The High Priest's Secret Tomb
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Chapter: Shards Of Undying Darkness
With a dignified voice, the old man got to the point. "You have come here t-," but he was rudely cut off.
"Not out of my own free will though," Kaiba snidely interrupted.
The man scowled. "As I was saying. You have come here tonight to choose to walk on the path of your destiny, Seto," he stated.
Again, the teen's right eye twitched. "It's Kaiba to you, old man!" Huffing in irritation, he asked, "What is it with you Egyptian freaks always trying to tell me what my destiny is, anyway?"
"You will respect your elders, especially your father!" the man's right eye narrowed.
But Kaiba didn't seem to have heard him as he ranted, "I've told Yugi and Ishizu this countless of times before, but they still don't seem to get it through their thick heads. I make my own destiny. Even after they witnessed firsthand that their beliefs on destiny are a bunch of baloni, they still continue to blab themselves to death! So if you're going start that I'm destined for, I don't know, whatever you brought me here for, then I suggest you save your breath."
The old man's fists tightened in anger. "How dare you insult our origin's beliefs!" he shouted and raised his hand, nearly blasting the boy down the stairs with a dark gust of dark power. "That will teach you to speak of things you have no knowledge of!"
Touching his forehead, he felt blood trickle down the side of his face. Kaiba grit his teeth, not because of the pain, but because of how furious he was. Reaching into his backpack, he took one of the grappling hooks out and angrily threw it at the old man.
Clearly hitting his target, the man did not yell out in pain as Kaiba had expected. Instead the man calmly took the hook out of his chest and threw it aside. "Has no one taught you that the dead cannot be killed twice?"
Glaring at the man, Kaiba knew the hook wasn't going to do anythingto him. It was only for his sense of satisfaction.
Placing his gloved hand back onto his injured part of the forehead, Kaiba's renewed vigor had vanished and so he gave the older man a look that clearly said, "Well, what are you waiting for? Get on with your history lessons already!" Yet he stayed seated on the floor to rest for now.
"Very well then, where should I start...?"
"How about at the end, where you died?" Seto suggested in mock good-nature.
Walking up to him, the stranger looked as if ready to slap him, but merely grabbed the Ring around his neck and his backpack, accidentally dropping the camera along the way. He took the Millennium Rod out as he walked back to block the exit, saying, "You have already acquired an Item. For someone who does not believe in magic, I am impressed."
Seto retrieved the video camera, he was going to get out, and when he did he was going to give the film to his brother.
But still, he didn't see the boy's fascination with dead mummies and tombs! It certainly wasn't a blast being possessed by a dead mummy either... "Well...? I don't have all life to sit around and wait you know?"
The man slowly turned. "For starters, I am known as high priest Akunadin..."
"Come on, we're almost there!" Tea gasped as they jumped into the freezing water.
"It's c-cold!" Bakura exclaimed.
Everyone swam to the middle of the lake, the spiders not daring to follow them any further. "Where's the exit?" Yugi asked.
"Over there, see it?" Tristan pointed over to a far left wall, a tunnel like opening going upwards at the very top of it.
"Uh, guys...?" Duke interrupted warningly. The spiders were climbing onto the ceiling over their heads, creating spider web lines. They slowly began to descend as they tried grabbing at them like a crane game with their claws.
With yelps they dived under the water to escape. Joey looked around and after a while spotted a water cavern. Surfacing to the top of the hidden cavern, they all took deep breaths of air. "Now what...do we...do?" Tea asked.
"We're obviously going to have to pass them one by one," Tristan started, but Yugi interrupted him.
"Are you insane? We can't do that!"
"But if we all go together, the spiders would have already gotten their creepy claws on one of us! We're too many to go at the same time, man."
"True."
"And besides," Joey warned, "...the tunnel's really long and slippery. Trust me, I should know, pal."
"Hey, did you hear that?" Bakura asked, looking around the water, but found nothing.
His friends' gazes too wandered about the small alcove. The water was moving, which meant something else was inside the lake with them. At the bottom, through the alcove's exit, they caught sight of a shadow of a small part of a tail or fin.
"Probably just a small fish, don't worry," Tristan laughed, but not convincing himself of that in the lest.
The thing swam a great distance in one stroke for it to be a fish, much less a small fish.
Tea frowned. "Hey guys, what happened to that thing we heard when we first slipped in here?" she asked. None of the other three answered, now pale and too scared to come out of the cavern.
