A/N: Okay, okay, I've come to a decision... Since ideas and more ideas keep coming to my mind for the SEQUEL of this fic, and I'm carrying it on so smoothly, I'll keep track of the quick updates until I finish it. So that means I won't be updating my other fics much.... --;; Yeah, gomen, I promise to come back to them just as I finish this fic, okies? But that's still good news, isn't it? It is, since this fic has been going since Runaway was still in its first chapters O.o Now that fic is finished, Shades of a soul is finished, and yet this fic is still here --;; Yeah, I suck sometimes...
Reviewers' Replies:
hobbit13 - ^^;; SORRY! Didn't mean to be bad or anything.... this time, anyway. =P So, you're curious at where that Yami went to? I'm too... sorry if I completely changed his personality all of a sudden, I'm terribly sorry... *sighs* Well, you liked the beginning of the chapter... that's a start. --;; HERE'S THE NEW CHP!!
Mel Gods - *laughs and sweatdrops* ^^U Sorry for taking so long, but hey! Fluff if here! And 'bout 'Kura.... He can threat me to send me to the SR for all I care because of his violent behavior and potty mouth, cause I still got the SWORD!! *waves Millenium Sword at Bakura*
Bakura: *glares at her*
Lily: *ignores him* lol, about the preview... Well, it's in this chapter, go read, girl! ^^ Anyway, as for the help you asked... Sorry, but I don't know Bakura's name, or Yami's parents' names, whenever I use them they're always made up (people usually make them up yes indeed ^^;;)... However, for Pegasus', well, he's Pegasus J. Crawford as far as I know ^^U Sorry I wasn't of any help --U I'll look forward your fic though!! ^^
flowacat - oohhh, you're back!! ^_^ Welcome back to the world of nice reviewers, lol. Anyway, I'm glad you still like it!!
blah - ooooooh, someone noticing how my grammar sucks at times!! If it makes you feel slight better, I'll be editing this fic before posting the last chapter.... Though *blinks* your comment 'bout fair fic had me for a moment... Anyway, if you're still reading this, enjoy the chp.
Sarah Harvey - lol, sorry for ending it there!! ^^U Wasn't my intention to put in a cliffy though, but whatever now. Thanks for r&r, now here's the next chapter!
LilBlue-Hedggie - *smirks* Trust me, if I were talking 'bout mental help, I'd need it far more than you =P And I'm happy to know you're alright ^^;; And yay, you like my fic!! ^^ Keep readin!
Yami's Tenshi - *blushes* Ehh, arigatou!! Wow, so many compliments #^^#U I didn't deserve all of 'em! It was crappy, really, but whatever now. And wow, you and Kerra agreed about something? O.o Some hikari and yamis really can make miracles happen...
Iris: What's that supposed to mean... I think you're insane, and you do too.
Lily: Nuh-huh, different. You think I'm insane, I know I'm insane.
Iris: --;; Oh yeah, that, my bad...
Yami: *looks blue by now*
Lily: *sweatdrops* Actually, I think... we agree on something here.
Iris: *sweatdrops* He'll die with lack of oxygen? (Lily: *nods*) *hopes Kerra lets go of him soon*
Lily: Anyway... =P Baaaad Tenshi, homework always come first!! (Iris: You're one to talk...) *ignores Iris* ^-^ Now read!! *cuddles her plushie*
Lucifer aka Lord of Darkness - *blinks* Wow, interesting Pen Name, got bro and me into a very strange conversation ^^U Anyway, thank you! And I'm glad you like it! ^^ Enjoy now!
YumeTakato - *giggles* Well, at least it didn't suck in your eyes XD *glomps the plushie*
Hime no Ichigo - *big sweatdrop* O.o Kouichi, please inform me if she's okay later, ok? ^^U Anyway, YES, that chapter had 4000 words @_@ Big number... And trust me, Yami'd kill him before you if he got the chance =P *laughs evilly* CLIFFHANGERS SHALL RULE THE WORLD!!!
Iris: O.o *whispers to Kouichi* You know, each day that passes, I'm think more and more SHE's the yami...
Lily: ^_^ *blinks* *looks at Kouichi strangely*
Iris: What? *blinks*
Lily: *hides sugar from her* Well, let's just say she scared me acting all hikari-like! *snickers and hides*
Iris: -_-U Why me, Ra?
Ra: *laughs*
Iris: O_oU o-kaaaaaaaaaaaaay...
Firlosse - O.o OKAY!! Here's the new chp!! *mumbles: this fic always summoned the psycho ones...*
ENJOY THE STUFF NOW!!
