Chapter titles for S2:
1-Genesis
2-Exodus
3-Exile
4-Pagans
5-Plague
6-Vigil / Puppy-Love
7-Obelisk
8-Campaign
9-
10-
11-
12-
13-
14-
15-
16-
17-
18-
19-Succession (Seto vs. Yugi)
20-Banished (Bakura vs. Noah)
21-Clash (Noah vs. Seto)
22-
23-Fall (showdown at KaibaCorp)
Flood (near-drowning chapter)
Blindsided
Jericho
Ritual
Substitute
Shepherd
Samson
Delilah
Betrayal
Sacrifice
Temple
Tabernacle
Salvation
Testament
Resurrection (?)
Passover
Judge
King(s)
Covenant
Chronicle(s)
Proverb(s)
Lamentation(s)
Prophet
Battle City Tournament
Noah's grunts kidnap Amane and Mokuba when Mokuba goes back to get his inhaler, and force Ryou and Seto to duel at the docks just like Yugi and Joey did canonically. They both have to put their Millennium Items on a spot on the floor in front of Mokuba. One of them will get their item back if they win (not really); if they don't finish the duel, they surrender both of them. KC grunt tries to take both items, but Duke punches him out so that they get to keep them.
Bakura stabs Marik to get him out of the way; Grandpa takes Marik to the hospital; Marik leaves the hospital and Odion takes him to the blimp. Ishizu enters the tournament because, 1) she wants to do her part to win back the god cards; 2) she wants to protect Marik any way she can; 3) she feels the need to oversee these battles.
Finalists: Ryou, Seto, Ishizu, Noah, Yugi, Duke, Mai, Joey
Blimp Guests: Marik, Mokuba, Serenity, (Adina)
Semi-Final Matches:
Joey vs. Noah (Joey sent to the Shadow Realm)
Seto vs. Ishizu
Ryou vs. Mai (Mai sent to the Shadow Realm)
Duke vs. Yugi
Final Matches:
Yugi vs. Seto
Noah vs. Ryou (banishes Bakura to the Shadow Realm; Mai wakes up)
Noah vs. Seto (penalty instead of Shadow Realm; blindness)
Duel #1:
"I sure hope you've improved your dueling skills since the Duelist Kingdom finals, or this is going to be a pretty boring duel," Mai remarked casually, sinking into one hip with a smirk.
Ryou laughed nervously and scratched the back of his head. "I hope so!"
"Better or not, I want you to give it your all!"
"I'll do my best!" Ryou agreed, and extended a hand to Mai. She shook it firmly,
"Let the first duel of the Battle City Finals begin!" Roland announced, and the duelists released hands before turning to stand on their marks. The coin toss gave Ryou the first turn.
Ryou frowned at his starting hand, looking uncertain. "I summon The Portrait's Secret in defense mode and end my turn," he said carefully, as if he expected to change his own mind at any moment.
"Really, is that all you've got?" Mai scoffed. "I lay one magic card face-down and summon my Amazoness Paladin in attack mode." She slapped down her cards and announced her attack on Ryou's card, sending it to the graveyard.
"Oh, oh dear," Ryou murmured with a slight frown. "Good move, Mai." Though he praised his opponent, he looked discouraged. He drew a card from his deck-Pot of Greed-and added it to his hand.
Post-Fall:
"I wanna see my brother." Mokuba's mouth was drawn in a hard line, his eyes narrowed stubbornly, the spitting image of Seto.
"When the police have finished questioning him, then you can go in to see him, okay honey?" The nurse sounded tired, but was trying to be kind.
"But that's not fair!" Mokuba protested, starting to get upset again. "He didn't do anything wrong!"
"Those are the rules, so you'll just have to wait, okay?"
"Okay." Mokuba's shoulders slumped and he turned away. The nurse walked briskly in the other direction, and Mokuba dashed in between the double doors guarding the ICU. Joey was the first on his feet, chasing after him, but that mostly due to the fact that he wanted to see the brunette as much as Mokuba did.
Mokuba's head was swivelling from side to side, checking each open door until he stopped short, old sneakers skidding on the linoleum with his quick change of direction. His streaming raven hair was the last Joey saw of him before he disappeared into the hospital room. When Joey reached the open door, the brothers were already embracing, wrapped around each other and holding on for life.
