Trial By Cards
Chapter 20 for all of my loyal fans. A new person enters in this chapter. The Millennium Dagger is revealed and so is its owner. Keora wakes up in the hospital and is amazed to find that everyone is OK. Well as always I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Anatsu Dakiana, she is pingpongs property.
Chapter 20: Old Friends, Old Enemies
" Hey kid are you OK?" asked a voice that broke thru the clouds in Keora's head.
" Keora come on big sister, wake up," said Mokuba as he shook Keora.
" Yami, wh won't she answer us?" asked Mokuba as he tried to make Keora wake up.
" I don't know Mokuba," said Yami as he looked at the inert girl.
" Ryou," whispered Keora as Mokuba turned to her.
" Keora, what is it?" asked Mokuba his voice concealing nothing.
" Get Ryou to the hospital. I'll be fine," whispered Keora.
" What did she say?" asked Yami.
" To get Ryou to the hospital," said Mokuba. Yami blinked as he looked at the others who were still unconscious.
" Grief that bully was sure dangerous," said Yami as he looked at Mokuba. The poor kid was all dirty and had a black eye and he was sure more then just a black eye cause he had been thrown against a wall.
" Do what she says," said a voice from the shadows.
" Who's there?" asked Yami.
" My name's no concern of the moment. Go and take Ryou to the hospital, he's the worst off of all of them," said the voice. Yami nodded and gently lifted Ryou up and disappeared.
" Um, what's your name?" asked Mokuba to the voice.
" Anatsu Dakiana," said the voice as a girl who stood about 5'0 walked out of the shadows. She was dressed in black leather pants, a blue halter top, and a black leather coast. Mokuba blinked and looked at her. She had silver hair with blue streaks in it.
" I'm Mokuba Kaiba," said Mokuba. Anatsu nodded and looked at the others and her gaze rested on Bakura.
" Come on Mokuba we need to get them to the hospital. Keora's going to go comatose on us if we don't," said Anatsu. Mokuba noticed a dagger glittering at her side and shrunk back. " Don't worry Mokuba. I won't hurt ya," said Anatsu as she drew her coat around the dagger.
" Hey princess if you're out there how about helping us," thought Anatsu and suddenly Yama appeared and glared at Anatsu.
" Hello Anatsu," said Yama coldly her eyes shimmering blood red, but suddenly noticed Bakura and her eyes softened back to their normal purple shade.
" What happened?" asked Yama fear and guilt written on her face.
" We were attacked," said Mokuba as he quietly walked over to Yugi and Seto.
" I'll get the others," said Yama and disappeared. The around them shimmered two seconds later and there stood Cynara, Amara, Zenda, Mazara, Yama, Shaina, Shay, High, Telsis, Mirror, and Duke.
" Nice," said Amara as she held the staff and then looked at Anatsu.
" Hello Anatsu," said Amara and walked over to where a kid no one had noticed before lay. " Hey who's this kid?" Amara poked the kid with her staff. They all blinked as they boy rolled over, looked at Amara, screamed, and ran behind Anatsu.
" Hey kid, you're no safer with me then you're with her," said Anatsu.
" Oh, yes I am," said the boy and suddenly Yama got a better look at him and almost fainted.
" Yes, Maku, no safer with Anatsu then Amara," said Yama and Maku looked at her.
" Mom!" shouted Maku as he ran over to Yama and hugged her. All the others smiled at the happy reunion of mother and son.
" Hi Maku. How did you get here?" asked Yama as she hugged her son who appeared to be only about ten years old.
" Ali trapped me inside the Tripod and Mokuba found it and released me," said Maku pouting.
" I guess that's no surprise," said Shaina and looked at Maku. " Hey kid you shrunk."
" So what you're still more then 5'000 years old," said Maku. Shaina face faulted and then looked at all of them.
" Come on people lets get them to the hospital," said Shaina as she looked around. Yama nodded and picked up her hikari gently. Amara picked up Mokuba and rocked him back and forth. Anatsu picked up Bakura and smiled.
