Dreams Of Angels
Pan: is sitting in cardboard box
Yami: Why is she in there?
Yugi: Number 1: She's in shock. Number 2: Umoh threatened her with one.
Yami: Why's she in shock?
Yugi: She's been like that since precisely 11:00 Sunday morning.
Yami: But why?
Yugi: She watched the new Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode.
Yami: Oh? Which one?
Yugi: The one where you play the Seal of Orichalcos card, and look distinctly evil at the end of the episode, with the words 'To Be Continued'.
Yami: Oh. That one.
Yugi: She'll be in there until next Sunday, when she can watch what happens.
Yami: Guess we'd better do the review replies ourselves then. Lucky she wrote the chapter before the episode.
Yugi: Yeah.
Hikari Tsuki Chi
Yami: English sucks.
Yugi: Pan's been studying Romeo & Juliet at school. That's the only reason she had the play script with her for last chapter.
Yami: That was fun, ne?
Yugi: And she was telling us a while ago, that 'wherefore art thou' means 'why are you'. We're not the only ones who complain about the English language. And Pan herself is English!
Umoh
Yami: Pan's in a box anyway. We had to cut airholes in it.
Yugi: Isn't it a bit pathetic when she gets this upset over an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh!?
Yami: Actually, I find it quite flattering.
Yugi: shrugs Eh, I suppose so.
Anime Crazed
Yami: That could be fun.
Yugi: You know, when Shakespeare wrote that play, no women were allowed to act on stage.
Yami: So men played all of the roles? Including Juliet?
Yugi: Yep! Now, you in a dress would be something to see.
Note: "Kimi no tame nara shinneru" means 'I would die for you'.
Another Note: Pharaohs often had around six names, normal Egyptians at least two.
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"Yugi... stop protecting me..." Yami said, looking up into Yugi's amethyst eyes.
"No! I-I can tell... if this magic hit you now, it would destroy most of your soul." Yugi replied, desperately trying to hold the force back. "I'm light; I can hold it off."
"You can't!" Yami cried. "I can feel it! You're fading away."
Malik laughed. "Not much longer and I'm one down, and one to go!"
"Yugi, stop!" Tears streamed down Yami's face, as he weakly stood up. "You'll die if you don't stop protecting me!"
"Kimi no tame nara shinneru..."
Malik's attack suddenly stopped, and Yugi collapsed.
"Well, that was fun." the Egyptian smirked.
"Yugi!" Yami knelt beside his fallen aibou. "Yugi, please tell me you're alive..."
Yugi's form lay unmoving on the floor. His eyes were half open; but Yami could see no spark in them. Gently, the darker closed the smaller boy's eyes, and stood up.
"That's it." he said. "You're gone. Finished." His voice suddenly became two-tone as it merged with Youkai's. "No-one destroys our Angels and gets away with it!" The Eye of Horus blazed on their forehead, tainted slightly with the red that Youkai had possessed once.
Don't kill him.
"Nani?!" Yami looked around suddenly. He could have sworn he'd heard Yugi's voice... but the boy was still lying on the floor, motionless.
"If that is your wish, Yugi..." Yami whispered, turning back to face Malik. "You're being controlled, like a puppet. I'm here to cut your strings!"
"Good luck, Pharaoh!" Malik snarled, preparing to unleash another attack. However, he was struck by a golden blast from Yami's outstretched hands before he could gather the energy. The young Egyptian was flung against the wall, two inches away from the empty window frame.
"Your services are no longer required." a dark voice said. Malik blinked, suddenly free of the control.
"Yami? What's going on?" he questioned immediately. Yami shrugged in response, and looked around for the source of the voice. Suddenly, Malik yelled as his body was lifted from the ground, and tossed out the wall like a doll.
"Show yourself!" Yami demanded angrily. "Stop sending your servants after me! Face me yourself!"
"If you want, Yami." the voice replied. A dark vortex opened in the centre of the room. The air span like a tornado, as a figure in black emerged from the gaping hole, closing it behind them.
"You?!" Yami said in surprise. "But how?"
"The same way as you," Anzu replied. The tattered black dress hung limply from her form, hardly scary under normal circumstances, but her eyes had changed. Pure evil floated in the once sapphire blue.
"What?" Yami frowned.
"I died - rather, your demon killed me. And I was given the choice to return to life." the pale girl began. "I wanted revenge. The Karyuudo offered me that, after the death of their previous leader." She walked closer to Yami, her face only inches away from his. The young Pharaoh went to step back, but Anzu raised a hand, some magic freezing him in place.
"However, there is one thing they could not offer me."
"Wh-what would that be?" Yami asked, almost afraid of the answer.
"That," Anzu said with a dark smile. "would be you, Yami." The young pharaoh shivered slightly, suddenly feeling deathly cold.
"Wh-why would you want me?" Yami asked, trying to put some strength back into his voice. "You know I'm not exactly your type."
"That doesn't stop me wanting you..." Anzu said slowly. "The ones that are harder to get are always more desirable."
