Hate to break it to yah, but it may be awhile till I update after this. School is hectic this year cause I'm on Student Council, the yearbook committee, and the dance squad, not to mention the fact I am trying to go the Technology Student Association Nationals, so I'll be a very busy. But please be patient. And also, review so I know what you think. New falcons:
Sunshine: Tea's. Female. Bronze with gold eyes.
Venom: Mai's. Female. Black with green eyes.
Toxic: Joey's. Male. Green with black eyes.
Firestorm: Bakura's. Female. Bright red with orange eyes.
Stormfire: Bakura's. Male. Orange with bright red eyes.
Disclaimer: Wish I owned Seto, but I don't. None of the other characters either. Do own Sakura and the falcons though!
Knights of the High Council Chapter 6- Enemy Revealed
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"Mai, Tea, Joey," Sakura said those names warmly but then said coldly "Brother" before her voice turned serene-like "All of you, and Tristan, Pegasus, Seto, and myself are... How do I put this?... Special. Um... I'll be able to explain better if-" she was cut off by falcons' shrieks from above. Three blurs flew to the tree the falcons were on and landed. They were more falcons. One was bronze with gold eyes, another black with green eyes, and the last was green with black eyes.
"Riddles and names?" Sakura asked Moontear sharply. Moontear ruffled her feathers and looked thoughtful before answering.
"The black one's is, 'Venom of death.' The green one's is, 'The venom is toxic death.' The bronze one's is 'Sun shine makes the sun shadow.' The black one is Venom, the green Toxic, and the bronze Sunshine." Moontear answered slowly.
Sakura looked at Sunshadow, "And 'The Sun's shadow must have sunshine.' Hmmm... Venom, you first." The black flacon flew to her shoulder. Sakura paused before walking towards Mai. Venom immediately flew to Mai's shoulder.
It went that way for a few minutes. In the end, Toxic was on Joey's shoulder, Sunshine on Tea's, and Sunshadow on Yami's.
"Now where is my backpack..." Sakura mumbled, searching the ground. She then held up a navy blue backpack victoriously. As her upper half surprisingly disappeared into the small bag, they heard her mutter, "How do mortal humans put up with these things?"
Coming out, she was holding four small jewelry boxes. One was gold with a bronze sun on top, a white lightning bolt hiding the latch; another was green with a black cross on top, a white star hiding the latch. Another one was black with a green cross on top, a white star hiding the latch, and the last was bronze with a gold sun on top. A white lightning bolt hid the latch.
Turning towards Seto, she pressed the boxes in his hands. "I have other business to attend to. Give them their lockets and explain everything. Pegasus, Tristan, falcons, you help him." She said before turning and walking towards the lake.
"Wait, Sakura!" Yami called after her. He ran over and reached for her shoulder.
She turned and slapped his hand away. "The one who killed us a long time ago is still here." She whispered icily at him. "Do you want him to get away again?"
"No..." he told her as she walked towards the lake, transforming on the way there.
Turning to Seto, he sneered sarcastically, "Explain, Oh Great One..."
(Okay, here's what's going to happen while we follow Sakura. Everyone remembers his or her past and transforms, plus trades daggers, before they hear a scream. Following Sakura is more important to the story. And also, Bakura-lovers please don't kill me!)
Moon ran down the bank. He was here; she could practically smell his dark aura. 'Why him though?' she thought, remembering him as a child.
# Flashback #
"Bakura? Bakura, where are you?" a young Princess Sakura cried. Her nurse, a kindly young man named Bakura, was missing.
"Over here, my little tear." He called out from behind a pillar.
"BAKURA! We were all so worr-" she stopped in front of him, frowning.
"Bakura, are you alright?"
He smiled warmly at her, though the smile did not reach his eyes like it usually did. "I'm fine, why do you ask?"
She shrugged, "You just seem... different today."
# End Flashback #
'I was so naïve back then. How come I didn't notice till training?' Moon thought, still running.
# Flashback #
"Concentrate, Sakura!" Bakura screamed at her as the ice blasts she had just cast missed the center of the target by a millimeter.
"I'm trying. The ice is harder to control during the full moon, you know that." The seventeen-year-old princess whispered softly.
