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Title: Shadow Ai
By: Slytherinette and Kat
Emails: Gotenegie@yahoo.com, meow_meow0209@yahoo.com
Rating: Well, we are writing it so, NC17
Couples: Red Eyes Black Dragon/Celtic Guardian, Blue Eyes White Dragon/Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl/Mystical Elf, hints of DM/CG
Summery: Let me think of a good one. Based in the Shadow land, the part of the Shadow realm that the monsters were exiled to. Story revolves around REBD and the CG and getting them together, with the usual twist and turns that me and Kat like to throw in. If you enjoy reading us on the Time in The Past RP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TimeInThePast/ group then you'll like this.
Warnings/Notes: Written in Role Play style with Slytherinette playing mostly The Red eyes, Blue eyes, and the Metal Dragon along with various others. Kat plays mainly the CH and DM as well as several others. YAOI and hints of YURI as well as some HET, but mostly YAOI. It was betaed by Me and Microsoft Works, so it most likely has a lot of errors. I'm sure you can live through them though.
If I think of anything else I'll change it and add in in the next part.
Oh, and we don't own them.. though I do have these cool figures.. and Kat has some cards... maybe we do, in that case. Anyways, we don't own the RIGHTS to them. Besides, what the hell does it matter? We ain't getting paid to pollute the minds of Yu-gi-oh! fans everywhere. We do that for free! ^-^
Cadeyrn, the Celtic Guardian, sighed as he watched his closest friend, Darsh, the Dark Magician, leave to go on, yet another, rendezvous with his lover, Kenji, the great Blue Eyes White dragon. He shook his head; it was almost too sweet. But, maybe he was just jealous. He sighed and sat underneath a tree to look up into the darkness. In the other realm there would be stars or even a sun but here there was none of that. Just a vastness of dark shadows that surrounded the land that the monsters that lived here called home.
Cadeyrn smiled a bit. He was one of the few who was happy with the quiet solitude that was their banishment. He closed his eyes trying not to think back. He didn't like to be reminded of the times in Egypt, or the Shadow Games, or the battles that had gotten so out of hand that everyone was sealed away.
He just wanted to think about the peace that he at least now enjoy, well most of the time anyway.
"Well, well, well. Look who is just sitting out in the open without his bodyguard." Came a teasing voice from a near by tree.
Cadeyrn jumped up, spinning around realizing that this was going to be one of those times that his peace was shattered. He met a pair of red eyes and he took a step back. Darsh was gone, by now out of yelling distance, and Cadeyrn knew he wasn't fast enough to out run the Red Eyes Black Dragon in a race, so he knew he would have to endure.
"Shadow." He said politely.
The large dragon stood at his full height, towering over the Celt. "What brings to this area of our little prison," Shadow said before lowering himself to rest on his shorter front arms to practically slither over to Cadeyrn as he would his prey. "You're awfully close to the mountain range..." His tongue flicked out to lick at his lips, "Almost as if you wanted something bad to happen."
"I... No... Darsh and I were talking. He's on his way to see Kenji." he said trying to explain his presence and why he was so close to the mountain that the dragons lived on. He said as he took another step back so that he wasn't so close to the jaws of the Red Eyes. "I was actually on my way back to my place... so... ummm... later."
He then turned to go praying it would work but knowing that it wouldn't.
But an arm around his waist stopped him . "No.... I think I'd like you to stick around... for lunch maybe?" Was said as fire hot breath on his ear
Cadeyrn froze then turned his head to look at the figure behind him then just stared in awe, confusion for a while, then finally realization.
"S-Shadow?" He asked still not fully convinced that the person behind him was the dragon that he was about to flee from. He starred into Shadow's red eyes but now they were in the face of a human form, he had long spiky hair (*Think Bakura-kun*), black that caused his pail white face to almost glow translucent in what little light there was.
Shadow flapped his wings with a loud whoosh before they settled, folded on his back. He smiled, showing a set of pearly white teeth, most likely sharp enough to easily bite into skin. "Why, how did you guess?"
Cadeyrn blinked then turned away.
"Can you let me go now? Or at least get on to your normal set of taunts so that I can go along with my day?" He asked after a moment.
"Maybe I wanna do more then taunt." He said, his voice still teasing as he pulled back, a lazy hand stroking the guardian's long blond hair. "Maybe I wanna play.. Though I've always been taught not to play with my food." He smirked and moved to stand in front of him, his red eyes sparkling.
"Shadow." He said in a sighing voice. "I am neither a toy nor food. I am going now. Good day."
He went around Shadow then after several calm steps towards the direction of where his place was and then with a deep breath he bolted. He knew he had little chance of out running him but maybe being in a human form would make Shadow at less of an advantage.
The dragon rolled his eyes and flapped his wings a few times, sailing threw the air before he swooped down and grabbed the guardian by the waist only to fly higher and higher.
Cadeyrn starred down that the ground his eyes wide with terror as it got farther and farther away.
"Damn you Shadow! Let me go!" He cried.
"As you wish." He said and promptly did so, allowing the gravity to take it's course.
Cadeyrn felt himself falling and no sound escaped him as he found the sensation all too familiar. This had happened before, so long ago. It was the reason that he had such a fear of heights. He had fallen to his death in a Shadow Game. Tears escaped his eyes as he fell waiting for the pain that would come when his body met the ground.
But he never felt it as arms easily caught him and the only thing that met the ground was his feet as he was sat on them.
