Chapter 7: Tainted Justice
A/N: Eye have returned.
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My adoring fans! The cricket population has always been there for me! After a long hiatus, your favorite author (I wish), Agent Eye, has returned. I was a little upset that NO ONE PM'ed me. It took like 2 months for someone to even bother PM'ing me. It's nice to know people there actually want to read the next chapter. Anyhow, this chapter is dedicated to Hawk-Pichu, for getting me out of my Hiatus. If the chapter is crap, it's cuz I havent written Fanfic for a couple of months so yeah I need to get the gift back. Anyhow here it is!
"Finally!" shouted Matt, happily. "I thought we would never get out!" He looked around and notice in the horizon there were two people coming.
"...Like I said men are a pain. You can't live with them, you can't reproduce without them." said Christy to Sarah.
"That is so true." said Sarah "Hmm?" Sarah noticed Matt and Jaden.
"Hey!" said Jaden.
"Hey there Jaden." said Sarah, eyeing them both. It was silent for a moment till someone disturbed it. Artemis and Alexis crashed into the group, knocking them into the ground.
"What's going on?" asked Matt as he stood up from the floor. Artemis slowly stood up.
"Matt! You specialized yourself in field of the Shadow Realm, right?" asked Artemis, as he recovered his breaths.
"Yeah, why?
What's going on?" asked Matt, looking at his friend breathing
like that worried him a bit.
"How does a trip to the Shadow
Realm sound?" asked Artemis, with a grin.
"What are you
talking about?" asked Matt.
"I think Alexis and I found the portal." said Artemis. Matt's eyes widened.
"We gotta go now!" said Matt. "Where is it?"
"Come." said Artemis as he ran back to the abandoned dorms.
"Hey wait up!" shouted Jaden as he ran with them. The group followed them. As they entered the secret room, they all stared at the giant size of it.
"How did they make a room so big this deep?" asked Christy. "Not even the Tomb Guardians room were this large." Christy looked around. She studied the walls. Alexis also looked around. He felt her Millennium Key tingle a little bit.
"So where's the portal Artemis?" asked Matt, as he studied the room. Artemis looked at him.
"That's the thing. I know it's in this room somewhere." said Artemis as he looked to the sides. "Just don't know where." Matt went towards the wall to the left. He started to study the symbols on the wall. "Hmm...just give me a minute." said Matt.
"Are you sure he will find the portal? He looks a bit too dumb to find it." whispered Christy in Sarah's ear. Sara turned to face Christy.
"He may be an idiot with most things, but I think he should at least be able to find it...it is his major anyways." whispered Sarah back. Matt shouted in frustration.
"Damn Exians, why couldn't they put a freaking sign that said 'Shadow Realm Entrance' " said Matt. Sarah and Christy exchanged looks.
"Okay, maybe not." whispered Sarah. Meanwhile, Artemis started reading the hieroglyphs near the passage way he went. Looks like it was a fancy burial thought Artemis. But why? Why does she have my last name? Could she be a relative? While the rest of the guys were doing things, Alexis started to think ideas. If I were a Shadow Realm portal, where would I be?
"Boo!" shouted Jaden from behind.
"AH!"
shouted Alexis, surprised. She jumped forward knocking Cain to the
floor, landing on top of him. Cain turned a tad red.
"I...umm."
he said, unsure of what to say. Alexis looked at him.
"Cain...how
did you...?" he asked, slowly realizing their faces were a
couple of inches away.
"I followed...you guys..." said Cain, he too slowly realizing how close their face were. Alexis quickly jumped back, blushing. She looked at him, a tad embarrassed, then she noticed something. "Hey, what's that?" Meanwhile Jaden walked to the in the deep front. He looked at it. "Man, this wall sure is dusty." he said as moved his over it, cleaning it off. Matt looked more at the wall. Sand blinds the eye from the flame, Shadows hide the light from the flame ? thought Matt as he read the Hieroglyphs. Light the flame, the eye will see, and the portal is yours...hmm what's this? whoa...could it be a map?
