Disclaimer: I do not own the rights to any of the Yu-Gi-Oh characters. However, the fantasy world and the OCs are mine. This fanfic contains strong language, violence, and sexual content.
The Story's rating is now M for obvious reasons.
Update: April 22, 2022: Thank you for the guest for your input. I apologize if the story feels like a slog. Talking to a few of my friends, they've agreed there were some elements to the story that didn't help move it forward. I tried to be like George RR Martin with his genius way of telling multiple stories in one but it appears I have much to learn before I do anything like that. If you enjoyed Avi's POV, you can find her tale in a separate story called The Summoner of Dragons.
Bakura's Report
And so they've brought him at last. I watched them as they delivered the boy to the doorstep of the orphanage. Yugi and all of his little friends have come to say goodbye to the prince. The best part about all this is...they have not a clue that I'm here. No doubt Yugi and his friends believe that I was killed in the battle of Karad-Antha after the boy destroyed Anubis in his sleep. Our mission to destroy the Celtra and the Eyar was a success, but its thanks to that boy in that bundle that I am here in this plain and boring world. But I wonder what madness would have driven them to put Prince Daveed in there.
An orphanage? Yugi. You are such a naïve fool. So many families on this island with great wealth to match that of many of the kings of our world, and you put the Prince of Termnnia in an orphanage. While I can see the intent in this little scheme; putting Daveed in a place where the Sisterhood would least expect it and then pray a family takes him and disappears, there are a lot of flaws in this little flim-flam. I've already exploited it. Hopefully, Denethon and his girls don't find out. He is so wrong. Killing the boy would be a tragic waste.
There is great power in him, why can't he see that? That power was devastating enough to have killed our supposed 'invincible' leader, Anubis. Perhaps, with a little influence, I can get the boy to come with us. That will be hard to do, considering Denethon's assassins are scouring the dimensions looking for him. Marik can only hold them back for so long. Our Millennium Items are strong, but I fear they are no match for the power of an Eyar. While Marik hides the boy's presence from the Sisterhood, I will do what I can to watch and raise him in my own way.
Yugi has failed to see that he practically delivered the prince to me on a silver platter.
The Dream
A veiled and vast chapel awaited him at the end of a long and gloomy hallway of ancient stone. The dank air rang with a mysterious unseen choir, singing an eerie tune as the young man marched through the darkness towards the dim, pale light that beckoned him. His footsteps echoed in his ears, though drowned out by the everlasting hymn. On small displays, candles flickered revealing mosaics of various Duel Monsters from his deck. The hem of his armored black coat swayed dramatically at his heels and the chains that hung around under his neck jingled. He passed by small nooks, which housed lonely wooden pews lined the length of the hallway. The floors of black and white tile were finely polished. Stained glass windows, lit by an eerie blue light outside, lined the hundred-yard chapel.
There were figures painted on them. People the boy knew from his life, and there were some faces which he had never seen before. The characters in the windows were frozen in mysterious poses with the best monsters from their decks behind them in majestic and battle-ready stances. Black pillars formed a line down the length of the chapel. The rib vaulting of the ceiling above was intricately designed yet it was too dark to see.
The boy stopped when he saw a figure, dressed in the same coat as he, standing five yards away. He was waiting for him. A pyramid-shaped object made of gold hung around his neck. "Your Grace," said the figure, removing his hood. His eyes were a rich shade of amethyst. He had blond crooked locks forming the fringe. The rest of his hair was spiked. They were black in color with magenta rims. When the hood went down, his wild hairstyle bounced free.
"Why do you call me that? I am not a King," the boy said, keeping his hood down. Only his chin and the pink of his chapped lips could be seen.
Yami smiled warmly when the young man he so longed to meet stepped out of the shadowy hallway into the chapel at last. "I'm not so sure of that," said Yami with a smile. His narrow eyes were focused and full of determination. A determination to get through to his guest.
