Yu-Gi-Oh and the Soul Liberation chap 4
Yumi openned her eyes to see who was applauding.
« Congratulation, Yumi Roshi. I am pleased to meet you again. » said Kaori.
« Kaori ? » Yumi said in suprise. Then she looked at the girl's bodyguards. «Wo ! » she said her eyes opening wide. « What are you doing here ? »
« Haven't you figured out, yet ? » she replied with a grin.
« I welcome you to the K duel tournement sponsored by the Rowen family ! » she clamed like an annoncer.
« The K.. ? K ! Kaori Rowen ! Your family organized this tournement ? ! »
« Actually, I did. I am the only member of the Rowen family. I was getting bored and I had the idea of making this tournement. »
She pulled out a mirror from her back. She closed her eyes and passed it before her face and when she openned her eyes again, Yumi stepped back seeing the evil in them. Kaori noticed it and her grin got bigger.
« But something happenned. » she added with with an evil glare to Yumi's forehead. «And I realized that I wanted to have something. You brang this something when you arrived in town. »
« Kaori ? What are talking about ? »
« I want it. NOW ! » she shouted as the bodyguards all fell on the ground.
Yumi stared at them. She made a few step behind. She soon found out there were no exit. : one way there was the giant closed doors and the other way, there was Kaori walking towards her with an hysteric expression in her eyes. When she was about a meter, the red haired girl stopped.
« Step back, Rowen ! » Yumi said as a mark glowed on her forehead at the exact spot of her scar.
Kaori glared at her, suprised. Then she smiled again.
« Wow ! So that's where you hide it ? » she asked.
« What are you talking about ? ! ? » asked the real Yumi with an interrogative glare. « I'm talking about your millenium item of course ! » she replied pointing the girl's forehead. « I have one too, y'know. Mine is the millenium mirror. Did you know each item had a special power ? » she asked.
« What kind of power ? »
« Very powerful ones. Seven of them were locked away by an ancient pharaoh. But some of them, ours, come from another tomb also in ancient Egypt. The tomb of the Queen of this pharaoh. She was the queen of games ! And next to her beloved one, she was the best shadow game strategist. She too had great powers and if it wasn't for her, the shadow games could never have been locked away. but for that, she had to pay the price : She too was locked away in a millnium item. Yours. »
« I don't get it ! Why are you telling me this ? » she asked, scared.
« Because she have become a part of your destiny and more then anything, I've been keeping this secret for myself for a long time and I'm tire of being lonely. With your help and your millenium item, we will free the shadow games once again and rule over the world ! »
Yumi felt the presence in her trying to face up. Soon she saw Kaori through a window like when she was dueling.
« Kaori Rowen ! » clamed a dark voice from Yumi's mouth. « I shall not let you do as you please. I won't let you free the chaotic games that once almost destroyed this world ! »
Yumi, inside, trembled.
« I can tell you haven't met your millenium spirit yet. » replied the girl with a grin. « Don't worry. Most of them aren't dangerous. Do you want to meet it ? I can make you see what it looks like. »
« I know perfectly well how I look ! » replied the voice. Yumi noticed that it was the same voice wich she have heard during the night. The voice who was singing the incantation of lost memories ! It has done everything to reach to it's lost memories and come back.
« Are you sure ? » asked Kaori. « You better look again ! Here, take my mirror and look at yourself. » she said handing the object.
Yumi hesitated. It could be a trap. But the presence inside wanted to know. Was she always the same ? Slowly her hand took the mirror. Yumi dared not to look. Now that she knew that the presence was an old Egytian Queen, she didn't want to know how she looked now after 5 millenia ! Yumi looked at her self. First, she didn't see anything. The mirror was weird : it was more like a glass than a mirror and instead of seeing a reflection, she saw through the mirror. But then, an image formed itself in the glass. Soon, she saw the presence's face. She screamed as a brown skultly face appeared before her. It looked like her alright but as a mommy ! She screamed even louder as a dark shadow appeared and surrounded her. She was still holding the mirror in her hand. Suddenly the face became alive and got out of the glass. Soon Yumi could see the mommy floating between her and Kaori. It descended on her and grabbed her neck. Yumi couldn't breath anymore.
