Flamed: Wasn't this chapter originally a lot shorter?
C.A.: Blame Chaos and Heart, they ganged up on me. When I started this I wanted all the Characters to be equal none more important than any other. Well that's gone out the window, no wonder Dark Magician Girl is so snappy.
Flamed: It's your own fault now go and thank your reviewers.
C.A.: Don't you start, please.
Indigo Tantarian No your weren't bugging me, I was sighing because of FF Net not because of you. You really think I'm that good? I think your great since your can write comedy and I can't.
Koriku Well here's the next chapter sooner than I expected but Heart and Chaos just wouldn't SHUT UP! I'm not sure when I'll tell you who the babysitter is, But if some one guesses before I chose to tell you, I'll confess. I'm trying to think of a prize for the first one to guess right but I can't think of anything.
Penny: Angel of Darkest Dreams The answer to why Change of Heart doesn't talk is answered in this chapter, And you don't ask too many questions I love getting questions I just don't always answer. ^_^
ShadowFire I'm so glad you liked it, I'll read Dark storm ether tonight or tomorrow, I can't read it now thought I have to go to work in like twenty minuets.
Fani90 Well I'll give you another clue, It's a man, Hah! I bet most people thought it was a girl, er maybe not.
Anyway here's the next chapter.
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"The Dark Magician was the wisest of the runaways, he was the leader but he in not infallible."
"Then why was he the leader?" Hope asked.
"By the Puzzle Hope if you keep interrupting I'll never finish."
"I'm sorry."
The baby sitter smiled and started his story again.
"Was his choice of using speed above all else, to the point of working the others to exhaustion, the right choice, that will never be known for once a choice is made and carried though it is impossible to go back and try another route. There is no other option to go forward be it for the good of the group or to their demise..."
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CHAPTER 5 - HARPY'S PET DRAGON
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The Dark Magician might be able to sleep but The Magician Of Black Chaos couldn't. He sat in the shadow of The Red-Eyes Black Dragon keeping watch, even if it was meant to he some one else's job. Change of Heart's to be exact.
Quite suddenly the girl stood up. She looked around nervously, but not at the woods around them, she was watching the group them self. Chaos closed his eyes when Heart looks at him in the shadows, she probably couldn't see his eyes anyway but he wanted to make sure. When the feeling of being watched had passed Chaos opened his eyes and looked for Heart, She wasn't hard to find, her white wing reflected moon light almost as bright as the moon itself.
Heart walked far from the group, She was looking around as if she expected some one to attack her any second. She body-language didn't speak of fear but Chaos couldn't see her face so there was no way to be sure.
Suddenly two voices broke the silence of the woods. One was the black broken voice of some unspeakable horror, the other the sweet musical tone of a maiden.
"Are you just going to wait there until the sun burns out?" They spoke.
Chaos wondered if the voices were talking to him or Heart but then another sweet voice could be heard, it was singing.
"Today I'll be spinning on a Wheel. I'm a slave to a Wheel.
And there isn't any stopping.
What mistake could I have made? I'm a slave serving time for a life that I've forgotten.
I'm a slave of Karma, Spin the Wheel and I'm a king reborn.
I'm a slave to Karma, I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back.
But for the last time."
Heart followed the voice and Chaos followed. It was an interesting song. Chaos had never heard anything like it before.
"Today I'm a king on the Wheel. Still a slave to the Wheel.
But this time around I'm smiling.
Keep me cautious, keep me safe, just in case there's a chance I can leave this Wheel behind me.
Stand in the Middle and you won't get dizzy.
Stand in the Middle and you won't fall down.
If you stand in the Middle you can keep your balance.
Stand in the Middle while the Wheel spins round and round..."
Heart had found the singer, it was a Lady Of Faith. She was sitting on a rock by a wide stream. A Man-Eater big by her side.
Chaos expected the cards to attack or Heart to run, He never expected Heart to sit down on her side of the river, or the Lady of Faith to nod to her as she continued to sing.
"I'm a slave of Karma. Spin the Wheel and I'm a king reborn.
I'm a slave to Karma. I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back.
But for the last time.
I'm a slave of Karma. Spin the Wheel and I'm a King reborn.
I'm a slave to Karma. I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back.
But for the last time."
Chaos was still hiding in the trees. He could hear the two voices join in the song. Who would have thought such a terrible voice as that horror could sing yet mixed in with the maiden and the Lady of Faith it worked.
"How do all the Wheels inside the Wheels revolving, Go on, and on, and on, and on, and on...
Spinning on the Wheel the souls of One evolving, Live on, live on, live on, live on, live on...
Anyone who claims that they know the answer's coming back again, again, again..."
