Author Notes:
Hello everyone, an idea that I had after re-watching Yu-Gi-Oh sub version.
It's been a long while since the last time I wrote something, and I erased a lot of my works, so I'm starting from scraps with tiny work, this is just a one-shot, I want your opinions, and hey maybe I'll grow more inspired to do an actual series out of this.
Enjoy and if you want review.
Until later
Being stranded in the helicopter for 30 minutes hadn't been so bad. Hearing Yuugi… Uhm the Pharaoh…
Mokuba shook his head, he was still trying to understand fully what was happening in there, he couldn't deny it like his brother did, or like he tried to feign it. Magic, and ancient spirit inside a puzzle, mind control, he wished he knew more about what was going on.
He still remembered what had happened in Duelist Kingdom, he had blackout shortly after seeing his brother, according to what Yuugi and company had told him later his soul had been sealed in a card; Not only his, his brother soul had followed the same fate.
He really didn't want to believe it but it had happened.
"Brother, we are nearing Domino Port" He should focus on what he knew, Jounouchi and Anzu were in trouble, Anzu had saved him, and that was his brother's excuse to search for Jou's duel disk and to help Yuugi.
Sometimes he wondered if his older brother was a tsundere…
Surely not, right?
Arriving at the pier had been easy.
Finding the loser dog, also easy.
Seeing his eyes, a dead as a fish, he couldn't believe it had affected him that much, but it had, those dead eyes it remined him so much of his own eyes before the defeat at Yuugi… no, at the Pharaoh hands when he had managed to summon Exodia with luck, during his last draw.
To think that, that event had left him in a 6-month coma, none could blame him if magic was one of the options in his mind.
After all that happened, the weird dream, building up the puzzle, that dragon, that supposedly was his heart piece by piece.
After he finished the crystal figure of his Blue-Eyes White Dragon he had woken up, or at least that's what it felt like to him, everything could have been subconscious after all he could be forgetting other dreams he had during his comma, ignoring everything but the memory of picking up pieces and building up.
"Follow me, to the death duel ring" the blond said, his voice empty, hollow, it didn't have any of its usual fire or even his rudeness, it was a polite emptiness.
Arriving at the area of the pier used for disembarking was not a sock, but it did bring back bad memories, memories of sleepless night suffering from the pain of monster constantly attacking, memories of building and contracting people to run his sick games, yes it did bring memories od Death-T, one of the many things you shall never speak in front of him.
The shackles and the anchor, Masaki under the container, it was all too similar to his most dangerous ideas, he wished he was dreaming again.
Ideas were being created on his mind, he could interfere but he was not quick enough to reach Masaki and even if he reached her the binding on her chair could take too much time to be removed, he could try to go for the Ghoul, but he was inside the cabin of the crane out of reach.
He didn't like this, this tournament was supposed to be different it wasn't supposed to include death, it was supposed to be a new future, dammit Marik, how dare he ruin everything.
The game had been going for a while already, turn after turn of burn damage through magic cards and monsters being destroyed, his partner had him switch places, he knew that it made sense, he had changed a lot in the last few months, changed since his trial with Shadi, since condemning people to immensurable pain like he had done with Kaiba, but he still couldn't lose, the very idea repulsed him even if the life of his best friend was in the line.
Maybe he should try to take over, win and quickly try to release Jounouchi from the chains, there were to many risks on that however, what if he couldn't arrive in less than 30 seconds, what if the key to the restrains were different from. During the fight against Pandora, it was lucky that the man had a second key in his sleeve that he had let go of and that allowed little Yuugi to release the mind-broken magician.
He didn't have a choice in the matter, he would trust his partner, they would awaken Jounouchi and then they would have an idea of what to do.
"Now I will play the magic card Exchange"
The voice of the younger was strong even with the sound of the ocean in the background.
"Bahahaha, what your hand is so bad that you need to change it vessel" the cold laugh was heard by everyone in place, Anzu kept trying to get away from her bindings while Seto and Mokuba remained immobile at the side of the pier, for the Pharaoh it keeps looking like a helpless situation.
The mind-controlled blond started to walk around the water towards the tricolor.
Yuugi only had one chance on this, but he would be ready to take control if necessary.
However, everything changed when the blond boy saw the dragon in his partner's hand, the spirit felt the shadows growing restless, as they did all those months ago in Duelist Kingdom, after Katsuya's duel against Ryuzaki when the blond had won the Red-Eyes B. Dragon from the brunet.
And later on during Jounouchi duel against Kaiba, and then during the final confrontation against Pegasus, he wondered briefly if maybe he was forgetting other events of the Shadows responding to the blond and the dragon card.
It was becoming a good day for Marik, his plans have going so well, even if the Pharaoh had Osiris, he would get it back, and then all the rare cards in the vessels' deck.
His revenge was finally at hand, 3000-years in the making, all his family it would finally be done. They had been waiting for so long for a death ruler that would never show up.
