Summary: A young girl, brought back from the dead, is forcefully taken to
Egypt, where she will be forced to open the doorway to the gate of shadow
to free the powerful monsters, so they can be used to destroy the world.
Yugi and Seto receive strange letters and tickets inviting them to the duel
of a century in Egypt, Seto's telling him about that he's missing
something, and in Yugi's telling him about freeing the shadow realm to the
world with his yami's sister. When both participants come, they are forced
to work together to find out about this strange girl that keeps appearing
in their dreams, asking for help.
'Thinking, letters, assumed names or aliases' "Talking" +action sounds+
Disclaimer: Yu-gi-oh is owned by Kaiba Corps.! XD No I'm kidding, but I don't own Yu-gi-oh, that goes to the smart dude that I don't remember the name of at this time 0.o
Warning: ^^;; I don't watch Yu-Gi-Oh that much anymore, even though I was inspired to write this lovely thing. If I get something wrong, just understand that it's for the story, and also if I say something you really don't get, also tell me, so I can try to fix it and not confuse all you poor peoples. Might be some OOCness for Marik (yes I'm correcting this spelling, please forgive the previous chapters) o.o. Ummm, we'll also say Yugi and Seto still have their god cards if they don't. ^^;;
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Selene really wished they knew where they were, she hated this silence, and at least if she knew where they were maybe she wouldn't feel as bad.
Seto kept his silence so he could go back to his thoughts that were broken earlier. As they would enter the darkness, torches would light the way for them. All the walls in the hallway were carved with the weird pictures, symbols, and hieroglyphics. The pictures would usually be painted, and the paint still held the bright hues as if it had been painted yesterday.
"This is strange..." Selene said suddenly, stopping in front of Seto, almost making him bump into her because he was still thinking.
"What is it?" He asked, looking at Selene. She raised up her hand, and brushed her fingertips along a picture of a man sitting in what looked like a throne and a woman behind this man. The man sitting in the throne was pointing over a multitude of people. What was strange was the man on the throne looked like Seto and the woman behind Seto, Selene!
"What the-?!" Seto said in surprise. Why were they in a picture in a tomb?!
Selene ran her fingertips along the hieroglyphics just beneath the picture and began to translate. "'And our Pharaoh, Seto, has spoken to the people saying, 'The Shadow Realms gates have been shaking to get loose once again. We must have someone be willing to become keeper of the Realms gates to save country.' Our pharaoh then asked for a noble one to step forth and take the responsibilities of keeper of the gate of the shadow realm. The pharaoh's priestess advisor, the previous pharaoh Atem's sister, and some said the lover of the current pharaoh Seto, stepped forward and took the responsibilities, and pleaded that two monster be called forth to help her watch over the shadow realm. She was granted this. She was given a special key that she separated between herself and her monsters. The priestess advisor Selene, the pharaoh Atem's sister and now maiden of the shadow realm gates, and her chosen monsters, the monster Anubis and the Dark Magician Girl, were all three given the keys to the locks of the gate.'"
"You know how to read hieroglyphics?" Seto asked after she had finished. Selene nodded, "My father was an Egyptologist and had me learn hieroglyphics."
"So these people didn't just look like us, they also shared our names..." Seto observed, looking up at the picture again.
"Mmmhmmm." Selene hummed as she read more. She reached out her hand further and touched the picture of herself, when it suddenly sunk into the wall! The place began to shake and the walls began to slide away. Sand and dust flew into the air and the grating sound of moving stone on stone burned on their ears. When all was still again, a new hallway was revealed. Selene looked at Seto again and then started down the hallway.
Seto sighed, and followed.
The walls now were stone tables pieced together, each with a picture of a dueling monster. The ceiling and floor were made of these tablets as well. Far ahead stood a door that both could barely make out but still knew was there, as they continued on down the dark hallway.
When they just passed a stone tablet of the Dark Magician, a magic light flared in front of them, and a form shaped. A large Dark Magician Girl stood in their pathway now. She was like any other Dark Magician Girl; however, around her neck was a collar and ball like Selene's. The Dark Magician Girl raised her small magic staff and formed an attack pose, readying to attack Seto and Selene with a spell. Selene looked up at the Dark Magician Girl's blue eyes, her own purple pleading. "Dark Magician Girl please don't attack!" Selene cried out to her, "Dark Magician Girl please, don't you remember me?! We're friends!" Selene said reaching into her pocket. She grabbed hold of the Dark Magician Girl card in her pocket and pulled it out showing it to the living version of the card standing in front of Seto and her.
