Chibi Red Eyes Black Dragon: Rawwwwr! Rawr rawr rawr, rawwwwwwrr rawr rawr! (Hey everybody! I just wanted to say, thanks so much for all the positive feedback you've been giving us!)
Tulip-Jin and Yami Tulip-Jin: (dancing around happily)
Chibi Red Eyes: Rawr rawr rawr, rawr rawr rawr rraawwwrrr... (And from me especially, thanks for helping keeping those two from killing each other...)
TJ: Huh? Oh yeah, that reminds me!
(TJ whips out Millennium Mace)
TJ: Aha! I challenge thee to a duel of honor!
(Yami TJ whips out Giant Mallet of Doom)
Yami TJ: Forget honor, Aibou, them's fightin' words!
TJ: Have at thee, vile demon!
(Cue huge dustcloud fight)
Chibi Red Eyes: sigh Rawr rawr, rawwwwwrrr rawr RAWR rawr rraaaawwr... (I forgot, they're only really happy when they ARE killing each other...)
Disclaimer: For those of you who are extremely gullible, I own Yugioh! And if you really believed that... (cue shrieks of hysterical laughter)
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Some enemy soldiers confronted me as I headed to where our priests were trying to defend themselves. I was drawing on more of my power then usual, so it was little wonder that every weapon they swung at me exploded.
Besides, I was getting fed up with the fighting. I felt the wave of shadow power before I saw it - and saw all our loyal priests, sent to the Shadow Realm with one blast. The one responsible was laughing as he stood boldly before our remaining soldiers.
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. Four of his mages were with him. They were prepared to slaughter whatever got in their way. The city was lost but this traitor didn't care. This was just a way to get more power, to him.
"Master Bekareh - look!"
I was a bit of an eye catcher I'll admit, but all that the mysterious 'Bekareh' cared to see was the Puzzle hanging around my neck.
"The Millennium Puzzle," he cried with delight as the ring hanging from his chest began glowing, "And It's on the last whelp! This is too easy! Kill him!"
I made a point of yawning as the four of them did the fire thing again. Well, maybe it was a bit more complicated because I had to not hit my own soldiers this time, but otherwise it was easy.
I went for the dramatic - raising my right arm into the air as the Puzzle's magic channeled the fire stream around me, I pulled it all into a ball over my head. The mages kept pumping more fire and the more they pumped the more I sucked up and the bigger my fireball got.
"Stop that, you idiots! You're not having any effect!" Bekareh yelled.
It was a little late, in my opinion. Once I was certain there was no more incoming fire, I yelled, "I believe this is yours, here you go!", and flung my hand forward - yet another dramatic, of course - as the fire shot towards the magi and roasted them.
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Well, it roasted the mages, at least. Bekareh used the power of his Millennium Item to shield himself. Once the flames mostly died down, he stormed forward and snarled at me.
"Well then, it was you my Ring has been sensing! The one they've been calling the King of Shadow Games, the Undefeatable Wielder of the Millennium Puzzle! We'll see if you're worth that title. My games are more dangerous then any you've ever seen! I shall destroy you with the powers of my Millennium Ring!"
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Wisely, everyone else retreated. Bekareh was chanting under his breath as his Ring began glowing brightly. The air darkened around us, and I suddenly realized what he was doing. A monster appeared in front of him, then another. One I recognized as a Morphing Jar, the other was some squat purplish thing.
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Both were relatively weaker monsters, but that was only compared to the other monsters I had fought with and against in Duels. Monsters in general were much, much stronger than humans.
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I tried to dodge but was struck by a glancing blow of thunder from the purple thing. For some reason, all my brain could track on was that the monsters were solid. That and that they had been summoned without any tablets at all.
"It looks like taking your Millennium Puzzle will be easier then I thought," Bekareh chuckled. "Now, my Morphing Jar, finish him off. Defend yourself from this if you can!"
The Morphing Jar's pot bounced forward a little before the head shot out, yellow teeth bared and ready to destroy me. I didn't think about it, I just grabbed at the power the Puzzle was offering and yanked.
The air opened in front of me and something shot out, something that attacked the Morphing Jar and sliced it into two halves, down to it's pot. It was only after the Morphing Jar vanished that I recognized the monster I had just summoned.
He was the second one of the personal monsters I Dueled with, and my favorite next to my Black Magician. The Celtic Guardian turned halfway around, in order to look in my direction and keep an eye on the enemy at the same time.
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The thing died with a squeal of delight. Delight, as it turned out, from what happened to my Celtic Guardian next. There was a crackling of lighting and he sank to his knees with a cry of pain, leaning heavily on his sword. Bekareh laughed.
"That's what happens, when you attack the Electric Lizard! And now your only monster is helpless to defend itself as I summon the beast of your destruction! Behold! I summon the mighty Beast of Talwar to this dimension!"
The monster appeared out of a swirling vortex which grew at Bekareh's feet. It was huge, and carried two long and very intimidating swords. The people still watching scurried farther away.
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Celtic Guardian still couldn't move, and I wasn't in much better shape myself. The Talwar Beast readied it's swords and it looked like it was going to skewer me and the Celtic Guardian with one attack. I knew there was one thing I could do - the question was, could I pull it off? Only one way to find out.
I poured the dregs of my power into it as the Beast began it's attack.
"Black Magician - arise and come forth onto this plane!"
The Black Magician appeared and without hesitation attacked the Beast. It roared as the magical energy vaporized it, and I thought I heard Bekareh screaming something as the magic continued onwards to hit him as well.
I'm not sure what happened next, because I blacked out.
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"…My Prince? My Prince, can you hear me? Lord Yamakali?"
I groaned as something rudely shook me, and opened my eyes with the intent of telling off whoever was doing that. Instead of it going as I planned, I was struck by a rare sight indeed - a hyperactive Hiskotonamekt.
"Praise Ra, you've finally awakened!"
"What…," I mumbled, "Hiskoto…?"
"Yes, milord. You're safe now, and so is everyone else. You saved everyone from that man!"
He was grinning disturbingly as I forced myself up. It felt like there was a lead weight hanging from my neck - oh wait, that was the Puzzle.
"What happened," I asked. "I can't remember."
"Well, I don't know where you summoned those two strange creatures from, but they destroyed Ba-ah-al. All of it. There aren't even ruins to show where it was. None of their people escaped," Hiskotonamekt said. His tone was sobering now as he relayed the information.
"We had to move further away from the city, they even destroyed the enemy corpses! Only after no trace of the city or anything else from Suketahmeth was left did they finally go back to whatever place you called them from," Hiskotonamekt continued, as I looked myself over.
"We couldn't even get near you before then; that green one kept driving us off whenever we got close."
I raised an eyebrow in curiosity. In a way, I wasn't surprised. Some of the people I had Dueled viewed their monsters as their personal gladiators, mindless slaves set to fight for their amusement.
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They thought I was an idiot for thinking there were souls buried underneath all that stone. I might be the only one with that viewpoint - and if I was right then it made perfect sense that the monsters would want such an idea protected at all costs.
Either that or I really was crazy.
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Hiskotonamekt seemed about to protest as I got up. I swayed a little at first, but my legs seemed to be working properly. I was still tired but not tired enough to want to sleep.
"Hiskoto," I asked, "What about the others? Did anyone -"
"Not many survived. The few priests that weren't killed here only made it because we sent them after the women to protect them. And…"
I guessed it. "I'm the only one that's left, aren't I?"
"I'm afraid so."
