In the Eye of the Beholder
Chapter Thirteen:
The Finale
By: fairyspinx
fairysphinx: I know it's been a long time, but school's back in, and it's chaos. So, I'm really really sorry. Anyhow, here's the story. It's the last chapter, and I hope you like it. Thank you!
EDIT: School is finally out!!!!!!! Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry about the long long delay!!! I've had this done for a while, but I usually kept forgetting to put it up (U you can thank my sister for making sure I put it on). Anyhow, enjoy the final chapter!!!!
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Yu-Gi-Oh, but 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
"W-who are you?" Ktara asked. If she hadn't been used to looking at herself via Yata, she probably would have had a heart attack. It could have been a mirror image! The only difference being a few lines under the new arrival's eyes. But that was it.
"I," she said, with a voice just slightly deeper than Ktara's, "am Matri. And you, Ktara Malisita Corina Sparatos, are a very stupid girl!"
"Hey!"
"What, did I hurt you're feelings? Well, good! You should have done more research on that Eye, girlie, and maybe you wouldn't be in this predicament!"
"You can't talk to her like that!" Yugi shouted at Matri.
"Yeah! She's smart, and very kind!" Bakura added. The woman looked at them skeptically.
"I can't believe that anyone would think her amazing after such a foolish mistake!"
"What mistake?" Ktara asked, still clinging to the floating bed. "And how do I get dow-ah!" The bed dropped lightly to the floor, falling exactly in place, not making a sound. "But-how?"
"What I want to know," Yaro (Yami Malik) said, "is how she knows about the Eye."
"Good question. I want to know, too." Yaku (Yami Bakura) agreed, with his normally cool exterior. However, great curiosity was shining behind his eyes.
" sigh I guess that you won't be satisfied until you hear the entire story, will you?" Everyone shook their heads, no. "Alright. I am Matri, once a guardian of the Eye…."
flashback to 10 millennia ago
"How's the new arrival doing, Saandra?" Matri asked the blonde woman coming out from a white stone building. "She seemed pretty upset."
"She didn't want to come. Doesn't think it an honor to protect the Eye." Matri frowned.
"So, she's one of those, hm? Disrespectful, doesn't know her place." Both sighed, as the blonde turned around the corner and the brunette continued to the temple, opening the wooden door, pushing past the drawn curtains, to the inner sanctum. The candles were all lit up, reflecting in the Eye. It was truly beautiful. The city was nice, but this was a place of solitude, a simple break from the outside.
Matri took a deep breath of the smoke-filled air, mingled with the flower petals that decorated the tables and the pedestal- an expensive treat. "I don't understand," she whispered. "Why do these people not want to do their duty to protect their planet? All that is being asked it to watch over the Eye, protect it. Of course, it's easier for me. I was glad to get away from the planet. I had no family, and no one seemed to care whether I was there or not. Never understood why I was chosen. Oh, well." She turned to leave, but as she stepped toward the exit of the inner sanctum, voices traveled down the hallway.
"Hurry, and be quick about it!" one shouted.
"Yes, there isn't much time!" another said.
"No one would ever think of our true purposes!" Matri froze. She couldn't get out that way. And there was no other way out. The only other choice was to hide. She ran quietly, her sandals making no sound on the stone floor as she swiftly climbed into a hollow behind a curtain, formally used for candle storage, but now was just another hole in the wall.
She huddled in the back of the hollow, trying not to breathe too loudly so that she might not be heard. "Beautiful, isn't it? The Eye is most gorgeous in the mornings, wouldn't you say?" the first voice said. She recognized it's high, airy tone. It was Drakid. He was one of those who didn't want to leave earth and become a protector. But eventually, he had grown used to the idea, although he was very cold and shut up in an invisible barrier.
"And soon it will be our time to shine! We'll steal the Eye and make it ours!" A bigger voice boomed quietly. This, she guessed, would have to be Drakid's brother, Fealios. He had brains (although he hardly ever used them) and brawns, and was the older sibling, but for some reason he always followed his brother around like a little dog.
"Down, boy, don't be so loud. This place isn't sound-proofed, you know," a third voice spoke. It was female this time, a simple bored tone, not high, not low. "Drakid, do you have your minions ready for the takeover?"
"Yes, Lillio, I do. Who would have thought that those silly tongue pressers were going to be used to make evil beings!"
"And together, we'll rule that pathetic planet, right, brother? Attacking at noon." There was a long pause, and the shivering sound of a sword leaving its sheath.
"Actually, change of plans." There was a slight breeze, and the flames flickered as Drakid rushed forward and struck his two companions with the blade. Neither screamed. They didn't have time to before their former ally slit their throats.
Matri was shaking. She heard Drakid pick up the two bodies, and walk that way. She was scared, and was shaking. He stopped right near the hole where she was hiding, and reached out. Her breath caught. But the curtain didn't open. It was the hollow next to her that was opened. He stashed the bodies, cleaned everything up with a quick cleaning spell, and left.
The brunette sat there for at least a half hour longer, making sure that he wasn't hiding around the corner, waiting for her. When she finally thought it was safe, she climbed out from the hole, and ran out of the temple into the daylight. "Where were you?" a man asked her as she came into the open. "You're been gone for nearly an hour. It's already 11:00 AM!"
"I-I just fell asleep in the temple, that's all," she answered him. No one would believe that someone would attack them and try to steal the Eye! No matter how influential she was. "I must do it alone." Marti walked quickly back to the building where she lived. The only way she could think to defeat him was the magic that she had acquired from spending so much time around the Eye. It gave off little radiations of its power, and it collected in the things that were around it. That was why the air and the buildings, and everything seemed to have a personality of its very own. And Matri was almost always around the Eye, whenever she could, she was around it. So, she had collected a vast amount of power, more vast than any other live being up in the city.