"But I don't see Seto missing the target, even if it is a full moon! You're so incompetent!" he yelled sneeringly at her. She gasped suddenly.
"You!" she whispered coldly, recognizing the voice from battles that was always telling them that he would defeat them eventually.
He paled, realizing his huge blunder. "Beware child!" he yelled before disappearing into then air.
# End Flashback #
She stopped at the dock, seeing a figure standing there stroking a bright red falcon. She moved close enough to hear what he was saying.
"...Yes, Firestorm, she shall pay even more now that she has destroyed Stormfire. None of the elven shall live." The figure, which she now recognized as a younger Bakura, said to the falcon.
"So you plan on continuing the plan then?" the female falcon asked.
He answered rather sharply, "Of course. Once we rid this dimension of the purest creatures ever to exist, then it will fall into despair. After all, those falcons are unicorns in hiding and I recognized Sakura's magic hanging on the others. She's hiding as much as she can from them. She doesn't want them to be noticed easily. But her magic won't last forever..."
"I don't understand..."
"Her magic becomes very weak during the new moon, which is a fortnight away. Their own naturally magic will destroy her spell. Then they will be vulnerable. That's when we attack. We'll kill the falcons first since they are the greatest threat, then we'll finish off the elven. I'll even give you the honor of destroying Moontear. But I want Sakura..."
"Yes, oh Dark Master. I am honored and understand now..." the falcon mummered respectfully.
Moon moved quieter then the clouds as she snuck up behind the two, not noticing the org behind her. Just as she was about to attack, the org grabbed her, causing her to scream sharply before the foul thing clapped his hand over her mouth.
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Moon Guardian raised his head, as did the others, upon hearing a scream. "That sounded like Moon. We better go help."
The others nodded before they started running towards the lake.
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"Well, well, well. If it isn't the legendary Moon. All by yourself I see. Hmmm, no more can be expected from the one that killed such a strong falcon as Stormfire..." Bakura sneered, cupping her face as the org removed his hand. Moon vaguely remembered the orange falcon she had destroyed in the previous battle before his next comment required her attention.
"Still as beautiful as ever. Tell you what, if you'll ditch Moon Guardian and become my Dark Queen, then I'll let you live."
She answered quickly, "A life without Moon Guardian is not a life I want to live." As an after thought, she added, "And even so, I wouldn't want to be queen with an ugly git like you."
He snarled, "You shall regret that!" He was about to strike her before a knife cut his shoulder. It was the Moon Dagger!
Moon Guardian came up and killed the org holding Moon. The others were surrounding a bleeding Bakura. His blood wasn't red though. It was black.
"You killed almost the entire royal family, court, and palace servants. You went over to the dark side. You planned to murder the last of the elven and unicorns. Do you deny it?" Sakura asked coldly.
"Please, Your Royal Highness, have mercy!" he pleaded.
She remained emotionless, "May your punishment fit your crime. You are to forever be sealed into the shadow realm, your soul and body separated so that you may never leave. When your body has aged to where it can no longer survive, both the body and your soul will go to the graveyard, where you shall both perish."
All of the Knights and falcons gasped upon hearing the sentence. No one would have thought the princess could be so cruel. But then they realized why. Bakura didn't deserve to die by their swords, or by spells. So he will have to live forever trapped, till his body can last no longer.
A silver light enveloped him and by the time it had faded, he was gone. Firestorm screeched before she too was enveloped in silver light. When this light faded, a pure white unicorn stood in front of them. She smiled in joy before saying, "Thank you. You have freed me. I remember. I will always remember. Good-bye!" with that, she ran into the forest.
Turning towards the others, though leaning on Moon Guardian for support, Moon gave the silent command to detransform. In a blaze of white light, they all did so. Mai, Tea, and Joey now had streaked hair and eyes. Mai's were black, Tea's bronze, Joey's green.
"I don't know if you remember your elven names, but I shall tell them to you any way. Mai Venomviper, Joseph Toxicviper, Tea Sunshine, Yami Sunshadow, Pegasus Skydancer, Tristan Earthdancer, Seto Moonsorrow, and Sakura Moontear. We are named after our unicorns, eight of the last nine. They shall join us when we leave. Snowfire, the unicorn that just left, will guard this place for us." Sakura said weakly.