"What?" Yugi inquired.
"Oh, nothing! We just heard something else swimming with us the first time too," explained the blonde nonchalantly.
They stayed a bit longer, trying to catch up on the events that took place during the small amount of time they had been separated. "Hey, Yugi? Your watch didn't happen to say 7:00 p.m., did it?" Duke queried, only to receive a nod from the boy.
Again, they fell silent.
"Let's just go. If we make it, we make it. If we don't, then..." Joey shrugged and took a dive under the water. The others followed suit, slightly dreading what they would see when they resurfaced.
But the spiders were long gone now.
They sighed in relief, yet immediately stopped as something swam their way. "Eeehhh! I thought the coast was clear!" Joey cried, taking the lead as everyone swam in the opposite direction of which the fish was headed.
Now they knew the eleven foot wide silhouette in the water was not a fish.
Kaiba nodded. "Mmhmm, well, if we're done here? I really have to get going now," he informed, standing up and getting ready to start walking.
"Hold it! We are not done talking! So sit or stand, but you are not going anywhere. It seems as though you need a bit of a reminder of your past life." The old spirit had a bit of time to spare before the ceremony, in the meantime he would fill his son in on things.
Seto tapped his foot impatiently on the ground, then looked at his watch as if though he had an important meeting to be in.
"My broth-," Akunadin started.
"WHAT? This thing is broken!" Kaiba exclaimed.
The high priest's right eye twitched. "What is it now boy?" he demanded.
"My watch, it's broken! It can't be 9:30 p.m. because I fell asleep at around 10:00 at night!"
The albino headed man scowled, saying, "We have more important things at hand than how long you overslept!"
But Seto looked as if the end of the world was coming as he tried finding something at fault with the contraption. "I do not oversleep! Especially for 24 hours!"
His father was beginning to get exasperated, and had finally sent the wristwatch a blast of dark power. "Now you need not fuss over some silly little thing," he stated.
"You broke my watch!" Kaiba cried hysterically. Sure he could buy a new one, but he had had that one for the longest time.
"You said it was already broken! Anyway, you only overslept because a sleeping spell was cast over you and your bunch of friends."
"They aren't my friends,"Kaiba muttered stubbornly.
Akunadin massaged his temple and shouted, "Silence!" and Seto sat back down on the stone floor. The old man muttered under his breath...but continued his lecture.
"My elder brother was one of the previous Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt. I, being his right hand man. Hm, some would tell you that he was a fair ruler and indeed he was...but he was unreasonably fair. He was too kind and merciful to people who did not deserve to live. That was not very befitting of a King," he scorned derisively.
"I, with permission of the Pharaoh, created the seven Millennium Items you have come to know quite well, for protection. But to create them, one had to sacrifice a certain amount of souls to complete the spell. Of course, I did not inform the Pharaoh of this requirement. So, choosing a certain village's people,I set the ritual into action. Unfortunately, one little pest escaped, it had not mattered to me then, for I had all that I needed."
The old man scowled. "This pest has come to obtain the title as the King of the Shadows, you know him as Bakura, though?"
"Actually, I've come to know him as Jeckyll and Hyde," Kaiba replied simply and honestly.
"Either way, I did not see you again until nine years later, at the Palace. By then you had grown into a gifted and talented high priest," Akunadin praised. Then disappointedly added, "Unfortunately, you were hardheaded and quite the oblivious one as well."
Kaiba glared daggers. Nobody insulted him, whether it be a direct or an indirect insult towards him.
"Yes, it is a pity that all bright people are cursed with such faults. What is even worse is that you still have not changed much over the millennias." The old man heaved a long sigh. "You always believed that I had died in war for our country... Hn, then that boy came in and took the throne after his foolish father. The throne that rightfully belonged to you, son!"
Seto sighed. "Whatever." But his father continued without paying him any mind at all.
"As you grew older though, you began looking for greater magic, one that could surpass that of the three guardian Gods. I soon found out though, that they were not for your own gains, but indeed for the protection of the Palace."
Kaiba gave him no response.
"Then you met that girl, I forget her name though." Akunadin gave the brunette a long stare, trying in vain to read his mind for some information. Oddly enough, he could not see a thing but a bright light.
The boy just gave him a dull blank look.
'Impossible!' Akunadin mentally growled. 'Ugh! Well...no matter, I will make sure to banish her once and for all this time.' And then he snapped back to attention as he noticed his son's growing lack of attention.
