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Last Time: So Marik and Bakura were happily sleeping, as well as Yami and Yugi, and now so was Tyr and Tyren.
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Chapter 12: Tai's Not So Distant Memory
Tai was flying toward the Bermuda Triangle, the very place where many years ago, the guardians had sealed a very powerful creature known as the Demon Dragon, a massive creature whose power was so strong that the guardians could not destroy it, but merely seal it on the other side of a gate that was created with the combined magic of the three, and then locked with the ancient shadow magic wielded by the Pharaoh.
Tai thought at first that this 'disturbance' that they felt was yet another shift in power but nothing to really worry about. However, on his way to the gate, he began having his doubts, even though it happened over five thousand years ago, the memories of that first battle were still as clear as ever...
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The guardians had left the pharaoh's palace hours ago, all they told him was that they had something to check out, and he shouldn't worry, and that they would be back soon.
Tyr was flying ahead, her beautiful crimson wings catching the sun's rays, causing her to glow with a magnificent light, she was searching the skies for anything that seemed out of the ordinary, and finding nothing. Tyren and Tai were searching as well, but they had stopped looking as carefully because after searching for over ten hours and not even the slightest thing had been seen, they were losing interest to say the least.
"Come on guys, whatever that surge of power was, we have to find it, who knows what it could do if it is left unchecked," Tyr said.
She caught their attention, because they looked at her, acknowledged what she said and everything, but that lack of interest was still looming, she had stopped and floated in the air and waited for them to catch up.
She was about to scold them about not taking this seriously enough, when they all felt that same disturbing wave of power that they felt at the palace, then they noticed how it was getting darker, not because the sun was going down, but there were clouds that were wrapping themselves over a massive area of space, the clouds were a dark gray, bordering on black, and they knew that wasn't good.
Tyr jerked her head to look behind her, she sensed the source was in that direction, so she took off leaving Tyren and Tai to catch up.
They had been flying for around ten minutes, Tyr frantically searching for that source, and seeing nothing, which worried her. Then all of a sudden the sensation of the source was gone, she stopped immediately, almost causing Tyren and Tai to fly right into her.
All three looked around, and now they were really worried, the clouds had not moved at all, and it was very silent, they knew that this was just the calm before the storm.
"Guys, I don't like this, something's wrong here." Tyr said, the other two agreeing.
Nothing could have prepared them for what happened next...
They saw that the clouds were swirling towards them, but the wall didn't seem to fade, they watched as the clouds flew around them, thinning and thickening all the while, they began to swirl toward one particular spot, forming a shape, indistinct at first, but then the shape became clearer, and it was growing tremendously in size, deepening their worry.
Finally the shape became clear as day, the clouds had taken on the form of a dragon, whose scales were black as night, and harder than diamond, the massive claws were definitely something to avoid, but the teeth weren't exactly safer looking, huge fangs protruding out his mouth, horns and spines sticking out its back, and on its head, this creature was the epitome of destruction.
The guardians looked on in shock, amazed at what a few clouds had formed, and they knew the worst was yet to come. However, the dragon didn't give them time to get over it...
It opened its massive jaws and let out an ear-piercing roar that snapped them out of their shock, and it rattled them to the core in the process. The dragon then lowered its head and gathered the dark energy of its aura and unleashed into thousands of black razor sharp spikes, and sent them flying at the guardians. They didn't have time to dodge them all, Tyr had one slice through her right arm and left side causing her to yell out in pain, while Tyren got hit across the face, and both legs, and Tai got three of them that slashed across his chest.
It happened so fast, that they didn't have time to counter attack, because the dragon was already gearing up for another attack, except this time, it was leaning its head back, and gathering a huge orb of energy in its mouth, guaranteed to have devastating effects.
The guardians however were going to fight back...
Tyr, although she was bleeding from her arm and side, she raised her right hand into the air, and said...
"I call upon the Egyptian God...Slifer the Sky Dragon!"
With that, dozens of blood red beams were emanating from her body and flowing into her right wrist where her red leather cuff burned away and the beams seeped into her tattoo of Slifer, causing it to glow, and then all the stored energy burst forth and began taking on the form of a creature of her own.
The shape of a long serpentine dragon began to emerge, bursting into flames, then scales red as blood shown through, the underside was black as infinite darkness, claws as sharp as knives and shown like silver, razor sharp spines ran along the length of it's back, it's massive wings opening to an amazing extent, then the head began to show through, two mouths filled with hundreds of dagger like teeth, one smaller set of jaws sitting upon another larger set, with two huge fangs pointing upwards near the back of his lower jaw, then a huge blue orb appeared on his forehead.
After Slifer had come forth, he wrapped around Tyr, protecting her, and upon looking at the Demon Dragon, his eyes began to glow with an intensifying rage and he thrust his head forward and roared with defiance, challenging the creature that threatened his master.
Tyren followed Tyr's example and did the same with his right hand...
"I call upon the Egyptian God...Obelisk the Tormentor!"
Ice blue beams radiated into his cuff, effectively freezing and shattering it, when his tattoo began to glow, and the massive form of an ancient giant began to show, skin deep and blue as the ocean, followed with bulging muscles that could destroy a city with a single punch, with huge claws forming on the hands and feet, and massive spikes protruding out of his shoulders. He then stood behind Tyren and let out a menacing growl, with eyes glowing with the same defiance as Slifer's.
