Chapter 4 After All, History Does Repeat Itself
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Gi Oh, or any of it's characters, I'm just borrowing them.
In a little side note, I'm going to be shifting my writing style a bit, since from here on, the story focuses a bit more on dialogue than description in the later chapters, I hope you won't mind.
A seemingly endless inky black void streched out, it was all he could see, nothing but darkness filling his vision...... all alone..... in the darkness....... alone.......
" How could anyone survive in a place like this?"
His voice was quickly swallowed up by the everpresent darkness, leaving him without sound, without sight, without feeling........... alone........ A wash of dispair chilled him to the bone, had Yami sent him here? All he remembered was seeing the eye of Horus appear on his forehead and then, and then....... this...........
" This is how I spent the past ten thousand years, with a small break in the middle, of course. "
A sudden flare preceded a wash of blinding light so bright he flung his arm up to shield his face. After a moment the light dimmed to something of less intensity than the surface of the sun, carefully dropping his arm he blinked a few times to clear his vision. There, floating before him in the void, was Yami, the eye of Horus glowing bright on his forehead like some mark of godhood, and perhaps that's what it was.
" Was that too bright for you? The Eye only has two settings, dim, and the light of Ra...... I should probably have a dimmer switch installed...... "
For a moment he ignored the smirk on Yami's face as he slowly rotated around, a sphere of light eminating from the eye made the void beyond it seem even darker than before.
" Where are we? " His face wore a puzzled expression, it was understandable, since he had no way of knowing where they were.
" We are in the depths of the Millennium Puzzle, in my soul room. " From everywhere and no where at once, the world lit up, revealing thousands of stair cases streching every way, up, down, left, right, upside down, even some that curved back on themselves, a tribute to the convoluted mind that Yami possesed. An amused smile replaced the smirk the long dead pharoh usually wore, his arm lifted and pointed directly at his hikari (1)
" The door to your room is right behind you, why don't you take a look at it? "
Blinking, he half turned to look over his shoulder, sure enough, there was a strudy looking iron door right behind him. Shrugging he spun around on his heel and walked to the door, giving the knob a quick turn and a push he walked over the threashold. A wide hallway seemed to serve as a devide between Yami's soul room and his own, blinking twice in slight surprise he walked over and opened the door across from the one he had just exited....... and hesitated.
" ............................................. Here goes nothing...... " Taking a deep breath to slow his racing heart he twisted the knob and pushed, letting the door swing open on it's own.
" .............Wow.......... "
He had expected perhaps a desk and a chair or two, at the most, after having witnessed Yami's soul room, but this......
Row after row of bookshelves streched into the distance, reaching nearly to the ceiling. The shelves were crammed full of thick, old style cloth bound books. Off to his right a staircase sat, leading off to who knew where? Frowning absently he walked over and stopped at the top step, the staircase dropped down what should have been two full floors to a lower level. Wide, floor to ceiling windows let in plenty of light and lit up the room. Dozens of tables were set in neat looking rows at the back of the massive room, comfortable padded wooden chairs surrounded them, while at the front hundereds of individual desks faced a giant vid-screen. The result looked like a cross between an auditorium and a library and looked like it belonged in a university. He let out a low whistle, it certainly looked like an impressive place to study.
" Most impressive indeed aibou. " (2)
With a start he turned to face Yami, stumbling back half a step in surprise at the floating spirit, eliciting an amused smirk from the pharoh. " I must admit, I didn't expect your soul room to be this large, my previous host's was much smaller, consisting of a single room. "
" Ah..... " What else was there to say to a long dead egyptian pharoh? ' Who does your hair? '
" Five thousand years ago, my previous host and I were called upon to prevent the end of the world, as I had done myself in a previous life..... "
" And you think you'll have to do it again with my help? How can you be sure? "
A smirk curved Yami's lips once more, he knew something he wasn't telling. " I know we will, after all, history does repeat itself....... "
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(1) Hikari, meaning light, Yami refers to his other side as his 'light' side.
(2) Aibou, beloved, or partner, either of these fit, but for now, Yami means partner when he says this.
Well now, chapter four is out of the way, I didn't exactly plan to use the soul room so early, but I wanted to show the difference between Yuugi and the new host as soon as I could. For all of you out there who want to get to the dueling allready *grins* don't worry, the next chapter should be hitting the cards pretty quick, so hang on to your decks!
