Title: The Lost Eudoxia
Author: Ash Knight
Pairings: Yami/Yugi, Dark Magician/ Celtic Guardian
Warnings: Lemon & Sap
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters but I did come up
with their alternate names and I do own Eudoxia.
Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Princess Vegena for her
encouragement and friendship. Without her I would have never of begun to
write yaoi, and therefore all these fics would not have been possible.
Vegena I'll love you always . . . .
Alternate names: Celtic Guardian - Yoshima, Dark Magician - Aubrey
The sun arose over the valley, casting its light over everything. In doing so it cast so many shadows over the land, creating even more illusion that night. A dark lone figure was now racing the sun's rays up to a shrine where the coming battle would soon begin. With a blast of light the doors were open and the way was pointed out. And as the figure ran down what seemed to be another endless maze he thought to himself:
"Now the fun begins!"
*
Yugi awoke as he heard footsteps nearby. When he opened his eyes he saw the Dark Magician and the Celtic Guardian walking towards him and Yami. Yugi smiled at the sight of them and noticed suddenly that Yami was no longer asleep. Yami wrapped his arms around Yugi and gave him a good morning kiss.
"Every time I wake up now . . . I'm afraid that this is all a dream. And most of all I'm afraid I wont see your face next to me when I look over. Because, if none of this is real than I know I'll never feel again, the way I feel, when I'm with you," Yugi declared.
"Yugi, no matter what happens I will always find a way to be with you. And trust me; no dream could ever be this wonderful."
"How come you never say any of that stuff to me?" Aubrey asked the Celtic Guardian.
The Celtic Guardian blushed a very dark shade of red and was at a loss for words. Everyone then started to laugh at this, even Yoshima. They soon gathered there things and soon came upon a steep hill leading upwards in a twisting trail. The path was long and seemed to have no end, when Yugi had just about given up hope of seeing the top they had reached the shrine. One look at it and they all knew they were too late. Bakura had reached the shrine before them and now it was a race against what little time they had left. Immediately Yami called Yoshima and Aubrey back into the deck and he and Yugi were soon deep in a labyrinth with no seeming end.
"How are we going to know which way to go? I can't tell one way from another in here." Yugi declared.
"I made it that way to make it even harder to find your way through. But don't worry as long as you are with me you can't get lost in here. I know the way by heart and none of the traps will harm me or any one I'm with. Hopefully the obstacles in his way will slow Bakura down enough for us to catch him. Even with his Ring I doubt he can navigate through all the barriers I put up so quickly."
As they went on they found many walls scorched and burned, some even with great holes still smoldering with smoke. When they finally made it out of the maze before them they saw a great golden door covered in hieroglyphics. Unfortunately they would never reach it. As soon as they began to walk towards it a trapdoor opened below Yami like a mouth and swallowed him whole. Yugi tried to grab him but he was too late. Yami went spiraling down what seemed like a slide and crashed onto a hard marble floor. Before he even had a chance to get to his feet the ceiling began to slowly come down and from it came out dozens of sharp spikes.
Yugi was left screaming for his lover as the trap door closed leaving nothing to indicate it was ever there. Yugi was so distracted by this that he never noticed Bakura coming from behind. Within a split second he was unconscious on the floor. With a splitting pain in the back of his head, he awoke to find Bakura standing at a few feet away in front of him, holding Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.
"Give me back my Puzzle!' Yugi demanded. "How the mighty have fallen! Soon your other self will be dead and I will claim not only Eudoxia but your Puzzle. But, if you really want it back, then how about a game, that is, if you think you even stand a chance?" Bakura laughed looking at Yugi's face.
/Yami? Yami are you all right? Bakura has the Puzzle/
//I . . . ant . . . hear . . . you. Wit. . . out . . . uzzle . . . You must fight him alone . . .//
"You can't reach him anymore, even with your mind link. Without the Puzzle you can no longer join together. And he can not return to the Puzzle because I placed a spell on that trap door of his. Not even the most powerful spell can penetrate its walls until everything in there is dead. And I doubt that even your precious cards can help you now."
"The heart of the cards has never let me down before. And now you not only face the heart of the cards, but you face what will surely secure my victory. You face the GRAVITY OG LOVE!"
Bakura laughed manically at this and said nothing. From Bakura's Ring came a soft glow and instantly before them was an arena taking up the last half of the great hallway behind Bakura. They had each taken their places and began to shuffle their decks.
"I will go first. I set this monster face down in defense mode and I lay this card face down as well," Bakura announced.
