Duelist Kingdom
By: Chibi Pyro Duo
Chapter Nine
Gideon and Karumi were surrounded by the deep irresistible glow of darkness, and then thrust into an evil light of chaos. They squinted and found themselves in a duel stadium with the golden eyes girl and the white haired girl.
The golden eyed girl yelled, "Ready to die!"
The white haired girl just shook her head waiting for her partner to stop monologing, "Are you prepared to duel Rena?"
Rena took out her deck and put it into her duel disk. The other put hers in as well. Karumi and Gideon followed.
Yuugi walked into the store, satisfied by her last duel and a new addition to her team. She walked into the back room, "Yami, Yasha I'm home. I hope you two haven't broke anything too valuable."
Anna followed closely by Lena ran out of the storage unit, used to keep extra stocks. "Miss Yuugi," gasped Anna.
"We have a problem," stated Lena.
Yuugi shook her head, "What did they break?"
Anna and Lena exchanged glances. "Well they haven't broke anyone… yet" squeaked Lena.
"Anyone?"
Anna stepped forward slightly, "A girl came into the shop looking for you. She said she wanted to be part of the Slifer Organization."
Lena stepped forward with Anna, gaining a little courage, "Pharaoh Yami and Princess Yasha rushed her off to the back part of the storage unit."
"The part you keep all the rare games and cards that have gone out of print." Interjected Anna.
"Yes..we keep on hearing our Pharaoh shouting at Princess Yasha."
Yuugi shrugged, "That's not unusual"
"Miss Yuugi," Anna said in a panicked voice, "our princess is laughing."
Lena nodded, "Maniacally so."
"Shit."
How much time had passed. Karumi looked down at her life points, she was almost out of the duel, she had never had the skills of Gideon, or the extensive deck of Mamono, or the luck of Serenity, but she one thing the others didn't, strategy and ability to adapt to her opponents deck, "I sacrifice Yomi Ship and call forth the Millenium Shield!" That should keep them at bay for a while anyway. "I will also play Dian Kento the Cure Master, giving me an extra 1000 Life Points." That will help as well. She looked at her opponents each having an arsenal of monsters out Rain having Dark Magician out didn't help, could you even have two Book of Secret Arts out? It didn't matter, while she held off the amateur duelist Gideon with his toon deck had out his Jinzo destroying all trap cards on their opponents sit, but his life points had taken a beating from Rena's Dark Ruler has Des combined with Sword of Deep Seated.
Gideon laughed like a madman, "I activate the Black Illusion Ritual, sacrificing Ameba for Relinquished!" Gideon's germ was replaced by a monster most feared.
Rena laughed, "Do you think that'll stop me!"
Gideon smirked, "No, but this will. Relinquished absorb Dark Magician." Rain's eyes widened as she watched her Dark Magician sucked into Relinquished bottomless pit mouth and appear as a shield.
Rena cursed under her breath, her opponents were better than she thought they were.
Karumi smiled in relief, they're hope had just come back.
"Tarja please I just need a little more time."
"Shadow, I cannot cover for you any longer, my sister's life is in jeopardy." Reasoned Tarja.
"But with my plan Bakhu will be destroyed!"
Tarja's green eyes starred into Shadow's red, "Make sure you don't get killed."
Shadow bowed in gratitude, "May the power of the Millenium Items be with you." He whirled around, his trenchcoat billowing behind him.
A voice in the back of Tarja's head whispered –And may the wisdom of the Shadow Realm be with you Child of Darkness.-
Karuim smirked, It's trump card time! Karumi slammed her card down, "I call forth Gren Maju Da Eiza."
Gideon smirked as well, "Oh excellent play Rumi, now why don't you explain to them what it does."
"Gladly, my Gren Maju doesn't have many point now, but it's special effect is that as many cards as I discard from my graveyard adds 500 extra attack points to my monster and I choose to discard my entire graveyard, that's 19 cards and 4500 extra attack points. Say goodbye Rena. GREN MAJU DA EIZA ATTACK!" A green light came from the monster as the rest of Rena's monsters were destroyed and life points demolished.
A dark glow surrounded Rena, "NO DON'T TAKE ME!" The glow consumed her as she was pulled into the shadow the sound of death echoing from her vocal cords.