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu Gi Oh, or any of it's characters, I'm just borrowing them.
In a little side note, I'm going to be shifting my writing style a bit, since from here on, the story focuses a bit more on dialogue than description in the later chapters, I hope you won't mind.
A seemingly endless inky black void streched out, it was all he could see, nothing but darkness filling his vision...... all alone..... in the darkness....... alone.......
" How could anyone survive in a place like this?"
His voice was quickly swallowed up by the everpresent darkness, leaving him without sound, without sight, without feeling........... alone........ A wash of dispair chilled him to the bone, had Yami sent him here? All he remembered was seeing the eye of Horus appear on his forehead and then, and then....... this...........
" This is how I spent the past ten thousand years, with a small break in the middle, of course. "
A sudden flare preceded a wash of blinding light so bright he flung his arm up to shield his face. After a moment the light dimmed to something of less intensity than the surface of the sun, carefully dropping his arm he blinked a few times to clear his vision. There, floating before him in the void, was Yami, the eye of Horus glowing bright on his forehead like some mark of godhood, and perhaps that's what it was.
" Was that too bright for you? The Eye only has two settings, dim, and the light of Ra...... I should probably have a dimmer switch installed...... "
For a moment he ignored the smirk on Yami's face as he slowly rotated around, a sphere of light eminating from the eye made the void beyond it seem even darker than before.
" Where are we? " His face wore a puzzled expression, it was understandable, since he had no way of knowing where they were.
" We are in the depths of the Millennium Puzzle, in my soul room. " From everywhere and no where at once, the world lit up, revealing thousands of stair cases streching every way, up, down, left, right, upside down, even some that curved back on themselves, a tribute to the convoluted mind that Yami possesed. An amused smile replaced the smirk the long dead pharoh usually wore, his arm lifted and pointed directly at his hikari (1)
" The door to your room is right behind you, why don't you take a look at it? "
Blinking, he half turned to look over his shoulder, sure enough, there was a strudy looking iron door right behind him. Shrugging he spun around on his heel and walked to the door, giving the knob a quick turn and a push he walked over the threashold. A wide hallway seemed to serve as a devide between Yami's soul room and his own, blinking twice in slight surprise he walked over and opened the door across from the one he had just exited....... and hesitated.
" ............................................. Here goes nothing...... " Taking a deep breath to slow his racing heart he twisted the knob and pushed, letting the door swing open on it's own.
" .............Wow.......... "
He had expected perhaps a desk and a chair or two, at the most, after having witnessed Yami's soul room, but this......
Row after row of bookshelves streched into the distance, reaching nearly to the ceiling. The shelves were crammed full of thick, old style cloth bound books. Off to his right a staircase sat, leading off to who knew where? Frowning absently he walked over and stopped at the top step, the staircase dropped down what should have been two full floors to a lower level. Wide, floor to ceiling windows let in plenty of light and lit up the room. Dozens of tables were set in neat looking rows at the back of the massive room, comfortable padded wooden chairs surrounded them, while at the front hundereds of individual desks faced a giant vid-screen. The result looked like a cross between an auditorium and a library and looked like it belonged in a university. He let out a low whistle, it certainly looked like an impressive place to study.
" Most impressive indeed aibou. " (2)
With a start he turned to face Yami, stumbling back half a step in surprise at the floating spirit, eliciting an amused smirk from the pharoh. " I must admit, I didn't expect your soul room to be this large, my previous host's was much smaller, consisting of a single room. "
" Ah..... " What else was there to say to a long dead egyptian pharoh? ' Who does your hair? '
" Five thousand years ago, my previous host and I were called upon to prevent the end of the world, as I had done myself in a previous life..... "
" And you think you'll have to do it again with my help? How can you be sure? "
A smirk curved Yami's lips once more, he knew something he wasn't telling. " I know we will, after all, history does repeat itself....... "
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(1) Hikari, meaning light, Yami refers to his other side as his 'light' side.
(2) Aibou, beloved, or partner, either of these fit, but for now, Yami means partner when he says this.
Well now, chapter four is out of the way, I didn't exactly plan to use the soul room so early, but I wanted to show the difference between Yuugi and the new host as soon as I could. For all of you out there who want to get to the dueling allready *grins* don't worry, the next chapter should be hitting the cards pretty quick, so hang on to your decks!
