Me: =bows= I'm sorry! =bows= I'm sorry!

Ayume: O_o?

Marik: For putting the tape on us?

Bakura: Cause it still hurts you know!

Me: What? NO! I'm saying sorry to the readers cause this story still isn't done yet! TT-TT School is making it harder and harder to get me to type and thanks to my neices for deleting this one too, it's hard typing it again without being all "Screw it, I give up!" on it!

Ayume: Plus your friend getting you hooked on another anime.

Me; TT-TT I KNOW! But I still love Yugioh!

Marik: So what's this other anime?

Me:...Digimon.

Bakura and Marik: O_O...XDDD FOR REALS?

Me: T_T Want me to tape your mouths again? Cause I know some people that would LOVE to see you two in pain again!

Boys; O_O

Ayume: =sighs= Well, anywho. My hikari owns nothing from the show. All she owns is the plot...do I get a cookie now?

Me: AFTER!...Please enjoy...I hate school! TT-TT (Oh, And thanks Blood Red Tears for that funny idea of Seto being all stoned out! XD)

Ok, maybe that night could have been better. He could of scared kids of their candies. Made fun of the little puppy. Learn that Ryou had a pumpkin pie hidden in the fridge he already poked his blood dried fingers in before they left. And finally ripping that Ra damn tail off that werewolf! Yeah, what fun he could of had if he wasn't a white fluffy bunny hanging off the opening of a man eating device that wants to clean him good for his funeral.

Looking at the fast turning blades that were slicing at the clothes Bakura gulped looking away. His body only mere inches from the blades calling out to him in screeches and clangs.

Bakura shock his head from the silent voice and precede getting a better grip on the edge to pull him to safety. He was glad for one thing though, at least the stoned out man didn't close the lid before walking into the door then finally learning that the things don't open on their own.

He was alone. He was scared. He (only for this one time) misses his friends.

In the distance, he still heard the cries of his long forgotten friend locked in that room. To bad he didn't follow if he could, it would have been easier to get out of there with that mutts help. Heck, Malik's puppy self would of been good. Not for helping him out, but getting stuck in the gears and making the whole thing blow up. But then what, Ryou would hate him and Marik would kill him.

A frightening buzz burst in his ears and the blades turn directions. Going faster and more wider.

Bakura screeched. Now the blades were only a whisker length towards him. "Crap, where's the off switch to this thing?" He yelled trying to climb the wet walls that seemed impossible to get a good grip on.

Then, without even knowing it, Bakura's ears were getting pulled back towards the cyclone dragging his body with it. When the sharp pains reached the nerves in his ears he screamed from the pain. He didn't want to die like this. He wanted to die in sugar like Marik and him promised.

It happened to fast for him to notice in time. Crimson eyes widening. The body getting pulled away from safety. Him screaming in the slashes of the blades. The grip he held to the blades to not black out. Bakura screamed out again, letting it pierce through the night air like an arrow. Only hope someone could hear him, but who would? Mortals hear only chirps from him and other animals don't understand what he says. It was lost. All hope of him getting out.

His eyes only in slits watching the cape getting pulled away and mixed in with all the other clothes. He saw red, but was it blood or a clothing. He couldn't tell, he was losing himself to darkness.

What fun. His mind spoke letting his grip loosen. Dieing as a bunny, wonder if the hell hounds will have fun with me. Bakura choked out a water soaked laugh as one hand was freely waving in the wind. The waterfall that flew by made the water level higher and higher. It was up to his thighs without even caring he would die. He giggled kicking at the water like a child. Was it cause he was getting dizzy that he's acting like this?

Through that laughter he was sure he held another voice, a mere whisper, calling. Calling what? A name? His name?

"Oh, shut up Ra!" He sounded like he was drunk on Mai's chocolates again. "I'm not dieing yet, so stop calling me. I still have another minute at watching the bubbles." He growled looking away when the voice was louder. It was soon joined with another. Two Ra's?

Bakura's head jolted up at the open lid in hopes at finding someone. But it was all like being on a marry-go-around and trying to count the stars on the painted sky. The voices were there but the bodies were nothing but air. Was he really hearing voices of the living or of the dead?

The bunny looked away and at the water. It was up to his chest and still rising to his bare neck. His ears did their best to droop but what use. He was going to die. Why not do it without him looking like a scary cat.

"Fine…" The whisper was spoken. The last of his breath taken. With both eyes closed the hand let go.

Weird, he thought falling under water would be more, well, wet and cold? It all felt like he was floating. Was he dead already? Wait, he already died and it didn't feel anything like this.

His eyes open and what he finds made them wide. He was floating! He blinked and wince at the sharp pain on his neck.