Disclaimer: NO I DO NOT OWN IT, AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! *runs screaming bloody murder*
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 11: Back to you
By: Lily Maxwell
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Ellian's POV
"Teana has WHAT?!" Seto all-but-yelled, making me jump and glare at him.
"Don't yell." I said, before sighing and nodding. "But yes, it is true. Teana holds one of the Millenium Rings." Seto started to walk back and forth, eyes closed, seeming deep in thought, while I sighed. It seemed that the fact that Teana had one of the special items worried him sick as much as it did to me.
"How in all gods' names did she get it?" he raised an eyebrow. "And when did she get it? From who? How come she didn't inform the Pharaoh, but instead kept it?" he kept rambling, but I simply stayed quiet. I didn't know the answer to his questions, and I probably wouldn't like to raise his temper informing him that, when my silence completely replied him for me.
"We have to tell Yami." I said, looking at him seriously. "As soon as possible." I said, but I noticed a look of momentarily anger flash through his eyes as I mentioned my brother, and it surely didn't go unnoticed, since he usually held an emotionless expression. I looked up at him in wonder. "Is something wrong?" I asked, and Seto gritted his teeth.
"It's just that your stupid brother, our almighty Pharaoh, went to his father's tomb during the night and arrived just an hour ago. Alone." He said, and that instantly made my eyes go wide and my breath get caught in my throat.
"What?!" I asked, raising from my seat after I gained my voice back and was able to breathe the words out. "Are you serious?! Yami can't get out the palace, it's downright dangerous, specially at night!" I hissed, but Seto seemed unaffected by my outburst.
"But he did. He and that slave of his." He said, and that caught my attention, making me stop walking back and forth nervously around my chambers. I stopped in my tracks and stared at him.
"Yugi? He went with him?" I asked, raising one eyebrow. At that instant, Elle entered the room and told me that a meeting with Yami's advisors would begin within the next 30 minutes. I nodded. Seto completely ignored her.
"It seems Yami's giving too much of an importance to his slave." Seto mused, not noticing how his statement caught Elle's attention. I just decided she could stay, no harm was to be done for just listening to our discussion. "It looks like he even threatened Shion when he tried to punish the boy, and the slave has the clear permission of calling him by the name." He seemed really thoughtful in his next statement. "It even seems like he's someone else around him..."
I couldn't help but wide my eyes at each new word Seto was saying. It all seemed like... like a big puzzle, once unfinished and looking so wrong and lifeless, now finally complete and colorful, perfect all the same. Yami had always been emotionless like Seto, and usually kept to himself like Kris, since the death of our parents 10 years ago, that I thought Egypt was going to suffer under his hands all the emotions he could not express: anger, hatred, sadness, grief, desperation. He was a hollow doll, devoid of everything but blackness and blankness, an eternal child that would never get over its fear.
Yami was only the one he was because people made him like that. They made him believe that, just because his father was dark, cold and empty, he was to be just like him. Or even worse. And Yami thought that if so they believed, so that it would be.
But since that day at the market, since that man told us what our future, our fate would be like, I felt like it wasn't trying to trick us. He seemed to be willingly to advice us, like he knew that it would give us hope, and that if things seemed to go otherwise than he said, something wrong would happen. I know that what he said about me was far more than true.... But the fact was that what he said about Yami was actually happening?
"You think... he's the Angel of Light?" I asked, and at that question, two pairs of blue eyes looked at me surprised.
"Don't dream, Ellian." Seto said, although his tone betrayed the confident tone he tried to imply. "There's no such thing... The man was a fake and you know it. I just think Yami is attracted to the boy." A sick grin appeared in his features. "It's not like it hadn't happened before."
"But never before had he given a slave the permission to call him by the first name, you must realize." I said, finally calming down. It was of no use making a fuss of something that had already happened, plus Yami was alive and safe, and that was what really mattered. "But I don't think Yami's feelings is what we should mind at the moment... The message was clear, someone will try to kill Yami, Teana has a special item in secret possession, and we have a death in our hands we still don't know a thing about." I took a deep breath and released it slowly before finishing. "I believe we have more important things at hand, don't you think?"
Seto was rigid in his place, and his eyes held a very thoughtful expression, and I even doubted he was still in the same room Elle and I were. He closed them for a brief moment before sighing and opening them again, looking at me seriously.
"So, what to do first?" he asked, eyes now almost lazy-looking.
