LS- Alright, last chapter, and for those of you still reading a big thank you!
Disclaimer: Still don't own Yugi-Oh. I own Anahi. See the author's note at the bottom for more information about the people you will read about.
EVIL TREE HUGGERChapter 3
Day broke and Yugi and his friends left to investigate the ruins leaving Solomon to look at the information the others had left behind. Soon they reached the ruins of what had once been a mighty city surrounded by trees and flowers. In the middle of a bare patch of grass was a single blood red flower. Entranced by its beauty Téa tried to pluck the flower, not knowing its rarity, but a strong voice calling out form the trees saved it from its book pressed demise.
"Touch that flower and I'll cut off your head with a rusty knife and sew it back on with poison ivy."
"Who are you?" Yami demanded, taking over for Yugi.
"My name is Anahi, two-voiced-one."
"Well Anahi, do not threaten my friends or you will have to face me."
The owner of the voice now identified as Anahi, jumped down from the tree. The four friends were taken aback. Anahi had chocolate brown eyes, hair the color of a raven's wing, and tanned skin barely covered with vines twisted into makeshift clothing. The brown eyes that would have been beautiful and sparkling were dark as she looked upon Yami with disgust. "Look at you, look at all that leather. My entire village could have eaten for three weeks on the cow that you are wearing."
Tristan leaned toward Joey and mumbled to him, "Must be a small village."
But Anahi heard him and her gaze met Tristan's. "It is now. The Zaparo used to be a thriving people; we numbered into the hundreds of thousands. Now, there are only seven. But I am the only true Zaparo left. The others have betrayed our kind and left to join the ones who destroyed our way of life. My people are gone, thanks to people like you."
"That is not our fault!" Yami exclaimed, his eyes sparking.
"No? Was it not your kind that came into our jungle, cutting down the trees that have lived far longer than any human? Hunting the animals that now dwindle down to nothing? Was it not your kind who has disrupted the natural order of things by building streets and highways through the jungle? You cannot tell me that it is not your fault! However, because of you I prayed to the Guardians and they heard my plea, my plea to destroy the ones destroying us. And they answered my prayers with this." She flashed a deck of Duel Monster cards at them. "I believe you know how to play this game of shadows? Defeat me and I'll let you live, but if I win, your soul becomes mine and I will feed it to the Guardians and soon no one will destroy my jungles any longer!"
Yami and Anahi dueled, wild animals surrounding them as they played. The duel was long and Yami had difficulty defeating Anahi's animal and elemental cards, but finally he whittled her life points down to zero. The duel caused much destruction of the jungle around the two, the animals gazed at the desolation of their home and pounced on Anahi, attacking her.
Yami and the gang left the jungle not looking back at the animals surrounding Anahi's body, but the ferocious and hungry cries emitting from the beasts told them what they didn't want to know, anyway. When they got back to camp, Mr. Mutou was waiting for them, a phone in his hand. "I just got a phone call, all of the other scientists have awoken and are alright." A sigh of relief went through the group as they rushed about packing up everything.
Soon they were on a plane back home and Yugi looked out the window reflecting on their adventure. "Joey and the others say that Anahi died that day, the beasts killing the one that used to protect them, but I think she's still out there, watching and waiting."
Meanwhile, evil laughter resonated throughout the Ecuadorian Amazon causing a flock of birds to fly out of the trees. "Just wait, little Pharaoh…just you wait." Chocolate brown eyes glinted behind the foliage of the trees in silent glee…there was always next year.
LS- Well how about that! Huh? Anyone like it at all? Ok well if you are wondering the Zaparo are a tribe that live in the Ecuadorian Amazon and they used to number in the 100,000s but because of people cutting down the rainforests there are only about seven left in the world. And in case anybody is wondering Anahi is pronounced ana-ee. It's from the Ecuadorian dialect of Guarani and it means ceibo or tree! Cool huh? Oh, one last thing, PROTECT THE TREES!