"Is this magic?" Bakura said. His voice full of doubt. The pain in his neck increased making him yelp and grip at the fur. What he grabbed was fur…but not his.

"Bakura you jackass, get a grip and help us!" The bunny jumped -nearly dropping from his saviors hold- and lifted his head up. His mouth grew to a smile.

"Marik, Bitch!" He squealed seeing his friends doing their best to pull him up.

Malik made a muffled bark with his jaw full of white fur, his tail wagged nearly knocking Marik into the death trap from behind. The ferret used his claws to hold the other half of Bakura's neck.

He grunted peeking at the bunny with one half closed eye. "You really think…you can die on us, Buzz Bunny?" Marik joked lifting more on his side. Malik doing the same.

Bakura tsked crossing his arms. Even in danger he still has to look like it doesn't scare him (only in front of them). "Well, I thought I could take a late night bath before meeting up with you again."

Marik smirked. "Oh really," He sat up slightly. "I guess I better let you have your bath then." He let go of the fur dropping Bakura back inches from the bubbly blades. If Malik didn't have his fangs on him, Bakura would of fallen in by now.

Bakura squeaked kicking the air between him and the water. "Ok, Ok, I get it. Now pull me back up!"

The ferret laughed grabbing his part of the neck and using his might to help hoist the bunny up. With one last tug on both Egyptians the bunny was home free on land. Bakura sat straight up and squealed.

"Land! Beautiful land!" he kissed the ground like there was no tomorrow. Well, there wouldn't if they didn't come along.

Marik stared confused at his actions and coughed in his paw to clear the atmosphere. "Well, anyways…" He trailed off and walk up to the thief. When Bakura looked up at him his head was bashed to the side, his cheek red as blood. The bunny whimpered looking back at the paw the ferret struck him with.

"You know the hell we been through looking for you?" He yelled. Bakura's body flinched under the voice. The slap even shaken him up. "Thanks to you we're more lost then ever!" Marik continued, his voice getting high with every word he spook. His hikari stepped away with fear, he knows where this was going. "And cause of you leaving, I had to baby-sit these two, thank you very much! I think I got a tumor in my brain cause of all their stupid childish ways."

Bakura opened his mouth to speak but Marik beat him to it. "And another thing, you know how hard it was to get in here? We were lucky the back door was screened so we could just bite our way in. But that bloody Moneybags sure can sleepwalk. What the hell is wrong with him anyways? He looked more out of it then us two after eating some of the pharaoh's Happy Brownies! And you know what we find? You stuck in a washing machine letting yourself die. And, And…Argh!" Marik raised his paw again. Bakura used his to cover his head but what came next made him confused.

The ferret was patting his head like he was comforting a lost child. Bakura blinked looking up to him with uncertainty. Marik soften his smile. "Just glad to have you back buddy."

The bunny cooed leaning into the touch. He pouted when it was taken away. Marik flashed him a smirk which in turn made the thief blush.

Just before the bunny could make a comeback he was knocked over, flattened under a drooling happy puppy. Malik's bark echoed in Bakura's ears like needles. The thief did his best to push the mutt off him but Malik was making him lose focus with that damn tongue of his. Yup, he really is Marik's hikari, even if this form was getting him more pissed then his human form.

"Malik, get off!" He yelled using his back legs to knock him off but with no success. "If you even dare get any of that junk in my mouth I will surely throw you in the metal death trap!"

Malik stopped for a moment, his head titled to the side as he sat right on top the white chest. He barked once and started to wag his tail.

Marik only tsked crossing his arms. "You know," He said with a mocking type of tone. "At this angle, I would count this as Fanservice."

The bunny blushed a deep scarlet and with one thrust, knocked the puppy off and quickly getting on his feet. He glared at the other yami with the 'you tell, I'll kill you' look.

"Look," Bakura finally spoken up, the blush still visible on his cheeks. "All I want to do is go home, eat my candy with Ryou, go sleep and wake up tomorrow morning with all this a dream."

Marik and Malik shared a nervous glance. Bakura caught this and growled out, "What? You telling me this really is a dream?"

The ferret shook his head, "No, wish it was but that's not the real problem."

"Well, spit it out man, what's up?"

Marik scratched the back of his head and nervously laughed. "Hehe, well, have you notice anything, well…missing?"

Bakura blinked at the question. He scanned the group with a raised brow. Nothing seemed different to him. You got the psycho ferret, a chasing his tail puppy, and a naked bunny. What was he missing?… Finally it hit him hard. "Where the hell is my hikari, Keeper?"

The ferret jumped slightly from the question. His eyes downcast watching his paw make circles on the metal machine. When he finally spoke up, his voice was shy, so unlike that character he built. "We, well, kind of gotten into a fight and he ran off."