What he knew about the boy in front of him was of the gravest importance. But the boy was too agitated to care, let alone listen to what he had to say. The hooded boy took a dominant step forward and balled his fists. The leather of his gloves screeched in agony. "For as long as I can remember, all you've done was pester me. You've bored me with your rhetoric. All this crap about my past. And my future as some High King. Why?"
Yami bowed. "It's almost time for you to come home, Prince Daveed. Soon, it will be time to face your destiny." He buried his hand into a compartment in his cape. As quickly as he put it in, he pulled it out and furiously tossed a golden crown at Daveed's feet.
Daveed scoffed and kicked it away. "I don't want that."
"YOU HAVE NO CHOICE!" shouted Yami, furiously stomping his foot on the ground. "Damn it, Daveed. I knew much damage to you has been done, but I did not expect this! What has he done to you?"
"Who?" Daveed asked with a chuckle. He was as still as a statue.
"Bakura!" Yami shouted. He extended his arm, holding out his hand. Slowly, he turned his wrist, his fingers curving toward him into a fist. "I know you've seen him. I can see your heart clouded in darkness. You have lived a perverted life because of him. I should have known keeping you hidden was too easy."
Another cold and defiant scoff escaped Daveed's lips. "Bakura? He's just a figment of my imagination. Just. Like. You."
Yami gritted his teeth and balled his fists. "Daveed..." he growled.
"Stop calling me that!" The stranger shouted, waving his arm vertically across the air to silence him. "I'm only going to say this once...Spirit. Whoever the heck you are. Go away and leave me alone. Let me dream in peace!"
"You cannot hide from your birthright," said Yami. "Sooner or later you're going to have to come to grips that you are not part of this world. You belong to us. With your people. As High King!"
"Go away."
Yami let out his frustrations with a deep and sorrowful exhale. He still felt as though his heart was knotted up in his chest. "I'm going to have to get through to you one way or the other, Prince Daveed!" Yami held out his arm. An arcane circle glowing purple with a tinge of magenta formed over his wrist and spun slowly over it. Yami breathed out his nose sadly. He opened his eyes to look at the cloaked boy. "I have tried. But the darkness in you is too strong. You cannot become king behaving like this. Perhaps your future servants will do a better job than I in waking you from the madness Bakura has inflicted upon you."
Prince Daveed smirked and held up his right arm. "You sure you want to do this?" An arcane circle of beautiful design and blue in color appeared over his forearm. "This may be just a dream, but it's my dream. I can make anything happen, you know?"
"It's Time to Duel!" shouted Yami.
"You first...Master," sneered Daveed.
"I won't be taking you on alone," said Yami.
His image seemed to vibrate violently. From his body emerged a little boy. He looked just like Yami, just shorter and younger.
"Yugi?" Daveed gasped.
"We'll pull through for you," Yugi said. "One way or another. We will cleanse you of the darkness inside of you."
"DUEL!"
LP 8000
Yami drew a card from out of thin air. It appeared as gold light but then materialized into a physical card. "I'll begin first! I activate Dark Magic Circle! Next, I place four cards face down and end my turn."
"My turn," said Yugi. "I play the spell Advanced Ritual Art! I send a Dark Magician from my deck to the Graveyard to Ritual Summon the mighty Magician of Chaos! Oh, and I'm not through either, Daveed; for I use another Ritual called Chaos Form to summon the Magician of Black Chaos MAX!"
Daveed grimaced at the sight of all those powerful magicians and took a step back.
Yami chuckled. "Looks like the odds are against you, Daveed. What can you possibly do to get out of this situation."
Yugi smiled. "I don't think he can, Yami. He's too weak. He can't even remember his own heritage. And getting possessed by a total creep like Bakura? Ha! I expected a lot more from the Song from the Divines."
"Shut up!" shouted Daveed.
Yugi smiled "Did I touch a nerve there, Daveed? I place a card face-down and end my turn."
"It's about time," Daveed said impatiently. "Draw!" He examined his options. Daveed looked up from his hand at Yami and Yugi, then grinned. "I discard a Dinosaur to Special Summon, Two-Headed Kaiser Rex in attack mode!"
