Hi everyone, a new chapter that's a bit longer! YAY! So, I noticed a few voices in the reviews that I saw.

Dark ring of hope, I'm glad you like my stories. :) As for Yugi and Kisara, I'll fix that up. Not to worry. I have plans for Yugi.

Aquio Moto, Michael is a nice guy, but ever since the war with Lucifer he's always been a bit on edge. (I mean, getting stabbed in the back by a friend isn't all that nice.)

Xevshak, I can understand that. But Chaos IS Atem, just in a different form. Chaos can't take Anzu from Atem since he is Atem. (He just doesn't know it. Unlike Anzu.) As far as the ending goes, I can't completely tell you that yet. ;)

So, seeing that some peeps were curious about where Yugi is, I decided to slip him in. He has a minor role, but it's imporant all the same.

Disclaimer, I own nothing!


Atem's Starlit Seraph

Chapter 6

Anzu was so flustered and she could only blame Chaos. Damn him for being the past version of Atem. It felt like cheating, but at the same time, it didn't feel wrong at all. Dipping through a cloud, she came out the other side to see the sun setting.

"Estelle?" a voice of peace drifted through the air, stopping her. She looked to her right to see a massive castle that glowed with such holiness that it made her want to cry. On a balcony stood a man, and with her newly sharpened senses she could see that his eyes never stayed one color, in fact, it was a color she could not put a name to, his hair was bleach white with a faint touch of gold. He looked old, and yet young, so it was somewhere in-between.

God.

She landed before Him on one knee. "My Lord." She said softly. His eyes softened with so much love . . . was it possible to give someone that amount of love?

"Estelle, come with me, I have to show you something." He said softly, holding out His hand. Taking it, Anzu felt a zap of power, making her skin glow golden and her wings to sparkle even more.

"What is it you wish to show me, My Lord?"

He remained silent as He continued to pull her through the halls of great and unthinkable beauty. He opened some doors to a room that was bathed in holy power. Orbs, weak, but there was a spark of life in those . . .

"Souls . . ." she whispered.

"Yes." He said lovingly, picking one up gently. "I don't know who this soul will be yet, but there is so much hope." The soul responded by glowing a little more strongly. Anzu walked forward and took the soul gently from His hands. She closed her eyes and brushed her soul against this new one.

Life, innocence, inexplicable joy of merely being alive and loved. Like a child.

It felt like . . .

Michael. But it was missing something . . . "Add justice." She said softly.

"What?"

"Add the need to fight for justice to this little one," she turned to Him, smiling. "You will find that this soul will stand by You, will protect You in the future." She said putting the soul back down on the pillow. Looking up, she noted that He was watching her closely. "My Lord?"

"Did you dream again?" He asked as He waved His hand over the future Michael. Anzu smiled.

"My Lord, it is something that I feel here." She said, putting her hand over her heart.

He smiled and took her hand, leading her somewhere else again. "What did I do right when I made your soul, Estelle?"

She laughed. "You made my soul, yes, but it was You who showed me love, now, what does my Father desire?"

God looked over at her quickly before a soft, barely noticeable blush spread over His cheeks. "I need the Seraph of the Star's guidance."

"And yet You are God?"

"I am not all powerful." He said. "If the first generation chooses to, I'd have to leave."

Anzu laughed, squeezing His hand gentle. "You are needed soon in the future. I would not dare drive You away."

"Since it seems you see the future, could you tell me?" He asked innocently. Anzu smiled and shook her head.

"No, I can't, My Lord. The future is something You need to look to, not I." she said.

"One can try." He chuckled softly, making her smile too. "Will you bare witness to Celina and Sol's union of the soul?"

"Of course. She's even asked if I could make her something close to what I am wearing now." Anzu said, waving her hand at the summer dress. The Lord eyed it and smiled.

"Why did you decide to cover yourself up?"

Anzu sniffed. "I noticed that the men didn't have to cover their chest areas, unlike the females. So I decided to free both wings."

"Always the rebel." He chuckled softly. "But I can understand it."

"Celina's dress will be special though, I'll make it one-of-a-kind."

"She's very lucky to have someone like you." He said softly. Anzu smiled.

"Would You like me to make You one?" her comment made Him laugh, making her shiver. His laughter only made her want to laugh.

"I need you to go to the Tree today Estelle."

'Tree?' "Oh?"

