Chapter 1 (I DO NOT OWN YUGIOH)
Yugi watched as the incoming tide splashed against the giant rocks that made up the rocky shore. The sun was setting, in most cases Yugi would have stopped to watch it as it descended disappearing into the sea, but not today.
"Stupid dad and his stupid rules, he's way to over protective, he's impossible to deal with." Yugi spoke to himself as he kicked at a pink looking shell. His father Heba was a well-respected man on the island, there were very few people who would willingly pick a fight with him, well unless they were drunk then that's a whole different story. Yugi was 17 already he had the right to do as he pleased without his father's permission, but no, his father decided that he still wasn't old enough to go to Purgatory the only and the best tavern on the island, anyone who was anyone went there.
"Bloody pirate and his pride, news flash dad you haven't been sailing in a long time, that doesn't make you a pirate anymore." Or at least that's what Yugi wished was true, but he knew the truth was that once a pirate always a pirate. Yugi himself could barely control himself when he and his father went out on their small fishing boat, he dreamed of the day he would have a ship of his own and could sail the seas under no man's colors, he would be a free person. That is if his father ever decided he was allowed to leave the island. He didn't understand his father, one moment he was teaching him the skills of being a sailor how to sail a ship, navigate the stars, pick the best ships for plunder and most of all how to protect his own life with sword, pistol and magic, as well as the crews lives. And the next his father was saying he wasn't old enough to do anything by himself, to even make use of the skills he had been taught, it didn't make sense.
His father had taught him everything never let him do more than sail there fishing boat home even though he had mostly mastered his magical powers and was even stronger than his father. His father was hiding something or from something, that much Yugi knew but he had no idea of what it was about, or who. Yugi sighed and sat down on a flat rock to look out at sea, he had been away from home for two days, and now was trying to think of what to do next. If he returned home then, well it would be a big dent in his pride. He and his father had gotten into a big fight a few days ago when Heba caught him and Malik making out. Malik and him didn't have a real relationship they mostly did that to release some of the pent up stress their parents put on them. But that didn't matter to his father, no, it wasn't the fact he was bi, but of the fact that he didn't like his choice in partners since their fathers had been close friends.
Anyway that lead to a bigger fight that lead to Yugi telling his father he had had enough of his over bearing ways and his father challenged him to go live on his own, without the help of any of his friends. So he did, and the last two days he'd been living in a secret cove him and his friends had found a while ago, it was perfect and he was just fine living there. He had been there and would stay there till he had found a way onto one of the ships that would take him away from this island this purgatory and to whole new places.
Another sigh escaped Yugi's lips, he was uncomfortably warm which did nothing to help his mood. He rubbed his left arm as it burned and the skin prickled uncomfortably where the sun was warming and heating the skin. Yugi had plans, he wanted to see what the world held for him, he knew that were he lived it was nothing nice. The island was small but it was held under the kings rule and the one that governed over it was ruthless, more than half the island was dying of starvation or dieses. Yugi despised the man that was in charge and took what rightfully belonged to his people. He swore one day he would do something about it, to help those who couldn't help themselves. With that thought he was determined to be what his family had once been, but he would make his own mark not ride off the legend that was his grandfather.
Yugi scratched at his burning arm again as dark clouds began to form an oncoming storm. Except the sun was setting more to his right and his left arm was mostly in shadows from the rapidly approaching storm. as he realized this a wet trickle flowed down his arm, glancing at it he say a thin line of red, like he had been cut by fishing line. He watched in fascinated confusion as beads of blood bubbled up and slide down his arm proving that the cut was deep. He searched his mind for the cause of this as another line appeared and another as his arm bust into pain, it felt like thousands of fire ants had attacked it. He hissed in pain as he fell from the boulder gripping his wrist and watched in astonishment and pain as multiple thin lines sliced his skin, as they moved and merged together to form an image. Than they moved upward and Yugi's vision went blind with images of a great beast with scales of blue and green roared its anger to the world at being defied its freedom. His arm was pulsing with the painful heat, he glanced at it and saw the now intricate swirls that were appearing they snaked up his arm some merging together and seemingly depicting a snake that was trapped in what looked like waves. To anyone who was looking at it would probably only see the intercept and deathly beautiful workings of the dark marks but it was tainted in the scent of magic.
Yugi cursed between his clenched teeth, something was wrong and it was something that he had no knowledge of. A sudden flash of his father's face came to his mind and fear ran threw him, almost as if the weather had sensed this sudden change it had become cloudy and there was a distance sound of thunder that was quickly coming closer. Scared at what was happening Yugi headed for home and as his home came into view the sky opened up instantly drenching Yugi with a chilling rain and washing away the drying blood even as it continued to flow, the wind picked up blowing any sound from reaching his ears. Yugi pushed the door open, the wind snatching it and slamming it against the wall. His father jumped spilling the mortar stone that held herbs for healing and spell casting.
Yugi's vision blurred as he entered the room swaying from the pin ad blood loss. "D-Dad. W-what's happening to me?" Yugi asked and saw his father pale in horror at the sight of his arm, he ran to his son and helped him into the room. Before closing the door and leaning heavily on it, glancing around nervously as if the shadows contained ears, he looked down at his wrist were a circular tattoo used to be but was now gone.
