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Sorry, that I haven't updated sooner, I have been busy with school and all. Also I redid my third Raindrops story, because it didn't turn out like I wanted to, just to let you know. Also I might be doing a Kingdom Hearts one soon. I think you might enjoy it. Anyway I would like to thank all the people who have enjoyed my story. It makes me so happy
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Colorful Magic
Chapter Eight: Shadow Realm!
The sounds behind him became louder as Yugi began to panic even more. He slowly turned around and opened his eyes.
Nothing.
"Whew, it just my imagination-Ahhh!"he yelled as a three headed creature jumped right in front of him. It looked like a lion with golden brown skin and black hair with purple highlights streaking through. Its massive jaws and long sharp claws were snarling at the poor unfortunate boy. Yugi ran as fast as he could down the hill he was on.
"Roarr!" growled the beast.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH! Help!"cried Yugi. He stopped when he hit a wall. A dead end!
He hurriedly turned around to find the monster heading towards him with no means of any escape whatsoever. Yugi backed into the wall, till he could no longer move.
"Oh my Ra, Oh my Ra." Murmured Yugi as the beast came closer.
"Fuego!"
The lions turned their heads around to see who interrupted their lunch, just to yelp in pain and surprise as a blast of fire hit the thing. Destroying it completely.
Yugi covered his face from the impact. After a moment he turned around to no longer see the man eating three headed lion creature, but…
Esperanza.
"You okay nino?" she asked giving him a hand. He nodded silently as he took a good look at her. Her clothes were a little tattered, and she no longer had a cane, but a long straight staff. It had strange tattoos of writing on it, which Yugi suspected to be in Spanish. On her shoulder was the gray bat.
"Are you sure?" she asked again when he didn't speak.
"I'm fine." said Yugi.
"Bueno. Good, if not I would hunt down those ingrates who brought us here and teach them a lesson they will never forget." She said with a hint of a smile on her face as the bat grinned evilly.
"Come. I believe the others, as you, have been split up, and are most likely gathered in that direction. Let's go before another one of those things come here." Said Esp walking east of Yugi. Yugi blinked a couple of times before he started to follow her.
"Thanks." He said, "For saving me back there."
"Aye, it was no problem." said Esperanza.
"Yes it was. If you hadn't shown up I – how did you do that? Making a fire ball that big?" questioned Yugi in excitement.
Esp smiled. "Magic Yugi. Magic."
Yugi blinked. "Magic?"
"You tone death or something? She said Magic!" said a male voice with an accent like Esp's.
"For your information I have excellent hearing and –hey who the heck said that?" exclaimed Yugi as both he and Esp stopped walking.
"I did."
"Where are you?" asked Yugi, looking around for the voice.
"Over here."
Yugi turned to face Esp, who was shaking her head and sighing while the bat on her shoulder waved.
"Hola." He said, smiling showing all of his pointy teeth.
Yugi's eyes literally popped out from their sockets.
"Did… that thing just talk?" questioned Yugi.
"Yes, it does talk gringo." said Draco looking annoyed, "Now would you close your mouth before you start collecting flies in there."
Yugi shut his mouth, still looking at the bat and Esp.
"Sorry about that." Said Esp, "as you can see he's not in one of his best moods."
"Reason being, that your hardheaded brother and the two psychotic idioto's transported us here and also for you not letting me take them out when I had the chance." said Draco to his wife.
"Oi, they're just children, my murcielago." said Esp.
"Our kids never acted like that when they were teenagers." grumbled the bat.
"Times were very different back then, my love."
"Wait, kids?" asked Yugi confused.
"Oh! My apologizes Yugi. This begrudging being right here and old miser, is my mate or in your human language, my husband."
"Draco." said the bat holding out his paw to shake Yugi's hand. Yugi used one of his fingers to shake the bat's paw. "And you're the Prince of Egypt."
"Yeah. How did you two know?" asked Yugi.