Cadeyrn sank down to his knees his hand covering his mouth as he fought against the urge to be sick, that was just what he needed, for Shadow to not only see him as so weak that he cried but see him throw up as well.
"Are you..? Through... With me yet?" He asked quietly not looking up at him.
The dragon snarled his lips and crossed his arms. "Pathetic. I didn't even know why your Master wastes his time on you. The only thing you are good for is offerings."
"Yugi has a kind heart, besides he only keep me around because I was a gift from his grandfather." He said in agreement.
"Why don't you go threw retraining or something. It would significantly improve your attack or your defense."
"I don't like fighting. I'm not a bloodthirsty warmonger like you and your brothers." He said as he pushed unsteadily to his feet.
"I am nothing like my brothers!" Shadow suddenly spit out, pushing Cadeyrn back to the ground.
Cadeyrn hit the ground hard then pushed into a sitting position.
"You're right. Neither Kenji nor Saniiro go throwing their weight round and taunting people!"
"Yep! All they have to do is stand there and let others crawl around in their shadows!"
He looked away. It hadn't been his intent to make Shadow angry. He was hard enough to be around when he was in a good mood. Cadeyrn pushed to his feet.
"Well then maybe you should think on how to make yourself stronger and leave me alone." "Fine." He said shrugging. "Do what ever you want. You're starting to annoy me." He said, a half pout, half scowl firmly in place as he spun around to stalk off.
Cadeyrn sighed in relief at finding himself still alive and he started off in the other direction. 'Huh. I've never seen a dragon pout before.' He thought to himself.
Shadow plopped himself on a near by rock, ignoring everything. "I didn't ask to be albino boy and metal head's brother. I didn't ask or them as brothers..." he mumbled to himself, the scowl and pout dropping to a full blown sad frown.
Cadeyrn was a ways away when he turned to look at Shadow once more then he tilted his head. Shadow didn't seem to be himself today his threats and taunts were the same but they didn't have their normal gusto.
'I wonder why? He is his master's most powerful card,' He thought then frowned. 'No, Jou also owns Saniiro, The Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon, and Saniiro is for sure stronger then his weaker, younger brother, Shadow,'
Cadeyrn ignored the voice in the back of his head screaming to run away while he could and walked over to where Shadow was sitting and put a hand gently on his shoulder.
"Are you...Ok?"
Shadow looked at him like he was crazy then pulled his shoulder away, his wings flapped once in annoyance before folding back. He pulled his knees up to his chest and looked away. "I'll be better when you go away."
He flinched a bit.
"If you're sure...?"
The truth was, Shadow didn't want him to, but he didn't want to admit it. He didn't like being alone, as he always was. His brothers always had better things to do which left him without anyone. He didn't want to talk, just have someone there.
Cadeyrn wandered over to the tree and then leaned against it as he regarded the dragon for a long time. It was odd to see Shadow upset and him not throwing out remarks at every opportunity, it kind of worried him. He sighed.
'How could I help? I am weak and unneeded. He would no doubt rather someone like Darsh or Darsh's friend Dante, The Magician of Black Chaos. Yeah. Someone powerful would appeal more to Shadow.' He thought.
"Is there a reason your still here, Cadeyrn?" Shadow said softly, turning to look at the other curiously.
"I'm worried about you." he said as he looked over at him.
Shadows pouted again. "Why?" He said apprehensively. If one of his brothers had set this up.... "I don't know you just don't seem yourself is all."
"Well, I am myself, thankyouverymuch, nothing has changed." He said, his tone clipped.
"Really? Ok, well I guess I will be leaving then before you make comments about my hair or something." He said as he pushed away from the tree. "I was just trying to be nice but by Ra you cant have a conversation with a dragon without them biting your head off!"
"I like your hair..." Shadow grumbled, "but one could mistake you for the mystical elf instead of a warrior."
Cadeyrn smiled.
"Yeah. That sounds more like you." He said then headed towards home.
"Wait!" Shadow suddenly yelled out uncertainly, not really wanting him to leave.
Cadeyrn turned.
"What?"
Shadow had opened his mouth to tell him that he didn't want him to leave but his dragon pride stopped the words firmly.
"The Twin Headed Fire Dragon is around, and the game we normally feed on is leaving the mountains so he's wandering around hungry.... and since he has two stomach he would probably think your dinner.. so.. I'd better escort you back to your place..." He said in a rush then walked a head of him to lead the way.
Cadeyrn looked about franticly for a moment. Twin Headed Fire Dragon? Here? He felt terror run through him, as if he could still feel the clawed hand like appendage around his waist. Of all the Duel Monsters in this place that was the one that he was the most of afraid of. He was also the one that gave him his fear of heights and fighting.
Cadeyrn ran to catch up with Shadow so fast he nearly ran into him.
"Excuse me." Shadow snapped looking back annoyed before turning back to his path. "It would be easier if I flew. We'd get there in half the time."
"No!" He cried shaking his head.
The dragon rolled his eyes. "Then we walk." He said and lapsed into silence.
Cadeyrn followed behind quietly.
'I'm so weak! Its no wonder he picks on me and why Darsh has to always save me! There are so few Duel Monsters I can stand against.' He said to himself in an angry hateful voice. 'I'm afraid of everything! Be it fights, heights, or dragons!'
Shadow sighed in annoyance, though he was honestly enjoying having Cadeyrn walking next to him. Maybe he was too harsh on him...... maybe not.