Joseph interrupted, "What do you mean leave? I have a sister and Seto has a brother. We can't leave them..."
She shook her head, "They must stay here. Mokuba, I know, is an elf and he must protect Snowfire, as will his children since he is not immortal like us. My friend, now know as Serenity Wheeler though her true name is Serenity Starbrite, will help him when she arrives in a fortnight, as she too is a mortal elf. She will teach him of his culture and duties."
"Serenity is my sister!"
"Then you need not worry."
Yami asked hesitantly, "Sakura, I have a few questions. When do we leave? Why? Where will we go? Do you forgive me? What will some of us tell our families?"
Sakura sighed tiredly, "I will answer questions but then Pegasus must take me home so I can rest. We leave in a fortnight. My spell that is protecting us will fade during the new moon that begins then, which means we'll be in great danger if we stay. We will go to a dimension called The Crystal Dimension. Other elven are there. I do forgive you. You will just leave your families and they will forget all about you since they weren't even suppose to know you. Only Mokuba, Serenity, and Snowfire will remember."
With that, Pegasus and Seto took her home where she slept for two nights and a day.
# The Night of The New Moon, 11:50 #
"I win." Sakura told Yami sweetly as she beat him again in a dual. She always used Harpy Ladies and Light Magicians till she drew the three weakest and most rare cards in the game, the two White Eyes Silver Dragons and the Silver Eyes Crystal Dragon, and a polyasation card to combined them before she finished the dual in one turn. For combined together, the three formed the one monster that was a rival to Exodia. The Silver Imperial Crystal Dragon. No one knew how to form it till now.
Seto chuckled, "Who would of thought the weakest and most rare monster cards in the game would form the one monster that is a threat to Exodia? I mean, those Silver Eyes are impossible to beat with magic, but on sharp blow will kill them since they are only have an attack power of 50. And while no physical attack can hurt the White Eyes, any magic attack will kill it in a second with its attack power of 25. But the Silver Crystal is protected for both physical and magic attacks unless the monster attacking it is 100 attack points stronger than the dragon. But the only monster with a higher attack power by that much is Exodia. And that's when the dragon hasn't been powered up with a spell from the Mystical Elf."
Sakura sighed, "I'm going to miss dueling."
Joseph looked at her, bewildered. "What do ya mean 'gonna a miss dueling.' ?"
Sakura gave him an odd look, "Joseph, when we leave tonight, we have to leave everything behind. Nothing can come with us except the close on our backs and those will be altered during the journey between dimensions. We're going to prove a prophecy correct. Not just to make a new home. The Crystal Dimension is in a sort of medieval time right now. We are going to claim our thrones."
"WHAT?!?!" was heard from everyone in the room.
She shook her head before casting a spell. They found themselves at the edge of a murky forest, a lake in front of them. The water was dirt and an island rested in the middle. A stream flew from the lake through the forest. Another branched out to the mountains to their left. A desert was to the right of the mountain range. Grassland was between that and the forest.
"Where are we?" Mai asked, looking around.
"The place we are going to."
Everyone stared at Sakura in shock.
She continued, "Before you is our home. We were taken away from here to cure the dimension we live in now. But our own was thrown into the prophesized dark age. The elven of the forest are now giant spiders. The elven of the desert are lizards. Those of the grassland are herds of wild horses. Those of the mountain are goats. When we return to this place, we will first cure the land itself. Then we will restore our people to their true forms. We will take our places on the throne. Mai and Joseph shall rule the desert, Pegasus and Tristan the mountains, Yami and Tea the grassland, and Seto and I the forest."
The place faded as they were back at Yami's house. They all looked at those around him or her and then at themselves. They realized they were all 20 or 21.
"All the ladies have aged physically to the age of 20, the gentlemen 21. This is the first sign. The moon is shifting. My spell is breaking. We must leave quickly." She cried out in horror, looking at the clock. It was a minute till midnight.
Together, they chanted:
We call upon the powers of the moon, sun, and stars
Ancient forces of death near and far
Sky and earth release with all your might
And draw your powers from our light
And Sakura and Seto finished on their own:
Purest spirits of dark and light
Take us back to our true life
A burning white light engulfed them and when it faded, they were gone.
