The Millennium Brace - chapter 6
Geez. I'm such a slacker. Haven't updated this thing, or even worked on it, in FOREVER. Oh well..... school's out now, thank Ra, and I'm finally getting to the good part of the story! No yaoi this time, really, unless you look reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard. :D Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh. I do, however, own: Sakkira, Nakte, the Millennium Brace, this story, Oasis Dragon of Kuruelna, and Y.O.D. Fwah. Hey! I own more things than I don't!
/yami to hikari/
hikari to yami
Oasis Dragon mind-speech
:Y.O.D. mind-speech:
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"..and that's my favorite," Ryou pointed out, stopping Bakura's shuffling through the cards in their deck. He pulled a magic card out of the stack. "See?" he said, holding it up for Sakkira. "The Change of Heart."
"Ooh... that's cool-looking," Sakkira remarked. "I remember a tablet with that picture on it."
"I'm not surprised," Bakura cut in gruffly. Ryou replaced the card and his yami continued to go through the deck. At the end of it was a card unfamiliar to Sakkira.
"What is that card?" she asked, beholding it with awe. It looked very powerful. It was a massive bronze-colored dragon, with glowing red eyes, gigantic wings, and spikes going all the way down his chest. On the top of the card was emblazoned the words "Oasis Dragon of Kuruelna".
"It's my favorite card," Bakura said, allowing a small smirk to cross his features. "Take a look." He offered it to her. She took it, and noted the brown color of the card - an effect monster. There was a large number of stars, ten, Sakkira counted. Wow. Underneath the picture the card read like this:
The guardian of ancient Egyptian city, this dragon has an almost unstoppable attack and defense.
There was an effect and a description, how odd, Sakkira thought.
This monster can attack three monsters at once. Once per turn, this monster can raise its ATK and DEF by 3000. When this effect is activated, this monster cannot attack for three turns and must be in DEF mode.
To Sakkira's surprise, the small writing went on to suggest that Kuruelna was a Ritual monster.
This monster can only be summoned when the card "Kuruelna Burning" is on the field. You must also sacrifice three monsters whose ATK equals this monster's level x 100.
Sakkira couldn't speak for a moment. "Wow," she finally said. "That is one powerful card."
"Let me see," Yugi interrupted. He'd been sitting next to them the whole time, but Sakkira was too busy looking at Bakura to notice. He took the card from Sakkira's relenting fingers and read it, eyes widening. "Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a card that hits this hard before." He stared at Ryou and Bakura. "Where did you get this?"
Ryou looked rather exasperated. "He stole it," he muttered, giving his dark a sour look. Bakura bared his fangs in a wolfish grin, and then nodded at the others.
"Well... it's a very good card. Worth stealing, I suppose. How come you've never used it in a duel before, Bakura?"
Bakura shrugged. "It's supposed to be a secret, says Ryou," he muttered, jabbing his thumb at Ryou, who grinned and nodded in a "guilty-as-charged" gesture. He put a finger to his lips, performing a classic hikari "it's a secret but only to annoy my yami". Yugi laughed to himself. (A/N: Ra this is boring. It's boring to write, it's boring to read. 99 Action please!)
Changing the subject, Bakura stood up suddenly and growled, "Lunch time." Ryou, agreeing, followed after Bakura, who was walking away and shoving his deck in his pocket.
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Having rounded up the lunch, Ryou decided that they would eat outside in the pleasant weather that day. Yugi's yami took his own form, so he could eat, (although Nakte stayed quiet - Sakkira wondered about that) and after grabbing a blanket, they headed out.
Suddenly Sakkira tripped over the blanket she was carrying, falling on top of the hapless Bakura. There was a thud, an "Oof!" and a clang. The clang came from Sakkira's Brace banging into Bakura's copy of the Ring. It didn't hurt either Item, but both hurriedly checked for dents.
Bakura glared at the girl. "You did that on purpose!" he accused.
Sakkira looked up at him "I did not!" she said indignantly. "I tripped over the blanket, that's all!"
"Liar!"
"Argh!!"
Bakura stood up, brushing himself off, when suddenly he felt his deck tremble in his pocket. Brow furrowing in confusion, he pulled it out, looking at the Oasis Dragon of Kuruelna card. He stumbled back, dropping it, when it shone with a bright light and grew hot like the Egyptian sands in summer.
"B-Bakura?" Ryou stammered. "What's wrong with the card...?"