Crimson eyes darken. "You did what?" His voice boomed around in the closed room. Malik lowered his body, his stomach touching against cold metal. Marik stepped back, his ears flatten. "You got any idea what you did?" He continued, his voice getting louder as he spoke. "You lost the one person that gets scared of the dark. And since he's a cat, you know how much trouble he could be in?" He was remembering that fight he had with the white kitten. Ryou wanting to stay a kitty and be taken in by strangers. That was neva going to leave him.

"I know, I know!" Marik replied, waving his arms in defense from the angry words. "And I know he'll get more lost if we just stand here and do nothing!"

Bakura opened his mouth for another round of venom favored words, but he shut it. Marik was right, the more they stand there, the more Ryou will be away from them. And that'll mean more in danger.

The bunny sighed clearing his mind from the anger and hopped off the high machine landing in a basket of clean towels. He looked up once seeing Marik's and Malik's head poking off the side. "Well, you coming or what?"

Marik looked once at his hikari and sighed. He took a couple steps back and ran off the edge landing right next to his bunny comrade. Marik blinked, getting swallowed up in the softness. He felt a strong tug at his arm and he was out of the basket right in time before a blonde blur crashed into the white mess making it rain towels.

After sometime, White fur poked it's head out of the mess and glared at the hikari leaning out of the basket wagging his tail like he did the world's greatest thing. "Malik, I got no idea what Ryou sees in you."

The pup barked for response and hopped out of the basket shaking his fur. Bakura started confused at the puppy. Great, another thing was off. "Hey, Malik, what gives? You neva said one thing since you two came here! Hey!"

Finally, beside Bakura, Marik's head came out. His wild spikes more messy then before. He glanced at his hikari then sighed. "Cause he can't anymore."

Bakura jumped and looked straight at the yami. "What you talkin about?"

The ferret slipped out of the towels and headed near his hikari. He hugged the oversized head as Malik began licking at his fur. In those purple eyes, Marik held sadness in them. "Seems like he lost his voice."

White ears drooped. He neva heard his friends voice like that. It wasn't as strong and fired up like usual. It was like a young child's who lost something dear to him. In fact, through Bakura's eyes, that's exactly what Marik looked like now.

"What do you mean?" He asked. Bakura watched carefully as Marik stepped back from the blonde pup and started to scratch his head.

The ferret sighed. "I don't know myself." He said not taking his eyes off the puppy that leaned into the touch. "But, I think it has something to do with the blackness."

Bakura raised a brow. "The blackness?"

Marik nodded, pointing at the pitch black muzzle of his hikari. "Seems like this is part of the curse the old granny was talking about." He lifted his tail to be viewed by the other. "If you noticed, all of ours are of different sizes like we're doing things that either quickens it or slows it down." he dropped it and sighed. "Yet, I got no idea what we're doing that's making them grow."

Looking at his own blackness, Bakura frown seeing it bigger then when he was in the other room. He gazed back up and the frown grew when he saw his best friend hugging his hikari like it was the last he would ever see him again. Bakura bit his lowered lip and shook his head. He held his head straight up and marched right up to his friend, gripping his shoulders so he would look at him straight in the eyes. "Look," His voice stern and strong. "Whatever the hell is happening to us, we have to stop it before we lose more then Malik's voice. Right now, we got two things we have to worry about. One is my missing hikari and the second one is finding out how to stop this. Got it?" He asked waiting for Marik to show he understood it.

Marik nodded. Bakura smiled letting go of his shoulders. The insane yami smiled back and went back petting the puppy's head. "Your right." He took a big breath and exhaled it, looking at Bakura with fire in his eyes. "Let's go find your hikari."

The thief smirked. "Now your talking."

Within seconds, the three-o were out the laundry room and down the hall running on all fours and dodging any late night walkers (Mostly Seto). Marik on the nose knowing which way he came in from, every other corner or so, he peak behind him to make sure his companion and hikari are still following. His ears flatten when he saw Bakura lagging behind and looking at the walls and doors like waiting for something to appear or happen. He must of felt eyes on him cause his gaze turned away from the walls and to the blonde ferret. He flashed him a smirk and Marik nodded turning away picking up speed.

Malik was having the time of his life, he hopped over Bakura just to annoy him and doing little twirls in the middle of a run. His happy mood stopped when he scent something. The pup stopped dead in his tracks letting out a low growl.

The yami's followed suit looking worried at the L4D hunter. Marik looked at Bakura like he did something but the thief shook his head. They both jumped when the pup ran right pass them in lightening speed. Didn't take Marik long to chase after his hikari. Bakura did the same but hesitated. He noticed the barks and howls of his long forgotten friend were gone. He shook it off thinking he got out, but still, he felt like something less was up.