"You could never have me. Even if Yugi's dead over there, I will never love anyone else." Yami said with narrowed eyes. Anzu inhaled sharply.
"I can't understand what you see in that kid." Anzu said, releasing Yami from her freezing magic. "For one thing, he's a boy."
"So?" Yami replied.
"It's not right!" Anzu said angrily. "And why did you choose him, when you could have had someone like me?!"
"Simple. I'm gay. I don't like girls. Live with it." Yami replied with a smirk.
"I can't live with it, since you killed me!" Anzu screeched, slapping the pharaoh hard. He fell near Yugi's still form.
"So, is this why you killed him?" Yami asked, indicating his aibou's unmoving body.
"He's not dead." Anzu replied. "As the head of the Karyuudo, I can't kill Angels or their hosts. Unfortunately." Yami got up slowly.
"Unfortunate? Why, Anzu, I thought you were Yugi's friend." he said carefully.
"I was only his friend to get close to you." Anzu said, not noticing that Yami's eyes were gradually getting darker with each word. "So I was his friend to begin with; I felt sorry for the bastard. But no more." She moved towards Yami again. "I may still kill him. However, I'm not so sadistic. I'll still give you a chance to save him." Yami nodded, showing he was listening, though he fixed the girl with a dark glare.
"Kiss me like I know you kissed Yugi." Anzu said, fixing her pale eyes on Yami's. "If you do, and decide you'd rather kiss me than Yugi, I won't kill him." Yami paused for a moment thinking.
'It is just one kiss...' he thought. 'I know I'd rather have Yugi than Anzu... but I can't trust her...' He bit his lip, almost drawing blood. 'But it's the only chance I have for Yugi...' Yami unwilling pressed his warm lips to Anzu's cold ones, only lingering a few seconds before pulling away. Anzu's eyes were closed gently when he stepped back
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Yugi blinked his eyes open, finding himself in a familiar red and gold room.
"Omoide!" he said suddenly, sitting up. The memory of Yami appeared in the room.
"Yugi! You have to wake up in reality now!" Omoide said.
"What's going on?" the young hikari asked, climbing off of the bed.
"Don't ask me!" Omoide said loudly. "Get out there and find out for yourself!" Yugi ran for the door, forcing his body awake.
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"Yami..." Yugi murmured, pushing himself up from the ground.
"So, Yami would you rather have me or Yugi?" Anzu asked without opening her eyes. Yami glanced down at Yugi, just waking up.
"There's no competition." Yami answered. "You're cold-hearted, filled with anger, and out for revenge. You used to be kind and caring, but all that changed." He turned to help Yugi up. "My aibou, on the other hand, is filled with love and joy, and makes me feel the same. I will always choose Yugi over anyone else, Anzu."
"Then you'll both die." Anzu growled, preparing her attack.
"Youkai was never evil..." Yami said. "He was right to kill you. Inside, you were already like this."
"How could I not be, what with you and him as you were." Anzu replied. "I already knew about you; it was so obvious, the looks you gave each other... I hoped that if you spent enough time with someone like me, you'd see how wrong that was."
"Love is never wrong." Yugi said calmly.
"Well, yours will end like Romeo and Juliet's!" Anzu laughed, unleashing a blast of pure energy towards them.
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" Youkai's voice cried. Yami felt all his energy rush to his soul room, and almost collapsed, were it not for Yugi. The Demon's form materialised in the air in front of them, dark wings spread wide. He easily deflected Anzu's attack, sending it flying through the glassless window.
"You..." Anzu said darkly.
"Me." Youkai said. "I thought you'd go straight to Judgement when I killed you."
"I learnt to cheat."
"Now, now, that's not in the spirit of things, is it?" Youkai said lightly, closing his eyes. When he opened them again, the Eye of Horus burnt blood-red on his forehead. "This time, you'll go straight into the jaws of Ammit, even if I have to take you there myself!"
"You can't, Demon." Anzu laughed. "Your evil has no power over my light. And I'll capture you like the rest!" She produced a bow and arrow from nowhere, and took aim.
"Yami, are you alright?" Yugi asked with a concerned expression.
"I-I'm fine..." Yami answered. "Just suddenly losing all that energy... really caught me off guard."
Anzu's arrow was released from the bowstring. "Capture the Demon!" the girl commanded. Youkai smirked as the arrow fell to the floor.
"You're too dark, Anzu!" he laughed. "All your hatred as left you with no light. Even I have some light, in here." He rested his hand over his heart. "However, there's only one thing I can do to stop you." He turned to look at Yami and Yugi. "I wish you all the happiness in the world."
"What?" Yami asked, standing up quickly. "What are you going to do?"
"A Demon's blood can destroy." He said simply, producing a black edged knife. "That's what we were created for."
"Wh-What?" Anzu stammered, stepping back. Youkai rushed towards her, seizing both her wrists with one hand.