"I can see my house. I will be fine on my own now." He said quietly.
Shadow sighed, little disappointed, but nodded. Without another word he turned and walked away, not even glancing back at the Celt.
Cadeyrn watched as Shadow walked away and he felt a bit of relief flow through is veins as he headed into his house. He would stay inside for the rest of the day, or at least until Darsh came come. He decided.
Shadow froze in his footsteps, his natural instincts kicking in and screaming at him. Without hesitation he flapped his wings and with in a second was in dragon form. He crouched low in the trees and looked around to see if Cadeyrn was okay. He was, but, from the large figure that stood near by, he wouldn't be for long.
Borgh and Bornah, the Twin headed Fire Dragon, had spotted their prey. Shadow let out a roar to warn the Celt before he blasted a black energy ball at the twins.
Borgh let out a roar and he flew up into the air dodging the blast and sent two fire gusts back at the Red Eyes that had attacked him. His two sets of eyes narrowed as he saw him.
"Shadow..." One head started.
"...shouldn't you be licking your brothers' boots!" The other finished.
Shadow roared in anger, "Shouldn't you pathetic creatures pick on someone your own size?" Even though he knew it was a pointless statement. The dragon was twice the size he was, but it didn't matter. Shadow had a good 200 attack points on them.
"This from the dragon..."
"...Who will attack anything that he is bigger than."
"Or perhaps your taunting of Cadeyrn..."
"...is really just you flirting?"
Shadow let out a loud war screech. "Get lost, twiddle de and twiddle dumb! Go back to the mountains where you belong."
"We will return home..."
"...After we visit our favorite toy."
"Do you hear that Borgh?"
"What's that Bornah?"
"I think Kenji is calling the bitch back."
Both laughed.
Again there was a loud battle cry and Shadow saw red as he flew forward, his teeth sinking deeply into Borgh's neck and he tossed him to the ground.
The twin head lashed out with the clawed hand on his tail tearing into Shadow's chest as he fell to the ground.
Cadeyrn stood frozen in the doorway to his house watching the dragon's fight in awe, fear, and then concern as the Twins attacked Shadow.
-
Kenji shot strait up in bed and looked around. He had heard something horribly familiar..... He narrowed his crystal blue eyes, his sensitive ears listening carefully.
Darsh opened a groggy eye to look over at Kenji then he sat up.
"What is it lover?" He asked as he moved to try and draw Kenji over for a kiss.
The blue eyes white dragon in human form shook his head and held up his hand. He was quite fort another moment before he heard it again.
His eyes widened at the tell tale sound of a battle cry and it only took his one guess to figure out that it was his boisterous little brother.
"Shadow.." He his and threw off the covers to pull on his clothes.
"Kenji! What's going on!" Darsh asked as he pulled his robes on so that he could go with him.
He just shook his head, his long unruly spiky hair flying all over. "Shadow." Was all he could growl. Needless to say he was very, very angry. What ever Shadow was doing, he had better have a damn good reason for it, but he doubted he would. After this was Shadow we're talking about.
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Saniiro heard the cry not long after Kenji did and looked towards the plains reign. He tightened his jaw and the huge dragon took flight, his large metal-coated wings lifting him easily. No mater what was causing Shadow to have a battle now he had a feeling that Kenji was going to beat the living shit out of the boy... and he had every intention of helping.
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Shadow screeched in pain but lashed out, pushing his hind legs against the other dragon pushing him away, quickly rolling over to get back to his feet. He shot another blast of fire at him, this time hitting him in the side, sending the other dragon 50 yards away, destroying the landscape as he went.
The Twin head landed hard and decided that challenging Shadow may have been a bad idea. They turned and then got up to their feet and bowed their heads in defeat and knew that Shadow would of course get all cocky, giving them time to pray fro strength from the Dragon's Treasure.
"Get lost," shadow roared at them, panting heavily, "and go back to the other side of the mountains you pathetic creature. For two head you sure as hell are stupid!"
They bowed again as they head passed him towards the mountain then just as they got into his blind spot they felt a surge of extra power and then turned to strike.
"Shadow!" Cadeyrn screamed as the two heads clamped down on the red eye's throat and the claw on his tail stabbed into his side.
Shadow let out a roar of pure agony as his body automatically struggled despite the pain but it was useless. He just could summon that last little but of power he need to over come the twins. He could feel his blood dripping to the ground, singeing the grass and burning it back from it's heat. Shadow felt his red eyes go heavy and they started to slip closed, his body going limp in the other dragon's grip.
They tossed him aside laughing his blood dripping from their mouth and after Shadow hit the ground Cadeyrn ran over to him and knelt down to touch his face gently.
"S-Shadow?"
Shadow heard his name and felt the hand of his skin and he opened his eye looking at the Celt. "Cadeyrn.." his whispered the best he could. He tried to leave his eye opened so he could look at him but it was growing more and more difficult by the moment. "Are you Okay," he asked hoarsely.
He nodded.
"I'm fine...but why?" He asked then let out a gasp of fear as he saw the Twin head starting walking towards them.
"I had to.. I wanted to..." was the only answer Shadow could get out before the pain became too much. He closed his eyes and let out a long loud cry that echoed off mountains.
Cadeyrn watched as the Twin Head inhaled preparing to strike Shadow down who was now too weak to doge the blast of their twin fire and clawed tail. He pushed to his feet a bit of his former self-showing through as he dove between The Twin Head and Shadow.
