Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh!
Okies. Here I am, no rough draft, totally unprepared, without an idea in my head, looking for Inspiration to dawn on me.
Stupid, I know. But, Ohhhmmmm... I feel it coming... Yes!
"Who the hell invented pistachio ice cream?!"
Ummm... O.K...this time it otta work.
Angel's Blood
By: Bishiehuggler
Chapter 3: Explainations and Happenings
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Yugi looked over at his friends around the table, giggling at their shocked faces. Yugioh had shown his wings to them the second after they sat down at the kitchen table. No explainations. Nothing. Now their jaws had dropped to the floor.
'I wonder if I should take a picture,' Yugi thought. 'I did tell them that he was an angel. Didn't I?'
Yugioh's ebony wings stretched all around the table, curling behind Jounouchi's head. He recovered and asked, "What the hell are you?" with all the disbelief he could throw.
"A fallen angel." was the simple, clipped reply.
"That is so amazing!" Anzu giggled a little and nuzzled her way under the feathers. Yugi looked crestfallen. Yami grunted and pulled his wings back into his body.
"Who are you and why're you here, 'Yami?'" Honda demanded more than inquired.
"Is this some kind of interrogation?" The King of Games got determined looks from everyone but Yuugi, who was smiling encouragingly at him. He sighed, "Look, I'm gonna be short and to the point on this one-" The audience sat back in their chairs for a long story.
"Alright. My name, Yugioh, is my true one. I was a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt 3000 years ago. [AN: Before I said 5000. Stupid dubbers.] I was better known as the King of Games, for I could win any game to date, and had mastered the Shadow Realm so it would bend to my will-"
"What's the Shadow Realm?" Jounouchi asked.
"A place of infinite darkness where you play dangerous games with the stakes being as high as Life and Death."
"Oh." he got an expectant look. "You can keep on with the story now."
"When I died I was put on the God's Council, like every other Pharaoh."
"Why is that?" Yuugi asked. The King of Games snorted and rolled his eyes. He _was_ never really good with children. But
he couldn't really blame the kid for not knowing.
"The Pharaoh represents Horus, God of Life. So being Pharaoh makes you Horus on Earth."
"I see." he probably didn't.
"It was then I learned of the parallel dimension similar to Heaven and Earth, through the Shadow Realm. Ano~ Let's call it The Unknown, agreed?" All nodded.
"They had battled us for millenia. Then the Council decided they'd drop a powerful bomb into the dimension, using the Shadow Realm as the gateway. I was livid, so I divised and carried out a plan to seal the Realm so they couldn't use it.
"Naturally I was caught. I tried to escape, got hit in the process, and fell here.
"So basically Osiris, the Ancient Egyptian God of the Dead and Final Judgement, has no objectors now, and is gonna drop Earth into a rival realm, using it like a bomb, to destroy them." That got everyone. They were horrified, including Yuugi. Tears welled up in the little boy's eyes as he shook his head violently. Yami fought the urge to comfort him.
Chaos ensued between Yuugi's friends. "You're kiddin'!" Jounouchi screamed. Yugioh raised an eyebrow and made a noise of disapproval. He already knew they weren't going to take it well, but he wasn't expecting the room to break into pandemonium.He could barely catch the statements flung across the room as the volume increased. Then someone whispered into his ear.
"Why won't the other gods...stop him..." It was Yuugi. The boy looked scared out of his wits. Yugioh raised his hand for silence and the room dropped it's noise level so quickly, it was shocking. He then put his arm around Yuugi's shoulders to brace him.
"Because all of the Ancient Egyptian Council are on his side." Bracing did the trick as Yuugi nearly fainted.
"But what about the other religions with other gods and goddesses? What's their opinion?" this was Honda.
The King of Games laughed, which sounded like a grim bark coming from an injured hound. "Osiris, Ra, Isis, etc. are all Egyptian equivelants of other gods in other mythologies" -he paused to let it sink in, then stated the obvious- "they're all the same."
Silence. You could hear a pin drop.
Anzu was the only Christian of the group. She always took her beliefs seriously. Now some guy just walked in and said that her cult's gathered opinion was for naught. So she did what was human nature. She questioned him. "What about the religions with a single-"
Yugioh cut her off and waved his hand nonchalantly, "All-Mighty God? Like the Christian, Islam, Jewish and other religions? Horus-being leader of the Council-made that God himself. A puppet on a string. A figurehead. Really a false idol that he killed a good fifty years ago."
"The miracles."
"Horus's doing."
"The 'Ten Commandments?'"
"Just guidelines for you to follow, so your will to fight back is extinguished."
"Heaven?!"
"That one is real."
Anzu leapt for joy. Then she stopped and narrowed her eyes. "It's not a twisted, bloody place where every poor, unsuspecting soul is tortured to non-exsistence, is it?"
"Nope." Yami answered simply. Everyone fell over, anime-style. "It's really an alternate dimension where the Council is the reigning government."