"You haven't sung for it in several days." He said softly.

"I'll be sure to sing for the tree then." She said.

He turned to speak again but stopped, as if He'd seen something she hadn't. He smiled mysteriously at her and politely shooed her to leave. "Go now, the Little Ones can't wait forever."

"Yes, My Lord." She said, spreading out her wings and taking off into the air. "Okay, so . . . what's this Tree He was talking about?"

The Tree of Souls is where seraphs are born. Colored eggs are more so common powered future seraphs, gold and metallic colored eggs are the future powerful seraphs.

Anzu stopped the flow of information before she was flooded with it. So she was looking for a tree . . . scratch that.

She hovered in one spot as she overlooked a large lake, and right in the middle was an island with a massive tree of extreme proportions. It had its own glow to it. Anzu could see large fruit . . . no, eggs, those were angel eggs. 'So what did He mean when he said I had to sing?'

The Angel Eggs that hang from the Tree of Souls can only be born by a pure voice sung by a holy being with a pure heart.

Ah, Anzu pressed her lips into thin line. She hadn't broken into a song since she was in high school, and the results were pretty bad. It turned out that magic can often take the emotion that the song causes and project it to others.

What she had to sing in high school wasn't generally all that nice. She could sing, Anzu didn't deny that since a few scouts from some studios begged her to sign up for them. (Of course, she denied them all.) But some of the things that happened to those annoying preppy girls was . . . bad, in their eyes. For the student body it was more like one big laugh.

"So what the crap do I sing?" she muttered, flying closer to the massive tree.

Then, at the back of her mind was a small song. Anzu was no longer in control of her body as she opened her mouth and sang. The bell-like pureness of it startled Anzu for a second. As a human, she had a good voice, but not as good as her seraph's singing voice.

On the second line of the song she was singing, and it was in another language so she really didn't know what she was singing, the eggs shivered and started to hatch.

Anzu watched in wonder as tiny little baby seraphs fluttered their tiny wings towards the holy castle she had just come from. Some fluttered past her and shared their precious innocent smiles with her, making a special kind of warmth grow in her heart.

Out of the corner of her eye she saw a gold egg, still whole. Flying closer she sang for the egg personally. It shivered, as if the tiny life within was trying its hardest to get out, but didn't have the strength.

"Poor thing." A deep baritone voice said tenderly, making her heart stop and stutter.

Chaos.

"Why do you say that?" she asked.

"The little one can't get out, not to mention it's a golden egg. They're rare gifts." He said. Anzu was having a hard time thinking straight, but the little life in the golden egg made her heart sad.

"Can you sing?" she asked innocently.

Chaos snorted. "Of course I can."

"Then how about we try and get this little one out, hmm?" she suggested, turning to him as she did so. Chaos seemed to pause for a moment, as if contemplating on whether or not to join her until he shrugged.

"All right then." He said. Anzu nodded and started off once more, but this time Chaos's voice followed, creating a different sound, peaceful and happy, altogether.

The egg shivered violently and finally cracked. A squeak of protest from the falling baby seraph made Anzu and Chaos reach out together and catch the child.

It was a boy, and he was as naked as he could be, but like most babies, he didn't really care. He had black hair tipped with violet and some blond bangs framing his face. He looked a lot like Atem did, but minus a few bangs. His wings were pure white, extremely fluffy.

Then, the tiny seraph opened his wide innocent eyes. Anzu wanted to give in and say 'aw'. Those had to be the cutest royal purple eyes she'd ever seen. Quickly, she looked up to see Chaos watching the child with soft tender eyes, often seen on a new parent.

Is that what she looked like too?

"I think I now know why some seraphs aren't allowed to get close to the tree now." He said in a voice filled with awe.

"Why?"

"Because, even though it's against the rules, I feel a strong attachment to this child."

"And here I thought I was the only one." She laughed.

"Chaos, Estelle."

Both seraphs turned to see their Lord standing on the water, surrounded by the seraph babies that looked like little butterflies. They landed before Him, Chaos bowing to one knee while Anzu merely bowed her head.

God walked over and looked at the tiny life within her arms. "Ah, I had a feeling he'd be a little smaller and weaker." He said sadly. "Chaos, Estelle, could you watch him, be his parents until he is ready?" The powerful seraphs blinked in shock but did not deny their King. "What will you name him?"

