9.19.03- I've decided to stop the oxymoron stuff. Do you know how hard it is to come up with oxymorons that have to do with the chapter?
So… yeah. Sorry it took so long to do this. And… I lied. NEXT chapter is learning. THIS chapter is dreaming. I'll change that in the previous chapter. (The truth is, I had not planned for this chapter to be here. I'm not sure how I came up with it; I'm not sure what made me suddenly remember about the duel. But it worked out well- I was having troubles writing the next chapter before I came up with this. I wrote this chapter in about a half hour! [Not counting the hour or two I spent watching the duel and recording the dialoguein my notebook.])
Oh, yeah, the first part of the chapter is a spoiler. :P
Blue-Eyed Maiden
Chapter Four: Trust
'The result is obvious,' Yami Malik thought, then turned away from Seto and Isis' duel. 'When Kaiba declares his attack, the bomb will explode.' He walked off. 'I can't leave her alone…' Suddenly, his Millennium Rod began to glow…
"Let's go! Obelisk no Kyoshinhei!"
'It's over,' Isis thought to herself.
Yami Malik stared at his Item in horror. "Th… this…"
Yami Yuugi's eyes widened. "The Millennium Rod…"
"Atta…" Seto stopped mid-command, suddenly shocked by something.
Yami Yuugi looked up, surprised. 'Kaiba stopped his attack…!'
"What's wrong, Kaiba?!" Jounouchi shouted.
"Nii-sama!"
Isis was stunned to see her opponent completely frozen in place, eyes glazed over.
Images flashed through his mind… the past… Seto saw the stone tabled Isis had shown him. 'What's this…?' Another tablet appeared, emblazoned with the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. He saw an Egyptian priest grasping the Millennium Rod- himself- kneeling in front of the tablet, holding a girl with pale skin and blonde hair. 'What is this vision? This sadness piercing my heart…'
Isis was amazed. "Why did he stop his attack?"
"Is it possible," Yami Malik said, disgusted, "that the light from the Millennium Rod…"
The image in Seto's mind faded and he grabbed his forehead, overcome with memories he couldn't remember.
"Kaiba…" Yami Yuugi muttered, in mild concern.
He had troubles taking it all in. 'That tablet was the Blue-Eyes White Dragon… Why did I see this vision?' Suddenly, he noticed the Blue-Eyes card in his hand. "What's this?! Blue-Eyes, what do you want to tell me?" He stared at the card. 'I suddenly want to believe that vision…' "I'll activate a magic card! I'll use The Silent Dead to summon Kajat Soldier from my graveyard in defense mode!"
Isis was surprised at this sudden turn of events. 'Impossible… this isn't the future I saw…'
Seto continued. "To summon the Blue-Eyes, I need two monsters as offerings." He held up two fingers. "Now…"
"No way!" Isis gasped.
"Yes. I'll sacrifice God!"
"What?!" Yami Malik demanded.
Jounouchi was taken aback. "Seriously?!"
"He's sacrificing…" Anzu added.
"Obelisk!" Yuugi finished.
"My pride and my soul… I decide my own future! Obelisk and Kajat Soldier!" He took the two monsters from the field. "For the sake of my loyal servant, you two will be offerings!!"
'He sacrificed Obelisk…' Isis thought in disbelief. 'He sacrificed God…!"
Surrounded by the shimmering lights of the disappearing Obelisk, Seto continued. "Isis, I'll show you my loyal servant, my pride, my soul! Let's go! Blue-Eyes White Dragon!!" He played the Blue-Eyes on his field, summoning the gleaming pearly-white monster.
"The future… changed!"
The dragon loomed over its master's head as Yami Malik glared on. "Kaiba, what did you see?!"
'Seto… you are the one to command the White Monsters…
"Isis, in your vision of the future, did the Blue-Eyes show up?!" She gasped, and Seto sneered. "I guess not."
Isis closed her eyes and smiled. 'I lost…'
"It's my future!" Seto declared. "Let's go! Blue-Eyes!!" As the spectators watched on, the Blue-Eyes opened its jaws to launch its attack. "Open up our future! Destroying Burst Stream!!"
