Hello, again. Hope I portrayed Kaiba realistically last chapter. He's going to play a pretty key role later on in the story.
Also, word of warning, this chapter, and the next, with be more on the dark/gruesome side. Bringing out two of the other three personalities Bella has in the whole incident with the Abandoned Dorm in the beginning of canon: Soul-Maul and Soul-Bell. More will be discussed about Bella's Multiple Personality Disorder afterwards. Not entirely when exactly when just yet.
Since I've been kind of forgetting about it, I've just decided to stop putting in the 'Chapter _:' in the title.
As for the disclaimer: If anyone thinks that I own anything besides the OC and the main idea, then I have no idea what your doing on this site. I don't own Yugioh GX or Fairy Tail.
I wonder if Archfiends bleed?
"...ol! You mi...d one!"
"The b...no conse..."
"He's ho...belief sh...still alive."
"Then I'...p my sche...Let her finish him."
"No! The only place he'll be able to have a proper chance at starting to find her is at Duel Academy. If he works hard enough there, he'll be sure to find someone that would be willing to help. I'll deal with Albert once he gets there myself."
"As you wi- hang on, she's awake. Just give me a moment."
BAM!
Thud!
"Geh!" exclaimed Isabella as her latest flashback sent her off the bed, startling most of the others in the room awake. "Bella!" Mavis cried after waking up enough to notice her "Are you alright? What happened?" "Another memory, just one that surprised even me. Some form of conversation between that bastard and someone else. It sounded like I was just waking up during it, right before He shot me in the FUCKING HEAD! But what surprised was when he mentioned Albert. With even my memories mentioning Albert, I really need to investigate him. Let alone his supposed connection to me." "Did your memory say anything else, like where we could start looking?" "...Yes. Duel Academy."
Just then, her PDA went off. Inspection turned up a message from Bastion, requesting a private meeting near the card shop to see about hiring The Angel of Darkness for a job after classes that day. "What do you guys think?" "Who knows? At the very least listen to what he says. If we're lucky, we might just end up with help in finding out about Albert." "Yeah, like Bastion, of all people, knows of him."
"I'm glad you decided to meet me, Bella." Bastion said as he watched Bella walk to him. "No idea why you want to hire me, Bastion, but that doesn't mean I can't hear you out." "All things considered, I'd wager you would have at least a bit more leniency to certain rules. Among other things." "What's it to you?" "Would you mind if we walk while we talk? It'll be easier to explain if I showed you the location."
"Now, if you don't mind, I need to go into a bit of a backstory and I would prefer if any and all questions wait until I'm done. It all started about 9 years ago...
It was the evening of my cousin's, Isabella, birthday. She and Albert are my cousin's via our respective mothers, by the way. Neither of them really cared about guests all that much, but I really wanted to be there with them. The three of us were pretty inseparable back then. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend. My parents were required else where, and I had to go with. To be honest, I don't recall what it was about. So I had to leave my present to her at their place and head on out with my parents.
It wasn't until we came back when we found out what happened. An officer had came over, and after confirming our identities, brought us over to the hospital. Upon arrival, we found Albert sedated in the ICU. We then discovered that while we were gone, someone had came in and 'crashed' the party, so to speak. According to Albert, he had called himself 'an old friend of the family' while my Aunt and Uncle didn't seem to think so. It quickly went from heated discussion to full argument to the man pulling out a gun and firing away. Albert was unable to move as he watched his parents get shot in front of him. When the gun was aimed at Isabella, he was able to react fast enough to try and push he out of the way. He got hit instead, resulting in him being knocked out cold. The last thing he remembered before darkness was his sister crying his name.
When he awoke later on, he found the place a mess. Nothing was left alone. Even he was under a pile of junk. Noting the wound in his arm, where he got shot, he worked his way onto his feet and took a proper look around. He was about to start calling out for Isabella when he discovered that instead of the bodies of his parents, there were three relatively open spots where trails of blood had begun.
Fearing the worst, he searched frantically for her. It wasn't until the police showed up that he actually stopped. Well, I say stopped, it was more grabbed by an officer and forced to stay out until the paramedics arrived. Unfortunately, for the officers, they had to keep a hold of him until the paramedics sedated him to be brought to the hospital without a problem.
