Anaya's Creator: Guten Tag!
Kaiba: We're back!
Mokuba: Hi again people, it's another update.
Malik: You people are no fun, we only got three reviews!
Anaya's Creator: And here they are:
Stormtracer:
I think that meant that I did a good chapter then, danka! (That means thank-you in German)
KrysofSorrow:
Here's your update; sorry no more violence like last chapter, unless I decide to change my mind
Kagomewannabe2008:
You're a bando?! Hey, a bunch of my friends are in Marching Band too! I used to be a flagger, but I had to quit because of circumstances beyond my control. As for your other questions: You'll find out, read this chapter, and not now.
Anaya's Creator: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh;
Rogue was lying on the hospital bed; the doctors had placed her on. Her shirt had been removed and her chest from the underarms down, as well as her wounded shoulder, was in bandages. The pants she was wearing were rolled up to her thighs, and her knees were wrapped up. To the doctors, she was still unconscious due to extreme blood loss, but actually she was deep inside her mind, back in the crystal room, she was wide awake and talking to Akina.
"Akina, no thanks to Karasu, my body won't be moving for a while. I'm going to use astroprojection to check up on the others at the duel tower and see if I can find out anything more about all this crazy stuff that's going on around here."
"How are you going to be able to see what's going on?" Akina asked.
"I'm able to see when I'm an astroprojection,"
"Be careful, we can't take too many more risks in your body's injured state. I'll stay here and make sure your system doesn't shut down."
"Thanks," Rogue faded from the room and appeared as a misty transparent phantom beside her motionless body. She silently made her way through the silent hallway of the blimp; she wasn't at all worried about possibly being seen; only those who possessed the 'sight' and those who were asleep could see her. She stopped in the control room and listened to Kaiba's drones as they tried to call for help.
"There's no signal; we can't contact anyone."
There was the sound of someone slamming their fist on something. "Then keep trying,"
someone ordered. "We already have a passenger that has a possibility of dying, we must call for help."
Deciding to leave well enough alone here, Rogue chose to check on things at the duel tower and headed outside.
Outside the blimp, Kaiba Corp Island was an empty graveyard. So this is what it really looked like... a barren wasteland with rubble sticking out of the ground like tombstones that were centuries of years old. What a God forsaken scrap of land, she thought bitterly. This is junkyard was what Kaiba was so proud of, she had known better things. She walked through the yard to inside the large silver tower and up the stairs to the dueling arena.
As she reached the top, she saw black magic surrounding the field. "Another monster goes to your graveyard, Wheeler. That means that more of your energy is drained and given to the Shadow Realm," said the taunting voice of Marik.
What on Earth's the Shadow Realm? Rogue thought. Is it this black magic that surrounds everyone?
"I sense something,"Mokuba said, feeling a slight prickle at the back of his neck. He turned and saw Rogue standing at the top of the stairs with a confused look on her face. But that was impossible; she was lying in a bed on Kaiba Craft 3, struggling to stay alive. "R-Rogue," he stuttered.
Rogue turned and saw Mokuba staring right at her. Calmly, she walked over to him with a small smile on her face and knelt down to his height. "You have the sight then, Mokuba?"
Mokuba nodded, "And you can see, now?" he added.
"Only as an astroprojection."
"What are you doing here?"
"Just came to check on you guys." And with that she ruffled his hair with a translucent hand and left.
Rogue went back to the blimp. Not ready to go back into her own body, she decided to look around a bit. She wandered into a room where Serenity and a blonde curly-haired girl, who was laying in bed unconscious, were.
Serenity was looking out the window at a large purple/black cloud that had surrounded the top of the duel tower.
Rogue turned her attention back to the blonde haired girl. She must be Mai, Rogue thought. I heard the others talking about her when they got back from that virtual reality thing where they faced that Noah-kid. Serenity doesn't have the sight, but maybe I could try talking to this girl. She put her hand over Mai's face and went inside her mind.
Inside Mai's head>>
It's so dark in here, why? Rogue thought. As she walked through the darkness, she suddenly found herself at a beach scene. The sand was warm and the sun very bright, the crystal blue water shone like thousands of sapphires that had been polished to their brightest. She saw Joey, Yugi, Serenity, and the others laughing and playing in the sands, but where was Mai? Wasn't this her soul room? Something wasn't right here. She squinted and saw that there was a dark horrible aura around everything.
Rogue looked up and that's where she saw Mai, trapped in what looked like a clear hourglass with sand slowly falling on her. She drifted up to her.
Mai saw her, "Thank goodness you're here, who ever you are; please you've got to help me. Get me out of this horrible place." Mai banged on the glass. She was on her knees, her eyes pleading, and the sand that was falling around her was up to her thighs.
Rogue looked at Mai sympathetically. She knew her magic wouldn't be able to free the frightened girl, but she could try to reverse the magic to bring happiness back. With a great effort, Rogue tried to get the sand to reverse its flow, but the evil power surrounding her was to strong. Rogue put her hand to Mai's in a gesture of apology; there was nothing she could do. She simply told Mai, "Don't be afraid; you're not alone. Remember: though I may walk through valleys of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me." With that she faded, leaving Mai in what ever horrible place she was in.
Back to Reality>>
Rogue looked out of the window as she left Mai's body, what ever shadow had covered the tower was gone now. She heard the sound of several footsteps approaching. This would be a good time to get back to my body, she thought, and she disappeared.
Back in her room, she went back into her body and tried to move, without success. Damn it, I still can't move! She heard footsteps approach her bedside.
"We need to have another little chat, Akina." It was Marik.
Instead of showing herself to her husband, Akina went out in an astroprojection form. She knew Marik didn't have the sight, so he couldn't see her.
