Memories of the Shadows
A Yu-gi-oh fanfic
Disclamer- I do not own Yu-gi-oh and most of the other things in this fic.
/Hikari to Yami/
//Yami to Hikari//
{Thoughts}
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Chapter 1- Discovery
'Setooooooo' Mokuba wined to his older brother. 'You promised to take me to the movies today!'
'That was before I was realized that my Battle City Tournament considerably delayed my paperwork.' Kaiba typed furiously at his computer, barely looking at Mokuba.
'But it's the last screening! If we don't go today, then I'll have to wait 'til it comes on video!'
'Good, it'll be cheaper that way.'
'Seto, you're the richest guy in town, if you think going to see a movie is expensive, then Kaiba Corp must be having problems.' Mokuba looked sweetly at his brother. It didn't work.
'Why don't you go watch TV, or do something to take your mind of that stupid film.'
'But.....' Mokuba sighed. It looked like he'd have to take some more..... indirect actions. He sat down on the couch and flipped on the TV. He channel surfed for a while before he found what he was looking for. The Crocodile Hunter. He grinned as Steve Irwin tried desperately to catch a venomous snake. Mokuba knew that Kaiba hated this show with a vengeance.
'Mokuba, could you watch something else?' Kaiba asked. Mokuba responded by turning up the volume. Amazingly, Kaiba didn't give into the Crocodile Hunter treatment, although he visibly twitched every time Steve said "Crickey!". Mokuba grimaced, time for plan two. This wasn't going to be pretty. He flicked over to an episode of Passions. The result was almost instantaneous. By the time Tabetha and Timmy started talking, Kaiba had leapt from his computer and hit the off button on the remote control. Unfortunately for him, Mokuba had taken out the batteries.
'Can we go and see that movie now Kaiba?' Mokuba asked with an innocent look.
'Turn it off now.' Kaiba's tone was murderous.
'Movie?' Mokuba's eyes went big and cute. Kaiba's eye twitched.
'......... Promise never to turn that show on again and you have a deal.'
'Yay!' Mokuba ran up to the TV and switched it off, the then rushed to the front door and started pestering Kaiba to hurry up. Kaiba grabbed a coat from the rack and slung it over his shoulder. Even though he was skipping paperwork that needed to be completed, all seemed right. He felt pleasure, no sense of guilt at all. This would have seemed wrong to him if it wasn't for a small voice, undetectable from his regular thoughts, telling him that everything was fine and perfect.
~~~
Elsewhere in town, a figure looked out in the general direction of a lake. Yami Yugi was suspicious. He sensed magic being emitted, but is was too faint to track properly. He scowled and folded his arms.
'What is it?' Yugi looked up from the book he was reading.
'Something is performing a magic spell.' Yami said, still looking out the window.
'Something?' Yugi sat up. 'Like what? And what sort of magic spell?'
'I don't know.....' Yami shook his head. 'It's too faint for me to work out any details. All I do know is that it's there.'
'Well, if it's so faint, then there is no reason to worry, right?'
'Not all spells have to be powerful to be devastating.' Yami turned to his Hikari, a worried expression on his face. 'Something is happening. And since I can't find it's source, it has the potential to be something more dangerous that anything we have faced before.'
'...... But Yami, we have always been able to overcome difficulties, why would this time be any different?' Yami was silent for a while, then he spoke in a quiet tone.
'This magic seems.... Familiar in some way. Like we've faced it before. But at the same time it is different, unlike any magic that I can remember.' He shook his head. 'Maybe I'm being paranoid.' Yami turned back to the window. Yugi sighed, knowing well that his dark self was taking this far too seriously. How many times had he become worried over nothing? But something in the pit of his stomach told him that it wasn't nothing, that once again, history would repeat itself. He shook his head and returned to his book, ignoring his gut instinct and Yami's warnings.
~~~
The night air was crisp, the temperature was comfortably warm and the full moon bathed the town in light. Two people were seen walking to the cinema, one more desperate to get there than the other.
'Seto, we're going to be late!' Mokuba wined. 'If you hadn't been so obsessed with that paperwork of yours, then we would be there already!'
Let the child go ahead
'Mokuba, you can go ahead of me if you wish.' Kaiba told his brother. Wanting to waste no time, Mokuba hurried ahead.
