The King of the Aura Games
"Prince we must leave." A knight in chipped dark blue armor said reaching out through the fire that spread through the great hall of the castle. "It's not safe."
"But what of mother and father? Did you save them?" The young raven haired prince asked with hope in his hazel eyes.
"I am sorry my prince I could not save them," The knight said lowering his head in shame. "But I will carry out their dying wish." He said picking up the boy and carrying him out of the castle.
The knights, with the young prince in his arms, kicked open the doors to the outside and continued running into the deep dark forest. Then there was a cry, but it was not from an ally.
"Oh no, we have been spotted." The boy cried out.
"Do not worry my prince I will get you to safety." The knight said continuing to run.
Suddenly through the darkness and arrow flew and hit the blue knight in the back, knocking him and the prince to the ground.
"Oh no, Sir Luster, please get up." The young prince said pulling the dented and tattered helmet off of the knight.
The knight growled in pain as he got up and picked the prince back up in his arms. "For the Aura Race!" He yelled as he began running.
The knight ran for several hundred yards being closely followed by the enemy that he kept the prince away from.
"I….will….not….fail..." The knight huffed through the blood, sweat, and tears.
His lungs burned for oxygen, his legs were hurting like never before, but he had to keep running otherwise they would get the prince. He must protect the prince, no matter the cost.
Then another arrow shot out and went through his shoulder but he kept running even through the red hot stab of pain he was feeling. It wasn't much longer before they reached an ancient temple much like the Airavatesvara temple with two jackal-headed statues guarding the giant doors.
"The temple of Lucario." The knight gasped. "Quickly prince you must go inside I will protect you." He said pushing him into the direction of the temple.
"But Sir Luster, what of you?" The prince said with tears in his eyes.
"That does not matter." The knight said as he drew his curved blade. It had been chipped and battered from the fight to get to the prince. The once beautiful bronze hilt was now dull and chipped as well. His shield has a lot of scratches but you could still make out the golden ram through the blood, and the gem glowed brightly on the bottom of it as well as the jewel on the top of the head of the hawk that popped out of his breastplate.
The prince ran for the temple and as he reached the huge doors he looked back only to see that the dark blue knight was surrounded by a group of black soldiers.
"Go!" The soldier yelled to the boy.
The prince nodded and went inside the temple closing the doors.
"Sir Luster." The prince whispered clutching his green stone that he wore around his neck, before continuing on into the dark temple.
"Alright," The blue knight said getting into his battle stance. "Let me show you why they call me the Black Luster Soldier!" He yelled charging into the group.
[Inside the Temple]
"Whoa this place is huge!" The raven haired prince said walking down on of the hallways.
He was correct, the hall was at least 75 feet wide and the length was at least 200 feet long with almost twenty on each side ten feet apart. Each pillar war at least a foot thick. The floor had a blue and gold tile design and the walls, pillars, and ceiling was a bright gold with hieroglyphics embedded in them. There was also golden goblets in between every other pillar that lit up every time the boy walked past them.
"Whoa what's that?" The prince said as he reached the end of the hall.
There was a smaller pillar that was around 3 feet tall and it was surrounded by three golden goblets with eyes carved into them. Sitting atop of the pillar was a blue pyramid that was that was big enough to be held with both hands and on top of it was a chain that made it able to be used as a necklace.
"Wow that's cool." He said reaching up to it.
Suddenly, the flames turned blue and the boy fell back in surprise.
'Grrrr who woke me from my slumber' A force said looking around from in the blue pyramid. 'Another grave robber! I will kill him.' He said spotting the young boy.
Then there was a bang.
"There he is." One of the soldiers said. "Bring him alive."
Oh no they had found him, he needs to think quickly.
Three of the knights charged forward with weapons in hand. One swiped at the boy but only to hit air. The knight cried out and fell back as the boy palm struck him in his side. He didn't have much time to celebrate his small victory because knight number 2 and 3 came at him. One had a club in his hand and the other one had two short swords. Both tried to strike at him but ended up in the same state as knight number 1.
'Interesting the boy continues to fight even though he is out numbered' The voice thought in interest. ' Why even at the brink of death does this boy kee—' His thoughts were interrupted.
"Enough!" The leader of the group said pulling out a bow and aiming it at the prince.
"But sir we have orders to bring him alive." One of the knights said.
"Who said we were going to kill him, the kings said bring him alive, he didn't say anything about crippled." The leader said releasing the arrow.
The prince felt a sharp pain in his leg as he fell down, he cried out grasping his wounded leg.
"HOW DARE YOU!"
The grouped jumped at the unexpected voice,
"W-who are you?" One of the knights stuttered.
"WHO AM I?! I AM ANUBIS GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD!" Anubis boomed. "AND I WILL SMITE ALL OF YOU AND DRAG YOU TO THE DEBTHS OF HELL!"
The blue pyramid glowed so brightly that everyone had to close their eyes. The screams were blocked out from the load ringing.
The young prince rolled up into a ball of fear as the glow consumed him. When he opened his eyes he saw seven charred bodies of the knights that attacked him.
"If you are going to kill me just do it." The young boy said closing his eyes. "Just make it quick."