Karumi looked to Gideon, "Your turn."
Yuugi rushed into the store room and grabbed her extra keys. She grabbed the handle of the door and turned it, "It's unlocked?" Anna and Lena were not behind her but behind a box of duel disks, "Coward." She muttered. She turned the knob and opened the door.
Yami's eyes widened in delight, "Yuugi thank Ra you have arrived!"
Yuugi's mouth twitched into a smiled then fell over from hysterical laughter. Yami was gaff taped to a chair, his spiky hair clumped in bows and ribbons.
Yami twitched, "Yuugi you're not supposed to be laughing!"
Yasha laughed maniacally sitting cross-legged on a chair sitting next to a girl with short red hair and black eyes. "Whose this?" asked Yuugi.
Yasha slapped the mysterious stranger on the back, "this is someone from the past. She just rushed in here bowing and scrapping and spouting random Egyptian.
Yuugi narrowed her eyes, "She doesn't look Egyptian."
"She knows our real names."
Yuugi's eyes widened and examined the fifteen year old, "Well I guess I should say welcome to the team." Yuugi stoke out her hand.
The girl made eye contact with Yuugi and shook the extended hand, "I'm sure I'll enjoy it."
Yami glared suspiciously at the girl, "Yuugi will you please cut me out?"
Gideon smirked and drew his card, "I have my Relinquished attack your life points and," A shape flew over Gideon and knocked him out.
"Gideon!" shouted Karumi. The shape flew into the middle of the duel ring surrounding the entire ring in a purple glow.
The purple light struck Karumi and Rain knocking them out.
The shadow surrounded all three. The person flew over to Karumi and Rain, swinging one on his back and carrying the other in his arms, he paused by Gideon, he sneered, "That is what you get for picking on innocent girl ShadowWalker." The person's red eyes reflected the purple of the realm, and a golden rod glowed with the taint of the shadows, "Rot in the realm." The rod glowed with a more holy light and within a wink of an eye the three had disappeared, leaving one very unconscious Gideon in death grip.
"Odin get your ass in here" yelled Tarja chasing Odin across the room, "I cannot continue to translate this alone."
"Get Kage's help!"
Tarja grabbed the back of Odin's purple robe, "Don't you think I already tried that!" Odin closed his eyes damming Kage, "Don't make me pull rank on you!"
Odin tried to get out of Tarja's death-like grip, "We're the same rank."
Tarja just gripped his robe harder, "Don't you remember that little duel we had. I hit you, you fell, I won, I'm leader of this mission."
"Cheap shot…" muttered Odin.
"What was that?"
"I mean I'll start translating…" Odin ripped his robe off, "As soon as I'm done with this."
Tarja's eyes lit like flames, "Like hell you will!" Tarja made a grab for him, but Odin escaped via the door before she could get to him, "DAMN IT!"
Sapphire blue eyes scanned over the office buildings –This is the 3rd time that that has happened!-
What?- asked a very nervous dark half.
I have that creepy feeling where you know your being watched but everytime you turn around no one's there-
Well…-
Serenity opened the door BAM! One hundred and fifteen pounds of Mamono Kaiba ran into Serenity Maxwell, "Serenity!" cried Mamono. She grabbed Serenity and hugged her, "Something horrible has happened!"
"A run in with your lovely fifth or sixth cousin who needs to be removed?"
"Yes, and she took me to some dark creepy realm, and then we dueled."
"I think I know what your talking about it's what happened when I was dueling creepy chick."
"Are you sure it was the same as dueling creepy chick?"
"Defiantly" Serenity turned around quickly, "Do you feel that!"
"What?"
Serenity began to run towards the southern part of the city where she found a gigantic shadow dome, "Holy…" was the only words that left Mamono's mouth.
Serenity's eyes gained an amethyst ting, "three, four people are in there."
"Ren how can you tell that?"
Serenity smiled, "Well I have this golden staff in my room and it gave me powers."
"Odd."
"Yeah." Serenity held out her hand to Mamono, "Come, let's go."
Mamono shuddered never wanted to be near a black dome ever again, "Don't worry Mamono, everything will be alright."