Jounouchi summed it up for everyone, dripping with sarcasm. "So, basically you want everyone to disband their hopes and dreams to follow you to fight to the death-" he took a deep breath "-so the Earth isn't used as a nuke."
"Yup, that's pretty much it."
"O.K! I trust you!" Yuugi exclaimed with the innocent cheeriness only he could muster. This brought on massive sweatdropping.
"Chotto, Yuugi!" Jounouchi yelled. "I've been thinking-"
"-Uh, oh." Honda grumbled.
The dirty blond punched him. "What I was saying is that, how can we trust you? I mean; you fall out of the sky; in a pool of blood; then you state something that might be entirely untrue, that turns our world upside-down, and you expect us to trust you?!"
Yami no Yuugi set his piercing gaze on the teen, making him shiver. " Valid point, but, if you want to die, fine. I tried. The only way we can stop this thing is if we all believe in each other and band together to create an army to defend ourselves."
"How the hell can we raise an army, when what you're doing totally defies human nature?" Honda asked.
Yugioh thumbed his chin and came up with this answer. "Well, I was thinking of raising an army in the United States of America. I mean, they are all going to hell for worshipping money anyways." That resulted in a massive anime fall [AN: And the author gettin' her unpatriotic ass flamed]. Yami scratched the back of his head thoughtfully, ignoring the pile of twisted limbs and bodies beside him. "Now all I need to do is figure out how make them believe me..." The pile had just fallen into the basement.
Yuugi scrambled up the steps and back into the kitchen with the obvious answer "Fly around!" he yelled at his ally, nose-to-nose. His eyes were starry in memory. "Once someone sees you flying around, they'll have to believe!"
The elder lookalike gazed at his smaller form. 'Why didn't I think of that?' Then he smiled and decided to brighten his mood. He put his index finger and his thumb in between his and Yuugi's noses. He spread them apart, then took them away, showing the distance between themselves. Less than an inch of free space. Yuugi turned away and quickly skitted across the floor, blushing.
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Bishiehuggler: Okay, that sucked. All explaination and random humor. Oh, for the record I'm gonna make Honda a little more intellectual and Anzu _really_ isn't Christian, I made it up. I hope the .txt documents on Notepad work out this time. I checked back once to find my endnotes cut off. I was thinking of making this fluffier/bloodier. Guess it didn't turn out the way I expected. Ah, well R&R, Flamers will be flamed. Oh, I'm Christian & do believe in God.
Okies. Here I am, no rough draft, totally unprepared, without an idea in my head, looking for Inspiration to dawn on me.
Stupid, I know. But, Ohhhmmmm... I feel it coming... Yes!
"Who the hell invented pistachio ice cream?!"
Ummm... O.K...this time it otta work.
Angel's Blood
By: Bishiehuggler
Chapter 3: Explainations and Happenings
***********************************************
Yugi looked over at his friends around the table, giggling at their shocked faces. Yugioh had shown his wings to them the second after they sat down at the kitchen table. No explainations. Nothing. Now their jaws had dropped to the floor.
'I wonder if I should take a picture,' Yugi thought. 'I did tell them that he was an angel. Didn't I?'
Yugioh's ebony wings stretched all around the table, curling behind Jounouchi's head. He recovered and asked, "What the hell are you?" with all the disbelief he could throw.
"A fallen angel." was the simple, clipped reply.
"That is so amazing!" Anzu giggled a little and nuzzled her way under the feathers. Yugi looked crestfallen. Yami grunted and pulled his wings back into his body.
"Who are you and why're you here, 'Yami?'" Honda demanded more than inquired.
"Is this some kind of interrogation?" The King of Games got determined looks from everyone but Yuugi, who was smiling encouragingly at him. He sighed, "Look, I'm gonna be short and to the point on this one-" The audience sat back in their chairs for a long story.
"Alright. My name, Yugioh, is my true one. I was a Pharaoh in ancient Egypt 3000 years ago. [AN: Before I said 5000. Stupid dubbers.] I was better known as the King of Games, for I could win any game to date, and had mastered the Shadow Realm so it would bend to my will-"
"What's the Shadow Realm?" Jounouchi asked.
"A place of infinite darkness where you play dangerous games with the stakes being as high as Life and Death."
"Oh." he got an expectant look. "You can keep on with the story now."
"When I died I was put on the God's Council, like every other Pharaoh."
"Why is that?" Yuugi asked. The King of Games snorted and rolled his eyes. He _was_ never really good with children. But
he couldn't really blame the kid for not knowing.
"The Pharaoh represents Horus, God of Life. So being Pharaoh makes you Horus on Earth."
"I see." he probably didn't.
"It was then I learned of the parallel dimension similar to Heaven and Earth, through the Shadow Realm. Ano~ Let's call it The Unknown, agreed?" All nodded.
