Hicky- Okay! Guess who's here? LUSTER! Well at the very end..
Trent- And Yami's chipmunk is revealed!
Hicky: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh or the dubbed versions so do not sue or something might happen. Enjoy!
A Shining Warrior in the Shadow Realm
Dark and Celtic made their way back to the mansion. Celtic walked up the stairs with Dark, chatting away about duels and such. Before long the two of them had arrived at Dark's room. Dark opened the door, went in and turned to say goodbye to his fellow duel monster, resisting the temptation to invite him in. Celtic waved merrily and turned to leave, heading to the elevator instead of the stairs. He pressed button twelve without even having to look. The elevator took Celtic to his destination , the doors opened and he stepped out . Directly in front of him on the wall was a poorly painted logo and the letters CSC, signifying that this was one of the floors where residents of Solomon Moto's shop lived. Celtic turned left and headed down the hall, noticing many other doors had been adorned with insignia since the last time he had been up here. He stopped in front of his friends door, now with a odd crest with a large C and G on it. 'How come they are allowed to paint everywhere and we aren't.... maybe we are.... or maybe they aren't..... eh, who really cares. I don't want to paint anyways.' Celtic knocked on the door. Within several seconds it was opened wide by Cee.
"Yo, sup Celtic?" Gee asked from his bunk before Celtic had even managed to enter the room.
"What the?... are you guys so unpopular that I'm the only one that visits?"
Gee brought his finger up to his chin and tapped a few times as if thinking. "Hmmmmm, yep, yep, that sounds about right."
"Great, I'm friends with total losers!"
Gee leapt up from his bunk and in no time had Celtic in a head lock and his hair pointing every which way, thanks to his skill with noogies. "We were losers before we met you, now we're just sorry saps!"
"Ahhh, get off fool!"
Cee let go and he and Gee giggled off to their bunks.
"You guys are nuts!"
"Noooo, we're Big Cee and..." "... Little Gee!" the two teenage guardians screamed.
"When did you go black?" Celtic asked laughing.
Cee and Gee both crossed their arms and stuck their noses up in the air. "Hmph!...... Sooo, what'cha want Celtic? Dueling tips? Dating advice? You wanna know about Yami?"
"Guys. One, you've never been in a duel; two, as far as I know you aren't dating, and you don't know any gay monsters to set me up with; and three, you live in Solomon's Shop and know nothing about Yami."
Cee and Gee sniffed twice as if they were about to cry, "T-that's so mean, C-Celtic," Gee fake stuttered.
"Why would you say a thing like that," Cee added, forcing a fake tear down the side of his face.
"It's the truth," Celtic said bluntly as he collapsed into a large bean bag chair.
"Well, common, what you moping about? Are you just gonna sit here and do absolutely nothing?" Gee questioned.
Celtic merely sighed.
"Common Celtic-man. We look up to ya. You showed us how it's good to talk about feelings... You know, when you come up here and don't talk, and then we make you and you leave feeling better?"
"So spit it out already," Cee said, jumping down from his bunk and making his way over to Celtic. He sat down cross-legged in front of the more mature elf.
"What are you doing?" Celtic asked as Cee started to pull off his boot, motioning for Gee to get his butt over to where they were.
"Foot rub.." Cee said. Gee had made it over and was sitting next to Cee, beginning to pull off Celtic's second boot.
"Why?"
"You seem stressed or something."
"And foot rubs soften you up," Gee added, finishing his almost-twin's sentence.
"Ahhhhhhh," Celtic sighed as his feet were rubbed by his young, and as he put it, sexy friends, falling into a dreamy state.
'So, what do you think he's moping about this time?' Cee asked Gee in his thoughts.
'I have no clue, there are so many things that it could be,' Gee responded. The two guardians were so far beyond close. They had a link between them that everyone was capable of, by few ever obtained.
'Well, it might be something to do with a duel.'
'Yeah, it might... hehe,' Gee's head filled with giggles at Celtic's reaction to his foot being tickled.
"Hey! hehehe... stop that!" Celtic squealed.
'Tell us what's bothering you Celtic.'
"He can't understand your thoughts dumb-ass!" Cee said hitting Gee in his arm.
"Oops, well then, ahem, won't you tell us what's bothering you? We want to help, you know talking about it helps, you know it, you taught us."
"Hey, and who thought my teachings would be listened to by a couple of teenage punk elves?"
"Tough, tell us," Cee said somewhat interested now, since Celtic was keeping it all to himself.
