I have a brainstorm! Kinda freakish, but it's something. I'm listening to Loreena McKennitt while I type this, tranquil music...she's a good singer. For now, the Saber Wolves are gone, it won't last though.....
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any lyrics to the song The Mystic's Dream by Loreena McKennitt.
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Bakura turned his head from Yami at the mentioning of his father, but spoke up anyway. "I-I'm not quite sure...it was close to the city....but where exactly I'm not sure..."
"It's ok, Bakura, we'll have to find it though." Yami looked up at the darkening sky before back to the group standing around him. "First thing tomorrow. It's getting late and we should get some rest soon." His eyes fell on the two hikaris, Yugi and Bakura. "You two get the beds, Kaiba keep watch. Me and Akei will stay in our soul rooms.....most likely at least..." Akei shot him a look as if he was going to wander, Yami was thinking the same thing. The only problem was Seto's complaints.
"Why do I have keep watch?"
Yami smirked as he turned and headed towards the palace, speaking up loud enough for EVERYONE to hear. "Because, my priest, you haven't been here as long as us." The others heard a chuckle and blinked at each other before following after the former Pharaoh, Seto the last one to move.
"I think being in Egypt again is getting to his head..."
"I heard that!"
Seto gulped and followed after the group of four ahead of him.
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Yugi and Bakura took sleeping in the beds quickly, dosing off in a matter of minutes. Kaiba leaned in the doorway of their small room, staring out the window with an agitated grin as night crept over the city of Cairo.
Now...the two yamis had both gone to wander through the palace. Akei seemed paranoid because the last time he wandered off, a Saber Wolf decided to try and kill him. A yami served on a silver platter, might taste good.....to a canine that is. Yami seemed in an almost bright mood, it was like being home. He felt right being here.
"I hate this place.....I should have stayed in my soul room....." Yami glanced at the direction of grumbling, only seeing a silhouette of Akei besides him. The former Pharaoh couldn't blame the other yami though, this place was the last thing Akei saw before becoming trapped within the ring.
"Then why don't you...?"
"Don't I what?" He hissed back.
"Go back to your soul room."
"No idea."
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Little did the two yamis know, someone had left their post to follow them. A certain Kaiba wanted to get a peek around the palace he was so called "high priest" in. Was that so wrong? Why was it he was forced to watch over the dark half's lights? So in ancient times he was under Yami's rule, well, not now!
The CEO slid up behind a column, back against the smooth marble feeling material. His brunette head turned around the curved column to see the two yamis standing before a large set of doors, hieroglyphics covering it. He listened hard, hearing Yami beginning to talk before the former high priest turned himself around for a better view, and less chance of hurting his neck.
"I don't remember this...." Yami stepped forward and tried opening the doors with Akei's assistance, but the door refused to budge. Sighing in defeat, Yami stepped back, scanning his ruby eyes along the ancient symbols before starting to speak out loud what it read. He glanced at Akei from the corner of his eyes, still chanting in his native tongue and signaling Akei to join in. Which he reluctantly chanted along the hieroglyphics.
Seto slithered away from the column, since the two were distracted enough, he didn't need to worry about hiding. Folding his arms over his chest, he allowed a smirk to plaster over his face. But what caught him off guard....was the two large doors the duo darkness's were chanting from.
It was opening.
Kaiba fell back in surprise, losing his composure for a moment or two. He shook his head roughly and looked back to the doors fully opened, the yamis stepping within a large room.
Faintly, a glow enveloped the two doors, beckoning for Seto to enter. In his mind, he refused it....but his body had other plans. With his gaze falling to look at his legs, the CEO only found himself walking in a slow...trance state.
Clearing the doors he looked around, Yami and Akei standing in the center of some circle, both confused. There were no other doors but that one, no windows either. Just walls. A square room.
Abruptly after Seto had entered, the doors snapped close in a loud slam that seemed to shake the palace. And the three were left in darkness.
"What the hell is going on?!" Akei snapped, eyes darting around to try and see anything, but the darkness was all that was shown. His gaze brought him to the cause of the sound, where the doors were, even though he couldn't see them.
"I don't know...."
Seto remained silent, it's all he really could do.
Out of nowhere though, four silver slivers of light emerged to shine on the circle Yami and Akei were standing on. One light from every corner of the room. Seto blinked, at least he couldn't be seen, but he could sure see the other two.
Each person in the room jumped, a soft voice was singing out a Celtic type of song. The source was unseen.
"A clouded dream on an earthly night..."
".....So oh great one....any idea what is going on...?" Akei murmured in his normal and expected sarcastic tone of voice.
"I wish."
