Disclaimer:For the last time, I DO NOT OWN YU-GI-OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I HAVE SAID THIS HOW MANY TIMES?!?!?!?!?!?!? And I do NOT own Somewhere Out There by Our Lady Peace, the first song appearing in this chapter, or Soak up the Sun by Sheryl Crow, the second song appearing in this chapter.
Ok, 'chapter'. SO WHAT IF IT'S SHORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!
AFTERWARDS...............
Three months later, Ryou was sitting on his bed with Yugi, Joey, Mai, Tèa, and Tristan around him. It was a weekend and they had finished their homework.
Joey looked at Ryou. "I wonder how they're doing. Lilith and Maude, I mean. And Fern and the rest. I wonder if they've found replacements." He fell silent, not really expecting a reply. These days they didn't really have to talk. They just understood.
Devi was the only one missing. In all of the confusion with Ratri/Irtar, she had disappeared and had not come back. Ryou missed her, but it seemed somehow easier to think about Maude and Lilith in a rational manner when she wasn't around.
Mai, tired of the silence, turned on Ryou's radio.
"........Hope you remember me
When you're home sick and need a change
I miss your purple hair
I miss the way you taste
I know you'll come back some day
On a bed of nails I wait
I'm praying that you don't burn out or fade away.............."
Mai changed the station. It was the same song. She changed it again. Same song. Change station. Same song. Change station. Same song. Mai finally turned the radio off again and turn to Ryou with wide eyes. He looked back at her, the song reminding him greatly of Teyva and her death and 'burning'.
Just then there was a tapping on his window. Startled, he almost fell off his bed. He went over and pushed back the dark blue curtain. It was Devi. But somehow not. She didn't seem quite right. But he still let her in. She flew to his shoulder and began preening his hair. He coaxed her her onto his wrist and got a good look at her. Then it struck him. Her flame-feathers were not only black, they were also silver and purple. Her eyes were no longer icy blue, but one green, one purple and she had a miniature spiked collar.
"Devi! I mean Teyva. Or do I? I'm confused!!" Ryou stared into the unblinking eyes of his phoenix.
He heard a mental laugh and Teyva's rough voice sang through his mind: 'Tis I, Teyva. Your Devi accepted my request to join. Now we live as one, but with two minds. She fluttered back to his shoulder. I know Azari is dead. I felt it and it grieved me. She took too much upon herself. The blame was mostly mine, for being stupid and not telling her or the rest of
you.
Ryou nodded and turned the radio on again as his friends gawked at Devi/Teyva.
"My friend the communist
holds meetings in his office.
I can't afford his gas so
I'm stuck here watching TV.
I don't have digital,
I don't have didly squat.
It's not getting what you want,
it's wanting what you got!"
I'm gonna soak up the sun............" and this time he left it on.
As for Maude and Lilith, they found a young man named Oberon to take Azari's spot and an older woman named Kali for the new time mage. Maude sometimes wished she had had time to teach Tèa, but it probably wouldn't have done anyone much good. Seto lived with them for several years, then returned to the outside world.
The next time they returned to the outside world, five hundred years later, Maude caught a new and alien disease with no cure and died. Lilith didn't even go looking for a new partner. She took all of her and Maude's belongings and knowledge to Halcyon and Fyari. She lived with them for a while, until she was going for her daily walk along the cliffs and she slipped.
Fern died soon after of a shark attack while she was in whale form. Jaron, grieving but sensible, took all of their belongings and learning to Halcyon and Fyari too. Soon Kali and Oberon came and they began a small school. But, as the last believers in magick died, they lost their talent and power. They began fading into their afterlife, the fabled Summerland, though some call it the land of the Fae. Soon their hallways of knowledge began crumbling and the last of the Old Ways were lost to the world forever.
Some few of the lucky chosen have said that they have a seen woman and her wolf running on the winds, or one of the other Old Ones, but they were never heeded. But each time they were said to be sighted, some large change for the world was in store.
