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thanx for your reviews, I started this before the other reviews came so I might not've read them yet. This was a ballad by Fox Spirit, and I loved it.
The light has broken through the depths between dawn and dusk.
Or go to battle which they know none may return, even so, they are determine, for those who gave their lives for them.
The girl chosen by S stands; in fear, in anger, in vengeance, even more, confusion that is in her heart and sadness.
Even now as she runs through the screams, cries, and blood she must remain a calm facade.
She knows that this is her obligation to that which taught and she will be determine to accomplish it.
As she runs through the dark doorways she can only think.
I'm coming for you S'naugh, I'm coming for you.
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Anywayz, I just thought it was so good, that I had to put it in. ^^
Okay, I know I haven't been reviewing some of your guys' stories. It was because my stupid sisters caught me typing my story at 2am. And I said I was going to sleep at 9:30....crazy isn't it? I never sleep at that time, my usual sleep time is 12:30. So now, everyone keeps a close eye on me. About every day I hear them saying, 'why're you typing your stupid story?' about 30 times a day, and they kick me off the internet after 30 minutes. So basically I have this time limit and I don't have enough time to review..sniff.
So.....when I come back I'm going to go back to my reviews and R&R every Yu-gi-oh stories that you guys have, oh and also if you have DBZ or Dragon Ball. I know there were two people who wanted me to read their fic, but I forgot who. One of them I did review, the other...can you tell me again? Sorry. But if you want me to R&R your other fics, even though I probably don't know much about them I will, just tell me. I'm soooo sorry if it seems like I never review your guys' story!
Wow! Practically a whole page of author's notes. Guess I should get the chapter started...hehe.
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"This stick is shoving up my ass," muttered Tristan, trying to shift position. They were hiding beneath the bushes and trees. They could see the watchmen from here. Gelan and Kaith had gone with the other spirits to take down the shield.
Suddenly a loud Boom! was heard. "What was that!" hissed Mai. Tea cocked her ears, and listened intently. She could hear screams and shouts, "I don't know if those screams are from our people or theirs," she whispered back.
A crackle of branches was heard behind them. Then, "Are you Tea Mazaki?"
The group slowly turned around. Behind them were twenty-five spirits, all on S'naugh's side, each holding a destroyer spell at the ready. "If you cooperate, we will not release these spells," one said.
"Well, this plan really worked," Kaiba said sarcastically. "We didn't even get in the castle grounds yet and we're already captured."
"Better do what he says," Tea said through the side of her mouth. "I'll try to think of an escape plan." 'Great,' she thought, 'this can not get any worse. But what can I do? We'll get killed by those spells if we try to escape.'
Inside the grounds, Ferran met them. "Hello again, Tea," he said, smiling coldly. "We meet again."
"Yes," she replied, "and hopefully you won't run away like the coward you are and face death."
He smiled faintly. "I heard that Shalanelle was killed. I convey my deepest sympathies," he said mockingly.
"As we all do," murmured another spirit beside him. "She was always annoying bitch, and it took a little too long to kill her."
The man laughed, seeing the group's fury at their words. "But," he said, clapping his hands together, "let's have some fun shall we?"
"Bring in the others," he ordered to another.
The doors opened and Gelan, Kaith, and the resty of the army were brought in. "I know what you're thinking, that this army has just been cut by half, but don't worry, the rest are being executed right now."
"It's funny that all you have to say, is that we have Tea captured, and they'll listen to you like well trained dogs," he continued. "Don't you feel special, Tea? All these people surrendered just for you."
"And half of them are now dying for you," he added.
Tea's face was locked into a blank mask. Every nerve in her was screaming for his death, but she suppressed it down, forcing herself to keep calm, or else they would be even more amused.
"Oh, I feel your pain," he said smiling at Tea. "But how about this, you can take it all out on me, c'mon," he said motioning at her with a hand. "Let's see how much you've improved since our last fight."