Anzu looked down at the tiny seraph and tapped him tenderly on the nose. "Yugi sounds like a nice name." she said softly, looking to Chaos if he approved. He nodded.

"Yeah, I like it." He said, allowing the newly named Yugi to grab his finger. "Why was he born so weak, my Lord?"

God sighed. "I believe it was because there was so many eggs on the tree already. I suppose Yugi would be called the runt of the tree."

Anzu huffed. "Well, he's a well loved runt." She whispered, tickling the baby, making him squeal in joy. Chaos was in another world now as he had Yugi in his arms. When they both looked up, He was gone. "He could have said goodbye and good luck or something." She said.

Chaos snorted. "He has more on His hands then we do."

"True." she said. "So where should we take care of Yugi. I don't want him at my place because Aalok doesn't need to know."

Chaos nodded. "He can't go to the chaos lake, knowing him; he'll probably think its real water." They watched the child that was now theirs as they thought. "Sorry to bother You my Lord, but could You possibly make us a place of equal ground so that we may take care of Yugi alone and in peace?"

"You're asking air?"

"Oh, trust me, He can hear us. Often times to pull your leg He'll ignore you." Anzu noted the teasing glitter in his eyes, making her smile.

"Goodness, how rude!"

A huff came out of no where and right above them appeared a cloud. There was no pop or magical display announcing its presence, it was just there. Both seraphs laughed and flew to the new cloud that obviously hid something from everyone.

Once they slipped through the thick mist, a door was right in front of them. Since it was Chaos who had his hands full, Anzu opened the door and walked in. "Oh wow." She said.

It was a cozy home. Nothing grand or super-special, but cozy and homey. She turned to Chaos with a smile. "It's the perfect place to raise a seraph here."

"And why is that?"

"If Yugi lived in something grand like my room then he'd probably expect to be feed with a silver spoon."

"True, besides, I think Yugi likes this place anyway." He chuckled, eyeing the child in his arms that wouldn't stop staring at his surroundings. Anzu felt her heart stutter for a moment. He looked just like a . . . daddy.

She giggled.

"What?" Chaos demanded. "Why are you laughing, Estelle?"

"You look like a daddy." She laughed. Chaos's jaw dropped before a bright blush bloomed over his tanned cheeks. He looked away from her gaze, clearly flustered.

"S-so?"

Laughing, she walked forward and took Yugi in her arms again. "It's cute." She said, giving him a quick kiss on the cheek, which only proved to turn that bright blush into a deep lobster red.


Okay, so you guys might be wondering something along the lines of, 'Why are they taking this sudden parenthood so nicely?' Okay, so I may not be a huge expert on the angel catagories that the Almightly One made, but since this is fanfiction I'm going to go off on random tangents to make it make sense MY WAY!

Kidding. Lolz.

So, to seraphs, taking in a seraph baby (or child) isn't all that much of a problem like it is to us. We have to deal with the pains of reality. (Which means assholes, money, and . . . money.) While some people go into super-planning mode for a child, seraphs don't have to because, one, its Heaven and no money is involved. What does Heaven need money for? Nothing. Exactly. Two, their holy beings that can give lots of love (While some have fallen, yes, but that doesn't happen yet.) so they can share it. Three, it's CHILDREN. Heaven loves the little people! Their innocent without any sin whatsoever, what's not like?

It's common it the world of seraphs to pair up to raise a child. Even if the couple doesn't care for each other, they have one goal in mind and that's to love and care for the baby seraph until he or she is old enough to go his or her own way. Now some of you may be like, 'Well that sounds odd, not to mention that's not how it is in real life' THIS. ISN'T. REAL. LIFE. They're seraphs of great holy powers that could blow us up in the blink of an eye! That doesn't sound like real life. Okay, now I'm ranting.

So, that is the reason why Chaos and Anzu (Estelle) aren't really freaked out about it.

Also, the 'song' that Anzu had to sing (along with Chaos) I couldn't really . . . I don't think a song with lyrics was called for. So think about it this way, you choose a song in YOUR head and you project it into the story. That's the best I can give you. I don't know any holy songs or songs that even sound holy. Forgives me.

Now that I have all that out of the way... Reviews. TEN total for next update. Hell, if you get the review count from 31 to 41, I'll update. I promise.

Thank you for reading. (and that includes my information/rant-off) Have a nice day, or night!

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