+++++++---- « Why. You doing this. to. me. ? » she tried to say. « There's no place for two spirit in this body you must go ! I want to find my beloved ! ! ! ! » she voice screammed in her head. +++++++----
Yumi fell on the grown.
« You fell in my trap ! My millenium mirror has the power to bring out the dark side of a soul. Ha ha ha ha ! » Kaori said looking down at her.
She got closer and putted her hand on Yumi's back. Suddenly, the girl stood up to Kaori's suprise. She jumped back and looked as Yumi got up. Her eyes were black. and her pupils were white ! Kaori stared at her for a few seconds then smiled.
« This is so much better ! » she laugh.
Back in the stadium, Yugi and the gang joined Zakaresh and waited in the back room for Yumi to arrive. After severeal minutes, they started to worry.
« Could she have got lost ? » asked Yugi.
« it's a straight alley. No way she could get lost ! » replied Zakaresh.
« Maybe she had already exited the arena to go home. Dueling IS exosting ! » proposed Joey. « She promised she would stay for our duels. » replied Zakaresh. « This is not normal ! I'm going in ! » he added walking toward the doors followed by the gang.
But as he was about to touch them, they openned and a girl came out. Zakaresh stared at her. Thea, who was behind the group found her way to the doors and stepped back seeing the girl.
« Kaori ? What are you doing here ? » she asked.
« Thea ! How nice to see you » She replied with a smile. « and you're not alone ! You brought friends » she added looking at the rest of the group. « Oh ! I forgot ! Yugi and Zakaresh are in the tournement too ! by the way, look at what I found on my way ! » she said making a step on the left.
They saw that there was someone behind her. It was Yumi ! she was looking at the opposite side of her friends. Zakaresh smiled, releived. He got closer and thouched her shoulder.
« Yumi ! Man we were thinking you were gone ! » he said.
« She IS gone ! » said a dark and mysterious voice as she turned back.
« Gyaaaa ! ! ! » yelled Zakaresh steping back.
Everybody's faces turned to blue. The girl looked like Yumi but her eyes' colour were inversed and scary. It seemed like there were a hole of light in the middle of each eye. Kaori started laughing again.
« I have the honor of presenting to you, the great Queen of Game ! » she clamed showing the young girl.
« The what ? » shouted Joey.
« She said the Queen of Game ! » replied Yumi's cold voice. « But she is wrong. I'm the Queen of the Shadow Games » she added sending the girl a death glare.
« SHADOW GAMES ! ? ! » Yugi, Thea, Joey and Tristan yelled as they remember what they've alreaddy been through because of them.
Kaori stepped back in fear but soon she looked up and pull her mirror out again. She passed it before her face and she changed again. She regained her confidence and continued.
« I have wanted to know if the King of Game was still no match for the beating heart of a simple human. For I, Kaori Rowen, the organizer of the K tournement, invite you to a special round. » she said to Yugi.
« What is all of this about ? » shouted Thea. « What have you done to Yumi ? »
« Stay out of this ! » yelled Kaori pointing her mirror to the girl.
Thea flew in the air and went directly the the wall with a « Crack ! » sound.
« Thea ! ! ! » shouted her friends.
Tristan and Joey rushed to her. She was unconscious. Yugi glared at the mirror and reconnized the symbolic eye on the object.
« A millenium item ! ! ! ! » he shouted. « A what ? » replied Zakaresh in suprise. He then turned his attention back to his friend. « Yumi ! answer me ! What's going on ? »
« Yumi will be no more ! » Yumi answered.
Tears appeared in Zakaresh's eyes.
« Once I will have obtain the power of the millenium items, I shall be able to go back to the Inferior World and live my second Life with my King ! There will be nothing else left of this world, though. »
« I won't let you ! » shouted an angry Yugi. Yami took over.
Yumi's black eyes got bigger.
« Yami ! » she shouted in joy. A pretty weird mix of darkness and joy in her face, she avanced toward Yugi.
« Ceretes ! stop ! » he shouted back.
The girl stopped. Everybody stared as Yami take a deep breath, understanding everything.
« How did you called her ? » finally said Zakaresh.