" Hello my friend," thought Anatsu.
" Who's taking Yugi?" asked Cynara. They all looked at her and she shook her head.
" I'll take Yugi," said Shay and picked him up and Maku looked at them. Zenda and Mazara ran over to Seto and put their hands on his shoulders and disappeared. Shaina ran over to Joey and Tristan and put her hands on their shoulders and they all disappeared and reappeared inside the hospital.
" That Yami kid told me you'd be coming," said the nurse calmly like this happened everyday. She opened up 5 doors and nodded. " Boys with boy and girls with girls." Everyone shook their heads in disagreement.
" Ryou and Keora have to be in the same room," said Yama stubbornly and walked into Ryou's room and places Keora into the bed next to Ryou's bed. " Thank," whispered Yama into Yami's ear. He looked up in shock and looked at her.
" Nayama?" asked Yami blinking.
" No actually it's Yama," said Yama quietly and wrapped her arms around his neck. " Maku's here."
" I knew," said Yami.
" That he wasn't your son," said Yama. Yami nodded, but Yama sighed and removed her arms. " Go one before Shay gets attached to your hikari." Yami nodded and then turned and looked at her.
" I just want to know is Cora back?" asked Yami,
" No," said Yama simply and then sat back down to watch her hikari and her hikari's love. " Anatsu you can't have him." She felt pain on the other end of the link, but then Anatsu walked in with a girl Keora's age at her side.
" This is my hikari Kanatsa," said Anatsu. Yama nodded and patted the chair next to her.
" Did you know that Bakura liked Marik?" asked Yama. Anatsu raised her eyes, but shook her head. " Well it looks like there's a case of heartbreak going around among us yami's."
" What?" asked Anatsu.
" Amara loves Marik, but Marik loves Bakura. I love Yami, but he can barely remember our past. You like Ryou, but he's with my hikari," said Yama.
" Well I think it has caught on in the hikari's as well," said Kanatsa.
" How?" asked Anatsu.
" Shay's falling for Yugi, but he's with Tae and Mazara is tugged between Kenji and Link," said Kanatsa.
" Well looks like the Tripod decided the Maku needed to get out," said Yama.
" Where did they put Bakura?" asked Anatsu.
" Same room as Seto. I can't wait to see his face when he wakes up and Seto's in the same room," said Yama.
" They put Mokuba and Yugi in the same room," said Cynara as she walked in.
" Tristan and Joey will be killing to fight when they get well," said Zenda.
" Speaking of killing," said Kenji as he walked in his young 11 year face white. Three figures followed him in. There in the door way stood the bully and next to him stood two more bullies. Suddenly the bully fell over and behind him stood Amara, Ray, and Irina.
" Good riddance Tut," said Irina. They all blinked when a doctor came and wheeled him off down the hall into another room. His two friends turned and knocked Irina and Ray on their butts. Irina got back on her feet, but Ray just sat there like an idiot. They attacked Amara who just stood still watching them. Suddenly the area around her erupted in gold light. When the light settled there stood Marik and Malik, the latter holding the Rod. The two Egyptians, one ancient and one modern glared and were about to attack when they heard Ryou's weak voice.
" Stop it you two this won't help...," said Ryou, but then broke off in a fit of coughs.
" Anything," finished Keora in her sleep and they stopped.
" Get out," hisses Marik and the bullies ran off.
" So how are they?" asked Malik referring to everyone.
" Yugi is still out of it, Bakura is asleep, Seto is mumbling in his sleep, Tristan is trying to get out of bed, he obviously didn't get his head smacked against a wall, and Joey is keeping us awake," said Maku. They looked at him and blinked wondering what he meant by us.
" Who do you have with you?" asked Yama.
" Mokuba," said Maku as he lead them into the room where Mokuba lay, in the other half of the room adjoining to Joey and Tristan's room. There sat Tristan unhappily muttering about Joey.
