Sands of Time and Shadows of Old
Disclaimer: Yu-Gi-Oh is NOT mine, I YYC never claimed to own it nor do I pretend to own it, all I own is my Muse Ji Ji-Chan's life and soul oh and my drawing of a serpent called Serpentira! That's all! Suing me for the rights to Ji Ji-Chan and my drawing are worthless!
Also the song in this chapter doesn't belong to me, it's just perfect for this chapter and what is going to happen!!
As ever the names Sette and Nahkat do belong to me, I give full permission for them, just credit me and make sure you do credit me! After all I wrote this long fiction about these two (or scraps of it is about them) it's only fair to credit me! ^_^
*Note: Visit my website too! ^-^ I actually have pictures on it, soon I'll be doing illustrations for this and my NEW FIC called Twisted Engine! So check both the site and the new fic out!*
Seto: @.@ Aaaaahhhh!!! Help me!!!
Wow! O.o;; It's be SO LONG since I touched this fiction! But here it is! A BRAND NEW CHAPTER for the brand new year!! ^-^ Woohoo!! Now Seto is trapped in all that is shadowy and Yami knows this! What is going to happen to the duelling rivals? Will they be battling each other again but on darker terms? Or will their "love" prevail? Read to know….
REVIEW REVIEW AND REVIEW!
On to the Ficcie!!!!!
***************************************************************************
The chains were distorting like they couldn't hold their form, or the power within, at first like wisps of mist like black air they swirled and danced, then they turned back hard as ice, swirling back in to shadowy mist then back to tough ice… Lahgaz looked at them, she had never seen powers that could not be contained by a spell as strong as Shadow Spell the chains of blackness were meant to be able to hold anything, but they wilted like a dying rose under the sheer force within. Whispers began to rise from the flickering mass of chains; the whispers were wild, strange, like echoing hisses they made no sense, total nonsense Lahgaz listened as she watched. The chains had begun to melt and drip down toward the floor in a thick puddle with bright electric cobalt colours swirling within the black mass, specked with violet inside like veins.
Finally the chains couldn't take the pressure, and with what sounded like a groan they–the few chains that hadn't turned to liquid– shattered glass like as the clattered to the floor loudly. Hundreds of links falling like rain around the altar like structure that the shadow form had laid on. Lahgaz looked up in awe at what pure darkness looked like. It was sculptured and graceful, elegant cheekbones, defined like sharp graceful works of art. Eyes of unearthly cobalt looked at the small child-demon, they burned like the most electric blue flames, the glowed in the darkness that surrounded the trim figure. The chin was sharp, but not pointed, like some perfect roman carving accented and adding form to the face. The forehead was hidden beneath a fringe of auburn and chocolate brown hair; a fringe that spilt like a waterfall in to his eyes, hanging messily about those eyes that glowed. His full lips, stiff upper and full lower, curled in to a dark smirk. A smirk that seemed to put all of the fair beauty of the night in to frightening realism. This was REAL the night had a smirk and a mind of its own. Lahgaz held her own curious apprehension down; it was dangerous to let one so dark see fear. But yet, it was too late, like a wolf he could smell it and like a hawk he had seen it, however he kept his smile and slowly approached the young girl. He didn't seem threatening. She looked up; he was tall, very tall and very dark like a shadow wrapped in skin. "….Seth?" she finally whispered.
"No." stated a voice like a vortex, deep, swirling and full of mystery "I am not Seth."
Eyes of bright amber were wide now, this was NOT Seth? She was in trouble now. Her blonde hair suddenly began to hurt, she realised that the darkness above her had her by the hair she whimpered her small 8-year old hands reaching up to claw frantically. Laughter dark and slick surrounded her, his laughter, the laugh of evil she closed her eyes tightly trying to will magics forth to protect her from him. But nothing came to her. Nothing rose and nothing struck him away, she gasped, he bent down, his cheek close to her ear, he whispered mocking and purring in her ear "Fool. Did you think that your pitiful 3rd class demon powers were enough for me? Heh. Really. I'm pure shadows. Pure evil. Do you really think you are worth anything in the face of my darkness?" He laughed again, louder this time.
The demoness found herself cringing, his grip was vice like and it hurt so much she was sure her shoulder blade would cave in. she whimpered out softly "Who…who…are you?"
"Don't you know?" he hissed in to her ear
"No" she meekly replied, suddenly fearing for her somewhat 'life'-like state.
"I am known as Sekai. The Darkness of the High Priest. The Darkness of this Seto Kaiba mortal and the Darkness that will now bring about your end!"
Lahgaz gasped, eyes wide, she struggled more and then yelled out "NO!" she pulled away and began to run from the dark room, away from the altar, away from the laughing shadow-man.