"What?" asked Cain to Alexis. Alexis went on her knees.
"This." she said as she cleared a little pile of sand on the floor. It revealed what looked like seven dials, all next to each other. "Hmm...I wonder what these could be.." she moved the tile farthest to the left, and it started to glow a little as the weird on symbols turned into letters. Alexis quickly pull her hand back.
"Whoa." she said surprised. "Hey I think I found something." Matt turned around and saw her. He walked towards her.
"What is it?" asked Matt. Meanwhile Jaden looked at the dust he had cleared. It had revealed the classic Egyptian eye, inscribed in the outline of what looked like a flame.
"Hmm, pretty big eye." he said, staring at the eye. He looked at the eye. The whole surfaced seemed to be glass, or something of the sort. "I should tell them, maybe it's important." said Jaden to himself as he walked towards the group.
"It's 7 dials." said Alexis, pointing at the 7 dials on the floors. Matt sat down.
"7 dials? Why are there 7 random dials on the floor?" asked Matt, confused.
"You are the archeologist, not me." said Alexis. Cain took a look at it.
"Looks like a Cryptex... but it's stuck to the ground." said Artemis from behind. Matt looked up.
"A what?" asked Matt.
"Never mind. All you need that there is a password to find out." said Artemis. "So why is one of the dials in English while the other ones are in Egyptian?"
"I am not sure, I just touched one and it turned into english." said Alexis. Artemis looked at her.
"Hmm, touch
another dial." he said, looking at the dials. Alexis slowly put
her finger on a dial and the same light glowed and it turned to
english. Artemis started to examine it.
"Weird. Any ideas?"
asked Matt.
"It's shadow magic. Of the simplest kind." said Sarah. They all turned to look at her. "What? It is. You see," she said as she pointed to some small markings. "It will recognize the type of language we speak. Make it easier to whoever is figuring it out this thing."
"How did you..." started to say Matt.
"That's my major. Shadow magic." finished Sarah for him.
"Oh." said Matt, a tad embarrassed. Damn, I should have known thought Matt.
"Yeah...so any ideas on the password?" asked Sarah. Then Jaden came running.
"Guys! I found something!" he shouted, eagerly. They all switched their gaze from Sarah to Jaden.
"What is it?" asked Christy, eyeing him.
"It was a hieroglyph. It showed an eye encrypted in a flame." said Jaden. Matt's eyes widened. Sand blinds the eye from the flame. thought Matt.
"Was there anything covering the image?" asked Matt.
"Umm, yeah some sand." said Jaden. "Why?" Matt started to think. Okay...Sand blinds the eye from the flame, and Shadows hide the light from the flame...what light? wondered Matt.
"You okay Matt?" asked Sarah. He looked at her, he smiled. "Hmm, how many dials are there again?" he asked
"7 dials. Why?" asked Alexis. Matt smiled as he counted the letters in the word Shadows.
"Ha!" he said as he touched the other dials, they all glowed and turn to english. He slowly moved the dials till it spelt 'Shadows'. Then they all glowed again.
"Matt! How did you know it was Shadows?" asked Artemis surprised.
"The wall had a riddle that told me it. Now let's see what happens." said Matt as from dials a ray of light appeared and hit the eye at the far wall. The light glowed while the flame surrounding turned red. Then the wall divided into two and they started to open like a door. It started to reveal a black void.
"What is that?" shouted Alexis. As they all stared. Then as the wall started showing more of the inside, the inside started to suck everything in the room.
"Everyone hold on!" shouted Christy as she held onto Jaden's hand as they all got sucked. They were holding but Alexis to levitate in the air.
"Help me!" she shouted as the air pulled her. Cain ran and grabbed her. He wasn't strong enough and the shadows pulled him as well.
