CK: He-ey, I'm ba-aaack!!!! To all the very nice people out there who
are sending me the very nice reviews: THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hehe......I'm just suffering an overdose on ice tea again, don't worry.
This is completely normal....for me, anyway. Okay.....better get to the
story-line before I scare everyone away....hope I know what I'm
doing.....BTW, this chapter is extremely talky, so I'm sorry about
that.....there's just some stuff I feel I need to have someone say.......
Oh yeah, I don't own Yugioh. If I did, then people would shut up about Pegasus being a cheater already......HE'S NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chapter 6: Confusion (Sub-title: What the FUCK is going on?!!!???????)
Kaiba waited about point-five seconds so the shock could register. He still was confused about....well, everything going on at this point. The man in the turban seemed to understand this and remained silent until Kaiba began to talk. "So.....was that....really Pegasus? In all of that stuff?" "Yes......that was Pegasus about ten years ago. Back when he was a much happier man....."
The man with the turban seemed to talking to Kaiba, but at the same time, talking to himself......re-assuring himself with the facts, as though in preparation.... "Back then, Pegasus was a newly-wed man. His whole life had been rather unstable......except for when he was with the girl that you saw, Cecilia. She was the one thing in life that made him happy, while all the rest if his life was in complete disarray. He loved her from when he was a small child........"
"Is that why Pegasus is like that now? He just lost it when his wife died?"
"That explains it somewhat, but not completely.........you see, Pegasus regarded the two of them as two parts of the same whole, even before they were married....even before he knew that she returned his affections. So when she died, yes, Pegasus did somewhat 'lose it', as you put it..... But he also felt emptiness......a longing to feel whole again......for almost all of his life, the two of them had been together, first as playmates, then as friends, then as lovers, then as spouses. He could not comprehend a life without her........he can't even remember a life without her...and even now, he is sure that she feels the same way...even in death...." He gazed coldly towards Kaiba. "You see, Pegasus is a dangerous man when you observe him....and I do not mean in the sense of power....." "Then what do you mean....?"
"Love is a very powerful force.......when one is fighting for a person they hold dear, they will always fight harder than if they fought only for themselves..........and when you combine that power with a mind unbalanced by grief....."
The man in the turban shook his head slightly, as though trying to remove the past......and failing miserably....... "I am perhaps to blame for what happened later.......Pegasus went on a journey......he felt that it was absolutely necessary to have his wife brought to life again, by whatever means he could find.......after a few stops, he made his way to Egypt, because of their belief in an afterlife not unlike living on earth....he thought that ancient magic would help him in his quest."
Kaiba was having trouble taking this in....magic? Bringing people back to life? Was this insane.....or, even scarier, was he telling him the truth?
The man looked very weary as he continued, knowing full well his part in the tale that he told. "That was where I encountered him, in Egypt. I even warned him......I warned him that this journey would only lead him to more heartache......but he was stubborn and followed me to a lair of mine........When we reached the bottom, I revealed that I knew he was there.....and then I gave him a gift. I though it would be a blessing, magic that perhaps could keep his focus off of his current goal.....I was the one who gave him his eye, the Millennium Eye....How wrong I was......"
"I still don't understand......"
"The Millennium Eye is a very powerful piece of magic.....with it, you can see into the minds of anyone you face and read their every thoughts......I thought perhaps that it was for the best....the magic in the Eye kept calling out for me to give it to him, I knew that much from the very second I laid eyes on Mr. Pegasus........ But even I couldn't predict what Pegasus would do with such power.......
There are seven Millennium Items in the world, Seto Kaiba. I own two myself..... Your enemy, Yugi Moto, has one.....the Millennium Puzzle. And in each of these items comes two things.....a power, and an aura. The auras can change everything about a person when they gain their item....and they come in two forms. They can come in the shape of a spirit.....or in the shape of a longing.......
One has a longing for justice......another, a longing for wisdom......another, a longing for peace.....and yet another, a longing for bloodshed. But the Millennium Eye had perhaps the most dangerous....the longing for power..........
