Chosen 4: Shadow Games
A nineteenth angel fanfic
Disclaimer: Any anime is the product of their respective creators and not mine, unfortunately. The character of the 19th Angel is mine, but I based the character from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Warhammer 40,000, the Chaos Gods, etc belong to Games Workshop. The character of Keeper Sponge belongs to Sponge, fellow fanfic writer, and is a thanks for putting a version of the 19th Angel into his brilliant Phantasy Star Online fic, Flow in Time, used with permission of Sponge. Holy and Chaos used with permission of fellow fanfic writer Holy Half Vs Chaos Half
Author's Notes: Welcome to this, the 4th Chosen fic in the saga, and the 1st to be released! For those wondering why it's like this, well, during a recent transferral of files from my ancient laptop to my brand new computer (Yey!), the laptop was looked at cross-eyed and crashed again, this time permanently, I lost the majority of more than a years work on Chosen, which you may understand has pissed me off no end. Luckily various key chapters had been placed on backup discs and I will be releasing these 'lost' chapters after I have rewritten a few flaws in them, and written a synopsis for the three missing fics. Hopefully you can forgive me for starting to release them here at this point in the Chosen chronology, but this is the only one out of the 5 written so far to be reasonably intact. Notes, which you WILL NEED, have been given below.
At the end of Chosen, the Chaos God Slaanesh was defeated by a Ghul-Maraz wielding Ramna Saotome, and in order to survive, has entered part exchange on his chosen champion's body, this being one Maximillian Pegasus... In Chosen 2: Lies that my parents told me, Ramna and Shinji Ikari were swapped in realities by Tzeentch, in order to wear down Saotome's spirit by making him go through the hell that Shinji was forced to go through in Evangelion. The plan failed, but with the side effect of Tzeentch absorbing Adam and Lilith into itself after defeating the Lilith-Adam-Rei thing in end of Evangelion and possessing Eva Units 05-13 for itself, making the Lord of Change quite possibly more powerful than Kami-sama himself. (These notes are in recovered chapters and will be appearing soon.) Ethan Rayne is in the Tendo basement for a good reason (Trust me on this! Its in Chosen 3! I'll write it up soon, OK! ) Due to a result of the attempted Chaos incursion through realities in Chosen, many dimensions of anime and other shows have 'bled' into each other. This is why many shows not only know each other, but also are good allies. Trade has been established through these dimensions, which is why an interdimensional tournament of Duel Monsters can be held in this fic. I killed Hamtaro in Chosen by having a Bloodthirster step on him. (Ask nicely and I'll rewrite this! Or flame me, I'll still do it! Not important, I know, but still!!!!)
And now... To our feature presentation...
Chosen 4: Shadow Games Prologue: The Eliminators Found
Kroke stepped through the great double doors of His sanctum. Kroke had been His guardian since before they had joined into one body to become Him and was merely Master Pegasus, he had rarely failed Him before and was not going to make a habit of failing Him now, especially since the consequences of failure were far worse now than before.
The rumours, such as they were, had been growing throughout His retinue of followers and servants for two weeks now. And apart from Him and Them Who Were Like Him, Kroke was the only one who knew the truth behind the rumours. Many had asked him if he knew what was going on, and he told them the truth, only to kill them immediately afterwards, like He had told him to.
Such was the price of Knowledge, He had said.
Initially, Kroke had balked at what he had to do, But as he realised that the deaths temporally relieved the pain he suffered almost constantly as the changes rippled throughout his body, he begin to long for the next fool to ask him what was going on, as although the changes were useful, and made him far stronger than before, they were causing him nigh on unceasing agony.
He stepped on through to His private sanctum, in the tower in His castle in Duellist Kingdom. This was where He had desired to summon Kroke from in order to have His wishes fulfilled. Kroke ascended the stairs quickly, knowing that if He was angry at the length of time a member of His retinue took in order to do something for Him, He would subject the unfortunate person to a death as painful as it was probably exquisite.