Sekai rose a single elegant eyebrow, hidden amongst the fringe of hazel hair, he then dug a hand in to his unfamiliar pocket, a new idea to him pockets but a useful one. He then took out a deck, looking at familiar cards. He sneered, a grin curling on his lips, he drew a single card and looked at it he then laughed. He was unlike any other being of the dark he did not have the limits that the Seven Daemons, as they were known, had. He was without blemish, he could summon forth the powerful monsters from their cards without using runespells or using that as his one and only power. He had many powers and he intended to use them all. He crouched and set the card down on to the floor, the hard marble flooring. The card made a rattling noise, similar to chains, metallic and loud then out of the card stepped a creature, covered in chains, bound back. Sekai smirked and whispered in its ear "Bring me the Pharaoh and I shall set you free."
The creature roared, a mouth full of crooked yellowing teeth opening to let out the shriek, the beast then settled down on to its four twisted limbs and ran out of the room, chains clanking and trailing behind it. It ran in a disjointed way, it's legs and arms seeming to fall lose from the socket then snap back in to place. Claws, long and over-grown, scraped at the floor the sound made the walls echo with the high pitched schreeeeech of nail on stone.
Yami looked up; he could hear it, a wail drowning out the sound of water, the sound of his own footsteps he looked dead ahead. The shadows in front of him seemed to sway a little and ripple. Then he could see it a pair of deep red eyes, a sickly black-red, watching him closely he narrowed his eyes to look at it "Show yourself." He softly commanded. He already sensed the worst of Seto but shook away that instant, natural dread. He couldn't lose faith in Seto. Seto was fine. He had to be fine.
The beast immersed from the blackness, a mass of rippling darkness with accented arms, legs and fangs. It smelt of foul and putrid stench of rotting skin, of dried blood and rusty shackles. All in one, Yami felt bile rise but he quashed it down, what kind of thing was this? He looked as the beast liquidly prowled forward, limbs seeming to flow together like water collecting back up after being spilt. It was as if the beast was made of the waters of the shadows, nothingness a blank empty space given eyes, a mouth and claws.
Suddenly in a flicker the beast lunged, ramming deeply in to Yami's chest and knocking him back several feet. Yami's body skid along the floor he felt his arm burning from the friction of stone rubbing to his skin. He rose up and looked at the beast, solid? But it looked so unreal. What was this thing?
But. Before his question was answered he found that the thing was behind him and it had bit in to his shoulder. Yami howled out in pain as his limbs began to grow heavy and soon his neck felt numb, his eyes were drooping and he was sinking on to his knees.
The beast had a sort of sleeping effect in its bite, his mind swam and finally he passed out before the beast. The creature stooped down and carefully slid the slumbering pharaoh on to his back. Then the liquid beast slunk off to where the one who summoned him waited for the Pharaoh.
Sekai had amused himself with the trivialities of being alive again, breathing, moving his limbs, looking around, and smelling things and soon he would taste things too. He remembered the young Pharaoh's blood. The 'priest' wasn't here to save the Pharaoh so that little boy would soon belong to him. He licked his lips eagerly, he loved pain and destruction, yes, but he was an aristocrat at heart and having the 'finer' things was one of his passions.
The familiar scrape of claws and chains on the floor filled the air and he looked up with a dark smile, his pet had returned to him "I see you bring me the Pharaoh." The beast nodded, letting the sleeping Yami fall to the floor. The tall sleek shadow rose up and stalked over to the slender sleeping Pharaoh, he crouched down to brush some of the blonde bangs from his face "Mmm. I forgot quite how lovely he is." The dark one laughed and picked the boy up.
He moved silently over to a bed and laid the body down on it "Just like old times, young Nahkat. But this time I shall not fail."
"Are you sure?" The shadow twirled to look toward the voice.
Meanwhile
"Heh heh heh heh heh Perfect." Bakura mused "I won't even need to worry about the Pharaoh being a threat, soon he'll be a slave to that dark incarnation of Seto Kaiba. Ironic the owner of the Blue Eyes should have a blackness like that in his heart…."
Yugi whimpered but he couldn't lose faith in his Yami "You'll see! … Yami will come! He always does to save me!"
Bakura snorted "Sure. I bet he does." The tall teen walked to a globe, held by three ornate dragon sculptures like a crystal ball "I'm sure your Yami is oh so loyal like a dog."
Yugi sniffled "That's not true… Yami just.. loves me.."
"Feh. Loves you. You think the 'Darkness' can love?" Bakura sneered, looking at the vision of the Dark Seto. "Did you think for any second that we Yami's 'love'?"
Yugi looked away "Maybe not all Yami's do. But I know my Yami loves me. He tells me."
"Words are empty." Murmured Bakura, slowly.