And for Devi/Teyva, they/she long outlived Ryou and we have no further information about whether they/she are/is still alive.
Ok, 'chapter'. SO WHAT IF IT'S SHORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Enjoy!
AFTERWARDS...............
Three months later, Ryou was sitting on his bed with Yugi, Joey, Mai, Tèa, and Tristan around him. It was a weekend and they had finished their homework.
Joey looked at Ryou. "I wonder how they're doing. Lilith and Maude, I mean. And Fern and the rest. I wonder if they've found replacements." He fell silent, not really expecting a reply. These days they didn't really have to talk. They just understood.
Devi was the only one missing. In all of the confusion with Ratri/Irtar, she had disappeared and had not come back. Ryou missed her, but it seemed somehow easier to think about Maude and Lilith in a rational manner when she wasn't around.
Mai, tired of the silence, turned on Ryou's radio.
"........Hope you remember me
When you're home sick and need a change
I miss your purple hair
I miss the way you taste
I know you'll come back some day
On a bed of nails I wait
I'm praying that you don't burn out or fade away.............."
Mai changed the station. It was the same song. She changed it again. Same song. Change station. Same song. Change station. Same song. Mai finally turned the radio off again and turn to Ryou with wide eyes. He looked back at her, the song reminding him greatly of Teyva and her death and 'burning'.
Just then there was a tapping on his window. Startled, he almost fell off his bed. He went over and pushed back the dark blue curtain. It was Devi. But somehow not. She didn't seem quite right. But he still let her in. She flew to his shoulder and began preening his hair. He coaxed her her onto his wrist and got a good look at her. Then it struck him. Her flame-feathers were not only black, they were also silver and purple. Her eyes were no longer icy blue, but one green, one purple and she had a miniature spiked collar.
"Devi! I mean Teyva. Or do I? I'm confused!!" Ryou stared into the unblinking eyes of his phoenix.
He heard a mental laugh and Teyva's rough voice sang through his mind: 'Tis I, Teyva. Your Devi accepted my request to join. Now we live as one, but with two minds. She fluttered back to his shoulder. I know Azari is dead. I felt it and it grieved me. She took too much upon herself. The blame was mostly mine, for being stupid and not telling her or the rest of
you.
Ryou nodded and turned the radio on again as his friends gawked at Devi/Teyva.
"My friend the communist
holds meetings in his office.
I can't afford his gas so
I'm stuck here watching TV.
I don't have digital,
I don't have didly squat.
It's not getting what you want,
it's wanting what you got!"
I'm gonna soak up the sun............" and this time he left it on.
As for Maude and Lilith, they found a young man named Oberon to take Azari's spot and an older woman named Kali for the new time mage. Maude sometimes wished she had had time to teach Tèa, but it probably wouldn't have done anyone much good. Seto lived with them for several years, then returned to the outside world.
The next time they returned to the outside world, five hundred years later, Maude caught a new and alien disease with no cure and died. Lilith didn't even go looking for a new partner. She took all of her and Maude's belongings and knowledge to Halcyon and Fyari. She lived with them for a while, until she was going for her daily walk along the cliffs and she slipped.
Fern died soon after of a shark attack while she was in whale form. Jaron, grieving but sensible, took all of their belongings and learning to Halcyon and Fyari too. Soon Kali and Oberon came and they began a small school. But, as the last believers in magick died, they lost their talent and power. They began fading into their afterlife, the fabled Summerland, though some call it the land of the Fae. Soon their hallways of knowledge began crumbling and the last of the Old Ways were lost to the world forever.
Some few of the lucky chosen have said that they have a seen woman and her wolf running on the winds, or one of the other Old Ones, but they were never heeded. But each time they were said to be sighted, some large change for the world was in store.
And for Devi/Teyva, they/she long outlived Ryou and we have no further information about whether they/she are/is still alive.