WHEW!
So this was the original manga one-shot I was talking except...I've decided to split this up so...It's no longer a one-shot. X"D
My motivation is rather rocky on this, so any review will make a difference. c':
And, just so you know, this was supposed to be a what-if/prediction for chapter 8. XD
They knew something had to be done...he was getting ever so close to finding it, finding out the truth...
That's why they took this journey, this burden upon themselves. They're all in on it except him; he must never know..
Yugo was driving down a road that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. "You know, I feel pretty bad for the kid...not to mention what we're doing."
"I think we all do, but it's for the best...for him and the world."
Yugo sighed. "I just wish there was another way..."
"Well, there isn't. So we'll just have to endure through it."
Yugo felt a bit offended by how dismissive Yuri was, concerning the subject. "Do you really feel bad for him, or are you just jumping on the bandwagon?"
"Of course I feel bad for him! After everything he's been through, who wouldn't...? However, unlike you and Yuto, I don't let my feelings get in the way of my mission."
"Heh, now I remember why Yuya never let you take control after that duel."
"Oh, like you're any better, Mr. Hothead."
"Oi! That kid was really grinding my gears!"
"Yeah, but Yuya would never have snapped at a child."
Yugo stopped his D-Wheel and turned around to face Yuri who had a wicked smile.
"Yes?" Yuri asked with amusement in his voice as he blinked his eyes.
Yugo had the most disgruntled face on ever; he let out a low angry growl at Yuri, who was just enjoying the moment. "Nothing...let's just continue our mission."
"Agreed."
Yugo started back up the D-Wheel and drove off.
"I actually have 4 personalities. Speaking of which, I haven seen the others in awhile...I wonder what they're up to...?"
"Hm...they said they were going on a road trip..."
"Eh!? You mean they're driving around my head with no supervision!? Great! I just hope they don't do anything stupid...!"
As the duo continued, after so many miles, the surrounding area would change. They have seen forests, towns, meadows, and many more, but as they journeyed ever deeper, they found themselves in desolate wastelands...
"W-what the...? Where are we...?"
Yugo slowed down a bit to get a better look of the area. "It's a destroyed city of some sort...I don't know why, but I feel as if I've seen this place before..."
The D-Wheel suddenly came to a screeching halt which alerted Yuri. "What, what's wrong, Yugo?"
He friend said nothing. All he did was point at a destroyed building in front of them. "O-oi...isn't that...?"
Yuri looked at the building before letting out a subtle gasp, his eyes showing slight fear. "No way...it can't be...!"
The letters L.D.S were written across the rubble. Yugo was terrified while Yuri was...unnerved. Claw and burn marks were visible on the once tall and proud building, but it wasn't the only one...ALL of the buildings had the same markings.
"I can't tell if this is the past or the future... Did G.O.D do this?"
Yuri shook his head. "I'm not sure. It would be a safe bet...but..."
He began to wonder about how it all started, but as he looked around, he stumbled across a memory shard. He got up from the motorcycle and walked up the shard. He stared it down, actually afraid to see what what lied inside.
He sighed and picked it up anyway. "Yugo, I think I found the memory piece for this area..."
They both looked at the shard, unnerved by its odd glow and color. "Should we view it...?"
"Well, it would help us understand better what happened, but..."
"Afraid, huh?" Yugo let out a nervous chuckle.
"Afraid? Me? Give me a break, Yugo! If I had to guess, I would say that you were the one who's afraid...just make sure you don't pee yourself." Yuri gave him a fiendish grin as he chuckled.
"What!? Why, I outta-! Ugh, we don't have time for this! I'm gonna play the memory."
Yugo place his hand on the shard and closed his eyes, Yuri following soon after.
"DESTROY EVERYTHING!"
Everywhere they looked, there was destruction: people's screams could be heard as they ran for their lives, but none of them were fast enough to survive the blast that was headed their way.
"Yes...YES...your screams are beautiful! The looks on your faces as you meet your doom! Delicious...!"
A gigantic dragon, its body the size of two planes, flew through the air while slashing and burning everything in its path. On the ground was a teen, with most of his face obscured by a cloak, save for his mouth with a wicked smile, bearing fangs and all.
He slowly walked down the path that the Dragon had carved into the Earth. His clawed hands were drenched in his victims' blood, same with his fangs. Upon his back laid the jacket which he used as a make-shift cloak, and as he walked, the cracked pendant around his neck swayed...just like a pendulum...
"KILL EVERYONE!"
On occasion, the teen's hands would twitch, while his head shifted when he heard the screams of others.
Who was he? He seemed oddly familiar...it was almost as if they knew...
"I'LL KILL YOU ALL!"
Yugo and Yuri was repelled back as a powerful shock-wave was delivered from the shard. Yugo was knocked out as he banged his head against the D-Wheel.
"Alright! My turn! I draw!" Yuya grinned as he drew just the right cards. "I set the Pendulum Scale with Odd-Eyes Persona Dragon and Odd-Eyes Mirage Dragon!"
