Traces Through Time:Part One

First part-there may be a second if I have enough time. Sort of AU, since this is not completely how the Yu-Gi-Oh manga or show goes. I have not seen all the episodes, so please bear with me.

Warning: For future reference, there will be violence, deaths.


Prologue

Atlantis had fallen-had been gone for many years. Not one person was known to survive; no one knew enough to pass on a legend hidden and faded through the passing of time in Atlantis itself, unknown to most of the populace even when it began. The legend of the connection between Atlantis, supposed paradise on earth, and their other dimension partner, which was merely named the Heavens, for that, was what it was like. This legend would later intertwine with Pharaoh Atem's life.

A race of angel-like people made of apprentices, masters, gods and goddesses as ranking. Apprentices trained since they were young to use their powers, for boys it was to become a master and maybe one day a part of the council of gods. For girls, they were trained to become goddesses that work in different departments of managing their world. They had a high level of technology, much higher then any standard on earth, and even more advanced the Atlantis.

They were a discreet race, who sometimes helped the Atlanteans secretly without being detected. The few human they revealed themselves to, were good people, who they decided specifically had a good heart and would remain that way. The royal family of Atlantis had a vague knowledge of the angel race, but since it was requested not to be written down, even that small bit of knowledge they had was lost in time. The people of the Heavens knew much about the people of Atlantis though-their technology relied on the amount of life on Atlantis, thus the secret relationship between the two dimensions.

Sadly though, when Atlantis was washed away in the tsunami wave, the gods had built their life styles too reliantly on their technology. Due to the loss of Atlantis, the whole mainframe shut down, or exploded. Not even any nature survived to power their mainframe, Ictracyl, even slightly. Each being in the Heavens had their life energy connected to the mainframe. As the mainframe was wrecked and corrupted, so did them. Their usually controlled emotions were given free reign, and their despair, sadness and horror overtook them. Most died, and their spirit set free to roam inside a sort of dream-like reality built on memories, where they could live as before without any danger. The ones that lived through the first wave of deaths from their souls being infected or crushed grew twisted.

They became more children for the Orichalcos, and joined the original monsters.

However, one goddess, a goddess First Class named Belldandy, had not been directly at the Heavens, as she lived with her human lover in a modernised Atlantis. She had survived the tidal wave due to her powers, but in the chaos, her lover had been dashed against a cliff face, and broken his back, killing hi instantly. While she may be a high graduate goddess, her people did not have the power to resurrect the dead. She wept for him, then sensed something wrong in the Heavens, and went up to check. The sight she was greeted with was destruction, and she found her two sisters just before their spirit faded into the dimension of memories to live eternally.

Distraught and nearly senseless with grief, she fled to earth, and coincidently ended up landing the Nile River, in an early Egypt where Pharaoh Narmer was newly ruling the land. In the shallower parts of the Nile, she lay on the shores and let herself be consumed by grief, killing her by the next day. Before she died, she had taken her staff, the only remnant she had of Heaven, and changed it from ear jewellery to a bracelet of dull coloured gold inlaid with a few blue gems nearly as pale as her sky coloured eyes. The design of it was intricate, a near copy of the carvings on the top of her staff. She cast a spell over it, and then set it adrift on the Nile, before death took her, and freed her spirit to join her lover Keiichi.

The bracelet was to carry a destiny with it. Only one that was related to Keiichi would inherit her powers, and may lay true claim to the bracelet. She had done that so if her body was found, none would be able to get her powers from her staff, or try and use her blood in spells, as her blood had many properties. What she did not count on was that the gods and goddesses of Egypt would take notice of her, and help her, since she was a pure, powerful soul. They made her body a part of the Nile itself, thus giving her new power-to control water, and freeze it too. Since she was dead, that power was stored with the rest of her own powers, to await the destined person.

For you see, Belldandy had not known that in fact one relative of Keiichi survived, by being put in a wicker basket lined with blankets while still a baby. That basket was rushed through vast bodies of water to end up in Ancient China, by the coast. A woman with a kind spirit would find the baby girl and take her in as her own daughter. The girl would grow up with Belldandy's powers inside her, but still sealed until the right time was appropriate to unlock them, for a descendant that would truly need it. The right descendant would not be born until many millennia later, in the late twentieth century. By then, her family had been distinguished as Chinese, but half of them born in Indonesia. As a toddler, this descendant would immigrate to Australia with her parents, and experience horrors which no child should have to face.

But this whole story should be told with more detail. How does one such as me know this tale when no one else does? It's simple really.
I am her.


The first chapter is a bit confusing, and probably a mess, but it relates to the story later. this will probably be the only chapter from someone's direct point of view.There will be another chapter up, but please leave a review!