Chapter 14
Yami, Bakura and Marick burst through the wall and gazed angrily around.
"Dammit! Where the hell are we?" Marick, despite the seriousness of the situation grinned.
"Well where else but Hell? I thought we cleared that in the last chamber."
"Fuck you." Yami shook his head and looked around the room, why did it have no light? Suddenly a soft,
low sound met his ears.
"Wait . . . do you hear that?" He whispered to the others who fell silent. There it was again . . . a soft
whimper . . . no, more like a sob. Yami blinked and walked forward slowly, he reached out with his hand,
then jumped when he touched something warm, something that shrieked loudly, and in a small space such as
this, it echoed and all three teens clapped their hands to their ears.
"Ow!" Bakura hissed one eye shut. "The hell?" He demanded. "Oh for god's sake- here!" He snapped
and flicked his wrist in a casual movement. In that split second, there was suddenly bright light all around
the area.
"How did you do that?" Marick asked dimly as Yami looked at the figure.
"It's hell idiot. Demon's can control things here. And yes, technically, if I wasn't sealed in this god
forsaken necklace, I would be a demon." He interrupted as Marick opened his mouth, the teen shut it and
smirked.
"I want to go home . . ." The little girl mumbled, tears coursing down her cheeks. It was Kara. Yami
nodded and looked her over, she seemed unhurt, save for the redness beneath the rough rope which he
quickly cut.
"Are you alright?" He asked checking over her. She nodded, dressed only in a velvet red skirt and white
sweater. She had bright red hair, blue eyes and a small golden necklace tucked mostly beneath her shirt so
Yami couldn't see what it was. He took her hand and stood.
"Come on. We have to hurry."
"I figured, but I'm not the one running around playing Mister goody-two-shoes Pharaoh." Bakura snapped
crossing his arms. For once, whether it was urgency to save Kari, or just plain annoyance . . . Yami snarled
his anger.
"Shut the fuck up and get your ass moving!!" He snapped angrily, fury blinding his emotions. Silence.
"Aye aye captain!" Marick said in awe with a mock salute and smug grin. "I KNEW the Pharaoh had at
least ONE swear in him." He said with a chuckle and headed for the wall. Even Bakura was shocked as
Yami turned bright red. And all the 5000 year old tomb robber could say was;
"Holy crap."
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Seto growled angrily.
"Hurry up!!" He snapped.
"Hey! This isn't as easy as it looks okay Kaiba? Give me a break and throw me a bone." Joey growled as
he tried to saw the ropes holding Kaiba in place.
"If there is anything I'm going to be throwing at anyone, it's a brick at Dire." He retorted. Crystal was
glancing around wearily.
"Hurry." She whispered.
"I'm trying, I'm trying!" Damen shook his head.
"We have to hurry."
"WOULD YOU TWO CUT THAT OUT??" Joey screamed in frustration. "You're both driving me up the
wall." He grumbled as he continued his laborious work.
"Calm down dude." Tristan muttered.
"Would you mind not spitting on me?" Seto asked dryly, one eyebrow raised.
"Oh haha Kaiba, you're just lucky I don't just LEAVE you here." Tristan, Damen and Nirvana all sighed.
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"Hurry UP Duke!"
"I'm trying I'm trying! This isn't as easy at it looks you know!" Duke Develin grumbled as he sawed away
at the ropes. Taia bit her lip impatiently.
"Can't you go any faster?" She demanded after a few seconds.
"Would you PLEASE stop rushing me?" He snarled.
"Both of you, be quiet, calm down, and Duke hurry up." Nirvana hissed. Shade nodded assent as Duke
gritted his teeth.
"If someone else says that AGAIN-!"
"What the hell is taking you guys so long?" Damen asked as he burst through the wall with the others.
"Duke! Hurry up already!"
"ARGH!!"