The two dragons roared to the heavens as they appeared. "It's show time! Swing far, Pendulum of my soul!"
A giant Pendulum appeared, swaying back and forth at the words of the teen, but as it swung, the cracks traveled further...
"Draw an arc of light through the heavens that'll lead me to victory! Pendulum Summon! Come forth, Odd-Eyes Phantom Dragon!"
The dragon's appearance came with a shockwave, causing the surrounding area to rumble. Sora, Yuya's opponent, was getting very excited, but he didn't know of the dangers that lied ahead.
The Pendulum had finally reached it's maximum swing...and it shattered, and with its downfall, it brought forth an unspeakable evil... and an unspeakable pain.
Yuya sharply gasped as he gripped his chest. "W-what... what is this feeling inside me...?" He let out a pained grunt and fell to his knees as the pain grew ever stronger.
"Yuya, what's wrong!?" Yuto appeared to see what was happening to Yuya. "Yuya...!?"
Yuya gripped his head, starting to hear voices, but he couldn't make out what was being said.
"Yuya what's-!?"
"I can hear it, Yuto... the dragon..."
"W-what...?"
"I-I...I don't understand. All I feel is pain and hatred..."
"We need to get you out of here." Yuto reached out to Yuya to help him up, but was then met with hostility.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Yuya smacked Yuto's hand away, growling at his friend, his eyes burning with...
"Yugo, wake up!" Yuri slapped Yugo twice to wake him up, but nothing fazed him. Yuri stood up and faced the dark purple mist spilling out of the now floating Memory Shard.
"WE MEET AGAIN, FUSION."
"I knew it was you. The only real shock was the 'where' and the 'how'..."
"YOU WERE ALWAYS THE CLEVER ONE, WEREN'T YOU?"
"So, how did you do it? Why him?"
"ISN'T IT OBVIOUS? HE'S THE PERFECT HOST, FOR HE HAS YOUR POWERS AND THEN SOME! YOU THREE WERE NEEDED TO HELP PERFECT HIS SKILL. WITHOUT YOU, HE WOULDN'T BE AS POWERFUL RIGHT NOW, BUT EVEN WITHOUT YOU, HE'S STILL STRONG...EVEN IF YOU ALL FOUGHT HIM."
"Heh...I should've guessed, you went with your favorite. Then again, he was the original..."
"MY RESURRECTION HAS BEGUN! AND NEITHER YOU, NOR SYNCHRO, OR EVEN XYZ CAN STOP IT."
"Over my dead body! You've done enough to the kid, so leave him alone! I WILL stop you, even IF that means that I die trying!"
"AHAHAHA! FOOLISH FUSION, YOU CAN'T DIE AND YOU KNOW IT. AS MUCH AS I WOULD LOVE TO PLAY 'CATCH UP' WITH THE GANG, I MUST REGAIN CONTROL OF THIS BODY FIRST. AND KNOWING YOU, YOU'LL TRY TO STOP ME, WHICH IS WHY I'LL BE LEAVING YOU A LITTLE PARTING GIFT."
As the voice's laughter trailed off, the darkness darted towards Yuri. He managed to dodge it in time, but he completely forgot about the unconscious Yugo lying right behind him.
"Dang it! Forgot he was lying there...Yugo!"
The mist wrapped around Yugo's figure, slowly lifting him to his feet. Yuri prepared himself for whatever was to come as the blue-and-yellow-haired boy stood there, his head hanging low...then, his hand twitched, and Yuri was alerted.
Yugo picked up his head, his expression sporting only rage, his eyes...burning with...with...hatred.
Yuto floated backwards in shock. He didn't understand what was happening. "Yuya, what's gotten into you!?"
Yuya hissed at him, but then covered his mouth in shock of himself. "D-Did I just...?"
Suddenly, he fell to his knees as he felt something heavy weigh him down. {(PENDULUM OF RUIN...YOUR...'FRIENDS' HAVE BETRAYED YOU...)}
"W-what are you...t-talking about...?"
{(YOUR MEMORIES, THEY WERE ALL LIES... THE MEMORIES YOU KNOW WERE FAKE, CREATED BY PEOPLE CLOSE TO YOU...SO THAT YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW THE TRUTH...)}
"T-the...truth...?"
Hearing those words made Yuto's eyes widen; he knew what was going on now.
{(YES...THE TRUTH...)}
The sinister voice was that of a snake, whispering sweet lies and false hopes into his ear. Yuya wanted to know more, but he just couldn't shake off this strange pained feeling. When suddenly...
"NO! Stay away from him!" Yuto forcibly took control, pushing Yuya's soul out of the way. "He must NEVER know the truth!"
He got up and looked over to Sora. "We shall continue this some other time, unfortunately..."
And with that, Yuto fled from the scene, Yuzu trailing behind them at a slower pace. He had decided that the best place to go was back at the hideout, so that way, they could deal with their problem without any outside interruptions.
Eventually after reaching the hideout, Yuto laid the body on the couch before closing his eyes, sending his soul into Yuya's mind. But while that was happening...
