Disclaimer: I own none of these characters, aside from the ones that are clearly mine.
A/N: Please bare with me, this is my first Yu-Gi-Oh fan fiction and honestly, I'm just bored. So to kill time, this is what I'm doing. And, you know, I would really appreciate people commenting on it, because that's kind of what the comment box is for. ^.^
*Real quick, I haven't finished the 5th season of the show yet, but I'm pretty sure that the Grand Championship will never ever ever be brought up in this story. As for the story behind the pharaoh and stuff, I have yet to watch it, so it may be incorporated into the story. Again, not done watching it, so enjoy anyways!*
The chopper is loud. I'm suppose to have the head phone things on, but we ran out, so after an intense paper-scissors-rock competition, I end up without any. That's okay, it's not the first time I had to look out for our newest member of our group and forfeit. Honestly, I don't know why the boss converted such a young kid into our organization. Funny part is, I'm older than him, but he towers over me, yet I'm still the one looking after him. Poor kid though, apparently we picked him off the streets; literally, he was almost dead by the time we got to him.
So there are seven of us on the chopper; Raul, Damien, Vera, Hunter, Anthony, Adam, and lastly myself, Korynn. We were chosen by our master to bring back an ancient power once known to man, but in order to, we must find the spirit that transformed that power and have it bring it back into the world. The spirit is of an ancient pharaoh. Unfortunately, we are not the first group of people to go up against the pharaoh, so our journey isn't that original. The cause is different though, so please give us a break.
Anyways, the pharaoh took the order's power and transformed it into a way to connect with the shadow realm, and then brought about the shadow games. He was smart enough to seal them away, but it would've saved the world a lot of grief if he just gave the power back to our order. Now if anyone finds all the objects he hid them in, the possessor will have the ultimate power of the... well, I can't give that away just yet.
"Everyone get in your positions, we're going down. Korynn, you know what to do."
"Yeah, yeah, Raul, move over, I got this."
Raul slides out of the driver's seat and I slide in, snatching his head phones on the way. I lower the craft down as Vera, Hunter, and Damien plunge out of the helicopter, and as Anthony does his jumping ritual of grabbing his skateboard, doing the sign of the cross, giving the rest of us his cocky smile, and back flipping it outa there. Raul grasps Adam's shoulder reassuringly and gives me a nod. Adam looks at me shyly and I, too, give him a reassuring nod. They turn and jump out together and I pull the chopper out of a dive and fly away.
I would love being out with the guys, playing ninja and fighting for our cause, but someone's got to fly the air crafts and that's where I come in! And sometimes I get to shoot stuff down so it's not all that bad. I pull out above the clouds and coast for a while, I have time to kill, why rush it? It gives me time to think about everything up to this point in time. Gives me time to think about how all eight of us have become a family over either years, months, or, recently, weeks. Raul was the first to join and worked alongside Master Jakins until they found me. Raul has been my friend and older brother ever since they showed me the ways of the magic and how we need to bring it back into the world. I've looked up to him and he's protected me on more than one occasion. I'm a troublemaker, I won't lie. I was eight when they found me.
Over the next few years, we were a trio, looking for others that would fit into our family until one day when I was twelve, we found Damien and Vera, twins. They were running from another foster home when we swiped them up and brought them to our home. I found Hunter shortly after when we got into a fight about him calling me short stuff and going home to play with my dollies. I wiped the floor with him, but I saw his potential and introduced him to Master Jakins. He was pleased with him as well. Anthony found us when he tried to steal the sacred glass while taking a night stroll through our hide out, and ended up catching a glimpse of the magic within. He never left after that.
It has been five years and we all thought our family was finally complete, until Damien and Vera came home one night with Adam over Damien's shoulder bleeding to death. He had been running from his abusive alcoholic father when he was pushed down the side of a jagged hill and left there. Ever since, he's stuck by my side, even though I wasn't there for most of the excitement, and always waits for my say. I'll admit, I was annoyed at first, but then he started to grow on me, and he always worked hard to make me proud of him(I guess), so here we are. I'm seventeen now, I've mastered the arts of kicking butt, flying, driving, dueling, and having the best poker face in the family. I can control most of the magic in the sacred shards and for the life of me can not beat Raul in a fight. And if ANY of them were in trouble, I will surely be there to get them out, even if it costed my life.
"KORYNN!"
"Ow! Ears, Raul! A little courtesy, if you wouldn't mind."
"Well, get your head out of the clouds and get back down here, we need some back up!" I put the other ear phone on and started moving for the wheel.
"You mean figuratively or physically beca.."
"Now, Korynn!"
"I'm on it, I'm on it, calm down.."
I pull the wheel back and turn it around as I plunge back through the clouds and over the mausoleum roof. There are clearly more sacred grave keepers than originally thought, and they were closing in fast around them. I see Hunter with the box in hand, but he has three cloaked guys ganging up on him and he won't be able to hold onto it for long.