---
Another wave of pain, and another cry, I clenched my eyes shut. The pain was almost becoming bearable,
at least, I thought it was. It wouldn't be too long, I now know why they say in TV shows, that when there's
death involved, there's light at the end of the tunnel. Your vision goes black, completely, until you start
seeing a little pinprick of white and you begin to stop feeling pain. Heh, symbolism, it was like the light at
the end of a tunnel. You'd have thought that I'd be more worried about dying . . . well, who knows? Death
is death, and I don't think I can fight it this time, so, accept it and move on with life. Or death, you know
what I mean.
-You owe me that much.-
A voice suddenly broke in. I blinked. What-?
-What are you talking about? -
That second voice sounded scarily close to mine.
- Flashback -
"You know our kinds are not allowed to mix. . ."
"Do I care?"
"They will kill you. . ."
"I love you, everything else does not matter."
"But-! I'm an angel! You are a human! A priest! We cannot mix."
"Only now . . . but you said an Angel's soul . . . even though their bodies deteriorate, their souls are the
same, and when they are reborn, and eventually come of age-"
"-They will regain their memories of their previous lives and through that, gain eternal wisdom . . ."
"Then make a promise to me!"
"Promise?"
"That years from now, 5 years, 50, 500, even 5000! That one day, when our races are no longer banned
from each other, we will meet, and then we will love without the restrictions of society!"
"I . . .I . . I don't-!"
"You owe me that much."
"What are you talking about?"
"You owe it to me . . . as a friend, as a savior, protector, and as . . . your love."
"I . . ."
"For me."
"I promise . . . no matter how many times we are reborn, I will find you when there are no restrictions. And
when you, as a high priest of Egypt, are free to love."
"I will wait my immortal tenshi." He whispered, and with that, the high priest, clothed in white robes gently
wrapped his arms around a figure with raven hair and snow white wings that fell from her back. The high
priest Seto, and his love, the angel Yuzara.
- End -
I opened my eyes slowly, and softly. A promise . . . a promise to meet again. A promise made over 5000
years ago!! I suddenly gasped and looked up. Knowledge wove a path throughout my mind, and put pieces
of the puzzle in place, where I hadn't even known were empty. My long dead family; my father Kosanji,
my mother Kiena, my sister Shyao and my brother Maldor. The four guardians . . how they had died to
protect us, the vision of my homeland burning . . . everything!! And as if fate were guiding us, at that exact
moment, Shade, Nirvana, Taia and Duke burst out of one side of the wall, Yami, Bakura, Marick and Kara
out of another. And behind Dire came Damen, Crystal, Tristan, Joey and . . . I smiled.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't the whole group here, ready to rescue the princess." Dire mocked. I glanced
up at them, and winced as another jolt of pain swept through my body.
"Daniel!!" I cried. Shade looked at me. "When I was 5!! The necklace! I asked you to look after it and
you took it for safe keeping, remember?!" I cried at him. Shade stared at me for another agonizingly slow
moment, before the memory dawned on him and he pulled out, the black four pointed star necklace. Time
seemed to slow down as Dire paled.
"The sealed- give that here!!" He snapped and lunged for it, Shade, knowing he probably shouldn't listen to
Dire (Who honestly listens to the bad guy?), dodged the sudden attack, with a quick back step, and spun
around while flinging the necklace at me. It sailed through the air, and as soon as it neared me, the gem
changed from black, to a pure white, and the best word for what it did was . . . exploded. It erupted with
white light in front of me stopping just in front. And in that next moment, it was somehow incredibly
beautiful, but terrifying all the same.
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Light flared, blinding all in the room.
"Kari!!" Nirvana called out in alarm, blocking the light from his eyes with his arm. Hikari was just fine
however, as the light cleared, the ropes that bound her hands, slowly dissolved and she fell to the ground,
landing on her feet, she straightened with a certain gleam in her eyes. Grinning she touched the necklace,
with her index finger, ever so gently, and suddenly, the light flashed once more before the necklace wound
itself around her neck to clasp itself securely around her. She smiled gently and looked up with a
determined aura, Nirvana could see the symbol, the mark of the angels' royal family upon her forehead.