Yuri ran away as black spikes followed close behind, trying their best to impale him. "Yugo! Snap out of it! It's me, Yuri!"
A wrathful growl was heard in response, making Yuri almost roll his eyes. "Heh, I guess I should've seen that one coming, considering all the times I've teased him... But I shall not go down so easily!"
Yuri reached into the pocket of his jacket and took out a card, flipping it.
"I summon Predator Plant Moray Nepenthes from my hand!"
The sickly and venomous plant grew out from the ground, letting out a watery hiss-like sound.
"Go, Predator Plant Moray Nepenthes, bind Yugo down!"
And by his command, his monster's vines made its way through the ground and sprang up from beneath, wrapping itself tightly around Yugo's torso and limbs. He tried to fight against it, but the plant's grip was too strong.
"Force him down on his knees, so that way, I know he can't pull something."
More vines burst from the scorched earth, once again tightly wrapping around Yugo's legs, forcing him down with more force than before. He slowly got down on one knee, then on both. The pull of vines then forced Yugo on his hands as well.
Yugo tried to thrash about and break free, but the grip on the vines were too much, so instead, he kept snarling at Yuri.
The latter glared sarcastically in return. "Yeah, yeah, keep up the empty threats, it'll get you nowhere."
Suddenly, Yugo's snarling died down and was replaced by a evil laugh. Yuri glared at him. "What are you laughing at!?"
The banana-haired boy's body turned completely black before submerging into the earth, and with that, the vines that were holding him became limp and fell to the earth, losing their support. Yuri looked around frantically, searching for his now corrupt friend, but what he didn't know was that he was hiding right underneath him...
Shadowy vines broke through the earth, trying to impale Yuri once more, but his monster stopped the attack from connecting. "He's underneath me?!"
The teen jumped back just as his friend resurfaced. The two stared each other down; Yugo grinned while Yuri frowned.
"Good grief, even when under control, you're still a major pain." Yugo looked offended.
{"Oi, shut up! Not like you're any better!"} He snarled, his response making Yuri chuckle once more. {"What are you chuckling at!? I'll wipe that smug look off your face!"}
"Heh, you never change, do you?"
{"What..?"}
Suddenly Yugo got lifted off the ground and was thrown hard into the earth, thanks to Predator Plant Moray Nepenthes. It then picked him up once more and held him in front of Yuri.
"Looks like I got ya." He chuckled before looking around and sighing. "Now, I gotta find that darkness before Yuya gets taken over by it. At least Yugo is okay...well, sorta...he'll probably be fine in the morning."
He grabbed his friend and threw him over his shoulder before proceeding to walk towards the Duel Runner. He thought about what the voice had told him before sighing...
"I gotta find Yuya before something bad happens to him. The last thing we need is that...THING getting to him first. Hopefully, Yugo should be back to his senses by n-"
"GaaaaaAAAAAAAAAH!"
It was dark and cold...he couldn't see a thing, he couldn't even HEAR anything...where was he...?
-{(PENDULUM OF RUIN...)}-
He frantically looked around. Where was the voice coming from?
-{(PICK UP THE SHARD...)}-
"Shard...? What shard...?"
Suddenly, he saw a faint blow light which become brighter as it came closer and closer.
-{(TOUCH THE SHARD, PENDULUM OF RUIN...)}-
"Touch...it...?"
-{(YES...)}-
He reached out to touch the glass, but stopped short of a few inches. "Something about this thing...it's making me feel...strange...I don't know why, but I don't like this...!"
-{(YOU MUST TOUCH THE SHARD...)}-
His arm moved an inch before he retracted it by two. "I-I can't...I-I'm too afraid to...!"
A shadowed hand grabbed his, guiding the arm closer. "N-ngh..! Let go of me!"
He tried to fight it, but the grip was too strong for him. With ever inch that passed, he could feel himself drifting away...but at the same time, he was still aware of everything around him.
The struggle for control went back and forth: as he pulled his hand back, the shadow would push it forward...
But finally, after seconds of struggling, there was a victor...much to his dismay. The shadow had won the fight for control, and he was forced to touch the strange shard floating in front of him.
Immediately, his body jolted, and his eyes went wide as all sorts of images flashed before his vision, eventually becoming a blur of color and sound. His head throbbed; this was becoming too much for him to take...
A veil of darkness suddenly bursted through the shard, wrapping itself around his body and limbs. He tried to fight it, but he felt his strength being taken from him. As the shadows continued to spread, he let out a agonizing screech.
His wide eyes then started to give off a faint glow of neon green and golden yellow, but before his eyes were filled with the colors, they abruptly completely whited out as he blissfully collapsed to the ground...
Whew, alright.
Act 1 is done. c:
Special thanks to CorinnetheAnime for proof reading and motivate me to finish this. XD
I'm not done yet, but if not for her this probably would not have been uploaded. c':
SO! Do you enjoy this story? If so leave review! :D
I would love to hear your thoughts, and it'll help motivate me to finish this. X')