Attara: Due to some confusion, I have decided to summarize the prequel to this fanfic, Heartless Being. Enjoy!
Anat (nicknamed Aria by Ryou, a thief), princess of Daro, lived peacefully in the kingdom of her father. Life was based on survival of the fittest: those who could champion over the Shadow Game and those who could not. Aria's reality starts to spin out of control when her father is challenged to one of his most difficultly won duels. She meets a boy named Hiko, a brown-haired blue-eyed boy, the future high priest of Egypt; she falls in love; and her nurse, Renas, informs the king. Hiko is banished from Daro, only to lose his memory to the millennium ring.
After the death of her father, politics forced Aria and Yami, new pharaoh of Egypt, into a marriage without their consent. All of Daro would then be part of Egypt, the dowry of Aria. Life changed immediately, but the one thread that connected the two was the Shadow Game, a game that Yami championed in until Aria defeated him in a friendly duel. As Aria became accustomed to the throne, she also became accustomed to Yami, even learning to love him. As these feelings progressed, Yami decided to bestow the ultimate gift, the Ring of Anat.
Strangely enough, the ring's name had prophesied its future owner, who then possessed every one of the millennium items abilities, except for those of the millennium puzzle. The millennium dagger, given to the pharoah's sister, could tear through dimensions as well as perform telekinesis, to an extent. The millennium scale could find the truth and judge whether or not to allow the victim to live. The millennium eye could see into a person's mind. The millennium necklace could see into the future and the past. The millennium ring, a tomb raider's most prized possession, could find other millennium items. The millennium ankh allowed the owner to look inside a person's soul, and also bestowed the ability to modify it. The millennium rod could control other mortals. Lastly, the most powerful millennium item was the millennium puzzle. It could cleanse a person's soul as well as control many other unknown shadow powers.
Life was enjoyable, that is, until the day that Yami died and Aria finds that her life is a mistake. Devi, the queen of Mornedra, a realm filled with magic and the source of the Shadow Game, claims Aria's person as her creation, a vessel to hold her soul. What Devi did not expect, however, was that Aria would have the Ring of Anat, which protected her from Devi's overwhelming magic. And so, the story of Devi and Aria begins…
Seeing that the death of the pharaoh signified that she failed her mission this time, Devi once again withdrew to her realm. She claimed that her objective in life was to protect the nine items that her realm unleashed into the mortal realm. Then, she requested for Aria's permission to study her actions and thoughts, stating that she had no emotions whatsoever. Soon, Devi was able to imitate every one of Aria's movements well, almost too well.
Five thousand years later, a girl named Liana became orphaned. She was given to her uncle, who was a CEO of a company, and the best friend of Gozaburo Kaiba. After a decade of life together, Liana's uncle was diagnosed with cancer. Her inheritance made her a target for many attacks, and so, in order to not only merge the companies together, but also to insure Liana's physical safety, he ordered for her and Gozaburo's oldest son to wed just days after his funeral. The moment Seto reluctantly agreed to the marriage, both Devi and Aria invaded her body.
Only weeks later, Liana (Devi and Aria) was invited to a duelist's ball. Here, someone identical to Devi drove her to give up her abilities as well as reveal her true self to the Yu-Gi-Oh gang (including Seto). Aria now had to prove she was worthy to protect Devi, the formerly most powerful girl in Mornedra.
When learning of Aria's past, Seto immediately forced Devi, Aria, and the rest of the Yu-Gi-Oh gang to go to an Egyptian tomb for his own greedy reasons. Unfortunately, Yugi (or someone using his mouth) recited some sort of Egyptian curse that split the aibous apart. Upset that her job was now that much more difficult to execute, Aria was now also faced with the chance to reunite with her husband, Yami. With as much willpower as she could muster, she refused to see the boy until she was sure Devi would be safe.
Later, the same woman who took Devi's powers reappeared, kidnapping Devi herself this time, bringing her to her own realm, Drena. It seemed that the woman's goal was to rule Mornedra. She insisted that she had always been more powerful than Devi, and that she was her passion, her emotions, all placed in a body identical to her former owner. Seraph, the passion's name, jailed Devi in a magical prison. Aria and Seto (against his will) attacked Seraph, managing to make the prison's shield flicker long enough for Devi to break out. When escaping back to Greda, a world in Mornedra that transported Mornedraians to other dimensions, the bravest of the brave gathered to rebel against their new king, the king whom Devi had overthrown to become ruler herself. Devi managed to regain her direth (a stone that contained mystical powers not yet discovered) staff. They met up with Seraph, whom they witnessed receiving abuse from the king, but could not manage to persuade her to come to her side. Aria solved it her own way, by knocking her unconscious and then drags her to the king's chambers, leading the rest of the group.
There, the rebels confront the king and prepare to destroy him through the direth staff to magnify their powers. Seraph, however, wakes from unconsciousness and manages to protect the king while destroying the entire realm of Drena (passion in a human form is very unstable). Aria feels shocked for not keeping watch of her tenant, realizing that she had killed countless innocent lives. Devi then regains her powers and returns to earth to watch over the millennium items once more.
Some time after, Aria and Yami reunite and they live happily ever after, that is, until now.
Attara: If you want to reread Heartless Being, you can, but don't read it for the writing, read it for the information, that is, unless you want to flame me. You're welcome to do that any time! I can't really tell where my writing needs adjustments, so I hope that you can help! And now, I present to you Unwanted Accessory! Oh, and just in case you wonder what I've updated, you can just check on my bio, where it says Updates:, so you can't miss it!