It sent him horrible delusions, fantastic visions which made even him think that he had lost his mind........because the Eye knew that Pegasus was the perfect vessel......he would do almost anything as long as he believed that he was doing it for his wife......it even sent him a vision to hammer a nail into the coffin. It sent him the vision of Cecilia descending from the heavens to greet him........"
The man seemed very grim. He looked tired....very tired, like he just wished he could make all of the things in the past just go away so that he wouldn't feel such shame for his part in all of this........
"I was there when that happened......only moments after I had given him the Eye. Even then I regretted it......"
The man slammed his fist onto one of Kaiba's desks. "I should never have given him that power!!!!! You can't trust such immense magic like that to a man in such a situation....... After that I did everything I thought I could do to stop him.....everything.....I helped introduce him to the game of Duel Monsters, in the hopes of distracting him from his quest, by filling the hole in his life with something else.......I tried to be a friend to him, in hopes that maybe friendship would help ease his loneliness....Ra, I even tried to introduce him to a woman once..........and look at how miserably those attempts turned out......in fact, I'm not unsure that they didn't feed the flames......."
Kaiba listened quietly....he got the feeling that the man wasn't really speaking to him.....he was more or less speaking to himself, and Kaiba had been forgotten in the meantime........
"The Eye knew...........the Eye knew Pegasus was weak........that longing for power grew stronger and stronger with every evil it made Pegasus do......in fact, it grew stronger than I ever thought it could......."
The man turned to Kaiba, his eyes wide with pain and regret............... "That's the real danger of the Millennium Items.......if you let the aura of the longing take too much control........a new spirit will form, with every characteristics of the longing......that's what almost happened to Pegasus.....if he had won the duel against Yugi..........I shudder to think what would have happened.......a version of him could take his place.............with no moral qualms whatsoever........ I am grateful to Yugi for that much.......when Pegasus lost, the goodness in Yugi managed to banish the evil in Pegasus.....much like he did with you, Kaiba......"
Kaiba spoke up for the first time in awhile. "You....you've got to be exaggerating......a whole new spirit?"
"I am not joking......I am serious, Seto Kaiba. It has happened before, very recently in fact......the longing for blood became a spirit...in the host of a boy your age, in fact......"
Kaiba was too bewildered to say anything. The man sighed. "But I am wasting too much of your time....." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cecilia Pegasus was trying desperately not to go into hysterics. She just had to keep telling herself that Max hadn't done something foolish.....he was going to be just fine when she found him.......wherever he was............
Still, it was getting difficult to fight the rising sense of panic............ She turned to Yugi. "Have either of you seen him? Have either of you seen my husband?????????"
The two of them were incapable, at this point, of doing anything more than staring at her blankly and wondering when someone was going to shake them awake and ask why they were acting so weird in their sleep. And continue wondering why the person shaking them awake didn't just hurry up already and get there.
Cecilia was beginning to break down. A tear accidentally slipped down her face. "Please.......I'm worried about my husband.......have either of you seen him?" Finally Yugi spoke up. "No.......we haven't seen Pegasus......we've been looking for him, but we haven't seen him........."
Cecilia, grateful at least for a response, nodded solemnly. She needed to find him.......and fast. Who knows what Max had done while she hadn't been watching him...........
She started to set off to go look for him when Yugi stopped her, curiosity beginning to get the best of him. "Listen.......there's more people on the island than just the two of us.....maybe we can help you find Pegasus......."
Cecilia smiled a little, and nodded........she was vaguely aware that she was accepting help from her one of her husband's worst enemies......but her mind was too numb from shock and she was just too worried that Maximillian was hurt.......or worse.......... "Alright....I'll be looking for him in the laboratories.......just please, hurry......I need to find him......" Cecilia went off on her own.
Ryou, who hadn't said anything yet, turned to Yugi. "Am I dreaming or......"
