In the Eye Of the Beholder
Chapter Three:
Good or Evil?
By: fairysphinx
fairysphinx: Hello! Thanks to all of you reviewers! * sniff, sniff * So sweet! Anyhow, nice guesses, but I haven't had anyone hit the mistake I was aiming for. But, anyone who guesses gets a plushie. Hey, if you want a plushie, just review! I'm not too picky! Another hint: it's not a spelling error. It's more like I said one thing, and then turned around and contradicted what I said. That help any?
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, although I do own Ktara and Y. Ktara/Yata.
/Yugi talking to Yami/
//Yami talking to Yugi//
!Bakura talking to Y. Bakura/Yaku!
!!Y. Bakura/Yaku talking to Bakura!!
{Ktara talking to Y. Ktara/Yata}
[Y. Ktara/Yata talking to Ktara]
+Malik talking to Y. Malik/Yaro+
=Y. Malik/Yaro talking to Malik=
* indicates action taking place *
indicates a passage in time
Yugi had fallen asleep. Ktara looked at his sleeping form, and was filled with sorrow. He was so peaceful, but in much more danger than he could ever comprehend. She shook her head. "No. There's no turning back for me. Not now, not ever. And there shouldn't have been any turning back, after my death. There shouldn't have been. But, what was that guy thinking?! It would have been better if I was dead! If I never came back! At least then Yugi wouldn't be in this position, and he could live a normal life, without being kidnapped! No, it would have been better if I had never been born!" Unnoticed, a card slipped out of her pocket.
"Well, if it isn't the captive. I thought you'd never be caught. No, there's something more behind this. You are a free spirit. Nothing could capture you, without the use of magic." An old woman stood in the doorway.
"What do you want, Manra?" Manra was one of Daren's servants.
"The owner of the castle wants to speak with you!"
"If he want's to speak with me, he can come here!"
"Well, don't be surprised if your little friend over there doesn't breath tomorrow morning!"
"Leave Yugi out of this! And if it means tampering with other people's lives, then I will go to him!" Manra led the way out of the cell, and into a room, dark, black. A black fire burned in the fireplace. "What do you want?!"
"You're not keeping up your end of the bargain. I've been doing mine-to the best of my abilities-but you haven't even been trying."
"You call that not trying? I'm busting myself to the bone trying to do it, and you say that's not enough? Well, you haven't been keeping your end, either, Mr. All-High-And-Mighty!"
The man, invisible in the dim light, growled, before dismissing her.
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Yugi woke up to Ktara, humming lightly. "Have you slept?"
"No," she said coldly.
"Geeze, lighten up!" Ktara gave him a 'leave-me-alone-before-I-blast-your-head-off' look. She continued what she was doing. A moment later, the door opened, and Daren walked in.
"If you're asking, the answer is no," Ktara said, without looking up.
"For your information, I am here to inflict your punishment, for resisting the lord's orders." He pulled out a whip. Ktara faced him, but, to her surprise, he turned toward Yugi. This worried her. The whip had poison-injecting spikes all over it. Yugi, not having a life like hers, wasn't immune to it.
Daren raised the whip, and brought it down. Yugi shut his eyes, expecting the pain at any moment. It never came. Opening his eyes, he saw the whip, stuck in the flesh of Ktara's left shoulder. She kept muttering things in different languages. Daren was frowning.
"Fine, if you want the punishment, you shall have it!" He raised the whip, pulling it sharply out of her skin, and brought it down again and again. Ktara's words became slurred and her breaths, choppy. Her wounds were spilling blood. Once more, the whip was raised and let down, but it never reached Ktara. She opened her blood-crusted eyes. The whip was wrapped around a purple staff.
Before Daren could figure out what was going on, he was hit with a blast, and thrown out of the prison, which closed up.
Ktara and Yugi looked at the savior. The Dark Magician stood in their wakes (A.N: Remember the card that fell out of her pocket?). Ktara felt faint. Even for her state of immunity, the amount of poison release in her body was an awful lot. Too much to protect against. She fainted. Yugi caught her before she hit the ground.
