Author's Note: O_O Oh boy….somebody screamed. What's gonna happen here? And what if Sarah can't keep balance? (You'll find out what the hell I'm talkin' about in this chapter.) Happy reading! ^^
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Legendary Heroes-A Virtual Gaming World Gone Bad Chapter 32
The group and I were running out to the balconies of the castle where we heard the shout of help from. Mokuba, Edina, and her caretaker were out there looking over the railing with frightened looks. The villagers of the kingdom were huddled into the courtyard below for safety of the on coming attack.
Attack of what? Well, when everyone reached Edina's side, we found a shadow dark looking castle start to appear in the sky. The clouds forming it were shadows of evil. It looked pretty malignant and horrifying, I thought Kaiba went in over his head, but all of the terrible faces we saw in the shadows, must have just been the shadows themselves. The clouds surrounding the castle and its darkness were dark grey, signalling a storm.
Either way, the thousands of Duel Monsters coming out of it still scared me shitless.
"They're coming this way!" Joey shouted from my right. I looked to the Princess for orders of any kind when I noticed both her and Mokuba standing side by side near the railing. Edina's eyes looked….different.
"Let's just hold them off!" I shouted back, over the noise of wings and screeches coming from the monsters. I pulled a card off from my deck and held it up into the air. "Dimensional Alchemist!"
"My turn now!" Mai repeated my actions. "Dark Witch! Help us out!"
When both our monsters appeared onto the white, brick floor beside us, they shot off the railing and fly into the mass of monsters. They easily beat everyone in their way, but there was just WAY too many of them for those two alone to handle. We needed more help.
"Call back your monsters." Yugi said suddenly. Mai and I looked at him blankly. "Call them off, I have a plan."
We both hesitated, but reluctantly called back our monsters. Yugi took off a card from his own deck and shouted its name. "I'll use Dark Hole to just get rid of them all, all together!"
"Great idea!" I said, impressed.
But suddenly my Locket glowed. My eyes grew wide with fright as I rose my eyes to look at the castle rooftops. Without even hesitating, I jumped in front of Yugi, making him lose the grip on his card, and placed my arms over my eyes to keep the weapon from hitting me. A streak of silver shot down from the sky and it pinned Yugi's card to the floor. I felt a burning sensation on my arm and when I finally removed them from my eyes, I found Yugi staring at me in shock and everyone else looking at the card. I looked at the back of my right arm and found a clean, straight, slash that started bleeding just the slightest. The kunai must have done this when it was going for Yugi's card. At least it was me and not him…..that's the whole reason I jumped in front of him.
"It's a Strike Ninja!" Mai shouted, pointing to a figure dashing from shingle to shingle.
"He's probably here to get the Princess!" I said, ignoring my arm and Yugi's expression. He was completely dumbfounded as to why I would do that, but I didn't want to explain anything then. It was either card and him, or the card and me. And I chose the second option without even wanting to think. "We have to keep her safe!"
But the Strike Ninja was too fast. He was already above Edina's head and when he was in close range, he threw a net over her. Edina fell to her knees in the net as it encased her. The ninja was about to run off with her when Joey activated his own card.
"Axe Raider! Cut her loose!" Axe Raider appeared into the action with Kunai with Chain in hand. He swung it expertly toward the neck of the net and cut the threads held by the Strike Ninja. Joey was about to catch the now falling Princess when another Duel Monster, this time with wings, caught the net in its beak and began soaring toward the castle. The villagers and Edina's caretaker cried out in horror.
Mokuba, who was also wearing armour, fell to his knees. "No…." he whispered, but his voice was oddly different. "They've taken him, they've taken Mokuba…."
"What?" I asked confused. Then I looked a little more closely. Those eyes….
"Princess Edina!" I said in shock. She was ok! But then….who was….
"You're alright!" Edina's caretaker said sounding so very thankful.
"But Princess," Mai said. "If you're here then who…."
Edina covered her eyes with her hands and slowly began to cry. I slowly knelt down beside her and wrapped my not-so-hit-left arm around her shoulders. "It's all my fault." she sobbed. "Mokuba thought he could go in place of me so we switched clothes. But he was so brave and I was so scared, I didn't know what to do. He said he wanted to see his brother."
"So you let him go as you." I said, now realizing why Mokuba's eyes looked a bit light than normal. They were Edina's this whole time. "So now he's in the castle."
"And it's all my fault." Edina said again.
"Princess, Mokuba's caring. He didn't want you in danger." I said to her, hopefully making her understand that Mokuba wanted to help.
Edina didn't want to stay scared. So she forced herself to nod and stand back to her feet. I brought her over to her caretaker who held the Princess close.
"Well guys," I started, turning to face the rest of the group with my hands on my hips. "We have two Kaibas to save now, so let's get a move on."
"Look!" Joey suddenly exclaimed, looking over the railing and pointing to the ground. Everyone else looked over curiously. Beside the courtyard, there was barren land. And on that barren land, was a white outline of a bird.
