The Gateway Between the Worlds

PROLOGUE:

Listen. Can you feel it? Time is shifting. Something is happening. Could it be? Is the gateway opening?

The spirit form that was Yami Mira was startled from her deep thoughts by the shifting of time. She strained keenly, attempting to hear, or feel what was happening.

The door, the gate, it is opening...

It was time. Even though the gateway was going to and from another time and not hers, the magic was of the same sort. It was one of ancient magics, that of the lost city. It had been long since she had felt the lost magic, but now was her chance, and it could not wait. She could feel the force behind the magic. It was evil, menacing. Even if it had not been, she still would have done what she was about to do. It was clear that the pharaoh needed help. She had been exposed to the future, the past, and the present on all levels of the dimensions, and had learned of what was to come. She knew that the pharaoh had put his spirit into one of the millennium items, and now that a rift had opened, she could do the same. She let herself flow into time itself, through the portal, into the world from where the magic came. She slid into an enormous room filled with a great power that pressed her essence. She needed to get out, to locate one of the millennium items and settle. However, something caught her interest.

"Mira," came the commanding voice.

"Y-yes?" the small girl responded.

"It is time. I have opened the gateway. I can now see the only way to make my plan work."

"What do you see?"

"It is as I thought. The boy."

"Seto?"

"Yes. It is odd that the one who would be chosen to help me carry out my plan would be one of the spirits from old Egypt. It is fitting somehow, that I shall be using the original enemy of the pharaoh to destroy the world. If only time could tell me where the pharaoh was now."

The gateway trembled, and then grew larger. A wind began to howl within the chamber, and the gateway leapt from its spot towards the center of the room.

"Darts, what's happening!" yelled Mira in confusion. Why is the gateway doing that?

Darts howled in frustration. "It is too big! It's going to change time if I don't do something!"

Yami Mira felt the pull of the gateway as it grew larger. It was too late. Time was already changing. There was nothing to be done to stop it. Yami Mira had to escape the pull of the gateway or else it would destroy her. She fled the chamber, and simultaneously searched the world for the millennium items. It was difficult, as their positions changed as time altered. Finally she found the millennium key, in the house of a man named Shadi. It did not matter. Yami Mira fled into the key, her essence followed by the gateway. She shielded herself from its pull within the key, and then, suddenly, the gateway collapsed. Yami Mira sighed and pulled her essence further within the key. She would wait for a while, and then go in search of the pharaoh. Now that time had been changed, she did not know where he was or if she was even needed, but in her heart she felt that the change in time had not altered the future for the better. Time rarely changed for the good when an evil force wielded its power.

"Darts?" asked Mira in a small voice. Her aqua hair was partially black from the falling cinders around her. The cavern had been nearly demolished from the wrath of the gateway, and Mira was frightened. She turned around and nearly screamed with surprise.

"Don't look so surprised Mira." Darts' eyes glinted dangerously. "It is still Seto. Go. Find him and report back to me. Do not fail. The world depends on this. You are under the oath of the Oricalcos. Do this for that power."