"We need to make a reunion with Yami before that meeting starts." I said, a ghost of a smile making its way to my face. I turned to Elle, who blinked up at me. "Elle, could you please go call Yami and tell him to meet up with Seto, Kris and me at the meeting room?" she nodded and stalked off. "Seto, you could tell your slave to inform Kris of the same thing." I added, and he nodded.
I smiled and exited his room, making my way to the meeting room, hoping that everything would end soon.
~^:^:^:^:~ Ra's POV
Her breaths came forcefully and weakly, while her mind seemed stuck in a furious whirlwind, her eyes teary and her chest burning. Sweat fell from the tip of her nose, and she had lost her sense of direction, trying to look everywhere for some kind of salvation.
This wasn't right. It couldn't be right.
It had been happening for a while now. Since she had gotten that stupid Ring, it messed up with her head. Voices filled her ears, and kept babbling, ranting and sometimes even screaming through the hallways of her mind, and it completely refused to stop.
It wasn't a friendly voice. No. It wasn't many kinds of voices. No. It was a variation of the same voice, that seemed disgusted with her, throwing insults randomly at her, not wasting vocabulary to show off the hatred it consumed towards her being.
Teana shut her eyes tightly, hands gripping the Ring with might, as if in a pleading way for it to stop. But it wouldn't. No, it was sarcastic, and it liked to mock her. It just wanted to put her into a misery, drive her entirely into insanity, willingly to end with her life once and for all.
But Teana had lots of reasons as not to give up.
"Shut up..." she said, trying to stand up with the support of the nearest wall. "Just go away, and leave me alone..."
"It's not like you're getting it, whore." The voice snickered. "The Ring must seem a gift from the heavens from the eyes of the others... But for you, it's nothing but a curse you have given yourself. You must accept your fate as the Ring Holder, now that you possess it. You see, you even have enough power to match the Pharaoh." A sinister chuckle followed. "Although you probably wouldn't be able to control your power, it's really a.... Let's say, it's a blessing you hold within your pale, weak and thin fingers. I guess it'll just slip from your grasp, and soon you'll find yourself at the mercy of someone, won't you? From the shadows, the Pharaoh, or someone else..."
"Just leave me alone!!" Teana called out again, placing her hands on her ears in a futile attempt to make the voice fade away.
"Ah, let me think..." it seemed to smirk. "No."
"GO AWAY!!!" she screamed at the top of her lungs, as a laugh filled the room. It was a malicious, sinister, maniacal laugh that made a chill run down Teana's spine, and her blood almost freeze, her mind finding itself stopped dead in its tracks, nothing but silence following the next instants.
Suddenly, the Ring started to emit a glow, such was its light that it momentarily blinded Teana, who was so shocked she didn't even cover her eyes from the brightness that filled the room. The next seconds seemed like an agonizing hell, and Teana could almost feel her blood stop running, her heart stopping beating, her breath stopping coming out.
A ghostly smirk greeted her, gray eyes full of malice making fun of her. "Boo."
She could no longer hold it back. A piercing scream run through the palace, so deadly painful and agonizing that it made the hair behind people's neck raise up a bit. It seemed the call of Death.
Yet it wasn't.
~^: Somewhere else :^~
"Let's go." He said, and wide eyes widened even more at his words.
"B-but... Look at the time! Do you really think it's wise to go at this time?" he asked, concern and nervousness filling his tone of voice. The other one turned to him, eyes holding a look of determination and coldness that it even made him shiver slightly.
"I don't care. The guards would be more alert during the night anyway, so it's better to do it now. So let's go." He said, and started to leave.
"W-Wait!" the other one called, running up to meet the already gone teen, not thinking for a minute this was a good idea. They were going to face the Pharaoh. They were probably at the verge of trying to kill the Pharaoh.
And that surely wasn't the best of the ideas.
~^: Back at the Palace :^~
Chris followed the source of the scream, since it was coming from the very chamber she was designed to go to. High Priestess Kris' chambers. It seemed as if someone was in serious pain... And that left her both curious and nervous about what she could find in her destination.
It could be the second death in two days. But something told her it was probably nothing.
When she reached the golden doors, she slowly opened them, and the sight that met her almost made her scream too. She knew that girl. And she probably didn't like what she saw...
'Since when she's HERE!?' she practically yelled in her mind, but dismissed the thought once the girl looked up at her. Her skin was more tanned, and her eyes were sharper and more narrowed, also darker. No. It wasn't who she thought it was.
Thank every god that was out there.
"Mistre-" the girl was about to say from her position near the wall, actually leaning against it for support, when she blinked and noticed Chris' clothes and hair. She frowned. "You're not Kris... who are you and what do you want?" she asked.