"Later nino. We'll explain everything. Right now we have to find your amigos and get the blazes out of this warped dimension." Said Esp looking around.
"Right behind you on that, my bonita. Who does the décor? Frankenstein?" commented the bat to his mate, making Yugi laugh.
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"I told you we should have gone left." said Tristan. They had been wandering around this strange dimension for some time becoming hopelessly lost in the process.
"Well it seemed like a good thing at the time." stated Duke, "It's not as though I've been here before."
"Knock it off you two!" yelled Tea to both of them. Shizuka walked behind her, scared out of her senses of the eerie soundings. It was sort of like a warped maze with a dead zombie look to it.
"He started it!" yelled Duke pointing to Tristan while doing the same thing to him.
"I don't care who started it! I'll finish it!"
Both boys stumbled back from the outburst, knowing very well what would happen if you got on Tea's nerves.
"Honestly! I'm losing my sanity every day." mumbled Tea.
Shizuka looked up to her. "Do you think the others are all right, Tea?"
Tea bit her lip. She had been in Yami's Shadow Realm once or twice with the gang, yet even she didn't know the directions of that place. She had no clue what Bakura's or Marik's Realm's look like, and never wanted to know. That was one of the things she didn't want to see in her lifetime. Last but not least was Nicky. He had no clue what was going on or where he's at. Tea guilty sulked around, thinking of why she couldn't explain to him their history sooner to him. Maybe he would have believed it, or not. Either way this wasn't the best place or time to tell him. The Colour woman was right. Tea should have told him.
"Don't worry. I'm sure the others are fine. They're been in the Shadow Realm before." said Tea trying to assure Shizuka and herself.
"Yeah! Don't you fret Shizuka. I'm here to protect you!" cried Tristan proudly and dignity.
"Yeah right. You couldn't even protect yourself from turning into a monkey." replied Duke, making Tristan blush, and the girls giggle.
"I thought we agreed to never mention that again!"
"You agreed to it. I didn't." said Duke smugly. "I still have pictures of that. I could post them on YouTube…"
"You wouldn't!"
"I would!"
"Guys." said Tea dangerously. The boys stopped talking, but kept making faces at each other, making Shizuka laugh. She turned around and stopped. Letting the others do the same.
A door stood right in front of them; Brown stone, old and decaying that had nothing to support to and didn't look to belong in the scenery. A golden eye was plastered on top of the menacing door.
"Um, maybe we should go back." said Duke.
"Scared or something?" smirked Tristan earning a glare from Duke.
"No I'm not!"
"Yes you are!"
"No, it's just that I hung around you guys for so long, been on too many weird adventures that still can't be logically explained, to know that any weird thing that pops up usually means trouble or danger." Explained Duke to the others. You can't really argue with logic like that.
"I see your point." said Tristan.
"Well I know that either way something awful is going to happen. I say we open it. It's better than walking around here all day." said Tea heading up to the door.
"Guess we won't know till we find out." mumbled Shizuka. Duke and Tristan look wearily at it.
Tea nervously walked up to the door, as slowly as possible as though she was walking towards the doorsteps of Death. She determinedly put her hand to the knob of the door and turned it quickly.
They opened their eyes to see nothing. The inside was all black, like the center of an abyss or black hole. It certainly did not look inviting.
"Well?" questioned Tristan.
"Well what?" asked Tea.
"You going in or not?" said Duke.
"No." she said with a smile.
"Huh? I thought it was you idea-AHHHHH!"
Tea had pushed Duke in through the door. They all listened till the screaming stop.
"OW!" was all they heard.
"Okay it's safe." Said Tristan and all of them entered, the door disappearing as it shut itself behind them.
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In another section of this bizarre world, four others were having a hard time trying to figure where they were, how they got here, and how in the world were they supposed to get back.
"I don't believe this." complained Kaiba, "I could be in my office doing important paper work, and I'm stuck here with the Geek Squad."