That's the end of the chapter. Stay tuned for the Epilogue! Silver Moontear.
Sunshine: Tea's. Female. Bronze with gold eyes.
Venom: Mai's. Female. Black with green eyes.
Toxic: Joey's. Male. Green with black eyes.
Firestorm: Bakura's. Female. Bright red with orange eyes.
Stormfire: Bakura's. Male. Orange with bright red eyes.
Disclaimer: Wish I owned Seto, but I don't. None of the other characters either. Do own Sakura and the falcons though!
Knights of the High Council Chapter 6- Enemy Revealed
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"Mai, Tea, Joey," Sakura said those names warmly but then said coldly "Brother" before her voice turned serene-like "All of you, and Tristan, Pegasus, Seto, and myself are... How do I put this?... Special. Um... I'll be able to explain better if-" she was cut off by falcons' shrieks from above. Three blurs flew to the tree the falcons were on and landed. They were more falcons. One was bronze with gold eyes, another black with green eyes, and the last was green with black eyes.
"Riddles and names?" Sakura asked Moontear sharply. Moontear ruffled her feathers and looked thoughtful before answering.
"The black one's is, 'Venom of death.' The green one's is, 'The venom is toxic death.' The bronze one's is 'Sun shine makes the sun shadow.' The black one is Venom, the green Toxic, and the bronze Sunshine." Moontear answered slowly.
Sakura looked at Sunshadow, "And 'The Sun's shadow must have sunshine.' Hmmm... Venom, you first." The black flacon flew to her shoulder. Sakura paused before walking towards Mai. Venom immediately flew to Mai's shoulder.
It went that way for a few minutes. In the end, Toxic was on Joey's shoulder, Sunshine on Tea's, and Sunshadow on Yami's.
"Now where is my backpack..." Sakura mumbled, searching the ground. She then held up a navy blue backpack victoriously. As her upper half surprisingly disappeared into the small bag, they heard her mutter, "How do mortal humans put up with these things?"
Coming out, she was holding four small jewelry boxes. One was gold with a bronze sun on top, a white lightning bolt hiding the latch; another was green with a black cross on top, a white star hiding the latch. Another one was black with a green cross on top, a white star hiding the latch, and the last was bronze with a gold sun on top. A white lightning bolt hid the latch.
Turning towards Seto, she pressed the boxes in his hands. "I have other business to attend to. Give them their lockets and explain everything. Pegasus, Tristan, falcons, you help him." She said before turning and walking towards the lake.
"Wait, Sakura!" Yami called after her. He ran over and reached for her shoulder.
She turned and slapped his hand away. "The one who killed us a long time ago is still here." She whispered icily at him. "Do you want him to get away again?"
"No..." he told her as she walked towards the lake, transforming on the way there.
Turning to Seto, he sneered sarcastically, "Explain, Oh Great One..."
(Okay, here's what's going to happen while we follow Sakura. Everyone remembers his or her past and transforms, plus trades daggers, before they hear a scream. Following Sakura is more important to the story. And also, Bakura-lovers please don't kill me!)
Moon ran down the bank. He was here; she could practically smell his dark aura. 'Why him though?' she thought, remembering him as a child.
# Flashback #
"Bakura? Bakura, where are you?" a young Princess Sakura cried. Her nurse, a kindly young man named Bakura, was missing.
"Over here, my little tear." He called out from behind a pillar.
"BAKURA! We were all so worr-" she stopped in front of him, frowning.
"Bakura, are you alright?"
He smiled warmly at her, though the smile did not reach his eyes like it usually did. "I'm fine, why do you ask?"
She shrugged, "You just seem... different today."
# End Flashback #
'I was so naïve back then. How come I didn't notice till training?' Moon thought, still running.
# Flashback #
"Concentrate, Sakura!" Bakura screamed at her as the ice blasts she had just cast missed the center of the target by a millimeter.
"I'm trying. The ice is harder to control during the full moon, you know that." The seventeen-year-old princess whispered softly.
"But I don't see Seto missing the target, even if it is a full moon! You're so incompetent!" he yelled sneeringly at her. She gasped suddenly.