"Please! You cant! I won't let you hurt Shadow!" He yelled tears burning his eyes.
Suddenly there was a loud roar, louder and deeper then Shadows followed by a similar one as Kenji and Saniiro circled high above the scene, fully prepared to attack. Darsh landed silently next to the fallen dragon, careful to avoid the fiery blood.
"D-Darsh! Please help him!" Cadeyrn cried as Darsh walked over next to him. He looked up at Twin Head and then his eyes narrowed. This was a battle that would need to be left to Kenji and Saniiro, some how Twin Head had called on the power of the Dragon's Treasure and was equal in strength to him now.
Twin Head glared at Darsh seeing him as just another barrier between him and his prey and lashed out at him with the claw on his tail. Darsh bounced back wards to avoid it. As he landed behind Shadow a thin line of blood appeared on his cheek.
Kenji roared, angry at the attack on his love, was the first to dive, a white lightning blast hit the twins in the chest, Saniiro, who knew his brother would kill the fire dragon if he didn't step in. He sent a weak blast at the twin head before he landed, glaring at him. "Leave," he roared. "Go back to your cave!"
Kenji roared at his brother. "No! He almost killed our brother and attacked Darsh! The basterd deserves to die!"
Saniiro growled low, his face coming with in inches of the white dragon. "No. If we finish this now, Shadow will have nothing to do with us. He will claim that we just finished his battle." he gave a snort and hot smoke face out of his nose. "Let it be.. for now. If Shadow doesn't make it I'll be the first to rip off a head, but if he does..."
Kenji looked at his brother as if he really hated the Idea.
"Look," Saniiro said roughly. "you're not the one he hates the most."
Kenji looked at Darsh and then to the bleeding Shadow. His eyes twitched but he nodded.
"Leave Borgh and Bornah before we change our minds!"
The Twins fled immediately, knowing well that they would be out matched buy the two brothers. Cadeyrn started to sink to his knees but Darsh caught him around is waist.
"Cadeyrn! What happened! Are you alright?"
The Celt clung to his friend and bodyguard trying to tell him that he was fine but failing miserable.
"My fault... all my fault..." He kept murmuring into Darsh's violet hair.
Saniiro and Kenji quickly turned to human forms and ran over to them. Saniiro, put his hand on the unconscious dragon's face to try and get his brother to open his eyes but to no avail.
"What happened," Kenji, asked, his voice hard as ever.
"They came for me again. Shadow... he stopped them... I'm sorry I don't know why he did it..."
Kenji nodded and joined his brothers. A foggy red eye opened and another pain roar came from the fallen dragon.
"Shadow," Kenji said softly. "We need you to turn to human form."
A sort of whimper came from Shadow before his body shrank, leaving a beat up human form.
Cadeyrn saw the wounds and hid his face in Darsh's robes his body shaking all over from the site. Darsh stoked his back and looked over at Kenji.
"Will he be ok?" He asked quietly.
Kenji didn't answer, to afraid to because honestly didn't think so. "Maybe if we can get him to the mountains." He said as he watched Saniiro pick up the wounded boy. He barely looked 18 years old, but the truth was he was several millennia old.
He sighed and he and his brother took flight to take the injured to his cave. He could only hope his brother would be okay.
-
Darsh looked at his friend who was curled up in his lap the only thing covering him was a light blanket and his heavy blond hair, which he was currently petting gently. He had broken down when the brothers had taken Shadow saying that it was all his fault that it had happened then curled up into a sobbing ball. Darsh had to carry him inside and... care for him.
'Kenji. Would you understand? And would you still love me?' He thought as he watched as Cadeyrn slept deeply as if he was in another world far away from his pain and fear. Darsh shook his head. He loved Kenji with all of his heart but he had made a promise to his first master after the end of the Shadow Games that he would take care of Cadeyrn. He would always do so no matter what he had to sacrifice to do so.
Cadeyrn was weak, but that wasn't the reason, it was because his mind was so fragile. He had so many hundreds of years to try to get passed what had happened in those finally bloody days but instead he had chosen to try to hid away from everything and everyone. Many of his old friends didn't even recognize him never mind still associate with him, not anymore.
'There is only me.' He smiled as Cadeyrn made a sighing sound in his sleep. 'He needs someone of his own to love and care for. Hmmmm. Care for huh? I wonder if Kenji would bring his brother here to recover? Cadeyrn is so gentle with all things that are hurt or weak. He would take good care of Shadow.'
Cadeyrn opened sleepy eyes to look up at Darsh. Then he sat up and Darsh gathered his close for a sweet kiss.
"Did I... Freak out again?" He asked quietly.
It was the only time that he woke up with Darsh was is his fear had so taken over that he had to forced out of it. Cadeyrn's eyes filled with tears.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to... to endanger things between you and Kenji... I know that you love him!"
"Shhhhh. I love you too. I will always be here to take care of you, you should know that." He said as he wrapped his arms around him and held him tightly.
'Kenji will either understand or... or I will have to move on. There are others that desire me...' he thought but despite that fact he knew that he would never feel for another as he did for Kenji.
"Don't worry at all about me or my relationships ok? Get dressed. We are gonna go see how Shadow is doing, after all its kinda your fault that he is injured."
Cadeyrn got up to his feet and got dressed.
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We would enjoy feed back. In fact, we would REALLY like feedback!