Bakura didn't answer, only stared at the card, whose penetrating light shot high, high up into the heavens in a single beam. Looking back at Sakkira for a moment, he noticed that the Millennium Item on her wrist was glowing.
Yugi and Yami noticed this at the same time Bakura did. Yugi started. "Sakkira--! Your Brace... it's glowing like when my card..!"
Startled by Yugi's interjection, Sakkira looked down at her arm, eyes widening on the sight of the glowing Brace. "Like when that thing happened with the Dark Magician!" She looked up into the sky. "Oh no... this card is much too powerful... and unruly--!!"
Her gaze was followed by all the others' as a great, brassy below resounded from the sky and powerful bronze wings beat loudly against their ears.
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I am..... born again. No longer trapped within that prison. Hah... I can avenge my city now... like the pharaoh stopped me from doing so many years before....
Great red, diamond-shaped eyes glowed and tiny white pupils whirled madly in their sockets.
Wait! A pause in the descent. Kuruelna is... gone! Where am I? There is so much green! Egypt is no more!
A frustrated, strained roar erupted from a throat whose veins pulsed with blue-black blood for the first time in millennia. Great bronze wings beat loudly and another bellow escaped the dragon. He swooped down upon the fools who released him and who brought about their own doom.
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Brown, purple, crimson, and red eyes widened as if they were but a single pair as a humongous dragon swooped down upon them. Yugi and Yami had to dive out of the way of the great talons. Sakkira whipped around and stared at the great beast as he lit on the roof of Ryou's house, the shingles sliding off and the beams groaning under the weight.
Smooth-skinned and bronze in color, the dragon's hide looked thick and tough to beat. Not surprising, with a defense of 3500, she thought cynically, observing the baleful red eyes glaring at her. Flaring off the dragon's head were two rows of horns, with three in each row. The ones over the forehead were much larger than the ones over the nose. Behind the larger horns rose a crest of semi- tansparent flesh shaped like a brightly-colored flame. It almost fooled Sakkira for a moment.
The long, almost graceful neck craned around as the dragon swiped its head from side to side, showing off. All down the front of its body were white, bony plates, with a spike at the end of each. Underneath the skin rippled strong, differently-arranged muscles. The body was long and garceful, tapering off just behind the hind legs to craete a long, flowing tail, tipped with spikes in a row. Large, almost unproportionate wings and blue "cuffs" on the dragon's arms completed the look of "I'm tough and very powerful".
Thrusting its small head forward, the beast screeched and beat its wings, lifting itself into the air and flinging itself toward them again. Ryou shouted; he'd been raked by the flailing dew-claw of the right hind foot. Not badly enough to bleed, but it was painful.
Instead of turning and sweeping over them again, the great dragon Kuruelna thrust itself forward, heading toward the city. Yami stood up, eyes widening as he noticed the direction it was headed. "We have to stop it!" he shouted. (A/N: Well duh Yami.)
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He landed almost gracefully, barely noticing the building splintering beneath him. He saaw tiny figured screaming and running wildly among his feet, like ants to an elephant, and plucked one off the ground. He raised it to his eyes, having to cross them in order to focus. Four extremities, stringy, no tail, a relatively small head, no neck that he could see.... strange bits of stuff over its body. Hehuffed in its scent, sendnig the human into a spin and increasing its screams. It smelled like smoke. He tossed it in his mouth, first rolling it on his tongue, delighting in its screams of mortal fear, then almsot gently placed it between his teeth -- and crunched.
What a nice sound hese humans made when they were smashed into little pieces, the Oasis Dragon thought. He decided to follow these tasty, although small, morsels - and that led him into a maze of black strips of.... what? It didn't matter, he thought, as long as he could remove these obstructions. He lashed his spiked tail out, catching a building and ripping off a good fifteen stories. He leaned down, almost toppling over, and caught five or six of the falling humans in his mouth while they were still alive. He liked his meals to squirm.
The Oasis Dragon paused in his rage across the city. He looked at the ground, which, due to his great height, was very far away. He could use a smaller, more nimble dragon with all his strength and cunning. He stalked to the side of the city (much to the citizens' relief) and, with a great howling and ripping of flesh, tore a piece of his calf off. Blue-green blood dripped down his leg, but it quickly healed over (Oasis Dragon's defense being 3500) and stopped hurting.
