Genie of the Puzzle

30: Bakura's final wish

I AM SO UNBELIEVABLY OVERDUE BUT I WILL LIST MY PETTY EXCUSES BY THE END OF THIS CHAPTER

Realizing it was too late to try and hide, Yami sprinted for the puzzle with his arm outstretched.

"How many times do I have to kill you, boy?!" Bakura outstretched his arm with the rod, using magic to send Yami back, slamming him into the coin pile on the other end of the room.

Finally breaking his character, Yugi tried hitting, scratching, and biting at Bakura's arm, but he was merely pushed aside before Yami came rushing back.

Both Yami and Bakura wrestled for the rod.
"Get the puzzle!" Yami yelled to Yugi.

Bakura pushed Yami from him and kept the rod in his hands. Yugi had finally reached the puzzle, but his short legs had failed him. Bakura trapped Yugi in a giant hourglass, making his drop the puzzle.

"Your time has run out, Prince!"
Yugi looked up to be greeted with a faceful of sand that fell from above -the sand that would bury him and suffocate him if Yami wasn't quick enough.

Then Joey tried making a mad dash for it too, only to be turned into a toy monkey.

"Don't toy with me!"

Then the carpet swooped down from above and tried to snatch it, but Bakura used his magic to tug at the threads and pull them, undoing the stitching.

"Things are unraveling fast now, boy!"

Yami made another attempt to dart for the puzzle, but he was blocked by swords that came down from above and stuck into the floor in front of him, missing him by a hair.

Bakura sneered. "Get the point?"

"Stop it!" Yami yelled angrily, pulling up a sword from the ground without really thinking about it. "Stop making those horrible puns!"

With steam blowing out from his nose, Bakura grinned and said, "I'm just getting warmed up!"
When he exhaled through his mouth, tongues of flames escaped and trapped Yami in a ring of fire.

"Are you just afraid to fight me yourself," Yami spat, trying to hide the fact that the sword was too heavy. "....you cowardly snake!?"

"A snake, am I?" There was a ssssssslight hissssssssss in hisssss voicccccccccce. "Perhapsss you'd like to sssee how ssssssssssssssnake-like I can be!"

Yami watched in horror and shock as Bakura's pupils thinned, and a snake tongue stuck out from behind his teeth. His skin grew scaly and he began to grow.

"Mm mm." Marik said, hiding under a blanket. "No. I don't wanna look. Hell no."

A giant white cobra had to lower his head so it didn't hit the ceiling. Cobrakura (IM SORRY I HAD TO) eyed Yami and watched as the swords surrounding him became his tail.

Yami quickly jumped out of the way when Bakura lashed out his snake face in attempt to bite him.

Even after several attempts, he missed him each time and eventually Yami stood firm and swims his sword at Bakura's face when he tried to strike again.

Four duplicates of the genie in cheerleader outfits (with Ys on them) began to chant, "Rick 'em, rock 'em, rack 'em, rake; stick that sword into that snake!!!"

Bakura hissed, "You ssstay outta thisss!"

Unenthusiastically, the one genie cheerleader leaned on her elbow and waved a small flag with a B on it. "Kura, Kura, he's our man. If he can't do it-" with bloodshot eyes, she smiled and said, "GREAT!!!"