Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of its characters. I have only based the attitudes and lifestyles off of characters. Those are my own creations.
Chapter 3: Divided Forces
Time: 11:18 p.m.
Di roamed the hall, careful not to reveal his position to Hexor. He checked every along the hallway, but he couldn't find Kiara….or anyone for that matter. He hoped Kaylee and Skylar were having better luck than he was
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Kaylee had luck, just not good luck. When they had all split up, the hallway she took seemed just as empty and safe as the other two. Kaylee saw now that she was dead wrong. She was fighting off what felt like twenty fiends all at once. She was almost as strong as Di, but she couldn't handle this many fiends at once. She ran down the hallway as fast as she could. She found an open door and rushed into the room. The monsters chasing her stayed hot on her trail. Kaylee barricaded the door, but the monsters barged into the door with such force that they nearly knocked her off her feet.
Kaylee cast a quick locking spell on the door and stood back and listened to the monsters continue to bang on the door. They continued to bang away for a little while, but eventually they gave up and went away.
"Phew! That was too close!" Kaylee panted to herself. "Who knew fiends like those fiends could actually keep up with me? Well, might as well check the damages."
Most of the fiends carried a weapon like a small dagger or claw, some, she was sure, had poisonous toxins within them. Being a wind mage, Kaylee was pretty fast and she could out run most of them. But they got in a few lucky shots. She had cuts on her arms and legs, some deep some not. She bandaged her wounds from the first aid kit she kept in her backpack and looked around to see exactly where she was.
The room was dark; the only light came from five dimly lit torches that were set up in a circle around a table and five chairs in between them. The table was round, made of dark red wood, and had a large, black stone in the middle of the table, half of which was within the table. The stone was about the size of a beach ball. Surrounding the stone were five smaller stones: a red one, an ocean blue one, a sky blue stone, an emerald green stone, and a dark violet stone. They were all placed inside an engraving ring surrounding the black stone. The five chairs were placed so that the person sitting in the chair would sit right in front of one of the smaller stones.
Kaylee cautiously circled the table, carefully running her fingertips across the golden ring, avoiding the stones. She stopped at the sky bluestone. Something inside told her to place her hand on it. When she did, a huge amount of energy flooded through her, but it wasn't painful, in fact, it mad her feel stronger.
Kaylee took her hand off the stone and placed it on the emerald green one. Instantly, she felt as though the earth around her was caving in on her.
"Oh god! Damn my claustrophobia," she panted weakly, quickly pulling her hand back. The pressure quickly went away.
'Odd,' she thought as she placed her hand on the ocean blue stone. Soon she began to feel as though she was drowning. She started to gasp for air. She took her hand away from and she could suddenly breathe again.
"Weird," she said out loud as she hesitantly placed her hand on the red stone. Suddenly, her hand began to feel warm. Actually her whole body felt warm. It was fine at first, but then the heat increased and she kept feeling hotter and hotter until she felt like she was on fire! Kaylee jerked her hand off the stone and the flames subsided.
'What is with these stones?' Kaylee thought to herself as she approached the dark violet orb. The stone gave off a strange aura, reminding her of Di's magic. Just before Kaylee put her hand over the stone, an idea flashed through her mind. 'Each stone has a different color and seems to have a different effect on me. Out of the four stones I've examined, one of them made me stronger and the other three were able to harm me. Maybe…' she thought as she took her hand away from the orb.
She looked deep into the stone. There, in the center, was a light upside-down triangle. The symbol of darkness. Kaylee then knew why is this stone's aura reminded her of Di. This was an elemental stone of darkness, the same element most of Di's magic carried in it.
Kaylee looked at all the stones again. It all made sense now! The reason she wasn't hurt when she touched the sky blue stone was because that stone represented her element, wind. An elemental stone is a stone made of the pure concentrated energy of a single element. They came in many different sizes, but these were the largest ones she had ever seen.
"Okay," Kaylee said to herself, mapping everything out for herself. "If the purple stone was darkness and the sky blue stone orb is wind, and then the dark blue stone had to be water, the green one had to be earth, and the red one must be fire. But then, what is this black stone?"