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Yugi jerked awake from his bed, yelling out with sweat making its way from his forehead. "Yami!" At his sudden outburst, Bakura stirred and sat up, looking over to his multi-haired friend.
"What is it Yugi...?"
"Yami is gone!"
"Yeah...I know.....he went of with my yami to explore the palace....remember...?"
"No! He's GONE! Not even in the palace anymore! I can't even connect to him through our mental link!"
Bakura paused and closed his eyes. {Yami? Where are you two?}
...........
"I-I can't connect to mine either......where could they be?"
"And where's Kaiba....?"
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A second voice joined in with the song of the first, continuing where the other finished off.
".....Hangs upon the crescent moon." At this sentence sang, the walls began to let off a very faint golden glow, but it was enough to illuminate the room. And show where Seto was standing.
"Kaiba!"
"Eh....hey Yami."
"What are you doing here you're supposed to be-" Yami paused and realized Akei was pointing to one of the walls and tapping the former Pharaoh's shoulder. Yami turned to face it and saw two women, forest green eyes and thin black hair flowing to their ankles. They were barefoot, and skin seemed very dark and tanned. Egyptian markings coated their faces slightly, and bodies were covered in golden silk robes. They had paused their singing when Yami had yelled out to Kaiba, observing the three almost. And a third women appeared behind the mentioned CEO, looking just like the other two. This caught Seto off guard and he turned on his heel to face her. He wasn't in that placing for long.
As soon as he had turned to her, she pushed him backwards roughly, causing him to fall into the circle Yami and Akei were on. With that done, it seemed someone had activated a fog machine. But it wasn't artificial....this was real mist, covering several inches from the floor.
The three women joined in a line against one wall, once again beginning their singing. But what Akei realized, each line they sung....the circle beneath then was glowering silver, brighter each time. The tom-robber outstretched a palm, finding that where the edge of the circle was...upwards from it, led a barrier. They were trapped.
Two of the Egyptian women parted ways and went dancing move by move around the walls of the room. The third stepped forward and danced around the circular barrier, she was the main singer.
"...A voiceless song on an ageless light..."
"...Sings at the coming dawn..."
"...Birds in flight are calling there..."
Now the one encircling their barrier raised her arms to the ceiling, clasping hands together as she sang above the others, falling into a kneel. "...Where the heart moves the stones..."
'This is too damn confusing....Is this some freaking ritual or something?!' Akei thought in annoyance, trying to follow the switching of voices. Yami and Seto were equally in confusion, eyes darted back and forth between the three women.
But with one to her knees, the other two followed suit...singing out loudly. "It's there my heart is longing for.....all for the love of you." Every lighting in the room fades to blackness after the "ending" of the song.
Almost beginning that the women were gone, Seto glanced through the darkness, figuring that they really were gone. Boy. When you're wrong, you're wrong.
The voices joined to one large one, bouncing off the walls into an echo. They were directed.....to Yami. "Our Pharaoh...you have at last returned to us. The people need you now. The time of unnatural darkness if creeping in on our fair city. A tomb has been awakened, the dark spells masking it have been released. You must protect us. You must protect the city."
The former Pharaoh flinched....this was not what he expected in happening. Why can't anything ever be simple? Now...a mere voice spoke separate from the others, it seemed by a rustle that she had stood from her kneel....or maybe it was a bow?
"I sense two others with you, ancient ones. Our high priest and..." Her thoughts must have been clouded.
"And a tomb-robber." Another voice aided the confused one, hissing out those four words. "He shall not be here! He must not live!" A gold light flickered to light the entire room, the barrier dropping and the three women standing in a triangle format facing them. Each had a glare, cemented to their faces, aimed at Akei. The closest one to them snapped a hand to point at Akei, a strong power of magic illuminating around her, and it was enough to send Akei flying from the ground and into a wall, groaning painfully.
The two others parted ways and inched towards him, being fed strength from the third who remained still. An order snapped from her mouth, Seto and Yami hanging on every word. "DESTROY HIM! Destroy the tomb-robber! HE SHALL NOT LIVE!"
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Eek! Man....first Bakura and now Akei....aren't I so mean to them? I was going to make this longer...but I just HAD to end it there, it was perfect! And now I'm out of one writer's block...two others to break from. What the three women were singing, was a part from The Mystic's Dream, but was NOT the entire song. Sorry if it was confusing...I will give those three names hopefully next chapter so it will be able to address them.....Oh, and here's the lyrics to the part of the song sang...