Because it had been a matter of life and death. For a few heart-stopping moments, Mokuba had been staring down the barrel of a gun. For a couple hours, none of them had known if Seto was ultimately going to survive the fall. Watching the way they held each other-smaller arms wrapped around the older one's neck, long-fingered hands stroking black hair reassuringly, nose buried in it as Mokuba started to cry with relief.
"We'll be in touch," was all Joey heard the police officr say before the man left. Joey stood quietly inside the doorway, sadly smiling as he watched them.
"I can't do this anymore, Seto," he whispered into his brother's shoulder.
"We're going to be okay, Mokie."
"They know about Mom."
"Dad?"
"No."
"Good…"
"I can't do this anymore, Seto," Mokuba repeated, fists filled with fabric of his brother's hospital gown. "I can't…"
Seto hushed him and let Mokuba nuzzle against him to muffle the sound of his crying. Only then did Seto look up and see Joey watching them.
"Don't ever scare me like that again." Joey pushed away from the wall to approach them. "The others are in the waiting room. They want to see you too."
Seto slowly shook his head with a small frown. "I'm just too out of it right now. Have Ryou come in, though, because we need to get our stories straight.
RB-Season Three:
(Mokuba asks Seto about ghosts when the others are there, and Seto asks to be shown where he saw/felt/heard the ghost; the ghost remains unidentified for now.)
(Talk about how Seto took Adina in and how she's getting along with Mokuba and the others. Seto starts drinking coffee, and the staff really likes him. Joey has a fight with his parents and leaves the house, make it look like he's going to crash with Seto for the night, but instead, he goes to visit Mai. Seto and Joey still have another night when they get a little drunk together and talk and life is good.)
(Talk about how Seto mistrusts the Big 5, yet they have a hand in jehis Virtual Reality program, because he wants it to be some kind of attraction at KaibaLand. When Seto goes to KC HQ one night to share dinner with his brother, Seto takes him down to test the latest prototype with him. This is when the Big 5 trap him in the Virtual World. Yugi, Joey, and Mokuba, enter the VR while Anzu, Marik, and Ryou keep the area secured from the thugs the Big 5 brought in. Adina is featured in the game per canon, because Seto feels bad that he kind of broke her family to pieces, so he makes her a princess and asks her what color dress she wants and gives her a pink and yellow one per her request. They rescue Seto from the Witty Phantom)
(When Ishizu and Rishid come for the exhibition, Seto donates to the museum; he asks to be Ishizu's escort to the donor gala, and while they're there, she shows him the Giant Rock, he has accompanying visions/flashbacks, and maybe during this visit they have their first kiss. Or not. Since Ishizu lives in Egypt, they would need to figure out what they want and how they're going to make it happen for them. Long-distance relationship? Will she move to Japan as well? Maybe she gets a job offer from the museum, or maybe she gets offered a research position at the university with Dr. Bakura and then later gets offered a permanent spot at the museum. Meanwhile, Mokuba asked Amane on a date to the donor gala with his brother, and Seto asks Roland to make sure that they don't get into any trouble, which is a bit of a challenge because of the sign language, but he manages to at least keep them safe.)
"The only thing required for evil to win in this world is for good people to do nothing," Critias said sagely, laying a hand on Seto's shoulder. "That is why I became a knight. I saw injustice in the world, and I wished to correct it."
"You're already doing everything you should be doing, Seto,"
"What about Mokuba?" Seto asked, glancing around at the others. "Was he in Egypt and Atlantis and everywhere else?"
Seth's features softened with paternal pride. "He was my son," he answered softly, making Seto blink in surprise as his brother's image appeared beside Seth as a young Egyptian prince.
"He was my squire." Critias smiled a bit as
"What about Noah Kaiba?" he asked suddenly, making Kaiba frown at him in disapproval.
"What about him?" the proud teen snapped.
"Is he one of us?" Seto asked, surprised by Kaiba's harsh and immediate reaction.
"Noah Kaiba was a cosmological mistake," he growled, turning and pacing away from him, his expression sour.
"But how could he—"
"The Noah Kaiba of your timeline is an unholy mixture of foul elements that should never have existed." His words dripped with hateful venom. He turned on his heel as he strode away, Seto gazing after him in shock.
"Seto Kaiba, show him the truth," Seth ordered sternly. Kaiba began to chuckle low under his breath, but the laugh soon grew louder, increasing in its apparent madness. Seto blinked, and suddenly Kaiba looked very different. He wore an outfit of all white, his hair was neon green. He turned around and his eyes were reptilian, as yellow as the trim of his suit.