"You and Anubis were the only dueling cards I ever had. You two have been all that I have left of my past, you two and the item! Anubis and you mean so much to me that if anything ever happened to one of you I would surely die. You two are the only connection I have, if you kill me and Seto, then you've killed a person that has relied on you as all she has left." Selene proclaimed to the living Dark Magician Girl. It was much like the scene when Shadi invaded Yugi's mind and the innocent Yugi went down a hall similar to this one Seto and Selene were in. Yet only the reader would know this fact, for that was only between Yugi and Shadi.
The Dark Magician Girl looked directly at Selene, and made a gasping like motion, as she pulled her hand up to her mouth. The living card dropped her small staff and instantly kneeled to Selene. In one motion, the Dark Magician Girl pulled the collar and ball off her neck and presented it to Selene. The gold of the ball glittered at Selene, and almost in amazement; she reached out and touched the ball and collar. She took the ball and the Dark Magician Girl faded away same as she had appeared. Selene studied the ball in her hand. It had a Horus' eye and no wings, just as Anubis' balls did. The collar had some of the same hieroglyphics as Anubis', which she had read along the way.
"'This is the key of the Dark Girl that unlocks part of the gate, none but the maiden and whomever she chooses shall pass the Dark Girl.'" Selene deciphered out loud. "Maiden?" Selene questioned rubbing her hand over the impacted hieroglyphics on her collar around her neck. "She that wears the central key is the maiden of the shadow realm gates. She is the Lady of the monsters." Selene mouthed to herself.
"Who's the maiden?" Seto asked.
"I...I think it means me..." Selene answered looking at Seto. "I think this is the central key," She explained tapping the ball connected to her collar, "And whoever wears it, becomes the maiden of the shadow realm gates."
"I see." Seto said, looking back towards the dark doorway ahead of them.
Selene looked at the door and then started moving towards it. "We have to go to it sooner or later." She said softly.
Seto followed after her. Their steps echoed down the long hallway as they grew closer and closer to the door. Selene was the first to reach it. It was like a wooden door, only made of the plaster stone. Selene pushed against the door, making it swing on old nearly broken hinge-like joints. On the other side of the door was revealed a large mausoleum, gold glittered and shimmered two large golden-pedestal torches roared to life with fire. Both were at separate ends of a large stone sarcophagus in the center of the room. On the far side of the wall stood two stone doors, locked together. It looked like a man-sized puzzle, missing a strange shaped piece, that would if put together, become a beautiful design. Selene, almost in a trance, started forward into the room. Seto grabbed her hand, so not to lose her now. They both guessed that this must be the tomb of the priestess Selene from the pictures of her in the writings. The walls were painted with many things such as instructions of how to reach the netherworld of the Egyptian people, stories of her life, her genealogy, stories of the two monsters she had chosen. The fire from the golden pedestals grew higher as Selene grew closer to the sarcophagus. On the sides of the stone were more hieroglyphics speaking of spells to keep away evil spirits and grave robbers.
Selene reached out towards the sarcophagus' stone top. The flames flared up, raising to nearly the ceiling when Selene's soft fingertips came in contact with the cool stone of the cover of the sarcophagus. The hieroglyphics started to move and squirm like little strange worms and form a puzzle out on the top. Six bowl shaped indentions appeared. 3 large bowls appeared, one on top and two to the sides. Beneath these were two smaller bowl shapes, making two low midpoints between the top bowl and the side bowls. In the middle of this star pattern of bowls was another bowl indention, yet with wings flared out to the side. Around each bowl was a ring, the larger bowls having the larger rings and the smaller the smaller rings. Around this star formation were rings and rings of hieroglyphics.
Selene studied this formation for a few minutes, before she began to fiddle with the ball dangling from her collar. That's when it hit her. 'The collars and the balls, they must be set in here for something.' Taking the collar and ball she had gotten from the Dark Magician Girl, she unhooked the ball from the collar and started to fit it into one of the small bowls and the ring around it. She made sure the eye would stay up, something told her that was the right thing to do.
