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Fandom: Yu-Gi-Oh GX
Title: To Banish The Devil
Characters: Saiou
Word Count: 395||Status: One-shot
Genre: Angst||Rated: PG-13
Challenge: 31halloween: prompt #11, devil
Summary: [one-shot, 31halloween, prompt #11, devil, Saiou] Saiou knew his fate. He couldn't change it. But perhaps there is someone out there who can.

Run. Run. Run as much as you please. You can't escape me, Saiou Takuma. You cannot escape your destiny.

Over and over the words echoed around Saiou. No matter where he turned, there rose the Devil, staring down at him with light all around it and laughter fit to freeze the marrow of his bones echoing. He stepped back, turning as he did, only to see it there once again.

"No!" He couldn't let this happen. This wasn't his fate!

Oh, but it is. Nothing can stop what is to come. No one can change destiny. You know that.

Saiou shuddered at the words, biting full into his heart. He'd tried before. Tried to save his next door neighbor's life when he'd seen death in the man's future. He hadn't wanted to believe it was inevitable. He'd wanted to help.

A fall from a ladder, a broken neck. He'd watched the other going up the ladder before, until the day he realized that was the day he'd seen.

"Come down from there! You're going to fall!" Saiou called, trying to get the man's attention. He succeeded; his neighbor looked over to see what the noise was.

His foot slipped. He tried to grip on the ladder, but to no avail.

He fell.

Saiou heard the sharp crack of his neck and all he could do was run, run away, seeing other visions, ones not born of his gift, but of his fear.

Murderer.

You killed him. It's your fault.

He shook his head; he hadn't wanted the man to die. He'd tried his best to help him.

But he died. It was your fault. You can't change what is fated.

Saiou dug his heels in at those words. Something about them clicked in the deepest part of his mind. "If I can't, then maybe I can find someone who can."

And in his mind, at those words, there rose two more images. One he recognized right away from his Tarot deck: the Hierophant. The other he didn't know, but he knew he was the Hierophant. And with it came a name: Edo Phoenix.

He can't help you. You're the Devil, Saiou Takuma. You'll always be the Devil. What can he do?

Saiou didn't answer. But he hoped against hope that this Edo Phoenix could help. For who could banish the Devil if not a Hierophant?

The End

Note: I originally posted this back in October 2012, but now am reposting these ficlets separately instead of as a collection, in order to have each listed under their proper character and rating.