Episode 1: Attack on Domino Park
Orichcalcos of Chaos
Episode 1: Attack on Domino Park
Ghost ReaperandWinter Cherries
First Posted: 6/9/18
It was hot.
The Court of Shadows was having a day off, the large group of teenagers was hanging around the jungle gym playset as they waited for Mokuba; he had supposedly managed to drag Seto out of his spacious office and was on their way to the park.
The thick summer sun mercilessly beat down on the teens, one quiet albino sitting under the shade of a tree with his talkative Egyptian friend.
"Please Ryou, can't you stand just a little bit of sunlight?" Marik whined, draping himself across his friend's lap with an overly dramatic sigh. Ryou giggled and patted Marik's forehead with a smile.
"It's too bright out today, not only would it damage my eyes I would probably be burnt to a crisp,"
"Aw come on Ry," Joey said, looking away from his desktop duel with Tristan in the grass. "It can't be dat bad, just cause you're a Brit doesn't mean ya always gotta be so pasty,"
Tristan sighed and played a monster. "Joey for the millionth time, Ryou's an albino, he can't be in strong sunlight it could like, kill him,"
Marik rolled his eyes. "I doubt it would kill him,"
"It might," Tea, looking down at them from the swings she was sitting on next to Yugi. "Sometimes I swear too strong of a breeze could kill him,"
"Hey!" He cried out indignantly, shoving off a laughing Marik. "It's not my fault everything makes me sick, I have allergies,"
"Sure," Marik snickered, now lying on his stomach in front of his best friend. "And I'm the Pharaoh of Egypt,"
Atem snorted at that from his floating position between Tea and Yugi, rolling his eyes. "No Marik you forget, I'm the Pharaoh of Egypt, you're just a Keeper,"
That made Ryou (and his slumbering spirit for that matter) snort and Marik frowned, playfully shoving his best friend.
"It wasn't that funny,"
"Oh yes it was,"
"Kaiba!"
"Hey Wheeler," Seto greeted, flopping down on the ground next to the pair of duelists, Mokuba soon followed, lying down on top of his brother's stomach.
"Whatcha guys been up to?" The smaller teen asked, playing with the grass in front of the dueling pair. Seto turned his head towards them with one eye open, watching.
"Ah nothin', just been enjoyin' da summer an' all the da freedom of someone not tryin' to take over da world dis summer," Joey spoke, playing through his turn while Kaiba eyed his play with contempt.
"That wasn't the right move to make Wheeler and you do know you've probably just jinxed it right?" Seto scoffed, turning away to watch Tea and Yugi jump playfully off the swings, giggling as they walked over to the rest of the group. "Now we're gonna have to go save the world again,"
"But I thought you didn't believe in superstitions,"
"Only when they concern me Taylor, only when they concern me,"
"Is that why it took you so long to believe my sister when she told you of your ancient heritage?" Marik asked, not looking away from Ryou's half braided hair. He snorted. "Did you really have your head that far up your ass?"
They would have continued the pleasant conversation for longer when the loud crack-ing sound of fireworks filled the air and a dozen or so people in black cloaks and skull masks appeared, jets of green light spewing out from the covered hands and striking down many in the park. Yugi watched as one struck the prone body of a young girl, watching with a sick stomach as she crumpled uselessly to the ground.
A stray light rocketed towards them.
"Everyone, duck!"
And they did, the beam harmlessly dispersing itself into the bark just above Ryou.
He was forcefully thrown out of control by Bakura.
"You bastards!"
And that was what attracted the attention of the invaders.
They turned towards the large group with loud cackling, all more focused on trying to mow down the Court rather than the fleeing spectators.
"Ah shit," Atem cursed, taking Yugi's place before saying louder. "Everyone summon your monsters, we need to defend ourselves,"
And that was it, the shadows lovingly curled around their many masters, obliging to the simple requests.
"I summon, the Dark Magician!"
"Come forth, Blue Eyes White Dragon!"
"From the depths of the Shadows I summon you, rise, Dark Necrofear!"
"I invoke the prowess of my Magician of Faith!"
"Red Eyes, show ya self! Decimate these creeps!"
"Super Roboyarou, thrash these idiots!"
"Revival Jam I call upon you, copy Bakura's monster and fight!"
"Let's go, Ancient Fairy Dragon!"
At the sight of his comrades being quickly overpowered by the sheer amount of Shadow Monsters, a man stepped forward, flipping off the hood of his cloak.
"I activate the power of the Oricalcum!" He screamed and Atem let out a curse.
/But I thought we'd gotten rid of all the Orichcalcos/ Whispered Yugi from the back of his mind.
/So did I Aibou/ He replied back, dodging a streak of green light and sending the Dark Magician to attack.
The grotesque green light appeared and expanded, surrounding both duelists and the cloaked Invaders, its' harsh wind blowing off hoods and ripping at clothes.
They were trapped within the seal.
"Come back here you ratchet motherfuck!" Marik and Bakura were playing a tag-team against a woman with wild black hair. "By Ra did a rat make a nest in you hair?"