"You!" she whispered coldly, recognizing the voice from battles that was always telling them that he would defeat them eventually.
He paled, realizing his huge blunder. "Beware child!" he yelled before disappearing into then air.
# End Flashback #
She stopped at the dock, seeing a figure standing there stroking a bright red falcon. She moved close enough to hear what he was saying.
"...Yes, Firestorm, she shall pay even more now that she has destroyed Stormfire. None of the elven shall live." The figure, which she now recognized as a younger Bakura, said to the falcon.
"So you plan on continuing the plan then?" the female falcon asked.
He answered rather sharply, "Of course. Once we rid this dimension of the purest creatures ever to exist, then it will fall into despair. After all, those falcons are unicorns in hiding and I recognized Sakura's magic hanging on the others. She's hiding as much as she can from them. She doesn't want them to be noticed easily. But her magic won't last forever..."
"I don't understand..."
"Her magic becomes very weak during the new moon, which is a fortnight away. Their own naturally magic will destroy her spell. Then they will be vulnerable. That's when we attack. We'll kill the falcons first since they are the greatest threat, then we'll finish off the elven. I'll even give you the honor of destroying Moontear. But I want Sakura..."
"Yes, oh Dark Master. I am honored and understand now..." the falcon mummered respectfully.
Moon moved quieter then the clouds as she snuck up behind the two, not noticing the org behind her. Just as she was about to attack, the org grabbed her, causing her to scream sharply before the foul thing clapped his hand over her mouth.
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Moon Guardian raised his head, as did the others, upon hearing a scream. "That sounded like Moon. We better go help."
The others nodded before they started running towards the lake.
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"Well, well, well. If it isn't the legendary Moon. All by yourself I see. Hmmm, no more can be expected from the one that killed such a strong falcon as Stormfire..." Bakura sneered, cupping her face as the org removed his hand. Moon vaguely remembered the orange falcon she had destroyed in the previous battle before his next comment required her attention.
"Still as beautiful as ever. Tell you what, if you'll ditch Moon Guardian and become my Dark Queen, then I'll let you live."
She answered quickly, "A life without Moon Guardian is not a life I want to live." As an after thought, she added, "And even so, I wouldn't want to be queen with an ugly git like you."
He snarled, "You shall regret that!" He was about to strike her before a knife cut his shoulder. It was the Moon Dagger!
Moon Guardian came up and killed the org holding Moon. The others were surrounding a bleeding Bakura. His blood wasn't red though. It was black.
"You killed almost the entire royal family, court, and palace servants. You went over to the dark side. You planned to murder the last of the elven and unicorns. Do you deny it?" Sakura asked coldly.
"Please, Your Royal Highness, have mercy!" he pleaded.
She remained emotionless, "May your punishment fit your crime. You are to forever be sealed into the shadow realm, your soul and body separated so that you may never leave. When your body has aged to where it can no longer survive, both the body and your soul will go to the graveyard, where you shall both perish."
All of the Knights and falcons gasped upon hearing the sentence. No one would have thought the princess could be so cruel. But then they realized why. Bakura didn't deserve to die by their swords, or by spells. So he will have to live forever trapped, till his body can last no longer.
A silver light enveloped him and by the time it had faded, he was gone. Firestorm screeched before she too was enveloped in silver light. When this light faded, a pure white unicorn stood in front of them. She smiled in joy before saying, "Thank you. You have freed me. I remember. I will always remember. Good-bye!" with that, she ran into the forest.
Turning towards the others, though leaning on Moon Guardian for support, Moon gave the silent command to detransform. In a blaze of white light, they all did so. Mai, Tea, and Joey now had streaked hair and eyes. Mai's were black, Tea's bronze, Joey's green.
"I don't know if you remember your elven names, but I shall tell them to you any way. Mai Venomviper, Joseph Toxicviper, Tea Sunshine, Yami Sunshadow, Pegasus Skydancer, Tristan Earthdancer, Seto Moonsorrow, and Sakura Moontear. We are named after our unicorns, eight of the last nine. They shall join us when we leave. Snowfire, the unicorn that just left, will guard this place for us." Sakura said weakly.
Joseph interrupted, "What do you mean leave? I have a sister and Seto has a brother. We can't leave them..."