The two-headed beast burst out of the ground and stood proudly over Daveed. The silvery hair flowing from the back of their heads flowed in the breeze. They roared and snapped their long tail around. The ax-blade at the end of it was thirsty for blood.
ATK/2400 DEF/1800
"Now, I use Amber Fusion, this card allows me to fuse dinosaurs from my hand or deck to conjure any dinosaur-type Fusion monster I want. So I'll be fusing Uraby and Trakadon together to form the mighty Troodon!"
The two raptor monsters appeared beside him. One was dark brown with black tiger stripes. The other was blue, striped with lime green. A vortex appeared behind them and sucked them both in.
Out from the vortex jumped out a raptor with shiny, gray, scales and black tiger stripes. The scales faded to black on its claws and feet and the tip of the tail. Its arms, back, and tail were adorned with black and blue feathers and was crowned with two black horns on its head. It hissed, letting out a long black tongue. Troodon's teeth and claws shined brightly in the sunlight. Its neon blue eyes were like fire, burning into Yami and Yugi's souls, finding the fear deep inside and burning it out. It was a monster he had never seen before. He wondered what it would do.
Troodon
ATK/2800 DEF/1600
Daveed held up another card. "Finally, I play Gift of Melodia which lets me draw a card for each dinosaur on my field and in the Graveyard. So that's four cards for me. If I had six or more Dinosaurs, I could have drawn six cards. Hmm. I place a card face-down and attack Yami directly with Troodon!"
The dinosaur screeched and sprinted towards Yami. It held out his left claws, the right claws were glowing neon blue and the left ones were neon green. They elongated to more than a foot in length.
"I expected you to do that," said Yami. "I activate my trap card, Magician's Navigation, allowing me to summon my ever-faithful companion, Dark Magician!"
"Urk!" Daveed went. Too late. He was hoping to end the Duel before Yami could summon the heart and soul of his deck.
Dark Magician rose out of an arcane circle, his signature green staff hovered next to him. He grabbed it and spun it around.
"And that's not all my trap will do!" said Yami. "I can also call upon Dark Magician Girl!"
The most beautiful monster in the entire game of Duel Monsters made her appearance as a curtain of roses opened to reveal her. Doves flew out from behind her as she twirled delightfully in the air, he long blonde hair whipped around behind her, and her short skirt lifted teasingly, showing off her thighs and the lower portion of her curvy rump. She looked down at Daveed, then her oversized hat fell down over her eyes. She squeaked and lifted it up before winking flirtatiously at the boy.
"Ah, great," said Daveed. "The whore of Duel Monsters. Very, well, I'll replay my attack and destroy your Dark Magician Girl."
"Predictable as always, Your Highness!" Yami gloated. "I reveal the spell, Dark Burning Magic. Now that I have both a Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl on the field, this will destroy all cards you control."
"NO!" shouted Daveed. "From my hand, I discard Regaliazowler and activate its effect!"
On his field appeared a ceratopsian dinosaur colored brilliant white with gold tiger striped down its body. Its frill was elongated, broad, and was adorned with golden spikes. The horns on its head also shined bright gold. Growing out of its shoulders were golden blades resembling crescent swords with scrollwork inlaid with platinum. It had a curved gold and white ax-blade on its nose. Its bright-green eyes flashed and the creature summoned an arcane aegis of white. It had animated glyphs and arcane circles spinning around in its design.
The Dark Burning Magic spell bounced on the aegis and died down as though it were a gust of wind.
"What's this?" said Yami. "You monster has negated my spell!"
"That's all right," said Yugi. "Because now my Magician of Chaos's effect activates. Once per turn, when a card effect is activated, I can select a card Daveed controls and destroy it. His Troodon is history!"
Magician of Chaos crossed his arms over his chest and summoned his staff, which could move and cast spells on its own. The staff's crystal started glowing bright violet and fired a burning magic laser at Troodon, but the magical aegis Regaliazowler created blocked the effect as well.