Kroke went through the door into His private sanctum, it remained relatively unchanged from the time that Master Pegasus was in sole residence, except for the picture of Cecilia Pegasus on the wall, whereas before it had been a depiction of simple beauty, it now was far more perverted than Kroke had imagined possible, with things he knew called Daemonettes doing unspeakable actions with a very willing Cecelia. Kroke believed that the picture was never in the same... position it was last when he saw it, and a Daemonette in the picture, never the same one twice, was looking at him with unconcealed lust.
He was wearing the flesh of Master Pegasus for now, and as Kroke entered the room, He said only one thing;
"It has begun Kroke, the time is right to make atonement to the other three for when I apparently betrayed them during the last incursion of Chaos. The time has come to begin my tournament across all the dimensions that bleed into each other, my special cards have been distributed?"
"Yes sir." Was Kroke's response
Yes, the four cards created by His own hands, the most powerful ever created, as far as he knew, and all distributed to the people, defined by His cryptic wishes.
The Blood God, to the One who commands Albino Reptiles The Lord of Change, to the Priest of Tricksters The Lord of Decay, to the Friend and Rival at Once The Prince of Chaos, for His eyes only until the time was right
"Good," came the response, and pleasure rippled though Kroke from Him, a sign that He was happy with Kroke.
"And the eliminators for my tournament?" came the next request from Him.
"Waiting for your orders on the Duelling Field, My Prince of Chaos."
"Good, take me to them."
As they descended to the Duelling Field, Kroke thought of the unusual arrangement that He had for His eliminators for this tournament, for instead of Kroke hiring the best eliminators possible for the tournament, and as many as possible for the task, He had chosen six, as according to Him, six was an important number, and as far as Kroke was aware of, none of them had ever been heard of when it came to duelling. They arrived on the platform of the Duelling Field, with the six eliminators facing away from Kroke and Him. Two stood together, while the rest were standing alone, well away from each other.
The Keeper of Dungeons The Twins The Red-armoured Giant The Angel The Machine
"I have a task," He said melodiously, "I charge you six with carrying it out."
A statement, not a request.
"As you know, I am about to hold a Duel Monsters tournament throughout several dimensions, the completion of this must go the way I desire for my plans to be realised, therefore, I am giving each of you your own unique deck in order to take out high priority targets, they being two of the Champions of Kami-sama, Yugi Moto and Ramna Saotome, who could be detrimental to my plans. In exchange for taking out these targets, you will be paid handsomely, Understood?"
Nods and audible responses were given
"Good," His features changed to those of the most glorious Slaanesh, "Look at me."
The eliminators turned around, the twins blanching and going pale at the sight of His face, The Keeper stepped back for a second, before revealing gauntlets endowed with many Rings upon each finger, possibly to show his lack of fear, (and failing, thought Kroke), The red armoured giant dropped to his knees and offered a stifled prayer in devotion, The Angel merely stared back at Him, while the Machine had no emotions at all, and hence had no reaction. He walked up to each of them in turn handing them a deck wrapped in silks, with the eliminators' name embroidered upon it, that is, until He came to the Angel, whereupon He could the deck, until the Angel merely produced his Deck from out of a pocket on his own person. "Forgive me," the Angel said in a cut glass English accent, "But Saotome killed 15 of my brethren in cold blood, and you'll forgive me, I'm sure, if I got a little impatient for the means to revenge myself on him..." "Of course..." came the reply. The last handing of the deck came without incident, The Machine merely slotting the deck into itself in order to study it. "Now you all have been handed your decks," He said, "The preparations are complete to hold the greatest Duel Monsters tournament ever held, and to pave the way for Chaos to conquer all!"
The following laugh chilled Kroke to the bone.
Well, what did you think of the prologue?, Read and review, please give constructive criticism so I can adjust things accordingly for the next chapter of Chosen 4: Shadow Games; The Invite to Glory, and they'll be lots of Fan Service too! Promise!
Also, try and guess what Slaanesh's plot is if you can, I wont tell you if you're right but I will respond on the review board to any questions you may want to ask.
