Ottawa: And the insanity continues
Rye: And now for a random moment! *pulls out a clipboard and throws it at Ren*
Hao: …I'm not even going to ask
Yugi: Disclaimer and warnings apply!
"Why the hell did we retreat?" Yohmei demanded of Ottawa.
"I do not want deaths at this point in time, mortal. I have enough headaches as is." She replied, eyes flashing dangerously black for a moment.
"We let them make us look like fools by retreating with our tails between our legs." Mikihisa growled.
"Hao, would you please explain it to him?" Hao glared at her, interrupted in the middle of a tender make-out session with Yoh. When he saw that she was serious he shifted Yoh on his lap so that he could face his father and grandfather better. He pointed to a chess board with all the pieces in place on the table nearby.
"A battle is like chess. You have your pieces, and the other side has theirs." He said. "You both have a goal in mind and both must try and strategize on the fly when the opponent does something unexpected."
"Get to the point please." Yohmei growled.
"You do have ways of tricking your opponent into doing what you want them to do." Hao went on. "If the opponent is overeager, a retreat will embolden them, and give them cause to jump into you territory."
"You're getting them to bring the fight to us." Bakura guessed. Hao nodded.
"And so they can slaughter us in our own home." Mikihisa grumbled.
"It's Rye's home, you're all just guests here." Ottawa stated. "And we've got our own allies assembled around this house, we have our own forces that they don't know about."
"So we turn the tables on them." Kino said excitedly. "Wonderful planning!"
"It was all Hao and Atem, to tell you the truth. Like I said, not much for battle tactics." Ottawa said. "We've allowed them to find this place, or at least the aura around it. All we have to do is wait for them to take the bait and we're all set."
"And we'll take them down?" Marik asked. Ottawa closed her eyes and when she opened them again they were completely black, pupils, irises, whites, all glowed with a black light. It didn't sound possible, but there they were.
"This will be our last stand, the battle to determine the future." She whispered. She blinked and her blue-grey eyes returned. "Whatever you do, leave the little demi-goddess to me. I have to repay her for all the poor, crying souls that she has sent me."
Mikihisa and Yohmei fell silent then, not sure how to handle this.
"And what is so special about that Rye girl? She abandoned us!"
Luke stood up and slammed his fist into the table, startling everyone in the room. The man never let his temper flare that quickly before.
"Listen here you useless bag of bones! Rye didn't abandon us! She's buying us time! And you are wasting it by picking at us for every little detail! Get over your pigheadedness! You want Hao's head on a platter! Then FUCKING WAIT!" The room shook with the shouted command before Luke closed his eyes and calmed his temper, his ears and tail appeared and were currently twitching the air in anger.
"Lu, chill... all we need now is for your temper to cause the pillars to weaken even more..." Izzy soothed, still laying on the cot and reading a book.
"Oh, look at the lazy brat! You tell him to 'chill' and yet you are lazing about!"
"For your information douchebag, I'm still recovering... that fucking bitch, Minne got me pretty good in the side when I kept her from killing Lyserg."
"You-"
"Finish that sentence and I am telling Rye." Izzy cut Luke off before he could say more.
"Hn." He sulked. Really if the brat had more faith in his friends, one he wouldn't be kept separate from them and Luke would like him a bit, sure the kid was whiny and friggen green, but at least he could tolerate him a bit more.
Ottawa shook her head and looked up when Travis walked in, Kia and Aly with him and even some people no one's seen before.
"These are the Elders of the Fiend Tribe loyal to Rye... Dante's currently harassing Hades for Rye's pet." Travis said.
"Lady Death." Kia bowed her head and Ottawa did the same, smiling at the younger being.
"Kia. Aly why not go find a room to rest in? We'll be here for a while and you don't need to hear what these bakas have to say." Ottawa said and Aly nodded, she turned and wandered out the room with Pippin on her shoulder to keep her company. Suddenly two voids opened in the ceiling and Clover dropped out of one and Shade from the other.
"We got some Fire power!" Clover cheered, spinning in place before he ran over to Izzy and huggled him. "Mr. Cuddles!"
Shade rolled his eyes as he looked at Travis.
"Nightmares and other dream demons are at the ready..." He told him.
"Good... How's that potion Rye gave you working?"
"It'll wear off in while. Hopefully by then we'll be in battle and I can feed." Shade said, smiling seductively.
Ottawa nodded before she told the Hikaris, Kino and Keiko to leave the room so the Yamis and the others could start planning. Yoh, Ren, Jun and Clover were kicked out as well, protesting for moment before sighing. Clover told the group of Hikaris and co. to follow him. He walked the maze like halls before finding Aly standing before two black wooden doors. He smiled and pushed them open to show them the room.
"Welcome to the Cradle of Life..." He said as they stepped into nothing.
There was no floors, no walls, just endlessness. Colors, elements, raw materials that made up the universe floated all around them. Clover smiled before he got a brilliant idea.
"Since they want to be jerks and not include us in the plan. Let's make one of our own! Aly, dear, hit that or over there with this." Clover gave her a crossbow and pointed to a dark purple orb that seemed to just stand still.
She did as he asked and she fired. The massive release of magic shocked the whole 'room' and beyond. When everyone looked around to see what happened, they gasped to see that the endless nothing below them turned into images of the Divine realm and well, seeing Rye with her head on the chopping block wasn't something they wanted to see.
"Relax... These trials take ages... especially if Rye's purposely annoying the daylights out of them... See, there's my granddaddy! Shenron! He's one of the few gods who knows Rye wouldn't steal something she risked her life to get. She knows how dangerous it is and even as a joke she wouldn't put the realms into danger like this."
"So why do they think she did it?"
"Because only Rye and Anubis himself have access to the Eye... Anubis wouldn't touch it even if you made him the ultimate God of Gods. The Eye is too dangerous and unstable. Rye frequently goes to check on it and make sure that nothing has disturbed it or anyone didn't foolishly touch it... If anyone were to pay any attention to Rye, they'd see that she wouldn't stupidly steal it knowing that moving it without sealing its powers could cause a massive blackhole that would eat the Universe and then itself. That would cause a chain reaction and it would blow up and there would be nothing once more."
"That's scary..." Yugi said.
"Yeah it is... I just hope they realize that soon because killing Rye would be the biggest mistake ever... she and Ottawa are the only ones powerful enough, together, to stop the black hole from forming and reverse all this damage..."
"Then we better hope that they realize it soon... That Odin guy looks like he wants to get rid of her for more than just the Eye."
"Well... see the scar on his face?"
"Yes. What of it?" Ren asked.
"Rye ripped his eye out and fed it to her fiends when he tried to force her into mortal form and wed her so her powers and immortality would combine with his." Ottawa's voice scared them as she walked in, the others behind her. "So what are you planning Clover? Seeing as you are the brains in this group."
"See this room?" Clover asked the mortals.
"What of it?" Yohmei snarled.
"..." Clover's smile fell into a line and he closed his baby blue eyes. "There is no need to be so rude."
"I am sick of this nonsense! This woman wants the enemy to be on top of us before we attempt to make the first strike and that other woman has left us high and dry! Now you are spouting nonsense-"
"RYE!" Luke's voice echoed and they all looked down to see Odin bring his Axe down on Rye's neck...
Ottawa: That is a bitch place to end it.
Rye: FTW!
Dante: I had to! I just had too!
Ottawa: ... I hate you people sometimes.
Clover: So mean, Danny!
Dante: Bite me... Reviews please!