"Wait, what's going on here?" cried Yugi. "Your monster stopped the effect of my Magician of Chaos as well!"
Daveed sighed with relief. "Regaliazowler protects all Dinosaur-Type monsters from being destroyed by all card effects for the duration of the turn. Also, when he is sent to the Graveyard this way, he leaves behind a five-hundred-point boost to the dinosaurs I have on the field. Troodon, attack Dark Magician instead!"
Now standing with 3300 ATK, Troodon cut Dark Magician to shreds. He grunted, coughing out blood and then shattered to pieces. Dark Magician Girl gasped in fright, shocked to see her master be destroyed so easily by such a primitive creature.
Daveed held out his hand toward Dark Magician Girl. The leather charm bracelet on his wrist jingled. "Don't worry, baby. You won't be alone for long. Two-Headed Kaiser Rex's second head activates."
"Second head!?" Yami shouted.
Daveed sniggered. "Yeah. My prehistoric pet comes loaded with surprises. With two heads, my Two-Headed Kaiser Rex can attack twice per turn, but before each attack, his second head will decrease the attack of the targeted monster by one thousand points. Oh, and. He gains one-hundred extra attack points for every Dinosaur on my field and in the Graveyard, increasing his attack to three thousand. So not only will Two-Headed Kaiser Rex destroy your Dark Magician Girl, but he'll take down a big chunk of your Life Points. Now, my beast, destroy that bitch!"
Dark Magician Girl frowned and wrinkled her nose. She watched as Two-Headed Kaiser Rex opened its two mouths and charged two balls of bright blue energy and they hurled towards her. "Hmph!" she said.
Yami shook his head in disappointment. "Did you honestly believe you could insult my monsters and get away with it? For shame, Daveed. I activate a trap! Magician's Combination. Now, I sacrifice Dark Magician Girl to bring back my Dark Magician!"
"What does it matter?" laughed Daveed. "He's still weaker than my Two-Headed Kaiser Rex, on the count of the powerup Regaliazowler left behind."
Yugi took a step forward. "It will matter once I activate this! Magic Cylinder. Now you take damage equal to the attack points of your Two-Headed Kaiser Rex!"
Two colorful cannons appeared on either side of Dark Magician. The attack from Two-Headed Kaiser Rex was sucked inside.
Yami formed a wide grin and looked at his partner. "Thank you!" he said.
"Don't mention it, Aibo!" said Yugi. "Now, Dark Magic Cylinder, transfer that monster's attack back at Daveed's Life Points! FIRE!"
The second cylinder discharged the blast towards Daveed. Suddenly Troodon jumped forward and opened its mouth.
Yugi gasped. "It's Troodon!"
Both he and Yami watched in horror as Troodon absorbed the entire attack and devoured it. Troodon closed its mouth shut, flames hissed through its teeth. Daveed, meanwhile, was laughing.
"When you try to damage my Life Points with card effects and Troodon is on the field, Troodon will absorb the damage and fire it right back at you!" He held out two fingers towards Yugi as though he were aiming a gun at him. "Bang," Daveed said calmly.
Troodon's eyes burned blue. The black strips on its body started burning blue as well. It fired the attack with two times the force. It hit Yugi, knocking him back more than five feet.
"Yugi!" Yami shouted. "No!"
Yugi landed on his back with a loud plop and came to a stop.
Yugi - 5000 LP
Yugi struggled to get up. "Incredible power," he said, spitting out blood.
"These cards," Daveed said. "How come they don't exist?"
Yami helped Yugi back up, then turned to face Daveed to answer his question. "They do exist," he said. "But just not in your world. Seeing you use them with ease shocks me, but it also brings me great joy. You're getting better, Daveed. I don't remember the last time you damaged Yugi's Life Points like this."
Daveed chuckled bashfully and scratched the back of his head. "I don't think I ever did. Maybe when I beat you, you'll finally stop haunting my dreams. I end my turn."