And if Seto hadn't been there to see it, he would swear he was lying to himself. Because there, on Kari's
back, was a pair of white wings. A purer white then untainted and untouched snow, long, narrow in shape
with a build for speed, at the moment, she looked somehow . . . noble. No . . . royal, standing there in that
dress and with those wings. She smiled again and looked straight at Dire.
"So. I was wrong." Kari said simply and waved her hand once. All of a sudden there was a shriek and in
the corner of the shadows, flames erupted, and as quickly as they appeared, they vanished leaving a scarred
and bruised demon, with black leather rags and bat wings, the demon glared, but for all that, she looked
surprisingly human.
"So, it wasn't a big dumb bastard holding the strings." She said with a jerk of her head at Dire who now
stood stunned. "It was a stupid bitch." She hissed. Then turned to Kara.
"When you were with your 'father'-" She spat the word. "-did he give you anything? Or did you take
anything? A necklace perhaps." She asked softly. Kara blinked, then nodded and pulled something out
from her shirt, the necklace Yami had seen earlier, now revealed itself to have a long thin pendant on the
end. It was gold with a large ruby droplet on the end. Kari smiled.
"May I have that?" She asked calmly. Kara hesitated only for a moment, before pulling the chain over her
head and with a careless gesture, she tossed it gently at Kari, in a split second she grabbed the chain while
spinning her body around, and when she set her steps to face the demon, she held in her hands, a spear of
polished and dark stained wood, at the top was a single blade curved like the moon, and at the end was a
golden ruby tip.
"Kido mi uujou. Spear of the heavens." Kari whispered and levered her spear at the demon. The demon
shrieked and with a glower flew off into the walls.
"You think you're tough girlie!!" She hissed as she vanished. "Your nothing compared to my master!"
Kari followed her leave to the corner of her eyes, and once the demon was gone, she lowered her spear.
"Don't bother going after it, she could be all the way in Mexico by now." Kari told the others. Turning to
Dire, she sighed, and in one swift motion as smooth as butter, she swept the blade of her spear over him, to
the sides of him, and right in front of his eyes. In that moment, Yami saw small threads, thinner then spider
silk, fall in the light, and vanish as they burned. Dire blinked, then fell to his knees, and eventually sleep
claimed him. In a flash of light, the spear was gone, replaced as a bracelet around her right hand, and just
like her spear, her wings and the dress vanished as well, to leave her in a normal black shirt with jeans.
Your everyday teenager. The darkness around them dissolved, and before anyone could explain, they stood
in the shadow realm.
"Would you mind explaining all that back there?" Shade asked after a moment's silence. Kari sighed and
ran a hand through her hair.
"Alright. This is about to get complicated." She took a deep breath, and moved next to Seto, linking her
fingers with his, she gave a soft smile.
"It starts over 5000 years ago, when Seto was the high priest of Egypt and Yami was pharaoh. At the time,
I was still Princes Yuzara, daughter to the king and queen of heaven. But at that time, angels were believed
to be holy and could never associate with humans, thus, when I fell in love with Seto, it was obviously
forbidden. Even worse that Seto was a holy man and should know better! So, we made a promise that one
day, when we were both reincarnated and no rules of society would stop us, we would find each other again
and love freely. Now, with that part taken care of, comes the next part.
When an angel dies, their soul remains the same, but their body falls to pieces, and in it's place comes a
new body, a baby to be exact. It is somewhat like the human's whole system without labor and everything.
But when an angel comes of age, around 15 or so, then the memories of their previous lives will come back
and thus, the angel will gain eternal knowledge."
"So how is it that you need the necklace? And why did Shade have it?" Crystal wanted to know.
"I think . . . my mother and father predicted that the attack would come, and with such a large mass of
demons to fight, they knew they would lose, so, they instated three secret guardians, and a fourth pendant
was issued to me. A pendant, that when we were attacked, would take all my memories and seal them into
the gem. It is only when I realized this, that the gem reacted and let me access my memories, and thus,
regain my position as an angel."
"And the spear?" Yami wanted to know, his eyebrow raised.
"A specially formatted weapon made for me by my deceased brother . . . Maldor."