Yugi looked away "Bakura. What makes you so bitter? What makes you do this to Yami?!"
Bakura sneered "It is not your problem midget. Just be silent."
Yugi felt a little braver, like Yami were with him in heart he had the courage to speak up a little more "Bakura. Can't you see it? You're losing…. You've lost Naziruth, Tirwaz, Lahgaz and Gebora…. You will lose more and more…"
There was a loud sound, a sudden and sharp noise echoed through the halls and Yugi fell back clutching his cheek, he gasped, the red welt stung and burnt on his cheek, he whimpered softly as Bakura looked down with a smirk "You look better all helpless and SILENT. Don't ever talk back to me. You're a prisoner here, no… more like a slave! So speak only when spoken to."
Yugi whispered a small "sorry." And nodded, understanding that there was no way to show Bakura the error of what he was going to do. He sighed and curled up with a small sniffle he was thinking of Yami hoping his Yami was okay. Yugi tightly shut his eyes to stop the tears he then whispered "Yami…. Please be okay."
"Hmph." Sneered Sekai as he looked to the casually leaning shadow at the entrance to his self-proclaimed lair "Who dares to trespass?"
The shadow shifted, walking in to the slight light from the moon above, which made a perfect silver circle in the middle of the room. The figure was tall, slender, draped in thick robes so his face was obscured "I am one who will protect the Pharaoh always."
"Y-You… cannot be?"
The cloak was gripped tightly by a pale hand, then torn off to reveal a man in armour his hair was light lavender, his eyes were a crystal-topaz blue and his lips were curled in a stern look of disapproval. In one hand he held a staff of jade-green with a shimmering gem in the top. His other hand was tightly clenched in to a fist "I will not allow you to hurt my master. I swore to protect and serve him forever. I will not go back on a promise I made to him." The voice was arch, wise –filled with ancient lore– Sekai knew that voice from long ago. He remembered it from when he had been living in the body of the priest and had heard the voices of the outside world, seen what mortals saw through their eyes.
Sekai hissed out barely above a snakes hiss "Mahado!"
There was a small smile "In this time I am not known by my name. In this time you may call me Black Magician!"
"And how is it that one whom wound up in a tablet then and a card now is free?"
"My soul… it is not bound to the card, my soul is bound to my Pharaoh. He is my Pharaoh and I swore to protect and serve him. If he is in danger because of you, I promised Sette that I would watch over him! YOU will not take our Pharaoh in to your black heart and consume him. I won't allow it!" Mahado rose his staff "If you want him. Then defeat me."
Sekai blinked, he looked emotionless eyes of once thoughtful sapphire were now dimmed by the darkness in his heart then he laughed, a laugh that echoed, like fragments of a shattered mirror as they collide with the floor. It was a broken and empty sound. Sekai then sneered and hissed "I control the White God!" his hands were now risen up in a mock gesture "What does a liddle magician man in ridiculous armour have? I don't think my Dragons will be amused by your appearance."
"YOUR dragons?" Mahado murmured, head tilted "If I remember correctly, which I usually do, those dragons were attached to Priest Sette. Not to a low-level shade like you."
"Low-level? You have much to learn. I'm a lot stronger now. MUCH stronger in fact. I'll cripple you and turn your body to dust. A memory on the sands of Egypt." Sekai lifted his hand and the floor began to ripple.
The stone below looked like water, an illusion, it began to turn black –a deathly shade with tints of violet– then from it there was a roar, a roar that echoed up and made Mahado tense that was the voice of the White God. A huge claw of silvery-blue roses from the black watery floor, the claw gripped at solid ground then another came and from the muck rose a long elegant head with a long sleek neck then a roar emitted from the mouth, rows of teeth sparkling like diamonds. Blue eyes were narrowed then wide-spanned wings and a rounded body, back claws and finally a long and impressive tail. Before Mahado stood the White God, roaring and hissing. Sekai brought a hand up to pet it "You see my White God appears before me."
Mahado's eyes narrowed "White isn't a befitting colour for YOU, one whom is like the filth on the floor of Seth's domain."
Sekai's eyes glinted with a wicked smirk "His power is worthy of me, a commanding and regal master. This beast is mine and always will be." He looked at the unconscious Pharaoh "He will also be mine. Now. Mahado I can assume you have no last requests? All I want you to do is die and be no more hassle to me. So! BEGONE! White God! Attack now, Destroying White Light!"