"They had battled us for millenia. Then the Council decided they'd drop a powerful bomb into the dimension, using the Shadow Realm as the gateway. I was livid, so I divised and carried out a plan to seal the Realm so they couldn't use it.
"Naturally I was caught. I tried to escape, got hit in the process, and fell here.
"So basically Osiris, the Ancient Egyptian God of the Dead and Final Judgement, has no objectors now, and is gonna drop Earth into a rival realm, using it like a bomb, to destroy them." That got everyone. They were horrified, including Yuugi. Tears welled up in the little boy's eyes as he shook his head violently. Yami fought the urge to comfort him.
Chaos ensued between Yuugi's friends. "You're kiddin'!" Jounouchi screamed. Yugioh raised an eyebrow and made a noise of disapproval. He already knew they weren't going to take it well, but he wasn't expecting the room to break into pandemonium.He could barely catch the statements flung across the room as the volume increased. Then someone whispered into his ear.
"Why won't the other gods...stop him..." It was Yuugi. The boy looked scared out of his wits. Yugioh raised his hand for silence and the room dropped it's noise level so quickly, it was shocking. He then put his arm around Yuugi's shoulders to brace him.
"Because all of the Ancient Egyptian Council are on his side." Bracing did the trick as Yuugi nearly fainted.
"But what about the other religions with other gods and goddesses? What's their opinion?" this was Honda.
The King of Games laughed, which sounded like a grim bark coming from an injured hound. "Osiris, Ra, Isis, etc. are all Egyptian equivelants of other gods in other mythologies" -he paused to let it sink in, then stated the obvious- "they're all the same."
Silence. You could hear a pin drop.
Anzu was the only Christian of the group. She always took her beliefs seriously. Now some guy just walked in and said that her cult's gathered opinion was for naught. So she did what was human nature. She questioned him. "What about the religions with a single-"
Yugioh cut her off and waved his hand nonchalantly, "All-Mighty God? Like the Christian, Islam, Jewish and other religions? Horus-being leader of the Council-made that God himself. A puppet on a string. A figurehead. Really a false idol that he killed a good fifty years ago."
"The miracles."
"Horus's doing."
"The 'Ten Commandments?'"
"Just guidelines for you to follow, so your will to fight back is extinguished."
"Heaven?!"
"That one is real."
Anzu leapt for joy. Then she stopped and narrowed her eyes. "It's not a twisted, bloody place where every poor, unsuspecting soul is tortured to non-exsistence, is it?"
"Nope." Yami answered simply. Everyone fell over, anime-style. "It's really an alternate dimension where the Council is the reigning government."
Jounouchi summed it up for everyone, dripping with sarcasm. "So, basically you want everyone to disband their hopes and dreams to follow you to fight to the death-" he took a deep breath "-so the Earth isn't used as a nuke."
"Yup, that's pretty much it."
"O.K! I trust you!" Yuugi exclaimed with the innocent cheeriness only he could muster. This brought on massive sweatdropping.
"Chotto, Yuugi!" Jounouchi yelled. "I've been thinking-"
"-Uh, oh." Honda grumbled.
The dirty blond punched him. "What I was saying is that, how can we trust you? I mean; you fall out of the sky; in a pool of blood; then you state something that might be entirely untrue, that turns our world upside-down, and you expect us to trust you?!"
Yami no Yuugi set his piercing gaze on the teen, making him shiver. " Valid point, but, if you want to die, fine. I tried. The only way we can stop this thing is if we all believe in each other and band together to create an army to defend ourselves."
"How the hell can we raise an army, when what you're doing totally defies human nature?" Honda asked.
Yugioh thumbed his chin and came up with this answer. "Well, I was thinking of raising an army in the United States of America. I mean, they are all going to hell for worshipping money anyways." That resulted in a massive anime fall [AN: And the author gettin' her unpatriotic ass flamed]. Yami scratched the back of his head thoughtfully, ignoring the pile of twisted limbs and bodies beside him. "Now all I need to do is figure out how make them believe me..." The pile had just fallen into the basement.
Yuugi scrambled up the steps and back into the kitchen with the obvious answer "Fly around!" he yelled at his ally, nose-to-nose. His eyes were starry in memory. "Once someone sees you flying around, they'll have to believe!"
The elder lookalike gazed at his smaller form. 'Why didn't I think of that?' Then he smiled and decided to brighten his mood. He put his index finger and his thumb in between his and Yuugi's noses. He spread them apart, then took them away, showing the distance between themselves. Less than an inch of free space. Yuugi turned away and quickly skitted across the floor, blushing.
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Bishiehuggler: Okay, that sucked. All explaination and random humor. Oh, for the record I'm gonna make Honda a little more intellectual and Anzu _really_ isn't Christian, I made it up. I hope the .txt documents on Notepad work out this time. I checked back once to find my endnotes cut off. I was thinking of making this fluffier/bloodier. Guess it didn't turn out the way I expected. Ah, well R&R, Flamers will be flamed. Oh, I'm Christian & do believe in God.