"What was wrong with Dire?" Taia wanted to know. Kari sighed.
"Dire was merely a human child they found on the streets, they stole him, raised him in the way of demonic
prowess and set him to hunt me. In the end, Yami managed to break the hold they had on his mind, and
instead of mind control, they had to use strings. He really was a puppet in the end."
"Why did Shade have your necklace?"
"Yeah! And why did Kara have the spear?!"
"-sigh- Shade had my necklace because I gave it to him for safe keeping. I can only guess that when the
demons sent him to my world, he was wearing the necklace then and well . . .he couldn't really give it back
could he? As for Kara, I believe that my father, when he saw me as a child, saw the necklace and took it for
safe keeping as well, obviously he never gave it back."
"And how did Kara have it?" Kara blushed at this.
"I uh . . . I thought it was really pretty so I . . . kind of took it from my dad's drawer." Duke chuckled.
"A good thing you did. Who knows where we would be without it."
"Come to think of it, how did you get to the other world anyway?" Tristan demanded.
"Nirvana brought me."
"And how is it that you now know all this?"
"The Millennium necklace Yu-Gi gave me is basically all seeing."
"Ah . . ."
"Kari?"
"Yes?"
"Here." Nirvana handed her something wrapped in tissue.
"I did this while you were gone and we were still stuck in Yu-Gi's world." He said blushing. "I know what
it meant to you, so I did a time spell on it and . . ." Kari gaped as she unraveled the paper. It was her
mother's pendant, the jade dragon. She was silent for a moment, before Kari walked up to Nirvana and
hugged him tightly.
"Thank you Nirvana." He smiled softly.
"Of course. I will stay by your side always." Kari backed up and smiled, fixing the clasp around her neck,
she looked back at the crowd.
"Anymore questions that will make my throat sorer then it already is?" Kari asked sarcastically. Seto
looked at her.
"Just one. We're in the shadow realm, that means we can cross over to your world, or back to ours. Which
world will you go to?" Silence.
---
I looked at Shade, who drew back his hood and shook his head.
"I go back home. That wasn't my world Kari." He said softly. I nodded. Kara nodded too.
"I'm sure daddy would want you back!!" Daddy? Was it possible? I could leave this crazy place forever,
after all, Yu-Gi was the descendant of a Pharaoh, trouble was practically written all over his future. Bakura
would go back to trying to kill me, we'd lose Marick, and well . . . where would I stay? But what about
Seto? I looked at him and blinked back tears. I'd lose him too. If I went back to the real world, I'd get to
stay with Daniel, my brother, I could be normal for once, actually I could be special, how many people do
you know that are angels? I could get to know my step sister better, not to mention there was a whole lot
less trouble . . . . but I'd lose everyone here . . . I gulped and looked back at Yami who stared at me with
understanding.
"I know my choice." I said softly.
---
"Are you sure?"
"It wasn't so bad, really. And what's to stop me from going back and forth?"
"You don't have a millennium item."
"Wanna bet?"
---
I grinned as I descended down the staircase, 3 hours of primping and messing around with all that glitter,
was worth it for the look on his face. I had finally taken my glasses off for good, I mean, their purpose was
to remind me that there was something sensible in this world, something tells me, sense isn't a good thing
anymore. Seto smiled at me as I joined him, hair washed, dried, combed and tied, a midnight blue dress
made of silk, all for this idiot here.
"You realize I am publicly embarrassing myself just for you." I hissed at him. He looked genuinely
surprised.
"Embarrassing?"
"I'm in a dress!" I hissed. "I probably look fat!" He laughed.
"Even Hikari Usagi! Princess of the angels worries about her looks." He mocked. I growled and gave him
an elbow in the ribs.
"Shut up."
"Are you two at it again?" A voice demanded. We both turned to see Dire, standing there, hands on hips
with a goofy grin on his face.
"What do you want?" I snapped. He was undaunted.
"Oh tsk tsk, shouldn't you be in a bedroom by now?"
"DIRE!" I shrieked in fury. He left cackling. I sighed heavily and shook my head.