Yugi began to think about what he should play. He had to end this battle quickly if he had any hope of saving Yami.
"I play this card face down and I place one monster down in defense mode."
"I play one card face down and I summon The White Magical Hat."
The White Magical Hat appeared and attacked Yugi's face down monster in a blast of smoke.
"Bad move Bakura! You just attacked, The Mystical Elf"
The White Magical hat was destroyed as The Mystical Elf appeared in ablaze of beautiful light, singing her incanting song and took away 1000 of Bakura's life points away with her amazing defense.
"Now it's my turn. I place this card face down and I attack your face down card with . . . The Celtic Guardian."
Yoshima then appeared o the field, and impaled Bakura's card with his sword. Suddenly Yoshima was electrified with great bolts of electricity.
"You fool; you can't attack the Electric Lizard without some shocking feed back. Now I place this card face down and I activate this card, Just Deserts! Taking away 1000 of your life points!"
"I summon the Curse of Dragon and I attack your face down card!" Yugi declared.
The Curse of Dragon attacked the face down card, revealing a Morphing Jar. Bakura laughed as he and Yugi both discarded there hands and drew new ones.
"I know place this card face down and I place this monster face down in attack mode," Bakura said, and ended his turn.
What appeared on the field Yugi could not believe, it was the same Chinese box the Paradox Brothers used against him, but that would mean. . .
"Yes I too have the three pieces. And when I assemble all three this will all end," Bakura declared as if he knew what Yugi was thinking.
"I summon Kuribo in defense mode and I lay this card face down, and I switch my Celtic Guardian and my Curse of Dragon in defense mode as well."
"I use Card Destruction and draw new cards from the deck. Now I place this card face down in attack mode!" Bakura yelled, as another Chinese box appeared on the field.
"I place this card face down, and I end my turn here!"
"Now I summon the finally piece ad bringing to life THE GATE GUARDIAN!" Bakura declared.
"I pass this turn."
"I attack your Curse of Dragon. Thunder Strike!"
"Wrong, you just activated my trap card MIRROR FORCE!" Yugi shouted.
"Raise tidal shield!" Bakura shouted as a great wall of water arose over the Gate Guardian. "Now I attack with Kazejin, destroying your Curse of Dragon."
"I place these two cards face down on the field, and end my turn."
"I destroy your Mystical Elf with Thunder Strike, and I use Kazejin to destroy Kuribo."
"Wrong, I activate my magic card, multiply, making hundreds of my original Kuribo, making an in penetrable defense!" Yugi said.
"I summon the Dark Magician and I use the Magical Hats to conceal him and the Celtic Guardian, and I lay one card face down inside one of the hats.
"I destroy the hat on the left!" Bakura yelled in frustration.
"You have just activated my trap card, The Spell Binding Circle reducing the Gate Guardian's attack power by 700 points and paralyzing him! And now I move both my Dark Magician and The Celtic Guardian out the Magical Hats. And with the power of Polymerization I fuse together The Dark Magician and The Celtic Guardian, to create . . . Celtic Mage with an attack power of 2900!!!"
Where Yoshima and Aubrey stood on the battle field now stood a new being. His hair and eyes were dark purple like the Dark Magician and he had the ears of the Celtic Guardian, along with the Guardian's markings under his eyes. He was wearing robes of dark emerald green, covered in Celtic Runes and markings. In his right hand he carried a great double ended staff. On the bottom half was a sharp curved black sword; on top of the staff was a long pole with a silver star head on top.
"You still can't win this battle Yugi. Your Celtic Mage may be strong but he still isn't as strong as My Gate Guardian. I can't do anything on this turn but on my next I will claim my victory!"
"Wrong again! I give my Celtic Mage, The Black Pendant and The Horn of The Unicorn Making its Total attack power 4100. CELTIC MAGE, DESTROY THE GATE GUARDIAN!!!"
With that in a great explosion of black and green light the Gate Guardian was no more. Suddenly the doors behind them opened
"Well played little Yugi. You won the battle and by doing so you have won both Eudoxia and your Puzzle," Bakura said as he threw Yugi back his Puzzle. "But, you're too late to save your pathetic lover! HA HA HA HA . . ."
"NO!!!!!!!"