"You're not dreaming.......not unless we both are.......we have to go get the others, some really strange things are going on around here.............." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The man had finished ranting and turned back to Kaiba. "I have kept you here too long.....you should return to your real world now........"
"Wait....."
Kaiba interrupted. "What was the point of all this? The visions......why did you show me them.....? And who are you??????"
The man solemnly replied. "My name is Shadi. As to why you are here......... Tragedy is going to strike soon......and I only wish that, as is the duty of a friend, no more pain is caused than is necessary.........I just wish that this all be over with quickly......"
"So what do I have to do with any of this? And what tragedy? What's going to happen????"
Shadi shook his head. "I will not reveal the future's secrets to you. And you are here because of your anger...and your tendencies to focus greatly on revenge....."
"Huh?"
"There are only three things you will never forgive a person for, Seto Kaiba......one is hurting you in some way.....another is hurting your brother Mokuba in some way....and last....."
Shadi said this last piece with a slight ironic grin on his face. "....is someone who has hurt you or Mokuba attempting to redeem themselves......"
"What?" "As I have said before, I am here to minimize the pain and suffering that will occur.......and you, Seto Kaiba, have much anger in you........if I had not shown you these things, then you would have followed your desire for revenge blindly, without any thought.........causing much anguish to another" Kaiba would have responded to that, but the next thing he knew, Shadi snapped his fingers and Kaiba was instantly sitting up in the tunnels, Pegasus propped against the water pipe, everything seeming to be as if nothing had happened..... But not everything was the same.......
In the far distance of the pitch black tunnel, Kaiba could see something........... A very thin sliver...... Of light.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CK: Okay, I am SO sorry that this chapter was so bad..............it's just I needed Shadi to explain SOMEHOW what was going on with Pegasus, otherwise some stuff that happens later wouldn't make as much sense.....But I promise, folks, next chapter's a lot better. And could someone pleeeeeeeeeeeease answer my question from last chapter about the songfics? It'd help me out a lot.
Anyway, read and review, and I'll try and post next Friday. Please note though: I might not be able to since baka finals start up this week......at the very worst, I'll post in 2 ½ weeks......well, actually, at the very worst, I die and you people never find out what happens.....but that's a little gloomy, isn't it?
Oh yeah, I don't own Yugioh. If I did, then people would shut up about Pegasus being a cheater already......HE'S NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Chapter 6: Confusion (Sub-title: What the FUCK is going on?!!!???????)
Kaiba waited about point-five seconds so the shock could register. He still was confused about....well, everything going on at this point. The man in the turban seemed to understand this and remained silent until Kaiba began to talk. "So.....was that....really Pegasus? In all of that stuff?" "Yes......that was Pegasus about ten years ago. Back when he was a much happier man....."
The man with the turban seemed to talking to Kaiba, but at the same time, talking to himself......re-assuring himself with the facts, as though in preparation.... "Back then, Pegasus was a newly-wed man. His whole life had been rather unstable......except for when he was with the girl that you saw, Cecilia. She was the one thing in life that made him happy, while all the rest if his life was in complete disarray. He loved her from when he was a small child........"
"Is that why Pegasus is like that now? He just lost it when his wife died?"
"That explains it somewhat, but not completely.........you see, Pegasus regarded the two of them as two parts of the same whole, even before they were married....even before he knew that she returned his affections. So when she died, yes, Pegasus did somewhat 'lose it', as you put it..... But he also felt emptiness......a longing to feel whole again......for almost all of his life, the two of them had been together, first as playmates, then as friends, then as lovers, then as spouses. He could not comprehend a life without her........he can't even remember a life without her...and even now, he is sure that she feels the same way...even in death...." He gazed coldly towards Kaiba. "You see, Pegasus is a dangerous man when you observe him....and I do not mean in the sense of power....." "Then what do you mean....?"
"Love is a very powerful force.......when one is fighting for a person they hold dear, they will always fight harder than if they fought only for themselves..........and when you combine that power with a mind unbalanced by grief....."