"It's about....." he started to say but finished it in thought, '.....Dark...'
"DARK!?" Gee shouted almost doing a full summersault backward. "Like, Mr. Picture Guy, Dark?"
"He never said that Gee." Cee looked questioningly at his slightly younger companion.
"Yeah, well. He thought it, I heard him!"
'YOU! You, the little squirt, have a mind connection with him? But, but, I am the more mature one, it should be me!'
'Maybe you are gay Cee, you seem a tad bit jealousy.'
'I'm not gay....... maybe we should stop fighting for now because Celtic seems a bit shocked and stupefied at the moment.' The teen guardians nodded at each other and turned to face Celtic, giving him their full attention.
"Soo, It's about Dark Magician is it? Is it good or bad?" Cee asked.
"I don't know... I was off in the Land of the Elven Sugar Coated Everything , or so he said."
Gee looked around the room trying not to make eye contact with either of the other elves.
"You gave him more pixie stix?!?!?!?"
"Noooooo.......... yes," Gee replied giving a sheepish grin.
"Arg.... well, Celtic, do you remember anything that made it seem like it went good or bad?" He glared at Gee the whole time. He hadn't been included in the second sugar trip.
"Ummm, I think I called him Darky-Poo, and he called me Mr. Guardian..."
"Awww, already have pet names for each other," Gee said batting his eyelashes like an elven maiden.
'And you say I'm gay...'
'Shut up!'
"Pet names?? We aren't even together, nothing, notta, not yet."
"So you think this might go somewhere? Did you tell him how you felt..... after the sugar high." Another glare was sent at Gee. Cee held grudges for a while.
"Yeah, I think it might go somewhere!.... what would you think if a guy... oops, no, wait, a girl for you.... okay, you where sitting on a girl and they put their hands on you chest and then smile... like this," Celtic said while imitating the sexy smile Dark had given him.
"Wait a second Celtic.... what did you do before that," Gee asked, sensing a thought going through Celtic's head.
"Well, umm. Dark told me to get off and I said make me, and then he kind of did."
"Well there you go, it was nothing." Celtic's face glazed over a bit.
"GEE!!! No Celtic, don't listen to him, he's a total moron. He doesn't understand matters of the heart. That smile... if you mimiced it anywhere near what Dark did it means something. He's totally into you man. You should make a move." Cee tried desperately to fix Gee's mistake while rubbing Celtic's back in a circular motion.
"Or wait for him to make one...." Gee said barely listening to the conversation. He truely didn't know the ways of the heart... well at least anyone's except his own and even then...
"Noooo," Cee growled. "You should go for what you want."
"I got pixie stix," Gee informed Celtic who actually gave it some recognition. "And Sugar Wands too, special candy for spell-casters." He over emphasised his wink.
Celtic slouched down thinking things over. "Okay, Cee. I'm gonna take your advise, and Gee.... I'm gonna take your candy!" With that he grabbed a handful for pixie stix and sugar wands and ran out the door, waving to his buds as he did.
'I can't believe that you have a mind link with him!!!!!'
'Egh...'
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Dark closed the door after Celtic left. He almost drifted over to his bed, and collapsed on it. He sighed dreamily thinking about Celtic. "So what if he was acting like a complete chibbi, he was still straddling my hips, and was enjoying it.... even if he wasn't enjoying it the same way I was," Dark thought aloud. "But what about after he snapped out of it, when he leaned down and told me to make him get off... hmmm, that tone in his voice, gods did he sound sexy." He took off his helmet and floated it over to a hook on the wall, then ran his hands through his long violet locks. "Mmmm, mmm, mmm. He is so fine, so damn fine!... I should make my move already... it's been quite a while since I first started making eyes at him, and that little move of his proves that he's into me.... or he was still out of it and he still likes that damned horse, no, he's gotta be over him by now. Yeah, yeah, no need to worry yourself Dark.... eeeeeeh, I gotta find out for sure."
Dark got up and began pacing around his room, trying to think of who knew Celtic well enough to know if he really liked anyone. "Arg, how can I be so smitten with that little elven kitten and not know him at all?... I didn't just call him a kitten did I?... ah, who cares... his friends? Me? Yes. We're close, yes, but not trusting with secrets close, not that close. So, who are? Those two from the last night? Who are they anyway?" He pushed his hands through his hair again, this time in frustration. "Arrrrggggg...... hold on one moment... I'm a spell-caster, why am I racking my brains trying to find out who those friends of his are? Celtic went to the elevator, so either he's lazy and doesn't want to walk down three flights of stairs orrrrr he went to see someone... what if it was a guy... No, no, no, can't think that way... okay, lets just see were that elf went off to... but what if he's taking a shower, now it would be wrong to just use by powers to check out his fine body... again..... egh, it's a price I'm willing to pay." Dark closed his eyes and concentrated on Celtic, it only took moments before the mage saw him. He was standing in a room, not his, and not in a shower, "darn... oh Dark, you're so bad, hehehe."
