Disclaimer:
I do not own YGO or Castle in the Sky.I'm finally updating this story. It seems as though I'll start a chapter, but then I'll get bored with it, so I move on to another story. I know I'm updating some fics more than others, but be patient, I'm not going to start a fic and then not finish it.
Last chapter, Tea had that weird dream about her and Marik. I know that most of y'all like reading the Bakura-Tea romance, but since this is a Marik-Tea-Bakura triangle, there has to be some hints of Marik-Tea. Mostly, the romance between Tea and Marik will come during the second part. I'm not really calling the 2nd half of the fic a sequel, since the first part doesn't really have an ending, but the entire story will be split in two. The first half mostly consists of things that happened in the movie, while part 2 branches off from the movie (although the ending is kind of the same). I don't want to spoil the surprise, so I'll just tell you that most of the stuff in part 2 didn't occur in the movie.
MasterRuby
: Yeah… it's kind of weird to read about Tea and Marik when the chapter is focused on Tea and Bakura. But there's got to be some Marik-Tea in here somewhere, or else it wouldn't really be a triangle, although Marik and Tea really don't actually do anything until part 2.DojomistressAmbyChan
: The Rod didn't do that. Her Millennium Necklace has a special connection to her even when it's far away. That was her Necklace showing her a vision… but I what say anymore or I'll give away part 2. More should be explained in this chapter…Tea and Anzu – 15
Bakura and Ryou – 16
Marik – 16
Seto Kaiba – 18
Serenity (she's not related to Joey) – 15
Joey – 17
Tristan – 17
Duke – 17
Mai – 19
Mokuba – 14
Yami and Yugi – 16
Grandpa Muto (not related to Yugi or Yami) – about 80 or so
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Through the Eye of the Beholder
By: Chi Yagami
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Chapter 8 – Fields of Roses
A lone ship was docked by the old docking station of Kanashi. Marik smirked as he looked around; he of course had been first to arrive. While his Rare Hunters kept a lookout, he ventured inside the palace to get a good feeling of his soon-to-be home. He knew all about Kanashi. His great-grandfather had told the story that had been passed down from generation to generation in the Ishtar family.
Kingsly Ishtar had been a simple fisherman. His best friend, Jonu Mazaki, was a relative of those who lived on Kanashi. Jonu had tried to seize the throne and had been caught by King Shadi. He'd then been banished to Earth. Jonu had told Kingsly all about the Millennium Items, and they had planned to get revenge together. One day, Kingsly turned on Jonu, and decided he'd get back Kanashi on his own. Because only a royal could control an Item, he cut Jonu's arm and mixed their blood together so that he could have royal blood. Then he killed Jonu. One day, shortly after Kanashi had become abandoned, he fished up the Millennium Rod. And that was how Marik, relative of Kingsly, had come to wield the Rod.
He went down past the castle and into the center of Kanashi. Although the chamber where the Items were lay beneath the castle itself, a hall lead down from near the throne room to the Item chamber. Marik looked at all of the gold objects and frowned. There were three missing. He knew that he and Anzu had the Rod and Necklace… but where was the Puzzle?
Marik walked over to the legendary black stone. If one could control an Item and placed their hand upon the rock, they could command Kanashi. He gripped his Rod as his left hand touched the stone.
"Kanashi, this is your new master speaking. I know that someone ordered those stupid robots to kill everyone, but I'm overriding that request," he said. This way, the Dark Magicians wouldn't attack the others when they showed up. As much as he'd like to have Yami blasted away by one of his own robots, Marik had other plans for the 'prince'.
He continued to explore the castle as he waited for the others arrive.
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She woke up sweating again. Tea'd had that same nightmare about Kanashi where she and Bakura seemed to be dying or something. She glanced around for him and found him leaning against the wall, sleeping peacefully. She looked up at the stars and sighed. She wished that that kiss had never ended; Tea leaned over and kissed Bakura on the cheek. She looked down over the side of the basket and gasped. A large dark shadow was floating beneath the clouds, right below them.
"Bakura," she said urgently, shaking him. "Wake up!"
"What is it?" he asked sleepily as he struggled to sit up.
"There's something flying underneath us!"
They both looked down to see the shadow. Bakura instantly became alarmed and was more worried than Tea. He grabbed a walkie-talkie from his belt and pushed the button.