With a clap of his hand, the floor pulled back to reveal a fighting ring that levitated upwards. He started to rise and he floated over to land inside the ring. Tea started to rise as well, and she fought her urge to scream.
"Um, I don't think S'nauh would like you fighting me," Tea said, looking down from the ring at her friends.
"Oh I forgot about that," he said annoyed. "As of right now he is actually at your main site, taking over your base. Ironic isn't it? You try to take over ours while we try to take over yours."
"He won't mind," he said, dismissing his previous words with a wave of his hand.
He grinned evilly. "I'm going to make you pay for what you did to me, and I'm going to do it in front of your friends."
A glowing yellow light appeared in front of him. "But don't worry, I won't break you that badly, S'nauh will do the rest," he added.
The yellow light surrounded Tea and she couldn't move. 'Damn! My feet and arms feel like lead!' she thought as she struggled to pull her leg up.
"That'll hold you from doing anything," he said smirking. With that, he crossed over and slapped Tea twice in the face. "What can't do anything?" he taunted as Tea looked murder at him.
"Does it make you feel better to pick on someone who can't move? Oh I forgot, you're the kinda person that picks on those who can't defend themselves just so you can feel trumped up and important," she retorted back.
In response, he punched her on the stomach, and then threw her bent over form across the ring, into the wall. "Aah," Tea groaned in pain. Blood was trickling down her face, her stomach was on fire, and her vision was blurred. 'I'm going to be killed, unless I can get out of this stupid paralyze spell. Wait, how can I be so stupid! I have magic rings and such, a gift from S!'
'What was the activation word....oh yeah! Parnosis!' she thought mentally. Suddenly a white glow appeared and thinned out in front of Tea to be a shield. 'And Selien, to disperse any magic on me!'
Once she felt movement back in her arms and legs, she stood up. "You can't do your cheap tricks on someone without them striking back," she said striding toward him.
He looked in surprise at the floating shield in front of her. "So, you have magic trinkets."
"Lets see how good they are." With that, he started to throw fireballs at her shield, which merely absorbed each blow.
'This is my chance!' thought Tea. 'Lets see if he can handle the same trick I used on Raleth!' She threw two of her triangular blades at him, but as they started to curve toward him, he merely let them bounce off of him. "It won't work," he said smirking, "I'm not Raleth, you'll have to do much better than that."
He floated up even higher and a black ball of energy started to develop between his hands. Yellow lightening crackled around him and stench of rotten meat swept the air. "This," he said, "is another of those forbidden spells."
Black ball grew larger and then shifted shape to form a hideous monster. It had three heads of a wolf, with sharp teeth, it's body however was a grotesque lump of...... what looked like tar. "Try to defeat this!" he said triumphantly.
Immediately Tea used her weapons, attacking the thing. But nothing worked, it was like he was rubber and everything she did had no effect on it. 'I'll have to use magic,' she thought desperately.
She touched the metal necklace around her neck. White and black streams of light exited the necklace and shot at the forbidden monster. But nothing happened. It only succeeded in aggravating it even more.
Below, Tea's friends had tried to do something to help Tea. But the spirits that were watching them had merely placed an Unbreakable spell on them. Now they were stuck in their positions, rooted to the spot.
But Gelan and Kaith on the other hand were gathering everyone's energy for a spell. "Please, let this work," Gelan thought.
As the monster leapt at Tea, another monster appeared in the shape of a dragon, in front of Tea. "Kill him!" shouted Kaith, pointing at Ferran. 'Lets hope that it'll kill Ferran before the other monster kills Tea,' he thought. 'If it kills him in time, the forbidden spell will evaporate.'
Right before the dragon attacked Ferran, and right before the monster was in mid-leap at Tea, time slowed down. It was hard to move, it was even an effort to talk.
"What is going on?" said a cool voice.
Immediately both monsters vanished. Ferran paled, "S'nauh," he said bowing on one knee.