"All right," said Yami. "My turn." He closed his eyes and put his faith in the Heart of the Cards, hoping it would allow him to draw what he needed to stop Daveed. "My faith rewards me with this," said Yami. "Card of Sanctity. Now we all draw until we have six cards in our hands. Now, I activate Monster Reborn. Return to the field, Dark Magician Girl!"
Dark Magician Girl came out of the ground with two angel wings, which dispersed as soon as she was on the field. She spun around and blew Daveed a kiss.
"And now!" Yami continued, "I use Polymerization, fusing together my Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl, joining them together to form the ultimate wizards! Behold! The Dark Magicians!"
"What's this?" Daveed asked, shocked to see both creatures formed together into a powerful duo.
The Dark Magicians
ATK/2800 DEF/2300
Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl both got new outfits and staves. Dark Magician Girl's hair seemed longer as well. She leered at Prince Daveed with fiery hate in her beautiful, blue eyes. Daveed started to regret calling her a bitch.
"And don't forget," said Yugi, "When a spell is activated, my Magician of Chaos will automatically destroy a card you have, so I will aim for one of your face-down cards."
The Magician fired his spell at Daveed's card and evaporated it. For Yugi, it was a lucky guess.
"Well done, Yugi," Yami said happily. "Mirror Force was his face-down card."
"Yeah, that would have been bad for both of us. It could have sent all our monsters back to the deck."
"All right, Daveed," Yami said sternly. "No more games. I equip my Dark Magicians the Ultimate Wizards with Power of the Ancients. Now, for every time my Magicians are involved in a battle, Power of the Ancients gets a spell counter, which will increase the attack points of my Magicians by five-hundred for each counter it gains. And that's not all, Daveed. I activate the power of Diffusion Wave Motion. Now, my Magicians, attack, and silence Troodon with Dark Burning Magic!"
The attack of both monsters increased to 3300. And now that the effect of Regaliazowler was over, Troodon was weaker. The two magicians aimed the staves at the dinosaur and blasted it to pieces.
Daveed - 7500 LP
"Now it's my turn," said Yugi. "Magician of Chaos, attack and destroy his Two-Headed Kaiser Rex!"
Daveed wouldn't let him. "Sorry, Yugi, but Two-Headed Kaiser Rex won't go down that easily. When he's attacked, I'm allowed to special summon a Dinosaur from the Graveyard and shift your attack towards it instead. Rise, Noble Swords of Dragon!"
Two-Headed Kaiser Rex howled at the sky and revived a dinosaur with sleek, metallic gray skin and glowing blue stripes. Its spikes were curved like a saw and elongated at the middle row, raising over ten feet high. They were colored white with neon blue at the center. Its tail split into three and was tipped with sword blades. Its head was crowned with ten horns and a beard grew from underneath its chin. It rose on its hind legs and held up its tail, forming a magical ward with beautiful glyphs that deflected the attack of Magician of Chaos.
ATK/2100 DEF/3000
"Sucks to be you," said Daveed. "If a monster that attacks Noble Swords of Dragon fails to destroy it, the attacking monster gets destroyed instead."
"Oh no!" Yugi shouted.
Noble Swords of Dragon summoned thirteen swords of light that formed in a circle in front of him. They flew through the air and stuck on Magician of Chaos. He shattered like glass. Despite this, Yugi was not worried.
"Too bad for you," said Yugi. "When Magician of Chaos gets destroyed, I'm allowed to summon this card from my hand, ignoring his summoning conditions. Black Luster Soldier -Super Soldier, appear!"
"Out of the frying pan," said Daveed.
"And straight into the flames," said Yugi. "Now, I use the quick-play spell, Shrink, which cuts your Two-Headed Kaiser Rex's attack in half."
Black Luster Soldier finished what Magician of Chaos started. He slashed off both of Two-Headed Kaiser Rex's heads with one mighty slash of his divine-crafted sword. Black Luster Soldier - Super Soldier appeared in front of Daveed and slashed him across the chest. His effect allowed him to inflict damage to Daveed's Life Points equal to the ATK of the monster he just destroyed. Daveed gripped his chest and fell to his knees. But then, Magician of Black Chaos MAX joined in on the attack and jabbed his bladed staff through his chest.