Kaylee tried to examine the stone further, but her instincts told her to stay away from it. She felt very uneasy about the stone. She looked into the center and saw what appeared to be a triple layered star symbol. Kaylee took a step back; the stone was giving off a powerful aura that seemed to pull anything close to it into the stone's power. She felt as though the stone was draining her of her energy.
Suddenly, Kaylee heard muffled voices in the hall, heading her way. Quickly, she ran and hid behind a curtain. The curtain was made with a type of material that she could somewhat see through with focus, but was able to keep her hidden.
A second later, the door opened and Hexor and three other people walked into the room. The people Hexor had brought with him wore long black cloaks that hid their faces. The ends of their sleeves were sky blue, red, or dark navy.
"Here we are," Hexor said calmly, leading them to the table.
"Excellent, the master will be expecting us to report in soon," the person with the red sleeves said coolly.
Kaylee could hear every word they were saying as she stood perfectly still in her hiding place. 'That sounds like a woman's voice,' she thought to herself.
"Shouldn't we wait until Demitri gets here to contact the master?" the person with the sky blue sleeves, another woman asked.
'Demitri?!' Kaylee worried. 'She doesn't mean our Di, does she? Don't tell me these freaks knew we were coming!'
"Oh, I believe Demitri is here, somewhere within the castle. He will join us again before the night is over," Hexor said with an evil tone in his voice. "After all, I've got something that belongs to him, and he'll have to join us if he wants to see her again."
Kaylee scowled, 'That jerk! He does have Kiara locked up around here somewhere! Now I just have to find out where.'
"So, where is the girl?" the person with the navy sleeves, a man this time, asked nonchalantly.
"Don't worry Emeri," Hexor said. "I'll have my servant, Zachary; bring her to the altar exactly five minutes before midnight. Meanwhile, you, Siaira, Leon, and I will go find Demitri, bring him here, and we will contact the master."
'So," Kaylee thought with a smile, 'Hexor, Emeri, Siaira, and Leon. Those are your names. I'll be sure to remember them.'
Suddenly, there was a great commotion outside of the door. Kaylee inched to the end of the curtain to where she could see better. She got there just in time to see the door fly open and a fiend with red skin; wearing a dark purple tuxedo run in. he bowed before Hexor and the others.
"My lord," the fiend panted. "I'm afraid there have been reports of three intruders within the castle. Two spellcasters and a warrior."
Hexor just laughed. "Well, it's about time he showed up. And it sounds like he brought guests to our little reunion. Thank you, phantom. You may go and prepare the altar for the ceremony."
"Yes, my lord," the find said as he bowed again and left the room, shutting the door behind him.
Hexor turned back to his colleagues. "Alright, change in plans. We need to find the other two intruders; we don't need any other distractions. Plus, we could always use them. If Demitri truly cares for his daughter; he will come to us on his own."
'If this guy doesn't cool it, I'm going to deck him,' Kaylee growled in her mind. 'Di would never abandon Kiara, unless he had no other choice!'
Emeri snickered, "well you won't have to look very far for one of them."
"What do you mean, Emei?" Siaira asked.
Without saying a word, Emeri marched over to the curtain and threw it back, revealing a very stunned Kaylee. "Caught ya, wind witch!" she said with a cruel smirk as she grabbed Kaylee's upper arm.
"Hey!" Kaylee squealed as she was drug out of her hiding spot.
"Here's one of them," Emeri said coldly as she shoved Kaylee to the floor before the others.
"What should we do with her?" Leon asked, with minimum concern.
"Hmm, well, if she isn't with Demitri, then they must have split up to search for the girl. And it is always good to have a backup plan," Hexor said sarcastically, smirking at Kaylee, "just in case our old friend finds her."
Kaylee glared at the monster smirking back at her.
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I think this was one of the shortest chapters I've ever written. Sorry for not updating sooner, couldn't get time in with school :P If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to review and ask any questions you have