Dark could hear the conversation Celtic was having with, well, who ever it was. "You guys are nuts!" he heard Celtic say.
"Noooo, we're Big Cee and..." "... Little Gee!" came the screams of two young monsters.
"Aha! There we go! I'm going to have to go have a little chat with Cee and Gee. Now what room are they in?" Dark asked, walking over to a table, flipping the pages of his directory to the C section. It read, Cee- Room-mate is Gee. Live on floor twelve, room 1219. "Alright. I'll give Celtic about half an hour, then I'm going up there." Dark went back over to his bed, going to pick up his black, hard cover book but remembered it was still missing. He made himself comfortable and decided to draw a very inappropriate picture of a certain little kitten in his mind.
10 minutes later
"Now Dark, this is wrong," he said smiling at the beginnings of his mind-picture. Celtic's face drawn up in a sexy little smirk, every muscle on his arms and chest were very skilfully done, accentuated with the use of light and dark to imitate the look of oil covering the elf's body. Dark smiled to himself as he finish the small of Celtic's back, then he stopped, feeling something all to familiar in the air. A duel was about to begin....
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Dark and Celtic both dropped what they were doing, along with the other cards in Yugi's deck and began making their way to the graveyard. Everyone knew how important the next few duels would be. Gaia the Fierce Knight hurried as quickly as he could to the stables, where Twilight was already waiting for him. He leapt on his stead just in time to appear on the field. 'Ahh ,' he thought to himself. 'The first duel is against Mai Valentine. And what has she laid down on the field for me today, Harpy Lady, well that was expected, and a face down card... a trap I see, I hope Yami does as well.
"Gaia! Attack Harpy Lady," came the command.
'That's not Yami... that's Yugi, alone, he's duelling without Yami's help??? I know he doesn't trust him but gods, he needs his help!' Gaia thought as he raced toward Mai's monster. In front of him appeared a colorful wall with his reflection in it. 'Oh joy, Mirror Wall. And there goes half my attack points.' Gaia thought.
"What?" Yugi said shocked.
"Mirror Wall Yugi. A personal favorite of mine. It activates when you attack, and causes you're monster to attack a refection of itself, with the same attack points, reducing your monster's points by half."
"Oh no!"
"Now, it's time for a make-over! Cyber Shield to power up Harpy Lady."
'Oh yeah baby!' Harpy Lady thought.
"Harpy Lady, Cyber Slash!" Mai commanded. Harpy Lady flew down and hit Gaia hard. As he disappeared from the field he caught Mai's comment, "You know what they say Yugi, nice Gaias finish last."
'Oh yeah, that's so funny Mai,' Gaia thought sarcastically, "I just hope Curse never hears about it," he finished aloud, walking around the fountain, still mounted on Twilight's back.
Summon Skull disappeared out of the corner of Gaia's eye, along with a trap. Skull glanced around quickly, getting his bearings for the duel.
"Summon Skull, attack!" Yugi ordered. Again the Mirror Wall rose and this time Skull's attack was reduced to only half it's potency. "....What? It's a permanent trap then?"
"Yes Yugi," Mai answered him. "Yugi," Mai began, "You know why I duel?... besides the island trips, the clothes, the cars, the cash....."
'Yeah, well where's my trips, cars and clothes eh Miss High and Mighty,' thought a somewhat envious Harpy.
"I won't attack this turn Yugi, but I will sweep your trap card away with Harpy's Feather Duster."
"Oh no!... I'll switch my Summon Skull to defence mode and play Feral Imp in defence as well," Yugi finished his move.
"Now I'll equip Harpy Lady with Rose Whip to up her attack points, and now... Go my Harpy, attack the Feral Imp." Mai then drew and played Harpy's Pet Dragon.
"What is that?" Yugi asked.
"That is the Legendary Harpy's Pet Dragon, and he gets a power bonus for just standing next to his master...... Sweet, cuddly kitty, well as cuddly as a fire breathing kitty can be. Go, Fearsome Fire Blast!"
