Dream sequence

Sand, that's all I saw everywhere.  Brown and blowing in the breeze.  "Where am I now?"  I thought.  Dune after dune of sand stretched as far as the eye can see.  I certainly wasn't on Duelist Kingdom Island anymore.  Could I be in Egypt? It was possible; Egypt was definitely a huge part of the Yu-Gi-Oh world.

"Mako!"  I called out, maybe he was there too.  But I couldn't see anyone else and got no answer back.  I randomly just started calling out the other character's names, seeing if anyone else at all was there.

"Yugi!  Tèa! Tristan! Bakura!...Kaiba…I said the last part really softly.  Not liking Kaiba at all and frankly kinda hoping he didn't hear it if he was there at all.  Now I felt completely alone and afraid…I wished I were still with Mako, cuddled up by the warm fire.  I summoned up my courage and strength and got up.  I shivered as the wind began to pick up.  I decided to walk and try to find some town or something.  Some kind of shelter away from this endless desert I was in.

It seemed like hours before I started to feel the fatigue of walking a long way in the desert.  The hot sun seamed to bare its sharp rays right down upon me.  The roof of my mouth was dry and I was panting like a dog.  Water, I needed water.  Or I would be no more.  Nothing was in sight, no cacti, no animals, no village or anything.  Unless one counted the vultures hovering overhead like…well vultures.  I hoped I wouldn't callapse and give them a fresh carcass to feed upon.

"Oh go away I'm not dead yet!"  I yelled up at them in frustration.  With a scream of disappointment, they flew away.  That's when I tripped over something and almost ended up with a mouth full of sand.  I turned around and looked to see what had made me fall.  It looked like a…tassel?  A silver tassel.  I knelt down and began digging up what it was and found it to be a…carpet?  I could tell that it was once beautiful, but had gotten really dirty from being buried for a long long time.  It was dark blue with silver lining and tassels.  Swirls and Arabic designs decorated it and in the center…was the eye of Horus, a symbol all the Millennium items had on them.  I brushed off the carpet as best as I could.

"It's so beautiful."  I whispered and touched the eye of Horus.  Immediately the carpet shimmered with a gossamer silvery color and rose out of my arms.  It hovered in midair and waited expectantly.

"Whoa, I didn't know it was a magic carpet, that's so totally cool."  I murmured in excitement. 

The carpet lowered itself down a little bit and I climbed onto it, laying on my belly and holding onto the top part.  The carpet soared over the desert with me clinging to it for dear life.  "Wow, so this is what it feels like to fly."  I cried with excitement.  As if to give me a further thrill, the carpet began to loop the loop as it soared higher and higher until I was kissing the wind and being caressed by clouds swirling by.  I held on for dear life and felt the adrenaline rush throughout my body. 

The carpet seemed to take on more of a personality now.  Maybe, I had awakened it or something.  Now all it needed was a name.  So I could get to know it better.  "Do you have a name?"  I asked it.  The carpet made a thumbs down sign with its right tassel. 

"Oh wow, no name huh…can I give you one?"  I asked.  "Or would you rather I just call you Carpet or something?" 

The carpet seemed to think for a moment and then pointed to me.

"Ok…now let's see."  I said, thinking and scratching my head.  "How about Silverflight?"  I asked, looking at its silver tassels and designs. 

The carpet did a series of spins and flips as I desperately clung to it.  "Guess you like that name huh?"  I laughed and patted Silverflight, who gave me the thumbs up sign.  "I suppose I should tell you my name too."  I added.  "It's Jade."  Silverflight offered his tassel to me and I shook it as if it were a handshake.  We traveled onward for hours at least now.  I had no idea where my new friend was taking me but I trusted SilverFlight.

            Finally, in the distance we began approaching a village or town of some kind.  We stopped flying at the edge of it.  I got off of Silverflight, who curled up and perched on my shoulders.  I began walking around the city.  I cast down my eyes, not being able to avoid the stares of its people who were dressed far differently than me.  I figured that yes, I was in Egypt.  Wondered if I was going to meet Shadi, or Malik.  Malik would be cool, provided he wasn't psychopathic.  I laughed to myself.  Back home, my internet buddy Amanda had the same love for Malik as I had for Mako, she would kill me if I got to meet him.  But Shadi…he just creeped me out. Oops…Hope he couldn't read my thoughts because there Shadi was.  Right in front of me walking toward me.  Great, wonder how this is going to turn out...  I thought to myself.

            "Please come with me."  Shadi said in that mysterious voice of his. "I really wish that Mako was here right now"…I whispered Silverflight patted my shoulder encouragingly as I followed Shadi into the tomb where he guarded the Millennium items.

              I gasped as we got to the bottom of the stairs.  There, waiting for us apparently was Pegasus!  I'm in a dark room/tomb with two people from Yu-Gi-Oh that I particularly do not like at all with no Mako or at least Joey anywhere in sight.    Now what's wrong with this picture?  I thought to myself. 

            "Are you absolutely sure you wish to receive your item Pegesus?"  