Yuri coughed out blood. "You're...killing me."
Daveed couldn't comprehend what happened. He looked down at the blade, his blood dripping down the metal and slithering through the inlaid scrollwork. "No...fair..." he gasped. He looked up and saw that Yami had activated a spell of some kind that destroyed Noble Sword of Dragon. And Yugi had something else that called upon a dragon-riding warrior named Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight. His vision was blurry, so he couldn't see the cards or read what he did. What the hell did it matter what they were anyway? He lost.
Magician of Black Chaos MAX pulled his blade out of Daveed's gut. He looked down at Daveed with those lifeless red eyes. "Hmph," he said. He turned and walked away slowly as Lord Gaia the Fierce Knight flew towards Daveed. The last thing Daveed saw was the dragon he was riding rearing its head and bathing him in flames.
A/N: Thank you for dropping by! Just wanted to see what it would be like to mix Yu-Gi-Oh, Total War: Warhammer, Game of Thrones, and The Lord of Rings together.
I've been having a good time writing this story for the past five years. I made so many friends along the way and for that, I am very grateful. I've met interesting people throughout this long and sometimes tedious journey and I forever thank them for the lessons they've taught me such as taking my time, and write for the love of the hobby and not the reviews.
I apologize for leaving that selfish and thoughtless rant last summer. I screwed up big time doing that. I spit in the face of all the readers who have supported me over the years. I compared myself to others and lost sight of what this is really all about.
A big, big thank you to the following
Time Thief, who is now a close friend of mine. Thanks for cheering me up with your bright and warm personality and motivating me to keep on writing. I wish her luck with her marriage.
Yung Warrior, author of State of the Meta, the most popular Yu-Gi-Oh GX story in the fandom. A big thanks to him for setting me straight and teaching me that popularity isn't everything. Just enjoy the hobby and keep on trucking no matter what.
Presea221, my fanfiction sister, who is not afraid to be honest with me and points out all my flaws. Check out her stories. If you're a fan of Edo Phoenix, you'll definitely enjoy her work.
Blackfyre Phoenix author of the really good Yu-Gi-Oh GX story, Wings of Cerulean. Another friend who's not afraid to point out my flaws and give suggestions.
KingofGames23. He and I had a rocky start but we became good friends. He's trying his best to write his own story but go easy on him, for he has a disability. Help him improve and check out his story on AO3.
LoverofYugiohYaoi for standing up for me and helping me with the issue against quite possibly the worst person I ever met on fanfiction.
I love working on this fantasy world and I dedicate much of my free time to expanding it. And I recently learned how to mix sounds together and had a go trying to do an audiobook reading of the story.
ust wanted to see what it would be like to mix Yu-Gi-Oh, Total War: Warhammer, Game of Thrones, and The Lord of Rings together. So far the results have been positive and I've been having a good time writing this story for the past five years. I made so many friends along the way and for that, I am very grateful. I've met interesting people throughout this long and sometimes tedious journey and I forever thank them for the lessons they've taught me such as taking my time, and write for the love of the hobby and not the reviews. I love working on this fantasy world and I dedicate much of my free time to expanding it. And I recently learned how to mix sounds together and had a go trying to do an audiobook reading of the story. Here's a sample here if you want to check it out.
I'd like to give a shout out to Michael Ghelfi for giving me permission to use his sounds. He's an amazing composer who creates awesome ambiances for reading or for your D&D sessions. I left a link to his channel in the description of my first two videos. Check out his channel. If high fantasy and listening to ambience is your thing, you won't be disappointed.
I wish I could spend more time on these stories, but sadly, my job and the bills are keeping my hands tied. If you like what you've read, please, by all means, leave some kudos behind or comment to leave your thoughts. Or, show your appreciation by continuing to read haha. If it's not your cup of tea, that's okay, too. Thank you anyway for stopping by and checking it out.
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