The attack rushed towards Isis, and he life points dropped from 1400 to 0.
"I won, Isis!" Seto announced.
"The winner is… Seto-sama!!"
Seto's eyes opened, only to see the ceiling of his room in the darkness. That dream again… He slowly got out of bed, scratching the back of his neck. I've seen that dream, relived that vision, so many times since it happened. But why did I only now realize it…? He slipped into his silk robe and stepped into the hall. It was Kisara that saved me that time… Then he shook his head. No, there's no saying that Kisara's card was the one in my hand. It could have been any of the three.
He was surprised to pass by the guest room set up for Kisara and see that the door was open. "What…?" He peered in to see that she was not in her bed- and from the looks of the neatly made covers, hadn't been in it all night. Groaning, he turned down the hall and opened the door to Mokuba's room. Sure enough, the TV was on, fizzling with static. In front of the television set lay Mokuba and Kisara, asleep with the video game controllers in their hands. Seto sighed. "Those two… I told them to get to bed." He briefly thought of the evening before- Seto had been exhausted after shopping and went straight to bed. Mokuba and Kisara had wanted to play some more, so he told them to get to bed before ten- the next day would be Monday, a school day. Obviously, this had never happened.
Seto turned off the TV and went to Mokuba's bed to pull back the covers. Then he picked up his younger brother and carried him into bed, fully clothed. After that was done, he went back for Kisara. Standing at her head, he paused. He didn't feel comfortable picking her up like that… granted, he had been holding her in his vision, but that was a vision. He knelt down to stare at her face. I couldn't see the girl's face in my vision… it might not be her at all. Seto noticed that she was still wearing his old clothes. The shirt had fallen off one shoulder. Blushing slightly, he took the sleeve and repositioned it so that he would not see her bra strap.
Kisara stirred a bit, and he jumped. Then he became aware of his antics and regained composure, despite the fact that no one was watching. Finally, he gave in and placed his hands under her body, picking her up. Seto carried her across the hall and placed her in her bed, pulling the covers over her. Then he quickly left the room and closed the door.
"I don't think I'm getting back to sleep now…" Seto sighed, patting down his hair that was sticking up in back. "I guess I might as well get ready for school." He went back to his room to get his school uniform on, then went downstairs to make breakfast and coffee. Glancing at the clock, he noticed that it was 5:30. Two hours until we have to leave for school… I'll use that time to track down a girls' school uniform. He paused, then laughed slightly. Normally it would take ages for me to trust anyone, he thought bitterly. What makes her so special…?
He paused, then grabbed the phone book.
"That was amazing, Seto," Isis said, once the fight was done. "You're the true possessor of a God Card. But why…?"
Seto looked at her. "There are some things in life we have to trust more than God. I'll keep this trust."
That whole thing with Isis and Seto's duel is one of my favorite parts of the series. It's really amazing. Haunting, to a point, I suppose. The first time I saw it I hadn't known anything about Kisara yet, so none of it really sank in- I didn't think anything of the "sadness piercing at Seto's heart."
Granted, a number of the Battle Ship duels are really good in my opinion. I've seen Mai and Yami Malik's several times, and I love it. (Yeah, I told you who Mai duels. But I had already said that Seto dueled Isis, and they've already done Yami Yuugi and Yami Bakura's in the dub. And by the time I get this up they would have shown the first episode of Jounouchi and Rishid's, so by process of elimination you would have figured it out anyway.)
But you know what? The final duel with Noa lasts about ten episodes or something. And that's because Seto gets *mumbleturnedintostonemumble* in the middle and Yuugi has to take over. But it's still really long and I've only managed to sit through it ONCE. The duel before that was about five episodes long, which is fitting, because it has the return of *mumblefivegoddragonmumble*.
…That was completely pointless. Oh, well, I'll probably get the next chapter up pretty soon. I'm looking forward to writing it. :3
But don't hold me to that. Knowing myself, I'll probably take more time than expected. -_-
Next chapter will have responses to my reviews, though!!
Next: Learning (1)!