"Call her what you desire, all I knew was that she was the Ka holder of the White Dragon. Yet know this, you would have become the strongest being the world had ever known if she had only minded her own business. Death was her punishment for ruining everything for you on that fateful day, this includes your cousin's death as well."
Kaiba by now was half listening, half sleeping.
"Boy, are you even listening?" he demanded.
"Yes, I am and I already know what happened too. You killed her, the priest killed you, you possessed him, blah, blah, blah, the end. Can I go now?" Kaiba ended rapidly.
"No! There is still more you do not know! That girl possessed you, not me! I had merely gone in to save you from her, but she was able to banish me before I could do so!"
"Right, except I was there and pretty much saw the whole scenario, idiot."
Akunadin was stock still in mounting rage by now, especially after the last comment. 'How did he come to obtain such information? ...He seems to have gotten smarter and unmendable than he was five millennias ago. But...that did not stop me then and it will most certainly not stop me now!' he thought.
"Choose now son! Pick the right path and you will live what was taken from you so long ago! Pick the wrong path and suffer the consequences!" commanded the old man, dragging Kaiba by the collar of hisjacket to the center of the altar.
Forcibly dropping him in a heap there, he swiftly opened the black jar of liquid and poured its contents on the boy's head.
"Hey! Ugh, blood? From what exactly, may I ask?" Kaiba demanded indignantly.
"Demons..." was all Akunadin gave him before falling silent, awaiting for midnight to come before he could start reciting the words on the stone tablet.
"What's happening?" Yugi shouted, now swirly eyed from all the water's spinning.
The huge fish like monster had been headed towards them and would have gobbled them up in one gulp if they hadn't accidentally slipped through a small opening on one of the cave's walls.
This wasn't necessarily a good thing because everyone had now fallen into a spinning whirlpool. It was taking all of their strength just to stay above the water's surface.
"Waterfall at twelve o' clock!" Duke warned, but by then they were plummeting downwards.
Yet somehow managing to grab a climbable platform under the waterfall at the last second, everyone had gotten up safe and sound, they had a few scratches here and there, but nothing too serious.
"Do you think it was that Leviathan?" Joey asked, referring to the giant splash they all heard. His friends only stared at Joey in utter confusion. Leviathan? "What? I have to label things I don't know the names to!" he defended.
Looking over the rapidly falling water, all they could see was more blue water. "Where did it go?" Yugi whispered frantically.
To their left were rocky stones which they could use to climb back up. To their right though were huge green eyes. Blinking once, the owner of the eyes opened its mouth to gobble Joey's head off.
"Huh? I didn't know it could walk on walls too!" the blonde shouted, Tristan pulling him out of harm's way. "Eeehhh!" Joey nearly had a heart attack at the loud inhuman screech that came from the Leviathan.
No one stopped to catch their breaths, now merely running on adrenalin.
Upon reaching the cavern with the whirlpool, Tristan took a quick look around and said, "If we stay close to the edge over there by the wall, we should be just fine." But just as he finished, a shadow soon loomed above them and jumped one of them.
"Tea!"
Tea was dropped to the ground, wrestling the thing's mouth away from her shoulder before Yugi got a good aim and knocked the thing over the head with his Puzzle.
The creepy crawler, as Joey was incoherently repeating over and over, collapsed on the poor girl's head. "Ew, ew, ew!" She slipped away to the side, kicking the thing into the water in the process. She continuously dusted herself, disgusted.
"You alright, Tea?" her friends asked in worry.
"Yeah, just scarred for life by skinless things is all," she murmured.
While at the altar...
Kaiba was and had been trapped in a prison like shield for the quite some time, so he definitely wasn't having the best time of his life. For try as he might, he could find no way out of his predicament.
Punching didn't work, kicking was out of the question, and tackling hadn't worked either. So there he was, sitting as he boredly glanced at his watch for the umpteenth time that day.
Kaiba had noticed that his watch was still in working condition moments ago, the beeping was all that seemed to be malfunctioning, and so would glance at the time often. He mentally noted that it was twelve in the morning on the dot.
The teen had never gone so long without doing something and so this was what he considered pure torture.
As he leaned back in his prison, Kaiba didn't even bother asking the old man what he was doing reciting gibberishwords. He dreaded he would get another excruciatingly long lecture, again. That was worse of a punishment than doing nothing in his opinion.