Title: Shadow Ai
By: Slytherinette and Kat
Emails: Gotenegie@yahoo.com, meow_meow0209@yahoo.com
Rating: Well, we are writing it so, NC17
Couples: Red Eyes Black Dragon/Celtic Guardian, Blue Eyes White Dragon/Dark Magician, Dark Magician Girl/Mystical Elf, hints of DM/CG
Summery: Let me think of a good one. Based in the Shadow land, the part of the Shadow realm that the monsters were exiled to. Story revolves around REBD and the CG and getting them together, with the usual twist and turns that me and Kat like to throw in. If you enjoy reading us on the Time in The Past RP http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TimeInThePast/ group then you'll like this.
Warnings/Notes: Written in Role Play style with Slytherinette playing mostly The Red eyes, Blue eyes, and the Metal Dragon along with various others. Kat plays mainly the CH and DM as well as several others. YAOI and hints of YURI as well as some HET, but mostly YAOI. It was betaed by Me and Microsoft Works, so it most likely has a lot of errors. I'm sure you can live through them though.
If I think of anything else I'll change it and add in in the next part.
Oh, and we don't own them.. though I do have these cool figures.. and Kat has some cards... maybe we do, in that case. Anyways, we don't own the RIGHTS to them. Besides, what the hell does it matter? We ain't getting paid to pollute the minds of Yu-gi-oh! fans everywhere. We do that for free! ^-^
Cadeyrn, the Celtic Guardian, sighed as he watched his closest friend, Darsh, the Dark Magician, leave to go on, yet another, rendezvous with his lover, Kenji, the great Blue Eyes White dragon. He shook his head; it was almost too sweet. But, maybe he was just jealous. He sighed and sat underneath a tree to look up into the darkness. In the other realm there would be stars or even a sun but here there was none of that. Just a vastness of dark shadows that surrounded the land that the monsters that lived here called home.
Cadeyrn smiled a bit. He was one of the few who was happy with the quiet solitude that was their banishment. He closed his eyes trying not to think back. He didn't like to be reminded of the times in Egypt, or the Shadow Games, or the battles that had gotten so out of hand that everyone was sealed away.
He just wanted to think about the peace that he at least now enjoy, well most of the time anyway.
"Well, well, well. Look who is just sitting out in the open without his bodyguard." Came a teasing voice from a near by tree.
Cadeyrn jumped up, spinning around realizing that this was going to be one of those times that his peace was shattered. He met a pair of red eyes and he took a step back. Darsh was gone, by now out of yelling distance, and Cadeyrn knew he wasn't fast enough to out run the Red Eyes Black Dragon in a race, so he knew he would have to endure.
"Shadow." He said politely.
The large dragon stood at his full height, towering over the Celt. "What brings to this area of our little prison," Shadow said before lowering himself to rest on his shorter front arms to practically slither over to Cadeyrn as he would his prey. "You're awfully close to the mountain range..." His tongue flicked out to lick at his lips, "Almost as if you wanted something bad to happen."
"I... No... Darsh and I were talking. He's on his way to see Kenji." he said trying to explain his presence and why he was so close to the mountain that the dragons lived on. He said as he took another step back so that he wasn't so close to the jaws of the Red Eyes. "I was actually on my way back to my place... so... ummm... later."
He then turned to go praying it would work but knowing that it wouldn't.
But an arm around his waist stopped him . "No.... I think I'd like you to stick around... for lunch maybe?" Was said as fire hot breath on his ear
Cadeyrn froze then turned his head to look at the figure behind him then just stared in awe, confusion for a while, then finally realization.
"S-Shadow?" He asked still not fully convinced that the person behind him was the dragon that he was about to flee from. He starred into Shadow's red eyes but now they were in the face of a human form, he had long spiky hair (*Think Bakura-kun*), black that caused his pail white face to almost glow translucent in what little light there was.
Shadow flapped his wings with a loud whoosh before they settled, folded on his back. He smiled, showing a set of pearly white teeth, most likely sharp enough to easily bite into skin. "Why, how did you guess?"
Cadeyrn blinked then turned away.
"Can you let me go now? Or at least get on to your normal set of taunts so that I can go along with my day?" He asked after a moment.
"Maybe I wanna do more then taunt." He said, his voice still teasing as he pulled back, a lazy hand stroking the guardian's long blond hair. "Maybe I wanna play.. Though I've always been taught not to play with my food." He smirked and moved to stand in front of him, his red eyes sparkling.
"Shadow." He said in a sighing voice. "I am neither a toy nor food. I am going now. Good day."
He went around Shadow then after several calm steps towards the direction of where his place was and then with a deep breath he bolted. He knew he had little chance of out running him but maybe being in a human form would make Shadow at less of an advantage.
The dragon rolled his eyes and flapped his wings a few times, sailing threw the air before he swooped down and grabbed the guardian by the waist only to fly higher and higher.
Cadeyrn starred down that the ground his eyes wide with terror as it got farther and farther away.
"Damn you Shadow! Let me go!" He cried.
"As you wish." He said and promptly did so, allowing the gravity to take it's course.
Cadeyrn felt himself falling and no sound escaped him as he found the sensation all too familiar. This had happened before, so long ago. It was the reason that he had such a fear of heights. He had fallen to his death in a Shadow Game. Tears escaped his eyes as he fell waiting for the pain that would come when his body met the ground.