The vessel of the Pharaoh soul was really useless not only he had played exchange but now that the cards were visible to him, he could see it, Red-Eyes B. Dragon such a rare card, to get his hands on it, that card had so much potential, and so much powerful monsters associated with, Black Meteor Dragon and Black Skull Dragon were just the tips on the iceberg in the power that it could have.
"Now Katsuya, pick up the Red-Eyes B. Dragon" the hand of his puppet extends to the card nearing in an attempt to take it.
"Use it to completely destroy Yuugi life points and kill the Pharaoh and his vessel!" He felt a manic glee forming inside of him, finally, just a couple of plays to make.
Finally, the puppet hand touched the dragon and then… and then…
Marik felt it behind him, the land trembling, like getting dangerously close to a sleepy lion.
Getting too close to death.
He turned quickly, but there was nothing behind him, he was still on the yacht, only Rishid as a companion to his silence.
"Master Marik?" the other man asked, but he couldn't answer, his hold on the Rod tightened and he sharply turned back to the duel against the Pharaoh's vessel.
"Now Jounouchi, take the Black Dragon and kill Yuugi" he reiterated the order but the hand of the dueling teen was still only on the card, he seem to be struggling not being able to take at all.
The Egyptian man, current holder of the Millennium Rod blinked, once, then twice, by the time he blinked a third time he was no longer in the yacht, he was in the dark area of the mind, just outside the Soul Room, the area he used to alter the room and brainwash people.
*Roar*
He heard it around him, filling the normally silent place with noise, he turned around and saw Jounouchi, he was seated on the floor of his mind, hugging his knees, the golden light of the Eye of Anubis shining on his forehead.
Then he heard a crack, like glass breaking due to the heat.
He turned around trying to find the source of the noise.
*crack*
Once more, this time stronger.
*crack*
He eyes turned back to the other teen in the room, and there he saw it. In the middle of the symbol two very deep cracks, one at the top the other at the bottom of the eye the glow was also dimming it no longer seemed like a blinding light in the confines of this mind.
*crack*
The circle in the middle broke, and then he saw it, the warm amber-like eyes of the bleached blond in front of him changed, the darkened and a deep ruby color surged, like honey turning into blood.
He heard another roar, this time behind him…
So near him...
He felt a warm breath on his ear...
Rishid turned once more to his Master, he saw the ash-blond man completely still, he no longer was speaking and light seem to be coming out of the Rod in his hands.
He wondered if the duel between the two boys was so entertaining to him, they had chosen a location far enough to not be found, because of that Rishid was not really able to see the duel taking place, they could at most make out the silhouettes of the monster and of both players on the deck.
Rishid wondered if master Marik was cold, the man was trembling slightly he remembered telling him about the difference between the Egyptian and Japanese weather.
He turned away from his young master and tried to see the duel again, in the worst case he would end up facing the Pharaoh so he tried to see at least a bit of what his deck was composed of. He saw a red light coming from one of the sides of the field, seem to be from the Pharaoh's side and then he saw the red light moving…
Behind the Pharaoh!
An explosion soon followed and he felt the vibration from it all the way to where they were located and saw the smoke rise from the crane behind the duel, then another red light.
*boom*
*splash*
Another explosion this time soon followed by a heavy splash of water. Rishid eyes widened, this second event seemed to have happened in the middle of the field, why were those effects so realistic.
He knew that Kaiba Corp. Solid Vision System made the game dangerous, which is why the Duel Disk had safety measures on it but even then, it was limited to the power on the disks and the range of the holographic projectors, a burn could be felt a few second but no lasting damage could be created, even with all the safety measures down.
Unless a god card was summoned which was a completely different thing to what Rishid was seeing, after all the red light was now coming towards them at an alarming speed.
Anzu didn't felt afraid, there was smoke in the air, and heat, like being near an oven. No, it was something worse than that, it was like being near boiling lava.
Her eyes were watering due to the smoke but she was still able to see above her where the container used to be, then she direct her eyes to the anchor in the middle of the platform where Yuugi and Jounouchi were playing, it was also gone and it was smoking a lot, finally she saw the flames coming from a relatively far away warehouse.
Fire, real fire…
Smoke, real smoke…
Heat, real smoldering heat…
"Jounouchi-kun" the aura around the blond was dangerous, she often forgot that he used to be in a gang, that e had done deplorable things outside school, he always used to say, in the very early throbs of their friendship she had been warned, as there was no other word to describe that conversation, never follow him outside school as he still had business to fix before everything.
Now even if it was dangerous, she felt safe the black dragon had shot the fireball not only at Jounouchi's command but also during Yuugi's turn.
She had seen some crazy things, and this, this made her remember the pull she felt when she joined hands with Honda and Jounouchi when they were outside of Pegasus dark dome of energy, darkness, shadows…
She focused on Jounouchi eyes, and saw them with a brilliant deep red color, but more alive than ever.
End Notes:
Let me know of any glaring grammar errors please, English is not my first language so I want to make sure it is comprehensible as I don't have a beta for this, ok, thank you!