"Twelve Mirrors, I call forth the Twelve Beasts of the Shadows,
come and set this poor soul right.
Cleanse this unworthy mortal to a new light of destiny.
If he so wishes to go astray then by the powers invested in the Guardians,
eclipse his mind, heart, and soul in utter darkness.
Betrayed by his golden sun as he arises to greater power imaginable to
conquer the evil on this earth!
Free your allies from their sealed confines, they who are scattered into the four corners
Obscures!"
"It has finally been fulfilled!" Akunadin laughed in malice and pride.
Kaiba stared on in bewilderment. He didn't even want to know what the senile man was so happy about. He knew it would be nothing of good news to him in the end anyway.
"I feel sorry for anyone and everyone who's related to this oddball freak," mumbled the brunette.
Akunadin's eye narrowed. "Watch your tongue boy!"
Seto crossed his arms, "Make m- ah!" and fell to the ground as the prison vanished from behind him.
His father was not amused, his sour expression hardening as he paced back and forth in front of the catwalk that led to the tomb's entrance. "Have you chosen your road yet?" he inquired.
Kaiba raised an eyebrow.
"The road you will walk to your destiny on, of course."
Kaiba could tell the high priest was suppressing a triumphant smirk and so dully asked, "What's the deal? I know you're hiding something."
"Son of mine,"
"Kaiba! How many times do I have to go through this?"
"...you have two choices," the man continued. "Your first choice is to join me in your succession to the throne which was unfairly taken from you. You shall have complete rule over the shadows and swallow this world into a new dark era!"
Kaiba was now standing, hand on chin as if though deep in thought, nodding his head now and then.
"Or two, you can ignore your destiny and go through this the difficult way. Enduring horrible past memories and heartaches, along with head games which will slowly break your soul."
Kaiba was still seemingly deep in thought, in truth he was just really humoring the old man.
'Once he makes his choice I will secretly banish that girl from his mind,' Akunadin thought.
Then Kaiba finally answered, "What's the difference between choices one and two? They're indirectly the same thing!"
"Nothing really, one is just a much easier step in willingly accepting the darkness."
"And two...?"
"And two is a harder step in unwillingly accepting the darkness."
Seto stared incredulously at the cloaked man. "How is that two choices? It's just one choice!" he exclaimed, only to receive a shrug.
Akunadin was twirling something in his hands and stepped aside, holding the object out to him.
A shiny aqua blue orb lay on his palm.
"You may leave, but keep in mind that it is just the same as going astray. Or accept this orb and store all the light of your soul in here."
Kaiba briefly glanced at the entrance to his freedom...sort of. He recalled the part about going astray and suffering the consequences, not that he believed that bunch of baloni. Well, not entirely.
'He's bluffing,' he thought, suspiciously glaring over at the geezer. '...or maybe his little contraption doesn't work anymore.'
With a small huff, the brunette walked over to the outstretched hand. He would take it, but only under a few circumstances.
Now was his chance...
In a room at the lodge...
Ms. Dian's footsteps receded as she stopped her constant pacing around her room. Wringing her hands together a knock at the door startled her out of her reverie.
"Come in!" she said, clearing her throat.
Mrs. Haiahashi entered, a small frown gracing her face. "We just sent a rescue team to go and search for the kids, but the head of the Search Department is asking for pictures and more information on the seven," stated the red headed instructor.
The blonde teacher choked her coffee out in sputters.
"He said it was mandatory for the parents of the children to know ofthe situation, but only if they didn't turn up within 24 more hours," her friend quickly added.
The distressed Ms. Dian collapsed on her desk chair and grudgingly retrieved the required files out of her laptop. "Don't worry, they'll find them," Mrs. Haiahashi assured, at which her friend silently nodded as her thanks. "I'll be in the cafeteria if you need me, alright?"
"Sure...thanks."
With that, the instructor shut the door.
Ms. Dian continued extracting the seven files as she thought, 'I'm going to laugh my head off when I look back on this day years later, but for now...it's the end of the world! And this day won't even be funny years later if they don't find those seven!'
"Come on, we're almost there!" Joey cheered sullenly.
"Yeah," everyone sighed.
"Are you sure we shouldn't look for Kaiba first?" Tea asked. She and the others were beginning to have second thoughts on their decision.
"I don't know," Tristan admitted, scratching his head. "Because now that I think of it, Mokuba'll never forgive us if we don't at least try. Hey, unless we're cold enough to ignore him, which I know I'm not."