            "I won't give up my search until I'm reunited with my love Cecelia!"  Pegasus answered and then looked at me in confusion.  "Why did you bring this girl here?  Is she going to help me?"

            "That is entirely up to her…"  Shadi left off mysteriously.  "Her name is Jade, Pegasus."  Shadi added.

I raised an eyebrow.  Just what was going on here?  "What's going on here?" I asked. 

            "My name is Shadi, and I am the guardian of the Millennium items."  He answered me.

            Ok, I've got that part down, what else…  I thought to myself as he continued.

            Suddenly, Shadi took out what I thought was…the Millennium scale!  I suddenly felt extremely dizzy.  My head was hurting so much as the room seemed to spiral out of control.  I looked beside me and saw that Pegasus was going through the exact same thing.  We both closed our eyes in pain and terror and collapsed on the floor.  When we opened them, Pegasus and I were staring across from each other…on the Millennium scale.

            "Get up and test your fate.  If one of you should prove heavier than the other, than know that that person is not worthy to receive a Millennium item."  Shadi's voice could be heard.  "If you prove to be unworthy, then your soul shall be sent to the shadow realm to be tortured for all eternity…"

            "But on the plus side if we are pretty spiffy, we get a neato Millennium item!"  I cried out jokingly and stood up.

            "For Cecelia, anything to be reunited with her the love of my life…"  Pegasus whispered and then stood up.

            The scale tipped and swayed, sometimes in my favor and sometimes in his.  I tensed all over and thought of Mako, then, suddenly I felt his presence beside me.  Mako's spirit was there with me and he smiled and took my hand in his.  He gave me comfort and support that I really needed at the moment.  His courage seemed to be boundless enough to share with me, which I readily accepted.  I was reminded of how I loved Mako with all my heart. 

            I glanced over at Pegasus and saw that he had his late wife in his arms.  "Cecelia, my love, I've found you at last…"  He said.  I knew these apparitions weren't real, only the desire's of both my heart and that of Pegasus.

Shadi proved my theory.  "No, they are not real."  He said.  "Only your deepest desires."  The scale became even and we were at equal height.  Pegasus and I both found ourselves back inside the tomb where we had been talking to Shadi.

            "Now that you both have proved yourselves worthy of having a Millenium item, it is time to see if the items choose you as their owner."  Shadi continued.  He had the Millennium eye in his hand and went over to Pegasus who had not risen to his feet yet.  I had to turn away out of disgust as Shadi shoved the Millennium eye right into Pegasus's left eye!  I cringed as I heard Pegasus scream in pained agony.

 As he was recovering, Shadi looked to me and held out his hand.  I held out my own and he dropped two earrings in it.  I gazed at them in the palm of my hand.  They were two golden scarab beetles, with their mandibles as the hooks for the ears and they had the eye of Horus, which all the items had on it, on the shells of their backs and they had six little legs sticking out.  Shadi nodded as I opened their mandibles and attached them into to the second set of holes I had in my ears, right behind my dolphin earrings.

I felt a surge of power that made my head feel dizzy.  I wobbled a little bit and Silver flight flew off of my shoulder and caught me so that I was lying on my magic carpet friend like a hammock. 

"Both the items have chosen you as their masters."  Shadi said with a strange looking grin on his face.  "Your Millennium earrings are especially unique."  He told me.  "Just by touching them and focusing on where you wish to be, will unlock their power and teleport you there.

"Wait a minute here; I don't remember Millennium earrings being part of your little collection of SEVEN items Shadi."  I pointed out.  Where did this one come from?"

"After the original seven were made, a question remained.  What if the items should fall into the wrong hands?  Or needed to be collected.  The Millennium earrings would be of great use to instantly be where the items are, and then to return home."

I nodded.  "That's nifty."  I commented.  Silverflight slid off of my shoulder and looked at me.  I think that if he had a face, he would have had a sad expression.  "Don't worry, you can still stick with me Silverflight.  Sure, teleporting is easy and quick, but nothing could ever beat flying!"  I exclaimed.

Silverflight made two thumbs up signs and twirled around me in a sort of hug. Which I returned.  We gave each other high fives.

I was promptly knocked aside by Pegasus who took Shadi by the shoulders.  Silverflight caught me and I sat Indian style on him and listened to what Pegasus was saying.  "Could her item…bring you to the world of the dead and back?!"  Pegasus yelled, desperately gasping and looking at Shadi with pleading hopeful eyes.

Shadi thought about it for a minute and then nodded.

Pegasus looked at me now with greedy hungry eyes.  "Give me your Millennium earrings!  I must have them to go to the world of the dead and bring back my wife Cecelia!"

I backed away from him as he approached me with his arms outstretched.  "I don't think it works that way Pegasus…"  I said gently.  I don't think you can bring people back from the dead like that…"  Silverflight nodded and hid behind me and began shaking.  I wouldn't blame him; Pegasus was a madman enough…

"Get away from me!  I told you, you can't just force me into it!  We both are new to our Items and have to learn more from experience before trying to pull a stunt like that!  A million things could go wrong!"

