A/N: ^___^ YAY!! Last chapter I told you guys I THOUGHT I had a plot.. now I KNOW I have a plot!! Ideas keep coming non-stop, and with the end of the one fic that took all the control over my ideas (aka Shades of a soul), I can finally be able to think on how this shall be going!! And believe me... it's gonna be good. Err... hopefully. ALSO, Anzu/Teana haters prepare yourselves... *smirks*
Reviewers replies:
Princess Strawberry - ^^;; I see you're tired... So, does it bright your mood I have a big PLOT planned in here, including something for Teana? *smirks* Hope so...
Molly-chan the Anime/Game fan - Yay, I was confused! Eh, makes no sense, sorry just HAD to say something ^^;; Well, fluff IS near (this time I'm sure of it ^^) so you just have to wait a little... PLUS yeah, this is going to get updated a whole more often now. Thanks for reviewing (doesn't matter if you didn't say much, at least YOU DID IT! ^^)
Mel Gods - ^^;; If it makes you feel better, I check ff.net once a day as well... *whispers* Even though I'm forbidden to get on the Internet during the week... ANYWAY, fluff is good and fluff is near!! ^^ I'm glad you like my fic
o*Fire Mage*o - lol, yeah I updated... LOOK! I updated again!! ^^ YAY!! For the first time I'm not brainless, and Iris if you say something about it you'll regret
Iris: *smirks and keeps silent*
Lily: Anyway, here's a new chp for yez ^^
hobbit13 - Hmm... you're confused, so that makes my fic good? Hope so ^^;; Well I don't think Yugi showed any sign of being scared of Kris, but he can for the simple fact she IS the High Priestess... And YES she has a connection with Chris, but I can't really say it now, but it'll get clearer in the future ^^ And YAY, A PLOT!! ^____^
Yami's Tenshi - Lily&Iris: *sweatdrops*
Iris: I told you she'd faint...
Lily: ^^;; I thought so too... Ehh, well at least she's okay, ne? You'll be fine, ne Tenshi? ^^;; Hope so... ANYWAY, yeah Teana is scary (all of them are in some sort of way, Tea Anzu Teana whatever...)... As for the golden items, a note for everyone:
About the Shadow Magic. The Shadow Magic is used through items (yes, THOSE items). HOWEVER... some people are born with special gifts. Such as having a special power of some sort, like predict the future (like Ellian) or have some connection with the Shadow Realm (like Teana...). The Puzzle is with Yami. The Rod is with Seto. The Eye is with Kris. Teana has the MILLENIUM RING... Yeah, but WAIT, don't scream!! You'll be surprised later... As for the Necklace, Key and Scales... Uh, I can pretty much tell you I have no clue. Hehehe, so yeah, they probably won't be in the story ^^;; At least not for now...
Lily: SO Kerra, you see... Teana has magical powers because the plot goes like that =P Yeah, I think it's evil too... But uh, Tenshi? Please, don't hate me after what I shall do with Teana... You'd be surprised ^^;;
Iris: Oh and Kerra, if it makes you feel better, Lily likes EVERY character too... EVEN JAPANESE ANZU, which scared the hell outta me...
Lily: *ignores her* As for the plot... yay, someone else is confused!! ^^ At least I don't get lost in it anymore... and... *blush* Thanks for all those compliments, looks like you LIKE embarrassing me #^-^#U And YAY for Elle!! ^^ *hugs the Hawaiian Yugi plushie, completely ignoring what Kerra said*
Machinegungirl - Yup, Ryou and Bakura are finally here!! And I already said that the "thing" has powers because I needed a plot... and someone to plot against... And I think Yami's being sweet too. You HAVE to see what he shall do in this chapter ^^ Hmm... "When will they go to the real world?" "Is Ryou from the Real World?". All I can say is that only time, plot and free-time will tell when the time comes...
Sabby^_~ - I'm glad you like!! And was this soon enough? ^^
NOW WITH THIS ALREADY!
Oh by the way... I had the slightly feeling this fic had more reviewers... *sniffs, blushes and pouts* *sighs* Oh well, whatever...
Disclaimer: Truth being told, I had this plan on kidnapping Mr. Kazuki-sama... but meh, it won't work so no, I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! and probably never will... SO DON'T SUE!! *sees some policeman coming towards her because of the confession she just made* Uh-oh... ehh... jaa! *runs*
Warning: This fic contains shounen ai, that meaning boyxboy love, OCs and Teana (Anzu) bashing
Pairings: Yami/Yugi and Bakura/Ryou
Keys: "__" is talking, '__' is thinking, and ~^:^:^:^:~ means change of POV
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Wings of ruby and amethyst
Chapter 8: A twist of events
By: Lily Maxwell
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Another day was gone. Outside, Ra no longer illuminated the faces of those who longed for its warmth, and the bright face of the moon greeted everyone in the sky, annunciating its presence with its marvelous light.