"Tristan's right...for once. Ow!" Duke cried and glared at his attacker. Tea had hit him over the head.
Yugi and Bakura sighed in relief, so their friends hadn't gotten possessed by evil spirits! "What are we waiting for then? Let's go look for him!" Yugi cheered.
And everyone set back down the rocky platforms. "You know, I'm beginning to feel a lot better now," Tea sighed, the other three nodding along.
"I'm going to talk to Yami, maybe he can try and locate Kaiba's Rod," suggested the spiky headed boy.
'Yami?'
"Hm, wha-? Something wrong, Yugi?" Yami's voice filtered the astral plane.
'No, everything is fine and dandy. Actually...we wanted to know if you could try and locate Kaiba's Rod?' Yugi asked, quickly getting to the point. They had wasted more than enough time in that tomb and he wanted to get out just as badly as the others.
His counterpart's face looked uncertain. "Hmmm, I don't know about that. If the powers from the tomb collide with mine, for even a split fraction, they could cause a tremendous explosion. Resulting in the collapsing of the tomb," Yami stated.
Yugi's eyes widened. 'Oh...well. Let's hope that lady luck is on our side today then!' he cheered and stood stock still beside his alter ego.
The Pharaoh face faulted and gave the boy a disbelieving look, but tried nonetheless when he figured Yugi was being serious. And so one of themostanxiousmoments passed by in silence as the spirit concentrated his magic.
Finally, the silence was broken. "I found something small of the Rod's aura...west is where you'll find Kaiba. Though I really don't think he's in this realm," Yami huffed tiredly.
'What? You mean he's in the Shadow Realm?'
"No, no, no. I meant a different place, but in the same place. It's sort of an oxymoron. I'm sorry, but I really can't help you here, Yugi."
Sweat-dropping, Yugi waved it off. 'No problem, as long as we have at least one clue...thanks.'
Disconnecting, he found they were not being chased by spiders, crawlers, or Leviathans this time.
"So what'd he say?" his friends bombarded.
"He's still somewhere in the west area."
While Yugi looked around, making sure nothing was collapsing, Bakura got his compass ready and they were ready to set off. "This way everyone."
Yugi and his squad marched down the dark corridors, deciding to pick the pace up a bit after a while. Jogging along, they bumped into no spiders or any monsters at all for that matter.
Ms. Dian prolonged her nightmare come true as long as possible. All that was left of her career were 24 hours. She was beginning to panic now.
'What if they don't find them? What job will accept me? I'm only good at teaching and it's not like any other school will trust me with this! This is horrible!'
As she reached the first floor of the lodge, she headed for the lounge. It was taking all of her energy not to run back to her room and lock herself up with the information they needed.When she entered though,the blonde made it brisk andstepped up to the manager of the Search Department, grudgingly handing him the paper files.
"I'm deeply sorry for your misfortune Miss," the man stated sympathetically. She just nodded as he made his way out.
Her hair bounced with the small fall as she sat on a nearby chair. The teacher stared out the window at nothing in particular, hoping the seven would be found.
In the shadows of a morbid and dormant hall roamed a silent stranger. Fluidly passing by multiple doors on either side of her.
The doors were almost like well organized documents, each containing a particular piece of information the person held of high importance. The lone stranger came to a stop in front of the only open room at the very end of the corridor. It was equally as pitch black, but this hall held no doors.
Mirrors were what decorated the walls around the woman. She paid them no mind though, as she was on a journey to find only one particular door in that realm.
Her roaming finally came to an abrupt halt as she was greeted by a passageway leading either above ground or underground. She chose the bottom level staircase.
This was her destination.
To her left was an open doorway. It consisted mainly of a desktop piled with various objects, such as a laptop, a single green book, and three cards. Two familiar looking statues were placed on either side of the desk.
On the right side wall were multiple pictures of a light blue headed boy with gray eyes, two younger boys were standing next to him. Little trinkets like a golden box and a few pictures of a couple looking and pointing up at a starry night sky decorated the opposite wall.
The woman smiled before shifting her gaze away from the room to a closed door on her left side. It looked like a plain gray dungeon door, except this one had a golden eye in the middle.
'I found him...now I wonder what he will do,' she mentally wondered. Then cautiously pushing against the cold frame, she poked her head in for any sign of activity.
Not a soul.