"That must have been uncovered by the storm." Mai observed. I looked over at Yugi to wonder why he had gotten quiet. Oh wait….
"That looks a lot like the flying machine from the painting Lady Edina showed us earlier." I said. Then I waved everyone toward the stairs. "Let's go check it out."
When we reached the little bit of rocky terrain, I found the ruins of houses along the perimeter.
"Looks like an old village." I said, holding my chin with my right hand, the arm showing the now dried up blood from the kunai Strike Ninja threw. "This must have been where Princess Edina's kingdom first started but then they moved it over."
"Nice work, Sherlock." Joey said. I didn't want to glare.
"The ruins look worn." Mai said next and she shot a glare at Joey to stop him from teasing again. "The flying machine might not even be able to start working once we did it up."
"Who knows if it still even works…." Joey muttered, watching a scorpion skittle by. XD
I wrung my brain for an answer, but all I got was to turn back time and let the flying machine be rebuilt-
"How about Joey uses a card." Yugi finally said, after a long while of silence. I knew everyone was still shocked in the back of their minds at what I did. How I knew what was going to happen before it did. And why I risked my life for the kunai to hit my arm instead of my heart, or another vital organ. Well…..I promised Yugi I would tell him, but now wasn't the time, and I was never going to forget that promise. I want him to know, but I also want it to be the right time. So far, everyone's let go of it, but looking into Yugi's eyes, I knew he was still so very curious.
"Huh?" Joey said intelligently, he blinked a couple times for good measure.
Something clicked in the back of my mind again. "Right!" I cried. "You have a card that can help! And if I'm not mistaken, someone special gave that to you!"
"…..Lucky Strike?" he asked, remembering the card I gave him before all this mess even started.
I blushed. "N-no…." I said. "The one someone ELSE…..special to you gave." I'm special?
Suddenly Joey's eyes widened with realization. "Oh!" he cried, ripping a card from his deck. "Time Wizard!"
As if on cue, the Time Wizard clock appeared into the air. He raised his arm into the air and the staff in his hand began spinning….backwards. If he could speed up time, then he cold go back in time too.
Slowly, minute by minute, time went back a hundred years at a time. All the ruins of houses began to form back into what they looked like a thousand years ago. Even the outline of the flying machine became brighter.
When everything was rebuilt, and looking brand new, Time Wizard disappeared. We looked around in awe.
"I wonder if I touch something, it'll just break." I said, eyeing a dirt building to my left. I seem to have done that in magics school when I first began learning. I'd make something out of ice and then when I would touch it, it would shatter. XD
"How are we going to dig up the machine?" Joey asked, ignoring my random remark. But the ground beginning to quake underneath our feet solved our problems.
The outline or a bird now bared a giant crack the size as wide as a truck. All the rock became ragged and began jabbing up in random places. Then something rather large and wooden flew, yes flew, out from underneath the ground. It erupted through the ground bringing us on it. When all the dust and rubble finally calmed, we looked at our surroundings.
We were on a gigantic, wooden. The flying machine.
"Our heroes have uncovered the ancient flying machine!" Edina cried in surprise and happiness. Then the villagers all began cheering.
I was the first to start blinking when I saw where I actually landed. On the flying machine. Holy crow…
"Blink….blink…" I said, blinking as if it was casual. Mai hugged, and nearly strangled, Joey behind me.
She shouted, "You did it!" and Joey blushed slightly saying, "Nyah! Get off me!" xD
Then a bright ball of light flew up toward us. It spun around Yugi's head before settling down in his hair.
"Looks like Iru wanted to come too." Yugi said, smiling. I laughed.
The flying machine hovered. Joey finally released the thankful grip of Mai's and quickly made his way to the front of the ship. "I call flying!" he cried, grinning foolishly. He spun the pirate ship-like wheel to the right to send the ship turning to the right. The crowds below us kept cheering as we started heading for the clouds.
Joey was driving the machine, carefully, to the Dark Castle. Mai stood next to him, on the lookout, while Yugi and I were hanging around in the middle of the ship. After all that excitement, it was good to have a few minutes to at least rest.
I leaned against the railing with the my elbows on it. Yugi came up beside me and when I looked up, his eyes showed questions.
"Why did you do that….back there?" he asked, motioning with his eyes toward the route we just left from the castle. I sighed and looked down at my hands.
Then I looked at the Puzzle. "I had to." I merely said. "I'm supposed to. I can't let anyone get harmed. Just because I said I was the spirit's Guardian, doesn't mean that I can't help you."
Yugi let that sink into his mind, before he asked another question. "So you would risk your life for the spirit? And for us?" he asked.
I nodded. "It's….all part of being a Guardian. The root word is 'guard'. So I have to 'guard' you." I said. I hoped that made sense.
Yugi looked down thoughtfully. "Oh…" he said. "I mean, you're arms' bleeding and all. I was so shocked when you suddenly appeared in front of me."