Joey glared, "Kaiba as I would love to insult you, we have more serious things to worry about such as getting out of here."
"And finding the others." said Ryou worrying about the twins and praying that they were okay.
Malik put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "I'm sure they're fine. As for the twins, they can take care of themselves. They've inherited you level headedness; Besides Mokuba and Nicky could by with them."
"I hope so." murmured Ryou.
"They are. Now let's stop squabbling and figure out a plan." said Kaiba impatiently. He too was worried about Mokuba, but didn't want to show it to the three friends.
"I know! Since this world is combined with the items, we could use them. I'll bet the Ring with its tracking abilities could get us to the others and out of this joint!" exclaimed Joey.
"That's a great idea Joey. There's just one teensy weensy little problem with that." said Malik.
"And that is?"
"We don't have any of the items on us!" yelled Malik. Joey face was of shock.
"What…but…"
"Bakura took the Ring, and Marik took the Rod. Remember?" said Ryou to the upset Joey.
"We're powerless." said Malik.
"Yugi doesn't have his Puzzle either. Yami has it. Not like that could help us." muttered Kaiba; Such a skeptical man.
"When I get my Rod back, I'll give my Yami a beating of a lifetime!" yelled Malik. "Then I'll do the same thing to Bakura and then the Pharaoh!"
"We get it Malik." sighed Ryou.
"We're doom." said Joey.
"Stop being pathetic mutt."
"Somebody has to be!"
Ryou sighed as both boys began to argue again. She took a deep breath and began to meditate. That way she could think clearly and not panic.
"I swear I don't know whether or not to skin Marik or strangle those two fools." grumbled Malik massaging his eyes.
"Listen money bags, just to let you know this isn't my fault that we are here…"
"No, it was your friends that got us here." said Kaiba. "They got upset over what a woman said. What a foreigner said that got them enraged, because she insulted-"
"She didn't do anything wrong." said Malik.
"What do you mean she didn't do anything wrong? That woman kept bothering us since yesterday." said Kaiba.
"Hey, hey, she at least tried to stop it. She walked away from the fight. Its Marik's fault, he called her a coward. If I were her, I would have beaten anyone who dared called me a coward!" exclaimed Joey.
"Wheeler, you do it all the time." stated Kaiba.
"Shut up you two! You're making the situation worse by arguing. We could have spent more time searching for a way out of here, and then spent on stupid fighting!" yelled Malik.
Joey sighed, "Your right this is no time to fight, even though there are others who enjoy it." He said glaring at Kaiba.
"Why don't you use your sense of smell? Aren't dogs supposed to do that kind of thing?" Kaiba smugly said.
Joey clenched his fists, closing his eyes, and trying so hard to control his temper, before he strangled Kaiba on the spot.
"Morons." grumbled Malik. They weren't getting anywhere.
"Hey, Ry you have any suggestions here that we can use…Ry?"
Ryou didn't say anything.
"Oh Ryou?"
"Earth to Ryou? What are you staring at?" asked Joey.
Not even flinching or looking at them, she pointed.
"At that."
The three boys turned their heads, to a dark gloomy wall. In the center, was a wooden door, with the eye of gold on top. It looked sickly and evil looking, making it look like it was alive with veins scattered around.
"That wasn't there before." said Joey.
"I know." said Ryou.
"Then why didn't you tell us?" demanded Kaiba. Malik shook his head while Ryou shrugged her shoulders.
"I was waiting for you and Joey to stop fighting."
Kaiba huffed and crossed his arms.
"Next time, break it up. I would have stopped."
"Like you would." mumbled Malik. Joey stifled a laughed while Kaiba glared at them.
"Well should we go in?" asked Malik.
"No way. It doesn't look like anything of Yami's."
"Nor Bakura's." said Ryou.
"So it has to be Mariks. And knowing how his brain works, it will be something evil and twisted. So I think arrogant jerks should go first."
"No, I think our loyal mutt should go in first." said Kaiba.