The other two voiced faded out. Chaos wondered where by the seven items they were from. The Lady of Faith carried on regardless. Heart looked impatient now, she was tapping her foot even. The Lady of Faith carried on singing regardless.
"Who's at the centre of the Wheel?
The inventor of the Wheel? Or another spinning servant?
I'm the Master of my Wheel of my very own Wheel.
Universal and recurrent."
Heart started pacing, she even looked as if she might storm off but a ring of fire surrounded her, Chaos jumped up into the trees so the light from the fire wouldn't expose him, he also jumped closer to try and help, he had expected to see a spellbinding circle but instead he saw the Millennium Ring drawn in fire, with Heart trapped in the enter of the eye.
"I'm a slave of Karma. Spin the Wheel and I'm a King reborn.
I'm a slave to Karma. I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back.
But for the last time."
Chaos bit down a gasp. This Lady of Faith and Man-Eater bug were the Tomb-Robbers cards.
"I'm a slave of Karma. Spin the Wheel and I'm a King reborn.
I'm a slave to Karma. I'm coming back, yeah, I'll be coming back.
But for the last time.
For the last time. For the last time.
For the last time. Yeah, I'll be coming back. But for the last time."
Only then did the Lady of Faith get up from her rock and walk over to Heart.
"Do you have any idea how worried your mother is?"
Heart crossed her arms and turned away. Chaos moved to a closer tree to see better what was going on.
"The deck is in chaos, everyone is out looking for you."
Heart turned to the Lady of Faith.
"I. Don't. Care."
Chaos nearly fell out of the tree, The disgusting voice of nightmares, and the sweet beautiful voice of dreams were both Heart's. And all this time Chaos thought she was mute.
"You don't care? Now that is not the Heart I know. The Heart I know cares to much, I bet you haven't told the others about who you are have you? About what deck you are from." Faith said.
Heart turned her head to the side. Faith started laughing. "You haven't even spoken in front of them, have you?"
Heart blushed. "As if I'm going to tell you anything about them? They are my friends and I won't betray them."
"Heart please. Come home, you won't be in any trouble, and the whole deck will leave the other alone."
Heart turned back to Faith.
"Faith...I.." A tear started to slip down her face. "If I agree to come home, I don't want you to leave the others alone, I want you to help them, By the Eye, The ring, The Tomb Robber and his light..."
"I swear by all seven Items and Duellists if you want me to." Faith said lifting her hand and killing the fire ring.. "I have had permission to make such a promise, By the Sprit of the ring himself."
Heart's eyes grew wide and her jaw worked silently. As Chaos watched. Heart was willing to give up her own freedom to insure theirs? Chaos sighed off course she would, He would himself if he had a chance like this. And he knew what the others would say to him.
"It's not fair it might have been better if the resurrection hadn't happened." Heart sighed she lifted her hand to shake with Faith, she was going to take the deal.
"No!" Chaos jumped out of his tree. "Heart is one of us, she can't be of your deck since she isn't even a card yet, We are all in this together, we agreed before we started running. No backing out, no selling each other out. No leaving anyone behind unless there dead and we don't accept their dead until we see their body. We get out or we die trying."
"You would turn down the help of the deck of an item holder?" Faith asked.
"If it means losing on of our number yes." Chaos said pushing Heart behind him.
"Very well." Faith nodded. "I thank your for protected heart so well, but both of you should know that next time we met we will be enemies." Faith and the Man-Eater bug vanished in a wall of fire.
"Cheep trick." Chaos muttered and turned to Heart. He wanted to as what the Tomb-Robber's deck wanted with her, but everyone one of them ran for different reasons and it was an unwritten rule with them not to ask questions like that.
"Do all change of Hearts sound like that?" He asked instead.
Heart smiled, she realised that Chaos wasn't going to tell anyone else about this. She nodded and they walked back to the others in silence. Everyone was still asleep.
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For three days now they had been flying the dragons to exhaustion resting then flying the poor dragons again, but they were almost at the temple, it could be seen on the horizon now, that giant golden Pyramid but it would still be a few more hours travel.
"Are we there yet?" The Red Archery Girl poked her head out of her clam to ask.
Heart shook her head. Like any young child the Red Archery Girl was getting board. The Dark Witch was sleeping she had been practicing with the sword so much that she was too tired to do much else.
"You heard the Dark Magician yesterday it's going to be a while longer." Neo the magical Swordsman said not looking up from where he was trying to stop the wind from turning the pages of his new book so he could read it. He gave up and put the book and it's quill away.
"Incoming!" The Dark Magician shouted.
Change of Heart and Harpy lady jumped off Harpy's pet dragon so he could move faster.
"Pet! Get Red, Itch and Neo out of her! Go with them baby!" The dragon nodded and turned tail. Harpy lady turned to Change of Heart. "Well Heart, ready to see if you can use that whip?"