"My own blood-tainted knife seemed to fail in your case." he whispered darkly, levelling his eyes with hers. "Obviously, I didn't give enough. I won't make that mistake this time." He pulled the blade swiftly across both her wrists, and paused a second. Closing his eyes, he drew the blade over his own wrist, letting the deep red of his blood seep into the wounds he had inflicted on Anzu. The girl screamed in pain, the Demon blood rushing towards her heart, destroying her from the inside out.
Youkai's grip weakened slightly, and she painfully pulled one of her incarnadine stained hands free, snatching the knife away.
"I'll be needing my escort now, won't I?" she snarled, tearing the blade through one of Youkai's wings, before stabbing him just below the ribs. With one final scream, Anzu's body disintegrated, as though it were made of ash. Youkai fell to the ground in a pool of blood.
"Youkai!" Yugi ran forward. The demon looked up at him with unfocused eyes. Yami walked forward slowly.
"You can't die!" Yugi said, tears streaming over his cheeks. Youkai laughed weakly, coughing up a little more blood to add to the spreading puddle.
"I can... to quote you, Yugi, 'kimi no tame nara shinneru...'" he replied.
"How can you die for me? For us?"
"I already have... I'm sorry... Tenshi..." Youkai's eyes slid closed.
"No!" Tenshi's form almost exploded out of Yugi's. Yugi fell backwards, caught quickly in Yami's arms. The pure white of Tenshi's wings became red as he sobbed over Youkai's eternally still form.
"Tenshi..." Yami said, trying to think of some word to comfort the Angel. Tenshi stood, and sniffed, before looking over at Yami.
"Forgive me. I must be resolute. If I stay here longer, the balance will come undone." His eyes grew sad.
"Tenshi, you don't have to die for Youkai... the balance can be worked out in other ways." Yami said.
"This will be my last service to you. I will tell you all of my and Youkai's story." Tenshi said softly.
"Several millennia ago..."
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"I see it in the skies, my Pharaoh." a priest said. "In two generations, a royal child will be born with all the powers of darkness, to counteract the tip of the balance in light's direction. He will be the son of your son."
"So, my grandson will be a dark one." the Pharaoh sighed. "It does not bode well, if he takes the throne."
"My lord, your grandson himself will not be truly dark. Indeed, there shall be another within him that is the dark one." the priest replied.
"There is an age to prepare." the Pharaoh said lightly. "My own son, Akunamakanon, is but twelve years of age. It will be a long time before he has any grandchildren."
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"Thirteen years later, you were born, Yami." Tenshi continued.
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"Atemu, your father summons you." a royal guard said. The ten-year-old Prince looked up from his studies.
"Why does he wish to see me?" Atemu asked curiously.
"I am not told these things, your Highness." the guard replied.
"Fine." Atemu stood up, and left his room, running through the sunlit corridors of the palace.
"Father, I am here!" Atemu called, bowing shallowly as he entered the throne room.
"Atemu, my son." the Pharaoh said. "Soon, you will ascend the throne. However I am not sure if you are prepared to become Pharaoh of Egypt."
Atemu paused a moment. "I will be ready!" he said stubbornly. "I've been studying really hard!"
"Atemu, you cannot be a good ruler just by learning laws and customs. You have to be fair and just, yet ruthless in wartime. Such a tangled web of qualities are found in so few... but I have one more concern with you, my son. What is your second name?"
"Kkwy." Atemu answered uneasily.
"Ah... I remember now. Kkwy means darkness. You were given this as your second name, because you are filled with the forces of shadow and dark. You must never give into them. Never."
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"The darkness inside of you was Youkai. However, when you were sealed into the Millennium Puzzle, Youkai was released into the world. It was known that, if your soul and Youkai's met again, they could become the ultimate darkness. Those few months ago, when Youkai became part of you once again... the balance was delighted to find out about Yugi. The perfect vessel for the light force that would balance Youkai. That light force was me. I knew I had to stay close to Youkai, follow him where ever you went... even into death. The balance tipped in light's favour can be just as bad as tipped in darkness's." Tenshi paused, smiling softly.
"And I can't live without him, as you can't live without Yugi." Tenshi picked up the knife from where it had fallen. "Thank you for everything, both of you." He looked down at the knife in his hand with a soft smile, before closing his eyes.
"Oh, happy dagger..." Tears rolled over his cheeks, dripping to the floor. "This is thy sheath. There rust, and let me die..." Within seconds, the Angel lay dead beside the Demon.
Yugi hugged Yami hard, and cried against his shoulder. Yami watched sadly as the two bodies, and the pool of blood disappeared, as though they had never been there.
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Yugi: Wow. Pan really likes Romeo and Juliet.
Yami: It is supposed to be the most romantic play ever written.
Yugi: Pan isn't a romantic kind of person.
Yami: Romeo and Juliet is also a tragedy.
Yugi: Tragic. Pan is definitely a tragic person. looks at cardboard box
Yami: Why did she kill Youkai and Tenshi off anyway?
Yugi: She's a tragic person.
Yami: That explains nothing.