'Cuddly.....? Kitty.....?' Skull thought. 'Not even close girl. If anything is a cuddly little kitty it's Milus Radiant. That thing is just a ugly pinkish/reddish dragon you crazy, deranged mortal. Well, I'll just have to tell little Milly about thi...' "AHHHHHH" Skull made one of the few noises that were allowed on the field before he disappeared.
"My Skull!"
Over on the balcony, a blond haired boy was yelling at Mai and drawing attention to himself. He had just stated sarcastically that maybe they should all be more like Mai, then proceeded to trying to be like her. "I'm gorgeous, I'm such a great duellist, I love ME!" the bird wing haired boy said hugging himself tightly.
'What the heck is wrong with that kid,' Harpy Lady thought, 'Oh, ha haha, he fell off the balcony, oh, ha, nope, nice catch mortals.' She continued to giggle in her head.
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Skull and Gaia were now both waiting at the fountain, in case Reborn the Monster was to be used to revive them. "Hey guys," Skull called to the rest of the monsters now in the graveyard, "We're up against Mai. She has her Harpy Lady out and already juiced up. She also has a Mirror Wall active so be ready for that. And also a Harpy's Pet Dragon. Good luck."
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Dark was next to be summoned to the field. Once there he moved to defensive mode, as instructed by Yugi. He then waited as Yugi played a magic card face down.
Mai, completely happy with how her strategy was working, played a special magic card. "I equip Harpy Lady with Shadow of Eyes. Now your monsters are forced into attack mode."
'Oh, you have got to be kidding me... her.' Dark began thinking very sarcastically, 'Yeah, she's just so hot, and with those special eyes of hers I don't know if I want to move to attack mode...' he stopped the sarcasm, '... or gag myself with a rusty spoon!... Don't bat those eyes at me bitch!' his thoughts spat at the opposing monster. 'Wait a second... isn't she the lesbian sister??? Great two queers forced to hit on each other on the field... weird.'
"Now Dark Magician, attack!" Dark knew he had to follow the rules, and knew that by attacking he'd activate Mirror Wall and his attack, like his friends before him, would be halved.
"Sorry Yugi, but there goes another one of your traps, Harpy's Feather Duster! Now Harpy's Pet Dragon, destroy the Dark Magician!"
Yugi had now allowed Yami to emerge, needing to win and doing a really shitty job at it himself. "I'll use Brain Control to take possession of your Harpy's Pet Dragon."
"That's all well and good Yugi but Harpy's Pet Dragon is a servant of Harpy Lady and even under the powers of Mind Control it would never even think of attacking it's master!"
"Oh no!.... Now I'll play Catapult Turtle and load Harpy's Pet Dragon onto it in attack mode. Now fire!"
Harpy Lady watched as her servant dragon crashed into the wall, shielding herself with her wings as both the wall and the dragon were destroyed.
"I play Elegant Egotist to make copies of my Harpy Lady."
"And I play Monster Recovery; allowing me to reshuffle my deck and draw five new cards." Now in Yami's hand there were Celtic Guardian, Reborn the Monster, Kuriboh, Griffore, and Mystical Elf. "And I play Mystical Elf in defence!"
"You can't do that Yugi, I still have Shadow of Eyes in play."
"Oh yes I can Mai. Shadow of Eyes only lures male warriors into battle, it doesn't apply to female monsters."
"Oh, that's right... I play Reborn the Monster to bring back Harpy's Pet Dragon. Now Harpy Lady Sisters, attack Mystical Elf with Exterminator!" Mai began ranting about something but everyone toned her out, even her very own monsters.
The monsters in Yugi/Yami's hand could see that Yugi was doubtful about being victorious. But, they all went back to watching the battle, only Celtic continued to watch Yugi and Yami's discussion. He saw it as they did; only the two of them, the black nothing, and the duelling podium where the desk sat. Celtic could tell that Yugi was afraid, afraid that he won't be able to save his grandfather's soul from Pegasus, but Yami spook up.
"Yugi," Yami said in his calm voice which only Yugi, himself, and eavesdropping monsters could hear, "it is not just you duelling here alone. We are in this together, you and I. We need to work as one to defeat her." Yami placed his hand on the deck, Yugi nodded and placed his hand atop Yami's. Celtic's eyes widened a bit. 'Oh gods! Yugi's Yami's chipmunk!!!!!'
Yugi and Yami were now ready to make their next move
Mai was getting over confident, "Now we both know that I'll wipe out any card you play on my next turn-"
"Swords of Revealing Light!" Yami shouted.
