me and Malik won’t leave him and Ryou told Bakura to stay with Malik so that’s what he’s doing. And of course Yami stays with you.” He explained and Yugi sighed.
“Well, let’s get going I guess.” He said and looked down at the chibis, “What do you guys want to see first?” He wondered as Seto pulled out a map of the museum.
“We can go to their ‘Under the Sea’ exhibit, ‘Before Man’ exhibit and look at all the dinosaurs, we can go see bugs at their ‘Insects, the World’s Smallest Powerhouse’ exhibit or ‘Welcome to Ancient Egypt’ with real live mummies.” Seto read from the booklet. He raised an eyebrow.
“Wive mummies?” Malik was confused, “’Ugi, can mummies be awive?”
“No Malik, it’s just a mistake. Now, where do you want to go?”
“Bugs.” Yami replied.
“Bugs.” Marik said.
“Bugs!” Malik jumped up and down.
Yami Bakura shrugged, “Bugs.”
“Bugs it is.” Yugi nodded and the seven of them made their way to the exhibit. “I thought they were the worlds smallest powerhouse.” Yugi muttered as they made their way into the exhibit. The first thing anybody saw was a giant bumble bee almost larger then Seto standing at the door like a guard as they entered the ‘hive’.
The seven boys looked around the hive at all the displays of insects. “Wow!” Malik began, “Pwetty cowouws!” His eyes were wide with amazement as he looked at an assortment of colourful beetles. Yami Bakura and Marik stayed close to his side as the two looked around the room for anything else interesting. Marik spotted a bunch of bees and when they were done with the beetles, he dragged the two other chibis over to the glass cage.
The bees were alive and in the glass cage was a real hive that had been cut into so people could see inside. The bees didn’t seem to mind an audience as they went about their work. It wasn’t until one of the bees flew against the glass, startling all three chibis and causing them to scream and run away.
Yugi looked around curiously then spotted an old scarab. “Hey Yami, come and take a look at this.” He said, when he didn’t receive an answer he looked around. “Yami?” He wondered. “Great. I just lost my other half.” Yugi sighed and turned to the others. “Have you guys seen our pharaoh?” He muttered.
“No actually, I was trying to calm the other three down, sorry Yug.” Joey shrugged sheepishly as he covered Marik’s mouth. The chibi was spouting off Egyptian curses at the bees. He would have been waving his Millennium Rod, had they not left that at home. “Where do you suppose he learned that?” He wondered, grinning at Seto.
“From another Egyptian spirit.” Seto muttered as he looked at Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura was too busy looking at a case of butterflies to notice though. He was so enthralled with them that he didn’t notice the live insects above him. At least until one landed on his nose.
“Huh?” He jumped back slightly, right into Yugi.
Yugi laughed quietly, “It seems that butterfly likes you Bakura.” He said as he watched the large butterfly flutter its large wings before Yami Bakura’s eyes. The wings were bright blue, yellow and black and looked very delicate. After a few more flutters the butterfly flew away.
“Butta’fly kisses!” Malik laughed, “Ithith a’ways gave me dem when I was widdle.” He stated then looked down at himself, “Wait, I am widdle!” The poor boy looked very confused.
Yugi smiled at the cuteness, “We’d better find Yami, I have a feeling that they don’t normally let the exhibits run wild.” He sighed and the group continued on their way through the exhibit.
***
“You really should eat something.” Duke insisted as he held out the spoon to Ryou. The poor chibi looked exhausted and Duke knew he was tired, but he needed something in his stomach first. “Just a few bites, please?”
“Den can I sweep?” Ryou asked, glazed eyes turned on his babysitter.
Duke smiled reassuringly, “Yes, then you can sleep.” He promised.
“Otay.” Ryou took the spoon.
***
“Yami!” Yugi called out as he spotted a patch of black and red hair disappear around a corner. “You can’t let the bugs out!” He insisted as he tried to catch up with his surprisingly fast other half.
“Geez,” Joey panted from behind him, “You’d think that Yami would be the sweet chibi and Yami Bakura would be the troublemaker.”
“No kidding.” Yugi muttered, then looked at Joey as they slowed down, having lost Yami’s trail. “Do you think it was wise to leave Seto with the three other chibis?” He voiced.
Joey shrugged, “As long as Marik and Malik don’t move, breath, talk or show any sign of life, then there’ll be no problem.” He grinned and moved forward.
Yugi slapped his forehead as he ran to catch up.