Another tiring day was gone, and Yami's mind was preoccupied with too many things at once, and it wasn't a very good thing in any way. For example, he sensed something was wrong in the air. He felt a tugging and poking in his mind telling, informing and warning him about that.
Also there was the fact that he would be sleeping in the same bed as Yugi. The slave that amazed and scared him. And that was definitely something he would have to think about.
The Pharaoh then stopped in his tracks when he heard a piercing scream, and many footsteps running somewhere. He heard familiar voices demanding others to call for him when he turned a corner, and found him almost slipping on a floor soaked with blood.
Blood...?
"What in Ra's name is going on here?" he asked surprised, and recognized his High Priestess Kris as one of the owners of the familiar voices. A crying slave knelt sadly by the dead body of another slave on the floor, and a reaped body of a young lady hung on the wall, completing the mess.
"My Pharaoh..." Kris breathed, betraying her calm expression with a shaky voice. "Looks like a massacre occurred... A Shadow creature has escaped somehow and killed this woman." She continued, pausing now and then before trusting her voice again.
Yami was about to say something, when he heard someone gasp behind him. Looking around, he found himself face to face with a shocked Yugi, whose eyes unfocused slightly at the sight of the dead woman. Yugi was shaking in a matter of seconds, and tears were about to form on his eyes. Sensing as if it was not the time for this kind of thing, Yami placed himself in front of Yugi, blocking his vision, and forcing the younger one to look up at him.
"Go call Seto." He said firmly, and Yugi almost jumped at his tone. "Do it now, Yugi." He continued a bit more softly, and Yugi nodded, leaving the place at once. Yami turned to the slave on the floor.
"What are you doing in there? Go get things to get this all cleaned up." He said, and the slave sobbed, leaving the body of its friend there, going to do what the ruler asked for. Kris blinked.
"Seems as if we have a very difference in treatments in here..." Kris mused silently, but Yami simply ignored her insinuation. Instead, the young Pharaoh was inspecting the sword that was placed on the woman's body.
'I.. recognize it...' he thought, looking at it very closely. It took him a few seconds to recognize it which Shadow Monster's the sword belonged to, and he had just the time to think that as he heard someone enter the ambient. Turning around, he saw who it was.
"I'd advise you to leave... this is not a very pretty situation we have here." He said, but his sister Ellian did not hear a word that he said. Instead, she walked towards the body, and inspected the sword with great interest, like Yami.
"This is... Kanan, The Swordmistress' [1] sword..." she mused, and Yami just nodded. Ellian narrowed her eyes, and looked back at her brother. "Do you have any idea why the Shadow Monster would do this? Or how did it do it?" she questioned, but Yami just raised an eyebrow.
"I just got here. Apparently I have no idea of how this happened." He said, and looked at Kris. The young lady just placed a hand on her hip before looking slightly disturbed and irritated with the whole thing.
"No one knows. The woman just... appeared dead in here. No one saw, no one heard a thing. It's a complete wonder." She concluded, and the two royal teens sighed.
'What's going on...' was Yami's constant thought.
~^:^:^:^:~ Yugi's POV
That was the most horrible thing I have ever seen in my whole life... I was never going to get the image of that woman, the look in her eyes out of my head. It was like... seeing an empty bloodied vessel, a crimson-soaked doll. There was something in her that just didn't seem right in any way... and sure it wasn't the fact that she was hanging lifeless to a wall by a sword.
Talking about the sword... Yami blocked my view before I could manage to recognize it... it looked pretty damn familiar to me...
I turned unconsciously the halls like I had lived there my whole life, and it surely didn't take me long to find the door to the High Priest Seto's chambers. I knocked and soon I was face to face with an ever-so-annoyed-looking Chris.
"Muoto? What is it?" she asked me, blinking at my obviously anguished face.
"The High Priest!" I claimed, and she raised an eyebrow. "The Pharaoh is calling for him, where is he? Someone died!" I said, and that surely got her attention. But before she could do anything, someone opened the door, and I finally noticed Seto behind her.
"Where is he, slave? Take me to him." He said and I nodded, swallowing hard, turning back the way I had came just a few minutes ago. Between seeing a dead woman and having a scary-looking priest just beside you that didn't like you one bit.... I didn't know what was worse.
"You said someone died.... who was it?" he asked, after some time just running silent.
"I don't know... sir." I added, after catching the look of insinuation on his face. This-guy-was-just-too-arrogant... "She didn't look like someone from the palace to me." I concluded, and he nodded.
We turned a corner and were finally there, and I couldn't help but gasp at the sight that met my eyes. It couldn't be true... it just couldn't...
Was that the Dark Magician?!
~^:^:^:^:~ Elle's POV
Now, I was confused. Even though the Pharaoh was a bastard, the High Priest sucked and this palace was the hell on Earth, all that action didn't seem right neither to Ellian or me as we made our way back to her chambers.