Mamono looked at Serenity, studying her friend hard. A face appeared behind Serenity, a face briefly misted and took form into existence, an Egyptian woman smiled kindly Mamono's way. She blinked as the face faded into the dark void. Mamono took Serenity's hand. She smiled, "Hold on tight!" Serenity took a step into the dome. The void grabbed Serenity's image and sucked it in like a black hole. Mamono squeezed Serenity's hand and she squeezed back.
Yami sat at the head of the table to his right sat his Queen, who was the exact opposite of his first partner, except for the looks. To his left sat his sister, insane granted, and completely untrustworthy. Across from him sat the new girl, Mizu was it? This one he was suspicious of. He did not know the reason of her coming, and did not trust her. Granted she did know their real names, but that doesn't prove that she could be trusted.
His eyes glanced over to Yuugi, who was dropping her guard more and more every second. His eyes sharply switched positions to watch the red-headed girl. Something was wrong. Nothing about this girl made any sense.
Not only that, but Yami sensed a great Shadow Magic that loomed over her. And something in her soul, that wasn't right. It was all dark, no light. One cannot live like that. He learned his lesson to let the light in. A brief picture of Yuugi's name sake popped into Yami's head, the innocent smile, the persistence that everything in the world can in fact be good.
Yuugi softly put her hand on top of Yami's and squeezed. Yami looked at Yuugi and smiled.
The darkness consumed them, "Ren?"
Serenity turned around, her features had matured and her black hair and blue eyes had gained an amethyst tint, "Yes?"
"Who are you?"
Serenity smiled sadly, "I am.."
Mamono's grip loosened, "Arweyn, I am…"
She slowly stepped backwards, "the spirit that resides…"
She collapsed on her knees and onto the floor of the Realm, "Mamono?"
The possessed Serenity bent down to check on her. Mamono's image faded into the darkness of the realm.
Serenity's eyes widened, "No!" She ran after the last place she had seen her friends image, "GIVE HER BACK!"
"Mamono.." whispered a voice.
A body being consumed by shadows stirred, "Mamono.." called the fairy like voice.
The girl's eyes opened a touch to quickly and shut them from the onslaught of light. She rolled over and slowly opened her eyes again, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the light, "Mamono…"
She turned around and was faced with an albino girl shining brightly in the dark. Mamono's eyes squinted again, "Who are you?"
The girl smiled, her white teeth reflecting throughout the Realm, "My name is Kisasa."
"Who?"
The girl started to play with her white hair, "We've met before, but you know me as the Blue Eyed White Dragon."
Mamono laughed, "Right, that's a good one."
The floating girl got into Mamono's face, where their noses where almost touching, "I tell the truth."
Mamono stared into the girls iceblue eyes. They seemed almost familiar. Mamono took a step back. She starred at the girl again. She knew she had seen her somewhere before. Something appeared behind the albino. A faint image of her favorite card…the Blue Eyed White Dragon.
She fainted.
Serenity paced back and forth wearing her half-possessed body out, "They're going to kill me. They're going to kill me!"
Who Child?-
"The angry Blue Eyes White Dragon. I can see them now, torturing all my pretty pyro monsters…Awwww!"
Arweyn's spirit form became corporal, alert and ready to kick some ass if some shadow monster choose to attack her light, "What is it Child?"
Serenity laughed a little, patting her heart, "It's just Neo. He scared the ever-loving crap out of me!"
Neo the Magic Swordsman laughed and winked at Arweyn (who preceded to roll her eyes), "Follow me."
Mamono's eyes slowly opened again, "Oh God, why does my head hurt?" She saw a bright light overhead, "What's that?" A dragon's face appeared an inch from Mamono's face, "Awww!"
Mamono got up and ran, but being much slower than a ten foot dragon with wings Mamono was picked up and thrown into the air and landed on the dragon's back.
"Don't be scarred." Called a familiar female voice. Mamono looked behind her, the same albino girl sat cheerily on the dragon, "I figured you would enjoy seeing proof of what I claimed."
Mamono gulped and tried to be brave, "So what do you want with me?"
"I want to explain a few things. Things that you will need to know and things that will benefit your future if you use the information right."
Mamono cast a suspicious look at the human version of her dragon, "I'm listening."