But he never felt it as arms easily caught him and the only thing that met the ground was his feet as he was sat on them.
Cadeyrn sank down to his knees his hand covering his mouth as he fought against the urge to be sick, that was just what he needed, for Shadow to not only see him as so weak that he cried but see him throw up as well.
"Are you..? Through... With me yet?" He asked quietly not looking up at him.
The dragon snarled his lips and crossed his arms. "Pathetic. I didn't even know why your Master wastes his time on you. The only thing you are good for is offerings."
"Yugi has a kind heart, besides he only keep me around because I was a gift from his grandfather." He said in agreement.
"Why don't you go threw retraining or something. It would significantly improve your attack or your defense."
"I don't like fighting. I'm not a bloodthirsty warmonger like you and your brothers." He said as he pushed unsteadily to his feet.
"I am nothing like my brothers!" Shadow suddenly spit out, pushing Cadeyrn back to the ground.
Cadeyrn hit the ground hard then pushed into a sitting position.
"You're right. Neither Kenji nor Saniiro go throwing their weight round and taunting people!"
"Yep! All they have to do is stand there and let others crawl around in their shadows!"
He looked away. It hadn't been his intent to make Shadow angry. He was hard enough to be around when he was in a good mood. Cadeyrn pushed to his feet.
"Well then maybe you should think on how to make yourself stronger and leave me alone." "Fine." He said shrugging. "Do what ever you want. You're starting to annoy me." He said, a half pout, half scowl firmly in place as he spun around to stalk off.
Cadeyrn sighed in relief at finding himself still alive and he started off in the other direction. 'Huh. I've never seen a dragon pout before.' He thought to himself.
Shadow plopped himself on a near by rock, ignoring everything. "I didn't ask to be albino boy and metal head's brother. I didn't ask or them as brothers..." he mumbled to himself, the scowl and pout dropping to a full blown sad frown.
Cadeyrn was a ways away when he turned to look at Shadow once more then he tilted his head. Shadow didn't seem to be himself today his threats and taunts were the same but they didn't have their normal gusto.
'I wonder why? He is his master's most powerful card,' He thought then frowned. 'No, Jou also owns Saniiro, The Red Eyes Black Metal Dragon, and Saniiro is for sure stronger then his weaker, younger brother, Shadow,'
Cadeyrn ignored the voice in the back of his head screaming to run away while he could and walked over to where Shadow was sitting and put a hand gently on his shoulder.
"Are you...Ok?"
Shadow looked at him like he was crazy then pulled his shoulder away, his wings flapped once in annoyance before folding back. He pulled his knees up to his chest and looked away. "I'll be better when you go away."
He flinched a bit.
"If you're sure...?"
The truth was, Shadow didn't want him to, but he didn't want to admit it. He didn't like being alone, as he always was. His brothers always had better things to do which left him without anyone. He didn't want to talk, just have someone there.
Cadeyrn wandered over to the tree and then leaned against it as he regarded the dragon for a long time. It was odd to see Shadow upset and him not throwing out remarks at every opportunity, it kind of worried him. He sighed.
'How could I help? I am weak and unneeded. He would no doubt rather someone like Darsh or Darsh's friend Dante, The Magician of Black Chaos. Yeah. Someone powerful would appeal more to Shadow.' He thought.
"Is there a reason your still here, Cadeyrn?" Shadow said softly, turning to look at the other curiously.
"I'm worried about you." he said as he looked over at him.
Shadows pouted again. "Why?" He said apprehensively. If one of his brothers had set this up.... "I don't know you just don't seem yourself is all."
"Well, I am myself, thankyouverymuch, nothing has changed." He said, his tone clipped.
"Really? Ok, well I guess I will be leaving then before you make comments about my hair or something." He said as he pushed away from the tree. "I was just trying to be nice but by Ra you cant have a conversation with a dragon without them biting your head off!"
"I like your hair..." Shadow grumbled, "but one could mistake you for the mystical elf instead of a warrior."
Cadeyrn smiled.
"Yeah. That sounds more like you." He said then headed towards home.
"Wait!" Shadow suddenly yelled out uncertainly, not really wanting him to leave.
Cadeyrn turned.
"What?"
Shadow had opened his mouth to tell him that he didn't want him to leave but his dragon pride stopped the words firmly.
"The Twin Headed Fire Dragon is around, and the game we normally feed on is leaving the mountains so he's wandering around hungry.... and since he has two stomach he would probably think your dinner.. so.. I'd better escort you back to your place..." He said in a rush then walked a head of him to lead the way.
Cadeyrn looked about franticly for a moment. Twin Headed Fire Dragon? Here? He felt terror run through him, as if he could still feel the clawed hand like appendage around his waist. Of all the Duel Monsters in this place that was the one that he was the most of afraid of. He was also the one that gave him his fear of heights and fighting.
Cadeyrn ran to catch up with Shadow so fast he nearly ran into him.
"Excuse me." Shadow snapped looking back annoyed before turning back to his path. "It would be easier if I flew. We'd get there in half the time."
"No!" He cried shaking his head.
The dragon rolled his eyes. "Then we walk." He said and lapsed into silence.
Cadeyrn followed behind quietly.
'I'm so weak! Its no wonder he picks on me and why Darsh has to always save me! There are so few Duel Monsters I can stand against.' He said to himself in an angry hateful voice. 'I'm afraid of everything! Be it fights, heights, or dragons!'