"Hey Hunter! Shoot it up!" I hover right over him, so if he hears me, it'll be a miracle.
He throws the neatly wrapped box right in the air and I have to lean out the window to snatch it. Well praise Jesus!
The men in black direct their full attention on me now, as I pull up from above Hunter and close in on the ground a few yards away. The rest know what to do, and they book it over at all costs to get in and get out, but the three hooded figures are wrestling down Hunter and not letting him leave.
"Korynn, you want it?"
I look up as Raul kneels next to me. I smile.
"Was that rhetorical?"
I hop over the seat and jump out as Raul pulls the helicopter up slightly upward.
"Tuck and roll!" Anthony shouts behind me.
I smile and do exactly that; it's our favorite phrase. Hurtling through the sea of cloaks, I plunge into the fight with Hunter and the old guys pinning him down. They have him lying faced up, and..
"What are you doing!" A man with his hood off looks up at me as he pulls a cork off a bottle with blue sparkly goo contained in it. He has a funny symbol carved onto his forehead and he looks at me with intense gold eyes.
"We must save him." He finally pulls the cork out and crouches over Hunter, who looks as if he's going to faint at any moment, and starts to pour the oozing substance right above Hunter's own forehead. Men are now trying to hold me back as the liquid slowly oozes fro the vile.
"HUNTER!"
It was as if someone switched on the slow motion switch. I can see everything happening so painfully clear, and I can't do a thing about it. The blue liquid touching the tip of Hunter's already horrified face and him screaming in mind-numbing agony. I feel myself thrashing violently against the arms holding me back. The blue transforms itself into the same shape on the men's foreheads and remains there, glowing.
"What have you done?" My rage is finally taking over my panic, and time speeds up once again. Breaking my arm free from the man next to me, I smash his nose in and move for the others. I plant my feet into the ground below me and lunge onto Hunter, knocking the golden eyed man away. Other men have already started for me when all of a sudden they start flying backwards, yelping in surprise. Raul's face pops up for a second, but I realizes he's come back for us, for me. I wipe Hunter's forehead from the remaining blue ooze and throw his arm over my shoulder. Raul has made a slim path for me to run through and I take my shot, Hunter's feet dragging and I drag him.
Damien and Anthony grab hold of Hunter and Vera holds out her hand for me, but I duck away from it and start running back for Raul because there was no way I wouldn't leave him behind, even if we were supposed to.
"Korynn! We have to go! We have to leave Raul behind, or the Master will..." I am already to far away to hear the rest of her warning, and like before, I dive into the mass of cloaks, now searching for Raul.
He's in the middle of a circle, giving him no chance of escaping, while a middle aged man challenges him, holding ancient looking beads. They don't look too threatening, but we have learned not to judge things by how they look. And I am right, the first bead hit Raul's exposed arm and begins to sizzle. Raul screams out in pain and anger and rips the bead off his arm, burning his hand now. His pain makes me more angry than before, and I tear through the inner circle, now exposing myself to the crowd.
I hear a couple of them yelling about me, saying I was the same one from before, and that fueled me even more. The man with the beads is startled by my sudden appearance, giving Raul enough time to tackle him down, sending his beads flying. Some of the grave keepers are not lucky enough to avoid the flying multicolored beads and fall to the grass screaming. I pick up Raul from on top of the flattened guy and we book it to the rising helicopter. Adam throws down the rope ladder and Raul ascends first while I run to keep up, hopping over gravestones in the process. When Raul is finally far enough up, I grab on myself and Anthony pulls the chopper up into the clouds again.
Raul is slow making his way on the ladder with his injured arm, but he still manages to make it up steadily. I have such a adrenaline rush that the pain in my stomach feels like nothing at all. Raul is placed against the wall with Vera already doing first aid on his burn. Adam pulls me up the rest of the way and I am swung onto the floor.
"Woohoo! Man, that was sick! We thought you guys were goners!" Damien laughs, collapsing next to me, thumping me on the back. Adam and him do a fist pound as he climbs into the passenger seat to give us room. Hunter is passed out up against the other wall, and he seems to be physically okay. After a couple of deep breaths, I begin to regain control of myself and laugh as well, until a searing pain sends me into a coughing fit.
"Hey, Korynn, you okay?" I continue coughing and gasping for air, I feel as if I have something(s) eating though me from the inside.
"Vera, get over here, I think something's wrong with Korynn!" They roll me onto my back as Vera pulls my shirt up enough to see two beads imbedded into my stomach, a bright blue one and a shimmering green one.
"I've never seen this magic before.." Vera pulls out pliers. "...but those beads need to go. Hold her down, this is gonna hurt."
And by George it does. My whole body convulses violently and my eyes roll into the back of my head. I'm not sure when, but I loose consciousness and everything is dark and silent. I can't hear or feel Damien or Vera, I can't hear Adam calling to me in the background, I can't see Raul crawling his way over to me, holding my head as a shakes, all I know is that everything is for once silent and I loose my mind into it.