The fanged girl smiled, "Long ago in the era of your ancestor Seto Kaiba, formally priest of Egypt, there was a great Shadow War. It pitted monster against monster, only kept at bay by their human companions."
"What does this have to do with me?"
"Everything, one day rivals for the Shadow Power clashed and your alleged ancestor Mokuba was left sterile. Mokuba was devastated, he and his wife tried everything to try and have children. But it wasn't meant to be, the Fate's denied him his wish. But the Shadow's, who often fought against the Fate's as well would not let it be. Mokuba finally, in a last resort situation asked his brother Seto to sleep with his wife, using a hologram of himself. It took much persuading but finally Mokuba convinced Seto to go along with his plan and it succeeded, because nine months later the couple had a happy healthy baby boy. Mokuba never told his wife what he did nor did Seto. But Seto although he was in denial of magic for most of his life sensed that his bastard son possessed Shadow Magic. A large quantify in fact. So much that Seto went to Marik at the end of his life and asked him to look into the necklace for him. Marik saw great things coming from his descendants from Mokuba's line and horrid things coming from his own line. That was when Seto revised his will. Two hundred years after his death his line through Mokuba would take control of Kaiba Corp."
"So," asked Mamono still confused by the story, "I'm really an illegitimate heir of the Seto Kaiba"
"Yes."
Mamono stood upon the dragon and yelled in the blackness, "Take that Angel!"
She slipped.
Azumi laughed, "And now I am victorious!"
She threw down a red six card, "UNO!"
Bakura glared at his host, "You will not win so easily. I did not almost beat the King of Games and not gain a little of his luck." He threw down a Draw Two card.
"What reputation was that? Is it the name, He-Who-Was-Wupped-By-The-Pharoh?" She set down a wild draw four card and smirked, "Green."
Bakura grumbled and picked up four cards, "And what's your name my host? She-Who-Is-Possessed-By-The-Vengeful-Spirit-Of-He-Who-Almost-Truimphed-Over-The-Pharoh?"
"No silly thief." She put down a skip card and a wild card, "I am She-Who-Just-Killed-Vegenful-Spirit-In-Uno-Five-Times-In-A-Row!"
Bakura sneered, "One more time."
He shuffled the cards and began to deal, "Just be lucky that…"
SMASH!
The door to the tiny apartment opened. Brad stood in the doorway staggering in with a white haired girl on his back and a blue haired bundle in his arms.
Azumi smirked, "Next victim please."
In sleep he sang to me. In dreams he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name. And though I'll dream again. For now I find….
A body twitched.
Sing once again with me our strange duet. My power over you grows stronger yet. You'll give your love to me, for love is blind….is now your mastermind.
The body twitched again.
Those who have seen your face. Draw back in fear. I am the mask you wear.
A voice pounded in the back of the bodies head.
It's me they hear.
Two vice melded together in it's head.
Your spirit and my voice in one combined.
The bodies eyes opened fast as they gasped for air, "Who was that?"
"…is here inside your mind…" faded the voice.
They stood up, "Whose there?"
"Sing to me my Angel of Music."
From the distance of the inky blackness a heavenly voice rose over the distance and rapidly came closer to them, "What's that noise?" A shining white dragon sped towards the body emitting the entrancing harmony. The dragon stopped in front of her, the rushing winds surrounded her. The dragon's white head leveled with they could see into it's blue eyes.
"You called my mistress?"
The girl backed away, "What?"
"You called me Mamono, only you the descendant of the Dragon Priest can call me."
Mamono stepped forward slightly, "Is that who was in my head?"
"No that was your self. Your other self." The dragon closed it's liquid blue eyes, "Listen carefully, and you'll feel them inside your mind."
Mamono stood silently and closed her eyes concentrating on her breathing.
Slowly after time had past she heard another person's breathing that was not synchronized with her own. Slowly another voice was with it, "something has changed within me. Something is not the same. I'm threw with playing by the rules of someone else's game. To late for second guessing. To late to go back to sleep. It's time to trust my instincts. Close my eyes. And leap."
Mamono opened her eyes and saw the dragon starring at her, "She is the other you. You must some how contact her and coincide. Adapt to each other, find each others strengths, and make up for your weaknesses. Your friend is also symptom to these partners, as you are."
"Who?"