Take a detour to the lake
Seeing at it was such a magnificent night, Kaiba decided to take a small detour to the lake in the middle of town. And he still was heading towards the cinema, so it wasn't really going to delay him too much.
The moon glimmered on the surface of the water, giving it a mercury like appearance. It seemed unnaturally calm. Kaiba detected none of this, his usually alert mind was fogged.
Go closer to the bank
Kaiba strolled closer to the bank of the lake, just so that his shoes were above the soft ripples of the water. It was then that he spotted it. At first he thought that he was imagining things. There was no way that it could be just lying on the bank of Lake Domino. But as he got closer, there became no doubt.
There lay the Millennium Rod.
'But..... How?' He murmured to himself. Last time he saw the artifact, it was in the possession of Malik Ishtal, the previous owner of one of the three Egyptian God cards. Kaiba approached the rod, attracted to it like a moth is to flame.
Pick up the Rod
Kaiba bent over, as if to pick up the Millennium Rod, but he hesitated just before he made contact with it's smooth surface. Something felt...... Strange. Almost like the feeling when he saw that tablet that Isis showed him, and when he had the vision during his duel with Isis. He did not like this feeling.
Pick up the Rod
His fingers twitched. He felt the urge to take it in his grasp, but some sort of logic in his mind told him that there was something....... Wrong.
Pick it up NOW!!
Kaiba's hand clasped around the Millennium Rod's handle. The feeling of wrongness disappeared, replaced with a feeling of completed destiny. He felt pride, as if he had completed a difficult task that no-one else had managed to do.
You are late, hurry to the child and this "Movie"
Kaiba checked his watch, then swore. He was 5 minutes late for the movie. He pocketed the Millennium rod and began to run towards the cinema. He'd have to make up an excuse to Mokuba later.
~~~
Finally, they had been reconnected. The Millennium Rod sent small tendrils of magic out to absorb energy. The need to recharge fully took over most of it's attention. Soon would come the time to show itself to it's new host, but now was the time to gain enough energy to start to truly manipulate shadow magic once again.
~~~
R&R please
A Yu-gi-oh fanfic
Disclamer- I do not own Yu-gi-oh and most of the other things in this fic.
/Hikari to Yami/
//Yami to Hikari//
{Thoughts}
~~~
Chapter 1- Discovery
'Setooooooo' Mokuba wined to his older brother. 'You promised to take me to the movies today!'
'That was before I was realized that my Battle City Tournament considerably delayed my paperwork.' Kaiba typed furiously at his computer, barely looking at Mokuba.
'But it's the last screening! If we don't go today, then I'll have to wait 'til it comes on video!'
'Good, it'll be cheaper that way.'
'Seto, you're the richest guy in town, if you think going to see a movie is expensive, then Kaiba Corp must be having problems.' Mokuba looked sweetly at his brother. It didn't work.
'Why don't you go watch TV, or do something to take your mind of that stupid film.'
'But.....' Mokuba sighed. It looked like he'd have to take some more..... indirect actions. He sat down on the couch and flipped on the TV. He channel surfed for a while before he found what he was looking for. The Crocodile Hunter. He grinned as Steve Irwin tried desperately to catch a venomous snake. Mokuba knew that Kaiba hated this show with a vengeance.
'Mokuba, could you watch something else?' Kaiba asked. Mokuba responded by turning up the volume. Amazingly, Kaiba didn't give into the Crocodile Hunter treatment, although he visibly twitched every time Steve said "Crickey!". Mokuba grimaced, time for plan two. This wasn't going to be pretty. He flicked over to an episode of Passions. The result was almost instantaneous. By the time Tabetha and Timmy started talking, Kaiba had leapt from his computer and hit the off button on the remote control. Unfortunately for him, Mokuba had taken out the batteries.
'Can we go and see that movie now Kaiba?' Mokuba asked with an innocent look.
'Turn it off now.' Kaiba's tone was murderous.
'Movie?' Mokuba's eyes went big and cute. Kaiba's eye twitched.
'......... Promise never to turn that show on again and you have a deal.'