"Malik! Hey, where are you young one!" Marik yelled once they were far distance from the CEO building. They lost all sight of the weird acting puppy. Marik's fangs chattered in annoyance looking though the darkness for any blonde. "Malik!"

"Marik, stop, you'll hurt yourself." Bakura said resting a paw on the Keeper's shoulder. "He might of smelt Ryou and is with him right now."

Marik lowered his head in defeat. "You might be right but…" He took a peak at the thief in the corner of his eyes. "I neva saw him act like that. It was like he was after something."

The bunny frown, brushing a wild spike from Marik's muzzle and spoke in a small voice, "Like I said; Ryou."

The ferret shook his head. "No." He knocked the white paw off his shoulders and stood straight up. "You seen him right? He was growling. No way he would do that if he smelt Ryou…right?"

Bakura opened his mouth but closed it. Marik was right. No way Malik would growl at Ryou. Even if one was a dog and the other was a cat. It might have been something else…but what?

"Awe, look. Two free meals in one night. To bad I'm on an all fish diet."

Both rodents jumped at the voice. They spun their heads around to find the source but with no vain. When they heard a little purr they looked up.

There they stared, the yami's and a black cat, both not moving from their spots. The cat's silhouette shined under the Cheshire Cat grinning moon and a smirk to match it.

"So," The cat purred stretching one paw out and swiping it once with it's tongue. "Are you lost or looking for something that needs dinner?"

Marik gulped stepping back once. Bakura was staring wide eyed at it, that is, till the cat jumped off the fence and landed perfectly on the cement in front of them without a noise or a misplacement.

It held it's head high and smirked. "Tell me," The voice was tired and old, yet, still held spark of a young woman. "Why are you out here?"

Seconds went by till the yami's relaxed under the watchful eye of the female. Bakura coughed once in his paw. "We're looking for our young ones?" He said weakly.

The cat looked puzzled at them for a second then shrugged. "Why not keep them in their dens till the sun swallows the sky again?"

"No, you don't under stand miss." Marik finally spoke up. When the cat looked at him, he flinched. "Their not our children. They're our hikari, our lights." The cat blinked at him with a tilted head. Marik sighed. "I mean we're not animals."

Nothing but silence came from the female. And just as fast the silence came, it was broken from laughter. "Not animals? But you look like animals!" She meowed holding a paw over her mouth. "How can one be what said they aren't?"

A eye brow twitched. Crimson eyes glared at the laughing feline. "We're humans!" Bakura yelled. His ears shooting straight up "Some woman cursed us cause we have to find some stupid spirit of Halloween!"

The laughter decreased to only giggles. She smirked leaning in to Bakura's face. "Then why didn't you find what is easy to seek?" The cat said in a cocky voice.

The bunny jumped back. He glared harder at the cat but it didn't faze her one bit. Marik sighed stepping in between the two before the 'all fish diet' gets broken. "So, you telling us that the spirit of Halloween is easy to find?"

She nodded. The cat stepped back licking her paw again before speaking in a more serious mood. "Why must one speak where to find what one must find by-self?"

The yami's blinked at her words. The cat sighed using the wet paw to wipe her ear. "It means what your looking for you have to find on your own."

Bakura growled. "Why didn't you just tell us that in the first place?"

The feline meowed circling the boys. Her tail hitting against each of them. She stopped right in front of them and with a dark voice she answered. "Cause my true self is having a hard time dieing." The darkness in her voice shifted. "So, I'm having a hard time speaking what I like sometimes." She laughed like it was the greatest joke in the world.

The yami's looked at one another and yelped when the cat nudged her head against both of their arms. She sat up. "Ok, I'll help you find your young ones."

Their faces lit up after those words were spoken. "But," The yami's ears drooped. "I want something in return when we find them."

Marik gulped. "What do you want?" He asked nervously.

The black figure formed a white grin. "Oh, you'll see after all is done." And with that, she stood on her feet and head towards the darkness beyond the sidewalk. It was like she already knows where she was going.

Both the Keeper and the Thief shared one last uneasy look before following the mysterious cat. The night grew colder and more dark. The blackness was growing as the moon's light went higher in the night sky.

How long till the light goes out?

Me: Bwhahahaha! The next chapter is the last! Beat that teachers! I still got it!

Ayume: Your sane? Nope, you lost that LONG ago!

Bakura and Marik: XDDD

Me; T_T No soup for you!

Ayume: O.o But I wanted a cookie!

Me: Same thing!

Marik:...Then...Can we have a cookie?

Bakura: =nods= Yeah, you owe us for hurting our lips!

Ayume: That's what she said!

Me: XDDD

Boys: T_T

Ayume: =sighs= Please reveiw. Remember, the next chapter is the last!

Me: ^w^ Yup! And all your questions will be answered!