Seto watched as Selene tried to figure out how to get the rest of the collars and balls. Taking out her Anubis card, Selene said something softly to it, and set it down on the top. Instantly the four collars of the dogs' and cobra heads appeared. Selene cried out in joy that her idea had worked, and began to fit them in their proper spots. After she had most of the puzzle finished, she started to think of how to get the last piece of the puzzle to come off to be put in the puzzle. She moved her hand along her neck, to the back where she felt the hitch lock. Unfortunately, it never let her loose for some reason. She looked at Seto, "Seto I need your help, will you help me get this collar off?" She asked.
Seto moved over behind her, as she moved her hair aside so he could see the hitch lock. Quickly as he could, he undid the hitch lock, and the collar and ball fell from around Selene's neck into her hands. She quickly unhooked the ball from the collar and fit them into place.
All the eyes closed in unison and snapped open in unison. Each eye glowed with a golden light as they started to merge with one another. The balls, except for the center one, merged together with the rings. This now merged metal thinned and lengthened into a long staff. The bottom was a diamond shaped point that connected to the long shaft of the staff, this led up to the top on which jackal heads were on either side, and from in between the two heads, a long 'V' shaped base appeared. All down the shaft of the staff were spells and enchantments in hieroglyphics. The winged ball that had been dangling from the collar around Selene's neck now rested floating just above and between the 'V' bars. The ball's wings had turned white and now were like a dove's wings, and the Horus' eye stood wide open.
This beautiful golden staff lay in front of Selene in a new shaped sarcophagus top. She timidly picked up the regal staff, as a repenting sinner would a holy gift from God. Large purple eyes slid over the grand staff as she started to hear a noise.
Seto too had been amazed by this amazing staff, as he stared at it. He had watched as Selene timidly took it from it's creation spot into her gentle hands. This regal and beautiful staff only looked more right in the innocent and-for now-timid Selene's hands. He was almost startled by how it almost enhanced her already sweet charms. He almost didn't notice the sound, and only did recognize it when Selene turned her head to the direction of the sound.
The large sarcophagus' top was opening! When it fully pulled away from the sarcophagus, a strong power pulled Seto and Selene into the sarcophagus. Instead of ramming into the bottom of the sarcophagus or into a mummy, they fell into a deep and dark abyss, as a strange magic started to work, taking the two back into time itself.
'Thinking, letters, assumed names or aliases' "Talking" +action sounds+
Disclaimer: Yu-gi-oh is owned by Kaiba Corps.! XD No I'm kidding, but I don't own Yu-gi-oh, that goes to the smart dude that I don't remember the name of at this time 0.o
Warning: ^^;; I don't watch Yu-Gi-Oh that much anymore, even though I was inspired to write this lovely thing. If I get something wrong, just understand that it's for the story, and also if I say something you really don't get, also tell me, so I can try to fix it and not confuse all you poor peoples. Might be some OOCness for Marik (yes I'm correcting this spelling, please forgive the previous chapters) o.o. Ummm, we'll also say Yugi and Seto still have their god cards if they don't. ^^;;
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Selene really wished they knew where they were, she hated this silence, and at least if she knew where they were maybe she wouldn't feel as bad.
Seto kept his silence so he could go back to his thoughts that were broken earlier. As they would enter the darkness, torches would light the way for them. All the walls in the hallway were carved with the weird pictures, symbols, and hieroglyphics. The pictures would usually be painted, and the paint still held the bright hues as if it had been painted yesterday.
"This is strange..." Selene said suddenly, stopping in front of Seto, almost making him bump into her because he was still thinking.
"What is it?" He asked, looking at Selene. She raised up her hand, and brushed her fingertips along a picture of a man sitting in what looked like a throne and a woman behind this man. The man sitting in the throne was pointing over a multitude of people. What was strange was the man on the throne looked like Seto and the woman behind Seto, Selene!
"What the-?!" Seto said in surprise. Why were they in a picture in a tomb?!