"Help!" he shouted as the other came and pulled. The shadows growled as they did one quick tug and the whole chain broke. As they fell to the floor, the shadows sucked them in. Then it all turned dark. Then, it was like a blink of an eye it showed a room identical to the one they were in. Except this room had different hieroglyphs in some of the wall and the furthest wall looked like it had a hall, leading somewhere else.
"Where are we?" asked Jaden.
"I am not sure...but we may be in the Shadow Realm." said Matt looking around. Jaden, Christy, and Alexis's eyes widened.
"No way, we
been in the Shadow Realm before." said Christy, not realizing
she was still holding Jaden's hand. Matt, Sarah, Cain, and Artemis
looked at them.
"Right. Anyhow... we should be careful and
try to avoid any kind of dangerous or idiotic movements." said
Artemis.
"Hello!" shouted Jaden. Artemis smacked his forehead. Everybody else groaned. Then a voice could be heard.
"Damn it! He is gonna find me, gotta run gotta run." said the voice coming from the Hall. As the voice exited the hall it revealed it self. It looked like a man in a purple suit, wearing white gloves with a yellow tie and a blue collar. He also had a matching purple hat. However, he was no man. He had dark reddish orange, with elf-like ears. He had long, short blonde hair (A/N: You know, the one that's short for girl's hair, but its like long for guys), parts of his hand were divided by his long ears. He also had green eyes.
"Holy crap, that's Witty Phantom!" said Artemis in amazed. Witty Phantom looked up.
"Who's Witty Phantom?" asked Matt.
"Witty Phantom is a card...in Duel monsters." said Artemis still in disbelief. Everybody else was shocked. Witty Phantom grinned as he walked gallantly towards the humans.
"Who are you all?" he asked, looking at them. "I am Witty Phantom." He took his hat and bowed to them. They were still in shock. It was a monster, a real life monster, talking to them. Jaden smiled.
"That's awesome!" said a happy Jaden. He let go of Christy's hand and took Witty Phantom's hand and shook it. "I am Jaden. He is Artemis, she's Alexis, she's Christy, she's Sarah, he's Matt, he's Cain. So you are Witty Phantom? Say something Witty." Everybody looked at Jaden, they all had the anime sweat drop in the back of their head. Leave it to Jaden to see nothing to talk to a monster. thought Christy.
"Eh..." said Witty Phantom at he looked at Jaden. "I take it a couple of bulls must have hit your head a couple of times, seeing as how you wear so much red and are so stupid." Jaden looked at him.
"That was mean, though somewhat clever." said Jaden.
"So what are you? Humans?" asked Witty Phantom. Artemis snapped back from watching Jaden making a fool of himself.
"Umm, yes. " said Artemis, unsure of what to say. Witty Phantom smiled.
"YES!" He shouted. "I hit the jackpot, scored the money!" They all stared at him. He smiled as he counted them.
"Aw man, with all of you I should be able to make it Exianapolis AND be filthy rich. " said Witty Phantom
"What the hell are you talking about?" asked Matt to Witty Phantom.
"You guys are
my ticket out of this dump." said Witty Phantom as he pulled an
Axe out of suit.
"Whoa! Put that back...hey that looks
familiar." said Matt.
"It is. That's Axe of Despair" said Artemis. "It boost a monster attack by 1,000 points." Witty Phantom looked at him.
"Not sure what that means, however, I am sure the great lord won't mind if cut your arms and legs." said Witty Phantom, as he moved the Axe threateningly.
"Whoa whoa, I am sure we can work something out." said Christy as the gang moved back.