Bakura was then swallowed once more by the portal he had created before and was now gone. With every once of strength left in his body, Yugi ran into the now opened doors. When he passed the open doors a great force blew him back. He fell to the floor on his back to see a great orb of light floating in the center of the room. The orbs light began to pulse and churn as if something inside of it was trying to claw its way out. Yugi got to his feet and watched as the orb continued to change. It began to take what looked like some kind of a human shape. Suddenly the orb was completely gone and what stood in the center of the room was now a huge beautiful monster as big as Exodia himself, but looked nothing like him. Her face was a pale white that made even the purest snow seem dark. Her eyes were a dark purple, and her lips a rosy red. Her hair was a silver blonde that fell down to the small of her back. She was wearing battle armor of gold on her chest and a black skirt ending above her knees. And behind her back was a pair of wings! They stretched out from her back almost hitting the walls on either side of her, and they emanated a glow of all the colors in a rainbow. A smile came upon her face as she looked upon Yugi, as if she could see right threw him. She then gestured with her left hand to a door that was visible from her behind her. And with that she disappeared in a flash of multicolored light, leaving nothing behind except for five cards that now hung in the air before the door.
"Yugi understood and walked forward to claim his prize. Like Exodia, she was divided upon the five cards and Yugi had put them in his deck. As soon as he did so the door opened up and he knew it would lead him to Yami. He ran as fast as he could, down a spiraling stair case leading him into the unknown. When he reached the bottom he was now in another hall only smaller, and at the end was a door. He ran again hoping that somehow Bakura was wrong. The door would not open as Yugi pushed against it with all its might, but it would not open. He took out his deck and called out:
"Dark Magician I summon you!" and with that Aubrey stood before him. "Open this door with your power! DARK MAGIC ATTACK!"
The door was now shattered to pieces with the attack, and Yugi ran inside, but he was too late. Yugi's eyes now filled with tears as he held his lover, who was impaled by spikes through out his body. Yugi rocked back and forth with Yami's body in his arms, unable to control his sobs. Aubrey tried to comfort him but nothing he could say would take away Yugi's sorrow.
"It . . . was all . . . for no . . . thing, its . . . over," Yugi managed to blurt out in between sobs.
"I'm afraid not Yugi. I'm afraid things . . . have just begun.
-FIN?-
OK HERE IS THE DEAL. I HAVE A PLAN ON BRINGING YAMI BACK FROM THE GRAVE, AND A FIC PLOTTED OUT IN MY HEAD. BUT I WILL ONLY WRITE IT IF SOMEONE ASKS'S ME TO. AND I WILL ALSO LIKE TO SAY HAT I COULDN'T HAVE WRITEN A LARGE PART OF BATTLE PORTION OF THE FIC WITHOUT PRINCESS VEGENA.
The sun arose over the valley, casting its light over everything. In doing so it cast so many shadows over the land, creating even more illusion that night. A dark lone figure was now racing the sun's rays up to a shrine where the coming battle would soon begin. With a blast of light the doors were open and the way was pointed out. And as the figure ran down what seemed to be another endless maze he thought to himself:
"Now the fun begins!"
*
Yugi awoke as he heard footsteps nearby. When he opened his eyes he saw the Dark Magician and the Celtic Guardian walking towards him and Yami. Yugi smiled at the sight of them and noticed suddenly that Yami was no longer asleep. Yami wrapped his arms around Yugi and gave him a good morning kiss.
"Every time I wake up now . . . I'm afraid that this is all a dream. And most of all I'm afraid I wont see your face next to me when I look over. Because, if none of this is real than I know I'll never feel again, the way I feel, when I'm with you," Yugi declared.
"Yugi, no matter what happens I will always find a way to be with you. And trust me; no dream could ever be this wonderful."
"How come you never say any of that stuff to me?" Aubrey asked the Celtic Guardian.
The Celtic Guardian blushed a very dark shade of red and was at a loss for words. Everyone then started to laugh at this, even Yoshima. They soon gathered there things and soon came upon a steep hill leading upwards in a twisting trail. The path was long and seemed to have no end, when Yugi had just about given up hope of seeing the top they had reached the shrine. One look at it and they all knew they were too late. Bakura had reached the shrine before them and now it was a race against what little time they had left. Immediately Yami called Yoshima and Aubrey back into the deck and he and Yugi were soon deep in a labyrinth with no seeming end.
"How are we going to know which way to go? I can't tell one way from another in here." Yugi declared.
"I made it that way to make it even harder to find your way through. But don't worry as long as you are with me you can't get lost in here. I know the way by heart and none of the traps will harm me or any one I'm with. Hopefully the obstacles in his way will slow Bakura down enough for us to catch him. Even with his Ring I doubt he can navigate through all the barriers I put up so quickly."