But she wasn't worried. She was positive the person she had been searching for so long was just inside the door across the chamber. The stranger made her way across the dankroom when a new thought occurred to her. 'Let us have a small test. I want to see if he can see through this small facade...' she thought gleefully.
Akunadin smiled, a malicious glint in his eye as his son voluntarily reached out towards the orb. "What is the matter?" he asked a second later.
Kaiba's hand hovered just above the orb item. His eyes were staring at two other certain Items that the old man had in his possession. Yet the brunette was rudely startled out of his reverie by an unexpected and insistent ringing.
Both covered their ears in pain as Kaiba's watch continued beeping, going from a low pitch ring to an annoyingly high pitched screeching.
"What is...that?" Akunadin demanded. Kaiba was glaring at his watch when it was suddenly pulled away from his line of sight. Akunadin had taken the mechanism and thrown it down the altar stairs. "Despicable thing, interrupting an important moment like this. Go on son," he huffed, this day couldn't get any worse!
Kaiba scowled, that was his favorite watch! "You never did tell me how you came back to life, did you? Aren't you four thousand years old or something like that?" he harshly questioned.
The older man sighed, "Can you not ask me afterwards, Seto?"
This only served to irritate the young man to no end as he grit his teeth to stop himself from blowing a gasket.
Akunadin had noticed this and, thinking his son was angry that he wouldn't answer his questions, quickly reprimanded himself. "I mean, there is no reason why I should not tell you, right?" he asked, but Kaiba did not respond. "Well, I am five thousand years old to begin with, not four thousand," he corrected, going on to explain his return in detail.
"As for how I am here? Let us just say that I stored pieces of my soul inside three certain Item holders. When you all came to the mirror chamber, a spirit guarding the room gathered my soul and energy for me. This was when it cast that sleeping spell on you, which accounts for why you awoke so late."
"How did you get your body back?" Kaiba asked in forced interest. He wasn't paying much attention to the answer though.
The high priest smirked and replied, "The mirrors are a small reflection of the Shadow Realm...and you can never rid of the shadows. They were able to summon my body from there."
This passed by the CEO like silent air, he was more preoccupied and engrossed with his escape plans than the fool's blabber. It was now or never...
Kaiba had it over with in ten seconds as he gave Akunadin a forceful shove, grabbing the Rod from behind his cloak and pulling the Ring off his neck. Then, while his victim was paralyzed in shock, Kaiba brought the Rod down on the high priest's head.
A bright golden flash of light indicated that he had banished the old man back to whence he came from.
"Ha! Pathetic loser!" he shouted in triumph once more and picked the Millennium Eye off the ground.
He never did like the thing since the day he first witnessed its powers.
The orb slowly fell to the ground, unnoticed by the preoccupied brunette. As the orb made contact with the stone, an echoing ringing was heard all around. Millions of shattered pieces of glass shards exploded at Kaiba's feet. Everything went dead silent...
Meanwhile...
Yugi, Tea, Joey, Tristan, Bakura, and Duke all stopped dead in their tracks. The distant echo of breaking glass reached their alert ears.
"That sounded like breaking glass," Yugi whispered.
"Think Kaiba is trying to get rid of the mirrors?" Tea asked. Her reply were her friends' shrugs. Deciding to keep going was a bad idea on their part, for the next step they took forward made them feel a slight rumble as it spread throughout the tomb.
"That wasn't good," Joey whimpered, trying to drag the others back towards the cavern with their exit.
Another rumble took them by surprise. "We a-aren't above a v-volcano, are we?" Duke asked.
"No," Tea said, then startled the others with a yelp. "Oh no! If the place starts shaking like this then the tomb could collapse, including our exit!" she cried.
"WHAT? Then why are we standing here for? Let's go!" Joey hollered, the tomb giving a rougher shake as if in protest.
"What about Kaiba?" Tristan questioned.
"Now it's really too late!"
With that said, the ground began to crumble behind them as they headed back to their exit.
The altar stairs were also threatening to throw Kaiba off into the abyss below if he tried moving, but he didn't care. He retrieved his backpack, quickly stuffing his things away.
Putting the Ring around his neck and the Eye in his pocket, Kaiba readied himself for the run of his life. But a few moments later the twelve mirrors in the circle had also shattered into a million bits of shards. They exploded out towards the middle of the circle like confetti of silver.
Kaiba covered his eyes from the assault, "Ah!" but one small shard had managed to dig itself a small way into his left shoulder...
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