« I called her by the name she must be given now. Ceretes, the Queen that once, five millenia ago, have joined the pharon to lock away the Shadow Games. »
« The what ? ? ? ? » he said in surprise.
« Ceretes was the Queen of the nil five millenia ago. She was a strong queen and a wonderful lover. But the death has separe us, I was locked in the millenium puzzle and she was locked in another item. » he explained. « Yumi must posess it somehow and the spirit as gain control of her body. She is the presence I've been feeling since the day you arrived. » he added pointing at her.
« Yami ! » the girl said. « We can be together again ! Come with me ! We will free the shadow games and destroy this world of imperfection. Come my beloved one. Come with me. » she added offering her hand.
Yugi stepped back.
« Yami. » said Yugi to the presence inside him. « You once promised that you would never go against my will. remember that. »
« I remember, my friend. and it is hard to betray a part of me. » he replied.
« What. ? No ! » cried Yugi.
« Ceretes ! » yelled Yami. « Queen of Nil, you are not yet the one who decide of who should live and die*. People of this era have done many terrible things and I must agree with you to say they deserve to die. »
« Oh Yami. » said the queen with tears in her black eyes.
Suddenly, they got normal once again. It was no longer the evil side of the presence but her true self. Even though it was not Yumi, the gang could feel that she wasn't evil.
« But if you want to free the shadow games, you need all millenium items. » he said.
« We will get them together ! » she said.
« I know but. » said Yami looking down. Then he looked up again and added : « You will have to go through me first ! »
Yumi's eyes turned back to the black shade they were. She groanned with angryness.
« Fine ! Yami, you have decided to become my ennemy ! And as all the others, you shall perish ! » she yelled.
« Wait a sec ! » Kaori shouted. Everybody stared at her. « This is MY tournement and I alreaddy have something in plan for him. »
« Tell me what you have in mind, mortal. I shall see if I agree. »
« Here. I was thinking of a special round. Yugi versius Zakaresh. It seems like they have became friend somehow. The winner will get to stay with you ! Then you do what ever you want ! »
« I have another idea ! » said Zakaresh to the girl. « if I'm the winner you give the real Yumi back and if he wins, he gets the millenium junks »
« Millenium items ! » she replied. « I agree. After all, it doesn't really concerns me. I will have had all I wanted ! »
« So do I. But I shall decide the rules. » said Yumi.
« Then, let the duel begin ! » shouted Kaori in joy.
Tristan and Joey decided to take Thea to the hospital.
« Yugi. I don't know what this is all about but I do know what the millenium items are capable of. You have to win this. » Joey said as he helped Tristan get Thea on his back.
« For the sake of the world. » added Tristan under the girl's weight.
« I know. I won't let you down. » the boy replied.
« Good luck, man ! » said Joey as the ran to the exit door.
The special round was taking place in the basement of the stadium. In the room, there was almost nothing. There was the duelling platform and a trone. Yumi took place in it, Kaori at her side. The young girl was smilling. It seemed she didn't care about Yumi's or the world's fate. Yumi stood up and explained the rules.
« I have decided that it would be a 4000 Life points duel. You need to sacrife monster to play a higher leved monster. » she clamed. « .but no magic card limit. I will be the Judge of this duel. These are the rules for this only duel. Do both players agree ?»
« Yes ! » said both Yugi and Zakaresh.
« Players ! Be ready to duel ! »
The guys groanned and drew their cards.
« Let's DUEL ! » they shouted at the same time.
To be Continue
Wo ! That wasn't expected ! Who's gonna win ? Zakaresh for his friend ? or Yugi for the millenium items? Find out in the next chapter of Soul Liberation ! Author's note : I'm not feeling good this days. I'm tired all the time ! But I want to finish this fic. I think it's cool. You think so too ? Just rewiew. a few words ! I really, and I mean REALLY, need some support for this one: It's long and the duels are hard to make. Please help me! ^_^' Deadlynekos@hotmail.com
* : According to the Book Of Death, which is a real book I have read, the pharaoh, after his death, obtains the right to become a god himself. actually, he would have been a god already (If I understood it right) and reclaim his place in the Inferior World and the right, as a god, to judge who can die or live. (If you read the Book of Death, please tell me ! I really want to know if someone have understood it all... it's a weird book...)