He slashed the flesh, and with the magic in his claws, it began to take shape. His bronze, shining, scaly flesh became a more goldish-yellow color. It became oval in shape, and from the back it sprouted two red-membraned wings. A white horn grew out of the elbow of each wing, not unlike the Oasis Dragon's own. From the front of the piece of flesh suddenly thrust an appendage, something that the Oasis Dragon could only guess was its head. He was right; two large horns burst out the back of it, and the rest of the head quickly formed. It had a narrow muzzle, with two amazingly long tusk-like teeth in its mouth, like its parent's. Instead of three small horns on its nose, there was one long one, and it was the same color as its skin. The eyes, though closed, were obviously much bigger compared to its head than the Oasis Dragon's crimson, fiery, narrowed orbs. He could care less, though; if this young dragon wished to be cute in appearance, then the foolish humans would never see it coming.
The arms had taken form partway after the head had started, and now they were finished; simple, only two fingers and two thumbs, but with gigantic claws, almost taking up the entire finger space. Six hard plates not unlike the Oasis Dragon's ran down his throat and to his chest, but not as far down as the original's.
The rest of the young one's body was simple, the tail being long and covered at the tip with long, extremely thin, bone spurs. The Oasis Dragon tapped one of the spines and it dripped with venom, which landed on his paw. He licked it up (being invulnerable to his own body fluids) and decided that it was very potent. Yes, this Young Oasis Dragon was worthy.
He set it down. At first, it lost its balance, but then it stood up and opened its large, sharp, green eyes. It looked at its father questioningly.
You are called Yod, young one, the Oasis Dragon stated.
:Yod?:
It stands for "Young Oasis Dragon"
:I see. Well, father, what have you created me for?:
Oasis Dragon pointed to the city. Kill them.
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Wee! I'm finally done! My mom says I can't put floppies in her computer as long as the virus is still there, but I don't rreally care! The foppies are not carrying the virus, so as long as I don't get it, I'm still going to do it. While she's not around of course. :P See, Umbra? I do have a rebellious side once in a while.
Review people! Or Yod will bite you! rubs Yod's extremely long fangs, cutting her thumb Owch! sucks thumb Mmm..... B positibve... :D
glomps ff.net people for letting her use italics FINALLY
Geez. I'm such a slacker. Haven't updated this thing, or even worked on it, in FOREVER. Oh well..... school's out now, thank Ra, and I'm finally getting to the good part of the story! No yaoi this time, really, unless you look reeeeeeeeeeeeeeally hard. :D Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh. I do, however, own: Sakkira, Nakte, the Millennium Brace, this story, Oasis Dragon of Kuruelna, and Y.O.D. Fwah. Hey! I own more things than I don't!
/yami to hikari/
hikari to yami
Oasis Dragon mind-speech
:Y.O.D. mind-speech:
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"..and that's my favorite," Ryou pointed out, stopping Bakura's shuffling through the cards in their deck. He pulled a magic card out of the stack. "See?" he said, holding it up for Sakkira. "The Change of Heart."
"Ooh... that's cool-looking," Sakkira remarked. "I remember a tablet with that picture on it."
"I'm not surprised," Bakura cut in gruffly. Ryou replaced the card and his yami continued to go through the deck. At the end of it was a card unfamiliar to Sakkira.
"What is that card?" she asked, beholding it with awe. It looked very powerful. It was a massive bronze-colored dragon, with glowing red eyes, gigantic wings, and spikes going all the way down his chest. On the top of the card was emblazoned the words "Oasis Dragon of Kuruelna".
"It's my favorite card," Bakura said, allowing a small smirk to cross his features. "Take a look." He offered it to her. She took it, and noted the brown color of the card - an effect monster. There was a large number of stars, ten, Sakkira counted. Wow. Underneath the picture the card read like this:
The guardian of ancient Egyptian city, this dragon has an almost unstoppable attack and defense.
There was an effect and a description, how odd, Sakkira thought.
This monster can attack three monsters at once. Once per turn, this monster can raise its ATK and DEF by 3000. When this effect is activated, this monster cannot attack for three turns and must be in DEF mode.
To Sakkira's surprise, the small writing went on to suggest that Kuruelna was a Ritual monster.
This monster can only be summoned when the card "Kuruelna Burning" is on the field. You must also sacrifice three monsters whose ATK equals this monster's level x 100.
Sakkira couldn't speak for a moment. "Wow," she finally said. "That is one powerful card."
