"If these creatures are the lieutenants, then I fear what their king must look like," Seto muttered so only Atem would hear.

"He gets that a lot," Durahan suddenly commented, having obviously overheard the comment, causing Seto to flinch visibly, "Don't worry, his bark's a lot worse than his bite, especially since-"

WHACK!

"Silence fool!" BlackWarGreymon scolded having struck his brother in law over the head, "If our king wishes that to be known to these humans he will tell them himself!"

"Okay point taken brother! But must you be so rough?" Durahan replied indignantly rubbing his sore head.

Atem and Seto looked at them questioningly, but both knew better than to ask following BlackWarGreymon's comment.

They ascended the grand staircase to the palace following the two Digital creatures, looking on in awe at the unspoiled beauty that was the gardens of the royal palace. Large fountains flowed crystal clear water into a deep lagoon, in which they could see from afar, was inhabited by all sorts of creatures unseen by human eyes until then.

"This place is so beautiful," Isis commented, "And so different to Egypt, everything is so green-"

"And wet!" Mana complained as her hair started to frizz in the humidity.

"This place is a favourite of the first born child of our king," Durahan turned his head to look at the humans following them.

"And will he meet us with his father?" Seto just assumed for some reason they were talking about a male.

"Actually-"

"RAR!" a squeaky voice cheeped suddenly followed by the rustling of bushes.

On reflex Seto reached for his Millennium Rod, but Durahan raised his hand.

"Calm down human! It's just one of the refugees from another world that our king has allowed to stay here!"

"Refugees?" Seto repeated, before: "ARGH!" he gasped as a small white blur slammed into him.

"RAR!" it cheeped again as his eyes focused on it.

It was a small bird-like animal, approximately three feet tall and a pure white all over. It had a long neck like an Egyptian crane, but unlike a crane its long wings ended in what seemed to be hands only . . . not hands at the same time. A long white tail with two blue feathers on either side of the tip wagged happily. Two rows of five blue feathers lined its back, and folded and unfolded against its back reflexively. Finally its long neck ended in a small bird-like face, but again unlike a bird this creature had four small fangs, there were two arrow-like blue feathers one over each amber eye.

(To you and me it's Lugia.)

"This is a refugee? Argh!" Seto gasped as the baby creature started licking at his face affectionately.

"Looks like you've already made a new friend Seto!" Atem laughed at his cousin's predicament.

"Some help would not go unappreciated my Pharaoh!" Seto kept trying to stop the strong little one from licking at his face in vain.

"For Supremedramon's sake!" BlackWarGreymon's patience finally ran out, "Just pat him on his head, that's all he wants!"

Seto looked at the strange creature cautiously before laying his hand on its head and stroking its soft silver feathers. Instantly the baby stopped its licking attack and curled up on his chest purring loudly.

Slowly and carefully Seto sat up, gathered the small baby into his arms and stood up while the baby kept on purring.

"His mother was taken by the creature that attacked your home," Durahan explained as Seto set down the baby.

"Oh poor baby!" Mana exclaimed, bending over to pat the small baby who instantly leaped into her arms, happy to finally receive attention from someone today. "You're so cute!" she laughed as the baby Lugia licked her face.

"Yes! Yes! He's adorable, now let's move!" Durahan interrupted before going up the stairs.

"Oh!" Mana pouted, before setting Lugia down. "See you later!" she called before running after Atem and the others following the two giant Digimon.

They followed the two large warriors up a long flight of steps passing more of the beautiful Digimon gardens that had never been seen by human eyes until today. Mana was for once speechless and even Seto couldn't help but admire the many different flowers which one would definitely NOT find in Egypt or anywhere in the human world.

The stairs ended in front of another almighty pair of door many time higher than the two mighty beasts, and yet BlackWarGreymon pushed them open with no more than light push and the humans followed them into the great palace.

Inside was just as breath taking as the outside, white marble pillars supported the ceiling and 3 great portraits lined the walls. Specifically portraits of 3 Dragons, 3 very different dragons:

The first long and thin with 4 legs, with many blue markings adorning the long body, and lining its sides were rows of different coloured 'stars'. A great mane of blue hair streamed out of the back of its head and continued down its back where it sprouted at the end of her tail. Its face was covered by a mask but her pure blue eyes (she had 4 in total), 2 on each side of its long face, its gaze spoke without words to the Pharaoh and High Priest that it was a gentle soul.

The second was a male Dragon (Atem and Seto guessed this because he had the chest muscles of a human male) was pure white throughout; the only colour difference on it was the mane of lightning silver hair. It stood tall and proud, white armour complimenting the white scales, and his long elegant tail ending in a wickedly sharp tri-pod style blade. He wore a helmet like the first which left his eyes exposed (his were silver) and a golden 3-pronged crown sat neatly at the front of his wild waving hair. His gaze was proud and Seto felt like bowing to the great beast.

And the third couldn't have been more different than the other 2, for a start it was pitch black all the way over. But he shared the same waving mane though coloured black with the other 2, and had chest muscles much like the first male and he also wore armour. Also he stood on all fours, each foot with four claws each as black as the scales. His tail was long but had no blade, and his face shared similarity with the first. A mask covered it, but his eyes, four luminous yellow eyes seemed to stare right into the souls of the humans gazing at his portrait.

"I see you like these portraits," BlackWarGreymon and Durahan had called to the two humans who fell behind and found them staring.

"They're magnificent, whoever made these is very-" Atem started to compliment.

"These creatures are no creation of a brush, these are our Gods."

Durahan started to explain, pointing to ach of the Dragons in turn, "The first, is known by our people as the Grand Dragon of Light-"

'So this is what that creature was talking about before,' Seto remembered Gazimon's words.

"She is the eldest of the 3, her light shone and the Day began. She brings us life, birth of our children, put simply she is the Beginning. He," Durahan gestured to the Black Dragon, "is the youngest of the 3 and is known by our people as The Great Destroyer. His presence brings the Night; his presence also brings death to those whose time has come. No weapon could save you from his Judgement. And the last-"

'And the middle one,' Seto predicted.

"-and the middle one, is known by us as Supremedramon."

Atem remembered Raptordramon calling the kingdom 'Supremedramon's Valley.

"He is the middle of the 3, if his brother and sister represent Day and Night-"

'So the Grand Dragon is a female,' Atem noted.

"-then he is the Twilight, the thing that keeps the other 2 connected. His very existence keeps the power balance of his sister and brother in balance, as neither Light nor Dark should be greater than the other. To us, he is the God of Balance."

"Your Gods are magnificent, and very different from ours," Seto chose his words carefully.

"I imagine so, other creatures were created by the 3 Dragons which went and created other. The cycle won't stop even now that they are gone."

"Gone?"

"Balance was broken," BlackWarGreymon said simply, "The different races, humans, Digimon, all were tainted by evil. Wars started, the Great Destroyer brought the end to those whose end had come naturally. War meant unnatural death; unnatural death meant the Balance was destroyed sending the Great Destroyer into an irreversible rage. He raised an army of dark beasts, determined to destroy all that was, his brother raised an army of light to fight back. Their sister tried to stop the battle and was slain, by her own brother driven mad by the evil of the very creatures they had created," BlackWarGreymon paused, as though taking a moment of silence for the now dead Gods.

"What happened after that?" Seto was curious as to how the story ended.


If you want to know what happens leave a review! I'll keep writing if I get 10 reviews, and to you Yu-Gi-Oh fans, please let me know if I've portrayed Atem, Mana and Seto in the right way as these are the main humans. If you wanna know review and hopefully I'll write more soon