Yumi openned her eyes to see who was applauding.
« Congratulation, Yumi Roshi. I am pleased to meet you again. » said Kaori.
« Kaori ? » Yumi said in suprise. Then she looked at the girl's bodyguards. «Wo ! » she said her eyes opening wide. « What are you doing here ? »
« Haven't you figured out, yet ? » she replied with a grin.
« I welcome you to the K duel tournement sponsored by the Rowen family ! » she clamed like an annoncer.
« The K.. ? K ! Kaori Rowen ! Your family organized this tournement ? ! »
« Actually, I did. I am the only member of the Rowen family. I was getting bored and I had the idea of making this tournement. »
She pulled out a mirror from her back. She closed her eyes and passed it before her face and when she openned her eyes again, Yumi stepped back seeing the evil in them. Kaori noticed it and her grin got bigger.
« But something happenned. » she added with with an evil glare to Yumi's forehead. «And I realized that I wanted to have something. You brang this something when you arrived in town. »
« Kaori ? What are talking about ? »
« I want it. NOW ! » she shouted as the bodyguards all fell on the ground.
Yumi stared at them. She made a few step behind. She soon found out there were no exit. : one way there was the giant closed doors and the other way, there was Kaori walking towards her with an hysteric expression in her eyes. When she was about a meter, the red haired girl stopped.
« Step back, Rowen ! » Yumi said as a mark glowed on her forehead at the exact spot of her scar.
Kaori glared at her, suprised. Then she smiled again.
« Wow ! So that's where you hide it ? » she asked.
« What are you talking about ? ! ? » asked the real Yumi with an interrogative glare. « I'm talking about your millenium item of course ! » she replied pointing the girl's forehead. « I have one too, y'know. Mine is the millenium mirror. Did you know each item had a special power ? » she asked.
« What kind of power ? »
« Very powerful ones. Seven of them were locked away by an ancient pharaoh. But some of them, ours, come from another tomb also in ancient Egypt. The tomb of the Queen of this pharaoh. She was the queen of games ! And next to her beloved one, she was the best shadow game strategist. She too had great powers and if it wasn't for her, the shadow games could never have been locked away. but for that, she had to pay the price : She too was locked away in a millnium item. Yours. »
« I don't get it ! Why are you telling me this ? » she asked, scared.
« Because she have become a part of your destiny and more then anything, I've been keeping this secret for myself for a long time and I'm tire of being lonely. With your help and your millenium item, we will free the shadow games once again and rule over the world ! »
Yumi felt the presence in her trying to face up. Soon she saw Kaori through a window like when she was dueling.
« Kaori Rowen ! » clamed a dark voice from Yumi's mouth. « I shall not let you do as you please. I won't let you free the chaotic games that once almost destroyed this world ! »
Yumi, inside, trembled.
« I can tell you haven't met your millenium spirit yet. » replied the girl with a grin. « Don't worry. Most of them aren't dangerous. Do you want to meet it ? I can make you see what it looks like. »
« I know perfectly well how I look ! » replied the voice. Yumi noticed that it was the same voice wich she have heard during the night. The voice who was singing the incantation of lost memories ! It has done everything to reach to it's lost memories and come back.
« Are you sure ? » asked Kaori. « You better look again ! Here, take my mirror and look at yourself. » she said handing the object.
Yumi hesitated. It could be a trap. But the presence inside wanted to know. Was she always the same ? Slowly her hand took the mirror. Yumi dared not to look. Now that she knew that the presence was an old Egytian Queen, she didn't want to know how she looked now after 5 millenia ! Yumi looked at her self. First, she didn't see anything. The mirror was weird : it was more like a glass than a mirror and instead of seeing a reflection, she saw through the mirror. But then, an image formed itself in the glass. Soon, she saw the presence's face. She screamed as a brown skultly face appeared before her. It looked like her alright but as a mommy ! She screamed even louder as a dark shadow appeared and surrounded her. She was still holding the mirror in her hand. Suddenly the face became alive and got out of the glass. Soon Yumi could see the mommy floating between her and Kaori. It descended on her and grabbed her neck. Yumi couldn't breath anymore.