" Big donut," said Joey in his sleep and everyone sweat-dropped. Mokuba lay in his bed hands over his ears.
" Calm down Mokuba," said Maku as he enveloped the other boy in a hug.
" He won't shut up," said Mokuba as he cried into Maku's chest. Yama raised her eyebrows and grabbed her son.
" What is wrong with you?" asked Yama. Maku looked ashamedly down at his shoes.
" Nothing," said Maku.
" Then what are you ashamed of?" asked Yama. Maku sighed and looked at his mother.
" I'm a mistake," said Maku.
"What?" asked Yama, but Maku ignored her and went back to comforting Mokuba. Everyone raised their eyebrows, but Yama just stood in shock and then back to Keora and Ryou. There sat Ryou still coughing. Yama got him a glass of water and handed it to him. He swallowed and slowly his coughing subsided.
" They told me I have a cold," said Ryou quietly.
" They told me I didn't have a brain," said Yama and Ryou smiled slightly and then looked at Keora.
" Is she comatose?" asked Ryou.
" No she's just a deep sleeper," said Yama. Ryou nodded and then laid back down on the blankets.
" I don't remember much, but I'll tell you what I do remember," said Ryou. Yama just nodded her head as she watched her hikari's chest rise and fall. " We were walking home and that bully just materialized out of no where. Seto and Joey were the first taken out, then Tristan and Bakura tried to attack him, but to no avail and then Mokuba and me and I don't know how it ended."
" It ended with me becoming a punching bag," said Keora weakly from next to him.
" Keora," whispered Ryou as he tried to get of bed, but couldn't.
" It's OK Ryou, I'm OK," whispered Keora and looked at him through half lidded eyes. " How's Yugi?"
" OK I guess," came a voice from the door and there stood Yugi though he was pale and pretty banged up with Tae and Joey supporting him.
" Glad ta hear it now go visit Yami," whispered Keora.
" Thanks," said Yugi as he looked at her. She may be Seto's little sister, but there was a different air around her. Maybe it was because she had a yami, but so did Seto, Seth, but she seemed to be unlike any other being he'd ever meet, She seemed to be wise beyond the capabilities of her 13 years.
" She's still pure," thought Yami through their link.
" There's something more though," thought Yugi. He tried to think of what was different up the girl.
" She's a 'Fallen Light'," thought Yami.
" Fallen Light?" asked Yugi through the link.
" A hikari that has more then their share of shadow energy," answered Yami.
" Oh," thought Yugi as he entered the room Yama had forced Yami to stay in.
Earlier
" I'm fine Yama," said Yami.
" Yeah, if you count this fine," said Yama as she looked him up and down. He was a mess of bruises, he had two black eyes, and even though he was to stubborn to admit it Yama could tell he was in pain. " I'll personally put you in that bed." Finally after a 15 minute argument Yama had gotten the ancient King of Games in the hospital bed.
" Hey Yami," said Yami as he walked over to the bed followed by Tae and Joey.
" Hey Yugi," said Yami and then looked at Joey.
" Uh, Joey you should still be in bed," said Yami. Joey just gave him a thumbs up.
" I'm fine," said Joey, but suddenly two figures appeared behind him shaking their heads. One was Serenity and the other was Mai.
" Joey Wheeler get your butt back in bed!" shouted Mai and Serenity. The two girls half dragged and half carried him back to his room amid shouts and curse from Joey and the two girls.
" So Yami are you OK?" asked Yugi as he sat down next to Yama who had fallen asleep.
" I'm fine, but Yama won't let me leave," said Yami.
" How did you and Yama meet?" asked Yugi.
" Long story," said Yami, but the pleading expression on Yugi's face won him over and he sighed. " Fine I'll tell you."
Well there we go and now you will finally find out how Yami and Yama met. Oh and will they heal in time for the Kaiba Ball or will they have to stay in the hospital?