"Her shadow name is Nanase the Magical Bo Woman, but her human name is Serenity."
Mamono looked carefully at the dragon, "Tell me everything that has been going on.
Bakura twitched, "Brad, why are two humans within our lair?"
"I hardly think Azumi's apartment qualifies as a "lair" Bakura." Brad leaned back to let the girl with white hair off his back and put her on the couch.
Azumi looked curiously at the girl, "That one looks familiar." The white hair and albino skin seemed familiar, but she wasn't sure where, "Bakura," called the red eyed girl.
No one answered. She turned around and saw the answer to her question. Bakura walked over and sat next to the stranger of almost identical proportion, from the spiky hair to the skinny legs.
Azumi bent down next to her Thief King, "Bakhu-Bakhu?"
Bakura chuckled deeply, "She looks like my other self."
"Ryou?" The stranger twitched at this name.
"Yes."
Brad walked over to a table and cleared a spot to lay the blue-headed human on.
Bakura touched the girl on the shoulders, "Ryou?" She shook her a little. The girl twitched again and mumbled, "No Kagura…"
"Ryou!"
The girl's eyes fluttered open a little and mumbled a new name, "Bakura?"
A stab of jealousy went through Azumi.
"Ryou!" asked the thief, more hopeful than before.
The girls eyes snapped open, "Who are you! It's dangerous, she might be here at any moment!"
Bakura tried to calm her down by grabbing her wrists which only made the girl more flustered, "No you must…"
The girl grabbed her head, "No Kagura, stay away… it's okay I can handle…No… don't hurt them… Please…no…no…NO!"
The girl's scream echoed in the tiny apartment. Her hair spiked up and eyes changed to red. Her body went limp and convulsed again. The dead body chuckled lowly, "Fools, you should have listened to her warning." She pulled a knife out of her pocket and tried to attack Bakura. Azumi tackled her back onto the couch, "Fools, no one stops Kagura!"
Bakura wrestled the knife out of Kagura' pinned arms .
Azumi shouted to Brad, "Hey can we get some Shadow Power here?"
Brad pulled his rod out of his belt and took over Kagura's mind, "Sleep" he whispered
Kagura's body fell asleep.
Azumi got up and eyed her blue-haired guest, "Well she's a heavy sleeper."
Cold
Hard to breath
Cold
Darkness
Warm comforting
NO!
Stay away from it!
But it's so nice.
NO!
Cold
Air
Air
Air!
Suffocating
Need help.
Ren
Rumi
Mamo
Darkness
Sleep
Rest
Peace
Yes the darkness will hug me
Help
Serenity ran through the Shadow Realm following her guardian of light. Panting furiously she wished she was in shape.
The light disappeared, "Neo?" Something lit up to the right. She ran towards that light.
A form sat in the darkness. As she got closer she saw it was the body of Gideon, on the ground being wrapped slowly into the dark, coiling and suffocating him, "GID!"
She reached him and grabbed onto him to wake him up, "Gid, you've gotta wake up! Do you hear me.." slowly the swirled on Gideon's body slowly coiled it's way around her body as well. Her eyes slowly started to drift close, "Gid…Gid…wake up…"
Serenity collapsed on top of Gideon, the nebulous clouds surrounding the two of them.
Child, Serenity, Child!" cried Arweyn –Do not fall under the realms spell!-
A light lit up the realm and like a shooting star flew towards the sleepers. The ball of light stopped above them revealing the toon Bickerybox. He dropped from the air "Waky up master. This is no place to sleepy-sleep."
A cold chill was felt through the air and it smirked, "ashes to ashes and dust to dust" purple eyes lit up and died away briefly.
The realm slowly faded away, leaving an ordinary road with ordinary people lying down in it.
Mamono sat up on the ground, "Ren! Gid!"
She got up and ran over to her friend. She shook them, "Ren! Gid!"
Serenity rolled over, "Mamo..?"
Gid's brown eye slowly opened, "Mamo?"
"I hear that's my name. Although not the one you usually call me."
Gideon blushed.
Serenity sat up, "Where's that energetic fox?"
Mamono shrugged.
Gideon sat up too, "We were dueling, we were about to win when something happened…ahh there's just a big hole in my memory."
