Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh; that is the property of Konami and the creator Kazuki Takahashi. I do own a Bible and my idea for the story.
"I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping. My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes." -Psalm 6:6-7 ESV
Darkness, that is all that I see. Everywhere that I look all that I see is darkness. "Hello, anyone here?" ….. Silence is the answer that I receive. A few moments pass then I hear a sound "…"
"Whose there… Joey? Tristan? Guys is that you?" I say. Once again my question is answered with silence. Another moment passes then I hear it again "…" I run where I heard the noise; but it quickly disappears. "Please come back" I plea into the darkness. "I don't know what's going on; I don't know where I am."
"How could you" says a mysterious voice. "What do you mean?" I reply. "Please I don't understand". Suddenly I'm blinded by a bright light; I bring my hands up to my eyes to block it out. A moment passes and the light recedes only to be replaced with a silhouette of a figure. I blink my eyes to readjust my vision so that I can see them more clearly. "How could you have done that!?" says the figure. My eyes finally adjust and I clearly make the person to be Rebecca Hawkins.
At 5ft tall, she has blonde hair that reaches down past her shoulders; wearing a white dress shirt with a blue tie and a pink jacket with a blueish-green strip pattern skirt with knee high socks and brown shoes. The twelve year old looks at me with her emerald eyes through her half-moon glasses and points an accusing finger at me. "I said 'How could you have done that ….to Yugi no less!?'"
Her accusation hits me hard. "I'm sor…" I stammer to answer her but she cuts me off. "Why didn't it happen to you? Why did he have to pay for your mistake?" Her statements cut through me like a knife to the heart. I cast down my red eyes from her and nod my head down in shame. Her accusing questions are my questions as well. Why did Yugi take my place? Why did he push me out of the seal?
Her questions remind me of that accursed duel. I was losing to Rafael, the Orichalcos duelist. I was down to my last 600 life points and I had Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight on my field; but my card was rendered useless due to the effects of Rafael's Crystal Seal. I hand in my hand that accursed spell card The Seal of Orichalcos. Even though I had promised Yugi that I wouldn't play the card I was considering playing it. But, I was blinded by my pride; I couldn't see another way out and Yugi was trying his best to keep me from using that card. I disregarded his pleas and used the card.
And of course, it back fired. My monster Dark Magician Girl the Dragon Knight self-destructed, due to the fact that one of the cards that I had used to fuse my card together, The Eye of Timaeus, didn't mix well with The Seal of Orichalcos.
I eventually lost the duel and due to the effects of the seal; my soul was going to be absorbed until I felt a hand on my back pushing me out of the seal. I turn around and there was Yugi. He took my place; he sacrificed himself so that the seal didn't take me.
"I don't know what else that I can say" I say to Rebecca as tears start running down my face. "I didn't mean for the seal to take him; but Yugi switch with me and it took him in my place instead and now….. now he is gone." "Well that's not good enough" Rebecca says with venom. "It was your mistake, you should have paid for it; not Yugi"
"She's right" a new voice adds its opinion. "You knew what would happen if you played that card;" I turn my head to my left and see a young man with messy blonde hair.' "J-Joey?!" I reply in confusion, "You knew that card was dangerous; but yet you played it" said Joey.
"I agree" I look to my right to see another young man with unicorn shaped brown hair. "Tristian?!" again I reply in confusion. "If you hadn't played it then Yugi would still be here" I look at the two young men; I know what they say is the truth. "Pharaoh" I hear my title and I turn around and see a young brunette woman with blue eyes.
"Tea…." I whisper her name.
"I…" I once again try to apologize; but once again I am cut off. "I can't believe you lost the duel… lost Yugi" she says to me. Tea casts down her blue eyes to the ground for a moment then brings them back up with the look of anger and resentment in her face. "After everything we've been through. How could you go and betray us… betray him like that?"
Her words cut me down. I am, once again, lost for words. I can't speak for the waves of hatred and betrayal are coming at me from all sides. They circle me and start their onslaught of questions towards me. I try to beg and plea with them. To let them know how sorry I am and how much I regret my decision to play that card. But they refuse to let me speak; they keep berating me with hate filled questions; to the point where all of their voices were surrounding me as one.
I can't take it anymore. I bring my hands up to my ears to drown them out; but it's no use. With my hands still on my head I fall to my knees, eyes closed trying to shut everything out. But it only makes their voices louder.
When I took all that thought I could take; another voice rings in my head …"Game time". All at once the other's voices cease. I open my eyes and slowly take my hands off my head; because this time I recognize the voice; it is one similar to mine. I look up to see an outline of a figure in the shadows. The figure starts to move forward and the gang separates to let the newcomer through.
The newcomer is 5ft tall with star-shape black hair with red highlights framed with blonde lightning bolts streaking through it and a few blonde bangs framing their face. They wear the Domino High school uniform with the Millennium puzzle around their neck. I recognize this figure.
It's me.
The figure looks at me with distain in his red eyes and with the third eye glowing on their forehead. "The Gate of Darkness has open" the figure says pointing at me. I look into their red eyes and see my reflection. I look much like the figure in front of me expect where the third eye is glowing I see the Orichalcos seal glowing on my forehead and I look down to see that the seal is under me once again. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I scream as the seal takes hold of me and the world goes dark.
Hi everyone. I hope y'all enjoyed this first chapter of Seeking Redemption.
This is my first ever attempt at writing a story. So this is more less an experiment for me.
Your comments will be appreciated and thank you for reading this and I hope you can follow me on this journey.