***
Seto Kaiba was not happy. For one thing, his Joey had ran off with Yugi to find that stupid pharaoh. For another, he was stuck with three little monsters. He glanced down at one of the small boys sitting quietly beside him. Okay, okay, two little monsters. He watched as Marik and Malik tried to climb over the plastic fence keeping unwanted people from entering the exhibits.
The exhibit was of a giant wasp’s nest and with that nest came giant wasps.
Seto shuddered, he hated bugs. It wasn’t that he was afraid of them, but they were ugly and a human sized model was even uglier.
“Seto! Seto!” Malik and Marik called as they scampered back to him. “We’a bowed!” Marik continued, “Finished with the bugs! Let’s go see somet’ing ewse now!”
“Wanna see Egypt!” Malik exclaimed. “Pwease?” The small chibi stuck out his lip and surprisingly, Seto found himself faltering under that gaze of chibi eyes.
“Okay Kaiba.” Seto took a deep breath, “This is Malik Ishtar you’re about to give in to. Think about this.” He shook his head and looked back down where Malik had yet to move. “Damn it. Alright, let’s go see Egypt.”
“Yay!” Malik cheered happily as he took Yami Bakura’s hand.
After a few minutes of walking, Seto realized that the Egyptian display was all the way on the other side of the museum, but the trip there was surprisingly uneventful, except for Marik’s question on why the dinosaurs they passed weren’t wearing skin. So the small troop entered the Egyptian display and Seto noticed how all three of the boys looked much more at home suddenly.
“I wanna see the mummies!” Marik said.
“I wanna see the tweasuas!” Malik grinned as he rubbed his hands together.
Yami Bakura was silent as he followed the other two, having to stay with Malik. Seto couldn’t help but think the shy little tyke looked a little confused, but it was probably only natural. To a two or three year old Yami Bakura, he had forgotten about the 5,000 years that had passed since his time.
They passed the mummies, much to Marik’s displeasure. He thought they’d been alive! Although the ones not in the sarcophagi had been very gross and he’d scared Malik with a few of them. The golden artifacts had captured Malik’s attention and the small boy wanted to see the crown of Tutankhamun, but unfortunately (well, for Malik anyway), the priceless crown was behind chibi-proof glass.
Seto stared up at the slab of stone that had been his and Yami’s deciding future. He shook his head, glad that ‘the great evil’ had been vanquished, although he still wanted the God Cards. Blue eyes looked down at ‘the great evil’ where said evil was playing tag with his yami around a statue of Anubis.
He blinked, realizing that he only had two chibis. “Damn it, the pharaoh already went missing, we don’t need the tomb robber missing too!” He muttered to himself and grabbed Malik and Marik’s hands, telling them that they had to look for Yami Bakura.
“He found something with the tweasuas.” Malik shrugged.
Damn it! He’s three years old! How early did he start robbing tombs anyway? “Well, let’s go find him.” Seto said as the three of them went back into another part of the exhibit. There they found Yami Bakura trying to break open a glass case. Inside the case was a small wooden box and a funny shaped stick. Confused, but knowing he had to stop the chibi, Seto picked Yami Bakura up and then read the plaque that was placed out in front.
‘Scientists have studied this artifact, but they can not find a way to open it. They figure that it is only a hallowed out shell that once held treasure. This is just another mystery unsolved. It is speculated that the box was also used in sacrificing ceremonies, the heart or brain of the being getting sacrificed would be placed within the box for nine days until it had dried. We’re not sure what the ceremonies were for, but it is just a speculation.’
Seto looked at Yami Bakura, “It’s hallow, why would you want it?” He asked.
“It’s mine!” Yami Bakura declared.
“Well, if it’s yours, how do you open it?” A voice came from behind them, making all three chibis, and Seto turn around. Isis Ishtar stood before them, her hands clasped in front of her in patients.
“Ithith!” Malik cheered as he ran over to his sister, wanting to be picked up. Isis smiled and knelt down, picking the child up as he wished. “Yugi bringed us hewe.” He explained.
Isis laughed, “I know, I foresaw it with my Millennium Tauk.” She hugged Malik to her; “He hasn’t been giving you any problems, has he?” She asked, looking over at Seto as she lovingly ran her fingers through Malik’s hair.
“Me personally? No. Yugi and his friends, yes, though not as much as some other people.” Seto replied as he shifted Yami Bakura in his arms as the chibi tried to reach toward the glass case again.
