In the Eye of the Beholder
Chapter Twelve:
Back to Earth
By: fairysphinx
fairysphinx: Wow! One-hundred reviews! I finally have a story with one hundred reviews! And it's almost double what I received for An Unknown Card! Thanks guys! Anyhow, unless something happens, there should only be one chapter after this. So, please enjoy these last chapters!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, although I DO own Ktara and 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
Ktara exited the barrier, locking it on the way out. She stepped onto the small, cloud-like platform, which took her back to her carriage. "How was the trip? Were you successful?" the driver asked her before she entered into the carriage.
"The Eye is a thing of the past. It will never darken another doorway ever again. As for the trip, it could have been better." The driver smiled slightly.
"Never is an awfully strong word. It should rarely be used." Ktara shrugged, and entered the carriage.
"The Eye is gone. That's that." The driver just shook his head as he started the carriage going.
He had known Ktara since she had entered Limbo. She was hurting, but still nice to everyone she met. The children looked up to her as a role model, and listened to her stories. The she helped the elderly, and even did some things for the workers. However, her cheery exterior couldn't fool him. She was in pain emotionally, and he was sure that when she was alone, she cried. It wouldn't surprise him in the least. "Why don't you go back to the earth, Ktara? Why don't you have a second chance at a life with him? At a free life?"
"As long as I have a body, I will never be free. The demon will stay inside of me. I will still be a card. Freedom is always just out of my grasp." Both grew quiet. The downward slope became steeper. "How can I go back," she whispered to herself, "after all I've done? I've hurt him so much. How could he ever forgive me?"
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Everyone fell forward again as the carriages came to another sudden stop. Mokuba had fallen asleep. Yugi had been calmly (thankfully) thinking. Nano had fallen asleep on Yaku's shoulder. Everyone else had been conversing. "Dang it!" Yaro yelled. "Can't the find people who actually know how to drive?!" Everyone else in that carriage moaned in agreement.
"Get off of me!"
"Who's laying on my legs?"
"I'm getting squished!" Eventually, everyone was out of the carriages, even if they were a bit bruised.
"I want the name of that driver! He should have his license revoked!!!!"
"I think I broke something!"
"I've never had trouble like this before I started traveling with you guys!"
"I NEVER want to do that again!"
Yata smirked. "I find amusement in the complaining these mortals do." Yami, Yaro, and Yaku nodded in agreement.
Yugi looked up. Ktara had exited her carriage, and was walking quietly, unnoticed, off. He followed her. It was his last chance before they left to change her mind, to get her to come back. He was her happiness, and wasn't sure that he could go one without her.
Ktara finally came to a stop by a pond. She sat down on a log in front of it, and stared at the smooth, glass-like surface. Yugi came up behind her, and just stood, watching her. "What would you like?" she asked coolly.
"Ktara, please come back with us! We need you. We want you back."
"You shrunk," she said, changing the subject. "Must have been a spell."
"Please don't change the subject."
"The sky is so clear here. It never rains. The children are happy. No one is hurt or abused. They don't hurt each other, they don't steal from each other."
"Ktara, please! Answer me! Are you going to come back? Ktara?" The brunette turned and looked up at Yugi, she into his violet eyes, and he into her chocolate ones.
"That world isn't for me. This," she said, motioning with her hand to the planet, "is for me. I'm sorry." Ktara turned back to the stream, and stared into its depth. Yugi just stood in shock. She wasn't coming back. It hurt. He shoved his hands in his pocket, but he felt something in it. When he took it out, his eyes widened.
"This is-!" Yugi cut himself off. Without thinking, he bent down, kissed her cheek, and placed it in her hand, before getting up and walking back to the others. "Are we ready to go?"
"What about Ktara?" Yata asked.
"She's not coming. Let's go." The front gate opened, and the group walked out.
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Yugi, Yami, Yata, Yaku, Yaro, Bakura, Malik, and Nano crept quietly into the game shop. It was very late, and Mr. Moto had already locked up. But, as they rounded the corner- THUMP! Yaku, who was in the front of the line, crumpled to the floor, a giant lump on his head. "Yaku!" Nano screamed, as she rushed to his side, and put it his throbbing head in her lap (Yaku: @_@ It's bad to be hurt, but I like being taken care of!).
The lights flickered on. "Yugi? Is that you?"
"Grandpa?"
"Yugi, do you know how late it is?"
"We're sorry, Gramps. Didn't mean to worry you." Yami put his arm around the old man's shoulders. "We just had something really important to do." Mr. Moto scratched his head and sighed.
"Just go to bed, I'll scold you tomorrow." He turned, and walked quietly up the stairs. After raiding the fridge, the group followed. Yami opened the door to Yugi's room.
"Ladies first," he said. Yata looked at him skeptically, but entered with Nano. The boys came in after them. "I'm so tired."
"Yeah," everyone agreed. It had been a long walk out, and then the flight home. In all, even the immortals were tired.
"You know, you took such a long time getting here. You could have taken the Spirit Train, and it would have gotten you here in a fraction of the time. I mean, I've been waiting for you for hours!" Everyone froze. That wasn't Nano, or Yata, Yugi, Yami, Yaro, Yaku, Bakura, or Malik's voice. Slowly, everyone turned their heads to the bed. Ktara was lying on it, her chin resting on her arms. Upon noticing that everyone was staring at her, Ktara said, "What?"
"We thought that you were staying in Limbo!" Bakura exclaimed.
"Oh, that!" she said, rolling over on her back, and stretching out, before sitting up, and turned around on the bed to look at the group, sitting Indian-style. "Well, I was."
"But?"
"But, I had some sense knocked into me." Ktara gingerly fingered a bump on the back of her head, well hidden by her hair. "By someone you all know." She conjured up a card out of thin air. The group closed in to see the picture. It was the Dark Magician.
"But how did you get Yugi's card?" Bakura asked.
"I gave it too her before we left," Yugi said quietly.
//I can't believe you did that! You could have lost your Dark Magician forever!//
/Some things are just more important./
"But, I'm back," Ktara continued. "I'm sorry for all of the trouble that I've put you through. I'm touched that you cared so much."
"Hey, you're part of the family, of course we'd come for ya!"
"Yeah, you may have your flaws, but so does everyone."
"And besides, I don't think any of us could stand Yugi being really sad and depressed, or hyper and giddy."
/Was I really that bad?/
//Worse.//
"Thanks, you guys." Ktara smiled. "It's good to be ba- ah-ahchew!" As she sneezed, the bed flew up off the air, Ktara, still clinging to it. "What the heck?!" The was a small laugh.
"I knew that you were foolish, but this is too much!" From a dark corner of the room, a figure draped in a black cloak stepped into the light. The hood of it was removed, revealing a woman that looked uncannily like Ktara. "Stupid, foolish girl! I guess I have to explain it to you."
END OF CHAPTER TWELVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fairysphinx: Well, one more chapter left!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But then, there's the prologue, but that won't be for a while. I still have a lot to work on. But, if you want me to email you when I post the prologue, just give me your email address, okay? Thanks guys! And please review!!!!!! Bye, I'll see you next chapter!!!!!!!!!!!!!