Afterwards, when he was allowed off the sedative,he had to be restrained after he found out about Isabella being reported as dead. One of the blood trails was identified as her's.
...Even I had doubts that she was alive, but Al was relentless...
After he was left in my families care, he stuck himself quite heavily into engineering and robotics. Al wasn't planning on resting until he found his sister. He was that protective. To the point that we had trouble getting him out and about, let alone eating or sleeping. It wasn't until we met up with 3-Match-" "Wait, 3-Match? As in Abigail '3-Match' Tevaka? The singer who just needs to hear a song three times and match the song as though the original singer was there?" "That's correct. I had learned of a talent show with at least Kaiba attending for some reason. I thought that it might just be the thing to get Albert back to normal. He thought that he might be able to get Kaiba's help in finding Isabella.
Upon arriving to participate, we met up with another aspiring participant. Abigail dreamed of becoming a singer, but because of an accident, rendered unable to sing. However, a couple of days later, she had discovered something rather peculiar. After listening to a song, she tried singing, but could hear a bit of original singer. And the song wasn't playing. Experimenting a little, she learned that after listening to a song three times through, instead of her voice coming out, she sounded exactly like the song's actual singer. Including male singers. Upon learning of the talent show, she showed her parents and then asked if she could go.
Suffice it to say, both had gotten the attentions of the judges, among which was Kaiba. Unfortunately, Kaiba couldn't do much to help personally, but he was able to make it easier, seeing as he promised to start looking himself. Abby, on the other hand, due to her unique talent, was able to start part-time work to help the search. After all, you don't have to worry about anything such as lip singing if someone can sound perfectly for the song.
However, Kaiba was able to make it easier to set things in motion for Al to join the search by getting him into Duel Academy. Majoring in engineering, upon graduation, Kaiba could then hire him and work in tandem while showing Al's potential to the world.
...Unfortunately, not all that long in the year, he vanished after going to a supposed test in what's up ahead. The Abandoned Dorm." Bastion explained as they finally arrived at their destination.
And abandoned it was. Vines covered the walls, rusty gates chained together, faded colors throughout, and the windows and doors were a mess. "Are you sure it is just abandoned? Looks a bit more like quarantined to me." "Maybe, considering that in actuality, students are forbidden to even be this close to it. Originally it was called the Millenium Dorm, supposedly set on learning about the Millennium Items. But after the 'test,' it became like this, and no one really comes close anymore except for me and Alexis." "Blondie lose someone here as well?" "Her own brother coincidentally. Atticus Rhodes. However, she doesn't know about this meeting, so its just from me and Abigail. We would like your help in finding out what happened to the people who disappeared here, particularly Albert." Silence followed Bastion's request, then Lily says "Looks like Bastion was our best bet in learning about Albert after all." "Shut up, Lily. Anyway Bastion, I'll do it. In regards to payment, WE'LL be starting the search tonight. You're coming with me on this, got it?" "Whatever it takes."
"We got a problem. Jaden, Syrus, and a rather robust boy named Chumley have left for the Abandoned Dorm." "Seriously? What were those damn idiots thinking, going to a forbidden place without a contingency in case they're fucking busted. Ugh, come on. We might as well go ahead after them." "Do you think that someone should let Bastion know?" "Thanks for volunteering yourself for that, Happy. Now MOVE!"
"SOUL-LOCK, TRANSFORM!"
"SOUL-LOCK: GHOUL!"
(Outside of her appearance remaining relatively the same, switch the fire and lava with vapor and pale smoke)
With that, Happy went off to alert Bastion while Bella, Carla, Lily, and Mavis went off after Jaden and his friends.
Arriving at the Abandoned Dorm, the four notice Jaden and his friends encountering Alexis Rhodes and learning about her personal history with said dorm. "You're an idiot, Jaden. Next time, call me if you want to explore a place like this. Makes it easier to deal with assholes trying to get you in trouble afterwards." "ehehehehe... my bad." "Your lucky Bastion asked for our help." "Wait. Bastion lost someone here." "Albert." "Why would he-?" "Ask him when he comes over. Not my problem. At any rate, I'll be heading on in to start investigating." And with that, Bella walked in the dorm. But not before other four students saw something rather strange happen to her.