Serenity jumped up, "Well we better as hell find her!"
Mamono popped up as well, "Indubitably."
Gideon closed his eyes, "Hell."
Bakhu smiled evilly, "Excellent work…you are dismissed."
A soldier slowly backed out of a room.
Bakhu laughed and sipped on her glass of soda, -Well done my Sinister Light, so our reign will begin and all will know the true might of Ra.-
Bakhu's lips quirked into a smile, her white teeth gleamed into the darkness. She hit a switch and a hologram of the golden dragon of her ancestors appeared. Such a pretty thing, so shiny, soon it will be with my power of reach.
A knock on the door brought her back to the present.
She flipped the hologram off, "Enter."
Another soldier entered, "My lady the prisoner is ready."
Bakhu's green tinted eyes gained a sadistic red glow, "Excellent." She lifted herself off the her throne, "Send a message to General Rosette, tell her to find me as soon as possible."
"Yes my lady." The soldier scuttled out of the room as Bakhu made her way to the torture chamber.
Nightmare's eyes snapped open with a grimace type look. She had just lost a valuable soldier to the Shadows. She lifted herself off of her throne, "Great Obelisk, guide me to the path that will reveal your true glory. Let…"
A knock on the door echoed throughout the room, followed by an equal echoing of, "WHAT!"
The door opened slowly and two figures humbly and meekly entered the room. Nightmare whirled around billowing her black robe, "Baraku, Ariel, you have better have a good reason to interrupt my prayer."
"We do Mistress." Piped up Ariel.
"We would like to offer our services." Followed Baraku.
"And to tell you we know how to find the information we need." Added Ariel.
Nightmare sat on her throne intrigued, "The information we need?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
The partners exchanged glances, "The information we need." They smirked.
About one hundred people fit into the small warehouse rented out by Yuugi Yasha. Cloaked in their red cloaks encircling Yuugi: "Today, we have gathered to induct a new member."
Yuugi extended her hand to the red-head as she broke away from the circle, "Do you Mizu Flamel dedicate your life to the old ways, and to serve the Pharaoh to his death."
The disguised girl glanced at the Pharaoh who still glared suspiciously at her, "Yes." She bowed to Yuugi.
Yuugi lifted her new follower up, "Welcome."
"Welcome" echoed throughout the hall.
River wrapped her trenchcoat around herself shivering from the imaginary chill created by the Shadow Realm she felt around her.
She finally came to the door she desired. She knocked on the graffiti covered door.
The door creaked open and the Prophet's shining purple eyes appeared in the inky depth of the run down apartment, "Welcome Shadow Child."
River bowed, "Prophet please tell me, is this the correct path for me and Rain?"
The Prophet's voice fell into a semi-trance, "Hellish illusions can offer comfort, but the threads of time and God's grace ties them to the childless soul."
River rubbed her head in confusion, "Thank you Shadow Father."
"And you my Child."
Two eyes snapped open in an inky blackness –Life! I live!-
AN: Okay everyone sorry that took so long. I guess I don't really have an excuse besides that I got writer's block, and I'm lazy, and I don't have time for writing a lot anymore. Which really sucks. But thank Karumichan because she used the work work whip on me and forced me to write during History everyday. Go History class where we do nothing.
So I'm almost done with DK which makes me sad. I'm summing things up early because I know I can't offer what the story deserves. But I will finish it. No matter how long it takes. I think it'll last a couple more chapters, I need to get hat big battle scene out so you guy will have fun. But you know a couple of chapters with me is about six to ten months in real time.
So once again thanks to Karumichan for making me get this chapter out. Thanks to everyone on theOtaku because they also encourage me (YokoBandit, Neko-san, Dan Felton the far away inspiration, all you guys rock) But mostly Karumichan.
Schools finally out and really what kept me from posting this chapter was that I was to lazy to write the duel scene of all things. But I got inspired one day so lucky you guys my brain wasn't shot from all those tests. So hopefully I'll write a little more now that I've got no school, no promises though. Cause I think that last I updated was in Oct but I'm not sure. Haha okay so enough with ranting let's get this party started things are happening and it's wild.
Also chapter is dedicated to Karumichan for FINALLY getting her driving permit. Geez only took you about two years right?
Duo