She shook her head, "They must stay here. Mokuba, I know, is an elf and he must protect Snowfire, as will his children since he is not immortal like us. My friend, now know as Serenity Wheeler though her true name is Serenity Starbrite, will help him when she arrives in a fortnight, as she too is a mortal elf. She will teach him of his culture and duties."
"Serenity is my sister!"
"Then you need not worry."
Yami asked hesitantly, "Sakura, I have a few questions. When do we leave? Why? Where will we go? Do you forgive me? What will some of us tell our families?"
Sakura sighed tiredly, "I will answer questions but then Pegasus must take me home so I can rest. We leave in a fortnight. My spell that is protecting us will fade during the new moon that begins then, which means we'll be in great danger if we stay. We will go to a dimension called The Crystal Dimension. Other elven are there. I do forgive you. You will just leave your families and they will forget all about you since they weren't even suppose to know you. Only Mokuba, Serenity, and Snowfire will remember."
With that, Pegasus and Seto took her home where she slept for two nights and a day.
# The Night of The New Moon, 11:50 #
"I win." Sakura told Yami sweetly as she beat him again in a dual. She always used Harpy Ladies and Light Magicians till she drew the three weakest and most rare cards in the game, the two White Eyes Silver Dragons and the Silver Eyes Crystal Dragon, and a polyasation card to combined them before she finished the dual in one turn. For combined together, the three formed the one monster that was a rival to Exodia. The Silver Imperial Crystal Dragon. No one knew how to form it till now.
Seto chuckled, "Who would of thought the weakest and most rare monster cards in the game would form the one monster that is a threat to Exodia? I mean, those Silver Eyes are impossible to beat with magic, but on sharp blow will kill them since they are only have an attack power of 50. And while no physical attack can hurt the White Eyes, any magic attack will kill it in a second with its attack power of 25. But the Silver Crystal is protected for both physical and magic attacks unless the monster attacking it is 100 attack points stronger than the dragon. But the only monster with a higher attack power by that much is Exodia. And that's when the dragon hasn't been powered up with a spell from the Mystical Elf."
Sakura sighed, "I'm going to miss dueling."
Joseph looked at her, bewildered. "What do ya mean 'gonna a miss dueling.' ?"
Sakura gave him an odd look, "Joseph, when we leave tonight, we have to leave everything behind. Nothing can come with us except the close on our backs and those will be altered during the journey between dimensions. We're going to prove a prophecy correct. Not just to make a new home. The Crystal Dimension is in a sort of medieval time right now. We are going to claim our thrones."
"WHAT?!?!" was heard from everyone in the room.
She shook her head before casting a spell. They found themselves at the edge of a murky forest, a lake in front of them. The water was dirt and an island rested in the middle. A stream flew from the lake through the forest. Another branched out to the mountains to their left. A desert was to the right of the mountain range. Grassland was between that and the forest.
"Where are we?" Mai asked, looking around.
"The place we are going to."
Everyone stared at Sakura in shock.
She continued, "Before you is our home. We were taken away from here to cure the dimension we live in now. But our own was thrown into the prophesized dark age. The elven of the forest are now giant spiders. The elven of the desert are lizards. Those of the grassland are herds of wild horses. Those of the mountain are goats. When we return to this place, we will first cure the land itself. Then we will restore our people to their true forms. We will take our places on the throne. Mai and Joseph shall rule the desert, Pegasus and Tristan the mountains, Yami and Tea the grassland, and Seto and I the forest."
The place faded as they were back at Yami's house. They all looked at those around him or her and then at themselves. They realized they were all 20 or 21.
"All the ladies have aged physically to the age of 20, the gentlemen 21. This is the first sign. The moon is shifting. My spell is breaking. We must leave quickly." She cried out in horror, looking at the clock. It was a minute till midnight.
Together, they chanted:
We call upon the powers of the moon, sun, and stars
Ancient forces of death near and far
Sky and earth release with all your might
And draw your powers from our light
And Sakura and Seto finished on their own:
Purest spirits of dark and light
Take us back to our true life
A burning white light engulfed them and when it faded, they were gone.
That's the end of the chapter. Stay tuned for the Epilogue! Silver Moontear.