'And people say I'VE got a temper.' She thought bitterly.
"I'm here in the name of the High Priest... You must be the High Priestess' slave, am I not correct?" she asked, and the girl frowned more.
"I'm her assistant." She corrected Chris, who simply shrugged.
"Whatever, you serve her, that's the point." She got a very murderous glare, which she just ignored. "Tell the High Priestess to meet Pharaoh Yami, Lady Ellian and High Priest Seto at the meeting room at once." She said, and turned around quickly, not even waiting for a reply from the other girl.
It was then that Chris bumped into someone, and fell to the ground, while the person just passed by her, almost as if ignoring her presence. She angrily looked up and saw the back of a woman who wore a gray royal suit, and had a short black hair. On her fingers, she saw a few golden rings, and could faintly spot a golden light emitting from a necklace she wore. It seemed like an odd-shaped eye pendant...
"Tell Yami I'll be right there." She said, and when turned around to meet Chris, this one had already gotten up and turned her back at her. The Priestess blinked and called the girl before she could walk further. Chris did not look back at her.
"You..." she said slowly. It was just then that Chris realized... how her voice was familiar. "... are not from here, are you?" she asked, and when Chris turned around, she had her eyes closed and was shaking her head. Chris was shocked.
This woman was herself.
Kris turned around and entered her room, taking one last glance at Chris before she could turn completely away. They could pass as twins. Or, with a more plausible answer, could as well be...
Both shook their heads. As weird as it could seem, it was not totally far from the truth.
~^: Later :^~
"Teana has WHAT?!" Yami yelled, saying he was shocked was an understatement. He was, at the same time, horrified and perplexed.
Ellian sighed.
"First thing: don't yell." She said calmly, and Yami collapsed in his chair, eyes still wide. "And yes, you heard me."
"How in all hells did she get it?!" he asked, his voice still distant.
"We don't know. That's why we called you here, my Pharaoh." Seto said firmly, scanning Yami with his icy blue eyes. "What do we do now?" he asked.
"Take it." Yami said, now in a more controlled condition. "Teana must retrieve the Ring to me at once." He said, and all the other three nodded.
"Do you think..." all eyes turned to Yugi, the speaker. He swallowed before continuing. "That Teana having the Ring explains what happened to that woman or that message in the tomb?" he asked shyly, but Yami simply sighed at his words.
"Maybe, maybe not, little one." He frowned. "I guess there's only one way to find out...."
"My Pharaoh!" came a voice suddenly entering the room, a guard making himself visible for all the ones present. "We've got an emergency!"
"What is it?" Kris demanded, and the guard motioned for someone to enter.
"Someone tried to brake in the castle, my Lord." He said meanwhile. "And it's a extremely serious, delicate situation. You see..." he motioned to one of the men the other two guards held, and Yami's eyes narrowed in recognition. All of a sudden, this didn't seem like another odd coincidence to add to his recent weird situations. No.
It almost explained one of his problems.
"So, it's you..." he annunciated. Kris, Seto and Ellian held expressions of amusement while Yami just held a blank expression, something between hatred and confusion.
But Yugi had a very different reaction than the other ones, being down right shocked. His eyes widened, as he eyed the figure in front of him. It couldn't be... it had to be some kind of mistake... Beside him, Elle and Chris had almost identical expressions on their faces.
One pale, white-covered head snapped up and looked at them, suddenly looking surprised, amused and shocked all the same. He looked from one teen to another, completely ignoring the more important beings within the room.
"Yugi? Elle? Chris??" he asked in a weak voice, and all the other gasped more.
"Ryou?!" they chanted all at once.
[ To be continued... ]
Lily: ^_____________^
Iris: Where's fluff?
Lily: eeeeerm... Where there's no fluff there's plot!!
Iris: -__-U That's one lame excuse, you know that?
Lily: ^^;; Yeah, I kinda noticed too... ANYWAY, so what did you guys think of it? It MAY look kinda rushed, but it's because it's 11:00 PM and my mom is going to yell at me if I don't turn the goddamned computer soon... --U So anyway, please review!
Iris: Don't forget how Lily is: 5 reviews or no new chapter.
Lily: *nods* ^-^
Iris: *sweatdrops* She doesn't look quite sleepy to you, does she? Trust me: never let too much ice cream near your hikari when you KNOW she loves it and it can gets her COMPLETELY sugar high.
Lily: ^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^_^ 'Till next time!!
Iris: *prays for her safety* -_-;;
