One Special Day
By. Glowing Star
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1/5: The First
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…Go to the fireplace Johnny…
…The answer you've been waiting for is there…
A flash of bright burning fire consumed him and flashed in his eyes. Then he woke up with a start. Sweating, he jumped off his stylish bed and hurried into the huge living room. Just when he stepped in, the big grandfather clock struck twelve.
Dong…Dong…Dong…
He listened intently as if waiting for something, then Johnny glanced at the ancient clock. The designs on the grandfather clock seemed to change right before his very eyes. It slowly shifted from the original plain pattern to form what it seemed to be the shapes of Egyptian Gods.
The frame around the glass panel is now composed of carvings of Anubis, Osiris, Iris, and Ra. Johnny's gaze shifted to the top of the clock. Over there, above all the Gods, a human head formed.
In a few moments, the shape and details became clearer, Johnny was shocked when he saw the carving. The head imprinted above all of the Gods, symbolizing the supreme power above All, looked extremely like his father. He squinted a little more and got a little closer. It not only looks like his father, it is his father.
Surprised, Johnny took a step back. He blinked but it's obvious now that the designs on the ancient clock DID change into the new carvings of the Gods and his Father.
After exactly twelve chimes of the clock, it finally stopped. Silence vastly spread around the room and that's when on final thought hit Johnny hard. I'm seventeen now… he thought.
Without noticing, he stepped back and plopped silently on the elegant sofa. Then, all the thoughts about his mysterious life surfaced and engulfed him in it.
He was only seven when his father left him. If his father REALLY left, he wasn't sure. My father could certainly still be roaming around this huge palace without me knowing, Johnny thought. He doubted that though. Following the departure of his father, his mother took card of him until she fell ill and died when Johnny was thirteen. Now he lives by himself the palace people believes to be "his father's".
Johnny's tears trickled down his cheeks before he knew it. Then he remembered something his father once told him.
"…When you turn seventeen, you will inherit my kingdom and become King of All. Then in stead of being trapped here inside the castle, you can finally roam wherever you want and into the real world!!!…"
Well, I'm seventeen now, I would like to get out of this boring castle now, Johnny thought, I have been living here for seventeen years! I wanna see the outside world!!
He got up and threw on some clothes hoping that when he gets out his room, the guards won't prevent him from going out. He is seventeen now, so the guards should let. Although, they might tell him to go back to his room and continue sleeping (since it's the middle of the night.)
As he walked to the door of his room, something on the fireplace caught his eye. A crystal about the size of a quarter was fixed on one of the stone gargoyle's eyes. The gargoyle stood near the mantelpiece and that jewel seems out of place, for it was not there before.
Since it caught his attention greatly, he decided to remove the crystal. Even though he wasn't greedy, he was curious how somebody could come to his room without him knowing.
When he placed his hand on it, it pushed in and somehow causing the stone head to detach from the gargoyle's body revealing a hollow hole in its body.
Taken aback, Johnny peered into the hollow and inside were many different treasures. He looked inside and found seven golden items: a rod, a necklace, a scale, an eyeball, a spiked ring, a pyramid, and an ankh. Plus a very old ragged book.
He decided not to touch the golden items and being a cautious person, took out the book slowly and flipped through it. He quickly discovered that this old book was a diary. But whose?
Johnny flipped back to the beginning and decided to read it, so he went back to the sofa and settled down to read it.
On the first page there was a few scribbles that says: This diary belongs to… At one glimpse, the name following that passage struck him. …Marik Ishtar… That's my father, he thought.
Even better!!! Forget going out!!! I'm reading!!! Johnny thought excitedly and flipped to the first entry:
Dec. 20I just designed a ritual for me to consume all the Millennium Item's power as mine. I have collected all seven finally!! After defeating the damn pharaoh, and getting the Puzzle and Necklace, it was easy for me to get the rest. I killed Bakura in order to obtain the Necklace and Eye, and Shadi was easily taken care of by my Rare Hunters. I got the Scale and Key from him. That completes all the seven Millennium Items. Not only that, I gained the Egyptian God Cards as well. That gives me the power to take over the world and be pharaoh.
Wait, back to the ritual thought, the only way I made the ritual is because the stupid Millennium Items wouldn't work!!!! They would not give me the power so I thought that the ritual would help on melding the 7 powers together and let me consume them and use the powers without using the millennium items.
The ritual unfortunately did not work. But it's okay, I can wait. I'll try again the next day, and the next, and the next, with different ingredients within the ritual to see if it works. Using the ritual will help me control the powers easier…
The first journal entry was messily written and the tone sounds just like Johnny's father. Patient, yet impatient. He continued reading and gobbled up his father's words and thoughts mercilessly.
Dec. 23
I turned seventeen today!! Today is the day I will gain the powers of the Millennium Items as my own powers within my own body. I just know it.—
Whoa!!! Johnny thought, his birthday is the same as mine!!! EXACTLY THE SAME!!!! That was a scary thought but Johnny read on.
--Today is the day the world becomes mine!!!…
TBC…