"No I insist."
"Urg! Would you two knock it off! I'll go in!" exclaimed Malik. He and Ryou opened the door, everyone peeking in.
Inside it looked like the room of a tomb. Cobwebs and dirt covered the walls and grounds, as age and time effected the room as well. What really made this place disturbing was that caskets and coffins were all around in the room. They were either made of wood or different types of stones. Noises could be heard and soon they started to move.
The lids started to open slowly.
"Oh snap."
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"Did you hear screaming?" asked Amane.
Aido shook his head, "I didn't hear anything."
Mokuba, Nicky, Aido, and Amane were walking around a grassy field. More like a spooky haunted graveyard. White marble stone headstones were scattered around the place. Hazy purple mist covered the air, like a thin fog; Hills holding or beneath staircases, rundown with age and time.
"Man this looks like something from a horror film," said Nicky looking around. ", right Mokie?"
"It sure does." replied Mokuba surveying the scenery to see if they could spot the others.
No such luck.
"So…" began Nicky looking at the twins and Mokuba.
"So what Gardner?" asked Aido very annoyed right now.
"So, care to explain to me where we are, and what that commotion was all about in the park? And why that lady said those names to those hotheads. It was though they saw a ghost."
Mokuba shifted around uncomfortably and nervously. Aido and Amane looked at each other. How can they explain it if most of it seemed unreal to them?
"I'm waiting." said Nicky.
"Uh, okay. Just remember that Tea was going to tell you this later on, okay? She was just waiting for the right time. Now what you're about to hear is going to sound crazy, but it's the truth."
"Okay then." said Nicky.
"Now where to start out?" said Mokuba.
"How about starting with where we are?"
"This place here, Gardner, is the Shadow Realm." began Aido, "This is where spirits, monsters, and other magical stuff hang around."
"Shadow Realm?" questioned Nicky. Already he didn't believe it, but who could argue with him?
"Yes, you see it all started in Egypt. You know those golden objects that Yugi, Malik, and Ryou have?" asked Amane.
Nicky nodded.
"Well those are called the Millennium items." explained Amane.
"Millennium items?"
"Yeah, there are seven of them. The Millennium Puzzle, Ring, and Rod you already seen." said Aido, "Maliks older siblings have the Scales and Necklace. Some crazy guy in America has the Millennium Eye."
"Pegasus." growled Mokuba.
"That's the guy." said Aido.
"Wait, wait. Are you talking about Maximillion Pegasus Crawford, the guy who created Duel Monsters?"
"Yeah that's him." Said Mokuba, "And he didn't invent the game, he just revived it. Duel Monsters have been around for over five thousand years."
"Wow! That amazing! But I never saw Pegasus with the Eye."
You now when you see him on the news or in pictures, that the left side of his face is always covered? Well he sacrificed his left eye for the Millennium Eye."
"Dude!" gawked Nicky, "That's disgusting! Eww!"
"Yeah, we know. And the last item, the Millennium Key belongs to some shady Egyptian." said Aido.
"Shadia. He shows up from time to time out of nowhere and disappears the same way." added Mokuba.
"Do you understand now, Nicky?" asked Amane.
Nicky nodded, "Some of it. But what I'm really confused with is why everyone freaked out when that Colour character said those names. Heck, I've never seen Marik, Bakura, and Yami so shocked."
The three hesitated.
"That's another thing Tea was going to tell you. You see umm, they're not who you think they are." stuttered Mokuba. Nicky looked at him.
"Are you saying for instance, that Yami and Yugi are really not brothers?" asked Nicky.
"Oh, they're brothers." commented Amane.
"Good." Said Nicky relieved.
"Back in their past lives." added Aido.
"What?" exclaimed Nicky.
"Remember, when we said that Duel Monsters, and the items originated in Egypt? Well so did them…five thousand years ago."
Nicky's jaw dropped to the ground literally. Five thousand years ago? What the heck?