As they went on they found many walls scorched and burned, some even with great holes still smoldering with smoke. When they finally made it out of the maze before them they saw a great golden door covered in hieroglyphics. Unfortunately they would never reach it. As soon as they began to walk towards it a trapdoor opened below Yami like a mouth and swallowed him whole. Yugi tried to grab him but he was too late. Yami went spiraling down what seemed like a slide and crashed onto a hard marble floor. Before he even had a chance to get to his feet the ceiling began to slowly come down and from it came out dozens of sharp spikes.
Yugi was left screaming for his lover as the trap door closed leaving nothing to indicate it was ever there. Yugi was so distracted by this that he never noticed Bakura coming from behind. Within a split second he was unconscious on the floor. With a splitting pain in the back of his head, he awoke to find Bakura standing at a few feet away in front of him, holding Yugi's Millennium Puzzle.
"Give me back my Puzzle!' Yugi demanded. "How the mighty have fallen! Soon your other self will be dead and I will claim not only Eudoxia but your Puzzle. But, if you really want it back, then how about a game, that is, if you think you even stand a chance?" Bakura laughed looking at Yugi's face.
/Yami? Yami are you all right? Bakura has the Puzzle/
//I . . . ant . . . hear . . . you. Wit. . . out . . . uzzle . . . You must fight him alone . . .//
"You can't reach him anymore, even with your mind link. Without the Puzzle you can no longer join together. And he can not return to the Puzzle because I placed a spell on that trap door of his. Not even the most powerful spell can penetrate its walls until everything in there is dead. And I doubt that even your precious cards can help you now."
"The heart of the cards has never let me down before. And now you not only face the heart of the cards, but you face what will surely secure my victory. You face the GRAVITY OG LOVE!"
Bakura laughed manically at this and said nothing. From Bakura's Ring came a soft glow and instantly before them was an arena taking up the last half of the great hallway behind Bakura. They had each taken their places and began to shuffle their decks.
"I will go first. I set this monster face down in defense mode and I lay this card face down as well," Bakura announced.
Yugi began to think about what he should play. He had to end this battle quickly if he had any hope of saving Yami.
"I play this card face down and I place one monster down in defense mode."
"I play one card face down and I summon The White Magical Hat."
The White Magical Hat appeared and attacked Yugi's face down monster in a blast of smoke.
"Bad move Bakura! You just attacked, The Mystical Elf"
The White Magical hat was destroyed as The Mystical Elf appeared in ablaze of beautiful light, singing her incanting song and took away 1000 of Bakura's life points away with her amazing defense.
"Now it's my turn. I place this card face down and I attack your face down card with . . . The Celtic Guardian."
Yoshima then appeared o the field, and impaled Bakura's card with his sword. Suddenly Yoshima was electrified with great bolts of electricity.
"You fool; you can't attack the Electric Lizard without some shocking feed back. Now I place this card face down and I activate this card, Just Deserts! Taking away 1000 of your life points!"
"I summon the Curse of Dragon and I attack your face down card!" Yugi declared.
The Curse of Dragon attacked the face down card, revealing a Morphing Jar. Bakura laughed as he and Yugi both discarded there hands and drew new ones.
"I know place this card face down and I place this monster face down in attack mode," Bakura said, and ended his turn.
What appeared on the field Yugi could not believe, it was the same Chinese box the Paradox Brothers used against him, but that would mean. . .
"Yes I too have the three pieces. And when I assemble all three this will all end," Bakura declared as if he knew what Yugi was thinking.
"I summon Kuribo in defense mode and I lay this card face down, and I switch my Celtic Guardian and my Curse of Dragon in defense mode as well."
"I use Card Destruction and draw new cards from the deck. Now I place this card face down in attack mode!" Bakura yelled, as another Chinese box appeared on the field.
"I place this card face down, and I end my turn here!"
"Now I summon the finally piece ad bringing to life THE GATE GUARDIAN!" Bakura declared.
"I pass this turn."
"I attack your Curse of Dragon. Thunder Strike!"
"Wrong, you just activated my trap card MIRROR FORCE!" Yugi shouted.
"Raise tidal shield!" Bakura shouted as a great wall of water arose over the Gate Guardian. "Now I attack with Kazejin, destroying your Curse of Dragon."
"I place these two cards face down on the field, and end my turn."
"I destroy your Mystical Elf with Thunder Strike, and I use Kazejin to destroy Kuribo."
"Wrong, I activate my magic card, multiply, making hundreds of my original Kuribo, making an in penetrable defense!" Yugi said.