And the fact that my mistress didn't let me go and see it made me even more curious.
Okay, so she was my mistress and I owed her my obedience (even though that sucked, I tell you, not even my parents ordered me around.... when they were alive that was), but she didn't have the right to keep me from the crowd! What was really happening? I didn't know, because all she did was send me back to the chambers and tell me to wait for her...
But what did Yugi say I was? Oh yeah. Stubborn.
And curiosity sure got the best on me, and I left the room, heading towards the voices. Turning left and right here and there, soon I arrived at a place where the floor was crimson...
No, sorry... it was BLOOD!
To say I was scared that moment was an understatement. Because I was down right terrified. One: I had never seen so much blood in my whole life. Two: I had never seen a woman with a sword placed through her stomach, and that was really not nice. Three: Chris was using strange priest-like clothes. Four: there was an ALIVE DARK MAGICIAN floating in the room!
Although I later noticed the girl with the priest-like clothes was not Chris, that didn't make things any better because there was still blood, still a dead girl, and still a Dark Magician in the room.
Oh yeah... things were getting WAY out of control...
~^:^:^:^:~ Yami's POV
"Yami." I heard the voice calling for me, and looked around to see Seto standing there, looking between me, Kris, Ellian, and finally, the woman on the wall. He blinked and approached her.
Deciding it was best to see if he got anything new from his inspection, I turned to my Dark Magician. I know it wasn't very good to be using my powers like that without the Puzzle, but I couldn't just stand there and do nothing while the situation claimed for a solution and an answer.
"Fairy's Gift[1]." The Dark Magician said, and I raised an eyebrow questionably. He turned to me fully, facing me and speaking calmly and silently, as if the situation was something banal and useless. "The Fairy's Gift killed her with the pollen." He said pointing to the slave he had been studying the past few seconds.
So, it meant not only one, but two Shadow Creatures had worked in the palace...?
"How did these monsters escaped and attacked without any of us noticing?" Kris asked, and I closed my eyes. She was right, if a Shadow Monster escaped from the Shadow Realm, it was most likely that either me, or Seto or her would notice it. Unfortunately and surprisingly, neither of us noticed or understood what happened.
"So the only answer was that they didn't actually escape... they were freed." Ellian pointed, and we all looked at her. She did have a point, no monster could have escaped without us noticing without having help.
"This woman is soulless." Seto said absentmindedly, and we all turned to him with amused glances. By the name of all gods, she was dead...
"She's dead, wasn't she supposed to be?" Ellian asked, and both her and me heard small whimpers. We turned around and saw our slaves, looking down right terrified and amused with everything. Although Elle looked like she couldn't take her eyes from the body of both slave and woman on the wall, Yugi just kept his gaze on my Magician.
"Elle, I thought I told you to stay in my chambers?" Ellian asked, and the girl jumped, looking away. She sighed and patted her head, then made her turn around and walk back to her chambers.
"Yugi?" I asked, and he turned to me, finally looking away from the Magician. He had both looks of a child who had first seen a new toy and someone who had first seen Death. Many emotions passed through his eyes, and he intrigued me when he looked away. It was like he was waiting for some punishment and was completely ready for it.
That sure wasn't the case.
"Go to my chambers and wait for me there." I said, and he blinked and looked at me. He smiled and nodded, managing to move his way to the Pharaoh's chambers. Looking back at Seto, I crossed my arms. He cleared his throat, but Kris continued for him.
"What Seto meant was that this woman was soulless before she died... Just look into her eyes." She said, and I looked into her orbs.
And I would recognize that empty glance between the one of a dead and a soulless person even in a thousand years. All I could think was that... There was a traitor among us. For everyone knew it was forbidden for anyone, without being the Pharaoh, or his High Priests to call the Shadow Monsters, with the clear exception of my sister.
And I longed to find out who was it.
And exactly who was this dead woman that suffered two tragic fates.
[ To be continued... ]
Lily: *blinks* Well, NOW we've got a plot, don't we? ^^
Iris: What about fluff?
Lily: Hmm... just wait. ^^ It's coming!!
Iris: --;; Don't tell me it'll take you 10 chapters to get fluff...
Lily: Err... 10 chapters, 4 months and uncountable chocolate bars... ^^;;
Iris: --;; It's not funny Lil...
Lily: Oh yes it is!! *laughs* Now, please don't forget to review... I need 5 reviews to post the new chapter...
Iris: O.o What is this? You're blackmailing them now?
Lily: Hey! I want opinions in here right? But... *mumbles: I'll probably post a new chapter even if I don't get those anyway...* WELL, just do it!! Ok? Jaa ne then!
[1] - If you guys don't actually know... These are two Duel Monsters. Although I'm sure you guys already knew that, I just wanted to clarify things. ^^;; Hours and hours of Forbidden Memories sure were worth something after all...