"Oh, Yugi. I'm sorry so sorry, I never wanted this to happen. It shouldn't have happened it shouldn't have been passed on to you it just wasn't supposed to happen."
"Dad, what's happening what wasn't supposed to happen?" Yugi asked a bit scared at his father's reaction to the mark on his arm, what exactly did it mean? His father sighed running a hand over his face before quietly retrieved a leather bound book from what sounded like a loose floor board in his room. He placed it on the worn wooden table, they both looked at the thick leather bound book as a dangerous silence filled the room and the fierce wind could be heard at it banged against the poorly constructed house.
"You've been told about our family history, I've never hid it from you, though there has been times I've wondered if it was for the best." His father said in a quiet serious voice breaking the silence the candle on the table flickering eerily with the storms wind.
"Were pirates, Grandpa was the first one who made our name known and respected among our kind." Yugi said quietly.
"Yes it was. My father Solomon was a fierce pirate he held himself and his crew to a strict code of honor. I followed his code and served under him when I was younger, then under my own flag. It was during a storm like tonight that we both came across a plot to bring one of the greater evils of the world back to life. It was something made from dark magic of the old days all the way back to Egypt and the Pharaohs, they were the first to find a way to lock away this evil." His father paused as he looked at the black marks on his sons arm witch was streaked in blood and moved to find a bandage to cover it with, and to stop the bleeding.
"What happened, dad what did you find?" Yugi asked he could hear the fear and uncertainty in his father, a man, magician and pirate that wasn't to be trifled with, at least not in the old days.
"Me and my father were planning a joint mission on a rich Nobel's vessel. But as we prepared to attack it while in port we came across this plot by accident, but when we heard about it we also knew the two of use couldn't just look away. My father contacted a trusted man that was very high up in the hierarchy." Yugi gave his father a look that made him laugh lightly, thinking how much his son was like his own grandfather who would have been turning in his grave at the thought of working with the King's men. "I know what you're thinking, how could we when we had hid ourselves for so long when our king had passed the law the required all magic wielders to join the navy."
"Our family hid because our magic would be dangerous for us not to mention our enemy's if they used us like a weapon." Yugi commented with bitterness in his voice. That he had always known, in the old days magic was easy to acquire, almost anyone could learn to harness it, but there were only three lines that were born into it. And those three bloodlines were the only ones that were never affected when the abundance of magic in the world began to decrease. They were still as strong as the day there lines were fist created. Yugi and his family were direct decadents of one of those lines.
"My father saved this man's life, and he agreed that the knowledge we had heard was bigger than any breech of law we may or may not have committed. Heba gave a sly smile a gleam in his eye. "We met with him and he brought along several other powerful people he trusted, together me and my father along with them concocted a plan that we could put a stop to this evil and hopefully keep it sealed. One of the ones among them was like us, a direct decadent of the three bloodlines.
We planned it as best as we could, me and my crew sailing out and keeping an eye on the people that wanted to release the beast. They were gathering followers anybody they could manage and if you could use magic even more so. I overheard some men say that these people needed to have a large mass of magic to overpower the seal on the evil. All of the people they were gathering made since then, it didn't matter if they were man woman or child as long as they had a bit of magic they were recruited. I reported all of this and I took along the other magic bloodline man we had among us.
Eventually we found a time to strike, but we were to late the ancient seal that had been placed on the beast had already been weakened enough that, the beast could get out even if we stopped the others. My father and the other bloodline created a new seal. The seal's key was split into two parts, one hid amongst knowledge and one hid amongst man. The other bloodline that was with us has the part hidden amongst knowledge. The mark that you carry is the one hidden amongst man. It was agreed that it would be better if our two lines never met again after that. We each took our part of the key and protected it, passing it down to our children when they were ready.
I do not know why it has suddenly been passed to you; perhaps it sensed that you are so much stronger than me in terms of magic. Either way I do not think it bodes well. It has been near a century since me and my father placed the new seal, I fear that it has been weakened." Yugi raised his eyebrow, a hundred years? He knew thanks to the magic that they lived a lot longer than most people but Yugi had never thought that much longer, and his father didn't even look any older than 34 at the most. Suddenly his father stood and began to gather things.
"What's wrong, what are you doing?" Yugi asked as he watched his father.
"I must travel to the location of the seal, I need to know what has happened. I have a bad feeling and it has only gotten worse. Yugi, you cannot stay here if my suspicions are correct, there is a merchant ship leaving in the morning, you must be on it. It is sailing to the next islands, wait for me there I shall send messages once a week, if I skip two of them… assume the worst. Take the book it has everything you need to know in it, pack your things you must be on that ship."
"I could come with you, I could help-
"NO!" Yugi flinched at the force behind that word. "No," he said softer, "No Yugi you must go, if something were to happen to me you must stay safe, the seal must hold. We must separate." Yugi was scarred but he followed his father's orders, packing a small pack filled with books mostly a good sized purse of gold coins and some basic needs, human and magical. They snuck out of the house like thieves in the night were Yugi boarded the merchant vessel and his father made his way for his old fishing ship.
That was the last time Yugi ever saw his father, leaving him the only remaining successor to their bloodline, the Mouto line. The strongest of the three bloodlines.