"It would have hit you hard." I said. "I couldn't let that happen. You're my friend."
The questionable look disappeared from his eyes, and what appeared in them instead was gratitude. "Thanks, Sarah." he said, a smile forming on his lips.
"It's no problem, really." I assured. I repeated the smile.
Suddenly Joey's yell brought us out of our conversation. "Duel Monsters heading our way!" he shouted over to us. I looked over Yugi's shoulder to see hundreds of monsters flying our way.
"Good lord…." I groaned and swung my arms off from the railing. "Ready Yugi?" I asked, looking over to him with my hand on my deck. He nodded and did the same.
"I summon Dimensional Alchemist!"
"I summon Dark Magician!"
Mai held up her own card. "And I summon Harpie Lady!"
Our three monsters flew toward the front of the machine and began attacking the on coming army. There were still a lot of them, but our own warriors destroyed most of them. But when my back was turned, I didn't notice one of the monsters heading straight for my head with its talons outstretched.
"Sarah! Behind you!" It sounded like Yugi who yelled out to grab my attention.
Upon hearing, right when the talons were millimetres from my hair, I quickly turned around and swiped a kunai right through the monster's torso. It gave out one final squawk before materializing.
I swung one of the kunai in my hands and watched Yugi's blinking with a smirk on my face. Then I pocketed it and said, "Thanks man. I never leave the house without these. So it's good to use 'em." Truth was, they came with the armour.
Yugi merely shook his head amused, or thankful I didn't get hurt.
Then it was my turn for my eyes to widen. Another monster decided to try its luck with us humans. A Duel Monster that looked like a half-lion half-bird combination was heading straight for Yugi. It was my turn to shout his name, and before I could even start running at him, the lion-bird took one swing at Yugi and my heart nearly dropped right out of my chest.
Dark Magician came up from behind and destroyed the monster. Then he stood by his summoner in concern. I ran up to him, worried.
"Yugi, are you alright?" I asked in concern. I cursed in my mind for not hurrying.
Yugi kneeled down with his hands held up. My eyes widened when I saw what he was holding.
"Iru…" he said sadly. I felt my own tears start to sting my eyes, but for Yugi, they came and fell down his cheeks. "Iru, no….say something."
The little fairy did its best to give Yugi a smile, but after using the rest of its energy to muster one up, it began to disintegrate, until Yugi was holding air and sadness.
"No." he said, his voice barely above a whisper, "She's been digitized….after taking that hit for me…."
Mai and Joey stood aside, with saddened looks in their eyes. Joey kept steering while Mai looked away.
His empty hands now clenched and his eyes finally letting loose all the tears onto his leather gloved hand. Then Yugi shot up from his kneeling position, shouting, "I've had enough!"
Suddenly, a light from his Millennium Puzzle began to glow and there stood Yami. I kinda took a step back out of hastiness. He had come out all of a sudden….
"Charge ahead, Joey!" he ordered. Joey immediately listened and turned the machine back on course from when the Duel Monsters attacked.
Unexpectedly, the nose of the machine hit an invisible wall, but I was the first to notice what it could have been.
"It's the magical barrier!" I said.
"Don't worry." Yami assured. (When its Yami, I say Yami. Same with Yugi. Unless I say otherwise. XD)
"Right." Joey said now, pushing the machine into the barrier. "Then if this machine holds up to its legend, we'll go right through."
Indeed, after a few moments of the nose of the machine piercing into the barrier, we made it through. I thought we were home free now, but when I saw another band of monsters come this way, I didn't even hesitate to call up my monster.
"Dimensional Alchemist!" I said in a sing song voice. "I need you again man." He appeared beside me in a moment's noticed. When he nodded, he flew off to hunt every monster down. Yami's Dark Magician and Mai's Harpie came up from behind their own summoner and began taking on the assault.
Then came Yami's call again, but this one, I didn't really have enough time to react to.
I was standing right by the railing, watching my Dimensional Alchemist fight his way through everything, when Yami called my name.
"Sarah!" he yelled. "Watch out!"
I didn't have enough time to grab a kunai from my pocket. I only got to turn around and see my attacker. The giant half-bird half-lion combo came back and this time, it succeeded on its attack. I let out a scream as its talons ripped at my collarbone. In a sudden attempt to get away, I took a step back, but the railing hit my hip and I went over it, sending myself completely off the machine.
Everybody yelled my name this time and when Yami ran over to the railing in an attempt to catch my fingers, mine merely brushed his. The only thing I could do was watch the machine getting smaller and smaller and Yami's terrified face at what just happened.
Unbeknownst to me and the group right now, my Locket was lying on the floor of the machine.
Author's Note:
By the way….do you guys have your fingers crossed? Because maybe I WILL be able to finish this part of the season! Wouldn't that be cool? HELLS YEAH! That'd be a huge accomplishment for me! But we'll see….because now…I have a busy Thursday.
-.- All the best for luck! xD