Normally, her stance and behavior showed more of a tomboy that doesn't really care about what you think of her. But at that moment, they could swear that her stance stiffened into something more akin to most Warrior-type monsters take. Also, even more surprising, her clothes and hair seemed to darken in color and yet brighter in hue. Almost like a weapon. Along with her hair looking like it actually grew a bit of a ponytail. Ultimately, all four of them were thinking the same thing: WHAT THE?!
*****(For the record, if a certain side of Bella is up for a long time, I'll switch 'Bella' out for whoever it is.)
"Where would you like us to start searching, Soul-Lock?" PatherLily asked after he, Mavis, Carla, and 'Bella' were in the dorm building. "You three, West side. I start north." she responded in an emotionless tone before moving to the north side of the building. Mavis just sighed before she and the two Exceeds went to the west to begin.
Heading north revealed the special classrooms that were placed in the dorm. Initial scans showed slight traces of DNA coming from a few spaced out around the hall. However, actual physical investigation only revealed a couple of pictures indicating a few of the missing students and the subject that was largely discussed there: the Millennium Items. Illogical. The past should stay in the past. There was no logical reason to revitalize a dangerous subject such as the Millennium Items. Soul-Lock thought. "Soul-Lock." Lily said as he came through the wall "We managed to find some things you should see. Room number 143." "En route now."
Turned out that Room 143 was actually the bedroom of their target while he lived at that dorm. Unfortunately, there wasn't really anything that made it easier to learn what happened to him. Just an picture that was most likely than not him and a few of his engineering designs. "Certainly looks like it could be him in the picture, seeing as it is pretty close to your own appearance." Indeed, only instead of green eyes and black hair, he had blue eyes and dark brown hair. But his facial structure was undeniably a lot alike to Soul-Lock, or rather Bella. Wearing an open version of the Obelisk uniform with reverse colors over a simple red shirt, he looked akin to a scientist that isn't afraid to get his hands dirty by staying in the lab.
"Anything else?" "Not in here, at least. We haven't quite check everywhere in this section just yet though." Just then, a female scream came out from outside. "What was that?" Carla asked before they heard Happy call out to them "Guys! Guys, where are you?" "Over here, Happy! What happened?" "Just as Bastion and I were arriving, this blonde girl by the gate to the dorm-" "Alexis." "-was attacked and captured by this big strange man and taken away! We weren't fast enough to stop him!" "Where's Misa-" "Bella!" "West side, Misawa. Happy briefed me on what happened. Did you identify which way Rhodes was taken?" "Yeah, the basement. There was a door outside of the gate that leads to there. Quickest way from here is on towards the north-east from here." Not wasting anymore breath, Soul-Lock swiftly left the room for the basement. Unfortunately, she froze in her tracks at what lay a little ways before the end of her path.
The cage was cast-iron with some rust spots here and there on it. A chain on the top lead up and out of sight. The lock was a dead-bolt made of solid steel. It stood at about 3 feet high and 3.5 feet wide. All that alone got her eyes to widen considerably. However, what made it worse for her was the light right above the lock turning on, the lock turning, and the door opening to two grappling hooks! AIMED STRAIGHT AT HER!
"NONONONONONONONO! STAY AWAY FROM ME! I'M NOT GOING BACK!" She cried out as she quickly attempted to run from it, conveniently forgetting about her ability to move faster than bullets. She wasn't fast enough. The hooks shot out and pinned her down. By then, the others had managed to get out of the room and saw the scene. While Bastion was confused about her reaction, the four spirits took one look and panicked. The Exceeds started flying around in a frenzy trying to find something to help Bella. Mavis went straight for the cage to find something that could be done on that end.
"Uh... what's go-" "BASTION MISAWA! EITHER FIND SOME WAY TO STOP THIS, OR TRY AND GET THOSE HOOKS OFF HER, DAMMIT! NOW!" Startled by Mavis loudly snapping at him, he ran over to Bella to try and pull the hooks off. For some reason, unfortunately, they weren't coming out. It didn't help that Bella's panic was making the others look stoic in comparison, thus giving him trouble in even getting a hold of them without Bella getting in the way. Forgoing the hooks, seeing as he wasn't getting anywhere with them, he switched to grabbing onto her hands and trying to get her attention. With her mind back in place, she would be able to take care of it herself.