“Malik was a very mischievous child when he was allowed to be.” Isis gently tapped Malik’s nose, then her eyes caught something standing by Seto’s feet, or rather, hiding behind Seto’s legs. Her blue eyes widened in surprise when she saw her brother’s yami staring back at her, in all his one and a half feet of glory. “Wow…never thought Yami Malik could be a child.” She said, mostly to herself.
“Maywik.” Malik suddenly said, making Isis look at him, “We caww him Maywik.”
Smiling softly, Isis knelt down, obviously startling the shy yami into hiding again. “It’s okay Marik.” She promised as she gently placed Malik on the floor and then held out her hand toward the hiding child. “You are safe here.”
“Sister?” Marik whispered questioningly, peeking around Seto’s leg.
Isis smiled and nodded, “Yes.” She promised and slowly, the shy boy moved away from Seto and made his way cautiously over to Malik’s…no, now she was his sister too. She picked him up gently, and held him as she had held Malik only moments before. As Seto watched, the CEO realized that Marik looked confused, as if he’d never been held before…
His musings however, were cut off as Yami Bakura began to struggle again, reaching out toward the glass case. “Stop that!” Seto snapped, immediately wishing he hadn’t yelled at the small boy as Yami Bakura quickly stopped moving, even breathing.
Isis gently set Marik down on the floor beside his twin, tenderly ruffling the boy’s hair. After that, she went over to the locked cabinet, and unlocked it with her master key. “Okay Bakura, if this is yours, show me how you open it.” She said and handed the little boy the objects.
Seto put Yami Bakura on the floor and the child went to work. The ‘stick’ was held between two small hands as the ‘box’ was placed on the floor in front of him. Yami Bakura tapped the ‘stick’ on the floor three times, then twisted one end of it. A small thin piece of rusted metal slid out of the opposite end that had been twisted. With that done, the small boy turned the box over until he’d apparently found the side he’d been looking for and he carefully stuck the thin metal into an almost nonexistent hole. After that was done, Yami Bakura gently tugged a part of the box, opening it like a lid.
From their positions, nobody could see what was held within the box, but the smile, which adorned Yami Bakura’s innocent face, told them it was something of great value - at least to the chibi.
The key forgotten, Yami Bakura reached into the box and pulled out the last thing Seto Kaiba ever expected to see cradled within this certain yami’s arms.
A stuffed lion.
Well, an ancient Egyptian style plushie. Suddenly the smile on Yami Bakura’s face vanished and he looked up at Isis. “Can I keep him?” He wondered softly, playing with what was probably an ear. “My mama gave him to me befowe…” He trailed off and shook his head.
Isis, having looked back into the past of certain people she’d met since coming to Domino, didn’t have to ask. She picked the child up and looked at the lion. “Of course you can keep him.” She smiled, gently tucking a lock of white behind a small ear.
“Yay!” Yami Bakura cheered as he clutched the old rag.
Suddenly they all heard a crash, followed by a familiar voice. At least to Seto’s ears.
“No! ‘Ami da Phawaoh! Won’t wisten! You wisten!”
※ Warnings - None - just remember that this is the unrevised version.
※ Disclaimer - I obviously don't own it.
“What’s a moosium?” Malik asked as he looked at Joey as the two of them waited for Yami Bakura to get dressed. The shy chibi had locked himself in the bathroom to get dressed and had yet to come out.
“Well, it’s a place to look at old things. There’s an Egyptian display too that you’d probably be interested in. Your older sister works there.” Joey explained.
“Ithith? Yay! We goin’ ta a moosium.” Malik grinned. “Is Wyou comin’ too?” He wondered as he looked at the miserable chibi being held in Mai’s arms.
“No, Ryou’s going to stay here and keep Duke company. But Yami Bakura’s going to come with us. He’s never seen a museum before.” Joey shrugged. Well, he truly doubted that the tomb robber had ever gone to a museum to actually look around so he’d learn more.
“Otay.” Malik nodded, happy with that answer. Good thing too, the bathroom door opened and Yami Bakura came out.
“Ready?” Joey asked, kneeling down to the chibi’s level.
Yami Bakura shook his head and looked around with his large eyes, he seemed to spot something and quickly scramble over to it. Joey realized he’d spotted Ryou as he watched Mai get down on her knees so the boy could see the other. “I wanna stay wit’ you.” Yami Bakura looked at Ryou.
“No, have fun!” Ryou grinned. “You’ve neva’ seen a moosium befo’, stay wit’ Mawik ta make suwe he don’t gets in twouble.” Ryou advised as Malik stuck his tongue out. Ryou stuck his tongue out back at him.