"Let me see," Yugi interrupted. He'd been sitting next to them the whole time, but Sakkira was too busy looking at Bakura to notice. He took the card from Sakkira's relenting fingers and read it, eyes widening. "Wow, I don't think I've ever seen a card that hits this hard before." He stared at Ryou and Bakura. "Where did you get this?"
Ryou looked rather exasperated. "He stole it," he muttered, giving his dark a sour look. Bakura bared his fangs in a wolfish grin, and then nodded at the others.
"Well... it's a very good card. Worth stealing, I suppose. How come you've never used it in a duel before, Bakura?"
Bakura shrugged. "It's supposed to be a secret, says Ryou," he muttered, jabbing his thumb at Ryou, who grinned and nodded in a "guilty-as-charged" gesture. He put a finger to his lips, performing a classic hikari "it's a secret but only to annoy my yami". Yugi laughed to himself. (A/N: Ra this is boring. It's boring to write, it's boring to read. 99 Action please!)
Changing the subject, Bakura stood up suddenly and growled, "Lunch time." Ryou, agreeing, followed after Bakura, who was walking away and shoving his deck in his pocket.
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Having rounded up the lunch, Ryou decided that they would eat outside in the pleasant weather that day. Yugi's yami took his own form, so he could eat, (although Nakte stayed quiet - Sakkira wondered about that) and after grabbing a blanket, they headed out.
Suddenly Sakkira tripped over the blanket she was carrying, falling on top of the hapless Bakura. There was a thud, an "Oof!" and a clang. The clang came from Sakkira's Brace banging into Bakura's copy of the Ring. It didn't hurt either Item, but both hurriedly checked for dents.
Bakura glared at the girl. "You did that on purpose!" he accused.
Sakkira looked up at him "I did not!" she said indignantly. "I tripped over the blanket, that's all!"
"Liar!"
"Argh!!"
Bakura stood up, brushing himself off, when suddenly he felt his deck tremble in his pocket. Brow furrowing in confusion, he pulled it out, looking at the Oasis Dragon of Kuruelna card. He stumbled back, dropping it, when it shone with a bright light and grew hot like the Egyptian sands in summer.
"B-Bakura?" Ryou stammered. "What's wrong with the card...?"
Bakura didn't answer, only stared at the card, whose penetrating light shot high, high up into the heavens in a single beam. Looking back at Sakkira for a moment, he noticed that the Millennium Item on her wrist was glowing.
Yugi and Yami noticed this at the same time Bakura did. Yugi started. "Sakkira--! Your Brace... it's glowing like when my card..!"
Startled by Yugi's interjection, Sakkira looked down at her arm, eyes widening on the sight of the glowing Brace. "Like when that thing happened with the Dark Magician!" She looked up into the sky. "Oh no... this card is much too powerful... and unruly--!!"
Her gaze was followed by all the others' as a great, brassy below resounded from the sky and powerful bronze wings beat loudly against their ears.
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I am..... born again. No longer trapped within that prison. Hah... I can avenge my city now... like the pharaoh stopped me from doing so many years before....
Great red, diamond-shaped eyes glowed and tiny white pupils whirled madly in their sockets.
Wait! A pause in the descent. Kuruelna is... gone! Where am I? There is so much green! Egypt is no more!
A frustrated, strained roar erupted from a throat whose veins pulsed with blue-black blood for the first time in millennia. Great bronze wings beat loudly and another bellow escaped the dragon. He swooped down upon the fools who released him and who brought about their own doom.
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Brown, purple, crimson, and red eyes widened as if they were but a single pair as a humongous dragon swooped down upon them. Yugi and Yami had to dive out of the way of the great talons. Sakkira whipped around and stared at the great beast as he lit on the roof of Ryou's house, the shingles sliding off and the beams groaning under the weight.
Smooth-skinned and bronze in color, the dragon's hide looked thick and tough to beat. Not surprising, with a defense of 3500, she thought cynically, observing the baleful red eyes glaring at her. Flaring off the dragon's head were two rows of horns, with three in each row. The ones over the forehead were much larger than the ones over the nose. Behind the larger horns rose a crest of semi- tansparent flesh shaped like a brightly-colored flame. It almost fooled Sakkira for a moment.