"I don't know what happened with my Millennium Rod while you were fighting Karasu; I just know it wasn't I who did it. I'm either facing Seto Kaiba or the pharaoh in the final battle." He put a hand on the side of her face. "Wish me luck," he kissed her and was just about to leave when he saw Mokuba standing in the doorway.
"What are you doing in here?" the twelve year old spat.
"I have as much right to be in this room as you do, young Kaiba."
Mokuba ran past him and went to Rogue. He felt her wrist, there was a slight pulse, well, at least there was still some life left in her. He left to go see if the pilots had been able to contact headquarters yet and saw that Marik had left them. "Good riddance," he muttered and left for the control room.
Akina looked at her surroundings apathetically. Please let the Pharaoh win and bring out the good in my husband again, she prayed. I can hardly bear to see him like this. She dropped to the floor and wept.
After a few minutes Akina dried her tears and went back inside Rogue's body. She hadn't noticed that a pale figure with white hair and wearing white clothing had appeared in a corner of the room.
Knowing he couldn't be seen any longer, the white being approached his little sister's bedside. He had changed since his death. There were now large feathered wings that reached the floor coming out of his shoulders and bright warm cream colored aura surrounded him. "You seem to have survived the fight with Karasu by a very breakable thread, Sister. Akina, you and Rogue need sleep, and meanwhile I will heal your wounds." He put a hand over Rogue's nose and mouth.
Both Akina and Rogue felt a gentle darkness surround them as sleep overwhelmed their senses.
Yoko then unwrapped both of her knees, put his hands over them, and they were healed in a matter of moments, did the same to her shoulder, and then unwrapped some of the gauze around her stomach. "Oh, a really bad abdominal wound, this will take a while. Plus it looks like I'll have to restore your blood."
In the minutes that passed, Yoko was so focused on healing Rogue he failed to notice that Mokuba had reentered the room.
"Y-Y-Yoko?" Mokuba stuttered in disbelief, using his hands to shield his eyes from the brightness of Yoko's aura.
"Don't be afraid, little one. It is me." Yoko sat down on his sister's bed and stared at Mokuba with strong compassionate eyes.
"B-but how c-could you be here? Y-you're dead..."
"I am. I got worried about Rogue after she received all these injuries, so I convinced the Holy One to let me come down and heal her." Yoko ran a hand through Rogue's hair.
"Watch her for me, would you? She's all healed up now." Without even waiting for an answer, he vanished in a blaze of bright golden light.
Mokuba, slightly confused, walked up to Rogue's bed. There wasn't even a crease from where Yoko had sat down. He had truly seen Yoko's ghost! Brushing away the thought, he grabbed Rogue's hand, gave it a light squeeze and said, "The duel between my brother and Yugi's over. Yugi won."
At long last the battle between Yugi and Kaiba had played out. Malik was going to face Yugi for the Battle City Crown.
Before the final duel of the finals began, Yami came into Rogue's room. "Mokuba, has she moved or said anything?"
"Not that I've seen," Mokuba answered, thinking he shouldn't mention the vision of Yoko he had had. He had decided to stop telling people about his visions long ago. He often was told that he was crazy, when he did tell.
As the duel between Yami and Marik began, Yugi and Malik appeared above their counterparts. Malik was unconscious and Yugi was just fine, for now. Marik attacked Yami and a part of Yugi disappeared in what seemed a rather painful way. "As you can see Pharaoh," Marik jeered over Yugi's cries of pain. "When one of us loses life points, our hikaris pay the price by losing parts of their body. So be free to attack me, you'll only finish off my hikari."
Akina, who had woken up and was watching this duel play out, I can't let this continue, she thought and she ran off towards the blimp. She got back in the room where Rogue was, and went inside her mind. She checked on in Rogue's soul room, Rogue was still fast asleep, so Akina left her soul room.
Akina walked down the deserted halls of the blimp and came upon Odeon. This man knows Malik best, she thought. Perhaps he can help me... She approached Odeon's bedside with caution, then slowly placed two fingers between his eyes and entered his mind.
In Odeon's mind>>
Akina was standing on some surface that she couldn't see and Odeon was standing in front of her.
"What are you doing here, Miss Akina?" he asked.
"I was wondering if you could help me. This evil..." Akina answered, but Odeon interrupted her.
"Force has taken over Master Malik's body; I know."
"I need to find a way to fight it, but my host's body can't move."
"There is nothing any of us can do; Master Malik must defeat the evil himself."
"But there must be something!" Akina jumped up and down a few times, expressing her frustration.
"Did you fight Karasu with all you heart to save my master?"
"Rogue fought him to... wait a second, how did you know my hikari fought Karasu?"
"Ishizu told me, now please answer my question."
"She fought Karasu to save everyone from his wrath, but it was the thought of Malik that kept her fighting. I could feel it in the back of her mind; she was always thinking about him."
"We can remind my master of that, but that's all we can do."
"Isn't there anything else?"
"I'm afraid not."
Akina let out a frustrated sigh, "I just can't believe that my husband's spirit is the one causing all this pain."
"I know full well that Master Malik is the reincarnate of your husband, Akina. Only the bitterness that formed in your husband's heart after you died along with the hatred and jealousy Master Malik himself has is causing this. If those feelings are destroyed, then they will both be saved."
Akina threw her arms around Odeon, who was somewhat surprised by this. "Thank you, Odeon. My faith is whole again now." She let go of him and left his mind.
Out of Odeon's Mind>>
As Akina walked through the halls she looked at Serenity and Mai. Whatever has taken control of Malik's body isn't my husband, she thought. Hopefully the Pharaoh would succeed in this duel and free us from the evil that poisoned my husband and Malik's mind.
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