“But yous is sick! I’m youw ‘ami! I hafta pwotect you!” Yami Bakura insisted softly.
Ryou giggled, “Pwotect me when you get back.” He shrugged simply.
Yami Bakura blinked and then thought it over and finally gave in and nodded, “Otay, but onwy ‘cause you say.”
“Good, now that that’s settled.” Joey said, snatching Malik up off the floor. “Let’s go downstairs and find the others.” He said to Mai as she nodded and followed him down the stairs. The others were all waiting in the living room and everyone stood up as they came down. “Ready to go?” Joey wondered, purposely carrying Malik upside down.
“Joey!” Malik squealed as he giggled.
“Yep.” Yugi smiled as Joey turned Malik the right side up, then turned to Duke as Mai handed the boy the small chibi. “Are you sure you want to stay here?” He wondered.
Duke nodded, “I went to the museum like, last week. My sister wanted to go.” He rolled his eyes, “And I’m pretty sure it’s going to be just as boring today. Besides, someone has to take care of Ryou.” He shrugged.
With that settled, almost everyone left the house.
***
“So,” Tristan began as the group entered the museum. “What are we going to see first?” He wondered.
“Why don’t we split up into two groups?” Yugi suggested, “And then we can meet up for lunch in the museum’s restaurant.” He said and everyone agreed. So they split up and after a moment Yugi realized something. He, alone with Joey and Seto, had been left with four chibis as Mai, Tea, Tristan and Mokuba wondered off on their own. He looked at the other two.
Joey shrugged, “Marik won’t leave me and Malik won’t leave him and Ryou told Bakura to stay with Malik so that’s what he’s doing. And of course Yami stays with you.” He explained and Yugi sighed.
“Well, let’s get going I guess.” He said and looked down at the chibis, “What do you guys want to see first?” He wondered as Seto pulled out a map of the museum.
“We can go to their ‘Under the Sea’ exhibit, ‘Before Man’ exhibit and look at all the dinosaurs, we can go see bugs at their ‘Insects, the World’s Smallest Powerhouse’ exhibit or ‘Welcome to Ancient Egypt’ with real live mummies.” Seto read from the booklet. He raised an eyebrow.
“Wive mummies?” Malik was confused, “’Ugi, can mummies be awive?”
“No Malik, it’s just a mistake. Now, where do you want to go?”
“Bugs.” Yami replied.
“Bugs.” Marik said.
“Bugs!” Malik jumped up and down.
Yami Bakura shrugged, “Bugs.”
“Bugs it is.” Yugi nodded and the seven of them made their way to the exhibit. “I thought they were the worlds smallest powerhouse.” Yugi muttered as they made their way into the exhibit. The first thing anybody saw was a giant bumble bee almost larger then Seto standing at the door like a guard as they entered the ‘hive’.
The seven boys looked around the hive at all the displays of insects. “Wow!” Malik began, “Pwetty cowouws!” His eyes were wide with amazement as he looked at an assortment of colourful beetles. Yami Bakura and Marik stayed close to his side as the two looked around the room for anything else interesting. Marik spotted a bunch of bees and when they were done with the beetles, he dragged the two other chibis over to the glass cage.
The bees were alive and in the glass cage was a real hive that had been cut into so people could see inside. The bees didn’t seem to mind an audience as they went about their work. It wasn’t until one of the bees flew against the glass, startling all three chibis and causing them to scream and run away.
Yugi looked around curiously then spotted an old scarab. “Hey Yami, come and take a look at this.” He said, when he didn’t receive an answer he looked around. “Yami?” He wondered. “Great. I just lost my other half.” Yugi sighed and turned to the others. “Have you guys seen our pharaoh?” He muttered.
“No actually, I was trying to calm the other three down, sorry Yug.” Joey shrugged sheepishly as he covered Marik’s mouth. The chibi was spouting off Egyptian curses at the bees. He would have been waving his Millennium Rod, had they not left that at home. “Where do you suppose he learned that?” He wondered, grinning at Seto.
“From another Egyptian spirit.” Seto muttered as he looked at Yami Bakura. Yami Bakura was too busy looking at a case of butterflies to notice though. He was so enthralled with them that he didn’t notice the live insects above him. At least until one landed on his nose.
“Huh?” He jumped back slightly, right into Yugi.
Yugi laughed quietly, “It seems that butterfly likes you Bakura.” He said as he watched the large butterfly flutter its large wings before Yami Bakura’s eyes. The wings were bright blue, yellow and black and looked very delicate. After a few more flutters the butterfly flew away.