The Dark Magician stepped forward, brushing a wisp of hair out of the girl's face. He then turned to Yugi, who stood, dumbfounded. "Yugi. Get her deck, and find me Soul of the Pure." Yugi did as he was told, and handed it to the Magician. "Soul of the Pure! Your master calls your assistance!" His clear voice rang through the cell. The card materialized beside him.
She looked at the bloody girl. "I see, I see," she murmured to herself. She quickly said: "Recovery! 2000 life points!" before disappearing. Ktara groaned, and sat up.
"Dark! How did you get here?"
"I sensed that you would need me, so, as you went out of the prison, I slipped out of your pocket. The rest you did. You summoned me to this realm. I am always glad to help you."
"Are you going to leave?"
"Sadly, I have to. But, I will leave a protector for you, one from each deck. Yugi, pull out the Black Luster Soldier." Yugi thumbed through his deck. "Now, call him. All you have to do is say his name, and that you request his assistance." Yugi cleared his throat.
"Black Luster Soldier! I request your assistance!" A moment, and then, out of nowhere, the Black Luster Soldier appeared, leaving his card blank.
"I am here, Master Yugi."
"Black, I need you to look after the little ones for me. You will be joined shortly with another. Ktara, I leave it to you to decide who you want to protect you. Goodbye. I shall check up on you." And he was gone.
"Well, go ahead!" Black said, impatiently.
Let's see.... Kaminarikozou; Yamatano Dragon Scroll; Blue Eyes White Dragon; Celtic Guardian; Dark Magician is occupied; Ancient Elf; Dark Magician Girl; Dark Elf; Harpie Lady; Water Magician; Dunames Dark Witch; Maiden of the Moon; Lady of Faith; Gemini Elf; Axe Raider; Water Omotics; Castle of Dark Magic; Silver Fang; Gaia the Fierce Knight; Neo the Magic Swordsman; Waterdragon Fairy; Mystical Elf; Dragon Human; Fairy of the Fountain; Jurai Gumo. I don't know which one to choose!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (A.N: Could you please help her out? Vote for whichever card you think she should choose!!!!!!!!! Oh! And I left the magic cards out on purpose.)
Black and Yugi sighed. This was going to be a long day.
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"So, this is that lace you were talking about? Doesn't look so bad to me!" Yaku grunted in disapproval.
"Haven't you heard the saying beauty is only skin deep?" Yata's eyes pierced like knives. The beautiful forests and flowers, lakes and mountains rippled. Forests became wastelands. Flowers became volcanic holes (holes where magma/lava shoots out of the earth, and emits wretched smells). Lakes became polluted swamps. Mountains, though, were still mountains.
"Wha-what happened?" Ryou said, growing a bit scared.
"What you saw is what your heart desired to see. Not what was really there. But, come. No time to waste. We must go." The group headed off, walking two abroad. Unbeknownst to them, however, they were being watched, through a dark ball.
"Heh, heh, heh. You think that you're presence has been undetected. But, your plan was a bit off, Yami-Girl. Well, I think that I'll have some fun with you!"
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Malik shivered. Something didn't seem right. Yata looked back.
"If you're cold, I can materialize a coat for you."
"No. It's not that. Something isn't right about this place."
"What, skeletons in coffins are odd?" Bakura and Malik turned scarlet. They had passed through a tunnel, in which were two coffin-like boxes. The two had been playing around, and the boxes had popped open, releasing skeletons, which toppled on them. Bakura and Malik had run around, screaming like little girls, trying to get the hitchhikers off.
"I don't know what it is. I just don't-." The ground shook. Suddenly, there was an overly large deck standing at one end of an overly large dueling arena. Yata had a dangerous look on her face.
"Fine, Daren! We'll play this game your way!" She muttered something, and they were no longer in that world. They were now in the Shadow realm.
END OF CHAPTER THREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fairysphinx: Sorry it took so long to get this out! Gomen Nasai! I've been busy with lots of homework and projects. Oh well. And I had to have a little help of 'Ktara/Yata's' deck. Sorry, sorry! Anyhow, please don't forget to vote for which card you think Ktara should choose as her protector. And don't forget to R & R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See you later!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!