The long, almost graceful neck craned around as the dragon swiped its head from side to side, showing off. All down the front of its body were white, bony plates, with a spike at the end of each. Underneath the skin rippled strong, differently-arranged muscles. The body was long and garceful, tapering off just behind the hind legs to craete a long, flowing tail, tipped with spikes in a row. Large, almost unproportionate wings and blue "cuffs" on the dragon's arms completed the look of "I'm tough and very powerful".
Thrusting its small head forward, the beast screeched and beat its wings, lifting itself into the air and flinging itself toward them again. Ryou shouted; he'd been raked by the flailing dew-claw of the right hind foot. Not badly enough to bleed, but it was painful.
Instead of turning and sweeping over them again, the great dragon Kuruelna thrust itself forward, heading toward the city. Yami stood up, eyes widening as he noticed the direction it was headed. "We have to stop it!" he shouted. (A/N: Well duh Yami.)
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He landed almost gracefully, barely noticing the building splintering beneath him. He saaw tiny figured screaming and running wildly among his feet, like ants to an elephant, and plucked one off the ground. He raised it to his eyes, having to cross them in order to focus. Four extremities, stringy, no tail, a relatively small head, no neck that he could see.... strange bits of stuff over its body. Hehuffed in its scent, sendnig the human into a spin and increasing its screams. It smelled like smoke. He tossed it in his mouth, first rolling it on his tongue, delighting in its screams of mortal fear, then almsot gently placed it between his teeth -- and crunched.
What a nice sound hese humans made when they were smashed into little pieces, the Oasis Dragon thought. He decided to follow these tasty, although small, morsels - and that led him into a maze of black strips of.... what? It didn't matter, he thought, as long as he could remove these obstructions. He lashed his spiked tail out, catching a building and ripping off a good fifteen stories. He leaned down, almost toppling over, and caught five or six of the falling humans in his mouth while they were still alive. He liked his meals to squirm.
The Oasis Dragon paused in his rage across the city. He looked at the ground, which, due to his great height, was very far away. He could use a smaller, more nimble dragon with all his strength and cunning. He stalked to the side of the city (much to the citizens' relief) and, with a great howling and ripping of flesh, tore a piece of his calf off. Blue-green blood dripped down his leg, but it quickly healed over (Oasis Dragon's defense being 3500) and stopped hurting.
He slashed the flesh, and with the magic in his claws, it began to take shape. His bronze, shining, scaly flesh became a more goldish-yellow color. It became oval in shape, and from the back it sprouted two red-membraned wings. A white horn grew out of the elbow of each wing, not unlike the Oasis Dragon's own. From the front of the piece of flesh suddenly thrust an appendage, something that the Oasis Dragon could only guess was its head. He was right; two large horns burst out the back of it, and the rest of the head quickly formed. It had a narrow muzzle, with two amazingly long tusk-like teeth in its mouth, like its parent's. Instead of three small horns on its nose, there was one long one, and it was the same color as its skin. The eyes, though closed, were obviously much bigger compared to its head than the Oasis Dragon's crimson, fiery, narrowed orbs. He could care less, though; if this young dragon wished to be cute in appearance, then the foolish humans would never see it coming.
The arms had taken form partway after the head had started, and now they were finished; simple, only two fingers and two thumbs, but with gigantic claws, almost taking up the entire finger space. Six hard plates not unlike the Oasis Dragon's ran down his throat and to his chest, but not as far down as the original's.
The rest of the young one's body was simple, the tail being long and covered at the tip with long, extremely thin, bone spurs. The Oasis Dragon tapped one of the spines and it dripped with venom, which landed on his paw. He licked it up (being invulnerable to his own body fluids) and decided that it was very potent. Yes, this Young Oasis Dragon was worthy.
He set it down. At first, it lost its balance, but then it stood up and opened its large, sharp, green eyes. It looked at its father questioningly.
You are called Yod, young one, the Oasis Dragon stated.
:Yod?:
It stands for "Young Oasis Dragon"
:I see. Well, father, what have you created me for?:
Oasis Dragon pointed to the city. Kill them.
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Wee! I'm finally done! My mom says I can't put floppies in her computer as long as the virus is still there, but I don't rreally care! The foppies are not carrying the virus, so as long as I don't get it, I'm still going to do it. While she's not around of course. :P See, Umbra? I do have a rebellious side once in a while.
Review people! Or Yod will bite you! rubs Yod's extremely long fangs, cutting her thumb Owch! sucks thumb Mmm..... B positibve... :D
glomps ff.net people for letting her use italics FINALLY