The man in the turban shook his head slightly, as though trying to remove the past......and failing miserably....... "I am perhaps to blame for what happened later.......Pegasus went on a journey......he felt that it was absolutely necessary to have his wife brought to life again, by whatever means he could find.......after a few stops, he made his way to Egypt, because of their belief in an afterlife not unlike living on earth....he thought that ancient magic would help him in his quest."
Kaiba was having trouble taking this in....magic? Bringing people back to life? Was this insane.....or, even scarier, was he telling him the truth?
The man looked very weary as he continued, knowing full well his part in the tale that he told. "That was where I encountered him, in Egypt. I even warned him......I warned him that this journey would only lead him to more heartache......but he was stubborn and followed me to a lair of mine........When we reached the bottom, I revealed that I knew he was there.....and then I gave him a gift. I though it would be a blessing, magic that perhaps could keep his focus off of his current goal.....I was the one who gave him his eye, the Millennium Eye....How wrong I was......"
"I still don't understand......"
"The Millennium Eye is a very powerful piece of magic.....with it, you can see into the minds of anyone you face and read their every thoughts......I thought perhaps that it was for the best....the magic in the Eye kept calling out for me to give it to him, I knew that much from the very second I laid eyes on Mr. Pegasus........ But even I couldn't predict what Pegasus would do with such power.......
There are seven Millennium Items in the world, Seto Kaiba. I own two myself..... Your enemy, Yugi Moto, has one.....the Millennium Puzzle. And in each of these items comes two things.....a power, and an aura. The auras can change everything about a person when they gain their item....and they come in two forms. They can come in the shape of a spirit.....or in the shape of a longing.......
One has a longing for justice......another, a longing for wisdom......another, a longing for peace.....and yet another, a longing for bloodshed. But the Millennium Eye had perhaps the most dangerous....the longing for power..........
It sent him horrible delusions, fantastic visions which made even him think that he had lost his mind........because the Eye knew that Pegasus was the perfect vessel......he would do almost anything as long as he believed that he was doing it for his wife......it even sent him a vision to hammer a nail into the coffin. It sent him the vision of Cecilia descending from the heavens to greet him........"
The man seemed very grim. He looked tired....very tired, like he just wished he could make all of the things in the past just go away so that he wouldn't feel such shame for his part in all of this........
"I was there when that happened......only moments after I had given him the Eye. Even then I regretted it......"
The man slammed his fist onto one of Kaiba's desks. "I should never have given him that power!!!!! You can't trust such immense magic like that to a man in such a situation....... After that I did everything I thought I could do to stop him.....everything.....I helped introduce him to the game of Duel Monsters, in the hopes of distracting him from his quest, by filling the hole in his life with something else.......I tried to be a friend to him, in hopes that maybe friendship would help ease his loneliness....Ra, I even tried to introduce him to a woman once..........and look at how miserably those attempts turned out......in fact, I'm not unsure that they didn't feed the flames......."
Kaiba listened quietly....he got the feeling that the man wasn't really speaking to him.....he was more or less speaking to himself, and Kaiba had been forgotten in the meantime........
"The Eye knew...........the Eye knew Pegasus was weak........that longing for power grew stronger and stronger with every evil it made Pegasus do......in fact, it grew stronger than I ever thought it could......."
The man turned to Kaiba, his eyes wide with pain and regret............... "That's the real danger of the Millennium Items.......if you let the aura of the longing take too much control........a new spirit will form, with every characteristics of the longing......that's what almost happened to Pegasus.....if he had won the duel against Yugi..........I shudder to think what would have happened.......a version of him could take his place.............with no moral qualms whatsoever........ I am grateful to Yugi for that much.......when Pegasus lost, the goodness in Yugi managed to banish the evil in Pegasus.....much like he did with you, Kaiba......"
Kaiba spoke up for the first time in awhile. "You....you've got to be exaggerating......a whole new spirit?"