"Mai! Goliath is right below us!"
"What?!" she asked frantically, running out onto the deck and taking a look for herself. "Oh my! Joey! Tristan! Veer left!!!"
Their ship barely made it out of the way before Goliath flew up. The large airship began to fire at the smaller one. Mai was freaking out as Joey steered the ship into a bundle of clouds to get out of range. They were finally safe below the cloud-cover.
"Why don't you go after them, Yami?" Kaiba asked, getting impatient. "The girl is with them!"
"We don't need to be going on a wild goose chase," he replied calmly. "Besides, we've got everything we need. We'll arrive in Kanashi on time."
The Millennium Necklace was placed in the middle of a large compass, the light still pointing off into space.
Mai picked up the walkie-talkie.
"Bakura! Listen to me! All will be lost if we lose sight of Goliath!" she commanded. "You've got good eyes, so I want you to keep watch."
"How do I do that?" he asked.
"The crow's nest can be made into a kite! See that crank? Turn it clockwise!"
Bakura fumbled around for the crank and began turning it. A circular piece of wire was hoisted up from one side until it reached the top. Now the crow's nest really looked like a basket with a handle, except for a beam sticking off of the handle, connecting down onto the ship. Another crank was on the handle.
"Turn that crank to release the wings," Mai continued. "It'll be like kind of in a parachute."
Bakura and Tea turned the crank together and opened the wings of the "kite".
"Tea, it's best that you come down from there," she said. Tea looked at Bakura before taking the communicator.
"Why?"
"Because you're a girl; that's man's work."
"But you're a female. I can do this!"
"Tea, I think it'd best," Bakura protested, "if… I don't want you getting hurt! I think—"
"And Bakura agrees with me," she told Mai, who just laughed.
"All right then. Ready for takeoff?" she asked the pair.
"Yep."
A pulley right under the crow's nest released, and the basket flew up into the air, a single wire string connecting it and the ship. Tea closed her eyes; they were so high up in the air that she was feeling a little light-headed.
"I don't see them."
"Maybe they're below us…"
"Or maybe above," Mai said. "Keep your eyes peeled…"
Bakura grinned at her, and Tea smiled slightly. Her arms were wrapped around his waist tightly, and they were both looking for Goliath.
"There's a storm approaching," Bakura said. "Get some rope out of my bag. We should tie ourselves together; this storm is going to be rough."
Meanwhile, Mai, Joey, and Tristan were having trouble staying away from the storm. Sunup was in an hour, and they appeared to be nowhere near a floating castle. When the sun finally did come up, they realized that they were in the wrong position.
"Mai, we're supposed to be going east! Why are we going north?" Bakura asked.
"We're going north?! What do you mean?! The compass needle is pointing east!" Mai replied.
"Maybe something's screwing it up," Tristan suggested.
"There it is!" Tea cried suddenly.
"What? Goliath?" Mai asked.
"No. It's a cloud," Bakura replied. "And it's heading straight for us!"
"Pull back!" Mai commanded to Joey. "I'm not steering my ship into the eye of a hurricane! All engine's reverse!"
The wind was picking up high speeds. They were being pulled into the giant cloud's center. Two winds were blowing in opposite directions, and they were flying over the ocean.
"Kanashi's in there!" Bakura said.
"Kanashi's where?"
"In the center of that giant cloud!"
"No way," Joey said. "It'd be smashed to pieces!"
"Oh no!" Bakura cried, pointing to something near the ship. "It's Goliath!!!"
Goliath began to attack the ship.
"We've got to escape!" Mai said shakily. Too late for that: several shots that had been just fired hit the ship. One of the blasts hit the pulley, and the wire broke. The basket flew off into the clouds as the ship was sucked into the hurricane.
"Yes! We got them!" Kaiba gloated. Yami didn't really care; he wanted Bakura out of the way, but Tea needed to live. Yami wanted the wedding to actually happen this time. If history was repeating itself, he was going to see that it happened the right way.
Bakura and Tea were flying through the hurricane, lightning striking all around them. A beam of lightning struck the basket, and Bakura closed his eyes, preparing for the worst. He looked back and saw that Tea was unconscious. He felt himself slipping away into darkness as well.
The beams of lightning formed what seemed like a path for their kite. It was to be made sure that she had a safe landing. Princess Anzu was finally returning.