"You want to know the truth?" Kaiba asked, his voice taking on a new, eerie quality.
"Is there any way for me to go back there?" Seto asked Seth as he straightened his tie the next morning.
"To where the others were?" Seth clarified and received a nod from his reincarnation. "I suppose so. With sufficient practice, meditation could probably bring you back there."
"Can you teach me that?"
"I thought you believed those practices were spiritual nonsense?"
"If it could let me speak with you again once you're gone, then I'm willing to try it."
"Do you see this folder?" Seto held it up for his brother to see, and Mokuba nodded. "This will answer all of your questions, but you're not allowed to read it yet."
"Why not?"
"Because you're too young, you won't understand, and it'd upset you." Seto spoke slowly. He already felt awful about everything that had happened, everything that he couldn't tell Mokuba but that had affected him so severely. "You are free to read this the day you can open this safe." He carefully lay the file inside the drawer and closed it. The moment the drawer closed, it locked automatically.
"But that's not fair!" Mokuba began to protest, looking indignant and hurt. "How am I supposed to guess that combination?"
"I didn't say you had to guess the combination," Seto corrected gently, kneeling down in front of Mokuba so that they were at eye level. "I just said that you had to open it. I don't care how you open it. But the day that you're smart enough to get this drawer open is the day that you're mature enough to handle the truth."
Several years later...
"Seth, get back here!" Seto shouted, chasing the other male down the hallway. He easily caught up and wrapped his naked, toddling, two-year-old son in a soft towel, then scooped him up in his arms. "We're going to put clothes on you now, okay?"
"No, Daddy! I wanna go outside!"
"You can't go outside without clothes," Seto informed him with a chuckle.
"But I want to!"
"Sorry, little man. Those are the rules."
"He's still in that phase, is he?"
Seto turned to look behind him as Mokuba reached the top of the stairs, smiling at both father and son. "Hey. I didn't know you were coming over. I thought you had plans."
"Mokie!" Seth squealed joyfully, reaching out to his uncle with both hands, leaning out of his father's arms so much that Seto had to adjust his hold and lean back a bit to keep him from falling.
"Hi there." Smiling, Mokuba approached and reached out one hand to both of Seth's clasping ones, remembering the first time he'd held him as an infant. "You just got out of a bath, huh?"
"A bubble bath!" Seth answered enthusiastically. "Big bubbles!"
"And we need to get you back to Mommy so you can dry off and get dressed," Seto said patiently as he walked back in the direction of the bathroom whence they'd both egressed.
"No clothes!" Seth protested with a pout.
"Mommy" stepped out of the bathroom doors with arms extended to receive their son.
"It's good to see you, Mokuba," she greeted with a gracious smile as she held Seth carefully. "I need to get him back to his room before he escapes again."
"I was hoping to talk to you privately, Seto," Mokuba interjected, his voice taking on a serious tone that seemed out of place in their sunny family home.
"Of course. I'm all yours. Honey, will you be alright with him until we're done?"
"Yes, dear." She smiled at him broadly, laughter dancing in her eyes. "We've had this conversation before: I'm pregnant, not disabled." She stepped up and kissed his cheek, saying, "Take all the time you need."
"What did you want to talk about?" Seto asked, and for the first time noticed that Mokuba was holding one hand behind his back. Mokuba revealed the object in his
talktalktalk...
"I don't really know what to say." His brother's voice was soft as he looked down at the file in his hand, looking puzzled and conflicted. "But... I feel like I ought to apologize—"
"What?"
Mokuba looked up at the sound of his brother's surprise.
"No. No, Mokuba, you have nothing to apologize for." Seto spoke earnestly as he stepped closer to his brother, looking troubled by this. "None of it was your fault."
"But, Mom—"
"Not your fault, Mokuba," Seto insisted, taking another step forward. "Blame the hospital, blame the doctors, blame the universe, but do not blame yourself."
"Then what about you!" Mokuba protested, starting to get upset. "You gave up so much to take care of me! You stayed with Dad even though he hit you! Y-you let a lot of people hit you..." Mokuba's voice sank into a low whisper, unable to say out loud what else Seto had allowed to be done to him.
"Mokuba, look at me." Seto rested his hands on his brother's shoulders as he spoke, waiting for those grey eyes to meet his before he continued in a slow, firm tone. "I am a better person because of you. I only became friends with Ryou because of you. I only have any friends because of you. I only escaped that hell-hole because of you. Without you, I wouldn't be alive today." Tears gathered in those grey eyes, but Mokuba tried to blink them away. "I made my decisions freely; any negative consequences resulting from them can only be blamed on me."