"I am not joking......I am serious, Seto Kaiba. It has happened before, very recently in fact......the longing for blood became a spirit...in the host of a boy your age, in fact......"
Kaiba was too bewildered to say anything. The man sighed. "But I am wasting too much of your time....." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Cecilia Pegasus was trying desperately not to go into hysterics. She just had to keep telling herself that Max hadn't done something foolish.....he was going to be just fine when she found him.......wherever he was............
Still, it was getting difficult to fight the rising sense of panic............ She turned to Yugi. "Have either of you seen him? Have either of you seen my husband?????????"
The two of them were incapable, at this point, of doing anything more than staring at her blankly and wondering when someone was going to shake them awake and ask why they were acting so weird in their sleep. And continue wondering why the person shaking them awake didn't just hurry up already and get there.
Cecilia was beginning to break down. A tear accidentally slipped down her face. "Please.......I'm worried about my husband.......have either of you seen him?" Finally Yugi spoke up. "No.......we haven't seen Pegasus......we've been looking for him, but we haven't seen him........."
Cecilia, grateful at least for a response, nodded solemnly. She needed to find him.......and fast. Who knows what Max had done while she hadn't been watching him...........
She started to set off to go look for him when Yugi stopped her, curiosity beginning to get the best of him. "Listen.......there's more people on the island than just the two of us.....maybe we can help you find Pegasus......."
Cecilia smiled a little, and nodded........she was vaguely aware that she was accepting help from her one of her husband's worst enemies......but her mind was too numb from shock and she was just too worried that Maximillian was hurt.......or worse.......... "Alright....I'll be looking for him in the laboratories.......just please, hurry......I need to find him......" Cecilia went off on her own.
Ryou, who hadn't said anything yet, turned to Yugi. "Am I dreaming or......"
"You're not dreaming.......not unless we both are.......we have to go get the others, some really strange things are going on around here.............." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The man had finished ranting and turned back to Kaiba. "I have kept you here too long.....you should return to your real world now........"
"Wait....."
Kaiba interrupted. "What was the point of all this? The visions......why did you show me them.....? And who are you??????"
The man solemnly replied. "My name is Shadi. As to why you are here......... Tragedy is going to strike soon......and I only wish that, as is the duty of a friend, no more pain is caused than is necessary.........I just wish that this all be over with quickly......"
"So what do I have to do with any of this? And what tragedy? What's going to happen????"
Shadi shook his head. "I will not reveal the future's secrets to you. And you are here because of your anger...and your tendencies to focus greatly on revenge....."
"Huh?"
"There are only three things you will never forgive a person for, Seto Kaiba......one is hurting you in some way.....another is hurting your brother Mokuba in some way....and last....."
Shadi said this last piece with a slight ironic grin on his face. "....is someone who has hurt you or Mokuba attempting to redeem themselves......"
"What?" "As I have said before, I am here to minimize the pain and suffering that will occur.......and you, Seto Kaiba, have much anger in you........if I had not shown you these things, then you would have followed your desire for revenge blindly, without any thought.........causing much anguish to another" Kaiba would have responded to that, but the next thing he knew, Shadi snapped his fingers and Kaiba was instantly sitting up in the tunnels, Pegasus propped against the water pipe, everything seeming to be as if nothing had happened..... But not everything was the same.......
In the far distance of the pitch black tunnel, Kaiba could see something........... A very thin sliver...... Of light.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CK: Okay, I am SO sorry that this chapter was so bad..............it's just I needed Shadi to explain SOMEHOW what was going on with Pegasus, otherwise some stuff that happens later wouldn't make as much sense.....But I promise, folks, next chapter's a lot better. And could someone pleeeeeeeeeeeease answer my question from last chapter about the songfics? It'd help me out a lot.
Anyway, read and review, and I'll try and post next Friday. Please note though: I might not be able to since baka finals start up this week......at the very worst, I'll post in 2 ½ weeks......well, actually, at the very worst, I die and you people never find out what happens.....but that's a little gloomy, isn't it?
