Chapter 46: The return of Kou
Yami and Shisei stood solitary in the dueling ring. Yami Yugi was done smirking over his latest victory, and he rushed over to see if the blond across from him was alright.
"Shisei, it was just a duel, what matters is that you had fun!" Yami put a hand on Sei's shoulders as a tall shadow loomed over him. Yami looked up as Shisei glared at Higentaka Osmos, the tall shadow.
"Yes, all that matters is that you had fun, now if you don't mind, I have to escort you second rate duelists out of my castle." Osmos grabbed Shisei's arm, Shisei desperately trying to wrench from his grasp, and dragged him across the arena towards the exit. "I'll be back for our duel shortly." Osmos smiled politely to Yami and turned to meet with a fist. "Oof!" Osmos dropped Shisei and Ryuko caught him as Joey moved in for another punch.
"YOU JERK!" Joey grabbed Osmos, whose nose was bleeding and punched him in the stomach. "Trying to steal people's souls huh, well try it without your small intestine!" Joey yelled. The blond boy raised his fist to deliver another punch, but a white blur swept across the five and Joey was suddenly on the ground and shivering, muttering about being cold.
"JOEY!" Yami bent down to him as Kamishiro in his white cape grabbed Osmos and jumped to the front of the arena, farther away from Yami, Namia, Joey, Ryuko, and Shisei, and deposited him there. "What have you done to him!" The Eye of Ra appeared on the darker Yugi's forehead as he stood up with an evil glare.
"Simple, I cast a spell on him so his body functions would slow down and eventually stop. Killing the fool." Kamishiro said, then, to Osmos: "Are you alright, master!" Osmos stood up and looked at a shivering Joey like he was a slug.
"I'll be fine once he's dead!" Osmos said. He then turned with a smirk at Yami. "I suppose your angry I said that." he laughed as Yami's eye began to glow with rainbow colors.
"Y-yugi…he's g-go-gonna stea-l their so-souls, N-Namia to-to-told me!" Joey did his best to say, grabbing on to Yami's pant leg to reinforce the messages urgency. Yami's eyes went wide as he glared at Osmos once more.
"You would try to steal the souls of innocent-" he was cut off as thunder roared behind the building the group stood in and Osmos's forehead glowed with an odd Triangular shape, unknown symbols inside it.
"DON'T BE FOOLISH YAMI, THOSE CHILDREN HOLD POWER THEY WERE NEVER MEANT TO!" Osmos glared. "Your just lucky I managed to destroy one before the true fury of the seals was unleashed." Osmos smiled in satisfaction. But Yami had had enough.
"MIND CRUSH!" Holding up a glowing hand, Yami blasted ancient magical energies at Osmos.
"Foolish Yami, you don't seem to understand the power I possess." Osmos waved a hand and the charging attack switched directions. Yami managed to dodge out of its way, but one of the audience members would go home more than a little brain dead that day. "Now stay out of my way, they lost, our bet was clear so they must die!" Osmos smirked as he raised a glowing hand.
"Aren't you forgetting about someone Osmos?" A familiar voice sounded from the doorway. The audience, all of those that had hidden themselves under their seat instead of rushing out screaming, anyway, turned to see a blue haired boy in shabby martial arts clothing. Kouichi Nandao flipped his hair and unsheathed his blade with a smirk. "Why don't you try that on me?" Kou lunged at Osmos.
"FOOL!" Osmos raised a hand and blasted a bolt of lightning at Kou. Kou only smirked as his hair turned black and his fangs grew longer as Chiro, Holder of the Seals took his place. Chiro hit the lightning toward Kamishiro. "WHAT!" Osmos was impressed against his will by the fact that the boys had learned to deflect an attack and switch bodies so seamlessly.
"Yeah, were just that good." Kou landed next to Namia, Shisei and Ryuko. Ryuko looked up at the heroic figure before him in shock. Namia jumped up and hugged him, and Shisei smirked an jumped up.
"I didn't think you were smart enough to escape from math class, much less death!" Shisei said, trying not to cry from joy. Namia made no such attempt.
"KOU!" Namia leapt from her spot next to Shisei and Ryuko and hugged Kou ferociously. "I d-didn't t-think you'd make it!" She sniffled continuously as Kou blushed. "Thank god your okay!" Namia finally stopped. It was as though the moments of battle forgotten, and Osmos had given up, but the group wasn't so lucky.
"SCOUNDRELS!" Osmos raised a hand and ejected a larger thunderbolt than the last. "HOW DARE YOU MOCK ME AND MY PURPOSE BY RETURNING!" Osmos's glare stretched farther than the space between himself, Namia, Ryuko, Shisei, and Kou. It pierced into their very souls.
Kou opened his mouth as his fangs became lengthy again and his hair turned to Chiro's color. "Well that's what you get for killing me!" Chiro glowered right back. The field was set, Kamishiro was clearly ready for Chiro's move and Osmos still had plenty of magic to blast at his opponents.
Yami gulped, the situation couldn't have been worse. 'Oh no, if Osmos can deflect one of my attacks…."' Yami looked to the teenagers he'd only just met and gulped.