Unfortunately, for all of them, the only reaction Bastion got out of Isabella was her frantically turning to him and saying "Don't let him take me! Please, don't let him take me back!" over and over again. Of course Bastion wasn't really able to say much in response, having to focus more on the hooks as they steadily reeled her in. However, luckily, this got them dragged by an open door frame. Reacting quickly, Bastion forced her to grab hold of it. This gave him freedom to focus all his attention on getting the hooks off her because they weren't moving anymore. But try as he might, they still wouldn't come off for some reason.
A few moments later, the hooks seemingly stopped moving altogether. Panting from the fear and stress of the situation, the six waited with baited breath to see if it would move again or stay offline. Tension grew as the result could go either way. About a minute or so passed before they finally started to calm down, seeing as by then it looked like the hooks were completely powered down.
"Well then, now that's over with," Bastion said "let's get those hooks off." He had to gently coax Bella to let go of the door frame first, though. However, just as she let go, and Lily said "Phew. That was close." the hooks suddenly came back on. Only this time they were at full power, which forced Bella into the cage faster than any of them could really react. All any of them could do was cry out before she was inside the cage, with the door locking and the cage lowering into the basement. With her guard down from the whole thing, she lost herself to unconsciousness upon being slammed into the cage.
Upon awaking, Bella quickly noticed of the cage she was in, barely even taking stock in Jaden, Syrus, Chumley and some other cloaked guy nearby with Jaden dueling the guy. Panic once again setting in full blast, only this time already in the cage, she alerted the others in the room to her conscious presence by ramming into the side of the cage with enough force to tilt it off one side. She heard some words being yelled out from multiple sources, but her panic kept her from hearing any of it. Although she did kind of find out what the lowest sounding voice said when she rammed the side again only to get electrocuted, forcing her to back away.
"Your not getting out of there that easily, girl." the low voice said, sounding awfully like the man that has haunted her nightmares for years. The laughter that came after was the final blow to Bella's already stretched thin mind. With one final charge, she broke out of the cage and landed in a heap about 5 ft away, breaking her arm in the process. This was also when Bastion and the four spirits showed up. Mavis just took one look at Bella and stated "We were too late. She's awoke." with a heavy head. The Exceeds, on the other hand, screamed loud enough for all the others in the room to hear as they flew and huddled in a corner shaking a sweating like their lives depended on it. Bastion and the others were only momentarily confused before they heard it.
A low chuckle, then steadily turning into laughter of the worse kind. Not like an insane laugh that you would find coming from a serial killer or mass murderer. It echoed in a haunted tone, without actually needing to echo around the cavern. Turning back to her, they discovered Bella being the source as she loosely propped herself up to a 'standing' position. Key term being standing since her arms hung in front of her, with one positioned in a rather painful manner, and her legs looked about ready to start shaking and give out from under her. Her head laying on her shoulder with an insane smile but completely dead eyes finished the picture.
Now no longer laughing, she 'looked' at all the people in front of her, and said in a sickening condescending high-tone voice (snapped Azula + Bellatrix in Hall of Prophecies) "Ooooh. So many toys. So many choices." When she noticed Mavis and the Exceeds, all they responded with was pointing at the cloaked man and say "He did it!" "Hehehe... looks like the Archie-fiefie toy is the draft pick. Tsk, tsk, tsk. Now would any of you toys mind telling me:
Do Archfiends bleeds?"
I should probably mention that when Bella 'powers down' from her transformations, she just wills it.
Also, in case anyone is wondering, Bella's MPD is based around the various ways someone could end up with their mind after experiencing what she has. Key words are italized.
Soul-Lock: monotone, emotionless, all-in-all a mindless weapon pretty much
Soul-Hunt: angry, impulsive, feral
Soul-Bell: timid, super-shy, quiet, all-in-all a brokenchild
Soul-Maul: plain and simply, a literal bloody psychopath (Harley Quinn + Bellatrix Lestrange + Snapped Princess Azula + Angry Chewbacca + 'dead' eyes)
Final note: Please let me know what you let think about this and what could help it be better next time.