Shadow sighed in annoyance, though he was honestly enjoying having Cadeyrn walking next to him. Maybe he was too harsh on him...... maybe not.
"I can see my house. I will be fine on my own now." He said quietly.
Shadow sighed, little disappointed, but nodded. Without another word he turned and walked away, not even glancing back at the Celt.
Cadeyrn watched as Shadow walked away and he felt a bit of relief flow through is veins as he headed into his house. He would stay inside for the rest of the day, or at least until Darsh came come. He decided.
Shadow froze in his footsteps, his natural instincts kicking in and screaming at him. Without hesitation he flapped his wings and with in a second was in dragon form. He crouched low in the trees and looked around to see if Cadeyrn was okay. He was, but, from the large figure that stood near by, he wouldn't be for long.
Borgh and Bornah, the Twin headed Fire Dragon, had spotted their prey. Shadow let out a roar to warn the Celt before he blasted a black energy ball at the twins.
Borgh let out a roar and he flew up into the air dodging the blast and sent two fire gusts back at the Red Eyes that had attacked him. His two sets of eyes narrowed as he saw him.
"Shadow..." One head started.
"...shouldn't you be licking your brothers' boots!" The other finished.
Shadow roared in anger, "Shouldn't you pathetic creatures pick on someone your own size?" Even though he knew it was a pointless statement. The dragon was twice the size he was, but it didn't matter. Shadow had a good 200 attack points on them.
"This from the dragon..."
"...Who will attack anything that he is bigger than."
"Or perhaps your taunting of Cadeyrn..."
"...is really just you flirting?"
Shadow let out a loud war screech. "Get lost, twiddle de and twiddle dumb! Go back to the mountains where you belong."
"We will return home..."
"...After we visit our favorite toy."
"Do you hear that Borgh?"
"What's that Bornah?"
"I think Kenji is calling the bitch back."
Both laughed.
Again there was a loud battle cry and Shadow saw red as he flew forward, his teeth sinking deeply into Borgh's neck and he tossed him to the ground.
The twin head lashed out with the clawed hand on his tail tearing into Shadow's chest as he fell to the ground.
Cadeyrn stood frozen in the doorway to his house watching the dragon's fight in awe, fear, and then concern as the Twins attacked Shadow.
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Kenji shot strait up in bed and looked around. He had heard something horribly familiar..... He narrowed his crystal blue eyes, his sensitive ears listening carefully.
Darsh opened a groggy eye to look over at Kenji then he sat up.
"What is it lover?" He asked as he moved to try and draw Kenji over for a kiss.
The blue eyes white dragon in human form shook his head and held up his hand. He was quite fort another moment before he heard it again.
His eyes widened at the tell tale sound of a battle cry and it only took his one guess to figure out that it was his boisterous little brother.
"Shadow.." He his and threw off the covers to pull on his clothes.
"Kenji! What's going on!" Darsh asked as he pulled his robes on so that he could go with him.
He just shook his head, his long unruly spiky hair flying all over. "Shadow." Was all he could growl. Needless to say he was very, very angry. What ever Shadow was doing, he had better have a damn good reason for it, but he doubted he would. After this was Shadow we're talking about.
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Saniiro heard the cry not long after Kenji did and looked towards the plains reign. He tightened his jaw and the huge dragon took flight, his large metal-coated wings lifting him easily. No mater what was causing Shadow to have a battle now he had a feeling that Kenji was going to beat the living shit out of the boy... and he had every intention of helping.
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Shadow screeched in pain but lashed out, pushing his hind legs against the other dragon pushing him away, quickly rolling over to get back to his feet. He shot another blast of fire at him, this time hitting him in the side, sending the other dragon 50 yards away, destroying the landscape as he went.
The Twin head landed hard and decided that challenging Shadow may have been a bad idea. They turned and then got up to their feet and bowed their heads in defeat and knew that Shadow would of course get all cocky, giving them time to pray fro strength from the Dragon's Treasure.
"Get lost," shadow roared at them, panting heavily, "and go back to the other side of the mountains you pathetic creature. For two head you sure as hell are stupid!"
They bowed again as they head passed him towards the mountain then just as they got into his blind spot they felt a surge of extra power and then turned to strike.
"Shadow!" Cadeyrn screamed as the two heads clamped down on the red eye's throat and the claw on his tail stabbed into his side.
Shadow let out a roar of pure agony as his body automatically struggled despite the pain but it was useless. He just could summon that last little but of power he need to over come the twins. He could feel his blood dripping to the ground, singeing the grass and burning it back from it's heat. Shadow felt his red eyes go heavy and they started to slip closed, his body going limp in the other dragon's grip.
They tossed him aside laughing his blood dripping from their mouth and after Shadow hit the ground Cadeyrn ran over to him and knelt down to touch his face gently.
"S-Shadow?"
Shadow heard his name and felt the hand of his skin and he opened his eye looking at the Celt. "Cadeyrn.." his whispered the best he could. He tried to leave his eye opened so he could look at him but it was growing more and more difficult by the moment. "Are you Okay," he asked hoarsely.
He nodded.
"I'm fine...but why?" He asked then let out a gasp of fear as he saw the Twin head starting walking towards them.
"I had to.. I wanted to..." was the only answer Shadow could get out before the pain became too much. He closed his eyes and let out a long loud cry that echoed off mountains.