"I summon the Dark Magician and I use the Magical Hats to conceal him and the Celtic Guardian, and I lay one card face down inside one of the hats.
"I destroy the hat on the left!" Bakura yelled in frustration.
"You have just activated my trap card, The Spell Binding Circle reducing the Gate Guardian's attack power by 700 points and paralyzing him! And now I move both my Dark Magician and The Celtic Guardian out the Magical Hats. And with the power of Polymerization I fuse together The Dark Magician and The Celtic Guardian, to create . . . Celtic Mage with an attack power of 2900!!!"
Where Yoshima and Aubrey stood on the battle field now stood a new being. His hair and eyes were dark purple like the Dark Magician and he had the ears of the Celtic Guardian, along with the Guardian's markings under his eyes. He was wearing robes of dark emerald green, covered in Celtic Runes and markings. In his right hand he carried a great double ended staff. On the bottom half was a sharp curved black sword; on top of the staff was a long pole with a silver star head on top.
"You still can't win this battle Yugi. Your Celtic Mage may be strong but he still isn't as strong as My Gate Guardian. I can't do anything on this turn but on my next I will claim my victory!"
"Wrong again! I give my Celtic Mage, The Black Pendant and The Horn of The Unicorn Making its Total attack power 4100. CELTIC MAGE, DESTROY THE GATE GUARDIAN!!!"
With that in a great explosion of black and green light the Gate Guardian was no more. Suddenly the doors behind them opened
"Well played little Yugi. You won the battle and by doing so you have won both Eudoxia and your Puzzle," Bakura said as he threw Yugi back his Puzzle. "But, you're too late to save your pathetic lover! HA HA HA HA . . ."
"NO!!!!!!!"
Bakura was then swallowed once more by the portal he had created before and was now gone. With every once of strength left in his body, Yugi ran into the now opened doors. When he passed the open doors a great force blew him back. He fell to the floor on his back to see a great orb of light floating in the center of the room. The orbs light began to pulse and churn as if something inside of it was trying to claw its way out. Yugi got to his feet and watched as the orb continued to change. It began to take what looked like some kind of a human shape. Suddenly the orb was completely gone and what stood in the center of the room was now a huge beautiful monster as big as Exodia himself, but looked nothing like him. Her face was a pale white that made even the purest snow seem dark. Her eyes were a dark purple, and her lips a rosy red. Her hair was a silver blonde that fell down to the small of her back. She was wearing battle armor of gold on her chest and a black skirt ending above her knees. And behind her back was a pair of wings! They stretched out from her back almost hitting the walls on either side of her, and they emanated a glow of all the colors in a rainbow. A smile came upon her face as she looked upon Yugi, as if she could see right threw him. She then gestured with her left hand to a door that was visible from her behind her. And with that she disappeared in a flash of multicolored light, leaving nothing behind except for five cards that now hung in the air before the door.
"Yugi understood and walked forward to claim his prize. Like Exodia, she was divided upon the five cards and Yugi had put them in his deck. As soon as he did so the door opened up and he knew it would lead him to Yami. He ran as fast as he could, down a spiraling stair case leading him into the unknown. When he reached the bottom he was now in another hall only smaller, and at the end was a door. He ran again hoping that somehow Bakura was wrong. The door would not open as Yugi pushed against it with all its might, but it would not open. He took out his deck and called out:
"Dark Magician I summon you!" and with that Aubrey stood before him. "Open this door with your power! DARK MAGIC ATTACK!"
The door was now shattered to pieces with the attack, and Yugi ran inside, but he was too late. Yugi's eyes now filled with tears as he held his lover, who was impaled by spikes through out his body. Yugi rocked back and forth with Yami's body in his arms, unable to control his sobs. Aubrey tried to comfort him but nothing he could say would take away Yugi's sorrow.
"It . . . was all . . . for no . . . thing, its . . . over," Yugi managed to blurt out in between sobs.
"I'm afraid not Yugi. I'm afraid things . . . have just begun.
-FIN?-
OK HERE IS THE DEAL. I HAVE A PLAN ON BRINGING YAMI BACK FROM THE GRAVE, AND A FIC PLOTTED OUT IN MY HEAD. BUT I WILL ONLY WRITE IT IF SOMEONE ASKS'S ME TO. AND I WILL ALSO LIKE TO SAY HAT I COULDN'T HAVE WRITEN A LARGE PART OF BATTLE PORTION OF THE FIC WITHOUT PRINCESS VEGENA.