Who knew that a magic could go so horribly wrong? Ryou Bakura certainly did not.
All he wanted to do was was find a way to make the spirit of the Millennium Ring calm down. It should have been simple enough. Talking it out had been his go to but waking up to find himself in the freezer of an ice cream truck with two empty gallons of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream at his sides and a third half eaten one on his lap he suddenly realized that the spirit of the Ring was unreasonable. So in the immortal words of Jackie Chan’s uncle, he knew that magic must defeat magic.
A drawn circle in chalk, some burning amber incenses, a book with questionable content to read from, and three small piles of salt around the Millennium Ring should have done the trick. At least he had thought it would. However there was one problem. The salt was actually sugar.
With a dull glow in the eye of the Ring as he read allow the questionable text Ryou had initially been excited. His life would be his again! The eye glowing brighter until it flashed and suddenly the room was dark.
No wait, his eyes were closed.
Ryou opened them slowly only to be face to face with a tiny version of himself. No wait. He recognized the person. It was the rascal spirit himself! The thief that stole his looks for he had forgotten his own!
“At last!” The little form cackled in a high pitched voice. “I am free!”
Ryou unable to help but laugh at that point. Never before had he heard the other sound so silly! And he is so tiny! Not at all the mincing ghost that only he could see but like a tiny little child with clothes too big for him on.
“What are you laughing at?” the chibi snarled adorably. What. That was supposed to be mincing. What was going on?
The thief blinked only to see that he was having to look up quite a ways to met his old host’s gaze.
“Why are you so big?!” the former spirit made flesh stumbling backward.
“I’m not big. You are just small,” Ryou explained before thumbing through the book to see just what he did wrong.
“Small?” The Ring did look bigger in his grasp now that he thought about it. Worse yet was that his pants were now baggy and were falling off. His shirt however still long enough to cover him but did little to hide the embarrassed yell as he tried to pull the jeans back up. “Fix this!”
The book suddenly snapped shut in Ryou’s hand. This was not what he wanted but perhaps… Perhaps this could still work. “No.”
The thief stamping his foot. “Fix it now!”
“No,” Ryou spoke more confidently. “I think… This might actually work.”
“What?” the chibi blinked in surprise at not getting his way. “What are you-?” The phone began to ring and both paused to look to it on the wall. “Well. Answer it then FIX THIS!” No way was he going to leave the house looking like this. His grade vengeance was not going to be carried out as a pint sized hero he thought himself to be! He would be full sized and taller than the boy who held the spirit of Puzzle.
Ryou tried not to snicker at seeming his former demon being no longer a threat in his current state and answered the phone with a proper hello. “…Woah, slow down! Yugi, what are you saying?” Ryou going quiet as the other frantically went on over the other end of the line. “What?“
The chibi thief crossing his arms and pouting in what he hoped was a menacing glare.
“He’s- Are you serious?” Wait? “Oh… Wait. If he came out of your Puzzle and mine came out of the Ring. What? Oh, I uh… I mean it just happened. Yeah. He’s actually surprisingly adorable.”
“You better not be talking about me!” the little one hissed at Ryou. A ‘one second’ hand gesture silencing him and the thief growled until something shiny caught his attention. Ooo.. What was that? It was on a table but with a little effort he could get it easily enough. He was an expert thief after all.
“I think I have a idea what happened. Just bring him here and I’ll explain.” Yugi talking again only for the line to go quiet on both ends. Yugi had a point. If this affected them then what were the odds that it affected Malik as well? If he still had the Rod and if the spirit in that was not completely lost then… Maybe it too was out?
“New plan. We head to Malik’s and make sure he’s okay. Yeah. Don’t worry.” Ryou stood up only to look around and see his little monster was gone. A curse leaving his lips. “I’m sorry. I gotta find him. Be there soon, I promise!” And with that he hung up looking around the room and at last spotting the curious spirit tittering on the edge of a table, knocking off sculpted characters that were still drying. Little hands reaching for a container of glitter that was knocked off when he grabbed the chibi with both arms, pulling him close and sighing at the mess now on his floor.
“Let go, let go!” the thief screamed, wiggling in the other’s arms.
“You wanted me to fix you right? Okay. I’m going to do that. We just got to do a few things first.” Ryou pulling the tiny thief along and grabbing his book along the way. “Apparently you aren’t the only one free now.”
“What?” Tiny Bakura blinked in surprise. “You mean other Yugi is too?“ Ryou said nothing but that alone was enough confirmation for the other who now cackled adorably. "At last! Vengeance will be mine!”
“No. No vengeance. We are going to fix all this and put you all back. But first we need to check on Malik.”
A bit of silence as the thief turned the faintest shade of pink in memory of the Egyptian, Malik. “…why?”
“Just a precaution.” The door slammed behind them as with the other still tucked under his arm, Ryou started down the sidewalk towards the nearest bus stop. “Also I want to see if Mariku is back and as tiny as you.” Ryou holding back a mischievous smile of his own. How cute was little Mariku going to be?
However, things were not going to be as expected once he would arrive. The spell soon to be discovered to have turned however was inside the items into smaller versions of their selves and grant the current holders use of the full grown bodies they were in posses of at the time. And little Malik was a terror no one was prepared to deal with, not even his full grown darker half who would be found poking at the other with a broom from behind the couch.
@iamterra this is the cutest little story! thank you so so much. I am truly honored you would do this for me. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. ❤
Reblogging because something like this needs more attention. Thank you again to @iamterra
I was just thinking about how I actually love crack chibi fics ❤
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