Cadeyrn watched as the Twin Head inhaled preparing to strike Shadow down who was now too weak to doge the blast of their twin fire and clawed tail. He pushed to his feet a bit of his former self-showing through as he dove between The Twin Head and Shadow.
"Please! You cant! I won't let you hurt Shadow!" He yelled tears burning his eyes.
Suddenly there was a loud roar, louder and deeper then Shadows followed by a similar one as Kenji and Saniiro circled high above the scene, fully prepared to attack. Darsh landed silently next to the fallen dragon, careful to avoid the fiery blood.
"D-Darsh! Please help him!" Cadeyrn cried as Darsh walked over next to him. He looked up at Twin Head and then his eyes narrowed. This was a battle that would need to be left to Kenji and Saniiro, some how Twin Head had called on the power of the Dragon's Treasure and was equal in strength to him now.
Twin Head glared at Darsh seeing him as just another barrier between him and his prey and lashed out at him with the claw on his tail. Darsh bounced back wards to avoid it. As he landed behind Shadow a thin line of blood appeared on his cheek.
Kenji roared, angry at the attack on his love, was the first to dive, a white lightning blast hit the twins in the chest, Saniiro, who knew his brother would kill the fire dragon if he didn't step in. He sent a weak blast at the twin head before he landed, glaring at him. "Leave," he roared. "Go back to your cave!"
Kenji roared at his brother. "No! He almost killed our brother and attacked Darsh! The basterd deserves to die!"
Saniiro growled low, his face coming with in inches of the white dragon. "No. If we finish this now, Shadow will have nothing to do with us. He will claim that we just finished his battle." he gave a snort and hot smoke face out of his nose. "Let it be.. for now. If Shadow doesn't make it I'll be the first to rip off a head, but if he does..."
Kenji looked at his brother as if he really hated the Idea.
"Look," Saniiro said roughly. "you're not the one he hates the most."
Kenji looked at Darsh and then to the bleeding Shadow. His eyes twitched but he nodded.
"Leave Borgh and Bornah before we change our minds!"
The Twins fled immediately, knowing well that they would be out matched buy the two brothers. Cadeyrn started to sink to his knees but Darsh caught him around is waist.
"Cadeyrn! What happened! Are you alright?"
The Celt clung to his friend and bodyguard trying to tell him that he was fine but failing miserable.
"My fault... all my fault..." He kept murmuring into Darsh's violet hair.
Saniiro and Kenji quickly turned to human forms and ran over to them. Saniiro, put his hand on the unconscious dragon's face to try and get his brother to open his eyes but to no avail.
"What happened," Kenji, asked, his voice hard as ever.
"They came for me again. Shadow... he stopped them... I'm sorry I don't know why he did it..."
Kenji nodded and joined his brothers. A foggy red eye opened and another pain roar came from the fallen dragon.
"Shadow," Kenji said softly. "We need you to turn to human form."
A sort of whimper came from Shadow before his body shrank, leaving a beat up human form.
Cadeyrn saw the wounds and hid his face in Darsh's robes his body shaking all over from the site. Darsh stoked his back and looked over at Kenji.
"Will he be ok?" He asked quietly.
Kenji didn't answer, to afraid to because honestly didn't think so. "Maybe if we can get him to the mountains." He said as he watched Saniiro pick up the wounded boy. He barely looked 18 years old, but the truth was he was several millennia old.
He sighed and he and his brother took flight to take the injured to his cave. He could only hope his brother would be okay.
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Darsh looked at his friend who was curled up in his lap the only thing covering him was a light blanket and his heavy blond hair, which he was currently petting gently. He had broken down when the brothers had taken Shadow saying that it was all his fault that it had happened then curled up into a sobbing ball. Darsh had to carry him inside and... care for him.
'Kenji. Would you understand? And would you still love me?' He thought as he watched as Cadeyrn slept deeply as if he was in another world far away from his pain and fear. Darsh shook his head. He loved Kenji with all of his heart but he had made a promise to his first master after the end of the Shadow Games that he would take care of Cadeyrn. He would always do so no matter what he had to sacrifice to do so.
Cadeyrn was weak, but that wasn't the reason, it was because his mind was so fragile. He had so many hundreds of years to try to get passed what had happened in those finally bloody days but instead he had chosen to try to hid away from everything and everyone. Many of his old friends didn't even recognize him never mind still associate with him, not anymore.
'There is only me.' He smiled as Cadeyrn made a sighing sound in his sleep. 'He needs someone of his own to love and care for. Hmmmm. Care for huh? I wonder if Kenji would bring his brother here to recover? Cadeyrn is so gentle with all things that are hurt or weak. He would take good care of Shadow.'
Cadeyrn opened sleepy eyes to look up at Darsh. Then he sat up and Darsh gathered his close for a sweet kiss.
"Did I... Freak out again?" He asked quietly.
It was the only time that he woke up with Darsh was is his fear had so taken over that he had to forced out of it. Cadeyrn's eyes filled with tears.
"I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to... to endanger things between you and Kenji... I know that you love him!"
"Shhhhh. I love you too. I will always be here to take care of you, you should know that." He said as he wrapped his arms around him and held him tightly.
'Kenji will either understand or... or I will have to move on. There are others that desire me...' he thought but despite that fact he knew that he would never feel for another as he did for Kenji.
"Don't worry at all about me or my relationships ok? Get dressed. We are gonna go see how Shadow is doing, after all its kinda your fault that he is injured."
Cadeyrn got up to his feet and got dressed.
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