Anaya's Creator: Guten Tag! Wie geht es? It's another update!
Malik: She means: Hello, how goes it? You all know the rest.
Kaiba: What happens in this one?
Malik: You have to read it and find out, stupid.
Kaiba: Watch your mouth or it'll be full of blood.
Malik: Yeah, yeah, yeah, everyone knows that you don't ever act on your threats Kaiba.
Anaya's Creator: You two are starting to annoy me...
Mokuba: You two know her rules. Annoy her, and you get kicked out.
Kaiba and Malik: We'll be good.
Anaya's Creator: Gut (means good in German); I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh.
Blind:
The next morning...
Akina hadn't slept at all since her dream the night before. Her destiny was to save her enemy? But why her? When?
Well, Akina thought. As long as my mother can't leave, I'm stuck here. So I guess I have plenty of time to figure it out. She let out an exhausted sigh as she aimlessly wandered the halls. Honestly, how can the royalty stand this? It's so boring. She lightly slammed her fist against a wall.
"Hey Shrimp," said a voice.
"'Morning Seth," Akina answered.
"Yami, Malik, your mother, and I wish to see you outside."
"Okay" and she followed him outside.
On the way out she thought of telling Seth her vision, but thought better of it; however, just as she decided this it slipped out.
"I had an odd dream last night, I was in this place. It was dark and had swirls of purple and blue mixed with black. While I was there this blue and white lizard creature came to me and I saw this vision."
"That place is called the Shadow Realm. Ever heard of it?"
Akina shook her head.
"It's a place where monsters of incredible power dwell. Any how you had a premonition within a dream, intriguing; tell me more."
"Well, within the dream there was you and Yami dueling each other. You prevailed, and killed Yami."
"Is that what you were so pensive about this morning?"
"Yeah,"
"Well, if it would comfort your troubled mind, I'll let you know that I have no intention of betraying my childhood friend."
"That helps a little," Akina said, putting an end to the conversation.
Outside, Yami, Marik, and Terentina were standing by a stretch of barren sand, talking.
"Akina, did you sleep well last night?" Yami asked her.
Akina had to fight her rebellious conscience to say 'Yeah, and I found out that sometime in this life I have to save your sorry ass' but before that could slip out she answered, "Well enough," and bit her tongue.
"Daughter, these boys want to see the full extent of your powers." Terentina informed her.
Akina raised her eyebrows at her mother, and then turned to Yami. "You want to see how powerful I am?"
Yami gave her a serious nod.
Akina turned to Marik, "You're all sure?"
"Yes Aki, we are." he said simply.
Miss Independent, Miss Self-Sufficient, Miss Keep-Your-Distance,
"Fine," Akina turned to Seth. "Summon a dragon from the Shadow Realm. It doesn't matter which one, just make sure it's in some way powerful."
Seth nodded, put up his arm, and started to chant. A dark portal formed beside him and out of it came a large dark lizard-like dragon walking upon its hind legs. Akina wondered how a creature that colossal could possibly walk on its hind legs like that, but then she saw it was balanced by a massive tail. It was a strange brown green color and its skin looked as if it were made up of many tiny scales.
Miss Unafraid, Miss Out-of my –Way, Miss Don't-Let-a-Man-Interfere, no-oo,
"Perfect," Akina muttered, and then she turned to Yami, "I'll be needing my sword."
"I gave it to your mother,"
Terentina pulled out Akina's sword from within her robes and handed it to her daughter.
Miss On-Her-Own, Miss Almost-Grown, Miss Never-Let-a-Man-Help-Her-Off-Her-Phone,
Akina turned and faced the great dragon. Her eyes began to glow a steady grey and she began to levitate a few inches off the sand, then a few cubits, and finally to right up in the dragon's face, humming a soft tune as she rose.
"You all might want to back away," Akina's mother said nonchalantly.
Heading her advice Yami, Marik, and Seth all backed up.
So by keeping her heart protected, she never ever feels rejected, little Miss Apprehensive said ooo, she fell in love...
Akina slowly began to sway as if there were a wind; the dragon followed her with its eyes, the little slits it had for ears straining to hear the tune she was humming, but it wasn't falling under her spell.
Come on you overgrown scaly thing, take my bait, Akina thought furiously as she noticed this. Then again, it there's more than one way to ride a horse, so there's got to be more than one way to kill this thing.
Akina charged at the beast's neck, aiming where a major neck vain should have been. Then from out of no where its massive tail swung at her, she dodged it, but dropped a few cubits out of the air in the process.
The tail was swung at her again, but this time she was more than ready. As it came at her she cut the end of it off, cutting a big vain and spilling blood on herself and everywhere else.
The dragon howled in pain and tried to swipe at her with one of its clawed forefingers. She grabbed onto it and held on tight. The dragon pulled its arm in front of its face so it could see what was holding on.
Perfect, Akina thought. Just as the dragon had pulled her up to its face she jumped off and landed right on it's snout. She gave the dragon a smirk and drove her sword into its snout. The dragon's blood gushed onto her and over the creature's snout. She stabbed again, then got up and ran at its eyes.