"Why did I let him stay here?" Seto asked me. I glared.
"I don't know, I'm not the computer genius here." I said teasingly. He laughed. "Speaking of guests, you
didn't bury our other ones did you?" I asked suspiciously. He grinned.
"Maybe . . . ."
"Seto . . ."
"Okay, okay! I only dunked the mutt into the punch bowl."
"SETO!"
"Just joking."
"Then where are they?"
"HEY! LET GO OF MY- OWWW!! TAIA!!" Joey squeaked as Taia dragged him away, Yu-Gi, holding
a punch glass sweatdropped and shook his head. Tristan shook his head and Duke just rolled his eyes.
Seeing us they waved us over.
"So, how's the couple going?"
"Why, it's none of your business." I said sarcastically.
"God dammit, someone get this twerp off me." Bakura growled walking up.
"I'm not a twerp and I'm not on you." Mokubah retorted. I rolled my eyes at Seto who did the same.
---
So everything turned out alright I guess, I mean, sure I can't go back and forth between realms because it
messes everything up, and personally, I think I'm alright with it. Seto let me stay at his place, I mean, jesus,
he has sixty frickin' rooms. I think he can spare one. I continued with my training, Nirvana, Damen and
Crystal by my side. Yu-Gi, Yami and friends eventually got used to me being a part of their normal gang,
and hey, this week, Bakura only tried to kill me 10 times, he divided his average tries by 3. So, I think even
he's beginning to like me, at least, he will until he finds out I left that biology frog in his locker. Oops. It's
funny, but if you were to look at the beginning of this story, I was nothing like this. Things change with
time, don't they?
---
"You know . . ."
"Hm?" I murmured sleepily, my head resting on Seto's shoulder. Both of us stood on the roof of his
mansion, the party continuing without us.
"Tonight was the first night I saw you without your glasses."
"Hm? What about?" I mumbled. He smiled and looked at me.
"You looked nice."
"Oh, and I guess I didn't look nice before that." I grumbled playfully. He laughed and tightened his hold
around me.
"No. I guess not."
"You rotten stinker." I growled. He laughed, then with his fingers, gently tilted my face up to look into his
eyes.
"I love you." He said firmly. I smiled softly, and sadly.
"You know this isn't the end right? I still have to fight. For the angels, I have to lead them into war against
the demons." Seto smiled.
"I will be beside you. I promise you that." I closed my eyes and accepted the gentle kiss as he leaned in.
And as I fell into his hold, through the bond we shared, the mental link we had, I whispered without
breaking the kiss;
'I love you too.'
!!!
"And in today's news." The TV blared. "The body of Hikari Usagi, daughter of James Usagi was found
dead, though there is no evidence of physical harm, or suicidal acts, it is confirmed she died simply because
her heart stopped. This is truly in unknown phenomenon." A cup of coffee clattered to the ground as James
Usagi stared at the screen. His face pale white. And had anyone looked closely, they might have seen there
was a tinge of remorse on his face.
"Hikari . . ."
!!!
"Hope you rest well. I'll miss you, but I know you're better off there then here." The figure murmured and
brushed his fingers over the new soil, over Hikari's grave. It was simple really, when she had decided to
stay in the other world, he had used a trick from Damen and Crystal to create a body clone. Thus, no one
would think she had gone missing and would accept she was dead. The figure rose, black cloak falling over
his shoulders.
"Bye sis. Sanosukeya." The angels' saying for 'Heaven guide you.'
The End.
Disclaimer: I own plot and OC characters. Watch for the sequel coming soon! Crimson tide!
- Preview -
He had said welcome home, was this truly home? Or was I a visitor? It seemed so foreign . . yet, with
Nirvana, Shade, Yami and Seto at my side, I was unafraid.
"Are you ready?" The man asked us. I nodded. Once. And the doors opened, revealing a bright light. I
shaded my eyes against it and looked into the unknown, fear knotting my heart.
"Welcome to Angels' Sanctuary. Welcome, to Haven Princess Yuzara. Sole survivor of the royal family."