The dragon made a groaning grumble like thunder, a soft whimpering moan that echoed through the room and through the heart of the dark priest. He blinked and glared up at the dragon, shocked to find that the dragon looked right back. Eyes of cobalt met with eyes that were devoid of shimmer the dragon made another crying grumble, it was strange how the dragon looked less amazing and slivery how he looked dimmer and dimmer as though his heart were breaking. Sekai clenched his fist and yelled out "KILL HIM! ATTACK THE MAGICIAN!". But the dragon wouldn't it's eyes were dimming and it's wings were drooping as Sekai looked closer his eyes widened a tear, a small and pure little tear was there in the dragons eye. It took a step away from the dark priest.
Sekai clutched his head and screamed out "NO! I won't go back! Get out of my head!" the dragon continued to gaze at the priest, disappointment in its eyes. Sekai's voice was changing between two, one was deep and compassionate, the voice of the Priest Sette. The other was his own dark twisted voice, full of hate and bitterness the voices exchanged bitter words, one enraged at the darkness the other bitterly clinging to its own existence.
Mahado watched then it dawned on him and he whispered "This is the Dark Priest's last
rebirth before Seth punishes him for failure…. This is his last chance!"
"I won't go back!"
"You must vile one. Be gone from this world. You cause nothing but unwanted pain."
"Be silent! I deserve to live! I will not go back, never, you shall not force me!"
"Then. The White God shall."
"Wh-What?!"
"The White God shall send you to hell! Back to the arms of your God! The Dark God Seth! Prince of Chaos!"
"N-No! Don't!"
Sekai was staring up at the dragon who now roared with all the force of an explosion, wings swooped back behind it, claws clenched and mouth open wide, a ball of sparkling lightning was swirling in it's mouth. Blue, white and silver was all coming together, filling the room with light, the eyes of Sekai were wide with terror of being sent back he was moving back, trying to find a way to escape. He could hear the Priest Sette in his mind "Now faithful White God! Attack! Destroying White Light!!!" the orb was released and it struck with tremendous force, a powerful wind whipped up around them, the priests screams were loud and filled with agony as the light consumed him. His shadows were melting off the body like water, tickling down thick as tar and blacker than the void of space.
Finally the mists and screams faded and stood in a puddle of thick black goo was Seto, his eyes were drooping from the pain coursing through his veins and the weakness as his body tried to cope with the sudden drag back in to the light. The Blue Eyes padded to him and nuzzled him, pushing him to the bed to lay next to the unconscious Yami. Seto gazed up at his faithful dragon "…..Blue… Eyes…" he whispered, a shaky hand moving to pet the dragon. The dragon purred happily, nuzzling to Seto's hand then it faded to allow Seto's mind the clarity to focus, it was hard to up keep such a dragon. Seto felt a rush to his mind, his head fell against the bed as he slipped in to unconsciousness.
Mahado strode over to the bed, looking at the two that lay side by side unconscious, he smiled a little "Young master. You have found your soul-mate from then. I have always kept your secret and I shall continue to. I will always be watching. I fear there are more challenges and pain ahead but continue on your road and you will know happiness in the end my Pharaoh. You deserve it, your reign as Pharaoh was hard and unfair. This is your rebirth and your chance to be." Mahado faded in a twinkle of violet light, leaving the two to rest, all trace of Sekai was gone and the room was empty except for the two who were sleeping soundly on the bed.
Bakura was furious about the end of the Dark Priest he ended up abusing his light again, blaming him for the turn of events. When suddenly a voice as cold as ice filled the room "My lord. Leave the Pharaoh and his Priest to me. I will take care of them."
Bakura looked up "Hmm?"
In to the room stepped Isaz, the Demon of Death and Ice, he smirked a smile like the north wind "Those weaklings we have sent before are the lesser, the Beta pack, if you like of the 7 Demons. Uruzaz, Thurizas and myself are the Alpha. We are the strongest three. I shall kill them both."
Bakura laughed darkly "Yes… kill them. Make sure the Pharaoh suffers! Bring him agony!"
Isaz nodded and bowed "It shall be done." He then swept out, his robes swirling and twirling like a blizzard behind him.
"The game isn't over yet… not by a long shot…" Bakura laughed evil as Isaz stalked toward the place where the two were sleeping soundly……
END OF CHAPTER 24!!! (OMG!!)
YES! YES! YES, YES, YES!! (No I'm not doing a Herbal Essence advert).
But finally! It's done! This chapter is done and done! ^-^ More action eh as the big 3 of the Demons get ready to go and kill our Pharaoh and Priest, Bakura not too happy ne? And Sekai is dead!
Well I'd love to know what you think, I know it's a little short but I promise more is coming, Chapter 25 is ON IT'S WAY! So be sure to have a lookie when it comes!
Thanks to the 1000+ viewers of this fic on my website and huge thanks to reviewers on FF Net! All your reviews and support is really helpful and it does help to make me want to work on this fic!
For Twisted Engine fans, I promise it's coming v. Soon!
Ciao for now!
~*YYC*~