When she had stabbed the dragon's left eye and drove her sword between them, its right arm came up and the claws grazed her eyes, knocking her off. As she fell Seth chanted a spell to stop her fall and Marik and Yami ran forward and caught her.
Above them the dragon was swaying back and forth. Then it began to fall. Seth chanted another spell and instead of the creature falling on Akina, Yami, and Marik it fell back into the Realm of the Dragons.
Terentina rushed to Akina and the boys. She took Akina from them and rushed her into the palace.
When Akina woke up, she couldn't see.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?! IS THE DRAGON DEAD?! WHERE THE RUDDY HELL IS I?! WHY CAN'T I SEE?!" she shouted sitting upright.
A gentle hand touched her shoulder. "Calm down everything's fine," someone told her. It was her mother. "You defeated the dragon, and your eyes were bleeding so they're now covered with linen and healing herbs."
"What happened?" Akina asked in a calmer tone.
"You defeated the dragon, then you fell and Marik and I caught you." said Yami's voice.
"Will she be alright Terentina?" Marik's voice inquired.
"The rest of her will be fine, but I don't know about her eyes." Terentina answered.
"How do you mean?" (Yami)
"I mean she may be blind for life, but I don't know for sure. I'll need to remove the bandages first." (Terentina)
"Then remove them," Seth requested.
"I need to wait until the bleeding stops first. So you all will have to wait until tonight at the earliest." (Terentina)
"And what am I supposed to do?" Akina interrupted.
"Rest," (Everyone)
"How did I know?" Akina said sarcastically.
Throughout the rest of the day Akina was superiorly bored. She heard several; people moving about the room she was kept in. She assumed they were servants because when someone occasionally would tell her hello or ask how she was she didn't recognize their voice, but also they never stayed to talk with her or simply be with her, something she knew even Yami would have done.
After what seemed like an eternity, something with clawed scaly stick-like feet landed on her shoulder.
"Aden?" she asked.
The bird let out a screech.
"No, Aden I can't see you, do you think I can see through these bandages around my eyes? Now tell me, where am I?"
Through many cries and screeches Aden managed to give her a vague idea of where she was. There was a window to her left. The bed she was in was ebony, like hers and Yami's were; its sheets were pure white. There was a table that had several pots and herbs on it and in a corner was a chair with a lyre on it. Akina knew she was in her mother's room. Also, according to Aden, how loud her stomach was rumbling, and the heat of the sun on her skin, it was high noon.
There was the sudden thump-thump of approaching footsteps. The person entered the room, and telling from Aden's disgruntled screech it was Yami.
"Akina, it's me Yami..."
"I do not want to see you." Akina interrupted, turning away from him.
"I just thought you may want some food and company," Yami answered. He sat down by the bed, took a pomegranate from the tray of food he was carrying, and put it in Akina's hand.
"Not your company," Akina said stubbornly, turning back around. "But thanks for the food." She took a grateful bite out of the pomegranate.
"Are you ever going to stop being so stubborn?" Yami said in what appeared to be a frustrated tone.
I'm doing my job well... Akina thought, taking another bite of pomegranate. "No," she answered. "I'm having too much fun with this."
"Akina, answer this question seriously..."
"What, do I love you? No,"
"Good guess, but that's not my question. Do you blame me for what happened to you this morning?"
Akina thought about this, then answered, "No, for a change I don't,"
"Why?"
"It's my own fault, I wasn't being careful. I was too focused on causing as much blood to spill as possible that I wasn't watching the dragon's claws."
"Thank you, you've set my mind at ease."
"Sure," she threw the pit of the pomegranate out the window.
Another eternity later Yami left and Kesi, Serenity, and Terentina came to see her.
While they all talked and talked, Akina's mother checked her for other injuries she may have missed while inspecting her in the morning.
"You're very lucky Akina. The only thing damaged is your eyes." She told her daughter when she had finished.
"That is lucky," Kesi said.
"We should praise Jehovah," Serenity suggested, putting her flute to her lips and striking up a tune.
Since Akina wouldn't be able to see where she was dancing, she decided to just sit on her bed and clap and sing along with Kesi.
A long time later, a servant brought dinner to the girls and they ate. Then Seth, Marik, and Yami reentered the room, just as the sun was setting.
Terentina turned her daughter away from everyone and removed her bandages. As she took them off she let out a small gasp.
"What is it, Mother?" Akina asked.
"Try to open your eyes Akina," Terentina whispered.
Akina tried, but in vain. "I can't."
"She can't what?" Yami asked.
Akina turned towards the voice and she heard everyone gasp, rather loudly.
"Will someone please tell me what is going on?" Akina demanded.
Aden gave a loud screech, which told Akina everything she needed to know.
As she had healed, Akina's eyes and lids had become horribly scarred. There were three long slash marks diagonally across her eyes, keeping them shut tight. It was her fate to be blind.
Mokuba: And that's the chapter!
Kaiba: Is Akina going to be blind?
Anaya's Creator: You'll have to wait until the next chapter to find out.
Malik: Keep reviewing! And Anaya's Creator did use part of a song that Kelly Clarkson sings.
Anaya's Creator: I do not own that song either.
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