'Yay!' Mokuba ran up to the TV and switched it off, the then rushed to the front door and started pestering Kaiba to hurry up. Kaiba grabbed a coat from the rack and slung it over his shoulder. Even though he was skipping paperwork that needed to be completed, all seemed right. He felt pleasure, no sense of guilt at all. This would have seemed wrong to him if it wasn't for a small voice, undetectable from his regular thoughts, telling him that everything was fine and perfect.
~~~
Elsewhere in town, a figure looked out in the general direction of a lake. Yami Yugi was suspicious. He sensed magic being emitted, but is was too faint to track properly. He scowled and folded his arms.
'What is it?' Yugi looked up from the book he was reading.
'Something is performing a magic spell.' Yami said, still looking out the window.
'Something?' Yugi sat up. 'Like what? And what sort of magic spell?'
'I don't know.....' Yami shook his head. 'It's too faint for me to work out any details. All I do know is that it's there.'
'Well, if it's so faint, then there is no reason to worry, right?'
'Not all spells have to be powerful to be devastating.' Yami turned to his Hikari, a worried expression on his face. 'Something is happening. And since I can't find it's source, it has the potential to be something more dangerous that anything we have faced before.'
'...... But Yami, we have always been able to overcome difficulties, why would this time be any different?' Yami was silent for a while, then he spoke in a quiet tone.
'This magic seems.... Familiar in some way. Like we've faced it before. But at the same time it is different, unlike any magic that I can remember.' He shook his head. 'Maybe I'm being paranoid.' Yami turned back to the window. Yugi sighed, knowing well that his dark self was taking this far too seriously. How many times had he become worried over nothing? But something in the pit of his stomach told him that it wasn't nothing, that once again, history would repeat itself. He shook his head and returned to his book, ignoring his gut instinct and Yami's warnings.
~~~
The night air was crisp, the temperature was comfortably warm and the full moon bathed the town in light. Two people were seen walking to the cinema, one more desperate to get there than the other.
'Seto, we're going to be late!' Mokuba wined. 'If you hadn't been so obsessed with that paperwork of yours, then we would be there already!'
Let the child go ahead
'Mokuba, you can go ahead of me if you wish.' Kaiba told his brother. Wanting to waste no time, Mokuba hurried ahead.
Take a detour to the lake
Seeing at it was such a magnificent night, Kaiba decided to take a small detour to the lake in the middle of town. And he still was heading towards the cinema, so it wasn't really going to delay him too much.
The moon glimmered on the surface of the water, giving it a mercury like appearance. It seemed unnaturally calm. Kaiba detected none of this, his usually alert mind was fogged.
Go closer to the bank
Kaiba strolled closer to the bank of the lake, just so that his shoes were above the soft ripples of the water. It was then that he spotted it. At first he thought that he was imagining things. There was no way that it could be just lying on the bank of Lake Domino. But as he got closer, there became no doubt.
There lay the Millennium Rod.
'But..... How?' He murmured to himself. Last time he saw the artifact, it was in the possession of Malik Ishtal, the previous owner of one of the three Egyptian God cards. Kaiba approached the rod, attracted to it like a moth is to flame.
Pick up the Rod
Kaiba bent over, as if to pick up the Millennium Rod, but he hesitated just before he made contact with it's smooth surface. Something felt...... Strange. Almost like the feeling when he saw that tablet that Isis showed him, and when he had the vision during his duel with Isis. He did not like this feeling.
Pick up the Rod
His fingers twitched. He felt the urge to take it in his grasp, but some sort of logic in his mind told him that there was something....... Wrong.
Pick it up NOW!!
Kaiba's hand clasped around the Millennium Rod's handle. The feeling of wrongness disappeared, replaced with a feeling of completed destiny. He felt pride, as if he had completed a difficult task that no-one else had managed to do.
You are late, hurry to the child and this "Movie"
Kaiba checked his watch, then swore. He was 5 minutes late for the movie. He pocketed the Millennium rod and began to run towards the cinema. He'd have to make up an excuse to Mokuba later.
~~~
Finally, they had been reconnected. The Millennium Rod sent small tendrils of magic out to absorb energy. The need to recharge fully took over most of it's attention. Soon would come the time to show itself to it's new host, but now was the time to gain enough energy to start to truly manipulate shadow magic once again.
~~~
R&R please