"Yeah, Yami use to be a Pharaoh of all Egypt, while Yugi was a prince. Marik and Bakura use to be thieves or tomb robbers. Simply in reality all of us had a past life in Egypt." explained Aido.
"So all of us were rean…rean…, born again." said Amane.
"But not those three." added Aido.
"Okay I get some of it, but why not those three?"
"Apparently they did something bad that their souls were banished into the items, allowing them to possess the ones who had any of the items."
"So they're actually spirits? From thousands of years ago?"
"Use to be. Now they have their own bodies." said Amane.
"Umm, how?"
"Yeah, back in Battle City, months before you ever showed up." said Aido.
"Wow." said Nicky in awe.
"That's what I said." said Mokuba, "it was quite the shock."
"I think I got it now. So Yami and Yugi are brothers, right?"
"Right." said the twins.
"And Malik and Marik are related too, right?"
"Right again." said Mokuba.
"Oh, and Bakura is Ryou's twin brother! Yeah because since you two are twins, it's genetic. I get it now." explained Nicky smugly.
Aido and Amane eyes grew big and looked at each other. Mokuba, because nervous. Nicky seemed to handle the news okay, but he wasn't ready for this.
"What? Did I guess wrong or something?" asked Nicky.
"Big time.' mumbled Aido.
Mokuba spoke to Nicky, "You better sit down for this. It's quite a shocker."
Nicky, confused, sat down on one of the stone hedges. Mokuba did the same, while Aido and Amane were still standing.
"Do you want to tell him or should I?"
"Nah, we can do it." stated Aido.
"Tell me what?"
The twins turned to the confused boy.
"Okay. Me and Amane are related to Bakura and Ryou. But they are not related to each other." explained Aido.
"What? I don't follow."
"That seems to happen to you a lot." remarked Aido. Nicky glared.
"Umm, well they are more connected by bond then blood.' explained Amane, hoping that he would catch on.
Mokuba looked at Nicky, confusion written all over the boy's face. Then slowly changed from confusion to shock.
"They're married!" cried Nicky.
"Yup." said Aido.
Nicky shook his head, "Yeah, but if they're married that would make you guys their…their…"
"Kids, Gardner. We're they're kids." said Aido.
"Yeah, Bakura is our Daddy and Ryou our Mama." added Amane.
"I don't believe it."
"Join the club. Neither did the rest of us." added Mokuba.
"I mean this is so hard to be true, but yet it explains so much." said Nicky.
"What do you mean?" asked Amane.
"How Ryou and Bakura act around one another. I know they were a couple, but not in that way. And how protective they are of you two. Man I can still remember Bakura's face glaring at me, when he found out I hit you. I thought he was going to kill me.; And how Ryou comforted you when you were crying, just like a mother would do."
"So you okay with it?" asked Aido.
"Yeah I'm okay." said Nicky.
"With everything?" questioned Mokuba.
Nicky looked at him, and thought for a minute. Then he answered: "It's going to take a while to adjust, but I think I can manage. It gives me more reason to tease Tea about her crush on Yami-"he covered his mouth. He wasn't supposed to say that.
He was about to explain his mishap, when he saw all of his friends laughing.
"It's okay. We already know. Heck everyone knows!" laughed Mokuba.
"Except Yami and Tea!" laughed Aido.
"We've been trying to set them up for months." explained Amane.
"Really? Can I help?" asked Nicky excitedly.
Mokuba settled down now from his laughter, "Sure, but first let's get out of this place." They started to walk away from the Demonic graveyard.
Well that's the end for chapter eight. I hope to have it updated soon in a couple of weeks. I'm still writing chapter ten so it might take awhile. I hope I kept everyone in character.
Has anyone figured out what Draco and Esp are? Hehe, just leave your answers in your reviews and I will let you know if your close.
Oh, and if you have any ideas for this story, just write to me. I have so many that I can't keep track of it all. I will probably post it up again later on.
Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed! Please review!
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