“Butta’fly kisses!” Malik laughed, “Ithith a’ways gave me dem when I was widdle.” He stated then looked down at himself, “Wait, I am widdle!” The poor boy looked very confused.
Yugi smiled at the cuteness, “We’d better find Yami, I have a feeling that they don’t normally let the exhibits run wild.” He sighed and the group continued on their way through the exhibit.
***
“You really should eat something.” Duke insisted as he held out the spoon to Ryou. The poor chibi looked exhausted and Duke knew he was tired, but he needed something in his stomach first. “Just a few bites, please?”
“Den can I sweep?” Ryou asked, glazed eyes turned on his babysitter.
Duke smiled reassuringly, “Yes, then you can sleep.” He promised.
“Otay.” Ryou took the spoon.
***
“Yami!” Yugi called out as he spotted a patch of black and red hair disappear around a corner. “You can’t let the bugs out!” He insisted as he tried to catch up with his surprisingly fast other half.
“Geez,” Joey panted from behind him, “You’d think that Yami would be the sweet chibi and Yami Bakura would be the troublemaker.”
“No kidding.” Yugi muttered, then looked at Joey as they slowed down, having lost Yami’s trail. “Do you think it was wise to leave Seto with the three other chibis?” He voiced.
Joey shrugged, “As long as Marik and Malik don’t move, breath, talk or show any sign of life, then there’ll be no problem.” He grinned and moved forward.
Yugi slapped his forehead as he ran to catch up.
***
Seto Kaiba was not happy. For one thing, his Joey had ran off with Yugi to find that stupid pharaoh. For another, he was stuck with three little monsters. He glanced down at one of the small boys sitting quietly beside him. Okay, okay, two little monsters. He watched as Marik and Malik tried to climb over the plastic fence keeping unwanted people from entering the exhibits.
The exhibit was of a giant wasp’s nest and with that nest came giant wasps.
Seto shuddered, he hated bugs. It wasn’t that he was afraid of them, but they were ugly and a human sized model was even uglier.
“Seto! Seto!” Malik and Marik called as they scampered back to him. “We’a bowed!” Marik continued, “Finished with the bugs! Let’s go see somet’ing ewse now!”
“Wanna see Egypt!” Malik exclaimed. “Pwease?” The small chibi stuck out his lip and surprisingly, Seto found himself faltering under that gaze of chibi eyes.
“Okay Kaiba.” Seto took a deep breath, “This is Malik Ishtar you’re about to give in to. Think about this.” He shook his head and looked back down where Malik had yet to move. “Damn it. Alright, let’s go see Egypt.”
“Yay!” Malik cheered happily as he took Yami Bakura’s hand.
After a few minutes of walking, Seto realized that the Egyptian display was all the way on the other side of the museum, but the trip there was surprisingly uneventful, except for Marik’s question on why the dinosaurs they passed weren’t wearing skin. So the small troop entered the Egyptian display and Seto noticed how all three of the boys looked much more at home suddenly.
“I wanna see the mummies!” Marik said.
“I wanna see the tweasuas!” Malik grinned as he rubbed his hands together.
Yami Bakura was silent as he followed the other two, having to stay with Malik. Seto couldn’t help but think the shy little tyke looked a little confused, but it was probably only natural. To a two or three year old Yami Bakura, he had forgotten about the 5,000 years that had passed since his time.
They passed the mummies, much to Marik’s displeasure. He thought they’d been alive! Although the ones not in the sarcophagi had been very gross and he’d scared Malik with a few of them. The golden artifacts had captured Malik’s attention and the small boy wanted to see the crown of Tutankhamun, but unfortunately (well, for Malik anyway), the priceless crown was behind chibi-proof glass.
Seto stared up at the slab of stone that had been his and Yami’s deciding future. He shook his head, glad that ‘the great evil’ had been vanquished, although he still wanted the God Cards. Blue eyes looked down at ‘the great evil’ where said evil was playing tag with his yami around a statue of Anubis.
He blinked, realizing that he only had two chibis. “Damn it, the pharaoh already went missing, we don’t need the tomb robber missing too!” He muttered to himself and grabbed Malik and Marik’s hands, telling them that they had to look for Yami Bakura.
“He found something with the tweasuas.” Malik shrugged.
Damn it! He’s three years old! How early did he start robbing tombs anyway? “Well, let’s go find him.” Seto said as the three of them went back into another part of the exhibit. There they found Yami Bakura trying to break open a glass case. Inside the case was a small wooden box and a funny shaped stick. Confused, but knowing he had to stop the chibi, Seto picked Yami Bakura up and then read the plaque that was placed out in front.