+++++++---- « Why. You doing this. to. me. ? » she tried to say. « There's no place for two spirit in this body you must go ! I want to find my beloved ! ! ! ! » she voice screammed in her head. +++++++----
Yumi fell on the grown.
« You fell in my trap ! My millenium mirror has the power to bring out the dark side of a soul. Ha ha ha ha ! » Kaori said looking down at her.
She got closer and putted her hand on Yumi's back. Suddenly, the girl stood up to Kaori's suprise. She jumped back and looked as Yumi got up. Her eyes were black. and her pupils were white ! Kaori stared at her for a few seconds then smiled.
« This is so much better ! » she laugh.
Back in the stadium, Yugi and the gang joined Zakaresh and waited in the back room for Yumi to arrive. After severeal minutes, they started to worry.
« Could she have got lost ? » asked Yugi.
« it's a straight alley. No way she could get lost ! » replied Zakaresh.
« Maybe she had already exited the arena to go home. Dueling IS exosting ! » proposed Joey. « She promised she would stay for our duels. » replied Zakaresh. « This is not normal ! I'm going in ! » he added walking toward the doors followed by the gang.
But as he was about to touch them, they openned and a girl came out. Zakaresh stared at her. Thea, who was behind the group found her way to the doors and stepped back seeing the girl.
« Kaori ? What are you doing here ? » she asked.
« Thea ! How nice to see you » She replied with a smile. « and you're not alone ! You brought friends » she added looking at the rest of the group. « Oh ! I forgot ! Yugi and Zakaresh are in the tournement too ! by the way, look at what I found on my way ! » she said making a step on the left.
They saw that there was someone behind her. It was Yumi ! she was looking at the opposite side of her friends. Zakaresh smiled, releived. He got closer and thouched her shoulder.
« Yumi ! Man we were thinking you were gone ! » he said.
« She IS gone ! » said a dark and mysterious voice as she turned back.
« Gyaaaa ! ! ! » yelled Zakaresh steping back.
Everybody's faces turned to blue. The girl looked like Yumi but her eyes' colour were inversed and scary. It seemed like there were a hole of light in the middle of each eye. Kaori started laughing again.
« I have the honor of presenting to you, the great Queen of Game ! » she clamed showing the young girl.
« The what ? » shouted Joey.
« She said the Queen of Game ! » replied Yumi's cold voice. « But she is wrong. I'm the Queen of the Shadow Games » she added sending the girl a death glare.
« SHADOW GAMES ! ? ! » Yugi, Thea, Joey and Tristan yelled as they remember what they've alreaddy been through because of them.
Kaori stepped back in fear but soon she looked up and pull her mirror out again. She passed it before her face and she changed again. She regained her confidence and continued.
« I have wanted to know if the King of Game was still no match for the beating heart of a simple human. For I, Kaori Rowen, the organizer of the K tournement, invite you to a special round. » she said to Yugi.
« What is all of this about ? » shouted Thea. « What have you done to Yumi ? »
« Stay out of this ! » yelled Kaori pointing her mirror to the girl.
Thea flew in the air and went directly the the wall with a « Crack ! » sound.
« Thea ! ! ! » shouted her friends.
Tristan and Joey rushed to her. She was unconscious. Yugi glared at the mirror and reconnized the symbolic eye on the object.
« A millenium item ! ! ! ! » he shouted. « A what ? » replied Zakaresh in suprise. He then turned his attention back to his friend. « Yumi ! answer me ! What's going on ? »
« Yumi will be no more ! » Yumi answered.
Tears appeared in Zakaresh's eyes.
« Once I will have obtain the power of the millenium items, I shall be able to go back to the Inferior World and live my second Life with my King ! There will be nothing else left of this world, though. »
« I won't let you ! » shouted an angry Yugi. Yami took over.
Yumi's black eyes got bigger.
« Yami ! » she shouted in joy. A pretty weird mix of darkness and joy in her face, she avanced toward Yugi.
« Ceretes ! stop ! » he shouted back.
The girl stopped. Everybody stared as Yami take a deep breath, understanding everything.
« How did you called her ? » finally said Zakaresh.