Tai wasn't about to be left out of the fun, they hadn't summoned their Gods in ages, and he was thrilled despite all the slashes from before, so he too raised his right hand...
"I call upon the Egyptian God...Winged Dragon of Ra!"
Lightning began shooting out of his body, and focused into his wrist, zapping his cuff into dust, and then bolts of lightning shot out and began forming the last but not least Egyptian God.
The crackle of electricity rung through the air as the form of another dragon began to emerge, the very scales of this dragon were pure gold, hardened with the battles of the past, tremendously large wings, more than twice it's size were spread apart to harbor his blaze cannon which would gather any and all sunlight, and could deal devastating damage to its target, the claws and teeth, powerful as they are, were by no means as powerful as that cannon. Eyes glowing with an infinite rage threw his head back and roared with a voice as defiant as his fellow comrades.
All the Gods had been summoned and the guardians were ready, so after looking at each other and confirming that fact, all six roared with enough force to rattle the earth.
The Demon Dragon's attack has finally reached its peak, and threw its head forward unleashing a crushing beam of destruction, everyone scattered, they knew if they stay clustered together, it could wipe them out with one shot, so each guardian and their corresponding god took a spot cornering it.
Slifer unleashed a massive ball of fire from his jaws blasting the dragon in the back, causing it fall forward, then Obelisk took his shot, and flew under it, and gave it a deadly uppercut, then Ra flew above while it was distracted, and transformed into its Phoenix mode, where it was engulfed in the sun's light, and came crashing down at break neck speed, and slamming itself into the dragon with an earth shattering force.
The Dragon was roaring in pain by now, but it was not about to give up, since Ra actually made contact with it, it grabbed Ra by one of his wings and threw him into Slifer causing both to roar in agony, Obelisk went to attack, but all it came into contact with was the dragon's tail which whipped across his chest, causing him to roar in pain too.
The guardians were at a loss, the Egyptian Gods were getting torn apart, and there was nothing none of them could do about it.
"Guys, we need a different plan," Tai shouted over the confusion.
"What can we do? This thing is annihilating us, and it's not even trying!" Tyren said.
"Well, since we can't seem to destroy it, maybe we can at least seal it," Tyr shouted back.
"How?" Tyren and Tai asked.
"Look, we know how to make a gate to seal it, and now we know how to use the pharaoh's shadow magic to lock it, so let's try it." They agreed, it didn't take much time, they just had to have the gods distract it long enough so they could conjure it, but that was going to be easier said than done.
Especially when the dragon pushed by the gods and headed towards them, they didn't have time to react, as Tai was caught by one of the dragon's dark beams that was shooting out its body, and knocked away from the others, as he was falling, the dragon absorbed more energy into its mouth and fired it right at Tai!
Tyr and Tyren watched in horror as the attack flew at him, they knew even as powerful as they were, he wouldn't be able to survive that attack.
Tai was frightened out of his mind, he knew this was the end, there was nothing that could save him now, he closed his eyes and braced himself for the impact, even though he knew it wouldn't matter...
Even with his eyes closed, he saw an intense light shine before him, and the devastating blow never occurred, he opened his eyes and saw something he didn't believe,
Ra was still in his phoenix mode, but he protected Tai and took the hit, powerful as Ra was, even he couldn't take the force behind that attack...
Ra roared in pain, a sound Tai never wanted to hear again, it tore his heart apart watching as Ra was plummeting toward the earth, he sacrificed himself to make sure his master would live, and if it wasn't for Obelisk catching Ra, he would have kept falling, Ra was seriously injured, Slifer came and wrapped around Obelisk, and saw just how bad he looked, all Slifer and Obelisk could do was roar in anger, as Slifer attacked the dragon head on, alone.
Tyr and Tyren saw Tai and knew he was devastated with what he just witnessed, but they had to get that gate made so they could seal this creature, and save Ra.
Tai looked up when they came to him, and without saying anything, he began the spell, he wiped some his blood from his chest and drew a rune of power on the back of his left hand, while the others did the same, after they drew their respective symbols, they all held hands and began to glow as the power between them started to make them glow and their powers fused together, and shot upwards, piercing the wall of clouds, and the three symbols on their hands formed one by one to create a huge portal that would draw the dragon into it, and they would proceed to lock it and end this horrible battle.
Slifer saw what they were doing, and helped by flying behind the dragon, and blasting it in the back and flying head first into it, making it fall towards the gate, when the guardians were ready they looked toward Slifer and gave him the confirming nod, telling him to finish it, with that Slifer launched the most powerful fireball attack he could muster, knocking the dragon through the gate, and with a few egyptian chants, the gate closed and locked, then disappeared.
The gods disappeared and returned into the tattoos on the guardian's wrists, because they were drained of power, they had just enough to return to the pharaoh's palace, and the rest is history.
---end flashback----
Tai shuddered at the memory, he felt horrible for Ra getting hurt like that, but the past is over, and all he was doing was checking to see that the gate would still be intact like it had always been before...
Or that's what he thought...
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Oh my God! That is the longest I have spent on a chapter ever! But I am right damn proud of it, if I do say so myself, and I do! Leave reviews, they are much appreciated, I know you guys like it if you've made it this far