For a half hour, she went through her living quarters, thinking of a plan of action. Thinking of ways to defeat the creatures that Drakid had created using his gathered share of power. It didn't make sense how he could defeat the number of protectors living up there. It was…impossible. …or was it?
Matri bent over to pick up a pile of papers that she had accidentally knocked over. As she picked up a large piece of cardboard, she noticed a half sheet of paper with 'ATTENTION' marked on the very top. "Oh, shoot!" she said, reading it over. "I was supposed to get my medical exam last week, but I never did!!" In other piles, there were several more notes like that, most saying 'OVERDUE CHECKUP' at the top. "This is what I get for not reading my notes." Matri hit herself over the head. How stupid!
There was a scream from outside. Matri rushed to the window, and looked out. The newcomer, and many others, were on the street, cowering, in front of…themselves? But…how? It didn't matter. Watching them, though, the attackers only went after those who looked like them. Taking a chance, Matri took the lucky pendant which someone close to her had given her, and ran straight through the city, to the temple, the inner sanctum. "Eye," she whispered to it, "I will never let him take you. Even if it costs me my life." Matri turned around, and marched out of the sanctum to the hallway. There were footsteps, and soon, Drakid emerged out of the darkness.
"What are you doing here," he sneered. "Everyone should be dead by now. But how did you not die? Were you not attacked by your clone?"
"What clone?" she asked blankly. Anger seemed to grow in his face.
"What clone?!?!?!?!?! The clone I made from the tongue presser you used during your medical exam!!!!!" Matri blinked twice, and started to laugh nervously. "What's so funny?!?!?!?!?!" The brunette started to burst out laughing, tears coming to here eyes.
"I never took the exam!" That made Drakid even angrier. He knew he was nowhere near as powerful as she. But, he did know that she could never take another's life.
"So, what are you going to do to me? Scratch me with you fingernails? You could never kill me. You're too weak! But, I can kill you in a flash, and take the Eye for myself."
"What? You're planning on killing me the same way you killed Lillio and Fealios?" He froze as he hear the names of his late comrades. "Kill me with your hidden sword, just like you killed them? I don't think so. I've taken away your element of surprise…and now, I'll take away the prize as well." She spread her arms wide, and from her body, an aura of pure white spread, creating a barrier, which pushed the two beings out. The barrier enveloped the entire temple, shielding it.
"You bitch!" Drakid shouted. "Look what you've done!!!"
"No. Look what I'm going to do." She spread her arms again, this time producing a violet aura, which made another barrier and pushed them out. The clones turned to dust on impact with the barrier, which situated itself on the edges of the city. And the two beings which were alive, were pushed off the city, and fell.
End Flashback
Everyone was in awed silence. "Any questions?" Matri asked.
"If you fell off the city to your doom," Yaku (Yami Bakura) said, "then how are you alive now?" His icy eyes were fixed on her piercing ones.
"A mix of my lucky pendant and the Eye, I guess. My pendant had power of its own from being around the Eye so much, and the Eye gave me a gift for helping it. It made me a deity. I was badly injured when I fell, yes, but I didn't die. And then my pendant…. It hooked onto a rock when I came close to the earth, trying to ease the fall. This worked a little, but I wish that it had not decided to do that. For, the chain broke, and I lost the pendant. It meant a lot to me, for it was a gift from the man I was to marry. But, when he was 19 and I was 14, he went off to war, and came home in a box. I never loved another like I loved him."
Another silence followed, soaking up the stories which Matri had bestowed upon their brains. Ktara spoke up after a minute or two. "So, what mistake did I make?" she whispered.
"You were sent on a fool's quest, I'm afraid. I'm sorry I was so mad before, but…. Anyhow, the Eye can't be destroyed. And when you crushed it, it only destroyed the physical form, not the power within. So, the power needed a place to stay, and decided to use you, partially, I assume, because we are related. I don't know the other reasons. But Ktara, you now house the greatest power of the universe. People will want to come after it. And it will be hard to control. But, I am confident that you, along with your friends, will be able to master it. So, take care. I am off. This will not be easy. Stay close to your friends, and I'm sure that you will succeed. Goodbye." Matri turned and walked away through the wall.
Yugi walked over to Ktara and put his arm around his shoulders, and Yami did the same to Yata, who put her hand on Ktara's shoulder. Yaku (Yami Bakura) and Yaro (Yami Malik), Malik, Bakura, and Nano came to their sides. "We're here for you."
"If you ever need us, just say so, and we'll rush to you immediately."
"Don't hesitate to call, whether it be a major crisis, or you just need to talk."
"If there's anything you need us to do, just say so, and we'll do it."
"No matter what, we'll always be your friend."
"We'll stick by you, and never leave you in the dark."
"We'll never let anyone take you hostage again, and I'll never loosed faith in you."
"Light, I'll always be your Darkness, and I'll always help you., no matter what." Tears slipped down Ktara's cheeks as she listened to the promises of friendship. She wouldn't have to go thru the trial alone. And even in the darkest of nights, she would always have her friends with her.
END OF CHAPTER THIRTEEN AND OF THE STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fairysphinx: looks around at everyone Whelp, that's the end. Of course, there might be a prologue, and if people can convince me, I might make a sequel to the sequel. But, I don't think that that's likely. This story has been a great journey, and it wouldn't have been as successful or as wonderful without all of you there to support me and it. Thank you sooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!!! Bye bye…for now.
-fairysphinx