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Marik watched from a window as Tea's kite landed in a field near the gardens. He knew that she wouldn't be able to fight the ancient magic within her. Even though the Millennium Necklace was not with her, it was still connected to her. When Anzu had worn it, the Item had taken in a bit of her, and just like that time in Bakura's room when Tea had acted strange, sometimes the part of Anzu struggled to be free. Tea's mind wouldn't be able to cope with it, and the end result would either be that she would remain unconscious forever and continue her inwardly battle, or the Item would take her over and Tea's spirit would be lost forever.
However, Marik had been reading up on the Kanashi scrolls that had been written down by scribes. He had found a way to control the other Millennium Items with one of them. And luckily, he possessed the correct one. Marik was able to control the Necklace enough to stop Anzu from resurfacing. It wasn't really Anzu, more like a shadow of her personality that the Necklace had absorbed. So if the Necklace took over Tea's soul and she began to act like Anzu, more than likely she'd try to order the robots to kill everyone. Marik had to make sure that that didn't happen again.
Bakura felt the wind brushing past him, and he could smell the sweet scent of fresh roses. He opened his eyes slowly and tried to focus on what was in front of him. A large pink blob?
"Uhh… Where am I?" he moaned.
A large field of roses stretched as far as the eye could see, and old stone columns overgrown with vines stood tall. Bridges connected gardens over rivers, birds were chirping, and when Bakura looked up, he saw a massive tree covering a magnificent castle. He couldn't see the trunk, but he saw the leaves. It was like the leaves were the roof of the castle… Many ponds and columns were everywhere, and he wondered if he was in heaven. It was the most beautiful place he'd ever seen.
He turned to see Tea lying next to him. Her eyes were closed and she looked kind of dead, but Bakura could hear her breathing.
"Tea," he said softly, "wake up."
He shook her arm gently and waited for her to wake up. She'd didn't stir. He shook again, a little harder this time, but nothing happened. Bakura began to worry as he called her name and tried to wake her up with no response. He was just about to tear up when he heard something behind him.
One of the robots was walking stiffly towards them up a path. He was making some kind of noise as he walked, like different sounding bells. Bakura had seen the destructive power of this thing back at Kaiba's mansion, and he didn't want anything to do with it.
The DM stopped in front of them and outstretched its staff to Tea.
"Leave her alone," Bakura said. But the DM didn't seem to listen to him. A sparkling light emitted from his rod and connected down to where's Tea's heart was. Bakura watched, afraid, but the light did not appear to hurt her. In fact, after the light was gone, Tea opened her eyes.
"Bakura?" she asked slowly. He was so overjoyed to see her awake that he pulled her into a tight embrace and kissed her cheek. He started to get up, and Tea's waist was pulled upward from the rope.
"Oops," he said. "I forgot about that."
Tea stood up and tried to undo the knot, but her fingers were trembling. Bakura sighed and threw her up in his arms dancing around. He'd never ever done that in his life, and as soon as he realized how weird and lovey-dovey he was being, he dropped her and cut the rope. Then Tea finally noticed the DM. It made three bell noises before turning and walking away.
"He says he wants us to follow him," she told Bakura, taking his hand.
"How do you know?"
"I just do."
They followed the robot into a white building, but from the inside, it looked as if the walls were invisible. The father they walked, the bigger the trees got. Bakura had been right: a single huge tree stretched upward, its branches making rooftops with the leaves. A large stone monument was engraved into the tree, and many robots overgrown with grass and vines lay or stood around the tree. Tea sank to her knees in front of it, her head bowed.
"What's wrong?"
"Bakura knelt down next to her and put a comforting arm around her shoulder.
"This monument was built for all those who were killed in the attack," she said slowly, reading the inscription.
"How can you read that? Isn't it a different language?" he asked.
"No… just written in the Kanashian code; the language is the same."
"How do you know this?"
"I don't know… I guess I've just always known it…"
They turned around suddenly when they heard a loud BOOM. They crept towards the noise and out of the garden. They peered around a castle wall only to see what they feared most.
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I hope that was long enough for you all. I think I explained everything well enough… but if not, do ask questions. (XD) I'll try to update Stille Nacht and Third Half of the Wishbone soon. Also, if anyone can think of a title for my sequel to Beneath the Desert Sands, it would greatly appreciated.
Please review! Sayonara!