"I could say the same to you," She sneered back and flickered what seemed to be a stick at Dark Necrofear, who shrieked and exploded when the frizz of red light touched her. Baruka flinched away with grunt and Marik stood up for the attack, growling out "Watch who you're attacking you bitch," and laughed psychotically at her comically wide eyes and frightened face as his copycat Revival Jam rose out of her shadow, easily towering over her with a glare.
Both Tristan and Tea were playing defense, Tea's Shadows violently whipping around and fueling her comrades with power; their monsters danced around the battlefield, doing their best to keep any harmful blasts from striking any of the Court.
Kaiba seemed to be having fun at least, cackling gleefully at the destruction his beautiful Blue Eyes could inflict.
"Having fun big bro?"
Mokuba, true to his brother was giggling as well; the shadows did usually give their wielders an unnatural high during the more intense moments of powers as to keep them from pass out and becoming lost in the shadow realm but the Kaiba two brothers seemed to enjoy it more than most.
Joey let out a howl of laughter, bumping shoulders against Atem as their monsters dual dueled one of the invaders, attacking him from both sides. The consequent strike knocked the man unconscious, the seal, shrinking to claim its' first victim of the duel.
Despite the dire circumstances of the duel, the Shadows always made sure to reward their masters with a wave of euphoria when they did something that pleased them, enhancing their high-strung emotions and masking them in a temporary insanity.
"Ah the rush," Joey practically purred. Vaguely, in the back of his mind Atem could hear Yugi's quiet giggling.
/Does it really feel that good?/
/Of course Aibou, the shadows have to reward their masters or nobody would use them. The promise of pleasure is quite enticing/ He replied back, dodging a green spell the whizzing dangerously past his cheek.
A few feet away from him was Marik and Bakura, they were bickering like an old married couple, too preoccupied with each other and the chaos cluttering up around them to see the woman they'd been fight stand back up, the seal hadn't taken her victim. Bakura was giddy with anticipation, there was nothing like a good fight, even back in Egypt he'd done nothing but fight and steal and kill, oh what a glorious time. He was caught up in the past and the present he didn't see what was happening right before his eyes.
It wasn't fair, his back was turned, he hadn't even seen it coming, but his Yadonushi did.
/Koe No!/ And Bakuka was knocked out of control, the spell hitting Ryou straight on. The body crumpled to the ground.
Time seemed to stop for Marik and in that one fleeting moment it felt as if the world had been froze, stopped. Then everything began to move again, too fast, so much faster than the unnaturally still body of his best friend. Hysteria bubbled up in his throat.
"Rise," Marik shrieked. "Dark Necrofear, avenge your master!"
Necrofear rematerialized with an angry snap, the shadows pulled taunt by rage and the sheer amount of monsters being summoned at the same time and place. The blue skinned woman let out a howl of rage at the sight of her master's body on the ground, picking it up and tucking it gently in her arms with the broken doll for safekeeping before turning to attack the cloaked invader who dared to lay a finger on what was hers.
Marik screamed, letting out a manic battle cry and charging at the curly haired freak who dared to attack his friend. "You utter piece of shit!"
The other Mages were mad, no, they were furious. This had been nothing more than a game to them at first, as a thin layer of insanity tends to do to a person but the violent end to one of their own had quickly doused them all with a well needed bucket of metaphorical cold water.
"He, he-"
Tea covered her mouth in shock. "Oh Ra, is he…?"
It was killing time.
They attacked with ten times the force, rage fueling every single one of their monsters. Explosions rocked the seal, ever present and ready to gobble up any unfortunate victims of their escapade.
From Dark Necrofear's tumbled out a half-crazed Bakura, eyes blazing with ruthless blood-lust.
"Diabound rise!" Bakura was pissed; he could feel Ryou, just barely. Whatever that ray of green light was it had severed almost all the ties between Ba and Ka, just like when he had unwillingly become the vessel of Zorc those thousands of years ago. It was agony.
"Kill them all!"
The invaders were dropping like flies, the seal quickly eating up the souls of its' victims as Diabound decimated them one by one, fueled by his unimaginable rage. Only two were left standing inside the seal, the foolish mortal who thought to control the Orichcalcos and the bitch who damaged his Hikari.
Just as he was about to order the finishing attack more cracks filled the desperate air, a new rag-tag group of invaders pointing their sticks at the mortals in black outside the seal, taking them out with the bright lights as well.
"No!" The seal wielder cried, big mistake. It took his cry as a sign of defeat, closing in on him, ready to devour his soul. "No how could we lose to a bunch of kids!"
The other, the woman pouted furiously at the sight of her comrades soulless bodies. "I get out next time you little freaks! The Dark Lord doesn't take kindly to those who stand against him!" And disappeared in a cloud of black, the colorful group of intruders turning towards the Court instead.
"I activate, Swords of Revealing Light!" Atem cried, trying to ignore the black spots that danced across his vision, they needed to leave, quickly or they wouldn't be able to leave at all. Everyone was feeling drained, Tristan and Tea were panting and Kaiba was carrying his brother, Marik was supporting a sickly pale Bakura and just as he was about to collapse Joey had come and scooped him up, tossing him over his shoulder as they turned tail and ran.
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- Ghost ReaperandWinter Cherries