Change of Heart was trembling how could she fight? She was just magic she wasn't a Duel Monster.
The Harpy Lady Sisters faced down Harpy lady and Change Oh Heart.
"So your the ones that stole our whip and armour!" One of them shouted.
"Oh well we'll just kill your dragon in return." Said another.
"It's only fair." Said the last one.
To late Harpy Lady and Change of Heart saw the Curse of Dragon with Gaia on his back, the Dragon Knight this time then, no wait there were two night's on the dragons back.
The two were flying for all they were worth to the dragon Harpy Lady was screaming at the top of her lungs.
The second knight was all black...by the Eye...it couldn't be...the dragon, and the passengers wouldn't stand a chance!
Yet no amount of wishing could change the face that it was the Black Lustre knight. He jumped off Curse of Dragon's back and decapitated Harpy's pet dragon as he fell past her.
The dead dragon and it's passengers fell like stones as Gaia the Dragon knight swooped below them and caught the Black Lustre Knight.
Harpy Lady stopped dead, only instinct was keeping her feathered arms beating. Change of Heart didn't miss a second, With Baby Dragon and Dark Witch following she swooped her self and caught the Red Archery Girl's clam in one arm. The girl didn't stop screaming yet since Change of Heart was still falling but there was no way she could reach The Magical Swordsman in time. She used the rose whip which was just long enough to catch him around one ankle.
Only now did she even try to pull up. She managed to level out just above the tree line and landed. Change of Heart didn't wait for thanks she flew back up to the trees. She was to far from the fight now she could never reach it back in time to make a difference.
Or could she?
The Dragon Knight was still circling. She dropped back down to the others. She gave the whip to Red Archery Girl.
"Don't worry Heart we'll look after it, and if anyone attacks us I'll use my tears." The Red Archery Girl said. The Dragon nodded as if to see he'd be fine too.
"We'll start walking towards the temple, go." The swordsman told her.
Change of Heart nodded before taking to the sky again.
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Harpy Lady was surrounded by the three Harpy Sisters. "Aww...do you miss your Dragon?"
Harpy Lady snarled and attacked the Harpy that had spoken, she didn't care if they killed her or not she just needed to get the pain out if her, and hurt them in the process.
Just as she attacked there was a blast of Magic and a silver arrow flew past her and hit the centre of the Second Harpy's chest.
Harpy looked back to see the Mystic Elf Smiling at her, The Dark Magician Girl winked and attacked the Winged Dragon Guardian of the fortress. Destroying it.
Behind her Red-Eyes Black Dragon fought another Red-Eyes Black Dragon.
Their Dragon may have the Nails to make him stronger but he had passengers, and he had no fighting experience, so their strength was equal.
The enemy Red-eyes Black Dragon broke awake and was about to dive bomb them.
"Been waiting for that!" The Celtic Guardian shouted. "Kunai with chain!"
The dragon was trapped and weakened by the chain and the younger Red-Eyes Black Dragon attacked the Enemy and killed it.
The Red-Eyes Black Dragon roared in victory. The Elves on his back cheered.
Gaia the Dragon Knight flew under them, the perfect target, a really Dumb thing for an enemy to do. So maybe it wasn't an Enemy.
"Heart?" The black dragon asked.
"Yeah." Gaia/Change of Heart answered and rose to the same level. "Neo baby and Red are heading towards the temple but the Black Lustre Knight was on my back when I took over and I had to buck him off. "I think he landed near them but he wouldn't have reached them yet, Where's Chaos he's the only one strong enough to beat him."
Quite suddenly a blast of magic struck the Dragon Knight and Change of Heart only barely escaped.
"Heart? Oh Ra I'm sorry!" The Magician of Black Chaos shouted.
"The Black Lustre Knight is in the forest near where Pet went down and so is Baby, Itch Neo and Red!" Red-Eye's Black Dragon shouted back down to the magician before asking Change of Heart if she was okay but she had already flown away.
The Magician of Black Chaos nodded and went to make sure that the Knight never crossed paths with the Magical Swordsman, the Red Archery Girl and Baby Dragon.
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[Final note] Has anyone else noticed that when ever I name a chapter after one of my monsters that monster ends up dead? (Flamed: I sure did! -_-. C.A.: Look at it this way, You'll have some one else to talk to here.)
[Final, Final note.]This chapter is thanks to Indigo Tantarian. I love the song in this but I couldn't find the words, If it wasn't for the Yu-Gi-Oh! Rants on Indigo Tantarian's wed site you would have had to wait one maybe two chapters before Heart talked and much, much longer before your first saw Faith, she had a much smaller role too.
[Final, Final, Final note] Please review!