A clouded dream on an earthly night
Hangs upon the crescent moon
A voiceless song in an ageless light
Sings at the coming dawn
Birds in flight are calling there
Where the heart moves the stones
It's there that my heart is longing
All for the love of you
And until next chapter...abiz!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any lyrics to the song The Mystic's Dream by Loreena McKennitt.
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Bakura turned his head from Yami at the mentioning of his father, but spoke up anyway. "I-I'm not quite sure...it was close to the city....but where exactly I'm not sure..."
"It's ok, Bakura, we'll have to find it though." Yami looked up at the darkening sky before back to the group standing around him. "First thing tomorrow. It's getting late and we should get some rest soon." His eyes fell on the two hikaris, Yugi and Bakura. "You two get the beds, Kaiba keep watch. Me and Akei will stay in our soul rooms.....most likely at least..." Akei shot him a look as if he was going to wander, Yami was thinking the same thing. The only problem was Seto's complaints.
"Why do I have keep watch?"
Yami smirked as he turned and headed towards the palace, speaking up loud enough for EVERYONE to hear. "Because, my priest, you haven't been here as long as us." The others heard a chuckle and blinked at each other before following after the former Pharaoh, Seto the last one to move.
"I think being in Egypt again is getting to his head..."
"I heard that!"
Seto gulped and followed after the group of four ahead of him.
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Yugi and Bakura took sleeping in the beds quickly, dosing off in a matter of minutes. Kaiba leaned in the doorway of their small room, staring out the window with an agitated grin as night crept over the city of Cairo.
Now...the two yamis had both gone to wander through the palace. Akei seemed paranoid because the last time he wandered off, a Saber Wolf decided to try and kill him. A yami served on a silver platter, might taste good.....to a canine that is. Yami seemed in an almost bright mood, it was like being home. He felt right being here.
"I hate this place.....I should have stayed in my soul room....." Yami glanced at the direction of grumbling, only seeing a silhouette of Akei besides him. The former Pharaoh couldn't blame the other yami though, this place was the last thing Akei saw before becoming trapped within the ring.
"Then why don't you...?"
"Don't I what?" He hissed back.
"Go back to your soul room."
"No idea."
******
Little did the two yamis know, someone had left their post to follow them. A certain Kaiba wanted to get a peek around the palace he was so called "high priest" in. Was that so wrong? Why was it he was forced to watch over the dark half's lights? So in ancient times he was under Yami's rule, well, not now!
The CEO slid up behind a column, back against the smooth marble feeling material. His brunette head turned around the curved column to see the two yamis standing before a large set of doors, hieroglyphics covering it. He listened hard, hearing Yami beginning to talk before the former high priest turned himself around for a better view, and less chance of hurting his neck.
"I don't remember this...." Yami stepped forward and tried opening the doors with Akei's assistance, but the door refused to budge. Sighing in defeat, Yami stepped back, scanning his ruby eyes along the ancient symbols before starting to speak out loud what it read. He glanced at Akei from the corner of his eyes, still chanting in his native tongue and signaling Akei to join in. Which he reluctantly chanted along the hieroglyphics.
Seto slithered away from the column, since the two were distracted enough, he didn't need to worry about hiding. Folding his arms over his chest, he allowed a smirk to plaster over his face. But what caught him off guard....was the two large doors the duo darkness's were chanting from.
It was opening.
Kaiba fell back in surprise, losing his composure for a moment or two. He shook his head roughly and looked back to the doors fully opened, the yamis stepping within a large room.
Faintly, a glow enveloped the two doors, beckoning for Seto to enter. In his mind, he refused it....but his body had other plans. With his gaze falling to look at his legs, the CEO only found himself walking in a slow...trance state.
Clearing the doors he looked around, Yami and Akei standing in the center of some circle, both confused. There were no other doors but that one, no windows either. Just walls. A square room.
Abruptly after Seto had entered, the doors snapped close in a loud slam that seemed to shake the palace. And the three were left in darkness.
"What the hell is going on?!" Akei snapped, eyes darting around to try and see anything, but the darkness was all that was shown. His gaze brought him to the cause of the sound, where the doors were, even though he couldn't see them.
"I don't know...."
Seto remained silent, it's all he really could do.
Out of nowhere though, four silver slivers of light emerged to shine on the circle Yami and Akei were standing on. One light from every corner of the room. Seto blinked, at least he couldn't be seen, but he could sure see the other two.
Each person in the room jumped, a soft voice was singing out a Celtic type of song. The source was unseen.
"A clouded dream on an earthly night..."
".....So oh great one....any idea what is going on...?" Akei murmured in his normal and expected sarcastic tone of voice.
"I wish."
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Yugi jerked awake from his bed, yelling out with sweat making its way from his forehead. "Yami!" At his sudden outburst, Bakura stirred and sat up, looking over to his multi-haired friend.