"Just what do you think you're doing?" he said looking at Ferran.
Ferran fidgeted, looking at his feet. "I was just toying with her."
"And about to kill her, I believe," S'nauh replied back. "I don't have time to deal with this. For right now," he said, turning to Tea. "We have an appointment." A magical net surrounded Tea and a paralysis on her friends. "You won't be able to break that," he said.
The scenery around them shifted into the room that Shalanelle had first introduced Tea to the spirits.
On the dais that S usually sat, was a trembling Mizram. Around him were spirits holding destroyer spells at their fingertips. "Tea, what are you doing! Kill him!" he squeaked, eyes shifting nervously to the smirking spirits around him.
"A demonstration to show you what will happen if you don't come to my side," he said to Tea.
A black ball of energy appeared but before he could use the mind breaker spell on Mizram, Tea said in a frigid voice, "Stop."
He turned to her in surprise. "You've changed your mind that soon?"
"I know what that spell does, but no matter what you do, I will not!," she said in a deadly tone.
Her friends looked at each other. They had never seen Tea like this before. Sure she was really scary, especially when fighting, but the determined look in her face, the cold glint in her eye, the set lips, tense body.....it was as if this was a new Tea. The fighter Tea, complementing the other Tea they knew, like Yin and Yang.
S'nauh looked at Tea with a different look. "So," he said softly, "you know what it does, then you should know that I'll put on your friends, one by one. And one they fall under the spell, I'll order them to kill you. And watch as you kill your friends one by one.....or you could just assent to me."
"How about we just settle by a man to man fight?" Tea countered back. 'As long as I can get him into a fight, he'll forget about my friends.'
"And if the prophecy is true, you'll beat me? I think not." The black energy drifted from his hands and hovered over the heads of her friends. "Which shall I choose.....?" he said with a little smile, eyes never leaving Tea's face.
'No, don't,' Tea thought, her mind in a torment, 'but I'd rather die than serve him.' She closed her eyes and mentally asked for forgiveness from her friends for the next decision she was going to make.
"Do it on me," she said, her voice pure and loud.
"Tea, no," they hissed. Tea looked at each of her friends in the face, her eyes lingering on Bakura and Marik. "It's the only way," she said, with finality.
"Now you're thinking smart," S'nauh said approvingly. "I might let your friends live for that."
The energy floated over Tea. She could feel the air practically hum with it's energy, goose bumps rising on her skin. The black orb gently touched her on the head.
She could feel something foreign rise up in her mind. Something evil. It crept up, sneaking its tendrils, trying to seduce her mind to give over, and succumb to it. "It would be so easy," Tea thought, 'to give in............but I....will......never!'
S'nauh raised an eyebrow. "Don't fight it....or else you know what will happen." Suddenly it felt like she was being burned alive. "Give in, give in," droned a voice in her head.
"Aah!" Tea screamed as she fell to her knees, gripping her head with her hands. Flashes of color seared into her mind. Indigo, flash. GIVE, flash. White. IN. Flash. In the distant Tea heard screaming, screams that were echoed by her.
Marik trembled visibly as he saw Tea writhe on the floor. Each scream tore through him like a knife. With almost inhuman strength, disregarding the spell on him, he threw himself at S'nauh, death written on his face.
S'nauh calmly watched Marik leap toward him. A red bolt shot from his hand and sank into Marik's chest.
Tea felt like she was watching from a spectator's point of view. 'I'm not the one on the ground....Marik did not just die...Marik.....did....not....just.....die!
"No!" she shrieked, her voice already hoarse, in response to Marik.
Marik looked almost astonished at the gaping hole in his chest. Blood leaking from his mouth, he said in a bare whisper, "For me Tea. Do it for me." And then he fell, falling almost lightly on the ground.