Chiro stepped forward and pulled Joey to his feet. "Return him to the way he was…NOW!" he commanded. Osmos's glare turned into another evil smirk.
"Kamishiro, do you feel like returning this boy to his normal state?" the silver haired man turned to Kamishiro wearing the same smirk. Kamishiro laughed.
"I see no reason to let the dog live, just kill him!" Osmos nodded and Yami's eyes went wide.
"OSMOS!" Yami yelled. "If you kill him I will defeat you!" Yami roared and Chiro readied his blade.
"Perhaps you have a small chance of defeating me in a duel of magic, Yami…." Osmos began. Shisei and Chiro looked at him warily as he advanced towards the six. "And really, if he wanted to, Chiro could lop my head off…." Osmos looked at Chiro's blade as a dark mist crept slowly upon them all, unnoticed to everyone but Kamishiro.
"What are you on about, Osmos!" Shisei stepped forward beside Chiro. Chiro looked at him then dropped Joey over his shoulders. "If you really believe that then you could run!" Shisei finished.
"Ah, but there is another area of expertise that I know as well as you all, one that I excel at least enough in to defeat Mr. Nandao…." Osmos smirked.
From the back of their mind, Kou realized what was going to happen. He frantically took control of his body again. Chiro was shocked by the sudden switch. Kou opened his mouth and yelled, just a split second before the growing mist became impenetrable. "RUN!" Shisei's eyed Kou with question until the world around him went black.
Kamishiro laughed as Kou looked around for the faint glimmer of light that usually was a duel disk in a shadow game. BAM BAM BAM! Kou suddenly found himself being bombarded by burning yellow lighting bolts and fists in every place on his body. "Having fun!" Kamishiro's voice rang out, high pitched from previous laughing.
"No-not real-OOF!" Kou was hit with another bolt and fell to the floor. 'Damn it, I can't handle these guys on my own, Chir-"' his thought process was broken as Chiro interpreted what was to come and switched with his blue haired counterpart.
"HYAH!" Chiro leapt forward in a dazzling kick and nailed Kamishiro right in the chest. Kamishiro landed next to Osmos as Osmos readied a duel disk.
"Oh well, fun times over I suppose. Are you ready to duel!" Kamishiro smirked as Chiro switched to Kou again.
"Ready as I'll ever be. Which one of you assholes will I have to whip?" Kou smirked assuming it was Osmos. The rematch he had been waiting for had finally arrived. Only one problem. Kamishiro stood up and strapped his own duel disk on, activating it he shuffled his deck and placed it into the disk's deck slot.
"Well you see, Mr. Nandao," Osmos began with an evil grin. "We thought it would be unproductive of us to duel you one at a time, after all, if you can defeat us then you might as well do it all in one fell swoop, right!" Osmos placed a hand on his deck to begin drawing, looking at Kou and waiting for retreat so his soul would be taken.
Kou glared and activated his own duel disk….at the same time another clicked into place. "Sure, we'll take you two clowns down!" Osmos, Kamishiro, Chiro from in Kou's mind, and Kou himself turned in shock to Shisei, who had fainted upon being brought into the Shadow Realm. "Right Kou?" Shisei asked.
Kou looked at Shisei and smirked. "Yeah, and we'll do it with style!" Kou flashed the thumbs up along side his best friend. Shisei looked at Kamishiro, he had felt more than angered by the loss in their last duel, but now he was ready to settle the score. "What are the stakes, souls as usual?" Kou said with a laugh.
"No Mr. Nandao." Osmos said, drawing his hand. Osmos was suddenly talking silently and sadly. "Your going to bet the reason why I invited you to this island in the first place, as well as the fate of Joey Wheeler, on the outcome of this duel." he finished.
"What do you mean, why I came here!" Kou looked at Osmos in confusion.
"It's time you learned my purpose, Mr. Nandao. Unfortunately…" Osmos closed his eyes tiredly for a second, then they reopened with a wicked glint in them. "It doesn't involve you staying alive!" Osmos laughed as the Shadows turned and twisted around them.
Kamishiro-8000
Kou-8000
Osmos-8000
Shisei-8000
Next time: The final duel is here, and now that Kou and Shisei have reached the end of the tournament, they learn the whole reason it was thrown and the power that is held within the Seal Holder and Seal Seekers. But more importantly, Shisei's immediate reaction to Kamishiro's 10 turn win combo shows he and Kou aren't playing. But Osmos's true deck has been revealed and the bpower it holds won't be easy to stop. Cand Shisei and Kou stop it? Find out next time on Duel Monsters Maximum: Dragoon Island Tournament!
A/N: My computer is on the fritz as I write this, it ite this, every time I try to save it either shuts off or takes hours, so it will take even longer for the next few chapters. Sorry! On a lighter note, for all of those who thought Osmos's motives in the tournament and Kou and Sei's involvement in those motives were just a big fat plot hole…HAHAHAHA! The hole has been filled! Well, thanks for reviewing, I'm coming up on 100 because of you guys, and Sayonara!
P.S.: Read Darksoulki's story if you haven't!