"Yeah, I will be sure to workout how much cash I can get out of you." said Witty Phantom as he got ready to attack. Crap, we are dead. thought Alexis. Then a loud roar. A majestic roar filled the hall came from there. As if on cue, the Millennium Key rumbled as the roar. However, it didn't shake violently, it merely rumbled, as the roar died so did the rumbling. What is the meaning of this? wondered Alexis as a figure came from the hall. A dragon , about 10 feet , appeared walking. He had a pale yellow skin color, with an unusually long neck, about 3 feet. The neck on his back had a cement covering, with small cement spikes coming out of it. The spikes stopped at the top part of the back. From there, large wings, almost as tall as him with his neck extended all the way up, came, having a majestic purple color. Small spikes, made out of bones, were at the tip of wings. Meanwhile, the dragon's legs were a very muscular. His feet only had 2 fingers each, with long nails. From his shoulder, long, somewhat muscular, arms came from. From the chest, another pair of arms came from. His eyes were pure red as he opened his mouth and growled again. He had long horn that extended from the top of his head to almost touching his neck. At his shoulder, there was a cloaked figure on it. He was wearing a black cloak, with many tears, showing it had been through some rough times. Witty Phantom turned back.
"Curse it all! He found me! Damn it! Why him? Why now?" shouted Witty Phantom, scared then he looked at dragon and the stranger on him and groaned. The dragon came close, menacingly. Everybody moved back. "Wait, we can work something out! Look, I found seven humans, how about you take five, and I will take two. We don't speak about this and we leave it how its?" The dragon and stranger looked at him. Then cloaked stranger looked at the people.
"It has been a while, hasn't it Christy?" said the cloaked stranger with a smooth voice. Christy looked shock. That voice…it sounds familiar, yet different. thought Christy. "And as for you, prepare to suffer the wrath of my dragon." The dragon roared.
"That dragon looks familiar." whispered Matt to Artemis. Artemis looked at Matt.
"It should, you heard a small lecture on it. It's Fiend Skull Dragon" said Artemis to Matt.
"No!" shouted Witty Phantom. "C'mon Tainted Justice, how about you take six and I will take one." Artemis' eyes widened as he remembered his event in the other room.
Flashback
"Artemis…" said a voice. Artemis quickly turned around but saw no one. He kept walking but the it started again. "Artemis…"
"Who are you? Show yourself!" shouted Artemis as he started walking backwards, his back facing forward.
"You want…to
see…Zorgoth… do you not?" said the voice. Artemis thought he
was losing his mind.
"Who are you?" he repeated as he kept
walking backwards.
"I sense it…you want to meet Zorgoth…You must enter …the Shadow Realm." said the voice again. Artemis could feel the presence of the being but could not find him.
"But how?" he asked, deciding that maybe he wasn't crazy.
"Use… the portal."
"What portal?" said Artemis, walking backwards slower than before.
"The one… in the main room." Artemis was gonna ask where and how to use it but the voice continued. "When you are in…the shadow realm…you must find…Tainted Justice."
End of Flashback
Could this be the Tainted Justice the voice referred to? wondered Artemis.
"Dark Fire Blast." said Tainted Justice as the dragon spewed black fire at Witty Phantom. He quickly jumped to the side, barely dodging it.
"Not this time." said Witty Phantom as he took his. He flipped it upside down. He spun on it on his finger. "Hats can be quite magical." Then his hat turned giant and it covered him. As he did, the whole room was filled with giant hats.
"Hey, doesn't the King of Games Yugi Moto use a similar card?" asked Jaden.
"Yes, it's a trap card called Magical Hat. It hides his most monsters from attacks." said Artemis. Tainted Justice shouted in frustration and , without realizing, he commanded the dragon to attack the hat in front of the gang. "Dark Fire Blast!" he shouted as the blast crushed the hat, the group saw the fire. They all covered their eyes from the imminent doom.
A/N: Monster cards or cards that is important you get how they look like. I, being the crappy author that I am, tried to describe them to the best of my ability. However, I am no good at that, so I have provided links to pictures to the actual cards so you can get picture. Once you look at the picture of the cards, tell me if I did a good job describing it or if I didn't, show me where. I also added a Funny Quote to Live by section. So if you get any, tell me.