Tea lifted her head up, facing the smirking S'naugh, her eyes burning with unholy light. She felt weightless and light. Instead of fighting the pain, she welcomed it with open arms. She braced her feet wide, arms stretched to the sides. With each searing flash, her body jolted in response. But not a scream escaped her clamped lips.
She looked like she was in a trance, the only sound heard was her hoarse breathing. Tears trickled unnoticed down her face.
GIVE, Violet, Flash, IN, Flash. Numbly, she thought, 'I'll take in everything, everything.'
As she absorbed the mental blows, her fingers slowly reached into her belt, to the magical rings that were given to her by S. She slipped them on. 'For S....for Marik....for them both,' she thought dazedly.
Blood still running down her face, she shifted her legs into a crouch.
"You can't be serious," said S'nauh, for once fear was in his face. "You shouldn't even be able to move!"
With a banshee shriek, Tea leapt on him, bejeweled fists pummeling him. S'nauh tried to hold her off, but Tea was beyond reasoning. Frantically he tried to put a defense shield, and then a paralysis on her, but the rings cut each spell down. Blood started to run down his face. "You leave me no choice!" he snarled. He raised the spell to it's maximum.
Tea stiffened over him, her mouth in a silent scream. As she felt her mind about to snap, a jumble of memories floated across her mind.
Shalanelle throwing herself before her......flames, screams, blood dripping on her head. The expression of Raleth's face when he died....the elation and then disgust at herself afterwards. Ferran's panic at school, when she was about to finish him. Marik rejecting her. The kiss. Bakura. Marik's blood trickling down his chest........
S'nauh watched her, triumph in his eyes. But wait....what was this? Tea slowly looked at him, her mouth open, her eyes wide and dilated. Suddenly her pupils sharpened. It was as if she was peering into his soul, condemning him for everything he had done.
He watched her eyes flicker, as if deciding what to do with him. "No!" he screamed throwing every spell he could think at her. But she merely batted each aside with a flick of her wrist, every magical trinket glowing on her. "Die!" he shrieked insanely, knowing that she was the one. The one that had haunted his dreams every night. The fear of dying. Of death.
Tea looked at him, looked at him through a film of red before her eyes. She was calm, her mind thinking on which punch to throw, which kick, to give him more pain. She was never in more control of her body. Mind and body fusing into one spiritual being.
She relentlessly continued her attack, throwing aside the feeble blocks. She could not stop.....She would not stop....not until this business was finished....not until then.
Still under the paralysis, Tea's friends watched, fear in their eyes. Mai, held her hand over mouth, tears streaming down her face. Joey and Tristan, watched the fight as if their life depended on it. Yugi and Yami looked on, shock evident in their eyes. Ryou gripping Malik's shoulder hard, Malik had just gotten over the shock of Marik's death, his hand over his eyes. Bakura was fighting with all his might to tear the spell off of him. 'I've gotta help her!' he thought, but he could not break free.
His defense started to wear down. Tea's vision swam in the red. Blood rage tore through her; even though her mind was cold and calculating, this wonderful feeling of pounding this person...this....murderer into the ground was addicting.
Ferran and the others watched, panic emanating from them. 'This is not possible, it can't be....she can't be the one....' they all thought.
Fumbling inside her pouch, Tea withdrew a stone that pulsed with inner white light. "If your mind or will is strong enough, this stone has enough energy that you can direct it to your attacker," S had told her.
She squeezed the stone with all her might. Willing it toward S'nauh. Immense power rushed through her, unseen with the naked eye, thrusting itself at S'nauh. He was thrown back across the room and hit the wall by the back of his head. Tea watched fiercely at the shock on his face. He slid downward the wall, his head leaving a bloody trail.
"No," he whispered. His eyes closed, as death claimed him.
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Whoooooeeeeee! That is the longest I've ever written for a chapter! So that means for all my hard work, you guyz must review!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^ I found I'm actually leaving tomorrow night, so I'll put in the ch. for my other story tomorrow. REVIIIEW!!!!!!!!