Disclaimer: Any anime is the product of their respective creators and not mine, unfortunately. The character of the 19th Angel is mine, but I based the character from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Warhammer 40,000, the Chaos Gods, etc belong to Games Workshop. The character of Keeper Sponge belongs to Sponge, fellow fanfic writer, and is a thanks for putting a version of the 19th Angel into his brilliant Phantasy Star Online fic, Flow in Time, used with permission of Sponge. Holy and Chaos used with permission of fellow fanfic writer Holy Half Vs Chaos Half
Author's Notes: Welcome to this, the 4th Chosen fic in the saga, and the 1st to be released! For those wondering why it's like this, well, during a recent transferral of files from my ancient laptop to my brand new computer (Yey!), the laptop was looked at cross-eyed and crashed again, this time permanently, I lost the majority of more than a years work on Chosen, which you may understand has pissed me off no end. Luckily various key chapters had been placed on backup discs and I will be releasing these 'lost' chapters after I have rewritten a few flaws in them, and written a synopsis for the three missing fics. Hopefully you can forgive me for starting to release them here at this point in the Chosen chronology, but this is the only one out of the 5 written so far to be reasonably intact. Notes, which you WILL NEED, have been given below.
At the end of Chosen, the Chaos God Slaanesh was defeated by a Ghul-Maraz wielding Ramna Saotome, and in order to survive, has entered part exchange on his chosen champion's body, this being one Maximillian Pegasus... In Chosen 2: Lies that my parents told me, Ramna and Shinji Ikari were swapped in realities by Tzeentch, in order to wear down Saotome's spirit by making him go through the hell that Shinji was forced to go through in Evangelion. The plan failed, but with the side effect of Tzeentch absorbing Adam and Lilith into itself after defeating the Lilith-Adam-Rei thing in end of Evangelion and possessing Eva Units 05-13 for itself, making the Lord of Change quite possibly more powerful than Kami-sama himself. (These notes are in recovered chapters and will be appearing soon.) Ethan Rayne is in the Tendo basement for a good reason (Trust me on this! Its in Chosen 3! I'll write it up soon, OK! ) Due to a result of the attempted Chaos incursion through realities in Chosen, many dimensions of anime and other shows have 'bled' into each other. This is why many shows not only know each other, but also are good allies. Trade has been established through these dimensions, which is why an interdimensional tournament of Duel Monsters can be held in this fic. I killed Hamtaro in Chosen by having a Bloodthirster step on him. (Ask nicely and I'll rewrite this! Or flame me, I'll still do it! Not important, I know, but still!!!!)
And now... To our feature presentation...
Chosen 4: Shadow Games Prologue: The Eliminators Found
Kroke stepped through the great double doors of His sanctum. Kroke had been His guardian since before they had joined into one body to become Him and was merely Master Pegasus, he had rarely failed Him before and was not going to make a habit of failing Him now, especially since the consequences of failure were far worse now than before.
The rumours, such as they were, had been growing throughout His retinue of followers and servants for two weeks now. And apart from Him and Them Who Were Like Him, Kroke was the only one who knew the truth behind the rumours. Many had asked him if he knew what was going on, and he told them the truth, only to kill them immediately afterwards, like He had told him to.
Such was the price of Knowledge, He had said.
Initially, Kroke had balked at what he had to do, But as he realised that the deaths temporally relieved the pain he suffered almost constantly as the changes rippled throughout his body, he begin to long for the next fool to ask him what was going on, as although the changes were useful, and made him far stronger than before, they were causing him nigh on unceasing agony.
He stepped on through to His private sanctum, in the tower in His castle in Duellist Kingdom. This was where He had desired to summon Kroke from in order to have His wishes fulfilled. Kroke ascended the stairs quickly, knowing that if He was angry at the length of time a member of His retinue took in order to do something for Him, He would subject the unfortunate person to a death as painful as it was probably exquisite.