« I called her by the name she must be given now. Ceretes, the Queen that once, five millenia ago, have joined the pharon to lock away the Shadow Games. »
« The what ? ? ? ? » he said in surprise.
« Ceretes was the Queen of the nil five millenia ago. She was a strong queen and a wonderful lover. But the death has separe us, I was locked in the millenium puzzle and she was locked in another item. » he explained. « Yumi must posess it somehow and the spirit as gain control of her body. She is the presence I've been feeling since the day you arrived. » he added pointing at her.
« Yami ! » the girl said. « We can be together again ! Come with me ! We will free the shadow games and destroy this world of imperfection. Come my beloved one. Come with me. » she added offering her hand.
Yugi stepped back.
« Yami. » said Yugi to the presence inside him. « You once promised that you would never go against my will. remember that. »
« I remember, my friend. and it is hard to betray a part of me. » he replied.
« What. ? No ! » cried Yugi.
« Ceretes ! » yelled Yami. « Queen of Nil, you are not yet the one who decide of who should live and die*. People of this era have done many terrible things and I must agree with you to say they deserve to die. »
« Oh Yami. » said the queen with tears in her black eyes.
Suddenly, they got normal once again. It was no longer the evil side of the presence but her true self. Even though it was not Yumi, the gang could feel that she wasn't evil.
« But if you want to free the shadow games, you need all millenium items. » he said.
« We will get them together ! » she said.
« I know but. » said Yami looking down. Then he looked up again and added : « You will have to go through me first ! »
Yumi's eyes turned back to the black shade they were. She groanned with angryness.
« Fine ! Yami, you have decided to become my ennemy ! And as all the others, you shall perish ! » she yelled.
« Wait a sec ! » Kaori shouted. Everybody stared at her. « This is MY tournement and I alreaddy have something in plan for him. »
« Tell me what you have in mind, mortal. I shall see if I agree. »
« Here. I was thinking of a special round. Yugi versius Zakaresh. It seems like they have became friend somehow. The winner will get to stay with you ! Then you do what ever you want ! »
« I have another idea ! » said Zakaresh to the girl. « if I'm the winner you give the real Yumi back and if he wins, he gets the millenium junks »
« Millenium items ! » she replied. « I agree. After all, it doesn't really concerns me. I will have had all I wanted ! »
« So do I. But I shall decide the rules. » said Yumi.
« Then, let the duel begin ! » shouted Kaori in joy.
Tristan and Joey decided to take Thea to the hospital.
« Yugi. I don't know what this is all about but I do know what the millenium items are capable of. You have to win this. » Joey said as he helped Tristan get Thea on his back.
« For the sake of the world. » added Tristan under the girl's weight.
« I know. I won't let you down. » the boy replied.
« Good luck, man ! » said Joey as the ran to the exit door.
The special round was taking place in the basement of the stadium. In the room, there was almost nothing. There was the duelling platform and a trone. Yumi took place in it, Kaori at her side. The young girl was smilling. It seemed she didn't care about Yumi's or the world's fate. Yumi stood up and explained the rules.
« I have decided that it would be a 4000 Life points duel. You need to sacrife monster to play a higher leved monster. » she clamed. « .but no magic card limit. I will be the Judge of this duel. These are the rules for this only duel. Do both players agree ?»
« Yes ! » said both Yugi and Zakaresh.
« Players ! Be ready to duel ! »
The guys groanned and drew their cards.
« Let's DUEL ! » they shouted at the same time.
To be Continue
Wo ! That wasn't expected ! Who's gonna win ? Zakaresh for his friend ? or Yugi for the millenium items? Find out in the next chapter of Soul Liberation ! Author's note : I'm not feeling good this days. I'm tired all the time ! But I want to finish this fic. I think it's cool. You think so too ? Just rewiew. a few words ! I really, and I mean REALLY, need some support for this one: It's long and the duels are hard to make. Please help me! ^_^' Deadlynekos@hotmail.com
* : According to the Book Of Death, which is a real book I have read, the pharaoh, after his death, obtains the right to become a god himself. actually, he would have been a god already (If I understood it right) and reclaim his place in the Inferior World and the right, as a god, to judge who can die or live. (If you read the Book of Death, please tell me ! I really want to know if someone have understood it all... it's a weird book...)