"What is it Yugi...?"
"Yami is gone!"
"Yeah...I know.....he went of with my yami to explore the palace....remember...?"
"No! He's GONE! Not even in the palace anymore! I can't even connect to him through our mental link!"
Bakura paused and closed his eyes. {Yami? Where are you two?}
...........
"I-I can't connect to mine either......where could they be?"
"And where's Kaiba....?"
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A second voice joined in with the song of the first, continuing where the other finished off.
".....Hangs upon the crescent moon." At this sentence sang, the walls began to let off a very faint golden glow, but it was enough to illuminate the room. And show where Seto was standing.
"Kaiba!"
"Eh....hey Yami."
"What are you doing here you're supposed to be-" Yami paused and realized Akei was pointing to one of the walls and tapping the former Pharaoh's shoulder. Yami turned to face it and saw two women, forest green eyes and thin black hair flowing to their ankles. They were barefoot, and skin seemed very dark and tanned. Egyptian markings coated their faces slightly, and bodies were covered in golden silk robes. They had paused their singing when Yami had yelled out to Kaiba, observing the three almost. And a third women appeared behind the mentioned CEO, looking just like the other two. This caught Seto off guard and he turned on his heel to face her. He wasn't in that placing for long.
As soon as he had turned to her, she pushed him backwards roughly, causing him to fall into the circle Yami and Akei were on. With that done, it seemed someone had activated a fog machine. But it wasn't artificial....this was real mist, covering several inches from the floor.
The three women joined in a line against one wall, once again beginning their singing. But what Akei realized, each line they sung....the circle beneath then was glowering silver, brighter each time. The tom-robber outstretched a palm, finding that where the edge of the circle was...upwards from it, led a barrier. They were trapped.
Two of the Egyptian women parted ways and went dancing move by move around the walls of the room. The third stepped forward and danced around the circular barrier, she was the main singer.
"...A voiceless song on an ageless light..."
"...Sings at the coming dawn..."
"...Birds in flight are calling there..."
Now the one encircling their barrier raised her arms to the ceiling, clasping hands together as she sang above the others, falling into a kneel. "...Where the heart moves the stones..."
'This is too damn confusing....Is this some freaking ritual or something?!' Akei thought in annoyance, trying to follow the switching of voices. Yami and Seto were equally in confusion, eyes darted back and forth between the three women.
But with one to her knees, the other two followed suit...singing out loudly. "It's there my heart is longing for.....all for the love of you." Every lighting in the room fades to blackness after the "ending" of the song.
Almost beginning that the women were gone, Seto glanced through the darkness, figuring that they really were gone. Boy. When you're wrong, you're wrong.
The voices joined to one large one, bouncing off the walls into an echo. They were directed.....to Yami. "Our Pharaoh...you have at last returned to us. The people need you now. The time of unnatural darkness if creeping in on our fair city. A tomb has been awakened, the dark spells masking it have been released. You must protect us. You must protect the city."
The former Pharaoh flinched....this was not what he expected in happening. Why can't anything ever be simple? Now...a mere voice spoke separate from the others, it seemed by a rustle that she had stood from her kneel....or maybe it was a bow?
"I sense two others with you, ancient ones. Our high priest and..." Her thoughts must have been clouded.
"And a tomb-robber." Another voice aided the confused one, hissing out those four words. "He shall not be here! He must not live!" A gold light flickered to light the entire room, the barrier dropping and the three women standing in a triangle format facing them. Each had a glare, cemented to their faces, aimed at Akei. The closest one to them snapped a hand to point at Akei, a strong power of magic illuminating around her, and it was enough to send Akei flying from the ground and into a wall, groaning painfully.
The two others parted ways and inched towards him, being fed strength from the third who remained still. An order snapped from her mouth, Seto and Yami hanging on every word. "DESTROY HIM! Destroy the tomb-robber! HE SHALL NOT LIVE!"
******
Eek! Man....first Bakura and now Akei....aren't I so mean to them? I was going to make this longer...but I just HAD to end it there, it was perfect! And now I'm out of one writer's block...two others to break from. What the three women were singing, was a part from The Mystic's Dream, but was NOT the entire song. Sorry if it was confusing...I will give those three names hopefully next chapter so it will be able to address them.....Oh, and here's the lyrics to the part of the song sang...
A clouded dream on an earthly night
Hangs upon the crescent moon
A voiceless song in an ageless light
Sings at the coming dawn
Birds in flight are calling there
Where the heart moves the stones
It's there that my heart is longing
All for the love of you
And until next chapter...abiz!