‘Scientists have studied this artifact, but they can not find a way to open it. They figure that it is only a hallowed out shell that once held treasure. This is just another mystery unsolved. It is speculated that the box was also used in sacrificing ceremonies, the heart or brain of the being getting sacrificed would be placed within the box for nine days until it had dried. We’re not sure what the ceremonies were for, but it is just a speculation.’
Seto looked at Yami Bakura, “It’s hallow, why would you want it?” He asked.
“It’s mine!” Yami Bakura declared.
“Well, if it’s yours, how do you open it?” A voice came from behind them, making all three chibis, and Seto turn around. Isis Ishtar stood before them, her hands clasped in front of her in patients.
“Ithith!” Malik cheered as he ran over to his sister, wanting to be picked up. Isis smiled and knelt down, picking the child up as he wished. “Yugi bringed us hewe.” He explained.
Isis laughed, “I know, I foresaw it with my Millennium Tauk.” She hugged Malik to her; “He hasn’t been giving you any problems, has he?” She asked, looking over at Seto as she lovingly ran her fingers through Malik’s hair.
“Me personally? No. Yugi and his friends, yes, though not as much as some other people.” Seto replied as he shifted Yami Bakura in his arms as the chibi tried to reach toward the glass case again.
“Malik was a very mischievous child when he was allowed to be.” Isis gently tapped Malik’s nose, then her eyes caught something standing by Seto’s feet, or rather, hiding behind Seto’s legs. Her blue eyes widened in surprise when she saw her brother’s yami staring back at her, in all his one and a half feet of glory. “Wow…never thought Yami Malik could be a child.” She said, mostly to herself.
“Maywik.” Malik suddenly said, making Isis look at him, “We caww him Maywik.”
Smiling softly, Isis knelt down, obviously startling the shy yami into hiding again. “It’s okay Marik.” She promised as she gently placed Malik on the floor and then held out her hand toward the hiding child. “You are safe here.”
“Sister?” Marik whispered questioningly, peeking around Seto’s leg.
Isis smiled and nodded, “Yes.” She promised and slowly, the shy boy moved away from Seto and made his way cautiously over to Malik’s…no, now she was his sister too. She picked him up gently, and held him as she had held Malik only moments before. As Seto watched, the CEO realized that Marik looked confused, as if he’d never been held before…
His musings however, were cut off as Yami Bakura began to struggle again, reaching out toward the glass case. “Stop that!” Seto snapped, immediately wishing he hadn’t yelled at the small boy as Yami Bakura quickly stopped moving, even breathing.
Isis gently set Marik down on the floor beside his twin, tenderly ruffling the boy’s hair. After that, she went over to the locked cabinet, and unlocked it with her master key. “Okay Bakura, if this is yours, show me how you open it.” She said and handed the little boy the objects.
Seto put Yami Bakura on the floor and the child went to work. The ‘stick’ was held between two small hands as the ‘box’ was placed on the floor in front of him. Yami Bakura tapped the ‘stick’ on the floor three times, then twisted one end of it. A small thin piece of rusted metal slid out of the opposite end that had been twisted. With that done, the small boy turned the box over until he’d apparently found the side he’d been looking for and he carefully stuck the thin metal into an almost nonexistent hole. After that was done, Yami Bakura gently tugged a part of the box, opening it like a lid.
From their positions, nobody could see what was held within the box, but the smile, which adorned Yami Bakura’s innocent face, told them it was something of great value - at least to the chibi.
The key forgotten, Yami Bakura reached into the box and pulled out the last thing Seto Kaiba ever expected to see cradled within this certain yami’s arms.
A stuffed lion.
Well, an ancient Egyptian style plushie. Suddenly the smile on Yami Bakura’s face vanished and he looked up at Isis. “Can I keep him?” He wondered softly, playing with what was probably an ear. “My mama gave him to me befowe…” He trailed off and shook his head.
Isis, having looked back into the past of certain people she’d met since coming to Domino, didn’t have to ask. She picked the child up and looked at the lion. “Of course you can keep him.” She smiled, gently tucking a lock of white behind a small ear.
“Yay!” Yami Bakura cheered as he clutched the old rag.
Suddenly they all heard a crash, followed by a familiar voice. At least to Seto’s ears.
“No! ‘Ami da Phawaoh! Won’t wisten! You wisten!”