"SWORDS OF REVEALING LIGHT!!!?" She yelled then continued in her head, 'he actually drew Swords of Revealing Light? How can anybody be that lucky?'
"And I also play Kuriboh... in attack mode!" A very surprised, then determined Kuriboh appeared on the field, and began to make stupid attacking gestures.
Mai looked at what was in front of her, "Ooooh, it's the attack of the giant three-toed hairball.... Oh, hoho hahahaha," she started laughing. "Look, it's totally ferocious Yugi... I think it wants to attack Harpy's Pet Dragon single-handed, hahahahaha...... What? You don't think that's funny Yugi?"
Yami answered, "It's not Mai. Laugh all you want but don't mistake Kuriboh for a joke when it's an important step on my way to victory in this duel."
"That hairball couldn't be an important step on the way to anything... except maybe choking a cat."
"Oooooh! Ooooooooh!" came Kuriboh's shrill screams, known all to well to the monsters in Yugi's deck.
Celtic was waiting and waiting. It was so odd not to be being played. It always went; Celtic appears in hand, Celtic appears on field, Celtic gets set to the graveyard... so why was Yami messin with the system?
Yami then drew Polymerization, but played Reborn The Monster to revive a card.
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Gaia was now back at the stables, thinking it was safe to say that Yugi or Yami weren't going to be calling him back to the field. He had just begun to brush down his steed when he felt the tug back to the field. "Shit!" he cursed and flung himself onto Twilight's back, appearing on the field only a second later.
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Mai again felt as if she had to contribute, "Oh, Fierce Knight, Shmierce Knight..."
'Say what moral?' Gaia thought angrily.
"... I guess he's an improvement over that little Kuriboh but he hardly represents a threat to my harpies and their super-charged pet."
"Ooooooooh," Kuriboh squealed.
Mai had drawn her other Harpy Lady and was very pleased with herself, but she did not put it on the field (Hicky- But another time, or three, when Yami used SoRL his opponent did put a monster down so I think Mai was just being stupid.).
The effect of The Swords of Revealing Light was wearing off turn by turn, and after Yami drew Winged Dragon and Guardian of the Fortress it was his turn to doubt his skill. Again Celtic pried his way into to private conversation between the hikari and yami.
"Who am I to gamble with the lives of Yugi's friends and family?..."
'Umm, you are the great and all mighty Egyptian pharaoh who sealed away the powers of the Shadow Games five millennia ago... that a good enough answer?' Celtic thought but dared not speak.
Yugi appeared beside the pharaoh and again put his hand on Yami's causing Celtic's eyes to again grow larger and a small grin to form on his face. "We can do this together," Yugi said. "I'm with you and we're not alone." Thoughts of his friends caused images of them to pass through the mind link he and Yami shared.
"Ah, with all of you at my side I was foolish to lose faith."
"It's like you said... we have to trust each other and in the heart of the cards. And once we put our hearts in the game there's nothing we can't do!"
That speech of Yugi's gave Yami the confidence he needed. Together they pulled the Black Luster Ritual. "I play the Black Luster Ritual, sacrificing two monsters to do so." Gaia and Kuriboh entered the ritual and went through the sensation of having something new created out of them. From the ritual sprang an amazing warrior and even the harpies eyed him with fondness.
'Holy shit,' thought the new made warrior, 'I have green skin like a freaking Kuriboh!!!'
"Black Luster Soldier," Yami commanded, "attack Harpy's Pet Dragon!"
Mai's Harpy Lady Sisters were shocked. They gasped, mouths open as their pet was destroyed.
"Harpy's Pet Dragon!" Mai called out, just as shocked as her harpies.
"Harpy's Pet Dragon is no more," came a calm, explanatory voice.
Mai sadly put her hand over her deck, signifying that she forfeited the duel, declaring Yugi the winner. As everyone's' eyes were on Mai, Luster gestured to the Harpy Lady Sisters, 'Good duel,' he thought and signalled before the cards were removed from the podium, sending all monsters to their homes.
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Luster was the last monster to return to the graveyard. He looked around at a crowd of monsters that would, from that day forward, be his family, his friends, and his life.
Hicky- Okay, now we'll focus a bit on Luster other stuff will happen! Oh, and be prepared.... Luster's British.
Trent- So he's a very strong ritual warrior with a British accent????
Hicky- I made him sound sophisticated... and Yams said he was British so I went with it!