"You deserved better." Mokuba's voice rasped as he whispered a protest.
"So did you," Seto countered calmly, moving one hand from his brother's shoulder to his brother's cheek. "And I wanted to give that to you."
"But you didn't have to—" A sob broke free from his throat, and Mokuba squeezed his eyes shut as Seto pulled him close, hugging him tightly.
"There were some things that neither of us could have changed or controlled, Mokuba," the brunette murmured. "Those are the things we need to accept."
Name Pronunciation Guide:
Rael (r eye yell)
Kyra (k EAR uh)
Milos (m EE l oh z)
Dragon/Knight Souls:
Critias Knight = Critias Dragon
Timaeus Knight = Timaeus Dragon
Hermos Knight = Hermos Dragon
Milos = Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon ?
Kyra = Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon ?
Rael = Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon ?
Seto = Paladin of White Dragon
Yugi = Dark Magician Knight
Joey = Paladin of Dark Dragon
Other Cards To Mention:
Door of Destiny
White Dragon Ritual
Dark Dragon Ritual
Flute of Summoning Dragon
Dragon Revival Ritual
Swords of Revealing Light
Light and Darkness Dragon
Dragon Capture Jar
Dragon Dance Ritual
Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon + Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon = Light and Darkness Dragon
Ryou is in Atlantis as the White Mage, named Rael (r eye yell). He's the one who summons Joey, Seto, and Yugi to Atlantis. He is a priest, a mage, and a prophet. When Dartz hears that he might be part of a rebellion, he confronts Rael in the throne-room, has Rael imprisoned and tortured to give up the names of his accomplices, but he refuses.
Kisara is Kyra, and she is Critias' sweetheart. Rael and Kyra are siblings, maybe twins.
Seto is struck by how happy and peaceful and wise Rael seems, [and wonders if the Blue-Eyes in his soul is why Seto and Ryou were drawn together.]
Critias, Timaeus, and Hermos turn into dragons for the final battle, championed by their modern selves. Rael transforms into the BESD, and Atem rides on his back in the final battle while Seth rides on Kyra's back. Thus, five legendary dragons destroy Dartz and the Leviathan and annihilate the Oricalchos.
Timaeus is from the small island of Locri on the outskirts of Atlantis, which is where they flee when they rescue Rael and Dartz sends men after them.
Timaeus, Critias, and Hermos are the three Strategoi (army generals) of Atlantis.
Timaeus/Rael talks about the structure of the universe and the nature of the soul, and this is something that sticks with Seto and he continues on this vein when he returns to Japan.
Timaeus means honor; Critias means judgement; Hermos means gifted. After Dartz/Leviathan is destroyed, Hermos, Critias, and Timaeus form a triumvirate and rule Atlantis together. Timaeus is executive/king, Critias is judicial/leader of the Seven Sages, Hermos is legislative/Senate leader.
Hermocrates was a general, politician, and law-maker from Syracuse. Critias is an Athenian
And in the end, after the final massive dragon battle, they'll be setting up a triumvirate, three-branch government. Critias' name means judgment and he was one of the Seven Sages in ancient times, so he'll basically be the head of the Atlantean Supreme Court. Hermocrates was once a politician and law-maker who appeared at the Congress of Gela in Thucydides, so he's going to lead the legislative Senate. And Timaeus is going to be the philosopher-king, the executive leader.
"One last time," Seth murmured as he placed his palm on the white dragon's snout, his eyes soft for just a moment.
First chapter of S4: 3LK are visiting Rael in his "lair" and Timaeus and Hermos seem skeptical that he can help them because of his youth, but Critias tells them that he's seen Rael do miracles.
Mokuba is named Milos (m EE l oh z ), and he is Critias' squire. He is introduced to the story when his parents turn into monsters and he seeks out Kyra and Critias for sanction.
"Oh no!" Joey exclaimed dramatically.
"What's wrong, Joey?" Yugi asked with concern.
"I seem to be missing the Millennium Item that I don't actually have!" Seto and Yugi glared at him together. "I am missing my phone, though."
Hermos tries to invite Joey to a bar to pickup chicks, but Seto reminds Joey that there's no birth control in Atlantis, so he'd better not.
Quotes from "The Leviathan:"
1. For such is the nature of man, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.
2. Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.
3. No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
4. The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.
5. For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
6. For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body;
7. War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
8. Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.
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