Kroke went through the door into His private sanctum, it remained relatively unchanged from the time that Master Pegasus was in sole residence, except for the picture of Cecilia Pegasus on the wall, whereas before it had been a depiction of simple beauty, it now was far more perverted than Kroke had imagined possible, with things he knew called Daemonettes doing unspeakable actions with a very willing Cecelia. Kroke believed that the picture was never in the same... position it was last when he saw it, and a Daemonette in the picture, never the same one twice, was looking at him with unconcealed lust.
He was wearing the flesh of Master Pegasus for now, and as Kroke entered the room, He said only one thing;
"It has begun Kroke, the time is right to make atonement to the other three for when I apparently betrayed them during the last incursion of Chaos. The time has come to begin my tournament across all the dimensions that bleed into each other, my special cards have been distributed?"
"Yes sir." Was Kroke's response
Yes, the four cards created by His own hands, the most powerful ever created, as far as he knew, and all distributed to the people, defined by His cryptic wishes.
The Blood God, to the One who commands Albino Reptiles The Lord of Change, to the Priest of Tricksters The Lord of Decay, to the Friend and Rival at Once The Prince of Chaos, for His eyes only until the time was right
"Good," came the response, and pleasure rippled though Kroke from Him, a sign that He was happy with Kroke.
"And the eliminators for my tournament?" came the next request from Him.
"Waiting for your orders on the Duelling Field, My Prince of Chaos."
"Good, take me to them."
As they descended to the Duelling Field, Kroke thought of the unusual arrangement that He had for His eliminators for this tournament, for instead of Kroke hiring the best eliminators possible for the tournament, and as many as possible for the task, He had chosen six, as according to Him, six was an important number, and as far as Kroke was aware of, none of them had ever been heard of when it came to duelling. They arrived on the platform of the Duelling Field, with the six eliminators facing away from Kroke and Him. Two stood together, while the rest were standing alone, well away from each other.
The Keeper of Dungeons The Twins The Red-armoured Giant The Angel The Machine
"I have a task," He said melodiously, "I charge you six with carrying it out."
A statement, not a request.
"As you know, I am about to hold a Duel Monsters tournament throughout several dimensions, the completion of this must go the way I desire for my plans to be realised, therefore, I am giving each of you your own unique deck in order to take out high priority targets, they being two of the Champions of Kami-sama, Yugi Moto and Ramna Saotome, who could be detrimental to my plans. In exchange for taking out these targets, you will be paid handsomely, Understood?"
Nods and audible responses were given
"Good," His features changed to those of the most glorious Slaanesh, "Look at me."
The eliminators turned around, the twins blanching and going pale at the sight of His face, The Keeper stepped back for a second, before revealing gauntlets endowed with many Rings upon each finger, possibly to show his lack of fear, (and failing, thought Kroke), The red armoured giant dropped to his knees and offered a stifled prayer in devotion, The Angel merely stared back at Him, while the Machine had no emotions at all, and hence had no reaction. He walked up to each of them in turn handing them a deck wrapped in silks, with the eliminators' name embroidered upon it, that is, until He came to the Angel, whereupon He could the deck, until the Angel merely produced his Deck from out of a pocket on his own person. "Forgive me," the Angel said in a cut glass English accent, "But Saotome killed 15 of my brethren in cold blood, and you'll forgive me, I'm sure, if I got a little impatient for the means to revenge myself on him..." "Of course..." came the reply. The last handing of the deck came without incident, The Machine merely slotting the deck into itself in order to study it. "Now you all have been handed your decks," He said, "The preparations are complete to hold the greatest Duel Monsters tournament ever held, and to pave the way for Chaos to conquer all!"
The following laugh chilled Kroke to the bone.
Well, what did you think of the prologue?, Read and review, please give constructive criticism so I can adjust things accordingly for the next chapter of Chosen 4: Shadow Games; The Invite to Glory, and they'll be lots of Fan Service too! Promise!
Also, try and guess what Slaanesh's plot is if you can, I wont tell you if you're right but I will respond on the review board to any questions you may want to ask.