Selene ran her fingertips along the hieroglyphics just beneath the picture and began to translate. "'And our Pharaoh, Seto, has spoken to the people saying, 'The Shadow Realms gates have been shaking to get loose once again. We must have someone be willing to become keeper of the Realms gates to save country.' Our pharaoh then asked for a noble one to step forth and take the responsibilities of keeper of the gate of the shadow realm. The pharaoh's priestess advisor, the previous pharaoh Atem's sister, and some said the lover of the current pharaoh Seto, stepped forward and took the responsibilities, and pleaded that two monster be called forth to help her watch over the shadow realm. She was granted this. She was given a special key that she separated between herself and her monsters. The priestess advisor Selene, the pharaoh Atem's sister and now maiden of the shadow realm gates, and her chosen monsters, the monster Anubis and the Dark Magician Girl, were all three given the keys to the locks of the gate.'"
"You know how to read hieroglyphics?" Seto asked after she had finished. Selene nodded, "My father was an Egyptologist and had me learn hieroglyphics."
"So these people didn't just look like us, they also shared our names..." Seto observed, looking up at the picture again.
"Mmmhmmm." Selene hummed as she read more. She reached out her hand further and touched the picture of herself, when it suddenly sunk into the wall! The place began to shake and the walls began to slide away. Sand and dust flew into the air and the grating sound of moving stone on stone burned on their ears. When all was still again, a new hallway was revealed. Selene looked at Seto again and then started down the hallway.
Seto sighed, and followed.
The walls now were stone tables pieced together, each with a picture of a dueling monster. The ceiling and floor were made of these tablets as well. Far ahead stood a door that both could barely make out but still knew was there, as they continued on down the dark hallway.
When they just passed a stone tablet of the Dark Magician, a magic light flared in front of them, and a form shaped. A large Dark Magician Girl stood in their pathway now. She was like any other Dark Magician Girl; however, around her neck was a collar and ball like Selene's. The Dark Magician Girl raised her small magic staff and formed an attack pose, readying to attack Seto and Selene with a spell. Selene looked up at the Dark Magician Girl's blue eyes, her own purple pleading. "Dark Magician Girl please don't attack!" Selene cried out to her, "Dark Magician Girl please, don't you remember me?! We're friends!" Selene said reaching into her pocket. She grabbed hold of the Dark Magician Girl card in her pocket and pulled it out showing it to the living version of the card standing in front of Seto and her.
"You and Anubis were the only dueling cards I ever had. You two have been all that I have left of my past, you two and the item! Anubis and you mean so much to me that if anything ever happened to one of you I would surely die. You two are the only connection I have, if you kill me and Seto, then you've killed a person that has relied on you as all she has left." Selene proclaimed to the living Dark Magician Girl. It was much like the scene when Shadi invaded Yugi's mind and the innocent Yugi went down a hall similar to this one Seto and Selene were in. Yet only the reader would know this fact, for that was only between Yugi and Shadi.
The Dark Magician Girl looked directly at Selene, and made a gasping like motion, as she pulled her hand up to her mouth. The living card dropped her small staff and instantly kneeled to Selene. In one motion, the Dark Magician Girl pulled the collar and ball off her neck and presented it to Selene. The gold of the ball glittered at Selene, and almost in amazement; she reached out and touched the ball and collar. She took the ball and the Dark Magician Girl faded away same as she had appeared. Selene studied the ball in her hand. It had a Horus' eye and no wings, just as Anubis' balls did. The collar had some of the same hieroglyphics as Anubis', which she had read along the way.
"'This is the key of the Dark Girl that unlocks part of the gate, none but the maiden and whomever she chooses shall pass the Dark Girl.'" Selene deciphered out loud. "Maiden?" Selene questioned rubbing her hand over the impacted hieroglyphics on her collar around her neck. "She that wears the central key is the maiden of the shadow realm gates. She is the Lady of the monsters." Selene mouthed to herself.
"Who's the maiden?" Seto asked.
"I...I think it means me..." Selene answered looking at Seto. "I think this is the central key," She explained tapping the ball connected to her collar, "And whoever wears it, becomes the maiden of the shadow realm gates."
"I see." Seto said, looking back towards the dark doorway ahead of them.
Selene looked at the door and then started moving towards it. "We have to go to it sooner or later." She said softly.