"I don't care, I've searched long and hard to find a way to bring my beloved back from the dead and I'm not going to let it go now!"  He yanked me by the hair until my ear was exposed to him.

I cried out in pain and gripped his arm, trying to pull it off of me.  "You're hurting me let go!"  I cried.  I realized that nothing was going to convince this madman to stop and I was getting seriously terrified and hurt.  Pegasus grabbed my ear and began yanking hard to try to pull the earring off.  I screamed in absolute pain and bit Pegasus hard on the hand while Silverflight had rolled himself up tightly and was hitting him over the head.

Shadi just stood there chuckling sadistically, as if the whole thing amused him.  Pegasus cried out in pain and hesitated long enough for me to jump onto Silverflight and soar out of his reach.

Pegasus then tried to bargain with me.  "I am vastly rich, name your price and I'll pay it."

I shook my head.  Nothing could buy my Item…"No Pegasus, just let it go…"  I told him.  Suddenly, Silverflight and I began spinning around and around like a tornado and becoming smaller and smaller.  A hole opened up in the floor becoming a vortex that led to who knows where.. 

"This is all a dream to you…"  Shadi began explaining to me.  "You'll wake up right where you fell asleep."  Then he turned to Pegasus.  "You'll find her in the future…"

"Nooooo I can't wait come baaack!"  Pegasus cried, reaching up for me as Shadi held him back.

"Do not take what is not rightfully yours."  Shadi cautioned him.  "Or you will bring disorder to the world and chaos will follow…"

With those parting words, I disappeared completely from the tomb as I heard Pegasus cry out as he clutched the Millennium eye for it had begun to glow exceedingly bright.  I flew with Silverflight into the dark vortex we had just been sucked into until we saw my sleeping body with Mako's head still on my lap.  We flew right inside of my sleeping form.

                                                End Dream Sequence

I awoke with a start and gasped.  "What a really crazy dream…"  I murmured and looked down at Mako's peacefully sleeping form.  Hope I never wake up from this one…I thought to myself and leaned down and kissed Mako on the cheek.  I felt my earrings click together and realized that hey; I had the Millennium earrings still in my ears!  Shadi was right, it was a dream, but somehow I magically got the item.  Millions of questions burned through my mind and not a lot of them were answered.  Like how I had even come to the Yu-Gi-Oh world in the first place, or what I was supposed to do with my Millennium item now, did have a Yami now too?  How did Shadi know so much about me, and how did the Millennium earrings come to choose me as their owner?

            As I thought about it, I tried to take the earrings off but found they wouldn't undo.  "Great, so I'm stuck with these for the rest of my life?"  I muttered.  Wait a minute, where was Silverflight?  If the dream was true than my magic carpet friend should be here with me.  Maybe he's like the flying Nimbus in Dragonball…which I don't own by the way.  Maybe he only comes when you call him.

            I wasn't in a position to yell out at that time though.  I looked down lovingly at Mako's face, knowing that I didn't want to wake him up, not when he had this moment's peace.  The sun was slowly rising above the horizon silhouetting the entire island. 

            Mako began stirring and stretching.  All I could do was smile and say "Goodmorning Mako." 

            "Morning already?"  He mumbled and got up and stretched.  "I was having a nice dream."

            I smiled and stretched out myself.  "Nice dream huh?"  I giggled.  "Were you fishing with your Father in it?"  I asked.

            Mako blushed, rubbed the back of his neck and nodded.  "The boat had silver wings and flew over the ocean like a sea gull.  You were there with us Jade.  Pretty silly dream huh?"

            "Not silly at all Mako, sounds really nice."  I answered and smiled.  He dreamed about me!!!  He did he did he did!  I thought wildly.  I had dreamed about him too, but my dream wasn't exactly as pleasant.  "Flying is wicked cool."  Well, that part of my dream had been nice.  I put my hand on his arm.  "Don't lose hope, you'll find him.  I know you will."  I whispered.

            Mako smiled and nodded.  "I will find him if I have to search the entire world!"  He said.  His determination amazed me still.  "Come, it is a new day and plenty of duels await us!"  Mako's stomach began growling and he did a face fault. "Perhaps we should get some breakfast first, dueling is hungry work!"

            "Let's go swimming and catch some fish."  I suggested and laughed. 

            "That is a great idea lets gooooooo!"  Mako shouted, grabbing his spear and running for the surf. 

I began laughing and running after him.  Then I stopped and felt my ears ring.  I touched the Millennium earrings and felt a nasty headache come on.  "What's wrong now...?"  I said to myself, and then felt my stomach ache.  "Maybe I'm just hungry, yeah that's it."

"Come on in!  The water's great!"  I heard Mako yell from the distance.  I shook my head to clear my thoughts.  It probably was because I was hungry.  But I couldn't shake this nagging feeling deep within myself.  It was dark, and felt cold.  And I felt it growing and so was my fear…

bum bum bum! (dramatic Music)

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