The prince waited, expecting the worst, but when nothing came he opened his eyes in surprise.
"And why would I do that?" The voice said through the blue pyramid.
"Wait so you aren't going to kill me?" The boy said getting out of his fatal position.
"No I was saving you." Anubis said in a friendly manner.
"Where are you?" The prince asked.
"I am right here."
The young prince looked around confusingly.
"The pyramid, I am in the pyramid." Anubis said at the boy's stupidity.
"What?" The prince said surprised as he limped over to the pyramid.
"Now pick it up and put it on."
The prince picked it up as he was told and took off his green necklace and placed it on the pillar before putting the chain around his neck. He shivered at the cold metal that touched his skin.
"Ahh!" The boy cried out as he was enveloped by a blue glow. "What form of sorcery is this?" He said as he fell into a void of darkness.
The boy groaned as he opened his eyes and put his hand to his head. 'Where am I?' He thought.
"Hello young one." A muscular man with long dirty blond hair said walking towards the boy.
"Ahh! You!" The prince said jumping to his feet but cringed and fell down in pain.
"Oh, let me fix that." The man said kneeling down to him.
The boy cringed as the huge man knelt down and hovered his hand over the wound.
"B-but how?" He questioned looking down on his now healed leg.
"I am a god, I can do almost anything." Anubis said.
"Oh…right." The young prince said standing back up.
"Now," Anubis said snapping the boy out of his trance. "I have given you my name, it is time for you to give me yours."
"Oh, how rude of me," The boy said as he bowed. "I am Prince Ashton Ketchum the second of the Aura Kingdom."
Anubis's eyes widened. No wonder his aura was brighter than the others, he was an aura user and a prince nevertheless. 'I could use this to my advantage.' He laughed in his mind. 'Wow that came out darker than expected.'
"Okay," He started, "I brought you here for a reason."
"And where is 'here' exactly?" Ash asked.
"Oh right, this is the pyramid of light, my training grounds and home." Anubis said.
"Hmmm for something that's called the pyramid of light, it's rather dark in here." Ash said.
"Ha that's funny." Anubis said. "I need you to do something for me."
"But of course," Ash said. "I am forever in your debt."
"Good." The god smirked. "Have you ever heard of the shadow games?"
"I have only heard legends." Ash said scratching his head. "Isn't it the games that the ancient Kalosan's played where they used monsters to fight with each other?"
"Er…closes but no cigar." Anubis said, he didn't expect him to know much. "Kalos weren't the ones who played this game it was the Egyptians who did,"
"Egypt?" The prince asked. "What part of the world is that?"
"It is a whole other dimension." Anubis said.
"Oh." Ash said. "Ok."
"Now I used to be one of the best players the world has ever seen, until the one who called himself Pharaoh." Anubis said. "Who is an evil soul who has killed millions of innocent people."
"What does this have to do with me?" The young boy asked.
"In the battle to overthrow him I was struck down and I lost my mortal body." Anubis said looking down sadly. "But I have discovered a new generation of shadow monsters that require new rules and have greater power. Unfortunately I cannot use them."
"Why not?" The raven haired prince asked.
"I cannot revive my mortal body" The underworld god stated. "Not yet anyway, I need someone to wear this pyramid around their neck while beating one hundred people in the shadow games."
"And you want me to wear it." Ahs said trying to wrap his head around it.
"Yes; you will be in full control of your body, I will just be in a part of your mind helping you along the way." Anubis explained.
Ash thought for a moment before nodding.
"I accept." He said standing strong.
"Good." Anubis said as he was enveloped in a blue glow.
"Gah!" The prince cried out as he felt a burning sensation on his chest.
Ahs took off his shirt to see what had happened. There branded on his chest was a medium sized circle with four smaller circles on the inside in each of those circles was a triangle pointing out in four different directions. It was made of different symbols.
"What is this?" Ash said tracing over it with his pointer finger.
"It is called the spellbinding circle; in the shadow games it keeps an opponent's monster from attacking." Anubis explained.
"Then what the heck is it doing on me?" Ash cried out.
"As much as it keeps a monster from attacking it also keeps it in place," Anubis continued. " See in the Shadow games sometimes people use a spell that takes your soul to the shadow realm when you lose."
"The shadow realm?"
"Yes or as your people like to call it," Anubis said. "Hell and that symbol is to keep you from going there if you lose."
"Oh ok that makes sense." The prince said putting his shirt back on. "Now, how do I play these 'shadow games'?"
"Well that's what I will be teaching you here," Anubis said butting his arm on the boy's shoulder as they walked into the darkness. "My apprentice."
Ok cut. Thanks you guys so much for reading this I have been working on this for a while and I plan on adding more chapters in the future. The main character is Ash Ketchum from the pokemon shows and Anubis is the Anubis from the movie he will be different than he was though. Sir Luster will be making a comeback but it might not be in the way you expect it to be ;D. Um this story will have a shipping in it so right now I am deciding between 3 different girls
(AshXMai)
(AshXSerenity)
(AshXTea)
So I will have a vote between the three or if you would like to have more comment but she has to be in yugioh. Anyway later, time to fly.