Seto followed after her. Their steps echoed down the long hallway as they grew closer and closer to the door. Selene was the first to reach it. It was like a wooden door, only made of the plaster stone. Selene pushed against the door, making it swing on old nearly broken hinge-like joints. On the other side of the door was revealed a large mausoleum, gold glittered and shimmered two large golden-pedestal torches roared to life with fire. Both were at separate ends of a large stone sarcophagus in the center of the room. On the far side of the wall stood two stone doors, locked together. It looked like a man-sized puzzle, missing a strange shaped piece, that would if put together, become a beautiful design. Selene, almost in a trance, started forward into the room. Seto grabbed her hand, so not to lose her now. They both guessed that this must be the tomb of the priestess Selene from the pictures of her in the writings. The walls were painted with many things such as instructions of how to reach the netherworld of the Egyptian people, stories of her life, her genealogy, stories of the two monsters she had chosen. The fire from the golden pedestals grew higher as Selene grew closer to the sarcophagus. On the sides of the stone were more hieroglyphics speaking of spells to keep away evil spirits and grave robbers.
Selene reached out towards the sarcophagus' stone top. The flames flared up, raising to nearly the ceiling when Selene's soft fingertips came in contact with the cool stone of the cover of the sarcophagus. The hieroglyphics started to move and squirm like little strange worms and form a puzzle out on the top. Six bowl shaped indentions appeared. 3 large bowls appeared, one on top and two to the sides. Beneath these were two smaller bowl shapes, making two low midpoints between the top bowl and the side bowls. In the middle of this star pattern of bowls was another bowl indention, yet with wings flared out to the side. Around each bowl was a ring, the larger bowls having the larger rings and the smaller the smaller rings. Around this star formation were rings and rings of hieroglyphics.
Selene studied this formation for a few minutes, before she began to fiddle with the ball dangling from her collar. That's when it hit her. 'The collars and the balls, they must be set in here for something.' Taking the collar and ball she had gotten from the Dark Magician Girl, she unhooked the ball from the collar and started to fit it into one of the small bowls and the ring around it. She made sure the eye would stay up, something told her that was the right thing to do.
Seto watched as Selene tried to figure out how to get the rest of the collars and balls. Taking out her Anubis card, Selene said something softly to it, and set it down on the top. Instantly the four collars of the dogs' and cobra heads appeared. Selene cried out in joy that her idea had worked, and began to fit them in their proper spots. After she had most of the puzzle finished, she started to think of how to get the last piece of the puzzle to come off to be put in the puzzle. She moved her hand along her neck, to the back where she felt the hitch lock. Unfortunately, it never let her loose for some reason. She looked at Seto, "Seto I need your help, will you help me get this collar off?" She asked.
Seto moved over behind her, as she moved her hair aside so he could see the hitch lock. Quickly as he could, he undid the hitch lock, and the collar and ball fell from around Selene's neck into her hands. She quickly unhooked the ball from the collar and fit them into place.
All the eyes closed in unison and snapped open in unison. Each eye glowed with a golden light as they started to merge with one another. The balls, except for the center one, merged together with the rings. This now merged metal thinned and lengthened into a long staff. The bottom was a diamond shaped point that connected to the long shaft of the staff, this led up to the top on which jackal heads were on either side, and from in between the two heads, a long 'V' shaped base appeared. All down the shaft of the staff were spells and enchantments in hieroglyphics. The winged ball that had been dangling from the collar around Selene's neck now rested floating just above and between the 'V' bars. The ball's wings had turned white and now were like a dove's wings, and the Horus' eye stood wide open.
This beautiful golden staff lay in front of Selene in a new shaped sarcophagus top. She timidly picked up the regal staff, as a repenting sinner would a holy gift from God. Large purple eyes slid over the grand staff as she started to hear a noise.
Seto too had been amazed by this amazing staff, as he stared at it. He had watched as Selene timidly took it from it's creation spot into her gentle hands. This regal and beautiful staff only looked more right in the innocent and-for now-timid Selene's hands. He was almost startled by how it almost enhanced her already sweet charms. He almost didn't notice the sound, and only did recognize it when Selene turned her head to the direction of the sound.
The large sarcophagus' top was opening! When it fully pulled away from the sarcophagus, a strong power pulled Seto and Selene into the sarcophagus. Instead of ramming into the bottom of the sarcophagus or into a mummy, they fell into a deep and dark abyss, as a strange magic started to work, taking the two back into time itself.
